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Europe TR83 Server online. Click to start download file. Saturday, June 19, 2010 10:06 PM Reply | Quote 0 Sign in to vote Thanks coolchang and bbbobb for posting solutions. Fuente || Luis Rato Descarga || Driver C-Media CMI9880 Anuncios Compartir:Haz clic para compartir en Twitter (Se abre en una ventana nueva)Haz clic aquí para compartir en LinkedIn (Se abre en una find more
mackana dijo: 5 marzo 2010 en 2:46 pm me salvaste la vida tio, muchas gracias sumrub dijo: 6 marzo 2010 en 6:30 pm Vale e descubierto que no es que no M. FIRST OFF DOWNLOAD THE DRIVER HERE: http://home.hiwaay.net/~wwithero/CMediaWin7Driver/CMI9880_22.214.171.124.zipAND EXTRACT TO ITS OWN FOLDER..
Hi guys - having the same probs with a Gigabyte-8I915G Pro board but running X86 Windows 7 (original drivers for Gigabyte worked OK in Win XP - moved to Win 7 I've deleted Win 7 out from my HD. :-( Everybody asks Microsoft for suitable drivers, but they just say: "We DON'T write drivers". THANKS FOR THE HELP GUYS I HOPE THIS HELPS SOMEONE TOO! Sometimes Vista drivers works, but as they aren´t tested yet, Win7 doesn´t bother to offer them.Precisely THAT drivers are what I´m asking for here.If somebody knows them: yell please!!! :-)Thank you!!Fernando.
quisiera saber como instalar este driver de video en win7 o si existe alguna version mas reciente de este driver, ya que lo he intentado instalar y nada mas no se When I do, I'll post an update. C-Media AC97 Codec Audio Rack 2.11 6. http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/SOUND-CARD/CMedia/C-media-CMI9880-UDAX0086264.shtml Supported OS: - Windows 2000 - Windows XP Requirements: - Windows 2000/XP - CMI9880 codec Search Drivers Downloads Start10 1.55 Filed in Visual Enhancement Chromium 60.0.3098 9 similar apps in Browsing
aclaro que la mother ya tiene alrededor de 3 años y medio pero anda bien. Close Report Offensive Content If you believe this comment is offensive or violates the CNET's Site Terms of Use, you can report it below (this will not automatically remove the comment). y me dice que Windows ya tiene instalado los mas geniales drivers.. Europe IR81 Server online.
does anyone know where I can find the Cmedia drivers for X86? http://drivers.brothersoft.com/c-media-cmi9880-hd-audio-driver-v5.12.01.0009-download-12196.html Has numerous features that has potential to enhance PC sound reproduction once understood. C-Media CM-106 Like Sound Driver 6.12. 2. I had tried numerous drivers/solutions but this finally worked for me.
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and this link provided above is also not working. All Rights Reserved. Cons: (10 characters minimum)Count: 0 of 1,000 characters 5. http://easygiftsoftware.com/c-media/c-media-cmi9880-vista-driver.html Other drivers:Marvell Virtual Cable Tester Utility ver. 188.8.131.52 [WinXPx32, Win2k]Marvell Virtual Cable Tester Utility ver. 1.11 [WinXPx32, Win2k]Asus PC Probe Utility ver. 2.23.06 [WinXPx32, Win2k]Asus PC Probe Utility ver. 2.64.03 [WinXPx64]Asus
Maker (Asiamajor) doesn´t write drivers anymore, but Kworld´s Terminator card drivers works fine (same Philips SAA7134 chipset). (Thanks Master_64BIT!).As previously stated I´ve tryied a large bunch of drivers from different makers I've ran out of patience. For anyone that is still in doubt: 1.
Problems can arise when your hardware device is too old or not supported any longer.CMI9880 Audio Driver CMI9880 Sound Driver C-Media CMI9880 Sound Driver CMI9880 Audio C-Media Sound DOWNLOAD C-Media CMI9880 Excelente articulo, gracias. do you have suggestions? Gracias Codigo82 dijo: 17 abril 2011 en 8:39 pm z1erz0 ni idea, ya uso linux en este equipo asi que no puedo testear el problema con Win7.
Do not forget to check with our site as often as possible in order to stay updated on the latest drivers, software and games. ran in 2 the same problem!! I don´t want to buy a new audio card.If somebody knows about a compatible driver for my onboard CMI9880 for Win7, yell something please!!! ;-)Thank you!Fernando. this contact form Click to start download file.
Media Center C media CMI8738 driver for 7Hello! Sunday, December 20, 2009 6:15 AM Reply | Quote 0 Sign in to vote Thanks for the reply, Gold. After an update approximately a week ago I had two problems with my audio: 1) My Dolby Home Theater cannot automatically open. Realtek HD Audio Driver R2.60 for Vist 10.
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un saludo. C-Media CMI8788 HD Audio Driver 8.17.9 4. De todas formas yo no lo instalaria un Win7 en un celeron, dejaria WinXP. In some cases, due to hardware modifications by different manufacturers, the driver updates may cause some error. Meanwhile, please understand that Windows 7 is a new operating system and whole
NOW: 1. I then installed the cm 3-D audio configuration, which does recognize the jacks, i was able to assign the speakers (front, Center, surround, and sub) however, the control panel only shows C-Media CMI8770 Audio driver 8.17.38 f 2. Me funcionó perfecto.
Lacho dijo: 28 febrero 2011 en 3:17 pm hola iñigo, tengo el mismo problema con el sonido con la P5GDC Deluxe y el recien instalado win7 64 Bit . That must be the problem then, I've read about a lot of compatibility differences between the 32 and 64 bit versions and I'm not sure how to go about finding the http://dlsvr04.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket775/P5GDC Pro/Cmedia_64(WHQL).zip If it doesn't install with the setup.exe, try through the device manager using the .inf. Eldoras View Public Profile Find More Posts by Eldoras 29 Sep 2009 #4 torrentg 7600.20510 x86 5,841 posts Try this.
That's an XP driver that works for win 7 32bit. I gived up!


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I don't know why people have a inherent distrust of Reason. Or a tendency to take it in conflict with emotions, feelings and experiences. Reason is what? A mental exercise or tool, or a certain way of dealing with anything that registers in our brain be it emotions, feelings, thoughts or anything else. And what it does? Tries to make sense or build a coherent reality. Yeah it has limitations. Limitations coming from the fact that it acts on facts, thoughts, emotions, feelings and experiences and these things in any case have too many a variables, and too many interrelations among those variables. And our mental faculties cannot register them all, and even whatever that may get registered may not be comprehensible, or comprehensible but conflicting to earlier perceptions. So in all reason may assist us but can never give us something compete in all sense.
Also reasoning about anything comes after these thoughts, emotions, and feelings. Yeah but prior reasoning may influence these processes. It was Kant who opposed Humes assertion that reason doesn't influences experience. It does. A human life builds using reason, consciously as well as subconsciously, on these sensory experiences. Thats how a child, who's blank while coming to life, grows. Had there been no subconscious process of reasoning( i.e judging, predicting, inferring, generalizing, comparing) a child would not have grown to be what we are now 25 years down the line.
An emotion or a feeling will always be more truer than any articulation of it, yeah but it may be then conflicting, confusing, or frightening. A prior reason may influence this emotion or feeling in a positive or negative way and reason may again come into play after that emotion or feeling but in doesn't rob you of it. Now this prior reason that influences people is what creates this distrust, but isn't it our own fears and inhibitions at work here. And isn't that a subconscious process. A child also shows that but he ain't reasoning(consciously) anywhere anytime. So why blame conscious reasoning when its the subconscious way of human mind at work here.
