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TRUCKEE, Calif. – Nov. 21, 2012 – On the heels of last weekend's snowfall and the resort's successful snowmaking efforts, Northstar announced today skiers and riders will be skiing from the top of the mountain for the first time this season starting Thanksgiving Day.
"The combination of recent snowfall and our snowmaking efforts are allowing us to open to the top of the mountain in time for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend," said Bill Rock, Northstar's chief operating officer. "We are committed to consistently delivering the highest quality snow surface in the region, and will continue to open more terrain as conditions permit. We're pleased to be able to offer skiers and riders access to eight more intermediate and advanced trails on the front side of the mountain starting Thursday."
With the addition of the Comstock Express lift, the resort will be turning seven lifts, providing access to 15 beginner, intermediate and advanced trails with an 18-inch base. The eight trails expected to open on Thanksgiving include East Ridge, Delight, Dutchman, The Chute, Lower Powder Bowl, Tonini's, Lower Grouse Alley and The Flume. The Summit Deck & Grille will also open for the season, allowing guests to dine at the top of the mountain. Daily ski school instruction and on-mountain dining at the Big Springs Day Lodge are also available to resort guests.
The Tahoe Local Pass remains unmatched in value, price and experience with access to more than 263 trails, 14 terrain parks and 10,270 acres of some of the best terrain in the world at Northstar, Heavenly and Kirkwood in California and Nevada 7 days-a-week with limited holiday restrictions. For just $459, the Tahoe Local Pass pays for itself after just four days and then passholders are skiing or riding for free the rest of the season. Season passes are on sale until December 2, 2012.
The lowest-price guarantee on lift tickets is available through the PEAKS 3-Day Advance ticket when purchased at least three days in advance online at www.northstarcalifornia.com/tickets or through Vail Resorts Central Reservations. With the PEAKS 3-Day Advance, skiers and riders can save up to 25 percent vs. the window rate.
Shops and restaurants in the Village at Northstar are open, and the resort's new Tavern 6330' recently debuted with a California-fresh twist on American classics, signature drinks for après ski and a bar just steps away from the last run of the day. The resort's 9,000 square foot outdoor skating rink is also open from 12pm-9pm daily (conditions permitting), with skate rentals available for $10.
Those interested in planning a trip to Northstar can take advantage of the 3-2-1 Countdown to December package featuring three nights of lodging, two days of skiing/riding per person, and a $50 resort gift card. This offer is valid daily from December 1-24, 2012 and starts at $89 per person, per night. Some restrictions apply.
For the latest snow conditions and upcoming event information, visit www.NorthstarCalifornia.com or call the snow phone at 530.562.1330.


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An anonymous reader writes "Years of experiments on various types of high-temperature (high-Tc) superconductors — materials that offer hope for energy-saving applications such as zero-loss electrical power lines — have turned up an amazing array of complex behaviors among the electrons that in some instances pair up to carry current with no resistance, and in others stop the flow of current in its tracks. The variety of these exotic electronic phenomena is a key reason it has been so hard to identify unifying concepts to explain why high-Tc superconductivity occurs in these promising materials. Now Séamus Davis, a physicist who's conducted experiments on many of these materials at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Cornell University, and Dung-Hai Lee, a theorist at DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley, postulate a set of key principles for understanding the superconductivity and the variety of 'intertwined' electronic phenomena that applies to all the families of high-Tc superconductors [full academic paper]."

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By: Kara Duffy
Thomasville, GA- Heavy wind and rain ripped through Thomasville Wednesday night, taking down several trees and wiping out power to some parts of town. But, officials say the damage could've been much worse.
"I feel like we dodged a bullet," said Captain Steve Jones with the Thomas County Sheriff's Office. "A lot of the heavy winds and the more substantial rain showers kept north of us. We had some trees down, but luckily we didn't have a real wet winter, or we would have had a lot of trees down."
In the event of severe weather, experts at Stony Creek Landscaping say, the best way to protect your family and your property is to plan ahead.
"Anytime you're doing any landscaping, just look up; a lot of people forget to look up," said Matthew Dukes, the director of landscaping and irrigation at Stony Creek. "Make sure you're not planting underneath the power lines. Make sure you're not planting where the trees are going to have to be pruned real hard off of a power line and also make sure you don't plant too close to the house."
They say it's also important to know how to spot a dead tree.
"You can look at the foliage, if the foliage is turning brown, you pretty much know that the tree has a disease or sickness, and also look at the bark. If the bark is coming off the tree, then there's generally something wrong with the tree then"
When that happens, they say it's best to take the tree down, before Mother Nature does it for you.


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Spring weather often brings a longing to be outdoors and grow things. What better time than now to introduce a young person to the healthy pastime of gardening?
Children ages 9 to 18, who are residents of Henderson County, are invited to enter the 4-H Mini-Gardening Contest for beginning gardeners. Youths prepare a site, then plant and maintain their own gardens at their homes. Winners receive cash awards!
Extension Master Gardeners visit each garden twice during the summer. Contestants are evaluated on garden care and maintenance, produce yields and their garden journals.
4-H Mini-Gardening orientation is at Bullington Gardens, off of Zeb Corn Road, Monday, May 6. Participants will receive seeds, transplants and instructions on how to grow a 10-by-12-foot vegetable garden. There is no fee, but you must pre-register by calling 828-697-4891 and submitting a registration form.
Another growing opportunity for younger youths is 4-H Pumpkin Patch Kids. Children ages 5 to 8 meet at Bullington Gardens, with a parent or grandparent, every other week throughout the summer to grow giant pumpkins and do hands-on learning with horticulture. Orientation will be May 30 at 5 p.m. The $15 fee pays for craft supplies. A registration form is available at henderson.ces.ncsu.edu/4H.
Would you like to acquire some quality plants for your yard or garden? 4-H is selling small fruit plants to raise funds for awards and programs for youth: strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries and asparagus.
All plants are bare root. Pre-ordered plants will be picked up at Henderson's Farms, 705 Tracy Grove Road, on Saturday, April 13, from noon to 4 p.m. Extra plants will be available from 2-4 p.m.
Do you know a student who would like to be a veterinarian? The N.C. State College of Veterinary Medicine Open House will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 27. Location: 4700 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh. For more information: www.cvm.ncsu.edu/news/openhouse/ or call 919.513.6662
All county youth ages 5 to 18 are invited to participate in the 4-H Fashion Revue on May 3, an event which showcases the sewing talent of youth. Any child can enter the show by sewing a garment and submitting the finished item and a completed registration form to the N.C. Cooperative Extension, Henderson County office, in Jackson Park by 5 p.m. Friday, April 19.
Children may have guidance as required for their age and skill level, but the garment must be constructed by the child. Cash prizes will be awarded for the best garments in the Junior (9–13) and Senior (14–18) age divisions.
Do you know a child whose parent or sibling is in the military? Camp Corral is a free camp for children (ages 8-15) in military families. There are three locations in North Carolina this year: Eastern 4-H Environmental Education Conference Center, Columbia, June 23-28; Millstone 4-H Camp, Ellerbe, June 23-28; and Swannanoa 4-H Center, Swannanoa, Aug. 4-9. For details, visit www.campcorral.org/.
Information about many other 4-H camps is available at www.nc4h.org/camps-centers
Quilting supplies, DUPLO blocks needed
Fabric, thread, needles, long straight pins, quilting books and patterns... Please collect these items for Henderson County 4-H to create a quilting basket for the 2014 N.C. 4-H Volunteer Leaders' Conference. Please deliver the items to N.C. Cooperative Extension, Henderson County Center, (across from the ball fields in Jackson Park) by Aug. 1.
The Leaders' Association is also collecting large DUPLO (the big version of LEGO) blocks. There are similar brands that will also work. The blocks will be needed by Nov. 2.
For more information about Henderson County 4-H Clubs and programs, or endowments, please call 828-697-4891 or visit Henderson.ces.ncsu.edu/4-H. Become a fan by clicking "Like" on our Facebook page.
Sue Janowiak is the 4-H Program Assistant for Henderson County. 4-H is the Youth Development Program of Cooperative Extension, a division of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at NCSU.
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Instead of the blogspam link you could have linked the official page [msdn.com] that has far more useful information than useless article on the submitter's blog.
Instead of the blogspam link you could have linked the official page[...]
Are you new here? It's a requirement for Slashdot submissions to have at least two levels of indirection from factual information. The first level of indirection is the addition of a bias and the replacement of actual facts with misinformation -- this would be the referenced "blogspam link". The second level of indirection provides a summarization of misinformation, with the addition of opinions regarding a misquoted section of the misinformation -- this would be the summary. If the second level of indirect
You forgot to mention slathering each level of indirection with ads.
According to www.html5test.com, the other preview is no better than IE 9. Not to say IE 9 is bad, it is just behind Chrome.
With the latest fallout from Firefox 5, I expect IE 10 to become quite popular and as much as we hate Microsoft here, I think the newest releases of IE 9 and IE 10 are tollerable and I may even say cool to develop with.
I am hoping this will change, but IE is very conservative and only tends to support tags and CSS that
They've already updated the score for Preview 2:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 PP 2 231 6
That's 106 higher score than Preview 1.
I eat my words. Preview 1 scored lower than IE 9 (141) when I tested it a week ago. Better but still HTML 5 support is between Firefox 3.6 and 4. Still it is a vast improvement, and any work shifted to the GPU is important for the sub netbook and tablet market with the new CPU/GPU combos. Webworkers and more CSS 3D will surely help.
According to www.html5test.com, the other preview is no better than IE 9.
Possibly the test is incomplete; this page [msdn.com] says theyve improved a number of HTML5 aspects. And this isnt exactly a beta, so one would surmise that theres work yet to be done.
With the latest fallout from Firefox 5,
What fallout would that be? The 5 people on slashdot who think Firefox devs are pegging version numbers for numbers sake (rather than to signify a new development model)? Yea, the average user REALLY cares about that.
Either way I would like to see HTML 5 forms,
According to the page I linked, they are adding that to IE10, as well as other CSS3 tags and a number of other feature
Yea, the average user REALLY cares about that.
No, they just care about the fact that their plugins fail to work after an update because the version number was bumped for no good reason. If Firefox would fix their stupid policy about what you can set maxVersion to there wouldn't be any issues but at the rate they are going to bump version numbers they are going to continuously cause headaches.
If Firefox would use an internal plugin API version number that plugins could check against so that users wouldn't have all their shit broken because FF and plugin devs are throwing hissy fits at each other, the entire problem would be solved.
IE sidesteps this by making sure all three plugins work in the new browser before deploying it.
Im pretty sure PLUGINS dont break between firefox versions. You are perhaps thinking of extensions, which are utterly different.
IE was low quality during 5.5 to 7. You could follow the standards and dumb race conditions would make certain elements load at different times and cause it to create a mess. To get around these
You could follow the standards and dumb race conditions would make certain elements load at different times and cause it to create a mess.
Not to mention crashes and security vulnerabilities too. For example, as I mentioned in another thread, IE's parsing of plain HTML tag soup is robust, but as soon as you add some CSS, even something as simple as <table style=position:absolute;clip:rect(0)> would result in an exploitable crash that had to be fixed in a security update. Not to mention this [crashie8.com] and this [blogspot.com] example, and there are probably more.
I read somewhere that Microsoft plans to update IE annually.
So in 10 years, does that mean they'll be up to IE version 20? The only other software I can think of that has a major version number of >=20 is emacs.
The URL bar sucks. Modal browsers rock. Browsing without vimperator is torture. I supposed there must be an emacs like browser for that faction as well.
The URL bar isn't there in the IE platform previews...
Will use it when it ends up on Windows Update.
Or not actually, since I don't have any Windows 7 machines, only XP and Vista ones.
Even if they did decide to support XP I'd probably keep using Opera.
Well if Opera, Mozilla and Google stopped supporting Windows I might use it.
You should update your Vista boxes to Win7. It's a dramatic improvment, and upgrade-in-place is supported. Vista does support IE9, btw... or rather IE9 supports Vista.
As for XP, unless they're running on ancient boxes with less than 1GB of memory and no video card worth speaking of, they'd probably benefit from an upgrade to Win7 as well, though the need to reinstall everything is a drawback (as is the cost). But the security gains are real and significant, as is the usability.
Everyone should be encourag
Right now, IE 8.0 only scores about 141 out of 450 points in the current June 22, 2011 release of the HTML5Test.com test page. This is really low compared to the competition:
286 -- Firefox 5.0
328 -- Chrome 12.0.742.112 (current public stable release)
253 -- Safari 5.0.5
286 -- Opera 11.50
Hopefully, IE 10.0 has to be at least as good as the current Firefox 5.0 if they want to implement HTML 5.0 features correctly.
It took them 2 years and 5 months to release IE8, and 2 years to release IE9. Who knows when this version will be released...
I'm betting it'll be released with Windows 8 in 2012 sometime.
Well they could release a new version of IE every month like certain other companies. How would you like to support that?
At the very bottom of this page [microsoft.com] it mentions fantastic news: the removal of the 31 style sheets limit!
In Internet Explorer 9 and earlier, there is a limit of 31 style sheets per webpage. There is also a nesting limit of four levels deep for style sheets that are linked using @import rules.
In IE10 Platform Preview, this limit has been removed.
Our business in life is not to succeed but to continue to fail in high spirits. -- Robert Louis Stevenson


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Syrian rebels captured a military airbase in the north on Friday and geared up for a major battle against loyalists, as the opposition said it refuses to accept Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in talks on the 23-month conflict.
The rebels, from the Islamist al-Nusra Front and the Muhajireen battalion, overran the base in Sfeira, east of Aleppo international airport, and captured a large stockpile of ammunition, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The Britain-based watchdog also reported intermittent clashes around the Aleppo airport itself as well as around Nayrab airbase and another military complex, as the two sides squared up for a major fight.
"The army shelled the area around Aleppo international airport and Nayrab air base on Friday morning, while rebels used home-made rockets to shell Nayrab," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said.
"The army is preparing a large-scale operation to take back control of Base 80," he added, referring to a military complex tasked with the security of both Nayrab and Aleppo airports.
Rebels seized the base on Wednesday after a battle that left at least 150 dead from both sides, among them senior army officers, according to the Observatory.
Meanwhile, regime tanks shelled the town of Khan Sheikhun in the province of Idlib, killing at least 11 civilians, the Observatory said, adding that at least 107 people were killed in violence nationwide on Friday.
In Damascus, the army shelled the eastern district of Jobar where rebels have set up enclaves, the Britain-based group said.
It also said more than 100 civilians have been abducted in Idlib Province in separate incidents, expressing alarm at what it called "sectarian kidnappings."
As they have done every Friday, Syrians protested across the country after weekly prayers to denounce what they called the "inaction" of the international community over the Syria crisis.
"In spite of you, O, Bashar, we have our freedom!" chanted protesters in Sukkari, a rebel-held district of Aleppo.
State television broadcast footage of what it said was a pro-regime demonstration in Aleppo, and said residents had called for "armed men to leave their city."
On the political front, the opposition National Coalition said it refuses to accept al-Assad in any talks, as part of an eight-point "framework" it has drawn up for solutions to the conflict.
The Coalition issued the framework after a meeting in Cairo to discuss a proposal by its chief, Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib, for peace talks with regime representatives, a move that ruffled feathers in the umbrella opposition group.
"Bashar Assad and security leadership who are responsible for the current destruction of the country are outside the political process and must be held accountable for their crimes," it said in a statement issued in English.
Meanwhile, Syria has written to the UN blasting Turkey's "destructive" role in the conflict, state media reported.
"Turkey supports and publicly justifies terrorist, destructive acts" against Syria, the foreign ministry wrote in letters addressed to both the UN Security Council and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
"Turkey has turned its territory into camps used to house, train, finance and infiltrate armed terrorist groups, chief among them the al-Qaeda network and the al-Nusra Front," it said.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva said the plight of civilians in Syria has reached catastrophic levels.
"After two years with no end to the military conflict, the situation of the civilian population has reached nothing short of catastrophic" proportions, ICRC director of operations Pierre Kraehenbuehl told reporters. "There is no respite."
The ICRC has been aiding about 1.5 million Syrians, via the Syrian Arab Crescent, in a conflict that the UN says has left about 70,000 people dead.
The UN has also said the number of Syrians who have fled the country could hit 1.1 million by June.
Meanwhile, customs officers in Finland said they had seized spare parts for tanks in a container en route from Russia to Syria on board a Finnish ship docked at Helsinki's Vuosaari port last month.
The EU has banned all sales, delivery, transfers and exports of weapons to Syria.


