Tom Cruise is literally back in action in Oblivion, a futuristic sci-fi thriller that hits theaters this weekend. But should you rush to the theater to check it out this weekend? Watch our review to find out if it's a watch, pass, or a rent!
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Apr. 19, 2013 ? Palomar 2 is part of a group of 15 globulars known as the Palomar clusters. These clusters, as the name suggests, were discovered in survey plates from the first Palomar Observatory Sky Survey in the 1950s, a project that involved some of the most well-known astronomers of the day, including Edwin Hubble. They were discovered quite late because they are so faint -- each is either extremely remote, very heavily hidden behind blankets of dust, or has a very small number of remaining stars.
This particular cluster is unique in more than one way. For one, it is the only globular cluster that we see in this part of the sky, the northern constellation of Auriga (The Charioteer). Globular clusters orbit the center of a galaxy like the Milky Way in the same way that satellites circle around the Earth. This means that they normally lie closer in to the galactic center than we do, and so we almost always see them in the same region of the sky. Palomar 2 is an exception to this, as it is around five times further away from the center of the Milky Way than other clusters. It also lies in the opposite direction -- further out than Earth -- and so it is classed as an "outer halo" globular.
It is also unusual due to its apparent dimness. The cluster is veiled by a mask of dust, dampening the apparent brightness of the stars within it and making it appear as a very faint burst of stars. The stunning NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows Palomar 2 in a way that could not be captured from smaller or ground-based telescopes -- some amateur astronomers with large telescopes attempt to observe all of the obscure and well-hidden Palomar 15 as a challenge, to see how many they can pick out from the starry sky.
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PARIS (AP) ? The Cannes Film Festival's 2013 lineup announced Thursday features work from some of the globe's most dangerous locales for artists, and a sprinkling of works by old favorites including Roman Polanski, the Coen brothers and Steven Soderbergh.
Celebrating world cinema from countries with limited freedom of expression is clearly one of this year's stories, with works from Chad, China and Iran among the 19 films competing for the Palme d'Or, one of cinema's most coveted prizes.
"The festival is a h,ouse that shelters artists in danger," said Cannes President Gilles Jacob, who announced the nominees Thursday.
Harking from Africa, "Grigris" by Chadian filmmaker Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, will feature alongside "The Life of Adele" from French-Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche. "Zulu" ? a police thriller shot in South Africa and starring Forest Whitaker and Orlando Bloom ? will close the festival but is not competing.
The list also includes "A Touch of Sin" by Chinese director Jia Zhangke, and "The Past" from Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, featuring Tahar Rahim and rising star Berenice Bejo who garnered attention for "The Artist."
The Mexican narco-film "Heli" by director Amat Escalante explores how love and family ties can provide solace in the desperation stemming from drug trafficking.
Old favorite filmmakers of the festival also fared well.
Joel and Ethan Coen, who won the Palme d'Or in 1991 for "Barton Fink," will show their latest film "Inside Llewyn Davis," set in New York's 1960s folk music scene, starring Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake and John Goodman.
Soderbergh, who caused controversy with 1989's Palme d'Or winner "Sex, Lies and Videotape," is back with "Behind the Candelabra," based on the book by Scott Thorson recounts his relationship with the flamboyant pianist Liberace.
Roman Polanski's "Venus In Fur" could give the Oscar-winning Polish director his second Cannes accolade. He won in 2002 with "The Pianist."
"Only God Forgives," Ryan Gosling's second film with "Drive" director Nicolas Winding Refn, is also in the running. Gosling, paired with Kristin Scott Thomas, stars as a criminal in the Bangkok underworld.
Other nominees include Japanese director Takashi Miike.
Organizers sifted through 1,858 submissions over recent months. Some were submitted as late as Wednesday night, 12 hours before the official selection would be announced.
Last year, Cannes was accused of sexism for a shortlist that included no women. This year, there is one female Palme d'Or contender, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi with her first feature, "A Chateau in Italy." Bruni-Tedeschi is the sister of former French first lady Carla Bruni.
"The Great Gatsby," with Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role and directed by Australian Baz Luhrmann, will open this year's Cannes festival ? in 3-D, no less. The film will be making its premiere but is not entered in the competition.
Hollywood giant Steven Spielberg heads the jury at the festival at the French Riviera this year, which runs May 15-26.
Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring" will open the other official section of the festival, "Un Certain Regard," which highlights unique styles and different points of view.
Coppola opened this section once before with the 80s-tinged "Marie Antoinette," that divided critics back in 2006. "The Bling Ring," starring Emma Watson, tells the true tale of celebrity-obsessed teenagers who use the internet to track the whereabouts of their famous targets in order to break into their homes.
Other films in this section include "As I Lay Dying" by actor-director James Franco, an adaptation of the famed William Faulkner novel of the same name.
Danish "Dogma" director Thomas Vinterberg will head the "Un Certain Regard" jury.
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Chemical Engineering Professor at University of California, Berkeley Honored for Innovation in Industrial Biotechnology
BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology 2013
WASHINGTON--()--The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) named Dr. Jay Keasling as the recipient of its 2013 George Washington Carver Award for innovation in industrial biotechnology.
?I truly believe that through synthetic biology all petroleum-based products can be produced from sugar-based microbes resulting in cleaner processes and slowing global warming.?
A panel selected Keasling, a professor of biochemical engineering at University of California, Berkeley; associate laboratory director at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; CEO of the Joint BioEnergy Institute; and director of Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center, for his contributions to the field of synthetic biology promoting the use of engineering microbes to produce biofuels, medicines and even cosmetic compounds from simple ingredients like sugar cane and grasses.
Keasling will receive the award and deliver a keynote address during a June 18 plenary lunch session at BIO?s 10th Annual World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology. The conference is being held at the Palais des congr?s de Montr?al.
?I am honored to receive the 2013 George Washington Carver Award for contributing to research and commercialization of synthetic biology,? Keasling said. ?I truly believe that through synthetic biology all petroleum-based products can be produced from sugar-based microbes resulting in cleaner processes and slowing global warming.?
The award is named after Carver, one of the founding fathers of the chemurgy movement, a branch of applied chemistry focused on preparing industrial products from raw agricultural materials. Biotechnology is the modern-day equivalent, and the award honors individuals for carrying on Carver?s legacy.
?The field has developed in ways that Carver may never have imagined, but the work of industrial biotech companies remains true to the goal of a sustainable bio-economy,? said Brent Erickson, executive vice president for BIO?s Industrial & Environmental Section. ?BIO is pleased to honor Keasling for his break-through work in synthetic biology. Using synthetic biology, Keasling is developing processes that commercialize replacements for petroleum-based products consumers use every day from hard plastics and paints to soda bottles, cosmetics and car tires.?
Past recipients of the Carver Award are Dr. Patrick Gruber, CEO of Gevo, Inc., in 2008; Charles O. Holliday, Jr., chairman of the board of DuPont in 2009; Gregory Stephanopoulos, the Willard Henry Dow Professor of Chemical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010; Feike Sijbesma, CEO of Royal DSM in 2011; and Steen Riisgaard, president and CEO of Novozymes in 2012.
Registration is now open for the 2013 BIO World Congress coming to Montr?al, Canada, June 16-19 at the Palais des congr?s de Montr?al. Please visit?http://www.bio.org/worldcongress/?for additional information, or email worldcongress@bio.org. It?s the world?s largest industrial biotechnology conference for business leaders, investors, academics and policymakers in biofuels, biobased products, renewable chemicals, synthetic biology, food ingredients and biomass.
Online pre-registration for reporters and editors is now open. All breakout and plenary sessions at the BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology are open to attendance by members of the media. Complimentary media registration is available to editors and reporters with valid press credentials working full time for print, broadcast or web publications.
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The Wolfpack gets into the same inebriated trouble in a brand-new trailer for the final movie.
By Kevin P. Sullivan
Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis and Bradley Cooper in "Hangover III"
Photo: Warner Bros
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Waving balloons and dressed in white, tens of thousands of Colombians marched in Bogota and across the nation on Tuesday in a polarizing gathering for peace that critics slam as a show of support for Marxist FARC rebels.
Throngs of people chanting "we want peace" advanced toward the capital's main square, Plaza Bolivar, a few blocks from where former presidential candidate Jorge Eliecer Gaitan was assassinated on April 9 65 years ago.
"The nation is expressing its rejection of violence, violence that has caused so many wounds and so much pain," President Juan Manuel Santos said as he joined the mass.
The march, organized by leftist politicians Ivan Cepeda and Piedad Cordoba, aims to show a united front against violence and in favor of peace. But it has divided the nation as many believe the movement is a launchpad for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, to enter politics.
Santos late on Monday called on the nation to reject what he called "enemies of peace" and join the march to show support for his historic bid to bring an end to five decades of bloodshed with the rebels.
"Peace is the sublime objective of any society," Santos said.
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Colombia, at war with the FARC since 1964, in November launched a controversial bid to negotiate peace with the rebels during talks in Havana, Cuba.
Critics say Santos is negotiating behind the nation's back and handing the FARC whatever they want.
Former President Alvaro Uribe, once a Santos ally, charges that the FARC, mostly funded by extortion and drug trafficking, will trick the nation as it has in previous peace talks and get away with crimes without being punished.
Government and rebel negotiators are seeking common ground on a five-point agenda, beginning with the thorniest issue of rural development and land reform. Social inequality in Colombia's vast rural territory is considered the root of the conflict - with land ownership concentrated in very few hands.
"This movement shows the people of Colombia are completely decided in favor of peace," organizer Cepeda told Reuters on Tuesday. "We are negotiating peace in Havana but today shows the process is backed by multitudes."
The march is being held on the anniversary of the murder of Gaitan, a leftist politician gunned down as it became clear he would win the 1948 presidential election and fight for the rights of the poor.
His death unleashed a wave of violence and paved the way for the founding of the FARC.
Latin America's longest-running insurgency has left tens of thousands dead, seeded vast rural and mountainous areas with landmines and left scores of villages and towns economically isolated.
While a 10-year military offensive against the FARC has pushed the rebels deep into inhospitable territory and helped rejuvenate the economy, the FARC is still a formidable presence and able to sow fear and cause damage to the nation's economic infrastructure.
The FARC is considered a terrorist group by the United States and Europe.
"We were born into violence, my children were born into violence," said Gustavo Rodriguez, 54, a farmer from Tolima province as he walked toward Bogota's historic center.
"I believe this process will bring peace. It's not that we support Santos, it's not that we support the FARC, it's that we live in the middle of gunfire."
Numerous peace efforts in Colombia since the 1980s have brought mixed success, with some smaller armed groups demobilizing. But the FARC, Latin America's biggest rebel group, has pressed on, funded in large part by drug trafficking.
At the last peace talks in 1999-2002, former President Andres Pastrana ceded the FARC a safe haven the size of Switzerland to promote talks.
But the rebels took advantage of the breathing space to train fighters, build more than 25 airstrips to fly drug shipments and set up prison camps to hold hostages.
(Additional reporting by Eduardo Garcia; editing by Jackie Frank)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/colombians-march-polarizing-bid-bring-peace-farc-163350235.html
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"Durango is going to be expensive ? $500, $300 with a subscription ? that kind of thing. Originally, they were going to announce this thing on April 24. Now they are going to announce it on May 21. We know there are events occurring this year where we are going to learn more about Durango. E3 is going to occur, Build is going to occur in San Francisco in June when they are going to talk about the developer story because it is a Windows 8 device. It is going to have the same, or basically the same, developer tools and developer APIs," said Paul Thurrott, a well-known Microsoft expert, in the recent What The Tech's video podcast.
Microsoft released the Xbox 360 console in the U.S. back in 2005 at $299 and $399 price-points and it has taken the company quite some time to slash pricing of the product to mainstream $199. With models priced at $399 and $499 the software giant will hardly be able to outsell the Xbox 360 game console at least early in the lifecycle. Mr. Thurrott also revealed that according to his sources, the console would require a constant internet connection
It is also rumoured that Microsoft intends to release a low-cost Xbox 360 version code-named Stingray at $99 price-point later this year, bringing value gaming and advanced entertainment capabilities to customers in budget. While the company is clearly interested in such an offering, given that modern Xbox 360 games cost $50 and higher, the Stingray will barely get popular among casual gamers, but will rather be a substitute for those, who want to play current titles that will not work on Xbox Next.
