There's plenty of buzz about the concept of making our cities "smarter" -- that is, loading them up with sensors and data-driven services to improve efficiency and quality of life. Hell, even Google has taken to loading up its event venues with scores of sensors. Most of the discussion out there deals with how local governments are working toward this lofty, nebulous goal, but a team called Acrobotics Industries is trying to put with onus on the citizens themselves. To that end the team has kicked off a $50,000 Kickstarter campaign for a small sensor array called the Smart Citizen kit in hopes that people will start collecting and sharing their environmental data with the world.
Gather hundreds of celebrities and film executives on the French Riviera for the Cannes Film Festival and naturally, they need their glitter and glam.
One way the famous end up looking so good and so trendy is that often, they don't have to bring, or buy, their own fabulousness: They get special invitations to luxury "gifting suites" set up in hotel rooms at the film festival and can walk out with thousands of dollars of clothes and jewelry.
These rooms of swag aren't the only places where there's bling-related excitement to be found -- someone stole jewels meant for celebrities to wear on the red carpet straight from a hotel room very early on in the festival.
The Hollywood Reporter took a look inside some of these swag rooms stocked by famous brands including Chanel, Swarovski, Dior, and Jimmy Choo to find out what's up for grabs -- if you've got the right A-list name. Check out the video!
May 15, 2013 ? By adding semiconducting nanoparticles to polymers, the Materials + Technologies Research Group (GMT) of the Polytechnical College of San Sebastian of the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country has created nanostructured composite materials with specific optical and electrical properties that vary according to size. These properties allow researchers to synthesise particles of the size corresponding to the desired properties, and by adding these particles to polymers, to give the final product one specific property or another.
At the UPV/EHU's Polytechnical College of San Sebastian they are working with particles that act like quantum dots, specifically with cadmium and selenium composite nanoparticles. One of the characteristics of quantum dots is that the optical and electrical properties of the particle vary according to size.
In the case of the cadmium and selenium composite particles, this variation takes place in nanoparticles of less than 10 nanometres -- a nanometre is equal to one millionth of a millimetre -- , and, "therefore it is not the same to have a nanoparticle of 3 nanometres or one of 6 nanometres," explains Haritz Etxeberria, researcher in the UPV/EHU's department of Chemical Engineering and the Environment and author of the research. This allows nanoparticles with very specific properties to be synthesised, and subsequently when these nanoparticles are incorporated into other materials, the researcher can prepare new composite materials with pre-selected properties. "Through nanocharges it is possible to add other properties to the intrinsic properties of the basic materials: nanoparticles, nanoclays, fibres, etc. Finally, by uniting the properties of some of them, materials with new properties are obtained," says Etxeberria.
In opto-electronics, biomedicine and in the field of solar panels the authors are seeking applications for the particles that function like quantum dots.
The work done by Etxeberria consisted of synthesising composite cadmium and selenium nanoparticles, and subsequently, of analysing methods for inserting these nanoparticles into a polymer. The main challenge tends to be in fact dispersing the nanoparticles properly throughout the polymer; failure to achieve this means that the composite material will not have the properties that one wants to give it by means of the nanoparticles. "Because the nanoparticles are so small, they tend to group together. So large agglomerates are obtained and they appear mixed in different phases. But when their size is increased, they lose the properties they have as nanoparticles," stresses Etxeberria.
In the first phase of the research work, Etxeberria synthesized nanoparticles of cadmium selenide of different sizes and, bearing in mind the importance of size in the properties of the particle, he analysed various synthesis parameters to optimize the synthesis of the nanoparticles and obtain nanoparticles of cadmium selenide of the desired size and properties.
In the second phase, he analysed methodologies for inserting and dispersing nanoparticles of a specific size (of between 3 and 4 nanometres) throughout the polymer. For this purpose he worked with a block copolymer made of polystyrene and polybutadiene. "We used block copolymers because they allow the phases to be obtained. They share immiscible ingredients, but because they are bonded to each other, they create phase arrangements on a nanometric level, and allow the adding of nanoparticles that have an affinity with one phase or another," explains Etxeberria.
Etxeberria was aiming to disperse the cadmium selenide nanoparticles in the polystyrene phase. To do this, he tried out various functionalization techniques. Functionalization means that molecules that will render the nanoparticles miscible in the selected phase are added to their surface so that they can be properly dispersed throughout the polymer. The best results were obtained by means of the technique known as "grafting through." "Using the grafting through technique, the nanoparticles are placed in the environment in which styrene polymerization takes place. That way, the polymer sometimes grows from the nanoparticle surface, other particles are trapped between the polymer chains, and free polymer is also created," explains Etxeberria. The result is a material that has an affinity with polystyrene, and which produces the desired homogenous dispersion when blended with the block copolymer.
This has been demonstrated by the measurements carried out on the composite material created: the composite material has the same optical and electrical characteristics that the nanoparticles had initially. In view of the good results of the technique, Etxeberria is now working on other materials, like cellulose.
May 15 (Reuters) - Post positions for the 138th running of the Preakness Stakes, to be run at Pimlico on Saturday (Post Position, Horse, Jockey, Trainer, Odds) 1. Orb, Joel Rosario, Shug McGaughey, even 2. Goldencents, Kevin Krigger, Doug O'Neill, 8-1 3. Titletown Five, Julien Leparoux, D. Wayne Lukas, 30-1 4. Departing, Brian Hernandez, Al Stall, 6-1 5. Mylute, Rosie Napravnik, Tom Amoss, 5-1 6. Oxbow, Gary Stevens, D. Wayne Lukas, 15-1 7. Will Take Charge, Mike Smith, D. Wayne Lukas, 12-1 8. Govenor Charlie, Martin Garcia, Bob Baffert, 12-1 9. ...
In his first public comments as a member of the Cincinnati Bengals, veteran linebacker James Harrison shared with the media a nickname he says has been applied to him throughout his career.
?Massage whore.?
The awkward-sounding label, which relates to his receipt of massages and not his dispensation of them, was scrubbed from the transcript of his comments prepared by the Bengals.? But it appears in the video of the session that accompanies the scrubbed transcript.
?I?ve always been what everybody?d like to call ? excuse my English ? is massage whore,? Harrison said.? ?I can?t think of nothing else.? They done called me it so long I?m starting to believe it.?
The question came up after Harrison explained that he spends between $400,000 and $600,000 per year ?on body work, as far as taking care of my body, year-in and year-out.?
?I have a hyperbaric chamber,? Harrison said.? ?I rent a hyperbaric chamber when I?m in Arizona.? I have massages and I bring people in from New York, Arizona to where I?m at. There?s that cost.? Like I said, I get body work almost every single day except Saturday and Sunday.? I have a homeopathic doctor and I do a lot of homeopathic things.? It?s just a lot, supplements, so on and so forth.?
The transcript also suggests that Harrison gave a potentially disrespectful assessment of quarterback Andy Dalton when asked to provide Harrison?s view of the third-year player:? ?I don?t have a view,? Harrison said.? ?Next question.?? The video and audio suggests something far less dismissive of the quarterback.
Besides, it?s not as if Harrison called Dalton a ?massage whore.?
May 13 (Reuters) - Leading money winners on the 2013 PGATour on Monday (U.S. unless stated): 1. Tiger Woods $5,849,600 2. Brandt Snedeker $3,388,064 3. Kevin Streelman $2,572,989 4. Billy Horschel $2,567,891 5. Matt Kuchar $2,493,387 6. Phil Mickelson $2,220,280 7. Adam Scott (Australia) $2,207,683 8. D.A. Points $2,019,702 9. Steve Stricker $1,977,140 10. Graeme McDowell $1,910,654 11. Jason Day $1,802,797 12. Webb Simpson $1,759,015 13. Dustin Johnson $1,748,907 14. Hunter Mahan $1,682,939 15. Charles Howell III $1,561,988 16. Russell Henley $1,546,638 17. Martin Laird $1,531,950 18. ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When members of Congress repeatedly raised concerns with the Internal Revenue Service about complaints that Tea Party groups were being harassed last year, a deputy IRS commissioner took the lead in assuring lawmakers that the additional scrutiny was a legitimate part of the screening process.
That deputy commissioner was Steven T. Miller, who is now the acting head of the agency.
In several letters to members of Congress, Miller went into painstaking detail about how applications for tax-exempt status were screened. But he never mentioned that conservative groups were being targeted, a fact that was known to people he oversaw, according to an upcoming report by the agency's inspector general.
In one 10-page response, Miller said a revenue agent uses "sound reasoning based on tax law training" to determine which applications for tax-exempt status need additional scrutiny.
"We are going to need to find out how much he knew," said Rep. Dave Camp, R- Mich., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Camp is holding a hearing on the issue Friday and Miller is scheduled to testify.
The Senate Finance Committee announced Monday that it will join a growing list of congressional committees investigating the matter.
"We need to know who knew what, and exactly what mistakes were made," said Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairman of the finance committee. "The American people have questions for the IRS and I intend to get answers."
Camp and other members of the Ways and Means Committee sent at least four inquiries to the IRS, starting in June 2011. Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, sent three inquiries. And Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House oversight committee, sent at least one.
None of the responses they received from the IRS acknowledged that conservative groups had ever been targeted.
"They really failed to disclose to us what they were up to, even though we obviously had a concern that they were targeting taxpayers for their political beliefs," Camp said. "Given all of that attention, they had an obligation and duty to come forward with this information."
The IRS did not respond Monday to several requests for comment.
The agency apologized Friday for what it acknowledged was "inappropriate" targeting of conservative political groups during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status. In some cases, the IRS acknowledged, agents inappropriately asked for lists of donors.
The agency blamed low-level employees in a Cincinnati office, saying no high-level officials were aware.
But on June 29, 2011, Lois G. Lerner, who heads the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt organizations, learned at a meeting that groups were being targeted, according to a draft of the report by the Treasury inspector general for tax administration.
At the meeting, Lerner was told that groups with "Tea Party," ''Patriot" or "9/12 Project" in their names were being flagged for additional and often burdensome scrutiny, the report says. Lerner instructed agents to change the criteria for flagging groups "immediately."
However, when Lerner responded to inquiries from the House oversight committee, she didn't mention the fact that Tea Party groups had ever been targeted. Her responses included 45-page letters to Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., who chairs the committee, and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who chairs a subcommittee.
Lerner also met twice with staff from the House Ways and Means oversight subcommittee to discuss the issue, in March and in May 2012, according to a timeline constructed by committee staff. She didn't mention at either meeting that conservative groups had been targeted, according to the timeline.
At the IRS, Lerner reports to Joseph Grant, commissioner of the Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division. Grant responded to two congressional inquiries, both without mentioning the targeting of conservative groups.
Grant reported to Miller, when Miller was the deputy commissioner.
"Knowing what we know now, the IRS was at best being far from forth coming, or at worst, being deliberately dishonest with Congress," Hatch said Monday.
Miller became acting commissioner in November, after Commissioner Douglas Shulman completed his five-year term. Shulman had been appointed by President George W. Bush.
Shulman was adamant that conservative groups were not targeted when he testified before a Ways and Means subcommittee in March 2012.
"There's absolutely no targeting," Shulman testified. "This is the kind of back and forth that happens when people apply for (tax-exempt) status."
On Monday, President Barack Obama said he first learned about the issue from news reports on Friday. White House spokesman Jay Carney said the White House counsel's office was alerted the week of April 22 that the inspector general was finishing a report concerning the IRS office in Cincinnati. But, he said, the counsel's office did not get the report and the president did not learn the focus until Friday.
"If, in fact, IRS personnel engaged in the kind of practices that had been reported on and were intentionally targeting conservative groups, then that's outrageous and there's no place for it," Obama said Monday at a press conference. "And they have to be held fully accountable, because the IRS as an independent agency requires absolute integrity, and people have to have confidence that they're applying it in a non-partisan way, applying the laws in a non-partisan way."
There has been a surge of politically active groups claiming tax-exempt status in recent elections ? conservative and liberal. These groups claim tax-exempt status under section 501 (c) (4) of the federal tax code, which is for social welfare groups. Unlike other charitable groups, these organizations are allowed to participate in political activities, but their primary activity must be social welfare.
That determination is up to the IRS.
In all, about 300 groups were singled out for additional review, the IRS said. Of those, about a quarter were singled out because they had "tea party" or "patriot" somewhere in their applications.
About 150 of the cases have been closed and no group had its tax-exempt status revoked, though some withdrew their applications, Lerner said Friday.
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Associated Press reporters Jim Abrams and Henry C. Jackson contributed to this report.
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FILE - This March 7, 2013, file photo, shows Utah Gov. Gary Herbert making remarks during a news conference at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. The federal government has approved Utah to become the first state to have a dual-model health insurance exchange in which the state and the federal government divide responsibilities. The plan allows Utah to continue to run its existing health insurance marketplace for small businesses. The federal government will run the state's individual exchange. Once the rule becomes official, other states will have the option to consider this plan too. Gov. Gary Herbert first requested this arrangement in February, and the two sides had been negotiating since. Herbert said in a conference call with media Friday, May 10, 2013 that the state got everything it wanted and didn't back down. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
FILE - This March 7, 2013, file photo, shows Utah Gov. Gary Herbert making remarks during a news conference at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. The federal government has approved Utah to become the first state to have a dual-model health insurance exchange in which the state and the federal government divide responsibilities. The plan allows Utah to continue to run its existing health insurance marketplace for small businesses. The federal government will run the state's individual exchange. Once the rule becomes official, other states will have the option to consider this plan too. Gov. Gary Herbert first requested this arrangement in February, and the two sides had been negotiating since. Herbert said in a conference call with media Friday, May 10, 2013 that the state got everything it wanted and didn't back down. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
FILE - This March 7, 2013, file photo, shows Utah Gov. Gary Herbert making remarks during a news conference at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. The federal government has approved Utah to become the first state to have a dual-model health insurance exchange in which the state and the federal government divide responsibilities. The plan allows Utah to continue to run its existing health insurance marketplace for small businesses. The federal government will run the state's individual exchange. Once the rule becomes official, other states will have the option to consider this plan too. Herbert first requested this arrangement in February, and the two sides had been negotiating since. Herbert said in a conference call with media Friday, May 10, 2013 that the state got everything it wanted and didn't back down. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
FILE - This March 14, 2013, photo, Gov. Gary Herbert makes remarks during Diversity Day at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. The federal government has approved Utah to become the first state to have a dual-model health insurance exchange in which the state and the federal government divide responsibilities. Herbert first requested this arrangement in February, and the two sides had been negotiating since. Herbert said in a conference call with media Friday, May 10, 2013 that the state got everything it wanted and didn't back down. The plan allows Utah to continue to run its existing health insurance marketplace for small businesses. The federal government will run the state's individual exchange. Once the rule becomes official, other states will have the option to consider this plan too. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ? The federal government has approved Utah to become the first state to have a dual-model health insurance exchange in which the state and the federal government divide responsibilities.
The plan allows Utah to continue to run its existing health insurance marketplace for small businesses, a system that lets employees pick health care plans in an online exchange. The federal government will run the state's individual exchange. The two marketplaces will operate independently of each other.
Gov. Gary Herbert first requested this arrangement in February, and the two sides had been negotiating since. Gary Cohen, head of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, announced the agreement's approval in a letter sent to the governor Friday.
Other states will have the option to consider this model after the U.S. Health and Human Services approves an official rule, a process that usually takes several months, allowing Utah's deal to go forward.
Herbert said in a conference call with media Friday that it was an important and historic day for Utah. He emphasized that the state didn't back down in negotiations. For example, he said, Utah made sure the government knew it would not share information about its residents or businesses with a federal database.
"They've granted us everything that we asked for, and for that I'm grateful," Herbert said.
He applauded Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius for her willingness to work with Utah in crafting a plan that works for both sides. The governor said Sebelius told him in February she hoped to find a way to say yes to Utah's proposal.
"That's proven prophetic," he said. "We've found a way to get to yes with this announcement today."
Health and Human Services granted the request after carefully review, agency spokesman Fabien Levy said.
Until now, states have been choosing from three options:
? Federally run exchanges in which states default to the U.S. government, a plan selected by 26 states including Arizona, Texas and Montana.
? State-run exchanges in which states operate their own marketplaces, a plan chosen by 17 states including Nevada, Colorado and Idaho.
? Federal-state partnerships in which the two sides work together, a plan chosen by seven states including Delaware, Iowa and New Hampshire.
Utah's model is different in that the two sides will work totally independently of each other ? Utah as it continues to improve and expand its small business exchange created in 2009, and the federal government in creating a marketplace where regular residents can go to buy health insurance.
Utah was in a unique position, being one of two states, along with Massachusetts, with existing exchanges. But unlike Massachusetts, Utah's marketplace offered no plans for individuals.
Massachusetts has opted to continue to oversee its existing marketplace.
Utah previously considered expanding the marketplace to offer plans to individuals. But Herbert said in February that after meeting with staff, legislators and insurance industry representatives, he ultimately decided a combined state and federal effort would work best.
By being able to focus on the small business marketplace, Utah can move forward with expansion plans that had been on hold due to the uncertainty that came with the passage of the health care overhaul, Herbert said.
These health insurance marketplaces are required under the Affordable Care Act, which goes into effect Jan. 1. Consumers will be able to start signing up Oct. 1 for coverage that takes effect next year.
Utah's marketplace, called "Avenue H," allows small businesses to offer their employees the opportunity to select health care plans in an online exchange that resembles websites that sell airline tickets. About 340 small businesses use the exchange, covering 8,000 employees and their families.
Utah should be given credit for putting "skin in the game" and for being willing to engage the federal government in creating a plan, said Jason Stevenson, education and communication director for the Utah Health Policy Project, a non-partisan, nonprofit health research and advocacy organization.
"They were looking for a willing partner and Utah has stepped forward," Stevenson said.
But the organization has concerns that the division between Utah's state-run business exchange the federal individual marketplace could prevent Utah residents from figuring out what option is best for them. For instance, Avenue H doesn't screen participants to see if they are eligible for Medicaid, Stevenson said.
Another example: it's unclear how a person whose employer is in Avenue H will find out if he could actually get a plan better suited to his family in the individual exchange since the two marketplaces will operate independently.
"We hope that any walls put up around Avenue H are low enough that people and information can pass over them," Stevenson said.
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Blueprints for what's being called the world's first 3-D-printed handgun have been downloaded more than 100,000 times since the controversial files were published online earlier this week, developers say.
Defense Distributed, the company that produced the schematics, told Forbes that CAD files for the so-called "Liberator" hit the six-figure download mark within two days, with most of them coming from the United States. Users in Spain, Brazil, Germany and the U.K. have downloaded the files, too.
"This has definitely been our most well-received download,? Haroon Khalid, a Defense Distributed developer, told the magazine. ?I don?t think any of us predicted it would be this much.?
The company uploaded the files to Mega, the free New Zealand-based filesharing website, where users are able to access them via a link from Defcad.org.
[Related: ?World?s first 3-D printable handgun? under fire]
Cody Wilson, Defense Distributed's 25-year-old founder, announced plans to create the world's first entirely printable handgun last year. In March, the company obtained a federal license as a gun manufacturer.
Before the files were released, lawmakers expressed concerned that anyone with a 3-D printer and an Internet connection would be able to print an untraceable arsenal. New York Rep. Steve Israel called for a renewal of the Undetectable Firearms Act. and New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, who called use of the technology ?stomach-churning.?
?Security checkpoints, background checks and gun regulations will do little good if criminals can print plastic firearms at home and bring those firearms through metal detectors," Israel said.
?This gun can fire regular bullets,? Schumer said. ?Now anyone, a terrorist, someone who is mentally ill, a spousal abuser, a felon, can essentially open a gun factory in their garage. It must be stopped.?
"The Wiki Weapon project," as it's described on Defense Distributed's website, is "a nonprofit effort to create freely available plans for 3D printable guns."
Late Thursday, Wilson told Forbes that the U.S. State Department had contacted the company demanding the files be taken down over possible "export control violations." Wilson said the company would comply, but the government may be too late. On Friday, copies of the blueprints were also available on Pirate Bay.
Bring along the red umbrellas today. There will be chances for showers and isolated storms. Best chance for heavier rainfall will come late today and tonight. Here are the expected totals for rainfall today through tomorrow.
Seven day is going to be book-ended with 70s. It will be cool this weekend. Highs in the 60s..and lows in the 40s. My heating/cooling system has whiplash.
This weekend is going to be a big one for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Central Iowa. It is time for their annual fundraising campaign ?Man and Woman of the Year.? Each year they ask local ?celebrity? folks to be a part of the fundraiser. I was on the list to help out this year. http://www.mwoy.org/pages/ia/cia13/ewilsonbnu The letter asking me to participate became lost in our snail mail system. So I apologized for not getting the invite until 4 weeks ago. They still wanted me to get in on the fight?so I said yes. I did not fully understand how involved this effort has become over the years. It is full on work to get friends, family and anyone you meet on the street to donate items to auction?or donate money.
This has not been one of my most valiant efforts. Lack of time and way too much weather work has taken it?s toll on putting up big bucks?but there is still time to donate.
The biggest reason for me to say yes to this is this guy laughing with me at last year?s Iowa/Iowa State football game. He is Sean Roberts and happens to be one of my best friends. He also happens to have Hodgkin Lymphoma. It is in remission?but Sean knows it will take at least five years of remission status before he can claim the ?fully cured? status.
Just over a year ago Sean discovered a lump in his shoulder. He noticed it while working out. This is sort of funny to the rest of our friends?because Sean is always working out. He is the most-fit of all the buddies that hang out together. So our most-healthy bud told his wife about the lump and she made him get to the doctor that day?just in case. Thank God. It was blood cancer. Hodgkin Lymphoma. One of the most survivable cancers?but still the ?C? word. Sean is in his mid-40s. Has a lovely lady?Jackie?at his side. They have three amazing kids..all still in school in their adopted Minnesota hometown. My wife Angela and I have known Jackie since the late 80s. Jackie met Sean and introduced us?and we have been there to see our children come into our lives and continue to get closer every year.
That last picture was taken the weekend after Sean told us he had cancer and would have to go through radiation and chemotherapy treatments. Lots of tears and fears were released before that picture with happy smiles was saved to our camera rolls.
Sean had amazing support. Here is a picture of his son?s basketball team that had Sean as a coach. They boys surprised coach with a party buzz. All the kids had their heads shaved during the last pizza party for the team?s season.
Sean had a port installed in his chest. This allowed for the cancer killing drugs to be injected on a regular schedule. He also had his ?super hero? head and chest plate for radiation.
Last father?s Day the treatments were taking their toll on my friend.
It?s been over a year and Sean is doing great. He was celebrated at a Twin?s game last year during the Leukemia & Lymphoma walk in the Twin Cities. Sean?s son Austin even got to throw out the first pitch at the game! Pretty big deal.
Everyone knows someone who has been affected by cancer. Not everyone has the support that Sean has. I love this guy. He is a great person and friend. It?s why I?m ready to do what I can to raise some extra money for this worthy cause. This is Sean today.
Would you take just a little time to check out the donation site for Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Iowa?s celebrity of the year? http://www.mwoy.org/pages/ia/cia13/ewilsonbnu The celebrity thing is back-burner. We want to do whatever it takes to see support for those with cancer, but in the end, put an end to all cancers including leukemia and lymphoma.
Peter Baumann named Howard Hughes Medical Institute InvestigatorPublic release date: 9-May-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Gina Kirchweger gxk@stowers.org 816-806-1036 Stowers Institute for Medical Research
KANSAS CITY, MOStowers Institute Investigator Peter Baumann, Ph.D., has been appointed to the prestigious position of Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator. Baumann, who currently holds an HHMI Early Career Scientist appointment, is among only 27 biomedical scientists chosen from among 1155 applications submitted in a nationwide competition.
"Peter is a uniquely talented scientist who has generated valuable mechanistic insight into a wide range of important questions in chromosome biology through his creative research program," says Scientific Director Robb Krumlauf, Ph.D. "All of us at Stowers are delighted that HHMI has recognized Peter's pioneering spirit and awarded him the distinction of investigator, which is reserved for a select group of extraordinary scientists.""
Baumann is internationally recognized for his contributions to our understanding of parthenogenesis and telomere biology. Telomeres are the natural ends of chromosomes and failures to properly maintain them have been implicated in aging and cancer as well as degenerative syndromes such as dsykeratosis congenita and aplastic anemia.
In early work, Baumann discovered a new protein in fission yeast and humansdubbed Pot1 for "protection of telomeres"that proved vital for telomere length regulation and chromosome end capping. More recently, he focused on how chromosome ends, which look just like broken strands of DNA, protect themselves from being mistakenly joined together by the cell's repair machinery. He implicated a complex of two proteins in keeping telomeres from being mended, which would set the stage for the development of cancer in successive generations of cells.
