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The Best CSS Reset Stylesheets
Resetting your CSS to baseline property values is useful for gaining control, predictability, and uniformity with regards to how browsers render your HTML elements.
To learn about CSS resets in greater detail, see these articles:
If you're looking for a stylesheet to help you reset your CSS, in my opinion, these are your top options right now:
Reset CSS
Eric Meyer's Reset CSS — this is the stylesheet that made CSS resets a mainstay. Reset CSS either nullifies a default CSS property by setting it to 0, or it sets the property to a common-sense value (e.g.,
line-height: 1 on the
 element). Explicitly declaring certain CSS property values can help reduce inconsistencies in the way our HTML elements are rendered by the browser.
Related: Eric Meyer's thoughts on CSS3
Note that Reset CSS was last updated in 2011. Many CSS reset stylesheets we'll be talking about haven't been updated in a while.
HTML5 Reset Stylesheet
This reset stylesheet by Richard Clark is a modification of Eric Meyer's Reset CSS. This CSS reset is geared towards modern HTML 5 elements. Other tweaks found in HTML5 Reset Stylesheet are the removal of a
:focus pseudo-class reset and the use of attribute selectors to target the
 and
<dfn> elements in a way that minimizes the scope of their style rules.
CSS Mini Reset
This is a minimalist CSS reset by Vladimir Carrer. It only has four CSS style rules. It only resets the most frequently-used HTML elements — the ones you'll actually use in your web development projects. Check out CSS Mini Reset on GitHub.
reset.css (from HTML5 Reset)
This stylesheet is part of the HTML5 Reset boilerplate. Its inception was inspired by three open source projects: Reset CSS, HTML5 Reset Stylesheet, and HTML 5 Boilerplate. This reset stylesheet is robust and opinionated. For example, it has specific style rules for the
:before and
:after pseudo-classes and it sets the
box-sizing property to
border-box, which your other options don't do.
This CSS reset is a boilerplate stylesheet for small website development projects. For simple websites, such as one-page sites, you most likely don't need to use a big front-end framework like Bootstrap. In these cases, Marx is an option to consider.
Specialized CSS Resets
These two CSS reset stylesheets are purpose-specific:
This is a baseline CSS reset just for Web typography. It's geared towards text-heavy sites and web pages, such as blogs and news sites.
Note that Typeset.css will only work on HTML elements that are the children of an element with a class of
typeset. So to implement Typeset.css, you'd need to do something like:

Blog Post Title

My blog post.

This CSS reset stylesheet is extremely aggressive. It's designed for use on content that will be distributed on another website, a scenario where your control over style rules is restricted. Cleanslate uses an
!important declaration on all property values to force browsers not to follow normal cascading and CSS specificity rules. This gives you a fighting chance when it comes to overwriting the style rules of the third-party website.
CSS Normalization: A Modern Alternative
Browsers today are pretty good at setting appropriate default styles. Also, they now abide by modern standards and best practices. Default styles are now more predictable and consistent across the board.
So, instead of doing a blanket reset on all the default browser styles, we can instead focus only on specific HTML elements and CSS properties that aren't being rendered uniformly in different browsers. We keep the other useful browser defaults.
That's the main idea behind CSS normalization.
In other words, for our unstyled HTML elements, we implicitly let the browser or the normalization stylesheet set the style rules for us. This way, if we forget or don't assign a style rule to an element, they will still render predictably and consistently across the various browsers.
One benefit of CSS normalization is it keeps our stylesheets DRY. We aren't resetting an HTML element's property values to 0, only to overwrite the property declarations farther down the cascade with another style rule.
Related: Should You Reset Your CSS?
Here are the top two CSS normalization stylesheets to check out:
This popular CSS normalization stylesheet is used in major sites like Twitter and GitHub, and is a dependency in big open source projects like Bootstrap and HTML5 Boilerplate. Normalize.css is the one that started it all.
This CSS normalization stylesheet is by Jonathan Neal, the co-author of Normalize.css. sanitize.css has style rules that will help you render HTML elements consistently in different browsers. This normalization stylesheet has a Sass version, which many developers will appreciate.
Further Reading
- What Is A CSS Reset? CSS Reset
- What is the difference between Normalize.css and Reset CSS? Stack Overflow
Related Content
- 12 Common CSS Mistakes Web Developers Make
- Resetting Your Styles with CSS Reset
- 100 Useful CSS Tips and Tricks
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MB Jun 01 2015
Thanks for this! Very timely since the topic recently came up in a class.
CSS Lint was also suggested as a resource in that class and it seems like a good way to learn how to better edit a stylesheet. But I'm very confused by its recommendation to not use ID's as selectors, since learning how to create and select ID's is a fundamental focus for learning how to write CSS.
