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|Round trip from Passo Giau
Date Climbed: Aug 17, 2014
|Panoramic ascent
|Posted Sep 22, 2014 1:34 pm
|Beautiful bivy spot below Passo Giau. Spent few nights there.
Easy but rewarding via ferrata from Passo Giau with nice views to Cinque Torri Group. First part of Nuvolau - Averau Classic.
|Posted Oct 5, 2012 2:38 am
Date Climbed: Jul 25, 2011
|normal route from Passo Falzarego
|Posted Sep 6, 2011 10:20 am
|Normal route from Passo Giau
Date Climbed: Aug 18, 2011
|Along the path from Passo Giau to the Forcella di Nivolau. Crowded in the upper parts of the mountain, but beautiful sights.
|Posted Aug 24, 2011 12:41 pm
|Rafa Bartolome
Date Climbed: Aug 18, 2011
|The peak was nice but the summit was full of people. We liked more than Novulau the isolated Gusella and the amazing Averau.
|Posted Aug 24, 2011 12:30 pm
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Date Climbed: Aug 20, 2011
|After climbing Tofana di Dentro and Tofana di Mezzo from Pié Tofana (1668 m), at 3:30 p.m. I got back at to the camping site in Cortina. After an hour's rest I decided to go to the mountains again, and I climbed the peaks Ra Gusela via the short via ferrata and Nuvolau as 2 extras. A total 2340 m elevation gain in a single day. Personal top record up to now.
|Posted Aug 21, 2011 5:55 pm
Date Climbed: Jul 31, 2011
|with gabri and our guys, great satisfaction to be there with them
|Posted Aug 7, 2011 5:53 am
Date Climbed: Jul 31, 2011
|We hiked there from Rif Scoiattoli just in time for sunrise at 5.30. Although the clouds covered the sun from explodind into full day, it was still a great experience
|Posted Aug 1, 2011 5:37 pm
|Route climbed: normal
Date Climbed: May 12, 2011
|First climbed the SW-face, but got stuck in deep snow 100 meter below the summit. Finally made it to the summit after all via the normal route. Also climbed some other summits in the area on the same nice but very long day.
|Posted May 24, 2011 10:30 am
|Mathias Zehring
|rond trip from Passo Giau
Date Climbed: Oct 27, 2009
|we made a nice day-round-trip: Passo Giau - Forc. Nuvolau - Nuvolau summit - Rif. Cinque Torri - Passo Giau. A very fine day in fall. Already some snow on the summit ascent, But no problem. Some people but not many campared to summer times. Great views!
|Posted May 9, 2010 4:43 pm
|Route climbed: from Falzarego over Forcella Averau
Date Climbed: Jun 30, 2008
|A wonderful place to spend the night.
|Posted Jul 22, 2008 6:34 pm
|Gusela by Dallago Route (July 2002)
|Straight forward but entertaining route up the impressive central pillar of the sw face, finishing right on the summit. climbed on a beautiful sunny day.
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So… Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark has been "reimagined" and is coming back to Broadway
The first time around, despite having spent millions on the production, Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark was a flop, a sham, a shame and a disaster. Reviews were mediocre, actors were getting seriously injured left and right, performances were delayed or canceled and it seemed like the only reason people were even buying tickets was with the hope that they'd see someone break their pelvis. And then Julie Taymor left the production and it was all put on hold.
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LAHORE, Pakistan (BP) -- A couple from Pakistan's Christian minority was sentenced to death April 4 for allegedly sending blasphemous text messages, bringing the number of Christians on death row to four.
The sentence for Shafqat Emmanuel and Shugufta Emmanuel in Pakistan's Punjab province came eight days after a court in Lahore sentenced Sawan Masih to death for allegedly insulting Islam's prophet Muhammad.
