GPU-Z is a lightweight utility designed to give you all information about your video card and GPU. And GPU-Z is in many ways, in-spite it`s small size awesome. This is a free application designed to scan your computer system and analyze its graphics card. Use it to learn what’s under the hood and what makes your computer work. Due to the fact that it basically offers technical information, you have to be a knowledgeable user who knows how to read between the lines, so novices will have a hard time understanding what is going on with GPU-Z.
The interface is pretty simple to use, as there are no command icons or additional features, unfortunately. Only a simple report can be made. Information found on the computer through GPU-Z includes name, subvendor, memory type and shaders, GPU core clock and GPU memory clock, dedicated and dynamic memory usage, and others. You can opt for the GPU-Z to file a complete report on your sensors (save as a text file).
There are two additional tabs where you can insert your name, optional e-mail, and comments to validate your GPU-Z version, as well as participate at PowerColor giveaway (a contest that has obviously ended aeons ago). All in all, hardcore users who constantly need to know what’s going on with their machine will love GPU-Z and reading its accurate report. Searching for these results through traditional methods can be a very difficult task. GPU-Z is a very practical software that lets you know what’s under the hood of your graphics card. Give it a try, I did and I`m happy with it
Features:
Support NVIDIA and ATI cards
Displays adapter, GPU and display information
Displays overclock, default clocks and 3D clocks (if available)
Validation of results
No installation required
Support for Windows 2000 / XP / Vista (both 32 and 64 bit versions are supported)
What´s New in version 0.6.3:
Added support for NVIDIA GT 620, GT 630, GT 640, GTX 660, Tesla M2090, Quadro 1100M, Quadro 5000M, NVS 5400M, G610M, GT 620M, GT 630M, GT640M LE, GT 660M
Added support for AMD Trinity, HD 7570, HD 7670, HD 6610M, HD 7550M, HD 7850M, HD 7520G, HD 7640G
Added warning when OpenCL detection crashed (usually caused by buggy Intel Ivy Bridge GPU drivers)
Fixed OpenCL detection for Intel, AMD Cape Verde
Improved NVIDIA Kepler boost clock detection
Shader clock readout will now be ‘N/A’ when not available
Bus interface for Fusion and Intel SB/IB will now be ‘N/A’
Fixed crash on ATI related to BIOS reading
Added GPU Power consumption monitoring for Sandy Bridge & Ivy Bridge
Added voltage monitoring for HD 7700 Series
Fixed crashes on Windows 8
Installer will not be launched when GPU-Z is started using -dump
Added Icon and Publisher name to Installer
Sensor log checkbox will uncheck properly
FreewareFiles tested GPU-Z v0.6.3 on 2012-07-16 using leading antivirus scanners and found it 100% Clean. It does not contain any form of malware, spyware, viruses, trojans, etc. We will re-test each updated version and remove the award as well as the program if found infected.
Imagine a world without war, poverty, misery or money. Imagine a world where all people work together in a spirit of cooperation and not competition. Imagine this safer saner world and you are closer to understanding what the Zeitgeist Movement is about.
A close look at our present social systems which are built upon fundamentals which produce war, poverty, murder, crime, violence, compromised health care, media monopoly, corporate corruption and indifference for the environment, greed, apathetic self interest and desensitization from others suffering, obsolete and archaic political systems based on subjective opinion (guesswork) and not on scientific and empirical certainty. Its abundantly clear that we need to adapt our thinking because it will definitely be to our collective detriment if we do not. If we carry on so carelessly and wastefully into future, our future generations will pay the price for our mistakes. The Venus Project has the solutions.
About Zeitgeist : Who is Peter Joseph
Peter Joseph was born in North Carolina to a middle class family. The son of a mailman and a social worker, he began his creative interests with music at a young age. Later, seeking a career in percussion, he moved to New York initially to attend a Conservatory, only to drop out after an inability to afford the tuition. Currently he lives and works in New York City and focuses on media related fields, including music composition, editing, post-production and other A/V related. He is also a former private equity trader, which he often comments upon as being his “introduction to the wasteful, destructive system known as Wall Street”.
