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"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
That's the second sentence in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and a severely dumbed-down version of it is the second sentence of the new film adaptation. So perhaps I should give director Baz Luhrmann the benefit of the doubt. What would a wealthy Australian know about the failed promise of the American Dream? Maybe they don't teach the book in high school down under, where an English teacher would have politely informed him what it's all about. Whatever the case may be, Luhrmann, who previously directed Moulin Rouge, does not seem to have grasped The Great Gatsby at any level beyond the most basic plot.
The first hour or so resembles nothing so much as a cartoon, a Bugs Bunny exaggeration of the roaring 1920s. The characters are larger than life, even those that aren't supposed to be, and nothing is left subtle. It becomes clear early on that the movie doesn't trust its audience to understand anything that isn't spelled out. Tom Buchanan's racist rant is highlighted by jabs at his black servant, and the nature of his relationship with Myrtle Wilson is made painfully clear by off screen moaning.
Where this heavy-handedness helps the film is in the massive parties. In these raucous scenes, the movie finally has subject matter big enough to sate Luhrmann's appetite. I saw it in 2D, but it's impossible not to notice that this is a 3D movie, given the way the camera zips and zooms through these parties. The movie seems to celebrate with its characters, which is the first case (of many) of Luhrmann missing the point. Fitzgerald was denouncing this lavish lifestyle, not reveling in it.
I wrote just last week that "I have low expectations for the movie because it will inevitably leave out what made the book so good: not the scenes or characters, but the words." That prediction didn't come true. In fact, the movie uses a surprising amount of language stripped straight from the book's pages, especially when it comes to the narration. Often these words end up superimposed on the screen, which feels unnecessary. Perhaps it would have been more necessary in 3D.
This has the weird effect of highlighting Nick Carraway, as though Luhrmann finished the book and found himself deeply curious about what happened to its narrator. That's an unorthodox reaction, but it would make for an interesting interpretation and a clever addition to the film if Nick Carraway wasn't portrayed by Tobey Maguire. Maguire is 37, and his character is 29, but on screen he's imbued him with the boyish wonder and gawkiness of a freshman in college. His voice lends no gravitas to Fitzgerald's words, and his narration constantly feels strained where in print the prose seems effortless. Of the main actors, Maguire is the only one not to adopt an unplaceable, possibly British accent. This would be to his credit, but I have the sneaking suspicion that it's the result of his inability to talk in any way different than his own.
This movie is a car crash, which is to say that there are some reasons to keep watching. Leonardo DiCaprio was born to play Jay Gatsby, and in a movie named after him, that's pretty important. He provides all the charm and glamour you could possibly ask for in that role. His first interactions with Carey Mulligan's Daisy are genuinely touching, and the sole bit of humor to be found in two hours and 20 minutes. For a few minutes, the movie deflates its own sense of importance to operate on the human level, and here, where the characters feel for once like actual people, the movie succeeds. Mulligan isn't spectacular, but she's believable as Gatsby's lost lover. Then, it's back to the grandeur.
Given the remarkable scale that so much of the movie embraces, it's surprising and disappointing that Luhrmann was content with making the final third of his movie nothing more than a love story. He treats Gatsby and Daisy as if they were star-crossed lovers, a 1920s version of Romeo and Juliet. For the record, I liked Romeo+Juliet, Luhrmann's modern adaptation of that play, but here he's telling the wrong story. He sees nothing untoward about Gatsby's obsession with Daisy, and expects viewers to feel bad when the relationship falls apart.
The Great Gatsby is a very hard book to film. Luhrmann accomplished maybe the hardest part in incorporating Fitzgerald's language, which is why it's so frustrating that the movie fails the simpler tasks of adapting this story. He read the words and understood that they were beautiful, but he never thought about what they mean. By boiling things down to a love story between Gatsby and Daisy, he ignores everything that the book and its characters represent. Luhrmann never addresses the themes of inequality, greed and the American Dream, all those things your high school English teacher told you the book was about. Jay Gatsby is reduced from an American Dreamer into a wounded lover. And in that role, there's nothing great about him.
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I have to almost completely disagree. Though the parties were indeed lavish, this was only intended to strengthen the juxtaposition between what these characters really felt and what they did to distract themselves from these feelings. It's dizzying because it's an easy world to get lost in, but there's no revelry, only tragedy and loneliness hidden below a glitzy surface. You're ignoring every honest moment in the film and focusing on the shallow aspects, which were very purposefully and meaningfully shallow.


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I'm not blaming the reviewers at all for missing it, how could they know of everything that's on videohive and if it's been submitted already. BUT , after someone has been caught selling another authors work as their own, their account should be closed and they should not be allowed to sell on videohive again. They'll probably just create a new account under a new name, but there should be some punishment for doing this besides taking the project down. That's just my opinion. I know i'm not the first it's happened to and definitely not the last. If you punish those who do though and make it known you'll get banned for doing it, it may help reduce the number of times it happens.
I know the reviewers have a tough job and it's up to the authors (true authors who create their own work and not rip off others) to watch each others backs. I do my best and I know many do as well.
Just contact the website team and they will have them removed. you have to provide them with proof that the original project is yours. I've had to do it dozens of times. The only way to fight it is to check that site on a regular basis. I try to inform as many videohive authors as I can that their work is being ripped off. 99% of the "video customization" services on that site are ripped off from videohive. Makes me sick.
First of all, thanks to aepanda32 for notifying me another user had uploaded one of my projects (the colors had been changed, but everything was identical and clearly the exact same project), I owe them for that and really appreciate it. I personally think this "author" (I say that in quotes because I don't think he created any of the projects he's selling) should be banned from videohive permanently. It is clear my project was re-uploaded for sale by him. I'm wondering if he included the video tutorial I created as well? I think there should be zero tolerance for this. This is a marketplace for creatives and those wishing to purchase creative work. This user is obviously not creative at all and is only looking to make a buck of some other persons hard work. They need to be banned, plain and simple. As far as the other site is concerned, the one with the five in the name, 99% of the "video customizations" on there are illegally being ripped off from hard working videohive members. Just today I reported 3 different users for selling my work and I also informed 6 videohive members of their work being sold illegally.
As far as videohive is concerned, there should be a zero tolerance rule for this. If this happens to me again, I'm pulling all of my work and selling it elsewhere. It's not fair.
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Boeing Says 737 Orders Mute Emerging-Market Currency Risk
Boeing Co. (BA), the world's largest planemaker, says it's cushioned against currency market turmoil by an order backlog for its best-selling 737 jet that's large enough to keep factories busy for seven years.
Boeing can count on strong demand for the popular narrow-body jet to lessen the risks of order cancellations if currencies continue to plunge in developing nations from India to Indonesia, Beverly Wyse, a Boeing vice president and 737 general manager, said yesterday in an interview at the Renton, Washington, factory where the jets are assembled.
