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One of the many mammoth hotels on Sanya Bay. The position is convenient just because of its proximity to the airport (which is also a disadvantage due to the noise) but to go to nice beaches it is necessary to go for long taxi rides. We had a seaview room, which was big and comfortable. The breakfast room was extremely... More
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Putting politics aside, everyone agrees something needs to be done about healthcare. Every day, millions of Americans battle the cost of medical bills. Sure, insurance can help out with the medical expenses, but it's not always enough. Sometimes the bills keep piling up and piling up. No matter the health crisis that brought on the bills, you may find yourself in a situation with no way to pay them all. Legislation in Congress may help eventually, but that's years down the road, and Americans need a solution now.
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On our 19 days trip through Sikkim we spent 7 days in Bamboo Retreat. The property is very well designed and a real retreat place. We really felt like home, the whole staff, was so friendly, helpful and Suraj and Pema took good care of our needs. The location is great, the rooms very clean, the prayer room a perfect... More
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I want to try digi scrapping and dont know where to start.Any books you would suggest?I bought Ro's secret book about Photoshop.Thanks.
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Posted 03 November 2005 - 10:05 PM
Go to the ScrapGirls University from our Home Page! That is how I got started...There are some free tutorials in movie form that will help to get you on your way!
"Now and then it is good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."
Posted 04 November 2005 - 12:42 AM
I haven't used any of the tutorials here before...I self-taught myself how to use Photoshop. But, there are 2 books that have JUST been released that you could check out. There's Digital Designs for Scrapbooking by Renee Pearson (put out by Simple Scrapbooks) which is supposed to be a how-to book more than an idea book.
The other is the new Autumn Leaves book called Designing With Digital. It's more of an idea book, but comes with a CD full of tutorials and stuff.
The other is the new Autumn Leaves book called Designing With Digital. It's more of an idea book, but comes with a CD full of tutorials and stuff.
Posted 04 November 2005 - 07:42 AM
I self-taught myself a few things in PSE, just spent a bunch of time playing around with it and trying to figure out what it would do, but I have a long way to go!
Posted 04 November 2005 - 11:28 AM
I just used a few of the tutorials in SG University and it helped 100%... you should click on it and watch... it is a great resource!
Posted 05 November 2005 - 10:38 PM
Thanks I'll ook into the SG movies and the books,I do love books.
Posted 13 March 2006 - 12:42 PM
I know the tutorials on this site are way more digi-srap specific than just general books on Photoshop. They'll tell you how to do a particular technique for something you may see on someone's layout that you want to replicate. Good luck - just keep moving forward!
Posted 13 March 2006 - 12:44 PM
yup, the tutorials here!! I self taught myself, but now as I'm looking at these here, I'm kicking myself!!
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Amps, i would have never thought they make such a difference. In different systems i have ARC VSI55, Leben CS 300, Luxman SQ38u, Croft 25r plus Croft 7r. Croft's and Leben are the most beautiful. Especially if you put some Philips tubes in them. The ARC is extremely competent and smooth. The Luxman new and needs to be burned in, i guess. Harsh with Yamaha NS1000's. But very detailed. Good for classical.
The Leben, with Philips Miniwatt ECC83's, connected to a Sony Tts4000, with nagaoka 500 and Harbeth LS3/5a's - amazing. Even has bass despite the speakers. Incredibly fun and engaging
The Crofts, also with Philips/Amperex tubes, garrard401 with ortofon 2mblack,sme etc AND Harbeth SHl5. Wow, smooth, precise (the ortofon!) with detail, but drive musicality and depth.
Brits are kings of hifi: Alan Shaw, Glenn Croft and the folks from Garrard.
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Like the song says, he should have seen it coming at him like an atom bomb.The singer of those FreeCreditReport.com jingles might sound a bit less peppy now that the Federal Trade Commission is making the company behind the ads -- credit bureau Experian -- face the music. Heavy-handed disclosures aimed at ending years-long confusion over free credit reports will begin to appear in the ads next month. The changes are among new consumer protections enacted by Congress in the 2009 Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act.
In one disclosure viewed by msnbc.com, the top of the FreeCreditReport.com Web site was covered with a large grey block with type that read: "You have the right to a free credit report from AnnualCreditReport.com ... the only authorized source under federal law," with an obvious link to the site. Consumers who still want to sign up with FreeCreditReport.com would have to scroll down and enroll in the paid service offered by Experian.
