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MSU's Tom Izzo rejects chance to coach Cavaliers
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Tom Izzo is staying at Michigan State, turning down a chance to coach the Cleveland Cavaliers and perhaps LeBron James.
"I'm pleased to say I am here for life at Michigan State," Izzo said in a statement released by the school on Tuesday night.
For the past nine days, Izzo has been trying to decide whether to leave the place that has been his home since 1983 and jump to the NBA to perhaps make $6 million -- doubling his salary -- and possibly coaching one of the best basketball players in the world.
"Just as I decided to stay home, I hope a 6-8, 270-pound forward in Cleveland decides to stay home," Izzo said in a statement.
James' uncertain future will make for a difficult decision for any prospective Cavs coach. The 25-year-old superstar is unlikely to tip his hand publicly before free agency begins July 1.
"It's been an agonizing week as I tried to make a decision about a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," Izzo said in a statement. "I apologize for the time the process has taken, but sometimes there are opportunities that come about that must be thoroughly examined."
The Spartans have scheduled an 8:30 p.m. ET press conference with Izzo, school president Lou Anna Simon and athletic director Mark Hollis.
This past season, Izzo led the Spartans to the Final Four for the sixth time in 12 years. Only the late John Wooden at UCLA and Duke's Mike Krzyzewski also have done that.
"It's a great day, knowing he's coming back," said Mateen Cleaves, perhaps Izzo's favorite player and one of the stars from his 2000 national championship team. "It put the biggest smile on my face to know he's coming back."
Milwaukee Bucks guard Charlie Bell, who played on the 2000 national championship team, was also glad to hear Izzo's staying: "Izzo is Michigan State basketball."
Izzo's snub has further tangled a tricky summer for the Cavaliers, who are weeks away from knowing if James will be back with them.
Since losing to Boston in the second round of the playoffs, owner Dan Gilbert fired Mike Brown, the most successful coach in team history; general manager Danny Ferry left after deciding not to renew his contract following five banner years; and now Izzo, a friend of Gilbert's, doesn't want to be in the Cavs' future.
James' decision hangs over all of it. Without knowing if he'll return, the Cavs' pursuit of a coach has been nearly impossible. They can't promise candidates that No. 23 -- soon to be No. 6 -- will be around to make another run at a title.
The Cavs were adamant that James would not be consulted during their coaching search. Even if a coach had talked to the two-time MVP, he wasn't going to reveal his plans before hitting the free-agent market with an All-Star class that includes fellow Olympians Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh.
Cleveland's next option appears to be Byron Scott, who spent an hour on the phone last week with Cavs GM Chris Grant and assistant Lance Blanks. Scott may not be a slam-dunk backup plan for the Cavs because the former New Jersey and New Orleans coach would be interested in the Los Angeles job if Phil Jackson retires.
Scott won three titles playing for the Lakers and has dreamed of coaching in L.A. He had an "out clause" built into his contract with the Nets so he could pursue the Lakers' job if it ever opened. He also loves the West Coast after being fired by the Hornets and might seriously listen to the Clippers if they're interested in him.
The Cavs also have contacted Milwaukee assistant Kelvin Sampson and former Atlanta coach and Cavs assistant Mike Woodson. The team could bring one of both of them in for interviews, but may wait until after they have a better sense of James' next off-the-floor move.
Gilbert knew finding Brown's replacement would be difficult. He said it would be ideal to have a coach in place by July 1, but that may be unrealistic. The draft is next week, and although the Cavs don't currently have a pick, they've been shopping around to obtain one.
They've also talked to several teams about possible trades, hoping to upgrade their roster and make it more appealing to James.
Brown was fired after five seasons for failing to win a championship. His successor will be hard pressed to match Brown's success over a five-year span, when the Cavs went to the finals, won two division titles and had the league's best regular-season record the past two seasons


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Skype Calls with Classrooms Help Propel Author to Best Seller Status
Skype Calls with Classrooms Help Propel Author to Best Seller Status
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02/20/2013 in Play Blog by Shana Pearlman
Author Nancy Richardson Fischer is a veteran storyteller. But in the age of the internet, the publishing industry has faced unique challenges, and reaching audiences interested in reading new stories has become more difficult. For Fischer, it was embracing new technology – including Skype – that has helped expand her horizons in the publishing space.
Fischer first heard about Skype in the most unexpected of places: a small fishing village of Prea, Brazil. "Everyone in the middle of nowhere knew about and used Skype." After her trip, she started just using Skype video calling to keep in touch with friends.
But that changed when she decided to take a new route to publishing her bookPandora's Key, her first foray into young adult fiction. Pandora's Key, Book One of The Key Trilogy, is about Evangeline, an Oregon girl whose life is uprooted when she is given an ancient key that plays a pivotal role in a prophecy stemming from Greek mythology. Unless Evangeline can discover her true identity and use her wits and newfound powers to fight her deadly adversaries she will lose everyone she loves…but can she accept who she really is and save the world?
"All of my past books had been published through traditional publishing houses. I've done everything from sports autobiographies to Star Wars books for LucasFilm previously… this is the first book I self-published. The publishing world is rapidly changing." With essential promotional activities like marketing and public relations outreach now also her responsibilities, Fischer was looking for unique ways to promote her book and reach her young adult audience.
Shortly after publishing Pandora's Key, Fischer discovered the Skype in the classroom program and felt it was a fantastic opportunity. She began having regular Skype video calls with classrooms across the US to discuss her book. "When you self-publish, the onus is on you to create relationships with your readers," Fischer said. "With Skype, I interact with students and build connections more directly. It helps build stronger relationships by allowing for face-to face connections." Fischer's video calls with classrooms provided direct access – something that neither she nor her student readers had ever had previously.
The feedback and reactions she receives from students are the best part about the Skype calls. "I can hear what the kids like about my book, what they want to see in future books – 'I want more action, I want more romance, who is going to live or die?'" she said. "I love seeing their faces so I can see what excites them, where they want me to go with the story." Her most recent Skype call was with a classroom in Boulder, Colorado. The students, who had all read her book and were currently studying a unit on Greek mythology, gave their thoughts on the book and asked Fischer questions about what it's like being an author and how she comes up with the ideas for her books. This month, Fischer will connect with a classroom in Moscow and another in Portland, Oregon.
Fischer's experiences conducting Skype calls with classrooms have paid off. Pandora's Key was first released in December 2011, debuting at #330,000 on Amazon.com's sales list. By September 2012, the book had reached the #5 spot and broken the top 1,000 for Kindle books in the contemporary/fiction/fantasy category. In December, Pandora's Key again reached the #5 spot in its category and broke the top 600 books overall in the Kindle Store.
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I was reading tips for better health in a weekend magazine and came across one that indicated we all need to get 7 to 8 hours of sleep for optimum health. I have read this several times, especially concerning weight loss and maintenance. The paragraph on adequate sleep ended with this statement: "Lack of sleep has shown to increase the risk of breast cancer." That brings the list of things that contribute to breast cancer up to a zillion.
I intend to research this. It is not often I accept a statement like this without follow-up and research, so I have made it my project this week. Where did that info come from, and why haven't I heard it before? I tend to agree that adequate sleep is necessary; I sure feel disadvantaged when I am forced to do with less sleep. In fact, I sleep well, always have and I hope always will. Even before, during and after cancer diagnosis and treatment, I slept great. Stress seldom inhibits my ability to sleep; it may wake me up to worry for a bit during the night, but it doesn't prevent me from getting to snooze-ville.
The fact that this statement was included as an afterthought in this article with no backup or further information troubles me. I am concerned that as survivors of breast cancer we take this information seriously, and therefore every time someone introduces a risk factor, we do not skim over it, we absorb it and file it in our minds. The alcohol risk factor has been well-documented, and most cancer patients and survivors have altered their lifestyle with regards to even social consumption. Red meat is another highlighted risk factor, and many of us avoid it as often as we can. These are two examples of how we address information about risk factors. Getting more sleep is certainly not going to hurt any of us, but some, upon hearing this, may alter how they spend their day.
I think that like all pharmaceutical and nutrition claims that have to be government-approved, any so-called risk factors should have a governing body that they are responsible to. We need responsible, documented and researched claims. For some of us, our lives depend on it!
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Dan Kaminsky on DNS, Web attacks
Noted network security researcher Dan Kaminsky, director of penetration testing at IOActive, has been at the center of attention as a result of his discovery of a serious DNS flaw. In this interview, conducted at RSA Conference 2008, Kaminsky dives into his latest work around DNS rebinding attacks and what enterprises can do to protect their resources from these Web-based attacks. Kaminsky also covers some of his research on the spoofing of SSL VPN certificates and other emerging threats. Kaminsky is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. He is probably best known for his Black Ops talks at the annual Black Hat Briefings. Kaminsky, formerly with Cisco and Avaya, is also an advocate for Net Neutrality.
Read the full transcript from this video below: Dan Kaminsky on DNS, Web attacks
Mike Mimoso: Hi, I'm Mike Mimoso, editor of Information Security magazine. Joining me today is Dan Kaminsky. Dan is the director of penetration testing at IOActive and he is also a well-known network security researcher. Welcome Dan.
Dan Kaminsky: Thank you very much.
Mike Mimoso: For years your presentations focused a lot on network security. Lately you've been talking a lot about the Web, Web 2.0 attacks. Why the change in direction?
Dan Kaminsky: As far as I see it, the Web is the natural extension of all the low-level network research that was going on. Once upon a time, all your applications were actually port-oriented. You had a socket. You sent raw bytes and that's how it worked. You had 65,000 ports. You found out what was on the ports, you send bad things to the ports and the service fell over. And that was security, or at least that was security research. It's a different world now. I mean, a lot of the application code is really at the http layer. You have parts of the URL name space that have interesting things to play with. You have, instead of TCP options, instead of IP options, you have cookies. You have form fields. You have all of these different points that have actual direct analogs to what was going on down at layer 3. It's just a lot of that has been moved to layer 7. Now, if you think about it, once upon a time, everything that people ran, most of the code was stuff that was listening on a port. Nowadays, a lot of people get these huge packages, and what do they have their own developers do? They have them build Web applications. This stuff is non-standardized. It is often barely engineered. It's engineered to the point that it works and no more. What we see is fairly junior people can knock these things over trivially.
Mike Mimoso: Alright, so what are some of the down in the weeds Web flaws that organizations need to be aware of?
Dan Kaminsky: What I'm looking at right now are interactions between the Web, specifically between the browsers and devices behind firewalls. There's a lot of code behind firewalls that is not exactly of the greatest quality. There's a lot of systems. There's a lot of things that just don't even have passwords. People say, "That's fine. I know it doesn't have a password, or I know the password is admin admin. But it's okay because it's behind the firewall." You know what else is behind the firewall is the Web browser.
The Web browser was supposed to prevent the bad guy from out on the Internet who is just showing you an ad, from doing anything inside the firewall. It's supposed to enforce something called the same origin policy that would only show things to you and not allow you to become a proxy into internal networks. What we're finding are there are bugs there. There are bugs in the fundamental same origin policy. It started with DNS rebinding attacks. But between the DNS rebinding research that I'm doing, the cross site request forgery research that Jeremiah Grossman's been pushing and the UPnP vulnerabilities that Connective Citizen's been finding, yeah there are some real interactions between the Web browsers that are actually fundamental to the real way business gets done and the devices that keeps things going.
Mike Mimoso: Tell me about some of the DNS rebinding research that you've been presenting.
Dan Kaminsky: It's actually really interesting. I mean, this is an old bug. It was found in 1996. It was so old, we forgot about the bug and kind of put it back. The idea is that the security policy is based on names. Food.com can give you a fully scriptable object for food.com. Bar.com can give you a fully scriptable object to bar.com. If food.com imports something from bar, say an image, a video, even its whole Web page, it can show it to the user. The user can even click around and do whatever they want in this other domain's content. But, food.com can't go ahead, script inside and impersonate the user. Well, the problem is that the Internet does not work on names. The Internet works on numbers. We use the DNS protocol to map from names to numbers. Now, how many numbers can be returned? Whose number can be returned? There are no controls. So you can have badguy.com who simultaneously tells you, "Yeah, I'm out in Europe. I'm also the printer down the hall." He just gives you both addresses. The browser actually goes ahead and applies the same security policy to both because they may be two addresses, they may be two locations, they may be 10,000 miles away, but they have the same name. And so the policy fails.
