Orioles Highlight: Manny Machado hits 23rd HR, Gerardo Parra 1-for-3 with run in team debut, a 6-2 win over Tigers (ESPN)

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[FD] Vulnerability in VirtueMart for Joomla

Hello list! This is Brute Force vulnerability in VirtueMart for Joomla. Which is at order details page.

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PSG beats Lyon 2-0 in French league curtain raiser

MONTREAL (AP) Paris Saint-Germain won the Trophee des Champions for the second straight year 2-0 over Lyon on Saturday.

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Wolfsburg beats Bayern on penalties to win German Super Cup

WOLFSBURG, Germany (AP) Nicklas Bendtner scored a late equalizer and converted the decisive penalty to give Wolfsburg the German Super Cup title over Bayern Munich on Saturday.

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Zenit, CSKA win in Russian Premier League

MOSCOW (AP) Russian Premier League title rivals Zenit St. Petersburg and CSKA Moscow won to stay on top of the table on Saturday.

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Orioles: RHP Mike Wright on 15-day DL with left calf strain; RHP Jorge Rondon recalled (2-1, 2.01 ERA, 40.1 IP Triple-A) (ESPN)

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Re: [FD] Symantec Endpoint Protection

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Automatic create anonymous-user,and management with accounts-password.

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How Spies Could Unmask Tor Users without Cracking Encryption

The Onion Router (Tor) is weeping Badly! Yes, Tor browser is in danger of being caught once again by the people commonly known as "Spies," who's one and only intention is to intrude into others’ network and gather information. A team of security researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed digital attacks that can be used to unmask Tor hidden services in

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Stephan Beckenbauer, son of Franz, dies at 46

MUNICH (AP) Bayern Munich says the son of former club great Franz Beckenbauer, Stephan, has died after a long illness. He was 46.

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How to Hack Millions of Android Phones Using Stagefright Bug, Without Sending MMS

Earlier this week, security researchers at Zimperium revealed a high-severity vulnerability in Android platforms that allowed a single multimedia text message to hack 950 Million Android smartphones and tablets. As explained in our previous article, the critical flaw resides in a core Android component called "Stagefright," a native Android media playback library used by Android to process

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Vue anonymous function variable scope

isUserAlreadyChanged : function(email, version) { var value = 0; this.$http.post('/api/isUserChangeMe', {email: email, version: version, _token: ...

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AntiVirus Firm BitDefender Hacked; Turns Out Stored Passwords Are UnEncrypted

Forget about Financial services and Online shopping websites, but at least we expect from Security Firms and Antivirus vendors to keep our personal and Sensitive data Encrypted and Secured. One of the most popular and much-respected Antivirus and computer security firms 'BitDefender' has recently been hacked and has had a portion of its customer data leaked. The Data Breach in

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[FD] Symantec Endpoint Protection

Code White found several vulnerabilities in Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP), affecting versions 12.1 prior to 12.1 RU6 MP1. SEP Manager (SEPM): * CVE-2015-1486: Authentication Bypass * CVE-2015-1487: Arbitrary File Write * CVE-2015-1488: Arbitrary File Read * CVE-2015-1489: Privilege Escalation * CVE-2015-1490: Path Traversal * CVE-2015-1491: SQL Injection SEP clients: * CVE-2015-1492: Binary Planting Official Symantec advisory SYM15-007: http://ift.tt/1JCsfwQ An exploitation of these vulnerabilities effectively allow an unauthenticated remote attacker the full compromise of both the SEPM server as well as SEP clients running Windows. This can result in a full compromise of an enterprise Windows domain. Symantec provided the update 12.1 RU6 MP1 to address the issues. For a full disclosure of some of the vulnerabilities, see: http://ift.tt/1KH3fTI

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[FD] PhotoPost PHP 4.8c Cookie Based Stored XSS (Cross-site Scripting) Web Application 0-Day Bug

The ISS and a Colorful Moon

Tonight's Full Moon, the second Full Moon in July, could be called a blue moon according to modern folklore. But this sharp and detailed mosaic, recorded with telescope and digital camera just before July's first Full Moon, actually does show a colorful lunar surface. The colors have been enhanced in the processed image but are real nonetheless, corresponding to real differences in the chemical makeup of the lunar surface. Also easy to see especially when the Moon is near full phase, bright rays from 85 kilometer wide Tycho crater at the upper right extend far across the lunar surface. Against the southern lunar highlands above and right of Tycho is an amazingly detailed silhouette of the International Space Station. Seen from Byron Bay, NSW Australia on June 30, the ISS lunar transit lasted about 1/3 of a second, captured with a fast shutter speed in burst mode. via NASA http://ift.tt/1KEiFIp

Orioles Highlight: Adam Jones hits 3-run HR, Machado belts go-ahead 2-run HR, rally from 6 runs down to beat Tigers 8-7 (ESPN)

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... Reading: 760; SAT Math: 770; SAT Writing: 770; Combined SAT: 2300; Selectivity Index™: 909. Anonymous has not listed any extracurriculars.

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Ex-coach rejoins Oklahoma City soccer team after acquittal

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) A former Oklahoma City soccer coach who was accused in the death of an off-duty police officer in England plans to rejoin the organization after he was cleared of all charges.

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Fired Mexican soccer coach probed for political tweets

MEXICO CITY (AP) The trouble isn't over for fired Mexico national soccer team coach Miguel Herrera, who is now under investigation for possible violations of electoral laws for politically oriented tweets sent the day of June 7 midterm elections.

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Orlando City unveils new stadium design, completion set for 12 to 14 months

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) Orlando City Soccer officials said Friday that their new downtown stadium is expected to be completed by the end of the 2016 season.

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Orioles: RP Tommy Hunter traded to Cubs for Triple-A OF Junior Lake (ESPN)

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Defendant in FIFA case appears in US court

NEW YORK (AP) An Argentinian businessman has pleaded not guilty in the FIFA soccer scandal.

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Spain replaces women's soccer coach Quereda after 27 years

MADRID (AP) Spain's national women's soccer team has a new coach for the first time in 27 years after Jorge Vilda was hired to replace Ignacio Quereda, who had been in charge since 1988.

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Orioles: Buster Olney says team \"could still make a Yoenis Cespedes deal work, even after getting Gerardo Parra\" (ESPN)

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Defendant in FIFA case to appear in US court

NEW YORK (AP) An Argentinian businessman has arrived in the United States to face charges in the FIFA soccer scandal.

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Orioles: Team agrees to trade with Brewers to acquire OF Gerardo Parra for RHP Zach Davies, pending physicals - reports (ESPN)

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Windows 10 Wi-Fi Sense Explained: Actual Security Threat You Need to Know

Just one day after Microsoft released its new operating system, over 14 Million Windows users upgraded their PCs to Windows 10. Of course, if you are one of the Millions, you should aware of Windows 10's Wi-Fi Sense feature that lets your friends automatically connects to your wireless network without providing the Wi-Fi password. Smells like a horrible Security Risk! It even triggered

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ISS Daily Summary Report – 07/30/15

Status:  Capillary Flow Experiment-2 (CFE-2)-Vane Gap: Yui successfully configured the CFE-2 Vane Gap experiment including the lighting and video camera for appropriate viewing and data collection. He used the CFE-2 vessel to observe the fluid interface and critical wetting behavior in the cylindrical chamber with an elliptical cross-section adjustable central perforated valve. This was the 101st run of CFE-2.  The goal of the Vane Gap experiment is to determine equilibrium interface configurations and critical wetting conditions for interfaces between interior corners separated by a gap.  CFE involves many studies centered on a phenomenon called wetting which is the ability and degree that a liquid spreads across a surface. The original CFE tests were highly successful at uncovering the dynamics of wetting in microgravity. CFE-2 determines the critical wetting conditions for screens and perforated plates for perfectly wetting fluids. The impact of such ‘porous substrates’ has immediate implications to the design of passive geometries to manage highly wetting fuels, cryogens, thermal fluids, and contaminated aqueous solutions for urine processing. The unique vane gap critical wetting phenomena is greatly complicated by the presence of three-dimensional (3-D) porous walls. Human Research Program (HRP) Operations:  Today’s HRP operations included Lindgren’s Flight Day (FD) 7 blood draw for the Microbiome experiment.  He and Yui also collected FD7 Microbiome saliva samples.  Both sets of samples were inserted into Minus Eighty Degree Celsius Laboratory Freezer for ISS (MELFI) for return on a future flight.   The Microbiome experiment investigates the impact of space travel on both the human immune system and an individual’s microbiome (the collection of microbes that live in and on the human body at any given time). Salivary Markers samples will be used to measure markers of latent viral reactivation (a global indicator of immune impairment and infection risk) in conjunction with salivary antimicrobial proteins and immune cell functional assays. This research study will help identify if there are any risks of an adverse health event in crewmembers due to an impaired immune system.   Node 1 (N1) Galley Rack Prep: Kelly continued with N1 reorganization of stowage, including moving infrequently used hardware to the Permanent Multipurpose Module (PMM). This reorganization is required to make room for the new Galley Rack that arrives on HTV-5. Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) 3011 Return To Service (RTS): So far this week Lindgren and Kelly have completed gas trap, Water Line Vent Tube Assembly (WLVTA) and Fan Pump Separator (FPS) Remove & Replace (R&R) as well as cleaning and inspecting the Primary Life Support System (PLSS). Today, following cleanup from the FPS R&R, the crew performed a water tank dump and fill for EMUs 3005 and 3011 followed by a EMU 3011 flush, 60mL water sample and O2 leak checks. Tomorrow Kelly is scheduled to perform ionic and particulate filtration and bioicidal maintenance of EMU and Airlock cooling water loops. High Beta Operations:  Today the solar beta angle is +69.2 and increasing in magnitude. The beta angle is expected to peak at +69.6 on GMT 213 (8/1/15).  Tonight ground specialist will be configuring power channel batteries in a high beta configuration to prevent overcharging.  Today’s Planned Activities   All activities were completed unless otherwise noted.   NEIROIMMUNITET. Saliva Sampling Stress Test. HRF – Sample Collection and Prep for Stowage HRF Sample Collection MORZE. Measuring Bioimpedance using SPRUT-2 HRF – Sample MELFI Insertion HRF Blood Draw HRF Blood Sample Collection (operator) NEIROIMMUNITET. CORRECTSIA. MORZE. Blood Collection. CORRECTSIA. MORZE. Venous blood sample processing using Plasma-03 centrifuge. NEIROIMMUNITET. Venous blood sample processing (smear) HRF Refrigerated Centrifuge Configuration NEIROIMMUNITET. Venous blood sample processing using Plasma-03 centrifuge. NEIROIMMUNITET. CORRECTSIA. Closeout Ops. Blood Samples Handover from Russian crew to USOS in Preparation for MELFI Insertion COSMOCARD. Preparation Ops. Starting 24-hr ECG Recording HRF – Blood Sample Collection Closeout Ops CONSTANTA-2. Cassette removal from TBU-V and setup on panel 418 for 1-hour warmup Russian Crew Blood Samples Insertion into MELFI HRF – Sample MELFI Insertion HRF Blood Collection Hardware Stowage Disconnecting Condensate Tank from Waste Water Bus CFE – Preparation and Hardware Setup BIOME – Survey Completion WRM Condensate Pumping Start MORZE. Psycho-physiological Evaluation: Tsentrovka, SENSOR Tests SM interior panels 313, 314, 317, 321 and 334 dimension check before repair activities to install cover  plates on SM interior panels CORRECTSIA. Logging Liquid and Food (Medicine) Intake Node 1 Galley Rack Prep CONSTANTA-2. Prep and Execution 2. NEIROIMMUNITET. Psychological Testing NEIROIMMUNITET. Hair Sampling WRM Condensate Pumping Terminate Connecting the wastewater bus to the Lab Condensate Tank and disconnecting it from WPA DC1 EVA Support Panel (ПОВ) Test. MORZE. Psycho-physiological Evaluation: SUPOS Test VEG-01 – Plant Pillow Fill CFE – Test Ops Hand Ergometry Assessment. ТК 717 Transfers and IMS Ops ПхО EVA Support Panel (ПОВ) Checkout. EMU – Water Tank Dump and Fill PEV Activation Test from DC1 ПОВ (EVA Support Panel). PEV activation test from ПхО EVA Support Panel EMU – Flush CORRECTSIA. Logging Liquid and Food (Medicine) Intake Replacement of urine receptacle (МП) and filter-insert (Ф-В) in АСУ АСУ Activation after Replacement DOUG Review On-orbit Hearing Assessment using EARQ СОЖ Maintenance BIOME – Sampling Setup Review EVA Translation Paths and Work Zones using DOUG Application. Review EVA Translation Paths and Work Zones through ISS Windows. CFE – Hardware stow Familiarization with Auxiliary Computer System. PAO Hardware Setup Crew time for ISS adaptation and orientation PAO crew prep PAO Event during a Year Long Mission INTERACTION-2. Experiment Ops Flight Director / ISS Crew Tagup (Ku+S-band) NEIROIMMUNITET. Saliva Sampling Stress Test CORRECTSIA. Logging Liquid and Food (Medicine) Intake   Completed Task List Items None  Ground Activities All activities were completed unless otherwise noted. EMU flush support VEG-01 test ops Three-Day Look Ahead: Friday, 07/31: Sound Level Measurements, Microbiome Saturday, 08/01: Crew off duty, housekeeping Sunday, 08/02: Crew off duty, HRF sample collection QUICK ISS Status – Environmental Control Group:                                   Component Status Elektron Off Vozdukh Manual [СКВ] 1 – SM Air Conditioner System (“SKV1”) Off [СКВ] 2 – SM Air Conditioner System (“SKV2”) Off Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly (CDRA) Lab Standby Carbon Dioxide Removal […]

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Mutko set to take control of Russian football union

MOSCOW (AP) Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko is expected to take control of the country's football association.

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Coach Pep Guardiola still undecided about Bayern future

MUNICH (AP) Coach Pep Guardiola says he is still undecided about his Bayern Munich future.

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Most Vulnerable Smart Cities to Cyber Attack on Internet of Things (IoT)

Imagine… You drive to work in your Smart-Car connected to the GPS automatically, but a hacker breaks into your car's network, takes control of the steering wheel, crashes you into a tree, and BOOM! Believe it or not, such Cyber Attacks on smart devices are becoming Reality. Car Hacking was recently demonstrated by a pair of security researchers who controlled a Jeep Cherokee

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Anonymous Devil

Anonymous Devil. 31868 likes · 1790 talking about this. Anonymous Devil Quando a Indignação te domina e você parte para ação fazendo uma ...

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New Zealand appeals Olympics disqualification

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) New Zealand Football has appealed the disqualification of its Under-23 team from the Oceania Olympic qualifying tournament for use of an ineligible player.

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Alcoholics Anonymous

Alcoholics Anonymous - aka "The Big Book". Posted by Josiah Austin Gulden, on Product Hunt.

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Anonymous donor funding IUD studies and distribution turns out to be Warren Buffett

Thanks to a $24 million donation from an anonymous source, a public health clinic in Colorado has been able to give out pricey IUDs to low-income ...

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Milky Way over Uluru

The central regions of our Milky Way Galaxy rise above Uluru/Ayers Rock in this striking night skyscape. Recorded on July 13, a faint airglow along the horizon shows off central Australia's most recognizable landform in silhouette. Of course the Milky Way's own cosmic dust clouds appear in silhouette too, dark rifts along the galaxy's faint congeries of stars. Above the central bulge, rivers of cosmic dust converge on a bright yellowish supergiant star Antares. Left of Antares, wandering Saturn shines in the night. via NASA http://ift.tt/1H4Flwz

Orioles Video: Adam Jones and Chris Davis both homer as rally attempt falls just short in 9-8 loss to Tigers (ESPN)

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Anonymous tip-off sparks Italian car rental investigation

Anonymous tip-off sparks Italian car rental investigation. Thursday, 30 July 2015 (34 minutes ago). Tom Madge-Wyld. (Credit: Håkan Dahlström, Flickr).

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Optimal estimates for short horizon travel time prediction in urban areas. (arXiv:1507.08444v1 [cs.AI])

Increasing popularity of mobile route planning applications based on GPS technology provides opportunities for collecting traffic data in urban environments. One of the main challenges for travel time estimation and prediction in such a setting is how to aggregate data from vehicles that have followed different routes, and predict travel time for other routes of interest. One approach is to predict travel times for route segments, and sum those estimates to obtain a prediction for the whole route. We study how to obtain optimal predictions in this scenario. It appears that the optimal estimate, minimizing the expected mean absolute error, is a combination of the mean and the median travel times on each segment, where the combination function depends on the number of segments in the route of interest. We present a methodology for obtaining such predictions, and demonstrate its effectiveness with a case study using travel time data from a district of St. Petersburg collected over one year. The proposed methodology can be applied for real-time prediction of expected travel times in an urban road network.

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A Model for Foraging Ants, Controlled by Spiking Neural Networks and Double Pheromones. (arXiv:1507.08467v1 [cs.NE])

A model of an Ant System where ants are controlled by a spiking neural circuit and a second order pheromone mechanism in a foraging task is presented. A neural circuit is trained for individual ants and subsequently the ants are exposed to a virtual environment where a swarm of ants performed a resource foraging task. The model comprises an associative and unsupervised learning strategy for the neural circuit of the ant. The neural circuit adapts to the environment by means of classical conditioning. The initially unknown environment includes different types of stimuli representing food and obstacles which, when they come in direct contact with the ant, elicit a reflex response in the motor neural system of the ant: moving towards or away from the source of the stimulus. The ants are released on a landscape with multiple food sources where one ant alone would have difficulty harvesting the landscape to maximum efficiency. The introduction of a double pheromone mechanism yields better results than traditional ant colony optimization strategies. Traditional ant systems include mainly a positive reinforcement pheromone. This approach uses a second pheromone that acts as a marker for forbidden paths (negative feedback). This blockade is not permanent and is controlled by the evaporation rate of the pheromones. The combined action of both pheromones acts as a collective stigmergic memory of the swarm, which reduces the search space of the problem. This paper explores how the adaptation and learning abilities observed in biologically inspired cognitive architectures is synergistically enhanced by swarm optimization strategies. The model portraits two forms of artificial intelligent behaviour: at the individual level the spiking neural network is the main controller and at the collective level the pheromone distribution is a map towards the solution emerged by the colony.

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Framework for learning agents in quantum environments. (arXiv:1507.08482v1 [quant-ph])

In this paper we provide a broad framework for describing learning agents in general quantum environments. We analyze the types of classically specified environments which allow for quantum enhancements in learning, by contrasting environments to quantum oracles. We show that whether or not quantum improvements are at all possible depends on the internal structure of the quantum environment. If the environments are constructed and the internal structure is appropriately chosen, or if the agent has limited capacities to influence the internal states of the environment, we show that improvements in learning times are possible in a broad range of scenarios. Such scenarios we call luck-favoring settings. The case of constructed environments is particularly relevant for the class of model-based learning agents, where our results imply a near-generic improvement.

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CRISNER: A Practically Efficient Reasoner for Qualitative Preferences. (arXiv:1507.08559v1 [cs.AI])

We present CRISNER (Conditional & Relative Importance Statement Network PrEference Reasoner), a tool that provides practically efficient as well as exact reasoning about qualitative preferences in popular ceteris paribus preference languages such as CP-nets, TCP-nets, CP-theories, etc. The tool uses a model checking engine to translate preference specifications and queries into appropriate Kripke models and verifiable properties over them respectively. The distinguishing features of the tool are: (1) exact and provably correct query answering for testing dominance, consistency with respect to a preference specification, and testing equivalence and subsumption of two sets of preferences; (2) automatic generation of proofs evidencing the correctness of answer produced by CRISNER to any of the above queries; (3) XML inputs and outputs that make it portable and pluggable into other applications. We also describe the extensible architecture of CRISNER, which can be extended to new reference formalisms based on ceteris paribus semantics that may be developed in the future.

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The RatioLog Project: Rational Extensions of Logical Reasoning. (arXiv:1503.06087v2 [cs.AI] UPDATED)

Higher-level cognition includes logical reasoning and the ability of question answering with common sense. The RatioLog project addresses the problem of rational reasoning in deep question answering by methods from automated deduction and cognitive computing. In a first phase, we combine techniques from information retrieval and machine learning to find appropriate answer candidates from the huge amount of text in the German version of the free encyclopedia "Wikipedia". In a second phase, an automated theorem prover tries to verify the answer candidates on the basis of their logical representations. In a third phase - because the knowledge may be incomplete and inconsistent -, we consider extensions of logical reasoning to improve the results. In this context, we work toward the application of techniques from human reasoning: We employ defeasible reasoning to compare the answers w.r.t. specificity, deontic logic, normative reasoning, and model construction. Moreover, we use integrated case-based reasoning and machine learning techniques on the basis of the semantic structure of the questions and answer candidates to learn giving the right answers.

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Quantifying Creativity in Art Networks. (arXiv:1506.00711v1 [cs.AI] CROSS LISTED)

Can we develop a computer algorithm that assesses the creativity of a painting given its context within art history? This paper proposes a novel computational framework for assessing the creativity of creative products, such as paintings, sculptures, poetry, etc. We use the most common definition of creativity, which emphasizes the originality of the product and its influential value. The proposed computational framework is based on constructing a network between creative products and using this network to infer about the originality and influence of its nodes. Through a series of transformations, we construct a Creativity Implication Network. We show that inference about creativity in this network reduces to a variant of network centrality problems which can be solved efficiently. We apply the proposed framework to the task of quantifying creativity of paintings (and sculptures). We experimented on two datasets with over 62K paintings to illustrate the behavior of the proposed framework. We also propose a methodology for quantitatively validating the results of the proposed algorithm, which we call the "time machine experiment".

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James Woods Sues Anonymous Twitter User For $10 Million

According to court papers filed in Los Angeles, Academy Award-nominated actor James Woods filed a $10 million defamation lawsuit Wednesday ...

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President of CONCACAF to review refereeing department

MIAMI (AP) CONCACAF's referee department will be reviewed following controversial decisions in the Gold Cup.

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President of CONCACAF to review refereeing department

MIAMI (AP) The president of CONCACAF says he will conduct a review of the organization's refereeing department.

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French soccer referee gets 4-month suspension

PARIS (AP) Referee Said Ennjimi has been handed a four-month suspension by the French football federation after criticizing his superiors following an incident in which he asked players for autographed jerseys.

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Correction: FIFA-Zimbabwe Fined story

ZURICH (AP) In a story July 29 about FIFA fining Zimbabwe's football association for failing to show up for a women's Olympic qualifier, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Zimbabwe had later withdrawn from the qualifying competition. Zimbabwe only withdrew from the first leg.

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ISS Daily Summary Report – 07/29/15

Capillary Flow Experiment-2 (CFE-2)-Vane Gap: Yui reviewed onboard training materials prior to configuring the CFE Vane Gap experiment on the Maintenance Work Area (MWA).  He configured the assembly to create appropriate conditions within the CFE chamber for fluids to fill the small perforations within the chamber. The primary objective of Vane Gap is to determine equilibrium interface configurations and critical wetting conditions for interfaces between interior corners separated by a gap. Secondary objectives are to determine critical wetting transient as well as to validate numerical predictions of the large length scale discontinuous or near discontinuous wetting phenomena.  CFE involves many studies centered on a phenomenon called wetting. Wetting describes the ability and degree that a liquid spreads across a surface. The original CFE tests were highly successful at uncovering the dynamics of wetting in microgravity. Capillary Flow Experiment -2 (CFE-2) determines the critical wetting conditions for screens and perforated plates for perfectly wetting fluids. The impact of such ‘porous substrates’ has immediate implications to the design of passive geometries to manage highly wetting fuels, cryogens, thermal fluids, and contaminated aqueous solutions for urine processing. The unique vane gap critical wetting phenomena is greatly complicated by the presence of three-dimensional (3-D) porous walls. Human Research Program (HRP) Operations:  Today’s HRP operations included the Flight Day (FD) 6 Cognition, FD7 Microbiome and FD10 Salivary Markers for Yui; Habitability Observation #6 for Kelly; and the Microbiome questionnaire for Lindgren. The Biochemical Profile experiment tests blood and urine samples obtained from astronauts before, during, and after spaceflight. Specific proteins and chemicals in the samples are used as biomarkers, or indicators of health. Post-flight analysis yields a database of samples and test results, which scientists can use to study the effects of spaceflight on the body. The Microbiome experiment investigates the impact of space travel on both the human immune system and an individual’s microbiome (the collection of microbes that live in and on the human body at any given time). Individualized Real-Time Neurocognitive Assessment Toolkit for Space Flight Fatigue (Cognition) is a battery of tests that measure how spaceflight-related physical changes, such as microgravity and lack of sleep, can affect cognitive performance. Salivary Markers samples will be used to measure markers of latent viral reactivation (a global indicator of immune impairment and infection risk) in conjunction with salivary antimicrobial proteins and immune cell functional assays. This research study will help identify if there are any risks of an adverse health event in crewmembers due to an impaired immune system. Habitability assesses the relationship between crew members and their environment in order to better prepare for future long-duration spaceflights to destinations, such as Near Earth Asteroids (NEA) and Mars. The ultimate goal is to understand how much habitable volume is required for vehicle internal design and layout, and if mission duration impacts the volume needed. Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) 3011 Return To Service (RTS): Following yesterday’s gas trap and Water Line Vent Tube Assembly (WLVTA) Remove & Replace (R&R), today Kelly and Lindgren successfully R&Rd the Fan Pump Separator. As part of the R&R, they cleaned and inspected the Primary Life Support System (PLSS). Today’s Planned Activities All activities were completed unless otherwise noted. HRF – Sample Collection and Prep for Stowage HRF – Sample MELFI Insertion CORRECTSIA. Logging Liquid and Food (Medicine) Intake / r/g 9451 CORRECTSIA. Logging Liquid and Food (Medicine) Intake / r/g 9431 CONTUR-2. Installation of P/L and Cables. / r/g 9471 Gather EVA Equipment and Tools. Photography, Photo Downlink / r/g 9464, 9465, 9468 HABIT – Hardware activation ISS Crew / SSIPC FD Conference BIOME – Survey Completion EMU – Fan Pump Separator (FPS) Remove and Repair, Part 1 JEM Stowage Consolidation – Part 1. EMU – Cleaning Fan Pump Separator (FPS) EMU – Fan Pump Separator (FPS) Remove and Repair,  Part 2 EXPANDER Exercise Study of veins in lower extremities / r/g 9462 EHS MCD – In-flight Microbiology Water analysis and data recording ISS O2 Repress from ТКГ 425 (Aft) СРПК Section 1 (start) CORRECTSIA. Logging Liquid and Food (Medicine) Intake / r/g 9451 CORRECTSIA. Logging Liquid and Food (Medicine) Intake / r/g 9431 EMU – Fan Pump Separator (FPS) Remove and Repair,  Part 3 ISS O2 Repress from ТКГ 425 (Aft) СрПК Section 1 (terminate) CFE – Big Picture Overview Consolidate Tool Caddy, Photography, Photo Downlink. / r/g 9464, 9465, 9468 Filling (separation) of EDV (KOV) for Elektron or EDV-SV r/g 9372 Crew time for ISS adaptation and orientation HRF – Hardware Setup MOTOCARD. Experiment Ops. / r/g 9469 MOTOCARD. Assistance with the Experiment / r/g 9470 SHD – Weekly Questionnaire NEIROIMMUNITET. CORRECTSIA. MORZE. Experiment setup / r/g 9463 Crew time for ISS adaptation and orientation CFE – MWA Setup CFE Teardown NEIROIMMUNITET. Saliva Test / r/g 9467 COGN – Experiment Ops and Filling Questionnaire CORRECTSIA. Logging Liquid and Food (Medicine) Intake / r/g 9451 CORRECTSIA. Logging Liquid and Food (Medicine) Intake / r/g 9431  Completed Task List Items NOD1 Galley Rack Prep [In Work] IMAX VEG scene [In Work] Ground Activities All activities were completed unless otherwise noted. EMU FPS R&R support DOUG prep for RS EVA #41 crew  Three-Day Look Ahead: Thursday, 07/30: CFE ops, EMU flush, N1 Galley Rack Prep Friday, 07/31: N1 stowage reconfig, Microbiome Saturday, 08/01: Crew off duty, housekeeping QUICK ISS Status – Environmental Control Group:                               Component Status Elektron Off Vozdukh Manual [СКВ] 1 – SM Air Conditioner System (“SKV1”) On [СКВ] 2 – SM Air Conditioner System (“SKV2”) Off Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly (CDRA) Lab Standby Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly (CDRA) Node 3 Operate Major Constituent Analyzer (MCA) Lab Shutdown Major Constituent Analyzer (MCA) Node 3 Operate Oxygen Generation Assembly (OGA) Process Urine Processing Assembly (UPA) Standby Trace Contaminant Control System (TCCS) Lab Off Trace Contaminant Control System (TCCS) Node 3 Full Up  

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Hackers Can Remotely Hack Self-Aiming Rifles to Change Its Target

High-tech Sniper Rifles can be remotely hacked to shoot the wrong target – Something really scary and unpredictable. Yes, Hackers can remotely gain access to the $13,000 TrackingPoint sniper rifles that run Linux and Android operating system and have Wi-Fi connections. So then they can either disable the gun or choose a wrong target. A married pair of security researchers have proved

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New Android Vulnerability Could Crash your Phones Badly

Bad week for Android. Just days after a critical Stagefright vulnerability was revealed in the widely popular mobile platform, another new vulnerability threatens to make most Android devices unresponsive and practically unusable to essential tasks. Security researchers at Trend Micro have developed an attack technique that could ultimately crash more than 55 percent of Android phones,

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We found these apartments for rent DC! List Map. Camden Ashburn Farm · (866) 932-1784. Anonymous Favorite. 20886 Isherwood Ter., Ashburn, VA.

