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Africa Code Week 2017 was officially launched in Mauritius this week. Now in its third year, the event aims to spread coding literacy among African youth, with a target of 500,000 across 35 African countries...
21 Jun 2017
Entries close on 18 April for the Singularity University, Global Impact Challenge. This challenge is an open call to innovators, entrepreneurs, scientists, and technologists to foster moonshot innovations and startups that positively impact the lives of people living in southern Africa...
Mann Made Media 12 Apr 2017
'Student Politics in Africa: Representation and Activism', edited by Thierry M Luescher, Manja Klemencic, and James Otieno Jowi, was launched recently...
24 Jun 2016
It looks as though African students are set to benefit as Huawei announced at the World Economic Forum on Africa 2015 that over the next five years 1,000 students across the continent...
29 Jan 2016
AFDA, the South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance, is a film, television and performance school, which has opened its first campus in Botswana...
4 Sep 2015
Africa's changing demographic over the next three-and-a-half decades could transform the continent into the next China, but only if its youthful population is educated and entrepreneurial.
Jana Marais 19 Aug 2014
It may be imprudent to write this about someone who is spending $10m on African journalism. But then, of all the things I have been accused of in my time, prudence was never among them.
Anton Harber 7 Feb 2014
The World Bank committed a record US$14.7bn in its fiscal year to June to support economic growth and better development prospects in Africa despite uncertain economic conditions in the rest of the global economy.
1 Aug 2013
Professional services firm EY Africa says it has about US$40m to spend on acquisitions in SA, Angola and Nigeria and is also looking to increase its investments in skills development.
Phakamisa Ndzamela 16 Jul 2013
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has launched a three-year, pan-African study on how to foster youth entrepreneurship in order to tackle the scourge of youth unemployment on the continent.
4 Feb 2013
The Higher Education and Training Department says R886 million has been invested in connecting South African universities and public research organisations to each other at a minimum speed of 10 gigabits per second.
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Social Determinants of Health Discussion Paper Series
- 1. Action on the Social Determinants of Health: learning from previous experiences
- 2. A Conceptual Framework for Action on the Social Determinants of Health
- 3. Monitoring Social Well-being to Support Policies on the Social Determinants of Health: the case of New Zealand's "Social Reports/Te Purongo Oranga Tangata"
- 4. Public Health Agencies and Cash Transfer Programmes: making the case for greater involvement
- 5. Evaluating intersectoral process for action on the Social Determinants of Health: Learning from key informants
- 6. Addressing Social Determinants of Health through intersectoral actions: Five public policy cases from Mexico
- 7. Position paper on Economic arguments for intersectoral interventions that improve the Social Determinants of Health: Mexico
- 8. Cross-country analysis of the institutionalization of Health Impact Assessment
- 9. Integration of Social Determinants of Health and Equity into health strategies, programmes and activities: health equity training process in Spain
Action Area 1. Adopt improved governance for health and development
Supporting regional positions on Health in all Policies
- 1. Practising a health in all policies approach: lessons for universal health coverage and health equity: a policy briefing for ministries of health based on experiences from Africa, South-East Asia and the Western Pacific
- 2. Demonstrating a health in all policies analytic framework for learning from experiences: based on literature reviews from Africa, South-East Asia and the Western Pacific
- 3. Moving towards health in all policies: a compilation of experience from Africa, South-East Asia and the Western Pacific
Regional reports
Regional web pages for the case studies
The Economics of Social Determinants of Health project
Social Determinants of Health Sectoral Briefing Series
The Social Determinants of Health Sectoral Briefing Series was launched as a follow-up initiative to the Health in All Policies International Meeting in Adelaide in 2010. Research shows that health equity is driven by policies in other sectors as well as complex social, economic and political factors. By providing information on other sectors' agendas and policy approaches and by illustrating areas for potential collaboration, the Series encourages a more systematic dialogue with other sectors. Rather than concentrating only on public health interventions (e.g. treatment, prevention, protection), the Series suggests areas of mutual interest to motivate joint work.
Health in All policies (HiaP)
Health in all Policies (HiaP) highlights the important links between health and broader economic and social goals in modern societies, and it positions improvements in population health and reductions in health inequities as high priority, complex problems that demand an integrated policy response across sectors. This strategy considers the effects of policies on social determinants as well as the beneficial impact of improvements in health on the goals of other sectors.
Case Studies
These case studies were commissioned by WHO and PHAC and focused on documenting experiences of intersectoral policy processes. In the end, case studies were finalized from 18 countries, illustrating intersectoral actions undertaken to improve health or health equity at different levels of government or between government and civil society.
Country Reports on Rio Political Declaration implementation
Rio Political Declaration on Social Determinants of Health: A Selection of Canadian Actions 2013 report
Toward Health Equity: Canadian Approaches to the Health Sector Role
New approach to development
Action Area 2. Promote participation in policy-making and implementation.
Civil society refers to the space for collective action around shared interests, purposes and values, generally distinct from government and commercial for-profit actors. Civil society includes charities, development NGOs, community groups, women's organizations, faith-based organizations, professional associations, trade unions, social movements, coalitions and advocacy groups.
Action Area 3. Further reorient the health sector towards promoting health and reducing health inequities.
Public health programmes often neglect the contribution that addressing social determinants of health (SDH) can make to achieving health targets, including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Working with public health programmes to identify social determinants and health equity issues specific to public health programmes, and support to address those are important mandates of the Department of Ethics and Social Determinants of Health (ESD).
Social determinants approaches to public health: from concept to practice, 2011
Case studies highlighting implementation issues related to health programme interventions for addressing SDH to improve health equity.
Equity, Social Determinants and Public Health Programmes, 2010
Analyses of SDH that impact on specific health conditions and potential interventions to improve health equity.
Social determinants of reproductive health, 2010
Priority Public Health Conditions scoping paper A paper on social determinants of health and equity, Priority Public Health Conditions Knowledge Network, framework for analysis, process timelines and milestones, proposed products by the Commission.
Priority Public Health Conditions Knowledge Network: Guides for phase 1, 2 & 3: The PPHC KN involved three phases: Phase 1: Analysis of public health conditions; Phase 2: Interventions and Implementation; and, Phase 3: Measurement. Tools were developed to support the public health programmes to do the analysis at each phase. The tools can be downloaded below:
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WHO provides support to Member States to access financial resources and technical cooperation, and coordinate and improve international cooperation, including the work with other UN agencies on social determinants of health in promoting health equity.
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The MEKN led on the development of methodologies and tools for measuring the causes, pathways and health outcomes of policy interventions to tackle the social determinants of health and health inequities. There was also an emphasis on documenting processes of change and attributing improvements in health outcomes to social determinants programs and policies.
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WHO completes a Rockefeller supported project to work with countries on discussions of health in all policies in lead-up to the 8th Global Conference on Health Promotion and the Resolution WHA67.12. Contributing to social and economic development: sustainable action across sectors to improve health and health equity. Several reports documenting these discussions and associated research are provided under "Supporting regional positions on Health in all Policies" under the Publications section.
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The Economics of Social Determinants of Health project
WHO launched the Economics of Social Determinants of Health project, supported by the Public Health Agency of Canada, to describe and discuss the potential for economic rationales to make the case for social determinants of health interventions, and to summarize economic evidence in key public policy areas. Improving understanding of economic rationales for intersectoral policy and programme interventions is therefore an important component of work for countries implementing social determinants of health recommendations.


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Hi All,
Have a very strange issue.
I have a number of clients that are having a problem staying connected to the network while on the wireless.
I have a 5508 Controller running 188.8.131.52. APs are 3502i APs.
