US romps to 6-1 win over Cuba in Olympic qualifying match

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) Everything went splendidly for the United States in its Olympic qualifying match against Cuba until the final minutes, when Marc Pelosi went down in a collision and clutched his shin.

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Brooks, Gonzalez, Diskerud dropped from US roster vs Mexico

CHICAGO (AP) U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann dropped defenders John Brooks and Omar Gonzalez and midfielder Mix Diskerud from the Americans' roster for the Oct. 10 playoff against Mexico for a berth in the 2017 Confederations Cup.

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Barcelona, Chelsea both lose; Aguero nets 5 goals

LONDON (AP) Barcelona and Chelsea both stumbled to losses on Saturday to make a bad week even worse for two of Europe's defending league champions.

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Canada breezes to 3-1 win over Panama in Olympic qualifying

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) Michael Petrasso, Skylar Thomas and Benjamin Fisk-Routledge scored to send Canada to a 3-1 victory over Panama on Saturday in the Olympic qualifying tournament.

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Panathinaikos beats host Xanthi 1-0 with a late goal

ATHENS, Greece (AP) Panathinaikos won 1-0 at Xanthi on Saturday thanks to a late goal by defender Rasmus Thelander.

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Berardi gets debut Italy call, Giovinco also included

MILAN (AP) Antonio Conte has included Sebastian Giovinco and Fabio Quagliarella in the Italy squad for the upcoming European Champions qualifiers against Azerbaijan and Norway as well as the uncapped Domenico Berardi.

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Ocean City, MD's surf is at least 5.5ft high

Maryland-Delaware, October 07, 2015 at 04:00AM

Ocean City, MD Summary
At 4:00 AM, surf min of 5.5ft. At 10:00 AM, surf min of 5.42ft. At 4:00 PM, surf min of 3.51ft. At 10:00 PM, surf min of 2.91ft.

Surf maximum: 6.51ft (1.98m)
Surf minimum: 5.5ft (1.68m)
Tide height: 3.03ft (0.92m)
Wind direction: NNW
Wind speed: 9.82 KTS


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Carpi beats Torino for 1st Serie A win on Sannino's debut

MILAN (AP) Carpi recorded its first ever Serie A win with a 2-1 victory over Torino on Saturday, as new coach Giuseppe Sannino had an immediate effect.

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Lacazette gives much-needed win to Lyon in French league

PARIS (AP) Lyon striker Alexandre Lacazette scored his second league goal this season to give his struggling club a much-needed 1-0 win over in-form Reims on Saturday.

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Watford draws 1-1 at Bournemouth in Premier League

BOURNEMOUTH, England (AP) Watford had both goalkeepers to thank for a point after Artur Boruc's mistake and penalty save from Heurelho Gomes helped earn the visitors a 1-1 draw at Bournemouth in the Premier League on Saturday.

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Stoke wins 1-0 at Aston Villa in Premier League

BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) Stoke won a Premier League match away from home for the first time since February as midfielder Marko Arnautovic scored in a 1-0 victory against Aston Villa on Saturday.

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Five-goal Aguero halts Man City's slump with Newcastle rout

LONDON (AP) After yet another scare, Sergio Aguero masterminded a spectacular Manchester City comeback with five goals against Newcastle on Saturday.

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Barcelona falls 2-1 to Sevilla in Spanish league

MADRID (AP) Barcelona lost 2-1 at struggling Sevilla on Saturday, missing the chance to take the provisional lead in the Spanish league.

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Vardy helps Leicester beat Norwich 2-1 in Premier League

NORWICH, England (AP) Jamie Vardy scored his seventh Premier League goal of the season Saturday to help give Leicester a 2-1 away win at Norwich.

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West Ham rescues 2-2 draw at 10-man Sunderland

SUNDERLAND, England (AP) Sunderland winger Jeremain Lens scored and was then sent off as West Ham rescued a 2-2 draw Saturday in the Premier League.

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Ravens: WR Steve Smith Sr. deemed week-to-week; team refutes reports injury is a surgical issue (ESPN)

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'Gladbach beats Wolfsburg 2-0 to cap Bundesliga turnaround

BERLIN (AP) Borussia Moenchengladbach defeated Bundesliga runner-up Wolfsburg 2-0 at home Saturday to cap a remarkable turnaround after its dismal start to the season.

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Ravens: WR Chris Givens acquired from Rams - Adam Schefter; 46 receptions in last 33 games after career-high 42 in 2012 (ESPN)

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Data Breach Day — Patreon (2.3M), T-Mobile (15M) and Scottrade (4.6M) — HACKED!

This week, three high-profile data breaches took place, compromising personal and sensitive details of millions of people. Telecommunication giant T-Mobile Crowdfunding website Patreon US brokerage firm Scottrade In T-Mobile's case, its credit application processor Experian was hacked, potentially exposing highly sensitive details of 15 Million people who applied for its service in the

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Adidas, Kia don't join US brands in demanding Blatter quits

ZURICH (AP) Clinging to power after rebuffing resignation demands, Sepp Blatter received some respite Saturday when two sponsors declined to join four other FIFA corporate backers in demanding the president of world soccer's governing body goes before the emergency election in February.

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Adidas, Kia decline to call for immediate Blatter exit

ZURICH (AP) FIFA sponsors Adidas and Kia Motors are not following four of the organization's other corporate backers in demanding Sepp Blatter resigns immediately.

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Blatter defies calls from FIFA sponsors to quit immediately

ZURICH (AP) Sepp Blatter defied calls from FIFA sponsors Budweiser, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Visa to quit immediately as president of world soccer's governing body on Friday rather than cling on until the emergency election in February.

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Experian Breach: 15 Million T-Mobile Customers' Data Hacked

If you applied for financing from T-Mobile anytime between 1 September 2013 and 16 September 2015, you have been HACKED! – even if you never had T-Mobile service. T-Mobile’s credit application processor Experian was hacked, potentially exposing the highly personal information of more than 15 million people in the United States. The stolen information includes names, addresses, phone

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Mexico beats Costa Rica 4-0 in Olympic qualifying opener

CARSON, Calif. (AP) Marco Bueno scored twice and defending Olympic champion Mexico beat Costa Rica 4-0 on Friday night in their Group B opener in CONCACAF qualifying for the 2016 Rio Games.

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Charon: Moon of Pluto

A darkened and mysterious north polar region informally known as Mordor Macula caps this premier high-resolution portrait of Charon, Pluto's largest moon. Captured by New Horizons near its closest approach on July 14, the image data was transmitted to Earth on September 21. The combined blue, red, and infrared data is processed to enhance colors, following variations in surface properties with a resolution of about 2.9 kilometers (1.8 miles). In fact, Charon is 1,214 kilometers (754 miles) across, about 1/10th the size of planet Earth but a whopping 1/2 the diameter of Pluto itself. That makes it the largest satellite relative to its planet in the solar system. This remarkable image of Charon's Pluto-facing hemisphere shows a clearer view of an apparently moon-girdling belt of fractures and canyons that seems to separate smooth southern plains from varied northern terrain. via NASA http://ift.tt/1N8fMU6

The Chesapeake Bay in 661 Million Pixels

This blog post is part of a series of first-hand stories from NASA scientists, visualizers and educators that were created for Earth Science Week 2015: Visualizing Earth Systems. Read all the blogs and find educational resources for all ages at: http://ift.tt/1OKWxQV. Imagine you're flying 438 miles above the Earth taking pictures and collecting information of everything below. What do you see? Now imagine you've been doing this non-stop for over 40 years. Do you notice any change? A satellite series named Landsat has been doing exactly that. As a NASA scientist, I've been using Landsat-8 (the current satellite) data for a long time. Yet it's still amazing to create images of salt reflecting a brilliant white in a natural color scene, or seeing it turn a beautiful cyan using an infrared perspective. With the right tools I can discern patterns in the salt or make visible the phytoplankton dancing on the blue ocean. I've observed cities grow, forests recover from fire, islands form, and more. Our world is constantly changing. When sunlight hits the Earth's surface, it is absorbed, reflected, or scattered, resulting in different wavelengths of light leaving the Earth. Landsat-8 measures the visible and infrared wavelengths in 30-meter pixels and in order to "see" the image, we assign particular colors to different wavelengths. Recently, I was asked to create a Landsat mosaic of the entire Chesapeake Bay watershed. I've created Landsat mosaics using twelve Landsat scenes, but this mosaic would dwarf them all at well over forty! Creating even a small mosaic is difficult depending on the day or season the image was acquired, cloud cover, projections and satellite age (i.e., whether the data is from one of the newer or older Landsat satellite.) To minimizes these impacts, projects such as the Global Land Survey selects the best cloud-free images from Landsat satellites to generate a completely cloud-free scene every five years. So when asked how long this would take I responded, "a few months and I'll need a much better computer!" I began creating a composite of the Landsat scene, adjusting settings and matching colors to create the most natural and detailed image possible. I softened borders of the scene using the erase tool and began to see individual scenes flow into the next as boundaries disappeared. Due to the image size we tapped our friends over at the U.S. Geological Survey WELD project (Web-enabled Landsat Data) to help create a mosaic. But while the land images flowed seamlessly the water had many artifacts, discolorations and clouds that unnaturally ended at the edges of the water bodies. The last thing I wanted was the water to look unnatural — the Bay was the focus of the mosaic! And so began my arduous task of masking these imperfections (often zooming so far in that I had only a few pixels on my screen.) After this, I layered a true color USGS image of the Bay and Eastern Shore onto my mosaic and used another mask to crop out the water. Where they didn't align, I matched up the water layers as best I could with my WELD mosaic. I played around with color vibrancy and contrast using an Adobe product called "Lightroom" which boosted the greens, reds and contrast to reflect a color closer to leaves for the land. After a month of hard work, it was finally time to print and do a final check! This is the largest single image I've worked on to date, and while I always spot something I can improve, I couldn't be more proud. Knowing scientists and non-scientists will appreciate this image is one of the most rewarding aspects of my work. -- Mike Taylor, Outreach Scientist (SSAI/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

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Joaquin 360

Joaquin became a tropical storm Monday evening (EDT) midway between the Bahamas and Bermuda and has now formed into a hurricane. Joaquin is the 3rd hurricane of the 2015 season, though it could be the first to impact the US East Coast. GPM captured Joaquin Tuesday, September 29th at 21:39 UTC (5:39 pm EDT) as the hurricane moved slowly towards the west-southwest about 400 miles east of the northwestern Bahamas. This particular snapshot of the storm is unique because an anvil cloud of frozen precipitation can be seen on the northern portion of the storm.

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Honduras beats Haiti 1-0 in Olympic qualifying opener

CARSON, Calif. (AP) Antony Lozano scored in the sixth minute and Honduras held on to beat Haiti 1-0 on Friday night in their Group B opener in CONCACAF qualifying for the 2016 Olympics.

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Blatter defies calls from FIFA sponsors to quit immediately

ZURICH (AP) Sepp Blatter defied calls from FIFA sponsors Budweiser, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Visa on Friday to quit immediately as president of world soccer's governing body rather than clinging on until the emergency election in February.

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Blatter lawyer says FIFA president won't resign immediately

ZURICH (AP) FIFA President Sepp Blatter will not resign ahead of February's emergency presidential election despite calls Friday from major sponsors Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Visa to go now.

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Orioles: Friday's game against Yankees postponed due to rain; teams to play doubleheader on Saturday (ESPN)

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Lichtsteiner out for up to a month after heart procedure

TURIN, Italy (AP) Juventus defender Stephan Lichtsteiner is out for up to a month after undergoing a heart procedure following breathing difficulties.

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Blatter calls for more women in leadership roles in soccer

ZURICH (AP) Sepp Blatter says soccer officials have a ''moral duty'' to ensure more women are hired for leadership jobs, in written comments that did not address his own embattled presidency.

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ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/1/15

61 Progress (61P) Launch and Dock:   61P launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome this morning at 11:49am CDT.  Once in orbit, the spacecraft performed a 4 orbit rendezvous with ISS and dock to the Service Module aft port at 5:52pm CDT.  61P is delivering over 1500 kgs of supplies to the ISS.   NanoRack Cubesat Deployer 6 (NRCSD#6) Installation:  Kelly opened the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) Airlock inner hatch, extended the slide table into the module, and installed the Cubesat Quad Deployers onto the Multi-Purpose Experiment Platform (MPEP) on the slide table.  He was unable to install fasteners that attach the Multi-Layer Insulation (MLI) to the deployer.  Ground teams are investigating and evaluating possible workarounds.  Kelly retracted the slide table back into the Airlock and closed the interior hatch.  The 16 cubesats in the deployers are scheduled for launches on Monday through Wednesday of next week, October 5th – October 7th.   Habitability: Kelly documented his recent observations related to human factors and habitability for the Habitability investigation.  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 and Mars. Observations recorded during 6 month and 1 year missions can help spacecraft designers determine how much habitable volume is required, and whether a mission’s duration impacts how much space crew members need.   Integrated Resistance and Aerobic Training Study (Sprint) Volume of Oxygen Utilized (VO2) Max:  For his Flight Day 75 Sprint VO2 session, Yui attached to himself Electrocardiogram (ECG) electrodes, set up and donned Heart Rate Monitor (HRM) hardware, performed Portable PFS calibrations and an instrumentation check, and then performed the VO2 protocol.  The Sprint VO2 investigation evaluates the use of high intensity, low volume exercise to minimize loss of muscle, bone, and cardiovascular function in ISS crewmembers. Upon completion of this study, investigators expect to provide an integrated resistance and aerobic exercise protocol capable of maintaining muscle, bone and cardiovascular health while reducing total exercise time during long-duration space flights.   Protein Crystallization Research Facility (PCRF) Removal and Data Downlink:  Yui retrieved the temperature logger from the PCRF and downlinked the data via a Station Support Computer (SSC).  He also relocated the PCRF Maintenance Unit (PMU) for troubleshooting of the faulty PCRF Temperature Sensor #3.   Plant Gravity Sensing 2 (PGS2) Investigation:  Yui retrieved a Seed Paper Kit from a Minus Eighty Degree Celsius Laboratory Freezer for ISS (MELFI), prepared the Seed Papers for Culture Dishes and then returned the culture dishes to the MELFI.  Tomorrow the seeds will be inserted into the Cell Biology Experiment Facility (CBEF) to start the first of two runs for PGS2.  This investigation supports the study of cellular formation of the gravity sensors and the molecular mechanism for gravity sensing in plants grown in microgravity conditions.   Non-Propulsive Vent (NPV) O-Ring Installation:  Kelly inspected the Node 3 NPV sealing surface and installed new seals today. During an Extravehicular Activity (EVA) this past February, the NPV had been removed from Node 3 exterior in preparation for Permanent Multipurpose Module (PMM) relocation.  During the removal process, the original seals remained adhered to Node 3 exterior. The NPV will be re-installed onto Node 3 exterior during the ISS Upgrades EVA scheduled for late October.   Mobile Servicing System (MSS) Operations: Overnight, Robotics Ground Controllers powered up the MSS and maneuvered the SSRMS to grapple and unstow the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator (SPDM) from Mobile Base System (MBS) Power Data Grapple Fixture 2 (PDGF2).  Next they maneuvered the SPDM in order to perform a survey of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS).  Finally the Robotics Ground Controllers configured the SSRMS and SPDM for the start of the Robotics Refueling Mission (RRM) Phase 2 Science Operations scheduled to begin tomorrow, October 2nd.   Today’s Planned Activities All activities were completed unless otherwise noted. HABIT – Experiment Ops SPRINT – Hardware Setup Equipment Pre-gather for PWS2 R&R JEMAL – Slide Table Extension Prep for PWS2 R&R CUBESAT – Hardware Setup PWS2 R&R Activities VCA2 Camera Adjustment Changing BIOS Settings for PWS2 Laptop PGS2 – Sample Retrieval PGS2 – Sample Preparation ARED Photo NEIROIMMUNITET. Saliva Collection Morning Inspection, Laptop RS1(2) Reboot PWS2 SW Load NEIROIMMUNITET. Closeout Ops PGS2 – Sample Insertion Morning Inspection. Visual Inspection of Circuit Breaker [АЗС] Position on DC1 Power Switch Panel (БВП) and Fuses on DC Fuse Boxes БПП-30, 36 based on LED indication (prior to DC1 power bus check) HAM radio session from Columbus SPRINT – Hardware Power On PWS2 SW Load Crew Off Duty PWS2 Cable Swap PWS2 Activation VIZIR. Experiment Ops ISS HAM RADIO Deactivation Т2 Bungee System Swap КЦП1 and RS1 Laptop Transition to SW Version 08.08 BRI Log Dump from RSS1 СОЖ Maintenance SPRINT – Experiment Ops and Video JEMAL – Slide Table Retraction SEISMOPROGNOZ. Downlink data from Control and Data Acquisition Module (МКСД) HDD Connecting ЕКТС Feeder Unit to PCE antenna feeder HMS – Food Frequency Questionnaire MORZE. Psycho-physiological Evaluation: Kettell Test CALCIUM. Experiment Session 7 ECLSS Recycle Tank Remove and Replace Installation of Non-Propulsive Vent Seals in Node3 SPRINT – Equipment Stowage Kit relocation from Node 1 to Node 2 MORZE. Closeout Ops Soyuz 718 IRIDIUM Phone Charging – Configuration Setup (ФГБ1ПГО_2_224_1, CTB 1017 (002857J), Soft Container (00044322R) and start charging WRS – Recycle Tank Fill Soyuz 718 Samsung Tablet Computer Charge PCRF – PCRF Logger Removal Node 1 – Berthing Port Modification Kit Equipment Gathering ТК 718 IRIDIUM Phone Charging – Battery Status Check ТК 718 IRIDIUM Phone Charging – Terminate Charge, Teardown the Setup, Closeout Ops PCRF – Experiment Ops PCRF – Data Transfer to ELT2 ТК 717 IRIDIUM Phone Charging – Setup, Start Charging OTKLIK. Hardware Monitoring / r/g 0030 ТК 717 IRIDIUM Phone Charging – Battery Status Check WRS – Recycle Tank Fill ТПК 717 IRIDIUM Phone Charging – Terminate Charge, Teardown the setup, Closeout Ops (ФГБ1ПГО_2_224_1, CTB 1017 (002857J), Soft Container (00044322R) Soyuz 718 Samsung tablet charging – end Node 1 – Berthing port modification kit procedure review […]

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Diego Costa left out of Spain squad for Euro 2016 qualifiers

MADRID (AP) Spain coach Vicente del Bosque has left Diego Costa out of the squad for the team's last two qualifying matches for next year's European Championship.

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Lokomotiv Moscow apologizes for discriminatory chants

MOSCOW (AP) Russian football club Lokomotiv Moscow has apologized after its fans chanted discriminatory slogans during a Europa League game.

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Real Madrid honors Ronaldo for setting scoring record

MADRID (AP) Real Madrid is honoring Cristiano Ronaldo for becoming the team's all-time leading scorer.

