Maybe you want to help others. Maybe you long to lend a hand. But you're not sure where and you're not sure how and you don't...
Maker Mom Builds Cookie-Cutter Empire With 3-D Printers
Label: TechnologyAthey Moravetz is doing some tasty work with her 3-D printers.
The video game designer has worked on PlayStation games like Resistance Retribution and Uncharted Golden Abyss. She's also a self-described "jack-of-all-trades," skilled with 3-D modeling tools like Maya, and knows how to design compelling characters with them.
After having two children she decided to work from home, and in addition...
Ridley Scott, Paul Attanasio Working on “Vatican” Pilot for Showtime
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Showtime is once again preparing to go papal.The network, which already has a Pope-centric hit in the form of “The Borgias,” has given the green light to pilot tentatively titled “The Vatican,” from Ridley Scott and Paul Attanasio, Showtime said Thursday.A contemporary exploration of the politics and power plays within the Catholic church, “The Vatican” will be written...
Alabama to End Isolation of Inmates With H.I.V.
Label: HealthJamie Martin/Associated PressThe H.I.V. ward of an Alabama women's prison in 2008. The state was ordered to stop segregating inmates with the virus. A federal judge on Friday ordered Alabama to stop isolating prisoners with H.I.V. Alabama is one of two states, along with South Carolina, where H.I.V.-positive inmates are housed in separate prisons, away from other inmates, in an attempt to...
Instagram Reversal Doesn’t Appease Everyone
Label: BusinessPeter DaSilva for The New York TimesKevin Systrom, right, co-founder of Instagram, with employees in the company office in San Francisco last year. SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook may have quelled a full-scale rebellion by quickly dumping the contentious new terms of use for Instagram, its photo-sharing service. But even as the social network furiously backpedaled, some users said Friday they were carrying...
Dec
21
Boehner's 'fiscal cliff' plan fails
Label: World WASHINGTON — House Speaker John A. Boehner abruptly canceled a vote on his Plan B tax proposal late Thursday after failing to...
Hard to Handle
Label: Technology The 2013 Mustang Shelby GT500 is many things: imposing, populist, expensive. It’s also the last car Carroll Shelby had a hand in building. And true to the legacy of the legendary racer and auto designer who helped define the modern sports car, the GT500 is a Mustang with more power than any sane individual needs.Its 5.8-liter supercharged V8 puts out a massive manufacturer-claimed 662 horsepower...
‘Zero Dark Thirty’ One of Biggest Mid-Week Limited Debuts Ever
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – “Zero Dark Thirty” has been slammed by several senators for its depiction of torture, but the issue only appears to have helped it at the box office.Director Kathryn Bigelow‘s dramatization of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden racked up an estimated $ 124,848 in five theaters in New York City and Los Angeles on Wednesday. That’s an average of $ 24,969, making it one of the biggest...
Boehner Tax Plan in House Is Pulled, Lacking Votes
Label: BusinessBrendan Hoffman for The New York TimesSpeaker John A. Boehner of Ohio leaving a meeting Thursday with fellow House Republicans on talks over the “fiscal cliff.” WASHINGTON — Speaker John A. Boehner’s effort to pass fallback legislation to avert a fiscal crisis in less than two weeks collapsed Thursday night in an embarrassing defeat after conservative Republicans refused to support legislation that...
Dec
20
Fearful 'end of world' calls, emails flood NASA as Dec. 21 nears
Label: World If there's one government agency really looking forward to Dec. 22, it's NASA.The space agency said it has been flooded with...
This Is How You Craft 16,000 Candy Canes in a Day
Label: TechnologyIt might not be Christmas every day at Kencraft Candy, but it smells like it. At the height of the season, the Utah sweets factory churns out 16,000 candy canes per day. Click through the image gallery above to see how they do it.CookSixty pounds of corn syrup, 70 pounds of sugar, and 1.5 gallons of water (above) are loaded into a vacuum cooker and simmered at 272 degrees for 20 minutes. Then cooks...
China’s airing of ‘V for Vendetta’ stuns viewers
Label: LifestyleBEIJING (AP) — Television audiences across China watched an anarchist antihero rebel against a totalitarian government and persuade the people to rule themselves. Soon the Internet was crackling with quotes of “V for Vendetta‘s” famous line: “People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.”The airing of the movie Friday night on China Central Television...
DealBook: Upstart Exchange in $8.2 Billion Deal for N.Y.S.E.
Label: Business8:39 a.m. | Updated The owner of the 220-year-old New York Stock Exchange on Thursday agreed to an $8.2 billion deal that would give control of the longstanding symbol of American capitalism to an upstart competitor.NYSE Euronext said that it would sell itself to the IntercontinentalExchange for about $33.12 a share in cash and stock. The combined company would have headquarters in both ICE’s home...
Dec
19
Jury awards $6.9 million to boy molested by L.A. Unified teacher
Label: World A jury has awarded $6.9 million to a 14-year-old boy who was molested by a Los Angeles Unified School District teacher when...
The 15 Most Dangerous People in the World
Label: TechnologyThere used to be an established order to the world. A structure to things. You couldn't print a gun like a term paper. It was impossible to wreck a nuclear production plant with a few lines of code. Flying robots didn't descend on you in the dead of night and kill you in your home. But that order has been upended. Cheap videos in California help spark riots in Cairo. Lynchpins of the Middle East...
Tom Hooper, Mychael Danna join crowded slate of Palm Springs honorees
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – “Les Miserables” director Tom Hooper and “Life of Pi” composer Mychael Danna are the latest awards-season hopefuls to be added to the slate of honorees at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, PSIFF organizers announced on Tuesday.The two will join a list of honorees that in recent days has expanded to include Helen Mirren, Richard Gere, Bradley Cooper and Sally...
Irish Government Set to Allow Abortion in Rare Cases
Label: HealthDUBLIN — The Irish government said Tuesday that it was preparing to allow abortion under limited circumstances in an effort to comply with demands by the European Court of Human Rights to clarify the country’s legal position on the issue. Cathal Mcnaughton/ReutersA vigil was held in Dublin on Monday in memory of Dr. Savita Halappanavar, a 31-year-old dentist who died after being...
Kodak to Sell Digital Imaging Patents for $525 Million
Label: Business (Reuters) - Bankrupt camera maker Eastman Kodak Co agreed to sell its digital imaging patents for about $525 million to a consortium led by Intellectual Ventures and RPX Corp, a key step to ending its bankruptcy. The photography pioneer said a portion of the payment will come from 12 intellectual property licensees organized by Intellectual Ventures and RPX Corporation. A sale of the...
Dec
18
Newport Beach dock renters may withhold holiday love
Label: World Marcy Cook embraces the holiday season. The tell? Start with the teddy bears dressed as Santa. More than 1,500 stand sentry...
Mahout, There It Is! Open Source Algorithms Remake Overstock.com
Label: Technology SALT LAKE CITY — Judd Bagley set out to build a web app that would serve up a never-ending stream of news stories tailored to your particular tastes. And he did. It’s called MyCurrent. But in creating this clever little app, Bagley also pushed online retailer Overstock.com away from the $2-million-a-year service it was using to generate product recommendations for web shoppers, and onto a...
“The Office” head Greg Daniels sells tennis comedy to Fox
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – “The Office” might be preparing to close up shop, but the series’ creator is most definitely still open for business.Greg Daniels, who birthed the American version of “The Office” – which is preparing to wrap up its run at the end of this season – has sold a half-hour comedy to Fox via Universal Television and his own Deedle-Dee Productions.The project was sold through...
The New Old Age Blog: In the Middle: Helping Unhappy Couples
Label: HealthA post on Monday discussed the forces that can make an older couple’s good marriage suddenly go bad — an array of subtle, and often-misunderstood, mental, physical and emotional factors that can upset the equilibrium of even the happiest marriages.Now we have consulted marriage counselors and geriatricians to find out what caregivers — either the grown children of the couple, or one of the spouses...
How Wal-Mart Used Payoffs to Get Its Way in Mexico
Label: Business SAN JUAN TEOTIHUACÁN, Mexico — Wal-Mart longed to build in Elda Pineda’s alfalfa field. It was an ideal location, just off this town’s bustling main entrance and barely a mile from its ancient pyramids, which draw tourists from around the world. With its usual precision, Wal-Mart calculated it would attract 250 customers an hour if only it could put a store in Mrs. Pineda’s field. One major...
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