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Hollywood Studios Are Hot Customers 2 Crunch time When crunch time came with the production of Shrek 2, DreamWorks tapped all of its 1,000 computers. But that wasn’t enough. So it plugged into HP’s “utility rendering service,” effectively borrowing another 500 powerful computer servers at HP. During the rendering process, a computer takes software instructions from a programmer and
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Hollywood Studios Are Hot Customers By Dean Takahashi / ©2004 San Jose Mercury News, Knight Ridder Newspapers. Distributed by Tribune Media Service Hewlett-Packrd (HP) is striving to become the king of entertainment technology with the computing services it offers to Hollywood studios 1 Hollywood studios like DreamWorks have become coveted customers for HP and its rivals
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Dive the South Pacific 3 Romantic Moorea For visitors interested in more than just diving, Moorea, an island 12 miles west of Tahiti, abounds wi
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Dive the South Pacific 2 Dolphins delight Diving in French Polynesia isn’t all sharks. One day during a dive, half a dozen dolphins showed up. We were swimming over to a reef at Rangiroa when two divers started pointing and waving. The dolphins emerged slowly from the deep blue. At first, we could only discern a blob. Then the dolphins separated into distinct shapes and got
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Dive the South Pacific By Yvette Cardozo For many people, the South Pacific evokes images of coconut palms, fragrant flowers, exotic fruit and, above all, romance. To a scuba diver, it means much more 1 For the diving devotee, French Polynesia in the South Pacific is a noteworthy dive spot for one key reason. Few other locations offer the chance to do “pass diving” while
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Giving Praise Where Praise is Due By Ethan White This Father’s Day, consider who your true heroes are “Who do you want to be like when you grow up?” I can remember being asked this question time and time again throughout my childhood. During those years, many of my heroes were sports stars like Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky. I idolized these men, wishing I could be j
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Send in the Rescue Rats 2 The researchers train the rats to search for human odor by stimulating the reward center when it finds its target smell. Once the rats are trained, they are set to forage for the target smell, while electrodes record their neural activity patterns. This allows researchers to identify the brainwave patterns associated with finding that smell. They are also able to train t
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Send in the Rescue Rats By Emily Singer © 2004, New Scientist Magazine. Reed Business Information Ltd. All rights reserved. Distributed by Tribune Media Services. Rats equipped with radios that transmit their brainwaves could soon help locate survivors buried in the wreckage of collapsed buildings 1 Rats have an exquisitely sensitive sense of smell and can crawl j
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Managing Your Emotions in the Workplace 2 Preventing burnout If you start to feel any of the symptoms of burnout— excessive tiredness, distraction, lack of interest, a vague sense of futility—immediately take corrective action. It’s not uncommon for dedicated professionals to approach the precipice of burnout. Many are passionate about their mission and put in long, har
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Managing Your Emotions in the Workplace Reprinted with the permission of AdvancingWomen.com Success at work means channeling your emotional energy into productive activities 1 A big part of achieving success is learning to manage your emotions. We all have hot buttons that can lead us to become anxious, angry or even burned-out. Learning to be aware of our feelings, a
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The Ultimate Pitching Machine 2 Using technology to improve Pitching employs a coordinated sequence of body movements. The goal at ASMI is to identify and remove any inefficiencies from a pitcher’s delivery, while reinforcing characteristics demonstrated by the best pitchers. Great pitchers are highly flexible, with stable joints and a good range of motion. Leg stren
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The Ultimate Pitching Machine By Tom McNichol / Originally published in WIRED Hardware and hard science are turning big-league ballplayers into precision-guided flamethrowers 1 It’s the fastest human movement ever measured in a laboratory: the violent forward rotation of a baseball pitcher’s shoulder as he whips the ball toward home plate. To the batter, or anyone watching on TV
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Working Smarter Together 2 Taking advantage of what’s there How can firms tap into the collective wisdom? One intriguing method of doing this is to set up internal decision markets, which firms can use to produce forecasts of the future and evaluations of potential corporate strategies. Few companies have tried such markets. But the few examples suggest they could be very useful. In the
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Working Smarter Together By James Surowiecki / Originally Published in WIRED. Edited for length. Reprinted by permission of SLL/ Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc. Copyright by James Surowiecki Why the many are smarter than the few 1 American companies are suffering from a personality crisis. They talk about the virtues of flattened hierarchies and bottom-up organizations,
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Ten Phobias That Disrupt Our Lives 2 5 Agoraphobia: Fear of open or public spaces People who suffer from this phobia often fear being unable to escape the situation. This is “the most common and the most debilitating phobia,” Elpers says. “It can actually cripple someone and really affect their life.” Professional help is almost always a must. After all, it’s difficult to have a
