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Freedom Tower is to form the centrepiece of the World Trade Center site in New York, which was devastated by the al-Qaeda attacks five years ago.
Due for completion by 2011, the tower will soar 1,776ft (541m) into the sky and incorporate a number of features intended to ensure maximum safety and security.
| THE FREEDOM TOWER 1 High-level air intakes to minimise pollution, and chemical and biological filtering system
2 Central vertical core housing key safety features, including water-resistant lifts, pressurised fire-escape stairs and separate staircase for emergency workers
3 Extra-strong 3ft (1m) concrete casing protecting central core, sprinklers, emergency risers
4 Multi-layered glass curtain wall to protect building from explosions
A parapet at 1,368ft marks the height of the destroyed twin towers |
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A homeless man has found confidential blueprints for New York's new Freedom Tower dumped in a city rubbish bin.
Mike Fleming handed the documents - marked "Secure Document - Confidential" in to the New York Post newspaper.
The Freedom Tower is being built at Ground Zero, to replace the World Trade Centre towers destroyed on 9/11.
A spokeswoman apologised for the security breach and said that anyone found responsible would be liable for "serious disciplinary action".
'Game plan'
Mr Fleming said he was concerned that the documents might fall into the wrong hands.
"I was outraged, because this is priceless," he told the New York Post.
"This could have ended up on eBay or gotten to al-Qaeda."
The blueprints reveal details of the new building's floor plans, along with the specifications of its concrete walls and its heating and ventilation systems.
Steve Yang, an architect who spoke to the New York Post, said that the plans would have been helpful for a terrorist planning an attack.
"An expert in explosives, demolition or biological weapons certainly could glean enough here to develop a game plan," he said.
However, Candace McAdams, a spokeswoman for the Port Authority of New York which owns the site, said that the plans were "not very detailed" and available to anyone bidding on contracts.
The Port Authority will now conduct an inquiry to find out how the breach occurred.
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Like that embedded flash animation or game on a website and wanted to have it on your hard disk. You can do that if you are on Firefox. Its very simple, just load the webpage with the embedded flash animation on Firefox and go to Tools -> Page Info. Select the Media tab on the page info box.
A list appears which lists all media contents on the webpage like images, sounds,
flash etc with details like address of the file and the type. Scroll through the list and identify the flash file embedded on the page you want to save. One hint would be that its extension is .swf and it would be listed as 'Embed' type in the list. Once you find out the embedded flash file, select it and click on 'Save As' button below the list to save the file on your hard disk.
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www.youthsprouts.blogspot.com Enhance your web experience with Greasemonkey You may come across Greasemonkey scripts which does something useful but are clueless what the heck is Greasemonkey. If you already know about Greasemonkey, well go ahead and check out some other post on my blog, but if you don't know read on. Greasemonkey is a FireFox extension which once installed in FireFox lets you install scripts that make changes to Web Pages. Many times you wish for some feature while browsing your favorite site which isn't there. Like a download link to download videos when you browse YouTube. Install a Greasemonkey script and you'll have that feature. There are thousands of scripts available for various websites and if you know a bit of coding, you can build your own script. The summary is, Greasemonkey provides you with additional functionality for any web page by making on the fly changes to it. And as the scripts are persistent, the changes made to the web page are permanent. So what's you are waiting for. Go ahead and install this awesome extension and add that little feature to your favorite web page you were always wishing for. Download Greasemonkey Find thousands of Greasemonkey scripts Build your own Greasemonkey script. Tutorial and guide
How to create Firefox extension from Greasemonkey scripts
Here's an online tool which converts a Greasemonkey script into a FireFox extension (XPI). Its very easy to use, just enter details like GUID, creator name, extension version etc and copy paste the content of the user script and hit the 'Compile' button. The XPI file would be available for download immediately. Once you install the extension into Firefox, you can take advantage of the script even without Greasemonkey.
