LeAnn Rimes: I Wasn't Drunk on 'The X Factor'

When LeAnn Rimes showed up on Wednesday's X Factor, she was supposed to be supporting finalist Carly Rose Sonenclar. Unfortunately, Rimes ended up casting some unflattering attention on herself instead. During their "diva duet" of Rimes' hit "How Do I Live," the country star seemed a little bit... off. The judges didn't seem to mind, but viewers immediately began to speculate on whether Rimes had been drinking. Watch the performance below!

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Scientists create nanoscale window to biological world

Dec. 20, 2012 ? If the key to winning battles is knowing both your enemy and yourself, then scientists are now well on their way toward becoming the Sun Tzus of medicine by taking a giant step toward a priceless advantage -- the ability to see the soldiers in action on the battlefield.

Investigators at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute have invented a way to directly image biological structures at their most fundamental level and in their natural habitats. The technique is a major advancement toward the ultimate goal of imaging biological processes in action at the atomic level.

"It's sort of like the difference between seeing Han Solo frozen in carbonite and watching him walk around blasting stormtroopers," said Deborah Kelly, an assistant professor at the VTC Research Institute and a lead author on the paper describing the first successful test of the new technique. "Seeing viruses, for example, in action in their natural environment is invaluable."

The technique involves taking two silicon-nitride microchips with windows etched in their centers and pressing them together until only a 150-nanometer space between them remains. The researchers then fill this pocket with a liquid resembling the natural environment of the biological structure to be imaged, creating a microfluidic chamber.

Then, because free-floating structures yield images with poor resolution, the researchers coat the microchip's interior surface with a layer of natural biological tethers, such as antibodies, which naturally grab onto a virus and hold it in place.

In a recent study in Lab on a Chip, Kelly joined Sarah McDonald, also an assistant professor at the VTC Research Institute, to prove that the technique works. McDonald provided a pure sample of rotavirus double-layered particles for the study.

"What's missing in the field of structural biology right now is dynamics -- how things move in time," said McDonald. "Debbie is developing technologies to bridge that gap, because that's clearly the next big breakthrough that structural biology needs."

Rotavirus is the most common cause of severe diarrhea among infants and children. By the age of 5, nearly every child in the world has been infected at least once. And although the disease tends to be easily managed in the developed world, in developing countries rotavirus kills more than 450,000 children a year.

At the second step in the pathogen's life cycle, rotavirus sheds its outer layer, which allows it to enter a cell, and becomes what is called a double-layered particle. Once its second layer is exposed, the virus is ready to begin using the cell's own infrastructure to produce more viruses. It was the viral structure at this stage that the researchers imaged in the new study.

Kelly and McDonald coated the interior window of the microchip with antibodies to the virus. The antibodies, in turn, latched onto the rotaviruses that were injected into the microfluidic chamber and held them in place. The researchers then used a transmission electron microscope to image the prepared slide.

The technique worked perfectly.

The experiment gave results that resembled those achieved using traditional freezing methods to prepare rotavirus for electron microscopy, proving that the new technique can deliver accurate results.

"It's the first time scientists have imaged anything on this scale in liquid," said Kelly.

The next step is to continue to develop the technique with an eye toward imaging biological structures dynamically in action. Specifically, McDonald is looking to understand how rotavirus assembles, so as to better know and develop tools to combat this particular enemy of children's health.

The researchers said their ongoing collaboration is an example of the cross-disciplinary work that is becoming a hallmark of the VTC Research Institute.

"It's an ideal collaboration because Sarah provides a phenomenal model system by which we can develop new technologies to move the field of microstructural biology forward," said Kelly.

"It's very win-win," McDonald added. "While the virus is a great tool for Debbie to develop her techniques, her technology is critical for allowing me to understand how this deadly virus assembles and changes dynamically over time."

The paper "Visualizing viral assemblies in a nanoscale biosphere" was published online and will appear in a 2013 edition of Lab on a Chip.

The authors are Brian Gilmore, a research associate at the VTC Research Institute; Shannon Showalter, a research assistant at the VTC Research Institute; Madeline Dukes, an applications scientist at Protochips; Justin Tanner, a postdoctoral associate at the VTC Research Institute; Andrew Demmert, a student at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine; McDonald, in addition to her position at the VTC Research Institute, is an assistant professor of biomedical sciences and pathobiology in the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine; and Kelly, in addition to her position at the VTC Research Institute, is an assistant professor of biological sciences in Virginia Tech's College of Science.

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the Shift Age! - David Houle - MediaBizBloggers.com

Published: December 18, 2012 at 06:56 AM GMT
Last Updated: December 18, 2012 at 06:56 AM GMT By David Houle

We have left the Information Age and entered the Shift Age. This new age is an era of transformation unparalleled in terms of the amount of change that will occur is the next 20-30 years.

As long time readers of this column know, I have been writing and speaking about the Shift Age since 2007 and my first book of that name was published exactly 5 years ago this month. In serendipitous celebration of that anniversary, my biggest and best book about the future of humanity is being published on January 1, 2013. Parts One and Two of that book, "Entering the Shift Age" are now available as a mini-eBook, "Welcome to the Shift Age" where I look at the new age, the twenty year period 1985-2005 and the three forces of the Shift Age.

The Threshold Decades ? 1985-2005

A threshold is a place of entering or beginning. It is also a place between two rooms. The Threshold Decades is the 20-year period between the room of what was and the room of what will be. This 20-year period was a time of incredible change, a time when our worldview, our accepted economic models and how we thought about almost everything changed. Just think all that came into being and then was spread around the world: personal computers, cable television, fax machines, cell phones, laptops and the of course the early stages of the Internet. This 20-year period was the time when most of the world moved from analogue to digital with incredible consequences particularly relative to computing, media and all forms of content.

Historians will look back on this 20-year period as a clear demarcation between the past and the future, a significant time bridge from the wonders and inventions of the 20th century and the incredible alterations for humanity in the 21st century. It was a time when the Three Forces of the Shift Age took shape and took off.

The Three Forces of the Shift Age

There are many forces at play in the world today. That said there are three dominant forces that upon reflection are the source of most of the transformative, disruptive and sometime overwhelming changes we are now experiencing.

The Flow to Global

The Flow to Global is far more than just the 15-20 year old global economy. Humanity is being reorganized around the global construct. We are entering the global stage of human evolution, nothing less. This means that the world "globalization" is no longer an economic term. It is a term that describes what is and will be occurring in most areas of human society now through the next 15-20 years. We are getting reorganized around all of us. This is truly the evolutionary next step for humanity.

The Flow to the Individual

The Flow to the Individual had its roots in the Threshold Decade, when, in the developed countries there was an explosion of choice. Television channels, radio stations, books published, web sites, even brands of toothpaste exploded in number. This meant that the power moved from the producer to the consumer, from the institution to the individual. We as individuals have more power than individuals have ever had before.

So, at the same time that we are flowing to a global reorganization we are becoming ever more powerful as individuals. This flow of power and shape to all of us and each of us has of course created extreme disruption to many of the institutional constructs that have been in place for the last 100 years.

Both the Flow to the Global and the Flow to the Individual have, are, and will be amplified by the single most powerful force at play in the world today, and one of the most powerful forces in history.

The Accelerating Connectedness of Humanity

Humanity has become connected at a level never before experienced. In 1985, at the beginning of the Threshold Decades, there were approximately 750,000 cell phone users in the world. During the first few years of the Shift Age, 2006-2010 there were almost twice as many new, first time cell phone users, 1.5 million, being activated every day!

There are now approximately 5.6 billion cell phone users in a global population of 7.1 billion, so we basically have cell phone ubiquity today. If I call someone 20 feet away from me, cell phone to cell phone, it will probably take about 5 seconds for her phone to ring. If I were to call someone on another continent 12,000 miles away, it might take an extra 2-3 seconds due to the relay of the signal off a satellite. So there is no time, distance or place any longer limiting human communication. That could not be said 5 years ago let alone 25 or 50 years ago. This has, for the first time altered the concept of place, certainly in human communications.

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Offensive Twitter, Facebook messages won't be prosecuted

The Crown Prosection Service, or CPS, has unveiled guidelines on how law makers should approach policing social networks. The guidance makes a distinction between offensive messages and those that are malicious, making social media as close to spoken conversation in the eyes of the law as it is to written media.?See all: PC Advisor software downloads.

New guidelines say that merely offensive posts should not be prosecuted

The Director of Public Prosecutions, Kier Starmer, has announced guidelines that clarify the law with regard to messages posted on social media websites such as Twitter and Facebook. The new Crown Prosection Service guidance is intended to reduce the number of prosecutions arising from offensive social networking posts, following recent high-profile incidents such as the man who was arrested for posting a film on Facebook of himself burning a symbollic poppy.

In announcing the guidelines Starmer said that Twitter and Facebook posts that are merely offensive will not be treated as criminal acts. Instead the CPS should focus on credible threats of violence, malicious messages, and messages that breach existing court orders. This should have prevented the prosection of accountant Paul Chambers, who was pursued through criminal and appeal courts for more than two years for joking about blowing up Doncaster airport. His 'threat' was clearly not credible - although even under these guidelines it would have required the local police and prosecutors to have appreciated that.

Announcing the guidelines, Mr Starmer said: "These interim guidelines are intended to strike the right balance between freedom of expression and the need to uphold the criminal law.

"The interim guidelines thus protect the individual from threats or targeted harassment while protecting the expression of unpopular or unfashionable opinion about serious or trivial matters, or banter or humour, even if distasteful to some and painful to those subjected to it."

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COMODO Internet Security Premium 2013 sports radical new interface, improved sandboxing, lighter footprint

BetaNews writes, UK software developer Comodo Group has launched the 2013 range -- version 6.0 -- of its free internet security products. COMODO Internet Security Premium 2013, COMODO AntiVirus 2013 and COMODO Firewall 2013 all debut a brand new, radically revamped and simplified user interface, plus come with the promise of being the lightest, fastest version of COMODO?s security tool yet. The latest build also improves virtualization technology for running applications in their own sandbox, while COMODO Internet Security also ships with a number of new integrated products, including Autorun Analyzer and?

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Astronauts to control robots on Earth

Next year, a set of sophisticated experiments are planned to utilize the talents of astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) to control robotic hardware on Earth.

The tests would spotlight the feasibility of telerobotic deployment of science experiments, critical equipment and structures at distant spots in the solar system, be it on the moon, at asteroids or on Mars.

The moon's farside is a possible early goal for missions beyond low-Earth orbit using NASA's Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle in tandem with teleoperated robots. The lunar L2 Lagrange Point is a location where the combined gravity of the Earth and moon allows a spacecraft to be synchronized with the moon in its orbit around the Earth, so that the spacecraft is relatively stationary over the farside of the moon.

One idea being appraised is teleoperating a rover capable of deploying a low radio frequency array on the moon's farside. That idea is spearheaded by Jack Burns, director of the NASA Lunar Science Institute's Lunar University Network for Astrophysics Research, a NASA-funded center at the University of Colorado at Boulder. [5 Reasons to Fear Robots]

Such an L2-Farside crewed mission could have astronauts remotely deploy a unique polyimide film low radio frequency antenna or array in the proven radio-quiet and ionosphere-free zone of the farside, said Burns, science gear that can track down the "cosmic dawn" of the universe shortly after the Big Bang.

Real-time commanding
To help shake out the telerobotics concept here on Earth, preparations are in full-swing to perform research in the summer of next year, said Terry Fong, director of the Intelligent Robotics Group at the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.

"Our testing is going to have real-time commanding back and forth," Fong told Space.com. "We have a fairly significant amount of testing time ? about 11 hours of operational time with an astronaut on ISS."

Fong said that these tests are essential to hone human-robotic interactions. "We don't know what we don't know," and next year's experiment is just a starting point.

"I'm excited that we're breaking new ground here," Fong said.

K10 robot
At the Ames center, a football field-size test area is being prepared, dotted with some craters and rocks, and features hilly terrain and a small mesa, Fong said. The K10 robot has already undergone extensive testing, he said, such as field trials in the Canadian arctic and desert locales.

The K10 is a speedy beast, contrasted to an earlier rover design. It also hauls more payload and is a more flexible research platform, Fong said, and is fully equipped with cameras and laser scanning gear.

Next year's experiment will include three crew sessions, each three and a half hours long and carved up in phases: survey the site, deploy the array, and inspect the completed work.

"We are trying to carry this out as a simulation of different phases of deploying a lunar telescope," Fong said, using a small deployer on the back of the K10 to roll out the plastic film array.

On-the-job training
There will be some on-the-job training for the astronauts engaged in the telerobotics work.

But Fong said the objective is to minimize the amount of astronaut training time involved. "The robot interface is being set up to be highly usable," needing only perhaps an hour's worth of prep time.

"Our philosophy here for the past several years is robots for human exploration. There are a lot of features of both that are very complimentary. It's not human versus robot. It's more how do you best use humans and robots together," Fong said.

The ultimate goal of the experiment is to get more human capability for exploring Mars, Fong said. "One of those things on the table is the idea of having humans in Mars orbit, controlling robots on the surface."

Rehearse and research
Also on tap to start next year is telerobotics work using the European Space Agency's (ESA) Multi-Purpose End-To-End Robotic Operation Network ? Meteron, for short ? designed to validate future human-robotic mission operations concepts from space, using the International Space Station, and tied to technologists in Europe.

All this is prelude to permit humans from orbit to execute complex tasks remotely, such as setting up engineering structures on faraway celestial surfaces via teleoperated robots.

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"The ISS is the best-suited platform that there is for our work on Meteron. It is a unique opportunity for us to reuse an existing orbiter station around Earth to rehearse and research what we'd need for future orbiting stations around other celestial bodies," said Andre Schiele, Meteron Robotics principal investigator. He also heads the ESA/European Space Research and Technology Center's (ESTEC) Telerobotics and Haptics Laboratory in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.

Tactile feedback
Schiele said the Meteron research in an "endless" microgravity environment offers new insights about the perception of "haptic" (relating to the sense of touch) and "tactile" feedback within that environment. "Moreover, little is known how other human perception relevant to telerobotic activities is influenced," he said.

While the procedural requirements for using the ISS for such experimentation are heavy, it would be significantly more difficult to perform such testing elsewhere," Schiele told Space.com.

The ESA/ESTEC effort is set to look into such issues as time delay, communications bandwidth, as well as how best to allow intuitive and dexterous control of robotic systems, be they touch interfaces, force reflective joysticks and arm exoskeletons, Schiele said.

Meteron will investigate the close collaboration feasible between humans and robots, Schiele said, not only in the technology required, but also in terms of cost, access and risk in exploring other worlds beyond Earth. "Data obtained from Meteron will allow us to design the system for optimum shared human/robotic presence," he said, "to make telepresence better and more efficient."

Leonard David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. He is a winner of last year's National Space Club Press Award and a past editor-in-chief of the National Space Society's Ad Astra and Space World magazines. He has written for Space.com since 1999.

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tekom / tcworld 2012 Takes Center Stage in Technical Communication

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More than 3700 visitors converged on Wiesbaden, Germany back on October 23 ? 25, 2012 for he world?s largest event in the field of technical communication, the?tekom annual fair and tcworld conference 2012.

The conference program, given in both German and English, featured seven tracks for the international community. The English program covered: Content Strategies, International Management, Localization and Translation, Language Technologies, Mobile Documentation, Technical Authoring, Terminology and User Assistance. The Content Strategies track included a full day forum and workshops presented ?in cooperation Scott Abel, the?Content Wrangler.

Several hundred attendees flocked to a wide range of sessions dedicated to content strategy and technical communication. ?Classes on offer included conducting a content inventory, planning for global projects, and creating device-agnostic, adaptive content for mobile devices.

The audience was particularly mesmerized by the visually-rich service repair manuals created by the folks at iFixit.com. CEO Kyle Wiens showed attendees how to build a mobile-ready service repair manual.

The Globalization and Localization Association (GALA)?once again hosted the GALA localization track, offering a variety of speakers addressing the hot topics of the day, including multilingual web, mobile apps, agile localization, quality assessment, and more.

Three key themes underpinned the ?GALA discussions:

  1. localization is not something you do to content, it is content;
  2. localization is the indispensable means of accessing global products and services; and
  3. localization represents your brand, so it requires the same attention as all aspects of branding.

?Localization is increasingly at the center of content, rather than on the periphery. GALA continues to stress the importance of linking technical communication with localization to improve the global user experience,? remarked Hans Fenstermacher, CEO of GALA

In addition to great presentations, tekom lived up to its reputation as the marketplace for technical communication. More than 200 exhibitors participated in the fair, which on its own attracted 1,200 visitors (not including the conference attendees). Many exhibitors provided popular tool demonstrations, while others were there to answer questions. ?Most of the companies exhibiting were German, but at least seventy-four of the companies exhibiting operate in European and international arenas, such as Adobe Systems, MapCap Software, and Moravia.

tekom, together with partner associations, international guests and exhibitors were present in the Trade Fair, taking advantage of the opportunity to establish or renew contacts with experts from different countries and learn about the challenges that technical communicators face in other regions of the world. This year, associations from the United States, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, France, India, Japan, South Korea and Malaysia were represented.

?tekom/tcworld proved again to be an excellent conference and exhibition. The participants are engaged and very interested in expanding their knowledge of new technologies and new ideas.? We find that to be especially true when we talk to them about translating content for humanity,? said Rebecca Petras, of the Translators without Borders organization. ?They overwhelmingly want to learn more about our charity and our goals. We will continue to see tekom /tcworld as an important place to meet decision-makers throughout the content, technical writing and translation industries.?

When asked about the differences between the tekom/tcworld conference and fair and other conferences, especially when it comes to the conference?s large number of attendees, Dr. Michael Fritz, CEO of tekom and tcworld GmbH, answered, ?Maybe the most striking difference is that it is really international, although many visitors come from German-speaking countries. And then there?s the Expo ? really big professional booths with more than 200 companies from all around the world.

?Why is it so big? Obviously people like to visit this market place, learn and do business there. Our empirical data show that there are round about 83,000 people working in the tech comm field, in Germany alone,? Fritz continued.

The conference also offers many opportunities to network with people from all over the world, such as the official tcworld International networking dinner, held in a swanky restaurant in downtown Wiesbaden, and an after-conference party.? Many companies also hold ?booth? parties and arrange happy hour in the nearby restaurants.

tekom is Europe?s largest trade and professional association for technical communication, with current membership of more than 7700. The Association?s work is conducted by 180 volunteer members in collaboration with the professional staff. ?The organization?focuses on the development of the field of technical communication profession and the professional support of its members, while its economic activities, such as tcworld and tcworld India, have been outsourced to the tcworld GmbH.

For more information regarding tekom/tcworld events please visit http://conferences.tekom.de.

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Step Inside The Underground Apocalypse ... - Business Insider

The prevalence of 'fall out' shelters in pop culture, indeed in culture itself, has seen a recent spike.

Maybe it was the 2008 global economic crisis, or the deafening Apocalyptic talk of prominent pundits (ahem, Glenn Beck), or even the resurgence of the zombie as the way that life on earth will shuffle to its end.

Regardless of the reason, the bomb shelter business is booming, and the cult following even has its own show on National Geographic called Doomsday Preppers.

The photos here are a product of L.A.-based company Atlas Survival Shelters, which provides decked out living quarters in the event of an errant asteroid, nuclear holocaust, or walking dead.

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