We human are made in such a way that we keep on adding anything that comes our way. We keep on storing emotions, feelings, thoughts, experiences, views etc all along our life. Or simply put only two things, sensory perception and ideas of mind as Kant would have liked to put. Its a baggage and it needs to present a coherent reality, things need to be in sync and reason's just a tool.
One could say that we can still function effectively with a certain level of rationality. Yeah we can but isn't that subjective now that you want to trust your leap of faith, am not denying it nor am leaving it just that am not leaving reason also and am not scared of it. Lets take homosexuality as an example. A century ago the concept of it was non existent. But what is it? Ain't it bound by emotions and feelings? And these emotions and feelings are not felt the same way by all. So would you also see it with distrust as its something alien to your sensory percept? Doesn't reason here save us all? Isn't it by an act of reasoning that we understand and approve of it?
Its human tendency to simplify things. Our language is full of these simplifications. What is pain? What is love? Can these tiny four letter words do justice to everything that these words may try to mean? Can these words mean the same to any two persons? No. But we still use these words, fully aware of their limitations. Isn't reason far better than that? Actually it looks, but it's on the same level ground as language. A simple act of 2+2 looks so pure and amazing. Point two birds to a child and then another one joins then and you say 2+1 equals three and the child accepts it so very convincingly. Why? Because it's simple. It's reason but very simple. A human emotion or feeling is not that simple, so reason may not do justice to it all but then its not its fault, it's just human condition. How simple and beautiful were Newtons laws, but then along came Einstein and they became complex. So can't one say that Newton's laws were actually approximations? And don't they still stand useful to the same extent in our day to day lives.
Man is social being and as Language is medium of communication, reason can be viewed as a medium of aggrement. This thing called subjectivity at once makes it immensely difficult for any two beings to understand what the other means by anything. Language provides a medium of exchnage of thoughts but to still agree and understand one needs to bind these things with reason as every emotion or feeling by every second individual is different.
Some say reason is just a mean to an end. We use reason to justify what we anyways will do. But isn't that touching a blind spot now? Attributing our decisions to subconcious mind and then saying reasoning is just an after thought. Can't it be said that prior experiences and reasoning based on them influences our current decisions. Yes, it does. So what's the point?
I guess biggest fault of ours is to say that reason interfears with our emotions, experiences and feelings. It doesn't. It acts on them and may have something to say before one engages in similar sensory perceptual acts again. So what's the fuss? I'll watch a Wong Kar Wai movie the same way even if I tried dissecting the last movie after watching it. Would it make me enjoy the colors less the next time I watch a Wong Kar Wai movie, if I know now that Christopher Doyle uses vanguard color grading techniques. No! I guess not.

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I don't usually write about marital spats on this blog--aside from the whole issue with the bungalows--but of course we've dealt with this on our end and I am curious to see what my Internet buddies have to say on the subject.
Since I've been sick, the Husbandlet has been beyond wonderful picking up the slack. He's made every dinner, washed dishes (usually my job), and cleaned our house all over. Every day as we'd come home from work, church, etc., he'd tell me, "I just want you to go lie down and rest. I'll take care of everything." And he has.
But I haven't rested, for the most part. Because the one job left to me has been baby care. And our precious, adorable baby is a little wiggler, a crawler, and a cuddler who is experimenting with twisting herself into pretzels during diaper changes, and who loves nothing better than constant contact with and attention from Mommy. I can't complain about that. I love playing with her. But the last few days, my energy has been so low, and every time I'd bend over to pick her up I'd feel dizzy; she didn't want to play for herself for very long, but would rather be held and lunge out of Mommy's arms at things, and it was a constant series of leaning over, lifting, putting down, picking up, balancing, catching, etc. etc. etc. All stuff I'm used to and love and enjoy, part of Mommydom, usually no big deal. But I was so tired.
So, coming home yesterday, after some talk of whether dinner was going to take a lot of preparation, I said to the Husbandlet, "You tell me every day to go rest, but I'm dealing with the baby, and I'm not resting at all."
Pause a moment and digest the full ouchiness of this. The poor Husbandlet had been working his tushie off to do all the work for both of us. My point--and there was other talk around this leading up to my comment--was NOT that the Husbandlet should do all that AND take care of the baby. I was just trying to say that if something less essential could be cut out--the dishes left unwashed, maybe a simple dinner prepared rather than a complicated one--and he could divide the baby-wranglin' with me, that would be more what I actually needed than, say, a sink free of dirty dishes. But it still sounded ungrateful and slave-driverish, and much talking-out was required. The Husbandlet was understandably hurt.
So here's my question: If someone is bending over backwards to help you, and it is helpful and you appreciate it and the person would be hurt if you suggested that the helpfulness was NOT appreciated due to the consuming nature of the helpfulness, BUT you actually would like a different sort of helpfulness, do you
a) Just let it slide. After all, the person is being helpful and self-sacrificial and caring, and what he's doing is helpful, necessary, and appreciated.
b) Bring it up, thus running the risk of sounding ungrateful and demanding, not to mention hurting the person's feelings as he sees all that hard work being dashed in his face.
I'm really curious.
P.S. I'm also really sorry, Husbandlet.


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So it is confession time here on KrisGetsHealthy.com I love ranch dressing. I used to put it on just about everything! Pizza, french fries, chicken wings, salad, pretty much anything. Saturday night on SNL there was a sketch where Melissa McCarthy was dumping ranch into her mouth… I was sickened to my stomach. My food was often times a ranch dressing delivery system. I see people all the time pile massive amounts of the white stuff onto their salads, and drown other food items in it and it makes me sad.
There is a new food being marketed by Popeye's Chicken that is REALLY getting under my skin. It is called "Dip'n Chick'n" it is a battered and breaded scoop shaped piece of chicken designed to scoop up more dipping sauce! We the people of the obesity epidemic of the United States of America DO NOT NEED a RANCH DELIVERY SYSTEM! Seriously it is designed to scoop up more sauce! The last time I had mass market chicken strips they held onto more than enough of the high sodium sauce, with their fatty deep-fried coating staying perfectly attached.
I understand the desire to keep your product line evolving, and having something new to keep customers coming in the door, however this just makes me sick to my stomach.
Don't get me wrong, I still eat blue cheese or ranch dressing but not in the way that I used to. I often make ranch dressing at home. I take plain greek yogurt and mix it with the Hidden Valley Ranch packet. It has a nice zip to it, sometimes I make it into a vinaigrette! I also still have my regular salad dressings when I go out to eat, sometimes I go for straight vinegar (skipping the oil), or whatever low-fat/lowcal option they have, but sometimes that house-made ranch or blue cheese is just so worth it! I account for the calories of the dressing in my calorie count, and I don't drench my food in it. I want to be able to taste my salad, and not be playing find the ranch covered bacon and cheese in my bowl!
So what do you think about Popeye's new bite sized dipping sauce delivery system. Are you as disturbed by this trend as I am? Did I mention that it only costs $3.99 and comes with EXTRA sauce, fries and a biscuit? Yep, we are on a trend to get America healthy.


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You don't want my injection? Sure you do. I'll pay advertisers, I'll set up 'free' conferences with 'free' food and lodging for those who will recommend and inject my solution into actual people. In my quest for profits, I'll corrupt inspectors, regulators, and lawmakers if I cannot delude them. They are only human, unlike me.
