6 injured in Pamplona Spain bull run

 

6 injured in Pamplona Spain bull run 

PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) - A senior thrill seeker was gored in the leg and five slightly wounded while thousands of adrenaline-fueled races ahead of runners of six fighting bulls through the streets of the northern Spanish city of Pamplona in the first run of the bulls this year's San Fermin festival, officials said Saturday.
Runners, dressed in traditional white and red scarf around his neck, tripped over each other or fell in the mad race through the annual rash of early morning dew dampened slippery streets of the city's bullring.
A young man has got the top of the shirt and scarf caught on the horn of a bull, a few inches from his face, and was dragged several meters (yards) along the ground, but was seen to get up and run away.
The runner gored, a 73-year resident of Pamplona, ​​was taken to a local hospital and five others were treated for cuts and bruises, the regional government of Navarre said in a statement.
Among those who received medical treatment had a 21-year-old Japanese person in the city of Ikeda, and a 26-year-old Australian national, the statement said.
The San Fermin running of the bulls festival has become famous with the publication of Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises." It 'also known worldwide for its wild all-night street parties, commemorating the patron saint of the city.
On Saturday, the massive bulls belonging to breeding ranch Dolores Aguirre during a pen held in the outskirts of the city, where they spent the night before the race, along a path 849 meters (928 yards) to the ring in 2 minutes, 53 seconds a relatively slow. Opening stroke of last year was completed 23 seconds faster.
The last bull in the box office and became disoriented in the ring a few seconds after the leaders. Once the arena has caused panic as several riders chased around before being coaxed the safety of the stables by assistants to the mantle wind.
"Running with the bulls was the best experience I've had, so much adrenaline," said Mark Martinez, 27, a student from Los Angeles, California, who said he was in Spain to 10 vacation days. "I could not touch the horns, I might try that tomorrow," he said.
Serious runners, of which the connoisseurs of the holiday as "los divinos" - the divine - because of their ability to survive close brushes with death, would not attempt to touch the animals.
The animals used in this secular decorative party may weigh a little 'more than 500 kilograms (1,100 pounds) and killed 15 people Since record keeping began in 1924.
The latest tragedy came in 2009 when a young Spaniard was gored in the neck while trying to escape a bull by sliding feet first with a fence that separates the field from the crowd watching the race. It 'was the first death at San Fermin in nearly 15 years.
"Spain is different from anything I've tried before," said Michael Arraztoa, 25, from Bakersfield, California. He said that his father was of Irurita, not far from Pamplona, ​​and that he was over a summer break.
The play runs 8 am every day until July 14 with each transmission charge on state television. And then in the afternoon of each day, the same bulls face matadors in the ring.
Heckle reported from Madrid

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Malware can knock thousands off the Internet on Monday

 

Malware can knock thousands off the Internet on Monday 

WASHINGTON (AP) - Despite repeated warnings, tens of thousands of Americans may still lose their Internet service on Monday unless you do a quick check of their computer for malware that would take their cars over a year ago.
The warnings about the problem of the Internet have been slammed in Facebook and Google. Internet service providers have posted notices, and the FBI set up a special website.
According to the FBI, the number of infected computers that probably has more than 277,000 worldwide, down from 360,000 in April. Nearly 64,000 infected computers are probably still in the United States.
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority has about 25,000 computers initially affected by malware in Canada, but now only about 7,000 machines are infected there, according to Canadian Internet Registration Authority spokesman Mark Buell.
He said his organization, along with Public Safety Canada and the Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Commission, has developed an online site where computer users can control their computers for malware.
People whose computers are still infected on Monday will lose their ability to go online, and will call their service providers to help eliminate malware and reconnect to the Internet.
The problem started when international hackers, has posted an online ad scam to take control of more than 570,000 infected computers worldwide. When the FBI went to kill the hackers late last year, officials realized that if they turned off the malicious servers used to control computers, all the victims would lose their Internet service.
In a very unusual move, the FBI has established a safety net. They brought in a private company for the installation of two servers for the Internet to recruit clean malicious servers so that people would not suddenly lose their internet.
And while he was the first time I had done something like this, FBI officials acknowledged that might not be the last, as the authorities are taking more of these types of investigations.
The temporary Internet have created, however, will close at 12:01 am EDT Monday, July 9.
Most victims do not even know their computers have been infected, even if the malware has probably slowed the online browsing and disable your antivirus software, making their machines more vulnerable to other problems.
But popular social networking sites and Internet providers have gotten involved, reach out to computer users to warn of the problem.
According to Tom Grasso, a supervisory special agent of the FBI, many Internet providers are ready for the problem and are planning to try to help their customers. Some, like Comcast, already tense.
The company sent notices and information posted on its website. Because the company can tell if there is a problem with the Internet server to a client, Comcast has sent a warning e-mail, letter or Internet to customers whose computers seemed to be affected.
Grasso said the other Internet providers can come up with technical solutions that will be implemented Monday to correct the problem or provide information to customers when they call to say their Internet does not work. If the Internet service providers to solve the problem of the server, the Internet works, but the malware on victim machines will remain and could create future problems.
In addition to the owners of individual computers, about 50 Fortune 500 companies are still infected, said Grasso.
Both Facebook and Google have created their own alert messages that showed up, if someone using the site seemed to have an infected computer. Facebook users will receive a message that says: "Your computer or the network may be infected," along with a link that users can click for more information.
Google users received a similar message, which appears at the top of a page of search results on Google. It also provides information on how to solve the problem.
To check if a computer is infected, users can visit a website operated by the group introduced by the FBI: http://www.dcwg.org.
The site contains links to authoritative sites that trade will play a quick check on the computer, and also provides detailed instructions if users actually want to control their computer.
Associated Press Writer Charmaine Noronha in Toronto contributed to this report.
Online:
To check and clean your computer: http://www.dcwg.org
Canadian web sites: http://www.dns-ok.ca/ ~ = ~ HEAD NNS
Comcast Warning: http://forums.comcast.com/t5/Security-and-Anti-Virus/DNS-Changer-Bot-FAQ/td-p/1215341
Google: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2012/05/notifying-users-affected-by-dnschanger.html
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-security/notifying-dnschanger-victims/10150833689760766

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What seems to global warming

This summer is what seems to global warming

WASHINGTON (AP) - It 's just weird time or something more? Climate scientists suggest that if you want a taste of some of the worst of global warming, check out the weather in the United States in recent weeks.

Horrendous fires. Oppressive heat waves. Devastating drought. Flooding from giant floods. And a powerful wind storm derecho called strange.

These are the kinds of extremes experts have predicted will come with climate change, although it is too early to say which is the cause. Nor say that global warming is the reason were set to 3215 at daily high temperature in the month of June.

Scientifically linking individual weather events to climate change requires intensive study, complicated mathematics, computer models and a lot of time. Sometimes it is not caused by global warming. The weather is always variable, bizarre things happen.

And this time it was local. Europe, Asia and Africa are not having similar disasters now, even if they have had their extreme events in recent years.

But, at least since 1988, climate scientists have warned that climate change would lead, in general, more heatwaves, more droughts, more sudden downpours, storms, fires and more widespread deterioration. In the U.S., these two extremes are happening here and now.

So far this year, over 2.1 million acres have burned in fires, over 113 million people in the United States were under advisory in areas of extreme heat last Friday, two thirds of the country are affected by drought, and early June, floods flooded Minnesota and Florida.

"This is what global warming looks at the regional or personal," said Jonathan Overpeck, a professor of geosciences and atmospheric sciences at the University of Arizona. "The additional heat increases the likelihood of heat waves, worse, droughts, storms and fires. This is certainly what I and many other climate scientists have warned."

Kevin Trenberth, head of climate analysis at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado fire charred, said that these are conditions much to record that he said would happen, but most people would not listen. So I told you-know-you time, she said.

Recently, in March, a special report a extreme events and disasters by Nobel laureate Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has warned of "unprecedented weather and climate extremes." Its author, Chris Field of the Carnegie Institution and Stanford University, said Monday, "It 's really as dramatic as many of the models that we have talked about as an expression of extreme are hitting the U.S. at this time."

"What we're seeing is actually a window into what global warming looks really," said Princeton University geosciences and international affairs professor Michael Oppenheimer. "It seems the heat. It appears fire. It seems that this type of environmental disasters."

Oppenheimer said on Thursday. This was before the East Coast was hit with three-digit temperatures and before a derecho - a large, powerful and long-lasting straight line wind storm - blew in from Chicago to Washington. The storm and its aftermath have killed over 20 people and left millions without electricity. The experts say that has had the readings of energy five times higher than that of normal time.

Powered by heat records, this was among the strongest of this type of storm in the region in recent history, said meteorologist Harold Brooks Research of the National Laboratory violent storm in Norman, Oklahoma, the scientists expect "non-tornadic events such as the wind "and the other one this time to increase with climate change due to heat and instability, he said.

These models not only have happened in the last week or two. Spring and winter in the United States was the warmest on record and among the least snowy, setting the stage for the harsh weather to come, scientists say.

From 1 January, the U.S. has established more than 40,000 records of the warm temperatures, but less than 6000 record low temperatures, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. For most of the last century, the U.S. used to record the hot and cold evenly, but in the first decade of this century in America set two records for each hot cold, said Jerry Meehl, a climate expert extreme at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. This year the ratio is about 7 to 1 to hot to cold. Some computer models say that the relationship has hit 20-to-1 by mid-century, Meehl said.

"In future we expect larger, more intense heat waves and we have seen in recent summers," NOAA Climate Monitoring Chief Derek Arndt said.

The 100-degree heat, drought, melting of snow early and beetles awakening from hibernation early to strip the trees that are combined to prepare the ground for the present distribution of unusual fires in the West, said that the University of Montana ecosystems Professor Steven Running, a fire expert.

While at least 15 climate scientists told The Associated Press that this long hot summer of the United States is consistent with what is expected in global warming, history is full of these ends, said John Christy at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. It 'a global warming skeptics that says: "The culprit, in my opinion is Mother Nature."

But the vast majority of mainstream climate scientists, as Meehl, do not agree: "This is what global warming is like, and we'll see more of this as we go into the future."

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on extreme weather conditions: http://ipcc-wg2.gov/SREX/

U.S. record time:

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/extremes/records/

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