Understanding electronics is tricky. Electricity is invisible, the components are cryptic, and the concepts are hard to grasp. That's where LightUp comes in. This is an AR-based system for teaching electronics by allowing kids to build little projects and "see" what the components are doing using augmented reality.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/sD4ZhQszGSo/
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Yanira Maldonado, who was charged with smuggling drugs in Mexico, is reuniting with her family after a week in jail. She was released shortly before midnight. NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports.
By Erika Angulo, Gil Aegerter and Erin McClam, NBC News
Yanira Maldonado, the Arizona mother held nine days in Mexico on suspicion of drug smuggling, was back on American soil Friday after she was released from jail and into the arms of her husband.
?I?m free. I?m free. I?m free,? she said, beaming. ?I was innocent.?
Maldonado, 42, was in Mexico with her husband for a funeral and was detained May 22. Soldiers said they had found 12 pounds of marijuana taped under her seat on a bus that she was taking back to the United States.
She was released after court officials reviewed security footage, also seen by NBC News, that showed the couple boarding the bus carrying only blankets, bottles of water and her purse.
With a shrug, she told reporters Friday in Arizona: ?Someone smuggled those in there, and I probably sat in the wrong seat.?
Maldonado, who was born in Mexico and is a naturalized American citizen, shared a long embrace with her husband, Gary, thanked her lawyers and was driven back across the border. She said that she would return to Mexico, but not for some time.
Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake posted on Twitter late Thursday that the U.S. consul general had confirmed Maldonado?s release.
Maldonado and her family had proclaimed her innocence ahead of her release.
?I just want to be back home right now with my family, my kids and my husband,?? Maldonado told Miguel Almaguer in an interview that aired Thursday morning on TODAY.
"I wanted to find a way out, and I?m telling them I?m innocent, I?m innocent. I keep saying what happened, and I?m still here, so I just have faith in the Lord.?
As Arizona mom of seven Yanira Maldonado's court hearing on drug smuggling charges begins in Nogales, Mexico, she is speaking out for the first time, saying her "spirit is good," but she just wants "to go home." NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports.
Maldonado and her husband were married a year ago. She said before her released that she believed she may have been set up at the military checkpoint, where soldiers initially accused her husband of smuggling the marijuana before detaining her instead.
Soldiers staffing a checkpoint stopped the bus in Hermosillo, about 170 miles from the U.S. border.
NBC News' Alastair Jamieson contributed to this report.
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MIAMI (AP) ? Standing on the cusp of the NBA Finals has tended to agree with the Miami Heat in each of the last two seasons. When the Heat have gotten a game away from the title round, they've finished the task as quickly as possible.
And here they are again.
A third straight Eastern Conference title is now just one win away for the reigning champions, though if the way this series has gone so far is an accurate indicator, that win will hardly come easily. The Heat ? without suspended forward Chris Andersen ? will visit the Indiana Pacers on Saturday night, leading the best-of-seven East finals 3-2 and in position to close out their new rivals on their own floor for the second straight season.
"We're desperate, too," Heat forward and four-time NBA MVP LeBron James said Friday. "We're desperate to get back to the NBA Finals. So both teams are desperate in their own sense of they're trying to keep their season alive and we're trying to advance."
The teams have alternated wins and losses through the first five games, and if that trend holds, then it's the Pacers' turn to prevail on Saturday and send the series back to Miami for a winner-goes-to-the-finals Game 7 on Monday night.
If the Heat ? who have won each of their last six potential series-closeout games, including two in the 2011 and 2012 East finals ? win, then the championship round against the San Antonio Spurs will begin in Miami on Thursday.
"You can't start thinking about opening up the invitation," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "That's over there. You can't even think about that."
The Pacers saw their season end a year ago on their home floor, at Miami's hand, in Game 6 of a second-round series. So Indiana's biggest source of motivation on Saturday may be the desire to avoid the indignity of watching Miami advance in Indianapolis for a second straight season.
"Game 6 will really determine how much we've grown, because we've been in the same ditch, I guess, being in the same predicament," Pacers star Paul George said. "Going 2-2, losing in Miami, then coming back home and losing at home. So we'll see where we're at. We've done well all year, especially in the postseason, dealing with adversity and overcoming games where we didn't play as well as we wanted."
The shirts in Indiana say "Gold Swagger" for a reason. Even down 3-2 against a team that hasn't lost back-to-back games since early January, the Pacers still have plenty of confidence, and it starts with a coach who came into the series insisting his club had genuine belief that it could knock off the champions.
"It's not just false talk," Indiana coach Frank Vogel said. "There's a reason I'm confident. I like to tell these guys that I'm not an optimist. That's what my image is. I'm a realist. And when I look around at what I see in the room when I'm talking to this team, and what I see on the court, and the level of execution that we're capable of ... it gives me real confidence in this basketball team. Our guys understand it's not just happy talk."
Adjustments will be made by both sides before Saturday, of course. But at this point, it's more than likely that the sides are out of ways to tactically surprise one another.
A play here, a play there, that might be the difference, and that sort of thinking is shared by both sides.
"It's about effort," Pacers center Roy Hibbert said. "It's about who wants it more, who wants to get that offensive rebound, who wants to get that blocked shot, who wants to get the loose ball. We just have to come out with more determination. It's not anything the coaches can tell us, it's about what's in here. It's lose or go home right now."
Sometimes, it's not even about what happens on the court.
The Heat were losing 44-40 at halftime on Thursday in Game 5, when veteran Juwan Howard ? who appeared in seven games for all of 51 minutes this season after being re-signed by Miami ? went on a shouting spree in the locker room. James followed that up with a fiery, slightly profane speech of his own, and Miami went on a 30-10 run not long afterward that served as a springboard to victory.
"His purity, respect level, the credibility that he has, it resonates with our guys and specifically it resonates with the guys in the locker room," Spoelstra said of Howard. "They hear what he says. It means something. And it was raw communication. We're at that point right now where it has to be real, has to be raw, has to be eye-to-eye. These are desperate times. There's no looking back. It's either us or them."
James said Friday that he couldn't even remember specifics of some things he had yelled the previous night.
"Absolutely not," James said. "You just let the game speak for itself, I guess."
Vogel said he expects that reserve forward Tyler Hansbrough, who sprained an ankle in the second half of Game 5, will be available on Saturday. Andersen, the backup big man who is 15 for 15 from the floor in the series and has made his last 18 shots overall, was suspended Friday night for shoving Hansbrough twice in the second quarter, then not backing away quickly enough for a referee who stepped in.
Dwyane Wade's aching right knee is still limiting him and Chris Bosh's numbers are nowhere near what the Heat would want right now, so the defending champions aren't exactly at their best, either. Still, the Pacers know that the challenge they're facing now ? needing to go 2-0 against Miami in a three-day span to get to the finals ? is enormous.
"One game at a time," George said. "We have to come home and play a good game. Everybody is going to have to step up and play a huge role. I know in the back of their mind they want to get the job done and be finished. So we're going to have to come out and bring it."
Or else, the Heat will be finals-bound, one more time.
"The close-out game," Heat forward Shane Battier said, "is always the toughest."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/heat-head-indy-game-6-looking-clincher-205949285.html
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New Kids on the Block, 98 Degrees, Boyz II Men.
Boy band crushes are a rite of passage for many teens; there's a whole generation who grew up in the late 1980s and early 1990s who swooned for classic groups like New Kids on the Block, 98 Degrees and Boyz II Men. With "The Package Tour," all three bands are hitting the road together this summer -- and on Friday they visited Rockefeller Plaza and TODAY to thrill grown fans and impress a whole new generation.
The groups aren't just close not just as musicians -- they're friends as well. As New Kids singer Donnie Wahlberg noted, Boyz II Men canceled a photo shoot to be able to join the New Kids in Boston for last night's Boston Strong concert at Boston's TD Garden.
"It's a mutual respect, a love for each other," said Shawn Stockman of Boyz II Men. "It's no egos."
And the Boston Strong concert? "It was unlike anything we've ever done in our careers," said Wahlberg. "It was just overwhelming."
So what about trying to get into the act again after so long? For 98 Degrees' Nick Lachey, it's like riding a bike. "We definitely have grown up a little bit over the last 12 years, but when you get back together and you start singing together again it all falls back into place," he said.
And speaking of falling into place, all three bands got their time on the TODAY concert stage, with New Kids (Wahlberg, Danny Wood, Jordan Knight, Jonathan Knight, Joey McIntyre) kicking things off. Clad in white jackets, T-shirts and black pants (coordinated, like their dance moves), they did a medley of two of their biggest hits -- "Step By Step" from 1990 and "You Got It (The Right Stuff)" from 1988.
Later, 98 Degrees (Lachey, Justin Jeffre, Jeff Timmons, Drew Lachey) took the stage dressed like casual lounge singers, bow ties loose and collars open, and sang "The Hardest Thing," their No. 5 hit from 1999 -- a tune so catchy even TODAY's Natalie Morales could be spotted in the crowd singing along.
Boyz II Men (Nathan Morris, Wanya Morris, Stockman) wrapped up the initial sets -- also in matching outfits, but mainly in white shirts with rolled-up sleeves -- and launched into "Motownphilly," their No. 3 hit from 1991, the song that regularly checks the band's name. They got the crowd to sing along -- even some of the New Kids could be spotted getting funky with the tune.
Later on, the New Kids returned for another tune, "Hangin' Tough," their breakthrough hit from 1988. Quite a morning for fans of all ages!
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Tusculum College is seeking a Site Coordinator for its new site in the Kingsport Center for Higher Education.? The Coordinator will be responsible for establishing and running the Tusculum College Office and assuring its success for recruiting and supporting Tusculum College students.?? The Site Coordinator will be employed full-time as an academic administrator and will coordinate work with Enrollment Management, Faculty Services, Academic Advising, TRIO, and Tusculum College Deans and School Director, among others.? Although primarily an office management and student/faculty support position, the Site Coordinator is also responsible for identifying and maintaining external relationships that are consistent with the success of recruiting prospective students.? This position may involve up to twelve (12) hours of instruction.
Review of applications will begin immediately and the position will be open until filled.?
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A minimum of a Master?s degree is required with relevant post-secondary credentials to support instruction in one or more academic programs.?? The successful candidate will demonstrate relevant teaching, advising, recruiting, and administrative experiences in an educational environment with preference given to those with increasingly responsible management experience in higher education.?Required are effective communication skills, computer/Microsoft Office skills, demonstrated ability to establish and maintain strategic partnerships,? demonstrated commitment to student success, availability to work evening and weekend hours, a flexible and positive attitude,? and the ability to prioritize while working with multiple priorities and tasks.?
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VALLEJO, Calif. (AP) ? A Northern California man is facing vandalism charges after authorities say he painted a crosswalk on a street, allegedly telling officials it was needed.
Fifty-two-year-old Anthony Cardenas was arrested Thursday morning in Vallejo and booked into Solano County Jail on suspicion of felony vandalism. Solano County Sheriff's Lt. Brad DeWall says workers spotted Cardenas committing the vandalism at a city intersection.
The intersection already has three crosswalks.
DeWall says Cardenas also painted lines through those.
State transportation workers painted over Cardenas' alleged crosswalk later in the day. A police cadet had been posted at the intersection until then to keep pedestrians from using it.
Cardenas remained behind bars Friday on $15,000 bail. Dewall says he did not have an attorney.
Associated PressMay 30, 2013 ? Researchers at the University of Southampton have taken a significant step in a project to unravel the secrets of the structure of our Universe.
Professor Kostas Skenderis, Chair in Mathematical Physics at the University, comments: "One of the main recent advances in theoretical physics is the holographic principle. According to this idea, our Universe may be thought of as a hologram and we would like to understand how to formulate the laws of physics for such a holographic Universe."
A new paper released by Professor Skenderis and Dr Marco Caldarelli from the University of Southampton, Dr Joan Camps from the University of Cambridge and Dr Blaise Gout?raux from the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, Sweden published in the Rapid Communication section of 'Physical Review D', makes connections between negatively curved space-time and flat space-time.
Space-time is usually understood to describe space existing in three dimensions, with time playing the role of a fourth dimension and all four coming together to form a continuum, or a state in which the four elements can't be distinguished from each other.
Flat space-time and negative space-time describe an environment in which the Universe is non-compact, with space extending infinitely, forever in time, in any direction. The gravitational forces, such as the ones produced by a star, are best described by flat-space time. Negatively curved space-time describes a Universe filled with negative vacuum energy. The mathematics of holography is best understood for negatively curved space-times.
Professor Skenderis has developed a mathematic model which finds striking similarities between flat space-time and negatively curved space-time, with the latter however formulated in a negative number of dimensions, beyond our realm of physical perception.
He comments: "According to holography, at a fundamental level the universe has one less dimension than we perceive in everyday life and is governed by laws similar to electromagnetism. The idea is similar to that of ordinary holograms where a three-dimensional image is encoded in a two-dimensional surface, such as in the hologram on a credit card, but now it is the entire Universe that is encoded in such a fashion.
"Our research is ongoing, and we hope to find more connections between flat space-time, negatively curved space-time and holography. Traditional theories about how the Universe operates go some way individually to describing its very nature, but each fall short in different areas. It is our ultimate goal to find a new combined understanding of the Universe, which works across the board."
The paper AdS/Ricci-flat correspondence and the Gregory-Laflamme instability specifically explains what is known as the Gregory Laflamme instability, where certain types of black hole break up into smaller black holes when disturbed -- rather like a thin stream of water breaking into little droplets when you touch it with your finger. This black hole phenomenon has previously been shown to exist through computer simulations and this work provides a deeper theoretical explanation.
In October 2012, Professor Skenderis was named among 20 other prominent scientists around the world to receive an award from the New Frontiers in Astronomy and Cosmology international grant competition. He received $175,000 to explore the question, 'Was there a beginning of time and space?''.
The detailed paper AdS/Ricci-flat correspondence and the Gregory-Laflamme instability can be found here:
