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Contrary to reports claiming the jawan praying is a J-K cop, Lateef Ali, Station House Officer (SHO) of the Lar police station, confirmed that both the men are CRPF jawans from 118 battalion. The one who is praying is CRPF jawan Nazir Ahmed and the Hindu jawan is Sushil Kumar.
The photo was taken by Ali in Lar village,Ganderbal district of Central Kashmir, on Saturday, during the time of Zuhr prayers, at around 1.30pm.
Coming at a time when the Valley is reeling from the unrest that followed the death of Hizbul militant commander Burhan Wani, this image instantly touched a chord with social media users and went viral in no time.
Some saw it as a true reflection of secular India while others hailed the Indian soldiers for showing the “true meaning of brotherhood”.
They are our jawans. .na Hindu na Musalman. .Soilders doesn't hv ny religions. .
Weather conditions are still favorable for launching Felix Baumgartner's space jump try this morning (Oct. 9, 2012). ATA Aerospace along with meteorologist Don Day released a weather balloon this morning resembling a mini version of Felix’s balloon, which carries a radiosonde into the stratosphere to analyze weather conditions over Roswell, NM.
This story was updated at 10 a.m. EDT.
An Austrian daredevil's attempt to make the highest-ever skydive today (Oct. 9), a freefall expected to reach supersonic speed, has been delayed because of strong winds over New Mexico.
Felix Baumgartner is planning to leap from a balloon nearly 23 miles above Roswell, N.M., to break the world record for skydive altitude. The 55-story balloon was scheduled to launch as early as 6 a.m. MDT (8 a.m. EDT), but now mission planners say the takeoff won't be before 11 a.m. MDT (1 p.m. EDT). Baumgartner's balloon is enormous but fragile, requiring winds below 2 mph (3.2 kph) to launch safely.
When he does launch, if all goes according to plan, Baumgartner will plummet to Earth from an altitude of 120,000 feet (36,576 meters) this morning, becoming the first skydiver to break the sound barrier during his 5.5-minute freefall.
He should also notch a few other records in the process, including longest-duration freefall and highest manned balloon flight, say officials with his mission, which is called Red Bull Stratos.
Over the course of about three hours, the balloon will lift Baumgartner — riding in a custom-built 2,900-pound (1,315 kilograms) capsule — up to the desired altitude.
Clad in a special pressurized suit, Baumgartner will then step out into the void, enduring unprecedented speeds as he hurtles through the stratosphere in freefall. He should deploy his parachute at an altitude of about 5,000 feet (1,500 m), then float safely to the desert floor.
The daredevil is aiming to break a skydiving mark that has stood since U.S. Air Force Capt. Joe Kittinger leapt from 102,800 feet (31,333 m) back in 1960. Kittinger serves as an adviser to Baumgartner's mission.
Baumgartner's supersonic leap was originally scheduled for Monday (Oct. 8), but it was postponed because of weather concerns.
Baumgartner has been working up to Tuesday's leap in a stepwise fashion. He jumped from 71,581 feet (21,818 m) this past March and then dove from 97,146 feet (29,610 m) on July 25.
Red Bull Stratos officials have referred to today's attempt as a jump from the edge of space, but this is perhaps a bit of an exaggeration. Space is generally considered to begin at an altitude of 62 miles (100 kilometers), or about 327,000 feet (though the U.S. Air Force awards astronaut wings to pilots who fly above 50 miles, or 80.5 km).
Oh, and we’ll be sure to have a woman deliver the joke about Jennifer Aniston looking old, so that we can point out that it’s always women who are catty. Am I right, guys?
It’s so awesome what we can get away with if we pretend it’s all a joke. Gerard Butler physically tackling a woman 80 pounds smaller than him? Hilarious!
The Bounty Hunter opens in the U.S. and Canada on March 19, and the U.K. on April 16.
Media conglomerate Walt Disney (NYSE:DIS) and Univision Communications are reportedly exploring the idea of launching an English-language cable news channel before the presidential elections this fall.
According to The Wall Street Journal, talks between Ben Sherwood, president of Disney’s ABC News, and Univision Networks President Cesar Conde have been underway for more than half a year.
If a deal is consummated, it would pit ABC News directly into the battle for cable news eyeballs between FOX News, Time Warner’s (NYSE:TWX) CNN and Comcast’s (NASDAQ:CMCSA) MSNBC.
