Bradley Manning Assigned in 2009 to an Army unit in Iraq as an intelligence analyst, Manning had access to classified databases. In early 2010, she leaked classified information to WikiLeaks and confided this to Adrian Lamo, an online acquaintance. Lamo informed Army Counterintelligence, and Manning was arrested in May that same year. The material included videos of the July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrike, and the 2009 Granai airstrike in Afghanistan; 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables; and 500,000 Army reports that came to be known as the Iraq War logs and Afghan War logs. Much of the material was published by WikiLeaks or its media partners between April and November 2010.[8] Reaction to Manning's disclosures, arrest, and sentence was mixed. Background Early life Born Bradley Edward Manning in 1987 in Crescent, Oklahoma, she was the second child of Susan Fox, originally from Wales, and Brian Manning, an American. Parents' divorce, move to Wales Manning's father remarried in 2000, the same year as his divorce.
Digital Literacy: Skills for the 21st Century: Introduction This Digital Literacy Toolkit began with the premise that multimedia authoring, which is happening with the extensive use of PowerPoint in classrooms, must be taught as a skill, just as traditional text-based writing is taught. While teachers and students have become familiar with the technical skills required to use images in multimedia productions, they lack a critical language to determine whether an image or a sound is used appropriately. Images, sounds and animations — like words — are building blocks whose meanings can be changed to suit the communicative purpose of the author. Just as the same words and phrases can be arranged or manipulated to express different meanings depending on the author’s intent, so can sounds and images.
ARIS - Mobile Learning Experiences - Creating educational games on the iPhone Development of Tiny Thorium Reactors Could Wean the World Off Oil In Just Five Years An abundant metal with vast energy potential could quickly wean the world off oil, if only Western political leaders would muster the will to do it, a UK newspaper says today. The Telegraph makes the case for thorium reactors as the key to a fossil-fuel-free world within five years, and puts the ball firmly in President Barack Obama's court. Thorium, named for the Norse god of thunder, is much more abundant than uranium and has 200 times that metal's energy potential. Thorium is also a more efficient fuel source -- unlike natural uranium, which must be highly refined before it can be used in nuclear reactors, all thorium is potentially usable as fuel. The Telegraph says thorium could be used as an energy amplifier in next-generation nuclear power plants, an idea conceived by Nobel laureate Carlo Rubbia, former director of CERN. Known as an accelerator-driven system, it would use a particle accelerator to produce a proton beam and aim it at lump of heavy metal, producing excess neutrons.
Yuko Mohri: The execution of Mary | 5uper.net Coded Cultures - Exploring Creative Emergences, Vienna 2009 Yuko Mohri uses a scanner as a plate with salad and also a printer with four wheels which runs along a platform…? Everyday machines, such as computer devices for instance, are specifically designed to work with data; on the other hand, these machines carry within the possibility to be treated as real objects. In her installation, computer and data devices, used in an unconventional way, are subjected to unusual operations and becoming “performative objects”, open up unpredicted possibilities. Yuko Mohri (Japan) Yuko Mohri, an artist, was born in 1980.
Free Visual Dictionary & Thesaurus | Online Dictionary | Associated Words | Synonyms Dictionary at SnappyWords.com vs. EEBLE ARG Walkthrough - North American Simulation and Gaming Association At the opening keynote of NASAGA 2012: Boldly Launching into 50 More Years of Games-Based Learning, Greg Koeser, Chris Saeger, Scott Nicholson and myself led an alternate reality game (ARG) which flipped the keynote from a sit-and-listen experience into a shared experience which had new and established NASAGAns interacting with each other from the first. This activity, however, was the culminating experience of a longer game that was played by NASAGA neophytes before the conference started. The game not only allowed the new NASAGAns to make connections with each other and feel welcomed to NASAGA, it also helped them get a feel for what NASAGA is, and isn't! In order to allow everyone to experience the entirety of the game, we have put together the following walkthrough. Enjoy! October 8th, 2012: Hello there, Player! *Spoilers* The answers to the 4 puzzles can be found by highlighting the blank spaces below: Blue Team: Push your own consulting and books November 7th, 2012: November 8th, 2012:
Lynas, Cancer and you « Hornbill Unleashed Pak Bui What’s the problem with Lynas? In a nutshell, it’s an identical issue to the Taib family’s Pressmetal Aluminium Smelter in Mukah. It shares the same origins as Taib’s land grabs, the greed that turns priceless forests into cheap plywood and oil palm. The problem is that rich people in some faraway place, distant from Lynas, will get richer, while poor people pay with their lives. In the case of Lynas, rich people in Umno and Australia profit, while the rakyat lose. In its factory in Gebeng, surrounded by half a million people within a 30km radius, Lynas proposes to extract the rare earth from the soil, and ship it to hungry industries manufacturing ‘smartphones’, computers and other electronic gadgets. The New York Times broke the news a year ago to incredulous readers, that Lynas will be operating a factory handling radioactive materials, with no plan to dispose of the radioactive waste. Huge risks – but the rich benefit Like this: Like Loading...
