Nextel is a major player in the market and enjoys tremendous popularity.

From wholesalers Parnell-Martin (Charlotte, N.C.) and Hughes Supply (Orlando, Fla.) and from Miami-based wholesalers Bond Supply and Lehman Pipe & Plumbing Supply, to Home Depot Supply — each of them said they had at least one Nextel product.

“We understand the construction and distribution business,” says Henry Popplewell, Nextel’s vice president of distribution and transportation. “They are two of the backbone industries in our organization. We have worked together as partners and evolved together developing solutions for more than 10 years now.”

According to Kent Lee, Charlotte, N.C. complex manager for wholesaler Parnell-Martin, “Nextel has had good growth and profits along with good people. They give us the basic blocking and tackling tools we need.”

Computers Seized in Data-Theft Probe

Federal Investigators Remove PCs, Discs From Several Locations; LexisNexis Break-In Linked to Paris Hilton Phone Hacking

By Brian Krebs

washingtonpost.com Staff Writer

Thursday, May 19, 2005; 6:16 PM


The federal investigation into the massive theft of sensitive personal records from database giant LexisNexis Inc. intensified this week with the execution of search warrants and seizure of evidence from several individuals across the country, according to federal law enforcement officials.


Three people targeted in the investigation confirmed that federal investigators had served warrants at their homes. The group included a minor who has been in contact with a washingtonpost.com reporter for three months and who said he was directly involved in the LexisNexis breach.
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MSN Virtual Earth To Take On Google Earth

Micrsoft sends news today that founder Bill Gates has announced a MSN Virtual Earth service is to debut in the summer. The service is promised to provide:



Satellite images with 45-degree-angle views of buildings and neighborhoods



Satellite images with street map overlays



Ability to add local data layers, such as showing local businesses or restaurants



The service will allow users to choose from a number of different data types plus allow people to contribute their own information. The announcement came today at the D3 conference happening this week.
Last week, Google announced that its Keyhole software allowing satellite views of the Earth will be renamed Google Earth. Better images will also be available to those getting satellite views via Google Maps. In addition, Google Maps has also been getting enhanced by others adding on data from other sources. More on this in is covered in our Google Factory Tour Recap post.




So, the planned Microsoft service will help MSN compete against some Google gains in this area, not to mention moves others like Yahoo have been making with maps. Some past reading you may find interesting on these topics:



Google Maps Not In Google Search; Comparing Services & How Do They Do That?


Satellite/Aerial Images Plus Local Info
This post discusses TerraFly. This service has been available for more than five years and receives funding from IBM. Terrafly offers several of the services that MSN plans to provide including street overlays and local business info.
Super Cool: Interact With Satellite and Aerial Images With NASA's World Wind Program

Global in scope. World Wind Central (a wiki) offers links to interesting images that users have found.

Just Mrap It!

LLNL’s ‘Science Week’ festivities celebrate World Year of Physics

Computer simulation of the gravitational radiation from the head-on collision of two black holes at a time just after the collision. The different colors represent the different strengths of the gravitational wave signal. Techniques for detecting gravitational waves, which are predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity, will be discussed during a Science Day talk by Barry Barish of the California Institute of Technology.

For Japanese Math Wizards, It's a Mind Game

The Washington Post

By Ginny Parker, Dec 15, 2000


For Japanese Math Wizards, It's a Mind Game; Contestants Test Skill on Invisible
Abacus


The contestants sit hunched over bare tables, some in sweat shirts, some in
neckties. A small audience watches quietly, while judges pace the floor.


Suddenly, a teenager's had shoots up and shout breaks the silence. "Done!" he
calls out, and passes his answer sheet to a moderator.


Within seconds, Hiroaki Tsuchiya has multiplied in his head a list of numbers
that would make an accountant's head spin. How does he do it? On an imaginary
abacus, just as merchants, students and others have done throughout Asia for
centuries.


Today, despite computers and calculators, the technique survives as a strenuous
workout for the brain. Teachers say almost anyone can master it, although it
takes hours of practice, mental dexterity and extraordinary powers of
concentration.


"If you space out, you lose," said Tsuchiya, who at age 13 recently became the
youngest winner of a Kyoto tournament where Japan's best mental mathematicians
display their amazing feats.


Tsuchiya, for example, takes only a few moments to figure out the quotient of
992.587318 divided by 5,647.723.
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Stanford Accelerator Uncovers Archimedes' Text

Posted by timothy on Sunday May 22, @12:49AM
from the 2-quarts-olive-oil-1-bunch-grapes-goat-milk dept.
AI Playground points to a Newsday.com report which reads in part "A particle accelerator is being used to reveal the long-lost writings of the Greek mathematician Archimedes, work hidden for centuries after a Christian monk wrote over it in the Middle Ages. Highly focused X-rays produced at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center were used last week to begin deciphering the parts of the 174-page text that have not yet been revealed." more »

KnowledgeNews :: Your Home for Learning on the Web:

"Luke, I told you to do your science homework!"


He's baaaack! Unless you've been living in a galaxy far, far away, you've probably heard that the final installment of Star Wars opened just after midnight on Thursday--28 years after Darth Vader and Co. first flashed across the silver screen. All over America, die-hard fans waited in huge lines to see Episode III: Revenge of the Sith at early morning showings.


We love a science fiction thrill as much as anyone, but we can't help noticing that, in Hollywood, the fiction often gets the better of the science. So, to restore balance to the media force, we're sending some simple science correctives. (Just don't blurt them out during the show!



Today's Knowledge

The Top 5 Science Fiction Foul-Ups



Every science fiction movie has them: stupendous scenes of movie magic that sacrifice science on the altar of special effects. Here are our top 5 science fiction foul-ups--common movie scenes where science takes a holiday so we can get our fix of big-screen thrills.


1. No Ear Plugs Necessary


The Scene: The big impressive spaceship flies across the screen, emitting an equally impressive rumble of powerful engine noise. Or maybe just that really cool TIE fighter howl.


The Problem: These ships are moving in space, which is a vacuum, and sound can't travel in a vacuum. It takes matter to propagate the energy waves that we perceive as sound. So the sound of any ship in space is the sound of silence. (Call it the Garfunkel Effect.)


2. This One's a Dud


The Scene: A deadly firefight in space rages until someone goes down in flames, complete with incredible explosion and massive ball of fire.


The Problem: Most explosions are based on combustion, a chemical reaction that requires oxygen to take place. Of course, there's no oxygen in space. You can't even light a match out there, let alone set off stunning fireworks displays.


3. Think Jellyfish


The Scene: Our heroes enter a seedy space bar, full of strange alien life forms. Yet chances are they've got tables and chairs at which to nurse a beer, because the aliens look, and sit, pretty much like us.


The Problem: Our own little corner of the cosmos sports life in all shapes and sizes. Of the millions of species on Earth, only a small fraction look much like us. The odds that the bar crowd on completely different worlds would evolve to look like we do are pretty slim.


4. Set Phasers on "Slow"


The Scene: Science fiction's chosen weapon is the laser. Phaser, blaster, whatever you want to call it--it's a blast of energy fired from a gun. Whether it's dueling ships or dueling pistols, the bad guys get their due in a blaze of beams flashing across the screen.


The Problem: The energy in these weapons doesn't behave like real energy. Energy travels at the speed of light--far too fast for your eyes to follow it in beautiful blue and red beams.


5. "I'm Going Retro!"


The Scene: Squadrons of starfighters duel in a dogfight that puts Top Gun to shame. Inevitably, somebody gets a bad guy on his tail, desperately declares he "can't shake 'em," and, well, see #2.


The Problem: Spacecraft don't fly like planes. Because space is a vacuum, there's no need to maintain "lift," and no "drag" to slow you down once you get going. A starfighter in a dogfight could easily use retro rockets to spin around in mid-flight and blast the guy behind him, all while "vectoring" in the original direction.


Christopher Call and Michael Himick

May 18, 2005


Want to learn more?

Visit the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame

http://www.sfhomeworld.org/

THE MOUSE THAT ATE THE PUBLIC DOMAIN:

Disney, The Copyright Term Extension Act, And eldred V. Ashcroft

By CHRIS SPRIGMAN



Unless you earn your living as an intellectual property lawyer, you probably don't know that the Supreme Court has granted certiorari in Eldred v. Ashcroft, a case that will test the limits of Congress's power to extend the term of copyrights. But while copyright may not seem inherently compelling to non-specialists, the issues at stake in Eldred are vitally important to anyone who watches movies, listens to music, or reads books.

If that includes you, read on.


Mickey Mouse Goes to Washington

Demise of a hard-fighting squad

Marines who survived ambush are killed, wounded in blast

By Ellen Knickmeyer

Updated: 4:38 a.m. ET May 12, 2005


HABAN, Iraq, May 11 -
The explosion enveloped the armored vehicle in flames, sending orange balls of fire bubbling above the trees along the Euphrates River near the Syrian border. more »





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Information Technologies industry in North Carolina

NCTA is the primary voice of the Information Technologies industry in North Carolina. NCTA is dedicated to growing and strengthening the IT industry through increasing public awareness and influencing key public policy issues. We provide our members the opportunity to network with other industry leaders, share information on critical technologies, and promote their companies. Learn more!







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Charlotte Oracle Users Group

CLTOUG BYLAWS


ARTICLE I


NAME


The name of this corporation shall be the Charlotte Oracle Users Group, a not-for-profit business association organized under the laws of the State of North Carolina of the United States of America (hereinafter "CLTOUG”)


ARTICLE II


PURPOSES

Section 1. Not for Profit. CLTOUG is organized under and shall operate as a North Carolina not-for-profit business association.


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Lebanese Political Journal

More on Aoun

The web is blazing with commentary about the recently returned General Michel Aoun.
Here's some more fuel for the fire.
I disagree fundamentally with the claim that Aoun is bad because he killed people.
I differentiate between good war and bad war.
Amal fought very bad war. Jumblatt fought bad sometimes and good sometimes (kind of like his political opinions). Aoun was like Jumblatt. In Lebanese terms, Hezbollah fought good far more than bad.

