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If you like games such as Snood and Moorhuhn, you will have a blast with Dance Dance Snake - a 3D version of the popular arcade game, featuring 10 dancing snakes, each in it's own style and with unique set of movements.
The rules of the game are simple, and the only computer skill needed is the ability to use a keyboard. Play as one of the snakes and reach your goal - complete all 50 stages by eating various bonuses and making dancing pases. Make a high-score by passing through a special difficult DJ's task - "Make a trick!" - in a limited period of time. If you make all the dancing pases needed, you win. If the snake touches the borders of the dance floor or its body with its head, you lose.
Dance Dance Snake is an attractive game that tests both - your reflexes and your intellect. For challenging entertainment worth the waste of an afternoon, Dance Dance Snake is really unbeatable.
Ten original worlds with colorful pretty graphics, quick-moving music and fun gameplay that make the game truly addictive are waiting for you. Let's rock torgether!
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Recent Changes: Fancy 3D graphics, more levels
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Supported Languages: English
Additional Requirements: Pentium III 500, 128 MB, 3D Video Card, Sound Card, OpenGL drivers
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Some of the students said they dream about becoming musicians when they're older.
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MYERS: Well I think it's an opportunity.
MATTHEWS: I mean every, every candidate at times, the Clintons blamed the press in the primary season. Everybody seems to decide at sometimes, in their interest, to blame the press.
MYERS: Right.
MATTHEWS: There's a piece in Vanity Fair, your magazine, this week by Gail Sheehy, in the new edition, that says Hillary Clinton way back in '98 with all the problems with Monica and everything-
MYERS: Right.
MATTHEWS: -that there was, she said, "You gotta blame the press." That's a strategy.
MYERS: Right, right. And that, that clearly was, at times, a strategy. And it was, you know, it was, at times a strategy in the Clinton primary campaign this spring and, and into the-
MATTHEWS: I noticed! How did I notice?
MYERS: You know let me think, did you come up? I don't know.
MATTHEWS: My name might have been mentioned.
MYERS: But, but, but I think that because of the extraordinary attention paid to Senator Obama's trip, right now, and he's in the midst of this extraordinary event overseas that I think the McCain campaign just saw this was one more brick in the load and they decided to put it out and make an issue of it. And it has become, I think, today and a bit yesterday an issue. It's a, it's legitimate question. Is the press coverage between the two candidates balanced?
HARWOOD: And Chris that's exactly the reason why this was the right time for them to do it, from their point of view is that-
MATTHEWS: Right.
HARWOOD: -when you do have all these anchors going over there they've, they've got to try to find a way to break through the clutter and get John McCain's argument out in front of the press. When you, when you go after the press like this, as a Republican, you, you try to unite your base a little bit and, and rally them with this familiar argument. And also try to, sort of, turn around a situation where Barack Obama is getting this extraordinary coverage.
MATTHEWS: Would they have done the same thing to the Washington Times? If the same exact thing had happened?
HARWOOD: No! Because there's no juice for a Republican to go after the Washington Times.
MYERS: Right.
MATTHEWS: Or the Wall Street Journal.
HARWOOD: Exactly. But if you go after the New York Times which, to some conservatives sort of stands for liberal media, that is something where you may be able to get some mileage out of it.


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According to EPA, a construction company working for Jay Peak Resort, Inc. placed dirt, sand and rocks into numerous wetlands and streams, affecting just over two acres of wetlands and streams during construction of its golf course between 2004 and 2006 without a required permit.
This case was brought to the attention of EPA by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the spring of 2008. Since then, the Corps and EPA have worked together in pursuing this case.
EPA issued Jay Peak Resort a compliance order in September 2010, requiring that the company restore the affected wetlands and streams. The company worked cooperatively with EPA and the Corps in complying with the order restoring the wetlands and streams prior to the deadlines established in the order. Jay Peak Resort was directed to apply for after-the-fact authorization from the Corps to retain certain areas of fill that appeared to be critical to the project.
The affected streams on the site flow into Jay Branch Brook, which flows into the Missisiquoi River, and then into Lake Champlain.
Wetlands provide valuable habitat for many species of wildlife. They also help to protect the health and safety of people and their communities. They filter and clean water by trapping sediments and removing pollutants, and they provide buffers against floods by storing flood water. Wetlands also store and slowly release water over time, helping to maintain water flow in streams, especially during dry periods.
"Filling wetlands can exacerbate flooding," said Curt Spalding, regional administrator of EPA's New England office. "Recent flooding in parts of Vermont underscores how devastating floods can be. Wetlands can help reduce the impact of flooding, because they act like sponges and can reduce the effects that heavy rain storms have on the surrounding communities."
More information:
– Enforcing wetlands requirements in New England (www.epa.gov/ne/enforcement/wetlands)
– General information on Wetlands (http://water.epa.gov/type/wetlands/index.cfm)
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While serving as a spokesman for the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush, Richard Grenell attempted to get his partner's name listed in the U.N.'s "blue book" directory.
Grenell, who's openly gay, said his request went all the way to then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's top attorney, who stalled for years before denying it and citing the Defense of Marriage Act, which bars the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages.
Under President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the policy was changed in 2010, and same-sex partners can now be listed in the U.N. directory, an official in the office of the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. confirmed this week.
But Grenell, who said he didn't know whether the policy had been changed, just laughed when asked whether it could convince him to vote for Obama on Nov. 6.
"We have an administration that just lied to us on Libya," Grenell said. "I fear for every gay person's safety if we allow this administration to continue their weak national security record."
The response is hardly surprising from Grenell, a gay Republican who is perhaps best known in the LGBT community for his brief stint earlier this year as a national security spokesman for Mitt Romney's campaign. Grenell resigned from the position a few weeks after being appointed in a firestorm of controversy over his sexual orientation.
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.0538 Monday, 20 March 2000.
Date: Friday, 17 Mar 2000 12:28:03 -0500
Subject: Re: Moliere Docudrama
Comment: SHK 11.0477 Re: Moliere Docudrama
>You are speaking of Teatre du Soleil's Ariane Mnouchkine's series
>Moliere. Very memorable. Really great. Should be available if it is not.
And they presented it on American TV so you could hear it either in the
original French or in English. The French version was far better -- (it
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First cruise with Carnival: Carnival Pride Cruise Review by freesyling
Overall Member Rating
First cruise with Carnival
Destination: Eastern Caribbean
Embarkation: Baltimore
Parking at the port terminal was a breeze. However, there was a down pour and we got very wet while running from the car to the terminal entrance. After you drop of the luggage, you can park faster if you pay by cash since the number of cars in the credit card line is longer. Because of the thunderstorm, the main plank was shutdown and they had a shuttle to take passengers about 100 yards to the front of the ship to enter through that entrance...weird, it would have been faster to walk down to that entrance instead of waiting for the shuttle.
Overall the cruise was great. The food was fantastic with so much varieties, our group of 8 have early seating. Our waiters, Natt and Roy from Thailand and More Phillipine, did such a great job we decided on giving them additional tip at the last dinner.
The kids did not attended any of the kid camps so I can't rate them. We did registered them but find that the camp is usually not open when we stop by to check them out during the week. The kid camp is located at the front of the ship so the wave motion is a little bit more noticeable which our youngest does not like.
We did run into a minor problem on the 3rd day (Sunday) of the cruise. We returned to our cabins after lunch around 1pm to a very strong gasoline/fuel odor in our hallway and in our cabins. After contacting the cabin steward, a technician came to our room and told us he doesn't smell anything - at which point several other cabin occupants in our hallway pop their heads out to complain about the smell also. The technician in the orange jumpsuit then admitted to the strong odor and called some officers in white uniforms to investigate. After about 15 minutes, we were told that a crew was painting the AC room, and that the smell should disipate within an hour or so. We left and came back in about 2 hours so that our children can take a nap, but the smell was even stronger than before, and we did not see anyone working to get rid of the strong odor. Some people in our hallway with balcony cabins had their cabin and balcony doors prop open to air out their room - we could not do this as our cabins were inside cabins. We went into our cabins so the kids can nap, but the fuel smell was overpowering and the kids complained of lightheadness. We tried to called the cabin steward several times from our cabin but no one answered so we proceeded down to the guest service desk. At the desk, an attendant acknowledged our complaint and said that the problem has been fixed and that we should stay out of the cabin for another couple of hours until the smell cleared. He was very dismissive and abrupt with us. So after dragging the two kids around for a couple more hours we return the the hallway and our cabin - again, it was in the same condition as before. At this point, the occupants of about 6 other cabins in our hallway were fed up and went to the Guest Service desk together and demanded some actions from the Cruise Director. As a group of about a dozen people, were promised that air ionizers will be placed in our rooms to clear the odor out. They proceeded to do this about 30 minutes later. We then went to dinner (early seating at 6pm)with the hope that the problem be resolved once we get back. Apparently, the ionizer helped and most of the smell was gone. There was still a faint odor that we have to tolerate that night but much of the smell was gone by the next day.
I was very unhappy with the way the cabin steward and guest service dealt with our complains, and did not take any actions until they got a mob of more than a dozen people confronting them. I'm also unhappy that we were kept out of our cabins for 6+ hours because of the smell. Our kids were tired and wanted a nap but we have to drag them around the ship so we don't have breath the noxious air in our cabin.
This was our first cruise with Carnival, and beside the problem described, we were very happy with most other aspects of the cruise. We would sail with them again with the hope that any problem would be resolved in a more timely manner. Less
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Today, it's hard for IPO investors to think of anything but Groupon (NASDAQ:GRPN). But you shouldn't miss some other interesting news items. For example, Zynga filed another amended S-1. In it, the company disclosed that revenues for the third quarter came to $306.8 million, up 80% over the past year. However, net income was only $12.5 million, which compares to $27.2 million in the same period a year ago. In fact, the online game maker posted a profit of $42.9 million in the fourth quarter of 2010.
True, Zynga has been ramping up marketing expenses and recently built a fancy new headquarters. The employee count is also 2,789 (Silicon Valley engineers don't come cheap).
Yet, a more compelling reason may account for the drop-off in profitability: Facebook.
Why? To get some insight on this, I talked to Gene Hoffman this morning. He created eMusic in the late 1990s and now operates Vindicia, which develops billing systems for online properties (such as the social games Zynga is famous for).
Hoffman thinks Facebook's Credit system has become a big drag on the bottom line for Zynga. Typically, a partner must pay Facebook a third of the gross revenues it receives for each transaction. And indeed, Zynga reported in its latest S-1 that it also pays this percentage — even though it operates at such large scale on Facebook. But even at this level, certainly a big chunk of change goes out Zynga's door.
Tom Taulli runs the InvestorPlace blog IPO Playbook, a site dedicated to the hottest news and rumors about initial public offerings. He is also the author of "All About Short Selling" and "All About Commodities." Follow him on Twitter at @ttaulli. As of this writing, he did not own a position in any of the aforementioned stocks.


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Zags defense looks to continue hot start against Davidson
Sat., Nov. 24, 2012, 9:14 p.m.
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – The sample size is small, but statistics reinforce that Gonzaga's defense has been big in the team's 5-0 start.
Some numbers to chew on. Shooting percentages of GU's last four opponents: West Virginia, 27.3; South Dakota, 33.9; Clemson, 31; Oklahoma, 32. Three-point shooting percentages: Southern Utah, 23.5; West Virginia, 11.5; South Dakota, 35.7; Clemson, 27.3; Oklahoma 31.3.
GU opponents have nearly twice as many turnovers (90) as assists (46).
"We just guard as a unit," senior forward Elias Harris said following the Zags' 72-47 rout over Oklahoma on Friday. "Everybody is doing their jobs, everybody is in the gaps."
The 17th-ranked Bulldogs held Oklahoma and Clemson below 50 points en route to the championship game at the Old Spice Classic where they will face Davidson on Sunday. The Wildcats (3-2) pose the toughest challenge yet for Gonzaga's defense.
Davidson makes 45 percent of its shots, nearly 40 percent of its 3s, 77 percent of its free throws and averages 76 points per game.
"We've played two very athletic teams that can present a lot of problems athletically on the glass and with pressure defense," Gonzaga coach Mark Few said. "Now you play a team that still plays really physical but they do some other things that make it tough, and they're extremely skilled. They spread you out and can hurt you in a lot of different ways."
Forward De'Mon Brooks is averaging 18.2 points and has attempted 34 free throws in five games. Other options include Southern Conference preseason player of the year Jake Cohen (11 ppg.), guard JP Kuhlman (13.3) and 6-foot-7 guard Chris Czerapowicz (11), whose 3-pointer with 45 seconds left helped Davidson hold off West Virginia in the semis.
Few is justifiably concerned with the Wildcats, but he likes what he's seen so far from GU's defense.
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Career Services, Academic Exchange and the Activities and Housing offices have moved to Hendrickson Building 201. Visit Steve, Marsha, Tish, Anna-Mariah in their new digs. The phones have not changed, and the mail carrier will continue to deliver to using MO3.
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More buses and improved services for Green Bay, Titirangi
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More buses and improved services for Green Bay, Titirangi area
Auckland Transport has released its decisions for the bus network in Green Bay, Blockhouse Bay, Wood Bay, French Bay, Tanekaha, Titirangi, Laingholm, Kaurilands and Glen Eden.
This follows public consultation carried out in late 2013 which resulted in 453 submissions. The consultation report is available for viewing at www.at.govt.nz/greenbay
For customers it will mean better service frequencies, more trips throughout the day including evenings and weekends and more frequent services between Titirangi and New Lynn.
There will only be nine route numbers to remember instead of the current 26, making the timetable simpler and easier for customers to understand. Other changes include:
• New Lynn is to become a key interchange. More local services will connect with trains and buses at New Lynn for journeys to the city and other destinations. Connections between bus and train have been timed to allow passengers to transfer easily.
• A new route linking Titirangi Village to Glen Eden shops and the train station has been created.
• Bus services between New Lynn and Titirangi have also been upgraded. Buses are timed for every 30 minutes, seven days a week, between 6am and 10pm. This is an improvement on current bus services, which run only at odd times and can be up to 2 hours between some services.
• An express service has been retained in Titirangi, Glen Eden and Laingholm. Other express services have been removed because they were not well utilised
Public Transport Network Manager, Anthony Cross says "of the 11 routes proposed in the consultation we are making changes to four of them.
"These are some 'quick win' measures as we move the bus network towards the New Network philosophy which is being rolled out across Auckland.
"Together with service operators we're looking to implement these changes by early August ahead of the wider New Network consultation for West Auckland.
"New timetables will be available some weeks before any changes are made. We want to give our customers time to familiarise themselves and will carry out an education campaign beforehand to ease them into the change."
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 10.1041 Monday, 21 June 1999.
Date: Friday, 18 Jun 1999 12:20:40 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: 10.1031 Re: Future of the Classics
Comment: Re: SHK 10.1031 Re: Future of the Classics
"Memorizing the Classics"
Hm. Innarestin'. It is of course one byproduct [dreadful word, isn't it?
From pigs' offal, I suppose...] of the Me society we are still
floundering in, bemused by our Lotos-Blossom daze, that our students are
so seldom encouraged to "learn by heart" much more than their telephone
numbers and the location of the slide-rules and calculators, as if
committing lines to memory would in some dire way interfere with their
creative potential by submitting themselves to the demon lovers of
Rather than provide anecdotal instances from my own childhood and thus
invite sneers, I shall just say that I have always found the ability to
quote accurately and well to be one of the distinguishing
characteristics of anyone, of any culture and background, who rightly
calls herself cultured. To have been thoroughly ravished in the biblical
sense of "known" by a work of heart is to have some of it in our
bloodstream. I really do think that too many of us who teach Shakespeare
have been, well....insufficiently buggered and biggered by the bard.
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Just as Republicans are split over Common Core education standards, Democrats have been divided on the issue of charter schools.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat who took office at the start of the year, has been accused of conducting a war on charter schools. Teachers unions, reliable Democratic strongholds, oppose them.
But de Blasio's governor and fellow Democrat, Andrew Cuomo, is pro-charter. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a former adviser to President Barack Obama, supports charters as well. And charter schools have been welcomed by Obama's Education Department, headed by Secretary Arne Duncan.
If you want a further example of the split personalities and unusual alliances in the education debate, note that Duncan also is a strong supporter of Common Core. That puts him on the same side as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups, as well as former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a Republican. That also situates him on the opposite side of teachers unions and their unlikely allies, Republicans, who, like our own Gov. Bobby Jindal, have turned away from Common Core.
Now the divisions among Democrats seem to have sharpened.
Democrats for Public Education was formed recently, headed by former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and Kenner native Donna Brazile, vice chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. On its Facebook page, which seems to be the organization's only Internet presence at the moment, the group says, "Every child deserves access to a high-quality public education, and we're ready to fight to make sure that's a reality."
In a speech to a convention of the American Federation of Teachers, one of the nation's two major teachers unions, Brazile was more direct.
"The very premise of 'market-driven education reform' rests on the fallacy that the public school system is in crisis, and that the only solution is to let the market pick winners and losers," she said.
Such words as "market-driven" — and one that Brazile didn't use, "corporate" — are code used by foes of the charter school movement, which has been aided along the way with help from the likes of the Walton Family Foundation, created by the founders of Walmart; the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, created by the former Microsoft exec; and The Broad Foundation, created by KB Home co-founder Eli Broad.
Meanwhile, the unions are quick to note that a pro-charter group, Democrats for Education Reform, was founded by hedge-fund operators.
The opposition to charters was heightened by a recent ruling by a California Superior Court judge that wiped out teacher-tenure rules, a form of job protection for educators.
Charter schools don't have tenure protection anyway, since the private organizations that operate charters aren't bound by those rules. But the California judge ruled that teachers in traditional public schools have no right to tenure either.
The fact that Obama's Race to the Top education initiative already was trying to weaken tenure rules — and is charter-friendly as well — made the court ruling even more galling for the unions.
New Orleans has the only all-charter public school system in the country. Though there have been some complaints about it, the system appears to be solidly entrenched, especially since education is controlled mostly by pro-charter state officials.
But that doesn't mean we won't see those national-level divisions ratcheting up the local controversy. Wherever it takes place, the fight may be fierce.
Democrats for Education Reform Executive Director Joe Williams issued a curious one-sentence statement in response to the creation of Democrats for Public Education. Apparently foreseeing a survival-of-the-fittest battle of ideas, he said, "Welcome to the jungle, baby."
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Mozilla considers TV and movie ad campaign
With the competition to find the best creative ideas to help advertise its aims in full swing, the Mozilla Foundation has revealed that it may screen a Firefox advert on national television or in cinemas.
The organisation is currently running the Firefox Flicks Ad Contest, which is inviting professional, student and aspiring filmmakers to create "innovative, broadcast-quality 30-second commercials" for the open source browser. When the contest ends on the 14 April the panel of judges from the film, television and advertising industries will pick the winning entries.
Asa Dotzler, the community coordinator at the Mozilla Foundation, told ZDNet UK in an interview on Tuesday that the Foundation may screen some of the adverts on television or in cinemas.
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Scream 3 - New Guiboche Fan Trailer
Hey all! :big grin:
Here's my latest efforts into the genrť of fan made trailer editing (if that even is a genrť
This time comes a full trailer for the movie Scream 3.
Some notes on the trailer:
- The sequence beginning 33 seconds into the trailer is a homage to the Scream 2 trailer.
- The sequence beginning at 53 seconds is a homage to the full Scream 3 trailer.
- The ending film flipping/burn effect was inspired by the full "Dawn of the Dead" trailer, and as well, the full trailer for "Wes Craven's New Nightmare (and not to forget Gremlins 2 either

Anyhow, download the trailer if you wish, and thanks again to JP (you know him, the cool dude who runs this place and Dan "R0B0DAN" for many helps and tips he gave along the way :big grin:
So here's the trailer already :big grin:
Scream 3 - Fan Trailer (640x272) 28.1 Megs
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Pretty dang cool! This actually makes me want to get in line again and watch the movie! This is by far the best of ALL the Scream trailers, be it theatrical or not! Please, please, please - finish them off! Do Scream and Scream 2! You really have a gift for editing trailers!
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Yes, Scream & Scream 2 are DEFINITELY on my list to do trailers for! :big grin:
When and where I don't know. Soon I hope!
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That was AMAZING. The best one I've seen you do yet!
Seriously... if this was used in the actual marketing campaign, I would have praised it. The fact that it's fan-made, makes it that much better!
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wow, cool trailer, how you do that film burn at the end?
as usual crap movies get cool trailers....hahaha
you should make a "comedy" trailer coz this one shows it as if it's a "serious" movie...lol
damn i recently saw this movie and I already forgot the killer... was it the mother?
Hey! This movie isn't that crappy. And the first 2 Scream movies where good
And for the record, the film burn effect isn't a plugin (because a few people asked/assumed it was
The film burn effect was done all inside After Effects. The "film flipping" was achieved by randomizing the "Directional Blur" filter vertically and flipping the video using the "Offset" filter. The actual burn itself is a combination and mixture of fractal noise and displacement mapping. "Cuastics" simulation filter was used to bend/push/bulge the film as though it were burning up. After about 7 layers later of sampling, displacing, fractal adjusting, this is what you get:

And then you watch it burn! :big grin:
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Man....did this trailer suck, or what!!!!! Totally unbelievable. Not enough Knife Thrusts! Pfft! What a waste!
Hahaha, well....all (bad) jokes aside. Out-freakin-standing my good man. I couldn't have done it better myself (nor would I ever be able to). You sly devil you...you make me want to watch these damn movies now! Ugh...can you believe it...marketing that actually worked on me! Holy Freakin Hell! Great work my friend! Makes it seem like the "Know-all, end-all" trailer for the Scream series!
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What are your other fan trailers?
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Fantastic. Oh and BTW, in the quick montage after the "who gets killed third?" line, do a frame by frame and you'll see Jay and Silent Bob at one point. Oh and I like the burn effect. Neat.
Of coures. Jay and Silent Bob are in the movie

Well, to date I've made these:
From newest to oldest:
Scream 3: Current Trailer
Child's Play 2: I didn't like the trailer at all. it's available at FanMadeTrailers
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation: One of my bests. It to is available on Movie-List. Click here. Scroll down for "Redux Edit."
In The Mouth of Madness: Another one of my favourites. A teaser trailer that is too available on Movie-List. Click here.
Species: This was my best trailer during the time of it's first release, but I feel it has shown it's age. Plus, I was still editing 100% in After Effects. Very conterproductive . Movie-List has this deep in their forum archive too. Click here.
Resident Evil: Apocalypse: A experimental All-Graphic teaser. It's not available online anymore.
Halloween: Resurrection: This trailer wasn't bad when it was released, but I don't like it at all anymore.
Halloween: Revelations: Another experimental All-Graphic teaser. It's not available online anymore.
Halloween 4: Even though this was only my second Fan Made Trailer, I believe it is still one of my bests. Not available online anymore.
Run Lola Run: My first venture into Fan Made Trailer editing. Though more of a montage then an actual trailer, it was a fun little edit that help me learn the evil program know as Adobe Premiere (I was still editing with Media100 at the time.)
