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India's surveillance system which is designed to allow the government to monitor and intercept telephone calls, email messages, and communications on the Internet, is having some significant teething troubles and is yet to start operating.
The Centralized Monitoring System, a national network intended to connect (and give the government access to) the country's telecoms and Internet service providers, has not gone live despite being partially established in April, according to an official document on the progress of the project reviewed by the Wall Street Journal. The government agency setting up the system has been told by the telecoms ministry to speed up their work to get it into operation.
The Intelligence Bureau, India's internal intelligence agencies, has denied permission for the CMS to go ahead because the system lacks the ability to track down specific target, according to an official at the Center for Development of Telematics, a government technology development center headquartered in New Delhi that is installing the network.
It was not possible to reach the Intelligence Bureau for comment.
The CMS is supposed to allow the government to tap into a national network of telecoms and Internet service providers for information on the activity of targets on communications networks without having to approach the individual providers for the information.
New Delhi had hoped that this system would reduce the time taken for them to access data on these networks.
Human Rights campaigners argue that the system is an infringement of privacy and civil liberties.
C-DoT was tasked with setting up the network for the Department of Telecommunications, a government technology unit, at a total cost of about 4 billion rupees ($66.36 million.)
But there's a holdup.
Operators of only seven of the country's 22 telecom service areas have been connected to the network, with an eighth currently being linked up, according to minutes of the steering committee meeting overseeing the implementation of the system and attended by India's by telecom department and C-DoT officials. The minutes of the meeting concluded that C-DoT must speed up the process of getting all areas onto the CMS grid.
Requests for comment from C-DoT went unanswered.
The Intelligence Bureau has also identified a hole in the system, which means intelligence officers cannot carry out pin-point searches to track the activity of targets. The system lacks the search algorithms, or set of software programs, that can precisely identify the particular target document based on a set of key words, according to a government official with direct knowledge of the system.
For example, if the agencies want to search for a specific email, they need to enter a certain search term to narrow down the information through which they have to search. But currently they can't do so because the software program as it stands is not able to identify specific targets. This means agents would have to read every email in the system before they could find the one they wanted. "These search algorithms are very complex," the official added.
The centralized data center, or the network of computers, where the intercepted data is stored is also not yet operational. It is expected to be in place sometime this month and operational by October.
C-DoT has signed an agreement with the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, a technology unit of the defense ministry, to integrate Internet service providers with its system, the document showed. But it is unclear whether any Internet service providers have been brought under the CMS.
The system will also encrypt the data, which it has monitored or intercepted, but for that encrypted data to be transmitted, a high speed communications network is needed and won't be in place until January 2014, according to the minutes of the meeting.
The Central Bureau of Investigation, India's federal investigator, also needs to be able to access the system to allow it to track data on the communication activity of those under its probe. This will take time and money and is further delaying the full launch of the program, according to the minutes of the meeting.
The government plans to ask international telecom companies who have operations in India to connect to the network, starting with Singapore-based SingTel, U.S.-based AT&T, Verizon Communications Inc., U.K.-based BT Group Vodafone Group, as well as Australia's Telstra Ltd., documents showed.
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Correction: A previous version of this post wrongly stated that India's federal investigator was the Central Intelligence Bureau rather than the Central Bureau of Investigation. We regret the error.


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The ISP has signed a mobile virtual network operator agreement with Optus Wholesale to sell its 4G wireless services to iiNet and its subsidiaries – Westnet, Netspace and Internode.
"It makes sense for us to introduce one of the fastest wireless broadband services available and it supports our growth strategy to offer more to each of our customers," Michael Malone, chief executive officer at iiNet, said in a statement.
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It won't MAKE Colorado coach Jon Embree's in-state recruiting any easier after his new in-state rival just won a national championship for Alabama tonight.
Starting in the second half, Jim McElwain and CSU were mentioned in the same sentence on the broadcast about a dozen times. Maybe I'm overestimating the power of television but I have to think that will have an effect in homes of Valor Christian and Mullen athletes, not to mention every household in Texas, Florida and California.
I'm writing this an hour after the final whistle and I'm sure McElwain, at this minute, is in the Alabama locker room calling CSU recruiting prospects. Can you imagine being a 17-year-old kid in suburban Denver and the phone rings.
"Hi, son, this is Jim McElwain. Did you see us just win the national championship just now."
"Yes! That's you? Really? You're calling from New Orleans?"
(He cuffs the phone and yells, "HEY, DAD! IT'S COACH McELWAIN! HE'S CALLING FROM NEW ORLEANS! YES, THAT NEW ORLEANS!"
"I just wanted to tell you that the offense I designed to put up 384 yards on LSU's defense is the same one I'm running in Fort Collins next season. Want to be part of it?"
"Where do I sign? What's your fax number in that locker room?"
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West Craven High baseball coach Mike McKeel has always embarked a simple message to his players regarding cancer.
West Craven High baseball coach Mike McKeel has always embarked a simple message to his players regarding cancer.
�At some point you will be affected. It will definitely hit home sometime,� he said. His team responded again this year, raising more than $10,000.
The annual Relay for Life of Craven County was testament to McKeel�s words Friday night, the kickoff to an all-night walk that continues until 11 a.m. today at the Grover C. Fields Middle School track.
Thomas Christmas, one of 50 New Bern High Navy Junior ROTC volunteers lost a relative. He also has a 20-year-old friend that is battling cancer.
Team captain Bryan Speciale said the ROTC members were driving carts to give rides to guests and also directing traffic, part of one of their community service projects that include assisting Disabled American Veterans and assisting schools with field days.
�It (cancer) hits home with everyone,� he said. �Sometimes it�s personal.�
James Godley, 49, of New Bern knows the personal side, a two-time survivor of leukemia dating to when he was 12. He had a bone marrow transplant courtesy of his sister in 1996 and has been cancer-free since.
On an evening when people dressed in some interesting costumes, he stood out in full regalia of the infamous Oakland Raiders NFL fans. He and Don Schoux formed a Raider National booster club a year ago to support their favorite team. This year, they made the Relay a community service project and the 34 members � from New Bern, Havelock, Jacksonville and as far west as Fayetteville � raised $1,800, including nearly $800 during a Zumbathon last week at Rivertowne Ballroom.
The club plans an October trip to Oakland to see their favorite team play Pittsburgh.
The Raider Nation tent was by chance located next to that of Bridgeton Elementary School, a group that Godley had walked with for about the past 12 years.
Bridgeton librarian Karen Payton said the school�s Relay team had participated for the past 15 years, supporting a number of staff members who had battled cancer. The school staff team of 18 members and family raised more than $2,000.
The Relay featured more than 70 teams, upwards of 900 participants who through Friday had raised $216,000.
The teams included churches such as Temple Baptist and its Kingdom Ragamuffins, led by Lois Sawyer and her brother Steve Wiseman, a cancer survivor.
Sawyer said the adage that cancer affects all families is true. Her father-in-law lost his battle, but she has an aunt who is a 20-year survivor of breast cancer.
�I try to help where I can,� said Sawyer, who last year walked seven miles during the all-night event.
The Tri-Community Volunteer Fire Department of Bridgeton provided a large American flag, flapping in the breeze high above the activities from its ladder truck. The opening ceremonies were followed with the traditional Survivors� Lap. Caregivers then joined in the walk on the second lap and by the third trip around the school track, teams and visitors joined in.
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She'll sing that she's been waiting all day for Sunday night, but really Carrie Underwood has been waiting months.
Underwood, who replaces Faith Hill in singing the "Sunday Night Football" opening for NBC, performed her segment in June at an airport-hangar-sized studio in Playa Vista. Her rendition debuts Sunday night when the New York Giants open the season against the Dallas Cowboys.
The song will be the same one sung by Pink in 2006, and Hill each year since — "Waiting All Day for Sunday Night" — but Underwood's version is intended to be faster-paced and more energetic.
"We all definitely wanted to make an intentional shift in the sound and the look and the feel of it," Underwood said. "Because Faith put such a stamp on it. She made it her own. We wanted people to know it was someone else; it was me — my music, my sound, my voice, my look."
Each version of the song has been complemented by a mini-story or theme, one somehow involving NFL stars, and Underwood's is no different.
"The general story is Carrie is performing in a concert stadium, and in the crowd are these living cubes," said Fred Gaudelli, the show's producer. "Inside these cubes are NFL stars. They're submerged in water, but then they rise out of the cubes and become themselves. It's kind of a real world combined with a surreal world."
Among the players who appear in the video are Peyton and Eli Manning, Clay Matthews, Terrell Suggs, J.J. Watt, Andrew Luck, Calvin Johnson, Aaron Rodgers, Jimmy Graham, Rob Gronkowski and Patrick Willis.
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"You knew you were getting a star," Gaudelli said of Underwood, "but her ability to nail things the first time is unlike anybody I've ever seen, other than maybe [play-by-play announcer] Al Michaels."
Michaels credits the upbeat introduction for attracting viewers who might not ordinarily tune in for a football game.
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President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney fought spiritedly into the final weekend of the marathon and unpredictably close 2012 campaign Friday, with sharpened closing arguments over which is the better man to lead the country out of economic doldrums.
Both candidates argued they were the true agent of change, facing a rival who may talk a good game without the right policies to deliver.
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"Candidate Obama promised change, but he couldn't deliver it," Romney charged. "I promise change, but I have a record of achieving it."
Obama retorted that Romney is "a very talented salesman," trying to repackage the old-school Republican policies that left so many Americans in financial trouble. "We know what change looks like," Obama told an Ohio crowd. "And what the governor is offering ain't it."
Both candidates were plunging into a hectic pace of campaigning. Obama was eager to fend off Romney in the key battleground of Ohio even as Romney pushed to expand the contest to other states, most notably Pennsylvania, to secure the 270 electoral votes needed to win.
Obama directly took on Romney for the first time over the Republican's ads airing in Ohio on the auto industry bailout. The ads accuse Obama of taking General Motors and Chrysler into bankruptcy, selling Chrysler to an Italian company and building Jeeps in China. Chrysler and GM have protested the ads and disputed the suggestion that Jeep construction was being moved overseas. But the Romney campaign is standing by the ad.
Obama told Ohio voters that Jeep plant workers were calling their bosses to ask if they were going to lose their jobs. He said Romney was playing a game with people's lives to try to win the election.
"So you don't scare hard-working Americans just to scare up some votes," Obama said. "That's not what being president is all about. That's not leadership."
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Each candidate got new evidence to bolster his closing argument from Friday's economic report showing more job creation and an uptick in unemployment. The Labor Department reported that U.S. employers added 171,000 jobs in October and that hiring was stronger over the previous two months than first thought. The unemployment rate inched up to 7.9 percent from 7.8 percent in September because the workforce grew.
As an economic marker, the report sketches a picture of a job market that is gradually gaining momentum after nearly stalling in the spring. As a political marker, it gives Romney a data point to attack. Obama will face voters with the highest unemployment rate of any incumbent since Franklin Roosevelt.
"We are four days away from a fresh start," Romney said in a speech in West Allis, Wis. The former Massachusetts governor rarely speaks from prepared text at his political rallies but was doing so as he delivered a new final pitch.
Romney ticked through his achievements — building one business, turning around another, putting the Olympics back on track and political cooperation with a Democratic Legislature. He warned that an Obama re-election would threaten another government shutdown and national default.
"I know when I am elected, the economy and the American job market will still be stagnant, but I won't waste any time complaining about my predecessor," Romney said. "I won't spend my effort trying to pass partisan legislation that's unrelated to economic growth. From Day One, I will go to work to help Americans get back to work.
Although the jobs report alone is unlikely to sway voters, it comes amid other signs that the economy is on the mend. Most important, consumer confidence is at its highest level since February 2008, according to the Conference Board. Other signposts this week showed auto companies with sales gains in October and increases in factory orders and production.
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"This will probably be a turnout election," Romney told about 1,000 supporters who waited outside the pavilion where he spoke in Wisconsin because they couldn't fit into the room.
But while Ohio was emerging as the most contested state in the final push, Romney and the Republican Party were launching a new drive into Pennsylvania, which had been considered safely in Obama's column. Romney planned to campaign there Sunday and the Republican National Committee was putting $3 million in ads into Pennsylvania.
Romney aides said they detected that Obama was underperforming in the southeastern counties around Philadelphia, a usual Democratic stronghold, and in the working-class area in and around Scranton. Obama won the state handily in 2008, largely on the strength of his performance in the eastern part of the state. The RNC, however, says its voter outreach program has already exceeded its performance four years ago, with three times more phone calls and 19 more door knocks than at this time in 2008.
Obama aides dismissed the eleventh-hour move as an act of desperation that underscored Romney's weakness in other battlegrounds but said the Democratic campaign would increase its ad purchases in the state to respond to the RNC incursion.
Amid all the signs of escalation, there also were signs that Election Day was nigh.
Outside the White House, workers had begun erecting fencing on Pennsylvania Avenue, setting the groundwork for building the inaugural viewing stand and the camera platform in nearby Lafayette Park.


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>Racing>Hansons vs. Pfitzinger
I've just finished reading the new Hansons Marathon Method book. As a long-time user of Pfitzinger plans, I was most interested to contrast the two approaches. (There is already a thread discussing Hansons training, but I thought it would be appropriate to break this topic out separately.)
I'm no expert on training methodologies, so rather than make judgments here, I'm just going to note what I see as the major differences. Hopefully the experts will speak up on how to interpret them. Also for the most part I'm only interested here in comparing the plans, not the books, although I will say that I slightly prefer Pfitzinger's presentation. The Hansons book (written by Luke Humphrey) seems a trifle dumbed down, and is a bit unclear or inconsistent in places. On the whole, however, I think each book can serve pretty well as a standalone training resource. The Hansons book does seem more oriented towards the beginning marathoner (and after all, Pfitz's book is called "Advanced Marathoning").
On to the plans. To get specific, I'm looking primarily at the Hansons' Advanced Program (18 weeks), vs. Pfitzinger's 18-week, 55-70 mpw plan. Hansons Advanced tops out at 62 miles, but I think these two plans come the closest in being comparable. (Personally, I am interested in higher mileage than 62, something more like Pfitz's 70-85, but fortunately the Hansons book tells you how to add miles to the Advanced Program.)
