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Layton Arrives on the iOS in time for Canada Day<p>Every week independent video game studios release artistic, innovating, and challenging games.</p> <p>Some are good, some are great, and some are just downright addictive, so here?s a roundup of the best games for your weekend from around the indie game community.</p> <p><strong>Layton Brothers Mystery Room</strong></p> <p>It?s not exactly Professor Layton, but it?s the closest you can get on the iOS.</p> <p><em>Layton Brothers Mystery Room</em>, developed by?Level-5 Inc., brings the series quality puzzles for the first time to mobile devices, but only on the iOS.</p> <p>The game follows Inspector Alfendi Layton and Detective Lucy Baker as they research the extraordinary cases in the ?Mystery Room?.</p> <p>It?s certainly new territory for the series, but it brings the depth of intrigue, narrative, and puzzles the Professor Layton games are known for.</p> <p>The Post Arcade will be bringing you a review of the full game from yours truly next week.</p> <p>Until then you can find Layton Brothers Mystery Room on the?iTunes store?and there is a free version as well.</p> <p><strong>XCOM: Enemy Unknown</strong></p> <p>Oh man, I?ve been waiting for this one to be released on mobile.</p> <p><em>XCOM: Enemy Unknown,?</em>developed by Firaxis Games, is a PlayStation Network turned iOS title that features some of the best turn-based action available today.</p> <p>It has a bold presentation and even bolder characters, and for the price it?s a great find on the mobile platform.</p> <p><em>Enemy Unknown?</em>has been available for almost a year now, but it?s been hailed as one of the most critically acclaimed turn-based strategy games last year.</p> <p>For more be sure to check out our very own Controller Freak Chad Sapieha?s review of the game on the Post Arcade.</p> <p>You can find?<em>XCOM: Enemy Unknown?</em>on the iTunes store.</p> <p><strong>Magic 2014</strong></p> <p>Remember those days playing <em>Magic: The Gathering</em> in the school cafeteria? I do, and I remember the competition and the sense of loss at being decked.</p> <p><em>Magic 2014</em>, developed by Wizards of the Coast, brings just that to the iPad, Xbox, PS3 and Steam with a whole collection of cards at your disposal including the Planeswalkers.</p> <p>Its amazing to see the interactive special effects when the cards attack and ?holding? a Black Lotus, which is normally a few hundred dollars, is pretty awesome.</p> <p>There are a number of in-app purchases available to players:</p> <ol><li>Magic 2014 Premium Content Pack$9.99</li> <li>?Sliver Hive? Deck Key$0.99</li> <li>Magic 2014 Sealed Play Slot$1.99</li> <li>?Avacyn?s Glory? Deck Key$0.99</li> <li>?Mind Maze? Deck Key$0.99</li> </ol><p>It makes building you own deck almost like building a real one, and it?s a far less expensive. 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(AP Photo/Alastair Grant)</p> <p>Serena Williams of the United States reacts after scoring a point against Caroline Garcia of France in their Women's second round singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Thursday, June 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)</p> <p>Caroline Garcia of France returns to Serena Williams of the United States during their Women's second round singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Thursday, June 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)</p> <p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content"><span id="dateLine" class="dateline">LONDON</span> (AP) ? At the moment, no woman seems capable of providing much of a challenge to Serena Williams on a tennis court.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">She's won 33 matches in a row, and 76 of her past 79. 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I doubt I'd win a point, but that would be fun."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">It might draw some attention, too, given the combined star power of Williams in the U.S. and Murray in Britain. Currently, she is No. 1 in the WTA rankings; he's No. 2 in the ATP rankings.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"He's probably one of the top three people I definitely don't want to play," Williams said. "But maybe we can have a little bit of a showdown. That would be fine. I get (to use the doubles) alleys. He gets no serves. I get alleys on my serves, too."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">In a piece posted on www.bbc.co.uk on Thursday morning, Murray refers to the original tweet in which someone mentioned he should face Williams.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"I'd be up for it, why not?" Murray said. "I've never hit with her but she's an incredible player and people would be interested to see the men play against the women to see how the styles match up."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">On Friday, Murray will stick to trying to become the first British man to win Wimbledon since Fred Perry, 77 years ago. Murray was scheduled to face 32nd-seeded Tommy Robredo of Spain on Centre Court, where the roof might be closed if the forecast for rain is accurate.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">The only other British singles player still in the tournament, 19-year-old Laura Robson, was also supposed to be in the main stadium, playing Mariana Duque-Marino of Colombia in a match postponed Thursday because of the first drizzle of Week 1.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Others slated to play Friday, weather permitting, included French Open runner-up David Ferrer, 2011 Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova, and 17th-seeded Sloane Stephens of the United States.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">While Williams, Stephens and others keep the Stars and Stripes flying in the women's draw, it's a different story in the men's singles, where for the first time in 101 years, zero men from the United States reached Wimbledon's third round. And the last time it happened, way back in 1912, no Americans even entered the oldest Grand Slam tournament.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">It's a low moment for a country that produced Bill Tilden and Don Budge, John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors, Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">By the end of Thursday, all 11 U.S. men in the 2013 field at the All England Club were gone, with top-seeded Novak Djokovic accounting for the last one by beating 156th-ranked qualifier Bobby Reynolds 7-6 (2), 6-3, 6-1. Earlier in the day, former top-five player James Blake lost to Bernard Tomic of Australia 6-3, 6-4, 7-5, while qualifier Denis Kudla was beaten by Ivan Dodig of Croatia 6-1, 7-6 (4), 7-5.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">That trio joined 18th-seeded John Isner, 21st-seeded Sam Querrey, Ryan Harrison, Steve Johnson, Alex Kuznetsov, Wayne Odesnik, Rajeev Ram and Michael Russell on the way home.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"It's a tough stat to hear, but I still believe, right now, where U.S. tennis is, not too many guys are in their prime," said Kudla. "That's why the numbers are like that. A lot of guys are in the tail end of their careers and a lot of guys are coming up. "Maybe next year, or the year after that, things could change. You have to go through a little bit of a struggle to get some success."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">With 27 of 32 third-round spots in men's singles settled, 18 countries were represented, including Latvia, Ukraine, Croatia and South Africa. 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Well, today's the day, but as the company's second-ever Windows Phone device, the W2's appearance at Mobile Asia Expo was surprisingly low key. According to the spec sheet at Huawei's booth, this affordable phone comes with a 4.3-inch 800 x 480 display (looked like IPS to us) and a 1.4GHz dual-core Qualcomm MSM8230 SoC (same as the <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/21/huawei-ascend-w1-china/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget">W1</a> but faster) with 512MB RAM. There's 8GB of built-in storage along with microSD expansion -- the slot is located next to the removable 1,700mAh battery plus full-size SIM slot, all underneath the red or yellow back cover.</p> <p>Even though Huawei doesn't hide the fact that the W2 is a low-cost device, it's actually not too shabby. Most notably, the three usual soft keys are color backlit and will match your desired theme in Windows Phone 8. As a bonus, the touchscreen has a glove mode -- as featured on several other more recent Huawei phones -- for the cold winter days. There's still no price or date announced just yet, but since this particular model packs a TD-SCDMA radio for <a href="http://engadget.com/tag/chinamobile?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget">China Mobile</a>, folks outside China will have to wait for the WCDMA variant. For now, we have a hands-on video for you after the break.</p> <p><div class="postgallery"><p><strong>Gallery: <a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/huawei-ascend-w2-shows-up-prematurely-packs-color-matching-backlit-soft-keys-hands-on/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget">Huawei Ascend W2 shows up prematurely, packs color-matching backlit soft keys (hands-on)</a></strong></p><a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/huawei-ascend-w2-shows-up-prematurely-packs-color-matching-backlit-soft-keys-hands-on/5991050?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/06/huawei-ascend-w2-2013-06-26-0_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/huawei-ascend-w2-shows-up-prematurely-packs-color-matching-backlit-soft-keys-hands-on/5991051?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/06/huawei-ascend-w2-2013-06-26-1_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/huawei-ascend-w2-shows-up-prematurely-packs-color-matching-backlit-soft-keys-hands-on/5991052?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/06/huawei-ascend-w2-2013-06-26-2_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/huawei-ascend-w2-shows-up-prematurely-packs-color-matching-backlit-soft-keys-hands-on/5991053?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/06/huawei-ascend-w2-2013-06-26-3_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/huawei-ascend-w2-shows-up-prematurely-packs-color-matching-backlit-soft-keys-hands-on/5991054?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/06/huawei-ascend-w2-2013-06-26-4_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a></div></p> <p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/cellphones/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget" rel="tag">Cellphones</a>, <a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/mobile/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget" rel="tag">Mobile</a></p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/26/huawei-ascend-w2-shows-up-prematurely-packs-color-matching-back/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget#comments">Comments</a></strong></p><p>Source: <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/26/huawei-ascend-w2-shows-up-prematurely-packs-color-matching-back/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget">http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/26/huawei-ascend-w2-shows-up-prematurely-packs-color-matching-back/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget</a></p><p><a href="http://www.thisnext.com/item/991089D2/D04C82B1/How-To-Avoid-Facial-Wrinkles?share=1">matt kenseth</a> </p>forsythekimberli00http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001041212136582828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5530097706581888012.post-59722230789485320162013-06-27T21:33:00.001-07:002013-06-27T21:33:05.787-07:00Gas prices down 4 cents in West Virginia<p class="description">By Sara Morrison LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - There was an amazing made-for-television moment in the Texas state senate last night. 