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Vampire Romance Novels (Must Reads) Ultimate List

admin — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:13:03 +0000

This is an interactive list of Vampire Romance novels that you must read so you can be in the loop about the latest and greatest VRs. Complete with cover art, authors and titles, you can watch this video and know exactly what to buy. As you watch, you can listen to some great music form the Underworld Evolution Soundtrack, an awesome VR movie.

Duration : 0:2:10

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2-4 Grooves – Writing On The Wall (Official Music Video)

admin — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:43:15 +0000

This is the official music video!

Duration : 0:3:1

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Underoath – Writing on the Walls

admin — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:33:45 +0000

Underoath – Writing on the Walls. The newest video by Underoath off thier Define the Great Line album. Better video and sound quality then others floating around youtube.

Duration : 0:4:7

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Watch the Skies!: Sci-Fi, the 1950s and Us (4 of 6)

admin — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:33:41 +0000

Directors Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Ridley Scott and James Cameron discuss the science fiction movies of the 1950s that influenced them.

Duration : 0:10:14

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Chocobo & Magic Picture Book 2 Music – J-E-N-O-V-A -from Final Fantasy VII-

admin — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:31:18 +0000

Chocobo and the Magic Picture Book: The Witch, the Girl, and the Five Heroes

Chocobo and the Magic Books Original Soundtrack

Duration : 0:2:7

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Civil Disobedience With Wez: Retarded Game Publishers And The Inevitable Xmas Rush

admin — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:33:10 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOvJTnvENE0
Click this to watch the Playstation 3 Gift Guide.

Civil Disobedience With Wez: Retarded Game Publishers And The Inevitable Xmas Rush (Holiday Gift Guide) S1E1

In this episode of Civil Disobedience, Wesley Lock politely discusses the marketing strategy of the video games being released this holiday season.

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Duration : 0:2:43

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Authors@Google: Simon Critchley

admin — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:33:05 +0000

The Authors@Google program was pleased to welcome philosopher, professor and author Simon Critchley to Google’s NY office to discuss his new book “On Humor”.

Simon Critchley studied philosophy at the University of Essex in England (BA 1985, PhD 1988) and at the University of Nice in France (M.Phil 1987). Among his teachers were Robert Bernasconi, Jay Bernstein, Frank Cioffi, Dominique Janicaud and Onora O’Neill. Critchley’s M.Phil. thesis dealt with the problem of the overcoming of metaphysics in Heidegger and Carnap and his Ph.D. dissertation was on the ethics of deconstruction in Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida.

After a position as University Fellow at Cardiff University, Critchley was appointed Lecturer in Philosophy at Essex in 1989, where he became Reader in 1995 and Professor in 1999. Also at the University of Essex, he was Director of the Centre for Theoretical Studies and collaborated closely with Ernesto Laclau.

Critchley was President of the British Society for Phenomenology from 1994-99. In 1997 and 2001, he held a Humboldt Research Fellowship in Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt. Between 1998-2004, Critchley was a Programme Director of the Collège international de philosophie, Paris. In 2006-7, he was a Scholar at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Since 2004 he has been Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, New York, but also continues as a part-time Professor at Essex. In addition, he has held visiting professorships at Nijmegen (1997), the Universities of Sydney (2000), Notre Dame (2002), Cardozo Law School in New York (2005), and Oslo (2006).

On Humour is a fascinating and beautifully written book on what philosophy can tell us about humor and about what it is to be human. Simon Critchley probes some of the most perennial features of humor, such as our tendency to laugh at animals and our bodies, why we mock death with comedy and why we think it’s funny when people start to act like machines. He also looks as the darker side of humor, as when rife with sexism and racism, and shows how humor might remind us of people we would rather not be. Above all, Simon Critchley argues that humor can tell us much about the human condition, the meaning of life and why comedy itself begins in philosophy.

This event took place on May 14, 2008.

Duration : 0:54:47

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The India Abroad Publisher’s Special Award for Excellence – Jhumpa Lahiri