In related studies, Baumann and his team isolated the long-sought RNA subunit of fission yeast telomerase, the enzyme that maintains telomeres. In studying the precursors to that subunit, he discovered an entirely new and unanticipated pathway for processing RNA, allowing him to examine how telomerase is assembled and controlled.
Baumann has also led groundbreaking studies on how all-female lizard species create offspring without the help of mates while holding on to a healthy mix of genes over hundreds of years. "Without Peter's enterprising mindset, parthenogenesis would still be just another interesting phenomenon," said William Neaves, Ph.D., President Emeritus of the Stowers Institute and one of Baumann's collaborators. "Peter's HHMI appointment highlights the importance of breaking new scientific ground and is a testament to his imaginative and original approach to science."
The HHMI investigator appointment will give Baumann additional resources to expand his work on studying how important non-coding RNAs including telomerase RNA are made in cells. In addition, he plans to explore the molecular mechanisms underlying hybridization events between different species and changes in the number of sets of chromosomes in animals, a largely uncharted area of biology.
Stowers Investigator Alejandro Snchez Alvarado also holds an appointment as Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
About Peter Baumann
A native of Ulm, Germany, Baumann joined the Stowers Institute in 2002 after completing an HHMI postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Thomas R. Cech, Ph.D., at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Clare Hall (U.K.); a Master's degree at the Wellcome/CRC Institute, University of Cambridge (U.K.); and his Bachelor's degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Cambridge (U.K.).
Baumann received a highly competitive Pew Scholar Award in the Biomedical Sciences in 2003, a Basil O'Connor Award from the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation in 2004 and was named HHMI Early Career Scientist in 2009.
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About the Stowers Institute for Medical Research
The Stowers Institute for Medical Research is a non-profit, basic biomedical research organization dedicated to improving human health by studying the fundamental processes of life. Jim Stowers, founder of American Century Investments, and his wife, Virginia, opened the Institute in 2000. Since then, the Institute has spent over 900 million dollars in pursuit of its mission.
Currently, the Institute is home to nearly 550 researchers and support personnel; 20 independent research programs; and more than a dozen technology-development and core facilities.
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Peter Baumann named Howard Hughes Medical Institute InvestigatorPublic release date: 9-May-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Gina Kirchweger gxk@stowers.org 816-806-1036 Stowers Institute for Medical Research
KANSAS CITY, MOStowers Institute Investigator Peter Baumann, Ph.D., has been appointed to the prestigious position of Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator. Baumann, who currently holds an HHMI Early Career Scientist appointment, is among only 27 biomedical scientists chosen from among 1155 applications submitted in a nationwide competition.
"Peter is a uniquely talented scientist who has generated valuable mechanistic insight into a wide range of important questions in chromosome biology through his creative research program," says Scientific Director Robb Krumlauf, Ph.D. "All of us at Stowers are delighted that HHMI has recognized Peter's pioneering spirit and awarded him the distinction of investigator, which is reserved for a select group of extraordinary scientists.""
Baumann is internationally recognized for his contributions to our understanding of parthenogenesis and telomere biology. Telomeres are the natural ends of chromosomes and failures to properly maintain them have been implicated in aging and cancer as well as degenerative syndromes such as dsykeratosis congenita and aplastic anemia.
In early work, Baumann discovered a new protein in fission yeast and humansdubbed Pot1 for "protection of telomeres"that proved vital for telomere length regulation and chromosome end capping. More recently, he focused on how chromosome ends, which look just like broken strands of DNA, protect themselves from being mistakenly joined together by the cell's repair machinery. He implicated a complex of two proteins in keeping telomeres from being mended, which would set the stage for the development of cancer in successive generations of cells.
In related studies, Baumann and his team isolated the long-sought RNA subunit of fission yeast telomerase, the enzyme that maintains telomeres. In studying the precursors to that subunit, he discovered an entirely new and unanticipated pathway for processing RNA, allowing him to examine how telomerase is assembled and controlled.
Baumann has also led groundbreaking studies on how all-female lizard species create offspring without the help of mates while holding on to a healthy mix of genes over hundreds of years. "Without Peter's enterprising mindset, parthenogenesis would still be just another interesting phenomenon," said William Neaves, Ph.D., President Emeritus of the Stowers Institute and one of Baumann's collaborators. "Peter's HHMI appointment highlights the importance of breaking new scientific ground and is a testament to his imaginative and original approach to science."
The HHMI investigator appointment will give Baumann additional resources to expand his work on studying how important non-coding RNAs including telomerase RNA are made in cells. In addition, he plans to explore the molecular mechanisms underlying hybridization events between different species and changes in the number of sets of chromosomes in animals, a largely uncharted area of biology.
Stowers Investigator Alejandro Snchez Alvarado also holds an appointment as Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
About Peter Baumann
A native of Ulm, Germany, Baumann joined the Stowers Institute in 2002 after completing an HHMI postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Thomas R. Cech, Ph.D., at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Clare Hall (U.K.); a Master's degree at the Wellcome/CRC Institute, University of Cambridge (U.K.); and his Bachelor's degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Cambridge (U.K.).
Baumann received a highly competitive Pew Scholar Award in the Biomedical Sciences in 2003, a Basil O'Connor Award from the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation in 2004 and was named HHMI Early Career Scientist in 2009.
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About the Stowers Institute for Medical Research
The Stowers Institute for Medical Research is a non-profit, basic biomedical research organization dedicated to improving human health by studying the fundamental processes of life. Jim Stowers, founder of American Century Investments, and his wife, Virginia, opened the Institute in 2000. Since then, the Institute has spent over 900 million dollars in pursuit of its mission.
Currently, the Institute is home to nearly 550 researchers and support personnel; 20 independent research programs; and more than a dozen technology-development and core facilities.
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Ever wanted to be a product vendor??Have the knowledge on how to market a product and make it successful? Want to bank MINIMUM 590 USD per month, every month? If so, then listen up....
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Please note that the "Claimed Financials" poorly reflect the situation. Please refer to eBay and Clickbank?attachments?to see revenue and profits!?
The Story
I created my Forex product back in 2010. First I sold it on eBay and soon my product became #1 Forex product on the site.?
The main factor of why my product was so successful on eBay was the customer feedback. Over 200 people already left a positive feedback on Andrew's Forex system, so customers love Forex system.
Recently I launched the product on Clickbank. Having no experience in internet marketing, affiliate marketing and online advertising I still made decent profit, but didn't make it huge!
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The product
Andrew's Forex system is a manual trading system based on core principles of trading. Trades are places only in the direction of a 3 week trend. The set indicators help to determine the best entry position and the trades are placed manually.?
Please note that it works only on Metatrader 4 (same as the majority of Forex products today)
The system is made of:
3 custom made indicators
1 template
1 beautifully presented step-by-step and easy to use manual (17 page)
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eBay account
As I am selling my whole business it includes my eBay account too. Here is the link to my listing:
The account has a Top Rated Seller status and high star ratings for:
Item as described 4.9 (out of 5), Communication 4.9, Dispatch time,4.8, Postage and packaging 4.9?
This listing ranks (with major Forex keywords such as: forex, forex system, best forex strategy, forex trading etc..):
#1 on ebay.co.uk, ebay.com.au, ebay.it and ebay.ie
#2 on ebay.ca
#3 on ebay.com
This listing alone makes around 590 USD/ month for past 2 years on autopilot. Please see the excel spreadsheets for detailed sales, refund and profit report.
Total profit from for the period 01.05.2011 to 30.04.2013 is 14,217 USD
This product is probably the best selling Forex product on eBay for last 2 years.
This amount is achieved without doing any advertising or promotion, all sales come automatically from eBay, as it ranks really high on Forex keywords and is a highly rated product.
Screenshot proof for the 01.05.2011 to 30.04.2013 sales (Paypal) is available on request.
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The website and traffic
As I said, I am not good at internet marketing.
So I haven't really done much.
I have advertised the website on Warrion forum and found a number of affiliates.
Most of the traffic and sales came from affiliates that I found on the forum.?
The website had a limited SEO done for 200 USD
The sales letter was written by a Top Forex copywriter that set me back a couple of thousand dollars...?
At the moment the website receives a small amount of traffic from affiliates and Google.
I have never advertised the website anywhere but warrior forum, I have not listed it on any jv and affiliate networks.?
It can also be found at around 25 - 30 position on cbengine.com and other Clickbank analytics.
andrewsforexsystem.com ranks on Google:
2nd page with "forex system"
3rd page with "forex strategy"
1st page with "forex system that works"
1st page " the reliable forex systems in the world" ?
And maybe some other keywords.
Averages 270 USD in sales per month!
The Possibilities
I have simply ran out of time and interest on this project, so there are MANY?open?opportunities . I will list a few to give you an idea
1. Add new products to eBay on the same account. I have never done that, but using the credibility of the account and the number of visitors the first listing is getting, another item could drastically improve revenue and profits.
2. Relaunch the Clickbank website
3. List Clickbank website on JV notify pro
4. Add andrewsforexsystem.com to other affiliate networks
5. Move into a different direction - change brand name
6. You can use the existing sales page, market the crap out of it, contact affiliates and make big profit
And really it would be all up to you! ?
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What You?Will??Get!
If you win this Aucion you will get:
A fully set up and working Clickbank sales page with full rights
Other custom made pages that are not online at the moment
Full training on customer support for 1 month (negotiable)?
Any other training if required
10?processional?SEO articles
Aweber account with 285+ subscribers
List of emails of previous buyers 700+
and everything?else, I am selling the whole Business!
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Final Words
This can be an opportunity for everyone. For a beginner it is a ready to run business, that is a great starting point and a shortcut to success. For a?professional?this can be a?6 figure business, that would require little preparation.?
The opportunity is here, so?I suggest you to Bid Now and make the most out of it.?
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In this file photo, U.S. guards escort an unnamed detainee after a "life skills" class for prisoners at Guant?namo Bay in 2010.
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??The Guant?namo Memoirs of Mohamedou Ould Slahi: He was tortured, beaten, and humiliated, and he remains in prison. Here is his story, in his own words,? by Mohamedou Ould Slahi.?This week, Slate published excerpts of the 466-page memoirs of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian national who has been held in detention at Guant?namo Bay since 2002. Larry Siems, who selected the excerpts, writes, ?Slahi?s writing is much more than a litany of abuses. It is driven by something much deeper: not just the desire to ?be fair,? as he puts it, but to understand his guards, his interrogators, and his fellow detainees as protagonists in their own right, and to show that even the most dehumanizing situations are composed of individual, and at times harrowingly intimate, human exchanges. The result is an account that is both damning and redeeming.?
?Out of His League?: Jason Collins averaged one point per game this season. Does he have a future in the NBA?? by Josh Levin. On Monday, NBA center Jason Collins became the first active athlete in a major American sports league to come out as gay. While acknowledging what the news means for gay rights, Levin suggests that Collins? poor numbers and the NBA?s decreasing need for ?big men? might mean the end of his career. Elsewhere on Slate, Nathaniel Frank uses the example of integrating gays into the military to argue that gay athletes won?t divide professional sports teams.
?Flights of Fancy: Congress? fast fix for ending the FAA furlough will make sequestration worse,? by John Dickerson. Legislation ending the furlough of air traffic controllers was enacted this week, ending the threat of boundless airport delays. Dickerson writes that this sequestration patch is a bad deal for Democrats, whose ultimate goal of a comprehensive budget reform will now be even less of a priority.
?A Sj?n of Ice and Fire: An Icelandic mythmaker gets his American debut,? by Jenny Hendrix. In the monthly Slate Book Review, Hendrix writes about Icelandic novelist Sjon, whose novels The Blue Fox, The Whispering Muse, and From The Mouth of the Whale are making their U.S. debut this month and deal with the supernatural. Also in the Slate Book Review, novelist Claire Messud is interviewed by her editor, and Laura Anderson reviews Alison Pearlman?s Smart Casual.
?Eat Me: The starving Jamestown settlers were cannibals. Good for them!? by David Plotz. A report in Smithsonian revealed that the Jamestown settlers resorted to cannibalism during the harsh winter of 1609, according to archaeological evidence. Plotz defends the practice of starvation cannibalism, arguing that while people-eating might not be appropriate in most circumstances, for the desperate and starving, a corpse is a terrible thing to waste.
