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Yesterday Urban Airship announced that it would be shutting down SimpleGeo on March 31 2012, only a few months after acquiring the company for around $3.5 million. The news irked plenty of developers ? you can find a thread on Hacker News here where some SimpleGeo customers are voicing their frustration. So what are developers supposed to do now? Urban Airship's blog post outlines a few options, including a partnership with Factual to port over any Places data developers might have stored on SimpleGeo. But SimpleGeo also has a handful of other classes of data, like Storage, that Factual can't be used for. Now Parse is stepping in to try to help out (and snag) any customers looking to figure out where to move next.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/CZW12Zzu7gI/
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Jan 10 (TheWrap.com) ? Universal Pictures' production deal with Imagine Entertainment is about to run even longer. The longest-standing production pact in Universal's 100-year history has been extended through 2016, it was announced Tuesday.
The new deal replaces the current agreement, which was due to expire next year. However, it is a first-look deal -- not an exclusive arrangement, as per the previous agreement.
Imagine was founded by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer in 1986. Through its partnership with Universal, the production company and studio have produced roughly 50 films, including the Oscar-winners "A Beautiful Mind" and 1995's "Apollo 13." In 2011, they collaborated for "The Dilemma," "Cowboys & Aliens" and "Tower Heist."
Projects in the works include "364"; the sci-fi film "Amnesty"; a remake of the 1970 Universal movie "Colossus"; the adult comedy "Sick Day"; the thriller "The Parsifal Mosaic"; and the drama "Lowriders."
Imagine's feature-film division has been involved with more than 60 productions, although some of them have been distributed by Touchstone, 20th Century Fox, Paramount and other companies. Imagine's library has grossed more than $13 billion.
Karen Kehela Sherwood serves as Imagine's co-chair, along with Grazer and Howard. Kim Roth is the president of production, and Michael Rosenberg is the president of the company's entertainment division.
Imagine employees were informed of the renewed deal on Tuesday afternoon, TheWrap has learned.
"The studio has been our home for decades. We are proud of our history with Universal and really look forward to making successful and memorable movies with our long time partners," Grazer and Howard said in a statement.
"Ron and Brian have not only been our dear friends over the many years we've been at Universal, they've also been great partners," Universal Chairman Adam Fogelson and Co-Chairman Donna Langley said in a joint statement. "Together, our companies have enjoyed making some of the most popular titles of the past two decades. This pact will allow us to continue to foster this invaluable relationship and build upon our shared history of success."
(Editing By Zorianna Kit)
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A scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an anthropologist from the University at Albany teamed up to use ultra-modern chemical analysis technology at Rensselaer to analyze ancient Mayan pottery for proof of tobacco use in the ancient culture. Dmitri Zagorevski, director of the Proteomics Core in the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS) at Rensselaer, and Jennifer Loughmiller-Newman, a doctoral candidate at the University at Albany, have discovered the first physical evidence of tobacco in a Mayan container. Their discovery represents new evidence on the ancient use of tobacco in the Mayan culture and a new method to understand the ancient roots of tobacco use in the Americas.
Their research will appear in the journal Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, in an article titled "The detection of nicotine in a Late Mayan period flask by GCMS and LCMS methods."
In recent years, archaeologists have begun to use chemical analysis of residues from ancient pottery, tools, and even mummies in an attempt to piece together minute clues about ancient civilizations. Among the potential problems with isolating a residue for analysis is preservation and contamination. Many vessels serve multiple purposes during their lives, resulting in muddled chemical data. Once the vessels are discarded, natural processes such as bacteria and water can destroy the surface of materials, erasing important evidence. Additionally, researchers must be attentive to archaeological field handling and laboratory treatment of the artifacts that might lead to cross contamination by modern sources.
To make their discovery, the researchers had a unique research opportunity: a more than 1,300-year-old vessel decorated with hieroglyphics that seemingly indicated the intended contents. Additionally, the interior of the vessel had not been cleaned, leaving the interior unmodified and the residue protected from contamination.
The approximately two-and-a-half-inch wide and high clay vessel bears Mayan hieroglyphics, reading "the home of his/her tobacco." The vessel, part of the large Kislak Collection housed at the Library of Congress, was made around 700 A.D. in the region of the Mirador Basin, in Southern Campeche, Mexico, during the Classic Mayan period. Tobacco use has long been associated with the Mayans, thanks to previously deciphered hieroglyphics and illustrations showing smoking gods and people, but physical evidence of the activity is exceptionally limited, according to the researchers.
Zagorevski used the technology within CBIS at Rensselaer, usually reserved to study modern diseases and proteins, to analyze the contents of the vessel for the chemical fingerprint of tobacco. The technology included gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GCMS) and high-performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LCMS). Both are analytical chemistry techniques that combine the physical separation capabilities of gas or liquid chromatography with the analysis capabilities of mass spectrometry. The latter is used to determine molecular weights of compounds, their elemental composition, and structural characteristics.
Zagorevski and Loughmiller-Newman's analysis of the vessel found nicotine, an important component of tobacco in residues scrapped from the container. Both techniques confirmed the presence of nicotine. In addition, three oxidation products of nicotine were also discovered. Nicotine oxidation occurs naturally as the nicotine in tobacco is exposed to air and bacteria. None of the nicotine byproducts associated with the smoking of tobacco were found in the vessel, indicating that the vessel housed unsmoked tobacco leaves (possibly powered tobacco) and was not used as an ash tray. No other evidence of nicotine has been found, at this time, in any of the other vessels in the collection.
This discovery "provides rare and unequivocal evidence for agreement between a vessel's actual content and a specific ichnographic or hieroglyphic representation of that content (on the same vessel)," Loughmiller-Newman states in the paper. She is in the anthropology department at the University at Albany, studying ritual food stuff consumed by the Mayans.
Both Loughmiller-Newman and Zagorevski would like to see this technique used to analyze a greater variety of vessel types.
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Finding Nemo, the undersea classic from Disney and Pixar, returns to theaters in 3D this September. The 2003 hit won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
Albert Brooks stars as Marlin, a maligned clownfish determined to rescue son Nemo, who was scooped up by an Aussie diver and placed in a tank with other captives.
Ellen DeGeneres is Dory, Marlin's lovable, memory-challenged sidekick.
Visually stunning then, and even now in standard definition, it should look even more so in three dimensions. Watch the trailer for the film's 3-D re-release here!
Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/01/finding-nemo-trailer-just-keep-swimming-in-3d/
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LONDON (Reuters) ? Elton John will write a personal account of his life during the AIDS epidemic, including his friendship with Queen frontman Freddie Mercury who died of an AIDS-related illness in 1991 aged 45.
The "Rocket Man" musician founded the Elton John AIDS Foundation around 20 years ago to raise funds to help fight the disease, and proceeds from "LOVE IS THE CURE: Ending the Global AIDS Epidemic" will go to the charity.
In a statement released on Monday, publishers Hodder & Stoughton promised a "very personal story of ... Elton's life during the AIDS epidemic, including his agony at seeing friend after friend perish needlessly."
Among the individuals it describes are Mercury and Ryan White, an American boy who became a "poster child" for HIV/AIDS after he was banned by a school because of his condition.
According to reports at the time, John was with White when he died in a U.S. hospital in 1990 aged 18.
"This is a disease that must be cured not by a miraculous vaccine, but by changing hearts and minds, and through a collective effort to break down social barriers and to build bridges of compassion," John said.
"Why are we not doing more? This is a question I have thought deeply about, and wish to answer -- and to help change -- by writing this book."
An estimated 34 million people worldwide had the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS in 2010, up 17 percent on 2001 when 28.6 million were living with HIV.
According to the Hodder statement, HIV/AIDS has claimed 60 million lives.
Hodder & Stoughton acquired LOVE IS THE CURE with U.S. sister company Little, Brown and Company.
It is due to be published in July 2012 to coincide with the 2012 XIX International AIDS Conference to be held in Washington DC.
(Reporting by Mike Collett-White, editing by Paul Casciato)
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There's nothing like the visceral roar of the crowd - that hair-raising, spine-tingling moment when thousands of people all sing, or shout, in unison.
But translating that unique feeling to an event that is taking place online is tricky. Now a new project at MIT's Media Lab aims to give online gamers something to shout about.
Roar, developed by PhD student Drew Harry at MIT's Media Lab, works much like any other chat software, such as Google Chat or the in-game chat clients in role-playing video games. Users can write messages to fellow gamers which appear at the bottom left of the screen and are visible to all.? Roar also lets users group messages by 'section', which could be subject matter or region, whatever the users want.
Each section can be thought of as the different parts of the same stadium, says Harry. They are not private and you can see the list of the most popular sections and how active they currently are. What differentiates Roar from other chat services is that users can choose whether to chat their message or "shout" it.
A chat goes to everyone in your section but expires and fades from the screen. Shouts, on the other hand, last much longer and can be taken up by other users and spread from section to section, just like a real chant inside a football stadium.
If enough people in your section like your shout, by clicking +1 on it, then it spreads and becomes visible in other nearby sections. If it continues to get votes, it can be shared across the entire audience.
The software looks at which words are being shared as shouts at any one moment. The more words there are, the more active the crowd is being. This lets you see when the crowd is going crazy or when everyone is hushed in anticipation, says Harry.
Just like at a football match or baseball game when spectators start chanting a favourite player's name, users can coordinate to make sure their shout becomes prominent. If they all say the same player's name, for example, they can make it appear in huge letters across every user's screen.
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