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...That message is being broadcast from thousands of new mosques and Islamic schools, or pesantren, now proliferating across the 17,000-island archipelago. Many are funded by Middle Eastern groups that see Indonesia as fertile ground for spiritual purification. Clerics at these religious institutions preach the Salafi strain of Islam, which advocates a return to the religion as practiced in the era of the Prophet Muhammad. (Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia's strict form of the faith, is considered an offshoot of Salafi Islam.) By contrast, most Indonesians, like other Southeast Asian Muslims, had for centuries practiced a far less orthodox faith...
...find tickets to the big game? This weekend, when the NBA's best strut their stuff at the All-Star game in Las Vegas, the league will unveil what it hopes will become the next-best thing: a live, three-dimensional high-definition broadcast of it, which they will show to 3,500 viewers on a 45-foot screen at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino for the first-ever live sports event filmed...
...broadcast is made possible by PACE, a digital 3D company that, in collaboration with film director James Cameron, has developed a camera with two lenses capable of shooting live footage in three-dimensions, as opposed to traditional methods that require the illusion to be created in post-production. Cameron is planning to use the same cameras in his upcoming film Avatar. At the All-Star game, five will be scattered throughout the arena to catch the action...
Still, problems arose in the layering of foreground and background, which at times was dizzying, and the fact that the ball's rapid movements prevented it from ever coming into focus. And there are other hurdles to overcome; the technology requires twice the normal bandwidth of a regular HD broadcast, which satellite and cable carriers aren't likely to offer until there is enough content (now there isn't any), and the NBA will need to plow a lot of money into development if it wants to expand the technology's reach...
PACE CEO Vincent Pace says the dizzying effects and blurring "artifacts" are problems that have already been improved. The blurring, for example, is a result of compressing the massive amounts of data to fit onto the tape. The broadcast in Las Vegas, on the other hand, will not be > compressed. Solving the vertigo, he says, is simply a matter of having enough cameras and being able to practice making depth corrections. "We're learning the language," he says. "I guarantee you we'll learn something from this event. Anyone who says they> 've got the formula to make it work...