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- Title
- Expansion of a quantum degenerate boson-fermion mixture
- Author(s)
- Hu, Hui; Liu, Xia-Ji; Modugno, Michele
- Abstract
- We study the expansion of an ultracold boson-fermion mixture released from an elongated magnetic trap, by using a scaling approach. We discuss in detail the role of the boson-fermion interaction on the evolution of the radial-to-axial aspect ratio of the condensate, and show that the latter depends crucially on the relative dynamics of the condensate and degenerate Fermi gas in the radial direction, which is characterized by the ratio between the trapping frequencies for fermions and bosons. The numerical solution of the scaling equations provides a reasonable agreement with the recent experiment [G. Roati et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 150403 (2002)].
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- Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, Vol. 67, no. 6 (Jun 2003), article no. 063614
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- 2003
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- Aspect ratio; Boson-fermion mixtures; Fermions; Frequencies; Quantum theory
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- American Physical Society
- 1050-2947
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Many proposals in next week's Alaska Board of Fisheries meeting seek to change the salmon fisheries on the Kuskokwim River. Some village tribes have submitted proposals that would restrict fishing with the hopes it would help the local subsistence fisheries.
Some tribes are looking to restrict sport fishing on their tributary rivers. One proposal by the Native Village of Eek seeks to eliminate sport fishing altogether on the Eek River. The tribe says their elders consider it playing with food. A similar proposal is from Quinhagak that would prohibit catch and release sports fishing for salmon on the Kanetok and Arolik Rivers unless it is a salmon that is too unhealthy for humans to eat. The tribe says catch and release is considered a violation of traditional beliefs.
Kwethluk's tribe submitted a proposal looking to close all sport and commercial guide fisheries in the Kwethluk River from June 1 to July 25 every summer.
Meanwhile, Bethel's native tribe, Orutsararmuit Native Council, has submitted several proposals to restrict the Kuskokwim salmon subsistence fishery. One would limit subsistence caught Kings to no more than 10, unless they are for drying and cold smoking only. Another proposal would require a permit for any subsistence caught salmon that is transported out of the Kuskokwim Management Area. The proposal also would require those fish be reported. ONC says there are too many salmon leaving the region and there's no way to track it. Yet another ONC proposal looks at the customary trade for all subsistence caught fin fish. It would require permits and recording of customary trades. It also looks to cap the amount to $500 per household per calendar year and to restrict these trades to within the Kuskokwim region.
The Kuskokwim Salmon Management Working Group has submitted a proposal to remove the 8 inch gear option for commercial fishing in District 1 on the Lower Kuskokwim.
Another proposal would revisit the amount needed for subsistence or the ANS for the Kuskokwim River drainage. The proposal was submitted by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, saying it's a good opportunity for the board and the public to revisit these figures.
Another State Department proposal would allow anglers to use large treble hooks in all waters for taking fish other than salmon. Fish and Game says that anglers unwittingly violate current regulations by using large lures as they are manufactured. They say there is no biological justification for continuing to prohibit them.
There are several Board of Fish proposals for the Yukon River fisheries as well, including proposals to reduce pike fishing on the Lower Yukon. Two proposals look to reduce the bag and possession limits for subsistence fishing for pike with rod and reel downriver of Holy Cross. The proposals were submitted by the GASH advisory committee, making up the villages of Grayling, Anvik, Shageluk, and Holy Cross. They are concerned that there are too many pike being taken during the winter subsistence fishery. The fishery currently has no bag limit and they say that continued over fishing would affect the future stock of pike fish.
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I had to make myself feel better somehow! Besides drowning my sorrows with margaritas on the beach!, I drew this version of Hillary coming to Arizona. I just saw some real photos which of-course lookied amazing! But my version shows the way I'm sure Hillary REALLY felt becuase I wasn't there! Note the spider webs, and my poorly drawn version of JoJene and Lynn ( from memory as you can tell ).
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I stumbled upon this forum whilst searching for ways to better my own (sadly insufficient) skills in photoshop. I draw all my maps in Gimp 2.6 or ms paint and my question now to you all is;
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Welcome, we prefer for people to have a go themselves but there is a section for map requests too. Usually these are for larger projects like books or posters etc and often have a commission but there are unpaid ones too.
Try out various tutorial threads and see how you get on. I find it amazing that people new to this try them out and get similar looking maps to the reference ones. You can usually tell what tutorial they have tried on a map. So they do work most of the time and theres lots of people on hand to get over any problems.
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Is a Science Ph.D. a Waste of Time?
Don't feel too sorry for graduate students. It's worth it.
Few people spend 11 years in college. Most stay for four or five before the urge to leave campus and earn a salary kicks in. Barring a thesis defense meltdown, I'll be one of about 50,000 graduate students across the United States and Canada to get a Ph.D. in science this school year. After seven years in graduate school, I'm left wondering if the time and effort was worth it. What do scientists do these days, anyways?
According to several recent reports, not much. The problem, stated last month in the Washington Post, is that academic jobs have all but disappeared. A 2011 report in Nature concurs: "People who have trained at great length and expense to be researchers confront a dwindling number of academic jobs, and an industrial sector unable to take up the slack." A 2010 article in the Economist subtitled "Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time" is even more damning of doctorates. To be fair, that article targeted all Ph.D.s, but the reporter made science doctorates seem particularly worthless, writing that she "slogged through a largely pointless PhD in theoretical ecology." After crunching the numbers and talking to about a dozen people with science doctorates, though, I've concluded that for everything these accounts get right, they get just as much wrong. In short, science Ph.D.s are just about the last group of people the media should be worrying about. Let me explain.
Almost everyone agrees that academic jobs in the sciences are scarce. Over the past 40 years, the number of doctorates pumped out by universities each year in the United States has increased while the number of academic positions has declined. There are more people with Ph.D.s and fewer professorships. As Nature reported, in 1973 about 55 percent of people with doctorates in the biological sciences got stable academic jobs; in 2008, the National Science Foundation pegged that number at 14 percent. Across all scientific fields, NSF data suggest that only about 23 percent of Ph.D.s land tenure or tenure-track positions at academic institutions within three to five years of finishing grad school. If you assume that every science Ph.D. wants a career in academia, this seems like a dismally low employment rate. But academic jobs aren't as coveted by people trained in science as you might think.
A 2012 study examined the career preferences of more than 4,000 biology, chemistry, and physics Ph.D. students at top-ranked American universities. When asked to ignore actual job availability and rate a range of careers, only about 50 percent gave an academic research career the highest rating; more than 40 percent gave top marks to research jobs in the private sector, while about 30 percent thought working for a startup would be pretty great. (The numbers add to more than 100 percent because the students were allowed to give high marks to multiple occupations.)
Although it's unknown how these preferences translate into the careers people actually pursue, the implication is that only about half of doctoral science students are really gunning for academic positions. NSF data support this. In 2010, about 50 percent of new science Ph.D.s went on to do postdoctoral research at a university—the contract job long considered a necessary step for landing a professorship.
