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|News Release: April 18, 2006
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Commission announces rulemaking for processing Reliability Standards pending ERO certification
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today announced a rulemaking proceeding to address Reliability Standards developed by the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC). The Commission anticipates issuing a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) on the Reliability Standards in July.
Prior to issuance of a NOPR, Commission staff will release its preliminary assessment of the proposed Reliability Standards. Further, the Commission intends to hold a technical conference on the proposed standards and the staff's preliminary assessment. The Commission will provide an opportunity to comment on the preliminary assessment and technical conference.
"The Commission must assure that reliability standards meet the statutory requirements," said Commission Chairman Joseph T. Kelliher. "For that reason, the Commission staff some time ago began studying the existing reliability standards so that we were positioned to act promptly when the standards are proposed. We look forward to reviewing this deliberate examination."
As the Commission transitions to the new mandatory Reliability Standard regime, the pre-NOPR process will allow industry participants to help the Commission to determine which of the Reliability Standards the Commission should propose to accept, remand or conditionally accept. In addition, it will help the Commission determine the type of guidance and appropriate timelines the Commission should propose for revising and improving the standards.
On April 4, 2006, NERC filed 102 proposed Reliability Standards, subject to its application for certification as the Electric Reliability Organization under section 215 of the Federal Power Act (Docket No. RR06-1-000). Section 215 was enacted as a result of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to provide for a system of mandatory, enforceable Reliability Standards.
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Last week, Just A Game – known best for War2 Glory in North America – opened beta testing for the public for its newest browser-based game, Kings and Legends. A card-based title, Kings and Legends promises players a melding of TCG and MMO. MMOHut took an early look at the title to see just what cards it had up its sleeve.
Kings and Legends is, at its heart, a combination of a trading card game and a turn-based strategy simulation. There are three key components to success: your town, your hero, and your cards. Although it lacks the multiplayer map and conquest that most online real-time strategy games do, Kings and Legends shares a few elements with these games, weaving them into a campaign driven primarily through single-player action. There's game play for every type of strategist, from the ranking-driven to the story-driven.
The town is the heart of your play in Kings and Legends, serving as the main screen or lobby from which you can hop onto other adventures. In some ways the town mimics other strategy games; you must build different buildings over time, upgrade them, and even collect taxes. Town management is, however, minimalistic; no need to fuss over gathering five types of resources or fearing from enemy invasion. Everything is already laid out for you, and simply requires your authorization and payment to build at the appropriate level. That means, ultimately, there isn't much to see; your change of scenery is limited, even on adventures.
Progression is focused on the other two key components: your hero and your cards. Your hero is named and chosen by you, and starting after level 10, can become one of four classes: ranger, warrior, priest, or mage. Class choice affects what tactical cards you can use in battle; for instance, ranger's cards focus on control and ranged damage. Your hero can also be equipped with a variety of gear, which in turn can be upgraded and enchanted through the use of the Blacksmith and gems. Be warned: as in other free-to-play games, failure is an option in Kings and Legends, so ensuring success will mean farming for enough items to guarantee it, or buying in-game coin. However, for all this attention, your hero will only act as a tactical leader, unable to attack or defend themselves. While we're disappointed the hero doesn't take a more active role, we did find that the on-character display of equipment was a nice touch.
Every action – attack, defense, tactics, and so on – comes through the card deck. Cards can be purchased in packs or found in battle scenarios. Cards come with rankings based on their rarity, and have three major stats: attack, health, and cooldown. While attack and health are self-explanatory, a card's cooldown dictates how long a player must wait before they can put the card in play after drawing it. Some cards may also carry special abilities, such as the powerful Vigilance, which allows a unit to attack behind it and to its sides. Other cards are ability cards utilized by your hero, and include buffs, damage, and other tactics to try to put the battlefield under your control.
Whether you're in the map questing for control of the land from monsters (the main storyline itself is lacking, but this is the main drive for progression), battling with others in challenges (multi-part battles that are a bit like group instances), or fighting against others in the arena, each Kings and Legends battle looks the same. You will begin by drawing a few cards from your deck, and in some cases will have the option of reshuffling for a redraw. After that, you will alternate turns between the enemies and any other allies on screen. You may only play a unit card in the first three grid spots on your side of the battlefield, and only cards off cooldown (highlighted for you) may be played. If you have no cards to play, the game will automatically advance through your turn; if you are playing with other players, you are limited to 30 seconds to act. The first hero to die by being reached and brought down by card units loses, and if a battle lasts too long, a sudden death clause begins ticking away all players' hit points each turn.
Unfortunately, that is all there is to battling – playing cards when you can, placing units where you think will be best, and letting your units handle the rest. While there certainly is an element of strategy in that you must consider where you place your units, which units to bring (although the deck manager's autopick does a fine job), and when to use tactics, the overall battle feels more like one of attrition than strategy. While early battles fly by, later battles grind on for several minutes after the last card is played, leaving the players with nothing to do but watch their units and hope for victory. This makes battle ultimately very passive, especially considering the limited deck size. For example, we participated in an easy challenge in which we spent three minutes simply watching a huge wall of units from our side slowly advance on the enemy without our input, whittling away at health points.
While we loved some of the auxiliary systems in Kings and Legends, such as equipment enhancement, card combining, an emphasis on tactics over card power, and even an offline exploration mode, the gameplay ultimately felt lackluster at its core. Battles dragged on unnecessarily and did not sufficiently involve our input to engage us, immersion was faint in absence of an in-game storyline. Kings and Legends certainly has components that could build a great, robust trading card game, full of options and depth of play, and we hope that Just A Game can fuse them together into a long-lasting game that players can sink hours into without boredom.


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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- In a 7-1 ruling today (June 24), the U.S. Supreme Court recognized the importance of diversity in higher education in its decision in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin. The case questioned whether a university can consider racial and ethnic diversity as one factor among many in the admissions process.
While Penn State does not currently use race and ethnicity as a consideration for admission to the University, its leadership recognizes the value that a diverse student body brings to a community and is pleased that the recent ruling acknowledges the compelling educational benefit brought by consideration of diversity in the admissions process.
"This decision allows universities to continue to assist historically underrepresented racial and ethnic groups with educational opportunities that might not otherwise be available to them," said Penn State President Rodney Erickson. "Penn State has long been an advocate for diversity in higher education and, in watching this case carefully, it has reaffirmed our position that diversity adds to the student experience and to the overall quality of our University."
Erickson said Penn State has been proactive it its recruitment strategies for a diverse student population, including its active presence in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Harrisburg through its Community Recruitment Centers. In addition, Penn State has recognized diversity as a core value of its academic mission through its strategic plan, "A Framework to Foster Diversity."
"It is clear that diversity among our students must be recognized as being at the heart of our institutional viability and vitality," Erickson said. "Promoting equity and inclusivity in higher education is not only the right thing to do, it is also the strategic thing to do as we transform to a more multi-cultural world."
Erickson said the court's near-unanimous decision today keeps alive the important ideal that universities have a compelling interest in a diverse student body and can consider diversity in creating an educational community.


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Great new from Feeding South Dakota! Sioux County Egg Farms/E&W Poultry Farm and Dakota Layers of South Dakota are helping in the fight against hunger by donating more than 19,000 eggs to Feeding South Dakota.
