Stadium To Encourage Urine-Covered Floors And Walls With 'Video ...

We can?t imagine that combining urinals, video games, and beer-drinking could be a cause for concern.

I?ve made no secret of my love for the Philadelphia Phillies organization, but I?m not exactly thrilled with the announcement that one of the team?s minor league affiliates has decided to become a guinea pig for a video game system that uses one?s urine stream as a game controller.

The folks at Coca-Cola Park in Allentown, PA, where the Triple-A Lehigh Valley IronPigs play, have announced the park will be what it claims is the world?s first sports venue to feature the interactive gaming consoles in all of the park?s men?s rooms starting this season.

?These games are sure to make a huge splash,? said the team?s General Manager, who we are going to assume doesn?t have to share a lavatory with possibly intoxicated fans who may have trouble hitting the mark when they?re not trying to control a video game with their urine.

In a release, the team describes the pee-to-play process:

When a user approaches the urinal, the video console flips into gaming mode, using patented technology that detects both his presence and stream. Algorithms then allow the user to engage with the screen by aiming in different directions to test their agility and knowledge. The games are 100% intuitive and custom-built to provide a unique user interface along with an easy and seamless experience.

It will take an average of 55 seconds to complete a game, which ? while we haven?t timed anyone ? seems a bit longer than most men need to relieve themselves.

And because everyone will be curious who the most accurate urinary gamer is, Coca-Cola Park will be displaying high scores in real time around the stadium. Something to make the family proud!

The games are being sponsored by the Lehigh Valley Health Network, which apparently thinks this will help educate men about prostate health.

?Baseball fans know all about RBI, ERA and OBP,? said an actual doctor who apparently thinks this is a good idea. ?But when it comes to their own PSA (prostate-specific antigen), many men don?t have a clue. We see this game as a fun and unique opportunity to remind men about the importance of prostate health.?

We see this as a way to guarantee that fights break out in the bathroom when someone gets a little too into a game and pees all over his neighbor?s foot. We?re sure the clean-up staff at Coca-Cola Park is also thrilled at the notion.

The video below details how this how thing is supposed to work:

Source: http://consumerist.com/2013/03/26/stadium-to-encourage-urine-covered-floors-and-walls-with-video-game-urinals/

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Church to help teens prepare for college, work

Summer is only a few months away, and many Mid-South teens are either looking forward to college or summer employment.?

But experts advise to not start either without preparation. That is why the NuNation Youth Ministry at St. Andrew A.M.E. Church is hosting a Job and College Preparation Workshop.

This workshop will include classes that explore your assets, dressing for success, developing your resume, finding and keeping a job, finding the right college, and successfully completing an online employment application.

There will be mock job and college interviews for participants. Company executives and college recruiters will conduct the interviews.????????

Event details:

• The workshop is free.
• It will be held Saturday, April 6th from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• It will be held at St. Andrew A.M.E. Church Community Life Center ?located at 1472 Mississippi Boulevard.
• Please RSVP by contacting Rev. Fekecia Gunn at nunationyouth@gmail.com or (901)948-3441.??

Source: http://southmemphis.wmctv.com/news/business/104422-church-help-teens-prepare-college-work

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With $6.5M In Tow, Bina Technologies Wants To Bring Big Data Insight To Genomic Sequencing

Once unfathomably expensive, thanks to scientific and technological advances, the cost of genome sequencing for your average Joe is dropping fast on its way to a big, historical benchmark: The $1,000 genome. We're not quite there, but we're getting close. This is exciting for a host of reasons, but particularly because it has the chance to usher in an era of personalized medicine, in which it will be far easier to discover if we have a genetic predisposition to cancer, Diabetes, and so on.

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Canon EF-M 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 IS STM

By Jim Fisher

The Canon EF-M 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 IS STM ($299.99 direct) is the standard zoom lens for the EOS M compact interchangeable lens camera. You can buy the EOS M bundled with it or the EF-M 22mm f/2 STM, so buying it separately to supplement the prime lens is not out of the question. It features a 3x zoom ratio that covers a 29-88mm (35mm equivalent) field of view. The lens has an all-metal design, so it feels impressively sturdy.

The lens is bigger than its 22mm prime counterpart, adding quite a bit of depth to the svelte EOS M. It measures 2.4 by 2.4 inches (HD), weighs 7.4 ounces, and has a standard 52mm filter thread. The lens can focus as close as 9.8 inches through its zoom range. Despite a narrow f/3.5-5.6 aperture range?it's f/3.5 at 18mm, but narrows to f/5.6 at 55mm?you can still create a good amount of background blur when working close to your subject. There is a manual focus ring, but it utilizes an electronic focus design. Moving it activates the focus motor rather than physically moving the glass. This results in a noticeable delay when adjusting focus manually.

The lens is optically stabilized, which will help you get sharper photos at longer shutter speeds, assuming that your subject is cooperative and remains still for the photo op.? There's no lens hood included, but Canon will sell you one for an additional $29. Using a hood can help reduce the chance of lens flare and increase the contrast of your photos by eliminating stray light coming in from odd angles.

Imatest shows that the lens is quite sharp throughout its zoom range when paired with the EOS M. At 18mm f/3.5 the lens hits 2,314 lines per picture height, noticeably better than the 1,800 lines we used to define a sharp photo. Zooming to 35mm limits the maximum aperture to f/5, and the lens manages 2,268 lines there. At its maximum 55mm focal length the lens notches 2,285 lines at f/5.6. Sharpness is excellent, but the lens does show a good bit of distortion.

At 18mm there is 2.7 percent barrel distortion, which causes straight lines to curve outward. As you zoom the barrel distortion gives way to pincushion distortion, where straight lines curve in. At 35mm it shows a mere 0.6 percent of this type of distortion, but that increases to 1.1 percent at 55m. You can correct for distortion in software like Lightroom, but other cameras have profiles to perform those corrections in-camera when shooting JPGs. The Sony Alpha NEX-6 ships with a 16-50mm Retractable Zoom Lens that shows an incredible amount of distortion, but if you shoot in JPG you'll never know it. On the other side of the spectrum, the collapsible 14-42mm zoom lens that Olympus offers with its PEN cameras is smaller, also quite sharp, and shows very little distortion.

If you bought the EOS M with the 22mm f/2 STM lens and feel limited by a single focal length, the EF-M 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 IS STM is your only current option with which to supplement it. The zoom is impressively sharp, but has a small aperture. This limits your ability to use it in lower light, even with its optical stabilization system?the EOS M does not have a built-in flash. The lens also shows a good deal of barrel distortion at wider angles, which you'll have to correct in software if straight lines are important in your photography. Overall, it's a good example of an 18-55mm zoom, but a slightly faster aperture or a smaller design would go a long way to make it more useful with the compact EOS M.

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Dell Optiplex 9010 AIO

Though Windows 8 and new touch-enabled PCs have largely been seen in the consumer space, fewer equivalent business PCs have come out. Well, Dell is here to help fix the problem with the new Optiplex 9010 AIO, an all-in-one touch-screen desktop made for offices large and small. Compared with, say, graphics-oriented workstations it may not impress, but it's still a powerful system. With a Core i7 processor and speedy solid-state drive, the Dell Optiplex 9010 is fast and offers solid performance at a price that even small businesses can afford, making it our Editors' Choice for all-in-one business desktops.

Design and Features
The 9010's design places an emphasis on the touch-capable monitor, which offers a 23-inch TN panel with a 1,920-by-1,080 resolution that looks good from most any angle. The touch-screen offers 10-digit input, and the entire display is covered with edge-to-edge glass. The OptiPlex 9010 features the same dual hinge stand seen on the mainstream consumer Dell XPS One 27 Touch. The two-hinge design allows easy adjustment of both height and angle, letting you position the screen just so?an important feature for any system that has you reach out and touch the screen now and then.

The chassis is utilitarian in its looks, but not unpleasantly so, with rounded corners, a glossy black bezel around the display, and a chin below that contains the system's Realtek HD Audio speakers. Above the display is a built-in webcam, but it comes with a twist?it swivels, letting you shutter the camera when not in use.

The OptiPlex 9010 also comes with a wireless keyboard and mouse. The two peripherals use a wireless USB receiver, slipped discreetly into one of the USB 2.0 ports on the back of the PC. While many typists will want to switch these out for their preferred mouse and mechanical keyboard, the bundled devices will do the trick just fine.

On the rear panel you'll find the power connector, VGA out and HDMI out for connecting to a second monitor or HDTV, Gigabit Ethernet, six USB 2.0 ports, and two PS/2 ports for use with older keyboards and peripherals. The PS/2 ports are especially helpful in business settings, where important equipment may only be available with older connections.

Ports on the back are numerous but not necessarily convenient. The back connector panel is located directly behind the dual-hinge stand, which necessitates turning the entire PC around to access many of the ports, as well as requiring more complicated cord management. Ideally, these ports could be shifted to the sides, or placed on the base. Already found on the sides of the chassis are two USB 3.0 ports and a tray-loading DVD+-RW drive.

Inside, the OptiPlex 9010 AIO features Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235 wireless networking, Bluetooth 4.0 + HS for all of your headset and phone pairing needs, and a 128GB solid-state drive (SSD). While the drive may offer zippy performance, the overall capacity if fairly small for a work machine, with only 77GB of free space available. This is despite the fact that aside from Windows 8 Pro, the only additional software installed on the OptiPlex is Microsoft Office 2010 Starter, CyberLink Media Suite, Dell's Backup and Recovery tool, and a brief tutorial "Getting Started with Windows 8." While offices that store things on a shared server won't worry much about it, those who rely on the SSD for programs and file storage may feel the pinch sooner than expected. Dell covers the OptiPlex 9010 AIO with a three-year warranty and free on-site service.

Performance
The OptiPlex 9010 offers solid performance, thanks to a 3.1GHz Intel Core i7-3770S quad-core processor and 8GB of RAM. It's the same processor found in the Lenovo ThinkCentre M92z, and Dell's mainstream XPS One 27 Touch. The resulting performance is superb, completing PCMark 7 with 4,306 points, putting it well ahead of most business AIO competitors, like the Lenovo M92z (3,872) and Lenovo Edge 91z (1,948), not to mention giving it a solid lead over the previous Editors' Choice, the Lenovo ThinkCentre M71z (2,134). Cinebench scores were equally impressive, with the hyper-thread quad-core processor producing a score of 6.98 points, nearly matching the top performers in the category, the HP Envy 23-d060qd TouchSmart and the Lenovo ThinkCentre M92z (7.06 and 7.00, respectively).

The one area where the OptiPlex fell through was graphics. The integrated Intel HD Graphics 4000 provide a solid solution for professionals who don't depend upon design or modeling programs, but our tests show that anyone needing to run CAD or a similar program will need to look for something with a discrete card. Despite the lack of graphics horsepower, the OptiPlex 9010 should still perform well in multimedia tasks, as it cranked through Handbrake in 33 seconds and Photoshop CS6 in 3 minutes 31 seconds.

Conclusion
Whether for a small business or a large corporation, the Dell Optiplex 9010 AIO offers the best of Windows 8, merging solid performance with intelligent design and full-featured touch capabilities. As such, it replaces the Lenovo ThinkCentre M71z as our latest Editors' Choice for all-in-one business desktops.

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Rock band My Chemical Romance break up after 12 years

(Reuters) - Alternative rock group My Chemical Romance announced on their website on Friday that they were calling it quits after 12 years.

The punk-popsters from New Jersey had played together since 2001, recording four studio albums and notching up an international hit with "Welcome to the Black Parade" in 2006.

In a statement, they said being in the band "has been a true blessing" that allowed them "to see and experience things we never imagined possible".

"We've shared the stage with people we admire, people we look up to, and best of all, our friends. And now, like all great things, it has come time for it to end."

The group thanked fans for their support and "for being part of the adventure".

(Reporting by Tim Gaynor; Editing by Pravin Char)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/rock-band-chemical-romance-break-12-years-065815280.html

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The Cicadas Are Coming! Crowdsourcing An Underground Movement

Cicadas live underground and emerge in 13- or 17-year cycles.

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Cicadas live underground and emerge in 13- or 17-year cycles.

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Back in 1996, a group of baby cicadas burrowed into soils in the eastern U.S. to lead a quiet life of constant darkness and a diet of roots. Now at the ripe age of 17, those little cicadas are all grown up and it's time to molt, procreate and die while annoying a few million humans with their constant chirping in the process.

We know that when 8 inches below the surfaces reaches 64 degrees F those little buggers will be everywhere, but we don't know when that'll be. That's why WNYC is asking "armchair scientists, lovers of nature and DIY makers" for your help to predict the emergence of cicadas.

Here's what to do: Go to WYNC's website and follow the directions to create your own temperature sensor. When things start to warm up, report your temperature findings to the station. As the results come in, WNYC will map out the findings and share them online.

The detector costs around $80 in parts and will take about two hours to build. WNYC advises to have it in the ground by mid-April when the first cicadas are likely to break out of the ground. If you don't have the time, the money or the patience, you can always just buy an $8 soil temperature sensor.

WNYC is asking "armchair scientists, lovers of nature and DIY makers" to help predict the emergency of cicadas in the Northeast by building a temperature sensor like this one. As the results come in, WNYC will map out the findings and share them online.

WNYC

WNYC is asking "armchair scientists, lovers of nature and DIY makers" to help predict the emergency of cicadas in the Northeast by building a temperature sensor like this one. As the results come in, WNYC will map out the findings and share them online.

WNYC

If you've never experience a cicadapocalypse, expect to see an increased number of large, winged creatures in the eastern part of the country. Cicadas can grow up to 1 1/2 inches and have these creepy, red eyes on either side of their heads, but that's all they've got going for them. Though they look scary, cicadas couldn't hurt a fly (unless they sat on it, maybe). They don't bite, sting, raid crops or infest homes.

"They're bumbling cute," Jody Gangloff-Kaufmann, an urban entomologist and senior extension associate at Cornell University, tells WNYC. "Many people are afraid of them because of their size and the way they make noise. But, they can't bite you or sting you or hurt you in any way."

Really, the craziest things they do is live underground as long as they do and make that incessant sound that so many Easterners associate with summer.

A chart on the Cicadia Mania site shows whether they're coming to your state this spring.

Lizzy Duffy is an intern with NPR's Social Media Desk.

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/03/23/174956817/the-cicadas-are-coming-crowdsourcing-an-underground-movement?ft=1&f=1007

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