Where Were You Hundreds Of Birthdays and Christmases Ago Tape Scissors? [Tools]

It's obvious why these brilliant scissors with a built-in tape dispenser aren't available in every office supply store in the country. They want you to have to buy both products separately—increasing the store's profits while you sit at home fumbling your way through another botched attempt at wrapping gifts. More »


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A Jewish synagogue makes a comeback in Lebanon

The last remaining synagogue in Beirut is undergoing restoration, and will soon host its first rabbi in nearly 40 years. Only 150 members of the Jewish community remain in Lebanon.

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Amid the new tower blocks that are changing this city?s skyline rises a newly restored symbol of Beirut?s multireligious society.

The Magen Abraham synagogue is the last Jewish place of worship to survive in Beirut, a lone reminder that a few decades ago a thriving Jewish community lived in the city center.

The Jewish faith is one of the 18 officially recognized sects that exist in Lebanon. When the synagogue was built in 1920 there were some 12,000 Jews in Lebanon. But the Arab-Israeli conflict and Lebanon?s devastating 1975-90 civil war spurred Jews to emigrate, and today there are only around 150 left here.

The last rabbi departed in 1975, and the synagogue fell into disrepair. Much of the structural damage was inflicted, ironically, by shelling from Israeli gunboats in 1982.

Restoration began two years ago and was funded by donations from Lebanese Jews both in Lebanon and overseas. The interior has been restored to its original d?cor with sky-blue walls, arched windows, and whitewashed columns with small brown painted streaks that mimic the fossilized shells in the original limestone columns. Work is expected to be completed by summer, and the first rabbi in nearly four decades is expected to arrive soon.

?Once the rabbi is here, we will be able to hold weddings again,? says a Jewish Council member in Lebanon who oversaw the restoration. He declines to allow his name to be quoted, illustrating that Lebanese Jews still prefer to maintain a low profile.

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Is This the Mistress Who Took Down the CEO of Best Buy? (Updated) [Best Buy Mistress]

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Apple Wants to Make Unibody-ish Earbuds (That Will Probably Still Suck) [Apple]

The latest Apple patent to seep into public knowledge is one for new and improved earbuds. But instead of addressing the real issue—audio components—Apple is blaming its noisemakers' woes on something entirely different: the multi-component design. Its solution: make em unibody-esque. More »


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German court upholds ban on iCloud and MobileMe push emails

German court upholds ban on iCloud and MobileMe push emails
It's been well over a month now since Apple suspended push email from its iCloud and MobileMe services, and it doesn't look like it will be switching them back on any time soon. According to the Wall Street Journal, a German regional court has backed the ban, upholding Motorola Mobility's claims of patent infringements. The court agreed that Apple must also pay damages to Motorola, but has yet to agree on an amount. So, for now, users will need to stick to manually fetching updates, and hope a final agreement can be met further down the line.

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Pacific Rim Set Photos and Video

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CBC News posted a video report that marvels at how a $150 million Hollywood movie transformed Toronto into a ?Japanese disaster zone.?? The production directed by Guillermo del Toro is referred to as Silent Seas and Still Seas in the report, but we know it better as Pacific Rim.? We don?t see any filming in the video, but it is neat to see the detail of the set design, from the various signage right down to the plastic cherry blossoms tied into the trees.? Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Day, Rob Kazinsky, Max Martini, Diego Klattenhoff, and Clifton Collins Jr. star in the movie that pits humans (and their robots) against monsters.? Pacific Rim opens on July 12, 2013.? Hit the jump to watch the set video and check out a few photos of the disaster zone that a kind reader sent in.

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Can?t choose my favorite between the man impressed by the triangles and Bow Tie Guy.

Now here are 3 screencaps from the video, followed by 6 photos that our reader sent in.

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Nature and Originality of Criminal Rules ? Vero Beach Tattoo ...

Wednesday, April 11th, 2012 by: FrekleFlat
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This article will take you with a brief journey that may throw light about how criminal law has a crucial law in your lives.
Before most of us embark on a journey throwing light on the diverse facets of criminal rules, let?s define what precisely ?criminal law? is? It is the division of law that deals with significant criminal offences which are carried out against contemporary society. It is also known as penal rules. It has a set of rules that govern particles investigating, charging hoping convicts of criminal offenses. The fact is well-known that the overall objective is to acquire criminal justice in criminal law. Your severe criminal violations that are defined in criminal law required have subsequent and also adequate punishments that are imposed on anybody who violates the penal provisions.

The nature and goal for putting a prison law into impact is for the trying to keep and preservation of peace and obtain. It is dissimilar through civil law due to the fact that it covers offenses that are committed against the public as a whole. For example, murder is in opposition to a specific individual. Felony law punishes not only the action of violating the law, but conspiracies and intentions to do this. There are divergent classifications in this particular type of law, that are criminal wrongdoings against the individual that includes rape or violence, crime resistant to the property, etc.
The main element purpose of criminal regulation is to prevent people from committing offences and to punish an essay they carry out a real crime, this is known as retribution. Incapacitation is an additional objective of felony law, which involves keeping a criminal away from law following members of the public who might have a close encounter with a risky situation after being in contact with them. Once an accused is at prison, the objective should be to recuperate them in law abiding citizens. The individuals who commit a crime have the right to have a legal representation to protect these individuals and their criminal legal professional might work to get a diminished sentence that were committed or to make an effort to release the person billed together.
There are numerous attributes that the criminal law has to have. He must be able to care about the well-being of the clients. He has to put his heart and soul and heart in every case he is dealing with. He needs to be aware about the fact that he is generally trying to work in the most effective interest of his or her clients.

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Valve job posting reveals plans for homegrown hardware, promises it won't suck

Valve job posting reveals homegrown hardware, promises it won't suck
Rumors fluttering about Valve's entry into the hardware market just got a little less salty. According to the outfit's own jobs page, it's prepping to offer consumers "whole new gaming experiences." A call for an experienced electronics engineer says it all, "For years Valve has been all about writing software that provides great gameplay experiences. Now we're developing hardware to enhance those experiences." The ideal candidate ought to have a hefty load of prototyping experience, a knack for working with embedded systems and microcontrollers, a proficiency in thermal management, high speed serial interfaces, ARM / x86 system design, and more. We're not about to hazard a guess at what this adds up to, but Valve promises it's more compelling than "me-too mice and gamepads." Hit the source link below to apply, get hired, and let us know what's up.

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Bats save energy by drawing in wings on upstroke

ScienceDaily (Apr. 11, 2012) ? Bat wings are like hands: meaty, bony and full of joints. A new Brown University study finds that bats take advantage of their flexibility by folding in their wings on the upstroke to save inertial energy. The research suggests that engineers looking at flapping flight should account for wing mass and consider a folding design.Whether people are building a flying machine or nature is evolving one, there is pressure to optimize efficiency. A new analysis by biologists, physicists, and engineers at Brown University reveals the subtle but important degree to which that pressure has literally shaped the flapping wings of bats.

The team's observations and calculations show that by flexing their wings inward to their bodies on the upstroke, bats use only 65 percent of the inertial energy they would expend if they kept their wings fully outstretched. Unlike insects, bats have heavy, muscular wings with hand-like bendable joints. The study suggests that they use their flexibility to compensate for that mass.

"Wing mass is important and it's normally not considered in flight," said Attila Bergou, who along with Daniel Riskin is co-lead author of the study that appears April 11 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. "Typically you analyze lift, drag, and you don't talk about the energy of moving the wings."

The findings not only help explain why bats and some birds tuck in their wings on the upstroke, but could also help inform human designers of small flapping vehicles. The team's research is funded by the U.S. Air Force Office of Sponsored Research.

"If you have a vehicle that has heavy wings, it would become energetically beneficial to fold the wings on the upstroke," said Sharon Swartz, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Brown. She and Kenneth Breuer, professor of engineering, are senior authors on the paper.

The physics of flexed flapping

The team originally set out to study something different: how wing motions vary among bats along a wide continuum of sizes. They published those results in 2010 in the Journal of Experimental Biology, but as they analyzed the data further, they started to consider the intriguing pattern of the inward flex on the upstroke.

That curiosity gave them a new perspective on their 1,000 frames-per-second videos of 27 bats performing five trials each aloft in a flight corridor or wind tunnel. They tracked markers on the bats, who hailed from six species, and measured how frequently the wings flapped, how far up and down they flapped, and the distribution of mass within them as they moved. They measured the mass by cutting the wing of a bat that had died into 32 pieces and weighing them.

The team fed the data in to a calculus-rich model that allowed them to determine what the inertial energy costs of flapping were and what they would have been if the wings were kept outstretched.

Bergou, a physicisist, said he was surprised that the energy savings was so great, especially because the calculations also showed that the bats have to spend a lot of energy -- 44 percent of the total inertial cost of flapping -- to fold their wings inward and then back outward ahead of the downstroke.

"Retracting your wings has an inertial cost," Bergou said. "It is significant but it is outweighed by the savings on the up and down stroke."

The conventional wisdom has always been that bats drew their wings in on the upstroke to reduce drag in the air, and although the team did not measure that, they acknowledge that aerodynamics plays the bigger role in the overall energy budget of flying. But the newly measured inertial savings of drawing in the wings on the upstroke seems too significant to be an accident.

"It really is an open question whether natural selection is so intense on the design and movement patterns of bats that it reaches details of how bats fold their wings," Swartz said. "This certainly suggests that this is not a random movement pattern and that it is likely that there is an energetic benefit to animals doing this."

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  1. D. K. Riskin, A. Bergou, K. S. Breuer, S. M. Swartz. Upstroke wing flexion and the inertial cost of bat flight. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2012; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0346

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