92% Lore

All Critics (90) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (83) | Rotten (7)

It's a harrowing walk through the heart of darkness.

Saskia Rosendahl gives an impressively poised performance as the beautiful teenager, whose determination to protect her remaining family coincides with her growing revulsion toward her parents.

"Lore" is not a pretty story, but it is a good and sadly believable one.

"Lore" is not a love story, nor the story of a friendship. Rather, it's a story of healing and of how breaking, sometimes painfully, is often necessary before that process can begin.

A fiercely poetic portrait of a young woman staggering beyond innocence and denial, it's about the wars that rage within after the wars outside are lost.

Full of surprises, the movie draws a thin line between pity and revulsion - how would you feel if you had discovered your whole life had been based on lies?

Think "Little Red Riding Hood" meets The Road.

Unflinching but thoroughly engrossing, the film provides a rarely depicted look at the Holocaust's other innocent victims. Beautiful cinematography by Adam Arkapaw.

Proves that there is always room for another [World War II] story if it can be presented in an original and unexpected fashion.

Texture and detail embellish a provocative story

Child of Nazi parents faces an uncertain future

[Director Cate] Shortland directs with an almost hypnotic focus, favoring Lore's immediate experience over the big picture.

Rosendahl's performance is raw and compelling, as Lore fights for her siblings' survival and grows up in a hurry.

Lore and her siblings make a harrowing journey across Germany

Worthwhile, but so subtle that it's frustrating.

The Australian-German co-production takes an unconventional tale and turns it into a challenging, visually stunning and emotionally turbulent film experience.

Over the river and through the woods, to Grandmother's house we go. Except this ain't no fairy tale... unless it is, perhaps, a hint of the beginnings of a new mythology of ... scary childhood and even scarier adolescence...

With a child's perspective on war, "Lore" deserves comparisons with "Empire of the Sun" and "Hope and Glory," and with a feisty female protagonist it stands virtually alone.

Rosendahl...provides both narrative and emotional continuity to a film whose deliberate pace and fragmented presentation of reality might otherwise prove exasperating.

A burning portrait of consciousness and endurance, gracefully acted and strikingly realized, producing an honest sense of emotional disruption, while concluding on a powerful note of cultural and familial rejection.

Although there are moments that push the story a bit beyond credulity, Shortland has created something remarkable by forcing us to find within ourselves sympathy for this would-be Aryan princess.

Stunning, admirable and indelible - truthfully chronicling the triumph of the human spirit - in a class with Michael Haneke's 'The White Ribbon.'

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Roadkill, rocks and tanks: World's oddest museum?

Peter Jeary / NBC News

Juozas Stepankevicius stands beside an earth-mover at the Lithuanian Road Museum. His eccentric collection came together not by design, but due to his reluctance to throw things away.

By Peter Jeary, Senior Foreign Desk Editor, NBC News

VILNIUS, Lithuania -- Very few people can talk about rocks and heavy machinery with the enthusiasm and care of a proud father. But for 79-year-old?Juozas Stepankevi?ius, director and curator of perhaps the oddest museum in the world, road-making is an enduring passion.

Over a convivial glass of local moonshine, Stepankevi?ius described the transformation he had witnessed in highway construction in his homeland of Lithuania. "When I started out, we didn't work with asphalt and heavy machinery -- we used rocks and horses in those days," he grinned.

Appropriately enough, his labor of love,?the Lithuanian Road Museum, sits just off the main highway linking the country's two largest cities, Vilnius and Kaunas. The museum opened in 1995 to mark the 25th anniversary of the road's completion. Today, it attracts upwards of 6,000 visitors each year, many of them school kids and construction-industry students.

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Intersection models on display at the Lithuanian Road Museum.

The museum's exhibits ? an eclectic potpourri of models, rock samples, documents, heavy machinery and road signs ? chart the history of an industry that survived and occasionally thrived despite war, invasion, occupation and liberation. Huge wheels and pressed steel jostle for space in two large warehouses, and smaller displays are arranged in tidy gallery rooms on an upper floor.

Stepankevi?ius went through each specimen in detail. "This one has a Russian tank engine," he said, pointing to monster dating from the 1950s. "In fact, it pretty much is a tank ? just with a bulldozer blade on the front. The Russians were good at tanks."

Clambering onto another huge earth-mover, he said that "the walls of the workshops rattled so much it caused all the engineers to run outside" when they first started it up.

A scale model of a Lithuanian highway intersection on display in an upstairs room had been used for a conference during the Soviet era as a design for other road engineers to follow, he said. "Then in the mid-1990s it was discovered languishing in a Moscow storeroom. It was Russian President Boris Yeltsin who said it should be allowed to come home."

Stepankevi?ius began building roads after graduating high school ? he saw a poster offering a stipend for students learning road construction and chose it over a course in plumbing, which didn't offer as much money.

Gradually his career took him away from the back-breaking work of construction into administration and management, and slowly he began accumulating road paraphernalia.

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Road-making material samples at the Lithuanian Road Museum.

"Of the five of us from my high school who took the construction course, four of us are still alive," he said, draining his glass. "Managers live longer than laborers in the road business."

The eccentric collection came together not by design, but due to his reluctance to throw things away: "The more things I saved, the more I wanted, so the more I saved," he said. Eventually he found himself scavenging and scrounging for pieces to add to his collection.

Perhaps the most bizarre gallery combines Stepankevi?ius' love of roads with another of his passions ? hunting. Stuffed birds, beavers, foxes and other assorted mammals adorn display cabinets alongside hunting memorabilia. "Not all of them are roadkill," he said, with a sideways glance at the beaver.

Despite the museum amassing 6,000 exhibits, Stepankevi?ius still sees his obsession as a work in progress. "It's not like writing a book, where, when you have no more to say, you simply write 'The End'," he explained. "Here, there will always be things to collect. I am building for the future."

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Juozas Stepankevicius, director and curator of the Lithuanian Road Museum, began building roads after graduating high school.

Source: http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/05/18020379-roadkill-rocks-and-russian-tanks-inside-one-of-the-worlds-oddest-museums?lite

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Eyes-on with Cornell University's laser tag dunebots (video)

Cornell University may be the host of the Cornell Cup competition, but that doesn't mean it can't bring its own robots to join in on the fun. This year, students brought along a few bots, dubbed dunebots, outfitted with all-terrain wheels and equipped with laser tag turrets. The rugged rig features a pair of cameras, a dustproof and water resistant chassis, air intakes capped with filters, and other custom components for suspension and steering. Not only does the team plan on releasing code and documentation for the project, but the hardware was designed with modularity in mind, so others can build their own modified versions.

Taking the robot into battle requires two pilots armed with Xbox 360 controllers: one directing where it travels, and another aiming the turret and firing. Driving the buggy over the web is also possible, though it takes a few seconds for it to react. The group also baked in voice controls, to boot. If you're not watching the car duke it out in person, you can even tune in over the web and watch a live video stream from one of its onboard cams. Its top speeds haven't been firmly nailed down, but the team says the bot was running at approximately 35 percent of its full potential, since it was deemed too fast for conference attendees. Hit the jump to catch us talk with the effort's Computer Science lead Mike Dezube, and to see a dunebot in action.

Gallery: Dunebot hands-on

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NRA official: 'Culture war' more than gun rights

HOUSTON (AP) ? The National Rifle Association kicked off its annual convention Friday with a warning to its members they are engaged in a "culture war" that stretches beyond gun rights, further ramping up emotions surrounding the gun control debate.

NRA First Vice President James Porter, a Birmingham, Ala., attorney who will assume the organization's presidency Monday, issued a full-throated challenge to President Barack Obama in the wake of a major victory regarding gun control and called on members to dig in for a long fight that will stretch into the 2014 elections.

More than 70,000 NRA members are expected to attend the three-day convention amid the backdrop of the national debate over gun control and the defeat of a U.S. Senate bill that would have expanded background checks for gun sales. It was introduced after December's mass shooting at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school. A small gathering of gun control supporters were outside of the convention in Houston.

Porter's remarks came in a short speech to about 300 people at a grass-roots organizing meeting and set the tone for a "Stand and Fight"-themed convention that is part gun trade show, political rally and strategy meeting.

"This is not a battle about gun rights," Porter said, calling it "a culture war."

"(You) here in this room are the fighters for freedom. We are the protectors," said Porter, whose father was NRA president from 1959-1960.

Rob Heagy, a former parole officer from San Francisco, agreed with Porter's description of a culture war.

"It is a cultural fight on those 10 guarantees," he said, referring to the Bill of Rights in the U.S. Constitution. "Mr. Obama said he wasn't going after our guns. As soon as the Connecticut thing happened, he came after our guns."

That theme carried throughout the day and reached a crescendo in a 3 ?-hour political rally punctuated by fiery speeches from state and national conservative leaders.

"You stood up when freedom was under assault and you stood in the gap, you made a difference," former U.S. senator and Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum told the cheering crowd of more than 3,500 at the rally.

"This is a critical time in American history. Something big is happening in America," Santorum said. "Stand for America. Fight for America."

Texas Gov. Rick Perry criticized gun control supporters as opportunists who prey on the raw emotions of tragic events.

"You can almost set your watch for how long it takes for people who hate guns, who hate gun owners, to start a new campaign," after a mass shooting, Perry said.

Obama, who has pushed for gun control measures, was a prime target for criticism the entire day. NRA Executive Director Chris Cox bragged about the organization's political victory.

"It was great to see the president throw a temper tantrum in the Rose Garden," Cox said.

Josh Horwitz, executive director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, called the culture war reference a sign the NRA is worried about polls that show most Americans support some expansion of background checks.

"They want to make it a culture war," Horwitz said. "They have to make it into something bigger. On the issue of background checks, they can't possibly win."

Gun control advocates were determined to have a presence outside the convention hall. Across the street Friday, the No More Names vigil read the names of gun violence victims since the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. Gun control advocates also planned a petition drive to support expanded background checks and a Saturday demonstration outside the convention hall.

Erica Lafferty, whose mother, Sandy Hook principal Dawn Hochsprung, was killed by the gunman, was outside the building and said she hoped to talk to as many NRA members as she could.

