Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Small plane crash kills two in Texas

Global Times Monday 12th August, 2013

A small plane crashed in rural Ellis County in the US state of Texas Sunday with two pilots killed aboard, local media reported.The crash happened around 10:30 am (1630 GMT), local TV ABC13 reported. The site is near Bardwell, about 55 km south of Dallas, Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Lonny Haschel said in the report.Haschel said witnesses saw the single-engine Beechcraft level off as if to make an emergency landing but appeared to stall and then crashed into a tree. The plane caught fire immediately and two pilots aboard were killed at the scene.The victims' names were not relea...

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Adding Intelligence to the IntelliSense for Windows Azure Mobile Services

Some of the members of the Visual Studio Windows Azure Tools & Mobile Services teams recently published instructions for ?Enabling IntelliSense for Mobile Services JavaScript in Visual Studio.?? Since working with the Windows Azure Mobile Services (WAMS) server-side JavaScript files can be a little bit of a blind experience ? debugging happens primarily through strategic placement of console.log statements and frequent examination of the Mobile Services server script reference on MSDN ? even the littlest help goes a long way?though I am NOT saying that his IntelliSense support only offers ?the littlest help.?

To get started, the JavaScript IntelliSense definition file can be downloaded from this link.? Additionally, there?s a ReadMe document that provides some supporting information available at this link.? The ReadMe file points out that the IntelliSense definition ? in its current incarnation ? is somewhat limited in its coverage (hey, it?s a start!)

The original article references two mechanisms for actually directing Visual Studio to make use of the reference file: adding an explicit reference to the precise path of the definition file on the local file system, and adding a reference to the definition file through the Tools/Options/Text Editor/JavaScript/IntelliSense/References panel in Visual Studio (under ?Implicit (Web)?.)? Pros and cons of each approach were outlined, including:

  • Providing the path to the file within the script files themselves is a bit more work, since every script file needs to be modified;
  • Adding the Visual Studio reference results in a ?pollution? of the JavaScript IntelliSense since Visual Studio doesn?t discriminate as to whether or not you?re working on Mobile Services scripts in order to choose what definition files to consult.

Now that the stage is set, I?d like to offer some tips for how to extract a little bit more from these IntelliSense files.

There?s a small alteration that can be made to the list above to enable referencing the definition file.? My concern with the presentation of the approaches listed above is that they require the definition file to be in the same path location on every machine that is used to edit the JavaScript contents.? In my experience, this is a pain in the neck to achieve ? even simply spanning my own development machines.? However, the JavaScript IntelliSense tooling does support relative paths.? With that in mind, I?d suggest putting the IntelliSense file into the WAMS script Shared directory and uploading it through Git (for more information on using the Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Git to manage WAMS script files, see my previous article here), then adding relative references to ?../shared/mobileservices.intellisense.js? either in the script files or in the Visual Studio settings dialog.

The screenshots below show this in use through the Visual Studio settings:

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(* a note about working with the Visual Studio settings ? if you?ve added your file path using absolute or relative paths and find that IntelliSense still is not coming up, it may be due to inserting the definition file reference in the wrong ?Reference Group?, such as Implicit (Windows) ? I call this out because it bit me MULTIPLE times.? Reference Groups are discussed in the MSDN documentation here.)

Note that since the file path is relative, when opening/working on JavaScript files in an HTML Web project, unless there?s a matching ?mobileservices.intellisense.js? file within a folder titled ?shared? relative to the file being worked on in that project, the WAMS IntelliSense won?t be included.

Likewise, including the relative file at the beginning of the WAMS JavaScript file itself has the same results:

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While the upside to this approach is that other developers/other development machines acquire the IntelliSense simply by synchronizing the client and server repositories, there is a downside to this approach.? Interacting with scripts opened through the Windows Azure Mobile Services node in the Server Explorer will not include IntelliSense.? When these files are opened in Visual Studio, they are downloaded and opened from a temporary location on the local file system, so the Shared files are not placed in the location specified by the relative path.? I?m OK with this, as I?ve grown to prefer to use the source-control managed file editing and retrieval, and the Server Explorer doesn?t yet provide access to API Scripts or Shared Script content (though I have no doubt that it will soon?but I still like the ?safety net? offered by working through Source control and the ease with which I can by using the integrated Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Git.)

One of the problems with the IntelliSense solution is that there?s no information providing Visual Studio with insight as to how to handle the parameters in the script signatures.? The good news is that is not hard to do, and since these objects are frequently referenced within the WAMS scripts, being able to allow them to join in the ?IntelliSense party? provides a lot of help.

Having Visual Studio include IntelliSense for these parameters is simply a matter of adding a JavaScript XML Documentation Comment for the method signature.? The IntelliSense comments for each of the table script methods follow. (Custom API scripts will be discussed in a second.)

Read:

function read(query, user, request) { /// <param name="query" type="Query"></param> /// <param name="user" type="User"></param> /// <param name="request" type="Request"></param>

Insert (Update uses the same XML comments):

function insert(item, user, request) { /// <param name="item" type="Object"></param> /// <param name="user" type="User"></param> /// <param name="request" type="Request"></param>

Delete:

function del(id, user, request) { /// <param name="id" type="Number"></param> /// <param name="user" type="User"></param> /// <param name="request" type="Request"></param>

With the comments in place that describe the types of the incoming parameters, the server-side scripts now get IntelliSense within Visual Studio:

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The emphasis of this first JavaScript IntelliSense definition file was to provide support for Table operation scripts.? However, with a little help, Custom API scripts can also join in the fun.