CSS Lint itself led me to this article: http://oli.jp/2011/ids/, which seems to summarize major issues — or at least raise flags of uncertainty for using the tool.
I found the tool mentioned here with other helpful info: http://sixrevisions.com/lists/css-tools-you-should-be-using/ If you have any opinions about its fine-grain recommendations, I would be interested to read more about it. I like this site a lot, very helpful, thanks!
Jacob Gube Jun 01 2015
Hi MB,
CSS Lint isn't a reset stylesheet. It's a code-quality analysis tool. I've thought about covering CSS Lint's suggestions before, but the project already does a good job of explaining the CSS Lint Rules.
But to answer your question: The argument for not using ID selectors is that it's not as flexible and maintainable as class selectors. You can only have 1 element per ID on the page. It's harder to update your work when you're using ID selectors and are relying on a certain HTML structure.
In contrast, you can have an infinite amount of elements with the same class. So, in addition to flexibility and maintainability, a class selector theoretically has the ability to be more efficient in terms of the number of elements it can affect.
Also, in CSS, there's virtually no benefit* to using ID selectors versus class selectors.
So the idea goes: Why not just make things easier for ourselves and use classes all the way?
Not using ID selectors is just a suggestion. It's not wrong to use ID selectors. In my view, as long as you fully understand the pros and cons of something, you should do what works best for you.
I personally try not to use ID selectors. But there are some cases where that's not always possible. For example, when I'm working on someone else's markup, or I'm doing work on a CMS/e-commerce theme built by someone else, I find that I sometimes just can't avoid using ID selectors. And, that's alright.
* There might be a slight performance difference between ID selectors and class selectors. But the difference is not compelling enough to be a cause for using ID selectors instead of class selectors, especially in sites with significant amounts of CSS–maintainability and flexibility that comes from using class selectors is more important in this particular scenario.
Robert Smith Jun 08 2015
I think it should be a rule not to use IDs in CSS. I am yet to see any circumstance where an ID is preferable to a class, there's nothing a class cannot do that an ID can, apart from overriding another ID (ignoring !important).
Like Crockford's JavaScript the Bad Parts tells you never to use 'with' and 'eval', it's the same here, never use IDs in CSS.
Harry Roberts explains in further detail here: http://csswizardry.com/2011/09/when-using-ids-can-be-a-pain-in-the-class/
James Jun 03 2015
Is there a performance penalty for using the * selector?
- CSS Performance Revisited: Selectors, Bloat and Expensive Styles — These tests show that the universal selector is not the slowest selector, and that selector speed varies across different browsers.
- Performance Impact of CSS Selectors — If you're interested in web performance, anything written by Mr. Souders is a great read. In this post, he says: "For most web sites, the possible performance gains from optimizing CSS selectors will be small, and are not worth the costs." "Costs" in the context of Souders's post is the amount of time and money you spend optimizing your CSS selectors.
- CSS Selector Test — You can use this test on your browser to see the speed of several different CSS selectors. These results might vary on your machine versus mine. When I tested on Chrome version 43, there were quite a few selectors that were slower than the universal selector. Such as el el selectors like
ul lior
form input.
- You are removing useful default CSS properties on all HTML elements. If you forget to add back the margin/padding properties on an HTML element, or if you use some new HTML element that you haven't styled yet, then you'll run into rendering issues. In these cases, having the default margin/padding styles is probably better than having them at
0pxmargin/padding can affect UX. Particularly the reading experience.
- Your stylesheet's file size will most likely increase because you're needlessly removing and then adding back CSS properties, which means more lines of code.
- The stylesheet isn't DRY. Removing something and then adding it back is redundant. Keeping stylesheets DRY goes a long way towards improving maintainability and scalability. A better option would be to explicitly set margin/padding property values, rather than removing them and then adding them back in.
Jacob Gube Jun 03 2015
Do you mean performance penalty in terms of CSS selector speed? If there is, it's probably minuscule, and it won't be perceivable by your users.
In other words, if there is a performance penalty for using the universal selector, it is most likely insignificant in the vast majority of cases.
Thus, selector performance shouldn't be the reason why you would not use the universal selector.
There are more productive performance optimizations we can work on, such as lowering our CSS file sizes through minification. Or choosing high-performance CSS transitions and animations, because they can have an effect on the perceived performance of your UI. Some transition properties, for example, don't render smoothly in certain browsers, and they make the UI feel slow.
I'll have to do actual tests to quantify my position on the universal selector speed. I have done some tests on CSS selector speed years ago. I'm particularly interested in seeing CSS selector performance on mobile devices, since I've done no tests on mobile.
Even on older computers and older versions of web browsers, the universal selector's speed-performance was not significant enough to be a deciding factor between using or not using it in my stylesheets.
In the mean time, here are some links to check out:
There are plenty of reasons why I would not use the universal selector in my CSS. However, selector speed is not one of those reasons.
Since this post is about CSS reset and normalization, I will list down some reasons why I do not recommend using a massive universal selector reset. But first, let me describe a very common scenario.
A CSS author uses the following style rule to set all the margin and padding properties of all HTML elements to 0px:
* {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
Then the CSS author adds back the margin and padding properties on HTML elements that should have them. Paragraphs, lists, blockquotes, and so forth.
* {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
p {
margin: 16px 0px;
ol {
margin: 16px 0px;
padding-left: 40px
li {
margin-left: 5px;
padding-left: 10px;
blockquote {
margin: 40px 16px;
You can see several problems here:
Still, given those issues, I'll still use that type of universal selector reset in certain situations.
For example, if I'm being lazy and/or a personal-project site I'm working is small and will only use basic HTML elements (like a simple one-page site), then I might still use a massive margin/padding reset for development speed, cross-browser consistency, and most of all personal convenience.
Since this type of universal selector reset does not significantly impact performance — or, really, anything that our users care about — there's no practical harm to using the universal selector in a vast majority of situations. I'll use the time I save from not implementing a robust CSS normalization or reset stylesheet towards something more productive.
There's "best practice" and then there's "practical practice".
Really, it all boils down to this: It depends on the situation. I know a lot of people dislike that sort of uncertainty. But I also don't want to subscribe or advocate towards some sort of dogma. I want to do what works best when given a particular problem.


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Motorcycle racer and team owner Valerie Thompson set her 7th land speed record on her CTEK-sponsored BMW S1000RR during the Utah Salt Flats Racing Associations 28th Annual World of Speed event recently at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Wendover, UT.
Thompson spent a month in Utah to compete in the three most prestigious land speed racing events held at the famed Salt Flats, including Speed Week, the Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials and World of Speed. Speed Week was canceled due to heavy rains, while weather and track conditions during the Motorcycle Speed Trials prevented Thompson from setting a new record despite making a strong 203.77 mph pass.
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Thompsons patience paid off during the World of Speed event where her BMW S1000RR was fast right out of the trailer. Six out of eight of Thompsons passes topped the 200 mph mark. On her last run of the event, Thompson enjoyed her best speed on the Salt with a first pass at 209.85 mph and a return run of 207.71 mph, setting a new MPS-G 1000 record at 208.81 mph. The new record earned Thompson a lifetime membership in the prestigious Red Hat Club, recognizing her 200+mph performance.
I've wanted the 200 MPH Club Red Hat since I started racing on the Salt, so its an awesome achievement for me. I can't thank my team enough for their outstanding fight to the end. Ray Garcia did an incredible job of making all the right calls on the bikes set up. Now I can focus on setting more records and going faster with the Red Hat, added an ecstatic Thompson.
According to USFRA secretary, Ellen Wilkinson, more than 150 teams pre-registered for the event, which was cancelled last year due to rain. This was my first time racing at an USFRA sanctioned event and I was very impressed. Everything went smooth and we got a lot of runs in. I cant wait to come back next year, said Thompson.
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My eyes fluttered open and the sun shot in, announcing that I'd left the curtains open last night. I slowly became conscious of the breathing next to me, and looked over my shoulder to see Sam's eyes gently closed in sleep. She looked so peaceful. I moved very carefully on to my other side, and stroked a hair from her face. She was incredibly beautiful, and I was content to lie there in that tender contented moment and just watch her. All too soon she woke.