While Boeing and Airbus Group NV have amassed record order books, investors and analysts are paying closer attention to large purchases planned by upstart carriers and questioning whether the aerospace market is headed for a correction after four years of growth. Lessor BOC Aviation is among potential customers standing by if some 737 buyers postpone orders.
"If we could get more 737 Next Gens, we would have them because we're constantly getting pinged" by airlines looking for the midsize jet, Terry Cooke, senior vice president for aircraft sales at BOC Aviation, said yesterday at a Seattle-area aerospace conference.
The state of planemakers' backlogs has come into sharper focus with financial markets and currencies in some emerging countries falling into a tailspin as a result of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank's change in monetary policy. Boeing shares fell 0.8 percent to $122.04 yesterday in New York, declining for a sixth straight day.
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About 47 percent of Chicago-based Boeing's aircraft backlog is outside North America and Europe, as are 58 percent of remaining 2014 deliveries, Joseph Nadol, an aerospace analyst with JPMorgan Chase & Co. in New York, wrote in a Jan. 30 research report.
"This creates risk that economic dislocation in emerging markets could pressure aircraft demand and potentially even bring the cycle to an end," said Nadol, who rates Boeing shares the equivalent of a buy.
Boeing is "not seeing a bubble in the single-aisle market," where it has a backlog of 3,680 orders that is strong in terms of quantity, financial strength of customers and its global reach, Wyse said.
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Unlike previous boom-and-bust cycles, aerospace manufacturers are doing a "much better job of monitoring production versus demand," Wyse said.
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While the large volume of orders headed for Asia may test that prowess, so far there are no signs that airlines have overindulged on new jet purchases, said Steve Rimmer, chief executive officer of Guggenheim Aviation Partners LLC, at the Pacific Northwest Aerospace Alliance conference yesterday in Lynnwood, Washington.
"There are no white tails," said Rimmer, referring to jets that roll out of a factory without any airline livery because orders have been canceled.
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Who Won Iraq?
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Creating an Arc of Instability
In the period before and after the invasion of Iraq, top Bush officials and their neocon supporters spoke with relish about taming an area stretching from northern Africa through the Middle East and deep into Central Asia that they termed an "arc of instability." In a February 2006 address to the American Legion focused on his Global War on Terror, for instance, President Bush typically said, "Slowly but surely, we're helping to transform the broader Middle East from an arc of instability into an arc of freedom. And as freedom reaches more people in this vital region, we'll have new allies in the war on terror, and new partners in the cause of moderation in the Muslim world and in the cause of peace."
By then that "arc," which in the period before 9/11 had been reasonably stable, was already aflame. Today, it is ablaze. Almost 13 years after the launching of the Global War on Terror and the first bombing runs in Afghanistan, 11 years after a global antiwar protest went unheard and the invasion of Iraq was launched, and three years after Americans gathered in front of the White House to cheer the death of Osama bin Laden, that arc has been destabilized in a stunning way.
As things recently went from bad to worse in Iraq, jihadist militants in Pakistan attacked Karachi International Airport, an assault that stunned the country and suggested that the reach of the Pakistani Taliban was growing. At the same time, after a six-month pause, the Obama administration resumed its CIA drone assassination campaign in the Pakistani tribal borderlands, a deeply unpopular program that has been a significant destabilizing factor in its own right. Meanwhile, in Yemen, where the U.S. has for years been conducting a special operations and drone war against a growing al-Qaeda wannabe outfit, unknown militants knocked out the electricity in Sanaa, the capital, for days. The Syrian bloodbath, of course, continues with estimates of 160,000 or more deaths in that multi-sided conflict, while in Libya, now an essentially ungovernable and chaotic land of jihadist and other militias and ambitious generals, tensions and fighting increased.
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Almost 13 years later, there is a jihadist proto-state, a fantasy caliphate, in the heart of the Middle East. Now a dime a dozen in the region, jihadists of an al-Qaedan bent are armed to the teeth with cast-off American weaponry. In northern Africa, other jihadists are using weaponry from the former arsenals of Libyan autocrat Muammar Gaddafi, looted in the aftermath of President Obama's can't-miss 2011 intervention in that country. The jihadists of ISIS now have hundreds of millions of dollars stolen from the Mosul branch of the Iraqi central bank for funding and have advanced toward Baghdad. Even Osama bin Laden might not have assumed things would go quite so swimmingly.
The Guns of Folly
In the wake of Mosul's fall, ISIS advanced even more rapidly than the American army heading for Baghdad in the spring of 2003. In some Sunni-dominated cities and towns, the takeovers were remarkably bloodless. In Baiji, with a power plant that supplies electricity to Baghdad and Iraq's largest oil refinery (now under attack), the insurgents reportedly called the police and asked them to leave town—and they complied. In Kirkuk, a city in northern Iraq that the Kurds have long claimed as the natural capital for an independent Kurdistan, Iraqi troops quietly abandoned their weaponry and uniforms and left town, while armed Kurdish forces moved in, undoubtedly permanently.
All in all, it's been a debacle the likes of which we've seen only twice in our history. In China, when in 1949 Chiang Kai-shek's largely American armed and trained military disintegrated before the insurgent forces of Communist leader Mao Zedong and a quarter-century later, when a purely American military creation, the South Vietnamese army, collapsed in the face of an offensive by North Vietnamese troops and local rebel forces. In each case, the resulting defeat was psychologically unnerving in the United States and led to bitter, exceedingly strange, and long-lasting debates about who "lost" China and who "lost" Vietnam.
Early signs of an equally bizarre debate over the "loss" of Iraq are already appearing here. This should surprise no one, as the only thing left to pass around is blame. Senator John McCain, a fervent supporter of the 2003 invasion and occupation, launched the most recent round of the blame game. He pinned fault for the onrushing events on the Obama administration's decision to pull U.S. forces out of Iraq in 2011 (thanks to an agreement negotiated by the Bush administration) without leaving a significant presence behind. Citing himself as if he were someone else, he said, "Lindsey Graham and John McCain were right. Our failure to leave forces in Iraq is why Senator Graham and I predicted this would happen."
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A team of space explorers embarks on a fantastic voyage to the edge of the universe after making a profound discovery that hints at the true origins of the human race in this belated pseudo-prequel to director Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi classic Alien. Isle of Skye, Scotland: 2089. Archeologists Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green) discover a cave drawing featuring a mysterious star pattern not found in our solar system. Upon comparing the image with similar other ones found at different archeological digs all over the planet, the pair realizes that they all match perfectly. They're convinced that the image is an invitation, and set out on a high tech Weyland Industries ship called Prometheus to - just maybe - unlock the mysteries of mankind's origins on Earth. Flash forward to Christmas Day, 2093. The crew of Prometheus awakens from stasis to learn they have arrived at their destination. With highly-intelligent android David (Michael Fassbinder) assisting the mission, and chilly Weyland representative Meredith Vickers (Charlize Theron) calling the shots, Captain Janet (Idris Elba) brings the ship down to the surface, landing next to a line of awe-inspiring structures that appear to have been built by intelligent beings. But when a small crew led by Elizabeth and Charlie explore the remote planet, the artifacts they find threaten to contradict everything mankind had been taught about its origins. But there's a secret in this chamber that's lain dormant for centuries, and now that it senses life, it finally sees an opportunity to escape. If it does, the trip that was supposed to answer al of our biggest questions about life could also be the one that seals the fate of every living creature on planet Earth.