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For the first time since the team came into existence in 1996, the Baltimore Ravens will not be holding training camp at McDaniel (formerly Western Maryland) College.
Here is the statement from the team:
Because of the uncertainty as to when the NFL lockout will end, the Baltimore Ravens will move their 2011 training camp from McDaniel College to their year-round facility in Owings Mills.
Last summer, over 110,000 fans attended the open practice sessions at McDaniel, the Ravens' training camp home since the franchise started in 1996.
"We're disappointed we won't be back at McDaniel and in Westminster this summer. We delayed the decision as long as we could," Bob Eller, the Ravens' vice president of operations, said. "There are logistics that needed to be addressed now, including McDaniel's schedule, the hotel, the fields and other Ravens football functions. Right now, we don't know dates for camp, and we've been forced to make other plans.
"One of the main issues we have is the time it takes to move our entire football operation to Westminster and then bring it back to Owings Mills. Those are days we can't afford to lose as our team prepares for the season in what has become a condensed time period," Eller explained.
The Ravens have spent all 15 of their training camps in Westminster. "We'll miss being there, working with the college and the Best Western hotel. They have been very patient with us through this process," Eller added. "We'll also miss the interaction with the fans, which is a huge part of our camp experience."
"We've appreciated the Ravens keeping us in the loop through this process," Ethan Seidel, McDaniel College's vice president of administration and finance, said. "We've had ongoing discussions internally and with the Ravens, knowing that the closer we got to a regular training camp start date, the less likely it would be logistically feasible to pull it off this year. We're certainly not surprised by this and have been prepared for this scenario. When the NFL has its new agreement, we look forward to speaking with the Ravens about continuing our partnership with them."
The Ravens' lease agreement with Baltimore County does not allow for fans to attend practices in Owings Mills. "We don't have the parking space for the fans, and the roads could not safely handle the type of crowds we attract," team president Dick Cass explained.
Cass noted that the team has already begun discussions with McDaniel College to return to Westminster for future Ravens training camps. "We hope to have a full NFL season in 2011, but the current timing compelled us to make this decision. We waited as long as we could, but we're beyond the dates when we could efficiently prepare for the move to McDaniel for a normal training camp start. We do fully anticipate, however, to be back at McDaniel next summer," Cass said.
Once a new collective bargaining agreement between the franchises and the players is reached, the Ravens will announce practice schedules. "We will make every effort to have one or more practices at M&T Bank Stadium once we can determine our camp schedule. And, these sessions at M&T will be free and open to the general public," Cass added.
This is very disappointing to the tens of thousands of Ravens fans who annually make the trip out west to watch the team practice during the sweltering summer months. With the Orioles – though improved – again languishing in last place in the American League East, it's even more depressing to not have the sessions at McDaniel to look forward to, as they had become a welcome annual distraction from the mediocrity of the local baseball team.
The fact that the team will hold the majority of their "training camp" at the facility in Owings Mills, with just one or two dates at M&T Bank Stadium that will be open to the public, is a huge kick in the proverbial groin to the football-loving hordes around here. Throw in the financial impact to McDaniel College and the entire city of Westminster, and this whole scenario is just very, very bad.
Let's hope this lockout comes to an end real soon here, so depressing bad-news posts like this don't become a regular thing.


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April 25, 2006
New York Times education reporter Peter Applebome began researching a feature on colleges for men almost six months ago following a series of national media stories on the declining number of men attending America's colleges. His story, dubbed "The Final Four" and including Wabash College, appeared in the April 23 edition of the New York Times Education Supplement.
Applebome began his research on Wabash by making a few phone calls, reading through the web site and the College's marketing materials, and interviewing students, faculty, and administrators. He repeated the pattern at Morehouse College (Atlanta), Deep Springs College (California), and Hampden-Sydney College (Virginia). Deep Springs is a 27-man, intensive two-year college that focuses on shared work and responsibility.
Applebome's research covers the "extinction" of men's colleges during the 1960s and 1970s. However, the article notes a disturbing trend: men are now disadvantaged and underperforming in higher education, mirroring the trend with women 40 years ago.
He writes, "In the past few years, a major public debate about education has shifted from underperforming women to underperforming men, from how schools fail to support girls to how they fail to support boys. Consistently, boys do more poorly than girls when tested for verbal skills and get lower grades, and they are more likely to drop out of high school and college. Nationally, the gender mix on campuses has shifted from a predominance of men to one that's 57 percent women and 43 percent men. As a result, men's colleges find themselves talking about issues that sound oddly contemporary. Long after everyone else changed, the dinosaurs seem to be having their day."
Wabash, according to Applebome, is one of those happy "dinosaurs," capable of allowing men to have a keener understanding of what it is to be a man; to examine issues through a distinctly different lens.
Read Applebaum's New York Times article by clicking here.
The New York Times feature marks the second time this year that Wabash has received positive national media attention. Jeff Gordinier wrote a six-page feature about the College — and the new role for men's colleges in higher education today — in the November issue of Details magazine.


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Performance Space 122 & THE Chocolate Factory To Present ICH, KÜRBISGEIST, 10/25 - 11/10
Performance Space 122 and The Chocolate Factory present the world premiere of ICH, KÜRBISGEIST from Big Dance Theater and playwright Sibyl Kempson. Blending performance, text, dances and visual design, Big Dance Theater installs Kempson's play into The Chocolate Factory's crypt-like basement for an audience of just 30 per show. Directed by Paul Lazar and co-directed and choreographed by Annie-B Parson, ICH, KÜRBISGEIST is written by Kempson in an imaginary language, sounding both remote and strangely familiar.
Performances of ICH, KÜRBISGEIST will take place October 25 – November 10 at The Chocolate Factory. Specific performance dates are October 25th – 27th, 31st – November 3rd, and 7th – 10th at 8pm. Critics are welcome as of October 26th for an official opening on October 29. The running time is approximately one hour with no intermission. The Chocolate Factory is located at 5-49 49th Avenue in Long Island City, Queens. Tickets, which are $20 and $15 for students and seniors, are available online at chocolatefactorytheater.org and by phone at 212.352.3101.
Big Dance Theater is growing parts of its own set on Governor's Island. Visual artist Joanne Howard (Set Designer) along with Earth Matter have planted and will harvest nearly 70 pumpkins just in time for opening night. The costumes, crafted by visual artist Suzanne Bocanegra, are part medieval, part 1970's, and part body installation. The production features veteran Big Dance performers Tymberly Canale, Molly Hickok, Paul Lazar and Kourtney Rutherford, along with Radiohole's Eric Dyer.
ICH, KÜRBISGEIST is set in a harsh, quasi-medieval landscape facing destruction, populated by a strangely comical community speaking a rigorous, and completely invented language. Every word is semi-recognizable: an amalgam of perhaps English, Swedish, German-and Sid Caesar. The language is as tough and unforgiving as the windswept, uncultivated field in which the characters sit.
The five characters boast of surviving prior catastrophes as they bitterly recount lost times. They sing; they dance; they harvest pumpkin seeds. All the while, they feel threatened by vaguely understood, external forces from which there is no protection. They are grounded in fear and resentment: absurd and doomed.
53rd State Press will publish an illustrated edition of ICH, KÜRBISGEIST in October with original drawings by Amanda Villalobos. The book ($20) will be available online at www.53rdstatepress.com and at the box office.
Founded in 1991, Big Dance Theater is known for its inspired use of dance, music, text and visual design to expand and refract literary texts, weaving disparate sources and forms into theatrical events. Under the Co-Artistic Direction of Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar, Big Dance Theater has created over 15 dance/theater works, generating each piece over months of collaboration with its associate artists, a long-standing, ever-evolving group of actors, dancers, composers and designers. In 2000, the company was awarded ans OBIE for its "passionate practice of the most implausible choreographic and literary concoctions," and in 2002 Co-Directors Paul Lazar and Annie-B Parson were honored with a BESSIE for their "boldly arranged marriage of dance and theater." Big Dance also received the first Creativity Award from Jacobs Pillow in 2007, and a 2010 Bessie for Comme Toujours Here I Stand. Their next works include a Chekhov adaptation for Hartford Stage, as well as a new work commissioned by BAM/Harvey Theater and Les Subsistances in Lyon, France.
Sibyl Kempson lives and makes theater plays in New York City and the Pocono Mountains. She is a resident playwright at New Dramatists, a MacDowell Colony Fellow, and a graduate of the Brooklyn College MFA program taught by Mac Wellman. Current projects include a collaboration with Elevator Repair Service entitled Fondly, Collette Richland to premiere at New York Theater Workshop in 2014; a Full Stage USA/New Dramatists commission for a new work in collaboration with several Austin, TX groups entitled River of Gruel, Pile of Pigs: The Requisite Gestures of Narrow Approach, to premiere at the Fusebox Festival in Austin in 2014; a commission for a new play by New York City Players at the Abrons Arts Center in 2014.
Performance Space 122 (PS122) provides incomparable experiences for audiences by presenting and commissioning artists whose work challenges boundaries of live performance. PS122 is dedicated to supporting the creative risks taken by artists from diverse genres, cultures and perspectives. They are an innovative local, national and international leader in contemporary performance.
For more information on PS122 visit their website at ps122.org, YouTube, Twitter: @PS122, and Facebook.


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Born into Hollywood royalty, Liza Minnelli has made her own name on the stage and screen. Her role in the 1972 film version of the Broadway musical Cabaret made her an international sensation and won her the Academy Award for Best Actress. She continues to wow audiences the world over with her iconic presence and powerful voice.
Here, Minnelli joins her good friend and Song Travels host Michael Feinstein for an enlightening discussion of her life and the evolution of her approach to song.
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HODGINS, George - Born 1843 Rickmansworth, England, Died 1926 Naseby, New Zealand
I am looking for information on the parents and siblings of GEORGE HODGINS.
I have been unable to find any information regarding their names, birth dates and places etc.
Any information, especially names, would be extremely helpful!
George HODGINS
Born 1843 Rickmansworth, England
Died 1926 Naseby, New Zealand
Married Marion Rosina Winstone 1874 in Mount Ida, New Zealand
They had 9 children between 1871 and 1891: Lillian Eliza, Emily Jane, Rosina, Matilda May, George Theodore Winstone, Helen Annie, Frances William, Edith Lavinia, and Lucy Rubina.
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Rachel Alice BLACK (Westport, New Zealand)
Rachel Alice Black was born 26/01/1913 in Westport, New Zealand and died in Christchurch 06/12/1969.
She was married to Dudley (Ben) Arthur Wright in 1936 in New Zealand, in the Canterbury region.
Mother to 7 children, Robert Llewellyn, Pauline Ann, Arthur Laurence, Janet Mary, Kathleen Judith, Alexander John, and Ian Frank. All most likely born in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Her parents were Frederick John Black (1876-1917) and Ethel May Saunders (1896-1918).
It has been said that she spent her youth in Nazareth House Orphanage after both of her parents had died, however i have contacted them and they have no record of her.
It has also been said that she had a brother, possibly Robert, but i have been able to find no information regarding him either.
Her whole life has been rather a mystery to all of us in her family.
If you have any information regarding her, her parents or possible siblings please message me!
Doris Kathleen HODGINS (Balclutha, New Zealand) + Bill TEMPLETON???
Doris Kathleen Hodgins was born in Balclutha 22/02/1920 and died in Christchurch 22/07/2012.
On 16/12/1943 in Dunedin, Doris had a daughter, Glenda June Hodgins, who was adopted out.
I am looking for anyone that might have any information on who Glenda's father may have been.
We have heard a possibility that his name was Bill Templeton, however this may not be accurate.
It is most likely that he was from the Otago region.
Please message me with any information you may have on this subject.
Thank you.
Daphne Iris HODGINS + Arthur IRELAND (Balclutha, New Zealand)
Daphne Iris Hodgins, known as Iris, was born 06/04/1918 in balclutha and died 02/09/1991.
Arthur Ireland was born 1906 and is deceased.
I am looking for any information about Iris and Arthur, particularly any children they may have had.
If you have any information at all please message me.
Eric Norman HODGINS (Balclutha, New Zealand)
Eric Norman Hodgins was born 22/01/1917 in Balclutha and died 22/04/2011.
His parents were Frances William Hodgins and Rachel Grace Lawer.
I am looking for any information on a possible spouse for him, and any information on any potential children he had.
Any information would be appreciated.
Thank you.
Vera Grace HODGINS + James Graeme ADAIR (Balclutha, New Zealand)
I am looking for information on Vera Grace Hodgins and James Graeme Adair. More specifically any children they had.
Vera was born 02/10/1910 and James was born 1913.
They were married in 1933.
I am looking for information on any children they had.
If you can help with any information at all please message me!
Looking for JAMES WRIGHT and HANNAH AUSTIN of England
James Wright, born 1816 in Cranbrook, Kent, England, died 1894 in French Farm, Akaroa, New Zealand. Buried in Wainui cemetery.
Son of James Wraight and Elizabeth Drury, both born in Cranbrook, Kent, England.
James Wraights parents were most likely Thomas Wraight and Lydia.
Married Hannah Austin (Austain, Austin), born 1821 in Cranbrook, Kent,England, died 1914 in French Farm, Akaroa, New Zealand. Buried in Wainui cemetery.
Daughter of John & Mary Austin (Austen, Austain).
I have information regarding their descendants, but am trying to find information regarding their ancestors including their parents and so forth.
Any info would be great. Or if you'd like any info regarding their descendants i can help.
Looking for DENCH and BLOOMFIELD
Lilly Ethel Dench, born 1910 Christchurch, New Zealand. Died 1989 in Christchurch, New Zealand. Married Percy Price Quartly, born 1908 in christchurch New Zealand. Died 1994 in Christchurch New Zealand.
Parents were Frederick Dench and Annie Elizabeth Bloomfield, born 1877. Presumably both born in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Annie's parents were Harry Bloomfield and Jessie Gowdie.
Any info would help.
Looking for QUARTLY and BRADSHAW
Percy Price Quartly, born 1908, died 1994. Married to Lilly Ethel Dench.
Parents were Hugh Alexander Price Quartly, died 1974. And Annie Helena Bradshaw, born 1885, died 1974.
Annie Bradshaw's parents were George William Bradshaw, born 1839, died 1910. And Mary Elizabeth ?, born 1954, died 1946.
Any info would help.
Looking for HODGINS and LAWER
Francis William Hodgins, born 1886, died 1963.
Married to Rachel Grace Lawer, born 1892, died 1956.
Francis' parents were George Hodgins and Rosina?
Rachel's parents were Richard Lawer and Rachel?
Any info would help.


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Go ahead. Call Richard Petty a relic. Call him back-asswards on women's issues. Fair game, of course. But never let it be said that the man doesn't have personality. The kids over at thefirehouse.biz, Chrysler's media-only blog, posted a podcast featuring some short interviews with NASCAR drivers past and present, and while Petty was diplomatic, at least he was instructive and human, explaining the post-Second-War origins of motorsports in general. On the other hand, Kurt Busch, Jeremy Mayfield and Casey Kahne were roughly as fascinating as potting soil blended with bleached flour, and honestly, recently-retired Rusty Wallace wasn't much more interesting.
Where are the two-fisted adventurers? Why is it now a requirement that a racing driver be as bland as a two-bit pile of mashed potatoes with skim-milk sauce? Of course, the answer is money, but the biggest deal in racing lately has been the Andrettis and Danica Patrick referring to Eddie Cheever as an idiot. Where are the A.J. Foyts, the Cale Yarboroughs, the Connie Kalittas of years past? Even when Doug Kalitta hit on our then-girlfriend, he did it in a lame, smarmy way that smacked of desperation instead of suave, swaggering racing-car-wrestling masculinity. When the most entertaining motorsports-personality-related thing one has seen in the past week is Helio Castroneves giggling like a schoolgirl after winning at the Texas Motor Speedway, something is definitely wrong with top-level motorsport.
Bring back the hairy-chested mofos (see #14 on this list who would brawl on the streets of New York City with Burt Reynolds...and win.
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- Their gaze met for a few seconds. The exchange was as warm and friendly as a pair of automated range finders getting a mutual target lock.
- Dan Abnett (2000). First & Only. Games Workshop. ISBN 0671783750.
- Real truth was out there in the shattered outhabs of Vervun hive. Real truth was waiting and silence, courage and stealth. Real truth was the ability to function in extremes. To fire a cannon and miss and try again. To fix a silver blade to the end of a las-weapon and leap from safety into a shroud of smoke, prepared as you did so to really use that makeshift spear. Real truth was a tiny hole in a man's forehead.
- In Remembrance (2005)


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DO NOT REMOVE THE 3 PHILLIP SCREWS ON THE BACK OF THE SPEEDOMETER. This will unscrew the circuit board and the main components inside the speedometer, and possibly damage it. Just leave those 3 screws alone. They won't make your customization any easier if they are removed. This is the hard part. Turn the speedometer face down on a soft towel on a sturdy table, bench, etc. I used a regular flat screwdriver to do this step. There is a chrome metal ring holding the glass on the speedometer. It is factory sealed. On the bottom side of this ring start prying with a flat screwdriver under the bottom lip of the metal ring. This will be a slow process (patience, patience, patience) so don't get in a hurry and ruin the wife's kitchen table like I did. Go around the metal ring with a flat screwdriver prying it up as straight as you can. It's easier doing this every millimeter or two. I had to do this about 3 times all the way around the ring. After you pry the lip of the ring up all the way around enough to loosen it up considerably, gently pull the ring off of the speedometer. The glass should come off with it. Put the glass with the chrome ring aside for later. You might want to use a soft lint free towel to rest it on


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6 Plots
A group of tech-savvy teens stream their wild party online. But when Brie (Alice Darling) wakes up, she's all alone. A sinister smiley message tells her that her friends are each trapped in separate boxes. They've all got their phones, but if anyone attempts to call the police or their parents, the penalty will be deadly.
A Few Best Men
A comedy about a groom and his three best men who travel to the Australian outback for a wedding.
A Night of Horror Vo
Whether you're a fan of Sydney's iconic genre film festival A Night of Horror, or just a fan of the best and bloodiest in new horror cinema, you can't afford to miss this fright-filled anthology. Zombies, demonic entities, self-surgery, cannibalism and more await in the dark corners of this terrifying offering from some of the most talented filmmakers working in the genre today.
A pair of childhood friends and neighbors fall for each other's sons.
Alex & Eve
Alex, a Greek Orthodox schoolteacher, falls for Lebanese Muslim lawyer, Eve. The relationship is forbidden by both families, and thus the emotional dilemma of 'Alex and Eve' is created.
Analyze That
Mobster Paul Vitti is released into Dr. Ben Sobol's care, where only more chaos ensues.
Analyze This
A comedy about a psychiatrist whose number one-patient is an insecure mob boss.
Animal Kingdom
A seventeen year-old navigates his survival amongst an explosive criminal family and the detective who thinks he can save him.
Arthur Curry learns that he is the heir to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, and must step forward to lead his people and be a hero to the world.
Two teenage girls discover a mermaid in their beach club's swimming pool.
Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.
Babe, a pig raised by sheepdogs, learns to herd sheep with a little help from Farmer Hoggett.
A freak tsunami traps shoppers at a coastal Australian supermarket inside the building - along with 12-foot Great White Sharks.
Berlin Syndrome
A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship, when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in a Berlin apartment and is unable to leave.
Bitcoin: The End of
A documentary exploring how money and the trading of value has evolved, culminating in Bitcoin.
Boys in the Trees
On Halloween 1997, two estranged teen skaters embark on a surreal journey through their memories, dreams and fears.
A pair of teenagers in Western Australia looking to escape the monotony of life in a small town take up surfing lessons from a guy named Sando.
Bright Star
The three-year romance between 19th-century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne near the end of his life.
Brothers' Nest
With their Mother dying of cancer, intent on changing her will to benefit her new husband before she dies, two brothers go to extreme and deadly lengths to protect their inheritance from being signed away before it's too late.
A poet falls in love with an art student who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle -- and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.
After being infected in the wake of a violent pandemic and with only 48 hours to live, a father struggles to find a new home for his baby daughter.
Cats & Dogs 2 : The
The ongoing war between the canine and feline species is put on hold when they join forces to thwart a rogue cat spy with her own sinister plans for conquest.
Charlie and the Choc
A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.
Chopper tells the intense story of Mark "Chopper" Read, a legendary criminal who wrote his autobiography while serving a jail sentence in prison. His book, "From the Inside", upon which the film is based, was a best-seller.
A profile of Ian Curtis, the enigmatic singer of Joy Division whose personal, professional, and romantic troubles led him to commit suicide at the age of 23.
Dark City
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun.
Dark Shadows
An imprisoned vampire, Barnabas Collins, is set free and returns to his ancestral home, where his dysfunctional descendants are in need of his protection.
Darkness Falls
A vengeful spirit has taken the form of the Tooth Fairy to exact vengeance on the town that lynched her 150 years earlier. Her only opposition is the only child, now grown up, who has survived her before.
In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind.
Deep Blue Sea
Searching for a cure to Alzheimer's disease a group of scientists on an isolated research facility become the bait as a trio of intelligent sharks fight back.
Don't Be Afraid of t
A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend believes that she has released creatures from a sealed ash pit in the basement of her new home.
Don't Say a Word
When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he's horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a post traumatic stress disorder suffering young woman who knows a secret...
