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Digital Speech Decoder is an open source software package that decodes several
digital speech formats. It uses the mbelib library (a separate open source package)
to synthesize the decoded digital speech. It does not allow decoding of encrypted
communications. It can save the compressed digital audio bits to "mbe" data files
(.imb and .amb extensions) and play back those saved files. It's discussed in this forum.
The latest version (1.6) supports the following formats and modulation types:
The following formats are currently under investigation or development:
DSD and mbelib should compile on Linux and *BSD operating systems. Any linux
distribution should work as long as it has support for your audio devices.
DSD version 1.3 and later requires mbelib 1.2 or later.
The forum for discussion of this package can be found here.
DSD and mbelib are both released under a BSD style copyright license. This means that as far as copyrights are concerned it can be freely copied and used, including for commercial products as long as the original copyright notice is included. (However, see important patent issues section below.)
While DSD was intended to be patent-free, mbelib describes functions that
may be covered by one or more U.S. patents owned by DVSI Inc. The source code itself should
not be infringing as it merely describes possible methods of implementation.
Compiling or using mbelib may infringe on patents rights and/or require licensing.
It is unknown if DVSI will sell licenses for software that uses mbelib. If you do
not have a license and are in a jurisdiction protected by the DVSI patents you should
not compile or use this source code.
DSD For Windows Basic Setup - Easy Instructions Noobs Guide
Official DSD Wiki on Github
dsd-1.6.0 source download in zip format
mbelib-1.2.5 source download in zip format
DSD+ 1.101 released December 25, 2015
Windows executables and support files, zipped
If this list gets large enough I will move it to its own page so as not to detract from the overview of DSD.
Q: Do I need a radio with discriminator tap?
A: Yes, if you want to listen live or save mbe data files, and are using a scanner for input. No radio or discriminator tap is required to play saved mbe data files.
Q: Where can I get information on the discriminator tap for my radio?
A: Wiki information is available here for the Discriminator_output.
Q: Will this work on Windows?
A: As of December 7, 2011 binaries for Windows have been added.
Q: Will this work on a Mac?
A: No, because OS X does not use the traditional Unix-like /dev/audio interface. It should
be easy for someone familiar with Mac audio programming to port it to the Mac.
Q: Will you support decryption if I lawfully posess the encryption keys?
A: From the Readme file:
Decryption of speech is NOT supported, even if you lawfully posess the
encryption keys. Decryption support will not be added in the future as
the authors wish to steer as far away from the legal issues associated
with encryption as possible.
Q: Who are the author(s)?'
A: The author(s) are anonymous but PGP keys are provided inside the packages
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Ronnie L. Knott, 57, died Monday at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita. He was born Oct. 9, 1955, in Newton to Robert and Edith (McCann) Knott.
He was a graduate of Hesston High School and worked as a carpet and flooring installer.
He is survived by his mother, Edith Knott of Newton; a sister, Penny McAnulty of Wichita; a brother, Larry Knott of Wichita; and nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his father, Robert Knott.
His funeral will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Petersen Funeral Home Chapel, Newton, with the Rev. Mary Sigmund of St. Matthews Episcopal Church presiding. Private family inurnment will be in the Hesston City Cemetery.
A memorial fund has been established for the Newton Caring Hands Humane Society.
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Are you a skier who wants to try snowboarding? Or a boarder curious about skis?
Reporters Markian Hawryluk (a lifelong skier, pictured in back) and David Jasper (a dedicated snowboarder, in front) decided to switch disciplines for a day, with the help of a Mt. Bachelor ski and snowboard instructor. Read what they learned about transitioning to a different snowriding sport.
A boarder on skis
"You OK?" one snowboarder in a small group called over after I almost took a fall.
The shame of it was, I hadn't even hit the slope yet. I was just departing the West Village rental area and had a little trouble negotiating the last step in those cruelly stiff boots.
"My first time in ski boots," I explained. I felt more than a little humbled as I moved like some kind of newly birthed Bambi-Frankenstein hybrid.
It wasn't just the awkward gait that humbled me. As a skateboarder, snowboarding seemed like the natural way to go when I moved to Bend just in time for the 2001-02 season. Like every snowboarder I know, I just found it intrinsically cooler than skiing. Skiers in clunky boots vocally complaining about and maligning snowboarders only adds to the appeal.
Then I tried cross-country skiing for the first time last year, and I was hooked. (Those boots are like wearing a pair of cushy slippers!) I ended up going to Virginia Meissner Sno-park more than I snowboarded last season, and I confess that when I did snowboard I began looking at skis — at least the wider ones that resemble snowboards in shape, replete with raised tips in the front and back — with curiosity.
Nevertheless, I did not foresee myself donning a pair of them and taking a lesson. Yet here I was standing on skis on a late December afternoon.
Cross-country skiing gave me at least one advantage for my first-ever alpine skiing lesson. I could sort of snowplow, which is when you turn your toes inward, dig in the inside edge of the ski and pray that, along with screaming, it's enough to overcome gravity's attempted torture and slow you down, maybe even bring you to a stop.. Screaming isn't necessary, but that's how I do it.
A second slight advantage over switching from skis to snowboarding: According to snowboard and ski instructor Nate Edgell, as well as a few other Mt. Bachelor employees, snowboarders generally have an easier time migrating to skiing than skiers do moving to a snowboard. A comforting notion that I clung to it like a security blanket as I clicked in.
