iron man 3

 iron man 3 trailer

Marvel's "Iron Man 3" pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy's hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test his mettle. With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to the question that has secretly haunted him: does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man? Marvel's Iron Man 3 is in UK cinemas from April 25.

Starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall, Stephanie Szostak, James Badge Dale with Jon Favreau and Ben Kingsley, Marvel's "Iron Man 3" is directed by Shane Black from a screenplay by Drew Pearce & Shane Black and is based on Marvel's iconic Super Hero Iron Man, who first appeared on the pages of "Tales of Suspense" (#39) in 1963 and had his solo comic book debut with "The Invincible Iron Man" (#1) in May of 1968.

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Preview: Assassin’s Creed IV hoists a Black Flag in an open-world Caribbean

 Assassin’s Creed IV

It shouldn’t come as any surprise that Ubisoft is planning another Assassin’s Creed release just one year after Assassin’s Creed III hit store shelves. The annual release model has become the standard operating procedure for the series. But after five console releases in six years, are players exhausted of annual Assassin Creed games? Is there blood left in this stone?


Last week Ubisoft revealed the next game in the series, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. No official release date was give other than fall, but if it will likely be released in late October or early November as the other five were.

Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag also marks a handful of peculiar changes for the series. First, it’s going to be the first mainline Assassin’s Creed sequel to bear a subtitle. That might not sound significant, but the series has been deliberate in its use of subtitles up to this point. Associate producer Sylvain Trottier said point blank in a demo of this new battle between the assassins and the Templars, that despite the Black Flag subtitle, this is not an offshoot of like the PS Vita’s Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation; this is the Assassin’s Creed IV. Though when pressed about ACIV being an umbrella for multiple games Sylvain did laughingly say, “Wait until next year.”

Second, this will be the series first outing on the PlayStation 4 and other “next-gen” consoles, although it will also ship alongside PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC, and Wii U releases. These two factors mark subtle but significant changes to the aging series as it enters a crucial stage of growth.

It’s important to mention these changes prior to getting into the creative nitty gritty of the sequel, because these factors are concrete, known quantities that will have an important influence on Black Flag. Based on the brief slide show of factoids, art, screens, and a truncated video of actual play, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag is nothing but raw potential at this point.

Black Flag’s emphasizes on exploration, expanding on the sort of seamless open world Assassin’s Creed is built on, and could help to shift the series even further in a new direction, possibly for the better. But while what Ubisoft showed us was promising, it wasn’t quite a video game yet, just plenty of good ideas for one. They are some exciting ideas though, and Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag has undeniable potential.
The 50 Environments of a High Sea

Filling the assassin’s hood this time out is Edward Kenway, grandpappy of Assassin’s Creed III’s Connor Kenway. Edward looks like a cross between mid-‘90s Val Kilmer and Captain Morgan; a blonde-haired, steely-eyed fighter carrying four pistols on his chest, two swords, and the token wrist blades of his order.

In addition to being an assassin, Kenway is also the captain of the pirate ship christened the Jackdaw, leading his crew around the East Indies in the year 1715 (and presumably over a course of several years as with the other games in the series), hanging out with the most famous pirates of the day like Calico Jack, Blackbeard, Anne Bonny, and others as they traverse the Bahamas, Jamaica, and Cuba. As per usual for the series, Kenway is present at significant historical events both big and small. For example, you’ll play through the destruction of the Spanish Armada in 1715 and get marooned on an island alongside the pirate Charles Vane.

The familiar Assassin’s Creed play template is present and accounted for. Kenway will stalk his enemies—Ubisoft wouldn’t give any story details about antagonists beyond them being those cagey Templars again—in a few major cities, including Kingston, Havana, and Nassau. But the similarities end there.

Kenway’s world is the full archipelago in the Caribbean Sea. Ubisoft promises 50 separate environments that you’ll be able to seamlessly sail the Jackdaw to, including: hidden villages in small island coves, jungles, Mayan ruins, plantations, and even underwater caverns and shipwrecks where that you can reach using a diving bell in order to salvage treasure.

Trottier and Art Director Raphael Lacoste said repeatedly in their presentation that the team’s goal has been openness since the game went into development in 2011, wanting no break or loading between running around a city and hopping on your boat. We asked if this extended even to the underwater sections of the game, and whether or not Kenway could explore anywhere underwater, but Ubisoft isn’t ready to go into detail on that just yet.
The Dread Pirate Kenway?