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Sunday, April 26, 2009
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Baxter: Product contained live bird flu virus
By Helen Branswell, THE CANADIAN PRESS
Last Updated: 27th February 2009, 3:26pm
The company that released contaminated flu virus material from a plant in Austria confirmed Friday that the experimental product contained live H5N1 avian flu viruses.
And an official of the World Health Organization's European operation said the body is closely monitoring the investigation into the events that took place at Baxter International's research facility in Orth-Donau, Austria.
"At this juncture we are confident in saying that public health and occupational risk is minimal at present," medical officer Roberta Andraghetti said from Copenhagen, Denmark.
"But what remains unanswered are the circumstances surrounding the incident in the Baxter facility in Orth-Donau."
The contaminated product, a mix of H3N2 seasonal flu viruses and unlabelled H5N1 viruses, was supplied to an Austrian research company. The Austrian firm, Avir Green Hills Biotechnology, then sent portions of it to sub-contractors in the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Germany.
The contamination incident, which is being investigated by the four European countries, came to light when the subcontractor in the Czech Republic inoculated ferrets with the product and they died. Ferrets shouldn't die from exposure to human H3N2 flu viruses.
Public health authorities concerned about what has been described as a "serious error" on Baxter's part have assumed the death of the ferrets meant the H5N1 virus in the product was live. But the company, Baxter International Inc., has been parsimonious about the amount of information it has released about the event.
On Friday, the company's director of global bioscience communications confirmed what scientists have suspected.
"It was live," Christopher Bona said in an email.
The contaminated product, which Baxter calls "experimental virus material," was made at the Orth-Donau research facility. Baxter makes its flu vaccine — including a human H5N1 vaccine for which a licence is expected shortly — at a facility in the Czech Republic.
People familiar with biosecurity rules are dismayed by evidence that human H3N2 and avian H5N1 viruses somehow co-mingled in the Orth-Donau facility. That is a dangerous practice that should not be allowed to happen, a number of experts insisted.
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There is no suggestion that happened because of this accident, however.
"We have no evidence of any reassortment, that any reassortment may have occurred," said Andraghetti.
"And we have no evidence of any increased transmissibility of the viruses that were involved in the experiment with the ferrets in the Czech Republic."
Baxter hasn't shed much light — at least not publicly — on how the accident happened. Earlier this week Bona called the mistake the result of a combination of "just the process itself, (and) technical and human error in this procedure."
He said he couldn't reveal more information because it would give away proprietary information about Baxter's production process.
Andraghetti said Friday the four investigating governments are co-operating closely with the WHO and the European Centre for Disease Control in Stockholm, Sweden.
"We are in very close contact with Austrian authorities to understand what the circumstances of the incident in their laboratory were," she said.
"And the reason for us wishing to know what has happened is to prevent similar events in the future and to share lessons that can be learned from this event with others to prevent similar events. … This is very important."
Thank you, Helen Branswell, as you did your job well. I hope you didn't suffer after all your hard work.
Perhaps a certain corporation was cutting costs a bit too much, or maybe a rare accident occurred, or could it be that somebody got paid to do evil? Nobody knows if it was an error or an "error." Nobody knows except those with the currency.
A story: Many, many years ago, in the land of cobras, each village had a 'poison doctor.' This person was responsible for treating any villager who was bitten by a cobra. This person was expected to do this for free, because untreated cobra bites are often lethal. A person bitten by such a venomous serpent is in no position to negotiate a price for a cure, and a sane culture does not prey upon its weaker members. This is one reason why most countries have 'socialized' the cost of medical treatment. One prominent country does not do this rational thing, so it pays at least twice as much for it's medical treatments than any other culture, and it often gets poor results. This prominent country is insane. Greed is not good, no matter who says it or how often.
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This interactive fictional account is illustrated with multimedia. An interior monologue, the story maps the ups and downs experienced when we come face to face with our own inner demons.
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As a girl I loved illustrated books. It didn't matter if the illustrations were a photo section in the middle of the book, or hand drawings scattered throughout. Once in my hand, I'd crack each book open and go straight for the pictures. After examining each photo or illustration closely and reading the caption many times, I'd plunge into the prose. Adventure stories like Kings Solomon's Mines or Treasure Island were my favorites.
Their pictures served to wet my appetite for reading. Before writing this blog I took a moment with the Easton Press's edition of Treasure Island. Just one glance at Edward A. Wilson's drawing of Billy Bones, and it was all I could do not to abandon this blog and plunge into the story.
If a narrative lagged, I could always flip to the next picture. This only served to build the suspense. But illustrated fiction went out of style. In nonfiction it was mostly photos, literal representations of the subject matter, but even those I found enthralling.
Fast forward to the advent of the internet and the digital book. Once more, illustrations became common place in electronic fiction. The Guttenberg e-edition of The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, for example, contains numerous enticing images. By this time I was spending many hours reading newspapers online. I loved it when they included video clips.
Then everyone began self-publishing stories and novels electronically. I had an agent and believed my novels would be traditionally published. Besides, as a long-time op-ed columnist, I knew the value of quality editing, and was very reluctant to self-publish. That was until I discovered Apple's iBooks Author, software that allows the writer to tell the story in words, images, sounds and video. It blew me away. I had to try. The writing would remain the core; all illustrations had to be a conduit to the prose, not a distraction, or worse, a replacement. I wanted to use illustration to draw the reader in, build suspense and even drive the narrative forward.
But what to publish? "Air Quality," a short story that explored addiction, had gotten awards in America (Glimmer Train Summer Open Fiction) and Australian (The Tom Stoppard Award for Short Fiction). Confident about the writing, I began making decisions. First, I wouldn't read or hire an actor to read the whole story; after all, I wanted the prose read. Second, all dialogue would be spoken – acted. I needed to find a cast. The struggle my father, an Australian, went through to give up smoking following a diagnosis of Emphysema inspired "Air Quality." Technology allowed me to have actors 10,000 miles away record the dialogue and send it to me via email.
In the case of video, I licensed some from iStock, but also had a young filmmaker shoot original footage for me. For sounds and music, some, such as the match strike were free, some had to be recorded, and some bought. The prospect of paying for the theme song for Jaws, while essential to my vison, was prohibitive. Instead, iStock offered a solution; licensing "(Cinematic) Thriller Orchestra," different music, similar suspense. Adapting a short story to an iBook can change the original story. For example, it allowed me to add other POVs to this interior monologue in the form of other character's spoken monologues. To hear these the reader simply clicks on the character's photo.
With so many people and moving parts it took a year of weekends to put "Air Quality" together. Because I was a pioneer in this form, Apple helped me with some of the technical issues. When the book launched it sold, not in runaway numbers, but more than I'd earned for any short story up until then, including my Queens Noir story. It sold in the US, Canada, Australia, the UK, The Netherlands and Sweden.
Then it morphed again. A literary short story became a tool to help people quit smoking. So much feedback about its impact on readers who gave up smoking or lost loved ones to tobacco, inspired me to developed a set of discussion questions. Now I'm working with colleges, community and church groups to run smoking cessation programs. Over the summer I'll be putting together an online discussion group based around the book. Meanwhile, few people commented on the multi-media – it worked – driving them so deep into the narrative, they got lost in its world.
Jillian Abbott


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Thursday, December 2, 2010
The woman, most likely, purchased the book at a comparatively pricey cost in some chain bookstore run by a multi-million dollar company. The book about Africa makes a perfect accompaniment on the trip to Africa. But will she ever see it, know it, feel it? Will she leave he comforts of a beach side tourist culture to go upcountry a few hours and see that people, Africans, are still living in the exact same manner as described in "Things Fall Apart"? Although the book was set in precolonial Africa the cultural details and living conditions are identical to life in The Gambia. Will she go and discover it, or continue sitting in her bikini drinking a beer in front of the ocean reading her book? Tourists come so close yet so far away from real Africa.
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Hello! You have a wonderful blog! I am happy to visit here!ReplyDelete
Joanna, really really amazing stuff. I love they way you recount your experience there--it's all so visual. Keep up the good work!ReplyDelete
-Phil Garrity
Darling Joanna,ReplyDelete
I am so anxious to talk to your family upon their return from seeing you. You my dear are amazing. A Woman of the world my dear...your experiences shared with such vivid detail are transformative to me. The smiles of your Gambian family members have captured my heart...I think of you often sending prayers and love always. See a full moon and know that I am praying and thinking of you in that moment. All is well here...can't wait to talk to you MOM in a few days. Love you dear one, PEGGY
Very nicely said.ReplyDelete
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Romain Grosjean set quickest lap-time by 0.168s over Fernando Alonso even as McLaren's Sergio Perez set third fastest following the Mexican hit the barriers car has definitely been damaged.
Red Bull duo unsuccessful to show again its Friday practice dominance, in final practice session, Sebastian Vettel set fourth fastest and his team-mate Mark Webber took seventh fastest.
The second Ferrari guy Felipe Massa set fifth fastest and early pace-setter Lewis Hamilton ended with sixth quickest and his team-mate Nico Rosberg took eighth fastest.
McLaren's Jenson Button and Force India's Adrian Sutil completed the top ten in the final practice time-sheet. Kimi Räikkönen struggled again to put together a competitive run on the Soft compound and to set eleventh fastest ahead of Williams' Pastor Maldonado.


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Minn. county turns to 'traditional' justice, and its working
GRANITE FALLS, Minn. — Skyrocketing costs for placing juvenile offenders in out-of-home facilities persuaded a western Minnesota county in 2002 that it was time to do something different.
Yellow Medicine County took advantage of state funding to launch a restorative justice program. Victims, offenders and community members join in circles as part of a traditional, Native American approach to justice aimed at healing, accountability and behavior change.
The county saw out-of-home placement costs drop from $620,000 in 2002 to $55,000 in 2010, according to Sharon Hendrichs, restorative justice coordinator for the county.
Those costs have started to creep back up, but the county's commitment to restorative justice remains steadfast. The county has made restorative justice a county department with two full-time staff members and made it the focus for much of its corrections work.
Hendrichs and colleague Jessi Jeppesen now coordinate 80 volunteers working in 18 different circles aimed at helping juvenile offenders, substance abusers, struggling families and youth making the transition back into family and community life.
The county's commitment to restorative justice has attracted state and national attention. Hendrichs and former colleague Julie Marthaler have made trips to other states to accept awards and describe the county's efforts to audiences.
And while the county's restorative justice coordinator can point to a wide spectrum of financial advantages to the approach, she believes there is a far more important measure of its worth: It's helping people break the cycles of addiction and delinquency that brought them to the courts and county's family services office in the first place.
"I'd get in trouble. I'd go to court. I'd do my time. I'd get out. It was the same thing over and over,'' said Dave Benson, who has used the new program.
Benson started down the traditional juvenile offender path in 2001 with his first court-ordered assessment for chemical use. From 2002 through 2010, the county spent $51,726.26 on treatment costs for Benson above those covered by his insurance.
From 2007 to 2010, the county spent $2,420 on jail costs for him, according to Hendrichs.
Benson was given the choice of going back to jail or to a restorative justice circle in 2010. After so many mandates from the courts, Benson said he jumped at this new option.
"For once I was given a choice.That's what really intrigued me,'' he said.
Today he is maintaining sobriety, is a circle volunteer, and is married to the daughter of a circle volunteer who had helped him.
While the circles were launched originally to help juvenile lawbreakers, the county started Circles of Hopes in 2010 to help those with addictions.
Melissa Helgeson, who handles chemical dependency evaluations for the county, said the success of circles at helping juvenile offenders break the cycle of repeat offenses begged the question: "Why can't we do this for people in recovery?''
Patrice Fjermestad considers the answer to that question a lifesaver for her. She began using marijuana at age 14 and then turned to methamphetamine and opiates in a span of less than a dozen years. She was arrested in 2010 for taking one of her children with her on a drug deal.
Inpatient treatment helped her find sobriety, but she credits her participation in the circle program with helping her maintain it. Being with people who understood "where she was coming from" made the difference, she explained.
"Having a genuine connection with someone is what is changing for them,'' said Helgeson of the circle process.
Fjermestad works today as an registered nurse and is a circle volunteer.
Not all of those offered the option of joining a circle accept it, and not all of those who do get involved will succeed. From 2002 to 2012 there were 77 juvenile offenders in circles, with 38 successful completions, according to records kept by Hendrichs.
For most, the circle process is more difficult and demanding than the court process they are all too familiar with, Hendrichs said. The offenders have to face community members and victims they have harmed, and they are held accountable. And, they are expected to stay with it until they resolve the harm they caused.
"You have to dig down and see inside of yourself what is going on,'' said Mike MaKarrall, a circle volunteer, of the process. "You see these kids grow from it.''
They struggle, "but all of a sudden a light will click on," said MaKarrall, who is Benson's father-in-law. "It's so rewarding to us volunteers."


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The Deviation of Yung's philosophy from rules Declared by Freud
Freud Sigmund and Carl Jung are famous for their contributions on the discipline of psychology . At first, each had concurring views, specially with regards to unconscious. Nonetheless, they might later on differ on their own views. The start of dissimilarities was marked by Jung's open up criticism for Feud's Oedipus complicated theory, which led Jung to identified differing model psychoanalytic principle. The distinctions amongst Freud and Jung psychological views notably lie inside of the principle of libido, principle of unconscious and idea for reasons for behaviors .
Freud as opposed to Jung
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On theory relating to the factors behind human behaviors, Freud argued that behaviors are formed by past interactions when using the natural environment. As human visitors communicate with their ecosystem, they behaviors are changed to conform towards the needs for the surroundings . Even so, Jung managed that behaviors usually aren't only formed by previous interactions because of the atmosphere, but additionally the aspirations for potential. In Jung's perspective, encounters and aspirations have got a substantial effect in shaping human behaviors .
In summary, the variations between Freud and Jung psychological views lie during the theory of libido, idea of unconscious and theory of causes of behaviors. In theory of libido, Freud held that libido was a sexual electrical power, as argued that it had been a generalized type of psychic power. On concept of unconscious, Freud held that the unconscious carried repressed dreams specified to individuals, even while Jung differed that it had been not simply exact to persons but additionally inherent to ancestors. On concept of habits, Freud argued that behaviors are shaped by earlier interactions using the atmosphere, at the same time Jung managed that behaviors are formed by both equally earlier interactions along with the atmosphere and aspirations for foreseeable future.


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Centerbrook Architects Lecture Series Presents Architect Fred Bland, FAIA
May 4, 2015
Chairman of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Architect Fred Bland, FAIA will present an illustrated talk this Friday, May 8th at 7 p.m. at the Essex Town Hall entitled: The Making of A Garden(er): an urbanist architect in the garden as part of the Centerbrook Architects Lecture Series.
His garden in Stony Creek, CT has been published and is a regular offering in the Garden Conservancy's Open Days calendar. Come hear the talk and then go see his garden at the Open Days event on Saturday, June 6th. For more info see our website: http://www.youressexlibrary.org/adult-services/adults-featured-events/#centerbrook4
Fred Bland, FAIA will highlight the garden he designed for his Stony Creek home. He chronicles his development as both an internationally known architect and a local horticulturalist, and the connection between the two strivings.
A partner in Beyer Blinder Belle and Chairman of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Bland's design portfolio includes: the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky, Minnesota's St. Paul Union Depot, and the Shanghai Cultural Center in China. His Stony Creek garden was featured in the book "Private Gardens of Connecticut."
Bland earned his Master's and Bachelor's degrees in architecture at Yale University, and as a Commissioner on the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission he plays an active role in shaping the future of America's largest metropolis. An adjunct professor in the Art History Department at New York University, he also has served as a visiting lecturer at Columbia University, Yale University, and Pratt Institute.


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I begin my battle with nicotine when my lungs are still pink, my teeth still white, and my fingers stained only with peanut butter and dirt. It is a battle to fit in, to be cool, and nicotine is fated to be my partner. For life.
I am about ten when my parents send me and my brother to summer camp for the first time. I am a quiet and withdrawn kid, so not so many friends. I tend to sit and watch, keeping my mouth shut and my eyes open. This does not earn me friends any faster, but I'm not a nose picker. I'm not a "retard"—a non-pc term we use back then to describe the kids who are nose pickers—and despite my less than fashionable dress, kids eventually gravitate toward me as someone who is a fairly safe bet. It is safe for me too. I never have to face rejection head on. If I am rejected, I don't know it. I can ignore it. If someone does take a chance on me, I make sure not to let them down, either by actually picking my nose or doing something retarded like crying for my mother when I step in shit. It is a good system. It works for me anyway. It also means that I tend to be accepted by the socially rejected dregs of society. I can tell. I recognize my own kind when I see them.
A Fool for Kool
I spend the first day and night looking sullenly at everyone at camp, reluctantly participating in activities, and grunting non-verbal vocalizations at camp counselors who try to pull me out from under the rock I crawled beneath. When two bigger boys try to befriend me, I don't care any more than I do about singing Kumbaya around the camp fire. That is all it takes. I am accepted by these two without further reservation as each of them goes all in when they add picking me up at the little kid's cabin to their morning routines. Neither of them are bad boys per se, but they certainly are not the kind of kids my mother would have approved of which suits me just fine.
The larger boy smokes, which really is not all that uncommon back in the 70's, and, of course, he asks me if I want to try a cigarette. If he had not asked me, I never would have thought to try one, but since he did, I had to.
"Yeah, gimme one."
He shakes one out for me and hands me a lighter. He begins talking, but I'm not paying attention. The mostly white pack has a shiny gold foil sticker across the top and on the front panel, set within a green box, are white letters that say KOOL with o's that interlock in the middle. It is a sign. I know it. This is the key. To what, I don't know.
"No, you can't smoke that in here. They will have a shit-fit. You gotta go smoke it in the outhouse. That's where I've been smokin. Here, hold it like this."
He shows me how to palm the cigarette and lighter, a skill that would later become useful when I started shoplifting cigarettes and cassette tapes.
At dusk, I make my way up the trail to the wooden outhouse that sits on top of the hill and let myself into the one place I had so far avoided visiting since I'd got here. Somehow I know which end is supposed to be lit and which end is supposed to go in your mouth—maybe it's the color coding—and I puff two cheek-fulls of what smell to me like spearmint smoke. Then I inhale it.
That pack should have said FOOL. Since then, I've thought long and hard about that first experience with a menthol cigarette and how best to describe the sensation. The best I can say is that it was like smoking an ice cube that made super-freeze, silly-smoke that deep froze every exposed mucus membrane in my digestive tract and burned like chili peppers. Especially in my eyes and nose. It is not too unlike the tear gas that I would be exposed to later in life if that tear gas had been mentholated.
I cough. I gag. I flick a rope of snot off the end of my nose into the exposed hole in the floor as I smoke almost half of that cigarette before I feel like I'll soon be kneeling over that hole in the floor, perhaps falling in even, if I don't stop. So I do, flicking the rest of that shtick stick into the hole and killing it with one last draught of phlegm and tears.
Perhaps it was the methane-menthol combination, I don't know, but I'm stoned. My feet never touch the ground as I stumble back to the cabin and my two new friends who hadn't done me any favors today. But that's me talking now, not then. In any case, it would be awhile before I'd get the nerve to try another cigarette.
Meet the Red Man
I spend the next few summers working on my aunt and uncle's dairy farm where I am introduced to smokeless tobacco. My older cousin is a god sent to earth to keep dorky kids like me from killing themselves (intentionally or accidentally) during puberty and adolescence. He is very patient, taking extra time to show me how to do things on the farm, and he is kind. He never makes me feel like a stupid kid. He gives me his old Schwinn bike with a banana seat, a long and high sissy bar that was more like a roll bar, and a three-speed gear shift on the frame that threatened to knock all my teeth out if I ever wrecked on jumps, and he gives me his old boom box—which is what we call those ten-pound "portable" stereo systems with the big handles that take ten D-cell batteries and blow your hair away from your face when you sit in front of them.
But the most valuable thing my cousin gives me is his friendship. He includes me in all of his extracurricular activities and makes sure his friends do the same. If he goes somewhere, I go with him. If his friends come over, I hang out in the basement with them. And if they chew tobacco while they were doing it, so do I.
It is on one of these occasions that the two older boys are passing a pouch of Red Man back in and forth in the basement and spitting into a glass juice jar. I watch for a while and when they don't offer me any, I ask for some.
"Let me try that."
My cousin hefts the pouch up into the air.
"You wanna try this?"
He and his friend look at each other, and then he turns and hands me the bag.
"Don't puke."
I ignore him and take the bag, again white, but with big red letters and a shiny foil interior that contains what looks like moist, black leaves—which is exactly what it is—and smells like the back-end of a cow right before it whips its feces encrusted tail into your nose, eyes, and mouth, and completely blocks both of the former senses as it simultaneously overloads the latter.
I make a tripod with my thumb, forefinger, and middle fingers like I'd seen the older boys do, stab, and fish a golf ball size hunk of dead, smelly leaves out of the bag. Both of them are sitting on pause, leaning forward slightly. Silent. Staring. Grinning. Watching. Waiting. I'd watched them enough times to know that you do not shove a wad of leaves into your mouth so much as you maneuver your mouth and lips around them and your fingers. Picture grabbing a handful of spaghetti and trying to get the entire thing into your mouth at once. With noodles oozing from between your fingers and hanging below your fist, you would not shove the entire thing toward your face, but rather you would hold it up above your head, open your mouth, and, as you slowly lower your hand, move your head around so your mouth is in position to receive. Same thing with leaf tobacco.
I perform the "load" without making a mess, and the boys lean back as they skip forward a frame or two, their play buttons not yet quite pushed all they way back in.
I sit there cross-legged on the floor with my left cheek blown out like a winterized chipmunk's and fight the immediate urge to swallow as my salivary glands begin production in overtime as some sort of disaster recovery plan. I can't help it. I swallow. Not all of it, just some, but it is enough. I begin to feel very, very, sick and start to sweat ice water. The boys notice and now their play button is pushed back in as they resume their conversation. Only now it's about how green my face looks. Even as I am reaching for the juice bottle to spit, I swallow a second time and then again. I can't take it, and I run outside to spit the foul leaves out as I lean and retch over what now looks just like a miniature pile of cow shit.
