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I love it when they tell these kids to move to Seattle. Everybody tells them it's really cheap to live here, but in reality it's just as expensive as everywhere else and there aren't nearly as many jobs as you think there are. A majority of them end up being homeless. If you ever come here to visit be prepared for all the street kids asking for money to get back home!
Salt Lake is a nice city,,BUT,,facts are facts,,Your chances of getting any job,,you chances of living in a nice community,,are only good if,,,and this is a BIG,,,IF
"You Are Mormon",,,if you do not adhere to the Mormon faith,,,you WILL be an outcast and this comes from a lot of Mormons that I am friends with.
San Diego - well past its prime. Fun place, it is going to cost you. High living expenses. Gridlock traffic. And don't count on seeing beaches like in the slide. Weekends are wall to wall people looking for parking and a small spot to put down a towel.
Rents by the article's estimate are close to half of the stated income.
Jesse Walker
Another problem that you might not be aware of in Seattle is that the area is due for another 9.0 earthquake any day now too, as it has been 313 years since the last one that big, and there has been an earthquake of that size on a 300-year average for some time now too!
On the other hand, might I recommend Burlington, VT, as it is quite close to Canada, fairly liberal, and there is a virtually unlimited supply of fresh water there too! If you want a city where the salary that a college grad earns can afford the most house, also near fresh water, might I recommend Buffalo, Cleveland, or Detroit too!
College grads paid well @ $42K??? I averaged $57/year driving a semi from 1999-2009 without a college degree or any student loans, which actually had less buying power than the $30K that I earned doing the same thing in 1982 too!!! However, with freeway bridges collapsing all over America, I can understand why you might not want to be a truck driver too!
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Current stabilization methods for periprosthetic fractures of the distal femur have been inadequate in achieving sufficient fixation and can lead to complications rates as high as 29%. Therefore, the overall objective of this study was to design, manufacture and evaluate (experimentally and computationally) a novel plating method for improving the treatment of periprosthetic fractures of the distal femur.
Medial and lateral prototype plates were designed and manufactured based on the geometry of a synthetic femur and a femoral prosthesis. The two plates were linked via a compression screw and a small tab on each plate that inserts into pre-existing slots on the prosthesis to enhance rigidity of the construct. Synthetic femurs were used to assess the ability of the prototype plates to stabilize a periprosthetic fracture compared to a traditional single lateral plate. Each femur was subjected to a testing protocol that involved compressive and bending loading of the sample. The relative motion between the distal and proximal fragments during loading was then measured using both 2D and 3D motion tracking techniques. Both techniques revealed that the prototype bilateral plates were able to reduce motion of the fracture site compared to a single lateral plate.
The final objective concerned the development of a finite element model to represent the experimental testing. The fracture gap motion obtained from the final model did not completely agree with the experimental data; however, additional experimental measurements found that the majority of these differences could be attributed to simplification made at the tab-slot interaction. Despite the difference, the model represents a significant step forward in the simulation of periprosthetic fracture treatment, and further refinement would allow for optimization of the plate design.
Overall, the results of this thesis indicate that an alternative approach to treating periprosthetic fractures exists that is capable of improving fracture stabilization.
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Sweet Vermouth
Dry Vermouth
Triple Sec
Bourbon/Rye/Whiskey - all or at least pick 1
Grand Marnier
Add in a specialty liqueur such as Canton or St Germaine, though not essential,
A coffee liqueur (kahlua or tia maria) works really well in lots of cocktails.
We also use quite a lot of amaretto and Baileys.
Bourbon/Rye/Whiskey (only one at a time, unless we're throwing a party)
Dry vermouth
Sweet vermouth
In the summer, ours usually has tequila and St. Germaine, too.
Consider having separate brunch and dinner carts.
For brunch: truly excellent champagne (straight, mimosa, bellini, royale kir, black velvet); a mixing vodka for bloody marys and screwdrivers; melon, berry & orange cordials to add to soda water, wine or juice; and coffee set-ups - Irish whiskey (Jamesons or Bushmills), Kahlua, brandy (I like Courvoisier vsop)
For dinner - do you focus on delicate pre-dinner apertifs (Lillet) or studly cocktails (Rittenhouse Rye)? Like to serve elegant post-dinner cordials (Chartreuse), or offer shots of fine sipping liquor (Glenfiddich) or warm a snifter (Laressingle Armagnac), or do you want to mix [ modern ---tini | fruity tiki | prohibition era | mad men style] cocktails ?
I'd start with" what do you like to drink? My home bar is heavy on bourbon, rye, vermouth and bitters because Manhattans are my favorite cocktail. I also have vodka, gin, "ryed" cherries, and assorted other specialty liqueurs. I also have a lot of wine in the house.
But if you are a big mojito or margarita drinker, you'd want to go in a different direction.
I think garnishes and mixers can be more important than having a wide variety of liquors (other than gin and whiskey, Angostura bitters is my only other bar staple - and maybe Amaretto for coffee, as it doesn't go bad like Bailey's)
Limes, lemons
soda water (I <3 my Sodastream)
a variety of juices (grapefruit + whiskey is my recent favorite)
Simple syrup
maybe grenadine? (though I like sour stuff and find it too sweet except in extreme moderation)
Plus beer for anyone who doesn't go the hard liquor route.
I think vodka is a little boring, but you can add it to any liquid and get a cocktail, so that might be a runner-up on my list (and like the AbFab ladies I go for Stoli).
The most widely used items in my home bar include rum (spiced and white), vodka, brandy, triple sec, and lemon lime soda. With that, I can make a ton of things.
Our most widely used bottles are whiskey, baileys, vodka, and that's about it. We have extras, including tequila and triple sec for summertime, but that's the list of "if the world ends and there are no more liquor stores" staple collection.
We wanted to build up a cabinet this past year, and started by writing a list of everything we thought we might need. We budget a bottle a month, and pay attention to what we use and what we don't. Surprise! We never missed the gin. Surprise! We go through Baileys faster than either one of us would have thought. Surprise! Whiskey is perfect. We have variety ranging from sipping whiskey to well-drink quality.
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Have you ever had a near heart attack after getting a medical bill? It happened to me a few years ago after my daughter was thrown from a horse and ended up in the emergency room with a possible broken arm and collarbone. Turns out nothing was broken, thank goodness. But even though we had health insurance, the high deductible for emergency room care meant we received a bill for $2,500 to cover the X-rays and the brief conversation with the physician's assistant on duty.
I paid the bill, but now I feel like a bit of a sucker for not trying to negotiate. Turns out uncomplicated X-rays like she received should cost only a few hundred dollars. If I had been persistent, I may have been able to get the hospital to settle the bill for less. I should have at least tried.
Why are medical bills such a mess? Dr. David Belk, a practicing physician, has been delving into the issue and has revealed some surprising facts about medical bill madness on his website The True Cost of Healthcare. He shared some of these in a recent interview on my radio show, Talk Credit Radio. Following is an edited excerpt describing a few key things I learned from talking with him:
1. If you have insurance, you may be overpaying for your medication.
Don't assume your co-pay is the lowest price you can get for your medications. Belk explains why: "When you are talking about price, you can categorize medications into two types. There are brand-name medications for which a pharmaceutical company still has the patent. They're the only ones who can make it, and they can sell it for whatever they like. Until the patent runs out, nobody else can make it and so, regardless of the cost to produce the medication, they can just sell it for not what people will pay but what the market will bear.
"Then, there are generic medications. Keep in mind all these medications are very easy and inexpensive to make, and therefore they do that. And since anyone can make it and sell it, there's more of an open market for it. They sell these at only slightly more than what it cost to produce them.
"Most medications commonly prescribed today are generic. The interesting paradox is that your insurance co-pay may be more than you can get the medication for if you didn't use your insurance. And so, if your doctor gives you a prescription for Lisinopril, which is a standard blood-pressure medication that works just fine, your insurance co-pay might be $10 a month, whereas you can get a whole year's supply at Costco for about $20.
"The first thing when a patient comes into my office, I say, 'What medication are you on?' And they tell me. I ask, 'How much do you pay?' And they usually tell me, 'Oh, I get a good deal, my insurance lets me have it for $10 a month.' If I have a little bit of extra time that day, and I feel a little bit theatrical, I'll simply call Costco right in front of them and say, how much would you sell 365 (tablets) of this drug for? And they'll tell me something like $32.95 or $26.95. Really? $26.95 for a whole year? And the patient's jaw hits the ground.
"Sometimes, I'll give them six prescriptions because they're on six medications and I'll say, 'Take this to Costco, tell them you don't have insurance and see how much it costs.' And they get a whole year supply of six medications for less than their month's co-pay. It's usually a shocker, but it's my way of introducing the fact that there's a tremendous amount of deception in this business at all levels."
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2. Your doctor probably has no idea how much you're paying -- or how much he or she is being paid -- to see you.
Belk says physicians are often as much in the dark about your health care costs as you are. Here's why: "Your doctor probably has about 15 different -- or more -- insurance providers, all with their own arbitrary set of rules of what's covered, what's allowed, and how things are paid. They all pay you a different amount, each following their own system. (And by the way, no, I don't negotiate any of these with them. I just send them a bill and they send me a check.)
"Most doctors long ago gave up on this system because it is so complicated and difficult. They contract billing companies to do all of it for them. They hand the billing company a list of patients they saw and what are called 'superbills' with codes. The biller does all the billing, and does all the collecting and gives them a check. So they have no idea what individual services got paid or how much they were paid for them.
"My wife does my own billing, and I even do my own taxes. So, I know everything that goes in and everything that goes out. It was hard for me to figure it out. You literally have to look at each individual patient's payment to say, 'OK, this patient has Cigna, this patient has Blue Cross, and couple together the deductibles, co-pays, the co-insurance fee, the payment itself and say, for that visit, I got this much money.'
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ATTENTION NON_INSURED PEOPLE! can anyone out there tell me what they pay for a doctors visit.. Just a plain old internal med doc. i am asking because I use to have insurance and had a 25.00 co pay.. I now have no insurance and went to the same doctor and the bill was 125.00 I was wondering if that is the normal price or if I should find a cheaper doctor. She didnt even give me a full check up if you ask me.. took BP and gave me prescription refills.. NEVER checked my heart or anything else.. Hell i never had to sit on the table I just sat in the chair and chatted with her basically.. need opinions..
hi folks, let me just chime in. i'm a primary care doctor in private practice. i can't even begin to tell you how expensive it is to become a doctor and to open and run a private clinic. the problem is not with the doctors. you cannot blame them for trying to make money, or perhaps i should say you WOULD NOT blame them if you understood the incredible expense involved in running a doctor's office.
the problem is that insurance companies have lowered allowable amounts for reimbursement to the doctors so much that it's barely worth it anymore to keep your clinic open! and let's be frank if we're going to have this discussion. we (americans) are overweight and unhealthy. the cost to care for a society that doesn't care for itself is way too high so it's hard to blame the insurers either.
bottom line, get healthy. take care of yourself and guess what - you won't need to see the doctor. or else, become a doctor yourself and see the other side of this issue!
Wow, did this article hit a nerve. Medical professionals, clinics, hospitals and HMOs and other are ripping of patients like crazy every day. They simply announce what you will pay, could care less if the insurance covers it or if the procedures they charge for are even legal or valid.
A recent visit to the dentist proved that if we had not watched what they were charging us and relating it to what our insurance policy allowed it would cost thousand more. They simply do not care if they are overcharging. Their office management and staff maximize revenue; charge the highest they can get away with. When called on it they they back off quick knowing they are doing wrong and just do it the next ignorant or innocent victim. Never ever sign anything for proposed services or procedures while sitting in the dentist chair with their fist in your mouth and cannot ask questions or even grunt yes or no.
They were recommending things to do to my teeth that were unnecessary and incredibly upgrading every little procedure to generate as much cost as they could. What used to be covered before is now broken down into individual little steps they charge more for. You call them on it and they back off quickly as they know they are not giving you all the options available. A second opinion to them seems out of the question.
A close look at the procedures, options, coverage and non-covered items can save thousands of dollars for the patient. They take advantage of the elderly, the uniformed, and the cultural and other natures of the patients. And if you can not pay the bill they turn it over to an onerous and impersonal collection agency and book trips to Peru for hiking trips at your expense.
Of course there are good, ethical and honest professions medical services out their but they are become more and more cold about over charging to increase profits at your expense. If you do not look out for yourself no one will. Most other professionals do the same thing. There are a lot of sharks out there preying on targets of opportunity.
I went to a chiropractor, of course multiple time. I paid 15.00 to him with insurance. Insurance was billed 75.00. I can only go 20 times a year under insurance. After those 20 visits I told him that I wasn't under insurance and it cost me 30.00 for the same treatment.
So WTF, insurance is getting screwed, I'm getting screwed and I still need treatments.
Now I know it costs mega money to run a business and a doctor's office is very high in overhead.
But if everone paid the same amount more people could afford it.