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Free Learn Yoga Software
MB Free Learn Yoga is an educational tool for learning the basics of yoga. This program is extremely simple and very useful for beginners who want to learn how to practice the different Yogas. It is an advanced yet handy software that provides information on every aspect of yoga, the different mudras, meditation, benefits of practicing yoga and meditation and the like.
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EvenFit
Track weightlifting, cardio, running, biking and swimming workouts
Design Workout Templates and schedule future workouts
Track body weight, calories, sleep and much more
Yoga freeware
yoga freeware features yoga instructions (hatha yoga, raja yoga & jnana yoga), articles and photos of asanas.
Exercise Diary
Exercise Diary fitness software accurately records and reports your workouts. Exercise Diary will help you to exceed your limits and achieve the body you desire. Lose fat and increase muscle mass. Every day you wait is a day of lost progress!
Exertrack-Exercise,fitness,workout log software
Exertrack is Exercise, workout and fitness software designed to keep you in shape.Exertrack software makes it easy to create and manage your workouts, as well as find and rank new workouts.
Visual Heart Rate
This free Heart Rate Monitor software allows you to make easy and accurate measurements of your heart rate (beats per minute).
Food File
Food File is a free food database and calorie counter for 1000s of food products.
BMR Calculator
How Many Calories Do You Need? Find Out with a BMR Calculator
Workrave
Workrave is a program that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). The program frequently alerts you to take micro-pauses, rest breaks and restricts you to your daily limit.
Free Blood Pressure Recorder Download
Use it daily with a blood pressure meter to keep check of what your blood pressure is doing. High Blood Pressure or Hypertension is very common and a major cause of premature death in the western world. If you are over 40 years old, you need to make sure you do not have it. If you do then you need to see a doctor for advice on how to treat it.
Pimp My Meal
Calory calculator with many features : BMI (body mass index) ,BMR ( basal metabolic rate )and caloric needs according to the Harris-Beneditc formula.
BMI Calculator for Windows
The 'What Health BMI Calc' is an easy to use body mass index calculator for Windows. Body Mass Index can be used to determine if an person is overweight. In keeping with the World Health Organisation (W.H.O.) recommendations, only height and weight measurements are needed to calculate BMI.
The Life Ahead Program
Manage Your Exercise and Cardiofitness
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manage Your Health and Life
DietControl
DietControl is absolutely free software tool for management your personal diet program. DietControl helps you to build a variety of diet programs, according to your specific nutritional needs. It is the easy way to build your meals according to the diet program. With help of DietControl you can track and compare your body measurements, you'll know exactly how well or poorly you're doing.
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This is the second in our series of articles showing how to deploy a Bluetooth Proximity Detection system with Asterisk@Home. Part I is here. When we’re finished, your system will automatically transfer incoming calls in your home or office to your cellphone or any other phone whenever you leave home base carrying your bluetooth-enabled cellphone or your bluetooth headset. You’ll recall that we recommended the headset approach because cellphones have a nasty habit of putting themselves and their bluetooth adapter to sleep when you’re not on the phone. If bluetooth on the phone is sleeping, we lose our ability to detect your comings and goings so be reasonable and do it our way. Use a bluetooth headset. Once you remove the earpiece, the bluetooth headset fits comfortably in your pocket and isn’t much larger than a flash drive. For our purposes the bluetooth headset will be functioning primarily as an electronic key although there’s no reason you can’t also use it in conjunction with either your bluetooth cellphone, or a softphone connected to your primary Asterisk@Home PBX, or all of the above. The major difference in our approach and some of the other proximity detection systems which (still) are on the drawing boards is cost. Our bluetooth headset “key” costs roughly $30 delivered to your door. Most of the corporate dream systems require a $200 badge (to do the same thing) and then an incredibly expensive server (to do what we’re doing with an old clunker PC). So, yes, open source technology is a very good thing for all of us. And it deserves your financial support. Here’s a link if you’d like to make a contribution in any amount to the Asterisk@Home project. End of sermon.
NOTE: This article has been updated to take advantage of TrixBox, freePBX, and the iPhone. For the current article, click here.
