Ocean City, MD's surf is at least 5.42ft high

Maryland-Delaware, October 28, 2015 at 10:00AM

Ocean City, MD Summary
At 4:00 AM, surf min of 4.92ft. At 10:00 AM, surf min of 5.42ft. At 4:00 PM, surf min of 4.32ft. At 10:00 PM, surf min of 3.61ft.

Surf maximum: 5.68ft (1.73m)
Surf minimum: 5.42ft (1.65m)
Tide height: 4.36ft (1.33m)
Wind direction: SSE
Wind speed: 15.08 KTS


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Estoril scores late for 2-2 draw with Rio Ave in Portugal

LISBON, Portugal (AP) Estoril midfielder Afonso Taira scored six minutes into stoppage time to snatch a 2-2 draw with Rio Ave in a Portuguese league match both teams finished with 10 men on Saturday.

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Sydney wins tight derby to go atop A-League table

SYDNEY (AP) Milos Ninkovic scored in the 88th minute to give Sydney FC a 1-0 win over Western Sydney Wanderers in a feisty derby Saturday, sending his team to the top of Australian football's A-League after the third round.

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S. African Tokyo Sexwale says will run for FIFA president

JOHANNESBURG (AP) Tokyo Sexwale, a South African businessman and former political prisoner who fought against apartheid, says he intends to be a candidate in the FIFA presidential election.

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Aston Villa loses 2-1 at home to Swansea

BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) Aston Villa surrendered a second-half lead to lose 2-1 at home to Swansea on Saturday and increase the pressure on manager Tim Sherwood after a sixth consecutive defeat in the Premier League.

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Goal-line technology helps Lorient to 1-1 draw with Rennes

PARIS (AP) Kamil Grosicki equalized with the help of goal-line technology as Rennes held 10-man Lorient to a 1-1 draw in the French league on Saturday.

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Ronaldo helps Madrid beat 10-man Celta 3-1

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 12th goal in as many games this season to help Real Madrid to a deceptively tough 3-1 win at second-place Celta Vigo and provisionally increase its Spanish league lead on Saturday.

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Russia backs down on demand for Slutsky to leave CSKA

MOSCOW (AP) Russia has backed down on a demand for national team coach Leonid Slutsky to stop dividing his time with CSKA Moscow.

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Chelsea beaten 2-1 at West Ham, Aston Villa loses again

LONDON (AP) Chelsea's poor Premier League form only got worse on Saturday with a 2-1 loss at West Ham that saw an angry Jose Mourinho sent to the stands.

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Vardy scores again as Leicester beats Crystal Palace 1-0

LEICESTER, England (AP) Jamie Vardy scored for a seventh consecutive Premier League game to give Leicester a 1-0 victory over Crystal Palace on Saturday.

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Ronaldo helps Madrid beat Celta 3-1

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 12th goal in as many games this season to help Real Madrid to a tough 3-1 win at second-place Celta Vigo and provisionally increase its Spanish league lead on Saturday.

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Watford beats Stoke 2-0 in Premier League

STOKE, England (AP) Troy Deeney and Almen Abdi scored as Watford halted Stoke's winning run with a 2-0 away victory Saturday in the Premier League.

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Bayern gets 1,000th Bundesliga victory, extends record start

BERLIN (AP) Arjen Robben scored on his return from injury Saturday as Bayern Munich defeated visiting Cologne 4-0 for the club's 1,000th Bundesliga victory.

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Empoli beats Genoa 2-0 ahead of Inter Milan match

MILAN (AP) Empoli beat Genoa 2-0 in Serie A on Saturday, while title-chasing Inter Milan had a chance to move provisionally top of the table when it played Palermo later.

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Hiroshima beats Kofu 2-0 to book spot in J-League postseason

TOKYO (AP) Sanfrecce Hiroshima beat Ventforet Kofu 2-0 on Saturday to extend its lead in the second-stage standings and secure a place in the J-League championship.

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Hiroshima secures place in J-League championship

TOKYO (AP) Sanfrecce Hiroshima beat Ventforet Kofu 2-0 on Saturday to widen its lead in the second-stage standings and secure a place in the J-League championship.

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Beautiful island universe Messier 94 lies a mere 15 million light-years distant in the northern constellation of the hunting dogs, Canes Venatici. A popular target for earth-based astronomers, the face-on spiral galaxy is about 30,000 light-years across, with spiral arms sweeping through the outskirts of its broad disk. But this Hubble Space Telescope field of view spans about 7,000 light-years or so across M94's central region. The sharp close-up examines the galaxy's compact, bright nucleus and prominent inner dust lanes, surrounded by a remarkable bluish ring of young, massive stars. The massive stars in the ring are all likely less than 10 million years old, indicating the galaxy experienced a well-defined era of rapid star formation. As a result, while the small, bright nucleus is typical of the Seyfert class of active galaxies, M94 is also known as a starburst galaxy. Because M94 is relatively nearby, astronomers can explore in detail reasons for the galaxy's burst of star formation. via NASA http://ift.tt/1PL9wS0

US to move forward with hosting 2016 Copa America

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) The U.S. Soccer Federation has agreed to move ahead with hosting next year's Centennial Copa America.

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Hamburg snatches 1-0 win at Hoffenheim in Bundesliga

BERLIN (AP) Pierre-Michel Lasogga scored two minutes from time on Friday as Hamburger SV beat Hoffenheim 1-0 in the Bundesliga.

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Rayo Vallecano beats Espanyol 3-0 in the Spanish league

MADRID (AP) Rayo Vallecano ended a run of three consecutive league defeats following a 3-0 home win against Espanyol on Friday.

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Nantes beats Caen 2-0 in French league

PARIS (AP) Goals from Yacine Bammou and Adrien Thomasson helped Nantes to a 2-0 win at Caen for its third straight victory in the French league Friday.

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UEFA fines England over crowd disturbances in Euro qualifier

NYON, Switzerland (AP) UEFA has fined England, Lithuania, Scotland and Poland over crowd issues in European Championship qualifiers earlier this month.

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Asylum-seeking Eritrea soccer players in detention center

GABORONE, Botswana (AP) Lawyers representing 10 players from Eritrea's national soccer squad who are claiming asylum in Botswana say they are being held in a detention center, and have been wearing their team kits for more than a week because they have no other clothes.

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Moldova fined over racist flags in European qualifier

MOSCOW (AP) UEFA has hit Moldova with a fine and partial stadium closure after ruling its fans displayed racist flags during a European championship qualifying game.

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Former German federation boss calls successor liar

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) The former president of the German football federation has accused his successor of lying and asserts there was definitely a slush fund used in Germany's successful 2006 World Cup bid.

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ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/22/15

