Most high dynamic range photography 'cheats' by merging multiple exposures into a composite image, which can lead to blurry shots. While HDR camera technology is catching up and will even let us record HDR video on our smartphones, Rambus believes its new Binary Pixel technology can achieve the effect with less waste. Its new imaging chip tries to replicate the human eye's range through setting light thresholds and oversampling the scene in both space and time. The results are more natural shadows and highlights down to the pixel level, with processing processing fast enough for video. The overall image reportedly suffers from less noise as well. Companies will have to talk to Rambus to implement Binary Pixel, although it's a considered a drop-in technology that should talk to existing processors and camera sensors, whether it's for smartphones or point-and-shoot cameras. Rambus may just want to hurry if it hopes to get noticed -- it's joining an increasingly crowded field.
For many organizations, keeping track over who has access to?data?is critical for maintaining corporate compliance. Such auditing is also mandatory for adhering to compliance regulations like HIPAA. Companies that need this sort of insight into their data should consider IS Decision's FileAudit 4.
The Windows ecosystem has native auditing capability. But auditing in Windows is tightly interwoven with Event Viewer. Configuring auditing and deciphering the sometime cryptic text of Event Viewer requires the skill of a Windows system administrator. Data auditors are seldom part of IT and, in fact, companies often want to keep auditing and auditing reports out of IT's purview. That's why third-party solutions that make it easy to see what's happening with company data and make running audits reports easy are often necessary. IS Decisions' FileAudit 4 is one such solution.
With FileAudit, organizations have an easy yet robust tool for auditing files and folders that reside on Windows systems, run audit reports without the help of IT, and even send alerts about auditing events. It's not a cheap solution, at a starting price of $826. Plus, it only audits files and directories on Windows, something that the company may want to address as user data is increasingly being kept on a wide-variety of devices. However, Windows shops with critical auditing needs will find FileAudit 4 worthy of consideration.
Pricing and Requirements As mentioned, unit pricing starts at $826, which includes a year's free maintenance. Pricing is per server on which files are to be audited. Organizations with many servers can take advantage of volume licensing.
FileAudit can audit machines running Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, as well as Windows Server OSes from Server 2003 on up to Server 2012. The company states the product will likely support Windows 8 Pro tablets but it has yet to test and verify. Requirements include the.NET Framework 3.5 SP1and 60MB of free disk space. FileAudit also requires a database. Microsoft Access is included in the price, but you can opt to use it with Microsoft SQL Express 2005/2008/2008 R2 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008/2008 R2/2012.
The software also needs access to port 445 (SMB TCP) and ICMP-Ping. You can perform a console-only install on a client machine to remotely manage and run auditing on?machines running the FileAudit service. For console installs, port 2000 must be open for the remote connection.
Install and Configuration You can install FileAudit on a Windows 2012 server for instance,?and manage and configure it from that server or perform a console install on a client machine and manage FileAudit remotely (my preferred method for managing server utilities).
The install process is quite simple and involves a few clicks. Opening the FileAudit interface reveals a Windows-8 like, tile-based look but I would argue even more professional and polished with uniform colors.
The interface is divided into three sections: Audit, Access, and Tools. You click on "Audit Configuration" under the Audit section to get started.? You can browse to select the file or folder you want to audit. You can add remote files and folders too, as long as the remote machine has a FileAudit license.
I selected a folder and then received another wizard, this one for assisting in configuring the folder for access auditing. This means configuring the server on which the folder is stored, for object access audit, NTFS audit on the folder path, licensing the server, and finally configuring the server to be constantly monitored by FileAudit.
I clicked Next in this wizard to kick off the configuration steps. For each configuration, the wizard asked if I wanted FileAudit to automatically configure itself or if I wanted to configure manually. I opted for the former and the appropriate configurations were made and the folder was added to FileAudit's watch.
One bothersome limitation seems to be that you only have the ability to add one folder or one file at a time and neither in bulk, at least within the interface. The alternative is to go into Windows Explorer on the server FileAudit is installed on, multi-select files and folders, and then right-click for the contextual menu. FileAudit is added to the menu and clicking it will launch path configuration for each object consecutively.
Overall, the automated configuration is impressive and certainly easy even for the most novice tech user.?
Alerts, Reports and Customization After adding the files and folders you want to be audited, you can also set up alerting on any of those data objects. For example, you can set up an alert in case someone attempts to delete a specific folder or tries to open a file with Write permissions, or tries to take ownership.
These alerts can all be viewed in FileAudit's File Access Viewer. There's a list of events that took place with each audited object. You get a comprehensive view that includes the time and date of the event, the access type, whether access was granted or denied, the user, domain, and the source. Source is the name of the process generating the event. For instance, when I set auditing on a text file and then deleted the file, I saw this deletion event listed with the source being Notepad.exe.
By the way, although you can only audit Windows files and folders, FileAudit will audit access from non-Windows machines and devices.
FileAudit can also email alerts. You can set it to send individual alerts or all alerts together by adding?the SMTP settings of an email server in FileAudit.
You can also schedule the app to run and email reports, just as you do with alerts. You select the audited objects you want to report on as well as the type of events?or you can view all access types and events.? Information in the report is laid out the same way as in File Access Viewer.
The handiest feature is Statistics, which gives an at-a-glance view of everything that's happening with audited data including, the access type,? percentage of deletes, writes and any other attempts to change or tamper with file or folder permissions. You can also view useful information like the top five accessed folders and the top five users accessing audited objects.
FileAudit's interface is clean and uncluttered. The simplicity of design means there isn't much to customize but there are a few settings you can tweak in the Settings section.
You can exclude specific files from being audited within a folder such as .exe files, or exclude users from audit. Licensing, permissions, as well as database and email settings are all configured in Settings. Delete all audited events at any time by clicking Event Cleaner.
Customers also have lots of help resources right in the interface including support, documentation, and a user community.
Minor Quibbles FileAudit is a very straightforward application and easy to navigate through. I have a few minor quibbles and they mostly are about what I would like to see added to the interface. One is a validation settings in the email set up page. When you set email there's no button for sending a test email to ensure proper configuration.
I'd also like a "Send Now" button when sending a report on-the-fly. You can work around this by setting up a report and send it instantly using the test button.
Also, customizing reports would be another useful feature to add. Some businesses may want to send out audit reports with their own branding.
Simple, Yet Effective Auditing Even without the features I mention above FileAudit makes the often dreary task of data auditing easy yet effective. The solution is a more polished, user-friendly way to keep tabs on auditing over simply using Windows' Event Viewer. I would like to see the solution branch out to audit information on Mac and Linux machines that house data as well, but Windows Servers are still the standard as file servers in business. Although it may be pricey for smaller businesses, FileAudit 4 is worth checking into if auditing is a must in your organization and is a four-star Editors' Choice for business software.
Having a child is like playing life on the hardest difficulty. It?s the most rewarding and fulfilling way to way to play the game, but it makes everything just a little bit more difficult to pull off.
Playing video games on the hardest difficulties offers the truest representation of how a game was intended to be played by the developer. It?s a much more intense and emotional experience when a single shot can cause you to restart your progress, but it makes the reward of completing a level much more fulfilling. Each encounter becomes a trial of endurance and skill, where on the lesser difficulties, it is a more casual and relaxing experience. Taking a few hits isn?t a problem when it only eliminates a sliver of your health bar and you?ve got a plethora of health packs to keep you going. It allows you to be reckless, something you absolutely cannot do on the harder difficulties.
It may seem like an odd analogy to connect, but having a child offers
the same difficult to achieve rewards of playing a game on hard. On the
normal difficulty, you only have to hit the enemy twice with your sword
in order to move on, but on hard, the enemy gains agility, and can take
nearly twice as many attacks. Before adopting fatherhood, or as I like
to call, saving my daughter from non-existence, things like doing the
dishes were simple and required only a little bit of my time. Now, the
dishes take much longer to complete, and I have to make sure that a
toddler isn?t going behind my back and pulling out forks from the
utensil rack. It takes more time, but completing the dishes is more
fulfilling is a strange way.
Having a child, for me, offered a similar change of upping the difficulty, but on a broader life-affecting scale. Life is more challenging now, but it is also much more rewarding. The emotional payoff of watching my daughter take her first step is a difficult thing to describe. The small life achievements seem to have more weight, and the setbacks hurt much more. The strangest things will set me off. I was embarrassed to find myself crying over a Google Chrome commercial where a father and daughter are separated by college. Just the idea that one day my daughter wouldn't be the tiny creature living in my house was enough to flip some kind of switch that wasn't there when I was playing on the normal difficulty.
Then, of course, there are the bragging rights. Even before the era of Achievements and Trophies, finishing a game on the hardest difficulty was a badge of honor. I remember my friend Jim detailing his summer-long chronicle of defeating Devil May Cry on the ?Dante must die" mode. He told me how every boss encounter was a miracle of endurance for him, and he would spend whole days tackling the most difficult ones. To this day I am in awe of his technical prowess, impressed with his abilities. He deserves to brag about his achievement, and whenever anyone would even make a casual reference to Devil May Cry, he would eagerly recount his own experience.
I find myself bragging about Achievements, too, whenever anyone brings up Dead Space 2. Even though my experience with the game ended almost two years ago, I still look for any excuse to mention that I beat the game on hard to anyone who will listen. Now, I do the exact same thing, except I want to talk about my child. Eavesdropping on even the most minor reference to someone having a child, or getting ready to have a child, will cause be to perk up and shoulder my way into the conversation. ?Are you guys talking about kids? I have one of those too!? I want to make sure everyone knows that I bumped up the difficulty on my own game of life, and it has a better experience because of it.
A new database assembled by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education and the?Sustainable Endowments Institute shows that 80 colleges have more than $118-million in revolving-loan money available for small?and sometimes large?projects aimed at improving energy efficiency on their campuses.
Amounts in the funds range from $13-million in the University of Vermont Energy Revolving Fund to $11,560 in the Bucknell University Green Fund.
?The revolving funds captured in this database provide great examples of?a sustainable technique for funding sustainability projects,? said the association?s executive director, Paul Rowland, in a written statement that also calls higher education ?a?leading sector for energy-efficiency investments.? The statement notes that the number of revolving funds has tripled since 2009.
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Feb. 26, 2013 ? Firefighters put their lives on the line in some of the most dangerous conditions on Earth. One of their greatest challenges, however, is seeing through thick veils of smoke and walls of flame to find people in need of rescue. A team of Italian researchers has developed a new imaging technique that uses infrared (IR) digital holography to peer through chaotic conflagrations and capture potentially lifesaving and otherwise hidden details.
The team describes its breakthrough results and their applications in a paper published February 26 in the Optical Society's (OSA) open-access journal Optics Express.
Firefighters can see through smoke using current IR camera technology. However, such instruments are blinded by the intense infrared radiation emitted by flames, which overwhelm the sensitive detectors and limit their use in the field. By employing a specialized lens-free technique, the researchers have created a system that is able to cope with the flood of radiation from an environment filled with flames as well as smoke.
"IR cameras cannot 'see' objects or humans behind flames because of the need for a zoom lens that concentrates the rays on the sensor to form the image," says Pietro Ferraro of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) Istituto Nazionale di Ottica in Italy. By eliminating the need for the zoom lens, the new technique avoids this drawback.
"It became clear to us that we had in our hands a technology that could be exploited by emergency responders and firefighters at a fire scene to see through smoke without being blinded by flames, a limitation of existing technology," Ferraro says. "Perhaps most importantly, we demonstrated for the first time that a holographic recording of a live person can be achieved even while the body is moving."
