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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – For about 40 minutes of Wednesday afternoon's game vs. Brown at Reese Stadium, sophomore goalkeeper Erin McMullan and the Yale defense had to hold down the fort. The Bears scored five of the game's first seven goals, but they could have had many more were it not for McMullan -- she had nine saves in the first half alone. And then the Yale attack began clicking, as a goal by senior attacker Caroline Crow (one of five on the day for her) started a six-goal run midway through the second half that turned the score in the Bulldogs' favor. The Yale defense allowed Brown only one goal in the final 28 minutes of the game to close out the 9-6 comeback win.
"It was a tale of two halves again," said Anne Phillips, Yale's Joel E. Smilow, Class of 1954 Head Coach of Women's Lacrosse. "We had to rely on saves and defensive stops to help us stay in the game early on, and we had 13 turnovers in the first half. It was a struggle, but in the second half we possessed the ball better, shot better, and did what we needed to do to get back in the game."
With Brown winning five of seven draw controls in the first half, and with Yale turning the ball over 13 times, McMullan and the defense were kept busy. After a pair of Brown goals in the first five minutes, the Bulldogs settled down defensively. Yale got on the scoreboard thanks to freshman midfielder Cathryn Avallone picking up a loose ball in the 8-meter arc and firing in her 14th goal of the season at 23:58.
McMullan denied a Brown free position shot shortly after that, and the game became more and more of a defensive struggle. Yale managed only five shots in the half, but after Crow answered a Brown goal with one of her own at the 11:10 mark the Bulldogs found themselves within 3-2.
That would have been the score at halftime, but right after sophomore defender Kallie Parchman forced a Brown attacker to shoot wide with less than five seconds to play, Brown attacker Grace Healy scored at the 2.2-second mark.
The Bulldogs' second-half adjustments did not take immediate effect, as Brown attacker Bre Hudgins scored 1:37 into the second to put Brown up 5-2. But McMullan stopped a free position shot by attacker Kaela McGilloway a minute later, and after that it was all Yale. Crow drove to goal and drew a shooting space call, enabling her to fire in her second goal of the game on a free position at 20:13. Two minutes after that she curled around from behind the cage and shot low to bring Yale within a goal, 5-4.
After that the Bulldogs made a switch in who was taking the draw control, as freshman midfielder Emily Rutland came on as the third player to try to negate Brown attacker Grace Healy (who had a team-high 29 draws entering the game, and got three more Wednesday).
"We tried winning it long, and we tried winning it with self-draws, but that wasn't working," said Phillips. "Emily is the best at bringing it down the line, at least getting it where they weren't expecting it so that it could be a 50/50 ball."
The strategy worked, as Yale would win four of the next five draws. Freshman midfielder Christina Doherty got two, Rutland got one and freshman defender Jayne Flynn got one. That kept the goal-scoring run going.
After being limited to two goals in the first 39:47, the Yale attack began clicking by driving and drawing fouls. Another shooting space call on the Bears enabled junior attacker Devon Rhodes to tie the game with a free position goal at 17:22. Freshman attacker Kerri Fleishhacker then put Yale ahead 6-5 on another free position goal one minute later, finding the lower left corner of the cage.
That prompted a timeout by Brown (6-6, 1-4 Ivy League), but that did not slow down the Bulldogs. Rhodes fed Crow down low and Crow cut in front for her fourth goal at 15:33.
Up 7-5 with just over 12 minutes to play, the Bulldogs began milking the clock. When Rhodes saw a chance to drive again she took it, causing another shooting space violation by the Bears. Rhodes ripped one high on Brown goalie Isabel Harvey to put Yale up 8-5 with 12:01 to play.
Brown finally got back on the scoreboard with 5:23 left on a goal by midfielder Alexandra Crerend, snapping Yale's scoreless streak at 23 minutes. When the Bears got the ensuing draw control and earned a free position shot, the Bulldog defense once again rose to the challenge. Doherty was able to get a piece of midfielder Tara Rooke's stick, sending Rooke's shot wide. Right after that, Flynn drew a charging call on Crerend to get the ball back for the Bulldogs.
Sophomore attacker Jen DeVito passed to Avallone to finish the clear with three minutes to play, but the Bulldogs turned it over and Brown got another chance. After Hudgins sent a shot wide, McGilloway's free position shot with 1:20 left hit the post. The Bears maintained possession, though, and a foul call with 52.7 seconds left put McGilloway back on the 8-meter arc for a dramatic finish. McMullan came up with a huge save, and freshman midfielder Erin Magnuson passed to Avallone to finish the clear with 30 seconds left.
That was the end to a frustrating day for McGilloway, who came in as Brown's leading scorer (21-22-43) but left with no points and only two shots on goal. As has often been the case when an opposing team's leading scorer disappears from the stat sheet, the responsible party Wednesday was sophomore defender Adrienne Tarver, who had a matchup on McGilloway and left her little room to operate.
With Harvey pressuring out from the cage to try to force a turnover on Yale's final possession, Doherty fed Crow for an empty-net goal with 7.4 seconds left to put the game out of reach.
This is Crow's second straight game with five goals. She now has an 11-game point scoring streak and 16 points in the last three games. Those numbers helped earn her a special amount of attention from the Brown defense Wednesday, as she was face guarded for the first time all year.
"We told her how to take her defender into the crease and just pick her off," said Phillips. "Everything we ran on the crease seemed to work. We changed the point of attack from high to low, and were able to get some drives and some shooting space calls. That gave us the run we needed."
Yale's run also coincided with Fleishhacker's entry into the game, which was no coincidence.
"She's quick and she's tough to defend as a lefthander," said Phillips. "We brought Kerri into the game for her ability to drive and score, and also for her ability to ride and get the ball back."
With Fleishhacker in as an attacker, Avallone moved from attack back to midfield to give the Bulldogs even more speed. Those two helped reverse Yale's fortunes on clears in the second half: Brown was 4-for-5 in the first half and Yale was just 6-for-11, but in the second half Yale was a perfect 7-for-7 while Brown was just 6-for-10.
The end result was Yale's biggest second-half comeback for a win (trailing by three goals) since rallying from the same deficit Mar. 7 to beat Bryant at Reese.
"This is the first time in a while that we have been behind that far and came back to win it," said Phillips. "It was a great day in goal for Erin McMullan, and we just needed to get possession on attack to turn things around."
Yale (5-8, 2-4 Ivy League) finishes with a 4-2 mark at home this season. The Bulldogs visit No. 13 Cornell on Saturday.
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Emerging Applications for Virtualization
The use of virtualization outside of traditional enterprise PC and server markets is nascent, and yet presents a significant opportunity. In this section, we discuss a sample of emerging applications with significant promise.
Telecom Blade Consolidation
Virtualization enables multiple embedded operating systems, such as Linux and VxWorks, to execute on a single telecom computer, such as an AdvancedTCA blade server based on Intel Architecture Processors. In addition, the microkernel-based virtualization architecture enables real-time applications to execute natively. Thus, control plane and data plane applications, typically requiring multiple blades, can be consolidated. Telecom consolidation provides the same sorts of size, weight, power, and cost efficiencies that enterprise servers have enjoyed with VMware.
Electronic Flight Bag
Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) is a general-purpose computing platform that flight crews use to perform flight management tasks, including calculating take-off parameters and viewing navigational charts more easily and efficiently. EFBs replace the stereotypical paper-based flight bags carried by pilots. There are three classes of EFBs, with class three being a device that interacts with the onboard avionics and requires airworthiness certification.
Using the hybrid virtualization architecture, a class three EFB can provide a Windows environment (including common applications such as Microsoft Excel) for pilots while hosting safety-critical applications that validate parameters before they are input into the avionics system. Virtualization enables class three EFBs to be deployed in the portable form factor that is critical for a cramped cockpit.
Intelligent Munitions System
Intelligent Munitions System (IMS) is a next-generation U.S. military net-centric weapons system. One component of IMS includes the ability to dynamically alter the state of munitions (such as mines) to meet the requirements of an evolving battlescape. Using the hybrid virtualization architecture, the safety-critical function of programming the munitions and providing a trusted display of weapons state for the soldier is handled by secure applications running on the safety-certified microkernel. A standard Linux or Windows graphical interface is enabled with virtualization.
In-Vehicle Infotainment
Demand for more advanced infotainment systems is growing rapidly. In addition to theater-quality audio and video and GPS navigation, wireless networking and other office technologies are making their way into the car. Despite this increasing complexity, passenger expectations for "instant on" and high availability remain. At the same time, automobile systems designers must always struggle to keep cost, weight, power, and component size to a minimum.
Although we expect desktop operating systems to crash occasionally, automobile passengers expect the radio and other traditional "head-unit" components never to fail. In fact, a failure in one of these components is liable to cause an expensive (for the automobile manufacturer) visit to the repair shop. Even worse, a severe design flaw in one of these systems may result in a recall that wipes out the profit on an entire model year of cars. Exacerbating the reliability problem is a new generation of security threats: bringing the Internet into the car exposes it to all the viruses and worms that target networked Windows-based computers.
The currently deployed solution, found on select high-end automobiles, is to divide the infotainment system onto two independent hardware platforms, placing the high-reliability, real-time components onto a computer running a real-time operating system, and the Windows component on a separate PC. This solution is highly undesirable, however, because of the need to tightly constrain component cost, size, power, and weight within the automobile.
The hybrid virtualization architecture provides an ideal solution. Head unit applications running under control of the real-time kernel are guaranteed to perform flawlessly. Because the real-time kernel is optimized for the extremely fast boot times required by automotive systems, instant-on requirements are met.
Multiple instances of Windows, powered by multiple instances of the virtual machine, can run simultaneously on the same computer. In the back seat, each passenger has a private video monitor. One passenger could even reboot Windows without affecting the second passenger's email session.
Next Generation Mobile Internet Devices
Using the hybrid virtualization architecture, mobile device manufacturers and service providers can leverage traditional operating systems and software, such as the Linux-based Moblin platform [9], while guaranteeing the integrity, availability, and confidentiality of critical applications and information (Figure 6).
We bring our mobile devices wherever we go. Ultimately, consumers would like to use mobile devices as the key to the automobile, a smart card for safe Internet banking, a virtual credit card for retail payments, a ticket for public transportation, and a driver's license and/or passport. There is a compelling world of personal digital convenience just over the horizon.
The lack of a high-security operating environment, however, precludes these applications from reaching the level of trust that consumer's demand. High assurance secure platform technology, taking maximum advantage of Intel silicon features such as Intel VT, enables this level of trust. Furthermore, security applications can be incorporated alongside the familiar mobile multimedia operating system on one chip (SoC), saving precious power and production cost.
Reducing Mobile Device Certification Cost
A certified high-assurance operating system can dramatically reduce the cost and certification time of mobile devices, for two main reasons:
- First, because it is already certified to protect the most sensitive information exposed to sophisticated attackers, the operating system can be used to manage the security-critical subsystems. The certified operating system comes with all of its design and testing artifacts available to the certification authority, thus precluding the cost and time of certifying an operating system.
- Second, the operating system and virtualization software take advantage of Intel VT and the Intel architecture Memory Management Unit (MMU) to partition security-critical components from the user's multimedia environment. For example, a bank may require certification of the cryptographic subsystems used to authenticate and encrypt banking transaction messages, but the bank will not care about certifying the system's multimedia functions.
Split Mobile Personalities
With secure virtualization technology, the mobile device can host multiple instances of mobile operating systems. For example, the device can incorporate one instance of Linux that the consumer uses for the phone function, e-mail, and other "critical" applications. A second instance of Linux can be used specifically for browsing the Internet. No matter how badly the Internet instance is compromised with viruses and Trojans, the malware cannot affect the user's critical instance. The only way for files to be moved from the Internet domain to the critical user domain is by using a secure cut and paste mechanism that requires human user interaction and cannot be spoofed or commandeered. A simple key sequence or icon is used to switch between the two Linux interfaces.
Secure virtualization can also be used to provide an MID with multiple operating system personalities, enabling service providers, phone manufacturers, and consumers to provide and enjoy a choice of environments on a single device. Furthermore, by virtualizing the user environment, personas (personal data, settings, and so on) can be easily migrated across devices, in much the same way that virtual machines are migrated for service provisioning in the data center.
In a recent article discussing the growth of mobile devices in corporate environments, USA Today stated that "mobile devices represent the most porous piece of the IT infrastructure." [10] The same problems that plague desktops and servers are afflicting mobile devices. Secure operating systems and virtualization technology provide a solution to the demand for enhanced security in the resource-constrained environment of portable consumer devices.
Gaming Systems
Gaming systems manufacturers are promoting the use of open network connectivity in next-generation gaming systems and properties. This vision provides for some exciting possibilities, yet the security challenges that arise in this architecture are not unlike other network-centric initiatives, such as the military's Global Information Grid (GIG): in both cases, formerly isolated assets are being connected to networks at risk of cyber attack. Clearly, gaming systems are an attractive target for well-resourced hostile entities.
The same hybrid virtualization architecture previously discussed can enhance user-to-game and game-to-server interactions. Secure communications components, including network security protocols and key management, can be securely partitioned away from the gaming multimedia environment (such as Linux, for example) which is hosted in a virtual machine using Intel VT. This is done in both the game console clients as well as in the servers, providing secure end-to-end encryption, authentication, and transaction verification.
In the past decade, virtualization has reemerged as a disruptive technology in the enterprise. However, due to resource constraints and different usage scenarios, virtualization has seen slower adoption in other areas of the computing world, in particular mobile and embedded systems. This is likely to change, due to two significant recent innovations. First, low power, Intel Atom processors now incorporate the same kind of hypervisor hardware acceleration enjoyed by desktop and server processors. Second, the advent of a powerful hybrid architecture incorporating certified high robustness security kernels, augmented with secure virtualization using Intel VT, represents a better fit for resource-constrained systems that often have rigorous safety, security, reliability, real-time, memory-efficiency, and/or power-efficiency requirements. The future for Intel VT-enabled applications is indeed bright.
[1] Larry Garfield. "'Metal Gear' Symbian OS Trojan disables anti-virus software." http://www.infosyncworld.com/, 2004.
[2] Whitaker, et al. "Denali: Lightweight Virtual Machines for Distributed and Networked Applications." USENIX Annual Technical Conference. 2002.
[3] Samuel King, et al. "SubVirt: Implementing malware with virtual machines." IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. 2006.
[4] Joanna Rutkowska. "Subverting Vista Kernel for Fun and Profit." Black Hat USA. 2006.
[5] Tavis Ormandy. "An Empirical Study into the Security Exposure to Hosts of Hostile Virtualized Environments." http://taviso.decsystem.org/virtsec.pdf, 2006.
[6] Denise Dubie. "Security concerns cloud virtualization deployments." http://www.techworld.com/, 2007.
[7] Joanna Rutkowska, Alexander Tereshkin, and Rafal Wojtczuk. "Detecting and Preventing the Xen Hypervisor Subversions;" "Bluepilling the Xen Hypervisor;" "Subverting the Xen Hypervisor." Black Hat USA. 2008.
[8] Common Criteria Validated Products List. http://www.niap-ccevs.org/, 2008.
[9] Moblin.org. http://moblin.org.
[10] Byron Acohido, "Cellphone security seen as profit frontier." http://www.usatoday.com/, 2008.
This article and more on similar subjects may be found in the Intel Technology Journal, March 2009 Edition, "Advances in Embedded Systems Technology". More information can be found at http://intel.com/technology/itj.


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We know what you're thinking: haven't I seen every 'Call Me Maybe' video cover and parody possible?
And secondly, haven't we moved onto Gangnam Style?
Perhaps, but we assure you that this charming video is an excellent reason to reboot your 'Call Me Maybe'-induced head bopping.
The residents of Waverley Mansion, a retirement home in London, Ont., came together for this cover of Carly Rae Jepsen's hit song. They're "stayin' young and havin' fun!" says the video's description.
Are they a bit late to the 'Call Me Maybe' parody party? Maybe. But out of respect for our elders, we say they can take as long as they please.
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It's nice to have a friend recommend a city, a hotel, and even a restaurant when you're deciding where to travel. I know it makes me feel more comfortable knowing that someone else has been there and liked it.
|Ron with his wife Jan and trusty camera in China
So when Ron Beller was deciding to travel to China, one of his friends recommended Friendly Planet Travel's Best of China tour. His friend just returned from the tour and was raving about it. That was enough to sell Ron on the trip.
Ron and his wife Jan booked the tour for October 2009. They had an equally amazing time in China traveling to Shanghai, Yichang, Three Gorges, Guilin, Xi'an, and Beijing.
When he returned, Ron e-mailed us some fantastic photos he took in China. If a picture says a thousand words, these pictures said all that and more.
I had to give him a call to get the stories behind the photos. He told me he was a nature photographer, so he was practically born with a camera in his hand. He was always lagging behind the group trying to capture just a few more photos. He had taken 1,600 by the end of the trip!
We talked about what it was like traveling to China in late October, seeing the 2,200-year-old terra-cotta soliders, the Yangtze River cruise, the camera he used, and more. So if you're considering traveling to China, listen to my podcast with Ron and then view his photos. He'll give you a first-hand look into Friendly Planet Travel's Best of China tour.


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Intelligentsiya and the Fiji Freedom Bloggers received an email from a youth group in
The press conference organized by the Young Civilians on Saturday was filmed and the video posted to Youtube. It was touching to see a group of young people we don't even know with Fiji flags waving in the wind and posters of Bainimarama with the word "RESIGN" across it.
Granted some of the details in the speech are a bit inaccurate, but the spirit of the message remains.
In the email Neslihan, a member of the Young Civilians, explained how they're experiencing similar problems in
The event came on the eve of elections in Turkey which was held on Sunday and won by the AK Party) in
"The event was that we read the text about coup detat of
fijiboth in turkish and in english at a coast of in front of a ship. after reading the statement we imitated that we got the ship to go to istanbul . we left the coast by the ship at the end. it was quite nice. there were some journalists and tv cameras. one of them already wrote about the event now. and we think there will be more writings about it tomorrow. because tomorrow will be the election here and any news about the political parties and election is forbidden, so they will look for some alternatives. our protest of bainimarama coup will be that kind of alternative. fiji
the thing is that we were talking about military pressure on people or interventions into civilian politics and parliament in
, but if you change the names and some details it was totally the story of our country, turkey. so, it s obviously meaningful to talk about your country here. when we are talking about turkey, people here tend to say that the army should intervene into politics if it s necessary(!) but when we are talking another country like fiji they are totally surprised and smile while saying that "wow what a funny politics". we know things are not funny. and we also know we are doing the right thing by standing against all kind of militarist solutions into politics." fiji
The video is posted here. The English version of the speech begins at 3:09.
Thank you to Neslihan and the gang at Young Civilians for your solidarity.


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Alongside general food distributions which have now reached more than 2.5 million people since the earthquake, WFP has started a nutrition drive. We are delivering specialised food to prevent malnutrition to 53,000 children under five and 16,000 pregnant and breast-feeding mothers.
PORT-AU-PRINCE – Christela's baby boy was born two weeks after the January 12 earthquake, when his mother, father and 4-year-old sister were living in a makeshift tent made of a blanket and sheets. Their home in the Delmas suburb of Port-au-Prince was destroyed in the quake and, like many of their neighbours, they now live in a nearby camp for the homeless.
Sanitary conditions are poor in the camps and, as Christela and her partner Ricardo know, malnutrition is a constant threat for young children. That's why they were among the first in line as the WFP truck arrived and began unloading four tons of special products for pregnant women, nursing mothers and children under five.
Christela handed over the coupon she'd been allocated the previous day and collected two bags of high-energy biscuits and Supplementary Plumpy, a ready-to-use food like peanut butter that comes in sachets. The peanut paste will help keep the four-year-old healthy while Christela herself can eat the biscuits and so ensure the breast milk she gives her new baby is nutritious.
"We were lucky"
"Our house was completely destroyed," Ricardo explained to me as we walked back to their tent. "But we were lucky, some relatives and friends were killed. For the first two weeks, we lived under sheets and blankets strung from wooden poles".
They're now living in an encampment of dozens of white tents pitched on a piece of open ground in the suburb of Delmas. The tents were supplied by Shelter Box and Rotary International. In the right conditions, camping can be a fun activity. But having three families – 19 people – living in one medium-sized tent tends to reduce the fun-factor quite quickly.
"That's the worst thing," said Ricardo. "There's just no room or privacy. The other problem is money. I used to get the occasional labouring job but I've no work at all now."
"Make a difference"
The tent and a tarpaulin-covered cooking area contained all the families had been able to salvage from their collapsed homes: clothing and some pots and pans. They'd been living on whatever they'd bought in the market and rations of WFP rice (25 kilos per family collected from a designated distribution point in early February).
Ricardo admitted he had little idea about what the future held for him and his family. At least in part, their future lay in the hands of the Government and of international aid agencies, he said.
"In the meantime, these biscuits and sachets for the children will really make a difference," said Christela, as she and her kids posed for a family photograph.
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Animal remains will be collected in the trenches and in the sieves, and will be identified to species.
The aim of the research is to document the food procurement strategies of the inhabitants of the site (importance of domestic stock keeping, of hunting and of fishing), and to reconstruct the former environment.
Careful collection of the faunal remains in the trench and through sieving with the sieving and flotation machine is followed by identification of the bones. Enigmatic specimens are set aside for export and identification through comparison with the more extensive reference collections in Belgium.
For more, see www.sagalassos.be/en/webreports/2010.


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Rapper-turned-reggae star Snoop Lion has revealed he really was a pimp a decade ago when he hit the road for the Playboy Tour.
The "Gin and Juice" hit maker admits he put his marriage at risk to play a hooker boss for high-profile athletes and fellow stars back in 2003.
He tells the new issue of Rolling Stone magazine, "I put an organization together. … I had a bus follow me with 10 [bleep] on it. I could fire a [bleep], [bleep] a [bleep], get a new ho. It was my program. City to city, [bleep] to [bleep], hotel room to hotel room, athlete to athlete, entertainer to entertainer.
"If I'm in a city where the Denver Broncos or the (Denver) Nuggets play, I get a couple of they (sic) players to come hang out, pick and choose, and whichever one you like comes with a number. A lot of athletes bought [bleep] from me."