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As a lifelong fan of the first two Alien films, I went to see Prometheus with tremendous enthusiasm. This is a fairly complicated film and despite the trailer statement that "Questions will be answered," I left asking many more. So without further delay, here's my take on things. As far as the Greek mythology is concerned, for those who don't know, the Titan Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to mankind so the human race could develop. So here the ship that takes a crew of 17 people to a Moon, LV-223 (whereas the location of the original two movies was LV-426) is named Prometheus. They think a number of "star charts," all identical despite being drawn by widely separated ancient human civilizations, invite us to learn about our origins. Breathtaking cinematography (are those landscapes real?) opens the film with equally beautiful music, then we see a lone "Engineer" standing next to a colossal waterfall. A physically perfect specimen, maybe 10 feet tall, the Engineer drinks from a cup as his fellow aliens pilot a ship into the clouds. Like the Greek character, his sacrifice is presumably forced: the liquid from the cup rots his body in seconds; it's so destructive that it destroys his DNA fibers and breaks bones. His decaying body spurts a black mist and then drops into the water, where the camera engages in a close-up of one DNA strand that isn't entirely ruined. Here the word evolution comes to mind: life started in the waters, and although I don't think the planet the Engineer is on is Earth, we don't know that for certain. No other living creatures are shown, so it might be the Earth, uninhabited eons ago. To elaborate on this idea, when the research team enters the room with the vases filled with the black goo, one of the scientist's footprints uncovers some worms. The goo soon begins to flow into the ground, and within a day (I think) two guys encounter a white snake-like creature that pops up out of the goo that's created a sort of stream in the room. Like the engineers, it's completely white and unbelievably strong, but unlike them it has no eyes and regenerates instantly when it's cut in half. It can only be one of the worms, mutated into a three-foot long killing machine in a matter of hours. Then there's Dr. Shaw's boyfriend, who's infected with a single drop of the goo in his drink. He becomes deathly ill in hours, and after he makes love to Shaw she is pregnant in 10 hours and the fetus is fully developed in no time at all. Now to switch gears, there are religious messages that pop up in several scenes. Dr. Shaw wears a cross and wants it back when it's taken from her; she asks her dad about death and an afterlife, repeatedly talks about "what I choose to believe," and the mural on the ceiling in the room full of vases appears to me to be a perversion of Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam," with an Engineer reaching out to (or trying to pull away from?) some creature that can't quite be recognized. Very cool stuff, if I'm right. Why else would the Engineers take the time to paint such a detailed work in that particular place? In the end, a movie like this is open to so much discussion and there are probably several things I missed (I only saw it once). Scott must give us another one because Shaw concludes with "I am still searching" as she takes off in one of the Engineers' ships. So, I guess there's one more bridge to cross before we connect with "
Amazing groundbreaking film. Better than the first Alien film even. Ridley Scott has done it again, returning to his mythos and setting it back on course. The answers are all there if you have the brain to figure out the mystery. Such a rich and beautiful story. Some of the best and most interesting complex characters I have ever seen in a Science Fiction. A genera seriously lacking in such. I look forward to the wonderful Elizabeth Shaw and David 8 in the sequel.
This movie disappointed me. I am a huge fan of sci-fi, and love films about exploring space, first contact, etc. I thought the cast was kind of wasted. The photography was very dark. The subject matter was dark. This movie was about searching for the origins of humanity in space. There was so much potential. I feel like an opportunity was missed to say something uplifting and profound. Instead it was the usual characters creeping around in the dark and encountering a lot of gore. There is obvious potential for a sequel. In the right hands, it could be much more interesting. Michael Travis Jasper, Author of the Novel "To Be Chosen"
A bit slow. Weird and strange but very pretty to look at with some creepy moments. A bit vague, leaving more answers than questions.
Tries to be a prequel, but does not connect, substituting CGI horror for emotional horror. It's like, all of a sudden we are supposed to believe that there was higher technology BEFORE ALIEN. And gimmie a break: Spoiler Alert: the discovered Star Pilot's head is... actually just a masking helmet for a humanoid giant inside?! Listen to the Director's commentary and the added feature interview and you will probably conclude that he was in turn being directed by Studio Flaks and other mysterious people who kept changing things and adding and deleting scenes, re-writing, editing, etc. Look at it this way: if Speilberg had substituted his Warhorse for the alien ship, it still would have cartwheeled and ran over people. Even with imagining all the Deleted Scenes re-inserted, the movie is a breakfast hash of stolen ideas. For instance, the "Bad Guy" crew member plays essentially the same character as he did on TV in The Borgias. Horrible type casting. The nasty Company Woman still appears to be The Evil Queen in Snow White. New twist: a smart black man--alone smart in an otherwise dumb crew--has graduated from coal stoker and promoted from the engine room (Alien) to pilot of this bigger, finer starship. Don't worry, we don't get to see Sigourney Weaver as a beautiful child playing with a plastic spaceship in a sandbox. Humor is not allowed, unless you count crossing Indiana Jones cave exploration with old Star Trek tropes, adding Native American religion to The Tree of Life, and trying to resurrect an otherwise wonderful franchise by using a fine actress with a familiar face, but who is NOT Weaver.


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Much has been written of the recent Tom Hanks remarks to Douglas Brinkley in a Time magazine interview about his upcoming HBO series on World War II in the Pacific. Here is the explosive excerpt that is making the rounds today.
Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as yellow, slant-eyed dogs that believed in different gods. They were out to kill us because our way of living was different. We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different. Does that sound familiar, by any chance, to whats going on today?
Hanks may not have been quoted correctly; and his remarks may have been impromptu and poorly expressed; and we should give due consideration to the tremendous support Hanks has given in the past both to veterans and to commemoration of World War II; and his new HBO series could well be a fine bookend to Band of Brothers. All that said, Hanks comments were sadly infantile pop philosophizing offered by, well, an ignoramus.
Hanks thinks he is trying to explain the multifaceted Pacific theater in terms of a war brought on by and fought through racial animosity. That is ludicrous. Consider:
1) In earlier times, we had good relations with Japan (an ally during World War I, that played an important naval role in defeating imperial Germany at sea) and had stayed neutral in its disputes with Russia (Teddy Roosevelt won a 1906 Nobel Peace Prize for his intermediary role). The crisis that led to Pearl Harbor was not innately with the Japanese people per se (tens of thousands of whom had emigrated to the United States on word of mouth reports of opportunity for Japanese immigrants), but with Japanese militarism and its creed of Bushido that had hijacked, violently so in many cases, the government and put an entire society on a fascistic footing. We no more wished to annihilate Japanese because of racial hatred than we wished to ally with their Chinese enemies because of racial affinity. In terms of geo-strategy, race was not the real catalyst for war other than its role among Japanese militarists in energizing expansive Japanese militarism.
2) How would Hanks explain the brutal Pacific wars between Japanese and Chinese, Japanese and Koreans, Japanese and Filipinos, and Japanese and Pacific Islanders, in which not hundreds of thousands perished, but many millions? In each of these theaters, the United States was allied with Asians against an Asian Japan, whose racially-hyped Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, aimed at freeing supposedly kindred Asians from European and white imperialism, flopped at its inauguration (primarily because of high-handed Japanese feelings of superiority and entitlement, which, in their emphasis on racial purity, were antithetical to the allied democracies, but quite in tune with kindred Axis power, Nazi Germany.)
3) Much of the devastating weaponry used on the Japanese (e.g., the B-29 fire raids, or the two nuclear bombs) were envisioned and designed to be used against Germany (cf. the 1941 worry over German nuclear physics) or were refined first in the European theater (cf. the allied fire raids on Hamburg and Dresden). Much of the worst savagery of the war came in 1945 when an increasingly mobilized and ever more powerful United States steadily turned its attention on Japan as the European theater waned and then ended four months before victory in the Pacific theater. Had we needed by 1945 to use atomic bombs, or massive formations of B-29s when they came on line, against Hitler, we most certainly would have.
We should also point out that for many Americans, initially in 1941-2, the real war was with the Japanese, not the Germans (despite an official policy of privileging the European theater in terms of supply and manpower), but not because of race hatred, but due to the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
Until then (Hitler would in reaction unwisely declare war on the U.S. on December 11, 1941) Germany had been careful to maintain the pretense of non-belligerency, while Japan chose to start a war through a rather treacherous surprise assault at a time of nominal peace thus inciting furor among the American public.
Despite Hanks efforts at moral equivalence in making the U.S. and Japan kindred in their hatreds, America was attacked first, and its democratic system was both antithetical to the Japan of 1941, and capable of continual moral evolution in a way impossible under Gen. Tojo and his cadre. It is quite shameful to reduce that fundamental difference into a they us 50/50 polarity. Indeed, the most disturbing phrase of all was Hanks suggestion that the Japanese wished to kill us, while we in turn wanted to annihilate them. Had they developed the bomb or other such weapons of mass destruction (and they had all sorts of plans of creating WMDs), and won the war, I can guarantee Hanks that he would probably not be here today, and that his Los Angeles would look nothing like a prosperous and modern Tokyo.
4) What is remarkable about the aftermath of WWII is the almost sudden postwar alliance between Japan and the U.S., primarily aimed at stopping the Soviets, and then later the communist Chinese. In other words, the United States, despite horrific battles in places like Iwo Jima and Okinawa, harbored little official postwar racial animosity in its foreign policy, helped to foster Japanese democracy, provided aid, and predicated its postwar alliances in the manner of its prewar alliances on the basis of ideology, not race. Hanks apparently has confused the furor of combat in which racial hatred often becomes a multiplier of emotion for the soldier in extremis with some sort of grand collective national racial policy that led to and guided our conduct.
An innately racist society could not have gone through the nightmare of Okinawa (nearly 50,000 Americans killed, wounded, or missing), and yet a mere few months later have in Tokyo, capital of the vanquished, a rather enlightened proconsul MacArthur, whose deference to Japanese religion, sensibilities, and tradition ensured a peaceful transition to a rather radical new independent and autonomous democratic culture.
5) Hanks quips, Does that sound familiar, by any chance, to whats going on today? That is another unnecessary if asinine statement if it refers to our struggle against radical Islam in the post 9/11 world. The U.S. has risked much to help Muslims in the Balkans and Somalia, freed Kuwait and Iraq in two wars against Saddam Hussein, liberated or helped to liberate Afghanistan both from the Russians and the Taliban, and has the most generous immigration policy toward Muslims of any country in the world, ensuring a degree of tolerance unimaginable to Muslims in, say, China or Russia. Hanks should compare the U.S. effort to foster democracy in Iraq with the Russian conduct in Chechnya to understand whats going on today.
In short Hankss comments are as ahistorical as they are unhinged. One wonders were they supposed to entice us into watching the upcoming HBO series on the Pacific theater? But if anyone is interested in the role of race on the battlefield, one could probably do far better in skipping Hanks, and reading instead E.B. Sledges brilliant memoir, With the Old Breed, which has a far more sophisticated analysis of race and combat on Peleliu and Okinawa, and was apparently (and I hope fairly ) drawn upon in the HBO series. (Sledge speaks of atrocities on both sides in the horrific close-quarter fighting on the islands, but he makes critical distinctions about accepted and non-accepted behaviors, the differences between Japanese and American attitudes, and in brilliant fashion appreciates the role of these campaigns in the larger war. One should memorize the last lines of his book.)
It would be easy to say that Hanks knows about as much about history as historians do about acting, but that would be too charitable. Anyone with a high school education, or an innate curiosity to read (and Hanks in the interview references works on the Pacific theater), can easily learn the truth on these broad subjects. In Hanks case, he is either ignorant and has done little real research, or in politically-correct fashion has taken a truth about combat in the Pacific (perceptions of cultural and racial difference often did intensify the savagery of combat) and turned it into The Truth about the origins and conduct of an entire war apparently in smug expectation that such doctrinaire revisionism wins applause these days in the right places (though I doubt among the general public that he expects to watch the series.)
All in all, such moral equivalence (the Japanese and the U.S. were supposedly about the same in their hatreds) is quite sad, and yet another commentary on our postmodern society that is as ignorant about its own past as it is confused in its troubled present.
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What can you say, but typical Hollywood.
Typical leftist.
The difference between a Socialist and a Communist is that the Socialist doesn't have all the guns yet.
I watched him make similar statement on TV yesterday. I just viewed him as another hollywood America hating nut job.
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Yup.2) How would Hanks explain the brutal Pacific wars between Japanese and Chinese, Japanese and Koreans, Japanese and Filipinos, and Japanese and Pacific Islanders, in which not hundreds of thousands perished, but many millions? In each of these theaters, the United States was allied with Asians against an Asian Japan, whose racially-hyped "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere," aimed at freeing supposedly kindred Asians from European and white imperialism, flopped at its inauguration (primarily because of high-handed Japanese feelings of superiority and entitlement, which, in their emphasis on racial purity, were antithetical to the allied democracies, but quite in tune with kindred Axis power, Nazi Germany.)
Same crap as dumping all "Latinos" into the same class.
I know many folks from South America. The racial animosity they hold against each other would make a Klansman blush.
And like all Hollywood types, Hanks should learn to keep his ignorant mouth shut. No one cares what someone says whose entire career consists of pretending to be someone else on film.
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How about simply saying a different point of view. Man you guys are something else if they don't agree with you they are commies, socialist or a "Liberal". Well there are usually two sides to every argument and the truth is often somewhere in the middle. The man is entitled to his opinion as you are, besides he might have been miss quoted, taken out of context, or simply expressed himself badly.
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He makes good movies, and then he makes a series of statements that negate all the good his art might produce. As my father used to say, he's like the cow who gives a bucket full of milk, then he kicks it over. And, I would never call him a liberal, since there are many principled liberals who know what they speak about. But as a matter of fact, we can call him ignorant and a moral relativist. Not name calling, just the truth.
An armed society is a polite society.
I expected more from him.
He had to have learned something between Private Ryan & Band of Brothers.
Maybe he's afraid of becoming a pro-American hollywood outcast.
Tom Hanks is a "commie socialist, Liberal" like the rest of the Hollywood ilk, who use their popularity in one venue, as a stage () to spew forth their misguided opinions.
What the "commie socialist Liberals" conveniently fail to remember is that in both those incidents, "they" (japs/muslims) attacked us first, and in the latter case continue to do so. Maybe "they" (like the commie socialist, Liberals in this country) think "they" should be free to kill us in unprovoked attacks, without us doing anything in return. Obviously Lord Obie would choose to just go bow to them and ask why "they" don't like us, but he does not speak for the majority.
Mr Hanks is indeed entitled to his opinion, but so is everyone else. And if he chooses to voice it, he should be prepared for the backlash. Just because we have freedom of speech, does not mean we have freedom from repercussion of that speech.
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Brewster, Very well written and informative. I think anybody that communicates with as many people as a lot of celebs, have the responsibility to be well informed about what they say and not interject their personal feelings based on their own views but on fact alone. No matter which side they take in any two sided discussion, they can only positively appeal to half. Better for everyone if they SHUT THE HE!! up. I only have one more example: Roger Moore<<<<<<
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The Boston Bruins are doing what they can to get healthy before their extended layoff ends on Thursday night. The team has four days in between games which is their longest inactive stretch thus far this season.
After playing eight games in 13 days including two back-to-backs the extended rest is much needed and well deserved. The last few games have been especially tough as the Bruins have been thin at the blue line while Dennis Seidenberg and Adam McQuaid both nursed lower body injuries. The team was able to survive by bringing up Kevan Miller from Providence who played well for a guy seeing his first NHL action.
"He's a defensive defenseman who makes good strong plays," said Claude Julien. "I've been impressed with him since he got here," added Zdeno Chara.
After being sent back down to Providence, Miller was recalled on Monday on an emergency basis. That emergency may come sooner than expected as Adam McQuaid has missed practice because he re-aggravated his injury after returning for the previous three games. Torey Krug has also been added as day-to-day, but traveled with the team to Montreal.
The Bruins will have five of their next six games on the road. All five of which will be in Canada. The Bruins are just 6-4-0 on the road this season but are riding a two game win streak as they travel. Their only home tilt will be against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday. The season series currently stands at one apiece.
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Once you've decided that you're ready to mate your stallion to one or more of your mares, there are a number of questions you need to answer including:
• What's the best way to conduct your horse mating operation?
• Should you allow the stallion to graze in the pastures with your mares and let nature take its course
• Should you consider using a particular assisted horse breeding methodology?
There are many who favor all natural horse mating which simply means allowing your stallion out to pasture with one or more of your mares. However, even though the all natural method does have its advantages, there are those who do not favor this method since too many important details are left out of your control. The major advantage to natural horse breeding is that it keeps you and any other handlers completely out of harm's reach, so for unsure breeders this may be the safest route.
The problem is the horse mating process can be rough and ugly, depending on the manners of your stallion and the mare(s) he's attempting mate. When an overly hormonal stallion attempts to mount an unreceptive mare, hooves can fly and there's a significant risk that either the stallion or the mare is going to get marked up or worse, severely wounded. Intelligent stallions will of course know when to approach and when to back off, and patient mares will exhibit warning signs before beginning to kick or flee. However, unless you can fully trust both the stallion and the mares involved, it's often best to take a more direct role in the procedure. Why unnecessarily take the risk of yourself or any of your horses getting injured?
It's always wise to fully test the receptiveness of a mare before even considering the possibility of mating the horses. Do this by walking your mare up to the stallion's stall and allowing the two to sniff and "nuzzle" each other. When a mare is in heat she will flash her vulva repeatedly, squirt copiously, and assume a mating stance. It's very important to ensure all these mating signs are present and that they are clearly noticeable. This is because as a mare enters her first days of heat, she may present some of the above signs slightly although she still may not be fully receptive to the idea of allowing a stallion to mount her when the moment of truth approaches.
Once you have ensured the mare is in a full heat and ready to proceed, take her back to her stall for some last minute preparations. At this point it is a good idea to wash the genitals of both your stallion and mare with warm water to try and minimize the insertion of dirt, dead skin, and smegma during the mating process. Be very careful about doing so if you're not intimately familiar with your stallion because many stallions can be unreceptive to people handling their genitals.
At this point you will need to decide on assisted or natural horse mating. By testing the two horses first, you have minimized the risk that an overly eager stallion will attempt to mount a mare that's not ready, however, there's still much that can go wrong with natural horse mating. The mare may decide she simply doesn't like the stallion (yes this can happen even with mares in full heat). The stallion may be particularly nasty or aggressive and scratch up the mare's back during the mating process. If these warning signs occur, it may be wise to pursue assisted mating rather than risk injury to either party.
Although these next two steps are not essential, they are often recommended since they can make the process much cleaner and easier. First, wrap the mare's tail in a plastic bag and tightly circle the end of it with duct tape so that it won't slip off easily. Another alternative is to use adhesive bandaging available from most vets. Wrapping the mare's tail will help prevent the tail from getting in the way during the mating process, which can occur surprisingly often when you're dealing with an inexperienced mare or stud. It also doesn't hurt to apply some lubrication to the mare's vulva, though since by now she was probably squirting significantly it's usually not essential.
Preferably, it's usually best to have two people involved with an assisted breeding: one to handle the mare and the other to handle the stallion. It is essential that both handlers be fully confident of their abilities to work with horses, because an inexperienced handler can be seriously hurt during the mating process if they are careless or inexperienced. Even though somewhat uncomfortable, its highly recommended that both handlers wear a protective helmet during the mating process especially the one that will handle the mare.
Now that the stallion, mare, and two handlers are ready to proceed, have the mare's handler lead her into a paddock, riding ring, or round pen. Keep the stallion stalled during this entire procedure because you always want the mare to be standing ready before you walk in the stallion. If a stallion is permitted to follow a mare too closely he will often become impatient and disorderly, putting both handlers and horses alike at risk.
