'Puss in Boots' Writer I'm NOT a Creepy Perv ... World Market 'Violated' Me
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The screenwriter behind family friendly movies like "Hop" and "Puss in Boots" says he was publicly "violated" in front of his 10-year-old niece when employees at an L.A. furniture store accused him of leering at women ... then kicked him out -- and now he wants an apology.
40-year-old Brian Lynch blasted his side of the story on Twitter ... claiming he was visiting World Market in Sherman Oaks on Sunday with his sister and her 10-year-old adopted daughter when it all went down. (FYI, Brian's niece is Korean-American.)
Brian said he was following his sister and niece around the store when his sister went off to look at something, leaving him alone with his niece. At that point, Brian says a store employee approached and said they'd received complaints he was following women and creeping them out.
He says he was then asked to leave immediately.
Brian protested, insisting he was just shopping with family, but since a crowd had already begun to gather around the heated exchange, he ultimately left ... with his niece.
Now, Brian tells TMZ, he wants a public apology from World Market for the public humiliation, acknowledging its narrow-minded employees jumped to horrible conclusions about him for no reason.
A rep for World Market tells TMZ ... they're speaking to Brian and "taking steps to fully understand what occurred."
Drug cartel violence has forced hundreds of people to flee their villages in the mountains near Mexico's southern Pacific coast, amid a new surge in gang confrontations that left bodies littered around the region, authorities said Friday.
The development comes just days after the arrest of one of Mexico's bloodiest capos, Zetas cartel leader Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, near the U.S. border. Better known as "Z-40," Trevino Morales was taken by helicopter to an undisclosed maximum-security prison Friday.
An official in the federal prosecutors' office, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to publicly discuss the case, said the prisoner now faces formal charges, but did not specify which. Soon after the arrest Monday, federal security spokesman Eduardo Sanchez said Trevino Morales would be charged with homicide, torture, organized crime, money laundering, weapons possession and drug trafficking.
The prosecution official also confirmed that one of the alleged leaders of the Jalisco New Generation cartel, Victor Delgado Renteria, had been arrested last week near the western city of Guadalajara.
Some Mexicans had expressed hopes the arrest of Trevino Morales could bring a decrease in drug bloodshed, but violence has only increased along the southern Pacific coast, in the states of Michoacan and Guerrero. Mexico has often experienced such ups-and-downs before as drug violence calmed in one previously bloodied region only to swell in another.
Jalisco New Generation has been battling the Michoacan-based Knights Templar cartel for control of the southern region. Residents said the latest battles appeared tied to the discovery Friday of four bodies hanging from a bridge in the town of Buenavista, where people rose up in arms against the Knights Templar gang in February.
It was unclear whether the self-defense squad in Buenavista had any relation to the deaths, which came a day after five other bullet-ridden bodies were found on a road near Buenavista, some with gunshots to the head.
The Michoacan state prosecutor's office said all of the men had been shot to death, but offered no motive for the killings. But Hipolito Mora, leader of another self-defense squad in the nearby town of La Ruana, said the deaths appeared to be part of the battle between the two rival cartels.
"It look like a war has broken out," said Mora. "I think it is between the Knights Templar and Jalisco New Generation."
Even heavily armed federal police convoys traveling on major highways have come under attack. On Thursday, gunmen fired on a convoy of eight federal police trucks near a highway tollbooth, killing three officers and wounding three others before escaping into the hills.
Such brazen attacks also occurred in Michoacan in 2006 and 2009, and usually marked an upswing in violence.
The turf battles appear to be spilling over into the neighboring state of Guerrero, where hundreds of residents of isolated mountain villages have been forced to flee their homes.
"There has been what we call a 'cockroach' effect," Guerrero state government spokesman Jose Villanueva said. "Amid the crackdown on crime in Michoacan, the criminals spill over into the border areas of neighboring states, like the border areas of Guerrero."
Japanese Prime Minister Sinzo Abe is now looking to revive and revamp Japan?s military, and in upcoming elections this Sunday, he may be able to get the mandate to do just that. With China on the rise and the United States slowly drawing back from the world stage, the time may have come for the Japanese to again look at supporting a large standing army.
Defense budget raised by Shinzo Abe
Mr. Abe has already raised the Japanese defense budget, the first time this has occurred in 11 years. He has also taken a strong stance against China over the Senkaku Sea islands and been blunt in handling North Korea. Abe is now looking to improve the Japanese military in terms of both quantity and quality.
While it was initially the United States whom insisted that Japan abandon its military ambitious in the aftermath of World War II, America has repeatedly called for Japan to increase military spending. Initially, the United States needed Japan to counter to the Soviet threat. Now, the United States needs Japan to counter the Chinese threat. At the same time the United States is looking to slowly draw down its forces across the globe.
America ? Japan relations
America is obligated under the ?Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan? to defend Japan in the event of an attack. If the Japanese increase their own military capacity, however, the United States could at least reduce its military presence on the island. With over 30,000 soldiers stationed in Japan, the United States military commitment to the country is one of the highest in the world. If the military is able to reduce its footprint in the country, it could dramatically cut costs.
In the past the Japanese people have generally been against military expansion. The emotional scars of World War II and the costs of supporting a modern military remain unattractive, especially with an economy that has remained stagnant for almost 20 years. Now, with China on the move and North Korea becoming increasingly belligerent, many Japanese citizens are beginning to see the value of a full-standing military.
Many people may not realize that the Japanese constitution does not allow for a large standing army with offensive capabilities. Indeed, the Japanese military is actually called the Japan Self Defense Force (JSDF), emphasizing the defensive nature of the military. There are serious questions of the legality of a muscular Japanese military. As article 9 of the Japanese Constitution states::
(1) Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes. (2) To accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.
This article is nothing short of wide sweeping, and legally bolstering the military would be difficult underneath the Constitution. As a result, many Japanese citizens and policy makers are calling for the Constitution to be revised. Public polls have found that 56% of Japanese citizens approve of revising the Constitution to allow for a stronger military. Prime Minister Abe? has repeatedly stated that even after any increase in military might, Japan will still maintain a defensive military.
Others, including Prime Minister Abe, have pointed out that the Japanese Constitution allows only for self defense. This means that even if one of Japan?s allies were attacked, Japan would be unable to assist. So if North Korea were to shoot a missile at the United States, Japan would be unable to intercept or stop it. As such, Abe has been calling for the Constitutional article to be expanded to allow his nation to defend allies.
Abe?s plans for military
If Abe?s Liberal Democratic Party wins comfortably in the upcoming upper house elections, look for Japan to bolster its military might. This could raise tensions in the region, especially with China already on its toes over U.S. presence and the Senkaku islands issue. Still, Japan may have no choice as the Asia Pacific is once again becoming a hot spot for potential military confrontations.
While the globalized economy would make the outbreak of a full scale war highly unlikely, having a strong military may now be essential for Japan?s geopolitical position and ability to influence regional events. The effects of an increased Japanese military presence remain to be seen, but there are risks that tensions in the region could worsen.
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Contact: Peter Reuell preuell@fas.harvard.edu 617-496-8070 Harvard University
Researchers find evidence that genetic changes play a role in resistance to deadly disease
Researchers have long understood that genetics can play a role in how susceptible people are to contracting cholera, but a team of Harvard scientists is now uncovering evidence of genetic changes that might also help protect some people from contracting the deadly disease.
Based on genetic data gathered from hundreds of people in Bangladesh, a research team made up of Harvard faculty and scientists from the Broad Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital were able to a number of areas in the genome some of which are responsible for certain immune system functions, while others are related to fluid loss that appear to be related to cholera resistance. Later tests showed genetic differences between people who had contracted the disease and those who had been exposed, but did not become ill. Their results are described in a paper published earlier this month in Science Translational Medicine.
"This study is exceptionally exciting for us because it shows the power of this approach," said Associate Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Pardis Sabeti, one of two senior co-authors of the paper. "This is the first time we've taken a genomic-wide approach to understanding cholera resistance. But it's a first step, and there is a lot of exploration to go from here. For a disease that's so ancient and widespread there's very little that's known about host immunity."
The hope, Sabeti added, is that by better understanding why some people appear to be immune, it will help in our efforts to develop vaccines and therapies, so outbreaks like those that occurred in recent years in Haiti and Africa might one-day be avoided.
"It is a very scary disease," she said. "We now have treatments with oral rehydration therapy, but it is still devastating, and in extreme cases, cholera can kill in hours."
"We also haven't been able to develop a particularly effective vaccine," added Elinor Karlsson, a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, the first author of the paper. "The vaccine that's available wears off after a few years, whereas people who are exposed to the disease develop a long-lasting immunityand nobody is quite sure why that is. This research is another way of tackling that problem, and it's a way no one has come at it before."
To understand the genetic differences between those with and without resistance, researchers first gathered genetic data on 42 family groups called "trios" that included a mother, father and child. Using that data, researchers identified more than 300 areas of the genome that appeared to be under pressure due to natural selection, suggesting that genes in those regions might be adapting to deal with the threat of cholera.
"We found 305 areas or about two percent of the genome that appeared to be under selection," Karlsson said. "That's great, but unfortunately, all our tests can tell us is that a region is under selection, it doesn't tell us why."
To find those answers, Karlsson turned to a process called "gene set enrichment" testing to determine whether any particular groups of genes showed up in those regions more often than others.
"We found two strong patterns," Karlsson said. "We found a whole set of genes that are related to a gene called IKBKG, which plays a key role in immunity. But what we found was not the gene itself, but a whole group of genes that regulate IKBKG. We also found a whole set of genes for potassium channels, which are the channels in the walls of our cells that regulate fluid loss.
"What's interesting is that it shows what a huge pressure cholera has been on this population," she added. "You could be selecting for anything in there skin color, hair color or even other diseases but because cholera was a big enough force, we could pick it out just by doing this kind of testing."
Armed with that data, researchers then performed a comparative study examining the specific genetic regions in more than 100 patients who were sick with cholera and others who had been exposed to the disease, but had not become sick. The results, Karlsson said, showed differences between the two groups.
"The region that had the biggest signal that suggested the region was under pressure from natural selection, also had the biggest difference between people who were sick and who were not sick today," Karlsson said.
Going forward, Karlsson said, researchers hope to conduct wider studies of the genetic differences between people who are susceptible and those who appear to be immune in the hope of identifying precisely which genes are involved, and the pathways involved in resistance.
"We have narrowed it down to a few genes, but the problem is that these are genes that people have not paid a great deal of attention to before," Karlsson said. "There's not a whole lot of description out there about them, so it's hard to know which one might be the best candidate for study."
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The genetic key to conquering choleraPublic release date: 19-Jul-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Peter Reuell preuell@fas.harvard.edu 617-496-8070 Harvard University
Researchers find evidence that genetic changes play a role in resistance to deadly disease
Researchers have long understood that genetics can play a role in how susceptible people are to contracting cholera, but a team of Harvard scientists is now uncovering evidence of genetic changes that might also help protect some people from contracting the deadly disease.
Based on genetic data gathered from hundreds of people in Bangladesh, a research team made up of Harvard faculty and scientists from the Broad Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital were able to a number of areas in the genome some of which are responsible for certain immune system functions, while others are related to fluid loss that appear to be related to cholera resistance. Later tests showed genetic differences between people who had contracted the disease and those who had been exposed, but did not become ill. Their results are described in a paper published earlier this month in Science Translational Medicine.
"This study is exceptionally exciting for us because it shows the power of this approach," said Associate Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Pardis Sabeti, one of two senior co-authors of the paper. "This is the first time we've taken a genomic-wide approach to understanding cholera resistance. But it's a first step, and there is a lot of exploration to go from here. For a disease that's so ancient and widespread there's very little that's known about host immunity."
The hope, Sabeti added, is that by better understanding why some people appear to be immune, it will help in our efforts to develop vaccines and therapies, so outbreaks like those that occurred in recent years in Haiti and Africa might one-day be avoided.
"It is a very scary disease," she said. "We now have treatments with oral rehydration therapy, but it is still devastating, and in extreme cases, cholera can kill in hours."
"We also haven't been able to develop a particularly effective vaccine," added Elinor Karlsson, a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, the first author of the paper. "The vaccine that's available wears off after a few years, whereas people who are exposed to the disease develop a long-lasting immunityand nobody is quite sure why that is. This research is another way of tackling that problem, and it's a way no one has come at it before."
To understand the genetic differences between those with and without resistance, researchers first gathered genetic data on 42 family groups called "trios" that included a mother, father and child. Using that data, researchers identified more than 300 areas of the genome that appeared to be under pressure due to natural selection, suggesting that genes in those regions might be adapting to deal with the threat of cholera.
"We found 305 areas or about two percent of the genome that appeared to be under selection," Karlsson said. "That's great, but unfortunately, all our tests can tell us is that a region is under selection, it doesn't tell us why."
To find those answers, Karlsson turned to a process called "gene set enrichment" testing to determine whether any particular groups of genes showed up in those regions more often than others.
"We found two strong patterns," Karlsson said. "We found a whole set of genes that are related to a gene called IKBKG, which plays a key role in immunity. But what we found was not the gene itself, but a whole group of genes that regulate IKBKG. We also found a whole set of genes for potassium channels, which are the channels in the walls of our cells that regulate fluid loss.
"What's interesting is that it shows what a huge pressure cholera has been on this population," she added. "You could be selecting for anything in there skin color, hair color or even other diseases but because cholera was a big enough force, we could pick it out just by doing this kind of testing."
Armed with that data, researchers then performed a comparative study examining the specific genetic regions in more than 100 patients who were sick with cholera and others who had been exposed to the disease, but had not become sick. The results, Karlsson said, showed differences between the two groups.
"The region that had the biggest signal that suggested the region was under pressure from natural selection, also had the biggest difference between people who were sick and who were not sick today," Karlsson said.
Going forward, Karlsson said, researchers hope to conduct wider studies of the genetic differences between people who are susceptible and those who appear to be immune in the hope of identifying precisely which genes are involved, and the pathways involved in resistance.
"We have narrowed it down to a few genes, but the problem is that these are genes that people have not paid a great deal of attention to before," Karlsson said. "There's not a whole lot of description out there about them, so it's hard to know which one might be the best candidate for study."
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Naomi Timperley from Enterprise Lab recently visited the Online Ventures Group recording studio to tell us about the nicest people she has comes across in Manchester and tips on the?qualities?you need to be successful.
Enterprise Lab are an agency set up to create enterprise opportunities, real-life experiences and problem solving scenarios to empower young people.
Naomi?s favourite moment working at Enterprise Lab was last November when they were?nominated?as a Smarta 100 ? Smarta is an annual celebration of small businesses throughout Britain who nominate companies for their brilliance and hard work.
The three Manchester Companies Naomi recommended are Slater Heelis,?Business Growth Hub and?Inner Space. She?believes?these three companies are fantastic and do a lot of amazing things around Manchester.
The three most influential people Naomi has come across are Sandy Lindsey from Tangerine PR who she believes is brilliant for?launching?the first social media apprenticeship. She also mentioned Phil Jones, Managing Director of Brother and Lou Cordwell, CEO and founder of Magnetic North.
Naomi?s success tips are to work hard, be determined and knowing your market.
OLYMPIA, Wash. ? Washington state had an estimated net gain of 9,800 jobs from May to June, while the state?s unemployment rate remained unchanged at 6.8 percent, officials with the Employment Security Department said Wednesday.
Since June 2012, when Washington state?s unemployment rate was 8.2 percent, the state has gained about 67,000 jobs. The state?s unemployment rate remains well below the national unemployment rate of 7.6 percent.
?We have a nice positive trend developing in that there have been increasing gains in hiring over the past three months,? said Paul Turek, a labor economist for Employment Security. ?It?s encouraging news to see that hiring is moving forth.?
Private sector hiring was estimated to have increased by 15,700 jobs, while government saw a dip of 5,900 jobs last month. That decrease is a turnaround from an estimated increase of 3,800 jobs gained in May. About 4,200 of the job losses occurred within state government. Sheryl Hutchison, a spokeswoman for the Employment Security Department, said that while there continue to be cuts throughout state government due to budgetary issues, seasonal factors could also exaggerate those numbers.
Patterns in timing of hiring or layoffs could throw off seasonal adjustment factors, which are used by economists to remove or discount normal seasonal changes so that underlying trends are easier to identify. Preliminary estimates of job losses or gains can appear larger or smaller than they really are if those season changes occur earlier or later than expected, officials said.
