There are now 2 agencies prosecuting Lindsay Lohan at the same time, and sources connected with the cases tell TMZ they are DIVIDED over whether Lindsay should be sent to the pokey.
Chief Deputy Santa Monica City Attorney Terry White is prosecuting Lindsay for allegedly lying to cops last June after her car crash on Pacific Coast Highway. Lindsay -- who's been charged with 3 crimes in connection with the accident -- could face 19 months in jail if convicted on all counts. But sources connected with the case tell us ... White would be satisfied with COMMUNITY SERVICE because the crimes aren't that big a deal.
But here's the rub. The L.A. City Attorney wants to throw the book at Lindsay for allegedly violating her probation in the jewelry heist case. She could get 245 days in the slammer for the probation violation. Sources connected with the case tell TMZ ... L.A. prosecutors will ask Commissioner Jane Godfrey to sentence Lindsay to AT LEAST 200 days behind bars.
Although, as we first reported, the Commish believes in rehabilitation whenever possible, she is not against sentencing criminals to time behind bars. So the stage is now set for a showdown.
What is link? The link (hyperlink or Web link) is a connection from one web resource to another. Internet begins with the hyperlink and a person goes from one page to another page by clicking link.
Link Popularity: It is not Page Rank. Link popularity is the measure of how popular your page is and how many links are directed to your site; and the quality of the sites that are directed to your site. Link popularity is defined as the number of links that point to a site. The search engines consider this links as some kind of votes in the sites favor.
Link popularity is one of the biggest tools to improve your website ranking. And website promotion depends largely on this tool. For effective link popularity, you can also hire an online link popularity service from an internet marketing expert. The higher number of inbound links on your websites ensures the higher link popularity for you.
So increasing your link popularity is still the best website marketing strategy but try to get only good links from related sites. This way you'll benefit from the direct targeted traffic and you'll have good search engine positioning too.
There are a few things you should be aware of and guard against in your quest for link popularity. These can be summed up in two words: Quantity and Quality. The quality of the site you are linking to is also super important. So be sure to check out the site you are linking to before you commit to linking.
Some webmasters tend to go for goal right out the box creating hundreds and hundreds of incoming links through in some cases black hat techniques like link farms. But most build their links the hard way by manually exchanging links and manually submitting links to human edited directories.
As your link popularity increases then your link building can increase along with the growth. The idea is to stay consistent with your link marketing, link building campaigns and avoid going to fast to soon.
Apart from having the right keywords and good reputation, link popularity can be earned through link exchange. Link exchanges could greatly up your site on search engines, therefore, drive more traffic to your site.
Another great strategy in gaining link popularity is the overall content of your site. Do you have interesting material? Why should anyone bother linking to your site? Sometimes, sites with great content get linked by viewers on other sites.
Be judgmental on quality than the quantity of the links. If you follow the process sincerely with an utmost desire to success, you will see your website gaining link popularity on each successive day. Thus, link popularity service is one of the best ways to achieve the much desired ranking in the search engines.
The author is Business Head for search engine optimization company who wants to share his experience in SEO firm and free directory submission.
Creating a seamless display in a foldable device can go a long way towards selling customers on the notion that two screens are better than one: otherwise, you end up with a disjointed effect. Samsung has been trying to solve that problem for years, but a newly-granted US patent could represent one of its more direct answers. The technique would put smaller yet bright pixels right at the joints between two displays, letting Samsung push the screen borders closer together while ramping up the brightness to have those edge pixels blend in with the rest. As Samsung would rely on self-lit display technologies like OLED, it could tune the brightness of those tiny pixels relatively easily, without having to lean on complex backlighting. Given that the patent was originally filed in South Korea back in 2006, there's no indication that Samsung is in a rush to start producing foldable phones and tablets. Having a US patent under its belt right as larger mobile OLED screens become viable, however, could come in handy.
A password expert has shown that passwords can be cracked by brute force four times faster than was previously thought possible.
It's no magician's trick.?Jeremi Gosney of the?Stricture Consulting Group shared the findings at the recent Passwords^12 conference in Norway, where researchers do nothing but focus on passwords and PIN numbers.