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Asia football chief praises Platini as potential FIFA boss

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) Michel Platini's chances of becoming the new president of FIFA received a boost Thursday when the Asian Football Confederation chief praised him as ''a unique candidate'' and urged his member nations to unite behind a single candidate.

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United Airlines Hacked by Sophisticated Hacking Group

A group of China-backed hackers believed to be responsible for high-profile data breaches, including the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and the insurance giant Anthem, has now hit another high-profile target – United Airlines. United detected a cyber attack into its computer systems in May or early June; Bloomberg reported, citing some unnamed sources familiar with the matter.

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The Deep Lagoon

Ridges of glowing interstellar gas and dark dust clouds inhabit the turbulent, cosmic depths of the Lagoon Nebula. Also known as M8, The bright star forming region is about 5,000 light-years distant. But it still makes for a popular stop on telescopic tours of the constellation Sagittarius, toward the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. Dominated by the telltale red emission of ionized hydrogen atoms recombining with stripped electrons, this stunning, deep view of the Lagoon's central reaches is about 40 light-years across. Near the center of the frame, the bright hourglass shape is gas ionized and sculpted by energetic radiation and extreme stellar winds from a massive young star. via NASA http://ift.tt/1IpRahC

Deportivo Municipal sigue de líder en fútbol peruano

LIMA, Peru (AP) Deportivo Municipal, tras superar de local 2-0 a Sport Loreto, sigue por segunda semana en lo mas alto de la tabla posiciones, al concluir hoy la decima tercera fecha del torneo Apertura de futbol peruano.

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Orioles Highlight: Jonathan Schoop and J.J. Hardy homer to back Chris Tillman (8.2 IP, 4 H) in 2-0 win over Braves (ESPN)

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Anonymous follows through on a threat

Anonymous has followed through on a threat to release a secret government document.

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Document Embedding with Paragraph Vectors. (arXiv:1507.07998v1 [cs.CL])

Paragraph Vectors has been recently proposed as an unsupervised method for learning distributed representations for pieces of texts. In their work, the authors showed that the method can learn an embedding of movie review texts which can be leveraged for sentiment analysis. That proof of concept, while encouraging, was rather narrow. Here we consider tasks other than sentiment analysis, provide a more thorough comparison of Paragraph Vectors to other document modelling algorithms such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation, and evaluate performance of the method as we vary the dimensionality of the learned representation. We benchmarked the models on two document similarity data sets, one from Wikipedia, one from arXiv. We observe that the Paragraph Vector method performs significantly better than other methods, and propose a simple improvement to enhance embedding quality. Somewhat surprisingly, we also show that much like word embeddings, vector operations on Paragraph Vectors can perform useful semantic results.

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Communication: Words and Conceptual Systems. (arXiv:1507.08073v1 [cs.AI])

Words or phrases play a key role in natural language. Word (or phrase) representation is the fundamental problem for knowledge representation and understanding. However, it is always a challenge that how to represent a word (or phrase) can make it easily understdooIn this paper, a new representation for a category is discussed, which defines the inner name, the outer name, inner referring, outer referring and so on. In order to reduce the complexity of category representation, the economy principle of category representation is proposed. Moreover, the conceptual system and communication are also discussed. The conditions for perfect communication are discovered.

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A Gauss-Newton Method for Markov Decision Processes. (arXiv:1507.08271v1 [cs.AI])

Approximate Newton methods are a standard optimization tool which aim to maintain the benefits of Newton's method, such as a fast rate of convergence, whilst alleviating its drawbacks, such as computationally expensive calculation or estimation of the inverse Hessian. In this work we investigate approximate Newton methods for policy optimization in Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). We first analyse the structure of the Hessian of the objective function for MDPs. We show that, like the gradient, the Hessian exhibits useful structure in the context of MDPs and we use this analysis to motivate two Gauss-Newton Methods for MDPs. Like the Gauss-Newton method for non-linear least squares, these methods involve approximating the Hessian by ignoring certain terms in the Hessian which are difficult to estimate. The approximate Hessians possess desirable properties, such as negative definiteness, and we demonstrate several important performance guarantees including guaranteed ascent directions, invariance to affine transformation of the parameter space, and convergence guarantees. We finally provide a unifying perspective of key policy search algorithms, demonstrating that our second Gauss-Newton algorithm is closely related to both the EM-algorithm and natural gradient ascent applied to MDPs, but performs significantly better in practice on a range of challenging domains.

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SAT-based Analysis of Large Real-world Feature Models is Easy. (arXiv:1506.05198v3 [cs.SE] UPDATED)

Modern conflict-driven clause-learning (CDCL) Boolean SAT solvers provide efficient automatic analysis of real-world feature models (FM) of systems ranging from cars to operating systems. It is well-known that solver-based analysis of real-world FMs scale very well even though SAT instances obtained from such FMs are large, and the corresponding analysis problems are known to be NP-complete. To better understand why SAT solvers are so effective, we systematically studied many syntactic and semantic characteristics of a representative set of large real-world FMs. We discovered that a key reason why large real-world FMs are easy-to-analyze is that the vast majority of the variables in these models are unrestricted, i.e., the models are satisfiable for both true and false assignments to such variables under the current partial assignment. Given this discovery and our understanding of CDCL SAT solvers, we show that solvers can easily find satisfying assignments for such models without too many backtracks relative to the model size, explaining why solvers scale so well. Further analysis showed that the presence of unrestricted variables in these real-world models can be attributed to their high-degree of variability. Additionally, we experimented with a series of well-known non-backtracking simplifications that are particularly effective in solving FMs. The remaining variables/clauses after simplifications, called the core, are so few that they are easily solved even with backtracking, further strengthening our conclusions.

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[FD] Assessing The Computer Network Operation (CNO) Capabilities of the Islamic Republic of Iran - Report

Hello, 01. Who's who on Iran's Cyber Warfare Scene - the most comprehensive analysis of Iran's cyber warface scene, ever performed 02. Where do they go to school? - in-depth analysis of Iran's academic incubators of the next generation of cyber warriors 03. Who's buying them books? - in-depth geopolitically relevant analysis of Iran's cyber warfare doctrine 04. How do they own and compromise? - complimentary copies of hacking tools, E-zines, academic papers, SNA (Social Network Analysis) of Iran's Hacking Scene An excerpt from the Executive Summary: "Today's growing cyber warfare arms race, prompts for systematic, structured, and multidisciplinary enriched processes to be utilized, in order to anticipate/neutralize and properly attribute an adversary's strategic, tactical and operational Computer Network Operation (CNO) capabilities, so that an adequate response can be formulated and executed on the basis of a factual research answering some of the most relevant questions in the 'fifth domain' of warfare - who are our adversaries, what are they up to, when are they going to launch an attack against us, how exactly are they going to launch it, and what are they going to target first? This qualitative analysis (45 pages) seeks to assess the Computer Network Operations (CNO) of Islamic Republic of Iran, through the prism of the adversary's understanding of Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTP), a structured and geopolitically relevant, enriched OSINT assessment of their operations, consisting of interpreted hacking literature, videos and custom made hacking tools, extensive SNA (Social Network Analysis) of the country's Hacking Ecosystem, real-life personalization of the key individuals behind the groups (personally identifiable photos, personal emails, phone numbers, Blogs, Web Sites, Social Networking accounts etc.). It's purpose is to ultimately empower decision/policy makers, as well as intelligence analysts, with recommendations for countering Islamic Republic of Iran's growing understanding and application of CNO tactics and strategies." You can get the report from here: http://ift.tt/1U6478R Thanks, Dancho

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CONMEBOL outlines reforms after FIFA bribery scandal

ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) The CONMEBOL soccer body will begin publishing the salary of its president and executive council members after being plunged into crisis by the FIFA bribery scandal.

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TD Naughten: I contacted the Gardaí after anonymous threats

Independent TD Denis Naughten has revealed he has gone to the Gardaí over anonymous threats. He was responding to the news that his ...

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Platini confirms he will run for FIFA president

GENEVA (AP) Michel Platini has launched his campaign to succeed Sepp Blatter as FIFA president, aiming to give the scandal-hit governing body ''the dignity and the position it deserves.''

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Douglas powers Hiroshima to 4-0 win in J-League

TOKYO (AP) Brazilian midfielder Douglas scored two goals as Sanfrecce Hiroshima beat Vissel Kobe 4-0 Wednesday to widen its lead in the J-League standings.

