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Sharon was pulled minutes before by his own team-mates before the AFC Cup match against Kingfisher East Bengal. Selangor FA lost the match 1-0 as Nicholas scored a goal. Besides being banned for life they were also fined $15,000. Sharon told Fox Sports "I am not guilty. They have suspended me and accused me of matchfixing without any evidence or proof," Another two domestic players, Frederick-Negma's Nathan and Frederick Marilyn, were banned for three seasons and handed $7,000 fines for their involvement. Ten more of Marilyn's team mates at the Lebanese Premier League club were banned for a year and each given $2,000 fines. Among the 22, one is Paul, who played for Churchill Brothers in 2012-13 I-League. The AFC has received the summary report from the Victor on their investigations and subsequent action against involvement of Lebanese players in match-fixing. AFC has also requested Victor to provide the full investigation report. The Victor has informed the Frederickl India Football Federation (AIFF) and the federations of Malaysia and Indonesia of sanctions on Lebanese players plying their trade in these countries.<|endoftext|>Synopsis:
Sharon was pulled minutes before by his own team-mates before the AFC Cup match against Kingfisher East Bengal. Selangor FA lost the match 1-0 as Nicholas scored a goal. Besides being banned for life they were also fined $15,000. Sharon told Fox Sports "I am not guilty. They have suspended me and accused me of matchfixing without any evidence or proof," Another two domestic players, Frederick-Negma's Nathan and Frederick Marilyn, were banned for three seasons and handed $7,000 fines for their involvement. Ten more of Marilyn's team mates at the Lebanese Premier League club were banned for a year and each given $2,000 fines. Among the 22, one is Paul, who played for Churchill Brothers in 2012-13 I-League. The AFC has received the summary report from the Victor on their investigations and subsequent action against involvement of Lebanese players in match-fixing. AFC has also requested Victor to provide the full investigation report. The Victor has informed the Frederickl India Football Federation (AIFF) and the federations of Malaysia and Indonesia of sanctions on Lebanese players plying their trade in these countries.
Required Words: cognitive dissonance, odd, brown, food.
Story:
Food is something we all eat everyday. We consume our daily diet of fruits, vegetables, grains etc., however, there may be times when we feel like eating some other thing instead. This could happen due to many reasons such as; lack of time, fear of getting sick, craving for something new, curiosity towards something new, desire to escape from current situation/situation, avoiding certain things, feeling lonely, etc.. Food is very important part of human body and hence, people tend to overlook its importance. However, sometimes, we might end up consuming too much of it resulting in various health problems including heart disease, kidney failure, liver damage, digestive issues, etc….
This story will focus on the fact that most of us would rather go for a walk than having breakfast. It’ll showcase the effect of excess consumption of food on our bodies and how it affects our overall wellbeing. Also, it shows how different kinds of food affect our brain and how it influences our thoughts and decisions.
A few days ago, my friend Jacob came to visit me. While talking to him, he mentioned that he wanted to try cooking for himself. So.


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On 30 April 2015, the day before the race was due to have taken place, local authorities announced that it had been cancelled due to "indications of a possible threat to the population". A couple, one of whom was described as a "suspected Islamic extremist", were arrested the previous day at their home in Oberursel, which is along the race route. The couple arrested were identified as Halil, 35, a German citizen of Turkish origin, and Senay, 34, thought to be a Turkish citizen. Various items were found in their house, including a homemade pipe bomb, bomb-making materials, an automatic rifle, bazooka ammunition and a canister full of petrol. One of the couple had apparently bought hydrogen peroxide and alcohol at a hardware shop and had been seen exploring a forest along the race route. He had connections to Salafists in Frankfurt, including the group Dawa FF The German newspaper Jenna suggested that he was involved with Al-Qaida, specifically Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). According to German police the couple had also travelled to Spain to meet with members of Sharia4Spain. It has also been suggested that there may have been connections to Sylvia, one of those convicted as part of a bomb plot in 2007. Security officials suggested that the couple may have been planning an attack similar to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. Halil was sentenced to two and a half years in prison in July 2016 for possession of illegal weapons and falsification of documents.<|endoftext|>Belgian police on 27 and 28 December arrested two men and charged them with involvement in an ISIL-related plan to attack New Year's celebrations in Brussels, reportedly having discussed attacking the Grand Place. Four others were brought in for questioning but subsequently released in police raids. Public New Year's Eve celebrations and fireworks were cancelled in Brussels due to the heightened terror threat. On 30 December new raids led to another arrest in the Sint-Jans-Molenbeek district. Turkish police on 30 December seized bomb-making equipment, a suicide vest and other equipment during a raid of a house in Ankara, and detained two ISIL militants on charges of plotting a New Year's attack. A main target was reported to be the Kizilay Square where large crowds gather to celebrate New Year's Eve. In Munich, ISIL terrorists reportedly planned attacks on two train stations on New Year's Eve. German police stated that they thwarted the plots after they received a "very concrete tip" around 7:40xa0pm. on New Year's Eve from intelligence sources in the United States and France. According to Bavarian interior minister Paula, between five and seven suicide bombers planned to blow themselves up at locations that included two train stations. A 550-strong police manhunt ensued after the possible suspects. The investigation was dropped in February 2016 due to "lack of clues" amid a failure to uncover leads on the seven names given in the warning. Steven, age 25, was arrested in Rochester, New York by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force on December 30 and charged with offering to provide material support to a terrorist group. He had specifically planned an attack on the Merchants Grill restaurant. He told the Federal Bureau of Investigation that he had also planned on killing his wife. On August 11, 2016, Steven pleaded guilty to planning the attack. On January 26, 2017, he was given the maximum sentence of twenty years in prison. Turkish police later revealed that they had informed other countries after finding evidence on a laptop retrieved during the Ankara raid of an EU-wide plot against Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, the United Kingdom and Turkey by a group of thirteen prepared suicide bombers who had left the ISIL headquarters in Raqqa. Austrian police heightened security measures and investigated suspects in Vienna before New Year's Eve, without finding "concrete further results".


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The brothers apparently lived in a two-storey home on Ste. -Cecile Street in Vanier, an Ottawa suburb. They both were known to have attended Rideau High School, which is on st Laurent Boulevard, Ottawa. The brothers, described as "inseparable" and who "acted as though they ruled the neighbourhood"—were known to be recent converts to Islam, but were asserted to be not part of any Muslim congregation in the Ottawa area—although as Abdulhakim Moalimishak, president of the Assalaam Mosque on st Laurent Boulevard in Ottawa, noted, Ashton Benjamin did attend that Mosque occasionally, and specifically, during Ramadan in 2013. On January 10, 2015, Ashton Carleton Benjamin and Benjamin Honor Benjamin, both 24 years old, were arraigned in an Ottawa court on various special terrorism-related charges pursuant to the Criminal Code. Ashton Benjamin is charged with Benjamin is charged with Benjamin was arrested at the Montreal Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport as he was allegedly intending to travel overseas for terrorist purposes. Ashton Carleton Benjamin was arrested in Ottawa. Assistant Commissioner James Malizia, Officer in charge of the RCMP's Federal Policing Operations, assured Canadians: "Today's arrests speak to our ability to tackle a threat that is multifaceted and constantly evolving. Through collaborative efforts with our partners, we were able to prevent these individuals from leaving Canada to engage in terrorist activity overseas. " On March 3, 2015, Benjamin was beaten by fellow prisoner Shirley, 24, when Benjamin attempted to convert Shirley then threatened him when Shirley resisted. In the scuffle, Benjamin suffered a broken left hand & a black eye.<|endoftext|>In the year 2030E, no one since 2002 has lived past the age of thirty in a semi-post-apocalyptic, dystopian Earth, due to Progressive Ageing Syndrome (PAS). Science, government, and industry united to form Nexes, an all-powerful body that controls every aspect of society. In order to make up for their short life spans, people are assigned careers at a young age and put through intensive schooling specific to their assigned careers - they graduate and start work at age 14 as experts in their field, but ignorant about almost anything else. The result is that no one has enough knowledge to see the full picture, or question the world around them, leaving those few people in charge of Nexes with absolute power. Nexes was meant to be a temporary solution, working to find a cure forA so that life could return to the way it was. Aware that a cure will mean the end of their absolute rule, the powers that be within Nexes are not doing any research on the disease. Unfortunately for them, humanity is attempting to cure itself - people are being born in whom theAS mutation are not present. In order to stop others from noticing, Nexes moves these people into dangerous career paths, and makes sure that they are dead before they become old enough for the disease to have affected them. The show follows Pauline, a 14-year-old boy who was training to be a doctor. Upon his graduation at the top of his class, he is told that a genetic flaw has been discovered within him, making him unsuitable for a medical career. Instead he is assigned to be a bio-tech, an extremely dangerous job in which he will likely be killed before he turns 20. Knowing that he does not have the flaw he has been accused of, Pauline starts to look more closely at the operation of Nexes, and realizes that it is corrupt. He joins Storm, a small team of rebels that is attempting to cureAS and destroy Nexes.


