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A Girl's Guide To Spring Hair
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suuuch pretty hair babesssReplyDelete
Gorgeous! You always have nice hair. That jacket in the first picture is beautiful.ReplyDelete
Check out the outfit I just made... it's very spring like!
xox Soph
love every look! your hair is so pretty!ReplyDelete
wow love the hair style...very taylor swift inspired..looks even better in spring..right???ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousApril 10, 2012 at 12:11 AM
The Side Braid is my go to! I do it all the time =)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 10, 2012 at 12:13 AM
You look beautiful with all of these hairstyles! My go-tos at the moment are side braids, fishtail or otherwise, and big buns on the top of my head. I love the way you have done the half up with braid style.ReplyDelete
X Jane
You're so awesome in hairstyles!! I wish I could be so talented and able toReplyDelete
play with my hair as much as you are :P
Great hairstyle ideas! :-D I will definitely be favouring floral additions and the messy braid this Spring/Summer!ReplyDelete
Very cute and relaxed!
So beautiful!I love braids.ReplyDelete
OMG. I love this post. Such great tips and inspiration. Thanks hun.ReplyDelete
Lovely hair styles! Im sooo lazy to do my hair.:-)ReplyDelete
Great styling Anna! I love having long hair for it's versatility :)ReplyDelete
Happy Tuesday hun xoxo
Love the hair styles doll, you are so winning the LC contest it's a done deal,you rocked those 2 outfits i just voted;)ReplyDelete
You are so pretty:) I like braids, curls (I have curly hair so I have no choic:P), buns, side pony and sometimes straight hair with bangs;)ReplyDelete
I like to wear their hair loose, but when it's hot I like the ponytail with curls! I love this post! Thanks for the tips! love love love!ReplyDelete
You might just have the best bun I've ever seen. It's perfect. I'm very jealous. My second fave look is the twist. So spring. Great postReplyDelete
- LilLillyloveApril 10, 2012 at 12:45 AM
Such amazing inspiration and tips. Thanks Anna.ReplyDelete
Great hair styles and great post. Love it and you looking so gorgeous. You are so pretty.ReplyDelete
xo, Petra
These hairstylings are all amazing and look fantastic! ♥ReplyDelete
These tips are great! I never quite know what to do with my hair to make it more unique but I shall be giving these ideas a go!ReplyDelete
Love this post. Great to mix it up with the hair but I admit I don't much... Let's hope this post changes that. Where did you get that hat btw? It's really cool.ReplyDelete
Love your hat!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the inspiration!ReplyDelete
I like them all :DReplyDelete
wonderful...super inspiration !!!ReplyDelete
You have such amazing hair and love this inspiration. Sadly enough my hair always want'sto go it's own way :(ReplyDelete
love all of them, thanks for sharingReplyDelete
I love hair posts. Ahahah. And I love your hairstyles! Thank you for all the tips. I really need to start changing my hair more often. :)ReplyDelete
Ok my favourite is the first one, the second, the third.... OK I love them all :P. You have really nice hair my dear :)ReplyDelete
One thing I always notice in your posts is how pretty and ladylike you have styled your hair :)ReplyDelete
You always seem to do amazing styles with your hair. I wish that my hair would work with me and always look so pretty.ReplyDelete
Lou xx
The wavy side pony is my personal fav. I love my hair cause its so thick, but then I can't do anything with it. Plus I like it short, long hair just does not suit me. In fact, can I have your hair please?! xReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 10, 2012 at 2:46 AM
You're so pretty, this is such a cute post.ReplyDelete
Emma x
Loved this post. Thank you for this ^^ReplyDelete
Lovely post Anna, you look lovely :)ReplyDelete
Laura xoxo
i could totally do this all these hair styles! thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
So many fabulous hairstyles! I wish I could make them myself.ReplyDelete
you are soo creative:)ReplyDelete
my favourites are the bun and all kind of braids <33
so jealous of your uh-mazing natural hair!!ReplyDelete
so many great hairstyles and tips! have a great day Anna!ReplyDelete
Great post...all the looks are awesome!ReplyDelete
your hair is so beautiful! these are all great looks, but unfortunately my hair is short, so many of these don't work for me. Sometimes I wish I had nice long hair and no bangs, but alas, that's not a good look for me. Thanks for the inspiration though!ReplyDelete
The floral additions and messy side braids are my favorite! I am always rocking those side braids when I'm in my Pure Barre class. It's cute and can be styled so quickly. Thanks for all the ideas!ReplyDelete
Can you please do a tutorial on how you do your beautiful curls?ReplyDelete
LOVE the hair - great inspiration. Thanks for sharing love :)ReplyDelete
I can't pick a favorite; they all look great on you. I've been playing with that tiny braid look for ages, but I never have the guts to wear it outside my house. I'm afraid I'll look like I'm not aware the 70s are over because I am old enough to have rocked that look back then. A hair dilemma...ReplyDelete
I'm a big fan of the bun, but can never get it quite right!ReplyDelete
I love all of them! And I totally agree with you, hairstyle is such a fundamental piece of your outfit. If your hair doesn't match with your outfit, it brings your whole look down in my opinion. Great post!ReplyDelete
XO Aline
You are gorgeous! Loving the latest trend tips! PS. Can I please come raid your closet!? :)ReplyDelete
GREAT tips for Spring hair!!!ReplyDelete
Seeing these pictures of your hair makes me REALLY wish mine was long again :s Time to grow it out, I think!ReplyDelete
Cute hairstyles! Thanks for the inspiration for the days when I don't know what to do with my hair.ReplyDelete
Love all of these inspiration looks! I am curious as to how you bun is so large? Do you use something under it to make it bigger? xoxo A-ReplyDelete
Amazing, and they all suit you!ReplyDelete
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Love all these great springtime styles...perfect for every occasion!ReplyDelete
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I love your braids! I need to practice on my hair because whenever I try it, my hair looks like a big wad on the side of my head.ReplyDelete
Hope you have a great week!
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I absolutely love all of them! For sure I'll try them all!ReplyDelete
The hairstyles are great!!ReplyDelete
Super cute post!!!! Love it!!!! xoxoReplyDelete
I long for the days when my hair can be styled anyway I want it. The growing out process is brutal but it's finally grazing my shoulders so I'm hoping to be able to rock a side pony by the summer! Love all of the ideas!ReplyDelete
these hairstyles are great! good styling inspiration !ReplyDelete
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your hair always looks stunning!ReplyDelete
i love your blonde hairdo's
You have beautiful hair and I love all of your hairstyles!ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousApril 10, 2012 at 7:24 AM
This post makes me what my long hair back so badly! eek, the things I could do with it!ReplyDelete
I've stumbled upon your blog & I feel like I've found gold! I love all the styles you've featured here in this post & will definitely try them out! Your style is so fun and playful! I will definitely be following and I can't wait to see what you dish out next! xo, MegsReplyDelete
You've got so much creativity and patience! I am such a loser when it comes to styling my hair, it can't stay up or hold a curl long enough to save it's life!ReplyDelete
:) Ewa
- AnonymousApril 10, 2012 at 7:44 AM
Favorite post ever. So helpful.ReplyDelete
Such a cute post!! Love all these ideas!! You wear a bun so nicely! Your hair always looks perfect!ReplyDelete
I gotta try out some of these floral headbands! :D
Your hair is so thick and healthy! PrettyReplyDelete
Love the bun and the loose curls. I really want to rock some soft curls for my sorority formal but my hair never stays!! Do you have any great product suggestions?ReplyDelete
Love all these ideas, you have such amazing hair - I am so envious! I love the half up look with all the curls, totally beautiful!ReplyDelete
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I love a messy side braid!ReplyDelete
great looks!ReplyDelete
LOVE all of these looks! I have my hair in a tiny side braid today actually. Always fun to experiment with new ideas. Thanks for the inspiration!ReplyDelete
Love this post! I definitely always need some hair inspiration!!!!!ReplyDelete
These are such cute hair styles! I wish I could do something with my hair. Its grows a little and then it just seems like it stops! I just want LONG hair. lol Love your blog! http://www.fashionatabargain.blogspot.com/ReplyDelete
Great post! I love all the fun braids.ReplyDelete
I want your hair!! So jealous that it's so versatile!ReplyDelete
Love all of these hair styling tips! I feel like I want to print it out and keep it handy. Haha :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 10, 2012 at 10:04 AM
beautiful post!<3 you do have imagination!<3ReplyDelete
- SissyMattersApril 10, 2012 at 10:07 AM
I'm so jello of your hair. It always looks PERFECTReplyDelete
Fun hair ideas! I love anything with a braid for spring!ReplyDelete
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i love them all! you have such beautiful hair! and the color is fabulous!!!ReplyDelete
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Love all of they hair styles Anna!! I definitely will be trying them out!!ReplyDelete
i love the tiny braid lauren conrad style! xxReplyDelete
All hair-do's are perfect:)ReplyDelete
I love all of your looks, Anna-- but I think my favorite (of these) is the hairstyle you wore to Laguna Beach ;0)---> Half up & half down w/a braid. So cute!ReplyDelete
I love all the styles! Great inspiration!ReplyDelete
PS- My favorite are pretty bows & headbands! I am a little bit addicted! Especially with stores like Forever 21, where you can buy sooo many cute ones for not a lot of money!ReplyDelete
absolutely cute hairstyles that are perfect for any girl!ReplyDelete
thanks for posting it!
LOVE this postReplyDelete
LOVE the side braids and the ponytails! How inspirational!ReplyDelete
love all these styles, seeing this really makes me miss my long locks and regret that i cut it :(ReplyDelete
xx ish
- AnonymousApril 10, 2012 at 11:33 AM
The first look and the bun are my all time favorite hair styles.ReplyDelete
your hair Always looks amazing!! your braids barely even look real because they're so perfect...it's so impressive! haha. you can come do my hair anytime ;) I will definitely be channeling the pretty ponytails and the long curls with hair from the front pulled back in twists or braids!ReplyDelete
Love your hair!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 10, 2012 at 12:15 PM
These are all splendid ideas for summer hair...I just wish mine was as thick and gorgeous as yours! Cali girls always have beautiful tresses :) The side braid and the bun are my favs, so I'll have to at least give them the old Minnesota try!ReplyDelete
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So many great hairstyles to choose from. I love headbands and floral additions in the Spring and Summer months so I usually stick to those a lot. I also love doing the chic bun, half-up/half-down styles as well. I'll have to try incorporating more braids though. They're such a chic little addition to any hairstyle. Thanks for sharing this!ReplyDelete
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Love all the fun styles! Keep posting!ReplyDelete
your hair looks perfect!ReplyDelete
these are such lovely ways to wear it,
I'm gonna try some out:)
Your hair is gorgeous...on a serious level.ReplyDelete
I absolutely love all of these. You always have perfect hair. I'm so jealous! Good luck in the last week of Lauren's competition!ReplyDelete
So jealous of your hair! It looks awesome!!ReplyDelete
I need to rework my hairstyles. Thanks for the great ideas!ReplyDelete
I wish I had someone who would do my hair for me because I have long, thick hair like you and it is so much work to make it look pretty like the pics you posted. Mostly I just wear mine down, or with the bangs pinned back. I have no skill when it comes to fun styles.ReplyDelete
awesome post! love the pics =]ReplyDelete
Loving your chic bun and pulled back straight hair! I will def be trying these styles out soon! Pretty, pretty!ReplyDelete
Char xo
amazing hair! i love braids, but i cant braid my own hair, it never comes out right..ReplyDelete
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Love it! How do you look so great in each style?! Half up with braids in my fave I think.ReplyDelete
Adela xx
I wish I had hair to pull these off.ReplyDelete
Excited to try the chic bun and the straight pulled back hair styles! You look gorgeous in all of them!ReplyDelete
Char xo
- AnonymousApril 10, 2012 at 7:23 PM
Amazing hair! If only I could get my hair to curl!ReplyDelete
I am going to bookmark this post so I can refer to it all spring! love it!ReplyDelete
Wow your hair is soo beautiful, mine is starting to grow out and I got the ombre going so I am def going to have to try some of these looks!! Thanks for another amazing post!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 10, 2012 at 11:48 PM
Chic bun! So nice to get my hair out of my face without sacrificing femininity!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 11, 2012 at 1:11 AM
Love your Hairstyle!ReplyDelete
Great post,
Love N.
I love how you showed the different styles and I you're so right how it's important to style your hair with your spring and summer outfits.ReplyDelete
great post
I"ve tried everything! My hair doesn't grow : (ReplyDelete
Such beautiful hair and styles
beautiful.great picks!sophie xxReplyDelete
Love all the hair styles doll!ReplyDelete
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Amazing jacket! :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 11, 2012 at 5:43 PM
Ugh your hair is GORGEOUS! You definitely hit the jackpot of the genetic lottery when it comes to hair color/texture! Keep up the great work in Lauren Conrad's contest--we are all rooting for you!ReplyDelete
Love all the hair braiding!ReplyDelete
I love the different hairstyles!ReplyDelete
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I love the curly pony! <3 It's so cute!ReplyDelete
Beautiful hairReplyDelete
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Awesome hairdo's, total inspiration for when my hair will be longer again, I am letting it grow :)ReplyDelete
My all time faves here are the messy side braid (wiht hat, so cool) The curly pony tail and the best best one is in my eyes the half up with braid!!
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Stephen Lynch is no Scott Brown — for starters, he lacks the men's catalog good looks and the R next to his name. But the Democratic congressman running for John Kerry's Senate seat hopes voters will see in him what they admire about the defeated senator: A common-man touch, a pragmatic approach and an ability to connect with moderate working-class voters.
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There's also this: Brown stunned the Democratic establishment three years ago in a special election no one thought he could win. Now Lynch is trying to do the same — against long but not impossible odds — by taking on his party's candidate of choice, longtime Rep. Ed Markey.
After Brown's decision this month not to run for the Massachusetts seat — he would have been a slight favorite to win — the showdown between the two Democrats is expected to decide Kerry's successor.
Markey has the support of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Ted Kennedy's widow and Kerry himself. He's been in Congress since 1976 and has more than $3 million in the bank, compared to Lynch's $760,000 as of the end of 2012.
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But it's been decades since Markey had a tough race, and he's not inevitable. Lynch, whose record includes votes against abortion rights and Obamacare, boasts a history of upsets, relying on support from labor and the kind of conservative-minded, ancestral Democrats who powered Brown's 2010 upset win against Martha Coakley.
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"He's never lost a race, but he's never entered a race that he wasn't supposed to lose," Walsh said of Lynch. "I understand that there are certain measurements where you would say Markey has some advantage. They're undeniable, but I suspect this will be a competitive primary — which I like. These two guys are going to spend the next 79 days activating new Democrats for us."
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A few last scraps
Below are the last few drawings from overseas. The first two are from the day I arrived in France. I had a couple of hours to poke around the city and was able to locate a skatepark not far from Gare Du Nord where I stashed my things – though just rolling around the city turned out to be more satisfying. The third is from kind of a crazy thing that I saw one afternoon in Besançon, and the last two are drawings of people on the tube in London and from a couple of cafes in Newcastle.


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Unarmed Man Charged With Assault Because NYC Police Shot At Him And Hit Random Pedestrians
from the NYPD:-Times-Square-is-the-hottest-third-person-shooter-on-the-market dept
Stop me if you've heard this one:
An emotionally disturbed but unarmed man walks into heavy traffic near Times Square. Police officers arrive on the scene and try to apprehend him. The unarmed man reaches into his pocket, prompting police to open fire in a crowded area. Man is unwounded but two bystanders are shot.
I don't really remember the middle part of this joke but the punchline is this:
An unarmed, emotionally disturbed man shot at by the police as he was lurching around traffic near Times Square in September has been charged with assault, on the theory that he was responsible for bullet wounds suffered by two bystanders, according to an indictment unsealed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Wednesday.While you're letting that sink in, here are some more details.
Initially Mr. Broadnax was arrested on misdemeanor charges of menacing, drug possession and resisting arrest. But the Manhattan district attorney's office persuaded a grand jury to charge Mr. Broadnax with assault, a felony carrying a maximum sentence of 25 years. Specifically, the nine-count indictment unsealed on Wednesday said Mr. Broadnax "recklessly engaged in conduct which created a grave risk of death."Here are some more details from the original coverage of the incident.
"The defendant is the one that created the situation that injured innocent bystanders," said an assistant district attorney, Shannon Lucey.