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This Sunday, the Miami Dolphins take on the St. Louis Rams in what will prove to be a good match up for both teams. However, the St. Louis Rams have started to turn some heads with quality victories over the Redskins, Cardinals, and Seahawks. The Rams feature a tough defense anchored by their always up to no good Safety in Cortland Finnegan and incredible play by Robert Quinn, 7 sacks and stalwart stops against the run by Chris Long. All in all, the Rams are tough, but certainly have their weaknesses. For this post, I took the time to ask Derek Pease an excellent analyst of his team the St. Louis Rams on RamsHerd.com, a Bloguin blog. We asked Derek the following about his team's glaring issues as well as a look into the future with Sam Bradford and if he is the franchise QB in St. Louis. Derek said the following in our conversation:1). After watching film, the Rams appear to have consistency issues in the red zone with their receivers. Sam Bradford under duress steps off of is back foot to throw, what do you attribute this alarming trend of interceptions to? Some I attribute to BQS or Battered Quarterback Syndrome. But in reality Sam has a bad habit of locking on to a receiver and needs to be much quicker at going through his reads and progressions and then getting rid of the ball. Too often he gives the defense an extra second or two, to close the gap. 2. ) The Miami Dolphins have 6 takeaway interceptions in the past three games. How do the Rams plan on attacking the Dolphins suddenly opportunistic secondary with a possibility that the Dolphins will bring pressure at the line? Without Bradford's safety net playing in Danny Amendola, look for a heavy dose of Steven Jackson and the TE Lance Kendricks. Kendricks is a viable option, when he catches the ball, and can create a lot of separation in the open field. If he shows early that his hands are "on" look for Sam to target him a lot on quick reads. Also I ouwld truly anticipate Jackson and 7th rounder Daryl Richardson getting a lot of touches to keep the Defense honest and help save Sam from some big hits. 3. ) Without Danny Amendola who will the Rams look to for big plays down the field? It is again Brandon Gibson's turn to shine. He has the ability to make the deep play, but so often has disappointed with key drops when given the chance. 4. ) As far as the running game, how do the Rams plan on executing a game plan that features a balance to run v. pass since Steven Jackson has been on the outs with Jeff Fisher? Look for around 10 carries to go to Daryl Jackson. He is the lightning to Jackson's Thunder. Fisher will use Jackson to wear down the d-line which he excels at and open holes late for Richardson. This will also help Sam set up the play-action which could come in handy. 5. ) We've seen a little over one season of Bradford, in your opinion is he the answer at QB, or is USC alum Coach Jeff Fisher patiently waiting on USC QB Matt Barkley as a guy for the future in next years draft? I still believe in Sam, however I can't speak for Fisher and Snead and Fisher plays everything pretty close to the vest. That being said with as awful as this O-line is I can't see the Rams spending either of their 2 first rounders on a QB next year. But with 11 games left to play a lot can change. 6. ) The Dolphins and Rams represent two teams with new coaches: What does Fisher bring to the game as far as his coaching style and why are his players responding?The first thing he brings is a toughness and respect that neither Spags nor Linehan commanded. He is not afraid to go for it, which we have seen with the fake FG and having a rookie kicker take 60 yard FG attempts and make them. Spags never gave off that attitude and the players have responded to Fisher that way.While this game will be played in the hot South Florida humid air, suffocating and cramping the legs of all opposing players in the 3rd and 4th quarter, we thank Derek and his availability to get his take on the Rams versus Dolphins matchup and certainly wish him and everyone at RamsHerd a pleasant Sunday!Please continue to follow us at @Phins_Phocus on Twitter or right here at PhinsPhocus.com!
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"So wait, what are you saying?"
"I'm saying that we need to be a little more careful, Dima."
The bar is loud and dim, and we seem to scream over the Top 40 echoing from the dance floor. An occasional laser light stabs into my eyes, made all the brighter by the vodka building up in my veins.
"I got that, but what do you mean by careful?"
Dmitriy seems as thick as ever, so I try to be a little more blunt: "We can't go leaving passed out whores in alleyways."
"Then where else are we gonna leave 'em?"
He's obviously worse off than me, though he's been getting doubles all night. I'd lost count after the Cape Cod, but I can't even taste the cranberry on my breath anymore. It was a while back, I guess.
The conversation is pointless: I cannot argue and Dmitriy cannot listen. Maybe it would be best to just do what we came here to do.
But how?
My question is answered by a lady in body-hugging red, an irony in the Krasnaya.
"Hey boys," she coos, somehow softly amid the pounding of bass and bodies. "Not here to dance?"
Dmitriy shakes his head drunkenly, his eyes fixed on her chest. For all he cares right now, she's a nice rack on nicer legs.
It's up to me to redeem ourselves. "Not quite. We're making an attempt to try every drink special the bartender can throw at us." I smile, though I'm sure it is just as drunken as Dmitriy's own.
A grin curls at the edges of her rose red lips, glimmering for a moment but sustained in her eyes.
Dmitriy took this as his chance to make an introduction, a slurry smile spreading across his own face.
"Dmitriy, but Dima is much easier to moan."
Always the gentleman.
A quick laugh, and she moves to sit beside him, removing the man already on the stool with a look.
I lean over the counter past Dmitriy, eager to introduce myself. "Kostya, and you would be?"
"Kioko," she says simply. Her lips pull apart to reveal her teeth, incisors flashing briefly. Our eyes meet for a second before she hails the bartender. "The usual."
He returns a few moments later with two shot glasses, both full of a clear liquid. She extends two fingers in the air in his direction and he nods, turning once more to his taps. Again he brings two shot glasses, full of the same liquid, this time setting them before Dmitriy. Two more are put down in front of me, and we both turn to Kioko, puzzled.
Aren't we supposed to be buying drinks for her?
She picks up the left glass, and beckons for us to do the same. The three of us raise the clear liquid to our lips, then throw back our heads and let it pout down our throats.
"So Kioko," I ask. "I've never met anyone with that name before."
"Just wait," she answers, the second glass balanced between two fingers. She lifts it to her lips and we follow suit, draining the clear contents.
It burns on the way down, but not in the same way the Russian vodka did.
Dima gasps, unable to control his reflexes in his current state.
"Sake," Kioko states. "Does that answer your question?"
I laugh a little, really an attempt to clear my throat after the potent Japanese alcohol. "Yes, I think it does." I bare my own incisors, mimicking her earlier gesture of trust.
Her eyes shift once more to the bartender, who nods and walks off. When he returns he is once more bearing drinks, though this time he has only two. They're in cocktail classes, and a dull red.
"Drink up, boys," Kioko says, smiling. Her teeth are shown plainly, though the drunken people about us pay no notice.
I take a sip, expecting a drink similar to the Cap Cod I had enjoyed earlier. Instead I find it coppery and slightly thick. I put the glass down and turn to Dmitriy, who is guzzling it greedily. He finishes, tongue lashing across his lips to get the last drops, but a small dribble crawls down his chin. Smiling, he turns to look at me, his eyes giving away everything he's wanting to say.
He's had his fix, he's had his blood.
Kioko also smiles beside him, her own drink in hand, a match to mine. "Not thirsty anymore, Kostya?"
"Always thirsty, Kioko," I reply. "Just taking my time to enjoy it."
We share a laugh before finishing our drinks, fresh blood rushing through out bodies along with the alcohol.


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All the adventure a man can live, he lives.
Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors.
1950 Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors.
I have vivid memories of watching this one with my dad when I was about 7, him explaining how Burt Lancaster used to be an acrobat and how his mute friend in this was in all of his films. I don't know if my dad had been to see this in the cinema, it seems too old, but there was a lot more detail about films there than was usual for him and it stuck with me.
This is the first time I've seen it since then, the first time since knowing who Jacques Tourneur was and trying my best to see all of his work (the features at least, I've ventured into the shorts but can't see me ever…
A handsome Technicolor swashbuckler in the familiar Warner Bros style, with Burt Lancaster taking over from Errol Flynn, who was getting too old/debauched for this shit.
Lancaster is a free spirit in 12th century Italy - with frankly resplendent teeth - who starts fighting for the little guy after his son is taken prisoner by the ruthless German tyrant who's married his ex. Virginia Mayo is Lancaster's sassy feminine foil (who spends a fair bit of the film with a chain around her neck, like a kind of sexy dog), Frank Allenby is the hissable aristocratic villain and Robert Douglas has a potentially interesting role as a duplicitous swordsman that he doesn't do a great deal with. The star's regular…
Burt Lancaster is having the time of his life.
So was I.
Outside of the Cruise, Chan, and Fairbanks contingency, Burt Lancaster could potentially lay claim to the Most Physical Actor Of All Time™ label, or at least the one of his era. Hard to believe he could be just as powerful looking menacing while sitting down in later films as he is smiling and bodyslamming people in this one.
Probably the third best Robin Hood film.
Burt Lancaster had a tremendous head of hair.
I'm not particularly familiar with the genre of medieval adventure films outside of the canonical The Adventures of Robin Hood, but this made me curious to explore more. A little tedious for the first hour, though never without wit or amusement. But truly takes up a whole different meaning by the finale, as Tourneur literalizes the Rabelaisian carnivalesque to raise the revolution against the oppressive king. Lancaster stars here with his own former circus performer, Nick Cravat (who plays a mute because he had a thick Brooklyn accent), and the stunts are genuinely exciting. Also a sign I need to dive into more Tourneur, who usually has a heavier presence in the other films I've seen of his (even Wichita gets pretty brutal), while this never takes itself seriously.
Warner Bros. retools THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD for Burt Lancaster, incorporating both his acrobatic talents and his shit-eating grin. The result is a flick that, though it doesn't reach the heights of that earlier pic, is nevertheless tremendously entertaining in its own right.
Lancaster plays Dardo, the mountain man leader of a band of merry men in 12th Century Lombardy, locking horns with the evil Hessian occupier, "The Hawk" Ulrich (Frank Allenby). Caught in the crossfire is the Hawk's niece, the merry maid Anne (Virginia Mayo).
Some better-than-expected dialogue (courtesy of screenwriter Waldo Salt) enlivens the proceedings, and director Jacques Tourneur keeps things bopping along quite nicely (although they do get away from him a bit toward the end).…
As a whole, it's not better than the Curtiz, but when Burt and Nick Cravat start jumping around it certainly feels like it.