The case against Masih, a street sweeper, stemmed from an alleged drunken conversation with a Muslim friend that sparked an outbreak of violence in Lahore's Joseph Colony. The March 2013 flare-up left 180 Christian-owned homes and shops destroyed; an anti-terrorism court subsequently freed 133 Muslim suspects in spite of video evidence against them.
Also on death row: Asia Bibi, a Christian mother of five. Imprisoned since 2009, Bibi was convicted after a dispute with local Muslim women who accused her of insulting Muhammad.
Pakistan's small Christian community makes up less than 3 percent of the country's 180 million people, with less than 1 percent considered evangelical/followers of Christ.
Wheelchair-bound Shafqat Emmanuel, 43, and his wife Shagufta, a cleaner at a local missionary school and mother to four young children, were convicted of blasphemy in the Punjab's Toba Tek Singh district of 2 million-plus people.
The Emmanuels were accused of sending blasphemous text messages on June 18, 2013. Charges against the couple included insulting Muhammad, punishable by death, and insulting the Quran, punishable by life imprisonment.
The couple's lawyer told Morning Star News, which reports on Christian persecution worldwide, that the judge succumbed to pressure from Islamist lawyers despite lacking concrete evidence against the couple.
"These men kept pressuring the judge during the entire trial, which was conducted in prison due to fears for the couple's security," attorney Nadeem Hassan said. "Even on Friday [March 28], the complainants' lawyers kept proclaiming Koranic references calling for death to blasphemers."
Hassan said he kept demanding during the trial that the prosecution produce the couple's call data record but they failed to do.
"During preliminary investigations, Shagufta had told the police that her cell phone had been lost for a month and that she did not know who might have sent the alleged messages," Hassan said. "Nevertheless, the [police] detained the couple, along with their four minor children, and pressured them to name someone who could have sent the messages."
Hassan said that in order to appease mobs led by Islamist clerics, police forced Shafqat Emmanuel, confined to a wheelchair due to a spinal injury, to confess that he had sent the blasphemous messages. But Hassan said Emmanuel retracted his statement when the trial judge was asked to record the confession again.
Emmanuel's backbone was fractured in an accident in 2004 that left his lower body paralyzed. Since his accident, Shagufta Emmanuel has been the only breadwinner for the family's four children, Ambrose, 13, Danish, 10, Sarah, 7, and Amir, 5.
Hassan said he would challenge the verdict in Pakistan's high court once he received a detailed copy of the verdict.
Farrukh Harrison of the Christian advocacy group World Vision in Progress criticized the judge for giving the death sentence to both the husband and wife even though authorities forced a confession from the husband.
"Why was Shagufta given a death sentence when the police claim that her husband had committed the act?" Harrison told Morning Star News. "Isn't this a travesty of justice that a poor couple has been convicted for a motiveless crime? ... They are uneducated, poor people whose entire life is limited to their hometown only."
Harrison added that Hassan told the court the couple couldn't possibly have written the alleged texts in the regional Urdu language because they couldn't read or write Urdu properly.
Others in the balance
"It's only a matter of time" until two other Christians accused of blasphemy -- Adnan Masih, also known as Adnan Prince, and Asif Pervaiz -- will also be given the death sentence, Harrison said.
Masih, in his mid-20s, is accused of marking several pages of a book with abusive words against Muhammad, according to World Watch Monitor, another U.S.-based persecution watchdog. Pervaiz, in his late 20s, was accused of blasphemy after refusing an offer to convert to Islam, according to the Centre for Legal Aid Assistance & Settlement in Lahore. Pervaiz had operated a small children's garment business in Lahore and is the father of four small children.
"It's a pity," Harrison said, "that all these people will have to suffer for years in prison until the high court judges their cases on merit."
At least three other cases have been registered previously against Christians based on blasphemous text messages, according to Morning Star News.
In May 2006, Qamar David was accused of sending blasphemous text messages to various Islamic clerics in Karachi. He was convicted in February 2010 and died in prison on March 15, 2011.
