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In March, Barraza-Lujan and Wade each received a 136-month state prison sentence for their parts in the jail break, Schmidt said.
In July 2012, a judge gave James 18 years in federal prison on related carjacking charges. He had been serving a state sentence for aggravated robbery, kidnapping and other charges at the time of the escape.
The ordeal prompted state correctional officials to transfer 18 other state inmates housed at Ottawa County Jail in 2012 back to the prison in Ellsworth.
HYDERABAD: India's animation industry is poised to double in the next three years but it needs to tackle challenges like the lack of trained manpower and awareness about the industry, said speakers at a meet here.
The National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) organised the one-day Animation India 2003, the first national meet on the nascent industry.
The speakers, including Nasscom president Kiran Karnik, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and industry experts from India and abroad, identified a lack of trained manpower, awareness of animation as a career, infrastructure and financial support as the challenges before the industry.
It is estimated that the amount spent on animation by Indian producers -- which was $600 million in 2000 -- will touch $1.5 billion by 2005 while the global animation market is expected to grow from $45 billion to $51.7 billion by 2005.
India has advantages like a vast base of English speaking manpower, low cost of production, a large entertainment sector, well-established studios and a rich cultural heritage that can be exploited for serials, said the speakers.
Nasscom released a report on the animation industry, recommending boosting domestic demand and outsourcing. Providing access to easy and cheap finance, developing world-class infrastructure and talented manpower are the other three recommendations to tap the vast potential in the global animation market.
Naidu extracted an assurance from Nasscom that it would hold a meet on the animation industry at Hyderabad annually and would make efforts to introduce courses in animation at the Hyderabad-based International Institute of Information Technology to address the problem of lack of trained manpower.
India, which presently has 4,000 to 5,000 animation professionals, requires manpower of 20,000 to 25,000 to tap the potential.
Amit Khanna of Reliance Entertainment said India was one of the most dominant players in IT software, the largest producer of motion pictures, third largest producer of television software and one of the top 10 players in the music industry. However, in terms of value India's share is only $4 billion in the global entertainment market of $1.18 trillion.
He noted that animation was one sector that offered huge growth potential. "It grew by 100 percent during last two years and this is a healthy sign," he said, pointing out that of late Indian animation producers were doing creative work like the production of animation serials like "Tenali Rama".
Pawan Kumar, chairman of Jadooworks, suggested that the animation industry follow in the footprints of the successful IT software sector.
Referring to the tremendous potential in animation, he said that while it took 15 years for India to cross $1 billion in the software sector, it would take only three years for the animation industry to reach this milestone. He called for laying down a road map to achieve the $5 billion mark and said it would not be tough for India to capture five percent of the global animation market.
The dollar, “which has declined over 9 percent year to date, has weakened relative to foreign currencies as the likelihood of future interest-rate hikes from the Federal Reserve has fallen, along with the chances of pro-growth policies passing in Washington. Maley pointed to the Daily Sentiment Index, which measures futures traders’ sentiment, flashing very bearish sentiment toward the dollar,” according to CNBC.
Year-to-date, investors have pulled nearly $227 million from UUP, a total exceeded by just three other PowerShares ETFs.
Heading into 2017, many bond market participants were betting the Fed would raise interest rates three times, but some market commentators believe two is the appropriate number of rate hikes this year. The Fed boosted rates in March for the first time this year and the third time in 15 months, but a dovish tone following the March meeting muted the dollar’s reaction. The dollar has struggled following the June rate hike as well.
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Sharp offers up an 85-inch 8K 3D TV... yes, 8K!
CES 2014 - Sharp has just unveiled a beautiful new high-resolution TV, that makes 4K whimper in the corner. Sharp's new 85-inch 8K TV is 3D-capable, with the company collaborating with Philips and Dolby to offer users a "lifelike 3D picture" without the need of glasses.
Sharp's new 85-inch 8K TV offers a resolution of 7680x4320, which is 16x the resolution offered by 1920x1080, or Full HD. There's absolutely no word on pricing or a launch date, but I would say this TV would only be for the rich, or home theater enthusiasts.
Latino immigrant farmworkers experience high rates of both obesity and depressive symptoms; over 70% are overweight or obese, and 20% to 50% report symptoms that could indicate depression. WCAHS investigator Dr. Jessie Kemmick Pintor, who is currently working on her post-doctoral studies at the Center for Healthcare Policy and Research at UC Davis, recently explored how depressive symptoms affected Latino immigrant farmworkers enrolled in Pasos Saludables (Healthy Steps), a workplace based interventional pilot program designed to reduce or prevent obesity. The study, directed by WCAHS Director Marc Schenker, was conducted between April 2010 and January 2011 with workers from a large California berry grower.
Pasos Saludables participants (men and women) were randomly assigned to an intervention or control group. The intervention group met once a week for 10 weeks. They learned about nutrition, diabetes, healthy weight, physical activity, mental health, and each session included 15-20 minutes of moderate exercise. In contrast, control participants received no dietary or physical activity information.
The primary measurement was body mass index (BMI), which was assessed for each participant at the beginning of the study and at 12-14 weeks follow-up. In addition, the risk of depression was determined at the beginning of the study using the CES-D 10 (10-item Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale).
The Latino immigrant farmworkers participating in the study displayed high rates of obesity and depressive symptoms. Approximately 75% of participants were classified as overweight or obese based on their BMI, while 27% reported symptoms indicating high risk of clinical depression. Major depression affects between 6-7% of the overall adult US population each year.
At the 12-14 week follow-up, intervention participants not at risk for depression had significantly reduced their BMI (0.62 on average) compared to control participants. However, those at risk for depression did not. Overall, the intervention group significantly decreased their BMI (0.57) compared to the control group, with females reducing their BMI by 0.63.
The findings suggest that obesity and mental health need to be jointly addressed for optimal health benefits. Dr. Kemmick Pintor said it was important to understand and consider how structural factors (social isolation, discrimination, poverty) affect one’s ability to make the significant lifestyle changes necessary for weight loss when designing intervention programs. Future work may involve studying coping methods.
Jio has released an updated version of its Jio TV Android app, bringing picture-in-picture (PiP) support. The PiP support is a much-demanded feature for the media apps as it allows users to watch the content even when they are in the middle of other tasks on their smartphone. Reliance Jio notes that the picture-in-picture support in Jio TV is limited to devices running on Android 8.0 Oreo or above i.e. smartphones that natively support that feature. The updated Jio TV app is now available for download from the Google Play Store.
For the uninitiated, Google had introduced the support for picture-in-picture mode in Android 8.0. It is a special multi-window mode, which lets the users watch a video in a small window while doing other tasks on the device.
The official Jio TV Android version's changelog does not mention any other new features that have been introduced in the new version.
To recall, Jio TV is a live TV application from Reliance Jio, which offers real-time access to dozens of over 600 TV channels, to the telecom operator's subscribers. Some of the key features of the application are 7-day catch up TV, recording support, and pause support. The app offers content in multiple languages including English, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Malayalam, Assamese, Odia, and Urdu.
Jio TV is only accessible to Reliance Jio subscribers and currently works on Android and iOS devices. The company has promised to include support for desktop computers soon.
The Easter long weekend wasn’t so great for a number of downtown businesses along Dundas and Richmond streets that had their front windows broken.
Businesses including McHardy Vacuum, Rebel Remedy, Attic Books and City Lights Bookstore sustained damage at some point late Thursday or early Friday, owners say.
Graham Stuart, owner of McHardy Vacuum at 1004 Dundas St. near Egerton Street in Old East Village, said it will cost in the neighbourhood of $2,000 to replace the glass that was shattered.
“We have four giant panels, huge windows,” he said. “It’s a big pane,” he said of the section that was damaged.
“It seems that it happened on Thursday night,” said Julie Kortekaas, co-owner of Rebel Remedy health bar, located at 242 Dundas St. between Clarence and Wellington streets.
Kortekass stopped by her business at 10 p.m. Thursday, at which time the window was not damaged.
“Dundas can get wild sometimes,” she said.
There was a robbery at McHardy Vacuum about nine years ago. From that point on, the store’s owners removed large merchandise from the front window and replaced those items with large banners.
“There’s so much foot traffic in front of the store,” Stuart said. About two years ago, an unidentified individual keyed McHardy’s front window, scratching it in the process.
“It gets crazy downtown,” Kortekaas said.
Janette MacDonald of Downtown London could not be reached Monday evening.
Four of the five Spice Girls have announced plans to reunite for a concert tour, but Posh Spice - now better known as Victoria Beckham - will not rejoin the 1990s icons.
The British quartet has released a light-hearted video of themselves discussing their comeback in a mock news program, announcing six concerts in June in stadiums in Britain.
"Girls, do you think I'm too old for bunches?" asks radio host Emma Bunton, or Baby Spice, 42, in the video released on Monday, before tying up her hair in the style she sported in the 1990s.
Singer-songwriter Jess Glynne said she was planning to join the Spice World tour along with Bunton and her band mates Ginger Spice (Geri Horner, 46), Scary Spice (Melanie Brown, 43) and Sporty Spice (Melanie Chisholm, 44).
