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The Pioneer Anomaly Is Solved

Launched on March 2, 1972, Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to travel through the asteroid belt, and the first spacecraft to make direct observations and obtain close-up images of Jupiter.

Pioneer 10, shown launching on March 2, 1972, was the first spacecraft to travel through the asteroid belt and the first spacecraft to make direct observations and obtain close-up images of Jupiter.

Photo by NASA Ames Resarch Center via Wikimedia commons.

Astrophysicist Slava G. Turyshev has explained away decades of exotic speculation over the Pioneer anomaly, the puzzling slowdown of two NASA probes. He works at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and is an authority on using deep space to test the nature of gravity.

Victoria Jaggard: What drew you to try to explain the anomaly, the unexpected slowing of the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft that emerged in the 1980s?
Slava Turyshev: The whole solar system is a lab which I use to test general relativity. We know the solar system obeys all laws given to us by Einstein and Newton. With the Pioneer anomaly, suddenly we saw a very unusual tiny force that fell right in between Newton's gravity and Einstein's general relativity. That prompted people to think that maybe the spacecraft was sensing the presence of a new type of physics. It was either a major discovery or a puzzle that, in the solving, would help us build better craft to study gravity. It was a win-win situation for me.

VG: What were the initial thoughts on a cause?
ST: Engineers thought it was due to expected leakage from the propellant system, just as water still drips from a hose after you've turned off the tap. But then we saw this same small pushing motion for months and years, even when we didn't use the propulsion system, so people started to think maybe something else was going on.

VG: You meticulously modeled Pioneer 10 using design and flight data to test a mundane cause of the anomaly. Tell me about that.
ST: Before our latest work, there was some expectation we would see part of the anomaly was due to the spacecraft's thermoelectric generators producing a lot of heat. This heat recoils and gives a minuscule push against the craft. We didn't know that this push would match the profile of the anomaly, but that is just what we found in our latest work.

VG: Is this is the final word on it?
ST: We still have an uncertainty in our study of less than 18 percent. But for me, this is the answer. Some may argue it is not final, but in my mind we did a good job, and it's very clear what happened.

VG: Why has it taken so long to reach this point?
ST: Lack of proper data storage was a huge problem. In the 1970s and 1980s, mission data was recorded on magnetic tapes, and to study the Pioneer anomaly we needed the probe's navigational data. But mission tapes were normally saved for only a few months and then thrown away, so you're lucky if you can find what you need. The only data available from Pioneer 10 was from planetary flybys, which were kept to study gravity around planets. Then we had to figure out how to read it. You need a proper machine with the right software, and you need to "upconvert" the data to modern formats so it can be used in today's computer modeling systems. That took years.

VG: Any more cosmic conundrums in your sights?
ST: I'd like to see more work on the search for gravitational waves, which are ripples in the fabric of space-time predicted to exist by general relativity. They open up a completely different way of looking at the universe, because these waves would allow us to detect phenomena beyond what we can see with light. What's past the event horizons of black holes? Are there other universes? Do wormholes exist?

This article originally appeared in New Scientist.

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Squids have an amazing technicolor iridescent skin for protection

The members of the?animal kingdom have some strange and wonderful abilities. Squids, for instance, are amazing critters with iridescent powers. Trevor Wardill and researchers at the Marine Biology Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, investigated how squids sparkle by applying electric shock to the animals' skin.

The video above shows how the iridescent patches change color when nearby nerves are stimulated by electricity. Over the course of about 15 seconds, the patches change from red to blue shimmers. The animals can also change the color of regular, non-shimmering skin cells at a much faster pace. The team's work shows that the changing colors are controlled by the squid's central nervous system and are not a local reflex. The investigators think the iridescence helps with camouflage and protection against predators.

[via New Scientist]

This article was written by Anna Washenko and originally appeared on Tecca

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33 killed in pre-Eid Iraq attacks

A wave of attacks across Iraq on Thursday killed at least 33 people, officials said, amid warnings of a potential escalation in violence at the end of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

Officials reported more than a dozen explosions and shootings in 13 cities and towns nationwide that also left more than 140 people wounded, and which came a day after attacks killed 13 people.

The latest unrest takes the overall death toll from violence this month to 178, according to an AFP tally based on security and medical sources.

In the north Baghdad neighbourhood of Husseiniyah, a car bomb killed at least six people and wounded 26, according to an interior ministry official and a medical source.

Later in the evening gunmen with silenced weapons attacked a checkpoint in Massud, north of Baghdad, killing at least six soldiers and wounding seven others, security forces and medical officials said.

Meanwhile in the town of Daquq, north of Baghdad in Kirkuk province, a suicide attacker blew himself up at an anti-terrorism department's compound, according to provincial police Brigadier General Sarhad Qader.

In the province's eponymous capital, meanwhile, at least four car bombs were set off across the city -- including two at the offices of the state-owned North Oil Company.

"I came to investigate one of the attacks near the company compound," said police Colonel Abdullah Kadhim, head of Kirkuk city's sniffer dog unit.

"Suddenly, another bomb went off near me, and it damaged lots of cars and company property inside the parking lot."

Kadhim suffered wounds to his leg.

Provincial health chief Sadiq Omar Rasul put the toll from the attacks in Daquq and Kirkuk city at eight dead and 56 wounded. Qader said the victims included six police killed in the Daquq attack.

The violence in ethnically-mixed Kirkuk city was concentrated in its Kurdish-majority areas, and came on the anniversary of the founding of Iraq's most powerful Kurdish party, the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

In the same province, two roadside bombs near the home of a police captain in the town of Dibis killed his brother and wounded four others, including the captain himself, police and a doctor at nearby Kirkuk hospital said.

In Kut, 160 kilometres (100 miles) south of Baghdad, a car bomb exploded on Thursday evening, police Colonel Dhargham al-Assadi said. Five people were killed and 20 others wounded, according to Dhia al-Din Jalil al-Ibboudi, the head of the Kut health directorate.

Attacks also struck Al-Garma, Al-Baaj, Badush, Tuz Khurmatu, Mosul, Taji, Khales and Baquba, leaving seven dead and dozens wounded.

In Al-Garma, near the former insurgent bastion of Fallujah west of Baghdad, four policemen were killed and three others wounded in a shooting at a checkpoint, according to police Major Enes Mahmud and Dr Omar Dalli at Fallujah hospital.

As emergency responders and civilians rushed to the scene, a roadside bomb exploded, wounding four others.

Gunmen shot dead two people driving in Al-Baaj, west of Mosul, while two children were wounded by bombs that targeted the under-construction house of a police officer in Badush, also west of the restive north Iraq city, police Second Lieutenant Abed Ghayib and Dr Mohammed Tawfik said.

Three roadside bombs exploded in Tuz Khurmatu near the home of a district chief, or mukhtar, killing his wife and leaving him and his three sons wounded, according to police and a local medic.

Explosions in Mosul, Taji, Khales and on the outskirts of Baquba left 22 others wounded, security and medical officials said.

A day earlier, 13 people were killed in attacks north of Baghdad.

On Monday, British security firm AKE Group warned that "terrorists in Iraq may be planning mass casualty explosive attacks against large gatherings of civilians to mark the end of Ramadan later this week."

"We haven't received any specific intelligence on the matter but they (insurgents) may be 'saving up' their willing bombers for the closing period of the month, due around 17-18 August," AKE analyst John Drake said.

The 178 people killed this month, according to an AFP tally based on security and medical sources.

Official figures put the number of people killed in attacks in July at 325, the highest monthly death toll since August 2010.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/least-8-dead-wave-iraq-attacks-074114057.html

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UK police arrest 3 in front of Ecuadorean Embassy

LONDON (AP) ? Police scuffled with supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday, intensifying the drama surrounding the Australian ex-hacker as Britain weighed what to do if Ecuador grants him asylum or lets him to stay in its London embassy indefinitely.

Police arrested three of Assange's supporters after they refused to move from the small embassy where Assange has been holed up since June 19. Assange fled to the diplomatic post in a bid to keep the U.K. from extraditing him to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over alleged sex crimes.

WikiLeaks and Assange shot to prominence after releasing a massive trove of U.S. secret documents, moves which have outraged Americans and led to calls from U.S. politicians to have him hunted down like a terrorist.

Assange's supporters fear the Swedish extradition effort is the opening gambit in a Washington-orchestrated bid to make him stand trial in the United States. Swedish officials ? and the alleged victims ? have denied that the extradition bid is politically-motivated.

Ecuador allowed the 41-year-old to take refuge in its embassy after Assange interviewed its president for his television show on Russia's English-language broadcaster, RT. Ecuadorean officials are expected to announce a decision over his asylum bid later Thursday.

