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National Subjects: The way to Greece's inclusion in the US Visa Waiver Program, Greek family seeks IISc expertise, EA: The Return of Classical Greek Terrorism , Greece donates $650,000 food aid to Zimbabwe, Greece fires up anti-smoking ban amid confusion, Trail of the Unexpected: South of Athens lie the Lord of the Sea's ancient remains, Policemen arrested in Greece for sex trafficking, Mediator Nimetz resumes name talks in Athens, Off to Thessaloniki for a big fat Greek wedding. And
International Subjects: 8 ways the food industry can hijack your brain, Looking for love, 650-pound virgin loses 410, Obama Picks Camp David Church, What Supersonic Looks Like, Two Centuries On, a Cryptologist Cracks a Presidential Code, North Korea a suspect in cyber attacks in US
THE NATIONAL
1st Article
«The way to Greece's inclusion in the US Visa Waiver Program, Greece, US sign accords»|
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Greek foreign minister Dora Bakoyannis and US deputy secretary of state James Steinberg spoke of a "new air" in Greece-US relations after a bilateral meeting during which two accords were signed on the sidelines of a NATO-Russia ministerial meeting and an OSCE informal ministerial meeting on the Greek island of Corfu over the weekend.
Greece and the US signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and a cooperation agreement on tackling serious crime, which pave the way to Greece's inclusion in the US Visa Waiver Program. "There are just a few steps left, and some administrative actions, to complete this process," Steinberg said in joint statements with Bakoyannis after their meeting, adding that he expected completion of the process before the end of the year.
Based on reciprocity, the services of the Greek foreign ministry and the US state department drafted two texts that adopt high-level criteria and guarantees for the protection of personal data and adherence of legal procedures, Bakoyannis said, noting that the two accords comprised an essential step towards strengthening bilateral relations, particularly at the level of the Society of the Citizens.
She added that Greece and the US would work at a fast pace for completion of the process, and look forward to the positive effect that Greece's participation in the visa waiver program will have on economic cooperation between the two countries, tourism and contact between the two peoples.
On recent high-level exchanges of visits with the US, Bakoyannis said that they were proof of the "new air" blowing in Greek-US relations.
On Sunday's OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) meeting at foreign minister level, which is hosted by Greece as the 2009 chairman of the Organisation, Bakoyannis, who is the OSCE's Chairperson-in-Office, said that Corfu Process "marks a new beginning for the role of the OSCE, dialogue and European security".
"I see that there is a will to change page. The OSCE is the appropriate forum to continue the dialogue in the spirit of Helsinki. The informal Corfu meeting provides an excellent opportunity for this dialogue to be placed on solid foundations. Today, our partners manifested their confidence in the Greek Chairmanship and support of the Corfu Process. This gives us optimism for achieving a step forward for European security. United, we can ensure peace for Europe," Bakoyannis said.
Turning to Steinberg, who is taking part in the conference in place of US secretary of state Hilary Clinton due to illness, Bakoyannis wished Clinton a speedy recovery and added that "we are expecting her in December at the OSCE conference marking the end of the Greek Chairmanship, in order to continue what we began here today on Corfu".
Steinberg, in turn, spoke of a 'deepening of relations' between the two countries and placed the signing of the two accords in that conference, noting that the strategic cooperation between the two countries was being advanced........... In order to you study entire the article you select http://www.traveldailynews.com/pages/show_page/31712
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«Greek family seeks IISc expertise»
BANGALORE here is somebody looking for help in understanding genes. A family from Greece has sought the help of IISc scientists to help unravel possible genetic causes behind a brain disorder that has afflicted two of its siblings.
The boy and girl are characterised by microcephaly, a disorder in which the brain is of reduced size, affecting mental and intellectual faculties. It results from hypoplasia of the cerebral cortex. The family is anxious to understand how and why the brain disorder occurred in them and what can be done to better the situation.
The family has sent DNA samples of the siblings to IISc to enable researchers to identify the particular genes that may have caused the disorder. Prof Arun Kumar and his team will conduct the DNA analysis.
Nimhans researchers led by Dr Satish Girimaji and Prof Kumar and his team had recently discovered a new gene that causes microcephaly, called STIL. Until this discovery, four genes were shown to be causing the disorder. Nimhans and IISc demonstrated that mutations in the fifth gene, STIL, also resulted in microcephaly.
