Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics).While best known for his mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2 (which has been dubbed "the world's most famous equation"), he received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect". The latter was pivotal in establishing quantum theory.
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Après plusieurs jours d'une intense préparation, Marine Lorphelin est finalement parvenue à se classer seconde dans le prestigieux concours Miss World 2013. Une très belle victoire ...
Miss world 2013
C'est Miss Philippines, Megan Young, qui a remporté ce samedi le titre de Miss Monde 2013, au cours d'une cérémonie organisée à Bali, en Indonésie. La jeune femme dont le pays avait été classé à la deuxième place l'an dernier, s'est hissée cette fois sur la première marche du podium juste devant Marine Lorphelin, Miss France 2013. Agée de 23 ans, Megan Young multiplie les activités dans son pays : mannequin, actrice ou encore animatrice de télévision.
Numerous ceremonies and events will be held in the Washington area to commemorate the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Find some of the events listed below, and leave a comment with suggestions for other ways to remember the events of Sept. 11, 2001.
Pentagon Memorial .
A private ceremony will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Pentagon Memorial for survivors and families of those who lost their lives in the attack on the Pentagon. The memorial will be opened to the public following the ceremony.
Congressional Remembrance Ceremony
A public ceremony will be held on the front step of the Capitol building at 11 a.m.
National Day of Service
People are urged to perform a charitable service on Sept. 11. Find a volunteer opportunity or pledge to do an unofficial good deed at 911day.org.
Alexandria Remembering 9/11
The City of Alexandria will hold a public remembrance ceremony at 10 a.m. in Market Square, 301 King St.
Arlington County Commemorative Event
Arlington County will hold a public ceremony to remember the 184 victims who died on the Pentagon grounds. There will be a moment of silence at 9:37 a.m.
Moment of Silence at Arlington Cemetery
A moment of silence will be held at Arlington Cemetery at 9:37 a.m.
Muslims for Life Blood Drive
A blood drive will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Russell Senate Office Building on Constitution Avenue in Northeast Washington.
Two Million Bikers Ride
Thousands of motorcyclists are expected to ride to D.C. in memory of the Sept. 11 attacks. The riders did not receive a permit so streets will not be closed and traffic will not be blocked off, but they are expected to ride through the District by midday.
Day of Remembrance at American University
There will be a moment of silence at 10 a.m. in front of the campus’s 9/11 Memorial, and a candlelight vigil at 10 p.m.
George Washington University Day of Remembrance
The university will hold a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m. A candlelight vigil will be held at 7 p.m. in memory of the nine GWU alumni who died in the attacks.
9/11 Heroes Run Arlington
On Saturday, a 5K benefit run will be held in memory of the 9/11 events. The race starts at 8:30 a.m. in Crystal City
A 30-second video of a newborn baby shows the infant silently snoozing in its crib, his breathing barely perceptible. But when the video is run through an algorithm that can amplify both movement and color, the baby’s face blinks crimson with each tiny heartbeat.
The amplification process is called Eulerian Video Magnification, and is the brainchild of a team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
The team originally developed the program to monitor neonatal babies without making physical contact. But they quickly learned that the algorithm can be applied to other videos to reveal changes imperceptible to the naked eye. Prof. William T. Freeman, a leader on the team, imagines its use in search and rescue, so that rescuers could tell from a distance if someone trapped on a ledge, say, is still breathing.
“Once we amplify these small motions, there’s like a whole new world you can look at,” he said.
The system works by homing in on specific pixels in a video over the course of time. Frame-by-frame, the program identifies minute changes in color and then amplifies them up to 100 times, turning, say, a subtle shift toward pink to a bright crimson. The scientists who developed it believe it could also have applications in industries like manufacturing and oil exploration. For example, a factory technician could film a machine to check for small movements in bolts that might indicate an impending breakdown. In one video presented by the scientists, a stationary crane sits on a construction site, so still it could be a photograph. But once run through the program, the crane appears to sway precariously in the wind, perhaps tipping workers off to a potential hazard.
It is important to note that the crane does not actually move as much as the video seems to show. It is the process of motion amplification that gives the crane its movement.
The program originally gained attention last summer when the team presented it at the annual computer graphics conference known as Siggraph in Los Angeles.
Since then, the M.I.T. team has improved the algorithm to achieve better quality results, with significant improvements in clarity and accuracy.
Michael Rubinstein, a doctoral student and co-author on the project, said that after the presentation and subsequent media coverage, the team was inundated with e-mails inquiring about the availability of the program for uses ranging from health care to lie detection in law enforcement. Some people, says Mr. Rubinstein, inquired about how the program might be used in conjunction with Google’s glasses to see changes in a person’s face while gambling.
“People wanted to be able to analyze their opponent during a poker game or blackjack and be able to know whether they’re cheating or not, just by the variation in their heart rate,” he said.
The team posted the code online and made it available to anyone who wanted to download it and run the program. But to do so required some technical expertise because the interface was not simple to use. Last week, Quanta Research Cambridge, a Taiwan-based manufacturer of laptop computers that helped finance the project, provided a way for people toupload video clips to their Web site and to see a video that is run through the program.
The project is also financed by the National Science Foundation and Royal Dutch Shell, among others.
The team is also working toward making the program as an app for smartphones. “I want people to look around and see what’s out there in this world of tiny motions,” said Mr. Freeman.
Robocop gets rebooted in this big-screen MGM production from director José Padilha. The picture will once again surround a slain police officer (played by The Killing's Joel Kinnaman) who gets resurrected as a crime-fighting cyborg until memories of his previous life begin to make him doubt his corrupt corporate overlords. Gary Oldman co-stars as the doctor who suffers a crisis-of-conscience after bringing life back to the man in the form of a mechanical body and reprogrammed brain, while Samuel L. Jackson plays a larger-than-life media mogul.
Labor Day in the United States is a holiday celebrated on the first Monday in September. It is a celebration of the American labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of their country.
Labor Day was promoted by the Central Labor Union and the Knights of Labor, who organized the first parade in New York City. After the Haymarket Massacre, US President Grover Cleveland feared that commemorating Labor Day on May 1 could become an opportunity to commemorate the affair. Thus, in 1887, it was established as an official holiday in September to support the Labor Day that the Knights favored.[1]
The equivalent holiday in Canada, Labour Day, is also celebrated on the first Monday of September. In many other countries (more than 80 worldwide), "Labour Day" is synonymous with, or linked with, International Workers' Day, which occurs on May 1st.
2020 Olympics - Istanbul, Tokyo and Madrid Promotional Candidate Videos
The 2020 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXII Olympiad, is a planned major international sports eventthat is scheduled to be held from 24 July – 9 August 2020 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo was announced as the host city at the 125thIOC Session in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 7 September 2013.
The other candidate cities for the 2020 Olympics were Madrid, Spain, and Istanbul, Turkey, which received the same number of votes in the first round of selection; after a decisive runoff vote between the two bids, Madrid was announced as having been eliminated.