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http://xkcd.com/937/ [xkcd.com]
This is a better one, but covers Tornadoes instead.
I can't wait to see the reviews! [xkcd.com]
best xkcd EVER!
There wont be any reviews. This is a push service from the japanese government. Japanese phones have this system since a view years and if there is a major quake then an alert will be sent to your phone.
After the 3/11 quake (which was not alerted in Tokyo as the epi center was up in the north) the ringing sound was constant thing at the office.
The alert causes the phone to vibrate?
no, to stay still whilst all around it things are moving.
... and then you'll be a Man, my son.
(with apologies to R. Kipling)
It is also believed that most phones sold in Japan have some way to warn the user of Earthquakes.
Great, so now when the stupid iphone gets the same feature other phones have had for years it is somehow news?
Everyone remembers Chrysler as the first manufacturer with standard electronic ignition even though Fiat actually did it first. Why? Because it was fucking Fiat.
Who was fucking Fiat, Chrysler? I thought nobody liked the French. Or are they Italians? Cool then.
I remember when Fiat meant Fix It Again Tony.
I remember when Fiat meant Fix It Again Tony.
Ahh, Saturday. I remember that time well.
I think if people only see news about iPhone first-smartphone-with-app-x then that is a probably not good, this news might help to balance that view a little.
Because people love copying other people's stories but can't be bothered to read them first, that's why. The originator of the story was quite clear that this was correcting a conspicuous omission rather than adding a novel function.
From what I know, they just used a regular SMS alert. What this probably means is it bypassed the SMS, and uses the apple push notifications API.
It is also believed that most phones sold in Japan have some way to warn the user of Earthquakes.
Great, so now when the stupid iphone gets the same feature other phones have had for years it is somehow news?
The news is, the business model is to roll out AFTER the once in a lifetime disaster. I predict California residents will have to wait until a couple months after their "earthquake of the century" to get their warning system.
In a way it makes sense, if you deploy an earthquake sensor network right before the earthquake of the century, you'll only get a couple years use out of it before its destroyed in the earthquake. But if you wait, and deploy after the quake of the century, then you'll get something li
Yes, because Apple marketing are that fucking good.
From the iPhones that have survived falling from skydivers, to the guy who supposedly got a free iPad from Apple saying "Apple said yes" because he had to return it with the reason "Wife said no", all of these sorts of stories are orchestrated attempts to ensure Apple is consistently in the news.
This is why many people sincerely believe Apple has like 90% of the smartphone market, when in reality they only have about 15% - 20%. This is why we have "Well App
I'm not sure that this feature is even in the release notes of the beta, much less marketing.
This is why many people sincerely believe Apple has like 90% of the smartphone market, when in reality they only have about 15% - 20%.
Weird... I could swear when Jobs first announced Apple would release the iPhone, he said they were only interested in capturing 1% of the market. What the Hell went wrong?
Is it earth-shattering? No.
I see what you did there...
The system already works in iPhones since it goes as a network SMS IIRC, but the change here I think is that it will override the silence setting that most people here in Japan will be using because the polite thing to do on board of public transportation is to put your cellphone in silent mode and turn it off when you are near the reserved seats for elderly, pregnant women and handicapped. The end result is that most people have their phones in silent mode most of the time.
Now, what I would love the netwo
They're providing support for an SMS emergency alert standard that all 3G phones in Japan are expected to have. It's built into the OS at a low level. It's not a user-facing app.
yes, wake me up when some phone gets a P-Wave sensor.
Could a P-Wave sensor in a phone be actually useful since it's not attached to any structure?
Well see it soon, after Apple launches iOS 6 with the innovative iPee-Wave sensor and It's standalone adapter to bolt your phone to the wall in pentabular fashion, now theres no excuses to hold it wrong!
I have been in several earthquakes over there, including the big one in March. Immediately after it happens, sometimes while it is happening, there is a warning on all TV and radio stations, and now on phones too. The thing is that Japan is largely earthquake proof - they have magnitude 5 quakes regularly, at least several times a year. Anything that isn't build properly won't last long, and the building regs are very strict and well enforced.
When the magnitude 9 quake hit everything shook and some stuff fe
Notice that at no time is Apple calling it anything. In fact, Apple hasn't announced the feature at all, whether app or bundle.
Next up: Geiger counter.
Been there, already done that:
http://www.radiation-watch.org/p/blog-page.html [radiation-watch.org]
No need for wanktastic radiashiun induced memory errors or other bull...
Because it's Apple. They pay a massive amount to the "press" to release "articles" on Apple products. Factor in the huge zealotry of this cult, and you'll see why the media perception of Apple usage is over 99% of the population.
Because you can't ride a single train with at least 2 iPhone users in the same wagon here in Tokyo. For what I have seen it is by far the most popular cellphone here.
The summary has almost more info about the system than TFA. Do not waste your time reading it; do not feed click-whores. Even the time.com article linked in the TFA only talks about earthquake detection but nothing about this iOS feature.
Now up to the question: What is the issue with the OS? Does it detect vibrations characteristic of an earthquake or it is just an app that connects to a warning center? In the later issue this is as related to iOS as, say, Notepad is related to Vista.
Everything you need to know. [wikipedia.org]. It's based on SMS-CB, and is essentially a high-priority all-points SMS broadcast.
So basically it is an app that will come installed by default. Another "duh" news from the
It's not even an app, it's a notification with a toggle switch in Settings.
Everything you need to know. [wikipedia.org]. It's based on SMS-CB, and is essentially a high-priority all-points SMS broadcast.
You mean:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_Broadcast [wikipedia.org]
I think I'll wait for the 2600 article explaining how to send my own SMS-CBs. That could be big fun, I look forward to it. I know from reading mass media that SAME broadcasts have been repeatedly hacked; I've read reports of flash freeze alerts in the summer in FL, coastal flood warnings being broadcast in Montana, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_Area_Message_Encoding [wikipedia.org]
It's worth noting that there's been a free Android app for this on the -a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=jp.twiple.android.quake&feature=search_result">market (including Softbank phones I assume) for a good long while already.
It works quite nicely; I've gotten alerts for every small quake we've had since I installed it, before they happened. You get a graphical display with the epicenter and you can set your minimum strength, distance and shindo (surface effect) to filter out uninteresti
Would have been sweet if they'd been able to develop an algorithm to detect an impending earthquake from the slight vibrations in the iPhone itself. Then it could work no matter where you are. Oh well.
Would have been sweet if they'd been able to develop an algorithm to detect an impending earthquake from the slight vibrations in the iPhone itself. Then it could work no matter where you are. Oh well.
Not so much for the iPhone, but for a MacBook, there is something fun [softonic.com]. Amuse your friend(s), scare your coworkers! Look like you're doing real work!
Kinda a neat, pointless application.
Nothing. In fact there already is an iOS app that does this. However there's an expectation that this function be integrated into the handset, and I believe it's mandatory for domestic manufacturers to include it.
This is truly an illustration of a recent joke where each new iPhone feature raises the same reaction - damn, they did not have it before !?
Earthquake and Tsunami Warning System (ETWS) has been available for years...
I am not sure how this is news. Sure, it is fascinating that Japan has a system to alert for earthquakes through phones. But according to the article, most phones in Japan have this feature. So, how is iOS being late to the game news? And the article is very GRAND about how iOS does this for the people of Japan. Bullshit. It does it because of the feature that is supported on iOS finally.
Big whoppee! IS slashdot being used as a marketing spam engine like bitcoin to get any news out on Apple? Gimme a break!
Big whoppee! IS slashdot being used as a marketing spam engine like bitcoin to get any news out on Apple? Gimme a break!
All right, you want that Slashdot start covering Michelle Bachman? Sarah Palin? Ponies?
We've already run through the 'beat up Google / Microsoft / RIM and bog help us, HP" this week. What else are we supposed to do here? Besides, tangled amongst the Apple hate and the weak jokes (and I might add, several run on sentences and NO 'IN SOVIET RUSSIA' jokes) is a description of a rather cool alert system and the social reasons why it's important.
Obviously, this is of only intellectual (and I use the term loo
Vitamin C deficiency is apauling.


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Boston, Mass. --- 16th-ranked Brown took control early and withstood a fourth-quarter comeback bid by 11th-ranked Harvard to earn its third straight victory, a 13-11 Ivy League win over the Crimson at Harvard Stadium. Junior Andrew Feinberg's four goals led the Bears.
The win lifts the Bears to 3-1 overall, 1-0 in the Ivy League, while Harvard drops to 4-2 overall, 0-1 in league play.
Brown held a 12-8 lead with 9:58 left in the game following a goal by junior Andrew Feinberg. The Crimson launched a strong comeback with three straight goals to draw to within one goal of Brown, 12-11, on a goal by Jeff Cohen with 2:08 remaining, his fourth of the game.
Feinberg the scored his fourth goal of the game with 53 seconds left on the clock to ice the victory for the Bears.
After falling behind 1-0 early, Brown scored the game's next six goals to pull ahead by a 6-1 margin following a goal by senior All-American Thomas Muldoon with 14:19 left in the second quarter. Four other Brown players scored in the spurt, including two goals by Feinberg, and one each by Collins Carey, sophomore Rob Schlesinger, and sophomore Parker Brown.
The Bears held a 7-4 lead at the half and the Crimson chipped away to pull to within two goals of the Bears, 7-5, with 8:30 left in the third quarter.
Brown scored four of the next five goals, one each by Parker Brown and Schlesinger and two by junior David Hawley, his second giving the Bears an 11-6 advantage with 2:51 to play in the third quarter.
Harvard made a run at the Bears with the last goal of the third quarter and another to open the fourth quarter to pull to within 11-8 of the Bears. Feinberg's third goal of the game gave the Bears a four-goal advantage once again with 9:58 left in the game.
The Bears also came up big in the face-off x, with senior Charlie Kenney grinding to win 11 face-offs and the Bears holding a 16-11 face-off advantage. Junior Matt Chriss turned in a strong performance in the Brown cage, making nine saves.
Parker Brown, Hawley, Schlesinger and Muldoon scored two goals each for the Bears with Muldoon also adding two assists.
The Bears will back in action again on Tuesday, March 23, hosting UMass in a key New England match-up at Meister-Kavan Field, beginning at 4:00 p.m. Live stats will be available, weather permitting.
Pictured: Andrew Feinberg '11. photo by dspics.com


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Facebook Inc. fell the most in almost three months after a lockup expiration boosted the number of tradeable shares and a recent run-up in the stock price gave investors pause about how much higher it might climb.
The stock tumbled 5.1 percent to $26.81 at the close in New York, the biggest drop since Sept. 24. Shares in the operator of the world's largest social-networking service have declined 29 percent since selling at $38 apiece in an initial public offering in May.
Facebook came under pressure as about 156 million more shares became available for trading today, adding to the more than 1.5 billion already freed up for sale by insiders. Investors may have seen a good time to sell since the stock has risen rapidly amid rising optimism about the company's growth prospects, said Scott Kessler, an analyst at S&P Capital IQ.
"A lot of the good news seems to be priced into the shares," Kessler said. "What I think people are thinking about is, 'What else can happen?' whether it's driven by specifically by Facebook, or others, to drive the stock higher."
Menlo Park, California-based Facebook reported in October that sales rose 32 percent to $1.26 billion during the third quarter. That compares with the average estimate of $1.23 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That also matched the growth rate of the second quarter, snapping a streak of slowing sales increases. The results were followed by a 33 percent climb in the share price from the beginning of November through yesterday.
Facebook is also benefiting from efforts to sell advertising on mobile devices, where users are increasingly accessing the service. Ads delivered to people on mobile devices generated about $150 million during the quarter, or 14 percent of all advertising revenue.
Ashley Zandy, a spokeswoman for Facebook, declined to comment on the stock decline.
The bans on sales are put in place to prevent shares from flooding the market immediately after an IPO. The biggest lockup expiration to date was on Nov. 14, when restrictions lifted on 804 million shares. Smaller batches of stock became tradeable in August and October, and the next lockup lifts in May, according to a regulatory filing.
In addition to the new swath of shares freed up today, the stock sales today could be tied to rising worries about whether the U.S. Congress and President Barack Obama can come to an agreement before automatic tax increases take effect in January -- and avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff," according to Michael Pachter, an analyst at Wedbush Securities Inc.
"It appears like a decent place to take profit, and I think there's a lot concern about the fiscal cliff and tax rates going up," he said.


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WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney has added moderate-sounding ingredients recently to his campaign promise to cut personal tax rates by 20 percent, but the math still hinges to a significant degree on an assumption that has inspired conservative Republicans for decades.
The idea: Reduce taxes, especially for the wealthy and corporations, and America's entrepreneurial fortunes will soar. The economy, unleashed from the drag of excess taxes, will grow. Government deficits will shrink.
Call it Supply-side Economics 101.
"Let's get a tax policy that encourages growth and investment, and doesn't just penalize people for being successful,'' Romney declared during this year's Republican primary contest, after he unveiled his plan to slash marginal tax rates.
The rate cuts, taken alone, would cost the government $4.8 trillion over 10 years and extend the greatest benefits to the richest taxpayers, whose rate would decline to 28 percent from 35 percent. Under fire for potentially exposing the middle class to increases, Romney in the last two weeks has promised that he would make up for the lost revenue by limiting deductions and making sure the rich pay the same amount of taxes, even at the lower rate.
Even with those new qualifiers, economic growth resulting from tax cuts is still required to provide new revenue to balance the plan, Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan, said in their debate appearances this month. And that is where some of the harshest disagreements arise.
The trouble with the approach is that supply-side tax policy remains unproven and controversial more than three decades after George H.W. Bush branded it "voodoo economics'' during a debate with Ronald Reagan. Even if it did kickstart an economic burst, predicting the size and its effect on government revenues is exceedingly difficult.
A report by the Congressional Research Service last month examined the historical relationship between top marginal tax rates and economic growth going back to 1945 and found none. "Top tax rates appear to have little or no relation to the size of the economic pie,'' according to the report.
A nonpartisan group in Washington, the Tax Policy Center, has said Romney cannot deliver all the tax cuts he promised to the wealthy without raising taxes on the middle class.
Washington analysts continued to puzzle over his math last week after a report by the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation said eliminating all deductions in the tax code would only pay for a 4 percent cut in tax rates — far short of Romney's 20 percent. That study was not focused directly on Romney's plan, and Romney's campaign says it does not apply.
All this has made it easier for President Obama — who favors tax increases for the wealthy — to pound Romney for hewing to "trickle-down'' policies that failed to work in the past. He charges that Romney's plan will cause further damage to the middle class in crucial swing states like Ohio. The president cites the income tax cuts of George W. Bush's first term, in 2001 and 2003, which Obama argues pushed deficits higher and "we ended up with the slowest job growth in 50 years.''
Romney is defending his plan aggressively, promising to protect the middle class and not unfairly reward the rich. He cites a handful of conservative studies and commentaries that say his plan would work, including several that predict it would produce new government revenues by spurring growth.
"In order for us not to lose revenue, have the government run out of money, I also lower deductions and credits and exemptions so that we keep taking in the same money — when you also account for growth,'' Romney said in his first debate against Obama.
Romney's campaign cites 1964 and 1986 as years when tax cuts spurred growth and government revenues and insists it could happen again.
'High tax rates don't redistribute income, they redistribute taxpayers.'
"The entire reason that Governor Romney is proposing these reforms is because it would lead to a simpler tax code, create more jobs, and increase economic opportunity for the middle class,'' campaign spokesman Ryan Williams said in response to questions from the Globe.
The same ideological divide on tax policy lies at the heart of the gridlock in Congress. Republicans, especially in the House, strongly oppose raising taxes on the wealthy, saying it would damage the economy by discouraging investment by "job creators.''
Some economists remain at odds over the potential of supply-side economics to work as a generation of GOP leaders have promised. The effects of tax cuts often are clouded by other major economic factors, such as inflation and interest rates.
"To count on this huge private sector response offsetting the negative effect of higher deficits, that has pretty much been proven over the years to not occur,'' said Diane Lim Rogers, an economist and deficit hawk at the Concord Coalition, a centrist think tank in Washington. "The evidence has certainly been that households and businesses are not as responsive to reductions in marginal tax rates, or increases, as some economists might think they are.''
A onetime proponent of supply-side economics and domestic policy adviser to Reagan, Bruce Bartlett, says Republicans have relied too heavily on it and the concept should be retired. He is harsh in his assessment of the motivations of wealthy individuals and corporations who back the doctrine through advocacy groups such as Club for Growth, a fiscally conservative political action committee that provides support for Tea Party candidates for Congress. "It is in the best interests of rich people to want to believe this,'' he said in an interview. "It justifies cutting taxes, especially at the top.''
Conservative economists point to isolated instances where tax cuts correlated to economic growth in overseas economies, or when reductions in capital gains taxes in the United States coincided with greater investment on Wall Street. Ryan, in his debate with Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday, cited 1964, when President Lyndon Johnson made good on a pledge by predecessor John F. Kennedy to cut the top marginal rate from 91 percent to 70 percent.
"It is mathematically possible. It's been done before. It's precisely what we're proposing,'' Ryan said in the debate, when pressed by Biden on how the middle-class could keep its deductions while tax rates were cut for the wealthy. "Jack Kennedy lowered tax rates, increased growth.''
At the time of that rate cut, economic growth rate already was relatively strong, according to historic data. Moreover, those cuts were weighted more heavily to the middle and lower brackets, not the top. Bartlett, who has studied 1964, has estimated that only a third of revenues sacrified by the cut were recovered through growth.
The Romney campaign also cites 1986, when Reagan and House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip'' O'Neill Jr. agreed to reduce the top rate from 50 percent to 28 percent. After that cut, the growth rate remained relatively steady, then slumped and the economy fell into a recession in the early 1990s.
Greg Mankiw, a Harvard economics professor and Romney campaign adviser, has acknowledged that the actual results of supply-side economics have been "mixed.'' Mankiw declined to comment for this article. But he and others, including economist George Gilder, a resident of Tyringham who was a pioneer of the supply-side school in the 1970s, have long contended that taxes are powerful economic motivators.
If a person is taxed at a high rate for investing or working, they reason, that person is less likely to invest and work.
An example is a story attributed to Reagan, who once said that after he made four movies in a year, he would "go to the country,'' because tax rates for more income were confiscatory and discouraged the additional effort. In Reagan's movie-making heyday in the 1940s and 1950s, top marginal tax rates ranged from 80 percent to 90 percent. Reagan whittled them down from 70 percent to 28 percent during his two terms as president; today the top marginal rate is 35 percent.
"High tax rates don't redistribute income, they redistribute taxpayers — from productive work and investment into offshore tax havens and municipal bonds, and golf courses and early retirements,'' Gilder said.
Romney is a former moderate Republican governor from Massachusetts who sought to distance himself from Reagan's presidency during a 1994 Senate race; who opposed George W. Bush's tax cuts in 2003; and who raised fees and corporate tax revenues in Massachusetts by $740 million a year to balance state budgets.
Gilder called those moderate actions and positions necessary for Republican survival in a Democrat-dominated state. He traces the roots of Romney's embrace of deep tax cuts to the former executive's tenure at Bain Capital.
It was in the world of growth curves, pricing analysis, and balance sheets, says Gilder, that Romney learned the importance of reducing costs to an enterprise.
Because of that business experience, Gilder wrote in the conservative American Spectator last month, Romney holds a "fundamental grasp of supply-side theory excelling all other Republicans.''Christopher Rowland can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @GlobeRowland.


