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Strike shuts down Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway
Cleveland) – More than 100 members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen struck the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway at 5:00 am Friday.
Spokesman John Bentley says they're protesting the "railroad's repudiation of the Collective Bargaining Agreements that cover the two operating crafts."
Bentley says picket lines were posted at seven primary WLE terminals in Ohio and Pennsylvania, shutting down the entire railroad's operation.
"We were forced to take this action in defense of our contracts," said General Chairman Bob Linsey. "Specifically, the Carrier has used management officials to perform the work of bargaining unit employees, namely locomotive engineers and conductors. In defiance of the union's warnings, the Carrier has also recently ignored longstanding crew consist agreements and operated single-person operations in an effort to eliminate Trainmen. To make matters worse, it's done this after serving bargaining proposals to eliminate the restrictions, an outright admission that it presently has no right to operate this way."
According to the W&LER website, they are the largest railroad based in Ohioand among the largest regional railroads in the Country. The service area is concentrated in eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania, includes 840 miles of track running from Toledo to Hagerstown, Maryland.
The union says the strike locations are: Akron, Brewster, Canton, Carey, Hartland, and Mingo Junction, Ohio and in Carnegie, Pennsylvania, at the Rook Yard.
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Young Boy, Kolkata (Calcutta)
Photograph by Satyaki Basu, My Shot
The ethnic groups of India are as varied as the landscapes of the sweeping Asian subcontinent—Bengalis, Punjabis, Gujaratis, Nagas, Sora, and others add up to nearly 1.2 billion people, making India the world's second most populous country. Pictured here: A young boy dressed as the Hindu deity Lord Krishna
Photograph by Jason Florio, Aurora PhotosA band member returns home by train after performing at a wedding.
Man, Jodhpur
Photograph by Nam Prasad Satsangi, My Shot
With neatly wound turban and beard and mustache carefully swept back, a man keeps his cool in Jodhpur, the second largest city in Rajasthan state.
Children, Pushkar
Photograph by Annette Thompson, My Shot
Dressed as the Hindu deity Shiva and his consort, Parvati, children beg for money from tourists in Pushkar.
Man, Kolkata
Photograph by Peter Velter, My Shot
It's estimated that there are more than 2,000 ethnic groups in India. It's also a country of many religions. More than 80 percent of Indians are Hindu.
Photograph by Charles Meacham, My Shot
In 2008, Sikhs across India celebrated 300 years of the guruship of Sri Guru Granth Sahib. This holy book is treated as a living guru.
Woman, Rajasthan
Photograph by Lou Souza, My Shot
A brightly veiled woman visits the Karni Mata temple in Bikaner, Rajasthan. The Hindu temple is famous for the thousands of rats that live there, dining on sweets, grain, and milk called laddu.
Young Man, Rajasthan
Photograph by Simon Lister, My Shot
Green cloth draws out the piercing eyes of a young man from Rajasthan, the largest state in India.
Man, Kolkata
Photograph by Peter Velter, My Shot
Modern accessories add flash to a traditional street scene in Kolkata, capital of the state of West Bengal.
Woman, New Delhi
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A street vendor's colored glass bangles frame her face. The Indian capital, New Delhi is one of nine districts that make up the metropolis of Delhi.
Photograph by Tim Robertson, My Shot
A military parade celebrates Republic Day, the January 26 anniversary of India's adoption of its constitution.
Chithirai Festival
Photograph by Arun Kumar, My Shot
A celebrant gets into the spirit at the Chithirai festival in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. The days-long festival celebrates the wedding of Lord Shiva and the goddess Meenakshi (Lord Vishnu's sister).
Child, Gokarn
Photograph by Neven Grujic, My Shot
A child joins the crowd at the Shivratri festival in Gokarn, a village in Karnataka state. Festivalgoers leave offerings for the Hindu deity Lord Shiva.
Rajasthan Orphanage
Photograph by Paul Kline, My Shot
Two women clean the kitchen of a Rajasthan orphanage after the lunch meal.
Beggars, Mumbai
Photograph by Steve McCurryHalf of Mumbai's 12 million inhabitants live in shantytowns, and many of them—like this mother and child—survive by begging.
Photograph by Neha Parmar, My Shot
Desert sands stretch out beyond a woman in colorful traditional dress and jewelry.
Girl, Pushkar
Photograph by Ron Johns
A street musician's daughter rests in Pushkar, one of the oldest cities in Rajasthan state and India itself.
Men, Pushkar
Photograph by Neven Grujic, My Shot
Friends share a stoop in Pushkar during the annual mela, or fair. Originally a camel trading event, the mela has grown to include cultural events and even a camel beauty pageant.
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Feminism | Posted by Bridget C. on 08/12/2013
Southern Belle or Southern Hell?
Growing up, I always had the benefit of playing sports and hanging out with boys. It was great until around seventh grade. Then girls and boys separated. We didn't play sports together during recess, PE was divided by gender, and we didn't even sit together at lunch most days. The worst part was the teachers. Every time I dared to sit without my legs glued shut, ate quickly, or made a crude joke, I was quickly reminded to "act like a lady." I went from a tomboy to a dainty, "ewh dirt!" exclaiming, knee-length skirt wearing teenager within a year. I hated myself for two years trying to become the lady that my community desired.
This was to be expected though. …


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Zanmato....I to would understand paying a little extra as an when competitions or fights arise. I would agree and would not batter an eyelid to pay extra for that.
MerseyBoy...I am actually quite jealous that you get to go to classes in the morning or daytime. My place only does classes in the evening.
I think for the time being I am going to enter as an independant fighter to some of the comps, as Sledge suggested. But then my corner might be a bit on the empty side lol....am not havin my mum on the corner!


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Bristol Public Library and its branch, F.N. Manross Memorial, will be closed Monday, October 14, to celebrate Columbus Day. The Library and its branch will resume normal hours on Tuesday, October 15.
While we're closed, you may still drop off items in our book drops or use the library catalogs to place holds, check your library card, or renew items. The library's databases will also remain accessible with your library card while we're closed. These resources can be accessed through our website bristollib.com.


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Gay and bisexual users of the Ashley Madison infidelity website have been left in fear for their lives after it emerged that the identities of users living in countries where homosexuality is illegal and even punishable by death have been posted online.
Users of Ashley Madison's "Down Low" site, which caters for "married men seeking other men for casual, no-strings fun", are among the 37 million account holders whose details – and sexual preferences – have been made public by hackers this week.
Other gay domains owned by Ashley Madison whose users are contained in the huge data dump include ManCrunch along with We Know Down Low. "Down low" is a US slang term for men who identify as heterosexual but also have sex with other men.
Homosexual relationships or sex remain illegal in around 75 countries around the world, including many states in the Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia, and almost all of the Caribbean. Equal rights campaigners said the publication of such sensitive information was putting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people at risk worldwide.
In July, at the time of the Ashley Madison hack, one gay Saudi national posted a message on the Reddit website saying he was sure he would be stoned to death when the data was published. "I was single, but used it because I am gay; gay sex is punishable by death in my home country so I wanted to keep my hook-ups extremely discreet," he said at the time. Although his story has not been independently confirmed, subsequent posts suggest he has fled Saudi Arabia to seek help from a team of immigration lawyers in the US who specialise in LGBT refugees seeking asylum.
The data leaks monitoring firm CybelAngel said that – in the overall trove of 37 million account-holders, straight and gay – it had counted 1,200 email addresses with the Saudia Arabian ".sa" suffix, where adultery is punishable by death.
More than 50 accounts have been found from Qatar where homosexual relationships are punishable by up to five years in prison, while almost 1,500 accounts are from Turkey – where homosexuality is not illegal but can get a person kicked out or banned from military service.
The group behind the attack – the Impact Team – breached Ashley Madison's servers last month, and this week released the data to the Dark Web: a sub-level of the internet that cannot be accessed through normal browsers. The hack includes customer names, credit-card data, addresses and sexual preferences.
As the hacked data became more accessible through online sharing platforms, a custom Google map was created that displays Ashley Madison users' addresses they registered with the website.
British civil servants, international bankers and UN staff are among those whose names appear in the data. Several BBC and ITV figures as well as academics at Oxford, Cambridge and other leading British universities are named as Ashley Madison account holders.
Lawyers suggested that adult dating and infidelity websites faced ruin if customers decided to form class action lawsuits following multiple hacks. They compared the leaking of private information belonging to millions of customers to the phone-hacking scandal that engulfed Rupert Murdoch.
Avid Life Media (ALM), the Canadian-based owner of Ashley Madison, had promised its customers that it could provide a secure website and "100 per cent discreet service" and that their servers were "kind of untouchable".
Sarah Webb, partner at London-based Payne Hicks Beach's privacy and media law team, said: "Ashley Madison and, more particularly, ALM could be facing litigation of a similar scale and basis to the phone-hacking claims against the publishers of the Mirror and News of the World."
Lawyers said whether those who are identified by email addresses have a claim depends on the steps that ALM took to protect the private information from hackers and what their terms and conditions state. If the hacking was so sophisticated that they could not reasonably protect against it, they may escape liability. However, customers have claimed the "full delete" service run by Ashley Madison did not work and that the company retained private information even after customers left the website, suggesting its security might not have been adequate.
