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Terror on Flight 253?

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Flight 253 UPDATE: Abdul Mudallad Nigerian tried to blow up Flight 253. Mudallad’s name popped up on Terror Watch List Database, said Rep Peter King of New York on CNN today. Rep King is a ranking GOP member of the House Homeland Security Committee. Rep King said the Nigerian suspect claimed to have links with Al Qaeda and other extremist organizations. The terror suspect also divulged that the explosive device was procured in Yemen with instructions on how to use it on board.

A passenger Syed Jafri (Jafry) sitting at seat 16G on Flight 253 told CNN the suspect was sitting on 19A seat, and “he saw a glow, and noticed a smoke smell. Then a young man behind me jumped on him.”

According to the Huffington Post, a passenger “tried to blow up the flight but the explosive device failed, two U.S. national security officials said.” The passenger ” tried to explode powder taped to his leg with a syringe full of chemicals” according to the NY Daily News.

CNN’s War on Terror Expert Peter Bergen told CNN that Nigeria had one of the least airport security measures and the suspect may not actually be a Nigerian but some one who may have used Nigeria’s Lagos airport to bypass security measures and fly to Amsterdam on way to Detroit. Observers are calling it a grave security breach.
Detroit is the hub of Northwest airlines.

Earlier report said the 23-year-old Nigerian national suspect who was on board the Detroit bound plane Flight 253 from Amsterdam attempted to detonate an explosive or some kind of device on board when he was restrained by the passengers, CNN’s national security contributor told CNN.

The Delta Northwest Flight 253 suspect, who is a Nigerian national claims to have affiliation with some extremist organization, CNN reported in its 6 o’ clock news bulletin today.

Earlier reports said the suspect ignited a fire cracker inside Flight 253. Now it is being reported that the suspect may have detonated some kind of an explosive device.

The terror suspect has been moved to a hospital with injuries as he attempted to light some kind of “a small explosive device” and not a ‘fire cracker’, it is being speculated
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Eminem Died in a Car Crash? Eminem NOT Dead!

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Eminem died in a car crash? Eminem is not dead. Fake Eminem reports that he died in a car crash are populating online today.

Why must Eminem get so many fake dead reports?

November 24 and August 16 have something in common - both days were dominated by similar fake Eminem dead reports. As 2009 seemed like Lil Wayne was going to get the most fake dead reports, in recent weeks it’s been Eminem over, and over, again.

Why?

As LALATE has reported since earlier this fall, something has dramatically happened in the fake celebrity death area. These stories normally hit once per week. Now they hit very regularly.

Last night, it was the Jonas Brothers. LALATE told you in that report that with every fake death report comes the same comment writers who opine the same madness like “there is no report that they are alive, hence they are dead”. And sure enough, within 10 minutes ofthe Jonas Brothers report, these ridiculous comments: “They are dead, I saw them die.”; “we have the links. this is for real.”; and “look at the facts that no one knows the whereabouts for sure of them.”
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Making Avatar Supported Solutions High-Speed Storage

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To produce visual effects and CGI animation in the movies box office world, companies need storage capacity and very high performance. Weta Digital, the digital visual effects company based in Wellington, New Zealand, relying on high-performance storage technology from NetApp to collect and process their render farm is very big for a movie production that just launched, Avatar. High-performance storage from NetApp able to feed more than 30,000 CPU Core and optimize the storage network backbone 10 GbE.

Avatar made by director James Cameron is a 3D science fiction film and live action which was released on December 18, 2009 then. For film technology, 3D stereoscopic viewing and the making of the film the film is a breakthrough in world cinema. For that, the most prominent and phenomenal from this film is a 3D animation and visual effects.

Production and marketing costs for this film approaching 500 million U.S. dollars. This makes the Avatar to be one movie with the biggest production budget. Nearly half of all funds earmarked for the production of visual effects and CGI animation.

If you think that race Na'Vi (non-human creatures residents Pandora blue) in this movie is an actor or actress with a good makeup, you should think again. Na'Vi characters in this movie is entirely CGI animation. Visual effects, 3D animation, and CGI is very "wow" in this movie was done by Weta Digital.

Weta Digital is also handling the visual effects, animation, and CGI for the film trilogy Lord of the Rings, King Kong (2005), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), District 9 (2009), and many other top films Other box office.

Apart Avatar, NetApp storage technology is also used to work on animated films from Pixar studios, such as Up (2009), Wall-E (2008), Cars (2006), Finding Nemo (2003). Apart from Pixar Studios, an animation film studio DreamWorks Animation besutan, such as Shrek (2001), Shrek 2 (2004), and Madagascar (2005), as well as its storage entrusted to NetApp.

Not only animated film that focuses on visual effects, technology and NetApp storage solutions are also used in producing live action films, such as Iron Man (2008), Speed Racer (2008), Transformers (2007), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ( 2007), Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (2009), Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007), and much more.
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