Britain says it has a legal duty to extradite Assange, but it has caused a diplomatic storm with what Ecuador calls a threat to raid the embassy and arrest him.

Britain's Foreign Office denied making any threat, but a U.K. letter released Thursday made clear that a 1987 act would allow the government to revoke the Ecuadorean mission's diplomatic status.

"You should be aware that there is a legal basis in the U.K. ? the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act ? which would allow us to take action to arrest Mr. Assange in the current premises of the Embassy," the letter said.

"We very much hope not to get this point, but if you cannot resolve the issue of Mr. Assange's presence on your premises, this route is open to us."

The warning outraged supporters, a small group of whom flocked to the embassy in defense of Assange.

"I'm here to support freedom of speech, justice, and to support Julian Assange because he is a champion of all of these values," said Portuguese activist Pedro Lima, 35, who was among some 20 people protesting outside the red Edwardian apartment block down the street from London's famous Harrods department store.

The atmosphere was mostly peaceful, but at one point several people were dragged away from the embassy after refusing police orders to move across the street.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/uk-police-arrest-3-front-ecuadorean-embassy-104830810.html

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Enhancing Your Business with Local SEO in Melbourne

The world wide web developed how businesses work. These days, a lot more firms are leaning towards online revenue. Internet site layout and online marketing strategies that make sites seen in search engine data turned out to be vital factors of operating a business. As the need for search engine optimisation in Australia rises, a growing number of private businesses began providing search engine optimisation services.

Search engine optimisation (SEO) is an online marketing technique that lifts exposure and income. When people hunt for something online, they type a keyword into a search engine. They usually go through the first links they find in search results webpages, so it is vital to be sure your site is within these top results. You should outsource a qualified SEO business or work with a search engine specialist to achieve these success. SEO helps make your internet site exposed in search engines by making sure that your content features precise, suitable keywords. SEO could likewise increase your website?s back-links and inbound links.

Today?s customers like to stay up to date about products and services. While considering a product to acquire, they generally look at the net to learn more. Taking your enterprise on the internet and ensuring your potential customers view it quickly is critical. Scoring high in search engine results produces more web page traffic, and improves the odds your guests will buy your items or find out about the services you provide. Effective SEO techniques will help you get ahead of your opposition, particularly when your campaigns shift your web-site above competitor websites in search engine results.

Right key word investigation and use is the main concept behind SEO. Keyword counts that are too low or too much allow your webpage fall behind in search engine positions. Link building, or having different popular web pages and internet directories link back to yours, is yet another important feature of SEO. Content and style are likewise significant. Your internet site has to be thoroughly designed, and it needs to include authentic content to bring in the consumers..

Creating connections is crucial strategy in promoting any business. You could do this through social media sites. Practically everybody has an user profile on social network sites like Twitter or Facebook. Ensuring your company is on those networks is a great way to market your products or services.

Search for an SEO company in Melbourne featuring social network management. These skilled SEO companies could handle your social network accounts, and help you to speak to clients directly. This lets you make excellent company connections with your clients. The more you engage with your consumers, the larger the possibilities you have of switching them into dedicated customers who will continue helping your business.

There are lots of companies providing local SEO in Melbourne. Choosing the best local SEO firm calls for mindful study and examination. Try to find providers with a decent internet popularity. Browse client opinions, and find out precisely what sort of solutions they provide. Make sure to examine several firms? costs, solutions, and client opinions prior to selecting one to hire.

