Tuesday August 9, 2011
Volume CXXXI Issue 6
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The Juno spacecraft destined for Jupiter thundered into blue skies on Friday, August 5, at 12:25 p.m. EDT aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V from Cape Canaveral Air Force
Station. T h e launch was delayed 51 minutes by a couple of technical issues and of a boat being within the launch danger zone. The launch danger zone is an area extending 201 nautical miles off the coast of CCAFS in which boats and aircraft must stay out of during a launch due to hazards due to the solid rocket boosters falling back to the Earth and possible dangers if the vehicle experienced an anomaly. The vehicle was ready for flight after Air Force helicopters escorted the boat out of the danger zone and the technical issues were resolved by the launch team. The Atlas V 551 vehicle stands 197 feet tall and produces 2.5 million pounds of thrust. The Atlas V 551 is the most powerful version of the Atlas V currently offered by United Launch Alliance with a five meter diameter fairing, five solid rocket boosters and
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a Centaur upper stage. This is the 27th Atlas V flight and the second of the vehicle in the 551 configuration. The Atlas V with the Juno spacecraft
broke the sound barrier at 34 seconds into flight with the solid NASA/JPL rocket booster burning out and separating approx-
imately one minute later in the flight. The payload fairing was jettisoned three and a half minutes into
flight with the main engine cutoff occurring one minute later. After separation of the Refined Petroleum-1 and liquid oxygen fueled first stage, the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen
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fueled RL 10A engine of the Centaur upper stage burned for six minutes placing the spacecraft in a temporary parking orbit. Thirty-one minutes later, a nine minute burn accelerated the spacecraft to Earth escape velocity with Juno separating from the Centaur stage three minutes later. The
of the planet for approximately one Earth year or 32 orbits. Juno weighs in at approximately four tons, is 15 feet tall and has a diameter of 66 feet with the three solar panel arrays fully deployed. The mission’s primary goal is to improve our understanding of the evolution and structure of the planet Jupiter through the use of nine onboard instruments. The mission will determine the composition, temperature and movements of the planet’s atmosphere and clouds. Additionally the magnetic and gravitational fields will be investigated to learn about the planet’s magnetosphere and possible existence of a solid core. The next launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station will be NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission. The mission will consist of two spacecraft that will be placed in lunar orbit to measure the moon’s gravity fields, revealing its subsurface structure and thermal history, GRAIL will be launched on a United Launch Alliance Delta 2 7920-Heavy launch vehicle on September 8. The launch window opens at 8:37 a.m. EDT and extends to 9:16 a.m. EDT.
Juno spacec r a f t is set to arrive in orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016. Currently, Juno is on its way towards Mars and after two years, Juno will return to Earth’s orbit for a gravity-assisted flyby to give the spacecraft the needed velocity to reach Jupiter. After arriving at Jupiter, the Juno spacecraft will fly a highly elliptical orbit 3100 miles above the top layer of clouds
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The scientific payload aboard Juno includes: •A gravity/radio science system •A six-wavelength microwave radiometer for atmospheric sounding and composition •A vector magnetometer •Plasma and energetic particle detectors • A radio/plasma wave experiment •An ultraviolet imager/spectrometer •An infrared imager/ spectrometer •JunoCam – visible light camera
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The First Avenger does not disappoint at the box office PHOTO COURTESY PARAMOUNT PICTURES
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Director receives prestigious award QEP comes to
Embry-Riddle
Alena Thompson
Managing Editor On Friday, July 29 at the Rosen Centre in Orlando, Cindy Oakley-Paulik received a highly esteemed award in front of over one thousand people: the Women of Distinction Award in Education. For this award, Oakley-Paulik was selected by the Committee for her leadership, mentorship and contributions to her communities and education in Central Florida. With support, Cindy OakleyPaulik doubled the schools Embry-Riddle assisted last year. Additionally, she sponsored and organized the Embry-Riddle’s section of the Girl Scout Volusia Mall Lock-In and the Girl Scout Investiture Ceremony. She also co-directed the Embry-Riddle’s Girl’s Exploring Math and Science Camp and co-directed the Leadership Enhancement Program for women and minorities. These activities were done in addition to being the Director of the Diversity and Women’s Center the past year and coordinating the FIRST Mentor Program, Diversity Lecture Series, Tutoring, the Women’s Center and much more. She was also recognized as the Education and Training Co-Chair for leadership in the Junior League and was on the Board of Directors for the Domestic Abuse Council. Oakley-Paulik also organizes a donation drive for the shelter each spring for the Women’s Battered Shelter. With her award, Cindy Oakley-Paulik received recognition from both Orlando Mayor Budy Dyer and Emmy, Golden Globe and Grammy Award winner Marlo Thomas.
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CINDY OAKLEY-PAULIK RECEIVED the prestigious Women of Distinction in Education Award for leadership, mentorship and contributions to her community and education in Central Florida. With her award, Oakley-Paulik received recognition from Golden Globe winner Marlo Thomas (right of Cindy Oalkley-Paulik) and Orlando Mayor Budy Dyer. Cindy Oakley-Paulik is already launching into next year by planning new programs for incoming freshmen and starting a women’s committee at EmbryRiddle. She will additionally be helping to support a Women’s Center at the Prescott Campus. Cindy Oakley-Paulik states that this would not have been
possible without the support of other departments and especially her student assistants who helped set up all of the sponsoring events. The next event launching off the beginning of the Fall 2011 school year is For Women Only. This event is for all incoming
female freshmen, departments, faculty and student organizations. For Women Only is on Friday, August 26 in the Willie Miller Instuctional Center (IC) Auditorium from 1:00-2:00 p.m. At the event there will be free food and over $500 in prizes. Do not miss this opportunity to get involved.
Students, staff, and faculty here at Embry-Riddle are planning a significant initiative that will lift us to new heights as a teaching and research focused world class University. Every 10 years, ERAU participates in a reaccreditation process required by our regional accrediting body, SACS, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. As part of that process, we are expected to develop a Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) that will transform student learning in a significant and positive way at the University. Our QEP is scheduled to kick off with the beginning of the Fall 2012 semester and continue over five years. While many folks from all three of our campuses are working very hard to develop each of their portions of the University QEP; here at Daytona Beach, students, staff and faculty formed the Interdisciplinary Work Group (IWG) with the responsibility of creating our portion of the QEP. The charge given to the IWG is to generate a campus-wide plan that creates “an active learning environment dedicated to an inquiry-based research culture” in support of the University QEP theme of Research Across the Curriculum. A goal of our plan is to create a campus-wide research-supportive culture that prepares all our students to discover, interpret, and develop knowledge.
The purpose of our QEP is to: (1) Motivate and encourage faculty to continue developing their teaching techniques and become further engaged in research so that QEP outcomes can be achieved; (2) enhance resources at department and campus levels to facilitate our research supportive culture; and, (3) effectively teach and strengthen the skills, abilities and knowledge of our students so that they excel in critical thinking and gain research experience during their time in ERAU, so that upon graduation they meet specific QEP student learning outcomes that will help them to be competitive and thrive in the rapidly changing global environment. An Eagle Center of Innovation and Discovery (ECID) will be created as a resource center and a clearinghouse to support and facilitate our QEP activities across the campus among faculty, staff and students. Stay tuned to the Avion Newspaper for more information and announcements describing our exciting and challenging Research Across the Curriculum EP as we begin the fall semester. Discover how you can contribute to our transformation to: (1) A culture of inquiry -content within a context of questions; (2) a culture of engagement -- active learner participation in the teaching and learning process; and, (3) a culture of collaboration -- among students, staff and faculty.
Students plan Haiti water purifying expedition Darick Alvarez
Guest Reporter On June 1, 2010, professor Marc Compere Ph.D. and student Darick Alvarez arrived in Chambrun, Haiti bringing with them a solar powered water purification unit. A small group of students, calling their team ‘Project Haiti’, from Embry-Riddle had designed and built the self sustained water purifier which could be taken to remote areas and/or areas of disaster where it would pump contaminated water through an eight stage solid particle filter, and through a ultra violet microbacterial decontamination filter providing clean drinking water to those in need. The pump was either lowered into a well up to a depth of up to 200 feet, or placed within a container filled with contaminated water, and was powered by a 12-volt battery and/or a solar panel which could additionally charge the 12-volt battery. Due to Haiti’s devastating earthquake, the country’s already tough economic structure became an even bigger problem as many people were displaced from their homes and currently live in a cluster of mismatch materials brought together to make tents. Clean drinking water, can be considered by some, as a luxury in
most parts of Haiti. Because of this, the EmbryRiddle students had decided to take one of their units to help. Once deployed, the solar powered water purification project provided clean drinking water to a group of about 40 college ministry missionaries and over 300 Haitians in Chambrun. The $2500 unit was a success as it was able to provide Dr. Marc Compere, Darick Alvarez, and the missionaries with clean drinking water for their 20 day stay, including the Chambrun Haitians for three months. Designed from a previous graduate project, the newer system that ended up in Haiti was more portable, more efficient, and was used by the Project Haiti team as the precursor and learning curve in order for more units to be designed and built. On the following Fall 2010 semester for Embry-Riddle, the Project Haiti team tripled in size as plans for this year’s system commenced. They changed their name to the ERAU Water Purification Team, as plans for the systems being designed will be for any country in need of clean water. From contributions by a private donor and Embry-Riddle, this year’s solar powered water purification unit is massive in comparison to last year’s unit.
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THE ERAU WATER PURIFYING team are close to completing their next mission: providing solar powered clean water to an orphange of 600 in Chambrun, Haiti. With a team of six Embry-Riddle students and two faculty, the Embry-Riddle team will depart for a week in August to personally install the system at the Anne Clemande Julien Foundation’s school and orphanage. This time around, the system is meant to be a more permanent system featuring switches used to turn off the pump when holding tanks become full and/ or the well, which the pump will be lowered into, is low in water. A 24-volt inverter will be used for lights for security at
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night and is powered by batteries, which will be charged by 4 solar panels during the day. The ERAU Water Purification Team will be leaving to Port-au-Prince, Haiti on August 16th, 2011 and will be installing the system at Anne Clemande Julien Foundation
school and orphanage in Chambellan, Haiti, which is a about a six to eight hour drive South West from Portau-Prince. The team heading to Haiti consists of two Embry-Riddle Professors: Marc Compere Ph.D. and Yan Tang Ph.D.; and six EmbryRiddle students: Yung Wong,
Alena Thompson, Johnathon Camp, Jared Coleman, Mark Freeman, and Matt Selkirk. The team will spend eight days in Haiti installing the purification unit while experiencing, and observing the country’s current major struggles; they plan to return on August 23, 2011 to the United States.
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Megan Demmert Staff Reporter
While Daytona Beach may be known for its fast cars and sandy beaches, this city is full of fun sporting activities for all levels and abilities. From tennis to kite boarding, staying active and having fun in the Daytona Beach Area has never been easier. For tennis and other recreational fun just steps away from the Atlantic Ocean, visit Oceans Racquet and Recreation Club. This facility is owned and operated by the city of Daytona Beach shores and offers four distinct recreational activities including tennis, bocce ball, shuffle board and horseshoes. With eight lighted clay tennis courts and covered viewing
areas, this recreation club is perfect for some friendly competition with friends. Free play and equipment checkout for bocce ball, shuffle board and horseshoes is available along with free on-site parking. For more information, visit www.dbshores.org, or call 386-761-6088. If you are in the mood for a relaxing hike or a long run, visit Bulow Creek State Park located on 2099 North Beach Street in Ormond Beach. This scenic park contains 3230 acres of upland forest, hardwood swamp, salt marsh and tidal creeks. There are also several trails, including a 6.8 mile hiking trail where visitors can see white tailed deer, barred owls and raccoons. For more information, call 386-676-4050. If you are looking for a fun
indoor activity, try bowling at Bellair Lanes located on 2575 North Atlantic Drive in Daytona. This 32 lane center is family owned and operated and offers great weekly specials. With their attentive staff and online money saving coupons, Bellair Lanes is the perfect place to spend time with friends. For additional information and pricing, visit www. BellairLanes.com. For action packed water sports offered at great prices, visit Sandy Point Progressive Sports located on 3090 South Ridgewood Ave in Daytona. Not only does this business offer a variety of rentals including wakeboards, surfboards, and paddleboards, but they also offer kite boarding and paddle boarding lessons. For a full list of rentals and prices, visit www.progressivesports.com.
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Jayathi Raghavan College of Arts & Sciences:
Mathematics Previously Taught Courses: CS 222: Intro to Discr. Stuc. MA 243: Calculus III MA 345: Differential Eq.
MA 412: Prob. & Stat. MA 441: Math Methods
History before ERAU:
Professor Raghavan is originally from Sri Lanka, and completed her Masters in Computer Science and subsequently, her Ph.D. in Mathematics at Washington State Universit y. Work at ERAU:
Apart from teaching classes, Professor Raghavan is also in charge of the Center for Mathematical Education and Outreach (CMEO). Student Comments:
“Professor Raghavan is someone who shares her enormous wealth of knowledge to nourish the students at the universit y just as sunlight nourishes plants.� -Nishant Chaduary PHOTO COURTESY KITE101.COM
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from the Flight Department to the following students for receiving their: Private Pilot Certificate Peter Frederick Sanchez 7/11/11 Gunnar Joseph Voglrieder 7/12/11 Mary Louise McLain 6/21/11 Nicole Varina Hodges-Austin 7/15/11 Kyung Tae Kim 7/15/11 Charles Chukwunonso Okafor 7/15/11 Sangmin Lee 7/15/11 Maksym Wysocki 7/19/11 Alan Russell Anderson 7/18/11 Bryan Drew Alexander 7/21/11 Matthew Thomas Colaprete 7/22/11 David Lloyd Reed 7/22/11 Alexander John Munro 7/22/11 Kenneth Chase Metzger 7/22/11 Terry James Chastain, Jr. 7/26/11 Private Pilot Multi-Engine Add-on Rating Joshua Edward Luff 7/18/11 Kenneth Chase Metzger 7/22/11 Dustin Adam Sondenaa 7/22/11 Mitchell Todd Hamilton 7/26/11 Instrument Rating Certificate Donald Joseph Kracheck 7/13/11 Elkan Bernardo Furtado 7/14/11 Megan Ashley Giambrone 7/14/11 Michael Raymond Welch 7/14/11 Hernani Valter Bernardo Saldanha 7/19/11 Andrew John Cegla 7/19/11 Andres Martin 7/20/11 Armando Brian Garcia 7/20/11 Commercial Pilot Certificate Simon Jae Yoon Chung 7/16/11 Berny Djemy Semexan 7/22/11 Anna Koo 7/23/11
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Entertainment
America’s first superhero proves his worth
Captain America
Floyd Perkinson
Guest Reporter Captain America is Paramount Pictures’ latest installment of a superhero movie based on a Marvel Comics character. Despite recent bitter disappointments in theaters, Captain America was ready for criti-
cal audiences and brought with it excellence of quality audiences demand from the Marvel Franchise. The movie begins with amazing special effects that turn Chris Evans into a gaunt sickly boy; despite over half an hour of screen time, the special effects never glitch and are so good that you begin to believe that it is a different actor entirely. After the movie goes through Captain America’s background and the plot begins to develop, we see some realistic fire fights and explosions, where one stray shot does not equal a complete catastrophic meltdown and the bad guys actually know how to handle and shoot the weapons they carry. A good director, sound plot line, and excellent special effects are not the only things that make this movie worth watching; the cast’s acting skill in accurately portraying their respective personas ties the plot together. Chris Evans’ acting range is seen in first portraying Steve
Rogers as a determined youth with an upstanding moral code who will do what his country asks of him to finally maturing into a leader who bears his past failures and new responsibilities once he becomes Captain America. Hayley Atwell, who manages to perform her role so well that she will captivate the audience, plays hot super agent Peggy Carter. The final acting blow comes from actor Hugo Weaving who in a “bi-winning” performance portrays Johann Schmidt, the Nazi madman bent on world domination who becomes Captain America’s nemesis the Red Skull. The only thing in this film that seemed out of place was the cries of “HAIL HYDRA” reminiscent of G.I. Joe’s “HAIL COBRA”, along with a twohanded Hitler salute. Captain America’s plot and special effects coupled with the great cast make this movie so brilliant that it gets 5 airplanes out of 5.
