Sunday, February 3, 2013

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Hello! I'm CashRefund, though that isn't my real name, and I'm really looking forward to roleplaying here! This site looks very neat, very clean, and I'm very excited to be here! I'm still kind of confused about things around here, even though I have read the newbie guide, but I'll hopefully fit right in soon!

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94% Zero Dark Thirty

All Critics (222) | Top Critics (42) | Fresh (208) | Rotten (14)

Chastain makes Maya as vivid as a bloodshot eye. Her porcelain skin, delicate features and feminine attire belie the steel within.

No doubt Zero Dark Thirty serves a function by airing America's dirty laundry about detainee and torture programs, but in its wake, there's a crying need for a compassionate Coming Home to counter its brutal Deer Hunter.

While "Zero Dark Thirty" may offer political and moral arguing points aplenty, as well as vicarious thrills,as a film it's simply too much of a passable thing.

From the very first scenes of Zero Dark Thirty, director Kathryn Bigelow demonstrates why she is such a formidable filmmaker, as adept with human emotion as with visceral, pulse-quickening action.

A timely and important reminder of the agonizing human price of zealotry.

Not only is Zero Dark Thirty one of the year's best movies, it's an inspiring one to share with your daughters. That is, if they're old enough to deal with explicit torture scenes.

One of the finest movies of the year is a thriller about the tracking and, finally, slaying of Osama bin Laden.

There is no Team America-style, flag-waving bravado behind this story - it is quite the opposite.

Bigelow has created the best film of 2012.

"Zero Dark Thirty" is less a celebration how terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden was found and killed than an engrossing examination of why it took a decade to deal with him.

Following on from the great acclaim of The Hurt Locker, Bigalow's shaky cam and tough talking characters once again take us to the dark side of modern warfare.

In the absence of cinematic grandeur and didacticism, we're left as empty and as lost as Chastain's agent as she boards a symbolically empty plane for an uncertain future. Just what are we to think of the so-called War on Terror?

The viewer needs to stay sharp to stay on top of the details of the labyrinthine search, but Bigelow tackles the complex story with the same muscular urgency and incisive intelligence that won her an Oscar for The Hurt Locker.

Exhilarating cinema that makes you want to forget all the questionable issues of representation that have come before it.

This is a fascinating film, and Chastain's wonderful performance has something in it of the tragic sense of life.

So overwhelming is the momentum that it proves possible to live with the intelligence that the protagonist is complicit in ground-level fascism.

Blistering writing, directing and acting hold us firmly in our seats as this procedural drama snakes its way to a riveting action finale

Terrifically good, propulsive film-making ...

Remarkable and engaging piece of filmmaking considering the outcome of the story is well known. A sign of the times we live in and the processes put in place to wrangle the people that choose to live outside the realm of civility

Not what you'd call crowd-pleasing, this is fascinating - if occasionally harrowing - in its realistic depiction of the intricacies of CIA operations.

Against all the odds, Kathryn Bigelow's powerful story of the hunt is a taut and searing action thriller that keeps you gripped.

A silly, at times despicable film that never remotely deserved an Oscar nomination. Compared with this, Team America: World Police was a think piece.

We get all imaginable views of the witchy pentacle that is covert US military politics.

It haunts and lingers long after the lights go up.

Bigelow has crafted a riveting, entirely convincing procedural that shows us the long, frustrating pursuit of bin Laden through the eyes of Jessica Chastain's dogged CIA agent.

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Saturday, February 2, 2013

Amazon Scores Exclusive Downton Abbey Streaming Rights For Years and Years

Great news for those who can't get enough of the Crawley family—Amazon cut a deal with PBS that will bring the British period drama to Prime Instant Video exclusively. So later this year, Netflix will lose Downton. Which is exactly what Lord Grantham has grappled with in the series. More »


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Mirrorcase Lets You Take Super Stealthy iPhone Photos

Mirrorcase Lets You Take Super Stealthy iPhone Photos
Stealth iPhoneographers and peeping toms, your iPhone case has arrived. The Mirrorcase lets you snap photo and video in a more natural horizontal position -- which means it's also far more discreet if you're trying to capture that weirdo on ...