The clients can be connected to the controller, they have what appears to be full signal, but they lose all connectivity to the network. I check my switches, and their ARP resolution even disappears.
I've run debugs on the WLC on a particular client, and it shows the client associating to the controller and never shows it disassociate, but, after a while, they just lose connectivity to the LAN. Typically they have to disassociate from the WLAN and reconnect.
One thing i've noticed is that this is not occuring on my Guest WLAN, which uses a different authentication mechanism.
Guest WLAN authentication is WPA2 PSK. Internal Wifi is 802.1x, talking to ACS5.2. ACS doesn't show any deauths or failed logins.
What's more strange is that it's only some clients. I personally use wifi exclusively, i haven't wired in in months and I don thave this problem, but I have 4 other people in my department that the problem.
They have Dell laptops with intel wifi adapters, drivers are updated to latest versions. I also have a Dell laptop, but mine has a Dell wlan card, not Intel.
WLC has LAG enabled and connects to my Nexus backbone. One connection to each Nexus in VPC configuration.
Could the LAG setup be causing this strange behavior? Anyone have any pointers where to even look for this issue?


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Friday, December 4 2009 - Other Important News
Yahoo, Verizon: Our Spy Capabilities Would 'Shock', 'Confuse' Consumers
By Kim Zetter
Want to know how much phone companies and internet service providers charge to funnel your private communications or records to U.S. law enforcement and spy agencies?That's the question muckraker and Indiana University graduate student Christopher Soghoian asked all agencies within the Department of Justice, under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed a few months ago. But before the agencies could provide the data, Verizon and Yahoo intervened and filed an objection on grounds that, among other things, they would be ridiculed and publicly shamed were their surveillance price sheets made public.
Yahoo writes in its 12-page objection letter (.pdf), that if its pricing information were disclosed to Soghoian, he would use it "to 'shame' Yahoo! and other companies -- and to 'shock' their customers."
"Therefore, release of Yahoo!'s information is reasonably likely to lead to impairment of its reputation for protection of user privacy and security, which is a competitive disadvantage for technology companies," the company writes.
Verizon took a different stance. It objected to the release (.pdf) of its Law Enforcement Legal Compliance Guide because it might "confuse" customers and lead them to think that records and surveillance capabilities available only to law enforcement would be available to them as well -- resulting in a flood of customer calls to the company asking for trap and trace orders.
"Customers may see a listing of records, information or assistance that is available only to law enforcement," Verizon writes in its letter, "but call in to Verizon and seek those same services. Such calls would stretch limited resources, especially those that are reserved only for law enforcement emergencies."
Other customers, upon seeing the types of surveillance law enforcement can do, might "become unnecessarily afraid that their lines have been tapped or call Verizon to ask if their lines are tapped (a question we cannot answer)."
Soghoian filed his records request to discover how much law enforcement agencies -- and thus U.S. taxpayers -- are paying for spy documents and surveillance services with the aim of trying to deduce from this how often such requests are being made. Soghoian explained his theory on his blog, Slight Paranoia:
The first DoJ agency to respond to his request was the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), which indicated that it had price lists available for Cox Communications, Comcast, Yahoo and Verizon. But because the companies voluntarily provided the price lists to the government, the FOIA allows the companies an opportunity to object to the disclosure of their data under various exemptions. Comcast and Cox were fine with the disclosure, Soghoian reported.
He found that Cox Communications charges $2,500 to fulfill a pen register/trap-and-trace order for 60 days, and $2,000 for each additional 60-day-interval. It charges $3,500 for the first 30 days of a wiretap, and $2,500 for each additional 30 days. Thirty days worth of a customer's call detail records costs $40.
Comcast's pricing list, which was already leaked to the internet in 2007, indicated that it charges at least $1,000 for the first month of a wiretap, and $750 per month thereafter.
But Verizon and Yahoo took offense at the request.
Yahoo objected on grounds that its pricing constituted "confidential commercial information" and cited Exemption 4 of the Freedom of Information Act and the Trade Secrets Act.
Exemption 4 of the FOIA refers to the disclosure of commercial or financial information that could result in a competitive disadvantage to the company if it were publicly disclosed. The company claims its pricing is derived from labor rates for employees and overhead and, therefore, disclosing the information would provide clues to its operating costs -- regardless of whether these same clues are already available in public records, such as those the company files with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company also claims that since Soghoian is trying to determine the actual amounts the Marshals Service paid Yahoo for responding to requests, the price lists are irrelevant, since "there are no standard prices for these transactions."
But equally important to Yahoo's objections was the potential for "criticism" and ridicule. Yahoo quoted Soghoian on his blog writing that his aim was to "use this blog to shame the corporations that continue to do harm to user online privacy."
Yahoo also objected to the disclosure of its letter objecting to the disclosure of pricing information saying that "release of this letter would likely cause substantial competitive harm" to the company. The company added, in a veiled threat, that if the Marshals Service were to show anyone its letter objecting to the disclosure of pricing information, it could "impair the government's ability to obtain information necessary for making appropriate decisions with regard to future FOIA requests."
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Limbaugh dismissed questions about Bush's National Guard
Research ››› ››› GABE WILDAU
Chiding critics of President George W. Bush for harping on questions about Bush's Texas Air National Guard service record, Rush Limbaugh claimed on his April 28 radio show, "They can't get off this AWOL business. There's no evidence. This whole business of Bush going AWOL. It's absolute total bogus-ness."
In fact, as numerous news sources reported, the military records the administration released in February did not prove that Bush fulfilled his National Guard service.
As The Boston Globe reported on February 14:
[T]he White House last night made public what it said were all of President Bush's military records. But the records seemed to add virtually no new information about Bush's stint in the Texas Air National Guard that concluded with a final year of sporadic duty and an early return in 1973 to civilian life.
An initial review of the more than 300 pages found no additional documentation about why Bush went months without attending required drills while he was living in Montgomery, Ala., and at his home base in Houston between May 1972 and May 1973.
The documents also do not clear up another mystery about Bush's military service: why then First Lieutenant Bush, a fighter-interceptor pilot, did not take his required annual flight physical examination in mid-1972. On Aug. 1, 1972, he was suspended from flight status for not taking the physical, and never flew again.
The records made public last night add little to the more than 160 pages of Bush's military records that the Globe obtained four years ago.
And The Washington Post reported on February 15:
Although documents released last week show that Bush performed some Guard duties in October and November of 1972, a time he was in Alabama, and dental exams show he was on the base in January 1973, none of the documents shows where on the base he worked or what his tasks were.
Only one person has vivid recollections of serving with Bush at Dannelly field. John B. "Bill" Calhoun, 69 -- whose name was provided by a Republican ally of Bush's -- said he saw Bush sign in at the 187th eight to 10 times for about eight hours each from May to October 1972. But Calhoun remembers seeing Bush at Dannelly at times in mid-1972 when the White House acknowledges Bush was not pulling Guard duty in Alabama yet; his first drills were in October, according to the White House. White House press secretary Scott McClellan on Friday was at a loss to reconcile the discrepancy.
In a February 17 article, Salon.com senior writer Eric Boehlert explained how the final documents released by the White House fail to prove that Bush in fact fulfilled his duty.
In an April 27 Salon.com article, Texas journalist James C. Moore detailed the unanswered questions on George W. Bush's military service.
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Experimental Corvettes
Illustrated Corvette Series No. 93 - 1992 Falconer V-12 Experimental Corvette
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Illustrated Corvette Series No. 23 - 1964 CERV II -
"Chevrolet Engineering Research Vehicle"
CERV II was Zora Arkus-Duntov's most exotic experimental car. Like the CERV I, this car was built with one thing in mind, competition.
