Windows 8 has a settings screen called PC Settings that allows you to change some basic settings and Windows Start Screen preferences directly in the Windows 8 Start Screen. This screen allow you to change settings that include backgrounds, colors, synchronization preferences, and synchronization preferences.
Birdman of Alcatraz (film) Birdman of Alcatraz is a 1962 film starring Burt Lancaster and directed by John Frankenheimer. It is a largely fictionalized version of the life of Robert Stroud, a federal prison inmate known as the Birdman of Alcatraz because of his life with birds. In spite of the title, much of the action is set at Leavenworth Prison, where Stroud was jailed with his birds.
Fifty years after his death, the manuscripts of Robert Stroud, who was known as the Birdman of Alcatraz and died at the federal prison hospital in Springfield, Mo., are being released as an e-book. The movie rights have been sold, too. Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader.