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Nintendo confirm Wii U midnight launch details, two free games for first 100 buyers
The clock is ticking towards the Wii U's UK launch on November 30. Nintendo has confirmed details of its main midnight launch event, which will be held at HMV's flagship London store on Oxford Street.
Need an incentive to get down there early? The first 100 customers will receive two free Wii U games. Super Mario Bros U will be lobbed towards the dedicated century of players, as well as another selected Wii U title.
If you miss out on the free games, the second 100 will receive £5 off Wii U software. Goodie bags will also be provided for the first 500 to snap up the console.
The store will be opening its doors from 11pm on November 29. You can have a quick play of Super Mario Bros U, ZombiU and Nintendo Land before making a purchase decision. Of course, expect plenty of costumes and terrible Italian accents throughout the night.
HMV has recently confirmed it will have extra stock to ensure everybody leaves with Nintendo's product.
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Biological diversity, or biodiversity for short, encompasses the variety of life at all levels of organization, from genetic diversity within a species to diversity within entire regions or ecosystems. F Biodiversity is increasingly recognized as critical to human life, but many species are more threatened than ever by urbanization, global deforestation, climate change G, overexploitation of the world's fisheries and marine ecosystems, industrial agricultural expansion and other human activities. F
Why Is Biodiversity Important?
The diversity of life on our planet is critical for maintaining the basic planetary life support systems we rely on every day. Ecosystem services, or the resources nature provides us free of charge, like drinking water, crop pollination, nutrient cycling and climate regulation, all rely on biodiversity. For instance, the diversity of insect and avian pollinators is crucial to global agricultural productivity, ensuring plants produce harvestable crops for human use.
The Earth's staggering biodiversity is also responsible for more tangible human goods. In many parts of the world, plants are the main source of medicine used for primary health care, linking the survival of plant diversity with human well-being. FAdditionally, many of our most important pharmaceutical drugs come from compounds discovered only in specific plants or organisms, meaning future drug discoveries may well depend on the survival of species that have yet to be studied for their medicinal properties.
Biodiversity and Agriculture
Farmers rely on services provided by ecosystems to produce the foods we eat every day, and the health of ecosystems, in turn, are dependent on biodiversity. The relationship between agriculture and biodiversity can be understood in two ways—first, as the biodiversity within farmland landscapes (i.e. the biodiversity of soil microbes, birds, insects, etc.) and also as the biodiversity of agricultural crops and animals, or agrobiodiversity (i.e. breeds of cattle, varieties of wheat, etc.).
Biodiversity in the agricultural landscape.
Biodiversity is important at all scales of the agricultural landscape. From billions of different soil microbes that help cycle nutrients and decompose organic matter, to wasps and bats that help reduce crop pests, to birds and insects that pollinate high value crops, biodiversity helps farmers successfully grow food and maintain sustainable farm landscapes.
For example, although many of our most important crops are wind-pollinated and do not require pollinators, 39 of the leading 57 global crops benefit from natural pollinators, such as birds and insects. FA striking example of our dependence on pollinator services and the damage that can be inflicted on the agricultural economy without them can be seen in the decline of US honeybee populations beginning in late 2006 which became known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Although scientific debate continues on the ultimate causes of CCD, Fhoneybee declines have served as an important wakeup call to protect both our managed and wild pollinator species.
But not only does the maintenance of biodiversity help ensure viable crop production, many organisms and species have come to rely on particular agricultural landscapes for their very survival. As an example, farmland bird biodiversity in Europe has declined dramatically in the past two decades as a result of the intensification and industrialization of Europe's farmland and agriculture practices. FIn sum, agriculture both supports, and is supported by, the maintenance of biodiversity.
Agrobiodiversity refers to biodiversity among planned agricultural crops or livestock, such as the genetic diversity of wheat varieties or cattle breeds. Agrobiodiversity is the result of thousands of years of human intervention in selectively breeding traits in animals and crops for particular agricultural advantages. A famous example of the diversity that can exist within one crop species is found in the diversity of potatoes grown in the Andes of South America, where potatoes originated and some 4,000 known varieties, or landraces, exist. FThis abundance of diversity is the result of farmers artificially selecting traits over generations for specific purposes, like resistance to disease, tolerance to high altitudes or poor soils, etc. This diversity is important for food security—in the event that a particular crop variety fails due to drought, flooding or a disease, another variety might survive to avoid food shortages. In stark contrast to this model of agrobiodiversity, the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s was the result of a fungus that completely destroyed the Irish potato crop because only a few varieties of potatoes had been imported from the Andes to Europe, none of which were resistant to the disease. Because of a lack of crop diversity and overreliance on one crop to feed many of its population, Ireland experienced widespread famine and death. F
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Diminishing agrobiodiversity is not only a historical problem, however. The FAO has estimated that during the last century, 75 percent of crop genetic diversity has been lost, a phenomenon referred to as genetic erosion. FThis loss of genetic diversity in plant crops and animal breeds is dangerous because it makes our food supply more vulnerable to outbreaks of pests and disease. For instance, in the 1970s, a lack of genetic diversity in US corn varieties resulted in the loss of over 1 billion US dollars due to a lack of resistance to leaf blight. FUnfortunately, the situation has not improved today, as increasingly, industrial food production relies on fewer and fewer crop varieties and animal breeds, further imperiling the security of our food system.
As mentioned earlier, industrial agriculture can reduce biodiversity by also diminishing biodiversity in the wider agricultural landscape. Excessive manure, nutrient and pesticide runoff from industrial animal and plant agriculture can all negatively impact both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems and the biodiversity they support. Nutrient runoff Gcan cause eutrophication of bodies of water like rivers and streams, in some cases literally suffocating fish and other organisms, resulting in mass die-offs. Pesticide runoff has been implicated in reducing biodiversity within agricultural landscapes both within terrestrial and aquatic landscapes, a famous example being the near eradication of a number of US bird species from the use of the insecticide DDT during the second half of the 20th Century. F
A major cause of farmland biodiversity declines in the last century is the simplification of the modern industrial agriculture landscape. In previous centuries, farmland agroecosystems were diverse mixes of grazing land, crop land, orchards, wetlands and managed forests, which could support a wide array of biological diversity. Today, however, most industrial agriculture landscapes plant crops "fencerow to fencerow," meaning the amount of harvestable land is maximized for the greatest profits, which has resulted in a reduction of the diversity of agricultural landscapes, in turn reducing agroecosystem biodiversity. F

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Center Harbor taps veteran as interim fire chiefBy DAN SEUFERT
Union Leader Correspondent
July 02. 2013 9:53PM
CENTER HARBOR — Town officials have tapped the services of a former fire chief to temporarily replace former Fire Chief John Schlemmer, who resigned last week.
Leon Manville, who was fire chief from 1994-1998, has agreed to serve as interim fire chief while a replacement is found for Schlemmer, according to town officials.
Manville, who has been a volunteer member of the fire department in recent years, will serve in a part-time role in the otherwise all-volunteer department, as Schlemmer did.
"I'm looking forward to the challenge," Manville said Tuesday.
"It's quite a job following (Schlemmer)."
Schlemmer abruptly resigned his post Thursday morning, surprising town officials. The former chief has not commented publicly about his resignation.
Board of Selectman Chairman David Hughes said town officials are not sure why he resigned.
Schlemmer had been chief since Oct. 1, 2007, having joined the Center Harbor Fire Department in 1987. He was promoted to deputy chief in 1988, and spent a brief time as chief in the early 1990s. He later became a fire training officer in Moultonborough.
Town officials said the search for a new chief will begin in coming weeks. That process could take months, officials said.
Manville, 50, said he'll be working 28 hours a week as interim chief, which will now be his primary job, he said.
Would he consider becoming Schlemmer's permanent replacement?
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Garcia vs. Lambert: Who is to be trusted?EDITORIAL
September 03. 2014 7:41PM
Early in his campaign for Congress, Gary Lambert was privately telling Republicans that they should choose him because Marilinda Garcia was too conservative. Now he is calling her a "liberal." If he thought Republican primary voters would not notice, he was mistaken. That he thought they could be so easily duped shows just how low is his opinion of them.
To our knowledge, Lambert is the only one who has ever called Marilinda Garcia liberal. Republican voters might want to double check that claim. One way to do that would be to see who is backing each candidate.
Lining up behind Garcia are the Club for Growth, GOPAC, FreedomWorks, the Susan B. Anthony List, and the editorial page of this newspaper.
Lining up behind Lambert are the liberal Concord Monitor and somewhat less liberal Telegraph of Nashua.
That should tell Republican primary voters plenty.
Lambert's shifting attacks on Garcia reveal more than his disdain for Republican primary voters. Lambert has spent much of the campaign saying he should be elected because he is not a career politician. Voters sick of politics as usual in Washington can trust him to be straight with them, he says. But in this primary Lambert is the one who has eagerly embraced the very sort of politics he decries. His dishonest attacks and desperate efforts to tell primary voters whatever they want to hear are exactly the behaviors voters say they despise in politicians.
Republican primary voters are not as dumb as Gary Lambert thinks they are. We trust they will ignore his smears and elect the candidate who more closely reflects their own views and who treats them with enough respect to be honest with them: Marilinda Garcia.


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- Forrester – Nigel Fenwick (Twitter, personal blog) covering CIO issues
- Forrester – Augie "August" Ray (Twitter, personal blog) covering social computing
- SynergyACG – Eve Griliches (Twitter) covering telecommunications equipment. Prior to SynergyACG Eve was a Director at IDC.
- AMR Research – Janet Sherlock covering retail is leaving to take the CIO position at a retailer
- AMR Research – C.J. Wehlage covering high technology vertical is leaving
- Forrester – Paul Roehrig covering IT services is leaving for Cognizant, a vendor
- Gartner – Arabella Hallawell covering anti-virus, endpoint, email security and web filtering security markets has left for Sophos, a vendor
- Gartner – Frank Kenney (Twitter – corrected) covering marketing and advertising technology trends has left for Ipswitch, a vendor
Tip o' the hat to Gartner PR for noticing that we had the wrong Twitter address associated with Frank Kenney. We apologise for the error.
Any analyst departure is news
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so i have started learning japanese via roetta stone + google search for things im confused on lol.
and i just came across something that had me very confused that i couldnt find an answer to via internet, and it got my thinking that maybe rosetta stone made a mistake.
so to my understanding, kare is used for men, kanojo for woman, the karera (they - men), kanojowa (they -women)
and it just asked me to pronounce karera showing a group of women.. im not sure if rosetta stone mistakenly showed a group of women or if it is technically not incorrect to use karera when referring to a group of women but ya... so can anyone help me out here im confused.
basically did rosetta stone make a mistake with their image grouping or is it technically ok to use karera when referring to a group of women.
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かれら (karera) is mostly used for men, but it is also sometimes used for women. For example, the sentence:
彼らの大部分は女性だった [Karera no daibubun wa jyosei datta.] (The majority of them were women) is perfectly acceptable, and is an example of karera being used to refer to a group of women.
"Karera" is usually used for a group of men but there are times I have heard it used in terms of just a group of people, regardless of gender.
But to be honest, I have never heard of "kanojowa". I think you mean "kanojora". I would say try it again and instead of saying "Karera" say "KanojoRA" and see what happens.
In textbook Japanese, use karera for a mixed sex group.
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"Karera" is usually used for a group of men but there are times I have heard it used in terms of just a group of people, regardless of gender.
But to be honest, I have never heard of "kanojowa". I think you mean "kanojora". I would say try it again and instead of saying "Karera" say "KanojoRA" and see what happens.
I think he means "kanojo wa", wa is the particle or topic marker. I use Rosetta Stone too, I am currently on disc 1 level 2, about 3 units from the milestone
I found it quite confusing too, I appreciate the sentiment of learning how a child would learn but there are things that could do with full explanations. For example - tabete, tabemasu, nonde, nomimasu, yonde, yomimasu, mite imasu, mimasu. I understand the differences better now, mainly because of Japanese For Busy People and the Michel Thomas audio ... and lots of reading
^ Yeah, all of those examples you listed above are either verbs in their て (te) form, or in its standard polite ます (masu) form.
