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Photo illustration shows the moon entering and emerging from the earth’s shadow during a total eclipse of the moon. In ancient times, western astrologers also believed eclipses had the power to start and stop wars, solve scientific puzzles, and trigger earthquakes and floods. (AFP/File/Stan Honda)

BEIJING, July 28 (Xinhua) — While the best observation place in China for Friday’s solar eclipse is a small county in the far-away Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, most people can also see it in all its glory on their laptop.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) will broadcast the total solar eclipse, the first in China this century, live on the Internet, the Division of Information Technical Sciences (ITS) said on Tuesday.

On Aug. 1, the total eclipse will be visible from within a narrow corridor that traverses half the Earth. The path of the moon’s umbral shadow will begin in Canada and extend across northern Greenland, the Arctic, central Russia and Mongolia before ending in northern China.

A partial eclipse will be seen within the much broader path of the moon’s partial shadow, which includes northeastern North America, most of Europe and Asia.

It will make its final stop at sunset in Xi’an, capital of Shaanxi Province.

ITS will provide live eclipse coverage in Xi’an from 6:20 p.m. to 8 p.m. on the Internet. Two astronomers will have an online discussion with netizens.

Nanjing Purple Mountain Observatory of CAS (www.pmo.jsinfo.net) and Shanghai Astronomical Observatory Online (www.astron.sh.cn/live/2008eclipse) will also broadcast the eclipse live.

In China, Yiwu County, 500 km east of Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang, will get the best view of the eclipse. It will start at about 7 p.m. (Beijing Time) and last about two minutes.

People in Hong Kong and such provinces as Shanxi and Gansu will also see a total or partial eclipse. It will not be visible in Beijing.

It is advised not to look directly at the sun with the naked eye or through a telescope. According to astronomers, it’s safe to project the sun’s image through a pinhole or a telescope onto a piece of white paper or cardboard.

A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the Earth and Sun, totally or partially blocking the Earth’s view of the sun. The next total solar eclipse will occur in China in January.

Two moons of the planet Saturn, the brightest body in the solar system, Enceladus, is contrasted here against Titan’s smoggy, golden murk in this photograph taken by the Cassini spacecrafts narrow angle camera February 5, 2006 and released by NASA June 21, 2006. At least one of the large lakes observed on Saturn’s moon Titan contains liquid hydrocarbons, NASA scientists have concluded. (Xinhua/Reuters file Photo)

WASHINGTON, July 30 (Xinhua) — At least one of the large lakes observed on Saturn’s moon Titan contains liquid hydrocarbons, NASA scientists have concluded. They have also positively identified the presence of ethane.

This makes Titan the only body in our solar system beyond Earth known to have liquid on its surface, NASA reported Wednesday.

Scientists made the discovery using data from an instrument aboard the Cassini spacecraft.

Earlier, scientists had thought Titan would have global oceans of methane, ethane and other light hydrocarbons.

More than 40 close flybys of Titan by Cassini showed no such global oceans existed, but revealed the presence of hundreds of dark lake-like features.

Until this new study, it was not known whether these features were liquid or simply dark, solid material.

“This is the first observation that really pins down that Titan has a surface lake filled with liquid,” said lead researcher Robert Brown of the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.

Brown is the team leader of Cassini’s visual and mapping instrument. The results will be published in the July 31 issue of the journal Nature.

The liquid ethane was identified using a technique that removed the interference from Titan’s atmospheric hydrocarbons. The visual and mapping instrument observed a lake in Titan’s south polar region during a close Cassini flyby in December 2007. The lake is roughly 20,000 square kilometers in area, slightly larger than North America’s Lake Ontario.

“Detection of liquid ethane confirms a long-held idea that lakes and seas filled with methane and ethane exist on Titan,” said Larry Soderblom, a Cassini interdisciplinary scientist.

“The fact that we could detect the ethane spectral signatures of the lake even when it was so dimly illuminated, and at a slanted viewing path through Titan’s atmosphere, raises expectations for exciting future lake discoveries by our instrument.”

What is your friend lifespan?
You might ask what a friend lifespan is?
It is how long you remain in friendship with someone until you drift way from each other for whatever reason. Some people remain friends for a lifetime, but some do drift apart.

You are no longer friends with your high school friend.
You may not even remember the friend you met during your internship.
As we grow older, we move from one place to another, we change colleges, work places and we keep meeting new people replenishing those we leave behind.

So who is your best friend?
Is your best friend from high school with whom you shared your best kept secrets, still your best friend?
Or has he also drifted since you moved away from your city after your first full time job.
Perhaps your girlfriend is your best friend now.
Girls usually are good at keeping up with old friends, and they usually make friends for life, and they even share their Boyfriend’s secrets with their best friends, but for a guy, usually his drinking partners become his closest friends.

But they say that ‘Old is Gold’, and never to be sold, usually your childhood friends and high school friends are the only friends you will ever have for your lifetime. You colleagues, your drinking buddies, and club buddies will come and go, but when you are in need of help, your old friends will stand by you. Even if you call your high school best friend after 15 years of not calling, and ask for a favor he will most probably oblige. He might not even think that you are calling after 15 years, and that is for asking a favor.

He will feel so good hearing your voice that he would do anything to help you. Then, why did we forget them. Why do we forget to call him on his birthday, or his marriage anniversary. However short our friend lifespan would be for new friends, we should always try to keep in touch with our old friends.

A small gesture of remembrance, a greeting card in Christmas, a random invitation card for a ceremony , calling him on his birthday, letting him know of your promotion, of your childbirth etc will go a long way in nurturing your friendship.

And this we should do with all our new found and drifted away friends as well. Just as you drifted away from him, there must be tens of other people drifted away from him, but he will remember the one who remembers him. Who knows, he might become your best friend?

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Welcome to Network+ Cram Notes! This brief guide should assist you in your path to Network+ certification, offering insight into the kind of key points frequently tested on the exam. Many obscure facts show up time and time again, and though they will seldom be found useful “in real life,” CompTIA continues to test on these points. Therefore, you should have a strong, working knowledge of the information in this Sneak Peek guide; the information in here can be considered as a “cram” guide and not a complete study guide, so it is still recommended that you read our study guide before reading this Sneak Peek.

The best way to utilize these Network+ cram notes is to read it several times, especially right before the exam itself. It is definite that you will find questions on the exam that cover points found only in the cram notes, so make sure you can understand and comprehend each individual point – it could be the one that makes the difference between a passing and failing score (but let’s hope not).

New iPhone hits shelves

IPhone’s first customers

Software problems bug new iPhone

 

LOS ANGELES, July 14 (Xinhua) — Apple sold one million 3G iPhones in just three days after its launch in the United States, Hong Kong and 20 other countries, the company said on Monday.

 Meanwhile, more than 10 million applications were downloaded from its newly opened App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch, according to the company.

 Independent developers have created mobile applications that range from games to location-based social networking. More than 800 applications are available through the App Store. More than 200 are free and those for sale cost less than 10 dollars.

 On Friday, iPhone consumers, including some who waited outside Apple stores overnight, were frustrated when the company’s iTunes server was overwhelmed by a global crush of simultaneous requests from new iPhone users and those updating the software for the older version of the iPhone and the iPod touch. The over-burdened system prevented some phones from immediately being fully activated.

 The glitch, though, didn’t appear to dampen iPhone fervor.

 ”iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend,” Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs said in a statement. “It took 74 days to sell the first one million original iPhones, so the new iPhone 3G is clearly off to a great start around the world.”

 

Four models pose in their official make-up and hairstyles, that the medal presenters will wear during the victory ceremonies at the Beijing Olympic Games, in Beijing, July 11, 2008. (BOCOG)

Four models pose in their official make-up and hairstyles, that the medal presenters will wear during the victory ceremonies at the Beijing Olympic Games, in Beijing, July 11, 2008. (China Photo Press)

Four models pose in their official make-up and hairstyles, that the medal presenters will wear during the victory ceremonies at the Beijing Olympic Games, in Beijing, July 11, 2008. (China Photo Press)

Four models pose in their official make-up and hairstyles, that the medal presenters will wear during the victory ceremonies at the Beijing Olympic Games, in Beijing, July 11, 2008. (China Photo Press)

1. Which of these is a prerequisite for and must always run with Cisco NSF?
A. BGP
B. SSO
C. RPR
D. SRM
Answer: B
 
2. When EIGRP is used as the PE-CE routing protocol, which of these statements is

correct?
A. Configuration of the VPN is only required on the PE router.
B. EIGRP can be used only as the PE-CE routing protocol if the PE and CE routers are

in the same AS.
C. When using EIGRP as the PE-CE routing protocol, EIGRP does not require a VRF.
D. Unlike other routing protocols that are used between PE and CE routers, EIGRP

supports backdoor links.
E. Other EIGRP AS routes are automatically advertised to the CE router and do not

require a redistribution configuration command to be configured.
Answer: A

3. Your customer wants to build a network for a financial trading floor that has a

requirement for multiple high-value transactions, which are also vital to the

customer. What are the two most critical requirements? (Choose two.)
A. no single point of failure
B. trading database server location
C. redundant application servers location
D. deterministic response to all failures
E. determine which protocol to use
Answer: AD
 
4. Refer to the exhibit. Users complain that they intermittently lose data and

connections to important servers. After investigation, you discover that the 802.1Q

trunk between DSW111 and ASW1 is down. Even though the HSRP group 11 is being

serviced by
DSW112, you discover that the SVI for VLAN 11 is in the up state on DSW111. Which

three Cisco Catalyst IOS commands should you use on DSW111 to find the source of

this problem? (Choosethree.)
A. show vtp status
B. show interfaces vlan 11
C. show standby vlan 11 brief
D. show spanning-tree vlan 11
E. show interfaces <fast | gig> mod/port trunk
Answer: BDE

5. When a Cisco router is configured for SSH, it acts as an _____.
A. SSH client
B. SSH proxy
C. SSH server
D. SSH accelerator
E. SSH and SSL client
F. SSH and SSL server
Answer: C

6. Which of the following statements about authentication responses and conditions

is true? (Choose two.)
A. When a router receives a failure response, it stops querying authentication

methods.
B. When a router receives an error response, it stops querying authentication

methods.
C. If the router receives a failure response from an authentication method, it

queries the next method.
D. The router does not differentiate between failure and error responses; the

authentication process is always interrupted.
E. If it receives no response from the authentication method, a router will

determine the error condition on its own; the router also has the option to proceed

to the next method in a list if configured accordingly.
Answer: AE
 
7. Refer to the exhibit. For interface FastEthernet0/0, what will happen to dscp

af11 traffic if the queue for class “newclass” reaches a depth of 40?
A. All packets will be dropped.
B. One out of ten packets will be dropped.
C. A random number of packets will be dropped.
D. No packets will be dropped until the queue depth reaches 265.
E. Packets will be dropped according to the exponential weight setting.
Answer: A

8. In a RSTP implementation, which of the following two link types are used? (Choose

two.)
A. shared
B. multipoint
C. designated
D. point-to-point
E. multiaccess non-broadcast
Answer: AD

9. Which information is contained in a AAA authentication method list?
A. a sequential list of user authentication methods
B. the setup for the authentication phase on a router
C. a description of what a user can execute on a router.
D. a pointer to the address where a RADIUS server can be located.
Answer: A
 
10. Refer to the exhibit. Analyze the two traceroutes that are displayed. Which of

these statements is correct in describing what most likely caused the traceroute

differences?
A. Do not fragment has been configured on PE11.
B. MPLS has been disabled on routers P11 and P12.
C. An access list has been created on P11 to block traceroutes from PE11.
D. The no mpls ip propgate-ttl local command has been configured on PE11.
E. ICMP has been disabled on the intermediary routers between PE11 and PE12.
Answer: D

11. How does NTP help you troubleshoot network problems?
A. by setting all network devices to the correct time
B. by calculating the time offset from the GPS or atomic clock
C. by setting necessary time data in the timestamp information
D. by setting the router clock to the default value if the router cannot connect to

a time server
Answer: A
 
12. You are considering deploying the Cisco SSL VPN AIM module in a Cisco 1800

Series Router. Which benefit should you expect?
A. to improve performance exclusively for SSL VPN applications
B. to improve performance up to 300% for both IPsec and SSL VPN applications
C. to improve performance for both IPsec and SSL VPN applications with IPsec

encryption taking place in hardware
D. to improve performance up to 200% for both IPsec and SSL VPN applications with

encryption taking place in hardware
E. to improve performance up to 300% for both IPsec and SSL VPN applications with

SSL encryption taking place in hardware
Answer: D
 
13. Refer to the exhibit. Which SSH sessions will the SSH server accept?
A. version 1 only
B. version 2 only
C. versions 1 and 2
D. all versions before 1.99
Answer: C

14. You are trying to initiate an SSH connection to a remote router and are getting

rejected with an error code of 0. Which of these might be the cause of the error?
A. The routers are using different SSH versions.
B. You are trying to log in using invalid credentials.
C. The RSA key pair is not properly configured on the SSH client.
D. The RSA key pair is not properly configured on the SSH server.
Answer: A
 
15. When an IP packet is Layer 3-switched from a source in one VLAN to a destination

in another VLAN, which field in a packet will be rewritten?
A. Layer 2 TTL
B. Layer 3 TTL
C. Layer 3 source address
D. Layer 3 transport protocol
E. Layer 3 destination address
Answer: B

16. Refer to the exhibit. This shows the NetFlow statistics for a router. You are

analyzing the traffic pattern and you are interested in the percentage of packets

between 32 and 64 bytes in size and the number of flows in progress. Which of these

identifies both numbers correctly?
A. 69.4%, 4061
B. 24.9%, 980
C. 69.4%, 35
D. 6.94%, 980
E. cannot be determined from this output
Answer: C

17. Which one of these class maps was configured to match traffic for CS5?
A. router#show class-map pass Class Map match-all real-time (id 2) Match ip dscp 40
B. router#show class-map forward Class Map match-all forward (id 3) Match ip dscp 18
C. router#show class-map block Class Map match-all block (id 4) Match ip dscp 43
D. router#show class-map real-time Class Map match-all block (id 5) Match ip dscp 16

Answer: A

18. Refer to the exhibit. MPLS has been enabled on router PE11. Which of these

statements is correct regarding the output display shown in the exhibit?
A. CEF switching is not needed for MPLS operation.
B. CEF switching is only needed to forward labeled packets.
C. CEF switching is needed on both ingress and egress interfaces on which MPLS is

enabled.
D. Interface-level CEF switching is needed only on egress interfaces that are

sending IP packets on which the egress LSR performs the label imposition process.
E. Interface-level CEF switching is needed only on ingress interfaces that are

receiving IP packets on which the ingress LSR performs the label imposition process.

Answer: E

19. In MPLS networks, what is the benefit of disabling TTL propagation?
A. to improve MPLS convergence time
B. to improve the IGP convergence time
C. to hide visibility to the core (provider) routers in the MPLS network
D. to provide a visible extension of IP TTL functionality in an MPLS-enabled domain
E. to provide a visible extension of MPLS TTL functionality in a non-MPLS-enabled

domain
Answer: C

20. How can Cisco NetFlow be used to aid in the operation and troubleshooting of QoS

issues?
A. NetFlow can report on the number of traffic matches for each class map in a

configured QoS policy configuration.
B. NetFlow records can be used to understand traffic profiles per class of service

for data, voice, and video traffic.
C. NetFlow can discover the protocols in use and automatically adjust QoS traffic

classes to meet policy-map requirements.
D. NetFlow can be configured to identify voice and video traffic flows and place

them into a low-latency queue for expedited processing.
Answer: B

21. Refer to the exhibit. Which two of these accurately describe this router’s

supervisor redundancy status? (Choose two.)
A. both supervisors are active
B. SSO redundancy is being used
C. the second supervisor is unavailable
D. the primary supervisor is unavailable
E. the primary supervisor was reloaded nine seconds ago
Answer: BD

Jon Bon Jovi is a legendary rock star from next-town-over-from-me New Jersey. At the same time he’s a songwriter, actor and accomplished entrepreneur. To put some frosting on the cake, Jon went from sweeping floors at a recording studio to selling over 120 million records world-wide.

Some people call it luck, some people call it talent, but I know for a fact that it is Jon’s out look on life that brought him every ounce of success that came his way. The beauty of life is that it is within all of us to adopt a paradigm that will bring us more Happiness and success than we could ever imagine.

1. “Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.”

One thing that I think we can all agree upon is that when the going gets tough giving up is easy. life is made as such that accomplishing easy goals is not nearly as satisfying as going through trials and tribulations acquire a well deserved prize.

That’s why for Jon it was important to trudge past all his failures and get back on his feet until he accomplished his goals. These trials came over and over again in his career and life, and I’m sure he has learned to look forward to the hard times because they are a sign of the rewards to come.

2. “Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.”

There’s something inheritantly boring about the 9-5, which is why many people speak badly of it. Not necessarily because it’s too hard, or because we might fail, but certainly because of the fact that boredom kills off who we are.

Passion, in any way shape or form, is what sparks the vitality within us. If we’re going to be spending the better part of our day working and earning a living (or making a fortune) we should at least be doing something that we love, so we’ll love our lives.

3. “Don’t get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.”

The infamous comfort zone, oh killer of hopes and dreams. When our stomachs are full, and we’re totally satiated, we have no desire to go look for food. When we are comfortable enough with our living condition, we will most certainly not strive as hard to go after our dreams.

Going after your dreams, while exciting and fun, is designed to be hard. Laying around in the sack, stuffing ourselves with junk food, and numbing ourselves with alcohol is much easier, and is the trap that we must all avoid in order to experience a much grander journey to illustratious destinations.

4. “Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you’ll see them all around you.”

My biggest pet peeve would have to be complainers. I know this sounds like complaining, but it breaks my heart to see people blinded to the beauty of life by putting all their focus on the negativity. life has good stuff and bad stuff, and whatever we think about expands.

Part of our test, the one where passing leads us to a more fruitful existence, is becoming conscious of ourselves and of our self-talk. By concentrating on the positives, and letting the negatives hang by the way-side we are effectively making our overall experience and perception of life more positive. This is all done without actually changing what the rest of the world is like.

5. “Each one of you has something no one else has, or has ever had: your fingerprints, your brain, your heart. Be an individual. Be unique. Stand out. Make noise. Make someone notice. That’s the power of individuals.”

On one hand, the one that looks at the grand scheme of things, we are nothing. Nothing compared to God and the vastness of the universe. On the other hand, we are just a part of a collective of people who are very much the same, and want similar things out of life.

That’s why we have to stop looking at those hands, and create a universe where we can function in the collective, but do so with style and flare so that we may stand out and leave a legacy.

6. “Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.”

Jon’s life was not written in stone, it was flexible and took many unexpected twists and turns. This makes him just like us. His ability to be spontaneous and comprise made his life more exciting.

While there is great merit to being a stand for what you want to do, and have an unshakeable commitment to a cause, there are many paths that will lead to that goal, some more fun than others. It’s your life, take the scenic view.

7. “The only enemy is ignorance.”

This comes out of you from nowhere, just when you thought ignorance was bliss. The truth is that it’s not a sin to be ignorant, but it is a sin to remain ignorant. Being closed off, and uneducated will lead one to live a shallow life where nothing more than carnal pleasures exist. That’s what Hitler’s goal was for every person in the world, to be nothing more than an animal.

By being open minded to any possibility, reading, learning, and fully experiencing life from all angles we are allowing ourselves to grow. We are allowing ourselves to make a positive influence on our neighbors and on shaping and changing the world.

Go ahead and study the great, successful, and happy men of history. There’s no need to reinvent the wheel and there’s a good chance that anything you could come up with has already been thought of before. Use their knowledge to take your life experiences to the highest level. 

Photo taken on July 30, 2008 shows a view of the National Aquatics Center, nicknamed the Water Cube, in Beijing, China. A heavy rainfall hit the capital in the evening July 30. (Xinhua)

A man surnamed Zhang, was detained by police late last week upon arrival at a hospital in Zhengzhou, Henan province. Zhang, 30, came in for treatment of his badly bitten tongue, an injury inflicted by the woman he had earlier tried to rape.

Zhang tried to force his attentions upon the local female resident, who prefers to be referred to as Xiao Hong, at 11:30 pm in the city’s Huiji district as she was on her way home from working the night shift. Xiao resisted Zhang’s advances and bit his tongue, which sent him scurrying for medical aid.

When Xiao told her husband and family members what had happened, they, realizing the attacker would seek treatment, decided to make enquiries at every hospital in the district.

Xiao and her family found Zhang at the fifth hospital they visited, and immediately called in the police. Zhang was detained on suspicion of attempted rape.

This undated photo provided by the US Army shows Spc. Megan Lynn Touma, 23, whose body was found June 21, 2008, in a Fayetteville, N.C., motel room. Fort Bragg soldier Edgar Patino, 27, was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday, July 29, 2008 in the death of his pregnant colleague, Touma, police said. [Agencies]

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — A Fort Bragg soldier was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday in the death of a pregnant colleague whose partially decomposed body was found in a motel bathtub more than a month ago, police said.

Edgar Patino, 27, of nearby Hope Mills, was arrested at his home without incident just after 8 p.m. in the death of Army Spc. Megan L. Touma, said Fayetteville police watch commander Lt. Lars Paul. Paul said Patino was stationed at Fort Bragg but couldn’t provide his rank or unit.

No further details were immediately available, but police have scheduled a 11 a.m. news conference Wednesday.

Touma, 23, was found dead June 21 at a Fayetteville motel after a maintenance supervisor smelled a foul odor coming from a room with a “Do Not Disturb” sign. A dental specialist from Cold Spring, Ky., Touma was seven months pregnant and had recently arrived from a base in Germany.

She was temporarily assigned to Fort Bragg’s 19th Replacement Company, and would have eventually been assigned to work at a base dental clinic.

Police have said a Fort Bragg soldier studying psychological operations was a person of interest in the case. They said the person was training at a school where special operations ranging from raids to reconstruction projects are taught. It wasn’t immediately clear if police were referring to Patino.

Police also investigated a letter sent to The Fayetteville Observer from a person who claimed to be a serial killer responsible for Touma’s death. The letter featured a circle-and-cross drawing that had also been drawn in lipstick on the motel room mirror and was the same as one used a generation ago by San Francisco’s infamous Zodiac Killer.

Police have said they believed the letter was written to mislead investigators and the media.

Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cui Tiankai speaks at a reception at the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo, capital of Japan, on July 29, 2008. A reception was given at the embassy to acknowledge Japan’s supports to the earthquake-hit areas after a strong earthquake devastated some part of southwest China’s Sichuan Province on May 12.(Xinhua Photo)

Japanese House of Representatives Speaker Yohei Kono speaks at the reception at the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo, capital of Japan, on July 29, 2008. A reception was given at the embassy to acknowledge Japan’s supports to the earthquake-hit areas after a strong earthquake devastated some part of southwest China’s Sichuan Province on May 12.(Xinhua Photo)

TOKYO, July 29 (Xinhua) — The Chinese Embassy in Japan held a reception Tuesday to express appreciation and thanks to the Japanese people for their precious assistance and support for China’s quake relief and rescue operations.

The May 12 earthquake has been the most devastating and widest-affecting natural disaster since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, said Chinese Ambassador Cui Tiankai at the reception.

The Chinese people will never forget the assistance and support offered by the Japanese government, friends of various circles and Chinese expatriates in Japan after the massive disaster occurred, said Cui.

On behalf of the Chinese government and people, the Chinese ambassador extended great respect and sincere thanks to Japanese friends who lent a hand with China’s relief efforts in quake-hit areas.

Yohei Kono, speaker of Japan’s House of Representatives, said that as a country frequently hit by disasters, Japan is well aware of the importance of as well as the difficulties in the post-disaster reconstruction.

Japan is willing to offer assistance and help as its capacity allows to China’s quake-battered areas, he said.

Kono also wished the upcoming Beijing Olympics an enormous success.

Present at the reception were some 700 personages from various walks of life in Japan, including Satsuki Eda president of Japan’s House of Councilors, Toshihiro Nikai, chairman of the General Council of ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).

FUZHOU, July 29 (Xinhua) — More than 450,000 people have suffered economic losses and 107 flights have been canceled in eastern China since typhoon Fung Wong, the eighth tropical storm to hit China this year, made landfall late on Monday.

The typhoon, which was downgraded to a tropical storm on Tuesday, destroyed 110 houses and forced the evacuations of 390,000people in Fujian Province.

Crops were destroyed on 16,840 hectares of farmland, according to a preliminary estimates of the provincial flood control office on Tuesday.

Sixty-six industries and enterprises suspended operation, causing economic losses of 503 million yuan (74 million U.S. dollars).

As of 10 p.m. on Tuesday, 97 domestic and 10 international flights had been canceled, according to an official with Changle International Airport in Fuzhou, the provincial capital.

Eight other flights were delayed and only 12 aircraft took off at the airport as scheduled.

The source said all the 430 international air passengers, who were stranded at the airport, would leave on rescheduled flights.

The typhoon weakened into a tropical storm early on Tuesday and was moving northwest towards Qianshan County, Jiangxi Province, at about 9:21 p.m., bringing heavy rains and winds.

It is expected to continue for three more days, producing 150 millimeters of rain, on average, in northern areas of Jiangxi by Saturday, the provincial meteorological observatory predicted.

The Fujian observatory said the eye of the powerful typhoon landed at Donghan Town, Fuqing City, at 10 p.m. Monday with winds of up to 119 kilometers per hour and torrential rains.

Britney has been branded ‘Puff Mommy’ by the American press

Britney eventually takes the packet and lighter from her son

I wonder if mummy can see me now: The three-year-old begins to pull a cigarette out of the packet

Britney Spears puffs on a cigarette outside her Beverly Hills home as her son Sean Preston reaches for her packet of Marlboro Lights

London - Britney Spears’ parenting skills have come under fire yet again after photographs emerged showing the star smoking in front of her son as he plays with a packet of cigarettes.

The singer, branded ‘Puff Mommy’ by the American press, eventually takes the Marlboro Lights and a lighter from the two-year-old’s hands, but continues to subject him to second-hand smoke.

Health experts have criticised Britney’s ’shocking’ behaviour, calling her a ‘poor role model’ for her children.

It comes a week after Britney officially agreed to give her ex-husband Kevin Federline sole custody of the couple’s two sons, Sean Preston and Jayden, 1.

She is currently allowed two visits and one overnight per week in the settlement.

It is the latest in a string of high-profile parenting dramas for the 26-year-old.

In January this year, she was placed on lockdown for a mental evaluation after she locked herself in a room with Sean Preston at her LA home and refused to hand him over to Federline.

In February 2006, she was caught driving with Sean Preston on her lap with no seat belts and the following month she received a visit from child welfare officers when Sean Preston fell from his high chair, bruising his head.

That same year, she was photographed nearly dropping him while leaving a New York hotel.