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Monday, August 26, 2013

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

National Child Safety Advocates to Write the Follow-Up Book to The Authority On™ Child Safety:

National Child Safety Advocates Partner With We Published That, L.L.C. to Write the Follow-Up Book to The Authority On™ Child Safety

Authors of the bestselling book, The Authority On™ Child Safety: How to talk to your kids about their personal safety without scaring them, Gary Martin Hays, Adam Weart, and Mary Ellen Fulkus have teamed up with Richard Swords, one of the highest ranking Krav Maga instructors in the US, to create the follow-up book in the series that will focus on teaching personal safety.

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The Authority On™ Child Safety, was published late last year and quickly achieved bestseller status on Amazon.com, even reaching #1 in the “Personal Safety” and “Health” categories. The book focuses on helping parents and caregivers start the conversation with children about their own personal safety in a non-threatening way.

The forthcoming book, The Authority On™ Child Safety Part II: How to TEACH your child about their personal safety, will act as a manual for parents and caregivers to follow when teaching children about personal safety. The book will cover topics ranging from “dialing 911” to “self defense in the event of an emergency.”

Richard Swords was asked to provide his expertise in this book, given his background in self-defense and child safety empowerment. Richard has trained thousands of men, women, and children in the art of self-defense and protection. He is a Krav Maga Black Belt Instructor, 1 of only 6 instructors in the United States certified by the Wingate Institute, the National Sports and Olympic training center for Israel, the home of Krav Maga. Richard is also a certified KMA Force Civilian Law Enforcement Instructor, Cross Fit Instructor, and 4th Degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do, with 25 years of experience in Martial Arts.

Krav Maga is based on simple principles and instinctive movements. This reality-based system is designed to teach real self-defense in the shortest possible time. It teaches to defend against common chokes, grabs, and bearhugs, as well as weapons such as guns, knives, and sticks. Just as important, it teaches people to function during the stress and shock of a sudden, violent encounter.

“Richard brings an amazing knowledge base to this book given his background, but he also genuinely cares about helping kids,” says Gary Martin Hays. All the authors from this book have agreed to donate 100% of the royalties to “Lets Protect Our Kids,” a child safety initiative.

The Authority On™ Child Safety Part II is scheduled to be published mid-2013 and will be available in paperback and in e-book format on Amazon.com.

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Sunday, March 10, 2013

Facebook's Revamped News Feed: 3 Things To Do:

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Facebook is changing its News Feed feature -- significantly. The update will be rolling out to users in the next month or so, but from what we've seen so far, the new News Feed is a vast improvement in the Facebook experience. But because even good changes can be unsettling, here are three tips to smooth the transition when the new News Feed lands on your virtual doorstep.

1. Pay more attention to photos.

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One of the biggest changes to the News Feed is the size and prominence of photos. In fact, during the press event announcing the News Feed changes, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said images will comprise 50% of total News Feed content. That picture of your adorable new baby, that once-in-a-lifetime trip to Australia, or the majestic bald eagle you spotted while hiking will be bigger and brighter, with more visible details than ever. So will the picture of your spouse on a bad hair day (or worse). So be careful what you post. Just saying.

2. Be prepared to drill down for content.

If your current Facebook News Feed is anything like mine, it's a mishmash of promoted posts, suggested pages and updates from the many brands that you've "liked." Oh, and once in a while you'll see an actual update from a friend (a real-world friend, not just the Facebook kind) or family member.

[ For more on Facebook's facelift, see Facebook News Feed: 5 Coolest Changes. ]

That's the problem -- for users and businesses alike -- that Facebook is looking to solve with its new specialized streams. At the press event, Zuckerberg compared the new News Feed to, of all things, a print newspaper, with the News Feed being the equivalent of a front page and new specialized streams akin to the different sections in a newspaper. With the new News Feed, you can choose to consume content from streams dedicated to (among other things) music, photos or updates from pages that you follow. It may take a little getting used to, but this new interface promises to streamline the end-user experience and make it generally more effective.

3. Add the Facebook app to your iPhone and iPad.

If you haven't bothered to use Facebook on your mobile device because you heard the experience was subpar, you should go ahead and download the app soon. It's true that the News Feed of old offered what could be kindly called a less-than-optimal experience, but Facebook designed the new News Feed with mobile in mind from the start. In fact, the Facebook experience on your mobile device will be the same as that on a PC. Facebook says the News Feed changes will roll out to iOS first, then to Android.

Have you gotten the new News Feed yet? If so, what advice would you give to those just starting with it? Please let us know what you think in the comments section below.

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Microsoft's Kinect powers 'magical' smart home in Spain:

Agence France-Presse, March 09, 2013

With a flick of the wrist, residents of a futuristic home developed in Spain can browse Internet pages displayed on the living room walls, switch off a giant projected alarm clock in the bedroom or transform the entire interior into a busy streetscape or tranquil beach.

