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It is up to us as humans to make that choice and go down a positive path, understand our lessons, release all fears and allow our spirit to carry us through effortlessly with tenacity, grace and patience. The human body may eventually have limitations but the human spirit is boundless beyond measures.
It is an unbelievable weapon that many true warriors are gifted with and we must always remember when we positively tap into this profound intangible essence that is within us, greatness will eventually follow.
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"I'll never find her in here," I said to myself after three passes through the center aisle of a local "big box" store. I looked goofy rubbernecking my way up and down the same aisle looking for my wife. I should know better than to go shopping with her.
Has this happened to you, men? You're in the (shudder) mall with your bride, walking side by side, happy as a clam. Things are going fine when you turn to speak to your wife and realize she's no longer next to you. A quick scan around you reveals that she has completely disappeared. You are smack dab in the middle of the largest store in the free world and you are hopelessly lost, and, you've misplaced your wife. There is no way you will ever find her. Been there, done that.
The holidays are here again. It seems prudent to me to offer some advice to men on the subject of missing "mall wives." Were a study commissioned, we would no doubt find legions of men wandering aimlessly in malls nationwide searching for wives who are themselves lost in perpetual shopping mode. Perhaps in my own small way, I might be able to save one couple from a life in fruitless search for one another.
Men, when you enter a mall or any big box store (except hardware – more on them later) you must make it your sole purpose to keep your wife in view at all times. She is, in a large store environment, fully capable of disappearing the moment you are distracted. It is a genetic ability they have and you must be ready for it.
Good method; Walk on her left side just slightly behind her. Keep your head turned to your right enough to keep her in view while being able to navigate in front of you.
Better method; Hold her hand. That works most of the time. Careful! She will try to slip your hold. Don't be hurt. She can't help it. Unlike us, women have a shopping gene. They are only reacting to what instinct tells them to do. It has nothing to do with you.
Best method; The best method is not to enter any large store with your wife at all. It cannot be avoided, so the best way to keep from losing her is to find some way to "tether" her to you if possible. Before you leave your house, find a way to get her purse and take all of her cash and credit/debit cards. If you can pull that off, she has to stay with you if she has any intention of satisfying her shopping need. I guarantee she will not lose you no matter what happens. This is a tough job though as wives have the ability to know if their purse has been searched. You do this at your own peril. Good luck.
I mentioned hardware stores earlier. You are safe there for the most part. Just be careful about going into any of the sections where they sell flooring, kitchen supplies (especially cabinets), appliances, and the landscaping section. You are safe around tools, lumber, and plumbing. Well, maybe not. She can get "ideas" for projects for you to do for her. Forget it. You're not safe in a hardware store either.
You're on your own.
NEXT WEEK: The most dangerous female on the planet: Your daughter


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It seems that when I head to Montreal this June for the Entry Draft, I'll be heading into the Holy Land.....so says one Swiss-born professor at the Universite de Montreal. That's correct folks, it seems that, at least in one place, we've gotten to the point in Canada where at least one hockey club has been looked at as a religion.
It seems that there's a university course at Universite de Montreal exploring the ties between the Montreal Canadiens as an organized religion. The correlations of this and some forms of Christianity is fantastic, what, with the relics of jerseys, the nicknames of certain players of the teams' history. Now, if the Canadiens are that of Christianity, does that means the Maple Leafs are Judaism?? I mean, they're lost for 40+ years, different leaders still not taking them to the promised land, and the locust....wait, what??
Yet, this begs the question of whether or not this is a little bit over the line of fanaticism and onto the realm of craziness. Sure, the points made are valid ones that Montreal has a lot of history in hockey, both professional and amateur; but there's a point where you may want to hold back on the blasphemy that this could create. Yes, the people of Montreal (and beyond for that matter) who are infatuated with the Canadiens knows the history, remembers the players past and present, and are as devoted as any other team on the face of the Earth in any sport. That said-- would you consider it a religion or cult?? Granted, if it was a religion and Ken Dryden was giving the sermon, it'd be at least a two-and-a-half hour homily.
I guess it's really all in the eye of the beholder whether or not it is a religion or not. There's plenty of passion in Canadien fans, they seem to show up win or lose, and could be some of the smartest fans in the game today. Whether or not that constitutes holy standing or not, who knows-- but some would say they have a "holier than thou" attitude at times, but there are plenty of team fans out there who have that mantra, but don't have the history to back it all up.
Yet, where do we draw the line between sports and everything else in life?? Is the meaning of life sports?? I mean, there's drama, heartbreaks, pleasant surprises from underachievers, and overachievers brought down to Earth when they thought they were on the top of the world. It has all the makings of what makes life go around and it last in three to four hours bursts almost every night of the year. Huh....maybe it could be a religion within itself, weird....
Quite frankly, I'd love to see the course in action and see the syllabii that comes with this class. If only I could speak French, then I'm sure I'd not only understand what the professor was saying, but could definitely figure the linage of how the Habs could be tied deeper to a religion than a cult-form.
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True Forced Independence – Black Men FORCED Us to Not Need a Man
Black men have created a situation where they removed themselves from the equation of black families and black communities and made themselves obsolete. So now that black women have learned they "don't need a man" to survive, black men are angry. Huh? You are responsible for true forced independence.


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It's not so much about finding yourself,
But to make yourself.
Dutch version / Nederlandse versie > Niet vinden van jezelf zo belangrijk maar creëren van jezelf
We had a look at Susan Billmaier her views on the turbulence of life, and the transformation of the self.
At her blog SusanWithPearls – Living Life. Learning to do that better. Sharing it here.- she often wonders how we know ourselves and how we do get at what is inside.
Lots of people question their own self and look for way to have a good life. For years they try out several things. Most often they go looking for
The self that… is a deeper self, some say a "higher self", some say a "Christ self", or the "Buddha/enlightened self", in some Native cultures it is called, simply, "beauty". {Knowing your Self is more than knowing the size of your stomach.}
She writes
Whatever it is– the moral self, the good will– I am not too particular about the label, or the words– it is simply the best that a person can find within themselves and everyone has it…whether they know it or not. {Knowing your Self is more than knowing the size of your stomach.}
She also knows that man has to come to a point where the individual comes to see that it has its own value and its own reason to be, demanding to take personal action and own personal focus on personal awareness.
My own Loving Presence is my Self. I turn my attention inward and become aware of my own Loving Presence. With my focused awareness, my own Loving Presence fills me, grows brighter, and grows warmer. {Claim only the Self that you love. A Journey of Purpose: Day 32}
Being faced with the self one may not loose that self nor the faith in the self. Being confronted with the surroundings one need also to be willing to go into confrontation with it and with the inner thoughts, at the same time willing to perceive the necessary changes to be taken or the changes going on around the self.
as a guiding thought can be notated
Accept your light and your lightness! Feel your Self expand! As you perceive change around you, remain anchored in your Being of Light. Allow yourself to sit peacefully in the still place of nothingness as life moves quickly around you. {Arguing with myself and losing: Journey of Courage 2017 – Day 19}
Too many people do forget that we are here on this earth because we are allowed to be here by the Most High Divine Creator. Many do not want to know about that Omnipotent, Omniscient, Powerful Eternal Divine Source of all life, existence and knowledge, but also of peace and joy Though daily they are confronted with "Existence" that surrounds them.
In ""Self Fulfilled": Journey of Fulfillment 2.0 – Day 05" Susan Billmaier looks at the guiding thought
In Divine Mind, I am filled full! All are equally filled full. All are equal in Love. I fill my mind with thoughts of fulfillment and remember what I already know. I am determined to fulfill my purpose, to know my Self as Divine Love, and to share the fullness I am.{"Self Fulfilled": Journey of Fulfillment 2.0 – Day 05}
For her "Guiding Thoughts"
acts like a guided visualization and I see/experience the words. There are days when reading the Guiding Thought seems to open a channel within me and I can feel energy within me moving in a new or different way. {"My Self Has My Back, Now if It Would Scratch…": Journey of Abundance 2.0 – Day 33}
We can only ascertain that lots of people are afraid of looking at them self in the light of a Higher Being that would be Master over them and would be responsible for their being. We can enact that it is difficult for man to accept that there is a Higher Being Mightier than them and giving them all what the can see around them. That High Being wants us to come into a good relationship with our self, with others around us and with Him. He wants us to get filled with that what made Him create us in the first place. Even when the first man rebelled it was His love for man that made He wanted to allow them to take care of themselves and to find solutions for themselves, but providing also The solution to bring an end to their agony, suffering and continues wandering. Also that foreseen solution, the sent one from God, the Messiah, God His own begotten beloved son shared that love of God with mankind and gave his life for all. Like that man of flesh and blood did not want to do his own will, but only did the Will of God, we too should come to a point where we want to do the Will of God and share His love with others. Only that way we can come to fill our mind and heart with love, aligning with the Light of Truth. Steadfast and focused on our own Loving Presence, than we shall be able to live in the peace of fulfilment of our own Divine Identity.
Transformation is easy, when you step into something that already IS.
In the turbulence of life, listen and wait.
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People do have to live with themselves, which is only possible when they accept themselves. First of all they have to believe in themselves. Only when they come to see themselves as a acceptable being in the universe they can go to look further and come to see the Hand behind their own being. Only then faith can come into their life.
You have to believe you can do it and that you can pull out of yourself that of what you are dreaming of.
You have to believe in your self, whether you call it self-esteem, self-confidence, or self-assurance, it is a deep-seated belief that you have what it takes – the abilities, inner resources, talents, and skills to create your desired results.
to get anything done > your life relies on belief
all have dreams, goals and wishes > to achieve them > need to take action
Learn to live
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Often we do not want to give ourselves nor others enough time to grow up and to become that what we should really become, or what our destination is. Many dare not to be who they really are and put on a mask for the others instead being themselves and having more self-esteem.
Good to dare to thread the unknown, to gather strength to go into the depths of the valleys and to try out things, whatever others say to discourage. The one who goes his way ardent enough believing in himself will come somewhere where he shall not have to be ashamed for what he accomplished.
