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A 55000-year-old partial skull found in the Middle East gives clues to when our ancestors left their African homeland, and strengthens theories that they co-habited with Neanderthals. Duration: 00:54.
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If you walk through the heart of Facebooks headquarters in Menlo Park, California, youll find a rather imposing two-story mural painted by artist Brian Barnecio. It looks like a massive totem pole filled with abstract shapes that resemble lips and eyeballs and boxes of ping-pong balls, and in the middle of it all, theres a single word: hack.
In the late 80s and on into the 90s and early 2000s, hack was a dirty word. It evoked danger and criminal activity. It was all about breaking into computer systems, telephone networks, and other vulnerable technology. People who knew their computer history disagreed, but the negative connotation took hold in the mainstream. But over the past decade, hacker has been rehabilitated. Today, it seems, everyone wants to be a hacker. Facebook has gone a long way towards renovating the word, building its massive successful company around the idea that hacking is a good thing, a way of transforming technologies into something better.
Hacking litters the Facebook campus. It was the subject of Mark Zuckerbergs pre-IPO manifesto, entitled The Hacker Way. And every year, the company runs a campus-wide competition called Hacktober, where employees break into each others systems with an eye towards making them stronger, not weaker.
Thanks to Zuckerberg, Facebook, and so many other ambitious software developers across Silicon Valley, hack is today a word with two meanings. We have white-hat hackers who build cool new apps and creatively blaze new paths, and we have black-hat hackers who brazenly compromise Sonys email systems.
Whats the true meaning of the word? Was that it originally positive or negative? The question is more complicated than you might think. We cant give you a definitive answer, but we have turned up a new piece of the puzzle. Before it entered the world of technology, the word carried a special meaning in the world of 19th century cock fighting. And for what its worth, it was a kind of attack, not a means of creation.
Hack dates back to at least the Middle English period (sometime between 1150 and 1500), and even in modern times, its evolution is rather byzantine. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it arrived several hundred years ago, carrying another of its current meanings, namely to cut with heavy blows in an irregular or random fashion.
But the sense that that gets thrown around Silicon Valley is, as you might expect, distinctly modern. You can trace its roots to the M.I.T. Tech Model Railroad Club, which in 1955 added this note to its minutes:
Mr. Eccles requests that anyone working or hacking on the electrical system turn the power off to avoid fuse blowing.
If you browse through back issues of The Tech, MITs student newspaper, you can see it evolve, always maintaining the more playful meaning. A 1959 announcement for an upcoming Sigma Phi Epsilon circus party has one fraternity member promising to hack around in a gorilla suit. And today at the university, hacks are what they call great pranks, preferably displaying awesome technical virtuosity.
For those in the black-hat camp, however, the clincher comes in November 1963. Thats the first known reference to computer hacking, and in that case, it clearly describes a criminal trespass, with hackers connecting a PDP-1 computer to the MIT telephone system and launching whats known as a brute-force attack. The Techs headline: Telephone Hackers Active.
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CRAMMED in sheds, lovingly restored and eagerly tended are hidden treasures that tell the story of our regions dairying past.
CRAMMED in sheds, lovingly restored and eagerly tended are hidden treasures that tell the story of our regions dairying past.
Cobden Pioneer Dairy Park project manager Dennis Walsh believes expansion plans will create a major new tourist attraction while preserving the regions dairy heritage. 150129RG03 Picture: ROB GUNSTONE
Since 1998 the Cobden Pioneer Dairy Park has taken a leading role in preserving the areas rich history.
Spread across eight sheds on almost a hectare of land are countless agricultural relics restored tractors, an old bailer, herd testing equipment, mowers and a dairy dating from the 1880s are just some of the gems to be found.
The park opens every third Sunday and attracts bus tours and school groups, but a hard-working band of volunteers has a much bigger future in sight.
A $100,000 redevelopment is planned to put the pioneer park on the map.
Dairy park project manager Dennis Walsh said the revamp would include a new building to provide a grand entrance to the park, a caf, a museum display area and carparking.
We have so much here and we need more room to display it better, he said.
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Ideally, we'd all eat super healthful diets. But that's not the world we live in, and multivitamins may help bridge the nutritional gaps. Jasper White/Getty Images hide caption
Ideally, we'd all eat super healthful diets. But that's not the world we live in, and multivitamins may help bridge the nutritional gaps.
In an ideal world, we'd all be eating copious amounts of nutrient-dense foods such as fruits and vegetables and getting all the essential vitamins and nutrients our bodies need for optimal health.
But, as a nation, we're far from that healthful eating ideal.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Americans, on average, only eat about one fruit and one or two vegetables on a typical day. This helps explain why millions of people fall short of the recommended intakes of some vitamins and minerals.
For instance, more than 1 in 3 children and teens (ages 9 to 18) don't meet recommended intakes for calcium and vitamin D, according to a study in The Journal of Pediatrics.
So, how might people with less-than-stellar diets plug the gaps of good nutrition?
Fortification efforts, such as the Food and Drug Administration's requirement that folic acid be added to many cereals and breads, have paid off. As this CDC infographic points out, folate levels in women increased by 50 percent between 1993 and 2006. This is critical, since folate helps prevent birth defects.
Another option? Taking a daily multivitamin with minerals may be helpful.
A study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that supplements helped adults meet the recommended intake of certain minerals, such as calcium and magnesium in men and women, as well as iron for women.
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"Get a more secure shed" - that's the message from Bracknell police after a spate of break-ins around the estates.
Police are warning people one of the reasons burglars target sheds is because they're often quite easy to break into and contain very expensive equipment including bikes, tools and fishing gear.
Chief Inspector Dave Gilbert of Bracknell police said while sheds are usually locked, burglars can prise open the slats or open windows to get inside.
He also stressed the importance of getting a good quality lock as cheap ones tend to be easier to break.
Ch Insp Gilbert recommended people buy a shed alarm which costs around 10 and can be bought online.
He said: "The alarms are infra-red and make a very loud noise when they go off.
"More often than not, that will scare a burglar off."
Other advice is to ensure the panels and door of the shed are in good quality and can't be easily smashed or pulled apart.
Thieves have also targeted detached garages in the estates around Bracknell.
Ch Insp Gilbert added: "The garages are often used for storage.
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HOPEDALE An emergency department nurse who has worked at Hopedale Hospital for 21 years, Leah Warrick showed off an emergency department procedure room one of three larger replacement rooms with new equipment.
"It's private," Warrick said of each suite. "In the old ER, patients would share a room.
"It's easily accessible, we have a new heated ambulance bay, we have more space and it's going to be more efficient for the staff," Warrick said during a tour Friday.
The replacement emergency department is part of an $8.5 million renovation and expansion project to the hospital, which is the heart of Hopedale Medical Complex in this Tazewell County town of 850 people.
The medical complex has 330 full- and part-time employees and three will be added when the addition and renovation is complete, said Chief Operating Officer Mark Rossi.
The project is a 10,000-square-foot addition and 20,000-square-foot renovation to the hospital, which opened in 1955.
"The old building was pretty outdated," Warrick said. "But this is top-of-the-line equipment.
"We're a tiny hospital. This is pretty swanky for us," she said with a smile.
"It has an ultra-modern feel," Rossi said. "With all the natural light, people (employees) just feel better walking into the building."
Opening Friday afternoon were the replacement emergency department with three patient suites, nurses' station and on-call doctor's overnight room; five larger private inpatient rooms; six outpatient surgery suites; an outpatient surgery entrance and lobby; a main hospital lobby with an adjoining patient conference room; and a replacement helipad.
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Downtown Disney Overview Including The BOATHOUSE The Hangar Restaurant Construction
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CSUN housings new Bamboo Terrace restaurant, an expansion of Geronimos, begins construction next week and will open in August 2015 as discussed by the executive committee on Thursday.
It will be like Bamboo on steroids, said Betsy Corrigan, the associate director of campus dining, referring to the Bamboo located in The Marketplace on campus.
While CSUN housing will be accommodating 400 more students this fall with the completion of the Phase II housing structures, Corrigan hopes to receive more walk-ins from students and faculty who dont normally eat at the establishment, which is located at the corner of Zelzah and Lassen.
Rick Evans, executive director of the University Corporation, said the addition will be first class dining.
The restaurant, which broke ground in January, will feature pan-Asian food (both authentic and Americanized).
CSUN has already recruited Benjawan Kumnudsri, a chef from Pepperdine University, and has a menu complete with 10 weeks worth of food.
Each week, the restaurant will feature food from a different region of China, of which there are five.
People will walk in, slide their meal plan card, and have this bank of food to choose from, Corrigan said.
The restaurant will feature five different types of salad, as well as rice, soup, sushi, dessert, tea and more.
You will be able to get a hamburger at Geronimos and then head on over to Bamboo and get some sushi, Corrigan said.
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Three days after filing a lawsuit against its landlord, the longtime restaurant Jour de Fte is facing eviction.
The law firm representing the property owner, Iacono Family Investments, posted eviction notices Thursday at the popular eatery, according to Jour de Fte co-owner Olivier Mottier and his attorney, Matt Ferguson of Aspen.
The eviction proceeding, which Ferguson said they intend to fight, deepens a legal dispute in which Mottier and co-owner Emelio Martinez claim they have lost over $80,000 because of ongoing construction on the Durant Mall that blocked customer access. The lawsuit also says Iacono Family Investments is improperly seeking over $34,000 in condominium assessments that the restaurant owners contend they withheld with the permission of Thomas Iacono, principal of the landlord entity.
Iacono is maliciously claiming that [Iaconos] family real estate investment business is due $50 per day for the temporary withholding of assessments to the Durant Mall condominium [association] that was discussed with him, Ferguson wrote in the lawsuit. That amount, which initially was $61 ,334 in withheld condo assessments, now stands at $34,350 because of late penalties and interest, the lawsuit says.
Mottier sought to withhold the condo fees because the eatery has lost so much money during the construction project the lawsuit says 6-foot-high impenetrable fences were erected that blocked Jour de Ftes entrance and Iacono allegedly told him that Iacono Family Investments (IFI) did not care about the assessments so long as the company received rent.
What was to be a mere renovation of the Durant Mall began in April 2014 and still has not finished, despite business owners allegedly being told the work would take about two months. The lawsuit says Iacono coerced Mottier into taking out a personal home-equity loan for almost $18,000 to pay for some of the work, in violation of the lease that calls for capital improvements to be the responsibility of the landlord.
The eviction notice demands payment or possession of the premises within three days, Ferguson said. Mottier and Martinez, however, are not going anywhere, Ferguson said.
Were going to fight this all the way to a jury, he said. This is baseless, groundless and mean-spirited.
He and his clients shared a letter Ferguson sent Thursday to Aspen attorney David Kelly, who is representing IFI. The missive says the penalty rent and interest on the condo fees are both invented to defend [IFIs] own prior and ongoing breaches of the lease. Ferguson also wrote that the restaurant owners paid the original $6,334, but that the money was returned 10 days later.
Iacono on Monday declined comment about the litigation, other than to say the facts will come out in court. Regarding the construction delays, he said that was beyond everyones control.
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