FOX News is owned by News Corp. (NASDAQ:NWSA), which is also the parent of the Journal and FOX Business. Last month News Corp. unveiled plans to launch in the fall MundoFox, a new U.S. television network it owns with Colombian broadcaster RCN Television.
For New York-based Univision, which is privately held, the joint venture would mark a departure from its network of Spanish-language TV stations.
But by teaming up with Disney, Univision may be able to use the media company’s coveted ESPN networks to help sell the new network to cable operators like Cablevision (NYSE:CVC) and Time Warner Cable (NYSE:TWC), the Journal reported.
It would also be a way for both companies to capture a piece of the growing U.S.-born Hispanic population that often speaks both English and Spanish.
ABC and Univision hope to have a Miami-headquartered venture up and running before the elections in November, the paper reported.
ABC News has previously mulled a deal with a cable news outlet, including financial-news network Bloomberg.
Shares of Disney, which is scheduled to report quarterly results after the closing bell, gained 0.1% to $40.50 Tuesday morning, compared with a 0.42% decline on the S&P 500.
A July 11 update for Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1 caused some Windows XP systems to crash repeatedly with a blue screen of death, Symantec said. The problem appeared to affect only Windows XP software, and only for Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition (SEP SBE) 12.1, Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) 12.1, and Symantec Endpoint Protection.cloud (SEP.cloud), wrote Michael Marfise, senior manager of Symantec Endpoint Protection within the enterprise security group, in an update blog post.
Businesses running Symantec's antivirus software may have seen the dreaded "blue screen of death" last week after a signature update went wrong this week.
Symantec's Norton antivirus, targeting consumers, was not affected, according to Symantec.
"On July 11th, 2012 Symantec Security Response started receiving reports of customers experiencing blue screens after applying the July 11th revision 18 definitions," Orla Cox, of Symantec Security Response, wrote in the initial statement.
The company issued a rollback of the signatures on Thursday.
"The root cause of the issue was an incompatibility due to a three-way interaction between some third-party software that implements a file system driver using stack based file objects," Marfise said.
Cleaning up the disabled machines was time-consuming for many irate customers. "For anyone still having the issue, the above solution will work, it just took us a couple of hours worth of lost time to resolve it," one customer ranted on Vox's post.
PSO Beheer BV, a Dutch company, told Reuters the update caused 150 computers to fail within the organization and employees had to be sent home while IT addressed the problem.
"This has cost us (and others as well obviously) massive amounts of time and money on IT support and employees not being able to work," Ron van den Broek, a technology manager with PSO Beheer BC, commented on the blog post.
Another customer wrote in another comment that Symantec needed to offer compensation "for the hours of lost worker production and the time and effort taken by IT staffs to rectify this huge error." A representative said the company is working on a compensation package for affected customers, according to the customer.
"I encourage everyone to ask to be compensated for the time and effort it took all of us (to) fix Symantec's software," the poster wrote.
There are no details available at this time about any kind of compensation package.
"My first impression is Symantec is downplaying the effects of this issue, van den Broek told Reuters.
Affected Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) 12.1 or Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition 12.1 customers should refer to this knowledge base article, Marfise wrote. Symantec Endpoint Protection.cloud customers should contact Symantec.cloud technical support.
The U.S. technology industry is one of the most dynamic in the world, particularly with respect to mobile and Internet-based computing, two areas that are evolving at breakneck speed. Things can happen very quickly in the tech space: one day you’re up, the next day you’re down. Take Apple and Google, two tech titans currently battling for dominance in the mobile-Internet wars. Over the past several months, Google shares have increased by nearly 20% — last week topping $800 — while Apple shares have fallen by more than 30%.
Much of the movement happened in the past few months of 2012, as large investors, including hedge funds, pulled money out of Apple and, in some cases, poured it into Google, in order to maintain exposure to the large-capitalization technology sector, according to Colin Gillis, senior technology analyst and director of research at BGC Financial.
The Apple sell-off is being driven in part by growing concerns about whether products like the iPhone and the iPad — devices that Apple is only incrementally improving — can continue to power revenue and profit growth, or whether Apple needs new, breakthrough products. After all, during his legendary career, Apple’s late co-founder Steve Jobs radically disrupted several markets with iconic products like the iPod and iTunes, and the iPhone and iPad, which set the standard for tech innovation. Current Apple CEO Tim Cook has yet to introduce a truly breakthrough new product of his own.
