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- Title
- Investigating the antecedents to loyalty of Internet service providers in Thailand: developing a conceptual model
- Author(s)
- Thaichon, Paramaporn; Lobo, Antonio; Mitsis, Ann
- Abstract
- This research aims to investigate the antecedents to customer retention and brand loyalty of Internet Service Providers (ISP) in Thailand. There are several reasons why consumers are motivated to purchase and repurchase Internet service packages. We have evaluated relevant extant research which has been well developed in Western countries. We then develop a conceptual model and intend to validate this in Thailand – a fast growing economy where Internet services are increasingly being marketed. The exogenous constructs of the conceptual model include influential factors such as network quality, customer service, information support, security and value. The endogenous constructs include cognitive and affective determinants such as trust, satisfaction, commitment and loyalty. We intend to empirically validate the conceptual model by obtaining relevant data in the near future.
- Publication type
- Conference paper
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology
- Source
- Proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference (ANZMAC 2012), Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 03-05 December 2012
- Publication year
- 2012
- Keyword(s)
- Antecedents; Conceptual model; Customer retention; Internet service providers; ISPs; Loyalty; Services marketing; Thailand
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- Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy and and Ehrenberg-Bass Institute for Marketing Science, Edith Cowan University
- 9780646563305
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- Copyright © 2012 The authors. The published version is reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.
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My baby is 9.5 months. He has been suffering from constipation since we started solids at 6 months, but before that he would go 15+ days between bowel movements. That started at about 4 months. When I say chronic constipation, I mean his face turns purple, he screams in agony, and it makes him bleed because it is so large and rock hard. Now I've tried everything I can find including...
the p foods
no more baby cereal
benefiber(just increased quantity not consistency)
we have been to two specialist
started going to the chiropractor last week
he won't drink juice or water
I breastfeed on demand, tried to get him to bf more often, but that just got me bit
Also, he has very underweight. Not even on the charts (16 pounds 10ounces) He meets his milestones extremely late (isn't crawling, didn't roll over until 7 months).
Is there something I'm missing here. I know I am grasping at straws here, but I'm hoping someone here might have some insight. The specialist wants to put him on laxatives, but I really don't want to go that route. I want to figure out what is causing the problem, not mask it.

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July 30, 2010-6lbs 2oz- 41w 4d (emergency c-section.) Known dairy, eggs, dogs and cats allergies, eczema, and asthma
Bonus June 22, 2006 (is 50/50 Custody ) (born 32w) Sensitive to changing temps.
We BF, BW, Co-sleep and use cloth diapers/pull-ups!
For me, personally, the situation has not come up, but I think I might be okay with it? What's the difference between having your friend give your baby a bottle and having her give him her boob? Our culture sees breasts as a "private" thing, but that's not true in other cultures.
I've read that in muslim cultures, the same rules against incest apply between children breastfed by the same woman as children of the same woman. So that shows both how common it was for women to breastfeed other people's children, and also, how that was in itself considered an important relationship (the relationship between a child and his/her nurse was considered biological in some respect). So you could have "milk siblings."
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You can call me JoMo!
Mom to baby boy Joe, born 5/4/09 and breastfed for more than two and a half years, and baby girl Maggie, born 7/9/12.
I think that if I had to be away from DD for a while, Id rather someone I trust nurse her then offer her formula (when she was a baby). I wonder at her age of almost 2, would she even care to nurse from someone else? Or just wait for me to get back? But I agree that our culture would look down on that.
I THINK I would nurse someone elses baby if they asked me to...not sure, but I do think I would. anyone else????
Mommy of 4,
3 who I watch over, 1 who watches over all of us
J- 8/20/05 pumped breastmilk for 11 months due to his cleft lip and palate!
M- 10/17/07 my precious baby lives forever in her mommys heart
M- 3/31/09 my special gift, she helps heal her mommy and daddys heart. Nursed for 4 years and 10 days, self weaned the day her baby brother was born!
E-, new little miracle born 4/11/13, my BIG baby! Born 8.6 at 38 weeks. At 9 weeks nearly 17lbs, at 12 weeks nearly 20lbs, at 6 months nearly 23lbs, at 8 months nearly 25lbs and all from BREASTMILK
When the placenta is removed in childbirth it signals you body to produce colostrum and to make milk for a newborn so it's not simply a newborn nursing, it the placenta hormones.
Also if you tandem nurse different age groups the older kids get the same milk as baby needs but they do not really use it up.
Mommy to Maxwell 10-9-07 weaned with love (a party and a remote control monster truck) on his 4th birthday
My Boy 3-16-10
And my sweet pea Sam 2-12-11
Watch Your Language
I THINK I would nurse someone elses baby if they asked me to...not sure, but I do think I would. anyone else????[/QUOTE]
I know my mom and her sisters sometimes in a pinch nursed each others kids and I would definitely nurse my niece and nephews if it was needed and my sisters wanted me to but some of them would probably think it was gross.
And of course most of them think I am crazy for still nursing my 2.5 yo 37lb son.
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I would nurse someone else's baby no problem
Mommy to Maxwell 10-9-07 weaned with love (a party and a remote control monster truck) on his 4th birthday
My Boy 3-16-10
And my sweet pea Sam 2-12-11
Watch Your Language
We actually heard an Arabic "news of the weird" type item about that... It was a story about a couple that was married that found out that they were technically forbidden from marriage because they had nursed from the same woman when they were babies. I think in this case they were also cousins which is also very common in the Arab world, so I can see how that could easily happen that 2 cousins could nurse from the same woman and then also get married without realizing it.
Exclusively pumped for Lance Oct 07
Nursed until just before he turned 3 Levi Oct 09
Do you have extra milk? Consider donating!
"So I was welcomed by the consolations of human milk; but it was not my mother or my nurses who made any decision to fill their breasts, but you who through them gave me infant food, in accordance with your ordinance and the riches which are distributed deep in the natural order." -St Augustine
I have been fed by my aunt when my mom had to undergo surgery to remove her uterus when I was 3 years old. I still remember the nursing sessions with my mom and my aunt.I think in some cultures its done on a need basis.But even after my mom recovered some nights I did sleep with my aunt and ended up feeding from her. My DH nursed till he turned 5.Both of us have very good memories of nursing. And also his sister nursed from her aunt because my MIL lost her supply when she conceived my DH who was 12th child of the family.I really don't think it made difference to our relationship with our parents/aunts.
Interestingly enough...I have actually done a bit of research into this as well as talking to one of the main LLL Leaders here in the UK who also did some extensive research into the topic for me. My reasoning is that I plan to lactate permanently because I (and my husband) much prefer my milk to cows' milk as well as the health benefits of it and wish to continue having it as well as having it around for our son as long as he wishes to drink it (I am ing so it's not like I'll have a teenager latched onto the breast anyway). Well the long and short of it is, as long as you take care of yourself and empty your breasts regularly then your breasts will continue to express milk. Menopause won't stop it, either. Wild, huh!
Proud wife to Paul , dedicated SAHM to our O.O. born 00:00:00 on 08 Nov 2010,
Look for us in the upcoming September 2011 issue of LLLGB's magazine, "BREASTFEEDING MATTERS" as well as LLL's upcoming booklet on relactation!
& A proud daughter to a LLLL may she RIP.
Relactated from scratch after a complicated birth(BAD hospital)...
Now relatched and & ing after 5 months of 100% EBM feeding
Planning permanent lactation.
A millionaires baby fed with commercial baby milk has a poorer diet than the poorest family's baby who is breastfed.-WHO, 1997
My story-for those looking to relactate, relatch, or boost their milk supply
I nursed my niece and my sis nursed my son. The kiddos are 6 months apart. .
I would nurse someone else's kid no problem and if I know the mom is not drinking/smoking/taking drugs/healthy/.... I would have no problem if my child nursed w another mom. Iow, I would love to have Jenna as my next door neighbor.
I must point out, I believe lll officially disapproves of x nursing.
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The body of a man located in the Upper Delaware River by a group of canoeists on May 4, has been positively identified through dental records.
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An autopsy was conducted by Dr. Margaret Prial on May 5, 2013.
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I posted on one of the boards I'm on about the methylation protocol. The feedback was all similar-go slowly. I followed my doctor's instructions even though I know from experience to halve whatever he recommends. This time I didn't. Nor did I follow my peer advice. I think with the new treatments toxins are being released to fast for my body to process. I feel lousy as a result.
I woke up with pretty bad muscle aches, nausea, lack of appetite, increased dizziness, and some weakness. I drank lemon water which helped a little though not as much as usual. My mood hasn't been the best. I feel quite discouraged wondering if I'll ever get any better.
I think somewhere inside me a molecule is aware that this is all part killing all the bugs. When I'm in the midst of feeling this bad, it's hard to maintain perspective.
This is such an isolating illness. I miss being around people but I can't promise that I'd even be able to follow through with anything. Days like today also put me in touch with how much grief I feel over the loss of the life that I had. I try and not think about it but sometimes it gets to me. I was always trying to build my life without ever quite settling on accepting how it was. Now I'm forced to accept it-for better or worse. Accept it I may but I'll refuse to stop fighting for it to get better.
I did have two victories this week. One happened last Weds when I was able to drive all the way into Oakland (3.5 miles) to get my blood drawn at a lab. I arrived at the wrong address but decided to walk since the lab was at most 2 blocks away from where I parked. I didn't see the hill that was staring me right in the face though. When I stopped the car I felt a sigh of relief that I made it, and an even bigger sigh of relief that I was out of Alameda for the first time in 3 months since my doctor's appt in Santa Rosa. It was hit and my car's air conditioning doesn't work so I opened the bottle of Calistoga I brought. Water spewed all over me. I guess the hot weather made the Calistoga bottle act as if it had been shaken. I humbly walked up the hill, soaking wet from the water. I haven't walked up a hill since being in San Francisco in December so that was also new. The things I used to take for granted. I loved walking up that hill. It wasn't easy. Because the lyme is in my brain, it affects my walking at times making me stagger. It's just a little and I don't know if it's that noticeable. It probably looks as if I'm walking while reading a book when you stagger because you're not paying attention to where you are going. The only problem is I'm not reading a book and walking.
When I got to the lab I was sweating and wet from the water but I felt very pleased with myself. I sat down and waited for my name to be called. I felt a bit faint. Whenever this happens it's also accompanied by some anxiety. I just hate, hate, hate fainting in public. So then I have to do some work to calm my anxiety down. My ipod was good for that. I knew that hill was not good to do but I needed to walk it. Then my name got called. The technician put the needle in my arm. For some reason I made the mistake of looking at it prior to her putting it in. I never do that. I saw there and waited and waited while she drew vial after vial of blood. She kept tapping my vein, shaking the tube. I was feeling a bit lightheaded so I tried to make conversation to distract myself. She wasn't a talker though. I'm sure it gets tiring having anxious people make desperate conversation. It was taking a long time to draw the blood. Then she said "come on little vein don't poop out on me now." Wha? My vein is pooping out?! What does that mean?! OMG, OMG! I felt even more lightheaded. I thought I was going to pass out and fantasized about ripping the needle out and running away. Finally it was over. It was only 8 vials. Having 7 vials drawn a couple months ago didn't take nearly that long. I don't get it. I guess my blood is thick? Who knows.
Then my second victory was that I got my hair died yesterday. I made it through a 2 hour appt. The shop was very quiet for which I was very grateful. There was one lady who came in who sat next to me for a little while. She started making funny sounds with her mouth. Little does she know how close she came to having a fist in it.
Anyway, I was pleased to have made it through the appointment but not so pleased with the result. At all. I've never had red hair before. While I think it looks great on many many people, I'm not one of them. It's not red so much but a light red. It looked good before she put the highlights in my hair.
Today we went to Border's which is now here in Alameda. I was feeling pretty dizzy so the escalator ride was a bit interesting. I've been looking for some nice paper so I can write letters to my dad. Since I can't drive far I'm limited to what's here in Alameda and so far I've been unable to find anything except for tacky stationary. It just doesn't seem right to write my dad a letter on copier paper. We still don't know the results of anything.
I found a book in which I had left a piece of paper that my dad had written instructions for a card game. I felt big pang of missing playing poker and other card games with he and LuAnn when I would visit. Somehow it was this symbol of a past that would never again be part of the future and I cried.
Sometimes it's just a drag that the present always becomes a memory. When ill those memories can pack a punch.
I'm trying to establish a sense of community online. I'll write more about that later. It's time for dinner.


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Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 began the voting season for New Jersey's best beaches. The contest is run annually by the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium and results are announced just before Memorial Day. This year there was a spike in participants with 40,000 voters, up from 12,000 in 2011. Coming in at #10 was Seaside Heights. (Credit: Al Bello/Getty Images)
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Israel said it struck targets in the Gaza Strip on Monday after Palestinian militants fired rockets at southern Israel in what they said was a response to an Israel airstrike that wounded two militants and eight bystanders.
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As a student, Przybylski learned to work with Adobe Flash software and says the experience forever changed his life. "Success is the result of endless trying, and passion is the greatest motivator," he said. He is a 10-year veteran of the software industry who has worked as an artist, designer, developer, team leader and solutions analyst. He is founder and manager of D20Studios, LLC, a company that builds simple and engaging games for Web and mobile devices. He also is director of Flash development for eLearning provider Reflection Software, where he leads a production team and engineers tools for creating interactive learning content.


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I have been nosing around here for a while; first as just a reader then I started to post when I saw something on books.
I noticed this thread and wanted to give some insight as to why I fish. I like the outdoors, but recently my wife observed, "You like to fish more than anything else don't you?" I thought about it for a moment and came to conclusion that I couldn't deny it. I love to fish.
I saw this forum and it caused me to put a little thought into why I like to fish so much. A good friend put together a scrap book after one of our trips and asked me to write the introduction. I think it says it all. So here is my take on it.
There is much written in the following pages, by a fine writer I must say, about the individuals involved in this incident. I will not venture into particulars, but as one of the elder statesmen of Salmon Camp I would like to relate some of the generalities of our adventures and the air that surrounds people and places.
My tenure with this camp started some years ago. I had known the Pere Marquette when I was a kid but never dipped a toe into her until the inception of this trip, when I was well grown. I also didn't come to the fly rod until later. These facts are true for all of us in camp, but I must say that despite our late start it is engrained in us. So now you have the picture; a bunch of late bloomers with Michigan, river blood flowing through their veins.
I refuse to deny anything that goes on at the camp. The accounts depicted within are true and the names have not been changed because nobody is innocent; we make sure of that. The cussing, the drinking, the fasting, and the sometime vulgarities are all true and we are proud of them. To understand the camp though a person must realize that there are bigger things going on there.
Life is full of ups and downs and sometimes when things are not going your way you find counsel in the oddest places. Picture, if you will, an old gray bearded man talking a young man through his first pink slip. He looks downright Freudian with his beard and his pipe, but can't seem to shake the comedy of a long camouflaged rain coat and a Yahzoo cap. The place is full of experiences.
If a job is lost then somewhere something is gained. There is nothing as exciting and full of possibility as new life. It adds purpose to the extra drinks and optimism to our camp. There will be a new net man one day and hopefully the guarantee that camp will go on long after we are gone.
There is the adoption of the younger guys by the old guys despite generation gaps and familiarity. And in the end newcomers are just as welcome as the old friends. There is always the smell of the river though and the woods at night. It cuts through the earth like time through life and runs over the top of world like we had all anticipated doing when we were young.
I once wrote that one of my earliest memories is the smell of an outboard engine mixed with the big water. I realize now that that smell is anticipation and in the end that is what gets us about angling; the anticipation that there is something down there and that you just might catch it. I realize now that it isn't just the fish that we anticipate; there are things like sharing a drift with your brother and handing a throbbing fly rod off to your dad.
I would encourage all to go forth and chase wild things and maybe one day, when you look back, your memory will be the smell of a river on a crisp autumn night and the anticipation that the fish will bite.
Chuck Sams
November, 2005
I guess you would have to have been there our at least seen the book.
I wonder why everyone else fishes.
Nicely done. Your intro reminds me of a time last fall when I brought my wife in to see a picture of a beautiful brookie that someone had posted on the Message Board. All she said was, "You used to look at me like that."
Nuff said.
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Hi Charlie,
Actually, I like to think that I give the same look to my wife as I do a trout, or a bamboo rod, or maybe a mountain stream. We are newly weds .... but I think I caught the right one because I think she really does understand.
Thanks for the kind words on the intro. Hopefully, even though she said that, she still get it.
Hopefully, after 33 years as in my case, your wife will have the same response, i.e., won't be able to tell the difference. My wife was labeled by LRO as an "enabler". While she doesn't quite get the facination, she's still understanding and supportive.
Tight lines and tight hearts to you, bro.
Please send me an e-mail asap.
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Well there you go... a respectful youngster. Tyler if you ever want to fish with one of the OLD GUYS who has forgotten more than he remembers give me a call. 865-255-4840
Besides I getting a bit feeble and need to have someone tell my family were I happily drown... that they might return with my ashes in lieu of a waste can.
You all need to enlighten up, smile at the guy who crowds you on the river and find joy that your not at home watching the Golf Channel.
You don't mind someone sitting next to you at Church do you?
I can understand Jim's (waterwolf) perspective. He was a trailblazer on the Clinch and other rivers. I would expect he had many, many days of solitude and peaceful river adventures. Also; I can relate to have many of those times and I cherish them.
Jim; I hope you do not let the worry of crowds or fishmongers deter you from something you love. Go fish and do want you want on the days you want. Be mindful and prepare yourself for crowds. Take a moment and make conversation and share flies and tips! I know you have a lifetime full of them and you could help so many others have a better day because they have met you....
As for the fishmongers; take a deep breath and show them how much fun fly fishing can be by catching about 5 fishing in a couple of minutes in front of them.
Anyhow; the only thing that is for sure is that nothing is for sure. So; make the best of what you have and be blessed in the opportunity. If that does not bring you joy; follow your other hobbies and joys until you know it will.
I hope I do not sound condescending or as I am preaching to you and others. I just wanted to offer words of support and encouragement to invite positive things in your life and fight negativity with a passion. It takes some time; but, you will always win in the end.
-Shawn MadisonEvery human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will, & creative imagination.
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These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Shawn, I really am not negative about this stuff and hope everyone who spends time on the river has great success. There was a time when I generally didn't speak to others on the water unless I knew them. That has changed over the years and as I said earlier I had some great times this past week visiting with some folks on the river that I hadn't seen in years.
I find peace in remote places where many times the fish have only seen my flies. I don't do it out of bitterness towards others, I do it because I enjoy it. I primarily fish for other stuff than trout anymore simply because after 25 years on the Clinch with a bunch of those guiding I'm a little burned out on every aspect of trout fishing our tail waters.
I honestly will never get over my sentiments towards bait fisherman, way too many twra meetings attended listening to them rant for me to ever be able to move on. I know forgiveness is the right approach but this is so deep it will never go away.
I'm typing this from a hotel room in central North Carolina where I have spent all day catching monster grass carp on cicadas and even landed an 8 lb largemouth. We've not seen another fly fisherman and to me it doesn't get better than this. Nothing against others but this is what I enjoy at this stage of my career.
Fabulous! I truly can relate to the joy in your post! We all go through different phases of sporting in our lives. Most of these phases seem to be dictated by the availability and opportunity to experience them. I plan on hitting up the lakes this summer for some bash and walleye fishing. Also; I have never caught a carp on a fly rod. So; that is on my bucket list.
Have a good one up in the mountains! Watch out for the snakes. I almost stepped on one last weekend. It had me so skid-dish; that I saw snakes in every stick and branch for the rest of the day.
-Shawn MadisonEvery human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will, & creative imagination.
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These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
On Animal Planet there is a program "North woods law" about game wardens in Maine where I lived for most of my life... the abuses of The Clinch fishery by bait hurlers would never happen in Maine. Trouble is that someone has to give a **** about enforcing the LAW and folks here seem to have little fear of getting busted.
I would wonder if TWRA could tell you how many tickets are writen each year on the Clinch below Norris? My bet is few.
Last time I saw any wardens was at Gator Pont on a saturday when there were a bunch of them hanging out on the dock listening to live music...
No doubt the Lakes are more a focus than tailwaters because they can cruise about in a boat instead o0f walking any distance wearing out shoe leather trying to bust a wormer over the li,it.
Slash a few tires if it makes you feel better; then call the warden to report the slashing... then the get caught over their limit.
That was one pretty bow.
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"Hard science" and medical school
One of the recurring themes of this blog, not surprisingly given its name, is the proper role of science in medicine. As Dr. Novella has made clear from the very beginning, we advocate science-based medicine (SBM), which is what evidence-based medicine (EBM) should be. SBM tries to overcome the shortcomings of EBM by taking into account all the evidence, both scientific and clinical, in deciding what therapies work, what therapies don't work, and why. To recap, a major part of our thesis is that EBM, although a step forward over prior dogma-based medical models, ultimately falls short of making medicine as effective as it can be. As currently practiced, EBM appears to worship clinical trial evidence above all else and nearly completely ignores basic science considerations, relegating them to the lowest form of evidence, lower than even small case series. This blind spot has directly contributed to the infiltration of quackery into academic medicine and so-called EBM because in the cases of ridiculously improbable modalities like homeopathy and reiki, deficiencies in how clinical trials are conducted and analyzed can make it appear that these modalities might actually have efficacy.
Given this thesis, if there's one aspect of medical education that I consider to be paramount, at least when it comes to understanding how to analyze and apply all the evidence, both basic science and clinical, it's a firm grounding in the scientific method. Unfortunately, in medical school there is very little, if any, concentration on the scientific method. In fact, one thing that shocked me when I first entered what is one of the best medical schools in the U.S., the University of Michigan, was just how "practical" the science taught to us as students was. It was very much a "just the facts, ma'am," sort of presentation, with little, if any, emphasis on how those scientific facts were discovered. Indeed, before I entered medical school, I had taken graduate level biochemistry courses for a whole year. This was some truly hard core stuff. Unfortunately, I couldn't get out of taking medical school biochemistry my first year, but taking the course was illuminating. The contrast was marked in that in medical school there was very little in the way of mechanistic detail, but there was a whole lot of memorization. The same was true in nearly all the other classes we took in the first two years. True, for anatomy it's pretty hard not to have to engage in a lot of rote memorization, but the same shouldn't necessarily be true of physiology and pharmacology, for example. It was, though.
Over time, I came to realize that there was no easy answer to correcting this problem, because medical school is far more akin to a trade school than a science training school, and the question of how much science and in what form it should be taught are difficult questions that go to the heart of medical education and what it means to be a good physician. Clearly, I believe that, among other things, a good physician must use science-based practice, but how does medical education achieve that? That's one reason why I'm both appalled and intrigued by a program at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine for humanities majors to enter medical school without all the hard sciences. It's a program that was written up in the New York Times last Wednesday in an article entitled Getting Into Med School Without Hard Sciences, and whose results were published in Medical Academia under the title Challenging Traditional Premedical Requirements as Predictors of Success in Medical School: The Mount Sinai School of Medicine Humanities and Medicine Program.
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A male caller on Hwy. 281 advised that someone was flying the American flag upside down and that usually means a sign of distress. He would like for an officer to go and check it out because he doesn't know if they need help or if they were just doing it as a prank.
A Three Rivers man said some guys sold him a fake surround sound system today for $300 at a George West business. They followed him to the ATM machine. It turned out that the system was a fake and they are scam artists. He just wanted officers to be on the lookout for these scam artists in case they come back into the area.
A man near George West stated there was a man and a younger man and they were on the side of the road and were either taking down a tent or putting one up. The responding deputy advised that subjects were told to move the tent off of the side of the road and onto the property of the person they have traveled down to see.
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One of the reasons that I am interested in John Gow and his Stewart connections concerns the possibility that John Gow may be related to James Gow, a well known Dundee Chartist writer and poet (and hand loom weaver). J.P. McPherson had strong ties to the Chartist movement; he was in the Dundee flax mills at the time that the textile mill workers, whether they be hecklers, flax dressers, power or hand loom weavers, were at the forefront of the Chartist movement; also, his father-in-law William Gibson Burns was a lifelong, ardent champion of the Chartist movement and universal suffrage.
So, if there are any Gow or Stewart researchers that can shed any light on the political connections between these families and the Chartist movement, I would like to hear from you. My email address is at the upper left corner of this blog.
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First trimester
Principals List: Grade 8, Cody Gosselin; Grade 7, TJ DeRose; Grade 6, Maeve Curtin.
Honor Roll: Grade 7, Kayla Beard, Ethan Simpson; Grade 6, Robyn Dudley, Mckenzie Christman; Grade 5, Emily Beard, Jacob Bizzozero, Megan Dow, Destiny Miller, Nikita Miller. Merits: Grade 4, Aiyeesha Christman; Grade 5, Iris Beede, Jonathan Howarth, Lander Miskolezi, Hunter Moran.
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Principals List: Grade 8, Cody Gosselin; Grade 7, TJ DeRose; Grade 6, Maeve Curtin.
Honor Roll: Grade 7, Kayla Beard, Ethan Simpson.
Grade 6, Robyn Dudley, Mckenzie Christman.
Grade 5, Emily Beard, Jacob Bizzozero, Megan Dow, Destiny Miller, Nikita Miller.
Merits: Grade 4, Aiyeesha Christman.
Grade 5, Iris Beede, Jonathan Howarth, Lander Miskolezi, Hunter Moran.
Local residents have been named to the deans list at the Savannah College of Art and Design for fall quarter 2012: Danielle Brooke of Chelsea; Selena Digiovanni of Fayston;
Charles Mayforth of Montpelier; Karianne Morehouse of Warren.
The following area students were recently named to the winter honor roll at the Loomis Chaffee School: Theodore Lyons, a sophomore from East Hardwick, received honor roll;
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MONTPELIER The Montpelier High School debate team, Nina Merriam and Tom Nowlan, recently put in a huge effort at preparation for the Iroquois District Debate Tournament (including teams from three states) in Oneonta, N.Y., on March 15-16, and achieved a great result by obtaining first place and qualifying to compete at Nationals.
The topic of the tournament was Resolved: The U.S. government should not require its citizens to have health insurance. Earlier in the week they were semifinalist at the State Debate Tournament and Tom Nowlan obtained a 4th place award as an individual speaker.
The National Tournament takes place in Birmingham, Ala., in June.
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BERLIN The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department reports that as warmer weather approaches and anglers prepare for spring and summer fishing, its five state fish culture stations are gearing up as well.
Adam Miller, Vermonts fish culture operations manager, provided an overview of trout and salmon stocking planned for this spring.
Fish & Wildlifes popular trophy trout stocking program will continue this year with close to 14,150 two-year old trout slated for stocking statewide, said Miller. Over 16 miles of streams and rivers and 14 lakes and ponds designated as trophy water will be available for angling. This will be an exciting year of angling if you like catching big fish.
The following streams will be stocked with trophy trout, starting in May: Black River, East Creek, Lamoille River, Mississquoi River, Otter Creek, Passumpsic River, Winooski River.
Trophy trout will be stocked in these lakes and ponds starting in April: Amherst Lake, Black Pond, Echo Lake, Kent Pond, Knapp Pond No 1, Lake Paran, Lake Raponda, Lake Rescue, Lake Shaftsbury, McIntosh Pond, Mill Pond, Miller Pond, Stoughton Pond, Sunset Lake.
In addition to the trophy trout, Miller says 264,950 yearling landlocked salmon, brook, brown, rainbow, lake trout, and steelhead rainbow trout will be stocked this year in streams, as well as lakes and ponds other than Lake Champlain. Lake and pond stocking will begin as soon as ice begins to clear and road conditions allow. River and stream stocking generally occurs in May, after spring flows have receded and temperatures are more conducive for fishing.
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Raising money
The 10th annual American Cancer Society Relay For Life NordicStyle raised $66,000 over the weekend of March 16 to support the societys mission of saving lives from cancer. The overnight event left 201 participants exhausted, but happy, after cross country skiing or snowshoeing through the night.
Through their hard work in preparing for the event, and by spending hours out in the cold for the cause, Stowe residents certainly did their part to help the American Cancer Society create a world with less cancer and more birthdays, said Hilary Casillas, state vice president for Development with the American Cancer Society.
Cancer survivors and caregivers were among those participating in this years Relay event. The teams were comprised of area families, faith-based groups, businesses, clubs and other organizations.
For the people in our community who will face a cancer diagnosis this year, said Casillas, its critical that we come together during Relay to help the American Cancer Society achieve its mission of saving lives by helping people stay well, by helping people get well, by finding cures and by fighting back.
