Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review: Les Mis?rables -- In Your Face!

The long-awaited film adaptation of Les Mis?rables had a huge Christmas opening, raking in over $30 million since Christmas day and generating a considerable amount of Oscar buzz. One aspect of the film that has created a lot of curiosity is the fact that the singing by the film's actors (which includes Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, and Russell Crowe) was recorded live as the film was shot instead of the more traditional method of recording the vocals in a studio, then having the actors lip-synch it on camera.

With only a few exceptions, the lip-synching aspect of movie musicals has always annoyed me, so I had high hopes for this new technique, which involved the actors wearing tiny wireless earpieces so they could sing along with a piano player performing the music beyond earshot of filming. However, it seems that filming and recording singing this way resulted in a shooting style that made me feel like I was being attacked by giants trying to deafen me. Watch my ReThink Review of Les Mis?rables below (transcript following).

Transcript:

When I watch most movie musicals, I'm often distracted by the fact that I know I'm just watching lip-synching. That's not saying that the actors didn't actually sing the songs, but they did it in a studio, and what I'm watching is them singing along to that pre-recorded track. But Tom Hooper's version of Les Mis?rables has done something new by recording the actors actually singing on set as they listen to the music through tiny wireless earpieces. That means that when you see the actors singing on screen, you're actually seeing and hearing them sing. This should technically solve my lip-synching gripe, but it actually caused some other problems, which made Les Mis?rables, at over two and a half hours long, a tough movie to get through.

Based on the smash Broadway musical based on a five-volume novel by Victor Hugo, Les Mis?rables takes place in 19th century France and mostly follows Jean Valjean, a peasant played by Hugh Jackman who skips parole after being imprisoned for 19 years for stealing bread to feed a hungry child. He vows vengeance on his cruel prison guard, Javert (played by Russell Crowe), and heads to Paris where he manages to turn his life around, creating a new identity and becoming a respected factory owner.

But Javert, now an inspector, is still pursuing Valjean, complicating Valjean's efforts to be the adoptive father of a little girl named Cosette, the daughter of Fantine, one of Valjean's factory workers (played by Anne Hathaway) who dies after losing her job and turning to prostitution. Cosette eventually grows to be a teenager (played by Amanda Seyfried) and falls in love with a revolutionary named Marius (played by Eddie Redmayne) as the French Revolution gains steam. That's the main story, though there are lots of subplots and supporting characters.

The singing, for the most part, is good, with the exception of Crowe, who doesn't have a strong voice or a clear delivery and often seems to be struggling to get all the words out. But the real problem is the way the singing is shot, which I'm guessing has to do with the decision to record the singing live on set.

To preserve the actors' voices, many of the songs are shot in long takes, often with handheld cameras following the actors around so they wouldn't have to sing a song too many times. And to get good sound recordings, I'm guessing the production needed some serious microphones that would have to be pretty close to the actors. So to keep the microphones out of the shots, a lot of the singing is filmed in close-ups, with the microphones probably just out of frame.

The result is that for much of the movie, you have an actor's giant head belting out songs at high volume RIGHT IN YOUR FACE. This works a few times, particularly when Hathaway tearfully sings one of the musical's signature songs, "I Dreamed A Dream", and you see the true potential of this recording technique as you experience great singing paired with first-rate, close-up acting, which you don't get in live musicals due to the audience's distance from the actors.

But most of the time, it's more like giants yelling at you -- and remember, Les Mis is two and a half hours long and almost all the dialogue is sung. Near the end, when a character came on screen, I would say to myself, "Please don't sing. Please don't sing," which is not the reaction you'd hope for in a musical. Another side effect is that because of all of the close-ups, you often don't see actors reacting to each other in the same frame, and sometimes can't even tell where they are in relation to each other.

As I said, I'm not a big movie musical fan, and near the end of the film, a lot of women around me were sniffling. So maybe I'm just dead inside. But I feel like the makers of Les Mis?rables attempted to solve a problem few people other than myself even consider a problem, and by doing so, created more problems that made the movie unpleasant to watch.

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Argentina to court: revert order on debt holdouts

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) ? Argentina is asking a US appeals court to reverse an order for the country to pay $1.33 billion to "holdout" creditors who refused to join two swaps for the country's defaulted debt.

Argentine government lawyers said in papers filed late Friday that the order violates the country's sovereignty. The lawyers said the order also threatens service on at least $24 billion of the county's restructured sovereign debt, impairs the rights of third parties and puts global debt markets at risk.

"The Amended Injunctions have no basis in law, are inequitable, and threaten to wreak havoc on countless innocent third parties, which have already suffered losses due to the plunge in their bonds' value provoked by the insecurity that the Amended Injunctions have created in the market for Argentina's New York law-governed bonds," the briefing said.

"This harm to private and sovereign creditors, as well as to New York law and New York as a place to do business, will only grow if the Amended Injunctions are affirmed. "

The U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York ordered the country on Oct. 26 to pay the holdouts an equal amount whenever it makes payments on other debt that has been restructured since the country's economic collapse 11 years ago.

It agreed with U.S. District Judge Thomas Griesa, who ruled that with more than $40 billion in foreign reserves, Argentina can afford to pay. The ruling gave Argentina a difficult choice: pay all bondholders equally, or pay none of them and risk going into default.

The court then returned the case to Griesa who ordered Argentina to pay the $1.33 billion into escrow for holders of its defaulted debt and banned banks and other third parties from intervening. Griesa based his ruling on the principle of "pari passu," or equal footing, which says debtors can't pick and choose between creditors.

President Cristina Fernandez called Griesa's ruling "judicial colonialism," and Argentina sidestepped the impending economic chaos when the order was suspended by the appeals court on Nov. 28.

But just the threat of the payment deadline set by Griesa had harsh outcomes. In the week after he issued his order, the cost of maintaining Argentina's overall debt soared in trading on U.S. and European bond markets and the cost of insuring those debts spiked.

"A court can arguably enjoin a foreign state from engaging in a commercial activity within the United States. But it cannot issue an order to force or preclude a foreign sovereign to act or not act within the limits of that sovereign's own territory," Argentina's brief said.

"By dictating to Argentina that it cannot pay moneys it owes to the exchange bondholders in a funds transfer in its own country, and commanding that it make a payment (including via escrow) to holdout creditors that it is precluded from paying under its own laws, the Amended Injunctions violate this fundamental principle."

Argentina, however, said it's willing to make concessions. To end the lengthy dispute, government lawyers said the country is willing to ask Congress to give holdout creditors the same treatment as those who joined a 2010 debt swap.

"The only definitive and equitable solution to pari passu claims that would bring legal and economic certainty is to treat plaintiffs and all other similarly situated claimants equitably on the same terms as participants in (Argentina's) 2010 Exchange Offer," the brief said.

The new arguments are part of the final stage of Argentina's legal battle with NML Capital Ltd., the investment fund that brought the case and that specializes in suing over unpaid sovereign debts.

The US government filed an "amicus," or friends of the court brief, late Friday backing Argentina's request for a rehearing in the case citing that the appeals court order affects US-Argentina relations, threatens the solution of future debt crises and blocks the legal immunity given to a sovereign country. It also says that it potentially blemishes the role of New York as financial center.

Argentina tarnished its reputation worldwide by engaging in the biggest sovereign debt default in history a decade ago. Since then, the government has restructured about 92 percent of its world record $95 billion debt default.

But Fernandez refuses to pay the holdouts calling NML Capital and others "vulture funds" for buying debt for pennies on the dollar in 2002, when Argentina's economy was in ruins and now wanting to collect in full.

The fiery, center-left leader says it was their loss for refusing two opportunities to swap defaulted bonds for new, less valuable bonds that the state has reliably paid since 2005.

NML Capital fund, run by billionaire Paul Singer and other plaintiffs, slammed Argentina's arguments late on Friday.

"With more than $43 billion in foreign currency reserves and tens of billions of dollars in additional resources, Argentina has the overwhelming capacity to pay the $1.3 billion it owes in this matter," Peter Truell, spokesman for NML's parent company Elliott Management Corp., told the Associated Press in e-mail.

"Today's filing by the Republic once again demonstrates Argentina's irrational persistence in evading its contractual obligations and the orders of US courts."

Oral arguments in the case are scheduled for Feb. 27 before the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York.

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There?s A Difference Between Private And Personal

While most of us were enjoying the holidays with our families all over the world, someone who is related to the CEO of Facebook posted a photo of her family to friends, and then some journalist person downloaded it and tweeted it. There?s a real difference between something being private and something being personal. And that, as the aforementioned incident highlights, is a notion that a lot of people — including Randi Zuckerberg — have forgotten, online and off. What I mean by this is that just because you post something online, doesn?t mean it?s meant for public consumption. Yes, this all sounds very conflated, and yes, Facebook privacy controls are about as easy to understand as left-handed scissors for a right-handed person. However, somewhere in this slow news big news cycle, publications started to tell the story that said Facebook CEO’s sister clearly didn’t understand Facebook’s privacy controls. This is simply not true, because the photo wasn’t private, it was personal.?Allow me to explain the difference. Private As A Peacock Private: confined to or intended only for the persons immediately concerned; confidential: a private meeting If something is “private” in your mind, it’s probably not a good idea to share it on the Internet…anywhere. I don’t care what types of controls a social network gives you. There’s no such thing as full-on “privacy” on the Internet. Do you know what is private? A good-old-fashioned photo in a scrapbook, passed around one by one at the dinner table during the holidays. If you see someone try to pull out their phone to snap a photo for Instagram purposes, you can say “HEY! That’s private.” This can’t be done on the Internet. Once something is out there, it can be screen-shotted, captured and re-shared just as easily as it was uploaded in the first place. As we learned with Snapchat and Poke, those sexy private photos and videos aren’t really “private” either. I’m not even going to get into the difference between public and private, because I feel like that’s fairly obvious. Privacy is a lost art in humanity these days. We’re so used to sharing every darn thing that happens to us, myself included, that we have lost a sense of self, therefore leaving ourselves open to the shit show that ensued during the boringest news week of the century. No matter what Randi Zuckerberg said after the fact, people

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5 Big Discoveries About Personal Effectiveness in 2012 ...

The science of self-improvement never ceases. Every year brings dozens of new quirky findings about how to be more effective, whether in managing our time, being more creative or just getting things done. Here are some of the highlights for me from 2012.

1. You don?t know yourself as well as you think

We think we know ourselves best, but more and more evidence is surfacing to the contrary. This raises an interesting challenge for employers who solely base their hiring decisions on self-reported questionnaires. Psychologist Timothy Wilson proposes that to really know someone, you have to ask others to evaluate you. It turns out that how you see yourself and how other people see you are only very modestly correlated.

In his book, Strangers to Ourselves, Wilson talks a lot about the adaptive unconscious. He tells us that much of what we do lives in the unconscious and therefore we cannot detect it ourselves. Things like what we think, feel, and want become unnoticeable. Now of course, if you?ve ever practiced mindfulness, or have ever self-reflected, some of the unnoticed start to surface and we gain insights, but more often than not, a lot of information goes unnoticed.

This is why one might have a hard time understanding why things go wrong. Given that we aren?t completely conscious of what we were doing, we tend to blame others for our mistakes. In order to gain better insight into ourselves, we need help getting the right answers. It turns out that other people's assessment of your personality predicts your behavior better than your own assessment would. So instead of thinking you already know everything about yourself, stop for a minute, and ask someone else.

2. Have a problem? Distract yourself from it

It?s already known that in order to gain an insight, your brain has to be in a quiet state, but new research by Neuroscientist?David Creswell?from Carnegie Mellon sheds light on the phenomenon of how and why it can be valuable to come back to a problem, after a brief moment of distraction.