What Gosney?showed?is that a?computer cluster using 25 AMD Radeon graphics cards let it make 350 billion????that's right, billion???password attempts per second when trying to crack password hashes made by the algorithm Microsoft uses in Windows.
Ars Technica reported on the finding, estimating that it would take less than six hours for the system to guess every single possible eight-character password. Gosney,?in an email to the site, said, "We can attack (password) hashes?approximately four times faster than we could previously."
Users should take action, especially those who have been using eight-character passwords and thinking they were safe (or safer than users with fewer characters in passwords), said Infosecurity, an online magazine. It doesn't even matter if you have?numbers, upper case letters and symbols ? you are not in the clear.
Eight-character passwords "are no longer sufficient," the magazine says, and users should come up with longer passwords to "help defeat brute forcing, and complex passwords to help defeat dictionary attacks."?
Dictionary attacks use pretty common words, names and places?that many of us still come up with for passwords,?like "LoveNewYork" or even "Jesus" because they're easy to remember. They're also?incredibly easy to crack.
Dmitry Bestuzhev, of Kaspersky Lab, offers these suggestions:
1.?Use a different password for each different online resource. Never reuse the same password for different services. If you do, all or many of your other online accounts can be compromised.
2. ?Use complex passwords. This means, in a perfect scenario, a combination of symbols, letters and special characters. The longer the better.
3. ?Sometimes our online service providers don?t let us create really complex passwords, but try to use long passwords, with at least 23 characters in a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters. A password of 23 characters (131 bits) would be ok.?
That may be an ambitious undertaking, especially with the abundance of services out there that all require authentication, but it's worth striving for.
Eight characters "just isn't long enough for a password these days,"?Sophos Labs' Paul Ducklin told NBC News in an email.?"Even before this latest 'improvement' in cracking, standalone GPU?(graphics processing unit)-based servers could do the job on eight-character Windows passwords in under 24 hours." And, he added, "cybercrooks with a zombie network, of course, could easily do something similar, even without GPUs."
Ducklin, writing about another?password-cracking?presentation at?the password conference, made it clear that the findings are "yet another reminder that security is an arms race."?But to stay ahead all you have to do?is lengthen those passwords. At least for now.
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Many people have always been wishing to come up with activities that would serve as a form of recreation. In the olden days, racing has been among the best events that bring about the best adrenaline rush a crowd could ever encounter. They used to be purely for entertainment to see which of the competitors is the most well-trained and well-bred. They have been converted into games of chance which involve bets that have been legalized by the states these days. You ought to get hold of a proper horse racing guide which will show you what you need to learn about investing in this industry so that you can end up the winner and profitable from this sport.
The Horses
It takes a specific one to be able to compete in derbies but there are lots of different types and breeds that exist nowadays. The most suitable breed for this sport is called the thoroughbred, and they are perfectly known for their spirit, speed, and agility. These characteristics are very essential in the quest for success therefore most owners would find these animals expensive to purchase, maintain, and train. The purity of their bloodlines has a big impact in dictating their market value. If a steed comes from a family of well-known champions, they could eventually set you back a small fortune.
Training and Maintenance
In order to keep it in shape for the upcoming games, it would require the services of a very good trainer. A good trainer is also expensive to employ because of the tedious nature of his job. You would also need a good veterinarian on your crew in order to keep your steed strong and healthy. They have to be fed with only the best to be able to have the energy and strength to complete the course and combined with vaccinations, vitamins, and meals, they all cost a lot of money too. So that it will have a shiny coat and be free from disease so that it will appear well taken care of, another individual or two is also tasked to clean and groom the horse.
Jockeys
A jockey is a very integral part of your team because he will be the person who will lead your mare or stallion to drive his limits. He could be able to get your steed to win if all goes well. It is therefore important for him in order to connect properly with the equine and use that connection to obtain the racing horse to complete the course with flying colors.
