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Zahra Assur of New York wins 18 bottles of Laurent-Perrier Cuvée Rosé champagne in the FT’s cultural challenge

Many thanks to all who entered our Quiz of the Year in the December 29 edition of Life & Arts, and congratulations to Zahra Assur of New York, who was the first correct entry drawn and the winner of 18 bottles of Laurent-Perrier Cuvée Rosé champagne. The answers were as follows.

1. (i) Nuclear power.

(ii) Heineken lager.

2. 207 million. The Avengers (2012) took $207m in its opening weekend in the US; the population of the US in 1971 was 207m; and the nearest distance between Mars and the Sun is 207m kilometres.

3. (i) Eton College. All three actors, Hugh Laurie (3a), Damian Lewis (3b) and Patrick Macnee (3c), attended the school.

(ii) Nicholas Brody (played by Lewis) is the odd one out. Unlike Laurie’s Bertie Wooster and Macnee’s John Steed, Brody isn’t a fictional Old Etonian.

4. Muppets star Miss Piggy.

5. The dance popularised by South Korean musician Psy in his 2012 K-pop single “Gangnam Style”. The music video has been viewed more than a billion times on YouTube, making it the site’s most watched video.

6. Fidel Castro.

7. Dante. In an interview with La Stampa, Eco said: “Perhaps not politicians or the leaders who have divided us – not Cavour or Radetzky, but men of culture who have united us, from Dante to Shakespeare, from Balzac to Rossellini.”

8. Helen Mirren.

9. The Hunger Games.

10. Darth Vader (in Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back).

11. Novelist Philip Roth (11a) and canine film star Uggie (11b) both retired.

12. (i) Organisers of the concert pulled the plug, switching off Springsteen and McCartney’s microphones.

(ii) They had gone past the event’s 10.30pm noise curfew.

13. South Africa.

14. A swastika.

15. US film director Terrence Malick (Badlands, The Thin Red Line, The Tree of Life), who avoids interviews, red carpets and press junkets.

16. The Velvet Underground. A judge dismissed a lawsuit by the New York band over rights to the banana image on an 1967 album sleeve.

17. (i) Elf (17a); Vampire (17b).

(ii) Cate Blanchett, The Hobbit (17a); Kristen Stewart, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (17b)

18. India.

19. Spain.

20. Maggie Smith.

21. The Phantom of the Opera.

22. George Orwell.

23. Semi-colon.

24. (i) Rapper turned actor LL Cool J (birth name James Todd Smith), who stars in NCIS: Los Angeles.

(ii) LL Cool J stands for Ladies Love Cool James.

25. The photograph shows the fab four walking in the opposite direction to the cover photograph for The Beatles album Abbey Road (1969); also Paul McCartney is wearing shoes – in the original photo he appears barefoot.

26. Singapore. Her arrest was condemned by more than 14,000 people in an online petition calling for leniency in her punishment.

27. Troilus and Cressida.

28. Emily Dickinson.

29. Ludwig van Beethoven.

30. (i) Garbage (30a); Black Sabbath (30b); Stone Roses (30c).

(ii) The review was of the Stone Roses in Manchester in June.

31. Romania.

32. Le Corbusier built the architectural landmark, Cité Radieuse in Marseille; the Federation Tower is in Moscow.

33. Virginia Woolf.

34. Giuseppe Verdi.

35. Jack Kerouac’s On The Road (1957).

36. Vertigo (1958).

37. Rihanna, on her “777” promotional tour, playing seven concerts in seven countries on seven nights.

38. (i) From Kurt Vonnegut’s novella Basic Training, written in the 1940s.

(ii) From James Joyce’s children’s story The Cats of Copenhagen, originally written in 1936 for his grandson.

(iii) From Charlotte Brontë’s short story “L’Ingratitude”, written for her French homework in 1842.

39. The Virgin Mary.

40. The television series Girls stars Zosia Mamet (who plays Shoshanna Shapiro), daughter of the playwright David Mamet, a revival of whose 1984 play Glengarry Glen Ross opened on Broadway in December.

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Facebook slide continues, stock hits record low

Market cap $39.2 billion

Facebook’s overhyped IPO is now more than two months behind us, but the company is still making headlines for all the wrong reasons.

Although the tech press and quite a few analysts voiced their concerns over Facebook’s IPO valuation several months ago, much of Wall Street bought into the hype and we all know what happened next.

Two months on, Facebook’s stock is still underperforming and on Wednesday it hit a new all-time low, $20.88. The company’s market cap is now $39.2 billion, a far cry from the hype induced $100 billion pipe dream.

Worse, there seems to be no end in sight. Zynga recently released some rather worrying results, several major FB investors pulled out, executives are jumping ship and Wall Street is looking for a scapegoat, hence calls for Zuckerberg’s resignation are growing louder.

What’s more, Facebook employees will be allowed to start selling their shares in August and the bulk of the shares will be unlocked in November. If the downward spiral continues, quite a few could choose to unload their shares at current prices, which are roughly half of the original IPO price of $38.

It is a rather interesting twist. Most tech writers are not Wall Street types, they are not seasoned traders or economists, yet the tech press seems to have done a much better job when it comes to Facebook than mainstream business oriented outlets. We said it would be ugly and we were right.

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FULLERTON, CA - Beijing Olympic gold medalist Nastia Liukin will join the Cal State Fullerton and UCLA women's gymnastics programs in hosting the 2009 Southern California College Preview meet-and-greet to benefit the Titans' gymnastics program on Dec. 13 at 2 p.m.

The event will feature a \$500 catered lunch with Liukin for the first 40 people to RSVP for the luncheon prior to the preview at 12 p.m., while both the Titans and Bruins will hold a "Meet the Team" session following the lunch featuring exhibition routines and an autograph session. Cost to attend the preview only is \$10.

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In memory of my mother, Mrs. Mayme Mock Miller of Burnt Cabins, who died February 14, 1960, and was born October 13, 1901: I did not know when I was young How very much my mother cared How all the problems of my youth Were by her wisely and gladly shared I did not know I could not know How many thoughtful hours She spent planning and praying For my good as on my way

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Newly formed group raises funds for humane society

The Friends of the Callaway County Humane Society want you to design its logo.

The organization is holding a logo-designing contest, open to all interested children, adults or groups. The Friends of CCHS is a nonprofit recently formed as the fundraising arm of the local humane society, so that group could focus its time and efforts on rescues, adoptions and other animal needs.

Angel Blankenship, the group’s leader, said sketches, drawings or designs can be turned into the Friends’ booth at the upcoming art and craft fair, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. July 13 at the Fulton VFW. A winner will be selected at the group’s August meeting.

“We had our first meeting discussing the logo, and we thought it would be a good idea to involve the community and create some awareness about CCHS,” Blankenship said, noting community involvement played a large role in making the humane society successful. “I thought it would be a neat contest to do. What better than to get some good creativity going than involving adults and children?”

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Plant function in a rapidly changing world

Edited by Alan K. Knapp
May 2012

As Peter Vitousek and colleagues pointed out 15 years ago “we are changing Earth more rapidly than we are understanding it” (Vitousek et al 1997). This statement has resonated with plant ecologists around the world, serving as a call to arms for many to grapple with the task of furthering our understanding of how plants will function in a world of rapidly increasing atmospheric CO2 partial pressure, warming temperatures, alternations in precipitation patterns and increased levels of nitrogen deposition (IPCC 2007).

Increasing our understanding of basic plant functioning in an ecological context, from the perspective of mechanism and consequence, in this era of rapid global environmental change requires ecologists to not only consider how systems function today, but to explore how they will function in a future dominated by new and in many cases chronic drivers of change (Smith et al. 2009), an increase in extreme events (Smith 2011), and exposure to potentially novel interactions (Williams et al. 2007). This requires a diversity of research approaches including observational studies (planned and opportunistic, Augsburger 2009), gradient studies and comparative analyses, experimental manipulations (short and long-term) and even critical re- examination of relationships used to infer past climatic conditions (Speed et al. 2011). In this virtual issue composed of recent papers from the pages of Functional Ecology, each of these approaches is employed to advance our understanding of plant function, and the functioning of the communities and ecosystems, in a rapidly changing world.

Forecast alterations in temperature and moisture motivate much of the research described in these papers, befitting long-held observations that global patterns of temperature and moisture availability explain much of the broad-scale variation seen in organisms, biogeochemical processes and the distribution of biomes. For example, as a key component of ecosystem-atmosphere C flux, understanding the sensitivity of leaf-level photosynthesis and respiration to changes in temperature and precipitation is critical. Atkinson et al. (2010) investigated the impact of growth temperature on scaling relationships that link photosynthesis to leaf traits.  These relationships have value for predicting ecosystem-atmosphere C fluxes. With a focus on leaf development as a controlling factor, they conclude that changes in growth temperature can significantly alter these scaling relationships, with thermal history accounting for up to ~30% of the variation they measured. Phenology in turn determines patterns of leaf development, with high phenological plasticity important for enhancing the adaptive capacity of plants to future climate changes (Vitasse et al. 2010). Such plasticity has been documented in populations of temperate tree species found across an extensive altitudinal gradient with the expectation that in most cases, warming will lengthen the growing season due to earlier budbreak. Such responses are not without risk however, as in many temperate regions major spring frost events though unpredictable are expected to occur more frequently. As budbreak occurs earlier in a warmer world the impact of these frosts may become more severe. Taking advantage of a rare hard freeze that followed a three week period of anomalously warm temperatures and early budbreak in 2007, Augspurger (2009) assessed damage and refoliation responses in 20 deciduous woody species.  This study showed that differences among species in frost damage and their ability to refoliate could result in strong selection on individuals as well as differences in carbon gain that could, in the long-term, affect species’ abundances.

Global change impacts on leaf and canopy respiration are also important to understand at local to global scales. However, the complexity of forecasting responses in CO2 efflux from leaves is exemplified by two long-term experiments, one in a Mediterranean Quercus ilex forest (Rodríguez-Calcerrada et al. 2011) and another in an Amazonian rain forest (Metcalfe et al. 2010). Drought, projected to increase in frequency and severity in both forests, was experimentally imposed in both studies. But conclusions about the consequences of drought for CO2 emissions from leaves were diametrically opposed – drought is expected to attenuate the stimulation of leaf respiratory CO2 release by global warming in the Mediterranean forest but lead to a substantial increase in canopy CO2 emissions in the Amazonian forest. Further complicating such assessments are the results of Searle et al. (2011), who took advantage of Quercus rubra trees growing along urban-rural gradients to investigate leaf respiratory responses to a host of global change factors. They also concluded that temperature change can impact key respiratory components, but that other factors such as increased N, particularly important in urban areas, are important to consider when evaluating how leaf CO2 efflux may be altered in the future.

Alterations in temperature and atmospheric CO2 are tightly linked to the availability of water in many ecosystems, with warming generally expected to decrease soil water and exacerbating drought impacts, whereas elevated CO2 has the potential to conserve soil water in many regions (Dijkstra et al. 2010). It is clear that there is much to be learned with regard to how forecast alterations in soil moisture will affect plant functioning, including the role that leaf size variation may play in allowing plants to survive hot, dry periods (Yates et al. 2010), how drought can influence adult life-history expression (Kim and Donohue 2012) and the trade-offs between drought tolerance and leaf and whole-plant capacity for water flux (Hao 2010).

Finally, as posited by the Hierarchical Response Framework (HRF) for assessing ecosystem responses to global change (Smith et al. 2009), although individual plant physiological and growth responses to changes in temperature or moisture are clearly important and are expected to occur rapidly, when responses at the individual scale propagate to alterations in communities, even greater impacts on ecosystems are expected. Results from separate field experiments in semi-arid grassland (Dijkstra et al. 2010) and a cold sub-arctic bog (Aerts et al. 2009) are consistent with this prediction of the HRF. In these studies, community interactions (such as interspecific competition) or changes in species composition and structure in response to manipulated CO2, temperature and/or precipitation led to the greatest impact on productivity and plant-mediated nutrient and C cycling. Thus, ecosystems with communities, most sensitive to global change drivers are expected to be altered the most in the future. But what determines the sensitivity (or resistance) of a community or ecosystem to alterations in temperature or water? To answer such questions, long-term studies and in particular long-term experiments can be a particularly valuable approach (Knapp et al. 2012). In a 19 year study of experimental soil moisture alterations in a central US grassland, Collins et al. (2012) identified a mechanism for community resistance to change – functional redundancy within the lifeform of the dominant species.  Such redundancy can buffer this ecosystem from extensive community change in the face of a chronic change in resources.

In sum, if we are to successfully cope with the unprecedented rate of change in environmental conditions expected in the future, ecologists must continue to employ a wide array of research tools and approaches, as well as maintain an interest in a diversity of ecological systems, to provide the breadth and depth of knowledge needed to forecast the future of our rapidly changing natural world. The papers complied for this virtual issue move us closer to meeting this challenge, while providing a portfolio of blueprints for advancing our understanding of how plants will function when confronted by global environmental change.

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IPCC 2007. Climate Change 2007. The physical science basis. Contribution of working group 1 to the fourth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change. Solomon, S.D., M. Qin, Z. Manning, M. Chen, K.B. Marquis, T. Avery, M. Tignor and H.L. Miller, Eds. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

Knapp, A.K., M.D. Smith, S.E. Hobbie, S.L. Collins, T.J. Fahey, G.J. A. Hansen, D.A. Landis, K.J. La Pierre, J.M. Melillo, T.R. Seastedt, G.R. Shaver and J.R. Webster. 2012. Past, present and future roles of long-term experiments in the LTER Network. BioScience 62: 377 - 389.

Smith, M.D., A.K. Knapp and S.L. Collins. 2009. A framework for assessing ecosystem dynamics in response to chronic resource alterations induced by global change. Ecology 90: 3279-3289.

Smith, M.D. 2011. An ecological perspective on extreme climatic events: a synthetic definition and framework to guide future research. J. Ecol 99: 656–663.

Vitousek, P.M., H.A. Mooney, J. Lubchenko and J.M. Melillo. 1997. Human domination of earth’s ecosystems. Science 277: 494-499.

Williams, J. W., S. T. Jackson, and J. E. Kutzbach. 2007. Projected distributions of novel and disappearing climates by 2100 AD. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 104:5738–5742.

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Eggs has to save his friends from an evil exterminator who tries to wipe out the Boxtrolls!

The Boxtrolls is based on the children’s novel ‘Here Be Monsters’ by Alan Snow and uses some seriously cool animation techniques!

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Recovery Plan Available for Six Aquatic Snails in Alabama

December 5, 2005

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced the availability of the final recovery plan for six Mobile River Basin aquatic snails on December 2, 2005. The six snails included in the recovery plan are: the endangered cylindrical lioplax (Lioplax cyclostomaformis), flat pebblesnail (Lepyrium showalteri), and plicate rocksnail (Leptoxis ampla); and the threatened painted rocksnail (Leptoxis taeniata), round rocksnail (Leptoxis ampla), and lacy elimia (Elimia crenatella).

All six snails are endemic to the Mobile River Basin of Alabama where they inhabit shoals, rapids and riffles of large streams and rivers above the Fall Line. All six species have disappeared from more than 90 percent of their historic ranges as a result of such threats as impoundment, channelization, mining, dredging, and pollution.

The recovery plan includes specific recovery objectives and criteria to be met in order to downlist the cylindrical lioplax, flat pebblesnail, and plicate rocksnail to threatened species and for the eventual delisting of all six species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act).

The plan will serve as a guide for federal and state agencies, industries, private groups, and individuals whose actions may affect the conservation of these listed snails. The recovery plan calls for protection of river and stream habitats and water quality, development of mitigation strategies for unavoidable impacts to these habitats, community-based watershed stewardship planning and action, concerted public education efforts, and basic research on the six snail species.

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Everyone our age (under 40) has to have a soft spot for Spaghetti Westerns.

When I was a kid, I don’t think I let a single lazy summer Saturday afternoon pass without tuning into A Fistful of Dollars or The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly or some other Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood shoot-’em-up. Not like we had a choice, though, right? Was there ever a sunny day when Clint was not squinting back at us from the tube? (Other B-flicks that seemed to be on all the time in the ’70s were The Frogs, Duel, Hell House, Deliverance, and the unforgettable Nazi-zombies fright Shock Waves. Sweeeeet.) Our nostalgia for Sergio’s precise and mostly inaccurate replications of the Old West is manifest mightily in the stuff that we watch, wear, and read today. Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino deserve a majority of the credit/blame for the resurgence. But film is an easy medium for capturing yesteryear.

Something as metaphorical as music, though, doesn’t lend itself too well to conjuring the past, specifically an era like the Old West, which seems to be largely defined by its strong, unmistakable imagery (cowboys, Indians, guns, gunplay, ramshackle storefronts, tumbleweeds, horses, etc.). Give Ghoultown props then for being able to serve up Mercyful Fate-meets-From Dusk ’Til Dawn. The semi-local band (some members are from Bedford) has been doing its self-described “hellbilly” rock ’n’ roll for almost 10 years but still seems to be an underground phenomenon here. That’s probably because, like a lot of other bands that call Fort Worth home but have fans well beyond the city limits, Ghoultown doesn’t rely solely on constant gigging and CD sales to survive. (They probably also don’t want or need to.) Their music has popped up in a bunch of flicks, mostly of the horror variety, but still: Any band that knows its audience and also has a unique style is going to do well.

As for the music, “hellbilly” doesn’t really do it justice. While there are indeed elements of high-octane slappin’ and pickin’, the tuneage also attempts bits of thrash, mariachi, good ol’ fashioned monster-rock, Tijuana brass, and surf guitar. In the end, the Ghoulies always end up sounding — and looking — like themselves and nobody else. All of the band-members — singer/guitarist Count Lyle, guitarist Jake Middlefinger, singer/guitarist Lizard Lazario, bassist and backup singer Santi, drummer Dalton Black, and trumpeter Randy Grimm — dress like Satanic zombie cowboys: black boots, jeans, shirts, and 10-gallon lids. (Count Lyle also typically sports a vest of bullets.) Check ’em out for yourself this Friday at The Wreck Room (3208 W. 7th St., FW; 817-348-8303), when they celebrate the release of their new seven-song album, Bury Them Deep (Zoviet Records). For more, visit MySpace.com/Ghoultown or Ghoultown.com.

… Another show you’d do well to catch is Spoonfed Tribe on Saturday at the Ridglea Theater (6025 Camp Bowie Blvd., FW; 817-738-9500). A few guests will join the spacey funk-rockers, including The Feds and Tribe guitarist Sho’ Nuff’s new side project, The End of the World Parade, a type of performance-art drum circle whose stage will be, well, the entire Ridglea Theater. For more, visit MySpace.com/SpoonfedTribe or SpoonfedTribe.com.
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The pair keeps on trading along an uptrend. It is currently bouncing off trend’s higher boundary though. At the same time resistance level 1.4640 is being formed. Nearest key resistance up from that level is seen at 1.4720, therefore as long as the pair is trading below that mark, the uptrend will be bounded by current levels. We can expect the pair to continue rising if it eventually gets over resistance 1.4720, and then it is supposed to reach resistance 1.5000.
Support cloud is seen around marks 1.4430–1.4485. If the pair goes under those levels, a downtrend will start with the downside target set at support 1.4235, which touches the lower bound of the red up-trending channel. Should the pair also drop below level 1.4235, it will head towards levels 1.3975–1.4050.

