'Les Miserables' Wins Huge Christmas Box Office

Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained' placed second next to 'Les Mis' with huge Christmas day opening numbers.
By Josh Wigler

Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway in "Les Miserables"
Photo: Universal Pictures

Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1699387/les-miserables-box-office.jhtml

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Real Estate in Chennai: Reaching New Heights

The realty sector of Chennai is booming and ensures great returns on investments on properties. Investors prefer real estate in Chennai these days because of the fast development of the city and its infrastructure.

The culture and legacy of Tamil Nadu is very charming, attracting many visitors and tourists from all over the world. Tamil Nadu has always been the favorite tourist destination for the tourists, including foreigners, and is always flooded with a large number of visitors.

The city offers luxury to its visitors. Chennai is one of the oldest cities of India that offers best living conditions to the residents. The culture of the city is traditional, and at the same time well equipped with modern lifestyle luxuries. Chennai is very well connected with all major cities of India by roads, railway or airways. The infrastructure of the city is going to improve with the upcoming metro project. The Phase I of the metro project covering a length of 45.1 km is under construction, which will soon be operational and ensure a smooth and fast transit of passengers.

The smooth and broad roads of the city make the city alluring for the residents and other people to invest in real estate in Chennai. The government of Tamil Nadu is committed to make it a high tech city.

Investors are approaching Chennai due to great real estate potential of the city, and other latest infrastructural developments. The improvement in infrastructure has also attracted corporate giants to establish their offices in the city. Chennai being one the metropolitan cities, has good connectivity with the main cities in India, thus makes business comfortable and smooth, and attracts more and more investors who are looking for good business atmosphere.

Tourism and hospitality sector in Chennai is good that has added to the real estate value of the city and more and more people are planning to make investments in the real estate industry of Chennai. The increased demand for real estate in Chennai has thus led to increase in the property prices, which is expected to increase further.

A number of renowned real estate builders are venturing in Chennai with different residential and commercial construction projects such as Golden Homes Pvt. Ltd., Appaswamy Real Estates Limited, Jain Housing & Construction Ltd., Sri Satya Sai Constructions, etc. These projects are all set to offer excellent living environment and buildings to the residents. Government is also supporting the latest real estate developments by making the investment policies flexible and offering easy loans to the buyers.

The areas which have been targeted by the real estate investors for investment purposes is the south Chennai and the areas like Adyar, K.K Nagar, Mylapore, Velachery, Saidapet and Tambaram have been the favourite destinations.

The prospective buyers are also in good position of earning money if they invest in Chennai real estate, as the pink city is developing at a very fast pace and offers great opportunities. The opening of new educational institutions and introduction of corporate world has added to the real estate value of the city.

Shipra Sinha writes on behalf of 99acres.com, which is an online portal dedicated to meet every aspect of the consumers needs in the real estate industry. It covers information about all Real Estate property types including residential flats for rent in Chennai, studio apartment for sale, houses for buy/sell & Rent for different Property locations like Mumbai Property and Goa Properties etc.

Source: http://www.ebestproducts.com/2012/12/real-estate-chennai-reaching-heights/

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Games.com's Best of 2012: Console Game of the Year

Amid complaints of sequelitis, on-disc DLC, botched endings and online passes, 2012 may have been the best year in console gaming in a long time. It was a year in which we not only saw smaller studios prove themselves with enormous franchises, but game makers transform our expectations of just what games can achieve. With a little help from our friends, here are Games.com's best console games of 2012.

Halo 4

With Bungie out of the picture for good, it was safe to be worried whether the next release in the Halo franchise would be up to snuff. That is, until Nov. 6, when Microsoft's 343 Industries more than met expectations of what a Halo game should be. The result was a booming battle for the galaxy with arguably the best story told in a Halo game to date. Better yet, countless expansions and improvements on the multiplayer made for one of the stickiest shooters around once again.

The Walking Dead

If you were to predict last year that an adventure game would be in the running for Console Game of the Year, you'd have been called crazy. Leave it to Telltale Games to shatter our assumptions of what video games can do. Many knock The Walking Dead for its mechanics. But few games, if any, have crafted such tension and drama through breakneck, gripping choices that shape some of the most emotional relationships in interactive storytelling.

Dishonored

Stealth game makers: Take notes while playing Arkane Studios' steampunk-style adventure. The amount of agency granted to players in Dishonored is unparalleled by almost any game of 2012. Foregoing the tired model of rewarding or punishing players dependant upon their stealth skills, Dishonored allows players to adapt to situations on the fly while reacting to their play styles in return. Ultimately, this fosters some of the most believable combat scenarios in gaming.