It may seem light years ahead of current "smart home" technology, but this prototype apartment in Fuenterrabia, a city in Spain's northern Basque country, is far from the realms of fantasy.

The technology used to create the interactive interior is the same as that already being used in video games.

The team behind the prototype have linked projectors which beam interactive applications on to walls to Kinect motion sensors, developed by Microsoft for its X-box 360 console, thus allowing residents to control their environment simply by waving their hands.

It seems to work like magic.
In the morning, a wave at the wall will switch off the alarm and display your diary at the same time.

If you fancy a change of scenery, just one small gesture will splash video on every wall, turning half of the apartment into a busy urban street or picturesque seascape, complete with sound effects.
"The project is a working prototype of a smart home," said its creator, Ion Cuervas-Mons, at a visual presentation of the project to AFP in Madrid.

"What we have done is to add a digital layer to a physical space to be able to interact with digital information through gestures, people's different movements," he said.

Cuervas-Mons launched the Openarch project in November 2011 and built the prototype in his own apartment.

He now leads the Think Big Factory, a core team of five architects and engineers, who collaborate with others to develop various products.

"There is a general interface, which is in the living room and which interacts with your hands," he explained.

"You go two metres away from the wall and move a type of cursor and you can switch lights on and off, turn music on and off, launch Internet sites, which then come up in a projection on another wall."
But the project is only 40 percent complete, he said.

"When we have finished the prototype, we will start to transform the applications into products. That is our goal for next year," he said.

The development team want to make the system unobtrusive so that a user can manipulate the gadgets in the most natural way possible.

Instead of trying to sell the entire interactive home system, the team aims to develop specific products from it.

But each product would be able to communicate, allowing a buyer to create a system for the entire house should they wish.

And homes are not the only destination for the technology, Cuervas-Mons said.

"For example, we have been working with a large retail business and the first sector where we might see this technology could be supermarkets," he said.
"This technology lets you convert non-commercial spaces into commercial spaces. You will be able to buy anywhere. You will be able to shop from your home, from the metro, from your car," he said. "I think this will totally change the way we shop."

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Saturday, March 9, 2013

Google Glass banned in Seattle bar over privacy concerns...

Google Glass banned in Seattle bar over privacy concerns, way ahead of official launch:

by Chris Smith on March 9

The Google Glass virtual reality-friendly eyewear isn’t even available in stores yet and the product has already been banned in a Seattle bar over privacy concerns.

Since Google Glass users will be able to take pictures and record everything and anything they desire, privacy will most likely be a delicate topic when talking about this particular product.

Dave Meinert, who owns the 5 Point bar in Seattle, took to Facebook to announce that Google Glass usage will not be allowed in the bar:

”For the record, The 5 Point is the first Seattle business to ban in advance Google Glasses. And ass kickings will be encouraged for violators.”

Meinert looks at the issue half-jokingly, but at the same time, he says he wants to protect the privacy of his patrons and that he has no problem with them wearing the glasses outside of the bar:

First you have to understand the culture of the 5 Point, which is a sometimes seedy, maybe notorious place. People want to go there and be not known … and definitely don’t want to be secretly filmed or videotaped and immediately put on the Internet.

One interesting thing about 5 Point is that the bar is located near Amazon, which means that “tech geeks” working for the giant retailer may be among the regulars with the cafe, although the Google Glass ban doesn’t seem to be related to their presence.

On a more humorous note, in case the Google Glass ban will stand in this particular, it means future buyers won’t be able to rely on Google Glass to impress their dates while inside 5 Point.

Will we see Google Glass, and any other similar products, get banned in other establishments in the future?

Friday, March 8, 2013

OJJDP FY 2013 Internet Crimes Against Children Program Support:

The synopsis for this grant opportunity is detailed below, following this paragraph. This synopsis contains all of the updates to this document that have been posted as of 03/07/2013 . If updates have been made to the opportunity synopsis, update information is provided below the synopsis.If you would like to receive notifications of changes to the grant opportunity click send me change notification emails . The only thing you need to provide for this service is your email address. No other information is requested.

Any inconsistency between the original printed document and the disk or electronic document shall be resolved by giving precedence to the printed document.

Document Type:	Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number:	OJJDP-2013-3521
Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
Posted Date:	Mar 07, 2013
Creation Date:	Mar 07, 2013
Original Closing Date for Applications:	May 07, 2013
Current Closing Date for Applications:	May 07, 2013
Archive Date:	Jun 06, 2013
Funding Instrument Type:	Cooperative Agreement
Category of Funding Activity:	Law, Justice and Legal Services
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards:	1
Estimated Total Program Funding:
Award Ceiling:	$2,000,000
Award Floor:	$0
CFDA Number(s):	16.543 -- Missing Children's Assistance
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	No

Eligible Applicants

State governments
County governments
City or township governments
Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Private institutions of higher education
For profit organizations other than small businesses
Small businesses

Additional Information on Eligibility:

Eligible applicants are limited to public agencies, including state agencies, units of local government (including federally recognized Indian tribal governments as determined by the Secretary of the Interior), public universities and colleges (including tribal institutions of higher education), and nonprofit and for-profit organizations (including faith-based, tribal, and community organizations). For-profit organizations must agree to forgo any profit or management fee.

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Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention

Description

State and regional Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task forces work collaboratively as a national network of law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies that prevent, interdict, and investigate technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation and Internet crimes against children. This program furthers DOJ’s mission to provide support in this area of constantly evolving technology. Through this program, OJJDP will select an awardee to provide a variety of services and support to the ICAC task force program. This program is authorized by the Providing Resources, Officers, and Technology to Eradicate Cyber Threats to Our Children Act of 2008 (PROTECT Act) (P.L. 110–401 as amended by P.L. 112-206, 42 USC 17611-17616).

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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

75,000 missing children remain untraced: government - New Delhi

Around 75,000 children who had gone missing in the last three years are yet to be traced, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday. Of the about 2.36 lakh children who went missing in the last three years, 1,61,800 have been traced, minister of state for Parliamentary affairs Paban

Singh Ghatowar said during the Question Hour. "Unfortunately about 75,000 are still untraced," he said. The Centre, he said, has issued advisories to states to appoint nodal officers at all police stations to deal with such cases and make registration of FIRs mandatory. The advisories followed two interim orders of the Supreme Court in January 2013, he said.

The Supreme Court had ordered mandatory recording of FIRs with regard to missing children and the formation of special juvenile police units in different states.

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

PureSight tops child Internet safety:

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Online child safety software vendor, PureSight, has been awarded top spot for the second consecutive year for its parental control tool which is designed to protect children online.

Online child safety software vendor, PureSight, has been awarded top spot for the second consecutive year for its parental control tool which is designed to protect children online.

PureSight received the award as a result of Owl's performance in the European Commission's SIP Benchmark II study, which aims to benchmark the main functionalities, effectiveness, and usability of parental control tools in Europe.

Puresight was handed the award at the Internet Industry Association's (IIA's) Gala Dinner at Doltone House in Sydney.

"The fact that PureSight maintained first position for all age groups reflects [its] ongoing commitment to protecting children online," PureSight CEO, Ouri Azulay, said.

The product, PureSight Owl, is an accredited IAA Family Friendly Filter that provides parents with the ability to protect children from cyberbullying, Internet predators, and unsolicited adult-orientated web sites.

The tools within the sweet are based on Active Chat Inspector (ACI) and Active Content Recognition (ACR) technologies, which promise to identify, classify, and block undesirable content and contacts.

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Sunday, March 3, 2013

Latest News Families with missing children need support:

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Families with missing children need support -
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Updated: 2013-03-03 15:48

Xie Chaohua, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, urged the government to offer assistance to families with missing children.
There were at least one million families with missing children in China by 2012, with 76,000 new families added each year, according to a report by the China Zhigong Party, a non-communist political party.

Xie, who also serves as deputy president of the Beijing committee of the China Zhigong Party, said those families face daunting pressures in areas such as healthcare and psychological support.

It is necessary to implement State mechanisms to assist the families, such as a complete social security system and enhanced subsidies, Xie said.

Monday, February 25, 2013

Wondering What Percentage Of PageRank Disappears Through 301 Redirects?

Google’s Matt Cutts discusses loss of PageRank from 301 redirects in the latest Webmaster Help video. Specifically, he answers the following user-submitted question:

Roughly what percentage of PageRank is lost through a 301 redirect?

After providing some history about the context of this question, Cutts says, “I sent an email to the team who is in charge of this, and of course the implementation of this can very over time, but this has been roughly the same for quite a while. The amount of PageRank that dissipates through a 301 is currently identical to the amount of PageRank that dissipates through a link. So they are utterly the same in terms of the amount of PageRank that dissipates going through a 301 versus through a link. So that doesn’t mean use a 301. It doesn’t mean use a link. It means use whatever is best for your purposes because you don’t get to hoard or conserve any more PageRank if you use a 301, and likewise it doesn’t hurt you if you use a 301.”

He is careful to point out that this could change in the future.

“That’s the current implementation,” he says. “We don’t promise it will be that way for all time and eternity, but I don’t see any reason why in particular it would change.”

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Sunday, February 24, 2013

Mobile Nations at MWC 2013: Day Zero:

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Join Android Central's Phil Nickinson and Alex Dobie as well as WPCentral's Jay Bennett and a mostly silent Daniel Rubino for the first Mobile Nations podcast of Mobile World Congress 2013. With the show about to start, we've already got plenty of Android to talk about.

