Sunday 18 August 2013

Google paves way for Glass ads with 'pay-per-gaze' patent

Aug. 16, 2013

Dive summary:?

  • Google took?a step forward in bringing ads to Google Glass with a patent on a process it calls "pay-per-gaze."
  • The patent doesn't specifically mention Glass, but it mentions a "gaze tracking system" that requires a "head mounted gaze tracking device" and other descriptors that point to Glass.?
  • According to the patent, a user's gaze can be tracked to tell when they view an ad; advertisers would then be charged each time a user "gazed"?at an ad.?

From the article:?

"Individual privacy isn't completely thrown out the window, though. The patent states that 'personal identifying data may be removed from the data and provided to the advertisers as anonymous analytics'?and mentions possible incorporation of an opt-in or opt-out feature."

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Source: http://www.marketingdive.com/news/google-paves-way-for-glass-ads-with-pay-per-gaze-patent/162028/

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New Jersey governor to sign law easing pot use for sick kids

By Victoria Cavaliere

(Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on Friday acted on new legislation that will make it easier for children and teenagers suffering from serious illnesses to obtain medical marijuana.

Christie agreed to sign the so-called pot-for-tots bill if the New Jersey legislature makes changes, including removing wording that would have reduced the number of required physician recommendations for children.

He also agreed that children should be allowed access to edible forms of marijuana besides lozenges, considered difficult for young patients to use properly, but asked for tighter language in the bill to be sure only minors can get the medication.

Christie agreed with other parts of the bill, including eliminating the three-strain cultivation limit on authorized dispensaries, which would allow growers to develop products tailored for individual patients, including some adults, according to proponents.

Christie, who is running for reelection as New Jersey's governor and widely considered a contender for president in 2016, gave his "conditional" approval to the bill but sent it back to the legislature with the suggested changes.

"I am making commonsense recommendations to this legislation to ensure sick children receive the treatment their parents prefer, while maintaining appropriate safeguards," he said in a statement.

New Jersey is one of 19 states with a medical marijuana program, but the state's rules have made it difficult for young patients to enroll in treatment, according to proponents of the bill.

The legislation has been sitting on Christie's desk for nearly two months and his conditional approval comes two days after he was confronted at a campaign stop by a Scotch Plains father whose 2-year-old suffers from Dravet Syndrome, a potentially deadly form of epilepsy.

Brian Wilson urged Christie in a restaurant full of voters to sign the bill saying, "Don't let my daughter die."

Wilson said the kind of marijuana that helps stop his daughter's seizures currently is grown only in Colorado.

Christie acknowledged that marijuana is a controlled substance under U.S. federal law and "implementing a state controlled program while the drug remains illegal has raised numerous challenges." The administration of President Barack Obama has discouraged federal prosecutors from pursuing people who distribute marijuana for medical purposes under state laws.

(Editing by Barbara Goldberg and Prudence Crowther)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/jersey-governor-sign-law-easing-pot-sick-kids-224543877.html

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Kendrick Lamar 'Ain't The King,' Papoose Says On 'Control' Freestyle

Brooklyn MC had previously said he and Kendrick were on the 'same page,' but it doesn't look that way on his new track.
By Rob Markman

Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1712476/papoose-kendrick-lamar-control-response.jhtml

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Friday 16 August 2013

Cartes sworn in as president of Paraguay

ASUNCION: Conservative businessman Horacio Cartes was sworn in as president of Paraguay on Thursday, amid slowly improving relations with South American neighbors damaged by the 2012 ouster of leftist president Fernando Lugo.

As cathedral bells pealed, Cartes prayed for "wisdom, prudence and justice to fulfill my duty to serve the noble Paraguayan people."

Cartes, 57, whose election on April 21 returned to power the Colorado party of the late dictator Alfredo Stroessner, took the oath of office in the gardens of the presidential palace.

He used his inaugural address to pledge a "war on poverty" in a country where 39 percent of the seven-million people are poor.

"If in five years, we haven't substantially reduced poverty, all our work will have been for nothing," he said.

He also reached out to the leaders of neighboring states attending the ceremony, saying his "strong predisposition is to maintain cordial bilateral relations rather than aggravate differences of the moment."

"Our intention is that we become closer. Understanding and cooperation honor us," he said.

Conspicuously absent at Cartes' inauguration was Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, a close leftist ally of Lugo who was pointedly not invited to the ceremony. Also missing were the leaders of Ecuador and Bolivia.

But the presidents of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and Peru were there, signalling an end to the international ostracism Paraguay experienced in the wake of the political crisis two years ago.

And Maduro sent Cartes a letter of congratulations, pledging to do everything in his power for a "prompt return" of Paraguay to Mercosur.

Paraguay was suspended from the South American trading bloc in June 2012 after its Congress abruptly impeached and forced out Lugo, who was blamed for the deaths of 17 people in a clash between police and armed peasants.

Mercosur's presidents said in July that the organization would lift the suspension after Cartes' inauguration, but Paraguay has said it will not return to the trading bloc as long as Venezuela holds its rotating presidency.

Cartes met separately on Wednesday with Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff and Chile's President Sebastian Pinera.

On Thursday after the ceremony he held talks with Uruguay's President Jose Mujica, Argentina's Cristina Kirchner, and Peru's Ollanta Humala.

"We had a good exchange of views," Kirchner said afterwards.

Cartes' designated foreign minister, Eladio Loizaga, has said the new government would pursue relations with Mercosur members Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay bilaterally.

Unasur, a regional security organization that also suspended Paraguay over the Lugo ouster, announced over the weekend that it was lifting the measure in view of the April elections, which it said were held "with total normality and broad citizen participation."

Cartes replaces Federico Franco, a Liberal party leader who has led the country since Lugo's ouster.

Also at the inauguration were Taiwan's president Ma Ying-jeou and Prince Felipe?of Spain.

Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/cartes-sworn-in-as/778250.html

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Megafauna Extinction Affects Ecosystems 12,000 Years Later

A researcher describes how his mathematical model based on heat diffusion reveals the critical role played by large animals in dispersing nutrients


Glyptodon

MEGA MUCKER: Megafauna such as Glyptodon were muck-spreaders. Image: Flickr/Jan Stefka

Editor's note: The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation UK, an online publication covering the latest research.

By Chris Doughty, University of Oxford

If Earth were like a human body, large animals might be its arteries, moving nutrients from where they?re abundant to where they?re needed. Currently the planet has large regions where life is limited by a lack of key nutrients such as phosphorus. The Eastern Amazon basin, for example, is composed of trees that grow relatively slowly due to limited phosphorus. Likewise, animal life in much of the central Amazon is limited by a shortage of sodium.

As recently as 12,000 years ago, much of the world looked like an African savanna. South America teemed with large animals which overlapped with stone age humans, including several species of elephant-like creatures, giant ground sloths, and armadillo-like creatures the size of a small car.


Skeleton of Megatherium, the giant tree sloth.
Image: Ballista

In South America, most nutrients originate in the Andes mountain range and are washed into the forests through the river system. However, on dry land, these nutrients are in short supply unless they are transported by animals in their bodies and deposited in their dung. While small animals distribute nutrients over small distances, large animals have a much greater range. For instance, big animals have larger home ranges than small animals, they eat more, and they have longer guts. When these large animals became extinct, their habitat lost not only them but the nutrients they moved.

With colleagues, I developed a mathematical model, similar to one used by physicists to calculate the diffusion of heat, to estimate the ability of animals to distribute nutrients. The model is based on the body size of the animal, drawing on existing data of their fossilized remains. From this, we can estimate how much the animals ate, defecated, and the range and distance they travelled.

Our model indicated that large animals are not just important, but disproportionately more important than small animals for spreading nutrients. This model allows us to calculate the ability of animals to distribute nutrients anywhere on the planet at any time, if the animal?s average size and distribution is known. It can also be used to estimate the effects of past extinctions, such as those in the Amazon. And furthermore it can forecast the effects of potential events in the future, for example the effects on soil fertility in Africa if elephants became extinct.

We found mass extinctions of large animals in the Amazon 12,000 years ago switched off this natural nutrient pump by a massive 98%. Vital nutrients such as phosphorus were no longer spread around the region but became concentrated in those areas that bordered the floodplains. Even thousands of years after the extinctions, the Amazon basin has not yet recovered from this step change. Nutrients may continue to decline in the Amazon and other global regions for thousands of years to come.

People add nutrients to the planet by using fertiliser in agriculture. However, while large animals tend to distribute nutrients, we tend to concentrate them. Large animals such as cattle are now fenced and unable to spread nutrients around the way free-ranging creatures once did. So today, certain areas have too many nutrients (areas near agriculture) and other areas too few (natural ecosystems).

On today?s planet, the supply of nutrients in the soil is determined by river deposits or nutrients that are airborne. Yet this analysis suggests that we may be experiencing a peculiar post-extinction phase in the Amazon, and probably many other parts of the world where large animals once played a vital role in fertilizing their landscape. If humans contributed to the mass extinction of big animals 12,000 years ago, then the human impact on the environment at a global scale began even before the dawn of agriculture.

This article was originally published at The Conversation. Read the original article.

The Conversation

Source: http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/halzBOKTQ_4/article.cfm

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