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Cantaloupe product director Justin Grant pointed out that Apple devices running Seed Mobile cost a fraction of the price of the typical handheld computer running vending management software, and using an iPhone or iPad does away with the need for a stylus or a DEX cable. This speeds up service on location.
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The oldest Wine Route in the country was established in Stellenbosch in 1971. Since then it became one of the country's top tourist attractions where award winning wines can be tasted while enjoying the unique atmosphere of the area. Fine brandy is also distilled and matured in many cellars.
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Exploring New York City's Past with Library Maps
A portion of the New York Public Library's map collection was made available for people to download last week, the first time the fascinating maps have been available for library users to download as high resolution images without having to worry about copyright infringement.
Matt Knutzen, geospatial librarian for the library's Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division, said he is excited to see how people use the maps in artistic and academic contexts.
"I see this as a step forward in people's ability... to take this material in, aggregate and use it and mash it together with other kinds of information," Mr. Knutzen said.
The release is a fraction of the 500,000 items in the New York Public Library's Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division. While the division has been scanning items and displaying them online for some time, this is the first time that people can download a selection of 20,000 high resolution images for personal use under the Creative Commons license, which allows for free distribution and use of copyrighted works.
While the maps available for download depict geography from around the world, more than half show New York and New Jersey between 1852 and 1922 while a smaller selection shows New York City as far back as 1660.
Their yellowed paper and colorful markings depict the infrastructure being laid down for a city that would go on to house eight million residents in 2014.
The map division was able to make the maps available after their database was integrated with library's larger Digital Collections database and they were sure that the Creative Commons license could apply to the maps.
Mr. Knutzen said he was also encouraged to make the items publicly available after years of seeing books and studies that cited other public domain map collections such as the Library of Congress.
Not seeing NYPL's materials in the mix "prompted me to say, 'Let's make this more relevant,'" Mr. Knutzen said. "I thought this was an important new way to position this collection within context of a library as enabling scholarship, to the furthest degree that we can do that."
Library users will have to make requests for images that are not covered by Creative Commons, but the map division will continue to scan images and make those already online available for download in batches. Among them are images that provide a fascinating snapshot of how real estate in the city was planned and sold, such as pamphlets for auctions of real estate across the city.
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"These maps are brilliant representation of how places have changed and they snap you into reality about things changing now.," Mr. Knutzen said. "You see changes happening now in a new light after seeing these maps."
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The Leicester Mercury reported that the Leicestershire Teenage Pregnancy Partnership (LTPP) in Leicestershire, England, recently launched "Game On," a teen-oriented, Super Mario-style online game that promoted safe sex and sexual health. Players had to avoid STDs, alcohol, and drugs; and collect condoms to "rubber up" in the "Game On" world, which was similar to the Super Mario Nintendo series. According to LTPP Commissioning Manager Katie Phillips, "Game On" promoted the partnership's services and allowed teenage gamers to compete against each other while learning important messages about avoiding risks.
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Math problems are a problem for job-seekers, employers say
Before job-seekers fill out an application for work making foam products for the aerospace industry at General Plastics Manufacturing Co. in Tacoma, Wash., they have to take a math test. Eighteen questions, 30 minutes, and using a calculator is OK.
They are asked how to convert inches to feet, read a tape measure and find the density of a block of foam (mass divided by volume).
Basic middle school math, right?
But what troubles General Plastics executive Eric Hahn is that although the company considers only prospective workers who have a high school education, only one in 10 who take the test pass. And that's not just bad luck at a single factory or in a single industry.
Hahn, vice president of organizational development, said that the poor scores on his company's math test have been evident for the past six years. He also sits on an aerospace workforce training committee and said that most other Washington state suppliers in his industry have been seeing the same problem.
"You could think that even for production, do you really need to know math?" said Jacey Wilkins, a spokeswoman for the Manufacturing Institute, an affiliate of the National Association of Manufacturers. "But the truth is, you do, because these jobs are incredibly complex and integrate multiple functions and systems."
Indeed, in working with machinery and making products with precision, "people really do need a basic understanding of math," she said.
But math has been a problem.
The United States ranks below average in math compared with other developed countries and regions participating in the Program for International Student Assessment test.
The National Math and Science Initiative, a group working to improve student performance in science, technology, engineering and math, known as the STEM subjects, noted, as well, that 54 percent of high school graduates aren't ready to go on in math. The figure is based on students who took ACT's "college and career readiness" exam in 2012.
As the economy begins to perk up and businesses start to hire, a lack of basic knowledge about mathematics could present a problem to people looking for work.
"Manufacturers are willing to train people about the specifics of their machines and technology," said Linda Nguyen, CEO of Work Force Central, a partnership of government, business, education and community organizations that trains workers in Tacoma and surrounding Pierce County. "But they can't afford to hire someone who needs to relearn basic math."
