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The South Rim of Aristarchus
...Essentially a nice photo but with no zoom for possible better detail...!
by Jason Major on December 30, 2012
Flying over at an altitude of 135 km, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this lovely oblique view of the crater Aristarchus, looking down at the 40-km (25-mile) -wide crater's southern rim from the west.
The broad flank of Aristarchus' 300-meter (980-foot) central peak and surrounding hills can be seen at left, casting lengthening shadows in the setting sun.
Named after the Greek astronomer who first proposed a controversial heliocentric model for the Solar System in the 3rd century BCE, Aristarchus is a prominent crater located near the Moon's northwestern limb within the geologically-diverse Oceanus Procellarum — the "Ocean of Storms." Surrounded by rays of bright ejecta that extend down its stepped rim, the floor of Aristarchus drops 3.7 km (2.3 miles) below the surrounding lunar landscape.
...No doubt that zoom and closer pictures of the Moon's surface, are of Military[Industrial] "grade" secrets...!
...BECAUSE the reference picture of YVR-Vancouver Airport shows at a reference height of ~30,000feet(~6Km) that you can see the jets parked...! These jets are bigger than any Apollo Lunar module or "rover"...!
...Why would Nasa have a Orbiter, if it is not taking real close pictures, to see and verify what they have to cover up hopefully before anybody else gets closer to the Moon...!
...Essentially you are not seeing much detail at all of the Moon and Aristarchus at this zoom as far as we can ascertain...! The most zoom we are getting with the full size picture compared to the reference maps, is what can be seen from ~44Km to ~22Km high in altitude with your normal eyes flying over as in a jet...! At between 15Km to 10Km in Altitude you can only see the airplanes jets as "mere dots" with no details! I AM PRETTY SURE THIS PHOTO GIVEN OF ARISTARCHUS MOON CRATER IS ONLY AN EXPLOSION VIEW OF NOT A CLOSER VIEW TO MERELY THE DETAIL YOU CAN SEE WITH EYE SIGHT FROM 10Km to 15Km high in altitude! AND IF IT IS AS CLOSE IN DETAIL AS THE EXPLODED VIEW, JETS SIZES ARE ONLY "DOTS"!
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We've been wondering just how Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. would connect to the Marvel cinematic universe, and it looks like one of those connections is imminent. The events of an upcoming episode of the show will immediately follow the action of Thor: The Dark World.
EW reports that November 19th episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., "The Well," will pick up where the new Thor movie drops off:
In the aftermath of the events chronicled in the feature film Marvel's Thor: The Dark World, Coulson and the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. pick up the pieces–one of which threatens to destroy a member of the team.
The exciting news? Commander Riker himself, Jonathan Frakes will be directing the episode. This isn't Frakes' first trip to down Joss Whedon lane; he also directed the Sierra-centric episode of Dollhouse, "Belonging."
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This morning's Watch This, Play This features a little of everything. In fact, you could probably break multi-tasking records and watch the videos simultaneously even while playing our new Gaming App of the Day. But probably not.
WATCH: One of our favorite web series, Awesome series, just posted an update with a new cartoon in which Link struggles through quite a few emotions.
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Planet B is the duo of punk provocateur Justin Pearson and hip-hop producer Luke Henshaw (Sonido de la Frontera, First Power Crew). Together, these two dissidents combine their styles into a new and thrilling collaboration, bolstered by an awesome array of guests: from hip-hop pioneer Kool Keith, to industrial godfather Martin Atkins, to rock guitar extraordinnaire Nick Zinner of The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Head Wound City.
The sound lies somewhere just out of reach of genre, with aesthetics rooted in hip-hop, hardcore, turntablism, and horror movie soundtracks of the '70s and '80s – catchy, heavily percussive, and eerie all at once.
Other album highlights include a cover of Depeche Mode's classic "Never Let Me Down" – an earlier version of which was released as part of the Love Oakland compilation, a benefit for the victims of the Ghost Ship fire in Oakland.
Track listing:
- Crustfund (feat. Kool Keith)
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- Disease Control (feat. Sonny Kay)
- Manure Rally
- Mirror, Mirror, On the World
- Big Karma (feat. Joseph Karam)
- Brutal Evolution (feat. Becky Digiglio)
- Never Let Me Down Again (feat. Nick Zinner)
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Interested in Studying Clinical Psychology?
We have developed this website to provide visitors with information about our program. Our goal is to make things easier for potential applicants so all information about our program is readily accessible on the Web.
For more comprehensive information, we have developed a Graduate Clinical Guide. This brochure provides general information about our program, the application process, faculty interests and research opportunities. We realize that applying to a doctoral program represents a major decision and a very big step in any student's academic and career life. We have tried to make this online brochure as informative as possible, so you will be able to get the most accurate picture of what our program has to offer and what its limitations are. Further information regarding degree requirements can be found here.
You can also access information about our Psychological Clinic, which serves as a training facility for our doctoral students, offering psychotherapy and behavior therapy for adults, children, couples, family and groups for a broad range of issues.
Our Student Admissions, Outcomes and Other Data information may also be of interest.
Having a close match between your goals and ours seems to be one of the best indicators of a successful outcome for students. Therefore, we encourage you to be as direct and straightforward as possible in your application. If you are interested in applying to our clinical psychology program, visit our admission information page. For information regarding our program and state license requirements, please view Consumer Disclosure Information: Educational Requirements for Licensure in Psychology.
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Our General Philosophy
The goal of our doctoral program in clinical psychology is to train sensitive and caring psychologists who are scientists, prepared to provide new knowledge and objective answers to the complex questions surrounding the assessment and treatment of human mental-health needs.
As such, our teaching philosophy is clearly representative of the Boulder model of the scientist-practitioner. However, we interpret this model as one that encourages integration of the scientist and practitioner functions. We expect that our students will be well-trained in research methodology and able to translate the empirical knowledge of psychology as a scientific discipline into skilled and effective research and/or practice.
Students often begin graduate school uncertain about the ultimate career path they will pursue. Nevertheless, we expect that our graduates will both contribute to new knowledge and practice their clinical and research skills in a variety of settings, from academic to direct-service provision. The common denominator is our philosophy of training. Therefore, to guide and evaluate the continuing evolution of our clinical program, we adopted the following guiding principle:
Clinical science is one specialty area within the larger empirical science of psychology.
This principle has various implications for planning and implementing clinical training, as described in these four corollaries:
- The study of clinical science draws upon and contributes to all other specialty areas within psychology. Therefore, the teaching of clinical science must integrate knowledge and techniques from the rest of psychology.
- Clinical science must be taught as an empirical science, consistent with the teaching of the rest of psychology. It is our intent to train students to be clinical scientists, as this is fundamental to the range of career paths that they may choose.