For many years, Duntov's little rocket car held the Milford Proving Ground track record with an average speed of 206 mph! With short gearing, the CERV II would run 0-to-60 in 2.8 seconds. With Duntov's patented 4WD power train, the car wanted to be driven faster!
The original plan was to build six cars, three for competition and three spares. The construction of the car was truly ahead of its time. Some of the advanced features included four-wheel drive using a Powerglide torque converter for each end of the car, side-mounted fuel cells, a monocoque frame, low profile Firestone racing tires, and a 377 cubic-inch all aluminum V-8 using Hilborn injection, single overhead cams, making 500 horsepower.
The body was styled by Larry Shinoda and Tom Lapine. Unlike the Grand Sport, the CERV II was stable at speeds over 200 mph. It only needed a small spoiler on the rear deck. The wheelbase was only 90 inches, front and rear tracks were 53.5 inches, making the CERV II a short, wide car.
Jim Hall and Roger Penske both liked the car's unique handling and driver's position. When pushed to the limit, the CERV II would go into a very fast, flat spin. Much of the CERV II's technology was later used in the Chaparral 2D.
In 1970 a ZL-1 engine was fitted into the car for some "tire testing." Later, in 1989, the car was valued at over $1.5 million. All I can say is those dragster headers must have sounded awesome! - K. Scott Teeters
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lllustrated Corvette Series No. 38 - 1969 Manta Ray Show Car Corvette
The 1965 Mako Shark II may well have been the most exciting Corvette show car of all time. This one show car had more direct impact on future production Corvettes than any other. The car was a world traveler as General Motors trotted the Mako Shark II all over the automotive globe, wowing car lovers everywhere it went.
By 1968, with the debut of the new C3 Corvette, the Mako Shark was old news. But when your pockets are as deep as GM's, why not make a great thing even greater? Even though $2.5 million had been spent on the Mako Shark II, the General spent almost another $3 million on the Manta Ray!
The biggest change was the long, tapered tail, a 'la the Astro Vette Show Car. Endura bumpers gracefully covered functional metal bumpers. The roof line featured a beautiful, sweeping, tapered style, similar to a Sting Ray roof, but scooped out with a small slot for a rear window. For hard braking and turn signaling, flip up lights popped out of the rear deck. Four taillights were fared in under the rear bumper line with a center-located license-plate holder.
An awesome show car should have an awesome engine. The Manta Ray used the new, all-aluminum, ZL-1 engine with a special air cleaner. Side pipes were beautifully crafted into the side rocker panels and sounded great. This was part of the Bill Mitchell trademark.
The nose of the car was basically unchanged, except for an extended bumper ring around the air inlets and a small chin spoiler. Normal sideview mirrors were deleted in favor of small, bullet-shaped mirrors that were attached to the top of the A-pillers. Like the previous Mako Shark cars, the Manta Ray was painted dark blue with pearl white fogging along the lower edges. Special badges and Corvette crossed-flags insignias completed the car.
This may have been the last "pure" show car Corvette. Later show cars were serious engineering studies. Cars like this sure got a lot of us juiced up for the "next" Corvette. Ah, the stuff of daydreams! K. Scott Teeters
lllustrated Corvette Series No. 40 - 1970 XP-882 Corvette Show Car
"Experimental Corvette - Bad Timing
It was a great day for Corvette fans. When the crowds piled into the New York Auto Show on April 2, 1970, they had no idea what Chevrolet was proposing as the next Corvette. The XP-882 Mid-Engine Experimental Corvette had almost everything a Vette lover would want... big-block power, huge wheels and tires, exotic suspension, drop-dead looks, and the engine located in the middle of the car, exactly where an exotic car engine should be.
But we all know how the story ended; they didn't come close to making the car. Forward thinking just couldn't overcome bad timing. Duntov's design team started working out the mechanical challenges for the XP-882 in 1968. Styling penned up a new look that screamed "Corvette!" It was crisp, edgy, modern, yet it "looked" like a Corvette.
New Chevy General Manager John Z. DeLorean stopped work on the XP-882 to pursue making Corvettes based on the new, inexpensive Camaro chassis. DeLorean met with fierce resistance from styling, engineering, and sales to NOT take the car in that direction. So the project was stopped in 1969 and was warehoused until 1970. When Ford announced a similar mid-engine project with DeTomaso, DeLorean resurrected the XP-882 and had it finished for the show car circuit. Because there were no press releases, everyone was stunned. The car magazines were all over it, initiating a feeding frenzy of speculation.
Mid-engine cars were very exotic in the '60s. Not only was the engine midship located, but it was transverse mounted. By using the front-wheel drive, automatic transmission from an Olds Toronado, Duntov was able to quickly get a working prototype. Suspension and brakes were obviously independent and disc. Wheels were spun-aluminum, with vent slots, and tires were E60x15 on the front and G60x15 on the rear. The interior of the car was basic prototype fashion, no frills and no real design at that point. The XP-882 was never officially tested for speed and performance.
Many other Corvette show cars have been more thought out than the XP-882, but the car was rushed into service and not fully developed like show cars of the '60s. But the timing couldn't have been worse for an all-new Corvette. The new platform was going to be expensive to make, requiring new transmission, suspension, body, and interior parts. Actual production wouldn't have started until '72 or '73, just in time for the first Arab oil embargo. Also in the brew was a GM internal push to develop a Wankel-engined prototype, so the second XP-882 chassis was made into the 1973 4-Rotor Aerovette.
All things considered, the XP-882 didn't have a chance, but it sure was exciting. - K. Scott Teeters
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lIlustrated Corvette Series No. 42 - 1964 XP-819
"Experimental Rear-Engine Corvette"
Car companies make prototype cars all the time. Most of these machines are never shown to the public. Corvette prototype cars often become very high-profile machines. Only a few were never shown, for good reason. The XP-819 was an engineering study used to prove a point concerning the correct direction for future Corvette development.
The XP-819 was the result of a clash between Zora Arkus-Duntov and engineer Frank Winchell, who'd been involved with the Corvair project. Winchell contended that you could make a balanced, rear-engine, V-8 powered sports car by using an aluminum engine and larger tires on the rear to compensate for the rear weight bias. Duntov adamantly disagreed. A loose design was drawn that received some very unflattering comments from Duntov and Dave McLellan. Winchell asked designer Larry Shinoda if he could make something beautiful with the layout, to which Shinoda told him that a tape drawing could be shown after lunch. Shinoda and designer John Schinella sketched out the basic shape shown here. Duntov asked Shinoda, "Where did you cheat?"
It didn't look "too bad", so a working prototype was ordered. Shinoda supervised the styling and Larry Nies' team of fabricators built the car. In only two months the XP-819 was on the test track.
It turned out that Frank Winchell's theory about rear-engine, V-8 cars didn't work out very well. However, Shinoda's design was well received. They were obviously into the "shark thing" and picked up styling points from the Chaparral cars. It even had wheels from a Chaparral.
This car was definitely a Corvette, even though the back end was big. Unfortunately, with all that weight behind the rear axle, it was only a matter of time before it crashed during a high-speed lane change test. The question of stability was answered, and the XP-819 was send off the the scrap bin...almost.
Oddly enough, GM sent the car to Smokey Yunick's shop in Daytona, Florida. The chassis was cut in half and usable parts were removed. What was left was stored in an unused paint booth as just "old junk." Years later, a Corvette collector was buying some parts from Yunick and offered to buy the junked XP-819.