Edgell gave me great tips about keeping an athletic, bent-kneed stance and my upper body inclined forward, keeping pressure on the front of my boots at all times, and my poles in front of me. I skeptically tried it, and sure enough, I did not fall. At least, not yet.
Neither of the supposed advantages I had as a newbie made me feel very confident when the time came to turn. I still don't think I understand the physics of how one can turn on skis simply by shifting weight and pointing toes — at least not without falling — and yet I managed to make three trips down the short stretch of the Bunny Slope without falling once. There was stopping, and that cowardly plowing I do, but no falling. I was as shocked as anybody.
Nevertheless, as I was turning, at least half of said turns felt incidental, even though I was following Edgell's advice and it was working. I was merely along for the ride. This feeling was confirmed when, on my last run, I headed toward a small orange fence, leaned back, panicked and took a dive. Edgell slid over, plopped down on the snow and showed me how to return from my sprawled position to a standing one. Once again, it worked well.
And then I was back down at the bottom, and it was Markian's turn to snowboard. I ran to the car, gleefully shed the concrete blocks — er, ski boots — and fetched my board.
Wisely, I think, I paid close attention to the snowboard lesson Edgell gave my colleague. I'd never taken a snowboard lesson before, and as he explained snowboarding to Markian, I realized I'd forgotten as much as I'd never learned.
The next day at work, a coworker asked if I'd liked alpine skiing. I had to think about it for a minute. I did. But still, I think I'll stick with the snow devil I know.
— David Jasper
A skier on a board
I've finally figured out why snowboarders don't have to wear those heavy plastic ski boots: If it weren't for the comfortable shoes, you might never get past the first day of boarding.
As a lifelong skier, I've gotten to the point where I rarely fall down. At the start of each day, I line up my skis on the snow, plant a pole on each side, elegantly step into my bindings and I'm off.
As a snowboarder, you get up close and personal with the snow just to get your board strapped on. And I spent more time my first day on the board on my keister than flying down a slope.
That's why I'm convinced things are so easy in the rental shop. They give you a pair of marshmallow-soft boots that lace up like proper footwear — no heavy metal buckets or hard plastic boots. Instead of carrying four separate pieces of gear, you have only the one board, leaving a hand free for a cup of coffee or a water bottle.
My instructor, Nate Edgell, of the Mt. Bachelor Ski School, told me he made the switch from skiing to snowboarding years ago. Now he does both, often choosing the board for deep powder days and skis for firmer snow.
It's somewhat easier to switch from one discipline to the other, he told me, because you already understand things like the fall line, how the lift works and how to properly engage in apres-ski activities.
But any illusions that this would be easy were dispelled when I couldn't even buckle my boots. I'm long on leg and short on flexibility, and just reaching down to the buckles was hard. Edgell helped me out the first time, expecting I'd soon be able to stand on my own two feet.
That, too, was easier said than done. Once you get your boots strapped in, you must engage in an acrobatic maneuver to get yourself upright on the board, a move probably better suited for those younger than 45. The technique involves bending your knees and positioning your rear close to the edge of the board. Then you launch yourself upward so that your center of gravity lunges forward over the top of your feet, making sure to halt your forward progress so as not to fall face-first onto the snow.
It's not nearly as simple as I've made that sound.
Eventually Edgell took pity on me and helped me up onto my feet. Failing to pass the most rudimentary of tests didn't bode well for the day's lesson.
We started out on nearly flat snow, with just a hint of incline. As I shimmied forward, the board began to slide slowly. It was rather easy to stay balanced and even to come to a relatively smooth stop.
In fact, I had done so well Edgell decided to take me up to one of the most feared slopes on the mountain, the run that evokes more screams, causes more falls and bruises more egos than any other slope on the mountain. It should probably be named Devil's Cliff or ER Fast Track, but I think formally it's called the Bunny Slope.
Unlike skiing, where you direct your skis by shifting weight from one foot to another, boarding involves more of a rocking motion from heel to toe. It's a game of balance and a game I was rapidly losing.
Edgell consoled me, telling me the learning curve for snowboarding is harder. If you can persevere through the first three days, you can get good quickly. Skiing might be easier on day one, but it takes more time to progress to higher levels.
"You know the difference between a snowboard instructor and his student?" Edgell asked. "About three days."
I had a few runs down the slope that didn't involve falling down, but they were the exception rather than rule. I never did quite get the hang of getting up on my own or controlling my speed on the board. Eventually, my weight would shift too far forward or backward, and I'd go down hard.
I suppose with another couple of days of trying, I'd get better and maybe figure this thing out. It just seemed like a high price to pay for comfortable shoes.
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Don't forget to watch The Muppets on America's Funniest Home Videos tonight on ABC at 7/6c. It's sure to be another fantastic Muppet appearance!
Today marks the 27th anniversary of the premiere of Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock.
The show designed to unite the world and put an end to wars continues to be an
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It was easy to tell that the offshore fishermen were back last week. By 8 a.m. on Saturday the nearest truck/trailer parking space was in Archer – slight exaggeration, so maybe Otter Creek.
The weather was ideal and some impressive catches came in. John Blouse reported to me that the gag bite is strong, with plenty of fish in the legal range and several short fish (see photo). And the king mackerel are willing and able to stretch your line to its limits for those who care for smoked mackerel. I just like the way they scream the drag when they hit a flat line.