Whether Ashley Madison customers wish to step forward is another question but there were suggestions a class action lawsuit may take place in the US.
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1/99 New iPhone 6s rose gold
Apple has released a bright pink new iPhone 6s — likely the only way that you'll be able to tell that someone has the new handset. The company released the new phone with much fanfare, but almost all of the changes — a new camera and pressure-sensitive display — were on the inside. The only new noticeable addition to the phone's look is the very pink rose gold colour, and a tiny "S" on the back. The new handsets will be released on September 25
2/99 iPad Pro
Apple has launched a huge new iPad, which it hopes can bring the tablet to offices and designers. But it unveiled it with an Apple-designed stylus — an idea that was famously mocked by late Apple founder Steve Jobs
3/99 Apple TV
Apple has introduced the new Apple TV
4/99 Apple Pencil
Apple has introduced the new Apple Pencil
5/99 Samsung Gear S2 smartwatch
Much was made of Samsung's announcement of the Galaxy Note 5 and the Galaxy S6 Edge+ at a New York conference, but the company also released a short teaser for their answer to the Apple Watch - the Samsung Gear S2. The previous iteration of this watch was the Gear S - a fairly bulky device with a curved screen, that was more a small smartphone that attached to your wrist than a real smartwatch. However, based on the teaser, the S2 looks much, much more elegant. It actually looks like a real watch, with a circular face and a metal case and band - which may be optional, as it is with the Apple Watch
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6/99 Google's Project Sunroof
Google has unveiled its latest major new product, Project Sunroof, which aims to make it easier for people to install solar panels in their homes. Project Sunroof, which has already launched in the US cities of Boston, San Francisco and Fresno, is Google's effort to make solar power simple and understandable. Simply by entering your address into Project Sunroof's website, Google can show you how much usable sunlight you get per year, which parts of your house get the most sun, how much room you have for solar panels, and most importantly, how much money you would save by switching
7/99 Apple car is definitely being built
Apple is definitely working on a self-driving car and is further along with the project than had been previously thought, according to reports. The company is already scouting locations to test out the technology, showing that the car is more developed than previous reports have suggested
8/99 Ashley Madison leak
Hackers stole the personal details of millions of users of Ashley Madison, an 'anonymous' dating website which was targeted at people seeking extramarital affairs. The oddly moralistic hackers, working under the name 'Impact Team', said they would post the information online unless the site was shut down
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9/99 Yahoo Livetext
Yahoo has launched an app intended to make video chats feel less awkward, by not making people feel compelled to talk at all. Livetext, quietly launched weeks ago and now being rolled out worldwide, allows people to chat without actually talking, instead sending video feeds and messages in text. The company hopes that it can overcome the awkwardness of phone calls and video chats by keeping the intimacy of video but the spontaneity of normal chat. The app works by showing a video of the person that you're chatting with, in the same way as with a Facetime or Skype call. But instead of talking to them — which wouldn't be heard — the app pops up a chat box where users can send messages or emoji
10/99 Samsung unveils biggest hard drive ever made
Samsung has unveiled the biggest hard drive ever made, packing 16TB of storage into a standard sized hard drive. The company has managed to fit such a huge amount of memory in such a small box using a range of special new technologies, it said when it launched the drive at California's Flash Memory Summit. It is packed with a huge array of flash dies — the things that actually do the storing — packed together by using a 3D stacking technique. Samsung has managed to put stacks of memory on top of each other, to fit more in, rather than the traditional flat way that memory is kept in a hard drive
11/99 Twitter's Periscope livestreaming app gets 10 million users in first four months
The app launched at the end of March, with the aim of letting everyone send livestreamed videos from their phone to the world. And now users are sending 40 years of video per day, according to Twitter, which owns Periscope. Periscope said that the amount of time watched "is the metric we care about most," because it tells it how successful it is for users and indicates how many people are actively using the app. It said that despite the huge numbers of active users, that metric wasn't necessarily helpful since it didn't want to grow in a way that didn't lead to the success of the product or its users. Periscope launched at the beginning of a rush for livestreaming apps, shortly after very similar app Meerkat. While the latter had much of initial publicity and popularity, Twitter's app has slowly taken over
12/99 Robot 'mother' builds babies that can evolve on their own
Scientists have created a 'mother' robot that can build babies out of mechanised blocks, and then create new ones that evolve from the previous generation. The findings show that robots could be able to evolve on their own, in the same way that animals and humans have. Like biological evolution, the robots mother could look out for the best traits in her children, and then use those to improve the following generations of robots. In five different experiments, robot set the mother — which looks like a big robotic arm — to work building generations of ten different children. They were built out of small plastic cubes with motors inside
13/99 Samsung Pay revealed
Samsung's own way to pay with a mobile phone instead of a credit card was revealed in detail . It's not coming to the UK just yet, though with luck it'll be here by the end of 2015. And it has some features that rival systems, including Apple Pay, can't match. Most importantly, it works with most kinds of credit card reader, not just the contactless card reader needed to make rivals work. It's because instead of sending out an NFC signal, as Apple Pay does, it additionally uses a system called MST which fools a regular card reader into thinking there's a magnetic stripe card present
14/99 Tesla Model S can be shut down remotely with just one key press
Hackers have managed to remotely take over a Tesla car — unlocking its doors, starting it, and driving it away, and managing also to shut it down with just the click of the button. Tesla's electric Model S is among the most secure cars in the world. But the hackers were still able to break in and control it remotely. The hackers couldn't break straight into the car. Instead, they had to hack into different parts of it, gradually getting towards the entertainment centre, from which the car can be stopped and various parts of it controlled. To do so involved getting hold of a car and taking apart the dashboard. Once they were in there they could get through to the first part of a long chain of weaknesses that eventually led them to the infotainment system
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15/99 Nanoparticles with aluminium 'yolks' could enhance the life-span of rechargeable batteries
By creating an electrode consisting of nanoparticles with a solid shell and an internal 'yolk', the scientists have reportedly solved an issue with current rechargeable batteries that sees performance significantly deteriorate after repeated charges. According to their findings, their newly developed lithium-ion battery is far more resistant to the damage caused by frequent charge cycles. While current electrodes degrade over time after growing and shrinking in size over multiple charges, the aluminium 'yolk' filling of the newly designed nanoparticles would allow for increased growth which causes less damage to their titanium-dioxide shells
16/99 Xbox One will let you record live TV
Microsoft took to the stage at gamescom 2015 in Cologne and announced their plans to introduce DVR for Over-the-Air TV to the Xbox One. They have announced a slight catch to what they claim was one of their most requested features for the Xbox One based on fan feedback – it can only record to an external hard drive. Coming days after Microsoft's announcement that it has formed a partnership with Seagate to produce a bespoke 2TB external drive for Xbox One and Xbox 360, Microsoft claims that the necessity of an external hard drive for the DVR feature is because they do not want to affect the gaming experience
17/99 Digital camera software lets humans see like an animal
Researchers from the University of Exeter have created a free software program that shows users the difference between how humans and animals see images. Intended for the analysis of animal signalling, camouflage and plant health and identification, the software presents a unique opportunity to view the world through the eyes of different species and compare it to our own vision
18/99 Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and S6 Edge
Images of the new Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 Edge have been leaked online, along with detailed specifications of the new phones. The two new handsets are set to be unveiled at a Samsung event on August 13. But most of the important details have already been revealed. As well as the high-quality pictures — which show that the two large phones take many of their design queues from the S6 and S6 Edge, released earlier this year — the company has leaked many of their important specifications
19/99 Stratolaunch
The biggest plane in the world is due to set off next year, and it's a wide as three Boeing 737s. The Stratolaunch — which is currently in production — began development in 2011, and is under construction at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. Its makers, Scaled Composites, hope to have it ready to take off on test flights next year. The plane is nicknamed "Roc" after a mythical bird, reports Yahoo. It has six jet engines, 28 wheels and a 385-foot wingspan
20/99 Apple 'planning its own mobile phone network'
The company is secretly trialling a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) — a mobile network that borrows its service from other companies — according to Business Insider. It is in talks to bring the service to the US and Europe, according to the reports, but it might not actually appear for another five years
REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
21/99 LinkedIn responds to complaints about too many emails
LinkedIn has listened to user complaints about the frequency of its notifications and has promised to cut down on the number of emails it sends to users. In a blog post entitled "Less is more," a spokesperson for the network said: "Many of you have told us that you receive too many emails from LinkedIn. We're also not immune to the late night talk show host jokes. We get it"
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22/99 Amazon UK launch Prime Music streaming service
Amazon have just launched their new streaming service in the UK. The launch comes days after research showing a surge in growth of the British music streaming market with more than 500m songs being streamed every week, nearly double the rate of a year ago
23/99 Instagram's first game
At the ripe of age of five, Instagram is no longer just a platform for sharing highly-planned selfies and photos of your dinner, but is now also hosting its first ever game. The game is based on cult animated series Rick and Morty. The critically acclaimed Adult Swim sci-fi series follows alcoholic scientist Rick Sanchez and his impressionable grandson Morty Smith as they explore the universe. The Rickstaverse game transforms Instagram into a hidden object-style game, where fans of the show can delve into 25 different worlds
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24/99 Google+ Photos killed off
