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"People were always rotten" Edward G. Robinson laments in 1973's sci fi eco-dystopia cautionary tale SOYLENT GREEN. Referring to the good old days of air conditioning and top soil, he can't possibly know the irony of his statement. In point of fact, everything else is rotten, but thanks to a revolutionary, preservative-enhanced freeze-drying process, people are the only things left that ain't rotten: They stay fresh and delicious almost forever...
That famous quote, "Soylent Green is people!" is the purloined letter of the film and I don't feel guilty giving it away because it's long been part of popular culture, a 'gotcha' twist to go alongside Chuck's "Damn you all to hell! You blew it up!" rant to the Statue of Liberty at the end 1968's Planet of the Apes. Taken together, these two films are like sci-fi eco-disaster bookends, a time-loop Greatest Story Hopefully Never Told, wherein the grim future of SOYLENT is the distant past in APES. At least (we consoled ourselves) once we starved our selves off the planet, it could eventually recover. Even in the 1970s, you see, my son, overpopulation was considered a very real problem. At least they had the guts to think about it!
There was also LOGAN'S RUN (everyone dies at 30), ROLLERBALL (bloodsport sets the trends); that forgotten Bruce Dern film SILENT RUNNING (the last plants kept alive in a remote orbiting spaceship), it was all cascading out of our growing awareness that throwing our McDonald's trash out the window while driving home was wrong! There was that 1970s crying Indian. There was Pogo Earth Day poster. These things made an impact. We kids of the time still remember them...
What's disturbing about GREEN, looking back now so many years later, isn't the inevitability of cannibalism in a society choked on humans and starved on everything else, but Heston's naive flare-up of morality and outrage over it all. Why should we think it's so important to keep the terminal truth of 'you are what you eat' from the general public?
The Soylent Corp., the shadowy conglomerate behind it all, is, to my mind, doing a public service by hushing it up. The last gasp of food production in the face of global starvation, the people killing to keep it a secret should be thanked for working so hard to disguise the long pig... it's compassionate. It saves mankind from feeling worse than it already does. Why not tell the delusional Donner party matron shivering in the back of the hogan that its venison, if it gets her to eat it? By the same token, there are cancer-stricken old ladies dying right and left because they don't want to smoke pot, since its illegal and therefore poisonous... why not mix it in her brownies and just not tell her? Would Heston fight to make sure she knew, and that the granddaughter who made her the brownies went to jail? He would.
But cop Heston doesn't want to hear my rationalizations. Near the end he even sneers to his chief, "soon they'll be breeding us like cattle," and it's fitting that the stupidity of that remark is completely lost on him. One asks: With what, Chuck, will they be feeding these human cattle? If there were any feed or grass left, people would be standing in line to be bred like cattle. And 'breeding' us kind of defeats the whole point, doesn't it, Chuck? Like breeding locusts to feed an incoming swarm of locusts... or carrying coals to Newcastle, wherever that is... I assume a place that's already rife with coal.
But for every perceptive, accurate, and nihilistic prediction in GREEN, there's a few that have dated, badly. I dig that the film is not racist--Heston was on point in such matters, even marching with MLK in '63--but it is most definitely sexist. In the future, it seems, women are all sluts, heh heh, that are called 'furniture' because they don't move or pack anymore; they just stay behind for the next man who moves in, and none of this is in the novel by Harry Harrison, which is perhaps why it comes off so half-baked, if you'll forgive the expression.
I also wish to further point out the hypocrisy of Heston's outrage over the Soylent secret when earlier in the film he brings home a pound of confiscated fresh beef to Edward G. Old enough to remember when beef was ubiquitous. Robinson weeps when he sees it. No one even mentions the rough, tough sole-survivor cattle that died so Eddie and Chuck can have their purloined steak! I wonder if Heston's relatively young cop (who doesn't remember the time of ubiquitous beef) would get outraged if he know that the meat was from a cow. I can seem him being both NRA and PETA, why not? "Beef is.... Cows?! Damn you, apes!"
He, you, we, should relax, man. Stress makes people gamey. We all should relax and put our outraged moral muskets down and admit we're fascinated by cannibalism. We've eaten each other in some distant primordial pre-language miasma past, and may end up doing it in the over-populated future, so why not recognize the true enemy isn't our capacity for survival but our own antiquated morality? All those meat sticks starving because they only eat cows are the worst kind of hypocrites. To paraphrase Dylan's "Idiot Wind," we're lucky we can even eat ourselves. After all, nearly ever other species of carnivore probably does it, when they have to. Sharks do it. Spiders do it. Know what happens to the principled objector to cannibalism in starvation conditions? Sharks on the other hand, are still going strong, even through epoch-ending asteroids and JAWS blowback.
But amid the hypocrisy in SOYLENT is a very touching and moving sequence I need to talk about, involving the disillusioned Eddie Robinson's trip "Home." It's the real climax of the film and if you haven't seen it, stop reading here as it could count as an AMBER SPOILER ALERT!
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Upon entrance to "Home," a man and a woman in white flowing robes let you pick the color of the blazing light you want to subsume you in the chamber, and the line to get a chamber isn't very long at all! And you get a full 20 minute film to bask in, kind of like one of those surround screen exhibits at Epcot Center. I want to encourage the building of just such a room in every hospital, as a place not just for dying, but for tripping, instead of the usual clinical hospital setting where most legally approved medical experiment therapeutic tripping is done.
Most of all, I wish my 100 year-old granny could have access to an assisted suicide set-up like that one; they won't let her just die in her nursing home and she's fairly healthy for a 97 year-old. She can barely hear or see anymore, and can't walk because of a bad hip, and can't really think straight for long periods but she could be good for another 5 or 10 years. I know she'd at least like to have the option. Her own mom died at 107--and the last 17 years (!) were, as she put it even then, shamefully superfluous.
And the scene where Heston says good-bye to Robinson in the chamber is so beautiful and touching it contrasts the general misery of the rest of the movie to such an extent we can hardly bear to return. And there's a reason it's some of the best acting Heston has ever done:
"This was the 101st and last movie in which Edward G. Robinson appeared; he died of cancer twelve days after the filming, on January 26, 1973. Heston was the only member of the crew that Robinson told of his cancer (immediately before filming the scene of Robinson's character's death), knowing that this knowledge would deeply affect Heston, and therefore his playing of the scene. Robinson had previously worked with Heston in The Ten Commandments (1956) and the make-up tests for Planet of the Apes (1968)." (WIKI)John Nesbitt at Old School Reviews put it this way:
Those ARE real tears falling from the Chuckster's eyes when he gazes upon Sol's poignant farewell. Heston need not resort to his Ben Hur technique of burying his eyes to feign heartbreak; this time the tears flow . . . effortlessly and honestly. Immediate "method acting" is forced on Heston naturally since he knew that Robinson truly was dying and that this would be the last scene that the legendary actor would ever perform. Thus, the tears are real—a gut wrenching fusion of fiction and real life drama. That alone makes the film well worth examining.
Robinson's devotion to his chosen craft was full and total, so it's fitting and courageous that he uses his impending death to transform what might have been just a so-so or even hammy moment into something very, very beautiful. The film never spells out directly what's to come as Robinson enters "Home" but we have a pretty good idea and it makes the kindness of the assistants and the air conditioning extra vivid. For all the sorrow and misery in the rest of the film, before and after--all the sweaty packed-dusty starving, sweaty misery--here, finally, is some grace. Just knowing that Robinson will at least have a beautiful 20 minute drugged-out trip into the yawning blazing white yoni light of death is enough to make us happy for him. He can finally appreciate his legacy, like a painter who at last steps back to see the big picture.
It's in that spirit that I feel right about mentioning my last golden moment with my dying dad, a week or so ago, down in North Carolina, drinking and watching LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, shivering in the air conditioning and stark brilliance of each actor, their ebbs and high tides of drunken dysfunction rendered into black magic poetry under Sydney Lumet's alchemical care. If the "Home" sequence in SOYLENT was lengthened into a whole 3-hour film it might look like this. Lumet creates in this tight, long film something eternally free and yet crushed before it has a chance to fly. It's also a great, reverse funhouse mirror to mine own family (two brothers--neither married or with kids--alcoholism, one's a poet, one family member realizes he's going to maybe die very soon, etc.). Anyway, my dad and I bonded big under the black and white brilliance of it all, attuned to each others' rapture in a way that brought us together as film (on TV) always had, from when he first showed me GODZILLA VS. THE SEA MONSTER on afternoon UHF TV when I was five or six in c. the same time SOYLENT was in theaters, up to that last film, last week.
And during a pause button moment he told me about how his doctors wanted to give him an enzyme treatment that might extend his life by as much as a month (and maybe not at all), but he had decided to save Medicare the $200,000.00 price tag. I thanked him on behalf of America. Without the staggering power of Lumet's film, the maginifficent acting and O'Neill's fearless dialogue, that conversation might never have happened. I was proud of my dad for his decision, and it seemed the magnificent, brooding dysfunctional drama unspooling before us was inspiring us to unleash all our boozy courage and wit to bear on the most painful and eternal of all topics...
And then the next morning I didn't even have time say goodbye, as he was in the shower when I left and my mom was hustling me to the airport. The next time I saw him, he was a bag of ashes.
If he came back as Soylent Green, I'd have a few honorary nibbles. Why not? He'd do the same of me. We're not fussy about food. Why the hell shouldn't my dad get the same sacramental props as the Big Jesus with his bread and blood red wine? Farmers can bond with their future breakfast, it's not that hard. Native Americans pray to their kills. Are you daring to say my Big Daddy's not as tasty as a cow or a buffalo or Jesus? (PS - I get my sense of gallows humor from his side of the family, so don't worry about me offending his ghost).
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The hypocratic oath and fundamentalist bible thumpers would never let "Home" happen, of course. For them death must be a desperate, miserable, lonesome ordeal, every last inch of ground and time fought over, all so doctors can bankrupt our unborn grand children's Social Security. I say Euthanize the Vote! Naked Lunch of the future, it's time to write your last menu and testament. Then again, the doctors of our world do dish out opiated hospice-strength cocktails to the truly terminal (my mom crushed up and threw away my dad's before I could swipe it, alas), and there's angelic visiting hospice nurse Phillip Seymour Hoffman, in MAGNOLIA (1999), pretending to light LONG DAY's Jason Robards cigarette as he dies of cancer. I hope someone does that for me.
Like Robinson in SOYLENT, Robards was really dying during the filming of MAGNOLIA and to see him transmuting his real-life dying pain into a deeply, terribly moving final extended death scene is once again to marvel at the deep courage our best actors show in using their immanent real life death in their art. Maybe we can use his and Robinson's examples to encourage our medical establishment to go a little deeper with the idea of assisted suicide and the chance for death to be more than just an ugly abject bodily function. To paraphrase Bing Crosby, death is agonizing, inevitable, a heartache either way, but beautiful... If we ever find the courage to actually look it in the twinkling eye, I imagine we'll find it all but irresistible.


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The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers filed its request with the National Labor Relations Board this week along with signature cards from what it believes is a majority of the eligible employees at the Danville, Va., factory. The plant, which produces bookcases and coffee tables, is run by Ikea's subsidiary, Swedwood.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. — First, there's the call. All players who are changing teams get that.
"You've been traded to …" or, "You've been claimed by …"
When the destination is the Penguins, there's something else that follows like clockwork. Amid the packing and scrambling, maybe kissing the wife and kids goodbye, comes a text from team captain Sidney Crosby.
"Yeah, welcoming you to the team," winger Taylor Pyatt said with a smile last week, recalling Jan. 2 when he was claimed by the Penguins off of waivers from the New York Rangers. "That definitely helps when you first get here."
The Penguins added two players at the NHL trade deadline last week, forwards Lee Stempniak from Calgary and Marcel Goc from Florida. They were able to make their way to California for back-to-back games at San Jose and Anaheim. Goc had an assist against the Sharks.