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Two ISR faculty are among 35 recipients funded by the ADVANCE Program for Inclusive Excellence's 2012 Interdisciplinary and Engaged Research Seed Grants. Fifteen different projects were funded; the principal investigators come from 24 different departments and academic units across campus.
Professor Carol Espy-Wilson (ECE/ISR) and Professor Sandra Gordon-Salant (Hearing and Speech Sciences, BSOS) will be working together on "Speech Processing Algorithms for Elderly Listeners with Hearing Loss."
Assistant Professor Sarah Bergbreiter (ME/ISR) is partnering with Professor Barbara Thorne and Associate Professor Jeffrey Shultz (both from Entomology, CMNS) on "Insect and Robot Locomotion with Heavy Loads."
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The ADVANCE Program for Inclusive Excellence aims to transform the institutional culture of the University of Maryland by facilitating networks, offering individual mentoring and support, and offering information and strategic opportunities for women faculty in all areas of academia. The program is funded by a five-year, multi-million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation. The ADVANCE Program will produce academic environments with assumptions, values and beliefs, policies and practices that support and generate professional growth and excellence for all faculty.
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Ariel Sharon undergoes brain scan
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli hospital officials say a comatose former prime minister has undergone a special brain imaging scan.
Inbar Gutter, spokeswoman for Soroka Hospital in Beersheba, said Friday that former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was transferred to the hospital the previous night for the scan.
After a few hours, he was returned to Tel Hashomer Hospital in central Israel, where he is being cared for, hospital spokesman Amir Marom said. Officials said the scan was previously scheduled but would not comment on the results.
Israeli media report the scan seeks to determine if Sharon's condition can be improved. Hospital officials would not comment on that claim.
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Census records may be the single most utilized search tool online for family tree research. From 1930 back to the founding of the country, the records of every census are available online. By using census records you may be able to trace your family tree back to when your ancestors first came to this country, whether they were immigrants who came ashore at Ellis Island, or were here to fight the British during the Revolution, the census records may well show you a piece of their lives.
Census records are available online and have truly aided the search of the genealogist, whether amateur or professional, since their introduction. Using the combined power of the internet, high speed computers, and the extensive research of the federal government, all at your fingertips can make research a breeze.
When searching census records, there are several things to remember. First, have a good idea of alternative spellings of your family name. Many family names had the spelling changed to make the names seem more American, and help the individuals blend into American society without standing out, with what seemed like foreign sounding names. Other names were changed because the immigration officials made typographical errors, or could not spell or pronounce the names involved. And many names simply had multiple spellings that were all considered correct at the time, especially since so many people didn't read or write at the time. Also, trying to decipher other people's handwriting can cause anyone problems. A person may make an r that looks like an n or any one of dozens of other mistakes from bad handwriting. With that in mind, know all of the alternative spellings.
Next, make a list of all of the family names you are looking for, and all of the information you have relevant to the ancestors you want to learn about. Keep this information in a notebook handy, or in an online data base. And be prepared to write in the notebook or add to the data base as you acquire more information. When making a list of names, remember that Smith for instance is sometimes written at Smithe, or Smythe. Johnson can be Johnston or Jonson. Madux can be Maddux or Maddox. Know the combinations and alternatives and you will aid your search.
After that, know what states your ancestors were probably living in. If your ancestor lived in New Jersey that is the census you want to check out, not New York. And know the geography. If you can't find your ancestor in New Jersey, but believe he was in the area at the time, then New York as an adjourning state is the next place to check, followed by Pennsylvania and all of the other states in the area where the ancestor could have lived.
Know something about the spouses and the spousal families. If you can't find your great, great, great grandfather, but you know whom he married, then you can check out the spouse's family and perhaps find some information there. The more information you have to start with in your research, the better for you, the more extensive the research will be, and the less time it will take.
Then have a good idea of the time period in which the ancestor lived. If your ancestor lived in New York in 1900, then that is the first census to check. Then checking the 1890 and 1910 census records will help determine when he moved there and when he left. But, there is no need to check the 1920 census or the 1880 census if the time periods don't match.
There has never been a better time in history to do genealogical research for many reasons, one of the main ones being census records availability online. Other things that help the genealogical researcher these days include the popularity of the hobby, the abundance of good software to help in the research, and the Internet itself. With the Internet it is possible to find online chat rooms, groups, message forums and other places to meet like minded people researching their own families. And as these things go, many people start their research on one branch of their own family and then tie into other branches, tying into other people's research, and helping everyone along the way.
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Phew, in case you didn't hear - TechStars demo day happened last week which was both an awesome event with a lot of great people and another great moment for Seattle startups. For me personally, it marks the end of 3+ months of hectic schedule balancing the whirlwind time I spend running TechStars here in Seattle with my ongoing work at Lighter Capital and Founder's Co-op.
Among the things that I struggle to keep up with (sleep, family time), it's harder for me to find time to blog. So expect me to get back into the swing of things very soon. But as we build Lighter Capital into a full fledged, web-based site, I plan to split my blogging time between here and there. There's stuff I write about here that wouldn't fit for the brand we're building at Lighter Capital, and vice versa.
As such, today I wrote my first blog post yet on the Lighter Capital blog. Expect more to come, and it may not be of interest to you, but wanted to let you all know that there's now more literary gold from yours truly that you can find over at www.lightercapital.com/blog.