"That's what we were aiming for," said Maneesha Mithal, an FTC attorney. "Congress wanted the disclosure to be really prominent."
Many Web sites, including FreeCreditReport.com, claim to offer free credit reports, but do so only as a come-on for costly credit monitoring subscriptions services.
Market leader Experian, which owns the coveted FreeCreditReport.com Web address, began advertising heavily in 2003 after Congress mandated that U.S. consumers were entitled to a free copy of their credit reports every year. The FTC has been in a legal battle with the site ever since. Experian has been forced to issue refunds and pay more than $1 million in fines, but that didn't quiet the crooning of Eric Violette, the star of the FreeCreditReport.com ads.
In what might be a first in consumer protection history, the protracted FTC-Experian legal fight actually included a foray by the government agency into comedy. Last year, the FTC created a spoof ad, poking fun of the FreeCreditReport jingles while trying to warn consumers that they might end up paying for something they could get for free.
Throughout the legal wrangling, the FTC has fielded numerous complaints from consumers who thought they were getting their congressionally authorized free credit report, only to find they had been signed up for a $14.95 monthly subscriptions they didn't want. Msnbc.com has been inundated with complaints too, and has written several stories about the issue, including a 2007 piece titled "Don't fall for FreeCreditReport.com."
It's hard to imagine the new warnings not putting a dent in the confusion – and that could be bad for Experian's bottom line.
Experian does not break out its FreeCreditReport.com sales, but in advertising for the site the firm claims to have served 20 million consumers. ComScore MediaMetrix says the site is the No. 1 ranked "financial advice" Web site, with 6 million visitors each month. Experian invested heavily in the market back in 2002, when it acquired FreeCreditReport.com for $130 million.
In anticipation that the gravy train might end, Experian has been spending about $70 million annually on FreeCreditReport.com ads, according to the New York Times.
The new disclosure law applies to any firm that claims to offer a free credit report, Mithal said. Anticipating the next round of regulatory cat-and-mouse, the rule requires the prominent disclosure to appear on every page where the words "free credit report" appear, she said.
Experian and its competitors must begin adding disclosures to their sites immediately, but the precise warning prescribed by the FTC doesn't have to appear until April 1. That's why some visitors to the FreeCreditReport.com are currently seeing much more humble disclosures, with only a single line of text -- in a small font and not hyperlinked -- atop the page. The firm said it was testing different disclosures.
Television ads also will have new warnings: visual and audio disclosures directing viewers to AnnualCreditReport.com.
The Web site warnings were designed by the FTC's Web design staff, Mithal said, after receiving input from industry members and consumer groups. It's unusual for a government agency to tell a company precisely what to put on its Web site, but Mithal said the FTC has at times forced firms to include new disclosures through court orders or other rule-making procedures. This new disclosure has a bit more legal heft, however, arising from a direct order by Congress.
It's taken a long time -- five years -- for the FTC to settle on a way to clear up the confusion over free credit reports. What took so long?
"We've been monitoring the marketplace for a long time," Mithal said. "We have had a lawsuit against (Experian), we've done (court) orders. But at some point Congress said this isn't working. So it's been a process."
Experian, in a statement, said it was playing by the rules and has always done so.
"Experian has been, and will continue to be, in compliance with the FTC's rules regarding the marketing of free credit reports," the firm said in a statement to msnbc.com. "We remain committed to clearly and conspicuously disclosing to consumers that the free report we offer is not the free annual credit file disclosure provided by federal law, and plan to comply with the FTC's rules by April 1."
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Kwanzaa began in 1966 as a holiday to honor African-American culture and traditions. The weeklong celebration runs from Wednesday to Jan. 1. The Omaha Public Library will celebrate with events at the Charles B. Washington Library, 2868 Ames Ave.
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Wednesday, 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Kwanzaa Celebration, Ceremony and Feast with African Culture Connection drumming and dancing, and ceremony with story-actor Idu Maduli.
Thursday, noon to 3 p.m. Kwanzaa for kids. Make a Kwanzaa bracelet symbolizing the holiday's seven principles.
