"Django Unchained" premiere canceled after Newtown shooting

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The premiere for Quentin Tarantino's latest film "Django Unchained," a violent spaghetti Western slave revenge tale, was canceled on Monday in the wake of the school shooting in Connecticut last week, the film's studio said.

"Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the tragedy in Newtown, CT and in this time of national mourning we have decided to forgo our scheduled event. However, we will be holding a private screening for the cast and crew and their friends and families," a spokesperson for The Weinstein Company said in a statement.

Tuesday's premiere in Los Angeles was scheduled to have a red carpet and party, but instead will be a private screening with no media coverage.

The film, which won five Golden Globe nominations last week, stars Jamie Foxx as a slave turned bounty hunter who wreaks revenge on slave plantation owners as he tries to rescue his wife.

It features Tarantino's trademark style of extensive graphic and bloody violence, along with dark humor, and is due to be released in U.S. movie theaters on Christmas Day.

A source at the privately held Weinstein Company told Reuters the cancellation was unrelated to the violence depicted in the movie.

Paramount Pictures canceled a weekend premiere for Tom Cruise's new movie "Jack Reacher" and New York's Lincoln Center Film Society postponed a Monday screening and talk with Cruise out of respect for the Newtown families.

A total of 27 people, 20 of them young children, died in Friday's shooting rampage in Newtown, Connecticut by a lone gunman, who then killed himself.

(Reporting By Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by Jill Serjeant and Eric Walsh)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/django-unchained-premiere-canceled-newtown-shooting-005234660--finance.html

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Funerals begin for Newtown victims as schools confront tragedy

NEWTOWN, Connecticut (Reuters) - The small Connecticut town shattered by an act President Barack Obama called "unconscionable evil," holds on Monday the first two of 20 funerals for schoolchildren massacred in their classrooms last week.

Meanwhile, schools across the country will reopen their doors to confused and scared children full of questions about why the Newtown, Connecticut, shooting happened - and whether they are safe from the very same danger.

Obama, addressing an interfaith vigil in Newtown on Sunday night, spoke forcefully on the country's failings in protecting its children and demanded changes in response to the mass shootings of the last few months.

"We can't tolerate this anymore. These tragedies must end. And to end them, we must change," he said, adding that he would bring together law enforcement, teachers, mental health professionals and others to study how to best stop the violence.

But before those changes, the families of the victims will grieve. Noah Pozner and Jack Pinto will be laid to rest Monday afternoon.

Noah, 6 years old just last month, was the youngest victim. Reports describe him as "inquisitive" and as particularly mature for his age. The family's rabbi has said he encouraged Noah's mother to focus on her other four children amid the grief.

Jack, also 6, was a wrestler who loved sports. The New York Giants receiver Victor Cruz played Sunday's football game with the boy's name written all over his cleats and gloves.

All the dead children were 6 and 7 years old. The school principal of Sandy Hook Elementary, the school psychologist and four teachers were also gunned down.

The victims were remembered Sunday night at a memorial of just over an hour whose featured speaker offered words of hope and promises of action to stop any further tragedies.

"We bear responsibility for every child ... This is our first task, caring for our children. It's our first job. If we don't get that right, we don't get anything right," Obama said.

The president kept his emotions in tighter check than he did Friday, when he cried openly while addressing the shooting. But his tears were matched by the packed crowd in the local high school auditorium, who wailed when he read the names of the adults and children who were killed.

SCHOOLS READY TO OPEN

While the two boys are laid to rest and the other families prepare their own memorials, schools across the country will attempt to return to business as usual, though there will be signs everywhere of how unusual the situation has become.

Some schools will put on extra security guards. Others will begin their day with a moment of silence. On Twitter, young people nationwide have urged their classmates to wear green and white, the colors of Sandy Hook Elementary School.

"I'm struggling with if I should bring it up at all. And if I do, what am I going to say about it? I'm just praying about it, because I don't know," said Molli Falgout, a first-grade teacher in Kernersville, North Carolina.

But in Newtown, schools will not reopen Monday. The district has said teachers need time to prepare for the students' return.

Instead, the town's youth sports groups have set up a field day of sorts to keep kids occupied, with athletics, board games and arts and crafts. Schools superintendent Janet Robinson described it as an effort "to help provide some small level of comfort and support to the children in our community."

The community will also have to make a decision about what to do with the bullet-ridden Sandy Hook Elementary, whose students will for now attend classes in an empty school the next town over.

"I think we have to go back into that building at some point. That's how you heal. It doesn't have to be immediately but I sure wouldn't want to give up on it," said local resident Tim Northrop.

