Movie sword-fight master Bob Anderson dies at 89 (AP)

LONDON ? Olympic fencer and movie sword master Bob Anderson appeared in some of film's most famous dueling scenes ? though few viewers knew it.

Anderson, who has died at age 89, donned Darth Vader's black helmet and fought light saber battles in two of the three original "Star Wars" films, "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi."

Anderson, who worked with actors from Errol Flynn to Antonio Banderas during five decades as a sword master, fight director and stunt performer, died early New Year's Day at an English hospital, the British Academy of Fencing said Monday.

Vader, "Star Wars'" intergalactic arch-villain, was voiced by James Earl Jones and played by six foot six (1.98 meter) former weightlifter David Prowse, but Anderson stepped in during the key fight scenes.

"David Prowse wasn't very good with a sword and Bob couldn't get him to do the moves," said Anderson's former assistant, Leon Hill. "Fortunately Bob could just don the costume and do it himself."

The scenes worked beautifully, although Anderson, then nearing 60, was several inches shorter than Prowse.

Few knew of Anderson's role until Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker, said in a 1983 interview that "Bob Anderson was the man who actually did Vader's fighting."

"It was always supposed to be a secret, but I finally told (director) George (Lucas) I didn't think it was fair any more," Hamill told Starlog magazine. "Bob worked so bloody hard that he deserves some recognition. It's ridiculous to preserve the myth that it's all done by one man."

Robert James Gilbert Anderson was born in Hampshire, southern England, in 1922, and was drawn to fencing from an early age.

"I never took up the sword," he said in an interview for the 2009 documentary "Reclaiming the Blade." "I think the sword took me up."

Anderson joined the Royal Marines before World War II, teaching fencing aboard warships and winning several combined services titles in the sport.

He served in the Mediterranean during the war, later trained as a fencing coach and represented Britain at the 1952 Olympics and the 1950 and 1953 world championships.

In the 1950s, Anderson became coach of Britain's national fencing team, a post he held until the late 1970s. He later served as technical director of the Canadian Fencing Association.

His first film work was staging fights and coaching Flynn on swashbuckler "The Master of Ballantrae" in 1952.

He went on to become one of the industry's most sought after stunt performers, fight choreographers and sword masters, working on movies including the James Bond adventures "From Russia With Love" and "Die Another Day"; fantasy "The Princess Bride"; Banderas action romps "The Mask of Zorro" and "The Legend of Zorro"; and the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.

Fencing academy president Philip Bruce said Anderson was "truly one of our greatest fencing masters and a world-class film fight director and choreographer."

Hill remembered him as "a splendid man, a great man who gave so much to fencing that can never be repaid."

Anderson is survived by his wife Pearl and three children. Funeral details were not immediately available.

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Seasonal stalactites: The sharp end of icicle science

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IT IS not often Stephen Morris helps save a life - he is a physicist, after all, not a physician. But when an architect telephoned him in his office at the University of Toronto, Canada, last year, with a potentially lethal problem, his advice was to the point.

The architect's problem was icicles. He had designed a building whose windowsills accumulated snow in bad weather. Worried about a passer-by being engulfed by a sudden avalanche and suing, he had installed heaters on the windowsills. Consequently meltwater was dripping off the sill and forming enormous icicles that loomed dagger-like overhead. The architect was still worried, and with good reason. Falling icicles reportedly killed five and injured 150 in St Petersburg, Russia, last winter.

Fortunately, Morris understands icicles. In fact, he is the world's leading expert on their formation. Perhaps that's a matter of location. "I live in a cold country," he says. Although Toronto's location on Lake Ontario gives it one of Canada's balmier climates, the surrounding area can seem like one big ice slab in winter.

There is more at stake with icicles than just the risk of an impaling. In January 1998, an ice storm destroyed much of the power infrastructure in the Canadian province of Quebec. Pylons buckled under the weight of the ice and some power lines snapped, leaving millions of homes and businesses without electricity for days. "The cost was estimated at more than 20 billion Canadian dollars," says Masoud Farzaneh, head of the International Research Centre on Atmospheric Icing and Power Network Engineering based at the University of Quebec in Chicoutimi.

Morris's contributions to limiting such costs emerge principally from a large, styrofoam-insulated box standing in the middle of his lab. "We call it the rotisserie," he says. Inside the box a downward-pointing wooden spike attached to a turntable rotates at the stately rate of 12 revolutions per hour. A nozzle drips water onto the wide base of the spike, while an air fan sits in each of the box's corners, blowing cold air at it. The whole contraption is cooled by antifreeze that circulates through the box's walls.

This is enough for Morris and his graduate student Antony Chen to strip away layers of assumption about icicles that have accumulated over the years. Take the established picture that they grow with a "self-similar" shape: that the ratio of an icicle's length to its circumference is always the same. According to this idea, an icicle's precise shape depends on local factors such as the difference between the icicle's surface temperature (0?C), the ambient air temperature (significantly colder), and the rate at which this falls as you move away from the icicle's surface.

Not so, say Morris and Chen. Their experiments show that self-similarity appears in only a small fraction of icicles, when conditions - air movement and water purity, for instance - are just so. "Things that you wouldn't think matter turn out to matter a great deal," says Morris. Only when the fans in the rotisserie gave the air a gentle stir, for example, did a classic icicle with a single tip form; with still air, the tip tended to split in two (Physical Review E, vol 83, p 026307).

It is unlikely that engineers will be able to do much about air movement around power lines, of course. But knowing the conditions under which ice will build up fastest could be a first step towards designing equipment and systems that are more robust. "Icicles are the simplest thing you can think of in this class of problem," Morris says.

In another of his experiments, Morris tackled an idea about icicles floated by Farzaneh and his colleague Kazuto Ueno, now at Kyushu University in Japan. Many natural icicles have a rippled surface, as if composed of a narrowing succession of rings. Theories of icicle growth had traditionally had nothing to say about such features, but Farzaneh and Ueno suggested surface tension between the freezing water and the surrounding air was the culprit: the higher the surface tension, the fewer ripples on the icicles (Physics of Fluids, vol 22, p 017102).

That seemed reasonable. Natural icicles form from dirty water that sits on roofs and in guttering, which has a low surface tension and so should form ripples. Sure enough, when Morris performed his rotisserie experiments with distilled water, no ripples formed. But there was a sting in the tip: when he used tap water, also a pretty pure sort of water, ripples suddenly appeared.

Jerome Neufeld, a theoretical geophysicist at the University of Cambridge, in the less frozen, but damp east of England, confesses himself baffled by this. "The level of impurity even for tap water should be so low, it's hard to conceive of how it should affect the experiment - but it does seem to," he says. It certainly suggests surface tension is not the primary factor.

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PlayStation Vita shown running Sega Genesis titles (video)

Still mulling whether or not to pick yourself up a PlayStation Vita? Obsessed with retro gaming titles? If you answered "yes" to both, you should probably start socking away a few extra coins, buster. YouTube user frwololo has just upped a video showcasing the Half Byte Loader running the Picodrive emulator on Sony's PS Vita -- the first major proof that this kind of wizardry is indeed a possibility. The nuts and bolts of how it happened are being kept under wraps for now, and he seems certain that Sony's inbuilt security will make the mod unusable as soon as it's released. That said, there's still a lot of hope to be found in the clip just after the break, and c'mon -- who doesn't need a little hope to kick off a year where we're all supposed to perish?

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How would you change Apple's iPhone 4S?

It's the dawn of a new year, so let's take a look back at one of the hottest-selling phones of the last one. A low-key launch couldn't dispel a summer of hype for the handset: Apple went for evolution when we were expecting a revolution -- even though we'd seen the same with the 3G/3GS. In the cold light of January, we can see the 4S for what it is: a refined experience that lacks a compelling reason to pay an early-upgrade fee. If you were in the planning meeting for the iPhone 6 (it's a hunch), what would you be pushing for? Built-in NFC? Would you have kept Siri under wraps until it had left beta? Do you resent the existence of any phone that can't run Android? Constructive and polite suggestions in the comments below, impolite ones should be written down on a piece of paper and sent to the usual address.

