TC Cribs: The Lights, Cameras, And Classrooms At CreativeLIVE's San Francisco HQ

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Ferrari, Mercedes and Lotus vye for runner-up spot | Debates and Polls

With Red Bull^[1] poised to wrap up their fourth consecutive world championship the battle to be ‘best of the rest’ is far from settled.

Ferrari, Mercedes and Lotus are vying for second place in the constructors’ championship which brings rich financial rewards as well as prestige.

The extra income would be welcomed by any of the teams but particularly Lotus, who are operating on a considerably smaller budget than their well-heeled rivals.

Further back in the championship Sauber’s resurgence could see them rise as high as fifth. Who will come out on top?

The race to runner-up

Here’s how many points Ferrari, Mercedes and Lotus have scored so far this year:

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/charts/2013teamcolours.csv

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19
Ferrari	30	40	73	77	117	123	145	168	180	194	218	248	274	284	297
Mercedes	10	37	52	64	72	109	134	171	183	208	235	245	267	283	287
Lotus	26	40	60	93	111	112	114	124	157	183	187	191	206	239	264

Maximum points remaining: 172

There’s been little to separate Ferrari from Mercedes in the contest for second place in the championship for the last four races.

Mercedes can usually rely on having better qualifying pace but the Ferraris come one strong in race conditions – as was clear at Singapore. In Japan Lewis Hamilton’s^[2] first lap misfortune and Nico Rosberg’s hasty departure from the pits saw Mercedes squander vital points in their battle with Ferrari.

But the last two races saw Lotus take points off both teams which has brought them firmly back into contention for the runner-up spot. There are two main reasons for Lotus’s rise.

The first is the improving form of Romain Grosjean^[3], who has out-qualified Kimi Raikkonen more often than not in recent races and led almost half the race in Japan.

Lotus are also suspected of gaining a similar advantage to Red Bull from the mapping of their Renault engine. Mercedes believe Renault have found a way of legally enhancing their car’s traction.

These two factors could prove decisive over the final races. Having lost Raikkonen along with technical figures James Allison and Dirk de Beer to Ferrari, Lotus could be about to have the last laugh this year.

Sauber’s late surge

Here’s how many points McLaren, Force India, Sauber and Toro Rosso have scored so far this year:

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/charts/2013teamcolours.csv

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19
McLaren	2	4	14	23	29	37	37	37	49	57	65	66	76	81	83
Force India	10	10	14	26	32	44	51	59	59	59	61	61	62	62	62
Sauber	0	4	5	5	5	5	5	6	7	7	7	17	19	31	45
Toro Rosso	0	1	7	7	8	12	20	24	24	24	25	31	31	31	31

Sauber’s^[4] return to form will be a cause for sleepless nights at Force India.

The Swiss team is in a similar situation to Lotus – as well as making gains with their car in recent races, their championship situation has been bolstered by the improving form of their second driver.

In their case it is Esteban Gutierrez^[5] who scored the first points of his F1 career with a highly credible seventh place at Suzuka, behind team mate Nico Hulkeneerg.

Hulkenberg’s star is also rising. Since missing out on a switch to Ferrari he has produced giant-killing performances in Italy and Korea.

The Hungaroring was a turning point for the team as a new aerodynamic upgrade arrived and coincided with Pirelli’s changes to the tyre construction. Both have clearly been to their benefit, and the latter has clearly disadvantaged Force India, who look set to follow Toro Rosso in being overhauled by Sauber.

McLaren’s hold on fifth place may not be secure, especially if Sauber repeat their Japanese feat of getting both their cars home in front of the silver ones.

Over to you

Who do you think will come out on top in these three-way battles? Cast your votes in the polls below and have your say in the comments.

Who will finish second in the constructors' championship?

• Ferrari (33%)
  
  


• Mercedes (33%)
  
  


• Lotus (34%)
  
  


• Someone else (0%)
  
  

Total Voters: 268

Who will finish fifth in the constructors' championship?

• McLaren (80%)
  
  


• Sauber (18%)
  
  


• Force India (2%)
  
  


• Someone else (0%)
  
  

Total Voters: 264

An F1 Fanatic account is required in order to vote. If you do not have one, register an account here^[6] or read more about registering here^[7].

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Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander lands with mostly minor tweaks

Just like clockwork, here comes the latest release of Ubuntu: version 13.10 Saucy Salamander. Like April's Raring Ringtail, this update is mostly about fine tuning the things that already make Ubuntu the Linux distro of choice for many out there. Performance has been improved, especially in Unity ...

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Lao Airliner Crash That Killed 49 Blamed On Bad Weather

Soldiers stand next to pieces of a Lao Airlines plane on Thursday after it crashed into the Mekong River near Pakse, Laos.

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Soldiers stand next to pieces of a Lao Airlines plane on Thursday after it crashed into the Mekong River near Pakse, Laos.

Pornchai Kittiwongsakul/AFP/Getty Images

The crash of a turboprop in southern Laos that killed all 49 people aboard was caused by a violent storm that prompted the pilot to miss a runway and careen into the Mekong River, authorities say.

"Upon preparing to land at Pakse Airport the aircraft ran into extreme bad weather conditions and was reportedly crashed into the Mekong River," the Laos Ministry of Public Works and Transport said in a statement.

The Lao Airlines' ATR-72 had 44 passengers aboard. In addition to 17 Lao nationals, the flight included several passengers from France, Australia and Thailand; three from Korea; two from Vietnam; and one person each from the United States, Canada, Malaysia, China and Taiwan. Five crew members were also killed.

The state-run news agency of Laos quoted an eyewitness to the crash as saying that the plane "appeared to be hit by a strong wind, causing its head to ascend and pushing it away from the airport area."

The Bangkok Post reports that one of the plane's propellers, as well as passengers' backpacks and passports, were among the debris in the Mekong River:

" 'So far eight bodies have been found. We don't yet know their nationalities,' said Yakao Lopangkao, director-general of Lao's Department of Civil Aviation, who was at the crash site in Pakse, the main town in the southern Lao province of Champassak. 'We haven't found the plane yet. It is underwater. We're trying to use divers to locate it.'

"He ruled out finding survivors. 'There is no hope. The plane appears to have crashed very hard before entering the water.' "

According to The Sydney Morning Herald:

"Lao Airlines, the national airline of the impoverished and landlocked nation of six million people, operates domestic as well as international services. Its fleet includes six aircraft of the type involved in the crash.

"Paske, the capital of Champasak province, opposite the Thai province of Ubon Ratchathani, is the largest city in southern Laos.

"The area is a popular destination for tourists who visit coffee plantations of the Bolaven Plateau and a former royal principality."

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Automatic Link Review Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Realtime Driving Feedback

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I have something to get off my chest: I live in New Jersey, so by definition that makes me a “Jersey driver”. I’ve never thought of myself as the sort of manically aggressive road warrior that befits the stereotype (and I’d argue that Pennsylvania drivers are way worse), but Y Combinator-backed Automatic’s Link dongle begs to differ. It’s been plugged into my car for the better part of two weeks now, dutifully tracking all my hard stops, all my hasty starts at green lights, and all the times I’ve perhaps pushed the car a bit too hard.

And the verdict is in: I’m exactly what I thought I wasn’t. I’m a stereotypical New Jersey driver. As the old adage goes, the first step to recovering is admitting you have a problem, and Automatic’s neat little dongle + app combo has helped me to realize just that.

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Automatic Link Review Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Realtime Driving Feedback

The Rundown

But let’s back up a moment — how does this all work? Let’s back up a moment first. Since 1996, every car that’s been sold in the United States has what’s called an OBD-II port nestled in it somewhere. Odds are good you don’t even know what it looks like (it’s a little trapezoidal thing with 16 pins) or where it is. It’s there so mechanics and car dealers can troubleshoot automotive issues by connecting a computer to the thing, and the Automatic team has whipped up a consumer device that pops in there to monitor your car’s speed, fuel injection rate, and more.

There are a few extra bits in there that make the Link dongle more than your average diagnostics tool. The accelerometer means that it can detect sudden stops and starts, and there’s a tiny speaker built into the that audibly alerts you in those moments.

It sounds like sort of a no-brainer, doesn’t it? Consistently slamming your brakes isn’t doing your car any favors, but the dongle is much more sensitive than that — seemingly normal stops can trigger the alert which sort of forces you to reconsider how normal your driving really is. The dongle also beeps at you when you’re too quick off the line (something I’m apparently guilty of way too often), and when you push your car over 70 miles per hour. In the end, you’re left with a gadget that’s capable of giving you realtime driving feedback while you tool around town (and it’s much more pleasant than having a backseat driver bark at you).

Of course, the (currently iOS-only) app plays a big role in all this too as the Link connects to your smartphone via Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy. You can’t glance down at your phone in-the-moment for immediate status updates — the only feedback you’re getting while driving is those audio notifications — but it dutifully chews on all of that data post-drive to show you your route and how many of those driving faux pas you made on the road. It also displays a rough estimate of your fuel economy, and I do mean rough — some quick, back of the napkin calculations gave me figures that weren’t always as peachy as the ones the app displayed. Automatic says this is a known issue though, and they’re apparently working on improving accuracy.

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All of those metrics get boiled down into a single weekly score so users can easily track their progress over time.

And thankfully, there are some features that I haven’t had to use yet. In the event that your car throws up a Check Engine light, the Automatic app is capable of showing some detailed information about what may be causing it and how to potentially fix it. And if you’ve got Crash Alert enabled, the Link will be on the lookout for the sort of incredibly hard stops that usually signify, well, a crash. In the event it detects one, it collects your location information using your phone’s GPS and attempts to send it along to the local authorities by way of Automatic’s backend servers. It’s exclusive to the U.S. and still very much in beta though — Automatic admits that at this point there’s no guarantee that any nearby police stations or fire departments will respond.

There are, as always, some caveats to be aware of. While years and years worth of cars physically have an OBD-II port somewhere, the Automatic Link can’t decipher the data from every single one of them (you can check your car’s compatibility here).

That crucial Bluetooth connection presents some problems of its own too — if you’re the type of person who relies on Bluetooth to stream your music through your car stereo or access your contact list on the go, you may to have to decide which of these experiences means more to you. Then again, there’s a fair to middling chance that if your car came with Bluetooth functionality out of the gate, it’s already going to replicate some of the Automatic Link’s more basic features.

And you know what? That’s just fine. My car rolled off an assembly line in 2006, which was apparently the model year just before the one when neato options like AUX inputs and in-dash fuel economy gauges became standard fare. A drill and a $15 gewgaw from Amazon fixed that first problem, and now a $99 gadget + app combination have taken care of the latter for me (and then some). On some level though, I just wish the Automatic system did more — I’d love a web view that lets me dig into all this information in aggregate, and some maintenance reminders every few thousand miles since I’m probably running a little behind on that too.

The Verdict

Now this is all well and good, but there’s a bigger question to tackle: am I actually a better driver?

Well, I’m getting there. The thing to remember about Automatic is that it isn’t going to magically make you a more conscientious driver — you have to work at it. The name of the game is behavior modification through better data. In that sense the Automatic dongle is a sort of Fitbit for your car, a reasonably inexpensive doodad that shines a little more light on what you put your car (and your wallet) through on a weekly basis. Exactly what you do with that data is entirely up to you.