Educators are aware of what manufacturers like General Plastics face. They're looking for ways to make math relate to the real world so students will grasp why it's necessary and stick with it. Some want to change the way it's taught.
"It's really been rote memorization," said Dave Yanofsky, director of media and youth development at ConnectEd: The California Center for College and Career.
The center advocates for what it calls "linked learning" in high school, a combination of academics, technical education and work experience. It has developed a middle-school math curriculum that uses projects and encourages collaboration.
Linda Gojak, president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, likens the traditional style of teaching math to "practicing the piano," because students are told to practice until they can finally do it. But her group is trying to "help teachers teach mathematics so kids make sense of what they're doing and it really does stick beyond what they learn in class."
In California, a pilot project designed to make classroom learning more relevant will include 20 school districts in the Sacramento area, Porterville in the Central Valley and other districts around the state.
Math learning also will change with the Common Core standards, a state-led effort to set educational standards in math and English for kindergarten through high school. Forty-five states have adopted them.
They'll match with what students need to know for success in college and jobs, said Sam Houston, president and CEO of the North Carolina Science, Math and Technology Education Center in Research Triangle Park near Raleigh, and a veteran North Carolina public school administrator. North Carolina is among the states that have adopted the Common Core.
"In the hands of a trained professional," Houston said, "the Common Core should give everyone a better means to answer the question, 'Why do I need to know this?'"
For manufacturers like Hahn, changes in teaching math can't come soon enough.
"Manpower training for manufacturing is a critical issue right now," he said. "The development of highly skilled workers is essential if we are to produce good products and grow our industry."
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I have had several opportunities to guest blog, as well as give some interviews over the past few weeks and I thought I would share some of these with you. There will be a few more in the weeks to come. Blows my mind to be able to say that. I am really enjoying writing and speaking which is something I have begun to do more of. I struggle with writing or giving advice when it has not been asked for, but when someone asks me a question I find I have no shortage of thoughts and opinions. Part of that is a hangup I have about wanting to be genuine, but I just feel much more comfortable responding to a question, rather than giving unsolicited advice.
To start off, Luke Copping asked me, along with 17 other creatives, to answer the question: How do you get out of a creative rut?
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Rather than talking about getting out of a creative rut, I am going to try to help you avoid getting into a rut all together.
I probably don't need to tell you the life of a professional photographer is filled with many highs and lows. Victories and rejections are a weekly occurrence. The highs are obviously fun, but the lows are not so great.
My first piece of advice is to avoid the highs and lows. Don't get caught up in the tidal wave of ups and downs. It takes a lot of adjustments to do this, but it is possible and well worth it. You don't need to live in each high and each low. Learn to enjoy and appreciate accomplishments and victories in your career, but understand that it is temporary and tomorrow is a new day. Typically the phrase "tomorrow is a new day" is reserved for people who are living in a low and need something to look forward to. However, in photography, "tomorrow is a new day" also means someone else is going to do something noteworthy tomorrow and the spotlight will shift to them.
Second, learning how to not live in the highs and lows of your career keeps you from freaking out when you have a slow week or two. Create a consistent marketing plan and stick to it. Aside from shooting, there are plenty of important tasks and projects you need to put time into if you want to be successful. Making sure you are taking time for these activities and tasks will help you keep your mind off of shooting all the time, and personally I find this to help keep me balanced and creative.
You can continue reading my response along with the rest of the post at 18 Imaginative Thinkers Break Your Creative Block.
Also worth mentioning, A Photo Editor gave me a really nice shout out last Friday, in relation to the Creative Block piece on Luke's blog. My first time on APE, so that was especially exciting.
I just started using FoundFolios, which is a great online portfolio site for connecting photographers with art buyers. I will be rolling out some new work on there in the near future, and the FoundFolios Blog just posted a short blurb about my Liberia photo shoot for MiiR Bottles.
Last but not least, I gave an interview a few weeks back for the Smartpress Blog which is geared toward people who are just starting out in photography.
Thank you to Luke Copping, Rob Haggart, Juliette Wolf-Robin, and Sean Taylor for expressing interest in my work, and sharing it with others.


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Salwar kameez is the second most popular Indian wear other than saree. This three pieces of Indian clothing comprises of a kurta or kameez which is worn as a shirt; a salwar pant which is a baggy style pant and lastly is the dupatta which completes the entire look of this ethnic wear attire.
In the past one decade, this piece of Indian clothing has also undergone a facelift. While earlier there were only two styles of salwar kameez – one worn with fitted churidar leggings and another style in which the kurta is teamed up with a pair of loose salwar pants. But nowadays, with immense advancement and creative development, salwar kameez is worn in various styles and forms.
These days women are extensively wearing salwar kameez as workwear and as occasion wear. Be it is your best friend's sangeet or your sister's Haldi ceremony, the market is filled with numerous options. From heavily embellished Anarkali style salwar suit to intricately embroidered palazzo kurta style, you will find plentiful options to choose from.
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Young girls, working women, and busy moms, women from all walk of life wear salwar kameez; while their choices could be different.
1. A college-going girl may opt for a sleeveless kurta and churidar.
2. On the other hand, a working woman would love to experiment with her look hence she would team up her kurta with palazzo, straight pants, and ethnic trousers.
3. A housewife or a busy mom would find comfort in a Patiala salwar or a simple yet elegant salwar kameez.
4. But, if it is a celebration, most women chose to have a traditional look by donning up in a flared Anarkali suit.
5. Lastly, a bride-to-be will certainly have a selection of embellished salwar kameez designs in her wedding trousseau.
Bollywood celebrities love Salwar Kameez
Being one of the most comfortable, stylish, versatile and appealing attire, Salwar Kameez scores high against any other Indian ethnic wear. Most popular Bollywood celebs and iconic fashionistas of the film industry are often seen gracefully dressed up in a salwar kameez at various occasions. Be it is a store launch inaugural event, the red carpet, an extravagant wedding to attend or a glitzy party, Bollywood, as well as the television industry actresses, leave no stones unturned to garner applauds and appreciation for their fashionable looks in Indian salwar kameez look.
Few of the most popular Bollywood stars who are seen gracing various occasions in salwar kameez designs include Katrina Kaif, DeepikaPadukone, Priyanka Chopra, Alia Bhatt, SonamKapoor and more.
Just the way blouse designs can make or break a saree look, similarly, a dupatta is used as an accessory which enhances the entire salwar kameez look when draped in the right way. If we go by the latest trends, designers have introduced a fresh new look to a salwar kameez by adorning it with two different types of dupatta, draped in different styles. Fashion runways have showcased it and fashion stylists swear by the newness it brings to this versatile Indian ethnic attire.
Various looks of a salwar kameez
• Long frock style salwar kameez – One can team up this ankle length frock style kurta with a palazzo or leggings. But, if you wish to go modern, wear it as a long dress.
• A palazzo set is high on trend these days. The ideal way to wear a palazzo is to team it up with long straight kurtas.
• This may not be popular in metropolitan cities, but if one visits the outskirts of Punjab, the colorful Patiala suit teamed up a Phulkaridupatta looks immensely graceful.
• An Angrakha or Anarkali style kurta paired with a churidar offers a regal look when worn with a matching dupatta.
• Cocktail parties, social gatherings, red carpet duo or fashion events, a gown style salwar suit can do wonder and make you look like a diva.
• Lastly, trouser kurta set renders a sophisticated look. Working women prefer to don up this look to their work in order to maintain a clean and elegant look.
No matter which style of salwar kameez design you don up, give a finishing touch to your complete look with ideal accessories and jewelry.
In the present scenario, one may find a little improvisation in the hemline of the kurtas as well. Designers are creatively incorporating a modern touch to this Indian silhouette in order to make it more wearable and versatile. Kurtas with low high hem are beautifully teamed up ankle length leggings and are very popular among women of all age groups.
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Fragment Earring 37
In collaboration with Kate Wendleborn, No.'s Fragment series is inspired by the 1960s Arte Povera movement which radicalized the interpretation of art and culture.
By re-imagining broken fragments of pottery, these individual mix and match earrings, exhibit subtle yet dramatic elegance taken from that which was once considered waste.
These pieces also utilize and exemplify a common idea for No., the Japanese art form of kintsugi. This practice "…treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise."
The Fragment series hopes to highlight the beauty in breakage, in fault-lines and error by adorning them with gold.
The Fragment collection was featured in W Mag March 2017.
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Where y'at Iris?
Summer in Ondine, Louisiana, is always predictable: hot and boring.
Not this one.
This summer, Iris is fourteen. This summer, she doesn't have to make up spooky stories for excitement. Because a real one falls right in her lap.
Years ago, before she was born, a teenager named Elijah disappeared. All that remains of him are whispers. Until this summer. A ghost begins to haunt Iris, and she's convinced it's the ghost of Elijah.
What really happened to him?
And why, of all people, has he chosen Iris?
Set in a tiny town in Louisiana, the novel starts with Iris and her best friend Collette casting spells and raising the dead in the cemetery. It's all fun and games in the boredom of small town summer. However, the fun stops when a ghost whispers "Where y'at Iris?"
In the beginning, this book sucks you in. After the opening chapter you are salivating to know Elijah Landry's real story. Every person in the small town of Ondine has a piece of the puzzle to solving Eli's disappearance. I had my own theory of what had happened to him, and in the end it proved to be right. This is one of the reasons I didn't like this book. I don't like being able to predict the ending. There needs to be some surprise there or it's just anticlimactic.
I set this book down a couple of times because I was bored. There are places throughout the novel where the pace goes from super fast action scenes to a very sluggish moving scene. It made the flow of the book feel awkward.
What I really enjoyed in this book were the descriptions. If I could describe things like Saundra Mitchell, I could die a happy person. She paints such a vivid picture that the images stay in your head for a long time after you read it. I was always tempted to grab an ice cube and cool down my skin from the Louisiana heat.
On the subject of characters, I loved how the townspeople were just so realistic. Each person had particular quirks that I found to be quite entertaining. The Delancie brothers, in particular, were my favorite due to their love of blowing things up. However, the main character, Iris, did not appeal to me. She seemed too perfect to be real.
My rating for this book is 6/10. I thought it was good, but there could be some improvements.


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New Arrivals: Model kit and Video games edition
By Chris Troy
SHAMELESS PLUG OF THE WEEK: From January 5-8, 2012, my ass will be at the MAGfest X (Magfest.org, which stands for Music and Games Festival) down in Maryland, and I highly encourage you hit the festival up as well! Nobuo Uematsu, the genius behind many a awesome Final Fantasy soundtrack, will be there performing with his new band, Earthbound Papas, as well as many other talented folk (like John St. John, the voice behind Duke Nukem!) , and most importantly, an 8-player X-Men arcade cabinet. It's a good way to start up 2012, so make sure you register online before the 16th!
So it's now December, which means shelves everywhere are filled with toys. Forbidden Planet NYC is no exception, as we have a ton of new merchandise in stock, most likely relevant to your interests if you're reading this website. And yes, after selling out a few times, we currently do have My Little Ponies in stock again.
First and foremost, new model kits, we got them in stock! We've restocked Gundam SEED, WING, Unicorn, and Zeta kits, and we finally got the first wave of Gundam Age kits in. In addition to all the new Gundam stuffs, we also have a few model kits based on the various ship from the Shonen Jump hit One Piece. These kits are more Gunplay-like in assembly than say actual model boats, and offer something different to build instead of more mecha (although there is nothing wrong with building mecha. Nothing at all). Kits start at $25 and go up from there, depending on the kit and scale.
Since my shameless plug of the week was video game related, it's only fair that we discuss some new VIDEYA GAME toys that have been released. The first wave of Gears of War 3 figures in, consisting of main character Marcus Fenix, supporting character turned Gear Anya Stroud, and the 3rd brother of the ill-fated Carmines, Clayton. Each figure is about 7″ in height and has about 30 points of articulation and comes with a small selection of weapons packaged with them.They're good figures, but Anya's face could use some work. That aside, they're still pretty good figures for less than $20. The 2nd wave should be hitting shelves soon. Continue reading


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CHICAGO (AP) Juwan Howard Jr. and Ray McCallum each scored 17 points on Saturday, leading Detroit to a 75-63 victory over Loyola of Chicago.
Howard connected on 8 of 10 shots from the floor, allowing Detroit (13-8, 5-3 Horizon) to shoot 50 percent from the floor.
Nick Minnerath scored 14 points for Detroit. Jason Calliste scored 12 points and Doug Anderson scored 11.
Loyola of Chicago (12-8, 2-5) had a 27-24 lead at halftime, but couldn't pull away or at least maintain its narrow advantage. It was its own worst enemy at times, committing 17 turnovers.
Christian Thomas led Loyola of Chicago with 18 points and 11 rebounds. Cully Payne scored 15 points and Ben Averkamp had 13.


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What Is 'Divergent,' and Why It May Be the Next 'Hunger Games' (Plus: Watch the First Trailer)
UPDATE: Check out the first trailer for Divergent below, then stick around for our primer on the YA book series and why we think it may be the next Hunger Games.
Note: The following primer first ran back in September of 2012 before any casting was announced.
With Ender's Game, The Mortal Instruments, Warm Bodies, Incarceron, The Night Circus, Switched and so many more on the way, which upcoming adaptation really has the chance of replacing The Twilight Saga and following in The Hunger Games' footsteps? While all have pros, cons and all the potential in the world until we see the full feature, I find that it's Veronica Roth's Divergent that has the best shot at being the next big, successful franchise.
Summit's had the rights to the series since February 2011, but is first making moves toward bringing the film version to fruition now. It was recently revealed that Limitless director Neil Burger is in early talks to direct and, just the other day, Variety broke the news that the studio has set the film for a March 21, 2014 release. Remind you of a certain very successful book-to-film March release?
Divergent certainly has the most going for it, making it the most likely to become the next big thing. Here's what you need to know about it now:
The Book
The Basics
Divergent, the first of a three-book series including Insurgent and book number three due in the fall of 2013, focuses on 16-year-old Beatrice Prior, a young girl born into the faction Abnegation. Come the Choosing Ceremony, Beatrice has the option to leave Abnegation, the group that places a focus on selflessness, and switch to one of the other four factions – the truthful Candor, the intelligent Erudite, the peaceful Amity or the fearless Dauntless.
Picking a faction isn't like picking which club to join; it's picking a lifestyle. Because she's a member of Abnegation, Beatrice is not permitted to look into mirrors, must always wear gray clothing and have a plain hairstyle amongst many other faction requirements. Your faction dictates everything, even idle behavior. For example, an Erudite with free time on his or her hands better feel like studying.
And then, even when you finally do make that fateful decision of which faction you'll live out your days with, there's a chance you might not even get in. Whether you choose the faction you were born into or not, you need to go through a rigorous initiation process. Of course initiation policies change from faction to faction, but each requires potential members to go through trying tests to make sure they're dedicated to their values. Should someone fail initiation, they are dubbed factionless, our equivalent of being homeless. Beatrice even goes as far as to say, "Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live."
Making the process even more difficult for Beatrice is that she's "Divergent". Going into the Choosing Ceremony, you've got three things to help you choose the right faction - the faction you were born into, the faction your heart draws you to and the results of your test -- one that measures your aptitude for the factions. Typically, a test offers up a single answer and that answer is the faction you're meant for. However, in Beatrice's case, she's got an aptitude for more than one faction, making her Divergent, a quality she is strongly advised to keep to herself.
It's a Fast Read
Clearly I've plowed through my fair share of young adult novels, so at this point it's easy to pinpoint the standouts. I'm a painfully slow reader, so while I wouldn't want to reduce Divergent to an "easy read," the fact that I could breeze through it certainly says something about Roth's writing and the material's entertainment value. Then there's the late-night, can't-stop issue. No, not every book needs chapter-ending cliffhangers, but they can't hurt. Just like The Hunger Games, every time a chapter of Divergent comes to a close, you get that desperation to continue, regardless of how early you've got to get up the next morning.
A Strong Leading Lady
Beatrice may not battle vampires or jump into an area where she's got to take out 23 underage opponents, but her journey does involve life-changing decisions, a great deal of violence and, quite frequently, death.
The way Roth opens the book is ingenious. Similar to The Hunger Games, before getting to the actual violence, we see our heroine through an incredibly trying scenario. For Katniss, it's the Reaping, and for Beatrice, it's the Choosing Ceremony. This isn't like getting sorted into a house at Hogwarts. Teens must make a decision that will dictate their entire lives. Do you go with your gut and join the faction with the values that you believe in, possibly defying your family, or do you stay true to your roots and honor your parents?
Without spoiling anything, further down the line, Beatrice encounters a number of very adult dilemmas, ones that require her to consider the well-being of her closest friends and what's best for the population as a whole, all while struggling through some truly horrifying personal scenarios.
Reasonable Romance
What's a young adult adaptation without a steamy romance? For all of you who are maxed out on love-struck brooding, you're in luck: Divergent is without a love triangle and sappy situations. Beatrice does get herself a guy, but she certainly isn't some schoolgirl with a secret crush on the cutest boy in class. Her relationship is directly connected to her post-Choosing Ceremony experience and is deeply rooted in the chain of events that follow.
Real Issues
The Volturi? A talking Lion? Witchcraft and wizardry? Divergent has its heightened moments, but in general everything is firmly grounded and, therefore, is something you can relate to.
When Beatrice is choosing her faction, you can't help but wonder what you would do should you find yourself choosing between personal values and your family. By the time Beatrice makes her choice and is on her way to becoming a full-fledged faction member, you're torn between her desperation to avoid becoming Factionless, the equivalent of being homeless, and the severity of the initiation tasks she must complete.
Similar to Hunger Games, Divergent also has quite a bit to say about government and means of managing the masses. It starts with this concept of the population being divided up into the five factions and whether or not that really is an effective structure, but then it transpires into something far less cut and dry, something devastatingly out of control and something we get to experience through Beatrice.
It Won't Be Easy
Summit has certainly got another hot property in its hands, but that doesn't necessarily mean the material will translate to film well. Again, similar to Hunger Games, this is going to be a very difficult world to bring to life visually. The story takes place in a dystopian landscape, and considering we get quite a few of those a year courtesy of the film industry, it's going to be tough to make this world stand out and still feel authentic.