Manufacturing was the only other sector to see job losses, dropping by about 200 jobs last month.
Industries that saw the largest job gains in June were construction and professional and business services, both up 4,100, leisure and hospitality, up 3,800, and education and health services, which gained 1,600 jobs. Several other sectors also saw some gains, including wholesale trade, up 600 and retail trade, which saw an increase of 500 jobs.
Two different surveys are used to calculate unemployment figures and job losses and gains. The unemployment rate represents the percentage of the labor force that?s unemployed and actively looking for work. People who quit looking for work are not counted. The job gains and losses estimates are based on a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey of businesses.
The state has regained more than 172,000 of the 205,000 jobs it lost during the recession. However more than 237,000 people were unemployed and looking for work last month, including more than 114,000 who claimed unemployment benefits.
It wouldn't surprise us to hear MoDaCo's newly minted HTC One ROM triggered some reactions that could've easily been turned into animated GIFs. And if you were one of the many folks excited at the thought of seamlessly Switching between vanilla Android and Sense 5, then you'll be happy to know creator Paul O'Brien has begun taking applicants looking to put the ROM through its paces. MoDaCo.Switch is said to be "nearly ready for beta testing," and thus we'd recommend filling out the form at the source link below pretty soon -- O'Brien says he'll "be picking a number of people of varying abilities and devices."
A newly unearthed dinosaur has been called the ?Texas longhorn? of its family tree, and it?s not hard to see why: Nasutoceratops titusi, a relative of the famous Triceratops, sported 3.5-foot-long horns, measured 15 feet long from nose to tail, and weighed 2.5 tons. But this fossil is significant for more than just its anatomy?the discovery of Nasutoceratops provides powerful evidence for a theory that may explain the astonishing diversity of dinosaurs in Western North America millions of years ago.
Nasutoceratops is a member of the ceratopsid family, a group of quadrupedal herbivores that lived during the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous period, between 84 and 70 million years ago. Like many ceratopsids Nasutoceratops bears horns and a neck frill. But ?It?s a bizarre animal in some respects,? says paleontologist Scott Sampson of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and leader of the team that discovered Nasutoceratops. In most ceratopsids, the major differences lie in the horns and frills. Trim them off and it?s hard to tell the animals apart, he observes. But in addition to its oversized horns, Nasutoceratops differs from its cousins in having a massive nose. ?It represents a previously unknown group of dinosaurs,? Sampson asserts.
Sampson also argues that Nasutoceratops provides strong evidence of dinosaur provincialism, a phenomenon that caused vast speciation of dinosaurs across western North America. His team found the specimen in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah. During most of the Late Cretaceous, high sea levels flooded much of North America, creating a landmass named ?Laramidia?: a narrow stretch of land around the young Rocky Mountains, stretching from Alaska to Mexico. Laramidia was less than one third the size of present-day North America. Dinosaurs flourished on this sliver of land. More than a dozen species of ceratopsids have been unearthed as far north as Alaska?but there?s something confusing about these discoveries.
?Beginning in the 1960s, paleontologists were starting to notice that dinosaurs they were finding in the north were different than the ones in the south,? Sampson says. ?There was a question in people?s minds about whether these animals were living at the same time.? Yet advances in dating technology confirmed that several separate but related species of ceratopsids were living on the same continent at the same time. For example,Styracosaurus albertensis, another ceratopsid, roamed Laramidia at the same time as Nasutoceratops, just a few hundred miles to the north in what is now Alberta. ?But how could groups of giant dinosaurs live only a few hundred miles apart on the same piece of land without interbreeding? Speciation usually occurs when an ancestral species is divided into groups that evolve separately over time because of some impassable barrier.
?I can?t imagine why something the size of a small rhino can?t walk to Alberta and wouldn?t have a species range that far north,? says Mark Loewen of the University of Utah, a coauthor of the new study. ?Something is keeping these animals from moving back and forth from north to south.?
And that?s where the dinosaur provincialism theory comes in. Having compared plant, fish, mammal and crocodile remains from northern and southern Laramidia, Sampson and Loewen believe that some unknown barriers were separating and combining groups of species over millions of years.
?What we think is happening is that Laramidia was a crucible of evolution,? Loewen says. ?It was really easy to separate small populations of species, who through sexual selection drift genetically one way or another. Later, when the barrier is removed and the populations come back together, they don?t interbreed and compete for resources instead.?
The barriers that caused speciation are speculative at best, Loewen says. An ancient river system used to sprawl over Laramidia and could have separated populations, but modern giant herbivores are skilled swimmers. It has also been suggested that slight differences in climate and plant life could have promoted provincialism.
Not only did the ceratopsids of Laramidia diversify like crazy, but Loewen suspects this group evolved quickly. Today in Africa there are a handful of mammals that grow to over 1000 kilograms. In Laramidia, more than 20 species of dinosaur grew over 1000 kilograms on a much smaller landmass. This proves the lush, tropical continent of Laramidia was able to support lots of rapidly evolving animals.
Whenever we?re seeing these things, they?ve changed,? Loewen says. ? The group is way more diverse than we would have thought even ten years ago.?
Sampson thinks Nasutoceratops is just the beginning of a wave of fossils that will support the dinosaur provincialism theory. ?It suggests that there was in fact a whole different group of these horned dinosaurs evolving for potentially millions of years in the south, while there was a distinct community in the north,? he says. ?That?s what we?re expecting to find as we continue excavating.?
The iPhone 5 offers a 4-inch display, but its successor may have something a bit bigger.
Many hardware makers are pushing out devices with bigger and bigger screens ? and Apple may be finally giving in to the peer pressure. According to a report, the next-generation iPhone may be delayed as the Cupertino-based company sorts out design changes.
Bloomberg reports, citing the Commercial Times, a Chinese language financial newspaper, that sources in the semiconductor industry claim the next-generation iPhone ? which some assume will be called the iPhone 5S ? will feature a 4.3-inch display. The current iPhone model, the iPhone 5, has a 4-inch display. (iPhone models prior to this one had 3.5-inch displays.)
It was previously expected that the next-generation iPhone would be released in the fall, but the recent report leaves some fearing that we won't see the new gadget until the end of the year.
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]People who eat nuts, particularly walnuts, are more likely to live longer, finds new research. In a longitudinal study, researchers suggest that those who eat nuts more than three times a week have a reduced risk of dying from cancer or cardiovascular disease than non-nut eaters.
'The Crash Reel': Kevin PearceBurton Snowboards/HBO
Sure, Sunday tends to be overcrowded with high-end TV, including "True Blood," the recently returned "The Newsroom," "Copper," "Dexter," "Ray Donovan" and more, but what to watch the rest of the time? Every Monday, we bring you five noteworthy highlights from the other six days of the week.
"The Crash Reel": Broadcast Premiere Monday, July 15 at 9pm on HBO
The latest documentary from two-time Oscar nominee Lucy Walker cuts together 15 years of footage of the rivalry between?Shaun White and Kevin Pearce, two childhood friends who became top snowboarders, their competition leading them to push the boundaries of the sport until Pearce ended up with a traumatic head injury after a half-pipe crash. As White goes on to win a gold medal at the?Vancouver Winter Olympics, Pearce struggles with the knowledge that returning to the sport he loves could result in his death.
"POV": "Only the Young" Monday, July 15 at 10pm on PBS
Highly acclaimed for its aesthetic approach, this doc from?Elizabeth Mims and Jason Tippet follows?three Christian teenagers living in a small desert town 30 miles from Los Angeles who skateboard and face the travails of being young amidst a landscape threatened by financial uncertainty. The film was nominated for a 2013 Truer Than Fiction Spirit Award.
"Nine for IX": "Let Them Wear Towels" Tuesday, July 16 at 8pm on ESPN
ESPN's doc series about female athletes, by female filmmakers continues with this installment from?Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg, the team behind "Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work" and "Knuckleball!," about?the presence of female journalists in the male sanctum of the clubhouse. The film highlights the women who've fought for equal access in order to do their jobs, including?Melissa Ludtke of Sports Illustrated, who challenged Major League Baseball after she was kept out of the New York Yankees' locker room.
"Intervention": Series Finale Thursday, July 18th at 9pm on A&E
Love it or hate it, "Intervention" has been a reality TV landmark. The A&E series comes to a close this week after 13 season and almost 200 episodes. The final installment will follow Eric, a 31-year-old heroin addict whose family hopes to be able to convince to enter rehab.
"Kumail Nanjiani: Beta Male": Broadcast Premiere Saturday, July 20 at 11:59pm on Comedy Central
Kumail Nanjiani, Pakistani-born comedian and certified nerd, heads to Comedy Central for his first hour-long stand-up special. The talented Nanjiani, who's been popping up as a guest and supporting character on various TV shows recently (including "Franklin & Bash" and "Portlandia"), will be cohosting "The Meltdown With Jonah and Kumail" on the network next year and will also be a regular on the upcoming HBO Mike Judge series "Silicon Valley." "Beta Male" was taped at The Moody Theater in Austin.
Also worth a look:?USA Network's younger, sexier spy and legal series "Covert Affairs" and "Suits" return for fourth and third seasons on Tuesday, July 16th at 9 and 10pm; the infamous "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" is back for a second season on TLC on Wednesday, July 17th at 10pm;?Hallmark makes its first venture into the realm of original scripted series with "Cedar Cove," starring?Andie MacDowell as a small town judge, on Saturday, July 20th at 8pm.
Source: www.rssmix.com --- Sunday, July 14, 2013 LAS VEGAS (7/14/13) - Former University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball stars Ray McCallum and ... ...
Today at its Faculty Summit, Microsoft Research introduced the beta of Lab of Things, a new platform from the company that will support sensor information from the physical world in a simple way, allowing for more experiment by more people in more places.
Lab of Things is a system that links together physical data collection and Microsoft?s HomeOS. HomeOS, of course, is Microsoft?s bid to turn your house into something slightly more automated.
If you want to run an experiment that employs sensor data ? something?that is becoming increasingly common ? Lab of Things will provide a simple backend for you. Also, you can access your experiment via mobile devices, store and share data in the cloud, and adjust the experiment itself, sans visiting the site itself.
Let?s use an example to provide clarity: Assume that you wanted to run an experiment that involved collecting temperature data from the top of radio towers around your city. Once you installed your sensors on the towers, and linked their data flow to the Internet, you could employ Lab of Things as the tool to collect, monitor, and analyze the information. It?s like Batman?s mobile crime lab, but real, and it doesn?t analyze hair.
Microsoft calls the service ?near real-time.?
One kick of Lab of Things is that it lowers friction between idea and experiment by cutting out the need for scientists to also moonlight as software engineers. Here, have some code that works.?This will allow for more total experiment, and also more experiment by the less well-funded; DIY hackers and the like can now quickly start digging into real world data.
This is the confluence of big data, the cloud, software as a service, and the Internet of Things. In short, we?ve reached peak buzzword.
What will Lab of Things cost you? Nothing, but there is a caveat:
If you are an academic collaborator, you can freely use the Lab of Things for your research. The Lab of Things license does not allow commercial use.
I fully expect that that dictum has already been abrogated. You can snag the beta Lab of Things SDK here.
(CNN) ? Cory Monteith, who played heart throb Finn Hudson in the Fox hit ?Glee,? was found dead in a Vancouver hotel room, British Columbia police said late Saturday.
Monteith, 31, spent time in rehab early this year, checking into a drug addiction treatment facility in April.
He had been frank about his struggles with substance abuse, telling Parade magazine in 2011 that he began using drugs at 13, and by 19 went into rehab after his mother and friends intervened.
Monteith had been on the musical comedy show since it began in 2009.
In 2011, he won a Teen Choice award for top actor in a comedy. The show?s cast won a Screen Actors Guild award for an ensemble in a comedy the prior year.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) ? A former Arkansas Lottery security official has pleaded guilty to stealing and cashing almost a half-million dollars' worth of tickets.
The lottery suspended Remmele Mazyck (rah-MEL' mah-ZEEK') in October and fired him three weeks later. Mazyck pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering charges Friday in federal court.
State gaming officials say the thefts started shortly after the games began in September 2009. Lottery Director Bishop Woosley said between November 2009 and October 2012, Mazyck cashed 22,710 tickets worth about $478,000.
Mazyck's lawyer, John Wesley Hall, said 34-year-old Mazyck has been released on his recognizance. His sentencing date hasn't been set yet.
The Arkansas Lottery said its insurer would cover the losses.
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