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I'm only after the Sand People figure on the card and have had it on order for ages but no show yet. I know they've made it to retail in a limited amount here in the US but I did read that they may have cancelled all orders for this wave for some reason, anyone have any more info on it?
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They're the guys in suits surrounding the President of the United States, ready to take a bullet to protect the leader of the free world.
But that wasn't always their main role. President Abraham Lincoln created the United States Secret Service (USSS) to deal with the mad influx of counterfeit money after the Civil War. A move ironically made just hours before he was assassinated April 14,1865. Four months later the Service was fully operational.
In the 2004 run up to the presidential election George W. Bush spoke at Louisiana State University (LSU), where National Geographic took a closer look at the Secret Service for a documentary titled "Inside the US Secret Service." The film follows the president's advance team as it works with local law enforcement making sure every threat is addressed before the president arrives.
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In Arizona, "scenic road" is a general term that is often used to identify state-designated and federally designated scenic roads.
The state-designated scenic roads include three types of roadways:
The federally designated scenic roads (known as "byways") include two types of roadways:
There are a total of 26 state-designated scenic roads in Arizona. Of this number, 19 are state-designated scenic roads, three are state-designated historic roads and four are state-designated parkways.
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Mel Brooks Still Thinking About Bringing BLAZING SADDLES to Broadway
The subject seems to come up at least once a year and it's now made its first 2013 appearance - will Mel Brooks bring BLAZING SADDLES to Broadway? Maybe.
Deadline.com reports that at a PBS panel on his American Masters Series, Brooks was asked again about turning the film into a stage show? His answer - he's thinking about.
Brooks also added "A lot of it is musical already," Brooks said. "It has a rather fanciful and fantastic tone to it. and now that Django Unchainedhas literally used the N word, I think I'm in the clear. I don't look so bad. He really used that word a lot."
Back in 2011, screenjunkies.com reported that despite Mel Brook's last struggle on Broadway with Young Frankenstein (the production has fared well locally but opened to harsh criticism on Broadway), the funnyman has every intention of continuing to expand his brand on Broadway.
Jokes Brooks to Screenjunkies on a possible new project: "If they change the critic of the Times, I might consider it. I don't think he's in my corner...I feel responsible for breaking open musical comedy. Until The Producers, a lot of musicals on Broadway, very little comedy. There was the great Stephen Sondheim and there was Leonard Bernsteinbut there were very few Guys and Dolls. It was 25 years before we came along with a truly funny musical comedy."
As for what could be the next famous film to hit the stage, Brooks is open to considering his whole catalog - Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs etc. He says of the future, "...it's wonderful when you have hip audiences and bright people who know what you're doing and what you're saying and they appreciate it and they dig it. It makes you gloriously happy. The money ain't bad either."
Last represented on Broadway by Young Frankenstein, the musical opened on Broadway on November 8, 2007 to mixed reviews. The Broadway production closed on January 4, 2009 after 30 previews and 484 performances. Prior to that, Brooks scored big with The Producers, which opened on Broadway on April 19, 2001, starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, and ran for 2,502 performances, winning a record-breaking 12 Tony Awards.


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Cisco is a Leader in the 2012 Gartner Wired & Wireless Magic Quadrant with a Policy-Guided Approach to Today's Networks
In the past few years a number of paradigm shifts have made policy-based networking essential to effective enterprise IT management. Some of these shifts include an increased reliance on virtualization and the cloud; the "consumerization" of business networks that has occurred with the popularity of devices such as tablets and smartphones; and the rapid adoption of video in business communications. By applying appropriate policies within the network, IT managers can do a better job of meeting users' expectations and become business enablers.
We believe our message of One Policy, One Management and One Network has been recognized in the recent Gartner 2012 Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure Magic Quadrant, where Cisco has been positioned as a leader.
Foundational to Cisco's One Policy strategy is the Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), which enables organizations to create and deploy unified policy to address the need for BYOD compliance. ISE enables one consistent policy across the entire enterprise, as well as enforcement by correlating a unique combination of contextual information including user, device, location and time.
To be clear, one policy doesn't mean you set a single policy for all users or all devices. It means you establish the ability to administer policy in a common fashion with a device/user/application context regardless of access method. The ability to enforce policy at a granular level – even setting different policies for a single user depending on what device they're using or where they're connecting – helps you correctly prioritize traffic and ensure a rich quality of experience without creating a huge IT headache.
By deploying the Cisco ISE platform to enforce secure access policies , IT organizations will be able to accomplish business goals by enforcing identity-and context-aware policies and such as:
- Give authorized users access to sensitive data when they are in certain locations or using specific devices, while restricting access from other locations or from other devices.
- Increase employees' productivity when they travel between cities by providing appropriate access to virtual desktops in the company data center. .
- Block employee access to non-business social networking sites during business hours, and block contractor access to such sites at all times.
ISE implements one central policy anywhere and everywhere – from switches to wireless LAN controllers, from routers to firewalls, from remote access to the data center. Your network becomes inherently more secure with this policy consistency and distributed enforcement capabilities. Stay tuned to this blog as we get ready to release ISE 1.1MR with bright spanking new features and help you through this journey of implementing a policy governed network.
