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NASA's Hubble Reveals Possible New Moons Around Pluto
Monday October 31, 12:30 pm ET
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to view the ninth planet in our solar system, astronomers discovered Pluto may have not one, but three moons.
If confirmed, the discovery of the two new moons could offer insights into the nature and evolution of the Pluto system; Kuiper Belt Objects with satellite systems; and the early Kuiper Belt. The Kuiper Belt is a vast region of icy, rocky bodies beyond Neptune's orbit.
"If, as our new Hubble images indicate, Pluto has not one, but two or three moons, it will become the first body in the Kuiper Belt known to have more than one satellite," said Hal Weaver of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md. He is co-leader of the team that made the discovery.
Pluto was discovered in 1930. Charon, Pluto's only confirmed moon, was discovered by ground-based observers in 1978. The planet resides about 3 billion miles from the sun in the heart of the Kuiper Belt.
"Our result suggests other bodies in the Kuiper Belt may have more than one moon. It also means planetary scientists will have to take these new moons into account when modeling the formation of the Pluto system," said Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colo. Stern was co-leader of the research team.
The candidate moons, provisionally designated S/2005 P1 and S/2005 P2, were observed approximately 27,000 miles away from Pluto. The objects are roughly two to three times as far from Pluto as Charon.
The team plans to make follow-up Hubble observations in February to confirm the newly discovered objects are truly Pluto's moons. Only after confirmation will the International Astronomical Union consider names for S/2005 P1 and S/2005 P2.
The Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys observed the two new candidate moons on May 15, 2005. The candidates are roughly 5,000 times fainter than Pluto. Three days later, Hubble looked at Pluto again. The two objects were still there and appeared to be moving in orbit around Pluto.
The team looked long and hard for other potential moons around Pluto. "These Hubble images represent the most sensitive search yet for objects around Pluto," said team member Andrew Steffl of the Southwest Research Institute. "It is unlikely that there are any other moons larger than about 10 miles across in the Pluto system," he said.
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QUOTE (imran @ Oct 31 2005, 11:57 AM)
If this holds up, and I guess it will, what kind of complications does this raise for the Closest Approach instrument pointing? I assume that the nominal plan is completely packed with observations, and you can't add an image without subtracting another one from the plan. Is it possible to add C/A images of the new satellites without losing some of Pluto/Charon?
Proactively, would it be possible to alter the time of arrival by some integer number (eg, 1) of Pluto revolutions to acquire alternative geometries WRT the new satellites while keeping Pluto/Charon geometry the same? It would seem that a very small change in velocity enacted in 2007 could tweak arrival by 6.4 days, if desired.
That's assuming that the new satellites aren't orbiting in synchrony with Charon...
New, larger, light-bucket telescopes on the ground should be able to outperform HST in gathering more data on these bodies long before NH arrives...
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I doubt this will cause any problems on the encounter planning, because they haven't even launched the vehicle yet. The exact launch date plays a part in which potential arrival dates are possible... so since we don't know exactly when in the launch window the actual launch will take place, I would be willing to bet that there is no firm approach plan in existance yet. I'm sure they have outlines, but minute by minute planning simply is not in existance yet.
And besides, even if it were, they would have ten years to tweak it a bit. That hardly seems like a major problem. I suspect the bigger problem will be in coming up with an approach timing and trajectory that gives them at least a moderate distance approach to one of the new sattelites, and still gets them their desired Pluto and Charon encounters.
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QUOTE (Mariner9 @ Oct 31 2005, 04:38 PM)
I doubt this will cause any problems on the encounter planning, because they haven't even launched the vehicle yet. The exact launch date plays a part in which potential arrival dates are possible... so since we don't know exactly when in the launch window the actual launch will take place, I would be willing to bet that there is no firm approach plan in existance yet. I'm sure they have outlines, but minute by minute planning simply is not in existance yet.
And besides, even if it were, they would have ten years to tweak it a bit. That hardly seems like a major problem. I suspect the bigger problem will be in coming up with an approach timing and trajectory that gives them at least a moderate distance approach to one of the new sattelites, and still gets them their desired Pluto and Charon encounters.
I thought the same as to you. Perhaps, I am afraid it would be another surprise, with any more moons or any invisible asteroide from Kiuper belt spining around Pluto. It would be a good advise that the NH would have more propellents for main and mini-thrusters than planned to manouver any obstacle since our best telescope still does not look clearly any drifts roaming around Pluto.
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Its been speculated there might be more moons at Pluto. Sometimes I wonder if some astronomers got a shrewd intuition.
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QUOTE (RNeuhaus @ Oct 31 2005, 02:46 PM)
I thought the same as to you. Perhaps, I am afraid it would be another surprise, with any more moons or any invisible asteroide from Kiuper belt spining around Pluto. It would be a good advise that the NH would have more propellents for main and mini-thrusters than planned to manouver any obstacle since our best telescope still does not look clearly any drifts roaming around Pluto.
I respectfully suggest that you really ought to familiarize yourself with some of the basics here -- there are at least four reasons why this scenario is science fiction.
One, there is no way to change the spacecraft at this point -- add mini-thrusters?! The time to make major design alterations came and went a long time ago.
Two, and equally important, you are VASTLY overestimating the hazard, in particular from large objects (observable and steer-around-able). There is a power law that relates the number of impactors WRT size -- if there was a nonnegligible threat of impact with a large object, then there would be a virtual guarantee that the craft would be destroyed by a "rain" of small, but still deadly, particles. Given that we have no reason to fear that (see below), there is virtually zero concern WRT large objects.
Third, while any spacecraft could be destroyed at almost anytime, by a pellet of tiny size, the probability of this is low anyplace in interplanetary space with very rare exceptions. The density of near-Pluto space is lower than that of the asteroid belt, and seven spacecraft have flown through there without incident. Two Pioneers and two Voyagers have flown through the Kuiper Belt, also without incident. Indeed, the various Mars orbiters face a greater threat from debris, and go on year after year -- without incident. In fact, Earth-orbiting spacecraft stand a pretty good example of the low degree of impact menace. And this is already orders of magnitude greater than the threat in near-Pluto space.
