One man made a plea for Scorsese to help actor Nick Nolte, who hasfallen from Hollywood’s graces in recent years, while a Spanishfilmmaker pitched himself to DiCaprio, saying he wanted to give himhis card.

Other questions that seemed to annoy the moderator included onefrom a lady who asked DiCaprio to say something in German (theactor does speak some in the movie). and one reporter from KurdishTV asked, “When are you going to make your next big Mafioso film,something like ‘Goodfellas 2′?”

After initially laughing off the query, Scorsese said he hadnothing more to add to the genre before revealing that he andRobert de Niro were talking about “something that has to do withthat world. No doubt about it. but it’s from the vantage point ofolder men looking back.”

The panelists, which also included actors Mark Ruffalo, MichelleWilliams and Ben Kingsley as well as producers Brad Fischer, MikeMedavoy and Arnold Messer, did manage to keep a good chunk of thepresser on point, for example tackling the movie’s theme of fearand paranoia, and how it related to the 1950s setting.

The movie is based on a novel by Dennis Lehane and Scorsese andDiCaprio said that, while they did read the book, it was the scriptthat first got their attention.

“To be honest, it was the emotional impact I had reading the lasttwo scenes (that got me hooked),” Scorsese said.

Actors like Williams and Ruffalo, however, said they looked to thebook for a deeper understanding of their characters, trying to findnuggets that helped with the psychology of the roles.

“It does some of the work for you,” Williams said.

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You read about how Twitter is the next big thing on the internet. Blog gurus rave about

how their websites were choked with traffic as their blog articles got retweeted. You spend a few months on Twitter building a huge followership. Finally you realize that nothing that you post on Twitter get your followers interested. where did things go wrong? here are five tips to help your blog articles get more traffic from Twitter through retweets

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1. Install the retweet button

A lot of people realize the importance of an article when they read it. but most people need to be told the importance of an article before they realize its significance. when your articles are engaging enough, your blog visitors tend to form an opinion for or against what you have written. either way is fine, but ensure you instigate their thoughts to make an opinion. Such a visitor shall surely be looking to put his point of view forward to his group, and the retweet button reminds him to do just that – retweet your link.

2. Cater to the Ego

Let us suppose you write an article on “Most beautiful cities in the world”. No matter how much time you spent in researching your subject, all that the reader wants to know is whether his city has made it to the list or not. A tweet on this post mentioning the title of this post with a link to your blog might get you casual visits, but then that is not enough to make them hungry to retweet. to do that, soothe or hurt their ego. A tweet that reads ‘Detroit better than New York in beautiful city list’ is sure to make both Detroit and New Yorkers read your blog and either praise or curse you while retweeting. And people from other cities are always going to visit you to see where their city stands!

3. find the maven

While growing your followership is important, the quality of your followership is important too. there are the ‘absorbant‘ kinds – those who read all your tweets but don’t care sharing them to others and the ‘dispersant‘ kinds – those who retweet anything mildly interesting. Study the behavior of twitterers, and follow them. Retweet interesting links they have posted (Why? Read Point 2). reply to their tweets with your opinion or suggesting better reads. They are sure to follow you. They matter a LOT!

4. Direct message with link

If you blog about “pets”, keep following all that people tweet about “pets”. You can do so by simply following the Twitter search RSS feed for that particular keyword on your RSS reader. Study the kind of things people tweet about. A lot of them could be people tweeting queries on the subject. Check back on your blog to see if you have written about those queries. if not, write down a quick post and reply to the twitterer with this link. do this to a few people a day and you will have people following your blog posts blindly and retweeting every article you post.

5. put it in perspective

Statistics are great. People like them a lot. but you need put your statistics in perspective to get them ‘retweet’ interested. “200 people infected with Swine flu” is a good article to tweet about. but what does the reader want to know? 200 people – is it too many people or less? but suppose you tweet ‘Swine flu has affected 50% more people than SARS’- now this is something that will set the reader thinking. he is definitely going to retweet to alert his followers on the danger posed by this new flu!

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Fianna Fail was not responsible for the leak that led to Trevor Sargent’s resignation, a rebel TD has said.

Donegal TD Dr Jim McDaid said if a member of Fianna Fail revealed the story, it was suicidal for the Government.