Google+ Photos is being closed, in what could be the final sign that the mostly-quiet social network is shutting down. The photos service was long one of the most useful parts of Google+, the search giant's attempt at building a social network, since it offered clever editing tools and ways of sharing pictures with friends. But many of those feature have now been built into the standalone Google Photos, which does all the same — but adds even more clever artificial intelligence tools to help it recognise certain features of pictures
25/99 Ashley Madison hacked
The personal records of 37 million users of a site that helps people cheat on their spouses will be released if it doesn't shut down, hackers have threatened. Ashley Madison, the dating site that has the tagline "Life is short. Have an affair" has been hacked and all of the details of its users and owner Avid Life Media have been stolen. The hackers, calling themselves The Impact Team, are demanding that the site is taken down or all of the details will be leaked. Avid Life Media called the hack "an act of cyber-terrorism"
26/99 Samsung Galaxy Tab S2
Samsung has launched the Galaxy Tab S2 — a new, thin and light tablet that Samsung hopes can beat the iPad. The S2 comes in two sizes — either a 9.7-inch or 8.0-inch screen — which are slightly different to its predecessor, the Tab S. That screen is Super AMOLED, and inside the body is a fingerprint scanner, a fairly large battery, and either 32GB or 64GB of internal storage. The tablet is 5.6mm thin and either 389g or 265g, depending on the screen size. Samsung says that the tablet is the world's thinnest and lightest metal tablet of its size
27/99 Windows 10 update
Windows 10 can be pre-ordered now and it will come on a USB drive for the first time. Windows 10 Home will cost $119.99 and Windows 10 Pro will cost $199.99, according to a listing on Amazon. And they will be sent to users on USB drives, rather than the traditional DVD. "Windows 10 will be available on USB drives for purchase in retail channels shortly after launch," a Microsoft spokesperson told VentureBeat. "The suggested retail prices for Windows 10 in the U.S. are the same as Windows 8.1"
28/99 Apple Pay
TfL says users will face penalty charges if battery runs out on the Tube. The newly-released technology lets users pay for things, including journeys on the TfL network, using their phone. But if they tap on and then are unable to tap out, they will have to pay the maximum fare and could be slapped with a penalty charge. "Your iPhone or Apple Watch must be switched on to use it to travel," TfL warns on its official Apple Pay page. "You should also check that you have enough battery on your iPhone or Apple Watch to complete your journey"
29/99 Oculus
Oculus has bought an Israeli gesture recognition firm, potentially bringing the ability to interact with the worlds shown in its Rift virtual reality headset. The company, Pebbles, makes kit so that headsets and other computers can recognise the movements of their users and then render them in the virtual world. At the moment, the Oculus Rift headset can only show images of the worlds that it lets people inhabit — but the new technology could be used to let people fully interact with them, too. Eventually, that will be used to let people communicate with each other and interact with the objects that are shown to them, Oculus said
30/99 Facebook shopping
Facebook is adding a buy button to its pages — letting users shop on the site without ever having to leave. The new tools will let shops show off products on their pages and then allow users to buy things straight from them, reports BuzzFeed News. The company is testing the new feature out with a few dozen sellers at the moment, but is set to expand to include others if it is successful. The shops are likely to be displayed very prominently in the app, according to BuzzFeed's initial view. The site speculated that may mean that users will see more actual items from shops — rather than advertising images created with the aim of going viral as promotion
31/99 Asking Siri to charge phone prompts iPhone to call the emergency services
Giving the iPhone personal assistant the instruction to "charge phone 100%" means that it automatically calls the police, the Verge has found. No further questions are asked, and users have five seconds to end the call. It seems to happen because the phone is hearing the words as an instruction to "phone 100", and it interprets 100 as the emergency services. Telling the phone to "charge phone 999" and "charge phone 911" have the same effect
32/99 Apple iPhone scam sees users asked for up to £50 to 'unlock' their devices
Affected iPhone users in the US and the UK have seen a "crash report" message appear on their screen, asking them to contact a number for an "immediate fix". Although the US Apple customers have experienced the problem for at least nine months, the MailOnline has claimed that the scam has now crossed the Atlantic. An Apple spokesperson told the newspaper that people should check their security settings on Safari
33/99 Darkode.com hacker site shut down in worldwide sting
The US Justice Department has shut down an online black market where criminals could buy stolen databases, viruses and other products that can cripple or steal information from computers. 70 criminals from 20 different countries were targeted in the 18-month probe into Darkode.com, a members-only website where malware was freely for sale. In order to gain access, users had prove their credentials, and show that they could contribute to the criminal community. There was also a hierarchical system amongst members, which dictated which other users they could communicate with and what commodities they could access
34/99 New iPod Touch
Apple is about to launch new versions of its iPod Touch, Shuffle and Nano, kitting them out in new colours and with new bumped-up specs. Many had worried that Apple was about to kill off its famous iPod line — as part of a new focus on streaming in the wake of Apple Music — but it looks like the company was just waiting to refresh it. The new devices will include a new iPod Touch with upgraded specifications, and new colours for all three of its iPod devices, according to 9to5mac. The new Nano and Shuffles will just get cosmetic changes, as Apple will add new dark blue, pink and gold colours. Those changes had been accidentally revealed by a new version of iTunes — when a user plugged their iPod into sync, and the computer showed a picture featuring iPods in colours that hadn't been released yet
35/99 Samsung Galaxy A8
Samsung has just released the slimmest phone it has ever made, the Galaxy A8, and it hasn't really told anyone. The phone has just quietly launched in China, and is just 5.9mm thin. It has an all-metal body that weighs just 151 grams. Despite its small size, the phone's specs are as good as many mid-range models. It has a 16-megapixel camera on the back, 2GB of RAM, and a 5.7-inch 1080p display that is framed by a tiny bezel, according to the Chinese release site — as well as a 3,050mAh battery, which is more than the flagship Galaxy S6
36/99 Instagram bug gives people thousands of followers — and will take them back
A bug gave people thousands more Instagram followers than they really had. The problem gave some of the biggest users many thousands of extra followers. But they were all added by mistake and are already being removed
37/99 Facebook News Feed preferences
Facebook has added new options to its news feed, with the aim of helping people make it less boring. The new controls included "See First", which lets users choose people they want to hear from more, who will then be automatically pushed to the top of the feed. They also include tools to help people find new pages to follow and easy ways of unfollowing people and groups that aren't interesting. The new tools have appeared already in an update to the iOS app, and "will be rolling out on Android and desktop over the coming weeks", Facebook said. To get the extra preferences, users can head to the "More" button in the bottom right hand corner of the app and select them through Settings
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38/99 IBM makes tiny chips as small as a blood cell
The development could lead modern computers to be shrunk down to tiny sizes, as well as the production of nanocomputers that could allow for entirely new uses of technology. It has finally undone worries that the pace of progress in technology could dramatically slow, because it seemed that there was to be little progress in further shrinking the semiconductors that power computers. The smallest of the new chips are about 7-nanometres wide. The smallest parts on current chips are twice that
39/99 Porn on Twitter
Twitter has built highly-intelligent robots that can recognise porn, in an attempt to stop it spreading on the network. The site has long been said to have a porn problem – which has been reported to scare off marketers who are afraid that their ads will appear next to content that is not safe for work. But it is putting to work technology it acquired when it bought a startup last year, which can spot NSFW images and other offensive media, helping automatically hide it in people's feeds. The porn-spotting robots are part of a broader move towards artificial intelligence at Twitter. But in the short term it could be able to cut out the huge amount of offensive content that appears in some parts of the site
40/99 Facebook is planning to launch its own streaming music service
The company is in early talks to build a competitor to Spotify and Apple Music, according to Music Ally. The service is likely to follow an initial launch of ad-supported music videos – part of Facebook's plans to take on YouTube, which have also seen it launch auto-playing videos and seen views rise hugely. The streaming service isn't set to launch for some time, unnamed sources told the music site. The company hasn't yet decided on a business model or a launch timetable, they said
41/99 iOS 9 to have special photo albums for screenshots and selfies
Gone, it seems, are the days of your photo library being full of accidental screenshots and embarrassing selfies. Now, the phone will automatically detect pictures that fall into one of those two groups – filing them away in their own folder for easy sharing or deleting. iPhones already store some kinds of photo away in their own folder – time-lapse, slo-mo, burst photos and videos all get their own album
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42/99 iPhone 7
The next iPhone will have technology that will let it know how hard its screen is being pressed, and turn it into one big button, according to reports. Apple's next phone – likely called the iPhone 6S or iPhone 7 – will have Force Touch technology, first launched in the Apple Watch, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The company is also considering new colours for the phone, alongside the current grey, silver and gold options. The Force Touch technology will allow a new way of interacting with the phone, alongside the current swipes and taps. On the Apple Watch, it allows the screen to act like another button – with long presses bringing up extra options on the screen – and some rumours have already suggested that will be used in the camera app
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43/99 The BBC unveils the micro:bit
The BBC has unveiled the micro:bit, a tiny computer that will be given away to every 11 and 12-year-old child in Year 7 across the country, as part of an effort to improve computer literacy and coding skills amongst young people. The micro:bit is a simple machine, roughly the size of a credit card. While it's not the most powerful computer in the world, it's hoped that its simple functions will teach children valuable lessons in computer science and programming. The main features on the body of the tiny device are an array of 25 small LED lights, two buttons, a built-in motion sensor, a Bluetooth chip and a magnetometer, which detects magnetic fields. Through writing simple code, which children will be able to learn via the micro:bit website, they'll be able to turn it into a spirit level, a video games controller, a metal detector, and many other devices. They'll be able to save and test their programs on the website, before transferring them to the computer through Bluetooth or a USB connection