Beckham, 44, did not feature in the video amid reports that she has chosen to focus on her fashion business rather than joining the Spice Girls tour.
The Spice Girls shot to fame in 1996 with the single Wannabe and went on to have a series of global hits and a film, Spice World.
They split up in 2000, reuniting for a tour of Europe and the United States in 2008 and last performed together at the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics.
Jonzing for a new Advance Wars game?
Well too bad because you aren't getting one... Well, not exactly.
If you have an iOS device, PS3 or PSP, you can get new that might give you a fix. Oyaji Games' Mecho Wars is a strategy RPG that puts you in control of a group of monsters who are... trying to defeat the other monsters?
I'm a bit fuzzy on the details, but take one look and you'll see the mechanical similarities to the DS strategy series. The game isn't a total ripoff though: For starters, In Mecho Wars, the terrain changes based on a day/night cycle.
Mecho Wars is currently available on iOS for .99, and will be available for 4.99(?) on PSN as a PS Mini starting tomorrow.
Security researchers have worked with key stakeholders to shut down a malvertising campaign that exposed millions of PornHub users to Kovter ad fraud malware for over a year.
Proofpoint detailed its analysis of the so-called KovCoreG group, well-known for spreading Kovter malware globally via such tactics.
Interestingly, the group tweaked its operations to include advanced filtering and social engineering rather than exploit kits, believing this to be a more certain way of infecting users.
PornHub - and its Traffic Junky network - were chosen because of its popularity: the 38th most visited site in the world, according to Proofpoint.
Filters are deployed to only serve the malicious ads by specific geography and ISP; with users in the UK, US, Australia and Canada targeted in this campaign. Other fingerprinting included by time zone, screen dimension, language, and history length of current browser windows.
Those served the malicious ads were redirected to a social engineering page displaying an urgent message to install a critical update. This depended on the victim’s browser.
If they clicked through their machine was infected with Kovter, a highly persistent malware which in this case was used to commit ad fraud.
“Once users clicked on what they thought was an update file, they may not have even noticed a change in their systems as the malware opened an invisible web browser process, clicked on ads, and generated potential revenue for cybercriminals,” explained Proofpoint VP of operations, Kevin Epstein.
Although ad fraud was the name of the game this time, the payload could easily have been changed to infect users with ransomware, or information-stealers, Epstein added.
“We are pleased that following our notification, the site and advertising network abused in this particular attack worked swiftly to remove the infected content and keep visitors safe,” he concluded.
Wherever marijuana is smoked, the consumption of snacks usually follows — and a new study suggests that’s because pot causes changes in brain circuitry that make you hungry.
Pot heads and scientists alike have long known that marijuana can make a person crave food, a phenomena known colloquially as the munchies. But the evidence is still cloudy when it comes to why this happens. So a team of Yale researchers set off to figure it out.
In a new study published in the journal Nature, the researchers discovered that cannabinoids from marijuana actually interfere with signaling in the brain that causes the body to feel hungry when it should be feeling full. To do so, they looked at the brains of high mice.
The researchers observed that the neurons in the mice brains that make them feel sated, called POMCs, were activated in those who were given a chemical to mimic marijuana in the brain. At first, it didn’t make any sense. If the neuron in the brain that inhibits hunger is activated, then shouldn’t the mice be much less hungry? Not hungrier?
What the team discovered was that the cannabinoids interfere with the chemical POMCs’ release — so that when the mice were “sober,” the neurons released a satiety chemical. But when the mice were “high,” their neurons released a chemical that spurs appetite.
The new findings join the many working theories looking at why marijuana causes hunger. A study from last February, for example, suggests that the THC in marijuana activates smell receptors which causes hunger. The new results are still preliminary and require further research. For now, the jury is still out.
A pharmacist claims a retired Nassau County cop who accidentally shot and killed an ATF agent outside the Long Island store during a New Year’s Eve day robbery, fired without warning, the Associated Press reported.
That account, which differs from the cop’s attorney’s version, surfaced after a document was accidentally posted on a prosecutor’s website.
Retired Nassau County Lt. Christopher Geraghty came to the rescue of ATF agent John Capano, who got into a struggle with the robber. Geraghty tried to help and fired the deadly shot that killed Capano.
Geraghty’s attorney Brian Davis said his client fired a shot after a shot whizzed by his head, according to AP. He said his client has been distraught over the incident.
Capano had gone to the pharmacy to fill a prescription for his ailing father when he stumbled upon the robbery.