NanoRack Cubesat Deployer 6 (NRCSD#6) Door Secure:  Kelly and Lindgren secured the doors of NRCSD #6 Deployer #6 inside the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) Airlock with loading latches and tape to prevent an inadvertent deploy of the two cubesats in that deployer that could not be launched.   Cell Biology Experiment Facility (CBEF) Video Troubleshooting:  Yui performed additional troubleshooting steps for problems experienced during the checkout of multiple video downlinks for the CBEF.  He installed multiple video cables between the CBEF and Multi-purpose Small Payload Rack 2 (MSPR2) rack in the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM).   Neuromapping:  Yui completed his Flight Day 90 NeuroMapping Neurocognitive test on a Human Research Facility (HRF) laptop.  The Neuromapping experiment studies whether long-duration spaceflight causes any changes to the brain, including brain structure and function, motor control, and multi-tasking; as well as measuring how long it takes for the brain and body to recover from those possible changes. Previous research and anecdotal evidence from crewmembers returning from a long-duration spaceflight suggests that movement control and cognition are affected in microgravity.   Microbiome Investigation:  Lindgren and Yui completed survey questionnaires as part of their Flight Day 90 session of the Microbiome investigation. Microbiome investigates the impact of space travel on both the human immune system and an individual’s microbiome (the collection of microbes that live in and on the human body at any given time).   Sleep Log:  Kelly recorded a Sleep Log entry today.  The Sleep ISS-12 experiment monitors ambient light exposure and crew member activity and collects subjective evaluations of sleep and alertness.  The investigation examines the effects of space flight and ambient light exposure on sleep during a year-long mission on the ISS.   Cognition:  Kornienko performed his Flight Day 206 session of the Cognition experiment.  This is his seventh of eleven sessions.  Individualized Real-Time Neurocognitive Assessment Toolkit for Space Flight Fatigue (Cognition) is a battery of tests that measure how spaceflight-related physical changes, such as microgravity and lack of sleep, can affect cognitive performance. Cognition includes ten brief computerized tests that cover a wide range of cognitive functions, and provides immediate feedback on current and past test results. The software allows for real-time measurement of cognitive performance while in space.   Extravehicular Activity (EVA) Mobility Unit (EMU) On-Orbit Fit Verification (OFV):  Kelly and Lindgren with assistance from Yui and Volkov conducted an EMU OFV to confirm the correct sizing of suits 3003 and 3010.  In support of today’s OFV, they recharged the EMU Feedwater Tanks and conducted communication and data checks with Mission Control Center Houston.  Kelly and Lindgren are scheduled to perform the ISS Upgrades EVA next week on Wednesday, October 28th.   Mobile Servicing System (MSS) Operations:  Last night, robotics controllers powered up the MSS and used the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator (SPDM) to stow the Robotics Refueling Mission (RRM) Multi-Function Tool (MFT).  The stowing of this tool was postponed following the shoulder/yaw joint invalid position anomaly experienced on October 8th on SPDM Arm 2.  The MFT stow activity was performed with Arm 2 in Degraded Joint Operations mode.   Tonight, robotics controllers will use the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) and SPDM to perform an imagery survey of the RapidScat payload.  Following the survey, they will stow the SPDM, then walkoff the SSRMS to Power Data Grapple Fixture (PDGF)3 in preparation for next week’s Latching End Effector (LEE) B lube.     Today’s Planned Activities All activities were completed unless otherwise noted. Biochemical Urine Test HRF – Sample MELFI Insertion Reminder – On-Orbit Fitcheck Verification (OFV) Biochemical Urine Test URISYS Hardware Stowage On MCC Go Regeneration of БМП Ф1 Micropurification Cartridge BIOME – Questionnaire USOS EVA Equipment Lock Prep DAN. Experiment Ops Soyuz 717 Kazbek Fit Check Saving personal data from RSK1 Laptop prior to installation of the new SW version CBEF – Hardware Removal WRM – Water Consumption Balance, place holder UDOD. Experiment Ops with DYKNANIYE-1 and SPRUT-2 Sets OTKLIK. Hardware Monitoring СТТС Configuration for MRM1 Н1 ГК1 Testing in MRM1 UDOD. Photography of the Experiment Ops HAM radio session from Columbus Tropical Cyclone Closeout Ops CBEF – Disconnect Cable Filling EDV from Progress 429 (SM Aft) БВ1Tank CUBESAT – Securing the Door EMU Water Refill Restoring Nominal Comm Configuration Preparing for Replacement of 800А Battery Module No.4 in SM Saving personal data from RSK1 Laptop prior to installation of the new SW version Terminate EMU METOX Regeneration Soyuz 718 Samsung Tablet Charge HMS – Food Frequency Questionnaire Saving personal data from RSK1 Laptop prior to installation of the new SW version TV Conference with Zvezda TV Channel Correspondent NMAP – Test Ops PAO Event EMU On-orbit Fitcheck Verification Soyuz 718 Samsung tablet charging Installation of SW Version 4.1 on station Laptop RSK1 ТКГ 429 (SM Aft) Transfers and IMS Ops Assistance to US crew in EMU On-Orbit Fitcheck Verification PROBOY. Experiment Ops Soyuz 717 Samsung Tablet Charge СОЖ Maintenance HAM radio session from Columbus [Deferred] WHC – Full Fill WRM – Water Consumption Balance Soyuz 717 Samsung tablet charging Cognition – Experiment Ops On MCC Go Regeneration of БМП Ф1 Absorption Cartridge Preparation of Reports for Roscosmos Web Site and Social Media ECON-M. Observation and Photography URAGAN Observations and Photography IMS Delta File Prep   Completed Task List Items None   Ground Activities All activities were completed unless otherwise noted. UHF Activation in support of EMU OFV   Three-Day Look Ahead: Friday, 10/23:  43S OBT Drill, EVA Procedure Review, Microbiome, VHF Emergency Checkout, DOUG Review Saturday, 10/24: Weekly Cleaning,  Crew Off Duty Sunday, 10/25: Crew Off Duty   QUICK ISS Status – Environmental Control Group:                               Component Status Elektron On Vozdukh Manual [СКВ] 1 – SM Air Conditioner System (“SKV1”) Off [СКВ] 2 – SM Air Conditioner System (“SKV2”) On 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) Shutdown Trace Contaminant Control System (TCCS) Lab Off […]

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Jerome Champagne enters FIFA presidential election contest

GENEVA (AP) Jerome Champagne says he has filed papers to enter the FIFA presidential election.

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FIFA urged to make human rights key to presidential race

HOOFDDORP, Netherlands (AP) The international football players' union FIFPro has urged FIFA to block presidential contenders with a poor record on human rights.

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Q&A with RaD-X Project Scientist, Erica Alston

This gallery was created for Earth Science Week 2015 and beyond. It includes a quick start guide for educators and first-hand stories (blogs) for learners of all ages by NASA visualizers, scientists and educators. We hope that your understanding and use of NASA's visualizations will only increase as your appreciation grows for the beauty of the science they portray, and the communicative power they hold. Read all the blogs and find educational resources for all ages at: http://ift.tt/1OKWxQV. You are the Project Scientist and Education and Public Outreach (EPO) lead for the Rad-X Project. What is Rad-X, why is it important, and what is the EPO and project scientist's role? NASA's Radiation Dosimetry Experiment, or RaD-X, is a low-cost, high-altitude balloon project. Its mission is to help us understand and quantify cosmic ray exposure at the top of atmosphere. That's the zone where commercial airlines fly. This is important because these cosmic rays are a primary source of ionizing radiation in the atmosphere and increase the risk of cancer and other health impacts. A pilot absorbs as much radiation as a worker in a nuclear power plant, yet the dose of radiation they receive during a cosmic storm or during the span of their career is not quantified or documented. The RaD-X payload consists of four radiation sensors that are used to measure incoming radiation. The RaD-X payload was launched on September 25, 2015 via a high-altitude research balloon. This supplements NASA's Nowcast of Atmospheric Ionizing Radiation for Aviation Safety (NAIRAS) model, which helps us make informed decisions about radiation exposure safety for flight crews, the general public, and commercial space operations. RaD-X also supported Cubes in Space on their inaugural balloon flight, which carried various science projects from schools across the U.S. Cubes in Space is a global design contest in which teams of secondary school students from around the world develop unique science experiments for launch into the upper atmosphere. During the 24-hour mission, the RaD-X payload and Cubes in Space experienced altitudes above 100,000 ft. during the day and above 60,000 ft. during the night. On RaD-X, I had dual roles. First as the Project Scientist it was my job to serve as an interface between the scientists and engineers. Essentially, to help them speak the same language and communicate effectively. I was also the EPO lead. This included coordinating school visits, developing fact sheets, and interfacing with NASA Langley Research Center's public affairs and communications. How do you use Earth visualizations? Does it have applications to the Rad-X project? Using data from the NAIRAS model, we create visualizations of predicted radiation exposure at multiple altitudes. These show exposure rates at aircraft levels and a vertical profile on global exposure rates. Now that we have successfully launched the Rad-X mission, we have started to analyze real data. During the launch we monitored (in real-time) how the measurements compared with the model predicted values from NAIRAS. Creating visualizations in real-time made the comparisons easier to interpret. How important is communication in your job as a scientist? Do you ever use visualizations to communicate your research? Communication is absolutely key in conveying the importance of the mission and my work. I have to be able to clearly describe complex ideas in a meaningful way and when I see the audience nod in understanding, it is very satisfying. NASA's work is so important; we need to show how the investments the government makes in science are essential to improving the world around us. Using visualizations is vital to clear communication. It is sometimes more effective to show people what the data says, rather than tell them what the data says. For instance in the case of RaD-X, what if I told you there was a strong solar storm that affected our upper atmosphere to the point where the north and south poles had high radiation exposure levels. Would that mean anything to you? But, if I used a visualization that showed how an increased exposure level changed over time or how the storm affects exposure levels for a flight route over the poles, then it would make sense. The picture conveys so much more without the need for a lot of words. What's your favorite part about your job? My favorite part is communication. My work contributes a small part to the understanding of our natural world. So communicating how my research intersects with everyday life is utterly rewarding. Sharing my work with a variety of people nurtures my desire to continue working hard. It's a wonderful positive feedback loop! When you were a student, what interest/hobby led you to the work you're doing now? In college, you would have thought I was a drama or theater major instead of science, because I was interested in different ways to express myself. It was learning how to express myself that has served me well in my current career. I love to talk and share with people. I am comfortable with communicating to a variety of audiences, and I owe that to my varied interests when I was younger. What suggestions/advice do you have to get young girls more interested in science and engineering? My advice is the same advice my mama gave me growing up, which I'll summarize as "Life's journey is full of highs and lows, rewards and challenges. 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NZ loses appeal against Olympic football ejection

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) The Oceania Football Confederation has rejected New Zealand's appeal against disqualification from the region's Olympic qualifying tournament for using an ineligible player.

