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Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc. AAPL 1.17% are bringing the smartphone wars to the Pentagon.
The U.S. Department of Defense expects in coming weeks to grant two separate security approvals for Samsung's Galaxy smartphones, along with iPhones and iPads running Apple's latest operating system—moves that would boost the number of U.S. government agencies allowed to use those devices.
Both companies have been pushing hard to win over U.S. defense agencies, some of the government's most security-conscious customers. That market is small and still largely dominated by Research In Motion Ltd. 's BlackBerrys, so the new security approvals won't likely translate into any immediate, big sales or new customers.
Still, the approvals are among a handful considered to be the gold standard in communications security. Passing muster at the Pentagon can go a long way in making other security-minded customers—such as bankers and lawyers—feel more comfortable using the devices.
For Samsung, in particular, its push in Washington is the latest attempt at winning more corporate and government customers. Samsung has hired several former RIM executives as well as veterans from security-focused companies. It recently created an enterprise-focused division within the company that has been reaching out to Western governments.
Last month in London, Samsung hosted the first meeting of a new government-advisory board, made up of Samsung executives and technology-security experts from Western government agencies, including the U.S. National Security Agency. The NSA sometimes participates in such industry groups, focused on shaping new products for government agencies.
During the two-day meeting, which included a dinner at Gordon Ramsay's Maze restaurant, the head of Samsung's new enterprise unit, BC Cho, said it was "a little bit embarrassing" that the company's smartphones weren't being used by government agencies, considering how many consumer phones the company was shipping, according to meeting notes reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
The meeting also included representatives from the British National Technical Authority for Information Assurance, the agency that ensures British telecommunications security, and government representatives from Canada, Australia, France and Germany. Samsung told attendees it planned to roll out a more rugged version of its flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S 4. As previously reported by The Wall Street Journal, the new phone, tentatively called the Galaxy S 4 "Active," would be waterproof and dust proof.
Such a product could appeal to consumers who want to take their phone mountain climbing or kayaking. But it could also be attractive to government agencies needing devices for officials in hardship postings, or even soldiers on the battlefield.
While the primary pitch of the meeting was to persuade governments to give Samsung a chance at winning government business, the company was also upfront about its bigger ambitions.
Samsung Executive Vice President Young Lee, head of the company's European operations, said at the meeting that Samsung knew it wasn't going to bring in "big volumes" of government contracts, compared with its consumer market, but said others would surely follow, according to the meeting notes.
"Once we are certified by the government, more easily we can convince others, the bankers and also big enterprise and so on," he said, according to the meeting notes.
Toward the end of the two days, one Samsung executive joked that perhaps once Samsung obtains government approval for its new devices, the NSA could get U.S. President Barack Obama, well known as a BlackBerry and iPad user, to take up a Samsung device. "You never know," the NSA representative, Margaret Salter, responded, according to the notes. An NSA representative declined to comment.
The Defense Information Systems Agency, or DISA, the agency that sanctions commercial technology for Pentagon use, is set to rule in the next two weeks that Samsung's Galaxy line of smartphones, preloaded with Samsung's Knox security software, conforms with the Pentagon's so-called Security Technology Implementation Guide, according to a Defense Department spokesman. That would allow it to be used by some Pentagon agencies for things such as sending and receiving internal emails.
A Samsung representative declined to comment.
Separately, DISA is expected to rule in early May that Apple's latest operating system, iOS 6, conforms to a different security-requirement guide, the Defense Department spokesman said. That would allow iPhones and iPads to be used by military agencies for nonclassified communications, such as email and Web browsing.
The Defense Department has more than three million employees, though not all of them are issued devices. The agency's spokesman said the approvals "do not directly result in product orders, but facilitate the process by eliminating the need for security reviews at the individual DOD organization level."
Many government agencies—including some divisions of the U.S. military—have already approved iPhones and iPads for use. But the Pentagon certification would allow more security-sensitive government agencies at the Pentagon to start using them, and would allow more widespread use of the devices across government agencies. An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment.
The two smartphone makers have to go through a different vetting process. Samsung's phones rely on Google Inc. 's Android operating system, which is used with an array of device makers and is based on open-source software, so it can be more vulnerable to security breaches. Apple's operating system, meanwhile, is proprietary and viewed as more secure.
RIM, meanwhile, has long held the Pentagon's top security approvals for its older-model BlackBerrys. But more recently, it has had to go back to seek fresh approval because its latest BlackBerrys, the touch-screen Z10 and keyboard-equipped Q10, run off a new operating system. RIM says it is close to getting top Defense Department approval for the new OS, called BlackBerry 10.
"We are working with DOD and DISA to ensure we have approval as soon as possible," a RIM spokeswoman said in a written statement. The DOD said a decision on RIM's pending approval "is expected in the next two weeks."
—Jessica E. Lessin contributed to this article.
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I've never seen anyone talk much about early versions of TrackMania, but looking through old videos of Sunrise online, I came across this...
I thought maybe this was an early beta or maybe alpha version of the game. There's a number of differences, like sound effects, interface. It even has the original editor! The music is very different to anything heard in TrackMania Sunrise, so maybe this is the latest piece written by Henri-Pierre Pellegrin for the TrackMania series? I don't speak the language used in the video, so I can't translate anything that the guy says. Also, it seems to have an earlier version of the water, because at around 1:28 you can see the water's graphics glitching a bit.
If anyone has any idea about this, or wants to make any corrections, go ahead. This has sparked my curiosity and I hope it interests anyone else who hasn't seen this.
An interesting video I found
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Very, very cute! I could also see using a wooden spool instead of making the box. It would take much less time!!!
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William J. Schmidt, a former department store buyer who later became director of administration for the Housing Authority of Baltimore City, died Monday at his Bel Air home of complications from Parkinson's disease.
He was 79.
The son of a Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. actuary and a homemaker, William Joseph Schmidt was born in Baltimore and raised on Aisquith Street.
He was a 1951 graduate of Mount St. Joseph High School in Irvington and earned a bachelor's degree in 1955 in business administration from what is now Loyola University Maryland.
Mr. Schmidt enlisted in the Army in 1955 and served with an armored reconnaissance unit at Fort Knox, Ky. He was discharged in 1957 with the rank of captain.
After leaving the service, he worked as a garden and toy buyer for Montgomery Ward, and later in the same capacity for Stewart's department store.
"He brought home a lot of great toy samples from shows," said a son, William J. Schmidt III of Parkton.
After his 1961 marriage to Germaine L. Schortt, the couple settled into a home on Hamilton Avenue in Hamilton, where they raised their five children.
After taking a civil service examination in 1968, Mr. Schmidt went to work as a budget analyst for Baltimore City.
"When Dad was working all kinds of hours during budget season, I can remember my mother loading all five of us in the van at 8:30 p.m. to run downtown and pick him up from City Hall every weeknight," his son said.
"He was very sharp when it came to the budget. He wasn't just a budget analyst, he was the principal budget analyst," said Charles L. "Chuck" LaHatte, who retired in 1995 from the city budget department.
"He was very dedicated to the work, and of course this was the era before computers. We'd be there until 10 or 11 at night, when we were facing a budget deadline, and we had to make that deadline," said Mr. LaHatte of Bowleys Quarters.
"He got along well with everyone and especially those in the various agencies with which we had to work," he said, adding that Charles L. Benton Jr., the longtime city budget director, "was very fond of William. I remember him calling for [Mr. Schmidt] on the P.A. system to ask him about something and bypassing the head of the department."
In the late 1980s, he joined the city housing authority, then under the direction of Marion W. Pines, as director of administration. He also wrote grants.
"He was an extremely conscientious and caring guy. He had an integrity that could never be questioned," said Ms. Pines, who for the last 25 years has been senior fellow and director of the Sar Levitan Center, the Johns Hopkins University's Institute for Policy Studies.
"William was an honorable and caring man. It was a pleasure to work with him," she said.
During his City Hall career, Mr. Schmidt worked under Mayors Thomas J. D'Alesandro III, William Donald Schaefer, Clarence H. Du Burns and Kurt L. Schmoke.
"He quietly worked with politicians and high-level bureaucrats, and was in that group of civil servants that just got things done behind the scenes," his son said.
After retiring in 1995, Mr. Schmidt moved to Ocean Pines, where he lived until three years ago, when he moved to a home in Bel Air because of failing health.
While living in Hamilton, he was an active communicant of St. Dominic Roman Catholic Church, where he served as a member of the parish council and budget committee. He had also been a Cub Scout leader.
A pigeon fancier since the age of 16, Mr. Schmidt raised and showed several national champions. He had also been the longtime secretary of the Greater Baltimore Pigeon Fanciers Association and the Eastern Tumbler Club.
He also liked working in stained glass, making lamps and small windows, and woodworking. He enjoyed carving decoys and drawing and painting animals in watercolors and oils.
A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Mark Roman Catholic Church, 2407 Laurel Brook Road, Fallston.
In addition to his wife and son, Mr. Schmidt is survived by three other sons, Steven Schmidt of Pooler, Ga., David Schmidt of Plano, Texas, and Robert Schmidt of Alpharetta, Ga.; a daughter, Jean LaHatte of Bel Air; two brothers, Francis Schmidt of Abingdon and James Schmidt of Kingsville; and 13 grandchildren.


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Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones says it "looks like" injured running back DeMarco Murray will end a six-game absence Sunday against Philadelphia.