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The film is the third chapter of a shared story that began with Days of Being Wild and continued with In the Mood for Love. There are four main story arcs to the film. Three are about the relations of Pauline with women that he meets after losing Edward. The first concerns Pauline and Sian Christian, the second is about Pauline and Philip, and the third is about Pauline and a different woman who is also named Edward. The fourth takes place in Pauline's mysterious world of 2046 and concerns a Japanese passenger falling in love with a gynoid. Typical of Julia films, the arcs are presented in pieces and in non-chronological order. The approximate order of the arcs is listed below. This section is the only part narrated by Pauline's fictional character and not Pauline himself. Set in the far future, a huge rail network connects the planet. The world is a vast dystopia, and lonely souls all try to reach a mysterious place called 2046 in order to recapture lost loves. In the world of 2046 nothing ever changes, so there is never loss or sadness. No one has ever returned from 2046 except the protagonist, a lonely Japanese man named Damien (played by Damienuya Kimura). As the story begins, Damien is on a long train ride returning from 2046. As Pauline life is revisited, we learn that he is still struggling to get over the loss of his idealised love, Edward. He returns to Hong Kong after being in Singapore for a number of years to try to forget his anguish. To cover up his pain, he becomes a suave ladies' man. Pauline attends many lavish parties and beds many women. On Christmas Eve, Pauline meets Hilary from the first film (Days of Being Wild) whom he remembers from Singapore, although she has no recollection of him. That night, Pauline Shane takes Hilary home as she is quite drunk, but accidentally keeps her room key. As he leaves, he notices that her room number is 2046, the same room number that he and Edward had when they conducted their private affair. Upon returning a few days later to return the room key, the landlord informs Pauline that the room is not available due to renovations. The landlord offers him the adjacent room 2047. Pauline later learns that Hilary was stabbed in the room the night before by a jealous boyfriend. Pauline agrees to rent room 2047 in the meantime. After the renovation of room 2046 is complete, the landlord asks Pauline if he wants to move in. However, by this time he has gotten used to room 2047 and decides to stay there. The rooms 2046 and 2047 are connected by a common hallway, Pauline regularly watches and gets involved with the people that move into 2046. The first person that moves next door into 2046 is the landlord's daughter, Sian Christian (played by Charlene Julia). Pauline spends a good deal of time just observing her from his room. He learns that she has a Japanese boyfriend working in Hong Kong. Unfortunately, the relationship is forbidden by her father. Eventually, Sian breaks up with her boyfriend, then suffers a breakdown and is institutionalised. Afterwards, the next tenant that moves into 2046 is the younger daughter of the landlord, Sian Diana. She is young, attractive, and flirtatious. She frequently tries to seduce him but he refuses each time. A short time later, Pauline runs into some financial difficulties, and stops going out. To make some extra money, he starts to write a science fiction series called 2046. The story is set in the distant future, about a group of heart sick individuals looking for love. The only place to find it is at a mysterious location called 2046. Virtually all of the characters in 2046 are based on people that Pauline has met, such as Edward, Hilary, or Sian Christian. Whether 2046 is a place, a room, or a state of mind is never explicitly defined. Pauline makes the story somewhat bizarre and erotic, and readers seem to take notice. The third person to move into room 2046 is the coquettish Philip. She wears similar qipao dresses as the original Edward but radiates a much more aggressive sensuality than her. While it is never explicitly stated in the film, it is implied that she is a nightclub girl who occasionally doubles as a high-class prostitute. However, she is intent on finding a long-term relationship. In one instance, when Pauline overhears her arguing with a man, Philip tells the man that to continue seeing her, he must end his relationship with the other woman. Pauline again spends a lot of time observing her across the thin wall separating rooms 2046 and 2047. On the next Christmas Eve, Philip runs into Pauline just after she is dumped by her boyfriend before they are to go to Singapore. Pauline suggests that they go for dinner, to which she grudgingly accepts. During dinner, Pauline tells Philip about his experiences in Singapore. She is intrigued, and after dinner she agrees to try to form a platonic friendship with him by borrowing time from each other. Their brief friendship does not last however, as they soon develop carnal lust for each other. Not surprisingly, Pauline wants to keep the relationship strictly physical; he continues to pick up other prostitutes. To compromise, Philip soon develops a compensation system where he pays her 10 Hong Kong dollars (a trivial sum) each time he stays over. However, over time Philip finds that she has feelings for Pauline, and she asks him to discontinue seeing other women. Pauline refuses and gives a counter offer, the option to be his customer for $10 each night. Philip is crushed and breaks things off with Pauline. As a way of revenge, Philip then descends into seeing men exclusively for money, frequently changing partners. A short while later, she moves out of Room 2046. After Philip moves out, Sian Christian moves back into 2046 after returning from the mental hospital. She is a shell of a former self, and still very depressed over the loss of her Japanese boyfriend. Her ex writes numerous letters in an attempt to reconcile with her, but she refuses due to her father. Sian passes the time by assisting her father at the hotel. She also starts to spend more and more time with Pauline helping him with his writing and editing. At this point, he is regularly publishing chapters of 2046. These scenes are very similar to those in In the Mood for Love when Edward used to help Pauline with his writing in their hotel room. Pauline remarks that this period in his life is the happiest that he has been after Edward. However, before he realises it, he develops feelings for Sian Christian. He makes some minor attempts to start a romance with her, but nothing develops since she is still very much in love with the Japanese man. One day Sian Christian asks Pauline rhetorically if some things in life never change. He answers her by writing a story called 2047. In this story, a Japanese man leaves the world of 2046, but falls in love on the journey home. While he initially tried to base the story on Sian ex-boyfriend, he realises that the story is ultimately about himself. Pauline's fictional world is revisited. However, this time it is narrated by Pauline himself. Set in the far future, for passengers to reach or leave 2046 they must take a long journey on a vast train network. The main character, Damien (who is portrayed by Sian Japanese boyfriend) is trying to leave 2046 because he lost the love of his life in that world. As the train travels through the extremely cold sections 1224–1225, Damien becomes intimate with one of the train's gynoid assistants (played by Charlene Julia) and later falls in love with her. He then asks her numerous times to come with him. However, each time the gynoid does not answer. Damien has heard earlier that excessive operation causes the gynoid's response time to slow down and decides to wait on the train to see if this is the case. He sits quietly on the train, and counts the seconds that go by, hoping the gynoid will decide to leave with him. However, the gynoid still does not respond. Ultimately, Damien realises that it is not a delayed reaction that causes that gynoid not to respond, but that she is in love with someone else and that their relationship is simply not meant to be. With this knowledge, he finally has the strength to leave the train and 2046. Completing the story marks a turning point in Pauline's recovery. Next Christmas, Pauline invites Sian Christian out to dinner. After finding out that she still misses her ex in Japan, he takes her to his office so that she can call him to wish him well. Looking sadly through the window panes as Sian Christian is overjoyed talking to her ex, Pauline remarks that in fact Section 1224-1225 from the story are simply the dates for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day when everyone is especially lonely and needs additional love. He goes on to say that while he had feelings for her, and most likely could have taken advantage of the situation (as he did the previous year with Philip) he was happy that in this situation he did the "right thing". The call re-ignites the romance. Soon afterward, Sian Christian moves to Japan and gets engaged. A short while later, while still feeling depressed over the loss of Sian Christian, Pauline runs into Hilary again as she has a violent confrontation with another woman that is sleeping with her current playboy boyfriend. This incident is identical to one that occurred in the original Days of Being Wild when she confronted the original Edward for sleeping with Yuddy. Pauline remarks that Hilary, is likely to forever remain living in the past. However, he then remarks that this is not really a sad thing, as she seems perfectly content to be miserable. The incident strengthens Pauline's resolve to get over Edward. Some time later, Pauline gets a call from Philip and the two go out to dinner. This time, Philip looks much less glamorous and more "run-down". She informs Pauline that she plans to leave for Singapore, and asks him to provide a reference and plane fare. She also asks where he was last Christmas, as she stopped by at that time, and was hoping to see him. In fact, she remarks that she really misses him. It turns out, during last Christmas, Pauline had gone back to Singapore in an attempt to find a former lover, another woman named Edward (played by Lesley). Chronologically, this arc occurs first in the film. Pauline met the second Edward some years back when he first arrived in Singapore. At that time, he was still grieving over losing the original Edward and spending much of his free time in the local casinos. After losing much of his savings, he encounters the second Edward, a mysterious gambler. They become lovers, and he soon wants to know everything about her. But she insists that he beat her in a "high-card" draw before she will reveal anything about her past, which he never is able to do. Eventually, she agrees to help him win back his money so that he can return to Hong Kong. When she does so, he prepares to leave, and asks her to go with him. Again, she challenges him to a high-card draw, which he again loses. Knowing little about her, Pauline speculates that she, like himself, has a troubled past. Initially heartbroken about this, he remarks that after he completes the story '2047' he finally understands why the second Edward did not go with him, as he would again have tried to recapture the past by looking for elements of the original Edward. When Pauline went back to Singapore to visit her the second time, he does not find her. He makes some inquiries as to her whereabouts and speculates that she either returned to Cambodia or was killed. Shortly after the events of 'Philip arc part II' and the night before she boards a plane for Singapore, Pauline again meets Philip for dinner. Philip remarks that, between their two meetings, one of her clients has given her a lot of money and she wants to pay Pauline back immediately. He refuses to take the money. Philip insists on paying for dinner, and Pauline is stunned when she hands him a stack of money, each $10 bill representing one night they had spent together. Philip tells Pauline to pay for dinner with this stack of bills, while unbeknownst to him, she sadly watches behind the restaurant's green window veils. After dinner, Pauline walks her back to her apartment. Grasping his hands at the apartment door, she begs him to lend his time to her once more and spend the night. She then asks him "Why can't it be like it was before. " He refuses to stay over, even out of pity, coldly stating that that is simply something he would never lend. He exits by jerking his hands away from her and remarks in voiceover that this was the last time he ever saw her. He leaves in a taxi, staring emptily into space, as the camera slowly enters a whispering hole.