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Generalized Shortest Path Kernel on Graphs. (arXiv:1510.06492v1 [cs.AI])

We consider the problem of classifying graphs using graph kernels. We define a new graph kernel, called the generalized shortest path kernel, based on the number and length of shortest paths between nodes. For our example classification problem, we consider the task of classifying random graphs from two well-known families, by the number of clusters they contain. We verify empirically that the generalized shortest path kernel outperforms the original shortest path kernel on a number of datasets. We give a theoretical analysis for explaining our experimental results. In particular, we estimate distributions of the expected feature vectors for the shortest path kernel and the generalized shortest path kernel, and we show some evidence explaining why our graph kernel outperforms the shortest path kernel for our graph classification problem.

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German football boss admits to FIFA payment ahead of WC

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) A previously secret financial deal between Sepp Blatter and Franz Beckenbauer was revealed by the German football federation on Thursday as it sought to further defend a payment to FIFA from 2006 World Cup organizers.

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Column: PSG still not ready to scale Champions League peak

PARIS (AP) At Paris Saint-Germain, Zlatan Ibrahimovic has become the footballing epitome of a flat-track bully: frequently awesome when beating up smaller teams but a weak link when PSG is going toe-to-toe with other heavyweights in Europe.

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Brazil brings back Neymar for World Cup qualifiers

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) Barcelona star Neymar is back in Brazil's squad for the South American World Cup qualifying matches against Argentina and Peru in November.

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UEFA charges Man City for fans booing Champs League anthem

NYON, Switzerland (AP) UEFA has opened a disciplinary case against Manchester City for fans booing the Champions League anthem.

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Klopp challenges English FA over use of teenage player

LIVERPOOL, England (AP) With his catchy comments and personable nature, Juergen Klopp has captivated English soccer in his first two weeks in charge of Liverpool.

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ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/21/15

NanoRack Cubesat Deployer 6 (NRCSD#6) Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) Airlock Operations:  Kelly pressurized the JEM Airlock and performed a leak check today in preparation for the activity planned for tomorrow to safe the door on Deployer #6, which contains two cubesats that were not able to be launched.   Tropical Cyclone:  Yui set up a camera in a Cupola window, pointing perpendicular to the ISS velocity vector, with the horizon in view.  The Tropical Cyclone investigation is used to capture images of tropical cyclones and hurricanes that are rated at Category 3 or greater on the Saffir-Simpson scale.  Images will be taken of Cyclone Olaf, which was rated as a Category 4 cyclone as of October 20th.  A pseudo-stereoscopic method is used to determine the altitudes of the cloud tops near the center (eye) of a cyclone by precisely tracking the apparent positions of cloud features with respect to the Earth and how those positions change over time as an observer (the ISS in this case) passes over the storm.  The photographic images will be used to demonstrate that pseudo-spectroscopy can be used to measure the cloud altitudes to sufficient precision so that, when combined with other remote-sensing data, an accurate determination of the intensity of hurricane or cyclone can be made.   Sound Level Measurements in the Mouse Habitat Unit (MHU):  Yui installed the MHU Interface in the Cell Biology Experiment Facility (CBEF) and then placed two Acoustic Dosimeters inside the CBEF to provide static sound level measurements.  These measurements will provide an indication of the sound levels that mice in the MHU will be exposed to during JAXA’s Mouse Epigenetics experiment, which will be performed after the mice arrive on a visiting vehicle in the future.  These measurements differ from previous sound level measurements with a Sound Level Meter in that the dosimeters are stand alone, allowing the MHU doors to be closed and operation of the CBEF and Avionics Air Assembly (AAA) fans.   Ocular Health Ocular and Cardiac Ultrasounds:  Lindgren assisted Kelly and Kornienko today in performing blood pressure measurements and ocular and cardiac ultrasounds as part of their series of Flight Day 210 Ocular Health tests.   The ultrasound images will be used to identify changes in globe morphology and document optic nerve sheath diameter, optic nerve sheath tortuosity, globe axial measurements, and choroidal engorgement. The Ocular Health protocol calls for a systematic gathering of physiological data to characterize the risk of microgravity-induced visual impairment/intracranial pressure in ISS crewmembers. Researchers believe that the measurement of visual, vascular and central nervous system changes over the course of this experiment and during the subsequent post-flight recovery will assist in the development of countermeasures, clinical monitoring strategies, and clinical practice guidelines. Large Format Motion Picture Camera (IMAX):  Yui connected the IMAX Codex to a Station Support Computer (SSC) for a downlink of recorded video files.  IMAX filmmakers intend to produce a three dimensional movie called A Perfect Planet, using ISS-based video and images to show how natural and human forces shape planet Earth. The film will also showcase NASA’s exploration efforts and highlight the ISS as a platform for scientific research and a stepping stone to deep space exploration.   Journals:  Kelly made a Journals entry 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.   Sleep Log:  Kelly recorded a Sleep Log entry today.  The Sleep ISS-12 experiment monitors ambient light exposure and crew member activity and collects subjective evaluations of sleep and alertness.  The investigation examines the effects of space flight and ambient light exposure on sleep during a year-long mission on the ISS.   Extravehicular Activity (EVA) Preparation:  The crew continued to prepare for the upcoming ISS Upgrades EVA, scheduled for October 28th.  Today, all three USOS crew practiced donning and doffing the Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue (SAFER) System on an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) suit.  Lindgren assembled a grease gun that will be used to lubricate Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) Latching End Effector (LEE) B.   Later, Kelly utilized the EMU Caution & Warning System (ECWS) Trainer to review operations of the EMU Enhanced Caution and Warning System and practice EVA Cuff Checklist procedures.  Lastly, Lindgren continued to gather and configure EVA tools and cameras.   Possible Conjunction with Object # 39861 (SL-16 Debris):  Overnight, ground teams continued to evaluate tracking data for a possible conjunction with object # 39861.  Based on trends over the last several tracking updates, the object is now being classified as a low concern and will not require an ISS Pre-Determined Debris Avoidance Maneuver (PDAM).   X2R14 Software Transition:   Flight Controllers continued to update Multiplexer/Demultiplexers (MDMs) with the latest software suite.  Today, they successfully loaded the S3P3 R5 software to the S3-1, S3-2, P3-1, and P3-2 MDMs.  Today’s activities mark the completion of the X2R14 software transition.     Today’s Planned Activities All activities were completed unless otherwise noted. Eye Ultrasound PROBOY. Software Update XF305 – Video Camera Setup MHU-ELT2 – Cable Reconfig PROBOY. Cable Installation and Connection Cell Biology Experiment Facility (CBEF) – Installation of units and dosimeters Life On The Station Photo and Video Battery Charging for EVA Camera setup OH – Ocular Health Cardiac Operations Ocular Health (OH) – Operator assistance Periodic Fitness Evaluation – Nom Ops (subject) OH-CARDIAC Filling (separation) of EDV (KOV) for Elektron or EDV-SV.  Conduct filling and separation of EDV-KOV No.1106 (ФГБ1ПГО_1_111). For filling used EDV No.1107(ФГБ1ПГО_4_404_1) and EDV No.1118 (ФГБ1ПГО_1_108), for separation use EDV No.1199 (ФГБ1ПГО_1_109) CBEF – Disconnect Cable JEMAL – Pressurization WRS Water Sample Analysis Battery Charger Battery Swap JRNL – Journal Entry Tropical Cyclone P/L Ops СОЖ Maintenance [Not Performed] JEMAL – Leak Check after Pressurization USOS Window Shutter Close EMU PWR Degassing Transfer of IVA Tissue-Equivalent Proportional Counter (IV-TEPC) USND2 – Hardware Deactivation Video Footage of Greetings Codex – SSC Configuration for […]

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Bayern shooting for 1,000 Bundesliga win vs. Cologne

BERLIN (AP) Bayern Munich can become the first club to celebrate its 1,000th Bundesliga victory when it hosts Cologne on Saturday.

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Dutch football great Johan Cruyff has lung cancer

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) A spokeswoman for Johan Cruyff says the Dutch football great has lung cancer.

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German football boss again denies World Cup corruption

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) Germany's football federation president has again strongly denied vote buying in the bid to host the 2006 World Cup.

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Salah an issue as Roma visits Fiorentina in 1 vs. 2 matchup

ROME (AP) Mohamed Salah's move from Fiorentina to Roma has been a hot topic of debate ahead of an enticing matchup between the two clubs in Serie A this weekend.

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Real Madrid and Celta Vigo play for Spanish league lead

MADRID (AP) Celta Vigo will be under the spotlight again on Saturday when it hosts Real Madrid with a chance to move into the Spanish league lead.

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City still Manchester's dominant force ahead of 161st derby

MANCHESTER, England (AP) Louis van Gaal was careful to downplay talk of a permanent power shift in Manchester after United's 4-2 victory over City in the most recent derby game.

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Anonymous app helps police track down users who post threats

Most people who use Yik Yak think the app is completely anonymous, but that's not always the case. We received a statement from Yik Yak saying ...

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PSG back to French league routine against Saint-Etienne

PARIS (AP) After a frustrating European night at the Parc des Princes, Paris Saint-Germain returns to business as usual in a French league where the three-time defending champions have no rival.

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Netherlands to play Wales, Germany in friendlies

AMSTERDAM (AP) The Netherlands, which failed to qualify for next year's European Championship, is playing friendlies next month against two teams that are going to the tournament in France.

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Italy to host fellow qualifier Romania in November friendly

ROME (AP) Italy will host Romania in a friendly next month in a matchup of teams that have both qualified for the European Championship.

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FIFA executive lineup of 2010 scores highly for bad behavior

GENEVA (AP) In the history of soccer lineups, the 24-man FIFA executive committee of 2010 ranks among the all-time worst for bad behavior.

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The Fractured North Pole of Saturns Enceladus

The north pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus is unexpectedly fascinating and complex. Previous to the latest flyby of the robotic Cassini spacecraft, the northern region was known mostly for its unusually high abundance of craters. Last week's flyby, however, returned images of unprecedented detail, including the featured image showing the expected craters coupled with an unexpected and circuitous pattern of picturesque cracks and fractures. Broken terrain has been recorded at lower latitudes, with deep canyons dubbed Tiger Stripes near Enceladus' South Pole. The fractures may further indicate global interplay between the surface and potential seas underneath, seas that future missions might target for signs of life. via NASA http://ift.tt/1LL60Fu

Carli Lloyd scores in 85th minute, US ties Brazil 1-1

SEATTLE (AP) Carli Lloyd scored in the 85th minute and the World Cup champion United States women pulled out a 1-1 tie with Brazil on Wednesday night after trailing since the opening moments.

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Alex Mogan plays for US while trade rumors swirl

SEATTLE (AP) Alex Morgan started for the World Cup champion U.S. team against Brazil on Wednesday night amid reports that she was on the verge of being sent to the expansion Orlando Pride of the National Women's Soccer League.

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Martial scores to rescue 1-1 draw for United at CSKA

KHIMKI, Russia (AP) Anthony Martial gave away an early penalty and then scored the equalizer as Manchester United came back to draw 1-1 with CSKA Moscow in the Champions League on Wednesday.

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Injury-hit Real Madrid holds PSG 0-0 in Champions League

PARIS (AP) Cristiano Ronaldo could not find the target for Real Madrid and Zlatan Ibrahimovic put in an even less impressive performance for Paris Saint-Germain as the Group A leaders drew 0-0 in the Champions League on Wednesday.

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High Performance Latent Variable Models. (arXiv:1510.06143v1 [cs.LG])

Latent variable models have accumulated a considerable amount of interest from the industry and academia for their versatility in a wide range of applications. A large amount of effort has been made to develop systems that is able to extend the systems to a large scale, in the hope to make use of them on industry scale data. In this paper, we describe a system that operates at a scale orders of magnitude higher than previous works, and an order of magnitude faster than state-of-the-art system at the same scale, at the same time showing more robustness and more accurate results.

Our system uses a number of advances in distributed inference: high performance in synchronization of sufficient statistics with relaxed consistency model; fast sampling, using the Metropolis-Hastings-Walker method to overcome dense generative models; statistical modeling, moving beyond Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) to Pitman-Yor distributions (PDP) and Hierarchical Dirichlet Process (HDP) models; sophisticated parameter projection schemes, to resolve the conflicts within the constraint between parameters arising from the relaxed consistency model.

This work significantly extends the domain of applicability of what is commonly known as the Parameter Server. We obtain results with up to hundreds billion oftokens, thousands of topics, and a vocabulary of a few million token-types, using up to 60,000 processor cores operating on a production cluster of a large Internet company. This demonstrates the feasibility to scale to problems orders of magnitude larger than any previously published work.

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Creating Scalable and Interactive Web Applications Using High Performance Latent Variable Models. (arXiv:1510.06153v1 [cs.AI])

In this project we outline a modularized, scalable system for comparing Amazon products in an interactive and informative way using efficient latent variable models and dynamic visualization. We demonstrate how our system can build on the structure and rich review information of Amazon products in order to provide a fast, multifaceted, and intuitive comparison. By providing a condensed per-topic comparison visualization to the user, we are able to display aggregate information from the entire set of reviews while providing an interface that is at least as compact as the "most helpful reviews" currently displayed by Amazon, yet far more informative.

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Time-Sensitive Bayesian Information Aggregation for Crowdsourcing Systems. (arXiv:1510.06335v1 [cs.AI])

Crowdsourcing systems commonly face the problem of aggregating multiple judgments provided by possibly unreliable workers. In addition, several aspects of the design of efficient crowdsourcing processes, such as defining worker's bonuses, fair prices and time limits of the tasks, involve the knowledge of the actual duration of a specific task. In this work, we introduce a new time{sensitive Bayesian aggregation method that simultaneously estimates a task's duration and obtains reliable aggregations of crowdsourced judgments. Our method builds on the key insight that the time taken by a worker to perform a task is an important indicator of the likely quality of the produced judgment. To capture this, our model uses latent variables to represent the uncertainty about the workers' completion time, the tasks' duration and the workers' accuracy. To relate the quality of a judgment to the time a worker spends on a task, our model assumes that each task is completed within a latent time window within which all workers with a propensity to valid labelling are expected to submit their judgments. In contrast, workers with a lower propensity to valid labelling, such as spammers, bots or lazy labellers, are assumed to perform tasks considerably faster or slower than the time required by normal workers. Specifically, we use efficient message- passing Bayesian inference to learn approximate posterior probabilities of (i) the confusion matrix of each worker, (ii) the propensity to valid labelling of each worker, (iii) the unbiased duration of each task and (iv) the true label of each task. Using two real-world public datasets for entity linking tasks, we show that our method produces up to 15% more accurate classifications and up to 100% more informative estimates of a task's duration compared to state{of{the{art methods.

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FIFA executive lineup of 2010 scores highly for bad behavior

GENEVA (AP) In the history of soccer lineups, the 24-man FIFA executive committee of 2010 ranks among the all-time worst for bad behavior.

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Madrid and PSG draw in Champions League; City wins late

MADRID (AP) Cristiano Ronaldo and Zlatan Ibrahimovic struggled as Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid played to a lackluster 0-0 draw in the Champions League on Wednesday, while Manchester City found a way to earn a late 2-1 victory in a thrilling finish against Sevilla.

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2016 Copa could move forward after marketing deals end

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) The proposed Copa America Centenario in the United States could get back on track after soccer's governing bodies for both South America and for North and Central America and the Caribbean announced they have ended their relationships with the marketing company Datisa.

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Juventus keeps group lead after drawing 0-0 with 'Gladbach

TURIN, Italy (AP) Last season's finalist Juventus remained atop its Champions League group following a dull 0-0 draw with Borussia Moenchengladbach on Wednesday.

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Malmo beats Shakhtar Donetsk 1-0 in Group A

MALMO, Sweden (AP) A first-half goal from captain Markus Rosenberg gave Malmo a 1-0 win over Shakhtar Donetsk on Wednesday and its first points in Group A of the Champions League.

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Galatasaray back in business in Europe with win over Benfica

ISTANBUL (AP) Lukas Podolski scored a first-half winner as Galatasaray secured its first victory in Group C of the Champions League on Wednesday by beating Benfica 2-1 at the Ali Sami Yen stadium.

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De Bruyne scores late winner, Man City beats Sevilla 2-1

MANCHESTER, England (AP) Kevin De Bruyne scored an injury-time winner for Manchester City in a 2-1 victory over Sevilla in the Champions League on Wednesday, delivering another reminder why the English club broke its transfer record to sign him last summer.

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Atletico Madrid easily beats Astana 4-0 in Champions League

MADRID (AP) Saul Niguez, Jackson Martinez and substitute Oliver Torres scored a goal each as Atletico Madrid defeated Astana 4-0 to take the Group C lead in the Champions League on Wednesday.

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Wolfsburg beats PSV Eindhoven 2-0 in Champions League

WOLFSBURG, Germany (AP) Wolfsburg defeated PSV Eindhoven 2-0 on Wednesday to take control of Group B of the Champions League with its second victory in three matches.

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[FD] SiteWIX - (edit_photo2.php id) SQL Injection Exploit

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US women to play China on Dec 13 at Glendale, Arizona

CHICAGO (AP) The U.S. women's soccer team will play China in an exhibition at Glendale, Arizona, on Dec. 13 as part of its victory tour, a rematch of the Americans' 1-0 win in a quarterfinal at this year's World Cup.

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WikiLeaks obtains CIA Director's Hacked Emails and Plans to Publish them Shortly

Breaking.... WikiLeaks, The Anti-secrecy and transparency organization, claims to have obtained the contents of CIA Director John Brennan's personal AOL email account. Also, Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, has promised to publish them soon on their website. Earlier this week, Brennan's personal email account was hacked by an anonymous self-described high school student, who

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Ravens: Former Baltimore LB Ray Lewis coming up live on SportsCenter on ESPN and WatchESPN (ESPN)

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German great Beckenbauer targeted in FIFA ethics probe

ZURICH (AP) German soccer great Franz Beckenbauer and FIFA vice present Angel Maria Villar have been investigated by ethics prosecutors and are awaiting a verdict in their cases, the governing body's ethics panel said Wednesday.

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Regional chiefs step up pressure on German federation boss

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) Germany's influential regional football bosses are stepping up pressure on national federation president Wolfgang Niersbach to come up with a quick explanation on what happened to the money that one report has said was used to buy votes to bring the 2006 World Cup to Germany.

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The Latest: Beckenbauer, Villar under FIFA investigation

ZURICH (AP) The latest on FIFA corruption cases as its ethics committee releases names of people under investigation. All times local:

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Ocean City, MD's surf is at least 5.42ft high

Maryland-Delaware, October 27, 2015 at 10:00AM

Ocean City, MD Summary
At 4:00 AM, surf min of 4.82ft. At 10:00 AM, surf min of 5.42ft. At 4:00 PM, surf min of 3.2ft. At 10:00 PM, surf min of 3.69ft.

Surf maximum: 6.43ft (1.96m)
Surf minimum: 5.42ft (1.65m)
Tide height: 3.49ft (1.06m)
Wind direction: ENE
Wind speed: 15.4 KTS


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ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/20/15

Observation Analysis of Smectic Islands in Space (OASIS) Sample Exchange:  Kononenko performed an OASIS sample exchange today, installing the third of four sample cartridges into the experiment hardware housed in the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG).  OASIS studies the unique behavior of liquid crystals in microgravity, including their overall motion and the merging of crystal layers known as smectic islands. Liquid crystals are used for display screens in televisions and clocks, and they also occur in soaps and in cell membranes. The experiment allows detailed studies of the behavior of these structures, and how microgravity affects their unique ability to act like both a liquid and a solid crystal.   Sleep Log:  Kelly recorded a Sleep Log entry today.  The Sleep ISS-12 experiment monitors ambient light exposure and crew member activity and collects subjective evaluations of sleep and alertness.  The investigation examines the effects of space flight and ambient light exposure on sleep during a year-long mission on the ISS.   NanoRack Cubesat Deployer 6 (NRCSD#6) Latch Inspection and Return to the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) Airlock:  Kelly obtained photographs for verification of the Cubesat Quad Deployers secondary latch positions.  He then opened the Airlock outer hatch, extended the Slide Table out of the Airlock, and monitored the soft dock of the Multi-Purpose Experiment Platform with the NRCSD attached to it to the slide table by the JEM Remote Manipulator System (JEMRMS).  Later, he retracted the slide table into the Airlock and closed the outer hatch.  Tomorrow, Kelly will pressurize the Airlock and perform a leak check prior to safing the door on Deployer #6, which contains two cubesats that were not able to be launched.   Plant Gravity Sensing 2 (PGS2) Run 1 Closeout:  Yui closed out Plant Gravity Sensing 2 Run1 today.  He removed culture dishes from the Photon Counting Units in the Cell Biology Experiment Facility (CBEF) Incubator Unit and stowed the PGS2 hardware.   Extravehicular Activity (EVA) Preparation:  Yui configured Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) suits 3003 and 3010 for loop scrubbing.  Samples containing 250 mL of the water were obtained after the loop scrub activity to determine the effectiveness of the filtering.  10 mL of this water sample was used for a conductivity test and the remaining water will be sent to the ground for chemical analysis.  Yui then reconfigured Loop Scrub hardware for Iodination of Ion Filters on both suits.  As part of a separate activity, Lindgren utilized the EMU Caution & Warning System (ECWS) Trainer to review operations of the EMU Enhanced Caution and Warning System and practiced EVA Cuff Checklist procedures.  Later in the day, Kelly and Lindgren worked together and configured EVA tools needed for upcoming ISS Upgrades EVA, scheduled for October 28th.   X2R14 Software Transition:   Flight Controllers continue to update Multiplexer/Demultiplexers (MDMs) with the latest software suite.  Today, they successfully loaded the LSYS3 R6 software onto the LAB-3 MDM and the N2SYS2 R4 software onto the Node 2-2 MDM.  X2R14 software transition activities will continue through Wednesday afternoon.   Possible Conjunction with Object # 39861 (SL-16 Debris):  Ground teams are evaluating tracking data for a possible conjunction with object # 39861. The time of closest approach is Wednesday, Wednesday, October 21 at 6:01 PM CDT. Concern level on the item is currently medium and teams are evaluating the potential for a Pre-Determined Debris Avoidance Maneuver (PDAM).   Urine Processing Assembly (UPA) Fault:  Overnight, the Urine Processing Assembly (UPA) faulted during a reprocess cycle.  The error code indicated an issue with the Fluids Control and Pump Assembly (FCPA).  This morning ground teams attempted to re-activate UPA but were not successful.  The UPA faulted to the same failure indications.  This FCPA has operated for about 1065 hours and is beyond the on-orbit Mean Time between Failure (MBTF) of 600 hours. Currently there are two spare FCPAs on-orbit with an additional spare arriving onboard Orbital  4.  Teams will continue to review the data and develop a forward plan.   Today’s Planned Activities All activities were completed unless otherwise noted. HRF – Sample MELFI Insertion Start EMU cooling loop scrub Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) Photo of NanoRacks Cubesat Deployer Latch Crew Choice Video Replacement of Temperature Sensor ТМ168-04 (TM-parameter Т264) in the SM USOS Window Shutter Close PROBOY. Document review and equipment gathering WRS – Recycle Tank Fill from EDV Mating Temperature Sensor Connector ТМ168-04 (parameter Т264) in the SM СОЖ Maintenance Photography of Soyuz 718 [CA] window glass across plane IV and file downlink JEMAL – Opening Outer Hatch and extending slide table to JEF side Preparing for Photography of RS Windows PGS2 – Closeout Ops DAN. Experiment Ops Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) – Eye Procedure PGS2 – Detachment of Meas Experiment Unit (MEU) Photo/TV Battery Charge Initiation EMU Cooling Loop Post Scrub Water Sample EVA – Enhanced Caution and Warning System (ECWS) On-Board Training EMU – Cooling Loop Maintenance – EMU Reconfig OASIS – Sample Swap JEMAL – Closing SAM Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) – Equipment Stowage EMU – Long Dryout VIRU. Battery Charge CONTUR-2. Installation of master arm with adapter on panel 418 EMU – Conductivity Test Installation of ТВМ-1Н SW JEMAL – Closing SAM capture Mechanism to capture position JEMAL – Retracting Slide Table from JEF JEMAL – Closing Outer Hatch JEMRMS RLT Laptop Deactivation CONTUR-2. Experiment Session Ops NAPOR-miniRSA. БЗУ-M Software Upgrade ABOUT GAGARIN FROM SPACE. HAM Radio Session with Students from St-Petersburg EMU – Cooling Loop Maintenance – Deconfiguration WRS – Recycle Tank Fill from EDV IMS Delta File Prep EVA – Impact Shield Installation EVA Tool Config CONTUR-2. De-installation of master arm with adapter from panel 418 Battery Charger Battery Swap Preventive Maintenance of FS1 Laptop (Cleaning and rebooting) BRI Cleaning (Monthly) Retractable Tether Inspection – Part 2 VIRU. Software Update VIRU. Hardware Setup for Relaksatsiya Experiment EHS – Labeling IV-TEPC Cable Fundoscope Exam Setup INTERACTION-2 Evening Work Prep Fundoscope Setup and OCT Laptop Configuration Fundoscope – Eye Examination Crew Discretionary Conference VIRU. Hardware parameter adjustment for Relaksatsiya Experiment Fundoscope Removal and Stowage EVA – Stow equipment […]

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FIFA lets Palestinians host Saudis in World Cup qualifier

ZURICH (AP) FIFA says the Palestinian national team will host a postponed World Cup qualifying match against Saudi Arabia on home territory on Nov. 5.

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Apple told Judge: It's Impossible to Access Data on Locked iPhones

US Federal Official: Unlock that iPhone for me? Apple: Sorry, Nobody can do this! Neither we, nor you. Yes, in a similar manner, Apple told a U.S. federal judge that it is "IMPOSSIBLE" to access data stored on a locked iPhone running iOS 8 or later iOS operating system. In short, Apple has reminded everyone that the tech giant can not, and will not, break its users’ encryption if

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Mourinho says referee was 'weak' after Champs League draw

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho has described a Champions League referee as ''weak and naive,'' and compared him to beleaguered rugby official Craig Joubert.

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Let's Encrypt Free SSL/TLS Certificate Now Trusted by Major Web Browsers

Yes, Let's Encrypt is now one step closer to its goal of offering Free HTTPS certificates to everyone. Let's Encrypt – the free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA) – has announced that its Free HTTPS certificates are Now Trusted and Supported by All Major Browsers. Let's Encrypt enables any website to protect its users with free SSL/TLS (Secure Socket Layer/Transport Layer

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How Hackers Can Hack Your Chip-and-PIN Credit Cards

October 1, 2015, was the end of the deadline for U.S. citizens to switch to Chip-enabled Credit Cards for making the transactions through swipe cards safer. Now, a group of French forensics researchers have inspected a real-world case in which criminals played smart in such a way that they did a seamless chip-switching trick with a slip of plastic that it was identical to a normal credit

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Dwight Lodeweges quits as coach of Dutch club Heerenveen

HEERENVEEN, Netherlands (AP) Dwight Lodeweges has quit as coach of struggling Dutch club SC Heerenveen, leaving with the team 15th in the 18-team top flight.

