Creditera prevents bad credit from blockading small business ...

Creditera has raised $1 million to help business owners stay on top of their credit.

Bad credit creates a serious disadvantage for businesses, particularly if they are seeking money to grow. Creditera?s goal is to make this as easy and transparent as possible so business owners can focus on more important things.

The company provides business owners with access to personal and business credit reports, scores, and ongoing credit alerts. While there are many services that offer either personal or business credit monitoring, Creditera consolidates the two to present a more holistic view. Business owners can monitor both sides of credit data through a single account and share it with partners.

?Small businesses are the lifeblood of the US economy, and credit is the lifeblood of any business,? founder and CEO Levi King told VentureBeat. ?We?re credit activist nerds on a mission to protect and educate business owners on personal and business credit so that they can lower costs, increase revenues, hire more people, better serve their customers, and pretty much kick ass.?

Creditera is King?s sixth business. For the first four, he repeatedly used his personal and business credit to grow his business and experienced how challenging it was to stay on top of it all. His fifth business,?Lendio,?matched small business owners to the best loan for them. He said he saw hundreds of thousands of loan approvals and denials, and personal and business credit were key influencers in the success or failure in each case.

He left Lendio at the end of 2012 to start Creditera. According to King, it is the first company to provide business owners with a single sign-on to access their personal and business credit information, as well as a side-by-side viewing experience. The company launched in beta in January 2013 and became cash flow positive in March 2013. It also partnered with large credit report provider Experian and is working on other partnerships to expand its credit data sets.

Right now it costs $30 a month for consumers, $80 a month for businesses, and $100 a month for consumer and business. Users get unlimited access to Experian credit reports and scores, email and/or SMS alerts, $1 million in identity theft insurance, and identity recovery services.

Kickstart Seed Fund led this round ? a fund that focuses its investments in Utah and the ?Mountain West.? Creditera is based in Utah and currently has 11 employees.

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Source: http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/21/creditera-prevents-bad-credit-from-blockading-small-business-exclusive/

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UK Ministry of Defence's UFO department was disbanded three years ago, had 'no defense purpose'

National Archive documents recently released show that the UK government's very own UFO department, which had reported on sightings for over 50 years, was shut down three years ago. The department apparently never revealed any "potential threats" to the country, so the Ministry of Defence closed both the hotline and email address that fielded the public's sightings of UFOs. A civil servant briefed the current defence minister, Bob Ainsworth, saying: "The level of resources diverted to this task is increasing in response to a recent upsurge in reported sightings, diverting staff from more valuable defence-related activities." The recently released files also covered some of the sightings reported from across the UK in 2009, which included, perhaps unsurprisingly, Stonehenge.

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Alicia Fox presents: The Do's and Don'ts of a first date

So you?ve got a first date with that cute lady you?ve been crushing on the last few weeks ? but you can?t figure out what to wear for your big night out. What to do?

Have no fear, Alicia Fox is here. The same Diva who taught you the pratfalls of online dating is back with another classic how-to from WWE Magazine with all the first-date dressing tips you?ll need, with a little Long Island Iced-Z to boot. First, we?ll start with the don?ts. Take it away, Alicia and Zack!

JUST TAKE CARE ? : ?Scruffy hair is OK, but the fresh-out-of-bed look is just plain lazy. If you?re not going to put any effort into your hair, you might as well shave your head bald. At least it would look cleaner.?

LOOK THE PART, BE THE PART: ?Dating attire is definitely ?dress to impress,? and hoodies are too casual. You don?t have to wear a blazer ? though that look is totally hot ? but aim higher.?

T-SHIRT TIME: ?Loud, graphic T-shirts like this are supertrendy? and right now, the trend is out. I would never recommend wearing this, unless you?re going to the gym. This is not a date shirt.?

SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT: ?Wearing an oversized T-shirt with oversized pants throws your outfit?s proportions off. Rock what you got! If you have a great body, like Zack, show it off by wearing something a little tighter.?

IN THE ?MONEY: ?I won?t lie. The wallet chain isn?t terrible, but it brings me back to the ?90s ? and I don?t want to go there ever again. The right accessory is key, and this isn?t it.?

SOMEBODY CALL MY MOMMA: ?Baggy jeans make me want to whip out the Mom card and shout, ?Pull your pants up, boy!? Don?t make me act like your mother. Neither of us will enjoy it.?

SHOE-IN FOR DISASTER: ?Running sneakers are never OK to wear on a first date ? unless you?re taking me to a skate park or sporting event, which, for the record, is also unacceptable.?

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Flatbush Zombies Review 'World War Z'

By Mike Brilliant With today's release of "World War Z," there are many outlets reviewing the film. So where do you go to get the most honest opinion? The team from NextMovie met up with hip-hop group Flatbush Zombies and put them on the spot for their latest episode of Rappers Review Movies. The group [...]

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Supreme Court 2013: The Year in Review

Nero was the first Roman emperor to marry a man.

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I agree that the Supreme Court?s opinions tend to be too long. The padding often muffles the meaning, and I also think it?s one reason journalists sometimes screw up in the instant of first reporting a major decision (as some infamously did when the Obamacare ruling came down last year, and after Bush v. Gore). Another reason the opinions lend themselves to error on a quick read: They don?t have clear headlines. Would it really kill the court to say at the top of the very first page: Hey, there are two parts to this ruling. The first part was decided 5?4. Here?s the breakdown of justices, and here?s what the majority said. The second part was 7?2, and ditto. On the other hand, maybe I?m arguing against my own interest here, since the current, more confusing, setup helps me justify my three years of law school. (Watch me blow it next week!)

Walter, you took us back to the 1996 passage of the Defense of Marriage Act, saying that at the time, no one thought it was conceivable that the Supreme Court would declare it unconstitutional. Maybe, but a few well-placed and prescient people argued from the start that the court should do so. In the summer of 1996, two months DOMA before was enacted, then-Gov. William Weld of Massachusetts (a Republican) said he thought the law would fall because ?I am a proponent of the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees full faith and credit to a judicial or juridical act of another state." A couple of members of Congress cited DOMA?s unconstitutionality in refusing to vote for it. Here?s the beginning of a Boston Globe article from September 1996: ?The bill passed by Congress limiting the recognition of same-sex marriages is sure to be signed into law by President Clinton, but whether it survives challenges in the courts is an open question, legal scholars say. ?There's no doubt at all the constitutionality will be in question,? said Laurence H. Tribe, professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School.? And here is Larry Kramer, future dean of Stanford law school, in the Yale Law Journal in May 1997: ?DOMA is unconstitutional.?

During argument in one of the gay-marriage cases, Justice Antonin Scalia pressed Ted Olson, one of the lawyers challenging California?s same-sex marriage ban, on ?when did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage?? Olson asked back, ?When did it become unconstitutional to prohibit interracial marriages?? and then said, ?There?s no specific date in time. This is an evolutionary cycle.? Scalia?s point, of course, is that the men who wrote the Constitution had no earthly intention of recognizing a right to an institution they wouldn?t have imagined. Since most of the justices aren?t originalists, I don?t think that?s a winning argument, though I?m expecting to hear it loud and clear from Scalia in dissent. I?m interested, though, that when the Volokh Conspiracy polled its readers on Scalia?s timing question, 24 percent said the Constitution ?began to require states to recognize same-sex marriage before or during the 1700s??during the founding era?and 29 percent dated the beginning to the 1800s, which tracks to the 14^th Amendment?s guarantee of equal protection under the law in 1868. Added together, that?s more than half of the readers who responded.

Since I?m not an originalist, I don?t care much how many generations of constitutional understanding a ruling in favor of gay marriage would reflect. And if Scalia thought recognition of gay marriage would solve a deep social problem, he wouldn?t either: He calls himself a ?faint-hearted originalist? because he believes that the court?s 1954 decision to desegregate public schools was correct even though that one, too, would have raised eyebrows among the Founders.