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Ten Phobias That Disrupt Our Lives By Candace Murphy/ ©2004 San Jose mercury News, Knight Ridder Newspaper. Distributed by Tribune Media Service 1 Garden-variety fears are one thing; phobias are another. Phobias, the most extreme manifestations of fear, come in three varieties: agoraphobia (irrational anxiety about leaving a safe area or being in a place where escape is diffic
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Demining Cambodia by Hand 2 To do his work, Aki Ra consults former Khmer Rouge soldiers, men he fought with and against at various times. For a fee, they tell him where to look for explosives. He uses basic tools, no metal detectors and no safety gear. He is not afraid. His museum contains tons of defused mines, heaped in corners, stacked on shelves. Little cards describe each mine’s use
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Demining Cambodia by Hand By Karen J. Coates 1 When Aki Ra was five years old, the Khmer Rouge killed his parents. At age 10, Aki Ra got his first gun, an AK-47, and he learned to plant landmines, fire rockets and make bombs. By 18, Aki Ra had fought for three armies—the Khmer Rouge, the Vietnamese and the Cambodian government— all enemies, each pitting Aki Ra against former friends and relat
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Much Ado about Shakespeare’s Hometown 2 Shakespeare’s home Within Shakespeare’s Birthplace, the period furniture is not original, but it does lend insight into 16th-century life in England. One learns, for example, that the canopy over the bed was useful for keeping rats from falling—or leaping— from on high. Precarious sleeping, those Elizabethan nights were, when beds we
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Much Ado about Shakespeare’s Hometown By Anne Chalfant ©2004 Contra Costa Times, Knight Ridder Newspapers. Distributed by Tribune Media Services 1 The man peppered his writing with unspeakable violence and feverish desire. He then stirred in noble enterprise and romance, creating a famous recipe: the most enduringly popular works in English literature, otherwise known
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Finding the Energy 2 Eat well Susan Kleiner, a registered dietician, says you need a nutrition plan as much as you need a financial plan. “The concept of energy is not just physical, but mental, too,” she says. “Theright foods at the right time provide that feeling of energy. What we eat affects the chemistry of our brain.” The food that enhances the chemistry often consists of healthy ca
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Finding the Energy by Richard Seven ©2005 The Seattle Times, Knight Ridder Newspapers. Distributed by Tribune Media Services Need some energy? To get it you have to spend it, and there’s the rub 1 We’ve got energy-boosting inhalers, energy-boosting cough drops and energy-boosting flavored water. We’ve got energy-boosting pills, energy-boosting snack bars and ene
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New Hope for Spinal Cord Injuries 2 The recovery Aggressive rehabilitation is as important, if not more so, than the surgery, Lima says. Erica Nader’s recovery has been slow but steady. She works out like an Olympian in training: five hours, three days a week and at least two hours a day the rest of the week. She can sense the days when she can push a little more and others when
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New Hope for Spinal Cord Injuries By Patricia Anstett / © 2005, Detroit Free Press, Knight Ridder Newspapers. Distributed by Tribune Media Services. A world of patients with spinal cord injuries is watching Erica Nader. Her recovery may someday be theirs, too. 1 Nader, 26, of Michigan, was the first American to travel to Portugal, in March 2003, for experimental surgery
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Kauai Adventure 3 Floating the canals Locals had been sneaking into the old Lihue Plantation with giant inner tubes to float the canals for decades. The swirling, whirling fun adventure through mountain-fed irrigation canals and tunnels of the former sugar plantation was not for the faint-hearted. Three years ago, Kauai Backcountry Adventures decided to open it to thrill-seeking tourists.
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Kauai Adventure 2 Leaving the jungle, we boarded a wagon pulled by a farm tractor for a trek across Kipu Ranch. We fed Lucy, the pet goose, and the cutest pigs on Earth. A mix of wild boars and farm hogs, the piglets had markings in an assortment of colors. Zipline launch Lunch was at Kamapua’a Falls, 120 feet of cool, foaming froth, right next to the zipline, which stretches 270
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Kauai Adventure By Yvette Cardozo 1 We were standing on a Swiss Family Robinson-style platform 50 feet up in a tree, and were expected to jump. Taking a leap of faith—quite literally—and holding our breaths, we dropped towards the river below, then slid outward . . . on a zipline. Yes, even the paradise-like Hawaiian island of Kauai has a zipline, but extreme adventure he
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How to Enjoy Your Job 2 Keeping on learning The quickest way to fall out of love with your job is to stop learning. When you expand your knowledge or skills it gives you a sense of accomplishment, which in turn makes you feel more successful and content. But some jobs don’t easily lend themselves to new opportunities. If you’ve run into a dead-end on promotions and new projects, find o
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How to Enjoy Your Job By Jane Boucher / Reprinted with permission from Guideposts. © 2004 by Guideposts, Carmel, New York 10512. All rights reserved. Don’t have the job you love? Then learn how to love the job you have. 1 Lots of us have been there: stuck in a job that gets us down. You know the feeling. You watch the clock, praying for the workday to be over. On the a
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Marriage, Not Children, Is a Family’s Center 2 The husband-wife relationship should always trump that of parent and child. Nothing makes a child feel more insecure than the feeling that his parents’ relationship is shaky, that it might come undone at any moment. Conversely, nothing makes a child feel more secure than knowing his parents’ relationship, while not perfect, is strong eno
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