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  • Publisher: Eidos
  • Genre:Action, Adventure
  • Developer: Ion Storm
  • Release Date:May 26, 2004
  • # of Players:1 player
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Welcome to "Morning Hangover" -- an excellent way to start your day with the crew at TheFeed...no matter what you're recovering from. Every morning you'll hear musings from two of TheFeed's editors and have the chance to share your thoughts on what's going on in the gaming world. So buckle up, get ready to turn Japanese this week, and keep reading!
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Stephen Johnson: We have a copy of DJ Hero set up in our game capture laboratory at this very moment, and after putting it through its paces a bit, I’m going to make a prediction: This is going to be a polarizing game. Some will regard the mash-up simulator as the game of the year, and other people are just not going to get it… like at all.
My reaction: It’s fun, sure, but, basically, it simulates an activity that I have no interest in participating in real life. Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t see a DJ in a club and think: “I want to be that guy!” So the idea of pretending to be him via a game (and sort of sucking at it, too) just doesn’t appeal: For me, playing DJ Hero gave me the experience of being bad at something I’m not interested in.
If, on the other hand, you have a different aesthetic than I have (and more tolerance for learning a completely new system of gameplay) you’ll be very into the complexity and vibe of DJ Hero. In spite of its attempts to hit a broad audience, I have a feeling DJ Hero is strictly for the hardcore.
Raymond Padilla: As many of you know, Tokyo Game Show kicks off later this week. As console gaming has become more and more Western, TGS isn't as important as it once was (still a frickin' awesome show though!). In general, Japanese game development and publishing aren't as big as they used to be either. Several Japanese developers and publishers have acknowledged this shift to the West, even naming their games so that they appeal to gaijin.
I'm probably part of the minority, but to this day, most of the games I love are made by Japanese developers. I want my Final Fantasies, my Pokemons, my Dragon Quests, my Kingdom Hearts, my SmackDown vs. Raws, etc. While I'm thrilled for the success of American, Canadian, and European developers that have made console gaming more Western, I'm a little sad that Japan is no longer the epicenter of the gaming universe (mostly for nostalgic reasons).
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For years we’ve seen films with plots concerning alien invasions or robots out for revenge on the people of Earth. In these stories, Hollywood reflects our fears associated with the overreach and unpredictable side of technology. But why are we so afraid of something we created ourselves? Viewing the social timeline of these anxieties from Hollywood’s perspective, we can see not only the evolution of society’s technophobia, but the driving forces behind our fears of mechanical mayhem.

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GQ Qi (Jack Yang) is a talented and handsome actor who can’t seem to get a break. That is until he lands a coveted role on a television sitcom. The only problem—the role is for a character named Kung Pao, a Chinese foreign exchange student. Not only is his name offensive but also the lines and mannerisms assigned to him. Fed up with the blatant stereotyping, GQ foils a plan to expose the executive producer of the show, Mitch Lebowitz (Bruno Oliver). He enlists the help of a production assistant, Kelvin Kim (Raymond Lee), but once again GQ can’t catch a break because the role is so coveted that Kim turns against GQ for an opportunity to replace him as the star.

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The short film Menschen carries its weight as a period piece that involves relevant themes loaded from the past. I don’t have to tell you that film as an art-form has the power to impact both the life of an individual and influence or reflect societal values and norms. With this power in mind, Menschen is important because of how it relates to our modern world.

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In the 2000s, more than 30 dystopian films were made in the U.S.: that’s double the number of dystopian films made in the 1990s. More than 20 dystopian films have already been made just five years into the 2010s. The Giver recently joined that ever-growing list. The dystopian film genre has been sustained in the past decade not only because it offers an action-packed narrative for children and adults alike but also because it makes viewers question government control in the post 9/11 world.

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Pain and sorrow are the sweet rains flowing across the film of our lives. We dive deep through trust and into the heart of betrayal, twisting and turning along the strings of lies and illusion. Passion carries us across, and we hold to heart, afraid to break. But it’s the pieces of tragedy that tell the real stories, stories that we cannot turn away from; can we watch them again and again? Or as the screen fades to black, do we remain held within memory, forever touched by the film of their lives? It’s a simple turn of the page that can be ignored. We don’t want to hear about it. We don’t want to see it. We don’t want to know, but it still happened. One story always echoes across the news. A life was lost. Tragedy struck.

Manakamana: A Film Unseen

The year 2014 brings yet another twelve months of hyperbolic, and over stimulated cinematic spectacle. Following a year of Superhero re-hashes (Man of Steel), comic book adaptations (Kick-Ass 2, The Wolverine), darker themed sequels (Thor: The Dark World, Star Trek: Into Darkness) and over indulgent science fiction (After Earth, Pacific Rim), it seems Hollywood has lined up another round of expensive eye-candy. I recently had the pleasure of watching The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug at the cinema, although I firmly place this film in the same category of over produced films listed above, its fantastical charm was difficult to ignore.

Frozen: The Snow Queen Touched by the Hand of a Disney Princess

In Disney’s Frozen, the audience is introduced to a world that wields both the darkness of Hans Christian Andersen and the almost ‘unbearable lightness’ of the Disney Princess world, where characters spontaneously burst into song, though thankfully, they possess voices such as that of the inimitable Idina Menzel, the voice of the Snow Queen. The film is at once a feminist manifesto (i.e. sisterly love comes before romantic love) and a deeply romantic story, espousing the value of slow-growing sentiment based on truly knowing, understanding and complementing one’s other half, rather than on the typical Disney princess ‘love at first sight’ scenario. READ MORE.