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In FIFA crisis, politicians must turn up the heat for change

PARIS (AP) Here's a cheery thought for those despairing of the unrelenting disaster that is FIFA. In Chinese, the word ''crisis'' is formed from two characters: ''danger'' and ''opportunity.'' As grim as things look at the top of football, there may still be a chance to salvage a brighter future from the scorched earth of Sepp Blatter's reign.

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Robben out, Ajax winger El-Ghazi gets 1st Dutch call-up

AMSTERDAM (AP) Netherlands captain Arjen Robben has not recovered sufficiently from a groin injury to play in his country's crucial final two qualifiers for next year's European Championships.

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Portugal calls up defender Semedo for Euro qualifiers

LISBON, Portugal (AP) Benfica defender Nelson Semedo has earned his first call-up for Portugal ahead of the European Championship qualifiers against Denmark and Serbia, when Cristiano Ronaldo's team needs just one point to book its place at next year's tournament.

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Neymar to miss 2 qualifiers after court rejects appeal

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) Sport's highest court has rejected Brazil's attempt to overturn Neymar's ban from two World Cup qualifiers.

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Germany calls up Leverkusen keeper for Euro 2016 qualifiers

BERLIN (AP) Germany coach Joachim Loew has given Bayer Leverkusen goalkeeper Bernd Leno his first call-up for the side's final two European Championship qualifying games.

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Platini's legal woes makes FIFA election more unpredictable

ZURICH (AP) More than two months into Michel Platini's FIFA presidential campaign, football fans are still waiting to hear just how he plans to rebuild the governing body's reputation. He might never get the opportunity.

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Wenger irate with critics, threatens media with walk-out

LONDON (AP) Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger dismissed continued criticism of his team selection as ''very, very, very, very boring'' and threatened to walk out of a news conference Friday when questioned about Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho.

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Ocean City, MD's surf is at least 7.49ft high

Maryland-Delaware, October 06, 2015 at 04:00AM

Ocean City, MD Summary
At 4:00 AM, surf min of 7.49ft. At 10:00 AM, surf min of 6.34ft. At 4:00 PM, surf min of 5.31ft. At 10:00 PM, surf min of 4.49ft.

Surf maximum: 8.49ft (2.59m)
Surf minimum: 7.49ft (2.28m)
Tide height: 2.85ft (0.87m)
Wind direction: N
Wind speed: 12.75 KTS


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Eclipsed in Southern Skies

This stunning panorama in southern skies was recorded on the colorful night of September 27/28 from Carnegie Las Campanas Observatory. A diffuse glow and dark rifts of the central Milky Way hang over domes of the twin 6.5 meter Magellan telescopes. But most eye-catching is the deep red glow of the Moon. Immersed in Earth's shadow during the much anticipated perigee-total-lunar eclipse, the Moon's surface reflects the light of sunsets and sunrises scattered and refracted into the planet's cone-shaped umbra. Along with the dramatic hue of the eclipsed Moon, other colors of that night captured by the sensitive digital camera include the red and green shades of atmospheric airglow. Viewers can also spot the Andromeda Galaxy below the Moon, seen as a tiny smudge through the reddish airglow and lights along the horizon. The Magellanic Clouds, satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, join in at the far left of the full panorama frame. via NASA http://ift.tt/1hcunj1

FC Kansas City wins NWSL championship, 1-0 over Seattle

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Amy Rodriguez scored off a header in the 78th minute and FC Kansas City sent midfielder Lauren Holiday into retirement with a 1-0 victory over the Seattle Reign for the National Women's Soccer League championship game Thursday night.

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Ravens: Justin Forsett (150 yards on 26 carries) and run game got physical in win over Steelers - Jamison Hensley (ESPN)

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NFL: Justin Tucker 52-yard FG in OT, gives Ravens 23-20 win at Steelers; postgame coverage on SportsCenter on ESPN (ESPN)

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Joaquin

Joaquin became a tropical storm Monday evening (EDT) midway between the Bahamas and Bermuda and has now formed into a hurricane, the 3rd of the season--the difference is Joaquin could impact the US East Coast. GPM captured Joaquin Tuesday, September 29th at 21:39 UTC (5:39 pm EDT) as the hurricane moved slowly towards the west-southwest about 400 miles east of the northwestern Bahamas. At the time, Joaquin had been battling northerly wind shear, which was impeding the storm's ability to strengthen. However, compared to earlier in the day, the system was beginning to gain the upper hand as the shear began to relax its grip. At the time of this data visualization, Joaquin's low-level center of circulation was located further within the cloud shield, and the rain area was beginning to wrap farther around the center on the eastern side of the storm while showing signs of increased banding and curvature, a sure sign that Joaquin's circulation was intensifying. GPM shows a large area of very intense rain with rain rates ranging from around 50 to 132 mm/hr (~2 to 5 inches, shown in red and magenta) just to the right of the center. This is a strong indication that large amounts of heat are being released into the storm's center, fueling its circulation and providing the means for its intensification. Associated with the area of intense rain is an area of tall convective towers, known as a convective burst, with tops reaching up to 16.3 km (shown in orange). These towers when located near the storm's core are a strong indication that the storm is poised to strengthen as they too reveal the release of heat into the storm. At the time this data was taken, the National Hurricane Center reported that Joaquin's maximum sustained winds had increased to 65 mph from 40 mph earlier in the day, making Joaquin a strong tropical storm but poised to become a hurricane, which occurred this morning at 8:00 am EDT. With the inhibiting wind shear expected to continue to diminish and the system moving over warm waters, the National Hurricane Center is forecasting Joaquin to intensify further, possibly into a major hurricane within the next few days.

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Airborne in the Arctic

This blog post is part of a series of first-hand stories from NASA scientists, visualizers and educators that were created for Earth Science Week 2015: Visualizing Earth Systems. Read all the blogs and find educational resources for all ages at: http://ift.tt/1OKWxQV. Four turboprop engines roar to life under the autumnal Alaskan sun, and we begin to taxi to the main runway of Eielson Air Force Base. After extensive pre-flight configurations, our science payload is primed for our eight-hour mission. Without delay, the engines' roar becomes a howl as we hurtle down the nearly three-mile stretch of runway until that near-weightless moment we become airborne. Our mission into the clouds of the arctic is underway. Clouds are important drivers of Earth's climate by regulating the amount of sunlight that is absorbed at the ground versus what is reflected back into space. You've probably experienced this firsthand when sitting outside on a hot and sunny summer day when a fluffy cumulus cloud crosses the sky between you and the sun. The respite that you feel from the heat of the sun's rays means that that energy is no longer reaching you at the surface. At the lower latitudes where most of us live, these thick, stratiform and cumuliform clouds have a cooling effect because the white cloud reflects the sun's energy back to space instead of being absorbed by the dark brown soil, green trees and plants, or the blue ocean waters. The story is much more complicated at the high latitudes where the frozen ice surface is also very bright white and reflective. Under these conditions, clouds can actually have a net warming effect because they reflect a similar or smaller amount of the incoming sunlight, but also trap more of the outgoing heat radiation and keep it close to the surface (like a blanket.) The exact balance between heating and cooling depends on the cloud properties - droplet number and size - and where the clouds are located in the atmosphere (high or low altitude as well as overlying dark water or bright ice.) Unraveling these effects is important for understanding how the Earth's radiation balance and climate exist now and how they are likely to change in the future. Differentiating the impacts of low-level clouds versus Arctic sea ice on sunlight from space is hard, because to a passive satellite sensor orbiting many hundreds of kilometers above the Earth's surface, both the ice and cloud look very similar. To best visualize this system, we must go to the Arctic with scientific research aircraft to measure the cloud properties just below, above, and within the clouds themselves. This was precisely the motivation behind the NASA Arctic Radiation - IceBridge Sea and Ice Experiment (ARISE), which was conducted in the Alaskan Arctic from September-October, 2014. ARISE carried out 14 science flights aboard the NASA Wallops Flight Facility C-130 Hercules aircraft, which was outfitted with a comprehensive suite of scientific instrumentation including a laser altimeter for measuring the sea ice surface properties, in situ cloud probes, and a sun photometer and two radiometers (SSFR, BBR) for measuring the surface, aerosol, and cloud radiative properties. An example 8-hour flight track is shown for the September 7th science flight in the Google Map below. The aircraft was based at Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks, AK, and began each flight by transiting approximately 2 hours north to the vicinity of the ice edge in the Beaufort Sea. On the 7th, the aircraft flew a series of parallel, horizontal legs to cover a single satellite grid box of the overflying NASA Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) satellite. These measurements help CERES scientists to understand how small-scale variability in ice and cloud extent and properties affect their satellite-based retrievals. Google map showing the flight track of the NASA C-130 aircraft during a research flight conducted on 7 September 2014 north of the Alaskan coast. Before wrapping up the research flight on the 7th and beginning our 2-hour transit back to Fairbanks, we descended into the low-level clouds to measure their microphysical properties with the in situ cloud probes. The video below shows what it's like to measure an Arctic cloud from inside it! The left side of the video shows the real-time data time series from our research instruments that we are continuously monitoring in flight. The top-right imagery is from the forward-facing camera in the C-130 cockpit. The bottom-right imagery is from the downward-facing, nadir camera mounted on the bottom of the aircraft. In the video, we start out above the clouds in a shallow descent. The altitude data trace is trending down, but nothing has registered yet on any of the cloud probe instrumentation. Looking at the lower-right, downward-facing camera, we can see the sea ice on the surface periodically, which tells us that these clouds are somewhat broken up. As the pilots lower us below about 400 meters altitude, we enter the clouds, but they continue to descend looking for the cloud bottom. On this day, the clouds extended down so close to the ice surface that we were unable to safely get below them, so the pilots climbed back up to a comfortable altitude in the cloud for a level altitude leg. Looking at the color map of CDP Droplet Diameters, we can see some interesting changes in the cloud droplet size distribution with altitude around 23:12:30 UTC - the droplet sizes get smaller at the lower altitude closer to cloud base! Within the cloud on the level leg (23:12:30-23:17:30 UTC), the forward-looking camera (top-right) is pretty socked in with opaque white cloud; although, every once in a while we see a glimpse of blue sky above. Similarly, on the downward-facing camera (bottom-right), we see thin wisps of clouds punctuated by periodic breaks in the cloud structure and clear visibility of the sea ice below. Now looking at the data, we see this constant up/down pattern in the CDP Cloud Droplet Number Concentration (red trace) and the Cloud Liquid and Total Water Content (LWC in blue and TWC in black). This structure in the data is due to the aircraft cutting across the parallel streaks of low clouds. The video ends with the pilots ascending out of the cloud. Manning the scientific instrument displays, which allow me to see real-time variations in the atmospheric composition has to be my favorite part of ARISE aircraft studies! Quite simply, there's never a dull moment when you're sitting inside of an airplane travelling across cities, states, or countries, and encountering different air masses along the way. -- Rich Moore, Research Physical Scientist (NASA Langley Research Center)

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Notes from the Underground

This blog post is part of a series of first-hand stories from NASA scientists, visualizers and educators that were created for Earth Science Week 2015: Visualizing Earth Systems. Read all the blogs and find educational resources for all ages at: http://ift.tt/1OKWxQV. I'm a hydrologist, which means I study how water moves around on land. Well, "on land" isn't exactly right. It turns out that most of the interesting processes happen beneath the land surface, hidden from view. You might think, for example, that rivers fill from above — it rains and the water that doesn't sink into the ground runs off into the rivers. But in fact, about 80 percent of the water in rivers comes from underground. Rain soaks into the ground, adding water to the water table. When the water table rises to where it intersects with the land surface (on the side of a hill or even gently sloping "flat" land), the water penetrates through to the surface and runs downhill. Eventually, the flowing water carves out a ditch and you have a stream and ultimately a river. Let me show you what I mean: As you see, a picture makes the idea a lot clearer. This particular illustration is conceptual. It gets the general idea across but doesn't contain precise information such as the height of the water table or the amount of water flowing down the stream. Here is an example of a visualization I might use if I wanted to convey specific information to other scientists: With just a few lines and dots, this graph presents a lot of information about the Missouri River in 2010 and 2011. If you're not used to seeing graphs like this, it might not mean much to you at first. But scientists would look at this and understand immediately. Here's what it shows: The X-axis (the horizontal line at the bottom) represents the height of the water table. The Y-axis (the vertical line on the left) represents the amount of water flowing through the river. Each dot shows an actual point in time when the water table was at a certain height and a certain amount of water was in the river. The black curved line represents an average of the dots. Basically, this graph shows that as the underground water table got higher and higher, the amount of water flowing in the river grew larger and larger. When the water table reached about 75 cubic kilometers, the amount of water in the river started increasing very rapidly. This tells scientists that the ground became saturated at that point, unable to hold any more water. Some of the dots are off the curved line because much of the water was locked up as snow and ice in the winter and spring and then melted in June, July and August, driving the amount of water in the river way up. So although a graph like this might seem confusing to someone who is unfamiliar with looking at information this way, it actually makes the information much easier to understand once you know how to read it. I use visualization at every stage of research, both to help myself get a grip on the data and to share my work with others. Data-based visualizations can also take the form of pictures. JPL, the NASA center where I work, is having an Open House for the public at the beginning of Earth Science Week this year. One of the items we're handing out is a "lenticular card," a picture that animates when you pivot it from side to side. The animation actually consists of 12 separate images created from data provided by NASA's GRACE mission, which uses a pair of satellites in Earth orbit to measure changes in the planet's gravity field. Those changes are mostly caused by the movement of large amounts of water and ice, and the visualization clearly shows how California's aquifers (underground regions where water is concentrated) have been drying up during the 12 years that GRACE has been in operation. Without the GRACE satellites, we would have had to drill and monitor millions of wells to get this information. And without visualizations like this, the GRACE data would just be hard-to-comprehend lists of numbers. We live in an age in which technology enables us to collect data at a breathtaking rate. NASA currently has 15 Earth-orbiting missions producing the largest data stream of Earth observations in the history of mankind. Visualizations are what enable us to understand and use that data. So what's my advice to students thinking about careers in science? Follow your interests. And draw pictures! -- JT Reager, Hydrologist (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Bonus for educators: Recorded webinar on Mapping Earth's Water Cycle, presented by J.T. Reager and Jorge Vazquez, NASA JPL; and Annette deCharon and Carla Companion, University of Maine.

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Educator Webinar: Mapping Earth's Water Cycle with NASA Scientists (Recorded)

Earth Science Week Webinar - 2014 on Vimeo!View the Concept Maps: Map 1 and Map 2 Scientists from two NASA Earth science missions will address how their synergistic research helps us to understand Earth's water cycle, including extreme events such as floods. This presentation will use an online concept map tool for exploring the water cycle. Unlike traditional slide-based presentations, these dynamic maps act as a resource that can be explored with an audience, instead of a one-way, linear presentation. The concept maps presented are loaded with educational assets - including images, videos, news items - that webinar participants can use in their own educational practices, presentations or for their own learning. The concept maps and other materials presented are freely available online, and instructions will be provided to give participants access to the maps after the webinars. Participants will also learn how to create their own maps. JT Reager is a research scientist in the Water and Carbon cycles group at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He received Bachelors degrees in Aerospace Engineering and Ocean Engineering from Virginia Tech, a masters degree in Physical Oceanography from the University of Delaware, and a Ph.D in Earth System Science from the University of California, Irvine. He is currently using gravity-based observations of water movement across the planet from NASA's GRACE mission to study flood and drought occurence and to measure the strength of the global water cycle. He's interested in modeling and remote sensing of the Earth system, and implications for society and natural resources management. Jorge Vazquez is the NASA Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) scientist supporting Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Surface Salinity. He received his Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Miami, his masters degree in Oceanography from the university of Rhode Island and his Ph.D in geological sciences from the University of Southern California. He currently serves as the chair of the Applications and User Services Technical Advisory Group for the Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST). His research interests include applying high resolution SST data to understand better coastal dynamics. Outside interests include biking, hiking and tennis as well as serving the community through his Rotary Club. Annette deCharon has leveraged her background in earth and ocean sciences into extensive experience in designing, implementing and maintaining online tools and content. She and her team currently manage the NASA Aquarius, Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence (COSEE.net), and COSEE Ocean Systems websites. They have also conducted 56 webinars using their own concept-mapping software, which was developed to bridge ocean resources with effective education practice. These webinars have reached 2112 people in 48 U.S. states/territories and 28 non-U.S. countries. Carla Companion is a research associate at the University of Maine (Umaine) working on many different grant-funded projects - including work with the Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence (COSEE) Ocean Systems, NASA Aquarius and SPURS missions, and the Ocean Observatories Initiative. Prior to joining the UMaine School of Marine Sciences, she earned her MS in Environmental Studies/Environmental Education from Antioch University New England and her B.S. in Marine and Freshwater Biology from the University of New Hampshire. In addition to helping run Scientist-Educator Collaborative workshops and other projects, she has helps to facilitate webinars featuring ocean scientists and to inform development of concept mapping ​software.

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Morris sends US to 3-1 win over Canada in Olympic qualifier

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) Jordan Morris proved again Thursday night why so many pro teams are eager to sign him.

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Ravens: WR Steve Smith won't return against Steelers due to lower back contusion (ESPN)

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NFL: Steelers and Ravens tied 20-20 entering OT; Justin Tucker 42-yard FG with 3 seconds left in regulation (ESPN)

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NFL: Steelers lead Ravens 13-7 at halftime; Michael Vick 11-of-13 for 75 yards, Le'Veon Bell 11-yard TD run (ESPN)

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[FD] WinRar Expired Notification - OLE Remote Command Execution

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[FD] Mac OS X local root (rsh/libmalloc)

Hi, this is a notice about CVE-2015-5889 which was fixed today in APPLE-SA-2015-09-30-3. I reported this issue to Apple in July 2015. The default root-suid binary /usr/bin/rsh on Mac OS X uses execv() in an insecure manner. Most system libraries on OSX use issetugid(2) when initializing to determine if certain environment variables are safe to use. When executing a setuid binary as an unprivileged user, variables such as DYLD_* will be cleared since issetugid() returns 1. However, if a setuid-binary launches another process without dropping privileges, issetugid() calls within that process will return 0 even though the process context might still be tainted by unsafe environment variables. Libdyld will correctly remove any unsafe variables completely from the environment to prevent them from being passed on to child processes. A different library which uses potentially unsafe environment variables is libmalloc, and it will not permanently clear the environment in the same way. /usr/bin/rsh will invoke /usr/bin/rlogin if launched with only a host argument, without dropping privileges or clearing the environment: /* if no further arguments, must have been called as rlogin. */ [...] execv(_PATH_RLOGIN, argv); My exploit will pass "MallocLogFile" to /usr/bin/rsh, which is then passed on to rlogin and interpreted by libmalloc to create a root-owned file with partially controlled contents at /etc/crontab which gives a rootshell via sudo. Tested on 10.9.5 / 10.10.5 but it most likely works on much older versions too. KASLR and other scary acronyms won't protect against 90's style bugs :). Philip Pettersson

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[FD] Vulnerabilities in Callisto 821+R3 ADSL Router

Hello list! In 2011 I wrote 22 advisories about vulnerabilities in Callisto 821+ ADSL Router (http://ift.tt/1LVftKX). Because vendor ignored in 2011 all my letters and subsequent my public disclosure of vulnerabilities and new devices are vulnerable as well, so in August I disclosed vulnerabilities in Callisto 821+R3 ADSL Router. These are Brute Force and Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerabilities. And there are many other vulnerabilities (in control panel). SecurityVulns ID: 11700.

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[FD] Shell Injection in Pygments FontManager._get_nix_font_path

Shell Injection in Pygments FontManager._get_nix_font_path Product: Pygments Version: 1.2.2-2.0.2 497:fe62167596bb to 3693:655dbebddc23 Tue Nov 06 17:30:45 2007 +0000 to Aug 21, 2015. Website: http://pygments.org/ Bitbucket: http://ift.tt/ueDfAx CVSS Score: 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) Discovery: Aug 21, 2015 An unsafe use of string concatenation in a shell string occurs in FontManager. If the developer allows the attacker to choose the font and outputs an image, the attacker can execute any shell command on the remote system. The name variable injected comes from the constructor of FontManager, which is invoked by ImageFormatter from options. pygments/formatters/img.py:82 def _get_nix_font_path(self, name, style): try: from commands import getstatusoutput except ImportError: from subprocess import getstatusoutput exit, out = getstatusoutput('fc-list "%s:style=%s" file' % (name, style)) if not exit: lines = out.splitlines() if lines: path = lines[0].strip().strip(':') return path http://ift.tt/1L81LDR Recommendation shlex.quote should be used to ensure that an attacker cannot inject commands. http://ift.tt/1JIaTtw A pull request has been made since the author did not respond to e-mail, Twitter, or IRC. http://ift.tt/1JIaV4z Regards, Javantea

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[FD] Telegram - Multiple Vulnerabilities

#[+] Title: Telegram - Multiple Vulnerabilities #[+] Product: Telegram #[+] Vendor: http://telegram.org/ #[+] SoftWare Link : http://ift.tt/1DdVxwi / https://my.telegram.org # # Author : Eduardo Alves # E-Mail : edudx1[ at ]gmail[ dot ]com # Website : tempest.com.br/en/ Info: As we know, the Telegram access uses by default is possible only with a token (5 digits). This token could be obtained by: Eavesdropping/desktop notifications/SMS/incoming calls... ################################################################################### #[1] my.telegram.org Denial Of Service The my.telegram.org website behaves inadequately, blocking the users access after 5 consecutive incorrect phone number attempts. ## PoC:

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[FD] CVE-2015-2342 VMware vCenter Remote Code Execution

[FD] Tool: Race condition chaser on windows

I released a tool to help you exploit race conditions on the filesystem on windows here: http://ift.tt/1jBFWSK It helped me escalate to local admin in multiple environments, because not being administrator seemed highly illogical. Live long and prosper

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Clamping Improves TRW and Mean Field Approximations. (arXiv:1510.00087v1 [cs.LG])

We examine the effect of clamping variables for approximate inference in undirected graphical models with pairwise relationships and discrete variables. For any number of variable labels, we demonstrate that clamping and summing approximate sub-partition functions can lead only to a decrease in the partition function estimate for TRW, and an increase for the naive mean field method, in each case guaranteeing an improvement in the approximation and bound. We next focus on binary variables, add the Bethe approximation to consideration and examine ways to choose good variables to clamp, introducing new methods. We show the importance of identifying highly frustrated cycles, and of checking the singleton entropy of a variable. We explore the value of our methods by empirical analysis and draw lessons to guide practitioners.

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Active Perception for Multimodal Object Category Recognition Using Information Gain. (arXiv:1510.00331v1 [cs.RO])

In this paper, we propose an optimal active perception method for recognizing multimodal object categories. Multimodal categorization methods enable a robot to form several multimodal categories through interaction with daily objects autonomously. In most settings, the robot has to obtain all of the modality information when it attempts to recognize a new target object. However, even though a robot obtains visual information at a distance, it cannot obtain haptic and auditory information without taking action on the object. The robot has to determine its next action to obtain information about the object to recognize it. We propose an action selection method for multimodal object category recognition on the basis of the multimodal hierarchical Dirichlet process (MHDP) and information gain criterion. We also prove its optimality from the viewpoint of the Kullback--Leibler divergence between a final recognition state and a current recognition state. In addition, we show that the information gain has submodularity owing to the graphical model of the MHDP. On the basis of the submodular property of the information gain criterion, we propose sequential action selection methods, a greedy algorithm, and a lazy greedy algorithm. We conduct an experiment using an upper-torso humanoid robot and show that the method enables the robot to select actions actively and recognize target objects efficiently.

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Joint Optimization of Masks and Deep Recurrent Neural Networks for Monaural Source Separation. (arXiv:1502.04149v4 [cs.SD] UPDATED)

Monaural source separation is important for many real world applications. It is challenging because, with only a single channel of information available, without any constraints, an infinite number of solutions are possible. In this paper, we explore joint optimization of masking functions and deep recurrent neural networks for monaural source separation tasks, including monaural speech separation, monaural singing voice separation, and speech denoising. The joint optimization of the deep recurrent neural networks with an extra masking layer enforces a reconstruction constraint. Moreover, we explore a discriminative criterion for training neural networks to further enhance the separation performance. We evaluate the proposed system on the TSP, MIR-1K, and TIMIT datasets for speech separation, singing voice separation, and speech denoising tasks, respectively. Our approaches achieve 2.30--4.98 dB SDR gain compared to NMF models in the speech separation task, 2.30--2.48 dB GNSDR gain and 4.32--5.42 dB GSIR gain compared to existing models in the singing voice separation task, and outperform NMF and DNN baselines in the speech denoising task.

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Describing Videos by Exploiting Temporal Structure. (arXiv:1502.08029v5 [stat.ML] UPDATED)

Recent progress in using recurrent neural networks (RNNs) for image description has motivated the exploration of their application for video description. However, while images are static, working with videos requires modeling their dynamic temporal structure and then properly integrating that information into a natural language description. In this context, we propose an approach that successfully takes into account both the local and global temporal structure of videos to produce descriptions. First, our approach incorporates a spatial temporal 3-D convolutional neural network (3-D CNN) representation of the short temporal dynamics. The 3-D CNN representation is trained on video action recognition tasks, so as to produce a representation that is tuned to human motion and behavior. Second we propose a temporal attention mechanism that allows to go beyond local temporal modeling and learns to automatically select the most relevant temporal segments given the text-generating RNN. Our approach exceeds the current state-of-art for both BLEU and METEOR metrics on the Youtube2Text dataset. We also present results on a new, larger and more challenging dataset of paired video and natural language descriptions.

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Ask Your Neurons: A Neural-based Approach to Answering Questions about Images. (arXiv:1505.01121v3 [cs.CV] UPDATED)

We address a question answering task on real-world images that is set up as a Visual Turing Test. By combining latest advances in image representation and natural language processing, we propose Neural-Image-QA, an end-to-end formulation to this problem for which all parts are trained jointly. In contrast to previous efforts, we are facing a multi-modal problem where the language output (answer) is conditioned on visual and natural language input (image and question). Our approach Neural-Image-QA doubles the performance of the previous best approach on this problem. We provide additional insights into the problem by analyzing how much information is contained only in the language part for which we provide a new human baseline. To study human consensus, which is related to the ambiguities inherent in this challenging task, we propose two novel metrics and collect additional answers which extends the original DAQUAR dataset to DAQUAR-Consensus.

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Teaching Machines to Read and Comprehend. (arXiv:1506.03340v2 [cs.CL] UPDATED)

Teaching machines to read natural language documents remains an elusive challenge. Machine reading systems can be tested on their ability to answer questions posed on the contents of documents that they have seen, but until now large scale training and test datasets have been missing for this type of evaluation. In this work we define a new methodology that resolves this bottleneck and provides large scale supervised reading comprehension data. This allows us to develop a class of attention based deep neural networks that learn to read real documents and answer complex questions with minimal prior knowledge of language structure.

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Ravens: TE Crockett Gilmore (calf) out against Steelers; check ESPN NOW for a full list of inactives (ESPN)

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Greek police arrest 8 German fans after Thessaloniki clashes

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) Eight visiting German fans have been arrested following clashes with Greek police that briefly stopped play during a Europa League match between PAOK and Borussia Dortmund in Thessaloniki.

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Schalke wins, Tottenham held to draw in Europa League

BERLIN (AP) Franco Di Santo claimed a hat trick and Klaas Jan Huntelaar scored another goal as Schalke beat Asteras Tripoli 4-0 at home in the Europa League on Thursday.

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Ravens: WR Breshad Perriman had arthroscopic surgery on his PCL and will be out indefinitely - Adam Schefter, NFL.com (ESPN)

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Platini loses adviser amid FIFA campaign, Swiss probe

ZURICH (AP) Michel Platini will be without his closest adviser at UEFA as he seeks the FIFA presidency while embroiled in the Swiss investigation into corruption in the global governing body.

