tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61448381365084364022024-03-05T13:15:44.462+05:30AnimefaniacAnimefaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04011439556416857958noreply@blogger.comBlogger264125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144838136508436402.post-50677437179485149052012-10-06T13:44:00.002+05:302012-10-06T13:44:20.547+05:30Restarting the blog again<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I have decided to restart the blog again. All this time I was posting content from other sites. I will continue with that. However, I will also post original content of my own too.</div>
Animefaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04011439556416857958noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144838136508436402.post-71128004460247937072010-12-05T04:19:00.000+05:302010-12-05T04:19:42.553+05:30JAPAN HERITAGE Matsushima: A seascape that left poet Basho at a loss for wordssource:<a href="http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201012030325.html">http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201012030325.html</a><br />
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<div style="line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Legend has it that even Matsuo Basho, the celebrated 17th-century haikuist and travel writer, was at a loss for words when he first gazed at Matsushima.</div><div style="line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The locale that so moved the man who perfected the art of haiku is about 14 kilometers from east to west, and 12 kilometers north to south. It encompasses a scenic coastline and 270 or so islets, all covered in pine trees, in Matsushima Bay, in Miyagi Prefecture.</div><div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><span style="background-color: #f2f5f5; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 222, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(216, 222, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(216, 222, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(216, 222, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: block; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-align: center;"><img alt="photo" src="http://www.asahicom.jp/english/images/TKY201012030377.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span>An aerial view of Matsushima Bay off Miyagi Prefecture (ASAHI SHIMBUN FILE PHOTO)</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Matsushima is considered one of the country's top three coastal scenic spots, along with Amanohashidate in Kyoto Prefecture and Miyajima in Hiroshima Prefecture. Since the Edo Period (1603-1867), Matsushima has been a favorite theme of both writers and artists.</div><div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">It is within easy access of Sendai, the capital of the prefecture--less than a half-hour train ride.</div><div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Matsushima's charms are not seasonally challenged. It is a destination for all seasons--cherry blossoms in spring, beautiful leaves changing colors in fall, swimming and fishing in summer and a crystal view of the bay in winter. And regardless of the time of year, history fans will find much to see, do and learn.</div><div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Of course, Matsushima is noted for its seafood, including "anago" sea eels in summer and oysters in winter. There is no reason a visitor cannot try them at various restaurants, many of which offer great views of the bay.</div><div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">After lunch you might want to hop aboard a tour boat for a bay trip. The boats follow predetermined times and routes to see the best the bay has to offer at just the right times of the day.</div><div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Hot tip: The lookout point at Otakamori on Miyatojima island in eastern Matsushima is considered the best spot to watch the sun go down.</div><div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">For early risers, people say the best place to view the sun making its appearance is Saigyomodoshi no Matsu Park on the coast near Matsushima-Kaigan Station.</div><div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The station also provides access to Zuiganji temple, the most famous Zen temple of the Rinzai sect of Buddhism in the Tohoku region. It is believed to have been built in 828 and reconstructed in 1609 by warrior lord Date Masamune (1567-1636). Its main hall, corridors and even its Zen kitchen are designated national treasures.</div><div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Nearby is the small island of Ojima, once a training center for different Buddhist sects. It all began, so they say, when the ascetic Kenbutsu took up residence in the 12th century and spent the next dozen years reciting sutras all day long. Naturally, this much effort was rewarded with great spiritual power.</div><div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">For those seeking more earthly pleasures, there is aquarium Marine Pia, noted for its waddling penguins, and a music box museum, Matsushima Orgel Museum. Both are within walking distance of Matsushima-Kaigan Station.</div><div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">* * *</div><div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Take the JR Tohoku Shinkansen to Sendai Station and transfer to JR Senseki Line. It's a 25-minute ride to Matsushima-Kaigan Station.</div><div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">From Sendai Station, the JR Tohoku Line is also available. Get off at Matsushima Station.</div><div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Sightseeing boats are available from a pier near Matsushima-Kaigan Station.</div><div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Visit (www.miyagi-kankou.or.jp/tourist_infomation/index.htm) and (www.pref.miyagi.jp)</div>Animefaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04011439556416857958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144838136508436402.post-82412770109001592022010-12-05T04:07:00.000+05:302010-12-05T04:07:16.508+05:30Monkeys ecstatic as hot spring openssource:<a href="http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201012020340.html">http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201012020340.html</a><br />
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<div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">About 100 Japanese monkeys eagerly clambered into a hot spring, stretching their limbs and getting loose on Wednesday, the first day their pool was filled at Hakodate Tropical Botanical Garden in Hokkaido.</div><div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The primates chattered appreciatively--especially the creaky oldsters--as they slipped into the soothing water. The day was a cold one, with temperatures sliding below zero.</div><div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The primates will be able to loll about in the bath until the season ends in early May.</div><div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">According to garden officials, Japanese monkeys, much like Japanese themselves, tend to be fussy about water temperature.</div><div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The monkeys demand the water be heated to 41 degrees and won't get in the pool if it isn't, the officials said.</div><div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><span style="background-color: #f2f5f5; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 222, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(216, 222, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(216, 222, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(216, 222, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: block; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-align: center;"><img alt="photo" src="http://www.asahicom.jp/english/images/TKY201012020436.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span>Japanese monkeys relax in a hot spring bath at Hakodate Tropical Botanical Garden in Hokkaido on Wednesday. (Yasuhiro Sugimoto)</span></div>Animefaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04011439556416857958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144838136508436402.post-46624917144184609182010-12-05T04:02:00.000+05:302010-12-05T04:02:12.378+05:30Mario 25th Anniversary Book Coming To Japan [Amazon Japan Listing Mario Anniversary Book For $10, Features Mario Soundtrack, Manga & Stickers]source:<a href="http://nexus404.com/Blog/2010/12/04/mario-25th-anniversary-book-coming-to-japan-amazon-japan-listing-mario-anniversary-book-for-10-features-mario-soundtrack-manga-stickers/">http://nexus404.com/Blog/2010/12/04/mario-25th-anniversary-book-coming-to-japan-amazon-japan-listing-mario-anniversary-book-for-10-features-mario-soundtrack-manga-stickers/</a><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">This year is the 25th anniversary of <a class="kLink" href="http://nexus404.com/Blog/2010/12/04/mario-25th-anniversary-book-coming-to-japan-amazon-japan-listing-mario-anniversary-book-for-10-features-mario-soundtrack-manga-stickers/#" id="KonaLink0" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border-bottom-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-left-color: transparent !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: transparent !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: transparent !important; 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border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: rgb(66, 144, 222) !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">Super </span><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: rgb(66, 144, 222) !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">Mario</span></span></a> Bros’ first gracing our Nintendo NES <a class="kLink" href="http://nexus404.com/Blog/2010/12/04/mario-25th-anniversary-book-coming-to-japan-amazon-japan-listing-mario-anniversary-book-for-10-features-mario-soundtrack-manga-stickers/#" id="KonaLink1" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border-bottom-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-left-color: transparent !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: transparent !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: transparent !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; bottom: 0px; color: rgb(66, 144, 222) !important; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; font-family: verdana; font-variant: normal; left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; right: 0px; text-decoration: underline !important; text-transform: none !important; top: 0px;" target="undefined"><span style="color: rgb(66, 144, 222) !important; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: rgb(66, 144, 222) !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">consoles</span></span></a> all those years ago. Nintendo hasn’t passed up the chance for a celebration, and they’ve <a href="http://nexus404.com/Blog/2010/09/29/mario-25th-anniversary-dsi-coming-from-nintendo-after-3ds-announcements-nintendo-unveils-special-mario-themed-dsi-for-japan-only-being-sold-at-7-elevens/" style="color: #0079c0; text-decoration: none;">released special game consoles</a>, <a href="http://nexus404.com/Blog/2010/11/03/nintendo-world-store-featuring-mario-celebration-nintendo-reopens-nyc-store-on-november-7th-with-special-mario-anniversary-party-cake-mario-games-promised/" style="color: #0079c0; text-decoration: none;">held parties</a> and <a href="http://nexus404.com/Blog/2010/10/26/super-mario-25th-anniversary-celebrated-on-australian-tram-melbourne-proves-its-awesome-debuts-colorful-super-mario-anniversary-trams-for-all-to-enjoy/" style="color: #0079c0; text-decoration: none;">decorated buses</a>. Now in <a class="kLink" href="http://nexus404.com/Blog/2010/12/04/mario-25th-anniversary-book-coming-to-japan-amazon-japan-listing-mario-anniversary-book-for-10-features-mario-soundtrack-manga-stickers/#" id="KonaLink2" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border-bottom-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-left-color: transparent !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: transparent !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: transparent !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; bottom: 0px; color: rgb(66, 144, 222) !important; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; font-family: verdana; font-variant: normal; left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; right: 0px; text-decoration: underline !important; text-transform: none !important; top: 0px;" target="undefined"><span style="color: rgb(66, 144, 222) !important; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: rgb(66, 144, 222) !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">Japan</span></span></a>, they’re selling a special book that looks back on the 25 years of Mario.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="Mario 25th Anniversarg Commerative Book" class="size-full wp-image-47975 aligncenter" height="499" src="http://nexus404.com/Blog/wp-content/uploads2/2010/12/Mario-25th-Anniversarg-Commerative-Book.jpg" title="Mario 25th Anniversarg Commerative Book" width="408" /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span id="more-47974"></span>A ‘commemorative book’ was included with the purchase of “Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition”, but this looks to be one of those collectible one-off magazine deals. It’s being published by Enterbrain and Amazon Japan is asking just ¥840 ($11) for the magazine.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">What does it include? An interview with Shigeru Miyamoto (we suspect it will be the same Miyamoto-Itoi interview that Nintendo published in October on their website – still a great read), some Mario <span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">manga</span></span>, stickers, a poster, and a CD containing <span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">Mario</span></span> music from the Press Start Symphony of Games. All-in-all, this tome comes to about 144-pages long.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The special 25th anniversary edition gear that was released in Japan also eventually made its way to Europe and North America – but that being said, I don’t know if this will make it out of Japan. Some folks have announced that they’ll be importing it from Japan via Amazon Japan. Expect to pay about $30 in shipping, the little birdies say.</div><span><br />
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</div><div class="cnn_strytmstmp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 11px/14px arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;"><div class="cnn_strylftcntnt"><div class="cnn_strylctcntr"><div><b>STORY HIGHLIGHTS</b></div><ul class="cnn_bulletbin cnnstryhghlght" style="margin-top: 0px;"><li>New satellite will detect and track man-made objects in space</li>
<li>Of about 21,000 objects in space, most are debris</li>
<li>In space, even small pieces of debris can cause serious damage</li>
<li>Some suspect satellite will spy on other country's satellites</li>
</ul></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;"><b>Washington (CNN)</b> -- Getting around town with your GPS, watching your favorite program on satellite TV, tracking hurricanes in real time, communicating with the warfighter on the battlefield -- any one of those activities could be in jeopardy if a piece of the growing mass of orbital junk traveling through space at supersonic speeds smashes into a satellite.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">That's why the Air Force is launching a new satellite Saturday night that officials say will have the capacity to better detect and track the more than 20,000 man-made objects in space, most of which is debris.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">The managers of the Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) program said the satellite will help make U.S. space assets safer and more secure. SBSS commander Col. J.R. Jordan told reporters that "this satellite is going to revolutionize how we track objects in space by not being constrained by weather, the atmosphere or the time of day."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">The heart of the satellite is a camera with an unobstructed view of three quarters of the sky, a valuable wide angle that avoids having to expend the time and fuel to reposition the spacecraft.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">Currently, space objects are tracked by ground based systems -- radars and optical telescopes -- which can be blinded by adverse weather conditions, clouds and daylight.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">The new satellite has other potential missions. It can provide a closer eye on the satellites and space objects of other nations. The Air Force officials participating in the news briefing would not discuss missions or priorities.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">"There are a lot of objects out there that we have lost track on, and there are a lot of objects we think we can observe that we haven't been able to observe previously," Jordan said.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">"We're going to improve the actual tracking on a daily basis," he added.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">"SBSS will track the relative position of satellites and debris to enable the Joint Space Operations Center to protect the nation's assets in space," a spokesman for the Air Force Space and Missile Center said.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">Brian Weeden, a former Air Force officer who worked on space operations, said the new satellite makes it feasible to observe and collect information on objects at much higher altitudes in deep space. The satellite "may very well have imagery capabilities" beyond what has been made public, said Weeden, who now is an analyst for the Secure World Foundation.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">"Think Hubble," said Weeden, a reference to the space telescope which provided more detailed images of the universe at greater distances.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">John Pike, who follows satellite developments for globalsecurity.org, is more conspiratorial about the satellite's mission. He maintains one of the key purposes of the new satellite is to learn more about the characteristics of debris fields in order to make satellites more stealth -- n other words, to disguise top secret U.S. satellites as debris. Pike said space junk is a concern, but ground systems are able to keep track of most of the space clutter that could impact key U.S. assets.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">Weeden disagreed. He is skeptical of the feasibility of developing stealth technology based on observing debris.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">Although Weeden acknowledged there may be some elements in the U.S. intelligence and military who want such research, he believes the physics is too hard. Unlike debris, satellites give off a physical signature -- heat, light and other indicators.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">"If a satellite is stealth, how do you know where it is, especially if you should lose contact with it?" Weeden posited.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">He said the new tracking satellite does provide a far better ability to detect, track and inspect objects in space. One of the motivations for the tracking satellite, Weeden said, is the fear that another nation might have a dormant anti-satellite device in orbit, waiting to be turned on. Although there is no indication such a device exists, Weeden said the new satellite will give the United States better situational awareness in space.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">Michael Krepon, a space expert for the Stimson Center, said the new satellite provides needed additional capacity.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">Within the past few years, he said, there have been "three wake up calls to say there is a huge problem," with space clutter.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">Thousands of pieces of debris were generated when, in 2007, the Chinese intentionally destroyed one of its own satellites with a ballistic missile. In early 2009, a Russian satellite and a U.S. satellite collided in space, and later that year a Russian intercontinental missile blew up during a test flight.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">Krepon pointed out that even a marble sized piece of debris "travels with the energy of a one-ton safe dropped from a five story building. If you get hit with that marble, you're having a really bad day," said Krepon.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">The Air Force Space Command's mission is to track and chart the path of anything orbiting the earth that is 10 centimeters -- approximately the size of a baseball -- or larger. Of the approximately 21,000 objects currently being followed, 1,000 are active satellites or other payloads such as the international space station and the shuttle.</div><div class="cnninline" style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">The Air Force has spent $858 million on the development and production of the new tracking satellite, which is expected to be operational for five and a half years.</div></span></div>Animefaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04011439556416857958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144838136508436402.post-26634193784127576042010-09-27T11:11:00.002+05:302010-09-27T11:11:24.039+05:30Ham Radio Operator Talks To Space Stationsource:<a href="http://www.ksbw.com/news/25128806/detail.html">http://www.ksbw.com/news/25128806/detail.html</a><br />
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</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia, Times, serif;"><span class="updated" style="color: #999999; font: normal normal normal 10px/14px Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><strong class="Dateline" style="font-size: 16px;">PITTSBURG, Texas -- </strong>Trying to contact the International Space Station from home is no easy task.</span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia, Times, serif;"></div>But an East Texas man used his ham radio to pull off the nearly impossible feat.<div style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia, Times, serif;"></div>Darryl Young sent out a message 250 miles away to the space station one night, and was shocked when an astronaut heard and replied.<div style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia, Times, serif;"></div>"Out of Pittsburg we've got ya, loud and clear," the astronaut is heard saying.<div style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia, Times, serif;"></div>Because the space station moves so fast -- about 17,000 mph -- radio operators have only a two-minute window to make contact, Young said.<div style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia, Times, serif;"></div>"When I made contact the first time it was on top of a 20 foot pole," he said. "There's a guy that has all this fancy antenna with tracking and everything else been trying for three years."<div style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia, Times, serif;"></div>John Yembrick with NASA said it's not uncommon for people on the ground to contact the space station and speak with crew members.<div style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia, Times, serif;"></div>"It's bragging rights," Young said. "Hey, I talked to the space station."<div style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia, Times, serif;"></div>Next time, Young would like the astronauts to slow down so they can carry on a conversation "and say when's the last time you played golf or something."<div class="Copyright" style="clear: both;"><div style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Georgia, Times, serif;"></div><i>Copyright © 2010 CNN Networks, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.</i></div></div>Animefaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04011439556416857958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144838136508436402.post-68030261344202623162010-09-27T11:09:00.003+05:302010-09-27T11:10:22.681+05:30'Social Network' Goes to Harvardsource:<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704082104575516380293814408.html?mod=googlenews_wsj#">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704082104575516380293814408.html?mod=googlenews_wsj#</a><br />
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<div style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">It shouldn't come as a surprise to hear that the rooms and the furniture were stuffy. There was taxidermy, including of a real elephant, on the wall. The food—large sliced cheese plates, pasta with red sauce, old-school carving stations—was mediocre at best, as most food at universities and their alumni clubs tend to be. But the ambience was just right, not to mention a perfect match for a film that captures the strange Neverland of what it's like to exist at an Ivy League institution.</div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6144838136508436402&postID=6803026134420262316" name="U301306996685RSE"></a><br />
<div style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"This is the closest I've come to being accepted to Harvard," said Aaron Sorkin as he nursed a soda. Mr. Sorkin, a graduate of Syracuse with a degree in musical theater, is the creator of "The West Wing" and also the writer of the snappy dialogue in "The Social Network." At least, for the moment, his screenplay seems the one to beat.</div><div style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px;"></span></div><div style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The evening brought out an especially high-brow crowd. Princess Firyal of Jordan was there. So were Stephen Daldry ("The Reader") and several American independent film darlings who have all had films premiere at the Film Festival: Noah Baumbach ("The Squid and the Whale"), Wes Anderson ("Rushmore") and Darren Aronofsky ("The Wrestler"), in his now trademark scarf.</div><div style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Most of the cast was there too, including Jesse Eisenberg, who plays the piece's hero slash villain Mark Zuckerberg; Andrew Garfield, who plays Eduardo Saverin, the friend he betrayed; Justin Timberlake, who plays Napster founder Sean Parker, and Rashida Jones, who plays an attorney, and, for trivia purposes only, in real life actually graduated from Harvard. (Much of the film was filmed at Johns Hopkins.)</div><div style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Of course, talk in general was about how terrific the film turned out. But if you took a poll of guests at the Harvard Club for—let's go ahead and use a Facebook term, why don't we—their "status updates," many of them would be: "Is wondering how Scott Rudin lost all that weight."</div><div style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">It is perhaps interesting to note, now, the slight irony of Mr. Rudin, one of the film's lead producers, and Mr. Fincher making a film about Harvard and celebrating it at the Harvard Club. Neither, it seems, graduated from college. But Mr. Fincher has spoken about his kinship with his anti-hero. In New York magazine, the director said he has "an enormous empathy for" Mr. Zuckerberg and knows "what it's like to be 21 years old and trying to direct a $60 million movie … you have to have not only a great deal of drive, you have to have an unshakable, freakish confidence."</div><div style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Less has been made of the parallels with the famously volatile Mr. Rudin, who was president of production at Fox at the age of 29. It is not surprising that he, too, was attracted to a project about a slightly misunderstood, uber-successful genius who can be brash, difficult and hot-tempered.</div><div style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">But we lost the plot for a moment. By all reports Mr. Rudin has recently shed a remarkable 70 pounds. How, by Harvard, did he do it?</div><div style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"By not eating," Mr. Rudin said, and he returned to his conversation with Sony's Amy Pascal.</div><div style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Write to </span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Marshall Heyman at </span><a class="" href="mailto:marshall.heyman@wsj.com" style="color: #093d72; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">marshall.heyman@wsj.com</span></a></div>Animefaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04011439556416857958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144838136508436402.post-29698593915669124142010-08-18T13:47:00.001+05:302010-08-18T13:48:29.079+05:30Anime Cine Experience In Delhisource:<a href="http://blogs.rediff.com/aaftnews/2010/08/18/asga-join-hands-with-anime-cine-experience/">http://blogs.rediff.com/aaftnews/2010/08/18/asga-join-hands-with-anime-cine-experience/</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #51555c; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Cine Darbaar, in collaboration with the Embassy of Japan, Directorate of<br />
Film Festivals, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of<br />
India, Japan Foundation and Asian School Of Graphics And Animation<br />
[ASGA] as knowledge partners is organizing a 3-day Animation film<br />
festival at Siri Fort auditorium on the 20th, 21st & 22nd August,<br />
2010.<br />
It’s the first time that a festival will be celebrating<br />
Japanese-Anime, Manga (Comics) and Pop-culture in India. Anime Cine<br />
Experience will be bringing the great anime works of Japan with films<br />
like The Girl who leapt through time, Grave of the fireflies, 5cm per<br />
second, Voices of Distant Star and The Place Promised in Our Early Days.<br />
“To give the audience a wider understanding of Anime, the festival will<br />
have workshops and special discussions will be conducted by Shubham<br />
Mauria and Kshitiz Anand’’ informed Sandeep Marwah, President of Marwah<br />
Studios and Director of Asian School Of Graphics And Animation.<br />
<br />
Apart from these workshops, festival is also organizing a short-film<br />
competition. A Short Anime corner will screen the 10 best short films<br />
and the top three films will be awarded. The festival will also have a<br />
photography exhibition on Japan.<br />
A film journal Indian Auteur will be publishing a special issue on Anime for </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #51555c; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">the festival with the help of Japan Foundation and knowledge partners </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #51555c; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Asian School of Graphics and Animation.The Festival is supported by </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #51555c; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">International Film And Television Club, International Children’s</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #51555c; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> Film Forum and Radio Noida.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #51555c; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><br />
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</span>Animefaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04011439556416857958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144838136508436402.post-38658868321944526712010-08-14T16:09:00.000+05:302010-08-14T16:09:34.933+05:30Friday the 13th Superstitions Rooted in Bible and Moresource:<a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/08/100813-friday-the-13th-superstitions-triskaidekaphobia/">http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/08/100813-friday-the-13th-superstitions-triskaidekaphobia/</a><br />
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<h2 class="subtitle" style="clear: left; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font: normal normal normal 1.375em/1.5 Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 600px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This year Friday the 13th superstitions get a break—luckily for triskaidekaphobes.</span></h2><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; line-height: 10px;"><img alt="The Last Supper, after restoration." height="312" src="http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/246/cache/friday-13th-2010-last-supper_24632_600x450.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px;" width="600" /><div class="caption" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Legendary traitor Judas (fourth from left) is said to have been the 13th guest at Jesus' Last Supper.</span></div><div class="credit" style="color: #333333; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Painting by Leonardo da Vinci via Getty Images</span></div></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div><div class="author" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">John Roach</span></div><div class="publication" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">for </span><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/" style="color: #044e8e; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">National Geographic News</span></a></div><div class="publication_time" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875em; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Updated August 13, 2010</div><div class="article_text" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: left; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; line-height: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 20px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">They date back to at least ancient Roman times, but Friday the 13th superstitions won't be getting much of a workout this year. Luckily for </span><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/triskaidekaphobia" style="color: #044e8e; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">triskaidekaphobia</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">sufferers, today is 2010's only Friday the 13th.</span></strong></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">That must come as a relief, after 2009's nine Friday the 13ths—the maximum possible in a year, at least as long as we continue to mark time with the Gregorian calendar, which Pope Gregory XIII ordered the Catholic Church to adopt in 1582.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"You can't have any [years] with none, and you can't have any with four, because of our funny calendar," said Underwood Dudley, a professor emeritus of mathematics at </span><a href="http://www.depauw.edu/" style="color: #044e8e; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">DePauw University</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> in Indiana, and author of </span><em style="font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit !important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Numerology: Or, What Pythagoras Wrought.</span></em></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The calendar works just as its predecessor, the Julian calendar, did, with a leap year every four years. But the Gregorian calendar skips leap year on century years except those divisible by 400. For example, there was no leap year in 1900, but there was one in 2000. This trick keeps the calendar in tune with the seasons.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The result is an ordering of days and dates that repeats itself every 400 years, Dudley noted. As time marches through the order, some years appear with three Friday the 13ths. Other years have two or, like 2010, one.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Curious Calendar Encourages Friday the 13th Superstitions</span></strong></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"It's just that curious way our calendar is constructed, with 28 days in February and all those 30s and 31s," Dudley said.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(Related: </span><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/080228-leap-year.html" style="color: #044e8e; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Leap Year: How the World Makes Up for Lost Time"</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">.)</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">When the 400-year order is laid out, another revelation occurs: The 13th falls on Friday more often than any other day of the week. "It's just a funny coincidence," Dudley said.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.clatsopcollege.com/faculty/rbeveridge/index.htm" style="color: #044e8e; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Richard Beveridge</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, a mathematics instructor at Clatsop Community College in Oregon, authored a 2003 paper in the journal </span><em style="font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit !important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Mathematical Connections</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> on the mathematics of Friday the 13th.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">He noted the 400-year cycle is further broken down into periods of either 28 or 40 years.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"At the end of every cycle you get a year with three Friday the 13ths the year before the last year in the cycle … and you also get one on the tenth year of all the cycles," he said.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2009, for example, was the tenth year of the cycle that started in 2000.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Friday the 13th Superstitions Linked to Triskaidekaphobia</span></strong></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Friday the 13th superstitions are rooted in ancient bad-luck associations with the number 13 and the day Friday, said </span><a href="http://www.drdossey.com/about.html" style="color: #044e8e; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Donald Dossey</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, a folklore historian and author of </span><em style="font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit !important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Holiday Folklore, Phobias and Fun.</span></em></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The two unlucky entities ultimately combined to make one super unlucky day.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Dossey traces the fear of the number 13—aka, triskaidekaphobia—to a Norse myth about 12 gods having a dinner party at Valhalla, Norse mythology's heaven. In walked the uninvited 13th guest, the mischievous god Loki. Once there, Loki arranged for Hoder, the blind god of darkness, to shoot Balder the Beautiful, the god of joy and gladness, with a mistletoe-tipped arrow.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Balder died, and the whole Earth got dark. The whole Earth mourned. It was a bad, unlucky day," Dossey said.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">There is also a biblical reference to the unlucky number 13. Judas, the apostle said to have betrayed Jesus, was the 13th guest to the Last Supper. (See </span><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/04/0406_060406_judas.html" style="color: #044e8e; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Lost Gospel Revealed; Says Jesus Asked Judas to Betray Him."</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">)</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">As for Friday, it's well known among Christians as the day Jesus was crucified. Some biblical scholars believe Eve tempted Adam with the forbidden fruit on Friday. Perhaps most significant is a belief that Abel was slain by his brother Cain on Friday the 13th.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Meanwhile, in ancient Rome, witches reportedly gathered in groups of 12. The 13th was believed to be the devil.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In modern times, many triskaidekaphobes point to the ill-fated mission to the moon, Apollo 13.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.udel.edu/udmessenger/vol17no2/stories/research_dr13.html" style="color: #044e8e; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Thomas Fernsler</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, an associate policy scientist in the Mathematics and Science Education Resource Center at the University of Delaware in Newark, said the number 13 suffers because of its position after 12.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">According to Fernsler, numerologists consider 12 a "complete" number. There are 12 months in a year, 12 signs of the zodiac, 12 gods of Olympus, 12 labors of Hercules, 12 tribes of Israel, and 12 apostles of Jesus.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In exceeding 12 by 1, Fernsler said 13's association with bad luck "has to do with just being a little beyond completeness. The number becomes restless or squirmy"—not unlike some folks with triskaidekaphobia today.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Paralyzed by Friday the 13th Superstitions</span></strong></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Some people are so paralyzed by Friday the 13th superstitions that they refuse to fly, buy a house, or act on a hot stock tip, for example.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"It's been estimated that [U.S] $800 or $900 million is lost in business on this day because people will not fly or do business they would normally do," said Dossey, the historian, who is also the founder of the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville, North Carolina.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Among other services, Dossey's organization counsels clients on how to Friday the 13th superstitions, which fuel a phobia that he estimates afflicts 17 to 21 million people in the United States.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Symptoms range from mild anxiety to full-blown panic attacks. The latter may cause people to reshuffle schedules or miss an entire day's work.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">When it comes to bad luck of any kind, </span><a href="http://www.richardwiseman.com/" style="color: #044e8e; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Richard Wiseman</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">—a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire in Hatfield, England—found that people who consider themselves unfortunate are more likely to believe in superstitions associated with bad luck.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Their beliefs and behavior are likely to be part of a much bigger worldview," he said. "They will believe that luck is a magical force and that it can ruin their lives."</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Triskaidekaphobia'as Architectural Effects</span></strong></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Triskaidekaphobia can even be seen in how societies are built. More than 80 percent of high-rise buildings lack a 13th floor. Many airports skip the 13th gate. Hospitals and hotels regularly have no room number 13.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">On streets in Florence, Italy, the house between number 12 and 14 is addressed as 12 1/2. In France socialites known as the </span><em style="font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit !important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">quatorziens</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> ("fourteeners") once made themselves available as 14th guests to keep a dinner party from an unlucky fate.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">DePauw University's Dudley said nobody really knows why Friday the 13th has spawned so many superstitions.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"You've got to have something that is unlucky, and somehow they hit on 13," he said. "But all these explanations are just moonshine."</span></div></div></div>Animefaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04011439556416857958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144838136508436402.post-437081337791207032010-08-09T19:34:00.002+05:302010-08-09T19:34:55.354+05:30IISc opens doors to Undergrads from 2011source:<a href="http://www.mybangalore.com/article/0810/iisc-opens-doors-to-undergrads-from-2011-.html">http://www.mybangalore.com/article/0810/iisc-opens-doors-to-undergrads-from-2011-.html</a><div><br />
</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">By <a alt="" class="author" href="http://www.mybangalore.com/profile/Staffreporter" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #004876; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Staff Reporter</a> Published: August 09 2010 </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><div id="article_header" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;">Good news for all students who are looking for a good undergraduate program, IISc is planning to introduce a UG course that can help take the first step towards success.</div></div><div id="article_body" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong><img alt="" src="http://mybangalore.smugmug.com/photos/963500826_ffVet-O.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>One of Bangalore's premiere institutions<a href="http://www.iisc.ernet.in/#" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #004876; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"> </a></strong><span class="-a " style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" tag="a">Indian Institute of Science or IIS</span>c. Established back in the year 1909, it has become one of the top ranked institutes in the country. The degrees offered by this institute can be divided into two categories, Degrees by coursework and Degrees by Research and from 2011 the institute shall also offer undergraduate courses . All major universities across the world have proper UG courses that help students take the right step towards their future but in India, students do not have as many options therefore IISc is making a conscious effort to bridge the gap in education. </div><br />
<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Once the program gets the green signal, the institute shall offer a four year interdisciplinary Bachelor of Science programme. Taking inspiration from the program being offered at the California Institute of Technology, this particular proposal seeks to create human resources that can make positive contributions to industry, in the field of medicine or in research institutes. The UG course will combine both science and engineering although the primary focus would be on science. </div><br />
<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Also, the report presented by the committee, led by Yash Pal - a noted academic, has suggested that it be made mandatory for all the universities in the country to offer weighty undergraduate programmes. This particular proposal seeks to develop a much needed connection between undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In addition to the basic sciences, the interdisciplinary programme will also include the humanities namely philosophy and history. </div><br />
<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The institute shall probably witness growth and expansion in regards to the infrastructure along with human resources once the course is introduced. </div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A professor says, ““The problems we face today are very different from those that needed to be addressed 100 years ago when the IISc began — we have issues such as environment and energy to contend with. These problems can only be solved through an interdisciplinary approach.” </div><br />
<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Although it was assumed a while back that the campus in Chitradurga would probably house the programme, it has been recently reported that the existing IISc campus would offer the undergraduate programme. Each batch comprising of about 50-200 students, the programme will most probably be small. Since the changing world calls for a mix of science and engineering, this UG course seeks to provide exactly that so as to make the students capable of contributing both in industry as well as in research. The program would be started in a number of fields including Physics, Biology, Math etc. It would also allow students to pick the minors and major after about three semesters. </div><br />
<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Prof Yash Pal had this to say about the course, “marvelous news and a move in the right direction.” He dismissed doubts and worries about losing research time and resources, “If you’re teaching an undergraduate programme, you’ll find that you will come across a certain energy and even questions that will widen the horizons of your research too. It is very valuable, and that is where you will get your best material from.” </div><br />
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The human race shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet," he said.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I see great dangers for the human race," Hawking said. "There have been a number of times in the past when its survival has been a question of touch and go. The Cuban missile crisis in 1963 was one of these. The frequency of such occasions is likely to increase in the future."</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"But I'm an optimist. If we can avoid disaster for the next two centuries, our species should be safe, as we spread into space," he said.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That said, getting to another planet will prove a challenge, not to mention colonizing it for humanity. University of Michigan astrophysicist Katherine Freese told Big Think that "the nearest star [to Earth] is Proxima Centauri which is 4.2 light years away. That means that, if you were traveling at the speed of light the whole time, it would take 4.2 years to get there" -- or about 50,000 years using current <a class="kLink" href="http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/08/09/abandon-earth-face-extinction-warns-stephen-hawking/#" id="KonaLink1" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border-bottom-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial; border-left-color: transparent !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: transparent !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial; border-top-color: transparent !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; bottom: 0px; color: blue !important; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; font-family: verdana; font-size: 14px; font-variant: normal; left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; right: 0px; text-decoration: underline !important; text-transform: none !important; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="undefined"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: blue !important; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: blue !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto !important;">rocket</span></span></a> science.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Still, we need to act and act fast, Hawking stated. "It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand or million. Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth but to spread out into space. We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years. But if we want to continue beyond the next hundred years, our future is in space."</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hawking has become quite outspoken in recent months. In April, he warned of the dangers of communicating with aliens, telling the Discovery Channel that extra-terrestrials are almost certain to exist -- and humanity should <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/25/dont-talk-aliens-warns-stephen-hawking/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #183a52; cursor: pointer; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.3em; position: relative; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">avoid contact with them at all cost</b></a>.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational,” he said. “The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The answer, he suggests, is that most of alien life will be the equivalent of microbes or simple animals -- the sort of life that has dominated Earth for most of its <a class="kLink" href="http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/08/09/abandon-earth-face-extinction-warns-stephen-hawking/#" id="KonaLink2" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border-bottom-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial; border-left-color: transparent !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: transparent !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial; border-top-color: transparent !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; bottom: 0px; color: blue !important; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; font-family: verdana; font-size: 14px; font-variant: normal; left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; right: 0px; text-decoration: underline !important; text-transform: none !important; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="undefined"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: blue !important; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: blue !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto !important;">history</span></span></a> -- and they could pose a serious threat to us.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In May Hawking said he believed humans could <a class="kLink" href="http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/08/09/abandon-earth-face-extinction-warns-stephen-hawking/#" id="KonaLink3" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border-bottom-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial; border-left-color: transparent !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: transparent !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial; border-top-color: transparent !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; bottom: 0px; color: blue !important; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; font-family: verdana; font-size: 14px; font-variant: normal; left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; right: 0px; text-decoration: underline !important; text-transform: none !important; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="undefined"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: blue !important; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: blue !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto !important;">travel</span></span></a> millions of years into the future and repopulate their devastated planet. If spaceships are built that can fly faster than the speed of light, a day on board would be equivalent to a year on Earth. That's because -- according to Einstein -- as objects accelerate through space, time slows down around them.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a crank," he said in <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Stephen Hawking's Universe</em>.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"These days I’m not so cautious.”</div>Animefaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04011439556416857958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144838136508436402.post-67876339317174866792010-08-05T22:40:00.000+05:302010-08-05T22:40:18.963+05:30Zimbabwe fools media with plane accident reportsource:<a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gPkRvdiRHwfVff9-DFAcjUVD7mcgD9HDEESO0">http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gPkRvdiRHwfVff9-DFAcjUVD7mcgD9HDEESO0</a><br />
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<div class="hn-byline" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #676767; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">By CHENGETAI ZVAUYA and SLOBODAN LEKIC (AP) – <span class="hn-date" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">34 minutes ago</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">HARARE, Zimbabwe — Around the world, the news went out: Plane accident in Zimbabwe, black smoke on runway, ambulances screaming in.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Except the disaster never happened.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Harare airport authorities tricked the public and the world's media into believing a security drill Thursday was a crash to make the drill and the emergency response seem more real.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">It's a practice that's been used elsewhere, but is seen as especially risky in a world where panic is only a few tweets or clicks away.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"Emergency drills are all well and good as part of regular safety procedures and operational awareness in the event of the real thing, but there is a danger of a 'cry wolf' syndrome if emergency drills are repeatedly confused with 'real-life' events," said Neil MacKinnon, global macro strategist at VTB Capital.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Financial markets appeared unperturbed by Thursday's incident in economically and politically isolated Zimbabwe. But the lie disrupted hospital staff in the country's capital, confused airport passengers, and provoked worries about its impact on the struggling air industry.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">It started around midday, when Zimbabwean aviation officials told news organizations that a Boeing 767 arriving from London was involved in an accident at Harare's airport.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Soldiers, paramilitary police and security agents sealed off approaches to the airport and guarded the perimeter. Military helicopters hovered aloft as smoke rose from one runway. Ambulances rushed in.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">At Harare's Parirenyatwa hospital, extra doctors and nurses were rushed in and told to expect casualties from the airport. The atmosphere at the hospital was tense with staff evidently believing it was a genuine emergency.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">All-news TV networks and websites in several countries flashed the reports of an accident, and the alerts were passed along dozens of times via Twitter.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Several hours later, David Chawota, head of the Zimbabwe Civil Aviation Authority, told journalists that the drill's scenario — involving a nonexistent Boeing 767 airliner arriving from London — was designed to simulate a hijacking in which nine people had been killed and 30 were injured.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"Telling the media was part of the exercise. We wanted to see how the media would react," he said. "In the event, the drill was a success because all our systems worked perfectly. Police, security and hospital staff reacted swiftly" — along with the media.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Emergency hospital facilities in Zimbabwe have suffered acute shortages of equipment and drugs in the nation's economic meltdown. Emergency services are ill-equipped to handle bus crashes and highway accidents.