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I'm sure all car sales are down this year, especially in the last few months. There's a credit crunch, don't forget.
American auto manufacturers are in trouble and may need Government bail-outs. It's not just a leccy car problem.
Electric cars sales have tanked in the UK. A mere 156 EVs were sold between January and October 2008, compared to 347 in the same period in 2007 - a drop of 58 per cent. To deepen the gloom, the Nice Car Company has gone into administration. Nobody was answering the phones at Nice this morning when Reg Hardware tried to seek …
Living in London, I toyed with buying a Leccy because I'd hoped to skim free of parking charges and because I wouldn't be pumping bad things into the air (let the electricity generator do that), but I was held back by the fact that (1) I have nowhere safe to plug the vehicle in the charge it (2) I need a vehicle that will take decent loads of shopping etc (3) I sometimes want to drive into the countryside, and make it back.
While I hummed and hawed, no new leccies that answered my needs arrived, and now Nice, my first choice, is floating belly-up like a goldfish.
While the hybrids are pretty cool cars and generally well designed, I cannot see many people buying all-electric cars at this stage. They all look rather like they were designed by a vacuum cleaner manufacturer and still lack range and speed. They need to do a lot more to shake off the perception that they're one step up from a 1950s milk float!
Most of us are not going to buy a car simply to totter around the city centre, particularly since in the UK and Ireland we have adopted the urban sprawl model of town planning. So, most of us do have to drive long distances in cars and need access to motorways / high speed roads. If you're living and working in a city centre location, you'll probably end up using public transport or walking anyway!
Current all-electric vehicles can't really replace the existing car, we need something a little faster and sexier before people will switch over.
At present, hybrid technology seems like a decent solution. I've got a Prius and I really can't fault it, it's a pleasure to drive and has excellent acceleration. The difference between this and the EVs is that it's actually made by a real car maker i.e. Toyota. Despite all of the 'boo hybrid's are for carrot munchers' type reviews on the likes of Top Gear, I have to say the Prius can go up a hill with more va! va! voom! than any car I've ever driven, including those with vastly bigger engines. The combination of petrol engine + instant high traction power from the electric motor really gives them quite a surprising amount of ummph! It's also getting me a massive car tax reduction in Ireland as it's rated "A" for CO2 output and it's definitely using a lot less petrol than an equivalently sized car.
I'd go all-electric myself it they were a viable option, but unfortunately I'm not prepared to drive a washing machine crossed with a swatch watch...
Perhaps a hybrid with a rechargeable plug-in battery might be a way forward. So, you could drive predominantly using electricity only in urban areas and then use the 'traditional' hybrid mix at higher speeds or where a burst of acceleration is needed.
Electricity works out cheaper than petrol. If that was the main cost of an electric car, it would be worth scrapping the family's petrol cars and replacing them with electric today. The real cost of an electric car is replacing the battery once every year or two. There is no way that I will accept lock in to a proprietary battery. If there were standard sizes, I would take the risk that competition will keep the price reasonable. As it is, I will delay the decision until the cars we have become uneconomic to maintain. (There is a much more efficient alternative to batteries:-)
perhaps there are only 503 people in all of the uk who give enough of a damn about the environment to own/drive an EV
the rest of us are perfectly happy filling our tanks with super unleaded at exhorbitant prices and burning up and down motorways at a decent speed that doesn't bore you to death and take 2 weeks to get anywhere
I saw this mini cooper at the motor show 2 years ago.
apparently it's capable of 150 mph - that's forward or reverse!! they have to use the equivalent of an engine managment unit to control the acceleration so it does spin the grip off the tires.
if all electric cars were like this, then a lot more people would have them i think
Goingreen are doing quite well though selling the G-Wiz (I have one). Yes you may have to replace the batteries every 2 years or so, but it is still the cheapest car to drive around London, and incredibly convenient.
The City Of London's decision to reverse their free parking for electric cars in their carparks is a biazzre u-turn in policy, especially considering that Westminster is installing on street electric charging as we speak!
All electric cars are undoubtedly the future of personal transportation, thoughts on hybrids and fuel cell are ultimately futile. The cars need to look better and perform better, this will come in time. Meanwhile, I wouldn't trade my G-Wiz in for anything...
are electric cars all so horribly fugly?
they seriously expect people to buy those?
(The lack of crash testing is also bad, I remember top gear doing a 30mph head on crash test with a gwiz which showed that is was completely terrible and would have failed a crash test.)
Added to the lack of range of course, so you can't drive anywhere more than about 100 miles without 12 hours recharge time.
I also hate all those idiots who say 'electric cars have no emission lol', they don't. Electricity isn't a natural resource, it has to be generated, which is about 80% non renewable.
It's a pity the NICE cars were so ugly. There was an absolutely cute prototype at the Excel show earlier in the year that was developed by Cranfield but the 'production' cars were horrible.
Now if I could get a leccy car like the QED Mini at a sensible price I might be interested!
...where we have to drive perhaps 30 or more miles to work, where we don't want to be cruising on a motorway where the next car's tyre is bigger than your whole car, where we put lots of shopping or suitcases or golf bags and other things into our adequately sized boots, where we want to travel in comfort, where we travel 20 miles through the countryside no where near a 3 pin plug, where we travel 200 miles to see family without having an overnight stop to "refill" our car...
Sure, we will one day see electric cars on the road as common as a Ford Focus is now, but it won't be until they start selling us practical vehicles rather than these "toys".
For people who have issues with:
a) emissions: go read up on well-to-wheel efficiency ICE vs battery.
b) battery life, performance, range, aesthetics: go see Tesla Motors.
Obviously Tesla are struggling financially at the moment, but they show what can be done even with today's technology. All this in an industry where serious R&D has only just started ... just one significant advance in battery tech and the ICE car is heading the way of the dodo.
Never understood why with the current state of the evolution of electric cars. Everyones talking about doing 200 mile journeys up and down the motorway & needing 150 mph performance. how many people out of the whole car driving population do this everyday ?
Really they should be linking up with other long haul carriers & car hire companies.
For example electric car hire at train stations so people can hire an electric car to and from a station to jobs in a town or city.
Why is the government not legislating to get middle class mums out of their 4x4's & into electric cars for the school run
Mot people don't do 200 mile journeys every day, but they do them occasionally - holidays, visiting friends and relatives at Christmas, etc. They don't want to have a second car for those journeys or have to go to the bother of hiring one.
Car (and bike) hire at stations would be fine if rail fares weren't so expensive. OK if you know exactly when you are travelling and can book in advance, but even then you can't just throw everything in the car and go.
School kids ought to walk or cycle to school, or go on the bus!
Two other reasons I could see personally..
1) Gas (err... excuse me, petrol..) prices have dropped. Here (Iowa, USA) they've dropped from a peak of over $4.20 to currently $1.69 per gallon. I know there's far more taxes in Britain but I assume there's probably still been a nice drop there as well. I'm not saying an electric car wouldn't still be cheaper overall (I really don't know) but it certainly can't help those sales any when the conventional fuel costs have dropped so far.*
2) As Bruno says, all car sales are dropping, a lot.
*Conspiracy-wise, I think OPEC realized they were putting a serious scare into people regarding fossil fuels, and have made sure to keep prices down again to avoid too many people getting super-efficient vehicles, electrics, etc.
Sorry, but these eletric cars are dangerous, ugly and just as polluting - where does electricity come from?
And to the people who are annoyed that your electric skateboard now has to pay for parking - it is still a car isn't it? Is your vehicle taking up a parking space? Then pay for the privilige like everyone else.
"Why,,, are electric cars all so horribly fugly?"
They're ugly so people won't buy them! Why sell a car that doesn't need parts or maintenance? All I see marketed are "green" neighborhood EVs - small & ugly, not crash tested, and limited to a fast jog.
Contrast that to the sleek and sexy hydrogen cars with 1,000,000 HP and the range of a gas guzzling ICE. You can drive cross country daily while using the exhaust vapor to make tea! Don't worry about the $1M price tag and lack of filling stations, those problems will disappear with a few more government handouts.
But peek under the hood and what do you have? An electric drivetrain! So why not replace that pesky fuel cell and high pressure H2 storage tank with a few thousand laptop cells? Hmmmm....
Mine's the one with the extension cord and flaming pockets.
The PML Flightlink mini is indeed capable of silly speed, can be made to recharge VERY quickly (matter of minutes) and is incredibly efficient at re-generative breaking. This is for a number of reasons...Partly because the motors act as the brakes and are hub mounted they are very efficient at turning kinetic energy into electrical energy and also because the batteries it used (i think) are nano li-ion rather than the more standard li-ion used in the Tesla and the crappy nickel metal hydride used in the prius (really old-hat technology now).