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JOE SONGER | AL.COM | ASSOCIATED PRESS The funeral procession of slain bus driver Charles “Chuck” Albert Poland Jr. makes its way Sunday down U.S. Highway 231 in Ozark. More than 60 motorcycles and dozens of school buses joined the funeral procession.

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MIDLAND CITY — As an Alabama standoff and hostage drama marked a sixth day Sunday, more details emerged about the suspect at the center, with neighbors and officials painting a picture of an isolated man estranged from his family.

Authorities say Jim Lee Dykes, 65 — a decorated Vietnam-era veteran known as Jimmy to neighbors — gunned down a school bus driver and abducted a 5-year-old boy from the bus, taking him to an underground bunker on his rural property. The driver, 66-year-old Charles Albert Poland Jr., was buried Sunday.

Dykes, described as a loner who railed against the government, lives up a dirt road outside this tiny hamlet north of Dothan in the southeastern corner of the state. His home is just off the main road north to the state capital of Montgomery, about 80 miles away.

The FBI said in a statement Sunday that authorities continue to have an open line of communication with Dykes. The little boy requested Cheez-Its and a red Hot Wheels car, both of which were delivered to the bunker, a separate statement said. Authorities had said they also were delivering medicine and other comfort items, and that Dykes was making the child as comfortable as possible.

In the nearby community of Ozark on Sunday, more than 500 people filed into the Civic Center to pay a final tribute to Poland, who was being hailed as a hero for protecting the other children on the school bus before he was shot Tuesday.

Poland is now “an angel who is watching over” the little boy, said Dale County School Superintendent Donny Bynum, who read letters written by three students who had ridden on Poland’s bus. “You didn’t deserve to die but you died knowing you kept everyone safe,” one child wrote.

Outside the funeral, school buses from several counties lined the funeral procession route. The buses had black ribbons tied to their side mirrors.

Dykes grew up in the Dothan area. Mel Adams, a Midland City Council member who owns the lot where reporters are gathered, said he has known Dykes since they were ages 3 and 4.

He said Dykes has a sister and a brother, but that he is estranged from his family.

Adams said he didn’t know what caused the falling-out, but that he knew Dykes “had told part of his family to go to hell.”

Midland City Mayor Virgil Skipper said Dykes’ sister is in a nursing home. Adams said that law enforcement officers have talked to Dykes’ family members and advised them not to speak with reporters, and that officers told his sister there was nothing she could do to help the child in the bunker.

Government records and interviews with neighbors indicate that Dykes joined the Navy in Midland City, serving on active duty from 1964 to 1969. His record shows several awards, including the Vietnam Service Medal and the Good Conduct Medal. Dykes was trained in aviation maintenance and at one point was based in Japan. It was unclear if he saw combat in Vietnam.

Adams said that he, too, is a Vietnam veteran but that he never was close with Dykes. Adams said he recalls last seeing Dykes in the 1980s, when he drove a truck for a company that laundered uniforms.

At some point after his time in the Navy, Dykes lived in Florida, where he worked as a surveyor and a long-haul truck driver. It’s unclear how long he stayed there.

He had some scrapes with the law in Florida, including a 1995 arrest for improper exhibition of a weapon. The misdemeanor was dismissed. He also was arrested for marijuana possession in 2000.

He returned to Alabama about two years ago, moving onto the rural tract about 100 yards from his nearest neighbors, Michael Creel and his father, Greg.

Neighbors described Dykes as a man who once beat a dog to death with a lead pipe, threatened to shoot children for setting foot on his property, and patrolled his yard at night with a flashlight and a firearm. Michael Creel said Dykes had an adult daughter, but the two lost touch years ago.

His property has a white trailer that, according to Creel, Dykes said he bought from FEMA after it was used to house evacuees from Hurricane Katrina. The property also has a steel shipping container — like those on container ships — in which Dykes stores tools and supplies.

Next to the container is the underground bunker where authorities say Dykes is holed up with the 5-year-old. Neighbors say the bunker has a pipe so Dykes could hear people coming near his driveway. Authorities have been using the ventilation pipe to communicate with him.

The younger Creel, who said he helped Dykes with supplies to build the bunker and has been in it twice, said Dykes wanted protection from hurricanes.

“He said he lived in Florida and had hurricanes hit. He wanted someplace he could go down in and be safe,” Creel said. Authorities say the bunker is about 6 feet by 8 feet, and the only entrance is a trap door at the top.

Such bunkers are not uncommon in rural Alabama because of the threat of tornadoes.

Greg Creel was a friend of Dykes’, but he said he would not comment for the Associated Press. “I will only talk to the police and the FBI,” he said.

Michael Creel said Dykes kept to himself and listened to a lot of conservative talk radio.

“He was very into what’s going on with the nation and the politics and all the laws being made. The things he didn’t agree with, he would ventilate,” he said.

James Arrington, police chief of the neighboring town of Pinckard, put it differently.

“He’s against the government, starting with Obama on down,” he said.

Morris Dees of Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, a group that tracks hate crimes, said Dykes was not on the group’s radar.

Although the fatal shootings in December at a school in Newtown, Conn., are still on everyone’s mind, Dees said he doesn’t think Dykes was trying to be a copycat.