The relay was made possible thanks to media sponsor WCAX-TV and local business donors OGradys Bar & Grill, McCarthys Restaurant, Commodore Inn, Sunset Grill, Tamale Bob Catering, Green Mountain Coffee, Black Cap Restaurant, Muddy Waters Coffee House, Cold Hollow Cider, Harvest Market, Farrell Distributors, Coca Cola Distributor, National Processing Center, Pie in the Sky, Pie Casso, The Pizza Joint, Dunkin Donuts, Myers Bagels, The Bagel, Eidelweiss Deli, La Strada Bakery, Billings Mobil, Mansfield Dairy, Perkins Restaurant, Black River Produce, Fassetts Bouyea, McKenzie Meats, Ben and Jerrys, Shaws Grocery Store, Andy Rose Catering, and Blue Donkey.
To learn more about Relay For Life, visit www.RelayForLife.org or call (800) 227-2345.
Deer report
BERLIN The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Departments report on the 2012 deer hunting seasons is available on the departments website, www.vtfishandwildlife.com. The report is produced each year after information is received from more than 120 agents statewide and all the data are reviewed for accuracy and trends.
Hunters harvested a total of 13,757 deer in 2012, up more than 13 percent from the year before. The department estimated there would be an increase in number of deer in 2012 due to a mild winter and a reduction in the number of muzzleloader season antlerless deer permits issued in 2011. In response, the number of antlerless permits was increased by 30 percent in 2012.
The increase in antlerless permits provided hunters with the opportunity to harvest antlerless deer while still allowing for the slow increase of deer numbers in many regions of the state, said deer biologist Adam Murkowski.
Forty-five percent of the deer were taken during the rifle season, 24 percent in archery season, 18 percent during muzzleloader season, and 13 percent in youth season.
Prevent child abuse
MONTPELIER From front yards to the Statehouse lawn, pinwheels will be spinning across Vermont throughout April in recognition of Child Abuse Prevention Month. The pinwheel represents Prevent Child Abuse Vermonts efforts to change the way our state thinks about prevention, focusing on community activities and public policies that prioritize healthy child development and ensure that child abuse and neglect never occur. Vermont is part of the national Pinwheels for Prevention campaign that has seen more than 2.3 million pinwheels the new national symbol for child abuse prevention distributed since April 2008. In honor of Child Abuse Prevention Month and Pinwheels for Prevention, Prevent Child Abuse Vermont will be planting pinwheel gardens, including one on the Statehouse lawn on April 2.
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A son, Nicholas Andrew Shaffer-Evans, born March 15, 2013, to Amelia Evans and Nicholas Shaffer of Topsham.
A son, Christopher David Wike Jr. born March 15, 2013, to Jennifer Bickford and Christopher Wike of Marshfield.
A son, Mason Andrew King, born March 16, 2013, to Denise and BJ King of Woodbury.
A daughter, Cleo Ripley Carr, born March 21, 2013, to Jean Annick and Neil Carr of Barre.
A son, Lincoln Roberts Kennedy, born March 21, 2013, to Beckie (Richardson) and Mike Kennedy of Williamstown.
A son, Logan Wesley Fowler, born March 22, 2013, to Angela (Gonzalez) and Brandon Fowler of Barre.
A daughter, Abigail Leigh Thongs, born March 24, 2013, to Sierra Wells and Russel Thongs of Barre.
A son, James Francis Bair, born March 24, 2013, to Leila (Gray) and Daniel Bair of East Montpelier.
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A daughter, Jennifer Ann Clough, born March 7, 2013, to Jason Clough and Laurie Cass of Williamstown.
A son, Colton Shepard, born March 8, 2013, to Brooke and Megan (Kresock) Sault of Randolph.
A son, Jacob, born March 9, 2013, to Justin and Katie (Hood) Ford of Williamstown.
A son, Keegan James Gilman, born March 11, 2013, to Amanda Gilman of Braintree.
A son, Zavier Atticus Baine Bartolomeo, born March 17, 2013, to Ethan Bartolomeo and Morgan Jacques of Berlin.
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A son, Jack Davis Lawrence, and a daughter, Abigail Suzann Lawrence, were born Feb. 15, 2013, to Sarah (Tennies) and David Lawrence of Middlesex.
A son, Logan Reiss Watters, born Feb. 23, 2013, to Roy Watters and Heather Osterberg of Barre.
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A daughter, Kasey Lynn McNab-Hess, born March 1, 2013, to Ashley McNab and Cole Hess of Eden.
A son, Brandon Vincent McCarthur-Cote, born March 1, 2013, to Tessa-Anne McArthur and Michael Shepard-Parrott of Morrisville.
A son, Roscoe Wallace Allen III, born March 2, 2013, to Jan-Nell (Foster) and Roscoe Allen Jr. of Craftsbury.
A daughter, Sedona Pearl Karp, born March 3, 2013, to Leslie Kilgore and Ryan Karp of Waterbury.
A son, Charles Milton Hough IV, born March 5, 2013, to Kathryn (Dickinson) and Charles Hough III of Northfield.
A daughter, Audrey Elaine Desjardins, born March 7, 2013, to Scott and Catherine (Dunn) Desjardins of Greensboro Bend.
A son, Eric Lee Horst, born March 11, 2013, to Isaac and Amanda (Wadel) Horst of Hardwick.
A son, Thomas Edward Chamberlin Jr., born March 12, 2013, to Liza Barry and Thomas Chamberlin of Morrisville.
A daughter, Cloie Ann Brown, born March 14, 2013, to Chelsea Miller and Philip Brown of Morrisville.
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Standing outside, Lupe Sanchez, executive director, and Virginia Cherry, her assistant, stood in front of the newly-painted teal building. Gone are the paintings of the children on the front of the building. Gone is the faded paint.
"People would stop in thinking we were a day care," said Sanchez, recalling the figures painted on the front wall.
"I just wanted something cool and bright where people could see it," she said. "We needed something refreshing."
Anyone unsure they have the right place can now also see the new sign on the left of the building.
The painting was done by AA Ruiz Painting, while the sign was painted by Duane Webb.
Martin Montez and David Rodriguez volunteered their time to hang the sign.
One thing still lingers though — donations and trash tossed on the front steps and behind the building.
"We don't have anybody to haul away the trash," said Sanchez.
When a couple of couches and a mattress were found discarded behind their building, they called the county for help.
And while trusties from the jail were able to lend a hand, that is not always be the case.
A few years ago, cameras were installed behind the building to catch those leaving behind items when the Vineyard is closed.
"Some of the people have been cited," she said.
Of those caught, some say they figured the cameras didn't work.
"I feel like it doesn't make a difference unless people know these citations have been issued," Sanchez said.
Not all of the stuff left there over the weekend or after hours is trash. Sometimes it is usable items — or it could have been.
Cherry said, "It they leave it over the weekend, and it rains, then it is ruined."
Cherry said that she hates to see usable items ruined because, despite the appearance of a booming economy, many people in this area still need help.
Sanchez said they average about 10 new people in need of assistance every month. One month, that number escalated to 18 new people coming in for help.
"We get people all the time coming in with disconnects," Cherry said.
They cannot help with the utility bills until the disconnect notice is issued. She adds they also have to wait until eviction notices are issued before they can help with rent.
"This way we are helping keep people in their homes," Cherry said.
Both women agree that the Beeville area is a magnet for people hoping to hire on in the oil field.
"I think some people are coming here because they hear about the jobs," Cherry said.
Sanchez added, "I think the oil field has helped a lot of people, but it has displaced a lot of people."
According to recent stats provided by Workforce Solutions of the Coastal Bend, 956 people in Bee County were unemployed, out of a labor force of 13,371.
This is an unemployment rate of 7.1 percent — down from 7.5 percent in June but up from 6.4 percent at the same time last year.
The statewide unemployment average is 6.7 percent while the national average for July is 7.4 percent.
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The West Dummerston Covered Bridge was damaged in a hit-and-run Sunday by an oversized box truck, according to police.
WEST DUMMERSTON The 280-foot long West Dummerston Covered Bridge has survived floods, vandals and creeping age. Now add to the list a too-tall Budget Rental truck.
The 1872 bridge, which is the longest covered bridge currently in use in the state of Vermont, was damaged Sunday afternoon by an oversized box truck.
According to an eyewitness account given to the Vermont State Police, the driver of the Budget Rental truck got out, saw the damage, and drove away without reporting it. The incident happened at about 5:15 p.m., on the Camp Arden Road side of the bridge.
Zeke Goodband, chairman of the Dummerston Select Board, said Monday the damage appeared relatively light and the bridge was safe to use.
Trim boards on the east entrance were damaged, as well as a crossbeam, according to a press release from the Vermont State Police. Right above the damaged trim board is a sign warning the interior of the bridge is only 11 feet tall.
Goodband said that Mike Renaud of Vernon, a local covered bridge restoration expert, would be at the bridge first thing this morning to assess the damage.
Hes done a lot of work on the bridge, and to tell you the truth it doesnt look too bad, said Goodband, on a cellphone call from the bridge. I dont think the repairs will take much time.
Trooper Travis Valcourt said that two people who saw the crash came forward. He said the witnesses were unable to get cell service near the bridge, and called police 30 minutes later when they got home.
He said he believed it was a 16-foot tall truck. He said state police were in contact with Budget Rental in an effort to locate the truck, which was damaged in the crash.
But he said Budget Rental did not have a national database on rented trucks since all the rental agencies are owned independently.
They dont have a national database, Valcourt said. But he said that the police had some possible leads in the case, and he said the investigation was ongoing.
Goodband said the bridge had about $300,000 worth of work done in 2012 on the wing walls, or entrances to the bridge, which carries the East-West Road over the West River.
Goodband said the town did have insurance on the covered bridge, and he said any damage would be covered.
Sylvio Forrett, a longtime Dummerston Select Board member, said the current bridge replaced a similar bridge that was swept away in floods in 1869, and cost $7,777 to build.
Forrett said he has collected a lot of history on the West Dummerston Covered Bridge, which is the only surviving covered bridge in the town. He said at one time there was another bridge over Stickney Brook right on Route 30.
He said the West Dummerston bridge was originally two lanes, but had been cut to one lane out of weight concerns and overloading on the bridge.
Forrett said that box trucks had damaged the covered bridge before. Ive seen them there before, said Forrett, who served on the Dummerston board for 29 years.
Forrett said he recalled the time a truck that was too tall for the bridge had to deflate all its tires so it could get out of the bridge.
He said one possibility is that the truck passed through the bridge loaded, and was lower on its springs, and once unloaded and higher came back across the bridge, causing the damage.
Forrett said the bridge was completely rebuilt in the mid 1990s, and that the towns Iron Bridge, which also crosses the West River, was closed, causing a lengthy detour via Brattleboro for many people in town.
I remember having to drive to Brattleboro to go to a Select Board meeting, said Forrett, who said that a temporary bridge was installed downstream from the covered bridge in the interim.
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Home List of Titles Frequency- and polarization-dependent optical response of asymmetric spheroidal silver nanoparticles on dielectric substrate
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/147870
- Title
- Frequency- and polarization-dependent optical response of asymmetric spheroidal silver nanoparticles on dielectric substrate
- Author(s)
- Mizeikis, Vygantas; Kowalska, Ewa; Ohtani, Bunsho; Juodkazis, Saulius
- Abstract
- We report theoretical simulations of plasmonic near-field enhancement and polarization in a system consisting of an asymmetric spheroidal Ag nanoparticle on a smooth dielectric surface. Finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations reveal resonant optical extinction bands whose near-field is concentrated at the metal–substrate contact point with intensity enhancement by a factor of 103 and predominant polarization along the normal to the surface. These features may help explain enhanced photo-catalytic activity observed for colloidal Au and Ag nanoparticles on titania substrates.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences. Centre for Micro-Photonics
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- Physica Status Solidi: Rapid Research Letters, Vol. 4, no. 10 (Oct 2010), pp. 268-270
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- 2010
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- Keyword(s)
- Nanoparticles; Photo-catalysis; Plasmonics; Polarization effects; Silver
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Multiple celebrities have had their personal information hacked and posted online recently, and this is nothing new. We've seen breaches of health information of celebrities in the past, and this will continue to happen, even when privacy and security is a top priority as it is in financial institutions and credit bureaus.
