For Laura Linney, this is indeed the most wonderful time of year. Not only is she in the holiday spirit "all the time," but she is thrilled to be part of a movie associated with the season.
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It started with ?Pong.? A simple game of table tennis on a black and white TV screen. Two lines represent paddles and a square dot for the ball. Nerds rejoiced as gaming fever hit the world in 1972.
The gaming industry has come a long way since then. Social media has opened up the world of gaming even more with networks like Facebook and Battle.net facilitating international gameplay.
Violent first-person shooting games like ?Call of Duty? and ?Doom? are often made the villain by parents. But gaming culture has matured from nerdy, pimply-faced introverts to all-star athletes and political leaders. That?s what gaming is at its core, a social experience involving all ages in healthy competition with many benefits.
Games that require logic like ?Tetris? use the prefrontal cortex, the decision making part of the brain according to an infographic posted by Forbes? website. Strategy games like the computer game ?StarCraft? can foster cognition and planning. Others like ?Sim City? and ?Spore? let you build civilizations and geoengineer planets.
The industry is a multi-billion dollar behemoth involving 67 percent of households in the nation, according to the Entertainment Software Ratings Board, the body that governs ratings for games. American gamers play roughly eight hours out of the week and 40 percent are female, according to ESRB?s website.
Companies like LeapFrog provide a positive case for the future of gaming. As an educational software company that is designed to help children learn how to read, write and beef up on basic knowledge, it predicted the trend of digital learning.
The Internet has created a fertile playground for gamers and has opened the public?s eye to who gamers really are. ?World of Warcraft,? a role playing game where a personalized character lives and fights in an online realm, is played by people from all walks of life.
This year, Republicans ran a smear campaign against the current senator of Maine, Colleen Lachowicz, based on her ?World of Warcraft? character, an Orc Assassin Rogue. It backfired when WoW players from around the world contributed to her political action committee, helping her win the seat.
Next June will mark the entry of the first game commercially available where gamers can play purely using their minds. A demo of the technology was shown recently at three-day business and technology conference in Paris.
By using a headset that reads the electrical activity in your brain, users control the software with their thoughts. The company, Interaxon, will offer up memory and concentration games and continue to roll out more complex household and entertainment applications.
There are now two paths ahead for the gaming industry. The first integrates video games into our schools, health care system and military. That is, everything outside of pure entertainment. The second path, its current path, joins all aspects of the entertainment industry together.
No matter which way the gaming industry goes, it?s clear that it?s here to stay.
Source: http://www.goldengatexpress.org/2012/12/13/gaming-is-goodgaming-is-good-for-your-health/
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December 10, 2012 by Scott W. Smith
?At one time Dixie and Meredith [Willson] were equally famous.?
Tom Longden
Des Moines Register 2004
When I took the tour last week of the childhood home of writer/composer Meredith Willson (The Music Man) I learned that he wasn?t the only writer in the family. His sister Dixie Willson (1890-1974) was a novelist and screenwriter. And it?s not just that she sold some books and earned some IMDB credits, she actually influenced one of the great American writers of our time.
Back in 2003 Tom Wolfe (The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities) in the article The Books that Made the Writers published by?Yale Alumni Magazine wrote some of the logical infleunces of one writer on another??Balzac ignited Zola? and then added:
?Speaking for myself, I was? galvanized? by a writer who never rated so much as a footnote to American literary history: Dixie Willson.
Dixie Willson wrote, and Maginel Wright Barney illustrated, a book called?Honey Bear?in 1923. My mother used to read it to me at bedtime long before I knew one letter of the alphabet from another. Over and over she read it to me. I was small, but like many people my age I had already mastered the art of having things my way. I had memorized the entire poem in the passive sense that I could tell whenever Mother skipped a passage in the vain hope of getting the 110th or 232nd reading over with a little sooner. Oh, no-ho-ho? there was no fooling His Majesty the Baby. He wanted it all. He couldn?t get enough of it.
Honey Bear?is a narrative poem about a baby kidnapped from a bassinet by a black bear. Maginel Wright Barney drew and painted in the japanais Vienna Secession style. To me, her pictures were pure magic. But?Honey Bear?s main attraction was Dixie Willson?s rollicking and rolling rhythm: anapestic quadrameter with spondees at regular intervals. One has to read it out loud in order to?be?there:
Once upon a summer in the hills by the river
Was a deep green forest where the wild things grew.
There were caves as dark as midnight?there were tangled trees and thickets
And a thousand little places where the sky looked through.
The Willson beat made me think writing must be not only magical but fun. It isn?t, particularly, but?Honey Bear?was fun, and I resolved then and there, lying illiterate on a little pillow in a tiny bed, to be a writer. In homage to Dixie Willson, I?ve slipped a phrase or two from?Honey Bear?into every book I?ve written. I tucked the fourth line, above, into the opening chapter of?The Right Stuff?(page 4) from memory as I described how not-yet-an-Astronaut Pete Conrad?s and his Jean Simmons-lookalike wife Jane?s little white brick cottage near Jacksonville Naval Air Base was set in a thick green grove of pine trees with ?a thousand little places where the sun peeks through.??Peeks? looked??Ah, well, hey ho??
There?s no question that Meredith?s successes outshone Dixie?s, but maybe they should change that sign at Meredith?s boyhood home to say ?Childhood home of Meredith and Dixie Willson.?
Scott W. Smith
Source: http://screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/the-music-mans-sister-dixie-willson/
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HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed the police chief of Afghanistan's western Nimroz province on Monday, a police official said.
General Mohammad Musa Rasoli's vehicle was struck by the bomb as he was heading to work, the official said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. Taliban insurgents have targeted provincial officials in the past.
The Afghan government is scrambling to improve security before NATO troops withdraw by the end of 2014. Some Afghans fear another civil war may erupt after the pullout.
Last week, a suicide bomber posing as a peace messenger wounded Afghanistan's intelligence chief, Asadullah Khalid, in the capital Kabul, dealing a blow to the nascent reconciliation process.
(Reporting by Sharafuddin Sharafyar; Writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Ron Popeski)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bomb-kills-provincial-afghan-police-chief-050623478.html
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Republican Senators have gotten little traction trying to pin the Benghazi disaster on U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, but new details about the role she's played in the ongoing Congolese war might be more damaging to her possible nomination for Secretary of State. The New York Times?has a damning report today on the relationship between Rice and the government of Rwanda, which was a client of hers when she worked for a Washington consulting firm a decade ago.?
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Since being appointed U.N. ambassador in 2008, Rice has frequently?intervened to protect Rwandan president Paul Kagame from?criticism?and condemnation for his support for the rebel group M23. The militant army has been accused of gross human rights violations, including mass rape, executions, and the use of child?soldiers?in the conflict in the Congo, which is Rwanda's neighbor. Rwanda's backing of M23 is seen as a major factor in prolonging the decade-long?conflict that has been filled with horrific brutality and violence.?
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On more than one occasion Rice has stepped in to soften the?language?of Security?Council?resolutions?and blocked attempts to publicly shame and?criticize Kagame. Last week,?Foreign Policy reported that two months ago, during a private meeting with her French and British?counterparts,?Rice objected to the idea of "naming and shaming" Kagame, saying,??This is the D.R.C. [Democratic?Republic?of Congo.] If it?weren't?the M23 doing this, it would be some other group."
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Rice's relationship with Kagame goes all the way back to her days in the Clinton?Administration, when she was one of the leading?members in the?administration?on?African?affairs. She served on the National Security?Council?during the?Rwandan?genocide in 1994, which ended when Kagame's party took over the government. After leaving the White House in 2000, Rice became a managing director at Intellibridge, a "security?analysis" firm that had Kagame government's as a client.
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Rice and other American?diplomats?have argued that silent diplomacy is the best course of action in the Congo, and that publicly attacking Kagame or Rwanda would undermine ongoing peace negotiations. However, with the Congolese war so far from being resolved?and over three million dead in the last decade?its hard to see the wisdom of that approach.?The failure of U.S. and U.N. to take more decisive action against the Rwandan genocide is still seen as a major black mark?on the Clinton administration's legacy. ("Bystanders to Genocide" is what Samantha Power?called?them in The?Atlantic?in 2001.) There are many who feel those same mistakes are being repeated in the Congo today.
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As a purely?political?matter, however, the stories are resurfacing at the worst time for Rice. The ties between her and Rwanda are not a?secret, and have been reported in depth?elsewhere.?But as with any previously under-the-radar issue, a banner headline on The New York Times website goes a long way toward turning a footnote into a scandal. It's clear that should Rice be nominated to be the next Secretary of State, she's going to face a lot of tough questions beyond just her statements on the Benghazi mess. It's also clear that those who are opposed to her nomination are going to play up any and all angles that might reflect negatively on her foreign affairs credentials. Rather than a petty squabble over a harmless set of talking points, Rice's actual?conduct?in the halls of the United Nations should have a much bigger impact on whether or not she gets the big promotion she's been waiting for.
Rice herself said back in 2001?that, "I swore to myself that if I ever faced such a crisis again, I would come down on the side of dramatic action, going down in flames if that was required." Even if she doesn't stop the war in the Congo, the going down in flames part could still happen.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/charge-against-susan-rice-may-stick-131506408.html
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Just from the first day KARL MAYER?s booth attracted a lot of visitors. ?Our stand at this fair is an interesting meeting point for the entire field of business, explained Marketing Director Tim Wollnik. ?Here we meet both our customers and a lot of potential buyers?.
No matter whether newcomers or already active market participants ? the visitors usually have very detailed issues and concerns, so that the topics of discussion are also very specific. For example, Martin K?ppers, Sales Vice President of the business unit Warp Preparation said: ?Every day we have about 36 very specific talks with our customers. During the meetings some of our clients from India, Bangladesh and Pakistan have already placed firm orders.?
The negotiations are mainly focused on direct warping machines, sectional warpers and sizing machines as well as on warp preparation units for the denim business.
In the sector of warp knitting machines it is especially Karl Mayer?s offer for the sari industry which is a complete success: the well-established HKS 3-M machine now operating at max. 2800 rpm and used for embroidery ground production along with the FL 20/16 machine for one-step manufacture straight on the warp knitting machine.
The combination of highest productivity and completely new manufacturing possibilities aroused great interest. The exhibited HKS 3-M has already been sold at the fair. This 3-bar tricot machine is certainly the highlight of the fair and a best seller. Moreover, Karl Mayer could also finalize numerous sales of other machines. There is a high willingness to invest in machines ? not only for the sari production. Thus, the Multibar Raschel machines are also an important topic.
Besides, the fact that the technical textiles get fresh impetus in India can be confirmed by Axel Wintermeyer. So far, the Sales Vice President of KARL MAYER?s business unit Technical Textiles and his team had a lot of interesting and specific discussions particularly on the topic of coating substrates. His guests mainly came from India and from the Middle East.
In other words: already by now KARL MAYER is very satisfied with its participation in this year?s India ITME. ?The fair was and is a complete success!?, said Tim Wollnik in conclusion.
Source: http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/textile-news/newsdetails.aspx?news_id=118747
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