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Hands-on with BBM Channels: BlackBerry's trojan horse social platform

"It's more like Tumblr." That's how one BlackBerry rep described BBM Channels to us, the company's new social networking service announced this past week at BlackBerry Live in Orlando. While Channels, alone, may initially seem like nothing new -- it's an iteration of a social communication model we've seem countless times before -- the service actually speaks more to BlackBerry's forward-facing strategy for BBM as a device-agnostic mobile solution. And, certainly, with the BBM messaging service heading to Android and iOS later this summer, BlackBerry only stands to gain from making its platform more robust, more engaging and more attractive to the big name brands, personalities and publications that draw followers.

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Can NASA's Planet-Hunting Kepler Mission Be Saved?

There's a chance that NASA's Kepler space telescope can recover from the malfunction that has halted its wildly successful search for alien planets, mission team members say.

The second of Kepler's four reaction wheels ? devices that allow the observatory to maintain its position in space ? has failed, depriving Kepler of the ability to lock precisely onto its 150,000-plus target stars, NASA oficials announced Wednesday (May 15).

But mission engineers are not conceding that Kepler's planet-hunting days have come to an end, vowing to try their best to recover the failed reaction wheels over the coming weeks. [Gallery: A World of Kepler Planets]

"I wouldn't call Kepler down and out just yet," NASA science chief John Grunsfeld told reporters Wednesday.

Balky reaction wheels

The Kepler spacecraft spots exoplanets by detecting the tiny brightness dips caused when they pass in front of their parent stars from the instrument's perspective.

The observatory needs three working reaction wheels to do such precision work. When Kepler launched in March 2009, it had four ? three for immediate use and one spare.

One of the wheels, known as number two, failed in July 2012, giving Kepler no margin for error. And the loss this week of another one (called number four) puts an end to the spacecraft's exoplanet hunt, unless a fix can be found.

Engineers have begun considering strategies for bringing the wheels back into service. They'll likely try a light touch at times and a brute-force approach at others, officials said.

"Like with any stuck wheel that you might be familiar with on the ground, we can try jiggling it," said Kepler deputy project manager Charlie Sobeck, of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. "We can try commanding it back and forth in both directions. We can try forcing it through whatever the resistance is that's holding it up."

It's also possible that wheel number two will spring back to life if turned on again now, rested and restored after its long break, Sobeck and others say.

"It was putting metal on metal, and the friction was interfering with its operation, so you could see if the lubricant that is in there, having sat quietly, has redistributed itself, and maybe it will work," Scott Hubbard of Stanford University said in a statement. (Hubbard served as director of NASA Ames during much of Kepler's development and helped guide the mission.)

It will take a few weeks to put together a recovery plan, Sobeck said. It's unknown if any potential fixes will do the trick, but Kepler team members are keeping their fingers crossed.

"There is a reasonable possibility that we will be able to mitigate that problem," said mission principal investigator Bill Borucki, also of NASA Ames. "So I don't think I'd be a pessimist here."

There's no chance of sending astronauts out to service Kepler, as was done five times with NASA's?Hubble Space Telescope?over the years. Kepler orbits the sun rather than the Earth, and it's currently about 40 million miles (64 million kilometers) from our planet.

Another mission?

Kepler has already outlasted its prime mission life of 3.5 years. And even if both reaction wheels are beyond help, Kepler's science work may not come to an end.

It's possible Kepler could still gather valuable data by switching to a scanning mode, as opposed to the "point and stare" operations that defined its first four years in space. If neither failed reaction wheel is recovered, NASA will carry out studies addressing possible new missions for Kepler.

It's too soon to speculate what such missions might look like, officials said.

"We need to know more about the performance of the spacecraft before we can assess what kind of science we'll be able to do with that performance," Sobeck said.

More discoveries to come

Kepler has spotted more than 2,700 potential exoplanets to date. Just 132 of them have been confirmed by follow-up observations so far, but mission scientists expect that more than 90 percent will end up being the real deal.