First, there are terminology differences in the two books. For those looking to translate, here are what the respective books call different types of workouts / paces:
The biggest confusion here is the word "tempo". I guess most commonly tempo refers to the structure of the workout, rather than a specific pace -- a medium-distance run with some continuous miles at a hardish effort. The difference is that in Pfitzinger plans this effort is at LT (or slightly faster); in Hansons plans it's at goal marathon pace. In Hansons plans the LT workouts (actually a bit slower than LT: they recommend MP - 10 sec) is done as 6 miles broken up various ways with recoveries. The Pfitzinger plans have you going up to 7 continuous miles at LT (or faster), which is a brutal workout. And in Pfitzinger plans, the marathon-pace runs are done as part of the long run, making them tougher as well.
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The big thing about the Hansons plans, as anyone who knows anything about them no doubt knows, is the de-emphasis of the long run. They invoke Jack Daniels in recommending that the long run not exceed 25 - 30% of weekly mileage. Their Advanced plan tops out at 16 miles for the long run -- and they only schedule long runs every other week. (The idea here is that two long runs and one MP workout in eight days is too stressful.) Most marathon plans (including Pfitzinger) go up to or over 20 miles, with a long run every week. However, Pfitzinger's longest run is 22, during a 70-mile week, which at 31% seems within the error bars.
I mentioned that the Hansons book has recommendations on how to add miles -- they say the last place you should add it is to the long run. If you add miles here and there as they recommend, you can get up to 80 mpw, still with a maximum long run of 16, or only 20% of weekly volume. (They also don't add miles to the speedwork, unlike Pfitzinger's higher-mileage plans.)
Hansons plans have a uniform weekly structure: speed or strength workout on Tuesday, "tempo" (remember, this means MP) on Thursday (building gradually from 5 to 10 miles), long run every other Sunday (topping out at 16), Wednesday off, everything else "easy". Long runs (and Saturday runs) are at the faster end of easy. There are no scheduled tune-up races. (You're advised against racing, but they tell you how to adjust the schedule if you want to.) "Speed" workouts are always about 3 miles of quality; "strength" workouts always 6.
The Pfitzinger plans don't have quite this uniformity. However, a typical week will feature some sort of speedwork on Tuesday, a medium-long run (11-15) on Wednesday, and a long run on Sunday (topping out at 22). Sometimes the long runs feature several miles (up to 12) at MP. Some weekends have a Saturday tune-up race instead of a Sunday long run. Pfitzinger has you running every day, and includes doubles on Mondays in the higher-mileage weeks. Pfitzinger distinguishes "recovery" runs (Hansons "easy" pace) from "general aerobic" (faster end of Hanson's "easy"). The total amount of quality in any given speed workout is highly variable.
On a macro scale, the most striking periodization difference is that Pfitzinger begins with LT work early and transitions to VO2max work late; in Hansons plans, it's the other way around -- the first half of the cycle you have "speed" on Tuesday; the second half you have "strength" instead. This seems like a quite substantial difference in training philosophy, and is one of the things I hope the experts here will weigh in on.
One of the things I most wanted to compare was total mileage of the various kinds of speedwork. Here it is.
I didn't tabulate total mileage on the two plans, but I assume the Pfitzinger plan is higher. I also didn't count number of long runs, or long-run mileage, because I don't see a sharp definition there.
If we count race miles as similar to VO2max, then the two plans are roughly comparable on total speedwork mileage -- except for the huge, glaring difference in number of miles run at marathon pace. This has got to make a difference, and is one of the reasons I'm interested in trying a Hansons plan. The clear tradeoff is far less long-run mileage. How does this tradeoff work out?
These are the biggest differences I see between Hansons Advanced and Pfitzinger 18/55-70:
1. Hansons has fewer and shorter long runs.
2. Pfitzinger begins with LT workouts and transitions to VO2max workouts; Hansons does the reverse.
3. Hansons has much greater total mileage run at marathon pace.
4. Pfitzinger includes three tuneup races; Hansons has none.
5. Hansons is a 6-day plan; Pfitzinger is 7 days, with some doubles.
Comments and corrections appreciated.
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Sweet Jesus, 120 at MP. At the end of the plan, you know what that pace feels like.
Does Hanson (sorry, "Does Hansons" just looks weird) offer up any tea/ti leaf guidance on how best to guesstimate this pace? Tables a la Daniels?
Why do you say you're not an expert?
I will say I'm a student of the physiology of training. But there are plenty of people here far more knowledgeable.
Sweet Jesus, 120 at MP. At the end of the plan, you know what that pace feels like.
Does Hanson (sorry, "Does Hansons" just looks weird) offer up any tea/ti leaf guidance on how best to guesstimate this pace? Tables a la Daniels?
Yes, the standard sort of race equivalency chart. Spot inspections show that it's very close to McMillan.
Thanks for the comparison, btw. I'd like someone (not named Robert... oh wait...) to do something similar w/ Hudson.
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I read both books and it is a great comparison/synthesis of the differences between plans.
I read both books and it is a great comparison/synthesis of the differences between plans.
Bonjour et bienvenue, Monsieur Hills.
That was the most informative, well-written post I have ever seen on RA. Thanks, Bhearn.
I wrote these words and you're reading them.
Bonjour et bienvenue, Monsieur Hills.
See, that's one problem of Running Ahead. I can't thumb up your post.
See, that's one problem of Running Ahead. I can't thumb up your post.
See, that's one problem of Running Ahead. I can't thumb up your post.
You can, however, tell me to put my thumb up my ass without fear of a cuss filter not allowing it. (though the one over there always allowed ass).
I will say I'm a student of the physiology of training. But there are plenty of people here far more knowledgeable.
Fair enough.
I'm no expert on training plans--I used Pfitz for my first couple of marathons but ever since then rolled my own.
That was a good comparison though. FWIW, I'd put the race miles from Pfitz in the LT bucket.
Thanks for that. You made me curious enough buy the book.
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Wow, thanks for the analysis. I've never seen it laid out that way. Very clear.
As for the ordering of the LT/strength vs VO2 work....
I have to go with Hansons on this one. Honestly I thought it was pretty accepted that with shorter races you did LT first then peaked into VO2 to prepare for races....but reversed this for the marathon and developed your speed first, then added the ability to extend that over distance via marathon-specific training.
So, I'm kind of surprised that Hansons and Pfitz are at odds in the first place. But it has been a long time since I really analyzed these plans since like Mikey I've been rolling my own for so long.
I would say the way I was most successful mirrored Hansons. For a spring marathon, I'd start track work in December and carry indoor track work through February. This was 400s up to 1 mile repeats (800s and 1000s being most frequent) at 3000m-8000m race pace, depending on the workout design. Straight VO2max stuff. Then starting in late February/early March I'd be doing 2000m or 3000m repeats, or dropping track intervals altogether in favor of longer fartleks (8-15min fast sections) or addtional tempo run designs. This sounds pretty close to Hansons to me.
I just don't see the point in focusing on 400/800m intervals just a few weeks before you are going to do a marathon. I believe in multi-pace training but I would not be focusing on such short/fast work so close to a goal marathon. VO2max just isn't that vital in the marathon, making a relatively quick pace feel easy (a la strength/LT running) is.