#!/usr/bin/ruby #file: whereib.rb deviceid = '00:0E:6D:29:38:EB' devicename = 'Nokia 6600' count = 0 while count < 1 if `hcitool name #{deviceid}`.chomp == devicename puts devicename + ' IN RANGE' puts Time.now else puts devicename + ' OUT OF RANGE' puts Time.now end sleep 7 end__
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import messaging messaging.sms_send(number, text)Sending/Receiving SMS from MIDlets
// Lets send an SMS now. //get a reference to the appropriate Connection object using an appropriate url MessageConnection conn = (MessageConnection) Connector.open("sms://:50001"); //generate a new text message TextMessage tmsg = (TextMessage) conn.newMessage(MessageConnection.TEXT_MESSAGE); //set the message text and the address tmsg.setPayloadText(message); tmsg.setAddress("sms://" + number); //finally send our message conn.send();
// Time to receive one. //get reference to MessageConnection object MessageConnection conn = (MessageConnection) Connector.open("sms://:50001"); //set message listener conn.setMessageListener( new MessageListener() { public void notifyIncomingMessage(MessageConnection conn) { Message msg = conn.receive(); //do whatever you want with the message if(msg instanceof TextMessage) { TextMessage tmsg = (TextMessage) msg; System.out.println(tmsg.getPayloadText()); } else if(msg instanceof BinaryMessage) { ..... } else { ...... } } } );
Send and receive SMS text messages with Ruby and a GSM/GPRS modem
require 'serialport' require 'time' class GSM SMSC = "+447785016005" # SMSC for Vodafone UK - change for other networks def initialize(options = {}) @port = SerialPort.new(options[:port] || 3, options[:baud] || 38400, options[:bits] || 8, options[:stop] || 1, SerialPort::NONE) @debug = options[:debug] cmd("AT") # Set to text mode cmd("AT+CMGF=1") # Set SMSC number cmd("AT+CSCA=\"#{SMSC}\"") end def close @port.close end def cmd(cmd) @port.write(cmd + "\r") wait end def wait buffer = '' while IO.select([@port], [], [], 0.25) chr = @port.getc.chr; print chr if @debug == true buffer += chr end buffer end def send_sms(options) cmd("AT+CMGS=\"#{options[:number]}\"") cmd("#{options[:message][0..140]}#{26.chr}\r\r") sleep 3 wait cmd("AT") end class SMS attr_accessor :id, :sender, :message, :connection attr_writer :time def initialize(params) @id = params[:id]; @sender = params[:sender]; @time = params[:time]; @message = params[:message]; @connection = params[:connection] end def delete @connection.cmd("AT+CMGD=#{@id}") end def time # This MAY need to be changed for non-UK situations, I'm not sure # how standardized SMS timestamps are.. Time.parse(@time.sub(/(\d+)\D+(\d+)\D+(\d+)/, '\2/\3/20\1')) end end def messages sms = cmd("AT+CMGL=\"ALL\"") # Ugly, ugly, ugly! msgs = sms.scan(/\+CMGL\:\s*?(\d+)\,.*?\,\"(.+?)\"\,.*?\,\"(.+?)\".*?\n(.*)/) return nil unless msgs msgs.collect!{ |m| GSM::SMS.new(:connection => self, :id => m[0], :sender => m[1], :time => m[2], :message => m[3].chomp) } rescue nil end end destination_number = "+44 someone else" p = GSM.new(:debug => false) # Send a text message p.send_sms(:number => destination_number, :message => "Test at #{Time.now}") # Read text messages from phone p.messages.each do |msg| puts "#{msg.id} - #{msg.time} - #{msg.sender} - #{msg.message}" # msg.delete end
Python - SendSMS over BT and AT import bluetooth sockfd = bluetooth.BluetoothSocket(bluetooth.RFCOMM) sockfd.connect(('00:00:00:00:00:00', 1)) # BT Address sockfd.send('ATZ\r') sockfd.send('AT+CMGF=1\r') sockfd.send('AT+CSCA="+393359609600"\r') # Client TIM ITA sockfd.send('AT+CMGS="+39xxxxxxxxxx"\r') # TO PhoneNumber sockfd.send('Messaggio da mandare...\n') sockfd.send(chr(26)) # CTRL+Z sockfd.close()
Pop star Britney Spears has been involved in a minor road accident on the Ventura Freeway in Los Angeles.