That doesn't stop me. I have to try again. The Pennsylvania Dutch restaurant in the center of town has a candy rack by the front door. The top of it is for gum and mints. The middle is for bags of lemon drops, root beer barrels, and horehound candy. But the bottom of that rack? That is reserved for the Red Man. A two-year-old could have snagged a pouch, stuffed both cheeks full, and popped his pacifier back in before his mother finished paying the bill. A bit farfetched I know. What two-year-old have you ever see that can spit past their lower lip?
The first time is hard. I feel silly, like a kid wearing a fake mustache so he can get into a bar.
The lady at the counter eyes me carefully, then looks at the pouch of Red Man I'd just laid in front of her, and then, back at me.
"Are you going to chew that?"
"Uh, yeah," I mumble.
She eyes me a moment more before shrugging and accepting my money. It was easier, much easier, after that.
Since the restaurant doesn't sell cigars or cigarettes, I decide to try making my own—out of Red Man. I make a nice size tube out of typing paper and tape it closed with masking tape. Walking to the school behind our house, I prop my back up against a tree, and fire that thing up.
Have you ever smelled burning masking tape? If you have, you'll know that this is something you probably shouldn't be inhaling because poisonous chemicals are the only thing that can produce a smell like that. And the masking tape is the only thing that burned when I lit this hillbilly cigar as I'd had the foresight to tape the end shut when making it. Attention to detail. I was nothing if not a fastidious child.
Just a Pinch
When I reach seventh grade, cigarettes are 80¢, and they are sold in vending machines at, well, everywhere. This is when I am introduced to nicotine in her most seductive figure yet—snuff. I had been off all forms of tobacco for a while, mainly because I had no money and no one to impress, but it is about at this point in time that I think I develop my addiction.
I know cigarettes cost as much as they do in the early 80's only because I play a joke on one of my friends by sneaking the pack from his jacket, hide in a bathroom stall, poke holes in all of his cigarettes, and return the pack before he notices (I'd read about someone doing that in a book). Well, he notices, he is not my friend, he definitely is not amused and proves it by head butting me in the back of the head as I walked to class. I smooth things over with him by replacing his pack by proxy of the eighty cents I pull out of my pocket as soon as I can see straight.
We must have had a lot of free time in this school (it was private and church-run) because most of what I remember about my two years here are all the bad things I learned to do—like how to properly throw throwing knives and stars to get them to stick in the partitions, the mechanics of sex (not a bad thing really and another long story), female anatomy (also, not a bad thing), how to not hit yourself in the balls when twirling nunchaku, and how to chew snuff in the bathroom among other things.
One of my friends, a real one this time (not only did he not laugh when I told him what I thought sex entailed, he explained to me where I'd gone wrong), introduces me to these little hockey puck size, green cans of what looks like wintergreen flavored dirt. Over the course of a school week, we sit for hours on the counters in the bathroom, spit into the sinks between our legs, and just talk about everything. Until we get caught that is. A week of out-of-school expulsion, the beating I get from my father, and the fact that I did nothing but read and memorize chapters from the book of Psalms, and get beaten more when I fail to give a shit about it, cure me of the habit—for a time. Until I go back to school anyway. I am more careful after this.
Butt Bonds & Fool's Tools
In high school, a public one now, I quickly find a circle of friends with whom I fit after I go to the guidance counselor's office the first week and tell her I want to drop every single advanced class I am enrolled in. My kind smell failure and swarm. Sensing my own kind, I let them in. And all of them smoke. Soon, I do too.
I work at a restaurant after school and on the weekends with a few of them every night and cigarettes become a social bond between us. After school, a few of them hop into my car or I hop into one of their cars with a few of them, and whoever has smokes on them today, pulls them out. We pass a pack around, lite up, kick back, and ride, exhaling the stress of being losers, failures, and doing virtually nothing all day along with the blue-white smoke that just carries our cares and failure out the window and away.
During breaks at work we do the same thing. We share what we have with everyone. It shows you give a shit. Sitting on the loading dock, legs dangling, kicking idly, bullshitting, we let the smoke from our cigarettes carry our stress of working a shitty job in a shitty restaurant past a shitty dumpster that smells far worse than burning masking tape that is presently masked by the smell of co-mingled smoke.
I am now hooked on her physical as well as her social lures.
But, here's the thing; it is far from over. Tobacco is only the tool, a fool's tool on his quest for cool. It really is only the embodiment of nicotine, and she's a jealous bitch. Sure, she'll smack you around the first few times and make your head spin, but eventually you start to enjoy it, ask for it even, and pay her for the privilege. It's the worst sort of bondage. We become sadists who enjoy inflicting pain, misery, and suffering on ourselves even as we become masochists because we wouldn't have it any other way.
And that bitch nicotine laughs. She wraps her noose around our hearts, our lungs, our mouths, our arteries—all our soft tissues—and slowly squeezes them until we are dead. Who looks KOOL hooked up to a ventilator? Not me; not you. And definitely not the Red Man.
And she's fickle. She can take us before ten, or after twenty, thirty, or more years of abuse, or just plain leave us alone, and there is not a damn thing we can do about it. Nothing, except kick her to the curb and hope she doesn't hold a grudge. Hope she doesn't come back after twenty years and lay us horizontal out of spite.
If you asked me to pinpoint the moment she seduced me, I couldn't tell you. I don't know. But I can tell you when she had me in a headlock. When I no longer cared about anything else.
Worm Dirt
In my senior year of high school, as soon as I turn eighteen, I enlist in the Army. The recruiters make it easy. They sit in the hallways and molested us between periods like greedy salesmen. At least the Marines do. The Army recruiter does take "no" for an answer unlike the other recruiters, so I start telling the Marine recruiter "Army," every time he starts talking to me. Eventually I believe it myself and sign up for the delayed entry program in the hallway of my high school.
I think I know stress at home, at school, at work, but I don't. Not really. Basic training is stressful—until I eventually figure out the game. But it doesn't matter. Smoking is strictly prohibited, all tobacco products are here. But while smoking has a funny way of ratting you out with the smell, chewing tobacco does not. Snuff is easy to hide, and there are plenty of guys willing to risk the horrible consequences of getting caught at the PX after lights out and there are even more of us willing to pay them to do it.
The oldest guy in my company, at thirty-nine, is too old to quit or care if he gets caught. Well, he gets caught. With a whole carton of cigarettes. I'm not sure where exactly he thought he was going to hide them, but he never even got that carton out of the bag before they were taken and he was banished to the kitchens for a fate worse than death. I play it a bit smarter.
A few of us share one can of snuff and carry it with us most of the time, rotating the responsibility. Then the drill instructors start to make us randomly empty our pockets. So I buy several tubes of lip balm, empty them, and pack them full of wintergreen snuff. It is genius. Hold it up to your mouth, twist the bottom, and get a pinch without anyone knowing. I do this in front of the drill instructors even. I don't care anymore.
This was the point I where I made a turn. I could have quit. I had in fact quit for over a month, but I didn't want to. Like in the seventh grade bathroom and the loading dock at the restaurant, we sit in the laundry room cleaning our weapons or with our backs against a tree on a break, shoot the shit and spit. It wasn't the glue, but rather a solvent that broke down barriers and allowed bonding, even if it was a chemical one.
