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What also makes this project different is how it claims to be an all-in-one kit with a unique foldable controller.
You can see the sales pitch in the video below. Personally, I'm not a huge fan of Kickstarter projects, but what makes this interesting is that the Oculus Rift got its start in Kickstarter and now a potential rival is crowdfunding via the same platform—which, yes, makes sense!
At the time of writing, ANTVR has about $90,000 of its $200,000 goal funded with 38 days left to go.
Was the Dr Sergio Canavero head transplant news all a Metal Gear Solid promo stunt?
The internet can be a fun place, no less so than gaming forums keen to join the dots in such a way that you have to question not only certain stories, but even your very own existence.
The latest plausible, but also crackpot theory, is that Doctor Sergio Canavero, the doctor who is proposing the world's first head transplant, is actually not a real doctor. But an actor helping Konami sell copies of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain due out in September. We told you it was far fetched, didn't we?
In this alternate universe anything is believable especially when you don't bother to contact the doctor in question. Still, that hasn't stopped a forum of gamers at Neogaf treating these facts or coincidences as if they were a third gunman on the grassy knoll.
The similarity between the real world Dr Sergio and the doctor in Metal Gear Solid, as you can see in the above image is too good not to focus on. Of course there is a chance the game developers simply modelled the doctor on the real world Dr Sergio, or that any slightly beardy bald headed doctor with glasses look the ...
Dr Sergio's procedure, dubbed "Gemini" was submitted as a scientific article on 29 March 2013, two days after Metal Gear Solid V was revealed. Gemini were characters in Metal Gear Solid who, you guessed it, had cybernetic heads.
The name of the person getting the head transplant is Val Spiridonov. This is also the name of a game development supervisor.
The TED event held by Dr Sergio was an independently organised talk called TEDx Limassol. This is an anagram for Solid Metals - bit of a stretch there we know. What's more compelling however, was the logo used at the event which says: "Everything you know is wrong". Sure, it could refer to our perception on head transp...
Photos of the game have already, apparently, teased a possible head transplant. The question we have here is why you would want to replace his head when he is already missing an arm?
Dr Sergio's book contains chapters with titles including Heaven and Frontiers. Outer Heaven and the Militaires Sans Frontières were private military groups created by Big Boss in the Metal Gear Solid gaming series, so that must be a creditable link, right?
Doctor Sergio Canavero posing for a photo shoot which involves a head on a platter.
Asheville's interim city manager will update the city council on the recommended reforms Tuesday.
ASHEVILLE - The city's top administrator said police reforms are happening following the beating of a black pedestrian that triggered widespread outrage and led to the ouster of the city manager.
Interim City Manager Cathy Ball is set to update the City Council Tuesday on the reforms recommended last month by 21CP Solutions, a Chicago consulting group that includes appointees to President Barack Obama's 21st Century Policing Task Force.
The consultants called for a peer intervention program to train Asheville Police Department officers to stop incidents involving other police and a notification system so top city officials are made aware of events such as the Aug. 24 beating of Johnnie Rush by a white officer, Christopher Hickman.
In a report released to the council before Tuesday's meeting, Ball said those changes were underway.
In a change that has already been made, the threshold has been lowered for monitoring officers exhibiting what is deemed problem behavior, she said.
performance related problems exhibited by individual employees."
The new approach uses more systematic reviews of body-worn officer cameras and involves deputy police chiefs and the chief in the intervention.
Officers have been reminded when to give aid after using force. That means an ambulance is called if the person subject to the force complains of injury. Rush, who was bleeding and complaining of pain, was taken to the hospital only after he complained multiple times.
Work is underway to improve responses to news of police-involved incidents, including the creation of a crisis communication program. It took more than 12 hours for a statement from a city official after the Feb. 28 publication by the Citizen Times of police body cam footage showing the beating.
The Field Officer Training program has been revised. Hickman was a FTO at the time of the beating and had a trainee with him.
Not all council members were satisfied with the consultants' work.
Sheneika Smith, one of two African Americans on the council and a member of the council's Public Safety Committee, criticized the report and its recommendations, saying consultants should have spoken with local civil rights activists and that some might see the results as the "police policing the police."
Smith could not be reached for comment Monday afternoon. Public Safety Chairman Brian Haynes declined to comment.
Mayor Esther Manheimer has said the report was one of several steps the city was taking after the beating.
To all the Cherry Hill first responders who helped me, thank you so very much.
I recently had a flooded bathroom that I could not control, which led to severe physical distress. I called for help. First on the scene was a Cherry Hill policeman who calmed me down and assured me help was on the way. Almost immediately, Cherry Hill firefighters and EMS arrived. The firefighters took swift action to ...
*MUST SOURCE Patrick Carns Photography* Gov. Tom Wolf is expected to sign the measure, named for Timothy Piazza, a 19-year-old engineering major whose excessive drinking on his first night pledging the Beta Theta Pi house led to a series of falls that resulted in a severe head injury and his death the next day, acc...
A tough anti-hazing bill that bears the name of a Penn State student who died last year in a fraternity ritual is expected to become law Friday in Pennsylvania.