Fourth, with the enormous round-trip time for radio signals, any steer-around plan would only make sense for hazards detected well in advance -- and hazards detected well in advance would be, in many cases, detectible from Earth; and in many more cases -- realistically speaking, in almost ALL cases (see above) invisible to the craft until the moment they hit.
The new satellites are estimated to be about 140 km in diameter with orbits 100,000 km across. That is, if a football field were the size of these orbits, the moons themselves would be about the size of a fist. And any undiscovered moons would be more the size of a fingernail. It's really not a great threat that any craft would strike them.
I know that the spirit of this board is in a lot of good fun, but it wouldn't hurt to do a *LITTLE* fact checking before dispensing "good advise".
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Unique orbits cannot be calculated from the available
data, but the measured positions are consistent with nearly circular orbits
in the orbital plane of Pluto I (Charon). On this assumption, preliminary
orbital solutions yield a = 64700 +/- 850 km and P = 38.2 +/- 0.8 days for
S/2005 P 1, and a = 49400 +/- and P = 25.5 +/- 0.5 days for S/2005
New moons in resonance with Plutos rotation?
Charon's period is 6.387 days: 6.387 * 4 = 25.6 days ; 6.387 * 6 = 38.3 days
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Just a couple of points concerning this exciting new discovery:
(1) The orbital periods given for the satellites, 38.2 days and 25.5 days, are really close to the Charon 6:1 and 4:1 resonances. (Of course, those periods have some error associated with them; when more precise values are available, we'll have a better idea of this.)
Here's a question for the classical dynamicists in the audience: since Pluto and Charon are both significantly displaced from their mutual barycentre, would an object orbiting that barycentre in the Charon 4:1 or 6:1 resonances have a stable non-elliptical orbit due to three-body effects? What I mean is, could its distance from the system's barycentre reach several maxima and minima per orbit, instead of just one, if the overall ellipticity of the orbit were low enough to start with?
(2) Just running through some quick Matlab calculations: Seen from Pluto's surface, the two new moons should both have total magnitudes in the neighbourhood of -1 or so. So they should be quite visible. If they're in the neighbourhood of 100 to 150 km across, then, as seen from Pluto, they'd both show disks maybe a fifth to a third the size of the Moon as seen from Earth.
If one of them is 150 kilometres across, it could appear as large as the Moon in the Earth's sky as seen from the other, during mutual closest approach (~15000 km).
[Edit: Corrected an ambiguity.]
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See www.boulder.swri.edu/plutonews for a great deal more info.
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I'm confused here: On the website cited above, the estimates for the diameter of S/2005 P1 are 160 km if its albedo is 0.04, and 110 km if its albedo is 0.35.
But shouldn't the estimated diameters of the new moons vary roughly as 1/sqrt(albedo)? I would've thought that a ninefold increase in reflectively would decrease the estimated diameter by a factor of about three, since the total brightness has to stay the same.
Using 16.8 as apparent M_v for Charon, and 23.0 as apparent M_v for S/2005 P1 as given on the website, and assuming both bodies have the same albedo, I get a diameter about one-seventeenth of Charon's, or ~70 km, for 2005 P1. Have I got something wrong?
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QUOTE (Alan Stern @ Nov 1 2005, 11:16 AM)
Thanks for the update Alan and congratulations on your teams discovery.
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Recently on this board we have discussed how NH would have to be very lucky to fly by two Kuiper Belt objects after Pluto-Charon. Now we get two for free! Should get a sample of five now, NH just became even better value!
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- Another Pterodactyl as each is killed.
- Eggs wrap screen correctly.
- Eggs hatch faster on higher levels.
- Default window 2X arcade resolution with arcade aspect ratio.
- Window size, position, and full-screen recalled.
- Where there's fire, there's smoke.
Today I worked out something that has been a bother since the beginning. Movement keys were cleared as they always are when changing rooms (levels) in Game Maker. I switched to direct hardware polling and now key conditions are not cleared when changing levels. This makes it totally transparent that the entire drawing surface is replaced between levels.
I still need to do the second half of the levels with a rewrite of the spawning routines, making it where buzzards will not spawn where either player is in one player mode.
I also need to apply the hunting/tracking/attack routines to go after the 2nd player as well. The bounders are basically random with just a bit of push towards the player (either in one player mode (one player game or other player has died out)) and wrap the screen when they fly out. Hunters wrap the screen sometimes, but sometimes turn around at the edge and fly back, and they work their way to the player level. Shadow Lords can turn towards your horizontal place at any time when more than a couple of hundred pixels away, and they will also move towards the players vertical position, in effect shadowing your movement with interjecting randomness and zeroing in.
It will have more than minimal system requirements. There is a lot of calculations going on, but holds solid 60 FPS on my system (quad 3.2 AMD with 8 gig ram, but on-board ATI 6xxx). It makes the MAME versions seem like 7 FPS by comparing the smoothness.
It has Window 2X, 3X, and full-screen single toggle now, instead of free scale window that could destroy the font and aspect ratio, but I might add a stretch for the full-screen mode.
Two player mode is perfected, with the same physics and reactions for both players and the game automatically switches to one player mode when either player dies out.
Some of the official console ports don't even have the buzzards pick up knight hatchlings, but have the eggs hatch into buzzards with riders like mine did before. Some don't even have random egg level egg placements, as mine don't either. Yet.
About 80 more hours I think. Probably 3 weeks.
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Nice work, Shocky! For me Joust falls in to that "love to hate" category so many Williams games fall in (Defender and Robotron come to mind). Fun to play, impossible to master. Well... impossible for me to master! I even remember buying a collection of games with Joust on it for the... SNES, I think? After about an hour of playing, I suddenly remembered, "Oh yeah... I suck at this!"
On easy some long high scoring games can be had in this version. Progress is also saved, so if you end a game with men left, you can choose to continue that game next run.
Joust was most bugged arcade game made with belly drags, birds through the gaps, birds flying into the lava, and loss of control endless loops. The only bug I reproduced is birds flying into the lava, but I made it much more rare, and have only seen Bounders do it except a couple of hunters. I made it possible so they could be grabbed by the Lava Troll. I have seen one belly drag in all the testing, and have seen an occasional glitch of other sorts, but nothing that would effect the game.
The arcade game has 90 levels and this has 60 but you will probably not be able to tell as the later (than 60) arcade levels are a repeat series, so I just ended where the repeat starts and cycle from 60 back to 47 for the same effect. The levels progress though so 47 the second time is labeled 61 and the game never ends, but remains for the most part all Shadow Lords. 60 nor any other level is a killer level by any means though, but you will need to get to the top before spawning. Early levels I like to be above of the mid left platform, under the gap between the top left and top mid platform, but at higher levels I get to the top of the screen to start.
My highest score in this version is about 888,000 points. I could not get anywhere near that in MAME, though I could score much higher on the real machine than the MAME version, which has a gimpy refresh rate.
You get a free man every 50,000, which is about every 5 levels, so it's often on the egg waves.
I agree about Defender and Robotron. Tough games I wish I could do well at. Defender is so simple a concept, but the keys are not logical, in terms of flying a ship. I intend to do that game next and try to turn the exact graphics into a more relaxing version of the game.
LOL! Yeah, I think 10 levels was my max at Joust, so 60 should do all right for me! You seem well-versed in Joust lore, Shocky... was killing the pterodactyl a bug or was it a planned part of the game? I thought I had heard it was a bug.
I have not read anything about that. I would bet it was planned as the only way to do it is direct center of an open mouth, and the ? after the word. There was a exploits that made killing them easier by being in the right place and staying there which was not planned.
The Pteros I killed in the arcade were mostly fortunate happenstance when the plan was to avoid them. I never had a chance to play a machine in free mode.
My versions pteros are easier. I have killed three in a row. You can kill them if you are direct center of the mouth with 3 pixels leeway in ether direction even if the mouth is closed. They know where you are but mostly ignore the fact and they strike at random, not at you. It's as if they are blind, but sense you. Still enough of a bother though, especially when there is more than one. I made mine 5000 points instead of 1000 (which is the same as a shadow lord, or even an egg after the third one on each level) as an incentive to give them a go.
Joust v1.3 WIP
The game should be fully playable for a one player game. Two players will work correctly up to level 30, then buzzards can spawn on plats player 2 is on.
-Not all corners of the plats have tweaked collision masks so a player can stick to some of them for a second, potentially.
-Frames Per Second is displayed and is what I am interested in as far as feedback (other than fatal errors). If it is stuck on 60 and you have no issues with other programs, no feedback is required. If you would expect 60 fps but don't get it, or are surprised to get constant 60 fps, some system spec feedback would be appreciated.
Pressing F1 at any point will give you all the info you need.
The attract mode demo will show the control keys as well.
-The FPS display can be turned off and on with F10
-Q will take you directly to the next wave
-W will take you to the last wave
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It's almost finished. I fixed the remaining collision detection issues, made it where the buzzards will spawn anywhere even if a player in on the plat., made it where the player will not spawn on a spot where another player is spawning, or where a buzzard is, unless a buzzard is near all pads, and made the pterodactyls enter at the players vertical level, if one player (either one in one player mode) and track the players as well. Made the game harder, but I think it is still much easier than the MAME version, due largely to the refresh rate of 60fps.
All that is left is settings, and testing, as all features are now in.
Last edited by Shockman; 03-12-2013 at 04:36 AM.
in the Atari 2600 version the pterodactyl could be killed
but only with a direct into the mouth shot
and you had to be on the same plane as it
or else the shot got deflected!
kinda like the exhaust port on the death star!
only a well placed shot counted
man I don't know if it is a good thing or not
that I can remember that from over 25 years ago
but I can't recall what I ate yesterday at lunch!
just showing my age i think...sigh
That's how the arcade game behaves as well. When it is that near though it strikes so you are not likely to hit it with it's mouth closed, not dead on anyway which is also a requirement in the arcade version.
I have my version set up where I could check distance and direction and have it strike at the player, but I did not set it up that way. It does strike, but at random times, and it is attracted towards the player, however all it takes to beat it is to stab it in the tongue area even if the mouth is closed. It should be easy enough to get that behavior like you describe, and it would be more authentic.
I made it 5000 points because it is risky and getting 1000 points as it is worth in the arcade game is also as easy as running into an egg, which don't make much sense to me.
Where this version lacks is mainly strict timing (the game is slower paced), buzzard jousting behavior (just winging that), and riderless buzzards paths (these fly straight in, vector out, and do not sit foot on the platforms) but the hatchling's pickup by buzzards was the hardest part, and I can see why some ports did not even use it, but instead hatch into knights on birds.
It's done. The pterodactyls will track you, zero in on you, and only strike when they have a good chance of hitting you. They will strike at either player, even in two player mode, though they do not track in 2 player mode, you have to instead get in their way. Also the speed of the pteros is based on the skill level now and level 1 is actually quite slow until they strike, level 2 is the default level though. They are deadly at any time meaning if you hit them from behind, above, below, or miss their tongue when facing them, you will be dismounted.
After I had this working correctly, the first test I got hit, then was able to kill two in a row, then got hit, and then killed three in a row, getting 5 kills out of 7 attacks. This is exceptional though, as proven already.
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Serious Grape: Back to the Barrels? An Old-Fashioned Proposal
On Fridays, Deb Harkness of Good Wine Under $20 drops by with Serious Grape. This week, she rethinks how we should make, package, and ship wine.
Picture yourself walking into your favorite market. You've got your reusable grocery bags and a few wine bottles with screw caps.
You do your shopping, you head to the wine section before checking out, and a nice person in the wine section takes your wine bottles. He or she either fills them with wine or cleans them and gives you replacements, filling the new bottles with wine and screwing on the cap.
In a time when everyone is thinking about alternative packaging and the environment, why isn't anyone talking about going back to the days of buying wine straight from the barrels?
I was inspired to think about these issues by my fellow wine blogger, Tyler Colman. Author of the recently published book Wine Politics: How Governments, Environmentalists, Mobsters, and Critics Influence the Wines We Drink (University of California Press), Colman blogs about wine under the nickname Dr. Vino. Because of his thoughtful research and writing, I've come to share his concerns about the enormous carbon footprint that wine leaves on the environment.
