LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) ? Alfred Molina, Frances O'Connor ("Bedazzled"), Jimmi Simpson ("Date Night") and British actor Aneurin Barnard have joined the cast of "Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes," TheWrap has confirmed.
Jessica Biel and Kaya Scodelario star in the film from Italian director/writer Francesca Gregorini ("Tanner Hall"). It's currently in preproduction.
The film is about a troubled girl (played by "Moon" actress Kaya Scodelario) who babysits a lifelike doll owned by her neighbor (played by Biel). The girl becomes obsessed with the neighbor, who looks just like the girl's dead mother.
Molina will play the girl's father, and O'Connor will play her stepmother. Barnard will play the girl's romantic interest, while Simpson will play one of the girl's co-workers at a medical supply store.
MRB Productions' "Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes" is being produced by Gregorini, Matt Brady, Kenny Goodman, Jonathan Gray, Kevin Iwashina, Sarah Thorp and Luke Watson.
Facebook's first Hacker Cup, held in March, drew 25 finalists from 10 countries.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Think your programming skills are world class? Facebook wants you to prove it at its second annual Hacker Cup challenge.
"Hacking is core to how we build at Facebook," the company said in a blog post announcing this year's competition. "Whether we're building a prototype for a major product like Timeline at a Hackathon, creating a smarter search algorithm, or tearing down walls at our new headquarters, we're always hacking to find better ways to solve problems."
Open to coders anywhere in the world, Facebook's competition pits participants against each other in five rounds of programming challenges. The first kicks off January 20 with a 72-hour qualification round. Three more online rounds will thin the field down to the final 25 competitors, who will be flown out to Facebook's Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters for a final competition in March.
The winner will receive a $5,000 cash prize. Last year, nearly 12,000 programmers participated in the Hacker's Cup. Petr Mitrichev, a Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) employee from Russia, took home the top prize. (In a nicely ironic twist, Mitrichev wore his Google employee badge during the competition.)
Tech companies have an ulterior motive for running hacking contest: They're a great way to find skilled programmers, one of the industry's scarcest resources. Google runs an annual Code Jam contest, which Mitrichev won in 2006.
Facebook prides itself on its hacker culture, and dangles coding puzzles on its recruiting page with the slogan: "Solve programming challenges. Get a phone interview." The company frequently holds marathon staff hackathons as part of its product-development process.
Facebook also likes to crowdsource its site hacking. In August, the social network launched a "bug bounty" security initiative, inviting security researchers to send details of any Facebook vulnerabilities they uncover. Facebook offers up a finder's fee of at least $500 to those who find security holes. ?
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China Petrochemical Corp. (NYSE:SHI) struck a multi-billion-dollar deal with Devon Energy Corp. (NYSE:DVN) for a 33% stake in 5 US shale Oil and Gas fields, in another move by a Chinese state-owned firm wanting to play a bigger role in the Global rush to tap unconventional fossil fuels.
Under the terms of the deal, expected to close in the current Quarter, Devon will be the operator. Sinopec, as the Chinese Oil giant is known, will pay Devon US$900-M at closing.
That payment includes US$300-M in reimbursements for money Devon already spent on acreage and drilling acquisition, according to a Devon spokesman.
In addition, it will pay US$1.6-B to Devon in the form of a drilling carry expected to be realized by the end of Y 2014.
Sinopec is making its first foray into the US Oil Patch through the deal with Devon, one of the 1st companies to successfully tap shale fields.
It follows the path taken by CNOOC Ltd. (NYSE:CEO), (HK:0883), which in Y?s 2010 and 2011 bought stakes in Chesapeake Energy Corp.?s (NYSE:CHK) operations in south Texas?s Oil-rich Eagle Ford shale and in shale assets in Colorado and Wyoming.
Sinopec?s involvement underlines the ambitions of its Chairman, Fu Chengyu, who has directed a wave of mergers and acquisitions since he took the job in May.
Formerly chairman of CNOOC, Fu is best known outside of China for that company?s bold attempt to buy US Oil firm Unocal Corp. 6 yrs ago, an effort that failed in the face of political opposition in the US.
In Y 2011 Sinopec and its listed unit together bid for US$19.7-B in acquisitions, according to Dealogic, building on spending of U $18.9-B in Y 2010 in assets as far-flung as Canada, Australia and Brazil.
The shale deals give Chinese state Oil giants access to one of the most dynamic Oil and Gas regions in the World, where production is rising dramatically thanks to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, technology applied in the past decade. Learning and adapting fracking methods to shale plays in China could unlock massive new domestic Oil and Gas reserves for the emerging Superpower, just as it is changing the energy landscape of the US.
Countries need access to energy commodities around the Globe so they are not killed when price spikes.
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Debris from the tsunami that devastated Japan in March 2011?could reach the United States as early as this winter, according to predictions by NOAA scientists. However, they warn there is still a large amount of uncertainty over exactly what is still floating, where it's located, where it will go, and when it will arrive. Responders now have a challenging, if not impossible situation on their hands: How do you deal with debris that could now impact U.S. shores, but is difficult to find?
Federal Agencies Join Forces
To learn more about the tsunami debris, NOAA researchers have been working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and other partners to coordinate data collection activities.
NOAA and its partners are also coordinating an interagency assessment and response plan to address the wide-range of potential scenarios and threats posed by the debris.
?We?re preparing for the best and worst case scenarios ? and everything in between,? says Nancy Wallace, director for NOAA?s Marine Debris Program.
As the tsunami surge receded, it washed much of what was in the coastal inundation zone into the ocean. Boats, pieces of smashed buildings, appliances, and plastic, metal, and rubber objects of all shapes and sizes washed into the water ? either sinking near the shore or floating out to sea. The refuse formed large debris fields captured by satellite imagery and aerial photos of the coastal waters.
The Japanese government estimated that the tsunami generated 25 million tons of rubble, but there is no clear understanding of exactly how much debris was swept into the water nor what remained afloat.
? What remains of the debris?
Nine months later, debris fields are no longer visible. Winds and ocean currents scattered items in the massive North Pacific Ocean to the point where debris is no longer visible from satellite.? Vessels regularly traveling the North Pacific have reported very few sightings. Only two pieces have been clearly linked to the tsunami.?
NOAA is coordinating new interagency reporting and monitoring efforts that will provide critical information on the location of the marine debris generated by the tsunami. Ships can now report significant at-sea debris sightings and individuals or groups can request shoreline monitoring guides at DisasterDebris@noaa.gov.
Where is it?
Computer models run by NOAA and University of Hawaii researchers show some debris could pass near or wash ashore in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (in the Papah?naumoku?kea Marine National Monument) as early as this winter, approach the West Coast of the United States and Canada in 2013, and circle back to the main Hawaiian Islands in 2014 through 2016.
Researchers caution that models are only predictions based on location of debris when it went into the water, combined with historical ocean currents and wind speeds.
Conditions in the ocean constantly change, and items can sink, break down, and disperse across a huge area. Because it is not known what remains in the water column nor where, scientists can?t determine with certainty if any debris will wash ashore.
Worst- and Best-case Scenarios
The worst-case scenario is boats and unmanageable concentrations of other heavy objects could wash ashore in sensitive areas, damage coral reefs, or interfere with navigation in Hawaii and along the U.S. West Coast. Best case? The debris will break up, disperse and eventually degrade, sparing coastal areas.
Debris will not go away completely, even in a best-case scenario. Marine debris is an ongoing problem for Hawaii and West Coast states, where garbage and other harmful items regularly wash up on beaches, reefs and other coastal areas.?
NOAA has convened experts to review available data and information from models and provide their perspectives on debris fate and transport. They are gathering information on significant sighting of marine debris in the North Pacific through NOAA?s Office of Marine and Aviation Operation?s Pacific fleet, the NOAA Voluntary Observing Ship Program, which includes industry long-haul transport vessels, as well as the NOAA Pacific Island Regional Observer Program and their work with the Hawaii longline fishing industry. NOAA is also working with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the State of Hawaii on shoreline debris monitoring in the Papah?naumoku?kea Monument.
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