In January 2009, Hector Aleem and Basharat Khokhar were accused of sending text messages that hurt Muslims' religious sentiment. They were acquitted of the charge on May 31, 2011.
Ryan Stanton, then 16, was charged with sending blasphemous text messages in Karachi on Oct. 10, 2012. He fled the country after the family's home was ransacked by a Muslim mob.
In other blasphemy cases last year: Younis Masih was freed by an appeals court, which ruled in April that he had been convicted on hearsay; Masih was arrested for blaspheming Muhammad in 2005 and subsequently sentenced to death. Three months earlier, Rimsha Masih (no relation), a developmentally challenged teenage girl accused of blasphemy, was freed by Pakistan's Supreme Court, which agreed with a lower court that she had been framed by a local imam.
According to Human Rights Watch, at least 16 people were on death row in Pakistan in 2013 for blasphemy and another 20 were serving life sentences.
Islamists defend the blasphemy laws and militants have been known to murder anyone accused of blasphemy. Two high-ranking Pakistani officials -- Minister of Minority Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti and Punjab governor Salman Taseer -- were gunned down simply for criticizing the laws.
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Caraballo found guilty on multiple countsSTAFF REPORT | October 02,2013Frank Caraballo was found guilty of murder today by a federal jury that spent two weeks hearing his case in Rutland. At just before 3 p.m. Wednesday, after close to 8 hours of deliberation, jurors returned guilty verdicts on all but one of the counts against Caraballo, 31, of Holyoke, Mass.
Jurors found Caraballo guilty of killing 31-year-old Melissa Barratt of Brattleboro, whose body was found in the woods of Dummerston on July 29, 2011. While jurors found Carabello guilty of causing Barratt's death, they returned a not guilty verdict of actually pulling the trigger of the gun used to execute Barratt.
That partial acquittal will have little effect on the potential sentence that Caraballo faces. Of more significance was the jury's finding that while Caraballo was guilty of distributing cocaine, heroin and crack cocaine from March to July of 2011, they decided there was not evidence to support the government's charge that Caraballo had distributed inexcess of 280 grams of crack cocaine. That determination changes the sentencing potential in the case from a mandatory life sentence to a potential life sentence on that charge alone.
Caraballo also faces potential life sentences on the other three charges that he was convicted of Wednesday.
He was, in total, found guilty of: Conspiracy to distribute heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine; of being a felon in possession of a firearm; of using a firearm in furtherance of drug distribution; and of murdering Barratt.
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I always tell my students: 'No risk, no glory.' Without courage one cannot achieve anything. In life, if you do something you have to go for it. Pursue your dreams with eternal optimism.
The Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu once told me that music is like 'swimming in an ocean that has no east or west'. It's universal. It doesn't matter where you come from.
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This is Bob Falkenberg, about 1970. He would have been 23 or 24 in this photo. He's an interesting player for lots of reasons, one of which involves one of the very famous incidents in junior hockey history.
I don't believe justice can be done to just how vicious an act caused the Memorial Cup to come close to cancelation. The Edmonton Journal recently described it like this:
Falkenberg was jumped from behind and knocked unconscious to the ice, where he was continually pummeled by Derek Sanderson, who received a major penalty for intent to injure, a match misconduct and an indefinite suspension for the rest of the season.
The Toronto Star described it this way on Tuesday, May 11, 1965:
Tempers esclated throughout (the game) and exploded at 16:30 of the third period in a free-for-all which Art Potter, past president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association called "butchery."
Potter said he would recommend that the Memorial Cup series be "called off."
Edmonton captain Bob Falkenberg was carried from the ice on a stretcher after the game ending battle. Potter said his beating was the "most brutal I have ever seen." Referee Jim McAuley ended hostilities and halted the game on instructions from Potter.


