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Here is Chris's amazing transformation story:
Well let's see where do I start? On my birthday December 04, 2011, I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes due to obesity. It was my 30th birthday and my stats were as follows: 316lbs – XXXL shirts – 46 inch waist – 22 1/2 inch neck. I was devastated from the news I had just received. I now had to take 4 different types of medications and check my sugar levels with a finger stick 4 times a day.
Being a nyc police officer with an emergency medical technician background from my previous employer (the Fire Department of New York) I was ashamed of myself. I started to think about my son, who was born just 3 months prior to my diagnosis of diabetes. He is a very special baby to my wife and I. He was born with a form of autism called ACC (Agenesis of the Corpus Collusem). With the obesity and my sons condition on my mind, I knew it was time to stop being selfish and comfortable as an overweight disgusting cop/father.
My journey kind of begins like most peoples do…Watching Extreme Makeover Weight Loss Edition with Chris Powell. He is an amazing man and does amazing things for people. So I decided to begin my journey! The first thing I changed was absolutely no soda, actually no drinking anything other than water. Then it was the fast food. Absolutely NO fast food since December 2011. And I started to see a difference in my weight but nothing crazy. I was down to about 290 and then I fell off. My wife and I were now expecting our second child which was a total shocker. So I began to comfort eat again with limits, but i wound up back at around 300 again. My daughter was born in 2012 and after losing a baby girl to a miscarriage years earlier my wife and I knew we had another very special baby in our lives.
Oct 2012 was the last time I thought I'd eat garbage. I absolutely changed my whole life around. Although I was NOT going to the gym or excersizing, other than walking, I was doing pretty good. I was down to about 265-270 just eating 65% healthy and walking. And then another tragedy occurred. In 2013 My son domenico suffered a serious grand Mal seizure out of nowhere and was hospitalized for over 2 weeks. My wife and I were devastated. I couldn't care about anything else in the world not even myself. And then I remembered watching an episode of Extreme Makeover Weight Loss Edition a month earlier featuring Drew. And your story smacked me so hard on my face it was like a miracle! I woke up. I said, if this man can intentionally damage himself to kind of prove a point then what the heck am I doing sitting here shortening my children's and wife's time with me. Me being a cop shortens it enough. I started to eat 80-85% healthy and I started doing at home workouts and excersizes I found on Drew's website and videos I found of him along with his wife and the powell pack online. I started to follow the meals Drew and his wife suggested. I was feeling great! I started in the gym about 4-5 times a week and I NEVER turned back!
In January 2014 I was promoted to the rank of detective and my current stats stand as follows: Diabetes-free, no medication, 220 pounds – 34 waist – XL shirt – 17in neck and 13.6% body fat and Im in the gym 4-5 times a week and eat around 80-85% healthy. I feel amazing! I feel so good about myself and the changes are very noticeable that people I know walk right past me in the street. I truly believe if it wasn't for Drew's journey and the many TV interviews as well as his episode on Extreme Makeover Weight Loss on TV I would've continued to follow the dangerous slope to death. I also have to thank my wife for standing by me. Anyone who goes through a change like this should know, you need the moral support from friends and family to succeed as well.
Thank you drew for listening and being an amazing person.
(Progress photos of Chris's journey)


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Murder in Mayberry: True Crime in America's Hometown
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Saturday, May 27, 2006
Samatha Baremore ~ Samantha Baremore : UPDATE
He moved forward and today Patrick sent me her vitals and a photo will be coming soon. Information supplied by her mother.
Samantha is not Samantha after all... her name is:
Samatha Elizabeth Baremore NO "N"
Samatha Elizabeth Baremore, was 24 years old when she went missing on April 8, 2004. She was last seen in the 1700 block of S. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. She had been living with her boyfriend on Weatherwood Court. Baremore has not contacted her family or boyfriend since her disappearance.
Height - 5 feet 6 inches tall
Weight - about 115 pounds
Tonight I can sleep well… it feels great. Thank You Patrick
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Now it's 2012 and her family still has no new information about her been missing. I am a family member that still would like for her to be found. I would love to see her and to talk to her again.Even just to know where her body is so we can lay it to rest with her Father. Keep Looking for My family member i have faith that her is still around. Thank uReplyDelete
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If you think WAN optimisation is a niche market, don't bring it up around Jerry Kennelly. Co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Riverbed Technology, Kennelly is a fervent believer that WAN optimisation is the foundation for the next generation of IT infrastructure, and that Riverbed is poised for a dominant role not only in corporate data centres but in the cloud as well.
Since its founding in 2002, Riverbed has become the leader in WAN optimisation (according to consultancy Gartner Group), and it continues to grow at a rapid clip, as in 39 percent year-over-year revenue expansion in its first fiscal quarter ended June 30. In this installment of the IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series, Kennelly spoke with IDGE Chief Content Officer John Gallant and Network World Senior Editor Tim Greene about battling with Cisco, the expansion of Riverbed's product line, and big opportunities in the cloud.
IDGE: Where does Riverbed go beyond WAN optimisation? You are a dominant player, but the danger is that you become a one-trick pony. How do you expand the scope of this business?
Jerry Kennelly: What we're really doing is layer-seven application acceleration, and that has much deeper implications than simply making a particular land line faster and cheaper than it was. It's something that changes the nature of global IT infrastructure for every major company in the world.
Everyone likes a fast line. It was attractive to people because it saves them bandwidth. It's much cheaper to do optimisation and compression across the network than to buy bigger links. But then we saw people doing data centre consolidation with it, which is moving all the server and IT infrastructure out of branch offices, out of multiple data centres into just one or two. That trend has driven a lot of our growth in the last three years. Our products make that possible because you can't do data centre consolidation unless you can give reasonable performance to the people who no longer have local servers.
We woke up one morning about six months ago to discover, wait a minute, what we're doing is creating private clouds, because what data centre consolidation does is the creation of a private cloud. So, in fact, we've actually penetrated the cloud market.
The further implication is that if you have to have our technology to do private clouds, well, guess what, you can't do public clouds without it either. The biggest companies in the world, the biggest service providers, the biggest systems integrators, the biggest Fortune 100 companies, are coming to Riverbed to ask us, "How do we do our cloud infrastructure into the future?"
IDGE: Cisco started out in the multiprotocol router business and expanded into many other areas, including switching, storage, security, and more. Should we expect to see a similar, diverse growth track and expansion plan for Riverbed?
JK: Cisco is the layer two and three of networking, but the action now is less at layer two and three and much more layers four through seven. Cisco's the king of two and three and we're the king of four through seven.
We just have a huge future for ourselves. We bring the capability customers could only dream about, that no one thought was ever possible, and here we are delivering it. There is a big product future, revenue future, for us. We're a strategic partner. I talk to CIOs all the time now, and the importance of having knowledge workers connect to their applications effectively, cheaply, globally, seamlessly, 24-7 is critical for them. That's what we do. That gives us an incredible position going into the next decade.
