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This translation was taken from the JPS Tanakh.
Isaiah 27:6-28:13, 29:22-23
Chapter 27
6 [In days] to come Jacob shall strike root,
Israel shall sprout and blossom,
And the face of the world
Shall be covered with fruit.
7 Was he beaten as his beater has been?
Did he suffer such slaughter as his slayers?
8 Assailing them with fury unchained,
His pitiless blast bore them off
On a day of gale.
9 Assuredly, by this alone
Shall Jacob's sin be purged away;
This is the only price
For removing his guilt:
That he make all the altar-stones
Like shattered blocks of chalk —
With no sacred post left standing,
Nor any incense altar.
10 Thus fortified cities lie desolate,
Homesteads deserted, forsaken like a wilderness;
There calves graze, there they lie down
And consume its boughs.
11 When its crown is withered, they break;
Women come and make fires with them.
For they are a people without understanding;
That is why
Their Maker will show them no mercy,
Their Creator will deny them grace.
12 And in that day, the Lord will beat out [the peoples like grain] from the channel of the Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt; and you shall be picked up one by one, O children of Israel!
13 And in that day, a great ram's horn shall be sounded; and the strayed who are in the land of Assyria and the expelled who are in the land of Egypt shall come and worship the Lord on the holy mount, in Jerusalem.
Chapter 28
1 Ah, the proud crowns of the drunkards of Ephraim,
Whose glorious beauty is but wilted flowers
On the heads of men bloated with rich food,
Who are overcome by wine!
2 Lo, my Lord has something strong and mighty,
Like a storm of hail,
A shower of pestilence.
Something like a storm of massive, torrential rain
Shall be hurled with force to the ground.
3 Trampled underfoot shall be
The proud crowns of the drunkards of Ephraim,
4 The wilted flowers —
On the heads of men bloated with rich food —
That are his glorious beauty.
They shall be like an early fig
Before the fruit harvest;
Whoever sees it devours it
While it is still in his hand.
5 In that day, the Lord of Hosts shall become a crown of beauty and a diadem of glory for the remnant of His people, 6 and a spirit of judgment for him who sits in judgment and of valor for those who repel attacks at the gate.
7 But these are also muddled by wine
And dazed by liquor:
Priest and prophet
Are muddled by liquor;
They are confused by wine,
They are dazed by liquor;
They are muddled in their visions,
They stumble in judgment.
8 Yea, all tables are covered
With vomit and filth,
So that no space is left.
9 "To whom would he give instruction?
To whom expound a message?
To those newly weaned from milk,
Just taken away from the breast?
10 That same mutter upon mutter,
Murmur upon murmur,
Now here, now there!"
11 Truly, as one who speaks to that people in a stammering jargon and an alien tongue 12 is he who declares to them, "This is the resting place, let the weary rest; this is the place of repose." They refuse to listen. 13 To them the word of the Lord is:
"Mutter upon mutter,
Murmur upon murmur,
Now here, now there."
And so they will march,
But they shall fall backward,
And be injured and snared and captured.
Chapter 29
22 Assuredly, thus said the Lord to the House of Jacob, Who redeemed Abraham:
No more shall Jacob be shamed,
No longer his face grow pale.
23 For when he — that is, his children — behold what My hands have wrought in his midst, they will hallow My name.
Men will hallow the Holy One of Jacob
And stand in awe of the God of Israel.
Taken from Tanakh, The Holy Scriptures, (Philadelphia, Jerusalem: Jewish Publication Society) 1985.
Used by permission of The Jewish Publication Society. Copyright © 1962, 1992
Third Edition by the Jewish Publication Society.
No part of this text can be reproduced or forwarded without written permission.
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A wanted man was killed and two police officers wounded from gunshots after a traffic stop in downtown Salt Lake City erupted into a firefight early Friday morning.
The man who died in the shootout was identified as 34-year-old Christopher Leo Knight, from Lakeport, Calif., who was wanted by California authorities on suspicion of a drug possession.
The gun battle occurred about 2:15 a.m. Friday after the two city patrol officers stopped a mud-splattered, light-colored Jeep near 300 South and West Temple.
"About 2:15 this morning, our officers conducted a traffic stop on West Temple," Police Chief Chris Burbank said at a press conference Friday afternoon. "As they were conducting that stop, there was some question about what was going on in the car and the passenger."
The passenger, later identified as Knight, had been giving misleading answers and engaging in behavior that the officers considered suspicious, said Salt Lake City police Sgt. Robin Heiden.
That's when the officers ordered Knight out of the car.
As he got out, Knight produced a handgun and shot at both officers, police said.
Officer Mo Tafisi, a veteran of 9 years, was hit in the left arm. Officer Dan Tueller, who has been with the department for 18 months, was struck in the left thigh.
Both officers returned fire, killing Knight at the scene, Burbank said.
"We don't celebrate the fact that our officers had to use deadly force," the chief told reporters. "But given the circumstances, I would say they both performed their duty admirably. ... Each one credited the other for saving his life."
By mid-afternoon Friday, Tafisi had been released from the hospital and was recovering at home.
Tueller remained in the hospital, where he had just undergone surgery.
Police did not say how many times Knight was shot, or how many times he fired at the officers.
Salt Lake City police noted that Knight has no criminal history in the state of Utah, but according to California records, an arrest warrant was issued for Knight in April 2013 on suspicion of felony methamphetamine possession.
The warrant describes him as a Latino man with brown hair and brown eyes, who was 6-foot-1 and weighed 210 pounds.
The driver of the SUV, who was not hurt, was taken into custody and then released after being questioned by detectives for much of the morning.
Burbank said detectives had conducted a thorough search of the vehicle, but declined to comment on what, if anything was found inside.
Neither officer was wearing cameras on their uniform, which Burbank said would have provided a more accurate picture of what happened on the corner Friday morning.
Heiden said the Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office, as well as the SLCPD's own Internal Affairs unit, will review the shooting.
A Friday afternoon tweet from a Salt Lake City police department account stated, "We daily see the fragility of life, but when it hits this close to home, one is reminded of what our officers do willingly every day."
Burbank extended prayers to the officers' families and noted that traffic stops unlike situations where police respond to calls for help are substantially more dangerous because officers head into "the unknown."
Friday night, police asked for the public's help locating Melissa Medina, 36. Investigators believe Medina may have traveled to Utah with Knight and was with him recently.
Police believe Medina may be staying at a Salt Lake County motel. Her car may be a silver Hyundai Elantra with Washington license plate number AMR2513.
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Microsoft: Finding flaws on our website is OK
'Hate the vuln, love the finder'
ToorCon In a first for a major company, Microsoft has publicly pledged not to sue or press charges against ethical hackers who responsibly find security flaws in its online services.
The promise, extended Saturday at the ToorCon security conference in Seattle, is a bold and significant move. While researchers are generally free to attack legally acquired software running on their own hardware, they can face severe penalties for probing websites that run on servers belonging to others. In some cases, organizations have pursued legal action against researchers who did nothing more than discover and responsibly report serious online vulnerabilities.
"This is actually really important because online services - that's our stuff," Microsoft security strategist Katie Moussouris told several hundred researchers. "The philosophy here is if someone is being nice enough to point out your fly is down, they're really doing you a favor and you should thank them rather than calling the cops and saying you're a pervert."
Moussouris said she is pushing to get a provision added to a proposed standard that's making its way through the International Organization for Standardization that would protect ethical hackers who responsibly disclose vulnerabilities in other companies' websites. "If I get my way, it'll be in there," she said.
(In a brief exchange after her talk, Moussouris told us she didn't know offhand exactly how the proposed standard was designated. We're guessing it's this one, though we can't be sure.)
The idea is to make websites safer by taking advantage of the legions of independent researchers who stumble upon security bugs. As she put it: "Don't hate the finder, hate the vulnerability. We don't actually want to discourage people who are trying to help us by being iffy about whether we're going to go after them."