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">It was not the first time civil aviation authorities have intentionally issued fake statements to the public, only to retract them after the exercise ended.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In 2002, a false report of an airplane crash at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport sent journalists rushing to the scene only to discover it was a practice drill. And in 2006, Kenyan officials again told journalists that a passenger plane had crashed near a Nairobi airport with 80 people on board — but when reporters arrived, they found that nothing had happened. Nairobi saw similar cases in 2001 and 1999.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Media watchdogs warned against such manipulation.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Gilles Lordet, editor-in-chief at Paris-based Reporters Without Borders, called the incident "totally absurd" and said the media should have been warned in advance.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"You must think about the human consequences, but also those for the media," he said. "This further discredits journalists, and encourages those who say journalists only flap their gums."</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">He said that there is more of a risk in today's interconnected world that rumors and misinformation could spread farther and faster than in the past.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">News that it was all just a drill traveled swiftly too, however, and produced far more action on Twitter and elsewhere online than the original false report.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Aviation analysts also say the practice, which has also been used in Europe, has troubling implications for an industry still struggling to recover after a deep downturn caused by the global economic crisis and the volcanic ash cloud that blocked European air traffic earlier this year.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"Safety-related stories like this do get into the press very, very quickly, and people will be concerned that there has been a plane crash that hadn't really occurred," said Richard Maslen of Airliner World, a British aviation industry publication.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"This shouldn't happen if the drill is managed and organized properly and information is provided so that the public understands what's happening."</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The spokesman for the umbrella group for world airline pilots said he was puzzled by the need to mislead the public.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"It's kind of surprising, why anyone would do that. It's difficult to see what kind of benefit would that bring to a drill," said Gideon Ewers, from the 105,000-member International Federation of Airline Pilots Associations.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Experts agree that while emergency procedures need to be practiced regularly to make sure that all elements of the system work together, it's important not to make them too real. A number of such exercises have gone badly wrong recently, including some that have placed the traveling public at risk.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In January, airport police in Slovakia slipped 3.4 ounces (96 grams) of plastic explosive into the check-in luggage of an Irishman returning home after Christmas holidays.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The move was supposed to be part of a training test for a bomb-sniffing dog, but an the ensuing mix-up, the bags were loaded onto the plane and allowed to fly across Europe to the passenger's destination.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Several years ago, French police discontinued the technique of using unsuspecting travelers' luggage in exercises after a bag containing explosives disappeared on a conveyor belt ferrying luggage to dozens of international flights. The explosives were never recovered.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"It's not just Zimbabwe's goof," said William Voss of the Flight Safety Foundation based in Alexandria, Virginia. He cited examples in the United States where security exercises had caused alarm among people convinced that a real attack was taking place.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"The planning of emergency preparedness drills is something that needs to be thought out carefully, because they can easily go wrong," he said.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"There's a very fine line between simulating emergencies and actually creating them," Voss said.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><em style="margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">AP Aviation Writer Slobodan Lekic reported from Brussels. Associated press writers Angela Charlton in Paris and Pan Pylas in London contributed to this report.</em></div><div id="hn-distributor-copyright" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 23px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Copyright © 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.</span></div>Animefaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04011439556416857958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144838136508436402.post-7800400582100538472010-08-05T22:33:00.000+05:302010-08-05T22:33:42.515+05:30Google Wave failure may help Google Me succeedsource:<a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9180191/Google_Wave_failure_may_help_Google_Me_succeed">http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9180191/Google_Wave_failure_may_help_Google_Me_succeed</a><br />
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padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Google Wave</a> -- Google threw in the towel on its first social networking offering this week -- could provide the company's engineers with a chance to come up with a far more viable service, analysts say.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9180161/Google_drops_Google_Wave" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #1752a3; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Google announced</a> on Wednesday that it is killing off its collaboration and communication tool about a year after the <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9138663/Google_set_to_roll_out_Wave_to_100_000_early_users" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; 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outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In a blog post yesterday, Urs Hoelzle, Google senior vice president for operations, acknowledged that the social networking service was unable to gain any traction with users.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">While <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9176996/Google_Wave_won_t_be_quick_hit_in_the_enterprise_analysts_say" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #1752a3; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Google Wave</a> will be just another failed product by the end of the year, pieces of it will live on in other Google projects, the company said.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">And that leads some industry watchers to wonder if Google is cutting bait so its developers can dust themselves off, use some lessons learned and some of Google Wave's most interesting features to begin work on new social networking product.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"This is typical Google-like behavior. They aren't shy about killing projects that don't hit their expectations," said Dan Olds, an analyst with The Gabriel Consulting Group. "I don't think that users really got it when it came to Wave. But this was a good learning experience for Google. They now know they need to bring a more fully baked product to the market. They also have to clearly articulate why users should jump on board. I don't think this is Google's last run at social networking. There are rumors about a new product -- <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9178639/Web_abuzz_on_talk_of_Google_Facebook_killer_" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #1752a3; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Google Me</a> -- that looks to be their next shot at this market."</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Talk started circulating around the Internet about Google Me late in June. While Google hasn't confirmed any of the widespread speculation, the reports of efforts to build a Facebook-killer persist.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Rob Enderle, an analyst with the Enderle Group, agreed that if Google can learn from the failure of Google Wave, the company will have a better shot at building and launching a successful social networking service the second time around.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"<a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9180028/Social_media_sucks_up_23_of_time_online" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #1752a3; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Social networking</a> is absolutely harder than it looks," added Enderle. "It's not a technical problem as much as a social problem. It's trying to solve a people problem and engineers, by their nature, suck at solving people problems. Google is going to have to address behavioral and social skills to build another service."</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Both Enderle and Olds believe that Google <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">is</i> working on another social networking service ... a <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9179506/Facebook_hits_milestone_Half_a_billion_users" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #1752a3; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Facebook-like</a> offering that's more attractive to consumers -- and less about collaboration.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"Why not? <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9177254/Facebook_CEO_says_mistakes_made_privacy_changes_coming" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #1752a3; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Facebook is making</a> itself an easy target," added Enderle. "I think Google will go down this path and it's probably closer to what Google should be doing anyway. It's a Web property. The social networking aspect of the Web is more closely related to search than almost any other successful thing out there."</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Olds noted that a new Google social network better have a lot of notable contrasts with Google Wave.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"Social networking is a tough racket," said Olds. "If they come out with a new service, it will have to have a feature-packed tool that is easy to use, secure, and be highly scalable. And then they'll need to attract swarms of users quickly to gain enough momentum to get it off the ground. It isn't easy to pull off. If it were, we'd see a lot more competitors taking a run at Facebook."</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Sharon Gaudin</b> covers the Internet and Web 2.0, emerging technologies, and desktop and laptop chips for </i>Computerworld<i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">. 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</div>Animefaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04011439556416857958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144838136508436402.post-90629510832208252322010-08-04T22:14:00.000+05:302010-08-04T22:14:08.830+05:30As Space Priorities Shift, Orbiting Station Takes On a Central Rolesource:<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/science/space/04nasa.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/science/space/04nasa.html</a><br />
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<h6 class="byline" style="color: grey; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 2px;">By <a class="meta-per" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/kenneth_chang/index.html?inline=nyt-per" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: none;" title="More Articles by Kenneth Chang">KENNETH CHANG</a></h6><h6 class="dateline" style="color: grey; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Published: August 3, 2010</h6><h6 class="dateline" style="color: grey; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</h6><h6 class="dateline" style="color: grey; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><nyt_text><div id="articleBody"><div style="color: black; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When a cooling-system pump on the International Space Station broke down over the weekend, </span></span><a class="meta-org" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/n/national_aeronautics_and_space_administration/index.html?inline=nyt-org" style="color: #000066; text-decoration: none;" title="More articles about the National Aeronautics and Space Administration."><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">NASA</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> and the six astronauts on board responded with typical cool self-assurance. The space agency scheduled two spacewalks to repair the damage and said the astronauts, three Americans and three Russians, were in no danger.</span></span></div><div style="color: black; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But the incident underlined a deeper concern about the orbiting station’s long-term health. If this or any other problem should result in a need to abandon the station, the United States’ </span></span><a class="meta-classifier" href="http://www.nytimes.com/info/human-spaceflight/?inline=nyt-classifier" style="color: #000066; text-decoration: none;" title="Recent and archival news about human spaceflight."><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">human spaceflight</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> program would lose one of its last remaining reasons for being.</span></span></div><div style="color: black; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Until recently, the 12-year-old space station was an afterthought in the multiyear, multibillion-dollar effort to return people to the </span></span><a class="meta-classifier" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/moon/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" style="color: #000066; text-decoration: none;" title="More articles about the Moon."><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Moon</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> and possibly push off to Mars. But in the shifting priorities under the Obama administration, the station has become a keystone.</span></span></div><div style="color: black; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Not only is it supposed to serve as a scientific laboratory and an example of successful international collaboration, the administration also wants it to provide a market to nurture a commercial space industry for launching people and cargo into orbit.</span></span></div><div style="color: black; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“It has a much more central role in this decade under the Obama plan than it did under the Bush plan,” said John M. Logsdon, former director of the </span></span><a href="http://www.gwu.edu/~spi/" style="color: #000066; text-decoration: none;" title="institute’s Web site."><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Space Policy Institute</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> at </span></span><a class="meta-org" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/g/george_washington_university/index.html?inline=nyt-org" style="color: #000066; text-decoration: none;" title="More articles about George Washington University"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">George Washington University</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span></span></div><div style="color: black; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">NASA’s Moon program, known as Constellation, has been hamstrung. Although pieces of it could survive in bills under consideration in Congress, it remains unclear what rockets </span></span><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/" style="color: #000066; text-decoration: none;" title="agency’s Web site."><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">NASA</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> is to build, what their destinations would be and how long it would take to get there.</span></span></div><div style="color: black; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Without the space station, NASA’s financing of commercial rockets to take crew and cargo there would almost certainly evaporate. And without government financing, companies would be unlikely to invest billions of dollars to pursue a speculative market.</span></span></div><div style="color: black; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“There’s no question it’s a risky business strategy,” said James A. M. Muncy, a space policy consultant who supports the Obama space policy.</span></span></div><div style="color: black; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Scott Pace, the current director of the Space Policy Institute, said abandoning the station might even mark the end of the human spaceflight program.</span></span></div><div style="color: black; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“My concern,” he said, “is without an overarching political impetus, the energy to restart a human spaceflight program would be very hard to achieve.”</span></span></div><div style="color: black; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A Congressional aide, who was not authorized to speak for attribution, said, “You’re in a position where we were in 1962, where you don’t have a place to go.” With the remaining space shuttles to be retired next year, he said, “you don’t even have a launch vehicle that can travel to low-Earth orbit.”</span></span></div><div style="color: black; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The cooling problem, which has limited research aboard the space station so equipment does not overheat, is only the latest glitch to befall it. In the past, navigation computers have crashed, a rotating joint on the solar arrays started grinding and vibrating, and the toilets have not always worked. In each case, engineers identified the problem and found a solution.</span></span></div><div style="color: black; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“I.S.S. is a living, breathing beast,” Michael T. Suffredini, the space station manager, said in an interview last month. “Some days everything doesn’t exactly work perfectly.”</span></span></div><div style="color: black; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Still, NASA officials say that over all the station is in good shape, even as its lifetime is being extended five years, to 2020.</span></span></div><div style="color: black; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Over the past few years, in preparation for life after the </span></span><a class="meta-classifier" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/space_shuttle/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" style="color: #000066; text-decoration: none;" title="More articles about the space shuttle."><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">space shuttle</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, NASA has launched as many of the large spare parts as it could and stored them on the outside of the station. The station has four spare pumps of the type that failed Saturday, and managers said they had planned for exactly this type of failure.