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Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Renny Harlin to Direct Hercules 3D
Posted 12:22 PM February 4th, 2013 by Binh Ngo
Renny Harlin is set to direct a competing Hercules movie for Millennium Films, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Simply titled Hercules 3D, the movie is scheduled for release sometime on March 2014, roughly five months ahead of Brett Ratner and Dwayne Johnson's movie.
Hercules 3D is budgeted at $70 million and is currently looking to round up its cast for a May shoot in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Since 3D is featured prominently in the title, the majority of budget will probably be spent on the effects, which is important for the overseas market.
Sean Hood (Conan the Barbarian) and Hanna Weg wrote the screenplay, which is described by Harlin as "closer to Gladiator than flying horses."
"It's not a comic book, cartoony fantasy thing," Harlin said.
Harlin did direct Die Hard 2 and Cliffhanger, so he's still living off the halo effect from his earlier, more successful, movies. His recent stuff -- Mindhunters, 12 Rounds, The Covenant, 5 Days of War -- have all been critical and commercial duds. Will Hercules 3D share those movies' fate?
Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1926777/news/1926777/
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Veteran-friendly shooting clubs eyed after SEAL?s death
Chris Kyle, a sniper in Iraq, was so feared that he was dubbed "The Devil of Ramadi" and had an $80,000 bounty on his head. Tragically, it wasn't enemy fire that killed him, but a fellow soldier asking for help with PTSD. NBC's Jim Miklaszewski reports.
By Bill Briggs, NBC News contributor
Firing bullets at a gun range ??as a Marine reservist was doing Saturday when he allegedly killed ex-Navy SEAL and "American Sniper" author Chris Kyle???can ignite combat flashbacks, a leading expert on post-traumatic stress disorder said Monday, adding, however, that hunting and target practice can be therapeutic for veterans if their shooting buddies intimately know war.
?The question being asked is: Wouldn?t the shooting of a weapon out in the open trigger feelings, nightmares, flashbacks? The answer is, yes, it can,? said Dr. Harry Croft, a San Antonio-based psychiatrist who has talked with more than 7,000 veterans diagnosed with PTSD. ?But the hope would be that those would be triggered in a situation that?s safe, where other people are there who understand PTSD and could help the person cope with the thoughts that may come back to them.
?In situations like a shooting range, the sounds may set off a hyper-vigilant response, maybe flashbacks and nightmares at night. But it doesn?t make you violent, like you?re going to kill the person around you. And if the person around you is a Chris Kyle, a Navy SEAL who knows and can support you, then that experience can have a more positive effect,? Croft said.
Eddie Ray Routh, 25, a Marine Corps corporal from 2006 to 2010 who deployed to Iraq in 2007 and Haiti in 2010, was arraigned Sunday on two counts of capital murder in the deaths of Kyle, 38, and Chad Littlefield, 35, at a shooting range in North Texas. Both men were killed with a semi-automatic handgun.
According to Erath County Sheriff Tommy Bryant, Routh "may have been suffering from some type of mental illness from being in the military himself." Bryant added that Routh's mother possibly contacted Kyle to try to help her son. The sheriff also learned, he said, that the three men might have been at the range ?for some type of therapy that Mr. Kyle assists people with.?
Organized veteran hunting excursions and shooting clubs ? meant to be part bonding experience, part brief return to comfortable turf and tools???have proliferated across the country in recent years, particularly as American troops departed Iraq and as they continue to pull out of Afghanistan. Croft estimated that about 20 percent of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have a form of PTSD, ranging from mild to severe.
?I talk all the time about the importance of good support systems for those suffering from PTSD, and articulate, bright, fellow military members like Kyle might have an ability to help a young troop with PTSD more than most (others) might,? said Croft, who co-authored ?I Always Sit with My Back to the Wall: Managing Traumatic Stress and Combat PTSD.?
?That?s why it would be very rare if, all of a sudden, (the suspect) got triggered feelings and then would turn the gun and shoot this guy in the back. Something happened that we don?t know or understand, I believe,? said Croft, who has never worked with Routh. ?This behavior is totally atypical for people with just PTSD. There can be rage, anger, aggression, agitation, even violence, yes. But it?s generally directed toward family members or one?s self, in terms of this suicide epidemic. Rarely is it outside of that circle.?
