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Box-Office Battle: Fury defeats Gone Girl

October 20, 2014 By Brian Galloway 2 Comments

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The World War Z performing artist, who has six kids with wife Angelina Jolie, plays US Sergeant Don “Wardaddy” Collier in the Second World War film, which shuts the BFI London Film Festival. He was additionally one of the film’s makers.

“I learnt a considerable measure from this film. We all strolled away totally improved,” the 50-year-old on-screen character said in front of the film’s European debut in London’s Leicester Square.

“This part is a true study in initiative and figuring out how to order appreciation and in light of this, I am presently a finer father.”

He included: “This film is about the fighters’ fatigue from the icy, hunger and the collective impact consistently. We took that to heart. I trust the fighters will walk far from this and feel they are perceived.”

Fury, composed and directed by David Ayer, additionally stars Shia Labeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Pena and Jon Bernthal as Wardaddy’s team, who all went to the film’s question and answer session in London.

The film, which was shot in England, takes after the five-man group of a Sherman tank called Fury in the European Theater of war in April 1945 as the Allies head into Nazi Germany.

Brad, who was alluded to as “Big cheese” on set, conceded he got rather connected to his protected vehicle.

“There’s nothing ergonomic around a tank. Anyhow we were compelled to acquaint ourselves with the tank and discover our solace spots,” he clarified. “I got to be very proprietorial. It turned into our tank.”

David included: “Brad stayed in the tank on set. I would need to move into the tank to converse with him. It was similar to his hawk’s home where he would look down on us.” Pitt clowned: “It was the best view.”

The gathering cooperated at bootcamp for three prior months shooting.

“This is without a doubt the most requesting undertaking I’ve done, the most dedicated and the most devoted,” said Logan. “We did research on an extremely itemized level and got to know one another on an exceptionally individual level.”

Shia included: “This has been the most compensating and mind boggling knowledge in all my vocation and life.”

Fury opens in UK cinemas on October 22.

Filed Under: Headlines, World Tagged With: box office, fury, fury box office, fury record, gone girl, record

Taylor Swift’s New Track “Welcome To New York”

October 20, 2014 By Brian Galloway Leave a Comment

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Taylor Swift’s new track, “New York, New York”; Billy Joel crooned “New York State of Mind”; Jay Z dropped “Empire State of Mind” is written by Kander and Ebb. Now, Taylor Swift is adding her take to the canon of songs about New York, the city that never sleeps.

This Monday morning, Swift previewed “Welcome to New York,” the first song off her album 1989, which is, yes, about moving to New York.

Taylor Swift explains in her video message, “The inspiration that I found in that city is kind of hard to describe and hard to compare to any other force of inspiration I’ve ever experienced in my life. New York is an electric city.”

Though, Swift previewed her new track as a “wide-eyed,” optimistic take on New York, but this doesn’t exactly mean she’s stepping any new ground here. FYI: Taylor Swift’s New York is a Tribeca penthouse. As per Good Morning America, the song that results, which she did with OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder, is a thumping anthem. It will become available at 12 a.m. on iTunes on Tuesday.

Filed Under: Headlines, World Tagged With: 1989, Ebb, iTunes, Kander, New Track, new york, New York City, Taylor Swift, Tuesday, Welcome to New York

Joanne Borgella, American Singer and Model died at the age of 32

October 20, 2014 By Brian Galloway Leave a Comment

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Joanne Borgella, American Singer and Model died on Saturday from cancer at the age of 32.

The intimate family of Borgella revealed the tragic news on the social networking sites. The model has suffered through Endometrial Cancer since last year. The Endometrial Cancer targeted the lining of the womb in the body of the singer.

Borgella was born in New York in 1982. She was one of the top 24 contestants of the season seven of “American Idol”. After three years she appeared on a reality T.V show known as “Mo’Nique’s Fat Chance” and “Curvy Girls”. In “Mo’Nique’s Fat Chance” she achieved the title of “ Miss F.A.T”.   Later on, she started her career as a designer and launched her own clothing line.

Even in Borgella’s last post on Facebook she sounded pretty positive. She states informed that she was planning to take two more radiation process.