After the release of Zeitgeist: Addendum, he founded “The Zeitgeist Movement”, which is a social sustainability organization with members now in nearly every country. His work with The Movement is now a large part of his daily activities – giving lectures and helping to produce relevant media/materials to spread the interest for a new social system- called a Resource-Based Economy. To learn more about Peter’s background, a free online “mini-doc” was created by Charles Robinson, which can be viewed online here:
Watermark Image is a free software tool and very useful. It can add digital watermarks to all your images, photos and pictures in a batch. The program can also re-size the images before the digital watermark is added. When creating the watermark, you can use either text or another picture as the source of the watermark. If you want to add the watermark to the background, you can set the logo or the text to be more or less transparent.
Features:
* Angle the text you use for watermarking
* Insert background watermark in digital images, pictures, photos
* Resize images while watermarking the image
* Multi threaded
* Watermark using either another image, or your own text
* Watermarking your own text in the color you want to.
* Maintain directory structure in destination directory or combine all watermarked images into one directory
* Skip or overwrite existing watermarked images in destination directory
* Automatically check for new version of the watermark image software
Free for personal use. Requires: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
How many more high ranking Scientist`s and General`s and even President`s do they need before they admits to what we already known for decades? I know that they are REAL, because i have seen a craft with my own two eyes. Let me assure you they are real, wait until you see one for yourself. A quote from Robbie Williams : “One thing’s for sure,” commented the Rock Star, “I’ll never make fun of people who say they’ve seen unidentified flying objects in the sky . . . I am convinced that UFOs exist because I have seen one now.”
Extraterrestrial UFO Are Real : Ben Rich, the “Father of the Stealth Fighter-Bomber” Lockheed CEO admitted on his deathbed!
Ben Rich Lockheed Skunk Works CEO had admitted in his Deathbed Confession that Extraterrestrial UFO visitors are real and the U.S. Military travel among stars. According to article published in May 2010 issue of the Mufon UFO Journal – Ben Rich, the “Father of the Stealth Fighter-Bomber” and former head of Lockheed Skunk Works,had once let out information about Extraterrestrial UFO Visitors Are Real And U.S. Military Travel To Stars. What he said might be new to many people today, but he revealed the information before his death in January 1995. His statements helped to give credence to reports that the U.S. military has been flying vehicles that mimic alien craft. The article was written by Tom Keller, an aerospace engineer who has worked as a computer systems analyst for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
STATEMENT ONE: “Inside the Skunk Works (Lockheed’s secret research and development entity), we were a small, intensely cohesive group consisting of about fifty veteran engineers and designers and a hundred or so expert machinists and shop workers. Our forte was building technologically advanced airplanes of small number and of high class for highly secret missions.”
STATEMENT TWO: “We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects, and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity. Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do.”
STATEMENT THREE: “We now have the technology to take ET home. No, it won’t take someone’s lifetime to do it. There is an error in the equations. We know what it is. We now have the capability to travel to the stars. First, you have to understand that we will not get to the stars using chemical propulsion. Second, we have to devise a new propulsion technology. What we have to do is find out where Einstein went wrong.”
STATEMENT FOUR: When Rich was asked how UFO propulsion worked, he said, “Let me ask you. How does ESP work?” The questioner responded with, “All points in time and space are connected?” Rich then said, “That’s how it works!”
Ben Rich Lockheed Former CEO knew of extraterrestrial UFO visitors!
Lockheed “Skunk Works” former CEO knew the Roswell extraterrestrial UFO influenced designs of Testor model kits for Roswell UFO models, and U.S. top secret aircraft. According to a CNI News report by Colorado resident Michael Lindemann, the design information was derived from forensic illustrations and numerous witness testimonies about the Roswell UFO, provided by William L. “Bill” McDonald. In an e-mail, dated July 29, 1999, apparently addressed to Lindemann, McDonald referenced an excerpt of a discussion with Harold Puthoff, founder of the highly classified U.S. “remote viewing” program.
McDonald said: “Well Hal, you asked for it! Now that legendary Lockheed engineer and chief model kit designer for the Testor Corporation, John Andrews, is dead, I can announce that he personally confirmed the design connection between the Roswell Spacecraft and the Lockheed Martin Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles (UCAVs), spy planes, Joint Strike Fighters, and Space Shuttles. Andrews was a close personal friend of “Skunk Works” CEO Ben Rich — the hand-picked successor of Skunk Works founder Kelly Johnson and the man famous for the F-117 Nighthawk “Stealth” fighter, its “half-pint” prototype the “HAVE BLUE”, and the top-secret F-19 Stealth Interceptor. Before Rich died of cancer, Andrews took my questions to him.
Dr. Ben R. Rich former Lockheed Skunk Works CEO confirmed:
1. There are 2 types of UFOs — the ones we build and ones ‘they’ build. We learned from both crash retrievals and actual “hand-me-downs.” The Government knew and until 1969 took an active hand in the administration of that information. After a 1969 Nixon “purge”, administration was handled by an international board of directors in the private sector…
2. Nearly all “biomorphic” aerospace designs were inspired by the Roswell spacecraft — from Kelly’s SR-71 Blackbird onward to today’s drones, UCAVs, and aerospace craft…
3. It was Ben Rich’s opinion that the public should not be told [about UFOs and extraterrestrials] . He believed they could not handle the truth — ever. Only in the last months of his decline did he begin to feel that the “international corporate board of directors” dealing with the “Subject” could represent a bigger problem to citizens’ personal freedoms under the United States Constitution than the presence of off-world visitors themselves.”
Lindemann added that “Bill McDonald received the above information from Andrews from 1994 until their last phone call near Christmas in 1998.” Lindemann also noted “It should also be known that Dr. Ben R. Rich attended a public aerospace designers and engineers conference in 1993 before his illness overwhelmed him in which he stated — in the presence of MUFON Orange County Section Director Jan Harzan and many others that – ‘We’ (i.e., the U.S. aerospace community/military industrial complex) had in it’s possession the technology to “take us to the stars”. See the complete letter in May, 2010 MUFON UFO Journal from John Andrews and the hand written reply from Dr. Ben Rich. Hear more revealing testimony from Disclosure Project whistleblowers. NASA can not deny secrets discovered by UK hacker Gary McKinnon and many astronauts if it expects full funding from the Obama White House administration.
Don Philips: Lockheed Skunkworks Engineer USAF, and CIA Contractor Admitted : UFO Are Real
Don Phillips, “These UFOs were huge and they would just come to a stop and do a 60 degree, 45 degree, 10 degree turn, and then immediately reverse this action”. During the Apollo landing, Neil Armstrong says, “They’re here.They are right over there and looking at the size of those ships., it is obvious they don’t like us being here”. When I was working with the Skunkworks with Kelly Johnson, we signed an agreement with the government to keep very quiet about this.
Anti-gravitational research was going on. We know that there were some captured craft from 1947 in Roswell, they were real. And, yes, we really did get some technology from them. And, yes, we really did put it to work. We knew each other from what we call an unseen industry. We can term it black, deep black, or hidden. The knowledge I have of these technologies came from the craft that were captured here. I didn`t see the craft, nor did I see the bodies, but I certainly know some of the people that did. There was no question that there were beings from outside the planet.
Are these ET people hostile? Well, if they were hostile, with their weaponry they could have destroyed us a long time ago .We got these things that are handhold scanners that scan the body and determine what the condition is. We can also treat from the same scanner. I can tell you personally that we’ve been working on them. And we have ones that can diagnose and cure cancer. One of the purposes I had for founding my technology corporation in 1998 was to bring forth these technologies that can clean the air and can help get rid of the toxins, and help reduce the need for so much fossil fuel. Yes, it is time. I can tell you personally that it has already started.
Boyd Bushman also confirms that Extraterrestrial UFO visitors are real!
Another Lockheed Martin senior research scientist ” inventor of stinger missile” also confirms that Extraterrestrial UFO visitors are real and his merits are impressive: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, 1986 to 2000 (and present consultant), Mr. Bushman has participated in Advanced Aircraft Concepts as a member of the technical team. He has conducted European Theater Tactical Fighter performance analysis, coordinated customer interface and development performance concepts. He developed laser, electro-optical sensor, and power systems. He developed and taught analysis courses. Several million-dollar contracts were obtained directly from him. Bushman holds 26 US Patents and classified Patents.
Texas Instruments, 1979-1987, Mr. Bushman worked on the development of laser guided smart bombs, Tank Mounted Infrared FLIR systems, focal plane arrays and GPS Systems all of which are currently deployed as major components of Tactical Land Air and Sea systems.
From 1976 to 1979 Mr. Bushman was a Manager at Parsons International of Iran, Mexico and then Louisiana with the U.S. department of Energy’s Strategic Oil Reserve Program. He managed a division of Trans Universal Finance Company in Southern California. Funding was obtained for high multimillion dollar projects.
At Hughes Aircraft (Now Ratheon), 1968-1976, Mr. Bushman was the Manager/Technical Liaison officer to the Infrared Sensor Division (SBRC Santa Barbara Research Center). He was involved in technical description and financial disbursement. Systems were deployed to aircraft and satellite systems.
At Electro-Optical Systems (Now Ratheon), 1966-1968 as Program manager, he developed and produced Night Vision Image Intensifier Systems for military night operations. These are similar to night vision goggles used by pilots. Mr. Bushman achieved sustained production of hundreds of units per month.
1963-1966, General Dynamics (Pomona), he coordinated the analysis, test and development producing the Redeye (Now Stinger Missile). The development and testing was achieved in concert with Sidewinder Missile Development team at China Lake Test Facility in California. Mr. Bushman coordinated the computer based operations analysis and system performance analysis for missile development and manufacture.
And the famous prominent theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku discusses Leslie Kean’s new book, UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record. In the televised interview aired on Monday August 23, 2010 he says that the evidence in Kean’s book is compelling, and admits that 5% of UFO reports are real. He concludes UFOs are worth officially investigating.
Dr. Edgar Mitchell the sixth man to walk on the moon “extra-terrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions”
FORMER NASA astronaut and moon walker Dr Edgar Mitchell a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission has stunningly claimed aliens do exist.
And he says extra-terrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions – but the alien contact has been repeatedly covered up by governments for six decades. Dr Mitchell, 77, said during a radio interview that sources at the space agency who had had contact with aliens described the beings as ‘little people who look strange to us.’He said supposedly real-life ET’s were similar to the traditional image of a small frame, large eyes and head.
Chillingly, he claimed our technology is “not nearly as sophisticated” as theirs and “had they been hostile”, he warned “we would be been gone by now”. Dr Mitchell, along with with Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard, holds the record for the longest ever moon walk, at nine hours and 17 minutes following their 1971 mission.
On Britain’s Kerrang radio show on July 23, 2008, Mitchell told the world that the 500+ witnesses telling us that a UFO from another world crashed in Roswell, NM, in 1947, were in fact, telling the truth, and that a government cover-up of UFO and alien information began at that time, and continues today. We have been visited by beings from other worlds a number of other times also, some of which he had insider knowledge of during his time at NASA. These events were also covered up. UFO proponents, of course, already took these events as truth, but now we know for certain. The recent bombshell disclosures of Dr. Edgar Mitchell have set the Internet ablaze with articles, blogs, and forum discussion. Finally, a man who is respected highly, and a national hero, has with a somber, straight face told the world without reservation that we have been visited by UFOs, aliens are real, and our government is indeed, covering up this information.
Jimmy Carter, Ex-President of the USA, nominated 5 times for the Nobel Peace Prize. In October of ’1969 Jimmy Carter witnessed a UFO.
During his election campaign of 1976 he told the following to reporters: It was the darnedest thing I’ve ever seen. It was big, it was very bright, it changed colors and it was about the size of the moon. We watched it for ten minutes, but none of us could figure out what it was. One thing’s for sure, I’ll never make fun of people who say they’ve seen unidentified objects in the sky. If I become President, I’ll make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public and the scientists. Carter’s successor in the White House, Ronald Reagan, also allegedly saw a UFO while he was the Governor of California. Reagan was traveling in a small plane when he noticed a strange light which seemed to be following the aircraft. The light accelerated a little ahead and, at Reagan’s suggestion, his plane pursued it for a few minutes before it zoomed away vertically at tremendous speed.
Some Famous Quotes From Famous People!
“When the long awaited solution to the UFO problem comes, I believe that it will prove to be not merely the next small step in the march of science, but a mighty and totally unexpected quantum leap.” “We had a job to do, whether right or wrong, to keep the public from getting excited”
–Dr.J Allen Hynek, Director US Air Force´s project Blue Book as a scientific consultant, astronomer, investigator and analysis.
“Of course it is possible that UFO’s really do contain aliens as many people believe, and the Government is hushing it up.”
–Professor Stephen Hawking
“Given the millions of billions of Earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the Universe without a doubt, does exist. In the vastness of the Universe we are not alone.”
–The Bible According to Albert Einstein
“Of course it is possible that UFO’s really do contain aliens as many people believe, and the Government is hushing it up.”
–Professor Stephen Hawking
Truman climbs on board: “I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on earth”
–President Harry S. Truman
“The US Airforce assures me that UFO’s pose no threat to National Security..”