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The Latest: Chung accuses FIFA of sabotaging election bid

ZURICH (AP) The latest on FIFA corruption cases as its ethics committee prepares to release the names of people under investigation. All times local:

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Social Engineering — Free Online Training for Hackers

For most of us Hacking is Technological in Nature. But, we usually forget the most important element of hacking that makes a successful hack from 10% to over 90%... ...The Human Element. And here the Social Engineering comes in. Social Engineering deals with non-technical kind of intrusion and manipulation that relies heavily on human interaction rather than technology. Social

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[FD] [SE-2014-02] Google App Engine Java security sandbox bypasses (Issue 42)

Hello All, Oracle Critical Patch Update released yesterday incorporates a fix for a Java SE 7 vulnerability (Issue 42) that was discovered while investigating security of Google App Engine. Its technical details and a POC code can be found at the following address: http://ift.tt/1ALgNG6 Issue 42 is caused by improper initialization of interface method slots in a HotSpot VM. As a result, protected instance methods can be successfully used as interface methods. This violates the Java Virtual Machine Language Specification [1], which states that "if the selected method is not public, invokeinterface should throw an IllegalAccessError". GAE weakens standard Java security model by allowing custom Class Loaders. In order to protect against direct exploitation of this "feature", access to defineClass methods of java.lang.ClassLoader class and it subclasses is restricted in Google environment [2]. Issue 42 can be used to directly invoke such methods with the use of interfaces. As a result, user provided classes can be defined outside of a GAE Class Sweeper sandbox and Java security manager can be completely turned off. It's also worth to note that in Mar 2015, Google indicated that it "has other mitigations in place that prevent Issue 21 [1+ years old JRE with 100+ unpatched security vulnerabilities] from being exploitable". This is the second time we show these mitigations are not working as intended [3]. What is however more interesting is that rather mediocre Java SE issue can be successfully exploited in a straightforward way in GAE environment, just because Google has chosen to "tweak" a standard Java security model a little bit. Thank you. Best Regards, Adam Gowdiak

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Cracking WiFi Passwords By Hacking into Smart Kettles

Hackers have come after your phone, your computer, and your car. Now hackers are coming after your home refrigerators, Smart TVs, and eventually KETTLES. Yes, your kettle turns out good for more than just heating up water or making coffee for you– they are potentially a good way for hackers to breach your wireless network. Also Read: How to Weaponize your Cat to Hack Neighbours'

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2017 Eclipse: Earth, Moon and Sun

A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth, casting its shadow on the Earth. The shadow comprises two concentric cones called the umbra and the penumbra. Observers on the Earth who are within the smaller, central umbra see the Sun completely blocked. Within the larger penumbra, the Sun is only partially blocked. In this animation, the Earth, Moon, Sun, and shadow cones are viewed through a telescopic lens on a virtual camera located far behind the Earth. Long focal lengths like the one used here appear to compress the distance between near and far objects. Despite appearances, the geometry of the scene is correct. The Moon's umbra cone is roughly 30 Earth diameters long, barely enough to reach the Earth, while the Sun is almost 400 times farther away. From this perspective, we see the night sides of both the Earth and the Moon. Solar eclipses can only occur during New Moon, when the entire Earth-facing side of the Moon is experiencing nighttime darkness.

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US women ready for next stage of victory tour

SEATTLE (AP) Carli Lloyd finally dedicated 90 minutes, flipped open the laptop and watched herself score the fastest hat trick in World Cup history.

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State government looks at law changes stop A-League flares

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) The Victoria state government will consider changing laws to restrict marine safety device sales in a bid to stop soccer supporters setting off flares during Australian A-League matches.

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Fact Checking in Large Knowledge Graphs - A Discriminative Predicate Path Mining Approach. (arXiv:1510.05911v1 [cs.DB])

Traditional fact checking by experts and analysts cannot keep pace with the volume of newly created information. It is important and necessary, therefore, to enhance our ability to computationally determine whether some statement of fact is true or false. We view this problem as a link-prediction task in a knowledge graph, and show that a new model of the top discriminative predicate paths is able to understand the meaning of some statement and accurately determine its veracity. We evaluate our approach by examining thousands of claims related to history, geography, biology, and politics using a public, million node knowledge graph extracted from Wikipedia and PubMedDB. Not only does our approach significantly outperform related models, we also find that the discriminative predicate path model is easily interpretable and provides sensible reasons for the final determination.

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Semantic, Cognitive, and Perceptual Computing: Advances toward Computing for Human Experience. (arXiv:1510.05963v1 [cs.AI])

The World Wide Web continues to evolve and serve as the infrastructure for carrying massive amounts of multimodal and multisensory observations. These observations capture various situations pertinent to people's needs and interests along with all their idiosyncrasies. To support human-centered computing that empower people in making better and timely decisions, we look towards computation that is inspired by human perception and cognition. Toward this goal, we discuss computing paradigms of semantic computing, cognitive computing, and an emerging aspect of computing, which we call perceptual computing. In our view, these offer a continuum to make the most out of vast, growing, and diverse data pertinent to human needs and interests. We propose details of perceptual computing characterized by interpretation and exploration operations comparable to the interleaving of bottom and top brain processing.

This article consists of two parts. First we describe semantic computing, cognitive computing, and perceptual computing to lay out distinctions while acknowledging their complementary capabilities. We then provide a conceptual overview of the newest of these three paradigms--perceptual computing. For further insights, we focus on an application scenario of asthma management converting massive, heterogeneous and multimodal (big) data into actionable information or smart data.

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Improved Answer-Set Programming Encodings for Abstract Argumentation. (arXiv:1507.06689v2 [cs.AI] UPDATED)

The design of efficient solutions for abstract argumentation problems is a crucial step towards advanced argumentation systems. One of the most prominent approaches in the literature is to use Answer-Set Programming (ASP) for this endeavor. In this paper, we present new encodings for three prominent argumentation semantics using the concept of conditional literals in disjunctions as provided by the ASP-system clingo. Our new encodings are not only more succinct than previous versions, but also outperform them on standard benchmarks.

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Mourinho says referee was 'weak' after Champs League draw

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho has described a Champions League referee as ''weak and naive,'' and compared him to beleaguered rugby official Craig Joubert.

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Orioles: RHP Vance Worley claimed off waivers from Pirates; RHP Jorge Rondon designated for assignment (ESPN)

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Olympiakos beats Dinamo Zagreb 1-0 in Champions League

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) Ideye Brown scored a late winner to earn Olympiakos a 1-0 victory over Dinamo Zagreb in the Champions League group stage on Tuesday.

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Valencia edges Gent 2-1 with 2 own goals

VALENCIA, Spain (AP) Valencia needed two own goals to defeat Gent 2-1 in Group H of the Champions League on Tuesday.

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FC Porto beats Maccabi Tel-Aviv 2-0 in Group G

LISBON, Portugal (AP) Vincent Aboubakar and Yacine Brahimi scored four minutes apart in the first half to give FC Porto a 2-0 win over Maccabi Tel-Aviv and the Group G lead in the Champions League on Tuesday.

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Zenit maintains 100 percent CL record with 3-1 win over Lyon

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) Artem Dzyuba scored in the third minute and Hulk fired home a spectacular shot as Zenit Saint-Petersburg closed in on qualification from Group H with a 3-1 win over Lyon in the Champions League on Tuesday.

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Neymar sets up Rakitic as Barca wins 2-0 at BATE

BORISOV, Belarus (AP) Neymar set up substitute Ivan Rakitic to score two goals as Barcelona won 2-0 at BATE Borisov in the Champions League on Tuesday, strengthening the defending champion's lead in Group E.

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FIFA official: Blatter-Platini 'conflict of interest' on pay

ZURICH (AP) Sepp Blatter's authorization of a payment to fellow FIFA executive Michel Platini without a written contract was a ''classic conflict of interest,'' FIFA's financial compliance head told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

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Ravens: Baltimore (1-5) drops 5 spots to No. 28 in Week 7 power rankings following loss to 49ers; open for full rankings (ESPN)

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Here's How SIEM Can Protect Your Privileged Accounts in the Enterprise

It’s inevitable. Most security threats eventually target privileged accounts. In every organization each user has different permissions, and some users hold the metaphorical keys to your IT kingdom. If the privileged accounts get compromised, it can lead to theft or sabotage. Because these accounts control delicate parts of your IT operations, and it is important to know who has

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Quotes from voters in this week's AP Global Football 10

LONDON (AP) Quotes from voters in this week's Associated Press Global Football 10:

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Conte hearing in match-fixing scandal set for Feb. 18

CREMONA, Italy (AP) Italy coach Antonio Conte and 103 others face a preliminary hearing on Feb. 18 on match-fixing charges in a wide-ranging scandal known as Calcioscommesse.

