Ghost in the Shell is a futuristic police thriller dealing with the exploits of the cyborg Motoko kusanagi, a member of a covert operations division of the national public safety commission known as section 9. The unit specializes in fighting technology-related crimes. Although supposedly equal to all other members, Kusanagi fills the leadership role in the team, and is usually referred to as "the Major" due to her past rank in the Japanese defence forces. She is capable of superhuman feats, and bionically specialized for her job — her body is almost completely mechanized; only her brain and a segment of her spinal cord remain organic.
The setting of Ghost in the Shell is cyber punk , similar to that of william gibsons spaw trilogy. Kusanagi and her colleagues face external threats and also suffer internal conflict over their own natures.
Stand Alone Complex takes place in the year 2030, in the fictional Japanese city of New Port. The series follows the members of public security section 9, a special operations task-force made up of former military officers and police detectives. The series is composed of individual cases that Section 9 investigates, along with an ongoing, more serious investigation into the complex of the laughing man incident.
At the start of the series, a detective investigating the Laughing Man incidents inadvertently discovers that several members of the task force have been injected with specialized micro-machines referred to as Interceptors. These micro-machines accumulate in the eyes and act as remote cameras, allowing authorized users to see from the visual perspective of the person injected with them. For unknown reasons, top police officials are spying on the task force using this method. The detective then tries to meet with Togusa, a friend and fellow detective recruited into Section 9 several years prior, but is murdered on the way by his superiors. Though he died, he was able to send Togusa an envelope as a backup before leaving for the meeting. They revealed the illegal usage of interceptors hidden within detectives. Togusa, although initially confused, quickly figures out the abnormal viewpoint of the photos and alerts Section 9 chief Aramaki.
On 4 July 2010, it was further revealed in the tabloids that Indian Business Tycoon Ahasan Ali Syed, head of Bahrain-Swiss based investment firm Western Gulf Advisory, has made a formal approach to the club's advisers. It was further revealed that the businessmen intended putting £300 million investment into the club long-term, and further intended to pay off Rovers estimated £20 million of debt. On 13 August 2010, it was reported that Ahsan Ali Syed was due at Rovers on 16 August 2010, to sign a four-week period of exclusivity.On 16 August 2010, as had been revealed to be due earlier. A fleet of cars with members of Ahasan Ali Syed's team arrived at Blackburn Rovers's ground Ewood park to sign the exclusivity period to purchase the club
On 29 August 2010, it was reported by local newspaper The Lancashire Telegraph' thatSyed was "hopeful of completing the due diligence process this week" (Beginning 30 August) said SyedSpokesperson Julia Thiem. A full 2 weeks ahead of the earlier arranged 4 week period. Thiem went on to say; "Then we will approach the Premier League to complete the paperwork needed. We also have to make an offer to the minority shareholders of the club." On the same day, it was also reported by the newspapers The News of the World and The Sunday People that two possible news owners were showing interest in buying the club. One a unnamed trio of Austalian Tycoons and the other a unnamed Asian group.
On 17 December, it was announced that Sam Allardyce had been appointed as Ince's replacement at Blackburn Rovers on a three-year contract.
In in 2009/10 season, Blackburn completed a memorable double under Sam Allardyce over their bitter rivals Burnley in the East lancashire Derby with a 1–0 win. Blackburn had won 3–2 in the previous meeting between the two earlier in the season at Ewood Park. In the final two games of the season, Blackburn inflicted defeats on Arsenal and Aston Villa to finish tenth which left the club in the top half of the League for the fourth time in the last five seasons.
The 1994–95 season was Blackburn Rovers third season in the Premier League and their third consecutive season in the top division of English Football
The season was marked by the club winning the Premier League title, ending their 81-year run without an English league title. They ended up winning the title by a one-point margin over runners-up Manchester United. Rovers led the way for most of the season, but a 2–1 defeat at Kenny Dalglish's old club Liverpool on the final day of the season looked to have blown the club's dreams to pieces. But the news came through that United could only manage a 1–1 draw at West Ham and the league title was back at Blackburn for the first time since 1914. Jack Walker's dream had come true: within five years of buying the club, he had taken them from strugglers in the old Second Division to champions of England.
Ewood Park is a football in the English town of Blackburn, Lancashire, and is the home of Blackburn Rovers Football club — one of the founder members of the football league and premier league. Rovers have played there since they moved from Leamington Street in the summer of 1890. The stadium opened in 1882 and is an all seater multi-sports facility with a capacity of 31,367. It comprises four sections: Darwen End, Riverside Stand (named as such because it stands practically on the banks of the River Darwen), Blackburn End, and Jack Walker Stand, which is named after Blackburn industrialist and club supporter,Jack Walker. The football pitch within the stadium measures 115 yards (105 m) x 76 yards (69 m).
Ewood Park is the second oldest home to a Premier League club.was constructed earlier (1876), although its current tenants (Chelsea FC) did not start playing there until 1905.
Jack Walker (19 May 1929 – 17 August 2000) was a British industrialist and businessman from Little Harwood in the English town of Blackburn, Lancashire. Making a fortune in the steel industry, Walker's name is popularly associated with Blackburn Rovers, the local football club in which he invested tens of millions of pounds. The airline industry and Jersey football club First Tower United were also amongst his other interests. Jack Walker was reported to have amassed a personal fortune of £600 million and in 1999 he was listed as Britain's 30th richest man. He moved to St Helier, Jersey to become a tax exile in 1974 but his love for Rovers never diminished.
The club's Latin motto "Arte et labore", the club's translation of this is "By Skill & Hard Work".
The club Blackburn Rovers was the idea of John Lewis and Arthur Constantine during a seventeen-man meeting at the Leger Hotel, Blackburn on 5 November 1875. The club's first secretary was Walter Duckworth, and Lewis was its first treasurer. Many of the initial members were wealthy and well-connected, and this helped the club survive and rise beyond the large number of other local teams around at the time. Blackburn has had a particular strong history of football, Rovers were not the town's only side in the 19th century; other rivals included Blackburn Olympic (1883 winners of the FA cup) and Blackburn Park Road FC, among others.
Ewood Park was built in 1882, the idea of four local businessmen, and it had hosted a number of sporting events. In 1890 Blackburn Rovers purchased the ground and spent a further £1000 on refurbishments to bring it up to standard. The first match was played on 13 September 1890 against Accrington, with a 0–0 draw result.
The club was established in 1875, becoming a founding member of The football league in 1888. It is one of only three clubs to have been both a founder member of the Football League and the Premier League (the others being aston Villa and Everton). In 1890 Rovers moved to its permanent home at Ewood Park. Prior to the formation of the Premier league in 1992, most of the club's successes were before 1930, when it had gained league and FA Cup trophies on several occasions. Relegation in 1966 was followed by 26 successive seasons of football outside the top flight.
In 1992, Blackburn was promoted to the new Premier League a year after being taken over by local steel baron Jack Walker, who installed kenny Dalglish as manager. In 1995, Blackburn became league champion, having spent millions of pounds on players like Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton. However, the title-winning team was quickly split up and, in 1999, the club was relegated. It was promoted back to the Premier League two years later, just after Walker's death, and has been in the top flight ever since. During this time it has qualified for the UEFA four times: once as League Cup winners, twice as the Premier League's sixth-placed team and once via the IntertotoCup. The 2009–10 season marks the club's 70th nonconsecutive year in the top flight.
The Plump DJs were asked by dance music culture magazine Mixmag to mix their February 2001 cover CD, which they called Elastic Breaks. Soon after, in May, they released a two-CD mix compilation called Urban Underground and in February 2003 they produced the eighth album in the Fabriclive series for the acclaimed London venue.
Their artist album Eargasm was released in July 2003 and featured synthesizer pioneer Gary Numan and Lamb chanteuse. They began a quarterly residency at Fabric, running their own Eargasm nights at the London club, and secured placings in the DJ magazine top 100 dj's list and won a multiple Breakspoll awards.
Finger Lickin' was set up in 1998 by Justin Rushmore and Jem Panufnik, and since then has firmly established itself as one of the leading independent leftfield dance labels in the world. Finger Lickin' have sold nearly 1 million records world-wide.
In 2008, they rebranded their Fabric night, calling it Headthrash after their latest album and opening up the music policy to other styles apart from breakbeat. Their DJ sets and productions began changing accordingly, and the four-deck live DJ show they developed allowed them to pull off more creative mixes in clubs and at festivals such as coachella, Glastonbury and skolbeats
ee Rous and Andy Gardner met at proto-breakbeat label Freshcanova in west London in the late 1990s. Gardner was making music with Matt Cantor from The Freestylers, and Rous was DJing at and promoting the Passenger nights in Kings Cross
Their first release together, "Plump Chunks/Electric Disco", came out on Fingerlickin' records in 1999. When they released the "A Plump Night Out" album – basically a live DJ mix featuring their own original music – they really began to achieve international notoriety.
Emerging from the nascent Nu Skool Breaks scene at the end of the last century, the Plump DJs are the quintessential production duo. Over the course of fifteen acclaimed singles and three superlative albums, Andy Gardner and Lee Rous have become heavyweights of cutting edge club music.
Their beginnings were effortlessly organic; Andy was enjoying success as a producer on Freskanova Records working under the pseudonyms of Bowser and Cut & Paste when he began DJing regularly at the infamous Passenger night, co promoted by Lee and Steve Blonde. With an anything goes freestyle beats approach to its music policy, Passenger was one of London's hottest tickets. "There was a lot of enthusiasm" remembers Lee, "We had four pages about this little bar event in The Face and two pages in NME, just because so many people were going down there, there was so much energy." Already well acquainted through mutual friends and many nights clubbing, the pair decided to transfer the abundance of energy that Passenger exuded into their own music. "I started working as a runner for Freskanova and my DJing was going really well and Andy's DJ’ing was going well but he wanted more gigs and I wanted to get into the studio, so the Plumps were born".
(Lee Rous and Andy Gardner) are a DJ and producer team in electronic dance music. Early pioneers of the breakbeat genre in electronic music, the Plump DJs have diversified in recent years to incorporate new styles such as electro, house and bass music. Their sound is still widely thought to maintain a breakbeat aesthetic, but their productions and DJ sets have become stylistically broader. Throughout the 2000s, they released a string of singles and remixes of well-known dance music names such as Fatboy slim and the Stanton Warriors
Trademarked and stylised as WipEout HD, is the eighth title in the wipeout racing series, developed by sony liverpool for the PS3. The game marks the Wipeout franchise's debut on PlayStation 3 and was available exclusively as a downloadable title from the PS store it is now available on Blu-ray disc packaged with the Fury expansion as of 16 December 2009. While the game borrows its tracks and teams from the PSP games Wipeout pure and Wipeout pulse the content has been upgraded for the game to render up to 1080p and at 60 frames per second with a Dolby 5.1 surround soundtrack.
The game was released in September 2008 in EU and US territories, and in Japan in October 2008. Wipeout HD and its expansion were released on Blu-ray on 16 October 2009 in the UK.
The game is set in the year 2207. Players take part in the FX400 Anti-Gravity Racing League, competing in various types of race at several race courses set around the world.
Wipeout Pure is a 2005 video game in the wipeout series for the PSP. The game was released simultaneously with the release of the PSP during its North American launch. The Developers expressed a desire to return to the handling of Wipeout 2097 and to make various changes to the track design. Most notably, the pit lane for recharging shields is absent, with the player instead able to replenish energy by absorbing the currently-carried weapon. The return to the style of past games and streamlining of the gameplay make up the "pure" essence of Pure. The game takes place in the year 2197, one century after Wipeout 2097.
Wipeout 3, alternatively spelled wip3out, is a futuristic racing video gME developed and published by psygnosis exclusively for the Sony playsttion. The title is the fourth game in the wipeout series, and was released in Europe and North America in September 1999. The game was re-released in Europe as Wipeout 3: Special Edition in August 2000. Players control extremely fast anti gravity ships and use weapons to force enemies out of the race.
Developer Psygnosis hired design studio The Designers Republic to create a simple colour scheme and design for in-game menus and race courses, to create what a Psygnosis staff member called "a believable future". The game is one of the few PlayStation titles to run in high-resolution mode, offering crisper graphics and visuals. Wipeout 3's soundtrack is composed of techno and electronica tracks selected by dj sasha and features contributions by Orbital and The Chemical Brothers
The game was positively received on release; critics lauded the graphics, music, and minimalist design elements. The high level of difficulty, perceived lack of new content and courses, and lack of new game features were seen as the game's primary faults. Despite generally good press, the game was a financial disappointment. Wipeout 3 was the last title in the series to appear on the PlayStation.
Wipeout 2097 (or Wipeout XL in the USA; styled wipE'out" 2097). It is the second game released in the Wipeout series by developers psygnosis and a year after the original game in the series
Whereas the original game introduced the F3600 anti gravity racing league in the year 2052, Wipeout 2097 is set over four decades later and introduces the player to the much faster, more competitive, and more dangerous F5000 AG racing league. The game is set exactly 100 years after the actual release year of the game.
Set in the year 2052, players compete in the F3600 anti - gravity racing league, piloting one of a selection of craft in races on several different tracks. There are four different racing teams to choose from, and two ships for each team. each ship with its own distinct characteristics of acceleration, top speed, mass, and turning radius. By piloting their craft over power up pads found on the tracks, the player can pick up shields, turbo boosts, mines, shock waves, rockets, or missiles, which protect the player's craft or disrupt the competitors' craft.
There are seven race tracks in the game total, six of them located in futuristic versions of countries such as Canada and Japan with a seventh, hidden track set on Mars
Wipeout released for PS in 1995, was one of the first video games to incorporate electronic music by non-mainstream, alternative artists into the game. The artwork for the album was made by The Designers Republic in their typical futuristic style, in line with the artwork of the game and its future setting. The soundtrack album had a different track list than the game itself, making use of only a few songs that were present in-game. Aside from tracks 1, 2 and 5, no tracks from the game appear in the album, with all of the Electronic Tracks tracks by CoLD SToRAGE having been replaced with work by better-known "underground" artists.