–President John F Kennedy
“I’m not at liberty to discuss the governments knowledge of extraterrestrial UFO’s at this time. I am still personally being briefed on the subject!”
–President Richard M. Nixon
“I know some. I know a fair amount.”
–George Bush replying in 1988 to a question about UFOs while campaigning to become President.
“I believe that these extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets which obviously are a little more technically advanced than we are here on Earth.” –Colonel L. Gordon Cooper (Mercury 9, Gemini-5 Astronaut)
“We have contact with alien cultures.” –Astronaut Dr. Brian O’leary
“At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone: there was a constant surveillance by UFOs.” –NASA’s Scott Carpenter
I have been an Elvis fan all my life. Now i`m a Lamby fan to. Adam really have all the quality’s Elvis had. The look, The Voice, The Charisma, The Mystique, The Entertainer.
One also would have to be visually impaired not to see that Adam Lambert bears a huge resemblance to Elvis Presley. For a side by side comparison see below! Elvis exuded a lot of sexual energy, and so does Adam Lambert. In my view, though, Elvis was better looking, but as a total raging heterosexual male, I feel unqualified to judge. I’ll leave that for the straight girls and gay guys to decide that.
You may be surprised to learn that Elvis dyed his hair jet black (his natural hair color was reportedly dirty blond). This may qualify as another similarity between Adam Lambert and Elvis, for Adam Lambert allegedly dies his hair too (word has it that he is a natural blond). While trying to find some press material about Adam Lambert, I`ve noticed that there are many sources which have mentioned the similarities between him and Elvis Presley. Adam himself seemed to be surprised by them. On a question to Adam Lambert:
What do you make of all the Elvis Presley reincarnated chatter? That’s a compliment. I don’t know if that’s necessarily the case, but it’s a beautiful idea.
Psychic say Elvis have taken over Adam Lambert’s body?
LOS ANGELES (Wireless Flash – FlashNews) There’s a reason Adam Lambert has America all shook up: He’s the reincarnation of Elvis Presley. According to psychic Judy Hevenly, the American Idol favorite is a reincarnation of The King, who has taken over Lambert’s body. Hevenly feels like Elvis’ voice is coming through Lambert, and his high-pitched pipes are really just a side of Elvis’ vocals that fans never got to hear. She says that if Elvis would’ve lived longer, his voice would’ve eventually sounded exactly like Lambert’s. I don`t know if i would agree to that because, as to vocal range, it is a pretty clear difference, because Elvis Presley had a voice that spanned incredible two full octaves and somewhere between 1/3 and 1/2 more, and he always demonstrated complete control of his voice. But i would say that Lambert’s facial resemblance features, hair, and hip moves embody Elvis’ essence and will make him a worldwide icon.
There`s striking resemblance.
American Idol is in its eight season and most fans believe Adam Lambert is the best Idol ever and is on his way to HUGE fame and fortune. Adam has consistently delivered commanding, high energy, electrifying performances just as Elvis did and is, without a doubt, the most exciting and flamboyant contestant to date. He even receiving an unheard of standing ovation from Simon Cowell when he sang his own magical version of “Mad World”.
Blueblood.net: “Adam Lambert performed ‘Tracks of My Tears’ in a sharp pale cool gray suit with a dark shirt and went for a less made-up look with just dark mascara and a rockabilly hairstyle with a clearly intentional Elvis circa 1957 vibe.”
Matthew Garbutt, Conductor of the San Diego Symphony Summer Pops:
“He should definitely do stadium concerts. He reminds me of Elvis Presley. He has that kind of attractiveness.”
Also, Elvisblog.net made an article about this issue, citing also a fragment of the book ‘ELVIS He Touched Me’ by Darwin Lamm, where we read that Elvis actually also wore GUYLINER!!!
A reporter said: “One time I came into the dressing room to find Elvis picking at his eyes, or so it appeared. When I got closer, I saw Elvis working on his lower line of eyelashes with a Maybelline eyeliner stick. I asked, “Whatta ya doin’ with that on your eyes?” “It makes your eyes look bigger,” Elvis told me as he dabbed carefully at his lashes. “Look around here,” I ordered. Elvis turned his head so I could peer at his handiwork. “Damn! They do look big.”