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Careful with the labs and goldens. Go with a field lab. The others are huge (unhealthy and WAY too much on their bones), and really dull in the head. Training them is pointless and half of the time they just want to be morons and run everyone over. I've also been bit a few times by these ogres..... they have the top on my list in aggression issues. Field labs still have their brains (needed to work in the fields) and stay in their standard. They take a lot of work and can run circles around some of the most active people I know.... but, when trained and worked properly, they are extremely good loyal companions... and a heck of a lot of fun to train! When well balanced, they are also known to be amazing family pets. Goldens... ok.. speaking from a LOT of experience with them (parents bred them back in the day and they were used for duck hunting. That's what I grew up with)..... don't do the american lines. Horrible horrible horrible health problems. They are way over standard too often and HD is a plague with them (even more so than the other lines). Their coats are all sorts of messed up. There are nice ones here and there, but save yourself the pain..... go with the english bred (lighter coats with silky fur- not puff balls, smaller in size, and nice nice bone and heads). We had sporting lines, we did have mostly english lines, but our best female had a small amount of the top American lines back then in her. She was great, and the best dog I ever had..... but, I would have prefered more bone on her. Anyway.... if you want to do sports and have an active companion, I'd definitely recommend going for a english bred golden and make sure they work their dogs! It's the same as the GSDs, just different venues for the different traits.... don't go for the ones that just run around an arena. Go for the working dog. Most retriever owners will do the duck hunting, dock diving, AKC obedience... etc. Look for titles, look for working ability, and definitely look for health testing! HD, ED, Cancer, Eye problems, and heart problems are well known within this breed as well as some others. I always used to tell people, if you love that dark red color so much... go get an Irish Setter.... You can see a little darker red in her due to the pinch of American lines she had. But, she was still that cream color for the most part. her head was nice and thick for a girl, but I would have prefered just a bit smaller and thicker, with more cream color in her coat. She was around 60lbs her entire life. Nice dog, lots of drives, easy to train, and LOVED to work. She was an amazing house dog too, never had to be kenneled after puppyhood, and she was great with all dogs and people. However, she still had a protective side and would alert to anyone in our yard or causing trouble. In my opinion, her temperament was exactly what a golden retriever should be 100%. They shed but not nearly as bad as the GSD. Both of these breeds are great active companions, but you HAVE to research and look around with a good set of knowledge already backing you up.... don't go in blind, they will all "win" you over. Look for active breeders who work their dogs in more than just conformation. Look for BRAINS!! Beauty and brains IS possible.... just do the work and ask the right questions.. Know the answers you want. If they don't provide that... walk away! When the time is right, I'm sure you'll find a nice dog. |
Liesje | Field type lab (they are not huge dogs), Aussie, GSP (not a super high strung one), Brittany |
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I also do not think a GSD or an Aussie is for you, especially if your mom is anti dog hair, you'll send her into cardiac arrest with a gsd . If she likes LABS, GO WITH A LAB. Ultimately you want to make your mom happy with a choice she is in favor of. Labs do well in agility/obedience and are all around good family dogs. You aren't going to get that with some of the breeds listed, because alot of them are breeds that are more self satisfying vs wanting to work with/for you. My sister is fostering a flat coated retriever right now, most of the flat coats I've seen aren't called "flat heads" for nothing..Goldens is another choice for you, the like to please their owners but in my opinion are sooo prone to cancer it isn't funny. Shiba's/terrier breeds/ they are capable of anything, but certainly not easy trainers. I would think you'd want something that is not to hard headed, wants to work FOR you, and easily adaptable.. Of all listed, I would say a lab or a golden would be what "I" would be looking for. |
ksotto333 | I agree with the Brittany or Field spaniel...more mellow in character than Cockers..and they love their people. They can also handle being very active. |
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Mini poodle, I hear they are really intelligent |
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i think you need to pick a breed. how can someone pick a breed for you? |
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Why don't you start going to Agility training without a dog? Offer to help and learn because it sounds like you may have some time anyway. I bet you could work something out in terms of learning/helping/volunteering and you could meet actual people and dogs and make your decisions that way. It will also let you know if it really is something you want to do. I know your parents are not into you gettng a dog. How are you going to get to Agility venues and training? That requires driving you around at this point. |
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You just pay 52000 dollars to make a parody video but that's just a drop in the bucket cut the ice it chaired the house oversight reform committee is investigating the Department of Veterans Affairs to -- five million dollars just five million dollars.