I've never checked out Rosetta Stone so I'm not sure how they teach it, but Japanese verbs conjugate incredibly easily, with only a few irregular verbs (する and くる being the most frequently encountered irregular verbs).
But apart from that, simple rules can always be applied. For example, any dictionary form group 1 verb that ends in -bu or -mu will have a te form that is nde.
読む (yomu) ---> 読んで (yonde)
呼ぶ (yobu) ---> 呼んで (yonde)
飲む (nomu) ---> 飲んで (nonde)
Etc, etc...
I'm glad you're reading Japanese for Busy People. That three book series, if studied and practiced thoroughly (and preferably with a tutor, if you can find one!) is far more useful than Rosetta Stone
The full kanji form of かれら (karera) is 彼等. 彼 obviously is the pronoun for "he" or "him", but 等 (ra) is a little more deceptive. We usually only see it in the kana form, so it's true meaning may not be easily grasped. Some who have studied kanji to some detail may recognize 等 as など, meaning 'etc', so, the whole thing probably means male (and others). I believe that 彼ら formed as a colloquialism, because there is little known (on the internet, anyway) about WHY this is preferred over the universal person pluralizer 達 (たち). 彼ら can, as far as I'm aware, be used for any group of "them", but is especially used for groups of all males. 彼達 (かれたち), as far as I know, is not commonly used (or used at all as far as I've seen and heard).
Pretty much what everyone else said is true about the "karera" and the "kanojo wa," but one thing that I wanted to comment on is how Rosetta Stone could help people understand the grammar issues a little bit more. I do think it does a great job with immersion and forcing a user to hear correctly and grasp a new language.
You are cool.
I tried using Rosetta Stone to enhance my Chinese, but it kept mispronouncing words and would mark me wrong every time I pronounced it they way it's spoken in China. Beijing dialect of course, since it's the official one. I even tried pronouncing words with a Qingdao and Shangainese accent.
So in short; Rosetta Stone will help you learn the language, but it will need correcting when applying it in the real world. Don't worry though, people who you regularly speak with will generally help you correct it during casual conversation.
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LONGMONT -- A YouTube video that lampoons seven former Longmont mayors who have voiced opposition to a ballot issue that would ban fracking in the city has people on both sides of the issue at least mildly amused.
The satirical two-minute video was posted Oct. 17 under the user name "Don't Frack Longmont." It had gotten more than 900 views, as of Monday afternoon.
The video features seven former Longmont mayors who have opposed Ballot Question 300, which would amend the city charter to ban fracking and prevent the storage of fracking waste.
Photos of the mayors -- Bryan Baum, Julia Pirnack, Bill Swenson, Bob Askey, Leona Stoecker, Roger Lange and Al Sweney -- are featured in an ad that includes the text "Seven former Mayors say NO to 300." Main Street Longmont, which opposes the ballot issue, released the ad.
In the video, the former mayors' faces are superimposed on cowboys astride galloping horses. Baum, in the center, sings the praises of fracking to the theme from "The Magnificent Seven."
Baum had not seen the video before the Times-Call contacted him about it on Monday afternoon. He said he is not offended by it.
"I'm just glad that they've got a sense of humor about it, and we'll know the outcome in a couple of weeks," he said.
It is not clear who created and uploaded the video. The video encourages people to support the anti-fracking activist group, Our Health, Our Future, Our Longmont, but Michael Bellmont, an activist with the group, said the organization did not sponsor or release the video.
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The Milanese leg of "Luoghi comuni" is only a beginning: everyone is invited to participate with a personal story writing to email@example.com. These new voices will join the original nucleus travelling to other Italian cities (Roma, Torino, Padova, Verona, Bologna), on other means of transport, in other common-places. Moreover, the reaction of the public to the billboards will be recorded in videos and photographs, captured and set by Asinitas/Confini "Audiovisual".
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine (UK - BD RA/B)
Chris takes a look at Fox BD release of the recent mutant summer blockbuster
Canada, 1845, and a sickly young child called James Howlett witnesses the death of his father at the hands of groundskeeper Thomas Logan. The trauma induces James' mutation and he impales his father's killer with a set of newly-emerged, razor-sharp bone claws, but with his dying breath Logan reveals that he is actually the boy's natural father. James flees the estate with Thomas' son Victor Creed—who he now knows to be his half brother—and over the course of the next century they fight in many wars, which they are able to survive thanks to their mutant healing factors. However, Victor becomes increasingly bloodthirsty and commits many atrocities during the Vietnam War, culminating in the murder of a superior officer. Although James disapproves of his brother's actions, he stands with him and is thus sentenced to death by firing squad.
Both James and Victor survive the attempted execution and are approached by Major William Stryker, who offers them a chance to join a clandestine outfit known as 'Team X', a group of mutants including superhuman marksman Agent Zero, 'merc with a mouth' Wade Wilson, teleporter John Wraith, the indestructible Fred Dukes, and electropath Bradley Bolt. They join the team, but James leaves after Stryker's questionable ethics and casual disregard for human life come to light. He spends the next few years in Canada with his girlfriend Kayla Silverfox, during which time he works as a lumberjack and goes by the name Logan. Although haunted by the memories of his violent past, Logan is content with his new life until Stryker arrives with news of the deaths of several of Team X's former members, apparently by Victor's hand.
An alarmed Logan catches his half brother's scent and races home to find Kayla dead. Enraged, the grief-stricken Logan tracks Victor to a bar in a nearby town and they engage in a brutal struggle from which Victor emerges victorious (crushing Logan's bone claws in the process). Although his physical injuries heal, the mental scars of Kayla's murder and his subsequent defeat linger, and when Stryker offers him the chance to get even Logan accepts without hesitation. In a secret military installation at Alkali Lake Logan enters the Weapon X program, shedding his former identity to be reborn as Wolverine after having the indestructible metal adamantium bonded to his skeleton. However, when he learns that Stryker plans to wipe his memory Wolverine escapes the facility and continues his search for Victor as a wanted man...
I wouldn't ordinarily write such a lengthy synopsis, but the character of Wolverine has such a convoluted history it was necessary to get things straight in my head before I went on with the rest of the review. I was an avid comic book reader in my youth and Wolvie was one of my favourite characters (thanks largely to Frank Miller's excellent miniseries), but it wasn't until fairly recently that I learned of his retconned origin, which forms the basis for the story told in this film. There are a few minor changes along the way, such as the explicit confirmation of the brotherly connection between Victor and James, and the attributing of names and powers from the comic book incarnations of some mutants to entirely different characters in the film, but on the whole these changes aren't deal-breakers. No, there are far greater problems afflicting X-Men Origins: Wolverine than a few simple name and relationship differences.
Even putting aside the much-derided 'amnesia bullet' ending, there are still many simple lapses in logic and series continuity, not to mention casual disregard for the established rules governing the characters. My colleague Gabe Powers picked up on a number of my pet hates in his review, such as Scott Summers suddenly having 'heat vision' instead of concussive optic blasts, Logan not sensing that his girlfriend was still alive even though he has superhuman senses, and the silly Deus ex machina ending, but I have some additions to that list. If Silverfox's mutant power is 'tactile hypnosis', why the elaborate ruse to get Wolvie into the Weapon X program? Why not just, you know, hypnotise him? Come to that, why not just hypnotise Stryker and order him to release her sister? Also, if you're going to make someone indestructible, isn't it a good idea to wipe their memory before you do so? There are numerous other examples throughout the film, and such moments are what set the film apart from genuinely great comic book movies like X2 and Spider-Man 2.
This brings us to the infamous leak that saw the film end up on the Internet before it was even in cinemas in certain parts of the world. At the time Fox were quick to denounce the actions of the pirates and point out that those who downloaded the film would see a compromised version, with incomplete special effect and missing scenes. Of course we now know that the 'completed' film contains absolutely no additional footage, and although the special effects are in a better state than the bootleg many of them look incomplete or just plain ropey. Wolverine's claws in particular seem to change shape, consistency, and exit from different parts of his hands between shots, but all of the CGI looks like it was done on the cheap (a staggering achievement given the film's budget). I have to admit to feeling somewhat cheated by promises of additional footage and impressive special effects that never materialised, and it further reinforces my opinion that Fox knew that they had a bit of a dud on their hands with this one. Call me paranoid, but I don't think it's too hard to imagine a scenario where the studio engineered the 'leak' as a means to push their anti-piracy agenda ('It's not our fault Wolverine tanked, blame the pirates').
