Panasonic to Sell 152-inch 4K Resolution 3D TV
This Fall

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Televisions continue to get bigger. Engadget reports that Panasonic will start selling a 152-inch 4K resolution 3D TV this fall. Dvice says 4K resolution is four times standard HD. Engadget says the price tag is around $500,000.

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Ashland update

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Three shows down, two to go. Can’t wait to see “Hamlet” starring Dan Donohue as the ill-fated Dane and “Merchant of Venice” starring Anthony Heald and Jonathan Haugen,...

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Chevron Pipeline Leaks Crude Oil into Foothills
of Salt Lake City, Utah

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A Chevron pipeline is leadingin Utah and the company is searching for the cause of the leak. The ten inch pipeline carries around 15,000 barrels of oil a day. So far 500 barrels has leaked. The line has been shut down.

"Neither the source of the leak or the quantity of oil released has been determined at this time," said Chevron spokesman Sean Comey in an e-mail statement. The company was notified of the leak at around 8:20 p.m. U.S. central time yesterday, and workers were dispatched to shut the line and start containment of the spill, he said.

Initial estimates said around 500 barrels seeped from the 10-inch line that has a capacity of about 15,000 barrels a day, according to Lisa Harrison Smith, a spokeswoman for Mayor Ralph Becker, citing Chevron data.Chevron told Smith they shut the line yesterday and were estimating a leak of about 50 gallons a minute before it was turned off, she said.Crews placed booms in waterways, including the Jordan River, "to minimize downstream impact," the mayor's office said in a release yesterday.A boom was also laced in a drainage creek, said Comey. "Wildlife rehabilitation experts have been engaged" and some birds have been washed at the Salt Lake City zoo, he said.

The pipeline runs from Colorado to Chevron's refinery in the Salt Lake Valley. It carries crude oil. The leak hasn't been found yet, so it's unclear when the pipeline will be opened again. It's also unclear what the extent of the damage is.

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Ashland: encore, encore

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Heavy is the head that has to choose which plays to see in Ashland in one weekend. There are so many plays and so little time. Despite my best efforts, it’s impossible to pack all the worthy...

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Does The Moon Weep At Dawn

post from Constance-Victoria on 13 June 2010 02:34:14 PM. © Constance-Victoria

So, I got this gorgeous parcel of items from Warm Pixie the other morning. I am so in love with this bodysuit. Its fits perfectly and It is comfortable and easy to wear with loads of things! The mesh insert sweater is also the softest sweater I now own. Thank you Warm Pixie!
Take a look here at their other gorgeous pieces here : http://warmpixie.com/
Other items I am wearing include jeans from Zara, High socks from ASOS and vest dress from Mango.

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Cake Lingerie Designer Maternity, Nursing Bras &
Sleepwear

post from The Fashionable Housewife on 13 June 2010 02:10:58 PM. © The Fashionable Housewife

Cake Lingerie is a designer brand that specializes in the creation of luxurious maternity lingerie,[...]

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Ban of Noisy Vuvuzelas at World Cup Under
Consideration

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Metro.co.uk reports that a ban of vuvuzelas is being considered at the 2010 World Cup. The noisy instruments are drowning out sports broadcasters.

Many South African shopping centres have already banned the instruments and Danny Jordaan, World Cup organising chief, has already considered the possibility of banning them from inside the stadiums.

He told BBC Sport 'We did say that if any land on the pitch in anger we will take action.

'We've tried to get some order. We have asked for no vuvuzelas during national anthems or stadium announcements. It's difficult but we're trying to manage the best we can.'

Other articles about a possible vuvuzela ban can be found here, here and here. The instruments make a loud buzzing noise. Small vuvuzelas sound like crying babies. Take a look:

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The Dangers of Plugged In Parenting

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The New York Times explores the phenomenon of plugged-in parents. So, what's a plugged in parent? No, it's not an android that takes care of children (although there are researchers working on those right now). Today's plugged in parents are adults who constantly check their text messages and email while they are supposed to be watching their small children. Accidents happen. But psychologists are also worried about the growing hostility children have for the intrusive nature of these devices (such as smartphones) that always get priority over them.

Sherry Turkle, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Initiative on Technology and Self, has been studying how parental use of technology affects children and young adults. After five years and 300 interviews, she has found that feelings of hurt, jealousy and competition are widespread. Her findings will be published in Alone Together early next year by Basic Books.

In her studies, Dr. Turkle said, "Over and over, kids raised the same three examples of feeling hurt and not wanting to show it when their mom or dad would be on their devices instead of paying attention to them: at meals, during pickup after either school or an extracurricular activity, and during sports events."Dr. Turkle said that she recognizes the pressure adults feel to make themselves constantly available for work, but added that she believes there is a greater force compelling them to keep checking the screen.

"There's something that's so engrossing about the kind of interactions people do with screens that they wall out the world," she said. "I've talked to children who try to get their parents to stop texting while driving and they get resistance, Oh, just one, just one more quick one, honey.' It's like 'one more drink.'"

There is a big difference between checking a crucial work email at home (hey, the job is what pays the bills to feed the children, after all) and surfing the net while your kid scores a goal in the soccer game. One disturbing anecdote kept coming up in the research: many children reported that their parents texted while driving. That needs to stop immediately. It's unbelievably stupid -- and dangerous.

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Games flying under the E3 radar

Last year, Scribblenauts took everyone by surprise. It went in to E3 as a game with a funny name and it left the show with a staggering amount of buzz. Is there another game like that this year? I...

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Why Hasn't the Human Genome Project Led to the
Cure for Cancer

Ten years ago the Human Genome Project was hailed as the future of medicine. Scientist were going to map the entire human genome and in ten years would have treatments for Alzheimer's, cancer and all kinds of devastating diseases. Well, it's been ten years and none of thathas happened. Scientists have discovered many genes that seem to point to heart disease, but in practice it didn't pan out.

Taking a family history was a better predictor of heart disease. So what's wrong? It certainly has revolutionized our understanding of biology, but it why hasn't it yielded any great cures? It turns out that the whole process is just too complex. To really find why one person gets cancer, you need to sequence that person's entire genetic code. Only now is that even possible, as the cost has come down from $500,000 to around $10,000 to sequence one entire person's genetic code. Someday, it will be commonplace.

The New York Times reports:

The only way to find rare genetic variations is to sequence a person's whole genome, or at least all of its gene-coding regions. That approach is now becoming feasible because the cost of sequencing has plummeted, from about $500 million for the first human genome completed in 2003 to costs of $5,000 to $10,000 that are expected next year.

But while 10 years of the genome may have produced little for medicine, the story for basic science has been quite different. Research on the genome has transformed biology, producing a steady string of surprises. First was the discovery that the number of human genes is astonishingly small compared with those of lower animals like the laboratory roundworm and fruit fly. The barely visible roundworm needs 20,000 genes that make proteins, the working parts of cells, whereas humans, apparently so much higher on the evolutionary scale, seem to have only 21,000 protein-coding genes.

The entire article is definitely worth reading, but the short answer as to when genetics will help find cures for major diseases is: they're working on it. As computers get faster and more powerful, larger data sets can be processed which is what seems to be yielding results.

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