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The Connection : It's 'A Good Day to Die Hard' for long running series
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Cody Durham, Sports Editor
February 28, 2013
Filed under Features / Arts & Entertainment, Top Stories
Much like Bruce Willis? acting career, the ?Die Hard? movie series just keeps coming back.
?A Good Day to Die Hard? is the fifth installment of a series that began in 1988 and is directed by John Moore, who is most known for the 2001 film ?Behind Enemy Lines.?
I?ve never seen any of the ?Die Hard? movies and after watching this one, I?m glad I haven?t.
Willis stars as John McClane, a cop with a rugged edge that?s not afraid to do some dirty work. In an attempt to find his son Jack, played by Jai Courtney, John ventures into Moscow, Russia.
When John runs into his son, he soon realizes that Jack is a spy for the CIA and is on a covert mission. Much like any father, John attempts to help his son and the action begins.
Unlike most action-adventure movies, this is where the movie takes a turn for the worst.
Every single action scene is filmed with that shaky camera junk, the one that?s supposed to make you feel like you?re in the action but ends up just leaving you with a headache.
Much like any other cheesy action movie, every bad guy is a surprisingly terrible shot and the good guys seamlessly outrun the bullets fired by even the biggest of guns.
The majority of Willis? dialogue throughout the film consists of lame one-liners that only the most?die hard of?fans would laugh at. During almost every gunfight in the movie Willis yells out, ?Hey, I?m on vacation!?
To make matters worse, Moore tries to play up this father-son bonding throughout the movie, but by the time the credits roll,you have no feelings towards either character and are left slightly nauseous.
However, Moore does provide viewers with a twist that many won?t see coming that livens the film up a bit.
The only problem is that Moore follows this twist up with a climax that is incredibly hard to believe. I didn?t?know if I was watching Bruce Willis or Iron Man.
Despite the completely inane plot line, ?A Good Day to Die Hard? does provide some pretty cool special effects and sounds for the viewers.
While those are sure to please kids and adults alike, this film is rated R and is filled with foul language and graphic violence. So if you have a love affair with Mr. Willis, make sure to leave your kids at home.
Unless you are a longtime fan of the series or the ageless wonder that is Bruce Willis, this film is not worth the $10.50 you?ll pay at the door. Take my advice: wait for it to show up on your Netflix queue.
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Diddy, Mark Wahlberg Launch Water For Those 'Play Hard' Nights
'I drank this water. I loved the way it tasted. It gave me a certain amount of energy,' says Diddy about AQUAhydrate.
By Gil Kaufman, with additional reporting by James Lacsina
Mark Wahlberg and Sean Combs at the Aqua Hydrate Press Conference
Photo: MTV News
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1702782/diddy-mark-wahlberg-aquahydrate.jhtml
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You'll Get More Referrals If You Prime the Pump This Way
Here?s a technique I?ve found to be helpful, especially when I?m in search or sourcing mode and I want to stimulate referral activity.
The conventional wisdom when making a recruiting or sourcing call is to ask for the names of people who either have the background you?re looking for, or for people who might be in a position to make a referral.
So, if you?re describing a job to a prospective candidate, you ask the question, ?Who do you know who can do the job?? or ?Is there anyone you can think of who might have an interest in this sort of opportunity??
Naturally, the more colorful your description of the job, or the more ?sizzle? associated with the company, the more likely it is to get a referral. Unfortunately, some candidates are either tight-lipped by nature or develop a brain freeze when thrown a question they might not have anticipated.
So, to prime the pump, I?ll do a little research in advance of my call. Let?s suppose I found the candidate I plan on talking to on LinkedIn. I?ll take a quick moment before I pick up the phone and find similar candidates who also work for the same company. If, during my call, I ask the ?Who do you know?? question and the person can?t refer someone, I?ll say, ?I wonder if you could comment on a couple of people you work with. Tell me: Do you think John Smith would be a good person for this job??
The Power of Suggestion
Most people can?t resist the temptation to share their personal insights, especially when they concern someone else. If the candidate feels John Smith would be right for the job, or might be an appropriate referral source, I?ll ask, ?Would it be okay to use your name when I talk to him?? If John Smith is not a good fit, I?ll ask why, then move on to the next person; ?Well, how about Susan Jones??
You can?t automatically assume that the information is correct, but at the very least you?ll stimulate the conversation and build more reference points. Once the ice is broken with John and Susan, you can ask, ?Well, who else would you recommend?? And the candidate will start to open up with more referrals.
A variation on this technique is to include the names of people the candidate may have worked with at a previous job. So, the question you?d ask would be, ?I see on your profile that you used to work at Argo Technologies. I was planning on talking to Roger Brown, who I think was in your group a few years ago. Tell me: What?s your take on Roger, and do you think he?d have the right background for the job I?ve described??
Obviously, there are many ways to stimulate referrals and build your pipeline. You can post jobs, send emails, and develop a reputation for good work.
But whenever you talk to candidates in the hopes of sourcing for names, it?s always best to include specifics and avoid abstractions. By doing so, your candidates ? consciously or unconsciously ? will likely return the favor.
Bill Radin is a top-producing recruiter whose books, CDs and training seminars have helped thousands of recruiting professionals and search consultants achieve peak performance and career satisfaction. Bill?s extensive experience makes him an ideal source of techniques, methods and ideas for rookies who want to master the fundamentals,or veterans ready to jump to a higher level of success. One of the most popular and highly regarded trainers in the recruiting industry, Bill has trained many of the largest independent and franchised recruiting organizations, including Management Recruiters, Dunhill, Sanford Rose, Snelling, and Fortune Personnel. His speaking engagements include the NAPS national conference, the Fordyce Forum, the annual Staffing Industry Summer School in Chicago, and dozens of state association meetings and network conventions, including Top Echelon and Splits.org. Bill's recruiting career began in 1985, after he received his Master's degree from the University of Southern California. A specialist in the sensor and instrumentation industry, Bill serves his client companies by filling sales, managerial and technical positions (visit his Web site at www.radinassociates.com). Under his leadership as manager and training director, Bill helped Search West of Los Angeles and Management Recruiters of Cincinnati set individual and company billing records. In addition to his best-selling industry-specific books for recruiters, Bill has also authored the critically acclaimed career books, Take This Job and Leave It and Breakaway Careers, published by Career Press.
Source: http://www.fordyceletter.com/2013/03/01/youll-get-more-referrals-if-you-prime-the-pump-this-way/
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Dennis Tito plans to send couple to Mars and back
Multimillionaire space tourist Dennis Tito has established?Inspiration Mars?Foundation a nonprofit intended to organize a mission to Mars by 2017. The project's chief technical officer?Taber MacCallum dubbed this a no-frills, 'Lewis and Clark?trip to Mars'.
The worlds first space tourist Dennis Tito (C) flies into the International Space Station, April 30, 2001. Tito has established a foundation intended to fund a two person mission to Mars in the near future.
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EnlargeA nonprofit foundation wants to recruit a man and a woman - possibly a married couple - for a bare-bones, 501-day journey to Mars?and back that would start in less than five years, project organizers said on Wednesday.
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The mission, expected to cost upwards of $1 billion, would be privately financed by donations and sponsorships.
Project founder?Dennis Tito, a multimillionaire who in 2001 paid $20 million for a trip to the?International Space Station, said he will pay start-up costs for two years to begin development of life-support systems and other critical technologies.
Currently, there are no U.S. human spaceships in operation, but several are under development and expected to be flying by 2017.
That leaves little time to take advantage of a rare planetary alignment that would allow a craft to loop around Mars, coming as close as about 150 miles (241 kilometers) to the planet's surface, before returning to Earth.
The launch window for the mission opens on Jan. 5, 2018. The next opportunity is not until 2031.
"If we don't make 2018, we're going to have some competition in 2031," Tito told Reuters.
"By that time, there will be many others that will be reaching for this low-hanging fruit, and it really is low-hanging fruit," said Tito, who set up the nonprofit?Inspiration Mars?Foundation?to organize the mission.
Project chief technical officer?Taber MacCallum?said U.S. industry is up for the challenge.
"That's the kind of bold thing we used to be able to do," said MacCallum, who also oversees privately owned Paragon Space Development Corp.
"We've shirked away from risk. I think just seriously contemplating this mission recalibrates what we believe is a risk worth taking for?America," he said.
Tight quarters?
The spacecraft will be bare-bones, with about 600 cubic feet (17 cubic meters) of living space available for a two-person crew. Mission planners would like to fly a man and a woman, preferably a married couple who would be compatible during a long period of isolation.
The capsule would be outfitted with a life-support system similar to the one NASA uses on the space station, which recycles air, water, urine and perspiration.
"This is going to be a very austere mission. You don't necessarily have to follow all of NASA's guidelines for air quality and water quality. This is going to be a?Lewis and Clark?trip to Mars," MacCallum said, referring to the explorers who set out across the uncharted?American Northwest?in 1803.
If launch occurs on Jan. 5, 2018, the capsule would reach Mars?228 days later, loop around its far side and slingshot back toward Earth.
The return trip takes 273 days and ends with an unprecedented 31,764-mph (51,119-kph) slam into Earth's atmosphere.
Once the spaceship is on its way, there is no turning back.
"If something goes wrong, they're not coming back," MacCallum said.
The crew would spend much of their time maintaining their habitat, conducting science experiments and keeping in touch with people on Earth.
Tito said he expects the cost to be similar to a robotic mission to Mars. NASA's ongoing Curiosity rover mission cost $2.5 billion. A follow-on mission scheduled to launch in 2020 is expected to run $1.5 billion.
"You're really flying this mission without a propulsion system on the spacecraft. It's in the most simple form," Tito said.
NASA is working on its own heavy-lift rocket and Orion space capsule that could carry crews of four to an asteroid and eventually to Mars.
"We can just barely, every 15 years, fly by Mars?with the systems we have right now," MacCallum said. "We're trying to be a stepping-stone."
(Editing by Jane Sutton and Xavier Briand)
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New way to keep PCs cool: Submerge them in goo
The scourge of the hot computer isn't limited to lap-scalding notebooks. The enormous datacenters used by the likes of Facebook and Google generate immense amounts of heat and cost a fortune in air conditioning. But there's a new option: Dip the whole computer in heat-dissipating goo.
Most computers these days are air-cooled with fans. (You can often hear one spinning up if your computer is working hard on a task.)
Higher-end computers such as custom gaming rigs may resort to water cooling, which uses cool water in copper pipes to absorb and whisk away more heat than air alone. Even exotic materials like liquid nitrogen or hydrogen can be used in extreme circumstances.
But those aren't suitable for applying to the thousands of servers in a Facebook datacenter. Unfortunately, the most common solution seems to be huge air-conditioning and venting systems, along with using naturally cool locations ? a solution that could have ecological implications.
A company called Iceotope has what it thinks is the best of both worlds: putting the whole server "blade" (the individual hardware component of a server "farm") inside a container full of a special liquid called Novec. Made by 3M, it's specially engineered to dissipate heat, doing so 20 times faster than water ? and 1,000 times faster than air.
But the key is that Novec doesn't conduct electricity at all, meaning that a computer or any electronic device can sit in it and run, happy as a clam. The researchers who came up with the technique demonstrate the benefits of Novec this in the following video, which shows mobile phones being dunked and functioning perfectly well:
The server works at high capacity and produces lots of heat, which spreads out quickly through the Novec bath. The module's enclosure is made of aluminum, which also conducts heat well, outside of which is an array of running pipes, filled with cool water. This fast-moving water draws out the heat and then gets promptly pumped out.
As a result, the cost of keeping the datacenters cool is massively reduced (and they're quieter, to boot). A "rack" of servers might take several kilowatts of power for its fans and venting, but Iceotope's use only a small fraction of that ? 80 watts or less. And the outgoing water is easier to handle than hot air and could even be used for purposes such as residential heating.
The first to deploy the system is the University of Leeds, which helped test and develop the server modules. They'll be using it to run engineering students' computer models ? and routing the warmed water through radiators to heat the lab.
This sort of system is great for Google and its big-data ilk, but what about consumers? For now, the system is too specialized for use in laptops, or for that matter smartphones, which occasionally also get hot to the touch. It's not out of the question, but this magic liquid will probably take some time to trickle down, so to speak, to ordinary users.
Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBC News Digital. His personal website is coldewey.cc.
Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/futureoftech/new-way-keep-pcs-cool-submerge-them-goo-1C8603909
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