RealVNC brings smartphone display mirroring to Panasonic's in-car system

Panasonic's automotive division, also known as the Automotive Systems Company, has just announced a collaboration with RealVNC to replicate your smartphone screen for control on your car's dashboard. The two firms have already worked together on the project for the past year, but have recently stepped it up to include integration of additional technologies like MirrorLink into Panasonic's Display-Audio infotainment system. According to RealVNC's press release, the system has "already been adopted by a major automotive manufacturer" and is currently available as a dealer option, though we're not sure which automaker that is. This isn't the first time RealVNC has explored its automotive potential -- it's partnered with Sony in the past, for example -- but it's certainly a sign that the tech is getting more mainstream. For more on the RealVNC and Panasonic partnership, take a peek at the press release after the break.

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RealVNC delivers MirrorLink[TM] capabilities to Automotive Systems Company, a division of Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic and RealVNC join forces to bring smartphone to vehicle connectivity to market

19th February 2013: Automotive Systems Company, a division of Panasonic Corporation selects RealVNC to deliver the next generation of in-car entertainment and driving experience. RealVNC's VNC(R) Automotive technology has been integrated in Panasonic's Display-Audio infotainment system to enable the screen of a smartphone to be replicated and controlled from the touchscreen display on the vehicle head unit. This provides drivers and passengers with seamless access to a wide range of smartphone content such as maps, music and internet radio.

As a leader in mobile to vehicle integration and cloud connectivity, and a core member of the international Car Connectivity Consortium, RealVNC provides Panasonic with advanced features and functionality that supports the Consortium's MirrorLink[TM] industry standard. Panasonic's Display-Audio system, has already been adopted by a major automotive manufacturer, is in production and is currently available to drivers as a dealer option.

"The smartphone is the content hub of this generation and users want access to their content and applications wherever they are, including in vehicle. We faced the challenge of meeting these needs in a way that was safe but where the experience was seamless," said Kenki Matsuda, Manager, Automotive Systems Company, a division of Panasonic Corporation. "RealVNC offers the most robust and advanced solution for connecting smartphone and vehicle with its VNC Automotive solution, whilst also providing MirrorLink support. Our Display-Audio infotainment system has been available in vehicles since last year enabling drivers to access the applications on their smartphones safely from the head unit."

Tom Blackie, Vice President Mobile of RealVNC added, "We are honoured to be working with Panasonic's Automotive Division, one of the leading global suppliers of automotive systems and components, to build VNC Automotive and MirrorLink support into its Display-Audio system. Panasonic's decision to use our technology ensures that they can offer advanced mobile to vehicle connectivity for the widest range of smartphone devices including support for legacy handsets."

VNC Automotive has been widely adopted by the automotive industry as the standard for integrating mobile and vehicle, with partners including the world's largest automotive, infotainment, OEM and Tier 1 manufacturers. VNC Automotive provides a seamless experience enabling smartphone connections via Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and USB, the technology also supports other connectivity protocols such as MirrorLink and iPod Out.

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Earthing Sheets Connect Us to the Schumann Resonance | Earth ...

In 2007, a team of researchers from the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health ran a study and concluded the following, ?The nature of the electromagnetic environments that most humans are now regularly exposed to has changed dramatically over the past century and often bears little resemblance to those created in Nature?.? ?In particular, the increased masking/shielding/insulation of individuals from beneficial types of natural electromagnetic phenomena, the presence of synthetic materials that can gain strong charge and increase exposures to inappropriate electric field levels and polarities have greatly altered the electromagnetic nature of the microenvironments many individuals usually occupy.?

Here?s the problem. Living indoors disconnects us from our natural electric state & hinders our bodies ability to tell time.

Living the majority of our lives indoors exposed to high-frequency-man-made electromagnetic frequencies (EMF) reaps havoc on our biology when disconnected from the natural low frequency EMF?s found on the Earth?s surface. These foreign frequencies interfere with our internal clock?s ability to tell time and coordinate nanoscopic biochemical reactions that are crucial for optimal health. Most people believe that the circadian clock of the brain is controlled exclusively by the light and dark cycles but this is not the case. There are magnetic cells in our suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of the hypothalamus that coordinate with the electromagnetic resonance of the Earth and its ionosphere. The electrical exchange between the earth and the ionosphere are constantly excited by lightning discharges, creating a global electromagnetic resonance called the Schumann resonance frequency.



As life has evolved here on Earth it not only paid attention to the light and dark cycle, but it ingrained the frequency of the Schumann resonance into our biology. The brain uses this natural resonance along with light and dark to tell time. The master controller of all life is time, and when our internal timing is off, a myriad of missed biochemical reactions result in inflammation.

When we address the current health of the developing world, inflammation stands as the central health issue of our time.

If we consider the fundamental changes in our lifestyle over the past century, what seems to have been over looked is our electrical connection to the Earth. All life has lived grounded electrically to the Earth at every point in life?s history, up until modern times. This electrical disconnect from the harmonizing rhythms of the Earth seems to have affected our bodies ability to accurately tell time. Alpha brain waves known for their synchronous electrical activity throughout our nervous system, resonate at the same frequency as the Schumann resonance. This implies that our nervous system uses the Schumann resonance as a fixed reference point to help tell time and normalize the biological rhythms of the body.

Going barefoot connects us to the harmonizing rhythms of the Schumann resonance.

When we go barefoot at the beach or swim in the ocean we share the same electrical potential as the earth and therefore submerge ourselves in the harmonizing rhythms of the Schumann resonance. These experiences reveal the peace and clarity these types of earthing practices bring into our life.? Not to say there are not many other factors at play in this given scenario, but it?s hard to ignore some fundamental factor contributing here.

Earthing Sheets simulate the effect of sleeping in direct contact with the Earth.

As an engineer myself, I decided to run my own experiment to test the effects of earthing while eliminating as many of these variables as possible.? I created an earthing sheet made of locally available goods and planned to sleep grounded as I had read about in the book Earthing, by Clinton Ober. This would simulate the effect of sleeping in direct contact with the Earth, while still being in the comfort of my own bed. I attempted to replicate the protocol used in the earthing studies I had read. I did this by creating as much surface area between me and my earthing sheet as possible, and also made sure to connect my sheet directly to a stake in the ground out my window.? I created a video showing how I made my earthing sheet, in hopes that others can run the same experiment and experience the same remarkable results that I did!

Listen to the neurosurgeon.

For further reading on how Earthing can help normalize your circadian cycle and avoid the harmful effects of high-frequency-man-made EMF, check out EMF 1: Does Your Rolex Work? by Jack Kruse. Jack is a practicing neurosurgeon and optimal heath coach who has taken the paleo community by storm in the past few years. He has been sharing his tried and true methods he and his patients have been practicing for the past 6 years with remarkable results.

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U.S. Security Firm Alleges Massive Chinese Hacking

(BEIJING) ? Cyberattacks that stole information from 141 targets in the U.S. and other countries have been traced to a Chinese military unit in a drab office building in the outskirts of Shanghai, a U.S. security firm alleged Tuesday. China dismissed the report as ?groundless.?

The report by the Virginia-based Mandiant Corp. is the most explicit suggestion yet by a Western security company that China?s military might be directly linked to a wave of cyberspying against U.S. and other foreign companies and government agencies.

Mandiant said it has traced the massive amount of hacking back to a 12-story office building run by ?Unit 61398? of the People?s Liberation Army, and that the attacks targeted key industries including military contractors and companies that control energy grids.

The unit ?has systematically stolen hundreds of terabytes of data from at least 141 organizations,? Mandiant wrote.

?From our observations, it is one of the most prolific cyberespionage groups in terms of the sheer quantity of information stolen,? the company said, adding that the unit has been in operation since at least 2006.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei did not directly address the claims, but when questioned on the report Tuesday, he said he doubted the evidence would withstand scrutiny.

?To make groundless accusations based on some rough material is neither responsible nor professional,? Hong told reporters at a regularly scheduled news conference.

In a reiteration of China?s standard response to such accusations, Hong said China strictly outlaws hacking and said the country itself was a major victim of such crimes, including attacks originating in the United States.

?As of now, the cyberattacks and cybercrimes China has suffered are rising rapidly every year,? Hong said.

China has frequently been accused of hacking, but the Mandiant report contains some of the most extensive and detailed accusations made public so far. The group said its findings led it to alter the conclusion of its earlier 2010 report on Chinese hacking, in which it said it was not possible to determine the extent of government knowledge of such activities.

?The details we have analyzed during hundreds of investigations convince us that the groups conducting these activities are based primarily in China and that the Chinese government is aware of them,? the company said in a summary of its latest report.

It said the hacking was traced to the 2nd Bureau of the People?s Liberation Army General Staff?s 3rd Department, most commonly known as unit 61398, in the Shanghai suburbs.

China?s Defense Ministry did not immediately respond to faxed questions about the report, although it has in the past labeled such allegations as groundless and irresponsible, and has demanded that evidence be presented.

News of the report spread Tuesday on the Chinese Internet, with many commentators calling it an excuse for the U.S. to impose greater restrictions to contain China?s growing technological prowess.

MORE:?Eyes Wide Shut: Why Rupert Murdoch Isn?t the Only Person Blind to the Impact of the Hacking Scandal

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Carter County mayor's proposed gun resolution defeated in commission

ELIZABETHTON ? The very first veto ever cast by Carter County Mayor Leon Humphrey was overridden in the Carter County Commission on Tuesday night. The mayor also suffered a defeat when a proposed resolution he wanted to send to Nashville calling on the state to nullify any federal gun restrictions was also narrowly defeated.

The defeat of the mayor?s proposed gun right?s resolution revolved around two points. Commissioner Steve Lowrance said he was a strong supporter of gun rights, but felt the mayor was merely using it in an effort to get re-elected. The second point was the resolution?s call for Tennessee to nullify any federal law to restrict the rights of Tennesseans to keep and bear arms.

Lowrance said he possessed guns since an early age and had shot deer and bear as a youngster. He said he was a strong supporter of the Second Amendment, but felt the mayor was merely using the issue.

Humphrey reacted strongly to the criticism and said he was motivated by the Obama Administration?s plans for gun control. He said the administration is playing on the nation?s grief over a massacre in a school to push forward legislation that Humphrey saw as unconstitutional.

?This infringes on our inalienable rights,? Humphrey said. ?Guns don?t kill people, people do.? He said it was a mental health problem.

Humphrey said his proposed resolution was done in an attempt to send a message to the state, the Congress and the president.

The question of nullification was defended by Humphrey, who said Tennessee and several other states had been called upon to nullify the Obama initiative.

The nullification question was debated by Commissioner Pat Hicks, a former history teacher. He said the Supreme Court in two decisions had ruled ?the states have no right to nullify the acts of Congress.?

Commissioner Ronnie Trivett discussed the War of 1812, and said if it had not been for the citizens holding their own weapons, ?we would all be speaking with an English accent.?

Hicks responded by saying the hero of the War of 1812 was Andrew Jackson and when he became president he threatened to march federal troops into South Carolina over the state?s threats to nullify a tariff it opposed.

At first, it appeared the resolution would be approved. A motion to table it garnered only 7 votes. But when it came up for a vote, it fell one vote short, 12-8.

The vote to override the veto passed by only one vote. Unlike vetoes at the state and national levels, which require a two-thirds vote to override, the County Commission can override the mayor?s veto by a simple majority of 13 votes.

Humphrey?s veto was an attempt to stop a request for a private act to take away the mayor?s supervisory power over the director of the Carter County Landfill. The Commission had voted 16-5 last month to send the resolution for calling on the state legislature to enact a private act that would place landfill director Benny Lyons under the supervision of the Landfill Committee of the County Commission.

The mayor vetoed the resolution the next day, saying ?you can?t manage by committee.? A few weeks ago he said he decided to veto the measure in order for the commissioners to have more time to think.

On Tuesday, one of the mayor?s strongest supporters was Commissioner John Lewis. ?It would be a mistake,? Lewis said to replace the mayor with a committee. Lewis said if the landfill needed help, the state government would be much more likely to take a phone call from the mayor than from a mere chairman of a committee.

Several other commissioners also defended the mayor and the veto. ?I think it would be a bad move and a bad precedent,? Charles Von Cannon said of the move to strip the mayor of his supervisory power in one area.

?I think this is giving too much power to one committee,? Nancy Brown said.

Lyons was asked to speak and came forward to say that ?I don?t have anything against the mayor,? but said there was more continuity after elections with a committee. He said a mayor may be defeated, meaning an entirely new start, but there would usually be some members of a committee who win re-election, so the changes would be more gradual.

The commissioners also accepted the recommendation of the Carter County Landfill to go with a new waste carrier for the transfer station. The recommendation was to continue negotiations with Advanced Disposal on a contract for the next five years. If successful, it will be the first time in 20 years, since the transfer station was opened, that Allied Waste has not held the contract.

Landfill Committee Chairman Joel Street Jr. said the contract will save the county approximately $90,000 per year.

In other matters, the Commission took two votes to elect Jerry Pearman to the Carter County Planning Commission. Pearman is a former County Commissioner and formerly served as chairman of the Planning Commission.

The mayor had good news to announce during his report to the Commission. Humphrey said construction started on Tuesday on the animal shelter the county is jointly building with the city of Elizabethton. The project has long been planned and was set back last year when bids on the previous design for the shelter came in over budget.

He said the proposed reroofing of the Carter County Justice Center is still in the design stage because the problem with the saturated insulation is factored in to the previous estimates.

The commissioners also heard from Elizabethton-Carter County Public Library director Melodi Goff about efforts to consolidate the city library board and the county library board. She said the move would be an advantage for the county because it would give county representatives a vote on the decision making board.

Source: http://www.johnsoncitypress.com/News/article.php?id=104916

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$2,500 Reward Offered after Critically Endangered Red Wolf Killed in North Carolina

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has issued a $2,500 reward for information about the January 18 shooting death of a critically endangered red wolf (Canis rufus) in North Carolina. The wolf, which wore a radio collar around its neck, was at least the 10th member of his species illegally shot and killed in the past 14 months. Fewer than 120 red wolves live in the wild today.

The deaths have been a terrible setback for the Red Wolf Recovery Program, which in addition to the wild population also maintains nearly 200 captive wolves in breeding facilities across the country. Red wolves used to live throughout the southeastern U.S. but were hunted into near extinction by the 1960s in order to protect livestock. The last 400 wolves in the region were brought into the captive breeding program in 1973. Most of them were found to be hybrids with coyotes (C. latrans), which started migrating to the area in the 1960s, leaving just 14 closely related pureblood individuals to form the founder population from which all of today?s wolves are descended.

The wolves living in the wild today?all in northeastern North Carolina?are part of what is designated as an experimental, nonessential population, much like the Mexican gray wolves (C. lupus baileyi) that have been released into Arizona and New Mexico. This means they can be recaptured whenever any of the animals interfere with human activities, although that rarely happens with the red wolves.

Despite their name, red wolves actually only have a touch of red on their ears, heads and legs. They are a little bit smaller than gray wolves and a little bit bigger than coyotes, for which they are often mistaken. In fact, many of the recent deaths have been attributed to people shooting at coyotes, an activity has become more common since the inception of a controversial new rule that for the first time allowed night hunting of coyotes using spotlights. The rule went into effect on August 1, 2012, and by November 14 four wolves had been killed. ?There are a certain number of people who do mistakenly shoot these animals, but there are also a good number of people who know they are shooting red wolves,? Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge Officer Frank Simms told The Chronicle last November after the fourth killing. ?In both circumstances they are investigated equally, regardless.? Later that month several conservation groups successfully filed a request to block nighttime coyote hunting in the five North Carolina counties in which red wolves can be found.

The species is protected under the Endangered Species Act; anyone convicted of killing one of the animals faces a year in prison and a $100,000 fine. Anyone with information on this latest red wolf death?or any past or future deaths?may contact Simms at (252) 216-7504, FWS Special Agent Sandra Allred at (919) 856-4786 or North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission Officer Robert Wayne at (252) 216-8225.

For more information about the recovery program check out their Return of the Red Wolf blog, which most recently covered efforts to pair a newly transferred male with a female whose mate was among those killed last year. For a more detailed look at the species, wait until this June, when science writer T. DeLene Beeland?s book on the animals, The Secret World of Red Wolves, will be published by University of North Carolina Press.

Photo: A captive red wolf at the Virginia Living Museum, courtesy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

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Blackhawks match record for opening point streak

Chicago Blackhawks right wing Marian Hossa (81), from Slovakia, celebrates his second goal of the game with Jonathan Toews (19) during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the Vancouver Canucks Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Chicago Blackhawks right wing Marian Hossa (81), from Slovakia, celebrates his second goal of the game with Jonathan Toews (19) during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the Vancouver Canucks Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Chicago Blackhawks right wing Marian Hossa (81), from Slovakia, skates past Vancouver Canucks goalie Cory Schneider to score his second goal in the second period of an NHL hockey game Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Chicago Blackhawks right wing Marian Hossa (81), from Slovakia, splits the defense of Vancouver Canucks' Kevin Bieksa (3), Jason Garrison (5) and goalie Cory Schneider to score his second goal in the second period of an NHL hockey game Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 in Chicago. Blackhawks' Brandon Saad watches the play. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Vancouver Canucks defenseman Kevin Bieksa (3) pulls back on the stick of Chicago Blackhawks center Marcus Kruger, from Sweden, during the second period of an NHL hockey game Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Chicago Blackhawks center Patrick Sharp (10) celebrates his goal with Jonathan Toews (19) during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the Vancouver Canucks Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

CHICAGO (AP) ? Patrick Kane and Andrew Shaw scored in a shootout, and the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Vancouver Canucks 4-3 on Tuesday night to match the NHL record for season-opening point streak.

The Blackhawks (13-0-3) earned their third consecutive win to join the 2006-07 Anaheim Ducks as the only teams to record at least one point in the first 16 games of a season. The Ducks got off to a 12-0-4 start that year and went on to win the Stanley Cup.

Chicago will go for the record Friday night when it hosts the San Jose Sharks for the second time in a week.

Alexander Edler and Kevin Bieksa each scored in the final 2:42 of regulation for Vancouver.

Associated Press

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