“Probably not. He had a whole bus load full of kids, and he could have walked up there and shot the whole crowd of them,” he said.

“I think he’s just a really angry and bitter guy with some anger management issues,” Dees said. “He is just against everything — the government and his neighbors.”

Associated Press writers Tamara Lush, Jay Reeves and Philip Rawls contributed to this report.

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i need help at remaking the timeline because i can't see the option to use as a clue the Testimony of E. Long and the dialogues at the Police Station - Richardson's testimony I was following the walkthrough on gameboomers but the say : See 3 papers at top of left page.

Determine the precise the time of death of Annie Chapman:

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2 years ago#1
I missed the Wii version so I should be getting it.
Remembers when video games were about having fun
2 years ago#2
I can play the Wii version whenever I want but have only played the first couple stages. So no...
2 years ago#3
A handheld Donkey Kong game?! F*** Yea!
Proud owner of 3DS XL, GBA SP, N64, Xbox 360 & PS2.
Favorite game series: Zelda, F-Zero, & Kid Icarus.
2 years ago#4
I already played through the Wii version, so unless there's added content that justifies revisiting it, I'll pass.
Now Playing: Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, Fire Emblem: Awakening, Pokemon White 2
2 years ago#5
Yes, I'll hate spending the money again but I'd rather have it on a handheld.
2 years ago#6
Probably. Never owned a Wii.
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2 years ago#7
Nope, already played DKCR to death.
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2 years ago#8
Yep, 3D!
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2 years ago#9
I played the **** out of the Wii version so I wouldn't buy the 3DS version unless there are some notable additions. And no, improved controls and 3D mode are not enough to warrant a purchase.
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2 years ago#10
Absolutely. I skipped the Wii version because of the stupid waggle controls, but now that those are gone, it should be awesome.
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Titanfall: PC Crash, Installation & Connectivity Issues Help Guide

Having PC issues with Titanfall? You are not alone. To help alleviate the throngs of confused customers, Electronic Arts put together a list of helpful advice for PC users to survive some of these launch issues.

Check out the help guide below to get you out of the PC rut. These fixes, work-arounds and words of advice come straight from EA.

How to Fix – Crashes, Installation & Connectivity Issues

Note: EA promises fixes are incoming. Until then, try these official fixes and tweaks.

Titanfall Cannot be Installed on 32-bit Systems

  • Players running on a 32-bit version of Windows will be unable to install and play Titanfall on their PC.
  • When installing Titanfall from a physical disc on to a 32-bit system, you’ll encounter the below error, reading, “Error: A redistributable package (audio_installer.exe) was not installed successfully. Setup cannot continue. (1)”
  • If you’re encountering this error, you can confirm whether you system is 32-bit or 64-bit by clicking the Start button, then right-clicking Computer and selecting Properties. You’ll find this information listed as “System type.”

Troubleshooting Titanfall Installation Fails at 20% and 31%

  • If your installation of Titanfall fails at 31%, this is usually due to a problem encountered while downloading Titanfall’s audio file.
  • You can troubleshoot your Titanfall installation by opening your Origin client, heading to the My Games tab, right-clicking the Titanfall game tile, and selecting Repair.

Hard-Drive Related Installation Issues

  • Some players are reporting installation issues with Titanfall when using a hard drive formatted FAT32. Due to file-size restrictions inherent to FAT32 systems, some of the larger files within the Titanfall installation are unable to be managed by these hard drives.
  • To successfully install Titanfall, make sure your hard drive is formatted NTFS. You can find instructions on how to convert a hard drive partition to NTFS straight from Microsoft.

Connection Errors and Infinite Loop When Trying to Connect on Slower Internet Connections

  • Exceedingly slow internet connections may cause an error message when trying to join a server or play your game. Some players may even get stuck in an infinite loop when trying to connect.
  • Try resetting your router or modem by unplugging it from its power source for at least fifteen seconds and then plugging it back in the game.

Crashing When Accepting an Invitation to a Match in Progress While Currently in a Match

  • If you’re in the middle of a match and accept a friend’s invitation to join their match also currently in progress, your game will crash when accepting your friend’s invitation.
  • To solve this issue, make sure before you either inviting a friend or accepting an invitation to exit to the game lobby first.

Players Having Issues Receiving “Militia Pilot” Achievement

  • To increase your ability to receive the “Militia Pilot” achievement, try joining a match using the Play option, rather than Quickplay.

Kinect Cannot be Used for Voice-Comms, and “Voice and Microphone” Functionality on PC

  • Xbox One and Xbox 360 players cannot use Kinect for Voice over IP, or voice-communication, in-game.
  • Similarly, PC players with a microphone-containing-webcam set as your default microphone will have your microphone turned on automatically when playing Titanfall.
  • If you do not wish to have your microphone on during gameplay, simply disable it in your game settings or disable it as your default microphone in your computer settings.

Some Intel Processors Must Install Specific Beta Graphics Drivers

  • PC players with specific Intel processors, specifically those with Intel Graphics, must download and install a special beta graphics driver to ensure their game runs properly
  • You can find this driver, along with a full list of what Intel processors the driver is compatible with, straight from Intel.
  • Note: These drivers are intended for Intel HD desktop players only. Some laptop players have reported issues with these drivers.

