There is a view of the modern American GI shaped by Hollywood and television news: trigger-happy, brutalized, unreflective. Then there is the reality – of thousands of young men and women, each an individual character with their own motivations and fears, growing up extraordinarily fast and often able to perceive their situation with searing clarity. […]
Star Wars’ Darth Vader & Yoda To Be In Soul Calibur IV
Bandai Namco was created when the two notable Japanese gaming companies such as Bandai and Namco joined together. While Namco is famous for such popular franchises like Xenosaga, Ridge Racer, Tekken, Klonoa, and Ace Combat, Bandai is notable for various 3D cel-shaded games adapted from numerous Japanese anime titles. Recently, Bandai Namco is working on […]
Sixty years need not be the end of the road
Mention sixty years of age and the visuals that flash to mind is that of quiet, laidback contemplation; a slow journey into inexistence. Determined by man to be the age of retirement sixty years is reckoned as a major crisis in life that most don’t look forward to. It is considered a time when one […]
Do We Understand Global Warming Enough to Act?
Humanity is younger than global warming and the conditions that cause and have caused global warming. As the world heats, the authorities among our relatively young species look for industries to blame and nations to blame – and we come up with formulas and needs for more formulas, all of which are based on […]
At The Movies: Starting Out In The Evening
"Starting Out In The Evening" starts out in the daytime as graduate student Heather Wolfe (played by Lauren Ambrose) meets aged novelist Leonard Schiller (played by Frank Langella) in a Manhattan diner. Waiting for him she looks at a novel of his called The Lost City. Pay attention to this scene in Andrew Wagner’s film version […]
Iran, Italy’s Edison close to gas deal: minister
TEHRAN: Iran and Italian power company Edison are nearing agreement on a deal to pump more than a billion cubic feet of Iranian gas to Europe per day, the Iranian oil minister said on Sunday. "We have almost finalised our negotiations with the Italian company Edison," Iranian Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari told state television. […]