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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Omar Sy Joins X-Men: Days of Future Past

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From returning stars of X-Men: First Class to familiar faces of the original X-Men trilogy reprising key roles, Bryan Singer has successfully generated enough interest and excitement for?X-Men: Days of Future Past to position it as a contender for the biggest movie of summer 2014, and it hasn?t even started shooting yet.

But it?s not only the likes of Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy joined by Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart, etc., rounding out the all-star line-up of the X-Men: First Class (and?X-Men: The Last Stand). Director and Producer Bryan Singer happily announced that Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones) would joining the franchise two weeks ago, and on Saturday evening, we?ve learned of another newcomer.

Singer took to Twitter ? seemingly the sole marketing machine behind?X-Men: Days of Future Past casting news ? to announce that France-born Omar Sy is officially the latest talent to join the next?X-Men team-up film.

Thrilled to welcome the brilliant #OmarSy from the amazing film #TheIntouchables to the cast of #Xmen #DaysofFuturePast!

? Bryan Singer (@BryanSinger) March 2, 2013

Omar Sy earned international attention for his starring role in The Intouchables, a feature that earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. Days of Future Past represents Sy?s first American film and for fans, it begs the question of who he could be playing. Like Dinklage?s role, there was no official word on what character he will be playing from the X-Men universe.

Although with X-Men and a story about time travel, there a few key characters that come to mind, including of course, Bishop. Bishop, a time-travelling mutant from a future where mutants are held captive in concentration camps, doesn?t have a French accent, but Singer and Fox have proven that?s not a factor in casting characters. Just look at the non-Australian Pyro, the non-Cajun Gambit, the non-Russian Colossus and the non-Irish Banshee.

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Of course, Omar Sy could very well be playing a human character, perhaps involved with the Sentinel program. We can?t even say for sure at this point?when his character will show up, whether it be the early ?70s with the?First Class team or the near future with the original trilogy stars.

Follow me on Twitter @rob_keyes?and let me know who you want Omar Sy to play!

Bryan Singer will direct?X-Men: Days of Future Past?with returning stars Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman, Anna Paquin, Ellen Page, Shawn Ashmore, Halle Berry and possibly,?Alan Cumming. No word yet on Famke Janssen and James Marsden..

The Wolverine?releases July 26, 2013 and?X-Men: Days of Future Past?shoots from April to October for a?July 18, 2014 release date.

Source: Bryan Singer

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Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1926956/news/1926956/

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Thursday, February 28, 2013

IBM predicts that computers have five senses | Technology Reviews

Within just five years IBM scientists expect that computers can make use of the five senses with cognitive technology.

IBM has made a surprising medium-term prognosis: computers can feel in just five years. Such confidence is the prophecy of the popular home computer. Currently, computers are now able to perform many different tasks, but always within a largely visual field. The ability to develop touch, smell and taste right now sounds like a real revolution.

The company IBM has identified five areas in which computers will improve significantly in five years. One for every human sense. The so-called cognitive advances increase the experience of working with computers in a revolutionary way. ? A computer receives a box art as a mere succession of different colors, but could come to understand what it represents and what it means: for example that the painting depicts a sailboat.

The mind reading machines will change our lives

One of the main differences between the cognitive and one next computer will be based on traditional learning. The training that will be subjected to improve their capacity. In the cognitive system and seek the right answers in the case of wrong conclusions, the computer will change their view to get to the right answer. Will refine their perception of reality.

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?In a cognitive machine, put in place and the work, but also look and that is something very different because statistically calculate a result and that?s it. However, if the response is incorrect and thus you indicate, vary your c to Calculating odds to eventually reach the right answer, ?Meyerson says in the interview.

Cognition does not equal intelligence

The attribution of human senses to a computer has stood the robots or androids (human-like). Some autonomous entities that perform actions themselves own science fiction. But Meyerson identifies a real gap between artificial intelligence and cognition.

? Actually this is an assistive technology. could not go out of scope. was not designed for it. For what it is designed to respond to a human being in a care. But giving it a view humanized, frees us from the task of programming and get into training. simply not have more intelligence, but it has more bandwidth. That?s the big difference between the two concepts , ?says the manager of IBM.