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How a Man bought 'Google.com' Domain for Only $12 from Google

Difficult to believe this, as we hardly come across such news. But trust me, a person managed to buy no ordinary .com domain, but — Google.com and that too for one whole minute. Sanmay Ved, an ex-Google employee and current-Amazon employee, experienced something of a shock when he found that the world's largest search engine website, Google.com, was "available" for purchase. <!--

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Stagefright Bug 2.0 — Just A Single MP3 Song Can Hack One Billion Android Phones

Attention Android users! More than 1 Billion Android devices are vulnerable to hackers once again – Thanks to newly disclosed two new Android Stagefright vulnerabilities. Yes, Android Stagefright bug is Back… …and this time, the flaw allows an attacker to hack Android smartphones just by tricking users into visiting a website that contains a malicious multimedia file, either MP3 or

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Security Against Identity Theft

However, the FCC has mandated that carriers allow callers the ability to block their Caller ID information and thus place “anonymous” calls. T-Mobile is ...

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Bob Ross Fall Marathon

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Because this Weekend is a Special Bob Ross Fall Marathon on the Create TV Channel!

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Villarreal looking to keep momentum going in Spain

MADRID (AP) Looking for its sixth win a row, Villarreal is the team to beat in Spain.

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Marseille midfielder Diarra earns call back with France

PARIS (AP) Marseille midfielder Lassana DIarra is back in France's squad for upcoming friendly matches against Armenia and Denmark, five years after his last game with the national team.

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Apple iOS 9.0.2 Update Patches Lock Screen Bypass Exploit

Apple has rolled out the second minor iteration of its newest mobile operating system iOS 9, which fixes the iOS lockscreen vulnerability. The widely publicized LockScreen bug allowed anyone with physical access to your iOS device running iOS 9.0 or iOS 9.0.1 to access all the contacts and photos without unlocking the device. <!-- adsense --> Just one week after the last update iOS 9.0.1

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Chip-and-PIN Credit Cards and The Deadline: Here's What You need To Know

October 1 Liability shift ENDS! Today, 1st October 2015, is the deadline for US-based Banks and Retailers to roll out Chip-embedded Credit Cards (powered by EVM Technology) to customers that will make transactions more secure. EVM Technology stands for Europay, MasterCard and Visa -- a global standard for Payment Cards equipped with Chips used to authenticate chip card transactions. <!

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Gareth Bale in Wales squad as he recovers from injury

CARDIFF, Wales (AP) Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale has been named in the Wales squad for the decisive European Championship qualifiers against Bosnia-Herzegovina and Andorra.

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Ings, Alli get 1st England call-up for final qualifiers

LONDON (AP) Liverpool striker Danny Ings and Tottenham midfielder Dele Alli have been called up by England for the first time for the last two European Championship qualifiers.

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Microsoft 'Accidentally' pushed 'Test patch' Update to All Windows 7 Users

A highly mysterious update that was pushed out to Windows machines globally was the result of a test that was not correctly implemented. Yes, Microsoft accidentally released a test patch (KB3877432) to consumer machines running Windows 7, making users believe that the Windows Update service got hacked, and they are infected with malware. However, several hours later, a Microsoft

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German football league president calls on Blatter to resign

BERLIN (AP) German football league president Reinhard Rauball is calling for Sepp Blatter to resign as FIFA president ''at the earliest available opportunity.''

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Ben Arfa back under the spotlight in French league

PARIS (AP) After months of questions regarding his future, the former golden child of French football is back.

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Bayern and Dortmund, Bundesliga's top teams, meet in Munich

BERLIN (AP) Although it's early in the season, Bayern Munich can make a big move toward its fourth consecutive Bundesliga title with a win at home over second-place Borussia Dortmund.

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Ancelotti looms as Rudi Garcia feels the pressure at Roma

ROME (AP) Rudi Garcia is running out of room for missteps at Roma, with Carlo Ancelotti already being named as a possible replacement.

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Germany back in 2nd place in FIFA rankings, Spain up to 6th

ZURICH (AP) World Cup champion Germany has moved back into second place in the FIFA rankings behind Argentina.

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Deadly Simple Exploit Bypasses Apple Gatekeeper Security to Install Malicious Apps

Apple Mac Computers are considered to be invulnerable to malware, but the new Exploit discovered by security researchers proves it indeed quite false. Patrick Wardle, director of research at security firm Synack, has found a deadly simple way that completely bypass one of the core security features in Mac OS X i.e. Gatekeeper. Introduced in July of 2012, Gatekeeper is Apple's

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TrueCrypt Encryption Software Has Two Critical Flaws: It's time to Move On

If you are among thousands of privacy-conscious people who are still using ‘no longer available’ TrueCrypt Encryption Software, then you need to pay attention. Two critical security vulnerabilities have been discovered in the most famous encryption tool, TrueCrypt, that could expose the user’s data to hackers if exploited. Worse yet, TrueCrypt was audited earlier this by a team of

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Seasonal Streaks Point to Recent Flowing Water on Mars

What creates these changing streaks on Mars? Called Recurring Slope Linea (RSL), these dark features start on the slopes of hills and craters but don't usually extend to the bottom. What's even more unusual is that these streaks appear to change with the season, appearing fresh and growing during warm weather and disappearing during the winter. After much study, including a recent chemical analyses, a leading hypothesis has emerged that these streaks are likely created by new occurrences of liquid salty water that evaporates as it flows. The source for the briny water is still unclear, with two possibilities being condensation from the Martian atmosphere and underground reservoirs. An exciting inference is that if these briny flows are not too salty, they may be able to support microbial life on Mars even today. The featured image of a hill inside Horowitz Crater was investigated by instruments aboard the robotic Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter that has been returning data from Mars since 2006. via NASA http://ift.tt/1KK6r1d

Sporting KC wins US Open Cup, beating Union

CHESTER, Pennsylvania (AP) Jordi Quintilla scored the winner in the eighth round of the penalty shootout to give Sporting Kansas City victory over Philadelphia in the final of the U.S. Open Cup on Wednesday.

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Orioles Highlight: Chris Davis hits his ML-leading 44th and 45th HR of season in 8-1 win over Blue Jays (2nd game of DH) (ESPN)

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Ravens Video: ESPN's Damien Woody on NFL Live predicts Baltimore will defeat Roethlisberger-less Steelers on Thursday (ESPN)

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Real-time Bidding based Vehicle Sharing. (arXiv:1509.08932v1 [cs.AI])

We consider the one-way vehicle sharing systems where customers can pick a car at one station and drop it off at another (e.g., Zipcar, Car2Go). We aim to optimize the distribution of cars, and quality of service, by pricing rentals appropriately. However, with highly uncertain demands and other uncertain parameters (e.g., pick-up and drop-off location, time, duration), pricing each individual rental becomes prohibitively difficult. As a first step towards overcoming this difficulty, we propose a bidding approach inspired from auctions, and reminiscent of Priceline or Hotwire. In contrast to current car-sharing systems, the operator does not set prices. Instead, customers submit bids and the operator decides to rent or not. The operator can even accept negative bids to motivate drivers to rebalance available cars in unpopular routes. We model the operator's sequential decision problem as a \emph{constrained Markov decision problem} (CMDP), whose exact solution can be found by solving a sequence of stochastic shortest path problems in real-time. Furthermore, we propose an online approximate algorithm using the \emph{actor-critic} method of reinforcement learning, for which this algorithm has a fast convergence rate and small variance in generalization error. We also show that its solution converges to the stationary (locally optimal) policy.

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Symbol Emergence in Robotics: A Survey. (arXiv:1509.08973v1 [cs.AI])

Humans can learn the use of language through physical interaction with their environment and semiotic communication with other people. It is very important to obtain a computational understanding of how humans can form a symbol system and obtain semiotic skills through their autonomous mental development. Recently, many studies have been conducted on the construction of robotic systems and machine-learning methods that can learn the use of language through embodied multimodal interaction with their environment and other systems. Understanding human social interactions and developing a robot that can smoothly communicate with human users in the long term, requires an understanding of the dynamics of symbol systems and is crucially important. The embodied cognition and social interaction of participants gradually change a symbol system in a constructive manner. In this paper, we introduce a field of research called symbol emergence in robotics (SER). SER is a constructive approach towards an emergent symbol system. The emergent symbol system is socially self-organized through both semiotic communications and physical interactions with autonomous cognitive developmental agents, i.e., humans and developmental robots. Specifically, we describe some state-of-art research topics concerning SER, e.g., multimodal categorization, word discovery, and a double articulation analysis, that enable a robot to obtain words and their embodied meanings from raw sensory--motor information, including visual information, haptic information, auditory information, and acoustic speech signals, in a totally unsupervised manner. Finally, we suggest future directions of research in SER.

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Knowledge-based system for collaborative process specification. (arXiv:1509.09149v1 [cs.SE])

This paper presents an ontology-based approach for the design of a collaborative business process model (CBP). This CBP is considered as a specification of needs in order to build a collaboration information system (CIS) for a network of organisations. The study is a part of a model driven engineering approach of the CIS in a specific enterprise interoperability framework that will be summarised. An adaptation of the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is used to represent the CBP model. We develop a knowledge-based system (KbS) which is composed of three main parts: knowledge gathering, knowledge representation and reasoning, and collaborative business process modelling. The first part starts from a high abstraction level where knowledge from business partners is captured. A collaboration ontology is defined in order to provide a structure to store and use the knowledge captured. In parallel, we try to reuse generic existing knowledge about business processes from the MIT Process Handbook repository. This results in a collaboration process ontology that is also described. A set of rules is defined in order to extract knowledge about fragments of the CBP model from the two previous ontologies. These fragments are finally assembled in the third part of the KbS. A prototype of the KbS has been developed in order to implement and support this approach. The prototype is a computer-aided design tool of the CBP. In this paper, we will present the theoretical aspects of each part of this KbS as well as the tools that we developed and used in order to support its functionalities.