Creswell explored what happens in the brain when people tackle problems that are too big for their conscious mind to solve. He made three groups of people think about purchasing an imaginary car based on multiple wants and needs. One group had to choose immediately?this group didn?t do so well at optimizing their decision. The second group had time to try to consciously pick the best car? yet their choices weren?t much better. The last group was given the task, then given a distracter task?something that didn?t require lots of mental energy, but still held their conscious attention, allowing for their non-conscious to keep working on the problem. Results showed this group did significantly better than the others at optimizing their decision.

FMRI scans also showed something interesting happening with the third group. According to Creswell, the brain regions that were active during the initial learning of the problem, continued to be active (we call this?unconscious neural reactivation) even while the brain was distracted with another task.?

In short, when trying to solve a complex task, people who were distracted after first tackling the problem did better than people who put in conscious effort.?(More information can be found in my previous blog.)

3. We?re more creativity when thinking about others

Creativity in the business world is increasingly important. Creativity often involves viewing things from different perspectives. New findings show that we are more creative when we think of others solving problems instead of ourselves.

To test this, professors Evan Polman and Kyle Emich presented 137 undergraduates with this riddle: ??A prisoner was attempting to escape from a tower. He found a rope in his cell that was half as long enough to permit him to reach the ground safely. He divided the rope in half, tied the two parts together, and escaped. How could he have done this??

Half the participants were asked to imagine themselves as the prisoner locked inside the tower (we?ll call them the ?prisoner group?) and the other half were asked to imagine someone else trapped in the prison (?imaginary group?). In the prisoner group, 48% of participants solved the riddle, but in the imaginary group, 66% were able to solve the riddle. In a second experiment, the same professors asked participants to draw an alien that someone else might use to write about in a short story. In a third, participants had to come up with gift ideas for themselves, someone close to them, and someone they barely knew.

In the results across all three experiments, Polman and Emich found that participants were more creative or had better solutions when thinking for someone else. This is an intriguing finding with many implications and applications for creative problem solving. Just try to imagine someone else coming up with good ideas for using this finding?

4. It?s not napping, it?s constructive rest

We live in a time when where more people are staying connected on vacations. People have forgotten how important it is for your mind to rejuvenate. Research shows that naps improve productivity?a growing body of evidence shows that?taking regular breaks?from mental tasks improves productivity and creativity ? and that skipping breaks can lead to stress and exhaustion.

(I?ll be right back?zZz)

John P. Trougakos, an assistant management professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough and the Rotman School of Management, compares the brain to any other muscle in the body. Similarly to how muscles become fatigued after repeated and sustained use, so does the brain after sustained mental exertion.? The brain needs a rest period before it can recover he explains.

There is no need to take a break if you?re on a roll though, Trougakos advises. For some people, working over an extended period can be revitalizing?you get into a zone. It is only when you?re forcing yourself to go on that you should stop.

Research from the University of Notre Dame even shows that sleeping shortly after learning new information is the most beneficial for recall.

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New Years Eve can get a little crazy, and if you try to wish everyone you know luck for 2013 just as as the ball drops, you will fail. Hammering out dozens of messages on your phone with your clumsy midnight fingers over clogged data airwaves will not work. Sorry. More »

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What we learned about humanity in 2012

The controversial extinct human lineage known as "hobbits" gained a face this year, one of many projects that shed light in 2012 on the history of modern humans and their relatives. Other discoveries include the earliest known controlled use of fire and the possibility that Neanderthals or other extinct human lineages once sailed to the Mediterranean.

Here's a look at what we learned about ourselves through our ancestors this year.

We're not alone

A trove of discoveries this year revealed a host of other extinct relatives of modern humans. For instance, researchers unearthed 3.4-million-year-old fossils of a hitherto unknown species that lived about the same time and place as Australopithecus afarensis, a leading candidate for the ancestor of the human lineage. In addition, fossils between 1.78 million and 1.95 million years old discovered in 2007 and 2009 in northern Kenya suggest that at least two extinct human species lived alongside Homo erectus, a direct ancestor of our species. Moreover, fossils only between 11,500 and 14,500 years old hint that a previously unknown type of human called the "Red Deer Cave People" once lived in China.

Bones were not all that scientists revealed about modern humans' extinct relatives in 2012. For instance, scientists finally put a face on the hobbit, a nickname for a controversial human lineage. Anthropologist Susan Hayes at the University of Wollongong in Australia reconstructed the appearance of the 3-foot (1-meter) tall, 30-year-old female member of the extinct humans officially known as Homo floresiensis, which were first discovered on the remote Indonesian island of Flores in 2003. [Image Gallery: A Real Life 'Hobbit']

DNA extracted from a recently discovered extinct human lineage known as the Denisovans ? close relatives of Neanderthals ? also revealed new details about this group, which once interbred with modern humans. The Denisovan genome that was sequenced belonged to a little girl with dark skin, brown hair and brown eyes, and displayed about 100,000 recent changes in our genome that occurred after the split from the Denisovans. A number of these changes influenced genes linked with brain function and nervous system development, leading to speculation that we may think differently from the Denisovans.

Genetic analysis also suggested the only modern humans whose ancestors did not interbreed with Neanderthals were apparently sub-Saharan Africans. These findings are just one tidbit regarding the closest extinct relatives of modern humans that was revealed this year. Scientists also found that the unusually powerful right arms of Neanderthals might not have been due to a spear-hunting life as was previously suggested, but rather one often spent scraping animal skins for clothes and shelters. Archaeologists also suggested that Neanderthals and other extinct human lineages might have been ancient mariners, venturing to the Mediterranean Islands millennia before researchers think modern humans arrived at the isles.

Humans' tool use

Ancient artifacts revealed this year also have shown how tool use has helped humanity reshape the world ? and perhaps inadvertently reshape humanity as well.

For instance, ash and charred bone, the earliest known evidence of controlled use of fire, reveal that human ancestors may have used fire 1 million years ago, 300,000 years earlier than thought, suggesting that human ancestors as early as Homo erectus may have begun using fire as part of their way of life. Controlled fires and cooked meat may have influenced human brain evolution, allowing our ancestors to evolve to have larger, more calorie-hungry brains and bodies.