And the flood of Kepler finds won't slow for a while even if the instrument can no longer lock onto its target stars. The mission team has only had time to go through about half of Kepler's enormous dataset, which team members say is certain to contain many more gems ? including, possibly, the first-ever "alien Earth."

"We have excellent data for an additional two years," Borucki said. "So I think the most interesting, exciting discoveries are coming in the next two years. The mission is not over."

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Nasa's Kepler telescope breaks down

15 May 2013 Last updated at 22:29 ET

The planet-hunting space telescope Kepler has been hobbled by a broken wheel, say scientists at Nasa.

Two of four reaction wheels are now faulty. At least three are needed to orient the telescope correctly.

"I wouldn't call Kepler down and out just yet," said Nasa administrator John Grunsfeld, saying scientists were working on the problem.

Kepler was launched in 2009 and last month identified two distant planets that Nasa said could be habitable.

So far, the $600m (?395m) mission has identified 132 "exoplanets" outside our solar system, and another 2,700 possible candidates.

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Kepler Mission

• Launched in 2009, the Kepler space telescope is on a mission to find Earth-like worlds orbiting distant stars
• It works by detecting periodic variations in the brightness of stars caused by orbiting exoplanets passing in front of them
• In January 2013, astronomers used Kepler's data to estimate that there are at least 17 billion Earth-sized exoplanets in the Milky Way Galaxy

But last July one of the spacecraft's four reaction wheels broke down, leaving scientists aware that a further failure was likely and would prevent the telescope operating as it should.

In a statement, Nasa said the problem had been detected on Tuesday, when the telescope went into a pre-programmed "safe mode" which kicks in "if the observatory has trouble knowing where it should point", Mr Grunsfeld told AFP news agency.

The team's priority now is to put the craft into "Point Rest State" - reducing fuel consumption so the craft has enough left to last months or years, giving scientists the time to decide how to proceed.

Kepler completed its primary three-and-a-half year mission last November, Nasa says, and is now in an extended mission phase.

The US space agency says the telescope has generated a wealth of data which could generate new discoveries for years to come.

Last month, scientists announced that Kepler had discovered two of the most intriguing candidates yet in the search for Earth-like exoplanets.

They orbit the Kepler-62 star in the Constellation Lyra - 1,200 light-years from Earth.

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The final shot, with windshield wipers struggling to clean away a torrent of muddy water, suggests that no human agency is great enough to handle this world's misery.

"Beyond the Hills" seethes with astonishment and rage at a broken society marooned between the 21st century and the 16th.

It is a haunting movie, dealing with superstitions, possession, even exorcism, one in which Mungiu poses no easy answers, because there are none to be found.

If you long for the bleak intelligence of an Ingmar Bergman film, where humankind is deeply flawed and God is indifferently silent and the landscape is cloaked in perpetual winter, then Beyond the Hills promises to be your cup of despair.

There are no easy villains or heroes in this sad and slow but forcefully told tale, which exhibits the same humanity Mungiu brought to 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, his abortion drama that won the 2007 Palme d'Or.

A film that asks its viewer to consider the nature of good and evil, love and trust - and trust that turns into something like blind faith.

You'd swear Mungiu has inherited the spirit of Ingmar Bergman. All that's missing is the stark black-and-white photography.

Beyond the Hills' undercurrents prove more interesting than its storyline or characters.

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(Writer-director Christian) Mungiu balances his film's more disturbing content with peaceful shots of the idyllic, surrounding countryside and of intimacy between the two women while slowly building to an inevitable conclusion.

When the ill and unstable Alina returns to the monastery, just so she can be with her beloved, Beyond the Hills becomes a species of those exorcism movies that audiences gorge on, only done with a realism and ambiguity usually missing from the genre.

What makes this movie unique is that it holds literally everyone in the film accountable for the unfortunate goings on.

