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Battlefield Tours, Istanbul, Week 1
Our last full day in Istanbul, until we return from Canakkale and Gallipoli in a bit over a week's time. First stop is for a tour of Kariye Museum of St Savior in Chora. Many of the museums here were once churches that were later turned into mosques. This is an excellent example. When these buildings were turned into mosques all the frescoes and mosaics where plastered over to meet with the Islamic law that forbids images of people. This did a good job of preserving the images underneath, but a lot of work has been required to remove the plaster.
The Suleymaniye mosque was next. This is a more modern mosque and is beautiful sight. Lunch was in the Darruziyafe restaurant which in the grounds of the mosque. This had one surprise for many on the trip as no alcohol can be served :)
The afternoon touring was kept short (to allow for packing to the next day's trip to Canakkale) with a trip to the Egyptian Spice Markets. Amazing colours, sights and smells.


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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
43 comments:
- Emmekay said...
love the vest and the henna hand shaped pendant necklace....
do you like Vintage and Thrifted pieces so much?!?
nice outfit...
www.theinfluenceofemmekay.com - May 25, 2010 at 3:57 PM
- Emmekay said...
love also the sunnies...:-)
- May 25, 2010 at 3:59 PM
- jQUii_x said...
pastel looks so rad on you!
i love it!.
+ love your vintage love! its super inspiring.
keep it up!
www.jquiix.blogspot.com - May 25, 2010 at 4:02 PM
- Lady Moriarty said...
i ADORE YOUR SHOES AND BAG !
See U ! - May 25, 2010 at 4:05 PM
- alyssa said...
oh honey!! I LOVE your style! I love that you so fearlessly put all of these amazing pieces together! AMAZING AMAZING!!!!
xo - May 25, 2010 at 4:28 PM
- garakami said...
Sick, sick, sick and sick! The "vintage henna hand" is actually a chamsa, which is a Jewish symbol to ward off evil and bad spirits. They come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and prints.
<3 - May 25, 2010 at 4:35 PM
- chichichic said...
so very very beautiful!
justyna - May 25, 2010 at 5:12 PM
- Ring My Bell said...
So glad I found your blog. You post soooooo many pictures in each post and I LOVE that! (it does put me to shame though.... Must do better!) :)
- May 25, 2010 at 5:13 PM
- stone said...
i love those shoes. mixing rich browns and light colors/pastels goes very well together.
stoneandcloth.blogspot.com - May 25, 2010 at 5:27 PM
- Maggie said...
very lovely outfit there, cute burst of color in those shorts.
- May 25, 2010 at 6:58 PM
- mademoisellehannah said...
This outfit is fabulous. I have almost the exact same vest in black! Check it out:
xoxo Hannah - May 25, 2010 at 7:07 PM
- Jessie said...
I just stumbled across ur blog and am in love!!! I am now following you. This outfit is so amazing!!
http://87life.blogspot.com - May 25, 2010 at 7:31 PM
- Copious Couture said...
I love those shorts... I feel like I probably owned them as a child and was stupid and threw them away!!! Also love all your rings and bangles!
http://copiouscouture.blogspot.com - May 25, 2010 at 7:42 PM
- naomi said...
that bag! vintage perfection.
naomi. - May 25, 2010 at 9:24 PM
- sarahwl said...
what a fantastic ensemble-- i love it! and i'm off now to go try to recreate your DIY headwrap. wish me luck!
- May 25, 2010 at 9:25 PM
- Margaret said...
you absolute stunner! :) amazing sunnies
loving the blog
great posts!
stop by some time xx - May 25, 2010 at 9:41 PM
- SheWearSheShares said...
Another great one!
- May 25, 2010 at 10:41 PM
- jenni said...
Can't believe how amazingly talented you are on finding and putting pieces together! Absolutely love your style!
- May 25, 2010 at 11:01 PM
- like a fox said...
those. shoes. are. amazing. ahhhhhhhhhh.
visit my blog to hear about my encounter with THE COBRASNAKE.
check out aussie style blog LIKE A FOX at
www.commeunrenard.blogspot.com - May 25, 2010 at 11:41 PM
- Vilde Sofie said...
reading ur blog really makes me want to be as tough as u! I love ur style, i wish i could be so creative, you'r a big inspiration for me! - love, the norwegian girl
- May 26, 2010 at 12:42 AM
- Little Miss Vintage said...
hello there! Im a new vintage fanatic <3
I think your such a great dresser! I especially like your pastel love outfit its beautiful!
I especially love the shorts and gorgeous looking bag :D
lots of love,
http://visforvintage.blogspot.com - May 26, 2010 at 1:16 AM
- Style of a Fashionista said...
You are amazing you outfits never fail to amaze me :)
- May 26, 2010 at 1:24 AM
- iva said...
love the shorts! your accessorise makes me go crazy!
- May 26, 2010 at 1:38 AM
- leblogdemok said...
AMAZING LOOK !!! your bag is stunning !!!!!!!! FAN...
xxxx - May 26, 2010 at 2:10 AM
- 6roove said...
ha! love how you mixed all that stuff
looks great, very inspiring!
Watching the waves - May 26, 2010 at 2:50 AM
- TEe_purpleButterfly said...
love love.... you bring new meaning to vintage style with each post... love the bag
xoxo - May 26, 2010 at 2:52 AM
- NobodyKnowsMarc said...
nice outfit..!
www.nobodyknowsmarc.blogspot.com - May 26, 2010 at 2:54 AM
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- SILVIA G. said...
perfectaaa!!! estas genial con el look!!
http://elblogdepuu.blogspot.com/ - May 26, 2010 at 3:41 AM
- Eliz said...
I love that bag;)
http://thesweetillusion.blogspot.com/ - May 26, 2010 at 4:24 AM
- ooothundathighrevo said...
the whole outfit is lovely but the shoes and bag are calling my name. stay beautiful.
noise-and-ambition.blogspot.com - May 26, 2010 at 5:48 AM
- moded'amour said...
love this! amazing shorts
mode-damour.blogspot.com - May 26, 2010 at 6:31 AM
- ontheqtrain said...
This a cute spring look. I love the colors!
- May 26, 2010 at 6:33 AM
- pinkengreen said...
u r awsome!!!!! i heard about you from carolina at fashion squad... by the way, the necklace you have is called chamsa (5 in arabic) and it's considered to b a charm 4 good luck, so... good luck :)
- May 26, 2010 at 8:30 AM
- SheSpoke said...
I LOVE this post!! I did a post hating on pastels awhile back because I'm pasty-skinned and they just look WRONG on me, but you've just about made me change my mind! I love how you are open to trying anything and are naturally over the top, it makes me want to ditch work and play dress-up all day =)
HSB - May 26, 2010 at 10:43 AM
- Lis-x- said...
love those shoes!great blog, im a new follower!=)
Off The Wardrobe - May 26, 2010 at 11:10 AM
- Danielle said...
Cool bag. I like this outfit, it's quirky.
- May 26, 2010 at 2:29 PM
- Becca Jane said...
I love this whole outfit! So inspiring. I'm loving the colours especially. I wish I could do pastels better, I have such pasty skin they make me look pretty sickly most of the time.
I LOVE your shoes! - May 26, 2010 at 2:57 PM
- Sky Pies said...
HOLY CRAP what an amazing outfit! So jealous of these finds, the shoes, the bag, the vest thingy, YUM! <3
skiepies.blogspot.com/ - May 27, 2010 at 7:04 AM
- anna said...
wow, you look absolutly fantastic!
- May 27, 2010 at 11:10 AM
- NyctanthousNumquid said...
sweet shorts :). and that bag! classic...literally :P.
♥Shani-chan♥ - May 27, 2010 at 1:05 PM
- Nava said...
Awesome put together the colors do look great on you!
http://fashionnostalgia.blogspot.com/ - May 27, 2010 at 9:59 PM
- Kali23Yuga said...
That colonial time purse is just awesome!
Can't say anything but 'wow' about it. - May 29, 2010 at 4:30 AM


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NAA Mini pug .22 magum vs .22 short ballistics for defense? Would you carry one?
I carry a .45 of some type with either a .380 in a pocket holster or a Glock 27 on the ankle.
For deep cover I just have the .380 and a glock 27 on the ankle if im not wearing shorts. I am thinking a neck .22 might be something that I ALLWAYS have on me. I have the small Naa .22 magnum revolver. It is really loud and actually sounds more like a .38. The recoil is enough to make it hard to stay on target as it moves the gun into a higher part of my hand. I use .22 magnum CCI TNT and am combat effective at 7 yards. Would not feel comfortable past that if you add in the stress of an actual incident. The rubber grips and the night sight might make the pug a great weapon out to 15 yards. The recoil is not an issue and I am mostly concerned about how comfortable it would be around my neck. Who makes a necklas style lanyard that will be comfortable and break away if someone grabs me? I know shot placement is everything but I believe there is an ammount of stopping power related to the round effectiveness. I take this from the fact that a .308 will do more dammage than a .22 if both rounds hit the same spot. With that said, how much does the .22 short, .22 LR, and .22 magnum compare in terms of shooting a human or dog attacker? NAA Pug Overall Length: 4 1/2" Overall Height: 2 3/4" Width: 7/8" Weight: 6.4 oz. unloaded NAA .22 Lr Overall Length: 4" Overall Height: 2 3/8" Width: 13/16" Weight: 4.5 oz. unloaded Naa ,22 Short Barrel Length: 1 1/8" Overall Length: 3 5/8" Overall Height: 2 3/8" Width: 13/16" Weight: 4 oz. unloaded How would the ballistics of a .22 short, .22 Long rifle CCI TNT, and .22 magnum CCI tnt compare? Who makes the most bad boy round for a .22 short? I am considering using this as an around the neck kydex holster. There has to be one that will hold it in nice and not allow it to accidentally cock the hammer. http://www.naaminis.com/short.html http://www.naaminis.com/lrifle.html http://www.naaminis.com/pug.html .22 Short .22 short, is a .22 caliber rimfire cartridge. Developed in 1857 for the first Smith and Wesson revolver, the .22 Short rimfire was the first American metallic cartridge. The original loading was a 29 grain bullet and 4 grains of black powder. Developed for self defense, the modern .22 Short, though still used in a few pocket pistols and mini-revolvers, is mainly used as a quiet round for practice. Due to its low recoil and good inherent accuracy, the .22 Short was used for the Olympic 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol event until 2004. Specifications: Case Length: .423 in. Overall Length: .686 in. Bullet weight - 29 gr. / Velocity - 1,045 fps. / Energy - 70 ft.lb. .22 Long Rifle .22 Long Rifle, is a rimfire cartridge that is well established with a variety of ammunition loadings, and in terms of units sold is still by far the most common in the world today. The .22 Long Rifle rimfire is a heavier loading of the .22 Long case and appeared in 1887, along with the first smokeless powder loadings of the .22 rimfires. It is one of the few cartridges that are accepted by a large variety of rifles, as well as pistols. Virtually every manufacturer of cartridge firearms makes at least one model chambering it, and this has been true for more than a century. There are a variety of different types of .22 Long Rifle (or ".22 LR") rimfire loads. Specifications: Case length: .595 in. Case diameter: .225 in. Bullet diameter: .224 in. Rim diameter: .271 in. Rim thickness: .040 in. Cartridge overall length: .985 in. Bullet weight - 40 gr. / Velocity - 1,082 fps. / Energy - 104 ft.lb. / (Subsonic) Bullet weight - 36 gr. / Velocity - 1,328 fps. / Energy - 141 ft.lb. / (High Velocity) .22 WMR .22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire, is a rimfire rifle cartridge, commonly loaded with a 40 grain bullet, it can deliver velocities in the 2000 fps. range from a rifle barrel. The .22 WMR was introduced in the 1950s by Winchester, and it was the only successful rimfire cartridge introduced in the 20th century. The .22 WMR uses a larger case than the more popular .22 Long Rifle rimfire, both in diameter and length. The .22 WMR's case is also much thicker, allowing much higher pressures. Since the .22 WMR generally uses the same weight bullets as the .22 Long Rifle, it is generally used in similar situations. The 40 grain .22 WMR at 100 yards still retains the velocity of a .22 LR at the muzzle, which can provide improved penetration at all ranges, and more reliable expansion at long range with expanding bullets. Specifications: Case length: 1.052 in. Overall length: 1.350 in. Bullet diameter: .224 in. Bullet weight - 40 gr. / Velocity - 2,020 fps. / Energy - 360 ft.lb. |
The LRRPs, Rangers and SF guys in Viet Nam used silenced .22 pistols to kill enemy sentries. That in iitself makes the .22 lr worth taking a second look at.
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.22 short: FORGET IT in a handgun. I carried one on a trapline many years ago when I read where it was good for dispatching the furbearers. Did OK until I caught this one really extra large raccoon, and the bullet did not penetrate the skull. So, I tried to put one thru the eye, only put his eye out. So, I pulled out a bigger gun to actually do the job. So, the .22 short in the handguns can't be counted on for anything but to annoy someone. Out of a rifle, it can have decent enough power to kill a bird or maybe a small animal. But that whole idea of "jam the gun in the attacker's eye socket and pull the trigger" using a small gun makes for good reading, but does not represent real life, or death.
So the .22 short wont penetrate a human skull? Will a .22 magnum penetrate clothing and a rib cage?
Have you tried carrying your Glock 27 in a SmartCarry Holster? The SmartCarry Holsters really do work as advertised and are comfortable when you are walking, standing and sitting.
Actual NAA .22 Mini Against Three Bad Guys
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"I was wearing a tuxedo and therefore only carrying single action .22 Magnum N.A.A. revolver... With their firearms pointed at me, I drew mine (thank God for years of practice), and shot the apparent leader of that gang in the chest - he screamed like a stuck pig and staggered backwards. The first thing I did was run for cover. As the other two were only about 20 feet away from me, bullets rained down on me as I hid momentarily behind a tree in my drive." That story doesn't speak to the strengths of the gun... It speaks to the fact that, of all of the guns this guy did have, the mini magnum was the one he had on him and used. It did blow up, but he never did say if the gun was hit by one of the bullets coming at him from the bad guys. That's one mini magnum, five shots, one dead bad guy and two other thugs thwarted. What's the takeaway? "Thank God for years of practice." |
Great story. But I have yet to see ~anything~ that would make carrying a .22 pistol/revolver (in any variant) seem like a good idea.
Is it better than nothing? Certainly! But so is a sharp stick. BTW - if there were three guys within 20 feet of him and he survived, it had a heck of a lot less to do with the weapon than the motivation of the . . dare I say . . goblins. |
The great pistoleros of the past Skeeter Skelton and Bill Jordan both stated that a snub nosed revolver in .22 WRM would be a great last chance, up close, I have no other option gun to carry...Stick it against the torso or under the chin and empty the cylinder then run like Hell...I can't remember if they ever carried one or just recommended it as an alternative...In that form I'd probably carry one.
In the form of a Deringer (proper spelling) it would be the absolute last choice in a firearm and a neck holster, the last way I'd ever carry a handgun...The belt buckle models make a lot more sense and a lot less dangerous. Either case why a rimfire especially when you can get a .380 ACP or .327 Federal even some 9mms for just a little more weight and size but with a tremendous advantage in energy/velocity. |
That he got very lucky? That he should have had a more effective and easier to shoot gun with him? There are plenty of small handguns that would have concealed just as well and given him more firepower.
I don't have a pug but the regular .22 lr version, I have a kydex neck holster that I wear alot, mine would choke me to death though as the strap is paracord. I have killed many small animals with mine. After a robbery that I chased the bad guy and we had a standoff across a back yard where he claimed he was going to shoot me and I hollered back "shoot" (intelligent huh)anyway long story short I was carrying cci stingers that I never shot out of the gun, when I test fired them I couldn't hit a fairly large piece of cardboard at 10 feet. Regular standard velocity .22 rounds shot decent. I usually keep the first hole loaded with a birdshot round, works great against snakes.While it may be limited I'll keep my mini revolver over a sharp stick.
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A Critics' Duet on 'Nashville'
June 9, 1975
We decided for reasons that will become apparent, that the most appropriate way to review Nashville was through a dialogue between the boss critic and his first stringer. May we also suggest that since a lot of the pleasure ofNashville lies in discovering it for yourself and watching how it comes out, you avoid reading this or any other reviews of the movie until you've seen it.
Prologue: I (Molly) go to a morning screening which Andrew cannot attend. I come out dazzled, stimulated, exhilarated by the sheer talent on display, and relieved that the film is not, as I'd been led to expect, a put-down of redneck America (bein' Southern, I'm sensitive to such slights) or an exploitation of the country music scene to make easy political why-we're-in-Vietnam parallels. There's a little of both, a line too directly drawn from Dallas to Nashville (of which more later), but these elements are strongly modified, even redeemed by the music itself, the true star of the film. It is after all, a musical, a Chaucerian musical pilgrimage whose Canterbury is Nashville, I tell Andrew, and it helps to have a feeling for country music.
Andrew (dubious): Well, why don't you review it then?
Molly (delighted): Okay.
There is a subsequent evening screening which both of us attend. From the brilliant opening creditsin which magazine-cover pictures of each of the major performers is flashed on the screen while a caller, jamboree style, announces themI can sense that the audience is not "with" the movie the way they were at the earlier screening. They don't laugh at the jokes or dig the music. I glance at El Exigente, normally a big laugher. Finally he laughs uproariously. It is at a song rendered by Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), "the King of Country Music" in Robert Altman's vision of Nashville. The song"For the Sake of the Children"is so artfully sincere in its hypocrisy that it serves as a primer for the Puritanism of the Bible Belt. . . . The film ends. We leave quickly and furtively, talking of other things. Outside.
Andrew (nodding, impressed): That was really something when Barbara Harris started scat-singing at the end as if she'd been a country singer all her life. Who would have thought she had it in her? And all through the picture she's just moping around, a rag doll that suddenly comes to life. What a finish!
Molly:But didn't you love the beginning, the electrifying and savage scene in the studio: Haven Hamilton is sitting on his throne, encased in glass, his emasculated Ivy League son and his mistress sitting in attendance, while he records one of those righteously jingoistic ballads (called "200 Year," lyrics by Gibson himself!) which is so absurdly irresistible. Then suddenly he interrupts the spell he himself has so carefully cast, to lash out crudely and brutally at the pianist, "Frog" (Richard Baskin, who arranged and supervised the music for the entire film). To me, this establishes the whole power structure and pecking order of the film, the steely grip of this slimy, fascinating little tyrant who presides over the folks here at home, and fans out yonder of country and western.
Andrew:I like the very beginning and I like the very end, but I find a lot in the middle very ordinary. People have been telling me for weeks that the movie is very "novelistic," and I think I know what they mean. It's all these characters lurking in the background of one shot and then suddenly lurching into the foreground of the next shot. But for me "novelistic" is not just network, but nuance too. Altman has given star billing to 24 performers, but he's cheating on at least half a dozen of them. Bert Remsen as Star, for example, is one of the Altman regulars, but all he does here is chase half-heartedly after Barbara Harris. Or Jeff Goldblum as the Tricycle Man. He's more a visual figure of style then a character. And when you think about the link-up to Easy Rider and the Kennedys and the fact Nashville turns out to be part musical and part murder mystery, then a great many figures in the background turn out to be suspects in some impending violence. But I'm not knocking the movie itself, just some of its advance critiques. I hate to go out on a limb after only one viewing, but Nashville strikes me as Altman's best film, and the most exciting dramatic musical since Blue Angel. And, like you said, it's the music that puts it over.
Molly: I think that the power and the theme of the film lie in the fact that while some characters are more "major" than others, they are all subordinated to the music itself. It's like a river, running through the film, running through their life. They contribute to it, are united for a time, lose out, die out, but the music, as the last scene suggests, continues. It diminishes them, as death itself diminishes us, and ennobles them. And it's the people who live and breathe country music who are finally less ridiculous, less hollow, than the "sophisticates" who condescend to them: Michael Murphy's advance man and Geraldine Chaplin as the bleeding heart BBC reporter.
Andrew: I think Altman and his script-writer Joan Tewkesbury try to have it both ways with the condescending characters played by Michael Murphy and Geraldine Chaplin. On the one hand, these two characters give us a lot of information, a lot of exposition. They keep the plot moving. On the other hand, they're presented as cruel, brutal, supercilious outsiders, and so they become easy targets for the audience. Geraldine Chaplin's snobbish snoop is the most irritating character in the whole movie (though I think that Shelley Duvall's L.A. Joan runs a very close second, and gives country music groupies a bad name besides). Michael Murphy's political PR man is something else again. He plays very much the same kind of role he played in McCabe and Mrs. Miller. As much as any member of Altman's stock company, Murphy represents the malignant system. Still, I can't help wondering if there isn't a little bit of Altman in Murphy, a little of the same sharpness and cruel candor. It strikes me also that so many Altman movies end with a kind of ritualized death, not a Peckinpah slaughter, but a very selective sacrifice. Think about itA Cold Day in the Park, Brewster McCloud, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Images, The Long Goodbye, Thieves Like Us, and now Nashville. It is certainly a pattern, and I suspect that it is more a religious pattern than a political pattern.
Molly: True, they are often innocents, idealists, andherea neurasthenic, exotically feminine country music princess (incarnated rather than "played" by Ronee Blakley, herself a singer), a white-clad Ophelia whose psychic disorder is expressed in those odd, uncoordinated hand gestures. The idea of ritualistic tragedy is explicitly fostered in the setting of the last scene, a plaster of Paris temple that has given Nashville the epithet of the "Athens of the South." There is the tragedy, and then the catharsis, as life, in the form of song, resumes. Then there is the huge shot of the American flag, imposing a political conclusion that overloads the ending, and seems unsubstantiated. Even seeing the film a second time, and realizing how carefully the 'assassination' has been prepared for in parallel cutting and dialogue and images of violence, it still does not seem inevitable, at least not on the level of national sociopathology. The assassinations that we have lived through are both too specific and too elusive to be appropriated in the nightmare vision of any one artist.
But the fatalism does seem apposite on the individual, or religious level. As Blakleywhose character is loosely based on the real-life country singer, Loretta Lynnsings a song of lost innocence (and, did you notice, the sun that shines on her is actually blocked momentarily by a cloud?) we feel not so much that America was a paradise, now corrupted, but that each of us must experience his own personal loss of innocence, as we "outgrow" the roots, the family, the "folk heritage" that spawned us.
As to the cruelty, yes, it's there, but it's constantly held in check by compassion and a kind of awe, an awe which confers dignity. And the best scenes combine all these elements: Haven Hamilton's barbecue party; and the scene in which Keith Carradine sings "I'm Easy" and consummates an affair with Lily Tomlin's voluptuously sane and moving Nashville matron over the heads of the listeners in a café, among whom are three of his former bedmates.
