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The first piece of malware for Android 2.3 'Gingerbread' has been spotted. Working alongside NetQin – a mobile security firm, security researcher Xuxian Jiang has located and detailed the inner workings of GingerMaster, the first piece of malware that attacks Android Gingerbread.
Using Gingerbreak, which is the the latest exploit for gaining root access to Gingerbread, the malware gathers information about the infected device and sends it to a remote server. In addition to exfiltrating the IMEI, phone number and SIM serial, GingerMaster creates a backdoor root shell, stored in the system partition in an attempt to survive after software upgrades, to allow for an attacker to access the device at will.
The malware also acts as a trojan horse. Registering on a remote server, the application will sit and wait for instructions on a 'command and control' channel. This allows for an attacker to remotely trigger events, such as downloading and installing more malware without the user knowing or reading personal information saved on the phone.
With more and more malware for Android popping up, looking to mobile security software as a means to protect your device is a good choice, but using more common sense with downloading applications from official stores and understanding the risks of giving permissions to apps, is a better way to protect yourself from these threats. While both Google and Apple are looking for ways to implement a "kill switch" for unauthorized devices or applications, this is a reactive measure to an inherent problem with all security implementations – they rely on the user.


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After lusting over a MacBook Air for more than a few months, I recently purchased the 13″ MacBook Air with 4GB RAM and 128GB SSD. While there is no denying the fact that SSDs are the future, they are still pretty pricey.
While Apple originally aimed the MBA as a light laptop replacement for many, it has become a desktop replacement for many including me. The only problem is that the 120.47GB of space does not cut it for me. After installing all my needed apps, backups, pictures and movies, I am not left with sufficient space for day-to-day work. Also, since it is not recommended to fill a SSD more than 50% of its actual capacity, I need to make sure that I always have around 60GB or more free space on my Air.
After hunting through the Internet searching for tips to free up space on my MacBook Air, I came across an app called Monolingual. The app allows you to remove all the unneeded language files, architecture files and Input keyboard layouts from all the installed apps on your Mac. I freed up more than 3GB of space on my MBA by using Monolingual, and removing all the unneeded language and architecture files.
Do keep in mind that once you remove any particular language, or architecture from your OS X installation, the only way to install it back is to do a complete re-installation of OS X, so proceed with caution.
Monolingual can be downloaded for free from here, and works on Mountion Lion as well.

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Loved ones of Golden Gate Bridge suicide victims see hope in net
John Brooks clutched a photo of his daughter, Casey, showing the 17-year-old smiling as she posed for her high school senior portrait shortly before she jumped to her death from the Golden Gate Bridge.
Brooks and his wife, Erika, returned Thursday to the iconic Art Deco span to commemorate the beginning of construction on a suicide deterrent system they hope will spare other families the pain they've endured since Casey's death Jan. 29, 2007.
"Casey was a fighter," said Brooks of Larkspur. "She had a big heart, she was a deep thinker. And she was ruthlessly honest ... with the emphasis on ruthlessly."
Joining Brooks and his wife Thursday were a handful of other parents and friends whose loved ones also committed suicide by jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and other Bay Area officials were also on hand to launch the construction on what will essentially be a stainless steel net running the length of the 8,981-foot bridge and sticking out 20 feet on both sides to catch anyone attempting to take their life.
"What a bittersweet day this is," said Pelosi, D-San Francisco, adding that the families gathered "turned their grief into a powerful call for action on our beloved bridge."
The project will cost $211 million and will be funded by state and federal money from several agencies, including Caltrans, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the Golden Gate Transportation Commission, and the state Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission.
"People would say to us, 'Isn't that a lot of money for a barrier? For a net?' And I would say, 'No it's not a lot of money for a life. For all of these lives,'" said Pelosi, who wore a "Suicide Deterrent System" pin with a photo of the Golden Gate Bridge on the collar of her blue blazer.
The audience agreed.
"We did it, everybody!" one man in the crowd said enthusiastically.
From January to July 2016, there were 133 attempted suicides on the bridge — 112 of those were stopped by Bridge Patrol officers, while 21 people leaped to their deaths, according to officials.
"This net is a net whose time has really come," said Feinstein, D-Calif. "What you're doing here, what the bridge is doing and what the taxpayers are doing will hopefully turn that number to zero."
The number of people under the age of 25 who annually come to the bridge to contemplate suicide has increased from nine in 2000 to 43 in 2014, and that number is expected to be even higher this year, according to the Bridge Patrol Department of the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District.
"It was just really kind of a fog," Brooks said of when the coroner came to his home in Larkspur to notify him of his daughter's death. "We had no idea that this was such a suicide magnet."
His daughter, who was a senior at Redwood High School in Larkspur, was a voracious debater, tackling every subject from politics to whether her teeth needed to be photoshopped to appear whiter in her senior portrait (they were).
"She was a typical teenager. Everything Mom and Dad had to say was wrong. And it was her job to set us straight," Brooks said, laughing as he recalled memories of his daughter.
Contractors Shimmick Construction, an Oakland company, and Danny's Construction, a San Francisco company, will work on the project together.
The completion of the deterrent net, on which work is scheduled to begin in earnest in mid-2018, is projected to be completed January 2021.
Kymberlyrenee Gamboa spoke to the crowd huddled under a tent as she held a photo of her son, Kyle, who died in 2013 at the age of 18.
"Soon, no family will experience the devastation and tragedy of a suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge," Gamboa said, her voice cracking as she attempted to stifle her tears.
Sarah Ravani is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: email@example.com Twitter: @SarRavani


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Faith's Friction
From St. Petersburg Times
By SHERRI DAY
Published September 8, 2006
Her mother named her Elizabeth after the queen of England. More than four decades later, she took another name: Safia Al-Kasaby, reflecting her new identity as a Muslima.
Safia, 43, is an unlikely candidate for conversion. She claims Jewish and Puerto Rican ancestry. She is a former sergeant first class in the Air Force National Guard. And she lost eight relatives — one uncle and seven cousins — in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
Back then, Safia did not imagine the faith professed by the hijackers would one day become her own.
"It didn't really matter who did it," says the Tampa woman now, reflecting on the 2001 attacks. "I just never hated Islam. I never hated Muslims. For me to be angry about what happened to the twin towers would be like me hating all the Germans that killed the Jews."
Safia embraced Islam last year, coming to the faith at a time when it is seemingly maligned anew with each new report of terror plots, wars in far away lands and dead American soldiers.
Like other Muslims, Safia feels the tension all around her: curious stares because she wears the hijab or head scarf and store clerks who ask for extra identification.
Just last month , officials at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo turned down an initial request from Safia's Egyptian fiance for a temporary visa. Safia was certain bigotry played a role.
Her new faith also has widened the chasm among her Christian family. Her mother, three sisters and one of her daughters question her choice.
Safia presses on.
"For her to accept Islam, making that decision especially in this day and time, it says you're ready to step up and deal with the challenges of this journey," said Pat "Aliyah" Cruse, a fellow Muslima and 11-year convert.
Some demographers consider Islam to be the fastest-growing religion in the world. Of the 1.3-billion Muslims worldwide, 4.7-million live in the United States, according to the Association of Religion Data Archives.
One of the world's oldest religions, Islam has been in the United States for generations. But the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, thrust the religion and its adherents into the spotlight. Before the attacks, American Muslims largely kept to themselves. Now, many feel the public expects them to answer for the actions of those who commit heinous acts in the name of their faith.
Across the country, some Muslims complain of stereotyping, racial profiling and discrimination. Others pine for the days when Islam was rarely mentioned in headlines. Most dare not complain openly, religious and civic leaders say, for fear of being labeled unpatriotic or sympathetic to extremists.
"There's a certain sense of indignation to being treated the way they've been treated," said Imam Mahdi Bray, executive director of the Muslim American Society's Freedom Foundation in Washington, D.C. "There's a kind of rage. The challenge is to make that a healthy rage."
Many American Muslims say extremists misrepresent their faith. But convincing the public to separate Islam from terrorism at times seems an insurmountable hurdle.
Opinion polls back up what American Muslims say they feel every day: Masses of the U.S. populace view them negatively. In a USA Today/Gallup poll released in August , 39 percent of Americans said they feel prejudiced toward Muslims. Nearly one quarter of Americans polled said they would not want a Muslim as a neighbor.
Another 39 percent want Muslims to carry special identification at all times and undergo enhanced security checks when boarding airplanes.
Anti-Muslim sentiment also has popped up in the Tampa Bay area, home to an estimated 45,000 Muslims. In 2002, federal agents arrested a Seminole podiatrist, Dr. Robert Goldstein, on charges of plotting to blow up a mosque.
Fearing for their wives' safety after Sept. 11, husbands of immigrant Muslim women pulled them out of leadership roles in Islamic women's groups. Fathers encouraged daughters to remove their hijabs in public to avoid harassment. Muslim women complained of verbal abuse in retail stores. One woman's hijab was ripped from her head by a customer in her husband's store.
Children get few passes. Last spring , athletic officials benched Temple Terrace's Briana Canty when she refused to remove her head scarf in an amateur youth basketball league tournament. Rather than recognize Islamic holidays, the Hillsborough County School Board voted to rescind all religious holidays, a move it later reversed.
This is the new reality for American Muslims. Advances are often eclipsed by setbacks.
Quoting Charles Dickens, Ihsan Bagby, a leading Muslim demographer and associate professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Kentucky, said this is the best and worst of times for Muslims in America.
"This frustration, this pressure will ultimately produce positive results as Muslims continue to strive to become full members of this society," Bagby said. "Overall, everybody will look back at this period, they'll see this possibly as a turning point in the history of Islam in America."
Despite challenges for Muslims, Islam continues to grow, buoyed by births and new converts such as Safia.
Raised by her grandparents in Puerto Rico, Safia grew up in a home of melded cultures and faiths. Her grandfather was a Jew, who fled Germany during the Holocaust. Her grandmother was Catholic. Safia ultimately chose Judaism, a faith she believed was her birthright.
But Judaism eventually let her down, Safia said. In 1997, nearly destitute, she approached a North Tampa synagogue for help. Officials at the shul wanted to know if she was a member. She was not. They asked her if she was really Jewish.
"They said just because I had a relative along the line didn't make me Jewish," said Safia. "That was the first wall. That I wasn't pure."
Battling rejection, Safia left the synagogue. For eight years, she did not participate in organized religion.
She found Islam in 2005 on the third day of a Moroccan vacation.
"I just felt like God was there," she said, recalling her visit to a mosque during the call for prayer. "I said, 'This is it. I believe there is only one God. His name is Allah, and his messenger is Mohammed.'"
At first, Safia's family didn't take her seriously. And some colleagues at her banking job looked askance at her new Moroccan-inspired Islamic attire. Safia quickly toned it down, wearing scarfs only around her neck. She dared not pray at work.
Mostly, Safia kept her new faith at home, learning about her religion on Web sites and Islamic chat rooms.
Safia went to the Islamic Society of Tampa Bay Area in June and asked for the imam. She wanted to renew her shahadah, the formal declaration of the Islamic Creed. Safia also was out of work. The imam gave her a job managing the society's office. The group also stocked her refrigerator and paid her rent and electricity bill.
At last, Safia said, she had found a spiritual family. It helps blunt the sting of the rejection from her biological one.
Safia's eldest daughter, Sylvia, wants little to do with her. A Baptist and young military widow, Sylvia berated Safia when she showed up at her husband's funeral wearing a hijab and carrying a Koran.
At home in Town 'N Country, Safia raises two daughters. Ten-year-old Natalia says her mother's religion is cool.
Ada, 18, appreciates Safia's transformation and doesn't put up with people who make fun of Islam or stereotype Muslims.
"I say, 'Wait a minute. My mom's a Muslim,'" Ada said. "She's not a terrorist."
Safia hopes the world will see her as an example of what Islam really is. Still early in her conversion, she is a Muslima in transition.
She studies the Koran and prays five times a day. She also wears makeup and has French-manicured acrylic nails. Sometimes she covers and sometimes — when she fears heckling or worse — she does not.
There are victories: Her fiance received his visa and the two married Friday.
She looks forward to the day when her religion is not an issue.
"I don't want to have whispers behind me, whispers in front of me," she said. "I want to be able to blend in, keep my faith and blend in."
Times researcher Cathy Wos contributed to this report. Sherri Day can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 813-226-3405.


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Barretto Point Park
Mayor Bloomberg Opens New York City's Pools And Unveils The Floating Pool In Barretto Point ParkFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, June 27, 2008
No. 251
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today opened the Floating Pool, a swimming pool in a barge that is docked at Barretto Point Park in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx. Beginning today, the City's 54 outdoor pools are open to the public and will remain open through Labor Day. Daily hours of operation are 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., seven days a week. At the announcement, the Mayor was joined by Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe, Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Emily Lloyd, Ann Buttenwieser, who conceived the pool, and children from local recreation centers. In addition to 54 outdoor pools, the City features 12 indoor pools and 14 miles of public beaches which are open from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. through Labor Day.
"The Floating Pool is helping to advance two important public health and environmental goals: providing recreational facilities and green spaces for New Yorkers in under-served communities and maximizing the use of our waterfront," said Mayor Bloomberg. "Until recently this neighborhood didn't have much green space, and it didn't have any public pools. But all summer, Bronx residents will be able to swim laps, take lessons, or even just splash around in the Floating Pool."
"We are thrilled to bring the Floating Pool to its picturesque perch off 'La Playita' in Barretto Point Park this summer," said Commissioner Benepe. "We encourage New Yorkers of all ages to beat the heat at this floating barge, which offers a one-of-a-kind swimming experience against the stunning backdrop of the New York skyline. We thank Ann Buttenwieser and the Neptune Foundation for donating the Floating Pool to the City, which has allowed us to bring this unique waterfront recreational opportunity to Hunts Point, an area that does not have easy access to public pools. As always, please remember to swim smart and swim safe. We urge you to follow pool rules, listen to lifeguards, know your swimming limits and of course, have fun!"
The Floating Pool features a seven-lane, 25-meter swimming pool; pool house; locker rooms with showers; bathrooms; a children's spray shower; a gangplank leading to and from the barge; and other amenities. The 20,000 square foot facility is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The pool maximizes underused waterfront space and allows for a large new facility to open along the South Bronx waterfront without acquiring any new land.
The Floating Pool, a project 20 years in the making, is the creation of Ann L. Buttenwieser, a leading urban and waterfront planner. Ms. Buttenwieser revived the idea of 15 floating baths that dotted the City's coastline at the turn of the century and founded the Neptune Foundation, a not-for-profit organization which funded the design and construction of the Floating Pool. Ms. Buttenwieser collaborated with architect Jonathan Kirschenfeld, of Jonathan Kirschenfeld Associates, and naval architect Kent Merrill, of C.R. Cushing & Co., Inc., to design the Floating Pool. The barge was purchased from a New Orleans shipyard in 2004, and over the next two years it was converted into a self-sustaining floating pool in the Bollinger Shipyards in Amelia, Louisiana. After the project was completed, the Floating Pool arrived in New York City in 2006. The Floating Pool spent its inaugural summer last year at Brooklyn Bridge Park, drawing 72,000 visitors over the summer.
This summer at select outdoor pools, including the Floating Pool, Parks & Recreation will once again host the popular Learn to Swim program, in which free swim instruction is offered to toddlers (ages 1 ½ -5) and children (ages 6 -14) during three two-week sessions. The program, made possible by Parks' partnerships with the City Parks Foundation and the American Red Cross, will operate from July 8th through August 29th. The City will also offer outdoor swim team training at select pools throughout the five boroughs and host the culminating Eighth Annual Five Borough Championship swimming competition on August 9. For adults, Parks offers the 26th annual outdoor adult lap swim program which gives adults the opportunity for free morning and evening lap-swims at all of the City's outdoor pools, allowing for uninterrupted swimming with a health and fitness focus.
To increase accessibility to the Floating Pool, there is a new, temporary MTA bus route servicing the Barretto Point Park area. Starting today, the route will operate 7 days a week on a regular schedule, with a bus every half hour from 8:12 a.m. to 7:22 p.m. for southbound service and 8:30 a.m. to 7:42 p.m. for northbound service. Regular service will be provided until September 1, when the pool closes. The standard $2 fare will be collected and standard transfer policy will apply.
For more information on locations, activities, and free swimming lessons, visit www.nyc.gov or call 311.
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Sandra Bullock wore an oh-so-sexy pair of strappy black Bottega Veneta heels with her LBD.
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Club Monaco Fall 2 2011
Club Monaco's Fall 2 Collection
>> '70s rock n' roll, Ossie Clark and old-fashioned Hollywood glam were just some of the inspirations behind Club Monaco's Fall 2 collection. Hitting stores in October, the collection features a moody palette of rich autumnal hues and plenty of tactile, cozy fabrics. Stand-out styles included a one-shouldered dress in navy chiffon, a faux-fur-paneled cardigan, and a burgandy biker jacket. A rustic, tooled-leather purse also topped our can't-wait-for-Fall list.
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Alice A. Carter
Website: www.aliceacarter.com
Influences: 20th-Century American Realism
Favorite Book: The Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Favorite Film: Groundhog Day
Alice Carter earned her undergraduate at the University of the Arts and her masters degree at Stanford University. Her illustration clients have included LucasFilm Ltd., Rolling Stone magazine, The New York Times, and ABC Television. Her illustrations have been exhibited at the New York Society of Illustrators as well as the Communication Arts Art Annual, the Print Regional Design Annual, and The Japan Creators Annual. She has won Best of Show Honors from the AR Show USA: 100 Best Annual Reports, the Hatch Awards of the Boston Ad Club, Simpson Printed Paper, and the Western Art Directors West Coast Show. Her work has been exhibited at a number of galleries and museums, including the New York Society of Illustrators' Museum of American Illustration, The Norman Rockwell Museum, the Art Institute of Houston, the New Britain Museum, the Delaware Art Museum, and the Erie Art Museum.
In 1997, Professor Carter was selected the outstanding Professor at San Jose State University. She was awarded a Fulbright fellowship in 2000 and traveled to Cairo, where she lectured at Helwan University. In 2004, she was elected as a trustee at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge Massachusetts, and in 2006, she received the New York Society of Illustrators Distinguished Educator in the Arts award.
Professor Carter's publications include, The Art of National Geographic: One Hundred Years of Illustration (National Geographic, 1999); The Red Rose Girls: An Uncommon Story of Art and Love (Abrams, 2000 and 2002); The Essential Thomas Eakins (Abrams, 2001); and Cecilia Beaux: A Modern Painter in The Gilded Age (Rizzoli, 2005), the winner of the 2006 Umhoefer Prize for Achievement in the Humanities. In conjunction with her publications, Professor Carter has curated exhibitions at the Woodmere Art Museum, The Norman Rockwell Museum, and The Society of Illustrators' Museum of American Illustration.
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Los Angeles, with its long history of notoriously strained police-neighborhood relations, has been basking in recent weeks in the rare warmth of community cooperation with its officers in blue.
The tragedy is that this feel-good moment for the city is the result of a savage beating meted out two months ago to the fan of an opposing baseball team.
The case shook the entire city as well as Major League Baseball.
The beating of San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow at Dodger Stadium on Opening Day has led to several weeks of citizen tips, the apprehending – on May 22 – of a key suspect, and the sustained investigation of two others, in which the Los Angeles Police Department is investigating more than 700 leads received from the public.
The LAPD is playing its cards very close to its chest so as not to jeopardize ongoing investigations, says Richard French, of LAPD Media Relations. But he confirms Police Chief Charlie Beck's confidence that Giovanni Ramirez, a parolee and former gang member is among Mr. Stow's assailants because of positive identifications given by those who witnessed the assault.
Police Chief Beck has taken time out more than once to applaud community cooperation.
"Many of you might think that what you gave us was too small to be of value, but we used everything given to us to finally piece this together," said Beck, announcing the apprehension of Mr. Ramirez on Sunday.
Twenty detectives worked citizen leads
Beck said 20 detectives assigned to the case spent well over 6,000 hours – 1,000 in expensive overtime – working on leads given by residents. A $250,000 reward is still in place as the LAPD maintains that the case is by no means over.
The number of detective hours spent on the case, and Beck's handling of the issue publically, has gone a long way to reassure an entire city deeply shaken by the incident.
Dodger officials also announced the hiring of William Bratton – the former LAPD chief and now a private security consultant – to analyze and increase stadium security. Many residents came forward to explain that they had had enough of a gang-dominated subset of Dodger fans who are violent.
Los Angeles Times columnist Sandy Banks wrote that her own daughter once called her from the stands in fear.
"It's a perception thing, safety and a quality of life issue really. Just a huge weight has lifted off," says Melissa Travers at a coffee shop here. "I don't know if this is their man or not, but just the way the police have handled this has reassured me,"says the retail clerk.
"This is a moment for the LAPD to really celebrate," says Mary Powers, president of the National Coalition for Police Accountability. She notes that the LAPD's reputation has suffered deeply over the past two decades from incidents ranging from the Rodney King beating, to the O.J. Simpson murder trial, to a scandal involving hundreds of officers accused of planting evidence.
Good news for a police force with a troubled past
"When you've had a history like this department has, you welcome good news like the work they've done on this case," she says. "They deserve a lot of praise for this."
Ramirez was taken into custody without incident and arrested on suspicion that he was one of two men who attacked Stow from behind, in the parking lot of Dodger Stadium on March 31 following the season opener between the rival teams. Stow, 42, suffered brain damage in the attack and remains hospitalized. Of the two people being sought, one is thought to be the driver of the assailants' vehicle.
Ramirez was booked on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon and is being held on $1 million bail. Because he is accused of kicking Stow while he was unconscious on the ground, police consider Ramirez's foot a deadly weapon.
Ramirez attorney, Anthony Brooklier, told a local radio station that the witnesses who identified Ramirez are wrong because his client was not at the game. He says members of Ramirez' family will testify to this in court.
Local observers say the incident at first damaged public confidence but now has turned that around.
"Symbolically, this case is very important for baseball, the Dodgers, and the LAPD," says Robert Stern, president of the Center for Governmental Studies.
"Fans are not turning out in many stadiums, but particularly Dodger Stadium; the attack is not the only reason for the drop in attendance, but it has contributed to fewer fans. It is also a very important case for the LAPD, since it was such a high profile event. The case had dragged on for weeks without any arrests and people and fans were concerned that the attackers would never be found."


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(Uganda's Museveni…Parliament wants a peace deal with rebels).Â
The Ugandan Parliament yesterday endorsed a resolution calling on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to revoke the indictments against the top rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leadership, only a day after the Hague-based tribunal said it would not be rushed into any decision.  Â
The House's call comes two days after LRA second-in-command Vincent Otti's assertion that rebel leader Joseph Kony would not surrender unless the ICC scraped the indictments against five top LRA commanders. Separately, Otti in an interview said the LRA would welcome an American role in the on-going peace talks. He was referring to a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice demanding an elevated U.S. involvement, written by Senator Russell Feingold and signed by others including John Kerry. The letter was first published in The Black Star News (www.blackstarnews.com).Â
The Ugandan Parliamentary motion was tabled by MP Stephen Wasike Mugeni (Samia Bugwe North) and passed unanimously. The members called on government to be more reconciliatory, and to ensure a logical conclusion to the talks, on-going in the Southern Sudanese city of Juba. Though a motion for a resolution of Parliament does not have a legal effect, the lawmakers believe it will force President Yoweri Museveni to do quick business with the ICC. [Editor's note: It's unclear if the Ugandan President has such powers. The ICC's rules indicate that only a permanent member of the UN Security Council can "suspendâ€? indictments for a one-year renewable period].Â
"That Parliament supports the ongoing negotiations between the government and the LRA, and pays glowing tribute to the government of South Sudan for the tireless efforts that they are putting as mediators,� the motion reads in part. Kasiro MP Elijah Okupa pleaded with the House, presided over by the Deputy Speaker Rebecca Kadaga, to implore President Museveni to persuade the ICC to withdraw the indictments.
It also emerged yesterday that Uganda has never approached the ICC for a possible withdrawal of the indictments. Information Minister Ali Kirunda Kivejinja told a press conference that the Government of Uganda had "at no one time sought a withdrawal of the indictments against the leaders of the LRAâ€? and asked the wanted commanders to come out of the bush and apologize for their crimes as a prerequisite to the offer of amnesty.Â
"In our case, Kony was outside Uganda. We could not get him from Sudan. We could not get him from Congo. So if he comes out, we can then resort to Matoput, a traditional Acholi justice system, and then we shall convince the ICC ,â€? to drop the charges, he told journalists in Kampala. The government has already offered full amnesty to the LRA rebels should a comprehensive peace pact be reached and Parliament wants the Executive to show more seriousness. Â
"For the desire for peace and reconciliation, let us give a blind eye to justice and support the process,� said Busongola MP Christopher Kibanzanga. The Minister for Primary Education and MP for Chekwii County, Peter Lokeris, dismissed the perception that peace talks and reconciliation are for cowards. "I want to encourage Joseph Kony and Vincent Otti that the act they are about to undertake is for brave people. Reconciliation and talking peace does not mean that you a coward,� he said.
The State Minister for Defense, Ruth Nankabirwa said that government contacted ICC for help because it's an ally in search for peace in Northern Uganda. "We don't regret consulting the ICC for assistance. We were simply pushed by the actions of the LRA because they were outside our jurisdiction," Nankabirwa said. However, she said that it's not impossible for government to go back to ICC and explain the current situation in search for the same peace it had gone for when ICC indicted the top LRA commanders.Â
"It is not difficult to handle the ICC. They should leave this issue to us. We know what to do since we all need peace to prevail in Northern Uganda," she said. While addressing Parliament on the current truce in Northern Uganda, the minister for Defense Dr. Chrispus Kiyonga said that government is committed to restore peace in Northern Uganda. However he expressed fears over the post-war conflicts that are likely to emerge among the local communities.Â
"We need to institute a truth and reconciliation commission that would address matters of accountability and justice. We have always talked about forgiveness. This is the right time to forgive and cultivate a new path," Kiyonga said. Reacting to the motion, Prof. Ogenga Latigo, the leader of Opposition warned government against calling Joseph Kony a loser. "We must all appreciate that Kony can't be a loser but it's only our country that loses. This is not the time for pointing fingers. We must all work towards peace for Northern Uganda," Latigo said.
He also proposed that the Speaker of Parliament, Edward Ssekandi replies Kony's letter and constitutes a Parliamentary delegation to deliver the letter to the Chief Mediator in Southern Sudan in appreciation for the current cessation of hostilities and the rebels' commitment to peace.  Â
Separately, the LRA's Otti has ordered his forces in northern Uganda to start trekking and forget about free transportation to the assembly areas. The government last week offered to airlift LRA rebels to the southern Sudan bases of Owiny-ki-Bul and Ri-Kwangba, but Otti yesterday declined the offer, saying the rebels must walk on foot.
"All LRA fighters and commanders will have to walk to the assembling areas. Our legs are our vehicles,� Otti said at a local radio station based in Northern Uganda. The rebels have until September 19 to converge around the two assembly areas. It was not clear if Otti felt frustrated that government had delayed to fulfill its pledge or whether it was a unilateral decision.
Reports early in the week spoke of commanders and fighters being stranded because of a communication blackout. Now Otti has ordered all the LRA fighters in Gulu, Kitgum, Gulu and Amuru districts to move northwards towards the designated assembly areas.
"You should all move northwards. You should stop north and south movements. This will cause confusion,� Otti directed, adding that no man should be left behind. "I hope by September19, all LRA will be in the assembling areas. Give us a few days, say two or three,� he said. Otti called upon the local leaders in northern Uganda to help direct those LRA fighters who might still be in the region beyond September 19 to head to southern Sudan. "I call upon you people, if you meet any of our fighters loitering around, take them to local leaders who will direct them towards Sudan. We don't want any of them to remain hanging around. I know some may not yet be aware of the peace process.�
The LRA commander assured the people of Acholi that peace would return to the north and called upon those affected by the war to have hope. "We LRA would not be the ones to cause that,� Otti said, acknowledging that the LRA would not want to be responsible for a bungled peace process. Otti, who refused to disclose the location from which he had received the phone call, said the governments of Uganda and South Sudan should not expect the LRA to gather deep inside Owiny-ki-Bul, for safety reasons.
"Owiny-ki-Bul is mine infested, so our people will be at the periphery. The Arabs and SPLA planted the mines. People should forget about us going deep into Owiny-ki-Bul,â€? Otti said. Asked about when their team and government would sign the peace deal, Otti appealed to both parties involved to tread carefully and steadily. "Let people not hurry the peace process, we want to go step by step. You can't jump from the ground floor of a storied building up to fourth floor, is it possible? You climb one at a time,â€? he said.Â
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GUIYANG, China (Reuters) - China scotched reports that disgraced politician Bo Xilai's much anticipated trial would open on Monday, amid chaotic scenes at a courthouse packed with expectant journalists in the south of the country.
A report last week in a Beijing-backed Hong Kong newspaper prompted dozens of reporters to travel to the sleepy city of Guiyang expecting to cover the trial of the man who was once considered a contender for China's top leadership. The paper has been known to reliably report news Chinese state media won't touch.
Flummoxed, local court officials held a hasty and unusual press conference to deny a trial was in the offing and pleaded for the media to leave them alone.
Almost a year after Bo's fall from grace under a cloud of lurid accusations about corruption, abuse of power and murder, the government has given no definitive timeframe for when Bo will face the courts, or even announced formal charges.
"To date, the Intermediate People's Court of Guiyang has received no information whatsoever about the trial of Bo Xilai taking place in Guiyang," said Jiang Hao, deputy head of the Guiyang court.
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Bo was ousted from his post as Communist Party chief in the southwestern city of Chongqing last year following his wife's murder of a British businessman, Neil Heywood.
Bo, 63, was widely tipped to be promoted to the party's elite inner core before his career unraveled. The downfall came after his former police chief, Wang Lijun, fled briefly to a U.S. consulate for last February and alleged that Bo's wife, Gu Kailai, had murdered Heywood with poison.
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State media added to the confusion over the weekend when several Chinese news sites picked up verbatim the original report in the Hong Kong newspaper the Ta Kung Pao that the trial was scheduled for Monday.
Further stirring the pot, the influential tabloid the Global Times, published by the Communist Party's official People's Daily, said on Monday the trial would likely not be held until after the Chinese parliament's annual session in March.
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"I hope the trial begins as soon as possible," said Zhang Zhi'an, a journalism professor at Sun Yat Sen University in Guangzhou. "This way the government can give the public a satisfactory explanation."
It is also not known where Bo's trial will take place, though Guiyang is as good a bet as any.
Sensitive trials are often held far from where the alleged crimes took place, to prevent bias or pressure being bought to bear on judges. Gu's trial was in Hefei in the eastern province of Anhui, while Wang's was in the Sichuan capital of Chengdu.
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CONCORD — Inside his new office, George Bald keeps two copies of the legal order that will dictate the future of the New Hampshire Local Government Center.
One copy sits on his desk. Another rests at the head of a wooden conference table, where Bald greets visitors to the LGC's headquarters in Concord.
"It's always in front of me," Bald said Friday, discussing the 81-page document that now poses an existential crisis for the LGC.
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"I think their fights against the Right to Know [law] — that really shouldn't have gone on as long as it did," Bald said. "You know, we're authorized, especially the health and property liability risk pools, by the state of New Hampshire, so we should be under the Right to Know, and I think that it's important for us to recognize that we have to do it the same way that a government entity does."
The health trust is the largest source of revenue for the LGC. At the close of 2010, it had revenues of $392.3 million, and net assets of about $87 million, according to last year's order. However, its unclear whether the LGC will be able to maintain its workers' compensation program if the order issued last year is allowed to stand.
The order calls for the LGC to move $17.1 million into the health trust — money that is likely not available, Bald said. Bald is "planning for the worst," but he said he hopes to reach a compromise to the legal order. He is set to make a recommendation about whether to continue appealing the decision to the LGC Board of Directors within the next few weeks.
"I think there could be a lot of different ways to do that, and my hope is that we can get the organization in a position where we can deal with it in a way that the regulators feel comfortable, the members feel comfortable, and we're doing what we need to keep property liability healthy," he said.
Bald is also tasked with recommending a new organizational structure for the LGC. While nothing is certain yet, Bald said he's looking at the possibility of dissolving the LGC entirely, leaving the risk pools to operate independently.
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Linux is ubiquitous these days. It powers large-scale HPC systems and small embedded devices—from space to underground. And although it's quite easy (to some degree) to build an unmanned device like a rover or to run a helicopter with Linux, it still is a tough job to create a robot that behaves like a biological object. Fortunately, there's a will and there's a way—and there's Linux. The latter became the core of the hexapod—the robotics device that resembles a spider, developed by Matt Bunting.
AB: Matt, you're the creator of the hexapod robot that runs on Linux. But before talking about the robot, tell us about your Linux experience and the role Linux plays in your life.
MB: The field of robotics is what introduced me to the world of Linux. I had previously done basic development in UNIX, so the transition of switching my OS to Linux was seamless. Currently, I use Linux for most things involving development, such as robotics projects and tinkering around with OpenCV. I have a couple Atom-based Linux computers at my house running a custom Webcam-based security system.
AB: What is the hexapod in general, and what ideas were behind its design?
MB: A basic hexapod is a six-legged platform. Each leg can be configured in any number of ways. One such way is a Stewart platform. The version I made is a portable platform (body) with non-rigid feet. Each foot in a portable platform may have any number of degrees of freedom (DOF). Some of the simplest hexapods have three total degrees of freedom, but these are constrained to very simple motions like moving only forward or backward. For incredible flexibility of the platform, three DOF (18 total) are needed per leg to position each "foot" at nearly any given (x,y,z) coordinate. This allows the hexapod to have complete flexibility of the body, so the body may translate or tilt in any direction, in any combination. Recently, there has been an interest in four degrees of freedom per leg. This does not increase the amount of body control, but it can extend the range. I wanted to design the 18 DOF for the best flexibility of the body to use the hexapod for various applications, from implementation of neural networks (NNs) to terrain adaptation methods.
AB: And you have succeeded in this design—a spider with 18 DOF, right?
MB: I would certainly say so. Currently, it is a very solid design that can take a quite a bit of abuse. Though it is fully functional, I'm always looking for ways to upgrade it. I have some ideas floating around, but haven't seriously integrated anything yet.
AB: Can someone achieve these goals with another kind of a robot, say with a rover?
MB: Since my goal was to research legged locomotion techniques, a wheeled rover doesn't make sense for what I want to do in robotics. Sometimes I am asked what the practical applications of a hexapod are, but for many cases, a hexapod is impractical. Mine is terribly power-inefficient, and the learning techniques I have used take too long to be effective for anything practical, like sending a hexapod on a space mission or to fix an underwater bursted pipe.
The legged aspect and complexity of a hexapod is interesting in the area of machine learning because the complexity makes it difficult to learn efficiently. Wheeled robots may learn locomotion very quickly, which does not generalize the effectiveness of the algorithms involved. One aspect of machine learning I was interested in included the ability of the machine to re-learn after damage to the robot. For example, if the robot learned to walk, began walking in a dangerous environment and a rock were to crush two legs, then the algorithms implemented could sense that the previously used motions are not very effective, and it could begin to learn an optimal walking policy based on the new configuration.
AB: Describe how you "teach" a hexapod to walk. Previously, you mentioned NNs and adaptation methods. Do you load some basic behavior functions into software, and later the spider tries to find the optimal walk for every kind of a terrain, or is there another approach?
MB: I have, so far, explored two different learning mechanisms, both of which learn in very different ways. The first was a reinforcement learning technique called Q-Learning with Softmax action selection. Basically, the hexapod would experiment between different motor states. Starting from one state, the algorithm applies Softmax to the current Q-matrix for action selection probability and chooses one based on a random number generator. The values in the Q-matrix with higher values (good transitions to move forward) are more likely to be selected, while others (poor transitions, like moving backward) are not as likely to be selected. Once an action is selected, the hexapod first takes an image using a Webcam pointing in the forward direction, then performs the action. The action moves the hexapod into a new state. In the new state, another image is taken. The state transition reward is measured by the difference between the two images.
I used a function in OpenCV to measure optic flow. The resulting vector field from the optic flow function is run through some simple math to determine how the hexapod moved based on the overall directionality of the vectors. For example, if the resulting image had a sense of "zooming in" from moving the hexapod forward, all the vectors would point outward from the center of the image. This translates to a high reward. If the vectors are pointing toward the center, the hexapod moved backward, resulting in a cost or negative reward. I also included twisting of the body and translational movements of the camera as negative rewards because the goal was to get it to walk forward very smoothly.
The reward value is used to update the Q-Matrix. Based on the transition reward and possible future rewards from the new state, the Q-value is updated. Softmax action selection gives a nice balance between explorative and exploitative behavior. Once a gait is well learned, there is a small probability that the hexapod will explore other state transitions. If, however, the hexapod were to break a leg and apply a previously learned method, the reward values would decrease tremendously. The newly updated Q-matrix would result in a low probability of exploring the previously learned transitions and begin to experiment with others.
The NN is very much different. I based a good portion of the network on Randall Beer's work on a neural-network-based hexapod. The neurons I used were different, more biologically influenced. I believe that Beer used continuous neurons, which were differentiable, but the ones I used were integrated and fired with adaptation. They don't truly mimic biology, but they are much closer than continuous-based neurons. I constructed something similar to Beer's network, but I have to add additional neurons to move the legs around. The network is based around an oscillator called a Central Pattern Generator (CPG), also called a Pacemaker Neuron. These are created by mutually inhibiting two neurons. One begins to fire, preventing the other from firing, but slows down due to adaptation, and eventually the other neuron will begin to fire, inhibiting the first one, and so on. These CPGs are used to drive other neurons that operate the legs.
To learn the weights for each connection correctly, a genetic algorithm was used to train the weights. I used a population size of 16, and the fitness function was based on running the hexapod for 10 seconds and measuring the traveled distance and resulting direction angle. The closest the resulting angle to the starting orientation and the farthest distance traveled resulted in the best fitness value. The hexapod learned to walk very effectively after 100 generations.
AB: You mean 100 iterations of the learning, or 100 steps here?
MB: In genetic algorithms, this is the number of generations, which can be thought of as iterations in a way. In each generation, a new population size of 16 is created.
AB: Several sources say that the robot was assembled from trash parts. Is that true?
MB: This is a bit misinterpreted by many people, because they think that the videos I posted on YouTube are where I am at now, not where I was when I started. The hexapod began as a project for a class, and I had limited money, time and resources. I (like any hobbyist, maker or hacker) have a drawer full of parts I've been collecting for years. I started this drawer when I was nine years old, and my mentor at the time called it the "things-I-don't-know-what-they-are-but-they-may-be-useful-someday drawer". So when the time came for the class project, I searched through all the servo motors, breadboards and metal brackets I had and threw together a hexapod of mismatched legs to implement the reinforcement technique called Q-learning. This was not the hexapod I put on YouTube.
The professor of the class, Dr Tony Lewis, really liked the project and was looking to hire an undergrad into his lab. I also needed a job so he hired me into his lab, the Robotics and Neural Systems Laboratory (RNSL). At RNSL, there is a Dimension 3-D printer, so I took advantage of it and saved up my money to buy matching motors. I gave the hexapod a complete makeover (including a new Atom-based fit-PC2) with no junk parts, and then I posted a video on YouTube. This is the video that Stewart Christie of Intel saw. Also, the video shows no learning at all. It was just a demonstration to forum members at hexapodrobot.com/forum of my platform in action.
AB: Linux is the key to success for the hexapod. Why did you decide to use Linux, and what particular distribution was the final choice?
MB: I wanted ultimate onboard computational power for vision processing, which led to fit-PC2 from CompuLab. At RNSL, Ubuntu is the distribution of choice and is used for everything from simulations to direct robot operation. We use Linux because of the flexibility and the available resources.
AB: The main hardware unit, an Atom motherboard, was donated by Intel. Could you shed some light on your cooperation with Intel?
MB: Originally, I had purchased the computer before any cooperation with Intel. At the time of searching for an embedded solution, I was looking into Gumstix boards and Via processor-based boards. These were great for kinematics integration, but for heavy computation of vision, I needed something even more powerful. Fortunately at the time, CompuLab had just released its fit-PC2, which is the ideal computer for robotics. Once I posted the video, a couple days later, Stewart from Intel wrote a comment on my YouTube video regarding interest in the hexapod. I contacted him, and after a month or so, he said that Intel would want me to create two hexapods, one for tradeshows and the other for me, but the Intel folks can borrow mine if they have multiple demonstrations at the same time.
AB: Speaking practically, the hexapod is actually a high-tech model, because the use of 3-D Stratasys printers won't be available for casual amateurs. You've made a model—that is, a framework and legs in CAD software—printed it and attached servos and a camera to the body and that's it. Am I missing something?
MB: 3-D printing has been becoming incredibly cheap, where hobbyists can make their own home 3-D printer for around $1,000. The quality is not anywhere near what the Stratasys machine can do that I use, but functional parts still may be created. My hexapod is not very different functionally from other hexapods that can be put together with off-the-shelf components, but since I had the Stratasys machine at my disposal, I took full advantage of it and tried to make complex, curved shapes. I actually used SolidWorks for the mechanical design, because it is freely offered by my university, but I will have to look into QCad.
AB: The robot without its middleware is just another embedded Linux device. Did you use a specific software for your "spider", or did you write software for it?
MB: I developed all the software for the hexapod in C++, using OpenCV libraries for simulations and vision processing.
Building a Spider
Here are the required resources to build a spider:
Framework: six servo motors AX-12/RX-10/RX-28 from Robotis, 3D-printed casing.
Computing unit: one fit-PC2 motherboard based on Intel Atom Z530 from CompuLab.
Labor hours: 380.
Distribution: Ubuntu Linux 9.08.
Software used: GEdit, OpenCV and C++.
Scientific field: neural networks and adaptation methods.
AB: Can you estimate how much time (in hours) it took to construct the hexapod (put together the mechanical and electrical parts) and write the software itself?
