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New on DVD/Blu-Ray Oct. 16: Moonrise Kingdom | Triangle Arts and ...
Tuesday brings with it the release of Wes Anderson?s Moonrise Kingdom to DVD and Blu-Ray. One of the best films of 2012, Kingdom is Anderson at the peak of his game. But how does it compare to his other, similarly quirky films?
1. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Adapted from the Roald Dahl novel, Fox features an amazing voice cast, including George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Willem Dafoe and Anderson mainstays Bill Murray, Owen Wilson and Jason Schwartzman. Anderson, going the stop motion route, created one of the most entertaining family friendly films in years in Fox, which follows Clooney?s Fox family as they deal with the repercussions of stealing from Boggis, Bunce and Bean, farmers who will stop at nothing to destroy the local wildlife. Fantastic Mr. Fox is Anderson at his most, erm, fantastic.
2. Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
Combining elements from his previous films, including quirky characters, misunderstood adolescents, and star-crossed lovers, Kingdom is far and away Anderson?s best live action film. Every frame is beautifully constructed, giving Kingdom the feeling of being a series of photographs or paintings. Newcomers Jared Gilman and Kara Heyward, who set the film in motion when they run away together on an island off the coast of New England, are the perfect embodiment of the angst Anderson loves to examine in his films. Edward Norton has never been goofier as a hapless scout master, and even Bruce Willis makes fun of his action hero persona as a lonely sheriff.
3. Rushmore (1998)
Bottle Rocket may have introduced the world to Wes Anderson, but his follow-up, infused with music from the British Invasion, announced his presence as a true comedy auteur. Jason Schwartzman is epic as Max Fischer, the playwright in love with a widowed teacher, and Bill Murray?s Golden Globe nominated performance as a depressed businessman ushered in a new era of cinematic dominance for the once and future Dr. Peter Venkman.
4. The Royal Tenenbaums (2002)
Tenenbaums is the last of three films Anderson wrote with Owen Wilson, which included Bottle Rocket and Rushmore. Narrated by Alec Baldwin and starring Gene Hackman, the film follows Royal Tenenbaum and his family, who have fallen from grace and genius into a very Anderson-esque dysfunctional family. Tackling some very serious topics like suicide, death and abandonment, Anderson lacked the maturity at the time to make Tenenbaums a comedy classic, but it?s still very funny and touching.
5. Bottle Rocket (1996)
Anderson?s debut film stars brothers Owen and Luke Wilson as a couple of small-time crooks who take on a big score masterminded by James Caan. Small and quirky in all the right ways, the film stands on its own as an entertaining independent film that showcases the immense potential Anderson had as a filmmaker.
6. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
The downside with Anderson?s quirkiness is, at the flip of a coin, it can take a nasty turn and become condescending and self-indulgent. It began with Zissou and hit a crescendo with?
7. The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
The Darjeeling Limited is so wrapped up in its own genius it makes Life Aquatic look like Rushmore. That is all.
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Factbox: Greatest risks of high-altitude skydiving
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Elsevier Publishes Landmark Book on Computer Architecture in
Waltham, MA, October 16, 2012 ? 
Adapted from the classic textbook, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 5th Edition, this interactive eBook from Inkling focuses on the dramatic and evolutionary developments in mobile and cloud computing. Using their quantitative approach to design and analysis, Hennessy and Patterson explore the ways in which software and technology in the cloud are accessed by cell phones, tablets, laptops, and other mobile computing devices. The running context in each chapter is computing for personal mobile devices (PDMs) and warehouse scale computers, with examples from the real world that help to illustrate and describe the impacts of these revolutionary changes.
?We?re honored to create a unique, multifunctional version of this classic text,? said Suzanne BeDell, Managing Director, Science and Technology Books, Elsevier.? ?With this new eBook Elsevier continues to innovate with content delivery.???
- Video content in selected chapters including ?Cray-1 Supercomputer 30th Anniversary? (The life and machines of Seymour Cray are explored at the Computer History Museum) and ?Google Efficient Data Centers Summit? (Barroso, Hamilton, 2008).
- Animations including a set demonstrating ?Matrix Multiplication.?
- David Patterson?s PowerPoint presentation on ?Cache Blocking.?
- ALL appendices (A-L) included.
- Embedded hyperlinks allow quick access to all cross-referenced content (chapters, sections, figures, tables, and URLs).
- Print text page numbers listed in the margins, to allow Inkling users to quickly locate content whenever a printed text page number is cited or referenced.
- Solutions to selected end-of-chapter exercises.
Distributed exclusively on the Inkling store, the Inkling eBook-version is available for USD $74.99, or $11.99 per chapter.
