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Monday, January 28, 2013
AP PHOTOS: Scenes of grief at Brazil club fire
Here are images depicting the aftermath of a fatal nightclub fire in Santa Maria, Brazil. The club was hosting a party for university students when the fast-moving fire caused hundreds of partygoers to stampede toward the exit. Firefighters and police say more than 200 are dead, and at least 200 are injured.
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7 Superb Gadgets to Encourage You to Eat More Fruit
Click here to view the gallery: 7 Superb Gadgets to Encourage You to Eat More Fruit
We all know we should eat more fruit, but sometimes it can be a struggle to consume the recommended five servings of fruit (or vegetables) per day.
[More from Mashable: Top 5 Kids Apps You Don?t Want to Miss]
To try and encourage us all to get more fructose in our faces, we have taken a look at cool kitchen gadgetry that makes eating fruit easier, quicker and more fun.
SEE ALSO: 9 Cooking Gadgets for Your Geeky Kitchen[More from Mashable: When the Object of a Search Ad Is a Phone Call]
Take a look through our healthy options in the image gallery above. Share in the comments below any great gizmos you use to help you get your five-a-day.
Thumbnail image courtesy of James
This story originally published on Mashable here.
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Saturday, January 26, 2013
Film review: 'Quartet' a too-gentle comedy about musicians in ...
This film image released by The Weinstein Company shows, from left, Billy Connolly, Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay and Pauline Collins in a scene from "Quartet." (AP Photo/The Weinstein Company, Kerry Brown)
Film review: ?Quartet? a too-gentle comedy about musicians in retirement
By Sean P. Means
| The Salt Lake Tribune
First Published 4 hours ago ? Updated 4 hours agoFor pity?s sake, can we keep Maggie Smith out of the retirement home?
On the heels of "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" comes "Quartet," which casts Dame Maggie as Jean Horton, a retired opera star who moves in, reluctantly, to a home for aged musicians. She finds her old colleagues living there: Lothario Wilf (Billy Connelly), dotty Cissy (Pauline Collins) and morose Reginald (Tom Courtenay), who was once married to Jean and still nurses a broken heart. The relationships come to a head during the run-up to a fundraising gala, when its imperious director (Michael Gambon) urges the four to perform their signature number, a Verdi quartet.
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Opens Friday, Jan. 25, at area theaters; rated PG-13 for brief strong language and suggestive humor; 98 minutes.
Actor Dustin Hoffman makes his directorial debut here, and his mode of whimsical gentility won?t upset audiences but may lull them to sleep. Oddly, the movie?s most fascinating moments come over the closing credits, when Hoffman shows photos of his supporting cast members, many of them retired musicians and thespians, in their prime.
Smith is as delightful as ever, though the script (by "The Pianist?s" Ronald Harwood) doesn?t provide her the acid gems she drops regularly on "Downton Abbey."
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Afghan bombing helped shape Panetta's views on women in war
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three years before he lifted the U.S. military's ban on females in front-line combat, Leon Panetta grew acutely aware that women in senior positions were already risking - and losing - their lives when a would-be informant blew himself up at a CIA base in Afghanistan.
Panetta was CIA director at the time of the December 2009 attack in Khost, Afghanistan, and two women -- including one who headed the CIA base -- were among the seven Americans killed.
A senior aide cited it among the experiences that helped shaped Panetta's thinking about women in war even before he took over the Pentagon in 2011, and inherited the difficult job of writing condolence notes to the families of fallen troops - men and women.
More than 150 women have died in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001, and nearly 1,000 have been wounded.
"Every time I visited the war zone ... I've been impressed with the fact that everyone -- everyone, men and women alike -- everyone is committed to doing the job," Panetta told reporters on Thursday.
"They're fighting and they're dying together. And the time has come for our policies to recognize that reality."
So, with perhaps just weeks before he steps down as defense secretary and retires to private life, Panetta on Thursday was able to seal his legacy as the man who lifted the 1994 ban on women in front-line combat roles. It came after he helped finish the job of integrating openly serving gay and lesbian service members in 2011, with the elimination of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.
Panetta took an important step toward making more opportunities available to women last year, with an initial move to open around 14,000 additional jobs to women but leaving more than 230,000 off-limits. At the time, the aide recalled Panetta being unsatisfied, asking privately "why can't we do more?"
Panetta on Thursday credited the military's top brass for putting forward the proposal this month to lift the ban on women in front-line combat roles. An OK from the generals and admirals was crucial buy-in that would be necessary for the proposal to work. The integration will be gradual, through 2016, and it's unclear which roles may remain off-limits.
"I was very pleased when I got that recommendation, because it was a fulfillment of what we had talked about and what we wanted to achieve," Panetta said.
OBAMA STAYED OUT OF PENTAGON DELIBERATIONS
Aides described regular meetings over the past year with service chiefs on the issue, sometimes in the ultra-secure Pentagon briefing room known as "The Tank."
Panetta said he also regularly spoke with President Barack Obama on his efforts to provide more opportunities to women.
A senior administration official said Obama had privately encouraged Panetta to take the step but had stayed out of internal Pentagon deliberations.
Panetta also had an ally in General Martin Dempsey, the top U.S. military officer, who, as commander of the 1st Armored Division in Iraq in 2003 came to learn how the role of women in the military had changed over the years.
On his first foray out of the forward operating base, Dempsey jumped into an armored vehicle and slapped the soldier manning the turret gunner around the leg, and said, "Who are you?"
"And she leaned down and said, 'I'm Amanda,'" Dempsey recalled. "So, female turret-gunner protecting (me, the) division commander. And it's from that point on that I realized something had changed, and it was time to do something about it."
Panetta described a similar experience when he came face-to-face with a military that had changed tremendously in the near half-century since he joined the Army as an intelligence officer in 1964.
"It's been almost 50 years since I served in the military and to go out now and to see women performing the roles that they are performing and doing a great job at it, I think it ... encouraged me," Panetta told reporters.
He noted that he had six grandchildren, half of them women and the other half men.
"I want each of them to have the same chance to succeed at whatever they want to do," he said.
"In life, as we all know, there are no guarantees of success. Not everyone is going to be able to be a combat soldier. But everyone is entitled to a chance."
(Additional reporting by Steve Holland and David Alexander; Editing by Warren Strobel and Doina Chiacu)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/afghan-bombing-helped-shape-panettas-views-women-war-002155367.html
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Privacy visor foils computer's ability - Digital Trends
Stick it up to Big Brother and prevent stores from making use of their facial recognition technology. Just wear these privacy visors and the light sensors will keep computers guessing about who you really are.
Paranoid about stores, banks, and airlines recognizing your face and recording your spending habits or social network activities the moment you step into a venue? Strap this privacy visor on and you?ll become virtually undetectable by computers. Who?s smarter now, robots?
The privacy visor prototype unveiled earlier this week at?Tokyo?s National Institute of Informatics, using near-infrared sensors to essentially confuse facial recognition software from, well, recognizing you. In total, the visor sport 11 LED light that surround your main facial features: Eyes and nose. Since the infrared sensors sit on the visor before your eyes, the lights won?t do much to affect your vision and instead obscure camera sensors from reading your face.
While there are no words on whether the privacy visors will ever hit the market, BBC does advise cheap alternatives for those who still don?t want stores and banks creeping around with your face.
?Heavy make-up or a mask will also work, as will tilting your head at a 15-degree angle, which fools the software into thinking you do not have a face, according to an online guide produced by hacktivist group Anonymous,? the article says. Now envision yourself walking into every store in the mall with your head lopsided or pretending to attend a masquerade ball. To that, we bid god luck to you, paranoid friends. The privacy visor will work fashionable well with those handcrafted tinfoil hats we know you have hiding in your bedside drawer.
Source: http://www.digitaltrends.com/lifestyle/privacy-visor-foils-computers-ability-to-read-your-face/
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Friday, January 25, 2013
Apple drops supplier over underage labor violations, hails 'high compliance' with reducing excessive work hours
Apple's latest Supplier Responsibility Report has just been published, detailing 393 audits focused on the plants and suppliers that help make all that hardware. The audit number is a 72 percent increase in what it covered in its last annual report, while Apple was also quick to highlight its contracting companies' high compliance (92 percent) with a maximum 60-hour work week. Senior vice president of operations Jeff Williams told Reuters that underage workers and limiting working hours were two of the most challenging issues it faced in its supplier audits. Apple decided to end business relations with component maker Guangdong Real Faith Pingzhou Electronics over underage labour issues. "We go deep in the supply chain to find it," said Williams. "And when we do find it, we ensure that the underage workers are taken care of, the suppliers are dealt with."
Update: As 9 to 5 Mac noticed, the supplier report also contains another notable detail: it lists Freemont, California-based Quanta Computer as one of Apple's final assembly facilities.
Via: AllThingsD, Reuters
Source: Apple
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