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After Google's unit in Brazil refused to take down a YouTube video attacking a candidate in local elections, federal police took the search-engine giant's Brazilian chief into custody for questioning. Apparently Google had been ordered by a court to remove the clip in question based on a decades-old law purporting to prohibit attacks that "offend the dignity or decorum" of political candidates.
Fabio Coelho (pictured), director-general of Google in Brazil, was reportedly released shortly after being arrested on September 26 in Sao Paulo on a warrant issued by a local judge. Media reports, citing police statements, said Coelho was freed only after agreeing to cooperate with the so-called "investigation."
According to authorities, the search engine had defied a court order while working to appeal the controversial ruling ordering it to take down the video. Disobeying the order could technically carry a prison sentence of up to one year, news outlets reported.
"Google is appealing the decision that ordered the removal of the video on YouTube because, as a platform, Google is not responsible for the content posted to its site," a spokesman for the company was quoted as saying the day before Coelho's arrest. "Google is providing clarification to legal authorities."
However, shortly after that statement was released, Coelho was seized by police and Google did comply with the court order to remove the video, according to news reports. The user who originally uploaded the clip, which reportedly accused a mayoral candidate of ordering his lover to obtain an abortion while disclosing details of an alleged paternity suit, also shut down his or her own account.
"This is just one example of the intimidation effect of such an episode for freedom of speech," Coelho said about the incident. "We are profoundly disappointed to not have the opportunity of openly debating our arguments in the electoral justice system that the videos were legitimate manifestations of the freedom of expression and should continue to be available in Brazil."
The latest developments in Brazil came after a separate Brazilian court ruled that Google must remove a crude video depicting the Islamic Prophet Mohammed as a savage pedophile — the suspicious YouTube clip that supposedly sparked some of the recent anti-American unrest in the Middle East. Ruling on a lawsuit brought by the National Islamic Union, a São Paulo state judge said protection against incitement of religious discrimination was more important than free expression.
Even after his arrest, however, the Brazilian Google executive vowed to continue fighting the order and defending free speech. "Despite this, we will continue with our global campaign for liberty of expression, not just because it is a prerequisite for a free society but also because more information generally means more schools, more power, more economic opportunities and more liberty for people," Coelho said.
The global media has been framing the news against a backdrop of supposed "questions" and "debate" on alleged "proper" limits to freedom of speech. "But if we look beneath the surface, we find a different scenario altogether," explained liberty-minded analyst Anthony Wile with the market-oriented Daily Bell.
According to Wile's analysis, much of the brouhaha over free speech is being manufactured by sinister forces hoping to curtail an open Internet. And despite Google's supposed concern for freedom of expression around the world, Wile is not entirely convinced, citing the search-engine giant's known links to Western intelligence outfits including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the National Security Agency (NSA).
"We begin to see this is an elite dominant social theme, a promotion designed to bring about a certain result, one apparently designed to reduce certain kinds of information available on the Web," Wile noted. "What we find, in fact, is a kind of orchestrated dance whereby the very forces that are supposedly anti-censorship are helping manufacture episodes that further promote it."
In Brazil, meanwhile, the spat between Google and the political class is being discussed in terms of old laws created before the Internet. According to more than a few analysts and experts, it is time for the Brazilian government to bring its legal system into the 21th century by drafting clear and simple laws about the responsibility of platforms for the content provided by users.
Clearly a clip shown on YouTube uploaded by an individual citizen is a different matter than, for example, a newspaper publishing an article. However, in Brazilian law, both are treated the same, and for now at least, Google can supposedly be held liable for content posted online by users. According to the Associated Press, Google has already received requests in more than 20 Brazilian states to take down videos.
"Our laws trying to govern the Internet are outdated," explained Jose Guilherme Zagallo, who is leading a commission with the Brazilian Bar Association dealing with information-technology law. "It's not clear who is responsible for content, and that creates uncertainty for Internet companies, users and judges, who are left to interpret laws not written for the Internet."
It is worth noting, however, that the Internet and laws purporting to limit what can be said about political candidates are not the only source of problems surrounding freedom of expression in Brazil. Reporters Without Borders, an international non-profit organization dedicated to freedom of the press, ranked Brazil at 99th place globally in terms of press liberty.
While Brazil may be bad, it is hardly alone. Totalitarian regimes all over the world — most notably, perhaps, the communist dictatorship ruling mainland China — have been doing their best to limit online information available to the victims of their tyranny.
Even governments in Europe and the United States have increasingly attempted to censor YouTube videos and search results, according to Google. In fact, after Brazil, which saw the highest number of official requests submitted by authorities to remove online content, was the United States.
"It's alarming not only because free expression is at risk, but because some of these requests come from countries you might not suspect — Western democracies not typically associated with censorship," senior policy analyst Dorothy Chou with Google noted in a recent blog post about the problem. Federal, state, and local authorities in the United States now make thousands of requests to censor results every year, the company reported.
Meanwhile, the United Nations and a wide swath of its totalitarian-minded member regimes are seeking to foist global regulations on the Internet under UN control. Communist and Islamist dictatorships are leading the charge. However, the Obama administration has been using executive orders to bypass Congress in its own efforts to seize regulatory control over the World Wide Web, too.
How the ongoing Google conflicts in Brazil will play out remains to be seen. What has become glaringly obvious, though, is that governments all over the world — from Brazil and China to Europe — are desperately seeking to clamp down on the Internet by any means necessary.
If the people of the world do not resist, the last true bastion of free expression — it might hold the key to bringing down tyranny worldwide in the coming years — could be effectively muzzled. For free-speech advocates of all political persuasions everywhere, however, that is simply not an option. Internet freedom must and will be defended.
Photo of Fabio Coelho: AP Images
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Frecuenty.py.gz download the file unzip it and then run for the terminal.
python Frecuenty.gz
You need python installed, this is a very simple program we show the frequency display is entering the microphone.
This can help a lot things that I did not have any method to get the value of the frequency.
I can read data from the serial port integers.
In windows getting read bit by bit RS232 data in Turbo C, this could implement measures of external Tension, but I have not gotten Linux.
I think with this program in a month I may have ready a Pet program.
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mister_electronico wrote:
A voltage converter Frequency (Hardware) ==> PC microphone ==> Frecuenty.py + Program C ==> gtkdialog for presentation.
The idea is a good one for resolution but not so good for accuracy of calibration..
The good old 555 timer can be made to work as a V to F
The LT6900 or LTC6991 can be made to work as a VCO.
The voltage converter Frequency can be for example a LM131
I think the LM131 may be hard to get.
Or maybe the 4046
The 74HC4046 may be worth a look. You can do some clever (off data sheet) things with them. The R1 and R2 connect internally to current mirror like circuits. We may be able to make the thing calibrated with a bit of cleverness on them to make it compensated for temperature etc.
AD654 is also worth a look. IIRC a 10nF NPO ends up being what sets the accuracy in a good design. The resistors and the device its self generally are better than the best capacitor you can get.
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Hi Moose On The Loose
The idea is a good one for resolution but not so good for accuracy of calibration..
I'm not too worried about calibration, for this I can adjust by software.
I'll give an example
Suppose we design a circuit that has the ability to measure voltage between 0V and 10V.
And to 0V I assign a frequency of 1000 Hz for microphone input.
10 V And I assign a frequency to 2000Hz frequency input.
But due to the calibration if it is logical that a 5 V give me a frequency of 1500 Hz, but actually gives me 1600 Hz
I would not worry about that software will adjust.
I think AD654 maybe is perfect for this project .
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mister_electronico wrote:
I think AD654 maybe is perfect for this project .
This is mostly for others who may be reading along. I figure you have already got there but someone who wishes to copy the idea may be helped by this.
The AD654 turns voltage into frequency making the span of frequencies produced perhaps from 1KHz to 2KHz.
A fairly crude digital filter after the ADC of the sound card can remove the DC AKA the average from the data. This can then be followed by a fairly crude low pass filter to clean up any high frequency noise.
At this point, you have digital values that represent a rounded off squarewave that you wish to know the frequency of. You may be temped to simply count how many times per second the numbers change from negative to positive but you can do way better.
Since simply counting gives you an answer that is give or take one, with a 1KHz signal, you only get a 3 digit number. You can do quite a bit better with this:
Look along the data for the first zero crossing where the numbers go negative to positive. Remember when that happened. Name it T0
Starting at the next crossing count from zero to the one just past one full second later. Call how many crossings N and the time T1.
Note that the time (T1-T0) is not exactly a second but that:
is a very good measure of the frequency. You get more than 3 digits this way. If you have set the sound card to 16KHz sampling rate, you get just a little better than 4 digits from just doing it in terms of sample number.
You can do a bit better because when the numbers went something like:
-100, -25, 50, 125
You could do a straight line between sample #2 and #3 and estimate when the zero crossing happened between the two samples. This will get you about one more digit.
If this is still not good enough, you can do this:
We are only taking T0 and T1, if we remembered the time of the crossing after T0 and the next one after T1 making T0A, T0B, T1A and T1B we could do:
This can be extended to average together 100 readings. Those who did a statistics class would expect the average to be sqrt(100)=10 times better. In practice, it tends to come in better than that. The reason has to do with how noise is on a sound card. Down near 1KHz, they are quite good but up near 20KHz where human hearing starts to get bad, they are not as good. Effectively averaging T1A and T1B by the average we take of FA and FB, strongly rejects the effect of the noise at higher frequencies.
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All this is very well but so far I have no knowledge to program sound card and capture data as you say, the only thing I have is the Frecuenty.py program.
I hope to capture the frequency Frecuenty.py program reasonably well.
And indeed as you say we will have to adapt square wave output of the AD654 to become a sine wave with a good filter.
This week I will do tests as Frecuenty.py program captures the frequencies from a frequency generator.
Like I said I do not care that is not perfect, I can fix that by sotfware.
I'll schedule it in a month I hope to have it finished.
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Hi mister_electronico, I just used your xopet and it is working well for me using a modified Slacko5.3.3t puppy (I did need to use the extra lib you posted too). This is very interesting. Straight away I was able to display the waveform of my voice through the microphone. I am hoping to be able to use this to display the voltage waveform produced by a small stepper motor which I am using to generate electricity.
The stepper has a series of permanent magnets that rotate inside a group of coils. I guess all I need to do is make an interface to isolate the generated voltage from the audio card input and see what waveform and voltage I have. (EDIT - the waveform will not be high frequency as it is just going to be turning at around 100 - 200 rpm or something like that)
Do you know if xoscope is able to display two separate channels at once? I see it has 8 channels, but all of them seem to be displaying the same signal on my machine - yet I only have one microphone plugged in. (I will have to investigate adding a second soundcard too - probably that is how the extra channels need to operate)
OK, now I have looked through the whole topic and got a better idea of how this works.
NOTE TO SELF - build the protection circuit posted by Rodney
Also note possible interface circuit module described
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Hi greengeek is nice to see what xoscope that is useful
Please be careful with microphone inputs that are very sensitive , and if you put a high voltage will produce a breakdown in you sound card .
Follow the recommendations in the post Rodney Byne
Note that the stepper motor or any engine produce large voltage transients that might break your sound card.
With what would be best to put an isolator between the engine and the sound card as an operational buffer as input separator.
Both microphone inputs are available independent you have.
Note that many of those selling microphones have a stereo plug, but the microphone is mono, so that you see the same signal at the two sites.
I think the other channels are reserved for other equipment that you can use as ProbeScope and bitscope, but do not know how these work.
You can place signs at different levels for a closer look inside the toolbar select Channel, then modify the Scale and Position of that channel.
If press the same time the keys Shif+? show you the Help in the window of xoscope.
Ok greengeek good luck with xoscope.
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If you're an Ars Technica reader, you probably think you have this DTV transition thing down. How complicated could it be? All stations are shutting down their analog over-the-air (OTA) broadcasts on June 12, the government is handing out $40 coupons for converter boxes, and old analog TVs will soon display every OTA channel in even higher quality than before.
Except that it's quite a bit more complicated than that. For instance, signal quality will decrease for some; analog OTA stations will continue to broadcast after the transition; and June 12 is not actually the national switchover date. Show of hands: how many people knew that the entire state of Hawaii made the switch back in January?
To make sure you've got the skinny on the DTV transition as it develops, take a look at our guide, get the complete picture, and be ready to help those you know when problems arise. Believe it or not, failing to stick batteries into the converter box remote control was one of the biggest problems during trials. So when Aunt Gertrude comes calling with DTV transition problems, don't forget to start with the simplest solutions.
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Most Ars readers no doubt have a good grasp of the basics. The mandated switchover date has been moved from February 17 to June 12. The government is giving away $40 coupons to pay for converter boxes—up to two per household. And when it comes to options for dealing with the transition, citizens can buy a new digital TV, switch to cable or satellite, or pick up a digital-to-analog converter box. Yes, this last option means using a new remote control to tune channels, but at least one doesn't need a new TV.
Setup of the converter boxes is generally straightforward. Most feature a coaxial antenna input and both a coaxial TV output and a red/yellow/white set of A/V plugs. For those still using VCRs, the box's output must be routed through the VCR (since it can't tune digital signals) and then into the television. All channels must be tuned on the converter box, not the VCR or the television. The government offers install guides in a host of languages.
Cable and satellite are not affected by the transition.
With the basics out of the way, let's delve a bit deeper, starting with the issue of when the transition actually takes place.
So when is the DTV transition actually taking place?
Glad you asked! The mandated national switchover date was originally February 17, 2009, but Congress extended it until June 12, 2009. That's only a final date, however; TV stations can apply to go off the air earlier, and 42 percent have already done so.
Why would they want to? Running a transmitter is expensive; running two is doubly expensive. The power bill alone for an analog transmitter can run tens of thousands of dollars over the course of the delay, so stations that didn't budget for it may want to stop broadcasting in analog as soon as possible.
But to do so, they need permission from the FCC. 368 recently were given the green light to turn off service before June 12, but another 123 were told that "their early termination poses a significant risk of substantial public harm." (Some were later approved.)
Every market is required to have one station still broadcasting DTV transition information in analog format for 60 days after February 17, as well as "enhanced nightlight" service such as local news and public affairs programming. Even after stations stop broadcasting in analog, they can offer a more limited "nightlight" service that shows only a message indicating that the DTV transition has taken place.
June 12, then, is only the final day on which full-power TV stations can transmit an analog signal—in 49 states, anyway. A little-known provision of the switchover actually had the entire state of Hawaii do its own, separate switch on January 15, 2009. The switchover happened at noon and went smoothly, according to Broadcasting & Cable.
Despite all the outreach, some Hawaiians had not gotten the message. "We had a handful of calls where people said, 'Hey, how come nobody told me about this?'" said Hawaii Association of Broadcasters president Chris Leonard.
Even with its early switchover, though, Hawaii was not the first to drop analog TV. That honor went to the oceanfront town of Wilmington, North Carolina, which switched in September 2008. Wilmington was used as a test bed to see what sorts of problems would affect the broader transition, and though it went well, it turned up plenty of consumer confusion.
So I plug this newfangled box in and it works, right?
One of the things that the Wilmington transition showed was that the problems that might arise during the national transition might not be the expected ones. When Ars checked in with Wilmington officials after the switch, Andrea Good told us that more than 200 people had called the local helpline. A number of those people actually had the converter box, too; they just assumed that plugging the thing into the wall was all it took to make it work.
Good noted that some people had problems with the actual box-to-TV installation, which was to be expected. But another thing she noted was that people also failed to use the converter box's "autoscan" feature which programs the box with local channels. Hooking it up correctly without scanning for channels produced the same result as not hooking it up at all: a blank screen.
Even if the setup was done correctly, the box still uses a remote control to control channel changes, and that remote runs on batteries. Kipling Godwin Associates contracted with the Federal Communications Commission to troubleshoot converter box problems for Wilmington residents, and Kip Godwin told us that his company fielded about 250 calls. The number two problem? No batteries in the remote.
The top problem he saw was with the TV set. Even if residents have the converter box plugged in, have scanned for channels, and have batteries in their remotes, the TV needs to be set to the channel that the box is transmitting its analog output on (usually channel 3 or 4).
That's a wide array of possible points of failure, especially for older, less technical TV watchers. Also a source of confusion: the fact that hooking up a converter box in no way turns older analog sets into "HDTVs."
I can't figure it out.
While the Ars audience can probably figure out how to hook up a converter box, friends and relatives might have more trouble. If that's the case, they may be in luck, since they know you!
But if you aren't around, they might have a free backup option. The FCC has contracted with companies across the country to provide free installation services in communities likely to need them the most. Those who qualify will receive a free install for one or two TV sets, an antenna adjustment, and a converter box channel scan.


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Over the past two decades, research investigating the neural basis of social abilities suggests that the human brain has dedicated systems for understanding other minds. Jason Mitchell (Harvard Univ) reviews this brain imaging work and discusses the implications for the unique aspects of human social cognition. Recorded on 10/18/2013. (#26081)
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They were the first hamburger place, having started in 1921. They pride themselves not only in that, but have a very rigorous dress code the employees must adhere to: be clean-shaven, hair combed neatly, uniform just so, and so on.
White Castle seems to be almost everywhere, yet I haven't seen one. I have had the frozen ones, and they taste more like Krystal than the frozen Krystal burgers do. One of those boxes of 6 says it feeds two people? Please. Two boxes might feed three people, if you cook up some french fries and/or some other side.


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The professionally produced show is supported by a $2 million gift from alumnus Calvin Klein, and the company he founded, Calvin Klein, Inc.
Nine major designers and design houses, including Amsale Aberra (special occasion), Maggie Norris (special occasion), Lisa Perry (sportswear), David Neville and Marcus Wainwright of rag & bone (sportswear), Gary Graham (sportswear), Flora Nikrooz (intimate apparel), Tom Scott (knitwear), Lars Andersson (knitwear), and Bonnie Young (children's wear), serve as mentors to the students. They are visiting classrooms throughout the spring semester to critique the students designs, and each will select the most exceptional garment created by a student in their group for special citation as a Critic Award winner.
Six fashion and media professionals will judge the completed pieces to determine which garments are outstanding enough to earn a spot on the runway. This years judges are Kate Betts (Time, Inc.), Alana Kelen (VH1), Lilliana Vazquez (NBC), Bryan Grey Yambao (BryanBoy.com), Colleen Sherin (Saks Fifth Avenue), and Joe Zee (Elle).
The designers selected for the fashion show will also vie for cash awards from Cotton Incorporated, a longtime show sponsor. Students who display the best use of cotton in their garments will compete for prizes of $10,000 for first place, $5,000 for second place, and $3,000 for third place.
Siempre Mujer magazine is sponsoring a new award: The Siempre Mujer Best Use of Color Award, which will be given to the student whose use of color best enhances the design of their garment. The award will be judged by Mara Cristina Marrero, editor-in-chief of Siempre Mujer.
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Micro organisms - air vs grain
I've always been intrigued by the biological aspect of sourdough. There has been much debate about the validity of theories on whether the yeast and bacteria species exist on the grain or are drawn from the air around us via the provision of favourable food sources ie flour & water, etc.
Not being a micro biologist and yet having to find the perfect factual scientific paper of evidence to support either of the theories that abound, I'm yet to form a solid conclusion. I have wondered though whether I've been too simplistic in thinking that it should be one or the other or even the same yeast & bacteria speciies that exist in the air as on the grain. Is it possible that there are species that exist in the air that may be different to those that live on the grain, but still enter and contribute to our cultures during the process of sourdough activiation? There has been much valuable discussion on this site about this topic. I'd just like to revisit it and hear folk's thoughts on the matter. I had assumed that the culture of organisms that are said to exist in the air would be the same species that exist on the grain. Is it possible those found in the air could be diferent species, or different subspecies? That they all come together to make up our treasured starters?
Also, at the market the other day I noticed packets of flour from Italy for sale (I live in Australia).
If I used this to create a starter, would the new starter therefore be a culture that is a body of yeast and bacteria strains specific to the Italian locale of origin of the grain that the flour was milled from?
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To succeed, corporations will have to place increasing value on their own intellectual and human capital and realize that know-how and talent are the real sources of competitive advantage. Reward and recognition programs are essential to any knowledge management (KM) initiative, and as the value placed on intellectual assets continues to grow, so does the need to meet the nonsalary demands of knowledge workers.
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By John Goralski
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A win over No. 5 Roxbury was a long shot, but Coach John Wasielewski still sees the loss as disappointing. Lincoln College has embraced their Cinderella role, and they've upset top teams over each of the last few seasons.
He isn't troubled by the fact that Mass Bay Community College is ranked just outside the top 10 in NJCAA division three standings. Wasielewski expects three wins in the upcoming week.
If his team can do it, they will be all but assured of a postseason berth.
"We can still do it with two wins, but it will depend upon other teams losing," said the coach. "We still control our own destiny."
Can Lincoln College post back-to-back tournament berths? Fans will find out this week with games against UConn-Avery Point, Mass Bay, and Holyoke CC.
No. 5 Roxbury
"Our offense was good enough to win," Wasielewski said about a 116-101 loss to Roxbury on Feb. 5. "It's our defense that continues to be the problem. One of their players scored 54 points."
Still, Lincoln came close. The locals battled to just a 12-point lead at the break and essentially matched them in the second half. With four three-pointers Tylon Holmes led the way with 28 points, six rebounds, and four steals. Mat Correa added 23 points with six assists and three steals.
Sean Douglas scored 22 points with nine rebounds. Kevin Smith and Howell McFarlane scored 10 points apiece. Every starter finished in doubled digits, but Roxbury never trailed.
"We scored over 100 points, and that should be enough," said Wasielewski. "But we couldn't stop them."
Orange County CC
On Thursday, the Wildcats traveled to New York for an out-of-conference matchup with Orange County. For the first time this season, the Wildcats surrendered 100 points on consecutive games.
Smith led the way with 16 points. Douglas had 14 points with seven rebounds. Correa and McFarlane scored 11 points apiece, but the Wildcats fell to 7-14 with a 107-77 loss.
"We were tied with about 10 minutes remaining in the second half," said Wasielewski. "We were down by 10 with four minutes to go, but we weren't able to close the gap."
The loss, however, does not affect the team's postseason hopes, but Wasielewski said that there's little room for error.
"We lost to UConn by only five points last time, and I still think it's a game we should have won. We beat Holyoke by almost 30," said the coach. "We played Mass Bay close last time. If we can win all three, I think we're in. If not, we'll need some help."
Are the Wildcats up to the challenge? Wasielewski thinks they are.


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DEA patches are the pinnacle of law enforcement cool
Natalya Zahn + Oscar teach us how to make Dandelion Garlands... for your dog... or you!
Graffiti artist André Saraiva aka Monsieur A with a huge new show at MUDE, Lisboa.
Discover the Tate after dark with the help of robots. Live online from tomorrow night, you will be able to control robots roaming around the galleries of the Tate Britain from the comfort of your sofa!
Them Chair, the latest addition to the growing Australian made timber range by DesignByThem.
Designer Alexandre de Betak outfitted the walls of Christian Dior's Fall/Winter 2014 couture fashion show with thousands of fresh white orchids.
Umbra Shift Spoon Clock designed by Albert Lee - "a handy clock/mirror combo designed to sit in a pencil cup. Or suspend it off the wall."
Statues Taking Selfies at Crawford Art Gallery in Cork, Ireland.
A visual compendium of glowing creatures by Eleanor Lutz.
Illustrator Chloe Giordano embroiders a tiny fawn (and other creatures!).
The brass Japanese Pocket Clip at Best Made.
Hazet Tool Trolly Assistents - love the way they collapse down taking up less space and keeping dust, etc. out.
Breath Box, the NAS Architecture pavilion at the Festival of Lively Architecture, France, activates senses along shoreline.
The SCIENCE Café-library by Anna Wigandt.
Fold Pot from Pizzolo Russo can grow with your plants.
Ampersand Brand's Bundle Table
Grady's Cold Brew now has Bean Bags! The bags are filled with ground coffee beans, chicory, and spices—that you soak overnight in water for cold brew coffee!
Charles Tonner of Berlin has the cutest logo pressed into all of their leather accessories.
Steven Enns Transfold Leather Backpack
Ajay Malghan's cameraless images featured on Wired Art and Science.
Supperclub Eyewear launches their debut sunglass line. The hand-crafted acetate frames with polarized lenses. Only 100 were made for each style & colorway.
The Bull's Eye bike lift & carry is created for the city dwellers and allows to easily lift and to comfortably move the bicycle or an electric bicycle as if it is a shoulder bag.
Conway Electric Extō - such a fun design. Woven cotton cord and wall outlet style cast-aluminum housing and stainless steel cover! A table lamp and electrical extension in-one.
OgoSport is making the Ogo BILD System available to Makers. This means everybody can 3D print the extra pieces they need or even modify the files to create your own custom BILD pieces.
Toyo has turned three of its tire treads into yukata summer kimono designs.
VIDEOBeautiful video, The Wedge, by Air Reel Productions using aerial footage of Newport Beach, CA.
A self-assembling, origami-inspired robot that can take shape and crawl through the use of a heat-shrinking polymer.
Celestial - An orb shaped desk lamp where the perforated outer shell of the shade folds back into the center to form a stem, gently diffusing light. By Artonomos.
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Pinclip from Yasunori Nagatsuka combining a paperclip and pushpin, so you can pin multiple documents.
Luke Miller Shell Crib crafted from laminated sycamore.
Alexander Wang teams up with Haydenshapes to showcase high-end surfboards as visual art pieces.
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Rutherford Chang owns over 1000 copies of The Beatles' White Album. His 'store' We Buy White Albums presents the records and allows visitors to examine the decades of marks, doodles and damage that have affected the album's minimalist cover.
London-based creative duo Bompas & Parr have conceived the world's first glow in the dark Cornetto to celebrate the UK premiere of The End of the World.
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FERPA provides regulations concerning a student's education record, which consists of all records directly related to a student and maintained by Pacific Union College, with the following exceptions: your education record does not include law enforcement records, non-student employment records, medical/psychological treatment records, alumni records, or records kept in the sole possession of the maker.
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Remember that time the city got sacked by a huge blizzard a few years back and the streets never got plowed and it was a huge headache, especially for outer borough residents who rely on driving to get around? And do you recall that to top it all off, reports started to surface that Mayor Michael Bloomberg wasn't even in New York City to handle the crisis, but instead working on his tan in Bermuda while the rest of us trudged through the cold and snow drifts taller than middle schoolers trying to figure out a way to get around the city?
Well, our new mayor is getting his own lesson in the demands of the job just a short half-year into his tenure. Although, we're not sure he's taking much away from it.
Mayor Bill de Blasio is all set to head to Italy with his family for a little nine-day R&R this Friday. It also looks increasingly like the union that represents the workers on the LIRR are going to instruct their members to walk off the job, perhaps as early as 12:01 a.m. Sunday morning.
If the workers do strike, it's going to cause mayhem Monday morning for the hundreds of thousands of people who rely on the train to commute to jobs in the city and beyond. It could mean deadlock on city streets, as people who normally commute by train will be forced into vehicles. And those who don't want to drive all the way into the city and pay outrageous parking fees will be setting up makeshift park-and-ride lots on neighborhood streets near popular subway stops.
It's going to stink for de Blasio, who will be forced to cut his vacay short just days after he arrives in Italy, returning back to the city to manage the crisis, right?
Not so fast!
De Blasio is adopting the Alfred P. Neuman attitude – "What, Me Worry?" - and won't commit to postponing his European holiday if the LIRR workers do indeed go on strike. His reasoning? Because like himself, so many people are going to be traipsing across Europe or enjoying themselves on some Mexican beach or just relaxing in a cabin off in the woods that really there won't be that many people who even need the trains.
"I think what you're going to find is a lot of people stay home, and a lot of people are away anyway, and the effect will be quite manageable," de Blasio was quoted as saying.
See, goslings, that's why he's the mayor. We'll all just leave the city or sit at home until this whole labor thingie straightens itself out. Problem solved!
Jeez, and we thought Bloomberg was an out-of-touch elitist! De Blasio has the attitude down, even if he doesn't have the billions to go with it.
Incidentally, de Blasio's sojourn will be the longest trip a New York City mayor has even taken since a vacation that Koch enjoyed at the end of his last term.
So while de Blasio is gone, Deputy Mayor Tom Shorris will be calling the shots, although we're not sure if he will get to sleep in the mayor's jammies in Gracie Mansion for those nine day. We assume that how they handle that situation is spelled out very clearly in the City Charter somewhere.
You know what else is spelled out very clearly in the City Charter? If the mayor of New York is out of the city for ten days or more, control of city government can be handed over to the public advocate.
That's right goslings, if the mayor's return flight home were to be cancelled or delayed by some unfortunate weather system, we could be looking at Mayor Letitia James!


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Think Before You Grab Those Ivy Hunks
Warning Princeton women to act fast on finding a spouse fails to reflect big changes in female salaries and education, says Marina Adshade, Vancouver School of Economics professor and author of the book, "Dollars and Sex: How Economics Influences Sex and Love."
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Angelina Jolie has ruled out expanding her family with partner Brad Pitt, insisting their six youngsters need more attention before they welcome another brother or sister.
The "Tomb Raider" star shares three adopted and three biological children with Pitt and admits she's too busy to think about adding another into the brood.
When asked about plans for more kids, she tells Britain's OK! magazine, "No, I think it's very important to give our children the individual attention they need now before expanding our family."
"You try to feel them, because at different times, different children need you – you must find the time to listen to them. Brad and I are also really lucky because between the two of us, we can spread the attention around."
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Anyone traveling near the construction site on the southern end of Ohio University's Athens Campus has likely noticed some significant progress in recent days. Walls on the first of four new residence halls being erected at the site began going up in the past two weeks.
The construction is part of Phase I of Ohio University's Housing Development Plan, an initiative designed to improve the residential experience and the comprehensive living-learning environment on the Athens Campus. The initiative is being led by the Division of Student Affairs and the Division of Finance and Administration.
Phase I includes the construction of four new residence halls as well as a central learning commons and a housing office on the former site of the Wolfe Street Apartments and adjacent lots. Work on the $110 million project began over the summer, and the new residence halls, which will house about 900 beds, are scheduled to open in the fall of 2015.
The Housing Development Plan includes the construction, renovation and demolition of residence halls on the Athens Campus in three phases over the next 10 years as well as the creation of additional recreational and green spaces.
The photo essay below will be updated throughout Phase 1 of the plan to give the OHIO community a glimpse of progress being made on the project. In addition, everyone can check out real-time footage of the project by visiting http://oxblue.com/open/OUHousing.
Jan. 30, 2014: The walls on the first of four new residence halls on the Athens Campus began going up in late January. Photo by Angela Woodward


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These days, more and more stock music providers deliver royalty free music via iTunes. In other NLEs, you'll typically have to dig around in your iTunes music folder to find the file, convert the mp3 file, move it to a directory with the rest of your media, and finally import the music file into your project. I've always found this a rather painful process. How about you?
In Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, this process has been greatly streamlined. Let's see how it's done. To import iTunes music files, do the following:
- Launch Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5.
- Launch Apple iTunes – the iTunes interface will now be in the foreground.
- In iTunes, locate the music file you wish to import into Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5.
- Drag and drop the music file into the project panel. You can drag it directly into a bin, if desired.
- The music file will now be available to use in your project.
Though it isn't a major feature of Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, this is a really cool way to get your royalty-free music from iTunes into Premiere Pro with ease.


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OAKLAND — The only thing harder than rolling out President Barack Obama's health care law is changing the health care industry culture, Covered California Executive Director Peter Lee said Thursday night at the Barbara Lee & Elihu Harris Lecture at Merritt College.
Despite exceeding expectations by enrolling 3.3 million Californians in Covered California's marketplace of insurance programs or Medi-Cal during its first six months, he said the initiative was "relatively succeeding" and "only just beginning."
"When we look back 10 years from now, we'll say, 'Can you imagine a day when we didn't have (universal) health care?'" Lee said.
Under President Obama's Affordable Care Act, also known as "Obamacare," 8 million Americans have signed up for coverage. In California, Covered California operates as an independent part of the state government tasked with guiding residents through the new health insurance marketplace. An open enrollment period ended on March 31: uninsured people who missed the deadline and do not experience a "qualified life event" allowing them to enroll will face a penalty of $95 or 1 percent of their income. The next open enrollment period begins Nov. 15 for coverage beginning Jan. 1.
According to Lee, improving health care literacy remains Covered California's primary task. He said of the millions who signed up, there are still "millions who did not get across that line to get coverage." Citing statistics, like the 100,000 Californians who went bankrupt in 2013 due to medical bills, Lee said the tax penalty wasn't what the uninsured should fear, it was America's ongoing, enormous medical costs.
Dr. Coyness Ennix Jr., founder and past president of the Bay Area Society of Thoracic Surgeons, brought more than 30 years of experience as a thoracic surgeon to the discussion. He said the cost of his birth in Tennessee in 1942 totaled $7: a $3 deliver fee and a $4 clinic fee.
"But then things changed," Ennix said, citing historical, escalating medical costs and attributing them to less choice, less competition and the influence of hospital consolidation and the insurance industry.
"You've heard reasons the costs in the United States are so high, but the true reason is right under our noses. The U.S. consumers have had no centralized negotiation and no leverage to keep health care providers from charging whatever they want," he said.
Lee was quick to note that the health care law provisions require providers to spend 80 percent of collected premiums on health care, not executives' salaries. "ACA changes everything," he said. Even so, Lee's evaluation of Covered California as "relatively succeeding" means the program must continue to be selective in the health plans it offers, he said. Designing standardized benefits has eliminated "shell games" (hidden costs), but effective marketing will require ongoing agility. "Three months in, we saw we weren't reaching Latino and African-American communities. We expanded," Lee said.
Education through 250 grass-roots organizations will continue," he said.
"Enrollment is not as easy as buying a book on Amazon; it's more like doing taxes on TurboTax."
The new health care system's big data collecting will provide an accountability that Lee said would help Covered California spot problems and will ultimately lead to reduced costs. Connecting the health care expansion to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s belief that lack of adequate health care was an injustice, Lee said "We've taken a huge step to having a more just America. As Californians, folks across the state have helped make history."
During an audience Q&A, some people asked about improving outreach to African-American communities, informing released convicts about options available to them, and addressing cost differentials between insurers like Blue Shield of California and Kaiser Permanente. Lee said "the human touch" would be needed. Although 40 percent of enrollees used the online registry successfully, he said 60 percent of those enrolled relied on certified, licensed insurance people, enrollment counselors, grass-roots organizations, and county offices to explain and implement the new program.
The evening's most targeted question came from a health care worker, who asked, "Why should we believe Obamacare can eliminate a two-tier system where (others) have failed?"
Acknowledging he didn't always have great answers for great questions, Lee said health care literacy is critical to the success of the program. "Obamacare is the product of a lot of compromises," he admitted. "The ongoing continuity of care is what Covered California can push for."


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Alison Lundergan Grimes has barnstormed Kentucky in her 45-foot-long campaign bus, rolling up to raucous rallies and posing for photos next to the vehicle bearing an oversized image of the Democratic Senate hopeful.
Left unmentioned amid the hubbub is this: Her father's company acquired the bus just as the campaign got underway last year — and is renting it to his daughter for a fraction of what other companies would typically charge, according to a POLITICO analysis. Federal campaign finance law bars a campaign from receiving goods and services below the fair market value from a corporation, regardless of whether it is owned by a family member.
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A review of Federal Election Commission records shows Grimes paid less than $11,000 through June to rent the bus for at least 24 days, amounting to about $456 per day. Officials at four bus companies said they typically charge $1,500 to $2,000 a day to rent a similarly sized bus, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's campaign said it spent at least $2,200 per day to rent essentially the same bus during a swing earlier this month. That would amount to a savings of tens of thousands of dollars for the Democrat's campaign.
( Also on POLITICO: McConnell, Alison Grimes face off at Fancy Farm)
The spending highlights the central role that Jerry Lundergan, a gregarious former Kentucky Democratic Party chairman and state lawmaker, is playing in his daughter's bid to unseat McConnell. Polls show the GOP leader maintaining a very small lead in the race, one of the most closely watched in the country this year.
The difference between what the company is charging her campaign and the fair market value of the bus rental could be considered an illegal in-kind contribution, according to legal experts.
"If it's coming from a corporation, it's illegal," said Larry Noble, who served as general counsel of the FEC for 13 years and now works at the Campaign Legal Center, a watchdog group. Corporations are prohibited from donating cash or gifts to a campaign, while individual donors' limits cannot exceed $5,200 per election cycle.
Lundergan, Noble added, "can volunteer himself to the campaign, but what he can't do is volunteer his company."
( VIDEO: Could Mitch McConnell go down?)
The Grimes campaign disputes that it is paying less than the fair market value for the bus, saying it went above and beyond to ensure that its payments reflect comparable prices of other similar vehicles.
"The campaign has reported its payments to the bus on the public record," said Marc Elias, Grimes' campaign lawyer. "Moreover, the law requires that the campaign pay 'the normal and usual fare for rental charge for comparable commercial conveyance of sufficient size to accommodate all campaign travelers.'"
Elias added: "In determining the appropriate rate, the campaign obtained costs of comparable providers in the Kentucky and regional market and arrived at a reasonable reimbursement cost. We have reviewed the campaign's methodology and agree that it applies with the applicable rules."
The campaign declined to provide those estimates of comparable prices.
( Also on POLITICO: GOP group unveils Alison Lundergan Grimes coal ad)
If the FEC were to take up the matter and find the Grimes campaign at fault, the agency could ultimately force the Democrat to pay a civil penalty for accepting an illegal corporate contribution and failing to report an in-kind donation.
Altogether, the campaign has paid Lundergan's catering and events companies about $35,000 for everything from prop rentals to fuel costs. It's trickier to gauge fair market value for some of the other outlays, though it's unclear why Grimes' primary night party, for instance, was substantially cheaper than McConnell's.
Over the course of the campaign, Lundergan's companies have helped stage and organize several major campaign appearances, including Grimes' flashy July 2013 campaign kickoff, the rollout of her jobs plan in Eastern Kentucky in January, her May primary night victory party and Bill Clinton's speech in Lexington earlier this month.
Several of these events have taken place at the Carrick House, a classy Lexington mansion and banquet hall owned by one of Lundergan's companies. Campaign finance reports show that Lundy's Special Events was paid $3,706 for its kickoff event at the Carrick House in July 2013.
After she skated to her primary night victory party, Grimes threw a soiree at the Carrick House, paying Lundy's $2,882 for its services that night. Additional production-related costs to other vendors put the final tab at $7,466 for its primary night party, FEC records show.
By contrast, McConnell's primary night victory party, which was hosted by the Jefferson County Republican Party at a Marriott hotel in Louisville, cost $22,550, according to invoices provided by the campaign. Both the Grimes and McConnell campaigns offered a cash bar to their guests.
The Grimes campaign said its costs were consistent with market value.


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Henry Hank wrote:I'd rather take any draft pick compensation than a guy who's pretty much a bust. I'd say that the ideal situation would be for the Pens to get Hossa signed before the draft and then trade Malone's rights for a third or fourth rounder. Extend that further, get Orpik signed and trade Sydor for a similar draft pick and the hit they had taken from trading picks at the last two deadlines wouldn't be as bad, plus they'd still have Hossa anyway.
Agree, I see this as an opportunity to rebuild the draft they traded away.


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72-Year-Old Man Miraculously Survives 19 Days in Forest By Eating Squirrels [VIDEO]
This is one tough dude.
Gene Penaflor, 72, somehow survived 19 days in the wild after he got lost in a forest.
Penaflor was hunting with a friend last month in Mendocino National Forest, a large nature preserve in Northern California when they got separated. Penaflor fell off a ridge and passed out. He eventually woke up and tried to get out of the forest, but became disoriented.
Efforts to draw the attention of a passing helicopter failed over the next few days, so Penaflor was forced to channel his inner mountain man by living on the land, including chowing down on squirrels, lizards, snakes and algae. He kept himself warm by using leaves and grass as a blanket, which was essential since the temperature dipped to 25 degrees on some nights.
Penaflor was rescued this past Saturday when hunters in the area heard him calling for help. He was brought to a hospital where his son says he is in good condition.


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The majestic saker falcon is being pushed toward extinction because of soaring demand from wealthy Gulf Arabs, who prize the bird for its hunting prowess, conservation group BirdLife International said this week.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa The majestic saker falcon is being pushed toward extinction because of soaring demand from wealthy Gulf Arabs, who prize the bird for its hunting prowess, conservation group BirdLife International said this week.
The saker falcon is the traditional species used by Gulf falconers when hunting the houbara bustard with devastating consequences for both species.
"The expansion of falconry expeditions into the wide range of the houbara and the increasing technological sophistication and efficiency of these expeditions has caused the pressure on both the houbara and the saker to intensify," BirdLife said.
"The prices involved are so high and the demand so great that there has been a huge explosion of commercial interest in the species in the past 20 years or more," it said in a report. BirdLife has recommended to the World Conservation Union (IUCN) that the bird be red-listed as endangered.
The Swiss-based IUCN's Red List is a respected wildlife barometer widely used by scientists and conservationists.
The classifications are vulnerable, endangered, and critically endangered. Animals in these categories are considered to be threatened with extinction.
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Sakers are traditionally trapped in the autumn, with young females usually targeted.
This is because they are easier to trap and train than adults and more capable than male birds of tackling houbaras, long-necked birds who spend much of their time on the ground.
The saker's range extends from eastern Europe to China.
BirdLife said recent surveys show its population has fallen to around 4,000 pairs in 2003 from about 10,000 pairs in 1990 a decline of 60 percent. Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have seen the sharpest drops, with their populations down by around 90 percent over the period.
Conservationists say enforcement will not be easy.
"The wealth of the buyers, the poverty of the trappers, and the sums involved down the chain of purchases are so great that no legal instruments can really control events on the ground," said Dr. Nigel Collar of BirdLife.
On the brighter side, economics and the bird's own resilience may contrive to save it.
"If the figures on the decline rates are accurate, then consumers are likely to turn to captive-bred birds, who can be supplied abundantly, and at a certain point it will be cheaper to do this than pay for (rare) wild-caught ones," Collar said.
"Fortunately sakers can bounce back quite rapidly," he said.
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How about a new floor?
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