It'll undoubtedly be a handful, but Divergent is a stellar opportunity for a production and costume designer. The differences between the factions extend well beyond their core value. Each group also resides in regions tailor-made for their particular way of life and dress accordingly, too.
Another challenge in the visual department will be the action. We've got characters jumping off of moving trains and it's got to look like they do it with ease – eventually. It's going to be really tough to get one clean shot of a character making the leap and landing. Could this compel Burger or whoever seals the deal to direct to go the shaky camera route à la Gary Ross? It's a possibility, but as that was one of the more widespread criticisms of The Hunger Games, I'd like to bet the director and studio will make a point of not going that route again, or at least doing so with restraint.
But perhaps the biggest challenge of them all will be casting Beatrice. Just as they did with Katniss Everdeen, Beatrice will likely be played by an older actress. She's blonde, a little on the short side and, as a member of Abnegation should be, is described as plain. After deliberately trying to avoid the Fanning sisters, my mind gravitates towards AnnaSophia Robb. She's got the look and, more importantly, is a very seasoned and incredibly talented actress. This is actually the reason I'm partially betting against The Mortal Instruments. With Abduction and Mirror Mirror on her resume, it's just impossible to imagine Lily Collins carrying a film.
As with any book-to-film adaptation, or really with any film at all, there's always the chance of taking missteps with top-notch books or scripts, but having that quality source material is definitely one step in the right direction and Roth's book is just that. Should Summit pick the right director (and Burger is certainly a solid option), pinpoint an appropriate budget (something along the lines of The Hunger Games' $80 million would be more than enough), and nail the casting of Beatrice (which they may have with Shailene Woodley), Divergent and the films to follow could become one of the bigger and better young-adult adaptations out there.
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Of the novels I have Among Others in my TBR but unfortunately none of the others. For the YA category I have read the Laini Taylor title and Ultraviolet. Nebula lists are always an excellent source for selecting sure fire good reads. Anyone have recommendations from the list?
- Among Others, Jo Walton (Tor)
- Embassytown, China Miéville (Macmillan UK; Del Rey; Subterranean Press)
- Firebird, Jack McDevitt (Ace Books)
- God's War, Kameron Hurley (Night Shade Books)
- Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, Genevieve Valentine (Prime Books)
- The Kingdom of Gods, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- "Kiss Me Twice," Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2011)
- "Silently and Very Fast," Catherynne M. Valente (WSFA Press; Clarkesworld Magazine, October 2011)
- "The Ice Owl," Carolyn Ives Gilman (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November/December 2011)
- "The Man Who Bridged the Mist," Kij Johnson (Asimov's Science Fiction, October/November 2011)
- "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary," Ken Liu (Panverse Three, Panverse Publishing)
- "With Unclean Hands," Adam-Troy Castro (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November 2011)
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- "Fields of Gold," Rachel Swirsky (Eclipse 4, Night Shade Books)
- "Ray of Light," Brad R. Torgersen (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 2011)
- "Sauerkraut Station," Ferrett Steinmetz (Giganotosaurus, November 2011)
- "Six Months, Three Days," Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com, June 2011)
- "The Migratory Pattern of Dancers," Katherine Sparrow (Giganotosaurus, July 2011)
- "The Old Equations," Jake Kerr (Lightspeed Magazine, July 2011)
- "What We Found," Geoff Ryman (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September/October 2011)
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- "Her Husband's Hands," Adam-Troy Castro (Lightspeed Magazine, October 2011)
- "Mama, We are Zhenya, Your Son," Tom Crosshill (Lightspeed Magazine, April 2011)
- "Movement," Nancy Fulda (Asimov's Science Fiction, March 2011)
- "Shipbirth," Aliette de Bodard (Asimov's Science Fiction, February 2011)
- "The Axiom of Choice," David W. Goldman (New Haven Review, Winter 2011)
- "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees," E. Lily Yu (Clarkesworld Magazine, April 2011)
- "The Paper Menagerie," Ken Liu (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March/April 2011)
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- Attack the Block, Joe Cornish (writer/director) (Optimum Releasing; Screen Gems)
- Captain America: The First Avenger, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely (writers), Joe Johnston (director) (Paramount)
- Doctor Who: "The Doctor's Wife," Neil Gaiman (writer), Richard Clark (director) (BBC Wales)
- Hugo, John Logan (writer), Martin Scorsese (director) (Paramount)
- Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen (writer/director) (Sony)
- Source Code, Ben Ripley (writer), Duncan Jones (director) (Summit)
- The Adjustment Bureau, George Nolfi (writer/director) (Universal)
- Akata Witch, Nnedi Okorafor (Viking Juvenile)
- Chime, Franny Billingsley (Dial Books; Bloomsbury)
- Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Laini Taylor (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Hodder & Stoughton)
- Everybody Sees the Ants, A.S. King (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
- The Boy at the End of the World, Greg van Eekhout (Bloomsbury Children's Books)
- The Freedom Maze, Delia Sherman (Big Mouth House)
- The Girl of Fire and Thorns, Rae Carson (Greenwillow Books)
- Ultraviolet, R.J. Anderson (Orchard Books; Carolrhoda Lab)
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Will it be "Argo"? "Silver Linings Playbook"? Or will "Lincoln" finally take the top prize?