He said, however that the Government won’t last another year.

“It would be absolutely crazy that any Government minister would try to snitch or do a Mossad-type assassination on Trevor Sargent because it was certainly not in the coalition’s interest. And secondly, there may be other people in Fianna Fail’s sights but Trevor Sargent wouldn’t be one of them,” Dr McDaid.

“But nonetheless, they have damaged the trust in there and there are factions within the Green Party. But I also think this Trevor Sargent thing will do them more good than harm.”

He predicted on Newtalk’s Lunchtime with Eamon Keane show that the Government would collapse this year.

Dr McDaid was speaking in light of the resignations of both Mr Sargent and Willie O’Dea.

He expects the Greens to push through a number of items and then pull the plug.

“My honest opinion of this is that I do think there are some pieces of legislation the Green Party want to get through and I do think they’ll get them through in the next two to three months,” he said.

kdoyle@herald.ie

- Kevin Doyle, POLITICAL REPORTER

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Local family sees a growing market in United States for olive oil – Visalia Times-Delta
In 1976, California wines beat France’s in a blind tasting and began a new revolution in wine. The Sawatzky family said the same thing is happening today, except it’s with California olive oils. “California will compete, does compete, in quality
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French refineries strike nears end – NewOrleans.Com
PARIS (AP) – a nearly weeklong strike by French refinery workers that had choked off over half the nation’s oil refining capacity neared an end Wednesday after one of the country’s largest unions recommended workers suspend their walkout. France’s
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Green Oasis Environmental Inc. on Target to Record Year End 2010 – MSN Money
Its current facility has the capabilities of processing up to 1,500 barrels of slop oil with a conversion ratio of approximately 50% to finished crude. Through its ongoing contract, CCP sells the processed slop oil to Shell Trading (US) Company ( www
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World markets steady ahead of Bernanke testimony – NewOrleans.Com
Oil prices fell a tad further Wednesday with the benchmark contract down 20 cents at $78.66. The euro was up 0.3 percent at $1.3549 while the dollar dropped 0.1 percent to 90.11 yen. AP Business Writer Jeremiah Marquez in Hong Kong contributed to
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XOP Networks Launches Next Generation Crashnet Ring down Firebar – TMCnet
Plano, TX, Feb 24, 2010 (PRWeb.com via COMTEX) — XOP Networks, Inc (http://www.xopnetworks.com)., a manufacturer of value Added Service platforms that provide Voice Mail, Mass Notification (emergency notification), Audio Conferencing, Web
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Black Diamond Group Limited Announces $ 30 Million Capital Expenditure – Market Wire
Black Diamond Group Limited (TSX:BDI) (”Black Diamond” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce a $30 million increase to its 2010 capital expenditure budget. this increase will bring the total 2010 capital expenditure budget of Black Diamond to
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Natural gas incentives up against coal – Marketplace.publicradio.org
Steve Chiotakis: President Obama addresses the nation’s top CEOs at a business roundtable meeting scheduled later today. He’s expected to roll out a proposal to incentivize coal-burning power plants to switch to natural gas. From Washington
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French refineries strike nears end – NewOrleans.Com
PARIS (AP) – a nearly weeklong strike by French refinery workers that had choked off over half the nation’s oil refining capacity neared an end Wednesday after one of the country’s largest unions recommended workers suspend their walkout. France’s
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Cloud computing is the future of digital storage and computing resources served up remotely from data centers, also known as the cloud. Consumers can access multiple applications from any portable device that supports little processing power. these devices save energy and can access the information from anywhere for as short or as long as required because they take less electricity to power.

Amazon, Google and Microsoft have made a big push in this space to capture market share. For Microsoft, the challenge becomes building on its Azure cloud as businesses in the United States begin to ramp up as the economy improves. For example, the latest version of Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 desktop suite features social networking tools, co-authoring tools and a connection to Microsoft Office Web apps. it also connects through cloud computing.

For Amazon, cloud computing could provide the server capacity that allows it to launch a movie channel on the Kindle, where server capacity would support streaming videos on demand. Apple could also provide this feature on the iPad. in theory, consumers and companies can house data in a secure area on a server cloud. an application suite could allow people to use and transmit data using the programs.

in a perfect cloud world, people would wander around with a light display device with minimal processing power that lets them access applications from anywhere. The devices don’t require huge amounts of processing power. They will only need to pick up and transmit signal and data.

