Discussion in 'Miami Dolphins Forum' started by Dorfdad, Jan 15, 2019.
I think the more interesting discussion is what Ryan Tannehill is actually worth. Remember, he was top 5 to start the season before injury, and he was top 5 down the stretch until the line fell apart. I'm sure those carrots will be dangled in free agency and someone will bite.
Seriously though, what is Tannehill optimistically worth to the right team? I could see a 2nd or a 3rd maybe.
Yeah, but you're saying that as a fan, not as a coach or a GM. Tannehill has all the physical tools, he's the most loyal guy you'll ever find, he's a coach's dream player with his work ethic and dedication....all that plays into it as well. Teams know that if they bring him in, RT will give them exactly what they're asking for.
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I think GM's know Tannehill is at best average and has little to no upside. I said weeks ago I could see the Jaguars being interested, but that's only if you consider Tannehill in isolation. Foles is out there, and I think even an underperforming Flacco would be more enticing to them. As Dorfdad said teams know we don't want him. So I doubt we get much for him, if at all anything.
Besides, it would be great if all we end up doing is unload his contract. We don't even need draft picks in return.
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Tannehill would be a great backup for some team. I don't believe there is a starters market for him but I suppose there could be. Foles on the other hand is Super Bowl winning MVP quarterback. He is worth substantially more money. Like it or not QB's get paid big money these days. He will get 20 Million a year minimum. Whether he can have success on another team or not remains to be seen but I think its going to be largely dependent on which team that is.
Foles will not be in Miami next season. He is going to be able to choose where he plays next and it's not going to be a team in a rebuilding mode like Miami will be. The logical choice for Qb for us is Bridgewater. He will likely be 10-12 Million a year. And no, I'm not saying he is all that because he is not. We just need a guy to helm the ship for a year or two while this thing gets put back together. Tyrod Taylor is another that would be the same type guy as Bridgewater.
I don't think I trust in Foles enough outside of that Philly offensive system. For $15 million/year, I'd roll the dice, but not $20+ million/year. I think Jacksonville could find the cap space and has a lot of pieces in place already.
If they are serious about drafting a QB in 2020, then roll with a cheap vet like Fitz and a young guy like Fales. Even better, trade your 2019 first rounder and get another first and change for the 2020 draft. If Miami can get into the top 3 picks, they should come away with a potential franchise QB.
I personally am still sold on the idea of bringing in a guy like Bridgewater, Fitzpatrick or Taylor and drafting Easton Stick in a later round. I think the guy is great and at worst he is going to make a capable backup. If he can come in and sit behind a vet and not have to start, come in during garbage time, maybe a start or two at the end of the year, in a season we may have solved the Qb problem here. And if it doesn't work out well with him you can draft Tua or someone the following year.
Heck I think it's worth a shot. He will be playing in the East West Shrine game this weekend and I will be watching closely.
Foles is Tannehill, except comes up in some big moments. You can win like that. If we could revamp both lines in one off season and sign Foles it would be good. But I'm not sure it's the right move.
Foles is Tannehill is the sense that they both need an elite team to thrive. Nick Foles has only played well in Philly and we have nowhere near their talent so there's no point.
Foles has shown the ability to rise above his normal limitations and play at an elite level though. He made some incredible throws during a Super Bowl run and got the Eagles into the playoffs again when they had been left for dead. The past two season he has done things that I can't imagine Tanny could ever pull off even if they had the same exact team around them.
I'll agree that he is the anti Tannehill in that he steps up in big games but he has only ever had success in Philly which does not bode well for teams expecting him to play to his Philly level.
You meant he's only not played good in the dumpster fire that was STL.
I literally said he was Tannehill. Except Foles comes up in big spots.
Just like Jimmy G lead the 49ers to 5-0 in the dumpster fire that was the 49ers in 2017. Like how Mayfield lead the Browns to 7 wins after they won 1 game the previous 2 years.
Some QB's need more help than others. Foles just like Tannehill needs more help than what we can offer.
Big spots with a great line and good coaching and a great offensive scheme.
Jimmy G is coming back to earth.
Mayfield had 27 TD's in 13 games on a team that won 1 game in 2 years and he did it as a rookie. He's already the best QB the Browns have had since they came back in 1999 even if he does regress.
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I am not saying that he didn't have a good rookie year.
However to be the best he will have to do it more than one year. Is he the future or the next Derek Alexander.
Let's wait until the Browns are actually back to be back.
Sorry, but Foles has proven himself on the NFL's biggest, brightest stage. He gets more benefit of the doubt that Tannehill does. It's not even close.
He's a system QB, not an "elite team" dependent one.
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You're talking about 8 out of every 10 QB's. It's not earth shattering news and shouldn't deter a team if they have the right offensive coaches.
I said this before, but he's a Jag. He's following Defilipo so it's pointless to talk about him IMO.
That franchise is such a dumpster fire he IS already the best QB they've had in the last 20 years.
Their record may have been only a tie better than Miami but their record was an improvement over what they've seen since 2007.
And at 2007 people thought they were going to rebound and they sucked again.
nope i want a young kid if we aren't going to roll with tannehill. let the jags pay him.
I dont want Foles. The team that drafted him traded him away after a remarkably good year. He tanked with his new team and went back to the Eagles that dont seem to want him.
I couldn't believe last Sunday and said if Foles leads them to a win, no way Philly cant retain his massive contract even as a backup.
Truth be told, I think Tannehill would be just as good as Foles in Philly. If I'm Tannehill, that's where I'm going with massive incentives on playing time, because Wentz seems like he'll struggle with health issues. The Eagles need a great QB insurance policy. They should've been in the NFC playoff game.


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Top 5 Moments at the Greenbrier Classic
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The Greenbrier Classic hasn't been around that long, but during its brief existence, the tournament has given golf fans plenty to cheer about.
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In four years, we've seen two playoffs, two first-time winners, a round of 59 and one emotional winner breakdown after realizing his dream had come true. Here's a look at the top-5 moments from the Greenbrier Classic
5) Jonas Blixt Makes a Charge
Coming from four shots back on Sunday, Swedish star Jonas Blixt claimed his second career win at the Greenbrier Classic by two shots over a foursome of tour stars. After the win, Blixt was emotional realizing that with his victory he would move up 100 spots in the FedExCup standings, as well as earn an exemption into The Open Championship and the 2014 Masters. Among the guys he beat that day were this year's winner of the Valero Texas Open Steven Bowditch, Open winner Shell Houston, Matt Jones and three-time winner this year, Jimmy Walker.
4) Scott Stallings Wins in a Playoff
It didn't take too long for the Greenbrier to have its first playoff. In 2011, the second year of the event, Scott Stallings picked up his first career PGA Tour victory over Bill Haas and Bob Estes in dramatic fashion. After starting his final round at four-over, Stallings battled back, birdieing the 18th to get into the playoff. The three combatants went back to the 18th tee to decide the championship. Stallings clutched up and hit nearly the same tee shot he had in regulation, setting up another birdie on the final hole. This time, his putt of six feet and change earned him the win.
3) Ted Potter, Jr. Outlasts Troy Kelley
In a tournament that saw Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson both miss the cut for the first time in their careers, Ted Potter, Jr. and Troy Kelly got their chance to duke it out for their first win on the PGA Tour. After 18 holes, Potter, Jr. and Kelly were knotted at 17-under. The two remained tied through the first two playoff holes before Potter, Jr. was able to make birdie on 18 and claim his first PGA Tour victory.
2) 2014 Offers Four Invites to The Open Championship
As the championship enters its fifth year, the Greenbrier Classic is beginning to be recognized as one of the premier events on Tour, drawing some of the world's best. In 2012, Tiger and Phil both made the Greenbrier part of their schedules and even though they both missed the cut, lent some credibility to the event going forward. This year, as part of the The Open Championship Qualifying Series, a top-12 finish will net four previously non-exempt players a spot in this year's Open.
1) Stuart Appleby Fires 59 on Sunday to Win
The Greenbrier Classic may only be going into its fifth year, but that's okay because in its inaugural playing in 2010, Stuart Appleby provided a moment for the ages while collecting his ninth career win on Tour. Appleby shot the front nine in 28, spreading whispers around the Old White TPC Course that he might be able to shoot the elusive 59. With a clutch birdie on 18, Appleby accomplished the feat, becoming just the fourth player in PGA Tour history to have shot that number in competition.
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Q: Winapi and half fadeout window I want to fade out window using winapi in c++. I want to make the effect like windows when they are not responsible. They are become then whole gray and half transparent. I'm trying to do it using
AnimateWindow(hwnd, 1000, AW_BLEND | AW_HIDE);

but this make the window hide becouse of paramether AW_HIDE and I want to fade out for example only for 70%. Is there any way to do it using animate window or maybe I can do it another way?

A: You could take a look at UpdateLayeredWindow.

A: This code changes the opacity of window, when WM_LBUTTONUP event occur.
If you want to animate for 'fade out' effect, using  Timer can be an effective method.
In WM_TIMER handler, change the alpha_value which is third parameter of ::SetLayeredWindowAttributes().
LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND hWnd, UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
    PAINTSTRUCT ps;
    HDC hdc;
    LONG extend_style;
    BYTE alpha_value;

    switch (message)
    {
    case WM_COMMAND:
        ...
        break;
    case WM_LBUTTONUP:

        extend_style = ::GetWindowLong(hWnd, GWL_EXSTYLE );
        ::SetWindowLong(hWnd, GWL_EXSTYLE, extend_style | WS_EX_LAYERED );

        //0 ~ 255(Transparent Range, 0 is completely transparent)
        alpha_value = 100;

        ::SetLayeredWindowAttributes(hWnd, 0, alpha_value, LWA_ALPHA);

        break;
    case WM_PAINT:
         ...
         break;
    case WM_DESTROY:
        PostQuitMessage(0);
        break;
    default:
        return DefWindowProc(hWnd, message, wParam, lParam);
    }
    return 0;
}

I hope this will help you a little.

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Due to the current, and rapidly evolving, COVID-19 virus situation, in the interests of safety for our members and visitors the Box Hill Miniature Steam Railway Society has cancelled the January 2022 Public Running Day. Box Hill Miniature Steam Railway Society apologises for any inconvenience.
Please look after yourselves and each other, and we hope to open our railway and see you there as soon as it is safe to do so.
Welcome to the Box Hill Miniature Railway, located in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia.
Surrounded by wonderful parkland and with steam, diesel and even solar powered trains to ride, there's something for everyone from the young to the young at heart.
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Come along to our next Public Running Day and experience this wonderful miniature railway for yourself.
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An innovative, international technology company that develops and manufactures cutting-edge, reliable, high-quality PC products and value-added professional services, Linovo presents new IdeaPad notebooks to those who are no more interested in ordinary products and search for something special.
According to LENOVO's official web site, it emphasizes main features of the new product-IdeaPad notebooks; notebooks come with 17'' and 15'' widescreen displays. The main features that make IdeaPad different from the other ones are:
VeriFace™ facial recognition security
Dolby® Home Theater™ sound
Frameless screen
Multimedia Control Center with touch-sensitive buttons
GameZone keys with secondary display
Lenovo promises comfort while opening the notebook and represents three varieties of the product. Choice of product type mostly depends on the demands of the clients and the consumers. IdeaPad is of three styles. These are: IdeaPad Y510, Mobile versatility that identifies 4 mains specific features. IdeaPad Y510 has an integrated 1.3 megapixel camera and Lenovo's VeriFace™ face recognition software. This is the unique feature that can make face your password and help control access to the notebook by the time the owner of the notebook sits at it. Despite the fact that the IdeaPad Y510 makes the user feel special the Dolby® Home Theater™ premium audio system attracts attention of the segment that is fond of theater-style sound. The product creates excellent entertainment environment with the help of Multimedia Control Center.
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Chairman of the Mozilla Foundation Mitchell Baker says: "It's clear that when people are looking for information on the web, search is the number one activity. We've devised ways to bring that power into areas that are closer to your individual life".
Typing "cameras", for example, into the url bar, will bring up a list of the sites that the user recently visited that have cameras in their names.
"If you buy a shoe, that's all you need to remember - we will use search, as you've come to expect it, to help you find the places that you have been visiting," - says Ms Baker.
"It will be faster, sleeker, and even easier to use. In terms of features, we've tried very hard not to bloat the interface but to keep it simple, the way people like it, and to have new things appear when you need them." -she said.
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Ms Baker said that when Mozilla issued Firefox 1 they had one staff member, but hundreds working on different aspects of it. Now they have 150 employees around the world, and "tens of thousands" working on the software. Mozilla is run as a not-for-profit organization, and advocate of open source coding.
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Adobe has launched software designed to make it easier for computer users to use online applications offline. Adobe Air allows developers to build tools that still have some functionality even when a computer is no longer connected to the net. A free download will allow users of Macs, PCs and, later this year, Linux machines to run any Air applications. The first programs that use the technology, developed by web sites such as eBay, have already been released.
"Air is going to allow applications that run on the web today - that run in the browser - to be brought down to the desktop. It's about taking existing web applications and adding extra functionality whether you want to work offline or whether you want to access data on your disk " – says Andrew Shorten, platform evangelist at Adobe.
Mr. Shorten said that the technology is not about replacing the web browser: "It's about delivering the best experience depending on where you are and what you need to get from the application. If I'm on the road with my laptop maybe I want to use the desktop version of my application. If I pop into an internet cafe I can still access it through the browser."
The software is part of a growing number of technologies that aim to make the transition between the on and offline worlds seamless. In 2006, Microsoft unveiled its Silverlight technology. And last year http://www.google.com/ Google launched Gears.
The tool does not allow the creation of new content but does allow web applications to be used offline. For example, the developers of the free online office package Zoho use Gears to give users similar functionality to normal desktop office programs. Similarly, Adobe is looking into provide Air versions of many of its popular programs such as Photoshop. A host of other companies and web services have already built Air applications. For example, Ebay has built a program that allows users to do much of the legwork required in setting up auctions offline. The next time the user connects to the internet the listing would be posted to the website.
The application also allows users to keep up to date with auctions and bids without the need to have a browser open at the eBay page. The corporation is currently building prototype versions of several applications such as the news ticker, which displays headlines on a desktop, and mini Motty, which provides desktop football commentary. The current versions of the programs only work on PCs. Other programs exploit Air's ability to access both web content and files on a computer's disk. For example, the web-version of Finetunes allows users to stream music over the internet
"If you install the Air version on your desktop it can also look at what you have in your iTunes library and then suggest music based on what it finds. So it's really taking the essence of what works on the web, brining it to the desktop and then making it more personal to you " - explained Mr. Shorten.
Some commentators have pointed out that the ability for an application to delve between the web and a computer's hard drive raises security implications.
"Our advice would be to only install applications from sources that you trust," - said Mr. Shorten.
Corporate Telecommunications presents the service that gives the users opportunity to diagnose their headsets: who is using which headset, which ones need repairing, which are out of warranty, which ones need new voice tubes or need upgrading. These are achieved by unique identity codes and specially-designed software that monitor the lifecycle of each headset.
Access to information does not require separate software. It is automatically stored on a secure web-based database. All changes are updated directly onto the system.
Chan Bansal, business development manager at Corporate Telecommunications said: "Trying to keep track of headsets using an Excel spreadsheet or databases might work in the short term, but manually inputting information on scores of headsets is a time consuming task. And if the administrator is on holiday, sick or leaves the company, it doesn't take long for the spreadsheet to become out of date. Not to mention the security risks of losing potentially sensitive information."
A comprehensive audit trail for each headset, with multiple reporting options is provided by Accucheck software. A history of each change in use or status is created for both headsets and agents.
