Jim Stevenson 13 December 2010 restitution Koreaceratops hwaseongensis artist
Life in many parts of the Korean peninsula is harsh, difficult and tense continuous threat of conflict. Life in the region was also difficult over 100 million years ago, when dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures fought every day of their lives. Scientists have now gained a new perspective in life at that time with the discovery of a fossil of Seoul.
Small dinosaur fossils is called Koreaceratops. Michael Ryan, curator and head of vertebrate paleontology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, is coauthor of the study of the fossil and described appearance probably the creature.
"Koreaceratops would have been a small herbivorous dinosaur (1.2 m in height)." So he ate plants. If you can imagine how big a Triceratops looked like, you took off the luxury and the horns and decreased below, it is little seemingly Koreaceratops. It has a very face resembling parrots, short but deep enough. On the upper and lower jaws, it actually has a beak before its jaws. "It has teeth behind those, but on the front there is a very similar to a bec turtle or a beak Parrot, beak" he said.
Like the more familiar Triceratops, Ryan explains Koreaceratops lived much earlier and seems to be the precursor for larger cousin.
"It occurred some 100 million years ago." Triceratops took place approximately 65 million years ago. And it is approximately the size of a dog of Labrador. If you reduced that low luxury on Triceratops is only a little ' Beatles' (referring to cutting hair worn by iconic 1960s rock band) "brow projecting posteriorly and deleted the horns above the eyes, very well is that little Koreaceratops looked like," he said. "
The specimen is the first horned dinosaur discovered on the Korean peninsula. Dinosaur fossils were generally not found in Korea South. Discoveries frequently asked were dinosaurs and fingerprint eggs.
The researchers were looking for evidence of the evolution of smaller animals and more in Asia has found that the largest specimens found in North America. Michael Ryan of Cleveland Museum explains Koreaceratops fits into this gap.
"What makes Koreaceratops is fills a gap of a missing 20 million years between last specimens of Asia and the first ceratopsian North America wide fuselage", he said.
Small plant food dinosaur remains were not complete.
"The specimen is partial skeleton less head sadly discovered close to a local reservoir in and around South Korea.". "It was a series of large blocks which were collected in a career," said Ryan.
But what was recovered revealed many Koreaceratops features. The creature was a biped that can move quickly. The small front arm could keep plants while he ate. Its tail is shorter than most of his parents, the length of its body. But the tail was a unique form.
"We have the spine, hips, legs as well as most of the tail down." And the tail is unique.
There are a series of large spines called neural arches project from the top of the tail would have in fact supported a small structure resembling collar, or indeed a relatively greater collar structure like running in the tail, "said."
That the structure could have been brilliantly coloured so that the tail was moved, he could have emerged as a flag to signal others species and eventually to attract mates. The structure can have also helped to cool the animal and the tail could also contributed the dinosaur swim. Researchers believe that he spent part of his hunting time for aquatic food.
Koreaceratops discovery analysis results were recently published in the journal Naturwissenschaften Online Edition: natural sciences.
Jennifer Glasse | London, 12 December 2010 Wikileaks, founder of Julian Assange (file photo)
Release of classified U.S. Government cable WikiLeaks angry politicians, defenders of freedom of expression enhardi and unleashed pirates on businesses and individuals they believe oppose websites site founder Julian Assange. He is currently in a London prison as regards the allegations of rape and indecent assault made by Sweden both women.
Since these last months, founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange is in the UK, staying at a private facility used primarily by journalists. Vaughn Smith, that owns the club says 96 per cent of its members supported with Assange here. Smith was with Assange when he turns himself the British police.
"I do not think that this is a man of steel, I think this is a man of determination, but a man like you or I would be very afraid to go to jail," said Smith.
Classified government information disclosure WikiLeaks polarised opinion and nose debate on what the public has need to know. Assange occurred in public, cold and remote.
"In General, this façade of arrogant superiority is superimposed by great insecurity," says Jerrold Post, a Professor of Psychology at the George Washington University. "" He is a man who moved from 37 times before it is 14 years.
Post says that it cannot make a diagnosis of Assange because he had never met him. But he said the Assange behavior appears clinically narcissistic.
12-12-2010
RE: narcissistic? Nonsense. Just an attempt of demonising the unwelcome Messenger of truth. You could make a better case for America as a nation are narcissistic but also arrogant. Indeed we correspond to the definition of megalomania - delusional fantasies of wealth, power or omnipotence.