Don't Tell
Based on true events that changed the law. This is the story of a survivor, Lyndal, a young woman sexually abused as an 11 year old while attending a prestigious school. Her courage to fight for justice is entrusted to a local lawyer determined to build a case and give Lyndal peace from her torment. With the help of his aspiring young associate and an enigmatic barrister, the lawyer and Lyndal find their way together.
Drive Hard
A former race car driver is abducted by a mysterious thief and forced to be the wheel-man for a crime that puts them both in the sights of the cops and the mob.
A young hot shot driver is in the middle of a championship season and is coming apart at the seams. A former CART champion is called in to give him guidance.
Edge of Tomorrow
A soldier fighting aliens gets to relive the same day over and over again, the day restarting every time he dies.
Eight Legged Freaks
A variety of horrible poisonous spiders get exposed to a noxious chemical that causes them to grow to monumental proportions.
Eye of the Beholder
A private eye shadows a female serial killer of men all over the U.S. without her knowing as he, strangely enough, occasionally acts as her guardian angel.
Young Felicity lives in a monastic school. The only way to live out her sexual fantasies is together with her girlfriend Jenny. But then she receives an invitation to her sister in Hong-Kong and can't wait to finally do the real thing.
A security specialist is forced into robbing the bank that he's protecting, as a bid to pay off his family's ransom.
Forbidden Lie$
A dramatized documentary investigating accusations that "Forbidden Love" author Norma Khouri made up her biographical tale of a Muslim friend who was killed for dating a Christian.
Ghost Rider
Stunt motorcyclist Johnny Blaze gives up his soul to become a hellblazing vigilante, to fight against power hungry Blackheart, the son of the devil himself.
Ghost Ship
A salvage crew that discovers a long-lost 1962 passenger ship floating lifeless in a remote region of the Bering Sea soon notices, as they prepare to tow it back to land, that strange things happen.
Hacksaw Ridge
WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to win the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Happy Feet Two
Mumble the penguin has a problem: his son Erik, who is reluctant to dance, encounters The Mighty Sven, a penguin who can fly! Things get worse for Mumble when the world is shaken by powerful forces, causing him to brings together the penguin nations and their allies to set things right.
Happy Feet
Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce!
Head On
A 19 year old Greek Australian youth struggles with his sexual identity and has one clumsy heterosexual and several homosexual encounters.
Hearts in Atlantis
A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.
Hotel Mumbai
In 2008 the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai becomes the target of a deadly attack by Pakistani militants. Dozens of people are held hostage as fire races through the building.
I, Frankenstein
Frankenstein's creature finds himself caught in an all-out, centuries old war between two immortal clans.
In the Cut
New York writing professor, Frannie Avery, has an affair with a police detective who is investigating the murder of a beautiful young woman in her neighborhood.
In the Heart of the
A recounting of a New England whaling ship's sinking by a giant whale in 1820, an experience that later inspired the great novel Moby-Dick.
Iron Sky
The Nazis set up a secret base on the dark side of the moon in 1945 where they hide out and plan to return to power in 2018.
Island of the Hungry
Christmas Island, Australia is home to one of the largest land migrations on earth—that of forty million crabs journeying from jungle to sea. But the jungle holds another secret: a high-security facility that indefinitely detains individuals seeking asylum.
A mysterious guide escorts an enthusiastic adventurer and his friend into the Amazon jungle. Their journey turns into a terrifying ordeal as the darkest elements of human nature and the deadliest threats of the wild force them to fight for survival.
Kangaroo Jack
Two childhood friends, a New York hairstylist and a would-be musician, get caught up with the mob and are forced to deliver $50,000 to Australia, but things go haywire when the money is lost to a wild kangaroo.
Kill Me Three Times
Professional hit-man Charlie Wolfe finds himself in three tales of murder, blackmail and revenge after a botched contract assignment.
Killer Elite
When his mentor is taken captive by a disgraced Arab sheik, a killer-for-hire is forced into action. His mission: kill three members of Britain's elite Special Air Service responsible for the death of his sons.
M.I.T. professor John Koestler links a mysterious list of numbers from a time capsule to past and future disasters and sets out to prevent the ultimate catastrophe.
Ladies in Black
Adapted from the bestselling novel by Madeleine St John, Ladies in Black is an alluring and tender-hearted comedy drama about the lives of a group of department store employees in 1959 Sydney.
The relationships of four couples unravel after the discovery of a young woman's body in Lantana bush in suburban Sydney.
Legend of the Guardi
When a young owl is abducted by an evil Owl army, he must escape with new-found friends and seek the legendary Guardians to stop the menace.
License to Wed
A reverend puts an engaged couple through a grueling marriage preparation course to see if they are meant to be married in his church.
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
Little Fish
Set in the Little Saigon district outside of Sydney, a woman (Blanchett) trying to escape her past becomes embroiled in a drug deal.
Looking for Grace
When rebellious 16-year-old Grace takes off, her exasperated mum and dad enlist the help of a close-to-retirement detective, and begin the long drive from Perth out to the West Australian wheatbelt to try to find her. On the journey, the two must confront the realities of their changing relationship to one another, and to their daughter…
After her Nazi parents are imprisoned, Lore leads her younger siblings across a war-torn Germany in 1945. Amidst the chaos, she encounters mysterious Jewish refugee Thomas, who shatters her fragile reality with hatred and desire. To live, she must trust someone she was taught to hate and face the darkness within herself.
Mad Max Beyond Thund
After being exiled from the most advanced town in post apocalyptic Australia, a drifter travels with a group of abandoned children to rebel against the town's queen.
Mad Max
In a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang.
Mad Max: Fury Road
A woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in postapocalyptic Australia in search for her home-land with the help of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshipper, and a drifter named Max.
Manifesto draws on the writings of Futurists, Dadaists, Fluxus artists, Suprematists, Situationists, Dogma 95 and other artist groups, and the musings of individual artists, architects, dancers and filmmakers, editing and reassembling them as a collage of artists' manifestos, ultimately questioning the role of the artist in society today. Performing these 'new manifestos' while inhabiting thirteen different personas – among them a school teacher, a puppeteer, a newsreader, a factory worker and a homeless man – Cate Blanchett imbues new dramatic life into these famous words in unexpected contexts. A feature film version of this art installation will premiere at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
Miss Congeniality
An FBI agent must go undercover in the Miss United States beauty pageant to prevent a group from bombing the event.
Moulin Rouge!
A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star.
Muriel's Wedding
Muriel finds life in Porpoise Spit, Australia dull and spends her days alone in her room listening to Abba music and dreaming of her wedding day. Slight problem, Muriel has never had a date...
Ned Kelly
An innocent man becomes one of the most wanted criminals the world has ever known.
Nights in Rodanthe
A doctor who is traveling to see his estranged son sparks with an unhappily married woman at a North Carolina inn.
No Reservations
The life of a top chef changes when she becomes the guardian of her young niece.
One Less God
When Islamic fundamentalists besiege an Indian hotel, the guests battle to escape the systematic extermination and their own conflicting ideologies. Inspired by true events.
Out of the Shadows
A newly married detective and his pregnant wife move into their dream home unaware of its dark history. When his wife claims their baby is being tormented by a supernatural force and seeks the help of a renegade demonologist, he must investigate the past to save his family.
The heir to the throne of a motorcycle club has to betray his president to save his brother's life.
For his final assignment, a top temporal agent must pursue the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time. The chase turns into a unique, surprising and mind-bending exploration of love, fate, identity and time travel taboos.
Queen of the Damned
The vampire Lestat becomes a rock star whose music wakes up the queen of all vampires.
Rabbit-Proof Fence
In 1931, three aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff and set off on a trek across the Outback.
Red Planet
Astronauts, and their robotic dog AMEE (Autonomous Mapping Evaluation and Evasion), search for solutions to save a dying Earth by searching on Mars, only to have the mission go terribly awry.
Resident Evil: Extin
Survivors of the Raccoon City catastrophe travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against the evil Umbrella Corp.
Resident Evil: The F
Alice, Jill, Claire, Chris, Leon, Ada, and Wesker rush to The Hive, where The Red Queen plots total destruction over the human race.
Return to Never Land
In London during World War II, this is the story of Wendy's daughter, Jane, who is kidnapped by Captain Hook and Peter Pan must come to the rescue.
Rip Tide
There comes a point in everyone's life when you have to make a decision about the direction you're going to take. For newly-18 American fashion model Cora (musician and Disney star Debby Ryan, Jessie, 16 Wishes), that time is now. She's moved to an Australian coastal town to be with her favourite aunt, after a 'fashion faux pas' back home.
An American journalist on assignment in the Australian outback encounters a man-eating crocodile while trapped on a rapidly flooding mud island.
San Andreas
In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey with his ex-wife across the state in order to rescue his daughter.
An underwater cave diving team experiences a life-threatening crisis during an expedition to the unexplored and least accessible cave system in the world.
Saving Mr. Banks
Author P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood as Walt Disney Pictures adapts her novel Mary Poppins for the big screen.
Saw VI
Agent Strahm is dead, and FBI agent Erickson draws nearer to Hoffman. Meanwhile, a pair of insurance executives find themselves in another game set by jigsaw.
See Spot Run
A mailman takes care of a dog that, unbeknownst to him, is an FBI drug-sniffing superdog that has escaped from the witness protection program after becoming the target of an assassination.
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
A spoof of buddy cop movies where two very different cops are forced to team up on a new reality based T.V. cop show.
Son of a Gun
JR busts out of prison with Brendan Lynch, Australia's most notorious criminal, and joins Lynch's gang for a gold heist that soon pits the two men against one another.
Speed Racer
A young driver, Speed Racer, aspires to be champion of the racing world with the help of his family and his high-tech Mach 5 automobile.
Storm Boy
Storm Boy lives a lonely life with his reclusive father on a desolate coastline, but when he forms a close bond with a pelican, Mr. Percival, his life takes a new and unexpected turn.
Sweet Country
It's 1929 on the vast, desert-like Eastern Arrernte Nation lands that are now known as the Central Australian outback. Sam Kelly, a middle-aged Aboriginal man, works the land of a kind preacher, Fred Smith. After an ill-tempered bully arrives in town and Kelly kills him in self-defense, he and his wife, Lizzie, go on the run as a posse gathers to hunt him down.
Swinging Safari
1975: A 200-ton blue whale gets washed up on a local beach and the kids think it's the biggest thing that's ever happened in Australia. Behind closed doors, the Mums and Dads of a quiet suburban street are going to celebrate in their own special way, by joining the sexual revolution and throwing a wife-swapping key party. And like the rotting whale, it's all about to go spectacularly wrong.
A covert counter-terrorist unit called Black Cell led by Gabriel Shear wants the money to help finance their war against international terrorism, but it's all locked away. Gabriel brings in convicted hacker Stanley Jobson to help him.
Teenage Kicks
Miklós is at the age when everything feels high-stakes. He is coming to terms with his own sexuality, and when his best friend Dan reveals that he has a new girlfriend, this puts an end to their plans to run away together.
That's Not Me
Polly's dreams of making it as an actor are shattered when her identical twin sister Amy lands the lead role in a huge TV show. Mistaken for her famous sister at every turn, Polly decides to use Amy's celebrity for her own advantage – free clothes, free booze, casual sex… with hilarious and disastrous consequences for them both.
The Adventures of Pl
In the future, a man struggles to keep his lunar nightclub out of the hands of the mafia.
The Babadook
A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
The Bank Job
Martine offers Terry a lead on a foolproof bank hit on London's Baker Street. She targets a roomful of safe deposit boxes worth millions in cash and jewelry. But Terry and his crew don't realize the boxes also contain a treasure trove of dirty secrets - secrets that will thrust them into a deadly web of corruption and illicit scandal.
The Brothers Grimsby
Wrongfully accused and on the run, a top MI6 assassin joins forces with his long-lost, football hooligan brother to save the world from a sinister plot.
The Great Gatsby
A writer and wall street trader, Nick, finds himself drawn to the past and lifestyle of his millionaire neighbor, Jay Gatsby.
The Great Raid
Taking place towards the end of WWII, 500 American Soldiers have been entrapped in a camp for 3 years. Beginning to give up hope they will ever be rescued, a group of Rangers goes on a dangerous mission to try and save them.
The Invasion
As a Washington psychiatrist unearths the origin of an alien epidemic, she also discovers her son might be the only way it can be stopped.
The Jungle Book 2
Mowgli, missing the jungle and his old friends, runs away from the man village unaware of the danger he's in by going back to the wild.
The Lion King 1½
Timon the meerkat and Pumbaa the warthog are best pals and the unsung heroes of the African savanna. This prequel to the smash Disney animated adventure takes you back -- way back -- before Simba's adventure began. You'll find out all about Timon and Pumbaa and tag along as they search for the perfect home and attempt to raise a rambunctious lion cub.
The Lion King 2: Sim
The circle of life continues for Simba, now fully grown and in his rightful place as the king of Pride Rock. Simba and Nala have given birth to a daughter, Kiara who's as rebellious as her father was. But Kiara drives her parents to distraction when she catches the eye of Kovu, the son of the evil lioness, Zira. Will Kovu steal Kiara's heart?
The Loved Ones
When Brent turns down his classmate Lola's invitation to the prom, she concocts a wildly violent plan for revenge.
The Matrix Reloaded
Neo and the rebel leaders estimate that they have 72 hours until 250,000 probes discover Zion and destroy it and its inhabitants. During this, Neo must decide how he can save Trinity from a dark fate in his dreams.
The Matrix Revolutio
The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.
The Matrix
A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.
The Piano
A mute woman is sent to 1850s New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, but is soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation.
The Precipice
An ex-soldier and her prisoner traverse enemy territory to find the location that holds the key to saving them and the country.
The Proposition
A lawman apprehends a notorious outlaw and gives him nine days to kill his older brother, or else they'll execute his younger brother.
The Protector
A young fighter named Kham must go to Australia to retrieve his stolen elephant. With the help of a Thai-born Australian detective, Kham must take on all comers, including a gang led by an evil woman and her two deadly bodyguards.
The Railway Man
A former British Army officer, who was tormented as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labor camp during World War II, discovers that the man responsible for much of his treatment is still alive and sets out to confront him.
The Rover
10 years after a global economic collapse, a hardened loner pursues the men who stole his only possession, his car. Along the way, he captures one of the thieves' brother, and the duo form an uneasy bond during the dangerous journey.
The Ruins
A group of friends whose leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when they, along with a fellow tourist, embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle where something evil lives among the ruins.
The Secret of Moonac
When 13 year old Maria Merryweather's father dies, leaving her orphaned and homeless, she is forced to leave her luxurious London life to go and live with Sir Benjamin, an eccentric uncle she didn't know she had, at the mysterious Moonacre Manor.
The Tender Hook
The story is about Iris' rise to the apex of a love/power triangle that includes her roguish English lover, McHeath and Art, an earnest young boxer. Within the flawed moral landscape, each character struggles to establish their sovereignty.
The Water Diviner
An Australian man travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try and locate his three missing sons.
The Water Horse
A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.
Thor: Ragnarok
Imprisoned, the mighty Thor finds himself in a lethal gladiatorial contest against the Hulk, his former ally. Thor must fight for survival and race against time to prevent the all-powerful Hela from destroying his home and the Asgardian civilization.
Tomorrow, When the W
When their country is invaded and their families are taken, eight unlikely high school teenagers band together to fight.
Biker Cary Ford is framed by an old rival and biker gang leader for the murder of another gang member who happens to be the brother of Trey (Ice Cube), leader of the most feared biker gang ...
A young woman goes on a 1,700-mile trek across the deserts of West Australia with four camels and her faithful dog.
Training Day
On his first day on the job as a Los Angeles narcotics officer, a rookie cop goes on a 24-hour training course with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
A behind-the-scenes look at news anchor Dan Rather during his final days at C.B.S. News when he broadcast a damaging report about how President Bush relied on privilege and family connections to avoid fighting in the Vietnam War.
Two Weeks Notice
A lawyer decides that she's used too much like a nanny by her boss, so she walks out on him.
A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility — skills he uses to seek revenge against the thugs who destroyed his life.
Walking With Dinosau
Walking with Dinosaurs 3D is a film depicting life-like 3D dinosaur characters set in photo-real landscapes that transports audiences to the prehistoric world as it existed 70 million years ago. The film is based on the 1999 documentary television miniseries Walking with Dinosaurs, produced by the BBC. Walking with Dinosaurs 3D is being produced by Evergreen Studios, the company that produced Happy Feet, and it is was released on October 11, 2013.
A pro tennis player has lost his ambition and has fallen in rank to 119. Fortunately for him, he meets a young player on the women's circuit who helps him recapture his focus for Wimbledon.
Wish You Were Here
Four friends lose themselves in a carefree South-East Asian holiday. Only three come back. Dave and Alice return home to their young family desperate for answers about Jeremy's mysterious disappearance. When Alice's sister Steph returns not long after, a nasty secret is revealed about the night her boyfriend went missing. But it is only the first of many. Who amongst them knows what happened on that fateful night when they were dancing under a full moon in Cambodia?
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Three backpackers stranded in the Australian outback are befriended by a local who turns out to be a sadistic psychopath and will plunge them into a hellish nightmare of insufferable torture.


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Accessible arias: One of a new series of posts to bring you the words to some of opera's most famous solo pieces - arias, in their original language and in translation.
Voi che sapete
Act II of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro/Marriage of Figaro, Cherubino sings of the trials of first love
CONTEXT: Cherubino has an adolescent crush on the Countess – who happens to be his godmother but is nonetheless amused and touched by the attention. He has written her a love song which, with some embarrassment, he's persuaded to sing while she listens. Susanna accompanies on a guitar. And it turns out to be the song of a young boy struggling to deal with powerful, unfamiliar, uncontrollable emotions.
Those of you who know what love is, he says, look into my heart and see what's there – because I don't understand my own feelings. Sometimes pleasurable, sometimes painful, they either burn like fire or freeze like ice. I long for something but I don't know what it is, and the search gives me no peace. Day or night.
A formal song that seems to breaks off into spontaneous asides, Voi che sapete depicts the common enough business of post-pubescent confusion, but with a charm and poignancy peculiar to Mozart. In the hands of someone else, these words could easily be winsome. Here, they're heartfelt, and affecting.
LISTEN: Rinat Shaham sings Voi che sapete from Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro/Marriage of Figaro. From David McVicar's acclaimed production for The Royal Opera House.
LYRICS: In the original Italian, as sung on stage, and in their English translation.
|Voi che sapete che cosa è amor,
donne, vedete s'io l'ho nel cor,
donne, vedete s'io l'ho nel cor!
Quello ch'io provo vi ridirò,
è per me nuovo, capir nol so.Sento un affetto pien di desir
ch'ora è diletto,
ch'ora è martir.
Gelo e poi sento l'alma avvampar,
Ricerco un bene fuori di me,
Sospiro e gemo, senza voler,
Non trovo pace notte né dì,
Voi che sapete che cosa è amor,
|Ladies, you who know what love is,
look to see if it is in my heart,
look to see if it is in my heart!
Let me tell you how I feel,
it's so new to me; I don't understand it.I feel so full of desire
that sometimes it is a pleasure,
then it is agony.
I'm freezing cold, then on fire;
I seek something beautiful outside myself,
I sigh and I groan without control,
I cannot find any peace night or day,
You, ladies, who know what love is,
Composer: Mozart. libretto: Da Ponte. Discover more about Le nozze di Figaro: synopsis, characters, context text, full details of current production.
Credits: Intro text: Michael White, score by Ricordi, as sung on stage, translations: Emma Beatty/Michele Bona


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Tropical Storm Issac continues to bear down on the Gulf Coast on Monday, with the National Hurricane Center predicting that it will become a Category 1 hurricane before it makes landfall. There's a chance that the storm will hit New Orleans nearly seven years to the day that Hurricane Katrina decimated the city.
Republicans have largely canceled the first day of the Republican National Convention in Tampa Bay, Florida, due to the storm, which swiped southern Florida yesterday. But in 2011, House Republicans displayed far less concern for the victims of natural disasters, attempting to slash funds for disaster preparedness and response, as Slate's Dave Weigel noted at the time:
According to the House Appropriation Committee's summary of the bill, the [GOP's 2011 continuing resolution] funds Operations, Research and Facilities for the National Oceanic Atmospheric Association with $454.3 million less than it got in FY2010; this represents a $450.3 million cut from what the president's never-passed FY2011 budget was requesting. The National Weather Service, of course, is part of NOAA — its funding drops by $126 million. The CR also reduces funding for FEMA management by $24.3 million off of the FY2010 budget, and reduces that appropriation by $783.3 million for FEMA state and local programs.
House Republicans several times that year held disaster relief hostage, demanding that the funding be offset with spending cuts elsewhere in the budget. The GOP pulled the same trick when Missouri was hit by a deadly tornado in May, when Virginia was affected by an earthquake, and when Hurricane Irene struck America's east coast.
Republicans eventually struck a deal with Democrats as part of last August's Budget Control Act that should make it easier to fund disaster relief. However, the House Republican budget reneged on that agreement, setting the stage for more disaster relief shenanigans when the country can least afford political games.


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Buck Rogers is coming to the twenty-first century. James Cawley, producer of the Star Trek: Phase II fan series, has gotten the rights to do a Buck Rogers webseries with the same attention to detail.