It's like getting an airline ticket...... the guy next to you might have paid $200 more or less than you did.
Again WTF???
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They are called Sinai. They are built from the wreckage of some of my very favorite bands. Shane Rozum from Jealousy Curve and Nick Perri from Silvertide are joined by singer Tyler Gurwicz of the band The Urgency. With one of my very favorite drummers and one of the most impressive guitarists I've…
"The future's uncertain and the end is always near, alright. Let it roll, baby roll."
You hear that a lot. And it's cliché, redundant, and annoying as hell, but it's true. Yesterday I found out that one of my closest friends lost her baby.
Riddle me this… Alcoholics and drug addicts who neither seek nor receive any prenatal care often carry their child full term and have perfectly healthy children. They don't learn, they don't appreciate their children, and they keep using. But their kids are physically dandy. My friend who has been there for me since the second I met her, has the biggest heart ever, and really wants a baby, lost her baby. That makes no sense. But that's life I guess :(. Not cool, universe. Not cool.
But it made me think a lot. And yeah I'm upset, but when something like that happens, it makes you appreciate the people and things you love that much more. I love and appreciate a whole lot of people….
But on a happier note, today I finally got some of my mail that for some reason is still being shipped to my "father's" house. My paycheck from working the last few days of the year at tech school finally came in the mail!!!! Hello money I forgot I had!! Not to mention, not only did I pick up an extra shift tomorrow at my job that I totally LOVE, but I also acquired a second job. Only two or three nights a week, but hey, that's money.
All of this thinking has stirred up some more thinking, and some actual encouragement. I have four months until school starts. I'm working at a job I LOVE, and on Thursday I start a second job that should be pretty cool. I don't need anyone.
I mean, emotionally, of course I need the select few I love more than anything on the face of the earth. But, in all other respects, considering all other people… I don't need anyone. Other people are unreliable and usually untrustworthy.
I'm going to bust my ass the next four months, and I WILL get my license back AND get a car AND start putting money away for school, and I don't need you or you or you or you to do it because I know when I need it, you won't be there.
I'm going to earn everything I get, and I know that. And it's better that way. No one can or will ever take that away from me. No one.
"Is it making you nervous? What demons will surface? They laugh, trusting their faith in golden calves. They crack under the surface. Stay calm. Stay calm. Stay calm. Control, the worst of it's over, the world on your shoulders gone, replaced with love. Now it's safe to carry on. Control, the worst of it's over, the world on your shoulders gone, replaced with love There must be some peace in letting go. You wanna stop, you feel like the ceiling if fallin. You wanna stop, you feel like the ceiling is fallin. You wanna stop, you feel like the ceiling is fallin. You wanna stop, you feel like the ceiling is falling……. There's no need for this." -Jealousy Curve
queerlovesong said: no, don't worry. i'm not suicidal. and definitely not after my best friend tried to take her life.
Hey, sorry it took so long to get back to ypuyou. Glad you're not… sorry about your friend… I hope everything is ok. Hello by the way :)
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So, I haven't written in several days.
Friday was Mayhem fest <3. What is this, the ill-informed may ask? Why, it is an all day festival of loud heavy metal, half naked ugly people, half naked sexy people, drunk people observation, and mosh pits. Ohhh mosh pits how I love you so <3. My thinking was altered during Lamb of God, in a positive way, and I spent most of their set in pits, and part of Korn's. I came out relatively unscathed, for once.
Rob Zombie's set, however, was too engaging and visually enthralling for anyone to mosh. Seriously. I didn't see a single pit. They were my favorite of the day and FANTASTIC! Hence the title of this post ;).
Saturday… Oh boy <3. You know your family loves you when they pick you up because you randomly call in the middle of the day, they let you bring and wash two loads of laundry, AND feed you, and are still happy to see you. Wow <3. I feel loved :).
Sunday and today? Oy vey. I LOVE my job. No, seriously. I do. Sunday was CRAZY once the band got there… For three hours, the two of us were working no less than five tickets at a time. The whole time I was freaking out, thinking we're SO far behind, and one of the waitresses commended us on how efficient we were and that everything was going smoothly.
Then when the chef came back around quarter of 7, we were still pretty busy, but handling it just fine, and he just watched for a few minutes and went downstairs to do something. When the rush was over and I stocked everything up and put all in order, I went down to ask the chef if he needed anything else before I left since my shift was supposed to end two and a half hours prior… He told me what an great job Joe and I did keeping everything in order and banging out the tickets… Wow. And I LOVED doing it. It was great!!
So, I'm getting paid to do something I love, learn more about it every time I work, and gain some sort of confidence and sense of self worth? Um, cool!! I never thought I could do this. Sure as shit wanted to try, but didn't think I could. Now I know that I can and I LOVE IT!!!!
Today was great too. Unfortunately though, I only have one functional chef coat, and one missing four buttons (one on one side, three on the other) and I'm too poor to do laundry every day. So, I just finished sewing a mismatched button onto an old chef coat I acquired from a friend, vicariously through the school lol so I have a clean uniform tomorrow. Win.
I'm in a good place right now :). I love my friends, my family, and my job. Yay <3
I'm so excited!! I'm on my way to Mayhem Fest with Sara <3, Maria and John.
HELLO MOSH PITS! Corset? Check Plaid tripps? Check Star and peace sign? Check
Tongue ring care… Advil? Check Alcohol free mouth wash? Check Baby food? Check
Wooooo :)
"Who is that irresistable creature with an insatiable love of the dead??"
Rebecca jammed a needle through a clamp hole, through my tongue, through the other clamp hole, and then put a bar bell through it and then screwed the ball on.
I drooled on her leg. It was kind of hilarious actually. I spend the next 15 minutes pulling drool out of my mouth with napkins. Barely bled at all and she did a perfect job. I am impressed :)).
I love it. And now I sit and play with her daughter :). I love them <3
Happy :)
So yesterday I worked 10-5 and then took the train back, Sara picked me up, we got wrapping paper and a card, and I wrapped Richie's birthday presents on the way to his house… But I had fun with them :). Haha, I wrapped them all individually, and then put them all together and wrapped them again. Lol he opens it like "what is this??" haha!
It was SO good to finally see him and his family again. I haven't in like three weeks. It's feels good when people are happy to see me :). I love them all to bits yes yes.
Now… Off to work again 10-4, but let's see… Can I reinstate my license, get my car fixed or get a new one, and get my tattoo all before December 6th?? :). Let's see haha
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Yes, I've seen The Butler and thought it was a good movie, but I was actually disappointed with almost every Presidential portrayal in the film. As I think I previously mentioned, I understand that the Presidents are really minor characters in the film — a backdrop to the actual story — and, really, the institution of the Presidency is a bigger character in the film than the individual Presidents portrayed. But there was definitely some disappoint on my part in the performances.