IDGE: Where could the company go in that layer four through seven realm?
JK: Our big concentration now is the edge of computing, the branch offices where a lot of the workers are. But there's an interesting thing happening with data centre consolidation and cloud computing. The old paradigm was the corporate headquarters was where the corporate data centre was, and all the branch offices were the edge. What's happening now is the corporate data centre is being moved to a cloud somewhere else. It's in Wyoming or Arizona. What that means is that the corporate headquarters is now part of the edge. Having the headquarters join the edge increases our market opportunity.
We introduced a product about a year ago called Riverbed Services Platform (a virtual server environment on Riverbed's Steelhead appliances) that allows you to plug in five other software modules of services you would place in your branch office. We're approaching the ability to give people that dream of the one-box in the branch office. You don't need a separate box to run your Windows server anymore, or really any other server in your branch office. That becomes the beachhead of a very big market. Into that single box you can plug in your security, your media server, your media streaming, your DNS, DHCP, domain controller, your print server, your Microsoft Windows server, anything you want. That becomes a large ancillary and synergistic market. That's the edge.
Then we have a market in the data centre, the connection back to the edge. You have to have a Steelhead at either end of the link. So we have great big honkin' Steelheads, one of which we just introduced, the 7050, that allow for massive scale in the data centre for people to connect to the branch offices. Then further, the connection to the backup and recovery data centre for storage to be sent over the WAN instead of by tape. Put it all together. We have the edge market, we have the data centre market, we have the connection between them, and then we have the backup and recovery market. All available to Riverbed, just from that little start up making stuff go faster across the wide area network. The implications of speed and performance turned out to be much vaster than anyone dreamed back when we appeared on the scene in 2002.
IDGE: Playing that Cisco analogy a little farther, it grew primarily through acquisition. Is that the model for Riverbed?
JK: We've grown organically through our inside development and we desire to do acquisitions. We acquired Mazu Networks, [whose products] we now market as our Cascade product. That's a network performance management and security product that plugs in very naturally with the Steelhead. We seek to do more acquisition. It's tougher. The whole layer-seven world is still somewhat new so there are fewer attractive targets for us in terms of acquisition. But we're very interested in doing that, and we look very hard. We have a high bar about what we would acquire, obviously, having just done one in nine years. But we've got plenty of cash, we've got plenty of management bandwidth. If we can find good targets, we will expand by acquisition as well.
IDGE: Speaking of risk, other technologies in the past have become simply features that live on other devices. How long before that happens with WAN optimisation?
JK: Cisco, our biggest competitor, hasn't done very well in this market. They were going to put [WAN optimisation] as a blade in a router. Well that's not a natural place for it.
Basically we put a powerful server at either end of a wide area network link that has a lot of processor, disk, and memory. And you need all those to do the magic of compression, deduplication and acceleration. Routers and VPNs, basically they're just little CPUs, hardly any memory, no disk, hardly any compute processor at all. In fact, the box that supports a router has nothing whatsoever in common with the box that supports network acceleration. It's much more natural to stick a router in [acceleration gear], and we've done that. We announced it within the last three months, a partnership with Vyatta, which makes a small router that just plugs into a Steelhead box. It's more natural to put that in a slot in a Steelhead box than it is try to put a big server tacked kind of artificially onto a router. Cisco has this ISR box where they have a slot for a WAN optimisation board. The only thing that's integrated in that scheme is the power and the chassis. There's no other integration. It's a completely separate computer that just happens to share the power supply and be wrapped in the same piece of sheet metal. If you made it big enough you could park a Toyota in there and have it be a router, a WAN optimiser and a Toyota garage.
With our approach, where we've got a VMware layer on a powerful, it's a more natural fit to put a router and a VPN and a Windows server and whatever else you want to do on top of the Steelhead than it is the other way around.
IDGE: You're doing well making money off data centre consolidation, but how much longer do you think that will be a cash cow for you?
JK: It's two am in a 24-hour day. Most of the estimates for the market are six to eight million branch offices worldwide that are connected by network links. Everyone in the [WAN acceleration] market together has about 250,000 or 300,000 of those in total, so there's a vast amount of market left to come. It's still a young market. Riverbed is nine years old, but if you look at our life-to-date revenue, which is something like a billion and a half, a billion of that all was achieved in just the last three years, we've been on such steep ramp. The functionality and the economics are so attractive that we think the adoption rate ultimately will be much higher. We're not claiming a hundred percent, but it's reasonable to think of 50 to 60 percent adoption rate for this over the next 10 years. That throws off a tremendous amount of revenue.
Again, these data centre consolidations are a proxy for private cloud computing and then public cloud computing. The genie's out of the bottle on that. It's not going back. The ability to connect at the application layer across networks is going to be a permanent requirement of everyone. We've benefitted by the fact that latency never goes away. Einstein was right, you can't exceed the speed of light. As long as people are geographically distant from their compute resources, they'll have to have our technology.
IDGE: Recently Riverbed announced the Virtual Steelhead, and you also have the RSP. They seem to compete. Can you distinguish the different use cases?
JK: In general we find IT guys want to buy appliances because it's a lot easier for them. We found there are certain corner cases in the market where people want specialised server form-factors because of space requirements, heat. The military has special ruggedised server boxes that can take a bullet and be dropped out of a helicopter and operate in dust and a 115-degree heat. We don't make that box, but they want to have a Steelhead out there anyway. So the Virtual Steelhead allows that. There are places in boats and submarines and oil platforms and news vans and trailers and construction trailers, again where people have a limited space and they like the Steelhead functionality, but there's really no room for a Steelhead box. The Virtual Steelhead has to address that market, which is really a corner case of the places we can't fill with our appliance Steelheads.
But there's a second market. Virtual data centers where people are going more cloud, have made dense server farms for their data centre, don't really want a foreign appliance in there and just want to run the Steelhead that will connect them out to their branch offices, mounted on their dense blade server infrastructure, their data centre in a virtual way. So the virtual Steelhead is for those two markets.
IDGE: You talked data consolidation as being a proxy for private cloud, which we'd push back a little on. Having a consolidated data centre doesn't necessarily mean that data centre has the characteristics of a dynamic IT infrastructure.
JK: Either way, we get their business, whether they do it in the cloud format or in a very traditional corporate data centre format. But yeah, I take your point. I'm not trying to push the cloud, by the way.
IDGE: Let's talk about that private cloud, though. What's the next phase of growth for cloud and how does that affect your market?