In my case, I’ve slowly grown to be a bit more thoughtful on road in the two or so weeks since I first jammed the dongle in my ODB port. That’s not to say that I’ve given up my leadfoot tendencies completely — sometimes you just need to crank things up a bit — but I’m noticeably more cognizant of how fast I’m going at any given moment. It’s even gotten to the point where I finding myself driving as close to 70 MPH as possible without actually going over, even when the Automatic isn’t plugged in.

It’s also not meant to be a replacement for more robust, capable ODB scanners. Needless to say, dyed-in-the-wool car buffs may not find enough value here to warrant a purchase. The same goes for people who are more than happy putting pedals to the metal on a regular basis — chances are they’re not planning to change their behavior very soon. But for cost-conscious consumers? Or people like me who actively want to change their driving style? The Automatic experience is worth the asking price, and with any luck it’ll only get better with time.

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Why Are So Many Kids Getting Myopia?

Go outside!

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Myopia isn’t an infectious disease, but it has reached nearly epidemic proportions in parts of Asia. In Taiwan, for example, the percentage of 7-year-old children suffering from nearsightedness increased from 5.8 percent in 1983 to 21 percent in 2000. An incredible 81 percent of Taiwanese 15-year-olds are myopic. If you think that the consequences of myopia are limited to a lifetime of wearing spectacles—and, let’s be honest, small children look adorable in eyeglasses—you are mistaken. The prevalence of high myopia, an extreme form of the disorder, in Asia has more than doubled since the 1980s, and children who suffer myopia early in life are more likely to progress to high myopia. High myopia is a risk factor for such serious problems as retinal detachment, glaucoma, early-onset cataracts, and blindness.

The explosion of myopia is a serious public health concern, and doctors have struggled to identify the source of the problem. Nearsightedness has a strong element of heritability, but the surge in cases shows that a child’s environment plays a significant role. A variety of risk factors has been linked to the disorder: frequent reading, participation in sports, television watching, protein intake, and depression. When each risk factor was isolated, however, its overall effect on myopia rates seemed to be fairly minimal.

Researchers believe they are now closing in on a primary culprit: too much time indoors. In 2008 orthoptics professor Kathryn Rose found that only 3.3 percent of 6- and 7-year-olds of Chinese descent living in Sydney, Australia, suffered myopia, compared with 29.1 percent of those living in Singapore. The usual suspects, reading and time in front of an electronic screen, couldn’t account for the discrepancy. The Australian cohort read a few more books and spent slightly more time in front of the computer, but the Singaporean children watched a little more television. On the whole, the differences were small and probably canceled each other out. The most glaring difference between the groups was that the Australian kids spent 13.75 hours per week outdoors compared with a rather sad 3.05 hours for the children in Singapore.

Rose, whose research was covered in the magazine Science News, pointed out the vastly different educational cultures that prevail in Sydney and Singapore. Most Australian children participate in one year of part-time preschool, which teaches social skills and communal play more than reading or writing, followed by one year of full-time kindergarten. During the same stage of development, the typical Singaporean child goes through three largely full-time years of education in an attempt to ensure that he or she can read before beginning school. Full-time schooling likely comes at the expense of time spent playing outside.

If the problem is just a matter of light intensity, however, you could send your child outside to read.

Over the past few years, much myopia research has focused on substantiating, quantifying, and explaining the connection between time outdoors and proper ocular development. Dozens of studies have come out, mostly from Asia. Last year a systematic review paper aggregated previous studies and concluded that each hour spent outside per week reduces a child’s chance of developing myopia by 2 percent.

There isn’t yet broad agreement on why the outdoors might protect children from near-sightedness. One hypothesis is that kids focus their gaze on more distant objects in the outdoors, while indoor time is usually spent staring at a computer screen, book, or toy only a couple of feet away. Studies on rhesus monkeys, however, suggest that simple light exposure is the more likely explanation. While myopia is extremely uncommon among nonhuman primates, researchers can easily induce myopia by depriving infant monkeys of normal outdoor lighting levels. (Outdoor lighting is usually about 100 times more intense than what you get inside.) It’s no wonder that the most extreme changes in myopia prevalence over recent decades have occurred in sunny places like Singapore, where the difference between outdoor and indoor light intensity is most extreme.

This is, on the whole, an encouraging finding. If children became myopic due to looking at objects too closely, then we’d be stuck with an unsolvable dilemma: choosing between teaching children to read and protecting their eyesight. Researchers have been worrying about the necessity of this tradeoff for years. In the 1930s scientists observed that myopia was very rare in hunter-gatherer societies, and a 1960s study of native people in Alaska showed that older generations, who had not attended school, were much less likely to have myopia than younger generations, who had. Singaporean studies 20 years ago likewise linked educational attainment to myopia. If the problem is just a matter of light intensity, however, you could send your child outside to read, or purchase high-intensity light sources that mimic outdoor exposure.

The unfortunate part is that parents don’t seem inclined to send their children outside like they used to—or, alternatively, computers, video games, and improved television programming have made the indoors too delightful for a child to resist. According to a 2004 study from the University of Michigan, the average child in 2002 spent exactly half as much time participating in outdoor activities as did children in 1981. While myopia hasn’t yet reached the levels seen in much of Asian, prevalence in the United States is rising quickly. A 2009 study showed that the prevalence of myopia among Americans between the ages of 12 and 54 surged from 25 percent in the early 1970s to 42 percent around the turn of the millennium.

When I was a kid, my parents used to tell me to turn off the television and go outside to enjoy the beautiful weather. Perhaps the new mantra should be: “Go outside, you’re blinding yourself in here.”

Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2013/10/myopia_increasing_indoor_light_may_be_impairing_children_s_vision.html
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Microsoft ships tool to block IE11 on Windows 7

Microsoft on Friday shipped a toolkit to block Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) from automatically installing on Windows 7 PCs, a signal that the new browser will release in the next few weeks.

The IE11 Blocker Toolkit is aimed at businesses that want to keep employees on an older edition of IE. Its tools include a script that can be run locally, as well as an administrative template IT administrators can use to block IE11 through Group Policy settings.

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The toolkit blocks automatic upgrading of older editions of Internet Explorer to IE11 on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 through the operating systems' built-in Automatic Update service. Companies that rely on Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) or System Center 2012 do not need the toolkit since they can manage the deployment of IE11 using those tools.

Individuals can also use the toolkit to keep IE11 off their Windows machines without disabling Automatic Updates for all other Microsoft software.

Microsoft has issued similar toolkits for IE7, IE8, IE9 and IE10 before those browsers' public releases. Earlier this year, for example, Microsoft offered a blocking toolkit for IE10 about three weeks prior to the browser's public release.

If Microsoft sticks to the same timetable -- likely, since the idea of the early availability of the toolkit is to give companies time to deploy it -- IE11 will launch near the end of this month or in early November. Microsoft has declined to disclose a ship date for IE11 on Windows 7, saying previously only that it would be this fall.

IE11 on Windows 8.1 will debut sooner: The browser, part of the update to Windows 8, is to land on the Windows Store Thursday, Oct. 17. Current users of Windows 8 and Windows RT can download and install the free Windows 8.1 update -- including IE11 -- that day. Windows 8.1 retail upgrades and systems featuring Windows 8.1 are to launch Oct. 18.

Blocking toolkits, while long crafted by Microsoft, have become more important since early 2012, when the Redmond, Wash. developer began silently upgrading IE to the newest version suitable for a user's version of Windows. Most Windows XP customers, for example, have been upgraded to IE8, while Windows Vista maxed out at IE9 and Windows 7 PCs have, in lieu of a block of one kind or another, been moved to IE10.

Shortly after Microsoft ships the final version of IE11, it will begin pushing the browser to all Windows 7 machines via Automatic Updates. The result will resemble 2013's rapid rise in IE10 adoption. From February through September, IE10's share of all copies of Internet Explorer soared from next to nothing to nearly 34 percent under the forced upgrade from IE9.

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SupportPay aims to make child support transparent

In relationships, two areas that often cause friction are money and poor communication. So when a divorced couple needs to communicate with each other over child support payments, arguments can easily ensue.

Support Pay, from Santa Clara-based Ittavi, is an online service that allows divorced parents to organize, track and pay bills associated with bringing up their children. It was born from the personal experience of Sheri Atwood, CEO of Ittavi, who went through her own divorce several years ago.

A parent can upload a bill -- or snap a picture of it with a mobile device -- and have it appear immediately in the Support Pay interface. The other parent can see the bill and then pay it or dispute it. It also makes it easy to split bills, so each parent pays their respective slice.

"The biggest complaints we hear from divorced parents are 'My ex-partner has no idea how much it costs to bring up a child' or 'I just want to know my payments are going to my child,'" said Atwood.

She hopes Support Pay will make the process transparent, so when divorced parents meet they won't be arguing over money.

There's a free version with limited features and a full version for US$19.99 per month. Google is on the cusp of approving an Android app, according to Atwood, and she expects the iOS app to be available in November.

Martyn Williams covers mobile telecoms, Silicon Valley and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Follow Martyn on Twitter at @martyn_williams. Martyn's e-mail address is martyn_williams@idg.com

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Blues' Lapierre offered hearing for hit on Boyle

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — St. Louis Blues forward Maxim Lapierre has been offered an in-person hearing for his hit that knocked out San Jose defenseman Dan Boyle.

The NHL Department of Player Safety announced Wednesday that Lapierre is suspended pending his hearing. Players have an opportunity for an in-person hearing for any suspension that could exceed five games.

Lapierre was given a game misconduct for hitting Boyle from behind in the first period of San Jose's 6-2 win Wednesday night. Boyle was knocked out on the play and taken off the ice on a stretcher before spending the night at the hospital.

The Sharks say Boyle will return to San Jose later Wednesday for treatment and further evaluation. He will miss at least Thursday's game in Dallas.

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Same-sex marriages to begin Monday in New Jersey

Same-sex marriages can begin within days in New Jersey after the state's highest court ruled unanimously Friday to uphold an order that they must start Monday and to deny a delay that had been sought by Gov. Chris Christie's administration.

The ruling puts New Jersey on the cusp of becoming the 14th state — and the third most populous among them — to allow same-sex marriage. As of Monday, one-third of Americans will live in a place where gay marriage is legal.

"The state has advanced a number of arguments, but none of them overcome this reality: Same-sex couples who cannot marry are not treated equally under the law today," the court said in an opinion by Chief Justice Stuart Rabner. "The harm to them is real, not abstract or speculative."

A judge on a lower court had ruled last month that New Jersey must recognize same-sex marriage and set Monday as the date to allow weddings. Christie, a Republican who is considered a possible 2016 presidential candidate, appealed the decision and asked for the start date to be put on hold while the state appeals.

A spokesman for Christie said that he will comply with the ruling, though he doesn't like it.

"While the governor firmly believes that this determination should be made by all the people of the State of New Jersey, he has instructed the Department of Health to cooperate with all municipalities in effectuating the order," spokesman Michael Drewniak said in a statement.

Same-sex marriage is being debated elsewhere. Oregon has begun recognizing same-sex weddings performed out of state, and it is likely that voters will get a chance next year to repeal the state's constitutional ban on gay marriage. The Hawaii Legislature also soon could take up a bill to legalize same-sex unions, while a similar measure has passed the Illinois Senate but not the House. Lawsuits challenging gay marriage bans also are pending in several states, including Michigan, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

New Jersey's top court agreed last week to take up the appeal of the lower-court ruling. Oral arguments are expected Jan. 6 or 7.

In Friday's opinion, Rabner wrote that the state has not shown that it is likely to prevail in the case, though it did present some reasons not to marriage to move forward now.

"But when a party presents a clear case of unequal treatment, and asks the court to vindicate constitutionally protected rights, a court may not sidestep its obligation to rule for an indefinite amount of time," he wrote. "Under these circumstances, courts do not have the option to defer."

Rabner also rejected the state's argument that it was in the public interest not to allow marriages until the court has had more time to rule fully on the issue.

"We can find no public interest in depriving a group of New Jersey residents of their constitutional right to equal protection while the appeals process unfolds," he wrote.

For those opposed to gay marriage, denying the request to delay was troubling.

"In what universe does it make sense to let the question at hand be answered before it's asked or argued?" Len Deo, president of the New Jersey Family Policy Council, said in a letter Friday to members.

On Thursday, some communities started accepting applications for marriage licenses from same-sex couples so that they would pass the 72-hour waiting period by 12:01 a.m. Monday.

Several communities, including Asbury Park, Lambertville and Newark — where Cory Booker, who was elected Wednesday to the U.S. Senate, is mayor — are holding ceremonies for multiple couples then.

"It's a great day to be gay in New Jersey," said Amy Quinn, a member of the city council in Asbury Park who is planning to marry Heather Jensen, her partner of 10 years, on Monday.

At a rally Friday night in Montclair, about 150 people gathered, cheering and holding signs reading "Support love." Some opened bottles of champagne.

Among the couples at the rally were David Gibson and Rich Kiamco of Jersey City, who had their marriage license in hand so they could get married Monday. The couple previously got married in New York but wants to get married where they live, they said.

The court did not address the question of what would happen to the status of same-sex marriages entered into next week if it later decides that the state does not have to grant the marriages.

Whether gay couples should have the right to marry in New Jersey has been the subject of a battle in the state's courts and Legislature for a decade. There has been a flurry of movements in both venues since June, when the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated key parts of a federal law that prevented the federal government from recognizing same-sex unions.

Since then, gay rights advocates have asked New Jersey judges to force the state to recognize same-sex marriage, arguing that the current policy of civil unions but not marriage licenses amounts to denying them federal protections such as Social Security survivor benefits and the right to file tax returns jointly.

Since July, gay rights groups have also engaged in an intense campaign aimed at persuading lawmakers to override Christie's 2012 veto of a bill that would have allowed gay marriage. To get an override, the Legislature must act by Jan. 14.

Sheila Oliver, speaker of the state Assembly, issued a statement blaming Christie for not having gay marriage sooner in New Jersey.

"It's a shame it took this long to get to this point and that it took a court fight for same-sex couples to gain equal rights," she said. "New Jersey could have had marriage equality already if it wasn't for Gov. Christie, who has done everything he could to prevent this from happening, including wasting money and time continuing this court battle."

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No winner again for Ibrahim African governance prize

London (AFP) - The Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership -- the world's biggest individual prize -- has no winner for the fourth time in five years, it was announced Monday.

At a press conference in London, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation said there would be no winner for the second straight year, stressing they would not lower the bar of excellence required to win the lucrative prize.

"After careful consideration, the prize committee has determined not to award the 2013 prize," said committee chair Salim Ahmed Salim, the former Tanzanian prime minister and one-time head of the Organisation of African Unity, which became the African Union.

The award, set up by Sudan-born telecoms tycoon Mo Ibrahim in 2007, carries a $5 million (3.7 million euro) prize paid over 10 years and $200,000 annually for life from then on, with a further $200,000 per year available for 10 years for good causes backed by the winner.

The award goes to a democratically elected African leader who demonstrated exceptional leadership, served their mandated term and left office in the last three years.

The Mo Ibrahim Foundation has now awarded the annual prize only three times since it was established, plus two special awards given to South Africa's Nelson Mandela and South African former archbishop Desmond Tutu.

The last laureate was former Cape Verde president Pedro Pires, who won in 2011.

Former Irish president Mary Robinson, who is on the foundation board, defended the decision not to award the prize and questioned how often such a prize would have been awarded in Europe.

"We couldn't find a leader of that excellence" they were looking for, Robinson said. "We didn't ever expect that we would award it every year."

The London-based foundation also publishes the Ibrahim Index of African Governance, ranking 52 countries according to 94 indicators grouped under safety and the rule of law, participation and human rights, sustainable economic opportunity and human development.

The index found that 94 percent of Africa's population lives in countries which have witnessed an overall improvement in governance since 2000.

It also showed a widening span in performance between the best and worst governed countries.

The top five countries stayed the same, with Mauritius topping the index with a score of 83 out of 100. Botswana (78) has overtaken Cape Verde (77), ahead of the Seychelles (75) and South Africa (71).

Somalia remained at the bottom with a score of just eight, way behind Democratic Republic of Congo (31), Eritrea (32), Central African Republic (33) and Chad (33).

"Neither Afro-pessimism nor Afro-optimism do justice to modern Africa," Ibrahim said in a statement issued Monday.

"This is now the age of Afro-realism -- an honest outlook on our continent. It's about a celebration of its achievements but also a pragmatic acknowledgement of the challenges that lie ahead."