Mike Mimoso: Is that related to the same origin policy? That's how it works?
Dan Kaminsky: That is specifically how the same origin policy is failing. The way the same origin policy is failing, is that one name that is attacker controlled is simultaneously applied to external hosts that provide malicious script and internal hosts that fall victim to the vulnerable script. What I was demonstrating at RSA for the first time was, you go to my website and it's out in Florida. It's actually funny. I call this Zombie Alan Touring. What would touring do? I think touring would use JavaScript, a touring complete language to hack home routers. So, you go to my Web page, a little window pops up. That's your home router's user interface, and literally it just goes like a ghost. Admin logs in, clicks over to the actual configuration page. The name servers are all changed to my malicious name server. Now I am your entire Internet connection. I'm greedy. I go ahead; I go over to the remote administration page. I check off the box that says remote administration and then just for fun I go to the firmware update page. I can actually update your router's firmware because you saw an ad on my website.
Mike Mimoso: Just for fun?
Dan Kaminsky: Just for fun. Well, it's not just for fun. I mean to be fair I'm in this game not to just break stuff. One of the fundamental discoveries that I've had actually doing consulting, is finding the bugs are maybe 2-5% of the work. I mean, really. Actually getting this stuff fixed is an enormously complicated and messy problem. I've worked a ton with Adobe to actually get even worse problems fixed. At 11 a.m., right before my talk, they released the final patches. They fixed everything. It's one of my proudest moments. I spend a lot of time working with Microsoft on a huge number of issues as well. So, there are really bad bugs and sometimes to get the really bad bugs fixed, people need to see it. It needs to be up there. There needs to be a ghost in the machine.
Mike Mimoso: Can you share any practical advice for organizations on how to defend themselves?
Dan Kaminsky: Oh! This is one of the shining moments for IT staffs right now. There's been an assumption that it doesn't matter if a device has no password. It doesn't matter if a device has a default password, and people have just left the things there. This is the great moment for IT staffs to actually scan their network, find out what their exposure is to a malicious Web browser that's going through the devices and actually apply policy that says, "We're going to do something about devices with default passwords. For purchasing we're going to prefer devices that can interoperate with enterprise password systems. That can do tack ax that can do AD, that can do radius." This is perfect for the model of, "We're going to apply policy, we're going to scan the system, we're going to find those out of compliance and we're going to do something about them."
Mike Mimoso: So if the Web protocols are bad and the network protocols are bad. What's the answer there? Certainly starting over isn't practical.
Dan Kaminsky: You can't start things over. But you can always incrementally improve. There are things that device manufacturers can do to detect this class of attack being run on them if they're making a particularly sensitive device. One actually really interesting mitigation. Now, we ship millions of these little home routers. Every month, millions of these things go out. It is absolutely incredible. They all have to have default passwords. Now, this is heresy in information security. How dare you have a default password. I can't believe you'd ship something with a default password. You know what? I've spent time in the real world. You're talking about guys that have, every time they get a support call it's a huge amount of money and that device no longer became profitable. In fact, a hundred devices no longer became profitable because someone picked up the phone. So, what do you do when the addition of a non-default password makes your device no longer profitable? I get that. But you know, we could say, "Oh, you're logging in with a default password, and it's been more than 15 minutes since the device started. Pull power. Put it back in." Actually authenticate yourself by physical presence. It's not the first time we've done things like this. It's a really interesting possibility for how we can go ahead and have at least the home devices, at least these routers that are even customer premises equipment. You want to use the thing that's actually affordable. You want to use the actual default password. At least close the window and force the user to actually physically prove their presence in the room. I can do a lot with a Web browser, Bbut the Web browser cannot get telekinetic and pull out a plug and put it back in. That ain't going to happen.
Mike Mimoso: You have to intervene.
Dan Kaminsky: There will be no Active-X object that can move solid matter. I hope.
Mike Mimoso: You do work in a lot of organizations. Can you tell me about the state of security in most of those that you work in?
Dan Kaminsky: Once upon a time, if you did not invest in security, your entire network went down because of a worm. That time is over. That's good, that's fantastic. Things got better. Things getting better is a rare pleasure in our industry. We don't usually get to partake in that, things usually just get worse. But it's a bit of a mixed blessing. We got this kind of influence. We got this kind of awareness because networks were going down. Networks don't go down anymore. It's not that the bad guys aren't still getting in; the botnet situation is out of control. People are in everything, everywhere. It's absurd. But the botnets are much kinder. They break into the box and they shut up. Because as my co-worker Jason Larson says, "It's not about ownage. It's about continued ownage." You go ahead and make a huge amount of noise. You go ahead, you take out a lot of systems and it's like the immune system comes and takes you out and removes you and formats and does whatever it takes. But if you just shut up and just every once and awhile leak high business value information, no one stops you. This is actually causing real issues for influence for actually being able to get problems fixed. Probably the fundamental challenge that security has right now is, how do you remain relevant when you're attackers are not visibly destroying the company? You don't know why your competitors know how much you bid on something. You don't know how that company got your specifications. You don't know where the lawyers on the other side got all that. It's a golden age for breaking into networks. As long as you don't take them down, it's a struggle to get you taken care of.
Mike Mimoso: Thanks again for joining us Dan. And thank you for watching. For more
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The HTC 7 Pro is one of the few QWERTY handsets available for Microsoft's shiny new Windows Phone 7 operating system, also appearing as the HTC Arrive variant for those on the US Sprint network. But will this "pro" model be a business workhorse or a consumer darling?
HTC do know a fair bit about QWERTY handsets, despite their strong portfolio of touchscreen devices currently across both Windows Phone 7 and Android. The HTC 7 Pro isn't just a reworking of the HTC Desire Z, but is more akin to some of their older devices like the HTC Touch Pro2, back in the bad old days of Windows Mobile.
