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Notable exceptions aside, it's generally agreed upon that it's improper to check one's smartphone while watching a movie in a theater. The new Dutch thriller APP, however, encourages viewers to do so. The film's soundtrack contains a digital audio "watermark" – inaudible to human hearing – that causes exclusive supplemental content to appear on smartphones running the APP app. Read More
Netflix has long been the frontrunner for subscription-based streaming movies. Hulu Plus and Amazon Instant Video are hot on its heels, and now kiosk-based Redbox is entering the fray with the public launch of its own instant streaming service, aptly named Redbox Instant. The service has existed in beta for quite a while now, and it's finally available to the public in the United States. Read More
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Given that most real-life superheroes don't have the budget of Tony Stark or Bruce Wayne, you would assume that their gadgetry wouldn't be quite on par with what we're used to seeing in the movies. German cyber weapons hobbyist Patrick Priebe recently dropped us a line, however, to tell us about his latest homebuilt creation – a working laser gauntlet, just like the one made famous by a certain Iron Man. Read More
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With Hollywood movie studios increasingly gambling astronomical sums of money on the next big thing, they might want to pay attention to the work being done by Akira Ishii at Tottori University. His research group claims to have developed a mathematical equation that combines advertising, word-of-mouth, and social networks to predict if a movie will be successful. Read More
With video rental stores going the way of the dodo, it's fast becoming the norm to download movies and TV shows from online services such as Netflix and Hulu. But what if you want to take a downloaded movie with you somewhere? You could pack up your big ol' DVR, or you could use HP's portable new Pocket Playlist drive that can stream media over Wi-Fi to up to five devices. Read More
In the past few years, not only has the Corvette-like Batmobile from Batman Returns been put up for auction, but a jet-powered replica of that same style of Batmobile has also been created. A drivable copy of the Dark Knight-era Tumbler has likewise been built, along with a working replica of the associated Bat Pod motorcycle. For many people, however, the only "true" Batmobile is the original version driven by Adam West in the 1960s TV series – and it's about to be put on the auction block, for the first time ever. Read More
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The 58-key mini piano with which Dooley Wilson performed As Time Goes By in the classic movie Casablanca is going on the auction block on December 14, 2012, at Sotheby's in New York. Last sold at auction to a Japanese collector in 1988 for US$154,000, the auction estimate now ranges from $800,000 to $1.2 million. Read More
For decades, Hollywood movie moguls have been able to watch currently-running theatrical films in their own home cinemas, thanks to a local distribution network informally known as the Bel Air Circuit. Traditionally, this has involved film prints or other physical-format copies of films changing hands. California-based PRIMA Cinema, however, has created what could be described as an internet-based public version of that circuit. Subscribers will be able to watch current-release theatrical movies in their own homes – if they can afford it. Read More
Drive Suits let you become a real-life Transformer
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Here at Gizmag, we like to focus on the very latest developments in science and technology. That said, when I had the chance to cover the new Star Wars Identities exhibition today, well ... it was an opportunity too good to pass up. The show features approximately 200 original props, costumes and models used in all six films, many of which have never been displayed in public before. Using interactive technology, however, it also teaches us how our own identities are formed, using the Star Wars characters as examples. Read More


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(Brown et al., 2000)
Although SVMs have been used in various fields of study, the use of SVMs for gene expression analysis was described in detail by Brown et al. SVM is a supervised learning classification technique. The algorithm uses supplied information about existing relationships between members of a subset of the elements to be classified. The supplied information, an initial presumed relationship between a set of elements, coupled with the expression pattern data leads to a binary classification of each element. Each element is considered either in or out of the initial presumptive classification.
The algorithm proceeds through two main phases. The first of these phases,
, uses the presumptive classification (supplied knowledge) and the expression data as inputs to produce a set of weights which will be used during the next phase. The second phase, , uses the weights created during training and the expression data to assign a discriminant or score to each element. Based on this score each element is placed into or out of the class.The initial dialog is used to define the basic SVM mode. One can select to classify genes or experiments and can select to perform one or both phases of the algorithm. The Train and Classify option allows one to run both phases of the algorithm. Starting with a presumptive classification and expression data the result is a final classification of each element. The Train only option produces a list of weights which can be stored as an 'SVM' file along with training parameters so that they can be applied to data to classify at a later time. The Classify only option prompts the user for an SVM file of weights and parameters and results in final classification. The user also has an option to produce hierarchical trees on the two resulting sets of elements.
Sample Selection
The sample selection option indicates whether to cluster genes or experiments.
Process Selection
The SVM algorithm works by performing two main processes, training and classification. One can elect to perform training only, classification only, or both phases of the SVM classification technique.
The option results in a set of numerical weights which can stored as an SVM file and used for classification at a later time.
The option takes a file input of weights generated from training and results in a binary classification of the elements.
The option provides the ability to use the input set as a training set to produce weights which are immediately applied to perform the classification.
The iteratively performs an SVM training and classification run. On each iteration one element is moved to the neutral classification and therefore will not impact the SVM training nor the classification of elements. The final classification will not be biased by an initial classification of the element.
Hierarchical Clustering
This check box selects whether to perform hierarchical clustering on the elements in each cluster created.
Classification Input
The SVM training process requires the supplied expression data and an additional initial presumptive classification which indicates which elements are initially presumed to have a relationship. Two options are provided for selecting members of the initial classification.
Use SVM Classification Editor
This option causes an editor application to be launched in order to allow a flexible tool for finding and marking elements to be positive members of the initial classification. This classification can be saved as an SVC file for later recovery of these initial settings.
Use Classification File
This allows the loading of an initial classification from an existing SVC file.
Kernel Matrix Construction
One can select to construct a polynomial or a radial kernel matrix.
Constant: An additive constant. (c)
Coefficient: A multiplicative constant. (w)
Power: A power factor. (p)
The Radial Basis checkbox is used to select to use this type of Kernel generating function.
Width Factor: Radial width factor (w, see in below formula).
Radial Basis Kernel Function
K(x,y) = e( - (||x - y||^2)/(2w^2))
Diagonal Factor
Constant added to the main diagonal of the kernel matrix. Adding this factor to the main diagonal of the kernel is required to force the matrix to be 'positive definite'. The definition of a positive definite matrix is best reviewed in books devoted to linear algebra but this state is achieved by selecting a constant of sufficient magnitude.
This positive definite state of the kernel matrix is required for the SVM algorithm to yield meaningful results. Testing values starting at 1.0 and increasing may be required to find an appropriate value. If the value is too low all elements will be partitioned in the negative class. For a range of values for this factor a stable set of elements may be classified as positive. At very high values there is a tendency to force all positive examples to be in the positive class regardless of their similarity of expression.
This value is used as a stopping criteria for the weight optimization phase of training. Optimizing the weights produced during training is an iterative process which converges on an optimal set of weights to separate the positive and negative examples. This threshold dictates how stable the weights must be before the optimization process is terminated. Selection of a threshold that is very low could cause the optimization process to take an extremely long time and yet yield similar results to those where a higher threshold value was used which terminated the process earlier.
This check box selects to apply limits to weights produced during training.
Positive Constraint
The upper limit to produced weights.
Negative Constraint
The lower limit to produced weights.
The SVC file format is a tab delimited text file with the following columns for each element,
The SVM Classification Editor allows one to use searches on supplied annotation as well as SVC files to assign membership to the initial presumptive classification. The editor allows the user to sort the list based on classification or annotation fields. The constructed initial classification can be stored in SVC format and later reloaded to allow alterations to produce what could be several initial classifications for a given study. The SVC files, once created, can be used to supply the initial classification thereby skipping the editor step. If the editor is used a button or menu selection launches the algorithm based on the current classification selection.
The second dialog also defines parameters used for creating the kernel matrix. The following is an overview of the training parameters.
The final result of an SVM run depends upon the process run. Training results in a set of weights that can be viewed along with the parameters for kernel construction. Note that from this viewer the training results can be saved as an SVM file. Classification results in a viewer that indicates each element's discriminant value and a final classification. The SVM Classification Information Viewer describes how many elements were initially selected as positive examples and how many elements were later recruited into the positive and negative classifications as well as other overview statistics.
Expression image viewers reveal which elements have been recruited into each of the final classification partitions by coloring the annotation red. Other result viewers are essentially the same as those describe in the K-Means clustering section.


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The Miami Saxophone Quartet: Live (2004)
The open-handed concert, taped at the University of Florida in Coral Gables, embraces compositions by Pat Metheny, Chucho Valdes, Paul Simon, Thad Jones, Jelly Roll Morton and John Coltrane, along with group member Gary Lindsay's "Scenes from the 'Hood," inspired by Leonard Bernstein's award-winning score for the Broadway musical West Side Story.
I was especially pleased to note the inclusion of pianist Phillip Strange on Jones's "A Child Is Born," bassist Chuck Bergeron and drummer David Hardman on "Scenes," and percussionist Richard Bravo on Valdez' "Mambo Influenciado." It's not that I don't appreciate saxophone quartets, but more than an hour of them without some rhythmic counterpoint can be taxing, to say the least.
The MSQ avoids that trap by varying the instrumental palette and seeing to it that its guests aren't merely window-dressing but an essential part of the numbers on which they perform, thanks to Lindsay's innovative charts (he arranged everything but Morton's playful "Black Bottom Stomp," which was scored by Fred Sturm). Bergeron and Hardman are not only present on "Hood," they are very much the headliners—and it's hard to envision "A Child Is Born" without Strange's delicate piano voicings enhancing its sublime melodic framework.
The concert opens with Metheny's radiant "Sunlight," played by the quartet alone. Bravo adds Latin intensity to the rhythmic "Mambo Influenciado," while Simon's gospel-tinged "Still Crazy After All These Years" is scored for alto, two tenors and baritone, "A Child Is Born" for piano, winds and Mike Brignola's bewitching bass clarinet. Morton's "Black Bottom" is sheer ragtime-based diversion for the quartet, and Coltrane's classic "Giant Steps," in Lindsay's words, emphasizes "our unique personalities through the concept of four independent voices, a concept more akin to string quartet writing."
Whatever the concept, it works, and that's what counts. In fact, there's nothing on this well-designed and superbly performed concert date that is less than rewarding. If saxophone quartets push your button or light your fire, you can't go wrong with this one.
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It smells of fresh green herbs and sensual bouquet of delicate flowers that hides wormwood, charming. Puppet fragrance ...
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Unique special scent. I smell green leaves with flowery aura on my skin. Don't buy blind cause it's not for everyone. It doesn't last long on my skin as the original Lolita's perfume.
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Interwoven throughout the history of the evolution of cooperative preschools is a core belief system founded in the natural rights of the child and the responsibility of parents to ensure a proper education. Cooperative preschools have traditionally followed a humanistic developmental model influenced by the early education philosophies of Comenius, Rousseau, and Pestalozzi. As early as 1628 Jan Comenius emphasized teaching children under the age of six the basic foundations of learning through structured play. Early childhood education was so critical to the child's preparation for higher learning that Comenius strongly proposed that teachers of preschool children should be better educated and earn higher salaries than teachers of older children. The child's education originated at birth according to Jean Jacques Rousseau who wrote the well-known Emile in 1762. The adult's role in the child's life was to facilitate the learning process in response to the child's own interest in the natural world. Like Rousseau, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, a Swiss schoolmaster in the early 1800s, viewed education as the gradual unfolding of the child's innate ability. Parents and teachers were instructed to encourage the child to discover his unique abilities through observation and investigation of nature. Outdoor explorations were incorporated into the daily curriculum and brought indoors for further exploration.
Two of the earliest models for cooperative preschools in the United States emerged from Utopian communities which established play schools to care for children while parents worked. Robert Owen's Village of New Harmony, Indiana was founded in 1826. New Harmony emphasized teaching the children to be socially cooperative in their play while becoming independent thinkers who were responsible for their own actions. Brook Farm, founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1841, provided a cooperative preschool for its children in which both fathers and mothers rotated the responsibility of assisting the preschool teacher in the classroom.
Friedrich Froebel was instrumental in developing German kindergartens based on Pestalozzi's theory during the 1840s and 1850s. His influence on cooperatives in the United States was introduced by German immigrants in 1848 and further developed by William and Eudora Hailmann from the 1860s through the 1890s. The Hailmann educational philosophy centered around the child's natural ability to learn through play in the classroom, on the playground, and in the garden. The teacher's role was to facilitate learning through self-realization and self-control, preparing children for becoming well balanced adults. Reading, writing, and ciphering were consciously excluded from the curriculum. Mothers and older sisters were expected to work in the classroom with the teachers. Parent participation was valued in that the Hailmanns believed that just as children need a circle of friends in kindergarten so do the mothers as they learn to work with the teachers in the joint education of their children.
As the mother's role in education became more recognized, mothers gained confidence in their ability to influence the course of their children's education and organized to found the Congress of Mothers in 1897 which later became known as the Parent Teachers Association in 1924. By the end of the nineteenth century the fields of education, psychology, pediatrics, and health were becoming more organized as associations with an emphasis on the welfare of the child. Increased numbers of middle class, educated families had come to recognize kindergarten as a socially accepted institution which provided mothers an opportunity to extend their domestic roles to the community by volunteering to assist teachers in the classroom in the education of their children and/or organizing and raising funds for the good of the children in schools.
The first schools in the United States to identify themselves as cooperative preschools were established in 1915. Northside Cooperative Nursery School was founded by a neighborhood community in Pasadena, California and The Chicago Cooperative Nursery School was founded by faculty wives at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. In both schools parents maintained the buildings and grounds, elected a Board, participated in the classrooms one day each week, and met for parent education classes one afternoon each week. As the Chicago cooperative developed, University education and home economics students worked as interns and the cooperative emerged into a laboratory school serving the University. By 1943, twenty eight additional cooperative preschools were founded in the states of Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington.
As the number of cooperative preschools grew in the 1950s and 1960s, independent cooperatives formed councils of cooperative preschools to share information and to provide professional support. Montgomery County Council of Cooperative Nursery Schools was established in Maryland in 1943. In 1948 the California Council of Cooperative Nursery Schools was established and by 1960, there were more than one thousand cooperative preschools in the United States. The American Council for Parent Cooperatives was established in 1960 which later changed its name to Parent Cooperative Preschools International when Canada and New Zealand became part of the Council in 1964.
The years between World War I and World War II, 1915-1945, brought significant changes in families in the United States. During both wars women joined the workforce or continued their education while learning to depend upon extend family or neighborhood women to assist in the care and education of their children. Gender role expectations had begun to shift. The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920. By 1930, less than half of the United States population lived on farms with extended families. The general public was becoming increasingly informed in the theories of parenting and education as names such as Freud, Watson, Gesell, and Erickson were prominently featured in articles in Parents Magazine.
The post-war period, following World War II, in the United States held the promise of a bright future for families. Veterans were attending college on the GI Bill and purchasing homes with low interest GI mortgages. Birth rates increased and families migrated to the suburbs. New and better appliances replaced routine household chores. Women who had worked outside of the home during the depression out of necessity and during wartime out of patriotic duty had lost their jobs within a few months after the end of World War II. Dr. Benjamin Spock, popular pediatrician, advocated permissive parenting practices based on the needs of the child. With rapid changes in the family structure and in women's roles, many mothers and wives felt displaced, inadequate, and incompetent. Parent cooperative preschools provided a social support network which met familial, personal, and professional needs during this time. Women who participated in cooperative preschools increased their parenting skills and acquired new skills as they chaired committees and organized fundraising events. As fathers and mothers worked together for the benefit of their children in parent cooperative preschools, gender role expectations in parenting underwent significant changes. Fathers learned to become nurturers and educators of their children under the guidance of the teachers and other parents in the community while mothers became organizers and policy makers in their committee responsibilities and service on the Board of Directors.
The tumultuous 1960s and social response to the Viet Nam War further influenced the social perception of gender role expectations and family structure in the United States. Many families chose unconventional family structures that paved the way for the various demands placed on young families in the later part of the 20th Century. Now in the 2000s, families enjoy the freedom of structuring their families to meet the financial and parenting needs of the family. Cooperative preschools continue to meet the needs of families who want to actively participate in the nurturance and education of their children while pursuing their careers. Today, flex time for both parents and the socially recognized role of either the father's or mother's choice to be a stay at home parent while the children are young, lends itself to parent participation in cooperatives where both parents and children develop social values and skills which contribute to a life-long commitment to community responsibility.
(Statistical information and historical facts are based on accounts from "It's the Camaraderie" A History of Parent Cooperative Preschools. Dorothy W. Hines, Ph.D. 1998 Center for Cooperatives, University of California)


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Ever since the coalition came to power in 2010, they've carried out reform after reform under the sanctimonious presumption that we've got to 'trim the fat' off of Britain's social safety net... Less than a year into the implementation of these callous reforms, that same, self-inflicted shot in the foot has landed us on the precipice of a humanitarian disaster.
It is quite clear now that, 14 months before the election is held, the two leaders of the government are no longer pulling in the same direction and politicking is taking over. It isn't the policy that's driven them apart; it is, for each of them, their own personal survival... For all the surface calm, they are each now trying to destroy the other.
Oh, I'm sorry - you Tories out there still refer to it as the "top rate of Income Tax", don't you? That's very passé, you know - and more than a little misleading, also. After all, the country's in a mess - substantially more of a mess than it was in when our benign Coalition government assumed unelected power in 2010, actually.
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I'm trying really hard to remember a time when we could go a whole week without having to have a national moan about "Europe"*. I mean I get it, I really do. All that great food, fantastic culture and nice weather. Not to mention Germany and France's positively infuriating collective predilection for paying people properly and according them proper employment rights.
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By the way, I appreciate how he writes himself into nearly every novel. Don't criticize - you'd do it too if you knew how to make a living writing.
I enjoyed Sahara immensely. Cussler has a way of getting you to say, "Hmmm...could that be what really happened?"
I usually leave a LOT of room for authors to play with the rules of technology and even the laws of physics now and then.
However, despite Cussler's quality, I can't ignore this one:
If you are dehydrated to the point of death - no, wait, even if you are dehydrated significantly less than to the point of death - you don't simply drink quarts and quarts of water and in a matter of minutes fully recover, shake the dust off, and sally forth on your merry way. Even somewhat dehydrated, you will be on a table with an IV in your arm for several hours. I know this firsthand. Technology is one thing; medical accuracy is another.
A very good book, typical Cussler.
Am I being too harsh? Hell, I haven't even started. I have tried to read three of Cusslers books and three times I have failed to finish them. Thats right I haven't even finished this book. I get to the point where I think this is so stupid, to continue to read this drivel, is to make me as stupid as I must be, to have bought this insult to my intelligence.(did you follow that? good you might dislike this book too!) So, if you're dumb enough to read this book after my 1/2 star review, you don't really want to know more than I'm going to tell anyway.
What's really excruciating is that Cussler can come up with some great imaginative plots and then he just blows them up by going over the top. I've seen him do it in three books. What he thinks is clever is really incongruous. I understand and want my Adventure/Action to be exciting, even improbable but Cussler doesn't do improbable, he's into three other I's, Impossible, Inane and Idiotic.
I know, you're wondering if I'm ever going to tell you about the book? If I have to, but first let me address why this book gets good reviews. To do that, I'm going to explain this phenomenon in a scenario that Jive/Clive himself could appreciate.
This is probably fiction but who knows? In any case you could find something this improbable in a Cussler book. Cussler is an Alien! Not from another country, silly, another Galaxy. He is the vanguard for a race of Aliens that hope to conquer and enslave us. They plan not to confront us, but to subvert us.
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Archive for August, 2010
RTP Week Ahead, Aug. 30 – Sept. 2
Friday, August 27, 2010, 2:51 pm No Comments | Post a CommentMonday, Aug. 30
Nanofiber Conference: N3M 2010 Program
Three-day conference (Mon. 8/30 – Wed. 9/1)
The Nonwovens Institute, 2401 Research Dr. Raleigh, NC 27695
The objective of the conference is to accelerate the adoption of nanofibers in a wide range of innovative functional products.
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BioNetwork Course: The Elements of Current Good Manufacturing Practices in Biomanufacturing Processes
Two-day course (8:00 am Mon. 8/30 – 5:00 pm Tues. 8/31)
Capstone Center, BioNetwork Capstone Center Rm #BTEC 250 B, 850 Oval Drive, Centennial Campus Raleigh, 27695
Expand your knowledge in the application of current good manufacturing practices (cGMP)in the production of biopharmaceuticals. An overview of topics will be covered from current regulations found in selctions of 210/211 of Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), as well as the relevant ICH and FDA guidance documents. More.
Seminar: How reliable is the science behind the current mobile phone safety standards?
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NIEHS, Rall Bldg. Rodbell B
Speaker: Dariusz Leszczynski, PhD, DSc – STUK-Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority: Helsinki, Finland. Web.
Health Forum: Emerging Challenges in Keeping the Public Healthy
12:00 – 1:30pm
School of Nursing Auditorium, Duke University, 307 Trent Drive, Durham
Please join us for a lively lunchtime forum to explore and tackle the emerging issues in public health and hear from state, national, and international health leaders. For more, go here.
Tuesday, Aug. 31
Seminar: High-Performance qPCR and Cell-based Assay Technologies For Pathway-Focused Cell Biology Research
2:00 – 3:00pm
NIEHS, Keystone Room 2128
Series: NTP BIOMOLECULAR SCREENING BRANCH. Speaker: Curtis Alexander. More details!
Financing Health Care for All: the Taiwan Experience and the Relevance for US Reform
4:30 – 5:30pm
The North Carolina Biotechnology Center, 15 T.W. Alexander Drive, RTP, NC
The North Carolina Biotechnology Center, Duke University, Policy & Organizational Management Program and RTI International cordially invite you to "Financing Health Care for All: the Taiwan Experience and the Relevance for US Reform" presented by The Honorable Dr. Chih -Liang Yaung, Minister of Health, Department of Health, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Wednesday, Sept. 1
Carrboro Creative Coworking: West End Ruby Meetup
6:30 – 8:30pm
Carrboro Creative Coworking 205 Lloyd St Suite 101 Carrboro, NC 27510
Topic: Ruby Programming Language. Repeats every first Wednesday of the month at 6:30pm.
Thursday, Sept. 2
Durham Critical Mass Bike Ride
5:35 – 7:05pm
Ride Starts at the Bronze Bull Downtown Plaza, Durham
A monthly ride which calls attention to the rights of cyclist to the roads as a vital form of transportation.
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Science Communication Conference and Scienceblogging.org
Thursday, August 26, 2010, 9:46 pm 1 Comment | Post a CommentThe first Science Communication Conference was held in Raleigh, at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences last Saturday, organized by the Museum, SCONC (Science Communicators of North Carolina) and UNC-TV's QUEST.
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New RTI biofeedback controller may be a game changer
Thursday, August 26, 2010, 11:29 am 1 Comment | Post a CommentIt took about two years for me to rid my home of the redundant technology that is the DVD player.
During that time, these devices bit the dust one by one as my Xbox 360 sat underutilized in my entertainment center. But when the third and final DVD player refused to do my bidding, I was fed up.
Microsoft never had to convince me to use its next-generation console as the center of my entertainment setup. I've grown up with video games, so the idea of using a complicated controller to manipulate the playback of everything from music to movies never fazed me.
But for my wife, whose only foray into gaming was a brief flirtation with Donkey Kong Country, it was a bit of a hard sell.
Her hesitation is natural and understandable.
For all companies have done to recruit the "casual gamer," be it immersive environments or intuitive gameplay, these 10-plus-button controllers still represent the final barriers to entry for the gaming world.
In 2006, Nintendo's Wii remote was an attempt to mitigate that barrier to entry — and it certainly seems to be working. Worldwide, the Wii has sold 73.4 million units, according to the gaming tracking service VGChartz. That's 6 million units short of Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 sales combined.
Microsoft's Kinect and PlayStation's Move are new entries to the field due out this Christmas season.
But Research Triangle Park firm RTI International has something with the potential to change the controller game. It's called Mindshift, and it was developed in collaboration with NASA's Langley Research Center. From the release:
"Mindshift allows modulation of player inputs to a video game or simulation from a user interface device based on the player's psychophysiological state. It exploits current wireless motion-sensing technologies to use physiological signals for input modulation, including heart rate, muscle tension and brain wave activity, among others."
RTI's press release says the technology has been "successfully prototyped" using the Wii remote and that researchers are also working on compatibility with Kinect and Move.
Developers will likely put that success to the test when they demo the technology at two separate events at the end of September, one for the public, the other for potential investors.
Regardless of how well Mindshift works, one thing is clear: there's big incentive to breaking down gaming's last barrier to entry.
Tyler Dukes is a freelance reporter and journalism adviser at N.C. State University. Follow him on Twitter as @mtdukes.
R&D billions are tectonic force in Research Triangle area
Wednesday, August 25, 2010, 8:27 pm 2 Comments | Post a CommentThe brainpower for which North Carolina's Research Triangle area is known tends to hide inside buildings, behind tall trees or somewhere on sprawling university campuses.
Crossing Research Triangle Park on Interstate 40 or visiting Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill or N.C. State University provides little insight into what fuels one of the hottest U.S. research and development hubs.
Sure, the Triangle was named the brainiest U.S. region and Raleigh the fastest growing metropolitan area last year. And the area's vaunted labor pool continues to draw scientists and R&D companies from elsewhere, even though companies have closed shop or laid off employees in the past two years and the unemployment rate in the Triangle is nearly twice as high than before the economic downturn.
Mike Walden, an NCSU economist, doesn't mince words when he assesses how important R&D is for the RTP area. "It's one of our basic industries," Walden said. "It's one of the things that make us tick."
But what sustains and boosts this industry that, it can be argued, flavors everything locally from schools to restaurants?
The credit usually goes to the three main research universities, Duke, UNC-CH and NCSU, and the hundreds of companies in and around RTP. But what specifically is it that they do to shape the RTP area? Is it the graduates they produce every year, the discoveries they spin off into local startup companies, or the money they spend on R&D? Read more…
Gaming in the Triangle gets serious
Thursday, August 19, 2010, 11:43 am 3 Comments | Post a CommentThomas Vaidhyan admits he can attribute much of what he's learned about gaming to his young son.
When Vaidhyan, now the CEO of IT firm and game developer Aten Inc., first arrived in the Triangle, he realized quickly something was missing in the classroom.
"When I started getting involved with sending my son to schools here, I started researching quite a bit on that and found out very surprisingly, for me, a lot of the technologies and innovations that we're getting incubated in our universities and developed in our industries weren't necessarily percolating into our school systems," he said.
To him, pulling gaming into the classroom was a no-brainer.
"It made a lot of simple common sense to use games for translating some of the abstract concepts in a very simple, easy-to-understand means to children," he said.
That's why his company, guided by a growing body of educational research, has been working to develop engines and applications in the rapidly expanding field of serious games, which teach and test users' skills while they play.
Vaidhyan's noticed the change in perception toward gaming, even in his daily life. After taking his son to a golf camp, he was surprised to learn the instructor rarely had to teach the complicated method of scoring anymore — his classes were already veterans of the fairways featured on Wii Sports.
"Five years ago when we were talking about it, people asked, 'Are you crazy?' But now everybody is understanding games can be a very effective tool," he said.
The prevalence of devices like the iPad and smartphones is also expanding the potential playing field for educational games beyond the console and computer.
"You will see us moving more and more away from books and using devices like the iPhone and the iPad, where not only do you read, but that translates to a more visual and interactive experience," Vaidhyan said.
Aten's newest entry in the serious gaming field is a free iPhone app called Rhythmatical, which teaches about the connection between music and mathematics. It was created in collaboration with Virginia Tech and is targeted toward elementary school children.
It's a far cry from blockbuster, next-generation franchises like Halo or Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, but Vaidhyan said that's a good thing.
"Gaming companies and commercial games compete with movie productions — $10 million for one of those productions is considered to be cheap," he said. "It definitely doesn't scale to an educational environment."
It's that price point, Vaidhyan said, that's keeping good serious games out of the fields of education and corporate training — but it's also giving companies like his a unique opportunity.
"We're able to get down to that and have a team and a framework where we can churn out these virtual environments at one-fourth or one-fifth of the cost that these gaming companies would take to create some of this," he said. "One of the things that has kept us going in this field is the fact that we've brought ourselves to an attractive price point that can easily scale."
Particularly in the case of 3-D gaming, some companies charge up to $250,000 just to license their game engines, or the software infrastructure that forms the foundation for different titles. The engines Aten uses, by comparison, can range from $1,500 to free.
For the average consumer, Vaidhyan said there's a lack of good content on the market.
"The games that I've seen out there have been either gaming companies bringing them out themselves — which means commercially they'll look good, they're great games, but do not involve a lot of educational research background or aspects. Or, purely educational games that are boring," Vaidhyan said.
He points out that demand is so high that teachers are learning to adapt existing games — like the multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft — to their needs in the classroom.
But that dichotomy also presents a challenge for companies like Aten, which must balance a fun experience with applied learning.
"Where we could have a blend of this is where we can have success," he said.
To do that, Aten pairs experienced game designers with experts from whatever field the title is trying to teach. The result should be what Vaidhyan jokingly termed "stealth learning."
"A successful education game is one where the user or the children don't even know it's educational," he said. "They say it's just another game."
And like their commercial counterparts, serious games aren't just for children.
Virtual Heroes, a serious gaming company also based in the Triangle, recently partnered with the Duke School of Medicine to develop a 3-D training game for the emergency room.
Aten's also working on working with a major pharmaceutical company to create a simulated environment of their assembly line, allowing for virtual hands-on training without the risk.
"We have made it so simple for them that their assembly line workers can train themselves by pulling it out of their learning management system," Vaidhyan said. "Here, they'd be doing exactly what they'd be doing on an assembly line, except they do it on a computer."
Future corporations and classrooms could even implement a tracking component of the training and education module that would allow them to identify shortfalls — whether it's a step of the production process or a mathematical concept.
"From a management perspective, you're able to say, 'This person is not getting this particular aspect,'" Vaidhyan said. "The management can give that person an individualized training."
And solving the problem could happen almost instantly.
"You can give them formative feedback right in the virtual environment itself," he added.
Outside the virtual environment, users of these technologies are learning something even more valuable — whether the game is serious or shoot-em-up. That's another lesson Vaidhyan's gleaned from his son, who often consults classmates when he's stuck on a tough level.
"They are being forced to share best practices. They are talking to each other, figuring out how someone else is doing it and applying it," Vaidhyan said. "That's very valuable in the corporate world."
Building entrepreneurial networks in the Internet age
Monday, August 16, 2010, 10:51 pm 1 Comment | Post a CommentTed Zoller has taken the educational adage about the village that raises the child and adapted it to entrepreneurship.
As Zoller, the executive director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler School of Business in Chapel Hill, sees it, it takes dealmaker networks to build companies based on research and technology.
One of the U.S. technopolies where these networks have developed is North Carolina's Research Triangle area, ranked the brainiest area in the U.S. by the Daily Beast, an online publication that started the contest last year.
So, why isn't the research Triangle Park area also the most entrepreneurial?
Zoller, an entrepreneur himself who teaches executives, scientists and budding entrepreneurs at UNC, attempts to answer that question in an interview with Science in the Triangle. He also addresses how the Internet is changing network building.
The video of the interview is interspersed with footage of Zoller teaching an executive MBA class at UNC:
Scientifica Gets Durham School Kids Excited about Science
Monday, August 16, 2010, 7:25 am 1 Comment | Post a CommentDr. Anu Sud's two daughters were accomplished in science by the time they were in high school, in part thanks to coaching by their mother, who had been a cytogeneticist at UNC-Chapel Hill and at LabCorps. The older daughter attended the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, and the younger, Shivani, won a $100,000 scholarship in the Intel Science Talent Search and numerous other top science honors when she was a junior and senior at Jordan High School.
When Shivani went off to Princeton, Dr. Sud was like many professional women who interrupt their careers to raise kids: should she return to her former career or try a new path? Then Shivani said to her, "Mom, why not help other kids like you helped us?" Read more…
Pro gamers head to Raleigh for showdown
Thursday, August 12, 2010, 7:13 am 2 Comments | Post a CommentIf you're looking for evidence that the Triangle has become a big player in the video gaming industry, consider the hundreds of pro gamers planning to converge on Raleigh Aug. 27 for the upcoming Major League Gaming tournament.
The event, which pits some of the most talented players in the world against one another in a professional sport-like atmosphere, is a first for the capital city.
And much like professional sports, spectators show up in droves. Ryan Moore, MLG's PC tournament director, expects attendees to be in the thousands.
"A lot of people who are into gaming but can't compete at that level get to watch these players," Moore said.
The tournament lineup features several mainstays in competitive gaming: Bungie's Halo 3, Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft. But Moore said the showdown in Raleigh will also include Blizzard's newest strategy title, Starcraft II, for the first time in tournament play.
That's big news for fans of the game, which sold 1.5 million copies in 48 hours.
Competitors are clamoring for spots on the bracket as well. The 32 coveted open spots for players sold out in two minutes, 19 seconds, Moore said (32 other spots were claimed by invitation only).
Gamers and organizers like Moore are out to make competitive gaming a sport like any other. That's why MLG tournaments feature professional "sportcasters" and their Sunday matchups are even broadcast online on ESPN.
"Everybody's hungry to push — we call it 'e-sports' — as hard as we can," Moore said.
But it may be a while before a country acclimated to Monday Night Football will tune in to see gamers battle it out. Despite the rapid rise of gaming as an industry and an art form, there's still a stigma attached — especially for those interested in "going pro."
The stats, for one, are certainly different. Some of the best Starcraft players in the world can register 200 to 300 actions per minute, a value that determines how quickly they can overrun and outmaneuver their opponents on the virtual battlefield.
But competitive gaming going mainstream isn't unheard of. Moore points out the U.S. is behind other markets like South Korea, which has several leagues and stadiums devoted to the "e-sports." Many of the biggest tournaments there are even televised, something that has happened on occasion for MLG. Moore said more televised events are on the horizon.
The differences between competitive gaming and competitive sports are clear, sure. But it does seem feasible that watching these fierce matchups can become something of a draw to American audiences. While competitors aren't necessarily showcasing their athletic skill, there's certainly plenty to be said for the ultra-fast reaction times, pitch-perfect strategy and long hours of training.
That's way more than you can say about other popular televised obsessions like Minute to Win It.
That's why Moore said MLG is looking to find "familiar, marketable faces" who earn their championship titles at events like the one in Raleigh — the 50th such tournament for MLG.
"Video games are on the rise as compared with other media," Moore said. "The more people accept it, the less of a stigma there will be."
Canadian biotech will grow flu vaccine in RTP
Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 10:02 pm 1 Comment | Post a CommentMedicago, the Canadian biotech company that announced Tuesday that it picked Research Triangle Park as its production base, plans to introduce vaccine making with a couple of twists to an area that's home to three large vaccine plants by heavyweights Pfizer, Merck and Novartis.
Medicago's facility is projected to cost $24 million and create 85 production jobs – small compared to the $300 million plant Novartis opened in 2009 in Holly Springs and the $400 million plant Merck completed two years ago north of Durham. The plant in Sanford that Pfizer bought last year as part of its $68 billion acquisition of Wyeth has been open since the late 1980s and employs about 450.
But then, the Medicago plant isn't going to be like the other vaccine plants in the area. Read more…
RTP Week Ahead, August 8-14
Monday, August 9, 2010, 8:59 am No Comments | Post a CommentSunday, Aug. 8
13th Biennial Molecular and Cellular Biology of the Soybean Conference
All day, starting at 8:00am
Sheraton Imperial Hotel & Convention Center, 4700 Emperor Blvd. Durham, NC 27703
Will highlight the collaborative research among breeders, physiologists, and genomicists to bring the power of the complete soybean genomic sequence to bear on these fields of research.
More here.
Monday, Aug. 9
First Marketing Monday: New in RTP!
4:00 – 5:30pm
RTP HQ, 12 Davis Drive, RTP, NC 27709
What is location-based marketing, and how can it help you?
Location-based marketing helps you show how great your business is to members of your community and lets you reach out to new and existing customers who live and work in the same area as you. Come to Marketing Mondays and find out! Guest Speakers: Wayne Sutton and Lawrence Ingraham of TriOut, experts in location-based marketing.
Free! Click here to register.
Tuesday, Aug. 10
Periodic Tables: Bonobo Handshake: Love and Adventure in the Congo
7:00 – 9:00pm
Broad Street Cafe, Durham
Author, scientist, and SCONC contributor Vanessa Woods will discuss and sign copies of her new book, Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo.
Details and more about Periodic Tables.
Wednesday, Aug. 11
Innovation@rtp: How EMC is leveraging Social Network Analysis as a Strategic Asset
4:00 – 5:00pm
RTP HQ, 12 Davis Drive, RTP, NC 27709
EMC provides the technologies and tools that can help you release the power of your information, helping you design, build, and manage flexible, scalable, and secure information infrastructures.
Free. More info.
Thursday, Aug. 12
Women In Business Awards
11:30am – 2:15pm
Sheraton Imperial RTP, I-40 Page Road/4700 Emperor Blvd., Durham/RTP
Triangle Business Journal and Presenting Sponsors Duke Raleigh Hospital and Durham Regional Hospital cordially invite you to attend the 2010 Women In Business Awards luncheon honoring the Triangle's most dynamic professional women.
Make your reservation today!
Friday, Aug. 13
2nd Friday Art Walk, Chapel Hill/Carrboro
6:30 – 9:30pm
Carrboro and Chapel Hill
Carrboro Creative Coworking participates and usually has live music and new art. All Free! More info here.
Saturday, Aug. 14
Engineering Exploration Fair for Kids
9:00am – 5:00pm
Museum of Life & Science, Durham NC
Includes Lego Robotics workshops hosted by IBM
To view a complete calendar of RTP community events, please visit the Science in the Triangle calendar.


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Late 80s/Early 90s Sports Apparel Fashion Confessions
By Cecilio's Scribe on Jan 12, 2009 with Comments 13
C'mon, you were there. Back in middle school or junior high. Chances are you played sports and hung with the "popular crowd." You dug the girls of 90210 and couldn't get enough of Damon Wayans as Homey the Clown. Will Smith was reigning as the Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Bo Jackson and MJ were on your walls and you couldn't get enough Headbanger's Ball. OK, you maybe not
all of those things applied to you. But, if a lot of them did, I wouldn't be surprised if sports was your whole life and it crept into your wardrobe in ways that are nearly unspeakable now.Here are a handful of the "sports fashion" trends I remember from the late 80s and 90s around when I was old enough to be out of grade school but not old enough to drive a car. Not like I participated in any of these absurb marriages of sports and clothing or anything…
Sports Jerseys: Tirico Suave raised my Andre Rison Falcons a Brownies Testaverde.
Neither of those quite rivals a Ravens Vinny T (see Jan. 6 entry) on the random scale, but the point is the same regardless. As a teen, I thought the replica jersey – whether NHL, NFL, MLB or even NBA – was the tits. Nothing topped those threads in my closet. Bledsoe Pats, Colorado Buffs (nameless), Griffey Jr. Mariners, Saints white (my name…the worst), Jets (O'Brien), Rangers (Graves), Sharks (nameless), Magic (O'Neal), I need to stop, it's too painful to recall.
Awful Hats: We've been down this path before. It's a brutal, unsightly history that we'd rather not rehash. If you must read about it, take a walk with us down headwear memory (nightmare) lane. Warning: it's sure to bring back ghosts of your own early 90s horror stories. But back in the day, these lids were siiiick. At least that's what I keep telling myself…
Umbros: You know a garment is good when you the brand becomes a genre. These weren't shorts. They were Umbros. I don't know about y'all, but I had more than my fair share. The best (worst) were undoubtedly my two-tone models featuring one side of the short in one color and the other a completely contrasting hue. The split was right down the middle around the crotchal region. If I remember correctly, one side was royal blue and the other a fluorescent lime green. We also think we may have had one of these find three-toned, panel versions as well. Disastrous in retrospect…
Sweats w/ Team Name Down Pant Leg: These were terrible. Now, it feels like they're cool again in that retro-awful kinda way. I'd love to get my hands on a few of these again. The dark-colored sweats with the drawstring and the team name silk-screened in big-ass letters down the length of the pant leg. Loud, ugly and so cool I was pissed I didn't have a pair.
I'm sure you recall.Zubaz: I didn't own a pair of Zubaz. I swear. Cross my heart. But people did, and not just people that look like this dude. Normal, sane people. They thought these things were fashionable. While I'd love to incessantly mock, I do recall rocking pants called Skidz. They were just like Zubaz, perhaps even more offensive. They had obnoxious patterns, and I recall wearing them with brightly-colored Regardless, the company sold enough of these that it's a trend which cannot be dismissed. Head to the Meadowlands on any given Sunday and the evidence is there in shocking abundance.
Caricature Ts: As sucky as Zubaz were is as AWESOME as athlete caricature Ts were back in the day. Did I wear them into my teen years? So what if I did? These were real-life collector's items. Art in its finest form. T-shirts with a ridiculously proportioned head of some superstar along with each of their facial features magnified by 1000%. The Sports Hernia has a terrific series on these tremendous pieces of apparel. I rocked 'Nique with pride. I just had a harrowing thought. I wonder if they ever made a Sam Cassell caricature T. /shuddering at the notion
So, what else you got? Those of you born in the late 70s should be right there with me on this one. I mean, right…
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About the Author: Cecilio's Scribe is the founder of The Legend of Cecilio Guante and a generally pessimistic fan of the Mets, Jets, Knicks and Rangers. A fine NYC-based gentlemen who hones his marketing skills as his primary trade by day. Husband, chef, father of a newborn and after-hours blogger by night. Proud alum of the mighty Big Red of Cornell. University. Hot sauce devotee. Staunch protester of the continued wussifcation of American sports. Sometimes I rhyme slow, sometimes I rhyme quick.
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How could you forget the big, puffy, godawful Starter Jackets?!
Still have my Starter Jacket from 1992, big and puffy.
Never liked the hats from that era, except for the hats that just had the city and team name on the front, best hats ever. Fit great.
Those two tone umbros were horrible, they never lasted, mine ripped down the middle well before my original pair.
How can you leave off the mesh, middrift football jerseys that everyone wore over top of a sweatswirt in the winter and went with nothing underneath it in warmer weather?
anon – starter jackets were right in there. check out the post again
Man… you have to mention the charlotte hornets teal and purple, that was amazing. Hats, starter jackets, jerseys… the list goes on and on. I mean they even had two guys in Space Jam! Speaking of Space Jam, where's the looney tunes shout out?? Bugs bunny and Taz?? Taz!?!?! Taaaaaazzzzzzzz!!!!! They all wore your favorite sports teams and you know it! Can it get better than this? http://cgi.ebay.com/RARE-TAZ-Charlotte-Hornets-HOODIE-SWEATSHIRT-YOUTH-MM_W0QQitemZ380068550427QQcmdZViewItem
anyone else remember starter's dual hood shirts with beads on the drawstrings?
Can you please write your next blog about the Mets new patch. It looks like they put alot of time and effort into the design.
Replica NBA jerseys by Champion were the bane of my tween existence. It drove me nuts when they would take off the pinstripes or the stripes that ran down the sides as if was instead going to shell out like $250 bills for an Mookie Blaylock alternate road black jersey. Suck me, Champion.
I think you could unfortunately add in the Mullet as an apparel confession…
I wore my Yankee starter jacket and the hair slightly long in the back so I could be like Don Mattingly.
Jose Canseco had an all star mullet that '80s kids tried to emulate. So did Mark McGwire (curly and red). The Boz…
The zuBaz still run rampant. There is a guy at the gym who still wears his Bengals zubaz…AWEFUL
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In a letter to the Union Ministry of Finance last month, the RBI said that it had no objection to the proposal for a two-year moratorium on term loans, and conversion of working capital into working capital term loan for four-to-five years. However, the apex bank felt that the case for asset classification benefit on second restructuring was not justified.
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