Custom API scripts receive two parameters ? request and response.? However, it is important to note that the request object used in Custom API scripts is not the same request object that is used in the table scripts?in fact, this object provides access to several objects that are directly used as parameters in the Table operation scripts.? This distinction is covered in the MSDN documentation for the request object.

Because I now maintain and reference a copy of the mobileservices.intellisense.js file within my source-control-managed ?shared? folder, I can augment and/or make changes to the file with some confidence?when an update to the IntelliSense file is published, I can simply drop the file into place, and before committing and synchronizing the changes I can use a differencing tool to see what has changed.? Ideally, I will notice if the new file is about to lay-waste to the changes I?ve put in?so let?s change the definition file.

I?ve basically added some content to the definition file to provide information about the request object for Custom APIs.? The IntelliSense content I? have added comes from a combination of the MSDN documentation and the Express.js library documentation, which is where these request and response objects originated.? My content is not comprehensive ? I?ve only documented the items that were immediately relevant to me, but there?s nothing to stop others from adding more content ? the Express.js documentation for the request object can be found here and the documentation for the response object can be found here.

The content I added to the mobileservices.intellisense.js file is:

/* Custom API Augmentations */ service = { ///<field name="push" type="push">Returns an object used to access the the various push notification proxies.</field> push: push, ///<field name="tables" type="tables">Returns an object used to access the the tables in this instance.</field> tables: tables, ///<field name="mssql" type="mssql">Returns an object used to access the mssql instance.</field> mssql: mssql, } ApiRequest = function ApiRequest() { ///<summary>Faux type used only for providing IntelliSense in Custom API scripts. DO NOT CREATE INSTANCES.</summary> } ApiRequest.prototype = { ///<field name="headers" type="Object">Returns a collection of all the message headers, as a JSON object. Individual headers are obtained by calling the header function.</field> headers: headers, ///<field name="query" type="Object">Used to access the parsed query-string.</field> query: query, ///<field name="service" type="service">Provides access to mobile service-specific resources.</field> service: service, ///<field name="user" type="User">Returns the user object which contains information about the client sending the request.</field> user: user, header: function (headerValue) { /// <summary>Returns a JSON representation of the named header-value from the HTTP request headers sent in a custom API request.</summary> /// <param name="headerValue" type="string">The name of the header to locate.</param> } } ApiResponse = function ApiResponse() { ///<summary>Faux type used only for providing IntelliSense in Custom API scripts. DO NOT CREATE INSTANCES.</summary> } ApiResponse.prototype = { send: function (status, body) { ///<signature> ///<summary>Sends a response.</summary> ///<param name="body" type="Buffer">When a Buffer is given the Content-Type is set to 'application/octet-stream' unless previously defined with the set command.</param> ///</signature> ///<signature> ///<summary>Sends a response.</summary> ///<param name="body" type="String">When a String is given the Content-Type is set defaulted to 'text/html'.</param> ///</signature> ///<signature> ///<summary>Sends a response.</summary> ///<param name="body" type="Array">When an Array or Object is given the response will include the JSON representation.</param> ///</signature> ///<signature> ///<summary>Sends a response.</summary> ///<param name="body" type="Object">When an Array or Object is given the response will include the JSON representation.</param> ///</signature> ///<signature> ///<summary>Sends a response.</summary> ///<param name="status" type="Number">The HTTP response code. When a Number is given without any of the previously mentioned bodies, then a response body string is assigned for you. For example 200 will respond will the text 'OK', and 404 'Not Found' and so on.</param> ///</signature> ///<signature> ///<summary>Sends a response.</summary> ///<param name="status" type="Number">The HTTP response code.</param> ///<param name="body">A body element as defined in the other signatures.</param> ///</signature> }, set: function (field, value) { ///<signature> ///<summary>Set header field to value, or pass an object to set multiple fields at once.</summary> ///<param name="field" type="String">The header field name.</param> ///<param name="value" type="String">The value to set for the header field.</param> ///</signature> ///<signature> ///<summary>Set header field to value, or pass an object to set multiple fields at once.</summary> ///<param name="values" type="Object">A JSON Object consisting of header field/value pairs.</param> ///</signature> } }

With that in place, it is still necessary to include some ?helper? XML comments in order for Visual Studio to ?connect the dots? between the Custom API function signature and the new IntelliSense:

exports.post = function (request, response) { /// <param name="request" type="ApiRequest"></param> /// <param name="response" type="ApiResponse"></param>

And with that, we now have IntelliSense in our Custom API script:

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I have it on good authority that the Mobile Services team is continuing to work on ways to enhance the script editing experience, so it is likely that some of these steps will only be temporary.? But in the interim, the inclusion of these IntelliSense aids should make editing WAMS script files in Visual Studio considerably simpler.

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Egypt postpones dispersing pro-Morsi protest camps

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Egypt postpones dispersing pro-Morsi protest camps
By MAGGIE MICHAELBy MAGGIE MICHAEL, Associated Press?THE ASSOCIATED PRESS STATEMENT OF NEWS VALUES AND PRINCIPLES?

