Seattle, Washington: (This article was written October 13, 2010 by Ancestry.com | Follow-up on Dec. 28, 2010 by Zach Royer | Journalist As Americans prepare to cast their votes in November’s mid-term election, Ancestry.com today announces that several key political leaders and media personalities are more than mere political allies or political foes—they are actually related. The world’s largest online family history resource reveals that President Barack Obama is related to former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Obama and Palin are 10th cousins through common ancestor John Smith. The website also found that Obama is related to one of his most vociferous critics, conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh. Perhaps Rush will ease up on the President when he learns they are actually 10th cousins once removed via common ancestor Richmond Terrell. Entire Article: http://corporate.ancestry.com/press/press-releases/2010/10/ancestry.com-reveals-midterm-election-connections-president-obama-related-to-palin-and-limbaugh-/
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On Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010 (at the epicenter), a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean near the Bonin Islands, sending shock waves as far as Tokyo and beyond. The timing was striking--within 24 hours of a rare total lunar eclipse. Being from Seattle you'd expect me to be used to such occurrences, but it's no secret that earthquakes and me don't get along. The first reports I read were of a 4.2 earthquake, but reports of an earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter Scale began to roll in at a rate of nearly a hundred per second within no time. It hadn't been a dream! Japan had most definitely been rocked by an earthquake. (Clay Dillow, Popsci) The future of carrier-based warfare quietly took to the skies over the weekend as the U.S. Navy successfully conducted the first-ever flight of its vaunted X-47B unmanned aircraft at Edwards AFB. The tailless, fighter-sized drone aircraft, designed by Northrop Grumman for carrier-based takeoffs and landings, spent half an hour in the air late Friday executing basic navigation maneuvers and otherwise proving that its design is airworthy and ready for further development.
The flight took off just after 2 p.m. local time and lasted just 29 minutes, reaching an altitude of only 5,000 feet. But for designers at Northrop Grumman and the Navy, it marks an important milestone for unmanned flight. The X-47B is the precursor to what the Navy hopes will be a fleet of unmanned, combat-capable aircraft that can launch from the deck of an aircraft carrier to carry out a range of missions. That, of course, is a big deal not just for the Navy but for the future of robotic aerial warfare, which thus far has been restricted to land-launched drones like the Predators and Reapers operating in Afghanistan and Iraq. Seattle: Facebook has gone on to enhance its face detection feature, launched in July 2010, and has come up with a new feature called "tag suggestions". The new feature makes use of face recognition technology (FRT) to suggest which friend is probably featured in which photo. How it works is, say you have uploaded a huge number of photographs, Facebook will group together the faces that look similar, based on the premise that they are photos of the same person. Facebook also goes and looks into the past photo tags and suggests who in the picture. Facebook believes the new feature will simplify the process of photo sharing. Also for users who want to maintain their privacy and not have their name suggested, they can use the privacy settings of the site and turn off the feature. The earlier face detection feature allowed users to only tag the photos and not suggest the faces. This feature is included with the recent profile update of facebook. Entire Article: http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/12/16/5660488-facebooks-facial-recognition-knows-who-your-friends-are- Kids are often told that to make it in life, they must go to college. They must work hard to get there. Parents and kids drain savings or take out huge loans to pay for it all. And what do kids end up learning? The answer: Not much. A study of more than 2,300 undergraduates found 45 percent of students show no significant improvement in the key measures of critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing by the end of their sophomore years. Not much is asked of students, either. Half did not take a single course requiring 20 pages of writing during their prior semester, and one-third did not take a single course requiring even 40 pages of reading per week. The findings are in a new book, "Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses," by sociologists Richard Arum of New York University and Josipa Roksa of the University of Virginia. An accompanying report argues against federal mandates holding schools accountable, a prospect long feared in American higher education. "The great thing -- if you can call it that -- is that it's going to spark a dialogue and focus on the actual learning issue," said David Paris, president of the New Leadership Alliance for Student Learning and Accountability, which is pressing the cause in higher education. "What kind of intellectual growth are we seeing in college?" |
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