Adam has garnered much praise and has been since start compared to the greatest singer/performer of all times. But it’s also easy to see some influences of Freddy Mercury, Robert Plant, Donny Hathaway or Steve Perry. But it’s his uncanny resemblance to the King of Rock and Roll that has his fans asking, “is Adam the reincarnation of Elvis Presley?”
I have noticed a small coincident maybe but, Elvis liked to take photo`s in black and white with someone he liked, and Adam apparently like to take photo`s in black and white with someone he like to. Also both have worn white suites on stage?
From an astrological perspective, it is true that Adam shares the same Venus, Mars, and Jupiter placements as Elvis…and it’s also possible he shares the same Moon. Elvis had a Pisces Moon and Adam’s Moon is either in Pisces (born in the early morning) or Aries. I’m going to go out on the edge (which can be dangerous) and say that Adam was born in the early morning and does have a Pisces Moon just as Elvis.
And for all you who bought the drug stories about Elvis death. Here are some fast facts: How did Elvis Presley really die? – Los Angeles Times Court Report: Elvis Presley’s doctor claim and uphold strongly that the king died from chronic constipation. Elvis Presley died on August 16, 1977 in the bathroom of his Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tennessee. He was 42. He had been on the toilet, but fallen off onto the floor, where he lay in a pool of his own vomit. Panicked, his staff contacted an ambulance, which rushed him to nearby Baptist Memorial Hospital, where, after several attempts to revive him, he died at 3:30 pm CST. His autopsy was performed at 7:00 pm. Elvis had visited his dentist on August 15th to have a temporary crown put in; it has also been suggested that the codeine the dentist gave him that day resulted in an anaphylactic shock that assisted in his death.(Elvis suffered from allergic reactions to drugs.) For the truth also read “Elvis Decoded,” by Patrick Lacy, is also the result of a ten year investigative report to clear of myths and misconceptions involving Elvis’ death.
Final hour for Iran? – “They are gearing up totally for the destruction of Iran”
14 Mar 2010
Hundreds of powerful US “bunker-buster” bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran. The Sunday Herald can reveal that the US government signed a contract in January to transport 10 ammunition containers to the island. According to a cargo manifest from the US navy, this included 387 “Blu” bombs used for blasting hardened or underground structures. Experts say that they are being put in place for an assault on Iran’s controversial nuclear facilities. There has long been speculation that the US military is preparing for such an attack, should diplomacy fail to persuade Iran not to make nuclear weapons.
Although Diego Garcia is part of the British Indian Ocean Territory, it is used by the US as a military base under an agreement made in 1971. The agreement led to 2,000 native islanders being forcibly evicted to the Seychelles and Mauritius. The Sunday Herald reported in 2007 that stealth bomber hangers on the island were being equipped to take bunker-buster bombs. “They are gearing up totally for the destruction of Iran”
Dan Plesch, director, Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, University of London. Although the story was not confirmed at the time, the new evidence suggests that it was accurate. Contract details for the shipment to Diego Garcia were posted on an international tenders’ website by the US navy. A shipping company based in Florida, Superior Maritime Services, will be paid $699,500 to carry many thousands of military items from Concord, California, to Diego Garcia. Crucially, the cargo includes 195 smart, guided, Blu-110 bombs and 192 massive 2000lb Blu-117 bombs.
“They are gearing up totally for the destruction of Iran,” said Dan Plesch, director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at the University of London, co-author of a recent study on US preparations for an attack on Iran. “US bombers are ready today to destroy 10,000 targets in Iran in a few hours,” he added. The preparations were being made by the US military, but it would be up to President Obama to make the final decision. He may decide that it would be better for the US to act instead of Israel, Plesch argued.
“The US is not publicising the scale of these preparations to deter Iran, tending to make confrontation more likely,” he added. “The US … is using its forces as part of an overall strategy of shaping Iran’s actions.”
According to Ian Davis, director of the new independent thinktank, Nato Watch, the shipment to Diego Garcia is a major concern. “We would urge the US to clarify its intentions for these weapons, and the Foreign Office to clarify its attitude to the use of Diego Garcia for an attack on Iran,” he said.
For Alan Mackinnon, chair of Scottish CND, the revelation was “extremely worrying”. He stated: “It is clear that the US government continues to beat the drums of war over Iran, most recently in the statements of Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. “It is depressingly similar to the rhetoric we heard prior to the war in Iraq in 2003.”