The reason Aoun and Hezbollah get along so well is because they are both nationalist parties fighting for nationalist causes, although using different allies.
Was President Hafez al Assad better than Saddam? Can Hama (where Assad massacred tens of thousands) be compared with Kurdistan (where Saddam gassed his people)? Can the Lebanese war be compared with Kuwait?

I think going through such lists leads to frivolity.
Aoun did kill, as do all field generals in combat. He was employed to do so. His assignment was to defend his country. When all leaders were gone, he took orders from himself.





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'They Came Here to Die'

Insurgents Hiding Under House in Western Iraq Prove Fierce in Hours-Long Fight With Marines

By Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, May 11, 2005; Page A01


JARAMI, Iraq, May 10 -- Screaming "Allahu Akbar'' to the end, the foreign fighters lay on their backs in a narrow crawl space under a house and blasted their machine guns up through the concrete floor with bullets designed to penetrate tanks. They fired at U.S. Marines, driving back wave after wave as the Americans tried to retrieve a fallen comrade.


Through Sunday night and into Monday morning, the foreign fighters battled on, their screaming voices gradually fading to just one. In the end, it took five Marine assaults, grenades, a tank firing bunker-busting artillery rounds, 500-pound bombs unleashed by an F/A-18 attack plane and a point-blank attack by a rocket launcher to quell them.



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Wireless developers plan to meld Bluetooth

Plan comes at crucial time for developing technology

Minutemen end border watch, plan to expand

Gov. Schwarzenegger praises group heading to CaliforniaBy Brock N. Meeks
Chief Washington correspondent
MSNBC
Updated: 11:32 a.m. ET May 4, 2005WASHINGTON - The month-long volunteer effort by a grassroots citizen group monitoring illegal immigration along a desolate 23-mile stretch of the Arizona-Mexico border ended much as it started: in a war of words.

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U.S. unprepared for nuclear terror, experts say

Evacuation plans available to public, first responders faultedBy John Mintz

Updated: 7:21 a.m. ET May 3, 2005When asked during the campaign debates to name the gravest danger facing the United States, President Bush and challenger Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) gave the same answer: a nuclear device in the hands of terrorists. more »

President Bush Honors Volunteers on Earth Day

On April 22nd, President Bush traveled to Tennessee to promote volunteer service and environmental stewardship on Earth Day (continue..)


"Yigaquu osaniyu adanvto adadoligi nigohilvi nasquv utloyasdi nihi"

Cherokee - "May the Great Spirit's blessings always be with you."

Justice Information Sharing Resource Directory Now Available

- The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), in conjunction with the National Governors Association (NGA) Center for Best Practices' Homeland Security and Technology Division, has created a resource directory of tools that support the development, design, and implementation of strategies to improve justice information sharing. The principal objective of this initiative is to correlate justice information sharing tools with various identified steps in the justice information technology (IT) integration process.




HOMELAND SECURITY E-Procurement Purchase Orders for Terrorism Grants

The National Security Agency/Central Security Service

has served as America's codemakers and codebreakers for over 50 years. At no point in the Agency's history has it been more important to share information about its rich legacy and to educate the public on its missions to protect our nation.


The NSA/CSS Public and Media Affairs Office works closely with elements throughout the Agency, to include the Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) Office and the Center for Cryptologic History, to provide accurate and timely unclassified information in response to public and media requests.


In addition to answering specific queries, NSA/CSS regularly releases information to the public in the form of hard copy and electronic press releases, congressional testimony, public speeches and briefings, special reports, Freedom of Information Act releases, and declassification intiatives.


NSA/CSS understands that its long-term success is absolutely dependent upon the nurturing of future generations of U.S. cryptologists. Thus, the Agency is totally committed to continual learning and development for its current workforce, and reaches out into the community with a plethora of educational programs for students of all ages. Programs aimed at developing and recruiting the best and the brightest computer/electrical engineers, computer scientists, mathematicians, linguists, cryptanalysts, and signals analysts in the world. » More

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World Trade Center 9/11 Investigation Could Result in New Generation of Building Safety and Fire Prevention CodesThe nation's leading developer of building safety and fire prevention codes will use findings from an investigation into the World Trade Center attack to better understand what led to the towers' collapse and develop construction guidelines... More




Loy Testifies Before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

"We have dramatically improved our technical ability to share information. Tools such as the Homeland Security Operations Center, the Homeland Security Information Network, and the Homeland security Advisory system are steps toward full capacity and capability."




Cybersecurity Standardization Moves Forward - Compliance with the 2002 Federal Information Security Management Act is an expensive and frustrating process for agencies. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has launched a task force on cybersecurity standardization to identify problems and solutions for cybersecurity risks, improve cybersecurity processes, and reduce costs by eliminating duplication. The task force will analyze various elements, including training activities, threat awareness, program management, and the implementation of security products.
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