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2012 Oscar Prediction: Best Original Score
Academy Awards By Allison Loring on February 24, 2012 | Be the First To CommentAs I note each week in Aural Fixation, music is one of the most important components in a film, providing the underlying emotion in certain scenes as well as the overall tone of a film. Creating this musical landscape is no easy task and the five scores nominated this year were brought to the screen by four talented composers (yes, someone got nominated twice.) While last year gave us slightly more innovative music with scores from first time composer Trent Reznor and the more electrified Hans Zimmer, the past year in film seemed to hearken back to the more classical era of filmmaking and the scores followed suit.
From tales of adventure, spy thrillers, a different perspective on war to a look back at the early days of filmmaking, the nominated scores kept pace with their respective films and came from composers that ranged from Academy veterans to first time nominees. While I was admittedly more excited (and felt slightly more invested) in the nominees last year, the composers selected for the potential honor this year are well-deserved and created scores that undeniably elevated each their films.
Who will take home the golden statue this year? Stay tuned to see if my prediction of who will win proves true. Read on for the nominations and my predicted winner in red…
The Adventures of Tintin, John Williams
Why He Was Nominated:
Based on the famed comic series, Williams helps bring this story to life with strings that practically jump off the screen and horns that would inspire anyone to dive into the mystery surrounding the much sought after Unicorn. Williams' score keeps this adventure moving while still sounding light, fun and never too serious. Tintin was a great time at the movies and Williams' score helped keep that kinetic energy running through every frame.
Why He Might Win:
Williams is no stranger to the Academy (and has over forty nominations to prove it) and his well-honed chops created a score that is both full-bodied and layered while never being overwrought. Even when creating music for a "children's film," Williams never plays down to his potential audience, keeping the music as rich as the visuals on screen and proving why he is constant fixture on the Oscar nomination list.
Why He Might Not Win:
Williams is not only going up against three other composers, he is also pitted against himself (with a second nomination for his score for War Horse.) Seeing as his score for War Horse is rooted more in emotion than entertainment, Williams may prove to be his own toughest competition. TinTin is about the fun of adventure while War Horse deals with the ramifications of war, a subject matter more likely to be associated with Oscar than the slightly madcap consequences of TinTin's adventures. War Horse's more serious tone may tip the scales away from TinTin if voters find themselves choosing between the two Williams efforts.
Previous Nominations: 47
Previous Wins: 5
The Artist, Ludovic Bource
Why He Was Nominated:
Grand and moving, Bource's score for The Artist already sounds like a classic. Rising to the challenge of creating the music for a silent film, Bource composed a score that not only sounded like it was from another time, it also provided the whimsy needed to accompany wordless actors left with only their facial expressions and gestures to express their emotions. Just as full, live orchestras used to perform in theaters along with a movie's screening, Bource called on the full range of orchestral instrumentation from strings to percussion to horns to create a score that is not only comprehensive, but strong enough to stand as the only sound in The Artist.
Why He Might Win:
With a Golden Globe for Best Original Score already under his belt, Bource seems poised as the one to beat come Oscar night. Unlike his fellow nominees, Bource's score did not just play under scenes and highlight climatic moments, it provided all the sound in The Artist (no small feat.) Taking us back to a time in film when instruments had to convey the myriad of emotions we can now rely on words for, Bource's score truly sounded like it was taken from the 1920s and gave The Artist real weight making this return to the early days of filmmaking both exciting and entertaining.
Why He Might Not Win:
As Bource's first Oscar nomination, going up against heavy-hitters like Williams and Shore may prove too great for the composer (who has a mere nine films under his belt while his competition has more than double that on their resumes.) While Bource's score impressively made up for the lack of dialogue in this silent film throwback, it also did little to bring anything new to the table and may prove to be too "by the numbers" in the end.
Previous Nominations: 0
Previous Wins: 0
Hugo, Howard Shore
Why He Was Nominated:
In a story that stars children (but is certainly not aimed at them), Shore was able to impressively navigate Hugo's darker moments with music that never lost its sense of magic and hope. With soaring strings and curious wind instruments, Shore created a score that was inspiring while still giving those heavier scenes the weight they deserved through dissonant piano refrains and rumbling percussion. Complex and intricate, Shore's score helped made Hugo a breathtaking time at the movies and thanks to its level of detail, holds up outside of the film as well.
Why He Might Win:
Shore has won an Oscar almost every time he has been up to bat and Hugo once again finds him creating music for a specific time period in a setting laced with mystery and adventure – tropes that served him well during the Lord of the Rings reign and got Shore his four Oscar wins (his fourth for Best Original Song for "Into the West" from Return of the King.) Shore's score not only elevated Hugo's scenes, it also enhanced the character's performances by giving slight winks to the audience that coincided with various character's reactions that were slightly less on the nose than The Artist.
Why He Might Not Win:
Having already lost to The Artist at the Golden Globes, Shore's darker sounding score may yet again see itself beaten by Bource's more dramatic and classical sounding one. While Shore's score also played along with the characters and action in Hugo, Shore's more subtle approach may end up working against him and get overlooked when comparing these two scores which were both influenced by the early days of filmmaking.
Previous Nominations: 4
Previous Wins: 3
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Alberto Iglesias
Why He Was Nominated:
With off-putting oboe, piano refrains, and almost jazzy percussion, Iglesias' score stands out from the crowd with its more varied tone which keeps you guessing at every turn (much like the film itself.) While Iglesias is known more for his music in Spanish films (particularly those directed by long-time collaborator Pedro Almodóvar), he takes on the world (and sound) of a British spy thriller with a masterful hand that proves music truly is a universal language.
Why He Might Win:
The only nominee working slightly "out of the box," Iglesias created a score that is rich with intrigue and added to the film without directly interacting with it. While unquestionably up against some stiff competition, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy could end get its recognition here (and end Iglesias' losing streak) if it ends up getting overlooked in the other two categories it is nominated for.
Why He Might Not Win:
Having been nominated twice before (with no win), the still slightly green Iglesias may get passed over on a ballot with Academy favorites like Williams and Shore. In the face of more "classic" sounding scores, the reason Iglesias may stand out may also end up being the reason why he loses.
Previous Nominations: 2
Previous Wins: 0
War Horse, John Williams
Why He Was Nominated:
Williams' score for War Horse is both epic sounding and thoughtful with robust instrumentation that shows Williams full range and talent as a composer. The score for War Horse spans various tones from hopeful to heartbroken, violent to comforting as the Narracott family and Joey navigate the rough and unpredictable waters of life during wartime. While Williams explores these different tones, he is also mindful to bring it all back together in the end, proving he had a purpose and a plan for every note.
Why He Might Win:
Williams is clearly a favorite among Academy voters and his score for War Horse is the definition of Oscar gold with its singing strings and booming percussion. As I said earlier, given the choice between the two, Williams' score for War Horse seems like the stronger Oscar contender (as opposed to his score for TinTin) as it tackles slightly heavier fare and does so with a score that is never monotonous or bogged down.
Why He Might Not Win:
While certainly grand in its own right, Williams may simply be out matched here. Having also lost to The Artist at the Golden Globes (and with War Horse bolstering six other nominations), War Horse may suffer the same fate as Hugo and pick up its Oscar gold elsewhere, leaving The Artist to yet again take home the win here.
Previous Nominations: 47
Previous Wins: 5
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Crude took out some important levels this week but psychological support at $85 has held so far. On the week, WTI was down $3.77.
The techs look awfully negative but I struggle to envision oil at $77 again.
Still, I never fight the techs.
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Crude took out some important levels this week but psychological support at $85 has held so far. On the week, WTI was down $3.77.
The techs look awfully negative but I struggle to envision oil at $77 again.
Still, I never fight the techs.
Hi Adam, I like your mantra "never fight the techs" or the trend. With that in mind, using oil as an example (or any instrument) in this scenario, would you be looking for a short entry as long as the trend remains in tact. Or, with your intuition telling you, you have a hard time seeing it lower, would you just choose to stay on the sidelines?
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The following is a guest post by Zac from Dejan SEO.
Each one of us has a unique approach to link building, for both personal websites and large scale link building. If we are talking about large scale link building that turns into a whole new story as there are much more things to keep an eye out for, but when it comes to simple link building for a certain website there are a few things that you can try to get those quality links.
Now, we already said that everyone has a different approach to link building, some prefer guest posts, which is a great way to score quality backlinks, some prefer partnerships, sponsorships while others focus on easy link opportunities. We won't talk about the actual types of links, but how to do your research, how to approach people, and how to get any type of link you have in mind.
Now the basic idea I always follow is to see what my competitors are up to. I don't try to imitate them, sure I try to get a few of their backlinks, but that will only get you so far, you need more to overcome them and outrank them in the SERP. I prefer to use Open Site Explorer to check out my competitor linking domains, linking pages and their top pages. I look at the linking domains to get a better understanding of what type of sites link to my competitors and how powerful those links are, so at the same time I get a clue about how powerful my links should be as well. The second thing is to look at the linked pages and the pages that provide a link.
By researching your competitors most linked pages you will get an idea of what type of content on their website is the most popular and what type of content you need to create in order to get those links yourself. By looking at the pages that link to your competitors you can get an idea of what they are looking for. So these two crucial aspects of linking preparation will give you insights into the type of content you need to have in order to attract the same links. The idea is to create even better content than your competition and ask for links, but we will get to that a bit later.
But once you are done with scraping your competitor backlinks you get back to the original thought and that is to gain new backlinks based on the research you just did. You know what type of content attracts links and you know what type of websites and people link to that content. So the next step is to reach out to those websites and connect, we want new links that your competitors don't have in their arsenal.
This is the same approach we take when we want to grab a hold of our own market; we find influencers and engage them using social media, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or other market networks. But instead of going after your own market only, you are going after the type of people that like to link to the content you are creating and promoting, which can be very broad. What most people still don't realize is that mailing webmasters is a slow process, and one that stopped working effectively a long time ago, but at the same time we have an explosion of social networks where all of the people can be found, contacted and engaged in a manner that will look natural even to the biggest skeptic.
There are various tools you can use to see influencers in your market or for a certain keyword; you can use anything from FollowerWonk and Topsy to WeFollow. Start with Twitter; you can easily connect with those people on Facebook later if this is your preferred platform. Now in order to get close and to be able to ask for a link, a partnership opportunity a guest post or anything that will get you a link you need to do a few things. First of all start following those people and see what they are talking about. Using lists for this type of thing is recommended as you probably won't be able to monitor them closely in your own stream. Learn more about them by really paying attention to their tweets, posts on Facebook and from their own websites. Also, be sure to know what they tweet about and what type of stuff they like to retweet.
With all this going for you it is time to engage them. Start retweeting their stuff and liking their posts. Make a constructive comment or critic that may get their attention, basically start talking to them about things you now know they are interested in. Reach out and even ask them a question, sooner than you know you will be able to propose a certain form of promotion that can get you a link, in some cases they will approach you. In your communication you will surely have a window of opportunity to show them your website, ask for their opinion and build up on that. The best part about this approach is that everyone can see it. When you send mails to webmasters you send them one by one for their eyes only, on social networks you are interacting with one person, but everyone can see it and everyone can be hooked with your bait.
One of the tricks I learned along the way that always gets links, grabs attention of others, helps you create even better content for linking while promoting your brand and your website is to utilize the power of surveys. Surveying your visitors, customers, followers on Twitter and Facebook is a great way to make people know about you and get some important data you can harvest to your benefit.
This is just one simple approach that can create long lasting connections for you and help you find quality link opportunities. While doing this, you are not just building links, you are improving your content, spreading the word and promoting your brand, and most importantly you are gaining valuable connections, and those connections are the gold mine in the online industry.
Author Bio: Zac Grace works as advanced SEO strategist and link building team leader at Dejan Dejan SEO, a company providing specialized link building and SEO services for Australian market. You can connect with Dejan SEO on Twitter.
May 26th, 2011 at 2:12 pm Wesley LeFebvre said:
Hi Zac,
Great post. I have to admit, overall I'm pretty inexperienced when it comes to using social media in any form. I'm glad you've found methods that work to build quality backlinks. Because without a doubt, just a few "natural" links can have a significant affect on our rankings.
May 26th, 2011 at 3:02 pm Greg said:
Hi thanks for another great post I'm getting some great advise off u guys in my journey learning link building
May 26th, 2011 at 3:09 pm Zac Grace said:
Hi Wesley,
first of all, thanks for letting me write for your website
As for the post itself, well, I am a link building team leader, and I can tell you that at the moment, the easiest way to build links and to make connections is through social media, I'm not an expert, far from it, but with some effort put into it, anyone can create valuable connections and get some crazy quality links
May 26th, 2011 at 8:48 pm Insurance Info said:
No doubt great post… But one thing I am adding that unique (very much unique) content makes google compulsive for bring your your website on top of SERP.
May 26th, 2011 at 10:09 pm Wesley LeFebvre said:
@Greg – Glad to see you here!
@Zac – No problem, I appreciate it! I've been crazy busy with projects, so this post from you came at the perfect time.
@Insurance Info – Absolutely! One of the best ways to take advantage of the Panda update is by ensuring your most important pages are loaded with unique content.
May 28th, 2011 at 8:42 pm Insurance Info said:
Thanks Wesley.
Please let me share my own experience; it would help to all our friends who want to make their sites at quality rank.
I'd purchased domain http://www.allinsurancesinfo.com on 17th Jan-2011, and on the WordPress CMS started uploading the articles. Honestly speaking that one of friends who lives in UK told me that just copy articles from various existing sites on insurance and through article spinner software, spin the content and upload on the site. But I felt myself guilty and started by my own efforts. I'd written emails to insurance icons in the Middle East and India like Ms Nancy Flora & Mr. Vijay Chandani Thakur for their write ups on insurance. Thanks God and both of them who agreed and are posting their wonderful articles on website.
From the beginning I aimed that provide the best insurance information instead of copy paste culture or rotten stuff. So I did it! On the 1st day of March, 2011 my site appeared on Google at SERP # 64. I felt that my site is on WordPress, which is usually used for blogs, and then changed to CMS Joomla.
I was posting new articles where facts and figures along with situation analysis on the insurance markets of Asia and recently tsunami & Japan's earthquake were mentioned. And my site started travelling from SERP # 64 to upward. And finally Google had shown my site at the top page on 23rd March, 2011.
What I had observed about prompt promotion, here I am giving the methods:
• Write very much genuine & fresh content.
• Just bookmark on social networking sites.
• Do not follow the Google adwords tools but try to give amazing and fruitful ideas.
• When you sit to write forget that what id demand of public (or google search) but give your own notions.
• If you are making informative site then don't choose WordPress but Joomla, Druple or same sort of CMS's. (Because wordpress is junky CMS, and your contents are dumped over and over on your new contents. Even after one month you will find your last article from search option instead of direct link at your side bar or header.)
• Make very much user friendly site and write simple language.
• Start link building, and initiate from wikipadia. Simply Wikipedia is your source to check your reliability of contents. If Wikipedia remains your site at external links part, then be satisfied that you'd done wonderful task.
• Use yahoo answers and put your question based on your article. This step will give you strong backlink.
• Do not submit same article in article directories but make a summary and expand that and finally submit it with exact anchor text and link of your site at bottom paragraph of your article.
I know that this is a real and genuine method, but I must say something, that we must give information to the net users, instead of spinning them in site to sites.
But one thing on which I do firm believe that "Do not follow the market, but make something different so market will follow you!"
I am also planning to write long article where all methods will be elaborated in details.
May 31st, 2011 at 11:33 am Wesley LeFebvre said:
Thanks for sharing your experience. And good job. However, I wouldn't say that WordPress is junkie. I used Joomla and Mambo for the first couple of years, and found them incredibly difficult to work with and optimize compared to WordPress. Although, I know they've come a long way, I still prefer WordPress over the other two for most situations.
August 17th, 2011 at 3:12 pm Innes said:
At the end of the day I am a great great believer of quality links and not quantities of a load of bad links. For me, having in place good back links will pay off; it has to have a good page rank and come from a good source


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PUBLISHED: 17 Sep 2013 00:05:00 | UPDATED: 17 Sep 2013 10:56:14PUBLISHED: 17 Sep 2013 PRINT EDITION: 17 Sep 2013Infrastructure
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Engineering contractors have called on the Coalition to speed up infrastructure project approvals after The Australian Financial Review revealed the new government will boost spending to stimulate the economy.
Contractors have welcomed plans by the government to consider extra funding for infrastructure, despite already having pledged to spend 26 per cent more, or $4.6 billion, than the previous government on economic infrastructure projects, excluding the national broadband network.
"Obviously, any increase in infrastructure spending is of interest to us and, hopefully, we will be a participant," said Bob Humphris, chairman of Leighton Holdings, which has previously called on the government to step up infrastructure investment to counter the mining slowdown.
But contractors said the new government needed to improve the project approvals process, including getting rid of duplication between state and federal approvals.
"There are opportunities for a more efficient process that still gets the right level of rigour," said Guy Templeton, Balfour Beatty's country manager for Australia, adding that where possible, there should be a "one-stop shop" for major project approvals.
Mr Templeton recommended the new government "take seriously" work under way by the Productivity Commission to examine the cost of major projects.
The commission released a draft report in August calling for more federal accreditation of state and territory environmental assessments and less prescriptive conditions to lower the regulatory burden.
Italian firm Ghella, which is helping to build Brisbane's Legacy Way road tunnel and is part of a consortium tendering for the F3 to M2 road link in Sydney, forecast the Abbott government's promises to prioritise infrastructure would create more opportunities.
"The change of government would seem to give surety that there is a stream of projects coming on, and they might be consolidated into some sort of planned release of projects rather than reliance on individual states or localised project development, said Dale Gilbert, general manager of infrastructure. "We've lived in a period where there's been uncertainty and not many decisions."
Mr Gilbert said while Queensland had recently been a focus for roads and infrastructure, the momentum seemed to be shifting south.
"We're seeing a transition from Queensland being the powerhouse of the work in roads and infrastructure to NSW and Victoria."
Other contractors said the backlog of projects appeared to be easing as they finally move forward.
"We are currently seeing a lot of those [projects] coming to market physically now," said Nicholas Wall, director of business development in Australia for Spain's Acciona group.
Mr Wall said the cost of infrastructure was also falling as the market became more efficient.
"You'll see in various tenders that have been awarded that the prices those tenders have been awarded for have been lower than expectations."
While some construction companies were still finding it "tough", that should change, he said.
"Beyond the next 12 months, the pipeline suggests that there are some big projects coming out and given the players in the market, everyone that's there and competing should see a share of it."
Acciona expects to be bidding on about $7 billion of projects by the end of the year, including Melbourne's East West Link, Sydney's F3-M2 Link and the upgrade of the east coast's Pacific Highway. The Spanish group is also positioning itself to bid for future projects such as Sydney's West Connex road, Brisbane's upgrade of the Gateway Motorway and light-rail developments in Sydney, Perth and Canberra.
But Balfour Beatty's Mr Templeton cautioned that states would need to increase spending on urban rail to compensate for the Abbott government's decision to favour road investment.
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It's a time for people to dress like the undead and reminisce over the actually dead — the ones who have already passed on.
But what about the guys who deal with the real thing? The ones who handle the deceased on a daily basis?
Bill Trant of Jeffcoat-Trant Funeral Home in Opelika grew up in the mortician business.
When he was younger, he used to have to stay in funeral homes overnight with the bodies.
"Sometimes you can scare yourself," he said. "Especially at 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning. You get there and imagine they're moving or something."
He said some strange things did occur when he was growing up.
"I would have friends come by and scratch the windows or do stuff like that," Trant said.
"You can be walking in a dark hall and think someone's lurking at you, but it's really nothing."
Trant prepares bodies for open-casket funerals.
"We don't do the hair," he said. "You know how women are funny about their hair, so we wash the hair, but we get a beautician to actually do the hair. Basically, we disinfect the body, wash the hair, the beautician can fix them up, and then for women we'll put the makeup on."