What units of measurement are used for data storage? Home : Help Center : Answers Q: What units of measurement are used for data storage? A: The smallest unit of measurement used for measuring data is a bit . Since most files contain thousands of bytes, file sizes are often measured in kilobytes . Below is a list of all the standard units of measurement used for data storage, from the smallest to the largest. NOTE: A lowercase "b" is used as an abbreviation for bits, while an uppercase "B" represents bytes. For example, 100 KB (kilobytes) = 800 Kb (kilobits). New NASA app brings spacecraft to life in 3D NASA is no stranger to 3D. It has done some impressive CGI trips into galaxies and nebulae, and of course it has offered some stunning 3D images from the Mars spacecraft. NASA has just released a free iPad and iPhone app called Spacecraft 3D. "Let's say you want to get an idea what our Curiosity Mars rover is all about," said Kevin Hussey, manager of visualization technology at JPL. "In the near future, we will incorporate the Cassini spacecraft, which is orbiting Saturn, the Dawn spacecraft, which is deep in the heart of the asteroid belt, and the Voyagers, which are right now at the very edge of our solar system," said Hussey. The app works as advertised.
Chronology of events in the Bukit Merah Asian Rare Earth development Eight men -- a welder, a shoemaker, a general worker, a pensioner, a barber, a tractor driver, a crane-operator and a cancer victim who was to die shortly -- sued Asian Rare Earth in 1985 on behalf of themselves and 10,000 other residents of Bukit Merah and the environs in Perak. They wanted to shut down this rare earth plant in their village near Ipoh because its radioactive waste was endangering their lives. When the Mitsubishi joint venture plant opened over 1982, the villagers soon began complaining of the factory's stinging smoke and bad smell which made them choke and cry. Worse was to come. Their health began failing, indicated not only by frequent bouts of coughs and colds, but a sharp rise in the incidence of leukaemia, infant deaths, congenital disease and lead poisoning. For the first time in Malaysian legal history, an entire community has risen to act over an environmental issue, to protect their health and environment from radioactive pollution.
Your IF Competition Voting Page 1st place Andromeda Apocalypse Marco Innocenti Floating in space on a strange vessel, sole survivor of a world... and maybe of the entire human race, Ektor Mastiff must find a way through the cosmos, on a voyage that can change the history of mankind forever. Play, download, or learn more about this game on the IFDB 5th place Sunday Afternoon 7th place Shuffling Around Much more magical than plain old putzing around. 8th place (tie) Body Bargain A Tale of Transhumanism A Killer Headache A Distasteful Situation 10th place In a Manor of Speaking Hulk Handsome In a Manor of Speaking is a punny adventure set in the surreal world of Calembour. Journey through the bizarre Outlands, the bustling streets of Rudeville, and eventually find your way to the Manor itself as you save the land using the power of words! Play, download, or learn more about this game on the IFDB Porpentine mysterious game...hyperlink powered, yes, but what ethos does it promote? two significant endings 12th place Ethan Rupp and Joshua Rupp
Nuclear Malaysia: Shortsightedness in a Greening Global Economy? Is nuclear power the right choice for our nation? Malaysians must make an informed decision. Nuclear power is only one of the available options – it is however the most expensive, most dangerous and most inefficient one. Malaysians must decide if nuclear energy is the right choice for our country. The key word to note here is “choice” – there is now an increasing number of truly clean and renewable energies in solar, wind, tidal, wave, etc. Nuclear energy is merely one of the many available options. Nuclear is neither renewable nor clean. The recent UK Sustainable Development Commission answered a clear “no” to nuclear as a solution to our energy and climate crisis. [1] Nuclear is more costly In fact, if we take the example of solar power in Concentrating Solar Thermal (CST) plants, this is widely expected to come to cost parity with fossil fuel power generation by 2020 or earlier. However, the opposite is true for fossil fuel including nuclear as reserves dwindle.[9] Solar Energy References
Edupunk Edupunk is a do it yourself (DIY) attitude to teaching and learning practices.[1][2] Tom Kuntz described edupunk as "an approach to teaching that avoids mainstream tools like PowerPoint and Blackboard, and instead aims to bring the rebellious attitude and D.I.Y. ethos of ’70s bands like The Clash to the classroom."[3] Many instructional applications can be described as DIY education or Edupunk. Jim Groom as "poster boy" for edupunk The term was first used on May 25, 2008 by Jim Groom in his blog,[4] and covered less than a week later in the Chronicle of Higher Education.[1] Stephen Downes, an online education theorist and an editor for the International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning, noted that "the concept of Edupunk has totally caught wind, spreading through the blogosphere like wildfire".[5] Aspects of edupunk[edit] The reaction to corporate influence on education is only one part of edupunk, though. Examples of edupunk[edit] See also[edit] Notes[edit]