"I am not against people owning guns. I am asking for safe and responsible gun ownership and gun laws. I don't understand where the problem is with background checks," Lafferty said.

While national polls have shown that a majority of Americans are in favor of expanding background checks, many convention attendees said Friday they were not in favor of such efforts.

"We already have something like those laws now. We don't need new laws on top of the old laws. They need to enforce the laws that we have," said Charles Henderson, 59, a farmer from Amarillo, Texas.

Inside the hall, visitors strolled past acres of displays of rifles, pistols, swords and hunting gear. Under Texas law, attendees could carry concealed weapons with a permit.

Debbie and Daniel Ferris of Gun Barrel City, Texas, attended the grass-roots organizing workshop and agreed with Porter's assessment of a culture war.

"It's about fighting tyranny," said Debbie Ferris, who has been an NRA member for five years. Her 35-year-old husband is a lifetime member.

"We don't like to be pushed around," Daniel Ferris said. "We are free Americans."

Sarah Palin, the former Republican vice presidential nominee and ex-Alaska governor, spoke to personal freedoms at the political rally as well, saying NRA members should "keep the faith" and "stand up and fight for our freedoms."

But gun control supporters promise to keep pressing the issue and have made significant strides at the state level.

Sen. Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, has said he will re-introduce the bill to require criminal and mental health background checks for gun buyers at shows and online.

Colorado lawmakers recently passed new restrictions on firearms, including required background checks for private and online gun sales and a ban on ammunition magazines that hold more than 15 rounds. Connecticut added more than 100 firearms to the state's assault weapons ban and now requires background checks for private gun sales.

Maryland and New York have passed sweeping new guns laws, and in Washington state, supporters of universal background checks recently announced a statewide campaign to collect 300,000 signatures to take the issue straight to voters.

"There are 90 percent of Americans that support this," Lafferty said. "We are not going away. It's a huge issue."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nra-official-culture-war-more-gun-rights-163302097.html

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How High Speed Traders Use Microwaves to Make Money

The days of traders shouting orders on the New York Stock Exchange's floor may soon be over. A new breed of investing, known as High Frequency Trading, has taken hold of the equities market?one that relies on computerization and automation to exploit momentary price changes for an investor's financial gain. And where latency is the primary measure of success, calculated in milliseconds, fiber might not even be fast enough. But that's where the microwave radios come in.

HFT activity accounted for nearly 40 percent of the total volume of equities traded in 2012, a figure worth some 6.7 trillion euros. That's 6.7 trillion reasons for a pair of companies, Perseus Telecom and Colt Group SA, to offer their customers a microwave radio transmission service between the NYSE Euronext Basildon data center in London? home to the Euronext cash and Liffe derivatives markets?and Equinix in Frankfurt?where both the Deutsche Boerse cash and Eurex derivatives markets reside. Together, they're two of Europe's largest investment hubs.

Microwave radio is a line-of-sight transmission scheme that relies on a pair of high gain microwave radio antennas pointed at one another to transmit data at very high speeds. And by "high speeds," I mean they'll actually transmit data faster than the fiber optic networks offered by each company simply because the data travels a shorter distance? thanks line-of-sight requirement! Each radio relay has a maximum range of about 30 to 40 miles and are often located on mountain peaks because, again, line-of-sight and whatnot.

The technology itself is nothing new, AT&T has been developing microwave technology since its Long Lines systems in the 1950s and '60s. These relays used to daisy chain across the US but were overtaken by fiber optic technology in the 1980s. These days, microwave radio links are most often used by news vans to beam a feed from the reporter in the field back to the studio. That said, "There is more money being poured into this wireless space than any time in its history," remarked Mike Persico, chief executive of wireless communications network Anova Technologies. "High frequency trading is driven by being either the fastest to market, or equal fastest to market, and coming second is like losing," Hugh Cumberland, a manager at Colt, said in a press release.

Both companies microwave systems offer similar performance?reducing the time required to access the market by 40 percent, in the sub-4.6ms to 4.74 ms range, and offering 99 percent uptime. That's nearly half the ping time of the fastest fiber routes, which clock in at a pokey 8.3 milliseconds.

Yes, of course this method of investing is risky?especially to the market as a whole! Remember the biggest-ever daily plunge in gold values? Really? It happened just last month. HFT scripted responses that dumped gold as values fell only helped to exasperate the price plunge. Similarly, the "flash crash" of 2010, when the US stock market plummeted 1,000 points in less time than it takes to heat a frozen burrito, is attributed to HFT systems. Ten percent of the stock market's value?poof, gone?in minutes.

No, of course the risk of setting off another Great Depression isn't enough to dissuade investors from the practice. ?Our customers are always looking for speed to market advantage,? said Andy Young, a Colt transmissions specialist. ?A combination of both microwave and fibre is the latest technology weapon in a high frequency trader?s armoury, as the race for more market liquidity gathers pace.?

Anything for a buck.

[Reuters - Colt - Low Latency 1, 2 - Images: The AP]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/how-high-speed-traders-use-microwaves-to-make-money-486353476

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