Now that all the preparations for horse mating have been accomplished you're now ready to introduce the two in as safe a manner as possible.
While one handler is standing in the round pen, paddock, or riding ring with the mare, the other handler is getting ready to walk the stallion from his stall to the pen. It's a good idea to thread a chain lead line through the lower half of the stallion's halter so that if you need to catch the stallion's attention, you can give a sharp tug and snap the chain under the stallion's jaw. This practice is usually not necessary or advisable for general training or normal walking procedures nor is it recommended that one should rely on severe tugging during the actual mating process. However, because the chance of injury to both horses and handlers is so high when you have a misbehaving stallion, its only prudent to get all leverage possible to keep an unruly stallion in his place.
The stallion's handler should now walk the stallion to the ring at a very slow and measured pace. Chances are high the stallion is going to be anxiously plowing forward if given the opportunity, and the worst mistake a stallion handler can do is to allow this behavior. It is essential that the stallion knows the handler is in complete and full control long before they reach the ring, because if the stallion suspects, even for a moment that the handler is the weaker of the two, the stallion often can and will turn on the handler once inside the ring.
Always force the stallion to slowly approach the mare diagonally from the rear, and do not allow him to try and mount right away. Keep him far enough away from the mare so that all he can do is reach his neck over and nuzzle her genital region. You want the stallion to tease the mare for a couple minutes, to both further assess her willingness to allow him to mount her, and more importantly to further impress upon the stallion that you are calling the shots, and only you will determine when he's permitted to mount.
The mare's handler will be responsible for ensuring the mare stands straight during the mount, as well as provide a bit of physical support if the mare is frail in comparison to the stallion. When a stallion first mounts a mare, if they are unpolished or inexperienced, this can force a lot of weight on the mare, thereby making her sway to the side or lose her balance.
The stallion's handler will be responsible for ensuring the stallion treats the mare with respect at all times. This can either be very easy or very difficult, depending on the disposition of your stallion. A fortunate few horse breeders may own stallions which are easy to control even in the midst of copulation such that were they asked to stand down, the stallion would do so immediately without questioning the command. That is an extremely good case, and just as there are extremely good cases there are also extremely bad cases. Some stallions are downright barbaric in their mating practices, and become so single-mindedly determined in their desires to breed that they could care less if they manhandle or hurt the mare.
Make sure the stallion mounts the mare in a controlled and reasonable fashion. Too many overenthusiastic or young stallions will be so anxious to start copulating that they will try to mount from the side and/or thrust with no rhyme or reason. This can frustrate both the stallion and the mare, and neither option is particularly desirable. A frustrated mare can start lashing out at the stallion, and a frustrated stallion will only perform worse as he allows his frustration to cloud his mind.
During the mounting process make sure the mare's handler keeps his head away from the mare's shoulders. As the stallion mounts, his front hooves will rest near the mare's front shoulders, and if the flailing hooves hit the unprotected head of mare's handler, the results can be severe and even a helmeted head will be left reeling a bit.
It's best for the stallion's handler to force the stallion to approach repeatedly until he gets it right, but an experienced stallion handler may also elect to guide the stallion's shaft to the proper location with his hand. This is highly inadvisable to all but the most experienced handlers since your movement loses a degree of control over the stallion and places you "too close for comfort" to the stallion's body.
Once the stallion hits his mark, he will rest heavily on the mare's back; unlike humans horses do not thrust. The mare's handler should try and provide whatever support is necessary to keep the mare standing firmly in place until the stallion ejaculates and dismounts. Usually, it's a very quick process once the stallion has entered the mare.
Once the stallion groans or indicates he has ejaculated, the stallion's handler should dismount him immediately and bring him back to his stall. Meanwhile the mare's handler should start walking the mare around for several minutes and do not allow her to stop even for a moment if at all possible. Once the horse mating process has completed, the mare will do her best to eject as much of the semen as possible. So, to ensure the mare has a better chance of "catching", it's best to prevent her from ejecting the semen by walking her continuously and allowing everything to settle a bit.
Once you have walked the mare around for a few minutes, you can remove the bag or adhesive wrap from the mare's tail and bring her back to her stall. Don't worry if she expels some additional semen during the walk or after you stop walking her. It's inevitable that she will rid herself of a good portion of the remaining semen.
While the mare is in heat, it is advisable to breed the mare once a day if you want to maximize your chances for her becoming pregnant during that heat. Though breeding every other day will often work well, your chances of impregnating the mare are somewhat reduced. The key is to stop further attempts at mating once the mare no longer seems as receptive to the stallion as she should be. This is because a mare may exhibit some signs of heat even as she's leaving heat. But, just like trying to breed the mare when she's just coming into heat, if she's not in full heat, then the horse mating process won't be convenient or safe.
If you have a well-behaved and experienced stallion and mare, then just about any experienced handler can safely perform an assisted horse mating. However, if your stallion is particularly aggressive then only the most experienced handlers should attempt to handle the stallion during the mating process.
Rival studs in nature can become violent towards each other when they are competing for the same mare, and, for all practical purposes, a handler will be playing the role of a competitor whether you realize it or not. You will be obstructing his desires and making sure he mounts only when you give the nod and only so long as he is respectful of the mare. If there is any doubt whatsoever that you and you alone are fully in control of the stallion from the start, you have no business trying to battle the stallion for authority during the midst of a horse mating process since this is one of the most dangerous times a handler can pit his skills against a stallion's.
Horse mating can either be easy and non-eventful or it can be an ordeal that tests even the most hardened handlers. When you decide to breed your horses, always be patient and always be unyieldingly firm. You cannot let your guard down even for a moment nor can you ever allow a stallion to believe he might wield the power for even a second.


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Moura Starr & Baltus Announce Exciting New Partnership
Moura starr's move to beverly boulevard in los angeles!(los angeles, ca, march 21, 2012) – moura starr international and baltus are pleased to announce two exciting developments.
Moura Starr and Baltus cater to some of the most prominent names in the world of design (including notables such as David Phoenix, Campion Platt, Jue & Booth, Martyn Lawrence-Bullard and Jennifer Post), and their collaboration is born from the natural synergy between these two prominent brands that, together, represent the very essence of modern livable luxury.
Having enjoyed huge success in the rapidly advancing technology industry, current Moura Star owners Don and Daniela Brooks first discovered the brand six years ago. "We never would have dreamed that we would become furniture company owners, but Moura Starr has been a love in our lives, and we are committed to its success," says Daniela Brooks. With Don as CEO and Daniela running the showroom channel both are actively involved in the success of Moura Starr.
Solely designed by company founder, Javier Martin Muriel, the Baltus Collection is grounded in beauty, originality and purity of form. Well-known and respected throughout Europe, Baltus has showrooms in Cannes, France; Murcia, Spain; St. Petersburg, Russia; and most recently, Antwerp, Belgium. In addition to Baltus' new home with Moura Starr in L.A. and NYC, the Baltus flagship showroom can be found in Miami's vibrant design district. Inspired by the quintessential beauty of the Mediterranean, the artisan crafted Baltus collection is characterized by clean, modern, sophisticated lines, custom details and innovative, luxe finishes.