While being a mortician is an interesting job, it's still a job, and a demanding one at that.
Joseph Dean, funeral director and embalmer of Frederick's Funeral Home, said his average day is usually a long one.
"Well, usually the day begins at about 2 a.m. when you get woken up for a death call," Dean said. "Then you come up here, and if they need to be embalmed you need to embalm them; get done with that at about 4 in the morning. Then you go home, take a shower and go back to work at about 8 o'clock."
Dean is in charge of things such as obituaries, discussing the type and time of funeral families want and whether they want a cremation or just a normal memorial service.
"We're like an event planner," he said. "We make sure everything falls in place. We just make everything happen."
Both Trant and Dean have had interesting reactions from people who find out they are morticians.
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Dean has had similar encounters.
"People act strange all the time," he said. "Usually saying things like, 'I can't believe you do that.'"
Technology in the morticians' field is increasing.
There are new chemicals and an increase in cremation services, but Trant said open-casket services are still the most popular type of service.
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101 Whiskies to Try Before You Die (Revised & Updated)Revised and updated in 2013, 101 Whiskies to Try Before You Die is a whisky guide with a difference. It is not an awards list. It is not a list of the 101 'best' whiskies in the world in the opinion of a self-appointed whisky guru. It is simply a guide to the 101 whiskies that enthusiasts must seek out and try in order to complete their whisky education. Avoiding the deliberately obscure, the ridiculously limited and the absurdly expensive, whisky expert Ian Buxton recommends an eclectic selection of old favourites, stellar newcomers and mystifyingly unknown drams that simply have to be drunk. The book decodes the marketing hype and gets straight to the point; whether from India, America, Sweden, Ireland, Japan or the hills, glens and islands of Scotland, here are the 101 whiskies that you really want. Try them before you die - Slainte! |
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Update: The Classic Movie History Project Blogathon is HERE! In the last two days you have been treated to entries dedicated to topics of early Hollywood and the start of the Golden Age – on Movies, Silently The Silent Era is spotlighted, on Silver Screenings the… Read More ›
Honoring The Hollywood Canteen
A former livery stable and nightclub located at 1451 Cahuenga Boulevard in Hollywood, California opened its doors as The Hollywood Canteen on October 3, 1942. Reportedly the brainchild of actor, John Garfield, who felt there was a need to establish a… Read More ›
"I will never be below the title" – Bette Davis for SUTS on TCM
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A Hollywood Memorial Day
We honor – by remembering – all of our war heroes this weekend. As a special Memorial Day post I put together a slide-show of classic Hollywood stars performing patriotic duties. Whether by enlisting in the armed forces, traveling the… Read More ›
TCMFF…abide and endure
Ghosts and the rapidly beating hearts of film geeks collided. I was in heaven. We descended on Hollywood like moths to flames looking forward to a weekend filled with movies, Hollywood, friends and magic. And we got it all. The… Read More ›
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This is the second part of a two-part post. To read part 1, which covers the early years of Columbia Pictures, please go here or access it on this blog's home page. Reading Part 1 first is highly recommended. The… Read More ›
Ed Wood and Bela Lugosi
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The culture at Warner Bros.
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A Romance of the Redwoods
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Women Directors…special tribute to Ida Lupino
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The Lady Vanishes…
… (1938) is the last film Alfred Hitchcock would make in England before his move to Los Angeles to start work in the Hollywood Studio system. Defying some genre conventions, The Lady Vanishes is a fun film, as far as… Read More ›


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Halo co-creator's iOS game Morning Star getting a tie-in comic app
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Former Halo creator working on Morning Star for iOS
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You know Bungie, the game studio that developed Marathon and Halo? Well, one of its founders, Alex Seropian, is now working on a new mobile-focused project. He's one of the brains behind Industrial Toys, a start-up development studio that intends to focus on mobile titles for core gamers. "We are d...
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The Walt Disney Company: If You Give this Mouse a Focus
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Maersk Shipping: Is the Price Right?
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Field Experiments in Strategy Research
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Incentives and Group Identity
In Games and Economic Behavior
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Learning from (Failed) Replications: Cognitive Load Manipulations and Charitable Giving
In Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
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Numerical Ability Predicts Mortgage Default
In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Discounting Financial Literacy: Time Preferences and Participation in Financial Education Programs
In Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
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Do Lab Experiments Misrepresent Social Preferences? The Case of Self-selected Student Samples
In Journal of the European Economic Association
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Competition Between Organizational Groups: Its Impact on Altruistic and Anti-Social Motivations
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Time Discounting Predicts Creditworthiness
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When and Why Incentives (Don't) Work to Modify Behavior
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Another Hidden Cost of Incentives: The Detrimental Effect on Norm Enforcement
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Present-Biased Preferences and Credit Card Borrowing
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Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap Between the Public and the Private Sector
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Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially
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Do people behave in experiments as in the field?—evidence from donations
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Do Subsidies Increase Charitable Giving in the Long Run? Matching Donations in a Field Experiment
In Journal of the European Economic Association
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The Impact of Group Membership on Cooperation and Norm Enforcement: Evidence Using Random Assignment to Real Social Groups
In American Economic Review
Coauthor(s): Lorenz Goette, David Huffman, Stephan Meier
Social Comparison and Pro-social Behavior: Testing 'Conditional Cooperation' in a Field Experiment
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Pro-social behavior in a natural setting
In Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
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Are Political Economists Selfish or Indoctrinated?
