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Edgy Thriller "American Ultra" Exclusive at Ayala Malls Cinemas
From the creator of teen superhero film "Chronicle" comes the intriguing thriller "American Ultra" starring Jesse Eisenberg ("The Social Network"), Kristen Stewart (the "Twilight" series) and Topher Grace ("Spider-Man 3").
In the film, a stoner and his girlfriend's sleepy, small-town existence is disrupted when his past comes back to haunt him in the form of a government operation set to wipe him out.
"American Ultra" will be shown exclusively at Ayala Malls Cinemas nationwide startingOct. 28.
For the first five minutes of "American Ultra," audiences may feel like they are watching a charming little indie film about two quirky characters, which is exactly what the filmmakers intended. Mike Howell (Eisenberg), the movie's main character, is a smarter-than-average but completely unmotivated slacker. He is stuck in a small town, working at the local convenience store and living a very ordinary life with his girlfriend Phoebe (Stewart).
"If you take the story down to its most basic elements, it's about this guy who wants to propose to his girlfriend but his world gets turned upside down," says director Nima Nourizadeh. "Mike has only one goal: propose to Phoebe. Then, over the course of one night, everything turns upside down and there are all these hurdles he has to jump."
For the director, who earned accolades in Hollywood for his 2012 debut film, "Project X," this script stood out in the action-comedy genre. "It ticks so many boxes with a unique blend of disparate elements that you don't normally see together," says Nourizadeh. "It has romance, it has action, it has a lot of comedy, so it's full of surprises and takes you places you won't expect. It starts off in the tiny, almost claustrophobic world that Mike and Phoebe have been living in and then it gets crazy."
When the action suddenly shifts from Liman, West Virginia, to CIA headquarters, something far more sinister than romance starts to take shape. A clandestine government program is about to rain terror down on a sleepy West Virginia town. The object of the attack is … Mike Howell?
"That's when you realize that `American Ultra' is an action film with plenty of ass kicking that also pokes fun at the genre," says Max Landis, the film's writer. "It is high-level, in-camera action, but no matter how hard that element pushes, the indie dramedy about a stoner couple pushes back just as hard. Of course, that doesn't mean we didn't create some killer fight scenes."
One of the big selling points for Nourizadeh was the script's ambitious amalgam of classic genres. "It combines so many different things in an interesting and organic way," he notes. "The conventions will be familiar to filmgoers, but they are mashed up a little bit, which changes everything. I like taking things that people think they know and presenting them in a new light."
The inspiration for the action/comedy is a real-life CIA attempt to create super warriors that lasted three decades. The formerly covert program, known as MK Ultra, was launched in the 1950s in an effort to turn ordinary citizens into superhero-level operatives. Using psychotropic drugs to enhance psychological conditioning, better known as torture, government scientists treated the human brain like a computer and attempted to radically reprogram their subjects to be the most effective and dangerous assets possible.
The attempt to turn out a generation of Jason Bourne-like super assassins failed miserably. "You can wipe a hard drive, but when you wipe a human brain, it tends to break," says Landis. "I became a little obsessed with what I learned. I kept thinking, what if a regular guy got involved? How would he react? That spawned `American Ultra.'"
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'American Ultra' Finds Heart Amidst Its Messy Violence
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"American Ultra" Mashes Up Comedy with Violence, Romance
L.A. Weekly describes it as "A bloody valentine attached to a bomb. It's violent, brash, inventive and horrific, and perhaps the most romantic film of the year."
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Michael J. Bazyler (geboren 1952) ist ein US-amerikanischer Rechtswissenschaftler, der zur Wiedergutmachung nach dem Nationalsozialismus arbeitet.

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Michael Bazyler studierte an der University of California und nach seinem B.A. ab 1974 Rechtswissenschaft an der University of Southern California Law School. Er machte 1978 das Examen zum Juris Doctor (J.D.). Ab 1982 war er Associate Professor an der Whittier Law School in Costa Mesa (Kalifornien). Seit 2008 ist er Rechtsprofessor an der Chapman University in Orange (Kalifornien).

Bazyler war vielfach als Gastprofessor eingeladen, dabei häufig an die Universität Haifa. Er war mehrfach Dozent in der Sommerschule der University of San Diego School of Law.

Bazyler leitete 2005 eine wissenschaftliche Konferenz zum 60. Jahrestag des Nürnberger Prozesses im Sitzungssaal des Justizpalastes in Nürnberg und 2011 eine Konferenz zum 50. Jahrestag des Eichmann-Prozesses in der
Loyola Law School.

