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Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Strategy Analytics: Android beats iOS in Q2 tablet shipments, Windows gains ground
All in all, global tablet shipments were up for Q2, according to new numbers released by analyst firm Strategy Analytics. Factoring in white-box units, the market saw 51.7 million tablets shipped in that time period -- that's up 43-percent compared to the same time last year. A lot of that good news can be chalked up to Android's success. The OS saw a healthy bump from 18.5- to 34.6 million units shipped, a number that has Google's mobile operating system holding 67-percent of the market. The news is a little less cheery on Apple's side of the OS wars, with shipments dipping from 17- to 14.6 million units, decreasing its marketshare to 28.3-percent, according to the firm. Microsoft, not surprisingly, saw a healthy increase in shipments from last year -- though it's still got a ways to go, calling around 4.5-percent of the market its own.
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China orders audit of government debt
BBC News ? China has ordered a nationwide audit of all government debt, underlining fears that the recent slowdown in its economy may impact the financial sector. Local governments in China borrowed heavily after the global financial crisis to?
More at BBC News
Source: http://180dfo.com/2013/07/china-orders-audit-of-government-debt/
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Tuesday, 30 July 2013
Grant Hill Might Be the Next Former NBA Player to Try Broadcasting
Earlier this year, Grant Hill made the decision to walk away from the NBA after nearly two decades in the league. But as it turns out, he's not looking to walk too far away from it. Recently, the former Clippers forward was asked about his future plans. And he admitted that he's interested in trying his hand at broadcasting and already has a few opportunities on the table.
"I'm excited that [my NBA career] is over," he said. "It was a long journey in terms of my career. But I'm very excited about the next phase and some broadcasting things. I'm looking at some things that we're working on right now with some of the major networks, so that is something that can keep you in and around the game and around sports."
Hill said that he won't jump into anything too quickly. So you probably won't see him calling games next season. But even if he takes a year off, it'll be good to see him stick around and play a part in the NBA for years to come.
RELATED: The Most Entertaining Former NBA Players Turned Commentators
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Source: http://www.complex.com/sports/2013/07/grant-hill-former-nba-player-broadcasting
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Local Church Celebrates Heritage With Macedonian Festival
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What can you expect from a Good IT Consulting Company?
Why would you want to hire an IT consulting company in the first place?? That should be the question you?d have to ask yourself.? Many start-up companies would ask an IT firm to help install their IT infrastructure. They look for experts who would set-up and install the company?s IT systems so that the company can ?hit the ground running.?? They look for companies with IT specialists who can be there physically to set up the different systems so that the company can function effectively with the least cost.
That would be fine until such time that the company would have to call the IT firm back again for troubleshooting. The company is called to resolve issues like slow (or no) internet connection, connections that do not work and work stations that malfunction every now and then. When these ?small? problems are fixed, the company is happy. The IT consulting company has done its job.
Now, if that?s what you expect from an IT consulting company, then your expectations of that company aren?t really high.? And so also are your expectations of your own company.? Why?? Because your company should really be ?hitting the ground running? ? and not trouble-shooting every little computer glitch. Every time your company experiences computer breakdown, your business suffers from loss of opportunity income. Worse, in a global business environment that runs 24/7, whenever your IT system breaks down, you allow your competitors to pull ahead of you.? Now, you don?t want that, don?t you?
Yes, an IT company should provide your company with the technological expertise to help set up your system and ensure that the system is as cost-efficient as possible.? However, a good IT consulting system goes beyond installation, systems integration and troubleshooting.? An IT consulting company should have the business savvy to know the value of long-term efficiency of your network system for your company. In other words, a good IT company will not just provide you with technical assistance but with management advice on the utilization of your IT platforms. A good IT consulting form knows that each work station in your company (and the entre IT network system itself) are not sunk costs, but profit centers.