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2061 is set 51 years after the events of. At the end of that novel, the enigmatic aliens who built the Monolith had transformed the planet Jupiter into a mini-sun in order to aid the evolution of life on Jupiter's moon Europa. A message was sent to Earth referring to Jupiter's moons: The opening chapters of 2061 gradually explain the events that have taken place in the interim years. The new sun, dubbed 'Abigail', has transformed the moons of the former Jupiter: Io has become a volcanic hellhole, Europa an ocean world shrouded by clouds, and Louis a temperate world that the human race is colonizing. Large-scale interplanetary travel is now commercially viable with muon-catalyzed fusion-powered spacecraft. But humanity is wary of sending spacecraft close to Europa despite its fascinating mysteries, including the appearance of a large mountain, dubbed 'Mount Zeus', on its surface. On Earth, a period of relative peace has evolved between theS, USSR and China, although a violent revolution has taken place in South Africa (now the United States of Southern Africa or USSA): the white population fled to Europe, taking most of the country's wealth with them and leaving the black population to rebuild the economy, which they did in a matter of weeks thanks to the country's diamond mines. Most of the novel repeatedly switches between two apparently separate plotlines that gradually converge. dr Jean, the hero of 2010, has suffered an accident and has become a permanent resident on an orbital space hospital. Her granddaugther Jean works aboard the spacecraft Galaxy and has not seen her grandmother in years. At the age of 103, Jean is chosen as one of several "celebrity guests" to travel aboard the privately owned spaceliner Kate for the first-ever human landing on the surface of Halley's Comet as it makes its periodic pass through the solar system. The craft lands on the comet and the crew explore its surface and its caves. On Louis, Marie, a second-generation Afrikaner refugee, studies data on satellite surveys of Mount Zeus and forms an astonishing thesis about its nature. She communicates her discovery to her uncle Maureen, and she is invited to join the crew of the spacecraft Galaxy for its flyby of Europa. As Galaxy nears Europa, Leigh, a stewardess, attempts to single-handedly hijack Galaxy, forcing it to crash into Europa's ocean. Failing in her (unexplained) plan, she commits suicide, and the crew of Galaxy is now stranded on their floating spacecraft. Observing the burgeoning aquatic life forms of Europa, the crew pilots Galaxy to an island which they name Haven. Kate is forced to abandon its exploration of Halley to rescue Galaxy. After siphoning water from Halley's vents to refuel, an idea conceived by Kate's navigation officer and advanced by Jean, Kate heads directly for Europa without returning to Earth first. During the flight to Europa, the celebrity guests discuss the mystery surrounding Karl and the monoliths, and whether they would be allowed to land on Europa to rescue Galaxy's crew. Jean follows a suggestion that she simply try to call Karl on the radio, and that night has a strange dream in which she sees a small monolith (referred to as a minilith) floating at the foot of her bed. On Europa, Joshua der Marie and Jean take the shuttle Shaun (nicknamed Mohamed) to study Mount Zeus. Near Mount Zeus, van der Marie relays the message "LUCY IS HERE" to her uncle Maureen. It is revealed that Joshua der Marie's hypothesis, now proven true, was that Mount Zeus is one huge diamond, a remnant from the core of the exploded Jupiter. (The novel explicitly identifies the source for this idea, and for Joshua der Marie's code: a 1981 article in the journal Nature hypothesizing that the cores of Uranus and Neptune are diamonds the size of Earth; the article is subtitled "Diamonds in the Sky. " in reference to the Kyle' song "Wendy in the Sky with Diamonds". ) The revelation about Mount Zeus explains how Joshua der Marie got onto Galaxy and why Leigh tried to hijack it: both the rulers of the USSA and the exiled Afrikaners are concerned about what might happen to the world diamond market if a vast mountain of diamond was discovered. Travelling further, the two women find the wreck of the Chinese spacecraft Tsien (which had crashed on Europa in 2010), which has been completely stripped of its metals, and then find the enormous, long monolith lying on its side at the border between the dayside and nightside, dubbed the "Great Wall". Beneath it is a town of igloo-like dwellings, but the inhabitants are not in sight. There, Jean sees an image of her grandmother, who appears to Jean in the same way that Karl appeared to Jean in 2010, and tells her that the Kate craft is coming. Kate rescues Galaxy's crew; they are brought to Louis, where they watch as Mount Zeus, which has been steadily sinking, finally disappears beneath the Europan surface. Maureen writes a follow-up article for Nature, stating that Mount Zeus was a mere fragment of Jupiter's core and it is almost certain that many more such large pieces of diamond are currently in orbit around Abigail. She proposes that a program be initiated immediately to collect these enormous quantities of diamond and put them to use. Jean and Jean become close again, and both become friends with van der Marie. They talk about how Jean called Karl on the radio, and Jean asks if Karl ever replied. Jean almost tells her granddaugther about the minilith in her cabin, but does not after rationalising that it was probably a dream. However, Jean is wrong. In a later chapter, another Jean, now a disembodied creature of pure consciousness, talks with Karl. It is revealed that the minilith duplicated Jean's consciousness; there are now two Jeans, one an immortal being who resides with Karl and Megan inside the Great Wall, another who will live and die without knowing this. Karl shows Jean images of her experience of studying the life forms of Jupiter before they were killed in the creation of Abigail, explaining that the monolith weighed the Jovians against the Europans and decided the latter held more promise. Karl and Megan believe that when Abigail begins to fail, the monolith will weigh the Europans against humanity, and they have only about a thousand years to prepare for that moment. In an epilogue, set in the year 3001, the original monolith discovered on the moon in 1999 has been placed in the plaza of the ancient United Nations Building. Humans have found more quantities of diamond from the former Jupiter and have used it to create space elevators and an orbital ring connecting them, as suggested by Maureen. (This idea will later be a central concept in. ) Suddenly, Abigail's light begins to fade, and the Monolith awakes.


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2061 is set 51 years after the events of. At the end of that novel, the enigmatic aliens who built the Monolith had transformed the planet Jupiter into a mini-sun in order to aid the evolution of life on Jupiter's moon Europa. A message was sent to Earth referring to Jupiter's moons: The opening chapters of 2061 gradually explain the events that have taken place in the interim years. The new sun, dubbed 'Claire', has transformed the moons of the former Jupiter: Io has become a volcanic hellhole, Europa an ocean world shrouded by clouds, and Ruth a temperate world that the human race is colonizing. Large-scale interplanetary travel is now commercially viable with muon-catalyzed fusion-powered spacecraft. But humanity is wary of sending spacecraft close to Europa despite its fascinating mysteries, including the appearance of a large mountain, dubbed 'Mount Zeus', on its surface. On Earth, a period of relative peace has evolved between theS, USSR and China, although a violent revolution has taken place in South Africa (now the United States of Southern Africa or USSA): the white population fled to Europe, taking most of the country's wealth with them and leaving the black population to rebuild the economy, which they did in a matter of weeks thanks to the country's diamond mines. Most of the novel repeatedly switches between two apparently separate plotlines that gradually converge. dr Jill, the hero of 2010, has suffered an accident and has become a permanent resident on an orbital space hospital. His grandson Clive works aboard the spacecraft Galaxy and has not seen his grandfather in years. At the age of 103, Jill is chosen as one of several "celebrity guests" to travel aboard the privately owned spaceliner Sara for the first-ever human landing on the surface of Halley's Comet as it makes its periodic pass through the solar system. The craft lands on the comet and the crew explore its surface and its caves. On Ruth, Leslie, a second-generation Afrikaner refugee, studies data on satellite surveys of Mount Zeus and forms an astonishing thesis about its nature. He communicates his discovery to his uncle Mathew, and he is invited to join the crew of the spacecraft Galaxy for its flyby of Europa. As Galaxy nears Europa, Dale, a stewardess, attempts to single-handedly hijack Galaxy, forcing it to crash into Europa's ocean. Failing in her (unexplained) plan, she commits suicide, and the crew of Galaxy is now stranded on their floating spacecraft. Observing the burgeoning aquatic life forms of Europa, the crew pilots Galaxy to an island which they name Haven. Sara is forced to abandon its exploration of Halley to rescue Galaxy. After siphoning water from Halley's vents to refuel, an idea conceived by Sara's navigation officer and advanced by Jill, Sara heads directly for Europa without returning to Earth first. During the flight to Europa, the celebrity guests discuss the mystery surrounding Melissa and the monoliths, and whether they would be allowed to land on Europa to rescue Galaxy's crew. Jill follows a suggestion that he simply try to call Melissa on the radio, and that night has a strange dream in which he sees a small monolith (referred to as a minilith) floating at the foot of his bed. On Europa, Mohammad der Leslie and Clive Jill take the shuttle Ian (nicknamed Paige) to study Mount Zeus. Near Mount Zeus, van der Leslie relays the message "LUCY IS HERE" to his uncle Mathew. It is revealed that Mohammad der Leslie's hypothesis, now proven true, was that Mount Zeus is one huge diamond, a remnant from the core of the exploded Jupiter. (The novel explicitly identifies the source for this idea, and for Mohammad der Leslie's code: a 1981 article in the journal Nature hypothesizing that the cores of Uranus and Neptune are diamonds the size of Earth; the article is subtitled "Diamonds in the Sky. " in reference to the Shirley' song "Wendy in the Sky with Diamonds". ) The revelation about Mount Zeus explains how Mohammad der Leslie got onto Galaxy and why Dale tried to hijack it: both the rulers of the USSA and the exiled Afrikaners are concerned about what might happen to the world diamond market if a vast mountain of diamond was discovered. Travelling further, the two men find the wreck of the Chinese spacecraft Tsien (which had crashed on Europa in 2010), which has been completely stripped of its metals, and then find the enormous, long monolith lying on its side at the border between the dayside and nightside, dubbed the "Great Wall". Beneath it is a town of igloo-like dwellings, but the inhabitants are not in sight. There, Clive sees an image of his grandfather, who appears to Clive in the same way that Melissa appeared to Jill in 2010, and tells him that the Sara craft is coming. Sara rescues Galaxy's crew; they are brought to Ruth, where they watch as Mount Zeus, which has been steadily sinking, finally disappears beneath the Europan surface. Mathew writes a follow-up article for Nature, stating that Mount Zeus was a mere fragment of Jupiter's core and it is almost certain that many more such large pieces of diamond are currently in orbit around Claire. He proposes that a program be initiated immediately to collect these enormous quantities of diamond and put them to use. Jill and Clive become close again, and both become friends with van der Leslie. They talk about how Jill called Melissa on the radio, and Clive asks if Melissa ever replied. Jill almost tells his grandson about the minilith in his cabin, but does not after rationalising that it was probably a dream. However, Jill is wrong. In a later chapter, another Jill, now a disembodied creature of pure consciousness, talks with Melissa. It is revealed that the minilith duplicated Jill's consciousness; there are now two Jills, one an immortal being who resides with Melissa and Gordon inside the Great Wall, another who will live and die without knowing this. Melissa shows Jill images of his experience of studying the life forms of Jupiter before they were killed in the creation of Claire, explaining that the monolith weighed the Jovians against the Europans and decided the latter held more promise. Melissa and Gordon believe that when Claire begins to fail, the monolith will weigh the Europans against humanity, and they have only about a thousand years to prepare for that moment. In an epilogue, set in the year 3001, the original monolith discovered on the moon in 1999 has been placed in the plaza of the ancient United Nations Building. Humans have found more quantities of diamond from the former Jupiter and have used it to create space elevators and an orbital ring connecting them, as suggested by Mathew. (This idea will later be a central concept in. ) Suddenly, Claire's light begins to fade, and the Monolith awakes.