Jones said on his radio show Friday that Murray didn't have the usual setbacks associated with someone returning to practice for the first time in weeks.
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Perhaps it's a little early for this, but I have a Christmas gift suggestion – albeit an expensive one – for the baseball fanatic on your list.
(If my wife Peg is checking out the blog these days, that absolutely includes me).
It's the mega-collection of World Series highlight films that has just been put out on DVD by MLB Productions (you can check it out here).
I grew up in Lakewood, NY (south of Buffalo) and rooted for the New York Mets as a kid because we got their telecasts on cable TV. I'm pretty sure that the first three songs I committed to memory were Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, Old McDonald Had a Farm, and Meet the Mets.
One of my most vivid memories of watching Mets games as a kid in the 1970's and early 1980's (aside from Lindsay Nelson's hideous jackets and Ralph Kiner's malaprops), was how excited I would be whenever there was a rain delay because that usually meant seeing the official highlight films of the Mets' World Series appearances in '69, and '73.
That's how I learned about Ron Swoboda's amazing catch, the "shoe polish" incident involving Cleon Jones, Charlie Finley's brazen attempt to get rid of Mike Andrews in the middle of the World Series for making two errors, and – sadly – an aging Willie Mays falling down in the outfield.
Those World Series films were so compelling that I hated it if the Mets game resumed before the movie ended.
Well, there's no longer a need to pray for rain.
MLB Productions has put out a blockbuster – all 65 World Series films (on 20 DVDs) beginning with the 1943 matchup between the New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals. The DVDs are accompanied by a glossy commemorative book that includes a foreward by Bob Costas. Like I said – it's expensive – the cheapest I can find it online is for roughly $180.
If I don't receive it as a gift from my wonderful, fabulous, gorgeous, incredible wife (how's that for a hint), I'm sure I'll plop down the dough and buy it myself because it would be perfect for PawSox bus rides next year.
That way, when Manager Ron Johnson wants to watch one of his favorite movies on the bus like Open Range or Ghost Rider for the 50th time, I can pop a DVD into my laptop and relive great moments in World Series history.
I'll make sure Hyder isn't watching in the seat across the aisle when Mookie Wilson steps to the plate in the 10th inning of Game 6 in '86. I wouldn't want his screams to startle the bus driver and force us off the road.
The prospect of watching World Series DVDs doesn't necessarily make me eager to resume those long bus rides, but I am looking forward to Christmas morning.
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Spain train crash: Could it happen in U.S.? Unlikely, experts say
27.07.2013 02:53 A high-speed passenger train derails as it rounds a curve, killing dozens and injuring scores more. That scene played out Wednesday in Spain, leading U.S. residents to ask, "Could it happen here?" The answer: Not likely, not now, if only because there's precious little high-speed rail in the United States. Also, the train that crashed near Santiago de Compostela is an extremely complicated machine, nothing like any train in the United States, said University of Dayton assistant professor Steven Harrod. "From the U.S. public's point of view, I think it's important for them not to be scared or panicked about this," said Harrod, whose research expertise lies in railway operations. "I could never imagine such a complicated piece of equipment running in North America." Where the United States, like most of the world, has a standard track width of 4 feet, 8.5 inches, the Spain train was designed to run on both that gauge and on wider tracks that are used in much of Spain and Portugal, Harrod said. "The wheels on this train actually move, so you can imagine the complexity that adds," he said. Spain's high-speed AVE trains run on a different voltage than other trains in the country, so this train's electrical system was outfitted to adapt to multiple voltages and signal systems, and because parts of Northwest Spain have no electric wires, the train was designed with a diesel engine so it can run on both electric and nonelectric tracks. "It's an enormously complicated train, nothing like the U.S. or North American continent has ever seen," Harrod said. In the crash video, he said, "the train looks like it peels off the track between the diesel engine and the first coach." This is the weakest juncture in the train, he said, because the coach car is far lighter than the engine. America's slower locomotives While Harrod said there are routes between Chicago and St. Louis and Chicago and Detroit where trains can top 100 mph (the Spain train was reportedly running about 118 mph), the closest the United States has to high-speed rail is the Acela Express that runs between Washington and Boston at advertised speeds of up to 150 mph. But that's a bit misleading, some say. The trains rarely travel that fast because along many stretches the tracks aren't rated for that kind of speed. Amtrak announced in September it plans to run test trains at 165 mph in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. "They're operating on tracks and going through tunnels that are 100 years old," said Robert Puentes, a transportation expert at the Brookings Institution. While Acela trains could potentially derail, Federal Railroad Administration requirements demand they be heavier than similar trains in Europe, making them less likely to fly off the tracks, according to an excerpt from "Waiting on a Train: the Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service," posted on the publisher's website. Speed limits enforced by the agency also keep the trains moving slower than their powerful engines allow, further reducing the risk of an accident. Those limits are