Seine Untersuchung Holocaust, Genocide, and the Law wurde 2016 mit einem Preis des Jewish Book Council ausgezeichnet.

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 Holocaust Justice: The Battle for Restitution in America's Courts. New York : New York University Press, 2003 ISBN 0-8147-9903-5
 The Holocaust on Trial: David Irving vs. Penguin Books Ltd. And Deborah Lipstadt, in: Robert Garber (Hrsg.): Jews on Trial. Ktav Publishing House, 2005
 (Mhrsg.): Holocaust Restitution: Perspectives on the Litigation and Its Legacy. New York: NYU Press, 2006
 The Role of the Soviet Union at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. In: Herbert R Reginbogin, Christoph J Safferling, Walter R Hippel (Hrsg.): Die Nürnberger Prozesse: Völkerstrafrecht seit 1945 / The Nuremberg Trials: International Criminal Law Since 1945. Kluwer 2006
 mit Roger P. Alford (Hrsg.): Holocaust Restitution. Perspectives on the Litigation and Its Legacy. New York, NY : New York Univ. Press, 2006
 Ein unabgeschlossenes Kapitel der Holocaust-Justiz: Die Holocaust Restitutionsbewegung und die Nazi-Raubkunst. In: Inka Bertz (Hrsg.): Kulturgut aus jüdischem Besitz von 1933 bis heute. Jüdisches Museum Berlin und Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0361-4
 The Thousand Year Reich's Over One Thousand Anti-Jewish Laws. In: The Routledge History of the Holocaust, Routledge 2011
 mit Frank M. Tuerkheimer: Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust. New York : New York University Press, 2014 ISBN 978-1-4798-9924-1
 Holocaust, Genocide, and the Law: A Quest for Justice in a Post-Holocaust World. Oxford University Press, 2016 ISBN 978-0-19-539569-3
 mit Kathryn Lee Boyd, Kristen L. Nelson, Rajika L. Shah: Searching for Justice after the Holocaust: Fulfilling the Terezin Declaration and Immovable Property Restitution. Oxford University Press, 2019 ISBN 978-0-19-092306-8

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 Michael Bazyler, website

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Rechtshistoriker (20. Jahrhundert)
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Kelvin Coleman
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Kelvin currently serves as CEO and Executive Director of the National Cyber Security Alliance. In this role, he works with the world's most recognizable tech and financial services companies to build strong public/private partnerships in creating and implementing education and awareness efforts around cybersecurity.
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Kelvin also spent a number of years with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Office of Cybersecurity and Communications. While there, he served as the staff director for the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.
Later in his career at DHS, he served as the Director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs – Stakeholder Engagement. During the Obama Administration, he joined the White House staff. While at the White House he served as director of State Engagement at the National Security Council – Cyber Directorate. Kelvin currently serves on the Governing Boards of the Beauvoir School – The National Cathedral, Fair Chance and Dumbarton Concerts/Inner City Inner Child.


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Lab-Made vs Natural Zeolites
Lab-made clinoptilolite zeolite is made in the laboratory under controlled conditions and with controlled composition. Mined zeolite is extracted from the earth in its natural form and is usually processed to remove attached impurities. Lab grown zeolite can only contain the elements that are put in as part of the controlled process. Mined zeolite may contain trace amounts of many different kinds of elements. Of the 245 unique zeolite frameworks that have been identified by the International Zeolite Association Structure Commission, over 40 are naturally occurring.
Naturally occurring zeolites are rarely pure and are contaminated to varying degrees by other minerals, metals, quartz, or other zeolites. Some of these impurities are simply adsorbed inside the zeolite's pores, while others are an integral part of the structure. Acid treatments at high temperatures can remove many of these impurities, but as more structural atoms are extracted, the integrity of the zeolite framework becomes compromised, and the important toxin-binding cages begin to collapse. At this point, the zeolite becomes increasingly less effective as regions inside the structure become blocked. In other words, increasing purity is balanced by decreasing function, and it is difficult to completely purify a naturally occurring zeolite from all its impurities and still retain full potency.
There are no such things as "different-sized zeolite molecules". The clinoptilolite zeolite in Advanced TRS is not a molecule of zeolite, it is a cluster of multiple zeolite (clinoptilolite) cages that together form an object that is only nanometers large. It is not possible to create a structural formula for a specific particle size, instead structural formulas are created on the basis of the zeolite's unit cell, the minimum size repeating unit. This formula is the same regardless of particle size.
A representation is given by (Na2, K2, Ca)3Al6Si30O72·24H2O. The crystal structure of clinoptilolite has large 12-ring pores, the effective pore size of the zeolite excludes molecules larger than ~0.9 nm. Because of its wide use in agriculture and industry Clinoptilolite has been named the mineral of the 21st century by The International Mineralogical Association. Clinoptilolite has been used with success in animal feed at less than 2% by weight and for the purpose of an anti-caking flow agent.
To produce pure, lab-made clinoptilolite, silica, alumina, and alkali sources with initial Si/Al ratio from 3.0 to 5.0 are heated in an autoclave for 1–10 days at a temperature range from 120 to 195 °C. The Clinoptilolite begins to assemble in tiny crystals, whose crystallization rate and crystallinity is controlled by seeding and manipulation of the reaction conditions. Instead of direct heat, microwave, ultrasound and high pressure may be used.
Farjoo A, Sawada JA, Kuznicki SM. Manipulation of the pore size of clinoptilolite for separation of ethane from ethylene. Chemical Engineering Science. (2015) 138:685-688.
Kowalczyk P, Sprynskyy M, Terzyk AP, Lebedynets M, Namieśnik J, Buszewski B. Porous structure of natural and modified clinoptilolites. J Colloid Interface Sci. (2006) properties of natural zeolite – Clinoptilolite – As a sorbent. Environment Protection Engineering (2012) 39(1):139.
Moliner M, Willhammar T, Wan W, González J, Rey F, Jorda JL, Zou X, Corma A. Synthesis design and structure of a multipore zeolite with interconnected 12- and 10-MR channels. J Am Chem Soc. (2012) ;134(14):6473-8.
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John Fredrick Templeman MD (00:08):
We're using a synthetic zeolite in this product and that's for a very good reason. Do you want to explain a little bit about why it's better if you can improve upon nature to do it this way?
Agnes Ostafin, PHD (00:23):
So the zeolites that are found in nature are found in uncontrolled environments. It may be that there's a particular place that has beautiful zeolites and sitting right next to it is a toxic chemical factory. And so then that zeolite even though if it were clean would be perfect because it's now picked up bad things from its neighbors that weren't there millions of years ago now becomes not so good. And so then you have to work at it to remove all the toxic materials. And the problem with removing all the toxic materials is that you have to use harsh chemistries in order to do that. Again, just like the analogy with your water softener, if you're removing only calcium and magnesium, salt is perfect way of dislodging those things.
But if you're trying to remove arsenic and mercury and other radioactive heavy metals, salt is not going to be enough and you're going to have to use harsh chemicals. Harsh chemicals will then disrupt the structure of the zeolite and so now your zeolite is not as good as it was in its original state because some of those pores, those holes that are important for capturing heavy metals may collapse. They may block off areas and so the parts that are still working may still be working fine, but now you've maybe cut down the efficiency of that piece of zeolite by 50% and so you're not getting the same bang for your buck.
And the fact that science has been able to imitate exactly, imitate exactly the structure of zeolite and to do it without the contamination that exists in nature is really a step forward. It goes against what I normally believe that synthetic would be inferior to natural. But in this particular case, it has very strong logic that the synthetic is the desirable form because it's cleaner and it is more efficient at picking up what it's wanted to be pulled out of the organism.
And let me say another thing about the word synthetic. It's kind of a word that unfortunately everybody has learned to hate because it must be bad. The method that people use to create the synthetic zeolite is actually based on the natural method. It's a slow precipitation of the elements that are naturally found in nature, except that it's done in a clean environment that has no chance of being contaminated by any bad metals, by any other undesirable elements. It's done in a hygienic way so that there's no microbial contamination and no fungal contamination. These are all things that you can't control in nature. So even though nature was the first chemist to make the magical zeolite as wonderful as it is, it didn't control its laboratory because it's laboratory is the entire world and it couldn't control it.
But we can do that in the laboratory now. And that's part of the reason why I got excited about nanotechnology in the first place is because if you understand how nature makes these things, you realize how wonderful and precise it is. And you can see which parts of that process are adulterated in nature because there's contaminants that nature is not controlling, and if you just remove them in your laboratory conditions, it's still nature making the material. It's just not making it out in the dirty environment. It's making it…
That's fascinating.
In a nice clean place.
That's a great idea.
And so it's not really synthetic in the bad sense, where synthetic is some sort of evil concoction that doesn't exist in nature. We're just recreating nature's processes in a nice way, in a clean way, so that we get the maximum benefit out of this natural product without having to go through all the effort of cleaning out nature's mistakes.
What an explanation. That is just incredible Agnes. Thank you.
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