Microsoft Xbox Next ?Durango? is expected to be architecturally similar to the PlayStation 4. It is believed that the future Xbox will be powered by AMD Fusion custom-designed system-on-chip with eight x86 low-power/low-cost Jaguar cores, AMD Radeon HD graphics with GCN architecture as well as 8GB of DDR3 system memory. The console is projected to feature hard disk drive, Blu-ray disc drive as well as robust Xbox Live online service. It is believed that Microsoft Xbox ?Durango? has lower-performance graphics sub-system as well as slower memory sub-system when compared to Sony PS4.
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An analysis of what is known about the Xbox Next clearly points to the fact that Microsoft had put a great deal of attention to make the Durango a high-quality general-purpose device for the living room, while compromising some of the gaming-related aspects (e.g., graphics performance). The video games for the Microsoft Xbox Next will clearly look better and feel better than titles developed for the Xbox 360 simply because of the eight-year gap in technologies under the hoods of the systems. However, only time will show how future-proof will be Microsoft?s Durango console for the core gamers who demand improvements of titles throughout the active lifetime of the console that could span for eight years, as in the case of the Xbox 360.
Microsoft did not comment on the news-story.
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That is not what they mean. 'Always on' means when the console is on you need to be connected to the internet for it to function correctly.
You can turn the power off when ever you want.
But you are right that it means DRM, but I really don't have any issues with DRM as long as it doesn't massively impede on my system performance. I am more than happy to wait for a game to come down to a price I feel it is worth. The game makers have put a lot of time and money into their games and if we want good, high quality games we have to accept to part with our money. I also think second hand games should be banned too. If there was no piracy and no second hand games then possibly the game price would come down but mainly the games companies would make more money which on the whole will lead to more and better games.
The bigger problem is that Durango will be tightly integrated into Microsoft' ecosystem and will not use any exclusive technologies. Therefore, "always on" requirement and constant DRM will likely be a part of all Microsoft's products going forward.
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I can't help but laugh everytime I see the word Durango because ir is very close to the word Drongo which means in Australisn English someone who is an idiot.
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Don't look now, but Panasonic has just gone public with pricing and availability information for its inaugural line of streaming media players. Announced a few months back at CES, the 3D-capable DMP-MS10 is shipping today for $79.99, offering up VIERA Connect (for easy integration with older Panny HDTVs), inbuilt WiFi, external HDD playback and access to Netflix, Hulu Plus, CinemaNow, Vudu and YouTube. An extra $20 gets you the DMP-MST60, which is also shipping today while adding 2D-to-3D conversion and Miracast functionality.
Over on the BD side, the DMP-BD79 is moving out now for $79.99, while the BD89 is going for $10 more; these two are 2D-only models, with the latter being equipped with WiFi out of the box. For those still (somehow) enamored with the third dimension, the DMP-BBT01 ($269.99), BDT500 ($349.99), BDT330 ($199.99) and BDT230 ($129.999) are also hitting store shelves within the next few moments. The full releases are just past the break -- you know, if you're into such things.
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/09/panasonic-pricing-ship-date-media-streamers-blu-ray/
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Attorney Robert Eglet, left, embraces Carl Brunson, 71 and his wife Bonnie, 70, after the verdict Tuesday, March 9, 2013 in Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas. Health Plan of Nevada must pay $500 million in punitive damages for its role in the 2008 hepatitis C outbreak. The same eight-member jury last week awarded a total of $24 million in compensatory damages to three people, two of whom contracted hepatitis C at a facility operated by Dr. Dipak Desai, the central figure in the outbreak. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jeff Scheid)
Attorney Robert Eglet, left, embraces Carl Brunson, 71 and his wife Bonnie, 70, after the verdict Tuesday, March 9, 2013 in Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas. Health Plan of Nevada must pay $500 million in punitive damages for its role in the 2008 hepatitis C outbreak. The same eight-member jury last week awarded a total of $24 million in compensatory damages to three people, two of whom contracted hepatitis C at a facility operated by Dr. Dipak Desai, the central figure in the outbreak. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jeff Scheid)
Helen Meyer, sits before the punitive verdict is announced Tuesday, March 9, 2013 in Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas. Health Plan of Nevada must pay $500 million in punitive damages for its role in the 2008 hepatitis C outbreak. The same eight-member jury last week awarded a total of $24 million in compensatory damages to three people, two of whom contracted hepatitis C at a facility operated by Dr. Dipak Desai, the central figure in the outbreak. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jeff Scheid)
LAS VEGAS (AP) ? A Nevada jury ordered the state's largest health management organization on Tuesday to pay $500 million in punitive damages to three plaintiffs in a civil negligence lawsuit stemming from a Las Vegas hepatitis outbreak.
