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From the News and Information Desk, African Students Association, Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russia comes a cheering report of the exploits of Nigerian students in a Russian University.
These days, at the mention of Nigeria, what we are subconsciously waiting to hear is the news about the next scammer, the next suicide bomber who kills a British soldier. We expect to hear news of death, stolen wealth or disease.
For a number of us, our minds are already made up, even before we get the news, we have declared ourselves guilty.
There are news of Nigeria that are not about gun-shots, corruption, suicide bombings and scams; and it is just as important we talk about them. For over five years, Nigerian Medical scholarship Students at the Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow have consistently bagged first-class honours in Medicine and Surgery and represented the school at major Quiz competitions.
These students, while meeting the demands of the language, Russia's relatively alien conditions and other academic engagements, have taken it upon themselves to tell a story of Nigeria by being worthy ambassadors of the nation, off and on classes.
A Nigerian student Olalusi O. Victor led a team of other International students from Russia, Italy, Greece, Morocco and bagged the "Best Captain of the Year" award at the University's annual Quiz competition. His team – International United – won Silver at the University's annual Quiz competition.
Olalusi, who for the past three years has represented Nigeria in the University's Hall of Fame, will deliver a valedictory speech on June 27th as the best graduating Student in the Faculty of Clinical Sciences with a grade point of 5.0. The year 2012 saw another Nigerian student, Ganiyu Sanusi bagging the "Best Student of the year" award at the University's quiz competition. He graduated as the best student in the faculty with first-class honours and a CGPA of 5.0. Ganiyu Sanusi now works as an Intern in one of Nigeria's teaching hospitals.
Nigeria-born Alonge Olanike Omotola, who in 2010 represented the country on the University's Hall of Fame, bagged first-class honours degree in Medicine and Surgery and was the best Graduating student and valedictorian for that year. She proceeded for her Masters Degree at Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA.
Over the past five years, Nigerian students at the Russian National Research Medical University have consistently topped the graduation chat, bagging honours and contributing their wealth of knowledge to the University's academic status.
These are stories of Nigeria that aren't about bombings, gun-shots or students protesting for unpaid stipends; and it is as important we talk about them.
The Russian National Research Medical University will celebrate the 2013 set of Nigerian Doctors at a grand ceremony on June 27th, House of the Scientists (дом ученых), Moscow, Russia.
God bless Nigeria.


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Please help!
I am trying to convert a time string to an integer in seconds (eg. 1:25 = 85 secs) but cannot seem to figure out how best to go about doing this. I have so far used a delimiter to remove the ":" from the string and separate the minutes from the seconds. I also have a method to take minutes and seconds and add them to form only seconds. Both methods are separate but I would like to combine them somehow. Could someone please show me how this is possible. I may not even be on the right track and it is proving very frustrating. Thanks
public void trackLength() {
double seconds = 0, secs, mins;
Scanner Input = new Scanner(System.in);
// String to split.
String str = "3:25";
String[] tempString;
// delimiter
String delimiter = ":";
// given string will be split.
tempString = str.split(delimiter);
System.out.println("Enter minutes: ");
mins = Input.nextDouble();
System.out.println("Enter seconds: ");
secs = Input.nextDouble();
//makes calculations of the values needed
seconds += secs;
seconds += 60 * mins;

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Lootifer wrote:Freediving is waaaaaay sexier than scuba fwiw.
While on paper seems sexy in practice it is the domain of nerdy ex-dungeon masters who wanted to do an "outside sport"
Gourmet Cooking
Aguably the best; but the old adage: "Never trust a skinny cook" is relevant here.
Very sexy, but also very expensive in $ and time; if you pulled a pilot its likely you pulled them for their money so their ability to fly a plane is secondary
While we all love to think that its always done by sexy woman wearing tiny bikinis, the reality is that 99% of the sport is done while wearing 7mm of protective neoprene (or similar) over ones entire body
Ballsy as; though has the same problem as diving (skydiving gear is very unflattering); also tends to attract the crazys like flies to shit
Technical Climbing
Pretty sexy, but every climber ive ever known has tended to be one of those smelly tramping (hiking) types who dont wash very often.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 30th Nov 2012 11:42 UTC, submitted by martini
"Once you've got used to it, and that the Hub is the home screen, BB10 is by some distance the most brutally efficient multitouch interface I have used so far. It makes the others look like hard work. Yes, the odds are stacked against RIM - and when it comes to the as-yet unseen hardware, it needs to pull some crackers out of the barrel. But phones sell on the user interface, and this is very good indeed." Basically how I feel about Windows Phone. Much more pleasurable and fun to use than the childish and condescending iOS, and the at times confusing and messy Android (more Holo please, developers!), but sadly, the rest of the world doesn't really care.
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If you read the article... its pretty slim on real details. Many of the screen shots show messaging unified from various social media platforms for a single contact. I hate that. I want to burn that with fire. Social Media should be subjugated to its own confined jail. I do not want to be notified when someone tweets or posts a new status update. If they won't allow social media to be excluded, its tough for me to take it serious as a business oriented phone and its not for me.
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Another season means another set of divisional alignments for the American Hockey League.
With three teams relocating, the AHL shuffled the way some of its teams have been divided between divisions and conferences. And the changes will directly affect the Lehigh Valley Phantoms.
All seven teams in the Phantoms' Atlantic Division will remain in the division, but the Charlotte Checkers, the Carolina Hurricanes' AHL affiliate, are joining the group.
It will give the Phantoms a new regular-season opponent, since Charlotte had previously been a member of the Western Conference. Last year the two teams only met in the preseason.
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There are many aspects in which to judge the openness of a project, is the code licensed under a open-source license, is the development done openly, is the project governance inclusive and how low is the threshold for involvement are a some of the important aspects that determine how open a project is.
Android is as we have already established undeniably open-source, however on the rest of the criteria Android gets a failing mark. Android doesn't accept contributions from third parties, there is no community governance and the community gets source dumps after development of a version is considered ready. Or used to get.
So while the open-source status of Android has not changed the openness has. But then again it was not very open to begin with, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that Google was willing to sacrifice some more of the openness to further their goals. Companies always act in what they believe to be their best interest, whether that makes them evil, is another matter altogether.
It is however frustrating to see Google so successfully market Android, which isn't that open, as an truly open project, but that's not so much Google's fault, as it's the market's for believing them.
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The following descriptions appeared Sunday 5 June 1887 in the Lincoln Journal. This was an "immigrant issue" intended to provide the towns of Nebraska with an opportunity to attract new residents.
Chappell, Cheyenne county, is a thriving village on the main line of the Union Pacific railway, 337 miles west of Omaha and eighty five miles east of the western state line. It is situated midway between the north and south Platte rivers, and in a fine agricultural district which is being rapidly developed.
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The present population os about 200 and is rapidly increasing. It has three general stores, two hardware stores, two drug stores, two implement dealers, two livery barns, two furniture stores, two restaurants, a hotel, a bank, a lumber yard, and a newspaper. The Union Pacific railway company has just completed a neat and commodious depot, and a new school house ia about to be built. Chappell will undoubtedly become a county seat when Cheyenne county is divided.
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Skip to comments.Iranian Alert -- June 19, 2004 [EST]-- IRAN LIVE THREAD -- "Americans for Regime Change in Iran"
Posted on 06/18/2004 9:00:58 PM PDT by DoctorZIn
The US media almost entirely ignores news regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran. As Tony Snow of the Fox News Network has put it, this is probably the most under-reported news story of the year. Most Americans are unaware that the Islamic Republic of Iran is NOT supported by the masses of Iranians today. Modern Iranians are among the most pro-American in the Middle East.
There is a popular revolt against the Iranian regime brewing in Iran today. I began these daily threads June 10th 2003. On that date Iranians once again began taking to the streets to express their desire for a regime change. Today in Iran, most want to replace the regime with a secular democracy.
The regime is working hard to keep the news about the protest movement in Iran from being reported. Unfortunately, the regime has successfully prohibited western news reporters from covering the demonstrations. The voices of discontent within Iran are sometime murdered, more often imprisoned. Still the people continue to take to the streets to demonstrate against the regime.
In support of this revolt, Iranians in America have been broadcasting news stories by satellite into Iran. This 21st century news link has greatly encouraged these protests. The regime has been attempting to jam the signals, and locate the satellite dishes. Still the people violate the law and listen to these broadcasts. Iranians also use the Internet and the regime attempts to block their access to news against the regime. In spite of this, many Iranians inside of Iran read these posts daily to keep informed of the events in their own country.
This daily thread contains nearly all of the English news reports on Iran. It is thorough. If you follow this thread you will witness, I believe, the transformation of a nation. This daily thread provides a central place where those interested in the events in Iran can find the best news and commentary. The news stories and commentary will from time to time include material from the regime itself. But if you read the post you will discover for yourself, the real story of what is occurring in Iran and its effects on the war on terror.
I am not of Iranian heritage. I am an American committed to supporting the efforts of those in Iran seeking to replace their government with a secular democracy. I am in contact with leaders of the Iranian community here in the United States and in Iran itself.
If you read the daily posts you will gain a better understanding of the US war on terrorism, the Middle East and why we need to support a change of regime in Iran. Feel free to ask your questions and post news stories you discover in the weeks to come.
If all goes well Iran will be free soon and I am convinced become a major ally in the war on terrorism. The regime will fall. Iran will be free. It is just a matter of time.
U.S. Wants Iran Breaches Reported to UN Council
Reuters - World News (via Yahoo)
Jun 18, 2004
VIENNA - The United States said on Friday that Iran should be reported to the U.N. Security Council, which has the power to impose economic sanctions, for violating its international non-proliferation obligations.
"The U.S. continues to believe that Iran's documented non-compliance should be reported to the U.N. Security Council and that its nuclear program presents a threat to international peace and security," U.S. ambassador to the U.N. in Vienna, Kenneth Brill, said in the written text of a speech.
Brill was addressing a closed-door session of the International Atomic Energy Agency's governing board, which adopted a resolution earlier that rebuked Iran for its failure to fully cooperate with U.N. inspectors but did not refer the case to the Security Council.
The United States accuses Iran of using its nuclear program as a front to build an atomic bomb. Iran denies this, insisting its ambitions are limited to the peaceful generation of electricity.
THEIR REAL TARGET IS . . . YOU [Excerpt]
By AMIR TAHERI
NY Post
June 18, 2004 -- 'IT is time to go home." This is the message that Moqtada al-Sadr, the 30-year-old Shi'ite cleric who led a brief insurgency in Najaf and Kufa, has sent to members of his so-called Army of the Mahdi (Jaish al-Mahdi).
"The fighting is over," says Qais al-Khazaali, a spokesman for Sadr. "We want all our combatants to return to normal life and help Iraq's transition from occupation to full sovereignty."
By the time Sadr issued his instructions, however, few combatants were there to hear it. The rag-tag band recruited to "drive the Americans out of Iraq" disappeared as quickly as it had appeared.
Posted Friday, June 18, 2004
VIENNA, 18 June (IPS) The Islamic Republic of Iran termed as positive a Resolution from the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which deplores that "Iran's cooperation has not been as full, timely and proactive as it should have been".
The 35 members Board, in its decision, also rebuked Iran on Friday for past cover-ups in its nuclear program and warned the Islamic republic it has little time left to disprove it has a nuclear weapons program.
Since Iran's undeclared program came to light two years ago, a number of questions remain outstanding," the Resolution, sponsored by Britain, France and Germany said, noting however that "with the passage of time Iran's cooperation with the IAEA probe was becoming more important.
A U.S. official suggested that the phrase included in the last draft resolution could help Washington impose a deadline for Tehran, setting the stage for United Nations Security Council involvement at the next scheduled meeting in September, according to the American news agency The Associated Press.
U.S. Undersecretary of State John R. Bolton welcomed the tough text and said it will hinder Iran's efforts to "deceive and obstruct" agency inspectors, AP reported from Washington.
Iranian analysts said the Resolution is a compromise between the Americans who wants a strong signal to Iran and the Europeans that insists on the continuation of keeping the doors open with Tehran.
The fact that the IAEA refused to refer the Iran case to the UN Security Council was a big diplomatic failure for the US authorities, Irans official news agency IRNA quoted Mr. Hoseyn Mousavian, the head of the Iranian delegation at the Vienna negotiations as having said.
If we go from the point that Iran is really after the A bomb, then the resolution is a victory, for it gives it more months to come clean, but time factor is what the Iranian military needs more than everything to finish his first weapon, Mr. Mansoor Farhang, an Iranian scholar based in New York explained in interview with the Persian service of Radio France International.
Talking to reporters after the successful passage of the Resolution, that came up after a week of tough deliberations, hard bargaining and threats from the Iranian authorities, Mr. Mousavian said the Resolution was more positive than the previous resolutions, as it does not include any comments on the deviation of the Iranian nuclear programs to military channels or issues such as the P-2 centrifuges which, in the previous resolution resulted in deep controversy in the world.
The resolution does not set a deadline, but it does state that Iran must answer open questions "within the next few months".
But Mr. Amir Zamaninia, a high-ranking official with the Iranian delegation told the meeting the tone of the resolution was influenced by "wild and illusionary allegations of a secret Iranian nuclear weapons program" and warned his country was reviewing its "voluntary confidence-building measures," an indication that Iran might rethink the suspension of its uranium enrichment activities.
He was echoing hard line Iranian newspapers controlled by the ruling conservatives urging the government to get out of the NPT and end cooperating with the IAEA.
In a strong worded letter to the leaders of Britain, France and Germany that had worked out with Iran last October the voluntary suspension of Iranian uranium enriching programs and the signing of the Additional Protocol to the Non Proliferation Treaty, Irans embattled President Mohammad Khatami had warned that his government might stop cooperating with the IAEA if the Agency insisted on imposing conditions that are unacceptable for Iran.
In fact, the resolution urges Iran to give up on plans to start a uranium conversion facility and build a heavy water reactor, both of which have possible weapons applications.
IAEA Director General Mohammad ElBaradei also told reporters the board "expects these issues to come to a close in the next few months".
Mr. Mousavian, a former Ambassador to Germany who now is the Secretary for the International Department at Irans Supreme Council on National Security said Mr. Khatamis letter had very good results and changed the wording of the UN nuclear watchdog resolution on the suspension of the heavy-water project of Arak and UCF project.
He also noted that the resolution includes comments on the good cooperation between the Iranian government and the UN nuclear watchdog as well as comments on Irans good will gesture to offer its nuclear sites to the UN arms inspectors on short-notice or strap inspections.
The increased pressure on Iran coincided with new allegations that Iran was razing parts of a restricted area next to a military complex in a Lavizan Shiyan, Tehran suburb, where nuclear facilities had been hidden.
Tehran says its nuclear program is in accordance with the countrys bid to produce 7,000 megawatts of electricity in the next 20 years, when the countrys oil and gas reserves become overstretched.
But the United States, Israel and some European nations, wondeing why Tehran is not taping its huge natural gas reserves for producing cheaper and cleaner electricity, accuses Iranian ruling ayatollahs to pretext peaceful nuclear activities for producing atomic weapons.
"The United States said on Friday that Iran should be reported to the U.N. Security Council"
Guess that's not happening any time soon.
Paris Arrests 'Used to Seal Iran Deals'
June 19, 2004
Henry Samuel
France has been accused of agreeing to a crackdown on exiled opponents of Iran in return for lucrative commercial contracts.
Lawyers for France's human rights league, speaking on the anniversary of a huge police raid on the National Council of Resistance of Iran near Paris, pointed out "troubling coincidences" in the timing of the operation and a series of deals with Teheran.
In March last year, the regime signed a large contract with the French telecommunications group Alcatel for a telephone network.
In April last year Teheran offered the petrol giant TotalFina a £660 million gas fields contract. At the same time, a contract was signed with Renault to produce 500,000 cars over four years, the lawyers said.
Then, in June, police arrested 164 members of the Iranian opposition and placed 17 under investigation for having links with or funding terrorism. The authorities said they were looking for a link with a mortar attack on the office of the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, in Teheran in 2000.
"The public should ask itself why this type of operation [was made] at the same time as commercial contracts were signed with a tyrannical and terrorist regime," said Patrick Baudoin, a lawyer.
One year on, not a shred of evidence incriminating the 17 had been found, said Mr Baudoin, who will file for the case to be closed next Tuesday. The French state had "flouted the rule of law to gain from petro-dollars", he said.
Spinning 9/11 [Excerpt]
June 18, 2004
The Wall Street Journal
Review & Outlook
We'll say this on behalf of the latest staff reports from the 9/11 Commission: They are far more interesting than the media coverage suggests. Americans who go online to read the reports will actually learn a few things.
For example, they'll discover new details about the links between al Qaeda and Iran. The conventional wisdom has been that these Shiite and Sunni cultures couldn't meet, but the report says they did so "to cooperate against a common enemy" -- the infidel U.S.
Specifically, al Qaeda operatives trained in Iran, and al Qaeda helped Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists obtain explosives. Al Qaeda was also probably involved in two attacks on U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, including the 1996 bombing of Khobar Towers that killed 19 Americans and injured 372 and had previously been blamed largely on Hezbollah. This certainly sheds some useful light on State Department attempts to "engage" Tehran's mullahs as they attempt to build a nuclear bomb.
Another revelation concerns al Qaeda and anthrax. The 9/11 panel says al Qaeda had an "ambitious" biological weapons program and "was making advances in its ability to produce anthrax prior to September 11." It cites CIA Director George Tenet as saying that al Qaeda's ability to conduct an anthrax attack is "one of the most immediate threats the United States is likely to face." Given that we already were attacked by anthrax, and that we still don't know who did it, this sounds like news too.
Yet nearly all of the media coverage has focused on what the 9/11 panel claims it didn't find
Iran Says to Review Uranium Enrichment Suspension
June 19, 2004
Paul Hughes
TEHRAN -- Iran said Saturday it would review its suspension of uranium enrichment after a tough U.N. resolution sharply rebuked Tehran for not cooperating fully with nuclear inspections.
Enrichment, a process of purifying uranium for nuclear power plants, can also be used to make atomic weapons. Any resumption would provoke a major crisis.
Hassan Rohani, secretary-general of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, said Iran would probably not resume enrichment for the moment, but might start building parts for enrichment centrifuges.
The United States says Iran's nuclear program is a front for building an atomic weapon, but Iran insists its ambitions are limited to generating electricity.
It agreed to suspend uranium enrichment last year after a visit to Tehran by foreign ministers from the so-called "EU big three" of Britain, France and Germany.
"Iran will review its decision regarding suspension and we will announce our decision in the coming days," Rohani told a news conference.
However, he cautioned such a resumption would probably not mean pumping uranium hexafluoride gas into centrifuges which spin at high speed to produce enriched uranium.
"I should underline that our decision might not be resuming enrichment itself, it might be other activities such as building parts....Probably we will continue not to inject gas into centrifuges for a while," he added.
A spokeswoman for the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), declined comment on Rohani's statements.
Mid-ranking cleric Rohani said Tehran's decision was prompted by the three European powers reneging on what he described as their commitment to have Iran's case closed at the board level of the IAEA by June.
Rohani said Iran had no secret uranium enrichment sites and the country would continue cooperation with the watchdog.
"I am saying openly that Iran, apart from the sites it has openly declared ... has no other places for enriching uranium," he said.
He dismissed accusations Iran had an undisclosed site in north Tehran, as Washington alleges from satellite photographs.
A U.N. resolution said Friday it "deplored" Iran's failure to cooperate fully with IAEA inspectors.
The IAEA has been probing Iran since August 2002 and has pushed it to be fully open with U.N. inspectors as they struggle to reduce the spread of weapons of mass destruction in an increasingly unstable Middle East.
Iran backs away from threat to resume uranium enrichment
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TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran's top national security official backed off from his earlier threat to resume uranium enrichment, saying the Islamic republic had no intention of doing so "for the time being".
"We do not want to carry out enrichment for the time being and no decision has yet been taken to resume it, but we will reconsider the suspension of other activities," Hassan Rowhani told the official IRNA news agency.
The new comments were a revision of Rowhani's statement to the foreign and local press earlier Saturday, in which he had said: "In the next few days, Iran is going to reconsider its decision to suspend enrichment."
The suspension of uranium enrichment is a key demand of the UN nuclear watchdog -- the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) -- while it continues to investigate allegations that Iran is secretly developing nuclear weapons.
The official news agency said Rowhani's new comments meant that "Iran will apparently resume the production of centrifuge components" rather than resume enrichment itself.
IRNA did not explain Rowhani's changed stance, although the revision of public statements from top officials is common practice here and often leads to confusion.
Suspending uranium enrichment was part of a package of "confidence-building measures" brokered last October by Britain, France and Germany, which also included Iran allowing tougher inspections by signing the additional protocol to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Although enrichment is permitted under the NPT, the IAEA had called for Iran to cease such activities while it sought to account for traces of highly enriched uranium found by inspectors here and complete its evaluation of the Iranian programme.
Rowhani had earlier complained that the European Union (news - web sites)'s "big three" had failed to keep their side of the bargain by seeing that pressure on Iran is eased, and had instead pushed through a critical resolution at the IAEA on Friday.
In his latest remarks, Rowhani suggested that Iran and the European states could have fresh talks in July, and he said Iran "will give this chance to them".
Iranian militant group faces uncertain future in new Iraq
ASHRAF, Iraq, June 19 (AFP) - A militant Iranian exile group, which settled here during the rule of Saddam Hussein, faces an uncertain future following attempts to force them out of the new Iraq.
The People's Mujahedeen, which has carried out armed attacks to try to destabilise Tehran's Islamist government, counts about 4,000 members at its camp here, 115 kilometres (71 miles) northeast of Baghdad.
Thousands of people gathered in support of the Islamic-Marxist group, which settled here during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, this week as it commemorated the first anniversary of its leader's arrest in a Paris raid on June 17, 2003.
But some Iraqi Shiite Muslim leaders who are close to Iran's leadership are agitating to get rid of the group, considered a terrorist organisation by the United States and European Union.
Iraq's former Governing Council, dissolved on June 1 to make way for the caretaker government that is to take power at the end of the month, announced in late 2003 that it would expel the group but the plan was never put into practice.
Abdallah Hassan, governor of Diyala province, said he was "sure that the new government will support them"."I hope it will give them the same rights as Iraqis," he said, pointing out that the group opened a clinic offering free medical treatment in the province.
"If the new government wants to act against terrorism, it must have good relations with them," said Akbar Sepahbodi, a sympathiser who lives in France.
A huge portrait of Maryam Radjavi, the group's leader who was arrested in Paris last year, welcomes the guests for the ceremony at the camp's entrance.Dressed in combat uniform, the men wear caps, the women veils. Above a platform where about 20 sheikhs and leaders sat, is another huge picture of a smiling Radjavi holding a dove, the day the French authorities set her free.
"The fact that so many people came here shows their support for the Mujahedeen," said Ali Mohamadi, a supporter who lives in Rome, gesturing at the thousands of people present.
The Mujahedeen agreed to disarm in May 2003, following a deal made with the US-led coalition occupying Iraq. In exchange, the coalition agreed to offer their protection.
About 4,000 members live in the camp, where they dedicate themselves to their "political training" to become officials in a future Iranian state.
"After June 30, it doesn't matter whether it's the Americans or the Iraqis who support them, what matters is that the Mujahedeen continue to live here, said Akbar Sepahbodi.
"We want the United States not to support Iran and to take us off their list of terrorist groups," added Ali Mohamadi.A number of Iraqi sheikhs also came to support the People's Mujahedeen, which was put on the American and European terror lists after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
"We won't let anyone attack them," said Sheikh Khamas Ibrahim Ali of the Az-Zawi tribe."After the fall of the regime, they put up checkpoints near the Iranian border to protect us. It's our turn to help them now," said Sheik Faizal Hom Ollawi, head of the Al-Nada tribe.
Tribal leader Ali Shommari, a Shiite from the central holy city of Najaf, said "thousands" of Iranian spies had infiltrated Iraq to stir up trouble for the group.
Intissar Mohammed, who runs a Baghdad orphanage, said she visited the camp to support Iranian women, adding that the Mujahedeen had helped fund her institution.
June 18, 2004
Iran on the Verge
Andy Obermann
There appears to be another battleground in the War on Terror. A looming nuclear crisis seems to be developing in the Islamic extremist country of Iran.
Months ago, Iranian leadership, under pressure from the world community, agreed to allow United Nations inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to evaluate their nuclear capabilities amid reports of Iranian efforts to develop such weapons. The inspectors were given free reign to inspect suspect locations within the country and the ability to launch surprise investigations of facilities in the country.
From the outside it seemed that Iran was falling in line with the wishes of the UN and complying with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (designed to stop the spread of nuclear weapons), of which it is a member state.
Recent events, however, demonstrate Irans true unwillingness to comply with such regulations.
Apparently, the Iranians have relocated many of their nuclear testing facilities to avoid detection by UN inspectors. Many locations, found on satellite imagery, seem to disappear when UN inspectors arrive. Not only that, but a trace amount of weapons grade plutonium was found at a site the inspectors were able to locate.
The Iranians claim the plutonium was there by mistake, however, since the location was a military instillation, their intentions seem quite suspect.
Furthermore, reports from the IAEA indicate Iran is purchasing centrifuge technology and scientific expertise from the communist Chinese in exchange for oilneeded for their growing economy.
The threat posed by a nuclear Iran is immenseand will have a profound impact on the War on Terror. After all, it is well known that Iran is a major supporter of terrorismand has been for nearly 30 years. In fact, just last week, Tehran (the Iranian capital) hosted an international summit of terrorist leaders. At this summit, supposedly unbeknownst to Iranian leadership, it was decided that suicide bombers would be used against United States forces providing security for the new Iraqi government. Even more threatening are reports that Iran has amassed four army battalions on the Iraqi border; ready to invade for security purposes when the United States finally withdraws troops from Iraq.
With the evident threat, one would think the Bush Administration would consider it prudent to explore the possibility of enlisting the UN in actions against Iran, but, surprisingly, they have not.
Despite harsh lip service by Secretary of State Colin Powell and other Administration leaders, the president has done little in the way of offering serious consequences for continued Iranian non-compliance. Apparently, President Bush is too concerned with election year politics to address the Iran problem. Let me explain.
Even though the IAEA has confirmed Iran should be brought before the UN Security Council for possible sanctions, the council has reneged opting instead to revisit the issue in September. This charge was led by US diplomats claiming Iran should be allowed more time to comply with IAEA demands.
On the surface, it appears to be a gracious gesture of faith, but considering President Bushs stance on terror sponsoring states, it seems unlikely he would extend such faithespecially to a country as militant as Iran. No, more realistically, the president realizes that should sanctions be imposed on Iranthose hindering oil exports from the countrydomestic gas prices would surge.
This would provide fuel to the Kerry Campaign, dampening the robust economy produced by the Bush tax cuts, and perhaps costing him the White House come November.
By delaying action to September, the president knows any sanctions would not take hold until after the election, having already been safely re-elected and in position to deal with gas prices.
If this is truly the case, the president is taking a deadly gamble with national security. Some analysts claim Iran is nearly three years from having the bomb, but because no one can be sure, the sooner action is taken the better.
Now, Iran does fit into the War on Terror, but not in the same way as Iraq. Iran is not a candidate for invasion because there is no stable element to return power to after the fall of the current government. Moreover, the alternative to Irans current leadership is even more extreme. Any element of liberal reform in the country would be crushed by the predominance of extremist Islamic militantscreating an even greater threat than that already present.
An economic war should be waged on Iranone conducted in conjunction with UN sanctions and pressure from the international community. Pressure should also be exerted upon supporters of Iran, namely the Chinese and Russians.
Like Iraq, however, the world community will not act unless President Bush takes the leadand the time to start is now.
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Japanese Firms Eye Iran's Economy
SANANDAJ, Kurdestan Prov, June 18 Asia Pulse - The presence of 30 Japanese companies in Iran`s economic sector is a token of the interest of Japanese economic and trade organizations in the country.
Japanese Ambassador to Tehran Takekazu Kawamura told a group of businesspersons in this western Iranian city on Wednesday that Tokyo has been trying to facilitate the presence of its private sector in Iran.
The ambassador said Japanese enterprises are keen to cooperate with Iran in technical and investment domains.
He said that he has been visiting Iran`s Kurdestan province because the province gives a good impetus for expansion of economic ties.
Southern Iranian city of Lali in Khuzestan province hit by quake
Tehran, June 19, IRNA -- An earthquake measuring 3.5 degrees on the Richter scale once again hit the city of Lali, in the southern province of Khuzestan, on Friday night.
The seismological base of Tehran University's Geophysics Institute registered the tremor at 22:42 local time.
An earlier quake, measuring 3.9 degrees on the Richter scale, jolted the suburbs of the city on Friday at 20:12 local time.
There were no immediate reports of any casualties or damage to property caused by these quakes.
Iran is situated on some of the world's most active seismic faultlines and quakes of varying magnitudes are usual occurrences.
WoW. That's scary. I'm hoping the people there are all Iranians, at least.
"portraits of Ayatollahs Khamenei and Khomeini are covered by curtains during prayers."
Portraits should be covered 24 hours a day.
I have read in a lebanese based paper a few months ago that Iran's goevrnment pays all charges/expenses of that shrine in Syria to keep the shrine running.
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I'm mad, guys.
I'm mad that Mondo didn't win.
Or maybe I'm sad. Maybe this is anger covering up for sadness.
No, fuck that, I'm pissed.
I'm upset, obviously, because he was my favorite. I felt like he was more talented than Gretchen and that his final collection was better. I liked him more as a person. I may or may not want to keep him in my pocket like a little Jiminy Cricket and have him help me pick out eyeliner and learn to tap dance. For all of these reasons I wanted Mondo to win. But I'm not pissed just because he lost. I will grant that Gretchen's collection did not suck so much that there was no room for argument, and that she's probably not a horrible human being, and I realize that some people have opinions that differ from mine (in this case, clearly, Michael and Nina.) No, I'm pissed because I feel manipulated.
Hear me out.
I have watched a lot of reality television in my day. Before I drop my ridiculous knowledge on you, it must be said that there are many different kinds of reality shows, all of which have their own unspoken rules in determining the winner. Let's dispense quickly with the following:
SHOWS WON BASED ON MEASURABLE FACTORS, i.e. The Biggest Loser (pounds lost), The Amazing Race (er... a literal race), Beauty and the Geek (correct answers to inane questions), Wipe Out or I Survived a Japanese Game Show (ability to leap over obstacles without hilariously face-planting...or willingness to wear giant diaper while pedaling a child's bicycle through a sand pit), American Idol (based on votes, although you could argue that the voting process is corrupt), So You Think You Can Dance (ditto) and their ilk. These shows choose winners based on cold, hard math (or purport to, anyway). If you are an asshat on Idol or SYTYCD, people might not vote for you, so personality does count, but I'm MUCH more interested in shows where the producers have a heavy hand.
Also not counted are DATING SHOWS i.e. The Bachelor/ette, Rock of Love, Tila Tequila and all of the other, even shittier, iterations. These shows pick winners based on the taste and opinion of the person looking for love coupled with (I'm certain) input from producers. But for the purposes of this rant, I'm focusing on my experience watching week-by-week elimination-based shows that judge an unmeasurable talent and do not count on public voting.
Like, for instance, Project Runway.
Having watched ProjRun since the very first episode, I feel like I know the formula. We all do. That's why it's so hard to stay interested after eight seasons--it starts to feel like you've seen everything before.
Mondo's story arc this season was the stuff that great underdog movies are made of. He started off the weird outcast, he gained his footing, he started to prove himself, week after week, and then, as if we weren't already rooting for him enough, he revealed his very personal struggle with hiding his HIV-positive status from his family. WE HAD EVERY REASON TO WANT HIM TO WIN.
Then, we had Gretchen. Gretchen started off strong, winning the first two challenges, but even from episode 2, we started to get the message that she was kind of a bitch--a message, that, in my opinion, the editors made even louder than it needed to be. Every show needs a villain, and Gretchen, with her oblivious narcissism and superiority complex, fit the bill perfectly. As the weeks went by, she got more and more insufferable. We wanted her to fail. She almost did, landing twice in the bottom two, but made it to Fashion Week anyway.
To lose to Mondo.
I mean, that's how the story was supposed to end.
And before you accuse me of just being biased, let me ask you this: Have you seen the movie Hoosiers? OK, so first imagine that Hoosiers gets stretched out to 21 hours (say, about the length of 13 hour-and-a-half episodes plus a two-hour finale). The tiny, underdog Hoosiers still, against all odds, make the state championship, but in the final minutes of the game they lose to the tall, athletic team from South Bend. And the end credits roll.
You see what I'm saying? Storytelling matters. Reality television is still a story, crafted by producers and editors. This season, the story had a hero and a villain. We might have liked Mondo and disliked Gretchen without the guiding hand of editing, but that certainly helped us along. I'm sure that the producers could have cast Gretchen in a more favorable light, and I'm surprised that they didn't, considering that she won. A television franchise needs its audience to be satisfied with the show in order to keep coming back. I trusted Project Runway, and it let me down.
Unlike a show with recurring characters and continuous plot lines that can count on your interest to see what happens next (i.e. you might have hated the season finale of Grey's Anatomy, but you're coming back to see how the characters cope with the trauma of having some dude come in and kill half the staff--and also whether maybe they think about installing a metal detector, because Seattle Grace is dangerous, yo), a show like ProjRun needs the audience to trust its judgment from season to season. Mondo's not coming back next year, so in order to keep watching we need to trust that whoever is most deserving of next season's cast will win. And I don't. I don't trust ProjRun anymore. I had my doubts back when Jeffrey Sebelia won at the end of Season 3, but he was also a recovering drug addict AND had an adorable son whose name he had tattooed on his neck, so I let it slide. Then "Meana" Irina Shabayeva took it home in Season 6, but that season was the first after the network change, so I told myself it was just part of a rocky transition. But now, I'm done. Project Runway, we're over*.
*Except for my final recap. Shit.
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These gains were accomplished without the use of nitrogen fertilizer with a stocking rate of two animal units per acre during a three-month period from March through May, noted Monte Rouquette, the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station scientist who conducted the grazing study.
For the study, one animal unit was defined as 1,000 pounds of animal. Suckling steers and heifers were used for the study.
At lower stocking rates of 1.2 animal units per acre, average daily gains topped 3.5 pounds. At the high stocking rate of 2.8 animal units per acre, average daily gains dropped to about 1.75 pounds per acre.
Cattle on the study received no extra protein or supplements, only the standard free-choice mineral supplement, noted Ray Smith, clover and legume breeder with the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, and developer of Apache.
Released in 2002, Apache promises to make arrowleaf clover a viable part of forage production in East Texas and other southern states.
As early as the 1960s, it was common practice to mix arrowleaf seed with crimson clover seed and grow it widely throughout many southern states, from East Texas to Georgia. By mixing the early-maturing crimson clover and late-maturing arrowleaf, ranchers and farmers could have forage from February through early June. Multiple disease problems, including plant viruses and fungal rot, effectively put a stop to this practice a decade ago. Of the diseases, Bean Yellow Mosaic Virus (BYMV) was one of the most prevalent and damaging problems.
BYMV didn't affect crimson clover, but it killed arrowleaf clover, stunted it, or caused it to mature early.
"It left a production gap from when the crimson matured to when arm-season grasses came on in June that was never filled," Smith said.
Arrowleaf clovers such as Yuchi, Meeche and Amclo, are affected by BYMV in several ways. Some plants are killed outright by lethal wilt. Others go on to survive but will suffer a variety of symptoms, including misshapen leaves, yellowed leaves or leaves spotted in a yellow mosaic pattern. Of the surviving plants, yields are reduced by as much as 50 percent, but worse, the productive lifespan of the survivors is shortened, leaving months during the spring without forage production.
Apache is resistant to the lethal wilt caused by BYMV and tolerant to the secondary symptoms such as leaf discoloration and stunting.
"It's tolerant to the degree that we expect it to fill the production gap left by susceptible varieties such as Yuchi. Producers should once again be able to rely on a crimson/arrowleaf mixture for forage production from late winter and early spring," said Smith, who is based at the Texas A&M University System Agricultural Research and Extension Center at Overton in Rusk County.
Smith began work on arrowleaf clover disease resistance in the late 1980s. He began with the conventional plant breeding method of growing arrowleaf cultivars in the field and selecting those plants that appeared healthy while those around fell to disease infections.
After several years, it became apparent to Smith that the conventional method wasn't working. Aphids spread the BYMV virus, and the insect habits meant that some plants were infected while those nearby might not be.
"So we were selecting those plants that both had tolerance to BYMV and those which just happened to dodge the bullet, so to speak," Smith said.
Undaunted, he moved to greenhouse trials where he could strictly control the spread of BYMV. Plants were inoculated with a slurry of tissue from BYMV infected plants. In conjunction with the greenhouse trials, Smith continued field trials, but mechanically inoculated those plants with BYMV as well.
The resulting cultivar, which until recently went by the unassuming designation of TX-AL98-1, is resistant to BYMV-induced lethal wilt, tolerant to BYMV-induced dwarfing, and other symptoms such as rough, wrinkled leaves, and yellowed, mosaic patterned leaves. It shows improved field survival when infected with BYMV and has greater early spring (March) forage production compared to Yuchi, the most commonly grown arrowleaf today. Apache flowers 10 to 14 days earlier than Yuchi, and its total season forage production is greater or equal to Yuchi.
Seed should be available in good quantities this year for fall planting. For prices and availability contact East Texas Seed Co., P.O. Box 569, Tyler, TX 75710-0569. The company's phone number is (903) 597-6637. The email address for East Texas Seed Company is [email protected]
Arrowleaf clovers can be interseeded in bermudagrass pastures either by broadcasting alone, lightly disking and then broadcasting or by drilling, said Larry Redmon, forage specialist with Texas Cooperative Extension.
Though just broadcasting the seed and doing nothing else is not the most effective method, it does often produce good results. Redmon and Smith recommend using about 10 pounds of Apache seed per acre. At $2 per pound, this means the total cost of establishment could be as little as $20 per acre. The seed can be mixed with a light fertilizer application if immediately broadcast or planted.
A light disking has two advantages. It sets the warm season grass back a little and exposes bare soil.
"They'll get a little more forage if they disk and perhaps a little earlier forage. The cost for disking will add another $7 to $8 per acre in establishment cost."
Low-till drills are becoming a scarce item in East Texas, but if one can be found, producers can realize another small improvement in stand and dry matter production.
In most cases, Redmon recommends the simple broadcast method.
"Producers can realize a savings of $70 to $80 per animal with Apache over feeding hay," Redmon said. "Contrary to what some people think, cattle do not pull arrowleaf out by the roots, so producers will also gain some soil nitrogen for their summer forages."
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HTC says no to Android HD2 to aid Windows Mobile
Vendor feels need to 'take care' of MS OS
Despite being the first firm to launch an Android-based smartphone, HTC has hinted that its upcoming HD2 won't be given a Google OS makeover.
HTC has downplayed the possibility of an Android-based HD2
Peter Chou, Chief Executive of HTC, boasted to Forbes that although the firm could "technically" make an Android HD2, the company must "take care of Windows Mobile".
While Chou's comments don't rule out the possibility of an Android HD2 altogether, he tried to strengthen his argument for more Windows Mobile-based smartphones by reminding readers that HTC has been a Microsoft partner for 13 years.
The HD2 will undoubtedly be HTC's flagship phone, for the next few months at least.
Sporting a 4.3in, 480 x 800 display, the HD2 has a 1GHz Qualcomm processor and runs Windows Mobile 6.5 – previewed here. It also includes a 5Mp camera, 7.2Mb/s HSDPA 3G support and 802.11b/g Wi-Fi.
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Hi, I just had my son on the 1st and I have been breast feeding him almost the whole time (he had/has jaundice and didn't have much of an appetite when he was a few days old so I had to resort to what little colostrum I could pump and some donor milk I was given my the hospital).
My problem is that I was told to feed him every 2.5 hours by the nurses to get rid of the jaundice, which I have done. I have done this for the last 10 days straight, and it's killing me. I set alarms to wake him up and feed him which it takes me sometimes 15-20 minutes just to wake myself up enough to hold him.
The other issue I am having is that I can't seem to get out of bed - I literally have been held up in my bed since we got home for the hospital and have only been out of the house for doctor checkup appointments. Then, as soon as I get home, it's back into the "hole" of our bedroom. I literally put a bra on yesterday for the first time in over a week.
How do other moms do this??? I can't seem to leave my bed, my son sleeps in our bed & on me at night, and it just seems easier, I guess, but I just don't know what the alternatives are. We have a crib, but I feel like he's just too small to put in it yet. He as born on the small side (5 lb 10 oz), but at full term, 40 weeks.
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Details Of How The DC Online Voting System Was Hacked: Small Vulnerability, Huge Consequences
from the validate,-validate,-validate dept
The problem, which geeks classify as a "shell-injection vulnerability," has to do with the ballot upload procedure. When a voter follows the instructions and uploads a completed ballot as a PDF file, the server saves it as a temporary file and encrypts it using a command-line tool called GnuPG. Internally, the server executes the command gpg with the name of this temporary file as a parameter:Also, while the press pointed out the fact that after people voted the University of Michigan fight song played, that was hardly the only thing that these researchers did. The reason it got attention was that after they successfully made a bunch of changes to the system, they didn't tell anyone just to see how good the voting system's intrusion detection system was -- and it still took a while for anyone to notice. And it wasn't even the voting system folks who figured it out. Apparently, it was other testers who came across the fight song (hence that being what got reported in the press). They also changed all the votes to write-in candidates they liked and set the system to automatically change all future votes to the same candidates. You can see the ballot that they used to replace all of the votes below. You might like some of their write-in choices.
gpg [...] /tmp/stream,28957,0.pdf.
We realized that although the server replaces the filename with an automatically generated name ("stream,28957,0" in this example), it keeps whatever file extension the voter provided. Instead of a file ending in ".pdf," we could upload a file with a name that ended in almost any string we wanted, and this string would become part of the command the server executed. By formatting the string in a particular way, we could cause the server to execute commands on our behalf. For example, the filename "ballot.$(sleep 10)pdf" would cause the server to pause for ten seconds (executing the "sleep 10" command) before responding. In effect, this vulnerability allowed us to remotely log in to the server as a privileged user.
a back door that let us view any ballots that voters cast after our attack. This modification recorded the votes, in unencrypted form, together with the names of the voters who cast them, violating ballot secrecy.Think about that for a second. This wasn't just a little hack. This was a big, big deal, for a voting system that someone had hoped to actually use in real elections next month. As Halderman notes, this does not bode well for internet voting:
We've found a number of other problems in the system, and everything we've seen suggests that the design is brittle: one small mistake can completely compromise its security. I described above how a small error in file-extension handling left the system open to exploitation. If this particular problem had not existed, I'm confident that we would have found another way to attack the system.And just think: this was done in just a few days with a voting commission that was open to outsiders trying to hack the system. In the meantime, most of us will use electronic voting equipment next month that has not been subject to any sort of tests like that, and probably includes similarly damaging vulnerabilities (though, thankfully, not via the internet).


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Consensus Report
An Astrobiology Strategy for the Exploration of Mars (2007)Board on Life Sciences
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In the last decade, robotic missions to Mars have discovered strong evidence of a watery past and the possibility of atmospheric methane. In order to take advantage of these new breakthroughs, NASA's Science Mission Directorate requested development of an updated integrated astrobiology strategy for Mars exploration. The focus of the program continues to be the search for past or present life on Mars. Samples should be taken on Mars and transported back to Earth for thorough scientific investigation. A foundation of data already exists to identify appropriate sites for landing and collection, but long-term development of technology must take place in order to gain access to promising sites at high altitudes or in the polar regions.
Key Messages
- At the same time, the astrobiological science goals can best be addressed by an implementation that allows researchers to address increasingly focused questions that relate to astrobiology goals in particular.
- Identification of appropriate landing sites for detailed analysis (whether in situ or by sample return) can be done with the data sets now available or imminently available from currently active missions.
- Sample return should be seen as a program that NASA and the Mars science community have already embarked upon rather than as a single, highly complex, costly, and risky mission that is to occur at some future time.
- The desire to visit and sample the highest-priority astrobiological sites requires that future surface missions to Mars take the necessary and appropriate planetary protection measures.
- The greatest advance in understanding Mars, from both an astrobiology and a more general scientific perspective, will come about from laboratory studies conducted on samples of Mars returned to Earth.
- The scientific study of Mars, including return to Earth of astrobiologically valuable samples that can be used to address the questions being asked today, can be done with robotic missions.
- The search for evidence of past or present life, as well as determination of the planetary context that creates habitable environments, is a compelling primary focus for NASA's Mars Exploration Program.
- The search for life and understanding the broad planetary context for martian habitability will require a broad, multidisciplinary approach to Mars exploration.
- The very successful intellectual approach of follow the water should be expanded to include follow the carbon, along with other key biologically relevant elements.


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Chennai, Jan 9 (IANS) A genius in his own right, filmmaker S. Ramanathan, one of the most admired film personalities in the southern film industry, worked with many stalwarts such as Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan and Vishnuvardhan and Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bahchcan before he bid his final adieu Wednesday.
Ramanathan, known for making films in various southern languages as well as Hindi, died Wednesday. He was 83.
Producer-director-actor Dwarakish, a close friend of Ramanathan, says his death is a great loss for the Indian film industry in general and the southern film industry in particular.
"S. Ramanathan was known as Sirji in the film industry circle. He rose from the ranks to become one of the most admired film personalities in the country," said Dwarakish, adding that Ramanathan's Shalimar Hotel in Mumbai, was frequently visited by many southern producers, directors and stars who were shooting for their film in the metropolis.
Producer Soorappa Babu said Sirji is an inspiration for many.
"Sirji was certainly one of the most respected film personalities in the Kannada film industry. He was liked by legendary artists like Raj Kumar, Vishnuvardhan, veteran director Puttanna Kanagal and many others. He is an inspiration to many ambitious producers," said Soorappa Babu.
Ramanathan started his career with theatre in Bangalore and spent most of his early days in the city. He later shifted to Madras, now known as Chennai, mainly because in the late 1950s and early 1960s the city was known for its film activities.
He first worked as an assistant to the then well-known director A. Bhim Singh and later turned director with 1959 Malayalam movie "Naadodikal" and followed it up with movies like "Shreekovil" (1962) and two years later came out with "Devaalayam".
After the success of his guru Bhim Singh's Tamil road movie "Madras To Pondicherry", which was directed by Thirumalai-Mahalingam, he decide to remake it in Hindi and moved to Mumbai.
He titled the Hindi version "Bombay to Goa" and roped in then struggling actor Amitabh Bachchan in the lead role. The film became a hit and marked his long relationship with Amitabh with whom he made films like "Mahaan", in which the Bollywood megastar played a triple role.
His film "Geraftaar", with which he turned producer in 1985, featured the power trio of Amitabh, Rajinikanth and Kamal in the lead roles. He also produced Amitabh-starrer "Gangaa Jamunaa Saraswathi".
As a director, his last film with Big B was "Zamaanat", which is yet to hit the screen.
Ramanathan also made films with legendary artists like Raj Kumar, Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan, Vishnuvardhan, and Shivaraj Kumar in various languages.


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AMD Phenom II X4 965 Processor New Revision Review
Not too long ago, we saw AMD's latest flagship processor, the AMD Phenom II X4 965 processor. This processor is clocked at 3.4GHz and has an L2 cache of 512KB per core for a total of 2MB, and a shared L3 cache of 6MB. The Phenom II X4 965 is a socket AM3 processor, which can support DDR3 memory up to 1333MHz when used in an AM3 motherboard, and DDR2 memory up to 1066MHz when paired up with an AM2+ motherboard. Just as with the first version of the Phenom II X4 965, the refresh also supports HyperTransport 3.0, which helps the processor have a total CPU to system bandwidth of up to 37.3GB/s when paired with DDR3-1333MHz memory. The one big difference between the original Phenom II X4 965 and the refresh, however, is the power dissipation of it. The original Phenom II X4 965 has a maximum TDP of 140 watts and the refresh has a maximum of 125 watts. In case you are not familiar with this term, TDP stands for Thermal Design Power. TDP is the amount of power that the cooling system of the processor needs to dissipate, to keep the CPU running under the threshold before failure. For example, if your processor has a 125W TDP, you need a cooler that will dissipate at least 125W of heat to keep the processor under the maximum operating temperature. If you place a cooler on it that has a maximum TDP dissipation of 95W, then your CPU will overheat. With a lower core voltage of .875V to 1.4V, there is less heat to dissipate, which gives the processor a lower TDP for the same speeds. In addition to the lower TDP, the processor now has improved C1E support, which allows the system to switch power states faster with little to no impact to performance. Also with corrected BIOS', the new processor can support four modules up to 1333MHz on the memory controller, without any issues. Now you can load up your computer with the maximum memory and not have to worry about it failing. At launch, the refresh of the Phenom II X4 965 will be $195, which is lower than the original launch price of $245 for the first generation 965. Now that we have the differences set down between the first generation Phenom II X4 965 and the refresh, let's see how it compared performance-wise head to head.
Closer Look:
On the surface, the new refresh of the Phenom II X4 965 looks exactly the same. They both are AM3 socket processors with 939 pins and both have the same outer design. The only way to tell the difference between the two is at the end of the part number string. The old part number is HDZ965FBK4DGI and the new part number is HDZ965FBK4DGM, which the "M" designates the refresh of the Phenom II X4 965 processors. Other than that, there are no visual differences that you will be able to see.
Let's now move on to the performance testing, to see how they differ under the skin.


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A Roman Holiday in Pictures
It's time for a "pretty pictures" post from my travelogue. I went back to Rome again this year, and mid-September is the perfect time to visit — the weather is heaven, the kids are in school and Europeans are back to work after their own August vacations. Let's take a look:
I can't believe I'm going to write this, but Rome is slowly eclipsing Paris as my favorite city for fun, inspiration, history and food. My favorite hotel (the Locarno, off the Piazza del Popolo) has free usage of bicycles, and for days I'll fly around the Tiber and the old Centro like a bird. I can't imagine getting around any other way. There's nothing like 3000 years of living history to get one out of one's head; and besides the familiar sites and monuments, this time I also visited the Gallery Doria Pamphilj, which was a delight.
There's something about the quality of light here that any artist would find irresistible, it's like pink gold. I like the texture of these old buildings so much, I wish I could reproduce them in interiors. And as always, I'm constantly searching for the perfect red ochre, which I'm trying to reproduce here by pushing one color into another: Potter's Pink and Perylene Violet, Purple Brown into Flesh Ochre, Yellow Ochre and Venetian Red.
• A Roman Palette
• Great Rooms: Livia's Dining Room in Rome
• A Palette from Pompeii
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VERNON � The mayor of Vernon announced that she will not be seeking re-election during a special city council workshop on Monday.
VERNON � The mayor of Vernon announced that she will not be seeking re-election during a special city council workshop on Monday.
Mayor Michelle Cook announced that she would not be seeking re-election in March. She gave no reason for her decision not to seek re-election, but said that she would not be involved in the recreation committee next year.
The special meeting was called to discuss the town�s recreation board as well as expansion plans for the city�s Enterprise Zone.
The discussion of the recreation board stemmed from the Oct. 28 council meeting, where there were questions over a changing of locks at the Sportsplex and the usage of the city parks for youth football practice.
At the Oct. 28 meeting, Jason Bullard, a Vernon resident and youth football coach, asked why his Washington County youth football squad was being denied use of the city park to practice in preparation for the upcoming Snapper Bowl, which will be held in Panama City Beach beginning on Nov. 27.
He also asked why the city council had voted to change all the locks at the Sportsplex, which took the council members by surprise.
Bullard and Scotty Corbin, both youth football coaches, were on hand Monday to further discuss the situation. Corbin also serves on the city recreation board.
Mayor Cook provided the city with an inventory of equipment the city owns and a list of equipment purchased in the past year.
Changing the Sportsplex keys was an action that was not approved by the council, said Council Chairwoman Tina Sloan. �That should have been voted on by the council,� she said.
The council did vote to not allow practice for the Snapper Bowl at the fields because the city did not know what liability it could face. Bullard was not in attendance at that meeting to explain the situation, Councilman Tray Hawkins said.
�If you could have been here to explain, we could have worked it out,� Hawkins said. �Any time you have something like this, come to the council with it.�
The formation of the recreation board was also a topic of discussion.
�Last year we decided as a council we would all work together to keep the recreation department going without hiring a rec director,� Cook said. She volunteered to head the effort and the city advertised for volunteers to form a recreation board. Eventually the five-member board was formed.
However, the board never adopted any bylaws and there is no ordinance for how the board is to operate or how members will be appointed.
City Attorney Michelle Tagert said the city needs to have an ordinance setting the recreation board, along with bylaws that set the goals and tasks of the board.
Washington County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Ted Everett was also on hand to present the council with maps showing the current Enterprise Zone and discussed his plans to expand the zone.
An Enterprise Zone is a state-created area for industrial or commercial development that offers incentives to businesses in order to create jobs. Those incentives include jobs creation tax credits, electrical energy tax credits, sales tax refunds for jobs creation and building materials, property tax credits for jobs creation and sales tax refunds for business equipment and machinery.
Last year the state Legislature passed a new law allowing counties to expand their Enterprise Zones, and Washington County will be allowed to expand its areas by three miles, which Everett plans to divide evenly between Ebro and Vernon.
The Vernon City Council approved changing the Enterprise Zone during their Sept. 23 meeting, and Everett is working with engineer Garrett Martin of Atkins, an engineering firm located in Chipley, to create maps of the two Enterprise Zones.
�I think we should expand the Enterprise Zone north of the new bridge, and take the new mile and three-quarters of zone down Moss Hill Road toward the high school as far as it will go,� Everett said.
Everett said the Enterprise Zone legislation is set to expire in 2015, but the Legislature has extended the law setting the zones twice in the past. Everett said he expects the zones to be renewed in 2015. �If that happens, then we will be set until 2025,� Everett said.
The council will meet in workshop again on Nov. 12 and further discuss the Enterprise Zone.


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Recipes for Victory in Florida's 2012 election
Two political operatives give opposing views on how to win the Sunshine State.
Florida's Democrats are heavily concentrated in south Florida — Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties, and in Alachua (Gainesville) and Leon (Tallahassee) counties. Some of the party's most loyal voters are African-Americans, some of whom are concentrated in rural counties near the Georgia border, including Gadsden, just west of Tallahassee. A growing number of non-Cuban Hispanics are also reliable Democratic voters. Women are vital to Democrats' success in Florida, with 52% of Florida women voting for President Obama in 2008.
While Republican voters are much more spread out geographically than their Democratic counterparts, five solid GOP counties are Collier (Naples), Seminole (Orlando area), Clay (Jacksonville area), Okaloosa (Fort Walton Beach) and Lee (Cape Coral/Fort Myers). The GOP base includes suburban small-business people along I-4, evangelicals, Cuban-Americans in southeast Florida, seniors in southwest Florida, social conservatives (including active and retired military personnel) in the Panhandle and Tea Party supporters. Panhandle Democrats are also increasingly casting GOP votes in statewide contests.
"The calculus of winning Florida doesn't change that much from year to year. Basically you have to get your base and win half the swing vote or a little more than half the swing vote."
— Steve Schale was state director for President Obama's 2008 campaign and is a volunteer on the 2012 re-election campaign.
"We have been stressing to each one of our county leaders and each one of our grassroots networks that we must try to achieve an 85% base turnout of Republicans in the state of Florida. If we achieve that, I'm confident we will win."
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The lake will be gradually lowered to winter operational levels at Zosel Dam. The water level will be maintained at 909.5 feet until spring. As of Thursday, the level was 911.4 feet.
Lowering the lake levels in the fall provides more storage area for winter rain and melting snow and prevents shoreline damage from winter freezing and flooding.
Dam operators will raise the lake back to 911.5 feet for normal summer operations starting in March.
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Release Date: June 23, 2014
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Pat Curtis has three words to describe a partnership that has immersed University at Buffalo engineering students at General Motors Components Holdings (GMCH) Lockport for the past three summers: a huge success.
As plant manager of the 2.8 million-square-foot facility, he has witnessed the contributions of budding undergraduates from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, which are made possible through the outreach and project management of UB TCIE. Some have impressed GMCH management enough to attract full-time job offers at the company's Lockport and Rochester plants.
"They help solve problems. Maybe that's oversimplifying it. But you know what? That's what we do here," Curtis said. "We solve problems so that we can get better. And the better we get, the more competitive we are. The more competitive we are, the brighter the future is going to be for us."
For the fourth year, GMCH Lockport leaders are welcoming a batch of summer interns. The program has featured an average of seven interns each year. They come from several engineering departments including the mechanical and aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, and industrial and systems engineering. Their assistance helps to fulfill the plant's mission of manufacturing the world's best thermal products.
Curtis explained that in a plant with 1,650 employees, there are never-ending opportunities for improvement. Students have the potential to boost scrap reduction,improve process streamlining and influence the implementation of cost-saving measures.
Each student works under the guidance of one supervisor. This year, projects focuses on the areas of quality, integrated industrial resources manufacturing, and heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) engineering. One student, for example, is spending time examining product defects and evaluating processes to rectify them. Journals are maintained throughout the summer and project presentations conclude the program.
Peter Eichensehr is a quality engineer at GMCH, but got his feet wet during the summer internships after his sophomore and junior years at UB. He was involved in numerous projects to improve product quality, most notably scrap reduction and new product launch support.
Eichensehr said he learned a lot, particularly soft skills, during his experience. Forming relationships with co-workers and operators on the floor, sharpening communication skills, and refining time-management capabilities helped to boost his job performance and provide qualities that he continues to build upon in his career.
"An internship anywhere is a great opportunity that can be what you make of it. If a lot of effort is put in, great things can come of it," Eichensehr said.
Growth isn't limited to the interns. GMCH Lockport personnel glean new insights through the partnership with UB TCIE.
"Having students here has given us an opportunity to learn about what's going on in college," said Greg Conley, site quality manager, as he joked about the sizeable time lapse since most supervisors were in the classroom. "It's good to have new ideas and a fresh set of eyes."
Different perspectives surface through daily work, as well as during final presentations when interns are asked what they would do differently if they were managing the plant. One suggestion spurred changes to a training program for hourly employees.
"I'm always amazed at how much they've learned in a short amount of time. The capabilitiesof these students just floors me," Curtis said. "They're high tech. They're intelligent. They present themselves very well. It's very refreshing."
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BOISE, ID — The Idaho Potato Commission's popular Idaho Potato Lover's Month retail display contest is in its 22nd year, and Jamie Bowen, marketing manager for the commission, expects to see more than 2,500 entries this year, topping the previous record set in 2011.
The commission has a new partner, a new premium and new point-of-sale materials for this year's contest, according to Seth Pemsler, vice president of retail for the commission, who said that the annual February contest is"by far the biggest promotion we do at retail," and is among the larger promotions of its kind for any commodity.
Every year since its inception, the Idaho Potato Lover's Month contest has been "more successful than the previous year," said Ms. Bowen. The number of participants has also grown every year except last year, when "it hung out" a little below the record. But "this year, I personally think it is going to be higher than that."
The commission's new partner for the promotion is Hormel Real Bacon Bits. For the last several years, the partner was Mrs. Dash. It was a good partnership, according to Mr. Pemsler, but he said that Hormel's Real Bacon Bits is a perfect fit, particularly because so many people already put bacon bits on their baked potatoes.
Contest entrants are asked to build an attention-grabbing display using Idaho potatoes as the primary focus of the display, including some dehydrated product, as well as Hormel Bacon Bits. They must also incorporate point-of-sale materials supplied by the commission or created by their own marketing teams.
Only Idaho potatoes may be used in the display. "They can't have potatoes from any other state," Ms. Bowen said.
To qualify for entry, displays must be in place for at least one week during the period from Jan. 28 to March 1. Entries, including a photo of the display, can be submitted online or by mail and must be received by March 15.
"Everyone who enters the retail contest will get a premium," which this year is a Swiss Army backpack, she said.
"We have gotten so many positive comments from customers telling our field guys, 'We really like this," Mr. Pemsler said. "We have had great premiums in the past," such as last year's iPod docking station, but this year's premium is really generating excitement. The purpose of the premium is to motivate participation in the contest.
"Every year the challenge is coming up with something that a produce manager would say, 'that's cool' but would probably not spend the money to buy for himself," said Mr. Pemsler.
In addition, a total of about $34,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to five winners in each of three categories, which are based on the number of cash registers in the store.
Entering online, because of its simplicity, is becoming increasingly popular, Ms. Bowen said. Two years ago, about 30 percent of participants entered online, and 70 percent mailed in a photo along with the entry form on the back of the contest brochure. Last year, "it was about 50-50," and this year she expects 70 percent will opt to enter online.
"It takes 30 seconds to fill out the form" online from the commission's website, Mr. Pemsler said. Then all that is needed is to attach a digital photo and submit. With digital cameras being so ubiquitous these days, "we have made this so easy."
Point-of-sale materials, including posters, danglers and inflatable Spuddy Buddies (the commission's mascot), are just as easy to order online, Ms. Bowen added.
Produce managers who have saved Idaho potato point-of-sale materials from previous years can also incorporate those in the display if they choose.
Winners are judged in March and announced May 1.
"It takes us a whole week" to do the judging, Mr. Pemsler said. "We judge all 2,500 entries. We take the judging extremely seriously, and we look at every single picture for such things as creativity, perceived salability of the display, merchandising and customer draw."
Concurrently, the commission runs a separate display contest specifically for military commissaries. Participation is exceptional, with some 80 percent of all commissaries in the country entering the contest.
"They do an incredible job" of creating the displays, Mr. Pemsler said. "The military is really an important component" of the promotion.


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"On October 1 1982, Joel's sixth studio album, 52nd Street, was the first commercially released CD album... Which means CDs are 30-years-old today. It's worth noting here that 52nd Street wasn't a new album - it was launched initially in 1978, but it was selected for relaunch on the new digital audio disc, rolling out alongside the first CD player - the Sony CDP-101 - in Japan. But of course, the CD didn't spring up overnight - the road to launch started long before 1982." I'm still 100% CD when it comes to music. The act of physically holding a new album in your hands for the first time and gently placing the disk in the tray can't be matched by pressing a download button behind a computer.
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Establishing ties between Iraqi Academic Diaspora and Iraqi UniversitiesDec 11, 2013
The Local Area Development Programme (LADP) Phase II is a UNDP led multi-agency, multi-year programme which aims to ensure that all Iraqi citizens benefit from effective local development processes and have access to quality essential services. LADP II is also working to strengthen the capacity of civil society actors to partner effectively with local government, and establish linkages with national and international institutions, including through the Iraqi Diaspora, to support sustainable local development. Recently, LADP catalysed the establishment of 'Bridges to Iraq'; an Iraqi Diaspora led volunteer group working to engage in local development issues in Iraq.
As a result of rounds of discussions on needs and relevant interventions, which could be supported, a number of promising ideas have been identified. For each Idea, a dedicated Sub-working group has been formed with additional committed and relevant volunteers who collectively flesh out the idea into a full-fledged project proposal and action plan.
A particular thematic sub-working group is focusing on academic networking and remote mentorship, and has organised a consultation and needs assessment workshop on 11th -12th December 2013 in Erbil with the participation of representatives of five universities across Iraq and the Chairperson of 'Bridges to Iraq'.
During the workshop participants validated the initial assumption that diaspora academic networking would benefit Iraq and contribute to improved academic research outcomes. More specifically, were discussed the most effective ways to make use of the academic resources and research experience of Iraqi professors abroad as well sharing ideas on how to establish a pilot initiative for Iraqi Diaspora academic networking.At end of the workshop all participants jointly identified key recommendations and agreed on the way forward, including establishing contacts with existing Iraqi Diaspora Academic organizations and the Ministry of Higher Education; developing a database of Iraqi Academic Diaspora, designating focal points for such purpose in the selected universities in Iraq and starting with a select group of students and professors as a pilot.


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COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) — A northern Idaho judge has rejected a lawsuit filed by a group of homeowners trying to prevent the building of a 14-story condominium in Coeur d'Alene. The Coeur d'Alene Press reports 1st District Judge Benjamin Simpson ruled Tuesday the homeowners have no legal standing. The group can still contest the building by filing a lawsuit against the city once building permits are issued.


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Hi, I am just finding this site and was reading an article and plea from someone whose cat is starving herself. Not sure if you will read this, but anyhow.
My cat has done this several times in his life due to me moving. He will starve himself and I have to force feed him. Doesn't sound quite the same to me though. His liver actually shut down after two weeks 6 years ago and the vet had to put a feeding tube in his neck. It worked! His liver started to regain its strength after about 3 weeks of tube feeding, than he took over himself. I am not sure if your vet has any Science Diet A/D perscription diet canned food, but that is the only thing my cat will eat when he gets like this. I am actually going through this again with him, but know what to look for now. I also have gotten appetite stimulators for him, however, they make him groggy and wobbly. He isn't too social when he has them either, but he does eat, which is more important than socializing at this point.
Good luck to you and hope both our friends start eating on their own shortly.
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As you well know, stress can be very serious with cats. If they stop eating, then the fat mobilizes to the liver, and.....
It is important to note that the most common source of stress in a cat is changes in the environment. This can be moving, new roommate, different furniture, or even new outside cats - their sprays can be identified by the inside cats. Feliway spray is a phermone spray that can help reduce cat stress. The website is www.feliway.com (I recommend the UK site over the USA site). Also during times of stress, increasing number of food bowls, water bowls, vertical perches and litter boxes can help reduce the stress of cats.
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Ammonia leak closes Norwich ice rink
Norwich — An ammonia leak at the Norwich Ice Rink Wednesday night caused serious equipment damage to the rink's compressor and cooling system, costing an estimated $25,000 to $50,000 in damage and forcing the rink to close for 10 days to two weeks, rink officials said Thursday.
No injuries were reported in the leak, which forced evacuation of the rink at 8 p.m. Wednesday and brought environmental monitors from the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to the scene overnight to monitor air quality.
The rink building at 641 New London Turnpike was cleared to reopen Thursday morning, but rink manager Mia Sanca said all activities, including a women's hockey tournament, a youth hockey tournament, high school hockey games, practices, skating programs and lessons, are canceled. The damage costs do not include lost revenue from rink rentals.
Ice Rink Authority Chairman Francois "Pete" Desaulniers has scheduled a special authority meeting for 10 a.m. Saturday at the rink building to discuss the problems.
Desaulniers said salt water has contaminated the cooling system and must be flushed out. The rink's compressor and cooling system either will have to be replaced or repaired. Another issue is whether the contaminated liquid can be sent to the Norwich sewage treatment plant or whether it must be disposed of as hazardous waste, adding to the costs.
Norwich Public Utilities officials were at the rink Thursday to take samples of the liquid to see if the sewage treatment plant could handle it, NPU spokesman Michael Hughes said.
"If they can't take it, then we have to hire a contractor, and the cost doubles and triples," Desaulniers said.
The financially troubled, city-owned rink has been in a turn-around year, expected to finish with a small profit by June for the first time in about 10 years.
City Comptroller Joseph Ruffo said he has contacted the city's insurance carrier to assess how much of the equipment damage and repair costs and revenue losses will be covered. The rink is insured for up to $1 million in losses, Ruffo said.
"We're optimistic the loss will be offset by insurance," he said.
The equipment failure came at a time when the rink authority is considering a proposal by Michigan-based Thermo Source to install a $1.1 million geothermal system that would run the cooling equipment to freeze the ice without need of ammonia and would use the excess heat to run hot water systems for the building's use.
Company officials made a presentation last week to the City Council during an informational meeting. The system would involve drilling 15 feet down into the ground near the rink and extending a horizontal line 500 feet long beneath the parking lot behind the rink.
The ammonia leak was detected at 8 p.m. Wednesday when an ammonia alarm was tripped, prompting evacuation and overnight monitoring by firefighters and state emergency environmental response crews.
East Great Plain Fire Chief Patrick Daley said he called on a partial response by the regional hazardous materials team that included Norwich and Mohegan Tribal fire departments. The responders were equipped with ammonia monitoring equipment.
Daley said crews were able to find, isolate and secure a small leak, discovered in one of the coolant pumps used as part of the refrigeration process. The building was ventilated.
Staff writer Greg Smith contributed to this report.
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