Tuesday 7 July 2015

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Scientists use lasers to project movie onto clouds

Posted: 06 Jul 2015 06:02 PM PDT

As many of you know; This is old technology as stated in Project Blue-Beam… Now the mainstream is getting this technology most likely because the military has now updated their systems to something better. And now that’s why TPTB have released this article..

A green ghost rider appeared in the sky over the British city of Nottingham when scientists started testing a newly developed projecting device which allows the beaming of moving images directly onto clouds for the first time ever.
The image of a galloping horse rider was projected onto the clouds from a distance of 50 meters by a special laser-based projection system mounted on an aircraft.
The system beaming the images into the clouds was invented by a research team, calling itself Project Nimbus. It is composed of a designer, Dave Lynch, and a chemist, Dr Mike Nix, from the University of Leeds, who ultimately want to be able to beam the movies onto the clouds from the ground.
The video of the galloping horse-rider is a result of a five year long research project.

“Project Nimbus is the exploration of digital and analogue techniques to project moving images onto clouds from the ground, sea level and aircraft including planes, paragliders and hot air balloons,” the researchers explain on their website.

The application range of the new device is not restricted only to clouds, as “the project aims to deliver multiple projection installations also onto cooling towers, steam trains and urban vents,” the Project Nimbus team claims.
The idea of such a device originally came to Dave Lynch as he was doing his master’s degree. During his studies he stumbled upon a military paper on the war in Vietnam, describing sky projections that were used as a psychological weapon against the Vietnamese.
Inspired by the idea, Lynch started his own experiments in 2007. However, they were unsuccessful because of the lack of the necessary equipment. In 2012, he returned to experimenting after he received funding from the AND festival and the arts incubator Octopus Collective, New Scientist reports.
The working principle of the Lynch’s device is based on a zoopraxiscope – a creation of a 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge, which is thought to be a kind of the world’s first movie projector.
The device developed by Muybridge projected a series of pictures from glass discs having images of a galloping horse on them. The modern researchers decided to also use the image of a moving horse for their experiments, as a tribute to the Muybridge’s creation.
“The experimental projection devices fuse old and new methods developed from ubiquitous technology,” the project authors say. The original principle of the zoopraxiscope would not work for projecting images onto the clouds, so the team decided to use a laser.
As a result, the Project Nimbus device uses 2.5W 532nm laser as a light source with hemispherical lenses transforming the laser beam and creating the shape of the image. The researchers presented the findings of their study at Leeds City Museum on Saturday, July 4.
Referring to the future of the project, Dave Lynch expressed hope “to collaborate with someone like flight pioneer Richard Branson to develop a digital art piece which allows us to interact and experience the world through cloud projections,” as he told the New Scientist.
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Depression makes your brain smaller – study

Posted: 06 Jul 2015 05:05 PM PDT

Persistent depression shrinks the human brain’s center responsible for emotions and memory that might lead to changes in a person’s behavior and even losing their identity, a global interdisciplinary study has revealed. A new global study has finally proven that brain damage is a consequence of repeated depression instead of being its prerequisite or a predisposing factor. This conclusion draws the final line under the decades of unconfirmed hypothesizing.
Some shrinkage of the brain has long been connected to depression, although without clear evidence, as variances in types of depression, treatment methods as well as a small sample size have led to inconsistent results.
Now, the largest international survey, which brought together the efforts of 15 research institutes from the US, UK and Australia and allowed scientists to combine the results of their smaller studies, revealed that recurrent depression shrinks the hippocampus – the so-called emotional center of the brain, which is a part of the brain’s limbic system.
“This study confirms – in a very large sample – a finding that’s been reported on quite a few occasions – the fact that the hippocampus is particularly vulnerable to depression,” said Philip Mitchell, scientia professor & head of the School of Psychiatry at University of South New Wales, Australia, who took part in the research.
Apart from forming emotions, the hippocampus is also responsible for forming new memories and connecting emotions to those memories as well as is involved in long-term memory processes. While the hippocampus plays such an important role in the brain’s functioning, its damage could engender serious consequences.
“Your whole sense of self depends on continuously understanding who you are in the world – your state of memory is not about just knowing how to do Sudoku or remembering your password – it’s the whole concept we hold of ourselves,” said professor Ian Hickie, from the University of Sydney’s brain and mind research institute, who led the Australian arm of the study.
“When you shrink the hippocampus, you don’t just change memory, you change all sorts of other behaviors associated with that – so shrinkage is associated with a loss of function,” he adds. The cooperation of 15 research institutes allowed the scientists to conduct a cross-sectional analysis of 9,000 people’s brain scans.
The research team used magnetic resonance imaged (MRI) brain scans and clinical data from 1,728 people with major depression and 7,199 healthy individuals, combining 15 datasets from Europe, the US and Australia, as well as samples obtained from an international consortium studying psychiatric disorders, the ENIGMA group.
The results of the study were published in Molecular Psychiatry on June 30. The scientists found that people who had a smaller hippocampus suffered from recurrent episodes of depression or got depressed at an early age (before the age of 21). Such people accounted for 65 percent of the depressed study participants.
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Oil price plunges after ‘No’ vote in Greece, impending Iran deal

