Media Studies
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Tuesday, 9 September 2014
Police continue search for sex predator
Police are hunting for a man who sexually assaulted a teenage girl in
a melbourne park. CCTV footage has been realeasd of a man who grabbed,
gagged and sexually assaullted a 16 year old girl near a Caulfield
Recreation Reserve in Melbourne's south last week. He reportedly
asssulted the victum before a jogger came and interviened at about 8am
on July 24. Police have realesed footage of a man lurking around the
feamle toilets not far from the attack. He seems to be looking for
another victum. He looks aged in his 20s, about 180cm tall, clean
shaven, pointy nose and chin and was last seen wearing a blue hoodie
with 'EVERLAST' written across the front. If anyone has seen him they
are urged to call crime stoppers on 1800 333 000.
Advertising
Advertising in business is a form of marketing communication used to encourage, persuade, or manipulate an audience (viewers, readers or listeners; sometimes a specific group) to take or continue to take some action. Most commonly, the desired result is to drive consumer behaviour with respect to a commercial offering, although political and ideological advertising is also common. This type of work belongs to a category called affective labour.

The perfect video game to play
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This flow chart was created by silveroakcasino.com. There are some retro games and some newer games, even some Japanese oddities.
Man lives in woods for 27 years and steals Pokémon games
It's hard to imagine a single person living undetected in
the United States while having no contact with another human being for years,
yet that's precisely what happened over the last three decades. GQ has
published a lengthy new story about Christopher Knight, a hermit who has lived
in the woods of Maine, surviving by stealing food, clothing, and entertainment
from nearby houses. Among the things he stole? A child's Halloween candy and
various handheld video games, including Pokemon.
Knight, now 48 years old, was finally discovered and
arrested last year after years of his thefts had turned him into something of a
myth. After being arrested, he eventually opened up to police (and later a GQ
reporter) about his time in the wilderness. Unable to say how long he had been
living by himself, he could confirm it began in the same year as the Chernobyl
disaster, meaning he had been doing this since 1986.

To keep himself occupied--27 years or so is a long time to
go without human contact--he stole things like books and games, including
handheld Pokémon, Dig Dug, and Tetris games. There's no word on what system
these games were for or if he ever managed to catch them all. (The story also
makes no mention of what he thinks of sub-1080p games. He thinks they're
totally lame, I bet.)
Asked why he disappeared in '86, when he was 20 years old,
Knight never had a real answer, saying things like, "I can't explain
why," and "It's a mystery to me, too."
GQ's full story is fascinating and well worth a look if
you're curious about how Knight committed the robberies and spent his time.
Russian Documentary uses fan made team fortress 2 poster

As any Team Fortress 2 player could tell you, that's not a German soldier, it's the Soldier class from the game. The documentary showed the Team Fortress 2 poster alongside other, real posters from the era calling Americans to enlist and support the war effort, and, according to International Buisness Times, said it depicted Germans as monsters "regardless of any logic or common sense."
You'd think that the poster claiming that soldiers eat babies as a fact, or better yet, that it calls people to join Team Demoman (another class in the game), would make it obvious it's not real, but if you weren't able to read English, visually it's not that far from the real thing. If nothing else, it's a compliment to the Deaviantart user TankTaur who created this great parody as part of a Team Fortress 2 propaganda contest in 2009.
It's unclear how the poster ended up in the documentary, but I think it's safe to assume it involved a Google image search. You can see the part of the documentary that features the poster in this YouTube video (via PC Gamer), around the 9:50 mark.
Student arrested for saying he shot a dinosaur
Alex Stone, a 16yr old student of Summervile high school, was
arrested on the 21st of August 2014 for saying he shot his neighbours
pet dinosaur. He said they were to write a few sentences about
themselves and to list a 'status' as if they were filling in thier
FaceBook profile.
The
boy wrote 'I bought a gun to take of buisness'. That then made the
school to have suspicions and lead them to call the Police. Alex was
then arrested and charged for disordely conduct after he argued with
Police. They searched through his bag and locker for any weapons, but
found nothing. The boy was also suspended from school.
Alex's mother, Karen Gray, is angry that the school didn't call her first. "I could understand if they made him re-write it because it had the word 'gun'." Karen said. "I mean first of all, we don't have dinosaurs any more, and secondly, hes not old enough to buy a gun".
Alex says he meant no harm and didn't realise that his words could be interprited that way. "I regret it because they put it on my record, but i don't see any harm in it". He said. "I think there might have been a better way to put it, but me writting like that, it shouldn't matter unless i put it towards someone.
Source: http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/summerville-police-arrest-student-for-writing-he-shot-dead-dinosaur/story-fnjco7gt-1227032120282

Alex's mother, Karen Gray, is angry that the school didn't call her first. "I could understand if they made him re-write it because it had the word 'gun'." Karen said. "I mean first of all, we don't have dinosaurs any more, and secondly, hes not old enough to buy a gun".
Alex says he meant no harm and didn't realise that his words could be interprited that way. "I regret it because they put it on my record, but i don't see any harm in it". He said. "I think there might have been a better way to put it, but me writting like that, it shouldn't matter unless i put it towards someone.
Source: http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/summerville-police-arrest-student-for-writing-he-shot-dead-dinosaur/story-fnjco7gt-1227032120282
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