Holography is a means of producing a 3-D image of an object. To create a hologram, such as those typically seen on credit cards, a laser beam is split into two (an object beam and a reference beam). The object beam is shone onto the object being imaged. When the reflected object beam and the reference beam are recombined, they create an interference pattern that encodes the 3-D image.
In the researchers' new imaging system, a beam of infrared laser light is widely dispersed throughout a room. Unlike visible light, which cannot penetrate thick smoke and flames, the IR rays pass through largely unhindered. The IR light does, however, reflect off of any objects or people in the room, and the information carried by this reflected light is recorded by a holographic imager. It is then decoded to reveal the objects beyond the smoke and flames. The result is a live, 3-D movie of the room and its contents.
The next step in moving this technology to the field is to develop a portable tripod-based system that houses both the laser source and the IR camera. The systems may also be suitable for fixed installation inside buildings or tunnels. In addition, the team is exploring other applications, most notably in the biomedical field for non-destructive testing of large aerospace composite structures.
"Besides life-saving applications in fire and rescue, the potential to record dynamic scenes of a human body could have a variety of other biomedical uses including studying or monitoring breathing, cardiac beat detection and analysis, or measurement of body deformation due to various stresses during exercise," Ferraro says. "We are excited to further develop this technology and realize its application for saving and improving human life."
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) ? A shark possibly 14 feet long killed a swimmer near a popular New Zealand beach on Wednesday, then disappeared after police attempting to save the man fired gunshots at the enormous predator.
Muriwai Beach near Auckland was closed after the fatal attack, one of only about a dozen in New Zealand in the past 180 years.
Pio Mose, who was fishing at the beach, told The New Zealand Herald he saw the swimmer struggle against the "huge" shark. He told the man to swim to the rocks, but it was too late.
"All of a sudden there was blood everywhere," Mose said. "... I was shaking, scared, panicked."
Police Inspector Shawn Rutene said in a statement that the swimmer, who was in his 40s, was about 200 meters (650 feet) offshore when the shark attacked. He said police went out in inflatable surf-lifesaving boats and shot at the shark, which they estimate was 12 to 14 feet long.
"It rolled over and disappeared," Rutene said, without saying whether police are certain that they killed the creature.
Police recovered the body of the swimmer, whose name was not immediately released because his relatives had yet to be notified.
About 200 people had been enjoying the beach during the Southern Hemisphere summer at the time of the attack. Police said Muriwai and other beaches nearby have been closed until further notice.
Police did not say what species of shark was involved in the attack. Clinton Duffy, a shark expert with the Department of Conservation, said New Zealand is a hotspot for great white sharks, and other potentially lethal species also inhabit the waters.
Attacks are rare. Duffy estimated that only 12 to 14 people have been killed by sharks in New Zealand since record-keeping began in the 1830s.
"There are much lower levels of shark attacks here than in Australia," he said. "It's possibly a function of how many people are in the water" in New Zealand's cooler climate.
He said that during the Southern Hemisphere summer, sharks often come in closer to shore to feed and to give birth, although that doesn't necessarily equate to a greater risk of attack.
"Ninety-nine percent of the time they ignore people," he said. "Sometimes, people get bitten."
Around the world, sharks attacked humans 80 times last year, and seven people were killed, according to the University of Florida's International Shark Attack File. The death toll was lower than it was in 2011 but higher than the average of 4.4 from 2001 to 2010.
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Restaurateur B. Smith will be the guest chef Wednesday in a White House restaurant run by the Navy.
Word got out during an interview that Michelle Obama taped ahead of time and was broadcast Tuesday on Smith's program on SiriusXM radio.
Smith said her menu will be soulful and healthy. Mrs. Obama described White House staff as anxious to get their lips on Smith's food.
Smith's restaurant at Washington's Union Station serves Cajun, Creole and Southern food. She also has two restaurants in New York.
The White House mess was established in 1951. Cabinet secretaries can make reservations to eat in, while West and East wing staff are served by a takeout window.
Smith's stint is part of Black History Month observances by the White House.
ZTE is chasing the premium smartphone experience -- and it might not come with too heavy a price tag. While we've already seen its skinny phone-tablet, expect some news on a more global appearance, alongside, hopefully, more news on its Nubia range. Oh, and finally a closer look at that Firefox phone -- unless Mozilla has that on lock-down. The event will kick off Sunday at... the time you see below.
Classifying different kinds of malware is notoriously hard, but crucial if computer defences are to keep up with the ever-evolving ecosystem of malicious programs. Treating computer viruses as biological puzzle could help computer scientists get a better handle on the wide world of malware.?
Ajit Narayanan and Yi Chen at the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, converted the signatures of 120 worms and viruses into an amino acid representation. The signatures are more usually presented in hexadecimals - a base-16 numbering system which uses the digits 0 to 9 as well as the letters a to f - but the amino acid "alphabet" is better suited to machine-learning techniques that can analyse a piece of code to figure out whether it matches a known malware signature.
Generally, malware experts identify and calculate the signatures of new malware, but it can be hard for them keep up. While machine learning can help, it is limited because the hexadecimal signatures can be different lengths: Narayanan's team found that using machine learning to help classify the hexadecimal malware signatures resulted in accuracy no better than flipping a coin.
But some techniques used in bioinformatics for comparing amino acid sequences take differing lengths into account. After applying these to malware, Narayanan's average accuracy for classifying the signatures automatically using machine learning rose to 85 per cent.
Biology might help in other ways too. Narayanan notes that if further study shows malware evolution follows some of the same rules as amino acids and proteins, our knowledge of biological systems could be used to help fight it.
BOSTON (Reuters) - A weather system threatening New England with a third straight weekend of winter storms appeared to be weakening on Saturday night, promising less snowfall than expected.
Another storm was rolling out of the Rocky Mountains in the Western United States and could create blizzard conditions in Colorado over the weekend, according to a National Weather Service advisory.