</span></span></div><div style="color: black; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mr. Suffredini said that only a radiator was too large to fit into any spacecraft other than the shuttle, and that piece is to fly up on the next shuttle mission in November. Equipment on the station has also been lasting longer than predicted, he said, adding, “If we get thrown curveballs along the way, we have time to react to them.”</span></span></div><div style="color: black; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The cooling pump was an exception: Expected to last 100,000 hours (more than 11 years), it failed after only about 80,000 hours.</span></span></div><div style="color: black; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Without the shuttles, it will not be possible to bring parts back to Earth for diagnosis and repair. That could be significant for something like the pump. There is no room to bring the faulty pump back on the next two shuttle missions, but it could be brought back on an additional flight that is likely to be added to the schedule for next summer.</span></span></div><div style="color: black; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The threat of a collision with micrometeoroids is small, but not zero. Mr. Suffredini said the chances of a strike severe enough to require evacuation were about 1 in 100 over a six-month period. Over 10 years, the cumulative risk is nearly 1 in 5.</span></span></div><div style="color: black; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Senate bill outlining the budgets and goals for NASA for the next three years asks the space agency to conduct a detailed study to ensure that it is prepared for operating the station until 2020.</span></span></div><div style="color: black; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“The recent breakdown of the station’s cooling system emphasizes how critical it is that we understand all of the equipment needs the space station will have as its service life is extended,” Senator </span></span><a class="meta-per" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/kay_bailey_hutchison/index.html?inline=nyt-per" style="color: #000066; text-decoration: none;" title="More articles about Kay Bailey Hutchison."><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Kay Bailey Hutchison</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> of Texas, who pushed for that provision, said in a statement. “We must assure that NASA has a plan to deliver those elements or bring parts down for analysis and repair once the space shuttle is finally retired.”</span></span></div><div style="color: black; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Senate bill also calls for refurbishing an additional shuttle fuel tank, which leaves the door open for at least one more shuttle flight if it becomes necessary.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 15px;"><img alt="" border="0" height="315" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/08/04/us/NASA/NASA-articleLarge.jpg" width="600" /><div class="credit" style="color: #909090; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.223em; margin-bottom: 3px; text-align: right;">NASA, via Associated Press</div><div class="caption" style="color: #666666; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.2727em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The lifetime of the 12-year-old International Space Station is being extended five years, to 2020.</div></span></div><nyt_correction_bottom><div class="articleCorrection" style="margin-bottom: 2.8em;"></div></nyt_correction_bottom><nyt_update_bottom></nyt_update_bottom></div></nyt_text></span></h6>Animefaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04011439556416857958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144838136508436402.post-25036087771325656572010-08-04T22:10:00.000+05:302010-08-04T22:10:57.655+05:30Google Multiple Account Sign-In: A Getting Started Guidesource:<a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/202556/google_multiple_account_signin_a_getting_started_guide.html?tk=hp_new">http://www.pcworld.com/article/202556/google_multiple_account_signin_a_getting_started_guide.html?tk=hp_new</a><br />
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<div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Google has started rolling out a <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/202456/sign_into_multiple_google_accounts_simultaneously.html" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 71, 132); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: none; color: #1c609f; text-decoration: none;">multiple account sign-in feature</a> that makes it easier for users with more than one Google account to manage their online identities. The addition of the new feature means you no longer have to constantly log in and out of more than one Google account when using the same browser. The new feature doesn't work with all Google services, however, and there are other restrictions that come with using multiple sign-in. Here's what you need to know to get started.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>Can I use multiple sign-in with every Google service?</strong></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">No. At the moment, you can only use multiple Google account sign-in to use App Engine, Google Code, Google Calendar, Gmail, Google Reader, Sites and Voice. Multiple account sign-in for Google Docs is not ready yet, but will be coming soon. As more Google services support multiple sign-in, Google will add them to this list on<a href="http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=181602" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 71, 132); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: none; color: #1c609f; text-decoration: none;">Google's support pages</a>.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>Any potential conflicts I should know about?</strong></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Yes, multiple sign-in will disable offline access to Gmail and Google Calendar, as well as any bookmark links you have to your offline accounts. Bottom line: if you want to keep offline access to Google services then don't use multiple account sign in.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Also, Google gadgets in Gmail like Google Calendar or Google Docs will not work with the multiple accounts feature.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>How many accounts can I be signed in to at once?</strong></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Currently, Google only allows you to use three Google accounts at one time with the multiple sign-in feature.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>How do I activate multiple account sign in?</strong></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="image large" style="clear: both; float: none; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 361px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;"><img alt="" src="http://images.pcworld.com/howto/graphics/202456-googlemultiplesign-in_original.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 361px;" /></span>First, keep in mind that Google is currently rolling out this feature so you may not have access yet.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">The easiest way to get started is to visit Google's <a href="https://www.google.com/accounts/MultipleSessions" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 71, 132); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: none; color: #1c609f; text-decoration: none;">multiple account sign-in settings page</a>. The other option is to click on "Settings">"Google Account settings" from Google.com. At the top of your Google Account page under "Personal Settings" you should see a listing for "Multiple sign-in." If you don't see that option then the feature is not yet available for your account.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">If the multiple sign-in option is there, just click on "Change" and follow the instructions. Once multiple account sign-in is activated, a triangle will appear next to your e-mail address on the top right corner of the page.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>The feature is activated, now what?</strong></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">It's time to link the other Google accounts you want to use for this session. To sign into a second account, click on your e-mail address in the top right corner. You should now see a drop down menu that will let you sign into another account. Repeat this step if you want to activate a third account.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><em>TIP:</em> To sign into a second or third account from the drop down menu you must be using a Google product that supports multiple account sign-in like Gmail, Calendar or Reader.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>How do I switch between accounts?</strong></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Let's say you're in Gmail and you want to switch accounts. Click on your e-mail address in the top right corner to activate the drop down menu and select the account you want to switch to next.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>What happens when I visit an unsupported Google service with multiple sign-in activated?</strong></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="image ltmd" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 180px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;"><img alt="" src="http://images.pcworld.com/news/graphics/181488-google-dashboard_180.jpg" style="height: auto; max-width: 361px;" /></span>The first account you sign into for a multiple account browsing session becomes your default account. Whenever you visit a Google service (such as Google Docs) that currently doesn't support multiple account sign-in, you will only be able to see the information for your default account. To view other accounts, you will have to sign out of Google Docs and sign back in under the other account.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">If you don't want to sign in and out, another option is to open up your second Google account in a different Web browser such as <a href="http://www.google.com/chrome" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 71, 132); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: none; color: #1c609f; text-decoration: none;">Google Chrome</a>, <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 71, 132); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: none; color: #1c609f; text-decoration: none;">Mozilla Firefox</a> or <a href="http://www.opera.com/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 71, 132); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: none; color: #1c609f; text-decoration: none;">Opera</a>.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">You can also use Chrome's Incognito mode instead of opening a new browser, according to <a href="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/08/google-multiple-sign-in-now-available.html" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 71, 132); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: none; color: #1c609f; text-decoration: none;">Google Operating System</a>. This trick would probably work with the private browsing features in other browsers as well including Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Multiple account sign-in is a great way to remove the hassle of dealing with multiple accounts. This is especially true for those of you who have paid <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/202536/google_multiple_account_signin_why_it_matters.html" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 71, 132); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: none; color: #1c609f; text-decoration: none;">Google Apps accounts at the office</a>. With multiple account sign-in, Google Apps enterprise users can easily switch between their professional and personal accounts. It's not clear, however, how soon enterprise users will get access to this feature compared to other Google users. Sometimes, free users get access to new Google features sooner than paying customers do. But considering an enterprise-focused product like Google App Engine is one of the first services to work with multiple account sign-in, it's likely business users will be seeing this feature very soon.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"></div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Connect with Ian on Twitter (<a href="http://twitter.com/ianpaul" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 71, 132); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: none; color: #1c609f; text-decoration: none;">@ianpaul</a>).</div><br />
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</div>Animefaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04011439556416857958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144838136508436402.post-88369295784771027142010-08-04T22:07:00.000+05:302010-08-04T22:07:36.640+05:30Intel Settles Claim That It Tried to Stifle Competitionsource:<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/05/technology/05chip.html?partner=rss&emc=rss">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/05/technology/05chip.html?partner=rss&emc=rss</a><div><br />
</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 15px;"><nyt_byline><h6 class="byline" style="color: grey; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 2px;">By <a class="meta-per" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/w/edward_wyatt/index.html?inline=nyt-per" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: none;" title="More Articles by Edward Wyatt">EDWARD WYATT</a> and <a class="meta-per" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/v/ashlee_vance/index.html?inline=nyt-per" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: none;" title="More Articles by Ashlee Vance">ASHLEE VANCE</a></h6></nyt_byline></span><h6 class="dateline" style="color: grey; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Published: August 4, 2010</h6><h6 class="dateline" style="color: grey; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</h6><h6 class="dateline" style="color: grey; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 15px;"><div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission and <a class="meta-org" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/intel_corporation/index.html?inline=nyt-org" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: underline;" title="More information about Intel Corporation">Intel</a>announced on Wednesday that they have agreed to settle charges of anticompetitive behavior that the agency claimed stifled competition in the market for computer processing and graphics chips.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The settlement prohibits Intel from the practice of paying customers to buy its computer chips exclusively or to refuse to buy chips from other manufacturers. It also prohibits Intel from redesigning its chips purely to harm a competitor. Intel also agreed not to retaliate against computer makers if they do business with non-Intel suppliers.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">In addition, <a href="http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/08/intel.shtm" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: underline;" title="Statement from trade commission.">the settlement</a> requires Intel to modify agreements with other chipmakers giving them the freedom to merge or form joint ventures without the threat of being sued by Intel for patent infringement. Intel is also required to maintain for at least six years a feature that will not limit the performance of graphics processing chips made by others, and to disclose that its computer compilers might discriminate between its chips and those of other companies, and therefore not might register all of the features of non-Intel chips.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The trade commission brought its suit in December, claiming that Intel, the world’s leading computer chipmaker, for at least a decade has illegally used its dominant market position to stifle competition and strengthen its monopoly.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The agency has no legal authority to assess fines, although it can bring a civil suit for future violations of its settlement order. And the settlement requires Intel to establish a $10 million fund to help business customers re-formulate their software products if they were misled by Intel.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Jon Leibowitz, the chairman of the F.T.C., said that the settlement “provides ‘fencing-in’ protection to ensure that Intel doesn’t come up with new ways to undermine competition.”</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">“Just as important, it provides this relief right away, so it helps consumers now, which is critical in a dynamic industry such as this one,” Mr. Leibowitz said.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The commission will now seek public comment before the settlement is finalized.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/2010/20100804corp.htm" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: underline;" title="Intel statement.">In a statement</a>, Intel’s general counsel, A. Douglas Melamed, said the settlement allowed the company “to put an end to the expense and distraction of the F.T.C. litigation.”</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">"This agreement provides a framework that will allow us to continue to compete and to provide our customers the best possible products at the best prices," Mr. Melamed said. In agreeing to the settlement, Intel did not admit to any wrongdoing or that the accusations were true.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The agency brought its claims under Section 5 of the F.T.C. Act, a law that is broader than the antitrust laws and that also affords Intel a measure of protection against private lawsuits that could subject it to stiff financial penalties.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Unlike an antitrust violation, a violation of Section 5 cannot be used to establish liability for plaintiffs to seek triple damages in private litigation against the same defendant.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a class="meta-org" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/advanced_micro_devices_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: underline;" title="More information about Advanced Micro Devices Inc">Advanced Micro Devices</a>, Intel’s main rival, settled its own antitrust claims against Intel in November with Intel agreeing to pay $1.25 billion. The state of New York still has litigation pending against Intel.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Intel has spent years squaring off against regulators in Asia, Europe and the United States over charges tied to anticompetitive business practices. Last May, the <a class="meta-org" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/e/european_commission/index.html?inline=nyt-org" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: underline;" title="More articles about European Commission">European Commission</a> hit Intel with a record $1.45 billion fine, concluding that the company hampered competition in the market for PC and computer server chips.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Most of the previous actions against Intel focused on claims that the company used rebates and other payment programs to keep computer makers and retailers from selling products with A.M.D.’s chips.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">From about 2003 to 2006, A.M.D. offered a line of chips that analysts and many computer makers hailed as superior to Intel’s products. Executives from A.M.D. contended that Intel blunted the adoption of these chips through its financial arrangements.