In Economic Inquiry
Coauthor(s): Bruno S. Frey, Stephan Meier
A Survey of Economic Theories and Field Evidence on Pro-Social Behavior
In Economics and Psychology: A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field
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Working papers
Trust and Parochialism in a Culture of Crime
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Lamar Pierce, Antonino Vaccaro
No News Is Good News: CSR Strategy and Newspaper Coverage of Negative Firm Events
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SmartAboutThings writes "The European Union has voted in favor of a draft legislation which lists among the 'essential requirements' of electrical devices approved by the EU a compatibility with 'universal' chargers. According to a German MEP, this move will eliminate 51,000 tonnes of electronic waste. The draft law was approved by an overwhelming majority: 550 votes to 12. At the moment, according to estimates, there are around 30 different types of charger on the market, but manufacturers have two years at their disposal to get ready for the new restriction."
An anonymous reader writes "The laptop has undergone many changes over the past decade. At various times, netbooks, ultrabooks, and Chromebooks have been en vogue. Over the past several months, we've seen signs of the next step in the laptop's evolution: Android/Windows dual-boot laptops. Several companies have built these machines already, including Asus and its upcoming Transformer Book Duet TD300. However, neither Google nor Microsoft seem to want such an unholy marriage of operating systems, and they've both pressured Asus to kill off the dual-boot product lines. Asus has now complied. 'Google has little incentive to approve dual-OS models, since that could help Microsoft move into mobile devices where Android is dominant. ... Microsoft has its own reasons for not wanting to share space on computers with Google, particularly on business-oriented desktop and laptop PCs that could give the Internet giant an entry point into a Microsoft stronghold. Computer makers that make dual-OS machines risk jeopardizing a flow of marketing funds from Microsoft that are an important economic force in the low-margin PC business.'"
b30w0lf writes "Gravitational wave detection — i.e. the detection of propagating ripples in spacetime — is a hot subject these days, with ground-based interferometer experiments like LIGO active, and hopes for a space interferometer like LISA. However, physicist Freeman Dyson proposed back in 1969 that the earth itself could be used as a gravitational wave detector. The idea is behind the approach is that gravitational waves impact the earth's crust, causing potentially detectable seismic waves. Using Dyson's approach, Physicists at Harvard and NINP, Florence were able to put an upper limit on the intensity of gravitational background radiation based on a year of observational seismic data (abstract, full pre-print). The upper limit they found improved currently laboratory upper limits by 9 orders of magnitude."
An anonymous reader writes "The trend of police officers using body-mounted cameras is going nationwide. As we discussed last month, the NYPD is pondering the cameras, and the LAPD is actively testing them. A town in California (population ~100,000) has tested them with seeming success: incidents involving officers using force have dropped more than half, and citizen complaints have dropped almost 90%. '[C]ops are required to turn on their cameras in any confrontation with a suspect or citizen. The footage is uploaded to computers when they return to the station, and is typically retained for one to three months.' The town's success is even drawing interest from police departments in other countries. The ACLU likes the idea, but has problems with it in practice, so they're opposing the trend (PDF). They worry about privacy abuses, and they want citizens caught on camera to be allowed equal access to the footage."
itwbennett writes "Everybody lies to themselves now and again in both their personal lives ('my bathroom scale probably needs to be recalibrated') and professional lives ('this code doesn't need commenting'). ITworld has compiled some of the common lies programmers tell themselves. Here are a few examples: 'This bug won't take long to fix.' 'No one could possibly fail to understand my simple user interface.' 'Code is self documenting.' 'My homebrew framework will be nimble, lightweight, debugged, and easy to use.' 'I know this is dirty code, I will rewrite it later.' 'It's just one line... it won't break anything.' '"It works on my machine.' 'I don't need version control.' 'It's written in ____, so it'll be easy to ____.' What would you add to this list?"
Jonathan Coulton's song Code Monkey became an anthem for many programmers (not just ones with managers named Rob) and his success is proof that you really can become an internet rock star. Since we last talked, Coulton has became the house musician for the NPR show Ask Me Another and had one of his songs copied without permission, credit, or thanks by the show Glee, much to his chagrin. Jonathan has agreed to answer all your questions about music, internet stardom, and robots. Normal Slashdot interview rules apply.
Trailrunner7 writes "A revamped early random number generator in iOS 7 is weaker than its vulnerable predecessor and generates predictable outcomes. A researcher today at CanSecWest said an attacker could brute force the Early Random PRNG used by Apple in its mobile operating system to bypass a number of kernel exploit mitigations native to iOS. 'The Early Random PRNG in iOS 7 is surprisingly weak,' said Tarjei Mandt senior security researcher at Azimuth Security. 'The one in iOS 6 is better because this one is deterministic and trivial to brute force.' The Early Random PRNG is important to securing the mitigations used by the iOS kernel. 'All the mitigations deployed by the iOS kernel essentially depend on the robustness of the Early Random PRNG,' Mandt said. 'It must provide sufficient entropy and non-predictable output.'"
mikejuk writes to let us know that today is Pi Day — 3/14 in American date notation. He writes, "This year, it feels as though we aren't celebrating alone. For the first time, it looks as if momentum has built up to the point where people have heard about Pi Day. There are even attempts to sell you Pi-related items as if it was a real holiday. But there is always some one to spoil the party so what ever you do to celebrate don't miss Vi Hart's Anti-Pi Rant video." Thus begins the yearly debate over Pi Day vs. Tau Day (June 28). Phil Plait has a post defending Pi Day's honor, and MIT isn't holding back their Pi Day celebrations.
sandbagger writes "New York City may have to deal with a measles problem. New Yorkers are being urged to make sure all household members, including young children, are vaccinated. To date, there have been 16 confirmed cases and four hospitalizations. This follows news from the CDC in December that 2013 saw triple the average number of yearly measles cases. 2014 is off to an even worse start; there have been cases recently in the Boston metropolitan area and more than a dozen in the Bay Area as well. Vaccinations seem to be a victim of their own success — people look around and see no polio or measles and wonder why they should bother. Others repeat bogus claim about vaccines causing autism. How do you think we can get through to the anti-vaxxers?"
EwanPalmer sends a followup to a story from last year about a team of Siberian scientists who recovered an ancient wooly mammoth carcass. It was originally believed to be about 10,000 years old, but subsequent tests showed the animal died over 43,000 years ago. The scientists have been surprised by how well preserved the soft tissues were. They say it's in better shape than a human body buried for six months. "The tissue cut clearly shows blood vessels with strong walls. Inside the vessels there is haemolysed blood, where for the first time we have found erythrocytes. Muscle and adipose tissues are well preserved." The mammoth's intestines contain vegetation from its last meal, and they have the liver as well. The scientists are optimistic that they'll be able to find high quality DNA from the mammoth, and perhaps even living cells. They now say there's a "high chance" that data would allow them to clone the mammoth.
jfruh writes "For years, paid links returned from Google search queries have been set off from 'real' search results by their placement on the page and by a colored background. But some users have begun to see a different format for these ads: a tiny yellow button that reads 'AD' at the end of the link is the only distinguishing feature. Google is notoriously close-mouthed about this sort of thing, but it may begin rolling the new format out to more users soon."
destinyland writes "Wednesday the geeky cartoonist behind XKCD announced that he'd publish a new book answering hypothetical science questions in September. And within 24 hours, his as-yet-unpublished work had become Amazon's #2 best-selling book. 'Ironically, this book is titled What If?,' jokes one blogger, noting it resembles an XKCD comic where 'In our yet-to-happen future, this book decides to travel backwards through time, stopping off in March of 2014 to inform Amazon's best-seller list that yes, in our coming timeline this book will be widely read...' Randall Munroe's new book will be collecting his favorite 'What If...' questions, but will also contain his never-before published answers to some questions that he'd found 'particularly neat.'"
hcs_$reboot writes "Masatoshi Son, SoftBank CEO, remembers the early days when he tried to cut a deal with Steve Jobs in order to be the first to offer the not-even-named-iPhone-yet- 'new phone' from Apple, back in 2005. At the time, Son didn't even own a mobile carrier. He then purchased Vodafone, and was indeed the first to sell the iPhone in 2008 (then Au-Kddi in 2011, and DoCoMo in 2013). Today, 75% of smartphones sold in Japan are iPhones."
An anonymous reader writes in with news about Russias censorship of internet sites critical of President Vladimir Putin. "Russia blocked access to the internet sites of prominent Kremlin foes Alexei Navalny and Garry Kasparov on Thursday under a new law critics say is designed to silence dissent in President Vladimir Putin's third term. The prosecutor general's office ordered Russian internet providers to block Navalny's blog, chess champion and Putin critic Kasparov's internet newspaper and two other sites, grani.ru and ej.ru, state regulator Roskomnadzor said. The move was the latest evidence of what government opponents see as a crackdown on independent media and particularly the internet, a platform for dissenting views in a nation where state channels dominate the airwaves. Ej.ru editor Alexander Ryklin called it 'monstrous' and a 'direct violation of all the principles of freedom of speech,' More at EFF, and in earlier stories at the The Huffington Post, and Deutsche Welle, which notes, 'This year's report by Reporters Without Borders on World Day against Cyber Censorship condemns Russia as one of the "Enemies of the Internet." "Russia has adopted dangerous legislation governing the flow of news and information and freedom of expression online," it concludes.'"


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By The Airborne Toxic Event • August 22, 2012
We're proud to announce an intimate and very special benefit performance in our hometown of Los Angeles in support of the Wounded Warrior Project, an extremely dedicated organization that recognizes and aids members of the military who have sustained injuries or illnesses in the service.
