Dutch photographer Jacqueline Hassink has been inside some of the most important and cloistered rooms in the world. But these aren't science labs or political offices?they're the opulent boardrooms of Europe's largest companies, which Hassink photographed as part of a project called The Table of Power.
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Microsoft's drawing from its patent of a laptop with transparent display technology.
Your future computer may be able to do more than just detect your gestures and last longer on a charge. Microsoft has filed a patent for transparent display technology for laptops and mobile devices that can actually project holographic images right before your eyes.
In the patent?s claims, Microsoft describes a projection device that would be ?coupled to the mobile base for displaying the image,? which seems to be in reference to future cameras that will be built into devices. Additionally, the claims describe a transparent display that would come with a holographic optical element for directing images that are displayed by the projection device.
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The document describes various implementations of this type of technology, one of which could superimpose virtual images from augmented reality apps on to real-world environments. Microsoft hints that there could be a heads-up display accessory similar to Google Glass that would be used to navigate these apps.
?The mobile device may be used with pointing and telestration applications including but not limited to use as a portable heads-up display for an operator of the mobile device.?
The patent?s drawings depict a laptop with a projector in the keyboard deck. This component projects up through the notebook?s display panel and on to a surface beyond such as a wall. As shown in the drawing above, the user would look at the laptop?s display at the same angle and distance as you would when using a standard notebook, but the image would extend beyond the tangible screen.
This isn?t the first time we?ve heard of such plans from Microsoft, but the newly published patent shows that the company is pushing for this tech in laptops and mobile devices. Microsoft?s IllumiRoom concept for gaming details a similar system that would project images and scenes from the video game on your television onto the furniture and surfaces around you.
In a reportedly leaked Microsoft internal document from 2010, the company makes mention of an accessory called Kinect Shades that would accompany such a device, hinting that AR eyewear is in the works. Not too long ago, Microsoft posted a job listing that described telepresence technology for depicting virtual holograms in Skype conversations.
There?s no telling whether or not these technologies will hit the market, but the recently published patent is little short of a confirmation that Microsoft is diving deeper into perceptual computing.
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Damontre Moore helped recruit Polo Manukainiu to Texas A&M and remembered the day the two met.
Manukainiu was still in high school, even then a fearsome figure at 6-foot-5 and some 275 pounds. Beneath that mammoth frame, though, was a young man with sweet and caring personality, a huge smile and kind words for everyone fortunate enough to know him.
"He was this huge kid," Moore told The Associated Press in a phone interview from New York Giants training camp. "I'd been in college already for like two years and he was this huge monster who had at least two inches over me and he was so intimidating. And when he talked he was the kindest person in the world. He was like the gentle giant."
Texas A&M said Tuesday that Manukainiu, a 19-year-old redshirt freshman for the Aggies, was among three people killed in a single-car rollover crash in the high desert of northern New Mexico, stunning both schools just days before fall practices begin. Also killed where 18-year-old Utah recruit Gaius "Keio" Vaenuku and 13-year-old Andrew "Lolo" Uhatafe.
The wreck happened Monday evening on U.S. 550 near Cuba, N.M., about 85 miles north of Albuquerque, as the group of five was returning from Salt Lake City to suburban Dallas, where three of them had ties to prep football power Trinity High School in Euless.
The southbound 2002 Toyota Sequoia drifted off the sagebrush-lined highway, New Mexico State Police spokesman Emmanuel T. Gutierrez said. The driver, 18-year-old Siaosi Salesi Uhatafe Jr. of Euless, over-corrected, causing the vehicle to lose control and roll several times. Alcohol wasn't involved and it appeared the driver was the only one wearing a seatbelt, investigators said.
Manukainiu and Andrew Uhatafe died at the scene after they were ejected from the vehicle, Gutierrez said. Vaenuku was pronounced dead in an ambulance that responded to the accident.
The driver and his father, Salesi Uhatafe, were taken to the San Juan Medical Center in Farmington, N.M., and suffered only minor injuries, authorities said. Siaosi Uhatafe was a stepbrother of Manukainiu and, like Vaenuku, also is a Utah recruit.
Manukainiu had apparently traveled to Salt Lake City for some relaxation, tweeting Sunday: "It's always good to get away from the Texas Heat for the weekend. Utah got that breezeeeeeee."
On Monday, hours before the accident, he tweeted: "22 hour drive back to Texas on no sleep. Oh my."
Manukainiu played football at Trinity High and was part of the Aggies' 2012 signing class. He was a recreation, parks and tourism science major, the school said, and is survived by his mother, Lima Uhatafe of Euless.
"We lost a terrific young man," Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin said. "Polo was loved by his teammates and coaches. Anyone who came in contact with him was struck by his sense of humor and smile. My heart aches for his mom and family members."
He was very close to his family, even bringing them on his recruiting trip to College Station and constantly checking on them while on his official visit. He was proud to be an Aggie, and Moore said he never complained when he was redshirted last season and toiled through months on the scout team.
"He put the team before himself," Moore said. "He was just overall, a good, gentle and loyal person. He was more than a teammate. He was like a brother to everybody. Everybody just loved being around him."
Texas A&M finished last season ranked No. 5 after an 11-2 season, their first in the Southeastern Conference. They were led by quarterback Johnny Manziel, who became the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy, and are expected to be highly ranked again this year.
"Heart hurts waking up to news about Polo," Manziel tweeted on Tuesday. "I think I speak for everyone on our team when I say we love you brother you will be missed."
It is the second such tragedy for Texas A&M in less than two years: Senior offensive lineman Joseph Villavisencio, 22, was killed in a December 2011 car accident after veering head-on into the path of an 18-wheeler 40 miles from College Station. He had spent part of that day delivering gifts to families at a local shelter. Manziel mentioned Villavisencio during his Heisman acceptance speech last year.
"It's mind-boggling that this has happened to this team twice in such a short time," Moore said. "It's such a crucial time with all the expectations for the season and I hope this will bring the team closer together and make them cherish everybody around them and just realize that they've got to live every day like it's their last."
Vaenuku was a defensive tackle who had planned to play one year at Utah before going on a two-year Mormon mission.
"Everyone who knew Gaius is heartbroken today," Utah coach Kyle Whittingham said. "He was the kind of young man who lit up a room and his future in football and life had no boundaries. Words cannot express our devastation over the loss of Gaius."
Vaenuku was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and considered playing at church-owned Brigham Young but he said he felt more at home in Salt Lake City playing for the Utes. His mother, Cela Vaenuku, said the last time she spoke to him was on Sunday ? a brief conversation on how he had spent his day.
"He was a wonderful son," she said. "He was very social, very outgoing young man and a people person who always made people laugh."
She said he was the third oldest among seven brothers and sisters, and "they took it very hard" when they heard the news of his death. She said her son had planned to be dormitory roommates with Siaosi Uhatafe, the driver.
The news stunned Trinity High in Euless, where Manukainiu, Vaenuku and Siaosi Uhatafe all played football. The team has been one of the best in Texas in recent years, with three state titles in a span of five seasons from 2005-09 and a trip to the championship game in 2010.
Principal Mike Harris said the deaths have affected a majority of the Euless community, where there is a tight-knit Polynesian community.
"They were students with bright smiles that everybody knew and everybody loved," the principal said.
Texas A&M associate athletic director Alan Cannon said Manukainiu was known for his sense of humor and "will be sorely missed as a person you enjoyed being around." He said the football staff was working Tuesday to notify teammates of his death. Players are scheduled to report to campus Sunday to begin practicing for the upcoming season.
Cannon said Manukainiu was to wear jersey No. 90 and that it was too early to determine if players will affix the number to their uniforms as a tribute. The NCAA must approve any such recognition, Cannon said.
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Associated Press writers Brady McCombs in Salt Lake City and David Warren and Uriel Garcia in Dallas contributed to this report.
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Amazon has just announced that it will add 5,000 jobs at 17 fulfillment centers across the US, along with 2,000 customer service positions. The news comes just ahead of a visit tomorrow by President Obama to the retail giant's Chattanooga, Tennessee fulfillment center, where he's set to outline new job-creation policies. Amazon says such jobs typically pay 30 percent more than in retail stores, and all are full-time and include retirement, health care and stock benefits. The company has tripled its workforce over the past three years, and currently employs over 20,000 employees in its US warehouses, and 97,000 worldwide -- neck and neck with Microsoft. Such expansion resulted in a small loss $7 million last quarter, despite growing sales, but Amazon evidently plans to carry on regardless.
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MANILA, Philippines ? A Philippine marine ordnance expert was killed and two others were wounded when one of several bombs they were trying to defuse around a house exploded on restive Jolo island in the country's south, a military commander said Sunday.
An ordnance team was deployed Saturday to a house of a village leader in the town of Panglima Estino on Jolo in Sulu province where residents reported finding more than 10 bombs made from ammonium nitrate around the residence. The marines had defused one bomb and were working on a second one, which suddenly exploded, marine Col. Jose Cenabre said.
The bombs may have been placed around the house like booby-traps due to a clan war involving the village leader, Cenabre said, adding that Abu Sayyaf extremists, who are active in Sulu, apparently were not involved.
Due to the explosion, Cenabre said he withdrew the marines and deployed an air force ordnance team, which defused two more bombs on Sunday. The new team, however, kept finding more bombs in the vicinity of the house, which had been cleared of its occupants, prompting the military to seek help from police, he said.
Such violent clan conflicts, known as "rido," have long complicated security worries in the southern Philippines, which is already mired in decades-long Muslim rebellions.
The explosion was one of two deadly blasts in the south over the weekend. A homemade bomb went off in one of a row of upscale bars and restaurants in Cagayan de Oro city late Friday, killing six people and wounding more than 40 others, police said.
Among the dead were a provincial government official and a doctor who was unwinding in the crowded nightspot near a shopping mall after attending a medical convention, said Interior Secretary Mar Roxas.
Investigators have not determined if that attack was staged by terrorist groups or was sparked by rivalries among politicians or other groups. Roxas, who flew to the site of the blast, said Sunday that he was dismayed to find out that the scene of the explosion was immediately cleaned the next day after investigators scoured the area overnight.
"There were some lapses here," Roxas said. "People did not only sweep the place. They scrubbed it."
"I don't know of any instance in the whole world where the blast site is released less than 12 hours after," he said.
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(Newser) ? Apple is again feeling the heat for the conditions at its Chinese factories, but this time it's Pegatron that may be to blame. A US-based advocacy group claims the supplier's plants, which are taking on more and more Apple production, have "benefited from and relied upon labor violations to increase their competitive edge," CNN reports. China Labor Watch lays out the violations, ranging from pollution to unpaid overtime, in a new report compiled after undercover investigators spoke with almost 200 workers from three factories between March and July.
Workers also complained of tight living quarters, packed cafeterias, workweeks over 60 hours, and recruitment firms illegally taking portions of their wages, the group said, per Reuters and the Wall Street Journal. Though Apple has looked into the plants?even made surprise audits within the last 18 months?a rep says the claims "are new to us and we will investigate them immediately." If the audits find any wrongdoing, "we will require that Pegatron reimburse (workers) in full," says the rep.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) ? Second-half substitute Antoine Hoppenot scored in the 85th minute to give the?Philadelphia?Union a 1-0 victory over a Vancouver Whitecaps side that played with 10 men most of Saturday night.
Philadelphia?(9-6-7) remained unbeaten in three games, while the Whitecaps (9-7-5) lost their second straight game.
Hoppenot scored off a?Philadelphia?counterattack moments after Union goalkeeper Zac MacMath had robbed Whitecaps striker Camilo at the other end.
The Whitecaps were a man down from the 8th minute, when midfielder Jun Marques Davidson received a red card for head-butting Keon Daniel in the back. The incident resulted after Keon kicked the ball while Davidson was on top of it after a whistle.
Daniel received a yellow card for the infraction and had turned to walk away following a confrontation with Davidson when the Whitecaps player struck him.
Davidson, Whitecaps players and coach Martin Rennie protested the ejection to no avail. Following the incident, Daniel was booed every time he touched the ball before subbing out in the second half.
Despite being short-handed, the Whitecaps had several scoring chances. In the 15th minute, midfielder Russell Teibert lobbed Kenny Miller?s pass over?Philadelphia?goalkeeper Zac MacMath ? and the net.
In the 27th minute, Vancouver?s Young-Pyo Lee shot over the net after taking a pass from Russell Teibert. Seven minutes later, Whitecaps striker Kenny Miller sent a header wide of the net.
Vancouver also had scoring chances in the second half but MacMath turned them away.
The Whitecaps were fortunate not to lose goalie Brad Knighton after he and?Philadelphia?captain Jack McInerney knocked heads in the 24th minute. Knighton lay face-down on the ground for a few moments, kicking the grass in pain and was tended by trainers, but stayed in the game.
McInerney received a yellow card for his involvement.
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After the barrage of disastrous injuries on Saturday, Sunday's NFL news is a bit more positive.
The New York Giants have leaned on their pass rush in recent years, but one of the team's most important defensive linemen may not be ready for Week 1. Jason Pierre-Paul underwent back surgery this summer, adding Saturday that he's not ready to discuss whether he will be on the field for the Giants' first game of the season.
Pierre-Paul has been dealing with back pain since 2011, and told SB Nation's Giants blog, Big Blue View, that it was getting to be too much before the procedure.
"The back is a really, really horrible pain to have, and back surgery period. And you don't want to rush back. I'm not concentrated on the first game, second game, third game, fourth game, fifth game, sixth game, I'm just trying to come back when I feel like I'm ready to come back."
Mikel Leshoure worked as the Lions' No. 2 running back on Sunday, according to Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press. For most of the spring and early part of training camp, Joique Bell had been filling that role. Reggie Bush should see a healthy workload, but Leshoure and Bell will battle it out to be the secondary back.
Reggie Wayne and Darrius Heyward-Bey started as the Colts' wide receivers in their base package, according to Mike Chappele. T.Y. Hilton is presumed to be the third wide receiver and will likely work out of the slot. Stampede Blue, SB Nation's Colts blog, broke down the team's wide receiver competition heading into training camp.
While I do expect Hilton to improve, the fans expecting him to light up the stat sheet every week are probably going to be disappointed. Hilton left a lot of plays on the field last season in between all of the deep passes he managed to reel in. Even though I love his YAC ability, he's going to be limited to routes closer to the line of scrimmage, which should decrease his yards per catch and receiving yards at the end of the season.
But even if Hilton is the No. 3 receiver in title, he should be on the field often and serve as one of the team's best weapons on offense. Just don't fret over his stats too much.
Denard Robinson wasn't quite as effective at Jaguars training camp on Sunday, according to John Oesher of Jaguars.com. While he ran for a touchdown during team drills, he had a few drops at wide receiver and lost a fumble when running a play from the wildcat. He's going to get a chance to make an impact on offense, but it's unclear at this point how the Jaguars will get him involved. Quarterback Blaine Gabbert did improve on Sunday, though, which is a positive the team can take away from practice.
In other Jaguars news, Marcedes Lewis feels as focused as he has been in years, with a custody dispute behind him and a new culture in the Jaguars facility. He hasn't quite lived up to his contract in recent years, but Lewis feels mentally ready for a big season in Jacksonville.
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? Ravens? Pitta out for the year after fracturing hip
? Report: No failed drug test behind Von Miller suspension
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Derrick Mosley walked into Discount Gun Sales, smashed one of the glass cases with a bat and helped himself to an unloaded handgun. The store owner, who was ? not too surprisingly ? packing his own loaded pistol, very calmly like trained his sights on Mosley and demanded that he drop the gun, the baseball bat and a knife he was carrying. Mosley complied and was held at gunpoint until deputies arrived a short time later and arrested him without further incidence.
Mosley was charged first-degree robbery, first-degree theft, unlawful possession of a firearm and second-degree criminal mischief.
No one was injured during the robbery attempt, but there are unconfirmed reports that the store owner was seen shaking his head in disbelief at some point during the ordeal.?
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The U.S. national debt would reach 1.1 million miles into space if stacked in one dollar bills.
According to the latest available data from the U.S. Treasury, the total public debt outstanding is $16,738,105,803,858.21.
A dollar bill is .0043 inches in thickness.
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Royal baby: Kate Middleton has gone into labor. Twitter is abuzz.
A news cameraman reads a newspaper across from St. Mary's Hospital's exclusive Lindo Wing in London, Monday, July 22. Buckingham Palace officials say Prince William's wife, Kate, has been admitted to the hospital in the early stages of labor.
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EnlargeAfter weeks of anticipation, the Duchess of Cambridge has gone into labor with Britain?s future monarch, pushing a long summer of frenzy around the royal baby to its zenith. The baby will be the queen?s third great-grandchild and the third in line for the British throne.
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Embattled journalists, weary from weeks of camping outside of St. Mary?s Hospital in London ? where Kate Middleton is now in the early stages of labor ? have sprung to attention today for the long-awaited birth. And according to Agence France-Presse, they?ve been joined by mobs of enthusiastic royalists, some of whom have traveled from other parts of the Commonwealth to witness the birth.
"We've been getting updates every morning on Canadian TV and it's great to see that it's a worldwide affair, that everyone's curious about what's happening," said David Wyatt from Toronto, who was holidaying in London with his wife and three young daughters.
"We were wondering whether we were going to be here in London when it happened, and it's wonderful. My family were empire loyalists in Canada and my father's from England. We're proud Canadians."
Elsewhere, crowds of hungry spectators and reporters have assembled outside Buckingham Palace to watch for news of the baby, according to the Telegraph. As tradition has it, royal babies? births are announced by a messenger who tacks a piece of paper confirming the baby?s weight, gender, and time of birth onto an easel outside the queen?s official residence.
But the enthusiasm is not limited to London. The Twittersphere is ablaze with talk of the birth, with #RoyalBaby, Kate Middleton, and the queen all trending.
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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Live! From New York! It's a casting crisis for Lorne Michaels!
When Jason Sudeikis announced his departure this week, "Saturday Night Live" was suddenly bereft of any established crossover talent - its longest-tenured surviving castmember is now Kenan Thompson - and in terms of name-recognition, it drops off steeply from there.
But "SNL" has been here before. The upcoming 2013-2014 season will not be the first time the long-running sketch comedy series has been forced to prop up its B-team and go headhunting on the fly.
Sudeikis follows fellow cast members Fred Armisen and Bill Hader out the door - unlike those they left behind, all have established film and TV careers. A year earlier, fan favorites Kristen Wiig and Andy Samberg left for the draw of bigscreen comedy. And head writer and "Weekend Update" anchor Seth Meyers departs in November for Jimmy Fallon's desk.
Jon Lovitz, an "SNL" cast member from 1985 to 1992 - who weathered Lorne Michaels' infamous reboot of '86 - knows the toll a long run on the show can take. He also understands the draw of the Los Angeles movie scene over the sketch comedy one in New York.
"Jason Sudeikis has been on the show for 10 years - at some point you gotta go," Lovitz told TheWrap during an online chat on HuffPost Live. "That's a tough show to do for 10 years."
To give an idea of how key the recent losses are: Only Darrell Hammond has appeared on more episodes of "SNL" than Meyers and Armisen. Sudeikis is 7th on that same list, Hader 9th, Samberg 20th and Wiig 22nd.
Even longtime fans of the show have to ask: Who's even left?
"Saturday Night Live" new senior members are Thompson, Bobby Moynihan, Jay Pharoah, Nasim Pedrad, Taran Killam, Vanessa Bayer and, for now, Meyers. On the JV team (called Featured Players) are Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon, Tim Robinson and Cecily Strong.
Other than Thompson's attempt at a "Fat Albert" movie in 2004, there's hardly a notable screen credit among them.
But to give up on the show now would be foolish: Even Adam Sandler, Will Ferrell and Tina Fey were "SNL" scrubs at one point - and in Killam, Strong, Pedrad and Bayer, "SNL" has a number of young players with high upside.
Michaels has constantly retooled the cast since its initial "Not Ready for Primetime Players" took the stage in Studio 8H. Historically, the unknowns have worked out far better than the household names - remember Robert Downey, Jr., Anthony Michael Hall, and Billy Crystal in the cast? Not many people do.
Lovitz, who joined with fellow newcomers Downey Jr. and Hall, said some people will welcome new cast members with open arms. Others might not.
"It's competitive," Lovitz said. "It's a very strange show."
So clearly, "SNL" is in a rebuilding year. But with whom will it rebuild? The show historically has favored improv and sketch comedians over stand-up comics, though both are options.
But this year, it's not just about filling a headcount -- it's about stocking up with versatile talent that can stand out quickly. Actors from the Upright Citizen's Brigade, Second City and the Groundlings have had great success in the past, and it's likely that Michaels will go back to that well.
The Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater in New York declined comment, citing its relationship with NBC. Phone calls to Second City were not immediately returned. An NBC spokeswoman said that the network does not comment on casting changes.
The "SNL" casting team comes out to scout the Groundlings in Los Angeles a couple times a year, Groundlings Managing Director Heather de Michele told TheWrap. And they've been there recently.
Who they are looking at closely, she wouldn't say. But the Groundlings have recently produced both the aforementioned Killam and Wiig. De Michele, and the rest of the Groundlings, knew those auditions were just a matter of time. What she didn't know is how short that time would be.
Of those already with a seat at the table, Killam seems poised to be the breakout star of "SNL's" 38th season. A promising sign: His "Sloppy Swish" digital short was one of last year's breakout viral hits.
"He's exceptionally good," de Michelle said. "During his first main stage show he was nabbed by 'SNL.' He didn't even get to open his first show as a Groundling."
Wiig's casting happened with nearly the same speed - but that's not always the case. When one goes through the Groundlings school, the top level make it into the Sunday cast. Only after graduating is an actor eligible to be a "Groundling" and perform on Friday and Saturday nights. And there are never more than 30 Groundlings at a time.
One Groundling to watch is Mikey Day, a star of MTV's "Wild'n Out." Jillian Bell of the Main Company wrote for "SNL" in 2010. Jim Cashman has written for the show as well. Tony Cavalero is a founding member of longform improv group "Robert Downey Jr. Jr." - another "SNL" connection. Kind of.
Lovitz believes the show will be fine -- as it has through thick and thin. As will the new cast members. And they shouldn't worry about it anyway. "The audience picks the hit characters, the audience picks the stars," Lovitz said. "That you have no control over."
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The State Bank of India (SBI) is the largest banking and financial services company in country, owned by the government. We've received a handful of reports that the bank has released a Windows Phone app, enabling customers to perform mobile banking while out and about on their Windows Phones. The usual features are present, including balance enquiries, the transfer of funds and paying bills.
Aptly named Freedom, this Windows Phone app is a must-have if you hold an account and desire some degree of control when not at a desktop computer.
To get started with SBI and to use their app, a registration process is available, which includes setting up MPINs and activating through an ATM and a local branch for peace of mind regarding account security - wouldn't want just anyone accessing your account, would we? It's a good looking app and we're sure many will find it useful.
Here's a quick list of features highlighted on the store listing:
You can download State Bank Freedom from the Windows Phone Store. Thanks to?vikrant6 and?Ayush?for the tips!
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Sprint has just begun its BOGO (buy one get one) promotion, with the Samsung Galaxy S III and the Galaxy S4 being the lucky beneficiaries. This is part of Sprint?s Back to School campaign as mentioned on Twitter, and new customers or existing customers eligible for an upgrade can reap benefits of this promotion.
While the Sprint Galaxy S4 costs $199.99 with a 2-year contract, the Galaxy S III costs just $99.99. Sprint is really good with promotions like these and it?s very appealing to the customers as well. To put it simply, with one Galaxy S4 or the Galaxy S III purchased, the buyer gets another one free. Nobody would want to pass on a deal like that. The Sprint Galaxy S III currently has three color variants to choose from with white, purple and black. The Galaxy S4 however is only available in two colors, but a new purple variant is on the cards.
Make sure you read the terms and conditions carefully before placing an order for your favorite Galaxy smartphone.
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About 200 people joined the "March Against Monsanto" in Boulder, Colorado, one of 450 marches in 55 countries on 5/25/13. The worldwide actions were to protest Monsanto's production and use of GMO's, pesticides and herbicides used in farming, and genetically engineered seeds. Image: Flickr/Chris Goodwin
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The World Food Prize laureates for 2013 were announced in June. They are Marc van Montagu, Mary-Dell Chilton and Rob Fraley. These scientists played seminal roles, together with the late Jeff Schell, in developing modern plant molecular modification techniques. Fraley is chief technology officer of Monsanto. Chilton is a Distinguished Science Fellow at Syngenta. Montagu founded Plant Genetic Systems (now part of Bayer CropScience) and CropDesign (today owned by BASF).
Scratch the blogosphere and you?ll be dumbfounded by this award. GMOs (genetically modified organisms) produced by big ag-biotech companies are responsible for farmer suicides in India. Monsanto sues farmers who didn?t plant biotech seeds, but had a bit of pollen blown into their fields. U.S. wheat farmers are facing bankruptcy because GM wheat was discovered growing in Oregon. A quick search on YouTube turns up these top hits: "Seeds of death: unveiling the lies of GMOs," "Horrific new studies in GMOs, you're eating this stuff!!" and "They are killing us?GMO foods."
Humans began genetically modifying plants to provide food more than 10,000 years ago. For the past hundred years or so plant breeders have used radiation and chemicals to speed up the production of genetic changes. This was a genetic shotgun, producing lots of bad changes and a very, very occasional good one. That?s the best we could do until the three laureates (and their colleagues) developed molecular techniques for plant genetic modification. We can now use these methods to make precise improvements by adding just a gene (or two or a few) that codes for proteins whose function we know with precision. Yet plants modified by these techniques, the best and safest we?ve ever invented, are the only ones we now call GM. Almost everyone believes we?ve never fiddled with plant genes before, as if beefsteak tomatoes, elephant garlic and corn were somehow products of unfettered nature.
The anti-GM storm gathered in the mid-80s and swept around the world. Most early alarms about new technologies fade away as research accumulates without turning up evidence of deleterious effects. This should be happening now because scientists have amassed more than three decades of research on GM biosafety, none of which has surfaced credible evidence that modifying plants by molecular techniques is dangerous. Instead, the anti-GM storm has intensified. Scientists have done their best to explain things, but they?re rather staid folk for the most part, constitutionally addicted to facts and figures and not terribly good at crafting emotionally gripping narratives. This puts them at a disadvantage. One scare story based on a bogus study suggesting a bad effect of eating GMOs readily trumps myriad studies that show that GM foods are just like non-GM foods.
What are the facts? Monsanto and the other big ag-biotech companies have developed reliable, biologically insect-resistant and herbicide-tolerant commodity crops that benefit people, farmers and the environment, and are nutritionally identical to their non-GM counterparts.
GM insect-resistant crops contain a gene that codes for a bacterial protein that?s toxic to an insect pest, but not animals or people. Insecticides are toxic chemicals that kill insects indiscriminately, both harmful and beneficial. They?re also poisonous to other animals?people included. Insect-resistant crops have reduced insecticide use. Biological solutions for insect pest problems were Rachel Carson?s dream.
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[A] harrowing but flawed study of an innocent man accused of pedophilia.
It leaves us not only with an unforgettable final image, but also the troubling thought that witch hunts, like war, will always be with us - all the more so in the modern era of instant communication.
It is a devastating film to watch, a heedful one, and a tragic reminder that no matter how well a life has been conducted, the mere whiff of such scandalous behavior is condemnation enough.
[A] quietly devastating drama about a soft-spoken, bespectacled and devoted kindergarten teacher whose life is upended by a false accusation from one of his students.
This is filmmaking of a high order, even though the production's scale is modest and the climax is not without its facile contrivances.
Unsettling, forthright and thought-provoking, The Hunt is also brilliantly titled.
Although the scenario is exaggerated for dramatic effect and it stumbles somewhat in the final act, the unsettling film is a provocative and timely examination of persecution and the perils of public perception.
An uncommonly thoughtful, and thought-provoking, entry in the social-issue drama subgenre, anchored by Mikkelsen's gripping performance.
A subtle piece of moral drama crowned by a truly beautiful performance from Mikkelsen, The Hunt puts every one of us in the crosshairs.
Child molestation is indeed horrific. Sometimes, the response to same can be equally disconcerting. The Hunt argues that all too well.
Mads Mikkelsen displays remarkable range as a subdued kindergarten teacher confronting sex-abuse charges in a small Danish town.
Mikkelsen and a terrific ensemble navigate complex emotions and moral quandaries in a terrain where a satisfying resolution is as hard to come by as a child who never tells a lie.
...incredible acting by Mikkelsson, (but) what is unforgettable is the acting of the young girl who makes the allegation, Annika Wedderkopp. It's remarkable that someone so young could give such a performance.
The characters... are not symbolic. They're real people, leading imperfect lives... but we can relate to their feelings, and their actions at every turn of this searing drama.
Vinterberg's best filmmaking since his Dogme '95 entry "The Celebration."
Mikkelsen, one of his country's finest actors, in collaboration with Thomas Vinterberg, one of its finest directors, delivers what may be his strongest performance yet.
A nuanced portrait of a fundamentally decent man grappling with a world that has decided to treat him indecently.
The innocent man wrongly accused is something that everyone can identify with - what if it happened to me?
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BROOKLYN, N.Y.Just months after setting a record for detecting the smallest single virus in solution, researchers at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) have announced a new breakthrough: They used a nano-enhanced version of their patented microcavity biosensor to detect a single cancer marker protein, which is one-sixth the size of the smallest virus, and even smaller molecules below the mass of all known markers. This achievement shatters the previous record, setting a new benchmark for the most sensitive limit of detection, and may significantly advance early disease diagnostics. Unlike current technology, which attaches a fluorescent molecule, or label, to the antigen to allow it to be seen, the new process detects the antigen without an interfering label.
Stephen Arnold, university professor of applied physics and member of the Othmer-Jacobs Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, published details of the achievement in Nano Letters, a publication of the American Chemical Society.
In 2012, Arnold and his team were able to detect in solution the smallest known RNA virus, MS2, with a mass of 6 attograms. Now, with experimental work by postdoctoral fellow Venkata Dantham and former student David Keng, two proteins have been detected: a human cancer marker protein called Thyroglobulin, with a mass of just 1 attogram, and the bovine form of a common plasma protein, serum albumin, with a far smaller mass of 0.11 attogram. "An attogram is a millionth of a millionth of a millionth of a gram," said Arnold, "and we believe that our new limit of detection may be smaller than 0.01 attogram."
This latest milestone builds on a technique pioneered by Arnold and collaborators from NYU-Poly and Fordham University. In 2012, the researchers set the first sizing record by treating a novel biosensor with plasmonic gold nano-receptors, enhancing the electric field of the sensor and allowing even the smallest shifts in resonant frequency to be detected. Their plan was to design a medical diagnostic device capable of identifying a single virus particle in a point-of-care setting, without the use of special assay preparations.
At the time, the notion of detecting a single proteinphenomenally smaller than a viruswas set forth as the ultimate goal.
"Proteins run the body," explained Arnold. "When the immune system encounters virus, it pumps out huge quantities of antibody proteins, and all cancers generate protein markers. A test capable of detecting a single protein would be the most sensitive diagnostic test imaginable."
To the surprise of the researchers, examination of their nanoreceptor under a transmission electron microscope revealed that its gold shell surface was covered with random bumps roughly the size of a protein. Computer mapping and simulations created by Stephen Holler, once Arnold's student and now assistant professor of physics at Fordham University, showed that these irregularities generate their own highly reactive local sensitivity field extending out several nanometers, amplifying the capabilities of the sensor far beyond original predictions. "A virus is far too large to be aided in detection by this field," Arnold said. "Proteins are just a few nanometers acrossexactly the right size to register in this space."
The implications of single protein detection are significant and may lay the foundation for improved medical therapeutics. Among other advances, Arnold and his colleagues posit that the ability to follow a signal in real timeto actually witness the detection of a single disease marker protein and track its movementmay yield new understanding of how proteins attach to antibodies.
Arnold named the novel method of label-free detection "whispering gallery-mode biosensing" because light waves in the system reminded him of the way that voices bounce around the whispering gallery under the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral in London. A laser sends light through a glass fiber to a detector. When a microsphere is placed against the fiber, certain wavelengths of light detour into the sphere and bounce around inside, creating a dip in the light that the detector receives. When a molecule like a cancer marker clings to a gold nanoshell attached to the microsphere, the microsphere's resonant frequency shifts by a measureable amount.
###
The research has been supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). This summer, Arnold will begin the next stage of expanding the capacity for these biosensors. The NSF has awarded a new $200,000 grant to him in collaboration with University of Michigan professor Xudong Fan. The grant will support the construction of a multiplexed array of plasmonically enhanced resonators, which should allow a variety of protein to be identified in blood serum within minutes.
The publication in Nano Letters marks the 100th journal-paper published since the 1978 founding of NYU-Poly's Microparticle Photophysics Laboratory for BioPhotonics, directed by Arnold.
The Polytechnic Institute of New York University (formerly the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and the Polytechnic University, now widely known as NYU-Poly) is an affiliated institute of New York University, soon to be its School of Engineering. NYU-Poly, founded in 1854, is the nation's second-oldest private engineering school. It is presently a comprehensive school of education and research in engineering and applied sciences, rooted in a 159-year tradition of invention, innovation and entrepreneurship. It remains on the cutting edge of technology, innovatively extending the benefits of science, engineering, management and liberal studies to critical real-world opportunities and challenges, especially those linked to urban systems, health and wellness, and the global information economy. In addition to its programs on the main campus in New York City at MetroTech Center in downtown Brooklyn, it offers programs around the globe remotely through NYUe-Poly. NYU-Poly is closely connected to engineering in NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU Shanghai and to the NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) also at MetroTech, while operating two incubators in downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn. For more information, visit http://www.poly.edu.
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Public release date: 24-Jul-2013 Share ] Contact: Kathleen Hamilton
hamilton@poly.edu
718-260-3792
Polytechnic Institute of New York University
BROOKLYN, N.Y.Just months after setting a record for detecting the smallest single virus in solution, researchers at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) have announced a new breakthrough: They used a nano-enhanced version of their patented microcavity biosensor to detect a single cancer marker protein, which is one-sixth the size of the smallest virus, and even smaller molecules below the mass of all known markers. This achievement shatters the previous record, setting a new benchmark for the most sensitive limit of detection, and may significantly advance early disease diagnostics. Unlike current technology, which attaches a fluorescent molecule, or label, to the antigen to allow it to be seen, the new process detects the antigen without an interfering label.
Stephen Arnold, university professor of applied physics and member of the Othmer-Jacobs Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, published details of the achievement in Nano Letters, a publication of the American Chemical Society.
In 2012, Arnold and his team were able to detect in solution the smallest known RNA virus, MS2, with a mass of 6 attograms. Now, with experimental work by postdoctoral fellow Venkata Dantham and former student David Keng, two proteins have been detected: a human cancer marker protein called Thyroglobulin, with a mass of just 1 attogram, and the bovine form of a common plasma protein, serum albumin, with a far smaller mass of 0.11 attogram. "An attogram is a millionth of a millionth of a millionth of a gram," said Arnold, "and we believe that our new limit of detection may be smaller than 0.01 attogram."
This latest milestone builds on a technique pioneered by Arnold and collaborators from NYU-Poly and Fordham University. In 2012, the researchers set the first sizing record by treating a novel biosensor with plasmonic gold nano-receptors, enhancing the electric field of the sensor and allowing even the smallest shifts in resonant frequency to be detected. Their plan was to design a medical diagnostic device capable of identifying a single virus particle in a point-of-care setting, without the use of special assay preparations.
At the time, the notion of detecting a single proteinphenomenally smaller than a viruswas set forth as the ultimate goal.
"Proteins run the body," explained Arnold. "When the immune system encounters virus, it pumps out huge quantities of antibody proteins, and all cancers generate protein markers. A test capable of detecting a single protein would be the most sensitive diagnostic test imaginable."
To the surprise of the researchers, examination of their nanoreceptor under a transmission electron microscope revealed that its gold shell surface was covered with random bumps roughly the size of a protein. Computer mapping and simulations created by Stephen Holler, once Arnold's student and now assistant professor of physics at Fordham University, showed that these irregularities generate their own highly reactive local sensitivity field extending out several nanometers, amplifying the capabilities of the sensor far beyond original predictions. "A virus is far too large to be aided in detection by this field," Arnold said. "Proteins are just a few nanometers acrossexactly the right size to register in this space."
The implications of single protein detection are significant and may lay the foundation for improved medical therapeutics. Among other advances, Arnold and his colleagues posit that the ability to follow a signal in real timeto actually witness the detection of a single disease marker protein and track its movementmay yield new understanding of how proteins attach to antibodies.
Arnold named the novel method of label-free detection "whispering gallery-mode biosensing" because light waves in the system reminded him of the way that voices bounce around the whispering gallery under the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral in London. A laser sends light through a glass fiber to a detector. When a microsphere is placed against the fiber, certain wavelengths of light detour into the sphere and bounce around inside, creating a dip in the light that the detector receives. When a molecule like a cancer marker clings to a gold nanoshell attached to the microsphere, the microsphere's resonant frequency shifts by a measureable amount.
###
The research has been supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). This summer, Arnold will begin the next stage of expanding the capacity for these biosensors. The NSF has awarded a new $200,000 grant to him in collaboration with University of Michigan professor Xudong Fan. The grant will support the construction of a multiplexed array of plasmonically enhanced resonators, which should allow a variety of protein to be identified in blood serum within minutes.
The publication in Nano Letters marks the 100th journal-paper published since the 1978 founding of NYU-Poly's Microparticle Photophysics Laboratory for BioPhotonics, directed by Arnold.
The Polytechnic Institute of New York University (formerly the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and the Polytechnic University, now widely known as NYU-Poly) is an affiliated institute of New York University, soon to be its School of Engineering. NYU-Poly, founded in 1854, is the nation's second-oldest private engineering school. It is presently a comprehensive school of education and research in engineering and applied sciences, rooted in a 159-year tradition of invention, innovation and entrepreneurship. It remains on the cutting edge of technology, innovatively extending the benefits of science, engineering, management and liberal studies to critical real-world opportunities and challenges, especially those linked to urban systems, health and wellness, and the global information economy. In addition to its programs on the main campus in New York City at MetroTech Center in downtown Brooklyn, it offers programs around the globe remotely through NYUe-Poly. NYU-Poly is closely connected to engineering in NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU Shanghai and to the NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) also at MetroTech, while operating two incubators in downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn. For more information, visit http://www.poly.edu.
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10 Hidden Benefits of Windows 8.1
(click image for larger view) On Thursday, Microsoft announced earnings that missed Wall Street estimates by the largest margin in a decade. Windows 8 and Microsoft's Surface tablet headlined the disappointing earnings, which prompted CFO Amy Hood to remark, "We have to do better."Indeed, Microsoft needs to do better and customers need to see the evidence sooner than later.
Hood said the process will take time, but with Windows 8, the company might not be in position to be patient. If the company's recently announced restructuring doesn't start paying off within the next several months, the obstacles standing between CEO Steve Ballmer and his "one Microsoft" vision will only grow taller, and in some cases, become insurmountable.
Ballmer wants Microsoft to be more collaborative, and to produce products that enhance one another. This kind of cross-divisional cooperation is something with which the company has so far had mixed success.
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Azure and Office 365 have reinforced one another, for instance, but Microsoft has struggled to use Office to promote Windows 8. The company has declined to release Office for the iPad in an attempt to make Windows 8 and Windows RT tablets more attractive, but so far, only niche users have embraced the Modern UI. Apple, meanwhile, continues to sell millions of iPads.
In a Friday blog post, Forrest analyst J.P. Gownder noted that if only 10% of iPad users are willing to pay $100 for Office, Microsoft would book $1.4 billion in revenue, more than enough to wipe away the massive Surface write-down that the company reported on Thursday. As the unsold Surface inventory attests, Microsoft seems to have overestimated consumer demand for tablets that run Office.
Perhaps once Windows 8.1 hits, that demand will solidify, but in the meantime, Microsoft's strategy is not working.
Microsoft is committed to the Modern UI as the core of its future, so it's not surprising the company is willing to take short-term losses in the pursuit of long-term gains. But there's always a tipping point. Microsoft isn't there yet, but if Windows 8 doesn't start performing, especially with consumers, Ballmer will be forced to compromise his plan.
Microsoft is not on the brink of disaster. The company continues to own the enterprise market, and several of its fledgling projects should prolong that dominance for years to come. The reorg could potentially help these newer projects along.
Bing has lost billions, for instance, but its potential as a development platform is fascinating and far-reaching. Ballmer talks about Windows apps that understand a user's context and needs, and with Bing's intelligence and Internet-spanning reach riding along Azure's backbone, developers might be able to create this vision.
Though this sounds great, certain portions of the market, namely consumers, aren't going to wait around for Microsoft's next-gen apps to materialize. If Microsoft finally has a compelling mass market product by the fall, that will be one thing. But if the company is 12 or 18 months away from being truly competitive, that's another story. Microsoft is already playing from behind, and at some point, the deficit will become almost impossible to surmount, barring a genuinely disruptive new product or a major misstep from Apple or Google.
Following Thursday's earnings report, Microsoft value shed $32 billion. The 11% decline represents the biggest single-day sell-off of Microsoft stock in more than a decade. Steve Ballmer is accustomed to stockholders treating him like a punching bag, of course. But what if Windows 8 is still in disarray after the holiday season? What if businesses that use Windows XP users don't accelerate their migrations? What if most of these businesses stick with Windows 7, leaving Microsoft without a strong presence in the enterprise tablet market?
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