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Friday, February 1, 2013

How Strong Are Your Connections? : The Sun Also Rises On HR

As we launch into a new year, my practice is to reflect on the year past and focus on the future. While no longer participating in the exercise of ?making resolutions,? I do, however, identify goals. Goals that help ensure I execute on those priorities of importance to me.

I?ve lived in the Washington area my entire life.? I?ve spent my entire professional career developing relationships with my colleagues, clients, my team and the community.? Together we combine to form one connected ecosystem.? The quality of these relationships is what drives a great degree of the success that my team and I can have in making an impact. The quality of these relationships is often a reflection of the level of commitment invested in them.

One of my goals for 2013 is to enhance the quality of these relationships that I so truly value. How that may show up for me is to ensure I?m reaching out and being intentional about connecting. One can?t delegate a relationship and expect to maintain it long. Engage them. Learn about the people in your life. What motivates them, what are their strengths, their goals, their passion?? Lead the conversation.? Be open to recognizing that the most important conversation in our companies, with our families and maybe even ourselves, is the one that we often are not having.

Last week I was intentional about calling people I hadn?t connected with in some time. People I admire, respect and enjoy being around. I called one or two each day on the way into the office and on the way home. As a result, I found that my own energy level and optimism soared after our reconnection.? If that happened in just one week with just a few calls, I can?t even imagine what will happen after a whole year?s worth of reconnecting?but I suspect it will be incredible!

As a society, we often place great value on ?networking,? yet it?s the relationships that hold value. And there is no guarantee that networking builds relationships.? If we took a moment to reflect, we would agree that we?ve built a lifetime of relationships.? My goal this year is to do a better job of nurturing those relationships being intentional in my outreach and my engagement.? And for me, my goals are always easier to stay focused on when I ?share them out loud? ensuring I hold myself accountable.? It?s too easy not to execute on our intentions.? Maintaining the relations I value is too important to allow that to happen.

Wishing you a new year that exceeds your expectations!

Tags: Communication, Goal Setting, new year, relationships, resolutions

Source: http://www.helioshr.com/blog/2013/01/31/how-strong-are-your-connections/

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Newspaper targeted by Chinese hackers for reporting

BEIJING (Reuters) - The New York Times said on Thursday that Chinese hackers had "persistently" attacked its computers over the past four months since the paper published a story on Premier Wen Jiabao, but sensitive material related to the report was not accessed.

The New York Times said the attacks coincided with its report last October that Wen's family had accumulated at least $2.7 billion in "hidden riches". China said at the time the report smeared his name and had ulterior motives.

"For the last four months, Chinese hackers have persistently attacked The New York Times, infiltrating its computer systems and getting passwords for its reporters and other employees," The Times said on Thursday.

"Security experts hired by The Times to detect and block the computer attacks gathered digital evidence that Chinese hackers, using methods that some consultants have associated with the Chinese military in the past, breached The Times's network."

China's foreign ministry rejected the New York Times claims of Chinese hacking.

"Reaching such conclusions for no reason with uncertain evidence and no proof and saying that China participates in relevant online attacks is totally irresponsible," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said at a daily news briefing.

Hong reiterated China's stance that the country "is also a victim of online attacks" and said it hopes "the relevant party can take a responsible attitude towards this issue".

The hackers broke into the e-mail accounts of Shanghai bureau chief, David Barboza, who wrote the story on Wen's family, and Jim Yardley, the paper's South Asia bureau chief in India who was previously the Beijing bureau chief, it added.

"Computer security experts found no evidence that sensitive e-mails or files from the reporting of our articles about the Wen family were accessed, downloaded or copied," said Jill Abramson, the paper's executive editor.

Security experts found evidence that the hackers stole the corporate passwords for every Times employee and used those to gain access to the personal computers of 53 employees, most of them outside The Times's newsroom, the paper said.

"Experts found no evidence that the intruders used the passwords to seek information that was not related to the reporting on the Wen family."

Computer security experts at Mandiant, the company hired by the newspaper, said the hackers tried to "cloak" the source of their attacks "by first penetrating computers at United States universities and routing the attacks through them".

"This matches the subterfuge used in many other attacks that Mandiant has tracked to China."

The Chinese government has repeatedly said it opposes hacking and that China too suffers frequently from these kinds of attacks.

(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Jeremy Laurence and Michael Perry)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/york-times-says-targeted-china-hackers-wen-report-040732303--finance.html

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