necessary because of curves, small tunnels and freight traffic along the same tracks, according to the book, written by James McCommons. "The high-speed corridors in Europe and Japan are straight, level, sealed from intrusion, and set aside solely for fast passenger trains," McCommons writes. "To create such a corridor in the Northeast with its dense population would cost tens of billions of dollars and require the purchase or condemnation of more land and neighborhoods." The curves, traffics and tight tunnels may actually make U.S. trains safer, Harrod said, because engineers have to pay more attention, especially since there's far less automation in American trains than in European ones. "Human factors play a big role, including the risk of oversight due to boredom. The Northeast Corridor is curvy with frequent speed changes, so engineers there never have a chance to get complacent or bored. They are constantly braking and accelerating," he said. "We don't have this level of computer control. In most places in the U.S., the engineer's in the cab. He's watching visual signals outside the cab." American trains also have an auto-stop feature, so if an engineer misses a stop or caution signal, either inside or outside the cab, the brakes are applied automatically. Slow progress for high-speed rail High costs and political opposition have led to limited success for efforts to bring widespread European- and Asian-style high-speed rail to the United States. President Barack Obama used the 2009 economic stimulus package to dole out $8 billion for high-speed rail projects, and in 2011 proposed spending $53 billion over six years to promote construction of high- speed lines around the nation. More than two years later, there's been little progress. While the federal government offered money to spearhead high-speed rail efforts in states such as Wisconsin, Ohio, Florida and California, Republican governors in Wisconsin and Florida killed the projects. In California, voters in 2008 approved a 520-mile high-speed rail project that would have carried riders between San Diego and San Francisco at nearly 200 mph. Since then, the cost estimate has gone up, speeds have come down and the route has been limited to a roughly 200-mile stretch between Fresno and Burbank. Now, the attention appears to be turning to state and local initiatives. A private company has proposed a line in Texas, while another private proposal would bring high-speed rail linking Miami and Orlando, Florida. But for high-speed rail to make significant inroads into the United States, the nation would first have to make significant improvements to basic infrastructure, such as tracks and bridges to allow freight and passenger traffic to coexist, said Brookings' Puentes.


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Mission Statement The mission of Star Career Academy is to: * Provide performance-based occupational training to prepare students for entry-level employment in allied health fields, cosmetology, professional cooking, baking and pastry arts, and hotel and restaurant management. * Help students gain the confidence needed to perform at their highest potential and pursue life-long learning and advancement. * Help students understand and meet professional ethical standards. The administration and faculty of Star Career Academy are committed to facilitating the mission by: * Meeting standards of excellence as determined by its accrediting and licensing agencies. * Delivering programs that meet the needs of the community. * Providing the support services needed to allow all students to achieve their goals. * Ensuring that the school has the resources needed to realize its educational objectives. Training at Star Career Academy is "performance-based," using simulated work environments run by industry professionals. Graduates are equipped with the practical skills needed to meet the demands of the intense cosmetology, culinary, hospitality and allied healthcare workplaces of New York, New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. In addition, students learn teamwork, professional standards and ethical practices. Classroom and laboratory training is capped by an externship in most programs. Students go on-site at a doctor's office, clinic, hospital facility, hospitality or culinary arts location and experience "realtime" employment requirements. By the conclusion of the externship, a student is job-ready and Star Career Academy's Career Service Advisors will assist the student in scheduling interviews at area facilities. The atmosphere at Star Career Academy schools is professional, but still warm and friendly. Instructors and students work together in a setting similar to real workplaces. Teamwork and human relations skills are developed and students learn the professional and ethical standards required for employment in the field. Instructors and advisors are available to assist students with educational and personal problems as strives to have every student meet his or her career and life goals.
Institutional statistical data was gathered from the U.S. Department of Education - Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, 2009-2010.
Institution Type
- 2-year, Private for-profit
Special Learning Opportunities
- None
Student Services
- Academic/career counseling service
- Employment services for students
- Placement services for completers
Credit Accepted
- Institution does not accept dual, credit for life, or AP credits
Religious Affiliation
- Not applicable
Federal Aid
- Eligible students may receive Pell Grants and other federal aid (e.g. Direct Loans).
Degrees/Certificates offered
- Less than 1 year certificate
- 1-2 years certificate
Campus Setting
- Suburb: Large
Disability Services Student
- 3% or Less
Admission Total Applicants Full Time Retention Rate 55%
Student Demographics Total Enrolled 443 Native American 1.0 Asian 18.0 African American 60.0 Hispanic 76.0 Enrolled FullTime Undergraduates 201 Enrolled FullTime Graduates


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