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In "The Hypnotist,'' Lars Kepler's first book, Linna shared top billing with a second character. Now in "The Nightmare,'' the second Kepler book to hit the States, the narrative is all his, and he flowers in all his freakish glory. He is something of a Clues Whisperer, sensing the presence of information hiding in the periphery; at one crime scene he detects a near invisible footprint on a wall that his police technicians had missed.


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by Jim Stewart
November means elections. They're not always filled with donkeys and elephants supported by super PACs finagling to deceive. Sometimes they're beefcake elections that stimulate the libido and satisfy the soul. Sometimes they pit Gay Bar v. Gay Bar.
During the 1970s the California Motor Club held its popular fall charity carnival to elect Mr. CMC in the Marine Labor Union building on Fremont Street, fondly known as Seaman's Hall. The CMC Carnival wasn't the only beefcake election in town.
In 1975, the Acme Brewing Company of San Francisco sponsored the Acme Man '75 contest. Their souvenir program featured 30 shirtless hotties sponsored by various gay bars. From that Acme Man election, bar owners made money, Acme beer sales in gay bars increased, and the Society for Individual Rights (S.I.R.), a gay community-building organization, reaped the benefits of the ticket sales. The following year, however, Acme no longer wanted their beer brand coupled with the "fag" bar brand. Threats of a boycott canceled Acme Man '76.
Once upon a November, Allan Lowery, my boss and owner of the Leatherneck bar at 11th Street and Folsom, asked me to get out my Nikon and take a few shots of Max Morales for a Mr. CMC poster. Over a few lines and a couple of beers in his office we discussed the details.
"How much should we spend?" Allan said.
"On the posters?" I said.
"No! How much should the Leatherneck kick in to make Max Mr. CMC?"
"That's how it works?" I said. I'd envisioned individual carnival-goers stuffing their monetary votes into their candidate's, ah… ballot box, sort of like tipping the stripper boys who dance on the bar. It sounded a lot more fun then some Super PAC buying the election.
"It's all for charity," Allan said.
So on a Sunday in November, I walked through the second floor entrance doors of Seaman's Hall into a world Lewis Carroll could never have imagined down any rabbit hole. The place was packed. The music was loud. Its beat matched the rhythm of heavy sex. Mr. CMC candidates were onstage, seducing the crowd.
I stuffed my measly monetary vote in Max's cardboard ballot box and headed for the bar. I ordered a beer, a long-neck Oly. The air was heavy with the ripe aroma of male sweat, pot, and poppers, all overlaid with tobacco smoke and booze.
A roar from the crowd turned my head. One candidate, his muscled, oiled torso strapped into a leather body harness, dominated the stage. He played to his audience of cheering leatherfolk, air-fucking to the edge of the stage and back.
Then back again, at the edge of the stage, he popped his well-endowed tool from its black leather toolbox and sprayed his sacred juices over those below. The crowd went wild! Men surged forward to lap the precious liquid from sweating chests and bellies.
I edged my way down the packed stairs to a raw first floor man-cave. As if staged for a Pier Paolo Pasolini film, a stand-up orgy stretched before me. Booths around the perimeter offered services for hire, for charity. One provided free manicures prior to four-bit fistings. I bumped into Allan.
"Did Max win?" I said.
"No," Allan said. "Neither did the air-fucker."
Big bucks had backed the winner.
After cruising the crowd, getting a good buzz on, and having been sexually satiated several times, I left, a happy man who had done his duty and cast his vote, for charity.
Each year the CMC crowd grew. Rental fees increased. Lawsuits were feared. Insurance became required. The CMC Carnival was last held at Seamen's Hall in 1978.
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Seeder question: I have read in BOL that some functions are deterministic, and some functions are non-deterministic? What does this mean and what is an example of each? Are there any functions that are both?
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Great question.
Oct 16, 2009 at 08:32 PM RBarryYoung
A deterministic function is one where you can be sure of the output based on input (in a particular database). So if you call the DAY function on a particular field, it will return you the numerical day for the date parameter passed in. DAY( '1-1-2001') always returns 1.