So the pile of car scrap was rebuilt and finished as a streetable car, like a kit car. A cast-iron V-8 was used in place of the original all-aluminun engine. We're talking serious rear weight bias here. It's quick and now does awesome wheelies! - K. Scott Teeters
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lIlustrated Corvette Series No. 36 - 1968 Astro II Mid-Engine Experimental Corvette
Almost from the beginning, racing has made the Corvette a living legend. Sports car development in the 1960s was explosive, and at the cutting edge was the Ford GT40 and the Chevrolet-backed Chaparral, both using a mid-engine layout. The Astro II (XP-880) was the first of several experimental, mid-engine Corvettes that kicked off years of exotic sports car anticipation.
Ford started the race by first offering a street version of their GT40, called "Mark III" and then by unveiling the "Mach 2" experimental mid-engine car in May 1967. Designers at Chevrolet went right to work on their own version of a mid-engine Corvette. After 11 months, the Astro II was shown, immediately initiating a blizzard of speculation asking the question, "Is this the next Vette?"
By using off-the-shelf parts, the designers were able to deliver the car quickly, and at a relatively low cost. However, because of a lack of serious commitment by Chevrolet, the car was made using an out of production, '63 Pontiac Tempest, two-speed transaxle. Ford, on the other hand, had a race-proven, four-speed manual gear box for the Mach 2. The big question was, if pushed into production, would a two-speed automatic Corvette be taken seriously. Probably not.
Despite its built-in design weakness, the Astro II was a very interesting effort. It certainly looked exotic and screamed "Corvette" with its body styling. The Astro II used a central backbone frame and thick doors that housed safety beams. The 20-gallon fuel cell was located in the center of the frame. The engine, suspension and drivetrain were all attached to the central frame. With a 427 engine, this made the car more like a Can-Am racer than a street car. Even with production Camaro and Corvette suspension parts, and performance street tires, the Astro II generated 1.0 g of cornering grip. This was part of the magic of a mid-engine sports car. Astro II weighed in at 3,300 pounds, 300 less than a production Corvette, yet had almost the same external dimensions.
While the Astro II was being track tested in Spring 1968, Duntov and his crew were busy working on their solution to the transaxle problem, the stunning XP-882. This one almost made it to the showroom. K. Scott Teeters
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lllustrated Corvette Series No. 35 -1968 Astro I Mid-Engine Experimental Corvette
Almost from the beginning, there have been those at Chevrolet who wanted the Corvette to be "something else." Along the way there have been proposals to soften the Corvette, add a back seat, and to use steel for the body. The Astro I proposed using an opposed, flat-six, Corvair engine. Fortunately, this was one for the history books.
The official purpose of the Astro I was to study aerodynamics and new features. Engineers had long known that frontal area and shape were major factors in how slippery a car is in high-speed air. Much of what we take for granted in aerodynamics was new territory in the mid '60s. For this study, function followed form.
To keep the front profile as low as possible, a modified, flat, opposed-six Corvair engine was placed behind the rear wheels. Although a far cry from the rip-snort'n 427s of the day, the little 176 cubic-inch enginewas made of alloy aluminum with steel cylinder sleeves and featured single overhead cams, hemi heads, Weber carburetors, and made 240 horsepower. That's 1.4 hp per cubic inch!
The unibody construction had large boxed side sill members that added stiffness as well as housing a fuel cell on the passenger side. The bulkhead behind the driver and the forged aluminum windshield header provided rollover protection.
The front and rear suspension used double wishbones and four-wheel disc brakes. Wheels and tires hadn't gotten fat yet, so 5.5 inch and 7.0 inch wheels were used front and back.
Note the absence of any normal door lines. The entire canopy hinged up from a pivot point behind the rear wheels. Since the car was 35.5 inches tall, 12.3 inches shorter than a '68 Corvette, the seats were fixed to the canopy and actually raised up so that you could step into the interior. This was not a rainy day car.
The Astro I had many styling tricks that were standard for GM study cars; a closet at the base of the windshield for wipers, pop-up spoiler brake lights, access panels on the hood for servicing fluids, and periscope rear view mirrors. The interior had the gauges, warning lights, and twin-grip steering control device. Trick stuff in 1967.
At only 35.5 inches tall, the Astro I was as low as a Countach, 15 years earlier. Too bad it wasn't packing a 427. Oh well.
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lllustrated Corvette Series No. 51 - 1973 XP-892 Mid-Engine 2-Rotor Experimental Corvette "Rotor-Motor Wankel Corvette?"
The XP-892 just flat-out caught everyone short. It didn't "look" like a Corvette, and used an engine that most of us had never heard of. "What's a Wankel?" Despite its unusual styling, it was a very well done prototype. However, due to the Corvette's sales success, GM was in no hurry to make an all-new car.
GM was hot on the new Wankel rotary engine, and was scheduled to offer the rotor-motor in the Vega for '75. Since 1953, people inside of GM have wanted to make the Corvette something else smaller, bigger, a four-seater, etc. So a Wankel powered prototype was ordered. Actually, two prototypes were made, the XP-892 two-rotor design, shown here, and a four-rotor design using the chassis from the '70, mid-engine, V-8 powered XP-882.
The XP-892 was small, about the same size as a Dino Ferrari or a Datsun 240Z. But when pressed for inside information as to the possibility of this being the next Corvette, the ever cagey Duntov was quoted as saying, "Maybe, but there are no plans to produce it."
The problem was that at 2,600 pounds, with only 180 to 250-hp, performance wouldn't be anywhere close to Corvette standards. Since the Wankel engine had serious heat problems, the XP-892 was more of a study to see if the engine was feasible for a small sports car. Power-to-weight ratio aside, everyone was very pleased with the way the car turned out.
The XP-892 was designed by Chevrolet and built by Pininfarina. Unlike a production Corvette, the XP-892 was a steel, unit-body construction. Duntov referred to the McPherson-strut, independent suspension, and disc brakes as "run of the mill." The 266 cid engine had a single Rochester four-barrel carburetor, and was mated to a modified Hydramatic transmission. Duntov clearly wanted more when he said, "Add three more inches of wheelbase... and maybe a 300-cid engine, and we'd have a good car." As always, he had "something else" up his sleeve, a larger, four-rotor version.
For a prototype, the XP-892 had a very well designed and finished interior. The seats were fixed while the seat backs, steering wheel, and pedals were all adjustable. Between the engine and interior there was a 8.1 cubic foot storage space. The spare tire was under the front hood. It seems that the press never drove the car, as there was never a mention of how the car performed.
GM privately showed the XP-892 and the V-8 powered XP-882 to potential Corvette buyers in '72. The test groups wanted to see something in between. Duntov's opinion was, "When we finally decide what the new Corvette will be, it will be for our own reasons." The man knew what he wanted. - K. Scott Teeters
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lIlustrated Corvette Series No. 52 - 1973 Mid-Engine 4-Rotor Experimental Corvette
"148-MPH Prototype Corvette!"
Zora Arkus-Duntov had that rare blend of a deep understanding of engineering and a passion for speed. Aesthetics did little for Duntov, unless it helped the car's performance. Concerning the Four-Rotor Corvette, Duntov was quoted, "Looking back on my 20-year association with styling, this is the best design ever produced."
From '68 to '73, Chevrolet R&D made five unique mid-engine prototypes. So, what happened? The mid-engine Corvette dream never made it into production because of the Corvette's sales success in the early '70s. Production was at an all-time high in '73, and Chevrolet returned 8,200 orders to dealers because they couldn't make enough cars! So, strictly from a business standpoint, "We're selling all we can make, don't change it!"
Another interesting situation was going on inside of Chevrolet. Four power-players were approaching the end of their careers, and they all wanted a spectacular replacement for the Corvette. Duntov from engineering, Bill Mitchell from styling, Joe Pike from sales, and GM President Ed Cole were powerful Corvette allies. But in business, the bottom line is king.