MTA: The total mileage at MP or faster strikes a cord with me. The more I view logs of the faster marathoners on here, as well as my own historical log, the more I believe that this is a core indicator of performance.
MMTA: The more I think about it the more I agree with this position. I mean, if your race is at or faster than VO2max then that is more important, the more your race pace is related to LT the more that should be important. MP is slower than LT. Seems intuitive to me?
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Unless they fixed things, Pftiz on a kindle, like Hudson on a kindle, is suboptimal because the tables are all wonky.
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I'd got a simple problem that has been driving me crazy for a couple hours now. Google has shown me what (I think) the problem is, but hasn't helped me fix it. I'm working on an assignment which is to create a very basic server program, all it does is allow a user to login with a pre-made username and password.
It's working up until the user enters their information and hits Submit. The page uses the POST method to transmit the data to the server, where I have a method that outputs the header information in the console and returns the attached login information. The problem seems to be that there is an empty line between the end of the headers and the beginning of the message. readLine() only returns a line if it ends in a line feed or carriage return, and I guess that little gap doesn't have one, because it hangs at that point.
Here is the method in question, more or less. I've been playing around with it for a while, this is the simplest it's been. Boolean p is whether or not it is a POST method or GET method. It's false when the server receives anything other than a POST method, and that works fine.
public static String printRequest(BufferedReader r, boolean p) throws IOException { String login = ""; String line = r.readLine(); while (!line.equals("")) { System.out.println(line); line = r.readLine(); } if (p) login = r.readLine(); System.out.println(); return login; }
After that while loop executes, it hangs on the next readLine() indefinitely. I know the server has received the data, because if I click "Submit" again, it does then continue and print out the buffer in the console, and the username/password information is at the top, before the request I made from hitting Submit a second time. For some reason I just can't seem to get past that blank line to the relevant information.
Does anyone know how to get around this? Or am I completely barking up the wrong tree and there's some other problem I've run into?
EDIT: If it's helpful, this is what is (or should be) in the BufferedReader when the method executes. I had a tough time explaining my problem.
POST / HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost:8002 Connection: keep-alive Content-Length: 35 Cache-Control: max-age=0 Origin: http://localhost:8002 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.77 Safari/535.7 Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Referer: http://localhost:8002/ Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch Accept-Language: en-GB,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.6 Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3 username=usr-test&password=pwd-test


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10 Bizarre Animals That Are Secretly Cute
The next time a particular aspect of your own appearance gets you down — like an expanding waistline, or a larger than normal nose — remember what our mom used to say to us as children: "You could've been born as a star-nosed mole, or a blobfish. Now shut up and eat your tacos!" (Love ya, mom!)
Joke's on you mom — we kind of think these so-called ugly animals are kind of cute. Probably cuter than fatty big-nosed us. (Sigh. So many therapy bills…) Anyway, see what we mean about so-strange-they're-cute animals below.
The Axolotl is one weird-looking salamander, though they are sometimes referred to as the "Mexican Walking Fish." Let's pretend that isn't terrifying and ooh and ahh over the cute little guy above.
Blobfish live at incredible depths in the Southern Pacific Ocean. Since they literally live under tons of pressure, their bodies are jellylike bulks without muscle, which allows them to float about with ease. Why they look like grumpy filing clerks is anyone's guess.
Angora Rabbit
Rumor (and history) has it that French sailors first encountered these incredibly hairy rabbits in the port of Angora, Turkey. Whether this is true or not, a fun thing to do is rub one all over the face of a person with asthma. Just kidding. Never do that.
These bug-eyed lemurs are only found on the island of Madagascar and are reclusive tree-dwellers, which is nice, because can you imagine one sneaking up next to you while you're trying to relax on the patio? Madagascar vacation ruined.
Just to make it a little bit weirder, the platypus is the only oviparous mammal. Fun fact of the day: oviparous means it lays eggs.
Star-Nosed Mole
The star-nosed mole has 22 tentacles around its nose that basically act as its eyes. Fortunately, they spend most of their time underground, which is nice, because can you imagine one sneaking up next to you while you're trying to relax on the patio? Canada vacation ruined.
Sun Bear
Sun bears are the smallest bears. In fact, one was eaten by a python once. While the bear was inside the python, that snake was officially the scariest animal on the planet.
Chinese Giant Salamander
The Chinese giant salamander is the biggest salamander in the world. Is it big enough to eat a sun bear? Probably not.
Leafy Sea Dragon
The Leafy sea dragon uses their leaf-like "limbs" as a protective camouflage. Despite its name, you shouldn't try to order it at your local sushi restaurant.
The tarsier's eyes are about the same size as their brain, but they must be bigger than their stomach — did you see how much food he got at the buffet???? No, but seriously, their eyes are the same size as their brain.


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ON MENTAL ILLNESS: Tortuous Side Effects of Antipsychotic Medication
Psychiatric medication, ideally, is a tool to help persons with mental illness become and remain functional in life. Medication should not be an enemy.
However, among medications, antipsychotic ones in particular sometimes have side effects that can make life seem unbearable. To understand this, the reader would have to try taking this type of medication, and a lot of it, over a long period of time. Taking antipsychotic medication is sometimes a source of agony.
Some people get worse side effects than others. Some medications work better than others, from person to person, both in terms of minimizing side effects and (as a separate issue) in terms of effectiveness. When someone is first hospitalized, the psychiatrists are supposed to try a patient on several different medications to see which ones give a person less side effects, and which ones do the job of making the patient better.
The misery of side effects, if someone is on the wrong medication or the wrong dosage, can be enough to make someone go noncompliant with taking medication, or worse.
Typical side effects of antipsychotic medications (the ones that almost every patient gets and not the "serious" ones) include muscle stiffness, dry mouth, a horrible drugged feeling, being depressed, "motor restlessness," inability to concentrate and being unable to perform simple work tasks. Antipsychotic medication treats psychosis by means of blocking the neurotransmitters of the brain. It does this across the board.
Psychiatrists often prescribe a second drug, called an antiparkinsonian, to help with some of the side effects. However, these secondary medications also have their own side effects.
Antipsychotic medication can also kill you. "Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome" refers to an adverse medication reaction (characterized by muscle rigidity, fever and delirium) which can result in death.
Antipsychotic medication can cause involuntary movements of the tongue, face and upper body-a reaction called "Tardive Dyskinesia." This reaction to medication is debilitating, disfiguring, and is often irreversible, including when the medication is stopped.
These adverse reactions are not "one in a million" as the people vending these medications might want you to believe. When someone takes antipsychotic medication, they are taking a genuine risk.
A glut of newer antipsychotic medications has been invented in the past two decades, most of them known as "atypical antipsychotics." Originally these newer medications were touted as having fewer side effects compared to the older class of drugs. However, over time it has become clear that this claim is not accurate.
When I was first hospitalized in the 1980's, I was put on Haldol, and this made me unable to focus my eyes, and did other weird things to me. The doctors believed I didn't react well to Haldol. When I was to be released from hospitalization, they gave me a drug called, "Prolixin," and I was miserable on it.