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GOP's Bachmann limps to Iowa caucus finish line (AP)

NEVADA, Iowa ? Encountering small crowds and fresh viability questions, Republican Michele Bachmann slogged into the final weekend of Iowa caucus campaigning Friday looking for any spark to her flagging bid.

The closing week hasn't been kind to the one-time GOP contender: She's losing staff. She's faced calls to abandon her bid. And she has no money.

The difficulties were evident in two restaurant stops where reporters outnumbered patrons.

"Our effort wasn't to bring crowds out. We were just dropping in," she said outside a cafe in Early.

The Minnesota congresswoman is at the back of the pack in polls. But she vows to soldier on, even if that means her candidacy will split the vote of pivotal conservatives in Iowa and allow for victories by a candidate who isn't seen as adhering as strongly to GOP orthodoxy ? like Mitt Romney or Ron Paul.

Regarded as a tea party heroine, the only woman in the Republican race has struggled to revive her campaign since her standing dropped shortly after she won a statewide test vote in Iowa. That turned out to be the high point of her campaign.

Iowa Rep. Steve King, one of Bachmann's closest allies in Congress, came to one of Friday's events. He praised her but he stopped short of an outright endorsement in a race that's so far kept him neutral.

"I have not made a commitment on this presidential race but I've made a commitment to this great friend to always be this great friend," King said of Bachmann.

She's spent the final week before Tuesday's Iowa caucuses on a bus tour of the state's 99 counties. Sometimes the crowds barely registered double digits; in other places they spilled out the doors.

But instead of ending the exhausting sprint on a high note, Bachmann found herself facing a new reality: Rick Santorum was the conservative candidate whose standing was rising ahead of the caucuses, not her.

She also found herself feuding with high-level advisers, only the latest to abandon her.

Two top Iowa advisers left the campaign on successive days this week, with her state chairman, Kent Sorenson, quitting and then going so far as to endorse Paul within hours of campaigning with her. A day later, Wes Enos said he was leaving his job as Bachmann's political director.

Furious, Bachmann spent much of Thursday accusing Sorenson of switching allegiances for money. He denied it. But the candidate found herself in a daylong spat rather than hammering home her closing message to voters.

To some, it was another sign of a campaign in free-fall.

"If you can't get your campaign on one page, it's really hard to think you're going to get a country on one page. The timing is horrible," said veteran Iowa Republican strategist David Roederer, who is unaffiliated in this year's race but held top Iowa posts in John McCain's 2008 campaign and George W. Bush's 2000 bid.

By Friday, she deflected questions on the subject and signaled she was ready to move on.

Still, it didn't help that the departures came on top of calls by some Iowa pastors that either she or Santorum leave the race so evangelical voters can consolidate their support and block a victory by Romney or Paul. She quickly rejected the plea.

Brad Cranston, a pastor from Burlington who originally liked the idea of a merged campaign, said he's given up on that prospect and will stick with Bachmann. So will Pastor Bill Tvedt of Oskaloosa, even if he knows her chances of winning have taken a hit.

"Maybe she is out of the running at this point," Tvedt said. "I think she can come back. To bail out on the basis of electability is self-defeating to the process."

But even if she stays in the race through Tuesday, it's doubtful she could sustain a campaign beyond that.

Despite her reputation as a prolific fundraiser, she's virtually out of money. Bachmann didn't air a single TV ad in December and won't broadcast one until the day before the caucuses.

Instead, she's rolling out Internet videos, like the one she filmed this week that cast her as the "Iron Lady" of the 21st century.

And she's urging Republicans on the fence to ignore her stagnant or slipping poll numbers ? and Santorum's rise.

It's unclear whether she's having any luck.