admin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:12:20 +0000

Newsweek International Editor and television personality Fareed Zakaria, author of the best-selling The Post-American World, and host of CNNs Fareed Zakaria GPS, was chosen India Abroad Person of the Year 2008 at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York on March 20.
Acclaimed filmmaker Mira Nair, winner of the India Abroad Person of the Year Award 2007, presented Dr Zakaria with his award at a star-studded ceremony.
The annual awards gala has become a marquee event on the Indian-American community calendar, and the quality of previous winners has made it a cachet even for those Indian Americans who have widespread mainstream acceptance. Past winners include Iowa legislator Swati Dandekar in 2002; co-founder, Indicorps, Sonal Shah in 2003; Mohini Bhardwaj, captain of the silver medal-winning American gymnastic team at the Sydney Olympics in 2004; then US Congressman Bobby Jindal in 2005; Pepsico Chairperson Indra Nooyi in 2006 and Nair in 2007.
India Abroad is the oldest and most widely circulated weekly newspaper serving the Indian-American community, published out of New York, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and Toronto. It is owned by Rediff.com
Opening honors went to a trio of prodigiously talented children: Sameer Mishra, winner of the national Scripps National Spelling Bee; Akshay Rajagopal, who won the equally prestigious National Geography Bee; and Shivani Sud, who won the national Intel Science Talent Search contest.
This year, India Abroad instituted a new award: The Face of the Future Award. On debut, it was won by Manjul Bhargava, the mathematical genius who solved a problem that had baffled the best minds for 200 years, and who became at age 28, one of the youngest full professors ever at Princeton University.
The 2008 US presidential election cycle saw an unprecedented level of community involvement; it also witnessed a generational shift in leadership with the younger members of the community coming into the limelight.
In recognition of this, the India Abroad Gopal Raju Award for Community Service, named after the newspapers late founder, was shared by seven young Indian-American leaders at the forefront of this change: Preeta Bansal, General Counsel in the Office of Management and Budget at the Obama White House; Nick Rathod, Director of the Office of Inter-Governmental Affairs in the Obama administration; co-founders of South Asians for Obama Hrishi Karthikeyan and Dave Kumar; founder of the Indian National Leadership Initiative Varun Nikore; Communications Director for the Campaign for Americas Future Toby Choudhuri; and newly appointed chair of the Indian American Republican Council Dino Teppara.
To honour a legendary career that has spanned five decades, and to mark the career of a man who, single-handedly, has planted Indias flag at the pinnacle of Western classical music, India Abroad presented this years Award for Lifetime Achievement to ace conductor Zubin Mehta. On hand to honour Mehta with the Award were previous winners, novelist Salman Rushdie and the economist couple Professor Jagdish Bhagwati and Professor Padma Desai.
The India Abroad Publishers Award for Special Excellence — a prize previously won by achievers like astronaut Sunita Williams — was awarded to novelist Jhumpa Lahiri, who in 2008 published her third work of fiction, a collection of short stories titled Unaccustomed Earth that in unprecedented fashion debuted at the top of the prestigious New York Times bestseller lists.
The event, emceed by Columbia Journalism School Professor Sreenath Sreenivasan, came to a fitting conclusion when Fareed Zakaria accepted his award as the India Abroad Person of the Year 2008.
The event, which was punctuated by a sit-down dinner at the halfway stage, was attended by among others Meghan Mylan, who won an Oscar last month for her documentary Smile Pinky; Infosys Co-Chairman Nandan Nilekani; world-renowned cancer specialist Dr Dattatreyudu Nori; showbiz personalities like actress Madhur Jaffrey and actor Abhay Deol; Director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra Zarin Mehta; Indias Consul General in New York Ambassador Prabhu Dayal; New Jersey Assemblyman Upendra Chivukula; Rujuta Vaidya, who choreographed the Slumdog Millionaire dance numbers at the recent Academy Awards; CFO, District of Columbia, Natwar Gandhi.

Duration : 0:4:37

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3-04 Underground Book Storage Third Floor, Final Fantasy Tactics

admin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:12:19 +0000

3-04 Underground Book Storage Third Floor, Final Fantasy Tactics
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Battle Map 25, Further down into the depths of this library, the party runs into Izlude. This is one of my favorite battle maps in Final Fantasy Tactics.

Ramza comes down and threatens Izlude to give up surrendering his Holy stone, but Izlude being full of himself, fights.

Characters of:
Mr. Ramza – Geomancer
Ayane – Dancer
Howl – Wizard
Mustadio – Archer
Agrias – Geomancer

Final Fantasy Tactics (ファイナルファンタジータクティクス, Fainaru Fantajī Takutikusu) is a tactical role-playing game developed and published by Square (now Square Enix) for the Sony PlayStation video game console. It was released in Japan in June 1997 and in the United States in January 1998. The game combines thematic elements of the Final Fantasy video game series with a game engine and battle system unlike those previously seen in the franchise. In contrast to other 32-bit era Final Fantasy titles, Final Fantasy Tactics uses a 3D, isometric, rotatable playing field, with bitmap sprite characters.

The game is set in a fictional kingdom called Ivalice, which has just ended its war with neighboring kingdom of Ordalia. The story follows Ramza Beoulve, a young cadet who finds himself thrust into the middle of a conflict, where two noble factions are coveting the throne of the kingdom. While the war was caused by a conflict of succession, Ramza was exposed to a plot that involved the kingdom’s dominant religious organization.

A spinoff was created in 2003, called Final Fantasy Tactics Advance for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance, and a sequel to that title was released called Final Fantasy Tactics A2, and in 2006, a stand-alone title called Final Fantasy XII was released for the Sony PlayStation 2. All three games take place in the fictional land of Ivalice. An enhanced remake of Final Fantasy Tactics, Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions, was also released in 2007 as part of Square Enix’s new Ivalice Alliance project. Overall, the game received positive reviews from gaming magazines and websites.
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Duration : 0:9:59

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Sci-Fi Music [Less Than Ever]

admin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:12:17 +0000

Just a song i thought could be nice as soundtrack.

Images taken from Google, videos are from Half Life 2 and Cloverfield. No copyrights owned for them.

Song is “Markus Storm – Less than ever”, copyright.

Duration : 0:6:36

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