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The last in the series of Christopher Nolan's Batman movies – the Dark Knight Rises – released in cinemas on July 20 and as a tie in with the movie Nokia has produced a limited edition version of the Lumia 900 called, unsurprisingly, the Dark Knight Rises Special Edition. The handset is currently available exclusively from Phones4u for free on a £26 a month contract.
First things first, what's the different between this Batphone version and the standard Lumia 900? Basically, what you get here is the Batman logo laser etched into the rear of the phone, an exclusive Dark Knight theme for the phone, and the Dark Knight app. The latter includes trailers, info on the movie and a rewards based game that's based around Foursquare check-ins. Other than that, the phone is pretty much identical to the normal Lumia 900.
If you've seen the Lumia 800, the Lumia 900's design won't come as much of surprise, as it essentially takes it's smaller sibling's styling and supersizes it in order to fit in a larger 4.3inch screen. The phone's body is essentially a single piece of polycarbonate with Gorilla glass covering the screen on the front. There's also a chrome badge on the rear that has the Nokia logo stamped on it and which also surrounds the camera lens and LED flash.
The round edges of the phone also make it more comfortable to hold than its more angular rivals, including the iPhone 4S. Overall, it's a very elegant design, and feels robust in a way that many Android phones don't. It's is relatively wide though, due to the larger screen, so if you have more petite hands you might find it slightly awkward to hold single-handed.
Also, there are a couple of other niggles. The microUSB port is slightly awkwardly sited at the top of the phone and the power button is on the right hand side, which is different to most other smartphones on the market.
Nevertheless, like all Windows Phones this one has a dedicated camera button – something that's sadly fast disappearing from other smartphones – and we love the way you can just hold down the camera button to quickly launch the camera even if you're in a different app or the phone is in standby. Naturally there's also a standard headphone jack at the top as well as volume up and down buttons on the right hand side.
As with all Windows Phone models there are also three touch button across the bottom f the screen with the Window button (essentially a home button) in the middle, the back button on the left and the search button on the right. These are nice and responsive to use and light up when the screen is on.
Speaking of the screen, it uses AMOLED technology rather than the more usual LCD display's that most smartphones rely on. The advantage of this is that it really is searingly bright when used indoors, but unlike some of the other OLED screens we've seen brightness levels thankfully don't drop off too much once you're outside. The increase in the size of the display over the screen on the Lumia 800 does give photos and videos more impact. However, it's still stuck at the regular 480 x 800 pixels, so essentially it's just enlarging what you get on all other current Windows Phone handsets.
Thankfully Nokia has moved away from the Pentile subpixel arrangement of the screen on the 800, which caused some graininess, especially when rendering smaller text. The Nokia Lumia 900's screen uses regular RGB subpixels instead and so text and graphics actually look a fair bit sharper. However, it's no match for the high resolution screens on the iPhone 4S or Galaxy S3. Also, the colours can look a bit overly saturated and there's a blue-ish tinge on whites – something that's very noticeable when you're viewing webpages as most of them have white backgrounds.
The Nokia Lumia 900 Dark Knight Rises Special Edition isn't exactly a beast when it comes to specs either. It relies on a relatively modest single core Snapdragon processor that runs a 1.4Ghz and is twinned with 512MB of RAM. There's also 16GB of storage space for apps, photos, videos and the like. As with the iPhone, this storage space is fixed because the phone doesn't have a microSD card slot. OK, so 16GB is probably enough for most people, but it's still annoying that you haven't got the flexibility to expand it using cheap memory cards in the way that you can on most Android phones.
£699.00. Seriously ?
£700? I... don't think so guys.
The 900 is around £360 just about everywhere.
Bruce Wayne wouldn't buy this phone
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The Smurfs (2011) - Animation | Comedy | Family
In faraway land, there is a village filled with mysterious creatures who have lived happily for hundreds of years. Until today. Now they'll have to escape to a world they've never imagined.
When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the tiny blue Smurfs out of their village, they tumble from their magical world and into ours. Papa Smurf, Clumsy, Smurfette, Grouchy, Brainy and Gutsy are sucked into a giant vortex, leading them to New York, where they befriend Patrick and Grace, a married and expectant couple who befriend them and allow them to stay in their apartment.
It seems the only way back is for Papa Smurf to figure out the magic spell required, but simple as this may seem, the evil Gargamel and his cat Azrael will do everything in their power to stop them. And when Papa Smurf is abducted, everyone will need to help out in order to save him.
Full of smurfy adventures and cute jokes, this family movie is full of action and wholesome messages for the kiddies about friendship and heroism. Complete with a star-studded cast including Katy Perry as Smurfette, Hank Azaria as Gargamel, and Neil Patrick Harris as Patrick.
Wizard – a man who practices magic
Tumble – fall without meaning to
Vortex – a spinning, magical doorway
Expectant – about to have a baby
Alexander Zapryagaev
wrote... il 20/06/2016 12:36:27
In Mississippi during the 1960s, racism and segregation is in full swing. This movie takes a look at what happens when a southern town's unspoken code of rules and behavior is shattered by three very different, extraordinary women who strike up an unlikely friendship.
Aibileen Clark (Viola Davis) is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son.
Minny Jackson (Octavia Spencer) is an African-American maid whose outspokenness has gotten her fired many times, but she makes up for this with her baking skills.
Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan (Emma Stone) is a young independent white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating from the University of Mississippi to find that her beloved childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. Although Skeeter's friends are all getting married and having children, her only desire is to become a respected writer.
When Skeeter's childhood friend Hilly comes up with the "Home Help Sanitation Initiative", a proposed bill to provide outdoor bathrooms for black help, she resolves to write a book exposing the ill treatment of coloured maids in white homes.
Despite the risks, the maids are gradually convinced to come forward with their stories, and a remarkable sisterhood emerges, instilling each woman with courage to transcend the lines that define them, and perhaps even bring about some major changes in society.
Deeply touching, appalling, and entertaining. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll be inspired.
Segregation – separation of white and coloured people
Outspoken – says more than one should
Proposed bill – a potential law
Resolve – to decide in a determined way
Remarkable – amazing, outside of the ordinary
Instill – to implant, introduce with consistent effort
Transcend – go beyond
Touching – moving emotionally
Appalling – horrific, terrible
wrote... il 10/11/2011 02:56:03
I saw this movie yesterday and i liked it so much.
It's not the end that I waited but it's a good movie with feelings. In French it's untitled "The feeling's colour".
Alsu Zamalieva
wrote... il 23/05/2013 15:11:24
it's a wonderful film! my husband didn't understand it, but i enjoyed it till the end))) must-see!
Alexander Zapryagaev
wrote... il 20/06/2016 12:36:29
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) - Action | Drama | Sci-Fi
This film is set in present day San Francisco, where man's own experiments with genetic engineering lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy.
Will Rodman is a San Francisco scientist who has been trying to develop a cure for Alzheimer's disease by testing a genetically engineeredretrovirus on chimpanzees. The virus mutates the chimpanzees, giving them a human level of intelligence. When one of his test subjects goes on a rampage, Will's boss gives orders to have the chimpanzees put down, but Will keeps one of the babies and raises him under the name of Caesar.
Will's father, an Alzheimer sufferer, tries a sample of the cure and his condition improves. However five years later his dementia returns, and in the confusion, the highly intelligent Caesar attacks a neighbour, and ends up in a cruel primate facility. When Caesar escapes and gains dominance over the other apes, all hell breaks loose. The other apes are exposed to a new powerful strain of the drug and the result is an enormous, angry army of highly intelligent and seriously pissed off primates.
And their plan appears to be world domination!
The action scenes are creatively spectacular, the story is evocative and engaging, and the movie is crafted with astonishingly effective motion CGI technology.
Genetic engineering – changing genetic material in a living thing
Onset – beginning
Supremacy – superiority, domination
Retrovirus – a virus that allows the genetic material of the host to be changed.
Mutate – change
Go on a rampage – to go crazy, in this case causing violence
Put down – killed
Dementia – loss of mental ability
Primate – monkes, apes, chimpanzees, baboons etc
All hell breaks loose – things become crazy and uncontrollable
Alexander Zapryagaev
wrote... il 20/06/2016 12:36:30
Life in a Day (2011) - Documentary
This extraordinary documentary film by Ridley Scott is a compilation of Youtube videos filmed on the same day in various locations around the world, by various people.
Youtube users sent in videos of themselves on July 24, 2010, and then Ridley Scott produced the film and edited the videos into a film, consisting of footage from some of the contributors. The completed film is 94 minutes 57 seconds long and includes scenes from 4,500 hours of footage in 80,000 submissions from 140 nations
Life in a Day is a historic cinematic experiment that attempts to capture what life looks like on one day, July 24th, 2010, around the entirety of the world. Thousands of hours of video were captured and then compiled to give a glimpse into what constitutes an average day amongst humanity.
This film is ultimately about connection; the connection of humans to one another and all of the mundane, regular, everyday things that we share despite our differences in culture, location, and upbringing. The fact that we all sleep. We all wake up in the morning. We all eat breakfast. We brush our teeth. We walk around. We smile. We love. We fear. We breathe. This film is an affirmation of the simple joys and sorrows that we experience merely as a result of living on this earth and being human. It is an affirmation of life at its rawest, truest, grittiest, and loveliest.
Birth, death, war, love, rejection, poverty, religion, family – all important topics are covered, compared, and contrasted in this unprecedented film.
Extraordinary – unusual, surprising, special
Compilation – collection, something made up of many parts
Footage – video, recording
Historic – historically important
Glimpse – a quick look
Unprecedented – first time, never been done before
wrote... il 17/10/2012 01:17:24
two weeks ago ,i had seen this documentary,a wery good film. Different people in different time, at different places, doing different things. Describes the real life.
wrote... il 17/10/2012 01:17:33
two weeks ago ,i had seen this documentary,a very good film. Different people in different time, at different places, doing different things. Describes the real life.
Alexander Zapryagaev
wrote... il 20/06/2016 12:36:34
Police Academy (1984) - Comedy | Crime
As a crime wave sweeps through a city that doesn't have enough police officers, the mayor decides that part of the problem may stem from overly restrictive qualifications for police officers, so she opens the door of the city's Police Academy to anyone who wants to join. Chief Henry Hurst does not agree with the mayor's decision.
Soon, the academy is overrun with misfits, including parking lot attendant Carey Mahoney, who has been arrested before. Captain Reed, a longtime friend of Mahoney's father, gives Mahoney the choice of taking the 14 week course and joining the force, or going to jail. Mahoney chooses the academy.
Karen Thompson is an attractive cadet whom Mahoney has his eyes on. Florist Moses Hightower is a mountain of a man who likes to tend flowers. And Larvell Jones has the ability to imitate the sound of virtually anything. Also in the academy are guy-magnet Debbie Callahan, squeaky voiced Laverne Hooks, gun loving Eugene Tackleberry, and Leslie Barbara, a cadet who has been picked on one too many times.
Befuddled Commandant Eric Lassard and his lackey, Lieutenant Thaddeus Harris, are not exactly thrilled with the new recruits. As Lassard and Harris try to wash their hands of them, Mahoney and his classmates become all the more determined to make good, even when one of the recruits accidentally starts a chain reaction of fights that lead to a riot in the city.
The result of this combination of unusual people is, of course, hilarious mayhem. This film proved so popular, it spawned 6 sequels!
Crime wave – a lot of crime at the same time
Sweep through the city – occur in many places
Overrun – with a lot
Misfits – people who are different or unusual
Tend – take care of, look after
Squeaky – high pitched, like a mouse or bird
Befuddled – perplexed, confused
Lackey – assistant, messenger
Chain reaction – when one thing leads to another, which leads to another, etc
Mayhem – chaos, craziness
To spawn – to cause, to give birth to
Alexander Zapryagaev
wrote... il 20/06/2016 12:36:35
Clerks. (1994) - Independent Comedy
Dante has had a crummy job at an small convenience store in New Jersey since graduating from high school three years ago. On Saturday morning, April 15 1994, he gets called in on his day off. Once there, he must deal with multiple problems.
The shutters outside won't open.
His ex-girlfriend Caitlin, whom he is still in love with, is getting married.
His long-suffering girlfriend Veronica, who bugs him constantly about starting college, has revealed certain, uh...stuff about her past.
His boss hasn't come in to take his place.
He has a hockey game at 2 o'clock.
Another ex has died, and today's the last day he can go to her wake.
His friend, Randal, a clerk at the video store next door, is even less dedicated to his job than Dante, and is always bothering Dante's customers.
Jay and Silent Bob, two dead-beats who pass their days smoking outside the store, are trying to shoplift the merchandise.
And the biggest problem of them all: HE'S NOT EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE THERE TODAY!!
Dante is left with no choice but to bend the rules a little with work, customers, and most of all his love life. Can he get away with it all?
This is an amusing, off-beat, low-budget and utterly authentic independent film. And if you like it, there's a whole range of spin-offs you can follow it up with!
Crummy – not very good, low quality
Day off – a day without work
Deal with – handle, control
Shutters – wooden window covers
To bug someone – to hassle, complain to
Dead-beats – worthless, jobless, useless people
Shoplift – steal goods from a store
Bend the rules – do something that is not really allowed – but only a little
wrote... il 25/10/2011 23:26:35
thank for larrisa's explanation. especially words"dead-beats". now i can understand. contiunous to discuss this comedy. i like to share.
Alexander Zapryagaev
wrote... il 20/06/2016 12:36:37
Sleepless in Seattle (1993) - Comedy | Romance | Drama
After his wife Maggie passes away, Sam Baldwin (played by Tom Hanks) and his adolescent son Jonah relocate from Chicago to Seattle to escape the grief associated with Maggie's death. Eighteen months later, Sam is still grieving and can't sleep. Although Jonah misses his mother, he wants his father to get a new wife despite the fact that Sam hasn't even contemplated dating again.
On Christmas Eve, Sam, on Jonah's initiative, ends up pouring his heart out on a national radio talk show about his magical and perfect marriage to Maggie, and how much he still misses her. Among the many women who hear Sam's story and fall in love with him because of it is Annie Reed (Meg Ryan), a Baltimore based newspaper writer.
Annie is already engaged, but her relationship with her straight-laced fiancé Walter is unlike her dream romance. She even writes to Sam proposing they meet atop the Empire State Building on Valentine's Day.
Back in Seattle, Sam has received hundreds of letters from women wanting to meet him. Jonah is excited by one letter in particular from Baltimore and will do whatever he needs to to get his father and Annie together. However, old fashioned Sam wants his future love life to be based on meeting a woman the traditional way, and he, in turn, becomes infatuated with an unknown woman he spots a few times in Seattle.
Will magic happen twice in Sam's life, and if so will it be with this unknown woman or Annie?
Adolescent – a child between puberty and maturity
Grief – deep sadness
Contemplate – think about
Initiative – proposal, plan, sceme
Straight-laced – proper, strict in conduct
Infatuated – feeling passion and attraction to someone
wrote... il 04/06/2012 03:20:33
I heard about but haven't seen Sleepless in Seattle. It must be a nice movie. I hope I'll have the opportunity to watch it soon. I saw Love Happens and loved the movie.
Alexander Zapryagaev
wrote... il 20/06/2016 12:36:38
Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup (Video 2009) - Documentary | History | War
Loose Change is a series of films released between 2005 and 2009 which argue that the September 11 attacks were planned and conducted by elements within the United States government, and base the claims on perceived anomalies in the historical record of the attacks. These are some examples cited by the movie.
What's your theory? Do you believe the September 11 attacks were an inside job? Watch this movie and see what you think.
Perceived – noticed, apparent
Anomalies – irregularities, things that aren't quite right
Bogus – false, not real
Pretext – reason, excuse
Allege – say without concrete proof
Debris – mess, wreckage
Prior – something that came before
Confiscate – take away
Collapse – when things fall down
An inside job – performed by someone on the inside – not an outside enemy
Alexander Zapryagaev
wrote... il 20/06/2016 12:36:42
The Last Boy Scout (1991) - Action | Comedy | Crime
During a rainy football game between two teams from Los Angeles and Cleveland, star player Billy Cole receives a threatening phone call during half time from someone named Milo warning him to win the game or lose his life. Cole takes a gun onto the field, and shoots three opposing players on a run to the end zone. As the police move in, he kneels down and announces "Ain't life a bitch?" before shooting himself in the head.
Bruce Willis stars as Joe Hallenbeck, who was once a top-of-the-line Secret Service agent but has since become an alcoholic private detective. While performing the chores of a two-bit shamus, he discovers his wife Sarah is having an affair with his best friend Mike. After finding the two in his house together, Mike leaves… and is blown up in his car when he turns the key in the ignition.
Joe is hired to protect Cory (played by Halle Berry), a stripper who has been getting death threats. However, her boyfriend – Jimmy Dix – believes he can protect her himself, and after taking her away in his car… she (not surprisingly) gets blown to smithereens.
That's a lot of death…
Jimmy Dix was at one time a NFL football quarterback, but was thrown out of the game for gambling and drug addiction. Smelling something fishy, Joe and Jimmy begin investigations which uncover layers of corruption, dirty money, and murder.
Full of smart-arse quips, love and friendship, betrayal and bribery, The Last Boy Scout is a high action movie with enough laughs and mystery to keep anybody entertained.
End zone – the last part of the field where players make touchdowns in American football
Kneel – get down on your knees
'Life's a bitch' – common phrase to complain about life's difficulties
Two-bit – worth very little
Shamus – slang for private detective
To have an affair – to be romantically involved with someone outside of your relationship
To be blown to smithereens – to be shot and killed
To smell something fishy – to feel that something is wrong or suspicious
Quips – clever, witty remarks
Alexander Zapryagaev
wrote... il 20/06/2016 12:36:44
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Hot Fuzz (2007) - Action | Comedy | Mystery
Nicholas Angel (played by Simon Pegg) is the finest cop London has to offer, with an arrest record 400% higher than any other officer on the force. He's honest, reliable, and dedicated to public duty. In fact, he's so good, he makes everyone else look bad. As a result, Angel's superiors send him to a place where his talents won't be quite so embarrassing - the sleepy and seemingly crime-free village of Sandford – statistically, the safest town in the country.
Once there, he is partnered with the well-meaning but overeager police officer Danny Butterman. The son of amiable Police Chief Frank Butterman, Danny is a huge action movie fan and believes his new big-city partner might just be a real-life "bad boy," and his chance to experience the life of gunfights and car chases he so longs for. ("Have you ever shot two guns while jumping through the air? Is it true that there's a place in a man's head, where if you shoot it, it will blow up?")
Danny's puppy-like enthusiasm only adds to Angel's growing frustration. However, as a series of grisly "accidents" rocks the village, Angel is convinced that Sandford is not what it seems, and as the intrigue deepens, Danny's dreams of explosive, high-octane, car-chasing, gunfighting, all-out action seem more and more like a reality. It's time for these small-town cops to break out some big-city justice.
A highly amusing cop comedy which plays on all the stereotypes of police action movies and will make you laugh constantly if you appreciate British comedy!
Reliable – trust-worthy, doing what one says
Public duty – serving the people, as in police work
Sleepy – uneventful, not much happening
Well-meaning – trying to do the right thing
Overeager – trying too hard
Amiable – friendly, good-natured
Grisly – gruesome, horrible
Intrigue – mystery
Shaun of the Dead (2004) - Comedy | Horror
29 year old Shaun (Simon Pegg) is having some problems.
His long-time girlfriend Liz has dumped him due to his fierce loyalty to The Winchester (the local pub), his refusal to meet her mother, his total lack of romance and consideration, and his seeming inability to progress anywhere in life or remember their anniversary.
His temporary management job isn't going well at Foree Electronics, with his teenaged subordinates walking all over him and his actual promotion prospects minimal.
His flatmates, Pete and Ed, are at each others' throats – one being an arrogant jerk and the other a lazy drug-selling deadbeat who seems unable to get a job or lock the front door.
And, oh yeah, London is overrun with multitudes of zombies.
Now, Shaun must rise to the occasion – save himself, his ex, his mother, and his precious record collection. As one by one the people around him turn to zombies and London becomes overrun with the slow moving, flesh-eating undead, can Shaun save his loved ones, win back Liz's love, put her snide friends in their places, and finish it all with a cold pint in the Winchester?
This is a hilarious and not particularly serious comedy full of fun characters, amusing retorts, and entertaining fight scenes. Good light watching when you're not up for too much thinking!
Dump – leave someone (as in a romantic relationship)
Subordinate – someone who works beneath you
Walk all over sb – treat them badly, have no respect for them
To be at each other's throats – always arguing, not getting along
Arrogant jerk – someone who is rude, selfish, conceited
Deadbeat – someone who is lazy and has achieved little
Overrun – covered with
Multitudes of – very many
Zombies – the walking undead
Snide – rude, snobbish
Pint – a large glass of beer
alex madrigal
wrote... il 04/02/2015 21:59:13
I recommend you this movie, is very funny!
alex madrigal
wrote... il 04/02/2015 21:59:14
I recommend you this movie, is very funny!
alex madrigal
wrote... il 04/02/2015 21:59:26
I recommend you this movie, is very funny!
Alexander Zapryagaev
wrote... il 20/06/2016 12:36:49
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) - Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
In the times of World War II, a brave, yet mild-mannered young soldier named Steve Rogers (played by Chris Evans) wants to serve his country in the military – but unfortunately lacks the physical condition to be a soldier. Desperate to join the program he takes the only way in – he volunteers to undergo a series of experiments for a US army Super Soldier program.
The military succeeds in transforming him into a human weapon, but quickly decide that their Super Soldier is far too expensive a creation to risk in combat. So, they decide to put him to use as an army celebrity and parade him across Europe to boost morale by performing in USO shows for American troops. He is even given a costume that bears the colors of Old Glory for the stage.
However, when a Nazi plot reveals itself Rogers must rise up and become the First Avenger, in order to save his country. Steve Rogers becomes Captain America and he earns his way into the hearts and souls of every American, bringing hope and justice to a war-weary nation. Unfortunately, during a mission to Germany to stop his archenemy The Red Skull from launching rockets at the allies, Captain America sacrifices himself and winds up frozen in ice for almost six decades!
Revived, Steve Rogers now must join forces with new heroes and become an Avenger of the modern age.
Plenty of explosions, high speed fight scenes, high tech futuristic spacecraft, amusing witty retorts, and promised romance to entertain the whole family!
Mild-mannered – polite, not forceful
Combat – battle, war, fighting
Boost morale – revive courage, give new spirits
USO shows – entertainment provided for US soldiers
Archenemy – principal enemy
Alsu Zamalieva
wrote... il 23/05/2013 15:25:09
the film caused different feelings. at first it seemed too naiive and simple, but then i became involved in what was happening, and finally the end made me like this movie) really not bad!!!
Alexander Zapryagaev
wrote... il 20/06/2016 12:36:51
Brazil (1985) - Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) is a low-level government employee, a harried technocrat in a futuristic society that is needlessly convoluted and inefficient. He dreams of a life where he can fly away from technology and overpowering bureaucracy, and spend eternity with the woman of his dreams. One day Lowry is assigned the task of trying to rectify an error created by a government mishap, causing the incarceration of a Mr. Harry Buttle instead of the suspected terrorist, Harry Tuttle.
When Sam visits Mr. Buttle's widow, he discovers Jill Layton, the upstairs neighbor of the Buttles, is the same woman from his dreams. Jill is trying to help Mrs. Buttle find out what happened to her husband, but has gotten sick of dealing with the bureaucracy, while unbeknownst to her, she is now in turn considered a terrorist friend of Tuttle for trying to report the mistake of Buttle's arrest in Tuttle's place to bureaucrats that would not admit a mistake on their side.
Sam and Jill both wind up as targets of the extreme anti-terrorist government, and the whole mess results in high speed chases and action fight scenes.
The plot is peppered with highly colourful characters such as Harry Tuttle (Robert DeNiro) – the renegade air conditioning specialist – and his mother Ida, who is addicted to plastic surgery.
Extremely imaginative movie, thought-provoking scenarios, and fantastic special effects. This isn't a movie you'll forget in a hurry!
Harried – overworked, agitated, stressed
Technocrat – a technical expert
Convoluted – complicated, difficult
Bureaucracy – a system rigidly devoted to procedure
Rectify – fix
Mishap – problem, mistake
Incarceration – putting someone in jail
Unbeknownst – without her knowing
Peppered – contains here and there
Renegade – rebellious, going against the system
Alexander Zapryagaev
wrote... il 20/06/2016 12:36:52
Cube (1997) - Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi
A man named Alderson wakes up in a cube-shaped room with, glowing computer circuit-like walls and six doors, one at the center of each wall, ceiling and floor. After recovering from his confusion, he opens two of the doors and looks into them to find rooms that differ only in color. He then opens and goes through a third door. He looks around and then takes a step, and is suddenly cut into large cubes. He falls apart and the rack of crosshatched wires which diced him moves into view. It folds up and retracts.
Apart from the short-lived Alderson, five other people, each from a very different walk of life, awaken to find themselves inside the giant cube with thousands of possible rooms. It becomes obvious quickly that many of the cubes are fraught with deadly traps, and the unlikely team of different personalities must work together to find a way to escape without being decapitated or burned. The trouble is – apart from the horrific deadly traps and their increasingly complicated personality clashes – they don't even know where the way out is.
Each has a skill that becomes clear when they must band together to get out: a cop, a math whiz, a building designer, a doctor, an escape master, and a disabled man. Each plays a part in their thrilling quest to find answers as to why they've been imprisoned.
Tense, gripping, psychological thriller that will keep your eyes glued to the screen until the end.
Glowing – emitting light
Crosshatched – in a criss-cross pattern
To dice – to cut into cubes
Retract – to draw back
Fraught – containing a lot
Personality clash – when two people don't get along because of their character differences
Tense – in a state of suspense
Gripping – holding your attention
wrote... il 19/10/2011 06:55:58
I think this movie absolutely fantastic... The tension and the mistery are great! You don't blink your eyes from beginnig to end. The history are really very intriguing. I recomend. :-)
Alexander Zapryagaev
wrote... il 20/06/2016 12:36:55
Winnie the Pooh (2011) - Animation | Family
This film is based on three stories found in the Milne books: "In Which Eeyore Loses a Tail and Pooh Finds One", "In Which Piglet Meets a Heffalump.", and "In Which Rabbit Has a Busy Day and We Learn What Christopher Robin Does in the Mornings."
The story begins when Pooh wakes up one day to find that he is out of honey. While searching for honey, Pooh discovers Eeyore who is even sadder than Pooh because he has lost his tail. Pooh, Tigger, Rabbit, Owl, Kanga, and Roo come to the rescue, and Christopher Robin decides to hold a contest to see who can find Eeyore's tail. The prize for the winner, of course, is a fresh pot of honey.
The next day, Pooh goes to visit Christopher Robin and he finds a note that says "Gon Out Bizy Back Soon", but due to their poor reading comprehension skills, Pooh and his friends believe that Christopher Robin has been abducted by a ruthless and mischievous monster they call the "Backson", which of course sends the adorable and adventurous gang off on a new mission – to trap the Backson in a pit.
Their quest leads them into through a path of troublesome pitfalls and mistaken idendity, but of course, the whole thing ends in plenty of honey for everyone. The journey, of course, is more than adequately decorated with singing and dancing, and a whole lot of feelgood messages for the whole family!
Charming, sweet, traditional, this movie has stayed true to the Pooh known by older watchers, and will be enjoyed by kids of all ages.
Ruthless – not worrying about harm done to others, cruel
Mischievous – naughty
Pitfalls – problems, drawbacks
Adequate – good enough
Feelgood messages – messages of love, friendship, and wellbeing
Horrible Bosses (2011) - Comedy | Crime
Friends Nick Hendricks, Kurt Buckman and Dale Arbus are average guys who want to work hard to get ahead in their respective jobs, but they each have the same professional problem in achieving this goal: they each have a horrible boss and a job difficult to escape without starting from scratch.
After a drunken, hypothetical conversation about how to kill their bosses, their respective situations escalate with more despicable treatment from their superiors, and before they know it… they've hired an assassin! With this supposed hit-man as an advisor and tv crime shows and murder mysteries as their guides, the three go about trying to determine the best way to kill the three bosses while keeping as far away from the crimes as possible.
Hilarious errors are committed at every turn, of course, but will lucky coincidences be enough for the three disgruntled employees to give their bosses what's coming to them?
Start from scratch – to begin with nothing
Blackmail – getting what you want by threatening someone with consequences
Psychopathic – crazy, mentally ill, usually dangerous
Hypothetical – referring to an imagined situation or idea
Respective – relating to each person
Escalate – get bigger, get worse, get more intense
Despicable – unpleasant, cruel
Assassin – someone whose job is to kill people
Hit-man – assassin
Coincidence – things that happen by chance
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) - Comedy | Drama | Romance
Holly Golightly (famously played by Audrey Hepburn) lives in an apartment on Manhattan's swank East Side. Totally madcap, she has a partially furnished apartment, owns a cat with no name, gets rid of the "mean reds" by visiting Tiffany's jewelry store, and is forever misplacing her door key, much to the dismay of her upstairs neighbor Mr. Yunioshi (played by Mickey Rooney), a Japanese photographer.
Holly makes her living in two ways: she receives $50 from her gentlemen escorts whenever she needs powder room money, and she is paid $100 for each weekly trip she makes to Sing Sing Prison, where she visits Sally Tomato, an ex-mobster. On these visits she is required to give him a weather report, which is dictated to her by his henchmen and clearly (although Holly is oblivious), a report on mob activities!
One day Paul Varjak comes into Holly's life and moves upstairs – clearly the hero, with his handsome good looks, charm, sympathy, and almost instantaneous love for Holly. As with movies of this era, it is clear at this point that the two should end up together, as he writes stories about her and has inexpensive presents engraved for her at Tiffany's. But what about the estranged husband that arrives wanting to take Holly home? And the rich handsome stranger that wants to whisk her away her to Brazil? And when a couple of personal disasters shake Holly's life, how will the two overcome them to find their 'happy every after'?
This movie is charming, amusing, romantic and whimsical, and clearly deserves it status as a classic.
Swank – fashionable and elegant
Madcap – impulsive, reckless
Dismay – unhappiness, disappointment
Ex-mobster – someone who used to work in organized crime
Henchmen – member of a criminal gang
Oblivious – unknowing
Estranged – a husband or wife who is living elsewhere
Long ago, Lord Shen, heir of the peacock clan that ruled Gongmen City in China, was told by the the court's soothsayer that "a warrior of black and white" would one day defeat him. Shen assumed she was referring to the giant pandas and ordered them to be exterminated to avert the prophecy. Shen's parents were horrified at this atrocity and exiled Shen, who swore revenge.
Po (the Kung Fu Panda!) is now living his dream as The Dragon Warrior, protecting the Valley of Peace alongside his friends and fellow kung fu masters, The Furious Five – Tigress, Crane, Mantis, Viper and Monkey. But Po's new life of awesomeness is threatened by the emergence of this formidable villain, who plans to use a secret, unstoppable weapon to conquer China and destroy kung fu.
It is up to Po and The Furious Five to journey across China to face Shen and vanquish him. But how can Po stop a weapon that can stop kung fu? He must look to his past and uncover the secrets of his mysterious origins; only then will he be able to unlock the strength he needs to succeed.
Another adorable feelgood animation, enjoyable for children and adults alike!
Soothsayer – someone who predicts the future
Exterminate – destroy all completely
Avert – avoid, miss
Prophecy – a prediction of the future
Atrocity – something horrible
To exile someone – to send someone away
Emergence – appearance
Formidable – difficult to overcome
Villain – the bad guy
Vanquish – destroy, get rid of something or someone
A young boy, trapped in a German Concentration Camp in Poland, 1944, bends a metal gate with his mind when he is separated from his parents. When he refuses to repeat the feat for guards, his mother is shot in front of him and his powers rampage out of control.
In a mansion in New York, another young boy finds his mother looking through the fridge. After she refuses to make him a sandwich, he accuses the woman of being an imposter and watches as she shapeshifts into the the blue-skinned Raven. Overjoyed to meet someone else "different" like him, he invites her to live with his family.
Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were archenemies, they were closest of friends, working together, with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known. In the process, a rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto's Brotherhood and Professor X's X-MEN.
X-Men: First Class is the prequel to previous X-men films, and provides the background stories of the first and most famous X-men. As always, it's full of special effects, smart-ass quips, and action-packed fight scenes.
Feat – trick, task
Rampage – go wild
Imposter – fraud, someone who is not who he says he is
Shapeshift – change outward form
Archenemy – the principal enemy, the main opposing force
Rift – a gap, a divide
Prequel – a movie that is set before a previously released movie
Smart-ass quips – clever, witty remarks
wrote... il 10/09/2011 02:53:23
i have watched that movie. :-)
It's good except for unreasonable a little: If you saw another movie named "Wolverin", The professor-X can still stand on the legs but as a baldhead... It's a totally leak-hole...
wrote... il 07/10/2011 10:43:31
I love this movie! Is very good! In my opinion the coolest scene is a short scene where Wolverine show, is very funny. And another movie called "Wolverine" is pretty good too! I like the X-Men.
wrote... il 07/10/2011 10:47:09
This movie is the beginning of the X-Men... story happens before the story of the film "Wolverine".
Beautiful Boy is a heart-wrenching drama about the worst nightmare any parent could imagine.
Bill (Michael Sheen) and Kate (Maria Bello) are a tightly wound couple who are devoted to their work, and on the verge of separation when tragedy strikes. The devastated couple hopelessly try to find some hint of an explanation after learning that their only son committed a mass shooting at his university before taking his own life. They struggle numbly through the funeral, the media onslaught, and the awkward pity from relatives and friends as they try to find answers.
Their already strained marriage is tested as they realize all they have left with each other is their shared grief and confusion – and the unfortunate legacy of their son. This life-altering event forces Bill and Kate to face their feelings of guilt, rage, blame, self-discovery – and ultimately hope – so that they can finally help each other to find a chance for happiness and healing.
Painfully intense and relentlessly raw, this movie is an emotional experience rather than entertainment.
Tightly wound – stressed, tense, uptight
On the verge of – very close to, about to
Tragedy strikes – something terrible happens unexpectedly
Mass shooting – a gun murder of multiple people
Taking his own life – killing himself, committing suicide
Numbly – without normal feeling
Media onslaught – aggressive journalism, cameramen and news reporters
Strained – difficult
Legacy – anything left behind by the dead


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Here is an article from the Orlando Sentinel that was published this week about the Ocala National Forest. ALso at the end is our rebuttal. Just shows you what the Forest Service says in order to get its way.
(This note is from the Florida Four Wheel Drive Association)
Joy riding in the sprawling Ocala National Forest is destroying nature, and changes must be made, rangers say.
Stephen Hudak
Sentinel Staff Writer
May 2, 2006
OCALA NATIONAL FOREST -- The earth-chewing tires of off-road vehicles have wrought damage to the forest that is worse than feared, federal officials said as they prepare to impose tighter and tougher controls on joy riders in the sprawling forest.
"To not make changes would be irresponsible," Ranger Rick Lint said.
The U.S. Forest Service, caretakers of the 383,000-acre forest in Lake, Volusia, Marion and Putnam counties, is implementing long-threatened rules. They include the first-ever marked trails for Jeeps, motorcycles and other all-terrain off-road vehicles that used to have run of the land.
But marked trails aren't the only changes.
The Forest Service has secured federal grants to hire police officers to keep renegade riders on designated paths, Lint said. The service also has petitioned federal courts to double the fines for trailblazers, who are blamed for much of the damage to the forest's delicate habitat.
"You might have heard about how motorized vehicles have abused the land, but when you see it firsthand, it's just 'Wow,' " Lint said after reviewing photographs that wildlife biologists collected last week during an acre-by-acre assessment. "It's just shocking."
It also can't continue, he said.
Lush habitat, where the vines of the endangered Florida bonamia grew and red-cockaded woodpeckers nested, has become a rutted desert broken only by occasional trash heaps.
"They've gotten into about every sinkhole, prairie pond and wetland out there," said Carrie Sekerak, a U.S. Forest Service wildlife biologist who helped document the damage.
Forest officials last year closed 8,200 acres of environmentally sensitive land in Lake County where repeated thrill-riding had deeply scarred a prairie pond. Work crews have begun to mark 42 miles of trails set aside for ATVs and dirt bikes.
Rangers also are prepared to enforce a policy of "closed unless marked open."
The new policy, which is opposite of the current practice of "open unless marked closed," means that more than 1,000 miles of snaking trails will be off limits to riders.
Forest officials expect a fight, and they'll probably get one.
The Florida Four-Wheel Drive Association, which wants more play areas, met Thursday to discuss their options, including possible lawsuits, said Jason Kawaja, its president.
The group represents owners of Jeeps, Hummers, pickups and other four-wheel-drive vehicles that are licensed for the highway -- a distinction separating them from ATVs.
"I think we're seen by the Forest Service as more of a problem than a solution," said Kawaja, who is among dozens of association volunteers who have helped clean up forest trails.
ATV riders also don't feel welcome in the forest, said B.J. Johnson, president of the Muddy Waters ATV Association based in Deltona.
"We all feel they'd rather push us out than help us out," he said.
But as riding groups were mulling future legal routes, the Forest Service was driving markers into 20 winding miles of existing paths that will be known as the Paisley OHV [off-highway vehicle] Trail.
The trail begins at the intersection of County Road 445 and a power line.
Albert Heminway, 60, who rode his four-wheel Honda Rancher to the trailhead Friday, sipped coffee from a thermos as he pondered what the new rules meant for him.
He frowned. He would no longer be permitted to ride from his home to the forest.
Heminway, who lives in nearby Shockley Heights, rides unmarked trails at least twice a week, enjoying blue skies and whoop-de-doos, the undulating bumps ATVs make in the sand.
"I can probably live with this," he said.
Not all riders tread as lightly as Heminway.
Federal law-enforcement Officer Chris Crain, one of two lawmen patrolling the forest, said some riders will continue to ignore rules and cut their own trails, even in forbidden areas.
"I've stopped people riding their ATVs with chain saws on the back," he said. "I know what they're doing. . . . They're making their own trails to ride where they want to ride."
Keeping rough-riders on the new trails is essential, especially in places like Paisley, one of the most easily accessible and popular riding destinations, judging from tire damage.
Sekerak, the wildlife biologist, described a 28-square-mile patch of forest near Paisley where researchers counted 400 miles of user-cut trails, a road density rivaling a city block.
"You're talking about hundreds of acres of habitat that are gone," she said.
Sekerak said the riders, their machines and their noise have chased away striped newts and sandhill cranes that nested there and depended on bugs that hid in the vegetation.