JK: What people want is less and less at the edge because it's expensive to deploy it or you have multiple instances, it's less secure, you have to patch it, you have to back it up, you have to have system admin personnel and resources. It's difficult to keep trained people over long periods of time. Everything that can be pulled back from a branch office and kept at that central data centre is what people want to do. People will have a single access point to the network from their data centre, then backhaul internally off their branch offices to reduce the security concerns. You'll see more online data available to be backed up across networks instead of through tape backups. So the ability to do disaster recovery, backup and archiving, never touching a tape, from big data center to backup data centre across the WAN link will become more important, and that'll be an important market opportunity for us. Then, the density of these big data centres gives us an opportunity to put our biggest machines to work. Data centre consolidation will continue, whether it's the old fashioned way or the new way. It's just what everybody wants to do. It's where the big ROI is.
IDGE: Riverbed's talked a very little about something called Cloud Steelhead. What is that?
JK: Cloud Steelhead is something we're going launch in [Q4], so I don't want to preempt our launch. But think of it as a special version of the Virtual Steelhead to be mounted in public clouds like Amazon, or AT&T's offering or any public cloud provider. It has special features that give us the ability to capture the network traffic for the customer in the public cloud so he can do his acceleration, and also some features that service providers like as support for multiple customers. The special version of the Virtual Steelhead is intended to be for customers that use it when they're going to the public cloud provider.
IDGE: Riverbed has a partnership with Verizon Business for a managed WAN optimisation service. What kinds of customer are using it?
JK: It's a relatively new offering, but we just got a great Fortune 100 customer out of it very recently. We've actually been doing business with Verizon, one-off deals - for almost four years now, and this business is driven by customer demand. End-user customers go to their service providers, they say I want a service, and by the way I want WAN optimisation, and I want it to be Riverbed's WAN optimisation. That's been true the whole time we've been in business. We've had relationships with all the service providers almost from the beginning. Verizon saw enough of this business and enough of this demand that they said we've done enough one-off contracts and went to a master contract. A Verizon salesperson can just go to his price list from corporate, and there's an item there that says Riverbed WAN optimisation managed service. That should make the flow of business easier for everyone on both sides. What the big service providers are telling us is that in virtually every RFP now, there's a requirement for WAN optimisation as part of the managed service delivered by the service providers. Verizon's a huge player globally in that market, and we expect to do a very good business with them.
IDGE: What will desktop virtualization mean for WAN optimisation?
JK: There's a lot of interest in desktop virtualisation. We've been an early partner of VMWare and we just released version 6.1 of the Riverbed product, which works very well with the Citrix products for desktop virtualisation. IT guys would like the guys out at the edge with their laptops and desktops to be able to move that up across the WAN, to do continuous data protection of their files and essential storage, and be able to manage the image of all the desktops in a way that's cheap and efficient. Desktop virtualisation has the same problem as data center centralisation, which is distance. It's an impediment to the performance of the desktop, either to boot it up or to get the image across the network or to do the continuous data protection. We help anyone who's doing desktop virtualisation to make a cheaper, more powerful experience for the individual virtual desktops, number one. Number two, we have future products in development that will give you the ability to boot up your servers across the WAN and have an even more powerful desktop experience. I think it's come on a little slower than people thought. But it is coming, and products like ours, along with our good friends at VMware and Microsoft, will keep that trend going.
IDGE: Will you be able to offer any help with the stresses handheld devices put on corporate networks?
JK: We did come out two years ago with a reduced-footprint, software-only version of our product we call Steelhead Mobile that fits on laptops and turns the laptops of travelling knowledge workers into Steelheads, basically, so they can connect back to the Steelhead at the data centre. The impediment with PDAs and handhelds has been that you have to have a certain amount of storage capacity to do these optimisations. That storage capacity is now becoming available cheaply and readily for these devices, so we're looking at the market opportunity. We get a lot of requests from people who would love to see their PDA, their cell phone or mobile device accelerated, particularly when people are trying to view video and get heavy files across the network onto a PDA. We haven't announced anything there but it is an area of possibility both in terms of the way our product works and now the ability to get enough storage on one of these devices to make it feasible. I think that's something that we can look at in 2012, 2013.
IDGE: Let's talk about Cisco again. How do you compete against a company that has such a wide product range and has really strong customer support?
JK: At the end of the day it's about the product. If you have the right product of the right quality and the right market window, and you don't stumble over yourself, you have a chance to have a good win. The fact that Riverbed exists, it has the major market share in its domain up against someone who has the brand and distribution of Cisco, is just a testament to how much more superior our product must be. Because if it wasn't we'd have been dust a long time ago. But their expertise was never in layer seven. That's not a place they have any history of being in, a history of success in. They went against F5 (Networks) a long time ago and F5 beat them handily there and so have we. Nobody can do everything, be good in every domain area, forever. There are no supermen, and I think competing nine years with Cisco, I can tell you they are not supermen.
IDGE: What's the biggest potential risk to your business, what's the biggest potential opportunity and how are you managing those two things?
JK: I frankly don't feel a huge risk right now. This is the third company I've done from startup, and there's a set of risks you face every time. It's financing risk - can you get the money to build? There's product risk: Can you build it? There's market risk: If you build it, will anybody want it? Then there's execution risk. We're past the first three and really down to the last one. Execution risk is dealing with your competition, which we're very good at, not stumbling over your internal operations, and then finally keeping a fresh product line, and keeping an eye the future horizon and trying to skate to where the puck is going to be rather than where it is now. And you know our original co-founder, Dr. (Steve) McCanne, is still very active in the company. We have top PhDs, master's degrees, not just engineers but people who are visionaries and inventors and creators in the tech world associated with the company. We have a great view to the next three to five years. We have a tremendous backlog of innovative products in our pipeline that will be coming out that focus on exactly where the future of computing is going, and that's global IT, that layer 7, application performance for the workers of the world.
IDGE: What's the likelihood that Riverbed gets acquired?
JK: We're a public company and so the possibility always exists. The truth is we've come this far without that. We believe we're very early in a huge opportunity in that our customers, who don't want us to be acquired, our employees, who don't want us to be acquired, our suppliers, our management and our board, none of them are interested in acquisition, are better served both in terms of the quality of the product and for the ultimate value of the stock if we remain an independent company that fulfills its destiny with the size of the market that we're going to take down over the next five years. We're actually somewhat protected by Wall Street because Wall Street shares the vision of Riverbed and has awarded us a strong earnings multiple on our stock price. It's one of the top multiples. The type of people who would acquire you are the larger, slow growth companies, big technical companies. We're a high-growth, high-multiple company. They're all lower growth, low-multiple companies. It's actually dilutive for them to try to do an acquisition of us. So we have some protection on that front of things. We desire to be a standalone, independent company for a long time, and I think we're best served by that. And we're looking for a big, big win.


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"…each one different from the other, but we are entwined with one another in one great tapestry."