The IISc team will establish whether the Greek siblings have the first four genes, the fifth one or an entirely new one. “The family approached us through their doctor after they read our research paper on genetics and microcephaly. It is astonishing how a research paper gave them confidence to approach IISc. It is our privilege and we will help to the best of our ability,” Prof Kumar said.: Patients fly in from all over the globe to Bangalore for heart treatment, but
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«EA: The Return of Classical Greek Terrorism»
By Fred Burton and Ben West
Greek anti-terrorism police officer Nektarios Savas was shot and killed June 17 while guarding a state witness in an Athens neighborhood. Savas was parked in an unmarked vehicle outside the residence of Sofia Kyriakidou, the wife and key witness in the trial of Angeletos Kanas, a convicted member of a defunct Greek militant group. At 6:20 a.m., shortly after sunrise in Athens, Savas had just gotten coffee and was settling in for his shift when two gunmen approached his vehicle and fired 24 rounds into it, hitting him 18 times and wounding him fatally. The assassins then sped away on motorcycles driven by two other accomplices. Savas was never able to draw his weapon.
Although the witness Savas was protecting was in the house at the time of the shooting, the gunmen do not appear to have made any attempt to harm her.
Two groups claimed responsibility for the murder, “Revolutionary Sect” and “Rebel Sect,” but groups using slight variations of these names have claimed responsibility for dozens of attacks so far this year. It is very common for militant groups to claim responsibility for attacks using different names to confuse their pursuers. We believe the group behind most of the recent attacks is “Revolutionary Struggle” (EA).
EA (its initials in Greek) is thought to be a spinoff from the Greek terrorist group November 17 (N-17) and has been operational since at least October 2003. It shares a similar ideology with N-17, which rejected democracy, capitalism and outside influence in Greece — especially from the United States. EA rejects EU policies in Greece that it claims hurt the working class. EA was very vocal in the run-up to the 2004 Olympics in Athens, carrying out attacks against businesses and the police to protest the high levels of security in the country and the high price tag that came with hosting the games.
The murder of Savas and other recent attacks by EA demonstrate that the group is becoming increasingly brazen and aggressive, and comparisons between EA and N-17 reach beyond ideology. EA has used tactics and attacked a target set very much like those of N-17. It is quite possible, then, that we will see EA expand its actions to include attacks similar to those carried out by N-17, which, throughout its long operational history, assassinated not only police officers but also diplomats and industrialists by using small arms at close range.
Terrorism in Greece
Periodic attacks by anarchists and left-wing militant groups in Greece date back to 1975, when the emerging N-17 shot and killed CIA Station Chief Richard Welch in Athens. In 2009, however, militant attacks have become more frequent and lethal. There have been 16 attacks so far in 2009, compared to 10 in 2008 and 4 in 2007, and Savas was the first casualty linked to EA or similar groups since 2004.
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«Greece donates $650,000 food aid to Zimbabwe»
Greece has donated 650,000 U.S. dollars to Zimbabwe to help fight cholera and assist in food relief projects, The Herald said on Thursday. Speaking recently on the occasion of Greece's National Day, the Greek Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mihail Koukakis said his government was responding to calls for urgent humanitarian aid to Zimbabwe.
The donated amount has been transferred, in equal parts, to the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Food Programme (WFP).
"The Greek embassy has already transferred the 650,000 U.S. dollars in equal parts to WHO and WFP respectively. This money should be used towards improving the lives of the disadvantaged people," Koukakis said.
In addition, the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs has dispatched two containers of food aid to the embassy in Harare to be distributed to the needy.
The total value of goods dispatched, made up of rice, wheat, flour, sugar, olive oil, high nutrition biscuits and a quantity of water purifying tablets, amount to 103,000 euros, which is approximately 150,000 dollars
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5th Article
«Greece fires up anti-smoking ban amid confusion»
ATHENS (AFP) - Wielding high fines, Greece's health ministry on Wednesday launched a nationwide smoking ban -- the third this decade -- in a bid to eliminate the habit in Europe's most nicotine-addicted nation. As a 2008 law banning smoking in public places officially came into effect, Health Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos proudly spoke of a "new era".
"The curtain has risen on a new era, as of today establishments are smoke-free and nobody will smoke anywhere," he told state television NET. "In the end, we will join the ranks of civilised nations," he said. "What are we, the idiots of Europe?"