?The Republican War on Social Science: They?re winning it,? by David Weigel. Republican congressmen like Bill Posey of Florida and Lamar Smith of Texas have been seeking to slash government-funded social science research, arguing that these studies are wasteful, coercive, and damaging to the U.S.?s interests. Weigel explains how Democrats who want to preserve these NSF-funded studies are fighting a losing battle even as it becomes evident that alternative sources of funding from the private sector are not available.
?Why I Love the National Internet Sales Tax Plan: You might end up paying more, but it?ll be good for America,? by Farhad Manjoo. With Congress apparently close to requiring online retailers to charge and collect sales tax on interstate sales, Manjoo praises the Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013, which he argues will increase revenues for states and cities and simplify tax systems badly in need of overhaul. Elsewhere on Slate, Jacob Weisberg recounts how Amazon helped delay action on this issue for more than a decade through aggressive lobbying and support from anti-tax Republicans.
?The Case Against Grades: They lower self-esteem, discourage creativity, and reinforce the class divide,? by Michael Thomsen. Recent studies have shown that the traditional educational model of assigning grades for students? work can result in poor self-esteem. This can lead to poverty and social dysfunction later in life. Thomsen praises the successful records of schools following the Montessori and Summerhill models, which eschew grading in favor of freer learning, and he argues that eliminating grades would replace motivation through fear of failure with a greater desire to discover and contribute.
?You?ll Never Learn!: Students can?t resist multitasking, and it?s impairing their memory,? by Annie Murphy Paul. At the same time that media multitasking is becoming the new norm for today?s generation of students, recent studies show that this increasingly common phenomenon results in spottier, shallower learning. Paul explains how electronic diversions like Facebook and text messages interfere with the brain?s ability to effectively process important information and writes that periodic ?tech breaks,? allowing for longer periods of uninterrupted studying, may be the key to solving the problem.?
?The Versace Harem: A group of Muslim women with tight shirts, bright lipstick, a feminist mission, and total devotion to a creationist guru,? by Jenna Krajeski. Even the Turks have been intrigued by the weirdness of the Turkish television talk show Building Bridges, hosted by a ?pious and sexy? quartet of alluringly dressed and made-up Muslim women. Krajeski examines the program?s allegiance to the controversial Turkish theologian Andnan Oktar and the hosts? unique brand of Islam, simultaneously critical of both doctrinaire conservatism and secular feminism. ?For these Muslim women,? she writes, ?being called ?sluts? is better than being called ?terrorists.??
JURAIN, Bangladesh (AP) ? As Farida knelt beside the linen-wrapped body and looked at the dress that she herself had purchased, her sobs of sorrow turned to tears of painful relief. She called her husband to speak the words she had been praying for during her week of searching: "I got her. I got her."
Just moments before, she had stopped workers from placing the body in one of the dozens of unmarked graves dug for victims of Bangladesh's building collapse whose bodies were too battered to identify. With wails and sheer persistence she had pushed through the crowd of onlookers and forced officials to give her one last look at the row of decaying bodies to see if one might be her beloved sister-in-law. One was.
"Oh, this is my Fahima! This is my Fahima!" she cried at officials. She pointed out the distinct spot on her sister-in-law's forehead and the red salwar kameez outfit she had given her.
Farida, who uses only one name, said Fahima had narrowly escaped the worst fire in the history of the country's garment industry last year. This disaster, she did not escape.
For Farida and countless other relatives of the garment workers who disappeared when Rana Plaza came crashing down, the past week has been one of tumbling expectations, as hope that their loved ones survived turned into fears they may have to return home without even a body to bury. Many are impoverished villagers who spent what little money they had to rush to a capital they had never seen, only to find that news was hard to come by and officials were often indifferent.
Without one central list to track the rescued and the dead, relatives waited outside the wreckage or crisscrossed the congested city to visit hospitals and makeshift morgues, armed with only photographs and prayers. Posters of the missing are plastered on walls and utility poles across the industrial suburb of Savar, where Rana Plaza had stood. The collage of faces provides a constant reminder of the scale of a disaster that has killed at least 450 people.
Jahid Sheik wakes up near dawn every day to continue the search for his 18-year-old daughter, Amena Khatun, who worked on the building's second floor. He doesn't stop until midnight. He said that since he arrived in Savar from the country's southwest the day of the accident, he has checked every hospital where survivors were rumored to have been admitted and every place the dead were taken. It has been one disappointment after another.
"There has been no help from officials," the 40-year-old said. "I am a poor man. I am illiterate. Who will help me?"
Along with a handful of other relatives of the missing, he attended Wednesday's mass burial in Jurain searching for answers. When he left for the funeral he said a prayer to Allah that he would find Amena and he kept reciting the prayer in his head the entire way there.
He watched as flatbed trucks carried the bodies through this impoverished suburb, weaving through potholed lanes congested by rickshaws and spotted with beggars bickering for territory next to open sewers. He saw the dead arrive at the cemetery to the wail of an ambulance's siren and the whistles of workers clearing the crowd. He watched as the bodies were unloaded and adults and children alike covered their noses against the overpowering stench of rotting flesh.
He watched as hundreds of men and boys wearing white skull caps lined up and recited a traditional Muslim prayer that asks for peace for the dead. Then the bodies were placed in their graves.
He did not see his daughter.
"Again, nothing," he said.
He vowed to carry on, both comforted and saddened by his memories.
"I will remember to my death that way my daughter called me 'Baba.' I will never forget that sound. My daughter loved me so much," he said.
Police report that 149 people are still missing from the April 24 disaster, but others cite numbers much higher. More than 3,100 people worked at Rana Plaza and its five garment factories, but no one knows how many were inside at the time of its collapse. Authorities have dismissed rumors that they are hiding bodies to keep down the already staggering toll.
Traditionally, when a person dies in Bangladesh the body is kept at home for relatives and friends to honor. In a Muslim family, clerics come and recite from the Quran and incense is burned. A funeral prayer is held, a relative asks for forgiveness on behalf of the deceased and the body is buried, preferably the same day the person died.
The dead at Jurain were deprived of most of these honors.
Charity worker Mohd Rezaul Karim and his group Hope '87 have helped some family members in their search for the missing, providing them with shelter, food and transportation, printing posters and enlarging photos. If a search is successful, his group helps return the deceased to their home village for proper burial.
"They don't know where to go or what to do," he said, noting that many had been sleeping on the streets. He said the official response in the search efforts had been disorganized at best.
