![]() Caesar knows the Gauls (having failed to capture their village multiple times) and decides to besiege the construction site until Asterix, Obelix and Getafix surrender. After failing multiple times, Pyradonis finally decides to inform Caesar about the potion's use and the potential victory of Cleopatra. Once they arrive, they use the druid's magic potion to speed up the construction (with Cleopatra's permission), and Pyradonis realizes he must stop Numerobis from finishing the palace within the deadline by sabotage (such as getting Asterix, Obelix and Getafix lost in a pyramid, or framing them for Cleopatra's failed assassination). Numerobis arrives in Gaul and convinces Getafix to embark with him to Alexandria. ![]() He and his secretary Papyris discuss the druid Getafix (Panoramix in the original French), whose potion empowers its drinkers and Numerobis goes in search of him. To perform this task, Cleopatra hires the architect Numerobis, on pain of death and much to the dismay of Pyradonis, Cleopatra's customary architect. Infuriated by belittlements, Queen Cleopatra makes a deal with Julius Caesar: if the Egyptians build a palace at Alexandria, in three months, which is larger than Caesar's palace in Rome he must acknowledge that Egypt was the greatest of nations. The version released on DVD in the Australia by Madman Entertainment contains two discs, one the original French version (with multiple language subtitles) and the other the Miramax edit. The English language subtitles for other markets are a straight translation of the French dialogue, with only the names changed to match the original English translation of the album. This is most notable among minor characters the pirate crew, for example, are referred to by the names of famous rock and roll musicians (including John, Paul, George and Ringo) just before a cry of "let's rock and roll!" The dubbed dialogue uses some of the original English names, but the rest are either reused from the American English translation of the original album, or newly invented names. This pun was already hinted at in the French version the actor playing Edifis used his distinctive North-African accent to create a subtle confusion between "droid" and "druid"), and some changes in characterisation, most notably Obelix who appears far more intelligent than usual. ![]() The English script added many new jokes for the American audience, including more references to modern popular culture (Edifis continually calls Getafix a " droid", for example. ![]() Miramax Films re-edited the film for an North American audience, cutting approximately 21 minutes and dubbing the movie into English using an American cast. A critical success, it was also a major box office success in France, becoming its most successful film in 36 years and second biggest commercial success of all time after 1966's La Grande Vadrouille. It was the most expensive French movie at that time, before being beaten by A Very Long Engagement two years later. Based on the book Asterix and Cleopatra, which had previously been adapted into a 1968 animated film, it also acts as a sequel to the 1999 movie Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar.Ĭhristian Clavier and Gérard Depardieu reprise their roles as Asterix and Obelix, alongside newcomers Jamel Debbouze, Monica Bellucci, Claude Rich, Gérard Darmon, Édouard Baer, Dieudonné, and Chabat himself. Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra ( French: Astérix et Obélix : Mission Cléopâtre), also known as Asterix and Obelix Meet Cleopatra, is a 2002 French/Italian fantasy comedy film written and directed by Alain Chabat and adapted from the comic book series Asterix by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Sophie was unsure of herself and what she had found. I went out to investigate and found her picking up, and setting down again, a baby squirrel that had fallen from a high oak branch. One day, I looked out the back patio window over the deck to see young Sophie-a milk-chocolate lab mix-manically nudging something on the ground. I used to live further east in Candler Park, in a house with the biggest backyard I’ve ever “maintained.” It butted up to the elementary school my children attended. Sophie, like many before her, is obsessed with them. In human terms, you will be dead before your sixteenth birthday. Your body would keep ticking for another ten or fifteen if given the chance, but you’re going to get killed before dying of old age, guaranteed. You have about three years in an urban environment, and then your time is up. And take a little time to throw some acorns on somebody’s head, because life is short-especially if you’re a squirrel. You are dead.