While changing teams brings a whirlwind of adjustments — a couple of hours before Friday's game against the Ducks, Goc was in the hallway outside the visiting dressing room at Honda Center going over several issues with the team equipment staff — the Penguins do what they can to make the transition as smooth as possible so new players have a chance to be productive right away.
Winger Jussi Jokinen, who was acquired from Carolina at last year's trade deadline, was impressed with the welcome mat he got, and he thinks Stempniak and Goc will be, too.
"Coming in, the whole organization is first class," Jokinen said. "I don't think you'll find a better organization in the NHL. That will help. They will take good care of them, all the things off the ice, their families, stuff like that. It makes you feel really good.
"It's a great group of guys in the locker room. It's easy to come in and fit in."
What might not be so easy is learning the Penguins system on the fly.
The team has been rocked by injuries this season. When a replacement comes from the Penguins' American Hockey League affiliate, the transition can be relatively smooth because Wilkes-Barre
Scranton uses the same system, terminology, etc. That's by design.
Players joining the Penguins from other organizations don't have that advantage.
"To learn the system is tough," Pyatt said. "It takes a while to be comfortable with everything.
"The coaches went over everything, but they didn't really want to overload me with too much right away to the point where you're thinking too much. It's a little bit of a process, but the biggest thing is just getting here, playing hard, fitting in with the guys. Those other technical things come with a little bit of time."
Stempniak has played some on the top line alongside Crosby and left winger Chris Kunitz. Crosby, who often can be seen going over strategy with teammates on the bench, is conscious of not overwhelming Stempniak.
"Honestly, when someone's in that situation, you say, 'Just play,'" Crosby said. "I'm sure there are so many things that have gone on the past [several] days, and it's been pretty hectic. He's probably got a thousand things on his mind as far as what he has to do to adjust. It's a lot easier for me to adjust to maybe things he's going to do."
Even with red-carpet treatment and patience, not all newcomers fit as well as hoped with the Penguins. Of their four acquisitions near last year's trade deadline, only Jokinen remains. Defenseman Douglas Murray, winger Brendan Morrow and future Hall of Fame winger Jarome Iginla became unrestricted free agents and moved on. Iginla, in particular, never seemed to get comfortable on the ice or find a spot that allowed him to play at the level that made him an elite player.
Jokinen found the learning curve on the ice challenging.
"That's probably the hardest part," he said. "There are so many details with this team. I think it's the most details of any team in the NHL. The first few games, you might think too much – where should I go on this faceoff, or what is this faceoff, stuff like that.
"March is a tough month, 16 games. We don't get lots of practice time, so it will be a lot of study of the faceoff plays and details in our game. That's probably the most challenging part [for Stempniak and Goc] coming in."
Crosby was one of the first of Goc's new teammates to shake his hand and spend a couple of minutes chatting when Goc arrived at SAP Center Thursday just after the Penguins' game-day skate.
Crosby said helping new players adjust on and off the ice is in the team's best interest, whether it's tips about the system or reminders about faceoff plays or just inviting new players out to dinner.
"I think the strength of your [locker] room in itself is what allows that transition, and all those things are what make a good hockey dressing room," Crosby said. "You're there to answer any questions. Anything you can do to get to know the guy better, for him to understand what he needs to do. That's partly [the responsibility of the] coaches. That's partly the room. I think all those things combined is the strength of a hockey team."
Of course, a welcoming text from hockey's biggest star isn't a bad opening.
"I think that's a great thing for him to do that," Jokinen said of Crosby's texts. "He doesn't have to do that, but he wants to do that. He's the best player in the world, and you still get a text from him. It makes you feel welcome and feel that you're part of the group already."
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Manchester United could have got £7.4m Bebe for £125k
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A former coach at Bebe's old club Estrela has confirmed what we had all already guessed, by revealing Manchester United may have slightly overpaid for the striker – to the tune of £7.3m.
As recently as January this year Estrela were hawking the 20-year-old around an uninterested Europe for £125,000, in an attempt to raise some cash and avoid liquidation.
Jorge Paxaio told the Daily Mail:
Last season we had no money at all. We were trying to transfer Bebe to other clubs. We had to raise money desperately. We told everyone in England and in Europe: "For 150,000 Euros you can have him". We couldn't get anybody interested. Nobody trusted him. None of the clubs were interested because he had never played at a high level.
I was surprised with the sudden way it happened with United. I was hoping he would move to a bigger club in Portugal or to a medium-sized club in Europe. I didn't expect Manchester United.
The striker's former agent Goncalo Reis says he was equally as shocked about Fergie's interest (but probably more upset he never managed to get a cut of the fee):
A scout from United could have contacted me or the club last season. There was no secret. But I understand that the United scout just saw certain games in Portugal and only realised Bebe was a great player when he saw some pre-season games involving Guimaraes.
Happily for Man Utd fans, Bebe doesn't appear to be bothered by the media scrutiny and is rather enjoying life at Old Trafford… apart from being told to cut his hippy hair by Drill Sargeant Ferguson.
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my skate banana had some serious delam issues and i let my local ski slopes repair it, they told me it would be done today but wasnt when i got there. so they let me ride some of their demo boards instead. i rode a rossignol pos it sucked im not even going to talk about it. but i also rode last years 155 graft and 154 dominant. i have always preferred rome over burton (ive had a headroom and an artifact).. but my mind had been changed today. it seemed like the flex on the dominant and graft were close to identical, they handled rails about the same, i noticed no weight diffence, but i did notice a lot of difference in pop. the burton dominant 154 had so much more spring to it than the graft, i couldnt believe it.. for the price, for those considering the graft, i would check out the dominant if you want the extra springiness. the boards seemed to be in the same condition too. i really think i have to give the nod to the burton dominant. that board is a lot nicer than i expected it to be.
nice review..how about out of the park? i was thinking of getting the graft but wasnt sure how it would be on the mountain...
ha i havent ridden a non park board in atleast 5 years, but they both did fine, both were slightly detuned but you could carve when you needed to. i would ride both of these boards all over except in deep deep powder
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January, 2011
Morris Mbetsa is a young Kenyan genius from Mombasa who is gifted in electronics and has invented an anti-theft device called Block and Track. Block and Track is an SMS-based vehicle security system that enables car-owners to monitor their vehicle from a distance. The system he has invented brings the whole concept of vehicle security into ones hand thanks to the mobile phone. Morris Mbetsa had just graduated from high school when he came up with this security device.
All that a car-owner needs is a phone in which Morris Mbetsa will install a program. Under the hood, he also connects wires and the like to the engine. Once the device is set up, the car-owner can lock the doors by just sending an SMS. In case the car has been stolen, there is no need to panic. All the owner needs to do is to send an SMS with a code to stop (immobilize) the car wherever it is located provided there is network coverage from the mobile operator. The system is also fitted with a tracking device that will locate, on a map, the location of the car.
This system invented by an African when he was 18 year old is very simple as it does not, at least at this stage, require a computer or monthly subscription fee. All that one needs is a mobile phone with airtime.
Morris Mbetsa got the idea of the system when a few years back a friend of his was carjacked. Without formal training in electronics, he decided to work on the system. This was possible because for a long period of time Morris Mbetsa used to dismantle gadgets (devices) in order to create new devices.
Morris Mbetsa would like to start up a company that will manufacture and install the system. All that he needs is someone or a company that will put up the necessary funds to take the system to another level.
This young and talented African proves once again that Africa has the answer to a lot of its problems. Unfortunately, Africans tend to always knock at doors that are far from Africa to get expensive solutions. One thing is certain: this is a world premiere from Kenya.


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The powerful true story based on John Bayleys novels that earned Jim Broadbent (Moulin Rouge) an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Judi Dench (Elizabeth) a BAFTA Award for Best Leading Actress and Kate Winslet (Titanic) an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.Judi Dench and Kate Winslet bring to the screen one of the most extraordinary women of the 20th century celebrated English author Iris Murdoch. As told by her unlikely soulmate husband John Bayley Iris first became known as a brilliant young scholar at Oxford whose boundless spirit dazzled those around her. During a remarkable career as a novelist and philosopher she continued to prove herself a woman ahead of her time. Even in later life as age and illness robbed Iris of her remarkable gifts nothing could diminish her immense influence or weaken the bond with her devoted husband.
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They played pretty much their season average, only a few minutes more. For example PG played 29mins during the regular season and played 33mins against the Heat. 33mins is actually lower than what he played against the Magic. Granger played 36mins against the Heat, compared to his season average of 33mins. Hibbert averaged 33mins against the Heat and averaged 29mins during the season.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Do you really think that they could only manage to play a mere 3mins more per game?
On the other side, LeBron played almost 46min. Up from 37mins in the season. Now that's incredible, and isn't a standard I think the Pacers should meet, but LeBron played more minutes during the season and he could still manage to give even more during the playoffs. But it also should point out that it was his highest amount of playing time of a series throughout the playoffs.
Wade also was playing 42mins (also the highest for any series during the playoffs) up from 33mins during the season.
Surely the starters could have played a few minutes more apeice. Not only that, the other big problem was how Frank used his bench. Instead of mixing and matching starters with bench players, he went with whole sale changes.
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John Berger Helped Secure About $1.5 Million for New Scholarship Program - Posted 9/24/13
Thanks to the work of Dr. John Berger, associate professor at County College of Morris (CCM), the future of New Jersey's science education looks even brighter.
Berger, who teaches chemistry at CCM, is one of the co-principal investigators responsible for the newly created Montclair State University (MSU) Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program (NTSP). Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the project will actively recruit, prepare and support 30 new science teachers for New Jersey's high-need K-12 districts. It is a joint venture of the MSU College of Science and Mathematics, its College of Education and Human Services, CCM, Essex County College and Passaic County Community College.
Though open to all students who meet specific requirements while enrolled in MSU's Teacher Education Program, the scholarship program will actively seek science majors at community colleges throughout the region.
"With a program like this, it's important to have someone imbedded," says Berger, who is responsible for recruiting students at CCM and other nearby community colleges. "If I see and know of a great candidate, I can even talk to them while they are walking through the hallway."
NSF awarded nearly $1.5 million in funds to support the five-year project. Students accepted into the program will receive two-year scholarships equal to the cost of MSU's in-state tuition and fees, as well as an annual stipend of $3,000. Eligible students must be undergraduate chemistry, physics, earth science or biology majors and be admitted into the MSU Teacher Education Program. Application to the Teacher Education and NTSP programs are completed at the same time. Students who have finished their sophomore year at MSU and those transferring from two-year institutions such as CCM are encouraged to apply.
Also included in the program are a series of professional and school-based field experiences to prepare students to teach and advise at a high level. In addition to actively recruiting superior students, Berger's other job is to mentor students during the Science Career Survey Experience (SCSE) component, which will help students see how the high school science curriculum is currently used in real-world careers.
"I believe a student's interest and outlook on science is based on his or her high school teacher more than anything else," says Berger. "In advising, it is never too early to think about careers. Increasing the number of well-trained science teachers can improve the quality of the science workforce in America."
During its five years, the program will train three different sets of juniors through their senior years at MSU. The principal investigator is Dr. Sandra Adams, associate professor of biology and molecular biology at MSU, and Berger's fellow co-principal investigator is Dr. Douglas Larkin, professor of secondary and special education at MSU.
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Strike back allow makes you opponent pick the first fighter in battle one.
Ambre ability gives you an attack bonus if you attack first
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Q: I've got a shoebox full of old snapshots that I'm looking to digitize, so I'm in the market for a scannerthe cheaper the better, as the flailing economy has been treating my bank account the way a baby treats a diaper. What kind of specs should I look for? And is $100 or under doable?
Ignore the fast-talking salesman who'll try and steer you toward fancy scanners with "broad dynamic range" and "Digital Grain Equalization Management," as well as make you feel intellectually inferior by rattling off a slew of acronyms. For the 95 percent of home users who just want to burn CDs of vacation photos, a low-end model will suffice. You might need to splurge a tad for decent software, but there's no reason on earth you should wind up paying more than $200.
