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Assassin’s Creed IV Freedom Cry Detonado Parte 10: Wellington e Montez [1080p PT-BR] – Video

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Assassin’s Creed IV Freedom Cry Detonado Parte 11: Plante as Sementes [1080p PT-BR] – Video

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Report: Freedom Declined Worldwide in 2013

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WASHINGTON The Washington-based group Freedom House said the cause of freedom around the globe took another hit in 2013, as the group released its Freedom in the World 2014 report Thursday. The authors warned of serious setbacks in some of the worlds more influential countries. Perhaps nowhere was the fall from freedom more visible than in Egypt, where angry protests gave way to a military coup and a crackdown on dissent. Freedom in the World 2014 report author Arch Puddington argued that in many ways, Egypt was not alone. We are at a time right now where the leaders of the authoritarian community are more self-assured and arrogant than theyve been in the past and theres a kind of a loose coalition, alliance of the repressive countries, said Puddington. Color revolutions

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Almost no region fared worse than Eurasia, which saw increased persecution and media crackdowns in Russia and Ukraine. According to Freedom House, 78 percent of the regions population lives in countries that are "not free.

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Freedom House said democracies, especially the U.S., also seem plagued by self-doubt, unable or unwilling to act, a condition creating adverse outcomes elsewhere in the world. The group cited the lack of progress in the Middle East as a prime example. The Washington Institutes David Schenker said surveys suggest U.S. citizens are more interested in internal affairs. The United States public is not at all interested in having a more, military involvement in the Middle East or even financial involvement or diplomatic involvement.Weve seen that in the polling.Theyre more focused on domestic matters, said Schenker. You still have advocates and activists and human rights defenders in many places around the world looking to the U.S. for leadership and theyre just not finding it the way they would like.

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UPDATE: Freedom Industries Responds to WVDEP, Two Chemicals Leaked from Tank

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Freedom Response to WVDEP Order

WVDEP Order for Freedom Industries

UPDATE 1/22/14 @ 5:10 p.m. CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Freedom Industries says chemicals MCHM and PPH were the only two chemicals that leaked from a tank on their property into the Elk River earlier this month.

The leak, that happened on January 9, led to a state of emergency and "do not use" water ban for West Virginia American Water customers in nine West Virginia counties.

It wasn't until January 21 that the company told the DEP that PPH also leaked from the tank.

PPH is added to the Crude MCHM to act as an extender in that the Crude MCHM is available in limited, sporadic quantities, Freedom said in its response letter to the WVDEP. At the time of the release on Jan. 9, the blend in Tank No. 396, after extensive calculation, was approximately 88.5 percent Crude MCHM, and 7.3 percent PPH by weight and 4.2 percent water by weight. Our records and internal investigations indicate that there were no other materials in Tank 396 at the time of the release.

Freedoms letter was signed by Freedom President Gary Southern.

Freedom told the WVDEP on Jan. 21 that the storage tank contained roughly 300 gallons of PPH that it adds to its Crude MCHM mixture.

This material was not included in the initial information regarding the composition of the spilled materials. Failure to accurately report the type or types and quantity or quantities of the material or materials therein is a violation of state code, according to the DEP.

Having this revelation so late in the game is completely unacceptable, said WVDEP Cabinet Secretary Randy Huffman said earlier today. We have ordered Freedom to reveal any other information they have regarding the contents of the tank that leaked.

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Taiwan celebrates the 2014 World Freedom Day

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TAIPEI, Taiwan - Today is World Freedom Day, which marks the kick off for several celebrations in the week to commemorate this special day.

World Freedom Day is especially celebrated in Taiwan and South Korea due to the fact that Jan. 23, 1954 was the return date for prisoners in the Korean War.

As those soldiers landed in Keelung, they received warm greetings from Taiwanese people.

People also rang the freedom bell 23 times in every city in Taiwan in celebration. The Republic of China established the date as World Freedom Day ever since then.

As it was the 60th anniversary of the return of these soldiers, the Taipei Veterans Home held a celebration yesterday and invited the Taipei Jingmei Girls High School honour guard and colour guard to perform for retired soldiers.

Hsiung Chi-chih, manager of the Taipei Veterans Home, said a lot of people had already forgotten this history. The decision to come to Taiwan that these soldiers made actually played an important role in stabilizing the government at that time.

Therefore, it is an event worthy of remembrance, stated Hsiung.

In order to help more people understand this history, Hsiung also decided to publish a commemorative album. The main goal of celebration activities is to let people reflect on our past and think about the true essence of democracy and freedom.

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Engineering Watch initiating "Campus Walks" with the sprawling Campus of United Group of Insitutions – Video

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Ours is a multi-tired education-eco system: Dr Ayoub Kazim

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The vision to transform Dubai into a higher education hub was set about a decade ago. We built the three free zonesDubai Internet city, Dubai Media city and Dubai knowledge village.

We segregated knowledge into two categories: 1. A hub where development and empowerment of human resource took place - the Dubai Knowledge Village (DKV), and 2. A higher education zone primarily to host national and international institutions- the Dubai International Academic City (DIAC)

We conceptualised DKV as a regional destination for education and invited institutes of higher learning, assessment centres and professional training academies to set up their campuses here. DKV provides services to even regions like East Africa and India. It houses over 500 training institutes, executive search firms and HR consultancies, and educational services providers.

Of the worlds 200 international branch campuses, the highest number, 37 are in the UAE. 25 of these are in Dubai under the DIAC umbrella. We started with 2000 students and now we have 22,000 students of 120 different nationalities pursuing higher studies here.

We constantly try to attract world class institutions to uplift our education standard.We encourage institutions to design programmes to cater to our diverse regional market. We have about 400 programmes at the under graduate, post graduate and doctoral level.

Boston, which hosts over 70 multi-tiered universities, is our role model. It is a vibrant hub where universities catering to masses rub shoulders with the classy Ivy League institutions. We are in the process of building a similar edu-ecosystem, where institutions from USA, UK, Australia, Canada and our next door neighbours like India, will co-exist, and where a diverse students community with intellectual capacities will grow together. While Boston is all American, we have gone global- 21 of our 25 universities are international. Four to five of these are Indian. They are next door neighbours to allow a free flow of culture and learning.

We focus on student and faculty exchange, curriculum development programmes, research and development collaboration; sharing of facilities and staff. The latter to give the staff an international exposure.

Foreign universities wanting to come here have to comply with certain rules. Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA), the governing body, has established the University Quality Assurance International Board to assess and license institutes. KHDA also attests degree/ diploma certificates thereby making it possible for students to get jobs easily. Commission for Academic Accreditation (CAA), which is a federal body , also issues accreditation to universities.

DIAC has evolved a 34-pont criteria for the assessment of institutions. National and international ranking of an institution, quality of its programmes, research expertise and its ability to respond to the needs of the region, are a few of them. Only about 20 universities have got permission during the past five years.

Oil and gas form only five per cent of our GDP. So we are focussing on human resource development. Our government has selected 12 sunshine sectors that could contribute to the economy of the country and the region. These include transportation and logistics, construction and real estate, tourism and hospitality, aviation, fashion, media, oil and gas, public health, renewable and nuclear energy and education. We are encouraging universities to weave fitting courses to create the right human capital to support these industries. Courses in solar and nuclear energy, energy management as well as transportation and logistics are increasingly becoming popular.

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Part Man, Part Machine, "Spermbots" Swim Wild and Free

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Twin-tailed version is eight times as fast

If it looks like a sperm and swims like a sperm, it must be a .... cyborg? I. Part Man, Part Machine, Pure Spermlike Terror That's true, if you're talking about the "tiny swimming bio-bots" designed by the lab of University of Illinois mechanical science and engineering Professor Taher Saif. Professor Saif and his student research team took a thin filament of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) -- a silicone plastic commonly used in The Wendy's Comp. (WEN) fries and McDonald's Corp. (MCD) nuggets and fries -- and mounted cultured human heart cells (cardiomyocytes) to it. They hail their "spermbot" "the first synthetic structures that can traverse the viscous fluids of biological environments on their own."

Professor Saif brags:

Micro-organisms have a whole world that we only glimpse through the microscope. This is the first time that an engineered system has reached this underworld. It's the minimal amount of engineering -- just a head and a wire. Then the cells come in, interact with the structure, and make it functional.

The swimmer doesn't find it hard at all to thrust its way into foreign environments, plunging through the dark, wet depths of its test environments.

The little squirt can swim at a frisky pace of 5 to 10m per second. Researchers found that they could improve on nature's design, though, if they equipped the cyborg with twin tails.

The most intriguing aspect of this work is that it demonstrates the capability to use computational modeling in conjunction with biological design to optimize performance, or design entirely different types of swimming bio-bots. This opens the field up to a tremendous diversity of possibilities. Truly an exciting advance.

Professor Saif remarks:

The long-term vision is simple. Could we make elementary structures and seed them with stem cells that would differentiate into smart structures to deliver drugs, perform minimally invasive surgery or target cancer?

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Shock-O-Rama: Evolver

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By Chuck Francisco January 22, 2014 Source: Mania.com

Movies centered around the dangers of technology run amuck focused on two primary flavors, in the cyber drunk decade known as the 1990's: angsty cyborg killers with the will to fight their evil corporate programming, and operatic cyberspace dreamscapes populated by "hackers". Sure, every flick didn't fit into this flock, but with the swift tap of my fingers on Apple glass I've just described dozens of films. From among their number rolls Evolver, off the John de Lancie assembly line. Yes fellow nerds, the man who would be Q is the fictional brains behind the Evolver home game, having crafted a prototype robot to engage the imagination and children of consumers at Christmas season. But how should its bugs be tested and kinks worked out?

Perhaps in a nod to The Last Star Fighter, the company decides to bestow that beta tester status upon the highest scoring player of their virtual reality version of the Evolver game (I want to be involved in one of these board meetings at some point in my life. "Yes, give our multimillion dollar prototype to a twitch kid, high on energy drinks and ADD!"). Onto the scene, spinning like a top, rotates Ethan Embry (who I will shameless admit to loving in both Empire Records and Can't Hardly Wait). The spinning analogies are apropo as we are introduced to him engaged in a 90's VR booth, which includes a surrounding, waist high rail, VR helmet, and blaster gun. These earliest games had very rudimentary directional tracking and, while they had their own specific games, were mostly used to play ports of Quake and Duke Nukem 3D (I spent a good chunk of time working at a laser tag and virtually reality place on the Jersey shore in the 90's). So I'm familiar enough with the tech to know the game represented on screen, while cutting edge CGI of the time, was just not possible outside of the fanciest of screen savers.

Embry is one of those actors that is delightful in pretty much whatever he pops up in, including his recent stint on Once Upon a Time. As our protagonist in Evolver, he is moments from claiming the high score when into the game spawns Cassidy Rae as "the love interest". Her appearance womps Embry over the head, leaving him enshrined at second place by a mere fifty-five points. With a quick bit of Hollywood Hacking (TM), he quickly adjusts the score and is awarded with a home visit from John de Lancie's robot install service. I should quickly point out that the hacking itself has a bit more credibility than most films (for the time or at all), which is probably a result of budgetary constraints, but since it actually works, we won't begrudge it.

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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance review: An exhilarating blast of dumb

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Imagine a giant, roughly 200 ft. tall robot shoots a barrage of missiles at you. Do you:

a) Try to run away, but fail and die in a blazing inferno?

b) Wet your pants and cry?

c) Run towards the robot, using the missiles as platforms as you parkour your way through the air and chop the menacing machine in half with your sword?

If the prospect of Option C makes half of you want to bust out in incredulous laughter while the other half explodes in raucous applause, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance will be your type of gameif you can figure out how to control all the action, that is.

To be clear: the above situation isn't some hard-earned, climactic encounter that caps off a dozen hours of middling third-person action. This is Revengeance's opening sequenceliterally the first real encounter you have in the entire game.

Yeah, that happens.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is so sillyso downrightinsaneIcan almost forgive its absurd title.Revengeance is capital-Ffun, an exhilarating ride from start to finish.

The combat is really tight andwith the exception of some annoying boss encounterswell-balanced. Once you dig into Raiden's moves a bit more, there's a really rewarding game to be found.There's a surprising amount of depth in Revengeanceperhaps not as much as Devil May Cry, with its seamless weapon-swapping combat, but enough to keep things interesting. You just have to discover the depth for yourself. (Much more on that later.)

Parrying is especially satisfying, and there's a real sense of progress when you go from "Blade Wolf as boss fight" at the beginning of the game to effortlessly fighting multiple Blade Wolves at the same time later on. The addictive, combo-based swordplay oozes ridiculous style and insane violence in equal amounts.

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