There have almost always been more doctorates than academic positions, and Ph.D.s, unlike J.D.s and M.D.s, have a long history of pursuing a range of careers after their training. A science Ph.D. is still an attractive credential outside of the university. According to a 2008 survey by the NSF (a summary is available here), there were about 662,600 work-ready science Ph.D.s in the United States, and only 11,400 of those people were unemployed. That's an unemployment rate of 1.7 percent.
Of course, some of those jobs have disappeared since the NSF survey was taken. The pharmaceutical industry, the Washington Post reported, has cut scores of chemists. Even so, the American Chemical Society told me the unemployment rate among its Ph.D. members is 3.4 percent this year, down from 3.9 percent last year. During these rough economic times, the unemployment rate of scientists in one of the hardest hit fields is less than half the national average. Why? Because scientists learn more in graduate school than how to peer into microscopes and pour chemicals ever so carefully from one Erlenmeyer flask to another. As one biologist told me, the statistics and computer programming she learned during her degree can be applied just about anywhere. More generally, scientists know how to solve complex problems, and finishing a doctoral dissertation shows that you can get things done.


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Anthony John James Janis Joplin "Tony" Abbott (born 4 November 1957) is the 28th and current Prime Minister of Australia. He has been Leader of the "Liberal" Party since 2009, and the Member of Parliament for Warringahlaningong since 1994.
Abbott was born in London, New Jersey and immigrated to Australia with his family and two stray cats, that found their way into the Abbotts' luggage, in 1960.
During his high school years Abbott was a very successful paper boy, winning the coveted Young News Delivers' award for three years in a row.
Prior to entering Parliament, Abbott studied for a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Laws at the University of Sydney however he dropped out in favour of stripping women of their rights. Abbott was first appointed to the Cabinet in 1998 under the Howard Government, by a man with no sense, as Minister for Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Mindedness.
In 2003, he became Minister for Misogyny, a role invented specifically for him, that actually held no real power, and was meant to keep him distracted while the grown-ups were working.
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It is no secret that a lot of Black people, particularly young Black men but also way too many Black women, are in prison all across America. But it is not very well known that for each Black person locked up in Minnesota's prisons, the State allots $35,000 (each) to house and "take care" of them. For Black men in Minnesota prisons, this cost is $35,000 times about 5,000, which is roughly 50 percent of the 9,700 inmates incarcerated here in our great state. Yes, we have been informed that Black people make up more than 50 percent of the prison population here in Minnesota even though less than six percent of the entire state population is Black people. What? Continue Reading →


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Has anybody up in NYC seen the "Gates" unveiling this morning?
Looks incredible, wish I was up there.
Has anybody up in NYC seen the "Gates" unveiling this morning?
Looks incredible, wish I was up there.
I've always thought this guy was 100% hype. But, hey, that's why art isn't science, as it's based largely on opinion.
Originally Posted by Bikeforums
OOooooooo AAaaaahhh. Next fad please
hmmm.... sorry, I work in the arts - It seemed pretty important to me. I don't understand calling this a 'fad'. JC and Christo have done works around the world for over three decades.Originally Posted by mirona
The public always has mixed opinions about JC and Christo's works, and that is as much a part of the 'power' of each piece as the aesthetics are.
I'm sorry, I don't have any experience in art whatsoeverOriginally Posted by ßåЧëëÐ
is that the idiot that wrapped the islands in pink? Didn't he put a condom on some building?
Well, if it can't be good, at least make it big.
Eh, many people have no taste - and a lot of you seem to be amongst them. No loss!
Stacey, Do ya think Van Hagens is anywhere as talented as Frank Netter in this genre?Originally Posted by Stacey
Those voices in your head aren't real, but they have some great ideas
Netter, that's the guy that did all of those illustration you see in the doctors office, yes? That's what Google turned up as I wasn't familiar with the name.
I really try not to 'think' Shifty, I either get in trouble or fall asleep when I do... especially when connected with art. I believe the only comonality they share is the examination of the body human. Netter's approach seems to be from a purely clinical direction, whereas Van Hagens while providing an educational look at the materials contained within our skin, his use of color, positions, situations and views takes it far beyond the clinical aspect.
Sort of the difference between listening to Masters & Johnson talk about doing sex and watching Holmes & Hollander actually do it.
One of my favorite pieces is the one in the upper left corner on the page of the link provided. The guy holding his skin is just remarkable.
I've not heard of Van Hagens prior to reading your post, thanks, I will be looking for more. I also was drawn to the skin piece, must see more than the website offers. You are kind of right on Netter about the office posters, that is what most of us see in a wierd clinical setting. He is an MD who discovered a talent for illustration, and has drawn for many years and published many books of his incredible work, which could not be done by photography at the time. When you see his books, look for the skill and art first. I think he has published >25 books, each of a bio-system, nervous, vascular,etc.Originally Posted by Stacey
If there is a medical library near you, or if you know a physician who has the, you would enjoy taking a look. Just don't try the Holmes and Hollander thing in the med library, those stacks are too close together for that guy!! Thanks again.
Those voices in your head aren't real, but they have some great ideas
Originally Posted by Shifty
You're welcome. I'd first seen mention of Van Hagens a few years back on 'Ripley's Believe It or Not' or some show like that and thought it fantastic. Then just the other day there was a piece on the news about his exposition coming to the Frankiln Institute in Philadelphia this fall and the resultant hoopla being created by certian fundie religious groups But that's another discussion. Since I'm about only an hour away from the Institute I'm planning to visit when the exposition comes to town.
What I find inviting about his work is that YOU (your body in its physical state) can be therorically preserved and displayed as a work of art for ages to come... not just your likeness captured on canvas, or chisled in stone. The ultimate vanity trip.
There's a place on the site where you can sign up to donate your remains to the work.
Do you think that's what happened to Holmes? lots to work with there!!Originally Posted by Stacey
Those voices in your head aren't real, but they have some great ideas
OK, Hollander then....GO TEAM!!
Oh yeah, I really like Christo, has given our times an art that reaches out to so many, then we can all take it from there. I admit to having the "WOW" factor at a lot of his work, wouldn't mind seeing Gates.
Those voices in your head aren't real, but they have some great ideas
...and a lot of people have really bad taste. Say, for instance, making giant, pointless pieces of so-called art.Originally Posted by brokenrobot
Originally Posted by mirona
Exactly, "the emporer wears no clothes". How many millions did he spend?
It was very expensive, i don't recall the number right off hand though
The emporer's new clothes was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw this!! My cousin's wife went nuts yesterday morning when she saw the unveiling and she plans on taking a trip to New York next week. He and I looked at each other and couldn't figure out what the big deal was.Originally Posted by FXjohn
Some Truths Feel Uncomfortable.
OK, now I'm really hung up on the Van Hagens show, it's in Los Angeles now, so I'm going down to see it before it moves on to Chicago. Nerdy stuff like that can be so off the wall cool.(a million visitors in Korea can't be all wrong).Originally Posted by Stacey
Anyway, I don't know how much you studied the website, but you might want to order one of these mousepads (seeing how much you like rodents), they have the skin toten dude even.