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This effect contributes to solar flares that can damage earthbound electronics and we have no idea how it does this. But NASA is about to find out thanks to the IRIS (Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph) spacecraft that just launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base today.</p> <p>The two-year IRIS project is part of NASA's <a href="http://explorers.gsfc.nasa.gov/smex.html" target="_blank">Small Explorer (SMEX) mission</a> that has studied everything from mesospheric ice aeronomy to the interstellar boundaries of our galaxy. IRIS itself is designed to study how heat and energy propagate through the Sun's lower atmosphere using an ultraviolet telescope and an imaging spectrograph. </p> <p>"This is the first time we'll be directly observing this region since the 1970s," Joe Davila, IRIS project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, said in a press statement. "We're excited to bring this new set of observations to bear on the continued question of how the corona gets so hot."</p> <p>The Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Lab teamed with NASA Ames?as well as the Smithsonian, and a trio of universities?-to produce the $120 million spacecraft. It measures approximately seven feet long by 12 feet wide with its solar panel array deployed and weighs 440 pounds. Its only equipment are the 8-inch ultraviolet telescope and imaging spectrograph. While the relatively-small diameter of the telescope will only allow researchers to image 1 percent of the Sun's surface at a time, it will also resolve objects down to 150 miles, providing an unprecedented close-up view of our home star like an astronomical microscope, the perfect complement to NASA's <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5463127/new-nasa-solar-spacecraft-to-record-sun-at-imax-resolution">Solar Dynamics Observatory</a><inset id="5463127"></inset> (SDO). </p> <p class="has-media media-640"><img alt="This Solar Satellite Will Shed Light on the Inner Workings of the Sun" height="413" width="640" src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18rxs32eeoop6png/ku-xlarge.png" class="transform-ku-xlarge"/></p> <p>In line with its severe focus, the IRIS will only record data in the 5000 K to 65,000 K temperature range that exists between the photosphere (the sun's surface), and chromosphere/transition region (the start of the Sun's atmosphere). It will record spectra readings every second and snap images every five using a quartet of identical 13 ?m-pixel CCDs. When processed by a supercomputer running state-of-the-art 3D numerical modeling back on Earth, researchers will be able to trace the path of energy through the Sun's lower atmosphere. </p> <p>?The interpretation of the IRIS spectra is a major effort coordinated by the IRIS science team that will utilize the full extent of the power of the most advanced computational resources in the world," explained Alan Title, the IRIS principal investigator at the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory. "It is this new capability, along with development of state of the art codes and numerical models by the University of Oslo that captures the complexities of this region, which make the IRIS mission possible. Without these important elements we would be unable to fully interpret the IRIS spectra.? 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These findings suggest that limiting these "high-glycemic index" foods could help obese individuals avoid overeating.</p> <p>The study, published in the <em>American Journal of Clinical Nutrition</em> on June 26, 2013, investigates how food intake is regulated by dopamine-containing pleasure centers of the brain.</p> <p>"Beyond reward and craving, this part of the brain is also linked to substance abuse and dependence, which raises the question as to whether certain foods might be addictive," says Ludwig.</p> <p>To examine the link, researchers measured blood glucose levels and hunger, while also using functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to observe brain activity during the crucial four-hour period after a meal, which influences eating behavior at the next meal. 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Despite those rare reports, the company's new laptops impressed us in <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/13/macbook-air-review/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget">our recent review</a> with solid performance and incredible battery life. Today <em>9to5Mac</em> learned that Apple is supposedly aware of the issue and working on a fix, while some customers have also reported getting their systems replaced. In the meantime, the company's apparently directed its Genius Bar employees to "capture" machines experiencing the problem -- i.e. return them to Cupertino for testing. We've contacted Apple for comment and will keep you posted if there's any official response.</p> <p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/laptops/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget" rel="tag">Laptops</a>, <a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/apple/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget" rel="tag">Apple</a></p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/24/apple-allegedly-looking-into-macbook-air-wifi-issue-replacing-m/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget#comments">Comments</a></strong></p> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="http://9to5mac.com/2013/06/24/apple-investigating-new-macbook-air-wifi-issues-some-customers-receiving-replacements/" target="_blank">9to5Mac</a><!--//--></p><p>Source: <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/24/apple-allegedly-looking-into-macbook-air-wifi-issue-replacing-m/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget">http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/24/apple-allegedly-looking-into-macbook-air-wifi-issue-replacing-m/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget</a></p><p><a href="http://www.wists.com/silverpros76/a68b52e31c3cd92a385b6a051052dfd3?offset=0">Ryan Lochte</a> <a href="http://funfunfunfest.com/users/2Mw6b6SS">Bayern Munich</a> <a href="https://www.box.com/s/ovb8t7bl1ole2m99878a">the blaze</a> <a href="http://cloudytags.com/linkdetails/260791.html">Michael Shannon</a> <a href="http://www.jeteye.com/jetpak/d73a350d-de98-4da9-97fd-72d77dac7931/">Chrissy Amphlett</a> <a href="http://www.thisnext.com/item/C0898CB0/29BBB97E/If-You-Are-Looking-For-A-Metal?share=1">Java</a> <a href="http://www.wists.com/goldpros78/8e84fe34ade9b17fde8340d5e71a466c?offset=0">stevie wonder</a> </p>forsythekimberli00http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001041212136582828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5530097706581888012.post-62464023102381464822013-06-25T00:27:00.001-07:002013-06-25T00:27:07.874-07:00How fish swim: Researchers examine mechanical bases for the emergence of undulatory swimmers<p id="first"><span class="date">June 24, 2013</span> ? How do fish swim? It is a simple question, but there is no simple answer.</p> <p>Researchers at Northwestern University have revealed some of the mechanical properties that allow fish to perform their complex movements. Their findings, published on June 13 in the journal <em>PLOS Computational Biology</em>, could provide insights in evolutionary biology and lead to an understanding of the neural control of movement and development of bio-inspired underwater vehicles.</p> <p>"If we could play God and create an undulatory swimmer, how stiff should its body be? At what wave frequency should its body undulate so it moves at its top speed? How does its brain control those movements?" said Neelesh Patankar, professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. "Millennia ago, undulatory swimmers like eels that had the right mechanical properties are the ones that would have survived."</p> <p>The researchers used computational methods to test assumptions about the preferred evolutionary characteristics. For example, species with low muscle activation frequency and high body stiffness are the most successful; the researchers found the optimal values for each property.</p> <p>"The stiffness that we predict for good swimming characteristics is, in fact, the same as the experimentally determined stiffness of undulatory swimmers with a backbone," said Amneet Bhalla, graduate student in mechanical engineering at McCormick and one of the paper's authors.</p> <p>"Thus, our results suggest that precursors of a backbone would have given rise to animals with the appropriate body stiffness," added Patankar. "We hypothesize that this would have been mechanically beneficial to the evolutionary emergence of swimming vertebrates."</p> <p>In addition, species must be resilient to small changes in physical characteristics from one generation to the next. The researchers confirmed that the ability to swim, while dependent upon mechanical parameters, is not sensitive to minor generational changes; as long as the body stiffness is above a certain value, the ability to swim quickly is insensitive to the value of the stiffness, the researchers found.</p> <p>Finally, making a connection to the neural control of movement, the researchers analyzed the curvature of its undulations to determine if it was the result of a single bending torque, or if precise bending torques were necessary at every point along its body. 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It may not be picky for much longer, though, as <em>Nikkei</em> claims that Microsoft has reached a deal with Japan's KLab to develop Android and iOS versions of its first-party titles. The deal reportedly includes adaptations of both PC and Xbox games, and would start with a free-to-play variant of <em>Age of Empires</em> that could launch before the end of the 2013 fiscal year. We've reached out to Microsoft to verify the rumor, but it's clear that the arrangement could be a breakthrough for gamers who aren't wedded to Microsoft's existing mobile strategy.</p> <p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/cellphones/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget" rel="tag">Cellphones</a>, <a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/gaming/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget" rel="tag">Gaming</a>, <a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/tablets/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget" rel="tag">Tablets</a>, <a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/microsoft/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget" rel="tag">Microsoft</a></p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/24/nikkei-microsoft-porting-first-party-games-to-android-ios/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget#comments">Comments</a></strong></p> <p><strong>Via:</strong> <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/microsoft-bring-xbox-pc-games-apple-android-phones-184211530.html" target="_blank">Reuters</a><!--//--></p> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="http://e.nikkei.com/e/ac/tnks/Nni20130624D2406A18.htm" target="_blank">Nikkei (subscription required)</a><!