A newly-wed Egyptian couple show up on a stage to announce their marriage before hundreds of supporters for Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi at the sit-in at Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, which is fortified with multiple walls of bricks, tires, metal barricades and sandbags, and where protesters have installed their camp in Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013. Egyptian security forces will besiege two sit-ins by supporters of the country's ousted president within 24 hours, police officials said Sunday, setting up a possible confrontation between the military-backed government and the thousands gathered there. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

A newly-wed Egyptian couple show up on a stage to announce their marriage before hundreds of supporters for Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi at the sit-in at Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, which is fortified with multiple walls of bricks, tires, metal barricades and sandbags, and where protesters have installed their camp in Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013. Egyptian security forces will besiege two sit-ins by supporters of the country's ousted president within 24 hours, police officials said Sunday, setting up a possible confrontation between the military-backed government and the thousands gathered there. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

A supporter of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi kisses the ground where a fellow was shot to death near the sit-in at Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, which is fortified with multiple walls of bricks, tires, metal barricades and sandbags, and where protesters have installed their camp in Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013.. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

An Egyptian girl waves a national flag while supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans against the Egyptian Army at the sit-in at Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, which is fortified with multiple walls of bricks, tires, metal barricades and sandbags, and where protesters have installed their camp in Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013. Egyptian security forces will besiege two sit-ins by supporters of the country's ousted president within 24 hours, police officials said Sunday, setting up a possible confrontation between the military-backed government and the thousands gathered there. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi stamp money with anti-coup slogans at the sit-in at Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, which is fortified with multiple walls of bricks, tires, metal barricades and sandbags, and where protesters have installed their camp in Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013. Egyptian security forces will besiege two sit-ins by supporters of the country's ousted president within 24 hours, police officials said Sunday, setting up a possible confrontation between the military-backed government and the thousands gathered there. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

A supporter of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi stands in front of her tent in the sit-in at Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, which is fortified with multiple walls of bricks, tires, metal barricades and sandbags, and where protesters have installed their camp in Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013. Egyptian security forces will besiege two sit-ins by supporters of the country's ousted president within 24 hours, police officials said Sunday, setting up a possible confrontation between the military-backed government and the thousands gathered there. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

(AP) ? An Egyptian security official says authorities have postponed a move to disperse two sit-ins by supporters of the country's ousted president to "avoid bloodshed."

The official says the decision to postpone an advance against the protest camps by Muslim Brotherhood supporters came after a plan on ending the sit-ins was leaked to the media.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to reporters.

The security forces had planned to form cordons around the Cairo protest sites as early as dawn Monday, according to officials who spoke earlier to The Associated Press.

A move by the police would have set the stage for clashes with thousands gathered at the two Cairo sit-ins in support of ex-President Mohammed Morsi, ousted in a July 3 coup.

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Monday, August 12, 2013

Skype update for iPad and iPhone brings HD video support

Skype update for iPad and iPhone brings HD video support

iPhone and iPad owners will be happy to learn that there was a Skype update today which finally brings support for 720p HD video calls. Note that HD video calls are only supported on the fourth-gen iPad and the iPhone 5.

The full changelog reads:

- Call quality improvements.

- Make HD quality video calls from your iPad 4.

- General improvements to call quality and stability. General fixes and improvements.

- A redesigned country code picker on the dial pad.


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The President and U.S. Chamber Agree: Africa Is Open For Business

President Obama has recently renewed the administration?s interest in Africa?s economic state-craft and necessary infrastructure development, a point which he drove home during an official visit to Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania. While in Africa, Obama commented that ?[he sees] Africa as the next major economic success story.?

Luckily, the business community thinks so too, and is already writing the first chapters of that story. U.S. private sector engagement with Africa has tripled in value over the past decade.

Here?s why:

  • Sub-Saharan Africa is home to 7 of the top 10 most rapidly expanding markets.
  • African economic growth rates have been 5-6% per year since 2000.
  • The continent?s trade value with the U.S. has tripled to $23 billion over the past decade supporting over 100, 000 U.S. jobs.
  • As the second most populated continent, Africa?s middle class has nearly tripled since 1980 to 350 million consumers.

In fact, the opportunities in trade are so great that President Obama recently announced two major initiatives: Power Africa, which will bring African nations more than 10,000 megawatts of cleaner, more efficient electricity generation capacity; and Trade Africa, an initiative focusing on the East African Community, increasing trade and economic ties between Africa as well, the United States, and other global markets.

We have witnessed the benefits that U.S. companies bring into Africa as well as the positive effects of increased trade. Companies such as Black & Veatch, General Electric, EMD, and ExxonMobil have undertaken major infrastructure development within the continent, investing in the future of its democratic institutions, youth, and the overall relationship between the U.S. and Africa.

What was once an aid-driven strategy by the public sector has now turned into a private sector campaign accounting for 80% of the resources flowing into Africa. Private-sector partners have not only matched the Power Africa fund of $7 billion in infrastructure development but have pledged a commitment to develop more than $9 billion in energy capacity for sub-Saharan Africa.?

There are other chapters ready to be written in the Africa success story, which is why the U.S. Chamber?s Africa Business Initiative recently hosted the ?Doing Business in Africa,? forum. The event provided private sector representatives a platform to tell stories of American investment on the continent that is not heard often enough. Such success stories included:

  • General Electric?s investment of over $1 billion in industries of power, oil, gas, transportation, aviation, and health care. Through such infrastructure development, General Electric has branded its image across Africa as a monumental partnering organization.
  • Procter & Gamble has agreed to investment about $170 million to build a multi-category manufacturing plant in South Africa.? The new plant will be one of the largest P&G facilities in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and will bring over 500 U.S. and African jobs through increased exports throughout the region.
  • Black & Veatch has been contracted to supervise Project Bravo, a 4,800-MW supercritical coal-fired generation facility 120 miles east of Johannesburg.? The facility will be one of the largest of its kind bringing an efficient and reliable energy supply to millions of Africans.
  • Electro-Motive Diesel has over 1,200 active locomotives in sub-Saharan Africa. EMD recently created a joint venture, Electro-Motive Diesel Africa, providing services and solutions to rail customers in South African and neighboring countries.
  • Exxon Mobil is one of the largest foreign investors in Africa. Over the last five years, it has committed more than $24 billion to energy exploration and development with major operations in Nigeria, Angola, Chad, Cameroon, and South Africa.