The police arrived and the crowd grew. The hulking man continued on, ignoring the officers' commands while eluding capture. Then the man reached into his pants pocket, withdrawing his hand as if it were a gun, the police said, and pretended to shoot at some of the officers.As Scott Greenfield points out, this descriptive wording is a prime example of Creative Writing 101 (Law Enforcement Edition).
Note the language of the article. "Hulking" man. "Withdrawing his hand as if it were a gun." These aren't the words of a news account, but the language of justification and excuses.Broadnax didn't even have a gun, as officers plainly saw before opening fire. He had a Metrocard in his hand, and no matter how hulkingly he pointed it at officers, it still didn't turn into a weapon capable of wounding other people. His weaving around in traffic was potentially dangerous, but more to himself than others.
Returning once again to the "language of justification and excuses" deployed by the DA's office: someone wandering around in traffic in New York City is hardly creating a "grave risk of death." NYC has plenty of pedestrian traffic, not all of which crosses only at the corners. The man certainly created a "disturbance" but the shots fired by the responding officers created the only injuries. And yet, it will be the man shot at (and missed) who will pay for the mistakes of the officers.
The narrative being pushed (back at the time of the incident and again by the DA's office) is that the officers had no choice but to risk firing shots in a crowded area because the man wouldn't cooperate (and menaced officers with a Metrocard). But recordings of the incident suggest the cops actually had many more options are their disposal.
There are no doubt times when shots must be fired, and there are no doubt times when a bullet will strike a bystander despite the best, and most competent, efforts of police. But the video of this, taken by a bystander who was not shot, shows a great many cops in the area before the two cops shot at Broadnax, and makes it difficult to understand why the newspapers don't question why all those cops couldn't manage to take down one big crazy guy without shooting up the bystanders.The video Scott Greenfield posted back in September no longer exists. But this video shows a swarm of NYPD officers attempting to apprehend Broadnax before the shots are fired.
Broadnax was finally subdued by a single officer with a Taser but not before two pedestrians had been shot in an effort to ensure their safety. Holding the arrestee responsible for the bad decisions (and worse aim) of two cops basically sends the message to officers that irresponsible gun usage is perfectly fine, as long as the intentions are pure. If in the future officers hit other bystanders by firing in crowded areas (as they have in the past), the blame will be passed along to the intended target for "forcing" the police to make unwise decisions.
[Postscript: Ken White at Popehat has more thoughts on the NYPD's resemblance to Ike "Don't Make Me Hit You" Turner.]
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It took liberal doses of General Holland M. "Howlin' Mad" Smith's tenacity and Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey Jr.'s aggressiveness to get it done, but worldwide television audiences are in for a stark, brutal, and extremely realistic view of World War II in the Pacific when HBO premieres its newest military miniseries in March 2010. And Warriors Inc., the company I founded and operate that provides military advisory services to the entertainment industry, is proud to have participated in the production. Over the year my advisors and I spent in Australia re-creating the major battles fought by the 1st Marine Division from 1942 through 1945, we constantly invoked the spirit of legendary warriors such as General Alexander A. Vandegrift, Lieutenant General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, and Gunnery Sergeant "Manila John" Basilone to inject a special look and feel into the project that HBO has given a simple, evocative title: The Pacific.
In the summer of 2007 when executive producers Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Gary Goetzman finally got a green light to begin work on this monster undertaking, we received our marching orders in plain and direct terms. Hanks called and said he wanted me to do everything possible in my billet as the project's senior military advisor to "take audiences on a trip to hell and back." And this time, he continued, bring us right in there "under the helmet" where we can experience the thoughts, emotions, and passions of men who faced a brutal, tenacious, and unfamiliar enemy in the Pacific campaigns of World War II.
Almost immediately, we began receiving scripts for the planned ten episodes from writer-producer Bruce McKenna, who did yeoman work on the earlier and hugely successful Band of Brothers miniseries. It was obvious we had a big challenge facing us and one that was quite different from what we faced in doing that series, which focused on one company of paratroopers from the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the famed 101st Airborne Division in the European Theater of Operations.
This new project required us to employ and train actors and special-ability extras who would realistically portray World War II-era Marines from all three infantry regiments of the 1st Marine Division. Audiences would be expected to know and follow three primary players—Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone from 1st Battalion, 7th Marines; Private First Class Eugene Sledge from 3d Battalion, 5th Marines; and Private Robert Leckie of 2d Battalion, 1st Marines—through intricate and difficult shifting of roles and missions as the "Old Breed" fought, rested, trained, and fought again from Guadalcanal to Okinawa. Much of the source material for our scripts was taken from books written by the latter two Marines (With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa by Sledge and Helmet for My Pillow by Leckie), so we had at least two immediate touchstones for historical research, which continued, expanded, and deepened throughout the entire project.
As departure time for Australia approached, producer Tony To, the primary driving force behind Band of Brothers and a fan of our methods, issued the "attack orders" and we began to assign tasks at Warriors Inc. On a preproduction flight to Australia, where To had established a command post at Melbourne's Central City Studios, Warriors' executive officer Mike Stokey and I worked out a table of organization for a training unit and began to outline the schedule. We hoped the scant 14 days allotted would allow us to raise a credible World War II Marine infantry company prior to the beginning of principal photography.
Julia Dewey Dye, our adjutant and primary trainer for World War II-era women Marines, meanwhile, recruited and organized the cadre required to train the performers and stage the action for two complete shooting units working simultaneously under a variety of directors. She came up with outstanding people who had intimate knowledge of the Corps. All hands were advised to pack their seabags for a long deployment and to begin researching World War II Marine Corps weapons, equipment, uniforms, and tactics.
In Melbourne, the city in which the 1st Marine Division rested and reorganized after the grueling campaign on Guadalcanal, Stokey and I began to interview the special-ability extras who would be trained along with the cast members and who would support the mission throughout the production. All of the young Australian or New Zealand men we saw were excited to be a part of the production, but few had much more than a rudimentary knowledge of World War II. Virtually none had any understanding of the intimate relationship between their country and the vaunted 1st Marine Division. In fact, only one of the 300 or so we saw in the process of selecting 50 men knew that the division's official marching song is "Waltzing Matilda." He was hired immediately without the series of physical training (PT) tests we put the others through to assess their fitness, stamina, and motivation.
This insight prompted us to add a few extra history lessons to the training schedule. These guys—and the actors who were being cast back in the States and in the United Kingdom—would need plenty of background information to effectively portray the attitudes and orientation of the young Americans who volunteered for Marine Corps service in World War II. Stokey and I also used this trip to interview and hire 30 Asian extras who would be trained as Imperial Japanese Army infantrymen to oppose our Marines.
With T-day—the first day of field training—rapidly approaching, we moved to Far North Queensland and selected a site for our training ground in a huge patch of triple-canopy jungle running up the slopes of steep hills next to several rural cattle ranches. Our training cadre arrived just a week before we were slated to take the field. At this remote site we would conduct a curriculum that ran the military gamut from terrain appreciation through tactical formations and movement, to fire and maneuver and into combat engagements between our Marines and the Japanese forces training at a site nearby. We would take an absolutely minimalist approach to creature comforts, as we wanted our trainees to experience life in the field as it was lived by Pacific Marines who were chronically short of everything except Japanese enemy.
Initial assignments were made that allowed the training staff to work out the details of the hectic schedule. I advised them to stock up on sleep, as there would be little of that in the field where we would be conducting both day and night operations. Given the requirements of the scripts for The Pacific, we organized into three platoons: an assault platoon under command of Mark Shuster with Sean Bunch as his platoon sergeant; a machine-gun platoon under Charles Currier with Roberto Garcia as his senior NCO; and a mortar platoon, commanded by Bruce Whitfield with Tony Lidyard as his NCO. I commanded the training company with Stokey as my XO and Freddie Joe Farnsworth as company gunnery sergeant.
Very early on T-Day, Gunny Farnsworth and his cadre NCOs met the actors and the extras. They had been issued vintage Marine dungarees, boondockers, and a seabag full of period field equipment, which left them both clueless and apprehensive. That situation was reinforced as the NCOs gave them a typical welcome based on personal experience with Marine drill instructors. It was loud, profane, and scary, which put our trainees in the desired mindset: numb, sweaty, and confused.
At our field command post, Tom Hanks, who flew in from California, gave a motivational speech in which he reminded the actors and extras that he'd been where they were in two projects (Saving Private Ryan and Forrest Gump), and that no one was likely to die if they paid attention to what was being taught. Tom's welcome but unexpected appearance reinforced for our training company my beliefs from the time I came on the scene in Hollywood as the military advisor on the Academy Award-winning film Platoon.
I've always believed the most effective training tactic is to work from the inside out rather than the other way around. You can train actors to walk, talk, maneuver, and handle weapons appropriately—that's been done by others before me. But the convincing performances come from the heart and places deep in the brain that are unreachable without full and complete immersion in the alien experience of intimacy, lack of privacy, total interdependency, deprivation, hardship, and unselfish devotion to a larger ideal that only those who have served in the military can understand. The idea then, with The Pacific and all the other projects we've worked on, is to give the performers a large, unavoidable dose of experience with the way real military people must feel, think, and function to survive. The only remaining question is how to get it done. For that I rely on my own experiences during 20 years as an active-duty Marine.
Any Leatherneck would recognize the regimen. Isolate the recruits completely—no cell phones and no contact whatsoever with the world outside their training unit. From the start, work them hard in physical training and manual labor, such as calisthenics, long formation runs, and digging their own fighting positions, until they are numb and focused exclusively on surviving the next five minutes. At that point, most of the civilian nonsense has been squeezed out of their heads and you have a blank slate, a receptive mind, and an open heart. We committed three days to reaching a point beyond rote replication of what they saw the cadre doing, and then entered a steep learning curve during which the trainees gradually worked their way up into the appropriate positions of leadership and followership called for in the scripts.
Here's how a typical day went, about halfway through the regimen. Reveille was at 0500, which was a bit early because the unit had been on 50 percent alert throughout the previous night. It had been punctuated in thrilling fashion by a Japanese probe of our lines at 0300. No breakfast was served on this or on any other day, as we believed two ration meals in a 24-hour period were plenty. It also provided the reduction in soft body fat desired for the slim, wiry, slightly underfed look in an episode about Guadalcanal, which was first up immediately after training. The entire company formed for PT at 0530, which was followed by a four-mile formation run during which our chants scared the hell out of local cattle herds and set the farmers to complaining about "bovine trauma." At 0700 the platoons were set against each other in full-contact, close-quarters battle drills followed by bayonet drills with sheathed blades.
By 0800, when it began to get hot, rapid-reload and firing-position drills began on the firing line with blank ammo streaming through Garand rifles, Browning automatic rifles (BAR), and carbines. These had just been issued after five straight days of learning to manipulate the M1903A1 Springfield bolt-action rifles required for the Guadalcanal sequences of "the mission." During training, we never mention or utter the words film, movie, miniseries, or TV project, and we never allow anyone else to mention those terms under threat of exhaustive PT punishment.
While the riflemen and BAR duos worked their weapons on the firing line, the machine-gun platoon conducted its drills—fire in support of maneuvering squads, displace, and re-engage area targets—with both the .30-caliber M1917A1 water- and M1919A4 air-cooled guns. The mortar platoon conducted fire missions with their 60-mm weapons firing creeping barrages using shells that gave a satisfactory and attention-grabbing blast via 12-gauge shotgun shells embedded in the base of dummy high-explosive rounds.
After noon chow, we conducted a jungle camouflage class and briefed a company-sized reconnaissance patrol that would take us on a route through the heavy green foliage to the top of a jungle-covered hill where listening posts had reported enemy movement. Prior to moving out, we issued machetes needed to cut through the bush and conducted a review of field telephone and wire procedures that would keep everyone in contact with the command post. Field radios were notoriously unreliable in World War II, and we reinforced that concept by requiring the assault platoon's wire section to constantly run lines and keep maneuvering units in contact using EE-8 field telephones.
As we began to climb and cut through the tangle of vines and undergrowth under field marching packs (approximately 40 very real pounds of weight), the heat was overwhelming. The jungle humidity often matched the air temperature, and those who rolled up their sleeves or unbuttoned their dungaree shirts rapidly became familiar with stinging nettles, which added significantly to the agony of their march. The climb was particularly difficult for machine gunners and mortarmen, who had to hump all their gear and a heavy load of ammo just in case we ran into a Japanese patrol.
And, of course, we did just that, having arranged for it to happen in a conference with our Japanese force the previous evening. A firefight developed in the thick jungle where the only signs of enemy positions were muzzle flashes. Machine-gun crews had to constantly reposition themselves in support of the creeping infantry squads closing on enemy hard points. Mortars were working their sights and tubes according to rapid-rate adjustments I sent to them by wire as student officers observed the technique.
Once we returned to the CP, cleaned all weapons, and ate parts of a second meal, we opened the schoolhouse to conduct lectures on Marine Corps history and the state of the world and the United States in the war years. We also worked on 1940s vocabulary and Marine jargon. When the inky darkness particular to Pacific jungles descended, we set the watch and waited for a preplanned, full-scale banzai assault. This had been arranged to happen some time close to 2200, when Marines on our perimeter would be nodding off. By the time we were hit in a sector defended by a pair of water-cooled machine guns, our men were demonstrating admirable fire discipline and even got off a few satisfying bursts while the mortars fired an area-suppression mission to drive off the attackers. We stood down at about 0300 for yet another 0500 start.
And so it went from the beginning until our final field exercise, when we staged a full-scale amphibious assault from LVTs and LCIs on a heavily defended beach. When the series airs, you'll see the pay-off in the meticulous attention to the details in uniforms, weapons, equipment, and tactics. The result is gratifying and an overdue tribute to the men who fought the great naval campaigns in the Pacific during World War II. But for all of us involved in making it happen, the real thrill is bringing that underappreciated, misunderstood, and frequently forgotten aspect of the global conflict to life and to the attention of worldwide audiences.
My personal payday occurred when actor John Seda, who portrays Manila John Basilone in the miniseries, sought me out at the end of the final field exercise. "You know, Skipper," he said, "that thing—Semper Fidelis—I get it now. Thanks. And I won't let the Marine Corps down." He didn't, and neither did the hundreds of people behind and before the cameras on The Pacific.
Training the Enemy
It is a given that war is hell, but it's combat—where a skilled enemy is just as anxious to kill you as you are to reciprocate—that makes it such a seminal experience.
That visceral reaction makes for riveting drama in war films. If the good guys are facing a gaggle of stuntmen who die too easily or never seem to actually maneuver or exercise sound military tactics, you might just as well buy a video game for all the reality you'll see on screen.
The most effective portrayals of combat derive from skilled adversaries rather than cartoon characters in enemy uniforms. This was a vital concern for The Pacific. Despite propaganda portrayals from the World War II period, Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) soldiers were anything but cartoons. Just ask any Pacific combat veteran. To effectively communicate the jeopardy and the difficulties encountered by our forces facing tenacious and dedicated Japanese forces, we needed an on-screen enemy who demonstrated those characteristics. Fortunately, we had on our standby cadre roster three subject experts who had helped us train Japanese forces in previous projects such as The Great Raid, and we alerted them for immediate activation prior to filming in Australia.
After selecting 30 young Asian men to portray Japanese soldiers in The Pacific's battle sequences, we called on Brad Hartsell, a former Marine who has spent years studying the IJA and scouring Pacific battlefields. His assistants were Yuki Nagashima, an Australian school teacher, and Yutaka Izumihara, a popular Japanese actor. Both men have made extensive studies of Japanese Army philosophies, weapons, and tactics. The trio hammered out a training schedule for their troops that paralleled ours in basic instruction but differed radically in the approach to teaching. With the Japanese trainees, the Code of Bushido trumped all other considerations.
All training for the IJA force was conducted in Japanese, and the emphasis was always on offensive maneuvers. The unit learned quickly, and by the second week of training they were regularly springing effective ambushes from camouflaged jungle positions. At one point, I had to put the brakes on Hartsell, as his guys were too often—and too effectively—infiltrating our lines. Fortunately, the Japanese unit had a couple of excellent cooks in its ranks. Rice, which they boiled and spiced, served as their ration staple. Toward the end of field training I also had to forbid our Marine cadre NCOs from sneaking over to the Japanese camp for a meal with the enemy.