Cawley stresses the project isn't a fan film, because it's a fully licensed production with professionals behind the camera and in front of it. But at the same time, the project, which may start streaming online as early as fall 2010, is very much in the spirit of Cawley's earlier fan films, in terms of referencing earlier works. Cawley's working on the script for the first episode now, but apparently it'll retell the classic Buck origin: he's a World War I airplane pilot, who gets caught in suspended animation until the 25th century, where he battles fantastical enemies.
The production will have a "retro-contemporary" look using modern techniques like CG to reproduce the look of the original comics. Cawley told TrekMovie: "We will be using the technology we have today, to present The Original version of The First Sci-Fi Hero ever! Previous filmed incarnations never really captured the original Buck from the comic strips, which is what we aim to do." He'll keep all the elements of the original storyline, including the "atomic disrupter pistol," the Earth Defense Directorate and Buck's friends Dr. Heuer, Wilma Deering and her brother Buddy Deering. And villains, including Princess Ardala and Killer Kane.
Buck will be played by Buddy Rice, who played James Kirk's gay nephew Peter in a recent Phase II storyline. Both Rice and Cawley stress this won't be for camp value.
We could be about to see a Buck Rogers explosion, what with a new comic series on the way and a Frank Miller-helmed movie supposedly still in the pipeline. But the Cawley webseries might hit before the Miller movie (if it even still happens), and garner more attention than a comics series. I'm happy to see anything that brings more prominence to space opera on film, since the visual genre has lagged behind the space opera book genre in recent years. But I'm wondering why space opera always has to look retro, especially with J.J. Abrams' Trek going back to an old-school version of the future as well. [TrekMovie]


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EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald says he expects quarterback Kain Colter and running back Venric Mark to play this week against Illinois.
Mark sat out the second half of Saturday's 23-20 victory at Michigan State with what was announced as an upper extremity injury, while Colter was shaken up in the second half. The two are a big reason why Illinois ranks third in the Big Ten in rushing, with Mark running for 108 per game and Colter averaging 66.5.
Fitzgerald also said Monday that he expects cornerback Nick VanHoose to miss his fourth straight game because of a shoulder injury but added ``we'll see how the week progresses.''


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Toyota Prius c -- 50 miles per gallon
The subcompact Toyota Prius c tops the non-plug-in fuel economy charts with an impressive gas mileage rating of 50 mpg in combined city/highway driving. The excellent fuel economy figure, which includes a whopping 53 mpg for city driving, is made possible by a 1.5-liter hybrid 4-cylinder that puts out 99 horsepower. Best of all, the Prius c is an excellent buy thanks to a practical 5-door body style and a sub-$20,000 base price.
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Honda Accord Hybrid -- 47 miles per gallon
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Honda Civic Hybrid -- 45 miles per gallon
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Lincoln MKZ Hybrid -- 45 miles per gallon
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Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid -- 45 miles per gallon
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Ford C-MAX -- 43 miles per gallon
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Honda Insight -- 42 miles per gallon
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Lexus CT 200h -- 42 miles per gallon
It doesn't matter whether you call the Lexus CT 200h a hatchback or a wagon. Just don't call it a Prius. The 5-door Lexus may offer the same engine as the popular Toyota, but it boasts a different body, a more luxurious interior and improved handling for drivers interested in the occasional sporty jaunt. The CT 200h also boasts a reasonable base price of less than $33,000 with shipping, which is a premium figure but an excellent deal for a brand-new Lexus.
Toyota Prius v -- 42 miles per gallon
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BANNER Elk, N.C. – The Coker College women's basketball team picked up a decisive 86-68 victory over Lees-McRae College on the road on Saturday. The Conference Carolinas win improves the Cobras to 3-4 in league play.
A trio of players led the Cobras with double digit scoring numbers. Jessica Cohen (Ladsen, S.C.) was the game's leading scorer with 27 points and 11 rebounds, her sixth double-double of the season. Amber Lau (Mt. Wolfe, Pa.) added 22 points, five rebounds, four assists and three steals, while Kelley Godbout (Matthews, N.C.) dropped 19 points.
The Cobras and Bobcats kept things fairly close in the opening half with Coker taking a 40-36 lead into halftime. Coker then had an offensive explosion to start the second half, going on a 21-7 run in the opening seven minutes. The Cobras finished off the half with 46 points and went on to win 86-68.
The Cobras will be back at home for their next game on Tuesday, Jan. 24 against Pfeiffer University. The game, sponsored by Wells Fargo, will tip-off at 5:30 p.m. in the Timberlake-Lawton Gymnasium.


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Looking for a one-way ticket off the planet? So are at least 78,000 other souls.
That's how many people applied over the past two weeks to become part of Earth's first cattle-call attempt to colonize Mars. Dutch private space flight outfit Mars One wants to hear from more applicants who are "committed, creative, resilient and motivated," says Mars One Chief Medical Officers Dr. Norbert Kraft. Colonization, by the way, will be part of history's largest reality TV show, which the nonprofit hopes will help raise some of the $6 billion it needs to lift off and set up camp.
Mars One expects 500,000 or more to sign up by the end of August for what its CEO, Bas Landsorp, has called "the most desired job in history." So far, people have applied from all walks of life (grocery store clerks to bona fide rocket scientists) from 120 countries, but mostly the United States, China and the United Kingdom.
You don't need prior experience in engineering or astronomy to put your name in the running (though that might help, one hopes). As long as you're at least 18, in good health and willing to live the rest of your life on a planet without running water or breathable air, with deadly radiation and insanely unstable surface temperatures that average out to about –58F, then, by all means, submit your application video.
Yeah, it's staged for "Hunger Games" level reality TV, but living on the Red Planet won't be a "Survivor" challenge on some tropical island where the biggest problem is a little interpersonal drama and some fitness-challenge-like obstacle course. Colonists will actually have to get their hands dirty. The daily routine involves construction work, like building greenhouses, researching the planet's climate and geology and maintaining the settlement.
Anyway, Mars One says that by 2015, the massive group of applicants will get whittled down to about 40. Then, it's up to the TV audience to vote on who gets to settle on martian soil. After eight years of training, the group will take off in 2022, assuming the project lasts that long.
This is a volunteer effort, but if we could nominate a few people, who would you send? How about …
Bear Grylls. This guy can take on some of our own planet's harshest extremes, which automatically makes him more qualified than, like, 99.9999 percent of everyone else here. Sure, he's got those handy camera crews helping him out, but they're going to Mars, too! He'll be fine. Maybe he can squeeze liquid water out of martian rock the way he did out of elephant dung.
Lindsay Lohan. The lady can't abide by Spaceship Earth's rules, so why not give her a chance to start over – clean slate, new set of laws, the whole deal – in what's presumably a drug-free environment. Her judge would be thrilled, but so would her agent. As the biggest television event in history, wouldn't the "Mars One" reality show make us all forget those painful-to-watch made-for-TV movies she dabbled in? Plus, it would be a way better comeback than, say, "The Surreal Life" or some such day-time reality spin-off.
The Duggars. These people have proven themselves expert at makin' babies. Plus, they all seem so well-behaved and onboard with the whole teamwork thing – perfect for colonial settlements, right? Nineteen's a great start, you guys, but there's room for more of your ilk elsewhere.
This Guy. He seems pretty cool.
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