Andrew: Lily Tomlin and Keith Carradine are the real heart of the picture, the oddest of the odd couples that make it take off; she, all soul, he all heel, but somehow with the right chemistry to make his song-seduction, "I'm Easy," work with the same flirtatious frenzy as Marlene Dietrich's "I'm Falling in Love Again." Tomlin and Carradine are marvelous, of course, and multi-faceted as characters. It's Carradine who makes the one anti-Vietnam crack, and Tomlin who mentions Easy Rider, but just when you think you have them typed, they uncover another layer of feeling. I liked Cristina Raines as Mary, the odd girl out in several triangles, but cool and loving at the same time. She and Tomlin help counterpoint Carradine in the "I'm Easy" scene, and turn a smoky café into an arena of yearning sexuality.
A few points in passing: since this is Nashville rather than Memphis, the blacks don't figure prominently, but Robert Doqui as the streetwise Detroiter named Wade and Timothy Brown as the church-bred Southern country singer set up an interesting and potentially explosive contrast between two types of black adjustment to a white world, one surly and unyielding, the other relaxed and resigned. The old cutaway cliché of montage in the musical actually works to Altman's advantage in Nashville since most of his characters are either performing or attending performances. It gets a bit strange after a while. There are very few real extras. Altman has created his own world and called it Nashville. In California Split, Elliott Gould and George Segal were surrounded by nobodies. In Nashville every nobody is a potential somebody. Altman even drags in Elliott Gould and Julie Christie as the real-life celebrities we know as Elliott Gould and Julie Christie. But Karen Black is simply stunningnot as Karen Black, but as the bitchy country singer Connie White. And all around the movie people are the authentic country music people, and a bit of authentic country, and Altman seemingly suggesting that we are all in one form of showbiz or another, and that it all ends badly, but not without the hope of regeneration. A very visceral movie, and it works, and I can't figure out why anyone ever thought it could be in trouble.
I'll tell you what, Molly, I'll do a blurb on it.
Molly (the unfranchised freelancer, sighing): No, you go ahead and do the review.
Andrew (sensing discontent in the ranks): I have a better idea. We'll do it as a dialogue.
Molly (taking what she can get): Okay.
And so we did. But we have only scratched the surface.
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Big East Catholic schools exploring conference options
In big-time college sports, it's all about the money. Conference executives have been poaching top schools from other conferences for several years now. School officials, not satisfied with their own conferences, are looking for new conferences to compete in.
The result? Chaos.
One of the early movers was northeast powerhouse Boston College, who joined the ACC in 2005, leaving the Big East crestfallen and scrambling. Now Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Notre Dame (with the exception of football) have joined the ACC.
What's next?
Well, on Sunday, the remaining Catholic universities in the Big East (Villanova, Georgetown, Seton Hall, Providence, Marquette, St. John's and DePaul) got together [1] in New York City to discuss a possible move out of the Big East. One possibility is the Atlantic 10 Conference.
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Garlieston is a small planned coastal village in Dumfries and Galloway, south west Scotland. It was founded in the mid 18th century by Lord Garlies, later 6th Earl of Galloway.
Location & History[edit]
The village lies 5 miles (8.0 km) northwest of Whithorn and a few miles north of Cruggleton Castle which was abandoned in the 17th century. The former seat of the Earls of Galloway, Galloway House, is situated on the edge of the village, with the settlement being planned along Georgian lines. The port became an important import point for goods being brought into the Machars throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1876 the Wigtownshire Railway was extended to the settlement and goods flowed regularly through the port, with the maritime industries of shipbuilding and associated activities taking place in the village.
Second World War[edit]
During the Second World War the village became part of the secret Mulberry Harbour project. The profile of the beach and sea bed at Garlieston was similar to that of the proposed harbour points in Normandy and that, coupled with the remote nature of the locality, led to Garlieston and the surrounding area being selected as the development region for the harbours. Prototypes of the harbours were constructed at Conwy in North Wales and then transported and positioned in Wigtown Bay, where they were tested and modified through 1943 and 1944. A fixed pierhead from the harbours could be seen in Cruggleton (or Rigg) Bay until it was destroyed by a storm on Sunday 12 March 2006.
Today the village is in general a quiet sleepy place, with much of the local industry and port activity having ceased over the past 50 years. A bowling green sits on the waterfront and the village caravan site attracts tourists, with the harbour providing berthing facilities for those who are touring by boat.
Annually in the early summer there is a ferry trip from Garlieston harbour to the Isle of Man.
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These changes may be connected with the increasing popularity of Wigtownshire as a second home and retirement location, especially for couples from the north-west of England.
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The New York Rangers staved off a Stanley Cup loss in game 4, extending the NHL finals 1 more game and sending them back to Los Angeles for game 5. The Kings took the first 3 games of the finals 3-2. 5-4, and 3-0 win making a 7 game series highly unlikely. With the way they are scoring, the Kings should have the Stanley Cup wrapped up in 5 or 6 games.
The kings won each of the first 2 games of the series at home by 1 goal margins,
and as the series has progressed it has become obvious that LA is the superior team.
Last Monday night the kings dominated the New York Rangers in NY, 3-0, but the Rangers were able to come back and take game 4 in a 2-1 win on their home ice.
NHL Finals Odds | Game 5 Los Angeles Kings vs New York Rangers
Henrik Lundqvist, who faced 41 shots, including a third period in which the Kings outshot the home side 15-1, was brilliant. The Rangers were outshot 11-8 in the first period as well, but it's doubtful that Lundqvist can keep up this pace or what some are calling "luck" for the remainder of the series.
The Kings are the better team and we expect them to take the series in 5 or 6 games total,
but the Rangers may have another win coming their way as the enthusiasm from game 4 could become contagious. We'll take the kings at home as the price is still pretty low for game 5.