--//--></p><p>Source: <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/24/nikkei-microsoft-porting-first-party-games-to-android-ios/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget">http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/24/nikkei-microsoft-porting-first-party-games-to-android-ios/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget</a></p><p><a href="http://www.wists.com/silverman13/6c09038f36f3a8dfcca734e0daeb2c68?offset=0">cough</a> <a href="https://www.box.com/s/infkw0kimvrpr7ai5ydl">matt groening</a> <a href="http://www.thisnext.com/item/1141B20A/7402437D/The-Bounty-Hunter-Discovery?share=1">brandon phillips</a> <a href="http://www.wists.com/wealthman03/aecd369f18d09d3cd8506f11fd04b0cf?offset=0">summerfest</a> <a href="http://www.jeteye.com/jetpak/595498b2-3bc8-47c9-b3c9-a5124130b503/">summerfest</a> <a href="http://funfunfunfest.com/users/xxRecHnl">fidel castro</a> <a href="http://www.purevolume.com/goldgal82/posts/4414460">rick santorum</a> </p>forsythekimberli00http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001041212136582828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5530097706581888012.post-50732325384927976362013-06-24T00:39:00.001-07:002013-06-24T00:39:05.676-07:00Shawn Amos: WATCH: Content Shines At Cannes<!-- entry_body_text --> <p>The big winner at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity? Content.</p> <p>Agencies, executives and thought leaders from around the world gathered in the French Riviera this week to celebrate the best in advertising and communication, and to honor campaigns that span television, print, radio, social media, mobile and more.</p> <p>Celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, the Festival received 35,765 entries from 92 countries. The big winners were campaigns that set aside the hard-sell and focused on bringing thought-provoking and entertaining content to their audiences.</p> <p>"Dumb Ways To Die," a campaign for Metro Trains in Melbourne, Australia, aimed at promoting rail safety, was the festival's big winner, with 5 total Grand Prix awards - a new record.</p> <p>Its clever and insanely catchy song topped iTunes charts in several countries, while the accompanying video, depicting cartoon characters dying in, well, dumb ways, has already been seen by more than 50 million people (fair warning: you will not be able to get the tune out of your head). It also featured a mobile game, a book, interactive posters and radio advertising. </p> <p>The result? Just three months after the launch, Metro saw a 21% reduction in accidents and deaths compared to a year ago, and a million people signed pledges on the website to be safe around trains.</p> <p>Remember that Dove "Real Beauty" viral video from a few months ago? It was Cannes' Titanium Grand Prix winner. The video featured a sketch artist who drew various women based on their own descriptions, and then based on others' descriptions; the vastly different results hit home with women worldwide.</p> <p>Another big winner was Toshiba/Intel's "The Beauty Inside," which took home the Grand Prix in the Branded Content and Entertainment category. The six-episode social film featured a main character who woke up as a different person every morning. Topher Grace played the lead, Alex, but the campaign encouraged fans to submit their own video diaries to play the character. It also won an Emmy recently at the Daytime Emmy Awards.</p> <p>"Branded Content and Entertainment" is a new category, added just last year, and it highlights the importance that content, in all forms, plays in the modern advertising and marketing world. Last year's inaugural winner was Chipotle's emotional "Back to the Start" commercial, which gained national prominence during the 2012 Grammy Awards.</p> <p>Find out more about the festival in the latest episode of "The Content Brief" from Freshwire below.</p> <p>Catch up on the video game console wars with last week's episode right here.</p> <!-- amazon items --> <!-- amazon items --> <p>?</p> <p>?</p> <!-- /amazon items --> <p>?</p> <!-- /amazon items --> <p> <b> Follow Shawn Amos on Twitter: www.twitter.com/ShawnAmos </b> </p> "; var coords = [-5, -72]; // display fb-bubble FloatingPrompt.embed(this, html, undefined, 'top', {fp_intersects:1, timeout_remove:2000,ignore_arrow: true, width:236, add_xy:coords, class_name: 'clear-overlay'}); });<p>Source: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shawn-amos/watch-content-shines-at-c_b_3484442.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shawn-amos/watch-content-shines-at-c_b_3484442.html</a></p><p><a href="http://naijaworld.eshopnaija.com/blogs/viewstory/57680">knaidel</a> <a href="http://mondosurf.com/read_blog/112073/easy,-natural-ways-you-can-avoid-premature-wrinkles-on-your-face">amelia earhart</a> <a href="http://www.humsurfer.com/the-best-ways-to-prevent-facial-wrinkles-from-showing-up-too-soon">heat</a> </p>forsythekimberli00http://www.blogger.com/profile/13001041212136582828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5530097706581888012.post-12586221286824993922013-06-23T22:41:00.001-07:002013-06-23T22:41:07.112-07:00Chairs Designed By Little Kids Are Hideously Adorable<p class="has-media media-640"><img alt="Chairs Designed By Little Kids Are Hideously Adorable" height="360" width="640" src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18rlyed8rd86spng/ku-xlarge.png" class="transform-ku-xlarge"/></p> <p class="first-text">An eye for good design isn't something you're born with; you've got to learn it. But everyone has to start somewhere, and <a href="http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2013/june/childrens-chairs" target="_blank">this is what it looks like</a> when kids take their very first awkward stabs at furniture design. The results are sort of horrifyingly cute. </p> <p>The little experiment was orchestrated by Kingston University students <a href="http://www.jackbeveridge.com/" target="_blank">Jack Beveridge</a> and <a href="http://www.joshua-lake.com/" target="_blank">Joshua Lake</a> who showed up to class full of seven and eight year-olds with a simple instruction: draw a chair. When all was said and done, they picked two of the designs and got to work. </p> <p>The result was the green, "Deniss the Menace" roll-y chair you see above, and a totally bitchin' yellow rocker with a <em>built-in fish tank</em>. Beveride and Lake have tenative plans to execute on more of the childish designs at some point down the line, but these two are definitely a good start. 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Stewart defended his counterpart and friend in one of his monologues after Youssef was interrogated earlier this year, and Youssef has appeared as a guest on the popular New York-based show.</p> <p>Stewart, who is on a summer-long break from anchoring the Comedy Central fake newscast is in the Middle East making his first movie. He expressed admiration for Youssef in Friday's episode, which was recorded earlier this week during a visit to Cairo.</p> <p>"Satire is a settled law. 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"I flew in three days ago and I have just arrived to do the show," he joked.</p> <p>Youssef ? known as Egypt's Jon Stewart ? was interrogated in April for allegedly insulting Islam and the country's leader. His questioning drew criticism from Washington and rights advocates. A trained heart surgeon, Youssef catapulted to fame when his video blogs mocking politics received hundreds of thousands of hits shortly after the 2011 uprising that toppled longtime leader Hosni Mubarak.</p> <p>Unlike other local TV presenters, Youssef uses satire to mock fiery comments made by ultraconservative clerics and politicians, garnering him a legion of fans among the country's revolutionaries and liberals. He has 1.4 million fans on Facebook and nearly 850,000 followers on Twitter.</p> <p>During his hiatus, Stewart will be directing and producing "Rosewater" from his own script, based on a memoir by Maziar Bahari. 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A new study by a team of researchers from the University of Notre Dame provides an important new insight into how cancer cells are able to avoid the cell death process. The findings may suggest a chemotherapeutic approach to prevent the spread of cancers.</p> <p>Metastasis, the spread of cancer from one organ to other parts of the body, relies on cancer cells ability to evade a cell death process called anoikis, according to Zachary T. Schafer, Coleman Assistant Professor of Cancer Biology at Notre Dame. Metalizing cancer cells are able to survive anoikis, which normally results from detachment from the extracellular matrix. However, Schafer notes that the molecular mechanisms cancer cells detached from the extracellular matrix use to survive has not been well understood.</p> <p>"This paper reveals that cancer cells that are detached from their normal environment, as they would be during metastasis, relay on the activity of antioxidant enzymes to facilitate their survival," Schafer said. "This class of enzymes is critical for neutralizing oxidative stress and function much like the compounds that are present in a variety of foods."</p> <p>The paper describes a prominent role for antioxidant enzymes in facilitating the survival of breast cancer cells after detachment from the extracellular matrix. 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A new study examining the brains of fruit flies reveals a novel stem cell mechanism that may help explain how neurons form in humans. A paper on the study by researchers at the University of Oregon appeared in the online version of the journal <em>Nature</em> in advance of the June 27 publication date.</p> <p>"The question we confronted was 'How does a single kind of stem cell, like a neural stem cell, make all different kinds of neurons?'" said Chris Doe, a biology professor and co-author on the paper "Combinatorial temporal patterning in progenitors expands neural diversity."</p> <p>Researchers have known for some time that stem cells are capable of producing new cells, but the new study shows how a select group of stem cells can create progenitors that then generate numerous subtypes of cells.</p> <p>"Instead of just making 100 copies of the same neuron to expand the pool, these progenitors make a whole bunch of different neurons in a particular way, a sequence," Doe said. "Not only are you bulking up the numbers but you're creating more neural diversity."</p> <p>The study, funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the NIH National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, builds on previous research from the Doe Lab published in 2008. That study identified a special set of stem cells that generated neural progenitors. These so-called intermediate neural progenitors (INPs) were shown to blow up into dozens of new cells. The research accounted for the number of cells generated, but did not explain the diversity of new cells.</p> <p>"While it's been known that individual neural stem cells or progenitors could change over time to make different types of neurons and other types of cells in the nervous system, the full extent of this temporal patterning had not been described for large neural stem cell lineages, which contain several different kinds of neural progenitors," said lead author Omar Bayraktar, a doctoral student in developmental neurobiology who recently defended his dissertation.</p> <p>The cell types in the study, Bayraktar said, have comparable analogs in the developing human brain and the research has potential applications for human biologists seeking to understand how neurons form.</p> <p>The Nature paper appears alongside another study on neural diversity by researchers from New York University. Together the two papers provide new insight into the processes involved in producing the wide range of nerve cells found in the brains of flies.</p> <p>For their study, Bayraktar and Doe zeroed in on the stem cells in drosophila (fruit flies) known as type II neuroblasts. The neuroblasts, which had previously been shown to generate INPs, were shown in this study to be responsible for a more complex patterning of cells. The INPs were shown to sequentially generate distinct neural subtypes. The research accounted for additional neural diversity by revealing a second axis in the mechanism. Instead of making 100 neurons, as had been previously thought, a stem cell may be responsible for generating some 400 or 500 neurons.