To remember:
- be awake to your fears
- gather your strength
- develop from so many life lessons lived
- move ahead with courage
- trust
- with clarity of purpose and calmness of heart, right action will lead you where you want to go.
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I choose to be awake to my fears, in all their varied forms…fear of not being enough, fear of going too deep, fear of letting go or getting lost, fear of being amazing, fear of the unknown magic of my dreams coming true. From this place of awareness, I choose to gather my strength, developed from so many life lessons lived, and move ahead with courage, trusting that with clarity of purpose and calmness of heart, right action will lead me where I want to go.
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Nanalew (Shawna Howson) is een top-list Canadese Youtuber. Ze heeft hier wat interessante dingen te vertellen over je zelfbeeld. Omdat een laag zelfbeeld kan bijdragen tot het ontstaan of onderhouden van depressieve symptomen vind ik het belangrijk om haar tips en ideeën met jou te delen.
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Learn and Grow Project – Outdoor Learning, Nature and the Environment
Our "Learn and Grow project" has been a fantastic learning and confidence building opportunity for older pupils with a learning disability and provides a great opportunity to raise their self-esteem. We have had a fantastic time working in our outdoor learning environment with pupils on their Animal Care and Horticulture programmes of study.
These outdoor learning experiences have included cleaning and feeding our resident pets, maintaining the outdoor environment both for children and the wildlife on site, enjoying practical activities with their peers and connecting with nature.
Bug houses, brash fencing and wood piles have all been constructed with a smile.
Our climbing trees have a fresh new layer of bark chip beneath and the ducks have never looked so clean. The sheep have had their medicine and the guinea pigs love their fresh hay.
We have been delighted to offer an extension to the formal education our groups are engaged in at school and to help them gain real life experiences in the outdoors. This contributes evidence of achievement for a number of aspects within the pupil's animal care modules.
For some it has been a real boost in their self-confidence and practical skills. For others this has offered an enjoyable time where adults and children can share outdoor experiences.
Working closely with the animals has meant that some pupils have been able to interact with animals that they have always been wary of. It's such an amazing step forward and a wonderful experience to be involved in at the Kingswood Trust!
As well as the educational aspects, the social aspect of working as a team and helping each other, communicating and making decisions has been a big positive gained from the project.
The funding to deliver these Learn and Grow Projects has come from several supportive Trusts and Foundations who believe in the importance of learning outdoors and helping young people to grow in these natural contexts. Kingswood Trust believes this project makes a valuable contribution to life skills and social development.
It has been a pleasure to work with all the young people so far and I am looking forward to meeting new groups who can also benefit.
Written by: David Tagg Learning and Teaching Coordinator, The Kingswood Trust.
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See the latest about a temporary release delay on new titles. Learn more.
Jim Zemlin, formerly executive director of the Free Standards Group, is the executive director of the Linux Foundation. Zemlin previously served as vice president of marketing for Covalent Technologies, the leader in products and services for the Apache web server. Prior to that, he was a member of the founding management team of Corio, a leading enterprise application service provider that had a successful initial public offering in July 2000. Zemlin is an adviser on open source strategy to various companies and governmental groups including Hyperic, Zmanda and the Chinese Open Source Promotion Union.


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Steam or no sale. Simples.
Steam or no sale. Simples.
Given that valve were first to market* with Steam, they have managed to carve themselves out a good business model, as evidenced by the millions of users who play games on Steam daily.
Later-comers to this marketplace need to be innovative and clever about how they promote their own systems, offering something different/more to entice the users away from Steam and steal some of that market share.
Throwing your toys out of the pram is not a good business strategy, even if the game they choose to instigate this is likely to be their highest-grossing title to date.
I get it that many people don't give a rat's behind, or prefer DVDs, or dislike Steam, those are all valid opinions, but many of us are complaining because we DO like to use steam, we DON'T want physical media and we don't want to be unwitting pawns in an underhand/shady, if blatant, business strategy to get in on the digital distribution gaming market.
I'm all for more players in this market to keep steam on their toes, to promote innovation and keep the market moving forward technologically.
That is to say, I would support there being an Origin and there being a (insert name here) from other developers provided that the appearance of those platforms is beneficial to the market's consumers. What EA is doing here is BAD for consumers, not just in the short term for those of us whom it affects, but in the longer term for the entire gaming community.
And for those reasons, I'm out.
*First large-scale success to market
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Noxvayl (09-08-2011)
The above article isn't 100% right, but at the end of the day there is no big incentive for EA to release BF3 on steam - if steam didn't take such a huge cut of the sale price then maybe there would, but well, they do so thats that.
If you don't like it then don't buy it, but its a terrible reason not to buy a game..and all of you that say "I'm not buying it because its not on steam" just lost your right to ever insult anyone for being a "Fanboi"..as you are clearly all Steam "Fanboi's"
If you don't buy BF3 surely the real reason would be that the final becomes "BC3" instead..let that make up your mind, not the fact that its not in your favourite DD store.