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- If you just arrived from Brynn's blog, you are at the right place.If you have just come to check out my blog this morning, the hop begins over at Vintage Heartfelt Designs she has a bag of goodies as well as a gift certificate to give away today, and others have prizes on their blogs as well, so get to hopping! At the end of the hop, be sure to go let Dee know which project you liked the most. To be eligible to win, you must comment and become a follower of each blog in the hop. If you are already a follower, please mention that in the comment.Our assignment was to make something Pink for this hop and here's my project:The mask is decoupaged with vintage music paper that I dyed pink with Glimmermist in SWAK and Vintage Pink (no real science about it, I just misted it until it was the color I liked). I used Making Memories Glitter to line the eyes and some lace that was white but I sprayed it with Maya Mist until it was black and stuck some bling and feathers around to finish it off. The flower started as a white Prima but then I used the same combo of Glimmermists as well as some of the Silver Metal mixative by Ranger to bring in some silver. Those are the giant Bazzil Blings.Now for the best part, this is a sponsored blog hop (yes, that means prizes...(Holla!)!Our first sponsor is Jillian Vance who's favorite color is pink and who will be offering a set of her stamps.Our second sponsor is Micelle from Cloud 9. She is offering a $20.00 gift certificate to use on her site.Your next stop along this hop is over at VinDeeLoo enjoy your hop and don't forget to comment.In case you get lost, or are just starting, here's the lineup:1. Denise - http://vintageheartfeltdesigns.blogspot.com/3. Faith - http://faithfulecreations.com4. Haidee- http://created2bunique.blogspot.com/5. Becky - http://beckscricards.blogspot.com6. Bunny - http://bunnyrunswithscissors.blogspot.com/7. Jillian - http://princessandthepaper.blogspot.com/8. Amy Jo - http://lv2scrapandfibrofacts.blogspot.com9. Gill - http://creationsbygillm.blogspot.com10. Jennifer -http://craftycardgallery.blogspot.com/11. Paula D http://www.scrapyourworld1.blogspot.com12. Tonya Wilson- http://creativeaddictiontopaper.blogspot.com/13. Debbie Trevenen http://debbiescrafttime.blogspot.com/14. Carol Carlson http://cardstockscissorsandglue.blogspot.com/15. Pam Bray http://pammejo-scrapbookflair.blogspot.com/16. Linda Simpson http://lindasimpsoncraftypieceofheaven.blogspot.com/17. Linda Jover http://lindaspinkcraftroom.com18. Michelle Peak http://queenofmycraftroom.blogspot.com/19. Ellen Jarvis http://www.cardmonkey-business.blogspot.com20. Jearise http://lorbysworld.blogspot.com/23. VinDeeLoo (Denise Lewis) http://vindeeloosthisnthat.blogspot.com24. Jamie http://craftygirl21.blogspot.com/25. Donna Lee http://ottersln.blogspot.com/26. Rachelle Larsen- http://creationsbyrachelle.blogspot.com27. Kristy Asche - http://scraptasticalkreations.blogspot.com28. Sylvia- www.bellascrapbookdesigns.blogspot.com30. Sandra www.365daysofcricut.blogspot.com
I would like to take this opportunity to encourage you, if you haven't already please get your pet or all future pets spayed and neutered. Spaying decreases your female pet's chance of developing mammary tumors (among other things)(as well as neutering will pretty much wipe out the chance your male will get testicular cancer). In case you are new here, I work at an animal hospital so I'm not just a spouting fanatic, I see it everyday. The saddest conditions are the ones that could have been prevented.
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Posting for the Breast Cancer Awareness Blog Hop (my stop)!
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Charity, I love your mask. It is so inventive and different. I also love your blog layout. Thank you so much for sharing with us and participating in this wonderful event for so many that have either had, have or has a person in their life with cancer of any kind. I am a follower and thank you for sharing with us and have a great weekend. Hugs, Dee:)
firstname.lastname@example.com is beautiful! Love it! What a fantastic idea and a super fun project. I have actually had a doggie that did get breast cancer so thank you for spreading the message about that. A lot of people are unaware that their pets can get breast cancer! So awful! Anyways, I am a new follower. :0)
Be sure to stop by my blog to enter my 500 followers giveaway and stop by my blog for current hops I'm in and a chance to win even more blog candy!
Amy Jo (new follower)
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Coordinator: http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com
DT Member: http://ajillianvancedesign.blogspot.comWOW what an amazing mask - i love making masks and wearing them too! i am a mask junkie i think. What a super idea as Lisa said to have a BCA fundraising ball and everyone could make and wear their own pink masks - mmm must make a note of that for next year. Great to be part of this hop with you


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I had the opportunity to workout with some of the best Crossfit competitors in the world, including three who stood on the podium in 2011, as part of the Reebok Crossfit: The Sport of Fitness Has Arrived campaign. The cool part? The location of the workout. Check out the finished product, more to come about the process involved in making this.
Archives for January 2012
"This time I promise. And when I promise I never break it…well, more or less."
So, sitting in the Charlotte airport right now after one of the best Crossfit weekends ever! I attended the first The Outlaw Way training camp held by Rudy Nielsen. Pretty. Much. Awesome. I was totally blown away by the people I encountered this weekend. I've never had the opportunity to train with such a driven group of Crossfitters. Most of the attendees were from Crossfit Murfreesburo and Crossfit Rutherford, both gyms located down in Murfreessburo, TN. It was a great crew of many Regional and Games athletes ready to train and focus on becoming better Crossfit competitors. The training and education that went down this weekend was excellent and incredibly eye opening for me. Friday night kicked off with an Olympic lifting session that included tons of PRs. I PR'd my clean and jerk as well as my squat clean. Saturday we did threes WODs, and Sunday two, with mini clinics between the workouts. My favorite training moment of the weekend was watching one particular rather unassuming, small woman manhandle Fran at 95# and chest to bar pull-ups. I hope she doesn't mind be sharing this, but she told me when she started Crossfit she couldn't even do one push-up. Amazing progress. You don't have to be competing at the Games to inspire the hell out of people with your work and commitment.
I know I've said it before and I'm sure I will continue to, but every time I get out and meet Crossfitters in other communities I am blown away by the way we welcome each other into our gyms- and homes in this instance. It was like we instantly became teammates this weekend. It was so much fun, and the people in Tennessee were so hospitable it was absolutely ridiculous. I have so much gratitude for all their kindness.
I have a lot more to say specifically about camp, but I'll save it until I can write more thoroughly. I'm heading into a crazy week of three cities in seven days doing Crossfit camps and such, so there will be plenty to share.
"This is a living creature, not a play toy"
The other day I was asked, "can you still do a backflip?" I had to think about it, it's something I haven't done in years. A big part of me would like to play around with it, particularly because the question was being asked in reference to doing a sick Crossfit workout with back tucks in it. Plus, I do miss gymnastics. Last year I looked up an adult gymnastics open gym at a local gymnastics club. The name adult gymnastics cracks me up, like the designation "adult" indicates, 'something you really have no business doing, but if you insist, here's a class for you'. I told myself I would give it a try after the Games. Turns out there's never a convenient time to injure yourself, whether the Games are approaching or not. I don't want to put limitations on myself, but I think to be realistic with myself, playing around with gymnastics/tumbling beyond Crossfit-esque gymnastics might be taking things too far.
My hyper-awareness of the possibility of injury results from my long history of knee problems. I know I'm not alone in having knee issues, as I've had a number of people message me about their own struggles. By almost any measure, the situation with my knee has been exceptionally bad. Rather than dramatize it with a long narrative, here's the quick run down on the orthopedic happenings of my youth:
- 8th grade, torn meniscus, right knee, arthroscopic surgery
- 9th grade, torn meniscus, left knee, arthroscopic surgery
- 10th grade, torn left ACL, reconstruction (patellar tendon graft)
- 11th grade, torn meniscus, left knee, arthroscopic surgery
- 11th grade, torn left ACL, reconstruction (cadaver tissue graft)
- College Freshman, torn left ACL, bone graft and ACL reconstruction (hamstring tendon graft)
If you aren't versed in sports injuries and that list means nothing to you, know this-you do not want a torn ACL, and you certainly don't want three. It put quite a damper on my dream of a successful collegiate gymnastics career, and it did a number on my self-image in a couple of ways. I had participated in gymnastics since such a young age, being a gymnast was largely how I defined myself. I felt like something had been taken away from me when I wasn't able to continue in the sport. Beyond the inability to perform in my sport, I also became pretty uncomfortable with the appearance of my leg. Seven surgeries in a five year period left me with what I felt were atrocious scars and atrophied muscles. There was actually a period of time I didn't feel comfortable wearing shorts and skirts due to my "ugly" leg.
"On the girl's brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means I survived."- from Little Bee by Chris Cleave
The psychological impact resulted in a sort of subconscious avoidance of a variety of movements. I say subconscious because since I was still relatively active I didn't realize I was avoiding much until I began Crossfitting. At that point I realized I was afraid of squatting deep, jumping (box jumps, double unders), single leg movements like pistols, any cutting or turning like on a shuttle run, and generally had some fears about anything that wasn't slow and super controlled. It's actually a blessing that I decided to give Crossfit a try- I almost didn't. Right before I started Crossfit I was having a lot of knee pain and instability. When I had it checked out I found that once again, my ACL was not intact. I don't know if it was some kind of graft failure along the way, or an acute trauma that I was somehow not aware of, but I wasn't surprised at all to hear recommendation for yet another reconstructive procedure. I went home and started some intensive medical research (yeah, I Googled) on "ACL revision". What I gathered was that outcomes for revision are not generally as favorable as those for primary ACL surgery, and that revision is not really intended to facilitate return to intensive participation in athletics. Given that bit of information, I decided another surgery was not right for me.
It's definitely not unheard of for people to participate in athletics with no ACL. DeJuan Blair does it. Hines Ward does it. Brazilian 'football' legend Pele did it. Overall I feel incredibly fortunate to be able to participate in activities I love. There's a fair amount of bone damage that has resulted from instability in the joint. There have been times when things are really painful and it literally hurts to walk around in normal life, or I have the kind of pain that keeps you up at night. There are times when the pity party is in effect and I think how great it would be if my left leg were completely healthy and fully intact. The upside is, it forces me to stay smart about my training. Crossfitters and other athletically inclined people sometimes love to pound ourselves into the ground. I feel like the situation with my knee- not only the routines and practices it takes to keep it healthy (knock on wood), but my knowledge of what it's like to go through surgeries and rehab month after month-helps me keep my focus on training smart and maintaining health. I try to keep this in mind when I'm fussing about a subpar workout. A poor training session can be a great learning opportunity, and walking out healthy is a victory in itself. Does that sound lame? I just don't care about getting gold stars for being "hardcore" and working-out in a way that is injury provoking so I can claim tough status. I guess it's all about perspective. However, if there's a competition with backhandsprings for distance you better believe you'll see me flipping down the field.
Not the most exciting video, but it demonstrates how Crossfitting has helped me increase my comfort level in movements involving my knee.
"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do." Pele


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Silent Hill: Downpour to release in Japan on November 8 for PS3 only
Silent Hill: Downpour will be released in Japan on November 8, Konami has announced. The Vatra title was a multiplatform release in the west, but will only be released on PS3 in Japan. Thanks, Siliconera.
Vatra headlines
Silent Hill studio placed "under review"
Kuju's confirmed it's assessing Silent Hill: Downpour studio Vatra's business after EG.cz reported that the Silent Hill studio's to close, GI reports.
Silent Hill: Downpour producer urges horror to move past "shoddy gameplay"
Games can be scary without counter-intuitive controls and dodgy graphics, according to Tomm Hulett of Silent Hill: Downpour developer Vatra Games.
Silent Hill: Downpour cover features Spanish typo
Gathered around a campfire, publishers whisper scary stories to each other, and none is more frightening than The Curse of the Survival Horror Typo.
Silent Hill March: Downpour, HD, Book of Memories
Definitive dates for Silent Hill HD, Downpour, and Book of Memories have been handed out by Konami, and all are coming in March.
Silent Hill: Downpour has separate combat and puzzle difficulties
If you're a big fan of the horror exploration elements of Silent Hill, but turn into a flailing mess when the combat starts, Downpour has you covered with the return of dual difficulty sliders.
Quick quotes: Akria missing from Silent Hill: Downpour's soundtrack due to "Japanese business politics"
"I'd love for [Akira Yamaoka] to be involved. Unfortunately, he left Konami, and can't do the music for the new games [which is] a Japanese business politics sort of thing. We'd like for him to be there, but he's not. So we took seriously finding a replacement, because you can't throw in just any old […]
Silent Hill: Downpour developers discuss going back to the series' psychological-horror roots
Silent Hill: Downpour producer Devin Shatsky has said when designing the game, Vatra decided to add more realistic weapons and combat to the game, making it stand out from the last entry in the series, Homecoming.
Konami dates three Silent Hill games for Q1 2012
Untroubled by piling all its eggs in one basket, Konami has scheduled three new Silent Hill games in close succession.
Quick Shots: Silent Hill: Downpour, HD Collection screens get out of TGS
Konami has released screeshots for Silent Hill: Downpour and Silent Hill HD Collection out of TGS. Both are slated for release in October, and Japan will see the HD Collection released in 2012.
Amazon posts Silent Hill: Downpour release date, cover art
Amazon UK has Silent Hill: Downpour down for a November 4 release, ahead of any official confirmation from Konami. The survival horror had previously been expected at the end of October, on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The retailer also posted a cover image which fits the series aesthetic so far. Head through the break […]
Quick Shots: Silent Hill: Downpour screens are dreary
Konami has released some new screenshots from Vatra's Silent Hill: Downpour, and each is unsurprisingly dreary. Not like any of the Silent Hill games are full of unicorn and rainbows or anything, just an observation is all. The game is slated for a winter release on PS3 and Xbox 360, and it is also expected for […]
Quick Shots - Silent Hill: Downpour shots show more gloom and doom
Vatra has released a few more shots of Silent Hill: Downpour to go along with the ones released yesterday. Still gloomy, and looking as though your doom is near. We can't wait for the series to scare us once more come October on PS3 and Xbox 360.
Quick Shots - Silent Hill: Downpour screens are suitably gloomy
Name three things you'd expect to see in Silent Hill: Downpour screenshots. If you said "dark", "more dark" and "deepest dark", boy, you are not going to be disappointed.
Vatra provides a sneak peek at its E3 demo for Silent Hill: Downpour
The Facebook page for Silent Hill: Downpour has been "liked" enough to where a new teaser footage has been posted for the game.
Quick Shots - Silent Hill: Downpour is predictably creepy
Konami has released a handful of new screens for Silent Hill: Downpour, with almost everything you need from this franchise: darkness, creepy stares, and fog.
Quick Shots: Atmospheric Silent Hill Downpour screens released
Konami sent over a new batch of screenshots from Silent Hill: Downpour.
Rumor - Konami investigating a separate Downpour chapter devoted entirely to multiplayer
Radek Marek, art director on Silent Hill: Downpour, Xbox 360 Magazine Italy that Konami's looking to release a multiplayer title of the franchise on XBLA.
Silent Hill: Downpour confirmed for "autumn," first shots and more details
Konami confirmed today that Vatra's Silent Hill: Downpour will release for PS3 and 360 this autumn, as well as releasing a good load of first shots.
Silent Hill 8 titled Downpour, first details revealed from Game Informer
Vatra's Silent Hill 8 has been detailed in the latest Game Informer magazine, and according to a NeoGAF user who got to see it, the game is actually called: Silent Hill: Downpour.
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Silent Hill: Downpour to release in Japan on November 8 for PS3 only
Silent Hill: Downpour producer urges horror to move past "shoddy gameplay"
Silent Hill: Downpour has separate combat and puzzle difficulties
Silent Hill: Downpour developers discuss going back to the series' psychological-horror roots
Quick Shots: Silent Hill: Downpour, HD Collection screens get out of TGS
Quick Shots – Silent Hill: Downpour shots show more gloom and doom
Quick Shots – Silent Hill: Downpour screens are suitably gloomy
Vatra provides a sneak peek at its E3 demo for Silent Hill: Downpour
Quick Shots: Atmospheric Silent Hill Downpour screens released
Rumor – Konami investigating a separate Downpour chapter devoted entirely to multiplayer
Silent Hill: Downpour confirmed for "autumn," first shots and more details
Silent Hill 8 titled Downpour, first details revealed from Game Informer


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Pros: Extreme technical capabilities
Cons: Timbre and character
I won't write too much about this because there's much that has already been said about it. I've had this for a long time so the new toy syndrome has worn off, and boredom has set in. However recently I've been appreciating its sound more, and decided to share some thoughts.
If you like detail, speed, sparkle and great microphonics, then this is your iem. It is a specialised tool that enables you to comb through any track for deficiencies if you want. This comes with a downside though, and it may bother some people. The timbre is not suitable for every genre, sounding unnatural and sometimes clinical.
This is perhaps the best earphone for trance and other forms of electronic music. The speed and detail both complement the artificial perfection of the genre, and the isolation truly allows the listener to float off into another world. The sound signature is very well suited, with quick bass that never fatigues or congests. The highs are magically sparkly, giving the feeling of space, and the soundstage is quite good as well.
Most other genres are certainly performed to a high degree of technical ability, but whether you will enjoy it as your only earphone is up to you. I find it enough, but there are just some moments where I want something different.
Build quality, comfort and isolation are all near perfect. The plug could be right angled, and the other two are arguably enough for 99% of people 99% of the time.


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Chewy on the inside and crisp on the outside, these meringue cookies are delicious. They add a light touch to the cookie platter, not only during the holidays but all year round.
50 Coconut Recipes to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth
- 1 egg white
- 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 cup flaked coconut
- Place egg white in a small bowl; let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes. Beat on medium speed until soft peaks form. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, on high until stiff peaks form. Fold in coconut.
- Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls 2 in. apart onto a parchment paper-lined baking sheet. Bake at 325° for 18-20 minutes or until firm to the touch. Cool for 1 minute before removing to a wire rack. Store in an airtight container. Yield: 1 dozen.
Originally published as Coconut Kisses in Reminisce
August/September 2011, p52
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"I love coconut. These were easy and the taste was great. I think it would be worth doubling the recipe next time."


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Vortex Point 8
The gang needs to perform an exorcism in an abandoned lighthouse. Care to join?
4.12 / 5.00 6,272 ViewsThis is a refreshing retelling of the entire ''plot'' in 3 minutes. Some things might have been exaggerated a bit... You just have to find out for yourselves! It might not make much sense if you haven't seen the movie.
The rough black and white animations are part of the joke and they also give a special attention to the colored scenes. I never had such an extensive use of sound and dialogues in my animations before.
Better then the movie series!
I didn't liker the fact its looped. Thats why we give the viewer the option to replay.
I dont know how not to make it loop. Im new here.
I just uploaded a normal swf movie... What should i have done differently?
Animation was choppy here and there, but the other than that it was really good. I was forced to watch New Moon by my girlfriends sister, but my friends and I call it New Poon (you know, twatlight, new poon, ecliteris, and breaking condom). I hate that movie so much, and this just made me laugh so hard about how stupid the movie really is. Voice acting went with the short very well, because every actor in the movie sounded like they didn't know what the hell they were doing, and the voices in this took it to a new level to goof around with it. All'n'all very nicely put together.
good :)
this was a good animation, only real thing that let it down was the voices, the animation and art were good, although not to a massively high standard, they illustrated the ideas well. but the voices were appalling, a better mic is the only solution im afraid, use the newgrounds bbs, there's tons of voice acting talent, male and female that are looking for "work" lol.
but this toon appealed to my sense of "twilight sucks" and i loved that you drew on beastiality and necrophilia, people just dont see how wrong twilight it XD
good job ^_^
The sound quality somehow drops in swf. I got the same vid in youtube and the sound is better because its avi there. Thanks for the comment, is very helpful and btw I feel the same about twilight! :)


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DIARY-Top Economic Events to April 27
Political and general news ** This Diary is filed daily ** ----------------------------------------------------------- WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29 LJUBLJANA, Slovenia - Bank of Slovenia holds board meeting.
* France says believes agent already dead
* Militants say tried to negotiate his release for 3 years
* Militants want to impose Islamic law across Somalia
By Feisal Omar
MOGADISHU, Jan 16 Somali militants linked to al Qaeda said on Wednesday they had sentenced a French agent to death after a failed attempt by French armed forces to rescue him at the weekend.
It was unclear whether the rebels were saying they had already killed Denis Allex, held hostage in Somalia since 2009. France said it had heard nothing since the military raid to alter its belief that he was killed during the rescue operation.
Al Shabaab said in a statement their decision to kill Allex was unanimous and followed three years of what it called "exhaustive attempts at negotiations" over his release.
The militants put up fierce resistance when French commandos flew into southern Somalia by helicopter under cover of darkness early on Saturday to try to free Allex.
Two of the commandos died in the raid.
"With the rescue attempt ... France has voluntarily signed Allex's death warrant," al Shabaab said in an emailed statement that was also posted on the group's official Twitter handle.
"It is the government of France ... which must bear full responsibility for the death of Allex," it said.
On Wednesday, Edouard Guillard, chief of staff for the French armed forces, told Europe 1 Radio there had been nothing since the raid to suggest Allex was alive and the rebels were engaged in "media manipulation."
"We think he is likely dead," Guillard said.
French President Francois Hollande, in a speech to the press later on Wednesday, said he took responsibility for the failed rescue operation of Allex, calling it "heavy with consequences."
"It involved the death, the assassination, of the hostage and two soldiers were taken," Hollande said. "I fully stand by this operation. Because it's also a message we're sending. France cannot accept that its nationals be taken."
Allex was one of two officers from the DGSE intelligence agency kidnapped by al Shabaab in Mogadishu in July 2009. His colleague, Marc Aubriere, escaped a month later but Allex had been held ever since in what Hollande on Wednesday called "abominable conditions".
In October, the militants uploaded a video of Allex pleading with Hollande to negotiate his release and save his life. Hollande said at the time the government was seeking to start talks with any party to facilitate his release.
After Allex's abduction, al Shabaab issued a series of demands including an end to French support for the Somali government and a withdrawal of the 17,600-strong African peacekeeping force propping up the U.N.-backed administration.
"Efforts were repeatedly hampered as the DGSE proved to be unreasonably apathetic and wilfully uncooperative," the rebels said.
Al Shabaab wants to impose their strict version of sharia, or Islamic law, across the Horn of Africa state, though it has lost significant territory in southern and central Somalia in the face of an offensive by African troops.
The rebel group, which formally merged with al Qaeda in February last year, is known to mete out beheadings and amputations and has banned music and football in areas under its control.


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Document Type
Master of Science (MS)
First Advisor's Name
Victoria Pace
First Advisor's Committee Title
Committee Chair
Second Advisor's Name
Chockalingam Viswesvaran
Third Advisor's Name
Valentina Bruk-Lee
Work Engagement, Personality, Citizenship Behavior, Mediation
Date of Defense
This study examined individual differences as precursors to engagement, then assessed whether engagement was a mechanism through which the personality variables led to organizational outcomes. Specifically, this study assessed how the relationships between select personality dimensions and citizenship behavior (OCB), both individual (OCB-I) and organizational (OCB-O), were mediated by work engagement using two distinct measures. Undergraduate working students at Florida International University completed surveys that measured their personalities, levels of work engagement, and citizenship behaviors in the work setting. Correlations and multiple regressions were used to assess the relationships between variables. Results confirmed several of the hypotheses, including the effects of personality on engagement and engagement on OCB. Select hypotheses involving mediation were supported, of which further support was found for the UWES measure over the MBI-GS. Results from a coworker sample contribute to the literature by complementing these results linking personality, work engagement, and OCB.
Recommended Citation
Matamala, Alejandra, "Work Engagement as a Mediator Between Personality and Citizenship Behavior" (2011). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 507.