It's an exorcism movie for everyone who thought, after Mungiu's gruelling abortion buddy-movie 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, that this guy should do an exorcism movie

It's an enigmatic and austere film from a region where political, sexual and religious repression are as stifling as the sooty air.

Mungui's rigorous approach to filmmaking isn't a ton of fun to watch, but his ideas stick with you.

It delivers an emotional punch, in what its director has called a story about the sin of indifference.

Such is the rigorous and high-minded nature of Romanian cinema that even a real-life exorcism story can inspire something loftier than a horror movie.

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...Cristian Mungiu has taken a real life event...to consider deeply human philosophies such as freedom vs. discipline, love vs. security, the choices facing those without financial recourse and the hypocrisies of organized religions.

I found it riveting to watch and fascinating to think about afterwards.

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An anchor for making sound judgments

A Christian Science perspective: We each have built-in good-judgment equipment.

By Barbara Vining / May 14, 2013

Recent events ? the Boston Marathon bombings, the escape of three women from years of captivity in a Cleveland neighborhood, and other happenings ? have sounded alarm bells for citizens of all ages.

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The questions are, How can we be more alert to signs of trouble and respond in ways that can help prevent or correct harmful situations? And what can we do to help children and adolescents think and act in ways that will keep themselves and others safe?

I?ve read enlightening reports offered by the media that address these issues ? illustrating with examples how innocent adults and children can be lured into a trap and how they can avert it, and explaining how character education can prepare young people to make good judgments even under peer pressure. It?s heartening to see the media engaging in this kind of public education. It?s helpful, and greatly needed. The more the better ? and I want to do all I can to support it.

I find it natural to turn to prayer for guidance in this endeavor. What?s been coming to the forefront of my prayers is this idea: We are all God?s sons and daughters, and, as such, we each (children and adolescents included) have built-in good-judgment equipment. Let me explain.

What I?m talking about is something that already exists within everyone ? our inseparable connection with God, the infinite and unerring divine Mind, and our God-given ability to know and do what?s right and good under any circumstance. We live in God?s presence. In actual fact, God, good, is presence itself ? the only real presence ? in which we live and move, and from which it is impossible to be disconnected. Consequently, the wisdom of God is with us in every situation, for us to discern and respond to. The Bible's book of Isaiah, a book that Jesus referenced often in his ministry, gives us this assurance: ?If you go the wrong way ? to the right or to the left ? you will hear a voice behind you saying, ?This is the right way. You should go this way? ? (Isaiah 30:21, New Century Version).

This doesn?t mean, of course, that we will necessarily hear God speaking to us in an audible voice, or in words detailing exactly what we should do. It does mean, though, that we each have within us the spiritual intuition to discern the direction in which divine Love is leading us ? and that we have the ability to follow it even if human opinions and pressures are urging us in other directions that we intuitively know are wrong.

This connection with God and His ever-available and unerring guidance can be nurtured and practiced. It?s a solid foundation to build upon in our own lives, and in our efforts to help children and young people. It is sure to make these efforts increasingly successful. And our example is a sure help to others. Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered Christian Science, makes that point clear in this way: ?A musician demonstrates the beauty of the music he teaches in order to show the learner the way by practice as well as precept? (?Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,? p. 26).

In addition, though, we can know that no child, young person, or adult can ever be without God?s guidance and the ability to respond to it. For whether or not one has been taught this truth or been supplied with living examples, the ability to hear and follow the guidance of divine Love is spiritually inherent in each man, woman, and child. Here is the basis for effective prayer for those we love, all humanity, and ourselves.

This kind of prayer is practical because individuals are often placed under the stress of circumstances in which there is an urgent need requiring an immediate decision, with no time to ponder all the possible courses of action and their consequences. But everyone is actually good-judgment equipped with the inherent ability to tap into and follow the divine wisdom that trumps mere human reasoning and is immediately at hand. Prayer that acknowledges this fact is an anchor promoting sound judgments and actions to keep individuals and communities safe and secure. Let us pray.

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