Meanwhile, a more detailed picture of 20-year-old Adam Lanza's stunning attack emerged on Sunday.

After killing his mother, Nancy Lanza, at home, Adam Lanza shot his way into the school. He had attended Sandy Hook as a child, according to former classmates.

Police said Adam Lanza was armed with hundreds of bullets in high-capacity magazines of about 30 rounds each for the Bushmaster AR 15 rifle and two handguns he carried into the school, and had a fourth weapon, a shotgun, in his car outside.

Investigators are examining forensic evidence and scouring the crime scene in a process likely to extend for weeks.

(Additional reporting by Jeff Mason, Edith Honan, Martinne Geller, David Ingram, Colleen Jenkins and Chris Francescani; Writing by Ben Berkowitz; Editing by Jackie Frank)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-consoles-connecticut-town-hit-school-massacre-020247454.html

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Antarctic lake drilling is halted

A British attempt to search for life in an ancient lake beneath the Antarctic ice-sheet has run into trouble.

The team has reported "a serious problem" with the main boiler used to heat the water that powers a drill.

Work was halted on Saturday in what could prove to be a major blow to the project to investigate sub-glacial Lake Ellsworth.

The aim is to use 90C water to blast a hole through the two-mile-thick ice-sheet to reach the lake waters below.

The research goal is to gather samples of water and sediment to search for signs of life and clues about the region's climatic history.

The project relies on the successful operation of the hot-water drill which in turn depends on the boiler.

Last Thursday the team reported that a key circuit on the boiler - controlling the primary burner - had failed to start.

A back-up burner was fitted which ran successfully for 4-5 days - enough to melt the water needed to start drilling.

The first task was to melt a cavity 300m below the ice to act as a water store to help balance water pressure once the main drilling to the lake started.

In a statement released this morning, the team announced: "Unfortunately, the burner failed at approximately 3pm local time on Saturday."

A replacement component has been ordered and is expected to reach the team in a few days' time.

"In the meantime," the statement says, "the engineering team is in contact with the manufacturers of the units who are helping them to determine the cause of the malfunction.

"Both units demonstrated the same problem. When the replacement circuit arrives the engineers will work with the manufacturer to go through the set up procedure. The team is hopeful that this will solve the problem."

"If not, a further option is to attempt to bypass the circuit and manually "drive" the burner. The team is discussing operating protocols with the manufacturer before exploring this option further."

A major concern is that the system was designed to be operated on one attempt - to heat the water and melt open the bore-hole without pause to avoid the risk of ice forming inside the drill-pipe.

However sources at the British Antarctic Survey say there is no issue of any water having frozen in the pipes. They say the system is still "ticking over" with warm water.

In temperatures as low as minus 30C, and in a region notorious for its winds and remoteness, any technical problems of this scale are a huge challenge.

The team always recognized that the project involved high risks - with sophisticated technology in a hostile environment.

It is unlikely that the team will resume drilling before Friday 21 December.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20755450#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

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The Village Voice's Tejal Rao Named One of Forbes' Food & Drink ...


Take heed, world! We're thrilled to report that our own Tejal Rao has been named one of Forbes' 30 Under 30, the magazine's annual list that picks 30 rising faces in 15 "entrepreneurial, creative, and intellectual" categories. Rao is noted in the Food & Drink section, and is the only restaurant critic selected.

Forbes cited Rao's "stylish, weekly reviews" as one of the reasons for her success, but also pointed to her dynamite blog coverage during Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath. They write:

Food criticism isn't dead: The anonymous critic's stylish, weekly reviews reach over a million readers each month. Between meals, she and her team have reported extensively on the recovery of New York's restaurant industry post-Hurricane Sandy.

To get a taste of what they're praising, read Rao's most recent review of L'Apicio, your "East Village Prom Night." The critic also recently chose the 18 Best Food Books of 2012.

On the Hurricane Sandy front, Rao wrote of Kennedy Fried Chicken enduring the storm in Red Hook, how the NYC restaurant industry pushed through Sandy "no matter what," and led the charge in rounding up all the places to volunteer post-Sandy.

In addition to her Village Voice and Fork in the Road writing, you can follow her on Twitter @tejalrao, and check out her personal website, which is full of writing and photography.

Follow Fork in the Road on Twitter and Facebook, and check out the rest of the food blog.

Source: http://blogs.villagevoice.com/forkintheroad/2012/12/tejal_rao_forbes_30_under_30.php

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2 Ways To Bring In Sales Immediately To Your Online Business

If people aren?t buying the way that they used to in your online business, then it?s time to bring out the reinforcements. If your profit levels are down, you have to analyze your marketing campaign to see where things are going wrong. It takes alot of work to make an internet business successful. But if you persevere and continue to work hard, you will see get getting sales online isn?t as hard as it seems to be.