Fascinating discussion all round - makes me kind of glad that I'm now a console gamer (problems using a PC - any session longer than about 20 minutes leaves me with neckache and leg cramps, although the PC itself is more than powerful enough).
What I'm failing to understand is why folks seem so passionate about BF3 - heck in some quarters it seems to be more anticipated than the coming of a deity. I've always pigeon-holed BF/BF2 (not :BC) as games only really suitable for folks that are clanned up - although I'm quite content to be told I'm wrong. Is there anything for a more casual type of player - sort of an ad hoc squad arrangement.
I still think statements like no steam im not buying are a little silly and thats not aimed at you crossy I mean seriously Ill buy a game because its recommended to me or I know its good via demo or whatever not because of where I buy it from. If I want a bottle of milk and Asda have none I dont say if its not at Asda im not buying I buy it elsewhere.
crossy (10-08-2011)
EA's problem is that they're not getting 100% of the £40 they're demanding from punters.
steam have 2 options, back down a bit or lose a few million quid in sales.
EA have nothing to worry about with the volume of pre orders they have already got.
EA are still trying to work this out with steam, steam just have to stop being pricks.
Capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack
off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.
Hicks12 (09-08-2011)
With steam you have to generate a patch especially for that version of the game - this means extra development time, testing, deployment, project management and so on..and this means extra cost for the developer. If you add this on to the cut that steam already take, its a large overhead for them. This is a known, well discussed and disclosed issue with steam.
Couple this with all the other non disclosed issues that steam can create (whatever you say they ARE still issues, ignorance is no argument) and you have a heck of a big reason for not wanting the stress.
Especially with a game like BF which is likely to require lots of patches
Not releasing on steam won't hurt EA one bit. A couple of die hard fanbois will get upset but in reality there is going to be nex to no impact on sales.
Stop whining.
Don't forget though once you've found your dummy and climbed back into your pram register your key with origin that way you can have the digital version there too at no extra cost.
Just bring on the game ! Can't wait, I loved BF2 & played it to death...
APC song is still in my head !!!
The problem with BC2 was not steam, it was that the Frostbite engine meant patches were enormous and meant rebuilding most of the code, it wasn't even simple just to add new maps to the game. Steams "tinkering" was only done to try and streamline the patching process as much as possible for the benefit of their customers and their servers.
I'm sure Frostbite 2 will be no different. It will be an enormous trainwreck of an engine with little to no forethought given to a procedure for patching later on.
And steam is not just a retailer, it is a service. Other digital distribution services just act as a download provider and games are installed using the developers installer, steam automatically downloads and installs patches for the customer, and because of this it cannot comply with EAs demands without fundamentally altering the way it works. EA knew this long before they started developing BF3 yet they still didn't bother making their game compatible.
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Noxvayl (16-08-2011)
big mistake tbh, steams so popular and would just make life easier for them and users
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Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997)
Livingstone, Ian
(1949- ) UK writer and promoter of fantasy Games. His Dicing with Dragons: An Introduction to Role-Playing Games (1983; rev 1984 US) is a useful guide. His other books, many in collaboration with Steve Jackson, are largely confined to titles in the Fighting Fantasy Gamebook sequence: Fighting Fantasy Gamebook #1: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain (1982) with Steve Jackson, #3: The Forest of Doom (1983), #5: City of Thieves (1983), #6: Deathtrap Dungeon (1984), #7: Island of the Lizard King (1984), #8: Scorpion Swamp (1984) with Jackson, #9: Caverns of the Snow Witch (1984), #13: Freeway Fighter (1985), #14: Temple of Terror (1986), #19: Demons of the Deep (1986) with Jackson, #21: Trial of Champions (1986), #22: Robot Commando (1986) with Jackson, the unnumbered Crypt of the Sorcerer (1987) and Shadowmaster (1992) with Marc Gascoigne. Associated titles include Titan: The Fighting Fantasy World (1986) and The Fighting Fantasy Poster Book (graph 1990), both with Jackson. There is one independent title: Casket of Souls (1987 chap). [JC]
Ian Livingstone
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When Lubin Hunter was born on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation in 1917, he was not recognized as a U.S. citizen.
America's Indians were not granted full U.S. citizenship until he was 7 years old, and many states continued to bar Indians from voting for decades to come.
But when President Franklin Roosevelt urged Americans to sign up for military service in the months after the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Hunter was among several members of the tiny Shinnecock community who decided to go off to war.
"Everyone had gone," said Hunter, who moved back to the reservation decades ago. "My brother had gone, my cousin Harry. And we were all very close."
Hunter, 98, was one of the more than 44,000 American Indians who served during World War II.
Fully one in three able bodied American Indian men served during that war, according to the Defense Department, a higher rate than any other ethnic group.
Most joined eagerly, Hunter included. A 1942 survey showed that 40 percent more American Indians volunteered for enlistment than were called in the draft.
"I went down to Whitehall street and took the test for the aviation cadet program," he said. "It wasn't long before I was on a train headed south."
Another 40,000 American Indians nationwide left reservations to take jobs in war-related industries -- a migration that brought increased economic growth and cultural interactions to once isolated Indian communities.
Hunter left the Shinnecock reservation to attend Brooklyn College in 1936, as the threat of war in Europe was fueling defense industries in the United States.
He first found work at a New Jersey shipyard that repaired war-damaged British merchant and military ships. Later, he worked as a ship's caulker at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, first on the battleship USS Iowa in 1940 and then the battleship USS Missouri in 1941.
"When I left the reservation we had dirt roads, kerosene lamps and people got their water with a hand pump from a well," said Hunter, a graduate of Southampton High School. "When I got back in 1946, the roads had been tarred and some people had electric lights."
After training in the south and west, Hunter flew bombing missions in the Pacific, mostly as a gunner aboard B-17s. He said the destruction inflicted by the bombing runs so troubled him he wanted to put the war behind him as soon as he came home.
He said he discarded his uniform on his way back to New York, and told almost no one that he had been off to war.
"It's nothing to talk about," he said during an oral history recorded at the reservation last year. "I'd seen enough of the horror we had done and that's something I'll regret all my life."
"I said that could have been my people who were being killed," he said. "I had no great idealism about being in the service."
Hunter said their involvement in fighting tyranny in Europe and Asia encouraged returning American Indian veterans to demand civil rights long denied to them. Although the Snyder Act had finally granted citizenship to American Indians in 1924, laws in states from Maine to Mississippi to Arizona continued to bar Indians from voting.
That began to change in 1948, when Miguel Trujillo, a Pueblo Indian and Marine Corps veteran, returned home from World War II and tried to register to vote near his home on a New Mexico reservation. Turned away by county officials, he sued and won in federal court, a triumph that helped spur the Indians rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
"A lot of Indians at that time didn't know what our rights were," said Hunter, who was barred by racial restrictions from purchasing a home in Levittown after the war.
Instead, Hunter bought a home in Queens, where he worked for the Housing Authority until 1973, and later for the IRS. He threw himself into community activism, an interest he passed to his children. His daughter, Roberta Hunter, has served on the Southampton Town Board and the Suffolk Human Rights Commission, and is now a member of the Southampton school board.
Despite his troubled feelings about inflicting death during war, Hunter acknowledges a measure of pride in having contributed to the defense of his country. Last year, he visited the World War II Memorial in Washington D.C.
"I went to the Pacific, my brother went to the Pacific, he got wounded, I was lucky my plane was never knocked down," he said. "We did our job."
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Saturday, March 21, 2015
excuse me, I'm going to the gym
Monday during the allotted time to go to the gym on the way to my TOPS meeting, I instead drove all the way back home (a different town) because I had forgotten important papers for the meeting. My one hour at the gym turned into 20 minutes.
Tuesday I drove my son to his weekly, 5 hour long Mother's Day Out program. I was then going to go to the gym, spend concentrated time working on my book, then go to the gym a 2nd time before picking baby up. However, when I walked in the MDO building, the receptionist caught me and told me I must have not been informed---they were closed this week for Spring break. No gym for me. I went home and pouted.
My gym days are Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays. Friday, today, my mother needed me to drive her to run an errand that was going to take about 2 hours. It wasn't her fault. She doesn't drive. This errand needed to be done. But I was getting tired of life cheating me out of my gym time. Hubby is very backed up with work (which is a HUGE blessing and I am not complaining because we could use the money) and could not help me in the childcare department.
So...............something rose up in me and I came up with a crazy plan. I drove mom to run her errand-- and dropped her off there WITH my three kids. I told my teen daughter I would pay her if she would help with the baby. And I went to the gym FOR AN HOUR.
Our gym is divided into three sections. The first section had a guy riding an exercise bike and watching some boring show on it. The 2nd section had some guys lifting weights and I walked right past them, jiggle hips and all, and found my favorite treadmill and the remote to that tv (which was not on) and I spent the next hour walking and watching HGTV.
Then I picked mom and the kids up. Mom wanted ice cream and so she and the teens got ice cream and I did not (go me!)
And we got home about 10 p.m., which was about 25 minutes ago.
Point being: today was not exactly easy to deal with the gym and there was junk food temptation but I'm super proud of how I allowed myself to be taken care of and didn't throw myself down on the train tracks of self pity.
In other news, I took the memory card from my cpap in to the office to be read today, as insurance won't pay unless I meet their usage requirements. They require that at least 21 days out of 30, that the cpap is in use at least 4 hours. I wear it every night. However, after baby wakes and has a bottle and ends up in bed with us, I don't put it back on. It's hard to wear with the baby in the bed and almost impossible to put on with one hand while holding the baby. However, the report showed that I didn't get 4 hours per night enough nights *sigh* Thankfully, insurance is giving me another chance, so I guess I'm going to master the art of tending to baby while wearing the cpap. That, or I will master the art of poking hubby in the rib and saying "get your kid!" Ha. Yeah. No. I don't see that being very likely. Thankfully, Abby wants baby to move to her and sleep with her after he turns one, which is TUESDAY........so I am SO going to let her. I tell you, tending to a baby at age 36 is not the same as it was at 21!
And with that, I wish you all a good night. Thanks SO much for reading!