The index's biggest risers since 2000 are Liberia, up 25 points to 50 points (currently ranked 29), Angola, up 18 points to 45 (ranked 39) and Sierra Leone, up 15 points to 48 (ranked 31).

The biggest fallers since 2000 are Madagascar, down 12 points to 46 (37th), Eritrea, down six points to 32 (50th) and Guinea-Bissau, down two points to 37 (46th).

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Sao Paulo Film Festival Opens With Stanley Kubrick Exhibit

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SAO PAULO -- The 37th edition of the Sao Paulo International Film Festival kicked off on Thursday night at the Ibirapuera Auditorium with Joel and Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis, winner of the Grand Jury Prize in Cannes this year

The fest, which runs from Oct. 17-31, will pay tribute to famed director Stanley Kubrick, whose work will be exhibited for the first time in Latin America. The tribute to the director's work will include an exhibit at the Museum of Image and Sound (MIS), a book launch, and a retrospective of his films.

Kubrick’s widow Christine Kubrick and his brother-in-law Jan Harlan attended the opening ceremony. “Stanley would be so pleased about all the attention he is getting, he would be rather horrified to see me making a speech,” joked Kubrick.

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Renata de Almeida, executive director of the fest, said she wanted to bring the Kubrick’s exhibition to Brazil since she saw it in Berlin in 2005, but at that time it was too expensive. “The exhibition is genial, is very creative and has something very playful about it, it is very accessible, even if you don’t know Kubrick’s art, you will enjoy it,” she told The Hollywood Reporter.

Harlan even joked about the way Stanley would feel. "I imagine and I fantasize Stanley Kubrick looking down on us, he would see himself all over town in a painting by his wife. ‘A retrospective of all my films in Sao Paulo? And an exhibit of my work at MIS, the museum of image and sound? And Warner Bros. and all the studios supporting me? I must be dreaming’," he said to the laughing audience.

The 37th edition of the fest will screen more than 350 titles from different countries in more than 20 venues, including theaters, cultural centers and museums across the city of Sao Paulo. More than 80 Brazilian feature films will be presented in the competitive sections of Retrospectives, Special Presentation, International Perspective and New Directors Competition.

The Mostra is also paying tribute to the works of Brazilian director Eduardo Coutinho and Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz. Ettore Scola and Hector Babenco will also be presented with a Leon Cakoff prize.

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This year, the forum “The Movies of My Life”, which gathers testimonials from artists and personalities on the films that exerted some influence in their lives, includes names such as Walter Salles, Júlio Bressane, actress Leandra Leal, and French critic Michel Ciment, among others.

On this edition, the festival will focus on two countries, Korea and Argentina, with a debate panel and the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), a co-production between Brazil and South Korea, with representatives of KOFIC -- the agency that promotes Korean cinema -- and ANCINE.

“The festival is a propitious moment and the city is a propitious place not only to discuss cinema but to make cinema,” said Almeida about the co-productions between Brazil and South Korea. “I think that our professionals has a lot to hear about their model of work, so this exchange is always great.”

The 37th edition of the festival ends on Oct. 31 with a screening of Ettore Scola’s How Strange to be Named Federico, Scola Narrates Fellini, landing precisely on the 20th anniversary of Fellini’s death.

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PCs using Intel's Broadwell processor expected in second half of 2014

Although production of Intel’s next-generation Broadwell chip won’t begin until the first quarter of 2014, PCs using the chip won’t appear until the second half of 2014, Intel disclosed Friday.

In its third-quarter earnings call this week, Intel said that a manufacturing defect in the 14-nm process that the Broadwell chip uses had delayed its expected manufacturing date from the fourth quarter of 2013 until the first quarter of 2014. PCs based on a chip in full production usually ship a quarter or two later. Until now, however, Intel had never clarified the date.

Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich didn’t discuss Intel’s launch plans in what he actually said during the earnings call.

“We continue to make progress with the industry’s first 14 -nanometer manufacturing process and our second-generation 3D transistors,” Krzanich said. “Broadwell, the first product on 14 nanometers, is up and running as we demonstrated at the Intel Developer Forum last month. While we are comfortable with where we are at with yields, from a timing standpoint, we are about a quarter behind our projections. As a result, we are now planning to begin production in the first quarter of next year.”

Broadwell and Haswell will be “pin-compatible,” meaning that one processor can be used to replace the other.

Those comments came during a period of what’s known as “prepared remarks,” where executives essentially read from a prepared script. But an Intel spokesman mistakenly provided a different version of Krzanich’s comments when asked to confirm a report that discussed the Broadwell launch timing.

Intel’s transcript provides a slightly different take. “Broadwell, the first product on 14nm, is up and running as we demonstrated at the Intel Developer Forum last month, although yields are a bit behind where we’d like them to be,” it said, in remarks attributed to Krzanich. “As a result, we’re now planning to begin production in the first quarter of 2014, and Broadwell will now launch in in the second half of 2014—a shift of about a quarter.”

Intel hasn’t had to delay a major chip release since the Pentium 4 more than a decade ago, Dean McCarron, principal at Mercury Research, told the IDG News Service.

Past chip announcements

In years past, PCs based on the new chip were at least announced as early as January, as Intel did with its ”Sandy Bridge” Core generation at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

In general, Intel’s “tick-tock” strategy, trading new processor designs one year and a finer, faster manufacturing technology the next, has run like, well, clockwork. Still, holding to that schedule will become even more difficult as years pass. Intel’s launch of its “Haswell” chips this summer was a bit later than some had hoped for.

