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-- Travel Channel Delivers Double Digit Year-Over-Year Growth in Demo for Both its Primetime Ratings and Audience Delivery for Six Consecutive Months --
The Travel Channel enters the 2009-2010 Upfront Season with seven consecutive years of record audience delivery. In addition, the network has experienced 13 consecutive months of growth in total day delivery (nine of them in double-digits), and six consecutive months of double digit growth in primetime ratings.
"Riding the wave of increased ratings, excitement over our new series and our Catch It! brand platform, as well as the growing buzz among consumers around our hugely popular social media applications, the Travel Channel enters this Upfront season with unprecedented momentum," said Patrick Younge, president and general manager, Travel Channel. "With our entertaining and engaging travel content leading the charge, we've successfully increased our upscale audience delivery 40% year-on-year with adults 25-54 and 18-49, while moving our median age to 45, down five years in the past 12 months alone. Our reach, frequency and duration of viewing is up over 10% in prime among persons 25-54, illustrating that our investment in establishing consistent program offerings across the week and building on the strength of our brand is paying off with consumers. Further, that strength opens a wealth of turn key opportunities for our partners and their brands both onscreen and across our growing list of distribution platforms."
In October 2009, the new travelchannel.com will re-launch offering even more opportunities for partnering through rich media applications and popular fan sites. Travel Channel's library of short form travel video is unmatched, and Travel Channel Studios can create customized solutions for our diverse array of advertising partners. Travel Channel GO!, the network's mobile platform, offers text, audio and video, and location-based applications to millions of consumers through partners including Blackberry, Nokia and Apple. Additionally, Travel Channel has found success in the social media space on Facebook, with its Kidnap! application ranked as a Top 10 Facebook application � engaging over 3 million monthly users. This year will also see several new Travel Channel branded products and services launched with a variety of licensing partners. Travel Channel now offers comprehensive integration, co-branding, and promotional opportunities across every platform and consumer touch point.
SAMANTHA BROWN'S ASIA launches in December of 2009, with eight episodes uncovering the history and the majesty of this enchanting region. As she has done over the past 10 years on the Travel Channel, Samantha uses her charming personality and ability to make the excitement of travel accessible for everyone, leading viewers on a multi-country excursion across Asia.
WORLDWIDE TRIBE will give viewers an unmasked look into the world of tattooing through the eyes of renowned tattoo artists Chris Nu�ez, Ami James, and "the apprentice," Yoji Harada. Guided by their vast experience and history in tattoo culture, Chris, Ami and Yoji will travel the world to explore the art, the culture, and the mystique surrounding this centuries old practice. From getting tattooed by monks in Thailand to being inked by gangsters in East Los Angeles, Chris, Ami and Yoji will bring viewers to the artistic hotbed of global tattoo culture and life, as never seen before.
Based on a wildly successful format that has been sold internationally in over a dozen territories, AMERICA'S WORST DRIVER is a competition-based elimination series set out to determine what city really boasts America's worst driver. Each week, five bad drivers from a particular city will compete in a series of driving challenges designed to ferret out that city's �worst driver'. The �winner's' from ten of America's most iconic driving cities will come to Los Angeles for a two hour finale. Nine of them will eventually �graduate' out of the finale until ultimately America's Worst Driver is crowned.
The 4th Quarter of 2009 marks the return of MAN v. FOOD, with Season two delivering a second helping of humor and hunger from host Adam Richman. MAN v. FOOD achieved record ratings in its premiere run, and Season two promises more of Adam following his gastronomical compass to the best spots to taste America's most iconic dishes and outlandish food challenges.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN: NO RESERVATIONS returns for Season six with Tony continuing his culinary explorations and doing what he does best � delivering authentic experiences and off-the-beaten path locations from around the globe. Through his unmatched honesty, genuine passion for new experiences and keen wit, Tony has earned the adoration of legions of viewers and travelers alike.
Andrew Zimmern continues his adventures in the next season of BIZARRE WORLDS. Exploring locations and its people through it cultural and historical traditions, focusing on those that most would consider unusual or downright strange. As with anything Zimmern � bizarre is better.
Travel Channel's most recognizable host, Samantha Brown, returns with her popular GREAT WEEKENDS series. Travel research continues to show that more and more Americans are looking for shorter excursions closer to home, and GREAT WEEKENDS follows Samantha as she uncovers popular as well as some undiscovered locations that serve as the perfect locale for the 48-hour getaway.
DHANI TACKLES THE GLOBE returns with NFL linebacker and �Renaissance Man' Dhani Jones, and his ongoing quest to understand how sports represent global cultures. Dhani travels the world to experience the thrills and challenges that each game presents � all the while engaging with the local scene that celebrates each contest.
BRIDGET'S SEXIEST BEACHES returns to explore more of the world's most exotic beaches, with Bridget Marquardt traversing the globe in search of fun and adventure. Each episode features a tantalizing destination, focusing on indigenous cuisine, local fashions, and of course the best places to party the night away.
In recognition of her ten years on the Travel Channel, the network is planning a spectacular week-long cross platform celebration featuring all things Samantha, including special programming, mobile and online extensions. The week will offer encore performances of some of Samantha's best programs from a variety of her series, as well as special vignettes featuring her comments and reactions to past programs. From her first demo tape, to her upcoming series on Asia, SAMANTHA BROWN WEEK promises to be a fun-filled journey down memory lane, highlighting the many cultures she's experienced; the hundreds of places she's visited; some interaction with the many viewers who love to travel with her via television each week; and a comical look into the many changes in her fashion and hairstyles over the years.
Travel Channel's Friday night paranormal hit GHOST ADVENTURES will be taking their lockdown to another dimension, with a ten-hour LIVE event from one of America's most terrifying places in October 2009. The first seven hours of the investigation conducted by Zak Bagans, Nick Groff and equipment tech Aaron Goodwin will be broadcast on Travel Channel in High Definition, and the final three hours will be an exclusive webcast on Travelchannel.com. The live event will be fully interactive � featuring locked off cameras streaming directly to the web, text messaging, and other innovative features throughout the night.
About Travel Channel Media:
Travel Channel Media is an integrated travel media business, and is wholly owned by Cox Communications, Inc., a leading multi-service broadband communications and entertainment company. Travel Channel Media includes: the Travel Channel television network, available in 94 million U.S. cable homes; Travel Channel HD�, the network's high-definition simulcast; travelchannel.com, the network's broadband travel hub; Travel Channel's video-on-demand (VOD) and HD VOD offerings; its mobile content platform, Travel Channel GO�; World Hum (worldhum.com), a leading online travel blog; and FlightDeck�, an innovative content-sharing and advertising network for online publishers and advertisers.


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The Internal Revenue Service plans to appeal a federal district court judge's surprise ruling last Friday that it lacks authority from Congress to regulate tax preparers and has asked that judge to suspend his injunction blocking the regulations while it pursues an appeal. In a motion filed yesterday with Washington D.C. Federal District Court Judge James E. Boasberg, the IRS argued that it has a "reasonable likelihood" of winning its appeal and that the public will suffer "irreparable harm" if his injunction isn't suspended. With the tax filing season due to begin on Jan. 30th, the filing said, the injunction will cause a "substantial disruption to tax administration" and "massive confusion" for both tax preparers and the public.
On Tuesday, to comply with Boasberg's ruling, the IRS posted a notice on its web site saying paid tax preparers are not "currently required" to register . But yesterday's filing makes clear that the IRS will pursue every option to avoid putting its regulatory scheme on hold. If Boasberg doesn't want to suspend his own injunction for the duration of the appeal, the IRS asked that he at least suspend it for 14 days while it seeks relief from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. On Tuesday, National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson told Forbes that, "If the injunction stands, the taxpayers of the United States will be grievously harmed."
Back, in 2010, after years of listening to complaints about the problems created by incompetent and dishonest unlicensed tax pros, the IRS decided to require all paid preparers to register with it beginning in 2011 and those who weren't otherwise subject to national standards to pass a minimum competency test by the end of 2013 and take 15 hours a year of continuing education. According to an affidavit from Carol A. Campbell, director of the IRS Return Preparer Office, submitted to support the agency's request that the injunction be suspended, 744,000 individuals registered for paid tax preparer IDs last year. Until Boasberg's ruling, anyone who wanted to prepare returns for pay this year was supposed to pay a $63 fee to renew his or her ID or $64.25 to get a new one. Only about half of the 744,000 who registered would have been required to pass the new test, however, since lawyers, CPAs and Enrolled Agents (who have already passed a more rigorous IRS test), were exempt from it. The new registration and testing requirements were supported by H & R Block, the nation's largest tax preparation chain with 11,000 offices open during tax season, and by Jackson Hewitt Tax Service, the second largest, with 6,800 locations, including 2,800 in Wal-Mart stores and 400 in Sears stores.
In her affidavit, Campbell said the IRS has already set up 250 testing centers and spent $54 million on the return preparer program and has received $106 million in preparer registration and testing user fees. If the injunction isn't suspended and the IRS wins its appeal, Campbell said, the IRS will incur "substantial costs" to restart the program. The IRS also argued in its motion that if the injunction isn't stayed, "thousands of return preparers who have already submitted their users fees would demand refunds, and the United States would likely face numerous lawsuits—including class action lawsuits."
Noting that since the start of 2010 more than 500 tax return preparers have been criminally prosecuted, Campbell also argued in her affidavit that putting IRS regulation of preparers on hold would hurt the IRS' enforcement program, and particularly it efforts to curb identity theft and earned income tax credit fraud. The government estimates it loses $13 billion a year to EITC "fraud, abuse, and error" and "almost two-thirds of all returns claiming the earned income tax credit are prepared by tax return preparers,'' her affidavit said. As for ID theft, she noted that the government's requires registered tax preparers to pass a criminal records check. (In identity theft refund fraud, a criminal---in some cases a crooked tax preparer--uses stolen Social Security numbers to electronically file bogus returns seeking refunds. As a result, the legitimate owner of the hijacked number often has his or her refund delayed for six months or more. According to a recent report from the National Taxpayer Advocate, at the end of fiscal 2012, the IRS was working on almost 650,000 identity theft cases.)
The suit that lead to Boasberg's ruling was filed on behalf of three tax preparers by the libertarian Institute for Justice. In granting the injunction, Boasberg noted that two of the three preparers said they would likely shut down their tax businesses if forced to comply with the new registration requirements and thus would suffer irreparable injury without an injunction. But the IRS argued in its filing that the plaintiffs wouldn't be "substantially harmed" if the injunction is suspended. To support that assertion, the IRS quoted an article Forbes contributor Kelly Phillips Erb (a.k.a Taxgirl) published on Tuesday. In it, she quoted the preparers' IJ lawyer as saying that all three had submitted their preparer ID numbers for 2013 "and had planned to continue preparing returns this season."
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Saints 17, Chiefs 13
Kansas City coach Andy Reid and his new starting quarterback Alex Smith combined to give the Chiefs at least one promising series to start the preseason.
Preston Parker had a pair of touchdown catches in his bid to fill one of New Orleans' open receiver spots, and the Saints defeated the Chiefs 17-13 in the preseason opener for both teams Friday.
Reid saw all he needed of Smith in the opening drive, which went 80 yards on 14 plays, capped by Jamaal Charles' TD run. Smith was 7 of 8 for 68 yards before calling it a night.
With Saints coach Sean Payton on the sideline for the first time since his bounty ban ended, Drew Brees was 7 of 10 for 65 yards in two series, which produced one field goal.
His longest completion went for 22 yards to rookie Kenny Stills, who like Parker is a candidate to replace injured deep threat Joe Morgan as the Saints' No. 3 receiver behind Marques Colston and Lance Moore.
Parker is another such receiver, and the three-year veteran stood out for at least one exhibition. His first TD, an off-balance catch in the back of the end zone, tied the game at 10 in the third quarter.
His second on a quick sideline throw at the goal line made it 17-10 in the final minute of the quarter. He finished with four catches for 43 yards, including a leaping 33-yard catch along the sideline.
Parker is trying to re-establish himself in the NFL after playing in only two games last season with Tampa Bay before being cut in September. Two seasons ago, he played in all 16 games for the Buccaneers and had 40 catches for 544 yards and three TDs.
The Chiefs' return game made the Saints' kickoff and punt coverage look suspect. The Chiefs' had two field goals were set up by big returns - Dexter McCluster's 55-yard punt return and Knile Davis' 77-yard kickoff return. Kansas City's Devon Wylie added a 22-yard punt return.
Former Saints backup QB Chase Daniel took over for Smith on Kansas City's second drive, which began at the New Orleans 32 after McCluster's long return was augmented by a holding call against New Orleans.
Unable to get a first down, the Chiefs widened their lead to 10-0 on Ryan Succop's 42-yard field goal.
Brees' first drive stalled quickly. His final drive covered 74 yards in 10 plays, setting up Garrett Hartley's 24-yard field goal.
The game also marked the debut of Rob Ryan as Saints defensive coordinator. While his new 3-4 defense struggled in its opening series, it allowed Kansas City only 135 yards the rest of the game.
New Orleans' defense also produced four sacks, one each by Baraka Atkins, third-round draft choice John Jenkins, undrafted rookie Glenn Foster and cornerback Jabari Greer.
The Chiefs struggled to sustain drives with Daniel under center, and third-stringer Tyler Bray did not fare much better when he entered the game in the third quarter.
On his first drive, he was stripped by Foster and Jay Richardson recovered for New Orleans at midfield.
Kansas City got the ball right back, however, when Tysyn Hartman intercepted Luke McCown.
McCown, who is competing with Seneca Wallace to back up Brees, was 18 of 28 for 216 yards, two touchdowns and one interception. Wallace did not play because of a recent groin injury.
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These exercises relate to the material in the Training Center and are meant for those wanting to go beyond using AgileLoad starter.
To use the pre-built image login to AgileLoad & Navigate to the EC2 dashboard, click 'Launch Instance', choose 'Classic Wizard', click 'Community AMIs' tab and enter AgileLoad as the search criteria then Select it. Please see the 'Cloud' video to see this done.
The target application must of course be available and running. To run the bookstore for the 1st time after installation Choose 'Init Bookstore Database' from the start menu, then choose 'Start Bookstore'.


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Also known as the goliath or giant tarantula, the goliath bird-eating spider (Theraphosa blondi) is the heaviest spider in the world (3) (4). It is also one of the largest (3) (5) (6), coming a close second to the giant huntsman spider (Heteropoda maxima) in terms of its leg span (7).
The goliath bird-eating spider is generally dark to light brown in colour (3) (8), and like other tarantulas it is covered in a thick layer of hairs, which are very sensitive to movement and vibrations (5).
The common name of the goliath bird-eating spider is somewhat misleading, as this large tarantula does not usually eat birds (4) (6). Instead, its diet consists largely of insects and other invertebrates, including earthworms (3) (4) (6) (10), although it will also catch small vertebrates such as lizards, frogs and small mammals (3) (4) (6) (11).
The goliath bird-eating spider has quite poor eyesight, and instead detects prey mainly by sensing vibrations in the ground. When prey is detected, the spider will pounce on it and inject it with venom using its two-centimetre-long fangs (4). Like other burrow-dwelling tarantulas, the goliath bird-eating spider is mostly active at night, and it tends to hunt within a fairly limited area around its burrow (5).
Despite its formidable appearance, the goliath bird-eating spider is not generally a threat to humans, with its bite reportedly being little worse than a wasp sting (4) (7). This species uses a number of other methods to defend itself against potential predators. For example, it may attempt to scare off an attacker by rubbing together bristles on its first and second pair of legs, producing a hissing sound (4) (5) (12) (13). It also possesses barbed, irritating hairs on its abdomen, which it can flick at an attacker, potentially causing severe irritation to the skin, eyes, nose and mouth. As a further defence strategy, the goliath bird-eating spider may also rear up on its hind legs, showing its large fangs (4) (5).
The goliath bird-eating spider is generally solitary, and individuals only come together to mate (5). Adult female goliath bird-eating spiders lay around 50 to 150 eggs in a large silk sac (4), which is guarded aggressively (6). The female of this species has been known to add irritating hairs from its abdomen to the silk of the egg sac (4), which may help to protect the developing young from parasitic flies (6) (9).
The female goliath bird-eating spider starts to enlarge her burrow in the two weeks before the eggs are laid. Just before egg laying occurs, she seals the burrow with a layer of thick, whitish silk (9). The female guards the egg sac within the burrow until the young spiderlings emerge, around one to two months later (4) (5) (6), and she does not feed during this time (3).
The young goliath bird-eating spiders remain in the female's burrow until after their first moult, and then disperse (3) (5). This large spider takes around two to three years to reach maturity (3) (4). Female goliath bird-eating spiders can potentially live for up to 20 years, but males usually only live for around 3 to 6 years (4).
The goliath bird-eating spider is found in rainforests from southern Venezuela east to Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana and north-eastern Brazil (3) (4) (6) (9).
The goliath bird-eating spider is reported to inhabit undisturbed rainforest (4) (6), and requires areas with high humidity (4). This species lives in silk-lined burrows (4) (5), either digging one itself or taking over an abandoned rodent burrow (5). It can also be found under fallen logs and in cavities under rocks (4).
The goliath bird-eating spider has yet to be classified by the IUCN.
Like other large tarantulas, the goliath bird-eating spider is highly sought-after in the pet trade (8) (9), despite its apparently aggressive nature (6) (9). Unfortunately, this results in many individuals being taken from the wild, and for each one that reaches the market it is estimated that up to nine more may die during capture and transport (3).
The goliath bird-eating spider is also thought to be under threat from the destruction of its rainforest habitat (4). In addition, this species is sometimes caught and eaten by indigenous people (7).
There are no specific conservation measures currently known to be in place for the wild populations of the goliath bird-eating spider. However, this species is of interest to zoos and other collections, and the establishment of captive breeding programmes has been recommended to reduce the collection pressure on wild populations. Captive breeding may also help scientists to find out more about this impressive spider's biology and breeding behaviour (6).
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Lionsgate's The Hunger Games Breaks Opening Weekend Records in IMAX® Theatres
Mar 26, 2012, 18:01 ET
Strong IMAX Per-Screen Average Drives $10.2 Million Domestic Opening Weekend Box Office
LOS ANGELES, March 26, 2012 /CNW/ - IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX;TSX: IMX) and Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF) today announced that the limited release of The Hunger Games: The IMAX Experience grossed $10.6 million in IMAX® theatres worldwide during its three-day opening weekend beginning March 23. Domestically, the film grossed $152.5 million, of which $10.2 million was generated in 268 IMAX theatres for a per-screen average of $38,000. The results mark an IMAX domestic box office opening weekend record for a digital-only release and for a non-sequel 2D release.
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"The reaction to the The Hunger Games has been remarkable and we're thrilled that fans have sought out our format as an ideal way to experience this global phenomenon," said Greg Foster, Chairman and President of IMAX Filmed Entertainment. "Congratulations to Lionsgate, producer Nina Jacobson and director Gary Ross for this remarkable adaptation - what an amazing way to kick off our relationship."
"We believe the IMAX release of The Hunger Games helped broaden the audience beyond young females to include our core fanboy audience," said Richard L. Gelfond, CEO of IMAX. "With sellouts all weekend and IMAX fans coming out in record numbers, these results clearly show that IMAX is a powerful way to eventize a movie."
"We are absolutely thrilled that so many fans saw The Hunger Games in the IMAX format," said Lionsgate's EVP of Distribution and General Sales Manager David Spitz. "The total immersion that IMAX offers surely augmented the gripping story and provided fans with a special way to experience this movie."
The Hunger Games: The IMAX Experience has been digitally re-mastered into the image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience® with proprietary IMAX DMR® (Digital Re-mastering) technology. The crystal-clear images coupled with IMAX's customized theatre geometry and powerful digital audio create a unique environment that will make audiences feel as if they are in the movie.
About The Hunger Games
Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the Capitol of the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. A twisted punishment for a past uprising and an ongoing government intimidation tactic, The Hunger Games are a nationally televised event in which "Tributes" must fight with one another until one survivor remains.
Sixteen year old Katniss Everdeen volunteers in her younger sister's place to enter the games, and is forced to rely upon her sharp instincts as well as the mentorship of drunken former victor Haymitch Abernathy when she's pitted against highly-trained Tributes who have prepared for these Games their entire lives. If she's ever to return home to District 12, Katniss must make impossible choices in the arena that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.
The Hunger Games is directed by Gary Ross, with a screenplay by Gary Ross and Suzanne Collins and Billy Ray, and produced by Nina Jacobson's Color Force in tandem with producer Jon Kilik. Suzanne Collins' best-selling novel, the first in a trilogy published by Scholastic that has over 26 million copies in print in the United States alone, has developed a massive global following. It has spent more than 160 consecutive weeks/more than three consecutive years to date on The New York Times bestseller list since its publication in September 2008, and has also appeared consistently on USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. The Hunger Games: The IMAX Experience is rated PG13 by the MPAA.
About Lionsgate
Lionsgate is a leading global entertainment company with a strong and diversified presence in motion picture production and distribution, television programming and syndication, home entertainment, family entertainment, digital distribution. New channel platforms and international distribution and sales. The Company has built a strong television presence in production of prime time cable and broadcast network series, distribution and syndication of programming and an array of channel assets. Lionsgate currently has 15 shows on more than 10 networks spanning its prime time production, distribution and syndication businesses, including such critically-acclaimed hits as the multiple Emmy Award-winning "Mad Men", "Weeds" and "Nurse Jackie" along with the comedy "Blue Mountain State," the Golden Globe-winning drama "Boss" and the syndication successes "Tyler Perry's House Of Payne", its spinoff "Meet The Browns", "The Wendy Williams Show" and "Are We There Yet?".
Its feature film business has been fueled by such recent successes as THE LINCOLN LAWYER, TYLER PERRY'S MADEA'S BIG HAPPY FAMILY, THE EXPENDABLES, MARGIN CALL, THE LAST EXORCISM and the critically-acclaimed PRECIOUS, which won two Academy Awards®. With the January 2012 acquisition of Summit Entertainment, the Company now has the two leading young adult franchises – the blockbuster TWILIGHT SAGA, which has grossed more than $2.5 billion at the worldwide box office, and the HUNGER GAMES franchise, whose first film will be released on March 23. Recent Summit hits include RED, LETTERS TO JULIET, KNOWING, the STEP UP franchise and the Academy Award winning Best Picture THE HURT LOCKER.
Lionsgate's home entertainment business is an industry leader in box office-to-DVD and box office-to-VOD revenue conversion rate. Lionsgate handles a prestigious and prolific library of approximately 13,000 motion picture and television titles that is an important source of recurring revenue and serves as the foundation for the growth of the Company's core businesses. The Lionsgate and Summit brands remain synonymous with original, daring, quality entertainment in markets around the world.
About IMAX Corporation
IMAX Corporation is one of the world's leading entertainment and technology companies, specializing in the creation and delivery of premium, awe-inspiring entertainment experiences. With a growing suite of cutting-edge motion picture and sound technologies, and a globally recognized entertainment brand, IMAX is singularly situated at the convergence of the entertainment industry, innovation and the digital media world. The industry's top filmmakers and studios are utilizing IMAX theatres to connect with audiences in extraordinary ways, and as such, the IMAX network is among the most important and successful theatrical distribution platforms for major event films around the globe. The Company's new digital projection and sound systems - combined with a growing blockbuster film slate - are fueling the rapid expansion of the IMAX network in established markets such as North America, Western Europe, and Japan, as well as emerging markets such as China and Russia. IMAX delivers the world's best cinematic presentations using proprietary IMAX®, IMAX 3D®, and IMAX DMR® (Digital Re-Mastering) technologies. IMAX DMR enables virtually any motion picture to be transformed into the unparalleled image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience®.
IMAX is headquartered in New York, Toronto and Los Angeles, with offices in London, Tokyo, Shanghai and Beijing. As of December 31, 2011, there were 634 IMAX theatres (497 commercial multiplex, 20 commercial destination and 117 institutional) in 50 countries.
IMAX®, IMAX® 3D, IMAX DMR®, Experience It In IMAX®, An IMAX 3D Experience® and The IMAX Experience® are trademarks of IMAX Corporation. More information about the Company can be found at www.imax.com. You may also connect with IMAX on Facebook (www.facebook.com/imax), Twitter (www.twitter.com/imax) and YouTube (www.youtube.com/imaxmovies).
This press release contains forward looking statements that are based on IMAX management's assumptions and existing information and involve certain risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from future results expressed or implied by such forward looking statements. Important factors that could affect these statements include, but are not limited to, general economic, market or business conditions, including the length and severity of the current economic downturn, the performance of IMAX DMR films, the opportunities that may be presented to and pursued by IMAX, competitive actions by other companies, conditions in the in-home and out-of home entertainment industries, the signing of theatre system agreements, changes in law or regulations, conditions, changes and developments in the commercial exhibition industry, the failure to respond to changes and advancements in digital technology, the failure to convert theatre system backlog into revenue, new business initiatives, investments and operations in foreign jurisdictions and any future international expansion, the inability to protect IMAX's intellectual property foreign currency fluctuations and IMAX's prior restatements and the related litigation. These factors and other risks and uncertainties are discussed in IMAX's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and most recent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.
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Genetic polymorphisms of the GNRH1 and GNRHR genes and risk of breast cancer in the National Cancer Institute Breast and Prostate Cancer Cohort Consortium (BPC3)
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Background: Gonadotropin releasing hormone (GNRH1) triggers the release of follicle stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone from the pituitary. Genetic variants in the gene encoding GNRH1 or its receptor may influence breast cancer risk by modulating production of ovarian steroid hormones. We studied the association between breast cancer risk and polymorphisms in genes that code for GNRH1 ...


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Spain's top honor awarded to Greenia
George Greenia, known for his work in medieval studies and on the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage, received Spain's highest cultural achievement distinction for foreign nationals this fall.
The Cross of Isabel the Catholic was conferred on Greenia, professor of modern languages and literatures, for his contributions to research and dissemination of Spain's cultural heritage. Greenia is the first person in the College's history to receive the honor, which is bestowed by the king of Spain and akin to the Order of the British Empire or France's Legion of Honor.
"It's pretty stunning news since this is an honor that's existed for over 200 years in Spain and they give it to foreign nationals very selectively," said Greenia.
Carlos Westendorp, ambassador of Spain to the United States, conferred the distinction on Greenia and three other honorees at his home in Washington, D.C., as part of a pre-Columbus Day celebration.
The distinction is awarded only once a year and some years no awards are given at all. Nominations are made by the ambassador of Spain and are approved by Spanish King Juan Carlos I, who is the master of the Order of Isabel the Catholic.
Formerly a Franciscan brother, Greenia has worked at William and Mary for 26 years and specializes in the Spanish Middle Ages. He served for ten years as director of William and Mary's program in medieval and renaissance studies, and over the past three summers has guided William and Mary undergraduates in retracing on foot the entire 500-mile route of the Camino de Santiago across northern Spain. He is both editor of the La corónica, a journal devoted to medieval Iberia, and editor of American Pilgrim, a magazine that presents public scholarship to the international pilgrimage community.


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Hitch a joyride on the fan breeze to the upper level of the rooftop and fashion together a zipline. It's not complete yet; float across as the Penguin to the other side and finish the zipline. Punch one of three martini glass neon lights that is against this building here. After punching all three, you earn a LEGO canister. The row of fans here tend to blow you clear off the path, so in order to pass through drop to the level below and follow the line of studs to a lever that renders the fans inoperative. Take advantage of the Catwoman's seductive skills on the heart booth to get past the gate.
Free PlayToss the container with the orange handle aside and create a magnetic ramp that leads up to someone's apartment on the left side. Free the hostage and claim the LEGO canister. Past the zipline are a pair of empty pots. Cast plant seeds in them as Ivy to reach the LEGO canister on the roof.
Double jump up and assemble a box just to push it off the edge. The crashed box offers pieces for the fan on the ground. Fix the fan for Penguin. With the Penguin, send a penguin bomb into the shiny objects to spill ladder parts. Climb up to the helipad to encounter a rather hostile police helicopter. Stand by one of the red buttons; when the button turns green, the fan next to it starts spinning, sending a steady breeze upward into the air.
The key is that the lifting power of the fan can launch up small objects, including the rather chunky explosive it attempts to drop on you. If you stand in one area, the doofus pilot will likely hover just above the fan. It drops a blue flare, followed by a bomb. Be sure the fan is spinning when this happens to bat the bomb right back at the helicopter until the three hearts of the helicopter have been depleted.
Build a ladder leading out of this rooftop. Search the back of the huge skylight for a LEGO canister. Locate the two white valves flanking a colorful machine of some type. Directly in front of this contraption is a lower ledge with a LEGO canister on it as well. The fan on the side gets up and running again; riding it to the top, only Catwoman can reach the next rooftop due to her double jump. No matter though because she can easily assemble a crank to hoist the Penguin up as well.
Bash through the boarded up niche in a small balcony below to find a lever, which flips the big fan on its side, redirecting the breeze upward. Take the breeze to the upper rooftop and pull the two levers with both characters. Now you can push the gargoyle statue down and crash it through to the museum.
Free PlayClimb the magnetic ramp up the rooftop to the left of the statue to find a LEGO canister.
So much for a low profile entrance—with the guards all rushing to meet you and laser fields up, it's up to Catwoman to jump up to the metal bar on the right and shimmey past the laser field. Destroy the green box to deactivate the lasers and continue to the right.
Free PlayShove the heavy object to the left when you first enter the museum into the lasers to refract them. Kick down the back door to find another box; pull this out and bring it to the left to again get past lasers. Double jump over the last laser field, activate the lever and penetrate the glass covering with the Sonic Suit to receive your LEGO canister.
A purple-bordered opening cues the Penguin to deploy a penguin bomb into the area. With the machine blown up, the gates squeak open, giving you access to the lever in there. The lever powers down the laser fields guarding the dinosaur exhibit. Head back to the dinosaurs. You can ride them! Take either the swift or slow, but powerful dinosaur and ravage the boxes within the room for a LEGO canister.
Back in the room with the Attracto machine and where you pulled the lever earlier, park the dinosaur near the glass wall. Leap off the dinosaur and over the glass wall as the Penguin to end up on the other side of it. Jump on each orange switch, then bomb the glass case in the center to attain the red power brick. Proceed to rampage through the museum halls, tearing through the barricade of boxes on the far right.
Climb up the metal bars and onto the staircase. Move to the left and smash the object in the corner for crank pieces. Turn the crank to start slowly shifting a statue to the left. When it comes into contact with the first set of lasers, the lasers are temporarily refracted, allowing your partner to head through and deactivate them. Continue sliding the statue to create a gap in the second set of lasers. The third set is low enough to just jump over; destroy the power supply to remove the lasers altogether.
Free PlayHeave the heavy statue out of the way to the right of the top of the staircase and double jump up to the ladder. Follow the beams to the left and to this LEGO canister. The other LEGO canister is suspended in a wooden cage in the exhibit room. Use the Sonic Suit on the glass cases to assemble a catapult device and pull the lever to get it.
Move to the far left of the big exhibit and double jump up to the ladder. Smash the painting at the top to extend the ladder and drop it down. Behind the bigger painting you will find a lever that moves the deflector in the big glass case in the center. Good. Glide across the gap as Penguin to the other side and throw the other switch. The deflectors should be in place. When the Penguin slips a bomb through the gap and into the case, the penguin bomb will find its mark and blow the case up.
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As he has pursued re-election this year in one of the most predominantly Democratic states in the nation, Republican Scott Brown's voting record over his three years on Capitol Hill — and the extent to which he has or has not lined up with his party's leadership — has been a focal point.
Both Mr. Brown and his Democratic challenger, Elizabeth Warren, have zeroed in on the issue in debates and on the campaign trail, with Ms. Warren attacking the incumbent for key votes in which he has sided with his Republican colleagues. Mr. Brown insists that he is an independent, truly moderate voice in Washington.
The issue is complicated by numerous scores and analyses that have tracked Mr. Brown's voting record, and which each candidate has highlighted on a selective basis to buttress his or her respective arguments.
Mr. Brown has routinely pointed to a 2011 Congressional Quarterly voting analysis that found him the second most bipartisan member of the Senate.
Alleigh Marre, Brown's campaign spokeswoman, said Mr. Brown votes in the interests of his constituents, regardless of partisan politics.
Critics have cited other statistics to contend that Mr. Brown has voted to kill progressive legislative initiatives by regularly backing the Senate GOP leadership on procedural votes.
"Scott Brown picks what he wants and Elizabeth Warren picks what she wants," said Richard E. Cohen, a veteran journalist who has covered Congress since 1973 for publications such as National Journal and Congressional Quarterly. "It challenges voters to figure out what they make of it."
Mr. Brown has to balance the interests of a liberal-leaning electorate back home and the increasingly conservative national party of which he is a member, according to those who study politics. If Mr. Brown wants to be an influential voice within his party, he must vote with GOP leadership on key issues, which are primarily economic, said William Crotty, a professor of political science at Northeastern University.
"When he's needed, he has to vote with his Republican leadership. His survival in Congress is different than his survival at home," said Mr. Crotty, noting that Mr. Brown is able to more easily cross the aisle on noneconomic and social issues, along with those destined to pass the Senate by a wide margin.
In addition to the Congressional Quarterly analysis, Mr. Brown ranks as the third most moderate Republican member of the Senate on a scale devised by DW-NOMINATE, which issues annual assessments based on a methodology developed by two political scientists in the 1980s.
Meanwhile, a Washington Post review of votes taken in the current Congress found Mr. Brown has sided with his party 66 percent of the time — placing him as the third most moderate Republican in the Senate. By contrast, the most moderate Democrat in the review voted along party lines at a rate of 83 percent.
Mr. Brown also has a voting score of 62 from the American Conservative Union, but the group only gives awards for conservatism to legislators who score over an 80, according to a spokeswoman.
"I am one of those vanishing breeds of senator, the ones in the middle who are trying to work together to get things done," Mr. Brown contended during the conclusion of the most recent debate with Ms. Warren.
Ms. Warren sees it differently.
"Scott Brown has been fundraising across the country on the importance of Republican control of the Senate as a 'hedge' against President Obama's agenda," said Alethea Harney, a spokeswoman for Ms. Warren. "His vote is a vote for a Republican majority."
Mr. Brown has moved across the aisle on some high-profile Senate votes since arriving following a special election in 2010. That year, he was one of just three Republican senators to vote for the so-called Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill, and he joined seven Republican colleagues in voting with the Democratic majority to end the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy — thereby allowing gays to serve openly in the military.
More recently, he was one of two GOP senators to vote against a Republican plan that would have extended all Bush era tax cuts for one year, and also lined up with Democrats on legislation ranging from efforts to increase cybersecurity, create jobs for veterans, and provide incentives for businesses to bring jobs back from overseas. The latter three proposals were all blocked by procedural votes supported by most of Mr. Brown's Republican colleagues, thereby cutting off debate before a final vote could have been taken.
But a study released this past May by ProgressMass, a liberal-leaning advocacy group, found that Mr. Brown had participated in Republican-backed filibuster attempts 75 percent of the time on legislation that was supported by at least half of the Senate. These measures would have passed on an "up-or-down" vote by a simple majority of the Senate, but were blocked — mostly by Republicans — before they could be brought to the floor, the group said.
"Scott Brown's misleading claims of bipartisanship ring hollow when we take a close look at his actual voting record," said ProgressMass spokesman Mathew Helman. "On the votes where he could have displayed true bipartisan leadership, Republican Scott Brown overwhelmingly supported his right-wing Republican colleagues."
Among the votes cited by the group were three involving jobs legislation backed by President Obama, as well as a proposal to implement the so-called "Buffett rule," which would apply a minimum tax rate of 30 percent to individuals making more than $1 million per year.
Ms. Warren has attacked Mr. Brown for voting along party lines when it comes to issues of the economy and taxation, as well as for joining Republicans this year to block a bill that promoted equal pay for women and for his 2010 opposition to the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan.
"Senator Brown doesn't want to talk about his voting record; he just wants to launch attacks," Ms. Warren said during their most recent debate.


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Vatican accountant was arrested June 28 for allegedly trying to move 20 million euros from Switzerland illegally into Italy.
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican said it is ready to collaborate in the investigation of one of its accountants who was arrested today over allegations of corruption and slander.
"The Holy See has not yet received any request from the competent Italian authorities on the matter, but it confirms its willingness to cooperate fully," said Father Federico Lombardi, the director of the Holy See Press Office.
Msgr. Nuncio Scarano was arrested June 28 for allegedly trying to move 20 million euros — $26 million U.S. dollars — from Switzerland illegally into Italy, involving the Vatican's so-called bank, the IOR or Institute for Religious Works.
The arrest happened just days after Pope Francis created a commission of inquiry into the IOR's activities and legal status on June 26.
Msgr. Scarano was arrested along with Giovanni Maria Zito, an Italian secret service agent, and Giovanni Carenzio, a financial broker.
"The competent authorities of the Vatican, the AIF (Financial Information Authority), are overseeing the problem to take, if necessary, appropriate measures within its competence," said Father Lombardi in a statement released June 28.
The 60-year-old cleric worked as a senior accountant for a Vatican department, the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See, and had an account at the IOR.
But Msgr. Scarano, now held in a prison in Rome, was suspended from his job a month ago, after transactions of a series of checks described as Church donations were cycled through the Vatican Bank.
Father Lombardi said this happened "as soon as the superiors were informed that he was under investigation." He explained this was "in accordance with the regulations of the Roman Curia, which requires the precautionary suspension for people for whom prosecution has been initiated."
The Vatican created the Financial Information Authority in 2010, and it became operational in April 2011 to make the IOR more transparent.
During pre-conclave meetings, discussions included a desire to abolish or reform the IOR.
Pope Francis personally issued a chirograph on June 24, an official document in which he appointed a board of five members to report to him about "the legal position and the activities of the institute" in order to "harmonize the institute with the universal mission of the Apostolic See."


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Hewlett Packard has agreed to fork over $16.25 million to settle charges that the computer maker "lavished" gifts on two Texas school districts in order to win government contracts to provide computer equipment. Acting on tips from whistleblowers within the Dallas and Houston school districts, the Department of Justice and Federal Communications Commission investigated the allegations.
"Meals and entertainment—including trips on a yacht and tickets to the 2004 Super Bowl—were provided by the contractors to get inside information and win contracts that were supposed to be awarded through a competitive bidding process," the Federal Communications Commission disclosed late on Wednesday.
The FCC's Schools and Libraries or "E-Rate" fund is the program that was allegedly compromised. E-Rate provides money to libraries and schools for computer and networking gear. Contractors like HP are supposed to bid for school district cash under an open process.
The suits were filed under the provisions of the False Claims Act, which allows the whistleblowers to sue on behalf of the United States and receive some of the recovery money. But, as is often the case in these settlements, while the government charged that HP was "conspiring to rig the competitive bidding of E-Rate contracts," the company is admitting no crime.
"This Agreement is neither an admission of liability by HP, which denies the claims described above, nor a concession by the United States that its claims are not well-founded," the settlement explains.
Bottom line: HP will pay $7,402,441 for the Dallas contract and $8,847,559 for its contracting bids in Houston.
We did nothing wrong, and we'll never do it again
HP has also agreed to a compliance program which involves training its employees in how to comply with E-Rate contracting rules (presumably someone will tell them not to hand out Super Bowl and yacht trip tickets to school officials).
The company's employees will have to certify that they "are not aware of and have no reason to suspect that anyone has provided or has promised to provide a gift, payment or entertainment, or anything else of value, on HP's behalf in connection with any bid or agreement that might violate the E-Rate Program Rules or other applicable law, or any HP policy."
Further actions are being taken against former HP business partners Micro Systems Engineering (MSE) and Analytical Computer Services (ACS), and a number of individuals.
Hewlett Packard sent us this press release on the settlement:
"HP requires that all employees and partners adhere to lawful and ethical business practices. The activities at the center of this investigation occurred more than five years ago, the partner relationships have been terminated and the employees involved are no longer with the company. HP fully cooperated with the authorities and the matter is now resolved."


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To help determine if your Real Tone cable is defective you can connect your cable and guitar to your PC to perform a simple test. Whether you have the game on Xbox 360, PS3 or PC you can follow the procedure below, all you need is access to a PC or laptop with a USB 2.0 port. Please read on for details:
1. Switch on your PC and connect your guitar to your USB port using the official Real Tone cable.
2. Click on Start, Accessories and then open Sound Recorder
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3. Click on 'Start Recording' and start playing some notes on your guitar. Once you stop the recording (just a couple of seconds will do), save the recording to your system.
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There are a few "not quite the last concerts of the season" coming up soon. On Tuesday the Symphony plays its last free AT&T Neighborhood concert of the season. This is also Ken-David Masur's last concert conducting this season.
Tuesday, May 31 at 7:00 p.m.
Brackenridge High School, 400 Eagleland Drive
Price: Free
Tchaikovsky Movement IV. from Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
Bizet "Danse bohème" from Carmen Suite No. 2
Arlen/Harburg Over the Rainbow
Copland "Saturday Night Waltz" from Rodeo
Rossini Overture to William Tell
Wednesday night (June 1 at 7:30 p.m. at the AT&T Center) the San Antonio Opera presents the last classical music superstar concert of the season. It has been quite a year with Lang Lang in January and Yo-Yo Ma in March.
Placido Domingo will perform a romantic concert of opera, zarzuela, tango and Mariachi favorites accompanied by guest artists and a full symphony orchestra. To purchase tickets to this special concert call 210-225-5972, visit the San Antonio Opera box office at 909 NE Loop 410 suite 636, or visit ticketmaster.com or the AT&T center box office.
Ticket prices are $35.00, $75.00, $125.00, $250.00
This next weekend is the last Symphony Classics subscription concert of the season. Sebastian Lang-Lessing will conduct the 19th and 20th concerts of his brief tenure as Music Director of the San Antonio Symphony. Sebastian is spending the summer conducting in South Africa, Europe and Australia. He'll be back in San Antonio to open the season in October
Friday, June 3 and Saturday, June 4, 2011 at 8:00 p.m.
Majestic Theatre
Sebastian Lang-Lessing, conductor
Vadim Gluzman, violin
Beethoven Violin Concerto
Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra!
The following weekend, Opera San Antonio closes its season with H.M.S Pinafore.
Music by Arthur Sullivan
June 10 and 11th at 8:00 PM and June 12th at 2:00 PM
Lila Cockrell Theatre
Libretto by W.S. Gilbert
The weekend after that are the very last Symphony concerts of the 2010-2011 season.
When: Thursday, June 16 at 7:30 p.m.
Where: San Fernando Cathedral
Price: Free
Antoine Plante, conductor
Bach Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068
Rebel Les Caractères de la danse
Haydn Symphony No. 94 in G major, "Surprise"
2011-2012 Season Preview (and last concert of this season)
When: Friday, June 17 at 8:00 p.m.
Where: Coker United Methodist Church
Price: $10
Troy Peters, conductor
Tchaikovsky Mvt. IV. from Symphony No. 4
Mozart Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492
Rimsky-Korsakov Mvt. II. from Scheherazade, Op. 35
Respighi Mvt. III. from Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 1
Rossini Overture to La Cenerentola
Copland John Henry
Wagner Overture to The Flying Dutchman
Beethoven Mvt. I. from Symphony No. 5
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Today at Digital Delights by Louby Loo I wanted to share with you some fun cards using our new Silhouettes and the cute new Sailor Simon Set. Great cards Nancy!
And, as we are approaching Cinco de Mayo this weekend, I wanted to share with you this festive card by Lisa using the Mexican Pablo Set!
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Even though I followed Google's I/O Conference from across the country, the event made it obvious that a company created with a strict focus on search has become an omnivorous factory of tech products both hard and soft. Google now regards its developers conference as a launch pad for a shotgun spread of announcements, almost like a CES springing from a single company. (Whatever happened to "more wood behind fewer arrows"?)
But the Google product that threatened to steal the entire show probably won't be sold to the public until 2014. This is the prosthetic eye-based display computer called Project Glass, which is coming out of the company's experimental unit, Google[x]. Announced last April, it was dropped into the conference in dramatic fashion: An extravagant demo hosted by Google co-founder Sergey Brin involved skydivers, stunt cyclists, and a death-defying Google+ hangout. It quickly attained legendary status.
Even before people got to sample Glass, it was popping their eyes out.
Google wouldn't provide a date or product details for Glass' eventual appearance as a consumer product – and in fact made it clear that the team was still figuring out the key details of what that product would be. But Google made waves by announcing that it would take orders for a $1,500 "explorer's version," sold only to I/O attendees and shipped sometime early next year. Hungry to get their hands on what seemed to be groundbreaking new technology, developers lined up to put their money down.
Meanwhile, I just as hungrily bit at the opportunity to do a phone interview with two of the leaders of Glass. Google originally hired project head Babak Parviz from the University of Washington, where he was the McMorrow Innovation Associate Professor, specializing in the interface between biology and technology. (One relevant piece of work: a paper called "Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens.")
The other Glass honcho, product manager Steve Lee, is a longtime Google product manager, specializing in location and mapping areas. Here is the edited conversation.
Wired: Where are you now with Glass as compared to what Google will eventually release?
Babak Parviz: Project Glass is something that Steve and I have worked on together for a bit more than two years now. It has gone through lots of prototypes and fortunately we've arrived at something that sort of works right now. It still is a prototype, but we can do more experimentation with it. We're excited about this. This could be a radically new technology that really enables people to do things that otherwise they couldn't do. There are two broad areas that we're looking at. One is to enable people to communicate with images in new ways, and in a better way. The second is very rapid access to information.
Wired: Let's talk about some of the product basics. For instance, I'm still not clear whether Glass is something that works with the phone in your pocket, or a stand-alone product.
Parviz: Right now it doesn't have a cell radio, it has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. If you're outdoors or on the go, at least for the immediate future, if you would like to have data connection, you would need a phone.
Steve Lee: Eventually it'll be a stand-alone product in its own right.
Wired: What are the other current basics?
Parviz: We have a pretty powerful processor and a lot of memory in the device. There's quite a bit of storage on board, so you can store images and video on board, or you can just live stream it out. We have a see-through display, so it shows images and video if you like, and it's all self-contained. It has a camera that can collect photographs or video. It has a touchpad so it can interact with the system, and it has gyroscope, accelerometers, and compasses for making the system aware in terms of location and direction. It has microphones for collecting sound, it has a small speaker for getting sound back to the person who's wearing it, and it has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. And GPS.
This is the configuration that most likely will ship to the developers, but it's not 100 percent sure that this is the configuration that will we ship to the broader consumer market.
Wired: How much does it weigh?
Lee: It's comparable to a pair of sunglasses. You can stack three of these up and balance a scale with a smart phone.
Wired: What was your thinking when you embarked on the project, and how did that thinking evolve?
Parviz: We did look at many, many different possibilities early on. One of the things that we looked at was very immersive AR [Augmented Reality] environments – how much that would allow people to do, how much could come between you and the physical world, and how much that can be distractive. Over time we really found that particular picture less and less compelling. As we used the device ourselves, what became more compelling to use was a type of technology that doesn't come between you and the physical world. So you do what you normally do but when you want to access it, it's immediately relevant – it can help you do something, it would help you connect to other people with images or video, or it would help you get a snippet of information very quickly. So we decided that having the technology out of the way is much, much more compelling than immersive AR, at least at this time.
Wired: So in other words, you're moving away from "Minority Report" into doing something that's more organic to everyday life.
Lee: That's correct. You see that in the – video released when we announced the project in April. That kind of information, we still think is super-compelling, but in a form that's available when you want it, and it's generally out of the way and it doesn't clutter your entire field of view.
Wired: How do people issue commands to the system – like when to begin a video stream?
Parviz: On the side of the device there's a two-dimensional touchpad. We have a button that we typically use for taking pictures. There are microphones in the system, so I you could have sound input to the system. We've experimented with that and we've experimented with gyroscopes and accelerometers and compasses with different types of gesture input. Now, how this is going turn into a consumer product, we're still experimenting. It's not entirely finalized yet.
Lee: We're also experimenting with a time-lapse feature, which takes a photo every 10 seconds. It's the perfect example of getting technology out of your way. We believe it'll be easier to initiate one of these live hangouts than placing a phone call today. The power of being able to share your view with other people is pretty incredible. Not just in extraordinary situations like the parachuting demo, but everyday situations like sharing moments with remote family members, or just having a richer experience in shopping where you could get feedback or advice from a spouse or partner or friend.
Wired: You both have been testing this extensively in your lives – what have you discovered?
Parviz: Two things, actually. One was about how I can communicate with the people I care about through images, so I can capture moments that otherwise I wouldn't capture. I communicate actually a lot more with those people through images and they get the first-person point of view. The other involved search. In one of our prototypes – I don't know if this will be on the consumer product or not – we had search available with an audio input, so you could touch the device and say something, and get the response back. So literally I could touch the device and ask, "What's the capital of China?" and the response would just appear in front of my eye. It's a magical moment. You suddenly feel you're a lot more knowledgeable.
Now, wearing it day in day out, I have to say that this device is very experimental. It crashes a lot of times, and a lot of the features don't work. There's quite a bit of work that we have to do to make this a seamless, enjoyable thing for regular people to wear. But as someone who developed the technology, I've been pretty happy with it.
Lee: I'm an avid cyclist, and several weeks ago I rode in a grueling six-hour ride around San Francisco. Obviously it's been a design goal for a long time to make Glass lightweight and comfortable, but it really surprised me how comfortable and unobtrusive and out of the way it really is. It didn't become a problem or annoy me.
So then what value did I get out of wearing it? I could enjoy my ride, talk with my friends, meet new people, and didn't have to think about technology the whole race. Yet at the end [using the aforementioned time-lapse photo capture feature] I had over 1,000 images, some of which were spectacular, just really precious moments. That gave me the ability to create a very short video. No one wants to watch a six-hour video, but my friends and family enjoyed watching the 20 or 30 second video that summarized my experience.
Wired: How long did it take you to go through those images? It would be pretty grim if we spent half our lives gathering information and the other half curating it.
Lee: You raise a really good point. If a device like Glass is successful, it's definitely going to generate a lot more content, and so tools to manage that are incredibly important.
Wired: Maybe this could be a good use for the huge machine-learning neural net that Google announced this week – maybe you could use the Google Brain to go through your six hours and find the most interesting parts.
Lee: Yeah, agreed, but simple approaches can help a lot, like discarding blurry photos and detecting the photos that have people's faces, or landscapes. Just by doing those basic things you can quickly reduce 1,000 photos down to 20 or 30.
Wired: On that bike ride, did you get any kind of data on the thing as you were riding? Did it help give you directions or alert to stuff that was happening or things like that?
Lee: Let me use a different example. I often commute from Google in Mountain View to my home in San Francisco, and I was supposed to meet up with a friend when I arrived. While I was riding, he text-messaged me, and I saw that he was going to be late. I saw that on the display, and that was it. If I didn't have Glass, I would've felt the vibration of the phone in my jersey pocket and pulling it out would have been awkward and unsafe. It really made a difference.
Wired: Some people who have interacted with Glass testers feel that sometimes people seem to temporarily drop out of a conversation to process something they see on the display. How does Glass avoid being something that removes us from our physical environment?
Parviz: We're actually very cognizant of that. One of our definite goals is not to have something that constantly distracts people – something where every three seconds you get an email and you have to look away, and can never engage in a real conversation. We're going be very, very selective in how this may interrupt you.
Lee: We really do view this through the lens of how to improve people's lives in society, and not how can we geek out with the most technology possible. But it's definitely true that something like this could go either way. A poor design could absolutely distract you and isolate you as a person. Good design actually keeps you more engaged in your activities in life whether it's a lunch with someone or riding your bike or whatever activity you do.
Parviz: We want people to be engaged with the physical world. We want to untether them from the desktops and laptops. You want to have something where don't feel like you're wearing technology. Where your eyes are pretty much open to the environment, your ears are open, your hands are free – but you can engage with the technology if you need to.
Wired: It also seems to me that at a certain point you realized that there's something qualitatively different about a photo that's taken with your hands free.
Lee: That's true. We've long thought the camera's important, but since we've started using this in public and with our family and friends and in real situations, not just hidden in the Google lab, that we've truly seen the power of being hands free. We make sharing really easy, and we have a Google+ circle for our team, and so various team members were out in their real lives with their families, with their friends, in different situations, and were posting photos. It actually really brought our team closer together, because we got to understand our team's personal lives better, and I think it was through those photos that we saw many aha moments. We shared the one with Sebastian [Thrun, a head of the Google[x] division] where he's playing with his son. That photo symbolizes the kind of images and moments that we've been able to capture.
Wired: Let's talk about the launch process– why the two stages?
Parviz: We're hoping actually to create a developer community to help us evolve this technology together. In 2013, we'll ship the developer version, to this community, and hopefully, in less than a year following that, we'll have the consumer version out to the public. That's our hope at the moment. We're trying really hard to get this out the door.
Wired: Why did you pick that $1,500 price point for developers?
Parviz: We try to have a reasonable cost that would be accessible to developers, but our target is to have the consumer version significantly cheaper than that.
Lee: But at the same time, we view this as a premium product.
Wired: So consumers won't be paying $1,500, but it's not like buying a pair of sunglasses.
Lee: It's not going be $49.99. It's up to us to deliver the value of a premium product and also communicate that to people.
Wired: Since this device sits next to your brain, are there any concerns about radiation?
Parviz: We've looked at it very thoroughly throughout the project, and at the moment, the radiation is significantly less than a cell phone. When you use a cell phone, you have to communicate with a tower that's quite far from the device, but when you use this system, you communicate only with short-range radio. We measured the radiation on the device and it's way below any threshold set by standards.
Wired: Do you think this kind of technology will eventually be as common as smart phones are now?
Lee: Yes. It's my expectation that in three to five years it will actually look unusual and awkward when we view someone holding an object in their hand and looking down at it. Wearable computing will become the norm.


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Additive Manufacturing for Car Body Engineering 2019
When conventional production technologies reach their limits, it is time for additive manufacturing to strike. Additive manufacturing promises faster product development and replacement, better parts properties and significant cost savings. The huge potential of additive manufacturing processes can best be explored by structurally combining complex assemblies into a single component and integrating additional functions. This will ultimately save development time and cut assembly and production costs.
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Sam Duininck heads in Liberty's first goal in 2-0 win over Longwood, Friday.
The No. 7 seed Liberty Flames used another solid defensive effort to post their second consecutive shutout, downing the No. 3 seed Longwood Lancers, 2-0, in the second Big South Men's Soccer Championship semifinal, Friday evening at Bryan Park Soccer Complex.
With the win, Liberty advances to the Big South Men's Soccer Championship title game on Sunday against the No. 1 seed Coastal Carolina Chanticleers.
Defenders Sam Duininck and Tim Harbison each scored goals in the Flames' win. Liberty posted its seventh shutout this season in the victory.
Liberty moves to 11-8 on the season and moves into their eighth Big South title game. The Flames have played for the Big South crown four times in the last seven seasons. Liberty will meet Coastal Carolina in the title game at 2 p.m. on Sunday. The contest will be televised on ESPN3. The Flames are the first No. 7 seed to play for the conference title since 1992. Longwood finishes the year at 7-9-4.
Liberty struck for the contest's first goal at 12:37. Midfielder Jonatan Torres lofted a corner kick into the left side of the 18-yard box, finding the head of Duininck. The senior's header found the upper left-hand corner of the net for his second goal of the year and a 1-0 advantage.
During the 23rd minute, Flames goalkeeper Scott Sutarik kept the Lancers scoreless. Longwood forward Anthony Ugori came free for a shot at the left post. Sutarik knocked the shot down and then went to the ground to control the attempt for the save.
Off a corner kick during the 29th minute, the Lancers were able to get an open shot for Christian Keilty from the top of the box. However, the forward's attempt sailed high.
A give-and-go passing play in the midfield by forward Tyler Bullock and midfielder Alex Dominguez resulted in a Liberty corner kick during the 37th minute. But Longwood was able to clear its 18-yard box without the Flames getting a shot opportunity.
Liberty closed the half with a shot by forward Victor Portillo at 43:18. The freshman made a move from the right to the center of the field, firing a shot. Lancer goalkeeper Carlos Carnas made a diving save to send the contest to halftime with Liberty up, 1-0.
Longwood held a 5-4 edge in shots, while Liberty enjoyed a 4-2 advantage in corner kicks during the opening 45 minutes.
The Flames extended their lead early in the second half. After midfielder Juan Nino was pulled down in the 18-yard box, Tim Harbison converted the penalty kick to give Liberty a 2-0 lead at 45:28. The goal was his fifth of the year.
In the 57th minute, Sutarik continued his solid play in the Liberty net. The junior keeper deflected a header by Keilty over the goal and out of harm's way. The Flames cleared the ensuing corner kick to keep their two-goal edge.
Liberty forward Kyle Breitmeyer forced a diving save by Carnas during the 63rd minute. Breitmeyer came free at the six-yard box for a shot, but Carnas was able to knock the shot down.
Less than three minutes later, Longwood's Ugori ripped a shot from the top, left corner of the box. Once again, Sutarik dove out and corralled the shot to prevent a Lancer score.
Over the final 20 minutes, the Liberty defense continued to keep Longwood from mounting any offensive pressure. A red card during the 70th minute aided the Flames, as the Lancers went a man down.
Longwood outshot Liberty, 12-8, in the contest, while the Flames held a 5-4 edge in corner kicks.
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Current record: 32-27, 1st place tie in NL Central, 0.0 games ahead
Up Next: Baltimore Orioles, 34-26, 3rd place in AL East, 1.0 game back
Season Series: 0-0, First time playing.
Notes: The Orioles have been the surprise team of the AL this season, having spent 53 days in first place of the tough AL East. Like the Pirates, the O's are finding their success despite having been outscored on the season 263-267. Also like the Pirates, they have a young All-Star center fielder leading the way. Adam Jones is hitting .298/.344/.571 with 17 home runs, 37 RBI and 9 steals. Anchoring the team behind the plate is a name all too familiar to Pirate fans: Matt Wieters. The Georgia Tech product has become one of the best catchers in the majors; just as it was thought he would back in 2007. Former Pirates GM Dave Littlefield passed on taking Wieters with the 4th pick, which is a big reason he is now the former GM.
Familiar Faces: Ronny Paulino, Steve Pearce, Dana Eveland
Probable Pitchers
Tuesday: RH Brad Lincoln (3-1, 30.0 IP, 31 K, 2.40 ERA, 1.07 WHIP)
vs. LH Wei-Yin Chen (5-2, 67.0 IP, 51 K, 3.49 ERA, 1.30 WHIP)
The Bucs face Chens in back to back starts for what has to be the first time in their history. Wei-Yin (no relation to Bruce) has been a major addition for the O's this season. Jeff Karstens strained his hip flexor in his last rehab start, so Lincoln will get at least one more turn.
Wednesday: RH Kevin Correia (2-5, 63.0 IP, 24 K, 4.29 ERA, 1.27 WHIP)
vs. LH Brian Matusz (5-6, 65.1 IP, 50 K, 4.82 ERA, 1.55 WHIP)
Thursday: LH Erik Bedard (4-6, 62.2 IP, 61 K, 3.59 ERA, 1.37 WHIP)
vs. RH Tommy Hunter (2-3, 65.0 IP, 33 K, 5.40 ERA, 1.40 WHIP)
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