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What Was Your First Scary Movie? Dare To Rent It Tonight?
Do you remember your first scary movie? Did you watch it at a friend's house (perhaps even sneak it in somehow)? I can't quite remember the first scary movie I watched, but I do remember it was either a scene from Poltergeist or Nightmare on Elm St. Both times, I did my best opossum routine before sneaking out into the living room to see what everyone was up to. Both exposed me to some things I probably shouldn't have seen, and one still contributes to my fear of clowns. Do you dare rent your first scary movie tonight?
I haven't been bold enough to try and watch either of those movies again. If I did, I probably wouldn't find them so scary — being instead distracted by the dated and cheesy effects. But maybe not. There was something elemental in those films in that they both really tapped into common phobias and fears. Maybe my clown phobia (which I feel like I have a handle on) would creep right back in — and cause me to check under the bed before sleeping. Maybe I'd have a hard time falling asleep for fear of Freddie Krueger. Where these films really well done or did I just get exposed to them at too early of an age?
I was having dinner with a group of friends this weekend and we all talked about our first scary movie experience. Most of us, like myself, were too young for them at the time and a lot of us were weary about watching them again too — would it bring back suppressed fears?
Here's a list of some of those memorable scary movies, in case you dare to watch one tonight. Heck, even the trailers for them can be a bit haunting.
Nightmare on Elm Street
The Omen
Friday the 13th
The Shining
The Ring
Pet Cemetery
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My first time being terrified at a movie was Bambi, and the second was the Wizard of Oz. I'm not much better now.
I don't remember ... though I do remember one of my cousins reading parts of "Salem's Lot" to me. I was about 7 or 8 at the time.
I remember being afraid of the flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz, haha
As far as I can remember the first one I saw on TV was A Nightmare on Elm Street, which is still my favorite. The first one I saw on VHS was either Child's Play or Puppet Master 2, similar theme. The first one I saw in the theater was Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers. I've had a lifelong love of horror movies, but I can't really remember what started it.
I'd seen plenty of scary movies on TV as a young kid; but it wasn't until I went to a matinee alone at 14 to see "Prophecy", a movie about toxic mutant forest animals attacking and sometimes eating various folks including young campers, -that I couldn't sleep for days, and could not enjoy my first trip to Yosemite because of the raccoons...
ET scared the crap out of me (still does).
Pet Cemetery. Ugh.
'The Exorcist'. Scared the living s-t out of me then (I was about 8 - clearly not the right age to see it) and still scares me now.
Well, I'm probably the oldest person on this comment thread because I remember watching The Creature from the Black Lagoon on TV in black and white in the '60s and that REALLY scared me!
When I started going to the movies with friends, I think it was The Omen that took me over the edge...
I remember watching American Werewolf in London. I was MUCH too young to understand that it isn't actually a scary movie. I made it through the first werewolf attack and didn't sleep for MONTHS!
My dad was in A LOT of trouble :)
I love horror movies. I honestly don't remember being scared by any when I was a kid. @LyonStill I think you might be talking about Nosferatu, one of the oldest movies filmed in 1922. Classic. What I hate are the gore-fest movies. Like the Saw ones. Just gross for the sake of being gross. But they don't scare me, they just disgust me. My boyfriend's scary childhood movie was the Exorcist and it still freaks him out. Honestly, I think it's kind of funny and ridiculous.
What did scare me as a kid was a David Copperfield televised magic trick. But not the trick itself. He demonstrated what he was going to do with an artists mannequin and that thing with no face freaked me out to the core for some reason. Now I own two of them.
I saw Poltergeist and Pet Cemetery at sleep overs, so I was a bit older. When I was really little I remember being terrified of The Dark Crystal. The Skeksis freaked me out. They still kind of do, but it's a great movie.
I can't remember which I saw first, The Exorcist or The Shining. Both equally terrifying when you're 10 and under. But I do remember the family sitting and watching The Exorcist and the TV blowing! That was spooky to say the least!
It would have to be Stephen King's "IT". We (ahem) "rented" it last night, but it just didn't have the same punch that I remember. Tonight we're trying People Under the Stairs.
The Amityville Horror. My babysitter (stupidly) let me watch it when I was six. She also was not bright enough to keep an eye on the time so she could shut it off when my parents were expected home. The movie did not frighten me, but my mother sure terrified the babysitter when she saw what I was watching - it was the scene with blood pouring out of the walls ;P
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When I was a kid I saw the Disney movie Watcher in the Woods, I think it starred Bette Davis. Pretty dark and cult-y for a Disney movie! Anyone else remember that movie?
YES Andie. ET was the first movie I watched that truly scared me. I still will not watch it.
The Birds. I watched on TV with my mom. I started out sitting in a chair; finished up curled up next to her on the couch. A few years ago, while vacationing in California, I purposely filled the car up in Bodega Bay - without incident.
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Answer 2: No freakin' way.
The first "horror" movie I saw was probably Poltergeist. But that didn't bother me at all.
Now, Steven King's It, and the sequel. Saw those two with a stroke of genius with a couple of girls in middle school at a sleep over. We thought it'd be cool to watch them at midnight.
You can be damn sure, I'm never seeing those movies again! lol
The Exorcist at about 10 yrs old and I've never been the same. I still can't watch that movie.plus I still can't do horror or supernatural movies.
@HeidiJoe - Watcher's in the Woods scared me as a kid and honestly I never got over it. You will find zero decorative mirrors in my house because of that movie!
I remember the first truly scary movie I saw was the original War of the Worlds. It was the metallic humming sounds of the Martian spaceships along with their ray blast sounds turning people into skeletons that gave me nightmares.
The Haunting with Julie Harris, Clair Bloom, Richard Johnson and Russ Tamblyn, made in 1963, not that wretched 1999 remake with Liam Neeson, Lili Taylor, Owen Wilson and Katherine Zeta-Jones. Woo! Read the book (by Shirley Jackson) see the movie.
Saw lots of classic horror on TV (Lugosi, Karloff and awesome Hammer Studios movies) when I was a kid - loved it.
What sticks in my memory is my high school best friend inviting me over to help chaperone her 11yr old brother's slumber party. They were going to rent Monty Python & the Holy Grail (one of my faves). I got there and she said the video store was out of MP so they got The Texas Chainsaw Massacre instead. INSTEAD? What the what?
I had no idea what I was in for. /shudder
1) The tornado scene in The Wizard of Oz did it for me--I was about 4, so this was long before the devastationg 1965 storms--they were a nightmare come true.
2) Not even at gunpoint.
Alien - I was 8 years old and saw it in the theatres. Hooked on scary movies ever since.
Oh, we'll it's a bit dated and cheesy now but I recorded Blair Witch and Shining. After Sandy I may have had my fill of scary for the season though.
1967's Wait Until Dark with Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin. No creatures, ghosts, or special effects. Just sheer "someone's in the house!" terror.
The first time I remember being terrified by a movie was when I was about 6 and wandered in on my Grandpa watching V, the scene where the woman delivers the baby and it's a lizard thing and sticks its tongue out. Wouldn't sleep with my teddy bear for MONTHS. I'm 29 and my dad still teases me about it, especially when they had the new tv series recently. My bear could have been a lizard monster ok??!!
The first time I was scared as a "grown up" was watching Blair Witch Project at 14 or 15. High school friend and I watched it late at night, all the lights off, and ended up clutching each other for dear life for the last half hour of the movie. When it got to the scene with the guy standing in the corner of the basement, we couldn't stand it anymore and frantically turned it off. Realized the next morning that that was basically the end of the movie :-P Those types of "real" movies still are the worst as Paranormal Activity scared the crap out of me too.
I saw planet of the apes when I was about ten. As a resident of NYC, the ending scared me to no end!
Wasp Woman, a 1959 b&w horror tale was my first scary movie. A cosmetics exec discovers a substance taken from wasps offers eternal youth. Well, she used too much and turned into a wasp. When she appeared on the TV screen in a wasp get-up, five year-old me shrieked and ran from the room. Google "wasp woman" to see that image. I couldn't sleep for weeks. I rented the movie a few years ago and it proved to be laughable, of course, but children have no context and everything seems real.
I don't know the name of my adult scary movie. It was set in a summer camp and one of the counselors was lying on a cot and all of a sudden, an arm flung up from under the cot pinning the counselor's head to the cot and something pointy was forced through his neck from under the cot. Ack! I left the room and I don't want to see that again.
Yes! I totally remember that one...well, vague recollections that I used to find it pretty darn scary. I think I remember a scene where the old lady pushes one of the girls in a stream or something with a big branch?
My grade 4 school journal went a little something like this:
Me - I watched Poltergeist last night.
My teacher responds- Are you allowed to watch scary movies like that?
Me - Yes, I watched it with my parents.
I'm 32 now and I was at party with some old friends, who I hadn't seen in a long time, and what they remembered of me all these years laterwas that my parents were the ones that let us watch the scary movies.
i've been watching horror my whole life. can't possibly remember the first. it was likely aired as a weeknight special in the mid-70s. i am old enough to have seen the series "kolchak: the nightstalker" but not old enough to remember it at all. horror movies are wonderful. (torture movies are abominable.)
someone mentioned a sequel to stephen king's "it." there is no sequel. the movie was a two-part miniseries. the book is about 1100 pages of riveting mythos. there's no sequel to that either.
The Lady in White, where the kid gets locked in the coat closet at school overnight and sees a ghost girl re-enact her murder. So scary in 6th grade! Did watch it again not long ago and it wasn't a bad movie actually.
I'm a wuss and everyone who knows me, knows this. Somehow, and I don't know why, I began watching The Ring, all alone, in my apartment. My brother happened to call and I confessed what I was up to. He laughed and told me he didn't think that was a good movie for me. After we hung up, he called my Uncle and had him prank me with the whole "7 days" bit. Mean!
Friday the 13th part 6. I was 8 or 9, it was the '80s, and I watched it with my best friend and my sisters during a slumber party. I remember a scene where Jason was just going crazy killing these teenagers in a cabin, I mean, they were already dead and he was still going at it. That movie scared the CRAP out of me.
I WILL watch it again, only because I just found out that Tony Goldwyn was in it and I love him on Scandal.
Easy. It was the Ten Commandments.
Rent it TONIGHT? And let that bearded creep BACK into my nightmares???
The first horror movie I ever saw was Child's Play. I think I was around 3. I actually had a good guy doll even so it was a bit trippy. However now days I LOVE horror movies. I own all of the Child's Play movies. I haven't been scared or even jumped at a horror movie in over 17 years. But I still love them if not to laugh at how many times movies tend to kill the same person over and over in the same scene.
I don't know, possum, I remember The Boy With the Green Hair scaring the living daylights out of me on TV in the early 60s. Was that even a horror movie? My brothers & sisters forced me to watch it. I have always hated horror movies.
My (older) cousins made me watch Piranha and it scared the crap outta me. They also made me watch Red Dawn, which was ever scarier, because then I was afraid of a nuclear holocaust. Come to think of it, they were horrible babysitters.
A REALLY mean babysitter took me to see JAWS when I was four...Traumatized me but it is now one of my very favorites.
Scary movies were definitely forbidden fruit in my household as my mom hated them. As a result, two of the three kids are hardcore horror fanatics.
I used to watch silly monster movies from the 50s as a small kid but don't remember being scared, per se. But I remember the first time a movie image really frightened me and that image still haunts my dreams. I tried to track down the movie a few years ago (exorcism by exposure) and thought I had, but when I watched it, it wasn't the film I was looking for.
It was a black and white early 60s film. As I recall, the plot is basically young girls go to visit the creepy uncle of one of the girls who lives in a castle with a basement laboratory. Not a good idea. The friend of the niece disappears and the climatic scene shows the lab. The girl's head is in a box, all wired up but alive, and the mad scientist uncle says "Emma, move your arms," and then we see a wall of arms all wired up, which all flex back and forth in unison, along with other body parts and creepy things in jars. That whole image/concept freaked me the hell out and I never truly got over it.
But hey I still love scary movies. I watched FOUR yesterday. Of course I didn't sleep very well.
I cannot believe no one mentioned 'Carrie'. I was about 7-8 and it scared the hell out of me. I remained traumatised until I saw it again, when I was 26. 'The Exorcist' I tried to watch when I was 19 and I could not. Just the music creeps me, I cannot stand it.


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Seized Engine???
Seized Engine???
He picked up the car and drove it for about 4 days. The other morning on his way to work he said it started losing power and finally died. I went to take a look and it wouldn't turn over. Acted like the battery was dead, but it isn't.
He had it towed to a gas station and they are telling him the engine is seized. I asked my co-worker upon hearing this questions like "Was the temp rising?", "Did you heard any noises?", "Was the oil light on?", etc. He said the oil light came on just as the motor died, which is pretty much normal.
Although I haven't seen the car since the gas station mechanic looked at it, I'm still skeptical as to whether or not it is really seized since I've dealt with this mechanic and am not particularly impressed with him.
Has anyone ever seen a motor seize in such a peaceful manner?
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i dont really think it would suddenly seize up like that, although it might be possible, take the car elsewhere an get a second opinion, dont let the mechanic take you for a ride.
have someone else look at it and be sure before you do anything else.
Get a socket and a breaker bar on the crank nut and turn the engine (clockwise). If you can turn it with about 80 lbs of force, its not seized, If you can't turn it, its seized.
I've seen two saturns do this exact thing. One of them seized so hard that it broke the block... I don't just mean put a crack in the main web, I mean THE BLOCK BROKE. My friend was driving hers and it seized and all of a sudden was steaming like mad. It broke the block all the way up the water jacket on the front side up to about an inch from the head.