Before seeing The Butler, I imagined that Robin Williams would be really good as President Eisenhower and that John Cusack as Nixon was probably the worst of the casting decisions. However, Cusack, in my opinion, ended up doing the best job of any of the actors playing the Presidents. None of the actors were doing impressions, but Cusack captured the sadness in Nixon really well.
Robin Williams as Eisenhower was terrible. I don't know who Williams studied for that role, but it wasn't General Eisenhower. Marsden was fine as JFK, but nothing spectacular. Schreiber as LBJ was definitely the most disappointing, in my view — not just because I'm an LBJ fanatic, but because it felt like Schreiber was mailing it in. I had figured that he would do a much better job, but his LBJ didn't feel like the larger-than-life character that President Johnson was. Rickman as Reagan was the next best performance after Cusack's Nixon. Reagan is often portrayed as a befuddled or distant character, but Rickman captured the human side of Reagan that is often overlooked (President Reagan really did send personal checks to people from time-to-time after reading of someone desperately in need of assistance).
Again, the film itself was really good and I recognize that the Presidents were only supporting characters, but I felt that the performances were uninspired.
I've been watching a few of the movies nominated for Best Picture Oscars and am I crazy in thinking that Gravity and American Hustle are both ridiculously overrated? I mean, Gravity looks cool, but so did Iron Man 3 and the Thor sequel.. And if American Hustle wins anything it ought to be due to the fact that Jennifer Lawrence is hilarious/great in the film. Don't get me wrong — I appreciate Christian Bale as "Macho Man" Randy Savage in American Hustle, but neither of these films belong in the same category as 12 Years a Slave.
Yes, several folks reminded me that I forgot Leiv Schreiber as LBJ in "The Butler". That's right, his performance as LBJ was so unremarkable that I forgot about it. The guy who has posted more about LBJ than any other President — the guy with an LBJ FOR THE USA campaign poster in his LIVING ROOM — totally forgot that it even happened.
I was disappointed by "The Butler". I thought Forrest Whittaker was good and Oprah was great, but I just thought the film was okay.
But I'm guessing you're wondering my thoughts about the Presidents in the movie?
The Presidents weren't a main part of the story, and they shouldn't have been. That's not what the film was about. I think that's why they were cast so strangely. I was looking forward to Robin Williams as Eisenhower, but he was the worst, by far. I think Robin thought he was playing Harry Truman or something because he wasn't Ike.
When I first heard about the actors playing Presidents in the film, I rolled my eyes at John Cusack as Nixon, but he was the best. No one else was even close to being as good as Cusack was. So, I'm sorry for doubting you, John Cusack.
The dude who played JFK was okay, but couldn't follow Rob Lowe's surprisingly awesome job in "Killing Kennedy". Alan Rickman wasn't bad as Reagan, but I was expecting more out of him. Were there any other Presidents in there? If so, they weren't very good.
The easy answer is Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln. I've been studying Lincoln all my life and before I sat in the theater and watched that movie, that's how I imagined Lincoln spoke and moved and acted. It was amazing. (And after Lincoln sat in this theatre, he decided not to go to any more plays.)
Another one is Frank Langella in Frost/Nixon. Now, Langella isn't impersonating Nixon in there. He's not really trying to do an impression of Nixon like Anthony Hopkins did in Oliver Stone's Nixon (another performance I really enjoyed for different reasons). But Langella got inside Nixon in a way that was just remarkable. There's a scene at the end of the film where Michael Sheen's David Frost character visits Nixon to say good-bye after they filmed the interviews. Nixon tells Frost, "You were a worthy opponent," because Nixon looked at everything in life like a battle.
Then Frost gives Nixon a pair of fancy shoes that Nixon had noticed Frost wearing in their first meeting. Nixon is touched and the humanity that Langella gives Nixon is just incredible. Then he talks to Frost privately and asks him if he enjoys all the parties that Frost goes to, and Frost is like, "Yeah, of course". And Langella/Nixon looks at him and says, "You got no idea how fortunate that makes you. You know? Liking people, and being liked…It kind of makes you wonder why I chose a life that hinged on being liked." At the end, as Nixon is all alone, and looking at the shoes that Frost gave him, and looking out at the ocean, the look on Langella's face (as Nixon) just breaks my heart. I'm not even a big Nixon fan, but that's a hell of a performance.
Lincoln is a must-see. I'd also highly recommend Killing Lincoln. I was hesitant to see Killing Lincoln because I thought it would be like one of those History Channel documentaries with the goofy reenactments, but it was awesome. The narration by Tom Hanks gives it a nice pacing and Jesse Johnson, the actor who portrayed John Wilkes Booth, is electric and steals every single scene he is in. And if it is accuracy that you are looking for, I'd say that Killing Lincoln is closer to being totally historically accurate than Lincoln was, but you can't miss out on Daniel Day-Lewis's performance as Lincoln (or Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus Stevens).
The miniseries about the Kennedys takes quite a bit of creative liberty. It's entertaining and the performances are really good, but if you're looking for something that is as close to 100% historically accurate as possible, that's not it. Honestly, nothing is going to be 100% historically accurate, so you just have to accept that some films or portrayals require composite characters or altered timelines in order to tell a solid story. HBO's John Adams miniseries is an absolute classic and had David McCullough as a lead consultant, but even that series takes some creative license. It's well worth checking out, though. Paul Giamatti is great as Adams, Stephen Dillane is even better (in my opinion) as Jefferson, and although he's only in a few scenes, I think somebody needs to finance a film in which David Morse plays Washington again.
I'm cycling through the rolodex of POTUS movies in my head, so if I miss one, I apologize.
I've always loved Oliver Stone's Nixon, but that REALLY takes some creative license. So does Frost/Nixon, but Frank Langella really captures an aspect of Nixon that is absolutely tremendous. The funny thing is that Langella's Nixon is completely different than Anthony Hopkins as Nixon, yet they both portray certain parts of Nixon's personality accurately. Again, both films stray from the exact historical record, but I enjoy both of them no matter what.
