Facial recognition - the death knell of anonymity? 25 August 2014Last updated at 19:01 ET By Greig Watson BBC News Leicestershire Police said the software showed them "which door to knock on" but was not itself evidence Catch the terrorist, secure the computer, even feed the cat - facial recognition software has varied, often astounding possibilities.
Leicestershire Police has become the first in the UK to use the NeoFace system to compare suspect images with the 92,000 faces it has on file. The advantages are obvious, reducing a job that manually could take weeks to a matter of seconds. Justice becomes, in theory, swift, cheap and precise. But could it also mean a walk in the street becomes a trial by pixel, with cameras analysing everything from your criminal record to your credit rating? The idea of getting computers to respond to faces has existed for decades. After a secretive start in the US in the 1960s, the technology grabbed UK headlines in 1998 when Newham Council in east London linked it to CCTV. "Both of these can change. The Making of Foxcatcher -- Vulture. Bennett Miller was down in the dirt on the wrong side of an iron fence, looking through without being quite sure what he was hoping to find.
It was 2007, and he, his producer, and his screenwriter had traveled on a research trip to Foxcatcher Farm, a 416-acre compound outside of Philadelphia, in search of the kind of insight that only proximity can provide. Until a few years earlier, Foxcatcher had been home to the du Pont family, multimillionaire corporate titans who started building their fortune as gunpowder manufacturers in 1802, and who had seen their name disgraced in 1996 when John Eleuthère du Pont, a damaged and delusional heir to the family dynasty, had shot a man to death in the driveway of one of his guesthouses. Miller crawled around the property’s perimeter in the gray drizzle, trying to see through a chain-link barrier overgrown with ivy and weeds.
There was nothing to see. After studying theater and film at NYU, he left a few credits shy of a degree. Charlaine Harris on True Blood Series Finale -- Vulture. Facial recognition - the death knell of anonymity? At 73, Man Finally Gets Diploma Denied For Defying Segregation : Code Switch. Alva Earley shows off his diploma after receiving it from Galesburg Superintendent Bart Arthur.
Evan Temchin/Knox College hide caption itoggle caption Evan Temchin/Knox College Alva Earley shows off his diploma after receiving it from Galesburg Superintendent Bart Arthur. Evan Temchin/Knox College There was no pomp and circumstance, no procession with classmates, but on Friday a school district in Illinois finally handed Alva Early his high school diploma — more than five decades after he attended Galesburg High School.
In 1959, Galesburg banned Earley from graduating and denied him a diploma after he and other African-Americans had a picnic in a park that was unofficially off-limits to blacks. Earley, now a retired attorney, says he never thought the day would come, but as the Galesburg class of '59 gathered for a reunion this weekend, the school superintendent called Earley forward, dressed in his college gown, to accept his diploma. "He had A's and B's on his report card," Arthur says. Carrie Brownstein Spills the Beans on Fred, Feminism, and Fear. From riot grrrl trailblazer in the band Sleater-Kinney to sketch comedy genius on Portlandia, Carrie Brownstein has been cranking out pop culture gems since 1994.
Here, the Jill-of-all-trades opens up about fame, Fred, and driving traffic to her fave feminist bookstore. By Lisa Butterworth Navy silk top by Wren, wrenstudio.com; Perspex necklace by The Way We Wore, thewaywewore.com The last time I was in the same room with Carrie Brownstein it was 2006, and she was on stage in San Francisco completely shredding on guitar, maniacally shaking her shag hairdo, and singing intensely over her band Sleater-Kinney’s raucous, urgent rock. Today, Brownstein’s in a Los Angeles photo studio and she’s not holding a guitar, but rather a gigantic prop toothbrush. As we chat, seated on a mustard-colored vintage couch at the photo studio, there’s a thoughtfulness to all of her answers. At the time Sleater-Kinney was making music, there was plenty to be upset about. Dømt for 140 lovbrudd - i fengselet. 31-åringen som soner en dom på seks år forvaring for en brutal voldtekt regnes som den vanskeligste og mest voldelige fangen i norske fengsler for tiden.
Han har anket tingrettens dom til Borgarting lagmannsrett. Tilsammen 41 ansatte fra Ila møtte som vitner i rettssaken. En lang rekke av dem gjorde det klart at 31-åringens oppførsel var en stor belastning. Noen av de ansatte ønsket også å bytte arbeidsplass på grunn av vold, gjentatte trusler og grov sjikane. Mannen har store deler av tiden på Ila sittet helt isolert, uten kontakt med andre enn fengselsbetjentene. Asker og Bærum tingrett mener omfattende isolering er den mest sannsynlige forklaringen på at den forvaringsdømte har fungert dårligere og dårligere under oppholdet i Ila fengsel og forvaringsanstalt. - Straff fremfor behandling Hun la ned påstand om at mannen måtte frifinnes fordi han ikke er strafferettslig tilregnelig. Hun mener at isolasjon fører til mer vold og enda større problemer. - Isolasjon er svært skadelig Er tilregnelig. How to turn small talk into smart conversation.
Imagine almost any situation where two or more people are gathered—a wedding reception, a job interview, two off-duty cops hanging out in a Jacuzzi. What do these situations have in common? Almost all of them involve people trying to talk with each other. But in these very moments where a conversation would enhance an encounter, we often fall short. We can’t think of a thing to say. Or worse, we do a passable job at talking. We stagger through our romantic, professional and social worlds with the goal merely of not crashing, never considering that we might soar. We at What to Talk About headquarters set out to change this. Ask for stories, not answers One way to get beyond small talk is to ask open-ended questions.
Instead of . . . Try . . . Break the mirror When small talk stalls out, it’s often due to a phenomenon we call “mirroring.” Mirrored example: James: It’s a beautiful day! See? Non-mirrored example: James: It’s a beautiful day! See? Leapfrog over the expected response. Sexism, Only This Time About Men : NPR Ombudsman. From terrorism to natural disasters, the standard reporting on casualties is often like this by Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep: "First, we go to Gaza," recited Inskeep. "The health ministry there says more than 500 people have been killed – many of them women and children. " Why, Larry Kalikow of Warrington, Penn, wrote, were women's lives being singled out? "Are NPR reporters specially trained to promote such flagrant sexism? " he asked. "When will NPR and its news journalists and reporters finally accept the egalitarian principle that all human lives are equally precious, and that the loss of men's lives is no less tragic than the loss of women's lives?
" I was brought up short. A 37-year old, San Diego-based advocacy group called the National Coalition for Men, which lists nearly 60 men and women from around the country and the world as board members, advisors and liaisons, recently sent me a study of one month's coverage on All Things Considered. Hmmm. Gray further explained: The Science of Loneliness: How Isolation Can Kill You. Sometime in the late ’50s, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann sat down to write an essay about a subject that had been mostly overlooked by other psychoanalysts up to that point.
Even Freud had only touched on it in passing. She was not sure, she wrote, “what inner forces” made her struggle with the problem of loneliness, though she had a notion. It might have been the young female catatonic patient who began to communicate only when Fromm-Reichmann asked her how lonely she was. “She raised her hand with her thumb lifted, the other four fingers bent toward her palm,” Fromm-Reichmann wrote.
The thumb stood alone, “isolated from the four hidden fingers.” Fromm-Reichmann would later become world-famous as the dumpy little therapist mistaken for a housekeeper by a new patient, a severely disturbed schizophrenic girl named Joanne Greenberg. Her 1959 essay, “On Loneliness,” is considered a founding document in a fast-growing area of scientific research you might call loneliness studies.