The 2-Rotor car was nice, but more power was obviously needed. So a bold plan was presented to get the job done. Using the chassis from one of the '70 XP882 cars, two 292.5-cid rotary engines joined together inside a stress member case. The 585-cid "engine" made close to 420hp. The transmission was a Turbo Hydramatic 425 from a Toranado, with a Morse Hy-Vo chain and bevel gears.
Styling was directed by Mitchell and penned out by Henry Haga. Starting with the bumper height datum line, Mitchell's instructions were to "make it sleek." The long tapers on the front and rear, and a steep windshield, made the drag coefficient only 0.325. Gull-wing doors, vents, louvers, scoops, and lots of show car trim made the 4-Rotor Corvette nearly perfect from every angle of view. Slightly longer, lower, and wider than a production '74 Corvette, it looked like "the future."
On a one-mile check track, GM president Ed Cole and Duntov clicked off 148 mph in the 4-rotor Corvette. The car started out with a throaty roar and hit top speed, belching flames and making an ear piercing scream. It was actually faster than a '73 454 Corvette! But not even powerful friends in high places could get this prototype into production. - K. Scott Teeters
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lllustrated Corvette Series No. 53 - 1973 XP-895 All-Aluminum Experimental Corvette
Despite the dark clouds on the automotive horizon in the early '70s, it was a heady time in the Corvette R&D group. The all-aluminum Corvette was the third fully functional prototype to show up in '73.
Before carbon fiber, aluminum was the darling of high-tech automotive development. After all, aluminum was the material of cutting-edge jet aircraft and space craft. An aluminum bodied car wasn't a new idea, since many European exotics had aluminum bodies, as well as Shelby's Cobra. But an aluminum "production" car is another matter.
Like aircraft and space craft, weight was the motivator for this feasibility study. Since the early '60s Detroit had been offering "off-road" aluminum parts intended for NASCAR and drag racing, but these were limited to bumpers, fenders, hoods, doors, and mounting hardware. Mass producing an entire car body would require many assembly and durability considerations. But the prospect of reducing body weight by 40 percent was very appealing.
Using the same chassis and basic body shape of the 2-Rotor Corvette prototype, Reynolds Aluminum used their new 2036-T4 allow to make this all-aluminum Corvette. Except for the bumpers, tires, and interior parts everything else is aluminum. Chevrolet supplied stress analysis and Reynolds sorted out everything else. The main constraint was that the body would have to be spot-welded like a production car. To compensate for aluminum's lower modulus of elasticity, many of the parts and attaching flanges had to be thicker. Two-part epoxy was also used for added strength and to eliminate crevices that would trap salts and dirt.
The Reynolds Aluminum car had minor body differences from the 2-Rotor prototype and used a 400-cid small-block mated to a Hydro-Matic automatic transmission. Side-by-side, the Reynolds car weighed over 400 pounds less than the steel bodied 2-Rotor prototype. But weighed against the Corvette's sales success of the early '70s, GM was in no mood to make an aluminum Corvette. - K. Scott Teeters
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Illustrated Corvette Series No. 72 - 1986 Indy Corvette Concept Car
"Designing the Next Vette"
The lead time needed to design a car can be considerable. Many times, designers start the next generation of a design shortly after a new design is released for production. This was the case with the Corvette Indy concept car. With rave reviews coming in for the new C4 Corvette, it was time to think ahead – way ahead.
In the early '80s, Chevrolet engineers worked on a 2.65-liter Indy car engine with twin intercooled turbos. The engine was never seriously raced, but its development stimulated many of the Corvette team designers. Also, computer chips and electronics were making in-roads in production cars. GM's Design Vice President, Chuck Jordan, wanted these new technologies to be integrated into the design of the next-generation Corvette.
Jordan began with a rendering from staff designer Tom Peters. The design hearkened back to the Italian-like shapes from the Bill Mitchell era. Jordan took the Peters rendering and stuffed as much technology as he could into the sleek new shape.
The "Indy" name was used because the new car would have a 5.7-liter, 32-valve street version of the Indy-car racing engine. Corvette prototypes have had a long history of using mid-engine layouts, and the Corvette Indy was no exception. Other proposed "gee-whiz" features included active suspension, drive-by-wire steering, all-wheel drive, ETAK navigation system, and four-wheel steering.
To take the rendering to the next stage, Jordan commissioned Cecomp of Italy to build a full-size clay model of the Chevrolet III studio design. At this point, the high-tech specifications were just ideas on paper. It was the 3-dimensional, full-size model that would take the design to the next level of a running prototype.
The overall shape of the Corvette Indy was bigger than a production Corvette in every way except the height. The Corvette Indy was 7 inches shorter than a stock Corvette, but 10.4 inches longer and 8 inches wider. The wheelbase was 1.7 inches longer, with the front track 4.5 inches wider and rear track 5.4 inches wider that a stock Corvette. When viewed by it's self, the car looks large. However, when looked at next to a production Corvette, it looks very small due to its low height. The mid-engine drivetrain layout mandates a cab-forward shape. Deep air intakes behind the doors and the inverted rear spoiler are similar to many LeMans-type racers of that time. The upper rear spoiler shape would later be used on the '93 Camaro.
Clay prototypes are usually about 25 percent too much and have to be scaled back. The Corvette Indy successfully impressed GM officials, because by the end of '86 the first of two running Corvette Indy cars was delivered, with the second car being completed in '87. The running prototypes then became the starting point for the 1990 CERV III engineering study. - K. Scott Teeters
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lllustrated Corvette Series No. 76 - 1988 Running Indy Corvette
"The Running Prototype"
After seeing the full-size Corvette Indy clay model, GM brass approved the construction of a running prototype of the bold new design. Clay models are always a little over the top and need to be pulled back, but the running Corvette Indy still sizzled.
The second-stage Corvette Indy was a three part project. The overall design shape and hardware specifications came from the Corvette design team. Since GM had recently purchased Lotus, it was decided to use Lotus' suspension engineering skills to develop a prototype active suspension system. And finally, Cecomp of Italy was contracted to assemble the finished running vehicle. This was to be an interim car while the CERV III engineering study was being built.
Dream cars can be very exciting, but are often not road worthy as production cars. So the original design had to be more realistic. The front end was shortened and the A- and B-pillars were a little more realistic. Also, extra ground clearance and wheel travel in the wheel openings was added. But the shape, flavor, style, and attitude remained.
Running gear was as cutting edge as could be. An early version of the 5.7 LT5 (ZR-1) engine was used. Placement was not only mid-engine (something that Duntov wanted for decades), but was also transverse mounted. The backbone chassis was made of carbon fiber rather than the Kevlar tub of the first version. The Lotus team got to show off their latest active suspension hardware that had just about everything you could imagine. Micro processors and hydraulics replaced the entire standard suspension. The car had full-time four- wheel-drive, four-wheel steering, ABS brakes and traction control. The active suspension allowed for smaller wheel houses, fewer parts, and more interior room.
Weighing only 3,300 pounds and packing 380 hp, the Corvette Indy had enough grunt to carry the Corvette flame. The next stage would be the production-like CERV III. As a prototype, the running Corvette Indy was a success! - K. Scott Teeters
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lllustrated Corvette Series No. 84 1990 CERV III
"Over the Top Design"
The CERV III was a real-world version of the Corvette Indy show car. The Corporate Engineering Research Vehicle III (CERV III) was more than pretty show car; it would be the most advanced Corvette study to date.
Chief of Chevy III Studio, Jerry Palmer, handled the styling details while Dick Balsey was the engineer on the project. The objective was to showcase the Chevrolet design team and Lotus' advanced racing experience. This was no easy task, by any means.
