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Sunday, June 30, 2013
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
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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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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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
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
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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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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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
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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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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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
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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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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Sunday, June 23, 2013
Southwest resumes takeoffs after computer glitch
DALLAS (AP) ? A system-wide computer problem forced Southwest Airlines to ground its entire fleet of airplanes preparing for late-night departures, and cancellations were expected even after service slowly resumed early Saturday using a backup system, a company spokesman said.
Brad Hawkins told The Associated Press an estimated 250 flights were grounded at least temporarily due to the glitch, which impaired the airline's ability to do such things as conduct check-in, print boarding passes and monitor the weight of the aircraft.
Some flights were on the taxiway and diverted back to the terminal after the problem was detected around 11 p.m. ET Friday, he said. Flights already in the air were unaffected.
Hawkins said service resumed around 2 a.m. ET Saturday after officials began using a different system.
"Backup systems are in place not the main system, so it's slower," he said. "But we are able to start launching these flights."
He said at least some cancellations were expected because the airline doesn't do redeye flights and was near "the end of our operational day."
The late hour of the disruption meant the computer problem affected far more flights on the West Coast, but Hawkins said at least a few on the East Coast were grounded as well. Southwest, based in Dallas, conducts, on average, 3,400 flights a day.
A spokesman for Los Angeles International Airport said of about 25 inbound and outbound flights remaining Friday, only five departing flights were experiencing delays, of 30 to 80 minutes. At LA/Ontario International Airport (ONT), a total of three flights ? all departures ? were affected.
Four Southwest flights were temporarily held in Seattle, said Christina Faine, a Seattle-Tacoma International Airport spokeswoman.
One flight to Oakland, Calif., had been due to leave at 9:20 p.m. and departed before 11 p.m. Faine said late Friday night that an airport duty manager, Anthony Barnes, told her the others were expected to depart shortly.
Steve Johnson, a spokesman for Portland, Ore., International Airport, said he was not aware of any planes held up there.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/southwest-resumes-takeoffs-computer-glitch-061945754.html
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Plane with wing walker crashes at Ohio show; 2 die
This photo provided provided WHIO TV shows a plane after it crashed Saturday, June 22, 2013, at the Vectren Air Show near Dayton, Ohio. There was no immediate word on the fate of the pilot, wing walker or anyone else aboard the plane. No one on the ground was hurt. (AP Photo/WHIO-TV)
This photo provided provided WHIO TV shows a plane after it crashed Saturday, June 22, 2013, at the Vectren Air Show near Dayton, Ohio. There was no immediate word on the fate of the pilot, wing walker or anyone else aboard the plane. No one on the ground was hurt. (AP Photo/WHIO-TV)
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) ? A plane carrying a wing walker crashed Saturday at an air show and exploded into flames, killing the pilot and stunt walker instantly, authorities said.
Dayton International Airport spokeswoman Linda Hughes and Ohio State Highway Patrol Lt. Anne Ralston confirmed the deaths to The Associated Press.
The crash happened at around 12:45 p.m. at the Vectren Air Show near Dayton. No spectators were injured.
The show has been canceled for the remainder of the day. The names of those killed weren't immediately released, but a video posted on WHIO-TV showing the flight and crash identified the performer as wing walker Jane Wicker. A schedule posted on the event's website also had Wicker scheduled to perform.
The video shows the plane turn upside-down as Wicker sits on top of the wing. The plane then tilts and crashes to the ground, exploding into flames as spectators scream.
"All of a sudden I heard screaming and looked up and there was a fireball," spectator Stan Thayer of Wilmington, Ohio, told WHIO.
Another spectator, Shawn Warwick of New Knoxville, told the Dayton Daily News that he was watching the flight through binoculars.
"I noticed it was upside-down really close to the ground. She was sitting on the bottom of the plane," he said. "I saw it just go right into the ground and explode."
Wicker's website says she responded to a classified ad from the Flying Circus Airshow in Bealeton, Va., in 1990, for a wing-walking position, thinking it would be fun. Her full-time job was as a budget analyst for the Federal Aviation Administration, according to her website.