12-12-2010 the voice of reason (worldwide)
In addition, United States, lies you flee, only to confirm what we already know about you, your greedy, evil as you, your time is over.
12-12-2010
Anyone really believes that our nation and the Iran Iraq atrocities have revealed without Wikileaks? It; s a disgrace to the principles of our nation that we try to demonise a man who gave us a favour. Fortunately, the number of Americans is awakens the mode of functioning of the traditional media. Dan Rather was right on censorship in these States of United States and fear that our journalists have spelling of truth.
12-12-2010 Jay
It is narcissistic to release private documents that will get people killed - really killed - not only lose their jobs, but lose their lives to what they have said to someone else in a private conversation. Do something that will get killed someone just for you can become famous... This is narcissistic.
12-12-2010
The man everyone is a favor. Everyone, even people with power to be accountable for their actions. M. Assange shall be considered as evil by some others, perhaps even a hero
13 12-2010 hamad part 1 of 2 (oman)
Assange acquired supporters everywhere in the world, more than any President or the famous star. It will be ideal for all defenders of human rights and freedom of expression. In some countries, justice is just a word not ideal. Had clinically narcissistic or not as m., post claimed, Assange provided huge favor this generation and exposed many new developments in the field.
13 12-2010 hamad part 2 of 2 (oman)
History will appreciate all its efforts .we will be held in his favor forever. Let the people describe as guardian of human rights watch their faces on the mirror because the public can not afford more deception and false slogans. Same Americans cannot afford more promises and commitments. As this policy of Israel and Republicans will lead our world at worst.
13-12-2010 haruhisa takatani (Japan)
We can say there are two problems mainly.First, on Earth, what is the secret question? most of the written documents secret question had many things not worth it.Second, how to handle the problems of whistle - blew content.Wikileaks extraordinary information promoting the whistle blowing I will never agree with them.
13-12-2010
This guy is the wealth of noble peace award.
13-12-2010 (Australia)
He is a citizen Australian and it is not yet on our Australia television channels (even if it is appearing in some newspapers.) Our Prime Minister said he acts "illegal" without trial, but may not discover what law is broken. It shows how draw Governments have about censorship all media worldwide. The public is not stupid. All citizens of the world will finally hear about it.
13-12-2010
It will be water under the bridge before long. Around the world, humanity abandoned the truth a long time ago. and power know.
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Suzanne Presto 07 December 2010 SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off the coast of 40 test complex force air Cape Canaveral Cape Canaveral, Florida, June 4, 2010. The rocket leads a model of the spacecraft from the company, named Dragon.
As NASA prepares to retire its shuttle fleet, space agency looking to trade for developing spacecraft space that carry freight industry and in the future, people, to the international space station. A future space capsule Dragon commercially developed test launch is part of this effort.
For the historic launch this week of a gear commercial from the Space Center Kennedy, the blastoff and landing provided to Pacific hours later is equally important.
Flight test marks the first time a commercial spacecraft has never tried to re-enter the atmosphere of the Earth, signifies that the dish must withstand scorching temperatures of about 2,000 degrees Celsius.
But it is not only a demonstration of the capacity of the private sector to create secure and reliable spacecraft. He is also the first launch for commercial transport the NASA Orbital, or available on the market, program that uses NASA funds to stimulate the development of new spacecraft in the commercial sector services.
Phil McAlister, acting Director of the NASA commercial development of space flight, warns journalists at the Kennedy Space against reading too in the launch success or failures. "I wanted to emphasize the fact that it is a test flight." It is not in any way an indictment for or against the whole program if abnormalities. We expect anomalies, "he said."
The reusable spacecraft Dragon and Falcon 9 rocket was developed by the company California technologies for space exploration, commonly called SpaceX. Demonstration this week will be a first for the profession of dragon and only the second to the Falcon 9, chased off the coast in June, despite the SpaceX the chances of success of the inaugural mission were approximately 70 percent ratings successfully rocket.
Gwynne Shotwell is President of SpaceX. Speaking alongside McAlister Monday, she says odds are that there are important issues during the first three test flights. But, she says, she thinks that the next mission will probably be a success. "If I want to have a cloud over my head, I would say the same percentage – 70% success", said Shotwell.
SpaceX is one of the two companies, NASA is investing a total of 500 million through the program four years products. NASA has described the revolutionary programme, saying: it allows the space agency turning its attention to the development of new generation gear could travel beyond low Earth orbit.
Of commercially available program, NASA is essentially the lead investor in the capsule of dragon and Falcon 9 rocket.
Shotwell is a public-private partnership. NASA spent 253 million so far. NASA officials say it is remarkable that a commercially developed spacecraft and rocket are on the launch pad after four years of work.
Shotwell said Spacex has spent more than 600 million at this point. He met 17 of 22 benchmarks for the moment, and NASA will pay another $ 25 million once SpaceX brings the remaining steps. And Shotwell pointed out, if SpaceX is budget, is in a private company to offset this loss of profits - not the Government and the footsteps of taxpayers.
Apart from financing products, NASA has awarded SpaceX a $ 1.6 billion contract to do 12 travel replenishment to the international space station ISS.
"With the decision to prolong the life of the international space station in 2020 and possibly beyond and imminent retirement of the space shuttle, delivery of goods to the ISS has become more important than ever." So we are really looking forward to the day where we will have several redundant functionality for ISS cargo services "said McAlister."
If everything goes according to plan for the launch of the week, the Dragon spacecraft will be separated from the rocket Falcon 9, orbit around the earth twice and successfully re-enter the Earth's atmosphere. Ideally, the capsule lands in the Pacific, about 800 kilometres west of Mexico, where he will get scooped ships waiting.
The launch of the event had been set for December 7, 2005, but SpaceX has decided to postpone after engineers found signs of cracking in an extension of engine nozzle.
Shotwell said, if this first launch is a success, SpaceX could attempt to reach the space station on the second test flight.
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"The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is Wikileaks." - John Perry Barlow, Electronic Frontier Foundation
By 9am Wednesday, the IRC chatboards were on fire.
: mastercard.com is NOT down - KEEP FIRING: MASTERCARD on stock market : -6.38: Saizad: mastercard is the target!: ps. we are winning: we are anonymous
Over 1,200 participants had gathered online at the impromptu website anonops.net and were already several hours into their massive cyber-attack on the MasterCard website. Calling themselves "anonymous", the hackers hoped to flood the company's pages with web traffic, crashing the site - or at least gumming things up enough to make life miserable for the credit card giant. The reason: "punishment" for MasterCard's decision to stop fund transfers to Wikileaks.
An hour later, the attacks seemed to be working. But already, "hacktivists" on the other side were planning a counter-strike against Wikileaks; a strike they hoped would once again take the secret-busting website offline and out-of-view.
Welcome to the WikiWars.
Across the Internet, activists, hackers, and general mischief-makers are deploying the tricks of their trade, either in support of Wikileaks' decision to publish classified U.S. diplomatic cables, or to bring Wikileaks and its allies to their knees. Using tactics such as"denial of service attacks", "Google-bombing" and others more arcane, partisans have turned the Web into a battlefield of sorts, as they debate and argue over the roles and responsibilities of journalists, online activists and governments in the digital age.
The battle may not have started with Wikileaks, but their actions have added hot fuel to the fight - and the rhetoric.
"It is an ongoing act of war, of sabotage, against the United States," says Caroline Glick, deputy managing editor of the Jerusalem Post and senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy. "That means that Wikileaks as an entity has to be declared a foreign terrorist organization, and all the people associated with it have to be treated as illegal enemy combatants."
And from the other side, the rhetoric is startlingly similar. "The first serious infowar is now engaged," wrote John Perry Barlow of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops."
The opening shots in this fight came almost immediately after Wilileaks' co-founder Julian Assange announced the much-anticipated publication of unseen, sometimes classified U.S. diplomatic cables on his website. Critics of the release moved quickly, swamping Wikileaks' host computers with requests; in effect, creating a virtual blizzard of web traffic that, for a time, prevented anyone from accessing the site.
Their victory, however, was short-lived. Anticipating the attack, Wikileaks began moving its site from host to host and domain to domain, switching web addresses and hop-scotching traffic across a tangle of hidden locations in an effort to elude future attacks. This virtual game of "Whack-a-Mole" continues to this day.
Soon a figure familiar to the "hacktivist" community who goes by the name "The Jester" began to take credit for knocking Wikileaks offline on several occasions - for what he claimed were patriotic reasons. The Jester vowed to fight as long as Wikileaks remained online.
"This is not an unprecedented attack," says Hal Roberts, fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Roberts has studied denial of service - or "ddos" - attacks around the world, particularly those launched from authoritarian regimes like Burma. The Wikileaks attacks, he says, are nothing new...and neither are the boastful claims of responsibility.