When the Best Picture Oscar winner is revealed Sunday night at the 85th Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood, it will mark the end of the 2013 awards season. And for those 5,856 members of the Academy (as of 2012) eligible to vote in this race, ballots had to filed by 5 p.m. PT Tuesday, Feb. 19.
Campaigning among the best picture nominees has been fierce as the deadline approached, but changing voters' minds is not the only obstacle faced by studios and producers in the sprint toward the finish line. For some members, how to vote proved just as vexing as who to vote for.
This Oscar race marks the first year online voting has been implemented. Many members welcomed the plunge into the brave new digital world while others found the adopted cyber system too difficult to navigate in regards to the initial registration process.
Immediately following the nominations announcement in January, AMPAS President Hawk Koch defended the Academy's decision saying that despite the kinks and some complaints from members about difficulty in voting electronically that it actually brought out the biggest voter participation the organization has had.
"It's the first time, yes. But the first time you do anything of course there's problems," Koch told Deadline. "Of course there's problems. But the truth is we've had more people voting for nominations than we've ever had. And we had more people in each branch, every single branch had more people voting. So that portends two things. One, the online voting worked and two, everyone was excited about the films this year. They wanted to make sure and vote."
Due to the high profile nature of the global event, the Academy devised a security system involving the use of passwords, codes and special phone numbers for member verification. A system that confused and angered many according to reports. In an effort to accommodate all eligible members, the Academy initially extended the registration period for nomination voting by two weeks and then went one step further and decided to automatically send a paper ballot to those who had not registered online during the advised time period.
Before final award voting began on Feb. 8, the Academy sent members a detailed guide to the new online voting process. To placate those still unhappy with the new system, paper ballots were offered as an option to any member who advised the Academy by Feb. 1 that they wished to vote via the old-fashioned route.
Academy officials shouldn't feel too badly about the initial reaction to the voting system. The Screen Actors Guild took seven years before they were comfortable that their online system was running smoothly enough to eliminate paper ballots.
With Tuesday afternoon marking the end of the voting period, all eyes now turn to Sunday night's ceremony which features Seth MacFarlane's debut as host, a celebration of 50 years of James Bond on the big screen and, of course, those sought-after statuettes handed out across 24 categories.
So the only balloting practices that really take precedence now are those devised by viewers at home casting their votes from the couch - no online registration needed.
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed an encryption technique that, down the road, could make cloud computing more secure by ensuring that data remains encrypted while being processed.
The system combines three existing schemes — homomorphic encryption, garbled circuit and attribute-based encryption — into what the researchers call a functional-encryption scheme, according to a report in MIT News. The result is that a database in the cloud could handle a request and return a response without data being decrypted.
A scheme that keeps data secure every step of the way would likely appeal to public-sector agencies, which are increasingly moving applications and services to cloud systems, although for the foreseeable future they'll have to rely on current security measures. The key barrier right now is computing power — the functional-encryption scheme requires more of it than would be practical.
But the researchers point out that the scheme is nascent and performance improvements, as in other areas of computing, are likely. "It's so new, there are so many things that haven't been explored — like, 'How do you really implement this correctly?' 'What are the right mathematical constructions?' 'What are the right parameter settings?'" MIT associate professor Nickolai Zeldovich, of the co-authors of a paper on the subject, told MIT News.
Homomorphic encryption has been researched for decades, but the first fully homomorphic scheme was developed four years ago by Craig Gentry of IBM. In 2011, he offered MIT Technology Review a very simple demonstration of the mathematical consistency required: A user sends a request to add the numbers 1 and 2, which are encrypted to become the numbers 33 and 54, respectively. The server in the cloud processes the sum as 87, which is downloaded from the cloud and decrypted to the final answer, 3.
But even that approach has its limits, such as when searching a large encrypted database for a specific record, according to MIT News. Because the request is encrypted, the server can't come up with an exact match, so it would return information on all of its records, which the user would have to decrypt.
That's why the team from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, who worked in conjunction with the University of Toronto and Microsoft Research, sought to combine multiple schemes. The system starts with homomorphic encryption (a public-key system), with a decryption algorithm embedded in a garbled circuit (private key) which is itself protected by attribute-based encryption (public key), which ensures the process stays encrypted.