- Implementation of the guiding principle must be consistent with ethical standards. Among these is a concern for the welfare of students, clients and research participants, as well as integrity in all professional relationships.
- All aspects of graduate training in clinical science should be consistent with this principle and these corollaries. Such aspects include research training, coursework and most notably, clinical casework, supervision and placements. We must regularly evaluate the degree to which this objective is being met.
Background Information
The Clinical Psychology Program began in 1972; thus, we are still a relatively young program, open to new ideas and directions. The program received accreditation from the American Psychological Association in 1981, and since then has enjoyed considerable stability. In 1996, after a thorough review process, the clinical program was granted membership in the Academy of Psychological Clinical Science, a coalition of doctoral psychology training programs that share a common goal of producing and applying scientific knowledge to the assessment, understanding and amelioration of human problems.
At any one time there are about 35 clinical students in residence, with another eight or so away on internships or completing dissertation research. Seventy percent of the students are women and 21 percent are members of ethnic minority groups. A few foreign students have been admitted over the years, thereby increasing our links with the larger community of clinical researchers.
Contact Information for the Commission on Accreditation
Binghamton University's Clinical Psychology Program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation (CoA).
Questions related to the program's accredited status should be directed to the Commission on Accreditation:
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TDi Technologies, the leader in IT Foundation Management, today announced the availability of the new, automated Baseline Configuration Management solution designed to provide managerial visibility and control over the BCM practice while eliminating the majority of sources where human error can result in unintentional device configuration changes that impact the overall security practice.
Download the ConsoleWorks Baseline Configuration Management Solution Brief.
"Without automation, BCM is a costly operations activity that is difficult to manage and prone to mistakes that can leave the Utility provider vulnerable to cyber attack," said Terry Schurter, TDi Technologies, VP of Marketing, "ConsoleWorks' Baseline Configuration Management solution looks at the problem holistically by taking a device and platform agnostic approach for supporting all routable protocol devices."
The Utilities industry, in particular, is required to meet certain NERC-CIP requirements for establishing and retaining a set of secure configuration profiles across hundreds, often thousands, of cyber assets (reference NERC CIP-010-05 whitepaper from TDi Technologies). Manufacturer point solutions exist in a few cases today. However, the limited capabilities vary across manufacturers and the functionality is inadequate for addressing the basic NERC-CIP requirements.
"While the obvious driver behind interest in a comprehensive BCM solution is driven by NERC-CIP regulations," said Bill Johnson, TDi Technologies, CEO, "the ConsoleWorks BCM solution enables Utility providers to meet NERC-CIP requirements while simplifying operations and reducing manpower requirements – it addresses a real business challenge."
ConsoleWorks automates baseline configuration management of all cyber assets from the control room, to the substation, to the pole. It periodically retrieves the current configuration of each monitored asset and compares it to the established baseline. If a difference is detected, an Event is created and logged and a notification is sent to a designated person for further assessment.
The ConsoleWorks BCM solution offers the following key functions:
- Configuration Retrieval – automatic collection of actual device configurations
- Baseline Establishment – designation of an approved configuration baseline
- Auto-Comparison – comparison of current configuration against the baseline
- Event Detection – generates events (alerts) when a difference is detected from the established baseline configuration and the current device configuration
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TDi Technologies is the leader in IT Foundation Management, delivering IT Foundation Management solutions to a global customer base with key verticals including Financial Services, Telecommunications, Utilities, Healthcare, and Government. The company's solutions help customers reduce operating costs, meet foundational compliance requirements, secure the IT foundation, and improve IT Service delivery. TDi Technologies is the first solution provider to offer a unified system of operation and management over the IT foundation. The company's patented technology provides automation, optimization, control and management capabilities that dramatically improve the ability of IT to meet the demands of the business.


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Fed Officials Want More Signs of Recovery
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke discusses conditions in the labor market after keeping the central bank's $85 billion-per-month bond-buying program in place.
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... I ... yell ... it's important to assess ... how I'll go ... I noted earlier conditions the job market they are still far from what all of us would like to see ... nevertheless meaningful progress has been made ... in the years since we announced the asset purchase program ... for example the unemployment rate has fallen from eight point one percent ... at the time of our announcement ... to seven point three percent today ... in about two point three million private sector jobs have been created ... over the same period ... over the past twelve months of the hours of work are up by about two point four percent ... the new claims for unemployment insurance have fallen by about fifty thousand ... that survey suggests apostles Steve jobs as more readily available ... import these gains were achieved despite substantial fiscal headwinds ... which are likely slowing economic growth this year by percentage point or more ... reducing employment by hundreds of thousands of jobs ... not all of the market developments over the past you were positive however notably the labor force dissipation rate fell by about zero point three percentage points ... and real wages remained about flat ... in light of this can lead to progress the FOMC concluded that our June meeting ... the carrion of substantial improvement in the outlook for the labor market ... might well be met over the subsequent year or so ... accordingly the committee sought to provide more guidance on how the pace of purchases might be tested over time ... the committee anticipates in June that subject to certain conditions it might be appropriate ... to begin to moderate pace of purchases later this year ... continuing to reduce the pace of purchases in measured steps ... the first half of next year ... and ending purchases around midyear twenty fourteen ... however we also make clear at that time ... that is just that the pace of purchases that depend importantly ... on the evolution of the economic outlook ... in particular on the receipt of evidence supporting the committee's expectation ... that gains in the labor market will be sustained ... and that inflation is moving back towards two percent objective over time ... at the meeting concluded earlier today the sense of the committee was that the broad contours of the medium term economic outlook ... the economic grow sufficient to support ongoing gains in the labor market ... inflation moving toward its objective ... posted views that held in June ... but in evaluating whether a modest reduction in the pace of asset purchases would be appropriate at this meeting however ... the committee concluded that the economic data did not yet provide sufficient confirmation ... of its baseline outlook ... for such a reduction ... Moreover the committee has some concern that the rapid tightening financial conditions in recent months ... it had the effect of slowing growth is a noted earlier ... concerned that would be exacerbated if conditions tighten further ... finally the extent of the effects of restrictive fiscal policies remain in the year ... an upcoming fiscal debates made of additional risks to financial markets ... and to the broader economy ... in light of these uncertainties the Committee decided to await more evidence ... that the recovery's product will be sustained before adjusting the pace of asset purchases ...


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Team collaboration tools have never been more important than today. With the growing need to adapt to mobile solutions, it's necessary to keep up with the times and be able to work across time zones...
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With glyphosate-resistant weeds already an issue in many Corn Belt states and throughout the South this growing season, experts at Pioneer Hi-Bred, a DuPont business, urge growers to scout regularly and carefully for resistant weeds that can seem to appear overnight.
"Now is the time to be on the watch for potential pockets of resistant weeds," says Mark Jeschke, Pioneer agronomy research manager. "Resistant populations tend to grow on a logarithmic scale, growing at a low level then exploding all at once. So it may seem like resistant weeds are a new problem, but they probably have been in the field for a few years as weeds uncontrolled by herbicide treatments. This makes it all the more important to keep an eye out for weeds that aren't being controlled."
Weed resistance to herbicides has been a management challenge for decades. Growers have widely embraced the use of herbicide tolerance technology not only because of its convenient, effective and economical weed control, but also because many weed species were no longer being controlled by other herbicides.
Unfortunately, the long-term use of any single herbicide mode of action can lead to the development of weed resistance, and now glyphosate-resistant weeds have become an issue as well. The continued widespread use of glyphosate makes it likely the problem will only get worse.
To date, glyphosate resistance has been confirmed in 21 weed species worldwide, including 12 in North America, with glyphosate-resistant weed populations identified in 25 states, according to the International Survey of Herbicide Resistant Weeds.
To help combat this issue, Pioneer agronomists recommend growers not only scout their fields, but also adopt integrated management practices that can help minimize risk while providing growers with a more consistent, effective weed control program.
This includes rotating their herbicide modes of action, focusing on herbicide efficacy, persistence and frequency of application. In addition, agronomic practices such as crop rotation and tillage can decrease herbicide selection intensity by reducing weed populations, depending on the weed species.
"Another good practice, if you know there are resistant populations in the area, is to clean tillage and harvest equipment when moving between fields," Jeschke says. "Weed seeds carried by machinery can spread resistance from field to field."
Because weed management can be a localized issue, Pioneer also has equipped its local sales professionals with information on managing resistant species within a specific geographic area, as well as training modules to help build knowledge.
"In cases where resistance already exists, the way to manage the problem really depends on your situation," Jeschke says. "Growers may need to look to a different herbicide. In corn, there are still some options available; however, soybeans can be more difficult, especially postemergence, as a lot of glyphosate-resistant weed species are resistant to other herbicides as well."
Development of new herbicide-resistant technologies in crops may provide new options for dealing with herbicide-resistant weeds. That said, overreliance on any new technology in the absence of appropriate weed management practices is likely to create new sources of resistance in weeds.
For more information, check out the Agronomy Research Summary on "Glyphosate Resistance in Weeds" at pioneer.com or contact your local Pioneer sales professional.
Pioneer Hi-Bred, a DuPont business headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, is the world's leading developer and supplier of advanced plant genetics, providing high-quality seeds to farmers in more than 90 countries. Pioneer provides agronomic support and services to help increase farmer productivity and profitability and strives to develop sustainable agricultural systems for people everywhere. Science with Service Delivering Success.
DuPont is a science-based products and services company. Founded in 1802, DuPont puts science to work by creating sustainable solutions essential to a better, safer, healthier life for people everywhere. Operating in more than 90 countries, DuPont offers a wide range of innovative products and services for markets including agriculture and food; building and construction; communications; and transportation.


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About Self-Managed DNSSEC
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Looking for Product Support?
DNSSEC adds a level of security to your domain name's DNS. In the Domain Manager, you can manage Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) for the following domain name extensions:
- .com
- .net
- .biz
- .us
- .org
- .eu
- .se
- .at
- .au, .com.au, .net.au, .org.au
- .co.uk, .me.uk, and .org.uk
- .co, .com.co, .net.co, and .nom.co
See DNSSEC FAQ for more information.
You can activate DNSSEC security information for your domain name under the following conditions:
- The domain name is registered through us.
- The registry for the domain name must support DNSSEC for the domain name's extension.
- The domain name must use custom nameservers, and you have control over signing your zones. That is, it is not hosted, parked, or forwarding with us.
- The domain name must be in active status, not flagged by the registry, and have valid Whois data.
NOTE: If you have a Premium DNS account, you can take advantage of our fully managed DNSSEC services. For more information, see Enabling DNSSEC in Your Premium DNS Account and Enabling DNSSEC in Your Premium DNS Account.
To enable DNSSEC, the zone must be digitally signed by your DNS server. During signing, you create a Delegation of Signing (DS) record. Each DS record contains information the registry uses to authenticate using DNSSEC. You use the DS Record and the information it contains to enable DNSSEC for your zone.
You can define up to 10 DS records for each domain name.
NOTE: For domain names with a .eu extension, you can define a maximum of four DS records. For domain names with a .uk extension (.co.uk, .me.uk, and .org.uk), you can define a maximum of eight DS records.
The domain name extension determines the DNSSEC information you supply for each domain name. Here are the available DNSSEC fields and their usage by domain name extension:
|DNSSEC Field
|.com / .net / .biz / .us / .uk / .co
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|Digest Type
|Max Signature Life
|Not Supported
|Not Supported
|Not Supported
|Not Supported
|Not Supported
|Not Supported
|Public Key
|Not Supported
|Not Supported
The following information is required to create a DS record for your domain name:
- Key Tag — This is an integer value less than 65536 used to identify the DNSSEC record for the domain name.
- Algorithm — This identifies the cryptographic algorithm used to generate the signature.
- Digest Type — This identifies the algorithm used to construct the digest.
- Max Signature Life — This field specifies the validity period for the signature. The value is expressed in seconds. You can use any integer value larger than zero.
- Flags — This identifies the key type; either a Zone-Signing Key or a Key-Signing Key.
- Protocol — This value identifies the protocol to be used for the electronic key matchup.
- Digest — This is the digest integer value.
- Public Key — Registries use this value to encrypt DS records. Decryption requires a matching public key.
Related Material:DNSSEC FAQ
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Permission requests protect sensitive information available from a device and should only be used when access to information is necessary for the functioning of your app. This document provides tips on ways you might be able to achieve the same (or better) functionality without requiring access to such information; it is not an exhaustive discussion of how permissions work in the Android operating system.
For a more general look at Android permissions, please see Permissions overview. For details on how to work with permissions in your code, see Requesting app permissions.
Tenets of working with Android permissions
We recommend following these tenets when working with Android permissions:
#1: Only use the permissions necessary for your app to work. Depending on how you are using the permissions, there may be another way to do what you need (system intents, identifiers, backgrounding for phone calls) without relying on access to sensitive information.
#2: Pay attention to permissions required by libraries. When you include a library, you also inherit its permission requirements. You should be aware of what you're including, the permissions they require, and what those permissions are used for.
#3: Be transparent. When you make a permissions request, be clear about what you're accessing, and why, so users can make informed decisions. Make this information available alongside the permission request including install, runtime, or update permission dialogues.
#4: Make system accesses explicit. Providing continuous indications when you access sensitive capabilities (for example, the camera or microphone) makes it clear to users when you're collecting data and avoids the perception that you're collecting data surreptitiously.
