general mills partnered with rube goldberg... that can be transformed into one of six rube goldberg-type machines. the specially-marked boxes include cheerios, cinnamon toast crunch, cocoa puffs, cookie crisp, lucky charms, and reese's puffs. each box includes instructions -- meant to be fun and easy -- to promote science, technology, engineering, and math education. and if you post a photo of your machine on instagram or the general mills cereal facebook page ... you get a chance to win a college scholarship. (grant) that wraps up kron4 news at nine..(vicki) pam moore and steve aveson joins us now with kron 4 news at ten...guys? ((pam)) thank you grant and vicki...next at ten.. we are tracking the storm. rain still falling in parts of the bay area tonight...and more rain is on the way for the morning commute.we have crews on both sides of the bay... and our chief meteorologist lawrence karnow has your four zone forecast.175 years...that's how long a doctor who sexually assaulted 150 athletes will spend behind bars.tonight...we h

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to add to the rube goldberg miss of this setup, the slide mechanism read on compressed air . you would have to cart around the tube of compressed air to the demos and of course airlines eventually caught on that this is not a good thing to do. not a good thing to transport . what is in you, sir? so eventually they had to resort to bringing some kid along who would sit on top of thebasketball and provide the necessary pressure . so the -- let's move on to the dawn of cyberculture. the first thing to think about is really culture. the cerl laboratory was a special place and none of this would ever have happened, i would not be standing here, this book would not have been written had not the culture of this laboratory been so unusualand so special . and unusual in the sense that computer labs in the 60s and 70s were often locked up places that you were not allowed in. you basically better be wearing a lab coat and the opposed. if you are expected to have access. even in places that mit and stanford, places like that, their labs are legendary to but they were generally restricted

a lot of these sets and when you think about it the whole banking system is kind of like this rube goldberg machine you know this american engineer developed all these ridiculously complicated machines that would do a really simple thing like open a door crack an egg well you tap your card in a starbucks and a bunch of messages go through half a dozen companies each with ancient computer systems and then three days later clearing and settlement occurs well if all of that were based on a single distributed leisure there would be no three day settlement period because the payment the settlement is the same activity and there would be no counter party risk for each of those come that's what almost brought us down in two thousand and eight there would be no cost there would be no delay so the banks look at this and they think on the one hand this is a big threat this could disinter media a lot of what we do but on the other hand they think you know maybe this is also an opportunity not just to streamline the whole banking system but to start to create a whole bunch of new financial services a n

lot of these assets and when you think about it the whole banking system is kind of like this rube goldberg machine you know this american engineer developed all these ridiculously complicated machines that would do a really simple thing like open a door crack an egg well you tap your card in a starbucks and a bunch of messages go through half a dozen companies each with ancient computer systems and then three days later a clearing and settlement occurs well if all of that were based on a single discriminated leasure there would be no three day settlement period because a payment a settlement is the same activity and there would be no counter party risk for each of those come that's what almost brought us down in two thousand and eight there would be no cost there would be no delay so the banks look at this and they think on the one hand this is a big threat this could disinter media a lot of what we do but on the other hand they think you know maybe this is also an opportunity not just to streamline the whole banking system but to start to create a whole bunch of new financial services in

it was partnered with riewb -- rube goldberg cereal boxes that can be transformed into machines.ach box have instructions that promote science and gearing and math and education. if you post a picture of the machine on general mills facebook page you can win a college scholarship. we're back after this hello, peco. hi. can you help me save on my energy bill? old appliances. like a hot water heater? it's around here somewhere. nope. nope. what is this thing? sir, have you looked in the basement? huh. oh, yeah. no wonder. it was hidden behind all of my free weights. if you're not an expert, peco can help. we have lots of ways to help you save energy and money. peco. the future is on. and somebody's smelling around. to the store, "mmm...i smell cookies!" i say, oh no, you just smell me. i just got out of work, that's honey bunches of oats, that's all. i say, don't eat me now. everyone, 6:24 a.m., saturday morning, we're watching tuesday closely. a pocket of colder air will sneak in from the west. at the same time an area of low pressure develops along a cold front that punches throu

people who were once decrying the tax reform bill now coming up with these ruin goldberg type -- rube goldbergest by giving them a e duction that was taken away from them in the tax bill. paul: first, what they're talking about in california in particular which is the new charitable deduction so that if you're a california resident, the state will give you a dollar-for-dollar deduction as a charitable contribution to defray any increased federal taxes. what to you make of that? >> it's probably illegal. the whole purpose of charity, or one of the principles of charity is that that charitable gift cannot materially benefit or financially benefit the giver. and this clearly would. it's really a scheme, a tax payment by any other way. and a lot of court decisions have actually upheld this principle that a charitable gift can't financially benefit the giver. this clearly does, i think it'd be thrown out by the courts. paul: and would the irs approve it? >> no. paul: they'd have to make a judgment op an individual basis for it to go through. >> they've won decisions on this basis before, so i think

they are rolling out cereal boxes that can be transformed into one of six rube goldberg- type machineseering, and math education.it gives playing with your food a whole new meaning ... as kids and their parents can submit the creations online for a chance to win one of twenty ... 20-thousand dollar college scholarships. ( james ) apple's new smart speaker will finally hit store shelves on february 9-th. but pre- orders for the "home-pod" will start this friday. "home-pod" will go head- to-head with other smart speakers on the market... like the amazon echo and google home.( darya ) apple's device can play music and podcasts... as well as read you the news. but it'll cost you... it comes with a price tag of about 350-dollars. ( james ) a university student thought he swiped a potenial love interest out of his life.( darya ) the freshman meant to swipe right on a woman's tinder profile... but accidentally swipped left, rejecting her. he knew her name was claudia... and that she was also a student state university. so emailed all 22 of the claudias on campus. when claudia alley got the em

they are rolling out cereal boxes that can be transformed into one of six rube goldberg- type machinesn and easy -- that promote science, technology, engineering, and math education.it gives playing with your food a whole new meaning ... as kids and their parents can submit the creations online for a chance to win one of twenty ... 20-thousand dollar college scholarships. (rebecca) and i'm tracking your morning forecast. what to expect as you head out the door right after the break. (ácommercialá)(áábreakáá) (james)(darya) welcome back. lets get a check of weather and traffic... rebecca:expect increasing rain chances from north to south through the day as the next storm system impacts the area. steady rain quickly turns to showers for thursday. a round of more organized s

kind of like a rube goldberg device.id there was a second secret triggering device as backup. either way the bomb was designed to go off when roberto ayala opened the door of the electrical box. could have been almost anything. now suddenly agent parker saw how they all fit. those confusing bits and pieces he'd been poring over for the past month. >> it was almost like someone had sent us the cover of the puzzle box. >> reporter: so now they matched the bits to the diagram. >> the first thing i looked for was this bolt and there it was. >> the thing that made it exceptionally clear was the fact that the bolt still had some fishing string attached just under the head of the bolt which was how it was depicted in the diagram. >> it would have been hanging from that string as a weight. >> correct. right. so that was very clear that that bolt was in fact part of our device that was described in the letters. >> reporter: and there were fragments of a plastic soda bottle, black paint still clinging to it again just like the dia