That reluctance to go into detail on certain aspects was a common refrain throughout the Black Flag presentation – a common procedure for games this far from release. Only half a portrait was painted of how the game plays. Since the game is based almost entirely on the open sea, the naval combat is allegedly far more complex than it is in Assassin’s Creed III. At any given time, you will be drawn into unscripted fights with a variety of ships of the line, all while in dynamic weather.

Fighting another ship, boarding her, and then getting stuck in a massive storm at sea—the weather is also apparently unscripted—could also lose you precious crew members, forcing you to constantly recruit more of as you explore the world. There’s even whaling. Video of the game showed Kenway’s crew trying to take down a sperm whale, and Trottier said that crewmen can die in the process of trying to bring them down.

Ubisoft gave absolutely no indication of how any of these systems work, though. Things like how do you recruit crew members, what are the benefits of hunting whales or salvaging shipwrecks and what’s the point remain unanswered for now. There also seem to be environmental items that can be used in weapons, like an empty bottle in a bar fight, but Ubisoft was tight lipped on that as well.


The now familiar multiplayer will also return in some form, but at the moment all Ubisoft would confirm is that there are new modes, before it showed an array of concept art for player-controlled multiplayer characters.

One of the big questions about Kenway – and one of the changes in the series – is who will be “driving” him from a present day animus? Not our good friend Desmond of Assassin’s Creed I through III, but an employee of Abstergo Entertainment.

Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation also featured an Abstergo animus. Rather than the weighty plot line that Desmond was involved with, the Abstergo animus sessions are positioned in the fiction of the series to be for leisure rather than knowledge. But Trottier also said there will be more to it than with Liberation, and that play between the past and the present would be broken down in the same way as in past games. If Desmond’s story is complete and Kenway’s link to other characters is coincidental (which seems incredibly unlikely), why call it Assassin’s Creed IV? What’s the link to justify that number in the title?
A New Team for a New System

Along with a new setting, character, and even system (or systems assuming the next Xbox is released around the same time as the PS4), Assassin’s Creed IV will feature a new creative team in charge. For Black Flag, Ubisoft tapped several veterans of other Assassin’s Creed titles, like Raphael Lacoste, the brand art director for Assassin’s Creed, as well as others from the Far Cry series. Black Flag will be directed by Jean Guesdon, who to date has acted as story and brand director on the series. It will be the first Assassin’s Creed title Guesdon has directed, but few people are as familiar with the series as he is.

Free of the Desmond plot and with a new setting, how will this crew of developers distinguish its game? And how will it leverage the more advanced technology of consoles like PlayStation 4?

“You can do some sexy stuff,” said Trottier, but that’s all he said beyond expressing enthusiasm for the platform. He and Lacoste joked that it was their demands for more power that led Sony to put 8GB GDDR5 RAM in the PS4. Past PC editions of the game could do some “sexy stuff” as well, but they weren’t always significantly more advanced than the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the games.

Ultimately, Ubisoft gave us just a taste of what to expect with Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. There are several important questions that we need in order to get a better picture of what the game truly is, and how it will fit in what has become one of the most successful gaming franchises of this current generation of consoles.

There are great ideas at work in this game, and if they all come together, they could reinvigorate a series in sore need of fresh perspectives. There is a lot of potential at play in Black Flag. Whether or not Ubisoft can live up to that remains to be seen.

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The Bible miniseries: History Channel's take on the Bible not for kids

The Bible miniseries produced by the History Channel is a disappointment for any family hoping for a new way to share the Bible's stories with their children. The Bible miniseries, not altogether surprising given the History Channel's relentless ratings focus, sensationalizes the Bible's stories. Angel ninjas? Really?



The Bible, in addition to being the basis for various religious beliefs, is a fascinating historical conglomeration of stories that can teach us about the customs, times, travails, and conditions of the ancient Middle East that create a social context for modern day news, like the plague of locusts currently hitting Egypt. However "The Bible" miniseries on the History Channel so graphically depicts a predictably selective collection of the stories that some parents may not want kids to view it.




Lisa Suhay, who has four sons at home in Norfolk, Va., is a children’s book author and founder of the Norfolk (Va.) Initiative for Chess Excellence (NICE) , a nonprofit organization serving at-risk youth via mentoring and teaching the game of chess for critical thinking and life strategies.
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"The Bible" miniseries, for me, is less about what you believe and more about what you believe your family will take away from watching this series. After watching the first installment and trailers for upcoming episodes, I think that if you’re not willing to let your elementary-school child watch "300" and the "Twilight" series you should steer clear of this as a family viewing session.


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Also, if you’re looking for lessons and emotional content this is a wash. It’s more of a highlights reel of the Bible. It covers the same shopworn scenes traditionally seen on television, adding nothing to the mix but more blood on the sands of time.

As a parent and a writer, I think that the sacred text is so woven into our social dialogue that you should share it for historical and social context even if you’re not a believer.

Without the Bible headlines and news stories, this past year would be doubly confusing since we have frequently pondered the apocalypse and news folks often use the word “biblical” to describe events. A case in point is the report today from The Atlantic Wire that reads, “As if we hadn't already seen enough Biblical events this year, a plague of over 30 million locusts swarmed over Egypt's cities and farms just three weeks before Passover begins.”

It adds, “But put your apocalyptic fears to rest. This happens every year as part of the locusts' natural migration pattern, though this year's swarm is especially large. That doesn't mean Egyptians aren't freaked the heck out by millions of nasty bugs buzzing through the air at all hours of day and night, possibly descending upon the agriculture fields where they're known to destroy entire crops, just like in the actual Passover story.”

My father was Jewish and my mother Roman Catholic, yet both read the same biblical highlight stories we see in the new mini-series. Despite their religious differences, they each agreed on what stories are child-friendly: the Garden of Eden, Cain and Abel, David and Goliath, Passover (which scared the daylights out of me as the first born in my family), Sodom and Gomorrah, Noah’s Ark, Moses and the plagues on Egypt/the Ten Commandments, and selections from the New Testament, which included the birth of Jesus and the Easter stories.

However, when a parent reads a Bible story to a child, the parent frequently simplifies the language and finds a lesson in the story being read.

The History Channel series created by Mark Burnett and his wife, "Touched By An Angel" star Roma Downey, appears to have gone for the ratings with graphic blood-and-gorey smiting, special effects, and black and red clad “angels” that bear more of a resemblance to the Vulturi clan of vampires in the "Twilight" films than anything I ever pictured as a child.

In the Hollywood Reporter review of "The Bible" miniseries the critic writes, “Sometimes it stays true to scripture, but then does things like adds angels with ninja skills to spice things up. That's one thing the Bible itself really doesn't need — it's a complex and lyrical work full of prophecies and call-backs and a sense of being one, organic, intertwined story. Unfortunately, "The Bible" is fractious and overwrought.”

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My concern is that I don’t want my child to be “overwrought” by the History Channel’s sensational book to movie adaptation of what is often referred to as “the greatest story ever told.”

Perhaps that’s the parenting answer to this incarnation of biblical tales: Avoid the History Channel version and go right on telling them to your kids.

Lauren Silberman

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- After the two pathetic and pitiful pseudo-kickoffs, after the stubborn refusal to say how far she'd ever actually kicked a football, Lauren Silberman still could have salvaged her day.

She could have looked at the reporters from the 30-odd media outlets gathered at the New York Jets' facility, stared straight at the 20 television cameras filming this regional scouting combine, and said:

"The NFL opened this amazing door for me. I am a young entrepreneur. I have created a product geared toward professional athletes and I would be a lousy businesswoman if I didn't seize this once-in-a-lifetime platform."




But oh no, she didn't say that. She didn't even come close. She insisted she'd trained and over-trained, but wouldn't say when exactly she first kicked a football. She swore she was better than what she showed Sunday, but wouldn't offer any anecdotal evidence to even suggest that. She crowed that she had done this as an inspiration to women, but didn't offer homage to any female athlete who has not only appeared but achieved in a hitherto man's sport.

Fox News, USA Today, NFL Network -- we all walked into the Jets' freezing indoor facility, full well knowing we were being used. No one came to this regional combine, one of 10 such events the NFL stages to unearth talent, thinking that this never-played-football-before woman would be impressive enough to be the next Greg Zuerlein (2012 St. Louis Rams rookie sensation and regional combine alum). But everyone hoped there was a story here. A young, thoughtful video game innovator with the courage and wherewithal to commit to an endeavor and compete with men far more experienced than her in that endeavor. Even Stephen Austin, the director of these regional combines and the man who takes five scouts with over 150 years of NFL scouting experience around the country with him, openly said he'd wished her the best and wanted to see her do well.