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Neymar leads AP Global Football 10 after 4-goal game

LONDON (AP) Neymar took player of the week honors in The Associated Press Global Football 10 after scoring four goals in one game.

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ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/19/15

Ocular Health:  One year crewmembers Kelly and Kornienko initiated their Flight Day 210 Ocular Health testing by completing vision and tonometry tests and taking blood pressure measurements with the assistance of Yui.  The Ocular Health protocol calls for a systematic gathering of physiological data to characterize the risk of microgravity-induced visual impairment/intracranial pressure in ISS crewmembers. Researchers believe that the measurement of visual, vascular and central nervous system changes over the course of this experiment and during the subsequent post-flight recovery will assist in the development of countermeasures, clinical monitoring strategies, and clinical practice guidelines.   Sleep Log:  Kelly recorded a Sleep Log entry today.  The Sleep ISS-12 experiment monitors ambient light exposure and crew member activity and collects subjective evaluations of sleep and alertness.  The investigation examines the effects of space flight and ambient light exposure on sleep during a year-long mission on the ISS.   Story Time from Space: Yui recorded a reading from “Max Goes to the Space Station” today.  The recording will be downlinked to the ground and used for educational purposes.   Extravehicular Activity (EVA) Review:  Today Kelly, Lindgren, and Yui reviewed a briefing package associated with the upcoming ISS Upgrades EVA.  Among the items reviewed is the EVA detailed timeline, EVA tasks, safety tether plan, translations paths, photo requirements, and hand signals.  The ISS Upgrades EVA is scheduled to occur on October 28, 2015.   ISS Emergency Drill:  All six crewmembers participated in an ISS emergency drill and debrief.  The crew used an onboard simulator to guide their responses during two separate simulations (Rapid Depress and Fire). The purpose of this training is to practice ISS emergency responses based on information provided by the simulator. The crew physically translates through ISS to appropriate locations in order to visualize the use of station equipment and interfaces. They also practice procedure execution and associated decision making, all while exercising communication skills with MCC-H and MCC-M.   X2R14 Software Transition:  On Sunday, Flight Controllers successfully loaded Command and Control System (CCS) R14 software onto 2 of 3 C&C Multiplexer/Demultiplexer (MDM) and performed an MDM transition in order to utilize the new software on the Primary C&C MDM.  Lindgren then powered on and connected Portable Computer Systems (PCS) loaded with new PCS R17 software.  Today, Flight Controllers continued with the X2R14 software transition by loading Hub Control Zone (HCZ) R4 to both HCZ MDMs in Node 3 and loaded the 3rd C&C MDM with CCS R14.   Node 3 Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly (CDRA):  On Saturday, Node 3 CDRA experienced a fault on its Heater Controller B.  As a result, Flight Controllers activated the Lab CDRA.  After some troubleshooting which involved isolating the fault to the secondary heater string, flight controllers masked the associated Passive Built In Test (PBIT) and activated the Node 3 CDRA using the single string of heaters.  Later, the Node 3 CDRA was commanded to standby in preparation for the HCZ software transition today.   Today’s Planned Activities All activities are on schedule unless otherwise noted. Inspection of СМ-У, РУ2, РУ4, РУ5 connector on МНР-НС separator pump in [АСУ] behind panel 139 and line 5182-03 from Pretreat and Water Dispenser (ДКиВ) to [МНР] in its transparent section SLEEP Questionnaire МО-8 Body Mass Measurement HMS – Vision Test Comm config for conference from MRM1 Story Time – Why So Fast Read Installation and Connection of КЛ-108/109Ц Monoblock in MRM1. HMS – Vision Questionnaire Ocular Health (OH) – Blood Pressure Operations Ocular Health Experiment – Tonometry Study of Cardiovascular System Under Graded Physical Load on VELO. Operator assistance in study of cardiovascular system under graded physical load on VELO SODF Update MOTOCARD. Experiment Ops. IMS Delta File Prep EVA Procedure Review СОЖ Maintenance ISS Emergency Response OBT. OBT ISS Emergency Drill Debrief Preparing for ТМ168-04 (TM parameter Т264) Temperature Sensor replacement in SM. [Aborted] Exercise Data Downlink via OCA CONTUR-2. Experiment Session Ops. OBT ISS Emergency Drill Conference (S-band) EVA Procedure Conference PAO Event   Completed Task List Items CCE – Spreading Wings Event 61P USOS Cargo Unpack [In Work]   Ground Activities All activities are on schedule unless otherwise noted. HCZ MDM R4 Software Load Standby C&C MDM Software Load   Three-Day Look Ahead: Tuesday, 10/20:  Ocular Health, EMU Loop Scrubs, EVA Tool Config, Fundoscope, NRCSD into JEMAL, X2R14 Wednesday, 10/21:  EVA Safer Practice, EVA Tool Config, Ocular Health, EVA Camera Setup, X2R14 Thursday, 10/22:  EMU Water Recharge, EMU OFV   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 Operate Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly (CDRA) Node 3 Shutdown Major Constituent Analyzer (MCA) Lab Shutdown Major Constituent Analyzer (MCA) Node 3 Operate Oxygen Generation Assembly (OGA) Process Urine Processing Assembly (UPA) Standby Trace Contaminant Control System (TCCS) Lab Off Trace Contaminant Control System (TCCS) Node 3 Warm Up  

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Getting Rid Of Anonymous Classes

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Google Makes Full-Disk Encryption Mandatory for New Android 6.0 Devices

Yes, Google wants you to keep your bits and bytes as safe as possible through encryption. With the launch of Android 5.0 Lollipop last year, Google wanted to make full disk Encryption mandatory, but unfortunately, the idea did not go too well. However, Google thinks the idea will go right this time, and it will try again to require full-disk encryption by default for devices that

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More than 250 iOS Apps Caught Using Private APIs to Collect Users' Private Data

Apple is cleaning up its iTunes App Store again – for the third time in two months – following another flood of iOS apps that secretly collect users’ personal information. Researchers discovered more than 250 iOS apps that were violating Apple's App Store privacy policy, gathering personal identifiable data from almost one Million users estimated to have downloaded those offending apps. The

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This Malware Can Delete and Replace Your Entire Chrome Browser with a lookalike

Security researchers have uncovered a new piece of Adware that replaces your entire browser with a dangerous copy of Google Chrome, in a way that you will not notice any difference while browsing. The new adware software, dubbed "eFast Browser," works by installing and running itself in place of Google Chrome The adware does all kinds of malicious activities that we have seen quite

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High school Student Hacked Into CIA Director's Personal Email Account

A self-described teenage hacker has claimed to have hacked into personal AOL email account of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan and swiped sensitive top-secret data. It's Really a major embarrassment for Brennan as well as the CIA. The hacker, who describes himself as an American high school student, called the New York Post to describe his exploits. <!-- adsense

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FIFA names 23-player shortlist for Ballon d'OR

ZURICH (AP) Cristiano Ronaldo, the injured Lionel Messi and Neymar lead FIFA's 23-player list of nominees for this year's Ballon d'Or Award announced early Wednesday for the men's player of the year.

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FIFA names 23-player shortlist for Ballon d'OR

ZURICH (AP) Cristiano Ronaldo, the injured Lionel Messi and Neymar lead FIFA's 23-player list of nominees for this year's Ballon d'Or Award announced early Wednesday for the men's player of the year.

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Self-belief helps young SKoreans down Brazil in U-17 upset

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) When South Korea pulled off a 1-0 shock win over Brazil in the Under 17 Soccer World Cup on Saturday, it may have been as much a case of the young players not realizing they were underdogs as it was a display of self-belief.

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The Southern Cross in a Southern Sky

Have you ever seen the Southern Cross? This famous constellation is best seen from Earth's Southern Hemisphere. Captured from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the four bright stars that mark the Southern Cross are visible just above the horizon in the featured image. On the left of this constellation, also known as The Crux, is the orange star Gamma Crucis. The band of stars, dust, and gas rising through the middle of the image mosaic is part our Milky Way Galaxy. Just to the right of the Southern Cross is the dark Coal Sack Nebula, and the bright nebula at the top of the image is the Carina Nebula. The Southern Cross is such a famous constellation that it is depicted on the national flags of Australia and New Zealand. via NASA http://ift.tt/1XeQ2Y5

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Causal Falling Rule Lists. (arXiv:1510.05189v1 [cs.AI])

A causal falling rule list (CFRL) is a sequence of if-then rules that specifies heterogeneous treatment effects, where (i) the order of rules determines the treatment effect subgroup a subject belongs to, and (ii) the treatment effect decreases monotonically down the list. A given CFRL parameterizes a hierarchical bayesian regression model in which the treatment effects are incorporated as parameters, and assumed constant within model-specific subgroups. We formulate the search for the CFRL best supported by the data as a Bayesian model selection problem, where we perform a search over the space of CFRL models, and approximate the evidence for a given CFRL model using standard variational techniques. We apply CFRL to a census wage dataset to identify subgroups of differing wage inequalities between men and women.