The better batteries can charge much more quickly and therefore can store the huge influx of energy from the breaking system.
The reason this car hasn't caught on is cost. The only other car with an equal setup is the British Electric Lightning and its rumoured to cost £120 - 180k.
The problem is cost, not technology.

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Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is shutting down its coupon business known as Zavers after 17 months. The service let users clip coupons online and redeem them in-store at grocers including Food Emporium, D'Agostino and Raley's.
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The idea of the program was to help retailers send targeted coupons to the right customers. It also used Google data to track the effectiveness of coupon campaigns.
Google says the program was supposed to "increase transaction speed" at the cash register because it took away the need to scan paper coupons. It also reduced hassle for consumers since they did not have to carry coupons around.
Going forward, a Google spokesperson says the company is "working closely with clients during the transition and (will) remain focused on connecting shoppers with the brands they love through offerings like Product Listing Ads, Google Shopping Express and Google Wallet."
Google Wallet is an app that lets users access loyalty card information digitally. App users can also store offers they view online.
"Zavers was basically a coupon program tied with the merchant point-of-sale system," said Neil Doshi, analyst at CRT capital. "My guess is that the integration process with the POS systems were proving to be challenging, and retailers were not too keen on sharing their data with Google"
Launched in January 2013, the product stemmed from Google's acquisition of loyalty rewards service Zave Networks in 2011.
Google shares are down 9% in the last three months. Shares are currently trading around $554.


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Mobile Web Arrives at HostGator
Web hosting provider HostGator will immediately begin offering a mobile website solution from dotMobi to its U.S. customer base.
The gomobi solution from dotMobi offers Hostgator clients a means to quickly create a presence on the mobile Web, similar to the services provided by the likes of DudaMobile and another of our personal favorites in FiddleFly. goMobi offers several interesting features including click-to-call functionality, maps and directions, video and QR code integration, product galleries, e-commerce support and social networking access.
HostGator CEO Adam Farrar said, "We're excited about goMobi. With a mobile presence now a 'must' for businesses, goMobi gives our customers a great mobile option at an attractive price."
HostGator is going mobile none too late, as more than 95 percent of smartphone users search the Web on their phones, and two-thrids of those searches result in a call or visit to a store according to recent Google research.


text: Jim Lux wrote: > I suspect that it is just Lahey's approach to pricing their product in a > way to maximize revenue in a reasonably fair way that sort of approaches > a "ability to pay sliding scale" kind of basis. > > Nobody has ever claimed that products (in general, and software in > particular) are priced at their intrinsic value to the buyer. It's > always an approximation of some sort, driven by desires to make enough > money to stay in business, to keep it reasonably simple, and so forth.. > > It seems to me that Lahey is pricing bigger clusters higher based on the > reasonable assumption that someone who can afford to build and operate a > 200 processor cluster probably has more "means to pay" than someone > operating a 4 processor cluster. Furthermore, the price differential > isn't all that extreme considering the radically different budgets that > probably exist... It's a roughly 2:1 price difference for a 16:1 cluster > size (and presumably, ability to pay) difference. But the question remains. In a world where other vendors are charging for the product (fortran compiler) Lahey is charging for running the programs produced by that product. I wrote the FORTRAN source code. I bought the hardware and software for the cluster. I'm paying for the cooling and power to run the cluster. I'm paying for the systems administration. Why should I pay someone else to *run* my code on my cluster? What is the value they add? > > Considering that the monthly electric bill alone for a 256 processor > cluster is on the order of $3000 (150W/CPU*256 CPU * 720 hr/month = > 27,658 kWh/month, 0.11/kWh) (not even worrying about facilities costs > (AC, etc.), the extra $1500 in license fees is pretty small compared to > $36K/yr in direct operating costs (especially, since the direct cost is > probably more like $100K/yr.. rent, etc.). $1500 buys me another node. What value does the Lahey runtime add to the system over and above what an Intel or Portland or even a GNU compiler suite / runtime provides? John


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The ALISS (Association of Librarians and Information Professionals in the Social Sciences) Quarterly April 2012 includes a short article on OAPEN-UK. Access is available online to ALISS members or you can read the article here / below.
OAPEN-UK: exploring open access scholarly monographs in the humanities and social sciences
Caren Milloy, Head of Projects, JISC Collections
OAPEN-UK is a 4 year research project gathering evidence to help stakeholders take informed decisions about a move towards an open access model for scholarly monograph in the humanities and social sciences (HSS). It is an extremely timely project for a number of key reasons:
- Print sales of scholarly monographs are in decline – in the US, between 1980 and 2000,"a monograph's average library sales plummeted from around 2,000 copies in 1980, to 1,000 in the late 1980s, to 500 in the 1990s, to a little more than 200 in the early years of this century."2
- Library spending on print books is in decline – in 2010, the Research Information Network's Trends in the finances of UK higher education libraries: 1999 – 2009 reported that "between 2004 and 2009, expenditure on print books fell in real terms by 13% across the sector."3
- Library monograph budgets are under pressure support journal expenditure
- Publishers and university presses are collaborating to offer electronic subscription based access to scholarly monographs – in the last 12 months a number of new initiatives have been launched, OUP's University Press Scholarship Online, CUP's University Publishing Online, Project MUSE and Books at JSTOR
- A recent OAPEN-UK publisher focus group4 estimated sales of e-monographs currently only account for around 6% of publishers' revenue.
The scholarly monograph, the gold standard for academic excellent in many HSS disciplines, is under threat. The effective dissemination of the monograph is critical to fostering a world class, vibrant and innovative research environment, but with print sales declining at a higher rate than e-sales are increasing and new models continuing to rely on dwindling library budgets, are we at risk of stifling HSS scholars?
Open Access Publishing
Relatively little research has been undertaken with regards to the impacts of OA in HSS and even less in relation to digital publishing of monographs. To enable us to really assess the prospect of an OA model for scholarly monographs, and to take account of our UK specific policies and processes, we need to gather a body of evidence.
Open access (OA) is a model that could help to increase dissemination and reduce the burden on libraries. OA does not limit access to those that pay – subscribers, particular institutions or one country. OA publishing is international; thereforeonce a title is made available online under a Creative Commons licence it can be downloaded and placed on a multitude of platforms, thus increasing the potential for widerdissemination and readership of a title to all users across the world.
OAPEN-UK, follows on from the recent European project, Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN)5 and is taking an evidence based approach to gathering data, investigating attitudes and perceptions and gathering impacts.
Introducing OAPEN-UK
OAPEN-UK is collaborating with publishers, authors, research funders, academics and institutions to gather evidence to help stakeholders make some informed decisions about how they may work towards an OA model for HSS monographs, if indeed it is feasible.It is piloting the OAPEN model, where a PDF version of the title is made available in OA using a Creative Commons licence, with the publisher also makingavailable the print version for sale to help recoup costs. This hybrid model recognises that a move to OA will not happen overnight and that while a transition takes place, publishers will continue to publish print – just as academics will continue to read print and want print versions for reward and recognition.
Palgrave Macmillan, Taylor & Francis, Berg Publishers, Liverpool University Press and University Wales Press are all participating in OAPEN-UK and have had HSS scholarly monographs selected for inclusion in the pilot6, which commenced on the 1 September 2011. For each monograph title submitted, the publisher had to submit a matched title to make a pair. The titles were matched as closely as possible on publication date, subject area, age to print sales ratio, price and format history. A total of 58 HSS scholarly monographswere selected, making 29 pairs.
A title from each pair has been randomly placed in either the Experimental Group or the Control Group.The Experimental Group titles are available on the OAPEN Library under a Creative Commons licence. In addition, the titles can be made discoverable via the publisher's own website, institutional repositories, the authors own website and via a 100% view in Google Book Search.
The Control Group titles are available as ebooks for sale under the publishers normal licensing and route to market models. The titles are discoverable as per the publisher's standard processes, but only a 10% preview in Google Book Search.
For both the Experimental Group titles and the Control Group titles, libraries and readers will be able to purchase print copies and where the publisher is making them available, ebook device friendly editions such as ePub.
The pilot will allow sales and usage data to be gathered for the experimental and control group titles and to evaluate differences between the groups.
OAPEN-UK Research Plan
A large programme of research7is being undertaken as part of the project, thisincludesannual benchmarking surveys, focus groups, interviews and surveys with key stakeholders. By combining the quantitative data from the pilot with sales and usage data, three key questions will be addressed:
1. How might policies, processes and mechanisms need to change to enable OA publication of monographs?
- What is the most appropriate business model for OA monographs?
- What is the impact on organisational policies?
- What technical changes may be required in order to move to OA?
2. What are the measurable effects of a move to OA monographs?
- On readership/usage?
- On sales?
- On citations?
3. How do perceptions of OA monograph publication change among participants during the project?
- Perceived risks and benefits to various stakeholders of publishing in OA format?
- Perceived quality of OA monographs?
Year 1 of the plan includes an initial literature review, an annual benchmarking survey, focus groups and initial scoping interviews / surveys.
Current Findings
The first annual benchmarking survey (which will track the changing opinions of all project participants – authors, publishers, AHRC, JISC, members of the steering group towards OA monograph publication) and the first round of focus groups have now been completed.
Focus groups have been held with publishers, researchers (as both authors and readers), institutional representatives (including librarians, IR staff and research managers), learned societies, ebook aggregators and research funders.Key themes that arose included metadata, versioning, preservation, delivery and the user experience, quality and prestige, business models and risks and consistency. The findings8 are being used to define the next set of activities – surveys and in-depth interviews.
The OAPEN-UK researcher survey9 explores many of the themes from the focus groups in more depth. In particular it looks at researcher's attitudes towards OA, the value they place on being published and their publishers, the viability of business models and their reading behaviours.
In summer 2012 OAPEN-UK will make available the analysis of the sales, usage and citation data alongside the full write up of the focus groups, survey results and interviews.As the project progresses, all the evidence gathered will provide a comprehensive examination of OA as a potential model and enable stakeholders to make informed decisions about the future of the scholarly monograph.
Further information
A guide for librarians10 and IR managers11 includes a full title list, instructions to download MARC records, author affiliation and how to can get involved.
Details on the project, the full research plan, events and latest news are available on the OAPEN-UK website1. The project can be followed on twitter: @oapenuk #oapenuk or contact Caren Milloy, Head of Projects for further information.
1. OAPEN-UK: http://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/
2. Willinsky, J.,(2010) Towards the Design of an open Monograph Press.Journal of Electronic Publishing, 12, 1. doi: 10.3998/3336451.0012.103
3. Research Information Network (2010) Trends in the finances of the UK higher education libraries: 1999–2009. http://www.rin.ac.uk/uk-libraries-trends
4. OAPEN-UK publisher focus group: http://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/research-findings/y1-initial-focus-groups/publishers/
5. OAPEN: http://project.oapen.org/
6. OAPEN-UK pilot: http://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/pilot
7. OAPEN-UK research plan: http://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/overview/research-plan/
8. OAPEN-UK focus groups: http://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/research-findings/y1-initial-focus-groups/
9. OAPEN-UK researcher survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/oapenukresearcher
10. OAPEN-UK guide for librarians: http://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/pilot/info-for-librarians/
11. OAPEN-UK guide for IR managers: http://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/pilot/info-for-repository-managers/


text: It's been snowing for the past few days here in Wisconsin and our trip to Palm Springs, California cannot be here at a better time. It will be our first time exhibiting at the Vendor Expo for the 15th annual Tour de Palm Springs and we are looking forward to being outside in the middle of February without a coat and gloves. If you are planning on doing the ride or live in the area make sure to stop by and say hi. The expo is free and open to the public!


text: Hi Randall and all I have used PVMPOV for ray-tracing. It is the POV-Ray application with a PVM patch applied to it. It works very well and the XPVM interface allows all the processes and communications to be seen. It takes .pov text files and converts them into .tga graphics files. My small cluster of four 750MHz Athlons, does skyvase.pov in about 30 seconds. PVMPOV is easy-ish to setup and configure and once its all done you have a nice face rendering system. This uses PVM3.4.3, POV-Ray v3.1 and the PVMPOV3-1g-1. Other things like BEOLIN are Beowulf specific and don't require PVM to be on each node. This addresses issues of external node access and pipes ALL the processes via the frontend. www.povray.org -> pov-ray http://www.epm.ornl.gov/pvm/pvm_home.html ->pvm http://pvmpov.sourceforge.net/ -. PVMPOV Please feel free to correct me if any of that is wrong, I kinda a newbie myself. Doing a final year degree project on this stuff. :) Rupert Davey -----Original Message----- From: beowulf-admin at beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-admin at beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Randall Jouett Sent: 03 January 2003 08:47 To: beowulf at beowulf.org Subject: Beowulf Questions Howdy, Newbie alert, although I have ready the FAQ, visited a couple of the project sites listed on beowulf.org, and even read a HOWTO or 3 :^). Being a software engineer, I'll just say that I'm way too familiar with RTFM and google searches :^). Basically, I'm looking for the following info: * Is there a beowulf setup out that that is used to gernerate ray-traced graphics? If so, does anyone have a links to sites that in-depth info? * Is there a beowulf setup out there setup specifically for random-number generation, with its main focus on generating "truly random" numbers, if you can say that synchronus, clock-based computers are capable of generating truly random numbers :^). If so, has a cluser of this type been used in encryption and decryption purposes. * Is there a beowulf chess engine out there? If so, has it ever played in the computer chess championship, and how did it perform? * Is anyone working on beowulf clustering based on trusted-host computing? That is, instead of having a local cluster of numerous computers in various racks, a person could say something like, "I trust this host and that host, and if any of them want to use my excess CPU time over the Internet, then they are welcome to use my broadband-connected machine for their purposes. In other words, this would be a setup much like the SETI screen blanker, yet the screen blanker would be removed and out of the loop. Anyone doing this? If not, I'm interested in giving this a shot. (Send e-mail or post here, and I'll give a verbose explanation of the way I see something like this working.) * Is anyone using real-time versions of Unix(TM) in their beowulf setup? If so, did they/you notice a significant increase in processing speed? Personally,and off the top of my head, I'd think the main bottleneck is the MPI and network communications. [This next one will be a bit "out there," but what the hell -- no guts no glory! :^) ] * Is anybody working on a model that encompasses nano-technology? That is, is there anyone out there working on algorithms that would allow nano-bots to communicate and process information in a beowulf-like manner? Anywho, TIA, and feel free to answer any of the questions, even if you can't answer them all. The way I see things, a bit of knowledge gained is better than no knowledge at all.... Best Regards, Randall -- Randall Jouett Amateur Radio: AB5NI I eat spaghetti code out of a bit bucket while sitting at a hash table! _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf


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Session: Security risk & compliance assessment, Tue., Sep. 15, 13:00 - 13:30
On the first sight, Secure Financial Cloud seems to be a contradiction in itself. Concepts of open environments like cloud computing typically do not address challenges like thorough security concepts. Designing security architectures for arbitrary cloud environments seems to be a hard problem. In our research project "Securing the Financial Cloud (SFC)" we are researching approaches and solutions for a special cloud environment, the so called "financial cloud". In this talk I would like to present the actual status of our research and discuss interesting challenges.
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Volker Krummel is a Security Professional at Wincor Nixdorf since 2008. He received his PhD in the area of cryptography from the University of Paderborn in 2007. At Wincor Nixdorf he is responsible for the IT-Security Research. He is the project leader and specialist at several publicly funded cooperative research projects in the areas of secure cloud computing, IT Forensics and Risk Management. His research interests cover Cryptography, Computer Algebra and Information Theory, IT-Security Analysis and IT-Forensics.


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DALLAS — The more change that comes to the Orlando Magic, the more Jameer Nelson remains true to himself, and devoted to his team.
Few would have blamed Nelson for becoming bitter over the Magic's rapid descent. A survivor of the Dwightmare that cost the franchise its coach, the league's most dominant center and its standing as an Eastern Conference contender, Nelson could have, without guilt or repercussion, forced his way out of this Orlando rebuild that enters Year 2.
Entering his 10th season, matching Nick Anderson as the longest-tenured player in Magic history, Nelson chose otherwise.
"It's fun," Nelson said prior to Monday's preseason win against the Mavericks. "It's fun to see the way things progress, where we're trying to take the franchise and rebuild and do things with a young group. Me coming in 10 years ago, it was kind of the same scenario."
Nelson finds himself surrounded by a young team beginning to create a bit of a buzz with players such as Moe Harkless, Tobias Harris, Nicola Vucevic and the summer's No. 2 pick, Victor Oladipo in the fold. The Magic's top prospect is an exciting player Nelson is eager to mentor while knowing Oladipo could ultimately replace him.
"He's humble and he's very talented," Nelson said of the Indiana product. "He has great upside and I think he'll be a great player in the league for a long time."
Nelson took Monday night's game off and watched an Orlando starting five that boasted six seasons, 358 games and 199 starts among them. Nelson has started 488 of his 583 career games.
The Magic could have, maybe should have, cut ties with him prior to last season. He's now four years removed from his lone All-Star appearance and has been injury-prone, playing more than 70 games just once since 2006-07. At 31, Nelson has likely reached his peak. Orlando signed him to a three-year extension last summer, raising eyebrows around a league that asked what good Nelson could do for a franchise committed to its youth.
"I'm not a guy looking for accolades. I'm not a guy looking for publicity or notoriety," Nelson said. "My job is to do my work on the court and off the court in the community and be the person I've been for the last 31 years. There's a reason why I've been here for 10 years, a reason why the organization has kept me around."
Still, Nelson isn't naive. He knows he's on the block this season and likely will be playing elsewhere before the February trade deadline as second-year general manager Rob Hennigan, who's the same age as Nelson, marches onward with his post-Dwight blueprint. The 6-foot point guard could help a contender as a steady reserve, or slide into the starting role for a team needing a veteran in charge. Though neither seems to be what Nelson truly desires.
"I still want to play here in Orlando and see this thing turn around," Nelson said.
He certainly witnessed it implode. The Magic played in the 2009 Finals and were in the 2010 East finals. By the end of 2013, they had a league-worst 62 losses.
"Just weird," is how Nelson described the past few seasons through the Dwightmare haze and beyond. "We competed for a championship for four or five years in a row. We were one of the elite teams, so to see where I'm at now in terms of rebuilding, you know, it's still fun. I'm doing something I love to do, I'm around a bunch of guys who are great, young guys. We don't have any knuckleheads, we don't have any guys who cause any problems. Everybody wants to be the best player they can be and wants to learn."
Teaching and preaching is what Nelson is doing for this squad of early 20-somethings … and for his appreciative, 38-year-old, second-year coach, Jacque Vaughn.
"Since I've been here, he's been a guy that I've been able to count on to carry my message in the locker room," Vaughn said. "And that's extremely important when young guys are doing this for the first time around. He's been a leader for us and someone I can count on."
Nelson passed on a question about his feelings toward Howard. He said he followed the big man's free agency this summer: "How couldn't you? You turn on the TV, he was everywhere." He even said Howard made the right choice by leaving the Lakers and signing with the Houston Rockets because, ironically, "they have a similar system that we played with (former coach) Stan [Van Gundy]."
So how much progress can the Magic make this season? Even in an Eastern Conference that will provide playoff opportunity for an upstart, there's little doubt this will be an ongoing struggle. And more upheaval is likely with Nelson, Arron Afflalo and Glen "Big Baby" Davis all available for the right price.
Nelson said he'll keep pushing as long as the Magic let him.
"My job is to continue to be professional whether we win or lose and move forward," Nelson said. "We're trying to help these guys develop as much as we can and, with that being said, a lot of them look up to me."


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Just a few feet beyond the Tennessee-Mississippi state line past the Fayette County line on U.S. 72 is the turn onto Cayce Road in Byhalia and what is soon to be the first U.S. plant of the Danish company Roxul Inc.
Ferrell Paving had already broken ground earlier this spring at the 110-acre site in Marshall County, Miss., where Roxul will employ about 150 people initially to make, package and ship stone wool insulation.
The Danish ambassador to the U.S., executives from the Denmark parent company Rockwool International and Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant did the formal honors Wednesday, May 8, as tractors and other heavy equipment continued to set the stage for the plant and packaging site that is a $160 million investment by the company.
"We understand that's just a state line there," Bryant said after the speeches and ceremony were done. "There will be Tennessee people that will be working here."
Rock wool is a relatively small insulation market in the U.S. Roxul has two plants in Canada.
But outside North America, Roxul operates 25 factories in 16 countries. The insulation is made from natural stone and recycled materials. The production waste is also recycled. And Roxul plants use storm water and recycled process water in the production process.
The basic manufacturing process, which Roxul president Trent Ogilvie described in part as "melting rocks," will take place at the Byhalia plant along with all of the other steps in the process including the packaging.
Ogilvie was part of the Roxul site selection team that began looking in summer 2011 with the idea that the plant would be somewhere in the South.
Rockwool CEO Eelco van Heel said the make up of the insulation – "3 percent fibers and 97 percent air" – was also a factor in site selection.
"The first thing that we looked for is logistics," he said. "All the trucks that we send out of our factories all over the world every hour contain 97 percent air. So logistics for us, as you may understand, is a crucial thing to the company."
The plant, which is scheduled to open in a year, is in Chickasaw Trail Industrial Park – the third tenant in the 3,600-acre park that includes a 750,000-square-foot EXEL distribution center and a new 500,000-square-foot ASICS American Corp. distribution center.