Tengo una debilidad muy grande: las películas de aventuras de los 40 a 60, rodadas en Technicolor. Esas películas donde el concepto "efecto especial" consistía en el stop motion, y eso ya en épocas avanzadas. Esas películas donde primaba la imaginación para hacer cosas y donde no te fijabas en el cartón piedra, el atrezzo o los golpes invisibles. Estas películas las recuerdo de ver de pequeña, viendo fascinada esos saltos y peleas imposibles.
Dicho esto, hablaré de la película en sí. Es una película típica de aventuras. Y por eso mola tanto: el pícaro bueno, proscrito por culpa del malvado sherif de Nothigam, digo el malvado duque invasor; el malo muy malo que sólo quiere ver al héroe muerto;…
Burt Lancaster and Nick Cravat were an incredible acrobatic team, and this handsome Tourneur swashbuckler is far more entertaining than its obscurity would suggest.
Robin Hood in all but name with some really amazing aerobatics.
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Fun swashbuckler starring Burt Lancaster and Virginia Mayo. Set in the 13th century, this has Lancaster and his young son living in the mountains of Northern Italy, which has been occupied by Hessian soldiers. There is a villainous leader named The Hawk who is now romancing Lancaster's runaway ex-wife of years earlier. The villagers are often terrorized by this man. Lancaster still chooses to keep to himself but when his son is kidnapped by The Hawk, he and his friends go into action.
Lancaster's real-life friend and former circus acrobat partner Nick Cravat, co-stars in this movie. He would co-star in several other Lancaster films. He is a delight as the mute Piccolo in this. He would play a mute…
Outside of the Cruise, Chan, and Fairbanks contingency, Burt Lancaster could potentially lay claim to the Most Physical Actor Of All Time™ label, or at least the one of his era. Hard to believe he could be just as powerful looking menacing while sitting down in later films as he is smiling and bodyslamming people in this one.
Proof positive that Burt Lancaster was the best Robin Hood who wasn't named Robin Hood.
A Robin-Hood-like figure and his compatriots use Roman ruins in Lombardy to plan and carry out attacks on the conquering Hessian forces. I'm not quite sure what to make of "The Flame and the Arrow." I see a really good film at play that isn't executed quite as it should be. And this surprised me because Jacques Tourneur, like Michael Curtiz, is excellent in most every genre.
This is by no means a bad movie. "The Flame and the Arrow" doesn't want to talk about anything larger than loyalty and uprising, so it mostly adds in a goofy love story that feels more than shoehorned in. This would've made a fine film without the addition of Virginia Mayo who feels…
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Last year was not a happy one in the world of finance. If you were lucky enough to have your savings in a bank that didn't go bust, and you managed to hang onto your job, you still probably lost hundreds or thousands from your pension as equity markets collapsed. And if you own a property, it is likely to be worth at least 20 per cent less than it was 12 months ago. To add insult to injury, your utility bills will be more expensive and cheap new mortgage deals are all but impossible to come by – even though the Bank of England interest rate has fallen to its lowest level since 1951. But what about 2009? Surely, things can only get better...?
Predicting the polar direction of stock markets is a tough game – and one that we'd all dearly love to excel at. A year ago, we asked five professional fund managers and financial advisers to come up with their top fund choices for 2008 – and all but one of their 10 choices delivered a negative return over the year. The one success was The Biotech Growth Trust – picked by the chief investment officer of Iimia Asset Management, Nick Greenwood. Pharmaceuticals was one of the only sectors to do relatively well in 2008. But most major equity markets around the world lost more than 25 per cent of their value over the year – an outcome few pundits would have expected at the start of 2008.
Predictions for 2009 are much more cautious. Although over 60 per cent of managers believe Britain's FTSE 100 index will finish 2009 higher than it began, the majority are predicting only a modest rise of a few percentage points.
Nearly one-in-four managers, however, believe the index will finish the year below 4,000 points – more than 10 per cent down on yesterday's opening levels, according to the Association of Investment Companies.
But whether they're predicting markets to fall or rise in 2009, most finance professionals are predicting another difficult year economically. Britain's economy is expected to continue shrinking, unemployment is forecast to continue rising and interest rates are tipped to fall even further than their current 57-year lows.
The good news for equity investors is that markets tend to start to recover before the worst economic winds have stopped blowing. John Greenwood, the chief economist at Invesco Perpetual, believes that 2009 will be a good year for US equity markets. "With stockmarkets having fallen as far and as sharply as they have, we think that a severe recession has been largely discounted in valuations," he says. "We believe stockmarkets have fallen to levels which offer exciting upside potential over the medium term, especially as some of the reasons for the depth of the current bear market have borne little relation to US corporations' fundamentals or valuations. In the year just passing, hedge funds have been forced to unwind leveraged positions in order to pay back investors. This has meant that their most liquid holdings – often large-cap, bellwether companies – have had to be sold in order to fund redemptions. Current estimates are that combined hedge fund and unit trust redemptions have led to a forced liquidation of $1 trillion (£690bn) of equity assets... [which] is providing investment opportunities."