However, after taking prolixin for over a year, my side effects eased up. In 1985, I was able to take electronics training, and I was dating a girlfriend. After a four-month technical course, I got a job as an electronics technician performing TV and VCR repair. I worked in repair of home electronics for several years that followed. (It was a struggle for me to keep jobs for reasons unrelated to the medication.)
By then, I was able to use meditation to deal with the discomfort of medication side effects. Being medicated became my new normal, and I essentially forgot what it was like not to take medication. The human mind is supremely adaptable, and I had adapted to being medicated.
Medication side effects are no walk in the park. They can make a person extremely uncomfortable for a very long period of time. Side effects are a major cause of persons with mental illness being noncompliant with taking medications. When you force a person with mental illness to take medication, you are asking a lot.
I took prolixin for about nineteen years before switching to ample dosages of the newer medications. While I still get a lot of medication side effects, which most of the time I ignore, the newer medications that I take, in combination with meditation practices, have given me a better level of mental clarity compared to taking the older medications.
(I had several episodes of medication noncompliance over the past thirty years, and one of my main reasons for this has been the anguish of medication side effects. However, since 1996, I have remained medicated. And this is partly due to the influence of my wife, who I first met in 1994.)
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My two mental health related books, "Instructions for Dealing With Schizophrenia: A Self-Help Manual," and "Jack Bragen's Essays on Mental Illness," are available on Amazon. I can be reached with your comments at email@example.com but I can not give any advice to individuals.


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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission unveiled a deal on Friday with Hewlett-Packard, Telefonica and eight other telecoms and technology firms aimed at filling up to 700,000 high tech job vacancies.
Calling it a grand coalition, EU Telecoms Commissioner Neelie Kroes said the companies pledged to offer training, free online university courses or provide start-up funding.
The European Commission is seeking to spur economic growth, boost competitiveness and tackle a record jobless total of 26.1 million in the 27-country European Union, or 10.7 percent of the working population.
High tech vacancies have proven hard to fill because job seekers either do not have the right qualifications, have qualifications not recognized throughout the European Union or do not speak English.
"The digital skills gap is growing, like our unemployment queues," Kroes, who was in Davos for the World Economic Forum, said in a statement on Friday. "We need joint action between governments and companies to bridge that gap."
Other companies which signed up to the pact included German business software group SAP, U.S. networking equipment maker Cisco Systems, world No. 2 staffing agency Randstad and Italian oil group Eni.
Norwegian telecoms provider Telenor, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia, Alcatel-Lucent and ARM also offered pledges to Kroes.
"The ICT (information and communications technology) sector is the new backbone of Europe's economy, and together we can prevent a lost generation and an uncompetitive Europe," Kroes said in a statement.
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November 15, 2012
Jesse Jackson Jr. Wants 'Disability Pay' to Resign from Congress After Illegal Campaign Spending Caught By Feds
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Sources tell FOX 32 News that Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. is willing to give up his 2nd Congressional District seat if he's given disability when he steps down.
Jackson Jr. was re-elected to his tenth term but last month, sources say, he applied for a disability package--what could be his only income if he resigns. It is expected to take a couple of weeks for Congress to approve or deny the request.
His house on 72nd Street in Chicago is part of the federal government's investigation into allegations that Jackson Jr. misused campaign funds.
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Jihadi fighters withdraw from parts of north Syria
BEIRUT (AP) — Members of an al-Qaida-breakaway group withdrew Friday from parts of the northern province of Aleppo, ahead of a Saturday deadline issued by another rebel group that could spark more infighting, opposition activists said.
Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant evacuated from several towns north of Aleppo, including Azaz near the Turkish border, Aleppo-based activists who go by the names of Ibrahim Saeed and Abu Raed said. Rival fighters moved in shortly after, the activists and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The pullout came three days after the leader of a powerful al-Qaida-linked group in Syria gave the Islamic State a five-day ultimatum to accept mediation by leading clerics to end infighting or be "expelled" from the region.
The ultimatum, announced in an audio recording by the leader of the Nusra Front, aims to end two months of deadly violence between the Islamic State and other Islamic factions that activists say has killed more than 3,000 people. The infighting is undermining the opposition fighters' wider struggle against President Bashar Assad's government.
There has been no official reaction from the Islamic State so far but they most likely will reject the ultimatum, possibly leading to more deadly battles in the coming days.
Saeed said Islamic State fighters appear to be withdrawing toward their stronghold in the northeastern city of Raqqa, the first provincial capital in Syria to fall to the rebels. The Islamic State's shadowy leader, known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, once called it the group's capital.
Saeed added that Islamic State fighters torched a power station in the town of Tal Rifaat and dismantled Al-Faisal Mills, one of the largest flour mills in Aleppo province, before they left.
"I expect battles in the near future," Saeed said. He said rebels who entered the abandoned territory questioned former Islamic State members who defected for fears of them being in "sleeper cells."
"Northern parts of Aleppo are free of the Islamic State" said Abu Raed, who added that they blew up some helicopters in the army air base of Mannagh that rebels captured last year.
An amateur video posted online by activists showed members of the Northern Storm Brigade, which was crushed by the Islamic State last year, taking over posts evacuated by the jihadis.
"The Northern Storm returned to Azaz and, God willing, we will step on the head of the Islamic State and al-Baghdadi," a gunman driving by said.
The video appeared genuine and corresponded to other Associated Press reporting of the events.
Syria's uprising, which began with largely peace protests in March 2011, has evolved into a civil war with sectarian overtones. Islamic extremists, including foreign fighters and Syrian rebels who have taken up hard-line al-Qaida-style ideologies, have played an increasingly prominent role among fighters, dampening the West's support for the rebellion to overthrow Assad.
That has led to a backlash by Islamic brigades and more moderate rebels who launched a war against the Islamic State.
Also Friday, the Lebanese army said in a statement that three rockets fired from Syria struck the predominantly Shiite town of Brital, causing damage but no casualties.
In Beirut, security officials said shelling from the Syrian side killed two Syrian refugees in Lebanon, a 16-year-old girl and an 11-year-old boy near the border with Syria, and wounded three. Syrian warplanes also fired several missiles Friday on the edge of the Lebanese border town of Arsal without causing casualties. Such air raids have happened before in the area.
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BOSTON, MASS. – UMBC junior Amanda Deller (Aberdeen, Md./Aberdeen) was named the meet's Most Outstanding Field Performer and freshman Mercedes Jackson (Huntington, Md./Huntington) was named the Most Outstanding Rookie as the UMBC women's track and field team finished third with 106.50 points at the 2012 America East Indoor Championships at Boston University. Boston U. claimed the top women's honor tallying 164 points, just ahead of last year's champion, Albany (159.50).
Junior Trae Proctor (Brandywine, Md./Thomas Stone) successfully defended his title in the 60m hurdles to lead the men's team to a fifth place finish. Albany defended its crown in the overall meet standings, garnering 187.50 points.
Competing in her first conference meet, Jackson broke her school record, and set a new facility record, winning the 60m dash in 7.49. The freshman also broke the UMBC record in the 200m, picking up a silver medal with a time of 24.00.
One day after winning the weight throw, Deller swept the meet's throwing events by taking the gold in the shot put on Saturday. The junior won top honors with a toss of 14.00m (45'11.25").