Much of this footprint results from shipping. Essentially, we ship wine very inefficiently in multiple, relatively small, containers. Glass is heavy, as are the liquids the glass carries. Sure, there's boxed wine, but this hasn't really caught the public imagination, and it still involves recycling and shipping issues. Ship wine in a bigger container, however, and you leave a smaller footprint.
One barrel contains enough wine to fill 300 bottles. When you ship wine in a big, reusable and recyclable container like a barrel, you are moving wine from its source to its destination, which does far less damage to the environment.
Wine is sold from barrels directly to consumers all over the world. Here in the United States, wine used to be sold this way—before Prohibition. Since Prohibition, however, the government has erected complicated legal barriers that restrict consumer access to wine and limit the ways wine can be bought and sold.
It's time for all that to change.
If you feel it's time for politicians to get out of the wine business, you can make your feelings known at Free the Grapes!, an organization established to help remove the last vestiges of Prohibition from the United States.
If you also feel that it's time for us to start considering alternative ways to buy wine and find alternative energy sources, then start lobbying your local markets. We know that many Americans (specifically Whole Foods shoppers) are willing to pay more and make an extra effort if it means making less of an impact on the environment.
I'm not saying it will be easy or happen overnight, but Tyler Colman's work has convinced me that we need to rethink how we make, package, and ship wine. Do you agree?
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LOS ANGELES – Starting pitchers Justin Jacome and Cody Poteet engaged in an extremely tight pitcher's duel on Tuesday night, but No. 8 UCLA ultimately ended up on top, defeating the Gauchos 2-1 at Jackie Robinson Stadium.
With the loss, UCSB fell to 31-23 on the season, while UCLA improved to 38-15.
Cleanup hitter Tyler Kuresa got the Gauchos on the board first with a first inning RBI single to left-center field, scoring Joey Epperson, who reached after getting hit by the first pitch of the game. It was just the seventh time this season that the Gauchos lost when scoring the first run, compared with 27 wins.
UCLA's first two runners in the bottom half of the first reached on a bunt single and an error, respectively, but the Gauchos escaped damage when Jacome picked off a runner at second base on two consecutive plays before inducing an Eric Filia flyout.
The Bruins were successful in eliminating UCSB's early lead in the second inning, as Pat Valaika lined a triple into the right-center gap before scoring on a Kevin Williams single.
In the decisive sixth inning, Brian Carroll and Kevin Kramer led off with back-to-back singles, the second time in the game that both had reached with nobody out. After a Filia sac bunt, the Bruins plated the eventual game-winning run on a sacrifice fly to right field off the bat of Valaika.
Jacome departed the game after the sacrifice fly, ending the day with a line of two runs and six hits allowed over 5 2/3 innings pitched with a pair of strikeouts and one base on balls. He ended up a tough-luck loser, falling to 5-3.
His counterpart, UCLA's Cody Poteet, has a standout performance, allowing just one hit over six innings. He retired the final 14 batters he faced, improving to 4-6 on the year.
UCSB was able to get a runner on in each of the final three frames, but the Bruins bullpen would bend and not break, pitching out of trouble each time.
UCLA closer David Berg picked up his 17th save of the season after retiring Woody Woodward for the last out.
Sophomore lefty Greg Mahle was spectacular in relief, allowing no hits while striking out a pair of 2 1/3 innings.
The Gauchos will conclude their Big West Conference schedule this weekend when they head north to take on UC Davis. UCSB currently maintains a 14-10 record in conference play and can finish as high as second place. In a departure from the usual schedule, this weekend's games will take place from Thursday to Saturday instead of from Friday to Sunday.
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Augmented reality is interesting, but that technology is way over-used in navigation and point-of-interest apps. That's why it's so refreshing to see a game like Ball Invasion and developers like 13th Lab who use AR in a new and exciting way.
On the surface, Ball Invasion is a simple ball-shooting game that uses your surroundings as a backdrop. But this background isn't just for show, you can actually bounce your bullets off it. That corner in your room is now a vector to get the right angle to pop that difficult-to-shoot ball.
And this game isn't just a game, it's the building block for a new development platform. The platform uses SLAM, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping, a technique that lets you track your location and build a 3D-map at the same time. The team at 13th Lab wants to bundle this technology into a toolkit so other developers can use it in their own creative way. [iTunes via 13th Lab via GigaOm]
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BlackBerry chief executive officer Thorsten Heins said he sees a limited future for tablet computers, an indication he may shelve plans to build a follow- up to the smartphone maker's ill-fated PlayBook device.
"In five years I don't think there'll be a reason to have a tablet anymore," Heins said in an interview yesterday at the Milken Institute conference in Los Angeles. "Maybe a big screen in your workspace, but not a tablet as such. Tablets themselves are not a good business model."
While Heins pushes ahead with fresh smartphones built on the new BlackBerry 10 platform to engineer a sales recovery, he's rethinking whether to offer larger devices. The PlayBook, introduced in 2011, was panned by critics for debuting without built-in e-mail, delivering the tablet a near-fatal blow. Waterloo, Ont.-based BlackBerry took a $485 million charge later that year to write down unsold inventory after shipping as few as 150,000 PlayBooks in the third quarter of 2012.
Heins said in a January interview he'll only consider a PlayBook successor if it can be profitable. He reiterated yesterday that a BlackBerry tablet has to offer a unique proposition in a crowded market.
"In five years, I see BlackBerry to be the absolute leader in mobile computing — that's what we're aiming for," Heins said. "I want to gain as much market share as I can, but not by being a copycat."
In a separate interview with Bloomberg Television yesterday, Heins said he was optimistic about prospects for BlackBerry's new Q10 phone, which sports a physical keyboard. It debuted over the weekend in the U.K.
"We have very, very good first signs already after the launch in the U.K.," Heins said. "This is going into the installed base of more than 70 million BlackBerry users, so we have quite some expectations. We expect several tens of million of units.".
The company is counting on a wave of upgrade buying from BlackBerry users who prefer a physical keyboard to drive Q10 sales and help revive revenue growth. While the touch-screen Z10 sold a million units in its first quarter that ended March 2, in line with analyst estimates, the company's stock has experienced volatility in recent weeks following reports of lackluster demand for the Z10.