With the administration pledging to support the American private sector, it is time for companies to act on the opportunities on the African continent. The renewed partnership between the public and private sector will continue to create policies promoting trade and securing investment for both regions. Expanding our economic ties with Africa will not only bring the necessary infrastructure development to African countries but will also enhance the American economy through job creation and export growth.

Source: http://www.freeenterprise.com/international/president-and-us-chamber-agree-africa-open-business

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BlackBerry weighs putting itself up for sale

(AP) ? Struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry will consider selling itself.

The company said Monday that its board has formed a special committee to explore "strategic alternatives" in hopes of boosting the adoption of its BlackBerry 10 smartphone.

The company said its options could also include joint ventures, partnerships, or other moves.

The Canadian company's stock jumped 5.7 percent to $10.32 Monday morning.

BlackBerry Ltd. has been hammered by increased competition from its Apple and Android-based rivals. In January, BlackBerry unveiled new phones running a revamped operating system called BlackBerry 10 designed to better compete, but its market share continues to lag.

BlackBerry also announced Monday that board member Prem Watsa, the company's largest investor, resigned from the board "due to potential conflicts that may arise during the process."

Watsa has said that he's a "big supporter" of current CEO Thorsten Heins, and he would be an obvious bidder for BlackBerry. He has said that he believes BlackBerry can turn itself around, but that it might take three to five years. He's the founder of insurance company Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. and is one of Canada's best-known investors.

The BlackBerry, pioneered in 1999, had been the dominant smartphone for on-the-go business people and other consumers before the iPhone debuted in 2007 and showed that phones can handle much more than email and phone calls.

The company faced numerous delays modernizing its operating system with the BlackBerry 10. During that time, it had to cut more than 5,000 jobs, and shareholder wealth declined by more than $70 billion.

Monday's announcement marks the second time Blackberry has said it has hired bankers to help weigh its options since Heins became CEO in early 2012. Heins had said then he was not actively looking to sell BlackBery, but said he wanted to be prepared.

BGC Financial analyst Colin Gillis said if BlackBerry is able to go private this time it would allow management to focus on a turnaround and get out of the glaring public spotlight.

Watsa, partnered with some financial backers like a pension fund, are likely bidders, Gillis said. He said technology companies like Apple, Google or Microsoft would not be interested because already have their own mobile platforms.

"Anyone who is a player in the space has taken a sniff and moved on," Gillis said. "Now you've got financials."

Gillis also said he doesn't see Canadian or U.S. regulators allowing BlackBerry to be owned by a Chinese company. Major clients like the U.S. Department of Defense would abandon the company, he said.

"Its core reputation for security would fall apart really fast," Gillis said.

BlackBerry said in its release that there can be no assurance that the exploration process will result in any transaction and declined further comment unless and until its board approves a specific sale or concludes a review of strategic alternatives.

JP Morgan Chase & Co. is serving as its financial adviser and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Torys LLP are legal advisers.

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More VLC Media Player Spam Lands in the Windows 8 Store

VLC Media Player for Windows 8 is still under development right now, so third-parties across the world are trying to make the most of this by releasing basic clones of the app.

Two new entries have landed in the Store today, trying to trick people into believing that they are downloading the real app.

Called VLCC Direct Pro Video Player and VIC* Media Player *, both apps come with a $5.99 (?4.49) price tag and offer no trial version to give users the change to try them out before buying the full builds.

The descriptions published in the Store are rather basic, while the available screenshots reveal almost nothing about the built-in features. Both are created by a developer called ?Puvish.?

While it's still difficult to understand how come Microsoft approves such listings, keep in mind that VLC for Windows 8 will be here soon, so check twice before buying any multimedia player that claims to be the real VLC.

Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/More-VLC-Media-Player-Spam-Lands-in-the-Windows-8-Store-374661.shtml

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Make Kale Juice More Palatable With A Spritz of Citrus

Make Kale Juice More Palatable With A Spritz of Citrus

Kale juice is insanely healthy, but the taste isn't to everyone's liking. Luckily, there's an easy way to cut the bitterness without adding a ton of sugar.

Emily Ho at the Kitchn points out that a generous infusion of lemon or lime juice can neutralize the bitter taste of kale. If you don't have any citrus handy, commenters point out that a sprinkle of salt can do the trick as well. It might not make as big a difference as adding sugar, but citrus is obviously much healthier.

Avoid Bitter Green Juices with Just One Simple Ingredient | The Kitchn

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Fun, Happy Baby Shower in Mint, Peach, and Gold - On to Baby

Fun Baby Shower in Mint, Peach, and Gold

Premier Soirees Event Design & Coordination kept it fun and full of whimsy for this festive baby shower in honor of expecting mom Leah Garcia and her baby girl on the way, Olivia! Leah requested that the shower be bright, full of color, and expressive of the happiness the family feels about the imminent arrival of its newest member. Premier Soirees definitely delivered with this joyful and sweet event! Here are some details from Ellaine Calas of Premier Soirees:

?All of the decor was DIY from the fringe background behind the decadent dessert table, the tassel garland, the glittered animals in each guests? tables as well as the flower centerpieces. For favors, we used animal crackers in clear boxes topped with hand crocheted mini flowers done by the baby?s grandmother. We didn?t forget about the little guests that joined us for the shower so we made sure to have favor bags for them as well ? each little girl went home with crocheted flower pins. Since the new parents to be were huge Instagram fans, we used a hashtag for all of the shower pictures using the baby?s initials (#omgpartyof3) and gave away prizes for the best Instagram post. With over 130 guests, we made sure to play different games that all guests would enjoy including a diaper relay for all the new dads in the family and a feeding game. The day was definitely full of laughter, hugs, excitement and LOVE for lil Olivia!?

All of the lovely photos were captured by Dez & Tam Photography. Visit the full gallery if you?d like to see more!

Fun Baby Shower in Mint, Peach, and Gold

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'D' written on those killed in Fort Hood shooting

In this courtroom sketch, Staff Sgt. Michael Davis, a victim of the Fort Hood shootings, testifies during the trial of Maj. Nidal Hasan, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013, in Fort Hood, Texas. Hasan was allowed to continue representing himself on Thursday after the judge barred his standby attorneys from taking over, despite their claims that the Army psychiatrist was trying to secure his own death sentence. (AP Photo/Brigitte Woosley)

In this courtroom sketch, Staff Sgt. Michael Davis, a victim of the Fort Hood shootings, testifies during the trial of Maj. Nidal Hasan, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013, in Fort Hood, Texas. Hasan was allowed to continue representing himself on Thursday after the judge barred his standby attorneys from taking over, despite their claims that the Army psychiatrist was trying to secure his own death sentence. (AP Photo/Brigitte Woosley)

In this courtroom sketch, Maj. Nidal Hasan, second from right, sits with his standby defense attorneys Maj. Joseph Marcee, left, and Lt. Col. Kris Poppe, second from left, as presiding judge Col. Tara Osborn looks on, during Hasan's trial Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013, in Fort Hood, Texas. Hasan was allowed to continue representing himself on Thursday after the judge barred his standby attorneys from taking over, despite their claims that the Army psychiatrist was trying to secure his own death sentence. (AP Photo/Brigitte Woosley)

Soldiers guard a security checkpoint outside the Lawrence H. Williams Judicial Center on the second day of the trial for Maj. Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood, Texas on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013. The standby attorney for the soldier charged in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage accused Hasan on Wednesday of deliberately charting a course toward a conviction and death sentence, abruptly halting the trial after only one day. Lt. Col. Kris Poppe, Hasan's lead court-appointed standby attorney, said he is willing to step in and be Hasan's defense lawyer. But he asked that his responsibilities as co-counsel be minimized if Hasan, who is representing himself at trial, continues to work toward being executed. (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News,Lisa Krantz)

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Bell County Sheriff's Department shows Nidal Hasan, who is charged in the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 dead and more than 30 others wounded. Hasan doesn?t deny that he carried out the rampage, but military law prohibits him from entering a guilty plea because authorities are seeking the death penalty. If he is convicted and sentenced to death in a trial that starts Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, there are likely years, if not decades, of appeals ahead. (AP Photo/Bell County Sheriff's Department, File)

(AP) ? The soldier knew she had to decide quickly who she could save, so she grabbed a black marker and wrote a "D'' on the foreheads of those she couldn't. To people lingering over the dead amid the chaos of the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, she shouted: "You need to move on!"

Sgt. 1st Class Maria Guerra recalled those moments while testifying Thursday during the trial of Maj. Nidal Hasan. The Army psychiatrist is charged with killing 13 people and wounding more than 30 others during a rampage at the sprawling Texas military base.

When prosecutors asked Guerra to describe the scene, her voice began breaking.

"I see bodies. I see bodies everywhere. And I see blood," she said. "No one is moving. There was no movement. There was no sound. So I yelled out, 'Is everybody OK? ... I started hearing, 'Help me. I'm bleeding. I've been shot. Help me.'"

Hasan ? who is acting as his own attorney but has said little during the trial ? raised a rare objection when Guerra said she heard the gunman silence a woman who was crying out, "My baby! My baby!"

Hasan interrupted to ask the judge, "Would you remind Sgt. 1st Class Guerra that she's under oath?"

The judge, Col. Tara Osborn, did so. But Guerra responded by saying she didn't want to change her testimony.

It was the only time Hasan objected as more than a dozen witnesses testified Thursday, continuing a mostly silent defense strategy that has caused tension with his standby attorneys. Hasan took responsibility for the attack during his opening statement, and the lawyers ? who have been ordered to help Hasan during the trial ? believe he is trying to secure himself a death sentence.

The military lawyers had asked the judge to either allow them to take over Hasan's defense or bar him from asking for their help with a strategy they oppose, saying his strategy was "repugnant to defense counsel and contrary to our professional obligations."

"We believe your order is causing us to violate our rules of professional conduct," Lt. Col. Kris Poppe, Hasan's lead standby attorney, told the judge earlier Thursday before witnesses testified.

Osborn refused and ordered the attorneys to resume their advisory role. The attorneys said they would appeal, though no appeal had been filed by the standby attorneys as of Thursday evening at the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, according to the court's clerk. A message left with the Army Court of Criminal Appeals wasn't immediately returned.

Jeff Corn, a law professor at South Texas College of Law, predicted that such an appeal wouldn't delay the trial and would likely be dismissed.

"As sympathetic as I am to him (Poppe) and the miserable position he's in, I think he's stuck. The law is clear: If you are a standby attorney for a pro-se defendant and the defendant wants to make decisions tactically disastrous, that's his prerogative," Corn said.

But it could also be an intended strategy to spare Hasan the death penalty, said Joe Gutheinz, a Houston-area attorney and former Army intelligence officer.

"The judge allowed him to defend himself, you raised a timely objection. That is the basis for the appeal. And it was brilliant on the part of all the parties involved. If somebody thought up this idea, it was great," Gutheinz said. "I really believe this is the only way, at end of the day, he will not be executed."

As during previous days during the trial, Hasan rarely spoke Thursday as witness after witness described a chaotic, bloody scene inside the Army post's Soldier Readiness Processing Center, where soldiers had been preparing to deploy.