A good IT consulting firm is not just a group of ?geeks;? but a team of technical expects with good business sense.? The company would advise you not only on the best way to use your IT tools, but also on the optimal ways for you to spend your IT budget. For example, the IT company can suggest a flat fee for its services ? or a monthly retainer. The company may partner with you in operating your IT resources ? and perhaps save you money on hiring in-house staff.
When looking for an IT company, look beyond the technical expertise. Look for one who can give you good advice on how you can use your tools most profitably. Expect more from your IT company because you expect more from your own company.
Source: http://www.tvgconsulting.com/what-can-you-expect-from-a-good-it-consulting-company/
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Tigers acquire reliever Veras from Astros
Houston Astros Jason Castro, left, and pitcher Jose Veras celebrate after their 8-6 win over the Toronto Blue Jays in a baseball Saturday, July 27, 2013, in Toronto. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jon Blacker)
Houston Astros Jason Castro, left, and pitcher Jose Veras celebrate after their 8-6 win over the Toronto Blue Jays in a baseball Saturday, July 27, 2013, in Toronto. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jon Blacker)
DETROIT (AP) ? The Detroit Tigers added some help for their shaky bullpen Monday, acquiring reliever Jose Veras from the Houston Astros for minor league outfielder Danry Vasquez and a player to be named.
Veras is 0-4 with a 2.93 ERA and 19 saves this season, and the 32-year-old right-hander has struck out 44 in 43 innings with only 14 walks.
"We are pleased to add an experienced arm to our bullpen," Detroit general manager Dave Dombrowski said. "Jose can pitch in a variety of roles, provides depth in the bullpen, and complements the roles of Joaquin Benoit and Drew Smyly."
Detroit entered the season with a lot of uncertainty at the closer spot, and although Benoit has pitched well in that role of late, the AL Central-leading Tigers still needed bullpen depth. Aside from Benoit and Smyly, none of their other relievers have been all that effective on a consistent basis.
Veras has been a steady contributor while bouncing from team to team in recent years. He posted a 3.75 ERA with Florida in 2010, a 3.80 ERA with Pittsburgh in 2011 and a 3.63 ERA with Milwaukee last season.
Houston signed him to a one-year deal last offseason, and the last-place Astros could certainly afford to trade their closer if the opportunity to acquire a solid prospect presented itself. Vasquez is only 19, but he was ranked by Baseball America as the sixth-best prospect in Detroit's system before this season.
Vasquez hit .281 with five home runs and 39 RBIs in 96 games for Class A West Michigan this year.
"We are excited to get an outfield prospect of Danry's caliber. He adds to an already formidable group of prospects at the A ball level," Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow said. "Jose will be missed as a team leader both on and off the field."
Benoit has converted all 10 of his save chances for the Tigers this season, and the left-handed Smyly is 4-0 with a 1.77 ERA in 61 innings. In Veras, Detroit now adds a right-hander who can pitch in the late innings.
Before this trade, the Tigers' top right-handed options in the late innings ? aside from Benoit ? were probably Al Alburquerque and Bruce Rondon. Alburquerque has struggled with his control, and although the hard-throwing Rondon has looked better lately, he's still fairly unproven.
Detroit's deadline deals have worked out well the last couple years. The Tigers acquired starter Doug Fister from Seattle in 2011 and added starter Anibal Sanchez and second baseman Omar Infante in a deal with the Marlins in 2012. Not only did those three players provide help when they arrived, but they're also all still with the team.
This trade probably won't generate as much buzz as those deals, but it helps fill a need for a Detroit team that's hoping to return to the World Series after being swept by San Francisco a year ago.
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AP Sports Writer Kristie Rieken contributed to this report from Houston.
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Monday, 29 July 2013
Computer scientists develop 'mathematical jigsaw puzzles' to encrypt software
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Software remains completely functional but impervious to reverse-engineering
UCLA computer science professor Amit Sahai and a team of researchers have designed a system to encrypt software so that it only allows someone to use a program as intended while preventing any deciphering of the code behind it. This is known in computer science as "software obfuscation," and it is the first time it has been accomplished.
