CLEVELAND - A NewsChannel5 viewer captured photos of a deer swimming about 1,000 yards off the Lake Erie shoreline Thursday.
Ralph Stock told NewsChannel5 he was perch fishing out of Cleveland near the lighthouse, when the deer started swimming toward his boat.
Here's Stock's account of what happened:
"We immediately pulled north of him to try to convince him to swim back to shore and then a pontoon boat came and tried to help us as well. We called the Coast Guard and a ODNR boat came to help him. We left when he got on the inside breakwall, but we saw him climb back down lakeside as we were leaving."
Stock said he saw the deer eventually make it to shore.
A birdwatcher who was at Wendy Park saw come back in toward land. He said once the deer was within 15 feet of the shore and able to stand in the water, it just stood there for about a half hour, nearly falling asleep from exhaustion.
Meteorologist Trent Magill said the temperature of the lake Thursday was a chilly 59 degrees.
British treasury chief George Osborne pledged full government backing for a franchise in the English capital, telling the Evening Standard newspaper on Wednesday that the government has offered the NFL any help it needs in bringing a permanent team across the pond. He admitted that "it's not going to happen overnight but over the next few years," and remains committed to pursuing a team for the city of London.
The league responded with a statement confirming its interest in overseas expansion, and reiterated its continued support of building the fan base necessary to support the project:
"We warmly welcome the chancellor's strong support for the possibility of an NFL team in London and look forward to welcoming him to a game at Wembley over the next few weeks. Our key priority is to continue to build our fan base in the U.K. so that there is strong demand for any future plans in London."
The NFL has showcased regular-season games at Wembley Stadium every year since 2007, but has not announced any definitive timetable on putting a full-time squad in London. Sunday's matchup between the Detroit Lions and Atlanta Falcons will be the 10th game played at the historic stadium in England, and the second of three to be held there this season. The Miami Dolphins beat the Oakland Raiders in Week 4, and the Dallas Cowboys and Jacksonville Jaguars will kick off in Week 10.
Permanent expansion overseas would obviously present myriad of logistical and administrative obstacles, but the fact that the league continues to host games in the U.K. and that there is considerable support among the natives for the sport of American football indicates that a London-based team may be a reality sooner rather than later.
Learn the full story behind America's favorite baseball player.
This new, 16-minute documentary about Little League World Series superstar Mo'ne Davis is fantastic. Learn all about her and her family and get excited about her accomplishments all over again.
Historical Map: Proposed City Railway Company Lines, New York, c. 1890s
Cutaway diagram, map, and accompanying text describing the construction of an electric motor-powered rapid transit subway that would have run through the basements of “fire-proofed buildings constructed along the line”. Despite shallow excavations of only nine-and-a-half feet, the blurb promises “no perceptible vibrations from the passage of trains”. Hmmm.
This map shows the location of a proposed underground rapid transit line and an “alternative line” in Manhattan and the south west Bronx. There is text describing the proposed line and a section cut diagram of transit tunnels.
Large-scale consumer launches are rarely perfect, and Apple Pay isn't proving to be an exception. Plenty of people using Apple's mobile payments feature over the last few days have reported successful results. We tried it ourselves around New York City and found that it largely works just as Apple claims. But not everyone's been so lucky; per Bloomberg, "hundreds" of Bank of America customers were reportedly double-charged for a single purchase in the immediate hours following Apple Pay's rollout. Apparently it's not Apple that's to blame, though who knows if consumers are making that distinction.
Bloomberg reports that "a processing glitch that occurred between the Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank and at least one payments network" is responsible for the duplicate charges. Bank of America has said it's working to refund the extra charges. "We apologize for the inconvenience and are correcting this issue immediately and all duplicates will be refunded," a spokesperson told Bloomberg. To be absolutely sure you haven't been hit with the same fee twice, it's probably a good idea to compare your transaction history in Passbook against your account activity at your bank's website.
Another early Apple Pay glitch involves the preview images for credit and debit cards in Passbook. Some users are seeing the wrong image for their respective card, This shouldn't have any impact on actual transactions and is more of an annoyance than anything else. When working properly, the Passbook images provide an easy reference for which cards you've set up for Apple Pay. But as 9to5Mac notes, if you've got multiple cards from the same bank and are experiencing this problem, things could get pretty confusing. Cards from Citibank and Chase are reportedly affected by this glitch, though 9to5Mac says that a fix is already in the works.
An anonymous reader writes Now that its file synchronization tool has received a few updates, BitTorrent is going on the offensive against cloud-based storage services by showing off just how fast BitTorrent Sync can be. More specifically, the company conducted a test that shows Sync destroys Google Drive, Microsoft's OneDrive, and Dropbox. The company transferred a 1.36 GB MP4 video clip between two Apple MacBook Pros using two Apple Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapters, the Time.gov site as a real-time clock, and the Internet connection at its headquarters (1 Gbps up/down). The timer started when the file transfer was initiated and then stopped once the file was fully synced and downloaded onto the receiving machine. Sync performed 8x faster than Google Drive, 11x faster than OneDrive, and 16x faster than Dropbox.
Last week, Adi Shamir gave a presentation at Black Hat Europe on using all-in-one printers to control computers on the other side of air gaps. There's no paper yet, but twopublications reported on the talk:
Theoretically, if a malicious program is installed on an air-gapped computer by an unsuspecting user via, say, a USB thumb drive, attackers should have a hard time controlling the malicious program or stealing data through it because there is no Internet connection.
But the researchers found that if a multifunction printer is attached to such a computer, attackers could issue commands to a malicious program running on it by flashing visible or infrared light at the scanner lid when open.
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The researchers observed that if a source of light is pointed repeatedly at the white coating on the inside of the scanner's lid during a scanning operation, the resulting image will have a series of white lines on darker background. Those lines correspond to the pulses of light hitting the lid and their thickness depends on the duration of the pulses, Shamir explained.
Using this observation the researchers developed Morse code that can be used to send pulses of light at different intervals and interpret the resulting lines as binary data1s and 0s. Malware running on an air-gapped system could be programmed to initiate a scanning operation at a certain time -- for example, during the night -- and then interpret the commands sent by attackers using the technique from far away.
Shamir estimated that several hundred bits of data can be sent during a single scan. That's enough to send small commands that can activate various functionality built into the malware.
This technique can be used to send commands into an air-gapped computer network, and to exfiltrate data from that network.
After losing their original name to a large brewing company, Boston-based entrepreneurs Mike Langone and Matt Gorman have bounced back with their newly named Box Brew Kits, a variety of compact brewing kits that allow home brewers of all experience levels to make small batch beer, wine and cider in small spaces.
Introducing Box Brew Kits, a handmade small batch home-brew kit built from rustic pine and reclaimed wood. Unlike most bulky kits currently available, Box Brew Kits fits in your apartment and gives you everything you need to tackle the brewing process in classic style, even if you’ve never brewed before. Each of our home-brewing kits celebrates the rustic roots of home-brewing. They are designed to last a lifetime, and no two are exactly alike. Each kit includes complete written instructions, a brewers’ log, and more than 25 tasty recipes to try. We have four sizes available, capable of brewing one to three gallons of beer in about two weeks. Enjoy!
If you have a head, time to introduce it to your desk. Orlando Jones’ live-tweeting of Sleepy Hollow is usually on-point, but one since-deleted tweet published during this week’s episode had fans understandably upset.
The tweet has since been removed, but not before it was screencapped and posted to Tumblr. An active user himself, Jones was also scrutinized by the Tumblr community last year for comparing Sally Hemings (an enslaved woman who Thomas Jefferson began having sexual and likely non-consensual relations with when she was just 14) to Scandal‘s Olivia Pope:
Jones responded to the Hemmings controversy by becoming the first-ever celebrity to submit himself to Your Fave Is Problematic, and writing a long response for fans offended by the comparison. Yesterday, he again took to Tumblr to address his own fallibility:
I’ve been on Tumblr for 387 days. I’ve made 824 posts. I currently have 61,348 followers.
During my time on this platform I’ve posted many things that were silly, many that were heartfelt and a number of things (either posted here or posted on Twitter and referenced here by others) that were problematic.
Yesterday was an example of the latter.
During last night’s live tweeting of Sleepy Hollow I made a post that, although in no way my intention, overtly contributed to the rape culture climate that normalizes and trivializes very serious and very real instances in which people (mostly women) are victimized.
Intention, of course, does not mitigate offense.
What I wrote was not OK and without qualification or equivocation I apologize.
I’m especially thankful to those of you who reached out to me personally to share your thoughts and engaged in an active dialogue about this issue.
I also appreciate the perspective of those who continue to throw shade, who are disappointed, who think I’m full of shit/insincere/misogynistic/have no business in fandom/try too hard/etc.
In the words of carnivaloftherandom (whose post on the need to include more diverse voices on this issue was VERY informative to me) [...] I will endeavor to FAIL BETTER.
I respect Jones for apologizing “without qualification or equivocation,” especially since a minority of his fans likely saw the offending tweet in the first place–in trying to make amends, the actor may have also brought himself more bad publicity. That being said, it boggles my mind that public figures continue to have failures of this magnitude. Obviously Jones’ intention wasn’t to offend viewers or trivialize the serious ramifications of rape culture, but the punchline of his “joke” was that Nicole Beharie is so attractive he could fantasize about having non-consensual sex with her. That’s not a joke, it’s justification for a workplace seuxal harassment seminar.
Members of the Twittersphere: when composing a missive by thumb, never make a rape “joke.” Intention not only doesn’t mitigate offense, it also doesn’t mitigate harm.
The Chinese government is currently very upset with Kenny G, finally giving them something in common with Prince. Those wondering how the human embodiment of rose petals on satin sheets and his leonine thatch of burnished chestnut curls could ever inspire emotions besides sensual abandonment need look no further than Kenny G’s own Twitter account. Earlier today, G tweeted mellow support for the peaceful pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, which were no doubt lulled into a kitten-like state of contentment by the presence of their tranquil idol:
in Hong Kong at the sight of the demonstration. I wish everyone a peaceful and positive conclusion to this situation pic.twitter.com/mEp5jIXLjj
This did not sit well with the government in Beijing, which felt compelled to hold a press conference reminding “foreign governments and individuals” to “speak and act cautiously and not support [Hong ...
I may not get to cavort around New Zealand anytime soon—something about it costing money, I dunno—but at least I get to watch “The Most Epic Safety Video Ever Made.” You milk those Middle Earth movies, Air New Zealand. You milk them as long as you possibly can.
If you like this short (and I’m guessing you will, because it’s remarkably well-done), it was directed Taika Waititi (Flight of the Conchords), who has a really good coming-of-age comedy called Boy on Netflix Instant. He also played Gandalf in the above vid, but we’ll forgive him for not being Ian McKellen because he rocks that fake beard rather well.
A gigantic man bursts from the ground in Széchenyi Square in Budapest, Hungary in the massive outdoor sculpture “Feltépve” (“Ripped Up” or “Popped Up”) by artist Ervin Loránth Hervé. Crafted from polystyrene, the sculpture was installed temporarily for the Art Market Budapest contemporary art fair which took place earlier in October.
'One unexpected force that might have helped the Mac is the iPad’s dramatic loss of momentum—shipments declined 13% year-over-year to 12.3 million. While Apple watchers used to talk about the iPad cannibalizing the Mac, now it seems to be happening the other way around, too. “I’m sure that some people looked at a Mac and an iPad and decided on a Mac,” Cook said. “And I’m fine with that, by the way.” '
Apple’s Mac business, now 30 years old, just had its best three months in history. Apple shipped 5.5 million Macs last quarter, up almost 1 million units—a 20% increase—from the year before.