These words from Rosemary Crow's hymn perfectly express the image of uniqueness retained while recognizing our oneness, our commonality as a global tapestry of all people. As such, our ability to celebrate the diversity that makes for a stunning and colorful is called to fore.
To embrace our own shadow, to embrace those members of our family who irritate us, to embrace those in the community who hold beliefs and lifestyles differing from our own, to embrace cultures and faith traditions that conflict with ours, and to embrace every lowly blade of grass on this amazing planet, is to integrate all the threads of life into one great tapestry.
Maya Angelou said, "We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color." I would add, "no matter what their color, gender, sexual orientation, faith tradition, culture, socio-economic status, body size, political affiliation……etc., etc."
Peace comes when we recognize we are all in this together.


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2016 AIGA Chicago Awards Celebration
AIGA Chicago honors the 2016 award recipients—an inimitable group of talent that has enhanced the profession, impact and culture of design in Chicago. We're recognizing people and organizations that have pushed aesthetic boundaries while preserving the graphic arts excellence that's so vital to our city. This year, we are excited to announce the addition of the Emerging Designer award, created to support those in the Chicago design community who are still in the early stages of their career, but doing great things nonetheless.
Join us for a night of drinks, light bites and well-deserved applause for the following recipients:
The Fellow Award
Maria Grillo and Victor Margolin
The Corporate Leadership Award
Wilson Sporting Goods Co. and Wright
The Above & Beyond Award
Andrew Dembitz
The Emerging Designer Award
Alyssa Low, Frances MacLeod and Amy Schwartz


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Wider powers for PCSOs are given cautious welcome by Grantham councillor
PCSOs in the county have been given "a full suite of powers" by the Chief Constable which gives them almost as many powers as police constables.
Police Community Support Officers cannot arrest somebody but they can detain people and if they are resisted that is an offence.
Chief Con Neil Rhodes Tweeted last week: "Lincs PCSOs now have full suite of powers, except power to detain by force. We have some top people as PCSOs. Over recent years I've gained real confidence in their capacity and capability. Hence wide powers."
PCSOs have standard powers but Chief Constables can designate extra powers if they feel they are ncessary.
But South Kesteven District Council's representative on the Lincolnshire Police and Crime Panel says he fears the new powers could bring PCSOs into more dangerous siutations.
Coun Ray Wootten said: "I give a cautious welcome to the news that the Chief Constable has increased PCSO powers.
"We have some excellent Community Support Officers in Grantham, however their original role was one of being the eyes and ears of the community. I can understand why the Chief Constable has done this with his dwindling resources although I am concerned this would mean that PCSOs could end up dealing with confrontational situations for which they are not trained.
"I see their role as Neighbourhood Support Officers withering on the vine."
Among the designated powers given to PCSOs in the county are the power to seize drugs and to search for alcohol and tobacco. They can also disperse groups and remove people under 16 to their homes. With regard to terrorism offences PCSOs can enforce cordoned areas and stop and search in authorised areas.
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Oh this is so hilarious, HIV, the Human Imagined Virus, can now be tested for (so they claim) by buying a urine sample kit in a vending machine.
Hey it looks like a candy bar.
Hey what's that warning label say, "DO NOT EAT and do not swallow the load of crap called HIV"?
If a killer virus was real, everyone who has ever been bit by a flying syringe would already have it, actually, the majority of the population already does have it obviously because flying syringes are everywhere and dirty needles and dirty dicks are "how you get it".
Thing is people are not dropping like mosquitoes which carry every virus there is known to man and others that are not known as these little viruses are 10 billion times smaller than mosquitoes so they have no trouble picking them up now do they.
So we can continue to buy THE/LIES or we can throw the whole thing in the trash along with a tasty candy wrapper which is loaded with so much sugar it compromises your immune system and instead of blaming things smaller than dust for immune system problems that weigh 7 billionths of a gram, let's look at that 10 grams of sugar you just poured into your coffee and that 40 grams of sugar soda to compare which is harder for mosquitoes to carry.
I haven't met one mosquito yet that infected me with even one gram of sugar, yet people do it to themselves every day, then blame things that are 700 trillion times smaller for not feeling well, where the doctor then says "Are you a fag because if your dick travels like mosquitoes pricking everyone then you are spreading viruses or they have been spread to you so let's test you hon for HIV but not test you for your intake of immune system compromising sweets".
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Hey guys, Jana here,
The latest in the litany of film tendencies is the hugely popular live-action fairy tale. While Disney may have made a mint on pioneering the genre, they're not the only film company to have made the jump. Working Title and Universal are working the prototype and their next title receiving the live-action treatment is 'The Little Mermaid'.
Chloë Grace Moretz and Liev Schreiber's 'The 5th Wave' Trailer Has Arrived!!!
Hey guys, Jana here,
Chloë Grace Moretz('Kick-Ass') , Liev Schreiber ('X-Men Origins: Wolverine', 'Salt'), Maria Bello ('Prisoners', 'A History of Violence'), Maggie Siff ('Sons of Anarchy')and Ron Livingston ('Office Space') star in J. Blakeson's adaptation of Rick Yancey's 'The 5th Wave' novel set to debut on January 15, 2016.
Mark Millar and Kevin Smith to pen 'Hit-Girl' Comic Book Series!
Mark Millar is returning to the 'Kick-Ass' universe with a new 'Hit-Girl' ongoing series, which will hit shelves on February 21st, 2018. In the two 'Kick-Ass' films, the role of Hit-Girl was played by Chloe Grace Moretz and is a very young girl who is the most deadly and violent crime fighters in the world. In this new comic book series, Hit-Girl will leave America and set out for Columbia, where she becomes an assassin for hire.
Back in 2008, Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. created a new comic book that was kick-ass, that they in fact named it 'Kick-Ass'. It was basically Spider-Man if Spider-Man had no superpowers and was had a hardcore R rating. The amount of creative energy, violence, comedy, and character development that went into the comic was magical as it was entertaining and wonderful. Millar just had a way with words and story plot that made this comic book called 'Kick-Ass' solid gold. It was to nobody's surprise that only two years later, we got a feature film directed by Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake, X-Men: First Class, Kingsman) and produced by Brad Pitt, that ignited a new breed of R rated superhero films.
Hi everyone, Bryan Here….
It's rare when a comedy sequel works on all levels. With sequels, you'd hope the original cast comes back and there is a good balance of returning and new jokes and plot devices to make it stand on its own without doing the same recycled material as the original. With the case of 'Neighbors', you had a pretty great cast with Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, Zac Efron, Dave Franco, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse, in an 'R' rated comedy about a couple with a newborn baby, trying to raise a family next to a frat house. It was a solid premise with a lot of funny moments. The small budget film of only $18 million went on to make over $270 million at the box office.
Hey guys, Jana here,
2 years ago, 'Neighbors' was the king of summer frat movies, and on May 20th the sequel will give us some insight into another part of Greek life, the sorority. The usual suspects are back in play including Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, Zac Efron and, Evan Goldberg there are some new faces to the class with Chloë Grace Moretz and Selena Gomez leading the ladies.
Hi everyone, Bryan Here…
It's 2016 and that means more and more movies will be coming out for all of us to spend all of our hard earned money on. If you're a fan of the horror genre, here is a look at what horror movies to expect this year. This is not the 'be all – end all' horror movie list for 2016. There will be more that come out for sure, so keep your eyes peeled. That being said, this is a good starting guide for what to expect. There looks to be some great ones as well as some not so great ones. Let us know what excites you most.
Hillary T., Here…
Gillian Flynn wrote three books: Sharp Objects, Dark Places and Gone Girl. She has a very distinct writing style and the books are filled with a darkness and a narrative that is riveting and disturbing and draws you in. It's what makes her books so enjoyable and so suspenseful.
Hey guys, Jana here,
There could be more 'Kick-Ass' awesome heading our way according to film writer/director Matthew Vaughn. Of course I'm talking about the comic creation by Mark Millar that consists of average teenager turned vigilante superhero-wannabe Dave Lizewski who later becomes Kick-Ass and teams up with the father/daughter duo of Hit-Girl and Big Daddy.
Janet W., Here…
Clouds of Sils Maria opens as Maria Enders (Juliette Binoche), an accomplished actress, is headed to Zurich to accept an award on behalf of the director, Wilhelm Melchior, which launched her career with his play, Maloja Snake. She travels with her personal assistant, Valentin (Kristen Stewart), who does everything for her as well as run lines with her and judge the depth of the characters and the scripts. On their travels, they meet a director, Klaus Diesterweg (Lars Eidinger), who was working with Wilhelm wants Enders to act in the sequel to Maloja Snake. Diesterweg does not want Enders to reprise her role as Sigrid, but as Sigrid's lesbian lover, Helena. Helena is the opposite of Sigrid and is much older thus springs Enders' reluctance to accept the role. A young, forthright, and darn right scandalous actress is to take the role of Sigrid, Jo-Ann Ellis (Chloë Grace Moretz).
Hey guys, Jana here,
A&E has made a name for itself in being a go-to network for original TV series, they might be reality based like 'Duck Dynasty', 'Gene Simmons Family Jewels' or 'The Wahlburgers', police procedurals, paranormal reality and a series that was based on a legendary cinematic masterpiece from Alfred Hitchcock, 'Psycho', with 'Bates Motel'. The weekly show is enjoying success in it's third season and has set a positive precedent that A&E is eager to replicate, and like BM the network has chosen another horror movie to base the show on, 'Let The Right One In'.
Hi guys, Beka P. here…
Laggies is a delightful film about adulting and how you are never truly done growing up. The most refreshing thing about this movie's message is that it's not about becoming a grown up, but rather finding yourself in whatever stage of life you find yourself lost in no matter how old you are. The three main characters, Megan (Keira Knightly), Annika (Chloë Grace Moretz), and Craig (Sam Rockwell), are all trying to figure out who they are all and how they fit into the world. This theme is woven beautifully into how people connect with one another in strange, unanticipated and sometimes perfect ways.
Hi everyone, Bryan Here….
This remake of an 80s television show about a retired CIA operative who now helps regular people in trouble has been in the works for quite some time. I believe it was always going to star the impressive Denzel Washington, but a few directors have been in and out of the director's chair including Nicolas Winding Refn ('Drive'). He bowed out a while ago and the studio asked Antoine Fuqua to helm the project, which he accepted. Fuqua worked with Washington on the Oscar winning film 'Training Day', which also earned Washington an acting Oscar.
Hi everyone, Bryan Here…
It's very difficult to find a sequel that's as good as the original. There aren't a lot out there that are great sequels, but when they do come along, they are remembered forever. And maybe what worked so well for the first Muppet film that starred Jason Segel and Amy Adams is that it had a human element to it, and didn't just follow the Muppets around. That's not to say that this sequel 'Muppets: Most Wanted' isn't a lot of fun and very entertaining. It is, but it doesn't have that magic that the last one had.
Hey fanboys and girls, Jana here,
You may be asking yourself what is in the future for 'Kick-Ass'. Let me fill you in on the latest. When Mark Millar, the creator of the comic books the movies are based on, he's not sure either. The freshman offering from the Kick-Ass universe took fans by storm and surprise. I can't even count the number of times I've re-watched the movie, punched the air in victory or sat in shock watching the death of Big Daddy. Hit Girl is my personal favorite and I've tried telling my son numerous times that if he finds a girlfriend one day like her, I'll be happy.
The film made stars out of relatively no-name actors Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Chloe Grace Moretz and moved them up to major players in the acting world from the bit parts they had been accepting. The budget for 'Kick-Ass' was a trifling $28 million dollars but brought $100 million at box offices and earned another $140 million in DVD sales. This kind of revenue would make any production company eager to sign on for a sequel and that's what happened.
Hi, Jana here,
I'm talking about 'The Equalizer' today. Denzel Washington, the acting genius from 'Training Day', 'American Gangster' and 'The Book of Eli' is back in a role he's been born to play. The trailer just dropped on 'The Equalizer'. It gave me goosebumps watching this small clip of what HAS got to be an excellent movie! It conjured up feelings of Michael Caine in 'Harry Brown' or Gerard Butler in 'Law Abiding Citizen'. I've always been a huge fan of action movies, anyway, give me a revenge-based action movie and I'm enthralled!
Hello, Jana here,
Santa Monica, California child, Cameron Monaghan has had a slow but steady rise in fame since coming onto the entertainment scene in 2002, with a 6 episode-arc on 'Malcolm in the Middle' and bit parts in other series, culminating in a permanent place in the US version of 'Shameless'. Coming off supporting stints in 'The Giver' and 'Vampire Academy', he is nearing a deal that will put him in the 'Amityville' re-boot that is being produced by master of the horror genre Jason Blum for Blumhouse productions.
Hi, Bryan Here…
It's very difficult to find a sequel that's as good as the original. There aren't a lot out there that are great sequels, but when they do come along, they are remembered forever. And maybe what worked so well for the first Muppet film that starred Jason Segel and Amy Adams is that it had a human element to it, and didn't just follow the Muppets around. That's not to say that this sequel 'Muppets: Most Wanted' isn't a lot of fun and very entertaining. It is, but it doesn't have that magic that the last one had.
Hi, Bryan Here….