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From NEATEC Wiki

A family law attorney can perform a selection of services that you simply must protect your loved ones and your family's assets. Whether you wish to setup a Living Will, a Trust for your estate, or want to hire a family group law attorney to help you you navigate a marital dispute, don't assume all lawyers are made equal. Here are seven items to question during an initial consultation with an attorney to help you you discover the best legal representative for your family. You want to become sure any attorney you train with is fully experienced in a legal operation you require. Make sure you ask if the attorney specializes in family law, and have about some in the cases he or she has done within the past. Ask which cases they were most passionate about, and the way many years they are actually in practice. Always require and follow on referrals from past cases the attorney may be involved with. Ask if the attorney will personally be handling the case, or if the particular work will likely be handed down with a junior in the firm. Try to acquire a feel for whether the attorney will actually give your case his full attention. Does he hold the time to work on it? Is your case something she is clearly invested in? Attorneys may be expensive. To help you mitigate and manage legal fees, make certain to inquire about each lawyer's fee schedule and payment terms. Will he work on retainer? Can there be an additional hourly rate? What happens when your retainer is depleted? Will there be a rate for calling and speaking to secretaries, paralegals, and also other supporting staff positions? You must know you can reach your attorney and get yourself a response quickly so it can be done to make the best decisions for your family. Ask the way the attorney promises to update you about case progress. Inquire if and exactly how you will probably be capable to contact him. Inquire what kind of systems are in place to create sure you get lucky and be updated in a very timely fashion. Finally sum up your initial consultation with any attorney you eventually be considering hiring by freely communicating expectations. Ask if they can give you an upfront estimate with the total expense of his fees. Ask which factors will influence this estimate. Ask everything you should expect if you hire these to represent you, and what he or she'd expect within you like a client. DR. E. MONTANARO

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DownloadBuyer.com add McAfee to Product Range

Aylesbury, UK, August 15th 2012, DownloadBuyer.com, the online software superstore, has announced the addition of McAfee? Internet Security 2012, Total Protection 2012 and AntiVirus Plus 2012 to their product portfolio.

?We?re very pleased to add McAfee products to the Downloadbuyer.com catalogue and to be able to present such a fantastic offer from the outset,? stated Jon Silvera, Managing Director of Downloadbuyer.com.

The product range is available now from www.downloadbuyer.com/McAfee/136/d, with Downloadbuyer.com currently have a special offer for McAfee Internet Security 2012 until the end of August 2012.

McAfee Internet Security 2012 helps keep your PC safe from viruses, Trojans, spyware and malware that might be picked up from emails, USB sticks, removable hard drives, or simply by browsing online. With the most advanced spam filters, active analysis and global threat research, McAfee Internet Security 2012 screens out any unwanted emails, and the parental controls let you filter your children?s web access, limit time online and track their usage for peace of mind. You can also keep your essential family photos, tax records and other important digital files safe by backing them up to password-protected, encrypted online storage in the cloud.

Features:

:: Real time security software

:: Block Spam and dangerous emails

:: Protect your family

:: Protect your personal data

:: Protect against viruses and malware

:: Two way firewall

:: Digital data shredder

:: Exclusive anti bot protection

:: USB and removable drive scan

Availability:

The McAfee range is available from http://www.downloadbuyer.com/McAfee/136/d

About Download Buyer:

Downloadbuyer.com is an online software specialist presenting hundreds of well-known titles to consumers and small to medium businesses for PC and Apple Mac. Downloads are generally delivered to your desktop in just a few minutes and as such can be up-and-running in no time. This, along with Instant Live Chat, low prices, an easy-to-use website and a very responsive & comprehensive customer service ethic, Downloadbuyer.com is rapidly becoming a popular worldwide destination for software buyers.

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Product Blog: NEW VoIP & Network Quality Ma... | thwack

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Today is a big day for all who were waiting for a solution that will resolve VoIP quality and connection troubleshooting problems in their business. SolarWinds has just released VoIP & Network Quality Manager 4.0! This product is an evolution of SolarWinds IPSLA Manager and it adds support for real VoIP calls troubleshooting and monitoring.

If you are an existing IP SLA Manager customer under active maintenance, you can enjoy all of the new features of VNQM for no additional cost (you just need to update your license key within your customer portal. For those that would like to try out VNQM, you can download a free fully functional 30-day evaulation version. You should start your download now and in the meantime let?s take a closer look to all new features that it brings.

Those who were watching our ?What we are working on? probably know what the new features are but for the others here is a list of the new functionality:

  • VoIP calls troubleshooting based on CDR and CMR data.
  • Multi-criteria filtering/searching and sorting based on Call Details Record (CDR) and Call Management Records (CMR) data e.g. ?show me calls with the same reason code, same extension pattern, same time frame, same geography or termination reason code?.
  • Automatic association of real VoIP calls with IPSLA operations in order to provide details about the call path and participating network hardware devices.
  • Added support for Cisco Call Manager version 7.x and 8.x
  • Better support for creating TCP operations in firewalled environment. This is mainly related to the case where you are trying to set up an IP SLA operation between an internal router and external device where traffic is going through a firewall.