It’s likely that Broadwell-based PCs will appear in the third quarter of 2014. But that’s probably too late for the back-to-school season—which, to be fair, didn’t really materialize this year. Analysts also expect that the delay won’t have any impact on the 14-nm Airmont chips for tablets and smartphones.

Still, if you’re hoping for a replacement to the otherwise excellent Haswell chip, you’ll have to wait a bit longer.

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Man Survives Botched Hanging; Iran Vows To Try Again

Iranians watch the hanging of a convicted man at the city of Qazvin, northwest of the capital Tehran, in May 2011.

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Iranians watch the hanging of a convicted man at the city of Qazvin, northwest of the capital Tehran, in May 2011.

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Amnesty International is urging Iranian authorities not to go ahead with the execution of convicted drug smuggler after the man survived a botched hanging last week.

The 37-year-old man, identified as "Alireza M", was found alive in a morgue after he was hanged at a jail in Iran's northeastern city of Bojnord.

A news release from Amnesty International says:

"According to official state media, a doctor declared him dead after the 12 minute-hanging, but when the prisoner's family went to collect his body the following day he was found to still be breathing.

He is currently in hospital, but a judge reportedly said he would be executed again 'once medical staff confirm his health condition is good enough'."

The BBC quotes an Iranian official as saying: "The verdict was the death sentence, and it will be carried out once the man gets well again."

Philip Luther, Director of Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa Program, said: "The horrific prospect of this man facing a second hanging, after having gone through the whole ordeal already once, merely underlines the cruelty and inhumanity of the death penalty."

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Have a 2012 MacBook Air? Apple has a firmware update and possible replacement drive for you!

Apple has been having problems with the solid state storage on 2012 MacBook Airs for a while now, so it's great to see they've released a firmware update, and replacement program, to address them. Here are the details from Apple:

Apple has discovered that a small percentage of flash storage drives in these MacBook Air models have an issue that may result in data loss. This update tests your drive and, in the majority of cases, installs new firmware to resolve the issue. If your drive cannot be updated, Apple will replace it, free of charge

I've had the replacement done on my 2013 MacBook Air, which was still under AppleCare, but I haven't heard of any widespread issues with that model yet. If you have a 2012 model, get to updating, and let me know how how it goes for you.

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18-Foot-Long Deep-Sea Creature Found off California

The staff and kids at a Southern California educational facility got quite a surprise when an 18-foot-long (5.5 meters) serpentlike sea creature washed up near the shore.

While swimming in about 20 feet (5 meters) of water, dive instructor Jasmine Santana saw a large, silvery, slender figure on the sandy bottom on Sunday (Oct. 13). It turned out to be a dead oarfish, a rare animal that is typically found in much deeper waters, said Jeff Chace, with the Catalina Island Marine Institute, which teaches kids about marine science. 

Santana dragged the fish to shore, where the staff took photographs and then put it on ice to show to their students the next day. "The kids were stunned, excited, giggly," Chace told LiveScience's OurAmazingPlanet.

Oarfish are rarely found near the shore, and usually only arrive there once they are sick or dead, Chace said. This animal appeared to die of natural causes. Nobody at the institute had seen one before, he added.

The animals live in the deep ocean and are believed to grow up to nearly 50 feet (15 m) long, Chace said. This makes them the world's longest bony fish, a group that includes almost all fish except sharks and rays (whale sharks are the largest fish in the ocean). The fish swim with their head upright and their tail hanging beneath them, and can easily move backward and forward and up and down quickly, observations of the fish have shown.

In August 2011, a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) captured a rare video of a live oarfish in the Gulf of Mexico. Oarfish are so-called because of appendages at the end of their pelvic spines that look like paddles, which are used to help them balance and swim upright.

Staff members at the institute plan to bury the oarfish by the ocean, Chace said.

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SFX Shares Fall Sharply For Second Straight Day

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SFX Entertainment is having a tough second week as a public company. Shares of the EDM-focused music promotion and media company fell as much as 11.7% to $8.95 on Thursday before rebounding slightly and closing down 7.8% at $9.50. A day earlier, as news that a U.S. debt default would be averted pushed equity markets higher, SFX fell as much as 12.7% to $10.16 and closed under $11 for the first time.

After a successful IPO, market enthusiasm in the company has slipped. The losses on Wednesday and Thursday eroded nearly $163 million of market value. SFX's current $797 million valuation is 24.1% below the $1.05 billion valuation of its IPO. In contrast, shares of Live Nation, the publicly traded company most comparable to SFX, are up 2.9% since SFX's IPO.

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SFX shares have broken through three psychological barriers: the $13 IPO price, the $11 that marked the low end of the IPO pricing range, and the $10 threshold below which SFX shares are valued in the single digits. Albert Fried & Company analyst Rich Tullo spotted trouble when SFX was trading below the IPO price as soon as it hit the Nasdaq. "Given that the stock is trading below $13, it's going to be hard to get back to the IPO price," Tullo told Billboard.

SFX's IPO was a success. The IPO underwriters were able to sell 20 million shares at $13 for a gross of $260 million and a net, after underwriting discounts and commissions, of $242 million. Demand from the institutional investors that bought into the IPO drove up the price and shares offered. The company decided to increase the number of shares sold to 20 million from an initial estimate of 16.7 million shares. The $13 IPO price was the high mark of the $11 to $13 range set before the IPO.

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A lack of information currently guides changes in the stock price. Analysts from firms involved in SFX's IPO are prohibited from issuing research on the stock until after the SEC-mandated quiet period ends. (Banks have been waiting 25 days after an IPO to issue research.) No other analysts are covering SFX yet. More information -- beyond what SFX revealed in its IPO filing -- and quarterly earnings statements will eventually provide the market with guidance.