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The F.T.C.’s complaint tread familiar ground but also raised questions about Intel’s behavior in the graphics chip market, which is dominated by <a class="meta-org" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/nvidia_corporation/index.html?inline=nyt-org" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: underline;" title="More information about NVIDIA Corporation">Nvidia</a> and A.M.D. Since the agency aired its complaints, Intel has tempered an effort to enter the market for standalone graphics chips that go into home and business computers. Instead, Intel has declared its intention to focus on competing against Nvidia and A.M.D. through a niche chip designed to handle scientific and industrial applications.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The various legal actions against Intel, based in Santa Clara, Calif., have brought to light numerous unflattering e-mails exchanged between the company’s top executives and customers.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">In particular, communications between Intel and Dell have shown executives talking about rebates bestowed on Dell for its decision to abstain from A.M.D.’s products. In one such exchange, <a class="meta-per" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/paul_s_otellini/index.html?inline=nyt-per" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: underline;" title="More articles about Paul S. Otellini.">Paul S. Otellini</a>, the chief executive at Intel, described Dell as “the best friend money can buy.”</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Last month, Dell paid $100 million to settle accounting fraud charges leveled by the<a class="meta-org" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/s/securities_and_exchange_commission/index.html?inline=nyt-org" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: underline;" title="More articles about the U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission.">Securities and Exchange Commission</a> tied to the rebates it received from Intel.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Intel has recovered well from a severe drop off in sales during the heart of the recession and has posted record results in recent quarters. A.M.D. has spent the last couple of years trying to restructure its business and improve its financial performance. The company pulled out of the expensive chip manufacturing business and now concentrates on designing chips.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10px; line-height: 15px;"><img alt="" border="0" height="315" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/08/05/business/05chip/05chip-articleLarge.jpg" width="600" /></span></div><div class="credit" style="color: #909090; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.223em; margin-bottom: 3px; text-align: right;">Luke Sharrett/The New York Times</div><div class="caption" style="color: #666666; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.2727em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Jon Leibowitz, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, held up a microchip at the press conference announcing the settlement.</div></span></h6></div>Animefaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04011439556416857958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144838136508436402.post-42628770353844685332010-08-04T02:35:00.000+05:302010-08-04T02:35:09.354+05:30Manga to promote US-Japan military alliancesource:<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10851195">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10851195</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;"></span></span><br />
<div style="clear: left; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;">Four comics featuring a Japanese girl and a visiting US boy will be posted online, each exploring how US and Japanese troops work together.</div><div style="clear: left; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;">A US spokesman said they were intended as a light-hearted explanation of the history of the alliance.</div><div style="clear: left; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;">The comics, marking 50 years of the security pact, come amid strained ties over US bases in Okinawa.</div><div style="clear: left; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;">The first Japanese-language manga comic, entitled Our Alliance - A Lasting Partnership, will be posted online on Wednesday.</div><div style="clear: left; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;">In it the young girl, Arai Anzu - which sounds like alliance when pronounced by a Japanese person - asks the boy, Usa-kun - a play on USA - why he is protecting her house.</div><div style="clear: left; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;">"Because we have an alliance," he says. "We are 'Important Friends'."</div><div style="clear: left; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;">"It's good to have a friend you can rely on to go with you," the little girl concludes.</div><div style="clear: left; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"></span></div><div style="clear: left; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;">Major Neal Fisher, deputy director of the US forces' public affairs office in Japan, said the manga were intended as a "light-hearted approach to telling the story of the alliance through the eyes of two young people who are learning why the US military are in Japan".</div><div style="clear: left; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;">The manga format was chosen because it was "a very commonly accepted format of media in Japan - it is read as much if not more than newspapers", he added.</div><div style="clear: left; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;">Some paper copies of the comics would also be available at bases, he said.</div><div style="clear: left; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;">Japan hosts some 47,000 US troops in return for security guarantees from the US, under a security pact agreed in 1960. More than half of these troops are based on the southern island of Okinawa.</div><div style="clear: left; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;">Plans to relocate the Futenma airbase from southern to northern Okinawa have caused outrage amongst residents who want the base moved off the island completely.</div><div style="clear: left; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;">The row toppled Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, after he was forced to renege on a pledge to re-evaluate the base relocation deal.</div><div style="clear: left; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"><img alt="Front cover of the first of the four manga comics" height="299" src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/48586000/jpg/_48586750_cover.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #505050; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 16px;" width="224" /><span style="color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 16px; width: 224px;">The manga is the first of four explaining the half-century alliance</span></span></div>Animefaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04011439556416857958noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144838136508436402.post-29361172674372877512010-08-04T02:29:00.000+05:302010-08-04T02:29:25.516+05:30Report: Next iPad likely to include camerasource:<a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20012495-37.html">http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20012495-37.html</a><br />
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<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">The next version of the <a href="http://www.cnet.com/apple-ipad/" section="luke_topic" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #00437f; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">iPad</a> is likely to sport the camera that many were hoping would be on the first model, at least according to information uncovered by <a href="http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/08/02/apples_ipad_configuration_policies_reference_camera.html" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #00437f; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">AppleInsider</a>.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="cnet-image-div image-REGULAR float-right" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 150px;"><img alt="Will the next-generation iPad sport a camera?" class="cnet-image" height="190" src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim//2010/08/03/Apple-iPad.png" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;" width="150" /><div class="image-caption" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Will the next-generation iPad sport a camera?</div><span class="image-credit" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">(Credit: Apple)</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">A document of Apple's iPad management policies, which let IT departments govern the features that corporate users can access, makes mention of the ability to disable the use of the camera. AppleInsider believes this offers some evidence that the company is planning to add a camera to upcoming models.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">As a further breadcrumb, AppleInsider also cited a <a href="http://jobs.apple.com/index.ajs?BID=1&method=mExternal.showJob&RID=47818" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #00437f; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">job listing from Apple</a> for a "Performance QA Engineer, iPad Media" in which the company is "looking for a software quality engineer with a strong technical background to test still, video and audio capture and playback frameworks." Applicants are invited to "build on your QA experience and knowledge of digital camera technology (still and video) to develop and maintain testing frameworks for both capture and playback pipelines."</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">If the next generation of the iPad does offer a camera, it will likely be a front-facing model that will support FaceTime, said AppleInsider. Though FaceTime's new video chatting is only available on the <a href="http://www.cnet.com/apple-iphone.html" section="luke_topic" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #00437f; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">iPhone 4</a>, <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/gadgetreviews/apple-bringing-facetime-to-ipad-ipod-touch/16518" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #00437f; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ZDNet</a> and other sources have reported that the feature may soon find itself on upcoming versions of the <a href="http://www.cnet.com/ipod/" section="luke_topic" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #00437f; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">iPod Touch</a> as well as the iPad.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">This isn't the first sign that Apple may be ramping up to include a camera on the iPad. A beta of the <a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-10443080-233.html" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #00437f; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">software developers kit (SDK) for the iPad</a> released in January pointed to support for a camera, though that support was removed from the <a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-10467473-233.html" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #00437f; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March release of the SDK</a>.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Photos released by PowerbookMedic in March found <a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-10467483-233.html" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #00437f; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Webcam holes</a> in the final revision of the tablet's midframe, leading to speculation that the iPad would support a front-facing camera.</div>Animefaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04011439556416857958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144838136508436402.post-7662535361994696362010-08-04T02:27:00.000+05:302010-08-04T02:27:22.591+05:30Solar Storm Headed for Earth Tonight; May Spawn Aurorassource:<a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/07/100730-science-space-sun-solar-storm-auroras/">http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/07/100730-science-space-sun-solar-storm-auroras/</a><br />
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<div class="author" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Brian Handwerk</div><div class="publication" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">for <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news" style="color: #044e8e; text-decoration: none;">National Geographic News</a></div><div class="publication_time" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875em; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Published August 3, 2010</div><div class="publication_time" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875em; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;"></span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Night owls take note: A spectacular sky show of rippling <a href="http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photos/patterns-aurorae/#churchill-aurora_9338_600x450.jpg" id="zmau" style="color: #044e8e; text-decoration: none;" title="auroras">auroras</a> may be on tap for late Tuesday through early Wednesday, according to astrophysicists, and the phenomenon may be more widely visible than normal.</strong></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">On Sunday cameras aboard <a href="http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/" id="zrnx" style="color: #044e8e; text-decoration: none;" title="NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory">NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory</a> (SDO) captured an eruption on the sun's surface that hurled tons of plasma—charged gas—directly toward our planet in an event called a coronal mass ejection. (See<a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/04/photogalleries/100421-nasa-sun-solar-dynamics-observatory-first-pictures/#solar-dynamics-observatory-loop-prominence_19341_600x450.jpg" id="wa-g" style="color: #044e8e; text-decoration: none;" title="sun pictures taken by the SDO">sun pictures taken by the solar observatory</a>.)</div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"></span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Because it takes several days for such ionized clouds to reach Earth's atmosphere, the burst of charged particles should hit us tonight—and there's a chance it'll produce especially colorful auroras.</div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Auroras happen when energized particles from the sun interact with Earth's magnetic field. The particles flow down the field lines that run toward Earth's Poles, banging into atoms of atmospheric nitrogen and oxygen along the way.</div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The charged solar particles give Earth's atmospheric atoms an energy boost, which then gets released as light, producing the shimmering curtains of greens, reds, and other colors.</div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In the Northern Hemisphere, auroras are more commonly seen at high latitudes, such as the Arctic regions of Alaska, Canada, and Scandinavia.</div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">But explosions like Sunday's can spark geomagnetic storms that bring the show to slightly lower parts of the globe. These storms can also add a rippling effect to the sometimes static auroras.</div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">(Related: <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080724-auroras-lights.html" id="zaim" style="color: #044e8e; text-decoration: none;" title=""Aurora &squot;Power Surges&squot; Triggered by Magnetic Explosions."">"Aurora 'Power Surges' Triggered by Magnetic Explosions."</a>)</div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Still, a solar storm headed for Earth isn't a guarantee of auroras. Without more sun-watching satellites, scientists are hard-pressed to know the exact effects a coronal mass ejection will have on Earth's atmosphere.</div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">For now, the odds of auroras lighting up tonight's northern skies are about 50-50, said <a href="http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~golub/HomePage.html" id="xjqm" style="color: #044e8e; text-decoration: none;" title="Leon Golub">Leon Golub</a> of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.</div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">If you want to watch for them, he advised, "find a dark place and look north well after sundown or near midnight, if you can stay up that late."<strong style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"></strong></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Sun Probes to Issue Space Weather Alerts?</strong></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The oncoming solar storm is yet another indicator that the sun's activity is picking up after an unusually long lull, astronomers say.</div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Solar activity rises and falls on a regular cycle of about 11 years. The last period of peak activity ended in 2001, and it led into a long-lasting quiet spell. (See<a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090504-sun-global-cooling.html" id="bsz2" style="color: #044e8e; text-decoration: none;" title=""Sun Oddly Quiet—Hints at Next &squot;Little Ice Age&squot;?"">"Sun Oddly Quiet—Hints at Next 'Little Ice Age'?"</a>)</div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Along with a recent flurry of sunspots, Sunday's eruption seems to be a sign of the star's reawakening—good news for aurora fans, but potential trouble for satellites, astronauts, and some technologies here on Earth.</div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Energetic solar storms can disrupt communication and navigation systems, can knock out power grids, and can pose radiation hazards to people working in space.</div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">This week's storm is relatively slow, which means it's unlikely to have many negative impacts—but future storms probably will, Golub said.</div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"One of the main reasons to have these instruments [such as the Solar Dynamics Observatory] in space is so that you can issue alerts or warnings, pretty much like you would with a hurricane," he said.</div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">That way "people can know ahead of time when there is a possibility of an event that will have an impact on Earth."</div>Animefaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04011439556416857958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144838136508436402.post-79550465008291477802010-08-01T13:22:00.002+05:302010-08-01T13:22:31.904+05:30Hack attack hits ATM jackpotssource:<a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hE4jANboYfDqMGpcGjsjJTBVWJSw">http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hE4jANboYfDqMGpcGjsjJTBVWJSw</a><br />