That'd be all of them :big grin:
guiboche as i told ya yesterday 'great work'
when will we see a official edit from ya
****ing awesome!!!!!!
The only thing I don't like about the trailer is the knife sound.
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good job man. Makes me actually want to see the film again.
btw, trailergod, the killer was the director who turned out to be sydney's half-brother."Sacred cows make the best hamburgers." - Abbie Hoffman
Hey, no spoilers
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Ever hear of spoiler brackets, Lynch?
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Four teams in the field were picked to win their conference or conference division for this season. Hampton (MEAC), JMU (Colonial), Missouri State (Missouri Valley), and Toledo (MAC West) were all voted to finish atop their conference standings.
Playing in their first Preseason WNIT is DePaul, South Dakota State, UCF, and Utah Valley.
The Preseason WNIT features a three-game guarantee format. First-round games are played Friday and Saturday, Nov. 12-13. Second-round games will be played Nov. 14-15; semifinals will be Nov. 17-18; and the championship is set for Sunday, Nov. 21. Teams that lose in the first two rounds will play consolation games on the second weekend, Nov. 19-20. All games are hosted by participating schools, and sites are announced by the end of the preceding round.
In last year's Preseason WNIT, No. 3 ranked Ohio State, led by nationally recognized players Jantel Lavender and Samantha Prahalis, defeated Oklahoma State 93-72 on the way to a school record 31 victories.
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Treasury Suspends $12.6 Billion in Spending Projects, Axes Other Programs
U.K. Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander suspended 12 projects costing 8.5 billion pounds ($12.6 billion) announced by the previous government and cut completely other programs totaling 2 billion pounds.
Most of the money affects one contract, to supply search- and-rescue helicopters to the defense ministry and the Department for Transport. The 7 billion-pound project, which will now be reviewed, is with the Soteria group made up of CHC Helicopter Corp., Thales SA, Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, and Sikorsky, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. Deliveries under the planned 25-year deal were scheduled to start in 2012.
"These decisions will significantly relieve burdens on departmental budgets that will be significantly under pressure," Alexander told lawmakers in Parliament in London today. He said the contracts canceled "do not represent good value for money."
The announcement comes five days before Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne is scheduled to make an emergency budget speech in Parliament setting out measures to reduce Britain's record budget deficit.
Pre-Election Commitments
Alexander said that out of 34 billion pounds in spending commitments made by Gordon Brown's Labour government between Jan. 1 and the May 6 election, "we've had to cancel 2 billion pounds and put 9 billion into the spending review."
Prime Minister David Cameron accused Brown of using his final months in office to target spending at electoral districts Labour looked as if it might lose.
"We're going to have to take difficult decisions, and we're going to have to start with decisions the previous government made as it was getting close to the election," Cameron told a news conference today after talks with European leaders in Brussels.
In May the Treasury said that the rate at which ministers overruled their aides to push ahead with spending projects had risen almost tenfold in Labour's final year in office.
Alexander told Parliament that Labour ministers had relied on potential underspending in their budgets to fund some projects when "there was no reason to suppose there would be underspends." He cancelled 1 billion pounds of such projects.
"Billions are underspent each year," Labour Treasury spokesman Liam Byrne said in reply.
Sheffield Forgemasters
Labour lawmakers expressed outrage that an 80 million-pound loan for Sheffield Forgemasters Ltd. to make components for nuclear power plants had been canceled. The money was announced in March by then Business Secretary Peter Mandelson. Brown visited the plant in Sheffield in the final hours before the election.
"The Sheffield Forgemasters proposal was never just about aid to one company," said Labour business spokesman Pat McFadden. "It was about the U.K. having an ambition to be a success in the growing world supply chain in civil nuclear power. It would have given Britain the ability to make key components for the nuclear and other industries that currently have to be sourced from outside Europe."
Alexander said the government would help the company find private investment.
The chief secretary accused Labour of irresponsible expenditure, repeatedly quoting the letter Byrne left for his successor, which read simply: "There's no money left."
A YouGov Plc poll this week found that 48 percent of respondents blamed Brown's administration for current spending cuts, with 17 percent blaming Cameron's coalition government of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. YouGov questioned 1,435 British adults for The Sun newspaper on June 13-14. No margin of error was given.
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The fibula is one of the two bones which make up the lower leg (humans), or back leg in tetrapods. The other one is the tibia. Above them is the knee and femur; below are the feet. Muscles are attached to the top of the fibula which help move the knee. It is also used to support the knee and the tibia.


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Don't stop marketing when business gets tough — however this is not the time to waste money either. The problem that many of us have is when we review our marketing and advertising budgets, we are very quick to slash and cut saying, "It's not working anyway. So why throw away good money?" That thinking has been the beginning of the demise of many a business. Let's not forget the name of the game is brand building and brand recognition to become the preferred resource or supplier. Marketing isn't a quick fix remedy. It takes time to build.
Your strategy should be to increase your marketing efforts but spend less. A slowing economy becomes the time to get back to less expensive basics. Here are four cost–saving ideas that have plenty of "bang for the buck".
Now is the time to make sure you're getting the most out of every customer. Consider conducting a simple survey; it may reveal acres of diamonds in your own back yard. Surveys help you analyze what every customer buys from you, and what other goods or services they might need (and buy) from you.
If customers aren't buying, ask why and then address their concerns. Please don't send out a survey form to all of your customers. Personalize the procedure with either a face–to–face or telephone interview.
This survey alone should produce some nice increases because you will start to uncover customers' needs, wants, and capabilities to purchase goods or services. The basic rule is the more you know about a customer, the easier it is to sell them.
Let's face it, most of our business comes from referrals and today there are more opportunities than ever before from organizations such as chambers of commerce, trade associations, and BNI (Business Network Incorporated). The sole purpose of BNI, for example, is to share referrals with other members. The group meets weekly for 90 minutes and the business that comes out of this meeting can be astonishing (plus they have fun too!). The key to networking is to always have an attitude of giving or helping someone out and it will all come back to you.
The key over–riding point in marketing during the threat of recession is our ability to adjust our attitudes and be flexible.
Great copy is what makes a great direct mail piece work. Write a strong benefit–focused sales letter and you will be shocked at the results.
Running a three–quarter–page ad is just as effective as a full–page ad. Running radio ads every other week as opposed to every week is still a powerful campaign. Don't stop — just cut back. Very few customers will notice the difference.
The key over–riding point in marketing during the threat of recession is our ability to adjust our attitudes and be flexible. The world isn't coming to an end — we are merely being offered a new set of marketing challenges and opportunities. Many of your competitors will choose to eliminate marketing efforts. This provides a wonderful opportunity for your marketing message to get through to your customer. It's not the time to stop — it's the time to get creative. Remember, continuing to advertise and market during this downturn will help position your company for continued success when the economy rebounds.


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Mechanisms of self-destruction are difficult to reconcile with evolution's first rule of thumb: survive and reproduce. However, evolutionary success ultimately depends on inclusive fitness. The altruistic suicide hypothesis posits that the presence of low reproductive potential and burdensomeness toward kin can increase the inclusive fitness payoff of self-removal. The bargaining hypothesis assumes that suicide attempts could function as an honest signal of need. The payoff may be positive if the suicidal person has a low reproductive potential. The parasite manipulation hypothesis is founded on the rodent—
Evolutionary theory is typically concerned with explaining life. Within this framework, selection is expected to promote the evolution of various biological mechanisms that increase the individual's ability to avoid death. The evolution of mechanisms of self-destruction is more difficult to envision [
The estimated global burden of suicide is one million deaths per year, with a great inter-country variability [
Most of the research on suicidal behavior has been conducted in an atheoretical context. However, diverse theories of suicide have been proposed. Biological theories suggest that suicidal behavior results from the dual presence of a biologically based vulnerability and an activating psychosocial stressor [
Suicide and homosexuality are the two phenomena that have been most difficult to reconcile with evolutionary theory, as both directly affect human reproductive fitness [
Darwin postulated that variant traits are inherited by the offspring and that traits that are beneficial for survival and reproduction are transmitted to future generations at greater frequencies than alternatives. This process results in the following three products [
Evolutionary theorists stress the distinction between proximate and ultimate causation. Proximal causation explores how the mechanism works, whereas the higher-level ultimate causation explores why the phenomenon exists. The purpose of evolutionary psychology is to provide clues on ultimate causation. As natural selection favors genes that increase the ability to survive and reproduce, this mechanism should promote the emergence and maintenance of selfish behavior. However, humans are social animals that evolved with a high level of cooperation. Some situations present choices between alternatives that are beneficial to an individual and alternatives that are less beneficial—or even harmful—to the individual but would nevertheless be beneficial if chosen by many individuals. Such alternatives characterize problems of social cooperation; selection of the latter alternative is generally considered to be altruistic [
Relatives often carry the same genes. Therefore, we can expect that a hypothetical gene that generates a behavior that increases the kin fitness at the expense the individual's own fitness will increase in frequency in the population. According to this fundamental principle of kin selection theory, at times, the fitness loss induced by the behavior can be compensated by an enhanced fitness of relatives. Kin selection is a special case of inclusive fitness, a more general principle that refers simply to the fact that identical gene copies are likely to be found in other subjects that are not necessarily kin [
The purpose of this narrative review is to present several non-mutually exclusive hypotheses that propose adaptive mechanisms that lead to suicidal behavior.
De Catanzaro developed a mathematical formula on the basis of the inclusive fitness theory and the concept of reproductive value to express the residual capacity of an individual to influence his inclusive fitness. This formula involves "the individual's remaining reproductive potential in his expected natural lifetime plus the summated impacts of his continued existence on the remaining reproductive potential of each of his kin, each weighted by the coefficient of relationship" [
Altruistic self-destructive behavior has been found in a wide variety of organisms, ranging from unicellular organisms [
Although culture and pathology clearly bear on human suicide, some of its emotional concomitants could reflect an erosion of self-preservative genetic expression in conjunction with low reproductive potential and burdensomeness toward kin [
It has been proposed that suicidal behaviors are costly cries for help that can be functional for those enmeshed in interpersonal conflicts [
Parasite-induced modifications of host behavior are known from a wide range of host-parasite associations [
Some parasites induce suicide-like behaviors in hosts [
The host-parasite system
Several experimental studies have shown that
The prevalence levels of
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Although burdensomeness to kin may provide a plausible explanation for some suicides among the elderly, it could be more difficult to accept that suicide may enhance the fitness of relatives in the case of a healthy adolescent. Instead, such suicides are likely to be non adaptive byproducts of evolved mechanisms that malfunction [
Psychological autopsies of suicide have shown that a context of mental disorder is present in the vast majority of cases. Some aversive states are the product of natural selection. For instance, pain, fever, nausea are known to be useful responses in some circumstances. Likewise, the aversiveness of negative emotional states can also be useful. Many adaptive functions have been suggested for low mood or depression: facilitating disengagement from unreachable responsibility, expressing a need for help, and signaling the act of yielding in a hierarchy conflict [
Prominent cognitive theories propose that negative cognitive biases, characterized by a tendency to preferentially process negatively valenced information, play a central role in depression [
Even without the specific cognitive bias found in depressive disorders, the emotional distress that accompanies most psychiatric disorders is likely to increase perceived burdensomeness to some extent.
Whose genes may benefit from the suicidal behavior?
|Kin's genes could benefit from the suicidal behavior of an individual imposing high burdensomeness and having low reproductive potential
|As burdensomeness is shared by social welfare, virtually no genes benefit from the suicidal behavior
|No genes directly benefit from the suicidal behavior. Suicide is a by-product of negative cognitive bias (overevaluation of perceived burdensomeness)
|No genes directly benefit from the suicidal behavior: no significant change in our current environment
|Ethnic group genes could benefit from a parochial altruistic suicidal behavior
|Ethnic group genes: no significant change in our current environment
|The suicidal individual's genes could benefit if the suicide fails and the help needed provided
|The suicidal individual's genes: no significant change in our current environment
|No genes directly benefit from the suicidal behavior. Suicide is a by-product of risk-taking
|No genes directly benefit from the suicidal behavior: however risk-taking is likely to be less beneficial to the genes involved in the western modern than in the ancestral ecosystem
|No genes benefit anymore from the suicidal behavior (some exceptions might occur in India and Africa *)
Severe physical disorders are obvious conditions in which burdensomeness is increased, especially when the disorders are chronic and disabling. According to the pathogen host defense theory, risk alleles for depression originated and have been retained in the human genome because these alleles promote pathogen host defense, which includes a suite of immunological and behavioral responses to infection [
One of the most robust patterns in suicide is that men commit suicide more frequently than do women [
Although not all of the accumulated findings on suicide are within the purview of evolutionary theory, many are congruent with Darwinian-based expectations. We have shown that some features are compatible with the view that suicide can have adaptive values. In particular, the altruistic suicide hypothesis proposes that when both poor reproductive potential and perceived burdensomeness are present, self-removal can increase inclusive fitness. This ultimate explanation of increased suicide rates observed with senescence, psychiatric disorders, physical disorders, and homosexuality is compatible with the interpersonal theory of suicide proposed by van Orden
Our economic and cultural landscape has evolved exponentially. Individuals cooperate on an increasing scale and rely less on kin than in the past. We believe that the social welfare developed in many countries dramatically altered the adaptive value of suicidal behavior, which can be understood today as a mismatch: following our environmental change, the adaptive value of suicide has mainly been lost (
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Henri-Jean Aubin has received in the last three years sponsorship to attend scientific meetings, speaker honoraria and consultancy fees from Pfizer (Paris, France), Lundbeck (Issy-les Moulineaux, France), D&A Pharma (Paris, France), and Merck-Serono (Lyon, France). Ivan Berlin has received during the last three years sponsorship to attend scientific meetings, speaker honoraria and consultancy fees from Pfizer Ltd. (Paris, France). Charles Kornreich declares no conflicts of interest.