To take a look before you buy, Inkling offers chapter 2 for free. Download the inkling app from iTunes, Register with Inkling, and click the ?free chapter download? button here:
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Elsevier is a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals, including
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About Inkling
Inkling is reinventing publishing in the era of the screen/the cloud, and we've started by redefining the book. Starting with the world?s best textbooks and learning content from leading publishers, Inkling rebuilds each title from the ground up into engaging and interactive experiences. But it's about more than just books. Look between the lines, and you?ll see a revolution in publishing: a new platform for creating, distributing and consuming media-rich, interactive content. Based in San Francisco, Inkling is backed by Sequoia Capital and partners with the world's leading educational and trade publishers. For more information, visit?
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Monday, October 15, 2012
Hard time trusting people in relationships - Love and Dating
Finding those qualities is difficult. But when you find them it will be worth the effort.
I would continue being "picky" and find someone YOU want. Trust is difficult to build, but in a relationship there has to be an inherent level of trust. Without trust, there is almost no relationship.
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Since everyone else has this on their signatures.. might as well conform:
Your Aspie score: 121 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 107 of 200 You seem to have both Aspie and neurotypical traits
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Einstein establishes the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Human Aging Research
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine
October 15, 2012 (BRONX, NY) Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has received a $3 million grant from the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research to establish the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Human Aging Research. The grant will fund research to translate recent laboratory and animal discoveries into therapies to slow human aging.
Aging contributes to many of the debilitating and costly diseases including cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes that burden the United States and many other countries. This complex but universal condition causes individual cells and the body as a whole to decline in function. Finding the mechanisms that underlie the aging process may lead to treatments that slow aging, prevent or limit common diseases, and allow people to live healthier, longer lives.
"Unless we find protective mechanisms to delay aging, we will not make progress against age-related diseases," said Nir Barzilai, M.D., co-director of the new center as well as director of the Institute for Aging Research, the Ingeborg and Ira Leon Rennert Chair in Aging Research, and professor of medicine and of genetics at Einstein. "With this valuable grant from the Paul F. Glenn Foundation, we hope to make significant advances toward understanding the aging process and improving human health."
"The generosity of Paul F. Glenn and his foundation is a welcome shot in the arm for aging research in the United States, which is chronically underfunded," said Jan Vijg, Ph.D., co-director of the new center, the Lola and Saul Kramer Chair in Molecular Genetics, and professor and chair of genetics and professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at Einstein. "This grant will help Einstein to maintain its position as one of the world's leaders in this rapidly growing field."
"Paul F. Glenn has been a visionary in aging research for more than 30 years," said Ana Maria Cuervo, M.D., Ph.D., co-director of the new center, the Robert and Rene Belfer Chair for the Study of Neurodegenerative Diseases, and professor of developmental and molecular biology, of anatomy and structural biology and of medicine at Einstein. "Some of us got to know him when we were still graduate students and he came to scientific conferences to see the data as it was being developed. Paul's personal approach to science has made a big difference to many of us in the field of aging research and has contributed to the career development of many young investigators."
The funding, in the form of pilot and feasibility study grants, is targeted to several specific research projects: uncovering the genetic and epigenetic mechanisms that protect humans against aging and age-related diseases, testing the effectiveness of the first-generation pro-longevity therapies, and developing novel preventive and therapeutic interventions against cellular aging in humans.
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Drs. Barzilai and Cuervo are also co-directors of Einstein's Institute for Aging Research and, together with Dr. Vijg, of the Nathan Shock Center for the Basic Biology of Aging. Both centers are funded by the National Aging Institute, part of the National Institutes for Health.
Other Einstein researchers in the Paul F. Center for the Biology of Human Aging Research include Jill Crandall, M.D.; Mark Einstein M.D., M.S.; Claudia Gravekamp, Ph.D.; John Greally, M.B.B.Ch., Ph.D.; Meredith Hawkins, M.D.; Fernando Macian, M.D., Ph.D.; and Yousin Suh, Ph.D.
Founded in 1965 by Paul F. Glenn, The Glenn Foundation for Medical Research aims to extend the healthy productive years of life through research on the biological mechanisms of aging.
About Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University is one of the nation's premier centers for research, medical education and clinical investigation. During the 2009-2010 academic year, Einstein is home to 724 M.D. students, 248 Ph.D.students, 117 students in the combined M.D./Ph.D. program, and 368 postdoctoral research fellows. The College of Medicine has 2,522 fulltime faculty members located on the main campus and at its clinical affiliates. 2011, Einstein received nearly $170 million in awards from the NIH. This includes the funding of major research centers at Einstein in diabetes, cancer, liver disease, and AIDS. Other areas where the College of Medicine is concentrating its efforts include developmental brain research, neuroscience, cardiac disease, and initiatives to reduce and eliminate ethnic and racial health disparities.