Hours after the crowds and politicians at the funeral had gone home and the graves had been filled, Karim sat with Farida and the body, waiting for officials to confirm it was indeed her sister-in-law.
Two years ago, Fahima, then 16, left the family's coastal village near the Bay of Bengal in search of work and pride.
"She was a fighter. She did not want to be a burden for the family, for the brothers," Farida recalled. "She used to tell me, 'How long will my brothers feed you all by working as day laborers? You depend on them. I don't want that for myself; I want to live on my own. I will get married with my own money, not with the money from my brothers.'"
Like so many girls from poor families, she started working long hours in garment factories, sending home what money she could to help her aging parents.
Farida said Fahima worked at the Tazreen garment factory last year, but quit over a pay dispute. Three days later, the factory was destroyed in a fire that killed 112 workers. More than 50 of those victims, burned beyond recognition, are buried in graves marked only by numbers in the same cemetery where Fahima would have been laid to rest had Farida not intervened.
After narrowly missing the fire, Fahima returned to her village to visit her worried family.
"I talked to her and asked her to come home for a few days. I wanted to see her," Farida said. "That was the last time I saw her."
When Fahima returned to Dhaka, she found more garment work, this time in Rana Plaza.
"The fire could not kill her, but this time she is gone," Farida said.
Farida left with her sister-in-law's body Wednesday night.
She will be buried next to her grandparents.
"I don't have regrets anymore. I am happy," Farida said. "She will rest in peace at home. She will live with us. She will see us from her grave. We will look after her and she will look after us."
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Associated Press writer Julhas Alam in Dhaka contributed to this report.
At CES in January, Microsoft Research teased its IllumiRoom concept, which involves projecting an image around a TV screen to enhance video games with additional visuals. Unfortunately, the company didn't offer much info beyond a short video that briefly showed it in action. But the team behind the project recently showed up at the CHI 2013 conference in Paris with some more in-depth details about how Illumiroom will not only expand the game screen, but completely alter the appearance of your living room.
The team's initial prototype consists of a widescreen InFocus IN126ST projector and a Kinect for Windows sensor mounted above and behind the user, though they hope to create a future version that sits on a coffee table between the player and the television. The device is able to calibrate itself to any room, with the Kinect detecting the colors and layout in front of it, while the projector uses that data to properly align the image displayed around the TV.
We've seen how this can extend the game environment beyond the boundaries of a TV screen, but that's just the simplest use for it. The system can also set the visuals to appear differently from those on the TV, so only certain elements (edges of buildings, bullets, explosions, power-ups, etc.) are shown for a more a distinctive style. It's even able to project only onto the wall behind the television, leaving out any surrounding furniture or objects and giving the appearance that the game extends beyond the wall.
IllumiRoom can also alter the appearance of the room and objects contained within to match the aesthetics of the game by mapping visuals to their geometry. By overlaying objects in the room with corresponding bright colors and dark outlines, for example, it can give everything a cartoonish look, or it could cancel the colors out almost entirely to give the room a black-and-white appearance.
The system can even project the exact same features of the room and then distort them to match the gameplay ? making the room ripple or shake with each gunshot, for instance. It also allows virtual objects to interact with the room so that balls can bounce out of the screen onto the floor or falling snow gathers on the ground. Developers can essentially mix and match various effects to create more immersive games.
This expanded view allows for increased visuals with movies as well, either turning your whole wall into a projector screen or adding effects outside of the TV. The catch is it only works with footage shot using a custom dual camera rig that captures narrow and wide fields of view simultaneously.
It's important to note that this is all just a proof-of-concept model (i.e. not necessarily a future consumer product), and carries a number of limitations with it, like the fact that the projection effect appears muted when the lights are on. So while these new details arrive tantalizingly close to Microsoft's reveal of the next Xbox on May 21, it will probably be some time before the technology is available in a consumer device.
The video below demonstrates more examples of what's possible with IllumiRoom using some amazing unaltered footage of its visual effects.
May 1 (Reuters) - Post position for Saturday's 139th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs after Wednesday's draw (listed as barrier, HORSE, jockey, trainer) 1. BLACK ONYX, Joe Bravo, Kelly Breen 2. OXBOW, Gary Stevens, D. Wayne Lukas 3. REVOLUTIONARY, Calvin Borel, Todd Pletcher 4. GOLDEN SOUL, Robby Albarado, Dallas Stewart 5. NORMANDY INVASION, Javier Castellano, Chad Brown 6. MYLUTE, Rosie Napravnik, Tom Amoss 7. GIANT FINISH, Jose Espinoza, Tony Dutrow 8. GOLDENCENTS, Kevin Krigger, Doug O'Neill 9. OVERANALYZE, Rafael Bejarano, Todd Pletcher 10. PALACE MALICE, Mike Smith, Todd Pletcher 11. ...
The newly opened Corked Carrot is offering this lovely Go Grizz! lemon macaron. Available now. It's $1.95 per cookie or $19.95 for a dozen.
Gibson's Donuts offers a number of team-colored options. The striped vanilla donuts are 71 cents; sprinkles in chocolate or vanilla (pictured) are 76 cents; and cream puffs are 81 cents and available only on game days.
For those who want to go big, there's the Texas donut, a monster at 8 to 10 inches that can be decorated to read "Grit and Grind" (or anything, really). The Texas donuts, $8, must be preordered a day ahead. You can have one just in time for Friday's game.
You'll need something to wash it all down, so we'll point you to South of Beale's Grizz shot ($3), made with vodka, peach schnapps, and blue cura?ao.
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There's plenty of buzz about the concept of making our cities "smarter" -- that is, loading them up with sensors and data-driven services to improve efficiency and quality of life. Hell, even Google has taken to loading up its event venues with scores of sensors. Most of the discussion out there deals with how local governments are working toward this lofty, nebulous goal, but a team called Acrobotics Industries is trying to put with onus on the citizens themselves. To that end the team has kicked off a $50,000 Kickstarter campaign for a small sensor array called the Smart Citizen kit in hopes that people will start collecting and sharing their environmental data with the world.
He is Sean Roberts and happens to be one of my best friends. He also happens to have Hodgkin Lymphoma. It is in remission?but Sean knows it will take at least five years of remission status before he can claim the ?fully cured? status. 
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In this file photo, U.S. guards escort an unnamed detainee after a "life skills" class for prisoners at Guant?namo Bay in 2010. 