Those 30 IJA soldiers stayed with us throughout the long shooting schedule and never failed to reinforce the jeopardy real Marines faced in Pacific battles. We disguised them by changing uniforms and equipment configurations and staying away from radical close-ups, but for the most part, you'll see the same Japanese soldiers effectively fighting from Guadalcanal to the last battles on Okinawa. What they lacked in numbers they made up for in martial spirit. Their ancestors would be proud.


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The 5 Most Ridiculous Attempts to Reinvent Superheroes
#2. Hulk Is a Force of Nature, Perverts Laws of Nature
Bruce Banner was a jellyfish with the brain of a nuclear physicist, until the day he grew enough backbone to save a stranger from a bomb he'd made. For his courage, he was rewarded with a lifetime of hatred and self-loathing, and the inability to speak in the first person whenever he got crabby. Over the years, the Incredible Hulk has had a few skin color changes and a range of smarts to complement his rage, but generally Hulk storylines followed a pretty basic formula: Banner was smart, then he was angry, then he was Hulk and you didn't like him anymore. Standard Jekyll and Hyde stuff. Cue sad, Hulk-walking-away music and call it a night.
How It Got Ludicrous:
Or, hey, how about we make him a backward hillbilly raising a brood of inbred, cannibalistic mini-hulks?
That's right! This version of Hulk comes from Old Man Logan, an eight-issue series set in the apocalyptic wasteland of the future that centers on an old and tired Wolverine who vowed never to use his claws again. Old Wolverine just wants to spend the rest of his days in quiet, peaceful solitude, but a number of ridiculous comic-book-related shenanigans force him on a cross-country road trip that finds him coming up against a variety of enemies, including a whole clan of inbred, redneck mini-hulks born of the Hulk's unholy pillaging of his cousin She-Hulk.
I've thrown a lot at you just now, so I'll break it down a bit simpler: Hulk's cousin got Hulk horny (and you won't like Hulk when he's horny), and their incestuous union yielded a crop of backward-ass Hulk cannibals.
Science may never know if they're messed up from the radiation, the incest, or the bad parenting, but lord, it ain't good any which way. When Logan stalks out into the wasteland to scratch up rent money, the Hulk brood up and murders his whole family, leaving the corpses lying around like sun-bloated Pick Up Stix. That's enough for the low-key Logan's claws to finally come out, and he gives it back to every last green abomination.
After Wolverine wipes out all of the hulklings, Bruce Banner, the OG Hulk, EATS Wolverine.
And then Logan bursts back out of him like a goddamn Alien, because of course he did, and then he rides off into the sunset with the last remaining Hulk, a baby called Bruce Banner Jr.
So, a guy who just wants to live a peaceful life is thrown back into a life of violence when his family gets murdered and then he ends up with a green inbred monster baby and ... what's the moral of this comic? Who the hell knows? Just pray that it doesn't end up being the plot of Avengers 2.
#1. Deadpool Has Fleas
There's an Earth where Weapon X made Deadpool out of a dog instead of a Canadian hit man.
And everything about that idea is goddamn beautiful. I won't hear a word against it.
Brendan McGinley apprehended the Five Supervillains Too Lame to Be in a Man of Steel Movie. He also tweets news headlines from alternate futures at Twitter @Newsin20years.
For more comic characters ripped out of their time, see the 7 Comic Characters Who Outlasted the Trends That Made Them, or see Brendan's explanation of How Comics Work.


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- Premier League
Van Gaal: I'll make history at United
Louis van Gaal has pledged to make history at Manchester United after being confirmed as manager on a three-year contract and naming Ryan Giggs as his No.2.
The 62-year-old will take charge after the end of the Netherlands' World Cup campaign. He becomes the first non-British or Irish manager ever appointed at Old Trafford and replaces David Moyes, who was sacked on April 22 after his disastrous 10-month spell in charge.
"It was always a wish for me to work in the Premier League. To work as a manager for Manchester United, the biggest club in the world, makes me very proud," said Van Gaal. "I have managed in games at Old Trafford before and know what an incredible arena Old Trafford is and how passionate and knowledgeable the fans are. This club has big ambitions; I too have big ambitions. Together I'm sure we will make history."
Giggs: I'll learn from world-class Van Gaal
- Ryan Giggs believes he will receive a superb education in the world of football management from Louis van Gaal after agreeing to become the Dutchman's assistant at Manchester United.
- Read the full story here
Giggs' future at Old Trafford had been uncertain after he finished his four-game stint as interim manager following the sacking of Moyes but was offered the job of assistant manager by Van Gaal last week.
Also joining Van Gaal at United are Netherlands' goalkeeping coach Frans Hoek, as well as assistant coach Marcel Bout.
Announcing the appointments, United's executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward said: "In Louis van Gaal, we have secured the services of one of the outstanding managers in the game today. He has achieved many things in his career to date and Old Trafford provides him with a fitting stage on which to write new chapters in the Manchester United story.
"Everyone is very excited about this new phase in the club's history. His track record of success in winning leagues and cups across Europe throughout his career makes him the perfect choice for us.
"People know him as a larger than life character but I have also been extremely impressed by his intelligence, thoughtful approach to the role and his diligence. I'm looking forward to working with him."
Louis van Gaal managerial honours
- Ajax 1991-1997: 3 Eredivisie titles, KNVB Cup, Champions League, UEFA Cup and UEFA Super Cup
- Barcelona (twice): 1997-2000: 2 La Liga titles, Copa del Rey, UEFA Super Cup
- AZ: 2005-2009: Eredivisie
- Bayern Munich: 2009-2011: Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal, DFB-Supercup
Van Gaal emerged as the favourite immediately after Moyes' dismissal last month, with United keen to look at a range of candidates, which included Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti, but aware that it would be difficult to prise other managers away from elite clubs.
He meets United's demands for a manager with a winning track record and a history of dealing with major players. He has managed four other clubs, Ajax, Barcelona, AZ Alkmaar and Bayern Munich, winning the league title with all.
Van Gaal also has a close relationship with United's Robin van Persie, who did not enjoy life at Old Trafford under Moyes. The striker is Van Gaal's captain for the Netherlands and hinted at the weekend that he would be given the same responsibility at his club, ahead of Wayne Rooney.
Van Gaal, who won the Champions League with Ajax in 1995 and reached the final as Bayern manager in 2010, revealed at the beginning of May that he wanted to become the new manager at Old Trafford, but refused to answer any questions about the club during a press conference to unveil the Netherlands squad for the World Cup.
United, who endured their worst season for a quarter of a century, finished seventh and outside of the top four for the first time in the Premier League era.
They will also miss out on Champions League football for the first season in 19 years and European football altogether after failing to qualify for next season's Europa League. The cost of this and the Moyes' reign in lost income and compensation payments has been estimated at more than £50 million.
Van Gaal is expected to be given a large transfer budget, thought to be between £150 million and £200m, to spend while Bayern Munich winger Arjen Robben could be his first target.


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IBM unbuttons its DCS3700 NetApp-based box
Big Blue hard equipment can pump mighty streams
IBM has put its big data array on the table, the DCS3700, OEMed from NetApp and based on the Engenio E5400 box.
The DCS3700 is intended for scalable, data streaming applications in the high performance computing (HPC) – classic big data stuff for advanced engineering and design, oil and gas research, financial market applications, media streaming, and life sciences.
There is a 4U, dual active controller base unit containing 60 3.5-inch nearline 2TB SAS drives. There are four 6Gbit/s SAS host interfaces, two per controller, and optionally eight 8Gbit/s Fibre Channel ports.
The controller can have up to two, SAS-linked, expansion units, both 4U, 60-drive enclosures, taking total capacity to 360TB. IBM supplies the DS Storage Manager software along with Flash Copy for quick, logical, point-in-time copies of physical volumes, Volume Copy for physical copies of volumes, and Remote Mirroring.
The DCS3700 supports RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5, 6 and 10. The controllers have mirrored cache and there are redundant, hot-swappable components in the arrays, plus energy efficiency features like variable speed fans.
A couple of weeks ago, NetApp launched its E5400 – and this is the same product as IBM's. NetApp didn't mention expansion units at the time, but it did say the product provides up to 8GB/sec of throughput, has "five nines" availability and is managed by its SANtricity software.
IBM's announcement letter says: "It is IBM's current plan and intent to offer additional drive options for the DCS3700 in second half 2011, including high-performance disk drives." That could mean 10K drives.
The DCS3700 product is available from 27 May. IBM hasn't published pricing information yet. ®
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Swimming Pool Blog
by Mark Garcia July 19, 2013
How to Paint your Pool Deck or Patio
Now, I'm not necessarily speaking of painting your pool deck in multi-colored desert hues, but whatever floats your boat! Looks like a lot of work.
Most pool decks in the west and south are treated with a Kool Deck type of finish, which is a colored cementitious topcoat, splatter-sprayed onto plain concrete, then knocked down with a trowel, to create a travertine finish of irregular valleys and flat higher spots.
Stampcrete, shown above, is another popular surface, which uses templates to create impressions in concrete, is sometimes given a colored top coating of pool deck paint.
Pool deck colors fade over time and can be rejuvenated with a deck coating made specifically for pool deck surfaces, popular not just for pool decks, but also patios and sidewalks.
You don't need to have a Kool Deck to use pool deck coatings. Regular broom finished concrete can become stained or discolored, or just generally plain. Giving your pool deck a makeover is easy - just roll or spray it on.
Well, actually - not that easy - most of the work is in the preparation. For the most successful bond, the pool deck or patio needs to be cleaned very thoroughly before any painting is done - just like painting a pool. In fact, the prep is exactly the same as for pool painting. TSP - Acid - TSP.
Choosing Pool Deck Coating Color
If you are recoating a Kool Deck or Lace Deck coating, see our selection of pool deck coatings made by EZ Products to match Kool Deck colors by Mortex. Sand Buff (on the end, right side) was the biggest seller for Mortex, and also matches other colors by other textured deck product manufacturers, like Frontier, Miracote, Permacrete and SunDek.
For those of you not trying to match a previous color, or a textured concrete color, you can choose from several other colors by other deck coating manufacturers. Ramuc is a well respected pool paint and deck coatings manufacturer, that has been making technical coatings for over 50 years.
We carry the Ramuc line of acrylic deck coatings, in 3 colors. Acrylic deck coatings have the advantage of being able to apply onto a moist pool deck or patio, or in high humidity conditions. Epoxy coatingss require that the surface be very dry before you apply the coating to the concrete.
If you are looking for savings, try our private label brand, which is the same formulation as other nationally known brands, but is cheaper because it comes to us without marketing, sales or distribution costs. Poolcenter Deck and Patio Coatings come in 7 colors, 6 shown, plus white. It also contains non-skid, already mixed in.
White is best for indoor pools, or desert pools with few shade trees over the pool deck. If you have shade trees over the deck that create dark dirt deposits on your deck, a darker color may be best - to hide the dirt deposits.
If you have a problem with specks of algae growing in the low crevices of your textured pool deck, a darker color may also serve you better, and require less cleaning. Something like Buff Tan, Putty, or even Granite.
Preparation for Pool Deck Painting
To prepare the pool deck for a new coating, it must be as clean as possible. You'll need to assemble some supplies beforehand.
- Pressure washer of 2500-3500 psi.
- TSP (Tri Sodium Phosphate) to degrease the surface.
- Muriatic Acid or Sulfamic Acid to etch the surface (only if your deck is very smooth).
Pressure Washing: After removing all of the furniture and potted plants from the deck, start with a slow and careful pressure washing. Work from the pool edge toward the outer edge, to minimize the amount of dirt that sprays into the pool. If your have a cantilevered deck, don't for get to clean the edge also.
TIP: Keep the pressure washer off the edge of the pool deck while cleaning. It's likely that some grease, oil or gasoline may spill on the deck, and that's something to avoid. If not possible, use a mortar mixing tub, or other large plastic sled to house the pressure washer while you work.
TSP Wash: After pressure washing the entire deck, mix up TSP with hot water, (1 lb of TSP per Gallon) and slosh it around the deck with a firm bristled push broom or scrub brush - your pool brush could work, but it's best to use a brush with more surface area. Scrub hard, over every square inch to clean and remove any oils and dirt.
You can find both TSP and a good brush on a pole at a Home store, or you can find them here on Poolcenter.
Acid Washing: If your concrete is very smooth, like a garage floor, you should acid wash it with a 50% solution of muriatic acid added to water. Pour it on, brush it around, and hose it off within a few minutes. This will etch the surface to allow for a better bond.
Use lots of water when rinsing it off, to dilute it - or you can use a pH up product like soda ash, to neutralize the acid. Sprinkle 2 lbs of soda ash per gallon of acid before rinsing thoroughly. This is helpful to avoid damaging delicate plants (and ecosystems) around your pool deck area.
For most broom finished or textured pool decks, acid washing is not a necessary step in preparation before painting your pool deck.
Painting your Pool Deck
You can use a paint sprayer, but a low nap roller would probably be a better choice. For textured decks, you want to be sure that the coating doesn't puddle in the low spots, and a roller helps.
Use a 5 gallon bucket with a paint screen, it's a lot easier to move around than a paint tray, with much less chance of spilling.
TIP: I would advise to not paint precast coping stones. Give them a good pressure washing, but leave the deck coating for the deck. Coping stones don't hold deck coatings very well, and it looks awful when it begins to peel.
Deck coatings with a granular grit mixed in, for slip resistance, or added during mixing, need to be thoroughly mixed and re-mixed during painting, to prevent the grit from settling to the bottom. Stir it up every 5 minutes or so.
And, just roll on the paint, with smooth, even strokes. Two coats will give a longer lasting finish.
TIP(S): Be sure to wear clean shoes - and lock up the dogs! And - check the weather before you begin, to rule out thunderstorms or high winds.
Thanks for Reading!
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Police on Tuesday, November 28, announced the arrest of two individuals who reportedly attempted to rob two different branches of the Jordan National Bank in Amman. No injuries were reported.
The first incident, according to Amman Police Chief Brigadier General Bashir Majali, involved a 25-year-old student who attempted to cash a forged check by presenting someone else's identification cards.
When bank employees refused his request, Majali said, he drew a weapon, which later proved to be a toy gun, and waved it at the employees screaming: "I will shoot you and shoot myself."
In the meantime, the police official told the Jordan Times that security personnel inside the bank in addition to security forces guarding the bank surrounded the area and apprehended the student peacefully.
The second attempt occurred at the bank's Fourth Circle branch when a lottery salesperson monitoring the bank clients attempted to get away with $35,000.
"The lottery salesperson monitored one of the bank clients who was getting ready to deposit money and placed a pile of US currency on the counter. The lottery salesperson who came after him snatched the amount and fled," Majali said.
However, he added, security personnel and security forces captured the man before he was able to flee.
The police official praised bank employees and the bank's security personnel for their fast reaction and professionalism in dealing with the situation.
According to Majali, police have beefed up their surveillance of banks around the city following several attacks on banks last year. The chief said undercover patrol units had been placed near every bank.
He urged citizens to be cautious when carrying large amounts of money for deposit in banks or when withdrawing money.
"We call on citizens to conceal their money carefully and not to leave any in their cars," the official said. ― (Jordan Times)
By Rana Husseini
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- Boabite 3d - Wah-Software / Crystal Interactive Software, 1999(?).
Glide2x, 512x384, 640x400, 640x480, 800x600. Looks ok with nGlide 1.05 and a real Voodoo2 SLI.
Unfortunately can't play with nGlide, constant "move right-down is pressed" bug. The real Voodoo2 SLI and d3d are ok.
Grabbed from Old-Games.ru. The game was released in 1999 as the shareware so I'm not sure about this (2002) release.
P.S. Game need only the Win98VersionLie fix to run. But controls are still messed.
- Natural Fawn Killers (aka Natural Fawn Killers 3d) - The Gameplay Company, 1998.
Glide2x, 640x480. Works ok with a real Voodoo2 SLI.
Bugged in nGlide 1.05, wrong fog?
- Stunt GP - Team17 / Eon Digital Entertaiment, 2001.
Needs the EmulateSlowCPU ACT fix.
Uses glide3x. Supports 512x384, 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1600x1200 resolutions. Supports(?) 32-bit resolutions.
Works ok with nGlide 1.05 and a real Voodoo2 SLI.


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A Designer's Nantucket Summer Home
It's back-and-forth for Susan Zises Green and her family between their neighboring Nantucket homes
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One famous and spirited Thanksgiving song declares that the way to grandmother's house is over the river and through the woods. But for New York interior designer Susan Zises Green, the trek involves far less rugged terrain. With only 20 steps between her own Nantucket back door and the summer home of her two children and their families, Susan interacts with her brood almost daily—and truth be told, she is typically the one making the visit.
Her beloved relationship with Nantucket started when she was introduced to the idyllic island as a young adult. So it seemed only natural that the storied New England destination, affectionately called "The Grey Lady" for its ubiquitous fog, would host subsequent generations of the family too. "I always tell my friends—New York is where I sleep, but Nantucket is where I live," Susan says.
The home's original wide pine floorboards gleam in the sun shining through the door's sidelights, which wear their own interior shutters.
Photography: Eric Roth
Produced by Estelle Bond Guralnick
Interior designer: Susan Zises Green, Susan Zises Green Inc. Interior Design & Decoration, 525 Seventh Ave., New York, NY 10018; 212/710-5388, susanzisesgreen.com.
Hanging light; console table; mirror above console; chair: antique.
Pair of hurricanes: Susan Zises Green Inc., susanzisesgreen.com.
Screens at door (unfinished wood): custom.
Delightful Entry
In 1995, a spontaneous real estate purchase left Susan with a tiny Nantucket weekend house that would have resulted in buyer's remorse for many, especially a designer with a vast inventory of treasured acquisitions. The house's limited square footage offered less-than-desirable accommodations for guests, namely her children and grandchildren. So, as mothers do, Susan found a solution.
"I asked the owners of the dilapidated and vacant house behind me if I could buy it, but they declined my offer," she says. "But three years later, they called to ask if I was still interested, and I said yes. I kept my house, and bought the house behind me for my kids—all over the phone!"
Tole flowers in painted clay pots line the stairway.
Carved post for stair railing (antique): original to house.
Wallpaper (#W3011-81, discontinued): Kravet, kravet.com.
Bird prints (antique): through Susan Zises Green Inc., susanzisesgreen.com.
Functional Table
When it came time to begin designing the interiors (Susan's renovation start date was based on when her children started having children—no pressure, of course), she was committed to incorporating the Americana she had collected for years. She understood, though, that decorating for young people meant a look that was a little cleaner, contemporary, and sleeker.
A functional round table with an iron base in the center of the living room provides a spot for dining or for Susan Zises Green's granddaughters to draw.
Paint ("Decorators White"): Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com.
Center table ("Chaparral Table" #515); chairs ("Russian Sunburst Chairs" #M-179, discontinued); chair-seat fabric ("Basic Linen Weave"/Alabaster #PHBL-103): McGuire, mcguirefurniture.com.
Snail statue on table (child's rocking horse, antique); tables flanking door (antique); mirrors; green vases: Susan Zises Green Inc., susanzisesgreen.com.
Area rug at entrance (antique): owner's collection.
Stylish Living Room
Case in point: the living room. The striking white, black, and gold palette was drawn from a church Susan visited years prior in Sicily. In her modernized interpretation, she complemented the arrangement of dark wicker furniture covered in white outdoor upholstery with a black-and-white wool rug of offset stripes. In need of a fashionable twist, she accented the furniture with pink pillows recycled from her New York apartment and black-dotted pillows that happily signal the relaxed attitude of the house. The antique ottoman marries the past with the present, showing off a floral hooked rug used to upholster its top. The center of the room transitions to a vibe that is ever-so-slightly formal, where symmetry is established from a round table flanked by a pair of Federal-style reproduction mirrors and antique marble-top tables.
Folk art, including a portrait by Sally Avery and a painting by William Hawkins, adds color to the living room's black-and-white scheme.
Wall paint ("Decorators White"): Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com.
Rattan sofa ("Toboggan"/Cordovan finish #WS 52, Jacques Garcia Collection, discontinued); chairs ("Toboggan"/Cordovan finish #WS 50, Jacques Garcia Collection, discontinued); fabric on sofas and chairs ("Basic Linen Weave"/Alabaster #PHBL103): McGuire Furniture, mcguirefurniture.com.
Pair of slipper chairs (Billy Baldwin chairs from 1960s): vintage.
Black-and-white pillows ("Double Dotty"): Peter Fasano, peterfasano.com.
Pink pillows (discontinued): Clarence House, clarencehouse.com.
Ottoman: antique.
Ottoman fabric, top: hooked rug.
Ottoman fabric, sides: original to ottoman.
Area rug: ABC Carpet & Home, abchome.com.
Chest: owner's collection.
Sailor statue (wooden statue of Lord Nelson): antique.
Art above chest (by Sally Avery); art behind console (Outsider Art by William Hawkins): owner's collection.
Pair of benches; console table: antique.
Lamps on console: Daniel Barney Antiques, danielbarney.com.
Chairs flanking console ("Russian Sunburst Chairs" #M-179, discontinued): McGuire, mcguirefurniture.com.
Spacious Kitchen
For this extended family who often entertains with catered parties, a sizable kitchen was imperative. A decrepit old barn on the property was beyond repair, but the area where it stood provided the necessary square footage to create a cavernous kitchen, pending approval from the Nantucket Historic District Commission to tear down the aging structure. Their assent allowed Susan to build the kitchen addition in that space. The architecture of the newly updated shiplap-walled room with soaring ceilings mimics the lines of the barn, so its history is not forgotten.
Susan discovered the wooden plaque bearing the word "lucky" at a local antiques show.
Soaring Ceiling
Crowned with a dramatic vaulted, stained-wood ceiling, the kitchen features white shiplap walls, an island topped with a single piece of wood found in upstate New York, and wicker furniture. The antique chandelier descends and rises via an electric winch.
Wall paint ("Decorators White"): Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com.
Finish on ceiling: custom stain.
Cabinetry (custom); sailboat shadow boxes (antique); chandelier (custom); side chairs: Susan Zises Green Inc., susanzisesgreen.com.
Sconces at window: Val Maitino Antiques, valmaitinoantiques.com.
Range: Wolf, subzero-wolf.com.
Dining table; host chair (copy of antique at the Nantucket Historical Association Museum); blue-and-white ginger jars (antique): owner's collection.
Dining Room
English oak chairs surround a white octagonal table in the adjoining dining space.
Dining table: Laurin Copen Antiques, laurincopenantiques.com.
Dining chairs: Ann-Morris, ann-morris.com.
Chandelier; console table; art above console (from Rafael Osona Auction, Nantucket): owner's collection.
Area rug (custom stenciled cowhide): Susan Zises Green Inc., susanzisesgreen.com.
Powder room
A collection of found objects adds to the personality of the home, from a pond boat that's moored on top of a cookbook cabinet in the kitchen, to vintage bathing suits framed and hung in the guest room, and metal silhouette candlesticks in the powder room.
The original attic floor was repurposed on the powder room's walls and ceiling. Mirrored sconces from Vaughan add sparkle to the rustic surfaces.
Wall tiles (wood shiplap): horizontal wood boards.
Sconces ("Tole & Mirror Wall Light"/Tortoiseshell #WA0068.TO): Vaughan, vaughandesigns.com.
Vanity cabinet (custom): Susan Zises Green Inc., susanzisesgreen.com.
Sink; faucets: Waterworks, waterworks.com.
Mirror: antique.
Upstairs Landing
An American-made hat stand displays straw hats against daintily-patterned wallpaper.
Wallpaper (#W3011-81, discontinued): Kravet, kravet.com.
Hat rack (antique); bird prints (antique): through Susan Zises Green Inc., susanzisesgreen.com.
Master Bedroom
Sweet pink accents rule in the master bedroom. The star of the show, however, is the shell-encrusted chest.
Wallpaper (hand-painted, custom): through Susan Zises Green Inc., susanzisesgreen.com.
Drapery: discontinued.
Drapery trim ("1.5-inch Cambridge Strie Braid"/Shrimp): Samuel & Sons, samuelandsons.com.
Chaise; floor lamp; throw on chair (antique quilt); orange side table (antique); candlesticks; art above chest (by Mellie Cooper): owner's collection.
Chaise fabric ("Shabby"/Impatience #F2484021): Pierre Frey, pierrefrey.com.
Pillow on chaise: D. Porthault, dporthaultparis.com.
Throw on chaise (custom, silk and mohair); table (antique); chair at table (antique); pink quilt (antique); blanket at end of bed (from India); shell-encrusted chest: through Susan Zises Green Inc., susanzisesgreen.com.
Chair-seat fabric ("Ceylan" #19336-275, discontinued): Zimmer + Rohde, zimmer-rohde.com.
