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Archive for June 22, 2015
Oppression Chic of The Cry-Bullies
June 22, 2015College campuses have been grooming a cadre of professional minority fakers and fraudsters for decades.
See Thru Trucks for road safety
June 22, 2015It was remarkably simple: put a camera on the front of large, slow-moving trucks and connect it to video displays on the back, thereby informing trailing drivers whether it’s safe to overtake the big rig. That’s the exact same idea that Samsung is now pursuing with a new prototype truck. Making use of its abundance of outdoor displays, the Korean company has stitched together a video wall of four displays at the rear of the truck, which transmits video captured by a wireless camera at the front.
Samsung says it’s now working to obtain regulatory approval for the deployment of its so-called Safety Truck, however the idea doesn’t appear economically practical at large scale. The camera might be cheap and simple enough to install, but four displays per truck would be a major investment for any transport company to make, especially since it wouldn’t lead to any direct financial benefit. Still, it’s impressive that Samsung has managed to overcome the technical challenges (like solar glare) of realizing this otherwise laudable idea.
Marie Helvin smashin’ fashion fotos – Part ONE of SIX
June 22, 2015When my mum died last August, I didn’t get an email from my maid of honour. Or my best man. Or my ex-husband. Or my ex-boyfriend. But I did get an email from Marie Helvin.
She offered a shoulder to cry on, and told me she knew how I must be feeling, as she had lost her father a few months earlier.
He’d moved to Las Vegas, to live in a hotel, and been found unconscious in his room by the cleaning staff; he’d slipped and hit his head. He was 89.
Marie got the call to say her father was in hospital, but ‘I didn’t fly out there because he was already dead. We don’t do funerals in my family.
‘We will have an ash ceremony back home in Hawaii, hopefully in August, with my sister, Naomi, who lives in Bangkok, and my brother, Steve [Marie’s younger sister Suzon died in a bicycling accident aged 23].
‘My father didn’t want a ceremony, or an announcement, no phone calls; he wanted to just disappear. That’s how I want to go. It’s a terrible thing to lose a much-loved parent.’
We’d become email friends after I interviewed her for YOU back in 2008, although she went silent for a few weeks after the piece was published – her ex-husband David Bailey was annoyed she’d said of him, ‘My God, he’s fat and bloated.’