No. 1 star -- Vitor Belfort*: We will be watching highlights of that knockout for years to come. The timing, explosion and landing spot of the kick were just perfect. The knockout was so great the UFC didn't even have to say who they were talking about when they announced who the $50,000 Knockout of the Night bonus was awarded to.
#UFConFX8 Fight of the Night, Martins vs. Larsen; Sub of the Night, Jacare. KO - c'mon now, be reasonable. 50K each.
Then why the asterisk? Because it's hard to look at what Belfort did and not wonder if the testosterone replacement therapy he used throughout his camp played a part. His late-career resurgence doesn't pass the smell test.
No. 2 star -- Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza: Did Chris Camozzi even realize he was in the arm triangle choke that Souza so expertly applied? Souza's performance on Saturday night served notice to the UFC middleweights. It also earned him a $50,000 Submission of the Night bonus. All in all, it was a pretty good start in the UFC for the Strikeforce veteran.
No. 3 star -- Fabio Maldonado: Perhaps it wasn't the prettiest win of the night, but it got the job done against some tough odds. Maldonado withstood a kick to the groin that made even me wince and came back to win by decision. That's more than enough to earn a star.
Nearly everyone and their grandmother has at least some sort of streaming service at their fingertips?or at the very least, they have a streaming service that someone is letting them mooch off of. But despite the prominence of Netflix, Hulu, and the like, there's still a good number of cinephiles out there who still love buying actual, physical copies of their beloved films. To somewhat keep up with the streaming masses, Limelight lets you access and share your catalogue of physical movies with the digital world.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) ? Do your kids love chocolate milk? It may have more calories on average than you thought.
Same goes for soda.
Until now, the only way to find out what people in the United States eat and how many calories they consume has been government data, which can lag behind the rapidly expanding and changing food marketplace.
Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are trying to change that by creating a gargantuan map of what foods Americans are buying and eating.
Part of the uniqueness of the database is its ability to sort one product into what it really is ? thousands of brands and variations.
Take the chocolate milk.
The government long has long classified chocolate milk with 2 percent fat as one item. But the UNC researchers, using scanner data from grocery stores and other commercial data, found thousands of different brands and variations of 2 percent chocolate milk and averaged them out. The results show that chocolate milk has about 11 calories per cup more than the government thought.
The researchers led by professor Barry Popkin at the UNC School of Public Health, are figuring out that chocolate milk equation over and over, with every single item in the grocery store. It's a massive project that could be the first evidence of how rapidly the marketplace is changing, and the best data yet on what exact ingredients and nutrients people are consuming.
That kind of information could be used to better target nutritional guidelines, push companies to cut down on certain ingredients and even help with disease research.
Just call it "mapping the food genome."
"The country needs something like this, given all of the questions about our food supply," says Popkin, the head of the UNC Food Research Program. "We're interested in improving the public's health and it really takes this kind of knowledge."
The project first came together in 2010 after a group of 16 major food companies pledged, as part of first lady Michelle Obama's campaign to combat obesity, to reduce the calories they sell to the public by 1.5 trillion. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation agreed to fund a study to hold the companies accountable, eventually turning to UNC with grants totaling $6.7 million.
Aided by supercomputers on campus, Popkin and his team have taken existing commercial databases of food items in stores and people's homes, including the store-based scanner data of 600,000 different foods, and matched that information with the nutrition facts panels on the back of packages and government data on individuals' dietary intake.
The result is an enormous database that has taken almost three years so far to construct and includes more detail than researchers have ever had on grocery store items ? their individual nutritional content, who is buying them and their part in consumers' diets.
The study will fill gaps in current data about the choices available to consumers and whether they are healthy, says Susan Krebs-Smith, who researches diet and other risk factors related to cancer at the National Cancer Institute.
Government data, long the only source of information about American eating habits, can have a lag of several years and neglect entire categories of new types of products ? Greek yogurt or energy drinks, for example.
With those significant gaps, the government information fails to account for the rapid change now seen in the marketplace. Now more than ever, companies are reformulating products on the fly as they try to make them healthier or better tasting.
While consumers may not notice changes in the ingredient panel on the back of the package, the UNC study will pick up small variations in individual items and also begin to be able to tell how much the marketplace as a whole is evolving.
"When we are done we will probably see 20 percent change in the food supply in a year," Popkin says. "The food supply is changing and no one really knows how."
For example, the researchers have found that there has been an increase in using fruit concentrate as a sweetener in foods and beverages because of a propensity toward natural foods, even though it isn't necessarily healthier than other sugars. While the soda and chocolate milk have more calories on average than the government thought, the federal numbers were more accurate on the calories in milk and cereals.
Popkin and his researchers are hoping their project will only be the beginning of a map that consumers, companies, researchers and even the government can use, breaking the data down to find out who is eating what and where they shop. Is there a racial divide in the brand of potato chips purchased, for example, and what could that mean for health? Does diet depend on where you buy your food ? the grocery store or the convenience store? How has the recession affected dietary intake?
"It's only since I've really started digging into this that I have realized how little we know about what we are eating," says Meghan Slining, a UNC nutrition professor and researcher on the project.
Steven Gortmaker, director of the Harvard School of Public Health Prevention Research Center, says the data could help researchers figure out how people are eating in certain communities and then how to address problems in those diets that could lead to obesity or disease.
"The more information we have, the more scientists can be brainstorming about what kinds of interventions or policy changes we could engage in," Gortmaker said.
But the information doesn't include restaurant meals and some prepared foods, about one-third of what Americans eat. If the project receives continued funding, those foods eventually could be added to the study, a prospect that would be made easier by pending menu labeling regulations that will force chain restaurants to post calories for every item.
Popkin and his researchers say that packaged foods have long been the hardest to monitor because of the sheer volume and rapid change in the marketplace.
The Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation, an industry group representing the 16 companies that made the pledge to reduce 1.5 trillion calories, says it will report this summer on how successful they've been, according to Lisa Gable, the group's president. The first results from Popkin's study aren't expected until later this year.
Marion Nestle, a New York University professor of nutrition, food studies and public health, says the data could be useful in pressuring companies to make more changes for the better. Companies often use "the research isn't there" as a defense against making changes recommended by public health groups, she notes, and it can be hard to prove them wrong.
"What people eat is the great mystery of nutrition," Nestle says. "It would be wonderful to have a handle on it."
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Jaron Lanier, a pioneer in open source software, warns of the dangers of free information in an ever-growing technological world. Source: NYTimes.com
Jaron Lanier, introduced as one of Time Magazine?s 100 Most Influential People in the World, presented on his book, Who Owns the Future?, in Spanos Auditoriuim on Friday, May 3rd, 2013. Through his book on futuristic economics, Lanier hopes to open ?a space of possibility? to consider the oncoming problems of the digital age. Lanier does not believe that a perfect political or economic system exists in human affairs. Instead, he advocates a balance of power between the government, the economy, and the digital networks to resolve world problems.
Lanier first addresses a prevailing misconception of technology in society, namely the notion that technology is beyond human control. Many people tend to think of technology in a ?deterministic framework,? as something ?that has its own volition, where people are only accessories.? Since the entrepreneurs of the technological world are becoming so rich and successful, it is also easy to assume that the digital sphere is perfect. However, Lanier suggests that technology is not an independent entity, as it is often depicted in media, and that the utopian facets often associated with technology are misleading.
For example, a concrete economic problem in the computer world can be found in the advent of open source software. While free access to information may seem democratic and flawless, Lanier argues otherwise. Previously a pioneer in open source software himself, Lanier now argues that free information undermines diversity and democracy. In fact, firms that provide free information are actively participating in their self-destruction since they are not being compensated. To help the audience better understand his argument, Lanier proposes a hypothetical thought experiment.
Imagine a collection of individuals living on a secluded island, sharing information openly. Even if we assume that society is generally good-natured and decent, there is still the problem of computational inequality. As Lanier bluntly states, ?All computers are not created equal.? Some computers are located in giant server farms fueled by rivers that have mass amounts of computational power, while others, like the laptop of a college student, have much lower capabilities. With better computers, the top search engine companies, networking sites, finance schemes, and national intelligence agencies can ?reform the whole world.? They can gather information about their customers and calculate correlations to gain a new and superior perspective. In doing so, they can globally optimize, creating the best outcomes for themselves.
One pioneer of global optimization is Walmart, a company that has rigorously compiled databases about its customers and suppliers to model business behavior. While unable to obtain information about every single party, Walmart has enough information to fill in the missing pieces indirectly and create a global picture. As a result, Walmart, with its information superiority, could approximate the lowest price they could negotiate even before negotiating with its customers. Similarly, Amazon will use their price bots, will automatically lower the selling prices of their products based on the prices of its competitors. The ultimate result is an industry-wide reformation, in which firms must conform to the dominant systems and prevailing algorithms. For instance, authors of the Huffington Post must provide Google, the prevailing search engine, with the necessary information about their articles before publication to appear on their search results.
Some would argue that conforming society to the best entrepreneurs is desirable. However, Lanier worries that the rise of dominant computational systems is creating a winner-take-all world. Open source software further exacerbates the destruction of diversity. In contrast to a monetized economy for technology, a world of free technology would consist of only the top firms. The loss of breadth and diversity, Lanier argues, is undemocratic. Consider the rapidly growing online education websites, which may eventually depose universities. While a number of top colleges may still survive, the middle range may potentially go out of business.