MB: Ha ha. It is an enormous amount for sure. I worked on it for hours a day, weeks at a time. The original Q-Learning robot probably took 200 hours. Then I gave it a makeover, which took maybe 100 hours, and then the other projects took maybe 80 each.
AB: You said previously that the operating system beneath the cover is Ubuntu. What IDE did you use to write the robot's middleware—Qt, WxWidgets, ncurses or something else?
MB: I actually use only GEdit and purely in C++ using OpenCV libraries. The simulations I built were done purely using OpenCV, drawing individual lines at a time. I feel like I re-invent the wheel when I do this, but I sure learn a lot!
AB: Do you release schematics and auxiliary software of a robot under the GPL or under another license?
MB: I have been looking to release my kinematics code under a license, but I know nothing in this area. Maybe LJ readers could point me in the right direction?
AB: You're a senior student at the University of Arizona, and this project is to some degree your graduation work. Do you plan to continue its future development?
MB: I look forward to implementing more functionality into the hexapod as a graduate student at the University of Arizona. Currently, I am working on a miniature version. I do want to explore the link between vision and legged locomotion through the use of biologically inspired neural networks further.
AB: Where, in your opinion, can this "spider" be used and be useful for people?
MB: The hexapod could make a great search-and-rescue-style robot. In a natural disaster like an earthquake, it would be desirable to have a large number of robots searching autonomously for survivors in a building turned to rubble. The environment is treacherous though and could cause damage to the robot. Once damage is inflicted upon the hexapod, a purely inverse kinematic-based hexapod would be rendered useless. If, however, it could re-learn, the hexapod still could operate given its new configuration. Like I mentioned previously though, it is more of a tool to explore machine learning techniques and out of the research, hopefully discover faster algorithms. Hopefully, better algorithms can be used for consumer-based robotics to increase the standard.
AB: Do you plan to use the hexapod or your next prototype CrustCrawler in autonomous walking research?
MB: Sure. The learning mechanisms I've implemented are more scientific, and I certainly encourage everyone to explore science with robotics platforms, but it is not necessarily the goal for the CrustCrawler platform. I see that as a means of making it easy for anyone to get started in the field of hexapod robotics. If the different geometry is more conducive to what I want the hexapod to do, then I will, of course, use it. The hexapods are simply tools in my mind for research. I certainly want my hexapods to be able to roam around on their own and accomplish some task even if it is mundane. The nice thing about the CrustCrawler hexapod and my personal hexapod is that they can be easily interchanged, as they use motors that communicate using identical protocols. All I have to do is change a few geometric calibration settings and it will run just fine.
Anton Borisov has broad spheres of interests, ranging from clusters and embedded devices to artificial intelligence and programmatic puzzles. One thing that unites them all is Linux, his most favorite operating system.


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About Us
UNECE work on transport security
Recent terrorist attacks have shown the capability of a small number of individuals to kill and cause large-scale destruction. These attacks have had a common denominator: transport systems have been used either as a means or as a target.
A Multidisciplinary Group of Experts on Inland Transport Security (AC.11) was established in UNECE in 2007 to examine threats to inland transport security and provide recommendations on how to tackle them.
Transport faces many types of security risks. Some of them are:
- Vehicle theft and subsequent use as car-bombs;
- Theft of dangerous substances during transport; I
- llegal border crossing of persons and goods; and finally,
- Attacks on key infrastructure such as tunnels and bridges.
Given the recent terrorist focus on transport and transport's vulnerability, the UNECE Sustainable Transport Division is making efforts to contribute to reducing and eliminating the security threats related to inland transport. In this context, the UNECE Sustainable Transport Division has created an international platform for international discussions related to inland transport security.
This website provides information about its work and accomplishments. Through the left-hand menu you will find various reports, presentations and other documents which will provide more information about inland transport security.


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Sunil Tripathi originally fingered as culprit by 4chan users.
One of the individuals identified by 4chan users as a possible Boston bombing accomplice has been found dead in the Providence River.
"Police in Providence pulled a man's body from the Providence River on Tuesday, and authorities said it is "very possible" that it is Sunil Tripathi, 22, a former Brown University student who has been missing since mid-March," reports the Boston Globe.
Tripathi's possible connection to the Boston bombing was first raised by users of the 4chan website when it was pointed out that his image bore a similarity to one of the suspects first named by the FBI who later turned out to be Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev.
Users of the Reddit website later apologized to Tripathi's family for making the erroneous connection, with one moderator writing, "We cannot begin to know what you're going through and for that we are truly sorry."
According to Zero Hedge, the misidentification of Tripathi as one of the Boston bombing culprits means it "could be time to reevaluate the crowdsourced approach to "solving" crimes."
However, given the innumerable other contradictions that skeptics of the official narrative behind the bombings have put forward, with particular emphasis on the possibility that the Tsarnaev brothers may have been patsies or otherwise radicalized or duped by intelligence agencies, Tripathi's death takes on more prominence.
– Tamerlan Tsarnaev attended a workshop sponsored by the CIA-linked Jamestown Foundation.
– Tamerlan Tsarnaev was on both CIA and FBI watchlists in addition to drawing the attention of Russian investigators who attempted to alert the FBI in 2011.
– Former FBI employee Sibel Edmonds believes the two alleged bombers could have been recruited by the FBI.
– Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, the mother of the alleged bombers, claims the men were "framed by the authorities" and that the video of a naked man being arrested on the night the suspects were captured, which authorities claim was an unrelated individual who was later released, was in fact Tamerlan Tsarnaev. The video shows an uninjured man being led to a squad car, whereas police claim Tsarnaev was badly injured when he was captured and later died in the hospital.
– The alleged bombers' aunt Maret Tsarnaeva also claims that the man seen being arrested in the video was Tamerlan Tsarnaev. She also says that she was threatened and told not to speak to the media.
– Contradicting claims by authorities that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ran over his own brother, an eyewitness to the incident said that police ran over Tsarnaev with an SUV and then pumped bullets into him.
– Proof Boston marathon bombing was a false flag operation
– Hackers hijack CBS to claim Obama involvement in Boston bombings
– 'They were set up' – Tsarnaevs' parents
– Confirmed by eyewitness: Bomb squad drill was under way at Boston marathon
– Official story unraveling for Boston marathon bombing; clear evidence points to bomb squad's prior knowledge
Source: http://www.infowars.com/falsely-identified-boston-bomber-found-dead-in-river/


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Palm Treo 800w
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Aug 15, 2008 by Stewart Wolpin
Palm updates the Windows version of the Treo with the 800w. It is slightly more compact than previous Treos, yet manages to pack in more functionality. But do more features make for a better Treo? read review ›
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Average Ratings
Horrible phone.
Battery life is a joke on this thing, there is something constantly draining the battery because a battery this size should last much longer
Build quality is good as with most treo's- build like a tank
Palm LIED to customers and said this device has standalone gps (no sprint service needed) which it doesnt have.
As said, voice quality of the earpeice was HORRBILE. Couldnt understand what anyone said- low volume and muffled like a towel between the earpiece and your ear.
Most importantly, there are MANY better devices for the $$$. Palm seriously is charging $599 for this thing with hardware specs fro 2006? You can go get a new HTC device on Sprint for LESS than the treo that does a heck of a lot more and amuch better screen, processor, more RAM, etc.
Cool Phone
I have had the Treo 650, 700, 755 and the Blackberry Pearl, this is the best phone of them all. The processor speed is great, the ability to of push email for this phone is awesome, even get email here faster then my Blackberry. Another great plus compared to the Blackberry is it comes standard with mobile version of Word, Excel, a PDF file opener and Power Point. It's nice to be able to open up files and read them unlike the Blackberry where files come in but they are so so tiny you can't see them. There is a alot bundled up in this little package. I was able to download a browser called Skyfire which allows me to view full web-pages unlike the Blackberry you are limited.
Now for the Cons: The battery life is not so great for a person who talks on the phone and emails as much as I do. I got an extra battery to help me that. Sometimes the speaker phone gets a little static during phone call or incoming ring. No 3.5 head phone Jack.
Overall, When I compared the newer technology built into the 800w compared to the Curve, The 800w is the winner!
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Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat Phone 800w
Pros - Everything about this phone is great.
Cons - Size, battery life
I had the HTC touch phone it was awful. After the insurance company sent me the HTC 3 times and all 3 times same problem. They finally said to pick a phone and if they have a new one they will send it to me. It was between the Curve and the 800w and I chose the 800w and I am so glad I did. We are getting free WiFi soon and I can not wait, this phone has WiFi. It is fast, great reception (with the HTC I has 0-1 bar and the 800w I have 3-5 bars). Speaker is great. Everyone thinks I am on a land line and they are so surprised when I tell them I am on my cell. It is very user friendly. All in all I love this phone. The signal and sound of the phone is great. I have gotten use to the size, weight and battery life. In fact I bought a external batter charger and it works great when I am out and the battery is low. This phone rocks. It is awesome. I would not hesitate to buy it.
Grrrreat Phone
I have had the Moto Q from Motorola and then i switched to the Treo 755 and fell in love. So when I heard that Treo was coming out with this one I had to have it, my battery life is good
PROS: Sleek style, very sturdy, easy to type, great sound,apps work well, great games
CONS: Battery charger very careful when plugging in, flimsy pointer tool
Other than that I still love and enjoy my Treo
good so far
The phone was quick and easy to setup. I was able to bluetooth my contacts and music from my M1 over to the phone without any issues (make sure you go to beam and accept all incoming). I have had it for a week and can go about a 1.5 days and have to charge the phone. I put the GPS to 911 only and turned off wifi and bluetooth. My email is set to retrieve manually
Not so great for what I want out of a phone
After trying an HTC touch (much too fragile a touch screen) and a Blackberry Curve 8330 (didn't like the surprise factor of another $30/mo to access Blackberry's data services, I went with the Treo 800W.
Battery life absolutely sucks. Why does MS build a "patch" for windows 6.1 that will allow the task manager to shut down programs after two minutes? You may access three or four programs, close them, and if you look at Start/Settings/system/task manager ten or twenty minutes later, those programs are still running, sucking the battery's power!
Don't like the mini usb jack for ear phones making replacements difficult to obtain from cheaper, third parties, and some phones produce enough volume to blast your ears off when turned up all the way, but this phone produces just enough volume to enjoy the music when all the volumes are up all of the way.
Pros:Reception is great and the PDA freature work fine but, (another con)I want to listen to my own music while I work (I'm a contractor that likes my own music without advertisements...in my ears- not the customers.) This also is only good for about three- four hours and that is with me going to the task manager and closing all other running programs.
Smaller touch screen is less prone to accidental damage than the large touch screens.
great phone for a picky person
i usually dont write reviews but this phone has made me change my ways.
im a pretty picky phone person and ill be the first to admit that this phone is not perfect, none really are, but this is the best phone ive owned so far.
-simple set-up
-good functionality (email, web, news, txts)
-good signal and quality
-good media options (camera, pictures, music)
-battery is not very good but is fine for those that charge daily anyway.
-form factor: phone is a little thick and im big into aesthetics usually but i actually like the form factor a lot as it feels solid. (so this is kind of a pro/con).
overall a great phone i would recommend.
Great all around phone
Fast interface (processor speed/ Memory)
Outstanding signal strength (between 3-4 bars in home) Avg 2-3 bars with other PDA based internal antenna phones
WM 6.1 with threaded Messaging
Extremely Customizable
extremely responsive 2.0 MP camera that takes great mobile phone pictures
Clear sound quality over earpiece and Bluetooth (both Mono and AD2P)
Great GPS support (locks in 5-10 seconds indoors)
Good amount of internal storage space
Stable configuration (without 3rd party apps)
Blazing fast EVDO Rev. A speeds
Square 240x240 screen that requires different skins for certain programs and makes other programs display fonts incorrectly
Pre-installed maps program and live search unreliable
no preinstalled X-button program (have to close programs in task manager)
overall this is an awesome phone, i never have problems receiving, setting up or getting emails, text messaging works like a charm and easy to read with threaded messaging. preinstalled and sprint/ palm supported programs build for the 800 run perfectly and without noticeable lag. the battery life on the phone is to be expected of a PDA phone with a touch LCD screen although a different design than the palm centro battery should have been used. However the reason i did not rate this phone a perfect 5 was for the fact that as a PDA with a revolutionary screen size it does not allow for customization as with rectangular screen phones, therefore some programs that may have been helpful before do not work with the new resolution or display graphic abnormalities.
as a PDA making calls, texting and emails work beautifully and web pages load extremely fast. the software still needs a little bit of work, but this is a windows problem not a palm problem.
Poor battery life
I have waited 2 years for Palm's new Windows Smartphone - the 800w which is now available at Sprint. I really loved my Treo 700wx and I purchased this 800w phone a week ago. It's going back soon. The first day I left for work and my phone died at about 7PM at night. The battery only lasts about 10 hours with minimal use. I left it next to my bed last night and but this AM the battery was practically dead. I can't imagine owning this phone unless you sit home all day and can charge it. The phone's features are absolutely fantastic but I can't imagine how long the battery would last if you used Wi-Fi or watch Sprint TV. Maybe 3 hours?? I assume the small 1.15 mAh battery is consumed by the processor, which is very fast. The Treo 700 wx had a 1.8 mAh battery standard. Until an extended battery comes out for the 800w, don't ever consider purchasing this phone.
You either like Treos or you dont.
I have had, and have blackberrys treos qs and the lot. This is by far one of the best windows mobile systems on the market. The size is perfect for one handed operation, the software is fast and the possibilities vast.
The keys are well placed to support one handed or two handed use. The wifi and the 3g Rev A makes the 800w one of the fastest mobile devices on the market. No kidding. Furthermore, sprint's super fast data speeds are a compliment to the Network.
Battery life is fine, depending on usage, but if you are a heavy data and phone user, buy an extra charger and a car charger.
The only reason I gave this a 4.5 instead of a 5 is because of the screen quality. I think if palm ponied up the additional few dollars to get a proper high res screen, this phone would blow the socks off a lot of the competition. This is not a cheap device at 600.00 (no contract). So my advice to Palm, if I was every asked, would be you don't cut corners on your high end product.


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