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A recent survey of children's utilization of mass media technology, cell phone, computers and television indicates the amount of time allocated to these devices has increased to over 7 hours daily. This does not include time multitasking when children will use more than one device at a time.
Research on behavioral correlates of such behavior is not conclusive, but there are studies that suggest a relationship between obesity, behavioral issues, and even some problems with interpersonal skills and time spent engaged in such pursuits.
The major question is what effect will increased time spent using digital media activity have on the behavior and brains of children over time. Research does indicate a relationship between passive pursuits and dementia later in life. Research also indicates too much stimulation can retard brain development. These represent the critical questions to be explored and answered in the near future. More studies are being done and are needed to determine what the short term and long term effects are on children.
It is important to remain open minded yet critical about both the negative and positive effects of children using and relying on the cell phone and other devices to socialize, interact, and stimulate mentally. The evolution of such technology has already found the youth of the world and they are more reliant and comfortable with it than previous generations. This evolution cannot be stopped and it probably should not. It is important for society to integrate this new way of living in healthy ways.


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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/26/dsd_byod_advice/
Defence Signals Directorate offers BYOD advice
Motherhood statements for public consumption, detail behind regwall
Posted in Policy, 26th November 2012 20:00 GMT
Australia's signals intelligence agency, the Defence Signals Directorate (DSD), has published two sets of guidelines for Australian government agencies contemplating a bring your own device (BYOD) regime.
The public advice, available here, is utterly anodyne and offers terrifyingly tough questions including:
- What are the legal implications?
- What are the financial implications?
- What are the security implications?
- Do I have a strong business case to justify the security trade-off?
It also makes the, to IT folks at least, non-startling observation that:
BYOD can be the 'weak link' into a network. Using mobile devices for both personal and business purposes can create more opportunities for social engineering and the inadvertent installation of malicious software. Malicious software can provide an entry route into the associated corporate network and access to information communicated or stored on the device. Organisations are likely to have less visibility and control over the security configuration of, and user behaviour on, BYOD. Employees will often lack the IT knowledge and motivation to reduce security risks to their devices."
The agency has also published a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Considerations paper at the OnSecure portal. Membership of that site is only open to government employees and outsiders engaged on government IT projects.
It is to be hoped it offers rather greater detail than the public document's exhortation to "be consultative" when developing BYOD security, as "The most effective scenarios are jointly developed by business and legal representatives, IT security staff, system administrators and employees themselves. This helps ensure your organisation develops policy and processes which all stakeholders are willing to adhere to." ®
If you've an OnSecure login, we can assure complete discretion if you choose to share the BYOD Considerations document with us.


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Iran Wants To Sue Hollywood Over Argo Somewhere, Some Time, & For Some Reason
from the affleck-off dept
Side note: I consider the Iranians not protesting Gigli an act of war
Image source: CC BY 2.0
Of course, if you'd like any real details on what Tehran is planning on doing about any of this, good luck.
Iran is planning to sue Hollywood over the Oscar-winning "Argo" because of the movie's allegedly "unrealistic portrayal" of the country, Iranian media reported Tuesday. Several news outlets, including the pro-reform Shargh daily, said French lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre is in Iran for talks with officials over how and where to file the lawsuit. She is also the lawyer for notorious Venezuelan-born terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, known as Carlos the Jackal.Ah, lovely. The problem is that, while Iran is dismissing Argo and its awards as CIA propaganda, because everyone knows how pro-military Hollywood is, they aren't really disputing any specific points in the movie. They just say it shows Iranians as being too violent during the hostage-taking (er...), that Affleck failed to show why Iranians were so angry at the United States (they must have missed the movie's opener), and called Argo's awards an "attack against humanity." Other than that, no details were provided on what charges they were going to bring in what court and at what time. Why?
Well, probably because there is roughly f#@$-all they can actually do about it, outside of their own borders, where their own population has been gobbling the movie up via bootleg DVDs (are copyright pirates also pro-CIA?). Regardless, a quick message for my Iranian friends: it's a movie, get over it.


