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You are a student from class 3-E, known to be the worst class at Kunugigaoka Junior High School. Everyday, you have lessons and training to improve your assassination skills.
One day, your class is attacked by a group of mysterious assassins. Their target seems to be your form teacher, Koro Sensei, and they have set up traps around your classroom.
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If nothing is done, all of you will be killed. There's no choice but to overcome this crisis with your own abilities!!! Will you be able to survive this life-threatening situation and leave the classroom alive?!
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Assassination Classroom (Japanese: 暗殺教室 Ansatsu Kyōshitsu) is a Japanese manga series that was adapted into an anime. As of May 2016, 19 manga volumes have been released with a circulation of 22 million in Japan. The English dubbed animation series was brought to Singapore from Nov 2015-Jan 2016.
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Produced by SCRAP in Japan, the pioneers of real-life escape games around the world, the game was first held in Japan from Feb 2015 – April 2015. It was brought back in 2016 due to overwhelming popularity. The Sequel game (Escape the Assassination Classroom 2) is being held this year in Japan.
As the official partners of SCRAP, REG Singapore has held 9 editions of real escape games in Singapore including both indoor and outdoor versions. Previous anime titles brought over by REG Singapore include Space Brothers (Escape from the Moon Base), and Attack on Titan (Escape from the Walled City).
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The Russian language closed beta has been running since early this year, I got accepted two months ago. Russian language open beta is starting around 21st of June, and I believe English language closed beta is starting around the same time. English language website is here.
It is going to be free to play for basic version, with special features for paying players (more on that later).
Currently, it features Soviet and German vehicles, with them being split into four main lines: medium/heavy tanks, light/medium tanks, tank destroyers, and self-propelled howitzers. For example, German tree starts with the Leichttraktor, from where you can proceed down the tank tree either to Maus (level 10 heavy tank) or to Panther (level 8 medium tank), or you can go down the howitzer tree from Sturmpanzer I 'Bison' down to Hummel, or you can train in Panzerjager I and proceed through tank destroyer tree down to Ferdinand. Full list of vehicles planned for release can be found here (there are English language versions on the website, but these are quite a bit more up to date and should be fairly readable):
As you can see, in addition to vehicles that fought, there are quite a few of prototypes, paper projects, and immediate postwar vehicles. Below the main trees are "special tanks" - on the left are premium tanks bought with real money, on the right are ones that you'll get either with the game box, or at special events.
Combat is fairly straightforward - two teams of fifteen tanks each start on opposite sides of a map, about a kilometer square. Each team starts near a flag; around a flag there is a 50-meter circle. If an enemy tank drives within that circle, they start accumulating capture points - if your flag is captured, you lose; unless you capture the enemy flag within 10 seconds of your own flag being captured, in which case the round is a draw. If the game isn't over in 15 minutes, it's also a draw. The winning team gets a 50% bonus to the experience and credits they earned in the fight, the losing team still gets experience and credits, but no bonus. Teams aren't restricted by nationality, tanks are freely mixed to achieve best possible balance between the two teams.
The physics are somewhere between a pure arcade and a hardcore sim. On one hand, you're watching from outside the tank, you drive with WASD and aim (including automatic turret rotation) with the mouse, tanks have hitpoints, elevation is calculated automatically, enemy tanks are displayed on the minimap as long as someone on your team within radio range sees them, etc, etc. On the other hand, all shells follow ballistic trajectories, including indirect fire by howitzers (they get a special bird's eye view to aim and generally require a forward observer to "see" the target for them), all shells take time to get to their target requiring you to lead your shots, hits - particularly by high explosive shells - can disable systems or kill crewmembers impacting tank's performance, guns have a varied but limited accuracy, and it takes time to aim a gun to its maximum accuracy, with any movement disrupting the aim, different vehicles have differing acceleration rates and turning speeds in addition to maximum speed, which is also reduced by the terrain you're driving on and by inclines, and so on. Actually, now that I think about it, it's fairly close to physics in MechWarrior games.