The British Ministry of Defence has said in the past that the US government would need permission to use Diego Garcia for offensive action. It has already been used for strikes against Iraq during the 1991 and 2003 Gulf wars. About 50 British military staff are stationed on the island, with more than 3,200 US personnel. Part of the Chagos Archipelago, it lies about 1,000 miles from the southern coasts of India and Sri Lanka, well placed for missions to Iran. The US Department of Defence did not respond to a request for a comment.
Dogs likely originated in the Middle East, not Asia or Europe, according to a new genetic analysis by an international team of scientists led by UCLA biologists.
The research appears March 17 in the advance online edition of the journal Nature. “Dogs seem to share more genetic similarity with Middle Eastern gray wolves than with any other wolf population worldwide,” said Robert Wayne, UCLA professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and senior author of the Nature paper. “Genome-wide analysis now directly suggests a Middle East origin for modern dogs. We have found that a dominant proportion of modern dogs’ ancestry derives from Middle Eastern wolves, and this finding is consistent with the hypothesis that dogs originated in the Middle East.
“This is the same area where domestic cats and many of our livestock originated and where agriculture first developed,” Wayne noted.
Previous genetic research suggested an East Asian origin for dogs, “which was unexpected,” Wayne said, “because there was never a hint in the archaeological record that dogs evolved there.” We were able to study a broader sampling of wolves globally than has ever been done before, including Middle Eastern wolves, “said the paper’s lead author, Bridgett vonHoldt”, a UCLA graduate student of ecology and evolutionary biology in Wayne’s laboratory who studies the genetics of dog domestication. In our analysis of the entire genome, we found that dogs share more unique markers with Middle Eastern wolves than with East Asian wolves. We used a genome wide approach, which avoids the bias of single genome region.
New ‘temperate’ exoplanet hints at solar system like our own
A newly discovered gas-giant planet with a nearly circular orbit around its parent star is the first Jupiter like planet outside our solar system or”exoplanet” that can be studied in detail, a new study says.Located about 1,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Serpens,the planet Corot-9b passes in front of its star every 95 days, as viewed from Earth. Each of these “transits” lasts about eight hours.When Corot-9b is positioned between its star and Earth, some of the light from its star passes through the exoplanet’s atmosphere before continuing on to our planet.
By studying this filtered starlight, astronomers may be able to determine what molecules make up Corot-9b’s atmosphere.If that’s the case, Corot-9b could become a “Rosetta stone” for exoplanet research, said study co-author Claire Moutou of the Laboratory of Astrophysics of Marseilles in France, referring to the artifact that helped decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
“We hope that when we can investigate this planet, it will have characteristics which are close to other giant gas planets outside our solar system,” Moutou said.That’s because Corot-9b’s physical properties are thought to be representative of many gas giant exoplanets in our galaxy. So studying Corot-9b in detail could shed light on worlds that do not transit, and thus are impossible for astronomers to research.
The filtered-sunlight technique has been used to study the atmospheric compositions of other gas exoplanets with great success.
However, those planets orbit much closer to their stars than Corot-9b and are thus much hotter. As a result, these “hot Jupiters” are not thought to be good analogs for low- and moderate-temperature gas giants, which astronomers think make up a large bulk of exoplanets.
In contrast, the distance between Corot-9b and its star is about ten times greater than that of hot Jupiter systems. Its surface temperature is estimated to be between -4 degrees and 320 degrees Fahrenheit -20 degrees and 160 degrees Celsius.While no one has seen Corot-9b up close yet, Moutou imagines it looks very similar to the gas giants in our own solar system.For instance, Corot-9b is probably a gaseous, cloudy planet like Jupiter with lots of moons and rings like Saturn, she said.
The research is detailed in this week’s issue of the Journal Nature.
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ZipGenius has all the main features of compression programs (zip, unzip, etc.), but it´s different from the others because it offers very special features. ZipGenius is the absolutely free software for Windows that lets you compress files to almost any kind of archive. ZipGenius supports more than 20 compressed archive formats, including CD/DVD-ROM image files in ISO9660 standard.
Features:
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You can send e-mail using the built-in mail client
You can publish archives on the Web with FTPGenius, the built-in FTP client (that can run also as a stand-alone application).
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ZipGenius can detect the presence of a PocketPC mobile device: the program can interact with the file synchronization folder for these devices.
ZipGenius has backup functions.
ZipGenius supports the command line.
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Now it supports Windows XP visual styles and it has the long awaited zip file fixing feature.
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