In the nineteenth century, society expressed these exact fears about humans becoming obsolete. Evidence can be found from historical events such as the Luddite uprising to popular literature like H.G. Wells? Time Machine. In the 20th century, labor movements, social security lifelines, tenure, and other forms of protection maintained jobs. However, entering into the 21st century, the open source culture exacerbated the problem of human obsolescence. The loss of one-way linking in favor of two-way linking allowed individuals to purchase open source software and data with anonymity. In the music business, for instance, people can copy songs without being traced.
Lanier?s solution would be to regulate and monetize information, including songs, software, and data. If information were to go unregulated, then financial firms, technology companies, and health insurance firms, would develop nearly perfect algorithms for their business. The rise of these dominant firms will inevitably cause the remainder of society to suffer. For example, a health insurance company may use algorithms to discriminate against risky individuals likely to be sick. Lanier, a pioneer of open source software, ultimately warns of the dangers of free information in an ever-advancing technological world.
The?elevated deck plans?make the building of an elevated deck easier. However, the problem is how we can find a good plan as the most basic aspect of our project. The thing is that when it comes to building an elevated deck, especially the multilevel one, a lot of considerations are needed to be underlined. In fact, even a simple rectangular elevated deck with single level will need an accurate measurement and proper skills. Well, this?doesn't?mean to assume that building an elevated deck is only for professionals. I can say that this project is more than possible to be a DIY project if you have good plans, proper tools and materials and also the availability of the time. Unless you have those aspects, it will be difficult for you to carry out this project on your own. What you need to take into your account is that this is a deck that needs careful measurement when it comes to the size and the height. This type of deck will require some distance from the ground to make it elevated and that?s the thing you need to concern. Good?elevated deck plans?will cover all the necessary measurements regarding the proper height and width for such a deck type. So, be aware of this so that you can complete this project satisfyingly.
So, whenever you have come out with a good plan that determines the size, the height, the width and also whether or not there will be stairs, you are ready to build an elevated deck. Before you start, calculate precisely all of the boards that you will need so that you can buy the boards wisely. When everything is set, you can now place the vertical posts and connect the flashing to the house. After that, measure and cut the boards with extra care to get the perpendicular joist and connect the joist boards to the posts. The next step on?elevated deck plans?will be to add the end cap joist and lay a board across the joists and screw them down to the joists. Finally, you can install the safety rails and think about the finishing process, which will be your own personal decision.
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BEIRUT (AP) ? A wave of tit-for-tat kidnappings between rival Islamic militant groups in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo risks sparking large-scale internal fighting between rebels after clashes killed at least four militants earlier this week, activists said Saturday.
The director of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdul-Rahman, said a coalition of rebel groups known as the Judicial Council had accused another armed opposition faction, the Ghurabaa al-Sham, of plundering factories in Aleppo's industrial neighborhood. Aleppo, Syria's largest city and a former commercial center, is split between rebel and government control.
Any internal fighting between rebels in the city would play into the hands of the regime, which is trying to tarnish the image of the opposition by saying it is dominated by extremists linked to al-Qaida network.
Aleppo, a city of 3 million that was once a bastion of support for President Bashar Assad, has been engulfed in heavy fighting since rebels launched an assault there in July and captured several neighborhoods. Over the past few weeks, regime forces have been pursuing an offensive in the city, mainly focused on pushing the rebels from around the international airport and a nearby military air base.
Abdul-Rahman said tensions among rebel factions have been rising in opposition-held areas, mostly on the eastern side of the city.
The two groups, the Judicial Council and the Ghurabaa al-Sham, clashed on Tuesday near Aleppo in fighting that left four members of the Judicial Council dead, Abldul-Rahman said. He added that the Judicial Council is now holding dozens of members of Ghurabaa al-Sham captive.
Aleppo-based activist Mohammed Saeed said Ghurabaa al-Sham withdrew its fighters from several neighborhoods, including the industrial area, and that it had released all of the Judicial Council members it had been holding captive.
"The situation is very tense in Aleppo," said Abdul-Rahman, who relies on a network of activists around the country. He said that Ghurabaa al-Sham has warned it will bring some of its members from outside the city to fight against the Judicial Council if its members are not freed.
Saeed said Ghurabaa al-Sham released all Judicial Council members it was holding while the other group refused to set free Ghuarbaa al-Sham members and is still holding them.
He added that the Judicial Council is an umbrella organization that includes the Tawheed Brigade, al-Sham Liberals and the al-Qaida-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra ? one of the most effective forces among the mosaic of rebel brigades fighting to topple Assad in Syria's civil war.
"There are fears that fighting (between rebels) might erupt in Aleppo," Saeed said by telephone.
In other parts of Syria, the Observatory reported that rebels captured several villages late Friday in the central province of Hama after weeks of fighting with government troops. It said the villages were inhabited by members of Assad's minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
It said the Alawite villages ? Tleisiyeh, Zaghba, Shaata and Balil ? are all on the eastern side of the central province. The Observatory said residents fled the area captured by rebels.
The uprising against Assad's rule that began in March 2011 quickly became an outlet for long-suppressed grievances, mostly by poor Sunnis from marginalized areas. It has since escalated into an outright civil war that killed more than 70,000 people according to the United Nations.
The conflict has grown increasingly sectarian, both in action and rhetoric.
Earlier this month, activists reported that troops and pro-government Alawite gunmen killed more than 100 people in Sunnis areas in the coastal city of Banias and the nearby town of Bayda. The violence in Banias and Bayda bears a close resemblance to two reported mass killings last year in Houla and Qubeir, Sunni villages surrounded by Alawite towns.
Many of the rebels trying to overthrow Assad today say they want to replace his government with an Islamic state.
The Syrian National Coalition, the main umbrella opposition group warned in a statement that government forces are currently imposing a siege and communications blackout on the towns of Halfaya and Aqrab in Hama.
"Civilians in those areas are now cut off from contact with the outside world, and lives are in extreme danger," the coalition said in a statement.
The Observatory and the Local Coordination Committees, another activist group, reported intense clashes around the town of Qusair near the Lebanon border. Syrian opposition groups say members of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group are taking part in the fighting along with Assad's forces.
By: Michell Gilbreath We will not want to continue concealment because immigration, at when, you can grab, "will say Radi Abdoel-Khan, chief advice for Immigration and also Integration Ministry.
For now indeed there is no go out to close that door, that might be understood as a state administration amnesty presiding Michael Eman, nevertheless Abdoel-Khan suggests not rest. In Aruba it illegal for people to take greater than a season undocumented. Also check youtu.be "The strategy of the Minister Eman is the isle is a land of God and additionally we are really rendered to that land. Everyone is welcome right here and what exactly is in our energy to help them to have stability in this case let's do it," can say advisor . They arubianas authorities accept that 60 percent of the population is not born with the island, and additionally brought to the Colombian plus the biggest colony with about 20,000 members, of that only 11,724 have their documentation so as. At continue to some 9,000 Colombians Dominicans, and Venezuelans 8000. The remainder are actually Chinese immigrants, Peruvians, Ecuadorians, Haitians.
A court has, soon after 2 many years of implementation of the amnesty, have resolved their situation 1,000 people, a high percentage of Colombia. "Whenever the very first immigrants a century ago, they provided to everything we have now, and are important for all of us because you depend upon their work. Today, those who are contributing to the growth which provides them the right to no less than, fix their unlawful standing, "can say Abdoel-Khan.
Prime Minister of Aruba, Michael Eman, does not seem ideal that men and women that invested over 5 years upon the island, for a formality, needing to say "you need to get out of right here, and additionally his kids were produced right here." Even while Eman features the goal of amnesty, warns needs which need to be came across, and demonstrate good behavior and additionally be working. "The people we are assisting are really contributing to the development of Aruba," he reiterates.
The Colombian position The new Consul related with Colombia within the island, Tarquin Camargo Pacheco says which the objective entrusted by the state administration of Chairman Juan Manuel Santos to diplomats is assure all of the Colombian legal rights abroad. "One sees commonly in people living overseas which have migrated their liberties not any longer are available, and is totally false," your man says.
Pacheco's task will be to update the census, together with the help related with the Ministry related with Incorporation Organization Aruba and also Aruba's Colombian friends, and also which includes the legality related with remain related with some 8,000 Colombians. "You are in the campaign to make the town which is irregularly legalize their situation. They do not have to worry. Want them anywhere close to the consulate and provide information to get started on, along while using the government related with Aruba, the respective treatments thus entitled to the social policies of the island, "the consul, who releases the contribution of Colombians in wellness professional services, education, construction, trade and business. Marielis Molinares Tejada, chairman related with the Association and additionally with almost 15 years in Aruba, additionally features the help the Colombians in Arubiana economic climate, most especially in tourism, construction and additionally trade. "For in which you can find give objective Colombia. Here you found an atmosphere of great honesty, tranquility," will say the Barranquilla that head a bilingual class.
About the Author: Y?u d? not want to ?arr? on covering be?au?e ?mmigr?tion, at ?n the event, you are able to g?ab, "will say Radi Abdoel-Khan, chief advise for Immigration and Integration Ministry.
For now indeed there is no big date to close which doorway, that are studied as a state administration amnesty presiding Michael Eman, however Abdoel-Khan recommends not rest. In Aruba it unlawful for citizens to take greater than a year undocumented.
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Who has time to watch a whole movie anymore? It's summer! So in the spirit of phoning in everything once the temperature rises above 70-ish, here's Ridley Scott's Aliens in 60 seconds of adorable animation. Brought to you, of course, by the fine folks who did Star Wars Episode IV, Back to the Future, and The Matrix. Not bad for a human. [YouTube]
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? The head of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has subpoenaed the co-chairman of the independent review board that investigated last year's attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, to answer questions about the panel's findings behind closed doors.
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said in a statement Friday that he had issued the subpoena to retired veteran diplomat Thomas Pickering to force him to appear at a deposition next week. Pickering, who co-chaired the Benghazi Accountability Review Board with a former Joint Chiefs of Staff chief Mike Mullen, has offered to testify before Issa's committee in public. But Issa said a closed-door meeting is needed first in order for the committee to fully understand how the review board conducted its investigation.
"While I am very much committed to having you testify publicly and appreciate your newfound willingness to do so, I was disappointed that you are attempting to limit the committee's understanding of the Accountability Review Board by refusing to participate in a voluntary transcribed interview prior to testifying publicly," Issa said in a letter to Pickering. "In light of your continuing refusal to appear voluntarily for a transcribed interview, however, I have found it necessary to issue a subpoena to compel your appearance at a deposition."
Issa's letter, which was released by his office, said he would consider lifting the subpoena for next Thursday's deposition if Pickering agreed to show up on his own. Issa complained that prior to a public hearing about Benghazi that he chaired last week, Pickering had refused to speak with him and other members of the committee.
Issa is one of several GOP lawmakers who have suggested the Obama administration is trying to cover up the circumstances and aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the Benghazi outpost that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans.
The review board convened by then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was harshly critical of the State Department, blaming systematic leadership and management failures at senior levels for inadequate security in Benghazi. It made 29 recommendations to improve matters, and the State Department has vowed to implement all of them.
Issa said numerous questions about the review board's report remain unanswered, including its methodology. He noted that the ARB conducted its work in secret and appears not to have recorded or transcribed its interviews with witnesses.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks opened higher on Friday and were on track for their fourth straight week of gains as equities rebounded off their worst daily decline in nearly three weeks.
The Dow Jones industrial average <.dji> was up 40.51 points, or 0.27 percent, at 15,273.73. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.spx> was up 5.70 points, or 0.35 percent, at 1,656.17. The Nasdaq Composite Index <.ixic> was up 19.00 points, or 0.55 percent, at 3,484.24.
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The moon generated a surprisingly intense magnetic field until at least 3.56 billion years ago, 160 million years longer than previously thought, a new study reports.
These findings could shed light not just on the magnetic field of the moon, which is now extremely weak, but on that of asteroids and other distant worlds, investigators added.
Earth's magnetic field is created by its internal dynamo, which itself is generated by the planet's churning molten metal core. Research increasingly suggests that the moon once had a dynamo as well, with evidence of magnetism found in lunar rocks returned by Apollo astronauts. [10 Surprising Moon Facts]
Models of the moon's core suggest its dynamo should have lasted only until about 4.1 billion years ago. However, last year, scientists revealed that the moon possessed a magnetic field for much longer than previously thought, with a powerful dynamo in its core from 4.2 billion years ago to at least 3.72 billion years ago.
Researchers have proposed two possibilities to explain why the moon's dynamo lasted so long. One possible explanation is that giant cosmic impacts set the moon lurching enough to drive its dynamo. Another explanation has to do with how the moon's core spins around a slightly different axis than its surrounding mantle layer, generating wobbles ? known as precession ? that could dramatically stir its core.
The cosmic-impact idea is supported by the fact that the moon experienced massive collisions until around 3.7 billion years ago, such as the one that created the 715-mile-wide (1,150 kilometers) Mare Imbrium, among other craters.
However, the dynamo generated by each impact would have lasted for a mere 10,000 years or so, scientists say. In contrast, if precession drove a lunar dynamo, the moon could have continuously possessed a magnetic field until as late as 1.8 billion years ago.
Now, a new analysis of the biggest lunar rock brought back to Earth by Apollo 11 astronauts in 1969 reveals the moon's dynamo lasted about 160 million years longer than previously thought, well after the last of the largest crater-forming impacts hit the moon.
Scientists investigated a 5-gram (0.18 ounces) sample taken from a 3.56-billion-year-old volcanic moon rock from the Sea of Tranquility.
"When rocks solidify from a lava, they capture a record of the magnetic field in their environment," said study lead author Cl?ment Suavet, a geoscientist at MIT. "By studying rocks of different ages, we can reconstruct the history of lunar-surface magnetic fields."
The analysis revealed the intensity of the lunar magnetic field was exceptionally strong 3.56 billion years ago, "almost identical to the field measured in a previous study of 3.7-billion-year-old rocks," Suavet told SPACE.com. "This seems to indicate that the lunar magnetic field was remarkably stable."
The ancient magnetic field of the moon was about as intense as Earth's current surface magnetic field. This makes it about 1,000 times stronger than the moon's present surface magnetic field, researchers said.
Learning more about how the moon's dynamo originated and developed could yield insights into the dynamos of smaller objects, such as asteroids, and larger bodies, such as planets.