Two companies ? both subsidiaries of publicly traded UnitedHealth Group Inc. ? signed a low-bid contract with the physician who ran the clinic where the outbreak started, despite warnings that he sped through procedures and pinched pennies at his clinics so much that patients were at risk of contracting blood-borne diseases, attorneys for those suing the companies argued.
They had sought almost $2.5 billion, telling the jury of five women and three men on Monday that a record amount would show health corporations they couldn't put profits ahead of patient safety. The jury instead assessed a $270 million punishment from Health Plan of Nevada and $230 million from parent company Sierra Health Services.
The smaller award wasn't a disappointment, said Robert Eglet, attorney for plaintiffs Bonnie and Carl Brunson, both in their 70s.
"The jury sent a strong message not only to HPN and Sierra Health, but to every HMO and health insurance company in this country," Eglet said. "You've got to provide a fair and responsible reimbursement rate to medical providers so that they are able to provide quality health care to their insured members."
Plaintiff Helen Meyer, 76, declared herself "very happy." She was represented by attorney Will Kemp.
The companies derided the award, promising to appeal and warning that it could drive up health insurance rates if it stands.
"The number announced today ... represents fantasy damages, not punitive damages," said a statement from company spokesman Tyler Mason. "The only numbers that matter here are the higher insurance premiums that Nevadans may pay if health plans are held liable for the criminal conduct of independent doctors."
D. Lee Roberts Jr., lead defense attorney for Health Plan of Nevada and Sierra Health Services, had told the Clark County District Court jury the companies were punished enough by the $24 million awarded to plaintiffs last week in compensatory damages. That award was $9 million for Meyer, $12 million for Bonnie Brunson and $3 million for her husband for loss of consortium.
During six weeks of testimony and arguments, Roberts and other defense attorneys told the jury that Dipak Desai, the physician-owner of the clinics where Meyer and Bonnie Brunson were infected in 2005, was responsible for the hepatitis outbreak, not the companies.
The extent of the hepatitis exposure became apparent in 2008, when the Southern Nevada Health District in Las Vegas notified more than 50,000 people that they were at risk for blood-borne diseases including AIDS and should be tested.
Investigators later traced hepatitis C infections of nine people to procedures conducted in 2007 at Desai endoscopy clinics. Health officials said that although hepatitis C was found in another 105 Desai patients, the cases weren't conclusively linked to procedures at his clinics.
Desai, once a member of the Nevada state Board of Medical Examiners, wasn't named in the civil lawsuit involving Meyer and the Brunsons. He has denied wrongdoing, declared bankruptcy and surrendered his medical license, but faces trial in state court later this month and federal court next month on separate criminal charges stemming from the outbreak.
Desai's lawyers have fought to prove that he is so incapacitated by strokes and other physical ailments that he is unfit for trial. Prosecutors allege that he's faking his ailments to avoid punishment.
The amount awarded Tuesday matched an apparent record set in Nevada in 2010, when Eglet and Kemp won $500 million for other plaintiffs in another civil lawsuit that blamed pharmaceutical companies Teva Parenteral Medicines Inc. and Baxter Healthcare Corp. for the hepatitis outbreak.
That award was appealed, reduced and included in a February 2012 confidential settlement of about $280 million distributed among dozens of plaintiffs in similar cases.
Legal experts on Tuesday pointed to recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings and said any award in the HMO case greater than $240 million ? or 10 times the compensatory figure ? ran the risk of being slashed.
Darren McKinney, spokesman for the American Tort Reform Association in Washington, D.C., said the trial judge was likely to reduce the award.
"And if the trial judge fails to do that, surely the state Supreme Court, in light of previous U.S. Supreme Court rulings, will reduce it," he said.
John Kircher, a Marquette University law professor and author of the 2012 book, "Punitive Damages, Law and Practice," said a lower figure wasn't a sure thing.
"But the U.S. Supreme Court has said it sees due process problems if the punitive award exceeds compensatory damages by more than a double-digit percentage."
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