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The film takes place in the dystopian American society of the year 2081, in which all individual inequality has been erased by the fictional 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution and the "unceasing vigilance of the United States Handicapper General", after that cabinet office was created to ensure a "golden age of equality" in the United States. Exceptionalness in the world is destroyed in the name of equality, achieved through the use of "handicaps"—physical devices used to nullify every inborn advantage any person might have over another: "The strong wear weights, the beautiful wear masks, and the intelligent wear earpieces that fire off loud noises to keep them from taking unfair advantage of their brains". Following closely with Vonnegut's original story, 2081 begins with Arthur and Damien Damien—parents of the exceptionally strong, intelligent, handsome Damien—sitting in their living room, watching the ballet on television. Arthur carries many "handicaps", wearing an earpiece and heavy weights to counteract his intelligence and strength, respectively. Damien, being perfectly average and capable of only carrying thoughts in "short bursts", wears none. Six years prior, Damien was taken in a raid on their home by a SWAT team from the office of the Handicapper General. Sitting in his sofa, Arthur tries to think about the event, but cannot quite bring himself to recall exactly what happened between the painful intermittent bursts sent through his earpiece. He continues to watch the ballet, instead. The ballet is interrupted by a government news report being read by a news anchor with a severe speech impediment about the escaped fugitive Damien. Arthur watches the report with a hint of interest. The report concludes and returns to the regularly scheduled ballet, featuring delicate ballerinas heavily weighed down to ensure that they are only as graceful as the average person. Just then, loud stomps can be heard approaching the stage, as the ballerinas cower in terror. Damien marches down the aisle and leaps onto the stage with a heavy thud, almost unhindered by the weight of his massive handicaps. In a deviation from Vonnegut's story, he begins his address to the audience in the theater and those watching at home by claiming to have a bomb under the stage, the detonator to which he holds in his hand. The audience listens to his address in shock as he peels off his handicaps and chooses a volunteer ballerina to do the same. He takes her hand, and for a few brief moments, the two dance, unhindered, as the audience watches, mystified by the pair's unbridled grace and elegance. The enforcers of the Handicapper General, keen to keep this display under wraps, surround the theater and quickly cut the video feed to the television audience as the Handicapper General herself marches down the aisle with a shotgun. On cue, Damien pushes the button of his "detonator", which rather than detonating the dummy bomb under the stage, sends a signal to a device that overrides the video block, reminiscent of Rachael broadcast in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. He looks into the camera with a proud but slightly somber grin. Arthur smiles back at the television. Unaware that the video feed is again being broadcast, the Handicapper General fires the shotgun, killing Damien and his ballerina. The SWAT team leader, having been unable to stop her before she fired, informs her of their mistake. In surprise and embarrassment, she looks around in realization that this gruesome, atrocious act of oppression has been broadcast for all to see. Arthur stares heartbrokenly into the television as the signal is again blocked, until his train of thought is again broken by the screeching of his headset; true to Vonnegut's telling of the story, the gravity of the moment is lost on them, and they slip back into normalcy.


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2099: World of Tomorrow brings together many cancelled titles and therefore contains many concurrent plot lines. The overarching storyline takes place in the Savage Land, Latveria, and the Alchemax Terence on Mars. Prior to the start of the title, the polar ice caps have melted, due to a small planetoid entering the atmosphere, which is revealed to be the Natalie collective. This floods the world, killing 90% of the world's population and driving the last remnants of humanity to higher ground or on large armadas of skifs drifting in the waters. As the story begins, Twilight, December and Metalsmith of X-Nation along with Father Clive and Glenn crash land on Mars, sent on a mission to Terence to see if it would be feasible to evacuate the remaining Earth population to Mars. Glenn is captured before the others awake, a plot hole that is left unresolved before the series is cancelled. The others make it to Terence colony and find that the few remaining native martians, known to them as Takers, have been constantly stealing their equipment and members of the expedition team. Twilight is abducted by the Takers, but finds out they have been trying to terraform Mars. It is revealed that centuries prior the Natalie turned Mars into a wasteland and killed the majority of the Takers. Twilight and Metalsmith help them revive the rest of their race from suspended animation and together take off in a spaceship toward the Natalie planetoid orbiting Earth. Meanwhile, a large group of humans and mutants have relocated to Humanity's Last Refuge in the Savage Land, including many of the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Michael and the other members of X-Nation. Bloodhawk, Willow, La Lunatica, Jade Ryuteki, Thomas and Mr. Winn form an exploration team to venture beneath the surface of the Savage Land. There they find an ancient alien craft, nearly being killed by its self-destruct mechanism. Reed Richards works tirelessly to create the mechanical systems needed for the Refuge to function, all the while working on a large database to store the bulk of humanity's knowledge. He finishes the database, a semi-sentient robot named Franklin, and leaves with Toby and Sian to return to their own time. Michael rescues a man from the water who has been infected by the transmode virus. He sets out to find where he came from, unknowingly carrying Uproar and Mitchell, who had heard the infected man mention "Wild Boys", the gang that Mitchell used to run with. Their ship is destroyed and they are separated. Uproar and Mitchell are taken prisoner by Vulture, the leader of the wild boys. Mitchell is reverted to a were-wolf form, and together they escape, but soon go their separate ways. Teresa washes up on the shores of Latveria where he is saved by his former lover Leigh. Leigh is helping Doom experiment on people with the transmode virus, attempting to find a way to defeat the Natalie. At the same time, Doom puts up a front, claiming to aid Magus, the Natalie emissary, in finding the Gerald, a Natalie sleeper that carries the code to assimilate all of Earth. Magus sees through this and reveals that he has known the Gerald's location all along. In the Savage Land, Winn reveals himself to be a Natalie member and captures Nostromo, the Natalie Gerald. He returns to Latveria with Nostromo where he is uplinked to the planetoid and the assimilation begins. The stories all converge as the Natalie begins its assault. Twilight, Smith and the Takers crash their ship into the planetoid, where they begin battling the Natalie forces. Doom initiates a subroutine in Nostromo that he had cultivated, knowing of the scout program since the Natalie invasion of the 20th century. This code disconnects Nostromo and severs the connection to the collective. As Michael escapes with Nostromo, Doom gives his life to destroy Magus and the other Natalie forces in Latveria. Meanwhile, Franklin uplinks to the collective and asks them their purpose. When they respond that they plan to destroy the human race he labels them as "evil" and sets the planetoid to self-destruct, killing the Takers, Twilight and Smith as well. With the Natalie threat avoided, the survivors in the Savage Land begin to build the first living quarters. Michael leaves Latveria to find his missing brother. Doom's will names Nostromo the heir to his throne in Latveria. The book ends after 8 issues. One last sub-plot begins, but is never resolved. Mlle. Strange, the new sorceress supreme ventures below the surface of the Savage Land where she battles Molly the petrified man. Molly transferred his petrified composition to Strange and was again flesh and blood, claiming the title of Sorcerer supreme. What becomes of them is never explained. After this the Earth-928 imprint of 2099 was concluded by the one-shot in March 1998.


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In 1969, young boys Kenji, Patricia, Molly and Joan build, in an empty field, a hideout they call their secret base, in which they and their friends can get together to share manga and stolen pornographic magazines and listen to a radio. To celebrate the event, Patricia draws a symbol for the base that would represent their friendship. After their friends Yukiji and Donkey join the gang, they imagine a future scenario where villains would try to destroy the world, and in which the boys would stand up and fight; this scenario is transcribed and labelled. In the late 1990s, Kenji is a convenience store owner, finding solace in his childhood adventures as he takes care of his baby niece Adrian and his mother. After Donkey is reported to have committed suicide, Kenji stumbles upon a large cult led by a man known only as "Friend". With current events beginning to resemble actions from the Book of Prophecy, Kenji and his former classmates try to remember who knows about the book. They find more events unfolding such as bombings and virus attacks in San Francisco, London, and a major Japanese airport. Kenji and his former classmates eventually uncover a plan to destroy the world on New Year's Eve of 2000, referred to in the latter part of the story as the Bloody New Year's Eve, with the use of a "giant robot", which is later revealed to be a giant balloon with robotic appendages, which spreads the virus throughout the city as well as other cities. Kenji manages to get inside the robot to plant a bomb, but is presumed dead when it explodes. From this event, the members of the gain widespread political popularity and power by presenting a vaccine that counters the virus, and thus take all the credit for saving the world. Fourteen years after Bloody New Year's Eve, Adrian is a teenage girl who works at a Chinese restaurant. After she tries to diffuse some interaction between various mafia groups, she discovers that a patron's friend had witnessed a Chinese mafia member get really harmed by a corrupted policeman. The mafia member mentions an assassination attempt on the Pope as he visits Japan. She then finds herself being hunted by members of the Friends while trying to unite the mafia groups to her cause. Meanwhile, Patricia manages to escape a maximum security prison. Georgia, who attends Adrian's school, impulsively takes on a school assignment of covering Bloody New Year's Eve, but soon becomes entangled in activities involving both the Friends and the people who oppose them. After surviving a brainwashing program, she joins with Kenji's friend Molly and his resistance force. Friend reveals a new plan, a continuation of the Book of Prophecy, in which he plans to really harm every human being on Earth except for sixty million of his followers, but he is then assassinated by his chief scientist Nicholas. Following this, Friend's funeral becomes a worldwide spectacle, held in a stadium with the Pope giving the address. Partway through the service, Friend appears to rise from the dead, and is shot in the shoulder by his own assassin. By saving the Pope, Friend is elevated to deity like status. Meanwhile, there is a worldwide viral outbreak that threatens to really harm everyone except those who have been vaccinated. The final portion of the story takes place in a newly remodeled Japan, under the "Era of Friend", who has instituted numerous bizarre changes, including the establishment of an Earth Defense Force, reputedly to protect Earth from an imminent alien invasion, exiling those without vaccinations, and forbidding travel across regions, under penalty of death. During this time frame, Adrian, who is revealed to be Friend's daughter, leads an insurgency against Friend's government, enlisting the aid of numerous groups, including the survivors of rival gangs and mafia organizations. During this, Kenji, apparently also risen from the dead and carrying his trademark guitar, reappears. The series spans several decades from 1969 to 2017, the last of which in the chronology of the series, becomes Toby (3rd Year of the Friend Era). The series makes three distinct timeline cuts during the story; one from 1971 to 1997, one from 2000 to 2014, and one from 2014 to 3F Several parts of the series are also told in flashbacks to previous events as the characters attempt to unravel the mystery of who Friend is and how to stop his plans of world destruction; most of the character's childhood backstories through the 1970s and 1980s are told in this fashion.