As things stand, researchers frequently turn a blind eye to gaping security holes on websites for fear of suffering a fate similar to that of Eric McCarty. The prospective student at the University of Southern California found a flaw in the school's online application system that gave him access to other applicants' records. In 2006, he was charged with computer intrusion after producing proof of his finding.
"There's definitely a lot of trepidation among legitimate researchers to find flaws in public-facing web applications because you never know how [companies] are going to react," said Alex Stamos, a founding partner at iSEC Partners, a firm that provides penetration-testing services. "That hurts us because the only people finding these flaws are the bad guys."
Moussouris's remarks came as she gave a progress report on Microsoft's efforts to be more responsive to security researchers. One new initiative is a two-day course called Defend the Flag, a modified version of Capture the Flag, for its IT employees who are new to security. Microsoft is also offering assistance to companies grappling with their own security issues and giving a heads-up when it learns of vulnerabilities affecting third-party vendors.
Microsoft's security team has also worked hard to strike a balance between releasing security patches quickly and making sure the updates don't break products that customers rely on.
"We are a huge target, obviously," Moussouris said. "Some of you love that about us. We basically face a lot of issues that a lot of vendors haven't had to deal with. Not many vendors out there can break the [internet] if they mess up their patches." ®


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WASHINGTON — The federal government cannot require that groups using its money to combat HIV/AIDS overseas also oppose prostitution and sex trafficking, a divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
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Despite complaints from the Obama administration and some justices that the government has a right to pick and choose who receives federal funds, the court ruled such a pledge amounts to a loyalty oath that violates the First Amendment.
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"The policy requirement goes beyond preventing recipients from using private funds in a way that would undermine the federal program," Chief Justice John Roberts said. "It requires them to pledge allegiance to the government's policy of eradicating prostitution.".
The court issued two other decisions Thursday but put off its rulings on the term's major cases involving same-sex marriage, voting rights and affirmative action. Those are likely to be handed down next week.
The HIV/AIDS funding case divided the court between two worthy goals: preventing the spread and improving treatment of HIV/AIDS in Third World nations, and standing firm against sex trafficking of women and girls.
Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas sided with the government in the 6-2 decision; Justice Elena Kagan did not participate in the case, presumably because she was involved when she was the government's solicitor general.
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"The First Amendment does not mandate a viewpoint-neutral government," Scalia said, arguing that the Roberts ruling "pussyfoots around the lack of coercion" in the anti-prostitution policy.
The United States has invested upward of $60 billion during the past decade through the Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act,, and the money has paid dividends. Nearly 5 million people in sub-Saharan Africa are getting AIDS treatment today. In 2003, only 50,000 were receiving anti-retroviral therapy.
Secretary of State John Kerry held a ceremony Tuesday to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the program begun by President George W. Bush. Kerry said the program has saved more than 1 million babies from HIV infection, and that more people are receiving new treatment than getting infected.
Ironically, he also lauded a recent $20 million fund to target stigmatized populations — including sex workers.
But scores of agencies that carry out the mission with government funding have complained that being forced to declare opposition to prostitution limits their reach into brothels where the infection is endemic. In effect, they said, the policy is counter-productive.
"Public health groups cannot tell sex workers that we 'oppose' them, yet expect them to be partners in preventing HIV," said Marine Buissonnière, director of the Open Society Public Health Program, one of the plaintiffs in the case. "Condemnation and alienation are not public health strategies. The pledge ignores years of evidence that sex workers are critical partners in the fight against AIDS.".
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Others were critical of Roberts' decision, including Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., Who championed a law that targets sex trafficking. "The Court, through this decision, will now force the federal government to fund groups that will undermine the government's efforts to fight this disease," Smith said.
The anti-prostitution policy has not been enforced since it was blocked in court eight years ago. Two lower courts also had ruled against the government — even after it changed the policy by allowing groups to funnel government money through subcontractors with opposing viewpoints.
The government, attorney David Bowker said during oral argument in April, "cannot command fealty to their viewpoint." And both conservative and liberal justices worried during oral arguments that the government was trampling on free speech by requiring its partners fighting HIV/AIDS to oppose prostitution and sex trafficking.