-- two conferences in Orlando Florida last year.
We spoke with congressman I -- Yeah this is there.
-- make -- back on Greta.
I OK out another spending by our federal government this time 59 dollars to conferences including that 52000 dollars but that -- impersonation.
Video for I guess for HI represents.
How did this happen.
It happens the same way it's been happening throughout government the government doesn't respect your money there's a culture.
In government that you know they deserve to be treated like quote the other people.
And it's one of those changes it has to happen across government and has to start with leadership of the top.
Clearly general shinseki secretary insect he.
Needs to get on this at veterans but there needs to be real change -- the very -- -- how we fund these things and and what the expectation is for.
Men and women in all parts of all cabinet positions because G -- is an isolated.
The VA is an isolated this is something that keeps happening and it's gonna keep happening into the culture is changed.
-- accident the least -- conference is down for HR in Orlando and among the cost is 84000 for promotional items including -- -- in the hands sanitized is that on the restless but that's pretty pretty -- -- study.
Meanwhile there are 558000.
There's a backlog in department.
Veterans -- said the administration backlog in claims so while they're off going to this conference we've got all these facts who's got club have claims that -- -- and be looked at because of the backlog.
-- exactly right let's remember that you know our men and women in uniform are active duty military.
When they wanna -- -- further their education they go online in most cases are taking courses from Afghanistan over the Internet.
So it's not like the veterans administration couldn't do an awful lot of this without the cost of hotels.
Grab bags of goodies helicopter rides.
Free alcohol and lots of other things that have gone again and again either with the conference's.
For those lucky individuals -- -- around the country and pick out the -- in place for the -- Conference.
-- -- would expect I think this outrage upon outrage is this as you mentioned generation -- feet.
He hasn't ordered an outside independent review of the train policies and procedures and execution block -- conferences and ethics training for the conference planners.
Why in the first law and it seems common sense you know wasted taxpayers' money as some is so silly as a conference they've -- -- backlog of Obama's 600000 that claims.
But why does -- have to go outside and spend more Armani to -- something that the rest of us just know it isn't right.
Who I've known Rick for a long time and I think.
Former general should psyche doesn't have confidence in his own people -- in fact fix the culture problem.
-- just looking for.
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He is cannot talk to him personally his challenge is not that there aren't rules against -- it's that there's a culture of waste and this is part of what.
President Romney's going to have to change in government we're going to have to change the culture in addition to the rules.
-- part of my problem is there's a culture of not providing transparency.
Which makes it harder for us to see the waste.
When we finally see the waste there's typically a cover up.
As you know with fast and furious.
We have one of the worst possible ways right now.
ATF the acting director.
Has in fact had one of the worst offenders in fast and furious.
On administrative paid leave.
Adding to his retirement plus a six figure salary -- working at JPMorgan.
For another six figure salary and this is somebody who are reports said perjured himself before the congress.
We don't understand why JPMorgan would hire somebody who's lied to congress it'll probably be referred for good criminal prosecution.
We certainly don't understand why ATF is not only paying these people this person -- demand but they're they're also adding to his pension.
In fact is being further -- -- as part of effectively a cover up.
For his standing ranks with the administration.
-- -- -- and through a lot and since we're -- your letter is said you know that you -- -- of perjury and what his supervisors do is -- now they -- to keep them on the -- administrative -- they authorized him to take -- so -- as all -- back money.
His pension meanwhile he's going often is as high -- job someplace else we've double is suing gets twice is my passion wasn't -- much.
Plus what you say is it -- -- -- Although we don't have his dead border agent and an incomplete study it's like you know what the American -- that they what do what do they think about this.
Well this audio -- obviously they're outraged in the Terry's family is still waiting for answers in this is one empower more outraged the family of it's fallen Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.
We know that the IG report is finished we know that it said justice and we know that we can't see it.
We're hoping though that they will they will release it and we're positive that it's going to say the same thing are reported said which is this is somebody.
Who was responsible for and signed documents that he told our committee he didn't see didn't know about.
Now they only question is did he not read them and sign them and if he did.
Then in fact should he be guarding -- -- accounts that the men and women they're watching your show have a JPMorgan.
And that's effectively what we're dealing with is somebody who should have been fired from ATF.