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I found Jennifer Egan's new novel A Visit from the Goon Squad an engaging pleasurable read. Great prose mixed with a dash of postmodern structuring, for me, kept it flowing and interesting right to the end. Set against a backdrop of the rock music business with characters that, if not for Egan's talent, might veer too far into indie rock cliché the novel handles its themes (ageing hipsters, fading glory, the corruption inherent in much of modern culture, & more) with such deft storytelling that they never really hit you until you've completed the novel, even though you've enjoyed it all the way. The book is in essence a series of related and interconnected chapter-long stories that are each great taken alone, but it is the way in which the whole story reveals itself bit by bit and the charecters become more fully formed as each chapter flashes forward and back through the collective timeline of the ensemble of characters that makes this such a great novel, and what marks Egan as such a talented writer.
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(Sorry, Hula--but I could not resist!)
The union suits were at our school today, advising the best way to handle "emergencies". their advice was great though sad to have to hear. I already read most of this stuff on Chaz's blog.
My friend, the ATR, tried to talk to one of the Suits about her position as an ATR. All he did was tell her how lucky she was to be getting a paycheck. He had it rough, much rougher than she is having it. He was laid off in the 70's, no job, no income.
He didn't get how she was suffering. He didn't get that a wrong is a wrong is a wrong.
If he got shot in the heart twice and I got shot once, we would both be dead. What would it matter that he got shot twice as often as I did? Bad, is bad.
I would amend the above statement as follows:
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
From A Union E-Mail
(Sorry, Hula--but I could not resist!)
5 comments:
- mathmom said...
Sorry, Ms. PO'd but I have to disagree with you on the ATR. Especially in the current economic climate, there are fates worse than the ATR's paid position. People are being laid off with very little in the way of a safety net before they get to the point where they cannot feed their families. Self-employed incomes are drying up, and these people have no unemployment insurance available at all. The chances of getting a new job are slim in this economy and people are scared. What happened to your friend the ATR may be wrong, but not every wrong is as bad as any other; not every bad situation is as dire as any other.
- 3:55 PM, October 29, 2008
- Pissed Off said...
What you say is true but I know the city is looking for a way to get them off the payroll.
Two wrongs never make a right and the union shouldn't be justifying what happened to them.
- 5:04 PM, October 29, 2008
- 17 (really 15) more years said...
The ATR should never be in this position in the first place, and we have Randi to thank. An ATR is generally a senior veteran teacher with years of service and experience. PO'd you're right- I am sure that with the next contract (you know- the one Randi said we wouldn't have to negotiate with Mikey) ATR's will be off payroll. Their pensions will be in jeopardy and it's simply not right. Back in the old days, an ATR would get a seniority transfer and possibly bump a newbie. Quite frankly, that's the way it should still be, since some of the new hires have little time invested in the system.
- 7:46 PM, October 29, 2008
- Anonymous said...
What a SOB!! I too was laid off in the 70's, but I had very little seniority. And, the UFT was there to support us even though they promised NO LAYOFFS. We were given training for recertified jobs, and I got recertified to teach Math in the Jr. High. I was employed for 6 months until my 2nd layoff. When the economic crisis was over, we were all recalled.
Someone should have reminded the SOB that senior teachers were not laid off!!! Just the newbies.
- 8:52 PM, October 29, 2008
- avoiceinthewilderness said...
This is what I don't understand about Americans. 'Especially in the current economic climate, there are fates worse than the ATR's paid position'
People keep talking about how it could be worse.
It's like we're trained to except almost nothing. Hey at least you have a job.
How about we start demanding more?
The people up at the top do. You don't see the Bloombergs and the McCains of this world saying, 'Well, at least I have this..."
If anything, they keep taking more and more, as if it is their right.
Meanwhile, the little folks act as if living from paycheck to paycheck-if you're lucky enough lately - is some kind of blessing.
I am baffled.
- 6:28 AM, October 30, 2008


