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2: “The Grand Illusion.” A heartbreaking story about camaraderie and the wastefulness of war. 3: “Notorious.” A woman sacrifices her life to prove her love. Perfect filmmaking, and a great love story. 4: “Ugetsu Monogatari.” A film that shows we can be seduced away from what we love, and realize it too late. 5: “An Inconvenient Truth.” By turning Al Gore’s global-warming lectures into a movie, it created international awareness about one of the most significant issues facing humanity....

Sporting a layout that is undeniably similar to the Wii Dashboard (coincidence?), the Kinect Dashboard appears vastly less cluttered than the current 360 dashboard. As the instruction on one of the images states, “if you see it, just say it.” Kinect responds to voice commands for maximum ease of control. Of course, as demonstrated during Microsoft’s E3 press event, such commands seem to require the spoken preface “Xbox.” Voice control aside, the layout of the Kinect Dashboard is primarily designed to support Kinect’s Minority Report-like gestural navigation control....

Co-founded by UFC Hall of Famer Urijah Faber, Las Vegas entrepreneur Keith Veltre and award-winning combat sports announcer Sean Wheelock, Kinektic is a unique tournament-style promotion that will feature athletes from various combat sports disciplines, including mixed martial arts, grappling, jiu-jitsu, wrestling, and more. All Kinektic events will feature four competing teams, each comprising five world-class grapplers, in a tournament consisting of semifinals and a championship final. Additionally, all events will feature a grappling “Super Fight,” which will feature additional participants not already competing in the tournament....

On April 10, the Kingdom Hearts series held an event to celebrate its 20th anniversary. While this led to the announcements of Kingdom Hearts 4 and Kingdom Hearts: Missing Link, there was also a special exhibit in Japan. Once series loyalists got to enter the venue, they quickly found a celebratory anniversary message from Tetsuya Nomura hidden next to a statue of Sora. However, there was more to this message than it seemed at first....

The series as a whole defies conventional wisdom about what should sell a video game. New IPs, that wisdom would say, should be able to stand alone without much prior knowledge of popular culture required to enjoy the story. Kingdom Hearts, buoyed by the ubiquitous nature of Disney in the media, spits in the face of that sage advice – if gamers aren’t familiar with Mulan, or The Nightmare Before Christmas, then it’s on them to shore that knowledge up before they can fully appreciate the way Kingdom Hearts recreates those worlds within a standalone video game....

The Kingdom Hearts series tends to incorporate pre-existing films into its story in a modular way, which is a good fit for fan projects. Namely, Sora and his allies fight their way through retellings of each film over the course of a couple of hours. Along the way, the party often gains a guest party member from the film, and when the day is saved, Sora flies off to another world....

George Bailey, skipper of Kings XI Punjab – the IPL 2014 season runners-up – on Thursday said his team has been training hard and aims to get off to a positive start against Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League (IPL) when the two sides clash here on Friday. “It’s been a quick preparation for a lot of our guys. But the whole squad has been playing a lot of cricket....

Tied with Japan’s Ryo Ishikawa as the top Asian finishers at the Royal Melbourne Golf Club, the 24-year-old Kiradech, who currently leads the Asian Tour Order of Merit, ended his impressive campaign with a battling one-under-par 70 and a three-under-par 271 aggregate. It was Kiradech’s third top-five finish over the past two months which included a third place finish at the CIMB Classic in Malaysia. “Finishing top five again, I’m happy....

The second stage of Wondaria Remains looks to be a fun stage offering a small mini-game to players, but it’ll actually test players as to how hard they want to complete the stage. This guide is for all the missions and Hidden Waddle Dees in Circuit Speedway. RELATED: Kirby and the Forgotten Land: Step It Up! Moving the Stairs Treasure Road Guide Hidden Waddle Dee #1 Right away, it should be apparent to players that this level puts players through a few Car Mouthful Mode races with the grand prize being Hidden Waddle Dees....

The Vikings quarterback cashed in on a big-money deal in 2018, signing an NFL first fully guaranteed contract, which turned out to be less of an indicator of the future of NFL business. Cousins has delivered more good than bad results since signing that deal: While with Minnesota, Cousins has thrown 116 touchdowns to 32 interceptions, but a slightly disappointed 30-28-1 record as start to go with those numbers....