Things have moved on for both Microsoft's mobile OS and for HTC, and the HTC 7 Pro shows all the attention to detail that you'd expect from a modern HTC device. Rather than being a straight side-slider like the Desire Z, it is a flip slider, so the screen pops-up at an angle giving you more space for the keyboard without resulting in a hugely wide phone when opened up.
The screen comes in at 3.6-inches, so it is one of the smaller Windows Phone 7 displays out there (whilst packing the defacto 800 x 480 resolution), but given the extra bloat that the keyboard brings with it, you get one of the heavier and larger devices around. It measures 117.5 x 59 x 15.5mm and weighs 185g. We noticed that weight in long calls and despite the slick design, the top edge of the phone is extremely uncomfortable to hold against your ear thanks to the sharp ridge along the top. That said, we didn't have any problems with the quality of the calls from the phone.
Given that this is a Windows Phone 7 device, it conforms to those specifications laid down by Microsoft. As such you'll find three controls across the bottom of the display - back, Start and search. There is a volume rocker on the left-hand side and a camera button on the right. The power/standby key is on the top, alongside the 3.5mm headphone jack. Charging/syncing is handled by the Micro-USB on the right-hand side.
The design picks up some of the notes of the HTC HD7, with two grills at either end of the face of the handset. They look a little like they could house stereo external speakers but they don't - it's just a design point. The external speaker is around the back, next to the 5-megapixel camera which is supported by an LED "flash".
The slide mechanism is worthy of note. It's fairly substantial and doesn't pop open quite like the Desire Z does. One handed opening is pretty much impossible, so you have to grip it in landscape and use two thumbs to get it going. The top the slides over the base, revealing the keyboard then flipping up thanks to a sprung section once it reaches the back edge. The bottom of the screen then slots into a recess in the base, so it is securely opened. To then close it you need to push the screen down flat and slide it back across the keyboard.
Opening the phone reveals the indent that will allow you to pop off the back cover, which can't be reached when the phone is "closed". You won't really need to access the internals that often anyway, because this being a Windows Phone there is no option for expanding the internal memory - you take the 8GB that HTC provide you and you like it, Microsoft encouraging you to take advantage of the your SkyDrive space that comes with your Windows Live account if you need more storage. Realistically speaking, 8GB is pretty respectable unless you really need to carry a huge collection of movies or music.
Sitting at the core of the HTC 7 Pro is a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor backed by 512MB RAM. This is pretty much a par-for-the-course configuration and once you power on the phone you are greeted by the happy smiley face of Windows Phone 7. We've covered Windows Phone 7 in some detail in our review of the OS, and things have moved on slightly since launch, with apps available to download through Marketplace hitting the 10,000 mark recently. If you are new to Windows Phone 7 is is worth reading our review of the OS too, as we won't cover all the details here.
For those worried about whether Windows Phone 7 is going to meet your app needs, we always say it is worth considering the apps (or services) you currently use. You'll find the likes of Facebook and Foursquare are well equipped with apps, although Twitter's official offering is a little slow compared to iPhone or Android alternatives. You can also get apps from companies like eBay and through the HTC Hub you can download a reasonable YouTube app too.
Of course the HTC Hub also offers you some other applications that you may be familiar with if you've used HTC devices in the past. There is a Photo Enhancer which will let you apply effects to images (with some basic options in the camera too) and there is a Sound Enhancer that lets you tweak the on-board SRS options, which will beef-up your music or movies. Of course, the HTC Hub icon on the Start page also reflects the local weather and opening it up gives you some of the full screen animated weather that HTC are known for.
There are some areas that see Windows Phone 7 a little lacking: the elephant in the corner that is copy and paste is still forthcoming and advanced users might find that they can't always change settings to configure the phone exactly as they might want. There is no sign of Flash for the browser and Bing Maps, although fast and accurate, isn't as impressive as the latest iteration of Google Maps.
The size of the device means the on-screen keyboard is a little small, but we still found it easy enough to bash in text one-handed in portrait without too many problems. Flip the phone into landscape and you'll be able to go two thumbed on the screen, but given that this is a QWERTY device, you're more likely to flip it open and start bashing out your messages on the hardware keyboard.
The thickness of the phone and the size of the keyboard make it much more comfortable and natural to use than the Desire Z which is a real bonus point. One of the negatives is that Windows Phone 7 isn't full conversant with landscape operation, so you'll find that some apps never give you the option of landscape entry. Sure, you can pop-out the keyboard, hit the text box and start typing, but it's difficult to follow text entering horizontally from bottom to top.
Fortunately the core applications: search, messaging, emails, Internet Explorer, contact profiles and the calendar all work in landscape, as do many apps that involve text entry, significantly Office, so you can drum up a Word document at your leisure. In fact we started writing this review on the device, saved it to SkyDrive and then continued work on the laptop.
The oddity, however, is that Windows Phone 7's iconic wrapping wallpapers and sliding screens haven't quite made the transition to landscape. So when you open up Office, for example, you have to navigate the app in portrait before switching to landscape for typing. You're similarly restricted in Marketplace, Xbox Live, and the Zune music player. To be fair there isn't much typing to be done in some of these apps and if you hit the search button, you can enter search in landscape, get search results in landscape, but when you click through you're back into portrait.
The result is a QWERTY device that doesn't quite hang together and offer a completely seamless user experience. In practice this is more of an inconvenience than it is a serious deficiency and given that the text entry experience of Windows Phone 7 from the keyboard is pretty good anyway, we'd sooner pick one of the larger touchscreen devices. However, if you intend to enter a lot of text, then at least this phone gives you that option, accepting that the experience has limitations at this time.
The keyboard itself is good, the device nestling neatly into the hands for double thumbed entry. The finish isn't quite as nice as we've seen on some other QWERTY devices and there isn't very much travel in each key so it doesn't feel quite as positive as we'd like. The layout is conventional, offering up five lines of keys, so it is larger than many rivals. At no point did we find we had to stretch excessively either. The top line offers a full row of number keys, so numeric entry is easy without pressing and holding like some others will want you to do.
Some keys offer alternative characters highlighted in yellow which correspond to the FN button on the keyboard. However, a long press on the respective key brings up that character so the FN button becomes almost redundant, unless you want to toggle it on with a long press which seems unlikely unless you are writing $#!t. The Shift will offer Caps where needed and can also be toggled with a long press if you need to SHOUT something. The positioning of these two keys is a little awkward as you often need a capital letter on the fly and hitting the Shift is tricky - it would have been better in the bottom corner, rather on the line above.
The camera on the rear of the handset offers 5-megapixel photos offers up average quality of images, a little flat and lacking the sort of vibrancy we'd like to see, but is perfectly adequate for sharing online quickly and easily through WP7's in-built social functions. The dedicated camera button does mean you can easily launch the camera and the autofocus is fast enough on a half press of this button. Typically the flash is of little practical use, lacking the power to illuminate anything other than a very close subject and on the flipside blowing out anything too close to the phone - but this is common of most such arrangements.
Video capture offers a top HD 720p resolution, but we found that the camera reverted to 640 x 480 every time we left the app, so you'd have to reinstate the top resolution in the settings before pressing the button, which is a bug that needs to be fixed. The quality of the video captured isn't that good either lacking sharpness and detail in anything by close work. It offers in-video autofocus, but this is a little temperamental and only really good for major changes in subject - often failing to notice that we'd moved something in front of the camera to examine.
Managing content on your device with a PC is easy enough, the Zune software offering up a great comprehensive interface to manage content with - including any device updates that come along. On a Mac it is less pleasant, with Windows Phone 7 Connector giving you very few options and imported video and photos being unceremoniously dumped into iPhoto with on options at the point of save. Still, it's nicer to have the software than not, especially as you can't just mount the device to directly add and remove content - something we'd like to see in the future.
Battery life from the HTC 7 Pro is reasonable. In general conditions we could manage just over a day, although we found ourselves charging most nights to ensure we'd make it through the following day.
Overall the HTC 7 Pro doesn't impress us as much as we'd like it to. Windows Phone 7 in general is aesthetically pleasing and offers most of the features and connectivity you'd demand from a modern smartphone, but there is obviously still a fair way to go to capture the speed and excitement of Android or iOS. It did seem stable on the whole, with no crashes encountered during our time with the phone. The only thing that did fall over was email syncing with one of our Google accounts (only one mind you) that was solved by removing and then adding that account again.
The HTC 7 Pro offers up respectable hardware but is let down because the operating system isn't fully conversant with landscape use. That means you'll spend a lot of time switching back and forth between the two aspects, until, like us, you'll probably decide that the touchscreen input is good enough and the keyboard gets used less and less.
QWERTY Windows Phone 7 devices are something of a rarity and we can see why Dell opted for a vertical slider with their Dell Venue Pro given the limitations of Windows Phone 7. The HTC 7 Pro doesn't critically fail and is pleasant enough in day-to-day use, but it doesn't feel like a complete experience yet.
Thank you to Expansys for the loan of this handset.


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The move from 2D to 3D has been written about a great deal over the past ten or fifteen years, and despite vendor enticements, the architectural and engineering communities have maintained a very slow adoption rate. To speed up that adoption rate, as discussed at AU last November, Autodesk offers up the AutoCAD 2007 release, debuting March 23rd, as an opportunity to move from 2D to 3D in a less painful way than has been available in the past.
In a meeting held in San Francisco two weeks ago, John Sanders, vice president, Platform Technology Division, offered a view of the new product which is the platform for the support of all vertical products going forward. The platform technology division is responsible for the DWF file format, Buzzsaw, the family of viewers and conversion tools. The division also localizes all Autodesk products into approximately 19 languages around the world. Their primary responsibility, however, is AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT.
Sanders said that in the past AutoCAD had not concentrated on visualization and presentation. Idea creativity has not been able to start in AutoCAD, so people used other products from other vendors for idea creation up to this point. AutoCAD users found it difficult to edit and maintain data and some did not want to purchase additional third party products.
Conceptual design tools have existed inside AutoCAD, however, Sanders said they have not been easy to use. With the 2007 release, Autodesk has taken some of the features of tools such as VIZ and 3ds Max and put them into the new release. Having all conceptual design in one environment that is familiar to the AutoCAD user and easily navigable is what characterizes 2007. Plus, the DWG file format has been changed once again with this release, but it is backwardly compatible.
The 2007 release focuses on idea creation, visualization and construction documentation or, in the words of Autodesk's marketing arm: "design, visualize, document, share, migrate." The target customer is someone not familiar with 3D - they are generally overwhelmed with tools that have high level feature sets. "There is a larger customer base for simple feature set animation and visualization," said Sanders. "[With 2007], they can get nice results very quickly."
Under the heading "visualize," the intent is to draw in the non-technical audience with presentations that are easy to understand. Obviously, most of these audiences are not going to readily understand architectural drawings. The new 2007 enables architects and engineers to create a look they want to present to their clients, including new line work styles, object transparency, and real-time shadows that are determined by the time of day and geography. Also, users have the ability to drag a camera around and record an action, do an animation and walkthroughs.
"The younger user wants things like game walkthroughs," noted Sanders. Traditionally AutoCAD users have been older males, who were not generally as interested in such capabilities. However, as the new release contains this capability, Sanders expects that more users of all ages will learn it as it comes at no additional cost.
In the demo, a building was built and created using visualization and animation, in about 10 minutes.
Starting from a 2D drawing of a building, a designer can leverage the conceptual design data to drive documentation creation. All the products built on AutoCAD: Architectural Desktop (ADT), Civil 3D, and Map 3D will have all the features of AutoCAD and more.
In building an interior, the demonstration showed a basic 2D outline, and you could
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I am so glade to hear that you had such a great recovery!! About how long did it take.
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College Station, TX - The Auburn baseball team could muster just a single run on seven hits as it fell at No. 18 Texas A&M, 4-1, in the series finale on Sunday afternoon. With the loss Auburn, which won the series, fell to 19-13, 3-9 SEC while Texas A&M improved to 20-13, 6-6 SEC.
Will Kendall (0-3) was charged for two runs in five innings, surrendering a run in the first and another in the fourth to take the loss.
"I thought Will Kendall did a very good job for us. He handled himself well out there, went deep into the game and I was very pleased with what he did and his ability to throw his change-up for strikes," Auburn Head Coach John Pawlowski said. "It was a pitcher's duel and unfortunately we couldn't do much offensively. Give them credit. Their pitcher (Rafael Pineda) did an outstanding job. We took a lot of bad swings and some of the balls that we hit we weren't able to square them up."
