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Times are changing, and so are we. We #39;re putting the power in your hands to dictate what you watch, when you watch it, and what it means to watch it. The old way is a thing of the past; the...
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Linux is Freedom. Operating System Debate: Linux vs Microsoft Windows vs Apple
This presentation was my contribution to the operating system debate (Linux vs MS Windows vs Apple), which was run at Murdoch University, Western Australia. The talk revolves around how Linux...
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Assassin #39;s Creed Freedom Cry - Can you spot the glitch?
Just a funny moment that i noticed. I don #39;t know if that guy ever made it to shore, cause i wasn #39;t going to go back for him lol.
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A second Freedom Industries executive who was indicted by federal prosecutors in connection with Januarys chemical leak wants those prosecutors taken off the case, saying that they were victims of the chemical leak and thus cannot be impartial prosecutors.
Dennis P. Farrell, a former owner and president of Freedom, has joined his former colleague Gary Southern in asking a judge to remove U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin and his entire office from the case.
The two men and two other former Freedom executives, William E. Tis and Charles E. Herzing, were indicted last week and each charged with three counts of violating environmental laws after Freedom Industries tank farm leaked about 10,000 gallons of coal-cleaning chemicals into the Elk River, contaminating the Kanawha Valleys drinking water.
Southern was also charged earlier this month with bankruptcy fraud and wire fraud for allegedly lying about his role with Freedom after the leak in an attempt to protect his personal wealth.
Soon after he was charged, Southerns lawyer asked that Goodwins office be removed from the case, saying that they were among the 300,000 people who had their water contaminated and therefore are victims.
Farrell made a similar request on Tuesday.
The conflict of interest is real, his lawyer, Michael Carey, wrote to the court. The U.S. Attorney, his assistants, investigators and office staff were actual victims of the crimes charged against Mr. Farrell. Of equal or perhaps greater gravity, husbands, wives and children of the prosecutors and staff of the U.S. Attorneys Office also were, and allegedly may continue to be, actual victims of the crimes charged.
Carey, himself a former U.S. attorney, writes that the U.S. Attorneys Office in Charleston was closed for a period of time following the chemical spill and that most of its staff lived in the affected region, which included parts of nine counties.
Because they are victims, Carey writes, the prosecutors have an inescapable conflict of interest in prosecuting Mr. Farrell.
He also argues that because they are Kanawha Valley residents, the prosecutors are members of a number of pending class action lawsuits filed against Freedom.
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It's impossible to listen to the radio every minute 24 hours a day. Even the biggest WUNC fan is bound to miss something. So here, in no particular order, are some of our favorite stories from 2014 that you might have missed.
Closer to Freedom (December 8, 2014)
Joseph Sledge, 68, has been in prison for half of his life for the 1976 Bladen County murders of a mother and daughter. News & Observer Investigative Reporter Mandy Locke has followed the story closely. She tells Frank Stasio about the work of the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission to bring Sledge's case to a three judge panel for possible exoneration.
Frank Stasio talks with News & Observer Investigative Reporter Mandy Locke about Joseph Sledges case.
The Year of the Teacher (August 7, 2014)
High-school graduation rates are at an all-time high in North Carolina, and National Association of Educational Progress (NAEP)scores are higher than the national average. Why then, do teachers feel under attack?
Coal Ash Coverage
A broken storm pipe caused 33,000 tons of coal ash to spill into the Dan River in February. Immediately, reporter Jeff Tiberii began filing regular reports on the issue. His reporting, augmented by stories from Jorge Valencia and Dave DeWitt, made national environmental, economic and political news.
Why Some NC Sterilization Victims Won't Get Share Of $10 Million Fund (October 6, 2014)
In 2013, North Carolina lawmakers set up a $10 million compensation fund for victims of state-sponsored eugenics. More than 780 people applied, claiming they had been forcibly or coercively sterilized by the state. After an initial review, the state decided only about 200 of those claims are valid, while more than 500 have come up short. This is the story of one victim, Debra Blackmon.
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PHILIP Sandland (Sentinel Letters, December 9) believes that wealth is a sign of intelligence and that Karl Marx claimed everyone is equal.
Wealth is just as likely to accompany a dim, egocentric, ruthless and exploitative personality. I do not know of many millionaire Nobel Prize winners but there are numerous sons of Third World politicians and military dictators, with dubiously sourced wealth, who have studied at an English public school.
For example, a disproportionate number of ex-public schoolboys occupy the best-paid jobs in the City and judiciary.
This is unlikely to be because they are especially bright but because their parents were rich and able to afford the intense tuition and social contacts that are not available to their poorer contemporaries.
In turn their children will benefit from having wealthy parents and the wealth gap, that the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has recently reported to have hampered the growth of the UK economy, is perpetuated.
The grammar school system, which Mr Sandland advocates, is only a little better.
It benefits the children of middle-class parents who are able to provide books and the encouragement that the poorer parents of equally talented children who have to work all the hours God sends to survive cannot provide.
The children of poorer parents are definitely disadvantaged. I do not know the answer to this but I am sure Mr Sandland is wrong to blame their unintelligent parents. Human eugenics was discredited many years ago.
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So much has been written about feral hogs overturning the balance in our natural eco-system(s). There is another mammal that has expanded its range exponentially.
Having the general appearance of a small shepherd-like dog, the coyote is now believed to be in every state in the U.S. The typical coyote weighs about 40 pounds, but their size can vary.
Though historically found in the western half of the United States, the great range expansion of the coyote is attributable to the demise of wolves, as well as relocation of coyotes for shooting sport by houndsmen groups. Highly adaptable, the coyote is now living in traditional open areas as well as agricultural communities, swamplands, dense forests and even suburban areas.
Coyotes are highly opportunistic feeders. Any type of small mammal is fair game. Fruits, berries, insects, reptiles and amphibians all supplement their varied diet. Carrion will also be eaten when other items are scarce. In suburban areas coyotes have been documented to readily prey on small domestic pets.
Coyotes are typically nocturnal but are sometimes seen during daylight hours. They have very keen hearing and eyesight. They are fast animals that can approach speeds of 40 miles per hour. Male coyotes, often a bit larger in size than the females, can have a home range/territory of up to 20 square miles.
Some landowners recruit other animals to act as security guards to discourage coyotes from visiting their property. Mules, donkeys, emus, ostriches, llamas and certain breeds of dogs show some promise in limiting coyote frequency and their predation on livestock. Some believe that coyotes are a major predator on young deer. Certain studies suggest that the white-tailed deer population can decrease in certain areas with high numbers of coyotes. Like their mammalian brethren, feral hogs, coyotes are intelligent animals. They can be a challenge to find and are wary of humans even though they now live in suburbs around us.
So once there were wolves in many areas of the United States. The smaller coyote has proved to be an adaptive replacement canine for the now rare wolves that once roamed our lands. They may even be in your own neighborhood.
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According to the New Testament,King Herod, asked the wise men when the star had appeared, because he was unaware of any such star Astronomers have also been baffled by how King Herod didn't know of such a bright star, and how a star 'in the east' could guide men south But 'in the east' is a literal translation of the Greek phrase en te anatole Thisdescribeswhen a planet that would rise above the eastern horizon just beforethe sun would appear, and then disappear in the morning sky If this was the case, however, the wise men would have been guided by Jupiter wouldn't have arrived until Jesus was eight months old
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Published: 09:15 EST, 24 December 2014 | Updated: 10:03 EST, 24 December 2014
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Bright stars top Christmas trees in Christian homes around much of the world.
The faithful sing about the Star of Wonder that guided the wise men to a manger in the little town of Bethlehem, where Jesus was born.
They're commemorating the Star of Bethlehem described by the Evangelist Matthew in the New Testament.But is the star's biblical description a pious fiction or does it contain some astronomical truth?
Bright stars top Christmas trees in Christian homes around much of the world (right).But is the star's biblical description a pious fiction or does it contain some astronomical truth? According to one expert, it is
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Bright stars top Christmas trees in Christian homes around much of the world. The faithful sing about the Star of Wonder that guided the wise men to a manger in the little town of Bethlehem, where Jesus was born. They're commemorating the Star of Bethlehem described by the Evangelist Matthew in the New Testament. Is the star's biblical description a pious fiction or does it contain some astronomical truth?
Puzzles for astronomy
To understand the Star of Bethlehem, we need to think like the three wise men. Motivated by this "star in the east," they first traveled to Jerusalem and told King Herod the prophecy that a new ruler of the people of Israel would be born. We also need to think like King Herod, who asked the wise men when the star had appeared, because he and his court, apparently, were unaware of any such star in the sky.
These events present us with our first astronomy puzzle of the first Christmas: How could King Herod's own advisors have been unaware of a star so bright and obvious that it could have led the wise men to Jerusalem?
Next, in order to reach Bethlehem, the wise men had to travel directly south from Jerusalem; somehow that "star in the east" "went before them, 'til it came and stood over where the young child was." Now we have our second first-Christmas astronomy puzzle: How can a star "in the east" guide our wise men to the south? The north star guides lost hikers to the north, so shouldn't a star in the east have led the wise men to the east?
And we have yet a third first-Christmas astronomy puzzle: How does Matthew's star move "before them," like the tail lights on the snowplow you might follow during a blizzard, and then stop and stand over the manger in Bethlehem, inside of which supposedly lies the infant Jesus?
What could the 'star in the east' be?
The astronomer in me knows that no star can do these things, nor can a comet, or Jupiter, or a supernova, or a conjunction of planets or any other actual bright object in the nighttime sky. One can claim that Matthew's words describe a miracle, something beyond the laws of physics. But Matthew chose his words carefully and wrote "star in the east" twice, which suggests that these words hold a specific importance for his readers.
Can we find any other explanation, consistent with Matthew's words, that doesn't require that the laws of physics be violated and that has something to do with astronomy? The answer, amazingly, is yes.
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No stars to see here, move along The Procession of the Magi (1459) by Gozzoli.
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This is the season for stargazing. In December and January, the winter skies are cold and sometimes clear. A cloudless night reveals a bright canopy of stars, so it is the perfect time to get out your telescope or binoculars.
It also happens to be the time when astronomy is celebrated in the Christmas story. The magi, three wise men from Persia, followed a star to Bethlehem. What star was it? A comet? A meteor? I have no idea. Instead, I have been trying to follow their star through art, with some curious results.
The star of Bethlehem rarely appears in Renaissance paintings. It does not appear to have interested 15th-century artists such as Benozzo Gozzoli and Sandro Botticelli. Even the infinitely curious Leonardo da Vinci, who was so in love with science, does not appear to include a star in his enigmatic Adoration of the Magi although its unfinished state makes it impossible to know if he might have dotted one in at the last moment. That seems unlikely, because the absence of stars in Renaissance paintings of the magi reveals a fundamental difference between how they saw the cosmos and how we do. It seems obvious now that stars are distant, gaseous bodies that appear to us as pinpricks of light, but there was no such knowledge 500 or 600 years ago. Because the sky was imagined differently it was seen differently.
The magical and strange way people during the Renaissance saw the heavens is apparent in Raphaels painting The Mond Crucifixion. It includes a moon and sun that each have human faces. Lovely, childlike stuff, but a long way from modern science. In a chapel in Florence, a dome is decorated with the constellations on a particular night; the stars were the stuff of astrological magic. Tintoretto even painted the birth of the milky way from the breast milk of the goddess Juno.
Stars do appear as golden star shapes in this painting. Silver ones also appear in Titians Bacchus and Ariadne, about a woman who was changed into a constellation. For Titian and Tintoretto, stars are magical crosses of light.
Then, at the start of the 17th century, Galileo Galilei turned a telescope on the moon and other objects in the night sky. His report The Starry Messenger showed that what we see in the sky at night are physical phenomena, not heavenly phantoms.
After Galileo, artists not only depicted the star the magi followed, but even speculated as to what it was. Murillo showed it as a comet, as did Velzquez. From utter mystery, the sky became a place with physical laws. A comet became something real.
In the same era, Guercino painted Endymion asleep with a telescope on his lap, for the sky was no longer a place of signs and wonders. It was a new frontier for science to explore. Eventually, that quest would make the magi just a story, their star a festive decoration.
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What will intelligent machines mean for society and the economy in 30, 50 or even 100 years from now? That's the question that Stanford University scientists are hoping to take on with a new project, the One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence.
What will intelligent machines mean for society and the economy in 30, 50 or even 100 years from now?
That's the question that Stanford University scientists are hoping to take on with a new project, the One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100).
The university is inviting artificial intelligence researchers, roboticists and other scientists to begin what they hope will be a long term 100 years long effort to study and anticipate the effects of advancing artificial intelligence (AI) technology . Scientists want to consider how machines that perceive, learn and reason will affect the way people live, work and communicate.
"If your goal is to create a process that looks ahead 30 to 50 to 70 years, it's not altogether clear what artificial intelligence will mean, or how you would study it," said Russ Altman, a professor of bioengineering and computer science at Stanford. "But it's a pretty good bet that Stanford will be around, and that whatever is important at the time, the university will be involved in it."
The future, and potential, of artificial intelligence has come under fire and increasing scrutiny in the past several months after both renowned physicist, cosmologist and author Stephen Hawking and high-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk warned of what they perceive as a mounting danger from developing AI technology.
Musk, speaking at an MIT symposium in October, said scientists should be careful about developing AI technology. "If I were to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably that," said Musk, CEO of electric car maker Tesla Motors, and CEO and co-founder of the commercial space flight company SpaceX. "With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. In all those stories with the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, and he's sure he can control the demon. It doesn't work out."
Hawking added to the conversation in an interview with the BBC,, saying scientists should be cautious about creating machines that could one day be smarter and stronger than humans.
"It would take off on its own and re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate," Hawking said in the interview. "Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete, and would be superseded."
Stanford's AI project appears to be more focused on what AI can add to society, though the project is looking to keep an eye on development and any direction that might take.
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