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has occasionally partnered with the Tampa, Fla.-based?Black Dagger Military Hunt Club?to hold shooting programs for veterans. In July, the club is sponsoring the trap shooting competition for the 2013 National Veterans Wheelchair Games in Tampa, providing ammunition and clays.?Black Dagger, made up of ex-military members, also holds four to six shooting events per year. Every participant is briefed beforehand by ?range safety officers" and supplied weapons. The veterans then work one-on-one with expert shooters, said founder Dave Winters, a 20-year Air Force member who retired as a senior master sergeant.
?We tell them: If at any time you feel uncomfortable about what?s going on out here, if the noise is too loud, put your weapon down, talk to your range safety buddy and just indicate that you need to walk away,? Winters said.
?We?ve had several who were real uneasy about approaching it at first, but once they saw that it was a comfortable thing, (and of course that) no one is shooting at them, that?s what I think helps them. It kind of normalizes them,? Winters said. (One Afghanistan veteran in the club), who feels like no one can relate to him, said that when he?s back out at the range, shooting and talking, it's just like when he was in his unit. It just makes them feel a lot better.?
In central Florida, the Sportsmen?s Foundation for Military Families escorts combat veterans ? and their spouses, children, parents or siblings ? onto leased land for weekend hunting trips.
?We never cater to just the veteran. Two veterans ? or a group of veterans???who are out in the woods together, that does not improve coping skills, generally speaking. What improves their coping skills is their family,? said Barry Hull, a retired Navy commander and F/A-18 Hornet pilot who flew on the first night strike of Desert Storm.?He has helped the Sportsmen's Foundation on the business side and attended several hunts.
The group is based on the concept that hunting trips ?give the veteran and family a sense that they can once again be like they were, that those good days can be had again, particularly with those who have physical injuries and limitations,? Hull said.
?What improves a veteran?s coping skills is their family. And I know a lot of people want to say, 'Well, they're my military family.' They?re really not your family.?Your family is really what I would call the classical definition of family ? that's it for the long haul,? Hull said. ?If you can develop those coping skills, communication picks up at home. We know that just simply being able to identify your demons lowers the effect (of PTSD). And that's what we do when we get the family out there on these adventures.
?The worst thing you can do is get a bunch of veterans out there in the woods, whooping and hollering and telling war stories, maybe drinking some beer, and not including the family. What does it do? It drives a bigger wedge between the veteran and the family. It's another distance maker,? Hull added. ?What does that do? It adds more stress.?
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Mourners pay tribute to Ed Koch with 'New York, New York'
NEW YORK (AP) ? Ed Koch couldn't have chosen a more appropriate song to herald his final farewell to New York City.
Strains of "New York, New York," the iconic ballad made famous by Frank Sinatra, rang throughout a Manhattan synagogue on Monday as the colorful former mayor's coffin was carried past thousands of mourners, concluding a funeral that recalled the "quintessential" New Yorker's famous one-liners and amusing antics in the public eye.
Koch died Friday of congestive heart failure at age 88. Outside on Fifth Avenue on Monday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Mayors Rudolph Giuliani and David Dinkins held their hands to theirs hearts. NYPD helicopters flew overhead and bagpipes wailed on the freezing February afternoon.
Recalling Koch as "brash and irreverent," Bloomberg told the crowd who came to pay their respects that the man who steered the city through the 1970s and 1980s must be "beaming" from all the attention created by his death.
"No mayor, I think, has ever embodied the spirit of New York City like he did," Bloomberg said. "And I don't think anyone ever will."
True to his take-charge nature, Koch even choreographed his own funeral. Aware of his impending mortality during his final days, Koch wanted to know everything about the particulars of the event, said Diane Coffey, his former chief of staff.
Coffey said her old boss was grateful when she told him last week that Bloomberg was planning to speak at the service. She said Koch insisted upon being buried in a cemetery "conveniently located near a subway stop" so that New Yorkers could come and visit his grave.
"We began talking about his death in the 80s and his plans for it," Coffey said. "Who else plans every detail of a burial?"