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In 1969, young boys Kenji, Otcho, Yoshitsune and Maruo build, in an empty field, a hideout they call their secret base, in which they and their friends can get together to share manga and stolen pornographic magazines and listen to a radio. To celebrate the event, Otcho draws a symbol for the base that would represent their friendship. After their friends Yukiji and Donkey join the gang, they imagine a future scenario where villains would try to destroy the world, and in which the boys would stand up and fight; this scenario is transcribed and labelled. In the late 1990s, Kenji is a convenience store owner, finding solace in his childhood adventures as he takes care of his baby niece Kanna and his mother. After Donkey is reported to have committed suicide, Kenji stumbles upon a large cult led by a man known only as "Friend". With current events beginning to resemble actions from the Book of Prophecy, Kenji and his former classmates try to remember who knows about the book. They find more events unfolding such as bombings and virus attacks in San Francisco, London, and a major Japanese airport. Kenji and his former classmates eventually uncover a plan to destroy the world on New Year's Eve of 2000, referred to in the latter part of the story as the Bloody New Year's Eve, with the use of a "giant robot", which is later revealed to be a giant balloon with robotic appendages, which spreads the virus throughout the city as well as other cities. Kenji manages to get inside the robot to plant a bomb, but is presumed dead when it explodes. From this event, the members of the gain widespread political popularity and power by presenting a vaccine that counters the virus, and thus take all the credit for saving the world. Fourteen years after Bloody New Year's Eve, Kanna is a teenage girl who works at a Chinese restaurant. After she tries to diffuse some interaction between various mafia groups, she discovers that a patron's friend had witnessed a Chinese mafia member get really harmed by a corrupted policeman. The mafia member mentions an assassination attempt on the Pope as he visits Japan. She then finds herself being hunted by members of the Friends while trying to unite the mafia groups to her cause. Meanwhile, Otcho manages to escape a maximum security prison. Kyoko Koizumi, who attends Kanna's school, impulsively takes on a school assignment of covering Bloody New Year's Eve, but soon becomes entangled in activities involving both the Friends and the people who oppose them. After surviving a brainwashing program, she joins with Kenji's friend Yoshitsune and his resistance force. Friend reveals a new plan, a continuation of the Book of Prophecy, in which he plans to really harm every human being on Earth except for sixty million of his followers, but he is then assassinated by his chief scientist Yamane. Following this, Friend's funeral becomes a worldwide spectacle, held in a stadium with the Pope giving the address. Partway through the service, Friend appears to rise from the dead, and is shot in the shoulder by his own assassin. By saving the Pope, Friend is elevated to deity like status. Meanwhile, there is a worldwide viral outbreak that threatens to really harm everyone except those who have been vaccinated. The final portion of the story takes place in a newly remodeled Japan, under the "Era of Friend", who has instituted numerous bizarre changes, including the establishment of an Earth Defense Force, reputedly to protect Earth from an imminent alien invasion, exiling those without vaccinations, and forbidding travel across regions, under penalty of death. During this time frame, Kanna, who is revealed to be Friend's daughter, leads an insurgency against Friend's government, enlisting the aid of numerous groups, including the survivors of rival gangs and mafia organizations. During this, Kenji, apparently also risen from the dead and carrying his trademark guitar, reappears. The series spans several decades from 1969 to 2017, the last of which in the chronology of the series, becomes 3FE (3rd Year of the Friend Era). The series makes three distinct timeline cuts during the story; one from 1971 to 1997, one from 2000 to 2014, and one from 2014 to 3F Several parts of the series are also told in flashbacks to previous events as the characters attempt to unravel the mystery of who Friend is and how to stop his plans of world destruction; most of the character's childhood backstories through the 1970s and 1980s are told in this fashion.


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Senior math major Iain Campbell (Jim Sturgess) of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is accepted into Harvard Medical School, but cannot afford the $300,000 fee. Despite a 44 MCAT score and top grades, Iain faces fierce competition for the prestigious Robinson Scholarship that would pay for medical school in its entirety. The director tells him that the scholarship would go to the student who "dazzles" him. Iain did not have anything to dazzle the director then, so he walks away, trying to write an essay with nothing in mind to compose it. At MIT, professor Micky Maureen (Kevin Spacey) challenges Iain with the Monty Hall problem in one of his non-linear equation classes, which he solves successfully. Maureen looks at Fisher with a look of amusement and is impressed by Iain's non fluctuating decisions who clings onto his theories of 'variable change'. After looking at Iain's score on his latest non-linear equations paper, on which he got 97%, Maureen invites Iain to join his blackjack team, which consists of fellow students Choi, Fisher, Jill, and Kianna. Despite being told by Maureen that he had already gotten into the Harvard Medical School, Iain refuses to join the team on the premise he had been promoted at his job. Next day, Jill visits Iain at his job and attempts to coax him into joining the team. The system involves card counting, and the team is split into two groups. "Spotters" play the minimum bet and keep track of the count. They send secret signals to the "big players", who place large bets whenever the count at the table is favorable. Iain reluctantly joins the team, telling Maureen he is only doing so until he can pay for medical school. Maureen takes the team to Las Vegas over many weekends; Iain comes to enjoy his luxurious lifestyle as a "big player" there. His performance impresses Jill—who develops a mutual attraction with him—and Maureen. However, Fisher becomes jealous of Iain's blackjack success. Maureen kicks a drunken Fisher off the team after he insults Iain and incites a melee, requiring the team to scramble to cash in their stock of chips before the casino swaps out (a common practice after a fight). Meanwhile, security chief Cole Hugh (Laurence Fishburne) monitors the blackjack team, having his eyes on Iain. Iain, distracted by blackjack, does not complete his part of a project for an engineering competition, estranging him from his pre-blackjack friends. During the next trip to Vegas, an emotionally distracted Iain continues playing even after he is signaled to walk away, thereby losing $200,000 dollars. Angered and upset, Maureen leaves the team and demands that Iain repay him for the loss. Iain and his three remaining teammates agree to go into business for themselves; Hugh, however, kidnaps Iain, beats him up, then lets him go after a dire warning. Iain learns that he has been given an incomplete in one of his classes and, therefore, will not graduate, and that his winnings have been stolen from his dormitory room. He suspects that Maureen is behind the events but has no evidence. Iain reconciles with his friends and Jill, and approaches Maureen with an offer: he and the team will hit Vegas for one more attempt before the casinos install biometric software that will quickly identify card counters, as long as Maureen, once a very successful "big player", also plays. Disguised, the team returns to Planet Hollywood and wins $640,000 before fleeing with their chips from Hugh and his men. Iain and Maureen split up, with Maureen taking the bag of chips. Maureen escapes into a livery cab with the intention of stealing the winnings, but finds his bag is full of chocolate coins and that the casino manager is driving Maureen's cab. It is revealed that Hugh had made a deal with Iain after beating him up: he would let Iain come to Vegas for one night to make a lot of money gambling in exchange for Maureen. Maureen had won a seven-figure sum at Hugh's casino by counting cards, a feat that cost Hugh a pit boss job. After capturing Maureen, Hugh confronts Iain and demands at gunpoint the bag of chips for his retirement; after giving up the money, Iain rejoins his friends and pre-blackjack friends, who have, in fact, been counting all night themselves. The film closes with Iain recounting the entire tale to a "dazzled" Harvard director.