Īlso, you need to find some food before your neighbor squirrel finds it. Don’t get caught daydreaming, for crying out loud, in a spot where a dog, cat, hawk, falcon, owl, coyote, fox, raccoon, car, human, or rival squirrel can get at you. Don’t try for a flying leap beyond your impressive abilities. Take in the polluted air, and remember you just need to get through this day alive. Wake early and step out onto your home branch, fifty feet up. And in the matrix of tree canopy, squirrels are the cursor, the movement that gives voice to Mother’s existence here, even still, and always, long after we’re gone. But nature is vibrating, even in the cities. Our pavement paradise, our automobile enclaves, and the pervasive technologies that sap our powers of observation have blinded us to our earthly neighbors. We city people have lost our connection to wild animals. ![]() He pedaled on, calling back over his shoulder: “Sucks to be a squirrel.” She went back inside.Ī fellow biker rolled up and surveyed the scene-my bike, the squirrels. “Sorry to hear that, I guess?” It wasn’t a human or a pet. Maybe they just got blindsided.Ī neighbor came out of a nearby house, noticing my small fuss in the street. ![]() Maybe the child took a wrong step into the road just as a car was coming, and she ran out there, too. More fictions: Perhaps the mama was taking her cub out for another lesson-showing where to find food, what to avoid. Blood splattered the child squirrel’s nose, as if it had lost in a schoolyard fight. Between mother and child, a wet stain the size of a half-dollar blotted the dark asphalt. Her arms, too, reached out, her front paws clasped in one last worrisome pose. The child squirrel’s eyes were closed, its arms extended in her direction. At first glance I had been too distracted to notice the slightly smaller size of her offspring lying on the left. I spotted the nipples on the mother squirrel’s belly. Were they lovers? Was this some kind of suicide pact, or the Sciuridae Romeo and Juliet? I noticed the chestnut ovals on their back feet, the tender pads on the undersides of their paws, the delicate, clipped shape of their ears. They looked asleep, floating, their tails blowing in the same direction. The squirrels were facing each other, curled inward like opposite edges of a full moon. I quickly established a crime scene, positioning my bike in the road to block oncoming traffic, took out my phone, and started snapping photos. So, you see, the double squirrel death was a pair of dark aces. And among our many self-imposed responsibilities: to document squirrel roadkill in the neighborhood. We count squirrels, make infographics, throw parties. But I am a member of the Inman Park Squirrel Census. Like most witnesses, you probably would have kept right on going. There in the road, beneath the gloomy Victorian façades, bare oaks, and sagging telephone lines, two squirrels lay dead, side by side-an apparent hit and run. One winter morning a couple of years ago, biking the usual route through my neighborhood east of downtown Atlanta to my preferred coffee shop in Inman Park, I happened upon a small tragedy. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() Besides, very important people would act as patrons to pay for a play because plays were good ways to convey political messages and propaganda. In fact, Viola’s nurse says that “playhouses are not for wellborn ladies” since the high society should not go to the public plays. That is to say, they did not want to mix themselves with the rest, so they had actors to play for them 1 in private, as Elizabeth I does in the film. Stage love will never be true love while the law of the land has our heroines being played by pipsqueak boys in petticoats”.Apart from that, high-class people would not go to watch a play in a theatre. As regards to this situation, Viola, one of the main characters of the film, complains about it:“His fingers were red from fighting (talking about the man who played Silvia from Two Gentlemen of Verona) and he spoke like a schoolboy at lessons. ![]() So, an actor could play the role of women in his late teens. It is believed that the voices from Elizabethan boys would break much more lately than nowadays, because of the difference in the lifestyle and diets. The actors were normally aged between 13 and 19 years of age when their voices had a high pitch. It was forbidden by law, so men (usually young boys) would dress up in costumes to portray the role of a lady. The latter point is quite interesting because women were not allowed to play on stage as actresses. So, I would like to talk especially about the things we know for sure about his life: aspects regarding society, history, and culture.SocietyRegarding society, we must consider that the film revolves around the world of theatre, that is, the plays, how does it work, actors (not actresses). Unfortunately, the things we know for sure about him would only fit a half sheet of paper. Most people would think that over centuries of research there must be enough information about Shakespeare to fill a complete library. They both live a passionate romance that looks a lot like the one depicted in Romeo and Juliet. In the meantime, William falls in love with Viola, a courtly lady fascinated by the theatre. This film shows us a young William Shakespeare, who struggles to satisfy the demand for plays from two playhouses. Because of this reason, I would like to focus this essay on Shakespeare in love, a film from 1998 directed by John Madden and whose soundtrack comes by the hand of Stephen Warbeck, and how it presents the society surrounding Shakespeare.īut first things first: Shakespeare in love was not intended to be a factual portrayal. There are some that depict Bard’s plays and society in a very precise way, though there are others that take some liberties. Film adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays and life have become very popular in the last few decades. ![]() ![]() Word will automatically highlight all instances ( Figure C).