Aliens invade the Wild West
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WHILE THE MOVIE IS a fairly good Western film, the science fiction elements leave much to be desired. Good special effects are marred by a slightly lackluster story line where the aliens have very markedly human ideas for some reason.
Cowboys & Aliens
Tilford Mansfield Comics Editor
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AMERICA’S FIRST SUPERHERO WAS born in the fires of World War II and lead the war against Hydra, fighting all over Europe in some of the harshest terrain. Excellent special effects make this movie one well worth watching.
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Cowboys & Aliens is an excellent Western film but a poor film in terms of the science fiction. The film follows an amnesiac cowboy, Jake Lonergan played by Daniel Craig, as he picks up the pieces of his lost life. Quickly it is found that flying “Demons” are responsible for Jake’s lost memory and for abductions across the western frontier. The background of many of the supporting characters is well exposed and I found
a general appreciation for the film for that sense. I think the idea of having cowboys meet aliens is very fun, but the way this film accomplished it was not satisfactory. The film is packed with action and adventure, but after the story was made clear, I was just disappointed. I started the film thinking, “This has awesome potential!” and ended the film thinking, “Wow, that was lame…” The film should have been called cowboys versus aliens, because in no way, shape, or form in this film are the attacking aliens involved in politics or the like. There is a moment where you realize the story is bigger than the aliens just attacking Earth and threatening our extinction, but the drama is down played because the rest of the Aliens’ motives are not Alien, they are stupid human ideas of what an extraterrestrial race with advanced technology might do if they found earth in an early industrial age. Honestly I cannot give the writers any credit for the final showdown in this movie. As expected, the aliens have advanced technology, energy weapons and whatnot, which is great. However, seeing as Jake Lonergan is wielding one of
these weapons the whole film, I was disappointed that not a single other human used one. The following was not a line in the movie, but if they would have added it, at least I would not have been angry that the idea was not considered: “Let’s continue to hit these guys with bullets, sticks, and arrows, that will definitely work! Pay no attention to the obvious advantage that there bracelet doohickey is giving Jake in this here battle. We don’t fight smart, we fight hard and we die hard!” However, I cannot knock the whole alien aspect. The physical features on the aliens were kind of awesome, and their features lent an idea of how they may have evolved into a sentient species. It was a tragedy that their history and the premise of the conflict in this film were so shallow and unsophisticated. If you want a great story with a similar gold driven plot, I encourage you to read the novel Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 by L. Ron Hubbard. As for this film, I cannot recommend that you see it in the theaters. This story is horrible, and the special effects are not amazing, so it is not a must see movie, but if you like a good western with a little twist, check it out.
The ape franchise’s reboot La Fiesta Mexican ranks among the best Floyd Perkinson
Guest Reporter Before you walk through the doors of La Fiesta, you will see the fountain and tiled floor that has a real Mexican feel to it. The moment you walk in, you are bombarded by the array of colors on the walls, and once your eyes adjust to the display, you will begin to see the authenticity of La Fiesta. If you are still not convinced that La Fiesta is an authentic Mexican restaurant, the live mariachi band and huge margarita glasses will quickly change your mind and put you in a festive mood that will get you ready for the dining. We were quickly shown to a table where a smiling waiter showed up and took our drink orders promptly, and I decided to go for authenticity and ordered a ‘Jugo de Piña’ (pineapple juice). Immediately after our drink orders were taken, another server came by and gave our table a basket of chips and two bowls of salsa; La Fiesta, like any true Mexican restaurant gives these free of charge and
include unlimited refills. When our waiter came back with our drinks, the ‘Jugo’ tasted fresh and quenched your thirst unlike at other restaurants where it tastes like it came out of a can. As you wait for your food, the staff is very attentive and quick to bring you another basket of chips and refill the salsa without needing to be asked. The salsa is really mild, but in my opinion is still better than others you will find in Daytona. If you ask your waiter for a spicier salsa they will bring it out to you without any problems; however, it turned out that the spicier salsa is bitter and will leave your palate with a strong pungent taste like expired Tabasco that will require more than water to wash away. I received both my meal and my appetizer at the same time. For the appetizer, I had to remove a gob of sour cream off the top of the ‘tostada’, as it was too much. The meat juices from the filling had soaked through the corn tortilla which made it difficult to eat, but the meat and toppings tasted so good it more than made up for
the minor inconveniences of having to use a fork. After downing the ‘tostada’, the ‘carne asada’ main course was still sizzling and looked so appetizing I could not wait to devour it. The ‘carne asada’ comes with sides of guacamole, rice, refried beans, flour tortillas, and pico de gallo; the refried beans were burnt to the point where they tasted like dirt, so I just left them while I devoured the rest of the plate. The whole meal cost less than 25 dollars, was very filling, and was the best Mexican food I have had in the Daytona area. The staff was very friendly and attentive to our needs during our visit. The lively atmosphere created by the music and décor earns this restaurant a good score for ambience. Good food, an excellent setting, and reasonable prices make this a great restaurant to enjoy for a night out. So if you are in the mood for a taste of real Mexican food and a great dining experience, head over to La Fiesta Mexican restaurant in Port Orange located at 3785 S. Nova Rd. Port Orange, FL 32129.