Every time you fight, you earn experience and credits. 95% of the experience you earn is tied to the tank that you earned it in, 5% is free and you can spend it on other tanks. Experience is used to unlock modules, and after you unlock several key modules, to progress to the next tank in line. Currently, modules you can upgrade your tanks with are running gear, engines, radios, turrets, and guns. Some modules can be used on more than one tank - for example, the German KwK 43 8.8cm/L71 gun, once unlocked, can be used on Tiger, Koenigstiger, Panther, Jagdpanther and Ferdinand, although accuracy and rate of fire may differ on different mounts.
Credits are used to buy new tanks, modules, ammunition, and repair your tank after a fight - if you took damage or got killed, you must pay for repairs before taking that tank into combat again. If you don't have enough money - earn it on another tank. Repairing level 1 tanks is free. Low level tanks are basically impossible to lose money on - even if you lose horribly, you still get enough to cover repairs and then some. The higher you go, the harder it gets to turn a profit - if you suck on an IS-3 or a Koenigstiger, your wallet will really feel it.
In addition to credits, there is a second type of in-game currency - gold. In the beta, you're given 1 gold per day if you fight at least once; after release, gold will be bought with real money. Gold can be exchanged for credits if you're running low, it can be used to upgrade your account from standard to premium which gives you a 50% bonus to credits and experience that you earn (this is basically an optional subscription fee; right now 10 gold gives you premium account for 30 days, and I have a feeling that after release $1 will buy you 1g), to buy premium tanks, or premium ammo. Premium ammo is subcaliber and HEAT, which generally has better armor penetration than regular armor-piercing, although subcaliber rounds lose penetration considerably faster as the range increases. Premium tanks don't require experience to activate - you can buy them outright - but they have no upgrades, you can't progress from them, and generally they aren't that good; typically they're captured or lend-lease examples. Currently, premium tanks for Soviets are Valentine (light), Matilda (medium) and Churchill (heavy), while Germans have Hotchkiss H39 (light), Somua S35 (medium) and Char B2 (heavy).
Right now, the only part of the game available outside internal testing is the combat system - queue up for battle, get matched up randomly, fight for a while, win/lose, repair, repeat, upgrade tank, and so on. A concept shot of the territory control meta-game was released a few days ago, you can see it here.
You can find gameplay videos on youtube - just search for "World of Tanks". I believe there is some sort of NDA in place, but the developers don't seem to care about enforcing it, so screenshots and videos are floating around freely.
I've been playing for a couple months, and it's quite fun, despite the still-limited feature set (damage model is very primitive and temporary, getting replaced in next patch, crews are not in game yet, territory control not in game yet, tech trees incomplete, consumables not yet in, Americans not yet in, etc). If you like this type of games, you should probably watch their website for English beta announcement, although be prepared to waste a lot of hours If you have questions, don't hesitate to ask; I'll answer to the best of my ability, although I'm just a regular player - not in any way affiliated with the developers.


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Film plays deadly serious marketing game
With book sales of more than 26 million for Suzanne Collins' futuristic trilogy, a lot is riding on this initial film that introduces teen heroine Katniss Everdeen to audiences in what will be the first of at least three, possibly four, movies. Aimed at what marketers call the coveted "YA" or "young adult" market, the film has obviously been toned down from the book to earn the all-important PG-13 rating.
The film lives up to the relentless hype largely due to the casting of the engaging Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss, the 16-year old who keeps food on her poor family's table with her bow and arrow skills. Set in the future when North America has been at war with itself and now lives under a dictatorship called Panem, which rules 12 districts, each year the Reaping lottery selects a young female and a young male from each district to participate in the Hunger Games. It's a televised survival match for which there can only be one winner.
Katniss first gains public notoriety when she volunteers to take her younger sister's place as the female tribute from District 12, an impoverished mining area. She's paired with Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) and sent to the Capitol to prepare for the game. Their mentor is a former winner, Haymitch Abernathy (Woody Harrelson), now a disillusioned drunk who imparts pearls of occasional wisdom as the two are polished and preened to be presented to the eager public.
This expository phase of the film takes up about half of the two-and-a-half hour running time, leaving director Gary Ross the remainder to actually stage the game, set in a wilderness arena controlled by Seneca (Wes Bentley), the game master who can change the odds with a flick of a switch as viewers around the country watch on huge television screens — a commentary from Collins, who also co-wrote the script with Ross, designed to call out a society addicted to reality TV. It is here that the most controversial aspect of Collins' work comes into play, literally, as the tributes must kill each other or be killed.