"All the ATVers see is a big bird fly off," she said. "They don't realize they've essentially just killed the chick she left behind. That little fuzzy chick needs the warmth of her mother to survive."
Rangers are trying to better understand off-road riders, who are the fastest-growing group of visitors to the forest, which is within an hour's drive for 8 million people.
The U.S. Forest Service recently commissioned University of Florida professor Taylor Stein to study riders -- recreation research that could help rangers avoid conflicts with them.
Lint said he thinks most off-road enthusiasts want trails and a safe, fun riding experience, which is difficult now because of hordes of zig-zagging, criss-crossing riders.
Rangers recently leveled out an open space near Big Scrub for a helicopter landing pad, citing the frequency of emergency medical evacuations because of off-road accidents.
Lint warned that new limits also are coming soon to Big Scrub, a popular riding area that, on its busiest days, can resemble a mall parking lot before Christmas.
"No one wants to bring the hammer down," he said. "But the forest has been a beautiful place for generations, and we have the duty to make sure it stays beautiful for future generations."
Our rebuttal
On behalf of the members of the Florida Four Wheel Drive Association, Inc., may I offer a rebuttal to Stephen Hudak's recent article "Rangers reign in Riders". Mr. Hudak's reporting has proven once again that the media has a predetermined agenda without offering more insightful comments.
Several important topics were overlooked or omitted in the recent article. Published photographs show beer bottles on the ground within the Ocala National Forest. If your reported would have dug a little deeper into the matter, he would have found that probably 90% of the household trash that is illegally dumped within the Ocala National Forest is from local residents. How do we know this? Because the typical off road recreational user will not travel the two plus hours to the Forest to dump his mattress, cracked toilet , kitchen sink, or roofing shingles. These are just a few of the items that volunteers within the Florida Four Wheel Drive member clubs have removed from the Ocala National Forest. In the last eight months, member clubs of the Florida Four Wheel Drive Association, Inc., have removed over TEN TONS of garbage and rubbish from the Forest. Not to mention the two active meth labs that were uncovered during weekend trail rides.
Carrie Sekarak commented, "All the ATVers see is a big bird fly off…They don't realize they've essentially just killed the chick she left behind. That little fuzzy chick needs the warmth of her mother to survive." Ms. Sekarak, are Jeeps and ATV's that go down a ten foot wide trail at 15 mph as detrimental to your sandhill cranes as the numerous logging trucks and skids used to clear cut hundreds of acres of pine? Where does the wildlife go that inhabits those areas? Let me also remind your readers that there are several hundred acres of wilderness areas within the Ocala National Forest where motorized recreation is not permitted. The members of the Florida Four Wheel Drive Association, Inc., adhere to this policy.
Mr. Lint's comments that the Forest Service is trying to better understand the nature of off road recreation is ludicrous. Mr. Lint is steadfastly opposed to motorized recreation and only pays lip service to user groups. Only because the United States Forest Service must deal with motorized recreation on a Federal level does Mr. Lint suggest that he wants to learn more about it. My comments are sternly worded because neither Mr. Lint, nor any of his staff, are as familiar with the roads and trails and the amount of traffic on them as the user groups. We have extended invitations to him and his staff to come with us to better understand what it is we do in a typical outing. As of this writing, we still have had no response. At a recent meeting with Forest Service personel, we asked if there could be some clarification as to what constitutes a "wetland". That meeting was nearly two months ago and the Florida Four Wheel Drive Association still does not have an answer. His claims that off road users want a safe, fun riding experience without all of the zigzagging, crisscrossing riders, and in order to accomplish providing the users groups with just that, his answer is to close over 1000 miles of trails, thereby concentrating all of those users onto a certain trail system, causing a larger, negative impact on the area. Seems like a wise move to me, and if a frog had wings he wouldn't hit his butt when he hopped.
With regard to the newly constructed helicopter landing pad near Big Scrub, your reporter spins this to appear as if a portion of a timber stand near the Big Scrub Campground was cleared to accommodate a landing pad. Nothing could be further from the truth. If he Mr. Hudak had taken the time to drive down Forest Road 573, he would have seen the HUNDREDS of acres of pines that were clear cut recently by a timber company. Was it just coincidence that this stand was chosen or is the Forest Service setting us up for more bad press by saying, "look at the area around Big Scrub. The four wheel drive folks and ATV users are tearing it up." It is of Mr. Lint's own decision to make the area look like a bombing range. Speaking of bombing ranges, if the Forest Service is so consumed by the noise that our engines make while loping down a trail at 10 mph, why have they not notified the United States Navy that they'll have to find another location to drop their bombs, because we have to consider the feelings of the sandhill crane and her off spring, don't we?
The Forest Service of the Ocala National Forest have perpetuated the problem of cross country travel by not adequately signing major routes and by not having enough personel to enforce or educate their travel policies and plans. It is a 30 to 40 minute drive from the extreme north end of the forest to the south end of the forest on S.R. 19. A nearly all day affair if you are to be driving on the Forest Roads. The members of the Florida Four Wheel Drive Association have tried to participate in the Volunteer Ranger program but the prerequisites the Forest Service demands are unrealistic for a volunteer group that travels to the Forest from areas as far north as Jacksonville and as far south as Naples.
The members of the Florida Four Wheel Drive Association, Inc., feel that Mr. Hudak's article has demonized motorized recreation in the Ocala National Forest. In reality, motorized recreation "slipped up" on the Forest Service, and as we all know by now, the wheels of the federal bureaucracy move extremely slow. It has taken the Forest Service over twenty years to realize that motorized recreation exists on public lands.
I invite Mr. Hudak to join any of our member clubs on a trail ride to see first hand what it is that we do. We have also extended an invitation to Mr. Rick Lint but as of this writing has not taken us up on our offer. As a reminder to the readers, the Ocala National Forest is considered public land. That means my tax dollars along with your tax dollars are used to preserve and protect it. I'd say that the Forest Service has done a poor job on the "preserve and protect part". After twenty years of neglect by federal agencies, the only answer they see now is removal.
Next time, try a fair and balanced article.
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May 1, 2004
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Tianna Madison took first in the long jump and Elizabeth McCalley set a meet record in the 3000-meter steeplechase, as the University of Tennessee women began the first day of the Gatorade Classic in positive fashion Saturday evening at Tom Black Track.
Madison, who ranks fourth on the NCAA national list in the long jump with a leap of 20 feet, nine-and-one-quarter inches at last Sunday's Knoxville Invitational, took aim at improving on that wind-aided effort. The freshman from Elyria, Ohio, was unable to do so, but she still managed to win with a respectable effort of 20 feet, three inches. Her mark of record came on her third jump, and it was the third time in five outdoor meets this season the rookie took first and the fourth time she charted a jump above the NCAA regional qualifying standard.
Teammates Edra Finley (Mobile, Ala.) and Caitlin Ward (Gibsonia, Pa.) were second and third, respectively, with jumps of 18-8.50 and 17-0.50. Finley's mark was a season best.
"We got this meet started in a positive fashion, and hopefully there will be a lot more of that tomorrow," UT Head Coach J.J. Clark said. "We're pleased with the progress Tianna is making and happy to see her consistently hitting 20-foot-plus jumps. We certainly look for her to go much farther than that in the future."
Clark was especially pleased with McCalley, the junior from Knoxville's Karns High School. Without anyone challenging her, McCalley won the steeplechase in a time of 10:47.08, a mark that replaced the 2002 Gatorade Classic record of 11:14.04 by Vanderbilt's Kylene Kownurko. McCalley also came close to surpassing her week-old school record of 10:46.99. Auburn's Kylee Swanson was a distant second in 11:12.58.
"I was impressed to see Elizabeth clock a 10:47 while basically running alone," Clark said. "Without someone challenging her, it was a really good effort."
Junior Sara Vigil (Tucson, Ariz.) began the meet by taking third in the hammer throw with a season-best heave of 162 feet, 10 inches. Some technical adjustments that throws coach Cathrine Erickson had initiated apparently paid off, as Vigil posted five measurements during her series that bettered any previous mark she had recorded in 2004. Auburn's Ronda Gullatte won the competition with a regional-qualifying fling of 178-9.
"It was very nice to see Sara throw better today than she had all season," Clark said. "She has put herself in a position to hit a regional qualifying mark, and we look for her to do just that."
Sunday's full slate of action gets underway at 1:30 p.m. with the 4x100m relay and is expected to conclude around 5:45 p.m. with the 4x400m relay.
EVENT (NCAA DIV. I QUALIFYING MARKS) Hammer Throw (Regional: 173-4/52.84m) 4:10 p.m. 3rd Sara Vigil 162-10/49.64m
Long Jump (Regional: 19-5.50/5.93m) 7:30 p.m. 1st Tianna Madison 20-3/6.17m# 2nd Edra Finley 18-8.50/5.70m 3rd Caitlin Ward 17-0.50/5.19m
3000mSC (Regional: 10:57.18) 7:50 p.m. 1st Elizabeth McCalley 10:47.08#mr
EVENT (NCAA DIV. I QUALIFYING MARKS) 4x100m Relay (Regional: 45.80) 1:30 p.m. Tianna Madison/Toyin Olupona Dee Dee Trotter/Leslie Treherne
Discus (Regional: 152-10/46.58m) 1:40 p.m. No Lady Vols Entered
High Jump (Regional: 5-8/1.73m) 1:40 p.m. Caitlin Ward Edra Finley
1500m (Regional: 4:29.12) 1:45 p.m. Brooke Novak Nicole Cook Leslie Treherne? Jessica Southers Felicia Guliford Elizabeth McCalley Katie Flaute Carly Matthews
100m Hurdles (Regional: 13.95) 2:20 p.m. Edra Finley Caitlin Ward Catherine Wright
Triple Jump (Regional: 40-2.75/12.26m) 2:45 p.m. Edra Finley
400m (Regional: 54.61) 2:55 p.m. Dee Dee Trotter Leslie Treherne
100m (Regional: 11.78) 3:20 p.m. Tianna Madison Toyin Olupona Catherine Wright
Shot Put (Regional: 46-8.75/14.24m) 3:25 p.m. Sara Vigil Caitlin Ward Edra Finley
Pole Vault (Regional: 12-3.50/3.75m) 3:40 p.m. Jessica Reust Kendra Rhyne Jessica Andrews Ashley Rice
800m (Regional: 2:10.29) 3:50 p.m. Kameisha Bennett Leslie Treherne? Lindsay Hyatt Brooke Novak Mindy Sullivan Antoinette Gorham Katie Flaute
400mH (Regional: 60.82) 4:15 p.m. No Lady Vols Entered
200m (Regional: 23.96) 4:45 p.m. Dee Dee Trotter Tianna Madison Toyin Olupona Caitlin Ward Edra Finley Catherine Wright
Javelin (Regional: 139-9/42.61m) 4:50 p.m. Caitlin Ward Edra Finley Jessica Reust Jessica Andrews
3000m (Not An NCAA Event) 5:05 p.m. Felicia Guliford Jessica Southers Carly Matthews
4x400mR (Regional: 3:43.03) 5:35 p.m. Lineup TBA


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August 2, 2012
The National Repertory Orchestra presents its 2012 season finale at 7:30 tonight at the Riverwalk Center in Breckenridge. The orchestra consists of 89 young fellowship applicants who spent the summer building professional skills while performing at least two concerts each week under the direction of maestro Carl Topilow. The concert concludes their summer repertoire.
Topilow conducts the Out of this World finale, which features Giaocchino Rossini's "William Tell Overture" and Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor.
The diverse Mahler piece moves from the despair of the first movement's funeral march and elegy through tragedy and ultimately to tranquility. Over the years, the flowing fourth movement, Adagietto (meaning "quite slow") is sometimes played as a stand-alone work. It is scored for strings with harp accompaniment. Mahler said he sent the Adagietto as a musical love letter to Alma, his wife, whom he married while composing the symphony between the summers of 1901 and 1902. The marriage was supposedly a turning point in his life, and the fifth symphony marked his maturity as a composer.
"This has been a great season with large, appreciative audiences," said NRO executive director Douglas Adams. "The orchestra has performed at an exceptionally high artistic level. Mahler's fifth symphony is a magnificent way to end a wonderful season."
In addition to its musicians, the NRO soon bids farewell to its interns, Jamie Kriel (who left this week), Cianna Reider and Lauren Haines. Kriel was the marketing/public relations intern, creating posters and programs and doing the legwork to communicate NRO news to the Summit Daily and other media outlets, while Haines was the development intern, working on grants and other projects. Reider, who graduates with a degree in electronic media production from Kent State University this month, handled the video and social media.
"I interviewed all the different guest conductors who came through, which was a wonderful experience because they are all so different and have such interesting background stories," said Reider, who is from Ohio but recently moved to Colorado Springs. "I also got to interview Deforia Lane, which was lovely; she's from Ohio originally, and I really thought she was an inspiring person." The YouTube videos can be viewed via http://www.nro.com.
The Village at Breckenridge, Wells Fargo Bank and Ron and Patrice Lara sponsor the season finale.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - With all five starters scoring in double figures, the No. 4 Canisius men's basketball team advanced to the semifinals of the MAAC Championship for the first time since the 2002 season with a hard-fought, 71-65 win over the No. 5 seed Siena Saints in the MassMutual Center on Saturday afternoon.
Canisius will face No. 1 seed Iona College at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday. That game will be shown live on ESPN3.
Senior Billy Baron led Canisius with 17 points to go along with six assists and five steals. Senior Chris Manhertz posted his 13th career double-double with 10 points and 11 rebounds. Senior Chris Perez scored 13 points on 6-of-11 shooting while freshman Zach Lewis had 10 points, four assists and four steals. Senior Jordan Heath scored 11 points, including 3-for-6 on 3-pointers.
"This was a real battle today, a true conference tournament game," Canisius head coach Jim Baron said. "Give Siena credit. They played hard and they played with a lot of confidence. I think the difference was our ability to get the ball inside, especially in the second half. Chris Manhertz has been a leader for us for the last two years and he showed again today why he's a true leader. He stepped up when we needed him to, but we got a lot of great effort from everyone at both ends of the floor."
Siena showed a variety of defenses in the first half to try and take the ball out of Baron's hands and the Canisius offense out of its rhythm. Canisius shot 8-for-13 from behind the arc in the opening 20 minutes to overcome 12 first-half turnovers. Siena jumped out to a 9-3 lead four minutes into the game. The Griffs responded by scoring 13 of the next 17 points during the next four-minute stretch to go up 16-13 after two free throws from Baron.
Siena came right back with a 7-0 run and led 23-19 after a jumper from Rob Poole.
A 9-3 run, including a 3-pointer from Heath and a 3-pointer and three-point play from redshirt freshman Phil Valenti, put the Griffs up 28-26. Neither team led by more than two points the rest of the half as Siena led 35-34 at the half.
The Griffs came out of the locker room with a 6-0 run but Siena answered with a five-point spurt to knot the score at 39-39. Siena appeared to force a big momentum change with a 3-pointer from Brett Bisping following a block brought the crowd to its feet and put Siena up 44-41 with 13:47 left.
Canisius would score the next nine points and hold the Saints scoreless for more than three minutes. Lewis drained a 3-pointer and six free throws put Canisius ahead 50-44. The Saints didn't go away quietly, using a 14-2 run to take a 56-52 lead and force a Canisius timeout.
Canisius scored the next six points – a putback dunk from Heath, two free throws from Baron and a reverse layup from Perez – to regain the lead at 58-56 with 4:54 left. Siena took the lead back with 4:02 left to play at 61-60 after Poole hit a deep trey from the top of the key. That lead would be the Saints' last of the contest, as Manhertz grabbed an offensive rebound off a missed 3-point attempt and he was fouled going back up to the basket. Out of the game's final media timeout, the Bronx, N.Y. native hit both of his tosses from the stripe to give the Blue and Gold a 62-61 lead with 3:42 left to play.
Canisius was able to stretch its lead to four points moments later as Baron stole a Siena pass and raced to the other end of the floor, where he knocked down a 3-pointer from the top of the key with 3:01 left to play that put the Griffs up 65-61. After Siena scored to make it a two-point game with 2:23 left, Perez pushed the Blue and Gold's cushion back to four at 67-63 with 2:23 on a lay-up in transition. After a Siena putback made the score 67-65 with 1:36 left, Baron was able to drive down the lane and find Manhertz on the left block. Manhertz was able to lay one in the hoop left-handed to give Canisius a 69-65 lead and after the Griffs forced another Siena turnover, Baron drove to the bucket with 16 seconds left for a lay-up that put Canisius ahead for good at 71-65.
The win ended Canisius' three-game losing streak in the MAAC Tournament, which dated back to the 2010 event in Albany. The meeting with Iona on Sunday will mark the seventh all-time MAAC Tournament meeting between the Griffs and the Gaels, with each team winning three games. The two schools most recently met in the 2013 MAAC Quarterfinal round.Game Notes: This was the 82nd all-time meeting between Canisius and Siena, with the Saints leading the series 51-31… Canisius has beaten Siena four-straight times for the first time since a stretch where the Griffs won seven in a row from 1954 through 1960… The win on Saturday also evened Canisius' all-time MAAC Tournament record to 23-23… Saturday's game featured 21 lead changes and 11 ties… This was Manhertz's second career double-double against Siena – he also had one against the Saints Jan. 19, 2013… Baron's six assists gives him five or more assists in eight of the team's last nine games… Baron's 17 points gives him 1,358 in his career as a Griff, which ranks him 11th all-time in school history… The five steals for Baron makes him the fourth Canisius player to record five steals in a MAAC Tournament game – former Griff Craig Wise was the last Griff to have five... Canisius improved to 15-6 this season when Perez scores in double figures.


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Police urge drivers to enjoy the view, but not stop to take photos of flowers
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Union Leader Correspondent | September 18. 2013 12:40AM
The sunflowers and other wildflowers were planted in beds at seven sites as part of an ongoing beautification effort by the state Department of Transportation.
Turns out sunflowers weren't on the list the state put together when the planting project was awarded to Brochu Nurseries and Landscaping in Concord.
But that bonus has also come with an unintended consequence.
While they make for a great photograph, state police and highway officials are urging people to enjoy the sunflowers while driving by.
Just last week, a state trooper on Route 101 noticed someone standing in the median with a camera; he stopped to move him along.
The sunflowers are among the flowers blooming along Interstate 93 in Lincoln and Tilton, Interstate 89 in Hopkinton and Springfield, Route 12 in North Charlestown, and in the area of Exit 11 on the Everett Turnpike in Merrimack.
Leah Brochu, who owns the nursery with her husband, said the company gave the seed specifications to its supplier, American Meadows of Williston, Vt.
Giunta said the flower beds cost about $150,000 and are paid for through the state's conservation license plate/moose plate program.
"It's not tax dollars. It's funded by the people who buy the plates," Giunta said.
"The department is well aware of the fact that tourism is very important for New Hampshire," Giunta said.
The plantings resumed when money from the moose plate program became available a few years later.
"Indeed the sunflowers caught my eye and as I passed the patch of sunflowers I caught myself smiling at such a nice surprise. Being a lover of flowers I'm all for beautifying our already green beautiful state with the flowers and a smile or two that they bring," she said.
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WINCHESTER, VA- Students filed into Hester Auditorium at Shenandoah University, Wednesday night to hear the first presidential debate.
"Right now, I would say that I'm favoring Mitt Romney," says Brandon Ewing. "But, I'm not so set in stone," he adds.
"I'm actually the President of the Democratic Club here on campus," says J'Diana Holsinger. "So, of course I'm most excited to watch President Obama," she adds.
"I'm right in the middle," says Catherine Floyd.
Decided or not, the students were clear on issues important to them: the economy, jobs, healthcare and student financial aid. Through intense note-taking, tweeting and facebooking, the students followed each attack and rebuttal to the end. But was it what they expected?
Holsinger says she thought it could have been better, but says she took away some valid points. "I like how the democratic candidate addressed education. He said specifically that he wants to lower the cost of tuition. He said he wants to keep financial aid offered to many people and keep our interest rates low. That is a key player,' she says.
The debates brought some undecided students closer to a decision.
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Bomb threat halts Cal League game05/24/2013 2:26 AM ET
By Ashley Marshall / Special to MLB.com
An anonymous bomb threat caused police to evacuate fans from Thursday's California League contest at The Diamond between the Class A Advanced Lake Elsinore Storm and Modesto Nuts, officials said.
"At 6.50 p.m. we received a call from the California Highway Patrol, who received a call from an anonymous caller about the possibility of explosives at the stadium," Riverside County Deputy Sheriff Albert Martinez told MiLB.com.
"Lake Elsinore Police Department responded. Once they got there, they checked the outside and did not locate anything. They checked the inside and did not find anything. They also evacuated some people at that time."
The game -- scheduled to start at 7.05 p.m. -- went ahead but was suspended with one out in the sixth inning tied, 0-0.
In a press release issued late Thursday, the Storm confirmed the game was suspended and the stadium cleared after a call regarding "a suspicious package."
"We worked with the Lake Elsinore Sheriff's station to handle the situation peacefully and without incident," the release stated.
Martinez said the police department arrived at The Diamond within three or four minutes of the initial emergency call and it took between 90 minutes and two hours to search the whole stadium.
He added that the caller did not provide any other information regarding a possible location of the bomb within the stadium.
"It was just an anonymous call. When California Highway Patrol transferred the call to us, they hung up," said Martinez, who confirmed that the hazardous device team made the Storm aware of the situation once they arrived at the stadium.
"If they say it is in the dugout, you search the dugout. If there is no idea, then they have to search the whole stadium."
At the time of the suspension, starter Matt Jackson was on the mound for the Storm. He had allowed three hits while striking out five batters over 6 1/3 innings. He was up, 0-1, on shortstop Trevor Story when the game was called after one hour and 50 minutes.
Modesto's Chris Jensen struck out eight batters and issued one walk over six shutout frames.
The game has been rescheduled for 5 p.m. Saturday with the regularly scheduled contest to follow 30 minutes after its conclusion.


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A very good natural fabric softener
Posted by 5250129146369504341 on Nov 17, 2014 | Verified Purchase
I have used Ecover Morning Fresh (pink cap) fabric softener briefly in the past. I must say I prefer Morning Fresh, although Sunny day has a little stronger fragrance, so it lingers for a little longer than the other one on your clothes. But both scents do not linger on clothes as long as regular chemical fabric softeners. Both kinds don't have a perfect score on EWG's guide to cleaning products, but it's not too bad either. I am temporarily living in South Korea, and I have to use fabric softener here (mostly because I don't have a dryer), and I was using a regular chemical one. I read that they have icky chemicals and can clog your pores (among other harmful things they can cause), so I wanted a natural one. I'm hoping this will work, and so far, it seems to be doing a fine job. It's thicker than regular fabric softeners, so it doesn't completely wash out of the dispenser in the washing machine. There is usually some residue behind, but not much of a problem.
Ok product. No skin reactions.
Posted by Reviewer1177595 on Jul 30, 2013 | Verified Purchase
Didnt notice any difference between using this fabric softener, and using nothing at all, so I see no reason to keep buying.
Good softener
Posted by Reviewer3320339 on Jun 02, 2017 | Verified Purchase
I usually use pink Ecover softener, and I like it. This one is just as good as the pink.


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