Listen to our complete interview with Hal Roberts:
"Even though there's a specific person claiming responsibility for the attacks on Wikileaks, the actual computers that are being used to attack Wikileaks are computers of people who have no idea what's going on," says Roberts.
"The Jester is claiming responsibilty for attacks on Wikileaks," he says. "On the other side we have what's not really an organization but a very loose movement that calls itself 'anonymous' which is really an emergent community that organizes itself on a variety of discussion boards online." The MasterCard attack was just one skirmish.
And while both sides may lay claim to some victories, Roberts says they employ very different methods.
"The Jester uses clever tricks and apparently a small number of machines; by contrast anonymous uses mass numbers of widely-distributed hackers," he says. While this "hive-mind" tactic has been employed before - notably by hackers associated with 4chan - Roberts is skeptical the 'anonymous' attacks will have much of an effect.
That's a shame, says Glick, who advocates for a much more aggressive response by the U.S. government - both in the real and the virtual worlds.
"This is an act of cyber-warfare against the United States, an act of information warfare against the United States," she says. "And I haven't seen the United States bringing to bear any sort of doctrine for defending itself against this kind of attack. And that's what's so startling."
Listen to our complete interview with Caroline Glick:
Declaring Assange and Wikileaks as illegal enemy combatants and sabateurs, she says, would "...open up a whole host of actions that you can take against Wikileaks." Among those: banning the website, cutting off its funding, apprehending and interrogating Assange, and even loosing the considerable resources of the U.S. government to knock Wikileaks off the web for good.
Glick goes a step further, saying that those media outlets that received the cables - such as the New York Times and Der Spiegel - should be prosecuted under the 1917 Espionage Act. But, she adds, "I don't think under the current political climate in the Western world that it's possible to make the media pay a price for the kinds of things that they're doing."
She's not alone in invoking treason and punishment. California Senator Dianne Feinstein (D) has called for felony charges against Assange under the 1917 law, and Delaware Senator Joe Lieberman (I) has labeled the Australian national a traitor.
It's tough talk, and it comes as no surprise to John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or EFF.
"This was gonna happen sooner or later," he says. "I actually thought it might happen before now, but this seems to be the opening salvo in what is going to be a protracted struggle."
Barlow and the EFF have been at the forefront of numerous online freedom battles, and this one is no exception.
"We support the right the right to know. We support the right of a populace in a democracy to be informed," says Barlow. While granting that some of the leaked information may be "hazardous" to some individuals, the EFF is generally supportive of what Wikileaks is doing.
"EFF takes the position that Wikileaks, having acquired the information, has the right to disseminate it, and nobody has the right to shut them or anyone else down online."
It's a fairly robust position of support that few other organizations have taken publicly...in part, Barlow admits, due to the complicated nature of the issues, the Wikileaks organization, and co-founder Assange. However, keeping with the battlefield metaphor, he says sometimes you choose the fight, and sometimes it chooses you.
"I can't say that Mr. Assange makes the absolutely perfect poster child, especially given these allegations in Sweden, and I also think that some of the things that were released are troublesome," admits Barlow. "But you take the battle that you've got."
There are growing, and unsubstantiated, rumors online that the U.S. government may have already engaged in this cyber-battle, asserting pressure on Internet Service Providers (ISPs) or firms like Amazon and PayPal that had provided Wikileaks support or host computers - but only for a while. And there are other rumors that perhaps activists like The Jester aren't working completly alone.
"Sure there are hints," says Hal Roberts. "In this case you can certainly look at these attacks and say 'Hmm, it seems like it's in the interest of the U.S. government to have this site go down', and in fact many other governments around the world that don't want these cables released." However such hints are only suspicions and notoriously difficult to prove.
In the end, most observers believe Wikileaks will remain online and continue to publish secret documents, angering many in power around the globe.
And the online activists - pro and con - aren't slowing their battleplans, either.
On his Twitter feed, the Jester tweets:
TANGO DOWN - for attempting to endanger the lives of our troops, 'other assets' & foreign relations
And just 12 hours after launching their MasterCard barrage, 'anonymous' is regrouping for the next assault. It's moved off anonops.net to another site, but in an outgoing message, one of the hive-mind warned simply, "...payback's a b***h."
Why these peoples are afraid from USA they lost every thing and now they are terrifing peoples of world from his davil face. Dont stop donations of Wikileaks Please, especially MASTER CARD
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