Scanner spec lists are long, jargony, and mostly useless. The only numbers you need to note are optical resolution, expressed in dots per inch (dpi), and color depth, expressed in bits. The former is usually represented by two figures, like 600 x 1200 dpi, or 1200 x 2400 dpi. Pay attention only to the lower figure; anything 600 or over will be plenty sharp enough. In fact, you'll probably rarely max out the scanner's resolution, since higher quality pictures require much more disk space. For amateurs, 300 dpi usually does the trick.
Color depth determines how well the scanner can differentiate between hues and tones in the originalthe higher the number, the richer the color. As long as a scanner's got at least 30-bit depth, you're good to go. Don't be suckered into spending big bucks on models with a whopping 48 bits, unless you're going to be digitally submitting your Club Med photos to National Geographic. A lot of systems convert scanned photos into 24-bit files for printing purposes anyway, so color depth is often a moot point.
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Hiii...2 days letter I bought a new BB Curve 9220 and its battry drain level is so high...7 percent draind when I send a song throuth Bluetooth...I wiped my device but noting happen and my device extrimly overheats also..and C.Care don't have any software to update this..So what should I do.???
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1st table is show the Battery backup of blackberry curve 9220
Standard battery, Li-Ion 1450 mAh (J-S1) | |
Stand-by | Up to 432 h |
Talk time | Up to 7 h |
Music play | Up to 28 h |
Tips: Extending battery life
Close apps when you're finished with them. | In an app, press the key and click Close or Exit. |
Turn on battery saving mode. | On the home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon. ClickDevice > Battery Saving Mode. Select the Turn on Battery Saving Mode when battery power level is low checkbox. |
Turn off network connections you aren't using. | On the home screen, click the connections area at the top of the screen, or click the Manage Connections icon. Click a network connection to clear the checkbox. |
If your BlackBerry smartphone supports Wi-Fi, use Wi-Fi when you're in an area with reduced wireless coverage. | On the home screen, click the connections area at the top of the screen, or click the Manage Connections icon. Select the Wi-Fi checkbox. |
Set your smartphone to turn on and turn off automatically. | On the home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon. Click Device > Auto On/Off. |
Close browser tabs you aren't using. | In the browser, press the key > Tabs. Highlight a tab and click the icon. |
Set backlighting to remain on for a shorter period of time, and lower its brightness. | On the home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon. Click Display > Screen Display. |
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Increasing Environmental Awareness to Protect the Global Commons--A Curmudgeon's View
Two countries suffering from symmetric bilateral pollution are considered. First, optimal emissions, Nash equilibrium emissions, and emissions negotiated in an international agreement are compared. Then, the effect of increasing environmental awareness on these emission levels is analyzed. Increasing environmental awareness may widen the gap between the social optimum and the Nash equilibrium, aggravating the tragedy of the commons. Also, even though inducing the countries to agree upon more ambitious reduction targets in international negotiations, it may strengthen the incentives to cheat. A broader concept of awareness may be needed to contribute to the solution of international environmental problems. Copyright 1997 by WWZ and Helbing & Lichtenhahn Verlag AG
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The EX-Z850's predecessor (the EX-Z750) was sold very much on its movie capabilities, and a year later there are still few cameras that come close to offering the range of movie options found on the Z750. The Z850 adds even more features; a 'movie light' - you can turn the AF illuminator (which is a 'white light LED' - as often seen on cellphone cameras) on to provide a little extra light when shooting in low light at short distances and an 'anti shake' DSP.
The standard movie mode offers three settings, LP (320 x 240 pixels at 15 fps), Normal and HQ (both 640 x 480 pixels @ 30 fps) and Best Shot movie mode. This has six options covering portraits, scenery, night scenes, fireworks, backlight and 'silent' (a black and white old-style film). The Short Movie mode (each press of the button records a short - 2 to 8 second - movie that starts up to five seconds before you actually press the shutter and Past Movie mode (uses a 5 second buffer to start recording a normal movie before you press the button) are also now found in the Best Shot menu. You can use the digital zoom whilst recording movies.
The MPEG movies are recorded in .AVI format - this can be played using Windows Media Player or Real Player, but if you want to use QuickTime (i.e. if you're a Mac user) you need to install the supplied codec or they won't play.
Movie quality is frankly a little disappointing, particularly when compared to the excellent results produced by the EX-Z750. Clips recorded in 'Normal' mode are very soft and obviously fairly heavily compressed, but fairly smooth and free from serious artefacts. They just lack any 'bite' and are low on detail. The big shock comes when you move 'up' to HQ mode, which - although it looks a bit sharper - has strong, unpleasant artefacts, has seriously over the top software sharpening and - though fine viewed in a small window on your PC - on a television screen looks like a color version of a 1950's live broadcast. The only positive thing is that the files are small (250KB/s for Normal, 470KB/s for HQ), so you won't fill your card too quickly. The 'Anti Shake' system doesn't seem to make a huge difference - it works by cropping the image slightly and digitally analyzing each frame to work out the camera motion. Well that's the theory, though in practice it is no match for a 'real' optical (or CCD shift) image stabilizer.
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In Joanna Fairchild's basement in Oak Bluffs, not far from the laundry, shelves are crammed with all sorts of ideas for brides: unusual tablecloths, shabby chic vases, as well as baskets filled with Chilmark Spring Water, Scrubby Neck soaps, Martha's Vineyard Sea Salts, and other island-made products that would make just the perfect wedding favor.
Fairchild, a former public relations and event planner in Boston, morphed into a wedding planner when she moved full time to Martha's Vineyard 11 years ago. Like many year-round residents, she quickly realized that outside of tourism, the wedding biz "is the business on the island."
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TOKYO - Nintendo Co Ltd dug in its heels on a game console strategy that has dragged it into operating losses for three years in a row, ignoring calls to go mobile and promising instead to wow customers with health-related innovations.