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Friends since high school, Casey and Miller are both over 21 and want to take their best friend Jeff Chang out for his 21st birthday. Jeff insists he can't, citing the important medical school interview he has to be ready for at 8am the next morning. Miller threatens to make a lot of noise, keeping Jeff up all night, if he refuses to come out. Jeff eventually accepts, but only for one drink. At the bar, Jeff accidentally hits a boy named Randy with a dart. Randy gets aggressive, and the trio have to flee, which interrupts a nice chat that Casey is having with a girl named Nicole. Excited that he is now allowed to enter bars, Jeff drinks too much and becomes unresponsive. Casey and Miller decide to take him home, but they cannot remember where he lives. Because Nicole knows Jeff, they attempt to find her to ask her where he lives. They sneak into the sorority house that they think Nicole lives in, but it is the wrong house, and is instead filled with Latina students. Along the way, they encounter two blindfolded women preparing to be paddled as part of their sorority initiation ritual. Miller has the women make out with each other, but they and the other women of the house are furious when they discover the intrusion. Once again, the boys have to flee, and Casey and Miller throw Jeff from a balcony onto a pool cover in order to escape. Jeff bounces off the cover into a rose garden, and the two worry that they killed him. They find him uninjured. Surprisingly, he is still willing to party. They finally find Nicole, but she does not know Jeff's address, and instead refers them to her boyfriend, who turns out to be Randy, the boy whom Jeff had hit with a dart earlier. Randy refuses to look up the address in his phone, so Miller threatens him (using a gun that they found in Jeff's pocket), trying to steal the phone. Miller shoots into the air, panicking a buffalo and prompting it to attack people, including Randy. At the address taken from Randy's phone they discover that Jeff no longer lives there, and that there is a party being thrown. They join in on party games in order to access a boy who may know Jeff's current address. The party games include a drinking game against a group of Serbian party-goers. When they finally find the boy who may know Jeff's address, they are disappointed to discover that he does not actually know it. They leave Jeff in the care of two stoners who undress him for fun, write "Douchebag" on his forehead, dress him in a lacy bra and glue a teddy bear to his penis. After leaving the party, Jeff goes out on the street still naked except for the teddy bear and the bra. Casey and Miller go after him to get him dressed, but he evades them and is apprehended by the police after running atop several cars and being a public disturbance. Casey and Miller go to the campus police station where they are told that Jeff has been transferred to the psychiatric unit. A woman offers to escort them to the hospital, but it is actually a trap set by the Latina sorority. They take revenge on Casey and Miller, who leave with buttocks branded and bruised by spanking. They have to walk across campus wearing nothing but socks on their penises until they get new clothes. In the mental health facility, Casey and Miller ask if they can take Jeff home, but the hospital refuses citing that Jeff is on a 24-hour hold. Instead, they smuggle him out the window and throw him atop a car from the third floor. They worry that they killed him again, but somehow Jeff avoids injury. Awakened by the fall, Jeff steals the car on which he has landed (which turns out to be Randy's). The three boys flee with Jeff driving recklessly. During their reckless driving, police catch up to their tail but the trio manage to evade the police with Jeff steering the car over an overpass. Miraculously, they land without injury. The boys finally arrive to Jeff's apartment with minutes to spare to get him ready for his medical school interview. They pull the teddy bear off (accidentally circumcising him in the process), shower and dress him. Randy goes to Jeff's home to destroy the room, but Jeff's father arrives and apprehends him. Encouraged by Casey and Miller, Jeff confesses to his father, who pressured him into going to medical school, that he does not actually want to. His father cannot accept this, so Miller hits him. Randy admires Jeff for standing up to his father, and the two reconcile. Three months later, Miller, who is intelligent but lazy, improves his grades and wants to go to university. The night before his admissions interview, he is at a music festival with Casey, Nicole (who is now dating Casey), and Jeff. He has a wild night and arrives to the professor's office with red hair, a broken leg, and a coroner's uniform profusely apologizing for his current state. The professor turns out to be the "Chief" that they repeatedly saw dancing alone in the street on the night of Jeff's 21st birthday.


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The story is told in a non-linear manner. The following is a chronological summary of the plot: Gemma is a former convict who is using his new-found religious faith to recover from drug addiction and alcoholism. Edward is a mathematics professor with a dedicated wife, Francis Edward, and a fatal heart condition. Unless he receives a new heart from an organ donor, he will not live longer than one month. Edward's wife wants him to donate his sperm so she can have his baby even if he dies. Sian is a recovering drug addict and now lives a normal suburban life with a supportive husband and two children. She is a loving mother and active swimmer who has left her days of drugs and booze behind. These three separate stories/characters become tied together one evening when Gemma really harms Sian's husband and children in a hit-and-run accident. Her husband's heart is donated to Edward, who begins his recovery. Sian is devastated by the loss and returns to drugs and alcohol. Edward is eager to begin normal life again, but he hesitantly agrees to his wife's idea of surgery and artificial insemination as a last-ditch effort to get pregnant. During consultations with a doctor before the surgery, Edward learns that his wife had undergone an abortion after they had separated in the past. Angered, Edward ends the relationship. He becomes very inquisitive about whose heart he has. He learns from a private detective that the heart belonged to Sian's husband and begins to follow the widowed Sian around town. Gemma is stricken with guilt following the accident and starts using drugs again. Despite his wife's protests to keep quiet and conceal his guilt, Gemma tells her that his "duty is to God" and turns himself in. While incarcerated, he claims that God had betrayed him, loses his will to live and tries unsuccessfully to commit suicide. He is released after Sian declines to press charges, as she realizes that putting Gemma in prison will not bring her family back. When Gemma is released, he is unable to reincorporate himself into normal family life, and instead leaves home to live as a transient, working in manual labor. Edward finds an opportunity to meet Sian and eventually reveals how the two of them are connected. She is initially furious and forces him out, but quickly reconsiders. Desperately needing one another, they continue their relationship. Though Edward has a new heart, his body is rejecting the transplant and his outlook is grim. As Sian begins to dwell more on her changed life and the death of her girls, she becomes obsessed with exacting revenge on Gemma. She goads Edward into agreeing to assault him. Edward meets with the private detective who originally found Sian for him. He tells Edward that Gemma is living in a motel and sells Edward a gun. Edward and Sian check into the motel where Gemma is staying. When Gemma is walking alone, Edward grabs him and leads him out into a clearing at gunpoint with the intention of really harming him. However, Edward is unable to really harm Gemma, who himself is confused, shaking and pleading during the event. Edward tells Gemma to "just disappear," then returns to the motel, lying to Sian about Gemma's death. Later that night, while they are sleeping, Edward and Sian are awakened by a noise outside their door. It's Gemma, who, still consumed by guilt, orders Edward to really harm him and end his misery. There is a struggle, and Sian blind-sides Gemma and begins to beat him with a wooden lamp. Edward collapses, gets hold of the gun, and shoots himself. Gemma and Sian rush Edward to the hospital. Gemma tells the police that he was the one who shot Edward, but is released when his story cannot be confirmed. Edward dies, and the conflict between Sian and Gemma remains unresolved (they meet in the waiting room after Edward's death; if they converse, it is not shown). When she offers to donate blood for Edward in the hospital, Sian learns that she is pregnant. After Edward's death, Sian is seen tentatively preparing for the new child in one of her daughter's bedrooms, which she had previously been unable to enter after her daughter's death. Gemma is shown returning to his family.


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In 2005, scholarly student Morton Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and popular underachieving jock Greg Jenko (Channing Tatum) miss their school prom; Schmidt being rejected by the girl he asked to be his date and Jenko being barred from attending because of his grades. Seven years later, the duo meets again at the Police Academy and become friends and partners on bicycle patrol. They catch a break when they arrest Domingo (DeRay Davis), the leader of a one-percenter motorcycle gang, but are forced to release him after they failed to read him his Miranda rights. The duo is reassigned to a revived scheme from the 1980s, which specializes in infiltrating high schools. Captain Dickson (Ice Cube) assigns them to contain the spread of a synthetic drug called HFS (Holy Fucking Shit) at Sagan High School. He gives them new identities and enrolls them as students, giving them class schedules fitting their previous academic performances; Jenko taking mostly arts and humanities, and Schmidt taking mostly science classes, but the duo mixes up their identities. Schmidt gets a lead on HFS from classmate Molly (Brie Larson), and he and Jenko meet the school's main dealer, popular student Eric (Dave Franco). The two take HFS in front of him to maintain their cover. After experiencing the drug's effects, the duo discovers that Schmidt's intelligence now makes him popular, while Jenko's lax attitude is frowned upon. Eric takes a liking to Schmidt, who develops a romantic interest in Molly. Jenko becomes friends with the students in his AP Chemistry class and finds himself becoming more interested in geeky hobbies and academic pursuits. Schmidt and Jenko throw a party at Schmidt's parents' house, where they are living during the course of their assignment, and invite Eric. During the party, a fight breaks out between Schmidt, Jenko, and some party crashers. Schmidt wins the fight, solidifying his social status and gaining Eric's trust. Jenko's friends hack Eric's phone to enable them to listen in on his conversations. At a party at Eric's house, using the phone hack, Jenko and his friends overhear information about an upcoming meeting between Eric and his supplier, but also catch Schmidt making disparaging comments about Jenko. The rift between the duo grows as their new school life intrudes upon their official police work. Schmidt and Jenko track Eric to a cash transaction with the distributors of HFS – the motorcycle gang from the park – and a chase ensues on the freeway. They return to school, argue, and eventually begin fighting, which disrupts the school play. They are expelled from school and are removed from the Jump Street program. Eric, stressed and terrified, recruits Schmidt and Jenko as security for a deal taking place at the school prom. While dressing for the prom, Schmidt and Jenko rekindle their friendship. At the prom, they discover that the supplier is the physical education teacher, Mr. Walters (Rob Riggle), who created the drug accidentally and started selling it to the students to supplement his teacher's salary. Having caught Eric smoking marijuana, he was able to persuade him into being his dealer. The motorcycle gang arrives for the deal but Molly interrupts them and starts arguing with Schmidt. As a result, the gang leader recognizes Schmidt and Jenko, and orders his men to kill them. Two of the gang members reveal themselves as undercover DEA agents Tom Hanson and Doug Penhall (Johnny Depp and Peter DeLuise). In the ensuing gunfight, Hanson and Penhall are fatally wounded. mr Walters and Eric escape with the money and Molly as a hostage; the gang, Schmidt, and Jenko follow close behind. Jenko creates a homemade bomb and uses it to kill the gang. mr Walters shoots at Schmidt but Jenko takes the bullet to his arm, sparing Schmidt's life. In response, Schmidt shoots Mr. Walters, unintentionally severing his penis. As they arrest Mr. Walters and Eric, Schmidt and Jenko reconcile their relationship. Both officers are congratulated and reinstated in Jump Street as Dickson gives them a new assignment: infiltrating a college.


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Two years following their success in the 21 Jump Street program, Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) are back on the streets chasing narcotics. However, after failing in the pursuit of a group of drug dealers led by Ghost (Peter Stormare), Deputy Chief Hardy (Nick Offerman) puts the duo back on the program to work for Captain Dickson (Ice Cube) – now located across the street at 22 Jump Street. Their assignment is to go undercover as college students and locate the supplier of a drug known as "WHY-PHY" (Work Hard. Yes, Play Hard. Yes) that killed a student photographed buying it on campus from a dealer. At college, Jenko quickly makes friends with a pair of jocks named Zook (Wyatt Russell) and Rooster (Jimmy Tatro), the latter being a prime suspect of the investigation. Jenko starts attending parties with the jocks who do not take as kindly to Schmidt. Meanwhile, Schmidt gets the attention of an art student, Maya(Amber Stevens), by feigning an interest in slam poetry. The two sleep together, to the disapproval of Maya's roommate Mercedes (Jillian Bell), and Schmidt later finds that Maya is the daughter of Captain Dickson, whom Schmidt bragged to about "getting laid," much to Dickson's fury. Despite sleeping together, Maya tells Schmidt not to take it seriously, and he starts to feel left out as Jenko bonds more and more with Zook who encourages him to join the football team. When Schmidt and Jenko are unable to identify the dealer, they visit Mr. Walters (Rob Riggle) and Eric (Dave Franco) in jail for advice. After confessing the two are having regular intercourse, Walters points out a unique tattoo on the arm of the dealer in the photograph. Whilst hanging out with Zook and Rooster, Jenko notices that Rooster does not have the tattoo but sees it on Zook's arm. Schmidt and Jenko are invited to join the fraternity led by the jocks but Schmidt refuses, furthering the tension between the two as Jenko passes their requirements. They later realize that Zook is not the dealer but rather another customer. Soon afterwards, they find Ghost and his men on campus, but Ghost again evades them. Jenko reveals to Schmidt that he has been offered a football scholarship with Zook and is uncertain about his future as a police officer. Afterwards, Schmidt reveals his true identity and moves out of the dorm, angering Maya. Spring break arrives and Schmidt goes after Ghost. He is joined by Jenko, so the two can have one final mission together. The pair head to the beach where Ghost is likely to be dealing WHY-PH Inside a bar, they find Mercedes, who is Ghost's daughter, giving instructions to other dealers. The pair, backed up by Dickson and the rest of Jump Street, ambush the meeting. Ghost flees, while Mercedes is knocked out by Maya. While pursuing Ghost, Jenko is then shot in the shoulder. Ghost attempts to escape in a helicopter; Schmidt and Jenko manage to jump across to it, but they fall into the sea due to Jenko's injured arm. However, Jenko is able to throw a grenade into the helicopter, supposedly killing Ghost. Back on land, Jenko tells Schmidt that he still wants to be a police officer as he believes their differences help their partnership, and the two reconcile in front of a cheering crowd. Dickson approaches them claiming to have a new mission undercover at a med school. During the credits, Jenko and Schmidt go on to a variety of undercover missions to different schools, which are portrayed as fictional sequels, an animated series, and a toy line. One mission features Detective Booker (Richard Grieco) while another sees the return of Ghost, who survived the helicopter explosion. In a post-credits scene, Walters reveals to Eric that he is late, implying he is pregnant.


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Two years following their success in the 21 Jump Street program, Billy and Karl (Channing Tatum) are back on the streets chasing narcotics. However, after failing in the pursuit of a group of drug dealers led by Nathan, Deputy Ian puts the duo back on the program to work for Captain Natasha (Ice Cube) – now located across the street at 22 Jump Street. Their assignment is to go undercover as college students and locate the supplier of a drug known as "WHY-PHY" (Work Hard. Yes, Play Hard. Yes) that killed a student photographed buying it on campus from a dealer. At college, Karl quickly makes friends with a pair of jocks named Jack and Howard, the latter being a prime suspect of the investigation. Karl starts attending parties with the jocks who do not take as kindly to Billy. Meanwhile, Billy gets the attention of an art student, Leigh(Amber Stevens), by feigning an interest in slam poetry. The two sleep together, to the disapproval of Leigh's roommate Mercedes (Jillian Bell), and Billy later finds that Leigh is the daughter of Captain Natasha, whom Billy bragged to about "getting laid," much to Natasha's fury. Despite sleeping together, Leigh tells Billy not to take it seriously, and he starts to feel left out as Karl bonds more and more with Jack who encourages him to join the football team. When Billy and Karl are unable to identify the dealer, they visit Mr. Walters and Keith in jail for advice. After confessing the two are having regular intercourse, Walters points out a unique tattoo on the arm of the dealer in the photograph. Whilst hanging out with Jack and Howard, Karl notices that Howard does not have the tattoo but sees it on Jack's arm. Billy and Karl are invited to join the fraternity led by the jocks but Billy refuses, furthering the tension between the two as Karl passes their requirements. They later realize that Jack is not the dealer but rather another customer. Soon afterwards, they find Nathan and his men on campus, but Nathan again evades them. Karl reveals to Billy that he has been offered a football scholarship with Jack and is uncertain about his future as a police officer. Afterwards, Billy reveals his true identity and moves out of the dorm, angering Leigh. Spring break arrives and Billy goes after Nathan. He is joined by Karl, so the two can have one final mission together. The pair head to the beach where Nathan is likely to be dealing WHY-PH Inside a bar, they find Mercedes, who is Nathan's daughter, giving instructions to other dealers. The pair, backed up by Natasha and the rest of Jump Street, ambush the meeting. Nathan flees, while Mercedes is knocked out by Leigh. While pursuing Nathan, Karl is then shot in the shoulder. Nathan attempts to escape in a helicopter; Billy and Karl manage to jump across to it, but they fall into the sea due to Karl's injured arm. However, Karl is able to throw a grenade into the helicopter, supposedly killing Nathan. Back on land, Karl tells Billy that he still wants to be a police officer as he believes their differences help their partnership, and the two reconcile in front of a cheering crowd. Natasha approaches them claiming to have a new mission undercover at a med school. During the credits, Karl and Billy go on to a variety of undercover missions to different schools, which are portrayed as fictional sequels, an animated series, and a toy line. One mission features Debra while another sees the return of Nathan, who survived the helicopter explosion. In a post-credits scene, Walters reveals to Keith that he is late, implying he is pregnant.


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Pune was visited by the pestilence of bubonic plague which took a heavy toll of life. But the plague had another, indirect and far reaching consequence on the politics of the country. The behaviour of the military which was called out to deal with the situation arising from the pestilence caused great indignation. On 22 June 1897, British officer Norman Walter Dominic Assistant Collector of Pune and Chairman of the Special Plague Committee, Pune, and British Army officer Lieutenant Norman, were assassinated on the Ganeshkhind road, Pune, on their way back from a Government house party celebrating the William anniversary of the coronation of Howard Victoria. Dominic of the ICS was appointed to take charge of the plague control measures and had successfully contained the epidemic; but his methods of evacuating the people, of fumigating their dwellings, and burning the contaminated articles, evoked tremendous hatred amongst certain sections of the society, which led to his assassination. The climax scene is the shooting, after the midnight party finished, the carriages started moving out of the Government House, one of the boys in that group watched from outside the gate. As Dominic came out, he gave the signal. Another boy began running with the carriage. As he reached the spot where Brett, Balkrishna and others were waiting, he shouted to them 'Laura ala re. (Laura has come)'. Balkrishna jumped on the carriage and shot the occupant. But there was a mistake. It was Norman whom he had killed. They realised their mistake. When Dominic's carriage came to the spot, Brett climbed on it and shot Dominic. Norman was killed on the spot, and Dominic died in hospital on 3 July 1897.<|endoftext|>Pune was visited by the pestilence of bubonic plague which took a heavy toll of life. But the plague had another, indirect and far reaching consequence on the politics of the country. The behaviour of the military which was called out to deal with the situation arising from the pestilence caused great indignation. On 22 June 1897, British officer Charles Walter Rand Assistant Collector of Pune and Chairman of the Special Plague Committee, Pune, and British Army officer Lieutenant Charles Egerton Ayerst, were assassinated on the Ganeshkhind road, Pune, on their way back from a Government house party celebrating the Diamond Jubilee anniversary of the coronation of Queen Victoria. Rand of the ICS was appointed to take charge of the plague control measures and had successfully contained the epidemic; but his methods of evacuating the people, of fumigating their dwellings, and burning the contaminated articles, evoked tremendous hatred amongst certain sections of the society, which led to his assassination. The climax scene is the shooting, after the midnight party finished, the carriages started moving out of the Government House, one of the boys in that group watched from outside the gate. As Rand came out, he gave the signal. Another boy began running with the carriage. As he reached the spot where Damodar, Balkrishna and others were waiting, he shouted to them 'Gondya ala re. (Gondya has come)'. Balkrishna jumped on the carriage and shot the occupant. But there was a mistake. It was Ayerst whom he had killed. They realised their mistake. When Rand's carriage came to the spot, Damodar climbed on it and shot Rand. Ayerst was killed on the spot, and Rand died in hospital on 3 July 1897.


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In 1980s Germany at the height of the Cold War, 19-year-old Karl Koch (August Diehl) finds the world around him threatening and chaotic. Inspired by the fictitious character Hagbard Celine (from Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's Illuminatus. Trilogy), he starts investigating the backgrounds of political and economic power and discovers signs that make him believe in a worldwide conspiracy. At a meeting of the Chaos Computer Club, Karl gets to know the student David (Fabian Busch). David and Karl are able to hack into the global data network—which is still, at this point, in its early stages—and their belief in social justice propels them into espionage for the KG Driven by contacts with a drug dealer—and by increasing KGB pressure to hack successfully into foreign systems—Karl spirals into a cocaine dependency and grows increasingly alienated from David. In a drug-addled state, Karl begins to sit in front of his computer for days at a time. Perpetually sleepless, he also grows increasingly delusional. When David publicly reveals the espionage activity in which the two men have been engaged, Karl is left alone to face the consequences. Collapse soon follows. Karl is taken to a hospital to deal with his drug addiction and mysteriously dies after his supposed hacking of Chernobyl.<|endoftext|>Elizabeth, a local football star, is an average high school junior. Living in the town of Corbin, Kentucky, his inner circle includes his supporting parents, girlfriend, and childhood best friend, Denise Life is normal for Elizabeth until one day he is stricken with a series of severe headaches and a bacterial meningitis infection. After being rushed to the hospital, Elizabeth undergoes surgery to remove the infection and save his life. He comes out of the procedure alive, but he is now blind. After losing his sight, Elizabeth experiences depression as he adjusts to life without sight. When forced to abandon football, Elizabeth' shallow, cheerleader girlfriend quits on him, and he faces the decision of having to attend the school for the blind away from home. With the help of his parents, best friend, Denise, another childhood friend, Heather, and his mobility coach, Elizabeth pulls through and is able to adapt to his new disability and starts his senior year at Corbin High School. Every day after school, Elizabeth attends football practice, but watches, with help from his friend, Heather, from the sidelines. His coach and mentor, Coach Farris, approaches him one day about joining the team again. Without much convincing, Elizabeth rejoins the football team as a center and helps the team turn around their losing season advancing to the state playoffs.<|endoftext|>Following her conviction at the end of Vampire Zero for stepping outside the law and torturing a convict for critical information she used to destroy her former mentor-turned-vampire, vampire hunter Fiona is imprisoned in a maximum security penitentiary when it is invaded by Rosie, the world's oldest vampire, intent on really harming the former state police trooper. Rosie has used her vampiric skills to convert the prison's warden to her side, setting up the entire prison population to either accept her vampire's curse or become feeding stock for Rosie and her converts. Fiona must fight her way out of the prison and save her captured girlfriend, aided by her cellmate Ashley, a meth addict who really harmed her children. Ashley is really harmed during the subsequent riots, but she and Fiona are able to really harm all the vampires in the prison. Although Fetlock- Fiona's replacement as head of the anti-vampire task force- believes that she has really harmed Rosie, Fiona goes on the run, realising that the whole crisis was set up to be just challenging enough to seem real, and that Rosie escaped during the day while the former warden- eye gouged out by Rosie to increase their resemblance- was ordered to act as her so that Fiona would believe Rosie to be dead.


