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Saturday, March 2, 2013
Alec Baldwin Is Busy Fulfilling Hilaria?s Fruit Requests
"I go to the other room, I plug my phone in to charge it [and] sure enough I walk back - three quarters of the pineapple is gone and she's like, 'I was very hungry.'"
Ten-year averaging: Age before beauty - Business Management Daily
Q. I?m age 78 and the founder of my company. Since I retired last year, can I still elect 10-year averaging for my retirement plan? K.C., Key Largo, Fla.
A. Yes. To qualify for this break, you must have been born before 1936, so you barely make it. Under 10-year averaging, the tax on a lump-sum distribution from a qualified retirement plan is based on the tax rates in effect for single taxpayers in 1986 and is applied to the ordinary income portion of the distribution. Furthermore, a flat 20% capital gain rate is also available for the taxable portion of a lump-sum distribution attributable to plan participation before 1974.
Tip: Ten-year averaging isn?t mandatory, so figure out the tax both ways.
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Friday, March 1, 2013
Big Dog Can Now Throw Cinder Blocks, Thereby Making It The Scariest Robot Ever
While I'm sure there's some scientific reason for demonstrating how the quadrupedal Big Dog can pick up and throw cinder blocks across a workshop ("Ahem, urm, we're showing how the mass of the brick has little or no direct effect on the quadruped's center of gravity, allowing it to carry large objects in the field, ahrm."), I think what we're seeing here is the first example of a nascent new robotic sport, human tossing.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/xRQalligTm0/
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91% Lore
All Critics (64) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (58) | Rotten (6)
We know where this is going pretty early on, but that doesn't prevent "Lore" from being riveting stuff, start to finish.
This striking, slow-building drama ... uses fractured, impressionistic imagery as a mirror of moral dislocation as the children make their way through an unfamiliar landscape.
It's a remarkable accomplishment.
Saskia Rosendahl is a highly expressive actress within the limited confines of her character, and the film is studded with memorable scenes.
"Lore" is the sort of movie you'd already expect to rip your heart out, but that doesn't diminish the tragedy when it does arrive.
If "Lore" is an upsetting and uncomfortable film set in a morally bleak landscape, it also offers a guardedly optimistic vision of the possibility of human change.
One of the most powerful war stories to appear on screen. A story of the universal defeat of war and the enduring survival of the human spirit.
Shortland composes her shots with great elegance. Adam Arkapaw's damp, saturated photography is gorgeous. G?tterd?mmerung has rarely been so quietly compelling.
[A] complex portrait of a young girl with repellent beliefs gradually coming of age and to an understanding of what it means to be human in the face of some heinous experiences.
It isn't exactly a profound film, but Saskia Rosendahl's performance has considerable depth, and she interacts admirably with her siblings.
An unusual, constantly surprising post-WWII odyssey, this film may feel a bit thin and episodic, but it tells an evocative story with darkly moving emotion.
Shortland does an impressive job of evoking the rotten heart of a country turning in on itself.
The film is ultimately about a spectacular fall from innocence that feels both highly personal and universal.
As with all the best fairytales, there is a blackness and brutality at its centre.
Not even safety and sanctuary quite wipe clean the trauma slate. New autocracies lie in wait, ready to replace the old.
Shortland and her ferocious lead actress, Saskia Rosendahl, burrow so deeply into the thoughts of the stubborn, infuriating protagonist that you leave the movie unable to stop wondering what the rest of her life will be like.
A tough yet rewarding viewing experience!
Certainly sounds good on paper, but a little shallow and overstated in reality.
While prone to arty lingering, thus wasting time that would have been more wisely spent plugging gaps in the narrative, Shortland slathers the story in enough mud and horror to make it a compellingly visceral experience.
A provocative and emotionally complex drama with a terrific central performance from newcomer Saskia Rosendahl.
It's a close, intimate film - sometimes so close you can feel the breath of its characters in your face.
Shortland creates a palpable sense of atmosphere, and coupled with fluid camerawork and a verdant forest backdrop, Lore looks and feels a world apart from other World War II-set dramas.
This oblique and understated tale of lost innocence conveys both an individual's experiences and a powerful sense of a ruined nation.
Shortland's measured pacing and hypnotic visuals make this a mesmerising journey through a defeated landscape.