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Lau is a contemporary folk three-piece from Scotland named after an Orcadian word meaning "natural light". The band is composed of Kris Drever (guitar, vocals), Martin Green (accordion, piano) and Aidan O'Rourke (fiddle). To date, the band has released three studio albums and a live album.
Their debut album, Lightweights and Gentlemen, was released through Reveal Records in 2007. The band subsequently won the "Best Group" at the BBC Folk Awards, 2008 and went on to receive the award the next two years running.
In December 2007, Lau recorded a live set at the Bongo Club, Edinburgh, and in early 2008, released Live.
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As the 10 year anniversary of his death approaches July 16, explosive new revelations are emerging about the plane crash that killed John F. Kennedy, Jr. The report was published in last week's National Enquirer – a source we might normally be somewhat dubious of, but considering their reporting on John Edwards and other stories has been surprisingly accurate of late, we are presenting this for your consideration.
If the secret documents the Enquirer claims to have obtained are proven genuine, it will raise many new questions about the tragic death of Kennedy and the Bessette sisters (such as: "why did the government lie?"). It will turn the official government story on it's ear. For 10 years, we have been told that Kennedy's fatal plane crash was the result of pilot error and spatial disorientation, sending him into a "graveyard spiral." These new details paint an entirely different picture – that of a capable pilot desperately fighting to save his aircraft, and the lives of his passengers.
Enquirer Report: Secret documentsreveal the truth behind JFK Jr.s tragic death
John F. Kennedy Jr. went bravely to his watery grave, trying valiantly to save the lives of his passengers – his wife Carolyn and her sister Lauren.
But a government cover-up has stopped the truth of what really happened inside Kennedy's small plane before it crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on July 16, 1999, from ever being made public.
A year after the tragedy, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) blamed the crash on a "graveyard spiral" that hurtled the plane toward the sea at nearly 5,000 feet per minute.
But The ENQUIRER has discovered a stunning report that claims the plane actually struck the water off Martha's Vineyard in a semi-inverted dive – the result of pilot commands.
According to the obscure report in the aviation industry publication Flying, Kennedy's plane "apparently struck the water in a semi-inverted dive, right wing first. This is an attitude that could not result from a graveyard spiral; it can only be the result of pilot commands."
Veteran pilot Michael J. Pangia – former chief litigator for the Federal Aviation Administration – told The ENQUIRER: "Kennedy fought this airplane all the way down to the water."
And an aviation source familiar with the crash report and the interior of John's Piper Saratoga aircraft now tells The ENQUIRER: "The fact is that John Kennedy was bravely battling to find a sliver of visibility out of heavy fog and find his way to safety. He went to his death trying to be a hero!"
Kennedy, a novice pilot who was not instrument rated, likely relied on the plane's autopilot to keep him on course. But investigators who probed the wreckage found the autopilot switch off.
The aviation source added: "It's another sign that John was determined to take charge of his
situation. He was in the dark, yet heroically trying to regain control of his aircraft."
Sadly, more evidence showing Kennedy to be a hero may never be found.
In our Feb. 20, 2001 issue, we exclusively reported that a "cover-up" of the crash was "dictated by Washington" and videotapes showing the plane at the bottom of the Atlantic, with John, Carolyn and her sister Lauren Bessette's bodies, were destroyed.
After making a request to the NTSB under the Freedom of Information Act, The ENQUIRER received some of the first photos of the wreckage. We later learned the recovery team had also taken underwater photos and videos, images that contain crucial evidence about the crash.
But the NTSB "declined" to include additional material gathered by the Navy in their final report, leaving some elements of the tragedy forever a mystery.
Copyright 2009, National Inquirer.


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The goal of fast-flux is for a fully qualified domain name (such as www.example.com) to have multiple (hundreds or even thousands) IP addresses assigned to it. These IP addresses are swapped in and out of flux with extreme frequency, using a combination of round-robin IP addresses and a very short Time-To-Live (TTL) for any given particular DNS Resource Record (RR). Website hostnames may be associated with a new set of IP addresses as often as every 3 minutes. A browser connecting to the same website every 3 minutes would actually be connecting to a different infected computer each time. In addition, the attackers ensure that the compromised systems they are using to host their scams have the best possible bandwidth and service availability. They often use a load-distribution scheme which takes into account node health-check results, so that unresponsive nodes are taken out of flux and content availability is always maintained.
A second layer is often added for security and fail-over: blind proxy redirection. Redirection disrupts attempts to track down and mitigate fast-flux service network nodes. What happens is the large pool of rotating IP addresses are not the final destination of the request for the content (or other network service). Instead, compromised front end systems are merely deployed as redirectors that funnel requests and data to and from other backend servers, which actually serve the content. Essentially the domain names and URLs for advertised content no longer resolve to the IP address of a specific server, but instead fluctuate amongst many front end redirectors or proxies, which then in turn forward content to another group of backend servers. While this technique has been used for some time in the world of legitimate webserver operations, for the purpose of maintaining high availability and spreading load, in this case it is evidence of the technological evolution of criminal computer networks.