The 4x400 women's relay continued the record breaking day by setting a new standard in UMBC history. Sophomores Kirsten Jones (Brentwood, Tenn./M.L.K Magnet) and Deborah Adelola (Lanham, Md./Bladensburg) in addition to freshman Paulette Fogle (Washington, D.C./Bishop McNamara) and Kalane' Abbey (Laurel, Md./Laurel) combined for a time of 3:48.54 to claim bronze in the event.
Sophomore Cody Mezebish (Westminster, Md./South Carroll) sustained her strong form, running a personal-best 2:14.95 to jump to second place in the school record book and place fifth in the 800m.
For the men, Proctor led the way for the Retrievers, winning the 60m hurdles for the second consecutive year. The junior once again beat the field, finishing just off his school record pace in a time of 8.08.
Meanwhile, sophomore John Rybak (Baltimore, Md./Archbishop Curley) put in a strong effort, placing fifth (8.38) in the event. His time lands him tenth on the school's all-time list.
Freshman Malte Bertram (Einbeck, Germany/Goethschule Gymnasium) claimed silver in the heptathlon in his first ever conference championships. Bertram's overall score of 4,907 moves his name up to third in UMBC history.
In the mid-distance runs, senior Josh Hewitson (New Market, Md./Linganore) picked up a silver medal in the 500m with a time of 1:03.72.
UMBC picked up three top-10 finishes in the 800m with sophomore Andrew Smith (Chadds Ford, Pa./Garnet Valley) taking fourth (1:52.90), freshman Charles Bolinger (Bowie, Md.) placing eighth (1:54.87) and senior Pat Hairfield (Abington, Md./Archbishop Curley) (1:54.90) taking ninth. All three runners qualify for the IC4A meet with their performances.
The Retrievers now head home to begin preparation for the IC4A and ECAC meets. The regional meets will be held in Boston from Mar.3-Mar. 4.


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ALBANY, Ga. – After an up-and-down opening weekend, Wednesday's match-up against Albany State was a matter of which GSW Hurricane team would show up. The one that lost two games to Catawba by a score of 15-4? Or would it be the gutsy "Cardiac Canes" who took two from Queens (N.C.) in dramatic fashion? In game one, it would appear to be the former.
GAME ONE: GSW-2 Albany State-4
After giving up a RBI triple to Shay Marks in the first inning, senior pitcher Katie Maddox would settle down and retire the next nine batters she faced, which included three strike outs. She unfortunately would see little run support as the Lady 'Canes would only record three hits all game.
However, the Blue & Gold would take control of the game in the 5th inning. After a Rachel McElroy RBI in the 4th, the Hurricanes would get another run in the 5th to make it 2-1 GSW. Unfortunately the wheels would come off the bus for Georgia Southwestern in the next inning.
A fielding error on the first Albany State batter of the sixth would be the first sign of trouble for the Lady Hurricanes. One out later, with two runners on, Albany State's Banks would deliver a three-run bomb to re-take the lead. A one-two-three seventh inning by GSW batters would put the finishing touches on the victory for the Albany State Lady Rams.
GAME TWO: GSW-0 Albany State-1
After committing three errors in the first game against Albany State, Georgia Southwestern's defense had committed 15 errors in their first five games. It was an issue that would resurface again in game two.
Two fielding errors in the second inning alone would allow an Albany State base runner to score the first run of the game. This counteracted Brittny Dennison's strong start on the mound with only one hit surrendered.
The GSW offense was quiet for the first four innings as they only registered one hit. They would threaten in the top of the fifth inning with runners on the corners with no outs. Hayley Knight would ground into a fielder's choice as the Rams would get the GSW runner out at home and at second. The threat would be completely neutralized two batters later as Albany State would come out of the inning unscathed.
Brittny Dennison would finish her night in the 5th inning as Jessica Martin would come on in relief out of the GSW bullpen. Dennison would leave the game after going four and a two-third innings, scattering four hits and one unearned run and fanning five Lady Rams. Martin would come and keep Albany State in check as she would strike out all four batters she faced in her inning and a third of work.
The Blue & Gold would threaten in the seventh and final inning as Mason Moreland would single, reach second on an error and take third on a wild pitch. With the tying run just one base away with two outs, senior Gabby Buck would be unable to drive in Moreland for the game-tying run.
The sweep was just the second time in eight series match-ups that ASU had swept the Lady Hurricanes in the NCAA Division II era. It puts the all-time record between the two schools to 14-8 in Georgia Southwestern's favor.
The mid-week pair of losses puts the Georgia Southwestern record at 2-4 on the young season. It won't be long before the Lady 'Canes will have the chance to seek revenge. They will play their first games at home of the 2012 season this weekend. Saturday's doubleheader will be against Young Harris with Sunday's games being against Rollins College. First pitch on Saturday will be at 2 p.m. and 12:30 p.m. on Sunday.


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Doc is 6th Phillies ASG Starter
Doc will be on the mound for the NL Stars tonight, the eleventh time a Phillies pitcher has had that honor.
Actually, he's the sixth different Phillies pitcher to start, joning Robin Roberts (1950, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1955), Curt Simmons (1952, 1957), Steve Carlton (1979), Terry Mulholland (1993) and Curt Schilling (1999).
Collectively they haven't set the world on fire. They are 0-2 with a 7.04 ERA. Only Simmons in 1952 (3 innings) and Roberts the next year (also 3 innings) had scoreless starts. Doc started two years ago for the AL and he gave up three runs (two earned) in two innings.
Winning Pitchers
Three Phillies have been the winning pitcher, all in relief.
Ken Raffensberger pitched two scoreless innings in 1944 and emerged the winner in a 7-1 decision. Doug Jones pitched a scoreless ninth inning with the NL winning, 8-7, in 10 innings in 1994. The next year Healthcliff Slocumb was the pitcher of record (one scoreless inning) when the NL rallied for a 3-2 win.
Five All-Stars
This year marks the sixth time the Phillies have had five All-Stars.
Other years were 1976 (Bob Boone, Larry Bowa, Dave Cash, Greg Luzinski, Mike Schmidt); 1979 (Boone, Bowa, Steve Carlton, Pete Rose, Schmidt); 1981 (Carlton, Rose, Dick Ruthven, Schmidt, Manny Trillo); 1995 (Darren Daulton, Lenny Dykstra, Tyler Green, Mickey Morandini Slocumb) and 2009 (Ryan Howard, Raul Ibanez, Chase Utley, Shane Victorino, Jayson Werth).
Most Pitchers
Doc, Cliff and Cole mark the first time the Phillies have had three pitchers on the All-Star team. Seven times they had a pair, the last being 1999, Schilling and Paul Byrd.
Home Runs
Four Phillies have homered in the game: Johnny Callison (1964), Dick Allen (1967), Luzinski (1977) and Schmidt (1981).
With Shane and Polly unable to play because of injuries, guess the Phillies best chance for a home run would be Cliff.
Callison in 1964, a three-run, walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth off Dick Radatz, a 7-4 NL decision.


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In partnership with the City of Philadelphia through the Department of Parks and Recreation, the Museum administers Cedar Grove and Mount Pleasant. These two colonial houses provide visitors with a glimpse into Philadelphia's rich cultural heritage. Cedar Grove and Mount Pleasant share the landscape of Fairmount Park with other historic houses, which together are considered among the most significant collection of early American homes in the United States.