The nose of the Indy had to be shortened and the side windows flattened out so that they could go down into the doors. The wheel openings had to be opened up to allow 3.5 inches of travel and the rocker panels reshaped to accommodate side-mounted fuel cells. Also, the overall height had to be increased a few inches.
The CERV III's hardware was just as exciting as the body shape. To start, the LT5 engine was treated to two Garrett T3 turbochargers that bumped the horsepower up to 650 and the torque to 655 lb-ft. The 3,400-pound CERV III ran 0 to 60 in 3.9 seconds, had a top speed of 225 mph, and had 1.1 gs of lateral acceleration!
Since the car was completely built by Lotus in England, carbon fiber was used everywhere possible, just like a race car. The underbody was carbon fiber with a fiberglass-finish coating. The classic Lotus backbone chassis was made of carbon fiber and weighed only 38 pounds.
Although the suspension looked normal, the springs and A-arms were made of titanium. Actuators were used in place of shock absorbers and were connected to a state-of-the-art computer-controlled active suspension system. ABS braking and traction control was also part of the package. The transverse-mounted engine used a six-speed automatic transmission for all-wheel-drive and four-wheel steering.
The completed car was more than anyone expected, especially the bean counters. Cost estimates put the price tag between $300,000 and $400,000, making the world-class CERV III the most expensive proposed Corvette ever! - K. Scott Teeters
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lllustrated Corvette Series No. 90 - 1991 ZR2 Engineering Study
"Chevrolet's Big Doggie!"
Some Corvette engineers have all the fun. In the mid-'80s, Scott Leon was a Corvette Project Coordinator at the GM Proving ground in Arizona. Although the new C4 Corvette was a success, there were those that missed the old big-block Corvette power. But Scott Leon had a plan.
One night after work, Leon and his crew decided to see if a big-block engine would fit into the frame rails of a C4 Corvette. Using an old '84 mule Corvette, the crew was surprised to find that with only a few chassis modifications, the big rat motor fit into the Corvette. The engine was a real squeeze, but it worked. Leon wanted the car to be modern, so they cobbled together a tuned-port fuel injection unit with a modified aftermarket tunnel-ram intake manifold. With a little welding and a set of Buick Grand National injectors, the system worked.
The crude engineering study was enough for Leon to get management to agree to building a 454 prototype using a '86 Corvette Coupe with an automatic transmission. Later, another prototype was made using a '89 Roadster with a 6-speed transmission and a Z51 suspension. Now things were starting to get real interesting.
The final version of Big Doggie was a very impressive machine. Leon chose one of Chevy's marine 454 short-block and added a set of L88 aluminum heads. The engine assembly was modified so that all production accessories would bolt on. The only modifications to the car was to the floor pan and the right side of the frame rail, forward of the fire wall. Aside from the large raised hood, the package looked like a production car.Even under the hood, everything looks like it came off the assembly line.
The ZR-2's 454 engine was never dyno tested, but was estimated at 385 horsepower about the same as a ZR-1, but with a big difference. Big Doggie had much more low-end torque than a ZR-1 and pulled like a freight train. With the Z51 suspension parts and a 6-speed transmission, the car was a hoot to drive. To save weight, Leon used the optional hard top and removed the convertible mechanism.
Big Doggie's chances of it ever seeing its way into production was close to zero. Chevrolet had too many of its eggs in the ZR-1 basket and the big-block engine didn't meet federal fuel standards. For a time, there was talk of offering a retro kit. But ZR-1 performance at a fraction of the cost wasn't what GM was interested in. - K. Scott Teeters
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Illustrated Corvette Series No. 93 - 1992 Falconer V-12 Experimental Corvette
"The Conan Corvette"
When the Dodge Viper debuted at the North American International Auto Show in January 1989, NO ONE knew what hit them. The Viper was new and fresh, yet it had a definite connection to the Shelby Cobra. Advanced orders were flooding in you know that designers were going back to the office saying, "DAMN!"
The Corvette team was working on three fronts: improving the production Corvette, getting the LT-5 (ZR-1) ready for production, and honing the CERV III prototype as a possible C5 Corvette. But the economy wasn't good and the reality of a CERV III-based car seemed dim at best Meanwhile, Chrysler was going into production with the V10-powered Viper. This posed a serious threat to the Corvette's "America's Only True Sports Car" status.
Under the guise of a "chassis development" program, the Corvette team came up with the idea of trumping the V10 Viper with a V12 Corvette prototype. Enter Ryan Falconer.
Falconer got his start in the early '60 working for Andy Granatelli's Novi engine -powered Indy racers. Later he joined in the Shelby American team and worked on the GT40 and racing Cobras. Two years later, Ryan started his own company, building his own racing engines. His associates reads like a "who's who" of auto racing legends, including; Parnelli Jones, Al Unser, Mario Andretti, Jackie Stewart, and many others.
So when the Corvette team decided to one-up the Viper with two extra cylinders, they decided on one of Ryan Falconer's stunning, all aluminum V12 racing engines. Since the Corvette would have to be stretched, this was the perfect time for a "chassis study."
Since the Falconer V12 packed a 680-horsepower kick, the obvious place to begin was with a production ZR-1. The biggest challenge was the fact that the all-aluminum V12 engine was 8.8-inches longer than the production Corvette engine. So the front end of the ZR-1 would have to be stretched 8-inches. SportsFab of Wixom, Michigan was contracted to do the stretching. The extra length is barely noticeable, but the '60s-styled side pipes sure are. Those were straight-through pipes directly off the tuned headers with no mufflers! With the hood up, the engine looked enormous. Amazingly, the extra length and the larger engine only added 100-pounds to the overall weight of the car. The engine used electronic fuel injection with a short-runner intake manifold and the aluminum block had pressed in cast iron sleeves, similar to the famous ZL-1
Actual performance figures were never published, as this was just a "chassis study." But you can figure out the power-to-weight ratio. What was certain was that at $45,000 per engine, plus the chassis and body modifications, there was no chance this car would ever get into production. Nick-named "Conan" because of the huge V12 engine, the ZR-12 was without a doubt, the one of the baddest engineering study Corvettes ever made. - K. Scott Teeters
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Lenovo is committed to exhibit leadership in environmental affairs in all of its business activities. The requirements listed below apply to all of Lenovo's worldwide operations. Every Lenovo organization must support this policy and each manager and employee, as well as any contractor performing work on behalf of Lenovo, shall bear a personal responsibility for the following objectives:
Meet or exceed all applicable environmental requirements for all Lenovo activities, products, and services, including legal requirements, standards, and voluntary commitments to which Lenovo subscribes.
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Use sustainable business practices and processes that minimize waste and prevent pollution, conserve energy and minimize Lenovo's carbon footprint, minimize health and safety risks, and dispose of waste safely and responsibly.
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Live Chat With 'This Means War's' Reese Witherspoon TODAY!
Ever wanted to sit down and chat with Reese Witherspoon? Well, now you can as she promotes her new film, This Means War!
-Lucia Peters
It looks like Angelina Jolie started another trend when she did a live web chat with her fans last month—because now Reese Witherspoon is hopping on the bandwagon!
Today, Wednesday, February 15, the Oscar-winning actress will be sitting down for a live video chat to promote her new movie This Means War, courtesy of iVillage. Though the film doesn't open for another two days—word on the street has it that the studio pushed its release date back from Valentine's Day to this Friday in order to avoid going head to head with the Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum vehicle The Vow—you'll get the chance to ask Reese about anything you can think of (within reason, of course!): What it was like to work with uber hot costars Chris Pine and Tom Hardy, how she juggles life as a mother, newlywed, and A-list actress, beauty tips, fashion q's… pretty much anything goes!