The Mac’s big performance comes as a bit of a surprise. The broader PC industry has been shrinking—or flat at best—for a couple of years. And Apple’s Mac sales had been declining with it. After shipping a record 5.2 million Macs in the quarter ended December 2011, Apple didn’t pass 5 million in a quarter again until now. Some, myself included, thought we had reached “Peak Mac”—that Mac sales had topped out for good, and that the iPad would lead Apple’s future “computer” growth. Analysts were forecasting a flat quarter for shipments versus the previous year’s pace.
Then the Mac beat Wall Street’s sales expectations by almost 1 million units.
How did it happen? On Apple’s earnings call yesterday, CFO Luca Maestri noted strong back-to-school sales, and growth—46% year-over-year—in emerging markets. “We now gained market share for 33 of the last 34 quarters,” he said. Later, CEO Tim Cook noted that Mac sales were up 54% in China. “It was just an absolutely blow-away quarter,” he said. “It will result in our highest market share since 1995.”
One unexpected force that might have helped the Mac is the iPad’s dramatic loss of momentum—shipments declined 13% year-over-year to 12.3 million. While Apple watchers used to talk about the iPad cannibalizing the Mac, now it seems to be happening the other way around, too. “I’m sure that some people looked at a Mac and an iPad and decided on a Mac,” Cook said. “And I’m fine with that, by the way.”
Will growth continue? It’s foolish to make long-term forecasts on one breakout quarter. But recent changes are making the Mac better—a good sign.
For example, Apple just started shipping its first desktop computer with a super-high-resolution “retina” display—there’s likely some pent-up demand there. And rumors have circulated about a super-thin notebook in the pipeline that sounds like it could be hugely popular.
Apple’s recent efforts to make Macs work better with iPhones and iPads should help some, too—namely its new “Continuity” and “Handoff” features that make it easier to switch between Macs and iOS devices for messaging, e-mail, web browsing, and even phone calls. Apple’s unique ability to tightly integrate hardware and software—both in individual devices and across its product line—remains one of its biggest strengths versus rivals like HP, Samsung, and Google.
Broader industry trends still favor the Mac: There’s the shift toward the web and away from cumbersome Windows software, Microsoft’s overall decline, greater consumer and corporate familiarity with iPhones and iPads, Apple’s continued efforts to lower its prices, its long lead in design, and its expanding worldwide retail empire.
The big-picture question is what’s going to happen as PCs as tablets continue to converge in utility and design. But for now, the 30-year-old Mac business is enjoying its third wind.
MEDFIELD, MA—Insisting that his prevailing injury could be serious, family members of retired baseball pitcher Curt Schilling reportedly urged the former Red Sox starter Wednesday to finally visit a doctor about his wounded right ankle, which contin...
Z80xxc! writes: The Gmail team announced "Inbox" this morning, a new way to manage email. Inbox is email, but organized differently. Messages are grouped into "bundles" of similar types. "Highlights" pull out and display key information from messages, and messages can be "snoozed" to come back later as a reminder. Inbox is invite-only right now, and you can email inbox@google.com to request an invite.
David Bowie, St. Vincent, and the Flaming Lips are releasing exclusive LPs for this year’s Record Store Day Black Friday event. While most of what’s set to be released is limited to fancy pressings of 7-, 10-, and 12-inch singles and b-sides from acts like Bowie, The Beatles, and Metallica, other artists are reissuing LPs previously scarce or unavailable on vinyl, like Neil Young’s Time Fades Away and the Lips’ Imagene Pease: Atlas Eets Christmas.
Other items available this year include a nerdy die-cut and day-appropriate LP version of Wu-Tang Clan’s “C.R.E.A.M.,” a cassette-only version of the Guardians Of The Galaxy soundtrack, and a South Park 7-inch featuring both “James Cameron” and “My Bitch Ain’t No Hobbit.”
"…My siblings and I briefly debated what flavor to use [...] but I said, ‘Look, we need to use the original.’ "
Disclaimer: this story, much like the Pringles now growing beards under your couch, is a little old. But as anyone familiar with popping vs. stopping standards will understand, there is no statute of limitations on weird junk food burial news. Plus, I just really like saying “potato coffin.”
The good folks over at Gizmodo recently called our attention to Fredric Baur, the organic chemist who streamlined American snacking. In 1966, Baur devised a new packaging design that would allow Procter & Gamble to do away with air-filled bags; according to Eric Spitznagle, author of The Junk Food Companion, Baur’s Pringle can showcased “the inherent beauty and power of uniformity [...] Every chip looks the same, acts the same.”
As early as 1980, Baur began to request that his ashes be buried in the design he’d become famous for. At the inventor’s insistence, when he passed away 18 years later in 2008, his children stopped at Walgreen’s for a can of Pringles on their way to the funeral home. Baur’s son told TIME
…My siblings and I briefly debated what flavor to use [...] but I said, ‘Look, we need to use the original.’
Baur’s legacy lives on today in Pringles and the packaging revolution his design inspired–the chemist’s can was the precursor for string cheese, the pyramid shape of Toblerone, and doughnut holes.
'“This might just be for the sales team,” said 43-year-old Tim DeSoto, noting that the department had recently met its third-quarter goals, but that, as an accountant, he may not be entitled to a slice. “I’m not really sure. I guess I could ask if anyone else knows what’s going on, but my desk is close enough to the kitchen that I can probably just keep an eye on it and see what happens.”
“I don’t want to miss out on cake,” he added.
Throughout the day, employees admitted to finding excuses to check on the status of the cake, often by going into the break room to refill their still half-full glasses of water or by striking up a conversation with someone whose cubicle has a clear line of sight to the dessert. According to reports, those revisiting the cake typically lingered near it for several minutes before leaving, later repeating the process at approximately half-hour intervals.
“Surely they’re not just going to leave it out here all afternoon,” said IT manager Sarah Golin, 32, noting that in 90 percent of these cases, such as the loaf of banana bread brought in after Mother’s Day or the entire pumpkin pie from the Monday after Thanksgiving, the food is up for grabs. “If it weren’t meant for someone, it would still be in the fridge. It’s definitely going to be eaten soon. Sometime today.”
“I want some,” she continued.
At press time, the sight of the company’s IT technician walking down the hallway with a slice of cake had reportedly triggered a mass scramble toward the kitchen.'
MINNEAPOLIS—Leaving dozens of workers unsure as to whether they were permitted to consume the enticing dessert, sources at the offices of Highwood Insurance told reporters Wednesday that a cake had been left out in the break room without any instruc...
"No doubt frightened of so much truth all at once, Apple has since removed the track, leaving others—newly awakened, unshakably frightened—to suggest that it must have been a mistake. The Independent speculates that it was all an “accident,” leaked to iTunes via a glitch, then snapped up by fans who are so under Taylor Swift’s sway that they bought it for $1.29 CAD automatically without even listening to it. These fans then petitioned the void, seeking the same answers as all humanity has when it cries out into the darkness."
"@taylorswift13 TAY WHATS HAPPENING TO MY PHONE WHATS TRACK 3"
"WHaT IS THE TRACK 3 PREVIEW??? It SOUNDS LIKE AN OCEAN BUT IT COULD ALSO BE STATIC?¿??! @taylornation13 @taylorswift13 #1989"
Cat sticker-adorned mirror of the human condition Taylor Swift debuted her latest single last night, a meditation she has simply named “Track 3.” As its John Cage-evoking title suggests, “Track 3” is nothing but eight seconds of blissful, hissing static—a bold leap forward from an artist who continues to shine a light into all the hollows of modern music, be it country, pop, or now, avant-garde industrial ambience.
“Track 3” is the sound of disconnect between artist and audience, a tumultuous void we are forced to fill with our own meaning. It is the sound of music reduced to the noise that surrounds the pop singer’s cult of personality. It is the sound of the echoing abyss we hear when we gaze into Taylor Swift’s eyes; it is the dulled roar she hears when she gazes back at us. It is her most provocative declaration of emptiness ...
When Philip Seymour Hoffman died in February, the actor left several upcoming projects behind. One of the most anticipated was Happyish, a Showtime dark comedy series intended as a starring vehicle for Hoffman. A pilot was shot and a few scenes screened for critics, who praised Hoffman’s performance; Happyish had just been picked up for series in January when Hoffman’s death derailed the project.
Last we checked, the show’s fate was uncertain, but after waiting a tasteful eight months Showtime is now ready to begin again with new leading man Steve Coogan. Coogan will take over Hoffman’s role as Thom Payne, an ad man who has to face his own irrelevance after his agency is taken over by much younger executives obsessed with all things “social” and “viral.” Deadline reports that the rest of the cast has been freed to pursue other projects, but that original ...
'The city’s new proposed rules require people to notify their neighbors, including the units above and below them, if they want to rent out their apartment short-term. Renters would also need a signature from their landlord and condo owners would need approval from their homeowners association.
Mathew Robinson, policy assistant to the mayor, said the city will cap the number of units in a building that can get a short-term rental permit at 10 percent, in an effort to keep Airbnb from driving up Portland rental prices.'
Last Week Tonight host John Oliver challenged news outlets to use footage of an all-dog Supreme Court to make to the oral arguments "more compelling to watch."
Challenge accepted. The following is actual audio recordings of the oral arguments from case 13-461, American Broadcasting Co. v. Aereo, Inc. — you can find the original audio file and full transcript here on the official Supreme Court website (caution: audio autoplays). Earlier this year, in a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that Aereo — which streams over-the-air, public channels over the internet — violated copyright law. In oral arguments, Aereo's lawyers argued with the court over whether the company is more like a parking garage or a valet. Seriously, watch for yourself.
Even now, it's important to know how the Supreme Court handles technologically-focused cases (spoiler: it's not great). Even better, you can learn how while watching dogs be adorable. Well, nine dog justices, two dog lawyers, a duck assistant, and a pecking chicken as stenographer.
Give your Raspberry Pi B+ a Unibody with the UniPi case. Made in the U.S.A. by Pazdan LLC Tool & Die from solid Aluminum, this case protects your B+ from damage and looks great in your modern/designer apartment! Some nice bonus design features allow this case to be wall mounted or stackable (like a stack of tuna fish tins)
The Pi Holder case is milled by Pazdan LLC Tool & Die Machine Shop on CNC machines and comes with two toppers. One has a punchout dot design which looks cool, the other has slots for connecting GPIO cables, or Pi Cameras. Check out their original kickstarter page for a lot more details and ‘making of’ photos!
Comes with the following:
Aluminum Bottom Half of a Pi Case
Topper with ‘mesh’ look
Topper with cutouts for GPIO cable, PiCamera, etc
4 Screws for attaching PI to case
2 Screws for wall mounting
Large paperclip (to remove toppers)
This case works with Raspberry Pi model B+ only!
This enclosure is not compatible with the Raspberry Pi Model B. Raspberry Pi computer not included!
via Albener Pessoa "It's life imitating The Wire," Chris Soghoian, a staff technologist at the American Civil Liberties Union, told Ars. "There's an episode in Season 3 where [Detective Jimmy] McNulty finds a [stingray] that has been sitting on the shelf for a while."
Newly released documents definitively show that local law enforcement in Washington, DC, possessed a cellular surveillance system—commonly known as a "stingray"—since 2003.
However, these stingrays literally sat unused in a police vault for six years until officers were trained on the devices in early 2009.
"It's life imitating The Wire," Chris Soghoian, a staff technologist at the American Civil Liberties Union, told Ars. "There's an episode in Season 3 where [Detective Jimmy] McNulty finds a [stingray] that has been sitting on the shelf for a while." (more)