-that TOPS lady
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- AnonymousMarch 22, 2015 at 12:50 PM
Good job on pushing thru to get to the gym AND skipping the ice cream. Really great job. :)ReplyDelete
Re: Mom's transport needs. Isn't there some way you can help her be more independent of you? Is there not a transportation service she can use? What would happen if you, for whatever reason, were absolutely unable to drive her? Is there a back up plan? Even if you like being her go-to guy, you need a back up plan--for her sake.
The baby. You know that your daughter will not last long, right? And she shouldn't. A teenager should not be having her sleep interrupted like that--and neither shojld you. The child needs to sleep thru the night. Perhaps you could feed him well before he goes to sleep and if he still wakes up in the middle of the night, go into his room, lay him back down--and walk ;way. There's a whole protocol on how to do that, but it which involves waiting a specific amount of time (while he screams) and going back, laying him down, walking away, waiting, laying him down...etc. Long night for your both so pick a night when you don't have an early morning appointment. It usually takes a few days, then all night sleeping happens. I'm thinking you can find the details online somewhere. This is something you CAN take control of. Really. It is. Please don't make it your daughter's problem.
That sounds a little harsh, and I don't mean it that way, no tone of voice, you see. It is hard, but you can do this. Just like you problem solved to get to the gym, you can do this.
Awe, happy birthday to your sweet little man!ReplyDelete
I say if your daughter wants to help, let her! I am 13 (nearly 14) years older than my youngest (surprise) sibling. When she was an infant I would watch her all weekend when my parents took the middle siblings to swim meets. It was a pretty good scenario. Babies sleep and eat, teenagers sleep and eat. :) Even if she wants to take the baby for a night a week, that would be helping you tremendously, and it would be interesting to see the difference in your cpap results. Let us know how it goes!
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We've looked at Dave Sim's notebook 5 a few times already - most recently two months ago in Sane As It Ever Was. It covers issues 70 to 79 of Cerebus.
The first few pages of the notebook cover the Cerebus vs The Spirit jam that Dave wrote, laid out and drew Cerebus, Gerhard drew the backgrounds, and Will Eisner drew The Spirit and Commissioner Dolan figures. On page 1 of the notebook we see Dave doing some layouts for the first page of the jam story along with his Will Eisner signature.
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Students who study in the university are required to buy comprehensive insurance, including accident medical insurance, hospitalization expenses, accident deformity and death insurance etc. Self-supporting students shall pay for insurance by themselves.
In order to protect your insurance interests, please take good care of all the documents, receipts, papers, etc involved. When making a medical insurance claim, students shall provide complete documents, including photocopy of the passport, certificate of doctor's diagnosis or certificate of accident, medical record, all the medical examination reports, receipt of medicine expenses, list of medical examination items, list of medicines, receipt of hospitalization expenses and hospital discharge certificate, etc.
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Add: Beside the University Gate and library
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Address: No. 106, Jinggangshan Road
Phone: +86- 796-8259626 (switchboard)
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Address: No. 110, Jinggangshan Road
Phone: +86-796-8224718(Office), 120-1 8229000 (Emergency Medical Services)
Name and Address in Chinese: 井冈山大学附属医院,江西省吉安市吉州区井冈山大道110号
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Mark Mothersbaugh's tour of Mutato Muzika
In this archival clip from May 2010, Mark Mothersbaugh gives us a tour of some of the vintage synths in Mutato Muzika, DEVO's headquarters in L.A.
Mutato Muzika is a music production company established in 1989 by Devo co-founder Mark Mothersbaugh. While Devo members Mark Mothersbaugh, Gerald V. Casale, Bob Mothersbaugh and Bob Casale, with drummer Josh Freese, often meet, rehearse and confer in its West Hollywood studio facilities — Mutato Muzika is, in fact, a full-service music production company.
Mutato Muzika has produced music for many films, including Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, 13, Lords of Dogtown, Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and Catfish. Television music includes Rugrats, Scooby-Doo, Pee-wee's Playhouse, Big Love, Eureka, Shameless, Enlightened and Regular Show. Mutato Muzika-produced video game scores include Crash Bandicoot and Sims. Mutato Muzika also provides music for commercials, including spots for Apple's PC vs. Mac, Martini & Rossi's George Clooney/Giorgio, and Logitech.
Mutato Muzika is housed in a round bright green building on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California.
Mutemath performs Blood Pressure live in the Moog Sound Lab
Back in 2011 Mutemath stepped into the Moog factory to record a Moog Sound Lab Session, here they transform "Blood Pressure" from their 2011 LP "Odd Soul".
For those of you curious about the instrumentation:
"Blood Pressure" fades in with Darren playing pulsing bass lines in the verse and higher etherial notes on Animoog, being controlled by a Minimoog Voyager.
Paul sings and plays a Little Phatty Stage II, holding out elongated single lines while opening and closing the Filter Cutoff knob with the Resonance set high.
Roy uses his Minimoog Voyager Select Series for low rumbling bass to hold the foundation.
Darren plays the Trap-Kat, triggering 3 Minimoog Voyager Rack Mounts through an MF-104Z Analog Delay for rhythmic echo.