Instead it's technically still on the payroll well in fact he's got a high paying job yet another company one that he only got because of his reputation.
Perhaps on earned an ATF but this is the problem with the culture of government it's the reason well I don't find it very strongly we need a new president.
-- -- -- but just I'm recommended the last word on the stay at the VA.
If say -- it looks like since its other people's money we the taxpayers that people don't don't care the culture and you're gonna have to come up with some rules to have real penalty would people.
Are you just been doing is wasting American testing in like secondary that's big money five million dollars to do a lot for a lot of people and that they the last word and -- -- -- -- -- Thank you -- change in the culture does mean they're happy penalties for wrong doings I'm with you a 100% credit.
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If you decide to go the FX series ..... Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1866Mhz Memory ... Squeak out just that little bit more for better ram. Also here's what I think is a VERY nice case that you can swap out to justify the budget Casecom JL-68 All Black Case | Ebuyer.com
I knew I forgot something, I decided to swap the PSU out, I have used/heard of powercool before but decided to go with a brand I know and love. Swapping the PSU out for a Coolermaster series, I use CM myself and know/love their PSU's With regards to the RAM I think I can swap out for the £2 without changing the case, it's not breaking the bank, plus I got a deal on a PSU so will get it under budget,
Drop the case down the Casecom KSM-7288 and you'll save £15. Thus allowing you to buy the newer Piledriver FX 6300 opposed to the older Bulldozer FX 6100. Casecom KSM-7288 Piano Black Mid Tower Case - 2x..... http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-338-AM&groupid=701&catid=1967&subcat=1825 Drop down the motherboard to the GA-78LMT-USB3 760G and you'll save £25. Thus allowing you to get the Bulldozer FX 8 core. EXDISPLAY Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 760G Socket AM3+ ... AMD Bulldozer FX-8 8120 3.1Ghz Socket AM3+ 8MB L3.... Drop down both the motherboard and case together and you can almost cover the newer Piledriver FX 8 core. AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz Socket AM3+ 16MB Cache Retail B...
I agree, in fact I would recommend a motherboard with a little more VRM power than 4+1 power if you're planning on overclocking or running a 8-core CPU.
Here you have the same hard drive £10 cheaper. http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1tb-seagate-st1000dm003-barracuda-720014-sata-6gb-s-7200rpm-64mb-cache-8ms-ncq-oem P.D: Actually it's £51 on Today Only.
Shit, the way this rig is working it is going to be better than mine, I'm tempted to buy the mobo/processor and swap it out with mine and give him the hand-me-downs :/ but in al seriousness I made some revisions, checked against the two largest suppliers in the UK for computer parts and created side by side price lists. Some variations between the two etc but a price drop and performance increase with a modest price increase. If I do say so myself that is a kick ass rig for a LOW LOW price. [TABLE] REVISION Supplier: ebuyer.com PRICE: CASE: £31.95 CIT Vantage case + 4 x 120mm case fans MOBO: £58.75 MSI 970 G46 CPU: £114.77 AMD FX 8120 3.1ghz x 8 cores RAM: £35.99 Corsair Vengeance 8GB 1600 HDD: £77.99 Seagate 1TB Barracuda 64MB Cache DVD: £11.06 Samsung DVD R/W PSU: £46.95 Coolermaster GX 600W PSU Total: £377.46 REVISION Supplier: scan.co.UK PRICE: CASE: £29.98 CIT Jupiter V2 2x 120mm case fans MOBO: £57.56 MSI 970 G46 CPU: £117.37 AMD FX 8120 3.1ghz x 8 cores RAM: £30.96 Corsair Vengeance 8GB 1600 HDD: £53.33 Seagate 1TB Barracude 64MB Cache DVD: £12.95 Samsung DVD R/W PSU: £52.32 Corsair CX 600W PSU Total: £354.47 [/TABLE] I am thinking of keeping the vantage case and order the rest from scan, I am unsure about the Mobo as I have usually used ASUS and personally steer clear of Gigabyte due to a bad experience BUT I following recommendations I will use them again
Did you get the hdd already? check my previous post, it's £51 on Scan. Sorry I didn't see you have two lists there. Why not considering this psu?: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/600w-silverstone-strider-sst-st60f-es-80-eff-80-plus-sli-crossfire-eps-12v-quiet-fan-atx-v23-psu It's £45 on Today Only and it's a Silverstone.