Practical use of the functional-encryption scheme may be far off — and the researcher says it still has to be tested in a production environment — but it does hold promise for the future of cloud computing. Andrew Hay, director of applied security research at CloudPassage, told NetworkWorld that he expects homomorphic encryption to eventually play a big part in security for multi-tenant public cloud environments, such as Amazon EC2 and Google Compute Engine.
Once hardware and other computing components catch up to the scheme's demands, those clouds could become a lot more secure.
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I love talking about kids.
It used to be that politics, the local version of it, and sports in general were my favorite things to discuss. I still enjoy hearing about what's happening in local and regional politics, hence my job, and any kind of sport, particularly the Ravens and Orioles, but talking about children with fellow parents is the best.
I relish hearing status updates of kids, and I'm not talking about the Facebook variety either. No matter if it's 25-year-olds or 1-month-olds, it interests me. It's funny to me how most parents have a sparkle in their eye when they talk about their children, whether they are grown up, in college or still living at home. Ask a parent how their kids are doing and generally there's a smile followed by some sort of proud report on what they are up to these days.
Even if it's a report like, "he graduated from college three years ago and has just been relaxing ever since," or "he is 18 months old and has not slept through the night once," there's still a certain beaming that takes place among us parents.
Maybe it's just because of the age of my son, but it's the comments and stories about the young kids that I find most interesting. Ask me how my son is, and you could get any variety of statements or stories, all of which may or may not have to do with his disdain for whole milk, his fascination with throwing my sunglasses on the ground or his love of eggs and avocado.
Over the last year, this column has afforded me some rare insights into the funny things kids do, thanks to frank discussions, emails and phone calls, all prompted by these ramblings each week.
I thought I would pass along some of my favorites. I apologize beforehand if some of these are a little off color, but as parents you understand that not everything that happens is politically correct.
— A young father was home alone for the weekend with his then-2-year-old daughter. Nature was calling him in a big way, so he asked his daughter to sit down and watch her favorite television program while he tended to his business. She obliged, but before sitting down, walked over to a stack of Sports Illustrated magazines and handed it to her father, saying, "here daddy for the potty".
— After her daughter whispers to her she has to use the restroom at a cookout, the mother points to the house and tells her to go ahead and take care of it. The 8 year old, decked out in her swimming suit, walks over to a tree, stands there for a few minutes and returns to whisper (not really) to her mom she took care of it, as if all those watching were unaware.
— One of my nephews seems to have an interest in politics at a young age. Sometime before his second birthday, he was asked who would be at my house during a visit. He said "Aunt Pam." When asked "who else?," he said "Barack Obama." When he arrived at our house and the story was told, he was asked, "who else was running for president?" He replied, "John Cain," and of course everyone knew whom he meant. When asked whom he wanted to win, he sided with the GOP candidate. And, oh yeah, it maybe worth pointing out his name is Reagan, but that may just be a coincidence. The morning after the election, he asked something along the lines of "who won?" He was dejected needless to say at the results.
— Halloween is a big deal on my street in Berlin. Each year the block picks a theme and the houses adopts consistent decorations and the neighbors dress the part. Two years ago, it was superheroes. Last year, it was a western theme. While handing out treats to the more than 700 kids that came to our house, a little boy, around the age of 5, grabbed my fake gun, looked inside, looked up at me and turned to his mother. "It's not loaded, mommy," he said as he walked away. The mom looked back, shrugged her shoulders and laughed.
— When a couple were going through the potty training days, they often told their daughter, who is now 37, to not touch anything in a public restroom because of the dirty factor. One day when she was about 3, the mom and daughter were invited to lunch at the home of a friend. While there, the daughter had to use the bathroom and went on her own. A few minutes later, a small voice yelled, "mom, is it clean in here?" The mom was horrified but the friend found it adorable and the story was told often many years later.
— A mother and her two children went to the park to burn off some energy. The eldest son takes off for the swing set as soon as the car is put in park, only to return a minute or so later, with a piece of dog excrement, saying, "mommy, what's this?" Unsure, the mom smells it, and says, "oh drop it, that's a dog turd." The son says, "what's a turd?" She says "it's poop, son." For the next couple weeks, when it came time to use the bathroom, he would say, "mom, I have to turd."
— A father and 6-year-old son are eating dinner at a restaurant when the kid asks for a taste of his father's wine. After numerous attempts, the dad gives in, letting him take a taste. He spits the wine out and drops the glass on the table, spilling it all over his white T-shirt. The father says, "just tell your mom you spilled grape juice." The son says, "but it's not juice daddy."
It's worth noting I did not include any of the parents' names here for a simple reason. When they told me of these situations, they had no idea I would be summarizing them in print. I guess that's what you risk when you talk to a newspaperman.


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