Tag Archive: 2012

RoboCup 2012 Adult Size Competition on the Soccer Field and Robot Activity is Totally Autonomous

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October 21, 2012

“It is the first time that an event of this activity takes place in a Latin American country… More than 2,000 people from over 40 countries will test hundreds of robots that frame international competition . Participants tried to be the best and win the cup this year, organized by RoboCub Federation and the Mexican Federation of Robotics.”

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Tags: 2012, robocup, Robot, robotics

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Genetics: Phelps Displays Marfan Syndrome With 208cm Arm Span vs. 193cm Height Allowing 39 World Records Plus More to Come in 2012

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July 11, 2012

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With 39 world records (29 individual, 10 relay) as of December 19, 2009, Phelps has set more records than any other swimmer, surpassing Mark Spitz’s previous record of 33 world records (26 individual, 7 relay). All but two of the records were set in a long-course (50-meter) pool; records that currently stand are indicated in bold. Currently, he holds seven world records.

Marfan syndrome, a disease which can lead to defects of the heart valve and aorta, and substantially reduce the life expectancy of those it afflicts.

“If you reach out your arms and form a T and your wingspan is longer than your height, you can be at risk,” Phelps wrote.

Phelps, indeed, displays the classic symptoms of the disease. His elongated frame is now 193cm – about six feet and four inches on the old scale. But his arm span is considerably more at 208cm.

“In my case, those measurements have always been very close,” he wrote. “I didn’t know at the time why the doctor decided to look into this. My mom and Bob didn’t want me to freak out, so they told me that it was simply a good idea for young athletes to have an EKG [electrocardiogram] test in order to look at the heart.”

Source: stuff.co.nz

Tags: 2008, 2012, gold medal, Marfan Syndrome, olympics, phelps, spitz

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Future: Productivity Future Vision (2012) [HD]

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June 14, 2012

Watch how future technology will help people make better use of their time, focus their attention, and strengthen relationships while getting things done at work, home, and on the go.

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Debt: USA Tells Truth as Obama Admits Debt is Not $16 Trillion but Really is $76 Trillion

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May 24, 2012

(Reuters) – Another showdown between Republicans in Congress and President Barack Obama over debt could be in the making, and some investors are already taking steps to prepare for it.

Image: (Pete Souza/White House)

Members of the Institute for Truth in Accounting are often asked what important issues face the nation. Here’s a list of several we consider important.

1. The accumulating federal debt of more than $59 trillion dollars. This includes explicit debt, debt internal to the federal government and the net present value of the current statutory entitlements. What’s worse, the debt grows at $2-3 trillion each year. The debt grow $5 trillion in 2008 alone.

2. The aging baby-boomers will put extraordinary pressure on the nation’s economy as they begin to collect on the social programs to which they are entitled. The combination of increasing medical costs, the extension of life expectancies and the sheer number of beneficiaries makes this situation unsustainable.

3. The trade imbalance with the rest of the world. Essentially we are consuming more than we produce and the consequence is that we must spend about 1% of all the wealth America has ever accumulated to foreigners, every year. Symptoms of this problem include a falling dollar, higher oil prices, and a long-term decline in national living standards.

4. Accounting principles and metrics our government uses to explain our financial condition are deficient and do not provide objective and comprehensive understanding of our fiscal challenges.

5. The lack of solutions to solve these problems indicates the largest problem—a lack of political will to solve them. This leadership vacuum is the biggest challenge we face and it occurs because no constituency for sustainability exists.

Source: truthinaccounting.org/

Federal Debt: 1800-2035, Peter G. Peterson Foundation

Did You Know: Congress Exempts Itself From Including the Cost of Promised Retirement Benefits in Stating Debt?

Source: Institute for Truth in Accounting (IFTA), an organization dedicated to promoting honest, accurate, and transparent accounting at all levels of government.

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Who We Are

The Institute for Truth in Accounting is an unaffiliated, nonprofit organization created by Sheila Weinberg, a former Certified Public Accountant, in 2002. Its goal is to ensure that public and private organizations provide truthful financial information useful to a wide variety of users. The Institute is dedicated to the development of standards and awareness that timely, informative and reliable information is the basis for knowledgeable economic and political decisions.

The Institute is particularly interested in governmental accounting, at all levels. As the world’s largest fiscal organization, the U.S. government must be the leader in providing complete and understandable financial information. State and local governments’ accounting standards no longer adequately report the scope and scale of obligations assumed by these jurisdictions.

SOURCES: Data from the Peter G. Peterson Foundation’s Long-Term Model of the Federal Budget, Baseline Assumptions; the Congressional Budget Office, Long Term Budget Outlook: June 2009; and the Office of Management and Budget, The Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2013: February 2012. Compiled by PGPF.

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Predictions: Software Attacks Rise with Advanced Persistent Threats as CTO Stuart McClure of McAffee Shows us How We Can Secure the Unsecurable

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March 10, 2012

Stuart McClure
Chief Technology Officer
McAfee an Intel Company

The threat environment has changed rapidly, and what we once thought of as theoretical is now a reality. Things we thought couldn’t be secured, or didn’t need to be secured, are now essential to a secure environment. We’ve seen a rise in Advanced Persistent Threats, which have been effective in targeting organizations worldwide. Critical infrastructures were not a major concern for most — until Stuxnet hit and left organizations scrambling. Now, with the explosion of embedded devices, we’re seeing an explosion of threat vectors. We must secure all of these, while the bad guys only need to find one way in. McAfee Chief Technology Officer Stuart McClure breaks the myth that certain things don’t need to be secured, and that certain things aren’t securable. He will discuss a new approach, which encompasses going into the hardware, ensuring real–time updates and strong, clear metrics for success.