That requirement, Roberts said in Thursday's ruling, would necessarily extend beyond the HIV/AIDS program to all activities in which the outside groups are involved, including conferences, publications and other forums.
"A recipient cannot avow the belief dictated by the policy requirement when spending Leadership Act funds, and then turn around and assert a contrary belief or claim neutrality when participating in activities on its own time and dime," he said. "By requiring recipients to profess a specific belief, the policy requirement goes beyond defining the limits of the federally funded program to defining the recipient.".
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What's crazier than an electrically fired, 5,600 mph bullet? An electrically fired, 5,600 mph bullet that's GPS-guided, too. The Navy wants one of those to use with its cutting-edge cannon — a gizmo also known as the Electromagnetic Rail Gun.
The Office of Naval Research wants this guided munition to be compatible with current naval artillery guns, too. It's the Navy's latest step into its quest to improve warships' capabilities to shoot down missiles coming at them — as well as fire projectiles at enemies miles and miles away.
Announced on July 19, the new program is called Hyper Velocity Projectile, and the Navy hopes that researchers will find a way to design bullets that will work both with naval artillery guns like the Mark 45 and its rail guns, weapons that will hasten "the end of the dominance of the missile," Adm. Gary Roughead, the former top officer in the Navy, told Danger Room in 2011.
The Navy doesn't only want the bullets to be super fast, it hopes to be able to steer and guide them in mid-air. The proposal refers to this capability as "potential in-flight retargeting."
These new bullets, according to the proposal, will have to be 24 inches long and weigh around 20 to 30 pounds. They should also have the same reach as the current ones used by 5" Mark 45 Mod guns and reach farther away than 30 miles. Bullets that will be used by Mach-8 rail guns are expected to reach even further, perhaps even 200 miles.
To reach these lofty goals, the proposal "will explore technologies related to extended range guided projectiles for Naval Surface Fire Support and exploit recent advances in miniaturized electronics, guided projectiles and mortars, and warhead technology for small UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] launched munitions."
So how far into the future is this futuristic endeavor? The Office of Naval Research is anticipating "a multi-stage program leading to full-up live-fire demonstrations of the technology," which should be ready for the end of 2017. The Navy doesn't expect to grant any contracts until midway through next year. After that, the first nine-month phase of the program should begin.
Given the Navy's mixed record with futuristic technologies like the rail gun, it's hard to predict when these super-fast bullets will see the light of day. The Navy has already spent more than seven years and $240 million trying to develop rail guns, facing increasing congressional opposition. The program was almost shut down last year, among fears that its technical challenges would make it impossible to deliver. Following pressure from the Navy, the program was later resurrected.
But, truth is, nobody still knows exactly when rail guns will actually begin to be mounted on warships. The Navy's best guesstimate is in the early 2020s. Considering that, the rail gun motto — "Velocitas Eradico" or "Speed Kills" — sounds a little bit ironic.


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Since the 2004 tsunami made Phuket even more of a household name around the world, tourism boosters have catered to sharply increasing numbers of visitors, with the island's overwhelmed infrastructure deteriorating rapidly.
Bliss for many tourists became a sunbed on the beach where they could alternately loll and dip all day long and be serviced by locals bringing coconut juice or a cocktail, or perhaps even a delicious tiger prawn sandwich.
Such pleasurable indulgence proved exceedingly popular, and some beaches eventually succumbed each tourism high season under a colorful sea of sunbeds.
Along the foreshores at many beaches, illegal businesses sprang up and grew. Beach clubs predominated, but a visitor could spend hours in a beauty salon on the sand or even buy a time-share property.
A constant stream of vendors left tourists little time to snooze. Paradise was evaporating, if it hadn't already.
Then an odd and unexpected event happened.
On May 22, Thailand Army chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha assumed control of the country in a military coup following months of political deadlock between opposing sides.
Within 72 hours of taking control, soldiers were on the holiday island, bearing promises to save the beaches and berate the administrators accused of contributing to the island's simultaneous ride and slide towards increased popularity and ruin.
A few months on, and Phuket continues to shake off the effects of decades of corruption that have been plaguing the island since the 1970s, when the first backpackers discovered the brilliance of the island's gleaming west coast beaches and locals discovered a new source of income.
Until recently, tales of mafia-connected taxi drivers ruling Phuket made regular headlines, whether it was for charging ridiculously high fares that were six times those of the capital, Bangkok, or forcing passengers to pay double - not just for the trip to their destination, but also for the cabbie's ride alone back to his base.
In more extreme cases, drivers threatened violence against those who attempted to use alternative transportation options, as was reported in Phuketwan.
Soldiers on the beach
Today, all that is changing, due to the arrival of khaki and camouflage-clad soldiers.
They tromped Patong, Phuket's main west coast beach, enforcing the message that the hedonistic days of lazing on sunbeds were at an end, along with the vendors' privateering ways.
Sand was making a comeback.
Though many Western countries have condemned Thailand's latest coup, it may just have saved Phuket from further decay - also producing some useful social outcomes for similarly troubled holiday destinations in other parts of the country.
All beaches in Thailand are public space by law. The prohibition of private business operations on these public beaches is without exception, but has been ignored on Phuket and some other tourism destinations.
Restaurants and beach clubs illegally encroached onto the beaches, right down to the high-water mark in some places, too many deriving private profits by ignoring the law and doing as they pleased.
Because Phuket is 860 kilometers south of Bangkok, administrators posted by the central government seemed reluctant to interfere.
Phuket locals interpreted the concept of public beaches as meaning anyone could use them, so first they added sunbeds, then built thatch and bamboo bars on the shore fronts.
Over the years, entrepreneurs joined in, expanding the venues into large restaurants and beachclubs.
Some businesses grew to the water's edge. There was no enforcement by authorities to force them off the beach.
Once the army took charge, though, local mayor Ma-Ann Samran, of Cherng Talay, says he began receiving daily visits from officers in civilian clothes.
He had no hesitation in admitting he eventually acted to save the beaches in his district out of fear.
'''I was genuinely scared,''' Ma-Ann said. '''The Army let me know I had to act.'''
After decades of local ''law'' being applied, the Army transformation came at great speed, within days of the May 22 coup.
Graders toppled beach clubs and restaurants, while the sunbeds and umbrellas were carted off in pickup trucks, banned forever.
Tourists on all Phuket beaches now sit on towels.
Taxi clampdown
What happened with the alleged bullying that taxi drivers were accused of, was even more remarkable.
Present-day Phuket police commander Major General Praveen Pongsirin found the army to be perfect allies to conclude his covert months' long investigation of the island's ''mafia.''
In June, more than 100 taxi and tuk-tuk drivers were arrested and charged with alleged intimidation and extortion, according to police.
Local officials who allegedly sponsored the bullies were also arrested, police officials said. These include the Mayor of Karon municipality and his two deputies, plus the chief engineer and the senior officer, who remain on bail facing six charges apiece.
When they appear in court, they'll have the opportunity to enter their pleas. They have denied the charges. No court date has been set.
Anti-money laundering officers have conducted raids and more arrests have been promised. Investigations into illegal activities at Phuket airport have also been launched.
The major general said: ''Phuket wasn't like this 15 years ago. As the power of the taxis grew, so did their greed and arrogance. The only laws they recognized were their own laws.''
Administrators posted by Bangkok came and went on Phuket periodically, perceiving all the problems, but powerless to seriously fix them.
''The administrators were all able to see what ailed Phuket when they first arrived,'' Major General Praveen said.
''But the longer they stayed, the more they integrated with the lawless locals and the more blind they became.''
The army takeover, though, brought to the island the one organization in Thailand that is large enough to confront the taxi drivers and end corruption on, and abuse of, the beaches.
The message from the army's Major General Somchai Ponatong on arrival was blunt but effective: ''I told the local authorities to do their jobs. The novel idea appears to be working.''
Backhanders and corruption were previously considered the most efficient way for anyone to get anything done on Phuket, according to experienced expat investors and some local businesspeople.
Investigations are now underway into resorts suspected of encroaching on national park land, led by the Public-sector Anti-Corruption Commission.
Villas dot the hillsides, well above height restrictions. On Phuket, regulations stipulate constructions can be no higher than 80 meters above sea level.
Now, says Major General Somchai, complaints are being listened to and acted upon, without regard to the degree of influence Thailand's resident ''big people'' have always had under civilian governments.
''Enforce the law,'' the major general tells his officers, ''free from favor.
''By November [start of the tourism high season] we will have made Phuket safe, clean and appealing to everyone,'' he says.
Coup, what a difference it's made here.
Editor's note: Alan Morison is an award-winning journalist based in Phuket and founder of the regional news and information site, Phuketwan.com. Chutima Sidasathian is a journalist for Phuketwan.com. The views expressed in this commentary are solely those of the authors.
Republished with permission from CNN


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The New England Patriots and tight end Rob Gronkowski have agreed on a contract extension that would make him a Patriot through 2019, a source with direct knowledge of the talks confirmed Friday.
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The new deal, which is tacked on to the end of his rookie deal, is worth $54 million over six years, the source said. Gronkowski emerged as a record-setting force last year with 90 catches for 1,327 yards and 17 touchdowns.
Including his final two years of his rookie deal, which he still has $1.115 million due, into the average, and Gronkowski will earn $6.89 million over the next eight years.
Gronkowski's deal includes an $8 million signing bonus, $13 million guaranteed for skill, $18 million guaranteed for injury, according to a source with direct knowledge of the deal. His extension also includes a $10 million option bonus if New England picks him up for the final four years of the deal in 2015. The Patriots will not be able to franchise Gronkowski if they fail to pick up his option.
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Google glass
The top five most disruptive technologies in 2012 include energy storage technology no one thought would ever work, gesture-based interfaces that will make touch screens look as quaint as floppy disks, and computers and connectivity so cheap they're adding billions more people to the internet. For a technology to make it onto this list, it didn't have to be invented in 2012; in many cases, it's enough that there was a significant development this year in its journey toward rewriting our relationship with machines and each other.
1. Controlling computers without touching them
Leap Motion, Pointgrab, Elliptic
In June I wrote that Leap Motion, the company responsible for a $70 add-on to any computer that could replace every input device save the keyboard, was about to launch the most disruptive technology since the smart phone. About the size of a packet of gum, the Leap is an outwardly simple device that can determine the position of any object in its field of view to a resolution of a hundredth of a millimeter, the company claims. The result is a sensor that could enable ultra-precise gesture-based interfaces with sufficient variety that they are likely to make interacting with a computer through a trackpad, mouse or touchscreen seem antediluvian. As I noted at the time:
…Leap operates in three dimensions rather than two. Forget pinch-to-zoom; imagine "push to scroll," rotating your flattened hand to control the orientation of an object with a full six degrees of freedom, or using both hands at once to control either end of a bezier surface you're casually sculpting as part of an object you'll be sending to your 3D printer.
Since the company revealed the Leap, it has been overwhelmed by demand from developers who are now working with it to apply its technology to everything from education to medicine. For the everyday user, Leap means being able to move a cursor on a screen simply by lifting a finger an inch or so off the keyboard and pointing, as well as a thousand other potentially more complicated gestures, all of which can be accomplished without the sweeping arm movements or impractical ergonomics of previous gesture-based systems.
Other companies are working to bring gesture-based interfaces into computers through a variety of competing technologies. (Leap uses a pair of cameras and ahandful of infrared lights, but the company's "secret sauce" is apparently its software, which runs on a PC and processes what those cameras see.) Elliptic Labs, for example, uses ultrasound transducers and tiny microphones embedded in PCs to "see" where a user's hands are in the same way that a bat uses echoes. PointGrab, on the other hand, has a camera-based technology that is already available in gesture-controlled televisions, and it's about to debut in PCs from Acer and Fujitsu. Pointgrab's system isn't as accurate as a Leap, but it has the advantage of working with any device that has a forward-facing camera.
2. Fusing the real and the virtual
Google Glass, car windshields from GM and Daimler
Whenever there is a piece of glass between a person and the world, there's an opportunity to put information on it. Augmented reality (AR), as it's known, is the way we'll fuse the virtual and the real worlds, supplementing the screens on our mobile devices with screens that know what we're looking at and can superimpose anything a computer can display. The potential applications are endless: Software that displays the names and bios of people we meet; turn-by-turn directions that appear to float in the air before us; glasses that superimpose ads on the world, or block real-world ads if we don't want to see them.
Google did a lot of marketing this year for Project Glass, its effort to put a single small, transparent display on a pair of otherwise lens-free eyeglasses. (The company reckons that Glass will be on sale by 2014.) But it won't offer full-blown AR. Google Glass can give you directions or display a Google Hangout, but to convincingly superimpose virtual, three-dimensional objects on a person's view of reality, it would have to know the position and orientation of his or her head to a degree of precision that has yet to exist outside the laboratory. Google's engineers know this, so initial models of Google Glass consist of a display meant to hover just outside a user's field of view, rather than fill it.
A convincing fusion of the virtual and the real might arrive sooner in cars than in glasses. Able to carry more processing power, better orientation sensors and an all-encompassing display—the windshield—our vehicles could become home to a new level of immersion. These kinds of "heads-up displays" have existed in aircraft for decades. And if that seems like a recipe for distraction, all the companies working on this technology, from GM to Daimler, emphasize that the first goal of augmented reality displays in car windshields would be increased safety (paywall).
3. The world's most cost-effective energy storage
The story of LightSail Energy is a litany of surprising facts. In a field dominated by male engineers, its founder, Danielle Fong, is a 24-year-old woman who dropped out of both middle school and (later) a PhD at Princeton. And the company's technology takes an energy storage technique no one thought was workable—compressed air—and adds a simple physical trick inspired by something Fong read in a century-old book. The problem Fong solved is that, due to basic physics, when air is compressed, it gets hot, up to 1,000°C. That means most of the energy that could be stored in compressed air is lost as heat. Fong's solution was to add a fine mist of water to air as it's being compressed, and then to recover that water and use it to store the heat energy generated.
The result, LightSail claims, is a technology as efficient as batteries—it will supposedly return up to 70% of the energy put into it—but significantly cheaper. This combination of price, simplicity and build-it-anywhere flexibility has attracted investors like Bill Gates and, in the company's $37.5 million Series D financing round, the investor (and PayPal co-founder) Peter Thiel, who usually makes a point of avoiding clean energy.
LightSail sells its technology not merely as a way to store renewable energy for when it's needed, but also as a way to displace a lot of the new power plants and electricity transmission infrastructure that the world has planned. The idea is that putting affordable energy storage exactly where it's needed could eliminate spending on both, regardless of whether the energy is being produced by renewables.
4. The end of cars as we know them
Arcimoto, Google driverless car
Companies—like ExxonMobil—that argue that electric cars won't go mainstream until they have the same range as conventional vehicles aren't taking account of changes in how we use cars that might make their range less important. And critics who say self-driving cars won't catch on because they don't offer a big enough advantage over driving yourself miss the fact that in many cities, people prefer to rent a fully autonomous vehicle by the hour than to own a car themselves. (We call such vehicles "taxis".)
2012 is the year it occurred to at least a handful of observers that at the intersection of these two trends is something truly startling: A future in which cars are no less ubiquitous, but the way in which we use them more closely resembles mass transit.
The logic, briefly, is that self-driving cars could be much safer than conventional vehicles because they'll crash less. That will allow them to become much lighter as they shed the crumple zones and crash cages typical of today's cars. Lighter vehicles, like the three-wheeled Arcimoto, which is technically a motorcycle, can go further on batteries. They'll also have lower maintenance costs because they have fewer moving parts (no gearbox, for instance).
Now, there's an obvious chicken-and-egg problem here. If the only way to become light enough to make battery power a viable option is to have fewer safety features, then autonomous electric cars have to be less susceptible to accidents. To be less susceptible to accidents, they have to be isolated from conventional cars with their erratic human drivers. To be isolated from conventional cars, they need to be widespread enough to have their own lanes and roads. And to be that widespread, they have to already be light enough to make battery power viable.
Still, that hasn't put some visionaries off. Here's how Mark Frohnmayer, CEO of Oregon electric car company Arcimoto, describing the future to Discovery Canada:
"Ultimately, you're just going to hit a button on your smartphone, a vehicle will pull up, you'll get in. And once you start to get a lot of [autonomous electric vehicles] on the road, they can do things that no cars can do. They can flock together, they can be more efficient in terms of how they use energy; so what we'll see is a dramatic reduction in congestion, smaller lanes, a dramatically reduced need for parking lots, and better utilization of our urban cores. Within the next 20 years the potential for just a fundamental reboot of the topology of our cities."
But maybe there's a gradualist way to get there. Self-driving cars are already legal in California, and Google CEO Sergey Brin said they could be mainstream within five years.
5. Five billion people with internet access
Jana, Jolla, Facebook, Datawind and countless Shenzhen manufacturers
"The thing to look for in the next year is that you have one to two billion Android handsets coming on-line," Silicon Valley investor Marc Andreessen told Quartz recently. "We've never had the ability in our industry to reach five billion people with a computer and now we have the ability to do that. That's big."
Since 2000, the number of mobile phones in the developing world has increased by 1,700%, and now many of those people are upgrading to smartphones with data plans that cost as little as $2. The price of an internet-capable smartphone has nowfallen to $50, and in India it's possible to get tablets like the Aakash 2 for half that. The explosion of smartphone adoption in China, which is now consuming the devices faster than the US, has created openings for unconventional mobile companies like the Finnish/Chinese Jolla. It's also cementing the dominance of internet giants like Facebook, who have created stripped-down versions of their sites that can be used on a basic feature phone, and persuaded mobile providers to give people access to those sites for free.
What does it mean that another one or two billion people are encountering the internet for the first time? If the value of the network is proportional to its size, what happens when most of Earth's inhabitants can tap into a common pool of information and contacts? New internet users aren't going to necessarily translate into profits for companies like Facebook, but whole new businesses that can reach billions of people, like Jana's marketing and payments platform, are being synthesized from even the most primitive mobile networks.
But this is also a story about education, economic development, opportunity, government transparency and even revolutions—all of which, pundits argue, could flow from this level of connectedness.
Via Quartz


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Infant toenails are a reliable way to estimate arsenic exposure before birth, a Dartmouth College study shows.
The findings appear in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology.
A growing body of evidence suggests that in utero and early-life exposure to arsenic may have detrimental effects on children, even at the low to moderate levels common in the United States and elsewhere. The fetus starts to develop toenails during the first trimester, making them an accurate measure of exposure to arsenic during the entire gestation. Prior studies that used infant toenails as a biomarker of in utero exposure were conducted in highly exposed populations.
But in a sample of 170 mother-infant pairs from New Hampshire, the researchers determined infant exposure to relatively low arsenic in utero by evaluating infant toenails as a biomarker using plasma mass spectrometry.
The results show that a doubling of maternal postpartum toenail arsenic concentration was associated with a 54 percent increase in infant toenail arsenic concentration as compared with 20 percent for a doubling of maternal urine arsenic concentration. Also, a doubling of maternal toenail and urine arsenic concentrations was associated with a 68 percent increase in infant toenail arsenic concentration. A similar correlation between infant and maternal postpartum toenail concentrations was observed in a group of 130 mother-infant pairs from Rhode Island.
"In utero exposure to arsenic occurs through maternal drinking water and dietary sources, and infant toenails appear to be a reliable biomarker for estimating arsenic exposure during the critical window of gestation," says senior author Professor Margaret Karagas.


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