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Cedar Grove, which was moved from its original site in the Frankford section of Philadelphia to Fairmount Park in 1926–1928, served as a summer residence for five generations of the Coates, Paschall, and Morris families of Philadelphia. In 1746, Elizabeth Coates Paschall, a widow with three children, purchased the property and within a few years began construction on a small summer house of grey native stone, consisting of the present dining room, upper bed chamber and back rooms. Cedar Grove began to evolve as the result of numerous additions made to it by succeeding generations of the family. Elizabeth's granddaughter Sarah, who inherited the house, married Isaac Wistar Morris in 1795. Soon after their marriage, Sarah and Isaac doubled the size of Cedar Grove—adding the half which now contains the parlor and the kitchen. They also added the third floor, incorporating the original gable roof into what is now a "broken pitch" or gambrel roof. The porch, or "piazza," was added later, giving the house its present appearance. The interior of Cedar Grove contains innovative features such as an indoor bake oven and hot water boiler in the kitchen, and an unusual two-sided wall of closets on the second floor. The house is furnished with exceptional examples of early Pennsylvania furniture, which have descended through the Morris family. The mixture of fine Baroque, Rococo, and Federal styles seen in its interior rooms reflects the evolution of the family's taste and their continued occupancy of the house through the mid-nineteenth century. Through the generosity of Lydia Thompson Morris, the last of the family to possess Cedar Grove, the house and its surviving original furnishings were presented to the city of Philadelphia in 1928.
Mount Pleasant
Closed for general maintenance Scottish ship captain John Macpherson (1726–1792) and his first wife, Margaret, built their grand country estate on this site—high atop cliffs overlooking the Schuylkill River—between 1762 and 1765. They employed as their builder-architect Thomas Nevell (1721–1797), an apprentice of Edmund Woolley, the builder of Independence Hall. Macpherson and Nevell intended to make a bold statement with this house. Macpherson could announce his ambition to join established Philadelphia society, whose greatest city houses Mount Pleasant certainly rivaled. Nevell hoped to demonstrate his considerable craft and architectural knowledge. Together, they built one of the grandest homes along the Schuylkill, one that John Adams, on a visit to the residence in 1775, declared "the most elegant seat in Pennsylvania." Today, Mount Pleasant is considered one of the greatest American houses of its type, still standing on its original site in what is now Fairmount Park. The breathtaking beauty of the house's interiors and vistas, the elegance of the lifestyle of colonial elites, and the curiosities of Captain Macpherson's life are all on display at Mount Pleasant. The rooms in this colonial masterpiece feature the craftsmanship of some of the leading Philadelphia artisans, such as carver Martin Jugiez. In spring 2006, the Museum completed a 24-month preservation project to stabilize Mount Pleasant's timber-framed roof, restore the dormers and balustrade, and re-shingle both the main house and its two flanking pavilions. Such a project had not been undertaken since 1926, when the house was restored by the Museum under the supervision of the Director, Fiske Kimball.


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Justin Bieber is 16, looks and sounds much younger, and is now getting more attention than almost anyone else in the pop music world. As of April 14, Billboard has announced he holds both the No. 1 and No. 8 spots on the Billboard 200 albums chart, with his "My World 2.0" album and "My World" EP, respectively. Both releases have also spawned multiple hit singles.
He also just came off a much-publicized debut appearance on "Saturday Night Live," made the cover of People magazine and reportedly will have to perform behind glass "for his own safety" in Australia. The Canadian teen's sudden rise to superstardom might be puzzling to those who don't follow tween culture, but anyone who has heard Bieber on one of his many YouTube videos knows he can sing.
That might explain his success, but it doesn't explain the mania, which is being called "Bieber Fever." Acts that get as big as Bieber succeed for more than one reason. And in Bieber's case, the main other reason for his fame seems to be the safe sex appeal he projects to the tween girls that make up the majority of his audience. If ever there was an official Boy Next Door of pop, it's Justin Bieber.
What makes Bieber's stardom so surprising, though, is that he shot to the top in a pop scene filled with outrageous artists like Lady Gaga and Ke$ha.
"I think it all has to do with timing," said Matthew Rettenmund, editor-in-chief of the magazine Popstar! "At the time he was coming out, he was providing a counterpoint to anything that is too risqué."
"I think that girls see him as being very, very genuine and someone that they would possibly grow up with or sit next to in seventh grade English," said Jacqueline Fulton, senior editor at the teen entertainment magazine Twist. "He just seems like he's coming from a very real place."
Bieber took his first steps towards fame in 2007, when he and his mother posted videos of him singing versions of songs by Chris Brown, Justin Timberlake and others on YouTube.
Fulton said this "organic" route to success showed fans he was "not someone who is produced or someone who just came out of nowhere and had a shiny CD and posters." This, in turn, made him more "approachable" than the Disney-certified stars tweens are used to — and has made "Bieber Fever" a 2.0 version of the usual teen idol mania.
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According to Cooper Lawrence, the author of "The Cult of Celebrity," Bieber is unique because unlike most young male stars today, he's embraced his boyish image: "Most young boys want to be rockers. They want to look like rockers and skate punks. (But) those aren't the kind of boys that a young girl feels safe to fantasize about."
"He's squeaky clean in many respects," said Rettenmund. "He's safe, as opposed to being one of the bad boys."
No matter how raunchy the pop scene gets, there will always be a place for teen idols, because they serve as "fantasy" boyfriends to young girls, said Lawrence. "These guys are great examples of the young pop star that's OK to be in love with. This is about (the girls') first experience in a romantic relationship. So they can fantasize having a crush on Justin Bieber, and his music, his image and all of that encourages it."
Throughout pop's history, stars like Bieber have given young girls "practice with a safe object" for romantic relationships, said Tim Kasser, Knox College's psychology department chair and co-author of the study "Why do Adolescent Girls Idolize Male Celebrities?"
"The fact is Justin Timberlake is never really gonna break her heart — or whoever the new person is," he said. "When you think of these (types of) male celebrities, they're idealized — they're who every girl would love, and they seem like they would be very caring and warm, and that's just what these girls are looking for."
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Bieber's sense of style also plays to his fan base, said Marissa Negrete, 15, a fan from California. Instead of donning standard rock or rap outfits, "he dresses like the kids dress nowadays," she said.
"Kids our age nowadays don't have a singer that's our age we can relate to," she said. "I feel like he's something kids relate to."
Bieber also has a sense of humor, which makes him seem more down to earth than a lot of pop artists. On April Fools Day, he "took over" the comedy video site FunnyOrDie.com, which got revamped as "Bieber or Die." In one of his videos, he claimed he'd purchased the site and said from that moment on, "anything that's not Bieber dies."
"He had these very silly videos, very funny, and I think that that's also something that appeals to (his fans)," said Fulton. "He strikes a really weird balance of being very cute but very, very cool. And I think that's what is really reaching the girls."
There's also the music, of course. His style has a retro appeal that's non-threatening, said USA Today's Brian Mansfield. Reviewing "My World 2.0," Mansfield noted the lead single, "Baby," boasted a "sweet pop melody (that) would've worked for any teen act since Frankie Lymon."
