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Xearth for Windows is a port of Kirk Johnson's original xearth [local mirror] program to Microsoft Windows. Xearth renders a shaded image of the earth on your desktop, as seen from your favorite vantage point in space. By default, the image is updated every five minutes according to the current position of the sun.http://hewgill.com/xearth/
Xearth for Windows works with any 32-bit version of Windows, including 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, and XP. On Windows XP, I have been told that you need to uncheck "lock desktop" in order to see the earth display.
This is for my cousin Maryann and also for Andrew Koenig. They are the reason for my choosing the SocialVibe widget on the Home page of my newest blog.http://seafsee.wordpress.com/
A few moments of your time can become minutes of suicide prevention services.
A paper by Cornell scientist Janis L. Dickinson is drawing new attention as an explanation for the rise in climate science denial.
(It’s all explained by Zero Mostel in this classic episode of The Muppet Show.)
In The People Paradox, published last year at Ecology and Society, Dickinson follows up on Ernest Becker’s 1973 work The Denial of Death, suggesting that when people are confronted by death they often react by shoring up their worldview, rejecting anyone or anything which threatens it, and focusing on self-esteem.
 | The first of Charlies Web BOINC teams reaches 100,000 points at long last. |
Trend Micro’s Web Reputation Services (WRS) Operations Team recently received a phishing email claiming to be from Blogger, a free blog publishing tool from Google.
| Charlies Web |
| Report generated on | 12:14:21 February 18, 2010 |
| Date of last work unit | 2010-02-17 06:17:21 |
| Active CPUs within 50 days | 3 |
| Team Id | 37053 |
| Grand Score | 425,613 (certificate) |
| Work Unit Count | 1,814 (certificate) |
| Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) | 4797 of 175266 |
| Team members |
| Team Rank | Donor | Score | WU |
| 1 | Pierre | 185,994 | 811 |
| 2 | patermate | 101,290 | 315 |
| 3 | PeggyG | 77,688 | 371 |
| 4 | marinasdreamcloud | 33,347 | 81 |
| 5 | Red_Barren | 16,951 | 141 |
| 6 | chasfc11 | 4,795 | 75 |
| 7 | seafsee | 2,860 | 9 |
| 8 | KHAOS | 855 | 5 |
| 9 | Save__the_Gnome | 574 | 1 |
| 10 | marinasdramcloud | 401 | 1 |
| 11 | [35586]chasfc11 | 292 | 1 |
| 12 | [51997]seafsee | 230 | 1 |
| 13 | forRandyPausch | 171 | 1 |
| 14 | WorthFlandersMemorium | 165 | 1 |
Team Statistics
Rank (including team 0 and Google team) = 4,768 out of 72,653 active teams. Charlies Web is down 19 places this week!Points = 424,276 (+1,243), Units = 1,809 (+4).
There are 13 members in the team, 2 of whom are currently active (15%).
Active Users
Rank Name Points Units 2 patermate 100,178 311 3 PeggyG 77,463 370
Points Milestones This Week
Name Rank Milestone Points Units patermate 2 100,000 100,178 311
Top points producer this week
Pos Name PTW Points Units 1 patermate 1,243 100,178 311
Top 2 points producers long term
Pos Name PPW Points Units 1 patermate 1,582 100,178 311 2 PeggyG 178 77,463 370
Team News
Sad team news is that Charlies Web is down 19 places this week to position 4,768.
However, there are some great results in the stats this week. For example, patermate passed 100,000 points. Well done!!
As always, many thanks to everyone for all of your valuable contributions.
The only way is up...
patermann
NASA astronauts Edward Lu and Stanley Love first proposed using a robotic spacecraft to nudge space rocks away from Earth using the gentle force of gravity a few years ago. Now a European aerospace giant has begun seriously investigating the concept.(In case you wondered what good it would do to track these objects.)
DistributedComputing.info wrote:
Help orbit@home "monitor the impact hazard posed by Near Earth Objects." The project uses the Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation and Analysis (ORSA) framework. More information can be found at the ORSA@work website and in a presentation poster titled Distributed Computing and Near Earth Objects Hazard Monitoring, published by Pasquale Tricarico of Washington State University on November 14, 2004.
The project completed its testing phase on May 28, 2008, and began its public beta test on May 31, 2008.
Update wrote:
For 2010 we plan to run our code on real data, primarily sky coverage data by real NEA's surveys, to produce two main products:
We plan to resume active development in March 2010."
- a detailed map of the NEA's population, including both known and unknown NEAs, that will show clearly the orbits that are more likely to hide unknown asteroids; this map should improve our estimate of the total number of asteroids with a given brightness or diameter that are still unknown, and help surveys in their search;
- a sky map updated every night containing the regions in the sky that are more likely to contain unknown NEA's, and make this chart publicly available, so that interested NEAs surveys can test it and assess whether such a tool significantly improves the chances to discover new NEA's
Romanian Minister of Education, Research, Youth and Sport, Daniel Petru Funeriu, and CERN Director General, Rolf Heuer, today signed an agreement that formally recognises Romania as a Candidate for Accession to membership of CERN. Romania’s pre-membership will cover a five-year period during which the country’s contributions will ramp up to normal Member State levels, in parallel with Romania's participation in CERN projects.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS: Launch of rocket carrying probe had been delayed because of high windsSolar observatory aims to provide better understanding of sun's role in space weatherObservatory to deliver images with resolution 10 times better than high-def TVFive-year mission will examine sun's magnetic field and violent solar events
via www.cnn.com
Statistics for Charlies Web (team 37053) on Monday, 08 February 2010
Team Statistics
Rank (including team 0 and Google team) = 4,749 out of 72,483 active teams.
Charlies Web is down 6 places this week!
Points = 423,033 (+1,427), Units = 1,805 (+3).
There are 13 members in the team, 2 of whom are currently active (15%).
Active Users
Rank Name Points Units 2 patermate 98,935 307 3 PeggyG 77,463 370
Top points producer this week
Pos Name PTW Points Units 1 patermate 1,427 98,935 307
Top 2 points producers long term
Pos Name PPW Points Units 1 patermate 1,652 98,935 307 2 PeggyG 254 77,463 370
Team News
Sad team news is that Charlies Web is down 6 places this week to position 4,749.
As always, many thanks to everyone for all of your valuable contributions.
The only way is up...
patermann
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Team Statistics
Rank (including team 0 and Google team) = 4,701 out of 71,400 active teams.
Charlies Web is down 38 places this month!
Points = 412,834 (+9,964), Units = 1,773 (+49).
There are 13 members in the team, 2 of whom were active this month (15%).
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| | User Name | Total credit | Credit /day | Credit /week | Credit /month | Options |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seafsee | 158,791 | 21 | 54 | 54 |  |
| 2 | Marc | 51,314 | 0 | 613 | 2,741 | |
| 3 | ally32_74 | 28,849 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | patermann | 6,523 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 5 | chasfc11 | 4,796 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
