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On May 14, 2012, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hong Lei held a press conference. Hong Lei started the press conference with the following announcement. At the invitation of President Horta of East Timor, CPPCC Vice Chairwoman Wang Zhizhen will attend the celebration ceremony for the tenth anniversary of the founding of East Timor and relevant activities of the tenth anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and East Timor in Dili, capital of East Timor, from May 17 to 20 as the Special Representative of President Hu Jintao. Q: South China Sea Fishery Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture announced that from May 16, most waters in the South China Sea, including waters off the Huangyan Island, will enter a period of two and a half months' fishing moratorium. Is this related to the current situation over the Huangyan Island? Will the Chinese fishery administration ships and maritime surveillance ships withdraw from that area? Internet users said this move is for the preparation of military actions against the Philippines. What is China's response? A: The fishing moratorium system has been an administrative measure of competent department of China for many years. It's purpose is to protect the marine biological resources in relevant sea waters and has nothing to do with the current Huangyan Island incident. You may consult competent department for specifics. China has repeatedly expounded on its position on the Huangyan Island issue and remains committed to the diplomatic resolution of it. Q: Philippine Foreign Secretary del Rosario reportedly said that the Philippines would never agree on China's demands on the Huangyan Island and diplomatic dialogues between the two sides would at most reach a "temporary agreement" which could not help solve the issue fundamentally. The Philippines asks for a comprehensive resolution of the Huangyan Island issue from political, legal and diplomatic aspects. What is your comment? A: China's principled stance on the Huangyan Island issue has been made clear. China demands the Philippines to earnestly respect China's territorial sovereignty and do not take measures that will escalate and complicate the situation. In particular, diplomatic negotiations should be adhered to in resolving the current situation, rather than continuing to incite public opinion and send contradictory messages. Q: Australian Foreign Minister Carr is visiting China. Please brief us on his itinerary. A: At the invitation of Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, Australian Foreign Minister Carr is paying an official visit to China from May 11 to 16. This is his first visit to China since taking office and is also an important bilateral exchange during the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Australia. During the visit, Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi will hold talks with him and they will have an in-depth exchange of views on China-Australia relations as well as international and regional issues of common interest. The Chinese side will also arrange some other official activities at the request of the Australian side. I believe this visit will play an important role in enhancing mutual trust and understanding, deepening pragmatic cooperation in various fields and promoting the comprehensive development of China-Australia relations. Q: The Algerian National Assembly election was held on May 10, in which the ruling party, the National Liberation Front, won 220 seats and remains the largest party in parliament. What is your comment? A: We are happy at the recent smooth National Assembly election in Algeria and express our congratulations on this. China and Algeria enjoy profound traditional friendship and the two countries have established strategic cooperative relations. We support the active efforts of the Algerian side in promoting political reform and maintaining social stability. We are ready to work with the Algerian side to push forward the bilateral friendly and cooperative ties. |


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Sensing better times ahead, investors have pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average up this year near its record high. But a different mood is pervading U.S. companies, where executives are less optimistic about the global economy and their own prospects, and many are lowering financial forecasts.
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Fourth-quarter operating earnings topped diminished expectations, rising 7.3% at the 339 members of the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index that have reported results, while revenue rose 5.9%, according to Thomson Reuters. But the companies warn that the current quarter will be more challenging, and analysts project first-quarter earnings at S&P companies will rise just 1.7%, Thomson Reuters says, or less than half what they were predicting at the beginning of the year.
Sixty-three S&P companies have lowered their forecasts for first-quarter earnings, according to FactSet Research, while 17 have raised them, the largest disparity since the firm began tracking the data in 2006.
Many executives see shrinking economies in Europe. Closer to home, they worry about hesitant U.S. customers, chilled by continued Washington gridlock.
In a sign of executive caution, a Wall Street Journal survey of 50 S&P companies found they plan to increase investment this year by 2%, signaling a dearth of big growth opportunities. Through the first nine months of 2012, S&P companies boosted investment 8%, following a 20% increase in 2011.
Consider Corning Inc. GLW +0.41% Corning Inc. U.S.: NYSE $17.01 +0.07 +0.41% Dec. 12, 2013 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 10.62M AFTER HOURS $17.10 +0.09 +0.53% Dec. 12, 2013 5:39 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 11,854 P/E Ratio 13.83 Market Cap $24.52 Billion Dividend Yield 2.35% Rev. per Employee $279,024 12/03/13 Corning Uses M&A to Bring Back... 10/30/13 Corning's Profit Drops Despite... 10/23/13 Samsung Display Likely Seeks N... More quote details and news » The glassmaker said on Jan. 29 that it plans to cut spending on new plants and equipment this year by 28%, to $1.3 billion from $1.8 billion, with most of the decline at its LCD operations. Corning reported a 42% drop in fourth-quarter net income and forecast lower sales and earnings in the current quarter.
The Journal's findings echo a December survey of chief financial officers by Duke University and CFO magazine. CFOs responding to the survey said their companies plan to increase investment spending 2.6% this year, down from projections for the following 12 months of 3.7% in September and 7.8% in December 2011.
"Investors are ignoring [companies'] guidance and responding to economic indicators that revenue and earnings will go higher this year," said Edward Yardeni, president of Yardeni Research, a research and consulting firm. He sees signs that U.S. personal income and corporate spending are creeping higher after declining late in 2012.
Other analysts say the stock rally also reflects rock-bottom yields on bonds and investors' relief that Congress averted potentially big tax increases for most Americans at the start of the year.
"Ongoing uncertainty in the global economy will continue to present challenges in what we expect will be a slow growth environment," Dow Chemical Co. DOW -0.71% Dow Chemical Co. U.S.: NYSE $40.76 -0.29 -0.71% Dec. 12, 2013 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 6.91M AFTER HOURS $40.75 -0.01 -0.02% Dec. 12, 2013 7:48 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 114,071 P/E Ratio 17.65 Market Cap $49.79 Billion Dividend Yield 3.14% Rev. per Employee $1,041,540 12/02/13 Dow Chemical Launches Makeover 12/02/13 Map: Dow Chemicals to Exit Fro... 12/02/13 Dow Chemical: The Latest to Ca... More quote details and news » Chief Executive Andrew Liveris told analysts on Jan. 31.
Dow posted a fourth-quarter loss on lower revenue as sales slowed in Asia and declined in Europe. In October, the Midland, Mich., chemical maker said it would shut 20 facilities and eliminate 2,400 jobs. Dow plans to invest $2 billion in plants and equipment this year, down from $2.6 billion in 2012. A spokeswoman said the company generated more than $4 billion in cash from operations last year.
Other companies are also trimming investment plans. Paper maker MeadWestvaco Corp. MWV 0.00% MeadWestvaco Corp. U.S.: NYSE $34.96 0.00 0.00% Dec. 12, 2013 4:04 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 726,425 AFTER HOURS $34.94 -0.02 -0.06% Dec. 12, 2013 4:42 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 203 P/E Ratio 34.69 Market Cap $6.22 Billion Dividend Yield 2.86% Rev. per Employee $346,312 More quote details and news » said Jan. 30 it expects lower first-quarter profit than a year ago, and a spokesman said the company's land sales will decline.
Chief Financial Officer E. Mark Rajkowski projected "a substantial decline" in capital spending this year, from $660 million last year, after the company completed expansion of a paperboard plant in Brazil and installation of a new boiler at a plant in Virginia.
As investments shrink, Mr. Rajkowski said MeadWestvaco would use some of the savings to repurchase up to eight million company shares, or roughly 5% of the shares outstanding. The company also paid $1 in dividends last year, nearly equal to its $1.16 in earnings per share.
MeadWestvaco joins a long list of companies handing more cash back to shareholders. Dow boosted its dividend in April and accelerated its January payment to Dec. 31 to avoid the expected Jan. 1 tax increase. Corning increased its dividend in November for the second time in as many years and launched a new buyback program.
All told, S&P companies spent $500 billion paying dividends and repurchasing shares in the first nine months of last year, up 2% from the same period in 2011 and 38% from 2010. Dividend payments increased more sharply in the fourth quarter as companies sought to distribute payouts ahead of the expected tax increases.
"Many executives are still being very cautious" about the economy, said John Graham, a Duke finance professor who runs the CFO survey.
Not all companies are holding back, though. Motorcycle and off-road vehicle maker Polaris Industries Inc. PII -0.34% Polaris Industries Inc. U.S.: NYSE $134.42 -0.46 -0.34% Dec. 12, 2013 4:05 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 554,107 AFTER HOURS $135.01 +0.59 +0.44% Dec. 12, 2013 4:47 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 1,261 P/E Ratio 25.95 Market Cap $9.34 Billion Dividend Yield 1.25% Rev. per Employee $798,668 10/22/13 High-End Spenders Shrug Off He... More quote details and news » plans to double its investment spending to roughly $200 million this year on top of a 22% increase last year. Polaris is building a new factory to produce off-road vehicles in Europe, where sales increased last year and are now 10% of revenue. It also plans expansions at factories in the U.S. and Mexico.
Other companies planning big investment increases this year include General Dynamics Corp. GD +0.21% General Dynamics Corp. U.S.: NYSE $89.89 +0.19 +0.21% Dec. 12, 2013 4:01 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1.13M AFTER HOURS $89.62 -0.27 -0.30% Dec. 12, 2013 4:46 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 9,197 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap $31.59 Billion Dividend Yield 2.49% Rev. per Employee $338,276 11/18/13 CFO Moves: General Dynamics, A... 11/12/13 Navy Ship Plan Faces Pentagon ... 10/23/13 General Dynamics Reports Highe... More quote details and news » , Whirlpool Corp. WHR +0.50% Whirlpool Corp. U.S.: NYSE $148.63 +0.74 +0.50% Dec. 12, 2013 4:01 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1.03M AFTER HOURS $148.80 +0.17 +0.11% Dec. 12, 2013 4:48 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 9,783 P/E Ratio 15.37 Market Cap $11.61 Billion Dividend Yield 1.68% Rev. per Employee $271,574 10/22/13 High-End Spenders Shrug Off He... 10/22/13 Whirlpool Profit More Than Dou... 10/22/13 Stocks to Watch: Delta, Whirlp... More quote details and news » and Ford Motor Co. F -0.12% Ford Motor Co. U.S.: NYSE $16.39 -0.02 -0.12% Dec. 12, 2013 4:02 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 30.72M AFTER HOURS $16.42 +0.03 +0.18% Dec. 12, 2013 7:59 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 224,728 P/E Ratio 11.23 Market Cap $64.73 Billion Dividend Yield 2.44% Rev. per Employee $855,585 12/12/13 Ford Plans to Hire 3,000 Worke... 12/12/13 Not on Ford Board's Agenda: Mi... 12/12/13 Questions Swirl on Mulally's F... More quote details and news » Despite expected losses of $2 billion on its European operations, Ford says it will invest $7 billion, up from $5.5 billion in 2012, to accommodate growth and new products.
Even some of the cautious are offering investors glimmers of optimism. Dow's Mr. Liveris told investors "the outlook in China is also growing brighter," and predicted that country's economy would grow 7% this year. General Electric Co. GE -0.15% General Electric Co. U.S.: NYSE $26.54 -0.04 -0.15% Dec. 12, 2013 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 30.80M AFTER HOURS $26.56 +0.02 +0.08% Dec. 12, 2013 7:59 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 161,107 P/E Ratio 18.99 Market Cap $268.92 Billion Dividend Yield 2.86% Rev. per Employee $466,918 12/10/13 GE Capital to Refund up to $34... 12/05/13 GE to Proceed With Manufacturi... 11/27/13 First Steam, Then Diesel. Will... More quote details and news » and Alcoa Inc. AA +0.32% Alcoa Inc. U.S.: NYSE $9.37 +0.03 +0.32% Dec. 12, 2013 4:02 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 14.90M AFTER HOURS $9.41 +0.04 +0.43% Dec. 12, 2013 7:20 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 180,557 P/E Ratio 33.46 Market Cap $9.99 Billion Dividend Yield 1.28% Rev. per Employee $382,574 12/09/13 Boeing Holds Bake-Off for Bigg... 11/10/13 Corrections & Amplifications 11/08/13 Aluminum Producer Shares Fall ... More quote details and news » also predict faster growth in China.
Such comments fuel hopes that corporate earnings will accelerate through the year. By the fourth quarter, analysts expect earnings at S&P companies to grow 14% compared with a year earlier.
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Seeing that The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was first released in 2003, I am officially WAY behind in reading prize winning books that deserve to be read. I'm okay with that though. One of these days, I will either catch up or just give up, when the pile of books has simply grown too high. Let's face it, with a reading habit like mine, it's just never going to happen. I am far too roller coaster for lofty reading goals.
Shameful. Totally shameful.
I didn't know a whole lot about The Curious when I finally got around to picking it up. It was one of those books that I had always looked at (when, you know, it was still really popular and on the "books to read" shelves in the book store), but never really looked into. I could only recall hearing great things about it and since it seemed so highly recommended, threw it onto my must read one day list.
Enter the ever wonderful university book sale and bam, the book finally finds itself on my bookshelves.
After finishing up The Future of Us, I decided I wanted to venture back into the realm of adult fiction, rather than diving headfirst into yet another YA book. I picked out The Curious as my next book, not realising, somehow, that it was written from the perspective of Christopher, an autistic 15 year old boy, and so, wasn't venturing very far away from the easy read young adult novels.
It was a neat perspective to read, however, and yet, it was also a perspective that made me feel guilty at times for feeling frustrated with Christopher's choices, actions and decisions.
It was, also, the first book that compelled me to dog ear a page and highlight a passage. I haven't done this in a book since, oh, 2009? As much as I may have enjoyed the novels I've been reading, they just haven't been moving me enough to want to highlight them.
Then again, I'm mostly big on noting observances or statements about life, who we are, and how we deal. That kind of thing hasn't been in most of the books I've been reading.
Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them. (p.12)
It was nice returning to a book that was real. Rather than reading about magic, time travel, super powers, werewolves or alternate realities, I read about "real life," so to speak. Every once in a while, that's a nice change. Keeps things fresh.
Christopher's character really helped draw the story telling down many paths, which is something that I've always enjoyed in books. I like when characters have tangents and discuss ideas or theories they have, rather than simply narrating a sequence of events. I like seeing their personality. I like seeing the way their brains work. I like diving into concepts about things, no matter how abstract. Christopher was just enough random and just enough structure to make it work.
I'm not really surprised that it won awards.
I'm surprised that it took me so long to get to it.
People believe in God because the world is very complicated and they think it is very unlikely that anything as complicated as a flying squirrel or a the human eye or a brain could happen by chance. But they should think logically and if they thought logically they would see that they can only ask this question because it has already happened and they exist. And there are billions of planets where there is no life, but there is no one on those planets with brains to notice. And it is like if everyone in the world was tossing coins eventually someone would get 5,698 heads in a row and they would think they were very special. But they wouldn't be because there would be millions of people who didn't get 5,698 heads.
And people who believe in God think God has put human beings on the earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put human beings into a zoo, like we put chimpanzees and gorillas into a zoo. Or human beings will all catch a disease and die out or they will make too much pollution and kill themselves, and then there will only be insects in the world and they will be the best animal. (p.164-165)
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Robert Altman
's epic
Short Cuts
. The last film gave
literal exposure in addition to the more figurative kind: she was required to play one scene naked from the waist down, something that predictably won the attention of critics and filmgoers.
The intermittent praise that had been afforded
was amplified in 1994 with her performance as Yelena in
Vanya on 42nd Street
. The object of adjectives ranging from "luminescent" to "radiant" to "revelatory," the actress went on to play a very different character in
Todd Haynes
won an Independent Spirit Award nomination for her portrayal of a woman (literally) sickened by the environment around her and further proved that she was an actress of distinct versatility. The same year she again demonstrated this ability with a starring role opposite
Hugh Grant
in the comedy
Nine Months
Following a turn as one of Picasso's numerous lovers in
Surviving Picasso
(1996), a lead in the family drama
The Myth of Fingerprints
(she would later have a son with the film's director,
Bart Freundlich
), and a substantial part in
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
nabbed what was one of the plum roles of her career in
Paul Thomas Anderson
Boogie Nights
. For her portrayal of a porn actress, she won Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations.
A substantial role as an erotic artist in
Ethan Coen
's and
Joel Coen
The Big Lebowski
followed in 1998, along with a turn as Marion Crane's sister in
Gus Van Sant
remake. The next year,
starred in a number of high-profile projects, beginning with
Robert Altman
Cookie's Fortune
, in which she was cast as the dim sister of a decidedly unhinged
Glenn Close
. A portrayal of the scheming Mrs. Cheveley followed in
Oliver Parker
An Ideal Husband
, with a number of critics asserting that
was the best part of the movie. The actress then enjoyed another collaboration with director
, an epic telling of nine interweaving stories inspired by
Short Cuts
and featuring an impressive cast that included
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Baker Hall
, and
John C. Reilly
. The same year,
also starred in the drama
The End of the Affair
, with
Ralph Fiennes
Stephen Rea
, and portrayed a grieving mother in
A Map of the World
, which premiered at the 1999 Toronto Film Festival.
2001 found the popular actress stepping into dark territory with the role of FBI Agent Clarice Starling in
Ridley Scott
, the long-awaited and eagerly anticipated follow-up to
Jonathan Demme
's numbingly suspenseful
Silence of the Lambs
. A few short months later,
lightened the mood substantially with her humorous turn as a bumbling government scientist in the sci-fi comedy
. Increasingly comfortable alternating between big-budget features and more personal art-house films,
bowled over audiences with a pair of powerhouse performances in both Far From Heaven and The Hours. A detailed throwback to the forgotten Hollywood melodrama, the former featured
's Oscar nominated role as a housewife who enters into a controversial relationship after discovering her husband's homosexuality and provided audiences a dose of Douglas Sirk that hadn't been tasted since the mid-1950s. A variation on the themes presented in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, the film version of Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer prize winning novel The Hours once again found
Oscar nominated for her role as a repressed 1950s era housewife, this time taking a special shine to Mrs. Dalloway while pondering an escape from her stifling marriage.
In the wake of arguably her most successful year to date,
began to dabble behind the scenes for the first time, serving as executive producer on the 2003 independent adaptation of Wallace Shawn's play Marie and Bruce, a film that she also starred in. The following year, audiences could find
onscreen opposite Pierce Brosnan in the romantic comedy The Laws of Attraction and in the poorly-received thriller The Forgotten. In 2005 she earned good reviews for The Prize Winner of Defiance, OH, but the film failed to catch on with audiences. She continued to work steadily starring opposite Sam Jackson in the adaptation of Richard Price's Freedomland, and starring opposite Clive Owen in Alfonso Cuaron's futuristic thriller Children of Men. She once again teamed with her director husband
Bart Freundlich
in the relationship comedy Trust the Man. Shortly after returning to television with a recurring role on the hit comedy series 30 Rock, the talented actress earned numerous positive reviews for her nuanced performance in The Kids Are All Right, and while she failed to earn a BAFTA Award as one half of a same sex couple attempting to help their children come to terms with being adopted, Moore's memorable performance as a frustrated housewife in 2011's Crazy, Stupid, Love. showed an actress still capable of balancing drama and comedy to striking effect. On the heels of her performance in Paul Weitz's Being Flynn the following year, it was announced that Moore would be following in the formidable footsteps of Piper Laurie in the 2013 remake of the Stephen King's Carrie starring Chloe Grace Moritz (Let Me In, Hugo). ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi
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Being Flynn
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Robert De Niro and Paul Dano headline writer/director Paul Weitz's adaptation of Nick Flynn's memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City. The story concerns a struggling writer named Nick (Dano), who is working at an inner-city homeless shelter when his estranged father Jonathan (De Niro) shows up looking for a place to rest his head. Dale Dickey, Lili Taylor, Olivia Thirlby, and Julianne Moore co-star in a film produced by Depth of Field in association with Tribeca Productions and Corduroy Films. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Game Change
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The 2008 U.S. presidential campaign shifts into high gear after Arizona senator John McCain (Ed Harris) picks Alaska governor Sarah Palin (Julianne Moore) to be his running mate in the general election against Barack Obama. Based on the book Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. ~ Joe Friedrich, Rovi
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Crazy, Stupid, Love.
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Sad-sack divorcée Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) finds his second wind in life after meeting a handsome young ladies' man who teaches him how to become a master of the modern dating scene. A devoted family man who married his high school sweetheart, Cal had a great house and a stable job when his wife, Emily (Julianne Moore), left him to be with another man. When Emily announces that she's filing for divorce, Cal finds himself awkwardly thrust into the dating scene and begins drinking his nights away at the local pub. Just when it's starting to look as if there's no hope for Cal, confirmed bachelor Jacob Palmer (Ryan Gosling) decides to add some much-needed excitement to the sulking, newly single father's life. Before long, Cal's rough edges have all been smoothed out; he's mastered the fine art of flirting and develops a distinct sense of style that sets him apart from the pack. But just as Cal starts to turn heads, his adolescent son, Robbie, develops a big crush on his teenage babysitter, Jessica. Unfortunately for Robbie, Jessica only has eyes for Cal. Meanwhile, Cal can't help but feel like something substantial is missing from his life, and decides that the only way to set things straight is by listening to his heart. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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6 Souls
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Julianne Moore stars in this supernatural horror film as second-generation forensic psychiatrist Dr. Cara Jessup, whose career as an expert witness has been largely built on her firm testimony that so-called "multiple personality disorder" is a hoax or a myth -- and does not really exist. Over six killers have been convicted and sentenced to death based on her assertions, though Cara has remained firm in her beliefs, both about science and about God. All of those beliefs are shaken to the core, however, when her own husband is murdered, and her father introduces her to his own most challenging patient, a troubled young man named Adam -- who would seem to suffer from multiple personalities, each of which are the identities of murder victims. Soon, Cara is in a race against time to discover whether all her convictions have really been called into question or if she is merely a pawn in a psychotic, deadly game. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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The Kids Are All Right
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The son of a same-sex couple seeks out the sperm donor who made his birth possible in this comedy from writer/director Lisa Cholodenko. The committed parents of two teenage children, Nic (Annette Bening) and Jules (Julianne Moore), are about to send their daughter, Joni (Mia Wasikowska), off to college when her younger brother, Laser (Josh Hutcherson), asks for her help in tracking down his biological father. Reluctantly inquiring with the sperm bank, Joni leaves her number so the office can pass it along to Laser's father. Enthusiastic at the thought of meeting his long lost offspring, Paul (Mark Ruffalo) musters the courage to reach out, and the family tree grows a new branch. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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An untrusting wife attempts to prove that her husband is cheating by hiring an escort to seduce him, inadvertently endangering her entire family in the process. Catherine (Julianne Moore) is a respected doctor, and her husband, David (Liam Neeson), is a dedicated music professor. They've been married for years and have a teenage son together, but lately the passion has faded from their romance. The morning after David misses his flight home -- and the elaborate surprise birthday party Catherine had planned to celebrate his return -- Catherine finds a text message on his phone that leads her to believe her husband is sleeping with a female student. Her suspicions grow over the following weeks, and when Catherine has a run-in with an escort named Chloe (Amanda Seyfried), she hires the ravishing blonde to test her husband's fidelity. After each encounter with David, Chloe reports back to Catherine with all the sordid details. But the further the experiment goes, the less clear Chloe's motivations for taking part in it become, and the more the untrusting wife begins to fear that the situation has spiraled out of control. Directed by Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter, Ararat), this erotic thriller is a remake of Anne Fontaine's French film Nathalie..., and was adapted by Erin Cressida Wilson. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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A Single Man