"That's what I thought was kind of neat about the new album — you've got this '50s sounding song, and you've got a couple of songs that have very '70s and very '80s sounds to them," Mansfield said. "It was almost like somebody in the Justin Bieber camp was going, 'We're going to show the moms and dads that we know what we're doing here.'"
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By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 3:48 PM GMT on August 26, 2012
Tropical Storm Isaac is steadily organizing as it lashes the Florida Keys with heavy rain and tropical storm-force winds. Sustained winds of 44 mph and 41 mph have been observed at Molasses Reef and Sombrero Key, respectively, this morning. Radar out of Key West shows an increase in spiral banding, and the beginnings of an eyewall. An Air Force Hurricane Hunter aircraft completed its first pass through the center of Isaac near 11:30 am EDT, and did not find the pressure had fallen, or that the peak winds had increased. Infrared and visible satellite loops show that Isaac is a large and increasingly well-organized storm. An analysis of upper level winds from the University of Wisconsin CIMSS shows that upper-level outflow is quite good and increasing to the north, but is lacking elsewhere. Moderate wind shear and dry air to the south are interfering with heavy thunderstorm development on Isaac's south side. Heavy rains from Isaac are lingering over Haiti and the Dominican Republic; flash floods in Haiti from Isaac's torrential rains killed at least four people.
Figure 1. Morning reflectivity image from the Radar out of Key West radar shows the northwest section of an eyewall beginning to form to the southeast of the city.
Latest model runs for Isaac
The latest set of 0Z and 06Z (8 pm and 2 am EDT) model runs have diverged significantly, and we can no longer be confident we know where Isaac will make landfall on the Gulf Coast. One camp of models, the UKMET and ECMWF, predict that a trough of low pressure moving across the Southeast U.S. will be strong enough to turn Isaac north to a landfall in the Florida Panhandle. The other set of models, the GFDL, GFS, and HWRF, predict the trough will bypass Isaac, and a ridge of high pressure will build in and force Isaac to a landfall over Louisiana. The official NHC forecast averages out these two extremes, calling for a landfall midway between the two solutions. Odds are, one of the two model solutions will turn out to be the correct one, and the NHC will be forced to make a substantial adjustment in their forecast track to the east or the west. Isaac has the potential to drop torrential rains capable of causing serious flooding and drought relief over the South. The latest 8-day precipitation forecast from the GFS model calls for 10 - 20 inches of rain over Southeast Louisiana, where it predicts Isaac will make landfall. The ECMWF model, however, these heavy rains will fall more over the Florida Panhandle, Alabama, and Georgia.
Figure 2. A hurricane forecaster's dilemma: which set of models is correct? The latest set of 0Z and 06Z (8 pm and 2 am EDT) model runs have diverged significantly. Our two top models--the GFS and ECMWF--have 72-hour forecasts that are about 350 miles apart. The ECMWF forecast is not shown here, but lies just to the west of the UKMET forecast (white line.)
Intensity forecast for Isaac
Isaac survived passage over Hispaniola and Cuba relatively intact. It's large size aided this. Isaac is over very warm waters of 31°C (88°F) with high total heat content in the Florida Straits, but is encountering moderate wind shear of 10 - 15 knots due to upper-level winds out of the southwest. This shear is predicted to relax to the light range tonight as an upper-level anticyclone becomes established over the storm. This should allow for more substantial intensification after Isaac passes the Florida Keys. However, the total heat content of the ocean decreases for Isaac Monday morning as it encounters a relatively cool ocean eddy in the Southeast Gulf of Mexico. If Isaac takes a more westerly track, passing due south of the Central Louisiana coast, the storm will encounter a modest warm eddy, which would aid intensification. The intensify forecasts from the various models are very divergent. The latest 06Z (2 am EDT) run of the GFDL model keeps Isaac as a strong tropical storm until landfall in Louisiana. Isaac will undergo rapid intensification into a Category 3 hurricane as it hits New Orleans, says the latest 06Z (2 am EDT) run of the HWRF model. The ECMWF model has Isaac as a strong Category 2 storm with a central pressure near 950 mb as it hits near the Alabama/Florida border.
Comparing Isaac with Ike of 2008
The current situation with Isaac is similar in some ways to that of Hurricane Ike of 2008. Ike spent considerable time over Cuba, weakening from a Category 4 to a Category 1 storm. The storm couldn't put its energy into building a strong inner core, but it was able to build up its outer rainbands that were over very warm waters. This resulted in a major expansion of its wind field, with tropical storm-force winds extending out 275 miles from the center at one point. Ike was able to intensify into a Category 2 storm on its path towards Texas, and had an unusually low pressure for a Cat 2 storm with 100 mph winds--944 mb. That's a central pressure more typical of a Category 3 storm, but Ike could only manage Category 2 winds, since it had such a large chunk of the atmosphere to keep spinning. With Isaac's TS winds already extending out to 205 miles, maybe we'll see another Ike-type situation as it intensifies--the storm will have an unusually low pressure in order to keep a huge wind field spinning, but never make it above Category 2, since it will take so long to spin up such a large wind field.
Storm surge forecast for Isaac
Isaac is a very large storm, with tropical storm-force winds that extend out 205 miles from the center. For comparison, Hurricane Katrina at landfall had tropical storm-force winds that extended out 230 miles from its center. Isaac's large size will enable it to set a large area of the ocean into motion, which will generate a large storm surge once the storm approaches land on the Gulf Coast. The latest 3:30 am EDT Integrated Kinetic Energy analysis from NOAA's Hurricane Research Division put the destructive potential of Isaac's winds near 0 on a scale of 1 to 6, but the destructive potential of Isaacs's storm surge was 2.1 on a scale of 1 to 6. A 2008 paper by Irish et al., The influence of storm size on hurricane surge, found that large storms like Isaac are capable to delivering a 30% larger storm surge to the coast than a smaller storm with the same maximum wind speeds. The angle with which the storm hit the coast is important, too--a storm moving due north or slightly east of north will deliver a storm surge about 10% greater than a storm moving NNW or NW. Consult our Storm Surge pages for detailed information on what the risk is for the coast. I expect that Isaac's storm surge will be about 30% higher than the typical surge one would expect based on the maximum wind speeds.
Invest 97L off the coast of Africa
A tropical wave (Invest 97L) is located about 650 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands off the coast of Africa. The storm has a modest amount of spin and heavy thunderstorms, and is under moderate wind shear. In their 8 am EDT Tropical Weather Outlook, NHC gave 97L a 50% chance of developing by Tuesday morning. None of the reliable models foresee that 97L will be a threat to the Lesser Antilles Islands. However, both the GFS and ECMWF models predict that a tropical wave that has not yet emerged from the coast of Africa may develop late this week, and potentially take a more westward track towards the Lesser Antilles, arriving around September 2.
Angela Fritz will have a new post here by 6 pm EDT. For the next few days, I plan to do the morning blog post, and Angela will be doing the late afternoon post. I'm in Atlanta to help out The Weather Channel with their on-air hurricane coverage, and will be on either in the afternoon or evening on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday.
Jeff Masters
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Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather