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Friday, June 29, 2012
Researchers hack drones. A science project anyone?
Civilian drones will be easier to hack because most will lack the encrypted GPS carried by military drones, like the Predator shown here.
My son Benjamin once got honorable mention for his science project, which consisted of going to a firing range and seeing whether silk is really bulletproof. The guy at the range smiled upon hearing about what the skinny teenager was up to and said the silk would never stand up to I-forget-what-caliber of bullet.
He was right. The piece of material Benjamin brought to the range didn?t hold its lead. (The shooting range guy pulled the trigger because Benjamin didn?t have his gun license yet. He?s 26 now, and still doesn?t, but he did learn how to drive, in the meantime, but not a stick shift.)
Anyway, his offering blew away all of the volcano projects in his class at Hunter College High School. That was then. In the past 10 years, and, in fact, in the past 10 days, prospects for perversely cool science projects have gotten a lot better.
Case in point: Todd Humphreys and his team from the Radionavigation Lab at the University of Texas at Austin reportedly demonstrated last week in front of Department of Homeland Security officials that it is relatively easy to take control of an airborne drone by hacking into its GPS system. This is not jamming the signal, perhaps what happened to the U.S. drone brought down in Iran. This is ?spoofing,? in which you actually become a ground-based pilot.
The cost to convert a drone ?on the fly? into your own version of the world?s best remote-controlled hobby airplane ever: $1,000, actually, not much more than the list price for a high-end iPad. Right, guns are so nineties.
The worry, of course, is that someone co-opts the technology for something other than science projects?and I don?t mean forest fire surveillance. One drone demo took place over an Austin stadium, according to Fox News, which broke the story. And Humphreys was quoted by Fox: ?What if you could take down one of these drones delivering FedEx packages and use that as your missile? That?s the same mentality the 9-11 attackers had.?
The Department of Homeland Security is supposed to be dealing with all of this, but doesn?t seem to have? gotten very far, hence the rationale for Humphreys? commandeered flyby. Maybe a skinny high school kid can underline some of the vulnerabilities to the public and government officials better than a college professor.
Let?s see what happens from here. At the very least, though, Humphreys? demo is likely to vie with genetically modified bird flu for the top spot on the existential dread list.
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Google unveils Nexus 7 tablet, Android 4.1 and more
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Google I/O, the search engine giant's annual developer conference is taking place in San Francisco, California this week. The show kicked off with a keynote event, and I was there to report live about all the things Google unveiled.
The fun?started around 9:30 a.m. PT/12:30 p.m. ET with?Google's vice president of engineering,?Vic Gundotra, stepping on stage to start things off.?He thanked everyone for being here and asked us to shut off our wireless hotspots, in order to keep everything running smoothly.
Hugo Barra, Google's?director of product management, took the stage almost right after that, to talk about some Android milestones. He explained that Android has seen over 400 million device activations. He added that over one million new Android devices are activated every day. (That's about 12 Android devices every second.)
Android Jelly Bean
The Google team didn't wait long to introduce folks to Jelly Bean aka Android 4.1.
Almost right away, the folks in attendance were ooh-ing and aah-ing as we saw how easily widgets can be rearranged in Jelly Bean, with everything resizing itself automatically to fit on the screen more neatly. But things got really loud in the conference center as we were shown that Jelly Bean will offer offline voice typing. (No more worrying about lousy reception affecting your handsfree typing.)
Other neat Jelly Bean features include the ability to quickly?swipe back to photos you've just taken, the option to pair devices with a tap (via NFC) to share photos and video, and?notifications?which can be expanded (so that you can view your inbox without actually leaving the notification screen, for example).
"It's like they're reinventing Siri," a fella near me muttered, to no one in particular, as Jelly Bean's Knowledge Graph integration was shown off. The feature allows your Android device to answer questions ??such as "which movies did Angelina Jolie star in?" ? or take certain commands, which involve searches, such as "show me?photos of tiny monkeys."
A tool called "Google Now" learns from your habits, your location and your calendar to offer you information you might need. For example, if you are in an area you don't usually travel through, Google Now might suggest some restaurants. If you happen to be at home and traffic conditions are bad, you might be offered alternate directions. The more you use Google Now, the smarter and more?useful?it should get.
Google Android 4.1 is expected to roll out to some devices in mid-July. (More on Jelly Bean's features?here.)
Google Play
There are more than 600,000 apps in Google Play and Google has seen over 20 billion Android app installs, we were told.
So what's new?
Well, developers will now be able to offer Smart App Updates, to devices on Gingerbread and above. This means that users will only have to download changed parts of an app, rather than re-downloading the whole thing every time there's an update.
Google Play will now also offer movies and television shows for purchase, along with magazines. Google has partnered with various studios and publishers to offer this content.
Nexus 7
Looks like the rumors were true. Google's got a shiny new tablet, called the Nexus 7.?It has a 1280 x 800 HD display, a Tegra 3 processor, a 12-core GPU,?a front-facing camera, and more. It will run Google Android 4.1.
Google's team emphasized content consumption when it comes to Nexus 7. This tablet is "made for Google Play," we were told.
The Nexus 7 will start at $199 (this price will include a handful of movies and some magazines). The tablet can be ordered now and will start shipping mid-July.
Considering that Google Play will now include?significantly?more media, that the Nexus 7 hardware is pretty darn solid sounding, and that the price is right ... I'd say that Amazon's Kindle Fire has some strong competition to deal with now.
Nexus Q
The Nexus Q is described as?the "first ever?social streaming device."?It streams your media from the cloud and allows multiple people to sync up their playlists and queue up songs by using tablets or smartphones. The device?? which somehow resembles a Death Star ? will be priced at $299 and start shipping mid-July.
If everyone relied on a Nexus Q, parties could become hilarious as folks battle for control of the tunes by tapping their respective?gadgets.
Google+
Google+ is turning one-year-old tomorrow and Google appears to be pretty proud of its social network. Over 250 million people have activated Google+ accounts and there are apparently over 150 million active users on the network. Half of those users sign into Google+ daily, we're told. Curiously enough more people are using Google+ on their mobile devices, rather than on their desktops.
So it's no surprise that Google is releasing a version of Google+ for tablets. An Android version will roll out today, and an iPad version will come soon.
There will also be some updates to Google+ itself, such as the addition of Events, Party Mode, and more. In essence, it will encourage folks to?collaborate?before, during, and after events.
Google Glass
The Google+ presentation was abruptly interrupted by Sergey Brin himself, who promised us a demo which could go wrong in a lot of ways. It turns out that a team of skydivers equipped with Google Glass was above the Moscone Center, where the Google I/O is taking place.?
We watched them, through a Google Hangout, as they jumped onto the building's roof, handed a package ? containing a pair of Google Glass ... err, glasses???off to a team of bikers. Those folks jumped over obstacles and passed the package over to some folks who scaled down the building, to the third floor, where another team of bikers waited to take the cargo over to Brin. (Screenshots from the stunt here.)
Whew! Once all the excitement died down, we were told that the latest prototype of Google Glass weighs less than a pair of sunglasses?? and that there will be a variety of designs, not just the cyborg-like frames we initially saw.
In theory, you should be able to wear these glasees at any time, to capture a first-person view of everything you do.
Want more tech news, silly puns, or amusing links? You'll get plenty of all three if you keep up with Rosa Golijan, the writer of this post, by following her on?Twitter, subscribing to her?Facebook?posts,?or circling her?on?Google+.
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White Rot Fungi Slowed Coal Formation
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The evolution of the ability to break down a plant's protective lignin largely stopped the geologic burial of carbon that formed present-day coal deposits?and may provide secrets to making biofuels from inedible parts of plants
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A toughened crosshatch of carbon-based molecules is all that stands between plants and their total destruction at the hands of an array of microbes and fungi. Called lignin, the compound enables redwoods to tower and woody herbs to resist rot. As a result, lignin is the second-most abundant biological compound on the planet?and the bane of would-be biofuel-makers everywhere, blocking their best efforts to make fuels from the inedible parts of plants. It is also the reason for the vast deposits of coal laid down millions of years ago.
Now a new genomic analysis suggests why Earth significantly slowed its coal-making processes roughly 300 million years ago?mushrooms evolved the ability to break down lignin. "These white rot fungi are major decomposers of wood and the only organism that achieves substantial degradation of lignin," explains mycologist David Hibbett of Clark University in Massachusetts, who led the research published in Science on June 29.
By comparing 12 newly sequenced genomes of mushroom fungi with 19 existing genomes, the researchers determined that an ancestral white rot fungi (Agaricomycetes) first evolved the ability to break down lignin. The scientists then used so-called "molecular clock analysis"?a dating technique based on the hypothesis that genes accumulate mutations at a relatively regular rate like trees form rings that record their growth. Such an analysis suggests that an ancestral white rot fungi developed this lignin-degrading ability roughly 290 million years ago, a conclusion backed by comparison with the appearance in the fossil record of three other types of fungi (although the first definitive white rot fossil does not appear until roughly 260 million years ago) and the subsequent expansion and refinement of the arsenal of enzymes employed. The 60-million-year-long Carboniferous period?when the bulk of the world's coal deposits were laid down and atmospheric CO2 levels declined?ended roughly 300 million years ago.
The coincidental timing suggests the appearance of this ability to break down lignin helped slow the massive burial of organic carbon via nondegraded tree trunks and other wood, such as the lignin-rich fernlike plants known as arborescent lycophytes, now extinct. Previous explanations largely argued that such coal formation was a result of the Carboniferous's swampy conditions?after lignin-rich plants fell into these swamps, they simply were buried rather than broken down by fungi or microbes and turned to peat and then coal over geologic time frame. "They're not mutually exclusive," Hibbett notes, although more of the easily overlooked fungal fossils would need to be found to determine the truth.
How exactly white rot breaks down lignin remains unknown. The fungi releases reactive molecules and enzymes that seemingly tear the plant-protecting compound apart via "brute force," in the words of Hibbett. Once the protective lignin is out of the way, the white rot fungi feast on the cellulose, which comprises more digestible plant sugars. And subsequent evolution has given so-called brown rot fungi the means to work around lignin without attacking it directly. "They have evolved a way to get at cellulose and leave the lignin behind," Hibbett says, which results in the crumbly, brown logs littering temperate forests today?potentially coal in the distant future.
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
How To Get A Flat Stomach In A Month | Health And Fitness
So, how to get a flat stomach in a month, this guide is going to show you how. While this goal is certainly possible, it may not come easy ? so the first thing you need to do is dedicate yourself to your goal. Make a promise to yourself that you will give it your best effort over 30 days. This means that even if you fall short of your goal, you will still see a great change in your body composition.
Here are several steps to follow to get those lean, sexy abs you desire.
Step 1 ? Lower your body fat percentage.
While the fancy abdominal machines you see on commercials seem promising, the truth is they rarely work. The secret to how to get a flat stomach in a month is to lower your body fat percentage. How do you do this? Scientific studies have shown the most effective way to do this is by creating a calorie deficit.
This simply means reducing the amount of calories you consume each day. The best way to do this is to calculate the amount of calories your body needs each day and take away 500 from that number. This should cause a steady weight loss of 1 pound a week.
If you are already fairly lean, this means you can easily get your flat stomach within a month. But if you have a lot of weight to lose, it can take longer. However, do not be disheartened ? if it takes you longer, it will be all the more rewarding once you?ve reached your goal.
Step 2 ? Cardiovascular Exercise.
If you really want to step up your fat burning results, add cardiovascular exercise. This could mean cycling, swimming, jogging, or even walking. The more intense the activity is, the more calories you will burn. If you burn a further 500 calories per day by increasing your activity, you can soon start to lose 2 ? 3 pounds a week. This will really accelerate your results, and help you to get that flat stomach in the shortest time possible.
Step 3 ? Core Exercises.
Finally, it is a good idea to introduce core exercises into your workout routine. This will quickly firm and tighten up your abs ? so your stomach will start to look much better, even if you haven?t achieved a perfectly flat stomach yet.
Simple crunches and sit-ups should be enough to give you the firmer, tighter look you desire. But don?t fall into the trap of thinking this is all you need to do to achieve a flat stomach within a month; your body fat percentage will have the greatest effect on how lean your stomach appears to be.
Overall, getting a flat stomach within a month can be a challenge but it is definitely possible if you are committed and determined to meet your goal. There are also sites that can recommend supplements such as www.hcg4me.co.uk which looks at diet drops and how they can assist your weight loss plan.
How to get a flat stomach in a month? The best solution is to combine all three of these steps, and stick at it until you see the results you would like. Even if it takes a few weeks longer, you will be delighted with the results.
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Barclays paying $453 million to settle Libor probe
WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) - U.K. bank Barclays will pay $453 million to U.S. and British authorities to settle allegations that it manipulated key interbank lending rates known as Libor, ramping up pressure on other banks to cooperate in a probe that could cost the financial industry billions of dollars.
Barclays admitted to trying to make Libor look artificially low, to avoid signaling the bank's distress to markets during the financial crisis. The bank also tried to manipulate borrowing rates to benefit its trading positions.
Barclays Chief Executive Bob Diamond acknowledged on Wednesday that the news would damage customer trust in the bank, and said he and other senior executives would forgo a bonus this year.
Libor underpins trillions of dollars in derivative contracts and is a crucial peg for corporate and personal borrowing rates worldwide, linked to everything from U.S. consumer credit cards to loans funding Turkish phone networks. The manipulation, from 2005 through 2009, meant that millions of borrowers globally paid too little or too much interest on their debt.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice and the UK's Financial Services Authority settled with Barclays on a civil basis, while Canadian authorities said they still had an open investigation.
The Justice Department also said it still had a criminal investigation in progress, having found that bankers across the industry worked together to manipulate Libor. In some cases the pressure to manipulate rates came from Barclays management, the Justice Department said.
Market participants said the settlement in many ways confirmed what traders already knew.
"It is an admission that they were manipulating the rates to get better conditions," said ING strategist Alessandro Giansanti. "There isn't really a lot of trust in the way Libor is calculated as ... there were some banks who used to manipulate the rates just to get better conditions in the money market."
Libor, which stands for London interbank offered rate, is set through a daily survey of banks regarding their estimated borrowing costs.
An economist who has previously studied Libor manipulation said that banks should instead be surveyed about their actual borrowing costs.
"Estimates are much easier to manipulate," said Rosa Abrantes-Metz, a principal at Global Economics Group and an adjunct professor at NYU's Stern School of Business.
Investigators were helped by the extensive email traffic among Barclays employees involved in trying to manipulate Libor. In one email, after a Barclays swaps trader asked for low levels to be reported on certain short-term Libor rates, an employee who submitted rates for the survey responded by email, "Done ... for you big boy...."
LONG-RUNNING PROBE
Yet Barclays shares closed 1.9 percent higher in London, as shareholders said they were satisfied the issue was closed.
"They've paid a fine, move on," said one top-30 shareholder of the bank based in Britain. "From when it was discovered they acted to get to the bottom of it. They cooperated."
Barclays, in a statement, said the settlement related to past actions that fell "well short of the standards" the bank sought to uphold for its business.
"I am sorry that some people acted in a manner not consistent with our culture and values," Diamond said.
Barclays regularly reported borrowing rates lower than the rates it was actually paying during the financial crisis in order to mask its distress, according to a statement from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Damning emails that regulators released on Wednesday make clear that traders and the "submitters" tasked with reporting daily rates worked together for years to make the rates submitted suit the traders' and the bank's purposes.
In some cases, submitters set themselves reminders on their calendars to submit low rates on certain dates, according to the emails. In others, traders expressed overwhelming gratitude for low submissions that protected them from losses.
In one communication released by the CFTC, a Barclays employee concedes that borrowing costs are actually higher than what the Libor rates show. The "true cost of money is anything from 5 to 15 basis points higher," the employee said. A basis point is equal to 0.01 percentage point.
RECORD FINES
The CFTC ordered the bank to pay a $200 million penalty, saying it was the largest civil monetary penalty it has ever imposed.
Barclays also settled with the U.S. Department of Justice and Britain's Financial Services Authority and will pay fines of $160 million and $92.8 million, respectively. The FSA fine was also a record.
The Department of Justice said Barclays was the first bank being probed "to provide extensive and meaningful cooperation to the government," adding that the bank's assistance had aided its criminal investigation.
Though the Justice Department did not use words like "conspiracy" or "fraud" in its statement of facts, one attorney not related to the case said that was likely a courtesy to Barclays as much as anything else.
"The DOJ did not want to back Barclays into a corner (by) using some of the more terrifying words from the criminal lexicon. I think it was very much a way to give Barclays a face-saving opportunity to resolve the situation," said Anthony Sabino, a professor of law at St. John's University.
Had it gone to court "I think you would have seen the harder terms out of the statute utilized in a criminal complaint."
OTHER PROBES
The basis of Libor is a daily poll that asks banks including Barclays to enumerate the rates they think they will be able to borrow from other big banks. Libor is set daily for 10 major currencies and for 15 borrowing periods, ranging from overnight loans to 12 months.
Thomson Reuters Corp is the British Bankers' Association's official agent for the daily calculation and publishing of the Libor rates. The company, in a statement, said it continues to support the BBA in calculating and distributing Libor rates.
The BBA, for its part, said the news would figure into its ongoing review of the structure of Libor.
"This is an announcement with extremely serious implications which need to be carefully considered and the investigation findings will be fully included in the current review of Libor," the association said.
As well as the FSA and CFTC, other authorities probing Libor manipulation include the European Commission and Japan's Financial Services Authority, as well as the Canadian Competition Bureau.
Other banks involved in the probe include Citigroup, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland and UBS.
Several banks have suspended traders over the investigations. No criminal charges have been filed.
As the credit crisis took hold in 2008, allegations started mounting that Libor no longer reflected banks' real borrowing costs, and authorities began examining whether traders tried to influence whether the rate went up or down to profit on bets on its future direction.
The CFTC's findings, including the internal emails, will likely play a significant role in litigation being brought against global banks by trading firms, pension funds, and others who allege that the banks manipulated Libor to profit.
The first major lawsuit against the banks was filed in April 2011 by Vienna hedge fund FTC Capital GmbH. The fund claimed that the improper Libor postings impacted Eurodollar futures. Those futures enable trading firms to wager on the direction of interest rates and are priced based on Libor.
Eurodollar interest-rate swaps trading features prominently in the CFTC order. The agency alleged that Barclays traders sought to manipulate Libor to benefit trading European derivatives trading positions.
(Reporting by Steve Slater, Kirstin Ridley, Sarah White, Carrick Mollenkamp, Jed Horowitz, Alexandra Alper and Karey Wutkowski; Writing by Kirstin Ridley in London and Ben Berkowitz in New York; Editing by John Wallace, Matthew Lewis and Tim Dobbyn)
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"Walking Dead" showrunner reveals how it doesn't end
NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - (Spoiler alert: Don't read this if you don't want to know anything about what's coming up on "The Walking Dead.")
"Walking Dead" showrunner Glen Mazzara doesn't want to reveal too much about the upcoming third season of the show - but he will say, emphatically, how the entire series won't end.
The Wrap talked with Mazzara during a crucial day of filming of the third season - which is set largely in a prison and features a vicious new villain called the Governor. We noted during the interview that there are generally three types of endings for zombie stories. One involves the survivors finding a safe haven, perhaps by taking a boat -
"No," Mazzara interjected, seeing where we were going. "There is no safe haven in this world. I want to make that clear. At the end of our season 2 finale that farm is overtaken and that farm was that last safe haven, and there's no safe haven in that world. I want to be very clear about that. No one is safe. There is no safe haven."
So Rick Grimes and the other survivors can't just catch a boat to France and -
"Nope. Nope. Nope," Mazzara said. "That's against our internal rules here."
So that settles that.
Mazzara and his cast will provide an extended look at the third season of the hit AMC drama at Comic-Con next month. In the meantime, he told us how closely season 3 will follow the comic books that inspired the show (written by "Walking Dead" executive producer Robert Kirkman), and what it was like to take over the series from original showrunner Frank Darabont.
He also explained why the prison where much of season 3 is set won't feel at all like a safe haven.
Q: Without giving anything away, can you give us a taste of what you're shooting today?
A: "We're actually shooting on a major scene for the entire season, and we're shooting on one of my favorite sets on any show ever."
Q: Would that set be a prison?
A: "Yeah. It's part of the prison set."
Q: You've said that this season you'll be getting into the real meat of the series - Michonne, the Governor, the prison. How closely are you sticking with the comics?
A: "We're taking the major tentpole characters and storylines from the comics and adapting them to our alternate universe of the TV shows. So it will be just as surprising to comic-book fans as to non-comic-book fans as to how all of it lays out."
Q: I loved how you stretched out and heightened the comics' Shane storyline. You really got every little bit of drama out of it that you could.
A: "That's a great template for how we intend to use the comic-book's source material. We need to make it our own."
Q: What are the advantages and disadvantages of shooting inside the prison for so much of the upcoming season?
A: "The prison itself will be a threatening, malevolent character. It is a challenge to live in the prison. And I think we've really been able to get a lot of story out of it. So it will not feel like a safe corner keeping our characters away from central action. It will really play that they are in a shark cage. Life in a prison is life in a shark cage."
Q: How soon before we meet the Governor?
A: "He makes a surprising appearance. I don't want to give anything away as to the exact episode, but the audience will certainly be ready for his appearance - and they won't have to wait too long."
Q: "The Rise of the Governor," the novel last year by Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga, made him a somewhat more sympathetic character than he is in the comics. Do you see him as a person who's not necessarily forgivable, but understandable?
A: "We do. I haven't read the novel because I didn't want it to influence my concept of the TV show's version. But we're interested in having a very complex, nuanced, multi-layered character. This will not be simply an arch villain who is committing an evil act in every scene. That's too cartoonish for what we do here. We want that character to feel as real and human and fully developed as possible."
Q: If you stick with what happens in the comics between him and Michonne, it's going to be the most brutal thing on a show that doesn't hold out on violence. Do you feel like you have to temper what's in the comics? Or do you expand on it? Does TV allow you to be more or less graphic?
A: Certainly there's challenging material in the comic book, and I would say there's equally challenging material on our TV show. I think at the end of season 2 we showed that we don't pull punches ... We're not going to get soft now. However, we'll do things on our own time, or when it makes sense for the show. And we're definitely looking at this Governor-Michonne-Woodbury-prison storyline as a longterm arc."
Q: You took over the show from Frank Darabont last season, and in my opinion, the show kept getting better and had some of its best moments. Did you have a sense of where Darabont wanted it to go? And do you ever keep in touch with him through back channels?
A: "We were really focused on breaking season 2. So I think the material that we're using from the comic book, this is our design. I did not know of a longterm plan, so I've used the comic book as something to lean on. I think Robert's done great work there, and we're excited about getting to what I consider the heart of the matter. This Michonne-Governor-prison-Woodbury storyline to me is what equals ?The Walking Dead.'"
Q: There are some serial shows like "Lost," where you think, well, what I ultimately think of this show depends on how they resolve it. Does "The Walking Dead" feel to you like a show that needs a big answer at the end?
A: "That's something that I think about obsessively. There's a component of this show where the audience wants to know, ?What happens next? What happens next?' However, this is not a show that is based on revelation. This is a show that is based on character action. And I think as long as we stay true to our characters - and the show rests on Rick's shoulders right now - as long as we're true to the spirit of those characters and true to the spirit of Robert Kirkman's original work, I think that's how we should be judged."
"It's not about necessarily having an answer that sums it all up with a pretty bow. This show is more about how these people survive in this apocalypse."
Q: I know walkers aren't exactly zombies, but it seems like in zombie movies there are three ways to go: Everyone dies, you find out what caused the outbreak, or they get to some safe haven. You've already said you don't know what created the zombies. It sounds like something you don't worry about very much.
A: Robert is not interested in proposing a theory of what caused this apocalypse in his work, and that's something that I think is important for us. It's about surviving in this world. We're lucky in the sense that we're able to draw on a lot of great zombie films. And one of the things we really pride ourselves on is adding to that literature, adding original bits with zombies that no one has ever seen."
"When you look at possible endings, I really am interested in finding new territory and a new type of ending, a surprising ending for this series that no one's ever done before, that no one's ever thought of."
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Destination America Has Recipe For Ratings Success -- Fires Up ...
SILVER SPRING, Md., June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The secret's in the sauce! On the heels of unprecedented ratings success for BBQ PITMASTERS, Destination America greenlights another season of barbecue bliss. Since the network's debut on Memorial Day weekend, on what was formerly Planet Green, BBQ PITMASTERS has helped drive record-setting nights in June. BBQ PITMASTERS is Destination America's #1 original series ever among all key demos: P/W/M25-54, P/M18-49, HH, and P2+ delivery. Additionally, the 9-10 PM timeslot has fueled the success of the network, launching Destination America to rank 21st on Sunday nights among all ad-supported cable for M25-54 delivery, beating networks such as TRAV, ADSM, NGC, G4, H2, VH1, CMT, BBCA, BIO, NBC Sports, NGWD, and others.
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This is the third season of the popular barbecue competition series, whose first two seasons aired on sister network TLC, and its first season airing as an original program on Destination America. The series pits America's best hard-core barbecue grillers against each other each week, and their cured creations are blind-judged by three pitmaster professionals, including series veteran Myron Mixon. Each week's winner earns a place in the winner-take-all-finale which will air this Sunday, July, 1, where the coveted prize includes $50,000, a spot in the first annual Kingsford Invitational, and the ultimate title of BBQ PITMASTERS Grand Champion is on the line.? The cook-off finale of BBQ PITMASTERS airs on Sunday, July 1 from 9-10 PM (E/P), following an all-day marathon beginning at 11 AM on Destination America.?
"When you discover a recipe as successful as BBQ PITMASTERS, you keep on cooking for another season!" said Marc Etkind, SVP of content strategy for Destination America. "We're excited to get on the board so early in the game as we establish ourselves as the home for Americana content, and happy to give fans more access into the niche world of the burgeoning barbecue circuit."
To learn more about BBQ PITMASTERS or to find Destination America on your cable provider, please visit us online at http://destinationamerica.com.
BBQ PITMASTERS is produced for Destination America by Original Media. For Original Media, Jay Peterson, Charlie Corwin, and John Markus are executive producers. For Destination America, Ron Simon and Fay Yu are executive producers, Sara Kozak is SVP of production, Marc Etkind is SVP of content strategy, and Henry Schleiff is president and general manager.
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'Star Trek' Villain Forces Kirk To Grow, Chris Pine Says
Benedict Cumberbatch's character 'not just a blood-dripping-from-the-fangs bad guy,' Pine explains to MTV News.
By Kevin P. Sullivan, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
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When J.J. Abrams got the opportunity to helm one of the most beloved franchises of all time, he took "Star Trek" literally where no man has gone before. The alternate timeline of his reboot laid down the law that this "Star Trek" can and will go anywhere its creators want.
When MTV News spoke to the captain of the Starship Enterprise, Chris Pine, his carefully measured words praised the work from Abrams and his screenwriters — Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof — on the upcoming sequel.
"There is so much happening in their script. I can't say much of anything," Pine told MTV News while promoting his next film, Friday's "People Like Us." "They come from TV land, all of them: J.J., Bob, Alex and Damon. They've worked together in the highest-pressure situation in television for years. That machine is well-oiled."
The creative team's background in television is what Pine said allows them to change things on the fly and continually improve the film. "What you also get in that circumstance is it's a constantly evolving beast — the script, the material, how it's going to look, how J.J.'s going to shoot it," he said. "There is nothing set in stone, which is tremendously frightening, but also extremely exhilarating, especially when it's like a finely tuned racecar. They just know how to do it. In this constantly evolution, the script that they had written kept getting better and better."
For anyone familiar with the crew's previous work, which includes "Lost" and most recently "Prometheus," it shouldn't come as a surprise that Pine complimented the mythical qualities of the screenplay.
"What they're so good at is this kind of mythic reinvention. They're really good at writing myth, and these characters — I think what people will find with everybody — is that these characters go on mythic arcs," Pine said. "It's all about growing up. These are young men and young women, and they are not the crew that we know from the series. They're developing into that. It's a long way to go there."
Even with mystery surrounding the entire production, fans are most desperate for answers when it comes to just one aspect of the sequel: Benedict Cumberbatch joined the film as a villain, whose identity has yet to be revealed. Pine complimented the actor, but couldn't say much more than that the villain will bring out new qualities in Kirk.
"It is structured so that the antagonist brings out all of the qualities in Kirk that need to happen in order for Kirk to grow," Pine said. "As you know from Benedict, just watching him, vocally, he's fascinating. He's got this deep resonate voice. He's a fascinating face. He's a lovely guy and just super smart. You want to see something firing in his brain, so he's not just a blood-dripping-from-the-fangs bad guy. Benedict brings those kinds of smarts."
Check out everything we've got on "Star Trek 2."
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What I Ate Wednesday #33 ? Farmers Market Vegan
Breakfast: A green?(and very loose) rendition?of The Alkaline Sisters? Buckwheat and Berry Smoothie, consisting of 1/3 cup sprouted buckwheat, 1/2 cup almond milk kefir, 3/4 cup frozen strawberries, the juice of?a lemon, about 1 tsp each of maca and spirulina, 1 tbsp tahini, a 1/2-inch piece of fresh ginger, four large leaves of lacinato kale, and?one date, topped with a handful of fresh sliced strawberries and accompanied by two of Choosing Raw?s No-Bake Omega-3 Snack Bars.
Discovering myself in the almost unfathomable situation of having no frozen bananas in the house, I frantically searched through my recipe archives for a smoothie recipe that promised thick, creamy yummniess without the implementation of the standard tropical fruit. Unfortunately, I didn?t have an avocado, either?or a cucumber?both of which the Alkaline Sisters? recipe calls for. In a last-minute mad attempt to evoke some sort of creaminess from this doomed smoothie, I added a scoop of tahini, to which I would attribute the rather perplexing and not quite pleasant flavor that the end result of my morning science experiment held.
Smoothie=fail. Granola bars=fantastic! Unbelievably simple to make?and utterly satisfying to eat, Gena?s no-bake snack bars perked up my morning after my disappointing?smoothie fiasco.
Breakfast Checklist: Protein?almond milk kefir, tahini, chickpeas, almond butter (last two in bars).?Whole Grain?sprouted buckwheat, GF rolled oats, brown rice puffs (last two in bars). Fruit?strawberries, lemon, dates, dried apricot, dried figs, prunes (last four in bars).?Leafy Green?kale. ?Super Food??maca, spirulina, chia seeds, hemp seeds, flaxseed meal (last three in bars). Added Veggie Bonus!?ginger.
Local Ingredients:?Lacinato kale from Driftless Organics, strawberries from JenEhr Family Farm.
Morning Tea: An of Strawberry Vanilla Bean Rooibos Iced Tea from The First Mess.
While I usually revel in sipping on my thermos of steaming hot tea in the morning, this ritual does not seem conducive to the current summer weather. Enter iced tea?nature?s gastronomic solution to all our herbal drink pleasures. I skipped the agave and lemon juice in Laura?s recipe, opting to enjoy the intensely vanilla-ey and subtlely fruity flavor in their unmarred, refreshing glory.
Lunch: A medley of leftover salads atop a large handful of mixed greens and chickpeas tossed with Liquid Gold Dressing and dusted with dulse flakes, accompanied by a Raw Tex-Mex Pumpkin Wrap filled with Smoky Tahini Coleslaw from the lovely Elenore at Earthsprout. The salads, beginning in the upper right-hand corner of the bowl and rotating clockwise, are as follows: Green Bean and Potato Salad with Miso Dressing?from For the Love of Food, Raw Coconut Noodle Pad Thai from PUREmamas, cortido, and Black Rice Salad with Mango from Bon Appetit.
With all this leisure time suddenly thrown at me in the beautiful days of post-high school bliss, how have I kept myself occupied? Fooling around in the kitchen, of course! This pasttime obviously leads to oodles of leftovers crowding up the fridge, though I certainly cannot complain about this since it means I get to enjoy each delicious recipe on multiple occasions! I won?t bore you by recalling all the modifications I made to the five recipes I mentioned above (though you can read specifically about the Black Rice Salad on my last What I Ate Wednesday?yes, I still have leftovers), but I will assure you that every salad turned out as a complete and utter success, especially the Coconut Noodle Pad Thai which served as my first experience in opening a coconut! I also urge to you sprint on over to Earthsprout to try your hand at her Raw Tex-Mex Pumpkin Wraps, which I dehydrated at 170?F in my oven?even without ?proper? equipment, they tasted suprisingly and authentically raw with a crunchy/chewy/pliable texture and a slightly spicy, umami flavor.
Meal Checklist: Protein?garbanzo beans, almonds, tahini. Whole Grain?black rice. Vegetables (and fruits)?green shallot, garlic scapes, chives, purple potatoes, green beans, cilantro, red onion, scallions, jalapeno, zucchini, carrots, sugar snap peas, ginger, butternut squash, tomatoes, fennel, broccoli, mango, orange, apple, coconut (whew! Quite a hefty list).?Leafy Greens?mixed greens, dulse seaweed, sweetheart cabbage.
Local Ingredients: Mixed greens, cilantro, red onion, scallions, sugar snap peas, and?fennel?from Harmony Valley Farm; cortido from Fizzeology, green shallots from the Plahnt Farm; garlic scapes from the Troy Kids? Garden; chives from my backyard herb garden; purple potatoes and zucchini?from Driftless Organics, carrots from JenEhr Family Farm, tomatoes from Canopy Gardens, broccoli from Roots Down Community Farm, and apple from Future Fruit Farm.
Lunch Dessert: A Lavender Vanilla Dream Ball from This Rawsome Vegan Life.
Expecting a standard (though still delectable) raw ball, I found myself in almost a state of shock to experience the silky smoothness hidden within these bites of lavender heaven?truly dream balls!
Local Ingredients: Lavender from the Plahnt Farm.
After-Lunch Beverage:?A tall glass of NessAlla?Kombucha in?Peach Blush?flavor.
Afternoon Snack: A vibrant homemade juice of?a 1/4 of a small head of?romaine lettuce, 2 large stalks of lacinato kale, 1 baby cucumber, 2 large carrots, and a 1/2-inch piece of fresh ginger.
If you follow my Twitter feed, perhaps you caught my intense bout of sheer excitement at unearthing a working juicer from the depths of my basement. I cannot accurately express my ridiculous happiness at my newly obtained ability to?revel in?colorful, nutrient-rich beverages full of fruits and veggies without having to stop by the Willy Street Co-op?s juice bar. Daily juices, here I come!
Local Ingredients:?Romaine lettuce from Harmony Valley Farm, lacinato kale?from Driftless Organics, baby cucumber from Canopy Gardens, carrots from JenEhr Family Farm.
Dinner: A salad bowl similar to that of lunch. This one included a Conservation Burger from Choosing Raw, another Raw Tex-Mex Pumpkin Wrap filled with Smoky Tahini Coleslaw from Earthsprout, and some more of both the Green Bean and Potato Salad with Miso Dressing from For the Love of Food?and the?Raw Coconut Noodle Pad Thai from PUREmamas. All of this sat atop a pile of mixed greens, cherry tomatoes, sprouted buckwheat, and pea sprouts?tossed in Liquid Gold Dressing.
With my new juicer comes leftover juice pulp?the fruit and veggie solids remaining after you?extract the liquid out of them. A shame to waste all that fibrous, nutrient-dense pulp, it?s become common practice in the raw foods community to implement this leftover juicing goodness in raw crackers, breads, pancakes, and burgers. Gena?s particular recipe also calls for almond pulp?the solids remaining after making almond milk. Since I make some variety of nut milk kefir every week, my freezer contains ample amounts of nut milk pulp, and I happily threw it in the food processor along with my juice pulp, some flaxseed meal, and a dash of fresh herbs before forming the mixture into patties and baking them at 350?F for 15 minutes on each side. Yay, semi-raw food!
Meal Checklist: Protein?almonds, tahini. Whole Grain?sprouted buckwheat. Vegetables?mixed veggies in the juice pulp in the burger, butternut squash, tomatoes, cilantro, fennel, apple, broccoli, zucchini, carrot, ginger, sugar snap peas, green beans, green shallot, garlic, chives, purple potatoes, pea sprouts.?Leafy Greens?mixed greens, sweetheart cabbage.
Local Ingredients: Tomatoes from Canopy Gardens; cilantro, fennel, sugar snap peas, mixed greens, and sweetheart cabbage from Harmony Valley Farm; apple from Future Fruit Farm; broccoli from Roots Down Community Farm; zucchini and purple potatoes?from Driftless Organics; carrots from JenEhr Family Farm; green shallot from the Plahnt Farm; garlic from Brantmeier Family Farm; chives from my backyard garden; pea sprouts from Troy Community Farm.
Comment Provoking Questions: What?s the most disappointing smoothie you?ve ever made? What?s your favorite flavor combination for homemade iced tea? Do you dehydrate in your oven? What?s your favorite juice recipe?
Happy WIAW!
Until next time, Ali.
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Google+ has 250 million users, more mobile than desktop
Google wasn't going to leave its budding social layer (don't call it a network) out of today's IO fun. It gave itself a bit of a pat on the back for (probably) exceeding people's expectations. For all the jokes that have been made (some of them on this very site) at Google+'s expense, it's racked up more than 250 million users. Sure, only 150 milllion actually active, but simply getting people signed up is a victory in itself. And, hey, about 50 percent of them sign on every day. More interestingly, Vic Gundotra says that more users are signing in with the mobile app than visiting the desktop site. That's great news to go along with the dedicated tablet version that was also announced.
Check out our full coverage of Google I/O 2012's opening keynote at our event hub!
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012
How to quiet those damned Google+ Events notifications
Google today rolled out Events for Google+, which is a slick way to invite people to, erm, events. (Not unlike what's already on that ... other social network.
The bad thing is that right now every damned person on Google+ can invited every other damned person to their damn event. And while I love you all, I just can't make it to your birthday party in Akron this weekend. Sorry, just couldn't move the schedule.
Right now there's no way to limit who can invite you to events, and that's leading to a lot of inbox clutter. The good news is that you can at least get rid of the e-mails that are sent when you're invited to a damned event, or there's an update to a damned event, or there's a reminder about a damned event, or there's activity on a damned event that you created. Just hop into your Google+ settings, and uncheck the boxes you see above.
And while I appreciate the invite, I just can't make your son's bris this weekend.
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Spain says eurozone facing 'decisive hours'
Spain's Economy Minister Luis De Guindos, centre bottom, speaks during a control session at the Spanish Parliament, in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, June 27, 2012. Spain's central government budget deficit has soared to 3.41 percent of GDP in the first five months of 2012, just 0.09 percent below the figure agreed upon with the European Union for the entire year. Spain, with 24.4 percent unemployment, must slash its deficit to the EU limit of 3 percent of GDP by 2013. It was 8.5 percent in 2011, although the target had been 6 percent. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
Spain's Economy Minister Luis De Guindos, centre bottom, speaks during a control session at the Spanish Parliament, in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, June 27, 2012. Spain's central government budget deficit has soared to 3.41 percent of GDP in the first five months of 2012, just 0.09 percent below the figure agreed upon with the European Union for the entire year. Spain, with 24.4 percent unemployment, must slash its deficit to the EU limit of 3 percent of GDP by 2013. It was 8.5 percent in 2011, although the target had been 6 percent. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
MADRID (AP) ? Spain insisted Wednesday it will continue to push for European financial aid to be delivered directly to its troubled banks, rather than count as government debt, warning that these were crucial moments for the euro currency union.
The Spanish government has agreed to seek a rescue package from its eurozone partners of up to ?100 billion ($125 billion) for banks loaded with toxic assets after the collapse of a real estate bubble in 2008.
But under current rules, the money has to go through the government. The fear has grown that the government may be ultimately left to repay many of the banks' rescue loans and need a bailout of its own. As a result, investors are now demanding high interest rates to lend Spain money.
"I will continue to try to get direct recapitalization for the banks," Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy told Parliament.
It is not clear if a decision on the issue will be taken at the European Union summit in Brussels on Thursday and Friday.
Economy Minister Luis de Guindos told Parliament said he had held talks with eurozone colleagues Wednesday ahead of the summit.
"We face decisive hours in terms of the situation in the eurozone and the economic measures to be taken in Spain," he said
The interest rate for Spain's benchmark 10-year bonds ? an indicator of investor wariness ? was at 6.79 percent Wednesday, a rate considered unsustainable over the long term.
"The most urgent issue is financing," said Rajoy. "We can't continue for a long time to finance ourselves with these prices; there are many institutions and financial entities that don't have access to financial markets."
The Bank of Spain on Wednesday said the recession-stricken economy had slumped further in the second quarter and would likely post a sharper contraction than the 0.3 percent of the first three months.
The bank's June report said drops in consumer demand, car sales and industrial production "indicate activity has continued to diminish at a greater rhythm." Unemployment is at a staggering 24.4 percent.
Official second-quarter GDP figures are due to be published in July.
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What Do You Love About Your Home in the Summer? | Apartment ...
So, let's take a quick break from thinking about what we want to fix and change so we can wax poetic about the features of our homes that really shine during the summer months. Maybe you love the patio where you can read under the stars late into the night, or the way the light fills your living room in the evenings, or maybe it's your garden, because it gives you a sense of pride and a source of nourishment.
Ok, I'll go first. Here's what I love about my home during the summer.
I live in a 6-flat in Chicago, so we don't have a garden or room for any type of pool, and summer in the city can be hot and crowded. But here's what my home does have going for it during the summer.
1. I love that I have a back deck. Sure, it only looks onto the backs of other apartments, but it's also a chance to eat most of our dinners outside, a space for a small container garden, a way to catch up with our neighbors, an opportunity to listen to birds and crickets as we watch airplanes and the occasional balloon float by. At night we turn on strings of tiny party lights, and the deck is where we drink wine and talk, or sometimes where I go by myself to look up at the city sky and let my thoughts wander.
2. I love that my home is a 10-minute walk from an ice cream shop, bustling al fresco dining spots, and a weekly farmers' market, where I stroll with my kids and fill my bags with juicy peaches, earthy crimini mushrooms, and handfuls of fragrant fresh herbs. Our neighborhood of Andersonville truly does feel like a small town in a big city during the summer, and I love that sense of community.
3. I love my sunroom during the summer. It's a small room adjacent to our living room, and when the weather's warm it's endlessly entertaining to curl up in a reading chair, throw open all the windows and take in the dog walkers and ice cream trucks, bike riders and stoop sitters. Just the other night I heard the following snippet of a conversation trail up to my window: "And she didn't even change out of her stilettos before she started chasing him and his grandma!" Ah, summer in the city. Free entertainment and ice cream trucks. What's not to love?
Ok, now it's your turn. What do you love about your home during the summer?
(Image: Chris & Diana's Redhook Rooftop)
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