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George Falconer (Colin Firth) feels lost. Not only is he still grieving the death of his longtime companion, Jim (Matthew Goode), but he's also a Brit teaching English at a California college. He's so distraught with heartbreak that he's decided to kill himself, and proceeds to get all his affairs in order while carrying on with what otherwise would be a normal day. He gives an unusually forceful lecture to his class, revealing enough that a perceptive student, Kenny (Nicholas Hoult), senses something is wrong with the professor; collects his important financial papers from his bank; buys bullets for a handgun he owns; and makes a visit to his best friend (Julianne Moore). But throughout these methodical preparations, George keeps running into people -- a colleague's daughter, a attractive gay hustler, and the sympathetic Kenny -- who offer him glimpses of why he should stay alive. A Single Man is the directorial debut of legendary fashion designer Tom Ford. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
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Rebecca Miller (The Ballad of Jack & Rose) adapts her own novel with this comedy drama about a woman who begins a second life after her husband leaves her for a younger woman. Pippa Lee (Robin Wright) is the loving mother of two grown children, and the wife of successful publisher Herb (Alan Arkin). Despite the fact that she's 30 years Herb's junior, Pippa and her husband have never fallen short on things to talk about. She's always enjoyed the hustle and bustle of New York, but after Herb suffers a serious heart attack, Pippa dutifully moves with him to a quaint suburban home in small-town Connecticut. And for a while, at least, she coasts -- enjoying frequent dinner parties with her new friends Sam (Mike Binder) and Sandra (Winona Ryder), and spending quiet nights caring for Herb, who has lately grown increasingly distant. That all starts to change when Chris (Keanu Reeves) comes back to town following a bitter divorce. Gradually, Pippa's suppressed resentments begin bubbling to the surface, highlighting the conflict between the free-spirited girl she used to be and the frustrated woman who has taken her place. Somewhere along the line, Pippa lost track of her own identity. But Pippa's remarkable journey of self-discovery is just beginning. Julianne Moore, Monica Bellucci, Maria Bello, and Blake Lively co-star in a Plan B Entertainment production. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Fernando Meirelles' adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago's novel Blindness begins when an epidemic of blindness strikes the world. Mark Ruffalo stars as an eye doctor who awakens one morning to find that he suffers from the unexplained disorder. He, along with other victims, is sent to a government detention center so that they can be quarantined. His wife (Julianne Moore) pretends to be blind so that she can be with him inside the institution. Their time in the center grows more and more desperate as food and supplies dwindle, and one of the other citizens (Gael García Bernal) exercises dictatorial control over the others after he acquires a weapon. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
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I'm Not There
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Director Todd Haynes' unconventional biopic of the legendary singer/songwriter Bob Dylan features different actors playing the part of the Minnesota native at various stages of his remarkable career. Among the actors playing the singer are Cate Blanchett, who portrays the man during his Don't Look Back era incarnation; Heath Ledger, as an actor playing one of the fictional Dylans in a movie within the movie; Christian Bale, as the Dylan beginning to chafe at being associated so strongly with political causes; Richard Gere, portraying the post-motorcycle accident period; and Marcus Carl Franklin as the young Dylan who passed himself off as the second coming of Woody Guthrie. Each section of the film not only has a different lead actor, but offers different looks that reflect various aspects of popular culture at the time. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
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A man with the ability to see the future and change the outcome of events before they occur is forced to choose between saving himself and saving the world in this supernatural thriller starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Lee Tamahori (Die Another Day, The Edge). Cris Johnson (Cage) is a Las Vegas magician who possesses the unique ability to witness the events of the immediate future moments before they happen. As a child Cris was subjected to a series of cruel experiments by government scientists and doctors, but a change of name and a new identity allowed the tortured psychic to elude detection and start a new life away from the prying eyes of his former captors. Though his clairvoyant vision only extends a few minutes into the future, it has still allowed Cris to eke out a living as a low-rent Las Vegas magician while earning a little extra cash at the blackjack tables. Up to this point in his life Cris has never used his power for anything substantial, but when he experiences a vision of Los Angeles being incinerated in a nuclear holocaust, the small-time magician realizes that he could hold the key to saving millions of lives. But as low as he has tried to lie in recent years, Cris has never completely escaped detection by the government. Now, as terrorists prepare to unleash the ultimate horror on an unsuspecting city, FBI counter terror agent Callie Ferris (Julianne Moore) sets out to capture Cris and convince him to use his exceptional gift to prevent the nuclear nightmare from becoming a terrifying reality. Jessica Biel, Peter Falk, and Thomas Kretschmann co-star in the film, which is based on a short story by acclaimed sci-fi author Philip K. Dick. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Savage Grace
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Adapted from the nonfiction book by Natalie Robins and Steven M.L. Aronson, Tom Kalin's Savage Grace recounts the true crime tale of the death of Barbara Baekeland. Stephen Dillane stars as Brooks Baekeland, the son of the man who invented Bakelite, one of the early forms of plastic. As the family fortune begins to decrease after years of wealth, Brooks marries Barbara (Julianne Moore), who desires to mingle in the highest social circles. They have a child, Antony, who is homosexual. Antony grows up to kill Barbara, in part because Barbara takes a personal interest in "curing" her son of his orientation. This was Kalin's first film since 1991's Swoon, a film about the infamous Leopold and Loeb murders. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
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Trust the Man
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Two couples demonstrate that breaking up can be just as hard as staying together in this romantic comedy drama. Rebecca (Julianne Moore) and Tom (David Duchovny) are a seemingly happy married couple living in New York City -- she's a successful actress, while he stays home with the kids. However, beneath the surface, things are not going well. Rebecca is no longer amused with her husband's appetite for porn and constant sexual demands, while he's seriously considering having an affair. Rebecca's brother Tobey, (Billy Crudup), is in a more openly dysfunctional relationship; he's been dating Elaine (Maggie Gyllenhaal) for seven years but has no interest in marriage, while she's desperate to settle down and start a family. Tobey and Elaine decide to call it quits, as Tobey hooks up with an old friend from college (Eva Mendes) who is looking to cheat on her husband, and Elaine starts dating a handsome musician (James LeGros) who may be in need of a green card. Meanwhile, Rebecca and Tom go into couples therapy, which creates as many problems as it solves. Trust the Man also features Ellen Barkin, Garry Shandling, and Bob Balaban. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Joe Roth directs his adaptation of Richard Price's novel Freedomland from a script by the author. Samuel L. Jackson stars as a police detective who must investigate a distraught woman (Julianne Moore) who claims that her child was kidnapped by a black man. The accusation stirs up much racial animosity in the town. Edie Falco co-stars. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
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Children of Men
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Y Tu Mamá También and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban director Alfonso Cuarón returns to the helm to tell this futuristic tale in which society is without hope since humankind lost its ability to procreate. The year is 2027, and women can no longer give birth. The youngest inhabitant of the planet has just died at the age of 18, and all hope for humanity has been lost. As civilization descends into chaos, a dying world finds one last chance for survival in the form of a woman who has become inexplicably pregnant. Now, as warring nationalistic sects clash and British leaders try to maintain their totalitarian stronghold on the country, a disillusioned bureaucrat (Clive Owen) is brought back into the fold of activism by his guerrilla ex-wife (Julianne Moore). Reluctantly, he takes on the daunting task of escorting Kee (Claire-Hope Ashitey), the refugee who represents humankind's last hope for survival, out of harm's way and into the care of a mysterious organization known as The Human Project. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Charlie Hunnam, and Michael Caine co-star in this adaptation of author P.D. James's gripping 1992 novel. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie
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A pair of pint-sized rock stars wrestle with the perils of stardom, icky girls, and too much soda pop in this mockumentary comedy. Nine-year-old Nat Wolff is the singer, guitarist and songwriter for a rock band known as the Silver Bullets, which features his six-year-old brother, Alex Wolff, on the drums. With the help of their equally youthful bandmates Joshua Kaye, Thomas Batuello, and David Levi, Nat and Alex have built the Silver Bullets into one of the most popular groups on Earth, thanks to the business acumen of their manager, Cooper Pillot, and despite the uncalled-for assistance of Nat and Alex's accordion-wielding father (Michael Wolff). But life at the top isn't always easy, and creative differences begin to drive a wedge into the group when Nat insists they record a love ballad dedicated to his nine-year-old girlfriend, Rosalina (Allie Dimeco), while his bandmates would prefer to cut Thomas' "Boys Rule, Girls Drool." As the squabbling continues and Alex becomes addicted to lemon-lime soda, the Silver Bullets break up, but will the pleas of their many fans encourage them to reunite? The Naked Brothers Band was written and directed by Polly Draper, who happens to be Nat and Alex's real-life mom; the Silver Bullets write and perform their own material, and Draper was inspired by her kids' pre-teen musical exploits. Julianne Moore, Uma Thurman, and Cyndi Lauper make cameo appearances as some of the group's better-known fans. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
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The true story of one woman's effort to keep her family afloat under difficult circumstances comes to the screen in this bittersweet comedy drama. Evelyn Ryan (Julianne Moore) was a woman of intelligence, talent, and pluck living in the small town of Defiance, OH, in the 1950s. Evelyn was married to Kelly Ryan (Woody Harrelson), a man who gave her ten children but not much else; Kelly had a severe drinking problem, struggled to hold on to a job, and tended to spend his money as soon as he earned it. It was seemingly up to Evelyn to support the family, but with ten kids to look after, taking a job outside the home hardly seemed practical. But the resourceful Evelyn discovered a way to bring some extra money into the household -- at a time when a number of companies held contests to find new advertising jingles for their products, Evelyn had a genius for coming up with slogans and winning contests, and for the better part of a decade Evelyn kept food on the table and a roof over her head by dreaming up jingles, tag lines, and ad headlines and winning contests with her handiwork, often selling the merchandise she won to pay the bills. The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio was based on the best-selling memoir by Terry Ryan, who was the sixth of Evelyn Ryan's ten kids. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Laws of Attraction
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Though equally respected in their field, divorce lawyers Audrey Woods (Julianne Moore) and Daniel Rafferty (Pierce Brosnan) are opposites inside and out of the courtroom. Audrey is meticulous and by the book, while Daniel relies on personality and luck to get by. Despite the difference in methods, neither lawyer has lost a case, and neither plan on ending their streak after being respectively hired by Serena (Parker Posey) and Thorne (Michael Sheen), a celebrity power couple gone wrong. The divorce settlement hinges on a particularly spectacular Irish castle, which both parties would like to keep for themselves. Audrey and Daniel hurry to Ireland with depositions in their eyes, but a growing mutual attraction manages to squirm out from beneath, and, after being immersed in a romantic Irish festival, the rival lawyers wake up married. Reeling, potentially in love (to Audrey in particular's dismay), and faced with the type of media explosion capable of leading to the end of their careers, the mismatched lawyers contemplate how to go about their clients' divorce hearings as man and wife. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi
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Marie and Bruce
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Tom Cairns directs the psychological comedy drama Marie and Bruce, adapted from the play by Wallace Shawn. Set over a period of 24 hours, the black comedy involves the troubled marriage of neurotic New Yorkers Marie (Julianne Moore) and Bruce (Matthew Broderick). What follows is a bleak psychological study of the breakdown of a modern relationship. Also starring Griffin Dunne and Campbell Scott. Musical score by Mark de Gli Antoni of Soul Coughing. Marie and Bruce was shown at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
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The Forgotten
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A grieving woman must make a journey into her past in this psychological thriller. Telly Paretta (Julianne Moore) is a mother who is struggling to put her life back together after the unexpected death of her eight-year-old son. Telly begins seeing a therapist (Gary Sinise) who offers a startling diagnosis -- that her son never really existed, and all her memories of the child are products of her imagination. When Telly meets a man with a strangely similar story to tell about his lost child (Dominic West), she becomes convinced that her doctor is wrong, and sets out to prove the existence of her child -- and that she isn't insane. The Forgotten also features Alfre Woodard and Anthony Edwards. An alternate ending exists to this film, which has been released on DVD and purportedly does a great deal to compensate for the story's weaknesses. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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The Hours
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Three women, separated by a span of nearly 80 years, find themselves weathering similar crises, all linked by a single work of literature in this film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Michael Cunningham. In 1923, Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) is attempting to start work on her novel Mrs. Dalloway, in which she chronicles one day in the life of a troubled woman. But Virginia has demons of her own, and she struggles to overcome the depression and suicidal impulses that have followed her throughout her life, as her husband Leonard (Stephen Dillane) ineffectually tries to help. In 1951, Laura Brown (Julianne Moore) is a housewife living in suburban Los Angeles, where she looks after her son Richie (Jack Rovello) and husband Dan (John C. Reilly). Laura is also an avid reader who is currently making her way through Mrs. Dalloway. The farther she gets into the novel, the more Laura discovers that it reflects a dissatisfaction she feels in her own life, and she finds herself pondering the notion of leaving her life behind. Finally, in 2000, Clarissa Vaughn (Meryl Streep) is a literary editor who is caring for Richard Brown (Ed Harris), a former boyfriend and noted author, who is slowly losing his fight with AIDS. Clarissa is trying to arrange a party to celebrate the fact that Richard has won a prestigious literary award, but is getting little help from Richard's ex-lover, Louis (Jeff Daniels). As she labors to help Richard through another day, he wonders if his life is worth the unending struggle. The Hours also features Toni Collette, Miranda Richardson, Allison Janney, and Claire Danes. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Far From Heaven
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Maverick director Todd Haynes embraces the look and feel of classic Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s in this period drama. Cathy Whitaker (Julianne Moore) and her husband, Frank (Dennis Quaid), are a seemingly perfect couple; living in a handsome suburban neighborhood in Hartford, CT, in 1957, Cathy and Frank have a beautiful home and two happy, healthy children, while Frank pursues a successful career in sales and Cathy cares for the home. But Cathy has begun to sense something isn't quite right in her marriage, as Frank begins working late, spending less time with her, and seems cold and distant. One day, Cathy visits Frank's work and discovers something she never expected -- her husband is kissing a man. At Cathy's urging, Frank undergoes psychotherapy, but as she tries to keep up a brave face, the emotional trauma takes a great toll on her, and she finds there are very few people she can talk with. Cathy strikes up a friendship with Raymond Deagan (Dennis Haysbert), an African-American gardener who works for the Whitakers, and as she discovers how intelligent and compassionate Raymond is, she finds herself drawn to him. However, Hartford is in many ways still a small town, and when Mona (Celia Weston) sees Cathy and Raymond alone together, it sets off a wave of vicious gossip that threatens to make the Whitakers' many secrets public knowledge. Far from Heaven premiered at the 2002 Venice Film Festival, where Julianne Moore's performance won the prize for Best Actress. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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The spirit of the mega-hit Ghostbusters (1984) is intentionally recalled with this effects-heavy sci-fi comedy from the same director, Ivan Reitman, co-starring Dan Aykroyd and debuting on the 17th anniversary of the earlier film's release. When a meteor bearing single-celled organisms crashes to the Earth, the life forms are initially confined to a cave. Before long the creatures are evolving at an exponentially rapid rate, resulting in fearsome aliens running amok and possibly spelling mankind's doom, or at least the end of man's domination over life on Earth. Investigating the phenomenon is a community college professor, Ira Kane (David Duchovny), his geologist friend Harry Block (Orlando Jones), wannabe fireman Wayne Green (Seann William Scott), and government scientist Allison Reed (Julianne Moore). Evolution also stars Ted Levine, Ethan Suplee, and Katharine Towne. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
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World Traveler
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Following up on his acclaimed debut The Myth of Fingerprints, Bart Freundlich spins this drama that poses the question "what would it be like to run away from your life?" The film centers on a restless thirtysomething New Yorker named Cal (Billy Crudup) who one day drives off into the open road, leaving his wife and infant son behind. A series of flashbacks describe Cal's domestic malaise and disillusionment with his life. On the road, Cal encounters a number of unusual characters who are similarly tethered and drifting. One is named Dulcie (Julianne Moore), an emotionally fragile woman looking for her lost son. Through his interaction with Dulcie, Cal reflects on his own family and soon finds himself heading to his boyhood home where his father lives. This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
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The Shipping News
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by E. Annie Proulx becomes this drama from director Lasse Hallström. Kevin Spacey stars as Quoyle, a struggling, emotionally drained newspaper reporter suffering through a wretched marriage with the abusive Petal (Cate Blanchett), a promiscuous wild woman who tries to sell their daughter, Bunny, into adoption before she's killed in a car wreck. Retrieving his daughter, Quoyle sets out for Newfoundland, his ancestral home, with his long-lost Aunt Agnis (Judi Dench). Although he initially finds life on the island to be as forbidding and severe as Agnis herself, Quoyle gets work as a shipping columnist for the local newspaper "The Gammy Bird," owned by eccentric fisherman Jack Buggit (Scott Glenn). Quoyle's work soon finds an appreciative audience and he begins to rebuild his life, dating local single mother Wavey (Julianne Moore), learning some sea craft, discovering his family's dark history, and finally earning some self-respect. Agnis, in the meantime, starts her own successful business and faces a traumatic incident from her childhood involving Quoyle's late father. The Shipping News (2001) co-stars Rhys Ifans and Pete Postlethwaite. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
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A new study says that within three years jumbo jet–makers could be testing a new type of wing that reduces midair drag and cuts fuel costs by an estimated 20 percent. The wing would do this using small, built in jets that redirect air around the wing during flight.
"This has come as a bit of a surprise to all of us in the aerodynamics community," Duncan Lockerby, an associate professor of fluid-solid mechanics at the University of Warwick in the U.K. and head of the research project funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and aircraft maker Airbus, said in a statement. "It was discovered, essentially, by waggling a piece of wing from side to side in a wind tunnel."
Dec 19, 2008 | 4
The persistent concern of when and where terrorists will strike next—heightened by the Mumbai attacks—has led to a number of tech innovations over the past several years, including full-body airport security scanners and adhesives designed to keep buildings from blowing to pieces if bombed. One of the most intriguing of these inventions is a laser system developed to keep terrorist-fired infrared, "heat-seeking" missiles from striking unsuspecting aircraft (both military and civilian).
The Jeteye infrared beam, developed by London-based BAE Systems, blinds a heat-seeking missile's navigation capabilities, giving an airliner a better chance of getting away unscathed. (Although that doesn't solve the problem that the missile could do damage wherever it lands.) Jeteye senses the incoming missile's "infrared tracking signal (with which the missile paints its target) and pulses a super-intense beam of light into the missile's reticle, or eye, scrambling its brains," Conde Nast Traveler reported this week on its Web site.
Aug 22, 2008 | 6
An experimental, build-it-yourself Velocity 173 RG aircraft crashed into the living room of a house in Las Vegas Friday morning shortly after takeoff from the North Las Vegas airport, killing the pilot and two people inside the home, the AP reports. The pilot and one resident of the house died at the crash site, while the other died after being taken to University Medical Center in Las Vegas. The names of the victims have not been released.
The AP reports the Velocity that crashed was certified for flight by the FAA in 2002. The Velocity—which costs between $55,000 and $150,000 depending on the kit—is constructed in sections and can be dismantled by removing about 10 bolts and some screws. The maximum width of the fuselage, without the wings attached, is 12 feet.
Aug 13, 2008 | 3
It seems the pilot of a Titan Tornado (their site was down as of late this afternoon) ultralight aircraft—a single-seat, homebuilt hot-rod capable of hitting 90 mph—had some trouble on Tuesday morning when cruising over San Bernardino County's Mojave Valley, which straddles the California-Arizona border. According to the Associated Press, the pilot was forced to make an emergency landing on the westbound lanes of the Interstate 40 connector road to Interstate 95.
The so-called experimental aircraft made a successful touchdown, but that's when things evidently went wrong. Problem solved, the pilot apparently decided to take off again from the freeway. Thinking the coast was clear, the pilot, Gene Allen Sheets, 65, revved up the Tornado's Rotax two-stroke engine, trundled down the eastbound roadway and rose up to about three feet off the ground, say witnesses, who spoke to the Federal Aviation Administration.
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Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, has disclosed that it had established open TD-LTE IOT (Interoperability Testing) labs in Xi'an and Shenzhen.
The labs were established to cooperate with chipset, device and application partners for the purpose of creating an open and win-win LTE ecosystem while driving end-to-end TD-LTE maturation and commercialization.
With the continuous deployment of new commercial network technologies and a rapidly growing number of TD-LTE users, chipset and device makers are faced with rapid market developments. In April of this year, Huawei and Intel established a joint IOT lab in Beijing to promote the development of the TD-LTE ecosystem. The establishment of open IOT labs is another approach for this.
The open IOT labs will focus on LTE solutions for voice, multi-mode roaming and multi-mode smartphones in collaboration with industry partners to promote the maturity and commercialization of the TD-LTE industry.
The IOT lab in Xi'an is capable of conducting interoperability testing between chipsets and network systems, devices and network systems. It can also perform tests between multiple systems, including GSM/WCDMA/CDMA/TD-SCDMA/LTE TDD/FDD and using mainstream TD-LTE bands (1.9, 2.3, 2.6 and 3.5GHz). The lab's device test environment can support tests on devices from five different manufacturers simultaneously.


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PREHEAT oven to 350°F. Brown sausage with mushrooms in large skillet; drain. Return to skillet. Add stuffing mix, carrots and hot water; stir just until moistened. Set aside.
SPOON stuffing mixture evenly into hen cavities; close openings with skewers. Place hens, breast sides up, in shallow roasting pan. Brush with oil.
BAKE 1 hour; spoon jelly over hens. Bake an additional 10 min. or until hens are cooked through (180°F).


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