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Duo Recognized For Winning A-Division Last Weekend
NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Senior Thomas Barrows and junior Blair Belling were named NEISA Co-ed Sailors of the Week for winning A-division at the Truxton Umsted Intersectional last weekend at the U.S. Naval Academy. The event is widely held as one of the most competitive fleet races of the spring season.
The pair led the Bulldogs to a strong performance at the event overall, and put together a remarkable score-line in their own right. Barrows and Belling finished in the top five in 12 of 19 races and won two races. Yet despite this consistency, the division win was not secured until the pair scored two seconds and one fourth in the final three races, overtaking St. Mary's by six points in the final standings.
"It feels excellent," Barrows said. "This really motivates us to keep on working harder."
Barrows and Belling will try to repeat last weekend's performance at the Ivy League Championship this weekend at Brown.
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BOSTON, MA–(Marketwire – Mar 14, 2013) - Apperian, Inc., the enterprise mobile application management (MAM) pioneer, today announced the availability of Auto Signing, a new capability of its Enterprise App Services Environment (EASE) platform. Auto Signing simplifies app lifecycle management by eliminating the complexity of the app signing process and allowing non-technical administrators to sign mobile apps from the admin portal without developer involvement or the need for a manual signing process.
"Signing apps can add days to our workflow and delay projects — especially considering that iOS apps need to be re-signed annually at a minimum and we're consistently pushing out updates to our catalogue of in-house apps," said Ty Rollin, Chief Architect at Mobiquity, Inc. "Now every signing or re-signing can be managed automatically using Auto App Signing and can easily be handled by anyone, saving us a significant amount of time and headaches. Each department now has control to publish their own apps while maintaining the security of our brand's certificate."
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This may be the answer to the Somalia pirate problem - space-based tracking.
Now adding a moderately powerful laser, say 10KW or so...
Oh, you bet MAFIAA will be credited somewhere as a 'sponsor' on these things..
Can they track and destroy software pirates from space?
If they are from Somalia.
Seems to me the RIAA is usually pretty spaced out on cocaine. So yes.
Ignoring the issues of powering such laser, how do you plant to pierce the atmosphere and retain enough of the energy in the beam to do more then make people wonder "what's this weird light show?"
Also, if you think that space tracking from satellite would solve Somalia's piracy issues, you think it wouldn't have been done already? We have absolutely ridiculous spy satellite capacity, and that was one place where essentially every major nation in the world wanted for the problem to end.
The real issue is that
Actually stepping on board and finding weapons does not make it a pirate ship; they actually need to wait around for the vessel to do something hostile before it can be called a pirate ship.
Considering that it's illegal to have weapons on a civilian vessel, yes it does actually. That's why when they inspect a vessel and find weapons, they usually confiscate weapons, rather then wait for an attack.
That depends on the nation under which the ship is flagged (and possibly the crew's nationalit[y|ies]). The UK was recently considering whether we should allow specific vessels flagged as British, to carry small arms when travelling through Somali waters specifically to defend against pirates, but I don't think a decision has happened yet (or it's been quietly dropped).
Historical note: In Moby-Dick the Quaker-owned whaler Pequod has a whole gun
I'm just curious. Where is it illegal to have weapons on a civil vessel?
For example Egypt. Which means you can't have armed guards on vessels going through the Suez canal. Which makes things more difficult. I guess the armed guards would have to rendezvous with ships after they've been through Suez and left Egyptian territorial waters.
By the way, I don't think the fact that safety equipment could be used in extremis, at very short range as a firearm, is a reason to sanction real firearms. Better to do rational pros/cons analysis of the policy than fall into something with a thi
Most ports will simply not allow you to dock if you have weapons, unless you're a military vessel with a permit. Also, if you're not a military ship, and have weapons, you will not be able to enter Suez, which cuts down the potential reasons for sailing near Somalia quite a bit.
There is a reason why NZ is a small country literally "on the edge of the world" in more then one sense. NZ is one of the very few exceptions here.
Really? One of the Danish shipping companies (Maersk I believe) recently started having armed guards aboard their ships; guess we are building our own little pirate fleet?
Legality of weapons aboard vessels varies for different countries. This applies both to the nation of registry, and the nation's territorial waters. Some nations will confiscate your boat if a weapon is found; some will require you to give them your weapons for 'safekeeping' while you are in the country (and often lose them while they are in 'safekeeping'), some don't ask, some don't care. When in international waters only the nation of registry matters - AFAIK there is no international law regarding arm
The real issue is that there is no way to tell a "pirate ship" from thousands of fishing vessels in the waters until you step aboard and check it for weapons.
I bet if the position of each one was constantly tracked, and their positions, tracks and speeds were subjected to some analysis, then the pirates would look different. The fishermen will be going at an economical pace from fishing opportunity to fishing opportunity. The pirates will probably be heading more for shipping lanes, hanging about, going in for closer looks at ships etc.
Of course if this tactic is ever used, then they'd want to keep it secret. Don't want those pirates to become too good at preten
Not really. First of all, they wouldn't know of being targeted, and second, there's absolutely no problem in using a normal radar detection on these ships. These aren't military or stealthy - they're bare bones basic fishing boats.
This may be the answer to the Somalia pirate problem - space-based tracking. Now adding a moderately powerful laser, say 10KW or so...
Actually just route commercial ships away from suspected pirates. Much like convoys were routed away from enemy submarines during WW2 when Ultra was up and running and decoding communications to and from the subs.
Yeah, not nearly as fun as lasers.
This may be the answer to the Somalia pirate problem - space-based tracking.
Now adding a moderately powerful laser, say 10KW or so...
Actually just route commercial ships away from suspected pirates. Much like convoys were routed away from enemy submarines during WW2 when Ultra was up and running and decoding communications to and from the subs.
Yeah, not nearly as fun as lasers.
If you see a Zodiac well offshore, then shine a low power laser from a drone. Let them know they have been spotted and further effort is of no use.
Actually just route commercial ships away from suspected pirates. Much like convoys were routed away from enemy submarines during WW2 when Ultra was up and running and decoding communications to and from the subs.
That worked for a while. Today the Somali mother ships are operating in essentially the entire northeastern Indian Ocean, from near the coast of India to the entry to the Suez Canal and 1000 miles south along the African coast. The alternative to the Suez Canal is the Cape of Good Hope, which adds perhaps $100,000 to the cost of fuel and lost time, and can be a very dangerous piece of ocean. It more than doubles the length of the trip from India to Europe. Also, almost the entire oil production of the G
I thought one of the military treaties signed by US, NATO, Russia, etc prohibits satellite based radar because there is no way to hide stealth planes from that point of view?
The US, Japan, Canada, EU, Germany and Russia all have or had satellite based radar systems some with very high resolution.
and TRMM and someday GPM. I think the unique angle here, other than cost, is using radar for earth resources sensing. IIRC most ER spacecraft (landsat, EO-1 etc) carry passive instruments.
No, the treaty bans space based military action. Not that anyone is following that treaty...
The US has SAR in orbit for military and intelligence reconnaissance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quill_(satellite) [wikipedia.org]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacrosse_(satellite) [wikipedia.org]
So does Germany
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAR_Lupe [wikipedia.org]
Anyone could view the live results on a website and instantly know where all the good parties are.
Canada's got two of them, with really imaginative names.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radarsat-1 [wikipedia.org]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radarsat-2 [wikipedia.org]
with an initial investment of £21m
Yeah, right.
Why the skepticism? I bet it cost £21m to come up with the name 'NovaSar-S'.
(Nova = new, SAR = Synthetic Aperture Radar, S for satellite, maybe?)
Surry has a long history of building successful low cost spacecraft, going back into the '80s at least. Maybe farther. Google UOSAT-1
Why bother ? The UK already contributes to ESA, which has Envisat [esa.int]
The US and the Soviet Union / Russia has been flying these satellites since the 1970's, both scientific (starting with Seasat [wikipedia.org]) and military.
I've bought a number of scanning missions on Radarsat-1 and they weren't that expensive, a couple hundred loonies for a couple minutes (hundreds of square miles). And better resolution because it's at C band (5.2 GHz). So I dunno where they get the 50:1 return. It takes some maintenance too.
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Dothistroma Needle Blight (DNB), also known as Red Band Needle Blight because of the colourful symptoms it shows on pine, is an economically important disease of conifers. It causes premature needle defoliation, resulting in loss of yield and, in severe cases, tree death.
Mortality in Corsican pine infected with Dothistroma needle blight
Reduction in diameter increment of Corsican pine due to Dothistroma needle blight
Until recently the disease was primarily of concern in the Southern Hemisphere, particularly on radiata pine (Pinus radiata). However, since the 1990's there has been a rapid increase of disease incidence in both Europe and in Canada.
Since the late 1990's the disease status has changed markedly in Britain. It is now found in many forests growing susceptible pine species, with Corsican pine (Pinus nigra ssp. laricio), lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. latifolia) and more recently Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) all being affected.
In other countries where the disease has a significant economic impact, successful methods of control have tended to focus on fungicide treatments. However, in Britain the focus is on the use of resistant species and good stand management.
- Red band needle blight questions and answers
- Symptoms and life cycle
- Pathogens and hosts
- Status of the disease
Research in progress
The main research areas are as follows:
- Surveillance and monitoring of disease extent and severity in Britain and assessment of the impact of the disease on timber yields.
- Increasing our understanding of the disease epidemiology including spore dispersal distances, timing of spore release and infection, and persistence of the pathogen on fallen needles.
- Increasing our understanding of the fungal population structure by investigating genotypic variation and distribution of the mating types across the Britain, both of which will aid management decisions.
- Investigating potential management strategies including thinning and respacing regimes, fungicide application and variation in host species susceptibility.
See also Determining invasiveness and risk of Dothistroma (DIAROD)
EU COST Action FP1102.
Funders and partners
This research is funded by:
- Forestry Commission Advice and scientific support for tree health programme
- East Anglia Forest District
- Forestry Commission Scotland
- Forest Enterprise Scotland
- Scottish Forestry Trust.
There are currently two PhD students working on this topic co-supervised by Forest Research, one in conjunction with Dr Simon Archer, Imperial College, London and one with Dr Steve Woodward, Aberdeen University.
Forest Research was also the proposer of the European COST Action FP1102 DIAROD (see link above) which runs from December 2011 to December 2015.
Further information on this disease and other shoot diseases of pine:
- Red band needle blight of conifers in Britain (PDF-1200K)
Forestry Commision Research Note 02
- Red band needle blight of pine (PDF-1340K)
Forestry Commission Information Note 49
- Shoot diseases of pine (PDF-377K)
Forestry Commission Information Note 68
- Dothistroma needle blight - Field guide 2012 (PDF-2536K)
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Niwot High senior Devon Wright recently spent a week in Honduras, serving as her grandfather's translator and assistant as he pulled the decayed teeth of mountain villagers.
This was her second trip to the area, helping out last year as well. She and her grandfather, an oral surgeon who lives in Georgia, made the trip through Lantern of Hope, a ministry in Santa Cruz, Honduras.
"It's an amazing experience and an amazing thing to be able to do," Devon said. "We do a lot of work while we're there. I'm capable of going and doing this, so why would I not."
Devon, who wants to be a doctor, earned her nursing assistant certification and is fluent in Spanish. She's also taking a full slate of advanced classes through Niwot High's International Baccalaureate program.
In Honduras in mid-March, she was part of a group of doctors and dentists treating patients in the mountain villages around Santa Cruz. While there, she said, the three dentists treated 68 patients, pulling 141 teeth.
"You would be amazed at the quality of their teeth," she said.
Her first trip to the area was also her first experience in a third world country.
"You see things that you expected, but you're still shocked by them," she said. "It was 30 degrees one day, and there was an elderly woman walking with no shoes.
You know it's like that, but you don't think you will actually see it while you're there."
Her first trip, she said, she found it hard to keep up with native Spanish speakers as she tried to help translate for her grandfather. This time, she said, she needed help with only about a dozen words.
"Every time I go, my Spanish improves," she said.
During the week she was in Honduras, she had one day to relax — a day spent mainly cleaning dental instruments. She also was expected to make up the work she missed at school.
Her grandfather, Robert Wright, said she was "a very good surgical assistant."
"She carries her weight and does an outstanding job," he said.
Devon said she plans to major in microbiology, with Vanderbilt University in Tennessee her top choice for college.
Her goal, she said, is to become a critical care doctor.
"I have the ability to help people," she said.


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Needed to be said. Even some of the more respectable posters on this board were getting way too tied up in this. Very embarrassing.
META: Knock It Off (or how I learned to stop worrying and avoid the Twitter)
[WARNING: Mod abuse of power and unrequested opinion contained herein. Consider yourself warned]
Stop it.
Twitter is great. Facebook is swell. MySpace is... maybe still a thing? But for the love of all things holy, and in the name of all that is non-douchy, I beg of you... Leave. Recruits. Alone.
That's Me
This is about David Dawson, but it's not about David Dawson. It's about Kyle Kalis. It's about Shane Morris and Kyle Bosch and Yuri Wright. It's about 17-year-old kids. They're trying to decide where to go to college. They're deciding on a group of people with whom they want to spend 5000 hours per week for the next four to five years. (Attn: Mike Rosenberg, that's called 'hyperbole.' Put the pen down). This is a big-ass decision.
Remember when you debated this for 10 minutes? Yeah. Kind of like that.
The good news? You don't have to be involved. The recruits can do this ALL by themselves. In fact, your involvement is not welcomed. You're not helping. You're making it worse.
So, with that, I would like to propose that we come up with a few ground rules.
- No tweeting @ recruits: It may be an NCAA violation, though I tend to think it's not. But it's creepy as hell. It does no good, and it can cause huge harm.
- No Facebook friending recruits: They are not your friends.
- No commenting on recruits' Facebook walls: See #2 above
- No tweeting @ recruits: still no.
- No following recruits on Twitter: This is a gray area, but the bottom line is that these are kids, so err on the side of not being creepy.
- No talking shit about recruits on the internet (MGoBlog or otherwise): what part of "these are kids" did you not get.
- No obsessing about recruits' every tweet: This is the toughest one, because even if you don't follow recruits, stuff gets retweeted or posted to MGoBlog. I struggle with this one as much as the next guy. But yeah.
That's not a very Clay Davis thing for you to say. You think he has time to check who the tweets come from? You think he has time to think about where they got the material? Sheeeeeit.
E.T.A: Holy hell, I'm five days late to the party. Oops.
Bless your soul.
No need for a debate...it's Shoney's everytime.
Your move.
Oh God, so good. Now I have to get TBell for dinner. You jerk.
Overrated, the cool ranch one that's coming out later, on now that sounds intriguing.
Not overrated at all. I could eat these all day. Is the cool ranch taco actually happening? I've been waiting a long time for that moment
You're one of those guys that takes 10 minutes to order their food at 2:00am and backs up the line aren't you?
Just get off the twitters and other social media all together, you'll be happy you did.
I got a Twitter account to promote my blog because I thought it might make "business sense," but there are often times when I regret signing up in the first place.
Or something of that nature would be acceptable, but I was going for the more personal side of things.
I thought you got on twitter because some fans wanted to know what boxers you wear when you go to sleep.
But I can't confirm, since I don't have twitter.
I use mine to get real time news from reporters, opinion from columnists you trust, features from journalists, and humor from comedians you want to follow. I barely ever send out a tweet unless I am commenting on their work or asking questions.
If you use it like Facebook, well you still have no reason for following a 17 yo high school kid.
Great job, SB!! However, I am not sure where you stand concerning recruits and twitter, can you clarify? (kidding)/s
But I also suggest adding another:
Out the people who violate these rules. Unfortunately, there are overzealous fans who need to be put in their place, and even worse, rival fans trying to pose as Michigan fans to stir up trouble. These people should be exposed.
Worst part is, even after this post, people will still do the Twitter and Facebook and talk to recruits. But I agree, just cut it out and let them be.
Despite the fact every football program out there suffers attrition every year, I firmly believe this year the class of 18 year olds we have recruited will not. Yes I know that we suffer attrition from enrolled athletes. Guys who see the coaches everyday to talk about their issues, guys who have to sit a year of they go elsewhere, they leave. However 18 year olds who do not see the coaches very often and do not have to sit when they decommit are sure to never ever ever leave. We will never have another Demar Dorsey failure to qualify or a Caleb Stacey deciding to go elsewhere.
If we ever do, this decommit or even rumors of a decommit on Twitter will RUIN EVERYTHING. I will be forced to run naked down the street in July because of this rumor and the destruction it has wrought upon the team. It's July and signing day is just around the corner on Febraury. We shall never have time to recover from this terrible blow of one possible decommit to our 80 person plus roster.
I must go now because the nice nurse is here to give me more pills and I have drooled quite heavily on the keyboard. However I wished to make my opinion known and let you know your attempts to instill calm are neither logical nor welcome.
Hugs and kisses (and remember I know all your email addresses),
I will be forced to run naked down the street in July because of this rumor and the destruction it has wrought upon the team
That's just crazy. It's way too hot to run outside.
Well of course I'll have my phone out and be on Twitter, so I'll only make it half a block before I trip. I can handle that much running in the heat.
You can do some serious damage to your "twitter" if you trip and fall during a naked run.
I can count on one hand the number of times that I literally laughed out loud on MGoBlog. This was one of them, Now everyone's looking at me strangely
"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the War Room."
Interesting. Because whenever a mod makes a threat of some kind, what I usually hear is "you'll have to answer to the Coca-Cola company."
was leaving telling us not to worry, he is staying.
Very well said.
Can we add match.com and eHarmony to the list?
Game, set, match.
Damn iPhone and not posting pictures
How about Telegrams?
But, but what else are we supposed to freak out about?
Take note people!
It's magnus's fault. He got everybody upset in the other thread now he's all like whatever. /JK
BTW, I've been railing on about not following kids twitter accounts since I've been on here and finally it seems the board is coming around. If your job isn't recruiting and they don't follow you back, don't follow them. It's creeper.
Twitter is cool though as it helps me keep up on research trends in my field. Being the sole analyst where I work, I connect to others doing interesting stuff. I love it.
Also. Really? Is anybody seriously upset about a rumor?
Sadly, yes.
Well said! Take note people!
Take double notes
My pen ran out of ink.
I completely agree with these ground rules, and thank you for formalizing them.
The only thing I would suggest is that you make it into a formal video proclamation. Here is some inspiration:
As for the exit sign, KFC orginal recipe and some biscuits.
I don't have a problem with people following recruits on twitter. I personally don't, mostly because high school kids are ridiculously annoying on twitter, but if they leave their feeds unlocked and encourage people to follow them, go for it.
That being said, do not tweet at them, do not read into their tweets, and above all, do not judge them for what they say on there. If twitter was around when I was 17 I would have some really embarrassing things on there. 17 year olds don't have the same sort of restraint and impulse control as they will when they are adults, or even in a year.
Why don't you just remove all board posts that begin with a recruit's tweet? (OPs only. Obviously, you can't patrol all posts. Or can you?)
The obsession with recruit tweets is crazy. However, many of the recruiting reporters are as guilty as anyone for fanning the flames. I won't mention the name of the reporter who best handled himself today, but let's just say he used to work here and is now on a pay site for a large network based in Bristol, Connecticut. All he did was call Tom Wilcher for a comment when the thing started. There's a lesson to be learned about professionalism.
Some stuff recruits tweet is actually news. If Kyle Bosch tweets, "I'm enrolling early," that's actual news and worth discussion. But if he tweets "damn, that sucks," we don't need a thread to discuss whether or not that tweet meant that he has decided to give up football and take up needlepoint.
Another example of a recruiting guy who has done things correctly, I point you to Aquman/Tremendous/Steve Lorenz/Batman (oops, I've said too much), who of late has had several scoops that he has not shared publicly because they weren't the kind of things that were for public consumption. Case in point:
Those who speak don't know, and those who know don't speak.
No doubt. Steve Aquamendous did a, uh, Tremendous job of not adding to the controversy to get some cheap site hits. He deserves a mention. If only the same could be said for guys like MSpeedKills and Kyle Meinke.
There was a long series of tweets from a lot of people who typically don't do anything but repackage something they have learned elsewhere. Every one of them walked their comments back, without any thought to an apology to young Mr. Dawson. I am happy that the folks around here were not part of that.
Many of the comments I saw seemed to assume that the coaching staff locks the doors and pulls the shades after the last game. In short, those people have demonstrated a lack of faith in the staff, and by extension the athletic department and the university. I would submit that the fact that the staff isn't bleating on twitter or a blog doesn't mean they are not on top of their game.
And Taco Bell. And I'm getting like 6 things.
People on the internet will believe anything. In fact, just yesterday I pretended to be Laquon Treadwell and said I was close to committing.
I just tweeted all the Michigan recruits so they'd know about your new ground rules.
Ahh, order restored to mgoblog. BISB thanks for protecting us from total anarchy (unlike many message boards that I won't name).


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TISHOMINGO, OK - Water is back up and running in Tishomingo, according to city officials.
City Manager Jack Yates said the broken water line was repaired around 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Yates said all residents should have had water by 9 o'clock.
Yates says crews setting up a power pole for a trailer at the Chickasaw Nation festival hit the main water pipe that controls the water tower.
He thanked residents for their patience.


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