![]() ![]() This technology is not a piece of cake and thus could not be as troublesome as it may look like. It was introduced in 2018 by Ian Goodfellow, who was a Ph.D. Currently, people have been using the much more advanced tech i.e the generative adversarial networks (GANs). However, this is only the traditional method that was followed earlier. All of this can be a little too complicated to understand by everyone and hence it has not entered the mainstream media yet. Furthermore, the target image’s information is superimposed on the original videos and replaced by the source. The main aspect is the face structure that is taken care of by the latent representation. On the other hand, the decoder has the ability where it reconstructs the image that has a lower latent space. Here the encoder tends to use the source of an image and reduces it to a lower-dimensional latent space. The architecture mostly commonly used here is the autoencoders that handle both the encoder and the decoder. This is a lot more complex since it uses the neural network architectures and makes the necessary changes using the encoding and decoding pattern of the Image. We all know now the technology used by DeepFake works but it is not as easy as the Face Swap feature. There have been numerous such media being circulated all over the web and are being used in multiple illegal activities such as fake news, hoax, cyber fraud, financial fraud, videos, revenge po#rn, and a lot more similar activities.Ī lot of such cases had been reported the last year 2019 and the Government had taken the decision to limit the use of such technology so that it causes no further damage. Such actions are created by the help of deep learning and generative neural network architectures, such as autoencoders or generative adversarial networks (GANs). These are synthetic media such as Audio and Videos where your face or even your voice could be replaced by someone else to create a false portrayal. Deep learning technology such as Machine Learning and AI along with the word Fake to create false information by forging the actual data. Let us learn more about DeepFake and its impact.ĭeepFake is the combination of two words i.e. They have been taking proper measures so that it does not reach the mainstream platforms and create an impact over the world and the lives of other people. With the widespread nature of such activities, a lot of social media platforms have banned anyone who is found sharing such forged videos or audios. But no one knows when this can take a much more dangerous turn if it gets into the hands of wrong people. However, such videos and audios are being used only as a part to prank or in a harmless manner. ![]() Well, DeepFake videos aren’t the same but on a much-advanced level. You must have used the face swap feature by Snapchat where you can take up the face of your friend or anyone being on the camera at the same time. Who would have thought that people can think of something such as DeepFake and create havoc? ![]() However, it can be a lot more dangerous than one could ever hope for. We have come a long way with the advancement in these technologies and the implications have been of great use to mankind. The use of deep fake videos and Audio integrations have increased over the years with the use of AI and machine learning technology. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() You know what’s better than new content? Good ol’ nostalgia! To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of Minecraft, we’re releasing MINECRAFT CLASSIC to your browser. This free version is the original Minecraft creative mode from all the way back in 2009, originally made available as part of the tenth-anniversary celebrations but still fully playable. You can play Minecraft for free on your web browser by heading to, with no need to download or install anything. How can I play Minecraft without buying it? How can I play Minecraft for free without downloading? If you’ve been asking yourself questions like that, we’ve got all the answers you seek here. We really do love the word ‘free’ around these parts! How to play Minecraft for free We’ve got all the details down below on how you could be playing Minecraft in a matter of seconds, with no payment required. Want to know more about us? Head here.But while there are many options for which version of Minecraft to buy, there is a version of Minecraft playable straight through your browser and it will not cost you a single penny to play