Not used Silverstone myself, I know CM/Corsair PSU's personally so not experience, better safe than sorry I wont be ordering at once, it will be a bulk order all at once in a week or so when I order my 7970 for my rig, I know the prices are/slash change due to offers Right, I wanna step down on the CPU, my brother doesn't need a 8 CORE CPU and I would rather safe some cash, which CPU's would you recommend for moderate gaming and think it is a bit overkill, I mean if it were my own rig, yeah but it isn't
Silverstone makes very good psu's; anyway on scan you can get a phenom ii x6 1045 for £82. If you're going to order in a week, make sure you check the Today Only section so you can save a few quid.
It isnt the ideal board (old chipset) but skimping on the board is a good method to affording a faster processor, and the processor is where the performance is at. Fair enough. Get the 6 core, bit reluctant on the x6 1045 because aren't unlocked and generally don't overclock as high as the Piledriver and Bulldozer variants.
My thoughts exactly. I'd take an FX-6300 and decent MSI 970 ATX over an FX-8320 and a really low end Gigabyte 760G mATX...
Do not Buy that PSU its garbage get something quality from either corsiar antec Be quiet NZXT OCZ the power supply is not something you cheap out on cheap power supplys blow up and they tend to take everything else with it when they go
Thanks, revised list changing the PSU, as for motherboard if was actually on a recommendation for a good but affordable board.. will look into it
[TABLE] REVISION Supplier: www.scan.co.uk PRICE: LINK: CASE: £32.03 CIT Vantage case + 4 x 120mm fans Click Here MOBO: £57.56 MSI 970 G46 Click Here CPU: £92.92 AMD FX 4300 Black Edition 4x core Click Here RAM: £35.74 Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3 1600 Click Here HDD: £70.78 Seagate 2TB Barracuda 64MB Cache Click Here DVD: £12.95 Liteon IHAS124-04 Click Here PSU: £47.52 Silverstone Strider 600W Click Here WIRELESS: £12.90 Dynamode 11n Click Here Total: £362.40 [/TABLE] final rendition i think. thanks.guys


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Sleepwalk with me is about a comedian who has REM disorder disease. Matt is a comedian who is currently working as a bartender and Abby is his girlfriend. They go to his sister's engagement party and his parents and friends are putting pressure on him to get married. His sister had been seeing her guy for only two and half hears while Matt has been with Abby for eight years His girlfriend is great, can sing, people love her. I think one of the telling lines is when Matt tells his sister everyone thinks Abby is amazing; mom and dad think she is amazing, our friends think she is amazing. I think everyone thinks the best thing about my life is my girlfriend. Matt is not ready for marriage and the pressure causes him to sleepwalk. At his parent's house during a sleep walking episode he thinks the hamper is a jackal and he is kicking it. Matt gets an agent and she sends him on some comedy gigs. They are scattered about the east coast and involve a lot of driving and time away from home. He becomes exhausted and the sleep walking episodes get worse. His comedy, however, gets better. At one comedy club a veteran comedian talks with him off stage and Matt makes a joke about marriage. The veteran says that's funny you should use it in your show. Matt's comedy gets funnier as he jokes with the audience about marriage, making fun of it. One night Abby comes home at 4 am very drunk and starts to pack a suitcase, Matt wants her to stay and agrees to get married in the summer. As we watch Abby plan for the wedding and Matt touring and doing his comedy act we see his sleepwalking progress until finally he thinks a missile is coming at him (signifying the upcoming wedding) and he jumps out of a second story window. This is a deadpan humor type of story; the most humorous parts are his sleepwalking dreams. It's a real type of story, real issues, real struggles, real relationship problems, with comedy sprinkled in especially in the sleepwalking dreams.
There are many times in life when we take an action that cannot be undone, and in so doing, head down one fork in the road, never to possibly return to the other path again. I was struck, watching Chely Wright, Wish Me Away, how real that is when someone comes out. Ms. Wright, popular country music singer-songwriter, CMA winner, was raised in a conservative God-fearing home and community. As a young girl, she knew she wanted to be a country music star and she determined to work heart and soul to reach that goal. At the same time, she recognized her crushes on girls and prayed that God would help her somehow overcome her feelings, that God wouldn't let her be gay.
The documentary incorporates interviews with primary people in Wright's life (family members, other creative collaborators, people from her hometown,) heart-wrenching homemade videos created by Wright during some of her most despairing moments, plus footage of Wright meeting with her spiritual advisor and, later, her publicist.
Wright's coming-out process was exquisitely choreographed. The release of her autobiographical book, Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer, this movie and numerous public interviews (with Oprah Winfrey, Rosie O'Donnell and others) were all scheduled to happen one real close together, for maximum exposure. In one interview, Rosie O'Donnell bluntly states: "You're out, honey….You're out all day. You're out forever!"
From time to time, a film buried long ago, unknown to most, emerges from its cult status to reclaim its proper place in the pantheon of great cinema. The 1956 documentary On the Bowery is one such film that can make that claim. Introduced by the legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese, who explains why he identifies with the film both on a personal and historical level (he grew up a few blocks away from where the film was shot), Lionel Rogosin's On the Bowery takes the viewer to the famously impoverished New York City street known for housing the destitute and those suffering from alcohol abuse. While there is a very simplistic plot setup that frames the film's three day course, most of the film captures the essence of the Bowery by employing a kind of impressionistic realism that gives the film its gritty, naturalistic look. Rogosin sought to portray his subjects sympathetically, simply showing their persoanl struggles without preaching or romanticizing their plight. The film was added to the prestigious National Film Registry in 2008 because of it groundbreaking stature.
Every December, the National Film Preservation Board, established by Congress in 1988, chooses up to 25 movies to be added to the National Film Registry (NFR) List. The "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" films chosen must be at least 10 years old, though not necessarily of feature length, nor must they have been released to a theatrical audience (though you will recognize many that have.) KPL has a great many of these films in our collection. I was intrigued to find a wide variety of movies, such as Halloween, El Norte, Toy Story (I) and Marian Anderson: the Lincoln Memorial Concert (produced in 1939.) Watch several of the shorts from the NFR list in Treasures from American Film Archivesand More Treasures from American Film Archives To learn more about NFR films, check out 2 books from our collection, both with the main title of America's Film Legacy. The older edition focuses on the first 500 films on the list, while the newer version updates readers about 50 movies more recently added to the list. To find NFR films in the KPL catalog in the future, choose Movie Search on the horizontal menu, and type "National Film Registry" in the Word or Phrase search field.
On a recent day, whilst in the midst of reflecting upon the great breadth of films we own at KPL and those I've watched, I challenged myself to list 100 of my favorite movies while acknowledging that such a list was neither full nor accurate (the problem of memory). I'm sure I'm missing some very obvious choices but here they are, in no particular order and with almost no employed criteria involved whatsoever. Later on this year, I'll add another 100 to the mix. Harold and Maude Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind There Will Be Blood Goodfellas My Left Foot Dog Day Afternoon Au Hasard Balthazar Breathless Petulia Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner The Mission The Elephant Man The Breakfast Club Breakfast at Tiffany's Badlands Tree of Life Umberto D Star Wars Miller's Crossing Raising Arizona Buffalo 66 The Apartment The Professional Cool Hand Luke Ordinary People Magnolia All the President's Men The Graduate Night of the Hunter Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Memento Bulworth Rebel Without a Cause The Way We Were Rushmore The Royal Tenenbaum's Submarine Amelie Annie Hall Manhattan Wild Strawberries A Few Good Men The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Adaptation L.A. Confidential Clueless Coal Miner's Daughter Dead Man Walking The Shawshank Redemption Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Drugstore Cowboy My Own Private Idaho Goodwill Hunting Platoon The Deer Hunter Fargo Giant JFK A Streetcar Named Desire Full Metal Jacket Anchor Man Groundhog Day Little Big Man Kramer Vs Kramer Heathers The Hours Uncle Buck Sixteen Candles The Last Picture Show Paper Moon Naked Lone Star Do the Right Thing Frankie and Johnny Taxi Driver Metropolitan My Life as a Dog Norma Rae Wings of Desire Seven Raging Bull Rain Man Silence of the Lambs Tender Mercies Thelma and Louise This is Spinal Tap Raiders of the Lost Ark E.T. When Harry Met Sally Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf The Age of Innocence Short Cuts The Big Lebowski In the Mood for Love Days of Heaven Glengarry Glen Ross American Beauty Ice Storm Jude Schindler's List
If you love movies like I do, you may have been waiting anxiously for the Academy Award nominations that were announced this morning, which is kind of like opening day for Oscar season. And if you're a hardcore fanatic like I am, you try to see as many of the nominated films as possible before the Big Night. Thanks to the nearby Rave Cinema, which often shows more independent and limited-release films than its in-town competitors, I can often catch many of the nominees in a timely fashion. But for some of the more esoteric films, I often find myself driving to places like Grand Rapids, Lansing or Ann Arbor, as I have already done this season. (Crazy, I know, but I did use the word "fanatic" to describe myself.) For those of you normal folks who'd prefer their cultural horizons to be expanded without breaking their odometer, I thought I would mention all of the year's Oscar-nominated stuff that you can get right here, right now at KPL.
Four of the Best Picture nominees are available now on Blu-ray and DVD:
The film Hugo had the most Oscar nominations with 11, which included Best Picture, Director (Martin Scorsese), and Adapted Screenplay. As of this writing, it does not yet have a release date for Blu-ray or DVD, but you can read The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick's Caldecott-winning book upon which it was based. Howard Shore's score was also nominated and is currently on compact disc.
Other Best Picture nominees not yet available on Blu-ray or DVD but based on books you can read now include Kaui Hart Hemmings' The Descendants (5 nominations), Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close(2 nominations), and Michael Morpurgo's War Horse (6 nominations).
Beyond the Best Picture list, there are plenty of currently available films that received Oscar nominations today:
David Fincher's adaptation of Stieg Larsson's mega-popular mystery The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo received five nominations; it's not yet available on Blu-ray or DVD, but you can read the book, check out the original Swedish version, or listen to Trent Reznor's score (which was, in my opinion, the Academy's biggest snub this year).
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy received nominations for Actor (Gary Oldman), Original Score, and Adapted Screenplay. You can read the novel from spymaster John le Carré, or check out the original British mini-series starring Alec Guinness.
Flight of the Conchords vet Bret McKenzie received a Best Original Song nomination for the amusingly existential "Man or Muppet" track from—what else?—The Muppets. The soundtrack is available now. The only other song nomination came from the soundtrack to the animated film Rio.
So there you have it: an exhaustive list of currently available materials from this year's crop of Oscar nominations, complete with links to the items themselves. Whether you use it to browse for some ideas, or turn it into a checklist for immediate consumption is up to you. Now if you'll excuse me, I have some driving to do.
(Psst. If your interested in my personal choices for the ten best films of the year, you can find them here.)
Kisses is a small-scale but affecting film that showcases the impressive talents of its two young actors. Emotionally and physically abused tweens Dylan and Kylie, set out on a twenty-four hour adventure in the big city in hopes of escaping their domestic problems. Searching for Dylan's big brother, who allegedly lives in Dublin, these two tough yet sweet kids from the suburbs discover that the city possesses both a dangerous and exhilerating side to it. Kisses effectively mixes together a romantic tale about childhood innocence with the grim depictions of an unforgiving urban environment.
Gus Van Sant is a major American film director and writer whose early work (Drug Store Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho) along with others like Quentin Tarantino, Whit Stillman, Spike Lee, and Steven Soderbergh revitalized American cinema in the early part of the 1990's. His most commercially successful film Good Will Hunting solidified him as an important director that could straddle the art house/commercial fence and introduced the acting and screenwriting of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. Here are some of Van Sant's most lauded works.
Having recently taken over the responsibilities of selecting films for our audiovisual collection, I'm excited to report about some of the new titles that I've recently ordered. Some are here in the building and others are on their way. Why these films you ask? Well, these are personal favorites of mine that I would argue with great adoration and zeal that because of their artistic merits warrant their inclusion within our diverse and varied cinema collection. Some are big name classics and others are great films that have either languished in obscurity or have been appreciated only by its ardent fans. Some may have already been part of our collection in years past and now have a second chance at falling into your hands. I hope you enjoy these movie treasures.
I watch more films than the average person, so while the allure of the Lake Michigan shore often takes priority during these warm, sunny months, I've still managed to find some time to view several exceptional films that are worth checking out.
Movies for: Kids, Teens & Tweens