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<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">LAS VEGAS — Computer security researcher Barnaby Jack jokes that he has resorted to hiding cash under his bed since figuring out how to crack automated teller machines remotely using the Internet.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The New Zealand native on Saturday demonstrated his "ATM jackpotting" discovery for an overflow crowd of hackers during a presentation at the infamous DefCon gathering in Las Vegas.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"You don't have to go to the ATM at all," Jack told AFP after briefing fellow software savants. "You can do it from the comfort of your own bedroom."</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Jack proved his findings using two kinds of ATMs typically found in corner stores, bars or other "stand-alone" venues in the United States but said the flaw likely exists in machines at banks.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Banks use "remote management" software to monitor and control their ATMs, and Jack used a weakness in that kind of code to take control of machines by way of the Internet.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">He found a way to bypass having to submit passwords and serial numbers to access ATMs remotely. Once in the machines, he could command them to spit out cash or transfer funds.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">He could also capture account data from magnetic strips on credit or bank cards as well as passwords punched in by ATM users.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"When you think about ATM security you generally think about the hardware side; is it bolted down and are the cameras in position," Jack said.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"This is the first time anyone has taken the approach of trying to attack the underlying software. It is time to find software defenses rather than hardware defenses."</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Jack did his research on ATMs he bought on the Internet. He also found master keys for stand-alone machines available for purchase online, meaning hackers could walk up and tinker with ATM software, he added.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"We shouldn't dwell on the walk-up attack, because no physical access is required," Jack said. "They have a flaw that lets me bypass all authentication on the device on the Internet, and I am the ATM at that stage."</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">He didn't reveal specifics of the attack to hackers even though the ATM makers were told of the flaw and have bolstered machine defenses.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"I might get my butt in hot water if I released the code," said the IO Active software security researcher who did the ATM hack 'as a hobby.'</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"I was careful not to release the keys to the kingdom."</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Jack said he doesn't know if criminals have exploited the software flaw "in the wild" but that it is tough to be certain.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"It is not an easy attack to replicate but I am not naive enough to think I am the only one who can do it," Jack said, admitting he has grown wary of ATMs. "I just keep my cash under the bed now, mate."</div><div id="hn-distributor-copyright" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 23px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Copyright © 2010 AFP. 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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">LAS VEGAS — A security researcher created a cell phone base station that tricks cell phones into routing their outbound calls through his device, allowing someone to intercept even encrypted calls in the clear.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The device tricks the phones into disabling encryption and records call details and content before they’re routed on their proper way through voice-over-IP.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The low-cost, home-brewed device, developed by researcher Chris Paget, mimics more expensive devices already used by intelligence and law enforcement agencies – called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSI-catcher" style="color: #007ca5; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">IMSI catchers</a> – that can capture phone ID data and content. The devices essentially spoof a legitimate GSM tower and entice cell phones to send them data by emitting a signal that’s stronger than legitimate towers in the area.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“If you have the ability to deliver reasonably a strong signal, then those around are owned,” Paget said.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Paget’s system costs only about $1,500, as opposed to several hundreds of thousands for professional products. Most of the price is for the laptop he used to operate the system.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Doing this kind of interception “used to be a million dollars, now you can do it with a thousand times less cost,” Paget said during a press conference after his attack. “If it’s $1,500 it’s just beyond the range that people can start buying them for themselves and listening in on their neighbors.”</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Paget’s device captures only 2G GSM calls, making AT&T and T-Mobile calls, which use GSM, vulnerable to interception. Paget’s aim was to highlight vulnerabilities in the GSM standard that allows a rogue station to capture calls. GSM is a second-generation technology that is not as secure as 3G technology.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Encrypted calls are not protected from interception because the rogue tower can simply turn it off. Although the GSM specifications say that a phone should pop up a warning when it connects to a station that does not have encryption, SIM cards disable that setting so that alerts are not displayed.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“Even though the GSM spec requires it, this is a deliberate choice on the cell phone makers,” Paget said.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The system captures only outbound calls. Inbound calls would go directly to voicemail during the period that someone’s phone is connected to Paget’s tower.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The device could be used by corporate spies, criminals, private investigators to intercept private calls of targets.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“Any information that goes across a cell phone you can now intercept,” he said, except data. Professional grade IMSI catchers do capture data transfers, but Paget’s system doesn’t currently do this.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">His setup included two RF directional antennas about three feet long to amplify his signal in the large conference room, a laptop and open source software. The system emitted only 25 milliwatts, “a hundred times less than your average cell phone,” he said.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Paget received a call from FCC officials on Friday who raised a list of possible regulations his demonstration might violate. To get around legal concerns, he broadcast on a GSM spectrum for HAM radios, 900Mhz, which is the same frequency used by GSM phones and towers in Europe, thus avoiding possible violations of U.S. regulations.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Just turning on the antennas caused two dozen phones in the room to connect to Paget’s tower. He then set it to spoof an AT&T tower to capture calls from customers of that carrier.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“As far as your cell phones are concerned, I am now indistinguishable from AT&T,” he said. “Every AT&T cell phone in the room will gradually start handing over to my network.”</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">During the demonstration, only about 30 phones were actually connecting to his tower. Paget says it can take time for phones to find the signal and hand off to the tower, but there are methods for speeding up that process.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Paget said he could also capture phones using 3G as well by sending out jamming noise to block 3G. Phones would then switch to 2G and hook up with his rogue tower. Paget had his jammer amplifier on stage but declined to turn it on saying that it would “probably knock out all Las Vegas cell phone systems.”</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">To address privacy concerns, he set up the system to deliver a recorded message to anyone who tried to make a call from the room while connected to his tower. The message disclosed that their calls were being recorded. All of the data Paget recorded was saved to a USB stick, which he destroyed after the talk.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Customers of carriers that use GSM can protect their calls from being intercepted in this manner by switching their phones to 3G mode if it’s an option.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Photo: Dave Bullock</em></div><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Read More <a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/intercepting-cell-phone-calls/#ixzz0vKzkfM6q" style="color: #003399; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/intercepting-cell-phone-calls/#ixzz0vKzkfM6q</a></span></span><br />
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</span>Animefaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04011439556416857958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144838136508436402.post-42941149883780036572010-07-31T14:13:00.000+05:302010-07-31T14:13:34.100+05:30Google Publicationssource:<a href="http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2010/07/google-publications.html">http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2010/07/google-publications.html</a><br />
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</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><span class="byline-author" style="color: #666666; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">We often get asked if Google scientists and engineers publish technical papers, and the answer is, “Most certainly, yes.” Indeed, we have a formidable research capability, and we encourage publications as well as other forms of technical dissemination--including our contributions to open source and standards and the introduction of new APIs and tools, which have proven to sometimes be foundational.<br />
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Needless to say, with our great commitment to technical excellence in computer science and related disciplines, we find it natural and rewarding to contribute to the scientific community and to ongoing technical debates. And we know that it is important for Google to help create the fundamental building blocks upon which continuing advances can occur.<br />
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To be specific, Googlers publish hundreds of technical papers that appear in journals, books, and conference and workshop proceedings every year. These deal with specific applications and engineering questions, algorithmic and data structure problems, and important theoretical problems in computer science, mathematics, and other areas, that can guide our algorithmic choices. While the publications are interesting in their own right, they also offer a glance at some of the key problems we face when dealing with very large data sets and demonstrate other questions that arise in our engineering design at Google.<br />
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We’d like to highlight a few of the more noteworthy papers from the first trimester of this year. The papers reflect the breadth and depth of the problems on which we work. We find that virtually all aspects of computer science, from systems and programming languages, to algorithms and theory, to security, data mining, and machine learning are relevant to our research landscape. A more complete list of our publications can be found <a href="http://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html">here</a>.<br />
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In the coming weeks we will be offering a more in-depth look at these publications, but here are some summaries:<br />
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<b>Speech Recognition</b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Google Search by Voice: A Case Study," by Johan Schalkwyk, Doug Beeferman, Francoise Beaufays, Bill Byrne, Ciprian Chelba, Mike Cohen, Maryam Garrett, Brian Strope, to appear in </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Advances in Speech Recognition: Mobile Environments, Call Centers, and Clinics</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, Amy Neustein (Ed.), Springer-Verlag 2010.</span><br />
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Google Search by Voice is a result of many years of investment in speech at Google. In our book chapter, “Google Search by Voice: A Case Study,” we describe the basic technology, the supporting technologies, and the user interface design behind Google Search by Voice. We describe how we built it and what lessons we have learned. Google search by voice is growing rapidly and being built in many languages. Along the way we constantly encounter new research problems providing the perfect atmosphere for doing research on real world problems.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Computer Architecture & Networks & Distributed Systems</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Energy-proportional Datacenter Networks," by Dennis Abts, Mike Marty, Philip Wells, Peter Klausler, Hong Liu, </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">International Symposium on Computer Architecture</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, ISCA, June 201</span>0.<br />
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Google researchers have called on industry and academia to develop energy-proportional computing systems, where the energy consumed is directly proportional to the utilization of the system. In this work, we focus on the energy usage of high-bandwidth, highly scalable cluster networks. Through a combination of an energy-efficient topology and dynamic fine-grained control of link speeds, our proposed techniques show the potential to significantly reduce both electricity and environmental costs.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Quasi-Proportional Mechanisms: Prior-free Revenue Maximization," by Vahab S. Mirrokni, S. Muthukrishnan, Uri Nadav, </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Latin American Theoretical Informatics Symposium</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, LATIN, April 2010.</span><br />
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Say a seller wishes to sell an item, but the buyers value it vastly differently. What is a suitable auction to sell the item, in terms of efficiency as well as revenue? First and second price auctions will be efficient but will only extract the lower value in equilibrium; if one knows the distributions from which values are drawn, then setting a reserve price will get optimal revenue but will not be efficient. This paper views this problem as prior-free auction and proposes a quasi-proportional allocation in which the probability that an item is allocated to a bidder depends (quasi-proportionally) on their bids. The paper also proves existence of an equilibrium for quasi-proportional auctions and shows how to compute them efficiently. Finally, the paper shows that these auctions have high efficiency and revenue.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Auctions with Intermediaries," Jon Feldman, Vahab Mirrokni, S. Muthukrishnan, Mallesh Pai, </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, EC, June 2010. </span><br />
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We study an auction where the bidders are middlemen, looking in turn to auction off the item if they win it. This setting arises naturally in online advertisement exchange systems, where the participants in the exchange are ad networks looking to sell ad impressions to their own advertisers. We present optimal strategies for both the bidders and the auctioneer in this setting. In particular, we show that the optimal strategy for bidders is to choose a randomized reserve price, and the optimal reserve price of the centeral auctioneer may depend on the number of bidders (unlike the case when there are no middlemen).<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Computer Vision</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Discontinuous Seam-Carving for Video Retargeting," Matthias Grundmann, Vivek Kwatra, Mei Han, Irfan Essa, </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, CVPR, June 2010.</span><br />
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Playing a video on devices with different form factors requires resizing (or <span style="font-style: italic;">retargeting</span>) the video to fit the resolution of the given device. We have developed a content-aware technique for video retargeting based on<span style="font-style: italic;">discontinuous seam-carving</span>, which unlike standard methods like uniform scaling and cropping, strives to retain salient content (such as actors, faces and structured objects) while discarding relatively unimportant pixels (such as the sky or a blurry background). The key innovations of our research include: (a) a solution that maintains temporal continuity of the video in addition to preserving its spatial structure, (b) space-time smoothing for automatic as well as interactive (user-guided) salient content selection, and (c) sequential frame-by-frame processing conducive for arbitrary length and streaming video.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Machine Learning</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Random classification noise defeats all convex potential boosters," Philip M. Long, Rocco A. Servedio, Machine Learning, vol. 78 (2010), pp. 287-304.</span><br />
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A popular approach that has been used to tackle many machine learning problems recently is to formulate them as optimization problems in which the goal is to minimize some “convex loss function.” This is an appealing formulation because these optimization problems can be solved in much the same way that a marble rolls to the bottom of a bowl. However, it turns out that there are drawbacks to this formulation. In "Random Classification Noise Defeats All Convex Potential Boosters," we show that any learning algorithm that works in this way can fail badly if there are noisy examples in the training data. This research motivates further study of other approaches to machine learning, for which there are algorithms that are provably more robust in the presence of noise.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Clustering Query Refinements by User Intent," Eldar Sadikov, Jayant Madhavan, Lu Wang, Alon Halevy,</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Proceedings of the International World Wide Web Conference</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, WWW, April 2010.</span><br />
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When users pose a search query, they usually have an underlying intent or information need, and the sequence of queries he or she poses in single search sessions is usually determined by the user's underlying intent. Our research demonstrates that there typically are only a small number of prominent underlying intents for a given user query. Further, these intents can be identified very accurately by an analysis of anonymized search query logs. Our results show that underlying intents almost always correspond to well-understood high-level concepts.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"How does search behavior change as search becomes more difficult?", Anne Aula, Rehan Khan, Zhiwei Guan, </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, CHI , April 2010.</span><br />