Edit: Realizing that its an OHC engine, it may have sheared the teeth off the timing belt letting it lose power over a few seconds, then seizing against a valve. If that's the case it will probably need at least a rebuilt head and possibly new pistons. It may have bent a rod or scored some bearings as well, so suffice it to say that if its seized, its probabaly junk. The cost of ther repairs will be triple what the car may be worth. If its not seized, its probably some weird electrical problem... but it sure sounds seized to me.
Thanks for the replies. I'm a pretty handy wrench myself, but just haven't had a chance to really look at it. He's having it towed to my house tomorrow, so I'll confirm the seizure thing this weekend.
I'm thinking of running over to the gas station tonight and putting the thing in 4th or 5th (it's a manual) and seeing if we can turn the motor by pushing it. We tried this in reverse (only direction we could go where it was stalled), but it's usually a chore to get one to turn the motor over in reverse or 1st gear. I've found 2nd isn't usually too easy either.
I've seen a bunch of engines seize, but never without at least a little noise or even violent activity. I'm wondering if it might not be something as simple as some corroded grounds since it sat outside for the year. Could explain both the no turnover condition and the power loss/stalling.
Curtis, are you saying both you saw broke the block, or one did and the other a silent death?
They have timing chains and I know from experience they do make noise if they are loose enough or worn enough to cause a jump or shearing of the cam sprocket. I still don't like the smell of the diagnoses simple because of the description of the events leading up to the stalling. Could be, but first I've heard of one seizing without any noise at all. He also told me a few minutes ago that when he rolled to a stop it was still in gear, so the motor had to be turning to some degree. It has a relatively new clutch, so I know that thing isn't slipping enough to make it feel like a normal in gear coast to a stop.
is it a manual or auto?
either way you can check yourself if the engine is seized, try turning the crank pulley with a wrench, if it turns, the engine is obviously not seized.
if it is a manual trans, checking for engine seizure is easier, just put the car in 5th and push it, if you can push the car in gear the engine is not seized.
i have had one car engine seize on me while driving, and no, it did not go quietly. the water pump went grenade on me (i could actually hear parts flying off) and then it lost power as the engine and auto trans. overheated and seized. this happened on the freeway, with no warning, (temp gauge had been long broken) and rather quickly. luckily, it was an auto and i was able to shift it into neutral and coast to the shoulder, a sudden seizure in a manual at freeway speeds could have been disasterous.
before i get flamed for not taking care of this problem before it killed the car i have to say that it was my sisters car and i had only borrowed it for the day. she didn't know there was a problem with her waterpump, so i didn't know.
ps- be carefull where you take the car to be worked on. some mechanics will see a huge $$$$$ sign over your head because of the potential for LOTS of hours of labor. in the case of the 90 corrola above, we knew it was time to cut our losses and part it out. we got her something new(er) rather than pay for an expensive rebuild or swap on that junkyard refugee.
good luck.
What is really starting to torque me is that everyone that knows this guy is treating me like I somehow screwed him. Now, don't ask me how this can be considering he has no money and can't afford to buy a car, I gave him the car trying to be a nice guy and told him everything I knew that was wrong with it. Hell, if he has to junk it the brand new tires are worth enough on Ebay or locally to cover what he paid for registering the thing.
He's been hinting today that I should cover the cost of repair. I should just shoot him and take the car back. Actually, any money he invested in it thus far is about what it would have cost him to get to work for the time he's been driving it anyway. What the hell is wrong with people?
Ok, rant over... until he says something really stupid about the car breaking.
what an ass.
some people, when you do something nice for them they think that you are thier bitch now.
you don't owe him shit.
Curtis, are you saying both you saw broke the block, or one did and the other a silent death?
They have timing chains and I know from experience they do make noise if they are loose enough or worn enough to cause a jump or shearing of the cam sprocket.
Just the one broke. The other one must have just been losing oil pressure, but since the dummy light is only programmed to come on under something like 6 psi it did nothing to warn us. It could have been giving 7 psi when it needed 50 on the highway, but the light didn't come on. It just did like your situation; lost power, heat spiked, and within about 10 seconds was toast, but no block breakage. The one that belonged to my friend it was about 10 seconds, then a clunk and steam. It was a combo of a weak block design, localized intense heating, and the fact that one or two cylinders seized up while the other two were still chugging away caused enough twist to break it. And what a sight it was.
Without being able to actually examine the engine in question its hard to say what the exact cause is. I've seen a few vehicles that were labeled with the "siezed engine" monicker that turned out to be locked up FEAD (Front Engine Accessory Drive) components! Also a hydro-lock condition can "sieze" a engine with little warning. Fluid doesn't compress so any coolant, water, oil, or liquid fuel in the chamber can lock a engine. It could actually be a leaking head gskt that allowed coolant to leak into the cylinders (might be! :naughty: ) :2cents: If a hydro-lock occurs under certain conditions valve, head, piston, and rod damage can result so I'de advise your friend have the car checked by a qualified engine tech before spending money on repairs.
Well, it sure enough is seized, but don't know why right now. We're taking it to my house tonight and I'll see what I can find without ripping the motor apart, or maybe I will rip the motor apart. It would be great if it was as simple as coolant poring into a cylinder or something, but I never get this lucky.
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I removed the headset. The Dirt Band disappeared, replaced entirely by the classical composer. I spun around. The answer to my question was a small girl, concentrating, head down, on a grand piano in a nearby hallway.
It happened during my recent first look at the Musical Instrument Museum on the far north side of Phoenix.
The girl drew a small crowd--even a security guard was rapt.
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What an amazing place! I wondered if there is another like it. The answer seems to be probably not, at least in the United States.
The MIM isn't actually about the instruments--although there are 15,000 of them in its collection, representing about 200 countries. It is about music itself, in all its gloriously diverse forms, in all the countries of the world. Music is, after all. a language of its own, "The Language of the Soul," as the MIM's credo puts it.
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Admiral Dennis C. Blair, the newly confirmed Director of National Intelligence, presented the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday an overview of the global security threats facing the United States.
The global economic crisis ranks as the most dire threat to international stability, he said, because as economies falter, so does confidence in both markets and governments.
"Besides increased economic nationalism," Blair told lawmakers, "the most likely political fallout for U.S. interests will involve allies and friends not being able to fully meet their defense and humanitarian obligations."
The latter could hurt U.S. homeland security if refugees flow into the U.S. from the Caribbean, he said.
While the United States has made significant progress against al Qaeda globally, Blair said, the terrorist organization remains dangerous, especially in Yemen, East Africa, and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan. He also noted fears that al Qaeda could inspire homegrown attacks against the United States, although the threat is less severe than in Europe.
The "arc of instability," stretching from the Middle East to the edges of western South Asia, received the most attention from Blair.
Iran's regional ambitions marked by its nuclear program, its support of Hamas and Hezbollah, and its contempt for Israel present many security problems the United States. More broadly, Blair worried about Islamic radicals wresting anti-Israel credibility from moderate Arab governments, thereby fanning radicalism throughout the region and destabilizing those same regimes.
The one bright spot in the region is Iraq, Blair said, as the country continues to stabilize after the recent elections. Blair tempered his enthusiasm, however, saying the gains could be quickly lost.
Central South Asia, meanwhile, could slide into further instability if tensions fester between India and Pakistan after the Mumbai terrorist attacks, if the insurgency in Afghanistan continues, and if Pakistan does not deny al Qaeda and Taliban militants their safe haven in the FATA, Blair warned.
Moving further east, Blair noted that the "arc of instability" breaks down as global power shifts to Asia.
"East and South Asia are poised to become the long-term power centers of the world," Blair said. "China and India are restoring the positions they held in the Eighteenth Century when China produced approximately 30 percent and India 15 percent of the world's wealth."
Security challenges there, however, remain. China, like most developing countries, could face escalating internal instability if the global economic slowdown continues. Tensions between China and Taiwan still merit scrutiny, although diplomatic overtures hint at improved relations. China will continue to develop its naval capacities as its strives to project power beyond the South China Sea, Blair said.
In cyberspace, the United States remains vulnerable to attacks against its information infrastructure from hackers and nation states, predominately Russia and China, Blair said.
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Prominent Shiite and Sunni politicians called on Iraqi civilians to take up arms to defend themselves after a weekend of violence that claimed more than 220 lives, including 60 who died Sunday in a surge of bombings and shootings around Baghdad.
The calls reflect growing frustration with the inability of Iraqi security forces to prevent extremist attacks.
The weekend deaths included two American soldiers — one killed Sunday in a bombing on the western outskirts and Baghdad and another who died in combat Saturday in Salahuddin province north of the capital, the U.S. command said. Three soldiers were wounded in the Sunday blast.
Sunday's deadliest attack occurred when a bomb struck a truckload of newly recruited Iraqi soldiers on the outskirts of Baghdad, killing 15 soldiers and wounding 20, a police official at the nearest police station said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.
Also Sunday, two car bombs exploded near simultaneously in Baghdad's mostly Shiite Karradah district, killing eight people. The first detonated at 10:30 a.m., near a closed restaurant, destroying stalls and soft drink stands. Two passers-by were killed and eight wounded, a police official said.
About five minutes later, the second car exploded about a mile away near shops selling leather jackets and shoes. Six people were killed and seven wounded, said the official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
The Karradah area includes the offices of the Supreme Islamic Council in Iraq, the biggest Shiite party in parliament, and is considered among the safest parts of the capital.
Elsewhere, a bomb hidden under a car detonated Sunday at the entrance of Shorja market — a mostly Shiite area of central Baghdad that has been hit repeatedly by insurgents — killing three civilians and wounding five, police said.
Police also reported they found the bodies of 29 men Sunday scattered across Baghdad — presumed victims of sectarian death squads. Four other people were killed Sunday in separate shootings in Baghdad, police said on condition of anonymity because they were not supposed to release the information.
The string of attacks in the Iraqi capital showed that extremists can still unleash strikes in the city despite a relative lull in violence here in recent weeks amid the U.S. offensives in and around Baghdad.
But the bloodshed in the Baghdad area paled in comparison to the carnage Saturday, when a truck bomb devastated the public market in Armili, a town north of the capital whose inhabitants are mostly Shiites from the Turkoman ethnic minority.
There was still confusion over the death toll.
Two police officers — Col. Sherzad Abdullah and Col. Abbas Mohammed Amin — said 150 people were killed. Other officials out the death toll at 115. Abbas al-Bayati, a Shiite Turkoman lawmaker, told reporters in Baghdad that 130 had died.
Regardless of the precise figure, the attack was clearly among the deadliest in Iraq in months. It reinforced suspicions that al-Qaida extremists were moving north to less protected regions beyond the U.S. security crackdown in Baghdad and on the capital's northern doorstep.
During a press conference Sunday in Baghdad, al-Bayati criticized the security situation in Armili, saying its police force had only 30 members and that the Interior Ministry had finally responded to requests for reinforcements only two days before the attack.
In the absence of enough security forces, al-Bayati said authorities should help residents "arm themselves" or their own protection.
The call for civilians to take up arms in their own defense was echoed Sunday by the country's Sunni Arab vice president, Tariq al-Hashemi, who said all Iraqis must "pay the price" for terrorism.
"People have a right to expect from the government and security agencies protection for their lives, land, honor and property," al-Hashemi said in a statement. "But in the case of (their) inability, the people have no choice but to take up their own defense."
He said the government should provide communities with money, weapons and training and "regulate their use by rules of behavior."
Another prominent Sunni lawmaker, Adnan al-Dulaimi, said Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had failed to provide services and security but he stopped short of saying his followers would seek to topple the Shiite-led government.
"The situation has become terribly bad," al-Dulaimi told The Associated Press. "All options are open for us. We are going to study the situation thoroughly, and we are going to look into the possible measures which go with the interests of the Iraqi people. We will also consider whether to keep on with the government or not."
The idea of organizing local communities for their own defense has caught on here in recent months following the success of Sunni Arab tribes in Anbar province that took up arms to help drive al-Qaida from their towns and villages.
U.S. and Iraqi officials have said they hope to replicate the "Anbar model" elsewhere in the country, albeit under government supervision and control.
On Sunday, Lt. Gen. Ali Gheidan said the Iraqi army planned to raise volunteer forces in Diyala province, where U.S. and Iraqi forces have driven al-Qaida fighters from part of the capital of Baqouba. He said more than 3,800 volunteers had already been recruited.
"Their mission will be like the police, working under the Iraqi police," Gheidan told reporters. "They work as a protection for each area, and they will only be from the residents of that area. Their role is to hold onto territory after it has been cleansed by the military."
U.S. commanders have long believed the key to restoring security was the ability of Iraqi forces to hold on to areas cleared by American troops. Several senior U.S. officers have questioned whether the Iraqi police and army were capable of preventing insurgents from returning once the Americans had left.
Local defense forces would offer a way to compensate for weaknesses in the Iraqi police and army, but without careful controls, the system could backfire by promoting more militias in a country already awash in weapons.
Also Sunday, the British Defense Ministry announced the death of a British soldier who was wounded Saturday in the biggest British offensive against Shiite militias this year.
8 Responses to "Bloody weekend: 220+ dead in Iraq"
I guess this is the surge that Bush planned. Did he ever consider that it would kill so many others? Does he consider anything?
Why not clear out the American soldiers and let the Iraqis kill each other? Is oil worth this loss of lives? Where are our Generals? We know the Congress is not doing a thing about this. We know Bush and Cheney are not doing a thing and still we hesitate to remove our soldiers……why?
Do we have to go through this again and again and never learn anything from Vietnam and now Iraq?
If our government tries to put my grandson in harm's way, move over Cindy, Sandy will take your spot in Crawford. Bush musr stop this or be stopped himself. Where are his parents? Where is his milquetoast wife and kids?
Are we back in Rome under the great Caesar again? Do we ever learn from history? Is there no group of Christian Ministers who could convince Bush he is wrong to sacrifice our best and brightest men and women? We know the media is having a field day with the killings of our guys as it makes newspaper sales go up. We have all seen the glory and glint in the eyes of the MSNBC news hosts who take delight in telling us about the losses.
This is not a movie or televion show, it is actual loss of lives based on lies and manipulations of our leader and his rat pack of criminals. It makes me physically sick to realize that this is based on the evil actions of our President, who stepped up to flex his power over all of us.
We've seen this before and how Europe suffered under the same damn actions from Hitler. There is no moral to this story and will end up being the greatest tragedy in American history. Is there no one who can stop this madness?
Playing musical chairs in 2006 did nothing. NOTHING! Since when did the White House hold all the cards in every hand dealt? We cannot sit back and shrug this off another day. Our Generals should call for an immediate withdrawal. Get the guys out and we can sort out the details when they are home. Somebody put Bush in Airforce One and take him around the world until we are out of the Middle East.
Goddammit America belongs to us not some cowaredly nincompoop who struts his stuff msking little sense when he speaks. Don't harm him but make him watch what America will do for the citizens of the U.S.A.
"…because he was not authorized to talk to the media."
"…because they were not supposed to release the information."
And here I was wondering why we never hear any of that "good news" from Iraq. It's just something else that they're not supposed to talk about.
And all these people are dying why? Oh, right, I forgot. It's so they can have freedom.
Dam Jenifer D. I been ranting/screaming about Most Americans being clueless, selfish, mindless, braindead cosumers concerned mostly what their next purchase will be. Should I buy another HDTV, new car, bigger house? Only if it makes them "feel good" will they get involved or if they can get something for nothing.
Trying to get something for nothing is why this country is bankrupt a thousand times over. Bankruptcies and foreclousres are head for outer-space in numbers. We produce little, export very little and import almost everthing. This country has created "financial instruments of death" which go by names such as derivatives, subprime loans, CDOs..collaterlized debt obligations..on and on and on we go. Most of this so called "sophisticated investing" has now turn into toxic waste. In short, the money is GONE for good and we are talking trillions of dollars. This country is the leader is this global paper scam.
My immediate family are all brain dead except my sister. Try to tell them something about (political or financial issues) and they simply want believe it or don't want to hear it. They even get angry if I attempt to do so.
These last several generations of humoid creatures (still assuming their human) have grown up in a very different world than I grew up in. Values, honesty, hard work, family, love, caring about others……well its almost all gone now so why wast anymore words. Their are some of us here and elsewhere that still believe in truth and will never change in our hearts. We used to be the majority but now we are the minority and growing smaller as we die off.
When they call evil good and good evil……look out!!!!!
I have my suspicions that this so-called terrorism is government-manufactured; tailored to suit the needs of a group of megalomaniacs who wish to use fear to coerce the voting masses into surrendering their freedom and liberties for a false sense of security AND create a global empire for the United States, with their little buddy Israel keeping step with the big dogs.
Sure, the chimp and the corpulent toad are doing something alright; letting their dirty work take its toll on the world. Congress and the Senate are more worried about their own sorry skins than what the voters want anymore. America's founding fathers did leave provisions in the event tyranny raised its ugly, pimpled head; it's called the second amendment. The right to keep and bear arms.
What worries me the most right now is that my own immediate family in the U.S. doesn't care to know what's going on in the U.S. Government. They have their little inherited nest eggs and would prefer not to get involved. I'd say that sums up the way some people tend to view life; ignorance is bliss, that is, until Big Brother kicks down your door one morning and takes away everything you took for granted.
Nothing frustrates a military commander more than being given a mission that cannot be accomplished or will accomplish absolutely nothing. The problem has been explained unto infinity but from the troops point of view it comes down to how do you tell who the enemy is? They all look alike. And if we do get lucky and find some of the bad guys, they will be replaced with more of the same the minute we leave. Add to that the fact that there are multiple wars being waged at the same time PLUS individual vendettas.
We are fighting al Queda.
The sunnis and the shiites are at war with each other.
The sunnis and shiites are fighting an insurgent war against us.
And just about everyone has a personal reason to kill some other person.
Al Queda is indiscriminately killing anyone with car bombs, roadside bombs, and suicide bombers just to keep the shiites and sunnis mad at each other, both mad at the Iraqi government and mad at us, and the American people mad at Bush.
Now, with those conditions, the military cammander is given an order to go into a certain area, locate, and kill or arrest the bad guys. That should be al Queda. How do we identify them? They will be the ones with the bombs and/or materials to make them. Or the ones with guns. They will be muslim males over 12 years old. They will probably be the houses with no women and children in them. Maybe not. Oh Hell let's just kick all the doors in and maybe we will get lucky. 5 days, 2 dead Americans, and 5 wounded later, we have captured 5, killed 13, captured some bomb making stuff in one house, and really pissed off everyone in the neighborhood.
Tomorrow we start on the next neighborhood and the last one goes right back to what it was before we came through except everyone in it is gunning for us now because of what we did. We had the same problem in Vietnam except there was a lot more vegetation and hiding places.
This senario will continue as long as we are there and get worse every day. The only way to end it is to pull back to the Green Zone and our bases and let the Iraqis have it out until they get tired of killing each other. When that happens al Queda will be gone. The Iraqis know who they are and don't want them there if we aren't there. Without us involved, the Iraqis will find a way to settle their differences. As long as they have us to blame for everything it will go on forever.
This is Bush's solution and he could save face. He doesn't have to withdraw, just disengage. We are still there to keep Iran or anyone else out of it. He could even bring 30-40,000 troops home and make some points with the voters. Listen to your Military advisors Mr. Bush. We know what we are doing. Obviously, you don't.
We're in trouble because our system of government is outmoded for the dynamic times in which we live. Also people's values have changed in the past 218 years since this government was founded in 1789 with the signing of the U.S. Constitution. We need single term limits for the Presidency, the Senate, and the House which would preclude re-electioneering and all the associated wastage of money and criminality. Lobbying needs to be outlawed or severely curtailed. A quasi-parliamentary procedure implemented where "we the people" participate in a "vote of confidence" procedure halfway through all elected officials terms; ie., if they aren't cutting the mustard then we throw them out and put their office up to the election process mid-term. Still, they only serve one term.
These changes would give "we the people" a very dynamic and proactive hold on their collective necks while they are in office. They would be jumping to our tune and through our hoops and not to external influences as now.