Read Watch Taylor Swift's Haunting New 'Hunger Games' Video, "Safe and Sound!"
To participate, go here, sign in with Facebook or Twitter, and join the conversation! If you're on Twitter, be sure to use the hashtag #AskReese. You can also head to the site ahead of time to log your questions in advance. The chat will take place at 7pm EST/4pm PST.
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Tell us: What would you want to ask your favorite celeb in a live chat?
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A wildlife photographer captured a one-second sequence of incredible and rare images of a killer whale attacking a common dolphin, tossing it into the air like a rag doll, all for the sake of feeding herself and her two offspring.
Sea Wolf II captain and marine biologist Nancy Black of Monterey Bay Whale Watch had just completed a morning whale watch trip, during which a pod of killer whales successfully hunted down a couple sea lions. Black phoned photographer Jodi Frediani, asking if she wanted to join her as she went out on her own to follow the whales in the afternoon. Frediani excitedly accepted the offer.
They found the whales milling around just north of Moss Landing three miles off the coast. Soon, the whales began hunting, as they porpoised and moved at a high speed, zigzagging as they chased dolphin.
"The chase took about 45 minutes in total," Frediani said in an email to GrindTV Outdoor. "[Whale] CA138 was with her two juvenile offspring. Suddenly she let fly with two huge tail lobs. Then in the blink of an eye, she leapt out of the water.
"I managed to track her, and through my lens saw the dolphin flipping through the air like a bowling pin. I must have said something like 'Oh no or OMG.' I managed to get off five frames as CA138 leapt out of the water and dove back in, the hapless dolphin spinning through the air until it hit the surface. The time stamp on my camera shows that the action took all of one second.
"Once the dolphin landed, the two juveniles popped up, and within less than a minute, we could see the mouth of one showing bits of the bloody dolphin."
The remaining sequence of photos, and aftermath:
The photos were taken during the recent winter whale-watching season, but the photos made their Internet debut this week on Wired.com.
Marine ecologist Robert Pitman from NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Science Center told Wired that the head-butt-and-punt behavior is most likely to occur when orcas pursue speedy prey, which was the case here.
"I have seen this with several different species of dolphins from various places around the world, so I think that killer whales probably do this regularly but not commonly," he told Wired. "With slower swimming species, like seals and sea lions, killer whales prefer to use their tails to swat them out of the water."
Another biologist told Wired that killer whales will just ram fast-moving dolphins "and in doing so, the prey often do go flying in the air."
For a wildlife photographer, this bit of nature at work couldn't have happened at a better time.
"As a photographer, this was an amazing gift," Frediani said. "I felt honored to be able to witness and record this rarely photo-documented kill of a common dolphin. As brutal as the world of killer whales may seem, one has to admire their tremendous skill and fortitude in making a living."
Photos are courtesy of Jodi Frediani. Photos are copyrighted and can only be used by permission.


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Since it may be your better language it might be best to seek more help there.
Any rate there are threads here (at least in English) the describe how to mediate the sound problem. You will just need to search a bit for them.
As for the usb problem, can you provide more details?
Maybe plug the key in wait a few seconds then type lsusb at the command prompt and look for the key to be listed there.
If that fails you then you might try posting that info here in this thread.


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Israel has vowed to hunt down the Hamas militants who kidnapped and killed three teenagers, but was likely to carefully weigh its response to avoid triggering a regional conflagration.
As further details emerged about the fate of the three youngsters whose bodies were found in the southern West Bank on Monday evening, Israel said it would not rest until it finds those behind their kidnap and murder.
But despite extensive Israeli air strikes on Gaza overnight, no one was killed, with Israel's military establishment and cabinet heavyweights backing a more moderate response over isolated calls for a major operation in the strip.
The disappearance of two 16-year-olds and a 19-year-old from a roadside in the southern West Bank on June 12 and the hunt for their kidnappers had gripped the Israeli public, triggering an outpouring of public grief and anger.
The discovery of their bodies was given blanket coverage across all media outlets. "The bitter end" read the headline in Yediot Aharonot, while the pro-government Israel Hayom led on "Cut down in their youth".
Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon vowed the deaths would not go unavenged.
"Hamas is responsible for the kidnapping and murder of the youths and we know how to settle accounts with them," Yaalon said on Tuesday.
"We will continue to hunt the killers of the youngsters, we will not rest nor will we be silent until we lay our hands on them."
Israeli warplanes during the night pounded Gaza, hitting 34 targets across the enclave, the military said. Palestinian medics told AFP four people were wounded in the southern city of Khan Yunis, describing their condition as moderate to serious.
"They were kidnapped and murdered in cold blood by human animals," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told ministers at the start of an emergency security cabinet meeting on Monday evening.
"Hamas is responsible and Hamas will pay."
But the three-hour meeting ended inconclusively, with ministers sharply at odds over the right course of action, army radio's diplomatic correspondent reported.
An Israeli official familiar with the content of the meeting confirmed reports that Yaalon suggested a "measured" response which would not lead to an escalation with Gaza, and Netanyahu was inclined to accept his position.
The security cabinet did not vote on Yaalon's proposal and was expected to reconvene on Tuesday evening.
Hamas has warned that Israel would "open the gates of hell" if it carried out any reprisal operations against the Islamist movement, whose power base is in Gaza.
The three young students - Gilad Shaer, 16, Naftali Frenkel, 16, and Eyal Ifrach, 19 - were reportedly shot dead shortly after they were picked up while hitchhiking on a road in the southern West Bank, with their bodies dumped in a field near the town of Halhul, some 10 minutes from where they were last seen, press reports said.
One of the civilian volunteers said the bodies had been found under a pile of branches and stones.
"It was a very isolated area, more or less at the end of the world," Benny Truper told army radio.
Two Hebron Hamas men named by Israel as prime suspects - Marwan Qawasmeh and Amer Abu Eishe - remain at large, but Palestinian witnesses said troops blew up their homes early on Tuesday.
In the hours after the teens disappearance, Israel began a vast search and arrest operation which saw 419 Palestinians arrested, of which 276 are Hamas members. Another five Palestinians were killed in clashes triggered by the search campaign.
Simultaneously, militants in Gaza began firing a wave of rockets at southern Israel which has since escalated, prompting Israel to stage dozens of air strikes.
In the northern West Bank city of Jenin, troops shot dead a Palestinian early on Tuesday during a raid into the refugee camp, Palestinian security and medical officials said, naming the youth as 18-year-old Yusuf Abu Zagher.
An army spokeswoman said he was a Hamas operative about to hurl an explosive device at troops sent to arrest him.


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In the past year, it seems as if electronic dance music has exploded in popularity. Onetime Utah resident Ryan Raddon better known as Kaskade became the first electronic dance music artist to headline and sell out Los Angeles' Staples Center in July.
Musicians ranging from Taylor Swift to Imagine Dragons and fun. have incorporated electronic dance sounds into their country, rock and pop music.
The time is right for Utah's Late Night Alumni, fronted by singer/lyricist Becky Jean Williams and led by producers John Hancock (who has produced David Archuleta, among other artists), Finn Bjarnson (the Pleasant Grove producer who is Kaskade's musical partner) and Kaskade himself.
It didn't happen overnight, Williams said: The group released its debut album in 2005.
"I think EDM has been growing slowly over the last four decades," she said. "It's just gaining more attention because it's gradually been able to reach more people than it used to. DJs like Kaskade have been hitting up dance clubs for years, slowly building a following. It's not so much of an explosion as it is the result of years of hard work."
Late Night Alumni released its fourth album, "The Beat Becomes a Sound," last month, and it features the quartet's signature down-tempo blend of ethereal vocals, strings, jazzy drum breaks and organic instrumentation, all blissed out with electronic elements.
In addition to "The Beat Becomes a Sound," record label Ultra is releasing a six-week video series featuring Late Night Alumni's performance at the Masonic Temple in Salt Lake City, including unreleased material from the new album and past hits.
The group performed in Kaskade's new homebase of San Francisco on Jan. 19, Chicago on Jan. 23 and Washington, D.C., on Jan. 25.
Williams answered questions about the group, its inspirations and success:
Describe your musical partners.
I work with three of the most talented producers out there, all of whom have played various instruments over the course of our four-album career. To name them all would take a few paragraphs. Suffice it to say that John Hancock, Finn Bjarnson and Ryan Raddon are each individually amazing, and I'm pretty sure there's nothing they can't do.
Where did you get the name for the group?
Finn and Ryan came up with the name before bringing John and [me] on. I think Ryan liked the name "Alumni" and Finn wanted something that referenced the nightlife scene.
What inspires the band?
We are inspired by a melting pot of genres. Finn and Ryan have been in the EDM scene much longer than John and I. I grew up on folk music and British pop. As the years have gone by, I've found something to love in almost every genre, from Santigold to The Strokes to Kaskade. We're all over the place. I think that's part of what makes our collective sound so unique and memorable.
Does being a Utah-based group help or hinder a music career?
I don't feel that it has hindered us, really. There isn't as big of an EDM scene in Salt Lake City as in other states, but with today's technology, we've been able to reach the people that want to hear it. I think we could be based anywhere, as long as we could get together often enough to make the music happen.
How did you get involved with Kaskade?
I think Ryan is always on the lookout for vocalists. Late Night Alumni had already been formed before John and I came on. They'd even tried recording with another vocalist, which didn't end up working out. They heard my voice on a local Christmas compilation and asked me to come into the studio to try my voice over a song. That song was "Empty Streets." That ended up being the first Late Night Alumni song, and things just took off from there.
What does your latest album say about the group and its aspirations?
I think this last album took more of a concentrated effort to put together since we were all geographically farther apart than we had been for the other albums. Because of that, we all put a little more into it, knowing we really wanted to make it work. We'd also decided when we started working on "The Beat Becomes a Sound" that we wanted to start doing live shows. … The album happened over the span of a few months in various locations and came together in pieces as a collaboration of beats, melodies, thoughts and emotions. The name of the album references that moment when these previously unspoken things become actual sound waves and enter our lives as tangible ideas to be experienced by others.
Why shoot a live video series?
We originally planned on filming the live Salt Lake show and putting it out on DVD, but because of business logistics, that got put on hold and the label thought a YouTube series would be the best way to get it out to fans.
What does the future hold?
We are taking a few months off from live shows because I'll be having a baby in May. We should be up and performing again by the end of summer, if all goes well.
Twitter: @davidburger
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Re: Mathematica 5 and Windows XP
Hi Skirmantas,
> I suspect Mathematica 5 was the culprit of two nasty Windows
> XP crashes I have experienced during the past four months. In
> the second one, Internet Explorer (which was running when
> Mathematica's kernel
> crashed) got hopelessly corrupted. I'm not 100% sure it's
> Mathematica, but it is my prime suspect. Even if it is
> Mathematica, I'm ready to forgive it because it is such a
> great piece of software otherwise.
> However, it would it interesting to know when Mathematica is
> known to crash and what can be done to avoid destabilizing
> Windows (which is NOT a great piece of software). After the
> second crash, my rule is
> this: don't run anything else when Mathematica is working.
This is totally contrary to my experience since Mathematica 3 & Windows 3.1.
Especially, it is contrary to my current Mathematica 5 & XP Pro setup.
I would suggest a thorough hardware check.
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Alright, the title is a little of a stretch. However, the efforts of Mackenzie Cowell and Jason Bobe have demonstrated that hacking biology can and may some day become as common as hacking away on your computer (think positive!).
A recent article in the Boston Globe lists some of the issues related to doing biological work from home and how there are rules and regulations that need updating and revision.
Unlike hacking on your computer, biological work usually generates waste that may (or may not) be harmful and work is not as "straight-forward" as coding.
The movement is getting much of its steam from synthetic biology, a field of science that seeks to make working with cells and genes more like building circuits by creating standardized biological parts.
Although it's not as simple as it's portrayed, synthetic biology does allow for genetic transformation of bacteria and other types of cells with great ease, however it should not be something taken lightly and performed by amateurs. Or should it?
What is your opinion about DIY Bio? I'd love to hear your opinion.


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Virginia from San Antonio, TX writes:
My laptop somehow went into the Safe Mode and I can't get out of it (the safe mode). I tried doing the F8 when it first starts up and moving down to "start normal" but it still come up in safe mode. What else can I do, other than throw the laptop away? (Its only about 2 years old) Thanks.
Before I provide the solution to your problem, let me clarify what Windows safe mode [1] is designed for. Safe mode in Windows disables all unnecessary start-up programs [2], drivers, processes and starts Windows in its bare minimum configuration. When you boot Windows in safe mode, only core Microsoft processes, essential drivers and Windows services are executed.
Using safe mode, you can troubleshoot problems and application misconfigurations. If a recently installed application or a driver is behaving aberrantly, you should boot Windows in safe mode, re-install the driver/program and then boot Windows back in normal mode. Here is a brief FAQ about safe mode in Windows 7 [3].
Now what if you get stuck in Safe mode and can't get out of it? Here is what you need to do:
1. While in Safe mode, shut down windows properly. Some laptops are designed to automatically start Windows in safe mode, if you perform an improper shutdown. This includes pulling off the power cable and forcing Windows to shut down by long pressing the power button. Do a proper Windows shutdown by clicking Windows start menu and choosing shutdown, as shown below:
If a "proper shutdown" does not help, try the following
2. In Windows 7 or Windows Vista, click "Start" and type msconfig in the search box. If you are using Windows XP, click "Start", go to "Run", type msconfig and hit "OK".
3. In the "General" tab, check whether "Normal startup" is selected or not. if not, select "Normal startup".
4. Switch to the "Boot" tab and check whether the "Safeboot" option is checked or not. There is a high chance that the safeboot option will be checked, so you should uncheck it and hit OK.
5. Now do a proper Windows shutdown and see whether Windows boots in normal mode or boots back in safe mode.
In 99% of the cases, this should fix the issue. If it doesn't, you have no other option than to do a system restore [4]. If you fail to restore Windows to an earlier system configuration that worked, backup all the data and perform a full system format.
Important: Do not touch the Windows bootloader [5] or install any utility which claims to alter Windows bootloader. This is because Windows bootloader has nothing to do with safe mode and there is a chance that you might mess up your computer's current boot order.
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How Many Boa Constrictors is Too Many?
Cottonwood Heights resident Thomas Cobb can keep those dozens of boa constrictors he has in his basement -- at least for now.
That's the word this week, from the city council...despite protests from neighbors, who are making a stink over the stink Cobb is making.
They say he cleans the exotic animals' cages over the gutter in front of the house -- and that's creating a "zoo smell."
City council members promised the upset residents they will review their exotic pets ordinance, and may add some new restrictions.


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I prefer the Mini sims in anything under chest. Was out last weekend in RI(knee-waist), surronded by Longboards but still catching waves at the same time the LB's were. BTW i'm 220lb on a 6'
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I am in boston if your looking something custom. Thicker/fatter boards for the short period swells we get here and the extra weight of a 6/5 ..