'Carrie' was Stephen King's first novel that was published to the masses, and it made him a writing sensation. Little did we knew back in the 70s that this mastermind would create some of the most horrific settings and characters known to man. Not to mention some of the best non-horror books around. In dealing with remakes, it's difficult not to compare to the original, as we have the same story arc and characters. In this case with Kimberly Peirce's take on King's novel, nothing seems to be too different than the original other than that we are in present day with mobile phones and computers and a few very minor details. Julianne Moore and Chloe Grace Moretz turn in great performances and give this reboot a bit of flair, but the overall pace and execution of some of the key scenes felt vague and lazy. Being the Halloween season and this being a horror film, I expect decent returns for this weekend only.
Hi, Bryan Here….
I've been eagerly awaiting the sequel to 'Kick-Ass' since when I watched the end credits for the first time of the original film. Aaron Johnson, Chloe Grace Moretz, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse all will return for the sequel along with Jim Carrey. Jeff Wadlow, who directed 'Cry Wolf' is directing this venture, which I hope is as good as the first one.
Bluray/DVD Releases For the Last Week of January and 1st Week of February!!!!
Hi Bryan Here…
Hi ladies and gents. Sorry this is a tad bid late from last week, but rest assured this week is on time and should be from now on. Tons of great releases these past couple of weeks. A few are exclusive only to Best Buy and I believe one or two on the list made my top 10 list of films of 2010.
As usual, you will get some info about the disc and the extras that come with the movie as well as a personal opinion about the movie and a link to purchase the film over at AMAZON where you can save quite a bit of money, and it will give a small percentage kick back to this site so we can continue bringing you excellent stories and sales.
Enjoy and Here We Go!!
Hey guys, Jana here,
'American Horror Story: Hotel' has already seen much of their revolving door of actors sign on for the new anthology series and as of now, Evan Peters has agreed as well. This marks Peters' fifth season run with the Ryan Murphy horror series. The only other actor, besides Peters, to have appeared in each re-imagining is Sarah Paulson.
Here's the Full Lineup Of Films for the 2015 Dallas International Film Festival!
Hi everyone, Bryan Here….
The 9th annual Dallas International Film Festival is almost here, folks, and we have just received the entire list of all the films that will be playing at the festival. The fest will take place April 9-19, and you can start purchasing passes now with the links provided below. It looks like there will be some excellent filmmakers and actors in town for the festival as well as a treasure trove of awesome movies, which you can see listed out below with a little bit of information on each film. As usual, we will be at the festival, telling you about all the cool movies we're seeing and posting some interviews with the talent. Stay tuned as I'm sure more announcements will be made.
Paul N., Here…
The great Wizard of Oz once said "pay no attention to that man behind the curtain." Like that tale of wonder, Mood Indigo attempts to transport the viewer to a land somewhere over the rainbow. The viewer is urged to pay attention to the smoke and mirrors of silly, sometimes stunning, visuals to hide the fact that there isn't much else to see. Indigo lacks the same charm or sense of purpose as Oz; instead of magical storytelling, the viewer gets slapstick farce.
Hi, Bryan Here….
SXSW 2013 is coming up and we are very excited about it. The lineup for the film portion of the festival has just been announced and Joss Whedon's 'Much Ado About Nothing' will debut at the festival, as well as the remake of 'The Evil Dead', 'The Incredible Burt Wonderstone', and 'Spring Breakers'. Plus much more. Below is the full list of movies. I can't wait. Who's going?
HBO's 'Big Love': The Complete Collection and 'Big Love': The Complete Fifth Season Announced and Detailed!!!
Hi Bryan Here….
In Stores Day-and-Date December 6, 2011 from HBO Home Entertainment®
Perfect for Holiday Gift-Giving
Both the 20-Disc Complete Collection DVD and the 4-Disc Final Season DVD Offer Extensive Bonus Features including "Inside the Episodes" with Commentary from the Series Creator


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Commission also approves updates to wolf hunting regulations, watercraft and aquatic invasive species
CHEYENNE, WY – At least every two years the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission updates its fishing regulations. After 13 public meetings and considering 93 written comments the Commission approved new regulations that would go into effect on January 1, 2019. These new regulations mostly aim to reduce the number of regional exceptions to harvest limits in streams and update live baitfish regulations.
Each year about 100,000 Wyoming residents and another 120,000 nonresidents buy a fishing license here. These regulations do aim to clarify and simplify the regulations to make it easier for people to participate.
"We feel like the Commission-approved changes improve the fishing regulations and we look forward to helping more people enjoy the incredible fishing Wyoming offers," said Alan Osterland, chief of the fish division. The regulations passed today reflect some public input that came up during the process. There had been proposals related to using only artificial flies on the entire Clark's Fork and on changing harvest limits for cutthroat trout near Jackson. Commenters opposed those ideas and they were taken out of the final regulations.
The Commission also approved updates to regulations for wolf hunting in 2018. Those regulations continue to align with Wyoming's wolf management plan and population goal set several years ago. This is 160 wolves outside of the national parks and the Wind River Reservation, but inside the trophy game management area. That management area is where most of Wyoming's wolves live. The Commission set a quota for regulated wolf hunting in 2018 of 58.
Additionally, the Commission made paddleboards a designated non-motorized watercraft and exempted them from requiring an aquatic invasive species decal. So, paddleboards do not need a decal as they do not carry water or aquatic invasive species.
Other action items of the Commission included final approval of a budget for fiscal year 2019, support a foundation focused on wildlife across Wyoming, implemented regulations following legislative passage of a new law to have a women's antelope hunt event, among other action items.
SOURCE; Originally published by WGFD.WYO.GOV July 11, 2018
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Stand up against those yelling 'fake news' over climate change
To the editor:
Jesus once said to Nicodemus, a politician of his time, "You are Israel's teacher and do you not understand these things? Very truly I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony. I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things?" [John 3:10-12]
I am a follower of Christ. I've been baptized and confirmed. I'm a church goer (though not front pew). I pray (but not as well or as often as I should). My life's foundation is The Beatitudes and Micah 6:8 ("Do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly").
And I am also a believer in science. Copernican heliocentrism. Newton's laws of motion. Einstein's relativity. Darwin's natural selection. The 97 percent of climate scientists who stated, "climate-warming trends over the past century are extremely likely due to human activities" and the 18 scientific associations, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, who publicly stated that "observations throughout the world make it clear that climate change is occurring, and rigorous scientific research demonstrates that the greenhouse gases emitted by human activities are the primary driver." (NASA)
I am not a scientist. But I understand the scientific method enough to trust those who have dedicated their life to it. I also know that scientific exploration of the universe is still young enough that a HEALTHY level of skepticism is necessary to continue to grow. But skepticism in America today has gone awry.
I have been told by more than one person that a belief in science and a belief in Christ are mutually exclusive, but I have yet to hear a convincing reason why.