As its share price wanders, SFX will continue building a business around what it calls "significant and growing scale" with its live events. “My job is to do the best possible job to bring this music and cultural phenomenon to as broad [an audience] as effectively as possible -- the stock price will take care of itself," chairman and CEO Robert Sillerman told Billboard last week.

This story first appeared on billboard.biz.

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Republicans Are Still Undermining Recovery

It’s important to recognize that the economic damage from obstruction and extortion didn’t start when the G.O.P. shut down the government. On the contrary, it has been an ongoing process, dating back to the Republican takeover of the House in 2010. And the damage is large: Unemployment in America would be far lower than it is if the House majority hadn’t done so much to undermine recovery.

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Will Google ever bring Android and ChromeOS together?

When Google acquired Android in 2005 and subsequently unveiled it in 2007, there was no such thing as ChromeOS yet. Google’s entire OS effort was on Android, and separately the company worked on the Chrome browser for desktop and mobile operating systems. 

Over the last year we’ve started to see Google have success with ChromeOS in the notebook computer market. Android and ChromeOS are both based on Linux, but that’s pretty much where the similarities end. ChromeOS is a very thin client, almost everything is done via the browser.

On a personal level, I’ve now gotten to the point where I’d rather consume content on a touch screen device. I prefer swiping my finger on a screen to navigate a website rather than being forced to use a trackpad. This tells me all computers will be touchscreen soon, just like all mobile devices already are.

So this raises the question — why would Google want to maintain two operating systems down the road? I don’t think they want this. And I’m trying to get my head around the possible solutions.

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Texans starting Keenum at QB vs Chiefs

Houston Texans quarterback Matt Schaub (8) leaves the field with an injury during the fourth quarter of an NFL football game against the St. Louis Rams Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013, in Houston, Texas. He'd been injured during the fourth quarter. The Rams won 38-13. (AP Photo/Patric Schneider)

Houston Texans quarterback Matt Schaub (8) leaves the field with an injury during the fourth quarter of an NFL football game against the St. Louis Rams Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013, in Houston, Texas. He'd been injured during the fourth quarter. The Rams won 38-13. (AP Photo/Patric Schneider)

Houston Texans head coach Gary Kubiak watches action against the St. Louis Rams during the fourth quarter of an NFL football game Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013, in Houston, Texas. (AP Photo/Patric Schneider)

HOUSTON (AP) — Case Keenum, who hasn't played in a meaningful game since he was in college back in January 2012, will start at quarterback for the Houston Texans this Sunday in one of the tougher environments in the NFL.

Keenum will make his first appearance in a regular-season game against the rugged defense of the undefeated Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium, where the fans just set a Guinness record as the noisiest outdoor stadium in the world.

So be it: Keenum will start for Matt Schaub, who is out dealing with injuries to his right ankle and foot, and will try to help the Houston Texans snap a four-game losing streak.

"We're struggling, and we're looking for a spark," coach Gary Kubiak said. "I think he deserves an opportunity to go out there. It's a tough place to play. It's a tough place to get your first start and all that good stuff. But I'm not sending him out there by himself. I'm sending him out there with his football team and the guys understand that."

Keenum was a record-setting quarterback at the University of Houston before spending last season on the practice squad. The undrafted free agent has played in several preseason games, but hasn't played in a game that counted since leading the Cougars to a 30-14 win over Penn State in the TicketCity Bowl on Jan. 2, 2012.

Keenum said he prepares for practice and preseason games the same way he got ready for games in his college career, so nothing will change for him this week.

"It means just as much to me every rep I take, but obviously the games are definitely different," he said. "I guess I can officially say this is the best NFL defense I've ever played, so this is going to be a big test."

The Texans (2-4) have been hurt by penalties, turnovers and other mistakes during their skid. Kubiak chose to go with Keenum over backup T.J. Yates, who led Houston to its first playoff win two years ago when Schaub was hurt. He struggled Sunday after Schaub was injured, throwing two interceptions, the first of which was returned for a touchdown.

Now they'll look to Keenum to help them get back on track. He isn't daunted by the challenge and is used to being the underdog. He said that people have doubted him his entire life.

"I've had a lot of people tell me I can't do a lot of things. I'm too short or this or that, but you can't believe a lot of that stuff," said the 6-foot-1 Keenum. "You just have to be given an opportunity and you have to be ready when you get that opportunity."

Keenum joked about his height several times on Thursday, but the best quip came when he was asked if it's difficult to see over the much taller defensive linemen in the NFL.

"It's different, but my receivers are taller so I can see them — and they're faster," he said. "I've tried to grow, but I think I'm done."

In college, Keenum tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee in the third game of the 2010 season. Houston appealed for a medical redshirt and Keenum was granted one more season to take aim at the NCAA's career passing records with the team's ultra-quick offense. He led the Cougars to a 12-0 start in 2011 before a loss in the Conference USA championship game. He left Houston as the NCAA's all-time leader in career total yards (20,114), yards passing (19,217), passing touchdowns (155) and total touchdowns (178).

Now he'll face a defense which is allowing a NFL-best 10.8 points a game, leads the league with 30 sacks and has forced 12 more turnovers this season than their opponents, which also tops the league.

"We just want him to go out there and react," Kubiak said. "That's the reason he's on this team because of what he's capable of doing when he gets in those situations. He'll get ready to do his part and everybody needs to do theirs."

Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin, who coached Keenum at the University of Houston, said he Keenum will be "extremely prepared" and that he expects him to play well on Sunday.

Keenum's teammates also expressed confidence in him on Thursday. Receiver Andre Johnson raved about the quarterback.

"Case just has sort of like an aura about him," Johnson said. "When he's out there, he's real excited, having fun."

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