Its partnership with Montefiore Medical Center, the University Hospital and academic medical center for Einstein, advances clinical and translational research to accelerate the pace at which new discoveries become the treatments and therapies that benefit patients.
Through its extensive affiliation network involving Montefiore, Jacobi Medical Center Einstein's founding hospital, and five other hospital systems in the Bronx, Manhattan, Long Island and Brooklyn, Einstein runs one of the largest post-graduate medical training programs in the United States, offering approximately 155 residency programs to more than 2,200 physicians in training. For more information, please visit http://www.einstein.yu.edu/home/default.asp and follow us on Twitter @EinsteinMed.
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine
October 15, 2012 (BRONX, NY) Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has received a $3 million grant from the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research to establish the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Human Aging Research. The grant will fund research to translate recent laboratory and animal discoveries into therapies to slow human aging.
Aging contributes to many of the debilitating and costly diseases including cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes that burden the United States and many other countries. This complex but universal condition causes individual cells and the body as a whole to decline in function. Finding the mechanisms that underlie the aging process may lead to treatments that slow aging, prevent or limit common diseases, and allow people to live healthier, longer lives.
"Unless we find protective mechanisms to delay aging, we will not make progress against age-related diseases," said Nir Barzilai, M.D., co-director of the new center as well as director of the Institute for Aging Research, the Ingeborg and Ira Leon Rennert Chair in Aging Research, and professor of medicine and of genetics at Einstein. "With this valuable grant from the Paul F. Glenn Foundation, we hope to make significant advances toward understanding the aging process and improving human health."
"The generosity of Paul F. Glenn and his foundation is a welcome shot in the arm for aging research in the United States, which is chronically underfunded," said Jan Vijg, Ph.D., co-director of the new center, the Lola and Saul Kramer Chair in Molecular Genetics, and professor and chair of genetics and professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at Einstein. "This grant will help Einstein to maintain its position as one of the world's leaders in this rapidly growing field."
"Paul F. Glenn has been a visionary in aging research for more than 30 years," said Ana Maria Cuervo, M.D., Ph.D., co-director of the new center, the Robert and Rene Belfer Chair for the Study of Neurodegenerative Diseases, and professor of developmental and molecular biology, of anatomy and structural biology and of medicine at Einstein. "Some of us got to know him when we were still graduate students and he came to scientific conferences to see the data as it was being developed. Paul's personal approach to science has made a big difference to many of us in the field of aging research and has contributed to the career development of many young investigators."
The funding, in the form of pilot and feasibility study grants, is targeted to several specific research projects: uncovering the genetic and epigenetic mechanisms that protect humans against aging and age-related diseases, testing the effectiveness of the first-generation pro-longevity therapies, and developing novel preventive and therapeutic interventions against cellular aging in humans.
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Drs. Barzilai and Cuervo are also co-directors of Einstein's Institute for Aging Research and, together with Dr. Vijg, of the Nathan Shock Center for the Basic Biology of Aging. Both centers are funded by the National Aging Institute, part of the National Institutes for Health.
Other Einstein researchers in the Paul F. Center for the Biology of Human Aging Research include Jill Crandall, M.D.; Mark Einstein M.D., M.S.; Claudia Gravekamp, Ph.D.; John Greally, M.B.B.Ch., Ph.D.; Meredith Hawkins, M.D.; Fernando Macian, M.D., Ph.D.; and Yousin Suh, Ph.D.
Founded in 1965 by Paul F. Glenn, The Glenn Foundation for Medical Research aims to extend the healthy productive years of life through research on the biological mechanisms of aging.
About Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University is one of the nation's premier centers for research, medical education and clinical investigation. During the 2009-2010 academic year, Einstein is home to 724 M.D. students, 248 Ph.D.students, 117 students in the combined M.D./Ph.D. program, and 368 postdoctoral research fellows. The College of Medicine has 2,522 fulltime faculty members located on the main campus and at its clinical affiliates. 2011, Einstein received nearly $170 million in awards from the NIH. This includes the funding of major research centers at Einstein in diabetes, cancer, liver disease, and AIDS. Other areas where the College of Medicine is concentrating its efforts include developmental brain research, neuroscience, cardiac disease, and initiatives to reduce and eliminate ethnic and racial health disparities.
Its partnership with Montefiore Medical Center, the University Hospital and academic medical center for Einstein, advances clinical and translational research to accelerate the pace at which new discoveries become the treatments and therapies that benefit patients.
Through its extensive affiliation network involving Montefiore, Jacobi Medical Center Einstein's founding hospital, and five other hospital systems in the Bronx, Manhattan, Long Island and Brooklyn, Einstein runs one of the largest post-graduate medical training programs in the United States, offering approximately 155 residency programs to more than 2,200 physicians in training. For more information, please visit http://www.einstein.yu.edu/home/default.asp and follow us on Twitter @EinsteinMed.
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