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Alleman again singled and scored on a Cole Lankford double in the sixth for the 3-1 lead.
Mitchell Nau walked and was pinch ran for by J.B. Moss, who eventually scored on a passed ball for the final run of the game.
Ebert and Wacker each finished with two hits for Auburn as all seven hits came from the top five in Auburn's order.
Allemand led Texas A&M with a 2-for-2 day, scoring the two runs.
Auburn returns home for four straight games, beginning Wednesday at 6pm against Alabama State for Dollar Hot Dog Night. Auburn will then play host to Georgia for a three-game SEC series beginning on Friday at 6pm.
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Yoko Tawada is the author of many books, including Memoirs of a Polar Bear. She writes in Japanese and German and has won the 1993 Akutagawa Prize, the 2016 Kleist Prize and the 2017 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. 'The Last Children of Tokyo' is taken from her new novel with the same title, forthcoming from Portobello Books in the UK. It will be published as The Emissary by New Directions in the US.


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The Cameron University Department of Criminal Justice and Sociology will continue its 2012-13 Speakers Series with a presentation by Duncan Chief of Police Danny Ford on Monday, January 14 at 11 a.m. The presentation will take place in the Wichita Room of the Shepler Center and is open to the public at no charge.
Ford has more than 35 years of experience in law enforcement with emphasis on street patrol, firearms instruction, training, supervision, and administration. After beginning his career in Marlow, he moved to Duncan, where he served as a patrol officer, assistant chief from 1987-95 and chief of police from 1995-99. He left that post to join the Cameron University faculty as an assistant professor of criminal justice, where he taught a variety of classes ranging including police administration, stress management and victimology for 10 years. In 2009, he re-joined the Duncan Police Department as Chief of Police and Director of Public Safety.
Ford is known across the state for his leadership in CLEET, where he currently serves as chairman of the Advisory Council, and other law enforcement agencies. He holds bachelors and masters degrees and has completed the FBI National Academy in Washington, D.C.
The Criminal Justice and Sociology Speakers Series is made possible by funding from The GEO Group Endowed Lectureship in Criminal Justice and Sociology. Upcoming speakers will be Hector Rios, Warden, GEO Lawton Correctional Facility and James E. Finch, Special Agent In Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Oklahoma City Division.
January 9, 2013


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SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Europe and the United States teamed up on Tuesday to press Bosnia, Serbia and Kosovo to overcome the legacy of Yugoslavia's bloody collapse as a condition of closer integration with the West.
"If you do not make progress you will be left behind," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned at the start of a trip to the region with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.
NATO member Croatia will follow Slovenia in joining the 27-nation EU next year, but accession is a very distant prospect for the other five countries carved from federal Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
In Bosnia, where 100,000 people died in a 1992-95 war, Clinton urged rival Serb, Muslim and Croat leaders to overcome ethnic infighting that has stalled reforms sought by the EU and NATO, "for the sake of the young people of this country".
In Serbia, Clinton and Ashton called on the government to mend relations with Kosovo, the former Serbian province where ethnic Albanians declared independence in 2008 with the backing of the United States and major European powers.
"This is good for Serbia and it is good for Kosovo," said Ashton, who is leading a push for agreement in EU-mediated talks.
Serbia rejects the secession, and some Serb leaders still hold out hope of retaining a small northern region of Kosovo populated by Serbs and controlled from Belgrade.
Clinton, whose husband Bill Clinton wrestled with the wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo as U.S. president, said this would not happen.
"Kosovo is an independent nation," she said after meeting President Tomislav Nikolic and Prime Minister Ivica Dacic.
"The borderlines of Europe will not change. But there is still a great deal that can be accomplished by Serbia and Kosovo working together.
"I understand that this is difficult. But it goes hand in hand with meeting the needs of the Serbian people."
The West invested heavily to cement peace and stability in the former Yugoslavia, using the pull of NATO and EU membership to reconcile foes and encourage reform.
But progress has been patchy. The debt crisis in the euro zone has contributed to a growing sense of resistance among some EU members to further enlargement, and hurt the bloc's influence in the Balkans.
"The euro crisis and the EU's diminishing ability to win hearts and minds threaten to both marginalize and fragment the western Balkans," Dimitar Bechev wrote in a policy brief for the European Council on Foreign Relations think-tank.
While Croatia will join the EU next year, others are at least a decade behind. Bosnia has yet to apply for membership, its development hostage to opposing visions of its future.
Bosnia's Muslims want the central state strengthened, but are opposed by leaders of the autonomous Serb Republic who frequently threaten to secede.
Clinton said such threats were "totally unacceptable" and a distraction from the real problems facing the country.
The Muslim chairman of the rotating Bosnian presidency, Bakir Izetbegovic, said the EU and U.S. investment in Bosnia's future would be "preserved and protected".
"We have to finally turn toward and focus on building a joint future in this country," he said.
Clinton and Ashton flew to Kosovo late on Tuesday ahead of talks on Wednesday. Clinton, who is expected to step down as secretary of state early next year, will then continue to NATO allies Croatia and Albania.
Additional reporting by Daria Sito-Sucic in Sarajevo and Aleksandar Vasovic in Belgrade; Writing by Matt Robinson; Editing by Andrew Roche


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The Galaxy S7 Edge from Samsung is packed with innovative technology making it one of the top smartphones of 2016.
The stunning Quad HD 5.5-inch curved Super AMOLED display includes an "Always ON" feature that shows notifications when in sleep mode so you don't need to wake the phone up which saves on battery power and lets you see all you need to know at a glance.
The phone has a powerful octacore 64 bit processor and 4GB RAM for a seamless performance and the dust and water resistant chassis has been specially designed to hug the contours of the palm to feel like an extension of your hand. The camera technology is a standout feature with a 5-megapixel selfie camera and a fantastic Dual Pixel 12-megapixel camera on the back. The rear camera has two diodes allowing it to focus as quickly as your eyes would and to capture all the available light for stunning night time photography.
The Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge includes Wi-Fi, GPS, NFC and 4G and Samsung has added a microSD card slot that can accept cards up to 200GB making this phone able to store everything you could need. Mobile gaming is superb thanks to the dedicated gaming centre and the high resolution screen making this phone great for work, entertainment and everything in between.


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Ashkenaz Employees Recovering after Berkeley Robbery
The managing director of a Berkeley music venue is recovering along with another employee who was shot during a robbery at the center early Saturday morning, a center spokesman said.
Larry Chin, who has worked at Berkeley's Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center for about 30 years, was shot in the head just after midnight Saturday and another employee was struck in the arm at the center located at 1317 San Pablo Ave., Joe Balestreri said.
The Ashkenaz Music and Dance Center is an international music and dance venue and teaching center.
Chin was expected to be released from the hospital today, Balestreri said, and to go to his Concord home to continue his recovery.
The other employee, who has worked at Ashkenaz for about five years, underwent an operation Sunday and is expected to fully recover, Balestreri said.
The two were shot early Saturday morning when two armed suspects entered the center and demanded cash. The suspects shot and wounded Chin and the other employee before fleeing, Berkeley police said.
Officers arrived on the scene within moments and attempted to stop one of the suspects who was fleeing from the area.
The suspect ran into a yard and officers surrounded the block.
Police conducted a yard-to-yard search of the area with the aid of an Alameda County sheriff's K-9 deputy and found the suspect hiding behind a building in the 1300 block of San Pablo Avenue.
Police have not released the name of the suspect who was arrested. As of this afternoon, the second suspect remains at large.
Balestreri, who has worked at the venue for 16 years, said this weekend a series of events were held for the center's 40th anniversary and continued as planned despite the early morning violence.
"We felt a real solidarity over the weekend," he said with many supporters and former employees coming to anniversary events after hearing about the shooting.
"All went well and smoothly and peacefully," he said.
Before Saturday night's show a community leader led a prayer and ceremony for the two shooting victims, he said.
The violent robbery has prompted Ashkenaz staff to re-evaluate their security policies, Balestreri said.
Balestreri said the center is looking into having security staff and having less cash out.
A security camera at the front door captured some of the violence and the footage has been given to Berkeley police investigators, he said.
"I still feel completely safe here," he said, emphasizing the staff's prime concern is keeping patrons and employees protected.
Balestreri said the community is generally peaceful and this was only the second violent incident in the venue's 40-year history.
Those wishing to send donations or get well letters can find contact information on the center's website at www.ashkenaz.com.
Anyone with any information about the robbery and shooting is asked to call the Berkeley Police Department at (510) 981-5742 or (510) 981-5900. Those who wish to remain anonymous may call Bay Area Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-8477.


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Pressure was building on French President Francois Hollande on Thursday over a disgraced ex-minister's secret foreign bank account, as it emerged that his one-time campaign treasurer was a partner in companies registered in the Cayman Islands.
With Hollande away in Morocco on a state visit, calls grew in France for top officials in his embattled French Socialist government to resign over the scandal that saw former French budget minister Jerome Cahuzac charged in a tax fraud probe.
Cahuzac — the minister responsible for cracking down on tax evasion until he resigned two weeks ago — was charged on Tuesday with "laundering the proceeds of tax fraud" after he admitted to having an undeclared foreign bank account containing about 600,000 euros (US$770,000).
The former hair transplant surgeon had for weeks repeatedly denied — to the French president, in parliament and in media interviews — ever having had a foreign account.
Critics have accused Hollande and his government of either trying to cover up the scandal or of mismanagement for having believed Cahuzac's denials.
The head of the main opposition right-wing UMP party, Jean-Francois Cope, said the government no longer had the credibility to rule.
"The only solution possible, the only one, is a major government reshuffle, including the prime minister," Cope said.
French newspapers said Hollande was facing his biggest political crisis since taking office, with Le Parisien saying the situation had become "untenable" for the government.
A source close to French Housing Minister Cecile Duflot, one of two ministers from the Greens party in Hollande's government, said she had demanded "a strong political response" to the scandal during a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.
Adding to Hollande's woes, Le Monde newspaper reported that his campaign treasurer for last year's presidential vote, 59-year-old businessman Jean-Jacques Augier, had joint ownership of two firms registered in the Cayman Islands, a well-known tax haven.
Augier confirmed the existence of the firms and said they had been set up to form partnerships with foreign entrepreneurs.
"There is nothing illegal," Augier told Le Monde, which carried out the probe with the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and other international media.
Hollande appeared on national television on Wednesday to address the Cahuzac scandal, vowing a new law within weeks on the "publication and control" of the wealth of ministers and parliamentarians.
He said he knew nothing of the foreign account and that Cahuzac "did not benefit from any protection" from the government.
The government was struggling to contain the scandal on Thursday, with ministers insisting it did not go beyond the actions of one man.
Opposition lawmakers have called for a parliamentary probe into the scandal and an opinion poll showed nearly two-thirds of respondents saying the government has handled the situation badly.
Hollande had promised a government of unimpeachable morals after his predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy was embroiled in a series of corruption investigations.
The tax scandal is further damaging the standing of Hollande, who is languishing in opinion polls less than a year into his five-year term.
A TNS Sofres poll released on Thursday, but conducted before the scandal erupted, showed Hollande's approval rating at only 27 percent.


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This jolt emphasizes the difference between understanding something and applying that learning. It is perhaps our favorite jolt.
Participants learn the difficulty of listening and following directions required for even simple activities such as clapping their hands simultaneously.
To emphasize that actions speak louder than words
Training Topics
Any number over ten
This activity works best with groups of ten to one hundred
2 minutes for the activity
3 to 10 minutes for debriefing
Conduct a practice round. Ask all the participants to clap their hands once. Pause while participants do this.
Brief the participants. Complain that the participants' clapping was ragged and unimpressive and that you want them to synchronize their claps so that those outside the room hear a single thunderous sound.
Provide performance support. Explain that you will provide a non-electronic performance support system to synchronize all the participants' claps: you will count "One, two, three" and then say, "Clap." Ask everyone in the room to wait until you say, "Clap" before they clap simultaneously.
