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THE next Daily Echo Jobsfair takes place on Thursday, March 6, from 10.30am to 5pm, at the Premier Inn on Bournemouth's Westover Road.
Up to 35 employers and training providers will be there to meet jobseekers and those looking for a career change.
Based on previous events, around 1,300 visitors are expected to come through the doors on the day.
Businesses taking part will enjoy promotion of the event through the Daily Echo, its website and Heart Radio.
Local health insurance provider Health-on-line is sponsoring the event and is looking for sales consultants, personal claims advisers and compliance assistants.
Best Training will be running its free workshops for job-hunters on the day.
The companies exhibiting at the Jobsfair are:
- Woodspeen Training
- Westover Group
- WDS (Wireless Data Systems)
- The Sheiling Trust
- Lloyds Bank
- Synergy Housing
- Health-on-line
- Colten Care
- Somerset Care
- Nurse Plus
- Autism Wessex
- SOS Recruitment
- Rock Recruitment
- Tempest Cosgrove
- CCL Group
- TOPS Day Nursery
- Agincare
- Essential Nursing
- Nationwide Building Society
- National Fostering Agency
- Lifeways Community Care
- Borough of Poole (fostering)
- Yellow Buses
- Best Training
- Chewton Glen Hotel
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Able to handle the existing crop of games out right now, we're not too keen on it being future proof.
In terms of specs, the tablet is powered by a quad-core 1.6GHz Cortex-A9 chip coupled with 1GB of DDR3 RAM and a quad-core Mali-400 MP4 GPU. Running a few benchmark tests, we're given some insight to its less than mighty processing performance. Still, it's all about the gaming experience, right? Running a customized version of Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean, we admit that the interface is pretty scary looking, but at least we have access to the Google Play Store.
Generally speaking, it's able to handle some of the intensive gaming titles out there without a whole lot of fluff – like Dead Trigger 2. The frame rate of the game manages to move steadily along at a reasonable pace, but it doesn't have that silky smooth look that we saw checking out the NVIDIA Shield. Although it's still able to handle these existing crop of 3D titles, we're a bit hesitant about how it'll handle down the road, as games become even more processor intensive and complex. Somehow, we're thinking that it'll show some strain.
Another aspect of the Snakebyte Vyper that we find appealing, is the option of moving from a mobile gaming experience, to one that we can enjoy on the big screen via an HDTV. Using the docking station and wireless gamepad, we don't experience any sort of detrimental delay with its operation. A normal result from this are some latency issues, but it's nothing profound here to the point of making it unusable.
Some games are just best experienced using touch, but the included airmouse helps to bridge that gap. For games like Angry Birds, the airmouse proves its worth by allowing us to click and drag out winged friends to their targets.
Being a newcomer in the space, the Snakebyte Vyper is going to have a tough time penetrating the market – mainly because the name isn't something that people are familiar with. In its attempt to reel people in, the Vyper is sure to entice gamers with its ridiculous low cost! For the entire package, which includes the tablet, docking station, gamepad, and airmouse, you'll only need to fork over $250. Yes folks, you read that right, an easy $250 out of your pockets!
At that price alone, it rivals many of those affordable Android tablets, but it's accompanied with a useful gamepad and airmouse – both of which prove to be versatile things that deepen the gaming experience. Overall, the package is undoubtedly tempting, but hardcore gamers will be put off by its middle of the road gaming performance.
- It's aggressively priced at $250
- Lots of goodies included in its price
- Gamepad looks, feels, and acts like a traditional console controller
- Airmouse provides a new way of playing some games
- Access to the Google Play Store
- Gaming performance isn't the tightest or smoothest
- Tablet looks and feels cheap
- Interface is lackluster
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1. Commentator (Posts: 3722; Member since: 16 Aug 2011)
Jeeze John, what'd you do to the back of that thing? Shoot it? Is that one of the new benchmarking tests now?
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2. ocilfa (Posts: 334; Member since: 03 Aug 2012)
lol maybe he was playing flappy bird and couldn't control the rage.
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4. fireblade (Posts: 717; Member since: 27 Dec 2013)
too much power
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3. g2a5b0e (Posts: 3814; Member since: 08 Jun 2012)
Shoot it with what? A BB gun? Anything heavier would have went clean through.
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5. shinigamiren (Posts: 1; Member since: 12 Nov 2014)
I think my snakebyte resolution is broken how can i fix it
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New Windows Phone 8 devices appear in server log, including one from Samsung
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There has been a fair amount of chatter recently about Samsung and its support or lack of support for Windows Phone, but if we're to believe the server log from a popular wallpaper app, Samsung may be getting ready to release a new Windows Phone 8 device. The log also includes a few other interesting devices...
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1. known4theunknown (Posts: 3; Member since: 23 Apr 2013)
7. TheBitterTruth (unregistered)
13. ZeroCide (Posts: 785; Member since: 09 Jan 2013)
3. SemperFiV12 (Posts: 948; Member since: 09 Nov 2010)
So this is what happens when Bill Gates goes in and regulates things... Nice to see Sammy doing something! Would have really liked to see the Ativ S reach carriers... Oh well, we'll see whats to come (or maybe come).
4. jeevan28111992 (Posts: 23; Member since: 15 Mar 2013)
No way Samsung can penetrate in wp. It surely cannot Win against Nokia in this sector
6. raunak (Posts: 507; Member since: 12 Oct 2011)
Samsung's WP8 flagship will probably compete with 720 and still lose in design :D
8. TheBitterTruth (unregistered)
*in design TOO.
5. peterminaca (Posts: 5; Member since: 31 Mar 2013)
Well, Samsung can't stand up beside Nokia in many ways, but it will be appreciated if Sammy releases a gs4 similar with same specs with Windows phone, will be so competitive one.
But, still Windows phone has been Nokia's play cards!
9. TheBitterTruth (unregistered)
Samsung can't compete Nokia in Windows Phone. These are not my views, this is the reality we can see by sales figure and popularity Samsung Ativ S.
12. TheBitterTruth (unregistered)
Am I getting dislikes for stating fact?
10. DontHateOnS60 (Posts: 872; Member since: 20 Apr 2009)
RM-860 is the Lumia 928 for VZW. You had an article about it already PhoneArena...
RM-877 is believed (hoped) to be the EOS.


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Being active and working out are really important to me. I love to hike and camp with my pup, go mountain biking and running, and hit the gym.
Great food (see below!) is also huge for me, as are heading to the cottage for weekends, hanging out at the beach with beer for long, lazy afternoons, and devouring news in the mornings.
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TV - The Wire, Veep, Homeland, Portlandia, Parks & Rec. Too many god ones. Movies - political thrillers or suspense (Spy Game, Bourne, Memento) and great dramas (Pan's Labyrinth, Bad Education, In the Mood for Love). Pedro Almodovar, Stanley Kubrick, Sergei Eisenstein, Ang Lee, Wong Kar Wai, David Cronenberg.
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Thieves stole a mobile phone, which was left on top of a handbag in the front seat of a car.
The iPhone 4 was taken from an unlocked blue Ford Mondeo between 12.30am and 9.50pm in Kelvedon Road, Kelvedon on Saturday.
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Over the last two decades, stepping motors (or step motors) have increasingly been applied in electronic-control applications throughout all segments of the electronics industry. Its simplicity of design has made the stepping motor an ideal choice in applications where size, weight and low power consumption are primary requisites.
Indeed, the rotor, which is the only moving part of a stepping motor has, unlike typical DC motors, no windings, commutator or brushes. The rotor is held at its position solely by the action of the magnetic flux between stator and rotor. But stepping motors need a special, repeating sequence of pulses to generate a more or less smooth rotation. Every pulse sequence results in the turning of the rotor with a fixed known angle. The position of the rotor can easily be calculated by knowing the starting position of the rotor and the number of pulses (as long as the maximum loading is not exceeded).
To make the rotation of the rotor smoother (i.e., to make the angular steps smaller), a technique of mini- or micro-stepping technique can be applied. This article will detail a micro-stepping design technique that improves the precision of the rotor movement and smoothes out the motion of stepping motors.
Micro-stepping is a technique based on two-phase-on operation, which provides for the subdivision of each full step into a number of "sub steps" of equal size. In contrast with the two-phase, full step mode where the two currents of two poles have to be kept equal, the currents are deliberately made unequal in the design technique detailed below. By correctly choosing and controlling the relative amplitudes of the currents, the rotor equilibrium position can be made to lie anywhere between the step positions for each of the two separate phases.
In terms of input control for stepping motor driver, two groups can be named: clock-in type controllers that include the complete sinus stepping function internally, and phase input controllers, which need all controlling signals from an MCU.


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The Sword of Divinity is a special sword used by Yami and Yugi in combination with their Duel Armor in Yu-Gi-Oh! Capsule Monsters.
It is a legendary weapon said to hold the power to destroy the Fiendish Five dragons as said through a prophecy. But in order to activate its power 'a threat must come from above.' This relates to the dragons. However despite its initial success with Yami figuring out the prophecy, the dragons merged together into Five Headed Dragon and even with the sword the odds were against Yugi and his friends. It wasn't until the village's guardian dragon, Blue-Eyes White Dragon was summoned from the prayers of the sacrificial girl and with its power combined with the Duel Armor and the sword, the combined dragons were destroyed. After the dragons were destroyed and Blue-Eyes returned to its place, the sword was returned to its pedestal.
It can be used with any Duel Armor but it was mainly used with the Black Luster Soldier/Blue-Eyes White Dragon combo. It can absorb the power of any Dragon monster, evidenced by the dragons owned by Yugi and his friends dragons powers also being absorbed in addition to the evil dragons.


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Gunnar V. Jarring, the special Middle East representative of Secretary-General U Thant, is resuming his duties as Sweden's Ambassador to the Soviet Union. But he is not resigning his UN mediating post. In a letter to Mr. Thant made public today, Dr. Jarring said he will hold a new round of discussions with Middle East officials in mid-January, giving them time before then to consider their respective positions on the Middle East deadlock. Dr. Jarring, whose mission is Just one year old, returned this week to his Cyprus headquarters and conferred with Foreign Minister Abba Eban. He will meet with Arab diplomats shortly and then go to Moscow.
In a letter to Dr. Jarring, Mr. Thant voiced commendation for a "sound judgment and fine sense of timing which you have demonstrated in taking initiatives and considering new ones which in the nature of the case must remain strictly within the realm of quiet diplomacy." The wording of Mr. Thant's letter raised questions about whether Dr. Jarring had taken "initiatives" in his meetings with Israeli and Arab diplomats or had, as the UN maintains, been acting as a "mailbox" receiving and delivering questions and statements from both sides. An Israeli spokesman here denied that Dr. Jarring had taken any initiatives.


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The promotional event is also attended by the film's cast members, including Daniel Day-Lewis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones.
A day before opening in limited U.S. theaters, Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" was premiered as part of the 2012 AFI Fest in Hollywood. Held at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Thursday night, November 8, the special screening event was supported by the history film's A-list cast members as well as director Spielberg himself.
Spielberg stepped on the red carpet, looking elegant in a gray suit that he paired with a matching scarf, black pants and well-polished leather shoes. He was joined by Daniel Day-Lewis who looked very different from his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln in the movie. The actor donned a brown shirt under his blazer and paired it with a checkered scarf.
Sally Field, meanwhile, looked pretty in a sleeveless red lace dress that she teamed with a pair of nude-colored pumps. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tommy Lee Jones, David Oyelowo, Bruce McGill, Walton Goggins, Joseph Cross and James Spader were among the other male cast members spotted that night, looking sleek in each of their suits.
Among the celebrity guests, there were Gloria Reuben and Teresa Palmer who oozed sexiness in their red ensembles, Jo Champa who looked stylish in an LBD and ankle boots, Jared Harris who arrived with his sexy partner Allegra Riggio, and Camryn Manheim who kept it simple in a loose blouse and black trousers.
"Lincoln" is a revealing drama that focuses on Abe's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, he pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.


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This program helps you convert audio files, YouTube videos, movies and DVD's so you can play them on your Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. The program can convert all types of audio files like mp3, m4a, mp2, wav, aiff, au and video files like avi, divx, xvid, flv, x264, vob, mpeg, DVD's, YouTube, etc. into the proper audio formats (MP3, AAC) that play on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.
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The program can read many types of audio such as mp3, m4a, wav and video files like avi, divx, xvid, flv, x264, vob, mpeg, DVD's, YouTube and lets you create your own custom ringtones for your Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.
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Videora N97 Converter is a video and audio converter for Windows. Although the "N97" in the application title might suggest that the app only converts files for playback on the Nokia N97, this converter actually supports a few other devices. Basically, from what I have gathered, Videora N97 Converter can output files into MPEG-4 and H.264. These formats are supported by a lot of devices.
This program can be used to to edit PES 2013 EDIT.bin file. It can be used to edit player's name, abilities, positions, motions, cards, etc. You can also edit team names, numbers, squads, formations, and strategies. Players and teams data can be imported/exported as CSV, XML, and other file formats.
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This simple and intuitive software program allows you to convert any video files into MP4, ready for playback with Nokia phones. The program converts videos in many popular formats, including – but not limited to – AVI, MPEG, MOV, WMV, MP4, WEBM, 3GP, 3G2, FLV, RM, MKV, and others. Besides, it can produce video files that are compatible with many specific models of Nokia phones.
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This driver will let you establish a cable connection between your Phone and your PC.
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Nokia Suite is a program that allows you to transfer photos, videos, music and contacts between the phone and the computer. You can also get access and download the latest applications for your phone, download music or free street maps and back up important content.
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It wasn't until the arrival of the iPad that the Tablet market began to gain steam amongst consumers. Even now, Apple's pride in joy in the iPad 2 continues to make great strides in the tablet landscape as it's seemingly is the benchmark that all other tablets try to live up to. Not one to back down from a good fight, we've seen very recently that Asus has managed to enthrall our interests thanks to its amazing Transformer Prime, but it's going to be interesting to see how it stacks up against the iPad 2. Without further delay, let's find out which of these ...


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THE second beach festival held at Rockley Park proved so popular that more than 1,000 tickets were sold in advance.
The Poole holiday park was thronging with people keen to pay their £5 to enjoy Rockley Fest and help raise funds for good causes.
"It's heaving," said Amanda Bennett, who organised the event.
"Over 1,000 tickets were sold in advance of the day and there are still people turning up on the day. It's amazing."
A few light showers during the afternoon did nothing to deter people and it was not long before the sun was shining again.
There was fun for all the family with a stage offering performances from Si Genaro from BBC TV's The Voice, and Chris Manning from Fame Academy, with comedy musician Matt Black hosting the event.
Stalls, games, pony rides and a variety of food was on offer, ranging from paella, and crepe offered from a vintage cart, to burgers and a chippy, Pudsey was in attendance and there was an open air beer tent.
The event for owners, holidaymakers, local residents and staff to enjoy was raising funds for Children In Need and the charity appeal of Mayor of Poole, Cllr Peter Adams, who attended the event.
His chosen charities are the YMCA (Shore Ideas), Hamworthy Scouts and Poole Young Carers and events will be held throughout his mayoral year to raise funds for them.
"We raised £3,500 last year to be shared between Children in Need and last year's mayor's charities," said Amanda. "I think we are exceeding that at the moment."
She added: "Hopefully it will become an annual event – that would be fantastic."
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Created attachment 566692 [details] correct rendering by pango-view User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1 Build ID: 20110928224103 Steps to reproduce: Have a font with a 'locl' lookup for Cyrillic text which replaces a few Russian letters with Serbian/Macedonian ones. Tested it with pango-view. (See attachment) with input like this:  б г д п т   б г д п т   б г д п т   б г д п т  (Note very few fonts make this distinction.) Wrote HTML showing the variable characters in between  tags with lang="sr" and lang="ru" Viewed this with Firefox. Actual results: The text is displayed, I see the font is the correct one. (I cleared all the caches, re-started Firefox after installing the font; I have reason to be confident about the font being correct.) However, no distinction was visible between the lang="sr" text and the lang="ru" text. This would be consistent with the browser not passing the lang tag properly to the underlying font rendering software (Pango in this case, I think.). Expected results: The text from the two languages should have appeared quite different, as in the attached image.
Does this work in any other browser?
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I thought we'd fixed this (see bug 24139). Please attach your complete (minimal) testcase, and specify the exact font version being used so that we can look into it more closely.
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Created attachment 566872 [details] pango-view output with DejaVu pango-view --font "DejaVu Serif Italic 32" --markup Serbian-pango.html where Serbian-pango.html contains  б г д п т ѓ  б г д п т ѓ   б г д п т ѓ  б г д п т ѓ
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Does it work in other browsers? Not that I can see, in Linux anyway. Curious. And OpenOffice etc... Just nevermind. They are pathetically broken when it comes to font features turned on by locale.
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6 years ago
The sample is more interesting with pango-view --font "DejaVu Serif 32" --markup Serbian-pango.html
Comment 7•
6 years ago
I'm experiencing the same problem. Even this official test page doesn't work with my Firefox 7.01 on Ubuntu 11.04. Still I can see Serbian glyphs on the Serbian Wikipedia, but only there. Why?
Comment 8•
6 years ago
Official test page: http://people.mozilla.org/~jdaggett/webfonts/serbianglyphs.html
Comment 9•
6 years ago
Yes I looked at some Serbian pages, such as the Serbian Wikipdeia page on Macedonian orthography (look up Macedonian orthography, then click on language "Српски/Srpski") In places, I see the Serbian "be" form in other places, the Russian. For those not sensitive to Cyrillic: we're mostly looking at the letter "be", which looks rather like a Greek beta. The Russian form has a tail that begins on the left side and has a pronounced upward flourish. The Serbian form starts in the top middle of the circle, and ends more horizontally. In the DejaVu fonts, the distinction is made by a 'locl' substitution lookup for Serbian and Macedonian, which should be triggered by lang="sr". Trying to determine why sometimes Serbian 'be' is appearing in that page, I was changing things all over the small example I attached. I am seeing very chaotic behavior here. Things that should not affect it, are, and things that should pick the language, are failing to do so. Really crazy. Something's buggy. But I haven't yet determined what triggers it. It isn't CSS though (at least as set in the page).
Comment 10•
6 years ago
Created attachment 567240 [details]
Alessandro's test showing Serbian (on my system at least)
Comment 11•
6 years ago
Hi, More experimentation, using Alessandro's example page. Putting lang="sr" in the  tag has a strong influence. Of course, then unless otherwise specified, *all* the Cyrillic text should be modified for Serbian. This should not be necessary, either. Putting it in any element tag should set the default language for that element and its children. It is clear at least that the lang attribute is not being correctly dealt with in the containment hierarchy. However, I think it's worse than that. I seem to be seeing things change sometimes with just a second screen refresh, and in the other test file, simply adding text somewhere could change the apparent language in an unrelated element. At this moment, I have Serbian Cyrillic showing in Alessandro's example. See attached.
Comment 12•
6 years ago
I'm confirming this bug, as it's clear there's a problem somewhere that needs investigation and fixing - my hunch is that it may turn out to be a problem with the application of OpenType features, rather than the handling of the 'lang' attribute, but that's only speculation until we track this down. The erratic behavior described in comment 11 suggests there may be an uninitialized value somewhere that's "randomly" affecting whether the feature gets applied correctly.
Comment 13•
6 years ago
Hi, Just to rattle your cage: I'm seeing this again in FF 9.0.1 with a font that makes a distinction between Yiddish and Hebrew vowel marks. The marks are properly positioned by XeTeX using this font. Also pango-view has no problem. Firefox behaves erratically. If two table cells contain Hebrew, but one has 'lang' attribute "he" and the other "yi", it will position marks according to whichever language came *first*. Weirder, simply reversing them in the file and re-loading isn't enough to make it forget. I think I've gone so far as to delete the cache and re-start, to get it to see that I've changed the 'lang' attributes. It's as though it associates a language with a script, and then won't let go of the association.
Comment 14•
6 years ago
(In reply to Steve White from comment #13) > Firefox behaves erratically. If two table cells contain Hebrew, but one has > 'lang' attribute "he" and the other "yi", it will position marks according > to whichever language came *first*. Do the two table cells contain the same characters? I ask because this reminds me of bug 386339 comment 1. The text run word cache has probably changed a lot since then so it may be completely irrelevant, but fonts with "locl" are certainly an example of what I asked there in bug 386339 comment 6 about the same sequence of unicode codepoints not being rendered with the same glyphs.
Comment 15•
6 years ago
Created attachment 593428 [details]
Hebrew mark placement example
This requires a font which makes a distinction between the placement in Yiddish and Hebrew of vowel marks under the yod and yodyod consonants.
Comment 16•
6 years ago
Hi, I tried altering the text in various ways. It seems to have no effect. Find the example attached. 1) This needs a special font that makes a distinction between the languages. The current SVN version of GNU FreeSans is the example I'm using. http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/?root=freefont You can build this with FontForge. I could also send you a snapshot if you like. 2) A correspondent has told me that a similar sample works with that version of FreeSans under Mac OS with the latest FireFox 10. I have tried it under Windows with FireFox 10 and it fails. I've asked him for the exact HTML file he's using.
Comment 17•
6 years ago
He has verified that the same "yiddish" HTML file works with FireFox 10 on Mac OS. Again, it does not work for me with FireFox 10 on Windows 7.
Comment 18•
6 years ago
Steve, can you retest with a nightly? I see the Yiddish/Hebrew issue on Linux but only with builds before 2012-01-07, so I think it was fixed by bug 703100
Comment 19•
6 years ago
On Windows, I think you'll need to set gfx.font_rendering.harfbuzz.scripts to 7 (instead of the default 3) so that Hebrew script is rendered using harfbuzz in order to get the proper result here.
Comment 20•
6 years ago
Created attachment 593493 [details] working example
Comment 21•
6 years ago
Created attachment 593496 [details] working example-Hebrew marks
Comment 22•
6 years ago
That's it. Nightly 12.0a1 (2012-01-31) seems to have the problem solved. I attached shots of the Russian/Serbian Cyrillic distinction as well as Hebrew/Yiddish. These are using the SVN versions of GNU FreeFont's FreeSans and FreeSerif. Thanks guys!
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The Azzurri legend feels the striker faces tougher competition with the national side compared to the relative ease he is selected for AC Milan, and therefore should work harder to earn his starting berth.
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BALTIMORE, Md - The chickens on Steve Misera's organic farm roam the pastures and peck away at feed that's free of chemicals and antibiotics.
"You are what you eat and if I'm eating meat that's been exposed to a lot of antibiotics, I did have concerns," said Misera, who's an organic farmer in Butler, Pennsylvania, told Ivanhoe.
The Food and Drug Administration reports 80 percent of the antibiotics sold in the United States are used on livestock. Consumers' groups and lawmakers worry that overuse in animals creates "superbugs" that are spreading to people.
"What is that doing to me? More importantly, what is that doing to my family and my children," Misera said.
One consumer advocacy group studied government data and found 69 percent of the pork chops and 81 percent of ground turkey sampled had antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Dr. Amesh Adalja says that bacteria shouldn't pose a threat to consumers—as long as it's cooked safely.
"Obviously, there's a risk if you're eating raw or undercooked meat, just like there is for other non-antibiotic resistance things that we've always talked about, like salmonella, for example," said Adalja, a Board Certified Infectious Disease Physician at UPMC Center for Health Security.
Adalja calls the rise in antibiotic resistance a health emergency, but says in the U.S. the problem is not primarily fueled by animals, but overuse in humans.
"The public begins to demand antibiotics for any cough, cold, or viral illness irrespective of the fact that antibiotics have no effect on viruses," Adalja said.
Others like Misera, still say it's just as important to know what is and is not in your food.
"Try to find the source of the products that you are buying and know that person and ask them, 'how are you raising your products?'" Misera said.
What happens down on the farm may affect what happens at your dinner table.
The FDA has asked commercial farms to voluntarily reduce the use of antibiotics in livestock. Two pieces of federal legislation have been introduced this year that would ban the practice, but so far, neither measure has come up for a vote.
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Farmers across the country feed their livestock with antibiotics that are hidden in their feed or water. They do this so their animals will grow faster and to prevent the chance of infections when the animals are housed in unsanitary, stressful, and crowded conditions. The effects of feeding the livestock with antibiotics are the "superbugs" that spread to humans. These bugs contain harmful germs that are able to fight off antibiotics. This issue is growing into a large health risk to those who do not consume organic meat. If farmers continue to mix antibiotics with animals' feed, and if we choose to continue to eat these foods, then we are putting ourselves at risk of becoming resistant to drugs to treat illnesses such as strep throat, childhood ear infections, and pneumonia. (Source: http://www.nrdc.org/food/saving-antibiotics.asp?gclid=CNmgxKeQiroCFTFo7AodQygAqg)
SUPERBUGS: Superbugs are resistant organisms that have been found on poultry and meat products sold in grocery stores. A recent study showed that poultry and meat from five cities in the U.S. found Staphylococcus aureus (Staph infection) on almost half of their samples. Those samples were also antibiotic and multi-drug resistant. Not only are these superbugs spread through food, but through water, air, and livestock workers as well. Workers can spread superbugs through their clothing, which can spread to children and families and the bacteria has been found in water fed to livestock and in the air downwind from swine facilities. (Source: http://www.nrdc.org/food/saving-antibiotics.asp?gclid=CNmgxKeQiroCFTFo7AodQygAqg)
GRASS-FED LIVESTOCK: A healthy alternative to eating meat and poultry without contaminating our bodies is to search for suppliers who provide customers with grass-fed meats. Livestock that is fed naturally and antibiotic free does not contain poisonous chemicals and drugs, and does not contain superbugs. Organic farms provide their animals with mother's milk, room for foraging, and grass from the time they are born, until they are harvested. The animals are given the freedom to roam the pastures, rather than being locked up in a confined area. Grass fed meats are extremely healthy for people because they contain a high percentage of good fats like CLA and Omega-3 fatty acids. It is also good for the community because small farms provide jobs in idyllic communities, which creates sustainable businesses for future generations. (Source: http://www.americangrassfed.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/AGA-Benefits-One-Pager.pdf)
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BY 8 A.M the smell of baking bread, coming from the huge oven of the Great Harvest Bread Company here wafts out onto Chatsworth Avenue, causing passers-by to sniff the air appreciatively.
''Is there a better smell in the whole world?'' asked Zealie Van Raalte, who since 4:30 A.M. has been grinding wheat berries into flour, and then mixing the flour with water, yeast and a little salt. The dough is kneaded by hand on a long maple table by a group of energetic employees who seem to enjoy the experience as much as Mr. Van Raalte.
Unlike most bakeries, this production area is in full view of the customers. ''We deliberately designed the store with a large open cooking area so our customers can see how our bread is made -- from mixing to kneading to baking,'' Susan Van Raalte said. ''People, especially kids, are just fascinated by the whole process.''
As are the bakers themselves. Enthusiasm is the shared characteristic of the Van Raaltes, a husband-and-wife team who in early November opened the state's first franchise operation of the Great Harvest Bread Company, based in Dillon, Mont. On the surface, they seem an unlikely pair of bakers, a couple who met in a master's degree program at the Columbia University School of Business.
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As for Mrs. Van Raalte, once a member of the personnel research department at International Business Machines, she later became an adjunct professor at Pace University in Pleasantville, teaching English literature.
Why, then, were the Van Raaltes eager to trade their business attire for aprons and T-shirts and part with a considerable sum of money to work seven salaryless days a week at tasks many people would consider onerous?
''When I turned 50, I found myself in the throes of a midlife crisis and thinking about a different way to make a living, something worthwhile that I would also enjoy,'' Mr. Van Raalte said. When a family friend, who moved east from Milwaukee, suggested to Mrs. Van Raalte's mother that someone should start a Great Harvest Bread store in Westchester, she passed the idea along to her daughter and son-in-law.
''Our first reaction was, 'What's a bread store?' '' Mrs. Van Raalte recalled. ''We decided to visit the Great Harvest Store in Manchester, Conn., to find out. We were intrigued. The idea of doing something as basic as making bread had great appeal. So we flew out to Milwaukee and then to Michigan, Montana and Idaho, talking to Great Harvest store owners and doing research.''
Mr. Van Raalte picked up the conversation. ''We came back convinced that these bakeries were producing the best-tasting wholesome bread imaginable,'' he said. ''What's more, each bakery we visited reflected the personalities of the owners. They weren't cookie cutter places, but very individual. We were pumped.''
As franchisees, the Van Raaltes were given recipes, advice and one week of hands-on training at the corporate headquarters in Dillon and a week working alongside the owners of Great Harvest stores in Birmingham, Mich., and Alexandria, Va. A trouble-shooting hot line is also available each workday.
Although Great Harvest offers franchises, the franchisees have the freedom to design and operate their stores as they wish, Mr. Van Raalte said.
Innovation is encouraged. Successful ideas are shared among the 130 franchisees in the nationwide system.
Yet those who pay $24,000 for the Great Bread franchise must agree to adhere to the rigorous standards set by the founders.
Whole wheat must be bought from company-approved sources in northern Montana. The bread is to be made from high-protein Montana spring wheat, ground fresh every day in a stone mill on the premises. It ought to be sold hot, according to the company. And customers should be offered a steaming slice free, the minute they cross the threshold of a Great Harvest store.
''As bakers, we're happiest when we see people eating our bread right when it comes from the oven.'' Mr. Van Raalte said. ''And once people taste what we modestly call the best tasting whole wheat bread on the planet, they are very likely to become steady customers.''
A minimum of six different varieties of bread, about 600 2.2-pound hand-kneaded loaves, including honey whole wheat, nine grain, onion-dill-rye and tomato-basil are baked every day. The loaves sell for $3.75, and the store's signature cookie, a quarter-pound chocolate chip cookie made with whole wheat flour, rolled oats and walnuts, sells for $1. Mr. Van Raalte has already come up with a new product, a whole wheat hallah bread, which he expects to introduce soon. Leftover bread is donated to soup kitchens and food pantries.
The Van Raaltes wanted their store to be designed in the style of the front porch of a farmhouse, where friends and neighbors gather, Mrs. Van Raalte said, adding that since the couple has lived in Larchmont for 20 years, many customers are also friends. ''The store is a very sociable place,'' she said. ''People seem to like being here, and so do we. The atmosphere is so pleasant.''
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Outfitting the store required a major capital investment. ''Six figures before we opened the door,'' Mr. Van Raalte said. ''The stove alone cost $30,000. But the good news is that repeat business is extremely high with customers coming from all parts of the county. We're already running ahead of our projections, and six months from now we should be able to pay ourselves a salary, and by the end of the year we hope to be comfortably in the black.''Continue reading the main story


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By wolfgang.
27 September 2013 20:48
SIEMs are used for establishing security controls and responding to attacks. From my SimWitty days to my new role managing VioPoint's SOC, we draw a distinction between these two. For controls-based activities, we think in terms of use cases. A SIEM use case defines a particular way the SIEM gathers and reports on data. For threat-based activities, an abuse case that defines an attacker's activity and how the organization would detect the activity. The use case drives value and the abuse case protects against value loss.
Abuse Cases Map Possible Paths
An abuse case begins by describing the attacker and their objectives. Who are they? What are they after? What tactics and techniques are these attackers likely to use? From there, the abuse case defines the path the attacker would take to achieve their objectives. For example, a typical abuse may include:
(1) External reconnaissance(2) Initial breach(3) Escalate privileges(4) Persistence(5) Internal reconnaissance(6) Lateral breach(7) Maintain presence(8) Achieve objective
The modus operandi will thus be modeled for a particular threat.
The Final Step In Monitoring
The final step in using SIEM to respond to attacks is to overlay the abuse case with the technical controls. How would we detect and prevent a particular tactic used in persistence, for example? What about the lateral breach phase in an attack path? Thinking through these controls allows us to give ourselves credit for where we are doing well, and allows us to identify opportunities for enhancing the controls.
To get the most out of a SIEM, from a threat perspective, we create a set of high-level threat models and setup monitoring along the identified attack paths. A well-defined abuse case does just that.
Security Information Management | Threat modeling
By wolfgang.
6 June 2011 12:46
Do information security conferences seem a tad corporate these days? Too staid? A little too serious? Maybe, maybe not.Fresh from Source Boston, I definitely had an expectation of security conferences that the new BSides Detroit blew away. Forget vendors and booths. There were none. Forget nametags. How about a piece of tape with a sharpe, eh? Forget av equipment with wireless mics. Heck, forget even having a projector screen. Throw up the slides on an improvised canvas. Let's get a room full of tech people with a hacker bent, get them talking, get them thinking, and get them outside of the typical conference mindset. Outside the norm: that defined the atmosphere this past weekend at the OmniCorpDetroit hackerspace. Present the can-do raw creative experience. BSides Detroit was different, fun, inspiring.Highlights from the talks are below. I hear planning for a 2012 event is already underway, so more good content to come.High-level talks:Rafal Los: Ultimate Hack - Manipulating Layers 8+9 [Management & Budget] of the OSI Model. If you've been following Raf's #SecBiz threads, you know he has been stirring the pot. Think social engineering meets Dilbert corporate America. For me, this was the talk that made the conference. I am hoping to get Rafal back into the area to give us an encore.Chad Childers: Towards Data Centric, Technology Agnostic Security. I am sure there's been at least once in your career where you have thought, heck, Bell-La Padula and Biba security models should be good enough for anyone. No? Well, good, you have not been touched by the CISSP mindset. Chad broke down the classic models and argued for a data-centric model, possibly based on ccREL, S/MIME, virtual smart cards, and DRM.Nuts-and-bolts talks:Brett Cunningham, Jack Crook, Matt Sabourin: Intelligent Fuzzy Hashing for Malware Similarity and Attribution. We all know that regular hashing (MD5/SHA) works great for finding identical files. But how do we find similar files? Use Fuzzy hashing with tools like ssdeep, which give an indication of how similar (in terms of percentage) two or more files are. Possible use cases include forensics, plagiarism, malware analysis, and data loss prevention. The cool thing is that they are launching a project (www.allsum.org) to integrate the technique with intrusion detection and malicious code detection. Mark Stanislav: It's Vulnerable... Now What?: Three Diverse Tales of Woe and Remediation. I am not a PHP programmer. I am less AppSec, and more NetSec. But none of that mattered. Mark's common sense talk on PHP security was good fun. What's more, his emphasis on vulnerability disclosure as a community responsibility spoke to me. Just as we would not walk by garbage on the street without addressing it, we cannot ignore garbage in the code. We have an obligation to help keep our Internet clean.
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By wolfgang.
3 March 2011 09:17
There are a number of ways an attacker can circumvent the protection of network security monitoring. He can use evasion techniques to avoid detection, or use diversion techniques to distract the defender. Here are a couple methods.
Protocol misuse. NetFlow and layer 1/2/3 statistics track hardware addresses, IP addresses, and TCP/UDP ports. Application layer detail is generally not analyzed and tracked. Any packet sent over port 80 will be assumed an HTTP packet, anything over port 53 a DNS packet, and so on. An attacker can send information over alternate ports to mask their activities. Alternatively, some protocols can be directly misused to carry out an attacker's aims. For example, see the OzymanDNS app that tunnels SSH and transfers files over the standard DNS protocol. When application layer tracking is not enabled, an attacker has a blind spot that they can use.
Kaminsky, D. (2004, July 29). Release!, from Dan Kaminsky's Blog: http://dankaminsky.com/2004/07/29/51/
Payload obfuscation. An attacker can also create a blind spot by obfuscating (or disguising) their application layer traffic. If application layer analysis is enabled, it may be utilizing pattern matching for application layer analysis. The attacker has to modify the packet or its payload enough to no longer match the pattern. Perhaps the simplest method is fragmentation, where the IP packet is broken into fragments. Any one fragment will not match the pattern detection. When the fragments get to the host computer, the host re-assembles the packet. The attacker's payload is then delivered undetected.
Schiffman, M. (2010, February 15). A Brief History of Malware Obfuscation, from Cisco: http://blogs.cisco.com/security/a_brief_history_of_malware_obfuscation_part_1_of_2/Timm, K. (2002, May 05). IDS Evasion Techniques and Tactics, from Symantec: http://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/ids-evasion-techniques-and-tactics
Denial of Service. A solid NSM solution is one that performs application layer analysis, checks for fragmentation, and negates common obfuscation techniques. An attacker then has options. Think of the smash and grab crimes, where the criminal gets in, gets what they can, and gets out quickly. The equivalent is the attacker who triggers the NSM in one area to create a distraction while they attack in another area. For example, an attacker launches a Denial of Service attack on a network link unrelated to their real target. Alternatively, the DoS targets the NSM infrastructure itself. If the attack is a quick raid of the victim's network, such methods may pay off.In sum, attackers can hide in the blind spots, cover their tracks, or make diversions.
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By wolfgang.
18 February 2011 14:03
Egypt has rejoined the Internet. But now the Libyan government has followed Egypt's lead, and went dark. In Egypt's case, it was DNS outages followed by physical disconnects. In Libya's case, BGP is being used. In both, protests are being used as an excuse to unplug Internet access.
Security Information Management
By wolfgang.
12 January 2011 14:09
By wolfgang.
5 January 2011 12:47
For any given office computer at any given time, numerous network communications are ongoing. There may be Kerberos authentication and ticketing occurring between the computer and the domain controller. Streaming audio from, say, Pandora leaves many packets. ARP and DNS packets will be interspersed with application layer packets for files and websites. In sum, there are many thousands of packets to work through.
Like separating spaghetti strands from a bowl of pasta, separating packets into sessions allows us to separate and study the communication from end-to-end. Session data presents the packets for a single communication. That is, for a source host, a destination host, and a given application layer protocol. The InfoSec analyst can then follow the packet trail thru the session to see what transpired and how.
Now there are two ways to read a session: in detail and in summary. The detail of a session includes all the bytes of the packets. This is available from a switch mirror port. The summary of a session includes the packet headers (IP, UDP, TCP). There are a few ways to get this information, including the Cisco NetFlow protocol. NetFlow can be all of all packets or of statistically relevant packets (sampled NetFlow).
Picture all network traffic for a given office computer as a big bowl of pasta. Pull out individual strands to get your session data. Keep statistics on the strands to get your NetFlow.
By wolfgang.
12 December 2010 18:52
The simple answer is yes, you can capture all the traffic on your network. I do it all day, every day, with my network monitoring servers. But it is a little more complicated that the short answer.The first consideration is bandwidth. Let's assume 200 client computers are attached to 50 servers. The clients are at 100 Mbps and the servers are at 1 Gbps. Quickly doing the math, you can see that the maximum bandwidth is 70 Gbps. Each packet will be mirrored (or copied) to the network monitor port. To avoid missing packets, that port would need a 70 Gbps uplink. Such an uplink exceeds the budgets of SMB IT departments.The second consideration is storage. Let's assume that the through put for client computers is, on average, 5% of the available bandwidth. For servers, we will use 25%. Given 3,600 seconds in an hour, do the math, and you'll see we need 439.5 GB an hour for clients and 5.5 TB an hour for servers. Call that an even 6 TB an hour, 142 TB a day, 1 PB a week. Such disk storage costs exceed the budgets of SMB IT departments.Given these numbers, how do I capture the packets that travel across my network? First, I use a 10 Gbps uplink to get the mirrored traffic. There are times when the traffic overwhelms the uplink and packets are lost. Second, I keep only a few hours of packets in storage. I maintain the packet summary (time, source IP and port, destination IP and port, byte count, application details) for a few weeks. The summary is significantly smaller than the actual traffic.The more complex answer is yes and no. You can log all the packets. But even for relatively small networks, the required hardware for the resulting through put and storage requirements will be cost prohibitive.
In hindsight, maybe switching to NetFlows is not such a bad idea.
By wolfgang.
4 June 2010 06:08
Security Information Management systems are meant to catch and report anything suspicious, right? So how do we test them? Creating a vulnerable network and exploiting it. The following tools can be used to create a testing lab to validate network security and web application security controls
Attack systems:
Back|Track -- The most widely used and well developed penetration distro. The main disadvantage is bloat and lack of Hyper-V support. (Live disc; Slax; netsec)http://www.backtrack-linux.org/Matriux -- The new kid on the block, with a faster and leaner distro than Back|Track and native Hyper-V support. (Live disc, Hyper-V; Kubuntu; netsec)http://www.matriux.com/Neopwn -- A penetration testing distro created for smart phones. (Debian; netsec)http://www.neopwn.com/Pentoo -- Gentoo meets pentesting. (Live disc; Gentoo; netsec).http://pentoo.ch/Samurai Web Testing Framework -- Specifically targeted towards web application security testing. (Live disc, Ubuntu, appsec)http://samurai.inguardians.com/
Target systems:
Damn Vulnerable Linux (DVL) -- The classic vulnerable Linux environment. (Live disc; netsec)http://www.damnvulnerablelinux.org/De-ICE -- A series of systems to provide real-world security challenges, used in training sessions. (Live disc; netsec)http://heorot.net/livecds/Metasploitable -- Metasploit's answer to the question: now that I have Metasploit installed, what can I attack? (VMware; Ubuntu; netsec)http://blog.metasploit.com/2010/05/introducing-metasploitable.htmlDamn Vulnerable Web App (DVWA) -- A preconfigured web server hosting a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) with a series of common vulnerabilities. (Live disc; Ubuntu; appsec;)http://www.dvwa.co.uk/Moth -- From the people that brought you w3af, Moth is a preconfigured web server with vulnerable PHP scripts and PHP-IDS. (VMware; Ubuntu; appsec) http://www.bonsai-sec.com/en/research/moth.phpMutillidae -- An insecure PHP web app that implements the OWASP Top 10. (Installer; appsec)http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=mutillidae/mutillidae-deliberately-vulnerable-php-owasp-top-10WebGoat -- An insecure J2EE web app that OWASP uses for security training. (Installer; appsec)http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_WebGoat_Project
By wolfgang.
9 April 2010 08:03
One security trick is to host network services on different ports. For example, a web server may be on 8080 or a database server may be on 3333; instead of TCP 80 and 3306 respectively. This is also an operations trick for scenarios that may have port conflicts, like clustering and nat'ing.Non-standard TCP ports can cause vulnerabilities to be missed when scanning with Nessus. Nessus, by default, only checks known ports. The workaround is to preload the plugins (for example, Apache and MySQL) and to set Nessus to check all ports. Under the scan policy preferences section, check "Probe services on every port" and "Thorough tests". That will give you a more complete picture of the target's security posture.For more information, see:Using Nessus Thorough Checks for In-depth Auditshttp://blog.tenablesecurity.com/2010/03/using-nessus-thorough-checks-for-indepth-audits.html
By wolfgang.
19 January 2009 05:45
Risk Management (RM) is comprised of asset management, threat management, and vulnerability management. Asset management includes tying IT equipment to business processes. Asset management also includes performing an impact analysis to determine the relative value of the equipment based upon what the business would pay if the equipment was unavailable, and what the business would earn if the equipment was available. Threat management includes determining threat agents (the who) and threats (the what). For example, a disgruntled employee (threat agent) performs unauthorized physical access (threat 1) to sabotage equipment (threat 2). Vulnerability management is auditing, identifying, and re-mediating vulnerabilities in the IT hardware, software, and architecture. Risk management is tracking assets, threats, and vulnerabilities at a high level by scoring on priority (Risk = Asset * Threat * Vulnerability) and scoring on exposure (Risk = Likelihood * Impact).Once prioritized, we can then move onto determining controls to reduce the risk. Controls can be divided into three broad methods: administrative or management, operational, and technical. Preventative and detective are the two main forms of controls. Preventative controls stop the threat agent from taking advantage of the threat. In the above example, a preventative control would be a locked door. Detective controls track violations and provide a warning system. For the disgruntled employee entering an unauthorized area, a detective control would be things like motion detectors. The resulting control matrix includes management preventative controls, management detective controls, operational preventative and detective controls, and so on for technical controls.Security Information Management (SIM) is a technical detective control that is comprised of event monitoring and pattern detection. Event monitoring shows what happened when and where, from both the network and the computer perspectives. Pattern detection is then applied to look for known attacks or unknown anomalies. The challenge an InfoSec guy faces is that there is just too many events and too many attacks to perform this analysis manually. The purpose of a Sim is to aggregate all the detective controls from various parts of the network, automate the analysis, and roll it up into one single console.My approach to managing security for a business networks is to use Risk Management for a top down approach. This allows me to prioritize my efforts for preventative controls. My team and I can then dig deep into the security options and system parameters offered by the IT equipment that is driving the business. For all other systems, I rely on detective controls summarized by a Security Information Management tool.In my network architecture, RM drives preventative controls and SIM drives detective controls.
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It looks like neither offense wants to win...
this is brutal. where's my medicine?
[~]) ... Cheers! Go Pacers!
Sweet, Giants win
I tell you what, The Giants were getting absolutely hosed tonight in terms of horrible calls. Not only that, they got very unlucky. I can name 3 absolutely horrid calls that were game changing that the Giants had to overcome. First was the personal foul call on Sam Madison that led to a Packers TD, the second was a phantom hold that led to a Giants TD getting called back, and finally the non call when one of the Packers players was clearly in the neutral zone on a pivotal 3rd down play that led to a Eli Manning sack.
The Giants deserved this win. With that said, The Patriots in a warm weather area is not something I would be looking forward to as a Giants fan. It's pretty clear the cold weather/wind has really bothered the Pats going into December/January so it will be nice seeing them air it out again in Arizona. Look for a high scoring SB game. Should be interesting because my Dad is a huge Giants fan and the trash talking has already started.
And there's now another piece of evidence for the argument in playing the season right down to the final tick on the clock rather than taking a game of two off because they are 'meaningless'....
Nuntius was right for a while. I was wrong for a while. But ultimately I was right and Frank Vogel has been let go.
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Maj. Gen. James "Don" Tyre, who served both as the Commander of the Florida Army National Guard and Assistant Adjutant General of Florida for Army, was recognized during a retirement and military ceremony at the historic St. Francis Barracks.
Adjutant General of Florida Maj. Gen. Emmett Titshaw presented Tyre with the Florida Cross and the U.S. Army Distinguished Service Medal during the ceremony, and lauded him for his years of service to the Army National Guard.
Tyre was a task force commander and a joint task force commander for over 15 named storms in Florida, as well as relief operations, Operation Deep Water Horizon and several wildfire operations.


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The Vizio 7 comes with the following specs:
- Tegra 3
- 7-inch 1280 x 800 pixel IPS screen
- 16GB of internal storage
- 1.2-megapixel front camera
- stock Android Jelly Bean
Having stock Android is an interesting idea, and Vizio CEO defends it saying Android has finally grown to the point that no skin is required.
It also seems possible that the tablet could be used as a remote for larger displays in the future. Thankfully, Vizio says it will use universal technologies like Miracast for that.
The Vizio 7-inch tablet release date is set for the first half of 2013. Sadly, there is no price yet, but we would not be surprised if this manages to undercut even the Nexus 7. Here's to hoping.
source: The Verge