Japan reactor on grid in first post-tsunami restart

A nuclear reactor in western Japan has begun generating electricity in the first restart since last year's tsunami led to a nationwide nuclear power plant shutdown.

The No. 3 reactor at the Ohi nuclear plant went back on the grid Thursday morning, according to the plant's operator.

Ohi is the first reactor to be restarted since last year's earthquake and tsunami caused meltdowns and massive radiation leaks at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant north of Tokyo. Japan's other reactors were gradually taken offline for maintenance or safety checks, and the country had been without nuclear power since May.

Public opposition to restarting reactors is high because of safety issues raised by the Fukushima disaster. But officials say the country needs nuclear power to avoid power shortages in the high-demand summer months.

AP

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KISS bring 'Monster' to UK

U.S rock band KISS members, from left, Tommy Thayer, Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons and Eric Singer, with their new book 'Monster' which contains photographs of the band's 40 year career live on stage, following a press conference in London, ahead of a concert on July 4 in aid of Help For Heroes. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)

U.S rock band KISS members, from left, Tommy Thayer, Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons and Eric Singer, with their new book 'Monster' which contains photographs of the band's 40 year career live on stage, following a press conference in London, ahead of a concert on July 4 in aid of Help For Heroes. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)

U.S rock band KISS members, from left, Tommy Thayer, Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons and Eric Singer, with their new book 'Monster' which contains photographs of the band's 40 year career live on stage, following a press conference in London, ahead of a concert on July 4 in aid of Help For Heroes. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)

LONDON (AP) ? LONDON (AP) ? American glam rockers KISS are unleashing their "Monster" on the UK public.

The band ? Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer? was in London on Tuesday to launch its new retrospective book, "KISS Monster," and to hold a news conference.

The limited edition book ? which is three feet (1 meter) tall ? features unseen photographs from the band's 40-year career.

"A band that is bigger than life deserves a book that's bigger than life. You could call it a coffee table book, but if you put legs on it, it is a coffee table," joked Stanley.

Only 1,000 copies of "KISS Monster" will be on sale and each one will be signed by the band. It will retail at a staggering >2,742 ($4,299).

"It's not a cheap book because it is hand bound, hand put together. It's the Rolls-Royce of books," said Simmons.

"KISS Monster" is now on sale in the U.K.

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Online: www.kissmonsterbook.com

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Apple granted patent for head-mounted display tech

By AppleInsider Staff

Published: 09:13 PM EST (06:13 PM PST) The United States Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday granted Apple's application for a patent describing head-mounted display technology that is tangentially related to see-through, or augmented reality, units like Google's Project Glass.

While U.S. Patent No. 8,212,859 for "Peripheral treatment for head-mounted displays" does not directly describe a device like the head-mounted display (HMD) augmented reality glasses currently under development by Google, the filing mentions that the technology can be used in similar see-through solutions.

The '859 patent, which was first applied for in 2006, presents various solutions regarding peripheral light transmission in an attempt to address the usability issues associated with HMDs, which have yet to take root in the consumer market. Apple's patent tries to solve problems related to eye strain caused by the display's relative distance from the eye with "peripheral treatment" of a user's field of view. In the technology the colors of the primary source image are dynamically matched by either LED, OLED or lasers and converged stereoscopically to reduce the "tunnel effect" seen in normal HMDs.

From the abstract:


Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for projecting a source image in a head-mounted display apparatus for a user. A first display projects an image viewable by a first eye of the user. A first peripheral light element is positioned to emit light of one or more colors in close proximity to the periphery of the first display. A receives data representing a source image, processes the data representing the source image to generate a first image for the first display and to generate a first set of peripheral conditioning signals for the first peripheral light element, directs the first image to the first display, and directs the first set of peripheral conditioning signals to the first peripheral light element. As a result, an enhanced viewing experience is created for the user.

Besides the peripheral treatment, and more substantial to HMD implementation, are the source and secondary image solutions that can be used in a variety of devices such as augmented reality glasses. The patent background cites AR directly, saying that "some HMDs can be used to view a see-through image imposed upon a real world view, thereby creating what is typically referred to as an augmented reality."

It is noted in that the peripheral treatment can be used in so-called diffractive optical arrangements like light-guided optical elements (LOE) or binocular light-guided optical elements (BLOE), both of which use thin transparent substrates to display source images. A similar method is being used in Google X lab's Project Glass, an internet-connected headset that displays information through digital images and video on a small transparent display in front of a user's right eye. At the Google I/O conference it was revealed that developer copies of the AR hardware will ship in 2013 with an expected consumer release to follow in 2014.

It is unlikely that Apple will be using the peripheral treatment patent anytime soon it at all but the filing serves as an interesting behind-the-scenes glimpse at the Cupertino-based company's research and development efforts.

The '859 patent is credited to John Tang and former senior vice president of Apple's iPod division Tony Fadell, known by insiders as the "grandfather of the iPod." Apple currently sells the Nest Learning Thermostat, the first product to come out of the new company Fadell founded after leaving the iPad maker, through its online store after having reportedly removed the device from brick-and-mortar locations.

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Judge denies Clemens compensation for mistrial

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Roger Clemens won't be getting back the money he spent on his first perjury trial, the one that ended in a mistrial.

U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton on Tuesday denied the former pitcher's request for fees and other costs associated with the trial that ended abruptly last July when prosecutors showed jurors a snippet of videotaped evidence that had been previously ruled inadmissible.

Walton said last fall that "it doesn't seem fair" for Clemens to pay for the government's mistake, but the judge's ruling found that the law doesn't allow for such compensation because it wasn't shown that the prosecutors deliberately introduced the barred evidence.

Clemens was charged with lying to Congress when he denied using performance-enhancing drugs. He was retried this year and found not guilty on all counts.

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Ron Howard: What I learned from Andy Griffith

By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper

Director?and actor Ron Howard, who was just 5 when he first played Sheriff Andy Taylor's son, Opie, on "The Andy Griffith Show," talked to msnbc's Andrea Mitchell Tuesday about Griffith's death.

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Howard, who went on to play Richie Cunningham on "Happy Days" and then to an acclaimed directorial career in the movies, said that Griffith "created an environment on that set that was very creative, very playful, but extremely disciplined."

Griffith's character evolved from a broader country-bumpkin type into a more nuanced man as the show progressed, Howard told Mitchell.

"The character became a much greater reflection of Andy," he said, noting that as a child actor he was allowed to witness discussions of which jokes were appropriate for the characters and which jokes "were perhaps undercutting the integrity of the characters."

Howard said that on his own films he tries to create a comfortable setting where actors and crew can feel confident and?do their best possible work, and says, "Without getting up and making speeches, I try to create that environment, as Andy did."

The actor and director also said he hopes fans will remember?the star's?entire body of work, including not just "The Andy Griffith Show," but 1980s legal drama "Matlock," the 1957 movie "A Face in the Crowd," his comedy monologues and his music, for which Griffith won a Grammy.

"There's a reason that he's so impactful in so many different?mediums and styles," Howard told Mitchell. "And that's because he cared about what he was doing."

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Hidden portals in Earth's magnetic field

ScienceDaily (July 3, 2012) ? A favorite theme of science fiction is "the portal" -- an extraordinary opening in space or time that connects travelers to distant realms. A good portal is a shortcut, a guide, a door into the unknown. If only they actually existed....

It turns out that they do, sort of, and a NASA-funded researcher at the University of Iowa has figured out how to find them.

"We call them X-points or electron diffusion regions," explains plasma physicist Jack Scudder of the University of Iowa. "They're places where the magnetic field of Earth connects to the magnetic field of the Sun, creating an uninterrupted path leading from our own planet to the sun's atmosphere 93 million miles away."

Observations by NASA's THEMIS spacecraft and Europe's Cluster probes suggest that these magnetic portals open and close dozens of times each day. They're typically located a few tens of thousands of kilometers from Earth where the geomagnetic field meets the onrushing solar wind. Most portals are small and short-lived; others are yawning, vast, and sustained. Tons of energetic particles can flow through the openings, heating Earth's upper atmosphere, sparking geomagnetic storms, and igniting bright polar auroras.

NASA is planning a mission called "MMS," short for Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission, due to launch in 2014, to study the phenomenon. Bristling with energetic particle detectors and magnetic sensors, the four spacecraft of MMS will spread out in Earth's magnetosphere and surround the portals to observe how they work.

Just one problem: Finding them. Magnetic portals are invisible, unstable, and elusive. They open and close without warning "and there are no signposts to guide us in," notes Scudder.

Actually, there are signposts, and Scudder has found them.

Portals form via the process of magnetic reconnection. Mingling lines of magnetic force from the sun and Earth criss-cross and join to create the openings. "X-points" are where the criss-cross takes place. The sudden joining of magnetic fields can propel jets of charged particles from the X-point, creating an "electron diffusion region."

To learn how to pinpoint these events, Scudder looked at data from a space probe that orbited Earth more than 10 years ago.

"In the late 1990s, NASA's Polar spacecraft spent years in Earth's magnetosphere," explains Scudder, "and it encountered many X-points during its mission."

Because Polar carried sensors similar to those of MMS, Scudder decided to see how an X-point looked to Polar. "Using Polar data, we have found five simple combinations of magnetic field and energetic particle measurements that tell us when we've come across an X-point or an electron diffusion region. A single spacecraft, properly instrumented, can make these measurements."

This means that single member of the MMS constellation using the diagnostics can find a portal and alert other members of the constellation. Mission planners long thought that MMS might have to spend a year or so learning to find portals before it could study them. Scudder's work short cuts the process, allowing MMS to get to work without delay.

It's a shortcut worthy of the best portals of fiction, only this time the portals are real. And with the new "signposts" we know how to find them.

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Phantasy World Online

What happens when a game controls itself? Will the players fight to keep things right or fall under the power of the tyrant that controls it?(Open/Under Construction)

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1. Posting General

You're going to be using this format throughout the whole RP. Basically it will keep track of how much EXP/Gold per post as well a a proof that you are leveling without cheating. So remember every post you make must have this

Character Name
Class(Type):
EXP: 0/5
Gold:

Remember EXP amount per post is 1
Gold amount is 2

Your first post must show your character logging in for the first time. Soooo

Ex.

Post -------- of course with all your info at the top then
<character name logs into Phantasy Star>

If your character logs out do the same thing - say what your character does and what not and then log out. This log out function may be nice just incase someone needs to go on halt for the RP or so.

Seeing that we don't want to seem as though we never get off lolz there will be times where I will say time changed from Day to Night or so. This allows you to possibly show more of how our character's life is outside and possibly how the game affects them. You do not have to log out or log in immediately when i say the time change. Its basically to keep track and make sure we're all on the same page..

2. Battles

Normal fights between player vs environment. Basically do as you would in a normal rp, get creative do what you must. The only type of PVE battles that your stats will come in and that will serve more of a challenge and reward and bosses. This may also come in for the Tyrant's army and such for plots to give a little difficulty.

When it comes to PVP against each other. The one with the highest speed goes first. Like PVE - Stats will matter

For example.

If player A has higher ATK then Player B's DEF then thats the damage Player B takes.

This also falls in with M.ATK and M.DEF. Remember take people's skills and attributes in account some people may have augmented skill damage or unresistable M.ATKs or such so there may be more calculations to make then just subtracting the two.

Now remember this is a real-time/ normal rp so make your fight creative, Do not god mod and think just because its a freestyle rp you can dodge every move if you have more speed. Maybe if you're 10-20 levels above sure but yeah.

Although we have control of the battles we fight - It wouldn't hurt to lose a few PvE fights or so just to have the feel of a game.

Also use the stats if fighting Player(NPCs) that you may have attack you.

3. Creativity

Remember we're all apart of this rp - so we construct together what monsters live in this RP/Areas of this land. If you want to add a monster - you can do it through your post saying the monster's name and level/type or so then when i see it. I'll add it to the NPC list.

This also goes for areas and root towns. I can start the first few areas but over all you know lets do this together.

Remember the plot revolves on what we do so talk about in in the OOC and what not - help each other out.

4. Leveling up
When your character levels up - I trust that you can add your stats accordingly

Basically when your level one - It shows your base stats yes? So this takes a big role in how much you gain. Know your weapon addition is not part of your progress - Although i could make it because it'll add even more diversity.

Anyways with your characters base stats divide it by 2.

The results basically equal the amount your character gets per level.

So if EX. someone was the class "Tester" (Made up)

Testers start out with 70 HP as a base. So Each level they get 35 HP added to there base.

5. Treasure Chest.

In areas depending on the area level and such, are allowed to find one chest per group. Every member gets a roll for a chance to get a item.

As this counts for loot too.

I will be the one to say what everyone gets and what they have won. Do not think of taking liberty of doing this yourself.

There will be no special loot for killing mobs UNLESS its a boss or Tyrant mob due to how i made the PvE battle system.

Will be updated over time - especially if important questions as asked,..

Stay tuned for "NPC list/Area list" in characters

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Pigeon Fever Detected in Florida Horses

More than 60 suspected cases of pigeon fever in horses have occurred in Florida this year, according to a July 3 news release from the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Animal Industry Division. The majority of the cases have been identified in Okaloosa, Walton, and Marion counties, the release said.

"Historically, the disease has primarily been seen in dry, hot areas of the country such as California and Texas," the release read. "However, in recent years pigeon fever has spread further east, with recent outbreaks in Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and now Florida."

Pigeon fever, also known as drought distemper, is an infection caused in horses by the?Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis?bacterium. The condition produces mild fever and pectoral abscesses that give an appearance similar to a pigeon's protruding breast. The abscesses can also appear along the horse's belly, on lower neck region, on limbs, or on the face. Less commonly, the condition can produce deep abscesses in a horse's lungs, kidneys, or liver.

Understanding Equine Medications is your A-Z guide to learning more about generic and brand-name pharmaceuticals, possible side effects and precautions, and proper dosage.

Pigeon fever is spread via insects and horse-to-horse contact, and horses can also contract the disease when bacteria from contaminated soil enters their bodies through cuts, scrapes or mucous membranes.?There is no vaccination to protect horses against pigeon fever.

"Horse owners with a horse showing signs of pigeon fever should have the horse examined by a veterinarian," the release said. "The only definitive method of determining if a horse has pigeon fever is by culture of the bacteria."

Owners in affected areas should closely monitor their horses for signs of pigeon fever. Owners whose horses exhibit signs of pigeon fever should contact a veterinarian for treatment options.?In confirmed cases, infected horses should be isolated from other equids, and owners should implement good biosecurity practices.

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