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University of Illinois to improve crop yield through photosynthesis in a new global effortPublic release date: 10-Dec-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Nicholas Vasi nvasi@illinois.edu Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Project aims to increase photosynthetic efficiency for sustainable yield increase
Champaign, Ill., December 10, 2012 The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has received a fiveyear, $25-million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to improve the photosynthetic properties of key food crops, including rice and cassava. The project, titled "RIPE Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency," has the potential to benefit farmers around the world by increasing productivity of staple food crops. Illinois research will take place at the Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB), a state-of-the-art facility whose large shared laboratories accommodate multiple groups and encourage cross-discipline interaction.
"This grant will be game changing," says Stephen Long, Project Director and Gutgsell Endowed Professor of Crop Sciences and Plant Biology at Illinois. "This project represents a huge effort to determine and apply the mechanisms of photosynthesis that can contribute to the challenge of this century: food security for all."
Increasing photosynthetic efficiency has not yet been addressed by conventional breeding methods, though it has the potential to increase yields and reduce the use of water and nitrogen. Team members will apply recent advances in photosynthesis research and crop bioengineering to the RIPE project. In addition, computer simulation models of the highly complex photosynthetic system, combined with practical engineering, will identify the best targets for improving photosynthesis efficiency.
"The UN Food and Agricultural Organization predicts that the world will need to increase staple crop yields 70% by 2050," says Long. "The rapid increases that were achieved during the Green Revolution have slowed and will not meet this target. Photosynthesis promises a new area, ripe for exploitation, that will provide part of the yield jump the world needs to maintain food security."
The University of Illinois, a pioneer in the impact of global change factors on crop plants, will lead the study. The University is home to SoyFACE (Soybean Free Air Concentration Enrichment), an outdoor facility for growing crops under a variety of atmospheric climatic conditions that has shown strong evidence linking increased photosynthesis to consistently higher crop yields over the 10 years of its operation. Illinois is also home to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act PETROSS program, which is engineering improved photosynthesis into two key US bioenergy crops, sugarcane and sorghum.
Don Ort, Associate Director of the project and Robert Emerson Professor of Plant Biology at Illinois and USDAAgricultural Research Service Research Leader, states "Business as usual crop development in the face of accelerating agricultural demand and the challenges of rapid global change will not get the job done. This award invests in unique strengths at Illinois as well as at our collaborating institutions and holds exceptional promise for broad impact outcomes." Ort leads the IGB research theme Genomic Ecology of Global Change.
"This grant reflects the historic excellence of photosynthesis research on this campus, and the cutting-edge approaches that have been developed for plant science at the IGB over the past few years by the members of the Genomic Ecology of Global Change and Energy Biosciences research themes," says IGB Director Gene Robinson.
Illinois will conduct the study through an international collaboration with other leading research institutions as sub-contractors of Illinois, which will initially include the Australian National University, Rothamsted Research (UK), University of Essex (UK), and USDA/ARS.
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About the Institute for Genomic Biology:
The Institute for Genomic Biology is dedicated to transformative research in agriculture, human health, the environment, and energy use and production, with program areas in systems biology, cellular and metabolic engineering and genome technology. The IGB's mission to advance life sciences research and stimulate bioeconomic development is fulfilled in a number of ways, including pioneering research in bioenergy, critical climate change studies and promising work in regenerative medicine, drug development and understanding cancer at the cellular level. Learn more at www.igb.illinois.edu.
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University of Illinois to improve crop yield through photosynthesis in a new global effortPublic release date: 10-Dec-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Nicholas Vasi nvasi@illinois.edu Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Project aims to increase photosynthetic efficiency for sustainable yield increase
Champaign, Ill., December 10, 2012 The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has received a fiveyear, $25-million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to improve the photosynthetic properties of key food crops, including rice and cassava. The project, titled "RIPE Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency," has the potential to benefit farmers around the world by increasing productivity of staple food crops. Illinois research will take place at the Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB), a state-of-the-art facility whose large shared laboratories accommodate multiple groups and encourage cross-discipline interaction.
"This grant will be game changing," says Stephen Long, Project Director and Gutgsell Endowed Professor of Crop Sciences and Plant Biology at Illinois. "This project represents a huge effort to determine and apply the mechanisms of photosynthesis that can contribute to the challenge of this century: food security for all."
Increasing photosynthetic efficiency has not yet been addressed by conventional breeding methods, though it has the potential to increase yields and reduce the use of water and nitrogen. Team members will apply recent advances in photosynthesis research and crop bioengineering to the RIPE project. In addition, computer simulation models of the highly complex photosynthetic system, combined with practical engineering, will identify the best targets for improving photosynthesis efficiency.
"The UN Food and Agricultural Organization predicts that the world will need to increase staple crop yields 70% by 2050," says Long. "The rapid increases that were achieved during the Green Revolution have slowed and will not meet this target. Photosynthesis promises a new area, ripe for exploitation, that will provide part of the yield jump the world needs to maintain food security."
The University of Illinois, a pioneer in the impact of global change factors on crop plants, will lead the study. The University is home to SoyFACE (Soybean Free Air Concentration Enrichment), an outdoor facility for growing crops under a variety of atmospheric climatic conditions that has shown strong evidence linking increased photosynthesis to consistently higher crop yields over the 10 years of its operation. Illinois is also home to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act PETROSS program, which is engineering improved photosynthesis into two key US bioenergy crops, sugarcane and sorghum.
Don Ort, Associate Director of the project and Robert Emerson Professor of Plant Biology at Illinois and USDAAgricultural Research Service Research Leader, states "Business as usual crop development in the face of accelerating agricultural demand and the challenges of rapid global change will not get the job done. This award invests in unique strengths at Illinois as well as at our collaborating institutions and holds exceptional promise for broad impact outcomes." Ort leads the IGB research theme Genomic Ecology of Global Change.
"This grant reflects the historic excellence of photosynthesis research on this campus, and the cutting-edge approaches that have been developed for plant science at the IGB over the past few years by the members of the Genomic Ecology of Global Change and Energy Biosciences research themes," says IGB Director Gene Robinson.
Illinois will conduct the study through an international collaboration with other leading research institutions as sub-contractors of Illinois, which will initially include the Australian National University, Rothamsted Research (UK), University of Essex (UK), and USDA/ARS.
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About the Institute for Genomic Biology:
The Institute for Genomic Biology is dedicated to transformative research in agriculture, human health, the environment, and energy use and production, with program areas in systems biology, cellular and metabolic engineering and genome technology. The IGB's mission to advance life sciences research and stimulate bioeconomic development is fulfilled in a number of ways, including pioneering research in bioenergy, critical climate change studies and promising work in regenerative medicine, drug development and understanding cancer at the cellular level. Learn more at www.igb.illinois.edu.
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Two policemen stand guard outside King Edward VII hospital , in central London, Friday, Dec. 7, 2012. King Edward VII hospital says a nurse involved in a prank telephone call to elicit information about the Duchess of Cambridge has died. The hospital said Friday that Jacintha Saldanha had been a victim of the call made by two Australian radio disc jockeys. They did not immediately say what role she played in the call. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
Two policemen stand guard outside King Edward VII hospital , in central London, Friday, Dec. 7, 2012. King Edward VII hospital says a nurse involved in a prank telephone call to elicit information about the Duchess of Cambridge has died. The hospital said Friday that Jacintha Saldanha had been a victim of the call made by two Australian radio disc jockeys. They did not immediately say what role she played in the call. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
FILE- In this Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012 file photo, Britain's Prince William stand next to his wife Kate, Duchess of Cambridge as she leaves the King Edward VII hospital in central London. Prince William and his wife Kate are expecting their first child, and the Duchess of Cambridge was admitted to hospital suffering from a severe form of morning sickness in the early stages of her pregnancy. King Edward VII hospital says a nurse involved in a prank telephone call to elicit information about the Duchess of Cambridge has died. The hospital said Friday, Dec. 7, 2012 that Jacintha Saldanha had been a victim of the call made by two Australian radio disc jockeys. They did not immediately say what role she played in the call. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)
LONDON (AP) ? The news that Prince William and the former Kate Middleton were expecting their first child ? joyous news for a couple looking forward to starting a family ? immediately turned bittersweet with the simultaneous announcement that the duchess was being hospitalized for acute morning sickness. Then there was an invasion of her privacy by two disc jockeys who impersonated Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles to gain information on her condition.
By Friday, the sadness merely deepened, with the news that the nurse who unwittingly took the hoax call had died.
The royal couple quickly issued a statement expressing their condolences over the death of Jacintha Saldanha, the 46-year-old mother of two duped by the Australian DJs, who had suddenly found herself at the vortex of a global incident. They stressed they had not complained about the hoax call, and indeed offered praise for the staff. The hospital, too, stressed that Saldanha had not been reprimanded.
And yet the week can only be described as tragic, with the happiness so tarnished by the latest developments.
Saldanha was found dead early Friday at apartments affiliated with King Edward VII hospital in central London, where she worked for four years.
Police didn't release a cause of death, but said they didn't find anything suspicious. A coroner will make a determination on the cause.
2DayFM, the Australian station that performed the prank early Tuesday, said in a statement posted on Facebook and Twitter that the two disc jockeys, Mel Greig and Michael Christian, would not return to the station until further notice. They had apologized for the hoax Wednesday.
A spokeswoman for the station did not return messages seeking further comment. Greig and Christian's Twitter accounts were deactivated following the news of Saldanha's death.
Saldanha took the hoax call by the pair, who impersonated Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles to elicit information on the duchess, the hospital said. She later transferred the call to the nurse caring for the duchess, who was admitted to the hospital Monday with acute morning sickness.
"Our thoughts and deepest sympathies at this time are with her family and friends," hospital chief executive John Lofthouse said in a statement. "Everyone is shocked by the loss of a much loved and valued colleague."
St. James's Palace, the office of the duchess and her husband Prince William, also expressed sadness at the death, but insisted that it had not complained about the hoax.
"On the contrary, we offered our full and heartfelt support to the nurses involved and hospital staff at all times," the palace said in a statement.
Saldanha's family asked for privacy in a statement issued through London police.
"We as a family are deeply saddened by the loss of our beloved Jacintha," the statement said.
Australia's media watchdog, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, said it was looking into the hoax.
"These events are a tragedy for all involved, and I pass on my heartfelt condolences to the family of the deceased nurse in London," the authority's chairman, Chris Chapman, said in a statement. "The ACMA does not propose to make any comments at this stage but will be engaging with the licensee, 2DayFM Sydney, around the facts and issues surrounding the prank call."
During the hoax call, a woman using the often-mimicked voice of Britain's monarch asked about the duchess' health. She was told by the second nurse who took the call from Saldanha that the duchess, the former Kate Middleton, "hasn't had any retching with me and she's been sleeping on and off."
The nurse went on to tell the radio personalities that the duchess had had an uneventful night, as a dog barking sound was heard in the background. The alleged queen and prince talk about traveling to the hospital to check in on the patient.
The hospital said it supported Saldanha in the aftermath of the call and that its phone protocols were under review.
The Australian station placed the recording of the conversation on its website, but later said it was sorry.
"We were very surprised that our call was put through. We thought we'd be hung up on as soon as they heard our terrible accents," Greig and Christian said in a joint statement with the station at the time. "We're very sorry if we've caused any issues and we're glad to hear that Kate is doing well."
The station's chief executive officer, Rhys Holleran, had spoken with the presenters after the nurse's death, and that both were deeply shocked. The hosts "have decided that they will not return to their radio show until further notice out of respect for what can only be described as a tragedy."
Christian's Twitter account has since been taken down.
Officials from St. James's Palace have said the duchess is not yet 12 weeks pregnant. The child would be the first for her and Prince William.
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Associated Press writers Paisley Dodds in London and Kristen Gelineau in Sydney contributed to this story.
There are now 2 agencies prosecuting Lindsay Lohan at the same time, and sources connected with the cases tell TMZ they are DIVIDED over whether Lindsay should be sent to the pokey.
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