The result is a stimulating portrayal of an under-examined aspect of Nazism's terrible legacy.
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Rodman tells Kim Jong Un he has 'friend for life'
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and former NBA star Dennis Rodman watch North Korean and U.S. players in an exhibition basketball game at an arena in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. Rodman arrived in Pyongyang on Monday with three members of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team to shoot an episode on North Korea for a new weekly HBO series. (AP Photo/VICE Media, Jason Mojica)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and former NBA star Dennis Rodman watch North Korean and U.S. players in an exhibition basketball game at an arena in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. Rodman arrived in Pyongyang on Monday with three members of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team to shoot an episode on North Korea for a new weekly HBO series. (AP Photo/VICE Media, Jason Mojica)
Flamboyant former NBA star Dennis Rodman is surrounded by journalists upon arrival at Pyongyang Airport, North Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. The American known as "The Worm" arrived in Pyongyang, becoming an unlikely ambassador for sports diplomacy at a time of heightened tensions between the U.S. and North Korea. (AP Photo/Kim Kwang Hyon)
Flamboyant former NBA star Dennis Rodman, fifth from right, poses with three members of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team, in red jerseys, and a production crew for the media upon arrival at Pyongyang Airport, North Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. Rodman known as "The Worm" arrived in Pyongyang, becoming an unlikely ambassador for sports diplomacy at a time of heightened tensions between the U.S. and North Korea. (AP Photo/Kim Kwang Hyon)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? Ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman hung out Thursday with North Korea's Kim Jong Un on the third day of his improbable journey with VICE to Pyongyang, watching the Harlem Globetrotters with the leader and later dining on sushi and drinking with him at his palace.
"You have a friend for life," Rodman told Kim before a crowd of thousands at a gymnasium where they sat side by side, chatting as they watched players from North Korea and the U.S. play, Alex Detrick, a spokesman for the New York-based VICE media company, told The Associated Press.
Rodman arrived in Pyongyang on Monday with three members of the professional Harlem Globetrotters basketball team, VICE correspondent Ryan Duffy and a production crew to shoot an episode on North Korea for a new weekly HBO series.
The unlikely encounter makes Rodman the most high-profile American to meet Kim since the young North Korean leader took power in December 2011, and takes place against a backdrop of tension between Washington and Pyongyang. North Korea conducted an underground nuclear test just two weeks ago, making clear the provocative act was a warning to the United States to drop what it considers a "hostile" policy toward the North.
Kim, a diehard basketball fan, told the former Chicago Bulls star he hoped the visit would break the ice between the United States and North Korea, VICE founder Shane Smith said.
Dressed in a blue Mao suit, Kim laughed and slapped his hands on the table before him during the game as he sat nearly knee to knee with Rodman. Rodman, the man who once turned up in a wedding dress to promote his autobiography, wore a dark suit and dark sunglasses, but still had on his nose rings and other piercings. A can of Coca-Cola sat on the table before him in photos shared with AP by VICE.
"The crowd was really engaged, laughed at all of the Globetrotters antics, and actually got super loud towards the end as the score got close," said Duffy, who suited up for the game in a blue uniform emblazoned with "United States of America. "Most fun I've had in a while."
Kim and Rodman chatted in English, but Kim primarily spoke in Korean through a translator, Smith said after speaking to the VICE crew in Pyongyang.
"They bonded during the game," Smith said by telephone from New York after speaking to the crew. "They were both enjoying the crazy shots, and the Harlem Globetrotters were putting on quite a show."
The surprise visit by the flamboyant Hall of Famer known as "The Worm" makes him an unlikely ambassador at a time when North Koreans are girding for battle with the U.S. Just last week, Kim guided front line troops in military exercises.
North Korea and the U.S. fought on opposite sides of the three-year Korean War, which ended in a truce in 1953. The foes never signed a peace treaty, and do not have diplomatic relations.
Thursday's game ended in a 110-110 draw, with two Americans playing on each team alongside North Koreans, Detrick said. The Xinhua News Agency first reported on the game, citing witnesses who attended.
After the game, Rodman addressed Kim in a speech before a crowd of tens of thousands of North Koreans, telling him, "You have a friend for life," Detrick said.
At a lavish dinner at Kim's palace, the leader plied the group with food and drinks as the group made round after round of toasts.