Posted: 06 Jul 2015 05:03 PM PDT

Oil prices fell 7 percent on Monday in the worst single-day decline in three months after Greece’s Sunday bailout referendum. Meanwhile, fears of oversupply have taken hold as Iran and world powers approach a nuclear deal. The US benchmark oil price kept going down for the third session in a row on the New York Mercantile Exchange, losing 7.7 percent to close at $52.53 per barrel.
Brent crude, the global benchmark for oil prices, fell more than 5 percent on the London ICE Futures Exchange to close at $56.93. Capital Economics lowered its year-end price forecast by more than 8 percent, which puts US oil at $50 a barrel and Brent – at $55.
The fall in oil prices is explained by a combination of factors, such as uncertainty in the eurozone after the vote in Greece, expectations of rising US oil production, the looming closure of the Iran nuclear deal and decreasing demand for exported oil in China.
“Even though Greece is a particularly small consumer of oil (about 0.3 percent of the world’s total last year), it is the risk of contagion and in a worse case, another recession in the eurozone, which has weighed on oil prices,” Thomas Pugh, commodities economist at Capital Economics, said.
61.31 percent of the Greek population backed the ‘No’ vote in the referendum on whether to accept further austerity measures in return for international financial aid on Sunday.z
Last week, US oil drilling went up after 29 consecutive weeks of declines, with the number of rigs increasing by 12 to 640. The possibility of Iran and the world powers reaching a deal on Tehran’s controversial nuclear program by Tuesday’s deadline also raises fears of oversupply.
The agreement is likely to see sanctions lifted against Tehran, with the Wall Street Journal reporting that the Iranian authorities are planning to double oil exports to 2.3 million barrels a day if it happens.
There are also doubts about China – the world’s second largest consumer of oil – being able to maintain its demand after the country’s markets plunged in recent weeks. Chinese authorities are making active efforts to deal with the situation, but if they fail, investors fear the economic growth in China will slow down, leading to a decrease in oil imports.
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FBI, DEA, US Army bought spyware from hacked Italian company

Posted: 05 Jul 2015 05:33 PM PDT

Internal documents of the Italian malware maker Hacking Team, leaked online in a hacker attack, show that the FBI, Drug Enforcement Agency and the US Army all made use of its controversial spyware known as Remote Control System, or Galileo. The FBI’s secret Remote Operations Unit has been using Hacking Team’s software since 2011, according to leaked documents analyzed by The Intercept. Galileo allows users to take over their targets’ computers, activate their cameras, and record their calls, emails, and keystrokes.
The DEA used the software in Colombia since 2012, with an eye to expand it to places like El Salvador and Chile, the company’s emails reveal. The Army unit that purchased Galileo in 2011 was based at Fort Meade, Maryland – home of the US Cyber Command.
Hacking Team referred to its US clients by code names: the FBI was “Phoebe,” the DEA was “Katie,” and the CIA – which did not buy the software, but appears to have tried it out – was “Marianne.” Emails show the Milan-based company also demonstrated the software to district attorneys in New York, California and Arizona, several multi-agency task forces, the Pentagon, NYPD, and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
“We do not disclose the names or locations of our clients” and “we cannot comment on the validity of documents purportedly from our company,” Hacking Team’s US spokesman Eric Rabe said in a statement. Before its email system went down on Monday afternoon, Hacking Team sent a notice to all customers requesting they shut down all instances of Galileo, multiple sources told Vice’s Motherboard blog.
This may be because every copy of Galileo is apparently watermarked, so anyone with access to the data can figure out who is operating the software and who is being targeted by it.
With access to this data it is possible to link a certain backdoor to a specific customer,” the source told Motherboard. “Also there appears to be a backdoor in the way the anonymization proxies are managed that allows Hacking Team to shut them off independently from the customer and to retrieve the final IP address that they need to contact.”
While it remains unclear how the hacker managed to access the files, sources told Motherboard that it was most likely through the computers of two Hacking Team systems administrators, Christian Pozzi and Mauro Rome. Some 400 gigabytes of the company’s data was posted online over the weekend, with one anonymous source indicating the total breach may have been even bigger.
“The hacker seems to have downloaded everything that there was in the company’s servers,” said the source. “There’s pretty much everything here.” Hacking Team was described to be in “full emergency mode” over the leak, but it is unclear what the company can do to repair the damage to its own reputation, or that of its clients.
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California town conserves too much water, dumps 500k gallons amid drought