The five senses of computers: IBM 5 in 5

The first innovation that advances IBM has to do with the sense of touch. According to IBM, you can ? touch over the phone. ? IBM scientists are developing applications for the distribution sector and health, among others, which use infrared technology to simulate the pressure sensitive sense of touch by vibration (depending on the material), so that a purchaser can feel the texture of a fabric when you pass your finger over the picture of an item on the screen.

KUDOS TO THE PARENTS OF P.S. 59: WHAT THEY CAN TEACH ...

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Yesterday I criticized how the whole slavery math problem situation at P.S. 59 was handled. Although the teachers involved did not make the best decisions, the worst decisions of all were made by student teacher Aziza Harding and NYU Professor Charlton McIlvain.

Harding did not bother to speak to her cooperating teacher about the matter. McIlvain rang the alarm bells by calling the media. Indeed, there might have been more sinister motives behind what either McIlvain or Harding did. Hopefully time will reveal if these people were motivated by publicity or just mere stupidity.

Yet, I must give credit to P.S. 59?s principal?Adele Schroeter. She called in the parents in an attempt to provide an open forum on the matter. The parents, for their part, defended their children?s 4th-grade teacher,?Jane Youn.

The parents exercised loads more common sense than Harding or McIlvain. While the parents did not believe that the homework sheet was appropriate, they also recognized that the sheet did not represent everything their children had learned about slavery in Ms. Youn?s class. They fiercely defended their children?s teacher, recognizing her skill and hard work on behalf of their children. The parents saw this for what it was: a mistake from which they could learn.

Notice how the parents are not calling for the DOE to take ?disciplinary action?. Notice how they are not calling for anyone?s head on a plate. Notice how they were able to communicate with their children about what they learned in class instead of jumping to rash conclusions.

My hats off to the parents of P.S. 59.

This story highlights an interesting point about Bloomberg?s Department of Education. One of Bloomberg?s first changes, through his puppet Panel for Educational Policy, was to hire so-called ?Parent Coordinators? for each school. Ostensibly, these Parent Coordinators were supposed to be liaisons between parents and their schools. Instead, they turned out to be people whose jobs it is to tell parents only the things the administration wants parents to know. Parents are not encouraged to bring their concerns to the Parent Coordinators. Even if they do, it is unlikely that those concerns go any further.

The Parent Coordinator position, along with the replacement of local school boards with a centralized PEP answerable only to Bloomberg, effectively shut parents out of any say over how their children get educated. This has allowed Bloomberg a free hand to close schools, fire teachers and hollow out enrichment programs. He made sure to keep the parents at arms? length before embarking on his destruction of the city?s schools.

We see what happened at P.S. 59 when parents got involved. Hopefully, their defense of their children?s teacher will make the DOE think twice about taking any disciplinary measures against her.

Parental involvement is the single greatest antidote to Bloomberg?s destructive educational policies.

This lesson should be heeded by our union. For the past 10 years, they have kissed up to the Bloomberg machine in hopes of getting some scraps. The UFT has been the puppy dogs at Bloomberg?s dinner table, anxiously awaiting a morsel to fall from his plate and grateful for every bit they get. Where has it gotten us?

The union must shift alliances away from centralized mayoral control and towards decentralized community control. The union must advocate for parents to be partners, not onlookers, in the education of their children.

We know why the union has refused to take this type of stance. They fear helping parents gain too much of a voice will usurp their own seats at the table. How much smaller can the seat at the table get as it is? 10 years of mayoral control have reduced our seat to a mere stool, one with wobbly legs at that.

Only the community and only the parents can help teachers restore their seat at the table and ensure educational integrity for our children.

The actions of the parents of P.S. 59 is a microcosm of this fact. Their advocacy has strengthened the position of an embattled teacher. It has also ensured a measure of integrity in their children?s education by double-checking what they learned about slavery and defending a strong teacher.

Unity take heed: this is where your future lies.