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Seeing that someone is getting frustrated with a difficult search task is easy for another person--just look for the frowns, and listen for the sighs. But could a computer tell that you're getting frustrated from just the limited behavior a search engine can observe? Our study suggests that it can: when getting frustrated, our data shows that users start to formulate question queries, they start to use advanced operators, and they spend a larger proportion of the time on the search results page. Used together, these signals can be used to build a model that can potentially detect user frustration.</span></span></div></div>Animefaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04011439556416857958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144838136508436402.post-24013346816431010562010-07-31T13:58:00.000+05:302010-07-31T13:58:56.620+05:30First Wikileaks, now Facebook. Is this the death of privacy?source:<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/7919103/First-Wikileaks-now-Facebook.-Is-this-the-death-of-privacy.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/7919103/First-Wikileaks-now-Facebook.-Is-this-the-death-of-privacy.html</a><br />
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</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #404040; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"><div class="firstPar"><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/7912527/Wikileaks-and-Afghanistan-why-the-blogospheres-obsession-with-leaks-is-life-threatening.html" style="color: #234b7b; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">wrote a few days ago</a> about an appalling misjudgment by Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, who released over 90,000 documents leaked to him relating to the war in Afghanistan. Well, it looks like another scandal is about to blow up. This time concerns personal privacy rather than national security – but the parallels are striking.</div></div><div class="secondPar"><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">On Wednesday, Ron Bowes, a Canadian security consultant, “harvested” the names, profile addresses, and unique ID numbers of 100 million Facebook users – a fifth of the network’s total user base. He collated the information in a single 2.8GB file and posted it on BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer file-sharing network. Like Assange's Afghanistan dossier, it was immediately accessible to anyone with an internet connection – including corporations. Check out <a href="http://m.gizmodo.com/5599970/" style="color: #234b7b; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">this list</a> of the firms who have downloaded the database so far.</div></div></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #404040; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;"><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">My name appears in Bowes' database. So does my mum’s. And so, probably, does yours, unless you're super-vigilant about your Facebook privacy settings. Because, though you might not be aware of it, chances are that certain elements of your Facebook profile are set to appear publicly.</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">It emerged on Wednesday afternoon that Bowes conducted this exercise to help him learn how to break passwords – very unsettling, I’m sure you’ll agree. But Bowes is not the villain in this piece, because his act of mischief – and we can’t call it more than that, because the information he collected was freely available to anyone who cared to search for it – was only possible because Facebook itself has repeatedly and shamelessly betrayed its users’ trust, instituting rollback after rollback of privacy settings. Finally, in May, Facebook listened to user complaints and simplified its privacy settings, requiring far less information to be public by default.</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Julian Assange and Mark Zuckerberg have a great deal in common. Both sit at the helm of powerful organisations that use technology to disseminate massive amounts of sensitive data. Both have clear, and, to my mind, very unsettling, ideologies that are starting to define social norms on the internet.</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Assange is an outspoken opponent of the war in Afghanistan, which surely informed his decision to send the Afghanistan dossiers directly to Left-wing, anti-war newspapers rather than simply publish them on the site as had previously been Wikileaks' method of disseminating information.</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">And Zuckerberg has repeatedly said that he wants Facebook users to learn to embrace openness. “We decided that these would be the social norms now,” he once said about the growing trend for sharing information online.</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Over the last year or so Facebook has repeatedly changed its privacy settings, on occasion changing users' previously private settings back to public and offering a bewilderingly complex array of settings. Even deleting one's account can be needlessly complicated. The update last May simplified things considerably but many users, including me, remain confused about what their privacy settings actually are. Given all the changes it would be fair for users to wonder how long it will be before the current settings are superseded and how the next set of rules will work.</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Well, I’m sorry, but it isn’t for Mr Zuckerberg to decide what I choose to do with my private information. I want controls: easy to understand, easy to use controls that respect my privacy decisions permanently. And it’s not good enough to tell me: “Oh, well, you made that stuff public,” when the shifting sands of Facebook's privacy settings make it impossibly difficult for me to understand or keep track of who can see my stuff and how.</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Remember, it isn’t just Facebook that uses Facebook’s data: advertisers are already able to “target” ad based on my age, location, gender and – distastefully – my sexual preferences. Now, you may not mind that and it's true that Facebook does not give advertisers access to identifiable data. You may even find targeted ads useful. But demographically targeted advertising is just the start. If we reach a point where pretty much all of Facebook’s data is available to be pulled via the Facebook API or “scraped” from search engine-friendly profiles, there will be no hiding from those who want to find out more about you.</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">And then there are the implications for people’s online reputations. In April, TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/28/reputation-is-dead-its-time-to-overlook-our-indiscretions/" style="color: #234b7b; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">declared online reputation dead</a>, in part thanks to the behaviour of social networks like Facebook that refuse to respect our wishes when it comes to privacy. “Twitter, Yelp, Facebook [...] are the new printing presses, and absolutely everyone, even the random wingnuts, have access,” wrote Arrington.</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">We have arrived at a point in the internet’s history where we have to decide whether we care about our privacy and security or not. This week, both ordinary domestic privacy and the lives of troops in Afghanistan have been threatened by a mixture of technological drift and ideology. If we capitulate to the Web 2.0 ideologues now, we can look forward to a future in which our personal information, our contact details and our private photos and other content are considered fair game for companies to mine for profit and for other internet users to abuse. We will also be welcoming an era in which the blogosphere, hungry for “the truth”, will regularly risk national security and the lives of our troops in their mischievous quest to get one over on the government.</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">We should draw a line in the sand now. Otherwise, we will be complicit in hastening this new vision for the internet: one in which every embarrassing photograph and every indiscreet remark (including ones we thought we’d made privately, among friends) – not to mention everything other people have said about us – become permanently and publicly available. And they'll be searchable, too.</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Tech blogs are already giving up. Just today, VentureBeat wrote that being private “increasingly means that you have to choose to drop out of society”. So don't look to the industry's thought leaders for inspiration. It's going to be up to us – the users of these services – to vote with our page impressions.</div></span></span></span></div>Animefaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04011439556416857958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144838136508436402.post-4531704360151242492010-07-27T15:25:00.000+05:302010-07-27T15:26:26.982+05:30ANIME NEWS: Lost masterpiece 'Anne of Green Gables' anime opens nationwidesource:<a href="http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201007250272.html">http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201007250272.html</a><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); line-height: 24px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Translated by The Asahi Shimbun from the website of Anime Anime Japan Ltd.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); line-height: 24px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">2010/07/26</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); line-height: 24px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(13, 13, 13); line-height: 24px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">The animation film "Anne of Green Gables" opened in Japan on July 17. It was re-edited in 1989 from the first six episodes of the 50-episode animated series "Akage no An" (Anne of Green Gables) that were broadcast in Japan in 1979.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">The re-editing was done by series director Isao Takahata. In addition, luminaries of Japanese animation, such as Hayao Miyazaki on screen layout, Yoshifumi Kondo as animation director and Masahiro Ioka as art director, also took part in making the series.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">This re-edited version, however, was not officially released at theaters when created in 1989. It has since been regarded as a "lost masterpiece." After more than 20 years, the film is making a comeback as part of the Ghibli Museum Library series.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">To commemorate its release, a special preview was held at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo on July 12. Canada's Prince Edward Island province was home to "Anne of Green Gables" author Lucy Maud Montgomery and also the setting for the novel. Moreover, Canada is noted for promoting animations, videogames and other creative industries.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">At the preview, director Takahata spoke to the audience, sharing stories behind the production and of his relationship with Canada. He recalled that when the plan to turn "Anne" into an animation came up, he wondered how it could be done, since his prior anime works, "Heidi a Girl of the Alps" and "Marco: From the Apennines to the Andes," were about young children, while "Anne of Green Gables" focuses on a teenage girl and had a lot of dialogue.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">He reminisced about the original novel and his visit to its location prior to producing the series. "Anne of Green Gables" appears to hold a special place in Takahata's heart and he cannot say enough about it.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">As this remarkable film adaptation attests, "Anne of Green Gables" is a classic novel that stands the test of time.</span></p></span></span></span></div>Animefaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04011439556416857958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144838136508436402.post-52700644601080352112010-07-27T15:24:00.000+05:302010-07-27T15:32:35.790+05:30ANIMAGE-DON: A somewhat biased review of 'Karigurashi no Arrietty'<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">source:</span></span><a href="http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201007230572.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201007230572.html</span></span></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(13, 13, 13); line-height: 24px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">By ATSUSHI OHARA THE ASAHI SHIMBUN</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(13, 13, 13); line-height: 24px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">2010/07/24</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(13, 13, 13); line-height: 24px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(13, 13, 13); line-height: 24px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 24px; font-size:16px;"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6; font-size:16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I went to see "Karigurashi no Arrietty," a new feature based on British novel "The Borrowers" and created by animation house Studio Ghibli Inc. that hit theaters nationwide on July 17. It is the directorial debut of animator Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 37. The project was originally conceived by Hayao Miyazaki, who also wrote the script.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6; font-size:16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The film tells the story of the love that develops between 14-year-old Arrietty, a tiny girl who lives underneath the floorboards of an old mansion, and a 12-year-old human boy named Sho, who moves into the house.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(216, 222, 221); border-right-color: rgb(216, 222, 221); border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 222, 221); border-left-color: rgb(216, 222, 221); display: block; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(242, 245, 245); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><img src="http://www.asahicom.jp/english/images/TKY201007230588.jpg" alt="photo" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; " /></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(c)2010 GNDHDDTW "Karigurashi no Arrietty"</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 24px; "></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">To tell the truth, when I first saw the trailer a while ago, I had a bad feeling about this film. Arrietty looked energetic, but Sho seemed to wear a bland, inanimate expression, as if his soul had been sucked out.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I thought, "Hmm, I hope it won't be like 'Tales from Earthsea.'"</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">But I needn't have worried. The director intended to make Sho look "inanimate." The human boy has been suffering from a heart disease for a long time and is gripped by a sense of powerlessness.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">At first, Sho is described in a way that makes the audience feel he is a cold automaton. But after he meets Arrietty, he gains the courage and joy to live.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The movie turned out to be just as cute a story as Arrietty, who is red-blooded and has an air of dignity. Thank goodness!</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The hidden home under the floorboards where Arrietty lives is filled with plants and flowers, as well as miniature furniture of all sorts and sizes. It is a fantasy of European country style.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In contrast, the outside world of the humans is a place of adventure, where a cupboard and table loom imposingly on the floor like sheer cliffs. Gigantic monsters (crows and cats) also pounce upon the tiny people.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The brilliance of Arrietty, who flits around the outside world as free as a bird, is the best part of the film.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">When she goes outside, Arrietty looks dignified with her long hair held up with a clothespin. And when she is at home, she looks sweet with her hair down.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Director Yonebayashi skillfully interweaves the changes in her appearance into the drama. It works best in the final scene. With the use of the clothespin (which I thought it was, but it might be a different size), as well as a "heart" as a symbol, the protagnists' love is expressed elaborately.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Their romance is reserved and simple, but gracious and straightforward, too. It is rich in suggestion, typical of Miyazaki's scripts.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">But I got a kick out of the ending especially because it pays homage to Miyazaki's 1995 anime film, "Whisper of the Heart," which I love. Miyazaki wrote its script and drew the storyboard. Master animator Yoshifumi Kondo, notable for the "Anne of Green Gables" TV series, directed the anime. I found a similarity in the combination of Miyazaki writing the script and an animator directing.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The cat that lives in the house with Sho looks just like Moon, the cat that plays cupid in "Whisper." Near the end of "Arrietty," when she and her family are about to move out of the house at night, the cat leads Sho to--wait, I won't reveal all.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I never imagined that the introduction of "Whisper" and its well-known ending could be intertwined in such a way and be brought back to life in a new form after 15 years.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Objectively speaking, I wouldn't be surprised if the audience feels the new anime is weak in dramatic development and a little too bland. But for those who love "Whisper," it is irresistible. My impression was that the 94-minute story is presented in a humble way without being too ambitious.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">According to the press kit, director Yonebayashi was motivated to join Ghibli when he saw "Whisper" because he "felt adolescence" in it. He dropped out of Kanazawa College of Art, the school that produced game designer Shigeru Miyamoto and animation director Mamoru Hosoda, in addition to painter Naohisa Inoue. I found this an interesting link because Inoue was in charge of background art for "Baron no Kureta Monogatari" (The story Baron gave me), a fantasy sequence within "Whisper."</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Before writing this review, I watched the DVD of "Whisper" late one night. Actually, after viewing it once, I played it again from the beginning because I wanted to indulge myself (I ended up going to bed after 3 a.m.).</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It brought back memories of when "Whisper" was released, when I was working at the company's Nagoya office. After finishing my shift for the evening paper, I raced to a movie theater next door to watch "Whisper" repeatedly for hours.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">So, I humbly ask you to note that my impressions of "Arrietty" can hardly be described as unbiased.</span></span></p></span></span><p></p></span></div>Animefaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04011439556416857958noreply@blogger.com0