Body length 75 cm; tail length 75 cm; weight 15 kg. Dark, thick-set wallaby. Back charcoal; belly orange; black 'robber's' mask; yellow face stripe; ears ginger at bases; black fore and hind feet; white tail tip.
Various habitats, including swamps, ferny gullies, open forests, woodlands, lantana thickets, heathlands and shrubby watercourses. Common. Eastern mainland Australia and south-eastern SA.
Isolation on Stradbroke Is has favoured the establishment of a golden colour phase which is particularly frequent on South Stradbroke and now sporadically recorded from the northern Gold Coast to the Nerang State Forest . No other local wallaby is as dark on the back or as ginger on the belly, or has a white-tipped tail; no similar species.
Droppings round and coarse (25 mm diameter); green grass is compressed into a long cigar shape (6 cm long by 18 mm wide).


Scientists have developed a new method for revealing how sea levels might rise around the world throughout the 21st century to address the controversial topic of whether the rate of sea level rise is currently increasing.
Lead author Dr Ivan Haigh, Lecturer in Coastal Oceanography at the University of Southampton, says: "Our results show that by 2020 to 2030, we could have some statistical certainty of what the sea level rise situation will look like for the end of the century. That means we'll know what to expect and have 70 years to plan. In a subject that has so much uncertainty, this gives us the gift of long-term planning.
"As cities, including London, continue to plan for long-term solutions to sea level rise, we will be in a position to better predict the long-term situation for the UK capital and other coastal areas across the planet. Scientists should continue to update the analysis every 5 to 10 years, creating more certainty in long-term planning -- and helping develop solutions for a changing planet."
"The measured sea levels reflect a variety of processes operating at different time scales," says co-author Dr Francisco Calafat, from the National Oceanography Centre. He adds, "One of the main difficulties in detecting sea level accelerations is the presence of decadal and multi-decadal variations. For example, processes associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation have a strong influence on the sea levels around the UK over multi-decadal periods. Such processes introduce a large amount of 'noise' into the record, masking any underlying acceleration in the rate of rise. Our study shows, that by adequately understanding these processes and removing their influence, we can detect accelerations much earlier."
Co-author Professor Eelco Rohling, from the Australian National University and formerly of the University of Southampton, adds: "By developing a novel method that realistically approximates future sea level rise, we have been able to add new insight to the debate and show that there is substantial evidence for a significant recent acceleration in the sea level rise on a global and regional level. However, due to the large 'noise' signals at some local coastal sites, it won't be until later this decade or early next decade before the accelerations in sea level are detection at these individual tide gauge sites."


This Oscar winner for Best Animated Feature follows Remy (voiced by Patton Oswalt), a rodent who dreams of becoming a top chef. Remy gets his chance by teaming up with a garbage boy at famed Paris restaurant Gusteau's, but he must be careful – rats are killed if caught in the kitchen. A voice cast including Ian Holm, Janeane Garofalo, Brian Dennehy and Peter O'Toole serves up a banquet of delicious performances. "A nearly flawless piece of popular art, as well as one of the most persuasive portraits of an artist ever committed to film." - A.O. Scott, The New York Times.
In this animated action-adventure, Helen (Holly Hunter) is called on to lead a campaign to bring Supers back, while Bob (Craig T. Nelson) navigates the day-to-day heroics of "normal" life at home with Violet (Sarah Vowell), Dash (Huck Milner) and baby Jack-Jack - whose superpowers are about to be discovered. Their mission is derailed, however, when a new villain emerges with a brilliant and dangerous plot that threatens everything. But the Parrs don't shy away from a challenge, especially with Frozone (Samuel L. Jackson) by their side. That's what makes this family so incredible.
"THE INCREDIBLES was everything that computer-generated animation had trouble doing," noted writer-director Brad Bird of the challenges the action-adventure represented to his team at Pixar – but the end result was a blockbuster hit that earned Oscars for Best Animated Feature and Sound Editing. Craig T. Nelson and Holly Hunter provide the voices of Bob and Helen Parr, who live quietly with their kids in a Metroville surburb, until the arrival of the nefarious Syndrome (Jason Lee) prompts the Parrs to return to their previous identities as superheroes. Like the film's visual design, Michael Giacchino's retro-futuristic score has the feel of 1960s spy movies and comic books while remaining contemporary.


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A Girl and a boy to be published in Spain
The novel A girl and a boy has been sold to the Spanish publishing house Raspabooks. The publication will probably be in 2021 or 2022.The novel has been published in Denmark, Norway and Russia.
William Sidis novel sold to Spain
The perfect Life of William Sidis has been sold to the Spainsh publishing house Raspabooks. The publication will probably be in 2021 or 2022. The novel has been published in several European and Asian countries.
Nazi propaganda (free download)
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Download gratis et eksemplar af bogen her. Jeg har gennem årene skrevet en del om den nazistiske filmpropaganda. Målgruppen har været forskellig. Nogen har været til grundskolen og gymnasiet, nogen til det mere voksne publikum. Denne bog er mit speciale fra Film- og medievidenskab på Københavns universitet. Den er derfor nok mest egnet for universitetsstuderende eller folk der bare ikke kan få nok af lange fodnoter og analyser. Historisk baggrund:…
The little Savior – Den lille Frelser
An absurd comedy about Social Media. The little Savior (Den lille Frelser) is a satirical novel about Social media and celebrity culture. It's written under the pseudonyme Martin Bartholdy. The book is illustrated by cartoonist Jens Monrad. Read first chapters here (in Danish). The Little Savior is an absurd comedy about a time when the likes of SoMe are crucial and where people who can do nothing can become world…
William Sidis novel out in South Korea
The perfect Life of William Sidis is now published by the South Korean publishing group Moonhak Soochup Publishing Co., Ltd. / (주)문학수첩 The novel has been published in several European countries, and this is the first publication in Asia. Sidis spoke around 100 languages – but whether Korean was one of them is unknown. But as he learned the grammar of a new language in a week, he probably could…
Film options on Sidis novel sold
The Los Angeles and New York based movie production company, Ditlev Films, just acquired the options on the novel The perfect Life of William Sidis. The company's two seasoned executive producers Christian Ditlev and Dan Hoffmann are now looking for collaborations in the U.S film industry. The options acquired are for both motion pictures, TV and TV-serialisation. Dan Hofmann and Christian Ditlev have collaborated with companies like Focus Features, Universal Pictures,…
A girl and a boy published in Russia
Just out. A girl and a boy about a young couples loss of their children is published in Russia at the largest publishing house in the country, Eksmo – Издательство Эксмо. Read more about the novel here.
The William Sidis novel in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
The Swiss based publisher, Nagel Und Kimsche, a part of the large German publishing house, Hanser Verlag, now published The perfect Life of William Sidis. The german tale is, of course, Das Perfekte Leben des William Sidis. The book is now out in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Video trailer for "The Victims"
See the video trailer to the novel: The victims.
The Victims – a new novel
The new novel by Morten Brask is a story about a rape and how it destroys the life of the victims of the rapist – the woman and her boyfriend. One summer night in central Copenhagen a young lawyer is attacked. A stranger pulls her into a backyard and rapes her brutally. She manages to get home to her boyfriend in a state of shock. They file the rape to…
Sidis novel to be published in Turkey 2017
The Perfect Life of William Sidis is going to be published in Turkey in 2017. It is the Turkish publisher GOA Yayincilik that will bring the novel to Turkish readers. As William Sidis understood around 50-100 languages, chance is that he also knew Turkish. The perfect Life of William Sidis is sold to the French publishing house, Presses de la Cité, the Italian publishing house Iperborea and the Greek publishing…
Winner of Bottari Lattes Grinzani's literary award 2015
Morten Brask was the winner of Bottari Lattes Grinzanis literary award 2015 for the novel: "The Perfect Life of William Sidis" (La vita perfetta di William Sidis). The price ceremony took place at the medieval Cavour castle near Torino, where the Bottari Lattes Grinzane foundation has been awarded Italien and internation writers since 1982. The award is dedicated to discover innovative works of fiction. The finalists were Novita Amadei, Dentro c'è…
New book on Nazi cinema
The films of evil is a non-fiction book about the antisemitic nazi cinema. Inside it you find a very thorough analysis of the notorious and extremely hateful films "Jew Süss" and "The eternal Jew". The book also describe the roots and nature of Hitler's and other leading Nazis' anti-Semitic world view — and how it was conveyed in the films And how the Nazi regime step by step ruled out…
Sidis Novel finalist to it's 3rd Italian literary prize
"La vita perfetta di William Sidis" is a finalist to Premio letterario Bottari Lattes 2015. The latest winners are Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano and Martin Amis. The jury's motivation: The novels were selected on the basis of their literary value and representativeness of the most lively and original trends of contemporary fiction. "The books represent a high standard of Italian and foreign fiction for both the quality of writing…
Sidis novel nominated for another Italian literary prize
LA VITA PERFETTA DI WILLIAM SIDIS by Morten Brask and translated by Ingrid Basso (Iperborea 2014) is among the five nominees for the Italian literary prize "PREMIO LETTERARIA". The translator, Ingrid Basso is the nominated for best translator of 2014. About the nomination and the prize Premio Letteraria
Brask awarded "Edoardo Kihlgren" prize for European literature
The Italian version of Morten Brask's The perfect Life of William Sidis has been awarded with the first prize of Edoardo Kihlgren opera prima per la letteratura europea in Milan 2014. The novel, now in second edition, is published in Italy by Iperborea. The translator into Italian is Ingrid Basso. The literary award "Premio Edoardo Kihlgren Cariparma for European literature" and the Khilgren award the best Italian literary debut of…
Sidis novel published in Italy
The perfect Life of William Sidis is now out in Italy. It's translated by Ingrid Basso and published by the Milano-based publishing house, Iperborea. Read about the novel in English here The novel has been awarded the Italian "Edoardo Kihlgren prize for European literature 2014" Read about the prize here It is nominated for the Italian Premio Letteraria 2014 Read about the prize here The book has received a good…
Good Will' Sidis out in France
The novel about the prodigy William Sidis "The perfect Life of William Sidis" is released in France june 2013. Titled "La Vie parfaite de William Sidis" it is translated by Caroline Berg and published by Presses de la Cité. Read about the novel in English here From the French back cover Dans son deuxième roman, Morten Brask retrace le destin passionnant et tragique de William James Sidis (1898-1944), considéré comme…
The Sea in Theresienstadt republished
The Sea in Theresienstadt (Havet i Theresienstadt) was published in Denmark 2007 and in 2011 in France (Terezin Plage). It's been sold out for two years in Danish bookstores, but in april 2013 Politiken Publishers are going to reissue the novel in Denmark with a new cover. Read about the novel here. The novel was nominated for the Prix du Roman Fnac and shortlisted for the Prix du Chapitre européen 2011. At…
Sidis novel published in Greece
The perfect Life of William Sidis was published in december 2012 in Greece by the major publishing house, Kedros Publishing, based in Athens. The novel is translated by Leo Kalyvornas. Read about the novel in English here
Novel on William Sidis in English translation
World's first novel on the famous child prodigy William Sidis – The perfect life of William Sidis – is in the process of being translated into French, Italian and Greek. Now the novel is being translated into English by American translator Mark Mussari, ph.D in Scandinavian Languages and Literature from University of Washington and writer of books on Murakami, Amy Tan, Shakespeare and popular culture. Read the first English translated chapters…
The perfect Life of William Sidis to be published in France, Greece and Italy
William Sidis himself never travelled outside the United States during his lifetime. Now he is going to Europe. The perfect Life of William Sidis is sold to the French publishing house, Presses de la Cité, the Italian publishing house Iperborea and the Greek publishing house Kedros. Publishing houses in other countries are in the process of reading the book. The book is going to be translated into English during 2012….
The Sea in Theresienstadt out in France
The Sea in Theresienstadt (Havet i Theresienstadt) was published 2011 in France by the Paris located publishing house, Presses de la Cité. In French the novel is titled Terezin Plage, beautifully translated into the French by Caroline Berg. Even before its publication the novel was nominated to Prix du Roman Fnac and Prix Chapitre du roman Europeen. Terezin Plage has been well received in France and is now also distributed by the French Bookclub. In…
Download books by William Sidis
The once famous prodigy, William Sidis, wrote several books on various and often quite obscure objects. Here you can download two of Sidis' works. The Tribes and the States – Sidis revisionistic account about the North American natives from the era of the cro-magnons to the decalration of USA. The Animate and the Inanimate – a peculiar book about reversing the forces of Nature and thus going back to the…
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Here are just some of the many things I've written and, for the most part, had published. All of the things were published under my former name. Many of them I do not have the originals for so I cannot share the work with you but when I've been able to save it as a PDF or link to it, I have.


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The Rock movies ranked in order of ridiculousness – updated with Jumanji: The Next Level
Giant gorillas, muscle-breaking plaster casts and a real-life tooth fairy – this is Dwayne Johnson's films from least to most preposterous
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So ubiquitous over the course of the last 20 years that they had to name him thrice, no one does stupid quite like Dwayne Johnson, the man formerly known as The Rock and then, briefly, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. And his shifting aliases have nodded to the three different incarnations he's embraced over the years.
When he was just The Rock, eyebrow-raising breakout star of the 1990s WWF, he was deathly serious, an intense caricature of machismo who struck fear in any number of brawny men. By the time he was Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, he had transformed into the comic relief, the scene-stealing co-star of films like Get Smart and Be Cool.
But once he had dropped his old moniker entirely, for the more straight-forward "Dwayne Johnson", he had lost his mind, transforming into the undefeated king of the outrageous movie. Today Johnson is less a serious actor than a man synonymous with giant apes, gravity-defying leaps and Idris Elba with robot implants in his back.
To celebrate the release of Jumani: The Next Level, we've decided to rank his entire filmography from least to most ridiculous. So for every changing season and every shift of mood, you will have the perfect Johnson to kick back with.
Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous
1/32Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous
321. Gridiron Gang (2006)
Loosely based on the true story of the Kilpatrick Mustangs – a team comprising teenagers at a juvenile detention camp – Gridiron Gang would be more at home near the top of a list ranking Dwayne Johnson's most clichéd films than ridiculous.
31. Snitch (2013)
Snitch is an extremely straightforward action thriller with a lead character that ranks as Johnson's most believable: a father who goes undercover for the DEA to free his son who's imprisoned after being framed for drug dealing. The film was actually inspired by a documentary on new federal drug policies designed to encourage felons to snitch on their accomplices.
30. Walking Tall (2004)
A former US soldier who takes matters into his own hands after returning home to find his town overrun by crime is perhaps the role Johnson was born to play. Because of this, it ranks fairly high on the believability scale – seeing The Rock smash cars to pieces with a baseball bat is pretty tame compared to his actions in recent films.
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29. The Other Guys (2010)
Johnson makes a hilariously brief cameo in Will Ferrell/Mark Wahlberg buddy comedy The Other Guys, which kicks into gear when the pair are forced to replace the NYPD's superstar detective duo of Johnson and Samuel L Jackson. Veritable action heroes on the New York streets, they are cocky, revered and incredibly expensive, costing the city millions of dollars in property damage every time they hit the beat. But because The Other Guys generally takes place in reality, Johnson and Jackson's characters end up smack-down dead on concrete, riding high on their own confidence, after a foot chase spins out of control. It's comic genius, and a Dwayne Johnson movie has never been more real.
28. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2018)
Incredibly successful Jumanji reboot Welcome to the Jungle has its fair share of nuttiness, Johnson and his cohorts Jack Black, Karen Gillan and Kevin Hart fending off rhinos, hungry hippos and angry militia men. But it's also set entirely in a video game, Johnson embodying a fictional action hero avatar known as Dr Smolder Bravestone, and therefore resistant to such typically important factors as "rules" or "logic". It's basically believability Kryptonite.
27. Be Cool (2005)
Otherwise appalling whenever he's not on screen, Be Cool casts Johnson as a character whose absurdity has become increasingly less absurd as time has gone on. Back in 2005, casting Johnson as an aspiring actor desperate to make the big time, only to be ultimately rewarded with a starring role in a romantic drama titled Samoan Rendezvous alongside Nicole Kidman, felt ludicrous – but in light of how he has ascended the Hollywood ladder since, not so much. He also recreates a monologue from Bring It On, for what it's worth.
26. Jumanji: The Next Level
The zaniness ensues in Jumanji sequel, cleverly titled The Next Level, with Johnson and his gang – including Jack Black, Karen Gillan and Kevin Hart – caught up in antics involving mandrills, mercenaries and magic necklaces. Only slightly more ridiculous than the first installment for seeing Johnson impersonate a character played by Danny DeVito after he's sucked into the video game the film's largely set in.
25. Central Intelligence (2016)
Central Intelligence is big and broad as a comedy, its tagline ("Saving the world takes a little Hart and a big Johnson") every bit the indicator of the film's tone. But this vehicle for recurring co-stars Johnson and Kevin Hart is surprisingly authentic to their off-screen personas. Johnson plays a formerly obese school nerd who has grown into a wise and sensitive CIA agent – basically a fun-house mirror version of his transformation from high school turtleneck-wearer to A-list movie star.
24. Faster (2010)
A grimy and underrated action vehicle for Johnson, Faster marked his last stand as a vaguely (and trust us with this) chameleon-like actor, before he became "Dwayne Johnson" and developed a particular strain of tics and trademarks. He's a getaway driver known as Driver, hunted by a killer known as Killer, and in pursuit of a corrupt cop called Cop. The lack of names nods to classic Westerns, but if anything, this is true pulp fiction cinema, with a mood that's more noir and heightened than plain stupid.
23. Get Smart (2008)
Get Smart's existence as a film version of the classic spy series is what allows viewers to swallow the antics of its characters led by Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway. The extent of its ridiculousness is Carell's analyst being thrust into the field operative position after a terrorist organisation exposes the identity of all agents at the intelligence unit he works at. Beyond that, anything goes.
22. The Game Plan (2007)
Dwayne Johnson is, by all accounts, an incredibly nice guy. Even his minor political scandals are rectified within minutes with entirely acceptable apologies. But it makes parts like the one he plays in The Game Plan, that of a self-involved American football player uninterested in bonding with his long-lost daughter, particularly hard to believe. He bonds with her in the end, however – Madison Pettis's gap-toothed, lispy charm breaking through Johnson's harsh exterior per Disney family film tradition.
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21. GI Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Deadpool writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick were behind GI Joe: Retaliation, the oh-so-loud sequel to the film based on Hasbro's toy franchise. Johnson joined the cast as Roadblock, an artillery specialist who – you guessed it – saved the day and is set to return in a new crossover film with the Transformers.
20. Welcome to the Jungle (2003)
This old-school action-adventure – called The Rundown in the US – nods to the Dwayne Johnson of the future (hell, the title even predated his 2017 Jumanji reboot). It's a suitably zany jungle treasure hunt in the vein of Romancing the Stone. Christopher Walken is the bad guy, Rosario Dawson is the beautiful woman along for the ride and Seann William Scott, aka the Chris Pratt that should have been, is the comic relief, with Johnson troubled by explosions, car wrecks and very angry monkeys.
19. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)
The most ridiculous aspect of Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, a follow-up to the Brendan Fraser-starring Journey to the Centre of the Earth? Michael Caine as an eccentric grandfather who lives in a hut made from the wreckage of a ship. Everything else is pretty standard for a family adventure.
18. Race to Witch Mountain (2009)
Johnson is a Los Angeles taxi driver who inadvertently picks up two alien children that need to retrieve their spaceship and return home. Race to Witch Mountain is also a Disney movie, released smack-dab in Johnson's early "cutesy family film" phase and desperately unremarkable as a result.
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17. Doom (2005)
A film so silly that even Johnson has expressed his regrets about it, this (ahem) doomed adaptation of the popular video game saw him in boring Sylvester Stallone mode. He's the muscle in a team of scientists battling a zombie virus located in a portal to Mars discovered in the desert outside Vegas. It also (spoiler alert) builds to a highly unbelievable ending in which Johnson is overpowered and turned into a zombie but then thrown into the Mars portal by tiny hero Karl Urban. Puh-lease.
16. Southland Tales (2006)
Far and away the most bonkers film in Johnson's filmography but also his most interesting by proxy, Southland Tales only makes sense if you really, really want it to. He's an amnesiac action movie star entangled in a Republican Party conspiracy that involves neo-Marxist revolutionaries and something called the "the fourth dimension". It's also an oddly prophetic movie in how it depicts pornography, reality television and politics as overlapping and dependent on one another, and in the political aspirations of Johnson's character. When Johnson hinted in 2017 that he may one day run for office, it made Southland Tales seem that bit less absurd.
15. Baywatch (2017)
Why exactly are lifeguards investigating murders? It's a question you'll be asking throughout the big screen version of Baywatch, which is more smutty than the TV show ever was. One scene sees Alexandra Daddario's lifeguard tell a male colleague, played by Zac Efron, to look at her face instead of staring at her boobs. "I'm trying," he replies, "but it's so close to your boobs." Yikes.
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14. The Scorpion King (2002)
Beloved by anyone who was between the ages of 10 and 12 when it came out, The Scorpion King was Johnson's first starring role, and inexplicably decent considering the CGI eye-sore teaser it received in the earlier Mummy Returns. The Scorpion King is, naturally, swords-and-sandals cheese, with an array of sub-Indiana Jones set pieces including a memorable one involving Johnson being buried up to his neck in the ground and forced to squash a number of approaching fire ants with his chin. There's also a wacky camel sidekick, which only increases the enjoyable madness of it all.
13. The Mummy Returns (2001)
The Mummy Returns is Johnson's debut in a high-profile movie, and shamefully, he's overshadowed by an infamously horrid CGI version of himself, who also sports giant crab legs for some reason. Granted, this is less a cameo than a teaser for a Mummy spin-off, but it's a dismal use of a man who would quickly emerge as one of Hollywood's biggest stars.
12. Hercules (2014)
In Hercules, Dwayne Johnson leads a band of mercenaries comprising a king-turned-prophet named Amphiaraus of Argos, a knife-wielding thief known as Autolycus of Sparta and the Amazon archer Atalanta of Scythia. So, there we go.
11. Longshot (2001)
In 2000, boy band impresario and future convicted fraudster Lou Pearlman wrote romantic comedy film Longshot that would covertly serve as a promotional tool for teen-pop acts on the Jive Records label at the turn of the millennium. As a result, Britney Spears and *NSYNC are among the stars roped in to provide cameos. As for Dwayne Johnson, in his cinematic debut, he gets 15 seconds of screen-time as an armed mugger swiftly pummelled to the ground by a late-1990s dreamboat with a ponytail who looks like someone who was this close to becoming a member of O-Town. Believability rating: zero.
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10. Pain & Gain (2013)
Murder, kidnap, torture, extortion – it's hard to believe that Michael Bay's Pain & Gain is based on a true story by Pete Collins that was posted in Miami New Times in 1999. Well, that's because it's loosely based on real events with several of the film's key moments fabricated somewhat. Take, for instance, the scene in which Johnson's character robs an armoured truck and gets his toe shot off while escaping – entirely fictional.
9. Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
Most things are tamer than the fifth Fast & Furious film, but the franchise's sixth outing is not one of them largely thanks to a climactic scene that sees the crew tether their vehicles to a plane in order to stop it from taking off.
Johnson's character is mostly bedbound in Fast & Furious 8 so has to sit out most of the crew's hijinks, including a breathless sequence that sees them drop several cars from a plane while it's 10,000 feet in the air. Johnson is still handed the most ridiculous moment, though: watching his friends thrown into danger on a hospital television, he decides enough is enough and breaks out of his cast – by tensing his muscles.
7. Rampage (2018)
Rampage puts its plot forward so sincerely that, while watching it, you almost forget how ridiculous the whole thing is. Johnson plays primatologist Davis Okoye who must team up with an enormous albino gorilla to stop a mutated wolf and crocodile from wreaking destruction on the world.
6. Skyscraper (2018)
The one Dwayne Johnson movie just too absurd for audiences, in that it was one of his few box office bombs in recent years, Skyscraper descended new heights of improbability. Johnson's one-legged security guard is the Bruce Willis of this 255-floor spin on Die Hard, whose most sensational feat involves climbing a 96-story crane, running along its extension and then leaping into the burning skyscraper nearby that happens to have trapped his family inside. It gets believability points for recruiting Neve Campbell as Johnson's nicely age-appropriate wife, but otherwise is a logistical disaster. Mythbusters would need an entire season of episodes to get to the bottom of it.
With just one car chase, Fast & Furious 5 was the film that reinvented the franchise. Gone were the street races of the series' earlier instalments in favour of higher stake-storylines, such as the bank heist at the heart of this film. It culminates in one of the most entertaining sequences in action film history – the crew dragging a giant vault through the city of Rio and using it to take out the police cars chasing them.
4. San Andreas (2015)
Shortly after her sister-in-law Kylie Minogue plummets off the edge of a collapsing building, Carla Gugino clambers to safety by leap-frogging her way onto various pieces of falling debris until she manages to reach her ex (Johnson) in the helicopter he is piloting above her. It is somehow not the most ludicrous moment in the film. San Andreas takes a very believable disaster-movie scenario (the collapse of the San Andreas Fault), and then Dwayne Johnsons it. He's an agreeably solemn hero here (San Andreas is more Sans Quipping, in truth), but everything around him is peak insanity.
The writers of Fast & Furious, forced to outdo each other with every new film, threw two outlandish sequences into the eighth instalment. One involved a nuclear submarine (of course) and the other was a lengthy prison riot that tracked Johnson's character's escape from high-security lockup alongside Jason Statham's Deckard Shaw.
2. Tooth Fairy (2010)
When someone told Dwayne Johnson to become a household name by going down the family film route, he really listened. In 2010, he played a minor-league hockey player who, after telling his daughter that the tooth fairy doesn't exist, is sentenced to one week as the actual tooth fairy.
1. Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
One day, not too long ago, it would have been difficult to think that the Fast & Furious franchise would feature *ahem* Jason Statham in the co-leading role, a literal walking terminator (played by Idris Elba, no less) and Dwayne Johnson lassoing a helicopter with a chain from a moving truck... but here we are.
Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw is in cinema now
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Unit 2. English - Speaking Countries
I. Reading and Speaking. Great Britain
1. Read and learn the vocabulary:
bagpipe – волынка;
castle – замок;
climb – подниматься, взбираться;
coal – уголь;
coal-mining – угледобывающий;
differ from – отличаться от;
diverse – разнообразный, разный;
event – событие;
fabulous – легендарный, невероятный;
fertile – плодородный;
hospitality – гостеприимство, радушие;
landscape – ландшафт, пейзаж;
loch – шотл. озеро;
moorland – местность, поросшая вереском, вересковая пустошь;
plain – равнина;
porridge – (овсяная) каша;
responsible – ответственный;
steady – надежный, постоянный, установившийся;
tartan – клетчатая шерстяная материя, шотландка;
valley – долина;
witness – свидетель.
2. Read a short extract about English pubs and insert necessary prepositions.
over, in, on, to, for, after, by, of__________________________ For company and conversation the English go _____the pub. The cafes _____ England sell only coffee, tea and soft drinks You go ____ a cafe _____ a meal or a quick cup ____ tea, but not to sit and watch the world go ____ When you want to relax _____a day's work, you go ______ the local pub. Nearly everyone drinks beer. Most pubs ______ fact, have a piano and ______ Saturday night the customers may gather round it and sing The songs they sing are the same all _______ England. They are very easy to learn.
3. Translate into English. You will find all the underlined words in the active vocabulary list.
Название «Британия» происходит от названия одного из кельтских племен.
Одно из главных событий британской истории произошло в 55 году до н. э., когда Юлий Цезарь начал завоевывать Британию.
В Великобритании можно найти почти все виды ландшафтов: горные районы, плодородные равнины, вересковые пустоши, крутые берега.
Лондон - одна из самых красивых столиц мира, которая славится своим гостеприимством
В Бирмингеме есть несколько впечатляющих соборов и замок, построенный в XVI-м веке.
Все туристы, приезжающие в Шотландию, обязательно хотят послушать волынку и попробовать настоящий виски.
Многие шотландцы верят в существование невероятного чудовища, которое живет в озере Несс.
Ливерпуль – один из крупнейших портов мира Сегодня это большой и современный город с разноплановой (разнообразной) архитектурой.
4. Read the text and be ready for comprehension check-up.
Welcome to England, the land of fabulous and diverse landscape, mysterious castles, witnesses to many historical events, charming nature and wonderful hospitality. If one wants to sum up the British character, the most suitable word to use is steady. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland with an area of some 244000 square miles is situated on the British Isles which are separated from the European continent by the North Sea, the Strait of Dover and the English Channel The UK is a monarchy: the head of the state is a king or a queen. In practice the Sovereign reigns, but it doesn't rule: the UK is governed by the Government – a body of Ministers who are the leading members of the political party in power and who are responsible to Parliament. The present Sovereign is Queen Elizabeth II.
Scotland is the land of mountains lost in clouds, wild moorlands, narrow valleys and plains, famous lochs and numerous islands off the coast. It is the land of Robert Bums, tartans, bagpipes, porridge and Scotch whisky. One third of its people live in or near its capital, Edinburgh, and its great industrial center, Glasgow.
The smallest of Britain's countries is Wales. The larger part of Wales is covered with rocky mountains which are very difficult to climb Most of its inhabitants live in coastal plains, in the deep green valleys and in the coal-mining and industrial areas of South Wales.
The heart of Britain is England. It is the richest, the most fertile and most populated of the country. The north and the west of England are mountainous, but all the rest of the territory is a vast plain. In north-west England there are many beautiful lakes with green, wooded or grassy shores and gray mountains all around. It is called Lake District.
Great Britain is a highly developed industrial country. One of the leading industries in Great Britain is the textile industry. Coal, iron and steel, as well as various machines are also produced there. Shipbuilding and motor industry are highly developed too.
There are many industrial cities in Britain such as Birmingham and Sheffield (with big iron and steel works), Manchester and Liverpool (the biggest centers of textile industry), Cardiff and others. London, the capital city of the UK is one of the biggest commercial centers and ports of the world. It's also an important political, cultural and educational center. Other educational centers in Great Britain are Oxford and Cambridge with the world famous oldest universities. The total population of Great Britain today is about 59 million people. The official
language of the country is English, though in Wales people speak Welsh, which is different from English, while the Scottish dialect differs little from English. There are many other languages spoken in Britain, as it has become now a multinational state.
5. Answer the following questions and try to use as many details from the text as possible.
What word does the author suggest to use to sum up the British character? Do you agree? (Why or why not.)
What can be said about the political system of the United Kingdom?
What part of Britain is described as "a land of mountains, lost in clouds"? What is the name of the poet, who devoted many of his poems to this land?
Say a few words about each of Britain's four parts. Which one do you find to be the most interesting and attractive? Explain your choice.
What are the most highly developed industries in the country?
What important industrial and cultural centers do you know in Great Britain?
What languages are spoken in different parts of the country?
6. Read the following short texts about the most popular games in Britain:
Cricket developed in England over several centuries. As in soccer, there are numerous amateur clubs and school teams. First class professional cricket clubs represent counties and play three-day matches against each other. Cricket is an English game. It is played little in Scotland and Ireland and there is only one first class club in Wales. However, it has become immensely popular throughout the Commonwealth. Test matches are played between England, Australia, the West Indies, India, New Zealand, etc. In the late 1970s English Test cricketers began to earn "start'' salaries. Cricketers also began to wear helmets and thick padding around their chests to protect them against blows from the ball.
Football is the most popular team game in Britain. The British invented it and it has spread to every comer of the world. There is no British team. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland compete separately in European and World Cup matches. The English and Welsh clubs have together formed a League with four divisions. The Scottish League has three divisions. The champions of the English First Division and the Scottish Premier Division qualify to play in the European Cup competition.
7. Complete the following sentences using information from the texts:
Cricket developed in England ...
First class professional cricket clubs represent...
Test matches in cricket are played ...
English Test cricketers began to earn ... and to wear ...
Football is ... in Britain.
The English and Welsh League has ..., and the Scottish League ... divisions.
8. Complete the following text with the correct derivatives of the words given in brackets.
Britain's railway network has (recent) been experiencing a new kind of problem.
It is neither technical nor _____ (mechanic), but could, nevertheless, lead to ____ (injure) unless it receives immediate _______(attend). It appears that rabbits have been digging their holes under railway tracks, which ______ (fortunate) means that the tracks are at risk of collapsing. The _____(soft) of the earth under the tracks makes it a ______(suit) place for rabbits to dig their holes. Numerous areas have already experienced problems, causing delays to railway service.
II. Reading and speaking. The USA
attraction – привлекательность
coast – побережье
connect – связывать, соединять
custom – обычай
desert – пустыня
endless – бесконечный
exciting – захватывающий, волнующий
feature – черта
Grand Canyon – Большой Каньон
Great Lakes – Великие Озера
pot – горшок, котелок
melting pot – плавильный котел
plain – равнина; pi. прерии
rocky – скалистый
save – спасать, сохранять
scene – сцена, место действия
size – размер
skyscraper – небоскреб
2. Fill in the gaps in the text with the words given below.
seasons, Grand Canyon (2), tourist, long, plants, dry, animals, deep, years, size, forests
The 1_____is one of America's main 2_____ attractions. It is so big, that you must go there yourself to feel its true 3_____and beauty. The Colorado River formed the 4_____ over millions of 5_____. Today the canyon is one mile 6_____and 277 miles 7_____ . It's interesting that there are different kinds of 8_____and 9______on opposite sides of the canyon. The south side is 10_____and desert country. The north side has tall 11_____ The canyon looks different at different times of day, and in different 12_____and weather.
3. Read the text.
The United States o f America
The United States of America is a federal union of 50 states, with the District of Columbia as the seat of the national government. Two of these states, Alaska (the largest) and Hawaii (the smallest), are not connected to the other states. The US is washed by the Pacific Ocean in the west, by the Atlantic Ocean in the east, by the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico in the south. In the north are Great Lakes.
The US has almost every kind of weather. Also, it has many kinds of land – rocky coasts, dry empty deserts, powerful rivers, wide plains, lakes of all sizes, high mountains, forests, sunny beaches and lands of endless winter.
More than 250 million people live in the US. Americans have tried to save many of the most beautiful wild areas of the United States. There are a lot of parks, forests and wildlands where you can enjoy the beauty and power of wild America. The Grand Canyon, Yosemite Valley and Yellowstone are among the most famous.
Many rivers cross the United States. But the greatest is the Mississippi. Native Americans called it 'the father of waters'. The Mississippi has been an important waterway since early times, when native Americans traveled on the river in canoes. Among the other big rivers are the Colorado and the Missouri.
The United States is a young country. Its written history is only a few hundred years old. It is sometimes, in fact, called the 'New World'. Over the last four hundred years millions of people have come to start a new life in this 'New World'.
Americans are not afraid of new ideas. A typical feature of American scene is the skyscraper with more than 100 floors. The Sears Tower in Chicago, Illinois is the tallest. Americans have also put the first man on the Moon. They like to be modem They like exciting modern cities, new houses and new cars. In fact, it's a nation on wheels.
The people of the United States are a mixture of many different nationalities. Every American schoolchild learns that the US is the big 'melting pot' of countries. In a melting pot, different metals are melted together to make a new one. The United States is like a melting pot for people. In the past people from different European countries came to the US and made one country out of many. In one city you can find people whose parents, grandparents or great-grandparents came from China, Africa, South America, Southeast Asia and every European country. These different people brought to their new land a wonderful mixture of customs and traditions. The Germans brought Christmas trees. The Irish brought St. Patrick's Day celebrations. The Scots brought Halloween.
What can be said about the geographical position of the USA?
What is the population of the US?
Name the largest and the smallest states of the country. How many names of the American states do you remember?
What are the main rivers of the country?
Why is the US called the "New World"?
What is mentioned as the typical feature of American scene?
Why is it often said that the USA is a melting pot for people? Do you agree with it?
5. Read the following extract Divide it into paragraphs and punctuate it.
America's greatest holiday – Independence Day – takes place on the 4th of July on this day Americans celebrate the day in 1776 when the American colonies declared themselves free from British rule preparations begin about a week before the actual day red white and blue flags are hung on the public buildings and banners are raised all over the town as everyone waits anxiously for the big parade on the day of events spectators line the streets the thumping sound of drums can be heard as the marching band comes along first followed by boy scouts and girl scouts who march waving American flag police officers firefighters and local officials stride past while the crowd cheers enthusiastically.
6. A. Nowadays many people want to leave countries where they were born and to emigrate abroad. Imagine that you are taking part in writing a leaflet for people who want to leave for the USA. Your task is to give useful information about this country. Think what points it's necessary to include and which ones can be dropped out You can And the approximate plan below.
– geographical position
– climatic conditions
– population
– language
– nationalities living in the country
– characteristic features
B. What is your point of view on immigration/emigration? Do you think a person can feel at home in any other place except his/her home country? What are the general immigration trends in the modern world? Which country seems to be the most attractive one for the immigrants? Why? Which is the most difficult thing to get used to in a new country for you? Share your opinion.
Language Practice:
7. Which of the words below can you use to describe:
a) the buildings and architecture of a town? ___________________________
b) the atmosphere of a town? ____________________________
skyscraper, noisy, romantic, bridge, concrete, picturesque, cathedral, lively, fountain, exciting, square, old-fashioned, sophisticated, baroque, modem, busy, dirty, palace, sleepy, skyline, dangerous, industrial, wealthy, vertical, suburb, low, cosmopolitan, gothic, town hall, tall, tower, glass, big, block, hustle-and-bustle.
8. Find an odd word.
bear, deer, raven, squirrel, bison;
the City, Downtown, Westminster, the West End, the East End;
dull, boring, gloomy, perfect, dirty;
Boston, the Thames, London, Scotland, Cambridge;
Fortress, palace, castle, cathedral, skyscraper;
The Home Office, Treasury, the War Office, the post-office, the Admiralty.
9. Read the following sentences about Great Britain and the USA and translate the words in brackets.
The city of Oxford is home to the most famous university in the world. It is a 1_____ (идеальное) place to study and it is among the finest in Europe.
Warwick is a 2_____(место) where the famous castle stands above the waters of the River Avon.
If you are 3_____(направляетесь) to the Tower of London, you will certainly see the (ворон) black which are among its most famous sights.
n some American cities past and present come together and make a 5_____(смесь), that's hard to find anywhere in the Old World.
You can 6____ (изучить) a huge skyscraper in Downtown San Francisco and see the reflection of an ancient church in its glass walls.
1. Use Past Simple of the verbs given in brackets.
Tom isn't playing tennis tomorrow afternoon, he ___________(not/ play) tennis yesterday.
We generally have lunch at 12.30, but yesterday we ___________(have lunch) later.
Now my brother smokes a lot, but he _____________(not/ smoke) before.
The Smirnovs live in a four-room apartment, but last year they __________(live) in a small house in the country.
I don't eat meat at all, but the other day I visited my friends and __________(eat) pork there.
My Dad always goes to work by car, but last week he ___________(go) to work on foot.
2. Use Present, Past or Future Simple of the verb "to be".
My father _______ a teacher.
He _______a pupil twenty years ago.
I ________ a doctor when I grow up.
My sister _______ not at home tomorrow.
She _________at school tomorrow.
______you______ at home tomorrow?
______your father at work yesterday?
My sister _______ ill last week.
She _______ not ill now.
Yesterday we_______at the theatre.
3. Use Present Continuous of the verbs given in brackets.
The old man ____________(to walk) about the room.
I _____________(to do) my homework.
John and his friends ____________(to go) to the library.
Ann _____________(to sit) at her desk. She ___________(to study) geography.
A young man ___________(to stand) at the window. He ___________(to smoke) a cigarette.
The dog ____________(to lie) on the floor.
______you ___________(to have) a break?
What language _____you__________ (to study)?
4. Use Present Simple or Present Continuous of the verbs given in brackets.
I ____________(to read) books in the evening.
I _____________(not to read) books in the morning.
I ______________(to write) an exercise now.
I ______________(not to write) a letter now.
They _________________(to play) in the yard now.
They __________________(not to play) in the street now.
__________they _________(to play) in the room now?
He __________________(to help) his mother every day.
_________he ___________(to help) his mother every day?
He ___________________(not to help) his mother every day.
5. Use Present Continuous or Past Continuous.
I _____________(to write) an English exercise now.
I ________________(to write) an English exercise at this time yesterday.
My little sister ___________(to sleep) now.
My little sister __________(to sleep) at this time yesterday.
My friends ____________(not to do) their homework now. They _________(to play) volleyball.
My friends ___________(not to do) their homework at seven o'clock yesterday. They _________(to play) volleyball.
_______you ________(to eat) ice-cream now?
______you________(to eat) ice-cream when I rang you up yesterday?
What_____ your father_________ (to do) now?
What _______your father _________(to do) from eight till nine yesterday?
6. Use Past Simple or Past Continuous.
I ____________(to play) computer games yesterday.
I ____________(to play) computer games at five o'clock yesterday.
He __________(to play) computer games from two till three yesterday.
We ___________(to play) computer games the whole evening yesterday.
What _______Nick__________ (to do) when you came to his place?
What _________you__________ (to do) when I rang you up?
I _________(not to sleep) at nine o'clock yesterday.
He ____________(to sit) at the table the whole evening yesterday.
7. Change the tense of the verbs into Present Perfect.
I am eating my breakfast.
We are drinking water.
He is bringing them some meat and vegetables.
You are putting the dishes on the table.
They are having tea.
She is taking the dirty plates from the table.
The children are putting on their coats.
Use Present Perfect or Past Simple.
I already ______________(to do) my homework. Now I can go for a walk.
I ____________(to do) my homework yesterday.
He_________just ________(to come) home.
He __________(to come) home a minute ago.
Nick__________ (to play) football yesterday.
She____already______(to come) from school. Now she is doing her homework.
I ____________(to read) this book last year.
I __________(to read) this book this year.
I _________never_________ (to be) to Washington.
________you ever ___________(to be) to New York?
________you ever_________ (to see) the eruption of a volcano?
I ____________(not yet to eat) today.
9. Use Past Simple or Past Perfect.
When I ______(to come) home, mother______already_______ (to cook) dinner.
When father _____(to return) from work, we _____already______ (to do) our homework.
When the teacher __________(to enter) the classroom, the pupils ______already_____ (to open) their books.
Kate _______(to give) me the book which she ________(to buy) the day before.
Nick_______ (to show) the teacher the picture which he_______(to draw).
The boy ________(to give) the goats the grass which he __________(to bring) from the field.
Mother ______(to see) that Nick _________(not to wash) his hands.
The teacher _________(to understand) that Lena _________(not to do) her homework.
I __________(to know) that my friend __________(not yet to come).
Tom __________(to return) from the cinema at five o'clock.
Tom __________(to return) from the cinema by five o'clock.
I ____________(to finish) my homework at seven o'clock.
10. Complete the sentences using Present Simple, Past Simple, Future Simple; Present Continuous, Past Continuous; Present Perfect, Past Perfect.
It was eight o'clock in the morning and time for me to go to work. I 1)_________(to look) out of the window. It 2) __________(to rain) hard. "You 3)_________ (to get) wet through if you 4)____________ (to go) out now," said my mother. I answered, "I 5)__________(to take) an umbrella." We 6)_________(to have) five umbrellas in the house, but when I 7)____________(to want) to take one, I 8)_________(to find) that there 9) _________(to be) not one that I could use: they all 10) __________(to be) torn or broken. So I 11) _______(to take) them all and 12) _________(to carry) them to the umbrella-maker, saying that I would call for the umbrellas on my way home in the evening. When I 13)______ (to go) to have lunch in the afternoon, it still 14)_________(to rain) very hard. I 15)_________(to go) to the nearest cafe, and 16)_________(to sit) down at a table. A few minutes later a young woman 17)_________(to come) in and 18) ________(to sit) down at the same table with me. When I 19) _________(to finish) my lunch and 20) ________(to be) ready to leave, I absent-mindedly 21) _______(to take) her umbrella and (to start) for the exit. She 22)_________(to stop) me saying that I 23)__________(to take) her umbrella. I 24)___________(to return) the umbrella with many apologies. In the evening I 25)_______(to go) to the umbrella-maker, 26)_______(to take) my five umbrellas and 27) ________(to get) on the tram to go home. It so happened that the woman I 28) _________(to meet) at the cafe 29)________(to ride) in the same tram. When she 30 _________(to see) me with my five umbrellas, she 31)_________(to say): "You 32) _________(to have) a successful day today, 33) _________(to have not) you?"
11. Use Present, Past or Future Simple Passive.
Bread __________ (to eat) every day.
The letter ________________(to receive) yesterday.
Nick_____________(to send) to Moscow next week.
I _______________(to ask) at the lesson yesterday.
I ______________(to give) a very interesting book at the library last Friday.
Many houses ______________(to build) in our town every year.
This work _________________(to do) tomorrow.
This text ________________(to translate) at the last lesson.
These trees ____________________(to plant) last autumn.
Many interesting games always ________________(to play) at our PT lessons.
This bone _________________(to give) to my dog tomorrow.
We ____________(to invite) to a concert last Saturday.
My question ______________(to answer) yesterday.
Hockey _______________(to play) in winter.
Mushrooms ____________(to gather) in autumn.
Many houses _____________(to burn) during the Great Fire of London.
His new book _____________(to finish) next year.
Flowers _____________(to sell) in shops and in the streets.
St. Petersburg ____________(to found) in 1703.
12. Change Active Voice into Passive.
E.g. Mother waters the flowers in the evening. — The flowers are watered in the evening (by Mother).
A marble pavilion protects the house.
The boys will paint the roof of the house.
Tom Sawyer whitewashed the fence.
Her daughters gave her three beautiful dishes as a birthday present.
Tom gave Nick a book for his birthday.
Our mother tells us stories every evening.
Lydia will show you a new book of pictures.
13. Put the verb in brackets in the correct tense.
One summer morning Meeks (come) 1)________from the West to New York to find his sister. She (be) 2)________ Mrs. Mary Snyder, a widow, aged 52, who (live) 3)__________for a year in a tenement house in a crowed district.
At her address somebody (tell) 4)_______him that Mary (move) 5)________away longer than a month before. No one (can/tell) 6)_______him her new address.
On coming out of the house Mr. Meeks (address) 7)________a policeman who (stand) 8)________on the corner, and (explain) 9)__________his difficulty to him. "I (recently/make) 10)___________a lot of money and I'd like to help Mary as soon as possible", he (add) 11)_________. The policeman (pull) 12)________ his moustache and (tell) 13)_________Meeks about Juggins. He (say) 14)_______ that Juggins (be) 15)_________ the leader of a new school detectives. "Juggins (solve) 16)_______some very difficult cases. I (take) 17)______ you to him", the policeman said.
"If I (find) 18)______your sister, you (pay) 19)_______ me two hundred dollars. I (try) 20)_______ to solve your case. The disappearance of people in the city is the most interesting problem I (ever, work at) 21)________", (say) 22)______the famous detective, (rise) 23)________ and (put) 24) his hat.
In fifteen minutes Juggins (return) 25)______ holding a little piece of paper with Mary's new address. After Meeks (pay) 26)________ his bill, he (ask) 27)________ the detective to explain what he (do) 28)________.
14. Use Passive Voice.
At the last competition the first prize ___________(to win) by our team.
The question __________ (to settle) as soon as they arrived.
Your report must ______________(to divide) into two chapters.
Soon he _____________(to send) to a sanatorium.
The book ____________(to discuss) at the next conference.
The composition must _____________(to hand) in on Wednesday.
Yesterday he _____________(to tell) to prepare a speech.
The article ____________(to publish) last week, if I am not mistaken.
The lectures ________________(to attend) by all of us.
A taxi __________(to call) fifteen minutes ago, so we are expecting it any moment.
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This exclusive entertainment application, powered by Virgin Gaming, launches today and allows Xbox LIVE Gold members to seamlessly browse, enter, play in and track tournaments for their favorite games directly from the Xbox LIVE online entertainment network. Gamers can register an account at http://virgingaming.com/xbox and download the app from the Xbox LIVE Marketplace.
"Competitive online gaming is increasingly becoming an important component of the video games industry, and the Xbox Tournaments app allows us to bring engaging tournaments to a large and lively community," said Billy Levy, president and co-founder of Virgin Gaming.
The Xbox Tournaments app makes its debut in the United States, Canada and United Kingdom with launch titles that include EA SPORTS Madden NFL 13, FIFA 13, NHL 13 and NBA2K13.
Virgin Gaming offers numerous proprietary features; including in-game reporting of match results, a skill ranking system, secure payment facilities, and strong customer support, making it the platform of choice for competitive gamers.
Additional territories, titles and features will be added in the coming months, but at launch, players will be able to compete in three-round, free-entry tournaments designed for gamers of all skill levels. They will also have the opportunity to participate in free head-to-head challenges to hone their skills for upcoming cash-play.
To celebrate the launch of the app, Virgin Gaming is hosting a $100,000 tournament and leaderboard challenge between April 9 and May 6, 2013. During that time, all players that participate in and win all three tournament rounds or that climb the ranks of the leaderboard will win a portion of the cash prize pool. Details can be found at www.virgingaming.com/xbox.
"Virgin Gaming is a proven leader when it comes to online video game competitions, and we believe Xbox Tournaments will deliver a wide variety of competitive and casual tournament options that will add an exciting new dimension to game play," said Matthew Bencke, general manager Xbox LIVE, Microsoft.
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Home security is booming. More and more of us have smart doorbells, alarms, and locks — but AI, together with the cloud, is set to revolutionize how these devices work.
And much of it is down to the increasing ubiquitousness of cameras.
These days, we expect this technology to appear on our devices, but cameras offer much more than entertaining selfies in the realm of security — especially when cloud connectivity and AI underpins its capabilities. We're about to enter a whole new era of home security, and SpotCam wants to be central in this.
Beyond facial recognition
AI is synonymous with facial recognition, but the home security systems of the future will look beyond our faces to offer protection. Indeed, it won't be long until facial recognition is a standard feature, not the standout offering it once was.
Instead, tech companies are taking two main approaches to their home security innovations
The first is the extension of existing home security conventions. Think the rise of NFC keys connected to our phones and hands-free smart locks. These are examples of traditional home security products with a technological twist, the type we've all pondered at some point with a wistful, "If only…" when our keys go missing.
The second approach involves novel technologies that reinvent home security by removing the boundaries of human limitations. AI-powered night vision cameras and home surveillance drones will give users unprecedented visibility of their homes, operating beyond humans' natural capabilities.
Although both approaches are different, they cannot exist without each other. The former improves our current technologies, and the latter only become a possibility when more traditional methods gain prominence.
Neither will happen overnight.
But Jacky Lin, Product Manager at SpotCam, told us it will come to pass. Specifically, she told us the adoption of AI-powered home security will mirror the popularity of camera technology in the home.
"It has become easier for people to use a DIY solution" to protect their living spaces, Line said. "You just buy a WiFi camera and put it in your house" and that operates as a simple home security system. Unfortunately, simple doesn't cut it anymore.
This is the Spotcam FHD 2.
The march of advancement
While a bog standard WiFi camera does a job, it cannot match the feature-set and security benefits of dedicated technology.
Lin pointed to SpotCam's latest devices as an example: the SpotCam FHD 2 and SpotCam Eva 2. Both these cameras record in full HD and include cloud-saved continuous recording. But it's with the AI features that these, and other home security devices, display the benefits of specializing.
For example, certain home security cameras can now monitor if babies are crying or can detect pets, arguably replacing existing products for those circumstances. This AI analysis can also be used in other circumstances, such as creating virtual boundary lines that will detect a passing intruder.
Connected security of cloud based systems
Cloud-based and connected technology means security is no longer bound within the four walls of a home — and today's consumer expects unparalleled access to home security irrespective of location or device. And this expectation is only going to increase in the future.
Lin told us this has manifested itself through device integrations, which means users can access hardware through connections with Google Home, Amazon Alexa, Nest, IFTTT, and more, thanks to the prevalence of cloud-based service platforms.
This simple and easy access to this technology transforms home security from a siloed function to a normalised and integrated part of daily connected life — and there will be big pay-offs from this shift.
For example, recent research from Facebook foresees a future where AI robots will be able to check whether doors are locked in the house. The future is coming, and home security will play an important role in the connected household.
SpotCam's Lin envisions the mainstreaming of home security as an avenue towards the creation of a more hospitable home environment. "We hope in the future, we can do more. For example, if it's someone you know [entering your home], you can play specific music or audio. This kind of automation can be achieved" — and AI is key to making it happen.
The desire to protect our homes is not new. Rather, it is a necessity, and its importance prompts the innovation of home security. For SpotCam's Lin, the adoption of this necessary technology is the foundation for the more carefree connected home technologies that will follow.
But there is a pressing question that goes alongside security moving out of the four walls of home: security.
This, friends, is the SpotCam Eva 2 — one of the devices we mentioned earlier.
How secure is home security? The cloud vs edge AI debate
First, let's define the terms. Cloud AI means its processes are done in remote locations. On the other hand, edge AI occurs on the hardware itself.
The current era of home security devices generally depend on cloud technology to deliver their features, but as home security advances, the adoption of edge AI could transform the space.
This is important for a number of reasons. For example, owners of connected devices have complained they are unable to use their devices if cloud servers are down, so edge computing presents an attractive alternative to run cloud operations locally on devices.
Edge AI's real-time analysis, lack of latency issues, encryption, and storage of biometric information on the device bridges the gap between cybersecurity and physical security. Our concept of home security prizes user autonomy, and edge AI provides more of it.
But don't get too excited just yet.
Although current edge AI can support tasks like unlocking a smartphone with facial recognition, the magnitude of its application to home security means its mainstream inclusion is still a while away. As SpotCam's Lin puts it, "If you want to do edge computing, to run all algorithms, you need a dedicated server, and that architecture is not possible for residential users."
Instead, a mixed approach to cloud and edge computing is the next step, Lin told us.
"At this moment, edge computing is beginning to get more powerful, and every stage is still complementary to cloud computing. Maybe in the future, most services will run on edge, but this is not happening yet. We think a combination is a good approach."
AI and security autonomy
The adoption of AI in home security will bring a new level of visibility and ease, shifting security from an outlier technology to a cohesive part of the connected home.
As the technology matures, we'll see more products that address security concerns and provide hospitality — but this innovation isn't just the work of technology alone. Our attitudes towards connected security devices are changing too.
Home security is transforming from a utility to modern home comfort, and how we adopt it now will shape its future trajectory. In other words, we have the autonomy to decide how our homes are protected — and AI plays a vital role in that shift.
For more information about SpotCam, head here.
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Safe Place is not a reaction to anything that has occurred at our church. Instead, it is a proactive stance to keep our kids and volunteers safe, and to keep our witness in the community strong.
We appreciate and trust our volunteer staff in ministry. Safe Place is intended to give both parents and volunteers peace of mind while participating in our ministries.
Safe Place provides security for three main areas of ministry . . .
Age-appropriate activities take place in physically safe environments. No private areas are used in ministry.
Allergy Note: Essex Alliance Church is not a nut-free facility. We strive to be nut-reduced by serving only nut-free snacks, having clean facilities, and educating parents. Parents of children with allergies should inform the volunteers and fill out the allergy information section during registration for each ministry year.
Official registration lists exist for all programs. Secure check in/out procedures are in place for all our programs. At check in, parents receive a security tag. The parent must be present with this tag to pick up their children; no child will be permitted to pick up this age group.
Safe Place applications and background checks are required for all volunteers. Each volunteer commits to the specific ministry procedures and guidelines for his or her role.
Volunteers must complete a Safe Place application and background check prior to serving.For information on this, visit our Safe Place Training page.
Two non-married adults must be present when working with kids or teens.
A married couple may work together in a room only if a third adult is present.
Adults may work with teen helpers only if the minimum requirement of two adults is met first.
Volunteers always minister to kids in public areas (with doors open).
No male volunteer should assist children in bathrooms or with changing diapers.
Injuries or concerns regarding children, teens, or adults must be reported immediately to the Ministry Directors (Elementary - Jayme Thompson or Early Childhood - Michelle Turner).
Volunteers need to sign in each time they serve.
Volunteers need to wear photo name tag when they serve.
If possible, the volunteer mix in a room should be adjusted so males are not the only volunteers in the room.
Safe Place applies to everything that happens on our campuses and to all off-site events under the ministry umbrella of Essex Alliance.
Precautionary measures should always be taken to reduce the risk of blood-borne pathogens. These precautions, along with latex gloves, are posted in every children's ministry area.
The teen years offer a special opportunity to grow in your walk with God while beginning to responsibly serve the children in our church.
Leaders-In-Training (LITs) should be at least 11 years old and in sixth grade to help out.
LITs must be over 18 years to help out with infants (0 to 10 months).
LITs need to complete a Teen Service Covenant prior to serving. This covenant covers LIT responsibilities that range from coming prepared to serve, to striving to be a positive role model in the church and community.
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Anonymous says: I am a very frustrated owner of two castrated male cats (brothers Kasper & Bjørn aged 3 years). I rescued the two brothers from a shelter when they were very young. I love them like they are my children and we do everything we can to take good care of them. We discovered that Kasper had an ecoli infection in his bladder, his PH was around 7 and he had some small struvite crystals in his urine. He was treated with antibiotics and now the ecoli infection is gone. We bring his urine in regularly for testing and it's always around 7 (we are told it should be a bit lower). He also always has some struvites in the urine. Two days ago we had a blood test (of both cats) and they both have creatinine levels of 2.1 - 2.2. We would like to understand how to better take care of the cats so that their urine and creatinine figures remain normal and that they never have chronic renal failure. We feel that we are doing everything correctly, yet their vet visits seem to contradict this. I hope you can provide some advice on how to take better care of our babies! Thank you!
Here is the story as I hear it, and I'm going to list my assumptions as well: When you took Kasper & Bjørn to the vet, and eventually found success in treating their urinary tract infection, you had some bloodwork done. And even though you solved the urinary tract infection (all the urine tests including a culture and sensitivity came back normal), the bloodwork happened to show them with elevated creatinine. Stage II to be precise. The bloodwork shows calcium to be normal, and there is no reasonable expectation of kidney stones (xrays show nothing).
Ok, so Kasper & Bjørn went to the hospital, not because they kidney issues causing them problems, but we happen to find along the way that it was elevated. In other words, Kasper & Bjørn are non-clinical for chronic kidney disease. They are in a compensated stated. This means despite their kidneys being inefficient at their job, they are still keeping up with their tasks, and your cat is unaware of it. Some cats live most of their long lives this way!
So, when they are in this state, we get to make some choices for them - because the right choices can keep them in that compensated state for a long time. And the wrong choices can do the opposite. So the first thing that I want you to know, is that you are off to a good start. Regardless what the bloodwork says, you are already "ahead of the curve".
You know what it looks like to try and keep creatinine levels only going lower when they are in a compensated state?
Rough n' tumble. You shift your weight, adjust your balance, but you still get dumped on the floor. Relying on bloodwork alone as a measure of success will leave you sucking wind on the dirt floor every time for this particular issue. Why?
Although we tend to think of CKD (chronic kidney disease) as one thing, there are a dozen reasons why the kidneys can and do become afflicted to the point that creatinine increases in the blood. What that means is that someone might have success doing one type of therapy, buy it might not work the same for your cat, because the underlying issue within the kidney is different amongst cats.
In terms of accuracy, we might as well call CKD something different, like ADR. As in kidneys "Ain't Doing Right" for some reason.
All to say, in some respects, bloodwork is dumb. Bloodwork is a snapshot in time, that tells you about your cat's internal state for an instant. And creatinine is pretty insensitive. It's a guide. But it's equivalent to a drunken Sherpa that has had too much Chhaang to drink, guiding you through the forest at night with no compass.
So it's a guide that I use daily but I always put it into perspective, because it doesn't reflect quality of life. It can also mislead if not interpreted in light of so many other things.
So say this outloud: "my bloodwork is only a drunken guide, and not a measure of success".
Stable body weight. Investing in a baby scale is just as important as investing in a bloodwork.
"Skinny back" (see this link) means you have to ramp something up in your routine with cats.
Check your cats urine protein to creatinine ratio. If it's high, it's a sign that your cat's kidneys are having a harder time compensating. It is just as, if not more important than creatinine.
Make sure their blood pressures are ok.
Fish oil to the food. Maybe your cat's elevated creatinine is caused by glomerulonephritis, and so this is applicable to them.
Calcitriol. Helps eliminate the hidden renal "toxins" that bloodwork does not always show, and therefore may slow the progression.
Rate of change. For any of the bloodwork parameter, the rate of change (and not the change itself) can direct what you do next.
Using calcitriol or any of the techniques above is not for everyone. But when you say "I love them like they are my children and we do everything we can to take good care of them", you are my kind of people! Pick and choose what makes most sense for you and these kitties. Know that what works for some people might not work for them, BUT, the opposite is also true.
And thank you for being such great stewards towards to Kasper & Bjørn, who bring you so much happiness! They sound like great cats!


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Q: Blobstore reader won't read large images I am trying to read images from the Blobstore from the Go server side code. But if the image is large (as in: 0.5MB - 1.7MB) a large portion of the byte buffer becomes 0 which breaks the image.
The image works if I use serveUrl, but this is not an option for me in this case.
My first thought was that there was a size limit to the read, found this:

In addition to systemwide safety quotas, a limit applies specifically
  to the use of the Blobstore: the maximum size of Blobstore data that
  can be read by the application with one API call is 32 megabytes.

The images I read are nowhere near 32MB.
Function I use to read from the Blobstore:
func BlobAsBase64(c appengine.Context, blobKey string) (*blobstore.BlobInfo, string, error) {
    info, err := blobstore.Stat(c, appengine.BlobKey(blobKey))
    if err != nil {
        return nil, "", err
    }

    imageBuffer := make([]byte, info.Size)
    reader := blobstore.NewReader(c, appengine.BlobKey(blobKey))
    if _, err = reader.Read(imageBuffer); err != nil {
        return nil, "", err
    }

    imageBase64 := base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(imageBuffer)

    return info, imageBase64, nil
}

What is the reason that my images become broken when I read them from the Blobstore?

A: I conjecture the reason this isn't working is because the reader.Read method is returning before it has filled the buffer.  See the contract for io.Reader

Read reads up to len(p) bytes into p. It returns the number of bytes
  read (0 <= n <= len(p)) and any error encountered. Even if Read
  returns n < len(p), it may use all of p as scratch space during the
  call. If some data is available but not len(p) bytes, Read
  conventionally returns what is available instead of waiting for more.

Note the last sentence in particular.
Instead of reader.Read(imageBuffer) try using ioutil.ReadAll which should fix your problem.

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Trick-or-treating is another Halloween tradition, in which costumed children go from house to house seeking for candies or other treats from their neighbors. Children dress up in costume and go door to door throughout their neighborhood on Halloween night collecting candy and food in the name of the ancestors. They knock on the door and as the door is opened they yell Trick or Treat and hold out their candy bags. If no candy or treats are given a mischievous trick can be played on the homeowner.
The actual roots of the game are still debated. According to some, the game comes from the Roman goddess Pomona, while others say that its roots can be traced to the Celtic Pagan religious festival Samhain, in which families used to gather for a community feast.
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Lemuria is a loveable band that puts its best efforts trying to be ironic and indie in their new album Companion. While this unironic irony might be a put-off to some, there is a charm that is inescapable, a yearning for replayability despite the fact that the last six tracks of thirteen in total are lo-fi demos. There is sincere depth to Lemuria championed in strong piano play, playful vocal banter, and understated guitar work. Lyrically deep in an unexpected way, Companion is just that: a companion to put into a mixtape that leaves the listener wanting more.
The trio of Alex Kerns, Sheena Ozzella, and Max Gregor are a tight-knit group of musicians that are clearly honed into their craft. The clarity in their vocals is very pleasing to the ears and aesthetically provides a fun backdrop to any given situation. No track sounds like the others of the seven non-demo songs, yet Companion is a collective of commingled classics. From bubblegum pop tracks like "Wanted to Be Yours" straight into edgy indie rock gifts like "More Tunnel", Lemuria shows their chops and experience in the most delightful way. Kerns' monotone grounds Ozzella's airy voice from obscurity while Gregor's bass provides a backbone that cannot be tampered with, almost single handedly pointing the band forward. This trio has nowhere to go but up, constantly able to shift their sound while maintaining their steadfast groundwork. The uniqueness of each track makes it hard to pick a favorite, but "Recreational Hate" is certainly an earworm you wouldn't mind being stuck in your head all day.
With a swell of energy and more than a decade of experience, Lemuria is almost everything one could hope for in an indie band. Even if everything about this band screams ironic indie, they make it work. The only wish is for more, and hopefully Companion is just the right step stool to give them a boost into the mainstream.