The remaining sections of this guide elaborate on these rules in the context of developing Android applications.
Permissions in Android 6.0+
Android 6.0 Marshmallow introduced a new permissions model that lets apps request permissions from the user at runtime, rather than prior to installation. Apps that support the new model request permissions when the app actually requires the services or data protected by the services. While this doesn't (necessarily) change overall app behavior, it does create a few changes relevant to the way sensitive user data is handled:
Increased situational context: Users are prompted at runtime, in the context of your app, for permission to access the functionality covered by those permission groups. Users are more sensitive to the context in which the permission is requested, and if there's a mismatch between what you are requesting and the purpose of your app, it's even more important to provide detailed explanation to the user as to why you're requesting the permission; whenever possible, you should provide an explanation of your request both at the time of the request and in a follow-up dialog if the user denies the request.
Greater flexibility in granting permissions: Users can deny access to individual permissions at the time they're requested and in settings, but they may still be surprised when functionality is broken as a result. It's a good idea to monitor how many users are denying permissions (e.g. using Google Analytics) so that you can either refactor your app to avoid depending on that permission or provide a better explanation of why you need the permission for your app to work properly. You should also make sure that your app handles exceptions created when users deny permission requests or toggle off permissions in settings.
Increased transactional burden: Users will be asked to grant access for permission groups individually and not as a set. This makes it extremely important to minimize the number of permissions you're requesting because it increases the user burden for granting permissions and increases the probability that at least one of the requests will be denied.
Permissions that require becoming a default handler
Some apps depend on access to sensitive user information related to call logs and SMS messages. If you want to request the permissions specific to call logs and SMS messages and publish your app to the Play Store, you must prompt the user to set your app as the default handler for a core system function before requesting these runtime permissions.
For more information on default handlers, including guidance on showing a default handler prompt to users, see the guide on permissions used only in default handlers.
Avoid requesting unnecessary permissions
Every time you ask for a permission, you force the user to make a decision. You should minimize the number of times you make these requests. If the user is running Android 6.0 (API level 23) or later, every time the user tries some new app feature that requires a permission, the app has to interrupt the user's work with a permission request. If the user is running an earlier version of Android, the user has to grant every one of the app's permissions when installing the app; if the list is too long or seems inappropriate, the user may decide not to install your app at all. For these reasons, you should minimize the number of permissions your app needs.
This section provides alternatives to common use-cases that will help you limit the number of permission requests you make. Since the number and type of user-surfaced permissions requested affects downloads compared to other similar apps requesting fewer permissions, it's best to avoid requesting permissions for unnecessary functionality.
Use an intent instead
In many cases, you can choose between two ways for your app to perform a task. Your app ask for permission to perform the task itself or it can use an intent to have another app perform the task.
For example, suppose your app needs to be able to take pictures with the
device camera. Your app can request the
CAMERA permission, which allows your app
to access the camera directly. Your app would then use the camera APIs to
control the camera and take a picture. This approach gives your app full
control over the photography process, and lets you incorporate the camera UI
into your app.
However, if your requirement for access to user data is infrequent — in other words, it's not unacceptably disruptive for the user to be presented with a runtime dialogue each time you need to access data — you can use an intent based request. Android provides some system intents that applications can use without requiring permissions because the user chooses what, if anything, to share with the app at the time the intent based request is issued.
For example, an intent action type of
can be used to capture images or videos without directly using the Camera object (or
requiring the permission). In this case, the system intent will ask for the
user's permission on your behalf every time an image is captured.
Similarly, if you need to make a phone call, access the user's contacts, and so on, you can do that by creating an appropriate intent, or you can request the permission and access the appropriate objects directly. There are advantages and disadvantages to each approach.
If you use permissions:
- Your app has full control over the user experience when you perform the operation. However, such broad control adds to the complexity of your code, since you need to design an appropriate UI.
- The user is prompted to give permission once, either at run time or at install time (depending on the user's Android version). After that, your app can perform the operation without requiring additional interaction from the user. However, if the user doesn't grant the permission (or revokes it later on), your app loses the ability to perform the operation at all.
If you use an intent:
- You do not have to design the UI for the operation. The app that handles the intent provides the UI.
- The user can use their preferred app for the task. For example, the user can select their favorite photo app to take a picture.
- If the user does not have a default app for the operation, the system prompts the user to choose an app. If the user does not designate a default handler, they may have to go through an extra dialog every time they perform the operation.
Don't overwhelm the user
If the user is running Android 6.0 (API level 23) or later, the user has to grant your app its permissions while they are running the app. If you confront the user with a lot of requests for permissions at once, you may overwhelm the user and cause them to quit your app. Instead, you should ask for permissions as you need them.
In some cases, one or more permissions might be absolutely essential to your
app. It might make sense to ask for all of those permissions as soon as the
app launches. For example, if you make a photography app, the app would need
access to the device camera. When the user launches the app for the first
time, they won't be surprised to be asked for permission to use the camera.
But if the same app also had a feature to share photos with the user's
contacts, you probably should not ask for the
READ_CONTACTS permission at first
launch. Instead, wait until the user tries to use the "sharing" feature and
ask for the permission then.
If your app provides a tutorial, it may make sense to request the app's essential permissions at the end of the tutorial sequence.
Pause media after losing audio focus
In this case, your application needs to go into the background when the user gets a phone call and refocus only once the call stops.
The common approach in these cases - for example, a media player muting or
pausing during a phone call - is to listen for changes in the call state
PhoneStateListener or listening for the broadcast of
android.intent.action.PHONE_STATE. The problem with this
solution is that it requires the
READ_PHONE_STATE permission,
which forces the user to grant access to a wide cross section of sensitive
data such as their device and SIM hardware IDs and the phone number of the
incoming call. Additionally, the
LISTEN_CELL_LOCATION and
LISTEN_CELL_INFO events require a location permission when an
app runs on Android 10 (API level 29) or higher (in particular,
ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION if the app targets Android 10
or higher).
You can detect whether a user is in a phone call without
READ_PHONE_STATE or the
permissions by requesting
AudioFocus for your app, which
doesn't require explicit permissions (because it does not access sensitive
information). Simply put the code required to background your audio in the
onAudioFocusChange() event handler and it will run automatically
when the OS shifts its audio focus. More detailed documentation on how to do
this can be found here.
Determine the device your instance is running on
In this case, you need a unique identifier to determine which device the instance of your app is running on.
Applications may have device-specific preferences or messaging (e.g., saving
a device-specific playlist for a user in the cloud so that they can have a
different playlist for their car and at home). A common solution is to
leverage device identifiers such as
Device IMEI, but this
requires the
Device ID and call information
permission group (
PHONE in M+). It also uses an identifier which
cannot be reset and is shared across all apps.