Sahai, who specializes in cryptography at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, collaborated with Sanjam Garg, who recently earned his doctorate at UCLA and is now at IBM Research; Craig Gentry, Shai Halevi and Mariana Raykova of IBM Research; and Brent Waters, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin. Garg worked with Sahai as a student when the research was done.
Their peer-reviewed paper will be formally presented in October at the 54th annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, one of the two most prominent conferences in the field of theoretical computer science. Sahai has also presented this research in recent invited talks at Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"The real challenge and the great mystery in the field was: Can you actually take a piece of software and encrypt it but still have it be runnable, executable and fully functional," Sahai said. "It's a question that a lot of companies have been interested in for a long time."
According to Sahai, previously developed techniques for obfuscation presented only a "speed bump," forcing an attacker to spend some effort, perhaps a few days, trying to reverse-engineer the software. The new system, he said, puts up an "iron wall," making it impossible for an adversary to reverse-engineer the software without solving mathematical problems that take hundreds of years to work out on today's computers a game-change in the field of cryptography.
The researchers said their mathematical obfuscation mechanism can be used to protect intellectual property by preventing the theft of new algorithms and by hiding the vulnerability a software patch is designed to repair when the patch is distributed.
"You write your software in a nice, reasonable, human-understandable way and then feed that software to our system," Sahai said. "It will output this mathematically transformed piece of software that would be equivalent in functionality, but when you look at it, you would have no idea what it's doing."
The key to this successful obfuscation mechanism is a new type of "multilinear jigsaw puzzle." Through this mechanism, attempts to find out why and how the software works will be thwarted with only a nonsensical jumble of numbers.
"The real innovation that we have here is a way of transforming software into a kind of mathematical jigsaw puzzle," Sahai said. "What we're giving you is just math, just numbers, or a sequence of numbers. But it lives in this mathematical structure so that these individual pieces, these sequences of numbers, can only be combined with other numbers in very specified ways.
"You can inspect everything, you can turn it upside-down, you can look at it from different angles and you still won't have any idea what it's doing," he added. "The only thing you can do with it is put it together the way that it was meant to interlock. If you tried to do anything else like if you tried to bash this piece and put it in some other way you'd just end up with garbage."
Functional encryption
The new technique for software obfuscation paved the way for another breakthrough called functional encryption. With functional encryption, instead of sending an encrypted message, an encrypted function is sent in its place. This offers a much more secure way to protect information, Sahai said. Previous work on functional encryption was limited to supporting very few functions; the new work can handle any computable function.
For example, a single message could be sent to a group of people in such a way that each receiver would obtain different information, depending on characteristics of that particular receiver. In another example, a hospital could share the outcomes of treatment with researchers without revealing details such as identifying patient information.
"Through functional encryption, you only get the specific answer, you don't learn anything else," Sahai said.
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The UCLA-based researchers were funded in part by the National Science Foundation, a Xerox Faculty Research Award, a Google Faculty Research Award, an equipment grant from Intel and an Okawa Foundation Research Grant.
The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, established in 1945, offers 28 academic and professional degree programs and has an enrollment of more than 5,000 students. The school's distinguished faculty are leading research to address many of the critical challenges of the 21st century, including renewable energy, clean water, health care, wireless sensing and networking, and cyber-security. Ranked among the top 10 engineering schools at public universities nationwide, the school is home to eight multimillion-dollar interdisciplinary research centers in wireless sensor systems, wireless health, nanoelectronics, nanomedicine, renewable energy, customized computing, the smart grid, and the Internet, all funded by federal and private agencies and individual donors. (http://www.engineer.ucla.edu | http://www.twitter.com/uclaengineering)
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University of California - Los Angeles
Software remains completely functional but impervious to reverse-engineering
UCLA computer science professor Amit Sahai and a team of researchers have designed a system to encrypt software so that it only allows someone to use a program as intended while preventing any deciphering of the code behind it. This is known in computer science as "software obfuscation," and it is the first time it has been accomplished.
Sahai, who specializes in cryptography at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, collaborated with Sanjam Garg, who recently earned his doctorate at UCLA and is now at IBM Research; Craig Gentry, Shai Halevi and Mariana Raykova of IBM Research; and Brent Waters, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin. Garg worked with Sahai as a student when the research was done.
Their peer-reviewed paper will be formally presented in October at the 54th annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, one of the two most prominent conferences in the field of theoretical computer science. Sahai has also presented this research in recent invited talks at Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"The real challenge and the great mystery in the field was: Can you actually take a piece of software and encrypt it but still have it be runnable, executable and fully functional," Sahai said. "It's a question that a lot of companies have been interested in for a long time."
According to Sahai, previously developed techniques for obfuscation presented only a "speed bump," forcing an attacker to spend some effort, perhaps a few days, trying to reverse-engineer the software. The new system, he said, puts up an "iron wall," making it impossible for an adversary to reverse-engineer the software without solving mathematical problems that take hundreds of years to work out on today's computers a game-change in the field of cryptography.
The researchers said their mathematical obfuscation mechanism can be used to protect intellectual property by preventing the theft of new algorithms and by hiding the vulnerability a software patch is designed to repair when the patch is distributed.
"You write your software in a nice, reasonable, human-understandable way and then feed that software to our system," Sahai said. "It will output this mathematically transformed piece of software that would be equivalent in functionality, but when you look at it, you would have no idea what it's doing."
The key to this successful obfuscation mechanism is a new type of "multilinear jigsaw puzzle." Through this mechanism, attempts to find out why and how the software works will be thwarted with only a nonsensical jumble of numbers.
"The real innovation that we have here is a way of transforming software into a kind of mathematical jigsaw puzzle," Sahai said. "What we're giving you is just math, just numbers, or a sequence of numbers. But it lives in this mathematical structure so that these individual pieces, these sequences of numbers, can only be combined with other numbers in very specified ways.
"You can inspect everything, you can turn it upside-down, you can look at it from different angles and you still won't have any idea what it's doing," he added. "The only thing you can do with it is put it together the way that it was meant to interlock. If you tried to do anything else like if you tried to bash this piece and put it in some other way you'd just end up with garbage."
Functional encryption
The new technique for software obfuscation paved the way for another breakthrough called functional encryption. With functional encryption, instead of sending an encrypted message, an encrypted function is sent in its place. This offers a much more secure way to protect information, Sahai said. Previous work on functional encryption was limited to supporting very few functions; the new work can handle any computable function.
For example, a single message could be sent to a group of people in such a way that each receiver would obtain different information, depending on characteristics of that particular receiver. In another example, a hospital could share the outcomes of treatment with researchers without revealing details such as identifying patient information.
"Through functional encryption, you only get the specific answer, you don't learn anything else," Sahai said.
###
The UCLA-based researchers were funded in part by the National Science Foundation, a Xerox Faculty Research Award, a Google Faculty Research Award, an equipment grant from Intel and an Okawa Foundation Research Grant.
The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, established in 1945, offers 28 academic and professional degree programs and has an enrollment of more than 5,000 students. The school's distinguished faculty are leading research to address many of the critical challenges of the 21st century, including renewable energy, clean water, health care, wireless sensing and networking, and cyber-security. Ranked among the top 10 engineering schools at public universities nationwide, the school is home to eight multimillion-dollar interdisciplinary research centers in wireless sensor systems, wireless health, nanoelectronics, nanomedicine, renewable energy, customized computing, the smart grid, and the Internet, all funded by federal and private agencies and individual donors. (http://www.engineer.ucla.edu | http://www.twitter.com/uclaengineering)
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Canine baseball fans spend day at Fenway
BOSTON (WHDH) -- Fenway Park is going to the dogs. Canine baseball fans were allowed into the park Saturday for the first time.
Fans with dogs saw the Red Sox Double-A Affiliate Portland Sea Dogs face the Harrisburg Senators in special seating areas set aside for the first "Dog day at Fenway."
Dogs and their owners also had the chance to take part in a pre-game dog parade around the warning track.
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Sunday, 28 July 2013
Analysis: Who's backing who as Syria's civil war threatens to spread
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A look back at the conflict that has overtaken the country.
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By Mandy Clark and Paul Nassar, NBC News
News analysis
Syria?s two-year civil war has claimed more than?100,000 lives and sent at least 1.7 million refugees spilling across its borders.
It has already affected neighboring countries, and now threatens to drag in the United States.
What began as a popular movement, demanding the removal of autocratic President Bashar Assad, has become an increasingly sectarian conflict.
About three-quarters of Syria's Muslims are from the Sunni sect. However, the Assad dynasty, which has ruled the country since 1970, is from the minority Alawite sect which is close to Shiite Islam.?
The sectarian divide is important because it lies at the root of instability not only within Syria but also in Iraq and other pockets of the Middle East.
ASSAD?S FRIENDS
Iran
The Islamic Republic of Iran - a Shiite Muslim regional power - is a staunch ally of the Assad government and has been providing arms, military training and cash. If Assad falls, Iran will be deeply wounded.?
Defense think tank Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) sees the Syria conflict as part of a regional power struggle.
?It is increasingly clear that the world is confronting a crisis that extends far beyond Syria, threatening to deteriorate into a regional conflict,? a recent briefing paper outlined. ?Now part civil, part proxy, it has also become a great power struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran.??
Iraq
After American troops toppled Sunni Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraq?s Shiite majority became dominant. With this shift came regional alliances with Shiite countries including Iran and Syria.
NBC's chief foreign correspondent, Richard Engel, joins The Daily Rundown's Chuck Todd to talk about Iraq's civil war.
Iraq provides a helping hand to the Assad regime by allowing Iranian arms and fighters to cross into Syria from Iraq, according to Secretary of State John Kerry. It also allows vital resupply flights from Iran to cross its airspace.
But this support is not without its costs: Violence is slipping across the border into Iraq and inflaming existing tensions.?Deadly attacks are growing in Iraq, with the number of deaths due to violence back up at 2008 levels.?
RUSI warns that if the Syria conflict continues, ?the most important casualty of war is potentially Iraq.??
Russia
Russia is the Syrian government?s most powerful foreign backer and has stuck its neck out to support Assad?s crackdown.
It is helping the regime with weapons and even supports the growing involvement of Lebanese militia, Hezbollah.?It is also reportedly helping Syria?s elite get around international financial sanctions, and has been protecting the regime from U.N. sanctions by using its veto power?in the Security Council.
One theory for why Russia has been so resolute in its backing of Damascus is to ensure continued control of its only Mediterranean naval base, which is in the Syrian port of Tartus.
Russia has also invoked the specter of Islamic extremism in Syria, saying that Alawite Assad is fighting Sunni Muslim radicals. ?
ASSAD?S FOES
Saudi Arabia
The kingdom is the Syria opposition?s main backer, along with smaller Gulf state of Qatar, and has been sending billions in humanitarian aid and weapons to Syrian rebels.
It is providing advanced weaponry, including anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles that it hopes will tip the balance for the rebels. ?
It is a follower of the strict Wahabi branch of Sunni Islam.?In backing anti-Assad forces, Saudi Arabia is challenging its main regional foe, Shiite Iran.?Some experts believe the Sunni-Shiite divisions are being exaggerated for political reasons.
?Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been willing to use sectarian language to make the Syrian conflict seem like a widespread attack on the Sunni population,? according to Chris Phillips, a lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London. ?It?s part of a regional cold war with Iran on the battlefield of Syria.?
Qatar
The small kingdom may exist in the shadow of neighbor Saudi Arabia, but it has big money and ambitions. It has been backing the rebels with humanitarian aid as well as arms, and is has been seeking a more prominent role in the region, offering to host peace talks in its capital, Doha.?
Like Saudi Arabia, it is a follower of the strict Wahabi branch of Sunni Islam.
United States
While the American government has supported anti-Assad forces with non-lethal assistance such as training, body armor, communications equipment and food aid, it has deep misgivings over whether to become more involved in the conflict.
Still smarting from unpopular interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. faces fears that deeper engagement in Syria will embroil it in yet another hard-to-exit regional conflict. There are also widespread concerns that American weapons will fall into the hands of radical al Qaeda-linked groups fighting with the rebels.
?Once we take action, we should be prepared for what comes next,? Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Martin Dempsey said in a letter to Congress. ?Deeper involvement is hard to avoid.?
Until June, the administration was opposed to providing any lethal assistance to Syria's rebels, but in June it said it was moving ahead with sending weapons to vetted members of the opposition.?
Turkey
Formerly a close friend of Syria, Turkey?s moderate Islamist government has become a supporter of the rebels and supplying them with arms, security sources and diplomats say, according to Reuters.?Officials also look the other way as rebels use the long and porous border as a resupply route.?
At Turkey?s request, NATO has installed Patriot missile defenses on the border to protect it from spillover from the war in Syria. The move was aimed at calming Turkey's fears that it could come under attack from Syria.
Turkey also houses 500,000 Syrians in towns and relatively well-equipped refugee camps on the long border with Syria. There is growing anger in Turkey against the newcomers, though, especially after a bombing in the border town of Reyhanli killed more than 50 people.
France
France, the former colonial power in Syria, was the first Western power to join the anti-Assad camp and has been pushing for a more committed international effort to help the rebels. ??
It is increasingly concerned that Syrian rebels are losing ground and has suggested it will boost shipments of technical, medical and humanitarian aid to the rebels, but declined request for weapons and ammunition.
CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE
Lebanon
Schisms in Syria are mirrored in its tiny neighbor Lebanon, which is a mosaic of religious communities, each with their own allegiances.
Mostafa Assaf / Reuters, file
Supporters of Hezbollah and relatives of Hezbollah members attend the funeral of a Hezbollah fighter who died in the Syrian conflict in Ouzai in Beirut in May.
Christian and Sunni Muslim communities strongly oppose Assad?s regime, remembering the oppression of the 30-year Syrian occupation of Lebanon.
On the other side is Hezbollah. Of all the regional players, the powerful Shiite militia that controls much of Lebanon - and forms part of the government - may have the most at stake in the civil war.?Should Assad fall, the military wing of Hezbollah will find it very hard to resupply arms.
It is for this reason that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has decided to publicly throw his weight behind the Assad regime. Hezbollah fighters have great experience in guerilla warfare thanks to more than 30 years of confrontation with Israel.
Hezbollah's entry into the Syrian civil war has worsened the already tense relationships between Lebanon?s various religious communities, making it more likely that it will slip back into civil war itself.
Jordan
The estimated 540,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan are a huge strain on the ailing economy. Meanwhile, King Abdullah?s government is struggling not to get too embroiled in the Syrian civil war, and stresses that that it wants a political solution.
Reuters
An aerial view shows the Zaatari refugee camp for Syrians in Jordan.
Nevertheless, Jordan allows American troops to train Syrian rebels on its territory and F-16 jets are positioned there.?
There are widespread fears in Jordan that Assad will deploy ?sleeper? terrorist cells to destabilize the country if it openly backs the rebels.?A Jordanian official recently told NBC News that officials there believe such an attack is inevitable.
Hamas: The Palestinians
The militant Sunni Palestinian group that governs Gaza used to have an important base in Syria?s capital Damascus, where it was both hosted by, and held hostage to, the whims of the Assad regime.
Hamas withdrew in 2011 after receiving support from Islamist movements sparked by the Arab Spring, and is now supporting Assad?s enemies. Palestinians in Syria are paying the price for the betrayal of their former host and patron, and have been driven out or targeted by bombings. Over 235,000 Palestinian refugees in Syria have been displaced, and more than 80,000 are now refugees again in neighboring countries, according to the U.N.
Israel
Although Syria and Israel are officially still at war, the relationship between the two has been relatively stable.?
One of Israel?s main worries is that Islamist militants will enter Israel through the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war.?While worrying that the Golan could become a springboard for attacks by militants among the rebels battling Assad, Israel has said repeatedly it does not want to be drawn into the fighting.?
"We are not seeking to challenge anyone, but no one will harm the State of Israel without a response -- a strong and resolute response," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told soldiers who took part in a Golani infantry brigade exercise in June.
Israel is believed to have carried out three bomb strikes this year in Syria targeting Hezbollah weapons caches but refuses to confirm or deny whether it was responsible.?
IN CONCLUSION
Although the civil war is centered on Syria, it is?risks inflaming unrest across the Middle East.??The whole region could face a sustained period of violence,? University of London's Chris Phillips added.
NBC News' F. Brinley Bruton contributed to this report.
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The NFL Network training camp marathons
When I saw that the NFL Net was going to spend nine hours a day dropping in on NFL training camps..I thought it would be more boring than the Chicago White Sox..
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...But it actually is fairly interesting..
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I know its costing them a blue fortune to send?32 retired ex-ball players and spokesmodels to?all the remote camp locations to do 'stand ups' ?and file reports but this time of year is pretty dead and updates from camp are filling the time..
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..I give them credit because they are making a good effort...
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NBC Sports, Cowboys partner on red zone view
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) ? NBC Sports Group and the Dallas Cowboys are partnering on a new 360-degree look at red zone plays for TV viewers and fans attending the game at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, this season.
The network will use 24 high-speed cameras ? 12 in each red zone on both sides of the field from the 20-yard line to the goal line and in the back of each end zone ? to produce seamless views of the action.
"Sunday Night Football" producer Fred Gaudelli said the system will give fans a new perspective on big plays during games. The 360-degree view will debut on the Sept. 8 broadcast of the New York Giants-Cowboys game.
The Giants have yet to lose at newly christened AT&T Stadium.
The system, known as FreeD or free dimensional video, will be used for the Oct. 5 Notre Dame-Arizona State game, and the Oct. 13 Washington Redskins-Cowboys game at the stadium.
Fans in the stadium will see red zone replays on the scoreboard at all Cowboys home games, as well as on the team's local programming during the season.
"You can now move all the way around the play without changing the camera angle," Gaudelli told the Television Critics Association on Saturday.
He compared the view to what it's like playing a video game.
Gaudelli said it takes a month to install the system, so NBC had to put it at a stadium where the network knew it would televise at least twice during the NFL season.
He said the Cowboys wanted to partner on the replay system because the team is focused on cutting edge technology and innovation.
The FreeD system is from Replay Technologies Inc., which has worked on Olympic broadcasting and live telecasts of New York Yankees games.
In other "Sunday Night Football" news, NBC Sports Group said a new bus will travel the country during the season visiting the 17 cities where the games originate.
The bus will arrive two or three days before each game. Along for the ride will be four fans of the week chosen based on their social media activity, team pride and interest in "SNF." Besides the bus trip, they'll also receive game tickets.
Also debuting on Sept. 8 will be Carrie Underwood singing "Waiting All Day for Sunday Night," the show's theme song that opens the "SNF" telecast.
She replaces fellow country music star Faith Hill, who decided not to return for a seventh season.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nbc-sports-cowboys-partner-red-zone-view-214034111.html
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