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Being the hero in an action movie isn't all about kicking evil in the teeth, leaping away from explosions, and making glamorous love while a hit single plays delicately in the background. Sometimes you need to touch a computer. For those times, here's a handy flow chart for how to hack any system, provided you're in an action movie.
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President Barack Obama says he gets a prayer every morning on his BlackBerry.
Obama told reporters from religious news organizations on Thursday that White House faith director Joshua DuBois sends him a morning devotional every day to his e-mail device. He says it's a "wonderful practice" that started during the campaign.
Tech-savvy Obama is the first president to use e-mail while in office and is seldom seen without his BlackBerry. Only a handful of aides and personal friends have the e-mail address for the handheld device.
Aides tried to take away Obama's BlackBerry after he won the White House, noting that the e-mails are someday going to be made public. Obama resisted and instead got a security upgrade...President Barack Obama says he gets a prayer every morning on his BlackBerry.
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Dreams may not be the secret window into the frustrated desires of the unconscious that Sigmund Freud first posited in 1899, but growing evidence suggests that dreams — and, more so, sleep — are powerfully connected to the processing of human emotions.
According to new research presented last week at the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies in Seattle, adequate sleep may underpin our ability to understand complex emotions properly in waking life. "Sleep essentially is resetting the magnetic north of your emotional compass," says Matthew Walker, director of the Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab at the University of California, Berkeley.
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What do your dreams do for you?Dreams may not be the secret window into the frustrated desires of the unconscious... more
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There is a light at the end of the dark tunnel.
"Global box office to jump 33% to $37.7 billion by 2013: Pricewaterhouse Coopers
Hollywood studios don't have much to crow about these days, but they can take some comfort in a new report on the state of their business by consulting giant Pricewaterhouse Coopers.
In an annual survey that will be released Tuesday, the accounting giant projects that worldwide consumer spending in filmed entertainment -- a category that includes how much consumers spend at the box office, on home video rentals and purchases and on movie downloads -- will increase at a compound annual rate of 4% to $102 billion worldwide in 2013 from $83.9 billion in 2008.
That may fall short of the government's bailout of AIG, but it still seems like a lot of clams to us.
The biggest increases -- shouldn't be too surprising -- will occur in Asia Pacific and Latin America markets, which will grow annually at 5.7% and 4.5%, respectively. North America will grow by a more modest annual rate of 3.4%, the study estimates.
Driving the growth will be an upswing in spending at the box office, which is estimated to grow from to $37.7 billion from $28.3 billion in the next five years, fueled mainly by a growing number of 3-D releases that generate higher prices and ticket sales than do standard 2-D films. Although the credit crunch has delayed the rollout of digital screens, there are nearly 50 movies set for release in 3-D in the next two years, the report notes.
Additionally, the authors predict that the much-publicized falloff in DVD sales -- which studios have relied on for years to prop up the movie business -- will be offset by a boost from the sale of Blu-ray high-definition videos. Still, home video's share of entertainment spending is shrinking in North America and is projected to fall to 53% by 2013 from 61% in 2008. During the same period, the combined share for video-on-demand, online subscription rentals and digital downloads will double to 20%, a clear sign of long-term shifts in how consumers buy entertainment.
Said Deborah K. Bothun, one of the report's authors: "As the younger generation spends more time online, studios are going to have to be more agile in how they distribute content.""There is a light at the end of the dark tunnel.
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