"Dinner was an epic feast. Felt like about 10 courses in total," Duffy said in an email to AP. "I'd say the winners were the smoked turkey and sushi, though we had the Pyongyang cold noodles earlier in the trip and that's been the runaway favorite so far."
Duffy said he invited Kim to visit the United States, a proposal met with hearty laughter from the North Korean leader.
"Um ... so Kim Jong Un just got the (hash)VICEonHBO crew wasted ... no really, that happened," VICE producer Jason Mojica wrote on Twitter.
Rodman's trip is the second attention-grabbing U.S. visit this year to North Korea. Google's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, made a four-day trip in January to Pyongyang, but did not meet the North Korean leader.
In Washington, the State Department refused comment on Rodman's visit or his meeting with Kim. "Private, individual Americans are welcome to take actions they see fit," spokesman Patrick Ventrell said.
He said the Obama administration wasn't in touch with Rodman and wasn't making an effort to contact him.
The administration had frowned on the trip by Schmitt and former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, but has avoided criticizing Rodman's outing, saying it's about sports.
North Korea's invitation to a man known as much for his piercings, tattoos and bad behavior as for his basketball may seem inexplicable. But Kim is known to love the NBA, and has promoted sports since becoming leader.
"We knew that he's a big lover of basketball, especially the Bulls, and it was our intention going in that we would have a good will mission of something that's fun," Smith said. "A lot of times, things just are serious and everybody's so concerned with geopolitics that we forget just to be human beings."
Rodman's agent, Darren Prince, said Rodman wasn't concerned about criticism about making a visit to an enemy nation.
"Dennis called me last night and said it's been a great experience and he made this trip out of the love of the USA ," he said. "It's all about peace and love."
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Associated Press NBA writer Brian Mahoney in New York and writer Bradley Klapper in Washington contributed to this report. Follow AP's Korea bureau chief Jean Lee at twitter.com/newsjean.
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Internet's dad wants to talk to animals
We humans are a well wired species. But people who invented the Internet think there are connections we've yet to forge--with other intelligent animals on this planet, and unknown species on others
Vint Cerf, who helped build the early Internet (and now sits at Google as their chief Internet evangelist) and three other Internet and animal communication experts recently explained how we could connect with animals and help animals talk to each other. They call it the "Interspecies Internet" or I2I project, and introduced the audience at TED 2013 to the concept in a panel at Long Beach, CA on Thursday (Feb. 28).
"Although it will clearly be used by beings of the same species for communication a special emphasis will be made on communications between species, including our own," Peter Gabriel, the project's founder writes on the project's Facebook page. "It will also allow us and our children many insights into the nature of the other species , or sentient beings, with whom we share the planet."
The idea of an Internet for animals started out when Gabriel began doing jam sessions with bonobos and was struck by how similar they were to human musicians. He tracked down researchers who have been observing and animal communication, and convinced them to get on board.
Given the project's goals, it makes sense that Neil Gershenfeld is involved. Gershenfeld has been a fixture at MIT for a decade (now director of the Center for Bits and Atoms) and has a long history of studying the way the Internet connects us, as well as the things we own.
Gershenfeld and Cerf first announced the project at the World Science Festival last year in October. "They draw they play games. They're smart, they interact, they're social," Gershenfeld said then, describing interactions that dolphins and apes have had with iPads, which researchers have been studying for some time. "There isn't a firewall between us and them."
"If we are ever going to have first contact with aliens, the first thing we need to understand is how to interact with species on our own planet," Cerf added.
Even if Cerf did seem to be half-joking, animal communications experts seem to agree that he has a point.
?You can?t get more alien than the dolphin. We?re separated by 95 million years of divergent evolution. These are true non-terrestrials,? animal communications researcher Diana Reisstold the audience at TED. Reiss did pioneering work on dolphin communication and intelligence, and her early work with dolphins and mirrors helped researchers understand how smart the ocean mammals are.
The way the researchers see it now, the network will have many similarities to the regular Internet today. "Many of the phenomena of the net, universal communication, open access to information and education, group behavior and social networks will have their parallels in the Interspecies Internet," Gabriel writes.
NBC News has reached out to I2I and we will update this story when we hear back.
Via: Fast Company, The Verge
Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/futureoftech/internets-dad-wants-talk-animals-1C8640290
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