Mass Effect 3

The culmination of five years worth of story, choices and promises ultimately ended up a disappointment for fans and critics alike. But that was just the ending. The journey there packed more dramatic and moving moments into a single game than any in the series to date. But what Mass Effect 3 did best was realize one of the most sprawling, detailed and engrossing universes in not just video games, but sci-fi properties, ever.

Journey

There's beauty, and sometimes depth, in simplicity. Thatgamecompany's follow-up to Flower embodies that mantra throughout, presenting a painting in motion with much more beneath the surface. Journey tells its story without words, a story about camaraderie. Journey, through creating a fascinating, captivating yet empty world, spurs collaboration between strangers in ways that games haven't ever before. Journey is watershed moment for games, and therefore is Games.com's Best Console Game of 2012.

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Source: http://blog.games.com/2012/12/24/best-console-game-2012/

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Now We Know Whether Facebook Is Making Us Lonely | Psychology ...

Pundits and cultural critics love making proclamations about what Facebook has done to us, and often their analyses are not pretty. A particularly prominent example is a cover story published in the Atlantic earlier this year, touting the headline, ?Is Facebook making us lonely?? Novelist Stephen Marche is worried and his essay has already attracted 25,000 Facebook shares.

Marche believes this:

?We have never been more detached from one another, or lonelier. In a world consumed by ever more novel modes of socializing, we have less and less actual society. We live in an accelerating contradiction: the more connected we become, the lonelier we are.?

Marche does cite research, though sometimes in a misleading or inaccurate way. His essay has been critiqued by many (for example, here and here). What I want to add to the discussion is not just another critique but an overview of an about-to-be-published piece of research that directly tests some of the claims in Marche?s essay.

Lots of research on the use of Facebook, other social media, and the internet is correlational. That means that if, for instance, a study finds a link between Facebook usage and greater loneliness, it is not possible to know whether Facebook makes people lonely, whether lonely people use Facebook more often, or some other factor is in play.

The study I want to tell you about is different ? it is an actual experiment. In the week-long study, 86 college students were randomly assigned to different instructions. Half were instructed to post Facebook status updates more often than they typically do; the other half were not told anything specific about posting status updates.

For the next week, the researchers monitored the participants? Facebook activity, with the participants? permission. They also asked the participants to complete questionnaires assessing their loneliness, happiness, and depression at the beginning of the study and at the end. Every day during the study, participants indicated the extent to which they felt connected to and in touch with their friends.

The results were clear and straightforward:

#1

The participants who posted more status updates felt less lonely at the end of the week than the participants who posted about the same number of updates as they usually did.

?#2

The participants who posted more status updates also felt more connected to their friends. That feeling of connection seemed to explain why the frequent posters felt less lonely.

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Before I tell you about Finding #3, I want to share another excerpt from the Marche essay. In it, he is discussing the movie, The Social Network:

?The film?s most indelible scene, the one that may well have earned it an Oscar, was the final, silent shot of an anomic Zuckerberg sending out a friend request to his ex-girlfriend, then waiting and clicking and waiting and clicking?a moment of superconnected loneliness preserved in amber.?

?(I discussed The Social Network here.)

?What Marche is suggesting is that it is not enough just to post something on Facebook; you need to hear back from other people or else you are really going to be miserable and lonely. Well, the study I?m discussing (reference is at the end) actually tested that, too.

?#3

People who posted more status updates felt less lonely, and it did not matter whether other people responded to those updates (by commenting or ?liking? the updates).

?The authors could only speculate as to why it did not matter whether other people responded to status updates. To know for sure, they will have to do more research.

?There are, of course, lots of limitations to this study. It examines only one of the ways in which Facebook may or may not make us lonely. Nonetheless, I think it adds some intriguing pieces of data to rein in some of our fears about Facebook Nation.

?[Notes: (1) I promised to describe the rest of the results of the research on consensual non-monogamy, following up on my previous post. I?ll still get to that eventually. (2) Some other recent posts are listed below, including an interview with a long-time ?Living Single? reader. (3) Happy holidays, everyone!]

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?Reference:

Deters, F. G., & Mehl, M. R. (2012, in press). Does posting Facebook status updates increase or decrease loneliness? An online social networking experiment. Social Psychological and Personality Science.

Source: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/living-single/201212/now-we-know-whether-facebook-is-making-us-lonely

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