Carl Nemo **==
This just totally boggles the mind.Didn't we learn these lessons forty years ago in the R.V.N.Our troops in a 360 degree war zone can't find a moments peace while chimp is back here cracking wise to a scripted and selected audience of N.G.'s. Chimp and his R.E.M.F.'s leisurely walking on the graves of the fallen and yet to fall have nearly pushed this old Vet over the edge.To think the Iraqis are any different than the A.R.V.N.'s is absolute madness.Congress has to act now,end it before our military is broken beyond repair.Bring them home and get on your knees to beg their forgiveness chimp. I'll wager that to a man they will say they never volunteered to support a losing cause perpetrated on lies by a cowardly draft dodging maniac. God save our soldiers…..
I used to be stunned when seeing large numbers of Americans standing to cheer Bush or Cheney, even in the most highly staged settings, but I have come to realize that most of those making up the crowds could not correctly answer any question put to them on one of Jay Leno's 'Jaywalking' bits.
They neither know nor care about the origins of our freedoms, so they cede them easily, and they "little note nor long remember" that Bush, Cheney & Friends, Inc. cede no rights, pivileges or blood in the imagined War on Global Terror.
The sheep give the wool, while the shearers take the profits.
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Comparing price forecast accuracy of natural gas models and futures markets
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Injury Crash on US 641 in Crittenden County, KY
Date of News Release: 03/09/2006
Crittenden County - Mary Ford age 23 of Marion, KY was operating a 1994 Oldsmobile northbound on US 641 when for an undetermined reason, the vehicle crossed the southbound lane and exited the roadway. The vehicle struck an earth embankment and overturned several times. Ford, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was ejected from the vehicle. The vehicle came to rest upright in a field off the southbound side of the roadway. Ford was transported by ambulance to the Crittenden County Hospital. She was later flown to the Vanderbilt Medical Center by PHI Air Ambulance. The crash remains under investigation by Tpr. Nick Rice. The Crittenden County Sheriff's Department, Crittenden County Fire & Rescue and Crittenden County EMS assisted at the scene.


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Last week, Republican Senators, along with a handful of their Democratic counterparts, rejected the Paycheck Fairness Act. Supporters of the bill claim that this measure would bring pay equality to women and minorities in the workforce. Whatever that means.
Despite the whining from the media and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, there is no need for another bill demanding equal pay for women. Overall, the average man in the workforce makes more than the average woman, but when you take everything into consideration, it's actually women that make more.
Statistics show that when all factors are considered -- experience, education, time on the job, etc. -- women make more money than their male counterparts. So why are women as a whole earning about 80% of what men are making?
Many factors go into determining the wage of an employee, and thanks to the Civil Rights Act, the Equal Pay Act, and Lily Ledbetter, gender is not one of those factors. Women are more typically the primary caregivers, and many choose to take time out of the workforce to stay home with the children. It's an admirable choice, and one that definitely qualifies as work, but expertly changing diapers with one hand or making the perfect playdate snack from a recipe you found on Pinterest isn't exactly something you'll put on your resume.
Even moms that work outside the home are usually the go-to person when the kids are sick, daycare is closed, or the nanny calls in sick. On average among fulltime workers (those working 35+ hours a week), men worked 8.2 hours while women only worked 7.8. Funny thing about employers – they like to pay people more when they work more.
Women are also more likely to pursue 'fulfilling' career paths, rather than one that will land them in a high-paying job. Women dominate the interior design field, and the average pay is less than $40,000 a year. Compare that to electrical engineering, where nine out of ten people with a degree in the field are male, and the average salary jumps to almost $80,000.
It's a great time to be a woman. We have so many options available to us; no one can keep us from getting an education, casting a vote, or choosing our own career paths. It's preciously that freedom that leads to the supposed wage gap. We are free to work flexible schedules without sacrificing motherhood, or to forgo the workforce entirely to stay home with the kids.
We don't need more legislation to combat paycheck unfairness, because the only thing 'unfair' about our paychecks is how much the government withholds for taxes.
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Carol, Why cant you just debate Jenny's points, instead of attacking her? I guess that is because you can't.
All public employees, which includes teachers, have salaries that are posted for the public to view. Anyone can see at any time what they make- it is no secret. Also, because of this, public schools pay on a sliding scale based upon multiple factors... pay is not something that is 'negotiated' by either a male or female teacher. If one was making more it was because they qualified differently.
I agree that in SOME jobs, companies view women as a bit of a hiring hazard. Statistically, however, this is supported time and time again. Companies have every right to do what is in their best interest to survive as well. But, in complaining about fairness- teachers should not be used as an example. It doesn't work that way... check out administrator pay, however- whole different ball game!
We still don't need a law to fix it- demand better from your employer, do a better job, or go somewhere else. If they don't treat you right, find different work. Particularly in those 'high power positions' where it is so obvious. If a female employer is as good or better than her male counterpart- there are good companies out there to work for.
What a load of crap.
I believe this bill was to allow women more time to file a discrimination suit.So when you discover you have been getting screwed for the last few years, you could file a lawsuit and not have it thrown out because you didn't complain with your first paycheck when you didn't know you were getting screwed.
Awesome points and very well written article! Nice job!
Why would you choose not to have children? Parenthood is way more fullfilling than any other "job".
Red herring. Gender pay gaps still prevail in same fields/industries. Try again.
To your argument that being a SAHM is a, what did you say... "admirable choice" [cough]? Uh, isn't that the mantra for conservatives... to stay in the kitchen and bedroom, barefoot and pregnant, where [we] belong??
That's right... there has never been, will never be, equal pay according your ideological lunacy. There should be a "special" tax just for that.


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panta ta ethne: ...neither male nor female...you are all one in Christ Jesus...
another very thoughtful seminarian blog. (thanks, kevin, for pointing me to it.) i like her measured approach to her topics. for those wanting less rant and more reason, check her out.
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The win in the final TCAL dual match sets up West to claim the TCAL title when teams meet once more at the league tournament on Feb. 11 at Tokay High in Lodi. With a 5-0 record in league duals, West can claim its second league title in a row with a win or with second place at the league tournament.
Both West and McNair were undefeated in league duals going into Tuesday's match. The team score was close for most of the night, coming down to the final matches in the heavyweight classes. It took a pin from Amrit Singh in the 195-pound match to help West catch up in the team score, and a pin from senior Matt Mahe in the 220-pound match put West in the lead.
"I felt confident. I knew I was going to come out with the win," Mahe said. "We were up, they were up. It was a good match all the way through. One of the best matches of my life, and in my senior year too."
With the team score at 34-30, McNair still had a chance to take the team match back with one more individual match to go. West senior Devon Hutchins, wrestling in the 285-pound class against Nicholas Cisneros, started with the advantage, got in trouble when Cisneros reversed on him, and Hutchins then scored a reversal on Cisneros and was able to get the pin with 23 seconds left in the first period.
Hutchins said it clear that the pressure was on him, and while he won it on a first-period pin, he knew going in that it would be one of his tougher matches this year.