We eventually get caught. The designated carrier leaves the can sitting on the ground next to him as we sit with our backs against some rocks during lunch at a basic rifle marksmanship course. The last drill instructor I would have wanted to see it, does, and since we all claim ownership when he asks, "Whose can of 'worm dirt' is this?" he punishes us all by making us pull our pants down.
So there we all stand, in a loose circle, at the entrance to the range, with everyone coming and going, and us with our pants around our ankles. I don't think the drill instructor quite got it that none of us cared. We'd been sleeping, showering, eating, shitting, laughing, and crying together now for months now. I knew what my buddies' asses looked like by now and they mine because we'd been watching them for each other for some time figuratively and literally. So what? After a few minutes he starts to become agitated and after ten minutes, he gives up.
"Pull 'em up and get your asses over to the bleachers."
He takes our can, but never says anything else. I share my tube of lip balm until we buy another can to replace the confiscated one. At this point, if I have to choose between food or tobacco, I choose tobacco.
After basic training, I am assigned to the Battalion reconnaissance platoon at my permanent duty station. This means more schools and several more weeks of training in the field in a job where smoking is not exactly conducive to the job. Through it all, that little hockey puck sized can follows, school after school, field exercise after field exercise, through a deployment or two, back home, to my wedding, and to the hospital for the births of each of my four children. It is safe to say, it isn't going anywhere. I am solidly hooked with a five-can-a-week habit now.
Battling the Bitch (Eat Me)
After the birth of my last daughter, who's now eight, I decide I need to quite. I don't want to, but I feel I have to. I do not want to die over something as stupid as snuff, to be snuffed by snuff. This is also about the same time I come to the realization that I am mortal. From age six on, I'd never believed that I could actually die, and nobody had told me otherwise. I know better now. Using tobacco just doesn't make sense to me anymore.
It was about this time that nicotine gum is approved for use without a prescription. I'd tried patches before, but I ended up doing what I imagine most people do—using tobacco with a patch (or two) attached to my upper arm. It kind of defeats the purpose. So I try the gum. It is good enough, but as the only flavors they have at the time are the original and mint (and I hate mint and the original is very stiff and hard to chew), I use the gum only as a means to reduce my intake. I chew both. Perhaps the only benefit is that I develop such a tolerance for nicotine that should I ever happen to fall asleep in a greenhouse when they spray, or gas, or whatever, I probably won't die. Probably.
But then they come out with some new flavors. Orange is good, but still so stiff it hurts your jaw. This is followed by Fruit Chill, Extreme Chill, Fresh Mint (still nasty), Winter Ice, and the Holy Grail, Cinnamon Surge. Here, finally, is a worthy substitute for snuff that could finally kick that whore nicotine in the teeth and allow me to quit. It took a while, five years to be exact, but for more than two years now, I have not had any tobacco. At all.
I started with the 100 piece boxes. These last me more than a week, almost two. But before too long though, it's not enough to last even one. Fortunately, someone at GlaxoSmithKline has the foresight to create a box with 160 pieces in it. This lasts almost two weeks—for a while. Now I have a sixty dollar a week habit, an addiction to chewing gum, a mental map of all the Walmarts in upstate New York, and a tolerance for nicotine that surpasses my tolerance for the common cold. But I'm still not using tobacco.
Yes, I still look at the cans lying neatly in their racks behind the cashier with wistful longing for those days filled with camaraderie and spitting, but I don't give in. Nicotine, on the other hand, is an entirely different matter. That bitch just won't let me go. I won't let her.
I tried. I did. I do without her once for a couple of weeks until, while cleaning out my car, I find a piece of gum that she'd hidden under my seat. I carry it around in my pocket for two whole days while she whispers in my head.
Eat me. Eat me. Eat. Me.
I pull it out, look at it, turn it back and forth, look up, look down, and stuff it back into my pocket, my ears once again deaf to her pleas. Until one time I don't.
I just don't want her to leave. Not yet. Maybe someday, but not today.


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Everyone loves a good Disney movie and even though the greats are all in the past there is still hope for Disney with hits like The Princess and the Frog or Tangled which is by Disney or through their animating partner Pixar which is dominating the animation world. I wanted to make a list of my personal favorites which have some classics as well as some recent movies. They aren't in any particular order though.
Finding Nemo (2003)
How can you not like Finding Nemo? It is charming, funny, and pulls a little at those heart strings. It is my favorite Pixar movie of all time and is a testimony to outstanding animation. It is lead by both the narcissism and lovableness of Albert Brooks as Marlin but gets carried by the humor of Ellen DeGeneres as Dory who is easily the most notable character of the film. My reason for this being on the list is first just the outstanding and beautiful animation it brings. You feel the entire time like you are actually underwater and the distinct realism really sells you from the very first moment. The other reason is just how fun it is; it is one of those movies that you can watch over and over again and it will never get old. It always has that fresh, entertaining feel to it. If you haven't seen this recent classic you must check it out.
The Lion King (1994)
This is another movie that is just tough to find someone who just dislikes it. It's a classic and is just plain awesome. This staple Disney movie is still a large phenomenon and is even getting a re-release in the next few days in 3-D that's how popular it is still! (And they know it makes money) But besides that it's a very well animated and well acted movie. My favorite things in this movie have to be the music first off. Elton John wrote the unforgettable songs that people are still singing today whether it's for the movie or the musical and Hans Zimmer wrote the score to go along with it. Each are equally epic and create an outstanding atmosphere. The second thing is just how unforgettable this story is. It is like Finding Nemo in that you can watch it over and over again and it never gets old. This is one of the staple Disney movies and easily one of my favorites.
Toy Story 3 (2010)
This movie came out last year and even though that's not very long ago it still cements a spot in my top 5. This also kind of links to the first two Toy Story movies as well but the third was by far the best of the lot. It gave you everything you'd want in a movie (much less an animated movie) by taking these characters farther than you thought they could go as well as tying up this memorable story. Led by Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, the cast of the movie makes it so enjoyable. Each character gives a different flavor and will add humor or wit to the stellar script put before them. The reason I put #3 on the list is because of how it tied up the movies as well as just how perfect it was. It was nearly flawless and should of been considered as a legitimate Best Picture candidate due to how well the script worked and how much of a good job everyone involved did in making the movie. This movie is fantastic and is a must see for everyone.
Robin Hood (1973)
Not many people really have seen this movie as it was one of Walt Disney's early works. But nonetheless it is a fun, entertaining early film that makes you enjoy a little nostalgia. It follows the normal Robin Hood story but with a few added Disney songs and some historic context if you thought Prince John was a lion and Robin was a fox. The best part of this movie is probably how entertaining it is even though it is an older movie as well as the songs it has. The fight scenes and archery scenes are both fun and hilarious watching all of the different characters fighting to some typical Disney quirky music. The songs featured in the movie are great to sing to and were written and performed by Roger Miller. The most famous one, "Oo De Lally," starts off the movie with a funny kick that lets you know your in for a very fun time. Make sure to check this movie out which was recently put on DVD.
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Tim Burton's stop motion masterpiece is a phenomenal film and one people really need to see. Not only are the songs fantastic but the animation is so cool to watch knowing that it was hours and hours of moving clay figures to make this work of art happen. It's become a kind of cult classic as many people still wear stuff that pertains to the film but I love it for how amazing and fascinating the movie is. Danny Elfman wrote and sung the sensational score which has spurned many re-recordings by popular bands. They are an easy sing-along and I'm not ashamed to admit that I can sing most of the songs in the movie. I love watching it both around Christmas time as well as Halloween as it incorporates both themes. The story is also well put together and is something unreal and original. The characters are very odd and kind of funny in the ways that they act as they are so naive to anything but Halloween. This is a joy of a movie and should be given a chance if you have it.
