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BEIRUT, Lebanon, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- The secretary general of Hezbollah in Lebanon described the cease-fire in Gaza as a victory for Hamas.
Hassan Nasrallah said Friday Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu failed in his goals and was forced to back away from plans for a ground invasion of Gaza or continued airstrikes, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported, citing the Lebanese TV network al-Manar.
"Netanyahu did not put high goals for this war. He rather put low goals so that he would achieve them and announce his victory, but even these he failed to achieve," Nasrallah said. "The first goal was to destroy the Palestinian resistance's leadership. He failed in that. The second goal was to destroy the resistance's missile system. He also failed in that. The third goal was to reinforce Israel's deterrence power. This war rather weakened this power. If you failed to win a war against Gaza which has been under siege, what would be the case if you engage yourself in a war with someone else?"

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Largent: The academy, as well as the foundation, supports dental care provided according to the established guidelines of the academy. Healthy Smiles, Healthy Children places an important focus on providing a dental home for children. Ongoing care, where all needs can be met in a compassionate, family-centered way, providing emergency care and directing advanced care is our goal.
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This German movie, which won the 2006 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, is a cooly controlled and oddly touching drama of an officer in the Stasi - the hated secret police of Communist East Germany - who forms an emotional bond with the charismatic playwright he has been assigned to bring down.
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Bolton striker Kevin Davies has signed a new one-year contract at the club but Wanderers' relegation from the Barclays Premier League is being felt with 12 players on their way out.
Davies' current deal expired this summer but he has agreed to stay on, with defender Sam Ricketts also agreeing a two-year extension as manager Owen Coyle prepares his side for their npower Championship campaign.
Midfielder Nigel Reo-Coker has activated a release clause in his contract while a further 11 players have all been released after their deals ran out.
Gretar Steinsson, Paul Robinson, Sean Davis, Robbie Blake, Ricardo Gardner, Ivan Klasnic, Mark Connolly, Tope Obadeyi, Rhys Bennett, Dino Fazlic and Tom Eckersley are those who have left, while Tuncay Sanli, Dedryck Boyata and Ryo Miyaichi have all returned to their respective parent clubs after loans spells.
In a statement Bolton said discussions were continuing with goalkeeper Jussi Jaaskelainen, deposed as number one by Adam Bogdan, and Zat Knight over their contracts.
"I was clear with Nigel. I asked him straight away whether he wanted to stay and be a part of what we are going to do next season," Coyle said in a statement.
"He was honest and up front with us, because that is the type of man he is, and said that he wanted to exercise the clause in his contract, and so we wish him well.
"I would also like to thank the players that are leaving the club for their work at Bolton. We wish them all well.
"One of those is Ricardo Gardner, who has been with the football club for 14 years.
"He has offered incredible service to Bolton and I'd like to personally thank him for all of his efforts, particularly during the time I have worked with him."
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Highlights:- Q3'12 total revenue: $631,311 representing 49.0% growth over Q3'11(6.3% sequential growth over Q2'12) - Q3'12 net loss decreased to $452,184 from $564,897 in Q2'12 and from $747,157 in Q3'11 - Q3'12 operator channel subscription revenue growth of 101.9% over Q3'11 (17.0% sequential growth over Q2'12) - Dismissal of Macrosolve Inc. patent claim
- Q3'12 total revenue: $631,311 representing 49.0% growth over Q3'11(6.3% sequential growth over Q2'12)
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OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Nov. 29, 2012) - TrueContext Mobile Solutions Corporation (TSX VENTURE:TMN) ("TrueContext" or "the Company"), a mobile data solutions company today announced results for its three and nine months ended September 30, 2012. All amounts are stated in Canadian dollars unless otherwise noted.
Operating Results for the Three Months Ended September 30, 2012
Total revenue for the three months ended September 30, 2012 of $631,311 represented an increase of 49.0% over total revenue for the third quarter of 2011 of $423,593.
"In 2012 so far, we have steadily grown our subscriber base, particularly with subscribers added through our operator partners, providing us with strong revenue growth and enabling us to steadily reduce our net loss. Our third quarter 2012 operator channel subscription revenue grew by over 100% over last year and we recently added Rogers Communications and Bell in Canada to our operator channel network. We continue on our path to balance strong subscriber and revenue growth while steadily progressing towards profitability," said Alvaro Pombo, Chief Executive Officer, TrueContext.
Mr. Pombo added: "ProntoForms is a strategic subscriber service for operators that helps improve sales of related voice and data plans, smartphones and reduce customer churn. We believe that we have an advantage in deploying ProntoForms® with operator channel partners and we continue to see interest from new operators. Our customer engagement and deployment engine allows us to equip our customers with the ProntoForms solution in a quick and easy fashion through our web portal. Also, our secured co-marketing partnerships with the global top four mobile smartphone brands help expand awareness and representation of our products through the mobile operator channels globally."
Option Grant
Options to purchase up to 100,000 common shares of the Company were approved for grant by the Board of Directors, including 40,000 to an officer of the Company. The options were approved for grant to be effective as of December 6, 2012 pursuant to the terms of the Company's stock option plan and are exercisable for a period of five years from the effective date at an exercise price to be equal to the greater of $0.18 and the closing price of the common shares on December 5, 2012. Stock option grants are subject to necessary regulatory approvals.
ProntoForms is a mobile workflow solution used by 2,000 business customers. Available for any smartphone or tablet, ProntoForms incorporates a mobile device App, a Web management portal to manage teams and data flow, and provides the ability to export or connect data to the back office or to popular cloud services.
TrueContext, traded on the TSXV under the symbol TMN, has a powerful and proprietary patent portfolio, from which the ProntoForms mobile App and Web reporting portal have been developed. ProntoForms is the registered trademark of TrueContext Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of TrueContext.
Certain information in this press release may constitute forward-looking information. This information is based on current expectations that are subject to significant risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict. Actual results might differ materially from results suggested in any forward-looking statements. The Company assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements, or to update the reasons why actual results could differ from those reflected in the forward looking-statements unless and until required by securities laws applicable to the Company. Neither the TSXV nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSXV) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
There are a number of risk factors that could cause future results to differ materially from those described herein, including but not limited to the following: (i) there can be no assurance that the Company will earn any profits in the future or that profitability, if achieved, will be sustained; (ii) if the Company is not able to achieve profitability, it will require additional equity or debt financing, and there can be no assurances that the Company will be able to obtain additional financial resources on favourable commercial terms or at all; (iii) the Company's quarterly revenues and operating results may fluctuate, which may harm its results of operations; (iv) the loss of business from a major customer, operator or other reseller could reduce the Company's sales and harm its business and prospects; (v) a portion of the Company's sales are through operators and other resellers, and an adverse change in the Company's relationship with any of such operators or other resellers may result in decreased sales; (vi) the market for software as a service is at a relatively early stage of development, and if it does not develop or develops more slowly than expected, the Company's business will be harmed; (vii) the Company faces competition from other software solution providers, which may reduce its market share or limit the prices it can charge for its software solutions; (viii) a global economic downturn or market volatility may adversely affect our business and/or our ability to complete new financings; (ix) the business of the Company may be harmed if it does not continue to penetrate markets; (x) the success of the business depends on the Company's ability to develop new products and enhance its existing products; (xi) the Company's growth depends in part on the success of its strategic relationships with third parties; (xii) the financial condition of third parties may adversely affect the Company;
(xiii) the US dollar may fluctuate significantly compared to the Canadian dollar, causing reduced revenue and cash flow as most of our revenues are received in US dollars while most of our expenses are payable in Canadian dollars; (xiv) subscription services which produce the majority of the Company's revenue are hosted by a third party service for the Company and any interruption in service could harm its results of operations; (xv) intellectual property claims against the Company may be time consuming, costly to defend, and disruptive to the business; (xvi) the Company uses open source software in connection with its products which exposes it to uncertainty and potential liability; (xvii) economic uncertainty and downturns in the software market may lead to decreases in the Company's revenue and margins; (xviii) any significant changes in the technological paradigm utilized for building or delivering applications in Smartphone devices could harm the Company's business and prospects; and (xix) if the Company loses any of its key personnel, its operations and business may suffer. Please see "Risk Factors Affecting Future Results" in the Company's annual management's discussion and analysis for the year ended December 31, 2011, for a more complete discussion of these and other risks. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. We undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable law.
This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities. The securities have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "US Securities Act") or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold within the United States or to US persons unless registered under the US Securities Act and applicable state securities laws or an exemption from such registration is available.
TrueContext Mobile Solutions CorporationAlvaro PomboChief Executive Officer613.599.8288 ext. firstname.lastname@example.com
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TH: House prices grow at slowest rate in four years
House prices are growing at their slowest rate for four years according to the latest index from the country's biggest mortgage lender, reports the BBC.
Halifax's house price index for March puts the annual rate of growth at 3.8 per cent, down from 5.1 per cent for the year to February and the slowest rate since May 2013.
On a monthly basis, the index has shown zero growth for both of the last two months, while the rolling three-monthly data, which the lender prefers, rose just 0.1 per cent in March.
A rival index from Nationwide last week suggested house prices rose by 3.5 per cent in the year to last month, but it recorded a modestly negative month-on-month growth figure for the first time in two years.
An average home in the UK is now worth £219,755, says Halifax.
Experts argue that affordability constraints after years of rapid house price acceleration, coupled with headwinds from Brexit and a crackdown on buy-to-let landlords, is slowing the housing market.
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But there is also consensus that a shortage of homes for sale is underpinning the market and that growth will remain positive.
Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, told The Independent he expects house prices to increase by just two per cent this year.
A study by the Centre for Economics and Buyout Research this week predicted values will rise by four per cent this year - and by £60,000 from the end of last year to 2021.
However, those figures are based on Office for National Statistics data which typically records a faster rate of growth and represents a slowdown from 7.5 per cent last year.
House prices forecast to rise £60,000 in next four years
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Perfect storm of housing shortage and cheap mortgages predicted to trump Brexit and buy-to-let tax hike
House price growth is set to slow over the next few years, but the average property will still be worth £61,000 more by 2021 despite the headwind of Brexit and big buy-to-let tax increases, says a new report.
According to the Centre for Economic and Buyout Research (CEBR), house prices will grow 4.4 per cent, or £9,000, this year, rising from £211,000 to £220,000, reports the Daily Telegraph.
This would be a marked slowdown from the 7.5 per cent for 2016, as tracked by the Office for National Statistics, while next year is expected to see growth slide further to 4.1 per cent.
But for the following three years, the growth rate will accelerate to 5.7 per cent and then beyond six per cent. By 2021, the average house price will be £272,000, says CEBR.
These figures will sound high to those who have been following private sector house price indices from the likes of Halifax, while Nationwide yesterday said prices rose by just 3.5 per cent in the year to last month.
The trend is the same, however, with house prices coming off rapid growth rates of recent years, but remaining in positive territory. Many believe that by private sector measures, growth will slow to around two per cent this year.
It had been widely predicted that Brexit would cause a prolonged correction for house prices, sending them into negative growth.
Added to that is the latest leg of the buy-to-let clampdown, which starts with a new tax year today and means that by the end of this parliament, higher-rate taxpayers will be able to deduct only half of the tax on mortgage interest they can deduct at the moment.
However, says the Telegraph, offsetting this is an ongoing shortage of homes, with the CEBR reporting that 40 per cent of councils do not know how they will meet housing demand over the next decade.
"By other measures the market is proving buoyant," adds the paper, with the number of mortgages issued running close to pre-crisis highs and low interest rates keeping borrowing cheap.
London house prices drop out of global top 50 for growth
4 April
The tide appears to be turning for London house prices, which until early last year were among the fastest-growing - and most unaffordable - in the world.
After being ranked the world's number 14 for house price growth in the first three months of 2016, the capital dropped to 55th place, according to estate agent Knight Frank's global index, reports City AM.
A UBS study last year also ranked London as the second most unaffordable place to buy a home of any city in the world.
Since then, however, an increase in stamp duty on second homes and the Brexit vote have taken some of the heat out of the market.
For the three months at the end of last year, Knight Frank estimates London registered price growth of 7.5 per cent.
Three UK cities posted faster increases: Bristol (38th with growth of 10.1 per cent); Manchester (51st, 7.9 per cent), and Birmingham (53rd, 7.7 per cent).
London house prices have also slowed considerably since then. Hometrack's latest index found the capital's growth rate fell to 5.3 per cent for the year to February, below the UK cities average.
March's wider house prices went into reverse on a month-on-month basis for the first time in two years, says Nationwide, while the annual rate slipped to 3.5 per cent.
Overall, analysts expect the market to continue to slow this year but to remain positive with growth of two per cent. London, which is already at the top end of affordability, could fare worse.
House prices see 'abrupt reversal' in momentum
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An "abrupt reversal in momentum" in house prices in the past month should act as a "wake-up call" to the market, according to one expert following the publication of Nationwide's latest monthly index.
Based on the building society's own lending activity, March's house prices fell month-on-month for the first time in two years, dropping 0.3 per cent.
Jonathan Hopper, managing director of Garrington Property Finders, said: "Whether you regard it as a dive or just a dip, March's abrupt reversal in house price momentum is a wake-up call."
All of the lenders that produce similar data say monthly changes can be volatile and to look instead at the likes of the rolling annual growth figure, which fell one per cent to a 19-month low of 3.5 per cent.
Since last year, various indices have also been tracking a decline in housing transactions, as a stamp duty hike for would-be landlords is deterring buy-to-let investors and the Brexit vote hits appetite from oversea buyers.
Several experts believe general affordability constraints following years of rapid price growth have also been weighing on demand for some time.
Nationwide pointed to figures that appear to corroborate this and that show home ownership at its lowest level since 1985 of 63 per cent, says The Guardian.
Overall, most analysts believe growth will remain positive this year due to a dearth of supply, but that the pace at which prices are picking up will slow.
Hopper said average prices would "continue to creep up" at a "subdued pace", while Howard Archer, UK chief at IHS Markit, said: "Markedly weakening consumer fundamentals, likely mounting caution over making major spending decisions, and elevated house price to earnings ratios are likely to weigh down on housing market activity and house prices.