It doesn’t help that Apple has experienced several quarters of slowing growth, which has further spooked investors. Last quarter, Apple generated profit of $13.1 billion, but that was flat compared with the year-ago period — the company’s lowest rate of profit growth in a decade. Google, by contrast, continues to report solid growth thanks to its dominant search engine and online advertising business. Last quarter, net income increased 13% on revenue of $14.42 billion, a 36% increase over one year ago. Google has now jumped ahead of Apple as the most widely held long technology hedge-fund position, according to Goldman Sachs’ new Hedge Fund Trend Monitor report, which analyzed 725 hedge funds with $1.3 trillion in gross assets.
As for Apple, it’s telling that Cook has been on something of a p.r. tour in recent months, appearing on the cover of Bloomberg BusinessWeek and showing up for a rare on-camera interview with Brian Williams of NBC News. In an apparent attempt to burnish the company’s image, Cook recently announced plans to spend at least $100 million to “do one of our existing Mac lines in the Unites States.” (To put that into perspective, Apple made over $50 billion in profit over the past 12 months.) And earlier this month, Cook sat with First Lady Michelle Obama during President Obama’s State of the Union address.
But Cook is going to need more than high-profile appearances if he wants to restore Apple’s mojo. Incremental updates to existing product lines are well and good, but investors — and consumers — are looking for the company to unveil truly disruptive new products, as it did with the iPod, iPhone and iPad. There has been chatter that Apple might introduce a new TV product, or perhaps a “smart watch,” but thus far those are merely rumors. It’s time for Apple’s next revolutionary product to become a reality.
COLDPLAY, Lady Gaga and Muse are also nominated for the best band accolade at next month's Q Awards.
REUNITED acts Blur and The Stone Roses are to battle it out for the title of best band in the world at this year's Q Awards.
The groups line up against Coldplay, Lady Gaga and Muse for the accolade when the event takes place next month.
Blur and the Roses - who both reformed for eagerly anticipated summer shows - are both shortlisted for two titles, along with Noel Gallagher and Florence + The Machine's Florence Welch.
The best live act prize will be fought for by The Cribs, Radiohead and Bruce Springsteen, with Blur and Stone Roses again going head-to-head in that category.
Up for best album are El Camino by The Black Keys, Standing At The Sky's Edge by Richard Hawley, Given To The Wild by The Maccabees, Sonik Kicks by Paul Weller and Bobby Womack's The Bravest Man In The Universe.
Winners will be announced at a ceremony on October 2, hosted by comic Al Murray.
Q editor Andrew Harrison said: "It's been the most incredible year for British music.
"Our bands and our anthems transformed the Olympics into the greatest music event on Earth. And amazing comeback shows from Blur and the Stone Roses showed the enduring appeal of our greatest musicians.
"All the nominees for this year's Q Awards helped make 2012 an absolutely unforgettable year."
A number of honorary awards will also be presented on the day.
Arctic Monkeys - R U Mine?
Former Vice President Walter Mondale was a longtime friend of the late Sen. George McGovern, who died at age 90 Sunday in Sioux Falls and will be buried there Friday.
The two were colleagues, serving as Midwestern senators, and both shared the experience of lopside losses in presidential elections, McGovern in 1972 and Mondale in 1984.
McGovern reportedly asked Mondale to run as his vice president in 1972, but Mondale declined.
In 1984, McGovern made a comeback try with another presidential bid but the Democratic nomination went to Mondale.
A public viewing is planned Thursday at First United Methodist Church in Sioux Falls. The funeral is scheduled for 1 p.m. Friday at Mary Sommervold Hall at the Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science in Sioux Falls. He’ll be buried later at Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
ASBURY PARK, NJ – Nineteen professional artists from The Fine Art Collective, a nationwide arts education program sponsored by fine art material brands Winsor & Newton, Liquitex and Conté à Paris, as well as hundreds of art enthusiasts, will converge at The Collective Art Tank in Asbury Park at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, June 7 for the third-annual Day of Demos event.
Previously a sold-out success, the full-day art extravaganza will offer attendees complimentary art product demonstrations focused on water-based mediums and free raffles throughout the day. Spotlighting the mobility of the Day of Demos’ pop-up art demonstrations, the Sketchbook Project, a Brooklyn-based crowd-sourced library of more than 30,900 artists’ sketchbooks, will be onsite to field inquiries from attendees regarding its project and present opportunities to become involved. Second Life Bikes, an Asbury Park-based nonprofit organization that offers a bicycle-earning program to youth, will donate a bicycle to be decorated on-site by the day’s participants; DJ Foggy Notion will spin music.
“The Day of Demos showcases the power that art has to bring a community together. With a simple paintbrush and a piece of paper, an artist can incite change anywhere in the world. Through the generous support of Winsor & Newton, Liquitex and Conté à Paris, the artists of The Fine Art Collective will prove the simplicity of this concept while demonstrating techniques and products that are vital to an artist’s advancement,” commented Jimmy Leslie, resident artist at Liquitex and director of The Fine Art Collective.
Hailing from destinations throughout North America, the professional artists of the Fine Art Collective will offer attendees tips and techniques for using signature as well as yet-to-be released art supplies from Winsor & Newton, Liquitex and Conté à Paris. Specifically, products to be used during the day include, but are not limited to: Winsor & Newton’s limited edition Desert Collection Watercolors, currently available in retail stores; Winsor & Newton’s Watercolor Sticks and Markers, to be released for retail on July 1, 2014; all viscosities of Liquitex colors including soft body, heavy body, inks, sprays and markers as well as fluid, gel and texture mediums. The first 200 registrants for the Day of Demos will receive a complimentary swag bag of products compliments of the three sister-brand companies.
To learn more about the Day of Demos, please visit www.CollectiveArtTank.com or call 732-927-1317.
Points and lines are the theme this week.
Define a link as a straight line connecting any two points of the six points in the figure below.
How many links can be placed without forming a triangle having three of the points as vertices?
Place seven points at different positions on the same plane so that for any three chosen, at least two will be exactly one foot apart.
The time in Time of Day is 8:24 a.m. See MoMath's page for the solution to The Missing Element.
Norway’s proposed purchase of five Boeing P-8 maritime surveillance aircraft has been approved by the U.S. State Department.
The deal is valued at more than $1.7 billion. Congress still needs to give the okay but that is expected without any issues.
Norway currently operates a fleet of six P-3 aircraft.
The Government of Norway has requested a possible sale of up to five (5) P-8A Patrol Aircraft, each includes: Commercial Engines, Tactical Open Mission Software (TOMS), Electro-Optical (EO) and Infrared (IO) MX-20HD, AN/AAQ-2(V)1 Acoustic System, AN/APY-10 Radar, ALQ-240 Electronic Support Measures. Also included are eleven (11) Multifunctional Distribution System Joint Tactical Radio Systems (MIDS JTRS); eight (8) Guardian Laser Transmitter Assemblies (GLTA) for the AN/AAQ-24(V)N; eight (8) System Processors for AN/AAQ-24(V)N; forty-two (42) AN/AAR- 54 Missile Warning Sensors for the AN/AAQ-24(V)N; fourteen (14) LN-251 with Embedded Global Positioning Systems (GPS)/Inertial Navigation Systems (EGIs); and two thousand (2,000) AN/SSQ-125 Multi-Static Active Coherent (MAC) Source Sonobouys; spares; spare engine; support equipment; operational support systems; training; maintenance trainer/classrooms; publications; software; engineering and logistics technical assistance; Foreign Liaison Officer support; contractor engineering technical services; repair and return; transportation; aircraft ferry; and other associated training and support. The total estimated program cost is $1.75 billion.
The prime contractor involved in this sale is The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA. Additional contractors include: Air Cruisers Co, LLC; Arnprior Aerospace, Canada; AVOX Zodiac Aerospace; BAE; Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC)/EMS; Compass David Clark; DLS/ViaSat, Carlsbad, CA; DRS; Exelis, McLean, VA; GC Micro, Petaluma, CA; General Electric, UK; Harris; Joint Electronics; Martin Baker; Northrop Grumman Corp, Falls Church, VA; Pole Zero, Cincinnati, OH; Raytheon, Waltham, MA; Raytheon, UK; Rockwell Collins, Cedar Rapids, IA; Spirit Aero, Wichita, KS; Symmetries Telephonies, Farmingdale, NY; Terma, Arlington, VA; Viking; and WESCAM. Norway does require an offset agreement. Any offset agreement will be defined in negotiations between the purchaser and the prime contractor.
Fort McMurray Alberta wildfire forces major evacuation.
Wildfire Rips Through Canadian City, Forcing 80,000 to Flee. This Is Climate Change.
The whole city of Fort McMurray, Alberta, the gateway to Canada’s oil sands region, is under a mandatory evacuation order because of an uncontrolled wildfire that is rapidly spreading, local authorities said on Tuesday.