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Time: April 4, 2007, 7:30 pm
Location: Student Union and Recreation Center, Ellensburg Campus, Central Washington University
TICKETS: Reserved seats $25; General Admission $15; Students with I.D. Free
Jean-Michel Cousteau, famed oceanographer, explorer, filmmaker, and son of the legendary Jacques Cousteau, has spent his life communicating to people of all nations and generations his love and concern for our planet. A trained architect, he founded the Ocean Futures Society in 1998, a non-profit marine conservation and education organization that serves as a voice for the Ocean, to carry on his father's work. A tireless spokesperson, Cousteau impresses an ethic of conservation, research, and marine education, while realistically addressing the economic practicalities. In 2002, he made history by becoming the first person to represent the environment in an Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games. Cousteau, an impassioned spokesman and diplomat for the environment, reaches out to the public through a variety of media. He has produced over 70 films that have earned him numerous Emmy, Peabody, and Cable Ace Awards.
Most recently, Cousteau's Great Ocean Adventures documentaries were shown on PBS television stations. On June 15 at the White House, after a private screening of the first film in the series, Voyage to Kure, President Bush was so inspired, he announced the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands to be America's newest National Monument, creating a vast new marine sanctuary, extending stronger federal protections to the northwest Hawaiian Islands and the surrounding waters with their endangered monk seals, nesting green sea turtles, and other rare species. Says Bush, "To put this area in context, this national monument is more than 100 times larger than Yosemite National Park," President Bush said. "It's larger than 46 of our 50 states, and more than seven times larger than all our national marine sanctuaries combined. This is a big deal."
Learn more at www.oceanfutures.org.


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Microsoft evaluating Yahoo offer: source — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is evaluating its offer for Yahoo Inc in light of worsening market conditions, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday. — Microsoft has been repeatedly trying to engage Yahoo's board in discussions, this person said.
Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, Tech Beat, HipMojo.com, Digital Daily, Valleywag and Mashable!
Matthew Karnitschnig / Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft, Yahoo Hold Meetings — Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. senior executives met this week to discuss Microsoft's proposal to acquire the Internet company but failed to resolve any of their differences, according to people familiar with the matter. — The meeting, which took place …
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Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft losing patience with Yahoo? — Microsoft is evaluating its Yahoo acquisition bid under the theory that the Internet company may have lost value since the $44.6 billion offer was made, according to a Reuters report this afternoon, citing an anonymous source.
Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:
Yahoo's Foot Dragging On Deal Could Cost Them Plenty — What is the problem? I mean, seriously. Yahoo! has been sitting on a $42 billion unsolicited offer on the table from Microsoft for two months, and other than a bunch of caterwauling since, Yahoo hasn't done much one way or the other.
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Microsoft Said to Be Standing Pat on Yahoo
Microsoft Said to Be Standing Pat on Yahoo
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Gates: Windows 7 may come 'in the next year' — MIAMI—Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Friday indicated that Windows 7, the next major version of Windows, could come within the next year, far ahead of the development schedule previously indicated by the software maker.
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Source: Google To Launch BigTable As Web Service — Google may be releasing BigTable, its internal database system, as a web service to compete with Amazon SimpleDB, according to a source with knowledge of the launch. There are also rumors that press is being pre-briefed on the product, although we haven't been contacted by Google.
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New iPhone to sport a case redesign? — Apple fanboys attack! We're pretty hesitant to believe this one for ourselves, although it would make sense. There's this image floating around that claims to be the back of the new 3G iPhone. Sportin' a glossy black finish …
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Stephen Ohlemacher / Associated Press:
It's back to pencils and paper after computers prove unwieldy — Stumbling over its multibillion-dollar plans for a high-tech census, the government says it will go back to counting the nation's 300 million people the old-fashioned way - with paper and pencil. — Help wanted: 600,000 temporary workers to do the job.
Don Reisinger / CNET News.com:
Why e-book readers don't stand a chance — Although some people see a reason to buy a device just to read a book, I don't. Some have said that Amazon's Kindle is the savior of the e-book market. I don't believe it. Others say that e-book readers will kill the book publishing industry and bring it into the 21st century.
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Search Marketer: Yahoo Taking Share From Google (GOOG, YHOO) — Yahoo's last-ditch effort to hold off Microsoft (MSFT) comes down to this: Stall, hope they'll have a monster Q1, and the market will suddenly see the company's value again. — Slim chance, but here's at least one data point …


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A 150-acre brush fire south of Milner burned most of the day Sunday, threatening homes near Routt County Road 179 as winds reached 15 mph.
The fire was eventually doused about 10:30 p.m., but not before nearby residents had been evacuated and crews had been called in from fire departments throughout the valley.
Dozens of volunteers responded to the brush fire, including firefighters from Craig, Steamboat Springs, west Routt and Oak Creek. According to Craig Fire/Rescue Chief Roy Mason, Craig sent one engine to help with structure protection.
"They were up there for about three hours," said Mason. "It was mostly just for reinforcements to protect any structures."
An hour before the blaze was controlled, Routt County Sheriff John Warner was concerned because fire crews were having trouble fighting the flames, although no structures had been damaged.
"It's still burning and we still have structures threatened," Warner said about 9:30 p.m. "It's in such an area, on a ridge, that we can't get firefighters in there. They're basically flanking it."
Warner ordered that six houses near CR 179 be evacuated about 8 p.m. He said Red Cross workers offered help to people temporarily displaced.
The fire was reported at 2 p.m. Sunday. At 5 p.m., Warner gave the order to close CR 179.
"It's probably a quarter mile from there, but it's headed that way," Warner said of the fire Sunday night.
No injuries were reported, but an ambulance was requested at 6 p.m.
"We needed oxygen for the firemen who were breathing smoke all day," Warner said. "And as soon as they had rested a bit and breathed the oxygen, they went right back up to the fire."
Routt County Search and Rescue members and county Road and Bridge Department workers offered assistance as well.
Warner said aerial help was even used.
"We had one helicopter here for approximately 30 minutes and we thought we had the fire down, but the wind whipped back up," Warner said. "The wind on top is about 12 to 15 miles an hour. The winds are the biggest problem."
The fire, about 2 miles south of Milner, burned dry brush and scrub oak near a Tennessee walking horse ranch.
"The scrub oak is obviously real brown right now, along with sage brush and dry weeds," Warner said.
The fire reportedly started accidentally, as welders using blow torches worked on a fence, causing sparks to fall to the dry ground.
"We are interviewing the welder and his assistant right now," Warner said Sunday night. "And the cause is still under investigation."


text: Amazon Introduces $200 Kindle Fire Touch Tablet, $79 Kindles, and MoreMelanie Pinola9/28/11 7:30amFiled to: KindleeReadersTabletsAmazonBooksNewsTop772EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkAmazon introduced the Kindle Fire today, a 7-inch Android tablet for $199— a good three hundred dollars cheaper than the iPad. Amazon also will be offering regular and touch Kindles at seriously attractive prices, starting at $79. Further sweetening the pot, free 3G will be offered in the Kindle touch 3G. AdvertisementAmazon's making it almost impossible not to own a Kindle in one form or another. If you just want an ereader, the $79 Kindle is 30% lighter (5.98 ounces) than previous Kindles. A $99 version will add touch navigation. And the top-of-the-line Kindle touch 3G is $149, with the free 3G access. All three models still sport the e-ink technology. The Kindle Fire Tablet is the big announcement, today, however. This souped-up Kindle is also an Android tablet with dual-core processor, a multi-touch IPS display, and light 14.6 ounce weight. To get to the inexpensive $199 price point, Amazon left out a camera and microphone, and it will only be available with Wi-Fi, not 3G. Some neat details:The Whispersync technology that brings ebooks quickly to Kindles will work to sync movies and TV shows from Amazon's growing library to the Fire.A new Silk browser, which partially resides on Amazon's cloud servers, pre-loads pages to speed up browsing.Starts shipping November 15; you can pre-order today.What do you think? Will you be buying a Kindle?[via Bloomberg, Gizmodo, and This is my next]