Photo Credit: Ryan Tuttle
The show will take place at the Troubadour in West Hollywood on Monday, September 17th. It's a small space that only fits about 500 people, so we thought we'd take the rare opportunity to perform new songs from our as-of-yet unfinished forthcoming album for the very first time. Yes, it'll be that kind of night. We hope you can join us.. And as such, we ask that you leave all recording devices (including cell phones) in your car—as no recording will be allowed inside the venue.
All proceeds to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project.
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By The Airborne Toxic Event • August 10, 2012
The Airborne Toxic Event will be playing the Santa Barbara Bowl
with Jane's Addiction on Sunday, October 21.
By The Airborne Toxic Event • August 2, 2012
Mikel will be Live-tweeting Friday (tomorrow) morning at 10 AM PST. You can ask questions and he promises to answer as many as he can. You can follow him at twitter.com/mikeljollett.
By The Airborne Toxic Event • August 2, 2012
Good morning,
Thank you all so much for asking what the title of the third record will be. We'll share that with you soon, we promise.
We'd like to announce that, though the record will not be out for a while, we will be debuting songs from it (accompanied by the Colorado Symphony) next month at this place:
Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado on September 20th.
We'll be performing in collaboration with the Colorado Symphony.
Devotchka will also be there. We hope you will, too.
You can buy tickets HERE.
Corona Capital Festival, Oct. 13 – MEXICO
We've been waiting for this for a while. After years of emails and comments, we're thrilled to be performing for the first time ever in Mexico on October 13th at the Corona Capital Festival in Mexico City. Also playing: the Black Keys, New Order, Florence + the Machine, Sleigh Bells, Cat Power, etc. Suffice to say, no podemos esperar.
Tickets for the general public go on sale August 8th. Find out more HERE (en Español).
Osheaga in Montreal this Sunday, August 5th
We'll also be performing at Montreal's Osheaga festival this coming Sunday at Parc Jean-Drapeau. Tickets HERE.
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Here at Pixel Perfect Gaming, we are big horror game fans, big adventure gamers in general and when we got a chance to corner Jonathan Boakes, we jumped (sorry for the bad pun). Mr. Boakes has not only created the Dark Fall series of games but also The Lost Crown series also for PC.
PPG: What is your inspiration for the Dark Fall series?
Jonathan Boakes (JB): Missing persons, ghosts and urban legends. I explore a lot of abandoned places, like ruins of old military bases, hotels, trains stations and asylums. I guess my games are an attempt to give gamers an opportunity to explore those places too, just without the rain, security guards, police and asbestos!
PPG: Other than horror, what would you be most interested in using as a basis of a new game?
JB: The ancient world; but my friend, and sometimes collaborator, Matt Clark covers that realm with his Barrow Hill games. The past is so strange to us, in modernity, as we really don't have any hard answers, or theories, as to why (and how!!) sites like Stonehenge were built, and why they mean so much to us today. It fascinates people, and percolates through to TV/Film with things like Doctor Who, Stargate and Battlestar Galactica. The past is a total mystery in many respects, almost as if 'we' were not there at all. I'd love to make a game that explores all the theories, while offering up new ones.
PPG: How long have you been a developer?
JB: Ten years. I worked in web-dev beforehand, making advertising banners for global corps. It was dull, repetitive, fascist and soul destroying. So, I left one afternoon, starting making notes about ghost stories and never went back. I love my new job! It's the best gig in the world. Some people like my games, some people don't see the point. But, I'm happy, and I believe I offer something a bit different, English…and spooky.
PPG: What was your first game you remember playing?
JB: As kids, me and my sister had one of those Grandstand gaming consoles. It was like '10 ways to make Pong feel interesting', but we enjoyed it. Later, I fell in love with games like Mystery of Arkham, on the Spectrum ZX. It was a 3rd person mystery, set in the Lovecraft universe, with zombies and horror. I was amazed that you could 'sleep' in-game, and time would pass. I think that experience stayed with me, and kick-started by interest in gaming.
PPG: What is your favorite game of all time?
JB: An Add-On! Bloodmoon for Morrowind. I loved Morrowind, which I played for hours each day, for over two years. It's the ultimate adventure, and still outshines its successors, I believe. Then, when Bloodmoon came along, I was in heaven. A snowy heaven, with Norse-style curses and buried ancient treasures. That's totally my kind of thing!
PPG: Will there be more Dark Fall games?
JB: I couldn't say. I won't be making any full Dark Fall games, but I'd like to do something Chapter based, like a Dark Fall Chronicles, which gamers could download. But, there are no definite plans. For now, I am returning to my other franchise, The Lost Crown series, to continue the story from where I (and a lot of gamers) left off. The 'Crown' games are very different to the Dark Fall saga, so it's great to have something completely different to do. I found making 'Lost Souls' a very dark experience, so it'll be good to get back in the sunshine, and remember that not everyone sees the world quite as strange as I do!
Here is a developer's diary for those interested in more details about Dark Fall Lost Souls.
We here at Pixel Perfect Gaming would like to thank Jonathan Boakes for taking the time to answer our short, but hopefully interesting (fan of Morrowind huh? Good game) interview. Also, we would like to extend our gratitude to Ms. Desiree van Rietschoten, of Iceberg-Interactive, without whom, this interview simply would not have happened.


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