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Samuel Henry J. "Sam" Worthington (born 2 August 1976) is an English-born Australian actor, best known for the portrayals of Jake Sully in Avatar, Marcus Wright in Terminator Salvation and Perseus in Clash of the Titans and its sequel, Wrath of the Titans. In 2004, Worthington received Australia's highest film award for his lead performance in Somersault. He performed predominantly in leading roles in a variety of low-budget films before moving to major studio films, ranging from romantic drama and comedy-drama to science fiction and action. Worthington was born to English parents in Godalming, Surrey, in southeastern England, and moved to Perth, Western Australia when he was six months old. He grew up in Warnbro, a suburb of Rockingham. His mother, Jeanne J. (née Martyn), a homemaker, raised him and his sister Lucinda, and his father, Ronald W. Worthington, was a power plant employee. He attended John Curtin College of the Arts, a school specialising in the dramatic arts, located in Fremantle, Western Australia, where he studied drama but failed to graduate and dropped out. His father gave him $400 and sent him on a one-way trip to Cairns in Queensland, and told him to "work his
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Input: Don't Wipe Out on This Kinect-Controlled Longboard [VIDEO]
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This week at CES, Chaotic Moon Labs showed off its “Board of Awesomeness” — a longboard powered by a Windows 8 tablet and controlled by a hacked Kinect. Every movement is completely controlled by the rider’s gestures.

“So how does it work?” Chaotic Moon’s website asks. “Video recognition, speech recognition, location data, accelerometer data, and other factors determine what the user wants to do and allow the board to follow the operator’s commands without other aid.”

Check out the video above to see this toy in action and to learn more about it.

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Input: Rocker John Fogerty looks to quietly sell $23M Beverly Hills mansion
John Fogerty pocket-lists Beverly Hills manse for $23.5M

John Fogerty has always been an interesting man; the listing of this mansion, and the mansion itself, keep with that tradition. There is a touch of mystery here: the interior seems less rock and roll and more Liberace, but that could be staging; we can’t know if Fogerty actually digs crystal chandeliers dripping colored faux (?) gemstones, for instance, or if he really goes for an all-white bath complete with white loveseat and decorative rose pillow. But we can know the man likes a healthy profit. According to Trulia Luxe, “the ‘Proud Mary’ rocker [purchased the mansion]on November 20, 2002 for $2,900,000.” Now he’s asking $23.5M.

Renovations that justify more than $20M?

To be fair, Fogerty has added a lot to the mansion. When he bought it, 2553 Summitridge Dr. had 5 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms and 13,476 square feet. Today, it’s got 9 bedrooms and 11 bathrooms, an additional 2,500 square feet. Outdoor features include 3 landscaped acres crowned by an imposing gated entrance which leads onto a courtyard with requisite fountain. Around back, a pool (to our eyes the home’s best feature), patio, and spa with sweeping views join a guest cottage and children’s playground.

Once inside, we see 16,000 square feet of living space with an impressive (in both good and bad ways) 2-story family room, wood paneled library with fireplace, home theater, 2nd floor lounge with wet bar, and a garage with room for four cars.

Ostensibly, Fogerty wants a quiet sale: he’s opted to keep the home off the MLS, preferring the “pocket listing” route. However, since the story and images have been released to the media, the transaction is hardly on the down low. Check out the official information via Fogerty’s listing agent, Billy Rose of The Agency. The Agency, incidentally, isn’t a quiet choice either. Billy Rose co-founded the Beverly Hills Real Estate business with Mauricio Umansky. Readers may know Umansky enjoys the additional (dubious) fame of being married to former child star Kyle Richards– and together the couple are “stars” of Bravo TV’s The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

But is this rock and roll?

Sure, the home is big, luxurious, very impressive from the bird’s eye view. Yet… sigh. Maybe it’s just us, jaded by writing about famous people’s look-alike Beverly Hills homes, but we expected something more rock and roll (i.e. cooler) from Fogerty. Readers, are you equally underwhelmed?

Anna Marie Erwert writes from both the renter and new buyer perspective, having (finally) achieved both statuses. She focuses on national real estate trends, specializing in the San Francisco Bay Area and Pacific Northwest. Follow Anna on Twitter: @AnnaMarieErwert
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