Investors were unimpressed, wiping $1.2 billion US from the value of Nintendo's Tokyo-traded shares in little more than 30 minutes on Thursday, as CEO Satoru Iwata made his pitch for a "non-wearable" project in 2015 to help users stay healthy.
The maker of hits like Super Mario and the Legend of Zelda has been under pressure to branch out from its underperforming consoles and capitalise on the spread of smartphones and tablets by releasing games that can be played on any mobile device.
But Iwata was resolute that Nintendo would not take Mario mobile, just a day after Chinese computer maker Lenovo Group Ltd declared its mobile ambitions with a deal to buy Google Inc's Motorola handset division for $2.9 billion US.
He said mobile devices had a role as marketing tools to help potential customers "understand the wonder of Nintendo games," although those games would still need to be played on Nintendo consoles.
"I'm not pessimistic about video games. We are not going to change our essential business of offering integrated hardware and software platforms," Iwata said.
Nintendo's shares fell after Iwata's remarks, adding to the heavy pressure the stock has come under since the company announced earlier this month that it would post its third annual operating loss in a row.
The stock closed down 4.3% at 12,325 yen after rallying as much as 7.5% to 13,850 yen earlier in the session, when investors welcomed the company's plan to buy back up to 125 billion yen ($1.36 billion) worth of its shares.
Iwata announced on Wednesday that he would take a 50% pay cut for the next five months, while other board members would reduce their salaries by 20%, after admitting the company had failed to convince customers of the merits of its Wii U console.
Nintendo cut its full-year sales forecast for the console to 2.8 million from 9 million on Jan. 17. On Wednesday the company said its operating profit fell 6.9% in the October-December quarter to 21.7 billion yen. It expects a 35 billion yen loss for the full year to end-March.
Iwata said Nintendo was aiming to make an operating profit next year, with the handheld 3DS console driving profits. The company also had a big enough warchest to sustain it through a few more years of losses with 966 billion yen of net cash at the end of December.
The CEO was vague about the details of the new health business, hinting that the device or service could be used "beyond the living room" unlike the sports and fitness games available for its Wii and Wii U consoles.
"I'm sure you're thinking of Wii Fit, but this is not like anything we have made before," Iwata told a briefing of analysts and reporters.
"Looking after your health requires effort and many people quit quite soon after starting something. But we, as an entertainment company, can help people get over the difficulty of continuing their efforts in a fun way."
He also said there would be a merging of handheld and home game console software architecture, suggesting that users would be able to download and play the same game across platforms in the future.
Rival Sony Corp is launching a similar cloud-based service this summer for its Playstation and handheld Playstation Vita consoles.


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Keynote® (Nasdaq:KEYN), the global leader in Internet and mobile cloud testing & monitoring, today announced its 2012 Holiday Retail Mobile Performance Forecast and the outlook appears challenging for retailers. The 2012 holiday shopping season is anticipated to be the year for mobile, as large numbers of holiday shoppers use their smartphones for research and purchasing. Adobe recently predicted that sales from mobile devices will rise 110% to account for 21% of all online sales. Two-thirds of those mobile sales will come through tablets, and the other third through smartphones. "Showrooming" is the trend du jour in retail – using your smartphone to compare prices and products before purchase - making mobile a big part of the brick and mortar experience. But retailers may not be ready. Keynote predicts that slow site performance will leave many retailers – and mobile shoppers - crying in their eggnog. The expectations for mobile commerce this holiday season is high:
Meanwhile a Keynote User Study found that user expectations for site performance across smartphones and tablets are also high:
So are online retailers ready to give the gift of mobile website performance and delight their customers looking to compare and buy online? Keynote's Worldwide Mobile Retail Index of 24 sites suggests most customers will be disappointed. Right now, the average response time (measured over the last three months) remains at 11.8 seconds. Let's call it the Keynote mobile performance gap. "Based on this extreme gap between site performance and users' expectations, we believe this year's contribution from mobile will represent a significantly lost opportunity in goodwill and sales," said Aaron Rudger, senior manager for mobile web performance at Keynote. "While some sites have taken mobile web performance seriously and are delivering great experiences, the vast majority are still far behind the curve." With so much potential revenue riding on retailers' desktop and mobile websites, Keynote will be monitoring both the desktop websites and mobile websites of leading retailers throughout the holiday sales season, and will be available to the media for data and commentary. For inquiries contact Dan Berkowitz, firstname.lastname@example.com, or Ann O'Leary, firstname.lastname@example.com. About Keynote Keynote® (NASDAQ:KEYN) is the global leader in Internet and mobile cloud testing & monitoring. Keynote maintains the world's largest on-demand performance monitoring and testing infrastructure for Web and mobile sites comprised of over 7,000 measurement computers and mobile devices in over 275 locations around the world that enable companies to continuously improve the online and mobile experience. Known as 'The Mobile and Internet Performance Authority™,' Keynote offers three market-leading product platforms: Keynote Perspective® provides on-demand performance monitoring for enterprise Web and mobile sites including online portals, e-commerce sites and B2B sites. Over 2,000 customers rely on Keynote Perspective services to know precisely how their websites, content, and applications perform on actual browsers, networks, and mobile devices. Keynote DeviceAnywhere® provides the industry's only true cloud-based platform for testing and monitoring the functionality, usability, performance and availability of mobile applications and websites. It's suite of mobile testing solutions is used by over 1,000 mobile developers and enterprises to deliver quality mobile applications and services to the mobile channel. Keynote SIGOS® offers active end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) testing and monitoring solutions for mobile, fixed and VoIP communications. Its SITE and Global Roamer products are used by over 200 network operators, content providers, carriers and regulators in over 100 countries worldwide. Keynote's 4,000 customers represent top Internet and mobile companies and include American Express, AT&T, Disney, eBay, E*TRADE, Expedia, Google, Microsoft, SonyEricsson, T-Mobile and Vodafone. Keynote Systems, Inc. is headquartered in San Mateo, California and can be reached at http://www.keynote.com/ or by phone in the U.S. at 1-800-KEYNOTE. The trademarks or registered trademarks of Keynote Systems, Inc. in the United States and other countries include Keynote®, DataPulse®, Keynote Customer Experience Rankings®, Perspective®, Keynote Red Alert®, Keynote WebEffective®, The Internet Performance Authority®, MyKeynote®, SIGOS®, SITE®, keynote® The Mobile & Internet Performance Authority™, Keynote FlexUse®, Keynote DeviceAnywhere®, Keynote DeviceAnywhere Test Center®, Keynote DemoAnywhere® and Keynote MonitorAnywhere® All related trademarks, trade names, logos, characters, design and trade dress are trademarks or registered trademarks of Keynote Systems, Inc. in the United States and other countries and may not be used without written permission. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Enterprise Open Source Magazine Latest Stories . . .