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CAESAR PLAYED BY ANDY Serkis of Gollum fame is seen here with Will Rodman played by James Franco in one of the last scenes of the movie. This reboot of the franchise does justice to the original series by keeping the spirit of the movie, yet updating it to the technology of today. It is a must see for fans of the series.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes Floyd Perkinson
Guest Reporter
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WITH EXCELLENT AMBIENCE, A friendly and very attentive staff, La Fiesta scores well in setting and service, creating a uniquely pleasant dining experience where authentic flavorful Mexican food is served, making it one of the better Mexican restaurants in Daytona.
Before you go and buy a ticket to see this movie, let me just say that there already was a rise of Planet of the Apes film, in fact there were two of them. Two of the movies from the original film series titled, “Escape from Planet of the Apes” and “Conquest of the Planet of the Apes” came out in the seventies and used actors in ape costumes that resulted in Conquest being extremely good, setting the bar really high for the new film “Rise of Planet of the Apes”.
The new reboot of Planet of the Apes stayed mostly true to the original storyline and the new changes were not so extreme that it completely ruined the story. The movie uses a modern day theme much like “Batman Begins”, using current technology to explain how the planet of the apes happened, as opposed to the original they-came-from-the-futureand-space scapegoat explanation used in the seventies. The movie gave believable character background stories that helped to develop the characters and their motivations for the new storyline. The only disappointing background was the lack of information on whether the pilot in the movie was an Embry-Riddle graduate. The movie developed the plot, being careful not to skip over any important details while at the same time not letting the action and conflict die down so much that you become bored. Once you get over the constant nagging of the lead actress that you should not try to change nature, the movie is filled with so many apesgoing-wild scenes reminiscent of Conquest that it leaves you craving for the next scene and reminds audiences that the only good ape is a dead ape.
For the Planet of the Apes enthusiast there are plenty of easter eggs hidden in the movie and enough damn dirty apes to satisfy even the most avid Planet of the Apes fan; for the people expecting a Charlton Heston cameo, Charlton Heston passed away in 2008 so do not keep your hopes up. In the original “Planet of the Apes,” actors had to dress up in ape costumes that looked amazing for the technology of the time. In the new planet of the apes the directors chose to opt out of making actors wear ape costumes and decided to make their apes using CGI which resulted in some very real looking apes with somewhat human features that made this movie even more believable and first-rate. In the final scene during the ending credits the movie ends with a pretty open story arc that very clearly indicates at a follow up sequel, which if produced by the same director should be just as good as this. The film’s massive amounts of apes and ape violence kept audiences fascinated throughout the whole movie and the main actors’ supporting role in developing the simian course of action make this movie as good as any of the original sequels earning it 4 airplanes out of 5.
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mattress warehouse liquidation center 239 North Nova Rd Daytona Beach, FL 32114 (386) 323-9009
NAME BRAND MATTRESSES AT 50%-60% OFF RETAIL Firm Set Twin Full Queen
119.99 149.99 189.99
Plush Set Twin Full Queen
159.99 199.99 239.99
Pillow Top Set Twin Full Queen
219.99 269.99 289.99
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Comics
The Avion, August 9, 2011
Classic Peanuts
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A6
Mystery strength Sudoku! Can you solve them all?
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Crossword
Sudoku Easy
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