Gov. Tom Wolf is expected to sign the measure, named for Timothy Piazza, a 19-year-old engineering major whose excessive drinking on his first night pledging the Beta Theta Pi house led to a series of falls that resulted in a severe head injury and his death the next day, according to court records and testimony.
Six men face hazing charges in Piazza’s death.
The Timothy J. Piazza Anti Hazing Law will require Pennsylvania schools to have policies and reporting procedures in place to stop hazing and to inform students and parents of what is happening on campus. For those found guilty of hazing, penalties could include fines, the withholding of a diploma, and academic punishm...
The bill is a “crucial component” in the fight against hazing, Penn State spokeswoman Lisa Powers said.
“This law, when passed, in conjunction with the aggressive safety and related measures the University has implemented, is another step toward our mutual goal to increase student safety on campuses. Penn State has been, and continues to be, committed to addressing this serious national issue,” she said in a statement.
Penn State is also developing a national scorecard to provide public information on Greek-letter organizations, including alcohol and hazing violations and chapter suspensions, according to a separate statement.
Beta Theta Pi’s national organization publicly endorsed the bill as part of a settlement reached last month with Piazza’s family.
Piazza’s parents are grateful for state lawmakers’ support for the bill, “which, they believe, will serve a national model for anti-hazing legislation,” family attorney Tom Kline told CNN.
“In particular, today was a significant step forward in deterring and eradicating the scourge of hazing on university campuses throughout the nation,” he said.
There have been more than 77 fraternity-related deaths across the country since 2005. Forty-four states have anti-hazing laws in place — Pennsylvania will be the 45th — including at least 12 that make hazing a felony if it results in death or serious injury.
Wolf, a Democrat, expressed support for the bill after the state Senate passed it this week.
“Hazing is counter to the experience we want for college students in Pennsylvania,” the governor said. “We must give law enforcement the tools to hold people accountable and ensure schools have safeguards to protect students and curb hazing.
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Bankers’ Committee established the Nigerian Incentive-based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) to help farmers get concessionary loans. In this interview with DANIEL ESSIET, Country Head, Solidaridad – Nigeria – an international Dutch development organisation, Al...
Why is the financial system reform so important to agriculture?
The answer is simple. There is no farming without money. Money for farming not only means access to credit, but also access to other financial products and services. Providing credit access to farmers enables them to insure against risk, enabling them to save. Every farmer who wants to expand needs finance. It is still...
Financing agricultural research remains a challenge for international organisations, governments, the private sector, and other development partners. Have we made progress in these areas?
Agricultural research and development (R&D) is primarily funded by the governments and donors. Overall investment levels remain below the levels required to sustain viable agricultural R&D programmes that address current and future priorities. Mobilising domestic political support for agriculture, especially for agricu...
How do we address this?
The government should emphasise agricultural research and innovation for development.
What sort of changes have you seen during this year in the agriculture sector?
Looking at the past government’s policies in agriculture; Nigeria’s agricultural policy framework has gone through a number of evolutionary processes and fundamental changes that reflected in a historical perspective, the changing character of agricultural development problems and the roles, which different segments of...
How has this affected cocoa?
The cocoa sector is fully liberalised and has no central coordination. Agricultural extension is very weak in most cocoa producing states. Farmers receive uncoordinated support from some states. The Nigerian Cocoa Development Committee (NCDC), populated by deputy chief executives of the 14 cocoa producing states, tried...
Existing knowledge and experience of voluntary standards in cocoa (and other agricultural crops) is very low, so extensive advocacy and capacity building activities will require increasing the acceptance of norms for sustainable production and trade. Multinational cocoa and indigenous exporting trading companies in Nig...
How far has Nigeria gone with regards to expanding cocoa production?
As regards cocoa expansion, one has to look back to memory lane after the Nigerian cocoa economy witnessed a dramatic change, which was after the dissolution of the cocoa board in 1996. The liberalisation of the cocoa sector without a regulatory body resulted in sharp decline in cocoa production and the quality of coco...
What are the challenges the country is facing in this direction?
The Nigerian cocoa sector is characterised by three major unsatisfactory conditions: very low yield of cocoa beans, poor quality and repressive labour issues. The average yield of 300-400kg per hectare compares unfavourably with the potential of up to 1000kg under good management and well over 1,500kg in new emerging c...
In spite of research and awareness creation programmes, the agriculture sector is lagging behind. What do you think is responsible for this?
Nigeria faces a lot of problems with regard to cocoa production. First is the land tenure system. Land still belongs to communities despite the Federal Government’s Land Use Act that stipulates that land belongs to the government. Many serious or genuine farmers have no land to expand their cocoa farms. There is also t...
Concerns have been expressed on negative reports in the media about the use of child labour in cocoa production. What is the situation now?
Child labour, if I may be right, I think is work that exploits a child by preventing him/her from realising his future potential. Child labour may appear in different forms but what we are emphasising is the worst form of child labour – which means as the work, which by its nature or the circumstances in which it is ca...