My faith calls me to act when I see earthly wrongs. Nearly three decades ago, my denomination (Presbyterian Church USA) called for "engagement in restoring God's creation." It said "Earth-keeping today means insisting on sustainability — the ongoing capacity of natural and social systems to thrive together — which requires human beings to practice wise, humble, responsible stewardship, after the model of servanthood that we have in Jesus."
We are seeing the effects of climate change on our neighbors. Our social media feeds are filled with hurricanes, wild fires, oceans of trash, animals and people displaced and dying. While southwest Minnesota has not yet seen these horrors up close, Jesus called on us to "do for the least of these." (Matthew 25:40)
I humbly ask other people of faith to stand with me against those who yell "fake science." It is time to testify to the earthly truths we have seen.
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I recently decided to give Twitter another chance. Like any good little journalist trying to keep up with everyone else, I signed up for Twitter eons ago. I used it sparingly for a few weeks, then more or less abandoned it. It just didn't seem very useful to me. Or very compelling, either. It just seemed…random. A bunch of random stuff just constantly streaming through. Every once in awhile, a friend would post something intriguing, but otherwise, I couldn't figure out what people saw in it. I read an article in the New York Times by Matt Bai about visiting Washington DC and sending out a tweet to ask for help in finding a restaurant with a changing table for his infant daughter. At the time, I thought, "Hey, that could be really useful." But I didn't really understand either how it worked or that it did work. And so I gave up on it.
Well, like many things, I just had to learn how to use it. I decided to give it another shot, so I went in and set up queries so I could monitor various people and terms. Not long after I did this, the flood happened. (I feel like I should capitalize it now: the Flood.) Early that Sunday morning, I got on Twitter, searched for #Nashville and #Nashvilleflood and started monitoring the tweets that came through. So much information! It was a little overwhelming, but it was utterly compelling, too, even with some of the garbage that got through, too. (Eh, nothing's perfect.) When we lost power and then 3G service, I felt completely cut off because I could no longer monitor the steady stream of info. We got out our hand-crank weather radio, which helped a little, but I really really missed my new best friend Twitter.
At any rate, once I got back online, I immediately went back to Twitter. I'm really glad that I did. I'm using it now to monitor some freelance topics, as well as the development in disaster recovery post-Flood. I've started following some friends with witty things to say, just for my own entertainment, and I'm following some writers whose stuff I like to read. I don't know that I'll ever be one of those people who's always got something insightful or useful on Twitter on a minute-to-minute basis. But even so, at least I'm finding useful information for myself. And that's way more than I was able to do a year ago.


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Yesterday, as my husband and two youngest kids exited our minivan in downtown Los Angeles, the parking lot attendant told my husband to move the car. I motioned to my husband to wait as the kids and I walked behind the car. I looked over just in time to catch a "Fuck you" from a young, fit, homeless person.
I don't think he knew that I was a little stressed out. My guess is he also didn't care.
I looked at him apparently for a second too long. "Fuck you blondie," he walked slowly and kept looking back at me. I held onto my two kids' hands and waited as my husband re-arranged the car to appease the attendant.
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I was glancing over at him and back at my husband, then three older woman, dressed like they had been at church, came walking down the sidewalk. I tried to move my kids one way, and they went another. I apologized and they laughed and said, "No worries."
The homeless person across the street was still looking at me and said, "Get the fuck out of the way white girl," and he started crossing the street, toward me and my kids.
We live in a city. You need to be a little bit tougher living here.
I have lived in Los Angeles for 17 years. I have had my share on run-ins with homeless people. But this lengthy, somewhat threatening, engagement was a first.
I started saying loudly and frantically to my husband to get the kids in the car, to open the damn car. He didn't know what was going on and reminded me I had the kids. The homeless guy was now four feet away from us.
The kids asked if the bad guy was coming to get us, and I explained that he was probably mentally ill.
He saw me panic. "Oh you are scared," he said, finally getting what he wanted. Me, frightened.
He left us alone.
I was shaking and my heart was racing. We started walking to our lunch spot, and I cursed the guy to my husband.
The kids asked if the bad guy was coming to get us, and I explained that he was probably mentally ill. I held each of their little hands in mind and glanced at all of the other homeless people sitting around on the concrete jungle of downtown L.A.
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I thought, "I fucking hate downtown L.A. I always have." I don't care how hip it is to like it, I fucking hate it.
"We are safe guys," I said, "But anytime someone makes you uncomfortable, like that man just did to Mommy, you need to walk away and get help. We live in a city. You need to be a little bit tougher living here."
I glanced at my husband thinking he would shoot me a dirty look. He kept his eyes straight ahead. His silence was the approval I needed at that moment.


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Since we were young, we've been taught altruistic values and brought up to not only respect others but to be compassionate, sensitive and to empathise towards anyone we meet.
Good virtues such as compassion and empathy were instilled in us from a very tender age in hopes that we'll continue to spread acts of kindness to others who need it and the people around us.
Hollywood, one of the most influential streams of entertainment, has also risen to the mandate of bringing movies with themes on benevolence and humanity for decades now. Even the rest of the world thinks of kindness as one of the top qualities in people. And so much attention is given to spread kindness, love all over the Internet. So much so, there's a special day dedicated to this virtue – World Kindness Day.
Though World Kindness Day was November 13, it's still not too late to encourage each other to be kind especially to our family, friends and co-workers (and yourself). So many times we put up a false front just to hide from others that we're not feeling anything else other than the emotion, 'happy'. But we can't be happy all the time – no matter how much we want to be.
However, we can choose to not let the negativity consume us. Rather than letting life and the situations control you, it's time to change your perspective and attitudes. We may also have met people who were rude, selfish and unreasonable. They may even influence the people around them to pick up some of these bad traits.
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how one smile can change a person's life or one word could save a friendship or relationship. No act of kindness is small or irrelevant.
As such, we've put together a list of movies you can watch with your family and friends to trigger that soft spot in your heart to act as a constant reminder to never stop spreading love and kindness.
Here're some of the best movies (we personally recommend) that exemplify kindness wonderfully.
Warning: SPOILERS AHEAD!
Movie One: Pay It Forward
The depiction of a small idea that went on to change the world started off with a 11-year-old boy named Trevor McKinney.
Played by Academy Award Winner Haley Joel Osment, Trevor was challenged by his school teacher (Kevin Spacey) to create an idea that would change the world. Coming up with the idea to help 3 people without expecting anything in return, Trevor formulated the concept of 'Pay It Forward'.
The only requirement was for the people who were helped to help 3 other people. With this exponential method of helping people, kindness was not only a thought, but put into deliberate action.
With his childlike enthusiasm, Trevor set out to accomplish this task by taking in a homeless man, feeding him and eventually asking him to do the same to others (without no demands or favours). Eventually, the little idea sparked a huge following and kindness was shown to many.
Now, do you 'help' others expecting something in return? One important trait this movie can teach us is being selfless.