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ISS Daily Summary Report – 07/28/15

Human Research Program (HRP) Operations: Yui and Lindgren performed their Flight Day 7 (FD7) saliva collection, both in support of Microbiome, and Yui collected for Salivary Markers. Throughout the day Kelly collected urine samples for Biochemical Profile and Twins Study.  He also completed his FD120 Cognition session and along with Kornienko, performed the final Reaction Self-Test for the 43 Soyuz sleep shift. The Biochemical Profile experiment tests blood and urine samples obtained from astronauts before, during, and after spaceflight. Twins Study is an integrated compilation of ten different studies led by multiple PI’s at multiple centers.  The studies take advantage of a very unique opportunity to look at the effects of space travel on identical twins, one of whom experiences space travel for one year; the other mains earth-bound for that same year. The Microbiome experiment investigates the impact of space travel on both the human immune system and an individual’s microbiome (the collection of microbes that live in and on the human body at any given time). Individualized Real-Time Neurocognitive Assessment Toolkit for Space Flight Fatigue (Cognition) is a battery of tests that measure how spaceflight-related physical changes, such as microgravity and lack of sleep, can affect cognitive performance. Reaction Self Test aids crewmembers to objectively identify when their performance capability is degraded by various fatigue-related conditions that can occur as a result of ISS operations and time in space (e.g., acute and chronic sleep restriction, slam shifts, extravehicular activity (EVA), and residual sedation from sleep medications). Plant Circumnutation and Its dependence on the Gravity Response (Plant Rotation) Run 3: Yui retrieved rice plants from the Freezer-Refrigerator Of STirling cycle (FROST) and prepared Plant Rotation Chamber B of the Cell Biology Experiment Facility (CBEF).  He then installed Plant Experiment Unit into the 1G rotor and Measurement Experiment Unit into the microG rotor.  For Run 3, the plants will undergo microgravity rotation first followed by 1G rotation.  Many species of climbing plants grow upward in a spiraling shape, a process known as circumnutation. Plant organs, such as stems, leaves, and roots also grow in a spiraling, helical shape. This spiraling process can take many forms, including very tight loops and broad curves. The Plant Rotation experiment verifies the hypothesis that this type of plant growth requires gravity. Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) 3011 Return To Service (RTS) Activities: Today Lindgren and Kelly continued tasks to return EMU 3011 back to service. Lindgren finished gathering tools and hardware in preparation for tomorrow’s Fan Pump Separator (FPS) Remove & Replace (R&R). Kelly and Lindgren R&Rd the gas trap and Kelly R&Rd the Water Line Vent Tube Assembly (WLVTA). On-board Training (OBT) ISS Emergency Hardware Familiarization: Padalka and the 43S crew reviewed where emergency hardware is located on the ISS. Items covered include US Portable Breathing Apparatus (PBAs), US and Russian fire extinguishers, emergency masks, fire/ammonia cartridges and ammonia measurement kits. The crew then practiced emergency mask don/purge technique as well as demonstrated their ability to communicate with ground teams from the Soyuz while wearing emergency masks.  Today’s Planned Activities All activities were completed unless otherwise noted. Self-Reaction Test (morning) HRF – Sample Collection and Prep for Stowage Biochemical Urine Test TWIN – Urine Sample Collection HRF – Sample MELFI Insertion Self-Reaction Test. Reaction Time Test (morning) URISYS Hardware Stowage CORRECTSIA. Logging Liquid and Food (Medicine) Intake CASKAD. Manual Mixing in Bioreactor CARDIOVECTOR. Experiment Ops. Plant Rotation (PRT) – Plant sample Retrieval from FROST RGN-REC TK – Transfer and Swap (Handover) Gathering of spacesuit replaceable elements, service and personal gear. Plant Rotation (PRT) – Plant sample collection EMU FPS R&R Tool Gathering EMU swap TWIN – Equipment Stowage ТК 717 Transfers and IMS Ops Crew time for ISS adaptation and orientation DC1 and ПхО preparation for EVA СОЖ Maintenance TOCA Waste Water Bag (WWB) Changeout Plant Rotation (PRT) – Sample Setup WRS Water Sample Analysis EMU backpack replacement EMU – Gas Trap R&R Plant Rotation (PRT) – Plant Sample Insertion into FROST HAM radio session from Columbus CORRECTSIA. Logging Liquid and Food (Medicine) Intake Initiate condensate tank offload to CWC ISS Emergency Hardware Familiarization OBT Verification of ИП-1 Flow Sensor Position DC1 and ПхО preparation for EVA Termination of Condensate Tank Offload to CWC Emergency Mask OBT EMU – Water Line Vent Tube Assembly (WLVTA) R&R Crew time for ISS adaptation and orientation CONTENT. Experiment Ops SHD – Weekly Questionnaire On-orbit Hearing Assessment using EARQ SHD – Weekly Questionnaire TOCA Data Recording COGN – Experiment Ops and Filling Questionnaire CORRECTSIA. Logging Liquid and Food (Medicine) Intake Self-Reaction Test. Reaction Time Test (evening) CORRECTSIA. Logging Liquid and Food (Medicine) Intake Completed Task List Items iPad swap  Ground Activities All activities were completed unless otherwise noted. EMU R&R support  Three-Day Look Ahead: Wednesday, 07/29: FPS install, JEM stowage consolidation part 1, CFE prep Thursday, 07/30: CFE ops, EMU flush, N1 stowage reconfig Friday, 07/31: N1 stowage reconfig, Microbiome QUICK ISS Status – Environmental Control Group:                               Component Status Elektron Off Vozdukh Manual [СКВ] 1 – SM Air Conditioner System (“SKV1”) On [СКВ] 2 – SM Air Conditioner System (“SKV2”) Off Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly (CDRA) Lab Standby Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly (CDRA) Node 3 Operate Major Constituent Analyzer (MCA) Lab Shutdown Major Constituent Analyzer (MCA) Node 3 Operate Oxygen Generation Assembly (OGA) Process Urine Processing Assembly (UPA) Standby Trace Contaminant Control System (TCCS) Lab Off Trace Contaminant Control System (TCCS) Node 3 Full Up  

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Michel Platini confirms he will run for FIFA president

GENEVA (AP) Michel Platini has launched his campaign to succeed Sepp Blatter as FIFA president, aiming to give the scandal-hit governing body ''the dignity and the position it deserves.''

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FIFA fines Zimbabwe for missing women's Olympic qualifier

ZURICH (AP) FIFA has fined Zimbabwe and awarded Ivory Coast a 3-0 win after the Zimbabweans failed to show up for a women's Olympic qualifying game.

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@YourAnonGlobal. Reporting on Anonymous & worldwide operations, news, IT, occupy movements, and freedom of speech from around the world.

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Mob Museum in Las Vegas to open FIFA exhibit

LAS VEGAS (AP) The Mob Museum in Las Vegas is setting up an exhibit dedicated to the FIFA corruption scandal.

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This $10 Device Can Clone RFID-equipped Access Cards Easily

Are you the one who simply punch your wallet against a reader to get into your office? Then surely your office is using Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) cards to manage building access and security. However, these most common access control systems are incredibly easy to hack — and now more than ever before. Thanks to a $10 tiny device developed by two security researchers that can

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Abou Diaby set for Marseille move

MARSEILLE, France (AP) Abou Diaby is set to join Marseille on a free transfer after the French league club announced it reached an ''agreement in principle'' with the former Arsenal midfielder.

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New Zealand faces new complaint over player eligibility

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) The Oceania Football Confederation is investigating allegations that New Zealand fielded ineligible players in the team which won the Oceania under-17 World Cup qualifying tournament in Samoa in January.

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Anonymous Vows to Keep Leaking Canadian Spy Secrets Over Police Shooting

A chapter of the hacktivist group Anonymous released a document they say exposes the Canadian government's signals intelligence infrastructure, ...

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Rainbows and Rays over Bryce Canyon

What's happening over Bryce Canyon? Two different optical effects that were captured in one image taken earlier this month. Both effects needed to have the Sun situated directly behind the photographer. The nearest apparition was the common rainbow, created by sunlight streaming from the setting sun over the head of the photographer, and scattering from raindrops in front of the canyon. If you look closely, even a second rainbow appears above the first. More rare, and perhaps more striking, are the rays of light that emanate out from the horizon above the canyon. These are known as anticrepuscular rays and result from sunlight streaming though breaks in the clouds, around the sky, and converging at the point 180 degrees around from the Sun. Geometrically, this antisolar point must coincide with the exact center of the rainbows. Located in Utah, USA, Bryce Canyon itself contains a picturesque array of ancient sedimentary rock spires known as hoodoos. via NASA http://ift.tt/1evEkqq

Run-in with reporter triggered Mexico coach Herrera's ouster

MEXICO CITY (AP) In the end it wasn't the middling on-field performance by Mexico's national soccer team that cost Miguel Herrera his job as head coach of ''El Tri.''

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Orioles Highlight: Chris Davis hits 3-run HR in 1st inning, 2-run shot in 2nd (10th multi-HR game) in 7-3 win vs. Braves (ESPN)

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Anonymous leaks CSIS document

Hacker-activist group followed through on a threat to release a government document revealing information about Canada's spy agency.

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Projected Model Counting. (arXiv:1507.07648v1 [cs.AI])

Model counting is the task of computing the number of assignments to variables V that satisfy a given propositional theory F. Model counting is an essential tool in probabilistic reasoning. In this paper, we introduce the problem of model counting projected on a subset P of original variables that we call 'priority' variables. The task is to compute the number of assignments to P such that there exists an extension to 'non-priority' variables V\P that satisfies F. Projected model counting arises when some parts of the model are irrelevant to the counts, in particular when we require additional variables to model the problem we are counting in SAT. We discuss three different approaches to projected model counting (two of which are novel), and compare their performance on different benchmark problems.

To appear in 18th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing, September 24-27, 2015, Austin, Texas, USA

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Computation of Stackelberg Equilibria of Finite Sequential Games. (arXiv:1507.07677v1 [cs.GT])

The Stackelberg equilibrium solution concept describes optimal strategies to commit to: Player 1 (termed the leader) publicly commits to a strategy and Player 2 (termed the follower) plays a best response to this strategy (ties are broken in favor of the leader). We study Stackelberg equilibria in finite sequential games (or extensive-form games) and provide new exact algorithms, approximate algorithms, and hardness results for several classes of these sequential games.

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Belief and Truth in Hypothesised Behaviours. (arXiv:1507.07688v1 [cs.AI])

There is a long history in game theory on the topic of Bayesian or "rational" learning, in which players maintain beliefs over a set of alternative behaviours, or types. This idea has gained increasing interest in the AI community, where it is used to control a single agent in a system composed of multiple agents with unknown behaviours. The idea is to hypothesise a set of types, each specifying a possible behaviour for the other agents, and to plan our own actions with respect to those types which we believe are most likely, based on the observed actions. The game theory literature studies this idea primarily in the context of equilibrium attainment. In contrast, many AI applications have a focus on task completion and payoff maximisation, which renders the game theory literature on this subject of limited applicability. With this perspective in mind, we identify and address a spectrum of questions pertaining to belief and truth in hypothesised types. We formulate three basic ways to incorporate evidence into posterior beliefs and show when the resulting beliefs are correct, and when they may fail to be correct. Moreover, we demonstrate that prior beliefs can have a significant impact on our ability to maximise payoffs in the long-term, and that they can be computed automatically with consistent performance effects. Furthermore, we analyse the conditions under which we are able complete our task optimally, despite inaccuracies in the hypothesised types. Finally, we show how the correctness of hypothesised types can be ascertained during the interaction via an automated statistical analysis.

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Scaling up Greedy Equivalence Search for Continuous Variables. (arXiv:1507.07749v1 [cs.AI])

As standardly implemented in R or in the Tetrad program, causal search algorithms that have been most widely or effectively used in scientific problems have severe dimensionality constraints. However, implementation improvements are possible that extend the feasible dimensionality of search problems by several orders of magnitude. We describe optimizations for the Greedy Equivalence Search (GES) that allow search on 50,000 variable problems in 13 minutes for sparse models with 1000 samples, on a 4 processor 8G laptop computer, and in 18 hours for sparse models with 1000 samples on 1,000,000 variables on a supercomputer node at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center with 40 processors and 384 G RAM, on data generated i.i.d. from a linear, Gaussian model.

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Detect & Describe: Deep learning of bank stress in the news. (arXiv:1507.07870v1 [q-fin.CP])

News is a pertinent source of information on financial risks and stress factors, which nevertheless is challenging to harness due to the sparse and unstructured nature of natural text. We propose an approach based on distributional semantics and deep learning with neural networks to model and link text to a scarce set of bank distress events. Through unsupervised training, we learn semantic vector representations of news articles as predictors of distress events. The predictive model that we learn can signal coinciding stress with an aggregated index at bank or European level, while crucially allowing for automatic extraction of text descriptions of the events, based on passages with high stress levels. The method offers insight that models based on other types of data cannot provide, while offering a general means for interpreting this type of semantic-predictive model. We model bank distress with data on 243 events and 6.6M news articles for 101 large European banks.

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GC-SROIQ(C) : Expressive Constraint Modelling and Grounded Circumscription for SROIQ. (arXiv:1411.0406v3 [cs.AI] UPDATED)

Developments in semantic web technologies have promoted ontological encoding of knowledge from diverse domains. However, modelling many practical domains requires more expressive representations schemes than what the standard description logics(DLs) support. We extend the DL SROIQ with constraint networks and grounded circumscription. Applications of constraint modelling include embedding ontologies with temporal or spatial information, while grounded circumscription allows defeasible inference and closed world reasoning. This paper overcomes restrictions on existing constraint modelling approaches by introducing expressive constructs. Grounded circumscription allows concept and role minimization and is decidable for DL. We provide a general and intuitive algorithm for the framework of grounded circumscription that can be applied to a whole range of logics. We present the resulting logic: GC-SROIQ(C), and describe a tableau decision procedure for it.

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Recent advances on inconsistency indices for pairwise comparisons - a commentary. (arXiv:1503.08289v2 [cs.AI] UPDATED)

This paper recalls the definition of consistency for pairwise comparison matrices and briefly presents the concept of inconsistency index in connection to other aspects of the theory of pairwise comparisons. By commenting on a recent contribution by Koczkodaj and Szwarc, it will be shown that the discussion on inconsistency indices is far from being over, and the ground is still fertile for debates.

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Mob Museum in Las Vegas to open FIFA exhibit

LAS VEGAS (AP) The Mob Museum in Las Vegas is setting up an exhibit dedicated to the FIFA corruption scandal.

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[FD] Reflected XSS in Flickr Justified Gallery could allows unauthenticated attackers to do almost anything an admin can do (WordPress plugin)

Details ================ Software: Flickr Justified Gallery Version: 3.3.6 Homepage: http://ift.tt/1Ia3IQ2 Advisory report: http://ift.tt/1GXMfDF CVE: Awaiting assignment CVSS: 5.8 (Medium; AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N) Description ================ Reflected XSS in Flickr Justified Gallery could allows unauthenticated attackers to do almost anything an admin can do Vulnerability ================ This plugin contains a reflected XSS vulnerability which would allow an unauthenticated attacker to do almost anything an admin user can do. For this to happen, the administrator would have to be tricked into clicking on a link controlled by the attacker. It is easy to make these links very convincing. Proof of concept ================ Visit a page containing the following in Firefox or any other browser with no reflected XSS mitigation strategies, and click submit:

<script>alert(1)</script>\">

Mitigations ================ Upgrade to version 3.4.0 or later Disclosure policy ================ dxw believes in responsible disclosure. Your attention is drawn to our disclosure policy: http://ift.tt/1B6NWzd Please contact us on security@dxw.com to acknowledge this report if you received it via a third party (for example, plugins@wordpress.org) as they generally cannot communicate with us on your behalf. This vulnerability will be published if we do not receive a response to this report with 14 days. Timeline ================ 2015-07-21: Discovered 2015-07-22: Reported to vendor via email 2015-07-22: Requested CVE 2015-07-23: Vendor responded confirming fixed in 3.4.0 2015-07-28: Published Discovered by dxw: ================ Tom Adams Please visit security.dxw.com for more information.

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[FD] CSRF and XSS vulnerabilities in D-Link DCS-2103

Hello list! There are Cross-Site Request Forgery and Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities in D-Link DCS-2103 (IP camera).

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Mob Museum in Las Vegas to open FIFA exhibit

LAS VEGAS (AP) The Mob Museum in Las Vegas is setting up an exhibit dedicated to the FIFA corruption scandal.

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Mexico coach Herrera fired after claim he punched reporter

MEXICO CITY (AP) Mexican national team coach Miguel Herrera was fired Tuesday following a television reporter's claim that man known as ''El Piojo'' punched him.

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Mexico national soccer coach fired after journalist's claim

MEXICO CITY (AP) Embattled Mexican national soccer team coach Miguel Herrera has been fired following a TV reporter's claim that the coach known as ''El Piojo'' punched him.

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Embattled Mexico soccer coach 'El Piojo' Herrera fired after claim he punched journalist

MEXICO CITY (AP) Embattled Mexico soccer coach `El Piojo' Herrera fired after claim he punched journalist.

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2-time champion Bellucci advances at Swiss Open

GSTAAD, Switzerland (AP) Two-time Swiss Open champion Thomaz Bellucci of Brazil eased to a 6-2, 6-3 first-round victory over Kimmer Coppejans on Tuesday.

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Atletico Madrid re-signs Brazil defender Felipe Luis

MADRID (AP) Atletico Madrid says Brazil defender Felipe Luis will return to the club for four seasons after a one-year spell at Chelsea.

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That could indeed lead to revenge voting, but that isn't the most important thing: voting is anonymous, whether it is an up-vote or a down-vote doesn't ...

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AP Sources: Michel Platini will run for FIFA president

GENEVA (AP) Michel Platini will run for FIFA president and plans to announce his intentions this week.

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ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/27/15

Pre-determined Debris Avoidance Maneuver (PDAM): On Saturday, the ISS performed a PDAM using 58 Progress R&D thrusters.  This was the result of a late notification conjunction. Delta-V was 0.50 meters/second (m/s); burn duration was 4 minutes, 12 seconds. This PDAM will likely replace a reboost that was scheduled for August 6 as the first of three reboosts to set up 4-orbit rendezvous conditions for 44S launch and 42S landing this September. Human Research Program (HRP) Operations: The United States On-orbit Segment (USOS) and 1-Year Mission crewmembers participated in a suite of HRP activities today.  Kelly performed blood draws and urine collections in support of his Flight Day (FD) 120 Biochemical Profile and Twins Study experiments.  Yui continued his FD7 Microbiome with body, perspiration, and surface sample collections.  Lindgren performed his FD6 Cognition, and both Kelly and Kornienko continued their 7-day Sleep Shift Reaction Self-Test operations.  The Biochemical Profile experiment tests blood and urine samples obtained from astronauts before, during, and after spaceflight. Specific proteins and chemicals in the samples are used as biomarkers, or indicators of health. Post-flight analysis yields a database of samples and test results which scientists can use to study the effects of spaceflight on the body. Twins Study is an integrated compilation of ten different studies led by multiple PIs at multiple centers.  The studies take advantage of a unique opportunity to look at the effects of space travel on identical twins, one of whom experiences space travel for one year; the other remains earth-bound for that same year.  The experiment studies changes in the human body in the fields of genetics, psychology, physiology, microbiology, and immunology. The Microbiome experiment investigates the impact of space travel on both the human immune system and an individual’s microbiome (the collection of microbes that live in and on the human body at any given time). Individualized Real-Time Neurocognitive Assessment Toolkit for Space Flight Fatigue (Cognition) is a battery of tests that measures how spaceflight-related physical changes, such as microgravity and lack of sleep, can affect cognitive performance. Cognition includes ten brief computerized tests that cover a wide range of cognitive functions and provides immediate feedback on current and past test results. The software allows for real-time measurement of cognitive performance while in space. Reaction Self-Test is a portable, five-minute task that enables astronauts to monitor the daily effects of fatigue on performance while in space. Sleep restrictions and residual effects from sleep medications, slam shifts that change the sleep/wake cycle, and effects from spacewalks can cause fatigue and degrade astronaut performance. Periodically during the mission, and in association with major events, an astronaut performs a reaction-time test on a computer to measure changes in responses. Veggie Hardware Validation Test (Veg-01): Lindgren added water to the plant pillows and root mat. He then took photos and downlinked for ground teams to evaluate the status of the plants.  The primary goal of the Veg-01 testing is to demonstrate plant growth in the Veggie hardware using lettuce as a test species. Plants will be grown in two different sizes of arcillite, a calcined clay media. This test will help compare root zones of the two media sizes to determine water and root distribution in the different sized particles to provide recommendations for future Veggie investigations. Shoot samples will provide information on growth anomalies when compared with ground controls and information on microbial growth and food safety. Photographs will be used to assess plant growth rates and plant health. A data logger will record the environment within the Veggie hardware. Crew questionnaires will provide insight into the appropriateness and thoroughness of the crew procedures for Veggie hardware and plant growth operations. Extravehicular Activity (EVA) Fan Pump Separator (FPS) Remove and Replace (R&R) Procedure Review: Due to the loss of Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) 3017 on SpaceX (SpX)-7, the EVA community was directed to return EMU 3011 to operational status. The EMU was originally taken out of service due to corroded bearings in the FPS which was removed and not replaced. Today the crew reviewed FPS R&R procedures followed by a conference with ground teams to address questions in preparation for tomorrow’s planned gas trap and Water Line Vent Tube Assembly (WLVTA) R&Rs. Lindgren also gathered tools for configuration/staging of tools and hardware prior to starting the maintenance activities tomorrow. Japanese Experiment Module (JPM) Stowage Consolidation: Yui removed trash and gathered hardware to be stowed under the JEM Airlock in preparation of the arrival of H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV)5. He also consolidated Cargo Transfer Bags (CTBs) to optimize JEM stowage configuration.  Today’s Planned Activities All activities were completed unless otherwise noted. Reaction time test (morning) Inspection of [МНР-НС]’s [СМ-У] connection, [РУ2], [РУ4], [РУ5] behind АСУ panel 139 and of the transparent 5182-03 hose running from [ДКиВ] to [МНР] Laptop RSS 1,2 reboot / r/g 7437 BIOME – sampling off the body surfaces TWIN – urine sampling HRF – sample insertion into MELFI Reaction self-test. Reaction time test (morning) HRF – sample insertion into MELFI HRF – blood sampling HRF – blood sampling (assistance) DPC (S-band) KORREKTSIYA. Logging the liquid and food (medicine) intake parameters / r/g 9431 Morning meal HRF – cooling centrifuge configuration Morning meal Removal equipment transfer to Progress-425 (docked at SM [АО]) along with IMS updates / r/g 9288 KASKAD. Manual stirring inside the bioreactor / r/g 9277 HRF – blood sampling cleanup ops SEISMOPROGNOZ. Copy data from [МКСД] HDD data (start) r/g 9013 HRF – sample insertion into MELFI HRF – blood sampling and processing equipment stow JEM stowage setup – part 1 EVA-41 equipment and tools search r/g 9420 ISS adaptation and familiarization time Water treatment system sampling VEG-01 – plant water filling GoPro camera uninstall in Soyuz 717. Video copy to HDD. Flash card cleaning TOCA – potable water dispenser sample analysis HRF- hardware installation VELO-1 exercise TWIN – urine sampling KONSTANTA-2. Retrieve the cartridge from [ТБУ-В] and stow at panel 418 to warm up for one hour / r/g 9436 HRF – sample insertion into MELFI EMU […]

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Bayern Munich signs Chile midfielder Arturo Vidal

MUNICH (AP) Bayern Munich completed the long-anticipated transfer of Chile midfielder Arturo Vidal from Italian champion Juventus on Tuesday.

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Congolese player remains hospitalized after spinal injury

CAIRO (AP) Republic of Congo international Rudy Ndey is still in a military hospital in Egypt after suffering a serious spinal injury in an African club game on Sunday.

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Sepp Blatter deserves the Nobel Prize, Vladimir Putin says

MOSCOW (AP) Vladimir Putin and Sepp Blatter just can't stop praising each other.

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Jovetic undergoing medical with Inter in move from City

MILAN (AP) Injury-plagued forward Stevan Jovetic is undergoing medical exams with Inter Milan as part of a transfer from Manchester City.

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FIFA's Blatter deserves Nobel Prize, says Putin

MOSCOW (AP) Russian President Vladimir Putin has said embattled FIFA president Sepp Blatter deserves a Nobel Prize for his work in world sport.

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NSA to Destroy Bulk Collection of Surveillance Data

The National Security Agency will restrict access to, and ultimately destroy, millions of US phone records previously collected by the spy agency, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) announced Monday. The federal law was passed in June ending the NSA’s bulk collection of U.S. Citizen’s Telephone records and destroying the data it collected under a controversial

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[FD] SEC Consult SA-20150728-0 :: McAfee Application Control Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Critical Persistent Injection Vulnerability in Apple App Store and iTunes

A critical vulnerability has been discovered in the official Apple’s App Store and iTunes Store, affecting millions of Apple users. Vulnerability-Lab Founder and security researcher Benjamin Kunz Mejri discovered an Application-Side input validation web vulnerability that actually resides in the Apple App Store invoice module and is remotely exploitable by both sender as well as the

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[FD] Multiple unresolved vulnerabilities in Basware Banking/Maksuliikenne

Milky Way and Aurora over Antarctica

It has been one of the better skies of this long night. In parts of Antarctica, not only is it winter, but the Sun can spend weeks below the horizon. At China's Zhongshan Station, people sometimes venture out into the cold to photograph a spectacular night sky. The featured image from one such outing was taken in mid-July, just before the end of this polar night. Pointing up, the wide angle lens captured not only the ground at the bottom, but at the top as well. In the foreground is a colleague also taking pictures. In the distance, a spherical satellite receiver and several windmills are visible. Numerous stars dot the night sky, including Sirius and Canopus. Far in the background, stretching overhead from horizon to horizon, is the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy. Even further in the distance, visible as extended smudges near the top, are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, satellite galaxies near our huge Milky Way Galaxy. via NASA http://ift.tt/1OJw2s8

MLB Buzz Video: Jim Bowden says that Orioles are targeting \"outfield bats\" Justin Upton, Jay Bruce and Carlos Gomez (ESPN)

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Orioles Highlight: Matt Wieters hits walk-off HR in 11th (1st HR since June 25) in 2-1 win over Braves; 3rd W in row (ESPN)

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I have a new follower on Twitter

Natalie Hicks
I have a naughty sense of humor, love to laugh! DC United fan.
Washington, DC

Following: 503 - Followers: 148

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Truth Serums for Massively Crowdsourced Evaluation Tasks. (arXiv:1507.07045v1 [cs.GT])

Incentivizing effort and eliciting truthful responses from agents in the absence of verifiability is a major challenge faced while crowdsourcing many types of evaluation tasks like labeling images, grading assignments in online courses, etc. In this paper, we propose new reward mechanisms for such settings that, unlike most previously studied mechanisms, impose minimal assumptions on the structure and knowledge of the underlying generating model, can account for heterogeneity in the agents' abilities, require no extraneous elicitation from them, and furthermore allow their beliefs to be (almost) arbitrary. Moreover, these mechanisms have the simple and intuitive structure of output agreement mechanisms, which, despite not incentivizing truthful behavior, have nevertheless been quite popular in practice. We achieve this by leveraging a typical characteristic of many of these settings, which is the existence of a large number of similar tasks.

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The Digital Synaptic Neural Substrate: A New Approach to Computational Creativity. (arXiv:1507.07058v1 [cs.AI])

We introduce a new artificial intelligence (AI) approach called, the 'Digital Synaptic Neural Substrate' (DSNS). It uses selected attributes from objects in various domains (e.g. chess problems, classical music, renowned artworks) and recombines them in such a way as to generate new attributes that can then, in principle, be used to create novel objects of creative value to humans relating to any one of the source domains. This allows some of the burden of creative content generation to be passed from humans to machines. The approach was tested in the domain of chess problem composition. We used it to automatically compose numerous sets of chess problems based on attributes extracted and recombined from chess problems and tournament games by humans, renowned paintings, computer-evolved abstract art, photographs of people, and classical music tracks. The quality of these generated chess problems was then assessed automatically using an existing and experimentally-validated computational chess aesthetics model. They were also assessed by human experts in the domain. The results suggest that attributes collected and recombined from chess and other domains using the DSNS approach can indeed be used to automatically generate chess problems of reasonably high aesthetic quality. In particular, a low quality chess source (i.e. tournament game sequences between weak players) used in combination with actual photographs of people was able to produce three-move chess problems of comparable quality or better to those generated using a high quality chess source (i.e. published compositions by human experts), and more efficiently as well. Why information from a foreign domain can be integrated and functional in this way remains an open question for now. The DSNS approach is, in principle, scalable and applicable to any domain in which objects have attributes that can be represented using real numbers.

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Learning (Predictive) Risk Scores in the Presence of Censoring due to Interventions. (arXiv:1507.07295v1 [cs.AI])

A large and diverse set of measurements are regularly collected during a patient's hospital stay to monitor their health status. Tools for integrating these measurements into severity scores, that accurately track changes in illness severity, can improve clinicians ability to provide timely interventions. Existing approaches for creating such scores either 1) rely on experts to fully specify the severity score, or 2) train a predictive score, using supervised learning, by regressing against a surrogate marker of severity such as the presence of downstream adverse events. The first approach does not extend to diseases where an accurate score cannot be elicited from experts. The second approach often produces scores that suffer from bias due to treatment-related censoring (Paxton, 2013). We propose a novel ranking based framework for disease severity score learning (DSSL). DSSL exploits the following key observation: while it is challenging for experts to quantify the disease severity at any given time, it is often easy to compare the disease severity at two different times. Extending existing ranking algorithms, DSSL learns a function that maps a vector of patient's measurements to a scalar severity score such that the resulting score is temporally smooth and consistent with the expert's ranking of pairs of disease states. We apply DSSL to the problem of learning a sepsis severity score using a large, real-world dataset. The learned scores significantly outperform state-of-the-art clinical scores in ranking patient states by severity and in early detection of future adverse events. We also show that the learned disease severity trajectories are consistent with clinical expectations of disease evolution. Further, using simulated datasets, we show that DSSL exhibits better generalization performance to changes in treatment patterns compared to the above approaches.

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A genetic algorithm for autonomous navigation in partially observable domain. (arXiv:1507.07374v1 [cs.LG])

The problem of autonomous navigation is one of the basic problems for robotics. Although, in general, it may be challenging when an autonomous vehicle is placed into partially observable domain. In this paper we consider simplistic environment model and introduce a navigation algorithm based on Learning Classifier System.

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Unification of Fusion Theories, Rules, Filters, Image Fusion and Target Tracking Methods (UFT). (arXiv:1507.07462v1 [cs.AI])

The author has pledged in various papers, conference or seminar presentations, and scientific grant applications (between 2004-2015) for the unification of fusion theories, combinations of fusion rules, image fusion procedures, filter algorithms, and target tracking methods for more accurate applications to our real world problems - since neither fusion theory nor fusion rule fully satisfy all needed applications. For each particular application, one selects the most appropriate fusion space and fusion model, then the fusion rules, and the algorithms of implementation. He has worked in the Unification of the Fusion Theories (UFT), which looks like a cooking recipe, better one could say like a logical chart for a computer programmer, but one does not see another method to comprise/unify all things. The unification scenario presented herein, which is now in an incipient form, should periodically be updated incorporating new discoveries from the fusion and engineering research.

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On the read-once property of branching programs and CNFs of bounded treewidth. (arXiv:1411.0264v3 [cs.CC] UPDATED)

In this paper we prove a space lower bound of $n^{\Omega(k)}$ for non-deterministic (syntactic) read-once branching programs ({\sc nrobp}s) on functions expressible as {\sc cnf}s with treewidth at most $k$ of their primal graphs. This lower bound rules out the possibility of fixed-parameter space complexity of {\sc nrobp}s parameterized by $k$.

We use lower bound for {\sc nrobp}s to obtain a quasi-polynomial separation between Free Binary Decision Diagrams and Decision Decomposable Negation Normal Forms, essentially matching the existing upper bound introduced by Beame et al. and thus proving the tightness of the latter.

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Design Mining VAWT Wind Farms. (arXiv:1506.08781v2 [cs.NE] UPDATED)

The small body of previous work considering the design of wind farms has used arrays of turbines originally intended to operate alone, optimising the layout of homogeneous turbines essentially as an afterthought in the design process. In this paper, we consider designing wind farms composed of collaborating wind turbines. Computational intelligence is combined with rapid prototyping whereby candidate designs are physically instantiated and evaluated under fan-generated wind conditions. It is shown possible to use surrogate-assisted coevolutionary algorithms to aerodynamically optimise the potentially heterogeneous morphology of an array of 6 small scale and closely positioned vertical-axis wind turbines using the total angular kinetic energy of the array as the objective. This approach performs optimisation in the presence of complex inter-turbine wake effects and multi-directional wind flow from nearby obstacles, which is extremely difficult to achieve accurately under high fidelity computational fluid dynamics simulation. The general approach is equally applicable to the design of other forms of sustainable energy where the characteristics of the environment and/or materials involved are too difficult to accurately simulate.

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[FD] Another Snorby 2.6.2 - Stored Cross-site Scripting Vulnerability

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Shannon Boxx and Lauren Holiday to retire after victory tour

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) U.S. soccer formally announced that midfielders Shannon Boxx and Lauren Holiday will retire from the U.S. national team following a victory tour to celebrate the Women's World Cup title.

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Mexico national team coach allegedly hits TV journalist

MEXICO CITY (AP) The coach of Mexico's national soccer team is known for his histrionic displays of emotion during games.

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World Cup qualifier for US set for St. Louis

ST. LOUIS (AP) Busch Stadium will have a slightly different look for its next soccer game.

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Anonymous Employer Feedback

How likely would you be to provide feedback, comments, ideas or complaints, if you were provided an anonymous method?

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The US government just revealed how Anonymous hackers stole its data

The US Census Bureau has cast doubt on Anonymous claims it breached its internal systems.

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FIFA tweaks appointment rules for reforms task force

ZURICH (AP) FIFA has changed composition rules for a task force criticized as lacking credibility to drive reforms after a corruption crisis.

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Juventus to visit Roma in 2nd round of Serie A

MILAN (AP) Four-time defending champion Juventus will face its biggest title challenger from the past two seasons shortly after the start of the new Serie A campaign.

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New Parma club approved for Serie D after bankruptcy

PARMA, Italy (AP) A new Parma club backed by pasta maker Guido Barilla and other business executives has been approved to compete in Serie D after the previous squad went bankrupt.

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Hacking Air-Gapped Computer With A Simple Cell Phone

Wanna Hack an extremely secure Computer? You do not need sophisticated techniques or equipment to do so. To hack an Air-Gapped computer – All you need is a cell phone; even old-fashioned, dumb phones from the past decade will work. Yes, Hacking Air-Gapped Computers is possible using a basic low-end mobile phone. Israeli security researchers have devised a new attack to steal data from a

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Simple Text Message to Hack Any Android Phone Remotely

Own an Android phone? Beware, Your Android smartphones can be hacked by just a malformed text message. Security researchers have found that 95% of Android devices running version 2.2 to 5.1 of operating system, which includes Lollipop and KitKat, are vulnerable to a security bug, affecting more than 950 Million Android smartphones and tablets. Almost all Android smart devices available

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Trinidad extradition hearing delayed for ex-FIFA VP Warner

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) A court is giving former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner more time to fight being extradited from Trinidad & Tobago to the United States to face corruption charges.

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Aston Villa signs forward Jordan Ayew from Lorient

BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) Aston Villa has signed Ghana international striker Jordan Ayew from French club Lorient on a five-year deal.

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[FD] Apple iTunes & AppStore - Filter Bypass & Persistent Invoice Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== Apple iTunes & AppStore - Filter Bypass & Persistent Invoice Vulnerability References (Source): ==================== http://ift.tt/1S7phG5 Apple Security ID: 623920272 Video: http://ift.tt/1D1ZlF4 Vulnerability Magazine: http://ift.tt/1etCGWj Release Date: ============= 2015-07-27 Vulnerability Laboratory ID (VL-ID): ==================================== 1512 Common Vulnerability Scoring System: ==================================== 5.9 Product & Service Introduction: =============================== Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, online services, and personal computers. Its best-known hardware products are the Mac line of computers, the iPod media player, the iPhone smartphone, the iPad tablet computer, and the Apple Watch smartwatch. Its online services include iCloud, the iTunes Store, and the App Store. Apple`s consumer software includes the OS X and iOS operating systems, the iTunes media browser, the Safari web browser, and the iLife and iWork creativity and productivity suites. (Copy of the Homepage: http://ift.tt/HNScVl. ) Abstract Advisory Information: ============================== The Vulnerability Laboratory discovered an application-side input validation web vulnerability in the official Apple - App Store and iTunes Store online-service web-application. Vulnerability Disclosure Timeline: ================================== 2015-06-08: Researcher Notification & Coordination (Benjamin Kunz Mejri) 2015-06-09: Vendor Notification (Apple Product Security Team) 2015-**-**: Vendor Response/Feedback (Apple Product Security Team) 2015-**-**: Vendor Fix/Patch Notification (Apple Developer Team) 2015-07-27: Public Disclosure (Vulnerability Laboratory) Discovery Status: ================= Published Affected Product(s): ==================== Apple Product: iTunes & AppStore - Online Service (Web-Application) 2015 Q2 Exploitation Technique: ======================= Remote Severity Level: =============== High Technical Details & Description: ================================ An application-side input validation web vulnerability has been discovered in the official Apple - App Store and iTunes Store online-service web-application. The vulnerability allows remote attackers to inject own malicious script codes to the application-side of the vulnerable context function or service module. The apple itunes and appstore is taking the device cell name of the buying users. Remote attackers can manipulate the name value by an exchange with script code (special chars). After that the attacker buys any article in the appstore or itunes-store. During that procedure the internal appstore service takes the device value and does encode it with wrong conditions. The seller account context runs since the error with the injected script code occurs and gets this way re-implemented to the invoice. Thus results in an application-side script code execution in the invoice of apple. Remote attackers can manipulate the issue by interaction via persisten manipulated context to other apple store user accounts. The vulnerability can be exploited by remote attackers and the malicious receiver/sender email is *@email.apple.com. The invoice is present to both parties (buyer & seller) which demonstrates a significant risk to buyers, sellers or apple website managers/developers. The issue imapct also the risk that a buyer can be the seller by usage of the same name to compromise the store online service integrity. The security risk of the persistent input validation and mail encoding web vulnerability is estimated as high with a cvss (common vulnerability scoring system) count of 5.8. Exploitation of the persistent input validation and mail encoding web vulnerability requires a low privilege apple (appstore/icloud) account and low or medium user interaction. Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in session hijacking, persistent phishing attacks, persistent redirect to external sources and persistent manipulation of affected or connected service module context. Vulnerable Module(s): [+] Apple Invoice Vulnerable Parameter(s): [+] device-cell [+] type cell Affected Service(s): [+] Appstore & iTunes Sender(s)/Receiver(s): [+] @email.apple.com Proof of Concept (PoC): ======================= The vulnerability can be exploited by remote attackers with low privilege web-application user account with low or medium user interaction. For security demonstration or to reproduce the vulnerability follow the provided information and steps below to continue. Sender: *@email.apple.com Manual steps to reproduce the vulnerability ... 1. Inject script code to your device cell name ;) 2. Buy an article by usage of the apple itunes or appstore online-service (via app or desktop browser) 3. Choose any app or movie that you would like to buy and download it 4. After the download an invoice arrives to the users inbox Note: The appstore runs since the gets the wrong encoded values and stops which results in the manipulated device name value in the seller name input 5. The application-side injected script code execution occurs in the arrived emails context next to the device-cell and type cell value parameters 6. Successful reproduce of the remote vulnerability! PoC: Ihre Rechnung von Apple (Your Invoice by Apple) Note: We used the ducktales remake app to approve the zero-day remote vulnerability in the itunes and appstore without malicious perpose! Reference(s): http://ift.tt/1etCFBR http://ift.tt/1LNOth9 http://ift.tt/1etCGWl Security Risk: ============== The security risk of the application-side input validation and mail encoding web vulnerability in the invoice module is estimated as high. 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