I haven't seen The Butler yet, but I've heard good things. Hyde Park on Hudson is okay and Bill Murray is good as FDR, but I felt like it was missing something. Thirteen Days is good. Gary Sinise does a pretty good job in Truman. Oliver Stone's W. tries to slap together every goofy thing that George W. Bush did or said in a couple of scenes just to squeeze them in the film, but Josh Brolin does pull off a pretty solid Bush. It's definitely not historically accurate, but I was surprised with W. because so many people thought it was a hit job on Bush. It wasn't completely flattering, but I thought it showed Bush as a guy who screwed around a lot when he was younger and then turned his life around and showed a determination and ambition that was actually kind of inspiring. Surprisingly, I've never seen Amistad, but I've heard Anthony Hopkins does a really good job as John Quincy Adams.
If you really want to watch some great films about Presidents that are 100% historically accurate, I'd highly recommend just picking up some of the PBS American Experience documentaries about Presidents. You cannot go wrong with American Experience. I bought a boxed set a while back called "The Presidents Collection" that features 10 different documentaries: Theodore Roosevelt (almost 4 hours long); Woodrow Wilson (nearly 3 hours long); FDR (over 4 hours); Truman (over 4 hours); The Kennedys (4 hours long); LBJ (nearly 4 hours long); Nixon (3 hours long); Jimmy Carter (3 hours long); Reagan (over 4 hours long); and George H.W. Bush (over 3 hours long). I also have individual documentaries from American Experience on Abraham Lincoln, The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, A House Divided: Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ulysses S. Grant, and the 4-hour-long Bill Clinton episode that was just released last year. In 2000, PBS released an awesome documentary called The American President with episodes highlighting every President from Washington to Clinton. Sure, feature films are fun, but nothing beats PBS and American Experience.
Gore Vidal's Lincoln: A Novel (BOOK•KINDLE) is one of my favorite books, even though it's actually a historical novel rather than non-fiction.
However, the film adaptation of the book is not good, to say the least. Sam Waterston (a real-life Lincoln history buff) isn't terrible as Abraham Lincoln, but if you see Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln and then go back and watch Waterston in the same role, it's just not fair.
I can't think of any others off the top of my head, but I'm sure there are a few other stinkers that my brain worked hard to forget about.
Random: Everyone has recommended There Will Be Blood to me for a very long time, and I finally watched it the other night. I'll probably get hammered for this, but I thought it sucked. And I thought Daniel Day-Lewis was totally overacting in it. It felt like Bill the Butcher from Gangs of New York had become an oilman (and I LOVED Gangs of New York, so no disrespect there). But, yeah, maybe I just wasn't in the right mindset for it, but it was a rare miss when it comes to the recommendations I get (and for DD-L), in my opinion.
Frost/Nixon was definitely a great movie. Frank Langella's portrayal of President Nixon was so compelling. Instead of ratcheting things up and making Nixon a caricature, Langella made some really subtle choices that sold the main themes of the film and humanized Nixon. After everything that Nixon had done, Langella's portrayal of him gave me some empathy for him. He deserved to lose the Presidency, he deeply wounded the country, and his actions destroyed any innocence Americans still had about their government and their leaders. But Langella showed the personal pain and sorrow that Nixon seemed to finally recognize literally in the middle of one of the interviews with David Frost.
Most remarkable to me was the end of the movie when Frost brings Nixon a pair of the expensive shoes that the former President had noticed Frost wearing at an earlier meeting. First of all, we caught a glimpse of what Nixon's exile was like. For most of us, being able to retire to a beautiful beachfront mansion in San Clemente would be paradise. But La Casa Pacifica was no La Casa Blanca. For all his faults, though, Nixon was a man of action. Like LBJ before him, Nixon had no idea what to do with all of the time in the world and no power, no problems to solve. Nor did he have many friends left. That moment where Frost gives Langella's Nixon the shoes is powerful because we see something interesting in Nixon's eyes — and this is where Langella deserves so much credit because he got the point across without saying or telegraphing a single thing. He sold the feeling with his subtle expressions.
Accepting the shoes, Nixon switches from wary to surprised to grateful. Paranoia destroyed his Presidency that paranoia seemed to wonder what Frost's endgame was. Was he spiking the football to rub his interview successes in? No, Frost was sincere and Nixon's appreciation added to the personal revelation, the sense of loss that Nixon had recognized during the interview. Not everybody was out to get him, even if they were on the other side of the aisle, or, in Frost's case, the other side of the interview set. It was as if Nixon finally took his own words — the impromptu remarks he made to White House staff before resigning — to heart. During that final speech, Nixon rambled at times, he choked back tears, he thanked the people he worked with, and he did what Richard Nixon had never done — he spoke from the heart and ended up giving the best speech of his life. Towards the end, he said, "Always give your best; never get discouraged; never be petty. Always remember others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself." The beauty of Frank Langella's performance in Frost/Nixon is that he gets all of those emotions or actions — shame, sorrow, regret, uncertainty, loneliness, and the beginnings of forgiveness — across in that one scene, and he does so with his eyes and his facial expressions. It's a magnificent bit of acting by Langella.
For the second part of your question, nothing can really vindicate Nixon for Watergate and his Administration's excesses, not even a masterful film portrayal by a great actor. Yet, Nixon is, and always has been, one of the more fascinating Presidents, in my opinion. The 20th Century was full of towering figures, good and bad, and Nixon is one of the tallest. His life took up most the century that would become known as the "American Century". He served the nation from World War II until his death, acting as a behind-the-scenes adviser to Presidents on foreign policy, particularly when it came to China and the Soviet Union/Russia. Richard Nixon did some dumb things, but he was a brilliant, brilliant leader who was capable of quickly grasping many difficult details and formulating a plan — often unilaterally — to tackle problems. Very few leaders of any kind of background have that unique capability.
People often recall how physically awkward Nixon was, and the White House taping system which helped bring down his Presidency certainly made the President sound like a boorish, insensitive asshole who disliked people and was thus a terrible politician. He may have been most of those things, but he wasn't a terrible politician. A terrible politician doesn't get elected to Congress at 33 years old, the U.S. Senate at 37, and get sworn in as Vice President of the United States just a few days after his 40th birthday. It's impossible for a bad politician to find himself on a national campaign ticket FIVE TIMES — twice successfully as General Eisenhower's Vice President and three times as the GOP's Presidential nominee.
As popular and appealing as John F. Kennedy was, Richard Nixon very nearly beat him in 1960 to become President. In fact, shady voting irregularities in Texas and Cook County, Illinois swung the election in JFK's favor. Many historians have a different description for those "irregularities": "voter fraud". Despite strong evidence that the election had been stolen from him, Nixon refused to contest the results. Most likely, there had been some "irregularities" on NIxon's side, too, and Nixon didn't want to open up that can of worms.