The 26-year-old was driving her Mercedes through slow-moving traffic when she struck a Nissan which had stopped in front of her, police said.
The Nissan bumped into another vehicle but there was no damage and nobody in any of the cars was injured.
Officers from the California Highway Patrol went to the scene but no charges will be brought, a spokesman said.
This is not the first time that Spears has been involved in a traffic accident.
Last August she escaped a hit-and-run charge after paying an undisclosed amount of money to the owner of a vehicle into which she allegedly crashed in a car park.
And in 2006 Spears admitted making a "mistake" after being photographed driving with one of her sons on her lap, rather than strapped into a baby's car seat.
The singer's father, James Spears, currently has control of her assets.
He was granted what is known as "temporary conservatorship" in February after she was admitted to a psychiatric ward.
Spears' publicist did not respond to an e-mail message sent by the Associated Press requesting a comment on the latest incident. __
European politicians have voted down calls to throw suspected file-sharers off the net.
The idea to cut off persistent pirates formed part of a wide-ranging report on creative industries written for the European parliament.
But in a narrow vote MEPs backed an amendment to the report which said net bans conflicted with "civil liberties and human rights".
It puts MEPS at odds with governments planning tough action against pirates.
Piracy police
"The vote shows that MEPs want to strike a balance between the interests of rights holders and those of consumers, and that big measures like cutting off internet access shouldn't be used," said a spokeswoman for the European Parliament after the vote.
The amendment was added to the so-called Bono Report on the Cultural Industries. This was written by French MEP Guy Bono to inform forthcoming European parliament policy that would encourage growth in the region's creative industries.
The amendment called on the EC and its member nations to "avoid adopting measures conflicting with civil liberties and human rights and with the principles of proportionality, effectiveness and dissuasiveness, such as the interruption of internet access."
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), which represents Europe's music industry, said the amendment was "badly drafted" and contradicted the rest of the report.
"We look forward to a full discussion in the European Parliament in the coming months on how best to address copyright theft online," said the IFPI.
The vote has no legal force and leaves national governments free to implement their own anti-piracy plans.
But, said the Open Rights Group, it does "signify resistance" among European law makers to the strict measures that nations such as France are implementing.
In late November 2007 France announced its intention to implement a law that turns net firms into anti-piracy watchdogs.
Information gathered about individuals who persistently share music and movies online will be passed to a government unit that will issue warnings or ask for an individual's net access to be suspended or shut off.
The British government has floated similar plans but net firms have rejected calls for them to act as watchdogs. __Inside the spintronics chamber: IBM's Kevin Roche shows how he is designing an entirely new way of storing data.
Handheld gadgets storing thousands of hours of film footage could soon be a reality thanks to IBM scientists.
Researchers for the computer giant are working on a technology known as racetrack memory which uses tiny magnetic boundaries to store data.
In a paper in the journal Science, the team at IBM's Almaden lab in California outline ways to make the building blocks of the novel storage medium.
The capacity of MP3 players could increase 100 times from present levels.
But the IBM team say racetrack memory is still seven to eight years away from commercial use.
Memory boost
Currently most desktop computers use flash memory and hard drives to store data - both have their advantages and disadvantages.
Hard drives are cheap but their moving parts mean they are not very durable. They are also slow in that they typically take a few milliseconds to find and fetch data.
By contrast flash memory is more reliable and data can be read from it much faster though it has a finite lifespan and is expensive compared to hard drives.
The work being done on racetrack memory by Dr Parkin and colleagues could produce a storage medium that is cheap, durable and fast.