A non-deterministic function is one that you can't predict the output. So RAND (with no seed) is a good example, but GETDATE(), @@CPU_BUSY, and similar functions that can't be predicted based on the input.
Some functions can be either, depending on how they are used. Here's a good reference from Books Online: Deterministic and Nondeterministic Functions
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How did I guess you might have the best answer Steve? :)
Oct 16, 2009 at 09:03 PM Matt Whitfield ♦♦
A deterministic function will always return the same result given the same arguments, non-deterministic functions will vary each time they are called. For example a function that adds 1 to the argument passed in would always return 8, if the argument was 7 - a deterministic function. On the other hand, the GETDATE() Function returns a different value each time called, so it's non-deterministic.
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Jay Bonk
A function can't be both, but GETDATE() is a function that will be treated as ok to use in user-defined functions because the system gets what GETDATE() does. It doesn't change with system settings, session options, etc.
answered Oct 16, 2009 at 07:57 PM
Rob Farley
A function most certainly can be both - CONVERT being the most famous example...
Oct 16, 2009 at 09:01 PM Matt Whitfield ♦♦
Ok, but a function called in a certain way is either one or the other. Rand() with a seed is always deterministic. Without it, it never is.
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Gonzalez is hoping that by giving Prado a day off here and there until the All-Star break and resting for four days off over the break, he can avoid a stint on the disabled list.
Gonzalez moved Jason Heyward into the third spot in Prado's absence, where Heyward was hitting for the third time this season. He moved rookie Andrelton Simmons to the second spot for the first time. Simmons played his first 23 games in the majors in the bottom third of the order.
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Actually, Simmons was hitting .321 entering Friday night.
Looking ahead, Gonzalez said he plans to give Chipper Jones a rest on Saturday against right-hander Stephen Strasburg and give Brian McCann a day off on Sunday against left-hander Gio Gonzalez. He plans to play Juan Francisco at third base Saturday. He went 2-for-2 with an RBI off Strasburg on May 26.
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So basically FG is setting them up for failure during a important series against a 1st place team they can't seem to beat with the regular lineup.
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Freddi has no confidence his best hitter is going to make the All-Star team?
June 29th, 2012
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Why didn't Fredi rest Prado last night?
You put your best players on the field for a series with the division leader — especially in light of this new one game elimination wild card format!
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OK~!!!! I try and give Freddie every chance I can! I Was NEVER A Booby Cox Fan! I was long the same thought as a guy who called His self "Robert!" Cox is one of the winnigest managers of all time! However He also lost more games than any mger in baseball! Tonights game~ Well~ Freddie Lost it due to his mismanagement! Down one run in Bottom of the 9th~ runner on second NO OUTS! He lets "Big Face" Hinske Bat~ and of course swing away? The other choice? The obvious one? Pinch Hit Ross~ have him bunt the runner to third~where there wud be one out? However? The SMART move?????? Would be to pinch hit Tim Hudson~! Let him bunt the runner to 3rd! Freddie Lost this game! It's all on Freddie! Freddie Does seem to have some sort of "lateral" thinking going on.
Unlike "The Donkey" Cox! However~ I'm startin to think~ Freddie's lateral thinking? Is sorta Like "Rocky and Bullwinkle?" "Watch me pull a rabbit outta my hat?" The All Star game is approaching?
He sits Prado~ and Uggla!~ Which leaves "Washed Up Diaz" in Left field with that Awesome ability to play the field? And of Course~ We Have the Next "Chris Woodward" playing second? (Jack Wilson?)
Who came to the plate twice in key position to drive in a run?
I try to be open minded about Freddie~ Tonight he Whizzed me off! I'm still gonna give him the "Benefit" of the doubt! However not MUCH longer! Theres Never! been a Major league manager Who
Really didnt have a "Clue" Since Bobby "The Donkey" Cox!
Just my opinion~!
I'm stickin to it!
June 29th, 2012
11:37 pm
Fredi does it again. Winneable game tonight. Hinske should have bunted the runner to 3rd and he would have scored on Sac Fly by Bourn. He didn't.
Diaz could have bunted a runner over earlier, he hits into DP.
This team needs to play ABC ball. They also need Constanza or Durango or both on the bench. Diaz is a disaster in the field. Missed another one tonight that Prado or Constanza gloves. Defense cost the Braves tonight, including the play where they had a Wash baserunner trapped and McCann held the ball.
Fundamentals are horrible. Pitching coach is horrible. Why let Morse hit a first pitch for a homer. Bounce the damn thing. Knock him down. But, don't let them hit the first pitch, which Wash was doing all night.
June 29th, 2012
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Where IS Costanza?
June 30th, 2012
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Play the A team.
June 30th, 2012
2:47 pm
Costanza is at "Monk's" having a bowl of soup with Kramer.
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5:40 am
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LOS ANGELES — Nov. 17, 2009 — For centuries, humans have been fascinated by Mars. Its reddish hue, relative proximity to Earth, and a mistaken notion that its surface was laced with "canals" have made it fodder for dramatists and science-fiction writers from Orson Welles ("The War of the Worlds") to Ray Bradbury ("The Martian Chronicles")
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Site visitors can pan, zoom and explore the planet through images from Mars landers, roving explorers and orbiting satellites dating from the 1960s to the present. Many of the images have never before been seen.
The site is also designed as a game with a twofold purpose: NASA and Microsoft hope it will spur interest in science and technology among students in the U.S. and around the world. It also is a "crowdsourcing" tool designed to tap visitors' brains and help the space agency process volumes of Mars images.
"We really need the next generation of explorers," says Michelle Viotti, director of Mars Public Outreach at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "And we're also accomplishing something important for NASA. There's so much data coming back from Mars. Having a wider crowd look at the data, classify it and help understand its meaning is very important."
The project was created through an agreement between NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Microsoft, with contributions from Arizona State University and — through a grant by Microsoft Research — Oxford University. It was built on the Microsoft Windows Azure platform, using a Silverlight application, and a new service code-named "Dallas," which houses all the information.
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Tim Harris, product manager for Microsoft's Developer Platform Evangelism (DPE) group, says such "citizen science" initiatives are a great way to both engage the public and create useful metadata that helps scientists organize and prioritize their research.
An example of this is Oxford University's Galaxy Zoo. Oxford consulted with Microsoft on the NASA project via a grant from Microsoft Research. "They've got graduate students doing the work today, but the amount of time it takes is extraordinary," says Harris. "With Galaxy Zoo, in a matter of months they were able to do more work than the graduate students were able to do in two years. With 'Be a Martian,' we're hoping the public can knock out Mars-related challenges pretty quickly."
Harris says the success of Galaxy Zoo is a great example of how citizen science can work to support researchers: "The power of citizen science is that critical mass of people — hundreds of thousands on the Internet doing millions of classifications compared to a dozen grad students in a basement doing a few dozen classifications a day."
Users of Galaxy Zoo even discovered a new type of celestial body. Harris says the "Be a Martian" project has similar potential.
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crowdsourcing approach — using entertainment to attract the brainpower of a multitude of human beings — when it comes to processing large volumes of science information.
Pulling it off can be a challenge, though. The tactical problems of crowdsourcing are twofold. On the one hand, the experience must be interesting and engaging enough that people will want to participate. On the other hand, you need to have enough servers to keep the site alive during peak traffic.
"The hardware question represents a problem for a lot of organizations," Mercuri says. "If you invest in the servers to handle your launch traffic, what do you do with them when it cools off? A lot of organizations don't want to make that huge up-front investment."
The challenge of matching hardware to demand is prompting many organizations to outsource their processing power for Web services. Microsoft's solution in this space is the Windows Azure platform.