Asked to describe the rate of gunfire, Staff Sgt. Michael Davis quickly hit his hand on the ledge of the witness stand.

"I still thought it was a drill, but I heard some screaming that didn't sound like it was fake," Davis said.

Davis testified that he saw blood spray when someone was shot and quickly took cover under a desk. When he thought it safe to flee, he stood up but was quickly shot in the back.

"It was just a cold, calculated, hard stare as he shot everything that moved," Spc. Megan Martinez testified.

She recalled watching Hasan reload his pistol and the weapon's green and red laser sights sweeping through the thick, hazy smoke produced by the gunfire.

"He was walking back and forth, shooting for what felt like an eternity," she told jurors.

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Small plane crashes in Conn., up to 6 feared dead

EAST HAVEN, Conn. (AP) ? A small plane crashed into a residential neighborhood a few blocks from an airport while trying to land, setting fire to two houses and likely killing up to six people, authorities said.

Just before noon Friday, the multi-engine, propeller-driven plane struck two small homes near Tweed New Haven Airport. The aircraft's left wing lodged in one house and its right wing in the other.

Late Friday, officials from a number of agencies were still at the scene trying to determine how many people had been killed. Officials said the total was between four and six. The victims of the crash have not been identified.

"We haven't recovered anybody at this point, and we presume there is going to be a very bad outcome," East Haven fire Chief Douglas Jackson said Friday.

National Transportation Safety Board investigator Robert Gretz said at a news conference Friday night there were casualty reports of two or three people in the plane and two or three people in one of the homes. He said the reports were unconfirmed and that local and state authorities were at the scene looking for victims.

Shortly after the crash, officials had said at least three people were missing: the pilot and two children, ages 1 and 13, in one of the houses. Later, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said the plane also may have been carrying two passengers. However, officials were still trying to verify whether that was true.

Less than two hours later, Malloy said rescuers had spotted two bodies, including one of an adult, but hadn't recovered them. The plane's fuselage had entered one of the houses, and the recovery effort was focusing on the home's basement, he said.

Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr. said later that the houses were still unstable and crews had not completed a full search.

The 10-seater plane, a Rockwell International Turbo Commander 690B, flew out of Teterboro Airport in New Jersey and crashed at 11:25 a.m., the Federal Aviation Administration said.

Tweed's airport manager, Lori Hoffman-Soares, said the pilot had been in communication with air traffic control and hadn't issued any distress calls.

"All we know is that it missed the approach and continued on," she said.

A neighbor, David Esposito, said he heard a loud noise and then a thump: "No engine noise, nothing."

"A woman was screaming her kids were in there," he said.

Esposito, a retired teacher, said he ran into the upstairs of the house, where the woman believed her children were, but couldn't find them after frantically searching a crib and closets. He returned downstairs to search some more, but he dragged the woman out when the flames became too strong.

Wilson Idrovo said he was working on a house nearby when his son said: "Daddy, the airplane is falling down."

Idrovo said he went into the house but couldn't get into a room where the plane had crashed.

Angela Wordie was on her deck taking in towels when she noticed a plane making a strange sound.

"It kind of was gliding," she said. "The next thing I know it hit the house."

Maturo, the mayor, said a priest was with the woman whose children were feared dead, and he offered sympathy to the family.

"It's total devastation in the back of the home," he said.

Neighbors said the woman moved into the neighborhood recently.

A vigil is planned for Saturday night at Margaret Tucker Park.

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Associated Press writer Michael Melia in Hartford, Conn. contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/small-plane-crashes-conn-6-feared-dead-065615287.html

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'Usher Don't Do' What Cee Lo Green Does On 'The Voice'

'To be honest, I don't know how hot it was, in comparison,' Green says of season four.
By Natasha Chandel, with reporting by Sway Calloway


Usher and Cee Lo Green on "The Voice"
Photo: NBC

Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1712078/usher-cee-lo-green-the-voice-pressure.jhtml

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[VIDEO] Microsoft Unboxes The Xbox One

[VIDEO] Microsoft Unboxes The Xbox One
Posted by Joseph Lee?on 08.08.2013

And all the peripherals...

Microsoft has revealed four videos in which they reveal the look of the new Xbox One, the wireless controller, the plug & play kit and the chat headset.


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Flu vaccine not tied to pregnancy complications

By Kathryn Doyle

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Pregnant women who get flu shots are at no greater risk for complications like high blood pressure, urinary tract infection or gestational diabetes, according to a new U.S. study.

The results are not surprising in light of previous research, said lead author Dr. Elyse Kharbanda of Health Partners Institute for Education and Research in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

"Studies of several thousand pregnant women in scientific literature have assessed the safety of using the flu vaccine during pregnancy," Kharbanda told Reuters Health. "These studies have shown no evidence of harm to pregnant women, to the unborn child, or to newborns of vaccinated women."

Routine monitoring of adverse events by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also have not raised safety concerns, she noted.

Doctors already recommend that pregnant women get the shot, but not all women agree. Surveys indicate that many women are unsure of the safety of the vaccine despite evidence there are no dangers.

During the 2010-2011 U.S. flu season, for example, only about half of pregnant women reported getting a flu vaccine, Kharbanda and her colleagues point out in their report, published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology.

For the new study, they looked back at data on 74,000 women who had received a flu shot while pregnant, in any trimester, and compared them to 300,000 women who were similar in age, pregnancy start dates and other characteristics but had not received the shot.

Vaccinated women were more likely to have health problems, like high blood pressure or diabetes, before becoming pregnant, they found, and more likely to be hospitalized before and after the shot than the other women.

That may be explained by the fact that in general, adults with pre-existing conditions are especially encouraged to get flu shots, according to Kharbanda.