And while these are hypothetical scenarios Joseph Rosenbaum and I discussed recently, the technology isn’t that far off from making it a reality, claims the Reed Smith partner, who chairs the firm’s global Advertising Technology & Media Law practice.

Microsoft has been working on offering applications that support functions that process payroll, create Word documents and edit photos. these applications not only populate a database, but have the ability to send and receive data changes without having the program on your computer.

The idea harkens back to dumb computer terminals, (a concept that I hope shows my knowledge about computing, rather than my age). it allows users to do more with less computing power on the desktop or phone because the server-side software does the processing and they just interact with it. Cloud computing takes that concept a little further.

Rosenbaum tells me his vision of cloud computing connects devices to applications that sit servers. Think utilities, he says. The model would let companies implement a flexible pay-as-you-go system. Pay by the hour, kilowatt or some other type of benchmark. Also think about the way companies began outsourcing IT services or human resources. Sophisticated Adobe rendering software may cost more than Microsoft Word, but people would have access to all on a variety of different devices that could access the Web.

Rosenbaum also points to gas or electronic companies. They don’t care whether you plug a battery charger, PC or toaster into a wall outlet, they charge for the electricity that drives the devices. Imagine you have a screen and a keyboard and could just plug it in as you wandered around the world. all you’d need is an account number and an access point to the Internet, whether wireless or wired. it wouldn’t matter what wireless carrier provides you cellular service, or if your carrier doesn’t offer cellular service. you roam, and more often than not, the phone still works. Why wouldn’t the cloud function be similar?

I nod my head when Rosenbaum suggests Google, Microsoft and Amazon could offer cloud services, but they would need to reach an interoperability agreement, so consumers could quickly move from one application to another worldwide. he explains the theory that “cloud computing is fundamentally built on a capacity model — which is to say that if I have a generator with a specific amount of capacity, I need to make sure I can service my customers at peak times.” thus, “I would try and optimize the use during lower times to make sure the servers don’t work overtime and burn out during some hours of the day, and sit idle at other hours of the day.”

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The Swiss actor Bruno Ganzs played Hitler and his convincing performance was hailed as the best of all Hitler-actors and the movie was nominated for an Academy Award in the best Foreign Language Film category.

This scene is at the bunker in Berlin where Hitler has confined himself during his last days.. as he was berating his generals for failing to stop the Russian troops who were closing in on the city.

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As the tweets pour in, Wordpress confirms that the Wordpress.com hosted service is down.

The company is working on restoring the service as we speak. We’ll update this post with more news about the downtime as it comes in.

Do you have any sites affected by today’s Wordpress.com outage?

[UPDATE]: Wordpress CEO Matt Mullenweg posted an update on WP’s Twitter account that reads: “We’re investigating the source & most expedient fix. I hope to have everyone’s blogs back & running as soon as possible.”

[UPDATE]: Wordpress.com is back up. Matt Mullenweg’s tweet reports “We are back running at full capacity now. Closely monitoring services for any aftershocks.”

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Doink the Clown, Bull Buchanan. Other stars will include long-time NWA and WCW competitors Brickhouse Brown and Mr. Wrestling as well as Cameron Valentine, the nephew of long-time star Greg “The Hammer” Valentine. Hollywood Jimmy Blaylock, the Giant Hillbilly, JD McKay, A.N.T., Lord Humongous and many many more.

Doors open at 6 p.m. and the show begins at 7 p.m. Tickets for the TV taping event are $10 and are currently on sale at the Theo Ratliff Activity Center and will also be available the day of the show beginning at noon.

The Demopolis event is scheduled to have seven matches including a bull rope match and an anything-goes bout.

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Just before noon local time, a small private plane owned by Joseph Stack, crashed into the seven-story Echelon office building in Austin.

The crash caused several small fires within the building with black smoke able to be seen for miles.

Soon after the crash reports of an internet manifesto written by Stack appeared online.

If the manifesto is indeed authentic (which it appears to be), the crash doesn’t appear to be part of any wider terror plot.

We’ll bring you more details as they become available.

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