New START

New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) (Russian: СНВ-III, SNV-III) is a nuclear arms reduction treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation with the formal name of Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms. It was signed on 8 April 2010 in Prague, and, after ratification, entered into force on 5 February 2011. It is expected to last at least until 2021.

New START replaced the Treaty of Moscow (SORT), which was due to expire in December 2012. In terms of name, it is a follow-up to the START I treaty, which expired in December 2009, the proposed START II treaty, which never entered into force, and the START III treaty, for which negotiations were never concluded.

Under terms of the treaty, the number of strategic nuclear missile launchers will be reduced by half. A new inspection and verification regime will be established, replacing the SORT mechanism. It does not limit the number of operationally inactive stockpiled nuclear warheads that remain in the high thousands in both the Russian and American inventories.

Kuiba 3

Kuiba 3 (Chinese: 魁拔Ⅲ战神崛起) is a 2014 Chinese animated fantasy action adventure film directed by Wang Chuan, Zhang Gang and Zhou Jie. It was released on October 1 in China. The film is preceded by Kuiba 2 (2013) and will be followed by Kuiba 4, scheduled for release in 2017.

Voice cast

Reception

The film earned CN¥24.298 million at the Chinese box office.

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Xenosaga Episode III

Xenosaga Episode III: Also Sprach Zarathustra (ゼノサーガ エピソードIII ツァラトゥストラはかく語りき, Zenosāga Episōdo Surī Tsaratusutora wa Kaku Katariki) is a role-playing video game for the PlayStation 2, and the third game in the primary Xenosaga trilogy. Also sprach Zarathustra, literally "Thus spoke Zarathustra", is also the title of Friedrich Nietzsche's most famous work, which introduced the concept of the Übermensch. The game was developed by Monolith Soft and published by Namco for the PlayStation 2 on July 6, 2006, in Japan and on August 29, 2006, in North America.

Development

The Baker

The Baker, in Indianapolis, Indiana, also known as Massala, is an apartment complex that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

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Apartment Life

Apartment Life is the second studio album by American indie pop band Ivy, released in 1997 on Atlantic Records. It was re-released later the same year by Sony's 550 Music imprint, with remixed versions of several songs.

Apartment Life received predominantly positive reviews upon release, and is considered Ivy's signature album by several modern musical critics, who called it "underrated" and "under-appreciated".

Four singles were released from the album: "I've Got a Feeling", "The Best Thing", "This Is the Day", and "You Don't Know Anything". Lead single "I've Got a Feeling" was critically successful, but commercially unsuccessful. However, third single "This is the Day" received significant attention after appearing in the popular film There's Something About Mary. To promote the album, Ivy embarked on a small promotional tour, but were dropped from Atlantic at the beginning of the tour.

Conception

Background

The initial production for Apartment Life started shortly after the release of their debut album, Realistic. The process was overly long, according to Ivy, who mentioned that they had difficulty finding time to work on the album:

Baker (military code-name)

Baker is the code-name for a series of training exercises conducted by the United States Army and several Asian countries which hosted the exercises. The purpose of the exercises is to practice and develop counter-narcotics operations.

Some of the operations in this series include: