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Roving on Mars
Crystallography has provided insight into the fundamental structure of matter on earth, but it now plays a critical role in the exploration of other planets. X-ray crystallography, a standard practice for geologists, is central to Martian exploration of NASA's Mars Rover, Curiosity. Through crystallography the rover aims to unlock the geological history of Mars, determine when water existed on its surface, and look at the planet's ability to sustain life.
A few billion years ago, Mars and Earth were rather alike with respect to chemical composition. It is possible that Mars had oceans like Earth and many fine surface details corroborate the geologically recent occurrence of streaming water. The geological similarities between the two planets ignited questions about Mars' aqueous history and its potential, both historically and current, to host life.
A very considerable part of the solid material in the universe is crystalline and x-ray crystallography provides a powerful analytical method to identify and quantitatively characterise crystalline solids. The process is used to reveal a mineral's atomic and molecular structure by recording how its crystals distinctively interact with x-rays. Through measuring the angles and intensities of diffracted x-ray beams, it is possible to produce a 3D picture of the atomic and molecular arrangement of the analysed materials. It is precisely this process that is being used on Mars today and has revolutionised planetary exploration.
NASA's Rover Curiosity, landed in Gale Crater on Mars 5 August 2012. The rover was equipped with instruments to collect information on the climate and geology, and investigate the role of water on Mars' surface. This included an x-ray diffraction and fluorescence instrument called CheMin (Chemistry and Mineralolgy). With innovations form Ames, CheMin was created to be compact enough to fit in the rover - providing the most accurate analysis of Mars' surface ever attempted.
The first sample taken by Curiosity was of dust and sand, located in a region called Rocknest. It was sieved to remove particles larger than 150 micrometers (about the width of a human hair). The results from CheMin revealed that the mineralogy of the Martian soil was similar to weathered basaltic soil flanking Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii.
Although the first sample made scientific history, it lacked clay minerals, suggesting that the sand or dust had not interacted with water. Clay minerals are crucial in the search of water because they only form in its presence. These windblown deposits were the result of current geological processes on Mars' surface, too recent to solve Curiosity's query. Close by, Mt Sharp would provide a deeper look into Mars' geological history.
Found within Gale crater, Mt Sharp reaches 5,500 meters; the mountain appears to consist of eroded sedimentary layers deposited over a 2 billion year interval. Drilled samples taken by Curiosity confirmed the presence of clay minerals along with other basaltic minerals. Through x-ray crystallography, it is clear that at some point in its history, Mars hosted aqueous environments. It is also evident that wet environments existed more recently than previously thought. The clay minerals indicate near-neutral pH environment and moderate temperatures – the key ingredients for life.
Identifying the mineralogical makeup of Mars and understanding the conditions in which these minerals formed, would not be possible without x-ray crystallography. Through this type of analysis, it has been confirmed that Mars has hosted the key to life - water. From here, future goals for Curiosity include exploring Mt Sharp. Taking samples from its varied layers will help piece together a more complete geological history of the Red Planet.


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Type: Improvement
Status: Closed
Priority: Major
Resolution: Fixed
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: 0.20.0
Component/s: io, regionserver
Consider supporting:
- 2GB store files
- 1TB per node (500 store files)
- Cell values up to ~100MB
- Typical use case of RS running with 1GB of heap only
Some ideas:
- Drop MapFile and make a custom store file format with (competing) design goals:
- heap efficiency
- fast lookups
- minimize I/O operations
- optimize for typical DFS blocksizes (8MB, 64MB)
- MRU cache for filehandles and store file indexes
- Memory mapped store file indexes – don't hold the indexes in heap; rely on the OS blockcache for performance
- "Zero copy" I/O from IPC to store file and vice versa, like NIO buffers
- All
- Comments
- Work Log
- History
- Activity
- Transitions
Bunch of us discussed the zero-copy above this evening at HUG6. In particular remove HStoreKey and just do byte array all the ways into the HFile and then on the way out, carry the HFile key and value all the ways out to IPC. Will make an issue once I have better handle on it.
Hi Stack. I was thinking of setting up subtasks under this issue in part. A page on the wiki would be good also. I'll set one up if someone doesn't get to it first.
Good stuff Andrew. I concur. Lets take on these goals. Shall we put up a wiki page pointing to this issue that talks of rearchitecting project? and maybe belong in a working document of their own. Perhaps a page up on wiki – like http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/NewFileFormat – with perhaps a link under roadmap or maybe we need an architectural goals section where we stable these targets (and X-them out as we knock them off)?

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Adobe Reader TrueType Font Handling Remote Code Execution VulnerabilityZDI-10-071: April 13th, 2010
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This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Adobe's Acrobat Reader. User interaction is required in that the victim must be coerced into opening a malicious document or visiting a malicious URL.
The specific flaw exists within the parsing of embedded fonts inside a PDF document. Upon parsing particular tables out of a font file the application will miscalculate an index used for seeking into a buffer. Later the application will begin to copy data into the calculated pointer corrupting the referenced data structure. Successful exploitation will lead to code execution under the context of the application.
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2010-02-18 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
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Now the home of MLB Network (watch Mediabistro.TV's "Cubes" episode on MLB here), Olbermann was there as a guest on "Clubhouse Confidential." Olbermann popped into his old office, now occupied by MLB Net producer Michael Konnor… who kept some of the old decorations:


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Brisbane, AAP –Federal MP Clive Palmer has joked about taking crocodile off the menu after an elderly man was bitten at one of his golf courses.
Authorities are trying to capture the croc that attacked the man at the Palmer Sea Reef golf course at Port Douglas on Monday afternoon.
The golfer, aged in his mid-70s, suffered a wound to his lower leg and was taken to hospital in a stable condition.
Mr Palmer later turned to Twitter to wish the well-known local man a speedy recovery, and also joked: 'Crocodile has been removed from all menus at Palmer properties following today's incident with a member of our Port Douglas Golf Course.'
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Tigers swim at section meet in Morris
Morris Area hosted the boys' Section 3A Swimming and Diving Championships Friday and Saturday at the Regional Fitness Center.
There were 13 teams participating in the meet, with Fergus Falls ranking first at the end of the events.
"I was very impressed with the Morris boys who competed at the section meet," said coach Megan Lange. "Every one of them managed to swim at least one personal-best time. The boys who swam their individual events all achieved personal-best times, and all of our relay swimmers got personal bests, either during prelims or finals. It was a great way to finish out the season. I am very proud of their accomplishments this season."
The Tigers had six boys competing in five individual events and all three relays.
The Tigers' 200-yard medley relay team of Vaughn Dieter, Mitchell Kill, Gage Anderson, and Jackson Boever swam a 2:06.35 in Friday's preliminaries and finished 12th in the finals with a time of 2:03.61.
Roy Reese swam a 2:00.97 in the 200-yard freestyle preliminaries.
Anderson swam a 1:06.64, cutting 2.65 seconds, in the 100-yard butterfly preliminaries.
Reese swam a 54.78 in the preliminaries of the 100-yard freestyle.
The Tigers' 200-yard freestyle relay team of Anderson, Boever, Taylor Hufford, and Reese placed 13th in the finals with a time of 1:47.29, after swimming a 1:47.77 in the preliminaries.
Dieter swam in the preliminaries of the 100-yard backstroke, cutting 1.20 seconds off his previous time, for a 1:14.16.
Kill swam a 1:19.80 in the 100-yard breaststroke preliminaries.
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Interest Hiro Arikawa's Kenchō Omotenashi-ka Novel Gets Live-Action Film
posted on 2012-08-30 16:15 EDT by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Library War/Toshokan Sensō author Hiro Arikawa's Kenchō Omotenashi-ka novel is getting a live-action film adaptation. Kadokawa originally released the book in March 2011.
Former NEWS member and Kanjani boy band member Ryo Nishikido (1 Litre of Tears, Last Friends) will star in the film as Fumitaka Kakemizu, a 25-year-old staff member of the Kochi Prefectural office's "Omotenashi-ka" (hospitality division) that aims to promote sightseeing in the prefecture. Maki Horikita (Always San-chōme no Yūhi's Hoshino Mutsuko, Professor Layton franchise's Luke Triton - pictured at right) will play the heroine Taki Miyōjin, who works part-time for the prefecture's general affairs department in the news division.
Yoshihige Miyake, who previously directed the 2011 live-action film adaptation of Arikawa's Hankyū Densha: Katamichi 15-fun no Kiseki novel, will direct the film. Yoshikazu Okada (Hankyū Densha, Ima, Ai ni Yukimasu) will write the screnplay.
The novel revolves around a prefectural office's newly-established hospitality division, and new member Fumitaka is charged with planning area promotion. However, Fumitaka quickly realizes he must struggle through a lot of red tape to be able to accomplish his goals.
The novel won the "Book of the Year" for 2011 in the Da Vinci literary magazine, and it also won first place in the 3rd Annual Booklog Awards in the novel division.
The film will begin shooting in early September, and is slated to open across Japan in May 2013.
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Playing the now-iconic serial killer Hannibal Lecter, Anthony Hopkins took a character from author Thomas Harris' same-named novel (released in 1988) and turned it into the world's most charismatic flesh-eater. Sure, Lecter feasts on human coverings and insides with the class of a rich man snacking on caviar, but he's someone who'll simultaneously drink high-priced Chardonnay. With intelligent discourse and a velvety smooth pitch, Lecter is the most dangerous kind of villain: A brilliant charmer who's also a skin-devouring baddie. Your mother would be defenseless. —MB


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22-year-old Stabbed to Death During Brawl in Northern Israel
Police suspect 'romantic' motive for killing; two suspects arrested at the scene, third suspect later turns himself in.
A man from the northern Haifa suburb of Kiryat Yam was stabbed to death during the course of a brawl in the nearby town of Kiryat Motzkin late Friday night.
The victim was named as 22-year-old Benny Katz.
Police have arrested two suspects in the stabbing, aged 16 and 34, while a third attacker managed to elude the officers, but later turned himself in. All three suspects have previous police records.
The motives for the stabbing are not yet clear, but police suspect the motive may be "romantic."
Police commander Jamal Hakroush of the Zevulun District told Haaretz that Katz was stabbed as an argument devolved into a physical altercation. Eyewitnesses said that the men had been arguing since Friday afternoon.
On Saturday, a 20-year-old Eritrean national was stabbed to death in Eilat. Police suspect two Ethiopian immigrants, both Eilat residents, of perpetrating the murder.
An argument erupted between the victim and the suspects before dawn Saturday, at the culmination of which the stabbing occurred. The victim was evacuated in critical condition to the hospital, where he succumbed to his wounds.
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Billy Graham, Tim Tebow, Tony Dungy, Jimmy Carter Among 'The 100 Most Trusted People in America'
By Nicola Menzie, Christian Post, Christian Post On May 8, 2013
Reader's Digest magazine has revealed its survey results for "The 100 Most Trusted People in America," which features actor Tom Hanks at the top of the list. Also included among those whom Americans find most trustworthy are the Rev. Billy Graham, former President Jimmy Carter and NFL player Tim Tebow.
"To understand how our trust instinct shapes our culture, we compiled a list of over 200 American opinion shapers and headline makers from 15 highly influential professions. Then we polled a nationally representative sample of over 1,000 American adults, asking them to rank each person based on trustworthiness," explains the publication.
Despite the television and movie personalities that dominate the list, the survey found that Americans tend to trust more than anyone else their doctors (77 percent), spiritual advisers (71 percent) and their children's teacher (66 percent). However, those results, which were the three highest scores on the poll, were excluded from "The 100 Most Trusted People in America" list - "to focus on the public figures who resonated with everyone," according to the magazine.
Hanks, known for memorable roles in "Forest Gump," "Saving Private Ryan" and the popular Pixar series "Toy Story," is the no. 1 most trusted figure in America, which means he ranks high in integrity and character, honesty, leadership and other criteria considered by survey respondents who were asked to rank each figure on a scale of 1 (not at all trustworthy) to 5 (extremely trustworthy).
"The poll results were fascinating, fun and shocking. We trust because it feels good, but putting our faith in the wrong place often carries a high price," said Reader's Digest editor-in-chief and chief content officer Liz Vaccariello. "While the list showed what Americans think about those they see regularly in the news, on television and in movies, our poll also revealed that we put our trust in do-gooders, that tweets do not always equal trust, and that we trust people we know more than anyone famous."
The trust poll, done with the help of research firm The Wagner Group, is featured in the June issue of Reader's Digest and also on the magazine's website. The survey results can be viewed here on the Reader's Digest website.
Some names featured on "The 100 Most Trusted People in America" list include:
Actor Denzel Washington - No. 3
Denzel Washington stars in The Weinstein Company's 'The Great Debaters.' The movie opens nationwide on Dec. 25.
First lady Michelle Obama - No. 19
U.S. first lady Michelle Obama claps as she arrives at a Team USA athletes breakfast in London July 27, 2012.
Retired NFL coach Tony Dungy - No. 21
In this file photo, Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy speaks after the announcement that he will retire in Indianapolis, Monday, Jan. 12, 2009.
Former President Jimmy Carter - No. 24
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem, Monday, June 15, 2009.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell - No. 32
Colin Powell, former Secretary of State of the United States, speaks at the World Knowledge Forum in Seoul in this Oct/ 17, 2007 file photo.
NFL player Tim Tebow - No. 40
Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow arrives for the Inaugural National Football League Honors at Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis, Indiana, February 4, 2012.
Media mogul Oprah Winfrey - No. 59
Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Warren and Oprah Winfrey appear in the Jan. 13 episode of "Oprah's Lifeclass."
Evangelical Christian minister the Rev. Billy Graham - No. 67
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"I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum... and I'm all out of bubble gum."
- - Rowdy Roddy Piper
"It takes a big man to admit when he is wrong. I am not a big man"
- - Fletch
And yes, Raisor made us get him one that was two sizes too large - - so he could wear t-shirt with no pants
"I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum... and I'm all out of bubble gum."
- - Rowdy Roddy Piper
"It takes a big man to admit when he is wrong. I am not a big man"
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If you can (a) parlay his RBI total into a "sell high" scenario and (b) sign Choo with the funds, then I'd do it
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"But I do know Joey's sister indirectly (or foster sister) and I have heard stories of Joey being into shopping, designer wear, fancy coffees, and pedicures."
I can tell Dusty didn't care to much that he blasted a reporter right in front of him. Which leads me to believe it happens more times then is being reported. I know Bailey isn't the biggest fans of 700wlw. This team needs a leader.. A Scotty Rolen type. I liked what Mattingly did with Puig last night too. These players run the show and it should be the manager who runs things. Next Phillips will change his name to Brandon Cuatro and getting his own reality show. So many young kids look up to BP and the past 5 or so months he has turned into an absolute diva.
That aside... Who really would want that type of baggage? He will be a Red next season and beyond. I would however bench him though for his tirade. Dusty needs to gain some respect in that dugout instead of just reading toothpick digest.
I'm confused.
Is the Phillips people are wanting to dump because he got mad, something everyone does, the same BP that gives away trips to Spring Training, shows up at kids Little league and High School games? the one that treats strangers to dinner, doesn't drink, never gets in any trouble and always has a smile on his face?
That Brandon Phillips?
"There was like a softness to it, a glow to it. I felt... I felt warm."
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There's a stat used in Baseball Prospectus, OBI%. The percentage of base runners a hitter drives in. Others Batted In %. Excludes batting in yourself on a homer.
Of all players in MLB this year with 200 or more PAs, Phillips (by my count) ranks tenth in OBI% at 19.2%. Again, this isn't an absolute number due to Choo and Votto providing opportunities. This is the PERCENTAGE of runners driven in.
The next highest percentage on the Reds is Frazier and Bruce at 15.6%. Way down the list.
Votto/Choo likely suffer in this category because they are walked so often with men on base.
But Phillips is way ahead of anyone else on the club.
For the right return, anyone is tradeable. That said, the idea, imo, of trading BP has absolutely nothing to do w/ his blowup @ C. Trent yesterday.
I'm late to this thread, but let me try to catch up.
We're discussing whether or not to trade Brandon Phillips and a pair of Raisor's pants for Raisor's mom and Votto the cat. Did I miss anything else?
I want better Defense on this team, not worse. That means no Choo in Center.
Phillips back is a no-brainer.
"But I do know Joey's sister indirectly (or foster sister) and I have heard stories of Joey being into shopping, designer wear, fancy coffees, and pedicures."
Yes. I want him traded for Mike Trout and Bryce Harper. The Angels and Nationals can split time with Brandon. Seems fair to me.
Now, I think this can and should be handled internally and, provided this type of stuff does not start becoming a repeated issue, I would only be in favor of a trade if it makes the team better on the field.
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District 196 school superintendent announces retirement
School District 196 School Superintendent John Currie announced his retirement, effective at the end of the current school year.
Currie, who has been with the district since 1995, will be with the district through June 30, 2009.
"It has been an honor and a priveledge to serve this community and this great school district, especially the past six years as superintendent," Currie said in a release. "Although schools face difficult times ahead, I believe this district is well positioned to face almost anything that comes our way. For that reason, I believe this time is right for me to retire."
Currie has been superintendent since April 2003. He was an interim selection following then-superintendent John Haro's resignation, and assigned the permananent position in August 2003.
He has also served in the district as principal of Black Hawk Middle School, the district's director of human resources, and director of secondary education. He began his career in public education as a teacher and coach in Gibbon, Minn. in 1972.
The announcement, made Friday, meets the six-month notice requirmement for retirement in his contracy, which allows for the District 196 school board to begin the search for a replacement.
The retirement will be added to the agenda for the Dec. 8 school board meeting.


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There has been no good-natured trash talk in the Islanders' locker room among teammates who will become rivals in next month's Olympic tournament. Not yet, anyway.
"Let's just wait until the teams are named and, hopefully, I'm there," Islanders captain John Tavares said. "And then maybe we can start to talk a little."
Tuesday is the Olympic deadline for qualified nations to submit their rosters. As of early Monday night, only the United States, Switzerland, Slovenia and the Czech Republic had formally announced their teams.
(Islanders wing Kyle Okposo, to the surprise of many hockey followers, was left off the U.S. team. Two former Islanders, Nino Niederreiter and Mark Streit, were on the Swiss roster.)
Tavares has long been considered a lock for the Canadian team, which will be revealed at an 11 a.m. news conference Tuesday in Toronto. Islanders forwards Thomas Vanek and Michael Grabner both are assured of playing for Austria.
Vanek on Monday declared that Canada and the United States are the gold-medal candidates, keeping Austria in the "no way" underdog role for the Olympic title.
"I don't know if he's joking," Tavares said. "But I think the game is growing in so many areas, and those smaller countries compete a lot more than 15, 20 years ago."
Two of Tavares' opponents Monday night, Dallas forwards Jamie Benn and Tyler Seguin, are considered candidates to be his Canadian teammates at the Sochi Winter Games.
Family comes first
Okposo, the Islanders' second-leading scorer (16 goals, 42 points) behind Tavares, was not available for Monday night's game while he and his wife, Danielle, a former hockey player for Minnesota's St. Cloud State, awaited the birth of their first child.
In Okposo's stead, forward Frans Nielsen wore the alternate captain's "A."
Bailey returns
Forward Josh Bailey was back in the lineup after missing four games with a shoulder injury. He picked up an assist on a nifty pass that set up Peter Regin's second-period goal.


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Layoffs will be minimal at MSUM
Minnesota State University Moorhead has to cut about $9.5 million from its budget next year, but the president expects to limit layoffs to eight to 15 jobs.
Edna Szymanski said cost-cutting measures the campus started last fall will minimize the layoffs needed, as well as the number of programs that will be cut.
Ten faculty and staff have accepted early retirement packages, and more offers may be made this summer.
Layoff notices will be issued in July, but employees will still have jobs for a period of time that's determined in their union contracts.
For tenured faculty, most will continue to work at MSUM for the next academic year.
The exact amount of the deficit depends on Gov. Tim Pawlenty's unallotment, but campus officials expect it will be about
$9.5 million.
About $4.5 million of that is a reduction in state funding. Nearly $5 million is the university's own deficit, caused primarily by declining enrollment and rising costs.
Though the total deficit is on the high end of what MSUM officials began planning for last fall, the cuts aren't going to be as severe as first anticipated, said Jean Hollaar, MSUM's budget director.
MSUM will receive
$4.3 million over the next two years in federal stimulus dollars that will help soften the blow.
The campus plans to use the money to pay for the early retirement packages and to keep tuition increases more reasonable.
MSUM also has aggressively cut costs since last fall. A hiring freeze has left more than 20 positions open, saving at least
$1.4 million.
The university is limiting energy use as much as possible, and plans to set thermostats at 76 this summer.
MSUM also is working on ways to increase revenue, including a proposal to restructure how tuition and fees are charged.
This summer, the campus has revamped its summer session to make it more attractive for students and raise more tuition revenue.
Just one week into the summer session, the strategy appears to be working, said Jean Sando, associate vice president for academic affairs.
Enrollment is up nearly 11 percent over last summer, with 2,069 students registered. The number of classes students are taking also is up.
Those cost-cutting and revenue-building initiatives will help MSUM balance the budget this July.
But Szymanski still faces some tough decisions.
She anticipates having to cut some programs and is still weighing which ones those will be.
Szymanski is looking for programs that affect the fewest number of students and faculty.
She also is weighing whether the program is offered elsewhere in the region or within the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system and how fiscally efficient the program is.
Szymanski plans to announce what programs will be affected this July.
They will be phased out, not eliminated right away. And the university will work with students to make sure they can complete their degrees or to help them transfer, she said.
"There's no good decision on this. I wish we did not have to close anything," Szymanski said. "It's nasty to be caught in this predicament."


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Previously unreleased audio files detailing the unfolding horror of the Sept. 11 attacks have been made available to the public.
This is the first time the complete communications recordings between military and civilian air traffic controllers as they were dealing with the hijackings have been released.
"We have a problem here. We have hijacked aircraft headed towards New York and we need you guys to, we need someone to scramble some F-16s or something up here to help us out," a worker at a Boston control center says at 8:37 a.m., according to the recordings. No planes had struck any targets yet.
The official on the other end of the line asks if it is all a test.
"No, this is not an exercise, this is not a test," the worker says.
The recordings show the confusion that ran rampant among air traffic controllers after the hijackers turned off their aircraft transponders, making it difficult for radar to track them.
In another excerpt, after the first plane had struck the North Tower World Trade Center, an official in a New York center sees a second plane.
"Hey, can you look out your window right now?… Can you see a guy at about 4,000 feet, about five East of the airport right now?… Do you see that guy — look — is he descending into the building also?" the official asks.
Seconds later, the plane explodes inside the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
Someone is heard saying: "Another one just hit the building. Wow. Another one just hit it hard. Another one just hit the World Trade."
"The whole building just, ah, came apart," someone says.
Someone utters: "Oh my God."
The complete audio files and transcripts were published on the Rutgers Law Review website. The 9/11 Commission staff had started compiling the recordings into a single document but did not finish in time for it be released with the commission's report. John Farmer, dean of Rutgers Law School, served as senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission and assisted a team of law school students in completing it. He previously published many of the transcripts in his 2009 book, "The Ground Truth."
According to the New York Times, which first reported on the files, one tape remains unreleased: The recording from the last half hour in the cockpit of United Flight 93 that crashed in Shanksville, Pa. instead of its intended target in Washington, D.C. The families of the passengers who died on that flight have requested it not be made public.


text: When coding in a POSIX-compliant environment, you can usually write special escape codes to the console to change the text colour and so forth. However, this does not work on Windows. (Ignore all references you see to enabling ANSI.SYS in your config.sys file; this applies only to 16-bit MS-DOS programs, *not* to 32-bit Windows programs.) However - to my surprise - apparently the Win32 API provides a set of function calls that do in fact allow 32-bit applications to change the colours of the console on a character-by-character basis. However - wait for it - those *particular* functions aren't in Haskell's System.Win32.Console module. :-( Obviously, I know nothing about C. However, after much hunting around, it turns out that for some reason, GHC appears to ship with a complete set of C header files for the Win32 API. (In other words, the necessary header file for accessing the functions I want is there.) After staggering through the (very unhelpful) FFI language specification, I was able to make it so that I can apparently call these functions from Haskell. I was not, however, able to find any way at all to import the symbolic constants necessary, so I was forced to reading through the source code of the raw C header files to find out what the numeric values of these are (!!!) The long and short of it is, I now have a small Haskell library that enables me to print things in trippy colours on the screen from a normal Haskell CLI program. Yay for me! (Actually, you can also change the title on the window - so you can make your program say "My Fantastic Tool" instead of "C:\Documents and Settings\foo\Haskell\MyTool\MyTool.exe" in the titlebar. Again, this is for a normal Haskell console application with nothing done to it.) Would anybody else be interested in having this code? (Obviously, it's pretty tiny.) For that matter, would the maintainer of System.Win32.Console be interested in adding the necessary dozen lines of code to that module? Actually, now that I think about it, it would be kind of nice to have a magic package that writes out escape codes or calls the Win32 API depending on which platform your program is compiled on - in the style of System.FilePath. I don't know how to do that though... A nice idea, guys?


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Ward's amazing save propels 'Canes to win over Sens
RALEIGH, N.C. — Hurricanes backup goalie Justin Peters did a good job of holding things down while Cam Ward (sidelined for 10 games) healed from a lower-body injury.
But nothing compares to Ward when he's on, as was the case in Carolina's 4-1 victory over Ottawa on Sunday night.
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The Senators got out to a 1-0 lead just over a minute into the game, and not long after, Ottawa had a 3-on-2. Ward tallied the first save off his skate, lunging left to get it. And then on the rebound shot by Ottawa's Colin Greening — milliseconds later — he lurched his entire body to the left and sprawled out just in time to get his stick on the rebound to deflect it.
In midair.
"It was a bad rebound on my part. It's tough to steer those rebounds when it goes right off your toe. I knew as soon as the shot came that I was going to be forced to kind of put it in a bad spot," Ward said. "Fortunately, Greening didn't get all of it and gave me a chance to dive over make the save. Luckily, I was able to get it. If that goes in, it's a whole different hockey game going down 2-0 in the first period. Fortunately, I got that and … we played extremely well after that."
Offense has been hard to come by for the Hurricanes this season, scoring only six times in their previous three games before Sunday.
Ward was modest about the impact of his mid-air save, but his head coach wasn't.
"They scored early and then Cam makes that huge save," coach Kirk Muller said. "I think the guys were like, 'Hey, we've got to get going here.' After that, I think we started to really pick it up and take off. So that save was probably the big turning point of the game, and then we just really kind of started cranking it up after that."
Ward missed 10 games with a groin tear from Oct. 24-Nov. 17, and the Hurricanes lost their first five games without him. After a 4-2 loss to St. Louis, Ward was ready to come back against Boston on Nov. 18.
His return didn't go as expected, as Ward allowed two goals in his first two minutes — but ended with 26 saves on 29 shots.
Peters got the start at Detroit instead of Ward on Nov. 21 in the Hurricanes' next game (a loss), and then at Boston on Saturday afternoon, he had 35 saves on 38 shots and almost single-handedly kept his team in the game.
The Hurricanes got a point but lost in overtime, 3-2.
Carolina's offensive weapons knew they had to do more, and Eric Staal did just that, finishing the game with three points (one goal and two assists) and quietly extending a six-game point streak.
"I was proud of the way Cam came back tonight with a big effort. I thought he was phenomenal yesterday (at Boston) and we were better in the third and helped us steal a point," Staal said. "Then tonight, he was good again, which is big to bounce back and then us in front of him were better as well. So that was big for us to do that for him and get the win."
Ward saved 35 of the 36 shots he faced, but he got support offensively.
Finally, Carolina's offensive weapons that have been inconsistent this year — particularly Staal and Tuomo Ruutu — got going.
Ruutu went 15 games without a goal and has two in the last four games. Staal had three points, quietly extending a streak of three straight games with at least one point, scoring one goal and assisting on two others.
"That was (Staal's) best game by far tonight," Muller said. "He worked really hard, but he worked smartly. He used his wingers really well.
"Eric, he just played the game the right way tonight. He was the guy that really led us up front tonight, I thought. Everyone contributed, but he was the real leader."
Staal — like a lot of other players on the roster who were supposed to score goals for this team — has been pressing a bit at times, trying to make something happen or force the issue offensively.
He and his teammates were able to get into a flow, barely 25 hours after an emotional loss at Boston, and just play. It was as if a weight had been lifted off of their shoulders, and things just looked much easier for the Hurricanes.
It's been a rarity this season, but to see the Hurricanes' offense and defense clicking at the same time was a sight to behold, and it was fun for the team, as well.
And they'll need to carry it over against a tough stretch that starts with back-to-back games against the New Jersey Devils, second in the Metropolitan Division.
"It's nice just playing the game, using your instincts, enjoying being out there and letting things kind of happen," Staal said. "It feels like sometimes we've been chasing it at times and tonight was one of those nights where we were executing our plays and making some good looks and getting some bounces.
"Good effort. We've got to follow it up; big week against New Jersey and we'll look forward to that."
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MADRID, March 4 (Reuters) - Spain's Bankia said on Wednesday it would sell its stake in real estate company Realia to Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim's property group Inmobiliaria Carso ahead of a full takeover offer for Realia from Slim.
Bankia said it would sell the stake of just under 25 percent in Realia for 0.58 euros per share, or 44.5 million euros ($49 million), a discount of nearly a third to its Wednesday closing price.
Bankia said Carso would launch a full takeover bid for Realia within 9 months at the same price of 0.58 euros per share.
Realia is majority-owned by Bankia and Spanish builder and services company FCC. Their joint stake has been on the market for around a year, but last month FCC said it would abandon the sale of its 37 percent share.
Property investment company Hispania made a takeover offer for Realia in November for 0.49 euros per share, valuing it at 150.6 million euros, around a third less than its then market value.
Indebted Realia, which manages a portfolio of shopping centres and office buildings in prime locations in Madrid and Barcelona, posted a 40 million euro loss in 2014 and a 1.7 percent decline in rents. ($1 = 0.9030 euros) (Reporting By Sonya Dowsett; Editing Sarah White and Jane Merriman)


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A notorious fraudster who has spent most of his life in prison has admitted more scams.
David Aves, 55, of Freewood Street, Bradfield St George, admitted three offences of fraud by false representation at Ipswich Crown Court on Monday.
The court heard how Aves managed to collect more than £16,000 from members of the farming community by selling a combine harvester and a tractor which he did not own.
The offences were committed between October and December 2012. The combine harvester was 'sold' to two separate farmers.
Appearing with Aves was Anne Mason, 54, of Nottingham, who admitted money laundering by allowing Aves to use her bank account to process payments from his scams.
Both were granted bail until they return to court to be sentenced next month. They were due to stand trial at Ipswich Crown Court this week but changed their pleas to guilty before a jury was sworn in.
Aves has a history of fraud offences, many involving farmers being persuaded to part with cash for non existent machinery and spares. He has more than 150 convictions for fraud since 1976.


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A very nice article from the local paper about the Sisters of Mary of the Eucharist in Ann Arbor, growing as other orders shrink and age.
They were smart. They were good at sports. They were fun to hang out with.
But spend the rest of her life with them?
Nope, not what Showalter planned. She was going to college, intending to become a scientist, a wife and a mother.
But in late July, as Sister Maria Faustina, Showalter took permanent vows in the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, an order based in Ann Arbor Township.
"God puts this call in your heart; he places it there, and it's a gentle call. You can choose to ignore it, and I tried to for three years," said Sister Showalter, 27.
The Sisters of Mary, founded in 1997, are growing at a time when many other Catholic religious orders are shrinking or simply disappearing. Four young sisters, including Sister Showalter, made perpetual vows late last month, and Friday morning, six more made their initial vows. A new group of 17 postulants – beginning sisters – is expected in September, which will bring the community total to 64.
Now someone please help me out here – I've wasted several minutes here, looking for a link to another Ann Arbor-based order (I think) – very solid spiritually and vocationally, that does not, in fact, wear full habits, but rather some simple clothing and a large cross. I actually wrote about them once, in an article for OSV. As I recall, their primariy apostolate was care for the impoverished elderly. Anyone?


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Vegas casino bans actor Affleck for card counting
As a devious gambling tycoon in the film Runner Runner, Ben Affleck's character knew a thing or two about how to ensure the house always wins.
In real life, however, the Oscar-winning actor appears to have turned the tables on the casino industry, taking the Hard Rock in Las Vegas for hundreds of thousands of dollars through the legal but frowned-upon practice of card counting.
Now it seems that the high-rolling Affleck, 41, may have had his chips, after the casino barred him from its blackjack tables for life, with surveillance officers reportedly declaring his calculated playing "way too obvious".
"You're too good at the game," Hard Rock security managers are said to have told him as they escorted the actor from the blackjack tables and found him and his wife, Jennifer Garner, the actress, a taxi back to their hotel.
It was not the first time that Affleck – a one-time contestant in the World Series of Poker alongside fellow actor Matt Damon – has been accused of underhand practices at the card tables.
In 2011, he was named in a lawsuit as one of several Hollywood stars who were members of a clandestine gambling ring in California. Fellow members included Tobey Maguire and Leonardo Di-Caprio, the lawsuit alleged.
Affleck, a father of three, caught the attention of casino officials during a getaway with his wife, prior to filming of Batman vs Superman.
He was "backed off' by Hard Rock officials – a term used when a player is evicted from blackjack but still allowed to take a hand in other games – after they observed him allegedly employing "perfect basic", a beginner's method of card counting.
Card counting is a mathematical strategy that can be used by players to bet bigger sums at less risk, by keeping a running tally of the distribution and location of certain cards over a number of games.
It is not illegal, though the use of devices, or of signs and signals between players, to compile or communicate the information, is. There is no suggestion that Affleck had devices or accomplices.
A warning, circulated to other Las Vegas casinos on April 29 on a system known as the Surveillance Information Network, said Affleck was "suspected of advantage play," according to Star magazine, which claimed to have seen a copy of the warning.
A similar alert had also been issued days earlier, stating that Affleck had been spreading bets of up to $20,000 (€14,000) a time on "shoe games" of blackjack, according to the magazine. Shoe games involve as many as six decks of cards.
"While playing at a table, Ben was asked repeatedly to stop card counting. But he would not stop. The casino staff told Ben he was being too obvious," an insider said.
In 2001, Affleck allegedly collected blackjack winnings of $800,000 (€576,000) in one night and handed out tips amounting to $150,000 (€100,000) to dealers and waitresses at the Hard Rock in Las Vegas, the venue that has banned him from the game.
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Super model: Energize and optimize your business with SaaS—and focus on "the important stuff"
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is proving to be a cost-effective way for companies to get the sophisticated business solutions they need to compete and grow without incurring the often high initial costs associated with purchasing and maintaining the applications and infrastructure.
For David Knutty, the decision to use Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) in his midsize, complex steel fabrication company was driven by the application's functional fit to the business.
"We did not choose a SaaS solution solely based on the SaaS platform," says Knutty, director of business systems for Stow, Ohio-based Wrayco Industries . "The decision to choose Plex Systems Plex Online [SaaS-enabled ERP] was multifaceted."
SaaS is the business system model where an external vendor hosts the software in the vendor's own secure environment, and manages and administers the back-end database and architecture. True SaaS applications are written from the ground up to be accessed through the Internet via a Web browser.
Since SaaS applications are architected for the Internet, the application's performance typically meets and/or exceeds the performance found in traditional on-premise applications. With SaaS applications, the only software required is a Web browser to gain access to the application anytime, anywhere. This includes mobile devices—e.g., phones, PDAs, scanners, tablet PCs, and laptops—that connect to the Internet.
One of the key components of the SaaS model is a single-instance, multi-tenant design. This means all of the SaaS software users are accessing one database and one version of the software. Enhancements are continually made to the software, eliminating the need for costly and disruptive upgrade projects.
After implementing Plex Online, Knutty says Wrayco was able to focus its energy on improving the flow of product through its operations using the system's intuitive and feature rich functionality. Although there are many benefits to the SaaS model itself, the software still needed to deliver business benefit.
"We are now able to track our product through our welding and assembly manufacturing cells, powder coating paint system, final assembly, and straight to our customer's plants just by scanning the serial number after the milestone operations," Knutty says. "Components are consumed, labor is reported, and quality data is captured in real time [via the] Web."
Additionally, all of Wrayco's business data is securely stored and managed by SAS/70 certified dual data centers that are owned and operated by the SaaS vendor.
"I used to worry about our data being protected, having the system slow down during mid-day backups, and performing system maintenance activities during off-hours," Knutty says. "Now I can focus my energy on things that improve our bottom line. [And we] did not have to add any personnel to support and administer the application.
The smart seven (of SaaS)
Wrayco's experience with SaaS underscores
Economical . SaaS solutions lower total cost of ownership (TCO) by reducing infrastructure investments, operational costs, and personnel requirements—eliminating the need for future upgrades. Also, since the onus is on the SaaS vendor to deliver reliable and secure services, companies can set a predictable and accurate budget that won't include unexpected maintenance costs. It is a great solution for companies that require sophisticated software to compete and grow, but don't want to make the large-scale financial investment typically required to purchase their own systems.
Functional . As SaaS solutions gain popularity, products and features are in development, with a number of functional point solutions now considered "best in class". Enterprise SaaS solutions often meet and exceed the functional requirements of most businesses.
Secure . SaaS applications are designed with security in mind. SaaS providers provide ironclad firewalls, automated security sniffers, physical security features such as concrete walls and biometric control systems, data management centers—all subject to regulated certification measures. In addition, security professionals constantly monitor security and implement new measures—features and skills that most businesses can't afford to implement in their own IT environment.
Scalable . Leading SaaS applications are designed to grow with your business. No longer do you need to worry about obsolete hardware, databases, and software, and there's no more investing in technology infrastructure and personnel as your business grows.
Configurable . SaaS providers have a team of professionals who are always working to enhance and update the core applications and products. This saves companies the time and money spent on updates and custom development. In other words, no more legacy versions of outdated software.
Deployable . The implementation cycle for SaaS solutions is shorter than the traditional on-premise approach to implementations. Access to the SaaS software requires only an Internet browser and connection—you no longer need to wait for infrastructure to be staged, databases to be configured, and software to be installed. You are logged in, using the SaaS software almost immediately. SaaS solutions also are easier to deploy in small phases as compared to their on-premise counterparts.
Manageable . SaaS providers manage the infrastructure, application, and data security. They also tune their products for performance. Data is protected via fault tolerance and off-site data storage—that is, if one system fails, there is another that picks up—often making it more secure than the data companies store with their current, in-house systems.
Today there are SaaS solutions available in a number of business application areas, including enterprise-class ERP/MES ( www.Plex.com ), customer relationship management ( www.Salesforce.com ), human resources ( www.WorkDay.com ), financial management ( www.AdaptivePlanning.com ), and sourcing and procurement ( www.ketera.com )—to name a few.
In these challenging times, organizations can no longer ignore SaaS applications and the benefits they can generate. To put it simply, it's a cost-effective way for companies to get the sophisticated business software they need to compete and grow without incurring the often high initial costs associated with purchasing and maintaining the applications and infrastructure.
"I can now put the energy into fine tuning and optimizing the business, Wrayco's Knutty concludes. "Finally
|About the author: Peter Pearce, senior manager with consulting group Virchow, Krause & Company LLP , leads the organization's SaaS team, providing expertise in manufacturing, distribution, quality and finance, lean manufacturing, business process reengineering, program management, IT, and strategy.
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Before the calendar turned, 2016 already had the makings of a pivotal year for manufacturing, and for the world.
There were the big events for the year, including the United States as Partner Country at Hannover Messe in April and the 2016 International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago in September. There's also the matter of the U.S. presidential elections in November, which promise to shape policy in manufacturing for years to come.
But the year started with global economic turmoil, as a slowdown in Chinese manufacturing triggered a worldwide stock hiccup that sent values plummeting. The continued plunge in world oil prices has resulted in a slowdown in exploration and, by extension, the manufacture of exploration equipment.
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Donald Trump has always been controversial. For about three decades, for some reason, people with news cameras have come running just about every time he's opened his mouth.
But this election has been different. Trump has behaved as nothing less than an unhinged lunatic, the billionaire as low-information voter, and an embarrassment to himself and those associated with him. And it's time for some of his partners -starting with NBC- to distance themselves from him.
First he flirted with running for president himself in the Republican primaries, as though Trump for one second would consider ditching his opulent lifestyle in order to shake hands with people in diners in Iowa and New Hampshire, or that the GOP primary electorate would stand for a guy on his third marriage who'd taken all sorts of non-conservative positions in the past (though on second thought…)
In the process, Trump both embraced and became chief spokesman for the vile, racist-to-the-core lie that President Obama wasn't born in the United States and had faked his birth certificate. After the president finally released his long-form birth certificate, Trump claimed that he'd "won," which is only true if your definition of "winning" is the definitive debunking of your core argument. The release of the birth certificate, Seth Meyers utterly destroying him at the White House Correspondents Dinner, and then the killing of Osama Bin Laden 24 hours later did nothing to diminish the cheap shots at the president.
Trump spent much of 2012 occasionally appearing with Mitt Romney at fundraisers. He planned to appear at the Republican convention, doing a HEE-larious comedy bit in which he was to say "You're Fired" to an Obama impersonator, but only the pre-convention hurricane, and then the Clint Eastwood chair stunt, saved him from that particular bit of embarrassment.
Then, in October, he teased a "major announcement," a total dud in which Trump offered to donate to the president's favorite charity in exchange for the release of his college records. Democrats laughed at him, while Republicans were disappointed that that was the best he could do. My reaction was that this is what happens when you have no one around to tell you "no."
Then, when Hurricane Sandy struck Trump's hometown of New York, instead of dropping the whole thing or making the donation anyway, he doubled down, bashing the president for having better things to do than to respond to his offer.
And then, on election night, Trump tossed out an increasingly nasty series of tweets, first questioning the numbers of Obama's victory and then calling Mitt Romney's loss "a sham and a travesty," a "great and disgusting injustice," and called for a "revolution." Trump later deleted the tweets, but Salon collected them.
What Trump is doing has a name: in Internet culture, it's known as "trolling." He's saying and doing outrageous things, because every time he does he gets attention and press. That the day after the presidential election, some percentage of the political press is talking about Donald Trump instead is, to Trump, the greatest gift of all. Indeed, throughout all of this, the media has rushed to cover every one of Trump's statements, with airtime and frequent retweets.
It's time to stop rewarding it. NBC should announce, today, that it's canceling The Apprentice. Companies that Trump endorses should think long and hard about continuing to stay in business with him.
I'm not only saying this because Trump has been critical of the president. And I would never be in favor of any sort of government censorship of him.
NBC should get out of business with Donald Trump because he has lied and committed character assassination, while serving America's leading proponent of a debunked, race-baiting conspiracy theory. Even the network's own lead news anchor, Brian Williams, said on the air election night that Trump "has driven well past the last exit to relevance."
Trump is embarrassing NBC, to the point where they need to no longer associate themselves with him.


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Apple has released a minor Wi-Fi firmware update for "late" 2012 Macs in the Mac App Store. Mac Wi-Fi Update 1.0 address compatibility with the 5GHz Wi-Fi band, a more modern band that offers greater signal quality and less interference than the 2.4GHz band. The update is available for free and clocks in at less than 2MB.
This update is recommended for all late 2012 Mac systems. This update improves compatibility when using the 5GHz band in Wi-Fi.
Boot ROM or SMC Version Information: To confirm the update has been applied, the CFBundleVersion string of the AirPortBrcm4311.kext will need to be checked.
New driver delivered in update: AirPortBrcm4331.kext CFBundleVersion = 612.20.15
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Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market:
BP plc, up $1.56 at $43.40
A contractor paid the British oil giant $75 million to settle all potential claims from last year's Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Nokia Corp., up 21 cents at $6.06
The Finnish handset maker will introduce its first mobile phones using the Microsoft Windows operating system this year.
Best Buy Co., up 84 cents at $32.38
The electronics retailer said it will buy back $5 billion of its common stock and raise its quarterly dividend by 7 percent.
Walgreen Co., down $1.90 at $43.28
The drugstore chain said it will end a $5.3-billion-per-year relationship with pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts.
Carnival Corp., up $1.51 at $37.24
The cruise operator's second-quarter net income dropped 18 percent, but results still beat Wall Street's expectations.
Susquehanna Bancshares Inc., down 64 cents at $7.70
The bank is buying Tower Bancorp Inc. for $343 million in cash and stock, and said the deal would add to earnings immediately.
Riverbed Technology Inc., up $2.10 at $33.72
A Sterne Agee analyst named the data network manager's stock a "Buy," saying the company has shown strong growth.
SunPower Corp., up 88 cents at $17.27
French oil producer Total completed its $1.4 billion purchase of 60 percent of the solar energy company's stock.


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Christie may go for presidency
Rising Republican star Chris Christie says he would be "more ready" to run for US president in the 2016 election after finishing his work as the governor of New Jersey.
Mr Christie, who had been pushed to run as a presidential candidate in 2012 but declined, is seen as a possible national party leader as it tries to regroup after losing the White House to Democratic president Barack Obama and several seats in the US Congress in November.
"I will be more ready than I was in 2012 because I will have done my job for longer and hopefully gotten better," he said. – (Reuters)


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The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is set to bring in additional experts to support work protecting the country against the growing threat of cyber attack.
Details of the new cyber reserve force emerged in the first annual update of the Government's cyber security strategy and will be confirmed by ministers next year.
The MoD has already established a military Joint Cyber Unit based at GCHQ - the secret electronic communications spy agency - in Cheltenham.
The strategy document said it was now developing "new tactics, techniques and plans to deliver military capabilities to confront high-end threat".
Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude said: "There exist real and growing threats to our interests in cyberspace: these threats have increased concurrently with the growth of the 'internet economy'."
The move came as officials revealed "hostile foreign states and others" had mapped systems controlling critical infrastructure in the UK, such as power and water supplies.
The officials would not name the countries involved, although reports in the US have said Russia and China have carried out similar "reconnaissance" exercises there.
MI5 is now developing and enhancing its capabilities to investigate threats in cyberspace from foreign intelligence agencies and terrorists.
The document emphasised that cyber security was not a matter for government alone and that industry and individuals had to play their part.
A survey by consultants PwC found 93% of large corporations and 76% of small businesses suffered a cyber security breach over the past year, with costs running at up to £250,000 for larger firms.
From next spring, the Government will launch a series of public awareness drives aimed at improving online safety for consumers and small businesses.
A new "cyber confidence tracker" will regularly track "perceptions and behaviours" to ensure the message is being delivered as effectively as possible.


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How to make a cube move from a circle a certan amount in a direction based on an angle between 0 and 360?
You use left and right keys to increase/decrease the angle from 0 to 360. (at 361 it goes to 0 and vise versa) and You have a cube that's a little infront of your view. How do I make it move so it's always infront of your view?


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INDIANAPOLIS -- With a major storm brewing in Indy, the Raptors could not chase their own dark clouds away.
Toronto, 13-36, dropped its 12th game in a row -- five off the team record in a 104-93 defeat at the hands of the 18-27 Indiana Pacers.
Coming off a heart-breaking overtime loss to Milwaukee and an unexpected thrashing by lowly Minnesota, the Raptors did their best early on to extend their losing skid but then fought hard to consistently close to within five points.
In the end, the terrible start killed them. Again.
In the first quarter, the Raptors fired up jumper after jumper and the results -- for the most shooting-challenged squad in the NBA -- was a predictable one. And unlike in Minneapolis, when the team actually played some passable defence, there was zero resistance early -- though, to their credit, the final numbers looked decent at the end because of excellent second-half defending.
Midway through the second quarter, Indiana was shoting 51.5% while Toronto shot a poor 31.4%. With six made threes to Toronto's zero, the Pacers pulled away by 20 points.
But then, led by emerging rookie Ed Davis, the team fought its way back the way it has so often this season.
A 13-0 run keyed by strong defence and intensity brought the Raptors within six at the half.
And it was Davis, perhaps the lone bright spot throughout this disastrous stretch, providing the spark.
"Way to keep us in it, rook," a member of the Raptors' bench said just prior to halftime and that was accurate.
Davis had 11 points and five rebounds in the second quarter and forced the Pacers to think twice before entering the lane.
He had averaged 7.3 points and 8.2 rebounds on 64% shooting over his previous 10 outings heading in and finished with 13 points, seven rebounds and three blocks.
"(Davis) was very, very good again, he changed the game when he got in," said Raptors head coach Jay Triano.
As the Raptors battled to get their own field goal percentage up to 40%, they worked even harder to chip Indiana's back down to 40%.
The process was made more difficult by another horrid performance from the top-scoring duo of Andrea Bargnani and DeMar DeRozan.
For the third game in a row, the pair couldn't get on track offensively.
Bargnani, 14-for-47 over his past two games, was a dismal 3-for-15 in this one as was DeRozan, who was coming off of a 7-for-25 line over his past two appearances.
"That's the game right there," summed up Bargnani.
"If we go 6-for-30, we can't win. The team needs us."
Triano said he kept Bargnani in for Davis down the stretch because they needed scoring, which Davis doesn't yet provide.
But when they aren't hitting shots that they freely admit are decent looks, DeRozan and especially Bargnani are preventing the team from winning because of their failings elsewhere.
Though Triano is clearly still behind them.
"Yeah, it's my fault probably because I had to play the (crap) out of them nine games in a row because we had no other bodies and they're probably worn down a little bit," Triano said of the Raptors' struggles.
"I had to play them then, I have to play them now, they have to learn to fight through this. They're very good basketball players and they're learning how to play where they're the dominant scorers."
With each passing game, though, it gets easier to imagine general manager Bryan Colangelo finally considering cutting the cord with the maddening Bargnani -- or at least thinking down the line for when they have the depth to put him in the scoring sixth-man role many think would best serve him and his employer, given his deficiencies.
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"We like to think we play music that needs to
exist," says Making Movies singer, songwriter and
guitarist, Enrique Chi. Combining indie rock dy-
namics with African rhythms and some magically
real inspiration from folkloric
Latin America, Making Movies
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Rhythmically adventurous, lyri-
cally substantive, and melodi-
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Latino sound.
The band's second album, A La
Deriva, tells a story based on the
struggles of an immigrant family
that tragically falls apart in Amer-
ica, and its impact on the following
generation. Produced by Steve Berlin of Los Lobos,
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waves, and innate sense of straddling two cultures
flowed easily into becoming a bilingual recording.
"Since I was six years old my life has been in both
English and Spanish so I find it natural to make our
music the same way," explains Chi. "Some poetry res-
onates more in one language or the other and we try to
pick the best language for the purpose of each song."
If you're a new fan wondering who SoundRabbit is, here's the Reader's Digest 'band bio' for you:
We're four musicians with varied backgrounds and influences, which comes across in the music we create. We enjoy mixing and spanning genres, all the while keeping the "SoundRabbit sound." We're glad to meet you. We've been called a 'rock' band, a 'jam' band, a 'singer/songwriter' band, a 'jazzy' band, an 'indie' band, and every combination thereof. We've been compared to "old school Weezer," Wilco, Bon Iver, Phish, The Thrills, Pink Floyd, and Jack Johnson in the same breath. We know that our band name is a bit silly. We love seeing the country through van windows. Our audiences include hippies, hipsters, college kids, and their parents [seriously]. We have a bumper sticker that reads "RBT," and people ask us if it's short for "Robot," but those in the know take photos holding it in places all over the world, from the Coliseum in Rome to a remote village in Panama. We appreciate each and every fan who is with us here in the early days of our burgeoning little SoundRabbit community. We're fighting the battle for ears at this early stage in the game, and you're our best ally. We're psyched to watch it grow along with you.
If you're a big time label A&R/management/production/booking company person wondering about how we've spent our first 24 months in existence, here's the Readers Digest 'band resume' for you:
We're brand new. But we've been busy.
We recorded our first album, This Room Becomes A Crowd, in a home studio. Released it at the very end of 2007, and got our single "Hazel" played on local radio and college radio nationally through self promotion in 2008. Won "Best Pop/Rock Album By A New Band" from the Mile High Music Store in Denver. Put 12,000 miles on our van and trailer, playing self-booked dates in Arizona, Iowa, Illinois, New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, Wyoming, New Hampshire, Maine, Nebraska, Kansas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Tennessee, and Missouri, along with shows throughout Colorado.
Self-booked college shows included the University of Wyoming, University of Colorado, Colorado State University, Curry College, Babson College, St. Anselm College, Edinboro University, St. Lawrence University, Boston College, Arizona State University, Brandeis University, and others. We played the main stage at the Democratic National Convention "Rock The Vote" concert. We played the main stage at the Tempe Music Festival in Arizona with Fergie (Black Eyed Peas), Matthew Moon, and Cowboy Mouth. We played the Monolith main stage at Red Rocks Amphitheatre with Band of Horses, the Avett Brothers, TV on the Radio, Tokyo Police Club, and Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings. We played in upstate New York with Keller Williams and 2009 Mtv Video Music Awards house band, Wale. Main stage billings on a pop/rock lineup, an indie lineup, and a jamband lineup in our first year = good times.
We designed, built, and launched our web-based "Backstage Community" program, a new fan & charity business model that is the first of its kind in the music industry. In its first year, we donated thousands of dollars to the American Cancer Society, the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, the National Kidney Foundation, the Make A Wish Foundation, Habitat For Humanity, the March of Dimes, EcoCycle, the Susan G. Komen Race For The Cure, the RATNA Prison Initiative, Alternative Spring Break, and others. In February 2010, we planned, booked, promoted, and hosted a benefit concert at the Boston Sheraton Hotel for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society in Boston; the event sold out and we raised $2,500 for the LLS.
We recorded our second album, Tree Trunk Airplanes, in the same home studio over the winter of 2008/09. Released it in March of 2009 with a show at the Fox Theatre in Boulder, and immediately received local and national press inquiries (see below). The writers of the Boulder Weekly magazine in Boulder, Colorado nominated us as the "Best Band of 2009," and the writers of Denver's biggest entertainment paper - the Westword (Village Voice) - nominated us as the "Best Rock Band of 2009" a month later, alongside bands who have been around two to five times as long as us.
In February 2010, we scraped, saved, and borrowed to get ourselves a booth at the NACA (National Association of Campus Activities) National Convention in Boston, to sell ourselves to 3,000 college talent buyers and book college shows throughout late 2010 and 2011. We knew we'd enjoy meeting the students and laying the groundwork for fall and spring shows - but we were most surprised by the feedback we heard from management companies who had booths at the convention. In the words of one management firm owner who observed us from across the aisle the entire weekend (and we quote) - "How in the hell has no one signed you guys to a management deal yet?"
We're heading to the NACA Northern Plains Regional Conference in April 2010 to do more networking and booking, and recording a new album in May at a studio in Charlottesville, Virginia.
All in our first 36 months. We're just getting started...
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Posted: Dec 17, 2002 at 4:58 PM (Last Updated: Jan 02, 2003 at 1:34 PM)Featuring a blend of 37% real fruit juice, Wild Fruitz Cranberry is very high on our list of cranberry beverages. In addition, it's sweetened with cane sugar and uses all natural ingredients, which gives even more points in our book. The flavor is very easy to describe: cranberry. If you like a strong cranberry beverage with a real tart finish, this is it...look no further. A superb product.


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The relationship is over, but you can't seem to move on. Now, raise your hand if that scenario sounds vaguely familiar? If so, you're in luck; because you aren't the only one experiencing this emotional struggle. Already raising his hand is Houston native, Dallas Blocker, who tackles the issue of permanent separation on his new song, Alone. Penned, produced and performed by Blocker, Alone is an up-tempo R&B record that caters to the both the radio and the club while maintaining the integrity of its message. Currently in the process of leaving his label home at Universal Republic, Blocker plans to release his debut album via his own production company, Blockerboy Music, LLC., in the near future. Will he make the transition Alone, or with your support?


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Adapted from Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Broadway rock opera, ''Jesus Christ Superstar'' recounts the last days of Jesus Christ from the perspective of Judas Iscariot, his betrayer. As Jesus' following increases, Judas begins to worry that Jesus is falling for his own hype, forgetting the principles of his teachings and growing too close to the prostitute Mary Magdalene . After Jesus has an outburst in a temple, Judas turns on him.


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What if they liked it?? Would you gloat or not? If yes, how long is it appropriate to gloat -- in weeks, months or years?
When responding, it might help to classify where you stand on the CP spectrum...
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The annual International Design Excellence competition, sponsored by BusinessWeek magazine and run independently by the Industrial Designers Society of America, recognizes design excellence in products from the U.S., Asia, and Europe. Jawbone received its 2007 gold award for "Best Packaging & Graphics."
Aliph Jawbone headset - Awards
Jawbone is a groundbreaking Bluetooth headset that integrates the latest innovations in acoustics and audio processing with premium product design to provide users unparalleled incoming and outgoing voice clarity. The latest awards for the Jawbone, designed by renowned industrial designer Yves Béhar - principal of fuseproject and Aliph's vice president and creative director, reinforce the industry acclaim it has received since its introduction in the fall of 2006. Among other awards, Jawbone was recognized as Engadget's Most Wearable Device of 2006, ranked in PC World's "Top 100 Products" of 2007 and remains rated as CNET's #1 Bluetooth headset.
Best of What's New award
"For 20 years, Popular Science's 'Best of What's New' awards honor the innovations that can make a positive impact on life today and change our views of the future," says Mark Jannot, Editor-in-Chief of Popular Science. "PopSci's editors evaluate thousands of products each year to develop this thoughtful list. There's no higher accolade Popular Science can give."
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"Our goal with Jawbone was to transform the mobile audio experience through exceptional design and unparalleled technology to create a truly unique consumer product. Yves's clean, ergonomic design melds instinctively with Noise Shield technology to enhance the customer experience in every way - from the packaging to the functional simplicity and ease of use," said Hosain Rahman, CEO, Aliph. "We are delighted that Popular Science has bestowed this honor by declaring Jawbone one of its 2007 'Best of What's New' award winners."
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Carpenter boosts Strasburg's spirits
Carpenter boosts Strasburg's spirits
After pitching in one game that year, Carpenter didn't play in another Major League game until July of the following year. After returning to the mound, Carpenter was on a pitch count for the rest of the season. In 2009, Carpenter was not on a pitch count and went on to have one of his better seasons, going 17-4 with a 2.24 ERA with St. Louis. This season, Carpenter is 14-4 with a 2.93 ERA.
For Strasburg, it's going to take 12 to 18 months to recover from elbow reconstruction. Carpenter told Strasburg to stay strong and work hard.
"I know it's a disappointing and frustrating situation, but he will be OK," Carpenter said about Strasburg. "He has a smart head. It seems like he worked hard to get where he has been at. He has a nice head on top of him.
"I told him to work hard. The stronger you are going into it, the better that you are. Once he gets over the shock of missing some time, he needs to start working and do what he can to get back."
In his rookie season, Strasburg pitched in 12 games and went 5-3 with a 2.91 ERA for the Nationals before going on the disabled list earlier this week because of the elbow injury.
"I watched him on TV and he is an exceptional talent," Carpenter said. "But unfortunately, [injuries] like this happen in the game. Guys get hurt. Guys work hard and get back and have success. He is going to be fine."


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Thirty Years Ago
While I have permitted myself, the last week or two, to become hopelessly tangled up in writing about, or trying to, Wim Wenders's The American Friend, a near traffic jam of other important movies has materialized behind it. The pileup — Luis Bunuel's That Obscure Object of Desire, Barbara Kopple's Harlan County, U.S.A., Werner Herzog's The Great Ecstasy of the Sculptor Steiner, and coming next week, his Stroszek — has reached such a point that I've given up any silly notion of dealing with each.
— "SEX AND THE DOUBLE GIRL," Duncan Shepherd, March 2, 1978
Twenty-Five Years Ago
I'm worried about something. I've seen the city workers pushing those carts with the long steel necks that drain the money from the parking meters. What's to prevent them from going around on their off hours and collecting pocket change?
Only once in San Diego's 45-year use of parking meters has someone circumvented the collecting procedure (and been caught): in 1976 a La Mesa money collector was seen by a citizen as he put coins taken from meters into a paper bag (he got 30 days for his $41.05, and lost his job).
— STRAIGHT FROM THE HIP, Matthew Alice, March 3, 1983
Twenty Years Ago
Let's start with the question of whether Tanja Winter is a Communist. "Communism is not even relevant!" she protests. "It's not an issue." But it's not as if no one else has ever brought this up before. People write letters to local newspaper editors stating that this 61-year-old La Jolla matron is a Communist. Even Winter admits, "I've become notorious in San Diego because [KSDO talk show host] Stacy Taylor red-baits me and calls me a Communist."
— "WINTER STORM," Jeannette De Wyze, March 3, 1988
Fifteen Years Ago
Here we are at ground level, under the freeway span in the very crotch of the so-called 5-805 merge. Eidelweis Street, or Edelweiss Street, is the road that crosses the railroad tracks in Sorrento Valley. On the north side of the tracks it turns into Sorrento Valley Boulevard.
Eidelweis Street has appeared on local maps for 70 years. It's still shown (Edelweiss spelling) in the Thomas Bros. guide. But there isn't a single street sign for it. And passersby and businesspeople in the area say they've never heard of it.
— "LOST ROADS OF SAN DIEGO," Margot Sheehan, March 4, 1993
Ten Years Ago
On Wednesday, February 4, 1998, José Tovar Serrano, 35, and his brother Ruben, 33, were killed in the torrential El Niño storm that began on the night of February 3.
Ramón agrees to take me to the brothers' house, and as we drive to Lomas del Rubi, Ramón explains how the tragedy occurred. There had been, he says, a concrete retaining wall protecting a house 30 feet up the hill from the brothers' house. This wall did not have sluice holes cut into its base that would have allowed mud and water to come through. "Without those holes," Ramón says, "the pressure built up, and the wall and the mud collapsed on the men while they slept."
— "TIJUANA: THE FLOOD OF 1998," Bob Owens, March 5, 1998
Five Years Ago
"Fly, lonely angel/high above these streets of fire."
Those are lyrics from "The Angel Song," by Great White, the band that set a Rhode Island nightclub on fire February 20, killing nearly 100 fans and one band member, guitarist Ty Longley.
I talked to Ed Tate, the sound technician at 4th&B, where Great White played January 12 (37 days prior). He told me, "During the sound check in the afternoon, the guitar techs attached some firework things to the guitar. They shot way up high, and smoke was everywhere."
— BLURT: "FLY, LONELY ANGEL/HIGH ABOVE THESE STREETS OF FIRE,"Josh Board, February 27, 2003