Department store Selfridges and outlets of Carphone Warehouse Group Plc sold out of the Q10 quickly, Peter Misek, an analyst at Jefferies Group LLC in New York, wrote in a note yesterday.
"Salespeople were well-versed on the device, and there was more apparent buzz versus the Z10 launch," Misek said.
BlackBerry said April 12 it would ask securities regulators to investigate a report from Detwiler Fenton & Co. that its new phones have high return rates, saying that the "false" information may have been released in a deliberate attempt to manipulate its stock price.
"Whatever the motivation is, you have to use the right facts, and that's what we're challenging right now," Heins said, referring to the company's request for both the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Ontario Securities Commission to review the report.
Data from BlackBerry and one of its U.S. carrier partners Verizon Wireless show that Z10 returns are "completely in line" with the industry and "better than previous BlackBerry launches were, so the quality speaks for itself," Heins said.
In a separate report last week, Wedge Partners said BlackBerry is probably scaling back Z10 production.
Misek, who has a buy rating on BlackBerry shares, said he saw no sign of Z10 manufacturing cuts and that "Z10 sales in Canada, the U.S. and U.K. remain steady with no inventory or return issues."
The Q10, set to go on sale in the U.S. at the end of May, will sell through the four largest U.S. carriers for about $249 (U.S.) on a two-year contract. While that's $50 more than Apple Inc.'s iPhone 5, it's part of a strategy to target business users willing to pay more for a phone they think will boost their productivity, according to analysts including Anil Doradla at William Blair & Co. in Chicago.
The company, formerly known as Research In Motion Ltd., has steadily lost ground over the past three years to Apple and Samsung Electronics Co., which offered more compelling touch- screen devices. Samsung accounted for one-third of smartphone sales last quarter, while Apple had 17 percent, according to IDC. BlackBerry's share fell to 3.2 percent in the fourth quarter and then dropped out of the top five in the first three months of this year.
Heins has said he is exploring the potential licensing of the BlackBerry 10 operating system to other companies.
A successful introduction of the new phones will "create a certain attraction toward BlackBerry 10, and then whatever comes up, we will entertain any valuable discussion for the company," Heins said yesterday. "We are still observing and watching that space, and that's what we will continue to do."


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Hurt led all scorers with a game-high 28 points and 12 rebounds in VCU's 62-49 triumph at East Carolina last Wednesday, posting her fourth-straight double-double. She shot 62-percent from the field to go along with a pair of blocks, an assist and a steal. Hurt also helped snap the Pirates' 12-game home winning streak, one shy of the program's all-time record, scoring 21 of VCU's 31 points in the second half.
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That good news is shared at Mooney Airplane Co., which delivered 23 aircraft valued at more than $9 million in the third quarter of this year. So far this year, the company has delivered 66 planes worth about $28 million, which places it on track to more than double 2004 deliveries. Last year, the company delivered 36 planes.
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SOPA/PIPA proof politicians view of "Small Government" is just buzz words.
Above is a video explaination of this bill, this video is the work and product of http://www.kahnacademy.org I posted this video because I love his website, and the service it provides.
The Stop Piracy Prevention Act as well as the Protect Ip Act also known as SOPA and PIPA . These acts which will pretty much destroy all of the so-called piracy sites will also destroy sites like megaupload.com and fileshare.com (which is my personal way of distributing my freeware software. These sites also pay me x amount of usd cents per file downloaded.) Some users misuse these services and distribute copy write protected material though these sites as well. Other sites like thepiratebay.org will be inaccessible to US users. I have gotten a lot of freely distributed independent movies (one being called Zenith which was a fun little sci-fi flick that featured cowboys from this site. This movie was released prior to the Cowboys and Aliens movie) There have been a few other legitimate products such as certain game demos only released through other torrent search engines. Not only do these bills stop Americans from using these websites but others as well. I would like to note I do not condone Piracy, but I also do not think Congress should put their big noses into the Internet in this fashion. I believe if an ISP wants to restrict user's access to certain websites they should do so without Big Government telling them to.
As I said before there are other websites that may also come under these bills that are not "pirating" sites. One of those is the streaming of broadcast channels in other cities. For instance I am not a football fan, the only sport I really follow is the NHL. I live in Florida, a state that is not really hockey oriented as far as options to follow certain teams. There are websites such as freeredwings.tv, craigslist.com, ebay.com and a few others that will get the axe. Also seeing The Huffington Post is now owned by AOL, political type blogs like ADKOB may suddenly not be available to US Citizens. I am a Detroit Red Wings Fan and I would rather watch my team play other teams than just the Lightning or the other Florida team. Also justin.tv and other sites like it that streams not only sporting events but events that happen in big MMO's like the new Star Wars: Old Republic mmo, EVE Online, WoW(which I have no interest in but Blizzard boasts 12 million still are.) This would also affect Facebook, YouTube, and other sites as well. With Big Brother cutting governments jobs, and then at the same time it seems this bill will create at least one new position within the government. (Probably not an elected one either.) Or another Homeland Security type Department. (which does the job of the Department of Justice and the FBI. It is a redundant Department in my eyes.) Congress for the past four years have claimed of wanting a "smaller government" and to keep us "Democratic" yet they are actually considering bills that will give us a China type of Internet where the government limits what sites an American will use. I think this is the wrong way to do things, and it should show us as much as Congress and the Senate talk about Obama bringing about a more "Socialist America". Yet bills like these have been thought up by Republican Representatives. The same Political Union that claims they are trying to stop America in becoming a socialist or communist nation.
This bill is not even out the gate yet, and there is already abuse. This bill shouldn't be redrafted, this bill should disappear. To be honest if I wanted a government controlled Internet, I would move to China. This is, in my eyes, proof that it is not the Obama Administration that wants this government to become a socialist/communist country. It is always the loudest group that says they are against such things. Actions to me speak louder than words.
These are not the only bills, and I would like everyone to read these bills and browse the many others the 112th Congress has put out. We as Americans have a duty to see things that could one day impact us in a way that would damage our freedoms on the internet. Which has become a big part of our lives, I do not want to one day see the only way we can view websites it by clicking app like buttons in a web browser.
Read the bills come up to your own decision, tell me if I am overreacting or not. These bills like many others are not very confusing to read. They are written so anyone can understand. The first ¼ of any bills come with definitions of certain words in the bills. We need to stay on top of our government. You must remember it doesn't matter what ethnic background our President is, what matters is that the citizens are making sure the representatives that work FOR the citizens , are actually representing the citizens and not their own interests. These people are PUBLIC SERVANTS, we are a part of a democratic republic where the citizen through petitioning, voting, protesting, etc. We the people run this country not the financial elite, not lawyers, not politicians. Politicians are supposed to do things that the citizens want, not what the politicians want. Look where our country is, look at what happens when a majority of the citizens say let them decide because they are smarter than us. If you still think that way wake the frack up, they are not smarter than a majority of the citizens, they don't care about the majority obviously. The minority (those that are in the top 25% of the economic tax brackets) are getting tax cuts. Who has to take up the slack? The ones below that. Because their money comes from those that don't have several houses, or cannot even afford more than one vehicle and still work. Those are the people financially supporting the government. So our say should have more weight than someone not affected by unemployment, or whose job cannot be taken away from them because Congress talks about a smaller government, yet makes decisions that make the governments reach bigger. On January 18th 2012 we will be joining sites and companies like Reddit, American Express, AOL, Creative Commons, Demand Progress, Discover, eBay, Etsy, Facebook, FourInaSquare, Google, LinkedIn, MoveOn, Mozilla, OpenDNS, PayPal, Twitter, Visa, Wikimedia Foundation, Yahoo! and Zynga. We will be protesting by making ADKOB unavailable for as long as those sites and companies are also protesting. Protesting is not just about walking around the streets and camping making ourselves a public and health hazard and bringing about rodents. We know live in an age where digital protesting can be equally effective.
These bills have been found using the Library of Congress Website.
Direct links here:
You can browse all sorts of other bills here:
The site above lists all the bills currently up for vote in their short titles Alphabetically. Congress is also doing things like a College Football act (how does this help the US Citizens in any way?) This is how I get my information by look and reading from the source, not from the media or media controlled sites like the Huffington Post.
If you want a particular site to join in the protest, even browser-based online games (this affects how they advertise. If they advertise on what congress blacklists, they may not be available to US users as well) you can do that here : http://act.fightforthefuture.org/page/m/2e1f2084/1d11336d/71de7597/f863ee6/1642143196/VEsH/
It is now the day after the big protest. Not only did several websites block out their sites as promised, but this also caused quite a stir over the internet. I would like to go over some of the things that happened yesterday during the internet strike. I would also like to not that the extended blackout that ADKOB did was intentional. ADKOB came back up, January 19th at noonish eastern standard time.
http://www.kahnacademy.org posted a video that explains this bill. Kahn Academy is a website that does many video tutorials on math, computer science, political science, and other topics. If you really want to re-learn, or you don't understand a subject he actually explains things to make it a little clearer. (I had to post it above the post because for some reason the blog wouldn't show the video down here.)
The website thepiratebay.org (mentioned above) is a site that actually gives people access to pirated content. (surprise there! It's not like the name of the site is misleading or anything) they released this statement:
For those two lazy to read that press release here is somethings from it that I feel make valid points.
"Over a century ago Thomas Edison got the patent for a device which would "do for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear". He called it the Kinetoscope. He was not only amongst the first to record video, he was also the first person to own the copyright to a motion picture. "Because of Edisons patents for the motion pictures it was close to financially impossible to create motion pictures in the North american east coast. The movie studios therefor relocated to California, and founded what we today call Hollywood. The reason was mostly because there was no patent. There was also no copyright to speak of, so the studios could copy old stories and make movies out of them – like Fantasia, one of Disneys biggest hits ever." "So, the whole basis of this industry, that today is screaming about losing control over immaterial rights, is that they circumvented immaterial rights. They copied (or put in their terminology: "stole") other peoples creative works, without paying for it. They did it in order to make a huge profit. Today, they're all successful and most of the studios are on the Fortune 500 list of the richest companies in the world. Congratulations – it's all based on being able to re-use other peoples creative works. And today they hold the rights to what other people create. If you want to get something released, you have to abide to their rules. The ones they created after circumventing other peoples rules."
Then they stated something about the source of the piracy problem, which I will add my own two cents to.
"To fix the "problem of piracy" one should go to the source of the problem. The entertainment industry say they're creating "culture" but what they really do is stuff like selling overpriced plushy dolls and making 11 year old girls become anorexic. Either from working in the factories that creates the dolls for basically no salary or by watching movies and tv shows that make them think that they're fat."
Here's my two cents adding on to that, because I think it is a very valid point.
When Napster first came out, one of the first ways people could share things like music over the internet using a "peer-to-peer" system. The music industry instead of conforming to this revolutionary idea and provide a similar service charging less than they charged for a cd, and be able to distribute the music more effeciently. Instead they tried and failed to squash it. Rather than to learn why it would have been more profitable to take away the physical product (cd's in this instance.) and provide a service like iTunes that charged per song or a flat rate charge that would ultimately be less than buying individual songs and still be profitible. They decided to spend the countless amount of money to squash the movement, instead of becoming apart of it. They started to do a DRM system (Digital Rights Management.) which later proved easy to circumvent. So they wasted all that money, and all that profit to stop the movement instead of perfecting ways to distribute their products in a more affordable way, digitally they wasted countless millions and time to stop something that could not be stopped with brute force. One can say the same for the Video Game industry, which despite piracy makes more money than a lot of blockbuster movies. Instead of lowering the price of their PC titles, and digitally distribute the product. They followed the bad example of the music industry. Before anyone says well there's steam, I am going to rebuttle that. While steam is a highly effective and good ways to distribute a game there are some flaws. The major one is that in order to play a game you need to open steam first, and a game you buy on steam is usually more watered down than a physical copy. You buy a game on steam and you can't just play a game, you have to wait for steam to open, log-in, then wait for steam to verify that you own the said game. It is a good and effective system, and is great if you like playing games like Call of Duty or Battlefield 3. For multiplayer games I myself prefer to play MMO's. I do like playing single player games, and I see no point in retarding a games performance. I have a very decent computer, in most new games I meet the recommended requirements. However, if I buy the game on steam the performance is greatly decreased. There is a way to circumvent this, none exactly legal. My suggestion to the Video Game Industry, distribute your product through your website using "peer-to-peer" technology. There is in fact, a way to ensure a person has actually bought the game before they download. This technique is actually employed by some indie game companies, where you buy the game and they e-mail you a .torrent file. Peer-to-Peer distributing is actually cheaper in the long run to do, the reasons is you don't have to actually dedicate a server, or even bandwidth past distribution day. All of your paying customers will do your distributing for you. It is not a perfect system I would agree, but I think from a technical stand-point it is a much more cost-effective way to distribute a software product. This would also lower your overhead, so would telecommuting. If you hire employees that work from home there are many advantages. For one you do not have to pay for offices, taxes for those offices, electricity, or new computers for your employees. Your employees more than likely have their own equipment that is on par with the stuff you use in a physical office. Especially for the gaming industry, real-time communication can happen using technologies such as Teamspeak, or Skype if you want to physically see a person face-to-face. There are problems with that, but you will also find that these employees would be willing to work at a lower pay rate, because you take away the actual need for relocation or even the gas expenses to get back and forth to work. With technologies like Cloud Computing you can also monitor your employees activites and make it so any work they do it has to be done in the Cloud to get paid. I actually think these strategies would be more effective in combating piracy, than giving the government more control over the Internet. I would like to note to those that are offended by the word retard, and all of its incarnations, the real meaning of the word has nothing to do with mental disease. In this word's case because it is a verb, the word's meaning is to cause to move or proceed slowly; delay or impede. If you never knew that this word is something more than a very nasty slur, now you know and knowing is half the battle. Besides if I wanted to call someone stupid, I have a rich vocabulary and I can find a more eloquent way to do so.