Ultimately, said Dr Parkin, racetrack memory could replace both flash and hard drives in computers and other gadgets.
"We have demonstrated the physics and materials underlying racetrack memory," said Dr Stuart Parkin, an IBM fellow at the Almaden laboratory.
"It's now possible to build a racetrack memory though we've not built one yet," he said.
The racetrack memory stores data in the boundaries, known as domain walls, between magnetic regions in nanowires.
The medium gets its name because the data races around the wire or track as it is read or written.
Spintronics memory might mean devices that can hold 500,000 songs |
The domain walls are read by exploiting the weak magnetic fields generated by the spin of electrons.
The tiny amounts of power needed to exploit these fields means racetrack memory generates far less heat than existing devices.
Many modern computers already use spintronics to improve the density of data on a hard drive.
In the paper in Science and an accompanying review, Dr Parkin, Masamitsu Hayashi and colleagues describe their progress towards making the building blocks of racetrack memory.
The team has been able to create, move and detect the tiny magnetic boundaries "properly timed, nanosecond long, spin-polarized current pulses" and have paved the way towards creating working racetrack memory systems.
The team has also shown how to fabricate the slim wires that would form the racetracks on which data is stored.
If the expected data densities of the technology are realised it could mean gadgets that have about 100 times more memory on board than is possible today. It would mean that a portable MP3 player could hold up to 500,000 songs.
"We are embarking on a path to build a prototype," said Dr Parkin. He said it could take up to four years to produce that prototype and a further three or four to refine it for commercial use. __
With the new 3-series, designers will attempt to address criticisms of the current car’s awkward styling and lack of interior space. These renderings, compiled using information from sources close to the project show that the new car will have a pronounced kidney-grille with the air-intakes positioned on either side of the bumper just below the headlights.
New options for the 2012 3-series will include hybrid variants as well as the latest version of BMW’s Efficient Dynamics. The X-Drive AWD system is likely to gain favour thanks to a redesign of the system to reduce weight, which will only increase fuel consumption by 0.5L per 100km over RWD models.
Other features that may make it to production include night-vision devices, a heads-up display and radar safety systems.
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A site of which this blogger previously wasn't aware is reporting that the body of the soon-to-be-revealed Tesla WhiteStar sedan was originally penned by one Henrik Fisker. According to Street Import Online, a mole deep within San Carlos has spilled the beans that the designer who recently unveiled his own plug-in hybrid super sedan, the Fisker Karma (above), had previously been contracted by Tesla Motors for its second product. According to Street Import Online, Tesla had backed out of a deal to have Fisker create the body for the WhiteStar electric sedan but kept the design.
We contacted Tesla's Marketing VP Darryl Siry to verify the accuracy of this story, and Siry declined to either confirm or deny the report, which you can interpret however you choose. If the story is true, it may well have prompted Fisker to pursue building a similar vehicle under his own name, which led to the Karma. The WhiteStar sedan is planned as a battery electric sedan, although Tesla has acknowledged that is also developing a range-extended electric hybrid version. Regardless of who actually drew the WhiteStar, Tesla has said it plans to reveal the sedan's design later this Spring after it begins delivering a steady stream of EV Roadsters.
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Like most rendered ruminations, we know absolutely nothing about these digital drawings of a car named the Aston Martin AM V10, other than they were penned by someone who goes by Sabaman. They're not new either, having been uploaded onto the interwebs about a year ago. Nevertheless, they're very good and show off a vision for Aston Martin's future that's become all the more relevant since the brand's been sold by Ford. Perhaps building ever faster versions of its current lineup won't cut the mustard someday soon, and Aston will begin considering a proper halo car. Such a low-slung, mid-engine exotic like this AM V10 concept could do the trick. It's swoopy with a familiar Aston Martin front face, but the rest of the body is pure sex. Again, we reiterate, these renderings are purely fantasy and nothing like this is being planned, but we wouldn't mind if it were. Thanks for the tip, Timon!
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