With NASA's "Be a Martian site," Mercuri says, NASA and Microsoft were able to employ the crowdsourcing concept for educational purposes while providing a social benefit. The Windows Azure platform, using Silverlight and "Dallas," has succeeded in making large mission datasets available and easy to access, opening up a world of exploration for visitors to the site — literally.
This week NASA's Mars Exploration Program and Microsoft are launching a citizen-science programming competition called the Pathfinder Innovation Challenge. With Mapping Mars as an example citizen-science application, the competition challenges developers to use the NASA data, its media API and other citizen-science components to build new applications for solving a set of problems defined by NASA scientists and engineers.
Entries will be judged on a number of criteria, including technical, educational and design components. Several great prizes from NASA and Microsoft are up for grabs, and the grand prize is sponsored in part by Microsoft Bing. More information about the programming competition can be found at http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/beamartian/PIC/.
For "Martians" who are not programmers but are developing entry-level computer skills, the Martian Film Fest competition will allow greater participation. Members of the public who wish to express their interest in Mars, while building their digital movie-making skills, can find more information about the Martian Film Fest at http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/beamartian/PIC/.
"When it comes to the wow factor, it's tough to compete with the images NASA has collected over several decades of space exploration," he says. "With Silverlight's support for high-definition video, it was a natural choice for building a Web application that could showcase the space agency's fantastic imagery."
Microsoft and NASA used Silverlight to build an interactive application that can run on any major browser. The images number in the hundreds of thousands — decades of research represented by terabytes of information, all free for the public to peruse and comment on.
"It's a fun, casual game with beautiful images that also has a real purpose," says Mercuri. "You don't need a degree in science, but you can contribute back to the space program right away. And for those who are inspired, particularly the next generation, it opens up a path for continued learning that we hope may actually lead to advanced degrees later on."
Visitors earn points and can build an online reputation by helping NASA examine and organize the images. A game called Mapping Mars lets users align images with the same geo-coordinates to build a global map of the planet. Another game has visitors count craters to help scientists understand the relative age of rocks on Mars' surface.
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Kate Moss. She's a woman of many pictures but few words. After her good friend Marc Jacobs gave her an extravagant and heartfelt introduction before she was honored with a special recognition award at the British Fashion Council's ceremony last night, Moss kept it short and sweet: "Thanks to all the people who have booked me over the years. I am really grateful," she said, and then she was off.
That was just one gong throughout a night in which the presenters nearly outshone the presentees with their star power. Gwyneth Paltrow, Donatella Versace, Sienna Miller, Clémence Poésy, Samantha Cameron, and Suki Waterhouse all handed out trophies. On the receiving end were the likes of Christopher Kane, Erdem Moralioglu, Christopher Bailey, J.W. Anderson, Simone Rocha, and Sophia Webster. But perhaps the most poignant moment came when Jefferson Hack introduced special recognition award winner Suzy Menkes with a little-known story of how her career began when she crashed a Karl Lagerfeld for Chloé show and got in the only way she knew how: dressed up as a cleaning lady. When the first model hit the catwalk, Menkes jettisoned her mop and bucket to take a seat, and the rest is fashion history. A humble and articulate Menkes mesmerized the crowd with her tales, then gently scolded the industry for the freebie culture before acknowledging "these are tough times for fashion."
Maybe so, but it certainly didn't seem that way at the bacchanalian party over at the Playboy Club for the mag's 60th-anniversary cover girl, Ms. Moss. Rita Ora, Bob Geldof, Yasmin Le Bon, Harry Styles, and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, not to mention virtually all of London's designers, turned up to raise a glass to Moss, whose anniversary cover wallpapered the room. Jacobs, who played host, told Style.com: "She is a genuine icon, and I don't throw that word around a lot—believe me. It's not just fashion history where she will be remembered, but history, full stop."