Discoveries involving ancient weapons also revealed that humans learned to make and use these tools far earlier than scientists thought. For instance, what may be ancient stone arrowheads or lethal tools for hurling spearssuggest humans innovated relatively advanced weapons about 70,000 years ago, while a University of Toronto-led team of anthropologists found evidence that humans in South Africa used stone-tipped weapons for hunting 500,000 years ago, which is 200,000 years earlier than previously suggested.

Even the seemingly innocuous discovery this year of the first direct signs of cheesemaking from 7,500-year-old potsherds from Poland might help reveal how animal milk dramatically shaped the genetics of Europe. Most of the world, including the ancestors of modern Europeans, is lactose intolerant, unable to digest the milk sugar lactose as adults. However, while cheese is a dairy product, it is relatively low in lactose. Transforming milk into a product such as cheese that is friendlier to lactose-intolerant people might have helped promote the development of dairying among the first farmers of Europe. The presence of dairying over many generations may then, in turn, have set the stage for the evolution of lactase tolerance in Europe. As such, while cheese might just seem to be a topping on pizza or a companion to wine, it might have changed Western digestive capabilities.

Other clues regarding the diet of ancient relatives also emerged. For example, 2-million-year-old fossils suggest humans' immediate ancestor may have lived off a woodland diet of leaves, fruits and bark, instead of a menu based on the open savanna, as other extinct relatives of humanity did. In addition, fragments of a 1.5-million-year-old skull from a child recently found in Tanzania suggest that later members of the human lineage weren't just occasional carnivores but regular meat eaters, findings that help build the case that meat-eating helped the human lineage evolve large brains.

Humans still evolving

When it comes to the future of humanity, research this year added to accumulating evidence that natural forces of evolution continue to shape humanity. Church records of nearly 6,000 Finns born between 1760 and 1849 showed that despite humans radically altering their environments with behavior such as farming, human patterns of survival and reproduction were comparable with those of other species.

One researcher at Stanford University has even suggested that humans are getting dumber over time, having lost the evolutionary pressure to be smart once we started living in densely populated settlements several millennia ago. However, other scientists dispute this notion, pointing at geniuses such as Stephen Hawking, and suggest that rather than losing our intelligence, people have diversified, resulting in a number of different types of smarts today.

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Internet Marketing Search Engine Optimization SEM SEO service ...

Some business ventures will go on to become gigantic like Wal-Mart, while others remain little mom-n-pop shops. Most do not become either and just fade away. New enterprises are known for an astonishing failure ratio, which is particularly the case when it comes to online entities. Avoid failure by using these great marketing tips.

Giving yourself a title will show your importance. For example, if you own your business consider making yourself the CEO. For people who are not business owners, think up an original title that makes you an authority in your field. When signing emails and article, put your name and title in them.

If your ads are on popular sites on the Internet you will get more traffic. Having your brand recognized can be a powerful way to increase your business success. Make sure to find a page that has a lot of traffic during the course of the day, to get your product name into the minds of a lot of potential customers.

Internet marketing will go more smoothly for you if you create a viral video. Don?t forget to put a link leading to your site in the video?s description. This can help improve your daily traffic in an effort to boost sales.

Try to get inside the brain of your customers when creating your website. If you can offer customers what they expect, your marketing efforts are likely to be more rewarding. Also do not be afraid to solicit objective opinions from customers. Seek the critique of a trusted friend, or ask for comments on a relevant forum. Do your research, make notes, and develop a website that will truly help people.

Banners on your site should look less like banners and more like part of the site. Ideally, you want to have ad banners that appear to be links to more content instead of off-site advertisements. Most experienced Internet users ignore banners automatically, so a little bit of artistry can make them more effective.

Creating public relations pages on your website is a great idea that will help further engage readers with your company. You can include content with articles that could be used for magazines, newspapers and online. This will be a wonderful yet simple strategy to get your name out there.

Design your website according to the best web design principles and fill it with valuable content. The way you build your website is going to reflect how customers receive you. You have to make it good so that it will convince visitors to stay. You can design your site to keep interest high and encourage customers to browse all the features you offer.

Be as detailed as you can when you are building a website. Your goal is to tell your customers what they need to know about the products they?re looking at in as few words as possible. Don?t include useless information, and avoid repetition.

Viral videos can be an enormous help for generating traffic. With just a little creativity and the ability to stretch your imagination, you can put together a video that spans the globe and draws a plethora of visitors. But if you can do it correctly, it will have far more impact on sales than any other type of campaign.

You need a mailing list or a newsletter of every single client. Have a subscription page on your site, or ask people for their email addresses when they buy something. You can find this info at a later date to communicate any deals you may have, or communicate with them.

Try to make banner ads you design look unique and unlike normal banner ads. The more appealing and original your banner ad appears, the more people you?ll have clicking on it.

Real-time leads are necessary if you are looking to increase sales. They are perfect because you can immediately see who is looking at your products. If there is little delay from the time they submit a query to the time they receive a response, the likelihood of a sale is greatly increased.

Whenever you send an email to your customers, it should contain a powerful call to action. Buying services, visiting web pages or subscribing to certain magazines are a few ways that your clients can be engaged. The important thing is to have an action you?d like them to take. These particular actions can all be traced back to the customer so you have a clear understanding of how your email marketing is helping your business.

Here?s some internet marketing advice that may help you out. Have a clear and stated goal on the front page of your site. Your goal here is to sell your product; nothing else. When a viewer sees your landing page they should have a clear understanding of what you have to offer. If your site confuses visitors, they?ll just click away from it.

Building trust with your clients and keeping that going is one of the most important things that you can do. When you design promotional material, only include information that can be backed up with facts. Only use statistics and endorsements that you can prove are valid.

You can make a great impression by including a banner showing your business name, mission statement or slogan. Banners are generally displayed along the top of a website or just under the title. This gives a professional and official look to your website and gives your audience a clear idea of what you?re all about. This will allow you to highlight your products and services.