Both Moura Starr and Baltus can also be found at the beautiful Allan Knight showroom in Dallas.
As Moura Starr will now be representing Baltus in Los Angeles it's natural for Moura Starr to move into the beautiful storefront Baltus currently occupies at 9000 Beverly Boulevard. Here, Moura Starr will continue to offer the sumptuous contemporary upholstery and sleek, timeless proprietary case goods that have defined Moura Starr as a go-to resource for incredible design, unashamed luxury and modern, authentic style.
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Reconfigurable filtenna for cognitive radio applications
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Reconfigurable filtenna for cognitive radio applications
Zamudio, Maria Elizabeth
Christodoulou, Christos
Committee Member(s)
Schamiloglu, Edl
Costantine, Joseph
Costantine, Joseph
University of New Mexico. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
LC Subject(s)
Software radio.
Cognitive radio networks.
Adaptive antennas.
Cognitive radio networks.
Adaptive antennas.
Degree Level
In order to improve the efficiency of the spectrum usage (available idle spectrum), cognitive radio devices should identify their environment, work in conjunction with other cognitive radio devices, and reconfigure themselves. The concept that becomes crucial when designing cognitive radio devices is reconfigurability. Active components are used as switches in order to transform a device into a reconfigurable one. However, when switches are applied to an antenna design, we are not only making it reconfigurable, but we may also be affecting the electromagnetic properties of the reconfigurable communicating antenna. An alternate solution is presented in this thesis based on a reconfigurable filter that is embedded in the feeding line of the cognitive antenna to produce a integrated antenna-filter combination which we call "Filtenna." Two Filtenna designs are presented in this work. One of the designs is based on a band pass filter while the other utilizes a band reject filter. Furthermore, a varactor-based prototype was implemented and tested to provide the versatility required to tune a wideband Vivaldi antenna to a wide range of frequencies in a cognitive radio environment.
December 2011
Cognitive radio, Filtenna, Reconfigurable


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This guideline covers diagnosing and managing constipation in children and young people up to 18. It provides strategies to support the early identification and timely, effective treatment of constipation which will help improve outcomes for patients. It does not cover constipation caused by a specific condition.
This guideline includes recommendations on:
- history-taking and physical examination
- digital rectal examination
- clinical investigations and management
- diet and lifestyle
- psychological interventions
- antegrade colonic enema procedure
- information and support
Who is it for?
- Healthcare professionals
- Children and young people aged up to 18, their families and carers
Is this guideline up to date?
We checked this guideline in June 2017. We found no new evidence that affects the recommendations in this guideline.
Guideline development process
How we develop NICE guidelines
This guideline was previously called constipation in children and young people: diagnosis and management of idiopathic childhood constipation in primary and secondary care.
In November 2011, changes were made to the full guideline in the introduction on psychological interventions (section 5.5). The deleted sentences were not supported by the references cited and so it was felt best to remove them. This has not impacted on any of the recommendations within the guideline.
Your responsibility
The recommendations in this guideline represent the view of NICE, arrived at after careful consideration of the evidence available. When exercising their judgement, professionals are expected to take this guideline fully into account, alongside the individual needs, preferences and values of their patients or service users. The application of the recommendations in this guideline is not mandatory and the guideline does not override the responsibility of healthcare professionals to make decisions appropriate to the circumstances of the individual patient, in consultation with the patient and/or their carer or guardian.
Local commissioners and/or providers have a responsibility to enable the guideline to be applied when individual health professionals and their patients or service users wish to use it. They should do so in the context of local and national priorities for funding and developing services, and in light of their duties to have due regard to the need to eliminate unlawful discrimination, to advance equality of opportunity and to reduce health inequalities. Nothing in this guideline should be interpreted in a way that would be inconsistent with compliance with those duties.
Commissioners and providers have a responsibility to promote an environmentally sustainable health and care system and should assess and reduce the environmental impact of implementing NICE recommendations wherever possible.


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By Fareeha Qayoom
ll the major style books advise you to first create your own inspiration board – this will help you plan the wardrobe of your dreams. Your style choices should allow you to express yourself. So in an idle moment today – I decided to create my own…
My personal Style statement
Be true to myself. Go my own way, do my own thing. Not interested in being a fashion victim.
I look for classic but casual silhouettes, comfortable, in a great fit, durable and timeless pieces which are low maintenance and no– brainer type of clothes that might sound expensive at first glance but last for years so actually provide great value for money.
I describe myself as a uniform dresser. I like to be comfortable and am not interested in making a splash or indeed a style statement – one of my friends (Aarzoo) described my style once "as a hippie-inspired and very bohemian"…when she met me for the first time, I was wearing this denim skirt (converted from my brother's discarded jeans), a t-shirt and silver jewelry (rings, earrings, and necklace) and ballet flats.
No I don't dress sloppy. My clothes are always clean, well pressed and neat. I just don't mind wearing really old but much loved clothes or accessories, mixing them up with new stuff – some of my clothes like a black turtleneck sweater that has seen better days or one wedge heel gladiator shoes have been part of my wardrobe since the last fifteen years for example…
I always look for
- Quality and value for money
- Buy only durable, long lasting, organic materials like denim, twill, cotton, leather…
- Comfort and Fit
- Great design
- Price
Style Icons that inspire me (casual look)
- Grace Kelly
- Audrey Hepburn
- Marilyn Monroe
My favorite stuff
Here's a list of my favorite stuff in clothes and accessories…
Wardrobe staples that I keep mixing and matching all the year round for work and leisure
- Classic woven button down shirts
- Woven tunic tops
- Basic scoop neck knit t-shirts in basic and fun colors
- Knit tank tops (camisole) to wear under button down shirts or summer jackets
- Jeans – slim, straight, boot-cut, flare and only one pair of skinny
- Chinos – black, brown and khaki (for those times when you can't get away with jeans!)
- Jackets and waistcoats
- Denim skirts
Prefer drop earrings, necklaces, rings, toe rings and anklets, am not terribly attracted to bangles and bracelets. For belts, I have quite a collection going from basic leather belts to even a couple of bling, bling ones…
- Silver jewelry inset with semi precious stones
- Unique or unusual motifs in costume jewelry like butterfly, flower, or geometric shapes
- Big dial watches – square, round, colorful, plastic, serious or fun
- Flat shoes
- Dr. Martens
- Ballet flats
- Flat penny loafers
- Deck or boat shoes
- Flip flops
- Birkenstock sandals
- Converse type sneakers
- Running shoes
- Girly shoes
- Wedge heels
- Chunky heels
- Flat sandals
- Backpack – sporty or in leather
- Big, roomy, chunky, kitchen– sink shoulder bags
- Basic leather belt in brown and black – square and round buckles
- Fun belts
My Inspiration Board


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I feel like I am wrapped in a cyclone. Everything is whirling around me, drawing the air out of my lungs and filling me with the best kind of turmoil. Sweet, unpredictable, endorphin-releasing turmoil.