If Nixon wasn't a bad guy, he wasn't a good guy, either. I don't know that I like him, but he was an impressive man and, before he began the downward spiral of paranoia and vindictiveness which destroyed his Presidency, his gifts as a leader and as his own top diplomat were resulting in historic and positive relationships between the United States and much of the rest of the world. Nixon had all of the tools to be one of the great Presidents of all-time, but he brought it all down upon himself.
I have not only always thought that Franklin Pierce would be a perfect subject for some sort of dramatic interpretation, but I have considered writing it myself. In fact, I'm still considering it. It would be good as a movie or a mini-series, but I've been thinking for the past year or so about writing it as a stage play.
Pierce is one of, if not the, most obscure Presidents in American history, so it may seem like an odd choice, but there was so much heartbreak and tragedy in his life to match the triumphs (and there were remarkable triumphs) that there is a deep story there. It has some serious Shakespearean themes in it and that's as straightforward history without even dramatizing it or taking creative liberties.
There is something there with Pierce and I've been drawn to him for as long as I've been seriously studying the Presidents. One of my first publications as a Presidential historian was an essay for the New Hampshire Historical Society's Franklin Pierce Bicentennial Commission. I'm drawn to him, and I think I'll eventually make the jump.
•Oh, and I've mentioned this before even though it would never happen, but Johnny Depp was born to play President Pierce:
NO! I've been waiting for a theater within 40 miles of me to actually show Lincoln, but that hasn't happened and I haven't wanted to drive to St. Louis just to see it. I think I'm finally going to go to see it tonight, though. I'm dying to catch the movie. If I don't go tonight, I'll go tomorrow, but I'll be sure to let you guys know what I think.
That wasn't a purposeful slight or anything. I actually thought Brad Pitt was really good as Jesse James in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. He didn't go over the top and try to portray the outlaw as some misunderstood, good-hearted superhero. He got over the fact that Jesse James was violent, short-tempered, paranoid (with good reason, obviously), restless, and becoming increasingly unglued towards the end of his life.
To tell you the truth, Pitt's portrayal of James was easily the most historically accurate depiction of Jesse James that we've ever gotten. Dime novels mythologized the outlaw and the James-Younger gang in their own time and movies over the years have made him into a Robin Hood-like character who battled the railroads and never stole from the working people. While the film was an adaptation of Ron Hansen's excellent novel — which was historical fiction, but heavier on history than fiction, kind of like Gore Vidal's Lincoln (BOOK•KINDLE) — the Jesse James that Brad Pitt plays in the movie is basically the same person that T.J. Stiles describes in his biography of James.
The book that Stiles wrote, Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War (BOOK•KINDLE), is pure history and, unquestionably, the best book ever written about the famous outlaw. Stiles makes it clear that while James did become a folk hero of sorts and is definitely an appealing, intriguing character, he was also a murderer and, in many ways, a terrorist. I thought Brad Pitt's version of Jesse James showed those scars more than any other portrayal. While a lot of the credit certainly goes to the film's writers, Pitt made some great choices as an actor that demonstrated the tension and edginess in the complex personality of Jesse James.
Have I mentioned that I really enjoy The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford?
Once I started to think about my answer, this question became more difficult than I imagined because I realized there were some great historical movies or biopics to choose from.
Also, even though Steven Spielberg's Lincoln starring Daniel Day-Lewis hasn't been released and I obviously have not yet seen it, I actually considered putting it in my Top 5 solely because of my anticipation and high hopes.
Anyway, on to the Top 5 as it stands until November 16th.
1. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Not only is this my favorite historical film, but it's my favorite film overall. Jesse James is a fascinating figure in American history and always has been to me, even though I don't see him as a heroic, Robin Hood-type as he has been mythologized as. In this adaptation of Ron Hansen's book of the same name, the outlaw is portrayed perfectly, and Casey Affleck's creepy depiction of Robert Ford is cringe-inducing in all the right ways. Visually, the movie is beautiful, and the score by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis is absolutely perfect. In fact, the music is so good and so fitting that I don't think the film would have been as good as it is if not for the Cave/Ellis score. I am not one who rewatches movies — even those that I love — but I have to put this film on every few months or so. On top of everything, and despite the fact that it does take some creative liberties, it is about as historically accurate as you can ask for while still making the film completely engrossing. I'm certainly no film critic, but I think The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is an American masterpiece.
I should note that while I have a definitive, unquestionable favorite at the top of the list, the following four favorites aren't in any real order or ranking that distinguishes them from one another.
The King's Speech
When I first watched The King's Speech, I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. I knew that the film featured some amazing actors, but I never would have imagined that I'd watch a film about King George VI and his speech therapist and wish that it had been longer so that I could have spent more time in that world. The performances, unsurprisingly, were tremendous and, like The Assassination of Jesse James, the movie was a visual treat. I know nothing about cinematography or set design or costume design, but as I watched The King's Speech I knew that I was watching something very special that was augmented by extraordinary work in those aspects of filmmaking.
It's basically two separate movies, clocks in at nearly 5 hours long overall, and all of the dialogue is in Spanish, but Steven Soderbergh's biopic of the legendary Che Guevara is epic. Benicio Del Toro is really good as Che, even though Del Toro looks more like Fidel Castro. The issues that I have with the film are more about what was left out than what is in the movie. I felt that the second part, focusing on Che's ill-fated attempt at carrying the successes from the Cuban Revolution over to Bolivia really dragged, but it was an important part of Che's story. The first part, focusing on the Cuban Revolution, was awesome and the actor who played Fidel, Demian Bichir, was so good and so believable as Castro that I left wanting to see a Fidel biopic with Bichir in the starring role. Che is definitely not for everybody. It's a real commitment, but I have always had an inexplicable interest in Cuba and an affinity for its revolutionaries, so I loved it.
Gods and Generals
I believe that I am probably in the minority here, but I really enjoyed this 4-hour-long prequel to Gettysburg, particularly the performances of Robert Duvall as General Robert E. Lee and Stephen Lang as General Stonewall Jackson. I liked Gettysburg a lot, too, but Duvall replaced Martin Sheen (who had played General Lee in the first film but couldn't fit Gods and Generals into his West Wing filming schedule) in the prequel and, although I love Sheen and think he's a wonderful actor, Duvall was a better fit as Lee. Gettysburg and Gods and Generals are overly dramatized and not the greatest historical films made, but they are enjoyable to watch. Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan are monumental films — two of the greatest films that I have ever seen. But they are difficult to watch; they are difficult to "enjoy" in the same way that I enjoy a less intense film like Gods and Generals. It's obviously not the better film, but sometimes you don't want to make an emotional investment; you just want to relax.
(TIE) Nixon and Frost/Nixon
It's a total cop-out to have a tie in a Top 5 list where I already took the easy way out and didn't actually rank all of my favorites, but that's how I roll. Oliver Stone's Nixon and Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon are two very different movies and feature two very distinct portrayals of the 37th President, yet I equally appreciate and enjoy them. Stone's film takes far more creative license, but the final months of Nixon's Presidency were so crazy that it's a hell of a ride to watch them in Stone's film. Howard's adaptation of the play based on David Frost's post-Presidential interviews of Nixon is such a different story that it might as well feature different characters, let alone different actors. In their own way, however, each film captures Nixon really well, despite the different ways that Anthony Hopkins (Nixon) and Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon) portray the man. Hopkins totally nails the tenacity, the paranoia, the anger, and the frenetic final grasps at power that dominated Nixon's final 18 months in office. Langella is Nixon in exile, still trying to defend himself but eventually breaking down and finally admitting to himself that he failed at the same time he admits it to the world. While the performance of Hopkins is all about Nixon's outbursts and scheming, Langella actually humanizes Nixon through his subtle expressions, especially the downcast shadows that seem to overtake his features as he admits his failures, as if he just realized how disappointed he was in himself. The Hopkins Nixon is isolated because that was his style; the Langella Nixon is lonely because that was his punishment. Both movies have merit and both actors gave remarkable performances. I think the films actually complement each other.
Honorable Mention (as if a tie in my Top 5 wasn't a big enough cop-out):
•Elizabeth/Elizabeth: The Golden Age
•Apollo 13
•Letters From Iwo Jima (but definitely not Flags of Our Fathers, which was awful)
•Black Hawk Down
And about 50 other movies if I spend any more time on this question.


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From the current characters I can't really imagine any of them with Alex but I guess we'll have to see. I think the new OB could be promising for him though. I just feel that whoever Alex's next romantic relationship will be with, it should be for the long run. He deserves it.
I am with; sofilove123. I can only see him with Izzie.
But I really felt his chemistry with Lexie, but she is back with Mark now. I can see him with April. Mainly because she is single, he is single and she had a crush on him, and they almost got it on before he verbally abused her.
And with Shonda saying that 14 is her cast limit and she won't add anyone in, I don't see him being with the the OB/GYN for long - if there is a hook up at all though.
I could imagine that Shonda will have him unhappy and Single until the end, maybe there will be one or two short realatioship that will either end with the ass Alex ( like with Addison) or it will just go nowhere (like with Lexie) and then for Justins two or three last episodes she will try to get KH to guest star and they wil get together finally, after all she said that these two would be endgame.
I could imagine it like this, but I wouldn't be happy about it, but I don't think Shonda know what to do with Alex now that Izzie is away. Sometimes I wish Mer or Christina would be my favourite, they get at least screentime almost every episode and a reasonably good storyline.
I think that he won't find his "happily ever after" for a long time, too. Like he said himself.
And I hate it. I don't care what people say, but for me Alex has had the hardest life, by far. I mean...Mers wasn't easy, sue, she was abandoned and treated like crap by her own mother, father and later Derek, Izzie grew up in a trailerpark, Derek and Christina saw theit Dads die, this are all very bad childhoods, but Alex had an alcoholic, drug addicted father, whom he had to take watch out for since he was seven who was also absusive ( maybe even to him), a shizophrenic mother who he had to take care of ( who was suicidal?), a little brother and a little sister who he had to take care of like a parent, he stole for them, landed in juvie, became a forster child in 17 homes and even if he did all this, the people in his childhood told him that he was a screm up and would never bring it eo anything.
Then when he finally became a doctor his girfriend breaks up with him over an almost dead guy, and she did it the crulest possible way ( your not good enough for me, your not good enough for anyone...), I think that was way more cruel than everything he ever said (except the April thing maybe), then nis next girfriend has a histerical pregnany and tries to kill herself, his next girfriend, later wife, gets cancer and dies in his arms and she survives, but leaves him only weeks later, then he gets shot and almost dies...
So much crap to one guy it is too much ask that he will get to be happy for one whole season, I don't think so but Shonda seems to think otherwise , sadly.
thanks for lotte who made the well painted picture of alex's life. for all the crap he had to overcome and slowly learning to become a good man, i can see him potentially becoming chief of surgery in the far future... with that said... i think he should be given a seriously relationship with either someone new or a current character for a long while to only eventually not working out ...then when it gets closer to the series finally, izzie comes back and they realize they are perfect for each other.... remember his line to her when they were together and she was seeing dead denny...something like, "i think i can be a great doctor and that so so said i could even become chief one day but i don't want to do it without out, i want you there with me, etc etc...." lol those are definitely not the words he said but im sure you know what i mean... haha...that scene was so cute because he actually had passion for love, life, and his career at that time.....


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Dean gave a slight shiver; it was cold even with his coat. He'd been waiting to go home for a while now, and though he would miss his friends and Seamus, he wanted to go home to see his brothers and sisters.
He sighed. He'd wanted to get the drawing of the Giant Squid in the Lake before he left, but that just didn't happen. With everything going on, he'd missed his opportunity and it got much too cold to sit around outside drawing. Impossible more like. His fingers turned numb every time he went outside without his gloves and it was just impossible to draw with gloves on. He'll just have to wait until March or April or something before he fulfilled his promise.
He couldn't wait to get home, couldn't wait to see his family. Even if they were a bit annoying at times.
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And thank you everyone for your continued support.
Sorry if it's taking me a long time to get to your questions and messages, but I'm trying, just a bit overwhelmed.
You've arrived in Wonderland, that's good. Alice is dead, that's bad. You don't know who you are, that's the worst.
Do you have what it takes to get out of Wonderland, and more importantly, figure out who you are?
Just a note, this game is unappologetically hard with some of the puzzles. It's a puzzle game, it's not meant to be easy. However, SHOULD you need help, there is a friendly walkthrough button right in the game.
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I can't figure it out. I still think that its cool though, messege me what to do first and I'll probably get the rest. also messege me the name of the song.
Rated 3 / 5 stars August 7, 2014
Wow, this is a rather dark interpretation of Carrol's novels (of course, the name of the game was the biggest hint!). I'm really looking forward as to how this is going to develop.
Regarding the puzzles, the most annoying was the briefcase combination. Other than that, the gameplay was decent and the rest of the puzzles were not too bad.