</p> <p>The study concludes that neuroblasts and INP patterning act together to generate increased neural diversity within the central complex of the fruit fly and that progenitors in the human cerebral cortex may use similar mechanisms to increase neural diversity in the human brain. One long-term application of the research may be to eventually pinpoint stem cell treatments to target specific diseases and disorders.</p> <p>"If human biologists understand how the different types of neurons are made, if we can tell them 'This is the pathway by which x, y and z neurons are made,' then they may be able to reprogram and redirect stem cells to make these precise neurons," Doe said.</p> <p>The mechanism described in the paper has its limits. Eventually the process of generating new cells stops. 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The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this year, on a tough enforcement-focused measure that Democrats and immigrant groups are protesting loudly. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</p> <p>People shout out against the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act in the hall outside the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this year, on a tough enforcement-focused measure that Democrats and immigrant groups are protesting loudly. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</p> <p>House Judiciary Committee members Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., sponsor of the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act, left, talks with Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, prior to the start of the committee's hearing to discuss the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this year, on a tough enforcement-focused measure that Democrats and immigrant groups are protesting loudly. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</p> <p>House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill. speak on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, during the committee's hearing to discuss the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this year, on a tough enforcement-focused measure that Democrats and immigrant groups are protesting loudly. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</p> <p>The House Judiciary Committee ranking Democrat, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, during the committee's hearing to discuss the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this year, on a tough enforcement-focused measure that Democrats and immigrant groups are protesting loudly. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</p> <p>Jackelin Alfaro, 4, in a t-shirt that reads "Don't Depart my Dad" sits in the hall with family members outside the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. The committee hearing will discuss the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this year, on a tough enforcement-focused measure that Democrats and immigrant groups are protesting loudly. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</p> <p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">WASHINGTON (AP) ? Sweeping immigration legislation moving toward a vote in the Senate would boost the economy and reduce federal deficits, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday, at the same time it would bestow legal status on an estimated 8 million immigrants living in the United States unlawfully.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">In an assessment that drew cheers from the White House and other backers of the bill, Congress' scorekeeping agency said the measure would reduce federal red ink by $197 billion across a decade, and $700 billion in the following 10 years as increased taxes paid to the government offset the cost of government benefits for newly legal residents.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">The White House quickly issued a statement saying the report was "more proof that bipartisan commonsense immigration reform will be good for economic growth and deficit reduction." Several members of the "Gang of Eight" senators who drafted the legislation also hastened to welcome the news.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">The assessment came as the pace of activity increased at both ends of the Capitol on an issue that President Barack Obama has placed at the top of his domestic agenda.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Challenged by protesters chanting "shame, shame," House Republicans advanced legislation to crack down on immigrants living illegally in the United States, at the same time the Senate lurched ahead on a dramatically different approach offering the hope of citizenship to the same millions.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina said the bill moving through the House Judiciary Committee was part of a "step by step, increment by increment" approach to immigration, an issue that can pit Republican against Republican as much if not more than it divides the two political parties.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">California Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren predicted there would be "millions of American citizens taking to the street" in protest if Republicans pressed ahead with the bill. The measure permits state and local authorities to enforce federal immigration laws and requires mandatory detention for anyone in the country illegally who is convicted of drunk driving.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Despite the protests, approval by the committee was a foregone conclusion. The panel's chairman, Rep. Robert Goodlatte, R-Va., said future bills would require companies to make sure their employees are living in the United States legally, create a program for foreign farm workers who labor in the United States and enhance the ability of American firms to hire highly skilled workers from overseas.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Those steps and more are already rolled into one sweeping measure in the Senate, a bipartisan bill that Obama supports and that appears on track for a final Senate vote as early as July 4.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">The CBO said in its report and accompanying economic analysis that the legislation would raise economic activity in each of the next two decades, in part because of the legal immigration fostered by the measure, and also because millions of workers currently in the country illegally would join the legal workforce and pay taxes.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Not all the forecast was as favorable, though. CBO said average wages would decline through 2025 as a result of the bill, and that unemployment would go up slightly.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">One critic quickly seized on the impact on pay. "It's going to raise unemployment and push down wages," Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said of the bill. He added: "The impact will be harshest for today's low-income Americans. Meanwhile, the 21 million Americans who can't find full-time work will have an ever harder time getting a job and supporting their families."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Supporters of the bill saw it differently.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Sen. Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat and part of the Gang of Eight, said the CBO report "debunks the idea that immigration reform is anything other than a boon to our economy, and robs the bill's opponents of one of their last remaining arguments."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican and a co-author of the bill, said in a statement that the budget agency confirmed that "reforming our immigration system is a net benefit for our economy, American workers and taxpayers," although he said he hopes for changes before it comes to a final vote.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">The report was issued near the end of a day of skirmishing on the Senate bill.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Thhe Senate rejected a move by Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., to require the installation of 350 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border before legalization can begin for anyone currently in the United States illegally.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Similarly, the Senate rejected a proposal by Sen. David Vitter, R-La., to prevent legalization until a biometric system is in place to track people entering or leaving the country through air, sea or land points of departure.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Those proposals were overshadowed by a larger debate over the types of border security requirements the legislation should contain. 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As drafted, the bill gives the government six months to develop a plan to achieve border security, but does not hold up legalization while it is being tested for effectiveness.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">It was unclear what, if any, compromise is possible on that point. Agreement would greatly increase the bill's chances for passage with a large bipartisan vote.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">The measure was drafted by a bipartisan Gang of Eight and represents a series of political trade-offs among senators as well as outside groups like business and labor, growers and farm workers. In addition to border security and a path to citizenship, it includes an expanded number of visas for highly skilled workers prized by the technology industry and a new program for low-skilled workers. 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The legislation makes exceptions for victims of rape and incest as long as they first report the crime to authorities.</p> <p> The bill has no chance of becoming law with Democrats controlling the Senate and the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1371604387680_4">White House</span> threatening to veto it. Still, passage of the bill highlighted the influence of ultra-conservative <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1371604387680_3">House Republicans</span>, who have forced the chamber to adopt more conservative measures.</p> <p> The legislation passed in 228-196 vote with a few Republicans dissenting and little Democratic support.</p> <p> "The bill strengthens (Republicans) with their pro-life constituency, but that base is already secure," said Larry Sabato, politics professor at the University of Virginia. 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A clinic worker testified during the trial that Gosnell had delivered live babies during botched late-term abortions and cut their spinal cords.</p> <p> Abortion rights groups said Republicans were seizing on the tragic circumstances of Gosnell's victims.</p> <p> "Their relentless campaign to outlaw abortion will encourage more criminals like Kermit Gosnell," said NARAL Pro-Choice America president Ilyse Hogue. "They will not stop until they completely undermine the ability of women to make personal, private medical decisions with their doctors."</p> <p> WOMEN'S ROLE</p> <p> After being criticized because female House Republicans were not involved in writing or passing the legislation out of the House Judiciary Committee, Republican leaders went out of their way to include women.</p> <p> <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1371604387680_6">Republican Representatives Virginia Foxx</span> of North Carolina and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee helped manage debate on the bill. 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