One thing that you will want to stop doing is relying on the old and tired internet marketing strategies that don?t work anymore. I know you?re probably attached to a certain way of marketing your internet business, but you should know that what you are currently doing isn?t working for you. So there has to be a change.

In today?s lesson, I want to share with you some of the things that you could be doing to have the success in your online business that you are looking. These tips are easy to use, and are kind of fun to do - because they help to bring in the sales immediately. Here?s tip number 1:

1) Give away a freebie

With a freebie, you will attract alot of people to your offer. If you have a squeeze page that promotes your free item, expect alot of people to sign up to your list just to get the free offer. Some will stay on your list and some will not. For those who do stay on your list, keep marketing to them and see if you can generate a sale from them via your email newsletter.

You will want to email them every 4 days once they?re in your selling cycle. Don?t email everyday because this is the fastest way to get someone to unsubscribe from you. You don?t want to be perceived as a pest. But this is just one way to bring in sales immediately. Here?s another one:

2) Lead people to your sales letter page

Depending on your price and offer, it may be a good idea just to lead people to your sales letter page. If you sell a product under $40, just lead people to your sales letter page. You?ll get sales immediately this wait, and you won?t have to nurture your list on the frontend side of things, because you?re reserving that nurturing until when they become a customer.

80% of your total business profits will come from sales on the backend. So this is something that you should seriously consider doing in your internet business today. But nevertheless, you should consider leading people to your sales letter page so that you can get sales right away.

It?s not too late to start using these strategies. If they feel ?foreign? to you, give them a shot and see how well they work for you. You never know what the results will be.

Take these 2 tips and use them to boost your sales and profits today. I personally use them in my business, and they work phenomenally. I think you can do the same in your business also.

Good luck with marketing your online business today.

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Source: http://blog.internetmarketing-rules.com/2012/12/2-ways-to-bring-in-sales-immediately-to.html

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Top 10 Handy iOS Tweaks That Don't Require Jailbreaking

Top 10 Handy iOS Tweaks That Don't Require JailbreakingJailbreaking your iPhone has a ton of benefits that give you actual control over your device?but it isn't always possible. If you're tired of waiting for the next version of iOS to be jailbroken, check out these tweaks and customizations you can make whether you're jailbroken or not.

10. Customize Ringtones and Notification Sounds, App-By-App

Top 10 Handy iOS Tweaks That Don't Require Jailbreaking You probably already know that you can turn any song into a ringtone on your iPhone, and that you can assign different tones to different stock apps. However, with a little work, you can actually assign those tones to any app you want, not just the ones that come with your phone. Just download a good iPhone explorer, copy your tones to the right folders, and enjoy.

9. Integrate Non-Stock Apps

Top 10 Handy iOS Tweaks That Don't Require JailbreakingiOS won't let you change the default app for, say, getting driving directions, but you can sometimes tweak a few things to get quicker access to those third-party apps that replace Apple's boring stock ones. For example, you can use a URL trick to link Siri with Google Maps, or an SMS trick to link Siri with Astrid. Similarly, while it won't help you "replace" your stock apps, Launch Center Pro makes accessing certain actions?like sending an email with Sparrow or taking a photo with Instagram?just a simple tap away. Lots of apps are even including support for things like Chrome these days, and you can even open links in Chrome with a Safari bookmarklet, so while you can't truly change your defaults, you can get some better integration from those non-stock apps.

8. See the Actual Signal Strength in Your Menu Bar

Top 10 Handy iOS Tweaks That Don't Require JailbreakingThe signal "bars" in iOS aren't exactly the pinnacle of accuracy, so if you want a better gauge of how good your service is, there's actually a hidden trick to show it in actual decibels (dBm). All it takes is a little fancy dialing and you'll have a much more accurate reading.

7. Hide Apps From Your Home Screen

Top 10 Handy iOS Tweaks That Don't Require JailbreakingNow that you've replaced Apple's boring stock apps with better ones and integrated them into the OS, what are you going to do with all those extra icons? In fact, you can hide them with a simple little trick, never to be seen again. The Newsstand is a bit trickier, but luckily you can hide that too, giving you a cleaner, more organized home screen.

6. Back Up Everything

Top 10 Handy iOS Tweaks That Don't Require JailbreakingiTunes backs up your settings every time you sync your iPhone, but it doesn't actually back up the data on your device (like music, apps, and videos) and it only keeps the latest backup around. If you want a more complete, versioned backup solution, you don't need to jailbreak?you just need a simple app called Phone Disk and a bit of command line-fu to copy everything back to your computer, so you never lose that data again.