There are two alternatives to using these types of identifiers:
- Use the
com.google.android.gms.iidInstanceID API.
getInstance(Context context).getID()will return a unique device identifier for your application instance. The result is an app instance scoped identifier that can be used as a key when storing information about the app and is reset if the user re-installs the app.
- Create your own identifier that's scoped to your app's storage using basic
system functions like
Create a unique identifier for advertising or user analytics
In this case, you need a unique identifier for building a profile for users who are not signed in to your app (e.g., for ads targeting or measuring conversions).
Building a profile for advertising and user analytics sometimes requires an
identifier that is shared across other applications. Common solutions for
this involve leveraging device identifiers such as
Device IMEI,
which requires the
Device ID
and call information
permission group (
PHONE in API level 23+) and cannot be reset by
the user. In any of these cases, in addition to using a non-resettable
identifier and requesting a permission that might seem unusual to users, you
will also be in violation of the Play Developer
Program Policies.
Unfortunately, in these cases using the
com.google.android.gms.iid InstanceID API or system functions to
create an app-scoped ID are not appropriate solutions because the ID may need
to be shared across apps. An alternative solution is to use the
Advertising Identifier available from the
AdvertisingIdClient.Info class via the
method. You can create an
AdvertisingIdClient.Info object using
getAdvertisingIdInfo(Context) method and call the
getId() method to use the identifier. Note that this
method is blocking, so you should not call it from the main
thread; a detailed explanation of this method is available here.
Know the libraries you're working with
Sometimes permissions are required by the libraries you use in your app. For
example, ads and analytics libraries may require access to the
LOCATION permissions group to implement the required
functionality. But from the user's point of view, the permission request comes
from your app, not the library.
Just as users select apps that use fewer permissions for the same
functionality, developers should review their libraries and select
third-party SDKs that aren't using unnecessary permissions. For example, if
you're using a library that provides location functionality, make sure you
aren't requesting the
FINE_LOCATION permission unless you're
using location-based targeting functionality.
Limit background access to location
When your app is running in the background, access to location should be critical to the app's core functionality and show a clear benefit to users.
Explain why you need permissions
The permissions dialog shown by the system when you call
requestPermissions() says what permission your app wants, but doesn't say
why. In some cases, the user may find that puzzling. It's a good idea to
explain to the user why your app wants the permissions before calling
Research shows that users are much more comfortable with permissions requests if they know why the app needs them. A user study showed that:
...a user's willingness to grant a given permission to a given mobile app is strongly influenced by the purpose associated with such a permission. For instance a user's willingness to grant access to their location will vary based on whether the request is required to support the app's core functionality or whether it is to share this information with an advertising network or an analytics company.1
Based on his group's research, Professor Jason Hong from CMU concluded that, in general:
...when people know why an app is using something as sensitive as their location — for example, for targeted advertising — it makes them more comfortable than when simply told an app is using their location.1
As a result, if you're only using a fraction of the API calls that fall under a permission group, it helps to explicitly list which of those permissions you're using, and why. For example:
- If you're only using coarse location, let the user know this in your app description or in help articles about your app.
If you need access to SMS messages to receive authentication codes that protect the user from fraud, let the user know this in your app description and/or the first time you access the data.
Note: If your app targets Android 8.0 (API level 26) or higher, don't request the
READ_SMSpermission as part of verifying a user's credentials. Instead, generate an app-specific token using
createAppSpecificSmsToken(), then pass this token to another app or service that can send a verification SMS message.
Under certain conditions, it's also advantageous to let users know about sensitive data accesses in real-time. For example, if you're accessing the camera or microphone, it's usually a good idea to let the user know with a notification icon somewhere in your app, or in the notification tray (if the application is running in the background), so it doesn't seem like you're collecting data surreptitiously.
Ultimately, if you need to request a permission to make something in your app work, but the reason is not clear to the user, find a way to let the user know why you need the most sensitive permissions.
Test for both permissions models
Beginning with Android 6.0 (API level 23), users grant and revoke app permissions at run time, instead of doing so when they install the app. As a result, you'll have to test your app under a wider range of conditions. Prior to Android 6.0, you could reasonably assume that if your app is running at all, it has all the permissions it declares in the app manifest. Beginning with Android 6.0 the user can turn permissions on or off for any app, even an app that targets API level 22 or lower. You should test to ensure your app functions correctly whether or not it has any permissions.
The following tips will help you find permissions-related code problems on devices running API level 23 or higher:
- Identify your app's current permissions and the related code paths.
- Test user flows across permission-protected services and data.
- Test with various combinations of granted or revoked permissions. For
example, a camera app might list
READ_CONTACTS, and
ACCESS_FINE_LOCATIONin its manifest. You should test the app with each of these permissions turned on and off, to make sure the app can handle all permission configurations gracefully.
- Use the adb tool to manage
permissions from the command line:
- List permissions and status by group:
$ adb shell pm list permissions -d -g
- Grant or revoke one or more permissions:
$ adb shell pm [grant|revoke] <permission-name> ...
- List permissions and status by group:
- Analyze your app for services that use permissions.
Additional resources
- Material Design guidelines for Android permissions
- Android Marshmallow 6.0: Asking For Permission: This video explains the Android runtime permission model and the right way to ask users for permissions.
- Explain why the app needs permissions
- Best practices for unique identifiers
[1] Modeling Users' Mobile App Privacy Preferences: Restoring Usability in a Sea of Permission Settings, by J. Lin B. Liu, N. Sadeh and J. Hong. In Proceedings of SOUPS 2014.


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HAGERSTOWN — A Mississippi truck driver who caused four collisions and hit a police cruiser during a drug-fueled chase through Maryland on Interstate 81 was sentenced Monday to 21 years in prison after he thanked authorities for forcing him to stop.
Thomas L. McNeel, 43, of Pontotoc, Miss., apologized to his victims, including a 24-year-old woman who suffered a lingering back injury.
"I assure you it wouldn't have happened if I had used better judgment and not used drugs and stuff," McNeel told Washington County Circuit Judge M. Kenneth Long.
McNeel was convicted in December of four counts of second-degree assault and seven other offenses for the Dec. 20, 2010, rampage. The judge ordered him to make restitution of more than $11,000 to two of the drivers whose vehicles were damaged along the 12-mile Maryland stretch of the four-lane highway.
The chase began in West Virginia and ended near Greencastle, Pa.
McNeel testified at his trial he had used methamphetamine and a synthetic drug known as "bath salts" that morning. He claimed he couldn't remember the chase.
Deputy State's Attorney Joseph Michael asked Long to sentence McNeel to the maximum of 40 years for deliberately aiming his 18-wheeler at four police cars during a chase at speeds as high as 80 mph.
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Billy Eichner is currently in the middle of the third season of Billy on the Street, and in spite of the show's insane pace, he shows no signs of slowing down (either in terms of his output or the speed of his running). This season he's already destroyed a car with Lindsay Lohan, asked strangers if they would have sex with Paul Rudd (while standing alongside Paul Rudd), mourned the loss of How I Met Your Mother by screaming at people with Neil Patrick Harris, played "Ask a Squirter," and much more. Vulture asked Julie Klausner, who is a friend of Billy's as well as head writer and co-executive producer of Billy on the Street, to reign him in. They discuss the show's evolution, working with Lindsay Lohan, what he had to cut to get Fuse to agree to "Ask a Squirter," Mayim Bialik, why the gay community hasn't embraced him, and much more.
I think we should start with the same questions that Seth Meyers asked Neal Brennan.
Yes, please.
Okay. Hi, Neal. I feel like we should start with the full disclosure that we're excellent friends and then you say … who cares? If people don't know that we're friends, they can find out. By the way, I'm having a little sugar crash, so I apologize in advance if I'm a little loopy.
That's fine. I'm not offended.
The Lindsay Lohan episode. What have you heard since it aired? What was the feedback?
I think overall the feedback was good. You know, she's Lindsay. She brings a lot of baggage to the table, but I thought — Hey, Julie, full disclosure, you write on Billy on the Street …
Yeah yeah yeah.
I think that we did a good job of making her look good and making her look a lot better than she has come across in a long time. I was really happy that we did something with her that did not reference her personal issues or her reality show or any of her demons or any of that baggage. We brought her into the Billy on the Street world the way that we would with anyone. I'm happy with it. What really matters is that Mayim Bialik tweeted us.
Mayim Bialik tweeted that she wants her money.
In the Lindsay Lohan video, Lindsay and I destroy a car based on our anger about How I Met Your Mother ending after only nine seasons. We put a dollar value on different parts of the car and at the end we totaled up the dollar value for each part of the car that we sufficiently destroyed and we said that we're going to send it to Mayim Bialik because she's on the Big Bang Theory and they haven't been canceled, so out of spite we're going to send this money to her. And, I guess she saw the video.
And by the way, it was for $500.
$500, yeah. And then I looped you in and my best friend Robin, because Robin and I were texting, shocked that Mayim Bialik had responded, and then Robin asked me to ask her if she would split the check with Iris the Handwalking Queer from Beaches. And Mayim responded again with a still photo of her and Iris the Handwalking Queer and said that she would in fact split the check with Iris the Handwalking Queer.
It's so good that we got this done before Shabbos, because then she wouldn't be tweeting us at all.
Well, she tweeted about Billy on the Street and then I was so mad because she immediately tweeted a second tweet, which shoved our tweet down her feed. Her next tweet was of course about her Passover plans.
What about the segment "Ask a Squirter"? Do people like "Ask a Squirter"?
Oh my God, "Ask a Squirter" is a triumph. People were so shocked. For the first time ever in three seasons, Fuse ran a parental advisory "this show is for mature audiences only" warning right before the segment — not at the top of the show, but right before the segment. Everyone should know that it was your idea. I have never been more proud. People should also know that woman, Jennifer, admitted within two seconds of me meeting her on the street randomly that she was a squirter, if you gave her enough to drink. She also told me she loved Broadway. Those are the two things she loves to do: squirt and see musicals. She's a woman after our own heart.
Fuse was giving you shit! They wouldn't let you use it at first. You took out "Bob Dylan or Anal Sex?"
Right, so Fuse thought that the segment was very funny. But they got a little worried. We had another game in the show, which hopefully will end up online, with Neil Patrick Harris, called "Bob Dylan or Anal Sex?," which you also wrote.
Yep, that was mine.
It's the silliest game and Neil loved doing it. I actually sent him a list of games to see which ones he wanted to play on the show and one of the ones he chose was "Bob Dylan or Anal Sex?"
By the way, he was just pitch perfect.
He was. So "Bob Dylan or Anal Sex?" we played with Neil and we also played "Racist or Vegetarian?" which is the game that ended up on the program, because Fuse was very worried about having an anal sex game, and it was a game where Neil kept saying the words anal sex over and over and over again.
That was what was funny about it.
That leading right into a six-minute segment where I talked to a middle-aged woman about how much she squirts. That freaked out Fuse and I had to really fight for squirting woman, so I had to replace "Bob Dylan or Anal Sex?" with "Racist or Vegetarian?" which is also a great game. It's not "Bob Dylan or Anal Sex?" but we needed "Ask a Squirter" on the show.
I feel like there's a think piece lurking in the bushes based on the popularity of the show and about your interactions with people of color. And I fear for that day because I'm not crazy about making people unfunny by writing about it in a particular way. I think that it's sort of an age in which people pick apart young white people's comedies for not having diversity. You have a lot of black fans. There are a lot of black people on the show. It's a celebration of diversity, if I may.
Yeah, I agree. I love that about the show and I love that, not to toot our own horn, that we have women like Jennifer [the squirter] who look like middle-aged women. It's actually pretty rare to see women, especially of a certain age, that look like women do in real life. Even on reality shows, those women are getting tons of plastic surgery.
I loved it when we had our premiere at the Beacon in New York. Fifteen hundred people show up and so many people commented afterwards about how diverse the audience was. The streets of New York are diverse, but when you go into a Broadway show, unless Denzel Washington is in it, or Fantasia's in it, it's a lot of old white people and gay men. Our pop cultural likes and dislikes are still very segregated, and that is not true of Billy on the Street.
It's also nice that you can make jokes about stereotypes that a lot of other shows can't. You touched Clarice's hair without asking.
Yeah, and a black woman on Twitter got really mad at me about that. She said, "You do not touch a black woman's hair." I mean, I'm just going with the flow.
She did not seem to mind. I just think that in a world in which everyone's so uptight about talking about race and people being overweight. Like the Adele game [in which Billy asked people if they thought she was lactose intolerant] was in the first episode, is that right?
Yes, I love that game.
And that was also something that was a comment on the show as well as the world.
I agree. That game made people uncomfortable, in a good way. There is such a double standard. Why is it bad to talk about the fact that she's a little overweight? She's still beautiful and insanely talented and successful. There are certain people you're allowed to pick apart and certain people you're not. Honestly, Adele has made certain people so much money that I think her publicist just makes sure she's very protected in that way — in a way that some overweight reality stars or overweight actress who's not quite as relevant isn't.
Where's your GLAAD award? You don't get enough appreciation from the gay community for representing somebody on television that isn't gay in a very specific sitcom way.
I get a variety of reactions from the gay community, verging on zero reaction. I've never even been invited to the GLAAD awards, to sit in the audience. I don't necessarily care, and I'm sure they will one day and it will be fine, but I've never been invited to anything like that.
Why do you think that is?
There's still a lack of awareness about the show in certain mainstream circles, and outside of the independently, culturally minded urban gay man, the general gay population is out there watching Bravo, and I'm not on Bravo. I'm actually in the comedy community much more than I am in the gay community at this point in terms of my public persona — I don't mean in my personal life. And I think the comedy community is largely a heterosexual community, although it's getting a little bit more gay. The Will Ferrells, the Adam McKays, the Conan O'Briens, the Jimmy Fallons of the world have been much quicker to embrace me. Other than Andy Cohen, who was a friend of mine going back a few years. Logo saw my live shows for years before I got Billy on the Street and never wanted to do anything with me other than maybe write on one of their shows, but they did not want me on-camera.
You've been making these videos for ten years. I was wondering about the origin story of the show. You have the man on the street videos, but whose idea was it to turn it into a game show?
That was an idea that I had had for years, that I had talked to various other production companies about. My man on the street videos always played very well universally. So for years we thought about this, beyond just trying to be a correspondent on somebody's show. Which, by the way, no one was offering, either. I would have loved to be a Daily Show correspondent.
How many times did you audition to be a Daily Show correspondent? I auditioned like five times.
I auditioned twice. I went in once personally and then a year later I heard they were casting a correspondent and I sent in a video of myself, as if I was talking to Jon Stewart, and never heard a damn thing back.
I just want to mention, I went in for a bunch of auditions and got a callback and I wrote my own thing. This was when I was really trying to be on-camera, so I was on these crash diets. I found out I didn't get it and then a week later they cast Josh Gad.
Julie, story of my life.
I was like, "This is why I haven't been eating bread for like a month? The fucking Spelling Bee fatty? Are you kidding me?"
You know, let me say one other thing because I'm thinking about it now, in terms of the idea. I did not have the leverage at the time to go in and show a five-minute YouTube video and say, "Hey, I'm just going to walk around the street in my own format and talk about whatever I want, and that'll be the whole show." That wouldn't have gotten sold, even if those videos were funny. It needed a bigger format and someone pointed me in the direction of Cash Cab.
Had you seen Cash Cab before?
Yeah, of course, I knew what it was. I had never thought of my work in relation to Cash Cab, but once I started watching, I thought, There's something here. My agent set me up with producers, but no one could really put their finger on how it would work, but I knew it was a subjective game show. But for some reason — for legal reasons and other reasons — no one seemed to think that would be sustainable.
Even after going into our first season, when we were already filming, I wasn't quite sure what the format would be until we got into the editing room and I thought, Oh, a mix of shorter games and longer games, and the fast stuff I do on the street will become its own lightning round. And the prizes wouldn't be so cool, because we couldn't afford to give people good prizes. I thought it was funny how silly and banal the prizes were.
Yeah, a dollar in New York City.
A dollar to have to deal with me. We didn't even have a pilot. We went right to season, so that first season, we really figured out what the show was. You can see a big evolution from season one to season two in consistency and knowing what we do and what we do well. And there was another evolution, creatively, with a bit more experimentation from season two to this season.
There's no way this show would be as good as it is if you weren't from New York. I wonder if you can explain that to people who don't get New York, or who don't like New York, or who have never been. It's almost like the opposite of the Friends version of New York that we grew up with.
Right. This is the real New York. That's like how I was saying earlier with that woman, Jennifer, looks like a real, middle-aged New Yorker.
And Elena, I swear to God, there's no one more New York than Elena. Putting Elena on television is maybe something people from other places don't get. They just think she's a crazy character, but I can't express how specific it is to New York City, and I don't have to, because it's just there, it's different. It's different than Jimmy Kimmel using his security guard, it's different than Chelsea Handler using her little person for God knows what reason. Elena is a star is because you made her a star.
Elena's sister sent me a Facebook message today, because Elena obviously does not have a computer, as she has said a million times, but Lila Downs, the singer that Elena's obsessed with, is playing Town Hall, and Elena wants to go with me. I've said it before, if Billy on the Street is about anything — and, as you say, there might be a think piece or two coming our way that we just have to tolerate — but it is about people like Elena, because she is funnier, naturally, than 95 percent of the sitcom actors and comedians that you see on television. And I literally just ran into her randomly and started playing "Quiz in the Face" with her, like I've done with a million other people on 23rd Street, and now she's just a part of our lives and a huge part of the history of the show, and it's kind of magical in a strange way.
She made you break for the first time on-camera.
Yeah, because Elena is just so goddamn funny. I'm usually really good at not breaking. I've had a lot of ridiculous interactions on the street and the voice in my head says, "Don't break, because this could be really good and you'll ruin it if you break." I try to hold on tight, but with that I just — When she said "whertle" I just couldn't …
Instead of Weird Al Yankovic. And then Weird Al Yankovic, God bless him, tweeted out that video and the whole thing just came full circle in this bizarre weird way. I just can't believe that Weird Al Yankovic watched Elena.
If found comedy is as satisfying as we've learned it can be, then maybe Elena is to you what Bethenny Frankel is to Andy Cohen. Or maybe Ramona Singer.
Maybe Elena should start a line of margaritas.
Well, she's in Mexico already, right?
She does spend a lot of time in Mexico making ethnographic jewelry.


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By Barbara Kollmeyer, MarketWatch
MADRID (MarketWatch) — European stocks ended higher on Friday and rose for the week, with Swatch Group AG and Deutsche Lufthansa AG among the shares posting the biggest gains.
The Stoxx Europe 600 XX:SXXP +0.47% rose 0.5% to end at 329.95, leaving it up 0.7% for the week. The benchmark pared some intraday gains after data showed the U.S. economy added 74,000 jobs in December, the smallest rise since the beginning of 2011. The more optimistic forecasters expected a rise of 200,000 or higher.
The unemployment rate fell to 6.7% as more people dropped out of the workforce.
Chinese cars face roadblocks at home and abroad
The Detroit auto show starts next week—and for the first time since 2006, no Chinese car maker will be exhibiting its wares.
Deutsche Lufthansa DE:LHA +8.47%jumped nearly 9% after the German airline said it sees lower fuel and restructuring costs for 2014.
Shares of Swiss watch group SwatchCH:UHR +3.55% rose 3.6%. Swatch missed its 2013 gross-sales target, but said2014 was looking positive and all brands had gotten off to a strong start in January. Related stocks also rose, with luxury-eye-wear company Luxottica Group SpA IT:LUX +1.98% up 2% and luxury-goods group Compagnie Financiere Richemont SA CH:CFR +3.97% up 4%.