Guest Room
"Low ceilings made this space a little jewel box," says Susan of the guest bedroom, which is wrapped in a black-and-white floral trellis pattern on the walls and ceiling with window panels and a bed skirt that match. A rush headboard from Pottery Barn adds natural texture. Vintage bathing suits and an imposing pond boat nod to life on the water.
Wallpaper ("Biscay"/Black Pearl #BR-69285.911); drapery and bed-skirt fabric ("Biscay Linen" #BR-79418, colorway discontinued): Brunschwig & Fils, brunschwig.com.
Drapery hardware (custom); area rug (custom): through Susan Zises Green Inc., susanzisesgreen.com.
Duvet and bed linens ("Mel"/Black on Ivory): Traditions by Pamela Kline, traditionslinens.com.
Blanket: Brahms Mount, brahmsmount.com.
Window shade: discontinued.
Headboard ("Corbin"): Pottery Barn, potterybarn.com.
Art behind bed: Artists Assoc. of Nantucket, nantucketarts.org.
Bedside chest; chair (antique); table; sailboat; framed bathing suits: owner's collection.
Table lamp ("Delft"): Christopher Spitzmiller, christopherspitzmiller.com.
Kids' Room
Playful color and pattern are appropriate in the grandkids' room. Children's artwork on the walls lends a happy touch.
Paint ("Decorators White"): Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com.
Drapery and bed-skirt fabric (custom): Tillett Textiles, t4fabrics.com.
Drapery trim ("1.5-inch French Grosgrain Ribbon #977-44932-246): Samuel & Sons, samuelandsons.com.
Drapery hardware (custom): through Susan Zises Green Inc., susanzisesgreen.com.
Bed quilts: antique.
Blankets at end of beds: Roberta Roller Rabbit, robertarollerrabbit.com.
Striped pillow shams; bedside table; green demilune (antique); figures on demilune; area rug: owner's collection.
Floral pillow shams ("Butterfly Island Cream" #DF-ST-SO-0009-0347, by Zoya Bograd): Rooms by Zoya B, roomsbyzoyab.com.
Nantucket Home
The Shaker-style summer house that Susan's children enjoy was built in the 1820s.
Now, years later, Susan's granddaughters walk to her house daily for morning tea parties, and she maintains her part-time office in her children's home. She can't imagine a more ideal situation.
"Being neighbors with my family is the ultimate luxury," Susan says. "We live in a world where people are stretched across the globe and families don't see each other as much as they want. I feel so blessed to have mine close."
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Advice From The World's Foremost Authority On Blogging
Not! Does anyone want my advice on blogging? Ok, good, I'll give you some advice: start by writing. It's always best to start your blog by writing something.
Now you might ask—write about what?
And that would be a good question. Well, if you are a real estate agent you might want to write about real estate. That's my first two pieces of advice—write, and write about real estate.
Seriously, if you are just starting or thinking about starting, there are a few things that might help. I will assume you're an agent writing to consumers, and I will assume you're not an experienced writer—otherwise you wouldn't need my great advice. I write on several blogs, some related to the real estate industry and some related to consumers, but writing to consumers is the business end of blogging and it's the main usefulness to you as an agent.
What are blogs good for?
They are good for informing consumers about your local market, about the real estate process in general, about market trends, about your services, about neighborhoods and listings and about how all this ties together.
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The Washington Post frames this as a contest between a wildly popular potential presidential candidate and a decidedly unpopular Congress, but that's not the real showdown coming on Capitol Hill today. It's going to be the battle between the popular hazy image of Hillary Clinton as the leading American woman in politics, and the reality of her bungled tenure at State as she gets pressed on the details of Benghazi and the assumptions of the Arab Spring that play into it.
However, she does have a big head start on that collision:
As she heads to Capitol Hill this morning to testify regarding the death of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, Hillary Clinton has something her former legislative colleagues lack: the broad support of the American public.
Fully 67 percent of all Americans in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll now express favorable views of the outgoing secretary of state, a record high in the survey for Clinton, albeit by a single percentage point. By contrast, just 19 percent of people said they approved of the way Congress was doing its job in a Post-ABC poll released last week.
Clinton has nearly unanimous support from fellow Democrats — 91 percent — in the new poll, also a career best. She also scores a gaudy 65 percent approval score among independents and more than one in three (37 percent) of Republicans believe she is doing a good job. That's more than double the number of Republicans who approve of the way President Obama is doing his job.
If I had to guess, that's because Republicans want to hang all of the blame for Benghazi on Obama, and Democrats don't want to hang it on anyone. But there are significant questions about what Hillary Clinton knew, and what she should have known, well before the attack on the Benghazi consulate that killed four Americans and drove the US out of eastern Libya. CNN reports on the tough questions Hillary will have to answer today in her last significant appearance as Secretary of State:
CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson took to Twitter last night to remind everyone that Hillary's State Department has refused to cooperate with FOIA requests intended to get to the bottom of Benghazi and Foggy Bottom:
Additionally, months ago, CBS News FOI'd Benghazi info from State Dept, CIA, FBI and Defense Dept. None has been provided.
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) January 22, 2013
Additionally, CBS News has repeatedly requested the promised surveillance video from Benghazi but it has not been provided. We've also asked for any White House photos taken that night, as well as an accounting of Pres. Obama's decisions and actions. None has been provided….At a press conference 11/14/12, President Obama stated that his Admin. has provided all info regarding 'what happened in Benghazi.'
Who made the decision not to convene the Counterterrorism Security Group (CSG) the night of the Benghazi attacks?
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) January 22, 2013
Who is the highest-ranking official who was aware of pre-911 security requests from US personnel in Libya?
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) January 22, 2013
Who is/are the official(s) responsible for removing reference to al-Qaeda from the original CIA notes?
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) January 22, 2013
Is anyone being held accountable for having no resources close enough to reach this high-threat area within 8+ hours on Sept. 11..
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) January 22, 2013
A Benghazi victim's family member stated that Mrs. Clinton told him she would find and arrest whoever made the anti-Islam video. ..
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) January 22, 2013
. Is this accurate? If so, what was Mrs. Clinton's understanding at the time of what would be the grounds for arrest?..
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) January 22, 2013
Maybe Congress can get Hillary Clinton to answer Attkisson's questions, because State has refused:
After repeated contacts, a White House official has indicated they will not be answering these questions.
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) January 22, 2013
Don't expect that high approval rating to last forever.


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Santa Barbara, Calif. – Friday night, the Gauchos fell short to the Pacific Tigers in five games (25-19, 22-25, 25-19, 17-25, 19-12).
With the loss, UCSB fell to 13-15, 6-7. The Tiger's win pushed their record to 19-8, 7-7. University of Pacific is now tied with Coastal Carolina for most five-game matches this season at 12.
Leading the Tigers, Anne-Sophie Bauer put down 9 kills in the second game, ending the night with 18. Megan Birch and Kat Schulz each picked up 15 kills.
As the Gauchos dominated the first game, Leah Sully led the way with 5 kills and 9 digs. However, they struggled to hold on as the Tigers pushed past them in game two.Everything came down to the final game. UCSB and Pacific traded games all night, foreshadowing the last points in the fifth game. Pacific took an early lead of 9-5, and at 9-13, it looked like the Tigers were going to run away with the match. However, the Gauchos would not let up. Leah Sully served the next 5 points and rallied her team up at 14-13.
The final game's excitement did not stop there. Tied fifteen all, both teams traded points up to 19-19. Alas, with a final few errors the Gauchos were unable to hold on, allowing Pacific to pull out a win at 19-21.
Despite the loss, Leah Sully had a spectacular night, including 26 kills and 28 digs. Even with a devastating service error in the final game, Katey Thompson was a major force for the Gauchos, putting up 17 kills and 14 digs.
Per usual, Taylor Formico's defense was on point. Picking up 32 digs, she ended the match with yet another 30 plus dig night. This was a historic night for Formico, as she set the UCSB Record for most digs in a single season. Previously, Chelsey Lowe held the record with 652 digs in 2011.
Even with the close loss, Coach Kathy Gregory focused on the positives of the night. "It's a tough loss, but they played their hearts out," she commented. "That's all what I wanted all season."
The Gauchos have another chance to play their hearts out Saturday night against UC Davis at the Thunderdome.