"I give it up to Nick Cisneros. Just because I won it here doesn't mean he's less of a wrestler than me," Hutchins said, adding that he had to think fast when Cisneros had him at a disadvantage.
"I figured if he got me to the ground and tried to hold me, he was going to try some type of backward lateral or he was going to try to cut me down. As soon as he did, something clicked and I just flipped over and I caught him on his back. Once he was there I locked it in and held on," Hutchins said.
The pressure to keep winning matches and getting pins was on all of the Wolf Pack's wrestlers. While the 160-pound match was decided on a low score of 3-2, West junior Scott Romo had to find a way to take back the advantage over McNair's Viet Le in the second period, and the two struggled for an advantage through the third period, with Romo getting the winning point on an escape.
"I knew I could not lose," Romo said. "My team captain told me, 'You cannot get pinned.'"
West coach Carlos Salazar said that his team could have been better-prepared, but the Wolf Pack finished with a strong effort.
"I told them, leave everything that you have on the mat tonight. You don't take anything home, and it made me proud," he said.
West won eight of the 14 matches, including five by pin, one by major decision and two by decision. McNair won six matches, including four by pin and two by decision.
Wins for West were: Angel Castillo (106) pinned Brandon Tran in 3:20, Ulysses Juan (113) pinned Yo Vang in 3:21, Roy Bravo (126) beat Gary Thao on a 9-8 decision, Daniel Austin (145) beat Michael Ungab on a 12-4 major decision, Scott Romo (160) beat Viet Le on a 3-2 decision, Amrit Singh (195) pinned Elijah Cisneros in 3:56, Matt Mahe (220) pinned Josue Vega in 1:27, and Devon Hutchins (285) pinned Nicholas Cisneros in 1:37
Wins for McNair were: Andy Huynh (120) beat Michael Montoya on a 4-0 decision, Jared Ollenberger (132) pinned Lenin Priego in 1:49, Daniel Navarro Jr. (138) pinned Gabe Trujillo in 44 seconds, Angel Guerrero (152) beat Chris Maroulas on a 6-4 decision, James Wilson (170) pinned Antonio Orosco in 1:52, and Joseph Congraave (182) pinned Gilberto Sanchez in 2:30.
Junior varsity: McNair 64, West 10
West won two of the 14 matches and McNair won 11, including 10 by pin and one by major decision. The 106-pound match was a double forfeit.
Wins for West were: Daryn Higaki (145) beat Alexander Moran on an 11-3 major decision, and Isaac Martinez (160) pinned Eva Silva in 44 seconds.
Wins for McNair were: Roshan Suasin (113) pinned Ron Sasing in 5:05, John Yang (120) pinned Victor Villapando in 1:38, Joseph Yang (126) pinned Ryan Suboran in 1:21, Linda Esquivel (132) pinned Brian Estrada in 1:24, Brian Le (138) pinned Nate Bussey in 1:52, Aaron Enerio (152) beat Youseph Sameyee on a 22-8 major decision, Arturo Ortega (170) pinned Dallas Whelan in 1:57, Chris Hortizuela (182) pinned Manuel Figueroa in 39 seconds, Gerald Donaire (195) pinned Adrian Zepeda in 3:02, Chia Vang (220) pinned Reynaldo Alfaro in 54 seconds, and Anthony Bounhoum (285) pinned Jordan Jackson in 55 seconds.


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Jason Farley: Faculty Directory
Jason E. Farley, PhD, MPH, CRNP, FAAN
"It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement of a hospital that it should do the sick no harm." -Florence Nightingale in Notes on Hospitals, 1883
Dr. Jason Farley is both a Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing faculty member and a nurse practitioner in the Division of Infectious Diseases within the Johns Hopkins AIDS Service. He also holds an adjunct faculty appointment at Stellenbosch University in Cape Town, South Africa. His current research assesses the epidemiologic interactions of patients with HIV and drug resistance infections in both domestic and international settings. His projects include an evaluation of treatment outcomes in patients with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) with a high HIV/AIDS prevalence in South Africa in collaboration with the Medical Research Council of South Africa. His team of researchers recently completed a country-wide assessment of knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to infection control in hospitals in South Africa. The project successfully enrolled all 24 of the South African hospitals treating MDR-TB, and nearly 500 healthcare workers at these sites. In the U.S, he works to assess multidrug resistant Staphylococcus aureas (MRSA) colonization and infection among patients with HIV/AIDS in Maryland. He also is serving as the principal investigator on a grant exploring adherence to CVD guidelines in providers of HIV care within the Johns Hopkins AIDS Service and is a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Infection Control.


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When we begin taking care of the body and paying attention to its workings, we find ourselves focusing the mind, settling the breath, and learning much more about the nature of reality than we'd know by extraverted thinking alone. There are some things we just can't figure out with ordinary thinking.
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What Missouri lacks in size, they hope to make up for with outside shooting and athletic ability across the board.
"We're going to play to our strengths," Missouri head coach Cody Leonard expressed.
"I told them if we're holding the ball 20 seconds into the shot clock, we're probably wasting too much time. We need to get a shot up as quick as possible, and if you're open let it fly."
"I don't think we need to be afraid of their height," added Missouri guard Evie Miles.
"Clearly they're a lot taller than us, but as long as we run the floor and hit the shots that we take, we should be fine. "
One thing is clear, this team knows the challenge that awaits in less than 24 hours, but intimidation won't be a factor once the ball is in the air.
"Being competitive is part of an athletes nature," said Missouri guard Kaelyn Spratt.
"But having fun, I'll try to keep that in mind when I go into tomorrow's game."
It's an all-star game, and we're going to have fun, but once the competitive juices start flowing, everything will be fine," Leonard added.
"It's a game, we've got a good opponent we're going against, and we're going to see what happens."
The 30th annual McDonalds/Herald-Whig girls match-up tips-off at 5:00 PM on Saturday at Pepsi Arena, followed by the 29th annual boys game.
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OK, it's gotta be that time again - post your collection pics!
Posted 05 September 2006 - 01:23 AM
Posted 11 September 2006 - 04:06 PM
My small "collection" not including newer titles or SNES games. I might be sell the boxes to the left.
Posted 04 October 2006 - 04:42 AM
As you can tell, I try to keep stuff in order... makes finding things easier as well as checking to see if something is missing because my brothers took it.
I would like to believe that this is an exclusive faceplate to the Gamestop/EB Games manager's conference just held this past weekend. Although you can't see it from the picture, on the bottom it says 2006 Vendor Show.
My little shake space that is left for DVDs. I am really running out of room
There are still many PS1 games not pictured, I just have mostly the 2 CD cases out. I am hoping to have more pictures in the next few days.
The first empty case is a free copy of Metroid Prime: Hunters that I got, I'm still looking for some boxart to go along with it, or some ink for my printer to make the art. The next 2 are the DS download stations (Volume 1 and 2). I'm working on getting a complete set.
And this is my TV. 37" LCD Westinghouse that does up to 1080p. I've been lazy as of late and haven't hooked up my computer to the screen yet, but am planning on doing that sometime. I'll also be ready for when the PS3 becomes available after X-mas (and the 360 update for 1080p). Picture is horrible through the camera, but it does come through really nice.
EDIT: Got the Links working correctly on pictures.
444 Games and still more to come
Pictures of my Collection
Posted 04 October 2006 - 05:01 AM
Posted 04 October 2006 - 04:09 PM
Almost all of my RPG's for PS1
All the rest of the RPG's. These have the strategy guides. I'm working on getting guides for the other ones that I haven't played through yet.
All the rest of my PS1 games.
I don't have pictures of the rest of my collection, since I took these pictures specfically to show off PS1. Perhaps I should just get my whole collection in a series of pictures. Maybe next time.
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Posted 04 October 2006 - 11:35 PM
If Monkey King is on there, I think Herc's Adventures and Alundra 2 should be on there as well.
Alundra 2 is on there (first game of the first picture). Might have to look into Herc's Adventures.
Very impressive collection, Warner. Have you beaten all those RPGs, or do you just collect?
Some I have beaten, most I haven't even played. In time I will beat them all, but that's a task that will take me years and years to accomplish. As of right now, I have probably beaten 7 of the RPG's and 12 of the other one's. I'm trying to make it to where I beat 1 RPG a month, but having 1 full time and 1 part-time job and a family makes that a little difficult. Possible, but difficult.
Posted 05 October 2006 - 11:27 PM
SNES (many boxes to these games are in my closet)
NES (mostly loose carts)
GCN, NDS, and PSP
PSX, Sega CD, Sega Saturn, Genesis and Dreamcast.
A shoebox full of GB, GBC, GBA, and Virtual Boy games (boxes in closet)
Unfortunately with the new generation coming there is going to be a lot of moving around.
These are cropped down, but my camera has high resolution (10.1MP) so it's possible to read all of the labels.
Posted 05 October 2006 - 11:39 PM
I would like to believe that this is an exclusive faceplate to the Gamestop/EB Games manager's conference just held this past weekend. Although you can't see it from the picture, on the bottom it says 2006 Vendor Show.
Yep. I have the same faceplate. Pretty nifty.
Posted 06 October 2006 - 04:50 AM
GameCube and Wii games. Not pictured are the Odama and Zelda Four Swords boxes. Wii Sports and a Naruto 2 Demo Disc is also there next to WarioWare Smooth Moves.
PS2 and DS games. That little case in the middle holds various memory cards and stuff.
All my gaming-related photos can be found at my Flickr. Have to re-organize everything sooner or later.
Posted 25 October 2006 - 02:36 AM
Various odds and ends:
Systems (most of them):
Most of my games (cd's too)
Gamecube and more
PS1 and Dreamcast:
My Sig- courtesy of Moxio (thanks!)
Posted 25 October 2006 - 04:30 AM
Posted 25 October 2006 - 02:12 PM
danito: nice collection, but you should really clean up your room to make it look better. Also a TV stand would be good too, but otherwise good collection.
Yeah, but it's tough because I have so much stuff. Does anyone have a good idea as to how to clean up the systems, or atleast make them look better there? Haha and yeah, I do need a TV stand.
My Sig- courtesy of Moxio (thanks!)
Posted 25 October 2006 - 02:35 PM
Yeah, but it's tough because I have so much stuff. Does anyone have a good idea as to how to clean up the systems, or atleast make them look better there? Haha and yeah, I do need a TV stand.
Getting a rack is the best option... though getting a decent TV stand with some shelves on it would do the trick as well.
it was probably in there because I'm a flaming homosexual.
Posted 10 November 2006 - 08:34 PM
MAME Arcade Cabinet bought from fellow CAG screwkick.
Please excuse the boxes in the back, I'm still getting everything unpacked. And yes, G4 sucks!
75% of my collection. Missing Sega CD, GB, GBA, and Saturn games. They're in a box somewhere.
Collecting video games since 1986.
(List coming soon!)
Posted 10 November 2006 - 09:00 PM
My action/scifi novel, Still Man Fights, is available in paperback and e-book form at Amazon.com.
My new travelogue, Japan Chronicles: of Rock Gods and J-Pop Idols, is also on Amazon.com.
Posted 10 November 2006 - 10:38 PM
Your PS2 collection looks like mine without fighting games...
But what kind of camera do you have? 10 megapixels seems a bit excessive, I recently bought a Powershot S2IS and I don't think a camera could get better...
Posted 11 November 2006 - 12:17 AM
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Posted 13 November 2006 - 09:01 AM
some old school games I managed to salvage
all my shit, mostly movies
where I do my gaming
Posted 13 November 2006 - 03:11 PM
Nice XBR CRT! I have the same TV! What size is yours?
Got a good deal on it about five years ago. The picture quality is great, but the unit itself is enormous. And weighing in somewhere around 300 lbs. it's not the easiest thing to move.
Collecting video games since 1986.
(List coming soon!)
Posted 13 November 2006 - 05:02 PM
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Good eyes! The system selector (on top of the vcr) can only handle up to seven systems. So the seven newest consoles will stay in that room, hooked up and ready to go. The six older consoles will be moved to another room once I'm finished setting it up. I spent several hours yesterday setting up the "retro" room, which has a 27" SDTV. Perfect for those classic consoles. Have you ever seen an NES on an HDTV? It aint pretty. But the biggest issue has to do with peripherals. The 3-D glasses for the Master System and light guns for all the others will not work on an HDTV. So in the end there will be two rooms, one for current gen and one for classic. And yes, they will all be hooked up and ready to operate.
My only question is this... are each of those consoles ready to operate? What I mean is, if I pop open the glass and press the power button, will they turn on or do you have to dig out the power cables to hook up the system you want to play first?
Collecting video games since 1986.
(List coming soon!)
Posted 17 November 2006 - 06:10 AM
I got it from techtoysforless.com for 290.00 I think. it was over the summer.
Posted 22 November 2006 - 06:28 PM
First, my entire "gaming section" of my room.
View of my "entertainment center" (though I can hardly call it that, it's just a flatscreen Sony Wega 24" TV w/ a cheap Sony 5.1 sound system w/ DVD player and three game consoles).
The consoles, up close:
My two shelves (one entirely gaming, the other CDs/DVDs)
Top of the gaming shelf (mostly boxes from games I don't want to ruin)
PS2 games (1/2)
PS2 games (2/2) and Wii/360 games
GBA/DS games (uh...for some reason I can't condense these next few)
PS1 games
Posted 22 November 2006 - 06:40 PM
Posted 22 November 2006 - 09:02 PM
Alright, I finally got some.
A GBA clock!
Posted 22 November 2006 - 09:41 PM
A GBA clock!
Yep, I actually got it from a CAG along with some other stuff.
Posted 23 November 2006 - 01:36 AM
Here's one of the main ones:


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