Under the new legislation smoking will -- again -- be banned in hospitals, schools, in public vehicles and in all public spaces. But after two prior efforts this decade, and anti-smoking laws dating to the mid-19th century, many Greeks do not share Avramopoulos' optimism.
The first day of the law saw a mixed reception with some premises only serving smokers outdoors but others carrying on as usual."We have applied for a smoking permit but it will take time, so for now we do not allow smoking indoors," said Effie, a central Athens cafe waitress.
Some are already trying to find ways to bend the rules."Before the ban we were smoking in the corridors and nobody complained, so I guess we'll do the same," said an employee at state broadcaster ERT.
Critics note that ambiguity and loopholes in the new law threaten to render it little more than a smoke screen. "In a society that has learned to be undisciplined -- as is the state itself to its own rules -- any general ban is impossible to implement," noted a sceptical Eleftherotypia daily.
The health ministry, whose website crashed on Wednesday, insisted the ban is general and that exceptions will come later. But many operators are unwilling to shoulder the cost of remodelling their businesses if the rules are going to change again. And a number of loopholes are already causing confusion
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6th Article
«Trail of the Unexpected: South of Athens lie the Lord of the Sea's ancient remains»
By Claire Soares
Saturday, 4 July 2009
Don't pay to play: the public beach of Vouliagmeni
As you wander around the Greek capital, spare a thought for Poseidon. How different things might have been had the sea god won the epic showdown for the city, back in mythical times.
Competing for the right to be its patron deity, he and niece Athena agreed to conjure a gift and let residents choose their protector according to the offering they liked best. Poseidon struck the Acropolis rock with his trident; out sprang a fountain of flowing water. Athena summoned an olive tree, giving the city food, oil and shelter in one fell swoop. Poseidon's water on the other hand was salty and scarcely drinkable. It was a no-brainer for the judges.
And so today it is Athens that we visit, not Poseidonopolis. It is the Parthenon – the "world's most perfect poem in stone" built to honour the victorious virgin goddess – that dominates the skyline. But we shouldn't forget the city's second god. For when the heat of the city gets too much, the Lord of the Sea can provide the inspiration for a refreshing day's escape.
Any Poseidon adventure should start in the imposing neo-classical splendour of the National Archaeological Museum. It is home to an overwhelming array of impressive art, from human-sized vases to 3,000-year-old sculptures. To cut to the chase, scoot straight to Room 15, where, amid a deluge of white marble, your eyes are inexorably drawn to the majestic bronze statue of Poseidon.
It is the very definition of imposing: standing over two metres tall, his legs in full stride, his sculpted chest taut, his right arm pulled back as if about to unleash hell. The empty eye sockets only heighten the menace.
The statue dates from 460 BC. It languished at the bottom of the sea until 1928, when it was pulled up from the waters off Cape Artemision at the northern end of Greece's second largest island, Euboea. Some have claimed that, in fact, it depicts Zeus rather than Poseidon, but you can't help thinking that surely only the maritime god could have endured so many centuries underwater.
Having seen Poseidon in his urban incarnation, it's time to set off for his more natural environs. Athena may have her Acropolis in the heart of the historic town, but Poseidon can almost rival it. His temple lies about 70km out of town at Cape Sounion, perched on a dramatic cliff top with ocean panoramas. And the scenic coastal drive down Highway 9 to the southernmost tip of Attica offers many spots to stop off and sample the sparkling blue waters of the Aegean.
After navigating the crazy Athenian traffic, the first stop is Agios Kosmas. If you watched the sailing events in the 2004 Olympics, it may appear familiar: it's next door to where the crews launched their boats. The reason I had come here, though, was Christos Kortzidis, the mayor of this seaside suburb who, two years ago, went on a 24-day hunger strike to force the creation of a free beach for the people.
In a statute that Poseidon himself might have drafted, Greek law gives the public the right of access to the sea, but the mayor argued that privately run beach bars had hijacked all this section of coastline and therefore poorer families were being deprived of their constitutional rights
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7th Article
«Policemen arrested in Greece for sex trafficking»
Athens - Four policemen were among those arrested on Wednesday for trafficking hundreds of women from Eastern Europe into Greece for prostitution, the Athens News Agency reported. Reports said the officers were among 25 people held during a police operation to dismantle one of the largest sex-trafficking rings in Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
The officers had been dismissed from the force and were due to appear before a public prosecutor and be charged later Wednesday.
Among those arrested was a retired senior police officer believed to be the mastermind behind the group.