What he -- and we -- saw was a sideshow. A delusional, haughty, heartbreaking sideshow.

These regional combines are not a joke. A year ago, 1,900 aspirants attended one of these combines. Of that group, 124 went on to the super regional combine at Ford Field, 87 were signed by the start of NFL training camps and 43 were with teams on opening day. According to Austin's staff, there are currently 28 players on active rosters and practice squads who came out of these regional combines.



As of now, the only requirement to attend one of these combines is that one pay an entrance fee ($275 for kickers and punters) and provide proof of eligibility for the NFL draft. After Sunday in New Jersey, that will change. There will be some sort of additional pre-screening. Thanks to Silberman.

Now, to be wholly fair, Silberman isn't the only applicant to be outclassed at one of these combines. And also to be fair, she said she had hurt her quad earlier in the week and aborted her kicking Sunday before she could attempt any field goals -- not out of shame, according to Silberman, but because she had aggravated the injury. She yelped after her first kickoff traveled about 19 yards and eventually met with the media throng awaiting her with ice wrapped around her right thigh. But to also be fair, she tucked prepared remarks in her bag for the media, even though she didn't read them. And worse, she disrespected the 37 other kickers in New Jersey on Sunday who've spent lifetimes honing their craft. She blithely said her friends saw her kick somewhere in that amorphous time she began kicking and told her, "You should try out for the NFL." Like it's that easy.

When Candace Parker was allowed to compete in the McDonald's All-American dunk contest, it was because she could dunk a basketball. When Annika Sorenstam participated in the Bank of America Colonial PGA tournament, it was because she was the best female golfer on the planet. Even when video of little Sam Gordon playing peewee football went viral and rocketed her into the NFL Network studios, it wasn't because she was a little girl; it was because she could hold her own with -- and be better than (!) -- all those little boys.

Those women worked and they dedicated themselves. Injured or not, Silberman obviously hasn't yet. To her fellow competitors' credit, they didn't titter behind their hands and they didn't ostracize her. One helped her figure out how to use a kicking tee, another how many steps she needed to take to line up for a kickoff.

University of Pittsburgh kicker Kevin Harper nailed his first five field goals and then had the sixth, from 55 yards out, hit the crossbar. He will have representatives from all 32 teams at the Panthers' pro day on Wednesday, and yet he still undertook the expense of coming out here to get ready for that scrutiny. He is serious and he is focused. When asked about Silberman, he smiled politely and sincerely said, "It is an equal-opportunity world and I'm glad she got to participate.

Katie Hnida, the real female place-kicking trailblazer -- the one who kicked for years before she tried out for her high school team and even more years before she walked on first at Colorado and then at New Mexico -- was too classy to knock Silberman, as well. She's a woman, she pulls for women and she still mentors young female kickers all around the country who are toiling, day in and day out, to prove their exceptionalism. She expressed sorrow that it didn't go better for Silberman. And then Hnida was told Silberman said, "I really hope this shines a spotlight on sports generally for women."

Silence.

More silence.

Then finally, Hnida said she didn't want to go there.

Fine, then allow me: This wasn't the spotlight we were looking for.

Apple iPhone 3GS feature

Keep applications open in the background. Organize your apps with folders. Shop for books in the iBookstore. The 8GB iPhone 3GS takes advantage of all the great features of iOS 4. And it starts at an amazing new price — just $99.*

Now you can run your favorite third-party apps — and switch between them instantly — without slowing down the performance of the foreground app or draining the battery unnecessarily. So you can listen to a ball game while emailing. Or receive a VoIP call while playing a game.¹

Drag and drop to organize apps into folders on your Home screens and get fast access to your favorites.

More than a full-color ebook reader, iBooks is also an amazing place to browse and shop for books anytime you feel like it.² It works with PDFs that you can sync using iTunes on your Mac or PC. And you can customize iBooks to suit the way you read — adjust the brightness, change the text size, and more.

On iPhone, making a call is as simple as tapping a name or number. And Visual Voicemail lets you play messages in any order — just like email.

Mail

A unified inbox and other new features make Mail more powerful than ever.

Safari

The most advanced web browser on a mobile phone.

iPod

Play music and watch video in vivid color.

Camera

A 3-megapixel autofocus camera for capturing friends and family.

Video
Recording

Shoot and share VGA-quality video right on iPhone 3GS.