As if to ease the burden, some die by natural causes such as exposure, infection and hunger, evening the odds, but at least half are murdered by each other as Katniss uses a variety of skills to stay alive. Her strongest asset may not be tree climbing or wielding a bow but the psychological game she and Peeta concoct to win audience sympathy as they pretend to be star-crossed lovers caught up in a duel of death. For Peeta, it's not really a stretch as he has already confessed to television host and game emcee Caesar Flickerman (Stanley Tucci in a blue bouffant and a startling set of brilliant teeth caps) that he's had a crush on Katniss since they were children.
This ploy sets in motion a game changer that concerns President Snow (Donald Sutherland at his sinister best), who frets constantly that he is losing control of an already restless population. His fears prove true when one of the young contestants under the protection of Katniss is killed, causing an uprising in her home district. Indeed, the foreshadowing of what is to come in the next film is clear as the political implications of the outcome of the Hunger Game are brought to bear.
Ross is a capable director who plays it safe with this movie. It's bound to please the book's fans, while also disappointing them with the choice to cut some of the peripheral but popular characters for time's sake. Ross uses various camera techniques, from stationary to hand held, to achieve different looks of the glimmering Capitol and the verdant woods (shot in North Carolina). His crowd scenes, which focus on the gaunt, hollow-eyed faces of the masses, seem derivative of scenes of the Great Depression that Ross employed in "Seabiscuit," homages to other films such as "The Wizard of Oz," touched on in the scenes involving Katniss and Peeta getting groomed for the competition, and "Winter's Bone," the indie film about life's many cruelties set in the rural Ozark mountains for which Lawrence was nominated for an Oscar as the young provider to her rag tag, parentless siblings, was a strong role that parallels that of Katniss in many ways.
Strong supporting characters such as Cinna, the sympathetic stylist who prepares Katniss for the game, played by Lenny Kravitz, and Gale (Liam Hemsworth), the boyfriend Katniss leaves back home who is sure to play a role in future films, bring added depth to the story, as does Elizabeth Banks as the outré Effie Banks, the District 12 publicist.The excitement for this film has been matched by only a few, such as the "Twilight" trilogy, another tween phenom, and the "Harry Potter" films. With an opening weekend of $155 million, the film broke some records and landed in third place for all-time best opening weekend, right behind "The Dark Knight and "Deathly Hallows," the last Potter film — a strong start that is sure to leave audiences hungry for more.


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The University of Georgia Hugh Hodgson School of Music offers a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as an annual study abroad program in Italy that is sponsored by the Hodgson School and open to all majors.
Programs designed for the non-music major include two minors: one in Music and the other in Jazz Music––both at the undergraduate level, as well as opportunities to participate in numerous courses and ensembles.
In addition to traditional methods of acquiring graduate degrees, the HHSOM also offers a variety of summer programs and professional development programs. The popular S.E.A.T. Program, a series of music education seminars and courses geared toward the in-service music educator, allows working teachers to pursue their master's or doctorate of education at their own pace.


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alking along Floyd Bennett Field's historic hanger row today you can almost hear the roar of the mighty engines that powered aircraft on their way to patrol the vital sea lanes of the Atlantic during the German U-Boat offensive of 1942. Look into Hanger B and imagine the ground crews receiving newly built planes from companies like Grumman, Vought-Sikorsky, and General Motors, testing them, and then commissioning some 46,000 aircraft. Imagine the Air Ferry Squadron One (VRF-1)¹ pilots soaring off to deliver Wildcats, Hellcats, and Avengers to Navy and Marine aviation units on their way to fight in the major battles of the Pacific during World War II.
Floyd Bennett Field's heritage in both civil aviation and military aviation is long and rich. However, its greatest impact on United States history took place during World War II when the "Janes who made the planes" and the men who tested and delivered the aircraft made Naval Air Station New York (Floyd Bennett Field) the busiest naval air station in the nation. By reducing the processing time for aircraft from 10 days (1941) to three days (1943) they insured that the huge number of aircraft flowing off the assembly lines reached U.S. and Allied forces.
Located in Brooklyn, NY, today Floyd Bennett Field is preserved by the National Park Service as part of Gateway National Recreation Area. Although it lacks the bustle of the past, it is not silent. In Hangar B, volunteers contribute thousands of hours annually restoring vintage aircraft that once flew from the field. Visitors tour the airfield learning its proud story: its defense of the nation during World War II as it guarded ships leaving New York Harbor, as well as its role in one of the greatest industrial feats of all time, giving wings to the armed forces of the United States.
¹ VRF is the World War II naval air squadron designation for a ferry squadron, which transports newly manufactured and tested planes around country to embarkation points.
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Getting Started: Inquiry Question
Setting the Stage: Historical Context
Locating the Site: Maps
Determining the Facts: Readings
Visual Evidence: Images
Putting It All Together: Activities
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The lesson is based on the Floyd Bennett Field Historic District, one of the thousands of properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places.


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Macros vs. Monads
Chris Houser and Jonathan Claggett compare macros with monads, suggesting when it is better to use each of them, and pondering what could be done to improve them.
Functional Infrastructures: It's All Fn until You Hit Production
Antoni Batchelli discusses building an automated infrastructure in Clojure.
Macros: Why, When, and How
Gary Fredericks discusses macros, what they are, how to write good ones, when to use them and when to avoid using them.
Code Execution as Data
Zach Tellman discusses instrumenting and analyzing running systems using real world examples from Factual's production systems.
Introducing ClojureScript-in-ClojureScript
Joel Martin introduces cljs-in-cljs, a compiler for porting all of ClojureScript, including the Clojure top-half and other JVM specific code, to pure ClojureScript.
Core.logic and SQL Killed my ORM
Craig Brozefsky presents the tradeoffs involved with moving to a purely SQL relational model, instead of using an ORM, along with some of the tools built to facilitate this.
clojure-scheme: Compiling Clojure to Native Code via Scheme
Nathan Sorenson discusses clojure-scheme, a ClojureScript compiler that translates Clojure code to Scheme code, showing how to compile this Schemified Clojure code to raw C or run it on iOS.
clj-v8 and the Dieter Asset Pipeline
Paul Biggar shares his experience using clj-v8 and Dieter, two Clojure tools integrated with JavaScript V8 engine, to create web applications in Clojure.
Global Forest Watch: an Open Source Clojure project to Monitor Deforestation from Satellite Imagery
Dan Hammer presents using Clojure and Cascalog to analyze and classify the spectral time series of each pixel in the humid tropics in an application used to monitor deforestation.
Metaprogramming Polyfill: Feed Clojure Data to your JavaScript Libraries
Tom White shows how to add JavaScript metaprogramming to ClojureScript prototypes, so that JavaScript libraries can natively use ClojureScript collection classes.
Simulation Testing with Simulant
Stuart Halloway discusses example-based testing using Simulant, a testing library based on statistical modeling, activity streams, distributed execution, validation, separation of concerns.
FRP in ClojureScript with Javelin
Alan Dipert introduces Javelin, a ClojureScript library, demonstrating how it can be used to express a variety of asynchronous workflows in concise and composable ways.


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Position Summary: A County Waste Truck Driver is responsible for safely operating a front-, side-, or rear-loading truck, either manual-load or "auto-load" style trucks, and providing prompt, courteous and complete waste removal services for customers who reside on a designated route. In addition, a Residential Truck Driver is responsible for ensuring his or her vehicle is in compliance with the Company's safety standards prior to operating the vehicle, ensures that all Company, state and federal regulations are adhered to at all times while operating the vehicle, and completes Driver Vehicle Reports ("DVRs") on a daily basis to ensure that any vehicle defects are repaired in a timely manner.
Principal Responsibilities: • Perform complete pre- and post-operation inspection of the vehicle in accordance with Company policy to ensure tire pressure, fluid levels, safety equipment, gauges, and controls are in proper working order. Report any safety issues on standard reports.
- Safely operate his or her heavy truck along his or her designated route and to the disposal site; read route sheet, follow map and service each customer as identified on the route sheet or as assigned by the dispatcher and/or supervisor.
- Operate manual and/or automatic controls in accordance with Company safety policies and procedures to lift and load refuse, operate compactor and dispose of collected material at the designated facility.
- Courteously interact with all customers, dispatchers and others on a daily basis to ensure all customer routes are serviced in a timely and professional manner.
- Identify unsatisfactory waste containers and tag containers in accordance with applicable departmental procedures.
- Continuously monitor waste for evidence of unacceptable waste.
- Clean area around an accidental waste spill, ensuring adherence to all applicable safety standards and policies.
- Continuously monitor the condition of the vehicle to ensure it is operationally ready at all times to minimize down time; remove waste from the packer blade and truck body on each disposal trip.
- Complete required route/productivity sheets, DVRs and other reports, as required.
- Maintain adherence to required productivity standards for the department to ensure all customers are serviced in a timely and efficient manner.
- Follow all required safety policies and procedures.
- Perform other job-related duties as assigned.
The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature of work performed by this position, and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills.
Preferred Qualifications: • Two years of prior experience driving heavy commercial trucks.
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Needing roster flexibility as they pursue free agents and trades, the Rockies outrighted former first-round pick Tim Wheeler to the minors and lost outfielder Rafael Ortega on a waiver claim by the Rangers on Wednesday.
The Rockies' 40-man roster sits at 38 after the moves. Colorado is aggressively pursuing free agent first baseman Justin Morneau and continues exploring trades for relievers. Many teams, however, do roster cleaning at this point, trying to sneak players through waivers while creating room for new additions. If unable to sign Morneau, the Rockies will also consider James Loney, Mike Napoli and Mike Morse, among others.
Wheeler was a rising star in the minors two years ago when he hit 33 home runs for Double-A Tulsa. He appeared poised to reach the big leagues in 2012, but he broke his right hamate bone in the season's first week, beginning a spiral. He hit .303 for the Sky Sox in 92 games, but finished with just two homers.


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Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith Reportedly Investigated by Child Protective Services
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith are under investigation by the Los Angeles Department of Children & Family Services, RadarOnline reports. The alleged investigation comes after the controversial photo of their 13-year-old daughter, Willow, lying in bed next to 20-year-old former 'Hannah Montana' star Moises Arias, was posted online. After a significant amount of backlash, Arias deleted the picture.
"The investigation was formally opened last week and is being taken very seriously by the department," a source told the website. "Will and Jada Pinkett Smith have been extremely cooperative with officials. Of course, they aren't happy that their parenting skills are under scrutiny, but they understand."
On that front, earlier this month Jada Pinkett Smith angrily lashed out at paparazzi who asked her about the incident, saying:
"There was nothing sexual about that picture or that situation," she said firmly. "You guys are projecting your trash onto it, and you're acting like covert pedophiles. And that's not cool."
Unfortunately for the Smith family, it looks like this investigation won't be going away any time soon. As the same insider revealed to RadarOnline, "Social workers will also be talking separately with Willow, and they also want to talk to the young man in the picture with her as well," the source claimed. "This won't be just one or two visits with the family, and it will likely be an open investigation for at least a month, out of an abundance of caution."


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The Yankee Beemers Motorcycle Club is having a Holiday Party along with Celebrating our 25th Anniversary!
My how time flies! The Yankee Beemers Motorcycle Club has been around for 25 years! From a few members a quarter century ago to nearly 500 members in 2010. We think this is something to celebrate!
Great Folks, Great Music, Great Food
WHEN: February 6, 2010
WHERE: The Crowne Plaza Hotel
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Natick, MA
TIME: 6:30 Happy Hour
COST: $45 per person
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I'm starting to pack for NGS in Las Vegas. And I just read Julie Miller's blog on the NGS Conference blog about drinking water. Drink Lots of Water. I live in the desert so I know that water is important. If you lips are dry or chapped, or if you are getting headaches, I suggest you start drinking more water. Her suggestion of a glass an hour is good. If you aren't waiting in line for the restroom, you probably aren't drinking enough water.
So, what am I packing? I'm taking eye drops. And chapstick. And hand lotion. And, of course a jacket, or sweater, or shawl, for those air-conditioned rooms.
After those necessities, I've started getting together all of my power cords, charging devices, and electronic things that I'll need during the week. Do I need an extension cord for length or in order to plug in more than one charger in the ONLY accessible electrical outlet in my room?
Now, on to the conference stuff. My syllabus pages. My "homework" for Tuesday's class. Business cards, printed up at home, to make it easier to share my contact info. Pen/pencil and notepad for taking notes during sessions; or for making notes about people I meet. An old conference tote (that I modified) that I may or may not use. (I like one that has handles long enough to put over my shoulder.) Then what about a lanyard? Do you have one with a separate pocket for your room key that you like to use? While I appreciate the items that the conference sponsors provide, sometimes older is better. But then, sometimes newer is better. So, thank you conference sponsors.
Oh, yes. Comfortable shoes, because I'm sure I'll be walking a lot, including around the Exhibitor Hall. And...Clothes. Well, I can fit some in. I don't want to be arrested for indecent exposure in Las Vegas. Las Vegas? Well. Hope to see you there.


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This awkward-looking contraption can read your mind—sort of. It's an encephalometer from Hitatchi, and it measures the change in blood flow across your brain. You know what that makes it good for? Neuromarketing, apparently! And an old joke.
The device isn't intended for pharmaceutical usage, according to Nikkei, but rather for research institutes and neuromarketers (who I guess want to sell things to your medulla oblongata?). It costs over $100,000, but it can run for over two hours and give a pretty clear picture of the intensity of its wearer's thought. It's almost worth it for the repurposing of one of my favorite recess gags:
Q: What's this?
A: A brain analyzer.
Q: What's it doing?
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BINGBONG. The device will be available starting this July. It's perfect for the mad-but-not-in-an-evil-way scientist in your life. [Nikkei via Dvice]


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Austrian-born American mathematician who in 1931 published the most important axiom in modern mathematics, known as Gödel's proof. It states that in any finite mathematical system, there will always be statements that cannot be proved or disproved. Gödel's proof ended efforts by mathematicians to find a mathematical system that was entirely consistent in itself.


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Universal just announced that the sequel to Kristen Stewart's "Snow White and the Huntsman" is officially a go with a 2015 release date.
However, the studio has not said if the original cast (which included Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth and Stewart) or director Rupert Sanders will be back, too.
Before the release of "SWATH" and her scandal with Sanders, KStew said she was game for a follow-up.
"I would do it in a heartbeat," she told E! about a year ago. "I know with the people involved it would only be done [because] it's very worthwhile and it's a good movie. We wouldn't just be cashing in."
PHOTOS: "Snow White and the Huntsman" premiere pics
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Universal also announced that "Pitch Perfect" will be getting a sequel in 2015.
Again, no word if the original stars or director Jason Moore are attached.
NEWS: Rebel's funniest MTV Movie Awards moments
Just two days ago at the MTV Movie Awards (which featured a musical reunion of Rebel Wilson and her "Pitch" costars), Brittany Snow said plans were still up in the air.
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Tens of thousands of people marched on D.C. streets Saturday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington -- and to rally for D.C. statehood.
In rapid fire, speakers stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and called for all people to continue to pursue the dream of racial and socioeconomic equality King fought for 50 years ago.
"This is not the time for nostalgic commemoration,'' said Martin Luther King III, the oldest son of the slain civil rights leader. "Nor is this the time for self-congratulatory celebration. The task is not done. The journey is not complete. We can and we must do more.''
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder paid tribute to the forerunners of the modern civil rights movement.
"Their march is now our march, and it must go on," Holder said. "But for them, I would not be Attorney General of the United States, and Barack Obama would not be President of the United States."
He spoke of criticisms of the Supreme Court's decision in June to strike down a key anti-discrimination provision of 1965's landmark Voting Rights Act, which triggered a wave of "cumbersome" voting laws in several states.
"This morning, we affirm that struggle must and will go on until every eligible American has a chance to exercise his or her right to vote," said Holder, who sued Texas over a strict voter ID law on Thursday.
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) joined Newark Mayor Cory Booker, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Md.) in urging activists to advocate for equality and fairness, placing recent social debates in the context of King's vision.