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars July 29, 2014
not bad, confused me at first but i got it after
Rated 5 / 5 stars July 22, 2014
good game, took about 5 mins to beat. i still enjoyed it tho, good job. going through ur list of games now lol. continue the good work, i can tell ull be a fine developer with your first work.
Rated 5 / 5 stars July 6, 2014
I remember this game when it was originally released, but back then I never finished it.
It's very short, BUT the music, the creepy atmosphere, it all works so well. I can't wait to play Episode 2!


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The diamond is placed in the 7th position down from the post, the best place if you're only going to place one diamond in a hoop earring this size because that is where the light hits it the best. They're fine for a night out, nice and reflective. But don't buy these for your girlfriend unless you want to insult her.
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It is located at the northern wing of the Our Lady of Assumption and it provides six Internet-connected computers, and a television with local cable service as well as Filipino entertainment channels.
A friendly place, where caregivers can simply spend their leisure time, and meet with fellow caregivers especially, those who are verynew to Canada and do not have families or relatives.
The lounge is open during the hours of 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Sundays. There will be a staff from the church and the Grassroots Hub to assist lounge visitors.
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Seinen (Japanese for "young man" or "young men", and pronounced "ˈseɪ ˌnen", not "ˈsaɪ ˌnen") is a demographic designation of Anime and Manga targeted at male audiences aged 18 to 40. It is the older counterpart of Shōnen and effectively makes for the majority of anime in the older demographic, since major Josei manga titles rarely get adapted on screen. Compared to shonen, seinen caters to a much smaller viewing crowd, since younger audiences have much more time to spare on anime, which makes them a more attractive target, and thus is slightly less known.note Thanks to the older target audience, seinen shows tend to be much more sophisticated and mature than their shonen counterparts. Much more attention is paid to the plot and the interaction between characters than to action and fightsnote , which are the main attraction for most viewers, and the characters are well fleshed out. The latter trait often leads to confusion of seinen with Shōjo (Demographic) but the key difference is that seinen does not idealize romance, instead opting for more realistic and pragmatic approach to relationships. Realism is indeed the calling card of seinen shows, commonly earning them the acclaim for their depth and maturity and Multiple Demographic Appeal. A typical seinen protagonist can be of any gender and age (in stark contrast to shonen, whose protagonists are almost exclusively young and male), but tend to be young adults (like its target audience). Romance-wise, anything goes, from Romantic Two-Girl Friendship to obscure examples of Boys Love. In fact, Schoolgirl Lesbians are a distinctive trait of seinen, rarely if ever present in shonen shows. Relationships are portrayed in a less idealistic light than in shojo, with many grays and uncertainties like in Real Life, and don't tend to indulge the shonen over-simplification of "which heroine will be hooked up with the hero". There is a reverse side to this, too: ironically, seinen is most infamous for its sub-category of Improbably Female Cast and Harem Series that rely heavily on cutesy Moe Fanservice (again, juxtaposed to plain sex appeal of female characters in shonen) to attract viewers. These series tend to be on the opposite side of the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism from the grim type of seinen, instead being fluffy, heart-warming, and comedic. Recently, there has been a considerable influx of shojo fans into the seinen demographic, thanks to the latter's traditional thoroughness in relationships and, more importantly, general retraction from blatant fanservice. This migration was particularly paved by such Gateway Series as Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, Kanon, CLANNAD, and AIR due to its presence of female leads. There is also a small influx of shonen fans as well, thanks to the incorporation of dark seinen themes in many of the shonen works (such as Attack on Titan, Death Note, and Deadman Wonderland). Some of the anime stuff shown on [adult swim] and the revived Toonami is seinen, EXCLUDING the likes of InuYasha, Bleach, Soul Eater, S-CRY-ed, Naruto, IGPX Immortal Grand Prix, Detective Conan, Durarara!!, Samurai 7, Trinity Blood, Eureka Seven, One Piece, Fullmetal Alchemist, Death Note, Kekkaishi, Deadman Wonderland and (taking only the anime as reference) Neon Genesis Evangelionnote which are shonen, but have very Seinen type themes. Compare the Distaff Counterpart Josei, which is aimed at females of the same age.
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Street racing ring broken in Mint Hill
A street racing ring which Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police have had an eye for several weeks was broken up last night on I-485 in Mint Hill. Four of the guys were caught, while others got away.
Cross country ride bittersweet for Mint Hill man
In May, the Mint Hill Times profiled Jay Brosnan, a retired military man who lives with his wife off Lebanon Road. Brosnan was preparing for a cross country bicycle ride from Washington state to Maine over the summer, his second cross country ride since 2001. But this one did not go as smooth as his first. Continue reading
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools announced new rules and procedures for verifying student-athlete eligibility.
"I think we've moved to the next step," said Dr. Peter Gorman, CMS superintendent. "You can never resolve something that has on-going monitoring and compliance, you'll just continue to have to check on it."
CMS accepted every recommendation from the 24-member committee put together to tackle the system's eligibility issues during the last school year.
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I just laugh about it and smile it out, then get better or strategize. It's just like in martial arts, how most masters will thank their opponent who defeats them, for they have learned something new.
I just laugh about it and smile it out, then get better or strategize. It's just like in martial arts, how most masters will thank their opponent who defeats them, for they have learned something new.
Why does the idea of 'smiling something out' seem funny to me
thank you for punching me in the face
I don't know man, when I lose I get pretty angry (I don't throw shit to my opponents, but I become more agitated) and the more I get the better I play (specially in shooters where I become start becoming a head shot machine).
When I play shooters and I start getting agitated (by losing most of the time) I become more focus (I shoot a lot in the head), aware of sounds and move more quick.
The same for fighting games, I become more focus on the combos, my moves, the moves of my opponent and the other stuffs.
I lose most of the time when I get demoralized.
The majority of the games I play are shooters, and much like Clock said I get better the more mad I get. It seems like after I get mad I just want the other team to get as mad as I am, so I play better... Sometimes though I get mad and still suck and I have to stop playing for a couple minutes. I don't care if I lose in shooters, it's just when I'm playing something like CoD and I'm constantly being noobtubed and spawn killed that gets me mad.
Gaining focus when you become angry, I believe, has much more to do with you wanting to win at any cost. If somebody pisses you off, you suddenly have stakes. You don't want to lose to that guy.
Otherwise getting angry at games is completely worthless outside of sports and AVG style review humor. Not to mention the adrenaline crash that follows if you're super pissed.
I remember this one round in Halo where I was kicking turbo ass because we had the best guys...then I got bored and switched teams out of mercy...and still kicked ass. Then I got bored and stopped playing that server.
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