Honorable Mention
Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) and Spirited Away (2001)
I put these two movies as honorable mention because they are not fully a Disney movie even though Disney distributes them in the United States. These are both movies by Hayao Miyazaki the renown Japanese animation director who is way above his time. These are my two favorites of the countless movies he's made and I wish more people in the US knew him and gave him a chance. His movies are generally absurd and weird at first glance such as Spirited Away but once you get into the story and look past the odd characters you find that it is a beautiful movie that deserves your attention. Spirited Away is probably his most well known film since it won the Best Animated Movie at the 2003 Oscars beating out the mega-movie Shrek. It has a very odd premise and that's what I think scares off most viewers but if just accepted this movie gives a outstanding story as well as stunning animation. Just watch the part late in the movie where the girl rides a train along the ocean and witness one of the most beautiful scenes in animation history if not movie history. Kiki's Delivery Service is little known and is older than the other. It follows a young girl who is becoming a witch and gives us a nice, safe story with breathtaking animation and a fun script. It also has the talented Phil Hartman lending his voice as her faithful black cat. These two movies are amazing and all I ask is to give them a chance. They won't disappoint.
Make sure to list off some of your favorite Disney movies in the Comments below!


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Our journey begins in Termoli, the best known of the towns located on Molise's small stretch of coast. Equipped with an impressive range of tourist facilities, in the summer Termoli is an extremely popular bathing resort, as well as being the departure point for ferries and hydrofoils heading to the nearby Tremiti islands. The wonderfully clean waters which lap its beaches have ensured Termoli continues to be awarded the European Blue Flag, year after year. Termoli is not just a fabulous sea resort, the town also boasts a stunning historic center, built on a promontory jutting out in to the sea. Access to the old town is guarded over by a tower - all that remains of the 11th century castle built by Robert I of Loritello - now symbol of Termoli.
Continuing along the Adriatic coast, after just a few kilometers, we come to the hilltop town of Vasto. This well conserved town is home to elegant palazzi, robust medieval towers, and charming 15th century churches. One of Vasto's most important edifices is the town's Caldoresco Castle, built right on the summit of the hill, from where it enjoys a commanding view over the coast and the seaside resort of Vasto Marina .
It is from Vasto that the celebrated Costa dei Trabocchi commences, a stretch of coast which continues all the way to Francavilla al Mare, via S.Vito Chetino and Ortona. The 'trabocchi', famous for their curious, crab-like appearance, first appeared on this stretch of coast in the distant 15th century. These platforms, equipped with rudimentary system of poles and pulleys with which to lower and raise the nets, were designed so as to allow fishermen to avoid sailing in unfavourable weather conditions. From the nearby hillside, a breathtaking view over this part of the Italian coastline can be seen. Great part of the appeal of Abruzzo lies in the proximity of the region's sea to its hills and mountains, further facilitated by an excellent road network.
The brief detour inland to Lanciano, also known as 'town of fairs', is well worth it, so as to admire the beautifully conserved edifices within this ancient town's historic center. An important destination of pilgrimage since the middle ages, Lanciano boasts a great number of houses of worship - the most important of which being the Church of S.Francesco, where the relics of the Eucharistic Miracle are conserved. During the month of September, a series of festivals animate the streets and piazzas of Lanciano, attracting tourists from far and wide.
Returning to the coastal road, we travel beyond Pescara so as to reach Spoltore, a charming little town, just 8kms from the 'City of D'Annunzio'. The historic center, wonderfully preserved largely thanks to recent policies of restoration and conservation, is home to a surprising quantity of elegant edifices, one of the most noteworthy being the magnificent Palazzo De Cesaris. The central Piazza d'Albenzio, built in glorious baroque style, is the heart of the town's social life where, during the summer, numerous artistic and historically inspired events are held. In the highest part of Lanciano the remains of the town's old castle can be seen.


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from the past week's reading. These new words I came across while reading The Marsh Lions:
Internecine- ".... which prevents the lions from wasting their energies in senseless internecine warfare."
Definition: fatal to both side, mutually destructible
Volplane- "At once his keen eager eyes picked out the inert shape on the ground, and he began his own stupdendous fall to earth, the wind hissing through his primary feathers as he vol-planed out of the blue."
Definition: to glide towards the earth (in a plane) with the engine cut off
Gralloch- "For long periods he would disappear altogether, patrolling the outer reaches of his territory, until the gralloched corpse of a young impala dangling from one of his larder trees announced his return."
Definition: to remove the entrails of (especially a deer)
Kopje- "The kopjes are very old."
Definition: a small hill rising up from the African plain
Ineluctable- "Her nostrils drew in a tangle of ripe odours: geese and reedbucks, buffalo dung, rotting flesh, lion, grass, wildebeest and the black ineluctable reek of the Marsh itself.
Definition: unavoidable, inescapable
Corsair- "Mysterious, elusive, enigmatic, they were the restless corsairs of the wide grass oceans."
Definition: a pirate, or a swift pirate ship
Vernal- "The sound of the grass was in the wind, and its rank vernal smell was everywhere."
Definition: occurring in the spring, or fresh and youthful
Alate- "All over the plains, their mounds and mud chimneys erupted, releasing hordes of winged alates into the waiting mouths...."
Definition: having wings, or wing-like extensions
Riparian- "There she grew up, a fierce recluse, keeping to the dense riparian forests..."
Definition: on the banks of a river
Pronk- "Some of the territorial bucks began to pronk, bouncing away in stiff-legged alarm."
Definition: to jump straight up
for more wondrous words, visit this meme's host Bermudaonion
I did want to write a book post, as I just finished No Room in the Ark. I have new words from that one, too, but not looked up yet. Either my head is too achy to think straight, or the cold medicine is making me sleepy- I'm not up to writing well, now. All the BBAW posts are putting me in a whirl. Maybe next year...
9/19/09 Edit to add: here are the ones from No Room in the Ark:
Grenadilla- "...we entered hot groves of semi-tropical fruits, oranges and grenadillas, pineapples and bananas."
Definition: fruit of the passionflower vine
Cafard- "But it was not enough to beguile loneliness, to keep the cafard at bay."
Definition: this is a French word, and I think it means depression or apathy
Propinquity- "This propinquity was altogether too much for one of our drivers who had not before this ventured far outside Nairobi."
Definition: close in time, place or relationship (in this case, close to a lion)
Intransigence- "And the issue was still further confused by the fact that the Masai, perhaps because of their very toughness and intransigence, are rather admired by white men in Africa..."
Definition: stubbornly refusing to compromise
Sep 16, 2009
wondrous words
3 comments:
- bermudaonion said...
It's official - pronk is my new favorite word and I think I can ip it into conversation. You found some great words in that book. Thanks for participating!
- 9/16/2009
- An Anonymous Child said...
I can't fully remember now where I know it from, but I'm familiar with the word "kopje". And what an interesting word it is too. So specific yet concise.
- 9/17/2009
- Jeane said...
I've never heard "pronk" used in any other context except for when the antelopes do those high jumps away from predators- it would be interesting to hear you use it in a coversation! I bet no one would know what you meant.
- 9/19/2009
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