44/99 Instagram upgrades picture resolution
All Instagram pictures everywhere are about to get far nicer-looking, as the company is finally upgrading its photos to HD. The site and app have long limited pictures to a 640 by 640 resolution, far more grainy than the screens of modern smartphones. But the site is finally pushing that up to 1080 by 1080 resolution — more than an HD TV. The change is initially rolling out on the iOS and Android apps, and the web app is still showing pictures at the old size. But it's likely that the site will upgrade all versions of Instagram to support the more detailed pictures
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45/99 Google launches RideWith
Google has launched its own carpooling service, taking on Uber with the opportunity to pay someone to sit in their car on the way to work. RideWith will be powered by Waze, the Google-owned community-based mapping service, and will be limited to an initial pilot. But many have suggested that the company is looking to take on other car-sharing and taxi companies — eventually using self-driving vehicles — and the new launch could be the beginning of those plans. At first, the service will only be launched in Israel, where Waze is based. It will only be available for people in the Gush Dan region who are using Android — but it is likely that the company will expand it further after that, describing it as a "pilot"
46/99 Twitter launches 'Birthday' feature
Twitter wants to know people's birthday — so they can let their followers know, show them a balloon animation, and give them more personalised ads. The social network has launched an option to let people add their birthday in the "Edit profile" settings. Once it's added, users can show the information to the public or their followers. The feature will be opt-in for all users, so it won't be shown unless the option is chosen. Users can choose who to show it to, as well as letting people decide whether they want to show the year they were born, or just the date
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47/99 Amazon Prime Day
Amazon is to run a huge day of sales on July 15 to celebrate its 20th birthday. The sales will be "filled with more deals than Black Friday", according to the company. It will see discounted products across Amazon's ranges, including electronics, toys and films. Customers must be a member of Amazon Prime to get the deal. But the company is offering a 30-day free trial to promote the sales
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48/99 Apple Pay coming to UK
Apple Pay, which lets customers buy things by touching their iPhone 6 or Apple Watch on a card reader, is set to arrive in the UK on 14 July. Apple Pay purchases will be limited to £20 initially, but that is expected to rise in the autumn. That would be in line with contactless payment cards, which have the same limit now but will see that rise to £30 in September
49/99 Netflix tax
Chicago is to raise extra funds by charging a "cloud tax" — taking an extra 9 per cent from the money raised popular streaming services like Netflix. The charge, which will also hit streaming services like Spotify, could make the city an extra $12 million a year, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. The new levy will apply to all entertainment, including TV, films, music and games that are rented digitally. It will also apply to companies that lend people computing power through the cloud
50/99 Snapchat updated to let people see stories and snaps without holding finger down
Before, people had to get tired thumbs while they covered up the screen to make the snap play. But now, users can "Tap to View", letting people see the whole video or picture with just one click. "This means no more tired thumbs while watching a several-hundred-second Story… and a little getting used to for anyone who has been Snapchatting for a while," Snapchat said, introducing the feature
51/99 Internet addresses have officially run out
The internet has run out of space — but, thankfully, we've already made some more. The infrastructure powering the internet was made with space for 4.3 billion addresses. That seemed like a lot at the time, but we've now got too many devices and the IPv4 protocol has run out of space. Experts have already urged those who run websites that they should instead be using the very spacious IPv6 specification. But moving is expensive and time-consuming — and while most big websites have already done so, many smaller ones could be left without the space to keep working. IP addresses, one version of which we have now run out of, are used by computers to identify themselves to each other so that they can connect
52/99 Calls to 0800 numbers are now free
Ringing 0800 and 0808 numbers will finally be free, and other charges will become a lot more clear, under new Ofcom rules. Despite being referred to as freephone numbers — and not usually being charged from landlines — many run up huge costs ringing 0800 and other numbers. But the changes force service providers to make calls to all 175 million "freephone" numbers actually free. They also clear up costs around numbers starting 084, 087, 09 and 118
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53/99 Facebook will let people send thoughts directly to friends
Facebook is working to let people communicate using technology that lets them share their thoughts, rather than having to communicate through text or pictures, Mark Zuckerberg has said. Asked what is "going on with Facebook in the future" during one of his regular question and answer sessions on the site, Zuckerberg laid out his plans for telepathic communication built on virtual reality
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54/99 Apple Music goes live
Apple Music, the company's competitor to Spotify, has gone live in an update that can be downloaded now. The new version of iOS, 8.4, can be downloaded from the Settings app. That will automatically install a new version of the Music app, where Apple's new streaming service will live. To download the service, users head to the Settings app. Clicking on "General" and then "Software update" brings up the screen, and the phone will check for the update with Apple's servers. The rest of the update process is then automatic — the phone will download and then install the update itself
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55/99 iPhone 7
Apple is preparing to make new iPhones with Force Touch, a feature that lets the phone know how hard its screen is being pressed. The feature lets the screen work as a kind of button, allowing extra options. It was introduced with the Apple Watch and has been brought to some MacBooks — and has long been expected to make its way to all of Apple's devices eventually. The company has been working on the screens for the iPhone for at least two years, according to Bloomberg. But suppliers are now getting ready to make them, possibly ahead of a launch of the iPhone 6S or iPhone 7 in the autumn
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56/99 Nasa astronauts to take Microsoft's HoloLens augmented reality headset to space
Nasa is working with Microsoft to take its augmented reality headset into space, and use it to help astronauts do difficult tasks while in orbit. The agency will be able to use Microsoft's new headset to add extra information to the spacecraft. That might let people see instructions on what buttons they should be pressing, for instance, or give people on the ground the ability to see from an astronauts perspective. The first pair of the devices will head up into space on Sunday, on board a resupply mission that is being flown up by SpaceX, the private rocket company. The HoloLens is a special headset that allows people to see virtual images displayed on top of the real world. It was introduced by Microsoft as part of the launch of Windows 10
57/99 Reddit blocked in China
Reddit seems to have been blocked in China, in yet another widening of the country's "Great Firewall". The social news site joins most other major American web services — including Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram — in being blocked from inside the country. Sites including Reddit may be accessible through virtual private networks (VPNs), but China has been cracking down on those too. The website Blocked In China shows the site as unavailable from computers in all of the regions that are tested: Beijing, Shenzhen, Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang Province and Yunnan Province. On Reddit itself, some users were still able to access the site. The blocks are done in such a way that they can show initially only in some areas — but sometimes sites are blocked and then made available again without notice
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58/99 Hadrian the robot bricklayer can build a whole house in two days
An Australian engineer has built a robot that can build houses in two days, and could work every day to build houses for people. Human housebuilders have to work for four to six weeks to put a house together, and have to take weekends and holidays. The robot can work much more quickly and doesn't need to take breaks. Hadrian could take the jobs of human bricklayers. But its creator, Mark Pivac, told PerthNow that it was a response to the lack of available workers — the average age of the industry is getting much higher, and the robot might be able to fill some of that gap
59/99 Facebook to let people use Messenger without having account on social network
The app was once only available within Facebook itself — but has been split up into a separate app, and now unbundled from Facebook entirely. Now, users can just sign up with a name, their phone number and a photo, though Facebook login is still shown as a priority. The site made the change because it felt that requiring people to sign up for Facebook was holding people back from using Messenger, according to Wired. The site has been looking to add to the 700 million people that use Messenger
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60/99 Samsung disables Windows Update, putting users at risk
Samsung intentionally stopped its computers from receiving important updates and could be putting them at risk of hacking and viruses, according to experts. The company has disabled Windows Update in its laptops, which means that the computers can't receive important updates from Microsoft. Those are often used to patch up security vulnerabilities that have been found, meaning that the Samsung computers could be more easily hacked into. The company has installed a file called Disable_Windowsupdate.exe onto its computers, according to security researchers on the Sysnative forum. That Samsung-made file removes the application and shuts it down if users try to re-open it
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61/99 Lexus has made a real, rideable hoverboard called 'SLIDE'
Lexus, the car company, claims that it has made a real hoverboard that people can actually ride. The company hasn't revealed much about the project, only releasing a short trailer where the hoverboard doesn't actually get ridden and just hovers a little above the ground. But it claims to have "created a real, rideable overboard" in its promotional website for the project
62/99 Google Play Music goes free
Google has launched a free streaming music service — days before Apple releases its own music streaming service, which will have no free tier. Google Play Music already has a subscription-based service, where users pay monthly to listen to an unlimited amount of tracks. The technology giant announced a free version, made up of curated playlists designed for different times of the day and tailored towards what you are doing
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63/99 Gmail adds 'undo send' feature
Google has added a new feature to let people take back their accidentally sent emails. Gmail's newest addition is an "undo send" feature, which lets people recall emails that have been sent, up to 30 seconds after they've been despatched. It works by holding back the email for a pre-defined time, and then letting it go if users don't say that they've sent it in error. Users must enable the feature through the settings page in Gmail, by clicking in the cog at the top right hand screen and scrolling through the general tab. It also gives the option to choose how long the undo send feature shows for — offering settings between 5 and 30 seconds
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64/99 Amazon Echo
Amazon is finally releasing its Echo digital assistant to the public, after months of only letting people who are invited get to see it. Everyone in the US can now order the small, bin-shaped speaker and get it shipped to them from July 14. It was originally launched in November, and Amazon says that it has been making improvements to it since then. The company's speaker — which can control other hardware like connected lamps, and stream music out of its speaker — has received mix reviews since it was released. On Amazon itself, it has a 4.5 star rating from those that were selected to take part in an early release
65/99 GCHQ and NSA broke antivirus software so that they could spy on people
The British and American spy agencies deliberately broke anti-virus software so that they could read the messages of their citizens, according to new leaks. Both the NSA and GCHQ have long been said to have deliberately reversed engineer software so that they could find weaknesses in software and exploit them to read communications. But new documents show that the agencies did so to some of the most popular antivirus software, potentially exposing hundreds of millions of people to dangerous viruses, according to a report from The Intercept
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66/99 Pepper: Japanese robot assistant that can read and experience emotions
Pepper, a humanoid robot that can feel emotion and look after its owner, has sold out a minute after going on sale. The robot went on sale, after much anticipation and build-up. A minute later, all 1,000 had been sold, with customers paying the equivalent of £1,000 each for the robot and then monthly insurance and data fees on top. For that money, the robot's owners will be "made happy", according to the company that made it. "He's an emotional robot, not a functional robot for domestic use with dish washer or vacuum cleaner functionalities," according to an FAQ on the site of French robotics firm Alderbaran that helped make the robot. It will tend to its owners emotional needs by learning about them and having conversations with them. Humans can talk to the robot and it will be able to understand
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67/99 Sony Playstation 4
Sony has launched a new version of its PlayStation 4, adding a bigger hard drive and changing the console's case. The new console has had its internal hard drive doubled to 1TB — in line with the new Xbox, announced last week. And the 500GB model has been slimmed down, making it 10 per cent lighter and 8 per cent more power efficient. The new 1TB console — named the "Ultimate Player Edition" — will be released in "select" countries in Europe on July 2015. A broader release after that is expected but has not yet been confirmed
68/99 Tinder working on video dating features
Tinder users will eventually be able to find dates using videos, as well as sharing pictures and other information, for the first time. The site has already used video in ads, showing users films from companies like Bud Light. But it is working to let users share videos in their profiles, reports The Drum. The company is still "figuring out the right way to do it for users", co-founder Sean Rad told the marketing news site. It is one of the few big apps aimed at young people that hasn't focused on video — which is a large part of recent moves by services like Snapchat and Facebook
69/99 Google cracks down on revenge porn
Google has made the decision to clamp down on revenge porn, allowing victims to put in requests to have content involving them taken down. Revenge porn is a growing problem worldwide, and is usually made by a scorned ex-partner uploading explicit pictures or videos of their former partner to the internet without their permission. Some of these images make their way on to porn sites, but others can surface on 'sextortion' sites, that charge the people in the pictures a fee for them to be taken down
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70/99 Apple Watch 2 out next year
Apple is planning to release an updated version of the Apple Watch next year, according to reports, which will feature a video camera, more independence from the iPhone, and new models. The company is looking to release its new phone in 2016, rather than releasing a new version ahead of Christmas as some had indicated, according to 9to5mac. Though Apple is reported to be working on all of the new features, some might be left out of the next model as development continues, the blog reports
71/99 Google's image recognising robots turned on themselves
Computers have dreams, according to Google — and they're often highly trippy, strange ones of dog-fishes and bananas. Google's highly-powered, clever computers are normally used for image recognition — a technology that requires computers to think like humans, learning what things look like. But the company set them loose identifying small, subtle things, skewing the images to show a knight made of dogs or clouds that resemble a "pig snail". The search giant is just one of many companies who are working on artificial neural networks, which use highly-developed mathematical methods to simulate the way that human's brains think. But by turning those computers upside down, they throw out the strange images
72/99 BBC technology lets people control iPlayer with their mind
The kit sees users strap a headset on and use particular thoughts to turn on iPlayer and start watching a programme. It is only experimental technology at the moment — built to give "an idea of how this technology might be used in the future" — but it worked for everyone that has used it in testing, the BBC said. The prototype works by reading brainwaves using a sensor that rests on the forehead, and another that attaches to the ear using a clip. Those sensors can then track the electricity as it moves around the brain — watching for concentration, and filling up a bar of brainwaves when they concentrate hard enough to trigger a change on screen
73/99 Nest Labs
Nest, Google's connected home products maker, has revealed a new set of products including a home security camera that costs £159. Home security cameras are becoming increasingly commonplace, with most big tech companies unveiling their own versions of them. But the Google-owned company hopes that its new technologies — including 1080p video and a special app for recording and processing images — will be able to justify its much higher price tag. The company also unveiled updates to its other products, a smart thermostat and smoke alarm, including new apps for controlling them
74/99 Super-private social network launched to take on Facebook with support of Anonymous
A new social network, backed by members of Anonymous, hopes to take on Facebook and the other social media giants with a commitment to privacy, security and transparency about how posts are promoted. The site, Minds.com, has the same basic options as any other social network: users send updates to their followers, who can comment or promote posts that they read. But unlike its competitors it doesn't aim to make money from gathering data — instead, it encrypts all messages, so that they can't be read by advertisers or by governments
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75/99 Twitter launches autoplay for videos and gives option to turn it off
Twitter will now automatically play videos as users scroll through their feed, starting the films as they scroll past them. The feature mimics one found on Facebook, which has been credited with its huge growth in video. Twitter says that it has added the feature to make it "even easier to enjoy video on Twitter"
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76/99 Xbox One at E3
Xbox has finally launched backwards compatibility for some Xbox 360 games, so that owners of the current generation Xbox One can play their old games. The new system will support more than 100 games at launch, with many more being added over time. Members of Microsoft's early release scheme, Xbox One preview, will be able to try them now and the scheme will be rolled out by the end of the year. Players won't have to buy a new version of the game to play it on the Xbox One
77/99 Fallout 4 announced
Bethesda has finally, officially announced Fallout 4, showing off a new setting, game mechanics and detailed graphics and gameplay at its first big E3 event. The company has been teasing the release, following rumours since late last year that Bethesda was reviving the game. But it finally said at its E3 event that the game will come out on November 10, 2015
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78/99 Snapchat introduces new security verification to help users protect their accounts
Snapchat has changed its security features to include a new two-step authentication to make logging in more secure. Despite previous security leaks, when hacking reportedly saw 100,000 photos exposed, the app's creators have added a new way of keeping unwanted snoopers out. Users who download the app's latest update, will be able to add verification which demands a 6-digit password whenever they log on to a new device
79/99 Elon Musk's SpaceX wants to put 4,000 internet satellites into orbit
Elon Musk has asked the government to let his private space travel company, SpaceX, put 4,000 satellites into orbit to provide internet for the earth. The PayPal founder hopes that the satellites could take on conventional internet companies by sending internet signals across the globe, allowing it to provide cheap and fast internet even to places that have traditionally struggled to get connected. It hopes to find success by both taking customers from existing internet service providers as well as getting the billions of people that can't get online onto the internet
80/99 iPhone 7 will have flash for front-facing camera, iOS 9 code hints, allowing selfies in the dark
The next iPhone could offer a flash on its front facing camera, according to code found buried in early releases of the operating system that will run on it. The feature, which will allow people to take selfies in the dark, was found in early releases of iOS 9. The same code seems to indicate that the phone will receive an update to a 1080p camera, from the existing 720p one, and support for panoramic selfies and slow motion video
81/99 Twitter users can now share the lists of users they block
In its latest bid to stop trolls, Twitter is allowing users to create a public list of abusive accounts they have blocked. Users are now able to export their own blocklists, or import other people's – making it easier to expose users who are potentially offensive, aggressive, or just downright annoying
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82/99 iOS 9 beta launch
Apple is to run the first ever beta for its mobile operating system this summer, letting customers start using iOS 9 as part of a special programme. The official launch of the software isn't expected until the autumn. But users can sign up any time for the beta programme, letting them get early versions of OS X 10.11 as well as iOS 9
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83/99 Apple Music launch
Apple has released Music, a streaming music service that also integrates social features and special radio stations. The new service will be launched in over 100 countries on June 30. It will come to iOS — including iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch — as well as iTunes on Mac and Windows. The new app will replace the existing Music app on the iPhone, as well as being built into new versions of iTunes for desktops. As such, it will also be able to store existing music bought from iTunes or ripped from CDs, that users already have in their music library
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84/99 Mac OS X El Capitan - new version of desktop operating system released
The update is focused on improving the experience and stability of the software. Some of those new features improve the performance of the system by up to 10 times, according to Apple. The name El Capitan is part of Apple's naming system for operating systems, which sees them take the names of California landmarks. El Capitan is a mountain in Yosemite, the name of the previous version — thought to have been chosen because the new version isn't so much a new OS as an improvement on the existing one
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85/99 Samsung Galaxy S6 Active released
Samsung has unveiled a new durable and waterproof version of its flagship S6 smartphone. The phone, launched as the world waited for Apple's big Worldwide Developers Conference event, features all of the insides of the normal S6, but packs them into a much more robust and slightly bigger body. The phone is dustproof and water-resistant, features a special activity app, and is "built for adventure", according to Samsung
86/99 Air Force developing super-fast planes
The US Air Force is developing a super-fast weapon that can fly many times the speed of sound. Travelling at over Mach 5.1, the jet could make it from London to New York in an hour. But it will be used instead as a super-fast weapon, working like a missile
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87/99 Japanese phone is first with iris recognition
Move over Apple iPhone and fingerprint scanner, a Japanese mobile that can recognise you by your eyes is about to hit the shelves. The Arrows NX F-04G from Fujitsu comes with a first of its kind iris recognition system that will allow users to unlock the device, sign into apps and even authorise payments as the company CEO demonstrated by ordering a pizza at the product launch, according to the Wall Street Journal. An infrared LED works in tandem with the front-facing camera of the phone to illuminate the structure of the coloured part of your eye and snap a reliable likeness
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88/99 Windows 10 release date
Microsoft will release Windows 10, a huge upgrade to its operating system, on July 29. The upgrade will be offered free to users running Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. The free offer will be available for the first year after it is released
89/99 USB Type-C coming to Android
The next version of Android will support USB Type-C — making phones able to charge other phones, as well as a range of other things. The new cable, which was first brought to the public in the newest version of the MacBook, is reversible, can send information super-fast, will be a widely-adopted standard and should help computers and phones become much smaller. And it can also send power both ways, meaning that phones could charge up anything else, like a computer
90/99 MIT robots can now clear hurdles as they run
MIT scientists have trained a robotic cheetah to be able to jump over hurdles, making dropping objects no longer a way to outrun them as they take over the world. The robot uses complex technologies to be able to plan out its path and ready up to jump, in the same way humans do. It can detect obstacles, work out how tall and far away they are, and then calculate the best time and way to jump to clear the obstacle. The robot can then adjust itself on its way back to the floor, so that it can start running again with no break
91/99 Shazam adds visual recognition
Shazam has added visual recognition features to its app, meaning that it can identify pictures and text in the same way it does music. The feature will allow people to point their phone at posters, magazines and other real-world things, which will then bring up certain content on their phones. Magazines will be able to embed the feature into covers, for instance, so that showing them to the phone will bring up videos involving the person in a photos
92/99 Facebook's restaurant pages to feature reviews from critics
Facebook will now start showing professional critics' reviews of restaurants, alongside the traditional rankings and ravings of Facebook friends and strangers. The site has long allowed normal people to rate restaurants and other businesses out of five as well as leaving short text reviews of their experience there. But now professional reviews from outlets including Conde Nast Traveler and New York Magazine will also have their reviews show up there, letting people see what professionals think
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93/99 Google Images campaign wants search engine to stop seeing white skin as 'default'
A campaigner and artist has launched a new site that hopes to make Google's image search results more diverse. At the moment, a search for most generic body parts — like "cute baby" or "arm" — shows people and bodies that are almost entirely white. But as part of a project named World White Web, Johanna Burai hopes to change that. The almost entirely white results are part of the way that the internet and culture think of whiteness as neutral or the norm, Burai told the Fader
94/99 iOS bug lets people crash your iPhone
iPhones can be crashed if they receive a text containing one specific line of Arabic characters and symbols. Sending the letters in a text message causes the phone to crash and then power off, leaving the Messages app unusable once the iPhone turns back on. Users have found a way of fixing the problem once it has happened, but there appears to be no way to keep phones from being vulnerable to it happening again until Apple sends out an update
95/99 Periscope for Android
Twitter has finally launched its livestreaming app Periscope on Android, two months after the app was launched on iOS. The app is now available to download from the Google Play Store. The company launched the app in late March, with 1 million signups in the first 10 days. But only iOS users could register, with everyone else being forced to watch on the web, where users can't comment or subscribe to feeds
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96/99 Fingerprint readers to arrive on Android phones everywhere
Fingerprint readers to arrive on Android phones everywhere. As with the very top iPhone and Samsung Galaxy mobiles, users of Google's upcoming Nexus line and other flagship devices will have the capacity to authenticate their payments and web services with just the touch of a fingertip. The news comes with a leak reported by Buzzfeed ahead of the Google I/O developer conference where the platform's third-party software engineers gather to hear about the latest toys and features they'll get to use as the most up-to-date version of the OS is announced
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97/99 Microsoft Flow
Microsoft is to launch its own chat app called Flow, which hopes that it can streamline email and enter the hotly-contested market. The new app will let people have "rapid email conversations on your phone", in a way more like a chat app, according to supposedly secret details discovered on a publicly-accessible Microsoft site. The chats will allow "Fast, fluid, natural conversations", with no "subject lines, salutations or signatures"
98/99 Google apologises for racist 'n*gga house' search
Google has apologised for offence caused by vandalism of its Maps tools that meant that users searching for racist terms are being sent White House. In what appears to be a result of Google bombing — where vandals flood a certain keyword with links to a place, meaning that the two will become associated in Google's results — users forced searches for "nigger house" and "nigger king" to redirect to the White House. The search still has the same results, at least two days after it was first noticed
99/99 LG makes 'wallpaper TV'
LG has shown off a TV than it less than 1mm thick that can be bent and mounted as easily as a piece of wallpaper. The TV is just a concept at the moment, but it hopes that it can eventually make TVs that are mounted simply using magnets, taking up barely any space. It is attached to the wall using a special magnetic mat. The pad is stuck to the wall, and the display itself is then magnetically attached to the pad. It can then be peeled off just as easily
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Mikko Hypponen, an IT security expert with F-Secure, said: "The most concrete fear for users listed in the database is that they're now framed as cheaters, whether they actually did it or not. We have to remember that they are victims of a crime."
Charts were produced on the top 25 cities containing the most cheaters. Sao Paolo, New York and Sydney made up the Top 3, according to the website dadaviz. London was number nine, with 180,000 users.
Email addresses linked to the BBC broadcasters Scott Mills and Vanessa Feltz have appeared among the data. Both broadcasters described the suggestion that they were customers as "hilarious". Mills, who is gay, said he assumed a listener had signed him up.
Feltz told The Independent: "I'm not online in any shape or form at all. I don't even have a computer, iPad to iPod. I've never even sent or received an email – ever. I wouldn't know how to log on to that BBC email address. I'm not even married."
They joined the SNP MP Michelle Thomson who has claimed her identity had been "harvested" after an old email address appeared among the data. The mother-of-two also said she was the victim of a smear campaign.
'Moronic' DJs attacked for ambushing woman
Two Australian DJs were criticised after revealing to a woman live on air that her husband was registered on the adultery website Ashley Madison.
The stunt by Sydney-based DJs Ryan "Fitzy" Fitzgerald and Michael "Wippa" Wipfli was described by listeners as "misguided", "moronic" and "a shameless disgrace".
The woman, named as Jo, called the morning show on Nova FM when they offered to check if people were on the controversial website.
Clearly distressed after being told the news, Jo hung up the phone. Wipfli, seemingly shocked, said: "I don't know if we should have done that."
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Robert Venturi, FAIA, has retired, and the Philadelphia firm he cofounded has new leadership—and a new name.
Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, which Venturi founded with his wife, Denise Scott Brown, FAIA, is relaunching itself as VSBA, under president and principal Daniel K. McCoubrey, AIA. McCoubrey and principal Nancy Rogo Trainer, FAIA, will continue the work launched by Venturi and Scott Brown more than 20 years ago. (Scott Brown will continue publishing and presenting her work.)
McCoubrey, a University of Pennsylvania graduate, is the principal-in-charge for design at the Curtis Institute of Music's Lenfest Hall as well as for renovations to the Allentown Art Museum. He recently led a renovation and restoration effort at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C. A faculty member at Drexel University, McCoubrey has designed the Yale School of Medicine's Anlyan Center for Medical Research and Education and planned much of the University of Michigan's Life Sciences precinct.
Trainer, FAIA, who has worked with Venturi since 1987, is the principal-in-charge for the restoration of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study's historic Fay House. She has designed campus plans for both Villanova University and Bryn Mawr College, among other university and museum projects, and she is a member of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission.
A titan in the field of American architecture for more than 50 years, Venturi won the Pritzker Prize in 1991, shortly after he and his wife reformed their then-firm as Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates. His career achievements range from Philadelphia's Guild House (1964, with Venturi and Rauch) to the Seattle Art Museum (in 1991, with Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates). ARCHITECT reviewed a Las Vegas survey of the firm's work in 2010. Venturi has been labeled a "counterrevolutionary" for a design sentiment he has expressed throughout his career, one that he perhaps best captured himself: "Less is a bore."


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The heat index is a measurement that combines the effects of heat and humidity. It tells how hot it really feels when the effects of humidity are added to high temperatures. When heat and humidity combine to reduce the amount of evaporation of sweat from the body, outdoor exercise becomes dangerous even for those in good shape.
In the District, the Heat Emergency Plan is activated when the heat index reaches 95 degrees.
In the event of extreme heat, you should take the following precautions:
- Stay indoors as much as possible.
- Turn on the air-conditioner or fan.
- DO NOT leave children or pets in vehicles.
- Drink plenty of water.
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The Political Science Department sponsors the Epsilon Kappa Chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national Political Science Honor Society. Membership is awarded annually to students who have completed at least fifteen hours of political science classes. Candidates are selected strictly on the basis of outstanding achievement in political science and over-all academic performance.
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AMES, Iowa – Youth in grades 5-12 are invited to compete in the fifth annual 4-H "Cook This!" culinary challenge. Participants will compete in a preliminary competition on Wednesday, June 18 in the College of Human Sciences on the Iowa State University campus.
AMES, Iowa – Youth in grades 5-12 are invited to compete in the fifth annual 4-H "Cook This!" culinary challenge. Participants will compete in a preliminary competition on Wednesday, June 18 in the College of Human Sciences on the Iowa State University campus. Top teams will advance to the Cook This finale to be held on Thursday, Aug. 7 at the Iowa State Fair.
Cook This is offered by the 4-H Youth Development program of ISU Extension and Outreach.
"Cook This is a great learning opportunity for youth to develop culinary skills, learn how to work in teams to create meals and discover how food and nutrition can be exciting," said Paige Halsted, 4-H intern working with the Cook This challenge.
The Cook This culinary challenge will test youth participants' skills in equipment and food product identification, knife cuts, meal completion, creativity, communication and teamwork as teams compete in culinary, nutritional and communication challenges. Throughout the event youth will participate in hands-on educational workshops that are designed to enhance their nutrition and food production knowledge while providing techniques on how to achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Youth also will have the opportunity to learn more about food and nutrition-focused academic majors and careers available within the College of Human Sciences at Iowa State University.
Youth will compete in three age divisions: junior (grades 5-6), intermediate (7-8) and senior (9-12) to create quesadillas and a fruit or vegetable salsa, pasta or stir fry dish, and fruit-based mystery dessert. Participants will have 60 minutes to work as a team to create an eye and mouth-pleasing meal and show that they can Cook This.
"Participants will get to cook in the Iowa State University cooking labs using a variety of ingredients and to create creative and flavorful dishes," said Halsted.
Online applications to participate in the 2014 Cook This event will be accepted until May 31. Youth may apply in teams, pairs or individually; individual applicants will be matched with other youth. At least one person from each team is required to be a member of 4-H. More information regarding the culinary and nutritional challenges can be found in the 2014 4-H Cook This Challenge Packet on the 4-H Cook This website, www.extension.iastate.edu/4h/statefair/cookthis.
The Cook This 4-H Culinary Challenge began in 2010 as part of a healthy living initiative in collaboration with the Iowa 4-H Youth Development Program and the Iowa State University College of Human Sciences.
[PHOTO] Sarah Mumm, Warren County 4-H'er, participated in the 2013 4-H Cook This! Culinary Challenge. Sarah was a member of The Three Amigos team competing in the junior division.


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"The Wittenberg Swim and Dive team has become my family over the past four years. Coming to Wittenberg as a freshman was extremely intimidating; having an instant group of people to rely on was a life saver. I don't know what I would have done without our Tiger family!"
Leah Barnhouse '13
"Swimming for all four years has shown me that when teamwork and hard work come together great things can happen. This was an everyday experience while being a Wittenberg Tiger. Set a goal and then show yourself and your team you have what it takes to make and exceed that goal."
J.B. Easley '13
"There are not enough words to describe the great friends and countless memories I have made since being a part of this team. The people on this team have made me who I am today, and I couldn't ask for anything more."
Brendan Eggers '13
"Being a member of the Wittenberg Swim team is easily one of the most fulfilling and enjoyable parts of my college career. The people I have met and the relationships that I have forged will last forever and I am so grateful for the opportunity that I had to be a member of the team. Swimming for the Tigers instilled values such as hard work, teamwork, and perseverance into each and every one of us, and I will carry these lessons with me for the rest of my life."
Andrew Koukis '13
"My swimming career hasn't been about times, records or national cuts, but it's been about everybody on this team who are truly nuts. I couldn't ask for a better team, so I wanted to take the time to thank them now. We have worked our tails off, so it's time to take a bow. Being done with swimming is truly surreal; words cannot describe how I currently feel. Part of me wishes I were sitting in a freshman's seat, so I could put the past 4 years on repeat."
Ward McNulty '13
"Being a member of WSD for the past four years has been an incredible experience. At times, I had doubts about making it this far, but sitting here having completed four years as a Wittenberg athlete, I'm glad that I never gave up. Swimming here has taught me life lessons in friendship, team work, dedication, and discipline. Even though my swimming career ends here, I will always be a proud Wittenberg Tiger."
Rachael Nuzzo '13
"Thanks to all the coaches for putting up with me and helping me through difficult times throughout the past four years I don't know what I would have done without having the team as support. Jim is a great coach and really funny when you get to know him."
Katie Reed '13
"When I finally went a life time best at Conference this year I had one of those moments where I was like "This is why I came to Witt." Having all the love and support from the team and having them be just as happy as me, if not happier, as me to finally accomplish something I had worked 4 years for made that moment something I will never forget in my life. Transferring here and only having been able to be a part of something this amazing for two years allowed me to not take any second of that moment or this team for granted. As someone who came into this team after bonds have been formed, I can tell you from an outside perspective that this team has something special that is almost impossible to find anywhere else. "
Claire Shannon '13
"I have been involved in many different organizations and clubs during my four years at Witt. None of them compare to the experience I had while on the swim team. The bonds and emotional ties that bring us together create long lasting friendships. We are there for each other through thick and thin! If you would have told me my freshman year the things that I was going to accomplish I would have never believed you; and if you wouldn't have pushed me I'm not sure I ever would have found out. Tiger up!"
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Heavenly and Kirkwood to open more terrain
November 19, 2012
Heavenly, Kirkwood and Northstar are each expected to open additional terrain to skiing and snowboarding ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
Kirkwood operators plan to open Chair 6 (Cornice Express) Wednesday with the possibility of Chair 1 (Snowkirk) opening for the holiday weekend, according to a Monday statement from Vail. Chair 8, the Red Cliffs handle tow, will also provide access to beginner terrain.
Heavenly operators plan to open Big Dipper trail and also plans to expand to Comet trail and Comet Express as conditions permit, according to the statement. The left side of California Trail will continue to include a terrain park with jumps, rails and boxes. Heavenly's Ski and Ride School will operate one magic carpet at the top of the Gondola for children.
Northstar plans to offer skiing and riding from the top of the mountain for the holiday weekend, with the Comstock Express lift expected to open. The resort already provides access to beginner and intermediate terrain, a terrain park via five lifts. Exact trail openings will be announced in the coming days.
The resorts have extended the deadline to purchase season passes through Dec. 2.


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PURCHASE, NY -- PepsiCo is going head to head with Coca-Cola's Freestyle. Pepsi's new touchscreen fountain machine, a compact countertop touchscreen-enabled dispenser called the Touch Tower 1.0, kicked off its U.S. pilot this week.
Touch Tower resembles a large iPad on a stand. It offers nearly 100 flavor combinations of up to eight brands and four flavor shots, and uses the beverage giant's existing bag-in-the-box syrup system.
The company has been testing the machine overseas in Europe, Central America and the Caribbean since last year, a PepsiCo executive told VT. The U.S. pilot began on May 13 at five Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill restaurants in Denver. PepsiCo said it plans to adapt the machine's design and user interface based on the test results and evolve it into a Touch Tower 2.0 model.
The prototype touchscreen dispenser is just the first in a series of equipment innovations that PepsiCo is exploring to enhance variety and flexibility and engage consumers, the executive said.
Coca-Cola's Freestyle fountain machine, which began its pilot in 2009, lets consumers mix and match more than 100 different flavors.


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March 17, 2012
Session V Brackets | Final Notes | Session V team scores
Two University of Wyoming wrestlers finished competition at the NCAA Championships on Saturday in St. Louis, bringing home two top-seven finishes.
First, Wyoming senior Joe LeBlanc ended his collegiate career in similar fashion to how he started it - with honors.
LeBlanc won his final collegiate match due to a medical forfeit from Nebraska's Josh Ihnen to finish seventh in the 184-pound bracket. On Friday, the senior earned All-America status in the event, the fourth time he has done so in his time at UW.
LeBlanc finished his career with 147 wins and is the winningest wrestler in UW history. He placed all four seasons at the NCAA Championships, finishing fifth (2009), fourth (2010), sixth (2011) and seventh this season and is the only UW wrestler to be a four-time All-American.
After earning an All-America nod Friday, redshirt junior Alfonso Hernandez finished sixth in the nation at 197 pounds. He began the day with a tough loss to No. 3 Matt Wilps of Pittsburgh as Wilps won a 3-2 decision. That dropped Hernandez into the fifth/sixth-place match versus No. 10 Sonny Yohn of Minnesota. In that match,m Hernandez took a nice shot in the first period, but Yohn defended well and turned it into offense, scoring the takedown for the early 2-0 lead. Hernandez scored an escape, but couldn't overcome Yohn, who won the 4-1 decision.
Hernandez finished the year with 40 wins, the most on the team and seventh in UW season history.
The Cowboys finished Session Five with 31 points, tied for 19th and just four points out of the top-15. That was UW's first top-20 finish since 1996 when the Pokes were 15th.
"It was a good learning experience for us. You don't want to come to this tournament and walk away empty-handed and we didn't do that," Wyoming coach Mark Branch said. "It wraps up one of the best seasons we've ever had. That's the way I'm looking at it, to focus on the positive and learn from the negative things.
"I say every year there's not very many people here who leave completely satisfied. We're far from satisfied. In this tournament, you have to be willing to go out there and take chances and clear your own path. If you want to roll with the big boys and be a top-10 team, you've got to produce when it counts."
UW Tournament Results
Michael Martinez, 125 pounds (1-2)
Championships first round: 10th-seeded Nicholas Megaludis (Penn State) maj. dec. Martinez, 13-5
Consolation second round: Martinez dec. Max Soria (Buffalo), 7-2
Consolation third round: Camden Eppert (Purdue) dec. Martinez, 6-3
Zach Zehner, 133 (1-2)
Championship first round: Zehner tech. fall Scott Festejo (Old Dominion), 21-6
Championships second round: Fourth-seeded Bernard Futrell (Illinois) fall (1:06) Zehner
Consolation second round: Matthew Nelson (Virginia) dec. Zehner, 10-9
No. 2 Shane Onufer, 165 (2-2)
Championship first round: Onufer dec. Benjamin Jordan (Wisconsin), 4-1
Championship second round: Onufer dec. Daniel Yates (Michigan), 6-3
Championship third round: Seventh-seeded Josh Asper (Maryland) dec. Onufer, 5-3
Consolation quarterfinals: Sixth-seeded Peter Yates (Virginia Tech) dec. Onufer, 10-3
Pat Martinez, 174 (1-2)
Championship first round: Lance Bryson (West Virginia) dec. Martinez, 2-1 OT
Consolation first round: Martinez maj. dec. Levi Clemons (Chattanooga), 12-4
Consolation second round: Ryan Leblanc (Indiana) dec. Martinez, 5-3 2OT
No. 1 Joe LeBlanc, 184 (4-2) / Seventh place, All-American
Championship first round: LeBlanc dec. Mike Larson (Missouri), 9-4
Championship second round: LeBlanc maj. dec. Erich Smith (Penn), 11-3
Championship third round: Ninth-seeded Austin Trotman (Appalachian State) dec. LeBlanc, 12-9
Consolation quarterfinals: LeBlanc dec. Tony Dellago (Illinois), 13-6
Consolation semifinals: Fifth-seeded Kevin Steinhaus (Minnesota) dec. LeBlanc, 9-6
Seventh/eighth-place match: LeBlanc wins by medical default over Josh Ihnen (Nebraska)
No. 9 Alfonso Hernandez, 197 (4-3) / Sixth place, All-American
Championship first round: Hernandez maj. dec. Daniel Mitchell (American), 10-2
Championship second round: Hernandez dec. eighth-seeded Matt Powless (Indiana), 7-6
Championship third round: First-seeded Cam Simaz (Cornell) dec. Hernandez, 8-2
Consolation quarterfinals: Hernandez dec. seventh-seeded Mario Gonzalez (Illinois), 7-6
Consolation semifinals: Hernandez dec. 11th-seeded Micah Burak (Penn), 2-1
Consolation semifinals: No. 3 Matt Wilps (Pittsburgh) dec. Hernandez, 3-2
Fifth/sixth-place match: No. 10 Sonny Yohn (Minnesota) dec. Hernandez, 4-1


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AOTF Scholarship Awarded
| April 19, 2012
Jessica Olson, Master of Occupational Therapy Class of 2013, was awarded the Kappa Delta Phi Scholarship from the American Occupational Therapy Foundation (AOTF). Annually, AOTF awards a select number of occupational therapy students around the country. Their scholarships are awarded based on criteria that include academic achievement, service, and written recommendations. The mission of AOTF is to "advance research, education, and leadership in the field of occupational therapy and to raise public awareness of the importance of enabling individuals to participate fully in life regardless of their physical, social, mental or developmental circumstances." Click here to see the entire list of awardees.
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Castillo igniting prospect-laden Iowa
Cubs prospect turning heads with third straight three-hit game
By Jonathan Raymond / Special to MLB.com | April 14, 2012 9:26 PM ET
Sandwiched between Brett Jackson and Anthony Rizzo, Welington Castillo went 3-for-4 with an RBI on Saturday, registering his third straight three-hit game in Iowa's 6-5 loss at Round Rock.
Since starting the season 2-for-11, Castillo has nine hits in 11 at-bats to bring his average up to .500.
Yes, .500.
"He's been swinging the bat well, he's been hitting it real hard, so he's been doing a good job," said I-Cubs manager Dave Bialas.
Last year, Castillo battled injury issues, mostly with his hamstring, and appeared in only 75 games between Iowa and a rehab stint with Class A Advanced Daytona.
After brief stints with the big league club in 2010 and 2011, the native of the Dominican Republic -- if he stays healthy -- could return to Wrigley Field. In 61 Pacific Coast League games last season, he batted .286, slugged .524 and hit 15 homers in limited playing time.
In 2010, another injury-plagued campaign, he had 13 homers and 59 RBIs in only 69 games with Iowa.
"He's developed well, with the bat, receiving, calling the game," Bialas said. "I think he has a good chance to be an everyday Major League catcher some day. He's on his path."
Castillo has spent a long time working his way through the Cubs system. He signed as an international free agent in December 2004 and made it stateside in 2006. He can claim the rare distinction of having played for every Cubs Minor League affiliate.
That's partly why Bialas hopes to see the catcher maintain a regular presence -- injury-free -- in the lineup this season.
"He's going to catch five out of seven days for us, get a lot of at-bats, get a lot of time behind the plate calling games and running the staff," the manager said. "Offensively, he has power, he has bat speed and he's made a lot of improvements in strike zone discipline.
"He's healthy, he's in great shape and he's made a lot of progress. Done a real good job for us here."
Jackson, MLB.com's No. 33 overall prospect, hit his second homer of the season and doubled in five plate appearances. Rizzo, No. 36 among MLB.com's Top 100 prospects, went 1-for-4 and is hitting .385 with a PCL-leading five homers. Cubs No. 12 prospect Josh Vitters chipped in a two-run double.
Iowa took a 5-3 lead into the seventh, but Rangers No. 4 prospect Leonys Martin homered, Matt Kata doubled in the tying run and scored the go-ahead run on a two-out single by Luis Martinez.
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Khloe Kardashian and French Montana inadvertently found a new way to avoid paparazzi questions about their relationship over the weekend — by letting a homeless man run interference.
The stars were exiting a restaurant in Los Angeles when a panhandler approached Kardashian.
She gave the man money and posed for a picture with him, and, as the paparazzi were distracted, Montana darted around the other side of their car.
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Firefighters, Architects & Engineers team up: 2 nights, 2 cities, Live Video Feed 5/8
Fri, May 7 San Rafael, CA
9/11 Myths Exposed: Firefighters, Architects and Engineers Re-investigate the Destruction of the Three World Trade Center Skyscrapers
On September 11th, 2001 the greatest destruction and loss of life associated with the terrorist attacks took place in New York City. After almost nine years and numerous government investigations, many public misconceptions persist about the events of that tragic day, especially regarding the unprecedented destruction of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan.
During this live multimedia presentation Seattle firefighter Erik Lawyer and SF Bay Area architect Richard Gage, AIA, will examine the myths surrounding the events at the World Trade Center. Using well-documented forensic evidence, news footage and eyewitness accounts, they seek to correct the public record. Some of the myths they will address:
The presentation will provide a factual rebuttal of these and other myths regarding the destruction of the World Trade Center.
Erik Lawyer is a 14-year veteran of the Seattle Fire Department and the founder of Firefighters for 9/11 Truth, an organization with over 100 firefighters calling for a new investigation into the destruction of the WTC buildings.
Richard Gage, AIA, has practiced architecture for over 20 years and is the founder of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, an organization with over 1,000 architects and engineers calling for a new 9/11 WTC investigation.
Tom Sullivan -- former employee of Controlled Demolition, Inc
Laila Selk -- retired firefighter
Jason Abney -- retired firefighter
Kamal Obeid, S.E. -- structural engineer
Ron Brookman, S.E. -- structural engineer
Michele Little -- 9/11 victim family member
Peter B. Collins -- talk show host
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