Amid record warm temperatures and an astoundingly dry winter, parts of northern Canada are on fire.
It only took a few hours on Tuesday for a wildfire on the outskirts of Fort McMurray—a frontier town in the heart of Alberta’s oil country and the largest city in northern Canada—to explode out of control, forcing the largest mandatory evacuation from a fire in provincial history. More than 80,000 people left their homes according to official estimates. In a worst-case scenario, a large portion of the city could burn, officials said on Wednesday.
Fighting back tears, Fort McMurray fire chief Darby Allen told the CBC, “I would say it’s been the worst day of my career. The people here are devastated. … We’ve had a devastating day. Fort McMurray has been overrun by wildfire.” Fire officials say it may already rank as one of the most destructive disasters in Canadian history.
Extreme fire behavior on Tuesday was blamed on a sudden wind shift, which helped the fire jump a river and double in size in a few hours time, making it uncontainable, entering the city, which is highly unusual. On Wednesday, officials said the fire had grown overnight, to cover about 25,000 acres (10,000 hectares)—more than five times its size Tuesday morning.
Amazingly, as of Wednesday morning, there have been no serious injuries or deaths yet reported, and all fires within the city itself have been extinguished for now—though at great cost to some neighborhoods. The city is not in the clear yet, though, as fire conditions will again be extreme on Wednesday—with gusty winds, high temperatures, and low humidity. In a Tuesday evening press conference, officials warned that the worst of the fire was not yet over, so uncertainty still hangs over the city.
One thing that is certain is that this fire has a clear link to climate change. Canada’s northern forests have been burning more frequently over recent decades as temperatures there are rising at twice the rate of the global average. A 2013 analysis showed that the boreal forests of Alaska and northern Canada are now burning at a rate unseen in at least the past 10,000 years. The extreme weather of recent months is also closely linked with the ongoing record-setting El Niño conditions in the Pacific Ocean, which tends to bring a warmer and drier winter to this part of Canada. Last month, Canadian officials mentioned the possibility of “large fires” after over-winter snowpack was 60 to 85 percent below normal and drought conditions worsened.
This week, a strong atmospheric blocking pattern—a semi-stable extreme arrangement of the jet stream—reinforced an unseasonable heat wave and helped temperatures reach 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32.2 degrees Celsius) on Tuesday in Fort McMurray, 40 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, eight degrees above the daily record high, 15 degrees warmer than Houston, and the same temperature as Miami. While fleeing, some evacuees had to turn on their air conditioners.
The evacuation of Fort McMurray was complicated by the fact that the fire itself crossed the only highway running through the city, forcing many people northward toward the oil industry camps that form much of the region’s economic base.
I spoke with one Fort McMurray couple in their car a few minutes after they left their house. They were driving north, away from the city, and were planning to stay in one of the oil industry camps serving as evacuation centers. Sirens were blaring in the background as we spoke.
Claude Thomson worried that the legal profession was becoming tarnished. Courts were slow, expensive and inefficient, he lamented, and true justice often eluded victims of violent crime and calamity. Legal Aid was a mess. Word games by counsel cross-examining less educated witnesses often didn't work and generated sympathy for the other side.
He challenged members of the bar to take positive steps to help the public understand the complexity of legal issues and, referencing the movie Jurassic Park, "not just cheer when the dinosaur eats the lawyer."
A former president of the Canadian Bar Association and the International Bar Association, Thomson, who died in Toronto on Nov. 24 of cancer at the age of 77, knew the value of PR. In the mid-1980s, he represented nurse Phyllis Trayner before the Grange Royal Commission into mysterious baby deaths at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, and he veered sharply from his customary deferential demeanour.
Upset that Trayner's testimony was being televised via closed circuit across the country (and repeated over and over), he lashed out. "You have no right," Thomson scolded Mr. Justice Samuel Grange, "to put her on trial before the public."
He went on the offensive, appearing on CBC Radio's Cross Country Checkup for two hours to work up some "public sympathy" for his client and urge listeners to keep an open mind. "Whether I was successful," Thomson said after the program, "is anybody's guess." Perhaps, but Trayner was not charged with a crime.
Remembered as an intense, formidable courtroom tactician, Thomson had his share of high-profile cases. He prosecuted Canada's largest newspaper chains, Southam Inc. and Thomson Newspaper Inc., charged with conspiracy to squelch competition after the simultaneous closings of the Ottawa Journal and the Winnipeg Tribune. It was probably the biggest case he lost.