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On March 13, 2014 at 9:12 pm

My computer always restarts itself 5 minutes into a Titanfall match. No error or blue screen, just a complete reboot. Doesn’t happen in any other game.

On March 14, 2014 at 1:20 pm

Well,well,well.Here we go again.EA “did” say that “Titanfall won’t have launch issues like Battlefield 4.” But go figure.They are having issues anyhow.Maybe not the same issues,but issues none the less.When will people learn to not purchase EA games when they are not complete at launch? I laugh at you silly humans.Good luck with your expensive non working game.Hahahahahahahahaha!

On March 14, 2014 at 1:24 pm

No issues for me after 4 hours of playtime.

On March 14, 2014 at 11:30 pm

The repair was not working for me. so what I ended up doing was going into the titanfall folder then into VPK folder and selected cam list which opened up in Notepad. From there i would just delete the names of the files that were failing. and it finally worked. I am about to check it out in game but atleast it finally loaded.

On March 16, 2014 at 12:59 pm

Looks like this aint as bad of a release as SC5. but still, dont buy anything from EA. instead, just pirate them, HAHAHAHA

On March 30, 2014 at 11:14 pm

Yesterday was playing titanfall for about 2 hours and in that short time game sound engine crashed twice, once it stuck in deadpoint (for about 2min still image and then cinnection lost message). But when you compate to other “AAA” FPS games this game is not about the stats, it is actualy FUN to play and i had fun long time ago in games so this is so rewarding. Personaly i like the killcam. It points exactly what misstakes YOUI made and why you are dead, shows how accurate are your opponent and i had none of the battlefield 4 WTF momens in here. If you are dead there it is 50perc possibility that this is becouse of the poorly coded netcode. Here is where i salute devs for choosing source engine. If they cud implement destruction in the game it wud become the most popular game ever:) so far no matter how much game wud just die in front of my eyes i will run it again and still have my smyle of enjoyment on the face, what i can’t say about others. If other game crashes… well f**k it :D

On March 31, 2014 at 7:02 am

Wait, people were actually expecting this game to be developed for PC instead of just ported as an afterthought with practically no QA testing or support?! What a shock in today’s gaming industry.

Haven’t you all learned the cancer consoles have spawned for our beloved industry? It hasn’t been about creating an awesome user-experience for years, it’s been about making generic bull with generic gameplay that they know will sell.

There are very few big-hitting PC game developers out there anymore. You’re far more likely to have a very polished PC game from an indie developer than from Electronic Arts or Activision.

On April 8, 2014 at 1:36 am

My game randomly crashes. Smetimes i can have 2 games and other times it crashes after 5 minutes. Anyone know the problem? Its either a full game crash or just losing connection to the server

it wont start at all

On April 23, 2014 at 10:39 pm

okay i got the pc cd (dont know if its suppose to come with 3 discs or not.
when i put in one disc the only thing i can do is open the folder and not install it….. and i really dont want to mess with my hard drive…. please help tell me this is a fake version or something because i wasted 60 bucks on this


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If you possess a modified pipe but you're running low on blades and the like, there's a neat trick you can use to rectify that issue. First, stand over a regular pipe and then switch between that pipe and the modified one in your possession, then switch back again. You should now have another blade in your inventory. You can repeat the process as needed until your inventory is full of shivs, nail bombs, and modified weapons.

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Begin playing the game in New Game+ mode. Work your way through the first level, then save and exit to the main menu once you have finished it. Now you can head to the screen that lets you choose your chapter. Begin the first chapter again, only now you can select a different difficulty setting if you like and you won't lose any of your progress.

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SAN FRANCISCO - March 30, 2005 -Today Ubisoft, one of the world's largest videogame publishers, announced the return of the legendary Might and Magic ® brand. Credited with the establishment of the heroic fantasy genre upon its first release in 1985 on PC, the brand encompasses several product lines including the mythical Heroes of Might & Magic . Ubisoft will bring fresh life to the franchise, while respecting its heritage, just as it successfully did with cult brands such as Prince of Persia and Myst .

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Starters Orders 4 Horse Racing Screenshots

- Play in a vast horse racing world with thousands of horses and hundreds of computer controlled Jockeys and Trainers.
- Relatic races and Jockey AI. Watch as the jockeys settle their mounts and jockey for position before driving their horses for the finish.
- Relaistic betting and dynamic odds with Ante-post and racecourse betting.
- Fields of up to 30 runners.
- Hundreds of realistic feature races to target including the Grand National, Cheltenham gold cup and many, many more.
- Improve your stable by purchasing add-ons and evaluate your horses by running them on your home gallops.
- Realistic races including Maidens, Claimers, Sellers, Handicaps, Group races, Listed races etc.
- Hundreds of world-wide race courses.
- Realistic form analysis with in-depth form book to study and realistic race cards on race day.
- Fallers, Unseated riders, Injuries, stewards enquiries, disqualifications, non-triers etc. etc.
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