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Monday, February 18, 2013

Your (additional) Rules of the Internet:

By Todd Leopold, CNN

Above is one of our 12 Rules of the Internet. CNN commenters told us what we'd left out.

(CNN) -- Does the Internet need more rules? Does it need any rules at all?

Based on the comments to our story "Meet the Rules of the Internet," the judgment is decidedly mixed.

The story explained the origin of the Internet's "rules," originally a set of guidelines/inside jokes spawned by a variety of sources, including the Internet collective Anonymous, the site Encyclopedia Dramatica and 4chan's Christopher Poole.

As with many Internet memes, however, the concept quickly spread to the mainstream to the point where it's now fairly routine to run across references to "Rule 34" in blog posts and comment strings.

Some CNN commenters, however, weren't going to have any rules under any circumstances.

"The only rule of the Internet is that there are absolutely no rules," said Sal, among others.

Other commenters mentioned one of the best-known Internet observations, Godwin's Law: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." Some wondered why it wasn't included.

We agree: Godwin's Law should definitely be a part of any set of Internet rules. (Personally, I blame my editor for its exclusion: Frankly, the guy is a ...)

With that out of the way, here are 10 more nominations for the list of Internet rules. Ignore them at your peril.

• As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1. (Godwin's Law)

• You cannot unsee anything Rules 34-36 apply to. (suggested by Josh Weikel)

• The cake is a lie. (suggested by DragonWife; originated in the video game "Portal")

• Comment boards tend not to extend the discussion in a productive manner. (suggested by Simps0n)

• If a new version of anything comes out, half the Internet will hate it because they changed it too much, and the other half will hate it because they didn't change it enough. (suggested by chewie402)

• For trolls: When in doubt -- or when you just don't know -- go hostile. (suggested by Matt in KY)

• Don't be a d**k. (Wheaton's Law, suggested by freddosaurusRex)

• The girl you met online may actually be a guy. (suggested by Krehator; this is a variation of the classic New Yorker cartoon caption "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.")

• If anything you see upsets you, it is your problem, not the poster's. (suggested by readerman)

• Keep it simple. Odds are, most people reading this are stoned. (suggested by Jeffrey John Albrecht)

Thanks for playing. You can have your Internet back now.

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Sunday, February 17, 2013

Work begins to standardize 'internet-of-things' protocol:

Summary: OASIS launches technical committee that promises to have a widely accepted machine-to-machine connectivity protocol available in about a year.
By Joe McKendrick for Service Oriented

OASIS has announced a new technical committee is being formed to formalize a standard protocol for machine-to-device-to-sensor-to-refrigerator-to-other-machine-somewhere-else-on-the-network interactions, otherwise known as the "internet of things.'

The protocol, "MQ [Messaging Queue] Telemetry Transport," or MQTT, is described on the MQTT.org site as a "machine-to-machine (M2M)/Internet of Things connectivity protocol." The protocol, designed as an "extremely lightweight publish/subscribe messaging transport," is intended to facilitate "connections with remote locations where a small code footprint is required and/or network bandwidth is at a premium." Examples include "sensors communicating to a broker via satellite link, over occasional dial-up connections with healthcare providers, and in a range of home automation and small device scenarios."

MQTT is also well-suited for mobile applications, proponents say, due to "its small size, low power usage, minimized data packets, and efficient distribution of information to one or many receivers."

Having a universally accepted and adopted M2M protocol will help get new devices and systems to market faster, since they often are built using many variations of hardware and software platforms, device types, and networks, OASIS notes.

MQTT was invented by Dr Andy Stanford-Clark of IBM, and Arlen Nipper of Arcom (now Eurotech), back in 1999. It also has been called the “SCADA protocol,” the “MQ Integrator SCADA Device Protocol” (MQIsdp), the “WebSphere MQTT” (WMQTT).

OASIS' MQTT Technical Committee will work with MQTT as its base document to "define an open publish/subscribe protocol for telemetry messaging designed to be open, simple, lightweight, and suited for use in constrained networks and multi-platform environments." OASIS has scheduled the first, in-person meeting to be held in Boston on Monday, 25 March 2013, to be hosted by IBM. A working specification will be completed by March 2014, OASIS says.

The MQTT TC is intended to complement previous work by the OASIS AMQP Technical Committee, which released a specification that provides for transaction and publish & subscribe messaging between autonomous businesses, departments and applications using an open protocol for enterprise middleware. The MQTT specification adds a means "by which sensors, control systems, embedded systems and mobile devices can publish and subscribe low-level, technically-orientated data," OASIS says. "There is natural affinity to bridge MQTT with AMQP, so as to connect telemetry with enterprise applications."

(Photo: Joe McKendrick.)

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National Child Safety Advocates Partner With We Published That, L.L.C. to Write the Follow-Up Book to The Authority On™ Child Safety

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