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Oh shit, I could make one for OSL!
the busy bee has no time for sorrow.
Kid: Hey is this dub fx?
Me: Nah its Roni Size
Kid: Oh fuck what kinda music is this?
Me: Trance
Kid: Oh shit I am outta here
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I thought I liked drum n bass...until I saw Roni Size W1. Wtf was that?
the busy bee has no time for sorrow.
i heard some great ones
"you're seeing Beach House over TNGHT? they're SO boring!!"-some kid near me, to his friend, before Modest Mouse started
before youth lagoon started i met a guy tripping on acid, and i wasn't gonna be an asshole and ignore him when he tried conversing with me, so i went along
him: so these guys make what kinda music again???
me: well it's kind of psychedelic, i don't really like to classify by subgenres a lot but some people call youth lagoon 'chillwave?' you'll like it, don't worry.
him: so like MGMT??? I SAW THEM HERE ONCE
me: not really, but i do like MGMT. i saw them at the beach once
him: where's that???
me: what
him: the beach???
he walked away after i started laughing at him
almost forgot this one, i was in the do-lab on sunday night after Wu-Tang for a little bit, and there was a guy that looked like he was probably 50 or so, and definitely on something. he was going around and just putting his hand on people's heads. everyone's reaction was priceless, but when he started walking towards me i had to just get the fuck out of there hahaha
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I haven't seen this posted but saw it on online. xx on 4/20. I'm seldom around when attractive people take off their clothes.
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@heartcooksbrain... exactly! My only gripe is the fact that his set being near empty capacity for a dnb legend...while "cartoonish" excision had max next door at the sahara
Isn't dubstep dnb's redneck stepchild?
I remember the days when water was free and porn cost money.
I guess I just wasn't in the mood? All the people in there were going nuts though. I'd just watched OMD and was getting ready for Dead Can Dance.
the busy bee has no time for sorrow.
Did you swing by partway through the set? Donald made some really good points about it being a terrible representation of Roni Size in general and mostly a regurgitation of 4 year old DnB hits, but in particular if you showed up midway through the set you probably heard a bunch of rock songs being remixed which was terrible enough to drive me away.
Two instances come to mind:
While trying to piece my mind back together after Sigur Ros, we were filing out of the outdoor area and were reintegrated with people leaving the rest of the fest.
Bro: Bro, did you catch Knife Party? This chick had her shirt off for the whole set. Fuckin titties!
It was probably an in-the-moment kind of thing, but considering my mindset and the fact that Sigur Ros had just redefined music for me, it was really funny.
Another one was this guy getting arrested before Beardyman, hands behind his back sitting on his knees, trying to put his sunglasses on (which had fallen to the ground and broke in half). I couldn't look away.
09, 10, 11, 12 (1 & 2), 13 (2)
some girl that looked like the Biebs dancing around topless with her mosquito bite titties out during Lee Scratch Perry. Everyone just walked by because there really wasnt anything to see. Ran in to the same girl during The Faint and her eyes were completely blacked out like a shark.
I saw a topless laughing girl somewhat near the Tesla Coil Saturday evening. I think she had a skirt on and long hair.
the busy bee has no time for sorrow.
On the walk back into the campgrounds sunday night weekend one after it was all over, I remember some tallish dude super high on something would run up behind people (keep in mind everyone is walking in one direction at a very slow gridlocked pace) tap them on the opposite shoulder, wait for them to look over the wrong shoulder, and when they looked back forward he was in there face and would make a yelp/scream/animal kind of sound, inches from their face. The second his victims became startled/jumped/reacted he would sprint away full speed for about 5 seconds, then pick new victims, repeat. Saw him do this at least 10 times before he disappeared into the distance. Guess you had to be there, it was funny to watch everyone's reactions, and all people nearby speculating what drugs he was on.
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Standing in line for merch and three 20 something girls behind me were talking about whatever/wasn't listening until one of them notices the Joy Division shirt on the wall and yells "OMG Joy Division is playing! I didn't know that!" while the other two were also amazed, saying shit like "We have to see that"
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saw a guy dressed in a wizard robe near the mojave, walking towards the sahara. i tried to warn him they dont like his kind there but he seemed pretty determined
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I'm locking this fucker.
Some utter fool in the Yuma line was curious about about the set we were waiting to see...
Idiot: Do you know who is playing in there right now?
Me: Yup, it's Loco Dice.
Idiot: Never heard of him, what genre is he?
Me: Serious jacking techno. (Nodding my head in approval)
Idiot: (laughs) Dude, it's not called techno, it's called "EDM"!
sunday night, WE2, meeting a friend at the water education kiosk or whatever. security comes up and tells us to stand back a bit (ok), and this kid comes up to the security guard and asks point blank: "hey is daft punk going to play tonight? do you know where?"
Do you have a front shot of him?
Naked Man Arrested At Coachella 2013: Weekend 2
The Huffington Post | By Anna Almendrala
Posted: 04/22/2013 2:54 pm EDT
Some people just can't handle Coachella on 4/20.
A naked man was arrested Saturday at the desert music festival and photographers caught the entire thing on camera. The x-rated partier was grooving to The xx when security officers showed up to spoil his fun, according to LAist.
The Indio Police Department confirmed Monday that, in fact, two naked men were arrested that evening. Both were under the influence of narcotics, and both arrests took place within about an hour of each other.
"They didn't cause any harm to anybody, but they took a substance that made them react in certain ways," said Indio Police Department Spokesperson Benjamin Guitron to The Huffington Post. Guitron didn't name names, but said they were both charged with being under the influence of narcotics and guessed that they were still either in county jail or under arraignment as of Monday morning.
The arrests echo an infamous incident from Coachella 2009 in which a man dressed as a wizard de-robed and refused to put his clothes back on. He defied police officers' requests for him to put his clothes back on as the crowd cheered and laughed. In the end, police officers subdued him with a taser and took him into custody.


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Mayer Hawthorne has over 100 million plays on YouTube, Spotify and all those other Internet sites. His sophomore album How Do You Do earned him a Grammy nod. And if he got a vote for every SoundCloud follower he has (five million), he could get elected Senator somewhere. But he's not some piece of shit politician; he's a musician who writes songs from the soul.
Here's some stuff you can't find on Wikipedia: Mayer Hawthorne starts his day off with waffles and The Whispers or turkey sausage and Steely Dan. Sometimes it's punk rock and pancakes for dinner. It doesn't matter as long as it's breakfast food and music.
Raised by hippie parents in Ann Arbor, Michigan, smack between the Hash Bash and the car factories - Hawthorne's old man taught him to play bass guitar at age five. He would play records in the house all while Mayer was growing up. He put him up on game. He'd say, "You hear him singing there? That's David Ruffin." Or, "You hear that guitar solo? That's Stephen Stills." And young Hawthorne would sit there, with his bowl of cereal, soaking it up.
Mayer DJed in Michigan at the height of Detroit hip-hop. He was there. Before Em blew, when Dilla was still alive. He was spinning records and making rap beats. Now he's making soul records and rappers are sampling him. Circle of life.
Mayer's been digging in the crates and you can hear the influences in his music. A touch of Shuggie Otis here, some Bob Marley there, a sprinkle of Sly Stone…
On his fourth full-length album, "Man About Town," Hawthorne is back to handling the lion's share of production. He also played damn near every instrument on the album and penned every track. His songwriting pulls from his life and observations; his heartache and joy. Sometimes it's groovy, other times he's vulnerable and sincere.
It's the shit people listen to when they wanna get drunk and stoned and sentimental. The reason? Mayer Hawthorne stays making that timeless, soulful, baby-making music.
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One woman's beef with men who opt to stay home.
-Barbara L'Heureux, Divine Caroline
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are 105,000 stay-at-home dads in the United States. The census bureau defines the stay-at-home dad as a man who is not in the labor force primarily so that he can care for family members while his spouse works outside the home. Stay-at-home dads currently care for 189,000 children in our country.
I have a problem with stay-at-home dads. There, I said it.
I realize that my opinion is decidedly unpopular. I am constantly reading and hearing about how wonderful stay-at-home dads are. We must support them. They are so dedicated to their children, so supportive of their wives' careers. We should congratulate them on their enlightened decision to care for their own children. The dads in the articles sound perfectly wonderful—princes with aprons. The problem is that I have never met a real prince, and I've never met a stay-at-home dad like the ones we see extolled in women's magazines.
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I am bracing for the barrage of hate mail from dads, but here's the unvarnished truth: Stay-at-home dads have got it way too easy.
The average stay-at-home mom is in charge of the home and the children. Home duties generally include cooking, cleaning, shopping, organizing social activities, coordinating home repairs, running all household errands, laundry detail, and oftentimes, managing the family checkbook. Child-care duties include feeding and clothing the children, supervising homework, chauffeuring children to activities, disciplining errant kids, handling family doctor and dentist appointments, volunteering at school and civic events, and, while the children are young, shouldering the bulk of the responsibility for midnight feedings and chasing monsters out from under beds.
I personally know five stay-at-home dads. All five take care of the children. For them, that means feeding them breakfast and making sure they are dressed and ready for the school bus. After school, the dads all collect their children and supervise their playtime until mom comes home around dinnertime. All five manage these duties quite well. In addition to handling the children's morning routine, two of the five dads also are in charge of laundry. Two others cook, and one of those two also does the food shopping. One lucky reprobate does nothing else at all. Four out of the five dads have maids. I don't know a single stay-at-home mom who has a maid.


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The Octavia, despite its saloon-y looks, is a family hatchback rival for the VW Golf and Seat Leon with which it shares a chassis and engines, and the ubiquitous Ford Focus. When this generation of Octavia arrived, we worried 'Skoda could be in danger of losing what little identity it kept. Being a 'budget Golf' is all well and good, but shouldn't a car be more?' Well, with over 23,000 shifted in the UK so far, it appears folks are none too worried about a generic upbringing if the Skoda's vital stats and general ease of use are on point. And quite frankly, they are. Essentially, you get a Golf platform with a roomier body, and though the cabin materials aren't quite as good and you're denied some optional in-car tech, the up-side is the Octavia is cheaper and uses all the same oily bits, which are proven good'uns. Okay, it's no great shakes to drive either, with even the vRS hot hatch having the fun of a GTI or Leon Cupra slightly engineered out of it. So it's pretty vanilla, a tad white-good. It's not a machine to lust after then, but as an honest workhorse that'll play to the head instead of the heart, the Octavia is a real unsung hero among the family hatch ranks.
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Football Manager (FM) is a football simulation game which is always highly anticipated presence of the latest series. And now this game comes with new version Football Manager 2016
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Genre: Simulation, Sports
Developer: SEGA
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Release Date: 13 Nov, 2015
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Hard Drive: 3 GB available space
Additional Notes: Earlier cards may only display 2D Match Viewer Mode and are not supported. Earlier cards may require the DirectX 9.0 SDK is installed to run the game. Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported.
Football Manager 2016 will comes with several new features, such as create a club playing mode that allows gamers to build a club
There is also a draft fantasy mode allows players to form a team from scratch with limited funds in a mini-games.
Football Manager 2016 has released for PC in November 13 2015 published by SPORTS INTERACTIVE and developed by SEGA
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