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Supporting interoperability of collaborative networks through engineering of a service-based Mediation Information System (MISE 2.0). (arXiv:1509.09152v1 [cs.SE])

The Mediation Information System Engineering project is currently finishing its second iteration (MISE 2.0). The main objective of this scientific project is to provide any emerging collaborative situation with methods and tools to deploy a Mediation Information System (MIS). MISE 2.0 aims at defining and designing a service-based platform, dedicated to initiating and supporting the interoperability of collaborative situations among potential partners. This MISE 2.0 platform implements a model-driven engineering approach to the design of a service-oriented MIS dedicated to supporting the collaborative situation. This approach is structured in three layers, each providing their own key innovative points: (i) the gathering of individual and collaborative knowledge to provide appropriate collaborative business behaviour (key point: knowledge management, including semantics, exploitation and capitalization), (ii) deployment of a mediation information system able to computerize the previously deduced collaborative processes (key point: the automatic generation of collaborative workflows, including connection with existing devices or services) (iii) the management of the agility of the obtained collaborative network of organizations (key point: supervision of collaborative situations and relevant exploitation of the gathered data). MISE covers business issues (through BPM), technical issues (through an SOA) and agility issues of collaborative situations (through EDA).

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Solving a Mathematical Problem in Square War: a Go-like Board Game. (arXiv:1509.09240v1 [cs.AI])

In this paper, we present a board game: Square War. The game definition of Square War is similar to the classic Chinese board game Go. Then we propose a mathematical problem of the game Square War. Finally, we show that the problem can be solved by using a method of mixed mathematics and computer science.

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Lauren Holiday's goodbye will be the NWSL championship

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) The National Women's Soccer League championship game symbolizes both an end and a beginning for Lauren Holiday.

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MLB: Blue Jays win AL East title for first time in 22 years, clinch division with a 15-2 rout of Orioles (1st game DH) (ESPN)

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Another record for Ronaldo, another win for Madrid

MADRID (AP) Cristiano Ronaldo surpassed the 500-goal mark and Real Madrid hailed him as the club's all-time leading scorer on Wednesday, while Manchester United and Manchester City rebounded from opening losses to remain in contention in the Champions League.

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Juventus beats Sevilla to go top of Champions League group

TURIN, Italy (AP) Juventus eased to a 2-0 win over Sevilla to move top of Group D in the Champions League on Wednesday as the Turin side once again put its domestic woes to one side.

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Aguero penalty gives Man City 2-1 win over 'Gladbach

MOENCHENGLADBACH, Germany (AP) Sergio Aguero scored a last-minute penalty to give Manchester City a 2-1 victory at Borussia Moenchengladbach on Wednesday for the English side's first win of its Champions League campaign.

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PSG beats Shakhtar 3-0 for 2nd win in Champions League

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) Paris Saint-Germain defender Serge Aurier had a dream Champions League debut on Wednesday, scoring one goal and setting up another to help the French side win 3-0 at Shakhtar Dontesk.

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Benfica beats Atletico Madrid 2-1 to take Group C lead

MADRID (AP) Benfica came from behind to surprise Atletico Madrid with a 2-1 win on Wednesday, taking the lead in Group C of the Champions League.

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Doumbia scores twice as CSKA beats PSV in Champions League

KHIMKI, Russia (AP) Seydou Doumbia scored twice as CSKA Moscow held off a second-half comeback by PSV Eindhoven to win 3-2 in their Champions League match on Wednesday.

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ISS Daily Summary Report – 09/30/15

Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites – Universal Docking Port (SPHERES-UDP):  Kelly reviewed the SPHERES-UDP procedure and test plan and then participated in a conference with the Payload Developer to discuss science operations. He then performed a SPHERES-UDP test run and downloaded data to a Station Support Computer (SSC).  The addition of docking ports to SPHERES provides a testbed for the investigation of solutions to the challenges of combining autonomous spacecraft.  Mated spacecraft can be used to assemble complex systems in orbit or combine sensors and actuators for satellite servicing and repurposing missions. SPHERES-UDP enables testing of complex tasks through optimal and adaptive control, autonomous decision-making processes, and real-time image processing.   Node 1 Nadir Berthing Port Preparation:   As part of USOS Reconfiguration, Lindgren and Yui routed two power cables from the forward end cone to bay 3 in the Lab Overhead Starboard Standoff.  These cables connected to the set of cables installed yesterday. Today’s cable routing required every other overhead rack (LAB1O1, LAB1O3, and LAB1O5) to be rotated in the Lab. One crew member retrieved the cable ends behind the un-rotated racks as the other crew member fed the cables through.  Additional cabling routing activities within Node 1 and Node 2 are scheduled for next week. These cables will eventually provide power from Node 2 to the Node 1 Nadir Berthing Port and the Node 1 Galley Rack.   Ultrasonic Background Noise Test (UBNT) Battery Change:  While the 3 US Lab racks were rotated for the cable routing, Yui and Lindgren replaced the battery packs in the UBNT units which are located behind the racks.  These battery change outs will allow the UBNT units to provide acoustic measurements for the area where they are located.   Mobile Servicing System (MSS) Operations:  Yesterday afternoon, Robotics Ground Controllers successfully translated the Mobile Transporter from Worksite 5 to Worksite 2. This evening, they will maneuver the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) to retrieve the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator (SPDM) then perform an Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) imagery survey.  Following the survey, they will position the MSS to support upcoming Robotics Refueling Mission (RRM) Operations starting Friday, October 2nd. Today’s Planned Activities All activities are on schedule unless otherwise noted. MORZE. Measuring Bioimpedance Using SPRUT-2 Ultrasound 2 – Hardware Activation MORZE. NEIROIMMUNITET. CORRECTSIA. Blood Sample 1 CORRECTSIA. MORZE. Processing venous blood sample using Plasma-03 centrifuge NEIROIMMUNITET. Venous blood sample processing NEIROIMMUNITET. Processing venous blood sample using Plasma-03 centrifuge MORZE. NEIROIMMUNITET. CORRECTSIA. Handover to USOS for MELFI Insertion Reminder – ARED Photo/TV Ultrasound2 – Scan Prep RUEXP – Blood Sample Insertion into MELFI CORRECTSIA. Closeout Ops Ultrasound 2 – Scan JEM Terminal Computer Reboot SPHERES – Data Export CARDIOVECTOR. Experiment Ops LAB1O31 Cable Routing SPHERES – Review Ultrasound 2 Data Export LAB1O1 Cable Routing Ultrasound 2 – Scan MORZE. Psycho-physiological Evaluation: Tsentrovka, SENSOR Tests SM PCE antenna feeder test using FSH3 spectrum analyzer Ultrasound 2 – Hardware deactivation MORZE. Psycho-physiological Evaluation:  SUPOS Test ARIS Removal – Assistance MORZE. Psycho-physiological Evaluation: Strelau Test LAB Power Cable Routing PILOT-T. Preparation for the experiment LAB1O5 Cable Routing MAGVEC – USB Transfer Checking Photo/TV Camcorder Setup SPHERES Crew Conference PILOT-T. Experiment Ops Stop LAB1O3 Rack Rotation Post-Exercise Hygiene Procedure LAB Power Cable Routing SPHERES – Cameras Setup Stop LAB Rack Rotation RELAKSATSIYA. Initiate camcorder battery charge Stop LAB Rack Rotation LAB Cables Closeout Ops UBNT – Battery Replacement WRS – Recycle Tank Fill JRNL – Journal Entry (not statused) СОЖ maintenance LAB1O3 Cable Routing SPHERES – Running Tests Verification of ИП-1 Flow Sensor Position NEIROIMMUNITET. Hair Sample RELAKSATSIYA. Mounting hardware on CQ window No.1 LAB Racks Replacement PILOT-T. Experiment Ops Preparation of Reports for Roscosmos TV Studio Checking Photo/TV Camcorder Setup SPHERES – Data Export PILOT-T. Closeout Ops. Tagup with specialists IMS Delta File Prep FMK Deployment Ops (Deferred) RELAKSATSIYA. Parameter Settings. Tagup with specialists Grab Sample Container (GSC) Sampling Operations (Deferred) CONTENT. Experiment Ops RELAKSATSIYA NEIROIMMUNITET. Stress Test NEIROIMMUNITET. Saliva Test   Completed Task List Items PMM Rackfront Cleaning Safety Video Followup (In Work)   Ground Activities All activities are on schedule unless otherwise noted. MSS Operations o    SPDM Unstow o    AMS Survey o    Config for RRM Ops   Three-Day Look Ahead: Thursday, 10/01: 61P Launch and Dock, Cubesat Deployer install on MPEP, SPRINT VO2, NPV O-Ring Install, Col PWS R&R Friday, 10/02: JEMAL Depress, MELFI 2 Troubleshooting, MF Bed, IX Bed, EFA & MCA R&Rs, Cap. Beverage, WRS Waste Water Filter replace, RRM Phase 2 Saturday, 10/03: Weekly Cleaning,  Crew Off Duty   QUICK ISS Status – Environmental Control Group:                               Component Status Elektron On 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) Standby Urine Processing Assembly (UPA) Norm Trace Contaminant Control System (TCCS) Lab Off Trace Contaminant Control System (TCCS) Node 3 Full Up  

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US Soccer Hall of Fame building planned for Frisco, Texas

FRISCO, Texas (AP) The U.S. National Soccer Hall of Fame and Museum is getting a new home.