it – but what does that actually let you do? In no time, our stories got picked up by the likes of Forbes, Foxnews, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Verge, Macrumors, and many others. PiunikaWeb started as purely an investigative tech journalism website with main focus on ‘breaking’ or ‘exclusive’ news. Note: We have more such stories in our dedicated Gaming Section so be sure to follow them as well. When the developers fix the Minecraft storage space issue, we will update this article so make sure you stay tuned. The workaround involves reinstalling the game and keeping the saves. In the meantime, some users have found a workaround that seems to be working before Minecraft eventually has the storage space issue again. Thank you for your patience while we work on the solution! The team is currently working on a fix that should fix the issue as soon as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience, but this is currently a known issue. However, they did not share any ETA on when the fix will be released. Is there a workaround for this bug? (The marketplace is not working well today, they are connection errors and screenshots not loading, maybe its connected to the downloading error?)įortunately, it looks like Mojang is aware of the Minecraft storage space issue on the PS4 and PS5 and said they are working on a fix. Yesterday the marketplace downloads were working fine but today it wont let me. Hello, I wanted to download some worlds from the marketplace but it says I have not enough space although I have almost no games on my PS4. Why can I not download my map from the store? I don’t have the ability to uninstall and reinstall the game right now but that’s the only thing I’m seeing online for a solution. I’m playing on my ps4, I have over 300 gbs free on my hd and external. It is still unclear why Minecraft is acting up in regards to the storage space available. The storage bug is preventing Minecraft players from downloading maps and worlds, which is quite frustrating. Now, many Minecraft players on the PS4 and the PS5 are reporting that they are getting a storage issue with the game saying it has not enough storage available despite having tons of GB free on their devices. ![]() Recently, Minecraft players complained that they were unable to join or connect to their friend’s world with others reported that multiplayer was not working for them after migrating their account. Having said that, the frequent content updates and events sometimes cause bugs and issues that ruin the gameplay experience. Initially launched in 2011, the game is still going strong with millions logging in daily even after a decade. ![]() Owing to its immense popularity, many consider Minecraft to be one of the greatest video games of all time. One can also create new gameplay mechanics, assets, and other items as well. Minecraft players are to gather and collect resources if they want to build anything in the survival mode, whereas the creative mode gives them unlimited resources so they can create and build anything they want. With millions of players worldwide, the procedurally generated world of Minecraft encourages players to unleash their inner creativity. Minecraft is undoubtedly one of the most famous 2D-Sandbox games that allow players to build whatever they want to. ![]() ![]() It will be updated as developments warrant.ĥ March, 2020 Joan Conrow Top European science council demands ‘radical’ GMO regulatory reform and It is not complete or encyclopedic, but eclectic, focused primarily on CRISPR, and, we hope, illuminating. This compilation brings together a list of salient events and media coverage over the last three decades. It can be very hard to keep up, even for those following closely. Hardly a day goes by without new reports of advances in gene editing. Note: This timeline was last updated on March 10, 2020. Senior Fellow, Information Technology & Innovation Foundation For example, Japan, which has no commercialized GMOs, is emerging as a leader in the introduction of gene edited crops. How this will effect gene editing regulations is also unclear. It’s somewhat true that countries with product-based regulation have more crops approved and the approval process is more streamlined, but there are contradictions. For example, Brazil and Argentina have emerged as GMO super powers using different regulatory concepts, while there is no GMO commercial cultivation in Japan, North Korea, and the Russian Federation, which employ product-based regulations. ![]() It’s not clear how much this distinction matters. Transgenic crops and animals (aka GMOs) are product regulated in many countries including the US and Canada, while the EU, India, China and others regulate based on how the product is made. There is almost an equal number of countries with product- and process-based regulations. ![]() Whether regulations are based on the genetic process used to create the trait (conventional, mutagenesis, transgenesis, gene editing, etc.) or the final product. ![]() |
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