It is critical that privacy be the foundation in Health IT, or Americans' health information will be the most valuable and available information on the market.
From the Fast Company Article: Michelle Obama's Credit Report Hacked
"Three of the major credit agencies were hacked and information about Michelle Obama, Beyonce and numerous other celebrities has been leaked on an unnamed website, gossip site TMZ first reported on Tuesday.
Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax confirmed to Bloomberg News that they had found cases where information had been accessed unlawfully by hackers."


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The Church is visible primarily when it assembles around the Lord's table to celebrate the Eucharistic sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving. Remembering the saving work of Christ, the pilgrim people of God are united with those who have gone before, even as they attempt to be of service in the present and look beyond to the future. The whole Christian life, which begins with baptism and culminates in the communion of the Body of Christ, is epitomized by these two sacraments which serve as the pattern for the community's relationship to the neighborhood and the world around beyond, as well as for members' relationships with one another. By celebrating the sacraments of Christ's life-giving death and resurrection, we believe that we are created anew in the likeness of the God who became incarnate in order to serve.
The church building is the community's home. Like a family home, it reflects the needs and aspirations of its builders as well as the modifications and additions of those who have followed. We leave our own mark on the building as a sign of our having been here, and in so doing we witness our respect for the past and our hopes and aspirations for the future.
We want our home to embody respect for our Catholic traditions that go back to the apostles, and pride in our own unique local history. We want our home to foster our growing awareness that when we gather around the Lord's table to celebrate the messianic banquet, we cease to be a collection of isolated individuals and become People of God called to act as Christ in the world. We ourselves become a sacrament, the Body of Christ. We want our church to affirm our respect for all that is good in our world and community, with all people of good will, and our care for the poor. We want our home to be open and inviting, a center not only for celebrations of sacramental mysteries, but also, like the great medieval churches it recalls, a place where the arts, events in the life of the University, and every authentic human value will be at home and an oasis and sign of hope to the poor and homeless.


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Weekend Movie Preview: 'Gangster Squad' & 'A Haunted House'
Welcome to the second Weekend Movie Preview of the New Year. As you might suspect based on last week's reviews of "Zero Dark Thirty" and "Promised Land," I'm still catching up on screeners from 2012 and probably will be for the rest of this month. You can keep up with my progress weekly by checking out the mini movie reviews on my website.
Today's column features the first new film that I've seen in 2013: Ruben Fleischer's "Gangster Squad." It also contains my thoughts on the trailer for the Marlon Wayans horror spoof "A Haunted House."
On the crime-infested streets of Los Angeles in 1949, a secret squad of police officers led by two unwavering sergeants (Josh Brolin and Ryan Gosling), labors to take down the ruthless mob boss Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) and free his grip on the city.
Director: Ruben Fleischer ("30 Minutes or Less," "Zombieland")
Writer: Will Beall ("Castle")
Based On: The book Gangster Squad by Paul Lieberman
Notable Supporting Actors: Emma Stone, Giovanni Ribisi, Nick Nolte, Josh Pence, Robert Patrick, Anthony Mackie, Michael Peña
MY TAKE: In the opening of Ruben Fleischer's "Gangster Squad," a title card claims that the crime drama is "Based on a true story." This statement feels like false advertising if you take this film literally, because once you get into it, the only elements from Will Beall's tale which actually seem accurate are that the gangster Mickey Cohen ran rackets in Los Angeles during 1940s, and that there were special LAPD cops assigned to take him down. All of the other facets of the picture are just too over-the-top to appear real.
On the surface, "Gangster Squad" is a neo noir film, with its period aesthetic and its narration from Sergeant O'Mara (Josh Brolin). However the voiceover contains a series of trite remarks and obnoxious metaphors about duty, honor, and badges (you know, like police ones?) which will make you wince. There's also no clever whodunit at the core of the narrative like you'd find in neo noir films such as "L.A. Confidential." Instead, "Gangster Squad" is a tale of hard-times law enforcement equivalent to "The Untouchables" on steroids, a brute force buddy action flick. That's why you'll appreciate this movie a lot more if you don't take it seriously. Judge it with a big old grain of salt and you'll have fun like I did.
If you accept that the villain is cartoonishly portrayed by Sean Penn sporting humorous prosthetics, that there will be goofy one-liners, and that luck helps our heroes survive some insanely outlandish situations, you will actually start to enjoy yourself. A cop jumps on the back of a moving car, causes it to crash while he's on it, survives, and then beats the tar of out a trained boxer? Who cares? There are sweet gunfights and explosions, as well as hilarious banter between the cops in the Gangster Squad (Brolin, Gosling, Ribisi, Patrick, Mackie, and Peña). As a result, you're with them very little time before you begin to feel a genuine sense of camaraderie that ropes you in. Plus you get to see Ryan (Hey, girl) Gosling reunited with Emma Stone, who plays a mistress in Cohen's entourage that falls hopelessly and dangerously for Gosling's Sgt. Wooters. Their chemistry isn't amazing, although they're still cute together.
"Gangster Squad" may not be a smart film, but it's at least exciting. By the end there are piles of shell casings and bodies, as well as a bad guy behind bars. Though the heroes have to get their hands dirty, they still accomplish their mission with most of their lives intact. What more could you ask for?
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