The packed crowd broke into a spontaneous standing ovation as the coffin made its way out of the synagogue. Koch will be buried at the Trinity Church cemetery in Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood.
His tombstone says he "fiercely" defended New York City and loved its people and America.
"We had such respect for him because of his outsized personality," Bloomberg told the crowd. "Matched by his integrity, his intelligence and his independence."
Koch led the city for 12 years with a brash, humor-tinged style that came to personify the New York of the 1980s.
The Democratic mayor is credited with helping save New York from its economic crisis in the 1970s and leading it to financial rebirth. But during his three terms as mayor, he also faced racial tensions and corruption among political allies, as well as the AIDS epidemic, homelessness and urban crime.
Bloomberg noted that the funeral was being held near "a certain East River span" ? referring to the 59th Street bridge, which was renamed the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge in 2011.
Describing the bridge dedication ceremony, Bloomberg drew laughter from the crowd as he recalled Koch stood there for 20 minutes, yelling: "Welcome to my bridge!"
Noah Thayer, Koch's grand-nephew, praised him as a "doting grandfather" who was devoted to his family. Thayer recalled fond memories of Koch attending elementary school soccer games and getting a manicure with his 11-year-old grand-niece.
"While he knew he was often portrayed as a lonely bachelor, it didn't matter," Thayer said. "He saw in his family only perfection."
Former President Bill Clinton, who served as a representative for President Barack Obama at the funeral, said the world was a better place because Koch had "lived and served."
"He had a big brain," Clinton said. "But he had a bigger heart."
Koch was a friend of both Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton, and was helpful during her successful campaign for the U.S. Senate from New York, according to Koch spokesman George Arzt. Koch also backed Hillary Clinton in her presidential run.
The funeral was held at one of the nation's most prominent synagogues, a Reform Jewish congregation on Fifth Avenue. Bloomberg is a member, as are comedian Joan Rivers and former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
"I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone," Koch told The Associated Press in 2008 after purchasing a burial plot in Trinity Church Cemetery, at the time the only graveyard in Manhattan that still had space. "This is my home. The thought of having to go to New Jersey was so distressing to me."
Koch lost the Democratic nomination for mayor in 1989 to David Dinkins, but maintained that he was defeated "because of longevity." As he put it: "people get tired of you."
But as the votes were coming in, he said he told himself, "I'm free at last."
In another tribute to Koch, U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney will make a recommendation to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to rename a Manhattan subway station in his honor on Monday.
Maloney says she will propose renaming the subway station at East 77th Street and Lexington Avenue the "Mayor Ed Koch subway station."
City officials have introduced legislation to officially rename the station.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ed-kochs-coffin-exits-york-york-172412099.html
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013
News in Brief: TV watching linked to low sperm counts
Couch potatoes? reproductive health may suffer
By Nathan Seppa
Web edition: February 4, 2013
Men who watch a lot of television have lower sperm counts than those who don?t watch any, researchers report February 4 in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Sperm count is an informal term that refers to the concentration of sperm in a given volume of semen.
Researchers gave questionnaires to 189 healthy young men and analyzed their semen. Respondents who watched more than 20 hours of TV per week had 44 percent lower sperm counts than those who didn?t watch any. The team, led by Audrey Gaskins and Jorge Chavarro of the Harvard School of Public Health, also found that men who spent the most time doing moderate to vigorous physical exercise had 73 percent higher sperm counts than did the men who were least active.
While the findings don?t spell out an explanation for these differences, the authors cite the broad physiological benefits of exercise. Cooler scrotal temperatures have been linked to a higher sperm count, and that sedentary positions and certain exercises such as bicycling have been linked to higher scrotal temperatures.
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Kuwait University students to race in 2014 Shell global eco ...
Shell Eco-marathon
Shell and Kuwait University signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to affirm commitment from both parties to compete in building ultra fuel-efficient vehicles to take part in the 2014 global Shell Eco-marathon challenge for the Middle East and Africa region.
The MoU was signed by Professor Husain Al-Khaiat, Dean of The College of Engineering and Petroleum and Mr. Ahmad Atallah, Chairman of Shell Companies in Kuwait, witnessed by Professor Abdullatif Al-Bader, Rector of Kuwait University (KU), in his capacity as the President of Kuwait University.
?The Shell Eco-marathon is a fantastic opportunity for our students to gain hands-on engineering and project management experience; and apply what they have learnt during their studies to develop an innovative and energy efficient vehicle. We would like to thank Shell for providing this opportunity to our students,? said Professor Abdullatif Al-Bader.
In its commitment to help meet the energy needs of the society in ways that are economically, environmentally and socially responsible, Shell recently launched the Shell Eco-marathon challenge in the Middle East and Africa to encourage the development of new technologies toward smarter mobility and fuel efficiency.
?This MOU reflects Kuwait?s commitment to energy efficiency as it provides a platform for young engineers to stand as pioneers in fuel conservation from the region. We are pleased to collaborate with the prestigious Kuwait University who will carry the country?s flag at this high-profile event,? said Mr. Ahmad Atallah.
Started in 1939 as a friendly wager between Shell scientists to see who can travel furthest on a single litre of fuel, the Shell Eco-Marathon has quickly grown into a global competition to develop solutions to society?s most pressing dilemma ? the energy challenge. The competition encourages students to design, build and race ultra fuel-efficient vehicles in a competition to see which team can achieve the greatest distance. In a record feat, a Shell Eco-marathon team achieved 4,896.1 kilometers on a single liter of fuel ? a distance which is the equivalent of driving from Kuwait to Manchester in the UK on a single litre of fuel.
The competition is especially relevant in today?s day and age, where according to the International Energy Agency, road transport alone accounts for approximately 17% of global energy use. According to Kuwait?s General Directorate of Traffic the total number of new cars sold in the country increased approximately 25% from 2010 to 2012.
Participants in the Eco-marathon can use any conventionally available energy source including fuels such as diesel, gasoline and Gas-to-Liquids (GTL), as well as alternative fuels such as hydrogen, ethanol, solar and battery electric. There are two broad categories of vehicles in the competition, the prototype category which is a futuristic design or similitude of what is yet to come in the field of automobile engineering, and the urban category which is considered to be more road-legal.
Shell recently launched the Eco-marathon challenge in the Middle East region to encourage the development of new technologies toward smarter mobility and fuel efficiency. With this MOU, Kuwait University joins a host of other leading universities from the UAE, Qatar, Egypt and Lebanon who have signed up to compete in this global event.
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Software may help predict cholera outbreaks
New software under development aims to stop history from repeating itself by using old news and related data to warn of pending trouble in time to take corrective action.
The system could, for example, help international aid agencies assess the likelihood of a cholera outbreak in time to treat a population with a limited-duration cholera vaccine, explained Kira Radinsky, a researcher at Technion-Israel Institute.
?We?ve engaged with experts in the public health field who study cholera and we?re hopeful that systems stemming from this research might be useful one day for early warning about this disease and others,? she told NBC News via email.
Radinsky is developing the software in collaboration with Eric Horvitz at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Wash., as part of their exploratory efforts on ways to predict the future based on past information.
The researchers built their predictive model based on more than 20 years of historical news data from the New York Times. It examines past events with similar outcomes.
The software, which is nameless for now, also incorporates related contextual information pulled from LinkedData, a project that finds connections between hundreds of resources such as Wikipedia.
The combination allows the software to extrapolate from news of a cholera outbreak in Angola, for example, to predict a similar outbreak in Rwanda.
?Rather than be limited to the data about the details of an African country where a sequence of events and outcomes occur, the system learns to consider ?African country with certain level of GDP X, cities with population of Y, and geographical features Z,?? Radinsky explained.
When tested on historical data, the system?s warnings of disease outbreaks, violence, and other events were between 70 and 90 percent accurate, according to MIT?s Technology Review.
?We are continuing to refine the approach and one day can imagine making a descendent system available to international aid agencies and to the public in general,? Radinsky told NBC News.
? via MIT Technology Review
John Roach is a contributing writer for NBC News. To learn more about him, check out his website. For more of our Future of Technology series, watch the featured video below.
Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/futureoftech/software-may-help-predict-cholera-outbreaks-1B8242979
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