Lionel Messi is proclaimed the current worlds best soccer player carrying the most goals scored.  He is one of the best forward strikers currently playing.  The team Lionel Messi is playing for is rank #1 in the world and is undefeated with 5 win 0 losses and 2 draws.

Barcelona 2011/2012 Spanish Primera División

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RANK	WINS	Losses	Draws	GS	GA
1	5	0	2	26	4

Last Game - Oct 19: Viktoria Plzen 0 @ Barcelona 2 (Full Time) Next Game Oct 22: Barcelona  v  Sevilla FC Oct 22

BEST TEAM EVER!!!!!!!

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THE FC BARCELONA : MORE THAN A CLUB
 

On the 29th of November 1899, Joan Gamper founded the Football Club Barcelona ( Barça). Gamper chose the famous blue and claret as the team colours for they are the colours of the Swiss canton he came from. The myth was born: Kubala, Suárez, Cruyff, Maradona and Ronaldinho, among many others, have signed up for this Club. During the 20th century, "Barça" has become a Barcelona symbol, a symbol that represents the Catalan identity as a nation. That's why it is said that "Barça" is more than a Club.



THE MYTH IS BORN

In the Solé Gym office, on the 29th of November 1899, Gamper met Gualteri Wild, Lluís d'Ossó, Bartomeu Terrados, Otto Kunzle, Otto Maier, Enric Ducal, Pere Cabot, Carles Pujol, Josep Llobet, John Parsons and William Parsons. Eleven sportsmen gathered in order to found a football club. Gualteri Wild was appointed President. The 1st match contested was at the Bonanova Cycle Track and they played against a group of English expatriates who were living in Barcelona. The Englishmen won 1-0. On the 14th of March 1909, the Club inaugurated its 1st own ground at c/Indústria, with a capacity for 6,000 people. At that time, the Barcelona FC obtained their first victories: The Catalan Championships: 1909-10, 1910-11, 1912-13, 1915-16, 1918-19 1919-20, 1920-21, 1921-22 and the Spanish Championships: 1909-10, 1911-12, 1912-13, 1919-20 and 1921-22.

LES CORTS STADIUM
 

The Les Corts ground (also known as "The Cathedral of Football") was inaugurated on the 20th of May 1922. That stadium had an initial capacity of 30,000 spectators but later doubled to 60,000. In 1924 the Club had already 12,207 members and a big number of supporters laid the foundations of the current social mass. During the season 1928-1929, Barça won brilliantly the 1st edition of the Spanish National League Title and ended, therefore, a period full of titles.
 http://www.barcelona.com/barcelona_tickets/fc_barcelona_football_tickets/history_of_fc_barcelona

2011 Invention Awards: A Mirror That Monitors Vital Signs

A no-touch system tracks your health

By Gregory Mone Posted 05.26.2011 at 10:53 am 6 Comments

On The Pulse Poh previously developed a method of measuring heart rate using an iPhone earbud John B. Carnett

One night in late 2009, Ming-Zher Poh and his roommate, Dan McDuff, asked some friends to sit in front of a laptop. Poh, an electrical- and medical-engineering graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was trying to transform the computer’s webcam into a heart-rate monitor. He hoped that his software would allow doctors to check the vital signs of burn victims or babies without attaching uncomfortable clips, and that it would make it easier for adults to track their cardiovascular health over time. That night, the program wasn’t working in real time, but its measurements were near perfect. “Right away I knew we had something special,” Poh says

     A year and a half later, a large framed mirror embedded with a more refined version of Poh’s system sits in the MIT Media Lab. Behind the two-way glass, a webcam-equipped monitor is wired to a laptop. Stand before the mirror, and the otherwise blank monitor projects your heart rate on top of your reflection.
When your heart beats, it sends a pulse of blood through your blood vessels. Blood absorbs light, so when more of it travels through the vessels, less of the light hitting your skin is reflected. A webcam can pick up those small fluctuations in reflected light, Poh says, and a computer program can translate that data into a heart-rate reading.

How It Works: Medical Mirror: The webcam in a monitor behind the two-way mirror captures the changes in the light reflected off the subject’s face when the heart beats. The computer translates the light data into a heart rate reading.  Blanddesigns.co.uk

Researchers had tracked this effect with a high-resolution camera, but Poh wanted to use a simple webcam so that nearly every computer and smartphone could double as a heart-rate monitor. To make that possible, he developed an algorithm that could pick out the heart rate’s light pattern from all the other reflected light captured by a webcam. With help from McDuff, a grad student at the MIT Media Lab, Poh wrote code to process the data in real time, allowing the laptop to generate an instant heart-rate reading.

Poh plans to try to bring the mirror to market after he finishes his Ph.D. later this year. He says the system could be used to measure other vitals as well, including respiratory rate and blood-oxygen saturation, which should broaden its appeal. “This shows your inner health,” he says. “Maybe as people use it, they’ll say, ‘This is part of my identity. It’s not just how I look on the outside.’"
Name: Medical Mirror
Inventor: Ming-Zher Poh
Time: 1½ years
Cost: Undisclosed

I belive this is a very interesting topic explaining how it uses algorithm to find you heart beat.

Technological news

"Apple visionary knew full well he was dying from pancreatic cancer. It was a secret that Apple itself couldn't hide, as Jobs' personal appearances plainly showed the ravages of his illness. As such, Jobs worked for over a year on plans that he believed would guarantee Apple's future, with blueprints for new iPods and iPhones left in safekeeping".

FAST Crime Department of Homeland Security

The Department Homeland Security is developing a system designed to apprehend you before you commit a crime. The Future Attribute Screening Technology, or FAST, is designed to analyze whether a person is likely to commit a crime, using a long list of factors. Some are akin to lie detection, such as breathing and heart rate, but the system also measures body movements, voice pitch changes, blink rate, breathing patterns, eye movements, body heat changes and prosody (changes in speech rhythm and intonation). The "prototype screening facility" is built to "detect cues indicative of mal-intent" using these algorithms. The system also analyzes factors like ethnicity, gender, age and profession.
The DHS has already conducted a FAST field test at an undisclosed location in the northeast. "It is not an airport, but it is a large venue that is a suitable substitute for an operational setting," says DHS spokesman John Verrico.
The department views FAST as a tool for airport security, but it has other potential uses as well. A DHS document suggests a mobile version "could be used at security checkpoints such as border crossings or at large public events such as sporting events or conventions."
The development of FAST has raised some eyebrows, including those of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. EPIC has obtained multiple documents, including one detailing the field test (PDF).

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Abremms

10/07/11 at 4:48 pm

so someday in the futue when I'm walking about the grocery store nervious or agitated about something completely unrelated, I can expect to be tackled by law enforcement on the way to the check out? extreme example, but I am really not OK with this kind of tech in this kind of application.
time to trot out that well worn Benjamin Franklin quote: "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."

Ibrahimovic

AC Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has admitted that Juventus were deserved winners of their Serie A clash on Sunday evening but is confident of bouncing back quickly.

The defending Italian champions went down 2-0 to the Old Lady at Juventus Stadium in Turin, thanks to second-half goals from Claudio Marchisio.

And Ibrahimovic, a former Juve player, believes that their hosts were the better side on the evening.

                                                                                                         

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