And Snoop admits his ladies became rich – because he gave them all the cash they earned.
He adds, "I'd act like I'd take the money from the [bleep], but I'd let her have it. It was never about the money; it was about the fascination of being a pimp. … As a kid, I dreamed of being a pimp; I dreamed of having cars and clothes and [bleep] to match."
The rapper says his wild tour really tested his wife Shante Broadus' resolve, because she "had to take a backseat to this [bleep] ."
He admits, "I love her to this day because she coulda shook out on a [bleep], but she stayed in my corner. So when I decided to let it go, she was still there."


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Selling the idea of mobile to senior execs
Selling the idea of mobile to senior execs
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I was asked recently "How do you sell the idea of mobile to senior executives so they 'get it'?" Good question! My experiences with mobile have shown me there are four questions you need to be answer when you need to promote the idea of mobile with senior managers and show the benefits a good mobile experience can bring. They are:
Who are your stakeholders?
You know you need to gain sponsorship and support for your ideas with mobile. But who are the right senior executives to be your key stakeholders? You need to identify the senior people who:
- Will be affected most by your ideas for mobile
- Will be most influential in your ideas being adopted
They may not be the most obvious person so think carefully about who you need to build a relationship with so they understand what you want to do and what their role will be.
Without their 'buy-in' your ideas for mobile will go nowhere fast and, sadly for you, will probably just stay as ideas.
What is your strategy?
Have a proposal you can use as a basis for any conversation with your stakeholders. This needs to be some form of a strategy that sets out:
- What you are aiming to do e.g. reduce time taken to solve problems
- Why you believe this is needed e.g. improved productivity
- What the scope of your strategy is e.g. apps, collaborating tools, governance
- What are your priorities e.g first phase connectivity, second phase apps development
- When will it be implemented e.g. 3 months for phase 1
You need to have this ready to show people and be able to answer questions about how it affects your organisation, stakeholders, and people who need to use mobiles or need to be more mobile in how they work.
What are the benefits?
You need to show what the likely benefits of people using mobiles and being more mobile can bring to your organisation. Any benefits that show on the bottom line will be taken more seriously. You need to consider:
- Reduced office space needed as people work more from different places e.g. home, local hub, while travelling
- Increased productivity as people don't have to wait until they are using a PC in an office to act on requests or ask for help
- Reduced travel costs as people share online, on calls, on video using their mobiles any work problems they need help with
- More engaged people with flexibility to balance their personal life with work commitments and reduce stress
Some of these are obvious savings but can be harder to prove. Your approach needs to show how you would measure these as well as indicate the benefits that can be made.
How will you implement it?
Make sure you have thought through how you can going to turn your idea for mobile into reality. Don't be so aspirational that senior execs can see it could be unrealistic and lose it and your credibility. But it needs to inspire people by showing it can be done and justify their sponsorship by:
- Getting approval and funding for it
- Deciding who will lead the project and accept who makes the decisions
- Having regular reviews of progress made
- Identifying resources available to make it happen
Don't fall over at the last hurdle bu not having a plan showing how you can implement your idea for mobile. It may show a lack of confidence in your abilities to make this happen.
You can find more information about mobile or contact me for advice.
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Slate Voice: "The Bloodshed State"
Listen to Mark Joseph Stern read his most popular article from the month of July.
"The Bloodshed State" was originally published in Slate on July 28, 2014. It was Mark's most read article of July.
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Satraplatin for Prostate Cancer
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
My husband has enrolled in a clinical trial for a drug called satraplatin. What can you tell me about it?
Carolyn Vachani RN, MSN, AOCN, OncoLink's Nurse Educator, responds:
Satraplatin is a member of the platinum family of chemotherapy drugs, which includes cisplatin and carboplatin. Satraplatin is given in a pill form and has recently reported results from phase III clinical trials, where satraplatin was given with prednisone and compared to placebo plus prednisone in hormone refractory prostate cancer. The results reported thus far have shown about a 40% improvement in progression free survival for patients receiving the satraplatin regimen. Progression free survival is a measure researchers use to evaluate therapies, which refers to the time until the disease begins to grow while on the therapy. Many of the men on the trial had previously been treated with other chemotherapy agents. This drug is not yet approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration or the European equivalent.
The platinum family of chemotherapies is known to cause myelosuppression (a reduction of blood counts) and this was seen in the satraplatin trial. Patients developed thrombocytopenia (low platelet count), leukopenia (low white blood cell count) and neutropenia (low neutrophil count). These side effects can be managed with transfusions, growth factors and, if necessary, reducing the dose of satraplatin. Some patients also experienced gastrointestinal side effects, including nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and constipation. There were also a few reports of respiratory complications, although these have not yet been described in detail. Two side effects commonly associated with platinum drugs, nephrotoxicity (kidney problems) and peripheral neuropathies, were not seen with satraplatin.
More results from this trial are expected to be released in the coming year. The company is applying to the FDA for approval as second-line chemotherapy for hormone refractory prostate cancer.


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E-40 (feat. Too $hort) - B*tch
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Trash dumping a big problem
Staff writer
"We've got a problem," Transfer Station Director Rollin Schmidt said. "It's not a small problem."
It was multiple problems actually, lumped together at the Marion County Commission meeting under the heading of nuisance.
Schmidt and Road and Bridge Superintendent Randy Crawford both said that trash along county roadways has become an issue. Crawford directed Schmidt's crew to 290th Road where they spent all Thursday removing items like piles of tires, refrigerators, and even toilets.
The commission's preferred solution to this problem is offering residents a reward for turning in their trash dumping brethren. The cash sum was originally valued at $50 before Commission Chairman Randy Dallke suggested a $500 reward if a resident could provide evidence.
"Maybe there's DNA we can get off of it," County Attorney Susan Robson jokingly said of the littered toilet.
Commissioners honestly considered an award because dumping trash is very difficult to police. Sheriff Robert Craft said his department has 900 square miles of road to patrol. Catching someone in the act is almost impossible on the sparsely populated county roads where dumping trash is in vogue.
"I don't see any way to prevent this," Commissioner Roger Fleming said.
The commissioners also discussed signs being stolen, knocked down, or shot. The severity of these infractions ranged from the annoyance of trying to find Mustang Road when no road sign is up — Mustang is one of the more commonly stolen road signs — to risking drivers' lives by stealing a stop sign.
One occurrence of this is a pilfered "Dip" sign near Centre schools.
"You hit that at 30 or 40 miles per hour, you'll end up in Chase County," Commissioner Dan Holub said.
In seriousness, Robson said she would prosecute these offenders sign stealers and damagers under the full extent of the law. It would be filed under criminal damage to property, possibly resulting in six months in jail or a $1,000 to $1,500 fine.
"It's very dangerous and expensive," Robson said.
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Whether Percy Harvin winds up playing for the Minnesota Vikings next season, it's crystal clear his quarterback is pushing for the versatile receiver to find peace with the Vikings.
"Obviously we want Percy back," Christian Ponder told KFAN-FM on Friday, via SportsRadioInterviews.com. "He's a tremendous player and he's a Viking. And those are tough shoes to fill, and we don't want to fill them. He's a heck of a player and a heck of a part of this offense and this team in general. Of course we want him back."
Harvin's beef with the Vikings reportedly hinges on the team's passing scheme, but general manager Rick Spielman said Friday the team has no plans to trade their best receiver. That doesn't mean Harvin -- clearly agitated with his contract -- will step on the field without a new deal. Minnesota's front office isn't about to advertise plans to shop its most electric playmaker, but bank on it: Teams will come calling.
Ponder, meanwhile, insists his relationship with Harvin was -- and is -- strong.
"Yeah ... during the offseason last year (we) spent some extra time together and we had conversations, and he was great for me," Ponder said. "He was like, 'If you're ever watching film, shoot me a text or call me and tell me I need to be watching this.' Yeah, we had a good relationship."
Had? Ponder -- consciously or subconsciously -- has again referred to Harvin's run with the Vikings in the past tense. But everything else he's saying makes it clear Ponder wants Harvin back in the fold in 2013.
Follow Marc Sessler on Twitter @MarcSesslerNFL.


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[Hook: Nate Dogg]
Y'all can't deny it, I'mma fuckin' rider
Got scales in the trunk with me
Switching lanes, do a buck with me
Y'all can't deny it, I'mma fucking rider
You don't wanna bang with me
And you know I brought my gang with me (ok)
Niggas trip, I got my thang with me
Yo, if they want it, cowards get it
They still wonder how I did it
Now y'all with it, these niggas see how I spit it
Huh, these bitches see how I kit it
You can hear my coupe a block away
Bitches be yellin, "Let Me Ride" like they Snoop and Dr. Dre
I keep spittin, them clips copped on those calicos
Keep shittin, with ziplocks of that cali dro'
Keep hittin, and shift blocks for that cali dough
Keep gettin, my tip rocked by them cali hoes
It's William Bonnie, stealin' mamis
Dance closely, even though they feel the llamies
I ain't tryin to send police to ya rest
I'm tryin to put this, piece to ya chest
And you in peace wit the rest
You can release to the press - this how G's ride
From the North to the South to the East to the West, let's go
[Fabolous] + (Nate Dogg)
Yo ma, I got you stuck off the realness
The name's Fabolous, you heard I be
In them trucks wit the wheels glissed
In V.I.P, with buckets of chilled Cris'
'Click, click', who the fuck wanna feel this
I still got them blocks movin, and the system in my truck
That can make it feel like the block's movin
My 6-4's, wit the wheels and the shocks movin
Them boys in blue with the shields and the Glocks movin
(You can't deny it) I'm the same ol' G
The Guc' frames got the same gold G
Duke can you frame O-3, cause if you see me on ya corner wit a 40
It ain't gonna be named Olde E
I might be in Chuck T's, or the Chukka's
And if your duck cheese I'mma fuck her, duck these motherfucker
Ghetto Fabolous, nigga I ride 'til I die
Hollerin 1-8-7 when I ride through the Stuy, fool
[Nate Dogg]
It ain't really dat hard, to get fucked up
Its really quite easy, just step up
I'mma knock him so hard, on his butt
Just like he been drinkin, like he drunk
The fat bitch stood up, just stood up
She bout to be steamin, turn it up
You won't hear a thang, know you won't
You too busy sleepin, won't wake up
You can't deny it
The kid pull the four out a little quicker
You might end up the reason, ya homies
Will have to pour out a little liquor
Every stack that a draws out a little thicker
I get brain, kick the whores out a little quicker
You kids rap that's cool
But the kid's wrapped in jewels, the kid clapped that tool
Kidnap that fool, you don't wanna wake up gettin told
That ya kids trapped at school
When the time's right, I'mma put this nine right
To the left side of ya head, push ya mind right
It's still nothin but a G thang, I thought you knew
And I'm bout to do the numbers that they thought you do
Still don't know me, still jump in a Lex
The chain so icey, I got chill bumps on my neck
The NARCS heard, how the krills pump in the 'jects
Still bump in your decks, still dumpin the tec, still
The dense internal rhyme of "Can't Deny It," the first breakout hit from the 2001 debut album Ghetto Fabolous, makes it clear that Fabolous will not be ignored (as do the threats about what will happen if you fuck with him, etc.)
I did notice that my music video for "Can't Deny It"started to get even more play after 9/11.
We didn't purposely do the stars and stripes and red, white and blue color scheme in the video. It was a weird coincidence that the country needed to see something patriotic and up lifting.
We ended up having the number one video at MTV when the stats came back. They ended up pushing that forward on their own and they wanted that video to be number one because of what it symbolized and what it showed visually.
In tragic times I think people need something to comfort them. So they find some kind of entertainment to hold on to.


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New Google PCs, tablets and smartphones could in stores by Thanksgiving.
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- It is easy to be blinded by the recent high-profile gadget launches of
Microsoft (:MSFT) and Apple (:AAPL).
Microsoft has shown different versions of
Windows 8 for smartphones, tablets and PCs, which it will begin
shipping around Oct. 26. Apple delivered the iPhone 5 along
with new software for all of its hardware form factors.
Lurking behind the scenes, however, is Google (:GOOG), which I believe will unveil a bevy of products to compete very strongly against Microsoft and Apple. I believe these products are likely to be announced as early as October, and would be available in U.S. retail within approximately 30 days thereafter -- basically, by Thanksgiving.
These products based on Google software will fall into three categories: PCs (laptops and desktops), tablets and smartphones. Let me describe them in turn: 1. PCs
Several PC brands that may be guarding themselves against a consumer and/or enterprise backlash against Windows 8 are likely to start producing Google PCs imminently. Samsung and Acer are already in production, but one can envision others joining this bandwagon. I view Lenovo, Asus and Dell (:Dell) to be the most likely ones, but others are also possibilities, including Hewlett-Packard (:HPQ), Sony (:SNE) and Toshiba, just to mention a few.
Google offers the simplest possible PC software, especially compared to Microsoft and Apple. With a Google PC, I cannot see a scenario where you would ever be in need of tech support. Basically, it boots up much faster than an Apple iPad and it "just works."
Google laptop and desktop prices are and will be competitive with Windows, which means they are much cheaper than Apple. However, you also have to consider that with a Google PC you don't have to buy any additional software or service/support plans. Your lifetime total cost of ownership, or TCO, will be a lot lower with a Google PC.
So far, Google has not marketed its PCs very well. They only recently started appearing at Best Buy (:BBY) and most consumers don't even know that a Google PC exists, let alone why they would be better than Microsoft/Windows and Apple/Mac. Starting this November, this is likely to change. Market share shifts typically take several years to become material, but I think it will start to become measurable in the months following these imminent launches. 2. Tablets
Android tablets are a dime a dozen, but very few of them run the most recent and by far the best version of the Android operating system, the 4.1.1 version called "Jelly Bean." Starting this November, this will change -- dramatically. The current main 4.1.1 Google tablet offering made by Asus has a small 7-inch screen and no cellular/LTE connectivity.
By November of this year, we should see eight-, nine-, 10- and 11-inch Android tablets running Android 4.1.1 (or higher) and offering cellular/LTE connectivity from a long list of hardware makers. Most likely, they will be offered from most of the following: Samsung, HTC, Sony, Asus, Acer, Lenovo, Huawei and Motorola, which is of course now a division of Google's. Perhaps even others.
Google's value proposition will be that these Android tablets will be offering a more PC-like flexible operating system experience than Apple, on hardware that will be equal to -- or in some cases better than -- Apple, but at prices that almost approach the value offered by Amazon's Kindle tablets. The sheer diversity of form factors offered by these Android tablets will dwarf the offerings from Apple, Microsoft and Apple. 3. Smartphones
The fragmentation among the Android smartphone experiences has become a running joke in the industry, and even society at large. The interface looks different if you're buying a Samsung, HTC, Sony, LG and so forth. Even worse, the software support for any Android model that hits the market can best be described in one word: orphan. Upgrades are rarely seen, if ever, and if they do show up, they tend to be six to 12 months too late, which is an eternity in the computing world.
In other words, Android fragmentation has become a total catastrophe for Google's ability to compete with Apple and Microsoft in the long term, despite that measured strictly in terms of units shipped -- 500 million or so -- Google is already in the lead. In order for this lead not to collapse in 2013, Google has to change course and right these wrongs.
Come this November, I think we will see the first evidence that Google is fixing the Android problem. The story here is in many ways similar to Google's tablet story.
Whereas in the past most of Google's smartphones were launched running one- to two-year old versions of the Android operating system, this November we should see a more uniform launch of Android 4.1.1 (or newer) smartphones from a long list of hardware makers: Samsung, HTC, Sony, LG, Huawei and Motorola (owned by Google itself), just to mention the more prominent ones.
By Google inducing its hardware makers to launch on the latest version of the Android OS, it will come a lot closer than before to matching the uniformity of the software experience offered by smartphones from Apple and Microsoft. But that may not be the only benefit and trick of what Google has in mind for its future smartphones:
Whether this November or some time in 2013, Google may dramatically expand its "direct sales" model of both devices and service plans. Consumers can save a lot of money by purchasing a Google Nexus smartphone from Google already today for $349 and using it with an all-you-can-eat SIM card for $30, $45 or $60 per month depending on carrier and features. This can often save a consumer $1,080 over two years compared to a contract-subsidized plan, making for a huge net savings still.
The problem for Google is that today it offers only one phone for these attractive service plans. It's a good phone alright -- the Samsung Galaxy Nexus (GSM global unlocked version) -- but it would be much more attractive to have models in all sorts of sizes and shapes from HTC, Motorola, LG, Sony and others to do the same. This may be what will happen this November.
To summarize, I believe it is likely that Google will launch a broadside worthy of a comprehensive computing portfolio -- PCs, tablets and smartphones -- this October/November that will compete very strongly against the recently upgraded offerings from Microsoft and Apple. If Google does what I have outlined here in my suspicions and suggestions, it will likely be taking market share on all fronts going into 2013.
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• June 10, 2005 |
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Watch storms from space: As Tropical Storm Arlene intensifies and heads for the coast, you can trace its path from hundreds of miles above.
The astronauts on the international space station have already shot video of the storm's giant whorl, and NASA has set up a Web page where you can see the latest imagery, not only from the space station, but also from satellites such as the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (a most excellent orbiting hurricane-watcher that was once slated for destruction ).
Just this week, we learned that satellite readings from NASA have been used to develop a new method for predicting a hurricane's track, based on changes in ozone levels.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has its own weather-watching Web page, aptly named Storm Tracker. NOAA rounds up the latest satellite imagery, tracking maps, advisories and even ocean-buoy data for tropical storms and hurricanes. The Storm Tracker page refreshes automatically and is designed for resizing, so you can keep it up on your desktop as you go about your day.
Arlene won't be the hurricane season's only storm, of course. In fact, this year is projected to be busier than usual , just as last year was. So if you're a weather-watcher, be sure to bookmark the NOAA and NASA sites as well as our own weather coverage.
For even wider-ranging views of Earth's goings-on as seen from space, don't forget NASA's Earth Observatory and Visible Earth Web sites.
• June 10, 2005 |
8:35 p.m. ET
Weekend field trips on the World Wide Web:
'Nova' on PBS: 'World in the Balance'
The Guardian: Formula for sitcom success
Nature: Mayan crypt reveals power of women
BBC: Rings of bone grown for couples
• June 9, 2005 |
8 p.m. ET
'Junk DNA' has social role: Bits of genetic code that most researchers had thought were useless might well play a role in determining whether you're shy or sociable, researchers reported today. They said the DNA sequences may even be a determining factor for autism and other social disorders, as well as marital fidelity and parenting skills.
The latest research, published in Friday's issue of the journal Science, focuses on short, repeated DNA sequences called microsatellites that are scattered throughout the genomes of many species. Such sequences have been called "junk DNA" because they didn't seem to have any function.
Scientists at Emory University's Yerkes National Primate Research Center and the Atlanta-based Center for Behavioral Neuroscience looked at microsatellites in the DNA code for small rodents known as voles — concentrating on a gene that codes for vasopressin receptors in the brain. Vasopressin is a hormone that has been linked to social bonding and parenting.
The repeating genetic sequences were much longer for monogamous vole species than for polygamous voles. So the researchers bred two strains of monogamous voles — one with the long version of microsatellites and one with the short version. The adult male voles with the long-version DNA had more vasopressin receptors in neural areas related to sociability. They also greeted strangers more readily, and were more apt to form pair bonds and nurture young.
"If you think of brain circuits as locked rooms, the vasopressin receptor as a lock on the door, and vasopressin as the key that fits it, only those circuits that have the receptors can be 'opened' or influenced by the hormone," Emory's Elizabeth Hammock explained in a news release from the National Institute of Mental Health. "An animal's response to vasopressin thus depends upon which rooms have the locks, and our research shows that the distribution of the receptors is determined by the length of the microsatellites."
Hammock and her colleague in the research, Larry Young, said the implications go way beyond the social lives of voles.
"These findings suggest that these unstable genetic elements significantly contribute to the individual differences in social personality that we see in animals and humans," Young said in a National Science Foundation news release.
Hammock and Young extended their research to primate species by looking at publicly available genome data. They found that the same microsatellite region was similar in humans and in bonobos, or pygmy chimpanzees. Bonobos are known for their empathy and strong social bonds (and we hope humans are, too). In contrast, chimpanzees are less empathetic and more aggressive, and have significantly different microsatellite sequences.
Some research has suggested that there might be an association between microsatellites and autism in some families as well. It's far too early to make firm linkages, but geneticists are clearly coming to the conclusion that "junk DNA" is not junk at all.
• June 9, 2005 |
8 p.m. ET
Purgatory on Mars: In Canto X of the Divine Comedy's "Purgatorio," the 14th-century poet Dante Alighieri might well have been foreshadowing the problems that bedeviled NASA's Opportunity rover: "We stopped upon a plain more desolate than roads across the deserts. ..."
In April, Opportunity got stuck in a sand dune in Mars' desolate Meridiani Planum, a plain more desolate than any road on Earth. It was a purgatory of sorts — a place where the rover had to stay for more than a month while its intercessors at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory worked out the terms of its salvation .
I guess that's why the rover team decided to name the place of the rover's confinement "Purgatory Dune."
"We weren't calling it anything back when we were stuck in it, but now that we're out, it seemed there ought to be a name for the thing," rover principal investigator Steve Squyres said today in his latest mission update.
Squyres noted that the team that has guided the Mars Exploration Rovers is reaching a big milestone: 1,000 Martian days (also known as sols) of operation, 490 for Opportunity and 510 for Spirit, its twin on the other side of the Red Planet.
"The uplink process for these vehicles is intense, engrossing and exhausting," Squyres wrote. "At some point I probably should sit down and describe it in these pages. For today, though, I'll just tip my hat to all of my friends, colleagues and comrades — engineer and scientist alike — on the MER uplink team. One thousand sols is a remarkable accomplishment."
Amen to that.
• June 9, 2005 |
8 p.m. ET
Eastward ho! I'm heading out from Seattle on Friday to visit family in Iowa and researchers in Wisconsin. Postings for the next few days won't be as regular as usual, but I'll be back in the office on Thursday.
• June 9, 2005 |
8 p.m. ET
Your daily dose of science on the Web:
• The Guardian: Surgery that made me smile
• New Scientist: Cell phones on planes bug astronomers
• Discovery.com: Flying computers form swarm smarts
• Wired.com: Honey, I shrunk the PC
• June 8, 2005 |
Updated 10:10 p.m. ET
Lights over Mars: Astronomers have detected an aurora for the first time in the skies over Mars.
The Red Planet's "southern lights," if you can call them that, are unlike anything seen on Earth. Earth's colorful auroras are created by the interaction between the electrically charged particles of the solar wind and our planet's magnetic field. But Mars lost its global magnetosphere eons ago — instead, Martian auroras arise when electrons from the solar wind are pulled in by local magnetic fields left over in pieces of the planet's crust. Those particles collide with carbon dioxide molecules in Mars' thin atmosphere, releasing energy in the form of ultraviolet light.
Europe's Mars Express orbiter detected just such an ultraviolet aurora back in August 2004, using its SPICAM ultraviolet spectrograph, and the results are written up in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.
The Martian aurora was pretty wimpy by Earth standards: The emission spanned about 19 miles (30 kilometers) at an altitude of 87 miles (140 kilometers), and was only about a hundredth of the brightness of a typical earthly aurora. In order to witness it to best advantage, you'd have to have eyes sensitive to ultraviolet light, said the University of Arizona's Bill Sandel, a co-investigator for the SPICAM instrument.
The phenomenon was also highly localized. "If you were under it, looking up, it would only be 12 degrees across," he told me. That's just a bit wider than the width of your fist, stretched out to arm's length.
Despite their wimpiness, Martian auroras are still of great value to scientists studying Mars' fractured magnetic field. "Now that we see the aurora, we'll get a better idea of what Mars' magnetic structure really is," Sandel said in a University of Arizona news release.
This week's report makes Mars the latest and perhaps the last of our solar system's auroral planets. Scientists have previously spotted auroras at Saturn and Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. Even Venus, which doesn't have a global magnetic field, has exhibited aurora-type emissions due to the interaction between the strong solar wind and the Venusian atmosphere. Auroras also have been spotted on moons such as Jupiter's Io. But don't expect Mercury or Pluto to join the list anytime soon: Each of those planets has only a tenuous atmosphere at best, and it's not known whether either one has a magnetic field.
For more about auroras on Earth and elsewhere, check out SpaceWeather.com as well as Norway's Northern Lights Web site.
• June 8, 2005 |
8:50 p.m. ET
Genetic zoo expands: Just in time for "Batman Begins," two breeds of bats as well as 11 other species have been targeted for gene mapping under the auspices of the Large-Scale Sequencing Network, according to the National Human Genome Research Institute.
Five research centers will focus their genomic firepower on the 13 newly named species, just as they've done for other creatures ranging from humans to slime mold .
"Sequencing the genomes of a diverse set of organisms is a powerful tool to understand the biological processes at work in human health and illness," NHGRI Director Francis Collins said in today's statement. "Comparative genomics has proven to be one of the most effective strategies for revealing the important structural and functional elements of the human genome sequence."
The additions to the list include:
- The Northern white-cheeked gibbon, a primate that would be the first on its particular branch of the evolutionary tree to have its genetic code unraveled.
- Two bat species, the megabat and the microbat.
- Six other mammals, including the 13-lined ground squirrel, tree shrew, bushbaby, hyrax, pangolin and sloth.
- Two species of malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
- A roundworm species, Heterorhabditis bacteriophora.
- The zebra finch, which will have a physical map of its genome done in preparation for sequencing at a later time.
Check out the full announcement for more details about the next chapter in the genomic book of life, plus a recap of past and current gene-sequencing projects. And get ready for more revelations in the months ahead about diversity in the human genome .
• June 8, 2005 |
8:50 p.m. ET
Cool collegiate science on the Web:
• UCLA: 'Molecular' zipper may hold clues to many diseases
• Wash. Univ. in St. Louis: Gamers are made, not born
• Florida State Univ.: A better way to track hurricanes
• UCSD: Virtual reality gets even more realistic
• June 7, 2005 |
8:25 p.m. ET
Visit the supernova gallery: The astronomers behind the Hubble Space Telescope have added a new work of art to their collection: a chaotic mass of gas and dust left behind by a stellar explosion in a dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud.
N 63A may someday provide the raw materials for a new generation of planetary systems, according to the Space Telescope Science Institute.
"Data obtained at various wavelengths from other detectors reveal ongoing formation of stars at 10 to 15 light-years from N 63A," today's photo advisory reports. "In a few million years, the supernova ejecta from N 63A would reach this star-forming site and may be incorporated into the formation of planets around solar-type stars there, much like the early history of the solar system."
For yet another tale of a supernova remnant, check out this week's story about the case of the missing neutron star . And while you're at it, don't miss our own gallery of super views from space, as well as HubbleSite.org's archive of supernova snapshots.
• June 7, 2005 |
8:25 p.m. ET
Magazine of mystery: If you're looking for the kind of news that used to set Agent Mulder a-twitter on "The X-Files," your list of Web favorites would have to include The Daily Grail, offered up by Greg Taylor, an Australian aficionado of arcana from all over. Now Taylor and his fellow Grailmasters have put together a slick magazine called Sub Rosa. At least it looks like a slick magazine, even though it's published online using PDF format.
The first issue's cover story is an interview with Sphinx geologist Robert Schoch, whose views on the age of the Egyptian monument were touched upon here in the Log last year. (Sub Rosa is kind enough to refer to the Log in the Q&A.) Other articles focus on quantum consciousness and "hyperdimensional ambassador" Terence McKenna. The online magazine also offers something you couldn't do with a print magazine: hyperlinks to video and other resources on the Web.
Meanwhile, if you're more of an Agent Scully type, you might prefer another Web site associated with a print magazine: the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, which publishes the Skeptical Inquirer. (One of Sub Rosa's articles stirs up a point-counterpoint with CSICOP, as a matter of fact.)
• June 7, 2005 |
8:25 p.m. ET
Quick tour of the scientific Web:
• Discovery.com: Meditation changes monks' outlook
• N.Y. Times (reg. req.): A better robot, with help from roaches
• Slate: My short, scary career as a sperm donor
• BBC: NASA cuts 'will hamper science'
• June 6, 2005 |
7:40 p.m. ET
Reality check for robo-racers: Culling as ruthlessly as Simon Cowell from "American Idol," the Pentagon has reduced the field of robotic racers for its $2 million DARPA Grand Challenge by almost two-thirds.
The 40 racing teams listed today were selected from 118 entrants to compete in semifinal trials beginning Sept. 27 at the California Speedway in Fontana. The Grand Challenge is aimed at promoting the development of autonomous ground vehicles that can find their way around an obstacle course (or a battlefield) without human intervention. The Pentagon aims to have one-third of all its ground vehicles unmanned by 2015.
"The teams' creative sparks are flying, and they are making impressive progress toward DARPA's goal of developing technologies that will save the lives of our men and women in uniform on the battlefield," Grand Challenge program manager Ron Kurjanowicz said in a statement (PDF file).
Many of this year's competitors are returning from last year's inaugural Grand Challenge , which went unwon because none of the robotic vehicles could complete the 142-mile course through the Mojave Desert.
Last year's front-runner was the Red Team from Carnegie Mellon University, which is fielding two teams in this year's semifinals under the leadership of robotics professor (and former Marine) Red Whittaker. Last week, Whittaker compared the Grand Challenge to the "Survivor" TV show, and today he paid tribute to those who were voted off the island.
"Those 78 worthy competitors made this a great race and a great community and a game worth playing," he wrote in his racing log.
Actually, "American Idol" provides a slightly better analogy: The 40 teams have just been told the Pentagon's equivalent of "You're going to Hollywood, baby!" Fontana isn't exactly Tinsel Town, but during this fall's nine-day trials, known as the National Qualification Event, the field will be divided into 20 finalists and 20 also-rans. The finalists will go on to the big show, scheduled for Oct. 8. The first vehicle to complete a desert obstacle course autonomously within 10 hours will take the prize — assuming that any of them can do it.
The vehicles are at least as varied as they were last year: pickup trucks, sports utility vehicles, all-terrain vehicles, military-style Hummers, dune buggies, a panel van, a 15-ton cargo truck, a custom-made, six-wheeled contraption and even a motorcycle. Here's a quick list of the 40; DARPA's Grand Challenge Web site has details and Web links for each of them:
A.I. Motorvators, Autonomous Vehicle Systems, Autonosys, Axion Racing, BJB Engineering, Blue Team, CIMAR, CyberRider, Desert Buckeyes, The Golem Group / UCLA, Gray Team, Indiana Robotic Navigation, Indy Robot Racing Team, Insight Racing, Intelligent Vehicle Safety Technologies I, The MITRE Meteorites, Mojavaton, MonsterMoto, Oregon WAVE, Palos Verdes High School Road Warriors, Red Team, Red Team Too, SciAutonics / Auburn Engineering, Stanford Racing Team, Team AION, Team Banzai, Team CajunBot, Team Caltech, Team Cornell, Team DAD, Team ENSCO, Team Jefferson, Team Juggernaut, Team Overbot, Team TerraMax, Team Tormenta, Team UCF, Terra Engineering, Virginia Tech Grand Challenge Team, Virginia Tech Team Rocky.
• June 6, 2005 |
7:40 p.m. ET
Near space gets nearer: The U.S. military has reportedly given the all-clear for the real-world use of a new kind of balloon-based communications platform in "near space," a zone between 65,000 and 350,000 feet in altitude.
Such near-space platforms received positive reviews in reports published last month by C4ISR Journal and Inside the Air Force. The first battle-ready system, Combat SkySat I, performed well during a test tryout in March in Arizona and "can now be used in theater operations," Inside the Air Force reported.
Near space is above the region of the atmosphere that can come under threat from enemy aircraft — and it's a place that's easier to reach than outer space. The balloon-buoyed platform does have its limitations, however. The tryout indicated that the untethered balloon could provide radio coverage over a given area for about a day during calm weather conditions, but for less time than that on windier days.
Last year, the wind factor came into play during a round of tests conducted by JP Aerospace. In part because of the wind problems, JP Aerospace eventually had to part ways with the Pentagon, but the group is continuing work on a lighter-than-air system for getting to the fringes of space. JP Aerospace conducted its most recent test flight just last month — sending up, among other things, "Star Wars" action figures and a commercial billboard. (Word press release)
Meanwhile, a Cosmic Log reader living in London, J.R. Dumas, sends along a link to Sanswire, yet another near-space venture aimed at lofting "Stratellite" airships to provide wireless Internet coverage. A prototype Stratellite is being prepared for tests this summer at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
• June 6, 2005 |
7:40 p.m. ET
Scientific smorgasbord on the World Wide Web:
• Defense Tech: Los Alamos whistleblower assaulted
• Technovelgy: Breathe like a fish
• Space.com: Big Universe, tightening budget
• Archaeology: Modern chef takes on ancient cooking
• Scientific American: Monkey hear, monkey count
• June 3, 2005 |
8:30 p.m. ET
DNA data dangers: Genetic identification techniques have revolutionized victim recovery operations as well as criminal investigations. Just this week, officials in Japan and Ireland have been discussing the expansion of their national DNA databases as a crime-fighting measure.
But the technology has its limits, as illustrated by the complications that have arisen during a rape trial in Texas where identical twins are the defendants. In fact, some scientists say that as DNA databases become bigger, the chances of coincidental genetic matches will increase — raising the prospect of innocent people being wrongly accused on the basis of their DNA.
A suggestion from a Cosmic Log correspondent that DNA databases should be expanded to the general public — so that victims could be quickly identified in the event of, say, a catastrophic terrorist attack — brought a mostly negative response as fast as you could say "Big Brother." Here's a sampling of the e-mail:
Tom: "... DNA databases could never be secured. Nothing is secure, and the inevitable abuse of the information would far outweigh any benefit gained from the technology. By the time we would need such a database nationally for a nuclear terrorist crisis, it will already be too late for our society. We had better work towards making sure things don't ever reach that point. When the desperate poor and disenfranchised (as well as the terrorists that recruit them) feel threatened enough to make that kind of attack on Western societies, we will have already failed as civilzation. We must increase our efforts of inclusion so that the current crisis never expands to that point. The DNA database is a moot effort. It reminds me of the insane concept floated throughout America years ago of a 'winnable' nuclear war. We all know by now there is no such thing."
Wade Whitlock, Aberdeen, Md.: "How Orwellian can we get? Oxytocin the hormone of trust and DNA banks being discussed today. Hmm? Anybody around with an aerosol can during a Shrub appearance? With the paranoids running the government, I distrust almost everything. National ID cards for entry into federal buildings or air travel? Electronic tracking? Oh, yeah! Fear your government as much as you love your country!"
Jorge Fernandez, Hialeah, Fla.: "The DNA database would be an excellent for crime, health and dating. Crime would be drastically reduced because people would know they would be identified. The thing with this is an extension of the privacy problem with cameras, but if you are not doing anything wrong then you do not have to worry. ... Health benefits could be amazing as personalized recommendations and diagnosis could be beamed to the doctor's office or your home computer if it was made electronic. Dating would be so much easier because you would not need a compatibility test but could be matched up on your DNA! It would probably make the time-wasting, old-fashioned way obsolete. The con [side of the argument] would be if it got into the wrong hands (like anything). It would make it easier to frame you especially if they made evil clones (Hey, you never know with developments these days) — not to mention what could happen with ID theft (though it could help us identify impostors). ..."
Burton: "Would you really want the likes of J. Edgar Hoover, Tom Ridge or any member of the FBI, CIA or any corporation to have access to your most personal information? Does '1984' or Big Brother come to mind? Why not just have babies bar-coded and implanted with a tracking device at birth?"
Actually, it might not be a bad idea to create your own family "DNA database": The idea would be to collect DNA samples for storage at home, just in case they're needed for identification purposes later. Lots of companies sell collection kits, but according to the S.A.F.E Network, the procedure could be as simple as swabbing the inside of your cheek with a sterile cotton swab and storing it inside a clearly labeled bag.
The Travelers Protective Association works with community groups to provide free DNA collection kits for child safety purposes. A large collection campaign was conducted just last month for kindergartners in Maryland's Washington County.
• June 3, 2005 |
8:30 p.m. ET
Weekend field trips on the World Wide Web:
• The Economist: Do Ashkenazi Jews have genetic genius?
• Slate: How do space pictures get so pretty?
• 'Nova' on PBS: 'Lost Roman Treasure'
• Seattle P-I: Will epigenetics rock evolutionary theory?
• CollectSpace: Suits for space spies found decades later
• NASA: Mercury probe snaps pictures of Earth and moon
• N.Y. Times: Museum quits as intelligent-design film sponsor
The fine print: Looking for older items? Check the Cosmic Log archive. Share your perspective on cosmic subjects with Alan Boyle. If you link to this page, you can use http://cosmiclog.msnbc.com or http://www.cosmiclog.com as the address. MSNBC is not responsible for the content of Internet links.


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