Recent college graduate Adam Fischer sized up Bachmann in central Iowa and liked her solidly conservative voting record, but he said he may still opt for Santorum.

"I don't want to become subject to that poll mentality because that's what gets us weak candidates," Fischer said. Then he acknowledged that the one with the head of steam come Tuesday will probably get his vote.

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Terra Noctis leads iPhone Games of the Week (Appolicious)

The holiday week has seen a freeze on adding new games to the iTunes App Store, but there are still plenty of great ones floating around. Leading this week?s charge is Terra Noctis, a side-scrolling platforming game that will remind players of the greats in the genre. Check it out, and four other quality titles, below.

A retro platformer with a great art style, Terra Noctis looks great and will remind you of the 2-D side-scrolling platformers of years past. The game?s touch controls are pretty solid on iOS, and there?s plenty of content to go around including hours of gameplay and massive boss fights. Terra Noctis does an admirable job of invoking classic games in the genre while adding a little something new to the equation. It looks and sounds great and includes support for achievements and leaderboards from Open Feint, as well as support for iCade.

Space is filled with valuable fuels, but powerful gravity wells created by huge asteroids make it impossible for spaceships to retrieve them. That?s where you and your remote-controlled probes come in. You?ll need to control your probe by firing its thrusters and using the gravity of asteroids to navigate each level. It?s your goal to grab the crystals and get out as fast as you can and with as little maneuvering as you can manage. The faster you go and the less fuel you use, the higher your score. It?s a pretty difficult game, but Gravity Rocks also requires some serious skills, which will appeal to players with a penchant for punishment.

A 3-D platformer, Crazy Hedgy looks a lot like console classics Crash Bandicoot or Sonic the Hedgehog, with a similar playing style. The main character is even a hedgehog himself, but instead of running around, Hedgy the Hedgehog chooses to roll, and you control him using your iOS device?s internal gyroscope. Tilting your device directs Hedgy around the screen, where you?ll need to snag gems to upgrade your abilities and fight off enemies. The game looks great, it?s optimized for newer iOS devices and its developers say Crazy Hedgy includes 10 or more hours of gameplay.

Great graphics and a challenging style mark Wind Up Robots, a base-defense strategy game that bucks the usual setup. The game?s controls are pretty simplistic. You choose which robots will be in your defense force at the beginning of each level, and then you deploy them as necessary. The idea is to defend your charge: a sleeping boy assaulted by nightmares. The nightmares fly across the level towards the boy with your robots standing in between, and you control them by tapping them and giving them orders on where to go. The robots do the rest, but the real strategy of the game is in choosing your forces, directing them in anticipation of enemies, and changing them out with other robots to keep them alive. Wind Up Robots looks good and offers plenty of challenge.

The latest of Telltale Games? licensed point-and-click adventure games takes on the iconic police/prosecutor drama, putting players in a story that includes appearances by tons of cast members from Law & Order. The first episode is a little straightforward, but it?s hard to argue with the quality of Telltale?s titles or with the production values found in this game. You?ll need to purchase future episodes through in-app purchases as they come out each month, but if you?re a fan of the Law & Order TV show, this is a fun way to get into the action in a new and different way.

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Russian protesters arrested in Moscow rally (Reuters)

MOSCOW (Reuters) ? Russian police detained about 60 protesters during an anti-government demonstration on Saturday in Moscow, hours after Prime Minister Vladimir Putin offered a conciliatory message to the opposition in a televised New Year's Eve address.

Reuters witnesses said they saw police surround and detain protesters who were shouting slogans such as "Putin Must Go!" and "Free the Political Prisoners!."

Police said about 200 people took part in the rally, with 60 detained. Gathering in near-freezing temperatures at a major thoroughfare in the capital, many protesters wore the white ribbon that has become a symbol of the protests.

Putin has faced massive demonstrations following a December 4 parliamentary election that protesters and international observers said was marked by fraud and violations. Despite the mounting pressure, Putin is expected to comfortably win a presidential election in March and return to the Kremlin.

"Of course, I want to wish all of our citizens, independent of their political leanings - those who sympathize with the forces of the left, and those on the right, those on top and those below, as you like - I want to wish everyone happiness and prosperity," he said in his address.

He made a passing nod to political tensions but said they were "the inevitable cost of democracy," especially in election time.

"At such times, politicians always try to manipulate the voters' feelings, everything is a little shaken up and seething, but that is the inevitable cost of democracy. There's nothing unusual here," he said.

Saturday's protest took place at Moscow's Triumfalnaya Square, a traditional rallying point for the opposition that also served as the birthplace of the demonstrations that have swept Russia this month.

Police and other law enforcement officers were deployed in the area well before the protest began at 5 p.m., their buses and vans lining the streets surrounding the square.

The protest was organised by the "Strategy 31" movement, which since 2009 has staged rallies to mark the right to peaceful assembly guaranteed in Article 31 of the constitution. They gather on the final day of every month with 31 days.

"Strategy 31" rallies do not enjoy official approval, and participants are subject to arrest. Among those detained on Saturday was National Bolshevik Party leader Eduard Limonov, Russian media reported.

Tens of thousands have taken to the streets this month in the biggest opposition demonstrations since Putin rose to power in 1999. The last massive rally was held on December 24. in central Moscow.

On Saturday, a separate protest attracted about 100 people in St. Petersburg, with city police reporting about 10 arrests.

Russia's Echo Moskvy radio also reported that about 200 people, including Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov, participated in a rally in the Volga River city of Nizhny Novgorod that went off without incident.

(Writing by Alfred Kueppers; additional reporting by Mikhail Voskresensky in Moscow and Liza Dobkina in St. Petersburg; Editing by Alessandra Rizzo)

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Celeb New Year's Resolutions: Shaved Heads For Charity, Tattoos

'I make resolutions every five minutes and then I never stick to them,' Florence Welch admits.
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Can you hear that? It's the final hours of 2011 winding down, getting ready for a bright and shiny 2012. And what better way to welcome the new year than with another round of celebrity New Year's resolutions?

MTV News recently sought out a few of our favorite movers and shakers, including Mac Miller, Florence Welch and the boys of Blink-182, to see what they're resolving to achieve next year.

"I make resolutions every five minutes and then I never stick to them," Welch admitted.

"My New Year's resolution is to be more patient and observant," said 2011 Hottest Breakthrough MC nominee Roscoe Dash. "I feel like if you're patient, you're going to be more observant anyway because you've got nothing but time on your hands."

"[I resolve] to have more fun, gain some weight and I want to make a difference in the world. I'm shaving my head next year for charity," 2011 VMA House Artist Jessie J revealed. "I just want to bring more good [to the world]."

Fellow Hottest Breakthrough MC nominee French Montana vowed to keep on keepin' on. "Definitely not to change," he said of his resolution. "Everything I've been doing has been working so far, so definitely not to change."

"My New Year's resolution is to be healthier in every aspect of my life," Mac Miller said with a smile.

We're impressed by all the warm and fuzzy do-good-esque commitments, but Tom Delonge of Blink 182 gets special commendation for his specificity and honesty.

"I want to get another tattoo," Delonge announced. "But I need to exercise before I get it because I want to be able to show it off and look really awesome. It's mostly on my genital area," he joked. "No, no, I want to do a back piece."

"Travis, do you have a New Year's resolution?" Blink 182 frontman Mark Hoppus asked his bandmate Travis Barker. "I'm down with Tom's," Barker said, prompting Hoppus to also throw his support behind Delonge.

"Our New Year's resolution is for Tom to get a back piece," he said.

Before making those resolutions a reality, many celebrities will be out and about on New Year's Eve looking to break loose at a number of big New Year's parties. And MTV will also be getting in on the fun during "NYE in NYC 2012," which will feature Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Mac Miller and more. The show airs live at 11 p.m. ET on Saturday from Times Square, where the famous ball drops.

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