Moreover, she shared a few quotes related to the faith on God.  The family announced that people can make their condolence on the Facebook fan page of Borgella.

Filed Under: Headlines, World Tagged With: American Idol, Cancer, designer, family, model, reality T.V show, season seven

Marley & Me’ TV Series To Have A Sequel Soon

October 19, 2014 By Brian Galloway Leave a Comment

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According to the recently released pledge by NBC confirms to air the “Marley & Me” pilot TV series will act as a sequel to a 2008 based comedy film starring Owen Wilson and the ‘Friends’ star Jennifer Aniston. This was a box office hit film with the earnings of more than $243 million USD and had swept several awards as well.

Some thought that the movie ‘Marley & Me’ was based upon the bestselling novel named as John Grogan. Moreover, the full script will be authored by the famous Emmy-Winner script writer Jenny Bicks. She is a famous writer, especially for the film series “Sex and the city” that ran from 1998 to 2004.
The movie revolves around a couple who adopted a stray puppy dubbed Marlye and considered parenting. The movie stars include Kathleen Turner, Eric Dane, Nathan Gamble, Alan Arkin and Haley Bennet.

The screenplay of the movie showed that the couple was forced to adopt the puppy when it landed on their doorsteps. The puppy later became so much attached not only with the Grogan family, but also with the other dog and their owners in the neighborhood. Though, unlike her ancestor, this Marley would help depict the problems that are faced by the Grogan family and how they interact with their neighbors and their problems. Furthermore, one of the NBC spokespersons reported that this TV series will start off from where the film had been left.

The last scene of the film was the one where the featured couple Aniston and Wilson, along with their three children aged 6, 13 and 16 had moved back to Florida so that Wilson could have his day job as a Newspaper columnist. More details concerning the TV series are yet to be announced by the creators.
It’s not yet confirmed that the star cast for Anitson and Wilson’s role in the upcoming series will be replaced by Jenny and John Grogan. Moreover, Wilson was reported to have starred in “She’s Funny That Way” which is a comedy film by Peter Bogdanovich with Imogen Poots. This was privately screened at the Toronto Film Festival.

Filed Under: Headlines, World Tagged With: $243 million USD, Alan Arkin, Eric Dane, Haley Bennet, Jennifer Aniston, Jenny Bicks, John Grogan, Kathleen Turner, Marley & ME, Nathan Gamble, NBC, Owen Wilson, Sex and the city, TV series

Volcano Exploded In Central Japan: Homes Trashed, Numerous Injured

September 27, 2014 By Rebecca McGhee Leave a Comment

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According to the official reports revealed, a volcano exploded in central Japan on Saturday, surprisingly catching mountain climbers and one person was seriously injured in the incident.
Eye witnesses told that, there was a thunder like sound and the Mt. Ontake spewed out huge white plumes elevated into the sky, making people escaped and wrapping nearby areas in ash.
Right after the incident, Japanese media reported that numerous people were injured including one who was still in an unconscious state.
In the sunny autumn morning, before noon, the 10,062 foot peak of the volcano exploded. Japanese TV also showed the video, astonished climbers were moving away swiftly from the volcano’s peak while growing plume appears above and then surrounds them.
Moreover, the Japanese Metrological Agency lifted up the alert level for Mt. Ontake to 3 on a scale of 0-5. The government has warned people to stay away from the mountain as the ash and other wreckage would spread across 2.5 miles. Mt. Ontake is situated on the border of Nagano and Gifu prefectures on the bristle of mountains that runs down Honshu, Japan’s main island.

Filed Under: Headlines, World Tagged With: 062 foot peak, 10, Climbers flee, Honshu, island, Japan, Japanese Metrological Agency, mountains, Mt. Ontake, Nagano and Gifu, volcano

Seismic Gap: Filled By An Earthquake Near Istanbul

September 12, 2014 By Chen Lai Leave a Comment

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As a section/fragment of a main fault line goes silent, it must indicate one of two things: The “seismic gap” may merely be immobile, as a result, two tectonic plates gently gliding past each other or else the segment might be a source of possible earthquakes, silently creating pressure till a foreseeable seismic release over decades.