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Even when people refuse to help you (and you've helped them countless times), you still have nothing to lose. Not everyone has the same heart as you; so don't expect people to do the same for your kindness.
We recommend it as a must-watch!
Movie Two: Lord of the Rings Trilogy
We left the real world to enter the vast fantasy landscape of Middle Earth in the Lord Of The Rings.
The story was based on J.R.R Tolkein's books. Culminating in a three-part Hollywood blockbuster, the Lord Of The Rings (LOTR) sees the journey of a young group of Hobbits uphold their responsibility of bringing a cursed ring to Mordor.
The ultimate responsibility falls on Frodo of the Shire (Elijah Wood), whose fate crosses paths with the One Ring to rule them all. Frodo and his Fellowship of The Ring, carry the ring through perilous landscapes ridden with evils. Directed by Peter Jackson, the 3-part trilogy is worth watching every minute (you won't be able to stop).
During the entire journey, Frodo's best buddy, Samwise Gamgee follows him through thick and thin. Sam sacrifices his own needs for Frodo, eventually bringing and guiding him to complete his mission successfully. Among other lessons to be learnt are encouragement and determination. Winning a whopping 17 Academy Awards, the LOTR trilogy is definitely one saga not to be missed.
LOTR trilogy successfully depicts brotherhood, friendship, perseverance, compassion and consideration altogether that we can all learn a thing or two from.
Movie Three: I Am Sam
If you're not one to bring the waterworks during movies, 'I Am Sam' will definitely get you going. The story of mentally-challenged Sam Dawson, played by Sean Penn, has a mental capacity of a 7-year-old and is fighting for his daughter's custody (Dakota Fanning) in a pro-bono lawsuit.
As he struggles in everyday life, he still puts his daughter above everything else and makes big sacrifices for her. Sam also teaches his cold-hearted lawyer, Rita Harrison, that perhaps love and family are all you really need.
'I Am Sam' is testament to one of Hollywood's greatest movies about love, sacrifice and empathy. It definitely tops the list of movies portraying kindness here.
How many times have we judged or have been judged? Everyday we passed by numerous people (judging them) for their flaws, without even trying to look at their good. We judge people, because it may seem easy and convenient for us but it says a lot about who we're rather than them.
So the next time you find yourself wanting to judge someone for being who they're, find one good thing to say about them instead. You're not doing it for them but for yourself. Watch how it changes you, for the better.
Movie Four: The Amazing Spiderman 2
Here's one for the comic fans – 'The Amazing Spiderman 2'.
Many renditions of the web-slinger have been made in the past, including Sam Raimi's Spiderman starring Tobey Maguire. But the latest installment of the Spiderman standalone film brings in the young, talented, Andrew Garfield to the big screen. Taking over rights to the Spiderman franchise, Sony has revamped the story of Peter Parker.
Bringing in elements of self-sacrifice and empathy above all, Peter Parker lets go of his desires for a normal life, ultimately resulting in the death of his girlfriend, Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone), in a fight to save his city. And if that's not being selfless — we don't know what is.
Even comics and cartoons can teach us important lessons on kindness. Combining action and heroism along with the man's inner struggle, 'The Amazing Spiderman 2' portrays the challenges and struggles of gaining trust and support from people despite the good he has been doing.
Spiderman also teaches us to continue to do good even when no one is looking or giving you credit for. In the movie, the media portrayed him as a villain and people were suspicious of his motives even though he was on his journey to save the city. But he doesn't give up because he knows he can change the world and he wants to.
Movie Five: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Much like the LOTR trilogy, 'The Chronicles of Narnia' brought in an adaptation of C.S. Lewis book: 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe' to the big screen.
The magical journey of 4 children who embarked on a quest to find the king of Narnia, Aslan the lion, was an epic story. Along the way, we see how the children, Peter, Edmund, Susan and Lucy Pevensie experience the kindness of various characters in the world of Narnia.
No element of kindness can compare to the forgiving spirit of Aslan after he was betrayed by Edmund. He graciously forgives Edmund and proceeds to rid the world of the White Witch. With multi-talented actors such as Tilda Swinton, James McAvoy and Liam Neeson behind the characters, The Chronicles of Narnia is one of the best family movies you can watch together.
The Chronicles of Narnia teaches us one important principle of forgiveness; having a heart of gold. Even when people are mean or have done you wrong in the past, every situation doesn't have to be an eye for an eye.
Ever heard of the saying by M. K. Gandhi., "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind"?
Movie Six: 12 Years A Slave
It's said that America was built on the backs of slaves. From the motion picture '12 Years A Slave', we see the grim side of America's history. With African Americans sold into slavery, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free man, is deceived by two con men and thrown into slavery. For 12 years, he lives as a slave, enduring the brutality and inhumane acts done to him and his fellow slaves.
Despite the gruesome nature of slavery, we see a side of the kind nature of Solomon Northup with his friends and fellow slaves. We also see the kindness of some slave masters, trying to do the right thing to take care of the slaves entrusted them. Although there's a happy ending, we wouldn't recommend watching the movie with your children. Some scenes are not suitable for minors. Other than that, '12 Years A Slave' is nothing short of extraordinary!
Movie Seven: American History X
In the list of R-rated movies, we see a much talked-about movie in 'American History X'. Casting the Hollywood heartthrob Edward Norton as a Neo-Nazi leader in the 1990s in rural America was simply genius. Bulking up to play his role as Derrick Vineyard, Norton's character is sent to jail after manslaughter and endures a tough time there. From getting raped to being beaten up by those he calls 'brothers', Vineyard learns the hard way that violence doesn't solve anything.
In his incarceration, Derrick finds kindness and compassion from those whom he hated and plotted to kill. Turning to books and self-reflection, he managed to realise his wrongdoings and endeavoured to make things right when he got out. Eventually he did straighten up and vowed to show the same kindness to others.
Movie Eight: Life Of Pi
What if you're stuck on a boat in the middle of the ocean along with a ferocious tiger?
What would you do?
Ang Lee answers this question with the movie 'Life Of Pi'. Also based on the book, 'Life Of Pi' sees the main character, Piscine Patel or Pi, stranded in the middle of the ocean after the freighter he and his family was on sunk. After witnessing the deaths of his parents and brother, he realised he's stuck on the life boat with the tiger.
Kindness sets in when he cares for the animal even though it tries to eat him at times. Risking his life to keep the animal alive, he sacrifices his food for it. At last, his kindness pays off as the tiger survives the entire ordeal. Riddled with stunning visual effects, 'Life Of Pi' is a masterpiece.
Ultimately, we can learn thousands of educational examples of kindness from these movies and many more out there, but if we don't put it into practice, all we get is entertainment. Let us together strive to do good and have compassion on others – be it animals, other people or ourselves.
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