I bet some of the Founders would take it all in and raise a pewter of ale to a nice gay or lesbian couple. But to me, what matters much more is the social moment you point to, Walter. Scales have fallen?are falling?from our collective eyes. When it becomes clear that something was unthinkable merely because most of us hadn?t really thought about it, the public can just shift perspective and accept it. That explains the burgeoning support for gay marriage in the polls. And I think it will sway a majority of the justices as well. I love writing about same-sex marriage because it is moving, in both senses of the word.

And if you like long pedigrees, here?s this tidbit: Nero married a man in a public ceremony and accorded him the honors of an empress. And same-sex unions continued in Rome for more than 300 years. Score one for the empire.

Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_breakfast_table/features/2013/supreme_court_2013/supreme_court_on_gay_marriage_when_did_same_sex_bans_become_unconstutional.html

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Duke Ellington: Jack The Bear

This is gonna be a classy Friday night. You don't have to groove to Duke Ellington all the time, but when you do you should turn on Jack The Bear. This chart showcases Jimmy Blanton (Jack the bear...get it?), a bassist who at 22 brought the band to a new level in the early 1940s. Even if you hate 32-bar form and blues choruses, or you think pretentious nonsense is happening right now, listen to the end of the track for the bass solo. That's what it sounds like when someone nails it. [Amazon, iTunes, Spotify]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/duke-ellington-jack-the-bear-536409718

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Discuss HR: Attracting, Engaging and Keeping Talent....the future of ...

After his emotionally intelligent last
post, Paul Goring returns to discuss one of my favourite topics, namely
talent management at every stage of an employee life cycle. (Ed
Scrivener)

Attracting, Engaging and Keeping Talent....the future of your business.

I am often staggered by the imbalance between the huge amount of money, man hours and effort that is spent on marketing, branding and selling product compared to the employer brand in many businesses and indeed the flippant way that some significant decision makers talk about candidates, recruitment spend and the concept of employer brand generally. Strangely in my experience they also seem to be the first to blame the candidates, the labour market and their line managers for causing vacancies and turnover and not being able to retain people!?

Of course the easy answer is that there is a lot of talent to pick from just now with qualifications and unemployment both high but the best talent still have a wide scope options for their career path and career partners. Generation Y particularly (and the Gen X talent who share the Gen Y career values of mobility, training, social conscience and career chapters of two years at a time) want to connect with an employer with an employer brand and EVP that they can relate to, trust and believe in.

The brutal truth is that your recruitment web-page, career fair presentation, adverts in that grad magazine or flier must quickly create an engagement and must communicate the right messages to your target talent and this is where relying on having famous, elite or successful sales and product brand is not enough. It is also not enough to just do what everyone else does and hope it works.

Employer Brand, Employer Value Proposition, Attraction Strategy...they all eventually merge into one simple question; what is it like to work here? And the challenge is whether we as employers we can represent that answer honestly, clearly and attractively to those that will be asking it.?

Short films of your staff telling their stories and enjoying their work embedded into your recruitment web-site will work brilliantly if done well ? if done badly they can blow the whole deal ? authenticity is key here. Show how it really is, not a saccharin rose tinted version because after 3 months your recruited talent will leave and you?ll have to start over and spend again!

Try augmenting your main brand with something specific to your employer brand ? a strap line that compliments the main product / client brand but also retains an identity that can be communicated to the talent you need. The best company web-sites winning the NORA Awards each year have energy, freshness and a genuine feel about them that succeeds in really engaging with their target talent. Social media means if you get it right then people will know about you and your vacancies very quickly.

Then once your chosen talent is in the door you then need to start working even harder to prove that you can walk the talk and deliver on the promises you made in attracting them. Cost per head is important for sure but of all the recruitment metrics for me it?s the most short sighted; tenure, turnover and exit interview analysis tell you so much more in a period when the best candidates are still very picky about who they associate their brand with and they are happy to walk away if you don?t fulfil your part of the bargain and they will tell others in the most powerful way ever through social media where ?likes? and personal recommendations are everything.

It is I guess really important to ensure that anything you do in this space you do with 100% commitment because the whole rounded, detailed, authentic and considered brand that you represent to the candidate world has to work, has to make sense and stand the ultimate test ? someone joining you and working for you, staying with you and saying good things about you while they are with you and afterwards.

Just as with your product brand there is no point saying that you make the best shoes in the world, comfortable, good looking and well-made if they fall apart after a few miles of walking! Employer Brand and subsequent talent management is worth intelligent, considered and long term spend every time....?

Discuss HR is the HR blog written by members of?Human Resources UK, the 10,000 member strong LinkedIn group dedicated to the HR professionals in the UK.? Discuss HR is published twice weekly and looks to take an insightful, informative and sometimes irreverent view on the world of HR ? all with the purpose of generating a discussion.
If you would like to be a guest writer for Discuss HR, you can find more information here.? Our next guest writer week is the week commencing 26th?August.

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Samsung Galaxy NX mirrorless camera official: Interchangeable lenses, Android Jelly Bean and 4G LTE

True to JK Shin's promise, Samsung is indeed introducing a new Android-powered mirrorless camera: the Galaxy NX. Although it runs Google's mobile OS (version 4.2.2 Jelly Bean) and bears LTE radios, the NX is not quite a direct sequel to the Galaxy Camera, the company's glorified point-and-shoot for all comers. Rather, the NX is what Samsung calls an interchangeable-lens CSC (or Compact System Camera), featuring a 20.3-megapixel APS-C sensor, as well as 3G / 4G LTE connectivity -- making it worthy of that Galaxy moniker.

As you can tell from the above image, the NX also packs a large 4.8-inch HD LCD display on its rear and is powered by an unspecified 1.6GHz quad-core processor. The UI should look pretty familiar to anyone who's used an Android device before, with the common apps and widgets submenus, as well as the device wheel for its Smart Mode -- employed when selecting imaging settings. And if you happen to own any other of the company's NX camera, you'll be able to swap out lenses as the NX is fully compatible with that range. The NX camera also incorporates a hybrid AF, culled from the best of DSLRs and compacts, with a shutter speed of 1/6000 sec and 8.6fps shooting.

Gallery: Samsung Premiere 2013

Gallery: Samsung Galaxy NX

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Soprano paved the way for today's antiheroes

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Michael C. Hall as Dexter on "Dexter," Bryan Cranston as Walter White on "Breaking Bad," and Jon Hamm as Don Draper on "Mad Men."

When "The Sopranos" hit the small screen in 1999, there wasn't a leading character on television to compare to troubled patriarch Tony Soprano. Sure, the big screen had long since made room for complex antiheroes. Heck, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Clint Eastwood crafted careers by bringing those types to life. But TV is different.

Viewers develop long-term relationships with the familiar faces on weekly dramas. Audiences were used to cheering for the good guys they knew and loved and waiting for the baddies to finally get what was coming to them. So why would they tune in to see a lead like Tony Soprano?

Because of an actor like James Gandolfini.

It would have been easy to play Tony bigger than life -- he was a bigger than life character. He was equal parts tough guy, wise guy, ruthless killer and devoted father, flawed husband and struggling soul. That's what made him a tough sell. But Gandolfini somehow balanced the exaggeration that was inherent to the world of a crime boss with the mundane, every-man existence behind it. Sure, he cracked open a few heads, but he also fed the ducks that called his pool home. He was quick on the trigger, but he was also a hit around the barbecue.

"The decent part of Tony, the part that stood in for the tragically wasted human potential Dr. Melfi kept trying to tease out and embrace, came from Gandolfini," New York Magazine writer Matt Zoller Seitz wrote shortly after the actor's death. "His humanity shone through Tony's rotten fa?ade. When people said they sensed good in Tony, it was Gandolfini they sensed."

Gandolfini made Tony real. He made the unlikable, likable.

"I once asked ('Sopranos' creator) David Chase what did it (mean) to find Gandolfini, and he looked at me as though I was crazy," GQ writer and author of "Difficult Men" Brett Martin told TODAY. "He said, 'It meant everything.' What he brought to that role, the depth and the humanity and the kind of soulfulness, as well as the ugliness and the anger. It changed television forever, really."

Gandolfini's appealing portrayal of a gritty, unappealing guy ushered in the era of the modern TV antihero. The bad guys, the morally ambiguous guys, the not-your-typical-leading-man guys -- their time had finally come.

But not just on television. As New York Times' TV writer Bill Carter noted on TODAY Thursday, he also changed it for film actors. "The centerpoint of drama moved from movies to television after 'The Sopranos,' and great actors said, 'I can do TV now, because look what this guy is doing,'" he said. "He was dominating the whole dramatic field."

Which means there are plenty of actors from all over Hollywood who owe a debt of gratitude to Gandolfini. If viewers hadn't connected to his portrayal of Tony Soprano, would they have even had the chance to connect to Michael C. Hall's portrayal of Dexter Morgan in "Dexter"? The serial killer with a moral compass may seem miles away from the mobster, but both characters possess a strong sense of right and wrong, as well as a taste for bloody business. Tony came first. He was the test. In passing the test, Gandolfini made way for Hall and many others.

Jon Hamm's downward spiral as Don Draper on "Mad Men" is often Tony-esque, especially in the way he can hop from his mistress's arms to his marital bed without a moment's regret. Bryan Cranston's far darker descent as Walter White on "Breaking Bad" sees a basically good -- or at-one-time good -- man find a way to justify death and destruction, just as Tony did again and again. And Michael Chiklis' brutal-with-cause Vic Mackey on "The Shield" shared Tony's satisfaction in "convincing" an enemy to divulge hidden information.

They all benefitted from the ground Gandolfini broke -- as do audiences, who get to enjoy some of the most complex characters to ever grace the small screen.

Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/tony-soprano-character-altered-face-tv-paving-way-antiheroes-6C10387810

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Supreme Court says law can?t dictate anti-AIDS groups? speech (Washington Post)

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Jason Schwartzman joins Christoph Waltz, Amy Adams in Tim Burton's 'Big Eyes' (Exclusive)

By Jeff Sneider

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Jason Schwartzman has joined the cast of Tim Burton's "Big Eyes," the Weinstein Company drama that stars Amy Adams as painter Margaret Keane and Christoph Waltz as her husband Walter, who took credit for his wife's work while she toiled in obscurity.

Based on a true story, "Big Eyes" is being produced by Burton, Lynette Howell of Electric City Entertainment and screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, who previously worked with Burton on "Ed Wood."

Krysten Ritter is set to co-star as Margaret's free-spirited friend and confidante DeeAnn, while Schwarzmann will play a San Francisco art gallery owner named Ruben.

"Jason has been part of such a diverse list of intelligent, often whimsical films during his career and makes an exciting addition to this already fantastic cast," said TWC Co-Chairman Harvey Weinstein.

Schwartzman recently starred in Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom" and wrapped the director's upcoming movie "The Grand Budapest Hotel." He'll soon be seen in Disney's "Saving Mr. Banks."

Schwartzman is repped by WME and attorney Warren Dern.

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Zynga Acquires Casino Gaming Vets Spooky Cool Labs - AllThingsD

Zynga announced on Wednesday it had acquired Spooky Cool Labs, a Chicago, Ill.-based gaming studio focused heavily on real-money gaming titles.

?We have a legacy in social casino franchises with Zynga Poker, and we believe that free-to-play social casino games for the Web and on mobile have the potential to reach and connect a much broader audience,? Zynga?s chief revenue officer Barry Cottle said in a company blog post.

?Spooky Cool Labs is the right team to help us bring the feeling of being on a casino floor and the thrill of hitting a big jackpot right to players wherever they play,? he said.

Terms of the deal, which was first noted by TechCrunch, weren?t disclosed.

As Zynga has signalled for some time, real-money titles are a big bet for the company?s future. It recently launched two of its first real-money games in the United Kingdom, ZyngaPlusPoker and ZyngaPlusCasino. This was the fruit of Zynga?s partnership with bWin, a major operator that has licenses to operate online real-money gaming websites in multiple countries across Europe.

But real-money gaming is still nascent for Zynga, especially due to restrictions on online gambling in the United States, one of Zynga?s key markets. The company hopes to eventually release real-money games in the U.S., but necessary legislation and lobbying efforts could take at least a year or more before Zynga sees any progress.

The acquisition also comes on the heels of a large round of layoffs ? approximately 18 percent of Zynga?s workforce ? in an effort to reduce costs and restructure the business toward mobile.

Spooky Cool Labs will stay based in Chicago, and founder Joe Kamikow will also continue leading game design for Aristocrat Leisure Limited, a major slot machine company based in Australia.

Source: http://allthingsd.com/20130619/zynga-acquires-casino-gaming-vets-spooky-cool-labs/

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Movie review: One-sided love, one-dimensional script in 1er Amour

1er Amour

Starring: Lo?c Esteves, Marianne Fortier, Macha Grenon, Beno?t Gouin, Sylvie Boucher, Pierre-Luc Brillant

Directed by: Guillaume Sylvestre

Running time: 80 minutes

Parental guidance: sex scenes, drug use

Opens with English subtitles on Friday, June 21 at: Forum cinema. Opens in French on Friday, June 21 at: Beaubien, Brossard, Deux Montagnes, Longueuil, Pont Viau, Quartier Latin, St-Eustache cinemas.

MONTREAL - The frustrating thing about 1er Amour is that it has so much unfulfilled potential. There?s the possibility of a really good movie about adolescent obsessions, about unrequited love, about first love.

Freely adapted from First Love, the 1860 novella by Russian author Ivan Turgenev, 1er Amour has a promising starting point. It?s that oldest of ideas: a boy falls big-time for an older girl and is devastated when his affections are not reciprocated.

But it?s just too thinly sketched here. This short feature feels kind of unfinished, leaving us wanting more, and not in a good way.

There are some very good performances in the film, most notably from Beno?t Gouin, who is perfect as Fran?ois, a father with a wandering eye. Gouin is one fine character actor, who can be slightly twisted and somehow still charming like nobody?s business. Macha Grenon is also excellent as his wife, Marie, as are Marianne Fortier and Sylvie Boucher as the daughter and mother, respectively, who are renting the cottage next door to Fran?ois and Marie?s shack.

But ? and this is a major-league, game-changing ?but? ? Lo?c Esteves is simply not that convincing as Antoine, the boy at the centre of this drama. The film is all about Antoine ? the story?s told from his point of view ? and the young actor just doesn?t convey the emotional range needed to bring this thing to life.

Thirteen-year-old Antoine and his parents arrive at their cottage on an isolated island somewhere in the Quebec countryside, and very quickly the kid is mighty intrigued by the rather attractive 17-year-old girl, Anna, just across the way. He?s smitten, but she hardly notices. She has other things on her mind, like drinking, smoking weed and getting cosy with her boyfriend.

It turns out that Anna?s mother, Genevi?ve, is an old pal of Fran?ois, but that?s just another plot strand that?s not built upon in a particularly meaningful way. There?s a development late in the film that?s quite the twist, but yet again, first-time feature writer-director Guillaume Sylvestre ? who made the cool foodie documentary Durs ? cuire, about chefs Normand Laprise and Martin Picard ? doesn?t really pick up the ball and run with it.

It?s a twist that could have ricocheted off in any number of directions, but Sylvestre doesn?t follow any of those options. Instead, he ends 1er Amour just minutes later, creating that rare film where I would have liked another 20 minutes of action (as opposed to, say, Man of Steel, which could have easily had a half-hour of explosions lopped off with no one noticing).

It?s the second straight first feature from a local writer-director ? after Sarah pr?f?re la course ? suffering from a thin screenplay that could have used a little more hard labour.

Source: http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/movie-guide/Movie+review+sided+love+dimensional+script/8553403/story.html

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Digital 3-D atlas of brain reveals tiny details

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Digital 3-D atlas of brain reveals tiny details
By MALCOLM RITTERBy MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer??

