Payout for Nimrod crash families

NimrodThe Nimrods were declared unairworthy by the coroner

The families of 14 servicemen killed when a Nimrod plane blew up over Afghanistan in 2006 have all now received compensation, the MoD says.

The amount of money paid was not disclosed, but was paid over the past few weeks and months.

The payout came two years after the families launched a legal action.

The MoD was heavily criticised at an inquest in 2008, and last year an independent review accused the MoD of sacrificing safety to cut costs.

In May 2008, a coroner ruled the Nimrod fleet, based at RAF Kinloss in Moray, had never been airworthy.

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The government at the time has refused to agree with the coroner’s recommendation that the entire Nimrod fleet be grounded.

According to the MoD, new procedures meant the Nimrod aircraft was safe. Air-to-air refuelling were stopped, as were the use of very hot air systems in flight.

“Enhanced” aircraft maintenance and inspection procedures were also introduced at the time by the MoD.

The Nimrod spy plane exploded on 2 September 2006, shortly after undergoing air-to-air refuelling.

The blast was caused by fuel leaking into a dry bay and igniting on contact with a hot air pipe.

The 14 men killed on the Nimrod were:

Flt Lt Steven Johnson, 38, from Collingham, Nottinghamshire, Flt Lt Leigh Anthony Mitchelmore, 28, from Bournemouth, Dorset, Flt Lt Gareth Rodney Nicholas, 40, from Redruth, Cornwall, Flt Lt Allan James Squires, 39, from Clatterbridge, Merseyside and Flt Lt Steven Swarbrick, 28, from Liverpool.

Flt Sgt Gary Wayne Andrews, 48, from Tankerton, Kent, Flt Sgt Stephen Beattie, 42, from Dundee, Flt Sgt Gerard Martin Bell, 48, from Newport, Shropshire, and Flt Sgt Adrian Davies, 49, from Amersham, Buckinghamshire, Sgt Benjamin James Knight, 25, from Bridgwater, Sgt John Joseph Langton, 29,from Liverpool and Sgt Gary Paul Quilliam, 42, from Manchester.

L/Cpl Oliver Simon Dicketts, of the Parachute Regiment, from Wadhurst and Royal Marine Joseph David Windall, 22, from Hazlemere.

An independent review, which reported its findings in October 2009, concluded that the crash was preventable.

The highly critical report, by Charles Haddon-Cave QC, said the Afghanistan crash occurred because of a “systemic breach” of the military covenant, under which Britain has a duty of care to its armed forces.

He also branded the safety review of the Nimrod MR2 carried out by the MoD, BAE Systems and QinetiQ as a “lamentable job”.

This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.

Company Careers Page Style Design: Just Text And A Picture

I have a home page located at:
http://www.gbandtb.com/t1/p1_blue_careers.html

I need a better design than the current version. For this project, you just need to concentrate on the central area — that is, the area besides the top menu and the left-side menu. That is, the text port about our company’s careers. The menus on the current page are provided just to make sure that your design of text would be looking good within the whole page.

You should re-design:
(1) text style, font, color, size; re-arrange text if necessary — it is completely up to you to choose the text style, size, color;
(2) design a picture about careers or get a not-copyright-protected picture from somewhere and mix this picture with the text — use your judgment to put the picture on left, right, top, or middle of the text;
(3) use your judgment as to whether to use borders around this area;
(4) copy the text from our web page, but not to use the original HTML code as it was generated from Microsoft Word;
(5) we want the final HTML and CSS code clean and not redundant — we don’t want such code as generated from Microsoft Word or other tools; (6) This should be a quick design: show me 2 mock-ups before bidding. Also, you should have your own hosting site to show me your mock-ups.

I will not provide any files to you. As I said above, you can save all the necessary files (html, css, and images) from the current-design page. If you don’t know how to do that, please do NOT bid!

Thank you!

Zen Cart Mods Installation

We require the following free Zen Cart modules to be installed on our site:

1.Cross Sell and Also Purchased on Checkout Page
2.Printable Pricelist Mod for Zen Cart
3.Quantity Discounts Zen Cart Mod
4.Save For Later
5.Ultimate SEO URL’s
6.Google / Froogle Zencart Modification aka Google Base Feeder
7.Edit Shopping Cart Zencart Mod for Customers
8.Email Address Exporter
9.Fast Easy Checkout – Includes Checkout Without Account
10. Admin Profiles Module

Links to download mods will be provided. Must be a Zen Cart EXPERT. Need fast turnaround.

See PM for website details.

Thank you.

Design And Html Files

Hi Guys,

I’m planning to create a website which will provide coupon code. I already have database design, php code. So I’m looking for a programmer who will make a good design and html files from that design for me (design file, css, images, javascript). My website will provide coupon code so i will have a lot of logos or banners which come from advertisers or i will design separate. My website will have few main pages such as home page, search page, store page, brand page and activate coupon page. Here is some information about my website:

Home page: Website logo, some tabs then search bar
Other page: Website logo, tabs, small search bar and content.
Website works well with different browsers and screen resolutions.

Thanks.

Xml Change To Dynamic

i need to change this:

<?xml version=”1.0″?><RSS PAUSE=”900″>
<IMAGE TRANSITION=”1″ ALT_PAUSE = “900” LINK=””>http://www.xxxxxx.com/images/1.jpg</IMAGE>
<IMAGE TRANSITION=”1″ ALT_PAUSE = “900” LINK=””>http://www.xxxxxx.com/images/2.jpg</IMAGE>
<IMAGE TRANSITION=”1″ ALT_PAUSE = “900” LINK=””>http://www.xxxxxx.com/images/3.jpg</IMAGE>
<IMAGE TRANSITION=”1″ ALT_PAUSE = “900” LINK=””>http://www.xxxxxx.com/images/4.jpg</IMAGE>
<IMAGE TRANSITION=”1″ ALT_PAUSE = “900” LINK=””>http://www.xxxxxx.com/images/6.jpg</IMAGE>
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so it auto loads images in selected folder if possible rather than renaming images when i get updates and also adding/removing lines etc

Are You Taking Part in Blog Action Day?

Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day. It was started in 2007 by the Envato founders, Collis and Cyan Ta’eed, and last year over 13,000 blogs participated to draw attention to climate change.

The topic this year focuses on water conservation. Right now, almost a billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean, safe drinking water. That’s one in eight of us who are subject to preventable disease and even death because of something that many of us take for granted. Water is a global issue, and it affects all of us.

Last year, we took a look at How Your Mac is Saving the World, and we’ll be taking part in Blog Action Day across the AppStorm network again this year. Will you? Head over to register your blog, and be part of something amazing!


Thanks to the Mac.AppStorm Sponsors

We’d like to say a big thank you to this month’s Mac.AppStorm sponsors, and the great software they create! If you’re interested in advertising, you can order a slot through BuySellAds.

You could also consider a Quick Look submission, an easy way to showcase your app to all our readers.

MacKeeper – What can MacKeeper do for you? It’s an app that will keep your Mac clean, foolproof, secured, fast, reliable and attended!

CleanMyMac – CleanMyMac represents a sophisticated all-in-one-suite utility that helps keep your Mac clean and healthy.

Billings – Billings’ simple workflow and intuitive interface makes quoting, invoicing, and time tracking effortless.

MiniBooks – A handy iPhone app from FreshBooks that lets you track your time and invoice your clients while you’re away from your computer.

Daylite Touch – Daylite Touch is a business productivity manager for the iPhone and iPod touch, winner of a 2009 Macworld Best of Show award, designed as a companion to Daylite on the Mac.

App4Mac – Makers of several different Mac applications, including CheckUp, SecretBox, Sequence, Projector, FlexTeam, and Delegate!

ImTOO Video Convertor – Looking to convert all your media files on your Mac to just about any format you fancy? Look no further than ImTOO Video Converter for Mac. This versatile Mac video converter can convert between nearly all HD/SD format videos.

Raskin App – Inspired by Jef Raskin, our zoomable user interface shows you all the stuff on your computer on a single surface. Using zoom and pan to view, arrange and open documents feels so right.

Be Yellow – Get toll free phone support for your application, and make your customers lives easier!

Yum Recipe Manager – Yum is the cooking companion for your Mac. Add your favorite recipes, organize them like a pro, scale recipes, and be inspired by recipes uploaded by fellow Yum users.

Hidden – When you activate tracking, Hidden will locate your stolen computer anywhere on the planet, collect photos of the thief and screen shots of the computer in use and the Hidden team will also help you work with the police when recovering your stolen computer.

Pixmac – Stock photos and vector illustrations for all your print advertising and website needs. And there’s no need to register – you can buy an image in 3 minutes without registering!

Path Finder 5 – Path Finder is an award-winning file browser and management application for Mac OS X. If you’ve ever wished Apple’s Finder just did feature X or feature Y, Path Finder may be what you’ve been looking for.


Secure & Monitor Your Mac With Little Snitch

Have you ever wondered what applications are doing after you launched them. Are they collecting personal information or contacting an activation server? Do you worry that piece of freeware you just downloaded could cost you your privacy?

Little Snitch is here to solve this problem by acting as a intermediator between your applications and the internet. Little Snitch will alert you every time that an application tries to connect to the internet, giving you a brief overview of what server and port the application is using.

Getting Started

Little Snitch installation is fairly simple, just run the installer script and restart your computer when prompted.

LittleSnitch Installer: Little Snitch is simple to install, just run the included installer and it will do all the work

LittleSnitch Installer: Little Snitch is simple to install, just run the included installer and it will do all the work

The first step with Little Snitch is training it, and teaching it what connections to always allow. Each time an application – system or third party – tries to connect to the internet, Little Snitch will display a popup asking you about the connection.

LittleSnitch Allow or Deny: Decide where to allow or deny connection

LittleSnitch Allow or Deny: Decide where to allow or deny connection

You can easily choose whether to Allow or Deny the connection with options to Always Allow/Deny or only until the application closes. After all the core applications and system processes have been allowed, Little Snitch will sit dormant in your menu bar. It only takes up a small amount of resources, and protects your valuable information.

Besides network monitoring, Little Snitch also features a real-time connection indicator that when enabled will display a small table of applications connecting to the internet. This is useful for security concerned users who find themselves wondering which applications are currently connecting to the outside world. You can even configure it to display when you hover over the Little Snitch menubar icon.

HUD Display

HUD Display

Working with Little Snitch

Little Snitch might seem temperamental at first glance, always popping up, even when you’re just trying to load a new webpage. By using the “Always Allow” feature for trusted applications, you can stop these pop-ups.

The same goes with a certain web address or port number. If you constantly are using a certain port like 21 for an FTP client, or 3900 for Sever Admin, you can whitelist both.

Rule List: Easily create, modify, or delete rules from Little Snitch

Rule List: Easily create, modify, or delete rules from Little Snitch

Little Snitch also has a great manager for all these rules that you’ve set. When you go into Little Snitch preferences you can view all the blocked or allowed apps. You can change rules from blocked to allowed, or even delete entries from the rule list.

The rules list will also let you customize how long rules stay in affect, so if you accidentally selected until Quit, you can rectify this here. By using the Invalid Rules selection, you can see rules created for applications which can no longer be found.

LittleSnitch Invalid Rules

LittleSnitch Invalid Rules

Some Minor Tweaks

Little Snitch works amazingly well. So amazingly well that at first it’s annoying to some. This could be solved with an opt-in whitelist that users could allow. Perhaps when Little Snitch is first launched, it could ask if you would like to load rules from the database. This could prevent annoyances when Software Update or Safari asks to connect to the web.

The benefit of an opt-in whitelist is that it still retains security. If you don’t mind the initial pop-ups and would like to monitor where system application go, you don’t have to opt-in for the database.

Another small tweak that could be made is the ability to trust games that run full-screen. By default, Little Snitch will automatically block applications if they automatically run in full-screen mode. This is obvious because you wouldn’t be able to click the pop-up window.

But for avid gamers, this might cause problems with online multiplayer if – by default – they are blocked. Perhaps Little Snitch could implement a “waiting for approval” tab that allows you to quickly go back and select applications that have been automatically blocked. This would be faster than the current process of scanning the rules list for the application you were just using and adjusting the command.

The icon does look a bit dated and could be due for an update to a more modern look!

In Conclusion

Little Snitch is a very effective firewall for outgoing connections that requires little or no technical knowledge. Just choose either Allow or Deny – that’s all. Setting it up takes only a few minutes and protects your privacy. Whether it’s an application collecting usage data, or validating your software, you always know what’s going on with Little Snitch.

Little Snitch also has a great evaluation policy for users wanting to test before they buy it. You can use and install Little Snitch for 3 hours before it reminds you to purchase it. You can then re-activate it with a few clicks and can continue using it again, fully featured. Purchasing removes any reminders.