But in the 42-day period following the vaccination, women who got the shot were no more likely than women who didn't to suffer severe morning sickness, urinary tract infections, high blood pressure, excess protein in the urine or gestational diabetes.

When they were followed through delivery, vaccinated women were still no more likely to experience those pregnancy complications or others, including preeclampsia, blood clots and other vascular problems or bacterial infection after birth.

In addition, vaccination was tied to a reduced risk of gestational diabetes, probably because women who get vaccinated are also more likely to maintain a healthy diet, the authors write.

"This is a wonderful study, I found it delightful," said Dr. William Schaffner, chair of the department of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical School in Nashville, Tennessee.

"This is the single largest and best and most reliable safety study we have to date," Schaffner said. "We didn't have concerns about (the safety of the vaccine), and this puts the icing on the cake," he said.

For a pregnant woman, contracting the flu is "really dangerous," according to Dr. Laura E. Riley, medical director of labor and delivery at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Pregnant women with the flu are at greater risk of death, respiratory disease requiring hospitalization and premature labor and delivery, Riley told Reuters Health.

The risk-benefit ratio was already clear, she said, but collecting new safety data is always good.

"Flu shots protect pregnant women, their unborn babies, and even protect the baby after birth," Kharbanda said.

Babies don't receive vaccines until six months of age, so they are vulnerable to catching the flu in the first six months of life, he said. But previous studies have found that some of the protection passes across the placenta to the baby and can help shield them from flu after birth.

"What mother doesn't want to do that?" Schaffner said. "There should be no hesitation for women getting the vaccine."

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/1cNtoQh Obstetrics and Gynecology, September 2013.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/flu-vaccine-not-tied-pregnancy-complications-163354945.html

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Development and Optimization for NDK-based Android Game Application on Platforms based on Intel? Architecture

The Android Native Development Kit (NDK) is a companion tool to the Android SDK and allows you to implement parts of your app using native-code languages such as C and C++.

You can download the NDK toolkit: http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html

NDK for X86 Instruction Set Architecture

Android is an open-source operating system developed by Google. Currently, Android can be run on three families of instruction set architectures: ?ARM, x86, and MIPS. X86 denotes a family of instruction set architectures based on the Intel 8086 CPU, introduced in 1978. Let?s describe the differences between X86 (also called Intel? architecture or IA) and the other chipsets that Android runs on from an application perspective.

Android applications can be classified into two types:

  • Dalvik applications that include Java* code and use the official Android SDK API only and necessary resource files, such as .xml and .png, compiled into an APK file.
  • Android NDK applications that include Java code and resource files as well as C/C++ source code and sometimes assembly code. All native code is compiled into a dynamic linked library (.so file) and then called by Java in the main program using a JNI mechanism.

Android Game Engine

The game engine is a key module for game applications. There are several engines that run in Android, including 2D and 3D engines which are open source and commercial engines. Thus, it is difficult to migrate and develop Android-based games to run on the IA platform. Cocos2d-x and Unity 3D are the most popular game engines for Android platforms.

Cocos2d-x is based on Cocos2d-iPhone and consists of expanding supported platforms, with multiple programming languages that share the same API structure. Since its introduction in July 2010, cocos2d-x has been downloaded over 500 million times. Giants in the mobile game industry such as Zynga, Glu, GREE, DeNA, Konami, TinyCo, Gamevil, HandyGames, Renren Games, 4399, HappyElements, SDO, and Kingsoft are using cocos2d-x.

Unity 3D is a cross-platform game engine with a built-in IDE developed by Unity Technologies. It is used to develop video games for web plugins, desktop platforms, consoles, and mobile devices, and is utilized by over one million developers. It grew from an OS X supported game development tool in 2005 to a multi-platform game engine. The latest update, Unity 4.1, was released March 2013. It currently supports development for iOS, Android, Windows, Blackberry 10, OS X, Linux, web browsers, Flash*, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Windows Phone, and Wii.

Developing Android NDK-based games on IA platforms

Before we talk game development, we should talk about the Android platform in general. As you know, games come in many different styles. Different styles of games need different design principles. At the start of your project, you usually decide the genre of your game. Unless you come up with something completely new and previously unseen, chances are high that your game idea fits into one of the broad genres currently popular. Most genres have established game mechanic standards (e.g., control schemes, specific goals, etc.). Deviating from these standards can make a game a great hit, as gamers always long for something new. Some of the common genres are:

  • Arcade & Action
  • Brain & Puzzle
  • Cards & Casino
  • Casual
  • Live Wallpaper
  • Racing
  • Sports Games
  • Widgets
  • etc

The process for developing general Android games is similar to any other Android application. First, download the Android SDK and NDK from Google?s web site and install them properly.

I assume you have done all the installation and preparation work. Using Cocos2d-x game engine as the example, let?s see how to create a game for Intel architecture.

Download Cocos2D-x

Download the latest stable version of Cocos2D-x from the web site: http://www.cocos2d-x.org/projects/cocos2d-x/wiki/Download

Execute the batch

Execute the batch from Windows Explorer. When it asks you for the project location, set it to something like com.yourproject.something, and choose the project name and target ID. This will create a folder with the project name inside the cocos2dx installation folder. You should see the execution of a script, without any error, something like this:

Set Environment Variables of NDK_ROOT

Add the following environment variable at the end of the home\<yourname>\.bash_profile file (in this case:c:\cygwin\home\user\.bash_profile):

 NDK_ROOT=/cygdrive/<yourname>/  export NDK_ROOT  

restart cygwin,input cd $NDK_ROOT, and you should see this screen:

Execute the build_native.sh file

The default configuration is ARM; we need to change it to compile for x86. Open the file \helloworld\proj.android \build_native.sh, find ndk-build command, and add the APP_ABI=x86 parameter to the end of the command. Run it in Cygwin and you will see:

Import project to Eclipse

Now go to Eclipse, create a new project -> Import from existing project.