Posted: 05 Jul 2015 05:09 PM PDT

The mayor of Poway, California has admitted that 500,000 gallons of water were wasted based on an unsafe chemical imbalance despite the town’s successful conservation efforts during historic drought conditions. Poway Mayor Steve Vaus said that in the month of May, the town conserved water by about 45 percent, which is well ahead of state-mandated savings. In April, California Governor Jerry Brown announced a mandatory 25-percent reduction in water use by cities and towns as the state is in the throes of a four-year drought.
Vaus told KGTV that Poway’s water savings meant water sat in the Blue Crystal Reservoir for too long. Heat helped cause a chemical imbalance of chloramine, a mix of chlorine and ammonia used to clean drinking water. “It was a perfect storm of conservation and heat,” Vaus said.
The water was deemed unsafe to drink based on state regulations, Vaus added, saying that putting the water back where it came from would have cost the San Diego County town too much money. “If you think about it, making those hundred tanker truck runs back and forth, it just doesn’t pencil out,” said Vaus.
The water could not be marked for irrigation purposes given someone still could ingest the tainted water. “This was just an unfortunate consequence that pains us, but we want to keep our people healthy,” Vaus said.
Poway is considering a standalone recycling system that would avoid the waste of water in the future, which would cost the town more than $1 million. “I think it’s a shame,” Poway evident Helen Shelden told KGTV. “I think the city should’ve prepared better for it.”
Despite the letdown, Vaus said what was important is that the town’s 50,000 residents are answering the call to conserve, saving far more water in May than they were asked.
According to the National Drought Mitigation Center, nearly 47 percent of California is suffering “exceptional drought” conditions, the highest classification of drought. Poway is in an “extreme drought” zone, considered the second-worst classification.
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Police say New Mexico forfeiture reform leaves them short-changed

Posted: 05 Jul 2015 05:02 PM PDT

Civil rights activists hailed New Mexico’s ban on civil asset forfeiture, the notorious practice of police seizing property from suspects not convicted of any crime. Some cops worry the reform will hurt the war on drugs – and their bottom line.
The new law took effect on July 1. Known as HB 560, it prohibits police from seizing a suspect’s property without proof that a crime was committed. If and when they do seize property legitimately, the cops won’t be able to keep the profits: all proceeds from auctioning off the forfeited goods now have to go to the state government in Santa Fe.
Agents of the Region II Narcotics Task Force, a multi-agency team operating out of the city of Farmington, are worried the reform will cut into their operating expenses. Approximately a quarter of their $100,000 annual budget was funded through sales of seized property, Task Force director, Sgt. Kyle Dowdy, told the Farmington Daily Times.
Dowdy also said the new state law complicated things when it came to federal rules requiring the use of seized assets for law enforcement purposes. “On one hand, you’ll have to break the state law, and on the other, you’ll have to break a federal mandate,” he said. “And neither one of them you want to do.”
No police chiefs were asked about the impact of the law, or gave testimony to the legislature, said Farmington Police Chief Steve Hebbe. Furthermore, the law requires local law enforcement to shoulder the expense of storing the seized items and shipping them to Santa Fe.
“I don’t think that they anticipated how much it’s going to hit local law enforcement, and we’re still trying to figure out how bad it’s going to hit us,” Hebbe said. As a result, he added, “We’re going to try not to seize.” The law’s supporters say that’s working as intended.
“Should people’s property be seized and potentially even sold without there being a trial and proof of guilt?” asked Rod Montoya, Farmington’s representative in the state legislature, adding that the answer was “no.” When the HB 560 was up for consideration earlier this year, no one voted against it. Governor Susana Martinez, a former prosecutor, signed it into law on April 10.
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