Rupert Murdoch has tweeted these things.
"So Obama has thrown in his lot with Silicon Valley paymasters who threaten all software creators with piracy, plain thievery."
"Piracy leader is Google who streams movies free, sells advts around them. No wonder pouring millions into lobbying."
"Film making risky as hell. This has to lead to less, hurting writers, actors, all concerned."
"Understand more than all allege! Google great company doing many exciting things. Only one complaint, and it's important."
"Just been to google search for mission impossible. Wow, several sites offering free links. I rest my case."
I invite Rupert Murdoch to either write an article giving reasons why SOPA/PIPA is the answer to piracy as far as the film making industry is concerned. But be prepared to be grilled by myself and many others, since this is an open-ended town hall debate style blog. I honestly would like his personal opinion, not one an employee of his writes while he dictates it. On the one condition that he promises not to sue me, because I make him look foolish. While debating points of the bill that could lead to a more Chinese Internet or one run by big corporations. (which would be worse in my opinion.) With that said here is a general statement to enlighten him and everyone else about how search engines really work. All a search engine really does is find matches to words given in a boolean format. A question or sentence is usually formatted automatically, they only look for WORDS that match not actual content. To demand a search engine to stop access to such things would be redundant. A better approach to this is to distribute in the same fashion these criminals and terrorists do. I would rather download something than buy a DVD or Blue-Ray Disc. I personally do not buy DVD's or Blue-Ray discs for the movie or tv show. I buy these products for the extras. The commentary, the behind-the-scenes stuff. If you want to combat piracy, you are doing it wrong. Legislation and making the government less about the people and more about the corporations WILL NEVER WORK. The first lines in the Constitution is not WE THE CORPORATIONS, but WE THE PEOPLE. Using iTunes, The Sony Network, Netflix, Zune, and other services like it is a good step. But if you want to combat piracy make it irrelevant.
I would honestly rather pay .99 cents USD for a tv show, that I can download to my computer a limited amount of times. You want more people to do this take out the middle man, what I said about ways the Video Game Industry could improve its distribution could be said for tv and movies as well. While the above ways are good, broaden it. I personally don't want to pay a middle-man for something that I can buy directly from the source.
There are ways to make sure that only one computer or network can view a certain file or software. As for movies, I understand many new digital projectors use DVD's or Blue-Rays instead of the old reels. You could also limit the ways someone views these products, Windows Media Player has something that allows it to ask a server for a license rights on many movies. (A lot of these movies I have seen that use this technique is pornography movies, but it is effective.) The cool thing about this is if a media player does not get this license the video will not play. If the license is expired the video will not play. This is part of existing technologies, and this could also cut down on illegal recording in movie theatres.
Because you can use this technology to distribute movies that were in the movie theater, but not yet on DVD and just sell the movie to be able to be viewed for a limited time. (I personally would suggest a week, this way someone can watch a new release in their home for about the price of a movie ticket. But they could view it on their own time.) Also with this technology a certain file could be given a one time view license. Requiring a customer to buy another license or pay a little more for a multiple viewing license. The movie and tv industry would get their money on something that hasn't even come out on DVD yet.
Assuming people are willing to wait for a DVD rip you could employ the same way to distribute DVD ISO's. You could also only allow the iso to be burned once with unlimited playback. The reason this would be more profitable than selling DVD's in a store is that you could sell it cheaper than it could be found in Wal-Mart, and you would make more of a profit. This way you reach more customers, and still provide the fancy packaging in stores as well. Only half of what you sell would be sold back on sites like Ebay, or Craigslist. Digital distribution is more "green" than physical distribution. So instead of being the evil ones, you suddenly become the good corporations. These things I believe would make piracy irrelevant.
Also if you distributed legitimate copies the same way, it would really reduce the need for piracy. My challenge try it or something like it for a year or two, see how it works. If I am right then you could tell me thank you. If I am wrong you are free to call me whatever you want. But I don't think I would be proved wrong.
I could go on and on about this topic, and over the next seven days I will.
I would like to remind everyone who reads this blog, everything written is up for a debate. I want a good clean debate with intelligent points for or against this topic.
Send your representative this link invite them to join in. The purpose of this site is to show that the processes of government should and with our current technologies has the potential to make it a more active one, where exchanges with the citizens and politicians can be more direct than ever before.
Plus I really would like to debate with some politicians on this subject if they dare. They probably won't because they don't even allow non democratic and non republican parties to participate in their debates.
All that being said let the debate begin!
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Spilling out from a helicopter door, rose petals and delicate purple and blue flowers rained down on hundreds of mourners who gathered Sunday to remember Towson pilot David E. Jenny Jr.