There is also considerable excitement about the opportunities in bond markets over the coming year. The debt of many good quality companies is now valued at levels which suggest their imminent collapse.
Chris Bowie, head of credit, Ignis Asset Management, says: "Investment grade credit has never been better value – ever. Forced sellers of corporate bonds have created a situation where investors can achieve comfortable double-digit yields on household names. Some companies will fail in 2009 but these are unlikely to include high street supermarket chains or banks with a government guarantee. Sainsbury's, for instance, has a 14 per cent yield while investors can secure 16 per cent with Barclays, HBOS or RBS. Admittedly, the lack of liquidity means it is difficult to get out of the asset class cheaply, so a corporate bond investment has to be for at least a year. But corporate bonds have been so battered that this is the best buying opportunity in several generations."
Those who hoped that 2009 would bring the end of the mortgage lending squeeze or the house market slump will be disappointed. The latest Land Registry figures show that the number of property sales has dropped by over 60 per cent in the last year, and the Council of Mortgage Lenders expects the number of housing transactions to fall by 200,000 in 2009, down from 900,000 in 2008 and 1.6 million in 2007. Total gross mortgage lending will be around £145bn next year, the CML believes, down dramatically from around £258bn in 2008 and £363bn in 2007.
Consumers expect property prices to fall by another 9 per cent over the next 12 months, according to the Building Society Association, and even The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors predicts a further 10 per cent drop in 2009, due to lenders' caution.
"The lending levels of 2006 and 2007 were overblown, but now the pendulum has now swung the other way," says Louise Cuming, head of mortgages for price comparison site Moneysupermarket.com. "We will see another Bank of England base rate reduction in early 2009, but increasingly lenders are struggling to pass these rate drops on to customers because of falling profit margins, so future base rate decisions are likely to impact less on homeowners.
"Lenders will be targeting the real cream of the borrowers out there in 2009, and the knock-on effect is that the housing industry will continue to stagnate. It has been a painful correction and I can't see the market coming out of it until 2010/2011."
So, for those who really are determined to buy or move this year despite all this, getting the right deal is crucial. "Focus on your loan-to-value," says Melanie Bien, director of Savills Private Finance. "It is still the case that a deposit of 25 per cent or more, or existing equity if you are a re-mortgager, will give you by far the best deals. So working hard to minimise the proportion you need to borrow is vital.
"The base rate will fall further next year so you may wish to consider a tracker, but some people will prefer the security of a fixed rate deal. If you can get a fixed rate mortgage for 4.5 per cent you will be doing well."
It's all about rates again in 2009, but in stark contrast to this time last year, concerns surround just how low rates will go rather than how to make the most of the high rates of early 2008.
The base rate is expected to fall further in the first half of 2009, meanwhile, savers are being warned that the full effect of the last cut in December hasn't yet been felt. Banks and building societies expect us to continue focusing on safety rather than headline interest rates, and with little competition in the form of new entrants to the savings markets expected, at least for the first half of the year, savings rates are likely to keep falling in 2009. Premium Bonds are becoming increasingly popular because the chance of a big win tax free is fast becoming more attractive than negligible savings rates.
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Savers who can move fast and lock in a fixed interest rate for a year or two as soon as possible, will be the best off in 2009 (despite lower rates initially), and this includes using your 2008/9 ISA. Don't wait until April to sort out this year's ISA allowance because by then rates will have dropped further. Deals on offer for tax-free saving include the Alliance & Leicester Easy ISA offering a variable 4.5 per cent, or Nationwide's 4 per cent rate, fixed for 2 years. But as rates continue to drop it may be worth turning to lesser- known, index-linked savings in 2009. National Savings & Investment's index linked savings certificates, for example, are tax free, and currently paying the Retail Price Index rate of 3.9 per cent plus 1 per cent. Certificates are issued for three or five years for a minimum investment of £100.
Oil prices rose from just under $100 a barrel at the start of 2008 to almost $150 in July. By yesterday, they were down below $40. Unfortunately, most consumers are so far only feeling the hit of last year's energy price increases. But gas and electricity bills should start to come down this year.
"The next move in energy bills will be down," says Joe Malinowski, founder of energy price comparison website TheEnergyShop.com.
"We expect price cuts of around £170 off gas and electricity bills in the New Year. But don't wait for a price cut to fall into your lap. If history tells us anything it is that you could be waiting some time.