Fast-flux "motherships" are the controlling element behind fast-flux service networks, and are similar to the command and control (C&C) systems found in conventional botnets. However, compared to typical botnet IRC servers, fast-flux motherships have many more features. It is the upstream fast-flux mothership node, which is hidden by the front end fast-flux proxy network nodes, that actually delivers content back to the victim client who requests it. Flux-herder mothership nodes have been observed to operate successfully for extended periods of time in the wild. These nodes are often observed hosting both DNS and HTTP services, with web server virtual hosting configurations able to manage the content availability for thousands of domains simultaneously on a single host. Until late March 2007, we observed the appearance of only two primary upstream mothership hosts deployed and serving the many thousands of domains in flux, suggesting that this technique was primarily developed and utilized by small number of groups or individuals. Domain registrations of .hk, and .info were found to be among the most heavily utilized TLDs for registering fast-flux domains, but this registration abuse is most certainly shared amongst all registrars (as occasionally .com and other TLD domains are also witnessed).
We have categorized two different types of fast-flux networks, single-flux and double-flux. Everything you have read up to this point discusses single-flux networks. Double-flux has an additional layer of protection by also constantly changing the IP addresses for the Authoritive Name Servers. Below we give examples of each, starting with single-flux.


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I do have an idea for you. I don't think anybody has ever really gone out and made a Vanport documentary before. You could do a series based on WWII era ghost towns, with Hanford taking a special episode. Hanford is in the process of being torn down, so its a sort of now-or-never thing. It is so polluted with radiation in places that people are hired to hunt down any rats or rabbits that may have accidentally drunk water at the site. If the rabbits get away from the grounds and defecate, they are spreading deadly radiation in their waste!
This all makes for some very spooky film-making, featuring Chernoble-style tension and scenes of abandonment.
There are a few WWII ghost towns in America that people are only vaguely aware of. Hanford nuclear reservation has it's own ghost town that housed the workers, but for the moment the name of it escapes me. There are still people out there living today to interview who lived and worked at these now-abandoned war-era towns and bases. Like I said, it's now or never.
edit: I found a nice snippet of Vanport Flood footage here. Start watching at 15:27.
This is pretty much some of the most dynamic footage of a ghost town being destroyed as you can get. More of it is out there, buried in archives. The local news station probably has lots of footage sitting in the basement that hasn't ever seen the light of day.
It's Portland's shame. Nobody has heard of the 2nd largest city in Oregon that was destroyed in a single day. It's too bad because I think the Portlander's redeemed themselves with their reaction to the flood. It's a very interesting story just waiting to be told.


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Marriott International made a bold and controversial decision recently when it opted not to make adult content available at any of its new properties going forward, while also planning to phase it out of its existing hotels. The company announced this as part of a switch from traditional video systems to an Internet-based VOD system.
The salacious nature of such an announcement—combined with the lack of anything substantive in terms of deal-making news—became the talk of the recent ALIS conference in San Diego. Particularly when keynote speaker Virgin Group founder/president Richard Branson went out of his way to point out that his newly launched hotel brand would never deny guests "sexy movies."
Believe it or not, Marriott's decision was not at all popular with many in attendance. The reaction from some of the people I spoke to at the conference was that of, "who is [chairman and CEO]Bill Marriott Jr. to tell people they can't watch adult movies?" That's not to mention what the reaction must have been from the current video-on-demand vendors that are going to lose a whole lot of distribution as a result.
However, I for one, applaud Bill Marriott for taking a stand and making the unpopular decision in this case. While the company's official line references changing technology and the declining revenue stream of in-room movies—and there's certainly no doubt those are factors—you have to believe that this was very much a personal decision as well.
Bill Marriott, who comes from a conservative Mormon background, has been fairly outspoken over the years regarding his disdain for pornography while recognizing it as a necessary evil, so to speak, of doing business as a large branded hotel company.
Over the past couple of years, Bill Marriott has been leaned on by a number of religious groups to discontinue offering adult content. In fact, presidential candidate Mitt Romney—who recently resigned from the board of directors at Marriott—apparently received criticism from family-oriented interest groups for not pressing the company to drop its adult content.
There is one major reason that many of these groups have appealed to Marriott and that's because they knew their collective voices would be heard. In addition to Bill Marriott's feelings on the matter, the company has in the past expressed concern about the ability to safeguard against children watching inappropriate content.
As the father of three children under the age of 11, that's a huge issue for me. While I don't envision many scenarios where my kids are by themselves in a hotel room, that is likely to change in the next few years as they get older. And frankly, the advertisement on the channel guide for adult entertainment is enough to make anyone blush around their family, and is also likely to prompt questions from those curious kids.
What I appreciate most about the decision, though, is that there hasn't been any grandstanding or proclamations from Bill Marriott himself. This would be the perfect opportunity for a public relations campaign against competitive hotel companies that continue to offer adult content. But the announcement was made in a very businesslike, matter-of-fact manner.
To be fair, Marriott is not the only company to make such a move. Omni Hotels, in fact, years ago decided that adult content was "not the way it wanted to make money." However, few can make the impact that Marriott can with its more 3,400 hotels.
You don't have to like Bill Marriott's decision, but you do have to respect it. After all, his hotels are the legacy of both he and his father. In a day when supposed 'leaders' are afraid to take a stand for fear of offending people, here's one who is clearly not afraid to say that he—and at least a portion of his hotels' guests—don't want to be offended anymore.
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Andres Oppenheimer: Venezuela losing clout in region
Beleaguered Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro may be able — or not — to remain in power for the remainder of his term, but Venezuela's influence elsewhere in Latin America seems to be diminishing as rapidly as the country' s dwindling foreign reserves.
Last weekend, the Venezuelan government lost a new potential ally in the region when leftist candidate Xiomara Castro — the wife of Venezuelan-backed deposed Honduran president Manuel Zelaya — came in a distant second in Honduras' presidential elections.
According to official results, the right-of-center president-elect, Juan Orlando Hernández, won by more than five percentage points. Castro disputed the results, but international observers ratified Hernández's victory, and even Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega — one of Venezuela's closest allies — congratulated Hernández for his victory.
Weeks earlier, in Argentina's Oct. 27 legislative elections, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner — a populist who was very close to late Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chávez and is friendly with Maduro — failed to win a congressional super majority that would have allowed her to change the constitution and run for a third term in 2015.
Fernández returned from a month-long medical leave in late November with a videotaped message in which she appeared with a little dog named Simón, after Venezuelan independence hero Simón Bolivar, which she said was a present she had just received from Chávez's brother Adán.
But aside from that symbolic gesture, Fernández's financially-strapped populist government seems to have little hope of getting help from Venezuela as it did between 2005 and 2008.
On the contrary, after her electoral defeat, Fernández seems to be making a sharp turn to the right.
Last week, the Fernández government struck a deal to indemnify Spain's oil giant Repsol, which it had expropriated in 2012 and threatened not to pay a cent. Argentina, which had triumphantly hailed the expropriation as a "recovery" of its national sovereignty, will now pay more than $5 billion for the takeover.
In another political u-turn, Fernández is now speeding up negotiations with the Washington-based International Monetary Fund to repair Argentina's damaged ties with international creditors. In recent years, Fernández, much like Chávez, had regularly lashed out against the IMF.
While Fernández clings to her 1970s leftist rhetoric, the end of the boom in commodity prices that allowed her government to buy millions of votes with cash subsidies in recent years is forcing her to seek domestic and foreign investments. The most common phrase you hear in Buenos Aires' political circles is, " Se acabó la fiesta" (The party is over).
In Central America and the Caribbean, Petrocaribe — the Venezuelan institution that provides subsidized oil to friendly countries — has raised from 50 percent to 60 percent the cash payments it demands from member countries and is also raising interest rates on their long-term oil debts.
In early November, Guatemala announced its withdrawal from Petrocaribe, saying that the new payment conditions were no longer attractive.
"Over the past six months, the United States has surpassed Petrocaribe as the main supplier of fuels to Central American and Caribbean countries," Jorge Piñon, an oil expert with the University of Texas at Austin, told me last week. "Things have changed very fast."
Earlier this year, Venezuela lost another potential ally when right-of-center Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes won that country's presidential election.
Even some of Latin America's best-known Chavista ideologues, such as German-born Mexican leftist Heinz Dieterich, who is credited with having coined Chávez's term of "Socialism of the XXI Century," are distancing themselves from Maduro. Dieterich made headlines last month when he described Maduro as a "fraud."
My opinion: You don't have to be an enlightened political scientist to forecast a continued decline of Venezuela's political and economic influence in Latin America.
As hard as Chávez tried and now Maduro tries to disguise it with ideological slogans, their "Socialism of the XXI Century" was nothing but an authoritarian populist vote-buying scheme that worked when Venezuela's oil prices were at all-time highs.
But oil prices have fallen, and Maduro has run out of money to keep giving away to win votes. Venezuela's foreign reserves have plummeted from an all-time high of $42 billion in 2008 to $20 billion today.
The Venezuelan economy is in ruins, with inflation surpassing 50 percent a year — one of the world's highest rates — and growing food shortages. The Venezuelan fiesta is over, and you can feel the ripple-effects with various degrees of intensity in much of Latin America.


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Despite his back still being injured, Amar'e Stoudemire has been quite active this offseason. While he has not been able to workout, shoot around, or do cardio exercises, he has been working on his non-basketball hobbies. His fashion line (logo above) with designer Rachel Roy is set to be released soon, and has announced his partnership with Big Lead Sports to create his own sports/fashion website.
Stoudemire has worked closely with designer Rachel Roy on her RACHEL Rachel Roy clothing line. The line is the cheaper, "younger sister" version of her Rachel Roy line. Roy says that she loves to work with people at the top of their game in other areas, and Stoudemire definitely fits that mold. Stoudemire has helped her develop what is described as "courtside apparel for women". The line targets sporty women who are looking to wear sporting apparel classier than what is sold in sporting good stores, but casual enough to wear at an athletic event. Stoudemire says:
"I wanted to bring something to women who go and watch basketball games or want to be comfortable on the weekends and still look polished and chic -– clothes that could be dressed up or dressed down."
Many of the pieces bear Stoudemire's number 1, the Knicks logo, or the Star of David in which Stoudemire has a tattoo of on his hand. It is said that Stoudemire will be coming out with a line for men after he is finished with his current work. Here is a sketch sample of some of Roy/Stoudemire's work:
Stoudemire has also struck a deal with Big Lead Sports to create his own sports and fashion website. One of his main goals is to boost the popularity of fantasy basketball which pails in popularity to fantasy baseball and football. It's also rumored that the site will try and create an educational curriculum. Amar'e says:
"From fantasy basketball, it's a great way for you to learn math without you even knowing it."
Stoudemire will become a shareholder of Big Lead Sports and an advisor to the company.
Amar'e's moves show how well rounded of a man he is. Clearly he understands that his basketball career will not last forever, and it is admirable that he uses his stature in the sports world to make opportunities for himself outside of basketball. In addition to being an NBA all-star, Stoudemire has been a model citizen ever since he joined the NBA in 2002. Having dealt with attending multiple high schools as a kid, the death of his father and an alcoholic mother who has been in and out of prison, Amar'e is the ideal rags to riches story and he should be an inspiration to kids everywhere. I take my hat off to Stoudemire for all his accomplishments and I hope he continues to flourish.
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Foreign direct investment (FDI) can play an important role in growth and development - a fact that these days is largely uncontested. In 2002, the OECD launched the overview study of Foreign Direct Investment for Development: Maximising Benefits, Minimising Costs, which concluded that, while FDI has potential benefits as well as drawbacks, the benefits in most cases outweigh the costs by a wide margin. In September 2001, the Consumer Unity and Trust Society (CUTS), an internationally respected civil society group based in India and an active participant in many OECD events, launched the two-year project entitled "Investment for Development", which aims to create awareness and build capacity on investment regimes and international investment issues in developing and transition economies.
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Cudd received his Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls in 1999, studied studio glass there 2002-08, and was studio glass assistant at the university 2007-08. Although he has a full-time job in his family's business and is also a volunteer fireman, he is drawn to hot glass. Cudd cites as important influences Doug Johnson, Jim Engebretson, Dick Huss, Pat Casanova, Brian Lagesse, Michael Boyd, Jackson Schwartz and the UWRF glass studio students.
"Glassblowing has now become my life's passion. I am attracted to the mystical qualities of fluid glass. It is truly challenging to manipulate and persuade a media that you can't touch with your hands. Instead, I rely on different methods of shaping and forming the glass, such as wood blocks, wet newspaper and gravity. I love the emotions that come over me while coaxing the hot glass and its color possibilities into a unique beautiful piece of art. With each piece I create, I try to pass on my passion for glass to its new owner," Cudd wrote.
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Apache Install
A basic Apache install is very easy: sudo yum install httpd mod_ssl Oddly, the server does not start automatically when you install it so you have to do this by hand:
sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl start The first thing you will see is this error: Starting httpd: httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName As you can see, the address 127.0.0.1 (or whatever address you see there, usually your main IP address) is used as the server name by default. It's a good idea to set the ServerName for the next time the server is started. Open the main Apache config: sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf Towards the end of the file you'll find a section that starts with ServerName and gives the example: #ServerName www.example.com:80 All you need to do is enter your Cloud Server host name or a fully-qualified domain name: ServerName demo Note that my Cloud Server host name is demo. Now just reload Apache: sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl restart And the warning has gone.
Notice that in some versions of CentOS, a firewall is installed by default which will block access to port 80, on which Apache runs. The following command will open this port: sudo iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT Remember to save your firewall rules after adding that instruction so your web server will be accessible the next time you reboot: sudo service iptables save
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If you navigate to your Cloud Server IP address: http://18.104.22.168 You will see the default CentOS Apache welcome screen:
Now that we have Apache installed and working properly, we need to make sure that it's set to start automatically when the Cloud Server is rebooted. sudo /sbin/chkconfig httpd on Let's check our work to confirm: sudo /sbin/chkconfig --list httpd httpd 0:off 1:off
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Computer Science ColloquiumIm Rahmen des Informatik-Kolloquiums, das von den Instituten des Fachbereichs Informatik, der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Informatik (ÖGI), der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Datenverarbeitung (ADV) sowie der Österreichischen Computergesellschaft (OCG) abgehalten wird, spricht
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Solving Max-SAT by Decoupling Optimization and SatisfactionZeit: Thu 30.10.2014, 16:00, 60 Minuten
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ZusammenfassungMax-SAT is an optimization version of SAT that can represent a wide variety of important optimization problems. We introduce a new approach for solving Max-SAT, that exploits both a SAT solver and a Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) solver in a hybrid approach. Each solver generates information used by the other solver in a series of iterations that terminates when an optimal solution is found. Empirical results indicate that a bottleneck in this process is the time required by the MIP solver, arising from the large number of times it is invoked. We present two enhancements of the basic algorithm, that address this bottleneck. First, we enrich the constraints given to the MIP solver. Second, we postpone the calls to the MIP solver by substituting non-optimal solutions for the optimal ones computed by the MIP solver, whenever possible. We present empirical results that show that the resulting solver, MaxHS, is the most robust existing solver for Max-SAT.
VortragenderJessica Davies is a postdoc in Tom Henzinger´s group at IST Austria. She received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 2013. Her thesis introduced a new approach for solving the Maximum Satisfiability problem, implemented in the MaxHS solver, which is the most robust existing solver for Max-SAT. Her work on an open problem in computational social choice, in collaboration with NICTA Sydney, resulted in an Outstanding Paper award at AAAI 2011. She is the co-author of 10 conference papers and 3 journal papers. Her research interests include model counting, optimization, diagnosis, and software verification and synthesis.
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I thought I would take this opportunity to share some of Joe's military papers.
Joseph served a total of 4 years 9 months and 14 days in the United States Navy. He reenlisted August 9, 1961. May 16, 1962 He earned the rank of E-4 which means he was a Petty Officer. His last duty assignment was aboard the USS BORIE (DD-704). He had a total of 10 months sea service. Joseph was honorably discharged August 13, 1962.
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