"We are closer to greater Memphis. The employment and universities and just the economic size of greater Memphis was an attraction," Ogilvie said of the site. "Alabama fought really hard for it. It really didn't come down to a bigger incentive for one state or the other. They were very competitive. We just thought greater Memphis was a little bit better place to be."
The state of Mississippi put up $12 million in incentives for the project.
"Infrastructure and workforce development is an important part of that," Bryant said. Community Development Block Grant "money is involved – federal money to bring in economic development projects. But with the company putting the amount of money – nearly $150 million of corporate funds in it – we felt like it was a very good investment for Mississippi."
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2) Hide a few kale leaves or baby spinach in frozen fruit smoothies! Yep…no one will ever know! This pretty dark pink drink is perfect for a morning or afternoon treat for kids and adults alike. Makes 1 adult or 2 kid-sized servings: Place a frozen banana, one cup of frozen raspberries, ½ to 1 cup of greens, and one cup of water in a blender and process until smooth and creamy.
3) Hide greens in a sweet sauce. Here is a syrupy sauce to top ANY veggie, including carrots, broccoli, kale or spinach: Whisk together 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, 2 teaspoons brown sugar, 2 teaspoons tamari. Pour over any hot veggies. It's jazzy-licious!
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Cut kale into bite size pieces. Pour the kale, marinara sauce, basil, crushed red pepper, garlic and water into a large sauté pan. Bring to a simmer, and cook over medium-low heat for 15 to 20 minutes, or until the kale is softened. Add a bit more water, one tablespoon at a time, if mixture seems dry while cooking.
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The House passed a $124 billion supplemental appropriations bill that includes $3.7 billion in disaster assistance for farmers who experienced crop and quality losses due to adverse weather conditions in 2005, 2006 or 2007.
Most of the supplemental bill's funding - $100 billion - will go to pay for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, but the measure faces an almost certain veto because of the disaster assistance and other add-ons and because it sets a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq by 2008.
House leaders said the additional funding is necessary and that much of it, including the disaster relief, should have been passed when Congress was controlled by Republicans. The Senate was scheduled to debate and vote on a version of the bill that imposes fewer restrictions on the Bush administration's conduct of the war.
"This disaster package will finally provide some relief to farmers and ranchers who have been waiting for Congress to act for more than a year," said House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, D-Minn., who had asked for $4.3 billion in disaster aid. That was down from the $6.5 billion Democrats sought last year.
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A House ag committee press release said Peterson worked closely with House leadership to create a program that was "disciplined and fiscally restrained." Farmers can apply for a payment for only one of the three years and, for the first time, only farmers with crop insurance are eligible.
The disaster relief program would operate as it has in previous years if it passes muster in the House and Senate and is signed by the president. The bill would cover losses that exceed 35 percent of a producer's normal yield at two-thirds of the average commodity price. It would also contain compensation for livestock losses.
A coalition of more than 30 farm organizations, including the National Cotton Council and American Farm Bureau Federation, has been urging Congress to pass disaster assistance to help farmers recover from the hurricanes, floods, droughts, wildfires, heat waves, blizzards and freezes that caused serious damage to the full gamut of U.S. crops.
Senate Democrats have passed several versions of disaster assistance bills since the fall of 2005 but ran up against White House opposition. USDA officials have been quoted as saying they thought the legislation was unnecessary given the farm program payments made to farmers under the 2002 farm bill.
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Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, R.W. Knudsen Family, Chico, Calif., launches R.W. Knudsen Light! Juices. With fewer calories but all the flavor intact, Light! Juices contain all natural ingredients, are sweetened with stevia and do not contain any added sugar.
Available in three superfruit varieties-- Cranberry, Blueberry and Pomegranate, the juices provide health-conscious consumers an option for an antioxidant-rich juice with 45 percent fewer calories than other superfruit blends.
Light! Juices are sweetened with Cargill's Truvia, a zero-calorie sweetener derived from rebiana, an extract made from the sweet components of the stevia leaf. It offers a clean, sweet taste for food and beverage partners looking to produce zero-calorie or lower-calorie products.
"With the increased attention paid to how many calories are consumed each day through liquids alone, Truvia rebiana provides a great tasting, natural, zero-calorie sweetener option without compromising on flavor," says Zanna McFerson, assistant vice president at Cargill Health & Nutrition and business director for the Truvia enterprise.
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