Metro AG DE:MEO +1.69% shares rose 2.8%. Media reports pointed to a report in Platow Brief, a business newsletter, that said Franz Haniel & Cie, which has a 30% stake in the German retailer, may push it to sell a couple of units. Metro's chief executive officer reportedly opposes those sales, and the report said his contract may not be renewed this year. A spokesman for the companies could not be reached for comment.
The European Central Bank left monetary policy unchanged on Thursday and its president, Mario Draghi, pledged to take further easing action if needed, but investors were left disappointed by no concrete plans from Draghi to curb the deflation risk for the euro zone.
Stocks in Europe have been drawing more investors and borrowing costs for peripheral areas have been declining on the view that the economic recovery is taking hold. European stocks were underpinned Friday by data that showed French industrial production rose 1.3% in November, well beyond what forecasters had projected.
"I see the move today as related to two things," said Stephen Pope, managing partner at Spotlight Ideas. "Yesterday, the ECB stayed by the mantra that in the medium term, the economy will make positive improvements. I find the more compelling factor being earnings and outlooks that have been issued by several major names in the past few days." Companies such as Swatch are an example of that, he said.
Gainers far outweighed decliners, but Carlsberg AS DK:CARLB -0.60% was among the stocks moving south. It dropped 0.6% after Goldman Sachs cut the brewer to sell from neutral, citing dilutive mergers and acquisition risk, and exposure to structurally weak European economies.
The German DAX 30 index DX:DAX +0.55% DX:DAX +0.55%DX:DAX +0.55% DX:DAX +0.55% rose 0.6% to 9,473.24, while the French CAC 40 index FR:PX1 +0.60% added 0.6% to 4,250.60.
The U.K.'s FTSE 100 index UK:UKX +0.73% rose 0.7% to 6,739.94 as HSBC Holdings PLC UK:HSBA +1.12% HSBC +1.07% gained 1.1%.
Among drug stocks, Novartis AG CH:NOVN +1.18% NVS -0.02% gained 1.2% and Roche Holding Ltd. CH:ROG +0.51% RHHBY -0.48% rose 0.5%.
Shares of BP PLC BP +0.39% UK:BP +0.34% shook off a downgrade from Exane BNP Paribas, which cut it to neutral from overweight, along with Total SA TOT +1.02% FR:FP +0.55% . BP rose 0.3% and Total added 0.6% as oil prices pushed higher.
Royal Dutch Shell PLC RDS.A +1.80% UK:RDSA +2.10% gained 2.1% after Exane analysts lifted shares to outperform from neutral.
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You might have had a peaceful day here, but up above, some serious solar violence just went down: an ejection of scorching plasma just erupted from the Sun. Enough to burn its away across ten Earths.
The eruption is what's known as a coronal mass ejection, or CME, when the Sun's magnetic fields force out an unfathomably large amount of unfathomably hot gas: "A large CME can contain a billion tons of matter that can be accelerated to several million miles per hour in a spectacular explosion. Solar material streams out through the interplanetary medium, impacting any planet or spacecraft in its path," explains NASA, who told us that this particular blast extended to the far reaches of our solar system.
But this mega-explosion didn't just reach far in one direction—ten earths is nothing. NASA's Karen Fox said the "height" of the CME (from our perspective) was "25 earth radii high"—198,000 miles. What you see above is the blast before it detached itself from the Sun, rolling outward and onward. Wear your sunscreen. [NASA]


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There is a great post right now over at Big A Little a about how posters around the blogosphere use notebooks. The comments provide some great reading, and I am happy to learn I am not the only person out there who snaps up notebooks every chance I get. At any given time, I have notebooks everywhere. You can find them on my nightstand, in my purse, in my schoolbag, in the car, on my desk, and all over the rest of my house.
My personal favorites are Moleskine notebooks. I have a couple in my purse, the small handheld size. I have a few full-sized Moleskines in my school bag as we speak. I love them for their history (Hemingway!?) and their portability. I also love the variety of notebooks available. I need to use lined paper, as I have horrid handwriting. The lines force me to write semi-legibly. 🙂 I do wish I could find some Moleskine notebooks with colored covers. I adore pretty covers, and the only qualm I have with Moleskine is that the plain black covers don't excite me!
I also love those spiral notebooks you can find at the bookstore. They have lined paper and the edges are multi-colored. I tend to use them for school and jotting down ideas for planning and for upcoming units. When it comes to school, I am also the Post-it queen. I am constantly writing on the lined notepads, super-sticky, for sure, in all different colors. Anytime I find post-its on sale, I grab as many as I can carry and run to the checkout. There might be something wrong with me….
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(St. Croix, USVI) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has begun a three-month study of air pollution from the HOVENSA oil refinery and other sources of air pollution near the facility in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. HOVENSA is the second largest oil refinery in the United States. EPA has installed air monitoring equipment at three locations where the biggest impacts of air pollution from HOVENSA and other facilities would be expected. The Agency will measure levels of a class of air pollutants known as volatile organic compounds (VOCs), some of which have serious health effects.
Many VOCs are known to cause cancer in animals. Some cause cancer in people, while other VOCs have no known health effects. Like other pollutants, the extent and nature of the health effect will depend on many factors, including the level and length of exposure.
"The air monitoring study in the community near the HOVENSA refinery is another important component of EPA's ongoing evaluation of toxic air pollutants that could be affecting the health of people who live in the area," said Judith Enck, EPA Regional Administrator. "EPA is examining all aspects of HOVENSA's operations to ensure that people's health is protected and that the facility is in compliance with all environmental laws."
The community air toxic monitoring study will provide information to EPA and local residents on whether air quality near the monitoring locations poses health concerns and to guide the strategies for reducing local air pollution. EPA will use the information gathered in the study to help determine next steps, which could include additional monitoring or enforcement actions where appropriate. The goal is to protect public health by preventing exposure to pollution from the facility.
EPA undertook the air monitoring study in response to community concerns about the health impacts of releases of chemicals into the air from the HOVENSA facility and other nearby sources of air pollution. EPA selected three representative areas likely to be impacted by air pollution from HOVENSA's oil refinery and other facilities. The VOC air monitors are located at Central High School RFD #2 Kingshill, Bethlehem Village, and the Federal Aviation Administration's facilities at Mannings Bay in western St. Croix. Particulate matter on the island is monitored by the Virgin Islands Department of Natural Resources and sulfur dioxide from HOVENSA is monitored by the refinery, and that information will also be reviewed.
Following standard EPA scientific protocols, air quality monitors at the three locations will collect outdoor air samples over three months to provide a representative snapshot of air quality in the community. Once monitoring is complete, the results from all of the locations will be analyzed to evaluate the potential for health concerns related to long-term exposure to these pollutants. The preliminary monitoring data is expected to be made public by late spring and a final report should be completed by the summer.
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