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Source: http://theassailedteacher.com/2013/02/26/kudos-to-the-parents-of-p-s-59-what-they-can-teach-us-about-our-schools/

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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

IAEA, Iran end nuclear talks in Tehran, outcome awaited

DUBAI (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog and Iran ended a day of talks in Tehran on Wednesday, Iranian media reported, and Press TV state television said results were expected to be announced soon.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had hoped to bridge persistent differences with Iran preventing the Vienna-based U.N. agency from restarting a stalled investigation into suspected nuclear weapons research by Tehran.

The "negotiations between Iran and the Agency which started Wednesday morning ... ended a few minutes ago," the Iranian Students' News Agency said. "There is still no news of the details from this meeting."

Press TV, Iran's English-language state broadcaster, said on its website: "Iran and the United Nations nuclear agency have ended a new round of talks in Tehran with results from the ... meeting expected to be announced shortly."

Western diplomats accredited to the IAEA said they did not expect any breakthrough in Wednesday's talks in Tehran.

"Given Iran's uncompromising attitude and unwillingness to reach an agreement with the IAEA, I do not expect progress to be made," a Western envoy said.

The Islamic Republic denies Western allegations that its nuclear energy program is geared to developing the capability to produce atomic bombs. Iran says it is stockpiling enriched uranium only for civilian energy purposes.

(Reporting by Yeganeh Torbati, Zahra Hosseinian and Fredrik Dahl; Writing by Fredrik Dahl; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/iaea-iran-end-nuclear-talks-tehran-no-detail-165118225.html

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Gears of War: Judgement's Campaign mode details revealed ... - Digit

Epic Games has made some interesting revelations about the upcoming Gears of War: Judgement, the 4th game in the Gears of War series, but the chronologically the beginning of a second trilogy. If you?re a fan, the the announcement from Epic Games is sure to get you all excited for the game, which comes out in March.

The Campaign mode details of the new Gears of War game come in the form of a video narrated by none other than Lt. Baird, the main character of this new trilogy. The game will include a bunch of new things, including a whole new set of characters.

The gameplay has also been significantly enhanced, with the campaign mode getting a ?declassified missions,? sort of like side quests. Successfully complete the declassified missions to earn higher ratings in the campaign to unlock more cool stuff! The good guys at Epic have also figured out how to tweak the AI of the game so that every time the player respawns, the enemy greets him with a new strategy. This is absolutely great, seeing how it will keep the game challenging throughout the playing cycle, regardless of how many times you die.

New weapons like the Breachshot make sure that you?ve got enough firepower to take out the pesky Bloodmounts in a single shot, while the trusted sawed-shotgun can now hold two whole rounds per magazine. However, being able to fire off any standard weapon while wielding the Boom Shield is probably our most favourite addition to the game. It seemed kind of stupid to be shooting off a tiny pistol at big enemies while holding a giant shield in the previous games and we?re glad that Epic has fixed this.

If this little teaser of goodies wasn?t enough, Microsoft and Epic have jointly announced that a certain number of the early copies of Gears of War: Judgement will ship with a code to download the original Gears of War game for the Xbox 360, free of cost. Yes, you get a $20 game for free when you buy the $60 game. Microsoft provides the rationale for this by saying that they discovered that many who played Gears of War 3 did so without having played the original game, so they wanted to provide those people with an opportunity to enjoy the first game, on the house. These special copies of the game will be available worldwide, so make sure you grab the first copy off the shelf.

It has become tradition for Epic Games to include a bunch of new features into every iteration of the Gears games and it looks like Gears of War: Judgement will continue to thrive on that trend. There?s a host of new features in the Campaign mode - new weapons, new characters etc - but even the Multiplayer mode has seen a significant overhaul. Suffice to say, Gears of War: Judgement has got us pretty damn excited, and you should be too, seeing as how it tells the story of the smartass Lt. Baird and Kilo Squad, and takes you back to the events of E-Day, the day the locust erupted on the surface and waged war against humanity.

Gears of War: Judgement is slated for a March 19 release in the US, and we expect the game to hit Indian stores on March 21. In the meantime, you can enjoy this video right here:

Source: http://www.thinkdigit.com/Gaming/Gears-of-War-Judgements-Campaign-mode-details_13169.html

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