The ring was responsible for recruiting more than 300 women and setting them up at several night clubs in Athens over the past six months.
The crackdown followed months of investigation by more than 150 officers when raids were conducted on eight nightclubs, four brothels, two yachts and ten houses
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8th Article
«Mediator Nimetz resumes name talks in Athens
Skopje, July 8 (MIA) - UN mediator in the Macedonia-Greece name talks Matthew Nimetz is scheduled to meet Wednesday with Athens authorities in an effort of reaching a mutually acceptable solution.
Nimetz will hold a meeting with Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyiannis. In the framework of the June 6-7 talks with Macedonian top officials, Nimetz offered certain changes on latest proposal presented in October 2008.
"I have presented certain changes to October proposal and asked the government to consider this package in full, together with the changes", Nimetz stated after a meeting with Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski.
He declined to give any details, saying that the proposal has not even been announced in public, whereas Macedonian authorities promised Nimetz they would seriously review the changes.
"The matter may be settled, (as parties) show interest to that effect. This is the impression I got today from the PM, President, FM in favor of continuing the process. I believe that both parties are ready and set to this goal", Nimetz said.......... In order to you study entire the article you select http://www.idividi.com.mk/English/Macedonia/538559/index.html
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9th Article
«Off to Thessaloniki for a big fat Greek wedding»
Omar Fikree
July 09. 2009
The main purpose of my trip to Thessaloniki is to attend a wedding. As was the case in Australia, a close friend’s sister is getting married and I’m lucky enough to have been invited. What can I say? As I’ve found out recently, I’m at that age where everybody’s getting married.
I have known the bride’s brother, Nadeem, since we were about eight years old. For both of us, some of our fondest memories were spent growing up together in Abu Dhabi and this trip is an opportunity to share an important event in his adult life.
I discover on arrival that my hotel is near the airport and somewhat outside the city proper so on the first night, my brother, Ali, and I decide to catch a taxi and head into town for some authentic Greek food.
The driver leaves us at the promenade and our walk along the seafront is remarkable. I notice that even on a week night the pavement is flooded with strollers enjoying the salty air and Mediterranean breeze. The waves crash into the shore on our left and the busy cafes and bars are abuzz in Aristotelous Square on our right, where grand, white-faced hotels are trimmed in pink and yellow lights. We come to the end of the path after about 20 minutes of walking and turn into a narrow alleyway with ageing white houses on either side that have chipped paint and an old-fashioned look about them. Something about the buildings and the layout of the streets and the proximity to the sea remind me of Beirut. When we come to the end of the alley, we turn into an even smaller passageway called Cairo Street and at its end we arrive at the taverna we have been looking for.
As soon as we walk inside, our nostrils are filled with the scent of the heavily spiced meat and fish being cooked in the kitchen. The feeling of hunger raging in my belly is exacerbated by the mouthwatering aroma floating around me and I sit down and impatiently look down the menu in search of a hearty dinner. We start with a selection of meze, including grilled calf’s liver, stuffed vine leaves and a Greek salad. By the time we finish the appetizers our stomachs have little room left over for the gigantic fish that arrives as our entrée.
Eventually, we give our compliments to the chef, pay the bill and pat our tummies on the way out the door.
Slow-footed after our big meal, we retrace our route along the seashore, again enjoying the simple pleasure of following the curves of the water. On the way back, however, we notice more closely what we had merely glanced at before – the White Tower, one of the city’s infamous landmarks. Built by the Ottomans in the 1400s after the Byzantine Empire disintegrated, the tower was used as a garrison and a prison where people were tortured. In 1826, all of the prisoners in the tower were killed and the place came to be known as the Tower of Blood. It was painted white after the First Balkan War.
It seems amazing to me how much history surrounds one pile of stones. For the following few days Ali, Nadeem and I, along with some other family friends, relax by the hotel’s pool, taking advantage of the baking hot weather to get deeper tans. During the evenings we head into town for dinner with the families of the bride and groom. One night we venture into a bar called Politia; a well-known venue that is famous for hosting all manner of live music acts. This night the stage is graced by a series of Greek boy bands covering English pop songs. Yes, it is cheesy but at the same time embarrassingly entertaining. The last performance of the night, however is a pleasant surprise that feels authentically Greek: a local singer named Pegi Zina accompanies her own voice on the bouzouki, a pear-shaped, stringed instrument with a very long neck. How can I describe the combination of her plaintive, haunting voice and the strings’ wild plinks? Spellbinding, perhaps, would be best.