"Many of our people still inhabit islands of poverty, are incapable of finding good jobs, have no voice in our democracy, because they are told they have no valid ID," Hoyer said.
Rev. Al Shaprton, a civil rights activist and host of PoliticsNation on MSNBC, spoke about the changes in the voting rights laws, the lack of a comprehensive jobs bill and the disillusioned attitudes of the youth of today.
Referencing King's quote in his "I Have A Dream" speech about America giving people "a check that has come back marked 'insufficient funds,'" Sharpton called for action to make lawmakers take notice about the financial disparity in the United States.
"We've re-deposited the check. Well, guess what? It bounced again. But this time it was marked stop payment," he said, addressing Congress with his words. "We're going to make you make the check good or we're going to close down the bank."
Sharpton also explained why he thought King spoke about dreams 50 years ago.
"Dreams are for those who won't accept reality. So they dream about what is not there, but will make it happen," Sharpton said. "We must give us our young people dreams again. You build jails, closed schools and break their dream and you wonder why they are wearing saggy pants."
Bernice King, daughter of King, gave a prayer that included her father's words, "Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty, we are free at last."
After the prayer, the crowd gathered to march past the MLK Memorial and down Independence Avenue, ending near the Washington Monument.
Following the rally, a Global Freedom Festival kicks off on the National Mall. All events are open to the public.
These events kick of days of commemoration leading up to Wednesday, the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
But the National Action Network, one of the organizers of the event, has said they don't want the event to be just a commemoration or a celebration, reported News4's Aaron Gilchrist. They want it to be a protest.
They want to send a message to lawmakers and Congress to "realize the dream" -- pushing Congress to realize there is still work to be done on immigration, jobs, civil rights, and women's issues.
Reverend Jesse Jackson, a participant in the original march 50 years ago, said there were many barriers in those days that have fallen, but there are more barriers coming up today.
"We've gone from being denied the right to vote to the crown jewel, President Barack (Obama) in the White House today. Yet beyond that, too many are facing abounding poverty, student loan debt, credit card debt," Jackson said. "Now we need a focus on legislation and appropriations to revive the war on poverty and fight for a constitutional right to vote."
Jackson told Gilchrist that the progress made in the 50 years since the march has become fragile due to recent actions by legislators and courts.
"There is a radical backlash on that progress. When they are taking precincts off campus, that's a step backward," he said. "People working, but working poor without resources. Closed plants at home and sending jobs abroad. Jobs out and drugs and guns in."
"We must fight now to sustain and rebuild our economy from the bottom up."
Voting rights are a major focus, as they were 50 years ago. But now, activists are focused on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision this year to strike down parts of the federal Voting Rights Act. Those provisions were originally passed to protect black voters in mostly Southern states.
"We have seen the most aggressive attack on voting rights that we have seen in many, many years in this country," said Jotaka Eaddy, senior director of voting rights for the NAACP and an attendee at Saturday's events. "So we want to send a message ... to make sure that Congress does everything in its power to fix section four of the Voting Rights Act."
The commemoration of the March on Washington continues until Wednesday, 50 years to the day after the Great March and King's "Dream" speech, delivered at the Lincoln Memorial Aug. 28, 1963 to more than 250,000 civil rights activists
President Obama will speak on Wednesday, as will former president Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. They will be joined by political and cultural figures including Congressman John Lewis, Ambassador Andrew Young and Oprah Winfrey.
The anniversary has echoed throughout Washington, D.C. in ways large and small: Before standing before those thousands of people, King made major changes to his speech at The Willard Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue. So to commemorate the event, the hotel has loaned a wax statue of King from Madame Tussauds in D.C., greeting King's family members and other VIPs slated to stay at the hotel.
The D.C. statehood message will be a major focus Saturday. King himself advocated for D.C. statehood and independence, and protestors calling for representation for D.C. were part of the March on Washington 50 years ago.
Stay with News4 and NBCWashington.com for more special coverage throughout the weekend and week.


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My husband's direct ancestors in Australia are buried from Glen Innes to Uralla - a mere 1.5 hours driving time. My direct ancestors however, are buried in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia. This means, that wherever I go there just happens to be an ancestor buried there. My daughter once asked if a visitor wanted to see our holiday photos - yes they were headstones.
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I was fortunate to be able to locate headstones for two sets of great, great, great, great grandparents in Ireland before I visited.
- James (d. 1857) and Rose Hannah (d. 1858) are buried at the Bushvale Presbyterian Church at Stranocum, Co. Antrim in Northern Ireland.
- Andrew (d. 1853 and Rosannah (d 1830) Lagan are buried at Swatragh, Magherafelt, Co. Derry, Ireland.
Armed with this information I was able to visit these cemeteries and easily find what I was looking for. Without prior research it would have been impossible to take these two photographs.
|Hannah headstone, Bushvale, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland
|Lagan headstone, Swatragh, Co Derry, Ireland


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Weekly Wire: the Global Forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.
POLIS Journalism and Society (LSE)
After Tunisia and Egypt: towards a new typology of media and networked political change
"Social media did not 'cause' the revolutions in Tunisia or Egypt. But if I want to find out where the next uprising in the Middle East might occur, that is certainly where I would look. Social media is now a useful indicator, if not predictor, of political change.
And regardless of the causal relationship, social media does seem to be a critical factor in the evolution of a new networked kind of politics.
Of course, the most important pre-conditions for revolution are economic. Both Tunisia and Egypt had recently suffered economic downturns on top of gross income inequality in societies that are relatively developed."


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I've been working on this 10 minute block for the past couple of days. I started out with 10" squares, as the pattern called for, then decided it was way too big to get the desired result. So, this morning found me cutting all the squares down to 6", except the center floral square, which I've left at 10". I like it much better!
I'm questioning layouts...they all seem to look like baseball diamonds! lol I guess that's ok, since it will be going to a DGS and wife who are very outdoorsy people. Maybe it takes on a whole different facet once quilted? I guess ultimately, it's simply a matter of taste? My plan, at this point, is to use bright yellow that matches the yellow in the floral fabric for one of the borders, probably the border closest to all the blue edges. We'll see.
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Activists intercept a trainload of US maize as it tries to enter Mexico.
It's not just a case of double standards - the US administration
continues to ride roughshod over the rights of people around the
world to say no to genetically modified organisms.
The latest scientific analysis shows that one third of US maize
entering Mexico is contaminated with GE varieties from Monsanto.
Mexico is the centre of diversity of maize, one of the world's
three most important food crops and it's at serious risk from GE
Teosinte, for example, is the wild relative of maize. Recent
scientific research from the US found that genes from GE crops
could rapidly take over those in wild relatives like teosinte. When
most of the wild populations of teosinte are already under threat,
contamination from escaped GE maize could push them over the
Yet the US and Monsanto have no scruples in dumping their GE
maize into Mexico, even though, back in the US, Monsanto is not
allowed to grow its GE cotton in the South of Florida, because of
concerns about contamination of related cotton species.
The international agreement, the Cartagena, or Biosafety
Protocol agreed in January 2000, clearly states that countries must
take action to prevent adverse effects of GE crops on the
conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.
Liza Covantes, our campaigner in Mexico said, "Mexicans are
being forced to swallow the destruction of our number one food
source, and the health and environment of the people who depend on
it, because governments around the world stand back and allow the
US to force their trade and biotechnology corporations' interests
on other countries."
Governments around the world are allowing big business to use
trade rules under the World Trade Organisation (WTO), to force
crops like GE maize on smaller countries. The US government has
already used WTO rules to force countries such as Sri Lanka and
Bolivia to accept GE food and is currently aiming to force Europe
into accepting their GE giant's products.
"We wouldn't need an international agreement if the likes of
Monsanto and the Bush administration had the best interests of the
Mexican people at heart. But that doesn't mean the US can ride
roughshod over people and environments across the globe just
because they think that governments will let them get away with
it," Covantes added.
It is only through international agreements like the Biosaftey
Protocol that countries can protect the health of their people and
the environment, and, for example, say no to GE food.
The Mexican and other Governments must stand by the agreements
already in place to ensure that the environmental protection
prevails over corporate interest and at the upcoming WTO meeting in
Mexico in September.
Briefing -
Maize Under Threat - GE Maize Contamination in Mexico.


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