5. Enable Multitasking Gestures and Display Mirroring on the iPad 1

Top 10 Handy iOS Tweaks That Don't Require Jailbreaking Got a first-gen iPad and don't want to update just for a few measly features Apple removed? You can actually enable both multitasking gestures and display mirroring on an iPad 1 without jailbreaking (okay, we're fudging this a bit?it requires a little jailbreaking, but it isn't permanent and it'll work on any version of iOS). It's a little tricky, but its well worth it if you want those extra features.

4. Create Contact-Specific Vibrations

Top 10 Handy iOS Tweaks That Don't Require JailbreakingGiving each contact their own ringtone can be really useful, but you might not know that you can also give each of your contacts a specific vibration pattern?so even if you're on silent, you know who's calling before you even take your phone out of your pocket. The setting is hidden under Accessibility, and you can actually tap out your own cadences to create a ton of different patterns for each of your contacts, so you never need to wonder who's calling again.

3. Unlock Your iPhone for Other Carriers

Top 10 Handy iOS Tweaks That Don't Require JailbreakingThe iPhone is finally available on multiple carriers in the US, but there are still a lot of carriers out there that don't support it. If you want to unlock your phone without going through the jailbreak process, you can actually buy a remote unlock from services like CutYourSim and GSM Phone Source. It'll cost you a few extra bucks, but when you're done, you'll be able to use your phone on whatever carrier you want (provided your model of iPhone supports that carrier's cell towers). Check out Boy Genius Review's testing of the process for more info.

2. Tether Your Data Connection

Top 10 Handy iOS Tweaks That Don't Require Jailbreaking Tethering?that is, sharing your phone's data connection with your computer?is one of the biggest features people jailbreak for, but if you can't jailbreak (or don't want to), you can still tether your device. You can either get it straight from your carrier (which, on some data plans, is now included) or use a cheap service like Tether.com, which shares your connection through a webapp. You won't be able to get it for free or with as many features, but at least you'll be able to get internet on your laptop when you're in a bind.

1. Customize Your Home Screen

Top 10 Handy iOS Tweaks That Don't Require JailbreakingJailbreakers have all sorts of choices when it comes to customization, but non-jailbreakers can still jazz up their home screens a little bit. A simple wallpaper can go a long way, especially if it's designed to feel like part of the interface. You can also change your iPhone's app icons without jailbreaking, and while it would take forever to get a full-blown icon theme out of it, you can at least tweak some of the icons you don't like. Check out our guide to customizing your iPhone inside and out for more ideas.

Photo remixed from albund (Shutterstock).

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/6b4YgNfKcu0/top-10-handy-ios-tweaks-that-dont-require-jailbreaking

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Paul di Resta thinks Force India cash boost will take time to provide ...

Paul di Resta thinks Force India cash boost will take time to provide results ? Formula 1 news

Force India driver Paul di Resta thinks that their car boost will take at least two years to provide the expected results.

The Silverstone based team approved an investment programme worth ?50 million during the last month in order to enhance its technology.

There are many reports which are stating that Force India will be very competitive in the 2013 Formula 1 season as they have invested such a huge amount of money in making the technological advancement.

However, Di Resta believes that the next season will be too early to judge the effect of their investment as it is going to take a couple of years to attain the desire results.

?I think ultimately you shouldn't really be looking at next year because I think you should be looking a year back and then two years forward,? said di Resta. ?The foundations are obviously getting bigger and there's a great level of investment coming.?

?For a team like this you will get true benefits for it, but I think you see that for years to come as opposed to the near future,? he said. ?Given the way this team works and the small network it has, I think it will build upon something.?

?That is always one thing that seems to happen,? he added.

It will be important to mention that Di Resta?s teammate, Nico Hulkenberg who performed impressively well in this season has planned to move to Sauber in the next season. On the other hand, Sergio Perez is going to join McLaren as Lewis Hamilton?s replacement.

Therefore, the Scot will definitely have more responsibility on his shoulders in the coming year. Nevertheless, he has asserted that he is very well prepared and is looking forward to score points with more consistency in the next season.

Force India emerged as one of the most competitive midfield contenders in this season. Furthermore, they successfully securing 7th place in this year?s constructors? championship.

Presently, they are targeting to make some necessary developments in their car during the winter testing so as to attain good results right from the start of the next season.

Source: http://blogs.bettor.com/Paul-di-Resta-thinks-Force-India-cash-boost-will-take-time-to-provide-results-Formula-1-news-a208823

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