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Astana salvages draw with Galatasaray in Champions League

ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AP) Kazakhstan's FC Astana earned its first ever point in the Champions League with a 2-2 draw against Galatasaray on Wednesday in a match that featured own goals from both teams.

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The load more pager doesn't get displayed for anonymous users. Sometimes its not showing up even for authenticated users. Is it any permission ...

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US prepared to open Olympic soccer qualifying vs Canada

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) Andi Herzog has come to understand the importance of the Olympics in the U.S., where national pride swells every four years regardless of the sport taking place.

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FIFA to host Palestinians, Saudis for talks on venue spat

ZURICH (AP) FIFA has called the Palestinian and Saudi Arabian football associations to Zurich on Monday for talks on the disputed decision to move their World Cup qualifying match to a neutral venue.

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Ethiopia won't send soccer team to Burkina Faso after coup

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) The Ethiopian Football Federation says it won't send its women's under-20 soccer team to Burkina Faso after the recent coup there.

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Former Greece captain Katsouranis retires

ATHENS, Greece (AP) Former Greece captain Kostas Katsouranis, the last professionally playing member of the winning European Championship squad in 2004, has announced his retirement from football.

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Corruption crisis sees UEFA, FIFA call off friendly match

ZURICH (AP) Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini will avoid coming face-to-face on Friday amid the football corruption scandal after a UEFA-FIFA match was called off.

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Nike extends partnership with NWSL through 2019

BEAVERTON, Ore. (AP) Nike has extended its sponsorship deal with the National Women's Soccer League through 2019.

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Humbled in CL, English to restore pride in Europa League

LONDON (AP) While Premier League sides struggle in the Champions League, the Europa League offers Liverpool and Tottenham the chance to restore some credibility for English teams competing in Europe.

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Scolari pays $3.4M back taxes from time as Portugal coach

LISBON, Portugal (AP) Portuguese authorities say Luiz Felipe Scolari has paid 3 million euros ($3.4 million) in back taxes from when he was Portugal coach between 2003 and 2007.

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Google Play Store increases Android APK Size Limit from 50MB to 100MB

Google is doubling the maximum APK file size on the Play Store from 50 MB to 100 MB. That means... Android app developers can now build higher quality Apps and Games that users love. Of course, for an end user it may affect the overall app performance and installation time, as well as mobile data connectivity. <!-- adsense --> Google Wants Developers to Create Richer Apps By

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Ex-Parma chief Manenti banned 5 years for bankruptcy role

ROME (AP) Former Parma president Giampietro Manenti has been banned from football for five years for trying to use cloned credit cards and other illicit means in a failed attempt to help the squad avoid bankruptcy.

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ISS Daily Summary Report – 09/29/15

Combustion Integration Rack (CIR) / FLame Extinguishment Experiment (FLEX)-2J Fiber Arm Replacement:  Kelly replaced the FLEX-2J Fiber Arm today as part of routine maintenance operations for the CIR.  He removed the Multi-user Droplet Combustion Apparatus (MDCA) Chamber Insert Assembly (CIA) from the CIR Combustion Chamber, and restrained it on the Maintenance Work Area (MWA) work surface. After replacing the Fiber Arm, he reinstalled the MDCA CIA back into the CIR Combustion Chamber.  FLEX-2J studies the interactions of flames on the motion and ignition of millimeter-sized droplets. Results can provide fundamental insight into the physics of fuel burning, which improves computer models designed to reduce emissions and improve fuel consumption efficiency in space and on Earth.   Journals:  Kelly completed a Journal activity today. The Journals investigation obtains information on behavioral and human issues that are relevant to the design of equipment and procedures used during astronauts during extended-duration missions. Study results provide information used in preparation for future missions to low-Earth orbit and beyond.   Ras Labs-CASIS-ISS Project for Synthetic Muscle: Resistance to Radiation (Synthetic Muscle):   Lindgren obtained a set of historical photos of the synthetic muscle samples.  He then transfered the photos to a Station Support Computer (SSC) for downlink. The purpose of this investigation is to measure the effects of radiation on proprietary synthetic muscle materials in space and earth environments. Robots made of these materials could provide assistance to humans in space, enhance survivability of robots during deep space travel, and provide support in extreme radiation environments on Earth.   MAGVECTOR Experiment Run Completion:  The fifth run of European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) MAGVECTOR investigation was completed and Lindgren transfered data from the run to a SSC for downlink. MAGVECTOR qualitatively investigates the interaction between a moving magnetic field and an electrical conductor. The expected changes in the magnetic field structure on the Ram and Wake side of the electrical conductor are of interest for technical applications as well as for astrophysical research.   Node 1 Nadir Berthing Port Preparation:   As part of USOS Reconfiguration, Lindgren and Yui routed two power cables from the Lab Aft Starboard Endcone into the Overhead Starboard Standoff.  Today’s activity required the crew to rotate the LAB1O6 rack.  Although the power cables were not connected today, these cables will eventually provide power from Node 2 to the Node 1 Nadir Berthing Port and the Node 1 Galley Rack.  Additional Lab cable routing is scheduled to occur tomorrow, September 30th.   Mobile Servicing System (MSS) Ops:   Overnight, Robotics Flight Controllers activated the MSS and performed a Space Station Remote Manipulator (SSRMS) walk off from Node 2 to Mobile Base System (MBS) Power Data Grapple Fixture (PDGF)-1.  Once the walk off was complete, they maneuvered the SSRMS in preparation for a Latching End Effector (LEE) A survey by the crew.  Kelly then performed a regularly scheduled snare cable inspection and an inspection of the latches as a follow up from the LEE-A lubrication performed during an Extravehicular Activity (EVA) in February 2015.  Once the inspections were complete, Robotic Flight Controllers maneuvered the SSRMS in preparation for a Mobile Transporter (MT) translation from Worksite 5 to Worksite 2.  The translation is currently in work.   Today’s Planned Activities All activities were completed unless otherwise noted.   IMMUNO. Saliva Sample (Session 1) Laptop RS1(2) Reboot IMMUNO. First stress test, questionnaire data entry Calf Volume Measurement IMMUNO. Test-Tube Blood Collection (finger) IMMUNO. Blood Sample Processing IMMUNO. Equipment Stowage ВКС Laptops Antivirus Scan Check and Status Report EVA – Inspection of EVA Equipment Tethers CORRECTSIA. Logging Liquid and Food (Medicine) Intake Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) Setup VCA1 Camera Adjustment COSMOCARD. Closeout Ops WRS Water Sample Analysis Life On The Station Photo and Video Study of veins in lower extremities Lab Forward and Power Cables Routing – Big Picture Words PTV-LEE – Camera Setup for Inspection PTV – SSRMS LEE Inspection Part One OCT Eye Examination LAB Power Cable Gathering SPHERES – Battery Replacement PILOT-T. Experiment Ops PGS2 – Sample Retrieval LAB Power Cable Routing PGS2 – Setup Ops Replacement of ГА СО filter unit, CO sensors, fan in ГЛ 2106 ГА СО PGS2 – Sample Insertion OCT Hardware Stowage LAB Power Cable Routing – Assistance DAN. Experiment Ops PTV – SSRMS LEE Inspection Part Two PGS2 – Hardware Ops SPHERES – Battery Replacement Switching ГЛ 2106 to Operation mode RELAKSATSIYA.  Charging battery for Relaksatstiya experiment JRNL – Journal Entry ГЛ 2106 Operation Monitoring via Laptop HAM radio session from Columbus Post-Exercise Hygiene Procedure SPHERES – Battery Replacement CIR – Rack Doors Open CIR – Combustion Chamber Front Rack Door Open АСН-К Tests Closeout Ops CORRECTSIA. Logging Liquid and Food (Medicine) Intake MORZE. NEIROIMMUNITET. CORRECTSIA. Experiment setup Search for SM PCE Feeder Test Equipment PTV – SSRMS LEE Inspection Part Three TOCA Data Recording TOCA Waste Water Bag (WWB) Changeout СОЖ maintenance Clearing Stowage from LAB Racks MDCA – Hardware Replacement Plant Gravity Sensing (PGS2)  Operations UBNT – Equipment Setup IMS Delta File Prep Performing SCU and EMU DCM Inspection SYN_MUSCL – Photography WRS – Recycle Tank Fill On-orbit hearing assessment using EARQ MAGVEC – USB Transfer RELAKSATSIYA. Mounting hardware on CQ window No.1 CIR – Combustion Integrated Rack Chamber Closure Fundoscope – Dilation Drops CIR – Rack Doors Closure Fundoscope – Dilation Drops PTV – SSRMS LEE Inspection Part Four Fundoscope – OCT Eye Examination RELAKSATSIYA. Parameter Settings Post-Exercise Hygiene Procedure RELAKSATSIYA. Observation Fundoscope Removal and Stowage IMMUNO. Saliva Sample (Session 2) PGS2 – Hardware Ops IMMUNO. Second stress test, questionnaire data entry IMMUNO. Final Equipment Stowage SPHERES – Battery Stowage CIR – Viewing Introduction Video RELAKSATSIYA. Closeout Ops NEIROIMMUNITET. Saliva Sample CORRECTSIA. Logging Liquid and Food (Medication) Intake Preparation of reports for Roscosmos site ECON-M. Observations and Photography   Completed Task List Items Inc. 44 Safety Video Follow-Up [In Work] PMM Rack Front Cleanup [In Work]   Ground Activities All activities were completed unless otherwise noted. Robotic ops for SSRMS LEE Survey MT Translation from Worksite 5 to Worksite 2 [In Work]   Three-Day Look Ahead: Wednesday, […]

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