"However, a shortage of supply is likely to put a floor under prices. Consequently, we believe house price gains over 2017 will be limited to around 2.5%."
How will the triggering of Article 50 affect house prices?
29 March
According to the Financial Times, in the week that Article 50 has been triggered, the most searched Google term following the phrase "How will Brexit affectâ¦" is house prices.
There is widespread concern that the economic fallout from the UK leaving the EU could undermine housing confidence.
So far, the FT says, that is how things are playing out: HMRC figures show transaction levels in the second half of 2016, after the Brexit vote, were down nine per cent on the same period in 2015.
In general, anecdotal evidence says a slowdown in foreign buyers in high-value markets such as London has added to a reduction in prospective landlords moving into the market following the rise in stamp duty last April.
The capital has apparently been hardest hit, with some indices citing negative growth overall, dragged lower by the most expensive boroughs.
But other studies show growth continuing. Hometrack featured London house prices rising 5.3 per cent year-on-year last month, the lowest figure since May 2013 but still steady and positive.
This is the story in recent months: slower transaction volumes and declining growth, but house prices still edging steadily higher.
Experts predict growth across the UK this year could fall to around two per cent.
The main reason prices are continuing to rise, albeit slower, is the ongoing shortage of housing, which means demand being propped up by low interest rates is outstripping supply.
It is possible the Brexit process could lead to a sharp drop in economic confidence that would upset the apple cart, but otherwise this trend looks set to continue.
âLucian Cook, head of residential research at Savills estate agents, told the London Evening Standard: "[Brexit] may well make the Bank of England reluctant to increase interest rates, despite the recent increase in inflation.
"This will preserve affordability and points to a low turnover market, with little upward or downward pressure on prices."
House prices force more first-time buyers to tap 'bank of mum and dad'
27 March
High house prices across the UK are forcing young first-time buyers to seek financial help from their parents to get on the housing ladder.
A report from the, which is chaired by former Labour minister Alan Milburn, found 34 per cent of people getting on the property ladder looked to the "bank of mum and dad" for help towards their deposit in 2013/2014, the latest data available.
It's the highest figure on record, says City AM, and up sharply from just 20 per cent in 2010.
There is also a longer-term trend of young families being priced out of the market: in 1990, 39 per cent of 20-24 year olds bought their own home compared to ten per cent by 2015.
At the same time, the proportion of 25-29-year-old homeowners dropped from 63 per cent to 31 per cent, says The Guardian.
House prices have soared by hundreds of percentage points over the last few decades. After a sharp dip in the wake of the financial crisis, rapid growth resumed in 2013 and continued into the middle of last year.
While this slowed after the Brexit vote, all house price indices show values defying declining activity levels and creeping higher due to a dire shortage of available property.
However, wages have failed to keep pace. Average earnings from 2011 to 2016 grew by nine per cent, but the average house price soared by 26.7 per cent, said a study based on Office for National Statistics data last week.
Consequently, the number of years' earnings required to afford the average home has increased from eight to more than nine.
The Social Mobility Commission says the increasing prevalence of parents in their children's purchasing power entrenches inequality as only those who already have a level of wealth are able to help.
Last year, the commission called for the government to "build three million homes over the next decade and build on the green belt", says the Guardian.
On current trends, parents will be helping with 40 per cent of transactions by 2029, adds the report.


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DELAWARE, Ohio – Sophomore running back Manny Sicre (Miami, Fla./Belen Jesuit Preparatory) posted a season-high 123 yards rushing on a career-high 32 carries, but the Case Western Reserve University football team fell via a 17-14 score as Ohio Wesleyan University's Miles MacKenzie kicked a game-winning 46-yard field goal with 4.4 seconds left in regulation on Saturday evening at Selby Stadium.
Despite the loss, Case Western Reserve (2-2) sits at 26-2 in its last 28 road games dating back to 2007. Ohio Wesleyan improves to 3-0 overall and evens the all-time series with the Spartans at 9-9.
Both teams failed to score on their initial drives. However, the Battling Bishops got on the scoreboard first on a Scott Jenkins one-yard rush, and Miles MacKenzie tacked on the point after to make the score 7-0 with 3:54 left in the opening period.
Following a Spartan turnover and an Ohio Wesleyan punt, Case knotted the contest at 7-7 with 11:54 left in the second quarter. Senior quarterback Erik Olson (Bethel Park, Pa./Bethel Park) found Sicre on a seven-yard touchdown pass to cap a five-play, 47-yard drive that spanned just 1:46. Freshman placekicker Won Kun Park (Daejon, South Korea/Kimball Union Academy, N.H.) tacked on the extra point.
OWU retook the lead and made it 14-7 with 6:30 left in the opening half when running back Calvin Cagney scored from three yards out. MacKenzie tacked on the extra point for the hosts.
Neither team scored during the remainder of the half, and the Battling Bishops took that 14-7 lead into the intermission.
The score remained 14-7 in favor of the Battling Bishops until midway through the fourth quarter. Spartan sophomore running back Ricky Hanzlik (Mentor, Ohio/Mentor) recorded his first career touchdown, a one-yard scamper over right tackle, capping off a 17-play, 80-yard drive that consumed 7:43 off of the clock. Kun Park converted the PAT to tie the contest at 14-14 with 5:42 left.
Following a missed Spartan field goal attempt with 1:06 left, the Battling Bishops took over at their own 20 yardline. The hosts then drove down the field and called their final timeout with 4.4 seconds left and the ball on the Spartan 29. MacKenzie then drilled the game-winner from 46 yards out to hand the Spartans their second-consecutive loss.
For the game, Sicre also had five catches for 65 yards and a score to go along with his 123 on the ground. Over the past two games, Sicre has 174 and 188 yards from scrimmage, respectively. Sophomore wide out Sean Lapcevic (Presto, Pa./Chartiers Valley) caught seven passes for a team-high 62 yards.
Defensively, senior outside linebacker Ryan Ferguson (Wheaton, Ill./St. Francis) recorded a team-high nine tackles, while senior linebacker Kevin Nossem (Munster, Ind./Munster), senior linebacker and captain Wade Self (Hawthorn Woods, Ill./Lake Zurich) and senior cornerback Brandon Flick (Butler, Pa./Knoch) each tallied seven stops.
Ohio Wesleyan was led by wide receiver Kevin Herman with eight catches for 72 yards and Jenkins with seven grabs for 61 yards. Quarterback Mason Espinosa was 28-of-42 through the air for 235 yards. Defensively, Justin Segal led four Battling Bishop defenders in double-figures with 13 tackles.
The Spartans return home to the confines of Case Field next Saturday, September 29 versus Wittenberg University at 1:00 p.m. as part of CWRU's annual Homecoming Weekend festivities.


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Red 2 (US - BD RA)
Gabe wishes someone would make a good ensemble action movie already...
Retired blackops CIA agent Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing, next-generation lethal device that can change the balance of world power. To succeed, they'll need to survive an army of relentless assassins, ruthless terrorists and a power-crazed government. (From Summit's official synopsis)
I'll start this brief review off with an acknowledgement that I have never seen Robert Schwentke's Red. I am aware of its basic concept, plot, and the film's qualities/problems, but have not had the time to draw my own conclusion. My opinions of Dean Parisot's Red 2 are based on its standalone qualities and my assumptions surrounding its prequel.
Parisot seems like a good choice for a light-hearted action tryst. He isn't the most prolific filmmaker, but his last two films, Galaxy Quest (great) and Fun with Dick and Jane (eh…) seem to fit the bill. Minus the destructive violence, of course. Red 2 recycles some of those films' general themes, especially the concept of a 'normal' person (in this case, Frank's girlfriend, Sarah, played by Mary-Louise Parker) placed in the kind of wacky situation that only occurs in the movies. Parisot doesn't skimp on cruelty in the film's violence and allows his characters to be appropriately mean-spirited without being entirely unlikable. I'm a little disappointed that Red 2 doesn't aim R-rating with more grotesque bloodshed (the occasional gross-out would've added nice comedic texture), but appreciate the filmmakers didn't soften things too much for the PG-13. Parisot's action and effects direction is better than anticipated, largely because he and his second unit people hold the camera relatively still and capture everything that happens without excessive editing. There's weight and discernible momentum to the fisticuffs, shoot-outs, and car chases. What's missing is the same thing that's missing from the rest of the film – originality. Even well-structured action is no substitute for something fresh and new.
My interest in these films revolves mostly around my interest in writer Warren Ellis, who wrote the original comic that inspired them. Despite his massive influence on modern superhero storytelling, somehow, Ellis' work was left out of the live-action super hero movie scene until the first Red was made in 2010. Unfortunately, the Red comic was a three-issue one-off that isn't really indicative of his skills as a writer. He did, however, create the Extremis concept that was used for Iron Man 3, so some of his techno-sociological-obsessed style has adapted to the medium (perhaps someday we'll also see a Transmetropolitan movie, but I'm not holding my breath). This sequel bears the concept's basic premise, but Jon & Erich Hoeber's screenplay feels more like an ensemble comedy piece than an action satire. The tone works pretty well, thanks to some genuinely good jokes, a cast that knows how to tell them, and Parisot's strengths with this type of faux off-the-cuff humour. Nothing ever approaches the chaotic genius of Galaxy Quest, but there are some chuckles to be had. The problem is that the writers are way too comfortable with the material. Even without having seen the previous film, I can tell that they're re-treading old ground and, even if they aren't, they're leaning heavily on genre conventions without subverting them beyond the character types. It becomes harder to care about anything that is happening and easier to notice that no one is really trying.
The Red movies are, clearly, exploitation films. They are exploiting the public's apparent desire to see old, established actors in ridiculously violent action movie situations. See also: the Expendables movies. Between those two movies, this one, and G.I. Joe: Retaliation, it seems Bruce Willis is making a career out of making fun of himself these days. Red 2's cast is certainly impressive, including returning members Willis, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Parker, and 'fresh' talent, like Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Byung-hun Lee, Brian Cox, and David Thewlis. Simply having Lee, Thewlis, and Cox in the same movie together is enough to raise an eyebrow, even if the finished film wastes them on extended cameos. Viewers expecting no more than this will probably be happy, but there's something of an Expendables effect going on, where the brevity of some appearances is more annoying than entertaining. At least everyone seems to be having a good time.
Red 2 was shot on 35mm and is presented in 2.40:1, 1080p video on this Blu-ray. The picture quality is typical for a modern, light-hearted action flick, including heavy blacks, soft highlights, and vivid, computer-assisted colours. Parisot and cinematographer Enrique Chediak tend to use shallow focus and this makes for some shallow details, but the heavy contrast levels even things out with some hard lines and crisp edges (when the deep blacks are crushing out darker details, of course). The close-up skin and clothing textures are sharp and the less common wide-angle shots are plenty busy with fine patterns. The 35mm base shows itself with a fine sheen of grain and some minor edge enhancement, but there aren't any notable compression effects, like macro-blocking or low-level noise. The palette is honeyed enough for skin tones to appear yellow or orange and blue elements to turn slightly green (or, you know, teal, because everything is teal these days). These are further contrasted against an eclectic series of highlights, usually poppy reds or oranges. Though occasionally unnatural, these hues are very consistent, tightly separated (aside from a bit of bleed during the darkest scenes), and brighter than any DVD version could manage.
This Blu-ray features a big, busy, action-movie-tastic DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 soundtrack. The mix is poppy, embracing the wide dynamic ranges between the low-key dialogue scenes and the physics-defying action scenes. The best sequences maintain this punchy approach, filling the channels with intricate noise, not an impenetrable wall of sound. The action effects are snappy, instead of simply loud. The directional momentum is effective and fully immersive, especially during the bone-crunching car chases and LFE vibrating shoot-outs. Alan Silvestri's score is an unexpected mix of '90s adventure movie music, modern, techno-infused action music, and bluesy rock that defines most scenes as standalone sequences. It's a patchwork approach, but it works for the material. The music drives the action well without overwhelming it.
The extras begin with The Red 2 Experience (34:40, HD) a two-part featurette that is broken into discussions about the cast/characters and the film's weapons and stunts. Interviews include Parisot, producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, screenwriters Eric and Jon Hoeber, stunt coordinator/2nd unit director Paul Jennings, and cast members Willis, Mirren, Malkovich, Parker, Hopkins, Zeta-Jones, and Lee. The extras also include a deleted scene reel (4:30, HD), a gag reel (4:20, HD), and trailers for other Summit/Lionsgate releases.
Red 2 doesn't offend with bad filmmaking, a nonsense screenplay, or weak performances – it just doesn't do much else to justify its existence. It's here, because the first one was popular and no one really cares enough to do more than the bare minimum. If there' any consolation, it's that Dean Parisot makes a better generic action movie than most supposed 'action directors' and that Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, and Brian Cox are still perfectly charming, even when they don't care. This Blu-ray's image and audio qualities are strong, but the extras are limited to a couple of fluffy featurettes, some brief deleted scenes, and a gag reel.
* Note: The above images are taken from the Blu-ray and resized for the page. Full-resolution captures are available by clicking the individual images, but due to .jpg compression, they are not necessarily representative of the quality of the transfer.
Review by Gabriel Powers
DirkToesfeld Member Join Date: November 2009 Location: Germany Posts: 110
I'd rather watch something in which Helen Mirren doesn't give a damn and doesnt even try than most of today's rubbish in which talentless thesps actually do give a damn and actually do try.
David Blackwell Senior Member Join Date: February 2004 Location: United States Posts: 2,834
I enjoyed Red 2, but I do think the first one was better
Jeyl Member Join Date: February 2008 Location: United States Posts: 208
I didn't see this film the moment I heard Karl Urban wasn't going to be in it. He was, for me, the best part of the first film.
Marcus1138 Contributor Join Date: June 2008 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 910
Thought the first was a lot of fun. This second one was just 'meh' but at least tried a bit harder here than he did in the last Die Hard.
djblack1313 Member Join Date: April 2006 Location: United States Posts: 529
i LOVE the first movie. it's IMO a near perfect, fun, movie that has some good action and has some sweet moments as well. the sequel was meh....not anywhere near as good as the first movie.
Chris Johnson Member Join Date: October 2005 Location: United States Posts: 1,465
I loved the first one as well, and I too was disappointed in the second.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 26th November 2013
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 English, Dolby Digital 2.0 DVS English, Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras: The Red 2 Experience, Gag Reel, Deleted Scenes, Trailers, DVD Copy, UltraViolet Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Dean Parisot
Cast: Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Anthony Hopkins, Mary-Louise Parker
Genre: Action and Comedy
Length: 116 minutes
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World-renowned Designer Cesar Pelli Joins Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport's Design Team
César Pelli and Ray Manning tapped to lend talent to New Airport Terminal Envelope Design
(NEW ORLEANS, LA) – César Pelli and William Raymond Manning of Manning Architects have joined the Crescent City Aviation Team, A Leo A. Daly/Atkins Global Joint Venture that includes Lonnie Hewitt of Hewitt Washington Architects, to help shape a world class airport terminal in New Orleans set to open ahead of the 300th anniversary of New Orleans. Mr. Pelli is known locally for his work with Dr. Norman Francis, President of Xavier University, to design the St. Katherine Drexel Chapel at Xavier University. Mr. Pelli completed that work free of charge.
Pelli has been regarded as one of the 20th century's preeminent architects and continues to dominate the architectural world into the 21st century with his unique style. Mr. Pelli has written extensively on architectural issues and his writings have been widely published and exhibited, with several books and issues of professional journals dedicated to his designs and theories. He is a former Dean of the School of Architecture at Yale University and has received twelve (12) Honorary Degrees, over 200 awards for design excellence and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Academy of Design, the International Academy of Architecture, and of l'Academie d'Archtecture de France. In 1995, the American Institute of Architects awarded Pelli the Gold Medal, in recognition of a lifetime of distinguished achievement in architecture. In 2004, he was awarded the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the design of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Mr. Pelli avoids formalistic preconceptions in his designs and that the aesthetic qualities of a building should grow from the specific characteristics of each project such as its location, its construction technology, and its purpose.
Pelli, a world renowned architect, has designed several award-winning projects including the San Bernadino City Hall in Bernandino, CA; the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles; and the United States Embassy in Tokyo, Japan. His airport terminal work includes the widely recognized TWA Terminal (JFK), Washington National Airport Expansion and the new Airport Terminal at Winnipeg, Canada.
Manning Architects was established by Manning in 1985 and is today a 30+ group of Leadership in Energy and Design (LEED) accredited architects. It maintains offices in Dallas and Las Vegas as well as its home base in New Orleans and specializes in the areas of transportation, education, cultural, civic, commercial, healthcare and hospitality. The Manning firm was part of a team of professionals asked to record and evaluate damages to the exterior of Armstrong International following Hurricane Katrina. Other Manning transportation projects include the New Orleans Riverfront Streetcar Stations, New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal Station, Dallas Area Rapid Transit – Orange Line Extension and the Port of New Orleans Erato Street Cruise Terminal Complex. Manning Architects is credited most recently with the completion of the Convocation Center and Annex at Xavier University.
The Long Term Infrastructure Development Plan is a $650 million terminal project is being planned for the north side of the airport campus. Pelli Clarke Pelli and Manning Architects will complete peer review on the design of the new terminal facility. The firms will bring a vision and world class experience to shape the design and aesthetics to infuse the essence and rich cultural roots of New Orleans into the architecture and interiors.
"We continue to work for a New Orleans that still has its best days ahead of her. This great addition will further ensure that our world class city will finally get a world class Airport," said New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu.
New Orleans Aviation Board (NOAB) Chairwoman Cheryl Teamer said, "We know the design collaboration of Mr. Pelli will result in a unique look that will give our airport the prominence it deserves."
Dr. Norman Francis, President of Xavier University said, "Xavier University was the first to bring César Pelli to New Orleans for the design of our beautiful chapel. We are pleased and lucky to have him as part of the team to provide us with a new airport."
"We're excited to see such an impressive team working together to design a world class airport for our community," said Director of Aviation Iftikhar Ahmad. "We expect the team to be on time and on budget"
Chris Spann of Parson Brinkerhoff will be serving as the program manager for this project.
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Last spring, the city launched a pilot program to provide a free laptop for every student at seven middle schools on the Upper West Side The "One-to-One in Ten" program (so named because it takes place in School District 10 and aims to achieve a one-to-one student to laptop ratio) had a modest beginning. But City Councilmember Gale Brewer, the chair of the council's technology committee who championed the program and represents most of the Upper West Side, hopes that every public middle school student in New York City some day will have access to a laptop at school. Eventually some advocates thought the students might even be able to take their computers home at night.
Brewer's enthusiasm is based upon research that shows that using laptops encourage students to engage more deeply with their coursework. The so-called one-to-one programs also seek to prepare students for the technologically driven world in which they live and to close the digital divide between students who have computers and those whose families may not be able to afford them.
But a problem has arisen: There is little evidence that students who use laptops in class do better on standardized tests than students who do not. Since President George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002, a school's aggregate performance on standardized tests has become of foremost concern for school administrators. Given this reality, a national backlash against laptops in the classroom is brewing just as New York City has begun to embrace the trend.
New York City is far from alone in using laptops for educational purposes. Maine has launched a similar program, and many Maine teachers who worked in one-to-one laptop initiatives are now advising others about how to begin similar programs. A study of 2,500 of the country's largest school districts conducted last year found an increasing number gave all students and teachers computers connected to the Internet, sometimes for use at home as well as at school.
In general, though, evidence seems to be emerging that technology is not a cure-all for the nation's classroom. A recent Department of Education study, for example, while not considering the laptop programs, looked at 15 software programs used in schools and found that they did not lead to higher test scores.
On the other hand, as the Times recently reported, school district are seeing a downside to the computers. Many districts find that they spend too much time and money fixing and maintaining the computers. One letter writer to the Times pointed out that maintenance is a greater problem with Windows machines than Apple products. But regardless of the type of computer, students use them to access educationally trivial (and sometimes pornographic) web sites. Students at one suburban Syracuse school, the Times found, used the laptops to exchange test answers and view pornography. When the school tried to stop that, some students found a way around the increased security – and used the computers to tell their fellow students how to do that.
Faced with all of this, school districts that serve a diversity of student populations — some affluent, some poor, and with various ethnic groups — are abandoning their laptops
So, have the defenders of laptops in the classroom lost the debate? Is it time to revert to the chalkboard and the fundamentals of reading, writing, and arithmetic? Not so fast, argues Bruce Lai. Lai is Brewer's chief of staff and an expert on how to increase broadband Internet access in underserved areas of New York City
He points out that many of schools abandoning their laptops programs have students who have ready access to broadband Internet connections at home. He worries, though, that taking a similar step in New York City's school will "consign working-class students" to a technological apartheid. According to a recent report by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, only 21 percent of households with an annual income of $30,000 or less had a broadband connection at home in 2006.
Lai and educational research consultant Saul Rockman also question some of the reasoning that has led schools to abandon laptops. The goal of laptop learning, they say, is not to improve standardized test scores, but rather to capture the imagination of students as they work on projects that would either be impossible or much more difficult without a computer. For example, the students in Maine reportedly used laptops to create a book in Spanish for children in Guatemala, an activity whose benefits are difficult to quantify with standardized tests.
Another barrier to the success of laptop programs is teacher resistance. Instructors who are used to teaching the traditional way may resent the introduction of laptops into their classrooms. "The box gets in the way," Liverpool, New York, school board president Mark Lawson told the Times.
Teachers who perceive a potential benefit for laptops in their classrooms and are willing to change their teaching style to allow for increased student control of learning are more likely to take a positive view of one to-one laptop programs.
Laptop programs should take this into account. Lai points out that meaningful plans for integrating technology into the classroom – and addressing resistance to change among teachers — are just as important to the success of the computing plan as the laptops themselves.
Such cultural changes take a long time to occur but some are working on it. Teaching Matters is a New York based non-profit that seeks to hasten the process. Believing that technology can improve learning if it is used properly, they provide assistance in the classroom as well as workshops and on line help so teachers can make better use of technology
In the meantime, researchers from Fordham University's Regional Educational Technology Center have begun to evaluate the efficacy of the "One-to-One in Ten" initiative. Surely there is room for improvement, but one hopes it will find some signs of greater student engagement with their own learning. But that might not be enough. In today's world, educational assessment is driven by standardized exams, and classroom laptop programs may fail the test.


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posted by Thom Holwerda on Mon 4th Mar 2013 18:26 UTC
"Canonical has today publicly confirmed that they are working on a new cross-platform displayer server for Ubuntu. Called 'Mir', the X Window Server replacement is tasked with 'enabling development of the next generation Unity'. Which, in yet another about-turn, is to be rebuilt in Qt/QML." It'll be used for all Ubuntu variants (phone, tablet, desktop), and the first version will be released come May.


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Watch this kid run.
Racean Thomas, 4/5 star (depending on what service you look at) RB from Alabama. Is likely going to either Auburn or Alabama but has said that Oregon is the only school he'll consider out west.
Fun to watch this kid run. Doesnt look like he has elite top speed but his lateral movement and power are off the charts.
As a side note... love the music in his highlights, so much better then the usual crap they choose.


text: The truly elite schools (Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc) are probably out based on your GPA. For those schools a 171 is pretty average, but your GPA is low. For some of the still very respected but not exactly elite schools (UCLA, Texas, Vanderbilt, etc) a 171 may be enough to get in even with a lower GPA.


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posted by Thom Holwerda on Fri 23rd May 2008 21:37 UTC, submitted by yourabi
"FreeBSD 7.0 has already been released. If you are a real hacker, the best way to jump in and learn it is hacking together an introductory kernel module. In this article I'll implement a very basic module that prints a message when it is loaded, and another when it is unloaded. I'll also cover the mechanics of compiling our module using standard tools and rebuilding the stock FreeBSD kernel. Let's do it!"


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Sunday, November 28, 2010
Summer Garden Update
9 comments:
- Gourmet Getaway said...
They are going so well. We have heaps of rain and sun so our garden is growing like weeds. We have had piles of salad but I am still waiting on tomato to go with the greens :)
I love our kids being involved in the garden. :)
- 5:06 pm
- email@example.com said...
Hey Ange, your garden is looking wonderful!
Hope you don't mind but I've sent you a 'blogger tag'. All you need to do is pop onto my blog, get the 8 questions you're to answer and post the answers on your blog. Once done, you then get to nominate others and make up another 8 new questions. Just a bit of fun! Leigh
- 10:33 pm
Amazing looking garden Ange ... Now I'm moving to the inner north, I'll be popping around to seek your garden advice!
Enjoy your harvest
- 6:15 pm
- cassiopeia160 said...
Your vegie patch is looking great! Must be exciting watching the vegies grow and then getting to enjoy the fruits of your labour!
- 2:15 pm
- Tv Food and Drink said...
That looks great. Congratulations. Wish I had that much space!
- 7:14 am
Good luck with the patch, looks like it's coming along nicely. Merry Christmas to you and may 2011 bring you much joy. ^_^
- 8:40 pm
- Ange said...
Thanks for all of the comments & sonce these photos the garden has gone a bit mental, will have to get the camera out again soon. Sorry Leigh, I seem to have lost my bloggin mojo for now & havent managed to complete the blog tag though I did think a lot about the questions!
- 4:22 pm
- Kiki said...
Oh WOW! Happy 2011 to you....it has been so long and look how old Chloe is, what a beauty.
Your garden looks divine and I will admit to being very jealous indeed.
- 1:24 am
- Ange said...
Thanks Kiki, I really must post some new photos of the garden, its more than doubled in size & I am now harvesting, beans, lettuce, spring onions & lots of herbs, with a lot more on the way soon. Am very pleased with the results so far!
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Color: Limeade (Green) • Color Number: 1381 • Fiber Content: 42% Cotton / 58% Viscose • Ball Weight: 50g • Yardage: 125 yds • Yarn Weight: Medium • Gauge: 20 (Stitches per 4.0 inches/10 cm.) • Needle Sizes: 7 U.S./4.50 mm • Care: Hand Wash, Dry Flat


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Assume $M$ is an invertible positive matrix of rank $N$. The Von Neumann entropy $H$ of a matrix $M$ with eigenvalues $\{ \lambda_n \}$ is
$H[M] = -\sum_{n=1}^N \lambda_n \ln \lambda_n$.
In principle, the eigenvalues are encoded in the characteristic polynomial
$\phi_t (M) = \mathrm{det}(tI-M) = \prod_n(t-\lambda_n) = t^{N} + a_{N-1} t^{N-1} \cdots + a_1 t +a_0 $.
The trace $\mathrm{Tr}\, M$ is given by the coefficient $a_{N-1}$ in the characteristic polynomial:
$\lim\limits_{t \to \infty} \dfrac{\phi_t (M)-t^N}{t^{N-1}} = a_{N-1} = (-1)^{N-1} \, \mathrm{Tr}\, M = (-1)^{N-1} \sum_n \lambda_n$.
Is there a similar relationship between the entropy and the characteristic polynomial?


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Mother writes incredibly honest obituary for son who overdosed
Mother writes incredibly honest obituary for son who overdosed
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A grieving Iowa mother shared her son's emotional struggle with heroin through his obituary.
She explains why she did it and why she feels it's important to be honest about his death in the video above.
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Murray seeded fourth in Melbourne
Andy Murray is seeded fourth in the men's draw for the Australian Open with world number ones Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams leading the way.
Wimbledon champion Murray, a three-time finalist in Melbourne, is playing his first grand slam since back surgery in September ruled him out of the final two months of last season.
He has dropped only one place in the standings in that time, behind Spain's David Ferrer, and cannot face either Nadal or three-time defending champion Novak Djokovic until the semi-finals in Melbourne.
Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro is the fifth seed ahead of 17-time grand slam champion Roger Federer, with Tomas Berdych, Stanislas Wawrinka, Richard Gasquet and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga rounding off the top 10.
The top 28 seeds correspond directly to the rankings but Canada's Vasek Pospisil, who lost in qualifying 12 months ago, is elevated to 29th because of Jurgen Melzer's withdrawal through injury.
Spain's Fernando Verdasco is the 32nd and final seed.
Williams, who warmed up for the Australian Open by winning the title in Brisbane last week, heads defending champion Victoria Azarenka and fit-again Maria Sharapova in the women's seedings.
Sharapova missed the final part of last season, including the US Open, because of shoulder problems.
Last year's beaten finalist, Li Na, is fourth seed ahead of Agnieszka Radwanksa, Petra Kvitova, Sara Errani, Jelena Jankovic, Angelique Kerber and Caroline Wozniacki.
Young American Sloane Stephens, who beat Williams to reach the semi-finals last year, is 13th with Ana Ivanovic 14th and Australian hope Sam Stosur 17th.
Canadian teenager Eugenie Bouchard is seeded for the first time at a grand slam at 30, with injured world number 18 Maria Kirilenko of Russia the only withdrawal from the top 32.


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DimasTech Bench Test/Table Easy V2.5 Review
Extreme PC cooling use, such as LN2 and phase units, only account for a small segment of the market and in fact, outside of enthusiasts, many might not even know such products exist. Luckily, this has not stopped a handful of companies from pushing forward and creating products that fit into this niche. One such company is the Italian based DimasTech, which was established to help increase the performance potential of systems by releasing products that will efficiently cool even the most extreme overclocked components. Some of the products that DimasTech has release to aid the enthusiast community are water cooling parts, phase units and Dry Ice/LN2 pots. Even though the company offers many high performance cooling solutions, we are actually going to be looking at its DimasTech Bench Test/Table Easy version 2.5. This new tech station takes aspects of previous versions and combines them with features that were introduced into this new offering thanks to user feedback. This has created a bench table that is functional, sleek, can house multiple components and cooling solutions. All the initial details about this table seem very impressive, but one feature that makes it appear as if this is one tech station that could surpass many others is the creative steps taken to mount fans to important areas of the chassis to prevent overheating, which is not the case with many similar products. Too many tech stations come with fan brackets that are just not adequately setup to properly cool hot northbridge or MOSFET areas, so the fact that this one does not seem to have this limitation could really create some demand for it.
Closer Look:
The DimasTech Bench Test/Table Easy v2.5 comes packaged in a large plain box that, other than the logo on the side, gives no indication as to what is housed inside. When you open the packaging you can see that DimasTech included all necessary precautions to protect the case from damage during shipping. This has the case arriving in layers of Styrofoam in both vertical and horizontal positioning throughout the box with the case layered within it. This packaging worked well and prevented any damage to the chassis while in transit to us, which is quite a feat as it came directly from Italy.
As you can see, not only did DimasTech use styrofoam to surround the case, but it also included it within the chassis as well. Inside of these layers of protection you will find all of the necessary components needed to assemble the bench table. The majority of the accessories found in the styrofoam are actual modular bays and brackets that are added to the case for expansion. These expansion bays consist of ODD and HDD brackets, fan brackets and a PSU bracket that are all mounted using the included thumb screws, or thumb nuts. On top of these you get ten motherboard stand offs, foam spacer, four rubber feet, single USB slot and a power/reset buttons with cables.
Before we can start to install the components on the case we must first assemble it part by part.


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text: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/10/supercomputer-moon/ Why We Need a Supercomputer on the Moon By Robert McMillanEmail Author 10.02.12 6:30 AM A Lunar supercomputer could ease our deep-space networking bottleneck Image: Simon Lutrin/Wired Should we build a supercomputer on the moon? It would be a mammoth technical undertaking, but a University of Southern California graduate student thinks there's a very good reason for doing this: It would help alleviate a coming deep-space network traffic jam that's had NASA scientists worried for several years now. Ouliang Chang floated his lunar supercomputer idea a few weeks ago at a space conference in Pasadena, California. The plan is to bury a massive machine in a deep dark crater, on the side of the moon that's facing away from Earth and all of its electromagnetic chatter. Nuclear-powered, it would process data for space missions and slingshot Earth's Deep Space Network into a brand new moon-centric era. "Once the physical infrastructure backbone is laid out, I suspect it would look much like the monolith excavation site in Clarke and Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey," says Chang's course supervisor Madhu Thangavelu, of USC's Viterbi School of Engineering. The Deep Space Network is a network of 13 giant antennas located in the U.S., Australia, and Spain that gather data and talk to spacecraft in, well, deep space. These space missions are already fighting for bandwidth on this overloaded network and most of the data has to get back to Earth for processing. With a lunar supercomputer, Chang says, that could change. His supercomputer would run in frigid regions near one of the moon's poles. The cold temperatures would make cooling the supercomputer easier, and allow it to use super-efficient superconductive materials to move around electricity. Although it's not clear how much water could be found on the moon's poles, Chang envisions a water-cooled supercomputer. How much would this Lunar supercomputer cost? Well, Chang and Thangavelu say it costs about $50,000 per pound to ship materials to the moon. Add to that the cost of digging out and building out the sub-lunar supercomputer center, cooling system and nuclear power generator, and you can easily envision a project in the $10 billion to $20 billion range, never mind the cost of building a lunar base station. That would easily make it the most expensive supercomputer ever built. The lunar computer would communicate with spaceships and earth using a system of inflatable, steerable antennas that would hang suspended over moon craters, giving the Deep Space Network a second focal point away from earth. Chang's Lunar supercomputer complex Image: Ouliang Chang Some at NASA agree that there's a coming Deep Space Network traffic jam. Back in 2006. the agency's top networking gurus warned that over the next three decades there will be an "order-of-magnitude increase in data to and from spacecraft and at least a doubling of the number of supported spacecraft." Space scientists are worried that the existing Deep Space Network hardware is obsolete and just not up to the job of transmitting the growing workload of extra-terrestrial data. The U.S. space agency is going to have to come up with a plan, the scientists said. In fact, Chang isn't the first person to propose putting a big data processing facility on the moon. Back in 2004, researchers at Space Systems Loral described something called the Lunar Data Cache — an extraterrestrial backup system that would keep businesses online in the event of a Sept. 11, 2001-type terrorist strike somewhere on Earth. The Loral proposal also described a few way-out moneymaking ideas such as lunar rover-deployed billboards, robotic rock-heaving contests, robot wresting, and rover races piloted by NASCAR drivers. Clearly, the business of dreaming up supercomputers in space is not for those who think small. Still, after being reported in the New Scientist, Chang's work has caught the interest of the space community because it addresses a very real and pressing space problem. And that's something that could give future lunar missions a very clear and exciting sense of purpose, says his USC's Thangavelu. "For now, it is piquing the mind of the policy makers," he says. "Even though far-out," Chang's paper "does excite the imagination," says Kul Bhasin, a system engineer and formulation manager with NASA Glenn Research Center. He agrees that there is a growing problem with outer space networking. Bhasin works on designing advanced space networking technologies, and he says that there are some promising alternative communications technologies — Laser-based networking, for example — that could break the Deep Space Network bottleneck. Next year, researchers at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory will test out a 622 megabits per second Laser network that will speed up earth to moon communications fivefold. The supercomputer-on-the-moon idea was pretty much a natural for Chang, who describes himself as a super-computing geek. "My PhD thesis is about doing one of the largest space plasma turbulence simulation in the world," he says. "I just put two popular concepts — space exploration and cloud computing — together." So, will there ever be a supercomputer on the moon? Though NASA's Bhasin finds it interesting, he's really not sure it will ever happen. "Your guess is as good as mine," he says. Robert McMillan Robert McMillan is a writer with Wired Enterprise. Got a tip? 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Welcome to my music on Audio Jungle. As a freelance composer in the last decade I have produced a lot of music for different brands and other projects.
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There are several things that I do that are well within the range of what would be considered an OCD. Some of them I don't care that I have them, others I'm trying to break free from.
I use to wash my hands very frequently, often when there was no real need to do so, but I've come a long way from that.
I don't have OCD, unless eating 2 boxes of chocolates in one day counts as OCD then maybe I do.
To stop this from happening... I try not to eat the first chocolate because I know if I eat it, I'll keep eating.
In your case, I have no idea what I would do... maybe you should try hypnosis from a trained psychologist.
The way I hold you and the night just seems to fly
I hate when things aren't symmetrical. I also do the same thing as youwith biting my lip. Also, I rearrange the shelf with my manga and anime like 3 times a day. Like with bleach. I'll put the season box sets before the movies, then I'll change my mind and put the movies first. Then I'll change my mind again and put them in the order they were aired in Japan, like putting the first movie between seasons 5 and 6.
i always turn clockwise before turning on a light switch and i eat my food clockwise too (around the plate that is) whenever im doin something that has to do with water my hands have to be wet at all times NOT JUST DAMP OR MOIST. otherwise i freak out. i use lotion and hand sanitizer after doing the dishes and wen i draw animals i make the respective sounds throughout the entire process. lolz XD
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RPG inventory.... I will spend hours re-arranging my items in any RPG, MMO or otherwise.
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Its like a few years ago I used to wash my hands like after I did anything and I would NEVER eat without my hands washed or using hand sanitizer ( when I'm out). I only was like that for like a year but I always had to like even wash my hands before going on the computer because I didn't want to get it dirty ( from my hands) or something strange like that O.o. It lead to me getting chapped hands really easily which used to bleed sometimes since I kept using so much soap...
I guess it was at a weird point, but now I just wash my hands like when a regular person would... I don't know if I was worrying about germs or something but I also even used to clean things like ps3 controllers after someone had used it other than me...
Anyway basically I just got over it :] I realise it isn't a serious disorder like OCD which is almost irrational but it was like a strange habit...
EDIT: When I say I just got over it I mean I slowly learned to stop doing it over time until it basically stopped... ( Im not saying its easy to get over these things) I think it only started because I was at a science thing once which told people how much germs there are on things... It was probably around when I was like 9 years old though
Oh my gosh, I had the same problem (/_\) I was and still am a perfectionist, and had to be clean because that was considered "perfect". Even washed my hands after I eat. I felt like I couldn't do anything without washing my hands first D; but now, I've gotten better and wash before I eat, after I use the bathroom, or did stuff in the nature, nd whatever else you could that that may cause a lot of germs.. OuO
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I've tried many things over my years when dealing with my OCD. I've been dealing with these issues for the better part of 12 years now, and I've tried most of the meds out there on the market for this issue, including the narcotics. The problem is finding a medicine that will help me but allow me to function in today's society. I've yet to find a medicine that i can take and solves all my OCD issues, so i started looking elsewhere for a solution. I've found a drug that i can do that helps me not going to recommend for you to do it but weed helps people not joking. I used to hoard and all that just one year and i've stopped that along with several other issues. I stopped for 4 months and was able to maintain what i had gained some of the things i found myself fighting against, but for the most part being able to go a year and slowly one things at a time i would stop doing. You have to figure out your limits and push yourself to stop something if all you have wrong is that you bite the skin off your hands then I say you keep active keep you mind off that and try going a day without biting them then two and so on. Once you have gone a month then you can tell yourself i don't have to do that anymore and I'm not. You have to figure out what works best for you, but remember to not give in to that voice telling you its not big deal just bite.
I bite the inside of my lip until it bleeds... and I have to have things in a certain order or else I freak out.
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Ina Irene King, a 48-year resident of Rice, passed away on Sept. 23, 2013 at the age of 91 in Colville. Ina was born on July 10, 1922 in Alamo, NV, the daughter of Joseph and Edna Irene (Cutler) Cox. Ina was raised and attended school in Alamo. There she graduated from high school in 1941. She then moved to Salt Lake City to attend Heneger Business School. While attending business school, she met James "Jim" King. On July 15, 1942 Ina and Jim were wed in Alamo. She continued and completed her education at Heneger through correspondence. Ina and James moved to Pioche, NV, where Ina began working for the Farm Security Administration. She and Jim moved to Long Beach, CA, where Jim worked in the shipyard and they began their family. It wasn't long before they returned to Pioche. As their family grew, Jim and Ina moved with the work opportunities. They resided in several communities, including Bristol, NV, Apple Valley, Id, Moab, UT, Dragerton, UT, Silver City, NM and in 1965 they moved to Rice. Ina gave great attention to her work as a homemaker and also assisted with the needs of their dairy farm in Rice. She and Jim turned the dairy farm over to their son, Steve, in 1998. They then began a much-earned retirement filled with family, friends and their faith community. Ina cared for her family with immeasurable support and unending compassion. She was one who always looked for the good in others and spoke in positive reflection of others. Yet, her family laughing reminisced, "But, you did not want to get her mad." Ina was also a wonderful musician who could play the piano, organ, trumpet and French horn. She played at many dances in her youth, taught music to others and often assisted as the church pianist. Ina was a life-long member of the Church of Latter-Day Saint and enjoyed caring for the needs of her faith community. Ina was a long-time member of Eastern Star and RebekahsIna was preceded in death by four siblings, Roland, Josephine, Jen and Elva and one grandson Dustin James King.She is survived by her husband of 71 years, James "Jim" King, at the home; daughter, Iris Miller and her husband, John; son, Stephen King and his wife, Lyndia; Nancy Williams and her husband, Bill, all of Rice; seven grandchildren, Jewell, Anita, Ben, Chris, William, Ina and Natausha; 15 great- grandchildren; four great-great-grandchildren; two brothers, Martin Cox and his wife, Marylin, Alamo Clarence Cox, Alamo; NV; and numerous nieces and nephews.The funeral service for Ina King was held Sept. 30 at the Church of Latter-Day Saints in Colville. The graveside service followed at the Rice Community Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be given to the Eastern Star Memorial Fund. Please visit the on-line memorial and sign the guestbook at www.danekasfuneralchapel.com. Danekas Funeral Chapel and Crematory was entrusted with the arrangements.