With all of that said, Wolverine isn't a complete failure, and it isn't even the worst of the summer blockbusters (that dubious honour falls to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen). Jackman is obviously very dedicated to the character that brought him international fame, and his performance is never anything less than passionate. Although replacing the physically imposing Tyler Maine with Liev Schreiber initially worried me, he more than measures up with an understated, menacing performance that Maine simply could not have delivered. Ryan Reynolds steals every scene that he's in (which unfortunately isn't that many) and Danny Houston's Stryker is a thoroughly repugnant bastard. Lynn Collins is also a bit of a (silver) fox. The action isn't anything we haven't seen before, but the one-on-one battles between Wolverine and Sabertooth are engaging and I enjoyed one or two of the nods to the comics. Unfortunately there's no getting around the fact that none of this really compensates for the lacklustre direction, jarring editing, minimal character development, unconvincing effects and general sloppiness of the whole thing. What sums it up perfectly for me is the way that it's never explained why everyone suddenly starts referring to James as Logan (his father's name isn't mentioned in the film). It's as though the filmmakers decided that we all know him as Logan, and so would accept the switch without questioning how the other characters know.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine arrives on Blu-ray with a 2.35:1 widescreen transfer (1080/24p AVC). As one might expect from such a recent film, the image is pretty impressive for the most part. The colours of this comic book world are well rendered, presenting theatrically accurate hues. The palette mostly consists of earthen tones and steely blues and greys, but colours can be quite vibrant when called for (the scene with Gambit springs to mind). There is a fine layer of grain throughout, lending the whole thing a very 'cinematic' feel, but it's certainly nothing out of the ordinary and in no way detracts from the viewing experience. Black levels are fairly consistent, but I did find the overall brightness of the picture a bit on the dark side (if you'll excuse the reference to another film series), especially during the opening scenes. Detail is generally excellent, but this proves to be a double-edged sword because it highlights the quality—or lack thereof—of some of the 'special' effects. I'm talking Wolvie's claws and some of the digital double and green-screen work, which all look a little on the fake side. There are no particularly obvious film or digital artefacts on display, which is to be expected from a film of this vintage, and on the whole it is a very pleasing transfer.
The film's primary soundtrack is an English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 effort. I was hoping for a brash, balls-to-the-wall action soundtrack with this one, and that's exactly what I got. There's plenty of activity from all five channels, with lots of panning and discrete placement of effects both subtle and not-so-subtle. Some of the more memorable moments include Wade Wilson deflecting bullets with his swords, the Harley Davidson vs. helicopter sequence, and of course the climactic showdown on Three Mile Island. Bass is powerful—which is pretty handy considering the amount of stuff that blows up in the film—and dialogue is well-rendered even in the loudest action scenes. The score by Harry Gregson-Williams isn't particularly memorable beyond the main title theme, but it acts as a solid underpinning to the rest of the track and fills out the surround channels nicely. I wouldn't go so far as to call the track reference quality, but like the video it is a very solid effort.
Fox has assembled a reasonably impressive selection of bonus material for this release, thanks largely to the fact that it is one of their 'Triple Play' releases. What this means is that, in addition to the Blu-ray extras, the two-disc set also includes a DVD copy of X-Men Origins: Wolverine complete with a 'Wolverine Unleashed: The Complete Origins' featurette, Japanese bar scene and a digital copy of the movie. I'm actually in favour of this where it doesn't unnecessarily add to the retail price of the disc. Most people only have one Blu-ray player in the living room, so the DVD allows you to watch the film in the bedroom, kitchen, or wherever else you might have a DVD player. Anyway, the BD-only features are outlined below.
Commentary by Director Gavin Hood: The first commentary track features director Gavin Hood and is actually a pretty informative effort. Hood talks a lot about his take on things and is quick to point out that he wasn't afraid to take liberties with the source material wherever he felt it helped the story. He does stray a little bit too far into narration territory at times, but at least moments of dead air are few and far between and it's quite enjoyable on the whole.
Commentary by Producers Lauren Shuler Donner and Ralph Winter: As is usual for producer tracks, this is more fact-based and dispassionate than the director's track, but there is still a lot of useful information to be gleaned. I found it particularly interesting that they used the word 'we' when talking about the filming of numerous scenes, suggesting that they had more control over the shoot than maybe Gavin Hood would have liked. On the negative side, I was surprised by how many periods of dead air there were given the dual participants.
The Roots of Wolverine: A Conversation with Stan Lee and Len Wein (16:18 HD): Wolverine co-creator Len Wein and X-Men creator/Marvel legend Stan Lee wax lyrical about the diminutive Canadian berserker. Wein finally puts to rest the urban myth about Wolverine being a mutated, well, wolverine, and there're plenty of other interesting revelations. The guys seem to have a bit of friendly banter going on, but every now and then things appeared to go a little too far and I have to confess to feeling a little uncomfortable. Unfortunately this featurette isn't anywhere near as comprehensive as those about the origins of Spider-Man or the Fantastic Four as found on their various DVD releases.
Wolverine Unleashed: The Complete Origins (12:05 HD): This is a short making of featurette that deals with thing like the film's inception, dramatic choices, Hugh Jackman's physical preparation (he weight trained—a lot), prosthetics, and digital visual effects. It's your typical EPK fluff that reveals little about the film-making process, but it's worth at least one viewing. Oh, and on a personal note, I know it's childish, but the sound of Wolverine speaking with an Aussie accent amuses me no end.
Weapon X Mutant Files (53:57 HD): This is a series of ten featurettes about the mutant characters that appear in the film, such as Sabretooth, Stryker, John Wraith, Kayla Silverfox, Blob, Bradley, Gambit, Agent Zero, Deadpool, and Emma Frost. The featurettes only concern the movie incarnations of the characters, so we miss out on their rich comic-book histories and powers. Having said that, some of the footage is quite entertaining and some of the acrobatics performed by the guy who doubled Reynolds as Weapon XI are astounding.
The Thrill of the Chase: The Helicopter Sequence (05:53, HD): This concerns the design and implementation of the impressive 'exploding barn' gag. It was reasonably interesting if only because it provided an insight into the ratio of live-action shots versus green-screen digital effects. Lots of stuff blows up and Hugh Jackman is made to look very cool by his stunt drivers, but other than that there's not a lot here that you haven't seen before in similar featurettes.
Ultimate X-Mode: This is the disc's picture-in-picture mode. It actually provides four different PiP streams—'X-Connect', 'The Director's Chair', 'Pre-Visualizing Wolverine' and 'X-Facts'—which cover different facets of the production and pop up relevant bits of trivia throughout. However, the frequency of the PiP segments is spotty at best—I watched a good seven minutes of the film with the X-Connect track before seeing anything and there were long breaks between Gavin Hood's 'The Director's Chair' sequences. BonusView is a great idea in theory, but I've yet to see a disc that realises its full potential. The other annoying this about this feature is that you can't switch between video streams on the fly, and instead have to return to the main menu and start the film again each time (unlike Universal titles).
Deleted and Alternate Scenes (09:32 HD): There are four deleted scenes in total, all with optional commentary from Gavin Hood. The first scene features a brief cameo from a young Storm and was wisely left on the cutting room floor, while the second scene sees Sabretooth extracting info from Blob. The third scene is the longest and probably the most famous, as it presents an alternate mind-wiping scene. It also makes sense of a small continuity issue concerning Logan's clothing. The final scene is the second of two post-credit sequences tagged on to salvage something from the whole leak debacle.
Fox Movie Channel Presents: World Premiere (06:23 SD): This is footage from the film's world premiere in Tempe, Arizona. It makes a change from the glitzy Hollywood premieres, but the featurette itself is horribly glossy and consists of impossibly good looking people interviewing other impossibly good looking people while they parade in front of fans. It's completely disposable fluff.