Those voices in your head aren't real, but they have some great ideas
I think it's kinda cool. One thing to remember is that very few artists are popular with most people in their own time. Otherwise they wouldn't be artists. Van Gogh couldn't even give his paintings away. Now they sell for millions.
Dead last finish is better than did not finish and infinitely better than did not start.
I usually walk to Columbus Circle on my home from work so i took a look at this the other day. All i can ask is, who the hell thought this was a good idea? They've taken one of the finest creations in art, the mixing of man's focus and nature's complexity, Central Park, and taken a gigantic, steaming, orange (sorry saffron) dump right on it. I understand that art often serves no purpose, it's there to make you think, whatever. This is more like some guy said, 'hey, i've got all these curtains that are so fugly people wouldn't let their dog crap on it, let's hang them out in what little semblance to nature this city actually has!' I'll be very happy once this goes away.
Say a prayer for all your friends and lovers waiting,
so sad and patient by your side.
Say a prayer for all your dreams in need of saving;
it only takes a day to turn the tide.
-Grey Revell, Save a Prayercard for the Devilman
Well, if these two are hoping to reach their maturity after they are dead, they are blowing it now. There will be nothing left of their masterpieces after they are gone.Originally Posted by Blackberry
I have no opinion as to whether this is art or not. But I think it's pretty cool. Absolutely the best representation of our throwaway society I can think of. Spend stupid amonts of money and time on something that is in the trash can in a month. Pop Art at it's best. I am sure Andy would approve.
Originally Posted by CRUM
Ah Grasshopper, you see their legacy WILL live on in the overpriced 'Limited Edition' prints that are being made of their steaming piles of fecal material. Which surely, as did Picasso fecal matter, will experience further price bloat once the have departed for their heavenly domain.
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Delta Profits Despite Rising Costs
TheStreet) -- Delta (DAL - Get Report) produced a fourth-quarter profit despite $577 million in additional expenses, and forecast current quarter unit revenue growth of 4% to 6%. Net income excluding items was $238 million, or 28 cents a share, a penny ahead of estimates. Revenue rose 3% to $7.4 billion; analysts had estimated $8.6 billion.Including items, Delta earned $7 million, down from $425 million in the same quarter a year earlier. Delta was the first airline to report fourth-quarter results. "Our December quarter profit caps off a successful 2012 for Delta with strong financial results, industry-leading operational performance, and across the board improvements in customer satisfaction," said CEO Richard Anderson, in a prepared statement. The carrier said Hurricane Sandy had a $100 million negative impact on airline and refinery operations: the Trainer refinery produced a $63 million net loss, but it is expected to produce a modest profit in the current quarter. Additionally, Delta took a one-time charge of $231 million for special items including domestic fleet restructuring and debt refinancing. Meanwhile, higher fuel costs and wages added $577 million in operating expenses. During the quarter, cost per available seat mile excluding fuel and special items rose 5.7%, driven by the impact of capacity reductions, wage increases and operational and service investments. Meanwhile, passenger revenue per available seat mile rose 4.3%. Unit revenue improvements were led by a 7.9% gain in the Atlantic and a 5.3 domestic gain; mainline unit revenue grew 4.7%. The only regional decline was a 1.4% drop in Latin America. "Our investments in Delta's network, products and operations, combined with our capacity discipline, have produced unit revenue growth that has outpaced the industry for 21 consecutive months," said President Ed Bastian. He projected a PRASM increase of 4% to 6% in the current quarter. For the full year, excluding items, Delta earned $1.6 billion. As of Dec. 31, Delta had $5.2 billion in unrestricted liquidity including $3.4 billion in cash and short-term investments, and adjusted net debt of $11.7 billion. Delta has achieved more than $5 billion in debt reduction since 2009. Follow @tedreedncATLANTA (
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On the upside
Angie's List (Nasdaq: ANGI) posted a smaller than expected loss for the third quarter as revenue climbed.
Third quarter earnings fell for Royal Caribbean Cruises (NYSE: RCL) but the results beat expectations and the cruise operator lifted its full year guidance.
On the downside
DuPont Fabros Technology (NYSE: DFT) blamed higher expenses for a sharp drop in third quarter earnings.
Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) warned of lower third quarter earnings and announced the retirement of the president of U. S. business Mike Vitelli at the end of the fiscal year.
Third quarter earnings plunged for Cliffs Natural Resources (NYSE: CLF) as revenue tumbled.
In the broad market, declining issues outpaced advancers by a margin of nearly 10 to 9 on the NYSE while advancers edged out decliners by nearly 10 to 9 on Nasdaq. The Russell 2000 which tracks small cap stocks slipped a point to 811.


text: Lat Pulldowns: Wide Grip for a Wide Back…Fact or Fiction? 23. January 2011 Ben Wilde (0) Heard the one about "wide grip for a wide back?" Well, when you take the wide grip option on Lat Pulldowns or Chin-ups you are certainly using a long lever (moment arm, defined as the perpendicular distance between the pivot, your joint, and the load, your grip on the weight/bar/cable). By choosing such a grip we are mechanically disadvantaged so it will feel harder but did those who advocate this option stop to consider Range of Motion (ROM)? What is range of motion? ROM in this option is actually shortened, meaning that you are working the muscle hard but through a small range. As many of you know, strength conditioning is basically joint-angle specific – meaning that you get little or no transfer if you don't train in that ROM so why not try a heavier load than you use for your wide-grip pulldowns but use a narrower grip which will increase your ROM. Better yet try using a diverging movement pattern machine – this simply means that your hands move apart during the movement, which increases the ROM at the shoulder and therefore works the Lats through a greater ROM. Try it for better latissimus dorsi targeting…. Ben WildeVice President, International Training and Education Push Yourself with the Cybex Workout Center


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"A lot of people say, 'Why do you need these guns?'" said Assemblyman James Tedisco, a Schenectady Republican. "It's part of the freedoms and liberties we have. … It's for our public safety. It's to protect us from our own government."
He said the bill was dangerous because it would give people a "false sense of well-being."
"You are using innocent children killed by a madman for your own political agenda," he said. "You are actually making people less safe."
Tom King, president of the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, questioned whether other states or the federal government would follow New York's lead and said he expects the law to be challenged in court.
Previously, New York state law on assault weapons banned semiautomatics that have detachable magazines and at least two military-type features, such as a pistol grip, folding stock, muzzle flash suppressor or bayonet mount. The new law outlaws weapons with just one of those features.
It also requires background checks for even private gun sales, except those among immediate family.
In addition, it says handgun owners must renew their licenses every five years, and it increases prison sentences for using guns in various crimes or taking them onto school grounds.
"By making this a priority, the governor has not only saved lives but will hopefully inspire leaders in Washington also to take swift action," said Dan Gross, president of the national Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
In a concession to the pro-gun side, local authorities will be allowed to withhold the identities of registered gun owners — an issue that erupted recently when a suburban New York City newspaper published the names and addresses of gun owners in its readership area.
The New York legislation sparked spirited discussion among customers at the Buffalo Gun Center in the suburb of Cheektowaga, where business was so brisk that people had to wait in line in freezing temperatures just to get in the door.
"It's ridiculous. It's absolutely — how to put it nicely — it's Prince Andrew Cuomo's bid for the White House," said Jim Hanley, who was waiting to buy another handgun. "I want to do it before the right is taken away. Andrew Cuomo and Barack Hussein Obama are two best gun salesmen in the history of the world."
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September 16, 2012
Greetings Field Notes crew,
I thought you might enjoy a couple photos of Field Notes hard at work! Ever since I picked up my first set this past spring, they have accompanied me on all of my birding excursions. True to their name, they are perfect for keeping notes while in the field. I use them to keep running tallies of what species I see and to make sketches. I occasionally try and dress them up a little with color drawings too.
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A recently-released report announced that the use of precast concrete bases can actually make wind turbines [3] sturdier, more efficient, and less resource-intensive to produce. According to the Atlas CTB White Paper [4], the wider footprint of precast concrete bases adds stability to the foundation of wind turbines and can reduce the amount of concrete needed to install them by 60-70%. The precast bases also make it easier to raise taller turbines into more powerful winds, and their rapid construction time means that more turbines can be built.
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Concrete [7] and wind turbines have a strange relationship — the material requires tremendous amounts of energy to produce and accounts for 5% of global CO2 emissions, but it is essential for the installation of large wind turbines. Several months ago a report stated that hundreds of offshore turbines could potentially collapse into the sea [8] due to poor grout mixture being used in the bedrock and poured concrete base. Then it was reported that the base, made of cement, sand and gravel, was not holding the turbines firmly enough, causing some turbines to shift several centimeters since installation.
Precast concrete bases eliminate these issues — the turbine's load is spread over a wider area, and a simpler ring footing can be utilized. A ring footing is also easier to construct, since the problems associated with a mass pour can be avoided. Not only that, the towers' height can be easily raised with concrete bases, allowing turbine heights to be tailored to increase power production. Taller turbines can use larger diameter blades and have better access to more powerful winds. Precast concrete tower bases can potentially add 30 meters (almost 100 feet) to the height of a wind turbine tower.
Concrete is largely impervious to to damage and rust and is one of sturdiest building materials in the world — but it is responsible for a large amount of emissions in the construction industry. What do you think – does harnessing this durable material to produce green energy justify its use?
Via Ecogeek [9]
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Intel, Broadcom, Micron, Fairchild Upped at Oppenheimer
(INTC - Get Report), Broadcom (BRCM), Fairchild (FCS - Get Report) and Micron (MU - Get Report)."With the semiconductor pulling back on average approximately 15% over the past two months, we find valuations levels in the industry more reasonable," Oppenheimer wrote. "As we believe semiconductor fundamentals remain intact, we are turning more aggressive on the semiconductor stocks." The logic has informed much Wall Street research on Intel of late, both before and after the company guided the midpoint of its revenue forecast in line with estimates last week. The stock, which had been trading around $34 in late January before falling to the high $20s, has been typical of the group as a whole. "In general, we believe order rates are strong, visibility is good and pricing is stable to increasing" in the sector, Oppenheimer said. "We believe the strong fundamentals will allow semiconductor companies to post results at the high end of, if not slightly above, March quarter guidance. "Additionally, we expect the above factors to contribute to strong June quarter outlooks," the brokerage said. "Consequently, we believe 2004 estimates will likely be revised higher for many industry participants during the March quarter earnings season." In early trading Friday, Intel was up 38 cents, or 1.4%, to $27.46; Broadcom was up 87 cents, or 2.3%, to $38.95; Fairchild was up 46 cents, or 2%, to $22.96; and Micron was up 52 cents, or 3.6%, to $14.95. Oppenheimer doesn't make markets in any of the stocks.Oppenheimer & Co. articulated a thesis Friday that many analysts have considered for weeks -- that recent weakness in semiconductor shares represents a buying opportunity in the aggressively traded sector. The brokerage upgraded four big names to buy from neutral: Intel
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Get the Facts on the Candidates
High school
Social studies
Two class periods
Have class view "Charlotte Observer" (Tape 1, Act 5, 1:13:10)
One of a citizen's most important responsibilities is to become informed. In this exercise, student teams compete to research a candidate and inform the class about the candidate's record, experience, and platform.
Divide the class into teams, one for each candidate in a current political race. Assign a candidate to each team. Ask each team to research its candidate thoroughly and present their findings to the group in a 10-minute oral report. Each team must collect primary and secondary sources of information about the candidate: partisan literature from the candidate or party, as well as objective media reports and information from opponents. It will be each team's job to collect and critique information so as to be able to distinguish between fact and opinion and between innuendo and serious criticism.
Give the teams enough time to gather information on the candidate and his or her platform.
You can conclude this exercise in a number of ways:
1. Have each team write a short evaluation of its candidate. These evaluations must include specific examples and references to the variety of information sources consulted.
2. Ask each team to select one of its members to role-play the candidate in a debate. Give these "candidates" a class period to debate the issues (ideally in front of students from another class). Leave time for questions from the audience. After the debate, students can vote on the candidate. After the actual election, compare the students' results with the vote in the community.
3. Follow up the debate by asking students to answer and discuss the following:
What was the deciding issue for you?
Did the candidates' personalities influence your vote? To what extent?
Did personal appearance, sex, race, or party affiliation influence your decision?
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Project Friendship has been at St. Olaf and Carleton for over 30 years! Through Project Friendship, students are paired with children from the Northfield community and they spend an hour per week together "hanging out" on campus- playing games, throwing a baseball, making cookies, etc. Students serve as role models to the children. There are also opportunities for mentors and mentees to attend Project Friendship events hosted by the student directors at St. Olaf, such as a fall harvest party.To apply, please visit the web site listed below and click on the tab "Be Involved". If you have any questions or comments please feel free to contact Sarah VanSickle, Executive Director, at email@example.com or any of the Campus Directors listed below.
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With little news on physical acquisition of the newer iPhones, we made every effort to explore the alternatives. One of the alternatives to physical acquisition is over-the-air acquisition from Apple iCloud, allowing investigators accessing cloud backups stored in the cloud. While this is old news (we learned to download data from iCloud more than two years ago), this time we have something completely different: access to iCloud backups without a password! The latest release of Phone Password Breaker is all about password-free acquisition of iCloud backups. (more…)
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Breaking Into iCloud: No Password RequiredTuesday, June 17th, 2014
Phone Password Breaker with all-new UI, BlackBerry 10 support, and downloading Windows Phone 8 data from the cloudThursday, May 8th, 2014
This time, we are updating our bread-and-butter mobile forensic tool, Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker, to version 3.0 (beta). This new version has many things that are new or have changed. Let's see what's new, and why. (more…)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About iTunes and iCloud Backups But Were Afraid to AskMonday, March 31st, 2014
Do you think you know everything about creating and using backups of Apple iOS devices? Probably not. Our colleague and friend Vladimir Bezmaly (MVP Consumer security, Microsoft Security Trusted Advisor) shares some thoughts, tips and tricks on iTunes and iCloud backups.
iPhone Backups
Mobile phones are everywhere. They are getting increasingly more complex and increasingly more powerful, producing, consuming and storing more information than ever. Today's smart mobile devices are much more than just phones intended to make and receive calls. Let's take Apple iPhone. The iPhone handles our mail, plans our appointments, connects us to other people via social networks, takes and shares pictures, and serves as a gaming console, eBook reader, barcode scanner, Web browser, flashlight, pedometer and whatnot. As a result, your typical iPhone handles tons of essential information, keeping the data somewhere in the device. But what if something happens to the iPhone? Or what if nothing happens, but you simply want a newer-and-better model? Restoring the data from a backup would be the simplest way of initializing a new device. But wait… what backup?
Users in general are reluctant to make any sort of backup. They could make a backup copy once after reading an article urging them to back up their data… but that would be it. Apple knows its users, and decided to explore the path yet unbeaten, making backups completely automatic and requiring no user intervention. Two options are available: local backups via iTunes and cloud backups via Apple iCloud.
I've Got the iTunes Backup from the iCloud. What Shall I Do Now?Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013
This is the second part of Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker Enhances iCloud Forensics and Speeds Up Investigations article.
Extracting the content of an iPhone is only half the job. Recovering meaningful information from raw data is yet another matter. The good news is there are plenty of powerful tools providing iOS analytics. The bad news? You're about to spend a lot of time analyzing the files and documenting the findings. Depending on the purpose of your investigation, your budget and your level of expertise using forensic tools, you may want using one tool or the other. Let's see what's available.
Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker Enhances iCloud Forensics and Speeds Up InvestigationsThursday, August 22nd, 2013
It's been a while since we updated Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker, dedicating our efforts to physical acquisition of iOS devices instead. Well, now when the new iOS Forensic Toolkit is out, it is time to update our classic phone recovery tool.
The new version of Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker is released! While you can read an official press-release to get an idea of what's new and updated, you may as well keep reading this blog post to learn not only what is updated, but also why we did it.
Dedicated to iCloud Forensics
This new release is more or less completely dedicated to enhancing support for remote recovery of iOS devices via iCloud. Why do it this way?
Because iCloud analysis remains one of the most convenient ways to acquire iOS devices. You can read more about iCloud analysis in a previous post here. Let's see what else is available.
The New Elcomsoft iOS Forensic ToolkitWednesday, July 17th, 2013
Soon after releasing the updated version of iOS Forensic Toolkit we started receiving questions about the new product. Did we really break iPhone 5? Does it truly work? Are there limitations, and what can you do about them? We decided to assemble all these questions into a small FAQ. If you'd rather read the full, more technical version of this FAQ, visit the following page instead: Elcomsoft iOS Forensic Toolkit FAQ. Those with non-technical background please read along.
iCloud backups inside outMonday, February 25th, 2013
It's been a while since we released the new version of Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker that allows downloading backups from iCloud (read the press release). Many customers all over the world are already using this new feature intensively, but we still get many questions about its benefits, examples of cases when it can be used and how to use it properly. We also noticed many ironic comments in different forums (mostly from users without any experience in using iOS devices and so have no idea what iCloud backups actually are, I guess), saying that there is nothing really new or interesting there, because anyone with Apple ID and password can access the data stored in iCloud backup anyway.
Well, it seems some further explanation is needed. If you are already using EPPB (and this feature in particular) you will find some useful tips for future interaction with iCloud, or even if you don't have an iOS device (you loser! just kidding :)) please go ahead and learn how iCloud can be helpful and dangerous at the same time. (more…)
iCloud: Making Users Spy on ThemselvesThursday, February 21st, 2013
Apple iCloud is a popular service providing Apple users the much needed backup storage space. Using the iCloud is so simple and unobtrusive that more than 190 million customers (as of November, 2012) are using the service on regular basis.
Little do they know. The service opens governments a back door for spying on iOS users without them even knowing. ElcomSoft researchers discovered that information stored in the iCloud can be retrieved by anyone without having access to a physical device, provided that the original Apple ID and password are known. The company even built the technology for accessing this information in one of its mobile forensic products, Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker, allowing investigators accessing backup copies of the phone's content via iCloud services.
Yahoo!, Dropbox and Battle.net Hacked: Stopping the Chain ReactionThursday, February 14th, 2013
Major security breaches occur in quick succession one after another. Is it a chain reaction? How do we stop it?
- January 2012: Zappos hacked, 24 million accounts accessed
- June 2012: 6.5 Million encrypted LinkedIn passwords leaked online
- July 2012: 420,000 Formspring passwords compromised in security breach
- July 2012: Yahoo! Mail hacked
- August 2012: Dropbox hacked, user accounts database leaked.
- August 2012: Blizzard Battle.net hacked, user accounts leaked.
- September 2012: Private BitTorrent tracker hacked, passwords leaked by Afghani hackers
- September 2012: Over 30,000 usernames and passwords leaked from private torrent tracker RevolutionTT
- September 2012: IEEE admits password leak, says problem fixed
- November 2012: Adobe Connect Security Breach Exposes Personal Data of 150K Users
- November 2012: Security breach hits Amazon.co.uk , 628 user id and password leaked
- November 2012: Anonymous claims they hacked PayPal's servers, leaks thousands of passwords online
- December 2012: 100 million usernames and passwords compromised in a massive hack of multiple popular Chinese Web sites
- January 2013: Yahoo! Mail hacked (again).
- February 2013: Twitter breach leaks emails, passwords of 250,000 users
Elcomsoft, UPEK and moreTuesday, October 2nd, 2012
[That was one *awesome* passphrase! :-)]
Elcomsoft has announced that certain versions of fingerprint software named Protector Suite made by UPEK (now part of Authentec) stores your Windows password in a 'scrambled' format in registry. This allows an attacker through different entry points to get easy access to a users Windows password. I have no reason not to believe Elcomsoft in their claims, but UPEK/Autentec seriously disagrees. In the middle of this I happen to have some questions, and an opinion regarding biometric software today.
I have lost count of all the times colleagues have approached me with a big smile, challenging me to break into their work laptops now that they have enabled fingerprint authentication. Pressing Esc to get the normal logon prompt and then entering my AD username & password logged me in. Having local admin rights made things even easier to conduct pass-the-hash of their locally cached credentials, and smile turned to sadness. Hey, I have even been accused of cheating when I did that.
I purchased my first fingerprint reader back somewhere in 1999. It was complete crap. Many years later I purchased a Microsoft keyboard with integrated fingerprint reader:
I still remember a very clear warning in their documentation: the fingerprint reader should not be trusted for security. It should be considered as a toy. Oh well.
Today the integrated fingerprint readers in many laptops is the most common place we interact with biometric solutions. IF we choose to use it of course – there is no requirement to do so from the vendor. Enter Elcomsoft.
Security vs Convenience
Lots of people – including infosec professionals, doesn't see the difference between using biometric authentication as a security feature, and as a convenience feature. Simply explained for the home user:
- If you use biometric authentication to logon to your laptop, but can bypass it by pressing Esc and enter your username & password, you are using biometrics as a convenience feature.
- If you have removed any and all possibilities to logon except by using/including biometrics, you are using biometrics as a security feature.
The differences here are … well… BIG, at least in theory. But wait; that was for the home user. I don't care much about your private pictures, christmas wish list and facebook account anyway, so lets look at it from a corporate perspective:
There is no integrated support for replacing passwords with biometric authentication within Microsoft Windows.
This means that any kind of authentication addition or replacement you set up on laptops, tablets or desktop computers in a corporate enviroment with Active Directory, a password still has to be configured for a user in a domain, and that password is what authenticates the user throughout the domain. Using highly advanced visualization tools, hours and hours of hard work and a colorful palette, I made this infographic to explain what happens:
Using biometric logon, we add another step in the authentication process in a corporate environment. Please note; we added one more step, we didn't necessarily add one more layer of security.
I blogged about upcoming password security features in Windows 8 Password Security. Please observe that using picture password and/or a PIN is an addition to having a password. They are quite simply convenience features. Having said that, I would like to give kudos to Microsoft for doing quite a bit of research into picture passwords and presenting it in such a detailed form that we can make up an opinion about the security it provides.
What did Elcomsoft discover?
Well, they claim that certain versions of the software in question stores your Windows password using weak protection locally (see step 2 in the biometric chain above). Using a simple PoC, they have successfully extracted the stored Windows password from registry by the biometric software and "decrypted" it.
Since the biometric software is local only, it needs to know your Windows password to properly give you both local and domain access. To repeat; your username and password gives you access, not your fingerprint or any other biometric ID. If your password is changed, either locally or in the domain, you will have to provide your new password to the biometric software.
Is this such a big deal?
Good practice is to store passwords using hash irreversible algorithms, preferably strong types such as PBKDF2, Bcrypt or Scrypt. The draft cheat sheet from OWASP on password storage gives more information about such algorithms, and more. Even though Microsoft doesn't use salting or key stretching in their LM/NTLM algorithms, they are still hash algorithms. You cannot "reverse" the process to get the plaintext password, you have to
My Authentec (Thinkpad) fingerprint software, which is NOT affected by Elcomsofts findings, knows my password (or passphrase in my case), and there is an option in the software to display it on screen, as the video on top shows you.
But I can do pass-the-hash/ticket and more, why is this a big deal?
Sure you can. But you cannot do those attacks against a Outlook Web Access configuration from the Internet using SSL. You don't know the users actual password when you do pass-the-hash attacks, so you cannot check if the user uses the same password on other services, at work or on a personal basis.
If my fingerprint – my biometric template – was the secret key to unlock the password using reversible encryption like AES, things could perhaps be considered a bit better, but it would still not be good practice to store any users password using reversible encryption. Which is exactly what is evidenced by my video above.
Now if claims by Elcomsoft are true, malware could easily exploit the weakness found to extract users Windows plaintext passwords in yet another way, adding to the already existing ways of doing so.
I haven't twisted my mind long enough on this to figure out ways of improving this, but I am open for suggestions. 🙂
Source article: http://securitynirvana.blogspot.com/2012/09/elcomsoft-upek-more.html


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Easy Volbeat songs
hi everybody, my dad has been a drummer for 40 years and has recently lost interest due to all the modern metal bands having really fast and complicated sounding drums. so yesterday i convinced him to try again thinking that the band volbeat has pretty simple drums. he likes the band quite a bit so he agreed. So my question is which 2 volbeat songs are the easiest to learn on drums? thanks for any and all help
tl;dr name the 2 easiest volbeat songs to play on drums
Heaven Nor Hell is a pretty good one.
EDIT: Nevermind. I really have nothing of value to add to this thread.
Ehm, he should totally listen to bands like Russian Circles, Baroness or Kyuss/Fu Manchu/Brant Bjork... I'm sure there's a lot more interesting stuff there, and none of it 280bpm blast beats...
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"Many people who use bikes to get to and from work or the grocery store don't fit into the typical cycling demographic," says Moody, whose organization won the 2013 Advocacy Organization of the Year award given by the Alliance for Biking and Walking. She believes in nurturing those nontraditional riders: "If we're only preaching to the choir, we're not growing our movement." To that end, Moody created the Low-Income Empowerment Initiative to encourage less-privileged communities to become more bike-friendly. The year-old program provides neighborhoods with bicycle-safety classes, a bike shop, and bikeability assessments, while challenging residents to create their own ways to make the community suitable for cycling. "It's all about the neighborhood," says Moody. "We're just starting the conversation and providing the necessary resources."
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Two Hail Marys
Plus: WaPo wobbles, sort of, maybe.
Maer Roshan is the greatest magazine editor alive today. For several years now, Media Person has been unable to open a newspaper or check a media Web site without seeing some reference to Maer Roshan and his latest plans for the fabulous Radar magazine. His strategy has been unbelievably brilliant. Everyone knows that this is a terrible time to start a magazine (or anything else, except maybe a war) and so Roshan has opted to not start one. Meanwhile, he has hired so many fine journalists and received so much publicity that his magazine gets more buzz than any other. People at parties are always talking about the fantastic articles they would have read in Radar this month if only it existed. Advertisers can't wait to run their ads in it. The only thing that could possibly hurt Radar's success would be its debut. But Media Person believes Maer Roshan is much too smart to allow that to happen.
One of the journalists Roshan is said to be considering using, at least according to Fox News' Roger Friedman, is investigative reporter John Connolly, whose book on the Lewinsky scandal, Insane Clown Posse, was famously aborted by Talk Miramax Books. ... Is that good publicity for Radar or bad publicity? .... 3:21 P.M.
Delay OK? Rumsfeld says a delay of a month or more would not be a problem for our military? WaPo buries the lede! ... He supposedly said this during a brief appearance at a meeting where the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Peter Pace, indicated our troops can "wait as long as necessary," in the words of an unnamed analyst who was present. ... Of course, Rumsfeld and the general could be trying to lull Saddam into a false sense of temporary confidence, in order to regain some element of suprise. ... 12:49 A.M.
Thursday, March 13, 2003 Zinni Arabiatta: Retired Marine General (and former Middle East envoy) Anthony Zinni also favors a delay-for-consensus deal, according to Al Hunt.
Thursday, March 13, 2003 Zinni Arabiatta: Retired Marine General (and former Middle East envoy) Anthony Zinni also favors a delay-for-consensus deal, according to Al Hunt.
Zinni Arabiatta: Retired Marine General (and former Middle East envoy) Anthony Zinni also favors a delay-for-consensus deal, according to Al Hunt.
"Iraq is not an imminent threat," he declares in an interview this week. It's critical, he believes, to have many allies in any rebuilding effort, which would be tremendously facilitated by United Nations support. "If we need to wait a few months while ratcheting up the pressure on Saddam -- take away the whole air space from him...then we ought to wait."
But the fuss about needing allies to rebuild Iraq -- stressed here by Zinni, and elsewhere by Thomas Friedman -- seems overdone. Won't the Europeans help in the rebuilding effort anyway, if only to maintain their influence and show they're not complete free riders? Isn't the real question the initial decision to invade -- especially a) the bad practical precedent of an invasion outside any supra-national (U.N. or NATO) structure and, b) the need to reduce global hatred of America by operating under international sanction. I also suspect those issues -- and not the size of the rebuilding effort -- are what most trouble voters when they say they care about whether the U.N. votes for war. ...[You're sniping at people on your side of the argument--ed. Could be ego! -- I decide the reasons for delaying war around here, buddy! But the "rebuilding" issue has always seemed a bit of a phony to me. If an invasion were otherwise justified and prudent, and the U.N. said "We approve an attack on Saddam, but we won't give you any help afterwards," we wouldn't hold off just because rebuilding Iraq might be difficult, right?] 10:37 P.M.
Radley Balko has a "hardy perennial," oldie-but-goodie story on how Ralph Nader's PIRG organizations live off funds siphoned from unwitting college students. The standard hypocrisy charge applies: If the Naderite fundraising activities were a for-profit business, Nader would probably be demanding the Federal Trade Commission investigate them for bad consumer practices. ... Come to think of it, now that Nader's hated by Gore-supporting Democrats at least as much as by Republicans, can't the FTC muster a bipartisan majority to do just that? ... Balko's good on the hypocrisy of Naderites who plead the First Amendment when the fee arrangement is challenged, but who argue that 'money isn't speech' when it comes to actual politics.
Get it? The act of forcing students at state colleges to fund causes they don't believe in is "protected speech," but voluntarily giving to a political candidate isn't.
Still, I don't understand why mandatory student contributions to Nader (at least at private colleges) should be unconstitutional. If you don't like going to a Nader college, don't go to a Nader college -- just as, if you don't like Jesuits, you probably shouldn't go to Georgetown. ... Granted, most of Balko's examples seem to be state colleges and universities, which arguably have different obligations. ...8:35 P.M.
Show of Feet? Reader M.B. has an idea for finessing the Iraq situation that's probably won't work, but seems worth presenting anyway: Somehow establish U.N. protected zones within Iraq -- starting perhaps in Shiite border towns or Kurdish areas, but also (the hard part, I guess) in some Sunni areas. Let Iraqi citizens vote with their feet about where they'd prefer to live. If Saddam tries to interfere with the ensuing mass migration, you have a Rwanda-style situation justifying intervention to protect them. ... 8:09 P.M.
It's always a crisis in Krugmanville -- Update: MinuteMan has fun elaborating the new Krugman disaster scenarios. ... 11:29 A.M.


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The Curse of the Venetian Pickpockets
A citizen crime patrol is protecting tourists and delighting police.
Anton Faur is a migrant pickpocket. When he recently showed up for work in Venice, his hopes were high: Every year, around 12 million tourists throng and jostle through the city's narrow streets. This time, though, the target-rich environment didn't bear fruit. In just five days, the 17-year-old Romanian was arrested twice. "Venice is beautiful, but not for work," he complained as police booked him.
But it wasn't the police who caught him. Faur was nabbed both times by a civilian antipickpocket patrol called Cittadini Non Distratti, or Undistracted Citizens. Members, who call themselves "Citizens," walk around Venice looking for pickpockets. As thievery spikes during Carnival, when tipsy tourists mob the streets, the group increases patrols. The Cittadini Non Distratti look for a number of giveaways. Most pickpockets are men, they travel in small division-of-labor teams behind tourists, they stop when tourists stop, and their eyes concentrate on vulnerable pockets and bags—not gondolas and pretty buildings. The presence of a teenager is another clue (minors risk lighter punishment). Sudden distractions are an even bigger tip-off: directions sought by a map-wielding questioner, food spilled on a tourist by an apologetic stranger, a heated argument that diverts attention.
More than 200 Venetians have paid a nominal fee for a Cittadini Non Distratti membership card (considerably fewer walk regular beats). The group's cat-and-mouse game is legal, as long as members are unarmed and grab suspects only after they've slipped a hand into another's pocket. They must then call the cops immediately.
Police Officer Gianni Franzoi, head of Venice's street-crime unit, fields most of those calls—a handful every day. The police were initially leery of what they thought might be a vigilante group targeting foreigners (in Venice, 96 percent of arrested pickpockets come from outside the European Union). But the police soon warmed up. "After a while they realized we were doing things in a civic way, not because of racism," says member Franco Dei Rossi, a street artist who on one recent day jumped out from behind his easel four times to foil thefts. Says Franzoi: "They're sharp, they can recognize suspicious people." Franzoi, who complains of being understaffed, is proud of his "precious" volunteers.
City Hall is not. The city has refused Cittadini Non Distratti's requests for official recognition and logistical support. "It's do-it-yourself justice; it's a negative gunslinger culture," says Giuseppe Caccia, until recently Venice's deputy mayor for social affairs. That remark belies what is likely a greater concern: embarrassment. City Hall officials privately acknowledge that the para-police group is bad PR, leading some to think that the city can't adequately protect Venice's lifeblood—its tourists.
The Cittadini couldn't care less about damaging City Hall's image. "The government isn't efficient, so as a citizen you rebel," says Flavio Gastaldi, who works in a souvenir shop called La Gondola near Saint Mark's Square, a favorite spot for pickpockets. According to a city official, pickpocketing is down by half from last year's level.
Graziana Campanato, chief justice of the Tribunale dei Minori del Veneto, the region's court for minors, attributes much of that drop to the Cittadini Non Distratti. The group is responsible for more than half of her court's convictions for pickpocketing in Venice. That's partly because the police, who complain of being understaffed, have "limited intervention powers," she says. Also, travelers rarely stick around to testify. "[The Cittadini Non Distratti] manage to catch the culprit, and we see them here as witnesses."
The Cittadini enjoy wide popular support and regular praise in the local press (an unofficial Venice Web site nicknamed them the "Guardian Angels of Tourists"). Members won't let newspapers photograph them to avoid alerting pickpockets; still, many strangers know who they are and stop them in the street to convey thanks. Some Venetians phone the Cittadini instead of the police when they spot petty crime. Members refuse thank-you money from would-be victims and bribes from trapped pickpockets desperate to keep out of jail. "You get every proposition imaginable," says Gianni Scocco, a retired longshoreman who says he has declined offers of free drinks, dinner, and promises of special favors from ensnared female pickpockets.
Plainclothes cops like to think they blend right in. Artful dodgers think otherwise. "You can tell right away who's undercover," says a 28-year-old female pickpocket from Bosnia who requested anonymity. (Her hint: Look for the men in jeans, blue T-shirts, running shoes, and fanny packs roaming about with cell phones and indiscreet eyes.) Guessing if a passerby might intervene is next to impossible. After a recent wallet-snatch, a bystander seized her and held on until the uniforms showed up. She went to jail.
Rome Police Chief Aldo Zanetti says this "participative security" is increasingly common in Italy, and this new culture seems to be working. According to numbers in a 2005 Interior Ministry report, pickpocketing and purse-snatching have declined nationwide every year since 1997. The authors attribute part of this success to "reciprocal collaboration among the citizenry, law enforcement and institutions."


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Blair Oaks defeats Newburg at St. James Tournament
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ST. JAMES — It was somewhat competitive in the first half. The second half wasn't.
The Blair Oaks Falcons outscored the Newburg Wolves 29-2 in the final two quarters Monday night on their way to a 77-29 victory in the opening round of the St. James Tournament.
Top-seeded Blair Oaks led 25-14 after one quarter and took a 48-27 lead into halftime. The Falcons then led 72-29 heading into the final period.
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The Rowlands may not be the Economides, better known as "America's Cheapest Family," but apparently the former guv and his wife are coming close.
As if his arrest, conviction and jail time, and more recently, the radio brouhaha, weren't enough, the apparently money-savvy Rowland and wifey, Patty. have managed to land themselves in the New York Post and it isn't good.
The short story is they went to a kids craft fair in Woodbury to benefit a charity. But when they learned there was a $5 entrance fee, ( I mean, come on... he has two high-profile jobs now and it was a fundraiser,) they hit the road rather than make the contribution, according to the Post.


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I Bought 27,000 Twitter Followers
It cost $202. Was it worth it?
To be clear, the zombie tweeps just sit there, inert. I tweeted at several of them to see if I could stir them awake and was met with total silence. Buying these fake followers doesn't get you more retweets, more responses to your witticisms, or more traffic for the articles you link to. It just gets you a bigger number next to your name.
So why do people do this? I assume it's in part to create an illusion of success that people hope will be self-perpetuating. It's like showing up to a date in a rented Mercedes drop-top when in real life you drive a dinged-up Kia. To the casual observer, your numerous fake Twitter followers suggest you're a social media powerhouse—a person of influence not be ignored.
It also seems like fake followers might beget more real followers. I noticed that after I'd bought my zombie followers, the rate at which new, nonzombie people followed me seemed to rapidly accelerate. I had a hunch that, because I seemed more popular, I was showing up more in the box to the left of your feed where Twitter suggests people for you to follow. When I asked a Twitter spokeswoman if this was the case, she told me, "The answer to this is still, 'It's complicated.' The number of followers by itself is not an automatic signal for boosting an account to be suggested. It's a factor, but along with a number of others." Still, it's a factor. And, as best I can tell, Twitter is not fantastic at sniffing out whether a huge percentage of your followers are fake—they seem more likely to assume that all those inert accounts are real but "inactive." Your Klout score might also get a small boost due to your larger number of followers, though Klout says your score is based much more on ability to get replies and retweets than your sheer follower counts.
There are also downsides to buying fake followers. For instance, you might be embarrassingly busted. A site called StatusPeople.com offers a Fakers App that purports to suss out how many of a given Twitter handle's followers are shams. But it's not perfect. It thought only 4 percent of my followers were fake while it labeled 89 percent inactive (which could apply to real people who passively read but don't tweet or retweet). And when I ran the app for other handles, the results were confusing. The Fakers App called fully 15 percent of Dickerson's followers fake and 46 percent inactive, even though he's never bought zombies. Likewise, Slate has never bought followers for its @Slate feed, yet the app accuses us of having 12 percent fake fans and 38 percent inactives.
Still, unless people harbor some sort of resentment or suspicion about you, it's pretty unlikely they'll bother to investigate like this. They'll just assume you're a Twitter star. And here's where it gets uncomfortable for me. Confession: In the month or so since I bought all those followers, up until outing myself in this story, I've sometimes felt a small ego jolt at the thought of people noticing that impressive number next to my name. Which is creepy and absurd. Unlike my talented Twitter colleagues, I did absolutely nothing to deserve this feeling of pride and accomplishment. I very much did not build that.
My giant, gormless lump of fake followers will never go away. To ditch them, I'd need to sort through my 29,000 one by one, taking care not to jettison any flesh-and-blood tweeps. Not gonna happen. So the zombies will trail me around until the end of days, sort of like (to paraphrase Eddie Murphy) herpes, or luggage. They'll sit there silently, serving as a constant reminder that I've taken a lazy shortcut. I'll feel guilty about this from time to time. But I'll also enjoy some of the benefits of Twitterati status—without making myself into a links clearinghouse, straining to be clever, or living my life in public. I guess Mitt Romney (and his 1.2 million followers) would call me a taker, not a maker.
Update, Thursday Oct. 4, 2012, 9:11 am: Within a few hours of this story being posted on Slate, my follower count suddenly plummeted from about 29,000 to 1,223. I don't yet know who deleted all those followers, or why. But I have my suspicions! I will investigate and post further updates as I learn more.


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Student Success Tips For Divorced Parents
Ann Dolin
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Ann Dolin, M.Ed. is the President and Director of Educational Connections. She holds a B.A. in Child Psychology/Elementary Education and a Master's degree in Special Education, with a concentration in Learning Disabilities, from Boston College.
After leaving FCPS in 1998, Ann founded Educational Connections, Inc. as its only employee with the goal of providing individualized one-to-one instruction based on each student's learning style. Today, her company employs over 100 tutors, serves the entire metropolitan D.C. area, and has worked with over 2,000 students.
Ann is a recognized expert in education and learning disability issues. She has provided testimony in trials related to education and learning disabilities. She is a member of WISER (Washington Independent Services for Educational Resources) and is the coordinator of CHADD of Northern Virginia (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder). She is also a member of the Education Industry Association, Council for Learning Disabilities, and a board member for the International Dyslexia Association. She travels throughout the D.C. Metro area presenting at parent and teacher groups on a variety of educational topics.
Student Success Tips For Divorced Parents
Education expert Ann Dolin discusses how divorced parents should work together to monitor homework in two homes and to support any problems at school.
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Ann Dolin: Divorce is hard enough as it is. Flowing homework on top of it adds a whole new layer to an already complicated situation, many successful divorced couples have a system in place to ensure that despite these obstacles their child gets the academic attention he or she needs.
First off, communication is everything. Many parents have found that creating a communication checklist is a great tool. Make a list of everything a child needs to take with him for homework when switching from one house to another. Also list any homework or other projects the student has for the week, especially big tests to study for.
The other parent can look at over and update the list before sending the child back and lastly, it's important to unify when it comes to being involved in your child's school life. Make sure you are both going to teacher conferences, either together or in separate meetings and make sure your child knows what's expected of him concerning homework and grades, regardless of which home he is in.
Once you have a system in place, with clear expectations and strong communication your child can thrive academically in this new environment.
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