Bansal announces that "Developments in business culture, such as health and safety laws, regulatory changes and tight cost controls, mean sketchy asset records are not acceptable. Not managing your assets effectively, wastes time, costs money and risks falling foul of regulations."
Apple (AAPL) shares are down sharply to their lowest level since June, as several analyst reports have triggered fresh concerns about the state of demand for iPhones and iPods.
Toni Sacconaghi, an analyst at Bernstein Research, has published the transcript of a recent conference call he held with investors on the subject of unlocked iPhones, what they mean to Apple, and what options the company has to deal with them. In a summary of the call, he contends that, while the iPhone has the potential to drive material earnings growth for Apple, the company faces two "significant challenges": demand appears to be falling short of expectations, and the incidence of unlocking is much higher than expected.
Sacconaghi admits that the iPhone will be 6% of Apple's revenues in FY '08, but could be nearly a quarter of the total by FY 2012, driving half of the company's revenue growth over the next four years; and he notes that since the iPhone has a higher gross margin than other Apple products, it could drive 70%-80% of the company's profit growth.
Sacconaghi says that weekly run-rate sales in the December quarter were about 180,000 units or less than 10 million on an annualized basis in the busiest quarter of the year for consumer electronics sales. That leads him to conclude that the goal of selling 10 million units in 2008 is optimistic, "particularly if Apple insists on carrier revenue-sharing, without significant price cuts or new model introductions." He says European sales of the iPhone have been "particularly disappointing," falling short of carriers' initial expectations. Sacconaghi is projecting 1.45 million units in the December quarter, 6.9 million for the September 2008 fiscal year and 7.9 million for calendar 2008.
Sacconaghi, who kicked off the "missing iPhones" debate in January, pointing out the wide gap between the number of iPhones Apple has sold and the number of iPhone customers AT&T (T) as the exclusive U.S. carrier has signed up, repeats his previous estimate that 25%-30% of iPhones sold to date have been unlocked for use with carriers other than the one authorized by Apple. He notes that, if Apple sold 10 million iPhones this year but 30% were unlicked, the company would be losing out on $1.1 billion-$1.3 billion of revenue and 80-85 cents a share in EPS over the following two years. He also notes, not for the first time, that the unlocked phones pose a strategic issue, limiting the company's ability to provide a truly exclusive relationship to carriers, and so reducing their willingness to kick back some subscriber revenue to Apple in return for an exclusive deal.
J.P. Morgan's Bill Shope on Friday wrote that "with relatively slow unit growth in the holiday season" and the recent price cut for the iPod Shuffle, "signs point to iPod saturation and some macro sensitivity." He says the Shuffle price cut "is likely intended to boost Shuffle momentum and iPod units overall." In a separate note, Shope also says that Apple "still seems comfortable with Mac momentum, which remains the critical component of the story at these levels." He says that Apple execs in a recent meeting would not comment on iPod and iPhone demand concerns, but did say that Mac product family is better positioned than in the last economic downturn.
Morgan Stanley noted Friday that MacBook distributor inventories are "near all-time lows" for the third straight week, but that iMac units are above historical average levels. The iPod Touch, they say, is selling well, with low channel inventory, while Shuffle inventory, which had accumulated in recent months, is down sharply ahead of the arrival of recently unveiled 2GB model.
The iPhone is an Internet-enabled multimedia mobile phone designed and marketed by Apple Inc. It has a multi-touch screen with virtual keyboard and buttons. The iPhone's functions include those of a camera phone and a portable media player ("iPod"), in addition to text messaging and visual voicemail. It also offers Internet services including e-mail, web browsing, and local Wi-Fi connectivity. It is a quad-band mobile phone that uses the GSM standard, and hence has international capability. It supports the EDGE data technology.
Following the success of iPods, Apple announced the iPhone in January 2007. The announcement was preceded by rumors and speculations that circulated for several months. The iPhone was introduced, first in the United States on June 29, 2007 with much media frenzy and then in the United Kingdom, Germany and France in November 2007. It was named Time magazine's Invention of the Year in 2007.
The first Academy Awards that was handed out on May 16, 1929, continues and celebrates its 80th Jubilee. It might be surprising but the ticket of the ceremony cost just $5 the first time, and was held in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. From the very beginning the ceremony was filled with speeches, as for the statuettes. They were handled by Academy President Douglas Fairbanks.
According to Oscar's official web site the Academy's general goal is the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures. The fulfillment of this goal was achieved by hard work of following people, and the Oscar went to...
Best Motion Picture: "No Country for Old Men."
Lead Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, "There Will Be Blood."
Lead Actress: Marion Cotillard, "La Vie en Rose."
Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, "No Country for Old Men."
Supporting Actress: Tilda Swinton, "Michael Clayton."
Director: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, "No Country for Old Men."
Adapted Screenplay: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, "No Country for Old Men."
Original Screenplay: Diablo Cody, "Juno."
Animated Feature Film: "Ratatouille."
Art Direction: "Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street."
Cinematography: "There Will Be Blood."
Sound Mixing: "The Bourne Ultimatum."
Sound Editing: "The Bourne Ultimatum."
Original Score: "Atonement," Dario Marianelli.
Original Song: "Falling Slowly" from "Once," Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova.
Costume: "Elizabeth: The Golden Age."
Documentary Feature: "Taxi to the Dark Side."
Documentary Short Subject: "Freeheld." Film Editing: "The Bourne Ultimatum."
Makeup: "La Vie en Rose."
Animated Short Film: "Peter & the Wolf."
Live Action Short Film: "Le Mozart des Pickpockets (`The Mozart of Pickpockets')."
Visual Effects: "The Golden Compass."
Foreign Language Film: "The Counterfeiters," Austria.
Today Oscar is not only ceremony where artists are awarded for their work but it is much more. Red Carpet represents Oscar Ceremony as one of the impressive, glittering shows of style, fashion, taste.
And those who could not watch the ceremony on the 24th of February Oscar official web site presents the Red Carpet of 2008. That is the charm of the World Wide Web.
Security is one of the most important aspects that we demand from each service we use everyday in the highly developed technological world and especially in the World Wide Web. How much secure are we? How much dangerous the insecurity might be? It mostly depends on the sphere and the level of threats, whether privacy is under threat or our personal details as consumers of the banks are expected to be reachable by hackers. According to IP-ATM Security banks and financial institutions are failing to properly secure their ATMs. IP-ATM Security identifies three main threats to ATMs. These are:
Internet protocol (IP) worms;
Disruption of the IP network and denial of service;
The harvesting of consumers' transaction data for malicious purposes
The harvesting of consumers' transaction data for malicious purposes gives opportunities to hackers collect consumers' personal details, their card number, account balance and transaction history.
According to the SourceWire press release there are several reasons ATMs have become less secure. One of them is the way in which ATMs operate. ATMs hardware platforms with proprietary software and communications protocols have been migrated to commodity-embedded hardware platforms (essentially PC-based with Intel microprocessors), commodity operating systems (primarily Window and Linux), and standard IP networking. "70 per cent of current ATMs are now based on PC/Intel hardware and commodity operating systems (mostly Windows XP embedded) and this trend is expected to continue. Essentially, these new ATMs are PCs that are running PC operating systems, using the standard Internet Protocol (IP) with some additional peripherals housed in a secure vault-like box."
No change is done if there are not advantages in the newer system. Among the advantages of the new system are: cost; performance; flexibility; standardization and enhanced functionality
And there is no coin with one side. Advantages are faded by threats the name of that is "hackers."
2008 analysis of ATM network traffic by Network Box "found that only the PIN number was encrypted and that a large portion of the traffic travelled in plain text, leaving card numbers, card expiry dates, transaction amounts and account balances clearly readable. Therefore, a hacker needs only to access some part of the IP network between the IP-ATM and the payment processor to be privy to the aforementioned details."ATM finds the most effective way to solve the issues is to use a multifunction device with:
Routing,
Firewall,
IDS/IPS,
VPN capabilities,
Protecting, the ATM network.
The specifics of the network are:
Separate from the rest of the bank's network, monitor and control.
Encrypt all traffic coming out of the ATM machinesThe growth of the ATM marketAccording to SourceWire Mark Webb-Johnson, CTO of Network Box, comments: "Most people simply assume that because an ATM is invariably provided by a bank, the transactions and the data being transmitted must be secure. This assumption may have been true in the past, but today ATMs operate in a way that makes them far more susceptible to attack. "We've already seen in August 2003 how the Nachi (aka Welchia) Internet worm crossed over into 'secure' networks and infected ATMs for two financial institutions; and we've witnessed the SQL Slammer (aka Sapphire) worm indirectly shutdown 13,000 Bank of America ATMs. The chances are that if banks don't use technology that can actually provide an effective level of protection – technology that is already on the market – then it is very likely that more high-profile attacks are to follow."
Microsoft is warning Windows Vista users that a forthcoming service pack for the operating system may stop some third-party programs working. The software giant has released a list of programs that may be broken by the SP1 update for Vista. Most of the software hit by the upgrade are security programs that prevent Windows users falling prey to viruses, Trojans and booby-trapped web pages.
The Windows Vista update will be released to the public in mid-March. Service Packs are among the biggest updates Microsoft issues for its various operating systems. The software firm said SP1 makes Vista more secure and reliable and introduces some new features.
The list of programs affected by SP1 is divided into three.Some will be blocked by the update, some will not run and others will lose some of their functions. Of the 12 programs mentioned six block viruses or keep an eye on the places someone visits online. Microsoft warned that its list was not "comprehensive" and asked people to get in touch with the maker of any affected software to fix problems. Although the update will become widely available in March, Microsoft is releasing it to business customers in February.
Microsoft has also been forced to withdraw an update to Vista that was required before Service Pack 1 could be applied. Writing on the Windows Vista blog, Nick White, Microsoft product manager, said the company had withdrawn the preparatory update while it investigated. Isolated reports suggest that some machines on which the preliminary update has been applied go into an update loop. He wrote: "We are working to identify possible solutions and will make the update available again shortly after we address the issue."
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Gamers will soon be able to interact with the virtual world using their thoughts and emotions alone. A neuro-headset which interprets the interaction of neurons in the brain will go on sale later this year.
"It picks up electrical activity from the brain and sends wireless signals to a computer. It allows the user to manipulate a game or virtual environment naturally and intuitively" - said Tan Le, president of US/Australian firm Emotiv.
The brain is made up of about 100 billion nerve cells, or neurons, which emit an electrical impulse when interacting. The headset implements a technology known as non-invasive electroencephalography (EEG) to read the neural activity.
Ms Le said: "Emotiv is a neuro-engineering company and we've created a brain computer interface that reads electrical impulses in the brain and translates them into commands that a video game can accept and control the game dynamically."
Headsets which read neural activity are not new, but Ms Le said the Epoc was the first consumer device that can be used for gaming. "This is the first headset that doesn't require a large net of electrodes, or a technician to calibrate or operate it and does require gel on the scalp. It also doesn't cost tens of thousands of dollars. " - she said.
The use of Electroencephalography in medical practice dates back almost 100 years but it is only since the 1970s that the procedure has been used to explore brain computer interfaces.
The Epoc technology can be used to give authentic facial expressions to avatars of gamers in virtual worlds. For example, if the player smiles, winks, grimaces the headset can detect the expression and translate it to the avatar in game. It can also read emotions of players and translate those to the virtual world. "The headset could be used to improve the realism of emotional responses of AI characters in games," - said Ms Le.
"If you laughed or felt happy after killing a character in a game then your virtual buddy could admonish you for being callous," - she explained.
The $299 headset has a gyroscope to detect movement and has wireless capabilities to communicate with a USB dongle plugged into a computer. The Emotiv said the headset could detect more than 30 different expressions, emotions and actions.
They include excitement, meditation, tension and frustration; facial expressions such as smile, laugh, wink, shock (eyebrows raised), anger (eyebrows furrowed); and cognitive actions such as push, pull, lift, drop and rotate (on six different axis).
Gamers are able to move objects in the world just by thinking of the action. Emotiv is working with IBM to develop the technology for uses in "strategic enterprise business markets and virtual worlds"
Paul Ledak, vice president, IBM Digital Convergence said brain computer interfaces, like the Epoc headset were an important component of the future 3D Internet and the future of virtual communication.
Sensors respond to the electrical impulses behind different thoughts; enabling a user's brain to influence gameplay directly;
Conscious thoughts, facial expressions, and non-conscious emotions can all be detected;
Gyroscope enables a cursor or camera to be controlled by head movements;
The headset uses wi-fi to connect to a computer.
According to the study of Brigham and Women's Hospital the guarantee of living past 90 is abstaining from smoking, weight management, blood pressure control, regular exercise and avoiding diabetes.
Studies of twins have found that about one-fourth of the variation in human life span can be attributed to genetics. That leaves about 75 percent that could be attributed to modifiable risk factors.
According to Laurel B. Yates, MD, MPH, Brigham and Women's Hospital and colleagues studied a group of 2,357 men who were participants in the Physician's Health Study. At the beginning of the study, in 1981 to 1984, the men (average age 72) provided information about demographic and health variables, including height, weight, blood pressure and cholesterol levels and how often they exercised. Twice during the first year and then once each following year through 2006, they completed a questionnaire asking about changes in habits, health status or ability to do daily tasks.
The study shows that41 percent lived to age 90 or older. Such an indication of numbers caused by Smoking, diabetes, obesity and hypertension significantly that " reduced the likelihood of a 90-year life span, while regular vigorous exercise substantially improved it," the authors write. "Furthermore, men with a life span of 90 or more years also had better physical function, mental well-being, and self-perceived health in late life compared with men who died at a younger age. Adverse factors associated with reduced longevity—smoking, obesity and sedentary lifestyle—also were significantly associated with poorer functional status in elderly years."
The Brigham and Women's Hospital announces that the researchers estimate that a 70-year-old man who did not smoke and had normal blood pressure and weight, no diabetes and exercised two to four times per week had a 54 percent probability of living to age 90.
However, if he had adverse factors, his probability of living to age 90 was reduced to the following amount:
Sedentary lifestyle, 44 percent
Hypertension (high blood pressure), 36 percent
Obesity, 26 percent
Smoking, 22 percent
Three factors, such as sedentary lifestyle, obesity and diabetes, 14 percent
Five factors, 4 percent
A controversial website that allows whistle-blowers to anonymously post government and corporate documents has been taken offline in the US. Wikileaks.org, as it is known, was cut off from the internet following a California court ruling, the site says. The case was brought by a Swiss bank after "several hundred" documents were posted about its offshore activities. Other versions of the pages, hosted in countries such as Belgium and India, can still be accessed.
However, the main site was taken offline after the court ordered that Dynadot, which controls the site's domain name, should remove all traces of wikileaks from its servers. The court also ordered that Dynadot should "prevent the domain name from resolving to the wikileaks.org website or any other website or server other than a blank park page, until further order of this Court." Other orders included that the domain name be locked "to prevent transfer of the domain name to a different domain registrar" to prevent changes being made to the site.
Wikileaks claimed that the order was "unconstitutional" and said that the site had been "forcibly censored".
The case was brought by lawyers working for the Swiss banking group Julius Baer. It concerned several documents posted on the site which allegedly reveal that the bank was involved with money laundering and tax evasion. The documents were allegedly posted by Rudolf Elmer, former vice president of the bank's Cayman Island's operation. A spokesperson for Julius Baer said he could not comment on the case because of "pending legal proceedings".
The court hearing took place last week and Dynadot blocked access from Friday evening. Wikileaks says it was not represented at the hearing because it was "given only hours notice" via e-mail. A document signed by Judge Jeffery White, who presided over the case, ordered Dynadot to follow six court orders.
As well as removing all records of the site form its servers, the hosting and domain name firm was ordered to produce "all prior or previous administrative and account records and data for the wikileaks.org domain name and account". The order also demanded that details of the site's registrant, contacts, payment records and "IP addresses and associated data used by any person...who accessed the account for the domain name" to be handed over.
Wikileaks allows users to post documents anonymously. The site was founded in 2006 by dissidents, journalists, mathematicians and technologists from the US, Taiwan, Europe, Australia and South Africa. It so far claims to have published more than 1.2 million documents. It provoked controversy when it first appeared on the net with many commentators questioning the motives of the people behind the site. It recently made available a confidential briefing document relating to the collapse of the UK's Northern Rock bank. Lawyers working on behalf of the bank attempted to have the documents removed from the site. They can still be accessed.
According to PC WORLD the spam message tricking the users interested in Hillary Clinton's campaign speech appeared on Thursday. Doug Bowers, Symantec's senior director of anti-abuse engineering, says that "It is the first time we have seen the spam like this targeting Hillary Clinton."
The victims of the trick download a Trojan to their desktops thinking they are provided with the speech, the purpose of that is sending more and more spams.
According to Symantec the only other candidate being abused for malware purposes in this way is Ron Pau. Neither Barack Obama nor John McCain have had names exploited by Malware.
NETWORKWORLD estimates it as software designed to damage or infiltrate an operating system without the owner's authorization. These might be computer viruses, adware, Trojan horses.
According to Nielsen Online report for UK net ratings in 2007 BeatThatQuote.com sees Facebook off in the battle for the UK's fastest growing website.
Sourcewire says that the award winning website has been given the accolade in a report* by independent measurement and analysis company, Nielsen Online.
Nielsen Online report reveals that BeatThatQuote.com grew its monthly audience of unique visitors by 1,165% from December 2006 to December 2007. Facebook came second in percentage terms with an increase of just 781% in comparison.
Founder and Managing Director John Paleomylites said: "Our numbers for January are already 300% up on December at just under 1million unique visitors. There's still plenty more growth that we are on target to achieve. Clearly, consumers love what we're doing and are coming to us rather than other price comparison sites."
Alex Burmaster, Internet Analyst, Nielsen Online commented, "Many will be surprised to see that Facebook wasn't the fastest growing site of the year, this honour went to price comparison site, BeatThatQuote.com – a reminder that the Internet provides valuable services other than virtually poking friends and acquaintances."
Four large newspaper companies are joining forces to sell advertisements on the Internet, hoping that the combined heft of their Web sites will encourage large advertisers to spend more money.
Each of the four companies - the Tribune Company, the Gannett Company, the Hearst Corporation and The New York Times Company - is transferring a portion of its online ad space to quadrantONE, a new company that will be announced Friday.
The purpose of the joint venture, which will be based in Chicago and will hire 17 people, is to let national advertisers place ads on local Web sites with a single phone call. The sites belong to papers like The Los Angeles Times (which is a Tribune property), The Des Moines Register (Gannett), The Houston Chronicle (Hearst) and The Boston Globe (The New York Times Company).
Some of the companies' flagship sites, however, will not be included, because they are not considered local. These include the sites of USA Today, a Gannett paper, and of The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune, which are owned by the Times Company.
In total, quadrantONE will be able to reach about 50 million unique visitors a month, its executives said, citing Nielsen Online data.
The effort is at least the third in the last decade involving major newspaper companies joining forces to sell online ads. But quadrantONE comes as newspaper companies are being wooed by companies like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, which would like to sell premium ads on the newspapers' sites.
"We want to control our own destiny," - said Lincoln Millstein, senior vice president for digital media at Hearst Newspapers.
Executives involved said the newspaper companies understand the local market better than Google, Yahoo and Microsoft and can best help national advertisers place their messages on local sites.
But not everyone agrees.
"I don't think the alignment of newspaper companies will solve the issue," - said Shar VanBoskirk, an analyst who covers online advertising at Forrester Research. "They need that alignment with a technology company that will bring them the set of skills that they need to monetize their content."
Several of the newspapers involved in quadrantONE are part of Yahoo's newspaper consortium, which provides advertising technologies and sales, and all of the companies are partial owners of the Newspaper National Network, a network that allows national advertisers to place ads across thousands of papers' print editions and, more recently, Web sites. The companies were also all part of the New Century Network in the late 1990s, which failed.
Executives at the newspaper companies said quadrantONE will fare differently because it will have a central repository of advertising inventory, and thus will not have to call the newspapers individually to fill each order.
The group is inviting other newspapers to submit ad inventory, though not to join as owners.
FileMaker that develops award-winning database software announced the availability of certification testing for the award winning FileMaker 9 product line. It gives developers opportunity gain recognition as a database industry expert. The pass of the tests also gives opportunity to use the logo on cards.
According to FileMaker: "Databases allow you easily and quickly to share information. A simple way of sharing is to export data to PDF files or spreadsheets and then email the files to team members, business partners or friends.
Full-featured databases (such as FileMaker Pro) enable multiple people to open and use the same database at the same time. Security features allow you to limit access to information to only those who need to know."
As FileMaker President Dominique Goupil said the FileMaker 9 has the features that are more time efficient as it needs shorter time and enable developers to add more value to their FileMaker solutions. Through FileMaker 9 the skills transfer into competitive and career advantages.
According to the PC WORLD there are no prerequisites for the Developer Essentials for FileMaker 9 certification exam, FileMaker recommends to take FileMaker Training Series available for $129AUD. They include 12 in-depth training modules, demo files, exercises and videos. The tests are in 2 languages English and Japanese.
The official site of FileMaker comments on the use of database:
Manage your contacts and customer lists
Track projects and tasks
Create home inventory with photos
Coordinate group activities
Create quick and easy reports
Organize a charity auction
Track employee information
Print invoices, letters and mailing labels
Connect data; students and classes
Store digital assets and their descriptions
Notorious 20th-century bank robber Willie Sutton said famously, "I rob banks because that's where the money is." It seems 21st-century criminals are following his footsteps.
But while Sutton disguised himself as a cop, a window washer and a Western Union messenger, cyberthieves use a different type of subterfuge - phishing - to cover their identities and wipe out bank accounts. Phishing occurs when fraudulent e-mails that appear to be from a legitimate source are sent in an effort to obtain sensitive information from a user. Those computer exploits and others are detailed in a survey of security threats and vulnerabilities for 2007 by the IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force. Of the top 20 companies targeted by phishing in 2007, the report says, 19 are in the banking industry. Computer users are often tricked into visiting fraudulent sites because of "danger, danger" e-mail subject lines like "account security measures," "important notice" or "(your bank name) security notice."
One sneaky thing some malware (malicious threats) does is to modify a user's server information. For example, a user types www.bankofamerica.com into his or her browser. But instead of the computer using the service provider's server, which would take the user to the real Bank of America server, the computer uses a bogus server run by phishers and that takes the user to a fake Bank of America server. The phishers take the user's login information and empty the account. Most users, even the savvy ones, wouldn't know that their server settings have been hijacked.
Just a few years ago, computer viruses and worms seemed designed for bragging rights and a hacker's 15 minutes of fame, but the game has changed. Now, instead of creating chaos by shutting down or paralyzing computer systems, the bad guys are getting more bang for their buck by taking over systems and using them to commit crimes.
The IBM Internet security report shows that nearly 90 percent of all vulnerabilities allow this type of remote exploitation.
"The authors [of this malware] realize they are better off as parasites than they are killing their hosts," - said Chris Rouland, engineer and chief technology officer for IBM Internet security.
Rouland said that some other malicious trends include growth in Web browser exploitation, especially for Windows Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. He said that although fewer vulnerabilities were disclosed publicly last year, the number of "high-severity vulnerabilities" increased by 28 percent compared with 2006.
The X-Force collected and analyzed 410,000 new malware in 2007. That's a third more than they analyzed in 2006. And wildly popular social networks like MySpace and Facebook are now prime targets for exploits.
What's an average computer user to do?
Though tech-savvy, proudly paperless home computer users may shun those so-20th-century snail mail bank statements, it might be worth it to go retro and compare your online banking information with the paper record.
Rouland says criminals in Brazil have figured out ways to wipe out bank accounts and leave no trail in an individual's online account. And bank customers may be out of luck if the theft goes unnoticed for a while.
Usually, banks give only 90 days to remediate an account problem. In the old days of worms and viruses and denial of service attacks, many of us learned, often the hard way, that computer security was often an afterthought compared to "user friendliness."
But these days, with organized criminals around the globe stealing with such great stealth, the bank with the best security might turn out to be the big business winner.
Hey, tomorrow is Valentine's Day!!!!!
What to say?
How to express?
While I was writing this post, different ideas came to my mind, several times I have typed and retyped the first sentence.
But later there was a sparkle, remembered my friend who pronnounced "I Love You" to her sweetheart in all languages that exist in the world. Do not you think it is just perfect?!
We have only one day before St. Valentine's Day but for the sake of Love, those who really love can remember "I Love You " in:
AFRIKAANS ek het jou lief / ek is lief vir jou
ALBANIAN të dua
ALSATIAN ir liàb dir Dialectal
ARABIC (North African) n'bghick Dialectal
ARABIC (Eastern) bahebbak (à un homme) / bahebbik (à une femme) Literary
ARABIC ouhibbouka (à un homme) / ouhibbouki (à une femme)
ARMENIAN yes kez siroumem
ASTURIAN quiérote
AZERI men seni sevirem
BAMBARA né bi fè
BASQUE maite zaitut
BAOULE mi klôa
BELARUSIAN Кахаю цябе (kahaju ciabie)
BENGALI aami tomakey bhalo basi
BERBER righ kem
BOBO ma kia bé nà
BOSNIAN volim te
BRETON karout a ran ac'hanout / da garout a ran / me az kar
BULGARIAN обичам те
BURMESE nga nin ko chit te
CATALAN t'estimo
CHEYENNE néméhotâtse
CHINESE wo ai ni
CORSICAN amu tè / ti tengu caru
CROAT volim te
CZECH miluji tě
DIOULA mi fê
ESPERANTO mi amas vin
ESTONIAN ma armastan sind
FAROESE eg elski teg
FINNISH minä rakastan sinua
FLEMISH ik hou van jou / ik heb je lief
FRENCH je t'aime
FRISIAN ik hâld fan dy
FRIULAN o ti vuei ben
GALICIAN amo-te / ámote / quero-te / quérote
GEORGIAN me shen mikvarkhar
GERMAN ich liebe Dich
GREEK s'agapo
GUARANÍ rojhayhû
GUJARATI hun tane prem karun chhun
HAITIAN CREOLE mwen renmen'w / mouin rinmin'w
HAWAIAN aloha wau ia oi
HEBREW ani ohev otakh (man to woman)ani ohevet otkha (woman to man)
HINDI main tumse pyar karta hoo
HUNGARIAN szeretlek
ICELANDIC ég elska þig
INDONESIAN saya cinta padamu / saya cinta kamu
IRISH GAELIC tá grá agam duit
ITALIAN ti amo
JAPANESE aishitemasu / aishiteru (barely used) anata ga daisuki desu ("cute")
KABYLIAN hamlagh-kem (man to woman) hamlaghk (woman to man)
KANNADA naanu ninnanna pritisutteney
KHMER bang srolaïgn ôn (man to woman) ôn srolaïgn bang (woman to man)
KINYARWANDA ndagukunda
KOREAN saranghe
KURDISH ez te hez dikim
LAO khoi hak tchao lai
LATIN te amo
LATVIAN es tevi mīlu
LEBANESE b'hibik (man to woman) b'hibak (woman to man)
LIGURIAN mi te amu
LINGALA na lingi yo
LITHUANIAN aš tave myliu
LOW SAXON ik hou van ju
LUXEMBOURGEOIS ech hun dech gäer
MACEDONIAN te sakam
MALAGASY tiako ianao / tia anao aho (stronger)
MALAY aku cinta padamu
MALAYALAM yenikku ninne estamaanu
MALTESE inhobbok
MANX ta graih aym ort
MAORI kei te aroha au i a koe
MONGOLIAN Би чамд хайртай (bi chamd khairtai)
MORÉ mam nong-a fo
NAPOLETANO t'ammo
NDEBELE niya ku tanda
NEPALI ma timilai prem garchhu
NORWEGIAN jeg elsker deg
OCCITAN t'aimi
PAPIAMENTU mi ta stima bo
PERSIAN dustat dâram (formal) / duset dâram (informal)
POLISH kocham cię
PORTUGUESE eu te amo / amo-te (informal)
PUNJABI mein tenu pyar karda han (male speaker) mein tenu pyar kardi han (female speaker)
QUECHUA de CUZCO munakuyki
RAPA NUI hanga rahi au kia koe
ROMANI kamaù tut ROMANIAN te iubesc
RUSSIAN Я тебя люблю (ia tibia lioubliou)
SAMOAN ou te alofa ia te oe SANGO mbi yé mô
SARDINIAN deo t'amo (logudorese) / deu t'amu (campidanese)
SCOTTISH GAELIC tha gaol agam ort / tha gaol agam oirbh
SERBIAN volim te
SHONA ndinokuda
SINDHI moon khay tu saan piyar aahay
SLOVAK ľúbim ťa / milujem ťa
SLOVENIAN ljubim te / rad te imam (male speaker) / rada te imam (female speaker)
SOBOTA volim te / se te volime (lit.)
SOMALI waan ku jecelahay
SONINKÉ na moula
SPANISH te amo / te quiero
SUSU ira fan ma
SWAHILI nakupenda
SWEDISH jag älskar dig
TAGALOG mahal kita
TAHITIAN ua here vau ia oe
TAJIKI jigarata bihrum duhtari hola (man to woman) tra lav dorum (woman to man)
TAMIL naan ounnai kadali-karen
TATAR min sine yaratam
TELUGU nenu ninnu premisthunnanu
TETUN hau hadomi o
THAI ผมรักคุณ (phom rak khun) - man speaking ฉันรักคุณ (chan rak khun) - woman speaking TIBETAN na kirinla gaguidou
TURKISH seni seviyorum
TURKMEN seni söýärin
UDMURT mon tone jaratiśko
UKRAINIAN Я тебе кохаю (ia tebe kohaiu)
URDU mein tumse mohabbat karta hoon (man to woman)main tumse mohabbat karti hoon (woman to man)mujhe tum se pyar heh
UZBEK seni sevaman
VENETIAN t'amo
VIETNAMESE anh yêu em (man to woman)em yêu anh (woman to man)
WALOON (orthographe à betchfessîs) dji vs voe voltî
WELSH rydw i'n dy garu di
WEST INDIAN CREOLE mwen enmen
WOLOF nob nala
YIDDISH ich hob dir lib
Though "I love you" only in Georgian is absolutely enough for me, may be in Russian, too, or French, Spanish, Italian. Well in other languages I will need this list that is provided by My Opera.
As for the business and statistics view of the Valentine's Day, that is expected to be on the 14th of February, the National Retail Federation (NRF) reveals the results of the study and announces that the average consumer plans to spend $122.98 on Valentine's Day, up from $119.67 in 2007. Total retail spending for the Feb. 14 holiday is expected to reach $17.02 billion. Interested whether you will be given a gift day after tomorrow or not? Well, NRF says that of the 61 percent of consumers who are planning to celebrate Valentine's Day this year, nine of ten will spend the most on their significant others or spouses.
But what about other loved ones? NFR will not disappoint those loved ones too and six in ten plan to buy something for their family members, and two in ten said they would send a gift to friends.
According the NRF, this year, over 48% plan to celebrate the day by taking their significant others for a special night out, up from 45% in 2007, The same source says that nearly 48% of consumers plan to purchase candy, 36% buy flowers, and 17% - jewelry.
Of course, it is important that the recipient knows who his or her special admirer is - 57% of those surveyed plan on buying a card for their Valentine, the NRF said.
"Valentine's Day is a great time to get creative with gift options," said NRF President and CEO Tracy Mullin. "Most people agree that it's the thought that counts, but shelves will also be filled with traditional gifts for those who want to celebrate the old-fashioned way."
Study shows that men will outspend women this year, spending an average of $163.37 on gifts and cards, compared to an average of $84.72 spent by women. And I like this. ;-)
One billion people will die from tobacco-related causes by the end of the century if current consumption trends continue, according to a global report released by the World Health Organization (WHO).
At a press conference held in midtown Manhattan, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose charitable organization, Bloomberg Philanthropies, contributed $2 million to conduct the study, joined top WHO officials to present the findings. Among the litany of sobering statistics: 5.4 million people die each year - one every six seconds - from lung cancer, heart disease or other illness directly linked to tobacco use. Smoking killed 100 million people in the 20th century, and the yearly death toll could pass 8 million as soon as 2030 - 80% of those deaths will be in the developing world, where tobacco use is growing most rapidly. "We're on a collision course," - said Dr. Douglas Bettcher, director of WHO's Tobacco Free Initiative.
The 369-page WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2008, bound like a high school yearbook and bundled with a "cigarette pack" of colored markers, called on governments to adhere to six tobacco control policies it calls MPOWER: monitor tobacco use; protect people from secondhand smoke; offer help to people who want to quit; warn about the risks of smoking; enforce bans on cigarette advertising; and raise tobacco taxes. The report also breaks down tobacco consumption and prevention efforts country by country. To date, it is the most comprehensive study of its kind at a global level, said WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan.
The collected data should equip countries around the world to begin implementing anti-tobacco policies, Chan says, including smoking bans, aggressive anti-tobacco campaigns and massive tobacco tax hikes. According to the report, nearly two thirds of the world's smokers live in 10 countries - China, India, Japan, Indonesia, Bangladesh, the U.S., Brazil, Germany, Russia, and Turkey. China alone accounts for nearly 30% of all smokers worldwide. Currently, only 5% of the world's population lives in countries - predominately in Western Europe - that have any antismoking policies in place. "These are straightforward and common sense measures within the reach of every country, regardless of income level," - said Chan.
According to the study, the most effective tactic globally has been simply to raise prices. Lower income people smoke significantly more than the wealthy, and spend a much higher proportion of their income on tobacco - 20% of the most impoverished households in Mexico spend as much as 11% of their household income on tobacco - mostly due to the tobacco industry's objective to get people addicted to nicotine, according to the study.
Another vulnerable group: women. Though women still smoke at just one quarter the rate of men, tobacco advertisers are increasingly targeting this largely untapped market. Among adolescents in European Union member nations, girls may now be even more likely to smoke than boys. Globally, Chan said, "the rise of tobacco use among girls and young women is among the most ominous trends."
As with virtually all public-health problems, a major hurdle to reducing smoking, the study said, is lack of public education. People are not fully aware of the hazards of smoking, and it's a weakness that the tobacco industry is quick to exploit, Bettcher said.
Asked whether he would back a federal ban on smoking in the workplace or public spaces, Bloomberg said he would, but added, "I don't think the federal government should prohibit the manufacture or sale of cigarettes," but that combatting tobacco should mean diminishing the demand.
Once a smoker himself, Bloomberg said he was able to quit only when he truly understood the consequences. "As I became more mature and started thinking, 'Do I want to live or not?' it was an easy decision." For those who want to smoke, however, he feels it should be their right, so long as they aren't harming others. "I happen to agree with those who think you have a right to kill yourself," he said.
1,300 students from Dallas Baptist University are going to commit 28 minutes audio support to listen to the bible in 40 days at a chapel service. The campaign that is called You've Got The Time DBU, is using Audio New Testaments from Faith Comes By Hearing, the world's leading Audio Bible ministry.
According to Dr. Bob Garrett, a DBU graduate program director and You've Got The Time DBU organizer, every attendee of the chapel service received a free New Testament on MP3 disc. He said the chapel students will listen from Matthew 1 to Revelations 22 starting now and going until Easter-announces PRWEB.
"It was our goal to bless the students; giving them the dramatized Audio Bible was really great. The students' response was really positive," Garrett said. "One girl kept saying, 'I want one (Audio Bible) so bad,' and then we gave them out. The students loved getting the Word of God in this format and want to make this a part of their worship time," he added.
"There is quite a buzz here," Garrett said, who preached from Romans 10 on how "Faith comes by hearing" at Wednesday's chapel service. "We have already started listening groups in the dorms and afterward we will discuss what we've heard and encourage one another."
Aiming to increase of the users DBU also has posted downloadable MP3 Bibles on the university website and hung posters and flyers in dorms, hallways and other common areas.
"We want to help young people draw closer to God by hearing His Word," Garrett said. "We also want them to help others get closer by sharing His Word. The Bible is not just for us, it's for the nations, and we want the students to have an international agenda," he said.
Audio Bible recordings are available in more than 275 languages.
According to the PRWEB Jerry Jackson, Faith Comes By Hearing Founder and President, said he is also praying that "God's Word will help grow the faith of not only the students but also the whole college community."
"I am very excited about this historic university teaming up with Faith Comes By Hearing to promote God's Word in audio and influence the next generation of Christian leaders," said Jackson.
Garrett said the Audio Bible on CD and MP3 format are a natural fit for today's college students. "This is a good program because so many students are auditory learners now. They all have iPods, and they listen everywhere -- while they're working out, going between classes and traveling. It's hard for students to be disciplined enough to read every day. This is a great way to pour the Word of God into their hearts, minds and lives," he said.
According to a Silicon Valley, from Monday cellphones owners are expected to use their possessions with improved sound quality. The improved quality of sound is achieved by a tiny chip. The company's new product offers higher quality noise suppression than the software does.
The chip works effectively. When the noise suppression chip is turned on the background noise is declining while the speaker's voice remains clearly audible.
The Audience chip is placed between the microphone and the cellphone circuitry. And how does it work? It runs software the company has developed that takes digitized sound, represented in a three-dimensional matrix. That is the most important as they identify and then suppress noise picked up by the cellphone microphone while leaving the speaker's voice intact.
According to the New York Times: "Speech quality is of increasing importance in the cellphone industry, Peter Santos, the chief executive, said. "Voice quality is one of the top three reasons for customer churn.""
A drug used to treat impotence could help Israeli fighter pilots operate at high altitude, the Israeli military's official magazine reported in its latest issue.
It said a retired general plans to present to the air force the results of a study he conducted on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania where he found that tadalafil, the active ingredient in Cialis tablets, improved breathing in a thin atmosphere.
"The study's findings justify the continuation of tests with drugs of this type in low oxygen environments," - an unnamed air force officer told Bamahaneh, the military's weekly magazine.
An army spokeswoman said that there were no plans to use any such drug and a statement said the phenomenon of chronic oxygen starvation experienced by mountaineers and the immediate oxygen starvation which pilots suffer at high altitude are different.
"(Because of the different circumstances) there is no significance for medical treatment of any drug for pilots in the Israel Air Force ... and it has no intention of using any form of drug," the statement read.
The OpenID Foundation announced that Google (NasdaqGS:GOOG - News), IBM (NYSE:IBM - News), Microsoft (NasdaqGS:MSFT - News), VeriSign (NasdaqGS:VRSN - News) and Yahoo! (NasdaqGS:YHOO - News) have joined as its first corporate board members. The main purpose of joining is to strengthen the industry-wide effort to empower users with portable Web identities, or OpenIDs. This step is to advantage of an open and interoperable Internet that helps people take control of how their personal information is shared on-line and aids on-line businesses to attract and retain more users by simplifying and securing the management of digital identities.
According to Yahoo Finance, OpenID simplifies the on-line user experience by eliminating the need for multiple user names across Internet sites, enabling individuals to take more control and ownership of their digital identities. This user-centric digital identity technology helps users reduce the pain of managing dozens, even hundreds of user-names and passwords, and provides more control over what personal information they share with Web sites when they sign-in using an OpenID.
The data shows that there are more than 10,000 Web sites that support OpenID log-ins, and an estimated 350 million OpenID enabled URLs currently exist.
"With this support from the new company board members, the OpenID Foundation will be able to continue to promote and protect the technology and its community moving forward," said Bill Washburn, Executive Director, OpenID Foundation. "The community has clearly expanded since the inception of the Foundation and these companies will help bring OpenID into the mainstream markets."
This progress in this process has been made with donations of legal resources by Microsoft and various contributions from Google, IBM, VeriSign and Yahoo!.
"Google shares the OpenID Foundation's vision of a Web that's easy to use and built on open standards available to everyone," said Brad Fitzpatrick, a software engineer at Google who created OpenID while at Six Apart in 2005. "OpenID was always intended to be a decentralized sign-on system, so it's fantastic to join a foundation committed to keeping it free and unencumbered by proprietary extensions."
"Privacy concerns have been escalating rapidly because of repeated incidents involving unexpected personal information loss and user identity theft," said Anthony Nadalin, IBM Distinguished Engineer and chief security architect, IBM Tivoli software. "As a leader in identity, access and federated identity management and open standards-based software, this is an important step in IBM's collaboration with other industry leaders to continuously enhance open source projects for user-centric identity. This effort is intended to provide users with more control and to help them better manage and protect their digital identities."
"The OpenID community is a key constituency in solving the digital identity problems Internet users face, and will benefit from being represented by the OpenID Foundation," said Kim Cameron, Microsoft's Chief Identity Architect. "Since Bill Gates and Craig Mundie announced our collaboration with the OpenID community last February at RSA, Microsoft has played a leading role in establishing the Foundation's open policy framework that allows everyone to participate in the development and use of OpenID specifications. Now, we look forward to working with the community to refine and drive adoption of the specifications."
"OpenID enables consumers to take control of their online identity, which in turn will drive trust, privacy and security on the Internet," said Nico Popp, vice president of Innovation at VeriSign, Inc. "Networked identity and authentication services are core elements of VeriSign's current and future service offerings. Because of this, we applaud the creation of the OpenID foundation and we look forward to contributing to its mission."
"Yahoo! believes that a truly open Web is the key to the next-generation of Internet experiences; OpenID furthers this cause by delivering a free, standards-based solution that the entire industry can embrace," said Ash Patel, executive vice president of platforms and infrastructure at Yahoo!. "Over the last year we have worked closely with the OpenID Foundation to develop the organization's intellectual property framework, finalize the OpenID 2.0 specification and to adopt OpenID for all 248 million active registered Yahoo! users worldwide. We look forward to collaborating with the OpenID Foundation, its board and community to further simplify the consumer experience of the Web and empower users to take control of their online identity with OpenID."


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The Japanese Billionaire Looking For A Life Partner To Take To The Moon
By: Zoralis Pérez - January 14, 2020
"I want to find a 'life partner.' With that future partner of mine, I want to shout our love and world peace from outer space."
Yusaku Maezawa is a 44-year-old Japanese billionaire looking for a "life partner" who will also join him on a journey to the Moon in 2023.
The premise of his mission to find his partner is explained simply on his website: "He has a long-held dream of going into space. He wants to visit such a special place together with a special someone. Through serious one-on-one planned matchmaking, Maezawa looks to find his life partner."
Related The Secret Tropical Paradise In Japan You Need To Visit At Least Once
His plan is to find a partner through a matchmaking process that has already started, since applications started earlier this month and are open until January 17th. After the first candidates are chosen, he will go on a series of dates with them, before making up his mind by the end of March. The entire process will be filmed as part of a documentary about Maezawa's quest, called Full Moon Lovers.
Also on the website is his list of requirements for prospective applicants: "single women aged 20 or older, bright personality and always positive, interested in going into space and able to participate in the preparation for it, want to enjoy life to the fullest, be someone who wishes for world peace."
Related Photographs That Capture The Derelict Beauty Of Japan's Love Hotels
Maezawa and Elon Musk, Space X's founder
Maezawa himself seems like quite the catch for any single, space-loving young woman who's not afraid to try something really different in the dating arena. The reason is that, beyond the prospect of adventure and the incredible of opportunity of participating in history's first private trip into space (through Space X), Maezawa claims that, at this point in his life, he is finally ready to settle down and find a serious life partner.
"I'm sure I've been able to acquire my share of money, social status, and fame along the way. But now I'm restarting my life. I'm 44 now. As feelings of loneliness and emptiness slowly begin to surge upon me, there's one thing that I think about: Continuing to love one woman [...] I want to find a "life partner". With that future partner of mine, I want to shout our love and world peace from outer space."
That sounds at least times better than the average man looking for love on a dating app in 2020. And the man's got a great smile! So, why not give it a try? Maybe you're the life partner he's looking for, and in 2023, you'll be happily in love, holding hands somewhere up in space.
All images via Yusaku Maezawa's Instagram
Full Moon Lovers Website
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ScienceDaily (July 12, 2011) — Machine logic is based on human logic. But although a computer processor can be dissembled and dissected in logical steps, the same is not true for the way our brains process information, says Mark Shein of Tel Aviv University's School of Electrical Engineering.
Doctoral student Shein and his supervisors, Prof. Yael Hanein of the School of Electrical Engineering and Prof. Eshel Ben-Jacob of the School of Physics and Astronomy, want to understand the brain's logic. They have developed a new kind of a lab-on-a-chip platform that may help neuroscientists understand one of the deepest mysteries of our brain -- how neuronal networks communicate and work together. The chip was recently described in an issue of the journal PLoS ONE.
The brain is composed of a daunting number of circuits interconnected with other countless circuits, so understanding of how they function has been close to impossible. But using engineered brain tissue in a Petri dish, Shein's device allows researchers to see what's happening to well-defined neural circuits under different conditions. The result is an active circuitry of neurons on a human-made chip. With it they can look for patterns in bigger networks of neurons, to see if there are any basic elements for information coding.
Investigating the activity of single neurons is not enough to understand how a network functions. With nanotechnological systems and tools, now researchers can explore activity patterns of many neurons simultaneously. In particular, they can investigate how several groups of neurons communicate with each other, says Shein.
With these network engineering techniques, the scientists cultured different sized networks of neuronal clusters. Once they looked at these groups, they found rich and surprising behaviors which could not be predicted from what scientists know about single neurons.
The researchers were also able to measure patterns from nerve activity, at nodes where a number of nerves converged into networks. What they detected appears to show that neural networks have a hierarchical structure -- large networks are composed of smaller sub-networks. This observation, and a unique setup using electrodes and living nerves, allowed them to create hierarchical networks in a dish.
The brain's circuits work like codes. They can see the patterns in the networks and simplify them, or control connectivity between cells to see how the neuronal network responds to various chemicals and conditions, the scientists report. One theory, proposed by Prof. Ben-Jacob, is that the human brain stores memories like a holograph of an image: small neural networks contain information about the whole brain, but only at a very low resolution.
So far the researchers are able to reveal that clusters of as few as 40 cells can serve as a minimal but sufficient functional network. This cluster is capable of sustaining neural network activity and communicating with other clusters. What this means exactly will be the next question.


Malik Deenar School of Female Health Workers was established in the year of 1986 with an aim to promote secondary pupils to the field of nursing education. It has an intake of 50 students. It is approved by Indian Nursing Council, Kerala Nurses & Midwives Council and Gov. of Kerala.


if the noaa report ftp dir is incorrect should the error light light ?
No, because Cumulus doesn't get told that it's incorrect, as far as I know. Is an error logged to the diags file?
So it could flash the error light. I'm not sure I see the point, though, given that the error message (such that it is) is in the diags file.