Jenny, 30, one of three Marylanders killed in a helicopter crash outside Scranton, Pa., on July 27, was celebrated as a Web-savvy entrepreneur who built and raced fast cars, helped bring fugitives to justice as a bounty hunter and turned a passion for flying into a career.
"Dave lived a much fuller life in 30 years than most people would if given 100 years," his brother, Josh Jenny, 27, said as he addressed those gathered for the service. "As we prepare to move forward in Dave's absence, we recall many life lessons he taught us: Leave your dead-end job. Terminate your toxic relationships. Reject mediocrity. Break those rules. Ask more questions. Apologize more often. Forgive even more often. ... And remember to live like Dave."
The cause of the helicopter crash is under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration. Authorities have not identified who was flying the helicopter at the time of the crash, but David Jenny was the only certified pilot on board.
Also killed were Bernard Michael Kelly, 58, of Ellicott City and his daughter, Leanna Mee Kelly, 27, of Savage; and Carl Robert Woodland, 29, of Lovettsville, Va., and his son, Noah Robert McKain Woodland, 3.
The Kelly and Woodland families have declined to speak publicly. The Jenny family has declined to speak to reporters about the incident.
Authorities have not released information about the purpose of the group's trip, their relationship to one another, where the flight originated or where it was headed. Wreckage was found in Noxen, Pa., outside Scranton.
A preliminary report is expected this week at the earliest.
At Sunday's service, Josh Jenny and his parents, David Sr. and Linda, greeted mourners with hugs and tearful exchanges. The crowd wrapped around Shelly Funeral Home and filled the inside to capacity. About 400 attended the brief ceremony.
Pictures of David Jenny and a model helicopter flanked an urn on a memorial table.
In his eulogy, Josh Jenny told stories of his brother and their childhood adventures, including a time when — even though they had the chickenpox — they were stuffed into snowsuits for a sled dog race with the family's Siberian huskies.
As adults, the brothers had plans to fly across the country, as their grandfather had done 75 years ago, Josh Jenny said.
"I take comfort in knowing instead of seeing him only some days, he will be with me wherever I go," Josh Jenny said.
David Jenny moved to Maryland about five years ago and most recently lived in Towson. He worked with Fort Meade-based Monumental Helicopters, which provides flight instruction, tours and rides, as well as aerial photography services.
He was a 2001 graduate of Palisades High School in Kintersville, Pa., and earned an associate's degree in computer science from Bucks County Community College, according to the Jenny family.
Tears stained Mike Carr's face as he recalled the kinship he felt with David Jenny.
"We all have big, crazy dreams, and I know some of them are just stuff you talk about and it never happens," the Doylestown, Pa., man said. "He just made it happen, and that's the only way it will happen."
Outside the funeral home, after the helicopter flyover, family friend Betsy Cepparulo held a balled-up pink tissue and one of the flowers that had fallen from the sky as she struggled to describe her emotion.
"Dave was a pretty quiet guy, and that was wonderful that they found a way to honor him without words," said Cepparulo, who now lives in Oakland, Calif.
Cepparulo said the number of friends and family who came to the service was overwhelming.
"Any time someone really young dies, it's both touching and so sad, because so many people are really hurting."


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According to the fatwa, the prophet Muhammad could not have sex with his fiancée, A'isha when she was six due to her small size and age. However, the fatwa said that at age six, he would put his penis between her thighs and rub it gently because he did not want to harm her. Imagine a man of fifty-one removing the clothes of a sex year old girl and slipping his erect penis between her thighs, rubbing until he ejaculated on her thighs. To this day, this is considered a benevolent act and is all about the adult "not wanting to harm her." How much more harm can a grown up man inflect do to a female child than showing her his penis and stripping her clothes and rubbing his male organ between her thighs? Of course, the twisted mind who would do such an evil to a female child would not hesitate to ejaculate on her body. Moreover, if the person was such a sexually pervert pedophile he would not stop at ejaculating on her thighs, but he would probably go ahead and rape the child before she become an adult and is exactly what Muhammad had done to A'isha. Let us see what the fatwa said about the prophet Muhammad and his child-bride, A'isha...
Thighing of children is practiced in many Arab and Muslim countries, notably in Saudi Arabia and Yemen and Gulf countries. Those countries are notoriously known for that evil practice. It is very common to see a man of seventy or eighty years of age marrying a child of eight or ten. Recently an eighty-year-old Saudi man married a ten-year-old girl. On the wedding night, the child's privates hemorrhaged so
badly until they had to take her to the hospital. Another recent case was of a Yemeni man who raped his child-bride until she died. Those were just a handful of the thousands of rapes that take place each year on the pretense of marriage.
Sheikh Hamadan intended to marry the child of the Indian maidservant and practice thighing on her until she reached the age of nine. At this time, Iffat was almost eight. She was seven years and eleven months old. She didn't even know what sex was. When she saw her mother stripped naked by the two policemen she thought they were killing her. When the Saudi policeman took her out of the car and showed her his male organ and tried to force her to hold it in her hand she did not have an inkling about what he was trying to do to her mother. What she did know was that it was wrong to show your privates in public, and she resisted his attempts to fellate him. As it turns out, the sacrifice of a mother offering herself to the two policemen prevented Iffat's rape. Alas, her mother was unjustly incarcerated and Iffat lost her one and only guardian with no one to protect her from the evil man, Sheikh Hamadan.
A quotation from my new book, "The Child-Bride and the Old Man of Arabia".
A volunteer proofreader, Darlene Karnz Enderby wrote, I "just love" reading this book!! Its hard to put down!! So "very" interesting....
Another volunteer proofreader wrote, "This is fascinating reading! You are a terrific writer, by the way. This is truly an honour" Warmly, Nancy.
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To everyone interested. I have brutalities written the above quoted book on Social Injustice and Abuse of Female-children and Women. It is titled "The Child Bride and the Old Man of Arabia". I am looking for volunteers to proofread it. It is 832 pages. However, it is interesting to read and very informative. Each volunteer will have to choose to proofread 25 or 50 pages. The book and its contents should remain confidential and not to be shared or passed to anyone.
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