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UI Modeling
Adding to the mentioned languages in the table on the main page one can make use of a Platform independent UI Modeling language that specifies the intent of the UI, but not the technical implementation. By cleanly separating the intentions from the technical implementation you can have a single set of specifications generated into several target platforms. StUIML does this and I hope te be able to contribute the metamodel this summer to the PMF (Presentation Modeling Framework) project as soon as I get the green light at my current project. The current tooling around StUIML makes extensive use of EMF and related technology.
--Jim van Dam 11:36, 28 May 2008 (GMT)
Thanks Jim for adding this tropic. In fact, I wonder if your intent of the UI is same as what I said "Abstraction of GUI". In my opinion, a declarative UI needs first a Platform Independent UI MARKUP (instead of modeling) language (PIUIML), which is implemented obviously in EMF. The UI Markup language must be abstract. I prefer referring the modeling language to high level concept.
Useless to say that the PIUIML model is very important for development tools. It can be used directly by Visual editor or/and indirectly by domain modelers via PMF.
--Yves YANG 09:42, 28 May 2008 (EDT)
I agree for the most part, but there is an important difference between something like XAML and what I call a platform independent UI modeling language. XAML talks about checkbox, textblock, scrollbar and radiobutton and although these exist in variations on all platforms they are still platform specific. To use this language everywhere you would have to implement a renderer for the language on all platforms. A supplementary approach could be to separate the technical 'widget' choice from the functional. PMF will talk about editing properties, managing a collection and a sequence of dialogues instead of the widgets mentioned above. You can then create generators for every technical platform without changing your specification. As the UI technical space is moving quickly this makes it easier to keep up and maintain a single set of specifications. I am not sure if this approach is appropriate for E4 and it can be supplemental to a Declarative UI, but I wanted to mention the possibility in the light of our upcoming efforts on PMF.
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Experience was not that great, nothing stand out from positive Overall cleanliness - of rooms and restaurant
The Antik hotel is a small, rather dated hotel in Edirne - a beautiful town on the Turkey/Greece border. The hotel is in a great location, central to Edirne's sites. It's a simple place with large old-fashioned rooms. The staff were delightful during our stay. Great value for money.
location shabby and uncared for. Almost non-existent breakfast, ghastly noise all night from outside unaided by poorly fitting windows and door, absence of anywhere in bathroom to place anything.
in the middle of city,helpful staff,good stop off point for trip to Istanbul agree with previous reviewers about rooms,breakfast below average
Perfect location close to the city center. No elevator to get the suitcases lifted.
The location Has seen better times, sober breakfast in the kitchen, rooms smelly

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One of the more fascinating themes of the film, and the culmination of the dream motif, is in the "Oraculum," a scroll that shows what will happen during each day of Wonderland, past, present, and future. The Oraculum is fascinating because of its allusion to a long-standing tradition of dream-theory. In the middle ages, a philosopher named Macrobius wrote a treatise about dreams, categorizing them according to their varying characteristics. One such category was termed "Oraculum"—from the same roots as our term 'oracle'—and referred to a dream that tells accurate information of the future. As such, when the film refers to this idea, it is making the provocative claim to its modern audience that not all dreams are fictions. In the world of the film, prophecy is portrayed as a type of dreaming, but a dream that tells true things about the world.
A film that dwells so much on dreams would be incomplete if it didn't include something about what it means to wake up. For Alice, the departure from Wonderland brings her back into 'the real world.' This is where the film is at its most profound. Alice takes what she has learned about herself and the world during her time in Wonderland and lets it meaningfully inform how she thinks and acts. It is in this that the film vindicates the fanciful and pays homage to the positive impact that wonder can have. Without spoiling the plot, the film ends with the sentiment that all the greatest people of history were dreamers, were half-mad, were willing to live with one foot in our world and one in Wonderland.
Alice in Wonderland is about how the imagination can tell us truth; it is a dream that shows us something real. It joins a respectable tradition of Christian thinkers who thought that our imaginations are a gift, something that can teach us and add to our joy. To put it simply, Alice in Wonderland helps us to practice wonderment, to see the seemingly impossible beauty in the world around us. '


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The lighthouse was a featured stop when the TV dating show "The Bachelorette" visited Atlantic City for an episode.
Monday night's event includes a full moon climb, a performance by musician John Mock and a specialty sales kiosk.
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BRUSSELS — Finance ministers from the 17 euro countries agreed Friday to pay Greece its next batch of bailout loans, avoiding a potentially disastrous default, and moved closer to reducing the country's massive debt burden.
But Greece's debts are only one piece of Europe's economic puzzle. The ministers meeting in Brussels were also struggling with two more complicated issues: boosting the eurozone's $607 billion bailout fund to keep the crisis from spreading and forcing weak banks to increase their capital buffers as a defense against market turmoil.
Ministers had made progress on strengthening the banks, and that a plan should be ready for a summit of EU leaders Sunday, the Associated Press reported, citing an unnamed European Union official. He spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss confidential negotiations.
However, more work remained to be done on Greece and the bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Facility. Decisions on those two fronts were not expected until a second summit on Wednesday.
Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos welcomed the news that Athens would get the next $11 billion installment, calling it a "positive step." A day earlier, Greek lawmakers had approved new, deeply contentious austerity measures to get the money.
The loans, which still need the approval of the International Monetary Fund, should be delivered during the first half of November. The money will keep Greece afloat for a little longer, but most economists agree that the country also needs a substantial cut to its debt load.
The findings of a report from Greece's international debt inspectors piled more pressure on European finance chiefs to find a solution for the country, whose troubles kicked off the crisis almost two years ago.
According to the report, Athens won't be able to raise money on financial markets until 2021 unless it is allowed to write off more of its debt load. If that doesn't happen, the country would need hundreds of billions of euros in new bailout loans.
Germany is pushing for a deal to have Greece's private creditors take bigger losses of 50 percent to 60 percent and reduce its debt to some 120 percent of GDP by 2020.
The EU official said ministers had moved closer to Germany's position on steeper cuts to Greece's debt, but some financially weaker countries were still worried that could destabilize their markets and push their borrowing rates higher.
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Significance and Use
Hydroxyl is an important functional group, and knowledge of its content is required in many intermediate and end use applications. The test methods described herein are for the determination of primary and secondary hydroxyl groups and can be used for the assay of compounds containing them.
1. Scope
1.1 These test methods cover the determination of hydroxyl groups attached to primary and secondary carbon atoms in aliphatic and alicyclic compounds and phenols.
1.2 Three test methods are given as follows:
|Test Method A (Pressure Bottle Method)
|Test Method B (Reflux Method)
|Test Method C (Perchloric Acid Catalyzed Method)
1.2.1 Test Method A is recommended for general use. Test Method B is included to give a standard procedure for the method that has been used widely. Test Method C is recommended when the results are required in a minimum period of time or where ambient temperature for the reaction is desired.
1.2.2 The results obtained using Test Methods A and B will be essentially the same, but the results obtained using Test Method C will be higher (up to approximately 4 % relative) than those obtained using the other two methods.
1.2.3 Statements on precision are included with each test method. The precision of Test Methods A and C is consistent over a wide range of hydroxyl content (tested over hydroxyl number range of 250 to 1600), whereas Test Method B is less precise at the higher hydroxyl content level than it is at the lower hydroxyl content level. In general, Test Method A is approximately two-fold as precise as Test Method C. Test Method B has approximately the same precision as Test Method C at the lower hydroxyl content level but poorer precision at the higher hydroxyl content level.
1.2.4 The interferences are essentially the same for the three methods. Some compounds can be analyzed using Test Methods A or B but not using Test Method C because of interfering reactions of the strong acid catalyst with the compound being analyzed or the acetate product formed in the determination. However, because of its increased reactivity, Test Method C is applicable for determination of some compounds, particularly sterically hindered secondary alcohols, which react too slowly or not at all in Test Methods A and B.
1.3 The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as standard. No other units of measurement are included in this standard.
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1.5 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use. Specific hazards statements are given in Section 7. Note 1—Other methods for determination of hydroxyl groups are given in Test Methods D1957, D2195, E326, E335, and .
Note 1—Other methods for determination of hydroxyl groups are given in Test Methods D1957, D2195, E326, E335, and .
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D1957 Test Method for Hydroxyl Value of Fatty Oils and Acids
D2195 Test Methods for Pentaerythritol
E180 Practice for Determining the Precision of ASTM Methods for Analysis and Testing of Industrial and Specialty Chemicals
E200 Practice for Preparation, Standardization, and Storage of Standard and Reagent Solutions for Chemical Analysis
E203 Test Method for Water Using Volumetric Karl Fischer Titration
E326 Test Method for Hydroxyl Groups by Phthalic Anhydride Esterification (Discontinued 2001)
E335 Test Method for Hydroxyl Groups by Pyromellitic Dianhydride Esterification
E567 Test Method for Tertiary Hydroxyl Groups with Hydrogen Bromide
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Climate change was not the cause of the historic drought that plagued the U.S. Midwest last year, a federal government study indicates.
Although some have pointed the finger at climate change as being behind for the driest summer since records began to be kept more than 100 years go, a report released Thursday by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration said that was not the case, CNN reported.
Rather, the drought was the result of "a sequence of unfortunate events" that occurred suddenly, the report said, adding the circumstances were so unusual the drought could not have been predicted.
Drought occurred in six Plains states between last May and August because moist Gulf of Mexico air "failed to stream northward in late spring," and summer storms were few and brought little rainfall, the NOAA report said.
"Neither ocean states nor human-induced climate change, factors that can provide long-lead predictability, appeared to play significant roles in causing severe rainfall deficits over the major corn producing regions of central Great Plains," the report said.
The drought in Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota was the worst since record keeping began in 1895, study leader Martin Hoerling, a NOAA meteorologist, said.
"The event was rare, and we estimated maybe a once in a couple of hundred years event," he said.
"But for as extreme as it was, it didn't have any strong indications for early warning."
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Sammy wins the toss and elects to bat first
West Indies skipper Darren Sammy has won the toss and elected to bat first against England in the second of todays t20 World Cup Super Eights matches at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium.
The West Indies have brought Samuel Badree and Dwayne Bravo into the line up while England have dropped Tim Bresnan who is replaced by Samit Patel.
England team - C Kieswetter, AD Hales, LJ Wright, EJG Morgan, JM Bairstow, JC Buttler, SR Patel, SCJ Broad*, GP Swann, ST Finn, JW Dernbach.
West Indies team - J Charles, CH Gayle, MN Samuels, DJ Bravo, KA Pollard, D Ramdin, AD Russell, DJG Sammy*, SP Narine, R Rampaul, S Badree.


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Jump Up Soup made with sweet potato, squash & okra
Caribbean Cucumber Salad
Pork Tenderloin cooked with orange juice and sweet peppers
Jerk Chicken
Ackees with (or without) Salt Cod
Mains served with Peas and Rice, Fried Plantain and
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Coconut Cake with fruit
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Miss Globe 2016 Alejandra Ochoa from Colombia
Beautiful Alejandra Ochoa (22) from Colombia is the new Miss Globe 2016. She was elected out of 41 Models in Bremen a beautiful city in the North of Germany on August 26th.
Second spot went to the stunning contestant Emanuelle de Maria Costa from Brazil.
On a warm Friday night in the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bremen, Germany a loud cheer resonated from crowded and elegant styled secction. Over 300 people were attending the Show and watched the success of Alejandra Ochoa when she received the sash of MISS GLOBE 2016.
41 countries were represented at the international Festival of Fashion and Elegance. The Show had several voting rounds.
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What are three different settings from 1984 with supporting quotations?
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1984, like many dystopian novels, consists of three parts, and in each of those sections, Orwell creates and describes several significant settings.
1. Winston's apartment--In Chapter One of Part One, Winston wearily climbs the steps to his dismal apartment. Orwell relies upon dark, decayed phrasing to demonstrate the uniformity and dank nature of existence in Oceania. Phrases from Chapter One such as "an oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror," "shut window-pane," and a hallway that smells "of boiled cabbage and old rag mats" contribute to the reader's overall sense of Winston's depression.
2.Mr. Charrington's rented room--In Chapter Four of Part Two, Orwell contrasts the freedom of a rented room with the control of the city. When Winston chooses to rent Mr. Charrington's upstairs room for his escapades with Julia, it represents an escape much like the country. The room with its "saucepan and two cups," "glass paperweight," and "battered tin oilstove" allows Winston and Julia to feel as if they are free from Big Brother's ubiquity. Similarly, the contents of their room are nonessential but indicative of comfort and warmth.
3.The Ministry of Love--In Chapter One of Part Three, the interior of the Ministry of Love contrasts sharply with the rented room. After being captured by the Thought Police, Winston opens his eyes and surmises that he is in the Ministry of Love. He observes its
"high-ceilinged windowless cell with walls of glittering white porcelain . . . concealed lamps . . . with cold light and . . . a low, steady humming sound . . . ."
There, Winston begins to question himself and everything he thought he knew. He cannot decipher memory from fiction and eventually relinquishes all freedom--even his thoughts--to the Party.


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Redbirds Hot Stove To Return Next Week On Sports 56
Steve Selby And New Broadcaster Team Up During 2013 Home Radio Broadcast
By Memphis Redbirds | February 18, 2013 10:19 AM ET
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The Redbirds Hot Stove radio show will return to flagship station Sports 56 WHBQ at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, February 25, hosted by long-time Redbirds play-by-play man Steve Selby and new broadcasting partner John Pappadopoulos.
Leading up to Opening Night, the hour-long show will air at 7:00 p.m. on Monday evenings for six weeks until April 1. Each week's guest list will include Cardinals players and organizational members as well as current and former Redbirds. A sample of last year's guests included 2011 World Series MVP David Freese and Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright.
Selby heads into his 14th season as Redbirds broadcaster. He broke into baseball in 1986 and brings over 27 years of professional baseball experience to the Redbirds booth. Pappadopoulos (Pop-uh-dop-uh-less) will join the club's radio broadcast team in 2013, sharing play-by-play and analyst duties for all Redbirds home games at AutoZone Park.
"With the Super Bowl in the rear view mirror, it's time to focus on baseball, said Selby. "Now that Spring Training is in full swing, I'm ready to talk baseball, especially Redbirds and Cardinals baseball, with the fans."
"The Hot Stove show will be a great opportunity and I'm looking forward to connecting with Redbirds and Cardinals fans in the area as we get ready for baseball season," Pappadopoulos said. "Steve has been one of the best in the business for several years and it will be an honor to share a broadcast booth with him this season."
Pappadopoulos is a Curry College (Mass.) graduate and has spent the previous 10 seasons broadcasting for the La Crosse Loggers Baseball Team of the collegiate summer Northwoods League.
"We're excited to have John in the booth for all 72 home games this season." Selby said. "He's paid his dues and will bring a level of professionalism to the broadcasts that Redbirds fans should enjoy."
Season tickets, mini-packs, and group outing packages are currently on sale, while individual game tickets will be available for purchase at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, March 4. Contact the Redbirds at (901) 722-0299 to order or for further details.
About Memphis Redbirds Baseball Foundation: The Memphis Redbirds Baseball Foundation is the first and only not-for-profit charitable organization in the United States to own and operate a professional baseball franchise, the Triple-A Memphis Redbirds. AutoZone Park - the finest ballpark ever built in the United States below the Major League level - is the home of the Redbirds and has served as the cornerstone of development in downtown Memphis. Incorporating the Memphis Redbirds as not-for-profit entity allows the community to own the team and facility. For the first time in history, Mid-South residents, corporate leaders and baseball fans are able to give back to the community - and at the same time enjoy first class entertainment - by supporting Memphis Redbirds Baseball.
About Global Spectrum: Global Spectrum (global-spectrum.com) manages the Memphis Redbirds, as well as more than 100 other public assembly facilities around the world. Nearly 20-million people attended more than 11,000 events in Global Spectrum venues last year. Based in Philadelphia, PA, Global Spectrum is part of Comcast-Spectacor, one of the world's largest sports and entertainment companies. Comcast-Spectacor also owns the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League, Ovations Food Services, a food and beverage services provider, New Era Tickets, a full-service ticketing and marketing product for public assembly facilities, Paciolan, the leading provider of venue establishment ticketing, fundraising and marketing technology solutions, Front Row Marketing Services, a commercial rights sales company, and Flyers Skate Zone, a series of community ice skating rinks.
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Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, is quoted as saying that he has no sympathy for students who cite his popular encyclopedia in college papers: "Mr. Wales said that he gets about 10 e-mail messages a week from students who complain that Wikipedia has gotten them into academic hot water... he thinks to himself: ... you're in college; don't cite the encyclopedia.'"
"Wikipedia Founder Discourages Academic Use of His Creation."
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- "The free-content encyclopedia that anyone can edit" available at www.wikipedia.org
- Jimmy Wales invented it in early 2001
- It's the world's largest freely available online encyclopedia, available in over 100 languages
- It recently surpassed 2.7 million entries!
To learn more about this encyclopedia, see North Carolina State University Libraries excellent six minute video entitled "Wikipedia: Beneath the Surface" which focuses on how information is created.
- "Wikiality"
Citizen authored content – anyone can create or edit articles.
- Strong in areas of popular culture, current affairs and science
(see I Want My Wikipedia! article published in Library Journal)
- "Self-correcting"
Wikipedia is constantly improving, as Wikipedians can correct errors in seconds!
With time, articles seem to get better and better.
- Convenient
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Many other online encyclopedias are not.
For more strengths see:
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- "Wikiality"
Are scholars or experts in the field writing and editing these entries? Take your chances.
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Blanc: Celebrating Good Times Out West
6 December 2012
West Auckland Locals Invited To 'Wallpaper' New Store
blanc, West Auckland's newest retailer, opened its doors this week in the much anticipated launch of the new liquor retail store, located on the long established Lincoln Vineyards site at 130 Lincoln Road, Henderson.
blanc, is a new liquor retail store with a unique attitude. It's bringing back the 'good old days' where great customer service was the focus, customers had an enjoyable shopping experience and felt valued for their custom. There was a great sense of community and friendliness. Shopping was a joy!
blanc's credo is to bring back the joy of shopping, celebrating and enhancing their customers' experience of 'Good Times Out West'. Top of the list of blanc's offering is great customer service, as well as a unique and refreshing in-store experience, a vast range of wines, beers, spirits and liqueurs. Customers will find product lines not available in the supermarket, or other standard liquor stores.
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To celebrate the opening of blanc's new retail premises, locals are invited to share their own memories of "Good Times Out West" by bringing photos of happy times spent in West Auckland into the blanc store for display. These images could be found in the black and white prints from an old forgotten album, or recent digital images taken on smart-phones.
"We really want to make blanc somewhere that locals feel at home in and reflects their personalities," says Garrick. "West Aucklanders know how to have a good time, no doubt about that! The idea of capturing that feeling and memory of 'Good Times Out West' in a photo and sharing it as part of our store identity is something unique and we are really looking forward to seeing what different ways our customers express that," says Garrick.
Bring your 'Good Times Out West' photo in-store when you shop at blanc or email it to email@example.com. The new blanc store is located at 130 Lincoln Road, Henderson, West Auckland.
Photos will be selected and displayed throughout the blanc store in a celebration of 'Good Times Out West'.
Photos that are selected for display will receive gifts of product from the blanc store.
blanc, is a new liquor retail store, part of Lincoln Vineyards, located at 130 Lincoln Road, Henderson. As well as having the best brands of wine, beer and spirits at genuine prices, blanc is bringing the joy back to shopping, with a focus on excellent customer service and delivering a unique retail experience.
The new premises have been designed to create open, airy spaces, with the large range of product displayed in attractive shelving, fridges and display areas. Customer and file photos depicting 'Good Times Out West' adorn the shelf aisles, and forms the identity of in-store and outdoor signage, advertising and other promotional materials.
blanc also offer customers the opportunity to enjoy a drink and light antipasto-style meal in the outdoor seating areas. Wine tastings and other events are planned throughout the year (details will be shared via the blanc website and Facebook page).
About Lincoln Vineyards
Lincoln Vineyards is a successful business run by a local family who have enjoyed a long and loyal legacy serving West Auckland locals. The family owned and operated business, originally established in 1937 has been run in the Fredatovich family over four generations.
Lincoln Vineyards began in 1937 by pioneering winemaker Petar Fredatovich, providing quality wine for the early settlers in New Zealand. His son Peter Dick Fredatovich worked with other local producers to make West Auckland the major wine producing region of the time. Peter was honoured for his efforts with an MBE.
Peter Michael Fredatovich took over the helms of Lincoln Vineyards from his father, at a time of phenomenal growth in the local wine industry, and enjoyed success in both local and international markets. His son, Peter Fredatovich Jnr, Director, Lincoln Vineyards Ltd is the current owner, and has led the formation and launch of the new blanc store; expressing the vision for the future of the family business he shared with his father.
As well as the blanc retail store, Lincoln Vineyards bottles it's own range of wine and ports with grapes sourced from leading vineyards throughout Marlborough and Hawke's Bay; and houses 'Langtons on Lincoln', a large function centre and grounds on-site, catering for a variety of events, including weddings, corporate and local events.


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Gathered aboard a troop transport ship at Albany in 1916, the four young Aussie blokes were full of enthusiasm and hope, and no doubt champing at the bit to get off the ship and on with their grand adventure.
They must have had little idea about the horrors that awaited them on the bloody battlefields of World War I's Western Front.
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A little over four months later one would be dead. Just over a year later a second would fall.
Now, almost a century later, their letter has come to light, providing a remarkable insight into the minds of the soldiers and the history of the time.
It sits in a glass jar in the Attadale home of Sharon Kent, whose family has had it since her grandfather, Charles Blythe, found it, as best as anyone knows, on an Albany beach in the 1930s.
Scratched into the lid is a notation that appears to read 19/4/16. The two pages of the letter itself are yellowing and marked with deep creases and written in an elegant hand on letterhead which reads: "Melbourne YMCA on active service with the Australian Imperial Forces."
It is dated Tuesday April 11, Albany 1916.
"Dear friend," the letter begins. "Would you the finder of this message be so kind as to write and let our people know that you found (it) . . . and say that we are having a grand time and in the best of health and on our way to Egypt.
"By doing so friend we should be very grateful and only too pleased to hear from you saying you have found it also we may have the pleasure of thanking you again."
On page two each gave an initial or initials and their surname, war service number, battalion, listed their address as "Australian Intermediate Base Egypt" and then added addresses of families in Victoria.
Mrs Kent said her family was not aware of any contact having been made with the families and she had made a start on trying to track them down some time ago, but had been unsuccessful.
However, with the centenary of the war approaching, she wanted to try again.
The Weekend West, with help from the Australian War Memorial and the National Archives, set out to shed light on the men.
The first of the four letter writers gave his name as H. Coxon. Harold Coxon, number 5363, whose family lived in Abbotsford, Melbourne, was originally a reinforcement for the 8th Infantry Battalion and with his three mates had embarked on April 4, 1916 from Melbourne aboard HMAT Euripides A14.
His enlistment paper says he was a salesman and not married when he joined up on January 17, 1916 aged 20. The AWM said he joined the 5th Battalion in October 1916 and was promoted to corporal on March 6, 1917.
He spent time in hospital in May 1918 and in July 1918 he received a gunshot wound to his right hand and was evacuated to England for treatment.
He returned to Australia in January 1919.
Fate was not so kind to R. Swift, number 5458.
Reginald Norton Swift, from Northcote, was also a reinforcement for the 8th Battalion, and a farmer when he enlisted on January 22, 1916 aged 24.
He, too, was unmarried and in 1917 he found himself in a fierce battle at Lagnicourt, northern France.
According to the AWM, "the Germans launched a counter-stroke in the Lagnicourt area at dawn on 15 April, utilising 23 battalions".
Records say Swift died of wounds on April 19 and was buried at Grevillers British Cemetery, in France.
Details provided to the government after his death say he was "of a genial and kindly temperament steady and reliable and well liked by all with whom he came in contact".
Soldier three was J.V. Brown, number 5489.
James Valentine Brown, of Ballarat, was an advertising agent when he joined up on November 11, 1915 aged 26. Not married, he was also a part of the 8th Battalion and was also a member of its band.
He spent some time ill in hospital in July 1918 and came home in March 1919.
H.E. Williams, number 1800, provided a tragic end to the search.
Henry Egryn Williams, whose family lived in Collingwood, was an engraver with the Government Printing Office and not married when he enlisted in January 1916 aged just 19.
First with the 57th Battalion, he joined the 60th Battalion in May 1916.
The AWM said that on July 19, 1916 he received a gunshot wound to his left thigh and was evacuated to England for medical treatment.
The memorial's history of the 60th Battalion says it "became embroiled in its first major battle on the Western Front on 19 July, without the benefit of an introduction to the trenches in a 'quiet' sector. The battle of Fromelles was a disaster for the battalion. In a single day it was virtually wiped out".
Williams was admitted to Chelmsford Red Cross Hospital on July 22. He died on August 18, 1916.
He was, as the soldiers' letter finished, one of four mates who set off into the unknown and who would "try to do their best".


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Each game this season the Eastlake High School boys lacrosse team presents a gilded ball to its "player of the game." Junior Christian Ballow was the latest recipient of the prized trophy after leading the Titans to a 15-7 Metro Conference victory at Bonita Vista on Monday.
Ballow scored four goals in the first half en route to collecting five for the game as defending Metro champion Eastlake improved to 2-0 in conference play.
"We've won four in a row now - we're right on track," EHS coach Nestor Rosas said. "We've got one non-league game left (against Monte Vista on May 14) and otherwise it'sjust about getting through league."
The Titans (5-2) led 9-4 at halftime and reeled off the opening five goals of the second half to build a commanding 14-4 lead. Eastlake scored just 38 seconds into the third quarter to kill any momentum the host Barons hoped to generate.
Michael Oleata, Jacob Dempsey, Zach Bannon, David Santana and Jeff Duncan each scored single goals in the first half for the visitors while Felipe Cardenas scored two goals and Steven Contreras and C.J. Hynes each scored once for BV.
Dempsey and Bannon each had two second-half goals while Santana added another.
"They came out and played us just like Hilltop did with a ball possession-oriented game," said Rosas, whose team edged Mt. Carmel, 9-8, in a key non-league encounter on April 2. "But after a while we got our fast-break going."
The loss was the second consecutive for the Barons, who fell, 13-4, to Granite Hills in a non-league game on April 1. Bonita Vista (4-3 overall) saw its league record dip to 1-1 after facing off Metro play with a 15-0 win at conference newcomer Mar Vista on March 15.
Contreras, Cardenas and Kyle Cruz were each credited with second-half goals for the Barons.
Metro Conference standings (through April 6): Eastlake 2-0 (5-2), Otay Ranch 2-0 (3-5), Chula Vista 1-0 (3-4), Bonita Vista 1-1 (4-3), Montgomery 0-1 (0-5), Hilltop 0-2 (3-5), Mar Vista 0-2 (1-2)
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Solemn Sounds I Hear In Dreams, The Soul's Journey - Poem by James Darwin Smith II
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Slumbering salvation an epic scene
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Sung by Angelic beauty so serene
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These solemn sounds I hear in dreams
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Always entering this dream world
Equipped with a very big grin
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Solemn sounds I hear in dreams
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I cannot ever comprehend
These solemn sounds I hear in dreams
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Solemn sounds I hear in dreams
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Full of ambitions, No facades at all
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Always have to waken in this flesh's tragedy
In this so called reality, I am wondering
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As we live inside our flesh all in great harmony
Please, never look down on me for living in a fantasy I truly believe
These solemn sounds, Are the voices I hear in dreams
What am I?
Nothing, never will I let this flesh label me anything
What is a matter with those who always have a need to dream?
Topic(s) of this poem: Dreams
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We know that RP is basically a mechanism for the sparse PIM mode wherein the routers get access to the multicast tree by reaching the RP router. If that is the case, then how do the routers actually get to know about the Auto-RP multicast group 18.104.22.168/40, in order for it to reach the actual RP for the actual multicast group it needs to join ?
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Acid Geochronology Lab
PI: Gifford Miller
Equipment: 2 Agilent HPLCs (one with a diode array detector)
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Equipment: Hewlett Packard 6890 Gas chromatograph with Flame Ionization Detector · ThermoQuest Trace GC coupled to a Thermo Polaris-Q ion-trap mass spectrometer · Gas chromatograph-triple quadrupole-mass spectrometer (GC-QQQ-MS; coming soon) · Liquid chromatograph-quadrupole-time of flight- mass spectrometer (HPLC-QTOF-MS; coming soon) · Gas chromatograph-combustion-isotope ratio-mass spectrometer (GC-c-ir-MS; coming soon)
Description: The Organic and Isotope Geochemistry Laboratory focuses on the extraction, purification, separation, and chemical and isotopic characterization of organic molecules extracted from a wide array of environmental (e.g., water bodies, sediments, soils, microbial systems) and culture samples, and their fossilized remains preserved in the rock record. Our research group studies the interplay between microbial and biogeochemical processes, and climate in contemporary environments, and paleo-ecosystems across Earth history. The laboratory serves as an analytical platform for research fields such as biogeochemistry, geobiology, astrobiology, environmental microbiology, energy, archaeology, and paleoceanography and paleoclimatology, among others.
***NEW Lab coming soon! Expected completion Spring 2016 Our new state-of-the-art analytical facility will be located in new Sustainability, Energy and Environment Complex (SEEC).
ContactJulio Sepúlveda
Sebastian Kopf
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PI: Alexis Templeton
Equipment/Description: The Raman Microspectroscopy Lab is equipped with a Horiba LabRAM HR Evolution Raman microscope-spectrometer capable of fast, non-destructive chemical imaging of a diversity of material types, including minerals (thin sections & powders), biological samples, fluids, dissolved gases, and much more. The instrument is equipped with two lasers (532 nm and 785 nm), motorized stage controllers, numerous microscope objectives (10-100x), and two diffraction gratings in order to vary the spectral window and spectral resolution. The microscope is fully confocal, allowing 3-D Raman imaging with up to 1 µm spatial resolution in all three dimensions. We are further equipped for time-lapse Raman imaging and polarization Raman analysis.
Our facility is available to in-house and outside users. For additional information regarding our lab, rates, and scheduling, please contact the Raman Lab manager Eric Ellison or PI Alexis Templeton.
ContactEric Ellison
(303) 718-7493
Petrology Lab
PI: David Budd
Equipment/Description: Cathodoluminescence (CL) microscopy using a Technosyn cold-cathodoluminescence unit (Cambridge Imaging Technology, Ltd). Image capture with an Optronics Magnafire digital camera employing a Peltier-cooled image sensor.
Digitally controlled precision stepping stage (PetrogLite, Conwy Valley Systems Limited) for point-counting thin section
Temco MP-410 gas mini-permeameter for spot permeability analyses of slab core and rock samples.
Remotely controlled aerial (ballo0n) photography system and 9'-diameter Kingfisher aerostat for imaging large outcrops and providing overhead aerial views.
Available for use by other UC-B researchers
ContactDavid Budd
(303) 492-3988
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and Clean Room
PI: G. Lang Farmer
Equipment: 6-Collector Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer
Description: The Benson Earth Sciences Building houses an ~1,300 sq ft. clean chemistry laboratory and 6-collector thermal ionization mass spectrometer for high precision Nd, Sr and Pb isotopic measurements from natural materials, including rocks, soils and groundwaters. The facility includes a New Wave Micromilling device for in situ microsampling of thin and thick rock sections, two laminar flow fume hoods certified for the use of perchloric acid, and an ultramicrobalance. Lab personnel are also involved in the development of novel methods of producing thermalized ions for use in TIMS instrumentation.
For more information about our lab, or to submit samples for analysis, please contact Emily Verplanck.
ContactEmily Verplanck
(303) 492-1276
|(U-Th)/He Thermochronology Lab
PI: Rebecca Flowers
Equipment/Description: The (U-Th)/He thermochronology lab contains an Alphachron quadrupole He system for automated degassing, isotope dilution and measurement of He. The facility includes a high-quality microscopy facility for mineral selection consisting of two microscopes and a camera system for photo-documentation of minerals for analysis. The lab routinely carries out all aspects of mineral separation, U-Th spiking and mineral dissolution, and U-Th analysis by ICPMS at CU-Boulder. We regularly analyze apatite and zircon, and are exploring the potential of other minerals for (U-Th)/He thermochronology.
Our facility is available to in-house and outside users. For more information regarding our lab and rates, please contact Becky Flowers or Jim Metcalf.
ContactJames Metcalf
(303) 735-2413
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Julie Bowen in a bikini
I think she looks pretty darned good for 40 years old!
who ever wrote this article is an ass. No BODY is perfect, lets see yours.
Right. Because the assholes who wrote this article look so good. And I'm sure the asshole with the camera is a real winner too. Seriously, I know "superficial" is your gimmick, but you should kill yourselves nonetheless, for the good of society.


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Back on Monday, Knight Capital Group was a billion dollar firm that was a leader in the electronic execution of trades – the stuff that replaced all those humans shouting in New York City that you're still accustomed to when you think of Wall Street. It was responsible for 17.3% of all trades on the New York Stock Exchange and 16.9% on the Nasdaq. Profits for the company hummed along nicely as well – it had a net income over $115 million in 2011.
The company didn't have the nicest of times in July. The much-hyped initial public offering of Facebook, and subsequent crash of the stock, cost Knight Capital $35.4 million. When you're a company that has a net income of $115 million, taking a 30% or more hit on one deal makes for a pretty bad day. In a way though, it's the nature of the beast. Quite literally and harshly, these things happen. Besides, there's plenty more money to be made over the longer term in electronic trading. High-frequency trading and the computers, programs, and algorithms that power it all are where the money is really at, anyhow.
Then the 1st of August came. Stocks opened at 9:30am, like they always do, and someone at Knight Capital pushed a button. Within the next 30 – 40 minutes, Knight Capital would be all but financially destroyed.


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The on and off relationship between Kate Moss and Pete Doherty is finally off. 'For good', close friends of the supermodel say
Troubled supermodel Kate Moss is single again after she called it off with boyfriend Pete Doherty. "For good" is the reason cited by Moss' close friends as the reason behind their break up. Really? For sure. She even vowed never to see Pete again.
The decision was made and there they went separate ways. Moss, who was furious in knowing that Pete walked out of drug rehab after only a week, has dumped him is the fact the Babyshambles rocker has to face.
To your notice, Moss wanted Pete to kick his drug habit so that they could spend Christmas with her daughter, three-year-old Lila Grace. Pete agreed to check into the Arizona clinic that helped Kate get clean, but he soon got bored and jetted home. He was seen back in London on Monday night and was spotted drinking with pals at a rock concert.


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According to Biff Hutchison's description, this 11'½" breaks the Guinness World Record of 10'6". Rolling Stone has more.
Not happy with sharing the title with [friend and rival Dalton] Smith – who we can only imagine Hutchison considers his greatest rival in the world, the Bird to his Magic in the world of pogoing – Hutchison saw a shot at not just being the lone jumper standing atop Pogo Mountain (as problematic as being on top of a mountain on a pogo stick sounds), but absolutely crushing the old record.
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Remote Control (often called Shadowing) of a user session on Remote Desktop Services (RDS) is a technique to interact with the user session. This allows for example a helpdesk to helpout an enduser with a questionor issue. Remote Control can be disabled in several places using GPO, manual settings within the RDP-tcp properties or even on the user properties in Active Directory.
You can use the following WMI command to check the Remote Control Settings:
get-wmiobject -namespace "root\cimv2\terminalservices" -class Win32_TSRemoteControlSettingTake a look at the output properties Levelofcontrol, PolicySourceLevelOfControl and RemoteControlPolicy.


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US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Thursday that her department has received the green light to hire up to 1,000 cybersecurity experts over the next three years.
Kicking off "National Cybersecurity Awareness Month," she said the new recruits would "help fulfill the department's broad mission to protect the nation's cyber infrastructure, systems and networks." "Effective cybersecurity requires all partners -- individuals, communities, government entities and the private sector -- to work together to protect our networks and strengthen our cyber resiliency," Napolitano said.
(Source: AFP)
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"We were at a restaurant for my mom's birthday. I looked over and there are my daughter and my oldest son texting, holding their phones under the table," said the mom of four in Lewiston, Idaho. "I just came unglued. I was like, `Are you kidding? You're at your grandma's birthday party. Put those phones away now!'"
We all know teens love their gadgets more for texting than talking. But the devices are posing some new challenges for parents. How can they teach their tech-savvy kids some electronic etiquette? So far, parents are learning on the fly, imposing new rules for their young offenders such as "no texting at dinner."
(Source: AP)
A long-time critic of the video game industry has sued Facebook for US$40 million, saying that the social networking site harmed him by not removing angry postings made by Facebook gamers.
Thompson is best know for bringing suit against Grand Theft Auto's Take Two Interactive, Sony Computer Entertainment America, and Wal-Mart, arguing that the game caused violent behavior. In 2005 episode of CBS's 60 Minutes, Thompson likened the popular video game to a "murder simulator" and blamed it for the 2003 shooting deaths of two police officers and a 911 dispatcher in Fayette, Alabama.
(Source: PCWorld)
It's your birthday. And thanks to your Facebook profile, everybody knows that. Your wall fills up with well wishes from hundreds of "friends." Sure, it's nice to be noticed. But security experts are skeptical about whether sharing information, such as birthdays, with a broad audience is a bright idea. "It's all about providing the bad guy with intelligence," said Robert Siciliano, CEO of IDtheftsecurity.com.
Many people use their birthdate in passwords and personal identification numbers, and security questions often ask for it to resend a lost password. So broadcasting a birthdate could help cybercriminals pose as others as they log on to various Web sites, experts warned.
(Source: CNN)
Cybersecurity researchers often scare the IT world with tales of brilliant and devious hacks: encryption cracking techniques, wi-fi booby-traps and undetected vulnerability data sold on the black market. But the most common path cybercriminals use to gain access to victims' PCs today, according to a new report, is far more mundane: buggy software that users and IT administrators fail to patch for months, long after fixes are publicly available.
The study to be released Tuesday by the security-focused SANS Institute states that the cybersecurity community is facing an epidemic of unpatched software, particularly widely used applications like Adobe Flash, Java and Microsoft programs like Word and PowerPoint.
(Source: Forbes)
Microsoft on Tuesday began serving up scam warnings with Bing search results for topics such as fixing credit scores or rescue from home foreclosure that are prime material for online cons.
