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Fairfax, VA, United States,Senior Accountant,In House
Direct Holdings, the exclusive marketer of Time Life music, video, DVDs, books, and educational materials, is looking for a Senior Accountant for their Northern Virginia office. Position Overview: The Senior Accountant position is responsible for supporting the accounting, financial reporting and analysis, and budgeting for domestic and international divisions. Responsibilities: · Ensuring that financial statements are properly stated · Preparing consolidated financial statements each month…

Investigating Privacy Attitudes and Behavior in Relation to Personalization

This article presents an experimental study of privacy-related attitudes and behaviors regarding a music recommender service based on two types of user modeling: personality traits and musical preferences. Contrary to prior expectations and attitudes reported by participants, personality traits are frequently disclosed to the system and other users, indicating that embedded modeling of user personality does not represent an acceptance barrier. Discrepancies between privacy attitudes and behaviors have been reported before in the context of e-commerce applications, but the corresponding studies could not exclude several conflicting hypotheses, such as participants expressing attitudes outside the context of specific privacy dilemmas and contact with researchers, which may have mitigated perceived privacy risks. Arguably, these are fundamental problems in empirical investigations into privacy that apply to most published works relating to privacy and user modeling. Measures to control these factors in this study are discussed, and methodological suggestions for future research are presented.

honest john :: Nov.14.2008 :: General :: No Comments »

Great Classic Kids' Movies
Eight classic movies for children that will keep the adults entertained as well. Wholesome family film adventures with great art, terrific old-school special effects, live animals, singing dancing and merriment - from Mary Poppins to Willy Wonka, from Doctor Doolittle to the Swiss Family Robinson.

honest john :: Nov.14.2008 :: General :: No Comments »

New York City Restaurants NYC Dining New York Chefs NYC Nightlife

journeyPod is your guide to luxury travel around the world.  Listen in for tips on New York City restaurants, NYC dining tips, and New York nightlife.  Learn where the celebrities dine in NY.  Hear from a top NY chef as he prepares American cuisine with fresh simple flavors.

We go behind the scenes at one of the top restaurants in NY- 7Square.  Checkout this new hotspot that has cooked up tasty treats for all the stars.  Stay with us at a trendy boutique hotel in Times Square.

Enjoy podsafe music from a top all girl band in New York.  We liked their song so much we decided to use it in our show intro.

MySpace to create an MP3 player?
Section: Apple, Audio, Portable Audio, Video, Portable Video, Web, Downloads, Websites, Online Music/Video Look out Apple, there could be a company in town with a player to kill the iPod.  In all seriousness, MySpace might enter the MP3 player department, a place where Apple’s iPod has dominated for quite a while now.  At the Web 2.0 Summit […]

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Snow (Hey Oh) - Music Video
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Snow (Hey Oh) - Music Video

honest john :: Nov.13.2008 :: General :: No Comments »

Live-Action Akira Remake Script Surprisingly Faithful to the Original [Akira]

Ever since Warner Bros. announced its plans to remake the 1988 anime Akira as a pair of live-action films, fans have been understandably nervous. Although Katsuhiro Otomo, the creator of both the original Akira manga and its animated adaptation, is on board as the film’s executive producer, some fear that Hollywood will water down the tale of post-apocalyptic Neo-Tokyo to the point of blandness. But one fan who has seen the new Akira script says the remake is, if anything, too faithful to the original.

Latino Review talked to Dr. Strangefist, who had an opportunity to review the script for the first live-action film, written by The Book of Eli scribe Gary Whitta. Dr. Strangefist outlines the basic premise of the new script, along with some of the characters’ newly-Anglicized names (Kaneda is still Kaneda, but Tetsuo somehow became “Travis,” which just isn’t as much fun to scream). Overall, he found the script happily familiar, although it doesn’t add much to the Akira universe:

The people out there who demand faithfulness in adaptations and remakes should be pleasantly surprised, even if not outright delighted by this script; sure, a few elements are slightly watered-down, Hollywood-ized, Americanized – but there is no outright wrecking, ruining, or childhood raping going on here. All things considered it is shockingly faithful to the source material, at times reading like a flat-out transcript/description of the animated movie, and even incorporating aspects of the original manga that were left out of the anime version. It is faithful not only in plot and character details, but in tone. It retains the darkness, the violence, the epic qualities and even some of the themes, though they’ve been tweaked, Americanized, and updated to apply to current events. They are also maybe a bit less complex, but still this is admirable. This adaptation actually retains a lot of the style and, more surprisingly, substance of the original. If you are already a fan, you will probably like this adaptation, because a lot of the same things are good about it.

The other side of that coin, though, is that it’s not bringing many fresh ideas or perspectives on the material to the table. What I love about good remakes or adaptations, what in fact makes some of them good, is that they are opportunities for artists with distinct voices and visions to take already existing works and re-interpret them, pay respect to them but use them to say new things and make them their own. There is very little of that happening here. Don’t get me wrong, as much as I’m talking about how faithful it is, a lot of that reaction is due to my surprise that it’s not a complete bastardization. We’re not exactly talking Gus Van Sant’s Psycho levels of slavishness here. But it’s not a particularly fresh take either. Neither infuriatingly dumbed-down nor invigoratingly creative and exciting, it just kind of exists - at least as a script.

It’ll be interesting to see if the filmmakers take a similarly faithful approach to the film’s visual style, or if they introduce a new vision to Akira while maintaining a similar storyline. Director Ruairi Robinson, who makes his directorial debut with Akira, is certainly no stranger to post-apocalyptic filmmaking, as is evident in his recent short film The Silent City:

[Latino Review via Animated News]

The Dreamers Movie Photos - The Dreamers Photos, Eva Green, Michael Pitt and Louis Garrel, Bernardo Bertolucci
Gallery of photos from the Fox Searchlight Pictures movie "The Dreamers", directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Eva Green, Michael Pitt and Louis Garrel.

WALL-E Review
WALL-E (2008)- Movie review for parents about the Disney/Pixar animated film WALL-E. WALL-E is rated G.

honest john :: Nov.13.2008 :: General :: No Comments »

Ireland - Episode 145
The Amateur Traveler talks to Nick about his adopted country of Ireland: hear about Dublin, Galway and Cork. Learn where you can find Irish history, hear about how Ireland is rapidly changing, and learn where you can find a good pint and some Irish music. News Travel News Carnival - July 18, 2008 Ads to be printed […]

South Beach Wine and Food Festival

journeyPod is your guide to luxury travel around the world. 

Al Roker and Pat Neely share barbeque secrets at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival at The Delano Hotel. Guests enjoyed a copious amount of Moet and Chandon Champagne while nibbling on BBQ pork and beef ribs.The festival showcased celebrity chefs from around the world. Fine wines and good times on Miami Beach! Local restaurants from Miami served up amazing samples for the masses. For more info on the top restaurants of Miami check out our journeyPod Destination Guide.

We leave you with a great track from a hardworking band called Death Cab For Cutie and their song "Title and Registration."

honest john :: Nov.12.2008 :: General :: No Comments »

Alice Braga - Alice Braga in Lower City
A photos from the Palm Pictures movie "Lower City," directed by Sergio Machado and starring Alice Braga, Harildo Deda, Jose Dumont.

Madagascar 2 Review
Review of Madagascar Escape 2 Africa featuring the voices of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett-Smith and David Schwimmer. Madagascar Escape 2 Africa movie review, storyline, and casst info.

honest john :: Nov.12.2008 :: General :: No Comments »

Bahrain Travel Tips and Middle Eastern Nightlife

journeyPod is your guide to luxury travel around the world. We give you VIP access to the hippest hotels, hottest nightlife and coolest restaurant.

Discover Bahrain, Pearl of the Gulf, a small island located in the Arabian Gulf. Come haggling with us at the Gold and Spice Souks, try pearl diving, jump on a jet ski and head to Al Dar island, and marvel at the Tree of Life located in the middle of the desert.

Soak up some sun, luxury style, at the Ritz Carlton Bahrain Hotel and Spa. Director of Sales and Marketing, Ken Hill, discusses architecture, rooms, spa, and our journeyPod pick for the most luxurious hotel pool.

The Ritz Carlton is already completely packed for the upcoming Formula One race which will be held on April 15th, 2007.

Enjoy the eclectic sounds from DJ Stylez and his song "Arabian Miami".

honest john :: Nov.11.2008 :: General :: No Comments »

DVD Pick: Seven Samurai
Ivana Redwine reviews Seven Samurai.

Dora Saves the Snow Princess
Dora Saves the Snow Princess (2008) - Read a review of the DVD Dora Saves the Snow Princess, featuring the new voice of Dora, Caitlin Sanchez.

honest john :: Nov.11.2008 :: General :: No Comments »

Bringing the Flavor of Ireland to NYC

Located around the corner from Grand Central Station in New York City is a hidden gem called The WheelTapper Pub. Hereâs a trivia question for you… what is a âwheeltapper"?

If youâre thinking this is âjust another Irish Pub,â? have we got a surprise for you! I mean, seriously, how many Irish Pubâs have a AAA 5-Diamond Rating?!  If that doesnât do it for you, we can mention that it has close to one million dollars in authentic Irish rail system artifacts scattered throughout the inside and outside areas. The bar was even brought over from Ireland–piece by piece! And donât think everything about this Pub is old-school, it has certainly embraced technology by installing monitors that communicate the train schedules from Grand Central Station, real-time. So if your train is running seven minutes late, you can relax and enjoy that Guinness, instead of slamming it down…

journeyPod enjoyed a traditional Irish breakfast, complete with white and black pudding (I must admit, I didnât know âpuddingâ? wasnât pudding–boy was I shocked!) Then journeyPod had a chance to speak with Chef Auggie and found out first hand what the heck a âwheeltapperâ? really is…

Check out the Celtic sounds of pod-safe artists, Great Big Sea and their song, Irish Paddy Festival.

honest john :: Nov.10.2008 :: General :: No Comments »

Kristen Stewart Photo - In the Land of Women Movie Kristen Stewart Photo
Photo of Kristen Stewart from the movie In the Land of Women.

Chris Rock Set for Death at a Funeral Remake
The comedian will co-write the film in an urban setting.

honest john :: Nov.10.2008 :: General :: No Comments »