It is impossible for someone like me—someone with a sin-list capable of wrapping itself around the world—to find redemption. To be repaired.


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Grimm's Law and Verner's Law
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NIAGARA UNIVERSITY, NY - The Iona College baseball team's offense exploded for 20 hits in a 13-6 win over Niagara in Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference action at Bobo Field. Junior CF Joe Torres and sophomore LF Jimmy Guiliano accounted for four hits apiece in the victory.
The Gaels never trailed in the contest taking a 3-0 lead after two innings. Niagara got two back in the bottom of the third before the Maroon & Gold posted two in the fourth and three in the fifth to extend their lead to 8-2. In the sixth, the Purple Eagles crept back with four tallies to cut the deficit to two runs. The Gaels put the game away with five more runs in the eighth and ninth innings to come away with the 13-6 win.
Torres was 4-for-5 with a walk, four runs scored and three runs batted in. His three-run home run in the fifth inning gave Iona a six-run cushion. It was the junior centerfielder's second long ball of the season. Guiliano was 4-for-6 with two runs scored and two RBI. He had a run scoring double in the fourth inning.
Rookies C Carmine Palummo and DH Zach Brown were both 3-for-4 in the win. Palummo drew two walks scored twice and drove in two runs. Brown had a walk with two runs scored and three RBI.
Senior 3B Chris Sand and rookie 1B Christian Choman each had two hits win the win.
Sophomore RHP Steve Basile (1-2) picked up the win. He allowed two walks and no hits in one inning of work. Senior RHP Matt Marley pitched the middle 5.1 innings allowing six hits, and four earned runs with six strikeouts. Senior RHP Derrick Bligh closed the final 2.2 allowing two hits for the Maroon & Gold.
Niagara RF Joel Klock had two of the home team's eight hits in the contest. Jim Fort took the loss in one inning of work.
The game was delayed for almost four hours due to high wind conditions in Western New York.
Iona is back in action at home on Tuesday against Stony Brook at City Park.


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Winch and stock battery cable connectors
This weekend I installed a Warn M8000 on my 2005 TJ Sport. Installation went fine with no major problems. I used the stock battery connectors (like the one shown in the picture below) when connecting the pos and neg winch cables to the battery. I just added the winch cables to the screw post where the engine cables connect.
So, my question is, are these stock connectors substantial enough to handle the load of the winch over the long term or should I replace them with a more robust design connector? Thanks for your advice!
I have used the stockers before. They work okay. Though I usually try to get a battery with another set of connectors.
Yep they work fine, have had mine hooked up that way for about 4+ years now.
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Manchester emergency workers run drill with mock chopper crash
City emergency workers brace for reality at mock chopper crash
MANCHESTER - A disaster preparedness drill at Catholic Medical Center was realistic enough to frighten organizers during moments of a mock helicopter crash on the hospital's rooftop landing pad Saturday.
Manchester firefighters and EMTs take a "victim" from Truck 1 during Catholic Medical Center's emergency disaster drill Saturday in Manchester. Thomas Roy/Union Leader
While there is no way to replicate the chaos of an actual disaster, the events at CMC seemed authentic enough as police, firefighters and hospital staff were on full alert all morning.
"It was all hands on deck," said Lu Mulla, CMC vice president of operations/emergency services.
RN Jonathan Harvey plays a soldier with PTSD as CMC Hospitalist Martin Johns, right, assesses him during Catholic Medical Center's emergency disaster drill coordinated with Dartmouth-Hitchcock Advanced Response Team's helicopter (DHART) Saturday in Manchester. Thomas Roy/Union Leader
Volunteers and staff portrayed victims with an assortment of injuries, which were bolstered in appearance with makeup.
Firefighters carried dummies down the Manchester Fire Department truck ladders, which were long enough to reach the rooftop landing pad. CMC officials said it is the only elevated landing area in the state and makes the Manchester hospital a primary receiving center for critical care.
Mulla said the helipad de-icing system struggled at times through the cold stretches of winter, which generated the basis for CMC's next training drill.
Initially, the idea was to see if the ladders were high enough to reach if anybody was stranded. The ladders reached, but the drill had grown a lot more complex during a planning process.
Mulla said there were also a few "injects" - surprise changes sprung on the staff that forced them to adjust on the fly and address new issues while continuing to keep up with everything brought on by the helipad "crash."
The surprises included a pregnant woman who went into labor after viewing the crash and a PTSD patient who stormed through the emergency department shouting about shellshock and asking for his fellow soldiers.
"He really put on quite a good performance," Mulla said. "We wanted to see how security would react and also what the rest of the emergency staff would do."
One surprise that caught even Mulla off-guard was the helicopter pilot putting on a performance during his approach, weaving through the air like he really was about to crash, before safely touching down in a routine landing. The hospital did not shut down during the drill, so the three "code blue" cases that came in Saturday morning really were cardiac distress that needed immediate attention.
"That's also very important for us." said Michelle Marshall, CMC communications director. "Although we were conducting a drill, could we handle it?"


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Hi Dog Friends,
I finally got around to writing again after many months. It has taken me very long time to teach my brother the rules of the house and how he is to conduct himself. I still go over things with him when he forgets. I will post some additional picutures of my brother soon just by himself. Then I think for Easter I will surprise him a take a picture with him, and then I will put it here for everyone to see.
Even though we are siblings, we have very different personalities & likes. He likes to be outside, I don't care if I go outside. I like to watch B&W movies he doesnt. We both hate getting bathed and brushed and we just love Chicken! When my human mom roast a turkey or chicken in the oven, I always stay in the kitchen so I can see when it comes out of the oven. I can only say that it is very different that my brother is here. But was I going to do he had no where to go, so he will be in my forever home forever. Princess PT
PS - He went to the feed store the other day to get a bag of kibble and shampoo, and all the clerks in the store catered to him. Telling him how cute he was and giving him treats and all did was prance around the store. I think that was the first time that happened to him. So I told him he can go from now on and he can bring me back some treats the next time he goes.
I bet you think this diary is about, my first days at my forever home but it is not. My first day is actually about my brother who became homeless and my human mom found out about it and she brought him to my home ugh! What was she thinking, I had not seen him since he left the litter. He actually was living with our (dog) father when that family could not keep him anymore, so he came to my house.
The first time I saw him he was a mess, he wasnt getting alot of food and was skinny. He did not have all of his shots (maybe had a few cooties) but he went to the vet right away and the vet gave him his shots and said he was ok. When he came back to the house he just tried to take over. I dont know why he did that but he had a lot to learn.............To be continued
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