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Class of 2013
C Jon Denney (Yukon HS, Yukon, OK): Denney was outstanding in every aspect of the game and solidified his credentials as a potential first round pick in this outstanding national group of high school catchers. He doesn't have an obvious weakness in his game defensively and has one of the best bats in the class regardless of position.
SS Jan Hernandez (Carlos Beltran Baseball Acadmey, San Lorenzo, PR): The PG All-American was suffering from flu-like symptoms and wasn't at the top of his game this weekend, just flashing his potential first round tools. Scouts know what he can do.
1B/OF Nick Longhi (Venice HS, Venice, FL): Longhi will be playing outfield and pitching this spring, in large part due to his strong arm that hit 91 mph in drills and 89 mph as a southpaw on the mound, but he sure looked smooth around the first base bag. His bat and power potential are already well established.
3B Ian Hagenmiller (Palm Beach Central HS, West Palm Beach, FL): Hagenmiller could be a big surprise this spring and in the June draft. He has two plus tools in his bat speed and his throwing arm and he performs. He resembles former Diamondbacks first round pick and current top prospect 3B Matt Davidson in many ways, with better defensive tools.
RHP Dustin Hagy (Deltona Christian Academy, Deland, FL): The 6-6/205 Hagy has been creating a stir in the scouting community recently as he's bumped his velocity up from the mid-80's during the summer to 89-92 in Fort Myers to go with a very solid curveball. Maybe most impressive was his command and competitiveness on the mound; this young man does not back down.
C/RHP Ronnie Healy (Jupiter HS, Jupiter FL): Healy looked very good defensively behind the plate and has always been well regarded for his left handed power potential. He's starting to intrigue scouts as a two-way prospect, too, as he was 89-92 mph off the mound in Fort Myers and reportedly has been up to 94 mph in workouts with scouts recently.
LHP Nestor Cortez (Hialeah HS, Hialeah, FL): Cortez' performance reminded numerous people of Nationals LHP Gio Gonzalez, due both to Cortez's strong 5-11/195 build and delivery and his 89-92 mph fastball. While Cortez didn't have Gonzalez nasty curveball, he did show a solid 3-pitch mix and advanced command.
OF/SS Johneshwy Fargas (Puerto Rico Baseball Academy, Trujillo Alto, PR): It will be interesting to follow the debate in the spring about whether the fleet footed (6.57), strong armed Fargas is a shortstop or centerfielder. We'd vote centerfield at this point but the right handed hitter is a standout athlete at either position.
SS Edwin Diaz (Ladislao Martinez Otero HS, Vega Alta, PR): Diaz looks bigger and stronger than his 6-2/180 list but has the grace and smooth actions that you see on only the best athletes. He didn't show his big middle of the field power as much as we've seen in the past, but everyone knows it's there.
SS Connor Heady (North Oldham HS, Prospect, KY): Heady plays the game easily and with great feel for what's going on around him, which make his tools play up. When he's really going to improve is when he starts getting stronger, which hasn't really happened yet.
C Luis Ciuro (Montverde Academy, Santa Isabel, PR): Ciuro's name isn't mentioned often among the top prospect catchers in the 2013 class but that perhaps should change. He is a very quick twitch athlete in the Chris Okey mold who could probably stand out at most positions on the field.
3B/RHP Roy Morales (Carlos Beltran Baseball Academy, San Juan, PR): Scouts seem to be really on the 50/50 fence about whether Morales has a brighter future as a power hitting third baseman or a right handed pitcher. While the PG staff still likes him as a position player, it's hard not to appreciate his upper 80's fastball and very solid curveball/change up combination, especially considering his lack of experience on the mound.
SS Brody Weiss (Regis Jesuit HS, Castle Rock, CO): Weiss looks like he's gained 10-15 pounds of muscle since the summer and it shows in his bat speed and athleticism. He really swung the bat well and improves every time we see him. Don't forget the bloodlines, either.
OF-C Eric Williams (Sachse HS, Rowlett, TX): Williams 95+ mph arm strength from the outfield is a well-known plus tool but he impressed more with athleticism and consistent hard contact at the plate. The Texan also intrigued by working out behind the plate and showing he might have a future there.
RHP Joe Jimenez (Puerto Rican Baseball Academy, Bayamon, PR): Jimenez unveiled an upper 70s slider that he didn't throw at the Caribbean Showcase last month and also jumped his velocity up to 90-93 mph. He keeps getting better in all aspects of his game.
RHP Taylor Blatch (Jensen Beach HS, Stuart, FL): Blatch looked very solid, working in the 89-92 mph range with a very nice live change up and effective upper 70s slider. He's a rare 5-11 right hander who scouts should get excited by due to his easy mechanics and downhill angle to the plate.
C Carlos Diaz (Grandview Prep, Bayamon, PR): Diaz doesn't always stand out physically, especially with his middle infielder's body, but he has very good overall tools and plays the game with an energy and enthusiasm that few can match. Plus he always seems to hit the ball hard against good pitching.
SS Alexander Rivera (Puerto Rican Baseball Academy, Arecibo, PR): There is a group of Puerto Rican middle infield prospects just a notch below the Jan Hernandez/Edwin Diaz level that is very talented and a couple of them are going to emerge as top level prospects. Rivera, who runs a 6.57 and has a 90 mph infield arm, could be the one.
IF Hunter Hope (William Dwyer HS, Jupiter, FL): Hope is yet another exhibit of a player who has gained lots of strength in the last year. He's now a big 200 pound power hitter who put on a real show in batting practice and demonstrated home run lift that we hadn't seen before. It's probably time to start thinking of him as a third baseman/corner outfielder instead of a middle infielder, however.
C Kevin Abraham (Mater Academy, Miramar, FL): Abraham really performed well all weekend and he's the type of player who is best evaluated in games anyway. He squared up the ball strongly almost every at bat and especially excelled with his ability to make strong and accurate game throws in a variety of game situations.
RHP Hunter Martin (Blackman HS, Murfreesboro, TN): Martin has a fast arm from an over the top arm slot and topped out at 92 mph. The Tennessee commit throws both a low 70's curveball and 80 mph slider.
C Rene Melendez (Caguas Military and Sports Academy, Humacao, PR): Melendez's defensive skills and tools have been touted by PG before but it looked like Melendez has been working hard on his swing, which was shorter and faster than it was a month ago.
1B/OF Juan Soriano (Pro Baseball Academy, Arroyo, PR): Soriano is a right handed hitting Justin Williams clone in his build and facial characteristics, not to mention strength. He's prone to swing and miss but when he squares up he hits the ball as hard as anyone in the 2013 class.
IF Malik Collymore (Port Credit SS, Mississauga, ON): Collymore's eventual defensive position is still to be determined but there isn't much question that he's a top level hitting prospect. He barrel whistles through the zone and he left observers with a "Wow" reaction after batting practice. The North Carolina State signee could be the best Canadian in the 2013 class.
C Karl Ellison (Barron Collier HS, Naples, FL): The Vanderbilt signee had a very strong showcase both offensively, where his short swing and overall strength produced consistent hard line drive contact, and defensively, where his blocking skills and high energy motor stood out.
OF Dalton Duty (Palatka HS, Palatka, FL): Duty is another player who has gained 10+ pounds of very positive muscle since the summer and translated that to a grade better bat speed and athleticism.
OF/1B Steven Sensley (LSU Laboratory HS, Baton Rouge, LA): Sensley bears an uncommon resemblance to top prospect Dominic Smith in his build and actions and his tools are pretty good, too. He isn't very well known to scouts but that will change soon.
RHP/1B Jextin Pugh (Bishop Guilfoyle HS, Duncansville, PA): Pugh is a physically imposing 6-3/225 left handed hitting first baseman with big power potential but we're not so sure he isn't a better prospect as a right handed pitcher. He sat at 88-90 mph with pinpoint control of his fastball and a sharp breaking curveball.
OF Jordan Austin (Forest HS, Ocala, FL): Austin is a strong 6-0/195 athlete with 6.79 speed who really swung the bat well all weekend, including a big game home run on Sunday. He interestingly doesn't have a college commitment yet.
OF Miguel Castellanos (Elev8 Academy, Delray Beach, FL): The 6-3/190 Castellanos is a relative unknown to the prospect lists but his strong build and top level run/throw tools (6.65/94 mph OF arm) warrant immediate attention. He gets too inside the ball often at the plate but flashes his bat speed when he gets extended and attacks a pitch.
Class of 2014
SS-RHP Nicholas Gordon (Olympia HS, Windemere, FL): Gordon had a phenomenal showcase while playing among the older prospects, both with his elite level defense in the infield and by topping out at a personal PG best 94 mph on the mound. He's a rare player with both top tools and the highest level instincts and feel for the game.
1B Jeremy Vasquez (Martin County HS, Palm City, FL): Vasquez is one of the best hitters in the 2014 class and simply squares the ball up hard virtually every time he comes to the plate. Some hitters just see the ball and can square it up better than others and the left handed hitting Florida commit is one of them.
RHP Jordan Baker (Sebring HS, Sebring, FL): Baker has a lot of Jered Weaver in his pitching mechanics and raw stuff. He has an extremely long and whippy arm action with an extended mid-3/4's release point to go with an 88-91 mph fastball and a big sweeping 74-77 mph curveball.
RHP Jesse Lepore (Trinity Catholic HS, Beverly Hills, FL): Lepore and Kyle Kemp (below) did double duty at the National Underclass Main Event last weekend and at the World Showcase. Both were extremely consistent the two weeks, with Lepore throwing in the 88-90 mph range and showing very good feel for his low 70's curveball.
RHP Kyle Kemp (Port Charlotte HS, Port Charlotte, FL): Kemp has a very good feel for pitching for a junior power pitcher and locates his 88-90 mph fastball well. He'll need to pick up some velocity on his curveball but he gets good spin on it and locates it well, too.
OF-RHP Luis Alvarado (Montverde Academy, Salinas, PR): The 6-5/185 Alvarado is a very intriguing athlete who is as projectable as anyone you will see. He runs a 6.79 and throws 93 mph from the outfield and is a switch-hitter with a loose, whippy swing. It's hard not to think that he may really develop as a pitcher though when he gets stronger, as he already throws in the upper 80s consistently.
SS Milton Ramos (Florida Christian HS, Hialeah Gardens, FL): Ramos was "promoted" from the National Underclass Session 3 event to fill a roster vacancy and ran with the opportunity, standing out for his overall athleticism and tools.
SS Alexis Pantojas (Puerto Rican Baseball Academy, Vega Alta, PR): The left handed hitting Pantojas is being touted as potentially the top 2014 Puerto Rican prospect and his actions and ability to perform back that up. He'll need to add strength to his high waisted 6-0/148 build between now and then, however.
Latin American Prospects
3B-1B Rafael Devers (Samana, Dominican Republic): Devers' reputation as a hitter preceded him into the World Showcase and the 16 year old left handed hitter did nothing to disappoint. He's a hitting prodigy with both bat speed and an uncanny understanding and feel for hitting for his age. Devers at bat against RHP Dustin Hagy Saturday night, which ended in a fly ball after about a 15-pitch battle, was a classic.
LHP Jacob Constante (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic): Constante is a rarity, an 18-year old Dominican who has been eligible to sign for two years but hasn't. He's a very interesting and difficult pitcher to evaluate, with a 90-94 mph fastball and a change up he couldn't throw for strikes, but a nasty 88-90 mph cutter and a plus 80-82 mph curveball that he could command. He has a very high ceiling if he can learn to command the straight stuff.
OF Jose Almonte (Dominican Republic): Almonte is another 16 year old with an extremely high offensive ceiling as a right handed hitter with plus power potential. He also threw 95 mph from the outfield and it would not be surprising to see him with a 100+ mph outfield arm at some point in the future.
OF Manuel Sanchez (Dominican Republic): Sanchez and Almonte are essentially the same type of athlete with similar tools and physical builds, with Sanchez being a year older and possessing more of a left field type arm. But his bat is high prospect level, no doubt.
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Entrepreneur Bill Moore was in his Austin, Texas, office last Thursday, watching explosive growth for his company's walkie-talkie app, Zello, inside Venezuela. Zello had become the favorite app of protest organizers there after recently hitting the mark as the most popular app in the Ukraine. Over the past few days in Venezuela, the protests ballooned following rapidly rising food prices, controversy over President Nicolas Maduro's economic policies, public dissatisfaction over crime and multiple other factors.
Moore was finding that in Venezuela that popularity had a price. Shortly after 9pm, his Twitter feed blew up with messages from users inside the country. The government-owned Internet service provider, CANTV, which hosts 90 percent of Venezuela's Internet traffic, was blocking the app as well as access to Zello's website. Downloads were dropping off considerably.
Zello sent out the following tweet:
As Moore describes it, the response, like the protests themselves, was immediate and enormous. People inside Venezuela and many more from around the world wrote in with advice. Moore, Alexey Gavrilov, Zello's co-founder and chief technical officer, and the company's programmers worked feverishly through the night on a new version of the app to get around the CANTVblockade. "This was the most important thing in the company," Moore told Defense One. "We said, 'How do we get this done?'"
Finally, at about 5pm the following day, an updated version was ready to go. The company released this tweet:
Despite the efforts of the Maduro government, protests in Venezuela are continuing and so are downloads of Zello, one fueling the other. It's a cycle that's reminiscent of the very early days of the Arab Spring in 2010 and 2011, in which students and other protestors used social networks like Twitter and Facebook to help organize, promote and communicate through protests, eventually forcing the ouster of nondemocratic governments in places like Tunisiaand Egypt.
The lesson from the events in Tunisia in particular seemed to be that when you combine an educated student class with the power of social networks and press the return key, the outcome can be democracy. But when the machine malfunctions, the result can look like a protracted war with the potential to embroil United States forces. The protests in Libya, in contrast, resulted in a civil war costing more than $1 billion to the United States and NATO. When the machine breaks down completely, the result looks like Syria, or possibly Iran, where the regime has been extremely successful shutting the opposition out of the Internet.
To Moore, Venezuela looks like digital trench warfare with governments working feverishly to outmaneuver software makers and vice versa.
Founded in Austin in 2011, Zello allows individuals to communicate to one another walkie-talkie style via a simple broadband connection. The app interface looks a like button on your phone. You press it to speak to people on a particular channel. The channels can be as small as two people or as big as hundreds of thousands. The largest in Venezuela is about 450,000, but only 600 can be active on a channel at one time, Moore said. The feel of the app is similar to the now defunct Nextel push-to-talk service, which was shut down last summer. Zello is free for individuals but companies can purchase a plan to allow more users on a single channel for $10 a month.
Zello has been downloaded some 50 million times. In addition to playing a big role in the recent Ukraine protests, it was also extremely popular during last year's unrest in Turkey.
Moore never imagined that what he was making could become a politically destabilizing force. He knew only that he wanted to make a social network around the idea of Internet-based radio. "The human voice carries so much more information than typing. We knew that was the basis of something great. If you listen to these channels you realize that it's a way for people to make friends. The surprise was that that it exploded in Turkey almost a year ago to become the number one app in Turkey around the issues that they had, and then in Venezuela."
In emails, multiple protestors said that they saw Zello as an essential tool for coordinating movement, collecting intelligence on the location of government forces, and organizing responses. In other words, Zello has clear military potential. The company reports that it has received interest from the United States National Guard and the United States Army Reserve Command.
But Zello, which has been downloaded more than 600,000 times in Venezuela in just a few days, has seen multiple uses, some of these extend beyond calling for marches and launching maneuvers to evade the authorities. They include organizing guarimbas, blockades of burning trash, to thwart National Guard and police movements. The erection of the guarimbas represents a clear escalation in protestor tactics away from simple peaceful marches and some report that the blockades have contributed to the casualty count, which officially hit 11 over the weekend. The use of guarimbasis controversial among the protestors and has been met with extremely harsh responses from troops as demonstrated in this video.
The openness of the Zello platform explains why it's become so useful across Venezuela, but this ease of use has also led to a digital fog of war with confusion about who is using the network for what purpose. According to protestors, the government and government-supporting militia groups, or colectivos, will listen in on protestor channels on Zello to get information about upcoming movements or marches, distribute disinformation, or learn the identities of people on the other side. This has led to calls from protestor groups on Twitter to abandon use of the walkie-talkie app.
Moore, who says his company has no direct stake in Venezuelan politics, said there's a simple fix to these problems: the platform allows users to create one-way communication channels, multiple communication channels, or closed channels where users must be granted to access to join. It can work like a giant open microphone, a conference call, or a radio station.
Abelardo Jesus Marquez, a Venezuelan technology consultant and blogger sympathetic to the protest movement, said in an email that part of the problem was that too many Zello users were simply unaware of the most secure and effective ways to use the service. "The logical question would be, why [don't] they use closed channels protected by passwords? They ignore the security implications."