Photos

View photos by Albums, Events, Faces, and Places.

Voice Control

Place a call or play a song using just your voice.

Messages

Send messages with text, video, photos, and more.

Maps + Compass

Find locations, get directions, and orient yourself on the map.

Keyboard

The smart keyboard helps you type quickly and accurately.

Search

Find what you’re looking for across your iPhone or the web.

App Store

Discover hundreds of thousands of apps that let you do even more.

iTunes Store

Shop the world’s largest digital entertainment store.

Accessibility

iPhone 3GS comes standard with a wide range of accessibility features.

Cut, Copy, and Paste

Cut, copy, and paste words and photos, even between applications.

Voice Memos

Capture and share audio recordings on the go.

North Korea

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Democratic People's Republic of Korea 조선민주주의인민 공화국 Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk[1]
Flag Coat of arms
Motto: 강 성대국 Powerful and Prosperous Nation
Anthem: Aegukka (애국가) ("The Patriotic Song")
Capital (and largest city)		Pyongyang 39°2′N 125°45′E / 39.033°N 125.75°E / 39.033; 125.75
Official language(s)		Korean
Official scripts		Chosŏn'gŭl
Demonym		North Korean, Korean
Government		Juche socialist republic, Single-party communist state
-	Eternal President	Kim Il-sung (deceased)[a]
-	Supreme Leader[2][3]	Kim Jong-il
-	Defence Commission Chairman	Kim Jong-il
-	President of the Presidium	Kim Yong-nam[b]
-	Premier	Kim Yong-il
Legislature		Supreme People's Assembly
Establishment
-	Independence declared	March 1, 1919
-	Liberation	August 15, 1945
-	Formal declaration	September 9, 1948
Area
-	Total	120,540 km2 (98th) 46,528 sq mi
-	Water (%)	4.87
Population
-	2009 estimate	24,051,218[4] (51st)
-	Density	198.3/km2 (55th) 513.8/sq mi
GDP (PPP)		2008[5] estimate
-	Total	$40 billion (94th)
-	Per capita	$1,900 (2009 est.)[6] (188th)
GDP (nominal)		2009[6] estimate
-	Total	$28.2 billion (88th)
-	Per capita	$1,244[7] (139th)
Gini (2009[8] ([unreliable source?])		n/a (low)
Currency		North Korean won (₩) (KPW)
Time zone		Korea Standard Time (UTC+9)
Date formats		yy, yyyy년 mm월 dd일 yy, yyyy/mm/dd (CE–1911, CE)
Drives on the		right
Internet TLD		.kp
Calling code		850
^ a. Died 1994, named "Eternal President" in 1998. ^ b. Kim Yong-nam is the "head of state for foreign affairs".

North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) (Chosongul: 조선민주주의인민공화국), is a country in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Pyongyang. The Korean Demilitarized Zone serves as the buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea. The Amnok River and the Tumen River form the border between North Korea and People's Republic of China. A section of the Tumen River in the extreme north-east is the border with Russia.

The peninsula was governed by the Korean Empire until it was annexed by Japan following the Russo-Japanese War of 1905. It was divided into Soviet and American occupied zones in 1945, following the end of World War II. North Korea refused to participate in a United Nations–supervised election held in the south in 1948, which led to the creation of separate Korean governments for the two occupation zones. Both North and South Korea claimed sovereignty over the peninsula as a whole, which led to the Korean War of 1950. A 1953 armistice ended the fighting; however, the two countries are officially still at war with each other, as a peace treaty was never signed.^[9] Both states were accepted into the United Nations in 1991.^[10] On May 26, 2009, North Korea unilaterally withdrew from the armistice.^[11][12]

North Korea is a single-party state under a united front led by the Korean Workers' Party (KWP).^{[13][14][15][16]} The country's government follows the Juche ideology of self-reliance, developed by the country's former President, Kim Il-Sung. After his death, Kim Il-Sung was declared to be the country's Eternal President. Juche became the official state ideology when the country adopted a new constitution in 1972,^[17] though Kim Il-sung had been using it to form policy since at least as early as 1955.^[18] Officially a socialist republic,^[19][20] many media organizations outside North Korea report that it is a totalitarian Stalinist dictatorship.^{[14][15][21][22][23]} The current secretary of the KWP Central Committee Secretariat and leader of the armed forces is Kim Jong-il, son of Kim Il-sung.

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