Economic freedom and human progress: Juan Carlos Hidalgo at TEDxIbmec – Video

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Juan Carlos Hidalgo analista poltico sobre Amrica Latina no Centro de Liberdade e Prosperidade Global. Anteriormente, ele foi diretor da Amrica Latina da International Policy Network....

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Freedom Planet – Lilac vs The Beta Shadebeast (No Hit Challenge) – Video

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The following video is from the very first Beta build of Freedom Planet. The Shadebeast was far more difficult with more aggressive green projectiles, Dail #39;s shield had 3 hits instead of 2,...

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Sharks of the Andaman Sea HD | Underwater Video by Freedom Divers Phuket – Video

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Are you afraid of sharks or fascinated by them http://freedom-divers.com This short video (3 years in the making) showcases Sharks in all their beauty and splendid in their natural habitat....

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Slayin’ & Farmin’ – Let’s Play Monster Hunter Freedom Unite Ep.2 – Video

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Demonstrating the farm and the first slaying quest! Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJUQTzg0xL4 list=PLtOSllzBX9xUr97xaXO6R4_bIrgRQ4bvh Outro Song: FamilyJules7X - Mega Man...

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Hull Freedom Festival, September 5 to 7

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THE opening of the Freedom Festival 2014 in Hull will be marked by tonight's (FRI) unveiling of The Long Walk To FreedomLight Trail, a specially commissioned exhibition of new artworks inspired by Nelson Mandela and his contribution to the causes of freedom and reconciliation.

Mandela's greatest moments and achievements are re-imagined as installations of light, colour and sound as magical light displays blaze a trail through Hull's cobbled Old Town.

The Long Walk To Freedom recognises the parallels between Mandelas work and the origins of the Freedom Festival, which celebrates Hulls independent spirit and historic contribution to the cause of freedom, as the birthplace of pioneering Hull-born MP William Wilberforce, who led the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire.

Set in Hulls emerging Fruit Market area, against the backdrop of Hull Marina, the Freedom Festival is the citys premier cultural event and will provide a taster of what visitors can expect in its City of Culture year in 2017.

The event runs from today until Sunday and features internationally renowned artists, street performance, music, dance, comedy, spoken-word performers and participatory attractions in its diverse, family-friendly line-up.

Look out for the Ted Hughes Award-winning poet and rapper Kate Tempest in a free event on the Bridge Stage tomorrow at 10pm. Kate started out rapping on London night buses and at raves and poetry slams and has returned to her hip-hop roots with the release of her debut album, Everybody Down. Expect storytelling and an impassioned performance style from Kate, whose first novel will be published next year.

Among the music highlights on the Yellow Bus Stage will be soul queen Ruby Turner tomorrow at 5pm; Hull soul legend Roland Gift, from Fine Young Cannibals, tomorrow at 7.30pm; and New York vocal harmony group Naturally 7 on Sunday at 5pm. DJs Andy Kershaw and Keb Darge and Indojazz clarinettist Arun Ghosh will be in action too.

In a theatre partnership with Hulls Heads Up Festival, Theatre Ad Infinitum's drag cabaret on the Israel-Palestine conflict, Ballad Of The Burning Star, will explore identity, religion and politics through a combination of music, knock-out heels and a lethal troop of divas.The company also will present a children's show, The Incredible Book Eating Boy.

Spoken-word and poetry highlights will be Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, CBeebies star Dominic Berry and punk-poet Attila the Stockbroker, while street art and performance shows will include the contemporary circus company NoFit State in Acrojous The Wheel House and C-12s Trolleys; BMX star Keelan Phillips; and performance-parkour from The Urban Playground.

Look out too for the epic love story-turned-outdoor spectacular Spellbound; interactive performance and restaurant-with-a-twist Ready Steady Colour; and the community parade A World Of Colour, involving hundreds of Hull residents and organisations on Sunday in Hull city centre at 3pm.

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A2 Corp cornerstone shareholder Freedom Foods buys $589k of shares after dilution

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ASX-listed Freedom Foods Group [ASX: FNP]bought almost one million shares of A2 Milk Co [NZX: ATM] this week for about $589,000 after its stake was diluted in the past year due to the issue of partly-paid shares.

The Sydney-based food company bought 942,500 shares in four transactions in A2 this week at an average price of about 62.5 cents, according to a substantial shareholder notice filed to the NZX. Freedom Foods holds about 117.9 million shares, or 17.9 percent of A2, leaving it as the biggest shareholder in the milk marketing company.

Because A2 issued partly-paid shares to executives earlier this year, Freedom Foods' stake was diluted down from 18.1 percent when it made its last disclosure in December 2012.

Shares of A2 rose 1.6 percent to 63 cents today, and have dropped 23 percent this year. The stock is rated an average 'buy' based on four analyst recommendations compiled by Reuters, with a median target price of 80 cents.

Last month A2 reported a slump in annual profit to $10,000, even as sales rose 17 percent to $111 million, as a strong kiwi dollar eroded the value of revenue and earnings.

In its Aug. 29 results announcement, Freedom Foods said it intends to keep a strategic stake in A2 in the medium-term, while keeping the option to "realise capital from the investment to support growth opportunities."

Freedom Foods said A2 offers "potentially significant value creation" through the milk marketing firm's growth in Australia and international markets.

Shares of Freedom Foods rose 3.7 percent to A$3.12 on the ASX yesterday, and have climbed 13 percent this year.

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Editorial: Governor should apologize to eugenics victims

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Published: Thursday, September 4, 2014 at 09:46 PM.

Its hard to blame Elnora Mills for not feeling terribly grateful. Decades after being forcibly sterilized under the state eugenics program, she and other victims of that cruel social experiment are finally seeing some compensation. Mills has been notified that she soon will receive the first half of a payout that is expected to total about $50,000.

Mills had a nervous breakdown as a teenager, spent some time in a psychiatric hospital and, as a result, was deemed unfit to bear children. Her reproductive organs were removed during an appendectomy, unbeknownst to her. She didnt find out that she couldnt have children until after she married.

Mills was one of an estimated 7,600 North Carolinians who were sterilized against their will between 1929 and 1974, when the forced eugenics program at last was brought to an end.

The legislature capped total payments at $10 million, to be split among victims who are alive and who can prove they were part of the sterilization program that continued in North Carolina for years after other states had abandoned the practice.

Advocates for the victims estimated last year that 2,000 of them may still be alive, but far fewer have been confirmed in the narrow window the General Assembly left for them to apply for compensation approved last year. As of mid-August, only 180 people had been approved to receive payments; Mills was among them.

Seven hundred eighty claims were received, and 500 have been reviewed by the N.C. Industrial Commission, which is overseeing the compensation program; the others are still being researched. Those whose applications were denied may appeal or provide additional information to support their claims.

The state Senate last year finally conceded to the measure that the House already had passed. Much of the credit for pushing this legislation through the General Assembly goes to Rep. Thom Tillis, R-Mecklenburg, who announced during his first term as House speaker that compensation for sterilization program victims would be a priority.

The cap and the amount of compensation do not sit well with those who believe these victims deserved much more. After all, they had something taken from them that cant be stated in monetary terms. It is, however, far more than has ever been done to make amends.

Former Gov. Mike Easley issued an official apology to eugenics victims back in 2002, but a blanket statement is not the same thing as a personal acknowledgement.

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World's first cyborg

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(CNN) -- Neil Harbisson is the world's first legally recognized cyborg. He has an antenna implanted into his skull that gives him access to something he was born without: the ability to perceive color.

In a world where technology is overwhelming our mental focus and social lives, Harbisson, 32, has a closer relationship with technology than even the most avid smartphone user.

As a child growing up in a coastal town in Catalonia, Spain, Harbisson was diagnosed with achromatopsia, complete color-blindness. In 2004, he decided to find a way out of his black-and-white world, by developing a technology that would provide him with a sensory experience that no other human had ever experienced.

The idea came while studying experimental music composition at Dartington College of Arts in Devon, England. For his final project, Harbisson and the computer scientist Adam Montandon developed the first incarnation of what they called the "eyeborg." The apparatus was an antenna attached to a five-kilogram computer and a pair of headphones. The webcam at the end of the antenna translated each color into 360 different sound waves that Harbisson could listen to through headphones.

Although it sounds like a form of induced synaesthesia, a neurological condition that makes people see or even taste colors, Harbisson's new condition is different, and requires a completely new name: sonochromatopsia, an extra sense that connects colors with sound. Unlike synaestehsia, which can vary wildly from person to person, sonochromatopsia makes each color correspond to a specific sound.

It took about five weeks to get over the headaches from the sounds of each new color and about five months to be able to decipher each frequency as a particular color he could now hear as a sound.

In the years after he began wearing the eyeborg, Harbisson went from complete color-blindness to the ability to decipher colors like red, green and blue. He could even detect colors like infrared and ultraviolet, which are outside of the spectrum of human vision.

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Going to a supermarket became like a visit to a nightclub. His daily choice of clothes began to reflect the scale of music tones that matched his emotional state, the way that some people match a top and pants. When he was in a good mood, Harbisson would dress in a chord like c-major, colors whose sound frequencies correspond to pink, yellow and blue; if he was in a sad mood, he would dress in turquoise, purple and orange, colors linked to b-minor. His concept of race also changed: he soon discovered that skin color, for him, was not actually black-and-white:

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For Sale Soon: The Worlds First Google Glass Detector

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Earlier this summer, Berlin-based artist and coder Julian Oliver released Glasshole.sh, a simple and free piece of software designed to detect Google Glass and boot it from any local Wi-Fi network. That DIY idea, says Oliver, was so popular among Glasss critics that hes now offering his cyborg-foiling hack to the masses in a much more polished form: an easy-to-use commercial product selling for less than $100.

Later this month, Oliver says hell start taking pre-orders for Cyborg Unplug, a gadget no bigger than a laptop charger that plugs into a wall and patrols the local Wi-Fi network for connected Google Glass devices, along with other potential surveillance gadgets like Google Dropcams, Wi-Fi-enabled drone copters, and certain wireless microphones. When it detects one of those devices, it can be programmed to flash an alert with an LED light, play a sound through connected speakers, and even ping the Cyborg Unplug owners smartphone through an Android app, as well as silently booting those potential spy devices from the network.

Basically its a wireless defense shield for your home or place of work, says Oliver. The intent is to counter a growing and tangibly troubling emergence of wirelessly capable devices that are used and abused for surveillance and voyeurism.

The plug can seek out and disconnect nearby surveillance devices on any network it connects toa more legally ambiguous use of the gadget.

Oliver says hell offer Cyborg Unplug in two versions: A cheaper version called Little Snipper equipped with only an LED blinker alert will sell for around $50. The higher-end version, which hes dubbed the Axe, will sell for about $85 and also include the Android app, an audio connection to any nearby speakers for an audible beeping alert, and a 5G Wi-Fi connection often used by businesses as well as the more common 2.4G connection. The two devices are built from cheap, plug-in Wi-Fi routers made by Qualcomm Atheros and Ralink but with their firmware replaced with Olivers own version of the Linux-based software Open-WRT. Its just modified router hardware, but instead of allowing devices to get to the internet, it does precisely the opposite, he says.

In addition to a default state called Territory Mode designed to defend the users own network, Oliver says Cyborg Unplug will also offer an All Out Mode. With that more aggressive setting switched on, the plug will seek out and disconnect nearby surveillance devices on any network it connects to, including Glasss wireless connection to their owners phones. Thats a more legally ambiguous use of the gadget that Oliver says he doesnt recommend. Please note that this latter mode may not be legal within your jurisdiction, reads a disclaimer on Cyborg Unplugs website. We take no responsibility for the trouble you get yourself into if you choose to deploy your Cyborg Unplug in this mode.

A Google spokesperson declined to comment.

The idea for Glasshole.sh came to Oliver in June after an artist friend complained that a Glass-wearing visitor had potentially uploaded content from a gallery exhibition hed hosted. Oliver soon found that Googles augmented reality headsets used a unique prefix in their MAC addresses that he could easily detect. He quickly wrote and published a free script that could be installed on a cheap Wi-Fi-connected computer like a Raspberry Pi or BeagleBoard to seek out Glass headsets and and use the program Aircrack-NG to send a DeAuth command that cuts their internet connections.

As his idea spread, Oliver says he began receiving requests from restaurants, casinos, and clubs asking how they could implement the DIY script. He soon decided to build and sell the device himself. The dominant enthusiasts were women, says Oliver. They were concerned about guys at nightclubs taking a little bit home for later, or guys across from them on the train looking them up and down. Even if they didnt know if the device was recording, they felt threatened by its presence.

Cutting the Wi-Fi uplink of Google Glass or most other surveillance gadgets doesnt necessarily do much to prevent that sort of snooping, as long as its stored locally on the device. In fact, Cyborg Unplug wouldnt even detect any Glass user who doesnt attempt to connect to Wi-Fi. But Oliver argues that it would at least make it more difficult to surreptitiously stream video or images to a remote location without leaving evidence on the snoops local device. A casino owner, for instance, might catch someone with some device and take it off them, but could never prove they were recording because they were streaming to somewhere else, Oliver says.

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We know San Diego has world-renowned beaches. But life sciences? Tell us more. – Video

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We know San Diego has world-renowned beaches. But life sciences? Tell us more.
Eric Topol, M.D., director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute, and Pieter van Rooyen, Ph.D., founder and CEO of Edico Genome (http://www.edicogenome.com), discuss the advantages...

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