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Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Zynga's new CEO reportedly discussed buying the company while still at Microsoft
Don Mattrick might still be arranging his desk stationery and getting his nameplate fitted on his new office door, but the former Microsoft Studios boss was apparently eyeing up Zynga for at least three years prior. According to Bloomberg, Mattrick discussed the idea of buying the company with founder Mark Pincus, bringing Zynga's social games (and hopefully some of its millions of users) to Microsoft's Xbox. People "with knowledge of the matter" say that talks eventually broke down, which is probably why you don't see Farmville taking up acres within Xbox Live. At least, not yet.
Filed under: Gaming, Microsoft
Source: Bloomberg
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Monday, July 8, 2013
Sunday, July 7, 2013
BBM for Android, iPhone face existing dominance
The BBM launch excitement for Android and iPhone is clear, especially within schools where teens are talking about the cool BlackBerry Messenger features they like and want to see on iOS and Android phones.
While there is a certain amount of success expected thanks to those that already desire to download the BBM app on iPhone and Android, it is also clear that when the chat app arrives it will do so at a time when another app is ruling this area in most countries.
BBM vs. WhatsApp on Android and iPhone ? one of our readers explained it perfectly in a recent article, ?those of you that previously used BBM on a BlackBerry phone will love BBM for iPhone or Android?. The reason for this is that these people wills till have a number of contacts using a BlackBerry device, so naturally they?d love BBM for Android and iPhone.
The big problem for BlackBerry is the current dominance of WhatsApp. If just about everyone you know is on one chat app, then why using another? You?ll want to be using the same app as everyone else.
You can see a clear picture if you look at the iTunes Store charts for their top 10 paid apps. We had a quick look at the time of writing and notice WhatsApp is currently in first position for the most downloaded paid app, and amazingly this is not just in one location like the UK.
WhatsApp is currently the top paid app in the UK, Austria, Belgium, Australia and many other countries. The chat app is currently second to Where?s My Mickey in the United States.
Most importantly, BlackBerry?s home country of Canada has WhatsApp listed as the top paid app as well, so it will be really interesting to see how this all changes at the BBM launch for iPhone and Android.
Would you leave WhatsApp for BBM on your iPhone or Android phone? You can read about the impact of BBM on Android and iPhone from a financial point of view in this article, although we did notice a lot of our readers still see BBM as a great way to connect with friends and family not using WhatsApp on their BlackBerry phones. It is also good to remember that while WhatsApp dominates, there are still plenty of other apps that BBM will need to combat as well on iPhone and Android devices.
Source: http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2013/07/07/bbm-for-android-iphone-face-existing-dominance/
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Saturday, July 6, 2013
Study in Spain via Berklee | Undergraduate Admission Blog
The following entry was written my Anna Lindgren, Class of 2014
My unequivocal recommendation to incoming college students is to take advantage of study abroad opportunities. Through its continued partnership with Berklee, Emerson has just added an exciting new destination to our external program options: Berklee College of Music?s Valencia Global Studies Program.
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During this semester-long program, Emerson and Berklee students live in a residence hall in Valencia and take classes at Berklee?s satellite campus in la Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias (the City of the Arts and Sciences), an entertainment-based cultural and architectural complex that is now a major modern tourist attraction. Completed in 2005, the building that houses Berklee?s satellite campus, El Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, is an opera house and performing arts center. The complex is also home to Valencia?s opera and ballet, so students are surrounded by not only their peers and professors, but by world class musicians and performers.
The program offers a wide variety of classes from music business to performance and technology as well as liberal arts courses. Students can also take advantage of private music lessons during their time at the Valencia campus. Berklee?s Valencia campus is fully decked out with state of the art concert halls, studios, equipment and rehearsal spaces.
The Berklee Valencia program would be ideal for a student interested in the music industry, whether in the performance or business side of it. Much like the ProArts Consortium, the courses at Berklee Valencia offer a different perspective than those at Emerson, so this is a totally unique opportunity to supplement your cirriculum with courses that might not be available in Boston. And did I mention the program also includes two excursions to Madrid and Seville? Who wouldn?t want to spend a few months bopping around Spain?
Source: http://press.emerson.edu/undergraduateadmission/2013/07/05/study-in-spain-via-berklee/
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Friday, July 5, 2013
Usher might ruin your dog s Fourth of July
For many, the Fourth of July is about food, food, alcohol and more food (maybe with a side of baseball). But as late afternoon rolls around and people prepare for fireworks displays, you might remember, ?Hey? didn?t Banjo freak out about the fireworks last year??
If you live in NYC, R&B star Usher is ?curating? the 2013 Macy?s Fourth of July Fireworks, which means that while Usher himself is not upsetting any dogs today (hopefully), Usher is indirectly ruining many dogs? day. While dogs are known for their noses, they also come equipped with an excellent auditory system, which might not always be beneficial. Almost half the owners in a recent survey reported that their dog shows fearful behavior when hearing fireworks.
What does it look like when Banjo freaks out?
?Freaking out? in association with loud noises can take a number of different forms, either catatonia, which is a state of motor immobility, or panic and mania, marked by excessive movement. In one study, dogs exposed to simulated thunderstorms panted, paced, hid, stayed near the owner, and whined and barked. Another study found that lab beagles exposed to thunderstorm sounds in an open-field testing room were most likely to display a freezing response. Dogs might also howl, perform destructive behaviors, attempt to escape, or even urinate or defecate. Even if a dog doesn?t overly respond to cars backfiring or thunderstorms, this doesn?t necessarily mean that 20 to 30 minutes of loud booming and cracking fireworks will go unnoticed.
The bottom line: When loud noises come out, many dogs are not having a good time. In the study exposing companion dogs to simulated thunderstorms, dogs? salivary cortisol levels (which assesses dog stress response) ?increased 207%, and these levels did not return to baseline within 40 min.?
While many around the US of A are oohing and ahhing at the blasts of red, white and blue filling the sky, many Banjos around the country would rather move to Canada. But maybe this year can be different! The Fourth of July should not be about massive dog defection or owners regretting that a companion dog had a horrible day. Here?s what you can do to combat Usher.
?I wish I hadn?t taken my dog to the fireworks?
My mom?s friend recently brought her new dog to the loud fireworks display at the public pool. Her words: she ?regretted bringing the dog because the dog was so frightened.?
Ways to avoid this regret:
- Don?t do it: Don?t take a dog to a fireworks display.
- Lend a helping hand: If possible, have someone stay home with the dog. One study found that reassuring a dog did not intensify or reinforce a dog?s fear response.
- Good food: Veterinary behaviorist, Ilana Reisner recommends cooking up irresistible food to give the dogs during the event. ?Cut meat into tiny pieces and stock a treat bag. Feed one piece at a time to your dog throughout the fireworks to countercondition and distract. If your dog is willing, make a game of it and ask her [to] sit, down, shake hands and other distracting cues. Freeze a Kong with kibble mixed with baby food. Feed dinner through the toy.?
- Make a comfy ?chill? spot: Some dogs might retreat and hide instead of taking food. Make a comfy hang out spot for your dog.
- Be nice and don?t punish your dog: Dogs might perform behaviors we don?t typically like, like digging or scratching. Remember that those behaviors are part of an emotional response. Change? the underlying emotional state and you can change the resulting behavior.
- Bring in assistance: Anxiety wraps, white noise, dog appeasing pheromone (DAP) and pharmacological support could help. Before adding medication, always check with a veterinarian, or even a veterinary behaviorist who is specifically trained in behavioral medicine.
Although Usher and many others around the States are adding loud, booming noises to the sky tonight, there are steps you can take to make your dog hold less of a grudge against Usher.
Photo: Usher @ Air Canada Centre, Toronto.? Tony Felgueiras via creative commons.
References
Blackwell et al. 2005. Firework fears and phobias in the domestic dog. RSPCA
Bowen 2010. Behaviour: Firework fears and phobias. Companion Animal
Dreschel & Granger. 2005. Physiological and behavioral reactivity to stress in thunderstorm-phobic dogs and their caregivers. Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Cottam et al. 2012. The effectiveness of the Anxiety Wrap in the treatment of canine thunderstorm phobia: An open-label trial, Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research
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Thursday, July 4, 2013
Arachnophobics Beware: This Creepy Spiderbot Is Incredibly Lifelike
If you've got $1,350 burning a hole in your pocket and an arachnophobic friend you love to terrorize, the folks at Robugtix will happily trade your heard-earned money for this incredibly lifelike robotic spider called the T8.
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Record-toppling heat heads north, and it's 'just going to get hotter'
Excessive heat continues in the West, where the added danger of monsoon flow can deliver dry lightning strikes. KNBC's Fritz Coleman reports.
By M. Alex Johnson and Jeff Black, NBC News, NBC News
The brutal heat wave baking much of the Southwest was bringing record-breaking temperatures Monday to traditionally cool parts of the Northwest where summer is more a state of mind than a season of sweat.
The oppressive heat ? unusually high even for summer ovens like Death Valley, Calif., and Las Vegas ? has immersed the western third of the country in dangerous conditions, feeding wildfires and droughts with little relief in sight. It has?already killed at least one person, an elderly man who suffered cardiac arrest Saturday in an un-air-conditioned residence in Las Vegas,?NBC station KSNV reported.
After setting records across the Southwest, the weather system ? a?smothering dome of high pressure stretching from Montana to Arizona ? was starting to broil western areas of Washington and Oregon, where high temperatures might top out in the mid-80s once or twice a year, thanks to the cooling effects of the Oregon Coast Mountains and the Olympic Mountains in Washington.
But "right now, we're not feeling the cooling from the ocean at all," National Weather Service meteorologist Shawn Weagle?told the Register-Guard of Eugene, Ore.
"It is just going to get hotter," said Mike Linden, a meteorologist for NBC station KNDU of Kennewick, Wash.
Heat advisories and warnings covered Washington, Oregon and Idaho through Tuesday evening.
Two guys from the National Weather Service harnessed the power of the sun and took advantage of the extreme heat wave scorching the Western U.S. to bake up some fresh cookies on the dashboard of their car. TODAY's Dylan Dreyer reports.
"The combination of hot temperatures and high humidity will combine to create a dangerous situation in which heat illnesses are likely," the National Weather Service said.
"Hot weather isn't frequent in Seattle," Mayor Mike McGinn said. While the forecast high later Monday of 93 degrees would be welcome relief for people in the Southwest, it would shatter Seattle's July 1 record of 87.
The city was closing the University Bridge, a major commuter passage, for 10 minutes every hour so it could be flushed to keep it from getting too hot, the Seattle Times reported. East of Renton, a southern suburb, work crews were trying Monday to repair a busy road that buckled in the heat ? essentially melting open, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported.
McGinn noted that?many homes don't have air conditioning, and he urged residents to use the 18 city library branches that do have it as cooling centers.
In other Northwest cities where the Pacific and the mountains have little effect, triple-digit temperatures were expected Tuesday. Yakima, Wash., was forecast to hit 106 degrees. Ashland, Ore., was forecast to hit 105. And Boise, Idaho, was expected to top out at 109 ? 2 degrees below the all-time record, set on July 19, 1960.
"It's amazing how much we take for granted shade and cool weather until it gets really hot like this, and then you really realize it," Abby Sweet, who was outside watering plants Monday at CFW Earth and Wood Nursery in Missoula, Mont., told NBC station KECI.
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Death Valley National Park employee Anna Gilay makes her usual seven-mile morning run at 6:55 a.m. with the unofficial temperature already reaching 103 degrees as a heat wave spreads across the West on Sunday.
The Northwest was only going through what residents of the rest of the West have been experiencing since last week. How hot has it been? It even hit 83 degrees Sunday in Fairbanks, Alaska.
It's hard to set records for heat in the Southwest, but more fell Sunday. Las Vegas hit 117 degrees.?Since record-keeping began there in 1937, the only other times the temperature reached 117 degrees were on July 19, 2005, and July 24, 1942, according to the National Weather Service.?
In addition to the man who died, seven other people were hospitalized for heat-related illnesses Sunday, the Las Vegas Sun reported.
The mercury rocketed to 128 degrees Sunday in Death Valley National Park, the National Weather Service said, tying the record for the hottest June day anywhere in the country. ?But the Los Angeles Times reported that the National Park Service thermometer ? 200 yards away ? recorded a temperature of 129.9, which shatters the record for June.?
The highest-ever recorded air temperature on the planet, according to the Weather Service, was 134 degrees on July 10, 1913, in Death Valley?s Greenland Ranch.
Nearly half of Utah, where temperatures reached triple digits for the fifth straight day in Salt Lake City, was suffering a severe drought, NBC station KSL of Salt Lake City reported.
"We have a huge drought situation," Claudia Jarrett, chairwoman of the Sanpete County Commission, told KSL. "There's just been no rain. The streams are not filling and the ponds are not filling. It is a critical water situation."
Tracy Jarrett and Alastair Jamieson of NBC News contributed to this report.
Dozens of people have been hospitalized because of heat-related injuries in the high temperatures that are gripping the Western U.S. Some cities have seen temperatures soar far past the hundred-degree mark, while the heat continues. TODAY's Dylan Dreyer reports.
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This story was originally published on Sun Jun 30, 2013 4:39 PM EDT
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Jay-Z Shouts Out 'Good-Looking' Pharrell In Vintage Interview
In a 2000 interview with MTV News, Hov shouts out his 'I Just Wanna Love U' collaborator, who's also working on Magna Carta.
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Monday, July 1, 2013
Ten states to tackle gay marriage next
Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP
Army Capt. Michael Potoczniak, center left, and Todd Saunders, of El Cerrito, Calif., are married by deputy marriage commissioner John Loschmann, center, as witnesses Bill Hershon, left, and Sean Boileau watch at City Hall in San Francisco, Saturday, June 29, 2013.
By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News
Energized by two big victories at the Supreme Court, advocates of gay marriage are turning their attention to a handful of states that they believe are most likely to allow it next.
One of those two wins made California the 13th state where gay couples can now legally get married. Counting the District of Columbia, gay marriage is legal in places covering about 30 percent of the U.S. population.
National gay rights groups say they now hope to persuade either the Supreme Court or Congress to legalize gay marriage across the country ? in a matter of years, not decades.
?The answer is to win more states, win a critical mass of states, and a critical mass of public support, which creates a climate that encourages the court to do its job,? said Evan Wolfson, founder of Freedom to Marry, a pro-gay-marriage group.
Here are the states that advocates say will be the next battlegrounds.
COULD HAPPEN THIS YEAR
Illinois: Gay marriage almost passed the Legislature this spring, but a Democratic state representative tearfully told his colleagues that he didn?t have the votes and would give them time to talk it over with constituents.
Advocates say the next try will probably come in late October, when lawmakers gather for a short session. They believe the Supreme Court rulings, particularly one extending federal benefits to gay spouses, could make the difference.
?It?s one thing to be against the marriage bill ideologically,? said Randy Hannig, director of public policy at the pro-gay-marriage group Equality Illinois. ?It?s another thing to stand in the way of people receiving benefits.?
New Jersey: Gov. Chris Christie, a potential Republican presidential candidate for 2016, vetoed a gay-marriage bill last year. He said last week that he?d do it again, and that the state should ?let the people decide.?
Democrats in the Legislature are considering whether to try to override the veto. The Legislature could also put gay marriage on the ballot this fall. A Rutgers University poll two weeks ago suggested it would pass easily.
There?s also a path through the courts. New Jersey has civil unions, but seven gay couples are arguing that those don?t comply with a 2006 state Supreme Court ruling that gay and straight couples should have equal rights. A hearing is expected in August.
Hawaii: Fear that the Aloha State would become the first to allow gay marriage led Republicans to write the Defense of Marriage Act, which was signed by President Bill Clinton and stood from 1996 until the Supreme Court struck it down last week.
Gov. Neil Abercrombie, a Democrat, supports gay marriage, and bills to authorize it have been introduced in the state House and Senate. Hawaii has had civil unions since January 2012.
Advocates for gay marriage are pushing in Hawaii federal court, too. But Marty Rouse, national field director for the Human Rights Campaign, said he wouldn?t be surprised to see lawmakers act first ? ?much sooner than later.?
2014 AND BEYOND
Oregon: It?s one of 29 states with a constitutional ban on gay marriage, and it could be the first state where voters repeal such a ban. Advocates are eying the November 2014 election and need 116,000 signatures to get on the ballot.
Arizona, Colorado, Michigan, Ohio: Voters could be asked as early as November 2014 to overturn the constitutional ban, but advocates must decide whether to wait for 2016, a presidential election year, when turnout will be higher.
Nevada: The earliest gay marriage could get on the ballot is 2016, Rouse said, because of a quirk in a state law requiring two votes in the Legislature with a general election sandwiched in between.
New Mexico: It?s complicated. A court case could be decided as early as next year. The Legislature could act, too, but bills both to enact and prohibit gay marriage have gone nowhere so far, and Gov. Susana Martinez opposes it.
This story was originally published on Mon Jul 1, 2013 3:31 AM EDT
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Sunday, June 30, 2013
Video: Portfolio Prepping for Q3
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Saturday, June 29, 2013
The SciArt Buzz: ScienceArt on Exhibit in July/Aug 2013
Looking for a way to escape the summer heat? Pop into any of these galleries nationwide or abroad and get your fix of cool temps and hot sciart.
EXHIBITS: NORTHEAST REGION
WINGED TAPESTRIES: Moths at Large
through September 29, 2013
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West and 79th St.
New York, NY
Witness the arresting beauty and surprising diversity of moths in a presentation of more than 30 large-format prints by Canadian photographer Jim des Rivi?res. Des Rivi?res creates these larger-than-life images by scanning each moth at high resolution to reveal unexpected colors and intricate patterns.
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MARSH MADNESS: Wonders of Wetlands
June 7 ? July 26, 2013
Legacy Foundation Gallery
Community School of Music and Arts
Ithaca, NY
Members of the Finger Lakes Chapter of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators present a sampling of some of their favorite wetlands species and habitats. Participating artists: Paula Bensadoun, Henrike Burton, Candy Cima, Marla Coppolino, Margaret Corbit, Camille Doucet, Gretchen Halpert, Phil Hutchings, Shirley Hogg, Iva Lesky, Liisa Mobley, Margy Nelson, Kathy Schlough, and Susanne Williams. Photographs are by our special guest, Daniel Elswit, of Mist, Light & Stone Photography.
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COLLISION:19
June 14 to July 28, 2013
Boston CyberArts Gallery
141 Green Street
Jamaica Plain, MA
COLLISION:19 includes twenty-two artists from eight countries around the world whose work lingers at the junction of art, technology and science. Some pieces, such as Elizabeth Fuller?s Schr?dinger, address our acceptance of scientific theories. Schr?dinger is an exercise in frustration: the closer you approach the piece, the more difficult it is to see the subject. Others are social experiments where technology is implemented to uncover something about human behavior. This can be seen in Lauren McCarthy?s Social Turkers: Crowdsourced Relationships where Amazon?s Mechanical Turk (a website where one can hire a person to perform jobs that computers aren?t able to accomplish) gets paid to watch and give feedback on romantic dates. Chosen from an international open call, COLLISION:19 exemplifies the diverse range of work produced by artists working under the influence of technology.
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Princeton University?s ART of SCIENCE
through September 15, 2013
Liberty Science Center
222 Jersey City Boulevard
Jersey City, NJ
The Art of Science exhibition marks Princeton University?s 6th annual competition for images that explore the interplay between science and art. Both of these disciplines involve the pursuit of those moments of discovery when what is perceived suddenly becomes more than the sum of its parts. Each piece in this exhibition is, in its own way, a record of such a moment. These 44 extraordinary images are not art for art?s sake. Rather, they were produced during the course of scientific research. For those not able to make it to New Jersey to view the exhibition in person, the images and the science behind them can be viewed online.
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EXHIBITS: SOUTH
BIRDS IN ART
May 25 to August 18, 2013
McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN
Since 1976, the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum has organized Birds in Art annually, seeking to present the very best contemporary artistic interpretations of birds and related subject matter. This touring exhibit presents original paintings, sculptures, and graphics created in the last two years by artists from the world over, and celebrates the timeless appeal of birds through fresh artistic interpretations. Visitors can expect such works as: the sleek warmth of Lucinda Kate McEachern?s bronze plumed whistling duck; the stark contrast of a bulbul bird against rusted rebar in a Karl Taylor acrylic painting; and Hubert the bright-eyed screech owl in charcoal and ink on paper by Karen Bondarchuk.
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EXHIBITS: MIDWEST
ART UNDER THE MICROSCOPE: Bioartography Quilts
June 3 ? August 31, 2013
Center for Care and Discovery
University of Chicago Hospitals
5841 S. Maryland Avenue
Chicago, IL
A collection of 16 textured quilts inspired by scientific photographs of biological structures is being exhibited at the Center for Care and Discovery, marking the beginning of a series of art installations set for the new hospital pavilion. Photomicrographs taken by researchers at the University of Michigan Center for Organogenesis inspired each of the quilts in the exhibit. Washington, D.C.,-area art quilters from a group called Fiber Artists @ Loose Ends emulated the researchers? photomicrographs using fabrics such as suede, tulle and satin embellished with glass beads, crystals and embroidery to make textile renditions of the microscopic blood vessels, skin cells, retinas and other human and animal tissues.
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ANIMAL INSIDE OUT: A Body Worlds Production
March 14 ? September 2, 2013
Museum of Science and Industry
5700 S. Lakeshore Drive
Chicago, IL
This exhibit, from anatomist Dr. Gunther von Hagens?creator of the trailblazing Body Worlds exhibitions?showcases amazing animal specimens preserved through the process of plastination, which replaces the body?s fluids with plastics to incredibly detailed effect. From goats to giraffes and octopuses to ostriches, you?ll see the inner workings of some of the world?s most impressive animals and better understand the evolution of animals and the natural world.
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FRAGILE ENDURANCE: Work by Kate MacDowell
February 10 ? September 22, 2013
John Michael Kohler Arts Center
608 New York Avenue
Sheboygan, WI
FRAGILE ENDURANCE explores the friction and discomfort in man?s relationship with nature. These works raise the question of our own vulnerability within changing ecological systems. Kate MacDowell?s choices of material and subject matter respond to environmental stressors such as climate change and species extinction. Her case studies of two extinct species?the Costa Rican golden toad and the passenger pigeon?can be seen as thoughtful records of lost life forms and commentaries on our own culpability.
**Kate MacDowell?s work was previously featured on Symbiartic in Conservation Conversation in Clay.
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EXHIBITS: WEST
RUNNING WILD
June 1 ? July 13, 2013
Anthology Fine Art Gallery
635 Santa Fe Drive
Denver, CO
Patrick Maxcy is a painter, illustrator, and muralist who is fascinated by the natural world. His exhibit, Running Wild, showcases his back-to-the-basics drawing chops and his flair for telling compelling stories. His drawings are worth the trip alone for any appreciator of art, but if you?re a fellow science geek, he will win you over instantly with his depictions of hairy yeti crabs, giant tube worms, and his liberal use of cephalopods.
**Patrick Maxcy?s work was previously featured on Symbiartic in You Had Me At Hydrothermal Vent Worms.
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THE ART OF RECOLOGY
May 16 ? October 27, 2013
F2 ? North Connect Gallery
San Francisco International Airport,
United Airlines Terminal (Terminal 3)
San Francisco, CA
This exhibition celebrates the Recology San Francisco Artist in Residence Program and presents over one-hundred pieces made by forty-five artists. Founded in 1990, the Recology San Francisco Artist in Residence Program promotes recycling and reuse, and encourages people to reflect on how their consumption practices affect the environment. All of the works on display were made in the art studio at the San Francisco Solid Waste Transfer and Recycling Facility and constructed from materials the artists scavenged from the Public Disposal and Recycling Area (or what we affectionately refer to as ?the dump?).
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New Paintings by KEVIN SLOAN
July 28 ? August 10, 2013
William Havu Gallery
1040 Cherokee Street
Denver, CO
**Kevin Sloan?s work was previously featured on Symbiartic in What Would Audubon Paint Today?
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EXHIBITS: ABROAD
Martin Klimas: SONIC SCULPTURES
April 10 ? July 6, 2013
The Landestheater
Linz, Austria
To celebrate the opening of a new opera house in Linz, Austria, artist Martin Klimas is exhibiting 20 photographs of his SONIC sculptures. To create these lively jaunts of color, Klimas droped paint on a thin membrane and subjected it to music by Paul Hindemith, Carl Orff, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Mouse on Mars, Kraftwerk and more. What does music look like? This is one interpretation.
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Susan Aldworth: TRANSIENCE
June 6 ? July 20, 2013
GV Art Gallery
49 Chiltern Street, Marylebone
London, England
?Could I translate the physicality of the brain into an artwork? It would be the ultimate portrait of someone made from the authentic marks of the physical brain itself.? ?Susan Aldworth 2013
This solo exhibition includes ground breaking work by the artist Susan Aldworth as she continues her investigations into the relationship between mind and body. Since 1999, Aldworth, an experimental print and film maker who combines digital photography and state of the art medical imagery in her work, has explored the depths of consciousness and the transience of self. Her persistent fascination with the physical brain has led to a new body of work which has evolved using techniques from the most traditional to the more radical, as shown in this exhibition. In Transience Aldworth explores the brain as matter and has made a suite of prints ? a historical first ? etching directly from human brain tissue.
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THE ART OF SCIENCE: Scientific Illustrations from Museum Victoria
June 01, 2013 ? July 21, 2013
Art Gallery of Ballarat
40 Lydiard Street North
Ballarat, Victoria AUSTRALIA
Whether they fly, swim, crawl, wiggle or walk, we are endlessly fascinated and inspired by the creatures of our world.The Art of Scienceshowcases the uncommon beauty produced from 300 years of exacting scientific observation and illustration. As exploration and science have expanded our horizons across time and space, the ability to capture and communicate the truths held in nature have become increasingly important. Scientific artwork is as important and astonishing today as it was in the 18th century. In this exquisite exhibition Museum Victoria presents the development of scientific art from the State museum?s seldom seen collection of artworks and rare books, and stunning images produced with microscopes, macro-lenses, and computers.
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EXHIBITS: ONLINE
Science Art-Nature?s WINDOWS ON EVOLUTION: An Artistic Celebration of Charles Darwin
The University of Tennessee?s EARLY IMAGES OF EGYPT: Selected Images of Egypt in the Photographic Archive Collection of the Frank H. McClung Museum
Know of something we haven?t listed here? Send me an email at symbiartic (dot) km (at) gmail (dot) com, or tweet me @eyeforscience with the deets. If it?s scienceart related, it?s fair game.
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Friday, June 28, 2013
TSX falls as telecoms, gold miners tumble
By John Tilak
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index fell on Wednesday as telecoms stocks dropped after reports that big U.S. player Verizon Communications Inc
The weakness in the two sectors more than offset gains in the financial sector after U.S. data helped calm fears of a stimulus rollback.
Revised figures showed U.S. economic growth in the first quarter was slower than first reported, held back by a moderate pace of consumer spending, weak business investment and declining exports.
"The news is negative all over for Canada," said Sal Masionis, a stockbroker at Brant Securities. "The U.S. GDP number doesn't bode too well for our manufacturing."
Reports that Verizon has offered to buy Canadian startup Wind Mobile and is also in talks with rival startup Mobilicity pulled telecoms shares down more than 5.1 percent.
"Verizon is a threat but a long-term threat," Masionis said. "It will take years to get some competition going."
Canada's three dominant telecoms companies all fell hard. BCE Inc
The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index <.gsptse> was down 41.41 points, or 0.34 percent, at 11,964.01, although six of the 10 main sectors on the index were higher. The TSX had jumped 1.4 percent in the previous session.
The materials sector, which includes mining stocks, gave back 1.7 percent. Shares of gold producers fell 4 percent as the bullion price slumped to a near three-year low.
"People are panicking. Gold has to go through a bottoming process," Masionis said. He expects the commodity to fall another $100 before a possible recovery.
Barrick Gold Corp fell 5 percent to C$16.06, and Goldcorp Inc
Financials, the index's most heavily weighted sector, were up 0.4 percent. Royal Bank of Canada
(Editing by Peter Galloway)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/tsx-falls-telecoms-gold-miners-tumble-153901785.html
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Thursday, June 27, 2013
Jackson's son, relatives to testify at trial
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? A lawyer for Michael Jackson's mother says the entertainer's oldest son Prince will testify in the family's negligence case against concert promoter AEG Live LLC.
Attorney Brian Panish expects the 16-year-old to take the witness stand on Wednesday, becoming the first of three Jackson family members to testify.
Panish also wants to call TJ Jackson, the co-guardian of Jackson's three children, and TJ's brother Taj.
Prince Jackson is listed as a plaintiff in the case filed by his grandmother against AEG Live. The lawsuit claims AEG negligently hired the doctor who was later convicted of involuntary manslaughter for giving Jackson an overdose of the anesthetic propofol.
AEG denies wrongdoing and says it did not hire the doctor.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/jacksons-son-relatives-testify-trial-235505826.html
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013
'C' is for cutbacks: 'Sesame' lays off workers
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Sesame Workshop, creators of "Sesame Street," had to cut staff on Tuesday.
It's a sad day on the "Street." Sesame Workshop, makers of the classic children's program "Sesame Street," laid off approximately 10 percent of its employees Tuesday.
"Sesame Workshop, the non-profit organization behind Sesame Street, is constantly assessing where we must invest for the future in response to today's rapidly changing digital environment," the company said in a statement obtained by Reuters. "After careful review, we have concluded that we must reduce our workforce by approximately 10% to strategically focus our resources."
According to Deadline.com, 30 employees lost their jobs, and the company's Sesame Learning program and Global Education departments will be absorbed into other parts of the company. Former Newsweek, Inc. CEO Tom Ascheim, who was an executive vice-president with Sesame Leaning, was one of those laid off, Deadline reports.
Sesame Learning was described by the company as "a vital Workshop initiative aimed (at bringing) the 'Sesame Street'? advantage to classrooms and child-care settings."
There was no word on whether "Sesame Street," the workshop's Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning program, would be directly affected.
Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/c-cutbacks-sesame-lays-workers-6C10450530
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Rivals seek tough EU antitrust action on Google
FILE - This Oct. 1, 2011 file photo, shows the Google logo at the Google headquarters in Brussels. A coalition of Google's competitors urged the European Union's antitrust watchdog Tuesday June 25, 2013 to reject the Internet giant's proposed concessions on displaying search results. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)
FILE - This Oct. 1, 2011 file photo, shows the Google logo at the Google headquarters in Brussels. A coalition of Google's competitors urged the European Union's antitrust watchdog Tuesday June 25, 2013 to reject the Internet giant's proposed concessions on displaying search results. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)
BRUSSELS (AP) ? A coalition of Google's competitors urged the European Union's antitrust watchdog Tuesday to reject the Internet giant's proposed concessions on displaying search results.
"It would be better to do nothing than to accept Google's proposals," said Thomas Vinje of FairSearch, a group of 17 companies including Microsoft and TripAdvisor. "The proposals would make things worse rather than better," he insisted.
The European Commission, the bloc's antitrust authority, has been investigating since 2010 whether Google is abusing its dominant market position and stifling competition. It pointed out several areas of concern, which Google is trying to address mainly by changing the way it displays search results.
Google Inc.'s search engine enjoys a near-monopoly in Europe with a market share of about 90 percent, which gives it a huge edge over competitors to promote its own services such as Google News, Google Maps or its shopping and flight search functions.
Complainants in the case had two months ending this week to provide the EU with feedback to the proposed remedies. The body's antitrust chief, Commissioner Joaquin Almunia, already hinted after the first month of the so-called market test that Google would be asked to do more to appease the competition concerns.
Google has offered to more clearly label search results stemming from its own services to allow users to distinguish between natural search results and those promoted by Google. It also agreed to display some search results from its competitors and links to their services.
But competitors say the two months have shown that the way Google would label and display its own offerings to distinguish it from rivals' content actually favors Google.
"This will be a counterproductive measure, it will institutionalize the search bias," said Moritz von Merveldt, head of antitrust matters at German media company ProSiebenSat.1 Group. "Users often will be directed away from competitors' offers," he added.
Merveldt said that a test of Google's new labeling on weather searches showed that his company's weather service would immediately lose 20 percent of its web traffic, and thus make less money from online advertising.
Other industry officials voiced similar concerns.
"As a minimum requirement, Google must hold all services, including its own, to exactly the same standards, using exactly the same crawling, indexing, ranking, display and penalty algorithms," said Helmut Heinen, the president of the federation of German newspaper publishers BDZV.
It might take several months before the EU Commission announces its decision on the case. So far, it has often taken a harder line with U.S. tech companies than its American counterparts, the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department.
Google, which is based in Mountain View, California, was able to settle a similar antitrust complaint on its search business with the FTC in January without making any major concessions on how it runs its search engine.
A Google Europe spokesman would not directly comment on the competitors' allegations, referring instead to a statement the company posted on its blog Monday.
"Our proposals are meaningful and comprehensive, providing additional choice and information while also leaving room for future innovation," wrote Google executive Kent Walker. "We think we did a pretty good job."
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How Sony's SmartWatch 2 Stacks Up To The Pebble And The MetaWatch Strata
Sony's first go at the smartwatch mostly went unnoticed ? a lot of people, myself included, had to be reminded of its existence when the Pebble made big waves for its huge Kickstarter funding success. But Sony's not letting its early mover advantage go to waste, nor is it letting the SmartWatch brand die on the vine: Today it unveiled the SmartWatch 2, a successor to its original that improves specs and functionality in a number of ways.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/UCf3Zj4poYw/
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Monday, June 24, 2013
Acer Aspire P3 review: a nice enough tablet, but wait for the refresh
Back when Windows 8 first launched, the Acer Iconia W700 quickly became one of our favorite laptop / tablet hybrids. There were two reasons for that, really: the price was right, and the battery lasted longer than pretty much any other Win 8 device we'd tested. The thing is, it was more of a business device than something we'd recommend to the average consumer. After all, it came with a heavy, desk-bound docking station, with the carrying case and included keyboard as standalone pieces. That's quite a lot to carry if you ever feel like taking it on the road.
That's where the Acer Aspire P3 comes in. Don't worry, the W700 is still alive and kicking, but for people who've been looking for something more portable, this could be the one you want. Like the W700, the P3 starts at a reasonable price ($800) and has the guts of an Ivy Bridge laptop, including a Core i5 processor, Intel HD 4000 graphics, 4GB of RAM and a 120GB SSD. The difference is that rather than a clunky cradle, it comes with a carrying case that doubles as a keyboard; just prop the tablet up into a ready-made slot when you feel like watching movies or answering email. Yep, kind of like the Surface Pro, except there's no built-in kickstand and the keyboard is actually included. So is it a good deal at that price? Let's find out.
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