Video: Brad Pitt?s mom reportedly receiving death threats

>>> brad pitt 's mother is allegedly receiving death threats in response to a letter jane pitt recently wrote in which she openly criticized president obama . on the "today" show yesterday brad pitt 's brother doug defended his mother.

>> i think moms and dads and kids agree to disagree all over the world. why would our family be any different? no, there can be healthy discussion when people disagree with you. i think there should be. the bad thing is when it turns to venom and negativity.

>> in the letter written by jane pit, it referred to barack hussein obama as well as the reverend jeremiah wright 's church. that was one of the things that of some people. obviously death threats hard on anyone.

Source: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/newsnation/48139346/

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Twitter makes changes to iPhone, Android apps

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New versions of the Twitter app?are available for iPhone and Android phones, with the short-messaging blog noting that they offer "several updates to bring you closer to everything you care about."

That includes expanded tweets, something that Twitter began offering on its desktop version last month.

"Since we?introduced expanded Tweets?on twitter.com, we?ve added several new partners like?MLB?and?C-SPAN?to a diverse and growing list of media sources,"?Sung Hu Kim, Twitter's product manager?for mobile, wrote on the company's blog.

Now, using Twitter apps for iPhone and Android, when you tap on a tweet linking to a Kickstarter project, he wrote, you can "play its video directly from the Tweet details view in your app." You can also read article summaries when you tap tweets linked to sources like magazines,?or view images and video?when you expand tweets linked to sites like Etsy and Vimeo.

Twitter also says it has made "major improvements?in?search autocomplete?so that you will see more suggestions when you search for people. As before, you can search for real names or @usernames before you complete your query."

There is also support for push notification for tweets for those folks you follow whenever they send a new tweet or retweet. All you have to do is turn on push notification for that person using the "action button" on their profile; you edit all notifications in your account settings on your phone.

Another added feature, this one for iPhone users but not Android, is?being able to find the "best tweets and photos for events experiences like?twitter.com/#NASCAR on your iPhone. Now, Twitter for iPhone complements any live event, whether you?re watching from home or from the stands."

Check out Technolog, Gadgetbox, Digital Life and In-Game on?Facebook,?and on Twitter, follow Suzanne Choney.

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Suu Kyi's fame risks eclipsing new Myanmar stars

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CS Exclusive: Personal Training Accessories : Club Solutions ...

Aside from simply training clients, personal training departments have a multitude of resources at their disposal to increase clientele and further educate existing members. Vic Spatola, the director of personal training for Greenwood Athletic and Tennis Club, said that they ?use personalized experience to sell training.? They have found that ?the individual experience with a trainer, however small that may be, seems to get the best yield for trainers.?

Spatola?s team uses tracking devices to assist trainers in their instruction, and improve the member experience. ?By doing all the assessments and tracking, compared to normal values, we can show the client where they fall for their sex and age range,? said Spatola. ?This motivates the client to improve for their age range.?

One system that has worked for many clubs has been PT Training Systems. A one-stop platform for personal trainers, PT Training Systems was designed to help trainers manage individual clients.

?The client receives a login to their own account, which is administered by their trainer,? explained Steven Tongue, the director of PT Training Systems. ?The client has their own account to accept or reject future appointments from their trainer, and synchronize their phones and tablets? with the systems set up by their trainer.

Anymore, tracking abilities don?t simply stop with physical fitness. Trainers have the ability to also track dietary regiments for members and coach them through diets specially modified for individual clients.

?Our experience has shown that proper nutrition guidance is responsible for at least 50 percent of the results that a member will experience,? explained John Schirra, the president and CEO of DietMaster Pro. ?The implementation of an effective dietary regimen, combined with exercise, will give members optimal results, and improve a personal trainer?s value to the member.?

Tracking software has also revolutionized the way members and trainers stay in contact and work with each other outside of the club. With smart phone technology, clubs have the ability to give members login availabilities, via mobile apps, to help them as they grocery shop, or go out to dinner.

?Members can manage their own nutritional profile and recommend plans through the Internet or mobile phone app,? said Schirra. ?Members have become tired of the age-old food diary and exercise logging process, and simply want a plan to follow that meets their dietary and lifestyle needs. Personal trainers can provide a meal plan tailored to the member?s daily caloric needs within three minutes or less. Since these plans are designed by a qualified professional, the member will have a much higher value perception and credibility assurance.?

The personal training department at The Rush Fitness Complex has always used the standard body-fat calipers, or hand-held body-fat analyzers. Rob Rettmann, the vice president of education for The Rush Fitness Complex, inputs age and data from body-fat tests into tracking software to track members and show their progressions. ?This has been a process that we use at point of sale, as well as off the floor for our current members and clients,? said Rettmann. ?Whether we use the Health Age or new training ?toys,? we try to showcase everything in our performance zones, which are normally strategically placed in front of the cardio areas.?

When members are able to continually track their progressions, they can push themselves on days when they aren?t with their trainer. It makes them more in tune with their own fitness, as well as allowing them to develop a greater relationship with their trainer. With modern tracking systems members and trainers are able to reduce the risk of missing appointments or creating confusion within the personal training department.

New tracking capabilities for personal training data, as well as dietary information, allows clubs to give members more insight into their health and progressions. This type of information helps members understand the value of personal training and dietary regiments provided by their club. According to Tongue, the system of tracking personal training data is only in its beginning stages. ?This is just the start,? he said. ?We are going to be adding many more features.?

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By Tyler Montgomery

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Source: http://www.clubsolutionsmagazine.com/2012/07/cs-exclusive-personal-training/

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Monkey seen? Officials search for missing macaque

(AP) ? Searchers trying to find an 8-pound monkey that escaped more than a week ago are now playing sounds of a baby monkey to try to recapture the wayward animal.

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center spokesman Chad Campbell told the Winston-Salem Journal (http://bit.ly/MPxdJJ ) that someone reported seeing the monkey in southwestern Forsyth County on Friday. But crews didn't see the animal when they arrived. This particular type of monkey, called a macaque (muh-KAK), escaped from the Wake Forest University Primate Center.

Campbell says searchers have set up humane traps and are playing baby monkey calls to lure the animal. Officials hope the monkey will respond to the calls because she is a breeding animal used in research.

The 16-year-old macaque is originally from Indonesia and has been in captivity since 2008.

Associated Press

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Take a Break in a Floating Tea House [Architecture]

This backyard tea house designed by David Jameson in Maryland is Japanese-inspired, but it's not the architecture from centuries that's doing the influencing. Instead, the modern structure—which implements steel beams, glass, and a healthy dose of wood—takes its cues from a Japanese lantern, made evident by fact that it's suspended from the metal above. The only thing that could possibly make this even more fantastic (by way of serenity), is if it would slowly rock you to sleep after your tea date. [Architizer] More »


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Lily Allen: Pregnant with Second Child!


Lily Allen gave birth to her first child in November. And a new report states she and husband Sam Cooper are wasting little time expanding their family.

That's right, the British singer is pregnant again!

Photo of Lily Allen

Allen is due in December, according to The Daily Mirror, and has been afraid the public would catch on to the news before she was prepared to announce it.

"Lily was sure people were going to cotton on to the fact she had a pregnancy bump but she seemed to get away with it thanks to wearing very baggy clothing," an insider tells the newspaper. “Her bump has popped out very early – far earlier than the last ­pregnancy. She’s been joking she feels six months pregnant already.”

Already parents to little Ethel Mary, Allen and Cooper - who unfortunately suffered two miscarriages before finally carrying a baby to term - are reportedly "over the moon" over the impending second child. We send them our very best wishes!

Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/07/lily-allen-pregnant-with-second-child/

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The Bay Parties It Up For Social Media Day 2012

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New instrument sifts through starlight to reveal new worlds

Friday, July 6, 2012

An advanced telescope imaging system that started taking data last month is the first of its kind capable of spotting planets orbiting suns outside of our solar system. The collaborative set of high-tech instrumentation and software, called Project 1640, is now operating on the Hale telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California after more than six years of development by researchers and engineers at the American Museum of Natural History, the California Institute of Technology, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The project's first images demonstrating a new technique that creates extremely precise "dark holes" around stars of interest were presented today at the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation meeting in Amsterdam by Ben R. Oppenheimer, an associate curator in the Museum's Department of Astrophysics and principal investigator for Project 1640.

Although hundreds of planets are known from indirect detection methods to orbit other stars, it's extremely difficult to see them directly in an image. This is largely because the light that stars emit is tens of millions to billions of times brighter than the light given off by planets.

"We are blinded by this starlight," Oppenheimer said. "Once we can actually see these exoplanets, we can determine the colors they emit, the chemical compositions of their atmospheres, and even the physical characteristics of their surfaces. Ultimately, direct measurements, when conducted from space, can be used to better understand the origin of Earth and to look for signs of life in other worlds."

Even though the scientists are imaging what are considered relatively nearby stars?those no more than 200 light years away?an extraordinary level of precision is needed to produce accurate results.

"Imaging planets directly is supremely challenging," said Charles Beichman, executive director of the NASA ExoPlanet Science Institute at the California Institute of Technology. "Imagine trying to see a firefly whirling around a searchlight more than a thousand miles away."

Project 1640 is based on four major instruments that image infrared light generated by stars and the warm, young planets orbiting them. The instruments are now in operation and producing some of the highest-contrast images ever made, revealing celestial objects 1 million to 10 million times fainter than the star at the center of the image.

The core of this technical advance is the coordinated operation of: the world's most advanced adaptive optics system, built at Caltech and JPL, which can manipulate light by applying more than 7 million active mirror deformations per second with a precision level better than 1 nanometer?about 100 times smaller than a typical bacterium; a coronagraph, built at the Museum, which optically dims the star but not other celestial objects in the field of view; a spectrograph built by a team from the Museum and Cambridge University that records the images of other solar systems in a rainbow of colors simultaneously; and a specialized wavefront sensor built by a team at JPL that is imbedded in the coronagraph and senses imperfections in the light path at a precision of a nanometer.

Although the coronagraph creates an "artificial eclipse" inside Project 1640, blocking the extremely bright light emanating from the star, about half of a percent of that light remains in the form of a bright speckled background superimposed on the solar systems of interest. Each of these speckles can be hundreds of times brighter than the planets and must be controlled with exquisite precision.

Project 1640, however, has now demonstrated a technique that can darken the speckles far beyond any previous capability, in effect carving a dark square in the speckle background centered on the star. The dark region can only be created by measuring and controlling distortions in the distant star's light, caused by traveling through the atmosphere and optics, at the 5-nanometer level (a small fraction of the wavelength of light). Previously, the dark hole created by the Project 1640 technique had only been observed in controlled laboratory conditions. Now, the effect on an actual star has been observed through a telescope.

"High-contrast imaging requires each subsystem perform flawlessly and in complete unison to differentiate planet light from starlight," said Richard Dekany, the associate director for instrumentation at Caltech Optical Observatories. "Even a small starlight leak in the system can inundate our photodetectors and pull the shroud back down over these planets."

Now that the full system is working, the researchers have started a three-year survey, during which they plan to image hundreds of young stars.

"The more we learn about them, the more we realize how vastly different planetary systems can be from our own," said Jet Propulsion Laboratory astronomer Gautam Vasisht. "All indications point to a tremendous diversity of planetary systems, far beyond what was imagined just 10 years ago. We are on the verge of an incredibly rich new field."

The planets orbiting these bright stars in Project 1640's scope are likely very large, on the order of the size of Jupiter, and too hot for life to exist, though it's possible that other planets in these systems, or their moons, could harbor life. One of the biggest research potentials of the new project is to unlock knowledge about what the architectures of solar systems say about our own planet.

"In order to understand the origin of Earth, we need to understand the origin of planets in general," said Lynne Hillenbrand, an astronomy professor at the California Institute of Technology. "How do they form, how do they evolve? How does our solar system with both gas giant and rocky small planets compare to others? These are questions that are very important to humanity."

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