Conduct the activity. Count out loud, "One, two, three." Immediately after you say "three," clap your hands (without saying the word "Clap"). Most participants will follow your lead and clap their hands as well. Act surprised and say, "Clap."
Ask the participants why they did not follow your instructions and wait until they heard the word "Clap" before clapping hands. Some participant will likely say, "But you clapped your hands. . . ." They will likely anticipate your response, "Would you jump off a cliff if I did?" Ask the participants what they learned from the activity. Discuss the learning points that the participants offer.
Learning Points
1. Actions speak louder than words.
2. People follow your actions more than your words.
3. A big gap exists between understanding instructions and following them.
Field Notes
This is an effective jolt to use near the beginning of a training session. If this jolt follows other jolts, participants may suspect that you are planning to trap them and avoid following your lead.
Excerpted from Jolts! Activities to Wake-up and Engage Your Participants by Sivasailam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan and Tracy Tagliati. Published by Pfeiffer © 2011. All Rights Reserved.
Sivasailam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan, Ph.D., is Resident Mad Scientist at the Thiagi Group, a Bloomington, Indiana-based organization with the mission of helping people improve their performance effectively and enjoyably. Thiagarajan has published forty books, including Thiagi's 100 Favorite Games and Design Your Own Games and Activities (both from Pfeiffer), as well as numerous games, simulations, and articles.
Tracy Tagliati, CPLP, is a Senior Associate at the Thiagi Group, where she specializes in designing and delivering training to international clients. Prior to working with the Thiagi Group, Tracy was a corporate trainer for Mercury Insurance Group and Mindset Development, a franchise of Crestcom International.


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Bloody Trapland is a fast-paced multiplayer platformer where the levels are filled with dozens of dangerous traps and tricky jumps that stand in your way! Play co-op with your friends or take on the challenges on your own. With support for both local and online multiplayer. • 100+ levels. • 1-4 Players. • Three different game modes. • co-op only and secret areas. • Online scoreboard. • 4 playable characters. • Unique soundtrack. • Hours and hours of gametime. This is a challenging, yet simple game that anyone can enjoy, whether you're a casual or a hardcore gamer.
Only registered members can share their thoughts. So come on! Join the community today (totally free - or sign in with your social account on the right) and join in the conversation.
Some screenshots taken while playing single player!


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LTCC Nordic course to open March 1
Tribune Staff Report
The new Lake Tahoe Community College is scheduled to open Friday, March 1, according to a press release from the college.
"We believe an additional two weeks of winter will potentially improve course conditions offering the best experience for participants," LTCC Community Education Program Director Megan Waskiewicz said in the statement.
Season passes cost $49 and are currently on sale and available at http://www.ltcc.edu/communityeducation or at the CONNECT office on the college campus. For more information or to order a pass, call 530-541-4660, ext. 717.


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This bread proves that no matter how much experience you have in the kitchen, yeast can still get the better of you. This was my second try on this recipe — my first try used a packet of yeast that was unexpired, stored at a proper temperature (at least, within my kitchen), and seemingly ready to be used. And despite all that, my dough stayed thick and dense as a rock. After setting it out to rise for an hour, it hadn't even moved.
I started over. This time, the yeast cooperated (although slowly) — I had bread that would rise, at least. Still, though, this bread wouldn't quiet cooperate. When I tried to roll the raisins into a swirl, they grouped together at the bottom of the loaf (as you can see in the pictures). The only solution I can think of is to add them with the wet ingredients, so they distribute evenly during kneading. I've written the recipe that way below — when you guys try it, let me know if that works!
But even with all the trial and error, there is nothing quite like the smell of freshly baked bread wafting through the kitchen on a weekend morning. So I'm going to call the end result a success — if only I could find a way to make my yeast a little less temperamental.
cinnamon bread recipe
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup warm water
1 (.25 ounce) packages active dry yeast
1 egg
1/3 cup white sugar
1 tbsp cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 tbsp butter, softened
1/3 cup raisins
3 cups all-purpose flour
Proof the yeast by mixing it with 1/2 cup warm water and 1 tbsp sugar. Allow to sit for 5 minutes until milky and foaming.
In a large mixing bowl, add the yeast mixture, egg, milk, sugar, butter, salt, raisins and cinnamon. Add the flour gradually to make a stiff dough. Knead for about five minutes.
Turn the dough out into a lightly greased bowl, and cover with plastic wrap. Let the dough rise in warm place until doubled, about 1 hour.
Punch the dough down, and place it in a greased 1 1/2 pound loaf pan. Let rise until the bread is the shape that you want, around 45 minutes for a regular-sized loaf. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees while the dough is rising.
Bake the loaf for 35 minutes. Allow to cool before slicing, and serve.


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Specialist skills
This applies to the following work:
- Operating the following cranes:
- Pendant cranes with a load-carrying capacity of more than 50 kN
- Overhead travelling cranes, gantry cranes, pillar- and wall-mounted jib cranes
- Slewing and boom cranes
- Mobile cranes with a load-carrying capacity of more than 50 kN and a load torque of more than 100 kNm,
- Special cranes (cable, pipe laying, floating, ladle, stripper, charger, foundry, mobile harbour and rail mounted cranes)
- Driving forklift trucks, with the exception of forklifts which pick up and transport their load solely within their wheelbase and tiller-guided pallet trucks
- Works within the framework of gas rescue services
- Carrying out blasting operations independently
- Diving work (general diving work, research diving, working as a diving signaller)
- The preparation and organisation of high-voltage work (work on high-voltage electrical systems with an alternating current of over 1 kV, or direct current over 1.5 kV)
- Organisational and preparation work involving stage equipment
- Organisational and preparation work involving lighting equipment.
For these types of work, a separate course has to be attended which is concluded by an examination. The content and volume of these training courses are laid down in the legislation on occupational safety and health, as are the conditions for participation in the courses and the requirements which training institutions have to fulfil.
Specialist skills are also required for many other jobs, such as supervisory work at building sites, work in open cast mines, demolition work, repairing faults in cooling systems etc. These are, however, not stipulated in detail in the legislation on occupational safety and health.
Special training courses are also required for work as a safety expert, as an occupational physician and as a safety representative.