You worked with the Cocoa Producers Alliance (COPAL) to spearhead a campaign for increased cocoa consumption in the sub-region. What have you achieved?
In the cocoa value-chain, we are involved in building the capacity of farmers through improved agronomical practices and to attain sustainable cocoa production, so that processors can have access to certified cocoa beans. This we achieved by encouraging processors to bring their cocoa producers together as farmer group...
Due to growth limitations in cocoa supply in West Africa, the world market has diversified cocoa origins, considering logical sourcing alternatives. What does it portend for the sub region?
Of course other emerging cocoa producing countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia that are doing cocoa intensification would push West Africa back, unless there is serious intervention that would transform the cocoa sector.
The keys to food security are climate stabilisation, population stabilisation, dramatic rises in water productivity, soil conservation and afforestation. Are these issues going to determine our future?
Food security is a concept that sees the sustenance of food for man. The survival of man on earth depends solely on continuous food production with adequate security measures. But the ranging ecological fires such as massive erosion, deforestation, burning, leaching, pollution, increasing population pressure and desert...
People are migrating from one agricultural field to another. How adversely does it affect our agricultural field? What do you think is the reason behind it?
People see agriculture today as not sustainable because of the dwindling income from it and because it cannot meet their livelihood needs. The teeming youths are not interested in agriculture due to the absence of most social amenities, such as electricity, roads, pipe borne water, recreational facilities, health facil...
What is the mission of Solidaridad in Nigeria?
Solidaridad is a Dutch international development organisation with over 30 years experience in sustainable value chain development. Solidaridad West Africa, has its regional expertise centre in Accra, Ghana and head office in Utrecht, Netherlands. The Nigeria office was opened in December 2010, but became operational i...
Solidaridad has been using the dynamics of voluntary standards to achieve these goals in Nigeria. With a strategic alliance with Utz Certified, Solidaridad has become the leading development organisation promoting and supported farmer to achieve certification in Nigeria. Solidaridad is also in the forefront of the Cert...
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ASI President Michael Badal listens to the presentation given on the parking issues faced around campus.
Kristen Jasko, Interim Director of Parking and Transportation Services, met with students Tuesday after the Associated Students, Inc. Board of Directors received comments about the campus’ inadequate parking services and the new $96 fee for bus passes at their recent “Breakfast with the Board” event.
ASI hoped to find answers to these concerns, inviting Jasko to its board meeting Tuesday. Jasko covered topics such as the University Bus Pass Program, Bike Sharing Program and other transportation alternatives.
ASI’s first point was whether or not Parking Services had any short-term solutions to space availability.
Parking and Transportation services previously only offered the valet stacked parking in Lots A and G, but now offers the service in Lot E as well, Jasko said. She also said that the current parking demand is manageable among those three stacked zones.
Jasko also touched on the proposal of having campus shuttles to ferry students who park in lots away from campus.
While the school did offer shuttles in the past, the cost for the service was expensive, Jasko said.
“The last time we had shuttles from lots A and G it was about $230,000 a year,” she said.
It comes down to how economical the service would be, Jasko said. At $230,000 a year, she wondered whether or not the money could be used for other programs.
Jasko also said she is currently looking into having a bike sharing program on campus, a concept which was previously run throughout Fullerton by the Orange County Transport Authority. This proved to be unsuccessful, most likely due to the costs involved, she said.
Jumping back to public transportation, ASI asked about the department’s recent increase on university bus pass prices. Bus passes obtained from the university will cost $96 starting in the spring 2016 semester, according to the university’s Parking and Transportation Services website. The pass used to be free of charge...
Jasko said that the reason for the increase is because the cost of the U-Pass program has increased significantly.
At its inception in 2003, Parking and Transportation allocated $25 to each U-Pass card, Jasko said. Each swipe of the card only cost Parking and Transportation 75 cents.
“That cost is now $1.75 per swipe, or a maximum cap of $45,” said Jasko.
Jasko said that only about 18 percent of students use the U-Pass for its full value, so increasing the price still provides a great subsidy for students who need it and also frees up money to explore other commuter alternatives.
Another main concern students had was the steep prices for parking permits, a fee which Jasko said goes directly to Parking and Transportation, since they have no state funding.
Parking and Transportation will continue to provide feedback at the University Affairs Committee meeting, Oct. 22 at 1:15 p.m. and the upcoming Executive Senate meeting.
WASHINGTON -- Al Franken, still embroiled in a U.S. Senate recount battle with Norm Coleman, will travel to the nation's capital this week to pick up a volunteer award for his lengthy USO service.
The former "Saturday Night Live" comedian will appear along with actress Renée Zellweger at the USO's annual black-tie awards dinner Wednesday.
Franken will receive the organization's Merit Award for his work with deployed and wounded service members. He is a veteran of numerous overseas USO tours, as well as several visits to the Bethesda Naval Hospital and the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where he met with wounded soldiers in January.
Thirty-six of the nation's 98 living Medal of Honor recipients are expected to be honored, along with active-duty members from each branch of the military.
FBI Director James Comey takes a question from a reporter during a news conference at the FBI office in Boston, Massachusetts November 18, 2014.

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