Over time, the progressive loss of kidney function can trigger a domino-like cascade of symptoms affecting the heart, lungs, brain, bones, and other organs. Frequent Symptoms Symptoms of CKD are often missed in the early stages of the disease and, in many cases, will be entirely invisible until significant damage has been done. Unlike an acute kidney injury (AKI), in which the symptoms appear abruptly and are often reversible, CKD is characterized by progressive and permanent damage over the course of months and years....

Columbus police believe the shooters knew 9-year-old Demitrius Wall’neal and 6-year-old Londynn Wall’neal were in the car with 22-year-old Charles Wade when they opened fire on the vehicle in an apartment complex parking lot on December 7. The shooters fired dozens of rounds. The three victims were pronounced dead at the scene at about 6:45 p.m., The Columbus Dispatch reported. “We have two young kids who have been murdered,” Columbus Assistant Police Chief LaShanna Potts said, according to the Dispatch....

Carla Faith was sentenced to six years in prison on Thursday after parents of victims explained the ongoing trauma Faith caused. Kim Marshall, parent, said that both of her children are still receiving counseling two years after the incident. “We sleep with the lights on in our house. My kids are anxious. They are fearful of the world,” Marshall said. Faith was licensed to run a day care, but only for a maximum of six children, only two younger than 2 years old....

You should have him tested. That advice is echoed in classrooms around the country as more and more teachers and parents understand the importance of developing good social skills. Researchers now know that success in life–personal happiness, too–depends to a great degree on an individual’s “emotional intelligence,” the ability to function well in a group and to form meaningful relationships. “Children who are generally disliked, who are aggressive and disruptive, who are unable to sustain close relationships with other children and who cannot establish a place for themselves in the peer culture are seriously at risk,” says psychologist Willard Hartup of the University of Minnesota....

But should they? Or are there smarter ways of teaching the young about markets, business, profits and economics? The focus on stocks springs from zippy Internet games, used by some 750,000 students last year, mostly in the upper grades. Kids love them. They organize teams, get a virtual $100,000 to invest, then trade stocks as if they were baseball cards. At the end of 10 weeks, the team with the biggest profit wins, usually T shirts or small cash prizes from local sponsors....

Kikuchi’s rookie season is something of an experiment, an attempt by the Seattle Mariners to see whether pitchers coming to the major leagues from Asia should be handled differently in their first season. The team will regulate Kikuchi’s innings while making sure he starts on a regular five-day rotation, even if that means some outings are kept very short. If it works, the strategy could become a blueprint for the future....

The images, which show a group of orcas chasing and toying with the otter, were captured on Thursday by local wildlife enthusiast Karen Munro, who likened the incident to the biblical clash between David and Goliath. Munro said she spotted the pod in the North Sea waters off Forss, one of the northernmost parts of the U.K. As she took pictures of the orcas, an otter scurried into the water....

RELATED: Horror Games That Are Great (Despite Not Being Scary) While some players are just looking for a bit of mindless monster-destroying, others have a specific goal in mind when they play: namely, leveling up. Farming XP is often a complicated subject, and that’s the case in Killing Floor 2, as well. That said, there are a few pointers that can help accelerate any farming effort. Here are some essential tips for farming XP and leveling up fast....

The video, which shows edited clips from Charles and William’s visit to the British Sub-Aqua Club (BSAC) during which father handed the presidency of the club over to his eldest son, has been viewed over one million times since being uploaded to TikTok. The video from the account “the.royal.watcher” has received in excess of 39,000 likes and 200 comments, many of which praise the pair for their sense of humor....

Curacao’s national football team, formerly the Netherlands Antilles Football Team, are ranked 82nd in the world, and have qualified for the 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup, which is a tournament for North and Central American nations. Former Leicester attacker Liandro Martis is also part of the Curacao squad that will play India next month. Curacao will use the King’s Cup as preparation for the Gold Cup, where they have been placed alongside co-hosts Jamaica, Honduras and El Salvador in Group C....