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System Descriptions of the First International Competition on Computational Models of Argumentation (ICCMA'15). (arXiv:1510.05373v1 [cs.AI])

This volume contains the system description of the 18 solvers submitted to the First International Competition on Computational Models of Argumentation (ICCMA'15) and therefore gives an overview on state-of-the-art of computational approaches to abstract argumentation problems. Further information on the results of the competition and the performance of the individual solvers can be found on at this http URL

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On the Computability of AIXI. (arXiv:1510.05572v1 [cs.AI])

How could we solve the machine learning and the artificial intelligence problem if we had infinite computation? Solomonoff induction and the reinforcement learning agent AIXI are proposed answers to this question. Both are known to be incomputable. In this paper, we quantify this using the arithmetical hierarchy, and prove upper and corresponding lower bounds for incomputability. We show that AIXI is not limit computable, thus it cannot be approximated using finite computation. Our main result is a limit-computable {\epsilon}-optimal version of AIXI with infinite horizon that maximizes expected rewards.

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PERCH: Perception via Search for Multi-Object Recognition and Localization. (arXiv:1510.05613v1 [cs.CV])

In many robotic domains such as flexible automated manufacturing or personal assistance, a fundamental perception task is that of identifying and localizing objects whose 3D models are known. Canonical approaches to this problem include discriminative methods that find correspondences between feature descriptors computed over the model and observed data. While these methods have been employed successfully, they can be unreliable when the feature descriptors cannot capture variations in observed data: a classic example being occlusion. As a step towards deliberative reasoning, we present PERCH: PErception via SeaRCH, an algorithm that seeks to find the best explanation of the observed sensor data by hypothesizing possible scenes in a generative fashion. Our contributions are: i) formulating the multi-object recognition and localization task as an optimization problem over the space of hypothesized scenes, ii) exploiting structure in the optimization to cast it as a combinatorial search problem on what we call the Monotone Scene Generation Tree, and iii) leveraging parallelization and recent advances in multi-heuristic search in making combinatorial search tractable. We prove that our system can guaranteeably produce the best explanation of the scene under the chosen cost function, and validate our claims on real world RGB-D test data. Our experimental results show that we can identify and localize objects under heavy occlusion--cases where state-of-the-art methods struggle.

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The Limitations of Standardized Science Tests as Benchmarks for Artificial Intelligence Research: Position Paper. (arXiv:1411.1629v2 [cs.AI] UPDATED)

In this position paper, I argue that standardized tests for elementary science such as SAT or Regents tests are not very good benchmarks for measuring the progress of artificial intelligence systems in understanding basic science. The primary problem is that these tests are designed to test aspects of knowledge and ability that are challenging for people; the aspects that are challenging for AI systems are very different. In particular, standardized tests do not test knowledge that is obvious for people; none of this knowledge can be assumed in AI systems. Individual standardized tests also have specific features that are not necessarily appropriate for an AI benchmark. I analyze the Physics subject SAT in some detail and the New York State Regents Science test more briefly. I also argue that the apparent advantages offered by using standardized tests are mostly either minor or illusory. The one major real advantage is that the significance is easily explained to the public; but I argue that even this is a somewhat mixed blessing. I conclude by arguing that, first, more appropriate collections of exam style problems could be assembled, and second, that there are better kinds of benchmarks than exam-style problems. In an appendix I present a collection of sample exam-style problems that test kinds of knowledge missing from the standardized tests.

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On the Computability of Solomonoff Induction and Knowledge-Seeking. (arXiv:1507.04124v1 [cs.AI] CROSS LISTED)

Solomonoff induction is held as a gold standard for learning, but it is known to be incomputable. We quantify its incomputability by placing various flavors of Solomonoff's prior M in the arithmetical hierarchy. We also derive computability bounds for knowledge-seeking agents, and give a limit-computable weakly asymptotically optimal reinforcement learning agent.

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[FD] Firefox FindMyDevice Critical ClickJacking Security Vulnerability

Author Name Mohamed Abdelbasset Elnouby Abouelwaffa Contact Details: https://twitter.com/SymbianSyMoh http://ift.tt/1ZSa90C Vulnerability Details: Firefox FindMyDevice Critical ClickJacking Security Vulnerability Vulnerability: ClickJacking Info: http://ift.tt/J8smSf Affected URL(s): http://ift.tt/1sSIwWw PoC Screenshot: Included as an attachment For non email receptionist "https://goo.gl/FUkFVm" In-depth analysis of the Vulnerability: Regardless The security protection mechanism which is that that attacker definitely can't guess or brute force the Device id "8fcXXXXc40de04b3803945XXXXXXXXXX" which is a part of the URL to the victim's profile to make a successful clickjacking attack iframe, in fact this protection mechanism is too low coz all the attacker to do is just to point the logged in user to his iframe source http://ift.tt/1sSIwWw and Mozilla will care about the rest "redirect the victim to the correct logged in active device id. What attacker can do: 1-"Erase the victim's device data" With just only 3 clicks by the victim himself if he tricked with "click here to win a 50 BTC for Example 2-"Lock The victim device or change his lock code" if it is the first time to be set "4 clicks" 3-"Makes the Device ringing" 2 clicks" Expected results: Find My Device web interface mustn't be iframed Apply XFO or Frame Busting techniques More Details About clickjacking: Because of No Frame Busting Techniques or X-Frame-Options header, the whole website is vulnerable to Clickjacking attacks which could lead to a full account takeover considering such scenario: 1. Attacker will iframe any sensitive the website page and adjust the iframe size and add a "divs" as a layers on the unwanted-to-show parts of the original web page to fool and trick the user. 2. User get tricked by the crafted page and followed the attacker's instruction to do a specific clicks to the iframed page 3. Unwanted actions happened in the logged in user's session in result to the attack's clicks. Remedy: 1- Add an X-Frame-Options HTTP Header and set it's value to "Deny" or "Sameorigin" as you can see it suitable to mitigate such attacks 2- Use iframe busting techmiques in JS code like this: or Actual results: Find My Device web interface is iframable which makes it vulnerable to ClickJacking Attacks References: http://ift.tt/1fGFb7T Original Report: http://ift.tt/1QNoe9w Thanks​

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[FD] Seagate Central NAS vulnerabilities

I have contacted Seagate regarding the following and was twice informed of a 90-day window for disclosure. I followed up to no response and have decided, following the culmination of those 90-days, to publish. The fact that embedded devices are vulnerable is not new. This is really not newsworthy, but perhaps we can aim higher? The Central NAS is not Seagate’s most popular model, but it does share code with other, more popular products such as the BlackArmor range. Vulnerabilities: - Web application allows unauthorized modification of IP address and hostname. - World-writable system files allow local users to compromise configuration and perform local privilege escalation. (I’ve been informed an updated firmware patch “somewhat” mitigates this, but is unconfirmed) - Common root password is set on all devices and /etc/shadow is world-readable. - Firmware updates are vulnerable to a MITM attack. These are performed over plain HTTP and are not signed, allowing attackers to readily deliver malicious payloads. - The NAS supports multi-user / multi-tenant operation. The files of these users are all set, by default, to mode 777. Users are given SSH access and may readily access and modify each other’s files. - The device exposes a phpinfo() page to unauthorized users (information disclosure). These issues were really low-hanging-fruit. I’m certain a number of remaining issues have yet to be discovered here, but for myself, I’m done. Finally, see the following blog post for more detail and a timeline of communications with the vendor:

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[FD] Western Digital - My Passport / My Book self-encrypting external hard drive series - Multiple vulnerabilities

Research overview: ========================== Research on Western Digital wide-spread self-encrypting hard drive series "My Passport" / "My Book". Devices researched utilizes mandatory HW AES encryption. Authors: ========================== Gunnar Alendal Christian Kison modg Paper and presentation links: ========================== Full paper at Cryptology ePrint Archive: http://ift.tt/1ReRhCS Presentation slides, based on research paper: http://ift.tt/1LrN3HX Vulnerabilities disclosed: ========================== Multiple vulnerabilities, including: * Multiple authentication backdoors, bypassing password authentication * AES factory key recovery attacks, exposing user data on all affected devices, regardless of user password * Exposure of HW PRNGs used in cryptographic contexts * Unauthorized patching of FW, facilitating badUSB/evil-maid attacks Vendor notification: ========================== The vendor has been informed of the research. Patches: ========================== The authors are not aware of any fixes. Architectures researched: ========================== USB Bridge Vendor - Chip model - Architecture =============== JMicron - JMS538S - Intel 8051 Symwave - SW6316 - Motorola M68k PLX - OXUF943SE - ARM7 Initio - INIC-1607E - Intel 8051 Initio - INIC-3608 - ARC 600 JMicron - JMS569 - Intel 8051 ===============

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