The confusion among protestors using the app as well as the government shutdown of Zello and the company's quick response, speak to the fact that digital revolution is more complicated in Venezuela today than it was in Tunisia in 2011.
"During the Arab spring we saw the power of social media to organize people around freedom. Governments have caught on to understand that their ability to restrict this information is important. These governments will continue to restrict these [services]," said Ryan Dochuk, founder of a Toronto-based company called TunnelBear that offers Internet encryption services. Dochuk said TunnelBear has seen an enormous uptick in usage in Venezuela in the last few days, primarily through Twitter.
TunnelBear's encryption service hides the way the user is accessing the Internet, what websites he or she is visiting and what is being downloaded. It offers what's called a virtual private network, or VPN, within a larger Internet service provider. (Another example is TOR.) When a VPN is working, it functions as an invisibility cloak. In Venezuela, it's allowing people to access banned Web sites and apps, such as Zello.
TunnelBear offers a free service for moderate data usage and two other plans for more heavy usage. In response to user demand, the company has made TunnelBear completely free inside Venezuela.
The decision was not an easy one. "When you decide to open up your network for free, there's financial decisions at play. There's emotional decisions at play. You open your inbox on a Friday morning and you see dozens of stories of people requiring assistance," Dochuk said. "We'll support these efforts where we can, but it's by no means full proof."
Dochuk, like Moore, has no direct interest in Venezuelan politics. But he's opposed to censorship on principle. And TunnelBear already had a lot of users in Venezuela. When he heard that the government was trying block Internet access, he knew that he had to make the service free where it was needed most. But the company would really prefer not to get overly involved in conflict areas, and so the rising death toll in Venezuela is worrisome. Also, Dochuk knows that there's only so much an encrypted network can do. In places where government censorship operations are sophisticated, like in China, Syria or Iran, TunnelBear is non-existent. (Dochuk recommends users in these countries try TOR.)
The national security implications of app wars in conflict areas can't be understated. Whether Venezuela will follow the path of Tunisia, Libya, Syria or Iran remains to be seen. The outcome depends on multiple factors. But one is how well different sides in the emerging conflict leverage technologies like Zello and TunnelBear to achieve their objectives. Though it sounds hyperbolic, the future of Venezuela, and the United States' involvement in that country, may depend on which side makes better use of this sort of technology in the coming days and weeks.
Dochuk is guardedly optimistic: "Technology can move much faster than these governments, and I think over time, these groups will be successful getting information and freedom out."
This post originally appeared at Defense One.

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Steve Breaston might not be out of work long after being released by the Kansas City Chiefs last week.
NFL.com's Aditi Kinkhabwala reported that Breaston is set to visit the Cleveland Browns on Tuesday, according to a source apprised of the free-agent wide receiver's schedule. ProFootballTalk reported Breaston is meeting with the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday.
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Speculation immediately turned to his hometown Steelers, as offensive coordinator Todd Haley coached Breaston in Arizona and recruited him to Kansas City.
Kinkhabwala confirmed Saturday that in addition to the Steelers, Breaston also has drawn interest from the Detroit Lions, Dallas Cowboys and Tennessee Titans.
Breaston has made it clear that playing time and contract terms will be at the forefront of his decision-making process.
"I know of the Pittsburgh tradition and the winning ways, and it would be a great team to be involved with, but for me, it is all about using this process," Breaston told the Tribune-Review. "I have to take everything in and see what would be a good fit for me and where I can come in and play."
On the prowl for a reasonably-priced veteran with Mike Wallace expected to depart via free agency, the Steelers appear to be Breaston's best fit. But we'll see what comes out of his visit with the Browns on Tuesday.


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Twitter upped its initial public offering price range to $23 - $25 on Sunday, an updated filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission shows.
The micro-blogging site, which is imminently set to float onto the New York Stock Exchange, said that it had hiked its IPO share price range after talking to the company's underwriters.
It said in the amended SEC filing dated 3 November:
[I]n October 2013, we and our underwriters determined an estimated offering price range of $17 to $20 per share of our common stock to be sold in this offering, and this estimated initial public offering price range was determined prior to conducting any marketing activities related to this offering.
Subsequently ... we and the underwriters determined to increase the estimated offering price range to $23 to $25 per share.
This revised estimated offering price range was the result of discussions between ourselves and the underwriters following the commencement of marketing efforts for the offering and reflect initial indications of interest from potential investors.
It's official, then: Twitter's approach to going public is no longer a conservative one. It means the outfit, which claims to have north of 200 million active users on the service, could raise as much as $1.75bn for its coming-out party on Wall Street if it shifts about 70 million shares.
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The Los Angeles Black Porsche Club will host its 17th Annual Toy Run to benefit underprivileged and homeless children in the city of Compton. Hundreds of members of Los Angeles' oldest African-American Porsche driver's club will gather Sunday, December 9, at 10 A.M. at the Chester Washington Golf Course located at 1930 West 120th Street in Los Angeles where they will continue to collect donations and toys. At 11 A.M., the club will receive a motorcycle escort from the Los Angeles Rare Breed Motorcycle Club to Compton's Shields for Families Center located at 1315 North Bullis Road, where they will handout the toys and gifts. On Saturday, the Club will join the Los Angeles Urban League Headstart program for a free backpack holiday giveaway for preschool aged students. The event will take place at 11 A.M. at 7812 South Broadway in South Los Angeles.
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Forces in Iraq Arrest Terrorism Suspects
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 19, 2009 – Iraqi forces, with U.S. advisors, arrested suspected terrorist cell leaders, detained other suspected terrorists and seized weapons in Iraq in recent days, military officials reported.
In Salahuddin province, Iraqi emergency response battalion constables, with U.S. advisors, arrested the director of a terrorist media cell Oct. 16.
Nusayr Khudr Sulaymen is suspected of being the director of the Jaysh Rijal al-Tariq Naqshabandi terrorist media cell. The media cell is responsible for spreading terrorist propaganda throughout northern Iraq and has been linked to providing doctrine involving terrorist methods to the media.
Sulaymen and five media cell members were arrested for allegedly providing information connected with terrorist activities to the media in an effort to promote illegal activity.
The Iraqi constables arrested Sulaymen and searched the residence without incident. They conducted the arrest under the authority of a warrant issued by the Higher Judicial Council of the Central Investigative Court of Karkh.
Elsewhere, Hit special weapons and tactics personnel, with U.S. forces advisors, arrested Akram Hamid Abd al-Fallah on Oct. 15 after a warrant was issued by the Hit Superior Judicial Council. The suspect is a former member of Provincial Security Force 5, and was arrested for allegedly setting up a fake checkpoint and robbing passersby near Baghdad. After his original arrest for corruption charges, he escaped from custody and fled the area.
In Anbar province, an Iraqi police counterterrorism unit, with U.S. forces advisors, arrested a suspected al-Qaida vehicle-bomb operative and builder Oct. 14 who is suspected of leading a cell operating in the Ramadi area. The forces were operating under the direction of the Iraqi Defense Ministry and the Anbar Operations Center.
In other operations in Iraq:
-- The Iraqi commandos, with U.S. forces advisors, arrested six alleged al-Qaida cell members Oct. 14 near Habbaniyah. The warrants were issued by Iraq's Higher Judicial Council Magistrate Court. The alleged terrorists are suspected of robbery and murder, and are believed to be connected to numerous terrorist activities and crimes.
-- Qaim special weapons and tactics personnel, with U.S. forces advisors, arrested a suspected terrorist and murderer Oct. 14 in Anbar province. The warrant was issued by the Investigative Court of Qaim.
-- Iraqi soldiers seized a weapons cache in western Mosul's Yarmook neighborhood while conducting a mission to clear rubble in the area Oct. 15. The cache contained 69 mortar s, though the ordnance was mostly empty shells and did not contain explosives. An Iraqi army explosives ordnance detachment, aided by U.S. personnel, was called in to dispose of the cache. The cache was transported northeast of the city and was safely detonated the same day.
(Compiled from Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
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Franciscus Barocius
Quick Info
Candia (now Iráklion), Crete
Venice (now Italy)
BiographyFrancesco Barozzi (who also used the Latin form of his name Franciscus Barocius) was born to a wealthy patrician family on the Island of Crete. At this time both the Island and the town of Iraklion were called Candia, a name which originated from the Arab name El Khandak for the fortification ditch they built round the town in 827. Throughout this article, however, we will use the modern names of Crete and Iraklion.
To understand events in Barozzi's life we need to look briefly at the history of Crete. The island was Greek up to the time of the Fourth Crusade in 1204 when the island was given to the leader of the Crusade after Constantinople was destroyed. He sold Crete to Venice for a small sum and the Venetians then took control with Venetian families settling on the island and forming a ruling aristocracy. They treated the Greek inhabitants cruelly, building fortified towns and castles as much to protect themselves from the local Cretan inhabitants as from outside invaders. On 28 May 1453 Constantinople was taken by the Turks and one effect was that Byzantine scholars, who had been working on recovering ancient Greek texts and making them more widely available, moved to Iraklion in Crete. This city then became the centre for copying manuscripts and was the route for ancient Greek learning to enter Italy. Scholars born in Crete and familiar with ancient Greek scholarship went to the universities in Italy adding impetus to the Renaissance.
Francesco Barozzi's father was Iacopo Barozzi, a Venetian nobleman, and his mother was Fiordiligi Dorro the daughter of Nicolò; Dorro from Rettimo, a Cretan town which had been sacked by the Turks in 1534. Francesco attended school in Padua where he learnt Greek and Latin, then he studied at the University of Padua where mathematics was part of his course. He inherited a very extensive estate in Crete on the death of his father so he became a man of independent means. He does not appear to have held any posts, although he did lecture at the University of Padua in 1559. For most of his life he lived in Venice although he spent some periods on his estate in Crete. To give some context to the relations between Venice and Crete during this period, we note that in 1571 there a major rebellion against Venice by the whole population of Crete including the Venetian nobles. In fact many Cretans began to think that they would have better lives if the Island were ruled by the Turks instead of the tyranny of Venice. The Ottoman expansion had captured the Aegean islands north of Crete in 1540 and Cyprus in 1571. Barozzi married Florida Florido, the daughter of Iacopo di Prato in 1572 but she died two years later after they had one son and one daughter. He married for a second time in 1585
Barozzi was part of the movement to revive science by studying Greek texts and we explained above how that movement came to involve Crete. He translated Proclus's edition of Euclid's Elements which was published in Venice in 1560. Also in 1560 he published Opusculum, in quo una Oratio, et duae Quaestiones: altera de certitudine, et altera de medietate Mathematicarum continentur Ⓣ. This was written to argue against the views of Alessandro Piccolomini on the nature of mathematical certainty published in Commentarium (Rome, 1547). Barozzi argues that mathematical certainty derives from the nature of its proofs:-
... the certitude of mathematics is contained in the syntactic rigour of demonstrations.It is not, therefore, inferior to logical certainty. In addition he argues that mathematical certainty, from the human standpoint, is superior to metaphysical certainty. For although metaphysical certainty is superior in absolute terms, due to the superiority of God, relative to human understanding mathematical certainty is superior.
Barozzi translated many other works including ones by Heron, Pappus and Archimedes. For example Heronis mechanici liber (1572) is a Latin translation of Heron's book on machines of war. In the same year he published Rythmomachia written in Italian, which described a mathematical game with the same name as the book but which is also known as "The Philosophers' Game". Among his many books is one on 13 ways to draw two parallel lines Admirandum illud geometricum problema tredecim modis demonstratum quod docet duas lineas in eodem plano designare, quae nunquam invicem coincidant, etiam si in infinitum protrahantur: et quanto longius producuntur, tanto sibiinuicem propiores euadant (1586) written in Latin. He published Cosmographia in quatuor libros distributa summo ordine, miraque facilitate, ac brevitate ad magnam Ptolemaei mathematicam constructionem, ad universamque astrologiam institutens in 1585 which studied maps of the world following the style of Ptolemy. He corresponded with a number of mathematicians including Clavius.
The Roman Inquisition was established in 1542 by Pope Paul III to combat Protestantism and its mission was that heresy, false doctrine, and error must be suppressed. Barozzi was tried by the Inquisition and found guilty in around 1583, although it is not known exactly what were the charges against him. He had published some works which might have aroused suspicion from the Inquisition such as Pronostico Universale di tutto il mondo (1566), which gives the prophecies of Nostradamus for the years 1565-1570. He had also published prophecies attributed to the Byzantine Emperor Leo VI in Oracula Leonis (1577). On 16 October 1587 he was again brought before the Inquisition and charged with causing a torrential rain storm in Crete. Found guilty of this, Barozzi had to provide silver crosses at the cost of 100 ducats and he received a suspended prison sentence. Whether or not this experience made him decide not to publish any further works is unclear, but no further publications appeared except for a further edition of Cosmographia. Except for this his final publication was a treatise on asymptotes: Admirandum illud Geometricum Problema tredecim modis demonstratum, quod docet duas lineas in eodem plano designare, quae nunquam invicem coincidant, etiam si in infinitum protrahantur: et quanto longius producuntur, tanto sibiinvicem propiores evadant (Venice, 1586). He died of apoplexy.
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- M N Boyer, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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- B Boncompagni, Intorno alla vita ed ai labori de Francesco Barozzi, Bull. Bibliographia e di storia della scienze matematiche 17 (1884), 795-848.
- Francesco Barozzi, Dizionario biografico degli italiani VI (1964), 495-499.
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Honours awarded to Francesco Barozzi
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Last Update August 2006
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Anaconda FCoE Support
Add Fibre Channel over Ethernet support to anaconda's storage code.
- Name: Hans De Goede
- email: jwrdegoede AT fedoraproject DOT org
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 12
- Last updated: 2009-08-19
- Percentage of completion: 100%
Detailed Description
FCoE devices can be added from the advanced storage menu and then used to install onto.
Benefit to Fedora
Improved hardware support
The anaconda part is 100% done and has been tested, that leaves the dracut part as todo, but that is part of the dracut feature
How To Test
Testing will require FCoE hardware, which is not terribly common.
We will have to verify the following areas of functionality:
- recognize devices and install
- on new partitions
- on existing partitions
- on new LVM logical volumes
- on preexisting LVM logical volumes
- creation of encrypted block devices at various levels in the device stack (partition, PV, LV, mdarray, &c)
- detection of arbitrarily complex device configurations (luks, mdraid, lvm, &c)
- management and configuration of existing encrypted block devices
- automatic partitioning of systems
- clearing of existing devices/partitions
- removal of existing devices
- reconfiguration of existing devices
- detection of existing upgradable installations with widely varied storage configurations
- rescue mounting of existing systems with a wide variety of storage configurations
User Experience
This should improve the user's experience with regard to the storage configuration portion of system installation.
No impact unless you have this hardware.
- openfcoe initiator support inside the kernel (done)
- fcoe-utils (done)
- dracut FCoE support (done)
Contingency Plan
Disable the add FCoE storage button, which effectively nullifies all FCoE code
- FIXME: Will need to include in Installation Guide.
Release Notes
Fedora 12 includes support for installation onto FCoE devices, you can use this by clicking on the advanced storage button in the partitioning screen and then select "Add FCoE SAN".
Comments and Discussion
- See Talk:Features/AnacondaStorageRewrite for conversation without bogging down the main feature page


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Breast Health 101: What is Normal and What is a Concern?
You may think you have breast abnormalities, but the truth is, most of what you're experiencing is probably pretty normal. UnityPoint Health OB-GYN, Whitney Cowman, MD, tells us seven features of normal breasts that might seem odd, but are healthy, and when you should call your UnityPoint Health provider.
Just like other skin surfaces on the body, the areola (dark circle around the nipple) contains hair follicles, so hair on the breast is considered normal. Shaving or plucking could lead to inflection, so if the hair is bothersome, it's best to cut with a small scissors.
Inverted nipples
This occurs when the nipple retracts into the areola. Approximately 10-20 percent of women have inverted nipples on at least one breast. Inverted nipples can also cause challenges for women who'd like to breastfeed.
Discharge from nipples
Fluid can be expressed from the nipple ducts of at least 40 percent of pre-menopausal women, 55 percent of women who've had a baby and about 75 percent of women who have lactated in the last two years. The fluid generally comes from more than one duct and varies in color, either white, dark green or even brown. This type of breast discharge caused by manual expression is normal.
Spontaneous nipple discharge should be evaluated by your provider. This can be caused by a variety of situations, including medication, chronic breast stimulation, thyroid disease or other chronic medical conditions. Bloody or straw-colored (serous) breast discharge, especially from a single duct, should always be evaluated by a provider.
Bumpy nipples
The areola contains numerous lubricating glands, called "Montgomery glands." These show up as areola bumps and are completely normal.
Areola color and areola types
Areolas come in all different sizes and colors, mostly due to hereditary factors. Some women notice dark areolas or an increase in size with pregnancy and breastfeeding, but these features usually return to pre-pregnancy appearance after breastfeeding is complete.
Breast Skin changes and stretch marks
Breast skin can be affected by common skin problems, including itchy, dry patches from psoriasis or eczema. It's also possible to get a rash from anything that comes into contact with breast skin (contact dermatitis), like clothing. Stretch marks are also normal and appear as red spoke-like lines, which appear on the skin during times of rapid physical growth, such as puberty or pregnancy. Over time, the stretch marks often fade.
Some skin changes are not normal, including ulcerations, swelling (edema), scaling, crusting, redness, dimpling or skin retraction. Palpable breast masses should be evaluated by a health care provider. Most breast masses are benign and not cancerous, but it's important to see a provider for an exam and to discuss family history.
Breast shapes and sizes
Heredity is the most important factor in determining how big breasts will be. No creams, special exercises or clothing will permanently change breast size. It may change with weight loss/gain or during/after a pregnancy, but for the most part, the size of your breasts stays the same after puberty. It is not unusual to have uneven breasts, as well. Because of different breast sizes, women may find that during lactation, one breast may produce more milk than the other.
"It is normal to feel subconscious about the way our breasts look or feel, but we are all unique and special," Dr. Cowman says. "As women's health care providers, we would be happy to discuss any of your concerns. Sometimes, just hearing things are normal can be very reassuring."


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A dark horse emerges as a potential GOP mayoral candidate
Hold your horses! While all the talk's been about which Democrat will be the next mayor of Philadelphia, there's something brewing in the previously pulseless, but now rejuvenated local GOP - including the possible candidacy of a surprising dark horse.
Editor's note: Dana Spain is currently a registered Democrat, but says if she runs she will do so as a Republican.
Hold your horses! While all the talk's been about which Democrat will be the next mayor of Philadelphia, there's something brewing in the previously pulseless, but now rejuvenated local GOP - including the possible candidacy of a surprising dark horse.
In the party's worst-kept secret, the power brokers from the divided factions in the city's Republican Party have been quietly meeting over the past few months, and there are signs that the party may be ending its civil war and rallying behind a new leadership team as early as this week. This would be welcome news for party activists that have spent more time fighting each other than defeating Democrats.
Of course, with Republicans representing only 11.73 percent of all registered voters in Philadelphia, the party's got its work cut out. (The registration numbers, as of this morning, were 805,518 Democrats, 120,206 Republicans, and 98,870 others (non-partisan/independent, as well as third parties) for a total of 1.024,594 voters, according to the City Commissioners' office.)
Yet despite the daunting registration numbers, the prospect of a unified party – along with the existence of an open mayoral seat with Mayor Nutter term-limited by the City Charter - has led to a handful of GOP candidates loosely testing the waters to gauge voter interest. And it's led to a roughly equal number of others who are having their names tossed around by prominent ward leaders and political operatives.
Possible candidates that have expressed some kind of interest include State Rep. John Taylor, 1999 and 2003 GOP mayoral nominee Sam Katz, 2011 GOP mayoral nominee Karen Brown, and 2011 City Council candidates Joseph McColgan and Elmer Money.
Candidates that have had their name thrown around but have not publicly declared any interest include City Commissioner Al Schmidt, City Councilman David Oh and City Councilman Dennis O'Brien.
More on both groups shortly.
But the big story is the emergence of a dark horse candidate who is well-known and liked among the business and philanthropic communities in Philadelphia and who comes from a prominent family here.
Dana Spain, 43, the daughter of native Philadelphians Joan and Bernard Spain (who, along with his brother Murray, founded Spain's Card and Gift and Dollar Express stores), is aggressively coming out of the gate and is not shy about talking about her vision for the fifth largest city in America.
Spain, who runs DLG Communications, a branding and marketing communication company, was a former owner and chief operating officer at Philadelphia Style Magazine, a luxury lifestyle publication. She also founded PAWS, the Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society – a privately funded, non-profit, no-kill shelter/clinic. With all this on her plate and more, why would she consider running as a Republican against what many pundits believe are insurmountable odds?
"I'm a cheerleader, and I build things from scratch. And I want to be a cheerleader for our city because we need that right now," Spain told me, adding, "People are still looking at us as a backwards city."
Spain, who is brand new to the political scene, said, "I am an outsider. The only thing that I have in mind here is to fix the city that I love."
One supporter willing to publicly go on the record was Ben Haney, owner-operator of Mac's Tavern in Old City and a GOP political consultant.
"I think in a time where our city is facing serious financial crises on several fronts, Dana is a breath of fresh air," he said. "Her experience as a lifelong Philadelphia and successful businesswoman who is engaged in the city but not beholden to politics will allow her to make the tough decisions necessary to transform Philadelphia into the city Philadelphians truly deserve."
When identity politics were brought into the equation, Spain was enthusiastic to respond. "Philadelphia is ready for a female mayor. Women in industry are ready for it, too. A fresh set of ideas is welcome, and we are ready for it."
Of course, that's a theme that GOP mayoral nominee Brown, 52, unsuccessfully played in 2011. Brown, when contacted for this story, told me that she's planning to run either for City Council or mayor in 2015. She said her mistake the last time around was not building a strong enough political organization, which she said she's in the process of doing.
Other candidates that have expressed either interest in running or are open to the idea include Taylor, Katz, McColgan and Money – all of whom are well-known to party leaders and activists.
Taylor, 58, who has represented Kensington in the 177th Legislative District since 1984, has never been defeated in any election and is the only remaining GOP state representative in Philadelphia. To many in the party, he is regarded as the peacemaker and the spiritual leader of the Republican City Committee.
"Getting all sides together - we're making some progress on that," he said. "We all got off track in trying to fight each. Fighting doesn't make any sense."
Taylor, who as a state rep would not be subject to the City Charter requirement to resign his seat in order to run for mayor, clearly is aware of his party popularity.
"I've had discussions over the years -- 1999, 2003 -- the situation has to match the candidate, so possibly. I wouldn't dismiss it as not being possible, but I'm so busy doing what I'm doing, with all that's going on in Harrisburg," adding, "If the situation is right, I would consider for the party and the city.
Taylor, who was one of two Republicans statewide to vote against Corbett's budget (then state rep, now City Councilman Dennis O'Brien was the other) and who earlier this month introduced stiffer penalties for those illegally carrying firearms, takes pride in showing his independence to do what he believes is best for Philadelphia.
"My entire record, I'm a moderate Republican," Taylor said. "We're all Philadelphians first."
That kind of record could resonate in the voting booth. But is that record enough in a city so blue that the only red seen is from gun violence rather than from a Republican insurgence? Can the message trump the registration odds?
"The voters must have an issue that the Republican candidate can embrace and presents the answer, that the citizens of Philadelphia can accept, determine is to their benefit and are willing to support with their vote," said Vito F. Canuso Jr., chairman of the Republican City Committee.
That message was echoed by RCC General Counsel Michael Meehan. "The GOP should be looking for a Philadelphian who's looking to make a difference for the city," he said.
Yet, former Philadelphia news anchor Larry Mendte, who is now a commentator for Tribune Broadcasting, said he feels the current GOP machine should not handpick a candidate.
"The Republican candidate should be well-funded and appeal to the Republican base and the Democratic base, as the Republican base is not big enough... Most important, the person should not be hand selected by the current RCC."
Although not mentioned specifically by Mendte, one such person I believe could be Councilman O'Brien. Since his 1982 election to the House of Representatives, he - like Taylor - has not lost an election either. O'Brien, 60, who did not respond to multiple inquiries for this story, has a very strong following in Northeast Philadelphia and is generally well-liked by Democrats and Republicans alike.
McColgan, 50, who has expressed interest previously in seeking the mayoral seat, is passionate about bringing change to Philadelphia.
"This is a great city with great people. But what we have not had is great leadership. In order for Philadelphia to thrive again, we need REFORMERS who have NEW ideas, NEW perspectives, and are from OUTSIDE the system," McColgan told me in an emailed response. "It is the career politicians who got us where we are today; our great city can't rely on them to fix our problems. Too many elected officials make decisions that have their next election in mind, not the families and communities they represent. Philadelphia simply can't afford the failed leadership - and lack of vision - we have seen over the past 60 years."
McColgan has a secret weapon, too – his wife, Dr. Maria McColgan, whom U-Turn has featured before. She is the director of the Child Protection Program at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, is politically astute and is viewed by others – including me – as an up-and-coming political candidate – perhaps on City Council. A City Hall combo of Joe and Maria McColgan would deliver a powerful 1-2 knockout punch to Philadelphia's listless economy.
Money, who ran unsuccessfully for City Council in 2011, is regarded by many Republican activists as a true and compassionate conservative. He has worked in the healthcare field, and acknowledges that he currently suffers from a lack of name recognition but is exploring the possibility of running.
"Although I am not as 'famous' as some candidates, the importance of building momentum for an interesting and rigorous campaign will be paved with sincere enthusiasm of fresh ideas and solutions," Money said. "The challenge should focus on sincerity, ability, and most importantly humility, placing the needs of others above our own."
But what about three-time mayoral candidate Sam Katz, who arguably knows the nuts and bolts of the city's $4 billion budget better than every other politician combined and who oversees the finances in his role as chairman of PICA (Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority), sent this statement regarding his political future:
"As the chair of PICA, I am taking my responsibilities seriously and working hard on the serious fiscal issues confronting the city. I am doing so in what I hope is an aggressive but non-partisan fashion. I am also producing a documentary film series on the history of Philadelphia. It is important to me that my motives and interpretive choices not be seen in any light other than objectivity. Finally, I am working with a group promoting the idea that Greater Philadelphia could host the celebration of the nation's 250th anniversary in 2026. All of these activities together with other civic and community activities are taking up all of my time."
"I have a long history of running for mayor and I would be less than candid if I suggested that the thought of running again does not cross my mind. But that is very different than planning or preparing for a race."
"I think it is essential that I leave that to the future and keep my focus on these activities which I hope will benefit the city and the region," he continued."So, I am going to pass on responding to these questions. To do otherwise would, in my view, undermine the objectivity and non-partisanship of my numerous projects and responsibilities. If my thinking changes about playing a different role in the future, I hope that my thoughts in these and other matters might still be of interest."
Finally, Schmidt, 41, and Oh, 53, both subject to the City Charter's resign to run provision, made these brief statements:
Schmidt: "My attention right now is entirely focused on doing the best job I can as City Commissioner."
Oh: "I have no intention to run for a different office. I am very focused on my work as a Councilman At-Large and Chairman of Council's Committee on Global Opportunities and Creative/Innovative Economy. There are a great many important issues that must be dealt with in Council and I am thankful that I am able to keep advocating for more jobs, better schools, lower taxes, public safety and better quality of life in our neighborhoods. I am committed to doing the best job I can as a Councilman."
With the primary two years away, expect some exciting things to happen in the meanwhile, as the RCC is on the cusp of reunification.


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Typically a first look at a newly-updated product starts out with phrases like, "the long awaited" or "the much anticipated." Not so with Photoshop CS4. The truth is that latest version of Photoshop will hit the streets practically on the heels of Photoshop CS3, its predecessor which debuted a little less than 18 months ago.
What kind of features could Photoshop CS4 have now that it didn't have slightly over a year ago? As it turns out, the Photoshop product managers have barely slept since herding CS3 out the door and the answer is, "Quite a lot, thank you." Photoshop CS4 sports an overhauled workspace, OpenGL features like a rotating canvas, new panels for Masks and Adjustments, on-image controls for some adjustments (a la Photoshop LightRoom), a 3-D engine, and that's just for starters.
Here's what to expect from the latest version of Photoshop when CS4 ships in October.
Workspace overhaul
In an attempt to significantly streamline your work environment and lessen window clutter, the new Application Frame was born. It confines all things Photoshop to a single resizable and movable window. You can grab the whole mess—documents and all—and move it to the side of your screen (or better yet, to another monitor) so it's out of the way. If you open more than one document, they're displayed in tabs (just like in Safari).
At the very top of the frame, you'll notice a new row of tools called the Application Bar. Here you've got one-click access to handy stuff like Extras (grids, rulers, guides), zoom percentages, and more. The real gems, though, are the new Rotate Canvas and Arrange Documents menus. Rotate Canvas will make tablet users squeal with delight because it creates a more natural way to paint or draw. The Arrange Documents menu lets you view several open documents side by side, which is handy for before/after evaluations or just managing a bunch of open windows.
New masks and adjustments panels
With Photoshop CS4, palettes are out and panels are in. In an effort to reduce dialog box clutter, adjustments like Levels, Curves, Hue/Saturation, and so forth now happen in a single Adjustments panel, meaning dialog boxes will no longer litter your screen. The new Masks panel is a little more exciting because it lets you feather masks on the fly (nondestructively) and control their density, which lets you make them partially see-through. (Why it's not called opacity is a mystery.)
Also new are "on-image" adjustments for Curves, Black & White, and Hue/Saturation adjustment layers. Instead of making a selection, you can apply the adjustment to a specific tonal range by clicking on the image itself and dragging up or down with your mouse.
Extended exclusives
If you pop for the $999 Extended version, you'll notice a couple of new tools gracing your Tools panel called 3D Rotate and 3D Orbit, as well as a new menu stuffed full of commands like New Mesh from Grayscale, Invert Visible Surfaces, and Create UV Overlays.
With CS4, Adobe has stepped rather firmly into the realm of 3-D modeling, giving you the ability to convert 2-D into 3-D, along with a fair amount of control over object textures and lighting. You can even paint directly on the surface geometry of a model in real-time and open models downloaded from Google right there in Photoshop. Adobe also added a reparameterize command that can quickly rebuild the surface geometry of your 3-D object for smoother painting.
If you're a video editor, you may appreciate Extended's single-letter keyboard shortcuts, smooth display of no-square pixels, and the ability to preview and export audio.
Other features
Among the other enhancements are smoother screen display at odd zoom levels, the ability to "toss" your pixels with the spacebar, a bird's eye view quick-zoom, a new Vibrance adjustment layer (straight from Camera Raw), spring-loaded tools allowing you to temporarily switch from one tool to another, a pixel-grid view above 600-percent zoom, linked masks for Smart Objects, drag-resizing for brush cursors, and the ability the delete layers by pressing the Delete key. (You can't believe how handy that latter feature is!).
Camera Raw 5 also has major improvements like the ability to edit selectively using an Adjustments Brush or Gradient Filter. Adobe Bridge wasn't left out either and now boosts faster performance, one-click previews, Spotlight integration, a super handy path bar (like a trail of breadcrumbs), and more.
First impressions
Are these big changes? You betcha. Will they take some getting used to? Heck yes. Will you like them? For the most part, the answer is a resounding yes. We'll have the definitive answer when we review the shipping version next month.
[Lesa Snider King, founder of GraphicReporter.com, is the chief evangelist of iStockphoto.com, author of Photoshop CS4: The Missing Manual (2008, Pogue Press/O'Reilly) and co-host of YourMacLifeShow.com.]


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The Stephen James name is well-known to drivers in South East England: the company has four BMW and Mini dealerships in London and Kent. The Stephen James name may now become well-known to cyclists, too. Part of the Stephen James BMW dealership in Enfield, North London has been converted to sell bicycles.
Stephen James Cycles is billed as "the first BMW dealership in the country to feature a full bike store."
It makes sound commercial sense for the Stephen James Group to do this: sales of bicycles are on an upward trajectory. Car sales are still buoyant but the theory of 'peak car' suggests this might not always be the case. Just as bicycle shops at the turn of the twentieth century started to sell motorbikes and automobiles when the 'bicycle boom' of the 1890s fizzled out, more car dealerships may start to retail the urban commute vehicle that doesn't require fossil fuel, is nippy through town, ultra convenient door-to-door, free to park, and which doesn't attract congestion charges.
Of course, the manager of Stephen James Cycles does not believe a BMW dealership opening a bike shop is a sign that the Age of the Car is dead but James Hewitt sees no problem with cars and bikes being sold side by side: "I think that we need to look for new transportation solutions to meet our customer's mobility needs, particularly in the urban environment, which is becoming increasingly congested," he told BikeBiz.
Stephen James Cycles opened on 15th October. It sells BMW bicycles but it's mostly a Trek Partnership Store, selling everything from kids' bikes to high-end road bikes, as well as fully-equipped town bikes.
To make room for the bike store a number of cars were removed from the showroom and the 'Customer Club Lounge' area was redeveloped. Car buyers are now encouraged to sit in the free drinks area, next to the bikes: "we're eager to attract as many customers as possible to get involved with cycling," said Hewitt.
And this is part of the reason Trek UK was interested in partnering with a car showroom. Trek UK's general manager Nigel Roberts said: "It's got to be good to expose motorists to the benefits of cycling. This store has the potential to reach people who we might not otherwise be able to reach.
"The dealership had a good business plan, the BMW angle sounded interesting and there was a gap in territory for us. We have a mature network of dealers; we don't often add to this network. Stephen James Cycles ticked all the right boxes for us."
The store is on the first floor of the BMW dealership and has a distinctly car-showroom way of selling, including offering appointments with sales staff (all equipped with iPads, naturally).
The company website says: "We're committed to helping you enjoy cycling even more, find exactly what you need and save you time. That's why we offer the opportunity to book appointments, so that you're guaranteed to get the undivided attention of one of our senior members of staff."
Book in a bike for servicing and "sit back, enjoy a complimentary drink and free WiFi whilst we carry out the work." The bike workshop is on the ground floor of the dealership.
Store manager Hewitt said opening a bike shop within a car dealership wasn't a massive leap: "Stephen James is committed to meeting the needs of our customers as they look for new, more efficient and sustainable solutions to getting around. We need to look for new transportation solutions to meet our customer's mobility needs – particularly in the urban environment, which is becoming increasingly congested. I believe that this can be found in a multi-modal approach which encompasses a number of forms of transport of which the bicycle is an important component."
Opening the store came after market research suggested it would be a sound idea:
"We identified that a large number of our existing and potential customers were already cyclists, or were becoming interested in cycling," said Hewitt.
"Increasing numbers of our customers are cycling for fitness; a number of our customers are taking part in Sportive events, and many are keen to benefit from the numerous benefits of cycling to work and using the bike as part of their transport solution. Many of our employees are cyclists – so there was a natural affinity for the project from the start."
Hewitt is eager to play a role in getting more people on bikes, recreationally and for transport. He's been keeping an eye on the debate about safety of cyclists in central London and is in favour of London becoming much more cycle-friendly.
"I've been encouraged to hear the calls for greater investment in cycling infrastructure in the London Boroughs and that is something that I am keen to see grow. For example, in November last year, Enfield Council published an updated map showing the existing cycle and walking network and proposed Greenway network. This includes a proposed Greenway which passes along Lincoln Road, where Stephen James Cycles is located. This would connect us with National Cycle Route 1, so I'll be delighted if that comes to fruition.
Selling bikes next to cars normalizes cycling, perhaps demonstrating that cyclists and motorists need to share the road. As part of this normalization, Hewitt said the BMW dealership's website will cease to feature 'road tax' (a concept used by some motorists to abuse cyclists, who they feel don't pay for the road even though roads are paid for by general and local taxation not motoring taxes) and will, in future, talk about 'car tax'.
"This has significant implications for how different road users are perceived and share the road," said Hewitt.


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Hello Tycoons,
As we shared previously, we have continued with our transition of RollerCoaster Tycoon World to a new development support team. We had to provide the team with the ability to review the code base and to do a wholescale review of the game and subsequently identify the areas where they could best contribute in terms of their work and our following updates.
We are now in a position to present to you our next update which is live now.
With this update, we have made significant improvements to the pathing system (we encourage you to check it out and provide us with feedback!), fixed a number of bugs and have implemented an Urban PxP Pack.
Moving forward, the team will be focusing on continued improvement of game systems and features – please see below the latest items we've improved and content we have integrated as part of this update; thanks for your comments and for playing RollerCoaster Tycoon World.
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- [General] – Pathing – Optimized path mesh generation and created algorithm for generation of node points. This allows for more options during path generation.
- [General] – Pathing – Adjustments for snapping to path to account for updated path construction system. This has reduced a snapping radius to the center of the intersection and added a seamless transition of the path node cursor between a path and its intersection. It is now possible to connect paths at different distance from the center or a road intersection.
- [General] – Path collisions modified to improve the experience of path construction. Collisions are less restrictive and provide more options to build paths at different positions and angles.
- [General] – Fixed a path collision that was preventing construction of legal paths.
- [General] – Pathing – Deadzone Issue – Where path is not snapped to the path when hovering over the center of the intersection.
- [General] – An issue where kiosks would disappear randomly.
- [PXP] – Urban PxP pack integrated.
- [PXP] – Horror "Deco & Lights" – 'Spooky Arched Window" fails to move if the player tries to move the asset anywhere.
- [PXP] – Horror "Deco & Lights" – Rotation Indicator are misplaced for 'Tall Old Blue Tile Roof'
Urban PxP Pack – 38 pieces includes the controller item cited below)
- Walls (9 Total Pieces)
- Brick Façade Closed
- Brick Façade Opened
- Brick Half-Wall
- Brick Wall
- Concrete Façade Closed
- Concrete Façade Opened
- Concrete Half-Wall
- Concrete Wall
- Decorated Wall
- Roofs (1 Total Piece)
- Bitumen Roof
- Tiles (1 Total Piece)
- Cork Floor
- Extras (4 Total Pieces)
- Fire Hydrant
- Street Phone
- Soda Vending Machine
- Vending Machine
- Deco & Lights (23 Total Pieces)
- Atari Graffiti
- Balcony Stairs
- Big Roof Windows
- Blue Awning
- Condenser Unit
- Front Door
- Front Door with Shutters
- Front Door with Windows
- Game Controller Graffiti
- Garage Door
- Goose Neck Roof Vent
- Green Awning
- Large Vent
- Pyramid Roof Window
- Roof Edge
- Roof Edge Corner
- Roof Ventilation Tube
- Small Roof Window
- Small Vent
- Spray Paint Graffiti
- Window
- Window Shutters
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What Would You Do?
A man returns home a day early from a business trip. It's after midnight. While en route home he asks the cabby if he would be a witness.
The man suspects his wife is having an affair and he wants to catch her in the act. For $100, the cabby agrees.
Quietly arriving home, the husband and cabby tip toe into the bedroom. The husband switches on the lights, yanks the blanket back and there is his wife in bed with another man!
The husband puts a gun to the naked man's head. The wife shouts, 'Don't do it! I lied when I told you I inherited money. HE paid for the Corvette I gave you. HE paid for our new cabin cruiser. HE paid for your season Pittsburgh Steelers tickets. HE paid for our house at the lake. HE paid for our country club membership, and HE even pays the monthly dues!'
Shaking his head from side-to-side, the husband lowers the gun. He looks over at the cabby and says, 'What would you do?
The cabby replies, 'I'd cover his butt with that blanket before he catches a cold.'


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Hacker says phone app could hijack plane
(CNN) -- Could this be the deadliest smartphone app ever?
A German security consultant, who's also a commercial pilot, has demonstrated tools he says could be used to hijack an airplane remotely, using just an Android phone.
Speaking at the Hack in the Box security summit in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Hugo Teso said Wednesday that he spent three years developing SIMON, a framework of malicious code that could be used to attack and exploit airline security software, and an Android app to run it that he calls PlaneSploit.
Using a flight simulator, Teso showed off the ability to change the speed, altitude and direction of a virtual airplane by sending radio signals to its flight-management system. Current security systems don't have strong enough authentication methods to make sure the commands are coming from a legitimate source, he said.
"You can use this system to modify approximately everything related to the navigation of the plane," Teso told Forbes after his presentation. "That includes a lot of nasty things."
He told the crowd that the tools also could be used to do things like change what's on a pilot's display screen or turn off the lights in the cockpit. With the Android app he created, he said he could remotely control a plane by simply tapping pre-loaded commands like "Please Go Here" and the ominous "Visit Ground."
Teso says he developed SIMON in a way that makes it work only in virtual environments, not on actual aircraft.
"His testing laboratory consists of a series of software and hardware products, but the connection and communication methods, as well as ways of exploitation, are absolutely the same as they would be in an actual real-world scenario," analysts at Help Net Security wrote in a blog post.
Teso told the crowd that he used flight-management hardware that he bought on eBay and publicly available flight-simulator software that contains at least some of the same computer coding as real flight software.
Analyst Graham Cluley of Sophos Security said it's unclear how devastating Teso's find would be if unleashed on an actual airplane.
"No one else has had an opportunity to test this researcher's claims as he has, thankfully, kept secret details of the vulnerabilities he was able to exploit," Cluley said. "We are also told that he has informed the relevant bodies, so steps can be taken to patch any security holes before someone with more malicious intent has an opportunity to exploit them."
Teso said at the summit that he's reached out to the companies that make the systems he exploited and that they were receptive to addressing his concerns. He also said he's contacted aviation safety officials in the United States and Europe.
"From the sound of things, this researcher has got himself a lot of media attention, but still believes in responsible disclosure, rather than potentially putting aircraft and passengers at risk," Cluley said.
Teso isn't the first so-called "white hat" hacker to expose what appear to be holes in air-traffic security.
Last year, at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, computer scientist Andrei Costin discussed weaknesses he said he found in a new U.S. air-traffic security system set to roll out next year. The flaws he found weren't instantly catastrophic, he said, but could be used to track private airplanes, intercept messages and jam communications between planes and air-traffic control.


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Walking With Primates
This week news services were all a-twitter about a 47-million-year-old fossil primate from the famous Messel deposits of Germany. Named Darwinius masillae and described in the journal PLoS One, the lemur-like primate was heralded as being a transitional form between a group of extinct primates called adapids and anthropoid primates (monkeys and apes). As it turns out the fossil may not be all it has been cracked up to be, but it is still a spectacular find that represents one branch of the primate radiation that occurred after the mass extinction that killed off the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous. Creatures like Tyrannosaurus perished, but primates survived.
Tracing the record of the earliest primates is a challenge. Since primates started off small and lived in forested habitats their fossils are extremely rare, and most fossils that are found are teeth. This can make comparisons between these creatures difficult, and the relationships among early primates or primate-like creatures are controversial. The fact that some molecular studies places the origin of primates even further back in the Cretaceous, about 85 million years ago, makes things even more complicated as no verifiable primate fossils have yet been found from that age. Despite these complexities, however, scientists do have a broad outline of early primate evolution.
One of the earliest primate-like creatures was Purgatorius, a tree-shrew-like mammal that lived right around the end of the Cretaceous 65 million years ago. Whether it was one of the first primates or only closely related to the first primates is still controversial, but it does seem to represent what the ancestors of primates were like during the time that dinosaurs were the dominant land-dwelling vertebrates.
After the mass extinction, mammalian evolution exploded. Mammals were no longer under the feet of dinosaurs, and among the groups that diversified were primate-like creatures called plesiadapiformes. Whether these creatures were true primates or just very primate-like is still being debated, but they underwent a boom and bust during the Paleocene (about 65 to 55 million years ago). In many ways these creatures were somewhat squirrel-like, with clawed hands and eyes on the sides of their heads, but at the very least they seem to be the closest extinct relatives to other primates.
The creatures that are regarded as "true" primates flourished during the Eocene (about 55 to 33 million years ago), and can largely be placed into two groups: the adapids and omomyids. The adapids were lemur-like primates, while the omomyids closely resembled living tarsiers, but both had forward-oriented eyes and adaptations to life in the trees. Both these groups are relevant to yesterday's big announcement.
According to the new paper, Darwinius is an adapid, and many scientists presently regard this group as being more closely related to modern lemurs and lorises than to monkeys or apes. Many paleontologists who study extinct primates favor omomyids and ancient tarsiers as being closer to monkeys and apes, but the authors of the new paper don't think so. In the paper itself they claim that Darwinius belongs to the same large group of primates, haplorrhines, as tarsiers, monkeys, and apes, thus placing adapids in a position to potentially become our ancestors. This conclusion has caused the scientists involved in the study and the popular media to herald it as a "missing link" that connects us to other primates.
Unfortunately, however, the scientists who wrote the paper did not conduct a detailed evolutionary analysis of the new fossil or its relationships to other primates. The fossil is spectacular, the first fossil primate to be find in such a state of exceptional preservation, but it has been oversold by the History Channel (who organized the media hype) and the scientists involved in the study. They simply did not do the work to support the conclusions they drew from the fossil, and the real relationship of Darwinius to other primates will have to wait for further studies.


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My daughter Sally is, to me, one of the sweetest people I know. She gets good grades, has lovely friends, and still finds time to be a wonderful loving daughter. I have never had to ground her in high school, and she had never given me reason to believe she is acting out.
I am a single dad of 3 girls. It is tough, but I thought we were doing okay. Sally is the oldest.
I got a phone call from a crying mother today telling me that my daughter was involved in harassing another girl at her school. Sally and her friends took pictures of the girl in "funny" poses, such as bending over to pick something up and her butt crack was showing. The girl is over weight and I think a lot of the pictures had to do with fat shaming…
The mother said that her daughter tried to slit her wrists this morning and was in the hospital.
Sally is at the beach today and should be home in a few hours. I am so mad, I don't know what to do. I have always taught her to be kind and respectful to others, and I feel like I don't even know her. From what I have heard, Sally was the ring leader in all of this…
That was a few days ago
So Sally was scheduled to get home at 8:30 this evening. I get a call at 8:15 from her. She said she was going to stay at a friend's house overnight. I said "No, I need you to come home right now."
She said "I'm already here! Bye!" And hung up. I decided to go get her instead of arguing over the phone. I went to the friend's house, it was empty. I started calling the the parents of her friends and finally someone's brother picked up and said they were at the park. Sure enough, I go to the park and there are about 30 kids there around a fire pit. I see her with a solo cup standing next to a beer keg.
So I don't usually get angry… but I had had enough. I went straight up to her and told her that I was not going to make a scene, but she needed to get in the car with me. She turned into another person. "I'm almost 18! You can't do this to me! You are embarrassing me!" I snapped. I'm not sure what I said, but it was along the lines of: You should be embarrassed! You put a girl in the hospital because of what you and your friends have been up to and now you have lied to me and you are drinking alcohol underage. Your mother would be so ashamed of you, I don't even know who you are anymore.
I caused quite a fuss, so she got in the car and she is home now. I have taken away all electronics (laptop, cell phone, TV privileges). I told her she needed to log into the anonymous Facebook and post a message apologizing and naming herself as the person who posted the pictures. When she logged in, I immediately looked through her posts. It wasn't just one person she had posted about. This Facebook page was dedicated to making fun of the "nerds and loners" of the school. There must have been 50 pictures.
She posted the apology and then I made it clear that she was not to do anything for the rest of the summer. All plans are canceled until further notice. She can use the land line phone if she needs to, but only when I am there.
Other consequences I am enforcing:
Community service – still researching that, and looking for advice about it.
When the girl gets out of the hospital, Sally is going to apologize to her and her family.
I have taken the door of her room off its hinges. No privacy for a while.
Everything in the house that she has as a luxury is gone. This includes: all the expensive chemicals for skins and hair that I have bought her. I gave her simple shampoo, conditioner, body wash and lotion. Otherwise it is all in the garage. She also lost her makeup (don't know if I will keep this enforced). I took everything out of her bedroom that she uses, and she basically only has books and her keyboard piano. I have told her to catch up on reading and to try practicing the piano that she begged for and then never used.
I told her to take the night and think things over. If she wants to fight me on everything tomorrow morning, then so be it. If she takes her punishment and agrees to these terms, then I will consider how long the duration should be.
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'Playmate Of The Year' Jaclyn Swedberg — Playboy Girl Of The Week
In May of every year, Playboy announces their Playmate of the Year. Each Playmate of the Month from the previous year battles for the honor by campaigning for reader votes, but it's ultimately Hef who decides. Last week, he unveiled this year's PMOY – Miss April 2011 Jaclyn Swedberg.
Jaclyn grew up in Chino Hills, California where she graduated from high school in 2008. In college, she plans to major in Communications and wants to pursue a career in broadcast journalism. She's already off to a good start, having appeared on four shows on Playboy TV: "Badass", in which she does crazy stunts in the nude, 'Playboy Beach House' in Malibu, 'Playboy Trip: Patagonia' in Argentina, and 'Camp Playboy', which is like 'Salute Your Shorts' only with less Donkey Lips and more… D…S… lips.
You might think that's a full plate, but Ms. Swedberg's like the Ryan Seacrest of hot models — she's also a host on a martial arts TV network called BlackbeltTV.
As far as interests and hobbies go, Jaclyn loves reading mysteries and thrillers, baking cupcakes and banana bread, yoga, Scrabble, and traveling – she's been to more than 20 countries and her favorite place is Greece (maybe she could help out their economy?).
Congratulations, Jaclyn! It looks like we might have another Sara Jean Underwood in the making.