In this photo provided by Katrin Amunts, Karl Zilles, Alan C. Evans, researchers use a microtome to cut sections from a brain preserved in paraffin wax into slivers 20-micrometers thick, resulting in over 7,400 slices. A digital three-dimensional model called "BigBrain" was produced from the thousands of sections. Its resolution is finer than a human hair, so it can reveal clusters of brain cells and even some large individual cells. It is being made available to scientists around the world. The researchers, from Germany and Canada, reported their work Thursday, June 20, 2013 in the journal Science. (AP Photo/Katrin Amunts, Karl Zilles, Alan C. Evans)

In this photo provided by Katrin Amunts, Karl Zilles, Alan C. Evans, researchers use a microtome to cut sections from a brain preserved in paraffin wax into slivers 20-micrometers thick, resulting in over 7,400 slices. A digital three-dimensional model called "BigBrain" was produced from the thousands of sections. Its resolution is finer than a human hair, so it can reveal clusters of brain cells and even some large individual cells. It is being made available to scientists around the world. The researchers, from Germany and Canada, reported their work Thursday, June 20, 2013 in the journal Science. (AP Photo/Katrin Amunts, Karl Zilles, Alan C. Evans)

This image made from video provided by researchers shows a highly-detailed image of the hippocampus region of the human brain. The digital three-dimensional model called "BigBrain" was produced from the thousands of sections made from the brain of a 65-year-old woman. Its resolution is finer than a human hair, so it can reveal clusters of brain cells and even some large individual cells. It is being made available to scientists around the world. The researchers, from Germany and Canada, reported their work Thursday, June 20, 2013 in the journal Science. (AP Photo/Montreal Neurological Institute/McGill University, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine/Research Centre Juelich, and National Research Council of Canada)

In this photo provided by Katrin Amunts, Karl Zilles, Alan C. Evans, researchers use a microtome to cut sections from a brain preserved in paraffin wax into slivers 20-micrometers thick, resulting in over 7,400 slices. A digital three-dimensional model called "BigBrain" was produced from the thousands of sections. Its resolution is finer than a human hair, so it can reveal clusters of brain cells and even some large individual cells. It is being made available to scientists around the world. The researchers, from Germany and Canada, reported their work Thursday, June 20, 2013 in the journal Science. (AP Photo/Katrin Amunts, Karl Zilles, Alan C. Evans)

In this photo provided by Katrin Amunts, Karl Zilles, Alan C. Evans, researchers arrange sections made from a brain preserved in paraffin wax. A digital three-dimensional model called "BigBrain" was produced from the thousands of sections. Its resolution is finer than a human hair, so it can reveal clusters of brain cells and even some large individual cells. It is being made available to scientists around the world. The researchers, from Germany and Canada, reported their work Thursday, June 20, 2013 in the journal Science. (AP Photo/Katrin Amunts, Karl Zilles, Alan C. Evans)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Scientists have a new brain atlas to help them study their favorite organ. It's a digital, three-dimensional model called "BigBrain."

Its resolution is finer than a human hair, so it can reveal clusters of brain cells and even some large individual cells. It is being made available to scientists around the world.

To make the atlas, researchers sliced a cadaver brain from a 65-year-old woman into 7,400 thin sections, stained them to reveal tiny features, and photographed each one. Then they used computers to combine the data into a 3-D digital model.

The idea of thin-slicing a brain to study its anatomy is not new. In fact, complete bodies of a man and a woman were sliced and photographed about 20 years ago to create an anatomy reference called the Visible Human Project.

For the new brain-mapping project, the researchers chose the woman's brain for no special reason other than it was basically healthy, said Katrin Amunts of Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf in Germany.

She is lead author of a report on the atlas published Thursday in the journal Science. Scientists have begun mapping data from other brain studies onto the new model to gain new insights, said senior author Karl Zilles of the Juelich Aachen Research Alliance in Juelich, Germany.

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Science: http://www.sciencemag.org

Associated Press

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