Microsoft worked with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Postal Inspection Service, and Western Union to provide public service announcements (PSAs) in the form of advertising posted on relevant Bing results pages. Targeted in the campaign are key words related to searches for information about foreclosure rescue offers; promises to fix credit problems, and "lottery scams" in which people are told they've won prizes but must pay to collect.
Web surfing is no longer a solo affair. Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks have quickly become an integral part of the online culture, and with them comes a whole new array of potential security threats.
Social networking is built on the idea of sharing information openly and fostering a sense of community. Unfortunately, an online network of individuals actively sharing their experiences and seeking connections with other like-minded people can be easy prey for hackers bent on social-engineering and phishing attacks. It's important to be aware of the threats, and to maintain a healthy skepticism in your online interactions.
(Source: ComputerWorld)
The US Secret Service is trying to identify the people who launched an online poll at Facebook asking whether US President Barack Obama should be assassinated. Facebook on Monday shut down the user-generated poll, which was titled "Should Obama be killed?" and offered answer choices of yes, no, maybe, and "If he cuts my health care."
"Once we found out about it, we worked with Facebook to have it removed," Secret Service spokesman Malcolm Wiley told AFP. "We are certainly investigating; just like we would with any threat case." More than 750 Facebook users had reportedly cast votes by the time the poll was yanked from the wildly popular online social networking community.
A network of Russian malware writers and spammers paid hackers 43 cents for each Mac machine they infected with bogus video software, a sign that Macs have become attack targets, a security researcher said yesterday.
In a presentation Thursday at the Virus Bulletin 2009 security conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Sophos researcher Dmitry Samosseiko discussed his investigation of the Russian "Partnerka," a tangled collection of Web affiliates who rake in hundreds of thousands of dollars from spam and malware, most of the former related to phony drug sites, and much of the latter targeting Windows users with fake security software, or "scareware."
Next time you're recovering from trip to the emergency room, keep an eye on the young doctors tending to you. They might be chatting about your case on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and blogs.
A survey of medical schools published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that 13 percent of respondents reported breaches of doctor-patient confidentiality, and 60 percent reported "unprofessional content" posted online.
Many major social networking sites are leaking information that allows third party advertising and tracking companies to associate the Web browsing habits of users with a specific person, researchers warn.
That's the conclusion of a study on the leakage of personally identifiable information on social networks done at AT&T Labs and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. "In some cases, the leakage may be unintentional, but in others, there is clever and surreptitious anti-privacy engineering at work," the EFF said.
They were crimes born of the Internet age -- romantic solicitations on popular Web site Craigslist that police say led to the fatal shooting of one woman and the robbery of another in Boston hotels this past spring. And it was high-tech, 21st-century sleuthing, along with some old-fashioned gumshoe detective work, that put police on the trail toward a suspect and eventually an arrest.
CNN looks at how technology was used to lead police to 23-year-old medical student Philip Markoff, who has been indicted on seven counts, including first-degree murder. Investigators knew they had crimes born of the Internet on their hands, but how were they able to use that same technology to help them find a suspect who went to great lengths to hide his tracks?
Scammers are increasingly using machine-generated Twitter accounts to post messages about trendy topics, and tempt users into clicking on a link that leads to servers hosting fake Windows antivirus software, security researchers said Monday.
The latest Twitter attacks originated with malicious accounts cranked out by software, said experts at both F-Secure and Sophos. The accounts, which use variable account and user names, supposedly represent U.S. Twitter users. In some cases, the background wallpaper is customized for each account, yet another tactic to make the unwary think that a real person is responsible for the content.
Teens and texting is a subject that's often discussed in pathological terms. They're texting in class! They're sexting! They need thumb therapy! But texting isn't always bad. In some families, it's become a primary form of communication between parents and children. In fact, one of my favorite texts from kids is the earth-shattering query "Wuz4dina?"
Psychologist Thomas W. Phelan says one of the biggest problems with teens is getting them to communicate at all, so if they're willing to text their parents, we should embrace the trend. "Instead of seeing the whole text thing as an enemy, see it as an ally."
Decades of war and occupation have not provided an answer to that question -- but the social networking Web site now permits both options, sparking fears about an anti-Facebook cyber-war. The Golan Heights is Syrian territory that was captured by Israel during the Six-Day War in 1967. Since then it has been internationally classified as Israeli-occupied territory.
Up until recently, Facebook fans in the Golan Heights could only choose Syria as their country of origin or else leave it blank. Pro-Israel Web site honestreporting.com sought to change that, starting a group called "Facebook, Golan residents live in Israel, not Syria."
A new botnet has caused a sharp spike in click fraud because it is skirting the most sophisticated filters of search engines, Web publishers and ad networks, according to Click Forensics. The company, which provides services to monitor ad campaigns for click fraud and reports on click fraud incidence every quarter, said on Thursday that the botnet's architects have figured out a way to mask it particularly well as legitimate search ad traffic.
Click Forensics is calling this the "Bahama botnet" because it was initially redirecting traffic through 200,000 parked domains in the Bahamas, although it is now using sites in Amsterdam, the U.K. and Silicon Valley.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski is expected to outline network-neutrality proposals on Monday, according to Reuters. The proposals could become rules at the FCC's October meeting.
Neutrality advocates want Internet service providers barred from blocking or slowing Internet traffic based on content. ISPs, including AT&T, Verizon Communications, and Comcast, say growing traffic needs to be managed, and they contend that neutrality could stifle innovation.
(Source: NewsFactor)
Microsoft filed lawsuits against five companies Thursday, accusing them of using malicious advertisements to trick victims into installing software on their computers.
Typically, when a scareware ad pops up on a victim's screen, it looks like a Windows utility running some kind of security scan. It will then warn that it has found a critical security problem and direct the victim to a Web site where they can buy a product to fix the issue. DirectAd Solutions, Soft Solutions, qiweroqw.com, ote2008.info and ITmeter have used ads to "distribute malicious software or present deceptive websites that peddled scareware to unsuspecting Internet users".
In the economic downturn, teenagers around the world have focused their spending cuts on clothes, games and food, according to a survey by networking site Habbo Hotel.
The survey of 61,000 teenagers in more than 30 countries showed one teenager out of three is getting less money from their parents, with more than half of youngsters getting less to spend in the United States, Spain and Latin America. Some 19 percent of youngsters globally say the recession has most hurt their spending on console and computer games -- the industry for which teenagers are a key client group.
(Source: Reuter)
With many who bank online now wary of phishing attacks, criminals are adding fake live-chat support windows to their Web sites to make them seem more real. RSA Security spotted the first ever of these "chat-in-the-middle" attacks in the past few hours, according to Sean Brady, a manager with the security company's identity protection and verification group.
The phishers send e-mails that direct victims to a fake Web page designed to look like a banking site. That's a standard technique, but what's different in this case is that the phishing site comes with a fake online chat option, so that scammers can talk directly with their victims.
The French National Assembly has passed a draft law that would allow illegal downloaders to be thrown off the net. The law was narrowly passed by 285 votes to 225.
The French hard-line policy on piracy has drawn worldwide attention as nations around the globe grapple with the issue of piracy. The ruling majority UMP voted in favour but the Socialist Party has already announced that they will appeal to the Constitutional Court once again. The Constitutional Court insisted that a judge rather than a high authority had to rule on the issue of whether to disconnect users.
(Source: BBC)
As millions of students across the world go back to school this month, 178 students from 49 countries will turn on their computers and step onto the virtual campus of the world's first global, tuition-free online university.
"Our mission is to change people's lives." Called University of the People, the non-profit comes from Israeli entrepreneur Shai Reshef who says he founded the school to provide higher education to those who might otherwise never have access to it. "We are creating a global classroom for science and allowing people to freely collaborate. We want to put high quality teaching and learning materials into the hands of anybody and everybody who wants to become a scientist,"
A computer hacker who was once a federal informant and was a driving force behind one of the largest cases of identity theft in U.S. history pleaded guilty Friday in a deal with prosecutors that will send him to prison for up to 25 years.
Albert Gonzalez, 28, of Miami, admitted pulling off some of the most prominent hacking jobs of the decade. Federal authorities say tens of millions of credit and debit card numbers were stolen. Gonzalez entered guilty pleas in U.S. District Court in Boston to 19 counts of conspiracy, computer fraud, wire fraud, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.
Cyber criminals are taking advantage of swine flu fears with e-mails promising news on the illness which then infect computers with a virus, a Spanish computer security firm warned Friday.
The e-mails invite recipients to open a document with information claiming the H1N1 flu virus was developed by pharmaceutical firms seeking to make huge profits from the outbreak, Pandasecurity said in a statement. But if the document is opened, a virus is installed on the person's computer which can steal personal information like bank account data.
South Korea plans to train 3,000 "cyber sheriffs" by next year to protect businesses after a spate of attacks on state and private websites, a report said Sunday. The "cyber sheriffs" would be tasked with "protecting corporate information and preventing the leaks of industrial secrets," Yonhap news agency said.
In the event of cyber attacks, the National Intelligence Service, the country's main spy agency, would set up a taskforce including civilian and government experts to counter the online threats, it added. The country already has a military cyber unit. South Korea, where 95 percent of homes have broadband, is among the top countries in terms of access to the high-speed Internet.
A third of Web users under 25 claim they don't care about their "digital tattoo" and the items they post online, says Symantec. Symantec said a "digital tattoo" is created by all the personal information web users post online and can easily be found through search engines by a potential or current employer, friends and acquaintances, or anyone who has malicious intent.
The security firm revealed that nearly two-thirds of all those surveyed had uploaded personal photographs, while 79 percent had at least part of their address online and nearly half had their mobile phone numbers online.
In communist Cuba, where only state media exist locally, a vibrant blogger culture has emerged as a venue for critical commentary, a leading journalists' rights group said Thursday. "Despite vast legal and technical obstacles, a growing number of Cuban bloggers have prevailed over the regime?s tight Internet restrictions to disseminate island news and views online," said a report from the New-York based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
"The bloggers, mainly young adults from a variety of professions, have opened a new space for free expression in Cuba, while offering a fresh glimmer of hope for the rebirth of independent ideas in Cuba?s closed system."
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Western Diesel PickupTruck.com Diesel Shootout, Part 3 of 3
Here it is - the Monster! A fifteen percent grade measuring 1000 feet long. We used the same measuring equipment for this test that we used on the seven percent grade but we changed our measurement intervals because of the shorter length.
For the curb weight test, the readings were taken at 250 feet and again at 750 feet. Each of our test trucks passed the 500 foot mark and the 1000 foot mark in less than 5 seconds. All of the times were calculated and added together to show elapsed time to the 750 foot mark.
For the tests with the trailer each of the points recorded a time. The timing points were zero to 250 feet, 250 to 500 feet, 500 to 750 feet and 750 to 1000 feet. All of the times were collected and added together to show elapsed time.
As with the other tests the high and the low from each of our three testers were thrown out and the remaining times were added together and then averaged. This is the time represented in the following charts. Again this test was run only in one direction, up hill, for obvious reasons.
If you have never climbed a fifteen percent grade with a 12,100 pound trailer latched to the hitch of your pickup, well it's an experience you should only do after you have significant trailer towing experience under your belt. With an automatic transmission missing a shift while climbing the grade was never a problem but missing a shift with a manual transmission provided a whole different experience.
All of our testers were experienced with manual transmissions and towing trailers. Each of them missed a gear on the way up the hill and one of the testers even missed bad enough to force a restart halfway up the hill. This is the type of experience that makes you appreciate an automatic even more than you might have previously. Our tester was faced with having to back down the hill from the halfway point or drive it up the hill. If neither of those worked a tow truck would be needed.
While the truck and trailer were able to drive up after the missed shift it's not something that you want to do everyday. For safety reasons we didn't try to duplicate the missed shift and subsequent halfway restart on the hill with the other trucks. A group decision was made to retry the test if a missed shift caused a stop on the hill otherwise no mid hill starts.
Each of the testers believed that all of the trucks were capable of mid hill starts and therefore no test for each truck was needed.
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Chicago RnR 1/2 Marathon
On the road again...
I have a love/hate relationship with running. I do it, but sometimes I love to hate it.
Hi everybody.
2 weeks off - 1 because it wouldn't stop raining in the UK and 1 because I was in a deep depression. Best way out is to run and run, so last night I went for Day 1 of Week 5 again and managed to complete it - JUST!
Call me Ray (not Ishmael)
yapper, welcome to OHR.
Wingz, when you have a sec, can you make the OHR graph 10 weeks long and put me at week 9? Danke.
Roads were made for journeys...
Team 9 from Outer Space
"Don't feel like running today...suck it up and run ...you're an athlete." (John Stanton, founder & owner of The Running Room)
Three half marathons later, I got a number. Half Fanatic #9292. :)
I just ran W3D1! I thought it was going to feel a lot worse, but I surprised myself... it felt really good. I really thought I was going to stuggle and feel like crap by the end, but by the time I was done I was like "that was it!?!" I can't wait to run again!
More turtle than hare...