MIT and Turkey researchers have bring into being a proof for both types of behavior on different fragments of the North Anatolian Fault which believes to be the most vigorous earthquake zones in the entire world. The fault, alike in scale to California’s San Andreas Fault, elongated for about 745 miles across northern Turkey and into the Aegean Sea.

The 20 years of GPS data have been taken by the researchers along the fault, and resolute that the next biggest earthquake is going to hit some five miles west of Istanbul and will likely to happen along a seismic gap beneath the Sea of Marmara. On the contrary, the western segment of the seismic gap seems to be moving devoid of producing large earthquakes.

Michael Floyd said that, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, “Istanbul is a large city, and many of the buildings are very old and not built to the highest modern standards as compared to southern California. From an earthquake scientist’s perspective, this is a hotspot for potential seismic hazards.”

Floyd says, even though it is quite impractical to locate when such a quake might occur but this one could be powerful on the order of a magnitude 7 temblor, or stronger.

Floyd further says “When people talk about when the next quake will be, what they’re really asking is, ‘When will it be, to within a few hours, so that I can evacuate?’ But earthquakes can’t be predicted that way. Eventually, for people’s safety, we persuade them to be prepared. To be prepared, they need to know what to prepare for and that’s where our work can contribute”.

Floyd and his colleagues have published their seismic analysis in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, together with Semih Ergintav of the Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute in Istanbul and MIT research scientist Robert Reilinger.

The major earthquakes have happened along the North Anatolian Fault in a about domino-like fashion, breaking sequentially from east to west in the recent decades. One of the latest earth-quake hit back in 1999 in the city of Izmit, just east of Istanbul. It has been reported that the most recent shock, which lasted less than a minute, killed thousands of people. Many scientists have believed that the Istanbul will be near the epicenter of the next major quake as city sits at the fault’s western end.

The MIT and Turkish researchers used GPS data to gauge the region’s ground movement over the last 20 years. From these findings, they will get the accurate idea where the fault may hit next. The researchers took data along the fault from about 100 GPS locations, including stations where data are gathered constantly and sites where instruments are regularly set up over small markers on the ground, the positions of which can be recorded over time as the Earth slowly shifts. Floyd states that, “By continuously tracking, we can tell which parts of the Earth’s crust are moving relative to other parts, and we can see that this fault has relative motion across it at about the rate at which your fingernail grows”.
The researchers calculated the findings from the ground data that, for the most part, the North Anatolian Fault must move at about 25 millimeters or one inch per year, sliding quietly or slipping in a series of earthquakes.

Because there’s now no other method to follow the Earth’s movement offshore, the researchers’ team also used fault models to estimate the motion off the Turkish coast. They identified a segment of the fault under the Sea of Marmara, west of Istanbul that is essentially stuck, with the “missing” slip gathering at 10 to 15 millimeters per year. 250 years ago, this section named Princes’ Island segment, for a close by tourist destination last experienced an earthquake.

The Princes’ Island segment should have slipped about 8 to 11 feet according to the Floyd and colleagues but it hasn’t. In its place, strain has possibly been structuring all along the segment for the last 250 years. If this could be the potential reason to smash the fault in one cataclysmic earthquake, the Earth might shift by as much as 11 feet within just seconds.

Bohnhoff, who has studied seismic patterns in the region says, “The nucleation point is pretty close to the city center, which makes early warning time pretty short i.e. between two to six seconds. As the international airport is situated in an area where ground motion would be high, it would be hard to get in tragedy troops, and unluckily 90% of buildings in Istanbul do not fulfill building codes, and might not resist the expected earthquake.”

Floyd says, “Earthquakes are not regular or predictable. They are far-off random over the long run, and you can go many lifetimes without experiencing one. But it only takes one to affect many lives. In a location like Istanbul that is known to be subject to large earthquakes, it comes back to the message: Always be prepared.”

Filed Under: Headlines, World Tagged With: aegean sea, atmospheric and planetary sciences, Bohnhoff, californias san andreas fault, earthquake, gps data, Istanbul, Izmit, Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, michael floyd, MIT, North Anatolian Fault, Robert Reilinger, seismic gap, Semih Ergintav, turkey

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