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You don?t need to waste your time and collect CDR data manually from your call managers or even use non-intuitive and complicated vendor software in order to figure out where your problem is. VNQM 4.0 does everything for you! It?s a matter of few clicks to understand who was impacted by poor call quality connection or what switch or router causes problems.

See how easy it is with VoIP & Network Quality Manager:

Step #1 ? Spend your time watching VoIP only when necessary!

SummaryPage.pngAs an IT admin/VoIP Engineer you are so busy all the day so why spend your time watching for something that is not a problem?

VNQM brings VoIP summary pages and real-time CDR based alerts in order to notify you if something bad is happening within your VoIP network.

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Step #2 ? Find exactly what are you looking for!

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Even if you have access to CDR/CMR data, it?s not easy to get information that would help you with a call troubleshooting. Those who have tried to do this know what I?m talking about. CDR files contain so much data and it may you take hours to find some clue that will help you. Even worse, CDR files don?t contain information about Region (location) so how do you know what sites facing troubles with calls? Does it means you need to spend hours checking logs, call managers and CDR files ? especially in case when your boss says: ?Fix it now!??

Well if you are using VoIP & Network quality and Manager, then NO! VNQM 4.0 provides a comprehensive VoIP search solution. You can not only search by phone extension, IP address or call time but you can also search the calls by the region they are coming out from, or going to! This is extremely useful to find a right pattern and quickly figure out what happened, when it happened, and who is impacted by this issue.

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In order to help you troubleshoot even more efficiently, we have pre-defined set of ?Call Termination Causes? and ?Redirect Reasons? so you don?t need to check Cisco admin guides to understand numeric codes!

You can do a search for failed calls or for calls just with a call quality issue (MOS, latency, jitter or Packet Loss).

The results of your search are displayed immediately below your search condition so no there is no ?back & forth? effect when you are tracking VoIP calls issues.

Step #3 ? Fix what needs to be fixed!

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No ?try & wait? approach! Just fix what needs to be fixed. After when you found your problematic call or pattern simply go to the call detail page and see what happened:

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Using this page you will quickly see why the call failed, what CDR qualities metrics were or what call manager was involved when connecting the call. You can also see the call signaling flow and see all participants of a particular call and see call topology (normal call, conference call, etc.).

Now here is the great part. How do you see a call path? Easily, just create an IPSLA path operation that will be automatically displayed as part of call detail page depending on origin/destination regions. Regions are defined on call managers and VNQM offers you to pair your IPSLA capable device with CCM Region. IPSLA path operations can show you network devices that were involved in the communication between call origin and destination. It shows you network quality metrics like round trip time or latency also.

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Now you can drill into more details about hardware device performance, availability and quality data as well as understand if this is device that causing VoIP issues.

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As you can see, finding the switch or router that ?produces choppy voice? was never easier! Now it?s just a question of a few minutes to check out this device and configure it properly. Or you can use NPM to get more details about such device.

And by the way, unlike its previous version (IP SLA Manager), VoIP & Network Quality Manager can run either integrated to NPM or standalone.

Once you identify network element you may use NCM to change CBQoS policies and prioritize traffic or you may use NTA and see Netflow data to block traffic that consumes too much bandwidth. Or you can just modify your routing tables and dedicate just one and best path for your site to site connection.

Step #4 ? Let technology work for you!

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OK, so now when you have fixed all the problems, how do you prevent them from happening again?

Let?s utilize Cisco IPSLA technology and your Cisco IOS devices to produce VoIP traffic and continuously monitor your sites. This will help you to see potential problems before users start complaining. You can use VNQM alerting to send emails or SMS when you have problems.

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Stay tuned for more

As always, WE ARE LISTENING! And I can tell you that our DEV, QA and Designers teams are already working on next most wanted and useful features of VNQM based on the RC feedback we got from our community.

You can always share your ideas on our Thwack forum or even better ? create an idea/feature request on our . Also, you can talk to me directly!

You may find the ?What do you need to know about call manager? blog post useful for an even faster setup of VNQM. This article contains additional technical information about Call Managers and their configurations.

Your VoIP & Network Quality Manager download should be finished so go ahead and install it. Installation will be finished in a few minutes.

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Thanks,

Michal

Source: http://thwack.solarwinds.com/community/solarwinds-community/product-blog/blog/2012/08/14/new-voip-network-quality-manager-40-available

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