Posted: 2/10/12 at 9:58 AM under News Story.
This offseason the Broncos also brought over from Fresno State Eric Kiseau to coach the Receivers.
Last season he was the Bulldogs offensive coordinator. He is getting plenty of chances to find the broncos next deep threat with Senior Cedrick Wilson out from Spring ball recovery from surgery.
Wilson hauled in 50 receptions and 10 touchdowns in his first season with Boise State and even though he is out of practice Coach Kiseau is using his knowledge of the game with the younger players.
“He helps me coach and he has done a good job. He has helped the young guys out. He is out there during all the drills during drill work. I think it’s actually really good obviously you want Cedrick out there, you never want a player hurt but it has been really good for the other players to develop those guys,” said, Wide Receiver Coach Eric Kiseau.
Bette Louise O'Donnell, 88, of Poipu, Kauai, a retired real estate agent, died at home. She was born in Oakland, Calif. She is survived by daughters Carol and Gayle O'Donnell and Jean Craig, five grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren. Celebration of life:3 p.m. Saturday at the O'Donnell residence in Poipu.
The Eugene man critically injured while in the custody of Eugene police Wednesday has been identified and is currently undergoing treatment.
Michael Amador Sanchez appeared to be injured from both banging his head on the pavement and later wrapping a seat belt around his neck in the backseat of a Eugene police patrol car and hanging upside down, Eugene police spokeswoman Melinda McLaughlin said Friday.
No officers have been placed on leave, and the internal investigation is ongoing, McLaughlin said. McLaughlin declined to release the names of the involved officers.
“This is a tragic circumstance for Mr. Sanchez and for his family,” Eugene Police Chief Chris Skinner said. “We and our transporting officers are shocked and deeply saddened. You never expect a quick, seemingly routine transport to turn out this way. The vehicle’s travel was smooth without crashes or abrupt stops. We will continue to look into how this occurred and remain concerned for Mr. Sanchez’s well being and for his family.
Sanchez, 34, had been taken into custody for a suspected fire set outside Coast Farm and Ranch on West Sixth Avenue around 5:30 a.m. Wednesday. Sanchez was found on the Highway 99 overpass minutes later, police said. His hands were bleeding and his jacket was singed from the fire.
He was arrested on suspicion of reckless burning without incident, police said. But because of Sanchez's injuries, officers decided to take him to University District Hospital for medical clearance before taking him to the Lane County Jail, McLaughlin said. That's when police say Sanchez, outside of the patrol car, began banging his head on the pavement. A sergeant grabbed Sanchez's hair to stop him, McLaughlin said. Sanchez was then placed in the back of the patrol car, but went limp, she said. After he was in the car, he began kicking at the officers and was placed in a "flexible restraint device to prevent injuries to himself and officers," McLaughlin said.
When Sanchez was placed in the vehicle, he was lying on his back, but was not wearing a seat belt because of his "combative nature," McLaughlin said. While on the way to the hospital, Sanchez allegedly began slowly moving around, doing somersaults and spins in the backseat, McLaughlin said. Eventually, he had the seat belt around his neck and his head down on the floorboard with his shirt over his head, McLaughlin said. When the transporting officer arrived at the hospital, he removed the shirt and discovered Sanchez was not breathing.
Sanchez was freed from the seat belt and carried inside of the hospital for treatment, McLaughlin said.
His family has been notified..
MADISON – When Ellsworth’s Charlie Stuhl scored a reversal midway through the second period, it looked like it might make things tough on Two Rivers’ Cody Holmes.
Turns out, it just the sophomore cranked up.
Holmes answered with a reversal of his own and twice put Stuhl on his back to take a 10-point lead at the end of the second period en route to claiming the Division 2 106-pound title with a 17-8 win over Stuhl at the WIAA Individual State Wrestling Tournament at the Kohl Center on Saturday night.
Holmes was one of three Raiders in the finals along with Joey Bianchi (113) and Laken Duerschmidt (145) but was the only one to come away with the title. He becomes the 10th different Two Rivers wrestler to win a state title and marks the fourth year in a row the Raiders have claimed a state title.
Holmes was humbled to know that his name was going to be listed among the other Two Rivers greats.
Holmes took down Stuhl midway through the first period to take a 2-0 lead and then scored a reversal to start the second to go ahead 4-0. Stuhl would get the next two points but it was Holmes that took a 12-2 advantage into the third period.
Stuhl did score three takedowns in the third period, each time letting Holmes back to his feet, but the sophomore wasn’t worried about his lead.
With Stuhl in desperation mode, Holmes secured the final points of the match with a takedown in the closing seconds.

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