"Instead, customers on standard tariffs can already save more than the likely price cut by switching to British Gas' WebSaver 1 tariff. This not only guarantees an immediate saving but also further savings if British Gas cuts its standard prices by more than 5 per cent. That's the deal to go for."
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I had always loved it after school, sitting on the lounge with Ali and a bowl of popcorn, watching a movie. We didn't actually watch the movie- ever- we just gossiped and talked about stuff we had heard at school. Today I put in the same movie we always watched- yet I never seemed to remember the name- and heated up the popcorn. Ali came downstairs wearing ugg boots and a hoodie. I on the other hand was still wearing what I wore to school.
"Ali, I have popcorn and that movie we always watch. Come on, it's gossip time." I joked. She shook her head and paused in front of the TV. "You know you want to."
"Don't force people to do things they don't want to." She replied automatically. I smiled.
"There's a name for that. Why don't you enlighten me on what it's called?"
"That is inappropriate for your ears. I'm sorry."
She gave me a small smile and sat down next to me. I stood up, grabbed the popcorn out of the microwave and retook my seat. Ali started the movie. She seemed intent on actually watching it.
"So, Ali, I saw you talking to Joscelyne and Maria. Why would you talk to such bitches?" I asked. Ali blinked but didn't say anything. "What about what Carrie was talking about at lunch. That was hilarious, it's one of those had to be there moments. Lucky I saw it. So then I could actually laugh at it!" Ali didn't smile, didn't laugh, and didn't even frown. She turned to me, her green eyes large and piercing.
"Is something wrong? Ali, you can tell me. It was that bitch wasn't it? I am going to get Carrie to bash those girls up. Ooh, have you seen Ashton, he's kind of new."
Ali blinked at me and turned back to the movie. I held out the popcorn for her to take a handful. She didn't touch it.
"Just leave it. Ok? Good." She snapped at me. I frowned at her and quietly took hold of the remote. I pressed the off button and the TV went black. Ali looked at me and saw my hand on the off button. She turned back to the blank TV and sighed. I stood up and threw the popcorn onto the coffee table. I threw the remote into her lap.
"You want me to leave it, fine, but when something really is wrong, don't expect to come to ME crying." I stormed up the stairs with my condition flaring up again. I held my hands against the wall, steading myself. Whilst I was standing there, alone, quietly, I heard Ali say something I would never forget.
"Stop being such a controlling bitch, Ari."
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Many Mouths One Stomach (MMOS) is a Tucson-based collective of artists, teachers and community activists who come together with the intent to create, inspire, manifest and perpetuate modern festal culture.
"Festal Culture" is the expression and fulfillment of core human needs through public celebration, ceremony, and ritual. The All Souls Procession is an event that was created to serve the public need to mourn, reflect, and celebrate the universal experience of Death, through their ancestors, loved ones and the living.
Our events establish a legacy that reclaims public space through art and blurs the line between participant and observer, ritual and performance.
Together with our commitment to education, outreach, and collaboration, MMOS stewards a vision wherein the creative act becomes a mode of living.
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Based in Tucson, AZ. The primary event produced by MMOS is the All Souls Procession. Visitors come from all over North America and some international areas. The event serves downtown Tucson, Pima County and the southwest
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Tucson, AZ 85702
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All Souls Procession Weekend
MMOS's flagship event began as an individual performance piece by Tucson artist, Susan Johnson in 1990. Today All Souls has now become one of the most authentic public ceremonies in North America today. Over 20,000 people from all walks of life come together every fall in Downtown Tucson to commemorate, honor, mourn and celebrate the passing of our ancestors and loved ones.
In the months leading up to the Procession, free, family-friendly workshops are offered to the public. In addition, MMOS gives people the opportunity to experience the event through projects like the Urn and Video Ancestry Project.
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Based in Tucson, AZ. The primary event produced by MMOS is the All Souls Procession. Visitors come from all over North America and some international areas. The event serves downtown Tucson, Pima County and the southwest
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Tuesday 28 September 1943
It was Tuesday, under the sign of Libra. The US president was Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic).
Famous people born on this day include Gertrud "Traudl" Hecher and J T Walsh.
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- Taiwan - Teacher's Day (Confucius' birthday)
- Czech Republic - Czech Statehood Day
- Also see September 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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- J T Walsh: Actor (Colonel Frank Bach-Dark Skies).
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- Lou Piniella: Outfielder / manager (New York Yankees, Seattle Mariners).
- Mike Kreidler: (Rep-D-Washington).
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- Susanne Jagd: Denmark -- Actress (Between the Sheets, Tinderbox)
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- George Trow: American novelist playwright and critic (d. 2006)
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