Forecasters were also predicting blizzard conditions from Oklahoma through Missouri early next week when another snowstorm hits an area of the Northern United States from the Plains to the Great Lakes.
But by Saturday evening, the East Coast storm was moving more east and offshore than anticipated - potentially leaving areas like Boston with much less snowfall than originally expected, said Eleanor Vallier-Talbot of the National Weather Service in Taunton, Massachusetts.
"The further south you go, the less snow. Boston proper might not even see an inch of snow," she said. "The forecast models have been slowly but surely backing off this thing."
Much of the Midwest is already blanketed with snow, with more than a foot reported in Kansas on Thursday, forcing airports to cancel hundreds of flights and leaving motorists stranded on highways.
On Colorado's high plains, up to a foot of snow was possible overnight and throughout Sunday, with winds gusting up to 45 miles an hour, said Frank Cooper, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Boulder.
A spokeswoman for the Denver International Airport said passengers could expect delays on Sunday as crews de-iced aircraft and cleared runways, and a Southwest Airlines spokeswoman, Olga Romero, said 46 flights in and out of Denver had been canceled until 11 a.m. on Sunday.
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The New England coast - from northern Connecticut to southern Maine - was expecting an extended mix of snow and rain, according to a National Weather Service advisory. Residents were taking it in stride.
"Look, it's winter, it's New England, it snows. Happens every time!" said Steve Scardino, a software sales executive and lifelong New Englander from Hopkinton, Massachusetts.
Farther north, near Portland, Maine, the heaviest snow was not expected until Sunday, with accumulations up to 8 inches farther inland.
The weather service said the storm may bring sleet and freezing rain to the Appalachians and mid-Atlantic states as well, with thunderstorms expected in the Southeast. It likely will dump rain from New York City to Philadelphia, it said. The storm barreled eastward after pummeling the Midwest during the week. In Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Sly James said about 60 buses were stuck on snowbound streets on Friday, and even tow trucks were immobilized.
After a storm last week dumped some 14 inches of snow on Wichita, Kansas, and 11 inches on Kansas City, residents from Texas to Nebraska were bracing for another one early next week, according to AccuWeather.com.
Forecasters predicted heavy snow developing on Sunday night and increasing to a rate of 2 inches an hour from northern Oklahoma through central Kansas.
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon and Kansas Governor Sam Brownback declared states of emergency because of possible power outages and generally hazardous travel.
Drought-stricken farmers in the Great Plains, one of the world's largest wheat-growing areas, welcomed the moisture, although experts said even more rain or snow would be needed to ensure healthy crops.
(Additional reporting by Kevin Murphy, Ian Simpson, Kevin Gray, Kewith Coffman, Steve Gorman and Chris Francescani; Editing by Peter Cooney and Jackie Frank)
Cash crop ... Jason, of the Academy of Cannabis Culture and Technology in Seattle, Washington, with plants grown legally for research and medical purposes.
I was part-way through an interview with a defence lawyer and an AIDS activist when a warm sensation stole over me.
I had been in the activist's illegal grow-house, inspecting a little stainless steel mixing bowl full of capsules of intensely concentrated cannabis oil he had extracted the night before from two garbage bags full of buds. Their skin was greasy and they glowed a dull green when I held them up to the light.
Half an hour later we were discussing medical uses of pot when their voices seemed to fade and I found myself gazing happily at a door.
''Can those things make you stoned just by touching them?'' I asked the activist.
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''Ah, shit,'' he said. ''Sorry.'' He added unhelpfully: ''Jesus. Look at your eyes.''
I had come to Washington state to write about how the authorities had legalised marijuana after a referendum in the November presidential election, a move that shocked the rest of the nation.
Washington - like Colorado, which passed different measures to similar effect - did not take the baby step of decriminalising use of the drug, nor did it legalise by stealth by broadening a medical marijuana program.
Instead, voters chose to legalise and regulate the growth, processing, sale and possession of marijuana for recreational purposes.
This, says the former Washington State Bar Association president Salvador Mungia, one of the reform's champions, is how alcohol prohibition ended 80 years ago. First states stopped enforcing federal laws. Then they stopped enforcing the mirroring state laws the federal government had demanded they introduce. Then they began repealing their own laws, dismantling the legal foundations of prohibition.
Perhaps. Either way, getting to know your way around Washington state's hazy pot politics can be a little jarring. Proponents of the new laws tend to look like Mungia, who as he sits in a suit at the conference table of an upmarket law office preparing for a deposition, tells me he has never smoked pot, let alone inhaled.
Among the fiercest opponents of the drug laws is Sensible Washington, a pro-pot advocacy group that has been fighting for the repeal of laws against marijuana for years.
From the window in his corner office in the fifth floor of the glassy Seattle State House, the City Attorney, Pete Holmes, looks out at three stolid public buildings, all linked by a forbidding overhead bridge that casts shadows over two of Seattle's main streets.
It is an enclosed tunnel through which felons are escorted high above two of the city's main avenues from a jail, over an administration building and into the courthouse. But the bleak windowless shaft looks more industrial than pedestrian.
''It's ugly as hell,'' says Holmes as he looks at the skyline. He is talking about the architectural blight, but once you've spoken to him for a while you realise he could be talking about the pointless machinery of arrest, incarceration and release.
Holmes became the Seattle City Attorney in 2010 after a campaign in which he argued against the building of a planned new jail. He said as the city's chief prosecutor he could bring down the number of prison beds needed by targeting prosecutions more carefully, particularly by abiding by a citizens' initiative in 2003 decreeing that Seattle police should consider the marijuana possession laws as their lowest priority.
Shortly after he was elected, Holmes announced he would no longer prosecute people for marijuana possession. The police made their feelings known by baiting him with increased arrests.
Meanwhile another group was putting together different reforms that would have strengthened the protections for medical marijuana users. At the time, under Washington state law people with doctors' certificates were not protected from arrest, although they had a strong defence if arrested. Finally, the state's governor, concerned that passing such a law would force state employees to break federal laws, vetoed the bill.
''That was the last straw for me,'' says Holmes. He was sure prohibition had failed. The state was awash with ''BC bud'' - cannabis that flowed south from British Columbia across the border in Canada, as well as the marijuana, crystal meth and heroin that followed the smuggling lines up from Mexico. A study showed it was easier for a 14-year-old to buy pot than a six-pack of beer. And despite his own moratorium on prosecutions in Seattle, people were flowing through the prison system across the state after being convicted on small possession charges.
Holmes had moral concerns, too. ''Prohibition has been implemented in a racially disproportionate manner,'' he says. ''It has made us the No. 1 jailer nation on the planet, both in absolute and relative terms, and it has made criminal enterprises incredibly wealthy.
''One statistic from the US Justice Department that appears to be pretty solid shows that of the Mexican drug trade, 60 per cent is marijuana ? That means 60 per cent of the 50,000 murders [in the Mexican drug war], 60 per cent of the lawlessness.''
He began discussing what real marijuana reform would look like with Alison Holcomb, the American Civil Liberties Union drug policy director in Washington. They decided reforms should recognise the efficacy of medical marijuana for some patients, while dismantling the farce that for a time had led to the existence of more pot dispensaries in Seattle than Starbucks outlets.
Reforms should replace the black market with a legal market and generate tax revenue for the state.
As the two bounced drafts of a bill back and forth, Holcombe built a political campaign. By the time what became known as Initiative 502, or I-502, was passed, $US6 million ($5.8 million) would be raised and spent on the campaign and its associated polling and focus group testing. Those backing the bill wanted to know not so much what marijuana users wanted from the law, but what the rest of society did not want. Then they set about allaying those fears.
Driving under the influence would be banned and strictly policed, and possession would be illegal for anyone under 21. Using pot would be legal, but only in private - Seattle would not become a new Amsterdam.
In 2011, Holmes went public with an opinion piece in the conservative Seattle Times advocating an end to marijuana prohibition. He was stunned a couple of days later when the paper endorsed his position in its editorial. So was the left-leaning weekly publican The Stranger, which wrote: ''You could've knocked our stoned, tax-and-spending asses over with a feather when the Times editorial board wrote on February 18: 'Marijuana should be legalised, regulated and taxed.'''
The Stranger reported that former and serving police and judiciary backed the reform, as did the entire city council. And many state politicians were on-side.
After a generation of failure by the pro-pot activists, Holcomb and Holmes saw their reform pass easily on presidential election night last November. Suddenly marijuana possession was legal in Washington, and the state's Liquor Control Board found itself having to quickly build a regulatory system.
Under that system, by the end of the year it is expected the state will begin issuing three types of licence for the growth, processing and sale of pot.
No one person or company will be allowed to own two licences. Growers will sell to processors, who will package marijuana products and produce foodstuffs and drinks to be sold by retailers.
At each step along the way, the state will put out its hand for 25 per cent tax.
The state budge office predicts the cost of legal marijuana will be comparable to the black-market price of about $US13 a gram.
People will legally be able to buy one ounce (28 grams) of smokable marijuana, 16 ounces of edible products or 72 ounces of THC-infused liquids.
Approved retailers will be allowed to sell marijuana products only, and they must not be established within 1000 feet (about 330 metres) of schools. However, growing crops of pot will remain illegal.
A few blocks down the hill from Holmes's office, Doug Hiatt of Sensible Washington shares some battered old rooms with a few other defence lawyers, and from there he leads an angry campaign against the reforms.
He wears his greying hair in a ponytail and is prone to T-shirts with anti-drug war slogans. He has been fighting to legalise pot since he first defended a jailed AIDS patient 20 years ago. His problem is not that I-502 liberalises the drug laws, but that they did not go far enough and make further reform harder. He speaks in long, loud frenetic bursts of language laden with detail and obscenity. After a 20-minute blast shortly after we met, I tell him: ''Mate, you're going to have a heart attack.'' ''I'm not going to have a heart attack,'' he bellows back. ''I'm going to f---ing kill somebody.''
One of Hiatt's main concerns is the new driving-under-the-influence laws - now known as ''green DUI''. As part the campaign to win mainstream support, those backing 1-502 made the laws against green DUI tougher than those against alcohol. Those caught with more than five nanograms of active marijuana per millilitre of blood face prosecution. For those under the age of 21, there is no legal level of pot in the system.
The impact on young people and medical marijuana patients could be catastrophic, Hiatt says .
''You try and get a student loan with a green DUI on your record. Try and get insurance.''
That night we drive out through the Seattle suburbs to a grow-house being constructed by Dale Rogers. Rogers was found to be HIV-positive in 1987, when he was 18, though he is in good health today.
Pot's anti-nausea properties have helped him keep down the mountains of pills he needs to take. It has stimulated his appetite and helped him gain weight. It has decreased his stress and improved his sleep. And it was the only drug that effectively treated his crippling neuropathy.
As an activist and member of a medical marijuana collective, Rogers has made no secret of the fact he has broken the medical marijuana laws, but he has never been arrested - partly, he and Hiatt believe, because of his high profile.
Now Rogers worries he might fall foul of the new laws. While he can own an ounce of pot, he can't grow the drug in bulk, nor share it among other patients - the point of his collective. Nor does not want to buy pot from the newly licensed stores, because, like many medical marijuana users, he has built relationships with specialist growers.
Rogers shows me the equipment he used the night before to refine his marijuana concentrate, then hands me the capsules I naively pick up to inspect. Soon I start fading out.
Hiatt is on a rhetorical role. He believes only the complete repeal of all anti-marijuana laws, coupled with minimal regulation, will kill the black market.
''The only thing that competes with the black market is a free market,'' he says. ''If you ain't got a free market, you ain't going to solve the problem - I don't care if it's marijuana or peanut butter.
''Goddammit, Nick, if I outlawed peanut butter tomorrow, there's going to be a f---ing black-market in peanut butter three days later.''
Holmes disagrees. ''People don't make gin in their bathtubs any more,'' he says. ''It's easier to buy it in a shop.''
As for prohibition, since the new law was passed, Holmes has taken calls from officials in many other states asking how it was overturned.
Now they all have to wait to see if the federal government will step in to preserve prohibition from above.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) ? The family lawyer of Oscar Pistorius says the brother of the Olympic paraplegic athlete is facing culpable homicide charge in a 2010 road death.
Laywer Kenny Oldwage would not confirm details of the case Carl Pistorius is facing, but Sunday's development is compounding the problems for the family after Oscar was charged with premeditated murder in the Feb. 14 shooting death of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
Local media reported that Carl Pistorius was allegedly involved in a crash with a woman motorcyclist and that he was to face trial last Thursday, as his brother Oscar was facing a bail hearing.
Oscar Pistorius was released on bail Friday and his brother Carl was seen driving into the affluent villa of their uncle Arnold early Sunday, where Oscar is staying while on bail.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) ? At least 33 fans were injured Saturday during a NASCAR race when a car flew into the fence at Daytona International Speedway, hurling a tire and large pieces of debris into the stands.
The accident happened on the last lap of the second-tier Nationwide Series race on the eve of Sunday's Daytona 500, which officials said would go on as scheduled.
The crash began as the field approached the checkered flag and leader Regan Smith attempted to block Brad Keselowski to preserve the win. That triggered a chain reaction, and rookie Kyle Larson hit the cars in front of him and went airborne into the fence.
The entire front end was sheared off Larson's car, and his burning engine wedged through a gaping hole in the fence. Chunks of debris from the car were thrown into the stands, including a tire that cleared the top of the fence and landed midway up the spectator section closest to the track.
The 20-year-old Larson stood in shock several yards away from his car as fans in the stands waved frantically for help. Smoke from the burning engine briefly clouded the area, and emergency vehicles descended on the scene.
Ambulance sirens could be heard wailing behind the grandstands at a time the race winner would typically be doing celebratory burnouts.
"It was freaky. When I looked to my right, the accident happened," said Rick Harpster of Orange Park, Fla., who had a bird's-eye view of the wreck. "I looked over and I saw a tire fly straight over the fence into the stands, but after that I didn't see anything else That was the worst thing I have seen, seeing that tire fly into the stands. I knew it was going to be severe."
Shannan Devine, of Egg Harbor Township, N.J., was sitting about 250 feet away from where the car smashed into the fence and could see plumes of smoke directly in front of her.
"I didn't know if there was a car on top of people. I didn't know what to think. I'm an emotional person and I immediately started to cry. It was very scary. Absolutely scary. I love the speed of the sport. But it's so dangerous," said Devine who was planning to attend her second Daytona 500.
She said many fans got in the way of rescue efforts by trying to take pictures and videos, even jumping over fencing in hopes of getting closer to the scene.
Speedway President Joie Chitwood said 14 fans were treated on site, and 14 others were taken to hospitals. Chitwood didn't give any updates on their conditions. Local officials said 19 fans were taken to neighboring hospitals, including two who were in critical condition but were later upgraded to stable.
The accident happened the day before the Sprint Cup Series season-opening Daytona 500 ? NASCAR's version of the Super Bowl. Daytona workers could be seen repairing the large section of fence where Larson hit, as well as the wall that was damaged in the accident.
"First and foremost our thoughts and prayers are with our race fans," Chitwood said. "Following the incident we responded appropriately according to our safety protocols, and had emergency medical personnel at the incident immediately.
"We're in the process of repairing the facility and will be ready to go racing tomorrow."
As emergency workers tended to injured fans and ambulance sirens wailed in the background, a somber Tony Stewart skipped the traditional post-race victory celebration.
Stewart, who won for the 19th time at Daytona and seventh time in the last nine season-opening Nationwide races, was in no mood to celebrate.
"The important thing is what is going on on the frontstretch right now," said Stewart, the three-time NASCAR champion. "We've always known, and since racing started, this is a dangerous sport. But it's hard. We assume that risk, but it's hard when the fans get caught up in it.
"So as much as we want to celebrate right now and as much as this is a big deal to us, I'm more worried about the drivers and the fans that are in the stands right now because that was ... I could see it all in my mirror, and it didn't look good from where I was at."
The accident spread into the upper deck and emergency crews treated fans on both levels. There were five stretchers that appeared to be carrying fans out, and a helicopter flew overhead. A forklift was used to pluck Larson's engine out of the fence.
"It's a violent wreck. Just seeing the carnage on the racetrack, it's truly unbelievable," driver Justin Allgaier said.
It was a chaotic finish to a race that was stopped for nearly 20 minutes five laps from the finish by a 13-car accident that sent driver Michael Annett to a hospital, where his Richard Petty Motorsports team said he would be held overnight with bruising to his chest.
The race resumed with three laps to go, and the final accident occurred with Smith trying to hold off Keselowski through the final turn.
"I tried to throw a block. It's Daytona, you want to go for the win here," Smith said. "I don't know how you can play it any different other than concede second place, and I wasn't willing to do that today. Our job is to put them in position to win, and it was, and it didn't work out."
As the cars began wrecking all around Smith and Keselowski, Stewart slid through for the win, but Larson plowed into Keselowski and his car was sent airborne into the fence. When Larson's car came to a stop, it was missing its entire front end. The 20-year-old, who made his Daytona debut this week, stood apparently stunned, hands on his hips, several feet away from his car, before finally making the mandatory trip to the care center.
He said his first thought was with the fans.
"I hope all the fans are OK and all the drivers are all right," Larson said. "I took a couple big hits there and saw my engine was gone. Just hope everybody's all right."
He said he was along for the ride in the last-lap accident.
"I was getting pushed from behind, I felt like, and by the time my spotter said lift or go low, it was too late," Larson said. "I was in the wreck and then felt like it was slowing down and I looked like I could see the ground. Had some flames come in the cockpit, but luckily I was all right and could get out of the car quick."
It appeared fans were lined right along the fence when Larson's car sailed up and into it, but Chitwood indicated there was a buffer. He said there would be no changes to the seating before the Daytona 500.
"We don't anticipate moving any of our fans," Chitwood said. "We had our safety protocols in place. Our security maintained a buffer that separates the fans from the fencing area. With the fencing being prepared tonight to our safety protocols, we expect to go racing tomorrow with no changes."
Larson's car appeared to hit where the cross-over gate ? a section that can be opened for people to travel back and forth from the infield to the grandstands ? is located in the fence. Previous accidents in which drivers hit crossover gates were severe, but the gates were in the wall and not the fence for Mike Harmon's accident at Bristol in 2002 and Michael Waltrip's at the same track in 1990.
Still, NASCAR senior vice president Steve O'Donnell said it would be studied.
"I think we look at this after every incident," O'Donnell said. "We've learned in the past certain protocols put in place today are a result of prior incidents. Again, our initial evaluation is still ongoing. But it's certainly something we'll look at. If we can improve upon it, we'll certainly put that in play as soon as we can."
Larson had been scheduled to race his sprint car later Saturday night in Ocala, Fla., and even seemed restless to get there during the late stages of the Nationwide race. He pulled out of the event following the accident.
"Honestly, the race itself pales in comparison to the injuries sustained by the fans," said Chip Ganassi, the team owner who has Larson in his driver development program. "Our thoughts and prayers go out to all the fans that were injured as a result of the crash. As for Kyle, I am very happy that he is OK."
Keselowski watched a replay of the final accident, and said his first thoughts were with the fans. As for the accident, he agreed he tried to make a winning move and Smith tried to block.
"He felt like that's what he had to do, and that's his right. The chaos comes with it," Keselowski said. "I made the move and he blocked it, and the two of us got together and started the chain events that caused that wreck. First and foremost, just want to make sure everyone in the stands is OK and we're thinking about them."
Keselowski said the incident could cast a pall on the Daytona 500.
"I think until we know exactly the statuses of everyone involved, it's hard to lock yourself into the 500," Keselowski said. "Hopefully, we'll know soon and hopefully everyone's OK. And if that's the case, we'll staring focusing on Sunday."
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AP Sports Writers Dan Gelston and Jerome Minerva in Daytona Beach and Associated Press writer Jennifer Kay in Miami contributed to this report.
While the jury's still out as to whether users will embrace the new convertible laptops that have launched with the debut of Windows 8, AMD is betting that its new Turbo Dock technology can help improve the computing experience whether you're using one in tablet mode or as a traditional notebook.
The chip company says its new feature, to be showcased in devices unveiled at next week's Mobile World Congress 2013, addresses the fact that the hybrid device performs similarly whether it's in laptop or tablet mode, even if you are doing wildly different tasks. To remedy this situation, Turbo Dock will speed up the accelerated processing unit (APU) of the unit when its docked in its keyboard, while drawing less power when it's being used as a tablet.
The innovation will be baked into AMD's new "Temash" chip for tablets and hybrid devices, which will also be on display at MWC 2013. It will counter Intel's current Ivy Bridge processors being used in Windows 8 mobile PCs, as well as the forthcoming Haswell chips. Like Intel, AMD is playing catch-up in the tablet processor space, but hopes its long-time association with traditional Windows desktops and laptops will help it break into the market via the new form factors based around Windows 8.
The Turbo Dock feature is a nice selling point -- especially if it works well in real-world testing -- that marries internal performance to external usage, but will anyone be buying? That's not a question unique to AMD and its new Temash platform. To spur the adoption of touchscreen Windows 8 systems, including the convertible laptops Turbo Dock is designed to work with, Microsoft and Best Buy are planning a $100 discount program starting this Sunday.?
We'll see what types of devices Turbo Dock will launch with as MWC 2013 kicks into gear next week, so stay tuned.
The Skype app for Windows 8 has received its share of criticism from users who have felt that the app has lacked many of the features that other ports of the VoIP software have had access to for years. This week, the Skype app got a new update via the Windows Store that finally adds a long requested feature.
That feature is the ability for its users to transfer photos and other files to other Skype owners. That means people who are engaging in text, voice or video chats can finally share photos, documents and other files without having to go to another app. It should be a big help for Windows 8 owners who regularly use the Skype app for long distance collaboration and projects, or if they just want to show off the latest cute cat/memes with friends.
The change notes for the Skype app also indicate that there have been some unnamed performance improvements as well as some bug fixes in this new version. Let's hope we continue to get some new features in future updates, particularly the new video messaging feature that recently entered into a beta for other Skype ports. The Windows versions will reportedly get the video messaging feature in late April.
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Before taking a short hiatus, "Grey's Anatomy" wrapped up the hospital bankruptcy situation quite nicely. The plane crash five (Arizona, Callie, Cristina, Derek and Meredith) were looking for an investor to partner in their bed to buy the hospital. In an unexpected last-minute save, it was Jackson's mother, Catherine, and The Harper-Avery Foundation that saved the day.
She'd come to Seattle to try and encourage Jackson to move to Boston and take a more active role in the foundation. With the crisis at Seattle Grace, she found a way to allow him to stay and still have him more involved.
"It is my pleasure that the Harper-Avery foundation would like very much to take you up on that offer," she told Cristina. The foundation became the majority shareholder, and in doing so demanded one seat on the board. A seat Catherine would fill with Jackson.
"Now give your mama a kiss, Jackson. She just bought you a hospital," Catherine said to her son.
"Grey's Anatomy" returns with new episodes on Thursday, March 14 at 9 p.m. EST on ABC.
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The Evanston Art Center (EAC) is calling all aspiring young directors, actors, set designers, cinematographers, composers, editors, costume designers, makeup artists, hairstylists, gophers, and aspiring movie moguls to enter its First Annual Evanston Youth Film Festival competition. The Festival, open to filmmakers under the age of 19 working in all genres, is an opportunity for youth from Evanston and the surrounding area to create and present their own short films. Festival organizer, Anne Stevens says, "We know our local youth are making excellent short films at home, in after school classes and clubs. We want to gather and celebrate their creative work with a public screening."
The Evanston Youth Film Festival is the inaugural endeavor of EAC's newly formed springBoard, a group dedicated to bringing fresh ideas and innovative programs to the Art Center and the audiences it serves. The springBoard's intention is to provide a new outlet for artistic expression and a way for young people to showcase their talents, as well as address the issues they feel are most important in their lives and communities. Festival organizer and springBoard member Michael Finnegan says,"Our goal is to?engage and activate the Evanston youth in a creative and positive way and provide a forum for them to present their ideas. In addition it is very important that?we create local partnerships and use this event as an opportunity to reach out into the community and provide workshops, resources and guidance to the kids involved." Art Center Director, Norah Diedrich could not agree more. She adds, "I?m thrilled that the Evanston Art Center, through the efforts of our dedicated springBoard group, is supporting a youth filmmaking project. Film interweaves so many expressive elements, from sound and writing to visual sequencing and storytelling. I?m looking forward to viewing the submissions."
The March 17th screening of the winning films will take place at Rotary International in Evanston. The festival organizers are proud to be affiliated with the office of Rotary International and very appreciative of the use of this venue. ?Rotary has graciously offered their brand new, state of the art theater at 1560 Sherman Avenue in Evanston for the premiere.?This joint effort marks the first time that the Evanston Art Center and Rotary International have worked together in this manner to sponsor an event.
Festival guidelines stipulate that film submissions be no longer than two to five minutes in length. The submission site is now open and entries are being accepted through March 3, 2013. There is no fee for entering the competition and cash prizes will be awarded in elementary, middle, and high school age groupings.?The winners in each age group will be selected based on the recommendations of a board of independent expert jurors.? Multiple prizes of $50, $100, and a grand prize of $200. will be announced during the red carpet screening on March 17, 2013. ?While there is no entry fee for submitting a film, tickets must be purchased for $10 each to attend the screening. All funds raised will go toward youth scholarships for Evanston Art Center classes. For more information regarding the festival, its sponsors, to submit a film, and dates to remember, visit the festival website or call the Evanston Art Center at (847) 475-5300.
What are you searching for in the displacement or retreat district? There are lots of aspects that extend into the decision, so let's take a look at a number of them. One of your prime factors is the weather conditions. Vacationers come again time after time to Englewood within your winter time because of the weather here. They stumble on that the best solution is usually to close up their house up north and lay away the cost of heating your house plus other disagreeable responsibilities. Irrespective of whether you might be residing for this time of year or short term, there are lots of condo's obtainable. Many realtors specialize in rental properties around the shore or in the vicinity of Englewood. Selecting a home offers the client lots of choices from Manasota Beach realty, acreage, condos, waterfront properties as well as previously owned homes at various price ranges. Englewood has four unique beaches on Manasota Key, 2 in Charlotte County in addition to 2 in Sarasota County. Every beach is known for collecting shells along with collecting sharks teeth besides watersports. Sea turtles crawl on shore in the dead of night to lay their eggs during certain durations within the year. Schooling commencing with pre-school all through high school is offered within Englewood. The L.b.high school is at present experiencing a $40 million reconstruction. The new buildings contain the state of the art education aids, latest cafeteria, top notch gymnasium, plus state of the art cooking classroom. L.B. High School has one of the best thespian art departments inside the nation. The new Black Box mini-theatre enhances the original stage auditorium. A variety of health pros can be found within the region. The Englewood Hospital provides the region with the best in health attention. Additional hospitals can be found inside half-hour from the middle of town. Englewood features various sports parks and activities for every ages. Lemon Bay Park features a 2 mile walk, including seats alongside the path . Gopher tortoises are common sights along the trail. Lemon Bay Park has a barbecue area and also a launching area for kayaks and canoes. Indian Mound Park carries a launching area for placing your vessel into Lemon Bay. Cedar Point Environmental Park consists of 115 acres with 5 conspicuous paths. You might observe gopher tortoises, Ospreys, raccoons or American Bald Eagle, if you're timely. Ann Dever Memorial Park is a a varied park and has 3 football fields, a couple of tennis courts, a cricket field, a lighted skate park and a large, lighted swimming pool. It also has a dog work out fenced spot. A trail leads across Oyster Creek into Oyster Creek Regional Park. Tringali Sports Center carries a sports hall with 6 basketball courts, a weight room and 4 outside, lighted, tennis courts. Englewood Sports Complex has a couple of playgrounds, outdoor grills, sporting facilities, eight lighted tennis courts, 10 softball fields and 4 soccer fields. The rec. building holds a fitness center, restrooms, lockers and showers. Besides the amenities listed above, Englewood also offers 9 golf courses of different levels of complexity and rates are very inexpensive. For those that have an interest in fishing, a number use fishing piers other people toss their lines in the Gulf from the beaches, while fishing from the professional charter boat is another selection. Jet skis and kayaks are also well-liked in Lemon Bay. There's some of big supermarkets, 2 Publix, Sweetbay, Winn Dixie along with Super Walmart to select from. There also are similar variety of stores to buy that are found somewhere else in America. Restaurants extend from fast food to top of the line dining. Nearly all of seated dining establishments are locally owned.
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