People respect those in power. Let them know you?re the boss and this will add a lot of credibility when selling a product. You can refer to yourself as the ?President? or ?CEO? of your company.

Internet marketing and traditional marketing are similar in some ways, but they also differ in many ways, too. Maybe search engines won?t focus as much on title tags in the future. If the search engines do implement a major change, you need to be ready to alter your campaigns to include techniques such as video marketing.

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Can your smartphone see through walls? Engineers make tiny, low-cost, terahertz imager chip

Dec. 10, 2012 ? A secret agent is racing against time. He knows a bomb is nearby. He rounds a corner, spots a pile of suspicious boxes in the alleyway, and pulls out his cell phone. As he scans it over the packages, their contents appear onscreen. In the nick of time, his handy smartphone application reveals an explosive device, and the agent saves the day.

Sound far-fetched? In fact it is a real possibility, thanks to tiny inexpensive silicon microchips developed by a pair of electrical engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). The chips generate and radiate high-frequency electromagnetic waves, called terahertz (THz) waves, that fall into a largely untapped region of the electromagnetic spectrum -- between microwaves and far-infrared radiation -- and that can penetrate a host of materials without the ionizing damage of X-rays.

When incorporated into handheld devices, the new microchips could enable a broad range of applications in fields ranging from homeland security to wireless communications to health care, and even touchless gaming. In the future, the technology may lead to noninvasive cancer diagnosis, among other applications.

"Using the same low-cost, integrated-circuit technology that's used to make the microchips found in our cell phones and notepads today, we have made a silicon chip that can operate at nearly 300 times their speed," says Ali Hajimiri, the Thomas G. Myers Professor of Electrical Engineering at Caltech. "These chips will enable a new generation of extremely versatile sensors."

Hajimiri and postdoctoral scholar Kaushik Sengupta (PhD '12) describe the work in the December issue of IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits.

Researchers have long touted the potential of the terahertz frequency range, from 0.3 to 3 THz, for scanning and imaging. Such electromagnetic waves can easily penetrate packaging materials and render image details in high resolution, and can also detect the chemical fingerprints of pharmaceutical drugs, biological weapons, or illegal drugs or explosives. However, most existing terahertz systems involve bulky and expensive laser setups that sometimes require exceptionally low temperatures. The potential of terahertz imaging and scanning has gone untapped because of the lack of compact, low-cost technology that can operate in the frequency range.

To finally realize the promise of terahertz waves, Hajimiri and Sengupta used complementary metal-oxide semiconductor, or CMOS, technology, which is commonly used to make the microchips in everyday electronic devices, to design silicon chips with fully integrated functionalities and that operate at terahertz frequencies -- but fit on a fingertip.

"This extraordinary level of creativity, which has enabled imaging in the terahertz frequency range, is very much in line with Caltech's long tradition of innovation in the area of CMOS technology," says Ares Rosakis, chair of Caltech's Division of Engineering and Applied Science. "Caltech engineers, like Ali Hajimiri, truly work in an interdisciplinary way to push the boundaries of what is possible."

The new chips boast signals more than a thousand times stronger than existing approaches, and emanate terahertz signals that can be dynamically programmed to point in a specified direction, making them the world's first integrated terahertz scanning arrays.

Using the scanner, the researchers can reveal a razor blade hidden within a piece of plastic, for example, or determine the fat content of chicken tissue. "We are not just talking about a potential. We have actually demonstrated that this works," says Hajimiri. "The first time we saw the actual images, it took our breath away."

Hajimiri and Sengupta had to overcome multiple hurdles to translate CMOS technology into workable terahertz chips -- including the fact that silicon chips are simply not designed to operate at terahertz frequencies. In fact, every transistor has a frequency, known as the cut-off frequency, above which it fails to amplify a signal -- and no standard transistors can amplify signals in the terahertz range.

To work around the cut-off-frequency problem, the researchers harnessed the collective strength of many transistors operating in unison. If multiple elements are operated at the right times at the right frequencies, their power can be combined, boosting the strength of the collective signal.

"We came up with a way of operating transistors above their cut-off frequencies," explains Sengupta. "We are about 40 or 50 percent above the cut-off frequencies, and yet we are able to generate a lot of power and detect it because of our novel methodologies."

"Traditionally, people have tried to make these technologies work at very high frequencies, with large elements producing the power. Think of these as elephants," says Hajimiri. "Nowadays we can make a very large number of transistors that individually are not very powerful, but when combined and working in unison, can do a lot more. If these elements are synchronized -- like an army of ants -- they can do everything that the elephant does and then some."

The researchers also figured out how to radiate, or transmit, the terahertz signal once it has been produced. At such high frequencies, a wire cannot be used, and traditional antennas at the microchip scale are inefficient. What they came up with instead was a way to turn the whole silicon chip into an antenna. Again, they went with a distributed approach, incorporating many small metal segments onto the chip that can all be operated at a certain time and strength to radiate the signal en masse.

"We had to take a step back and ask, 'Can we do this in a different way?'" says Sengupta. "Our chips are an example of the kind of innovations that can be unearthed if we blur the partitions between traditional ways of thinking about integrated circuits, electromagnetics, antennae, and the applied sciences. It is a holistic solution."

IBM helped with chip fabrication for this work.

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Colorized Launches To Help iPhone Users Turn Any Photo Into Social Sketches

If Instagram and Draw Something had a baby, it would be Colorized. The iPhone app, which is developed by startup Happiness Engines, allows people to upload and turn photos into sketches, which they can actually draw on and color, remix and share.

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Dwayne Johnson Confirmed for Hercules

We learned earlier this year that Dwayne Johnson has indeed struck a deal to headline Hercules, an adaptation of Radical Comics? Hercules: The Thracian Wars (written by Steve Moore and illustrated by Admira Wijaya). The film is going to be directed by Brett Ratner and co-produced by Peter Berg (director of Hancock and Battleship), who originally had plans to sit at the helm before Ratner came aboard.

Johnson was confirmed for Anthony and Joe Russo?s Ciudad graphic novel adaptation at the same time reports emerged about him committing to Hercules (which came a few weeks after initial reports that talks had begun). It now appears that Ratner will begin production on his ancient world epic early next year, around the same time the Russo brothers start shooting?Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Deadline has the exclusive about Hercules getting an official greenlight, with MGM and Paramount joining forces to co-produce the venture. Ratner has been tapped to direct since he dropped out of the Conan the Barbarian reboot (that turned out to be a wise move), but his reputation as a filmmaker hasn?t improved much over the past five years ? or, rather, not since the one-two punch of X-Men: The Last Stand and Rush Hour 3 (that?s despite his last movie, Tower Heist, earning a respectable critical response).

Johnson, by comparison, has returned to full-fledged action star status, beginning with?Faster?back in 2010; though, a larger audience didn?t follow until he appeared in?Fast Five?last year. ?The Rock? should make an appearance in no less than five films due to hit theaters next year, including the crime-thriller?Snitch,?G.I. Joe: Retaliation?(now enhanced with?3D and more Channing Tatum), the true-story crime flicks?Pain & Gain?and?Empire State, as well as?Fast and the Furious 6.

Ratner may be an easy (and, admittedly, somewhat deserving) target for fan rage over his previous directorial efforts; not to mention, having Berg as the director would?ve inspired more confidence right off the bat. Nonetheless,?Johnson has the perfect combination of charisma and physical prowess to carry a decently-written version of the Hercules myth.

Dwayne Johnson in ?Fast Five?

Hercules is also a far cry from Johnson?s previous forays into the sword & sandals sub-genre, with The Scorpion King and Mummy Returns. Moore and Wijaya?s comic book is renowned as a pretty faithful retelling of the Hercules mythology, picking up with the son of Zeus after he completes his famous twelve labors and becomes a mercenary interested in little more than getting paid (and wreaking bloody havoc on the battlefield).

The adapted script was penned by?Ryan Condal, who co-wrote Alex Proyas? axed Paradise Lost; subsequent revisions were handled by?Evan Spiliotopoulos, who we?ve heard also did some uncredited work on Snow White and the Huntsman (he is also scripting the developing Asteroids movie).?Here is a proper description of Moore and Wijaya?s The Thracian Wars:

Nearly 3,200 years ago, a tormented soul walked the Earth as neither man nor god: Hercules, powerful son of the god-king Zeus, and for this he received nothing but suffering. After 12 arduous labors and the loss of his family, this dark, world-weary soul turned his back on the gods, finding solace only in bloody battle. Over the years, he warmed to the company of six similar souls, bonded by their love of fighting and the presence of death never questioning where they go or who they fight, just how much they will be paid. Now the King of Thrace has hired these mercenaries to turn his men into the greatest army of all time, which means training them to be as bloodthirsty and ruthless as their own reputation. It is time for this band of lost souls to finally have their eyes opened to how far they have fallen and the narrow, perilous path to their own redemption.

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Pond skating insects reveal water-walking secrets

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This month's special issue of Physics World is devoted to animal physics, and includes science writer Stephen Ornes explanation of how pond skaters effortlessly skip across water leaving nothing but a small ripple in their wake.

As Ornes writes, our current understanding of the mechanisms adopted by the pond skater is down to the efforts of David Hu, who as a mathematics graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology spent four years studying their behaviour.

Hu, along with his PhD supervisor John Bush, found that pond skaters use the middle of their three pairs of legs to "row" across the water. When a rowing boat's oar slices the water, it creates swirling vortices just beneath the surface that twist away from the boat and move it forwards the same vortices are created by tiny hairs that cover the pond skater's legs.

The hairs are the only part of the insect's body that penetrate the water and are covered in a waxy substance that keeps water out by allowing bubbles to attach to them. The hairs have subsequently drawn the attention of materials scientists looking for a permanent waterproofing material that doesn't wash off.

The pond skater (also known as the water strider) is one of a tiny proportion of insects around 0.1 per cent that are able to stand and move on water. They stay afloat thanks to their small weight and the surface tension of water acting like a skin; however, according to Newton's third law of motion, the pond skater must push against something to move forward, which is fairly tricky when the only thing available is water.

Previous theories had suggested that pond skaters created tiny ripples known as "capillary waves" with their legs which subsequently propelled them across water, but as biologist Mark Denny pointed out in 1993, this couldn't be the case as infant pond skaters cannot move their legs faster than the phase speed of the capillary waves a feat necessary to create them.

Hu and Bush came to their conclusions by filming a group of pond skaters using high-speed cameras as they moved across a body of water filled with colourful floating particles this helped identify the swirling vortices that were being created.

David Hu from Georgia Institute of Technology's "laboratory for biolocomotion" will present a special online lecture at 3.00 p.m. GMT on Thursday 8 November 2012, which can be viewed by registering at http://physicsworld.com.

Also in this issue:

• Meet the creatures with superpowers -- a set of stunning full-page photos of animals that use physics in quirky ways, including the mantis shrimp, the peacock and the Namib Desert beetle
• Why lions roar like babies cry -- vocal scientist Professor Ingo Titze explains what these two sounds have in common and why they're so hard to ignore
• How the zebra got his stripes -- the stripy hides of these animals might have evolved to deter biting flies, which prefer all-white or all-black patterns
• Lapping it up -- cats appear to drink more elegantly than dogs, but their drinking mechanisms have more in common than their owners might like to think
• Fly away home -- how birds navigate using physics-related techniques based on geomagnetism, celestial mechanics, light and sound
• Riding raindrops -- how do mosquitos survive being hit by raindrops more than 50 times their own bodyweight, which is equivalent to a human being hit by a black cab?
• Vespan voltage -- how the humble hornet uses its in-built solar cell to generate electricity

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Contact: Michael Bishop
michael.bishop@iop.org
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Institute of Physics

This month's special issue of Physics World is devoted to animal physics, and includes science writer Stephen Ornes explanation of how pond skaters effortlessly skip across water leaving nothing but a small ripple in their wake.

As Ornes writes, our current understanding of the mechanisms adopted by the pond skater is down to the efforts of David Hu, who as a mathematics graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology spent four years studying their behaviour.

Hu, along with his PhD supervisor John Bush, found that pond skaters use the middle of their three pairs of legs to "row" across the water. When a rowing boat's oar slices the water, it creates swirling vortices just beneath the surface that twist away from the boat and move it forwards the same vortices are created by tiny hairs that cover the pond skater's legs.

The hairs are the only part of the insect's body that penetrate the water and are covered in a waxy substance that keeps water out by allowing bubbles to attach to them. The hairs have subsequently drawn the attention of materials scientists looking for a permanent waterproofing material that doesn't wash off.

The pond skater (also known as the water strider) is one of a tiny proportion of insects around 0.1 per cent that are able to stand and move on water. They stay afloat thanks to their small weight and the surface tension of water acting like a skin; however, according to Newton's third law of motion, the pond skater must push against something to move forward, which is fairly tricky when the only thing available is water.

Previous theories had suggested that pond skaters created tiny ripples known as "capillary waves" with their legs which subsequently propelled them across water, but as biologist Mark Denny pointed out in 1993, this couldn't be the case as infant pond skaters cannot move their legs faster than the phase speed of the capillary waves a feat necessary to create them.

Hu and Bush came to their conclusions by filming a group of pond skaters using high-speed cameras as they moved across a body of water filled with colourful floating particles this helped identify the swirling vortices that were being created.

David Hu from Georgia Institute of Technology's "laboratory for biolocomotion" will present a special online lecture at 3.00 p.m. GMT on Thursday 8 November 2012, which can be viewed by registering at http://physicsworld.com.

Also in this issue:

• Meet the creatures with superpowers -- a set of stunning full-page photos of animals that use physics in quirky ways, including the mantis shrimp, the peacock and the Namib Desert beetle
• Why lions roar like babies cry -- vocal scientist Professor Ingo Titze explains what these two sounds have in common and why they're so hard to ignore
• How the zebra got his stripes -- the stripy hides of these animals might have evolved to deter biting flies, which prefer all-white or all-black patterns
• Lapping it up -- cats appear to drink more elegantly than dogs, but their drinking mechanisms have more in common than their owners might like to think
• Fly away home -- how birds navigate using physics-related techniques based on geomagnetism, celestial mechanics, light and sound
• Riding raindrops -- how do mosquitos survive being hit by raindrops more than 50 times their own bodyweight, which is equivalent to a human being hit by a black cab?
• Vespan voltage -- how the humble hornet uses its in-built solar cell to generate electricity

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Please mention Physics World as the source of these items and, if publishing online, please include a hyperlink to: http://physicsworld.com

Notes for editors:

1. Physics World is the international monthly magazine published by the Institute of Physics. For further information or details of its editorial programme, please contact the editor, Dr Matin Durrani, tel +44 (0)117 930 1002. The magazine's website physicsworld.com is updated regularly and contains physics news, views and resources. Visit http://physicsworld.com.

2. For copies of the articles reviewed here contact Michael Bishop, IOP press officer, tel +44 (0)11 7930 1032, e-mail michael.bishop@iop.org

3. The Institute of Physics is a leading scientific society promoting physics and bringing physicists together for the benefit of all.

It has a worldwide membership of around 40,000 comprising physicists from all sectors, as well as those with an interest in physics. It works to advance physics research, application and education; and engages with policymakers and the public to develop awareness and understanding of physics. Its publishing company, IOP Publishing, is a world leader in professional scientific communications. Visit http://www.iop.org

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Internet security innovation could eradicate online fraud

Online fraudsters worldwide are set to be foiled following an e-crime breakthrough by academics.

Physicists at the University of Strathclyde and Heriot-Watt University have developed a way of using light particles to verify internet transactions.

The team ? including Strathclyde?s Dr John Jeffers ? believe their discovery could help tackle the huge burden of e-crime, which is estimated to cost ?205 million in the UK retail sector alone.?Dr Jeffers said: ?The systems which currently underpin the security and authentication of internet transactions - founded on complex mathematical formulae - can be cracked and are therefore vulnerable to e-crime, such as fraud.? Our research represents a major breakthrough by demonstrating - via the laws of quantum physics - how the security of online transactions and communications can be virtually guaranteed."?

The study, published with free open access in the journal Nature Communications,shows how the fundamental particles of light ? known as photons ? can be used to verify the security and authenticity of any transaction or communication with a ?digital signature?.

Currently, ?digital signatures? underpin internet shopping, electronic banking, electronic voting and many software updates. Whenever the padlock symbol is displayed in a web browser, digital signatures are in use.

However, with traditional online security, these signatures are based on mathematical formulae and can be cracked, potentially leading to fraud and other online security breaches. Quantum digital signatures use a different approach which guarantees the authenticity and origin of messages.

Professor Gerald Buller, of Heriot-Watt University, said: ?Computer virus attacks have shown that ?signatures? or specific codes can be hijacked, potentially causing chaos with systems being crippled, accounts hacked, and industry and consumers losing millions of pounds. Our new approach, using quantum mechanics rather than just maths to create signatures for multiple recipients (or customers), and could make hacking, fraud and theft near-impossible.?

Recent estimates place the value of 2011 online UK retail sales at a minimum of ?25 billion, according to the Office of National Statistics, and as high as ?50 billion, the Centre for Retail Research suggested.

E-crime is the biggest emerging threat to the retail sector, according to the British Retail Consortium?s recent report. Launching this study in August, BRC Director General Stephen Robertson said: ?The rapid growth of e-commerce in the UK shows it offers great benefits for customers but also new opportunities for criminals...resources must be directed to e-crime in line with the emerging threat. This will encourage retailers to report more offences and allow the police to better identify and combat new threats.?

Quantum-based secure signatures mean that an ?eavesdropper? ? a malevolent third party listening in ? cannot fake a signed message which is being sent to multiple recipients. The technology works in the following way:

• The sender writes the signature with encoded light particles and sends it to the receiver
• The receiver cannot yet read the signature. However, it can be sure it received an authentic signature
• To confirm a message is authentic and to also read it, the receiver has to receive both the message (the ?signature?) plus additional information required to decipher it
• The multiple receivers confirm that they have received identical signatures - only then does the sender provide the additional information required to read the signature
• This process takes place without the user (e.g. a shopper) being required to do anything differently to current security methods.

The research was funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.

Source: http://www.strath.ac.uk/press/newsreleases/headline_668619_en.html

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Meet the Company Spam-Texting Against Barack Obama (Atlantic Politics Channel)

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Thunder send sixth man Harden to Rockets

Unable to work out an extension with James Harden, the Oklahoma City Thunder traded the Sixth Man of the Year to the Houston Rockets on Saturday night, breaking up the young core of the Western Conference champions.

The Thunder acquired guards Kevin Martin and Jeremy Lamb, two first-round picks and a second-round pick in the surprising deal. Oklahoma City also sent center Cole Aldrich and forwards Daequan Cook and Lazar Hayward to Houston.

The Oct. 31 deadline to extend Harden or allow him to become a restricted free agent next July had been hanging over the Thunder from the moment they reported to training camp.

"We wanted to sign James to an extension, but at the end of the day, these situations have to work for all those involved. Our ownership group again showed their commitment to the organization with several significant offers," Thunder general manager Sam Presti said in a statement.

"We were unable to reach a mutual agreement, and therefore executed a trade that capitalized on the opportunity to bring in a player of Kevin's caliber, a young talent like Jeremy and draft picks, which will be important to our organizational goal of a sustainable team."

The small-market Thunder had already signed Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and Serge Ibaka to long-term deals, and apparently realized Harden was going to want a bigger salary than they would offer.

The Thunder got back a good scorer in Martin, who has averaged 18.4 points in his eight NBA seasons, and a promising young player in Lamb, the No. 12 pick in the draft who helped Connecticut win the 2011 NCAA championship. He led Houston's summer league team in scoring with 20 points per game.

But Harden was a huge part of Oklahoma City's success and had said he might even be open to sacrifice dollars in order to stay with the Thunder. But they've been unwilling to climb into the luxury tax, which will only become harsher under the new collective bargaining agreement.

Harden averaged 16.8 points and 3.7 assists last season, and joined Durant and Westbrook on the U.S. men's Olympic team. He struggled badly in Oklahoma City's loss to Miami in the NBA Finals, but the Thunder felt good about their chances of getting back there with another year of experience for their young stars, all 24 or younger.

However, Yahoo Sports reported that Harden turned down a four-year contract worth about $52 million, and the Thunder moved quickly to trade him after that.

The Rockets rebuilt their roster in the offseason and hoped to land Dwight Howard. Houston traded or released just about every veteran except Martin, who was in the final year of his contract and due about $13 million this season.

Martin averaged 17.1 points and 2.8 assists last season, his eighth in the NBA and third in Houston. He missed the last 26 games last season with a shoulder injury, though he also developed a rift with Houston coach Kevin McHale late in the season.

The Rockets have until Wednesday to sign Harden to the extension that Oklahoma City couldn't.

"While I never like having to send out quality players like Kevin Martin and Jeremy Lamb, this trade gives us a chance to make an immediate impact on the future of our franchise moving forward," Rockets owner Leslie Alexander said.

"James Harden was part of Team USA's gold medal team at the London Olympics and is one of the most skilled shooting guards in the NBA."

New Rockets point guard Jeremy Lin also chimed in about the trade on Twitter.

"Really sad to see Kmart and JLamb go," Lin wrote. "...both class acts and great teammates. Welcome Harden, Cook, Aldrich and Hayward to Houston!!"

Houston collected draft picks while it was making a flurry of deals, part of a package to offer Orlando for Howard. The Rockets traded point guard Kyle Lowry to Toronto for a lottery-protected first-round pick, one of Oklahoma City's acquisitions on Saturday night.

The other first-round pick was acquired by Houston when it traded Jordan Hill to the Los Angeles Lakers last March. The second-round pick came to the Rockets in a deal that sent guard Courtney Lee to Boston.

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AP Sports Writer Chris Duncan in Houston contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/thunder-send-sixth-man-harden-rockets-031251957--spt.html

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Baby Girl on the Way for Lisa Ling

TV journalist Lisa Ling announced that she and her husband, physician and biotech firm president Paul Song, are expecting a little girl.

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Sprint sells 1.5 million iPhones, 1 million other smartphones, but makes a net loss of $767 million

Sprint's latest financials show that while the network is slowly stemming the flow of cash from its veins, it's not quite there in terms of turning a profit. The country's third biggest carrier suffered a $767 million net loss and an operating loss of $231 million -- much less than the $629 million operating loss it had in Q2, but on-par with the $208 million lost in the same period last year. The business did manage to bring in total revenues of $8.8 billion, but had to take a hit on a $397 million write-down on costs related to Network Vision and the continued pain of the Nextel shutdown.

On the customer size, it added a further 900,000 users, sold 1.5 million iPhones and a further 1 million "LTE smartphones" in the quarter. Those with long memories will know that the company sold the same number of Apple handsets in the last two quarters, with around 40 percent going to new customers then as now. However, churn, the deadly enemy of all carriers, increased to 1.88 percent, up from 1.69 percent in Q2. The network did manage to coax 59 percent of former Nextel customers to stay tied up with Big Yellow, which may account for it selling nearly 1.2 million Direct Connect devices. While it's hardly a rosy estimation of Sprint's financial health, this report doesn't take into account Softbank's $20.1 billion buy-out or the regained controlling stake in Clearwire -- so we're expecting the next financial announcement to contain some more exciting news.

Update: During the conference call, Dan Hesse was asked about adopting a shared data plan to rival Verizon and AT&T, but unlike the last call, he was dismissive of the idea.

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