When the wedding day arrives the fun isn’t over yet
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INTERNATIONAL SUBJECTS
1st Article
«8 ways the food industry can hijack your brain»
Excess sugar, fat and salt are just some of the tricks that get us to overeat
Introduction
AP
In the 21st century the food industry is creating and marketing unhealthy food in much the same way that tobacco companies manufactured and sold cigarettes in the 20th century.
But overeating doesn’t only affect people who are overweight. In fact, more than 70 million Americans have become conditioned to overeat, and it affects people of all different weights. Dr. David A. Kessler, the dynamic and controversial former head of the Food and Drug Administration who took on big tobacco in the 1990s, now takes on the food industry in “The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite” (Rodale, 2009). In his book, Kessler pulls back the curtain to reveal how the food industry and its scientists really operate.
Too much sugar, fat and salt
Most of the foods served at restaurants combine tempting amounts of sugar, fat, and salt. They are either loaded onto a core ingredient (such as meat, vegetable, potato, or bread), layered on top of it, or both. For instance:
Potato skins: The potato is hollowed out and the skin is fried, which provides a substantial surface area for “fat pickup.” Then some combination of bacon bits, sour cream, and cheese is added. The result: fat on fat on fat on fat, loaded with salt.
Buffalo wings: The fatty parts of a chicken get deep-fried. Then they are served with creamy or sweet dipping sauce that’s heavily salted. Usually they’re par-fried at a production plant, then fried again at the restaurant, which doubles the fat. The result: sugar on salt on fat on fat on fat.
Spinach dip: The spinach provides little more than color—a high-fat, high-salt dairy product is the main ingredient. The result: a tasty dish of salt on fat
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2nd Article
«Looking for love, 650-pound virgin loses 410»
David Smith once contemplated suicide; now, ‘girls make googly eyes at me’
By Mike Celizic
July 10, 2009
He was enormously obese — a lost soul with no friends and no life who had given up on himself and on life. David Smith even hatched a plan to end it. He would get an inflatable swimming pool, and he would take it to a remote spot in the Arizona desert. He would fill it with gasoline, get in, and light a match. It would be a horrific and painful way to die, but that’s what Smith thought he deserved.
And the best thing about it would be that the fire would consume his 650-pound body. When it had done his work, there would be nothing left to make fun of anymore.
It is hard to believe that the David Smith who tells this story is the same hunky man who sat down with TODAY’s Matt Lauer Friday in New York. Smiling and confident, he’s cut and ripped, a certified personal trainer with a body that’s no longer to die in a blaze of glory for. He has a future that never seemed possible — and a past that seemed to have belonged to someone else. “It’s a different person,” Smith told Lauer after watching a video that showed the gelatinous blob he used to be. “It’s not me anymore.”
‘Night and day’
The remarkable story of how Smith lost more than 400 pounds in just 26 months without gastric bypass surgery is the subject of a TLC documentary that premieres Sunday, July 12. It’s called “The 650-pound Virgin,” and it follows Smith’s journey from a suicidal and friendless loner who never left his house to a new life as an inspiration to everybody who has battled obesity.
The story’s not over. Smith, now 32, would not say directly if he is still a virgin, but he admitted that he is still fighting to get over his shyness around women and his fear of rejection.
“It’s like night and day. I’ve gone from being a laughingstock to having girls make googly eyes at me,” he said. But responding to those looks is still a challenge. “I still have to muster up the courage to talk to girls,” he said.
“Instead of being a dud, I want to be a stud,” he added. ........... In order to you study entire the article you select http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31845266/#storyContinued
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3st Article
«Obama Picks Camp David Church-- Not a D.C. Congregation»
By AMY SULLIVAN Amy Sullivan – Mon Jun 29
For the past five months, White House aides and friends of the Obamas have been quietly visiting local churches and vetting the sermons of prospective first ministers in a search for a new - and uncontroversial - church home. Obama has even sampled a few himself, attending services at 19th Street Baptist on the weekend before his inauguration and celebrating Easter at St. John's Episcopal Church.
Now, in an unexpected move, Obama has told White House aides that instead of joining a congregation in Washington, D.C., he will follow in George W. Bush's footsteps and make his primary place of worship Evergreen Chapel, the nondenominational church at Camp David. (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree.)
A number of factors drove the decision - financial, political, personal - but chief among them was the desire to worship without being on display. Obama was reportedly taken aback by the circus stirred up by his visit to 19th Street Baptist in January. Lines started forming three hours before the morning service, and many longtime members were literally left out in the cold as the church filled with outsiders eager to see the new President. Even at St. John's, which is so accustomed to presidential visitors that it is known as the "Church of the Presidents," worshippers couldn't help themselves from snapping photos of Obama on their camera phones as they walked down the aisle past him to take communion. (Read about Obama and the Pope.)
The challenge of being part of a church community but also praying in peace has long been a problem for Presidents, according to historian Carl Sferrazza Anthony. "McKinley hated having people staring at him while he read Psalms, sang hymns, put money in the collection plate or took communion," he writes in America's First Families. "By the 1920s, getting a presidential family in and out of church was a production. Secret Service agents had to cordon off a clear path from the curb to the church entrance before the Coolidges arrived ... [and] they were swiftly escorted to their third-row pew."
The Clintons attended Foundry United Methodist Church on 16th Street, and were particularly active during the years before Chelsea left for college. But White House aides say that security measures required by the Secret Service have become stricter since 9/11 and would cause significant delays for parishioners - and at significant cost to taxpayers - on Sunday mornings. Given Obama's popularity within the African-American community, the President also worried that if he chose a local black congregation, church members would find themselves competing with sightseers for space in the pews. (Read an excerpt from Obama's memoir on his faith.)
The First Family won't have that problem at Camp David, where the 150-seat Evergreen Chapel attracts a congregation of between 50 and 70 people most Sundays. The rustic stone-and-glass octagonal structure was built nearly two decades ago through private funds; President George H.W. Bush dedicated it in 1991. At the ceremony, Christian singer Sandi Patti sang and the late Cardinal James Hickey of Washington delivered a sermon calling the chapel a "witness to our common belief that we need to seek divine guidance in the conduct of our national affairs."
Each week, regardless of whether the President is on-site, Evergreen Chapel holds nondenominational Christian services open to the nearly 400 military personnel and staff at Camp David, as well as their families. A music director from nearby Hood College coordinates adult and children's choirs (Clinton sang occasionally with the choir when he visited). In December, the kids in the congregation put on a Christmas pageant and the chapel holds a candlelight service on Christmas Eve. The Bush family enjoyed Christmas at Evergreen Chapel so much that they celebrated the holiday there for all eight years of Bush's Administration.
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4th Article
«What Supersonic Looks Like»
Reuters – A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor executes a supersonic flyby over the flight deck of the aircraft carrier…
Robert Roy Britt
The breaking of the sound barrier is not just an audible phenomenon. As a new picture from the U.S. military shows, Mach 1 can be quite visual.
This widely circulated new photo shows a Air Force F-22 Raptor aircraft participating in an exercise in the Gulf of Alaska June 22, 2009 as it executes a supersonic flyby over the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis.
The visual phenomenon, which sometimes but not always accompanies the breaking of the sound barrier, has also been seen with nuclear blasts and just after space shuttles launches, too. A vapor cone was photographed as the Apollo 11 moon-landing mission rocketed skyward in 1969.
The phenomenon is not well studied. Scientists refer to it as a vapor cone, shock collar, or shock egg, and it's thought to be created by what's called a Prandtl-Glauert singularity.
Here's what scientists think happens: A layer of water droplets gets trapped between two high-pressure surfaces of air. In humid conditions, condensation can gather in the trough between two crests of the sound waves produced by the jet. This effect does not necessarily coincide with the breaking of the sound barrier, although it can. To learn more, click here.
The aircraft carrier was participating in Northern Edge 2009, an exercise focused on detecting and tracking things at sea, in the air and on land.
In The Water Cooler, Imaginova's Editorial Director Robert Roy Britt looks at what people are talking about in the world of science and beyond. Find more in the archives and on Twitter. ........... In order to you study entire the article you select http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090630/sc_livescience/whatsupersoniclookslike
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5th Article
«Two Centuries On, a Cryptologist Cracks a Presidential Code»
Unlocking This Cipher Wasn't Self-Evident; Algorithms and Educated Guesses
By RACHEL EMMA SILVERMAN
For more than 200 years, buried deep within Thomas Jefferson's correspondence and papers, there lay a mysterious cipher -- a coded message that appears to have remained unsolved. Until now.
The cryptic message was sent to President Jefferson in December 1801 by his friend and frequent correspondent, Robert Patterson, a mathematics professor at the University of Pennsylvania. President Jefferson and Mr. Patterson were both officials at the American Philosophical Society -- a group that promoted scholarly research in the sciences and humanities -- and were enthusiasts of ciphers and other codes, regularly exchanging letters about them.
Robert Patterson
University of Pennsylvania Archives
In this message, Mr. Patterson set out to show the president and primary author of the Declaration of Independence what he deemed to be a nearly flawless cipher. "The art of secret writing," or writing in cipher, has "engaged the attention both of the states-man & philosopher for many ages," Mr. Patterson wrote. But, he added, most ciphers fall "far short of perfection."
To Mr. Patterson's view, a perfect code had four properties: It should be adaptable to all languages; it should be simple to learn and memorize; it should be easy to write and to read; and most important of all, "it should be absolutely inscrutable to all unacquainted with the particular key or secret for decyphering."
Mr. Patterson then included in the letter an example of a message in his cipher, one that would be so difficult to decode that it would "defy the united ingenuity of the whole human race," he wrote.
There is no evidence that Jefferson, or anyone else for that matter, ever solved the code. But Jefferson did believe the cipher was so inscrutable that he considered having the State Department use it, and passed it on to the ambassador to France, Robert Livingston.
The cipher finally met its match in Lawren Smithline, a 36-year-old mathematician. Dr. Smithline has a Ph.D. in mathematics and now works professionally with cryptology, or code-breaking, at the Center for Communications Research in Princeton, N.J., a division of the Institute for Defense Analyses.
A couple of years ago, Dr. Smithline's neighbor, who was working on a Jefferson project at Princeton University, told Dr. Smithline of Mr. Patterson's mysterious cipher.
Dr. Smithline, intrigued, decided to take a look. "A problem like this cipher can keep me up at night," he says. After unlocking its hidden message in 2007, Dr. Smithline articulated his puzzle-solving techniques in a recent paper in the magazine American Scientist and also in a profile in Harvard Magazine, his alma mater's alumni journal........... In order to you study entire the article you select http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124648494429082661.html?mod=yhoofront
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«North Korea a suspect in cyber attacks in US»
AP–An official gives a briefing about cyber attacks at the National Police Agency in Seoul, South Korea,…
SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea, which has been firing missiles and spewing threats against the United States, was identified by South Korea's main spy agency Wednesday as a suspect in the cyber attacks targeting government and other Web sites in the U.S. and South Korea.
North Korea is not known for its computing prowess, but experts said such attacks would be easy — and cheap — to mount by hiring outside help.
South Korea's National Intelligence Service told members of parliament's intelligence committee Wednesday that Pyongyang or its sympathizers were believed to be behind the attacks, according to aides to two of the lawmakers. They spoke on condition of anonymity given the classified nature of the information.
The spy agency declined to confirm the information provided by the aides but said in a statement that the sophistication of the attacks suggested they were carried out at a higher level than just rogue or individual hackers.
The attacks, which began in the U.S. over the July 4 holiday and in South Korea on Tuesday, were thoroughly prepared and appeared to have been committed by hackers "at the level of a certain organization or state," the statement said.
It did not mention North Korea by name.
There does not appear to be any evidence that North Korea has ever made overt cyber threats. South Korean media reported in May that the North was running a cyber warfare unit that tries to hack into U.S. and South Korean military networks to gather confidential information and disrupt service.
The finger-pointing at North Korea comes as the communist nation has engaged in a series of threats and provocative actions widely condemned by the international community.
In early April, Pyongyang fired a long-range rocket it said was a satellite but that landed in the Pacific Ocean after flying over Japan. Later that month it threatened to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile and in May carried out an underground nuclear test, its second since 2006.
Last month, the North threatened a "thousand-fold" military retaliation against the U.S. and its allies if provoked.
Then, on July 4, North Korea fired seven ballistic missiles several hundred miles into waters off its east coast in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions. The launches were its biggest show of missile force since it fired seven missiles while Americans were celebrating Independence Day in 2006.
The latest missile launch came amid speculation, largely driven by a Japanese newspaper report, that North Korea might launch a long-range missile towar Hawaii to coincide with the U.S. Independence Day holiday. U.S. and South Korean defense and intelligence officials, however, said there was no evidence the North was preparing such a launch.
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