She told WDTN-TV in an interview this week that her signature move was hanging underneath the plane's wing by her feet and sitting on the bottom of the airplane while it's upside-down.
"I'm never nervous or scared because I know if I do everything as I usually do, everything's going to be just fine," she told the station.
Wicker wrote on her website that she had never had any close calls.
"What you see us do out there is after an enormous amount of practice and fine tuning, not to mention the airplane goes through microscopic care. It is a managed risk and that is what keeps us alive," she wrote.
In 2007, veteran stunt pilot Jim LeRoy was killed at the Dayton show when his biplane crashed and burned.
Organizers were presenting a trimmed-down show and expected smaller crowds at Dayton after the Air Force Thunderbirds and other military participants pulled out this year because of federal budget cuts.
The air show, one of the country's oldest, usually draws around 70,000 people and has a $3.2 million impact on the local economy. Without military aircraft and support, the show expected attendance to be off 30 percent or more.
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Snapchat Has A Patent That Could Help It Become The Defacto Camera App
Snapchat could use a different weapon to be the first camera app opened: speed. Snapchat has a patent, ?Single mode visual media capture,? on its technology that allows the user to take a picture by tapping the camera button and a video by holding down the same camera button. Photos are simply taken by the tap, and videos end when you release the camera button, or after ten seconds.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/7J_PXImrGhk/
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Saturday, June 22, 2013
AP PHOTOS: Slave descendants' community dwindling
SAPELO ISLAND, Ga. (AP) ? Sharron Grovner stands in the backyard of her home that faces this island's fecund saltwater marshes. The setting sun gives way to the stillness of evening, and the only sound one can hear are the ocean waves lapping against the shore.
These are the same shores where generations ago, Grovner's ancestors landed as slaves brought over to work a cotton plantation. They are the same shores where today the remaining descendants still fish for their dinner. They're the shores where ferries now embark to the mainland carrying hopes of employment while leaving behind a dwindling community.
Grovner is one of only 47 residents, most of them descendants of those West African slaves known as Geechee, who remain on Sapelo Island; their ancestors were brought to work the plantation of Thomas Spaulding in the early 1800s. Isolated over time to the Southeast's barrier islands, the Geechee of Georgia and Florida, also known as Gullah in the Carolinas, have retained their African traditions more than many other African American communities in the U.S.
Once freed, the ex-slaves were able to acquire land and created settlements on Sapelo Island, of which only the tiny 464-acre Hog Hammock community still exists. Residents say a sudden tax hike, lack of jobs, and development are endangering one of the last remaining Geechee/Gullah communities dotting the coast from Florida to North Carolina.
Here's a gallery of images from Sapelo Island.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ap-photos-slave-descendants-community-dwindling-163638198.html
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Mass. man who ordered tie gets SS numbers instead
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? With a little more than two weeks to go before their wedding, Emily Dreyfuss' fiance ordered a tie and pocket square from Gap chain Banana Republic's website to go with his Navy blue suit.
What the couple got in the mail instead on Thursday would make an identity thief giddy: the confidential files of about 20 former employees, including Social Security numbers and W4 tax forms.
"We totally laughed," Dreyfuss, 29, said on Friday from her home in Cambridge, Mass.
She had misgivings about the package as soon as it arrived. It was really heavy and didn't say Banana Republic, but Gap Inc.
She and her fiancee have been buying each other presents, and she thought it may have been a really heavy piece of clothing with catalogs, said Dreyfuss, the daughter of actor Richard Dreyfuss.
Inside were three folders sealed with tape and labeled "HR Administration." They contained tax and Social Security information as well as handwritten resignation letters, doctors' notes and salary information ? seemingly the employees' entire record at the company. The employees were sales support associates and at least one made $9 an hour, Dreyfuss said.
The resignation letters were mostly from March. They were polite and positive, expressing thanks for the chance to work for the company.
Dreyfuss, who runs the home page and also writes for technology website CNET said she didn't look through everything.
"I got a queasy feeling and felt like I should stop looking at this," she said.
San Francisco-based Gap Inc. blamed the mix-up on a human mistake.
"We're taking immediate action to evaluate and strengthen our processes to prevent mis-mailings in the future and apologize for the error," spokeswoman Edie Kissko said in a statement.
Dreyfuss said a Banana Republic representative has since responded to a tweet about the mix-up and apologized. Dreyfuss was told clothing and employee information is sent out in the same type of gray plastic bag, and the two packages appear to have been mislabeled. It wasn't clear how that happened. The representative told Dreyfuss the store would look into what went wrong and inform the affected employees.
The company is sending her a self-addressed, stamped envelope to return the information.
Dreyfuss said the episode with Banana Republic raised concerns about how well the company is safeguarding customer information.
"People should know about this because it's crazy and scary," she said.
In her statement, Kissko said the company takes the confidentiality of personal information very seriously.
Dreyfuss was offered a free tie and pocket handkerchief ? a $61 value, but said she declined.
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Hack a day modder builds a custom controller for disabled gamers
Sure, when tinkerer Caleb Kraft found out that pressure switches marketed at the disabled were massively overpriced, he got mad like anybody else. But then he decided to get even the best way he knew how: by building his own, and posting the plans for all to follow on Hack a day for free. The project came about via a kid with muscular dystrophy named Thomas, who enjoyed Minecraft but may eventually lose the ability to hold a controller or use a mouse and keyboard. Caleb's idea was to build low-pressure switches using a 3D printer and simply map them to the Minecraft keyboard and mouse commands using a $20 Teensy board. He posted his plans online, but since he feels they could be improved on, also created a site called the Controller Project (see the More Coverage link). From there, those in need of a custom device can make a request, other modders can post their own plans and builders can use them to make controllers for donation. Since more is always merrier for such things, if you have those skills or know someone who needs them, hit the source for more info.
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/21/hack-a-day-modder-builds-a-custom-controller-for-disabled-gamers/
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The Math Behind Cicadas' Bizarre 17-Year Life Cycle
It makes sense that an animal might hid away in the ground while it's maturing, but 17 years is a long, seemingly random amount of time. But it's not like cicadas picked a number out of hate and were stuck with it. There's a something specific about that number, and numberphile is sussing it out.
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Medicine Today: A new and safer way to treat heart disease
The most common type of heart disease occurs when blood vessels that supply the heart become too narrow to deliver adequate blood. When such disease cannot be controlled with medications, doctors may suggest a procedure to open the blocked blood vessel. This
procedure is called a percutaneous coronary intervention ? or
PCI.
Similar to the repair of a clogged pipe, the PCI opens the blocked blood vessel to allow better blood flow to the heart. Developed by cardiologists in Georgia, PCIs are now common, with more than 600,000 done in the U.S. yearly.
PCIs have traditionally been performed through a small incision in the groin, and the most frequent complications are bleeding and damage to surrounding blood vessels.
Recently, cardiologists have been able to perform the procedure using a new approach: a small incision near the wrist rather than the groin.
A new study published in the heart journal Circulation shows that the wrist approach is growing in use and has a lower rate of complications.
Dr. Dmitriy Feldman, assistant professor of medicine at Cornell University, and colleagues analyzed nearly 3 million PCIs performed between 2007 and 2012 in a large national database maintained by the American College of Cardiology.
They compared procedures that were performed with a wrist incision vs. those performed with a groin incision. They found that in 2007 fewer than 2 percent of the PCIs used the wrist approach. By 2012, one in every six used the procedure.
During this time, PCIs performed using the wrist had better outcomes for patients, cutting the rates of bleeding and blood-vessel complications in half while maintaining the same rate of success. These findings held true even after adjusting for differences in age and degree of illness among patients.
Unfortunately, all patients may not be candidates for the wrist approach because of the size of blood vessels in their wrist and the type of PCI being performed.
Also, because the wrist approach is a newer technique, not all cardiologists are trained to perform it.
Going forward, more PCIs will likely be performed through the wrist and patients can look forward to a reduced likelihood of complications.
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'Raanjhanaa' Tweet Review: Watch it for Dhanush and Rahman's ...
New Delhi: Bollywood has experimented with romance innumerable times and in innumerable ways. But, director Anand L Rai is set to give love a new definition in his latest offering 'Raanjhanaa'. When youth are more enthusiatic to throw break-up parties, Anand L Rai is set to inspire youth to hold onto the last thread of love and hope.
Apart from the interesting promos and witty dialogues, the star cast also makes the film interesting. Only known as superstar Rajinikanth's son-in-law back in Bollywood, Dhanush will be seen making his Bollywood debut in 'Raanjhanaa'.
From the director of 'Tanu Weds Manu', 'Raanjhanaa' is a romantic story between a Hindu boy and a Muslim girl. The film also stars Abhay Deol and Swara Bhaskar in pivotal roles.
Will Anand Rai be able to instill the audiences faith in love? Will Dhanush be able to prove his mettle again?
Will Anand L Rai be able to instill the audiences faith in love? Will Dhanush be able to prove his mettle in Bollywood as well?
Charu Thakur of IBNLive was inside the theatre to find that out.
9:45 AM: Directed by Aanand L Rai, #Raanjhanaa stars Sonam Kapoor, Dhanush, Abhay Deol and Swara Bhaskar.
9:47 AM: Dhanush makes his Bollywood debut with #Raanjhanaa.
10:08 AM: Ladki aur rocket aapko kahi bhi leja sakte hain. #Raanjhanaa begins.
10:10 AM: Namaaz mein vo thi par aisa laga ki dua hamari qabool ho gai. #Raanjhanaa
10:13 AM: AR Rahman mesmerises with his 'Tum Tak' song. #Raanjhanaa
10:25 AM: Lanka dahan hona baaki tha kyunki hamara jawaan hona baaki tha. Shout it out for Dhanush. #Raanjhanaa
10:38 AM: Aanand L Rai beautifully captures Benaras in #Raanjhanaa.
10:49 AM: Girlfriend na sahi feel hi dede. #Raanjhanaa
10:53 AM: And, here comes Abhay Deol in #Raanjhanaa.
11:01 AM: Tumahara pyaar na ho gaya..UPSC ka exam ho gaya..10 saal se paas hi nai ho raha. #Raanjhanaa
11:20 AM: Dhanush surely proves his mettle as a superb actor till first half of #Raanjhanaa.
11:47 AM: #Raanjhanaa gets gripping in the second half.
11:58 AM: #Raanjhanaa is not just about love but also student politics.
12:05 PM: #Raanjhanaa gets over the top and filmy in few scenes. But still it calls for a few claps and whistles.
12:28 PM: #Raanjhanaa instills your faith in true love.
12:29 PM: Dhanush is the show stealer in #Raanjhanaa.
12:32 PM: Watch #Raanjhanaa for its romance, stellar performance by Dhanush, dialogues and its music.
12:34 PM: Thank you for staying with us through the live tweet review of #Raanjhanaa.
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Zombie-flavored water and other moments
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Brad Pitt stars in "World War Z."
"World War Z" breaks out this week, with Brad Pitt playing UN employee Gerry Lane, who travels the world to try and fight the zombie uprising that's so well-detailed in Max Brooks' 2006 novel.
The film is just the latest stop on Hollywood's eternal tour through the world of the undead. As early as 1932, the movie "White Zombie" tackled the world of these fictional favorites, but it wasn't until zombiemaster George A. Romero made "Night of the Living Dead" in 1968 that the undead came, uh, to life.
Here's a look at a few of our favorite zombie moments.
'Night of the Living Dead' starts it all
Romero started it all with this black-and-white shocker. A great film, but it's a moment early on that stays with the viewer. In the opening scene in a graveyard, a brother mocks his sister's fears, cooing, "They're coming to get you Bar-br-a." Guess what? They are.
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"Night of the Living Dead" kicked off the modern zombie-movie era.
'Thriller' teaches the world the zombie dance
Will there ever be a more movielike music video than Michael Jackson's 13-minute "Thriller"? It's filled with false endings and scary transformations, but nothing is as memorable as the lurchingly awesome zombie dance, which has been learned and practiced by everyone from flash mobs to senior-citizen centers.
'Shaun of the Dead' shows us we're all zombies in the morning
"Shaun of the Dead" is perhaps the best zombie comedy ever made. And in a near-perfect scene, Shaun slogs through his morning routine of stopping into a convenience store and fails to realize zombies have taken over -- despite bloody handprints on the fridge door, a puddle of unidentified goo in the aisle, no clerk visible and a moaning, staggering zombie panhandler.
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It takes "Shaun of the Dead" a while to figure out that zombies have taken over.
In 'Dawn of the Dead,' shoppers are zombiefied
Ever felt like the mall turns you into a zombie, staggering around under the spell of shouting SALE! signs and overpriced dreck? In "Dawn of the Dead" (both the 1978 original and the 2004 remake), our worst fears of what lurks at the mall are realized. And the remake boasts a singularly chilling scene. Those trapped in the mall have been holding up a whiteboard to exchange messages with the gun-shop owner trapped in another building. After he's bitten, they see his final whiteboard message, just a horrifying smear of blood.
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The 2004 remake of "Dawn of the Dead" was a respectable take on the 1978 Romero original.
Jim's parents hope he dies in '28 Days Later'
In 2002's "28 Days Later," poor bicycle messenger Jim wakes up in a London hospital after zombies have overrun the city. The film is both horrifying and heartbreaking, but perhaps the saddest moment comes when Jim finds his parents have killed themselves in their bed. They left him this note: "With endless love, we left you sleeping. Now we're sleeping with you. Don't wake up."
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In "28 Days Later," Jim awakes to a seemingly empty London.
Bill Murray is sorry about 'Garfield'
In the 2009 film "Zombieland," Bill Murray isn't really a zombie, but Jesse Eisenberg thinks he is, and shoots him in the chest. As Murray expires, he's asked if he has any regrets. With dead-on (ha!) delivery, the star croaks out, " 'Garfield,' maybe." And anyone who saw the critically blasted 2004 movie, where Murray voices the fat, lazy, lasagna-loving cat, would agree.
Zombie-flavored water, anyone?
AMC's "The Walking Dead" has offered up plenty of gruesome zombie moments -- heads floating in jars, zombie children getting their hair brushed -- but one tops them all. In an early episode, the gang tried to pull a giant, bloated zombie out of the well, but he breaks in half, spilling his guts back into the water. Mmm ... refreshing.
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Apparently Google is internally testing a service called "Google Mine" that lets you index all your
Apparently Google is internally testing a service called "Google Mine" that lets you index all your crap on Google+. Like, the physical items you own. You'll be able to share them on Google+ and set statuses for them like "given away," "gift recieved" or "had in the past." Of course Google would like to know that.
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Friday, June 21, 2013
Who Gets to Name New Diseases?
A man wears a surgical mask as a precautionary measure against the novel coronavirus in Khobar city in Dammam on May 21, 2013. Saudi Arabia has reported another case of infection in a concentrated outbreak of MERS-CoV, which emerged in the Middle East last year and spread into Europe, the World Health Organization said on May 18, 2013.
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The new Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, known as MERS-CoV, may be deadlier than severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, according to an article published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Older infectious diseases carried simpler names like ?mumps? and ?tuberculosis.? Now acronyms predominate. Who?s picking these names?
Committees, consortiums, and agencies, mostly. The MERS-CoV naming saga is an extreme example of the bureaucratized process by which diseases are now labeled. The virus was isolated in mid-2012 by a scientist in Saudi Arabia and initially carried the name human coronavirus EMC. As doctors around the world began to see new cases and learned about the bug, it picked up more names, including human betacoronavirus 2c England-Qatar, human betacoronavirus 2C Jordan-N3, and betacoronavirus England 1. The lab group that sequenced the virus genome?and was criticized for trying to patent its findings?named the pathogen human coronavirus-Erasmus Medical Center (HCoV-EMC), after the group?s employer. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization, hoping for a single name to emerge, initially stuck with novel coronavirus, or nCoV, as a placeholder. On May 15, more than eight months after the virus was isolated, the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses announced the name Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus. Although the World Health Organization frowns upon geographic names, fearing they could lead to discrimination, it blessed the choice, which appears to have stuck.
The accelerating pace of medical discovery has created these messy modern naming habits. In decades past, names developed by medical consensus before much was known about the disease. In 1976, for example, 200 attendees at a convention of the American Legion came down with pneumonia. It took a full year before the CDC identified the bacteria responsible. By then, the name Legionnaires? disease had become widespread.?
Once the public and the scientific community latch onto a name, it can be difficult to shake. In 2009 pork producers complained that the name ?swine flu? was damaging the industry and ?ruining people?s lives,? in addition to being scientifically inaccurate. (Inaccuracy isn?t necessarily an obstacle?malaria is not caused by bad air, but by the mosquito-borne Plasmodium protozoa.) Spurred by financial concerns, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack quickly switched to ?H1N1 virus.? The CDC, however, argued that the name wasn?t specific enough for medical researchers because there are other strains of H1N1. Bucking the administration, the agency kept calling the disease ?swine flu? for weeks. (Although the CDC has since accepted ?2009 H1N1 virus,? infectious disease specialists often call it ?swine flu? for clarity.)
Name changes do happen occasionally. Consider the disease once known to the medical community as gay-related immunodeficiency disease, or GRID. After doctors discovered the illness in hemophiliacs and straight women in 1982, the CDC?with little fanfare?began referring to the disease as AIDS. Tuberculosis was known as ?consumption? for hundreds of years, because sufferers wasted away. Doctors adopted the modern name in the early 19th century after identifying the lung masses caused by the disease.
The now-popular use of acronyms also results from the speed of modern research. Researchers chose the name MERS-CoV because it communicates the suspected geographical origin of the virus (Middle East), the constellation of symptoms (respiratory syndrome), and the taxonomy of the pathogen responsible for the disease (coronavirus). There?s no way to cram that much information into three syllables without an acronym. Acronyms didn?t catch on until the early 20th century, though, so many of the world?s most famous diseases couldn?t have carried acronymic names, even if doctors had known enough about them to make a worthwhile acronym.
Got a question about today?s news? Ask the Explainer.
Explainer thanks Ben Zimmer, executive producer of the?Visual Thesaurus?and?Vocabulary.com.
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Conservative conference highlights murky tax laws
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Organizers insist the Faith and Freedom Coalition's recent conference was not focused on politics.
But last week's gathering of religious conservatives offers an example of the murky rules and lax enforcement surrounding the expanding network of nonprofit groups working to influence politics even as Congress probes the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups.
The political overtones of the conference were striking.
It was called the "Road to Majority" conference, a reference to winning control of Congress. Some of the biggest names in the Republican Party offered plans to strengthen the GOP. Breakout sessions included tips on harnessing technology to win elections.
Organizers say they're not violating laws barring groups like theirs, classified as "social welfare" organizations under the tax code, from direct or indirect political campaign activities.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/conservative-conference-highlights-murky-tax-laws-071400508.html
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Report: Twitter to launch location-based ads later this year
Twitter has been steadily ramping up its ad efforts this year, first bringing promoted tweets to mobile devices and more recently opening up ad buying to all US users. Now, according to Ad Age, the social network is preparing to introduce promoted tweets based on your location. In addition to displaying nearby retailers, this feature could showcase deals and promotions at stores in your area. Twitter already display's different advertisers' tweets based on general metro areas, but drilling down into specific geo-coordinates will naturally deliver more relevant adverts. Facebook, meanwhile, has been serving up content based on a user's ZIP code since 2011; so a little catch-up is definitely in order. Twitter's targeted ads will supposedly launch at the end of the year, just in time for that all-important retail rush.
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