"The moon is like a giant laboratory where we can test our theories about how planets form and evolve," Suavet said.
Many questions remain about the moon's magnetic field, such as why it was so intense late into lunar history and how it disappeared over time.
"The question is, when and how did the dynamo decay?" Suavet said.
The scientists detailed their findings online May 6 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Now that Google Glass and Oculus Rift have entered the zeitgeist, might we start to see VR and AR products popping up on every street corner? Perhaps, but Meta has just launched an interesting take on the concept by marrying see-through, stereoscopic, display glasses with a Kinect-style depth sensor. That opens up the possibility of putting virtual objects into the real world, letting you "pick up" a computer-generated 3D architectural model and spin it around in your hand, for instance, or gesture to control a virtual display appearing on an actual wall. To make it work, you connect a Windows PC to the device, which consists of a pair of 960 x 540 Epson displays embedded in the transparent glasses (with a detachable shade, as shown in the prototype above), and a depth sensor attached to the top. That lets the Meta 1 track your gestures, individual fingers and walls or other physical surfaces, all of which are processed in the PC with motion tracking tech to give the illusion of virtual objects anchored to the real world.
Apps can be created via Unity3D and an included SDK on Windows computers (other platforms will arrive later, according to the team), with developers able to publish their apps on the upcoming Meta Store. The group has launched the project on Kickstarter with the goal of raising $100,000 to get developer kits into the hands of app coders, and though it's no Google, Meta is a Y Combinator startup and has several high-profile researchers on the team. As such, it's asking for exactly half of Glass' Explorer Edition price as a minimum pledge to get in on the ground floor: $750. Once developers have had their turn, the company will turn its attention toward consumers and more sophisticated designs -- so if you like the ideas peddled in the video, hit the source to give them your money.
Native Client - a technology that allows developers to run native compiled C and C++ code as part of their web apps - has long been a part of Google Chrome. Even though other browser vendors haven't adopted it yet, Google is clearly putting quite a few resources behind this technology and at I/O this year, it announced Portable Native Client (or PNaCl, which Google says we should pronounce as "pinnacle"). PNaCl is now available in developer preview in Chrome 29 and will slowly find its way into the stable version over the coming months.
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This undated image released by Boneau/Bryan-Brown shows Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in a promotional photo for Peter Morgan?s play "The Audience." National Theatre Live will broadcast to movie theaters a live performance of the West End world premiere on June 13. (AP Photo/Boneau/Bryan-Brown, Johan Persson)
This undated image released by Boneau/Bryan-Brown shows Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in a promotional photo for Peter Morgan?s play "The Audience." National Theatre Live will broadcast to movie theaters a live performance of the West End world premiere on June 13. (AP Photo/Boneau/Bryan-Brown, Johan Persson)
NEW YORK (AP) ? A special audience will get to see Helen Mirren onstage next month in London in the play "The Audience" ? some retired show business veterans in a New Jersey nursing home.
The live cinema event company BY Experience said Friday it will show a live performance of Peter Morgan's play with residents of the The Lillian Booth Actors Home in New Jersey.
BY Experience has donated the high-tech digital projector equipment needed for the broadcast and is permanently installing it in one of the home's community space. Residents will now be able to catch all subsequent broadcasts by National Theatre Live.
The play will be broadcast live across the world from London's Gielgud Theatre using multiple cameras on June 13. Some movie theaters will show it live while others will show it at different times throughout the summer. The Actors Home will get a copy of it June 14.
The play stars Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II, and focuses on the queen's relationship with the 12 prime ministers of her 60-year reign. Its title denotes the weekly meetings the two hold at Buckingham Palace.
"We thought this would be a great way to extend the performance arts-going life of people who could no longer get out and do that," said Julie Borchard-Young, who runs BY Experience with her husband, Robert. "It's a great service to be able to offer to the residents. We just knew it was the right thing to do."
Mirren won an Oliver Award in April for the role. The actress also won an Academy Award in 2007 for her performance as the British monarch in "The Queen," a drama about the aftermath of the death of Princess Diana.
The Lillian Booth Actors Home is a 124-person assisted living and nursing care facility for entertainment professionals in in Englewood, N.J. It is funded in part by The Actors Fund.
Current residents include veterans the world of stage and screen, including actors, vaudevillians, Ziegfeld Follies dancers, comedians, band leaders and set designers.
"This is a community made up of talented artists who've contributed their professional lives to performing arts and entertainment, so they're the perfect audience for Dame Helen Mirren," said Joseph P. Benincasa, president and CEO of the Actors Fund.
Following "The Audience," residents of the nursing home ? and National Theatre Live fans ? will next get to see Nicholas Hytner's production of "Othello" in September.
BY Experience originated the concept of bringing live arts, cultural and music events to cinemas audiences worldwide. It now distributes to over 60 countries.
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Apple?s handling of location data has made its way back into headlines recently due to a tool written by security researcher Hubert Seiwert. Seiwert presented the iSniff GPS tool, which makes it easy to capture potentially sensitive iPhone user data, last July at the Blackhat USA security conference and posted the source code to Github a month later. While the tool isn?t particularly new, it has been the recipient of some media attention after being covered earlier this month by SC Magazine. While the disclosure of the sensitive information by iPhones was previously known, iSniff makes the information more easily accessible and is worth a closer look to determine if users need to worry.
iSniff has two primary components; the first extracts relevant data from traffic captures while the other provides a web interface to interact with collected data. The first component, iSniff_import.py, captures ARP requests from iPhones on the same network and SSID probes from iPhones not currently connected to WiFi. While SSID probes are something normal for all WiFi enabled devices not currently on a network to send out, these particular ARP requests seem to be unique to iOS devices and were initially reported on by Ars Technica after Mark Wuergler initially discovered them.
Normally ARP requests are sent by networked devices in order to resolve the network IP address of other devices on the network to their hardware MAC addresses. Upon joining a network, iOS devices send ARP requests addressed to MAC addresses belonging to the DHCP servers for the last three wireless networks they?ve been connected to. Nobody quite seems to understand why, but one guess is that it?s an attempt to speed up the device?s joining to the network. This means that if your iPhone is connected to WiFi at your house, then you head to Starbucks to get some work done and connect your iPhone to the network there, upon connecting, your iPhone will send an ARP request on Starbucks? wireless network containing the MAC address of your home router. What makes this concerning is that the geographical location of most wireless access points, along with their MAC address, have been mapped, placed into databases, and are available for anybody on the Internet to lookup. If somebody on Starbucks? network was monitoring for these ARP requests, they could acquire your MAC address and do a lookup to find out where it is located, potentially revealing to them where you live.
When your device is trying to determine your current location, it can use GPS, but depending on the availability of satellites, this can take a while to determine your location. Nearby WiFi base stations offer a faster way to determine a user?s approximate location. As you walk around with your iPhone and it detects various wireless signals, it sends anonymous data back to Apple, reporting the device?s location and information about nearby wireless base stations (concerned users can disable this in Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services > Diagnostics & Usagesee update below). Apple adds this information to their giant database of known wireless base stations and locations. By crowd-sourcing this data gathering out to the millions and millions of iOS devices used worldwide, Apple is able to keep a fairly accurate database which allows users to get relatively accurate location services readings when they?re near any known base stations. Of course, such a database requires a way for iOS devices to read from it in order to make any use of it. This is precisely what the second major component in iSniff is for.
iSniff makes a location query to Apple?s servers with a single MAC address to find out the MAC?s location. By spoofing the user-agent in the request to appear to be from iOS? location daemon (locationd), iSniff gets Apple to return not only the latitude and longitude of the given MAC address, but information on up to 400 nearby base stations. iSniff will then plot all of this data onto an interactive map in your browser, making it easy to view the data held by Apple?s location services servers... 400 APs at a time.
While interesting to see, this also raises a number of privacy concerns for users. But should regular users need to worry? Not really. While there are issues with sensitive information being disclosed without customer awareness or control, the likelihood of this information being leveraged in any sort of attack on a user is quite slim. While you could capture and use the information to figure out where somebody lives, you would not only need to get them to join your network, but you?d also have to know which one of the three MAC addresses, if any, belong to their home router. In specialized cases like security audits performed on companies by hired penetration testers, it might make sense to exploit this information in order to track employees back to their houses to try and acquire more sensitive information. But for day-to-day users, it?s extremely unlikely that anybody would try to perform an attack like this in order to learn where a user lived. After all, since physical proximity is required to be on the same WiFi network, in many cases it would seem just as easy to simply follow the person when they drive home.
It would be interesting to know why exactly Apple?s devices exhibit this behavior. You also can?t help but wonder if it?s possible to exploit Apple?s location services servers in other ways. In fact, Seiwert has mentioned in some of his talks that he?s currently exploring this possibility. It might be wise of Apple to try and lock those servers down a little tighter before information disclosed by them becomes a bigger concern for users.
In the meantime, this isn?t something users should be too concerned about. If you?re already joining untrusted wireless networks or networks with malicious users on them, your problems are likely much bigger than somebody getting the MAC address of your router.
Update: Seiwert has informed me that while initially it was believed turning off Diagnostics and Usage in Settings would opt you out of contributing access point data, he has since witnessed devices still transmitting this information even when the Diagnostics and Usage option is disabled.
Ken Venturi, who overcame dehydration to win the 1964 U.S. Open and spent 35 years in the booth for CBS Sports, died Friday afternoon. He was 82.
His son, Matt Venturi, said he died in a hospital in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Venturi had been hospitalized the last two months for a spinal infection, pneumonia, and then an intestinal infection that he could no longer fight.
Venturi died 12 days after he was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame.
He couldn't make it to the induction. His sons, Matt and Tim, accepted on his behalf after an emotional tribute by Jim Nantz, who worked alongside Venturi at CBS.
"When dad did receive the election into the Hall of Fame, he had a twinkle in his eye, and that twinkle is there every day," Tim Venturi said that night.
Venturi was all about overcoming the odds.
A prominent amateur who grew up in San Francisco, he captured his only major in the 1964 U.S. Open at Congressional, the last year the final round was 36 holes. In oppressive heat, Venturi showed signs of dehydration and a doctor recommended he stop playing because it could be fatal. Venturi pressed on to the finish, closed with a 70 and was heard to say, "My God, I've won the U.S. Open."
He had a severe stuttering problem as a child, yet went on to become one of the familiar voices in golf broadcasting. He began working for CBS in 1968 and lasted 35 years.
"We all knew what a wonderful player Ken Venturi was, and how he fashioned a second successful career as an announcer," Jack Nicklaus said. "But far more important than how good he was at playing the game or covering it, Ken was my friend. Ken was fortunate in that the game of golf gave him so much, but without question, Ken gave back far more to the game he loved than he ever gained from it. Over the years, Ken developed a circle of friends that is enormous and whose collective heart is heavy today."
Venturi played on one Ryder Cup team and was U.S. captain in the 2000 Presidents Cup.
As an amateur, he was the 54-hole leader in the 1956 Masters until closing with an 80, and he was runner-up at Augusta National in 1960 to Arnold Palmer, who birdied the last two holes.
Venturi was born May 15, 1931, in San Francisco, and he developed his game at Harding Park Golf Course. He won the California State Amateur at Pebble Beach in 1951 and 1956, while serving in the Army in Korea between those two amateur titles.
His stammering problem is what led him to golf.
"When I was 13 years old, the teacher told my mother, 'I'm sorry, Mrs. Venturi, but your son will never be able to speak. He's an incurable stammerer,'" Venturi said in 2011. "My mother asked me what I planned to do. I said, 'I'm taking up the loneliest sport I know,' and picked up a set of hickory shaft across the street from a man and went to Harding Park and played my first round of golf."
He turned pro after his close call in the 1956 Masters, and won his first PGA Tour at the St. Paul Open Invitational. Venturi won eight times over the next three years, including the Los Angeles Open and the Bing Crosby National Pro-Am at Pebble Beach, before injuries started to affect his game after nearly winning the 1960 Masters.
He hurt his back in 1961 and badly injured his wrist in a car accident the next year. He missed the U.S. Open three straight years until he narrowly qualified for Congressional. It turned out to be an epic final day for the Californian coping with broiling heat.
Venturi shot 66 in the third round, but was feeling weak during the break before the final round that afternoon. John Everett, a doctor and member at Congressional, checked on him and found a normal pulse but symptoms of dehydration.
"Dr. Everett told me ... I was lying next to my locker and he says, 'I suggest that you don't go out. It could be fatal,'" Venturi said in 2011 when he returned to Congressional for the U.S. Open. "I looked up at him and I said, 'Well, it's better than the way I've been living.' And I got off the floor, and I do not remember walking to the first tee. I don't remember the front nine until I started coming into it."
Venturi was so shaken, so weak, when it was over that his final act was to sign the scorecard. He couldn't even read the numbers. Joe Dey, the executive director of the USGA, looked over his shoulder, checked the scores and told him to sign it.
Sports Illustrated honored him as its "Sportsman of the Year" in 1964.
Venturi won three more times, his last win coming in 1966 at the Lucky International at Harding Park, where it all started.
He eventually developed Carpel Tunnel Syndrome in his hands and was forced to retire. That's when he moved into the booth as the lead analyst for CBS Sports, and his voice filled living rooms for the next 35 years until he retired in 2002.
Venturi was elected to the Hall of Fame through the Lifetime Achievement category.
"If there is some sense of fairness, it is that Ken was inducted into a Hall of Fame that he very much deserved to be in and, in fact, should have been in for many years," Nicklaus said. "While I know he was not able to be there in person for his induction, I am certain there was an overwhelming sense of pride and peace that embraced Ken. It was a dream of Ken Venturi's that became a reality before he sadly left us."
Venturi is survived his wife of 10 years, Kathleen, and his two sons. Matt Venturi said services were pending.
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Native Client - a technology that allows developers to run native compiled C and C++ code as part of their web apps - has long been a part of Google Chrome. Even though other browser vendors haven't adopted it yet, Google is clearly putting quite a few resources behind this technology and at I/O this year, it announced Portable Native Client (or PNaCl, which Google says we should pronounce as "pinnacle"). PNaCl is now available in developer preview in Chrome 29 and will slowly find its way into the stable version over the coming months.