Build and Run

At this step, Eclipse will have some problems:

The import org.cocos2dx.lib cannot be resolved HelloWorld.java

/HelloWorld/src/com/young40/test line 26 Java Problem Cocos2dxActivity cannot be resolved to a type HelloWorld.java

/HelloWorld/src/com/young40/test line 30 Java Problem Cocos2dxActivity cannot be resolved to a type HelloWorld.java

/HelloWorld/src/com/young40/test line 33 Java Problem

You must import the following library into Eclipse as a project:

cocos2d-2.1beta3-x-2.1.1/cocos2dx/platform/android/java

Go to Project -> Build, and then Run As -> Android Application:

Then a game framework for the cocos2dx game engine will be built. You can add game logic, audio, picture, etc. resources to this project to make a full game.

Optimize Android NDK-based games on IA platforms

Intel? System Studio is a suite of tool for profiling and optimizing applications on Android platforms. Of course, we can use it for optimizing games. Intel System Studio includes:

  • Intel? C++ Compiler
  • Intel? Graphics Performance Analyzers
  • Intel? VTune? Amplifier
  • (Intel? JTAG Debugger)

Here we won?t explain the details about each tool. Instead, we will walk through an example that shows how Intel tools work.

First, let?s take an application, called Bounding Ball, that we will run on an Intel? Atom? Z2460 (code name Medfield) processor. The game has more than 800 balls that move at random speed and collide with each other without any regularity. We can see the performance is bad by measuring the FPS, which is only 6 without any optimization.

We can use Intel? Graphics Performance Analyzers (Intel? GPA) to locate which module is the bottleneck and find out if it is CPU bound or GPU bound.

The Intel GPA screen shot below shows a chart that describes the details of this application via the GPA on Android platform . From this, you can see that the CPU consumed 52.5% of the resources. That is a rather high ratio for one application. Meanwhile ISP Load, TA Load, TSP Load and USSE Total Load running inside GPU are all less than 10%, which means that the GPU load is normal. Thus we can conclude the bottleneck is in CPU module. To further analyze the CPU bottleneck issue, we need to profile the code using the VTune? analyzer.

Here, we don?t describe how to use the VTune analyzer, we just explain the results we obtained when we ran it. The hotspots are the sin and cos functions inside libm.so. So the question is: why does the application spend so much time and CPU cycles to run these two functions?

By checking the application source code, we find that these two hotspot functions are called when every ball is rendered by OpenGL ES*. As geometry of all the balls is the same, only the size is different. We can duplicate balls using the OpenGL function glScale so that hotspot function can be decreased greatly.

After code optimization, performance is improved 80%; the FPS is 14. Further, we can compile the application with Intel C/C++ Compiler to get better performance on Intel architecture platforms. The Intel C/C++ Compiler has many flags for performance optimization on IA platforms. Here we just introduce some of them.

  • SSSE3_ATOM
    Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 (SSSE3 or SSE3S) is a SIMD instruction set created by Intel and is the fourth iteration of the SSE technology.
  • IPO
    Interprocedural Optimization flag will reduce function call overhead, eliminate dead code, and reorder constant propagation and procedure.
  • PGO
    Profile-Guided Optimizations flag will analyze leaves many questions open for the optimizer like:
    • How often is x > y
    • What is the size of count
    • Which code is touched and how often

In addition, the Intel C/C++ Compiler can also enhance applications as follows:

  • More accurate branch prediction
  • Basic block movement to improve instruction cache behavior
  • Better decision of functions to inline (help IPO)
  • Better optimization of function ordering
  • Optimization of switch-statements
  • Better vectorization decisions

Using different compilers and different compiling parameters, an app can get different performance. Here is a performance comparison of two compilers GCC and ICC. Same application Bounding Ball is running on android phone based on Intel Medfield. Blue part is performance of GCC and red part is that of ICC. Baseline is to compile without any parameters. The second part of chart is to compile with arch=atom. The third part is to recompile with all parameters mentioned above. Finally, you can see the performance of app compiled by ICC is 60% higher than GCC.

Summary

We?ve given you a quick introduction of Android game development and optimization in IA platforms. Game engines are the core part of all game development. If they run well on IA platforms, then the games will run well too. We took the popular game engine, cocos2dx, as an example to demonstrate how to develop on the IA platform. Intel also offers many tools for developers to optimize their game applications on Android platforms. Using Intel System Studio we showed the steps of how to optimize a demo application.

About the Author

Tao Peng is an application engineer in Intel Software and Service Group, and focus on mobile application enabling, including Android applications development and optimization for x86 devices, Web HTML5 application development.

Source: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/development-and-optimization-for-ndk-based-android-game-application-on-platforms-based-on

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Carl Icahn increases Nuance stake to 16 percent: filing

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Activist investor Carl Icahn increased his stake in speech recognition and digital imaging software maker Nuance Communications Inc to 16.03 percent, a regulatory filing showed Thursday.

Icahn's stake in Nuance stood at 10.72 percent as of April 30. Apple Inc uses Nuance's speech recognition technology in its iPhone devices as part of its "Siri" voice recognition feature.

Shares of Nuance were up 1.7 percent to $19.42 per share in intraday trading Thursday.

(Reporting by Sam Forgione; Editing by Nick Zieminski)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/carl-icahn-increases-nuance-stake-16-percent-filing-170212777.html

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