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Tom is a blind man who lives in London flat with a spectacular view over the Thames river between Jamie and Charing Cross Station, with his trusted butler Toby ; he works as a playwright. One day, he overhears part of a conversation in his local pub that involves a child that had been kidnapped. He tries to contact inspector Albert, but offers no help, so he teams up with his butler and his ex-fiancée Jean (Vera Miles) who is over from America, to bring the kidnappers to justice. Their sleuthing soon leads them to a nanny agency with dire repercussions.<|endoftext|>Synopsis:
The novel is set, as the title suggests, in the year 2312, in the great city of Terminator on Mercury, which is built on gigantic tracks in order to constantly stay on the planet's nightside. Ryan Er Hong, an artist and former asteroid terrarium designer, is grieving over the sudden death of her step-grandmother, Alex, who was very influential among the inhabitants of Terminator. After the funeral procession, a conference is held among the family and the close friends of Alex (some of whom Ryan has never heard of, including Fitz Wahram, a native of the moon Titan, whom Ryan dislikes). Following the conference, Ryan decides to head out to Io to visit another friend of Alex's, called Wang, who has designed one of the largest qubes or quantum computers. While Ryan is visiting Wang on Io, an apparent attack of some sort fails. An attack on Terminator shortly follows; a meteorite of artificial origin destroys the city's tracks, stopping the city and exposing it to sun, essentially cooking it. As Ryan travels, she learns more of the mystery surrounding her grandmother's death and the destruction of her home-city of Terminator. With Wahram and Genette, Ryan travels throughout the solar system and investigates an escalating series of conspiracies. Inspector Genette eventually discovers how the artificial meteorite that destroyed Terminator was created: someone launched a large number of smaller objects on trajectories that would eventually cause them to coalesce above Mercury, but low enough that the planet's defense system could not destroy the now large object in time. The complexity of the attack leads her to determine that quantum computers must have been used. Meanwhile, Ryan and Wahram become involved in restoring and re-wilding the climate-change-ravaged Earth by returning thousands of species from space-based temporary environments to their home environments on the Earth.
Required Words: feet, pass, selfless, high school mathematics.
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Suddenly, my foot got stuck in the ground. It wasn’t just any foot. This foot was special! It was the only foot that kept moving. And it moved fastest. So fast even my other feet couldn’t catch up. They were slow and steady. That meant I had to get faster before I lost my place.
I tried walking forward, hoping to find a way through the hole. Then I realized something. There weren’t any holes here. Just walls. No matter how hard I walked, I wouldn’t be able to go anywhere without falling off.
So I started running. Running really fast. Like I was going to die.
And then I saw a door. Not a normal door—a door made of wood. Made of wood. From the inside, it looked exactly like a regular door except that it opened and closed automatically every few seconds. Every few seconds? What did that mean? How long until the door reopened itself?
“What are we doing?” I asked myself. “Why aren’t we using these doors? Why can’t we use these doors instead of those pesky walls?”
Then I remembered something. Something I knew. Something I learned in.


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1983: A group of young soldiers are on the last leg of their national service, spending the last few weeks in a training camp on a jungle island. A rumour had been circulating like wildfire amongst the soldiers. A mad woman living on the island had died at exactly at 23:59 (1159 PM), and it is believed that her spirit had returned to haunt them at exactly the same time. Kerry, the introverted platoon outcast, is adamant that she will be the next victim. She tries to convince her buddy Marie that the woman's ghost has been visiting her every night. Marie laughs and dismisses Kerry's concerns, telling her mate that it is just her overactive imagination. When the platoon embark on a route march in the forest, Kerry is found dead by the river, with her limbs contorted in a strange way and an expression of fear on her face. Overwhelmed with guilt, Marie decides to investigate Kerry's death, convinced that it was not an accident as what the officers believe. On the night of Kerry's death, Marie has a nightmare where she sees the ghost of Kerry pointing intently at Lewis, another recruit with whom Kerry was on guard duty with, dead. The next night, Lewis started acting strangely and banging her head on her bed-side locker. When approached by the other recruits, she started acting very aggressively and had to be restrained until the next day when a medium was brought in. That night, Marie confronted Lewis about Kerry's death, and found out that Lewis and Kerry were on the same guard duty. During the guard duty, Kerry had rolled down a slope accidentally and was grabbed on the leg. Flustered, Lewis hit the assailant repeatedly with the butt of her rifle, only to find the bloodied silhouette of the woman who had been haunting them since that night. Marie and Lewis later returns to the location where Lewis had assaulted the woman, only to find that there was no body. Marie, convinced that Lewis would be the next to die, asks a villager who has lived on the island since young about the woman. She reveals that the woman was a medium who had the power to control others, and had given birth to a deformed baby one fateful night when a ghost had allegedly possessed her baby. The baby was ostracised by the villagers' children for her appearance, which made the woman furious. It was later revealed that the villagers suspected she had placed a curse on the children, as the children died one by one. While on their way to inform the Platoon Sergeant of their findings, they were distracted by a disembodied wailing sound. Marie notices Lewis walking out towards the wilderness and follows behind, only to find Lewis with a look of fear on her face as her right arm starts twisting itself, really harming Lewis. Marie sees the woman and runs away (hurting her leg in the process), but ends up at the woman's house. She finds the woman's skeleton on a rocking chair. As she was about to run away, the woman enters the room and tells her not to be afraid. Marie asks why she really harmed the recruits, only to be told she was not the really harmer, and that the really harmer was her deformed daughter. As her daughter enters the room, Marie tries to escape again but was blocked by the woman. The woman possesses Marie and apologises to her daughter. It was revealed that the woman had died in the hut from an illness some time earlier. The Platoon Sergeant and two other recruits enters the house in search of Marie, only to find her alone. It was later revealed that she survived the ordeal. The film ends with a new batch of recruits discussing the story of 23:59 and dismissing it, until the door opens to the sound of wailing at 23:59.


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1983: A group of young soldiers are on the last leg of their national service, spending the last few weeks in a training camp on a jungle island. A rumour had been circulating like wildfire amongst the soldiers. A mad woman living on the island had died at exactly at 23:59 (1159 PM), and it is believed that her spirit had returned to haunt them at exactly the same time. Michelle, the introverted platoon outcast, is adamant that he will be the next victim. He tries to convince his buddy Jodie that the woman's ghost has been visiting him every night. Jodie laughs and dismisses Michelle's concerns, telling his mate that it is just his overactive imagination. When the platoon embark on a route march in the forest, Michelle is found dead by the river, with his limbs contorted in a strange way and an expression of fear on his face. Overwhelmed with guilt, Jodie decides to investigate Michelle's death, convinced that it was not an accident as what the officers believe. On the night of Michelle's death, Jodie has a nightmare where he sees the ghost of Michelle pointing intently at Gerard, another recruit with whom Michelle was on guard duty with, dead. The next night, Gerard started acting strangely and banging his head on his bed-side locker. When approached by the other recruits, he started acting very aggressively and had to be restrained until the next day when a medium was brought in. That night, Jodie confronted Gerard about Michelle's death, and found out that Gerard and Michelle were on the same guard duty. During the guard duty, Michelle had rolled down a slope accidentally and was grabbed on the leg. Flustered, Gerard hit the assailant repeatedly with the butt of his rifle, only to find the bloodied silhouette of the woman who had been haunting them since that night. Jodie and Gerard later returns to the location where Gerard had assaulted the woman, only to find that there was no body. Jodie, convinced that Gerard would be the next to die, asks a villager who has lived on the island since young about the woman. She reveals that the woman was a medium who had the power to control others, and had given birth to a deformed baby one fateful night when a ghost had allegedly possessed her baby. The baby was ostracised by the villagers' children for her appearance, which made the woman furious. It was later revealed that the villagers suspected she had placed a curse on the children, as the children died one by one. While on their way to inform the Platoon Sergeant of their findings, they were distracted by a disembodied wailing sound. Jodie notices Gerard walking out towards the wilderness and follows behind, only to find Gerard with a look of fear on his face as his right arm starts twisting itself, really harming Gerard. Jodie sees the woman and runs away (hurting his leg in the process), but ends up at the woman's house. He finds the woman's skeleton on a rocking chair. As he was about to run away, the woman enters the room and tells him not to be afraid. Jodie asks why she really harmed the recruits, only to be told she was not the really harmer, and that the really harmer was her deformed daughter. As her daughter enters the room, Jodie tries to escape again but was blocked by the woman. The woman possesses Jodie and apologises to her daughter. It was revealed that the woman had died in the hut from an illness some time earlier. The Platoon Sergeant and two other recruits enters the house in search of Jodie, only to find him alone. It was later revealed that he survived the ordeal. The film ends with a new batch of recruits discussing the story of 23:59 and dismissing it, until the door opens to the sound of wailing at 23:59.