Fox Blu-ray: This section includes high-definition advertisements for the X-Men Trilogy and Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.
Live Lookup: This BD-Live feature enables you to watch the film while looking up the actors' IMDb profiles (or at least limited versions of them). This is another fairly useless BD-Live feature. Why download this when you can just visit the IMDB homepage on the web for a much more user-friendly experience?
Sure there are changes from the source material and some dodgy effects, but at the end of the day the fact that no one seemed to have a strong vision of where they wanted to go with the story is what really torpedoed X-Men Origins: Wolverine. I'm sure no one sets out to make a bad film, but unless you have a visionary director like Singer or Nolan at the helm it's very easy to churn out an uninspired, formulaic action movie that doesn't really capture the spirit of the character. The producer-friendly PG-13 rating is undoubtedly a contributing factor as well. What's the point of making a film about one of the most violent mutants in the entire Marvel universe—a character known for his berserker rages—and then de-clawing him?
On the other hand I know that there are plenty of people who aren't emotionally invested in the character and just enjoy the spectacle of the film's action scenes. That's great, and those fans will be overjoyed with this Blu-ray release. Solid audio-visuals are pretty much a given for any relatively recent blockbuster, but it was the amount of bonus material on offer that really surprised me. Okay, so the disc is lacking a comprehensive history of the character and interviews with the men responsible for his most famous exploits, but at least Fox has tried to deliver some varied content that utilises Blu-ray's interactive modes (even if their efforts are not entirely successful). Even if you didn't like the film it's probably worth a rental for technical reasons alone.
* Note: The above images are taken from the Blu-ray release and resized for the page. Full-resolution captures are available by clicking individual images, but due to .jpg compression they are not necessarily representative of the quality of the transfer.
Review by Chris Gould
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Excellent review Chris, more words than this pish deserves.
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Great Review Chris, as always.
old painless Member Join Date: February 2008 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 81
Disagree that a film is worth a rental when you dont like it.No matter how good the picture quality or special features are why would you want to sit through them if you dont like the film and personally i cant stand it and i loved the x-men movies.
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Yeah, I guess it depends on whether you're a new release w***e like I am
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Most people will probably get this to keep the collection going though - even if they didn't really like this but loved the first 3...
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Release Date: 19th October 2009
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, Descriptive Audio English, DTS 5.1 French, Dolby Digital 5.1 Portuguese, Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish
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Cast: Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston, Lynn Collins, Dominic Monaghan, Kevin Durand, Will i Am, Ryan Reynolds, Taylor Kitsch
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Standard 4.2 MANAGEMENT OF HEALTH INFORMATION
Criterion 4.2.1 Confidentiality and privacy of health information
Criterion 4.2.2 Information security
Criterion 4.2.3 Transfer of patient health information
Criterion 4.2.4 Retention of patient health information
Standard 5.1 FACILITIES AND ACCESS
Criterion 5.1.1 Health service facilities
Criterion 5.1.2 Physical conditions conducive to confidentiality and privacy
Criterion 5.1.3 Physical access
Standard 5.2 EQUIPMENT FOR COMPREHENSIVE CARE
Criterion 5.2.1 Health service equipment
Criterion 5.2.2 Doctor's bag/emergency trolley
Standard 5.3 CLINICAL SUPPORT PROCESSES
Criterion 5.3.1 Medicines
Criterion 5.3.2 Vaccine potency
Criterion 5.3.3 Perishable materials
Criterion 5.3.4 Infection control
Appendix A The principles of quality and safety in the Standards for health services in Australian prisons
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MOUNT VERNON, Ohio (AP) -- A 3-year-old boy is in critical condition after shooting himself in the head.
WBNS-TV reports (http://bit.ly/KBZKiC ) that the shooting happened shortly before 6:30 p.m. Monday at a house northwest of Mount Vernon. The boy's grandfather, parents and two younger siblings were at home when it happened.
The station says that family members say the gun was sitting on top of a television.
Knox County Sheriff's Capt. David Shaffer says a firearm was recovered from the house. He says the shooting is an "unfortunate accident."
The incident is being investigated.
Information from: WBNS-TV, http://www.10tv.com/