See more of the Moog Sound Lab series at: http://www.moogmusic.com/sight-and-so…
and be sure to check out more of Mutemath at: http://mutemath.com/
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VS STREAMING compatible models:
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– OCTA-CAPTUR: http://www.roland.com/products/en/UA-…
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MicroShift – creating wide stereo tracks from mono sources
Soundtoys has just released Little MicroShift, the latest in their new Boutique plug-in series, and it's free for a limited time.
The company tells us that Little Microshift is based on a simple, but effective studio trick for creating wide stereo tracks from mono sources. Originally done using hardware pitch shifters, as well as the original SoundToys SoundBlender plug-in, this technique has been used in pro studios as a "secret weapon" on countless vocals, guitars and more for a widening, doubling and interesting spatial effect that adds focus or power to tracks run through it. Soundtoys says that, now, three of the most popular versions of this effect are available at the touch of a button.
The Contest
As in years past with Devil-Loc and Little Radiator, Little MicroShift is available free to anyone who can find a friend with a "sharing code". They're all over FaceBook and forums like GearSlutz and KVR Audio. Once you've got Little MicroShift, you can share it with your friends by using your own unique sharing code. The top share-masters win more cool stuff. The grand prize is an autographed original H3000 D/SE Ultra-Harmonizer from our Gear Closet. The promotion ends on March 29th.
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Tablet music app creator specialist Retronyms are up to something new
Retronyms will release something new for Tabletop soon, here's what they have to say on their blog:
Here at Retronyms we've been hard at work on the latest version of Tabletop. It's taken countless cups of coffee, plenty of late nights, and just a little bit of whiskey, but we're excited to announce that the newest version of Tabletop has been submitted to the App Store. (also, we're finally letting our engineers go home).
Arthur Baker in Mute studios 2006
Here's another video plucked from the Future Music archive, filmed in Early 2006. Here we get an insight in to the way producer legend Arthur Baker was working and why the Roland Space Echo is one of his favourite bits of kit. Plus a sneaky look around Mute Records old London studio.
Audulus for iPad Briefing
An introduction to the user interface of Audulus for iPad.
Built in modules:
- Virtual Analog Oscillator (4 classic waveforms)
- ADSR Envelope
- Noise Generator
- Sample Player (coming soon to iPad)
- Mathematical Modules: Add, Subtract, Multiply, Sine, Modulo
- Random Number Generator
- MIDI controlled Keyboard
- MIDI assignable trigger
- Delay
- Distortion
- Low Pass Filter
- High Pass Filter
- Pitch Shifter
- Constant Value
- Gain
- Mapper Curve
- Piecewise-linear Spline Curve
- Sample and Hold
- Crossfade
- 4-Channel Mixer
- Level Meter
- Value Meter
- Scrolling Waveform Meter
- Input/Output
- Polyphonic to Monophonic signal mixer
- Global Time
- Sub-Patch (Coming soon to iPad)
- Timer
- Zero-crossing Counter
- Audio Unit Plug-in (Mac Only)
FL Studio Mobile 2 | What's New?
More info here – http://www.image-line.com/documents/news.php?entry_id=1348098765&title=fl…
Features include:
Audio tracks – Import WAV/MP3/AAC/AudioPaste & iPod library.
Wave editor – Cut, trim, normalize, reverse, fade in/out
Multi-tracking – Up to 8 track simultaneous recording
FL Studio Mobile HD – Now a Universal App
iPad retina display – Supported
Dropbox – Export to Dropbox. Import from Dropbox App.
Library – Amped Guitar & Bass pack in the shop
ZIP – Export improved to include all custom instruments, audio recordings and the project
NOTE: To load an FL Mobile 2 projects in FL Studio for Windows you will need FL Studio 10.8 or higher. In addition to use the Amped expansion you will need to delete the existing FL Mobile Samples folder, from the Shared Data folder (C:\Program Files\Image-Line\Shared\Data\FL Mobile Samples) then re-download it from the content library.
Where's ANDROID will it EVER happen?! Yes. see here…
DJ/Producer Dom Kane gives us a studio tour
DJ, Producer, engineer and Sample creator Dom Kane takes us on a tour of his studio.
Novation // In the studio with Carmen Rizzo
In the studio with Carmen Rizzo
Carmen Rizzo is a two-time Grammy-nominated recording musician, producer and composer whose credits include Coldplay, Oakenfold, Alanis Morristte, Niyaz & Jem. We visited his beautiful LA studio to discover how he gets inspiration and why he chose to build his live rig almost exclusively around Focusrite and Novation gear.


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GES Appoints Jay Altizer President of North America
GES has named Jay Altizer president of its North America division, effective May 14.
Altizer will lead GES' exhibition and exhibit program business in the U.S. and Canada, with a focus on accelerating growth.
He brings extensive management experience, including operational excellence, business development and product innovation.
Altizer successfully has led teams at Dean Foods, PepsiCo and Bain & Company.
Altizer will report directly to Steve Moster, president of GES, and president and CEO of Viad.
"Jay has distinguished himself throughout his career as a strategic and creative business leader," Moster said.
He added, "He has a proven ability to develop high-performing teams and deliver client-focused results. I look forward to working closely with Jay as we continue to grow GES as the preferred global, full-service provider for live events."
Altizer holds an MBA from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, and both a Bachelor of Science in Management Science and a Bachelor of Science in Management from Virginia Tech.


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― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 February 2018 19:45 (two years ago) link
Either saving private ryan or ai for me
― infinity (∞), Friday, 2 February 2018 19:47 (two years ago) link
that's pretty good! one in a row. xxp
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 February 2018 19:48 (two years ago) link
morbz, i share yr general admiration for spielberg but yr selective snobbery is a little hard for me to fathom, i can't say i can identify any sensible reason to snort at the subject matter of jurassic park and then turn around and praise ET or close encounters. are aliens somehow more "serious" than dinosaurs?
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 2 February 2018 20:44 (two years ago) link
Go below the surface. They're just better films. (fwiw i like King Kong (1933), which has dinosaurs)
and stop taking me soooo seriously
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 February 2018 20:47 (two years ago) link
the 33 king kong is better, i'll grant you that
btw the silent lost world, which i watched recently, feels in some ways like more of a spielberg movie than the actual lost world he directed
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 2 February 2018 20:50 (two years ago) link
i don't recall seeing that one either
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 February 2018 20:51 (two years ago) link
It occurs to me that in Jaws he treats the shark, which is just an animal ("a miracle of nature, really . . .") as a monster; in JP he treats the dinosaurs, which we would consider "monsters," as just animals. The 'raptors are plenty scary, and smart, but they're just doing what nature intended. The shark appears to genuinely have it in for people.
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Friday, 2 February 2018 21:36 (two years ago) link
(And of course the Quint story arc, dramatic irony, etc. If Spielberg had kept the more cynical Crichton JP ending with Hammond dying and the island being bombed to smithereens, it might be considered his best film!)
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Friday, 2 February 2018 21:37 (two years ago) link
yeah, JP is def an advance over jaws in that respect. there's not really any attempt in jaws to depict the shark as a real animal or anything but a projection of pure fear. it may be the only great monster movie where you never get close to identifying w/ the monster.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 2 February 2018 21:49 (two years ago) link
there's not really any attempt in jaws to depict the shark as a real animal or anything but a projection of pure fear
I prefer this. So did Fidel Castro, apparently.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 February 2018 22:15 (two years ago) link
I think Spielberg "Land Before Timing" up the innocent herbivores early on in JP was probably narratively ok for the purposes of lulling the characters into complacency but I think the real-life monster hiding in the depths in Jaws is handled better. It's also a much funnier and scarier film w/better characters. There's probably an argument one could make against the Mayor being the Dwayne T. Robinson of the film, just there to get in the way, but Murray Hamilton is great in that part.
― omar little, Friday, 2 February 2018 22:19 (two years ago) link
jurassic park is not as good a movie as king kong it's true, but that's about it. (the allusion to one in the other is sublime. a snob might want goldblum's line dropped and the gates left to do the work themselves but... "whaddathey got in there?" is a fertile phrase, like someone approaching a tent, or a nickelodeon)
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 2 February 2018 22:19 (two years ago) link
Watched me some Bridge of Spies tonight. Plenty of good value to make up for the inevitable eye-roll-y schmaltz. I've just come to accept Spielbergia as a magic realist world at this point, where folks on the train collectively scowl at you from behind eighteen different newspapers detailing your shameful exploits and subsequently gaze upon you wonderingly once they realize they had you all wrong, friend. I don't look to him for ambiguous nuance and unanswerable questions and I thusly remain rarely disappointed.
― Cork Taint (Old Lunch), Saturday, 3 February 2018 06:29 (two years ago) link
That's just writing a blank cheque
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Saturday, 3 February 2018 09:22 (two years ago) link
The thing about Munich is that it's supposed to be about the bad things that Mossad did, but it leaves out the worst thing they did, the murder of the completely innocent Ahmed Bouchiki. That's where it kinda becomes drivel. It's depiction of sex is awful as well, both the intercut scene mentioned above, but also the whole thing with the assassin. It's a film about historical trauma that is awful about actually depicting that trauma.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 3 February 2018 10:40 (two years ago) link
Munich or Lincoln. Minority Report is the best action one he's done since the 80s, but let down by a rubbish third act.
― chap, Saturday, 3 February 2018 12:59 (two years ago) link
Catch Me If You Can is always an enjoyable watch. Rest of them I could easily live without seeing again.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, February 1, 2018 8:30 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 3 February 2018 14:12 (two years ago) link
lest anybody forget, The Lost World is the movie where a pre-teen gymnast somersaults and kicks over a dinosaur that weighs several tons.
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 3 February 2018 14:17 (two years ago) link
It might be the only one of these I have seen twice - and the drop off in my appreciation the second time was massive.
― chap, Saturday, 3 February 2018 14:26 (two years ago) link
Catch Me If You Can is such a great small movie, and perhaps the last time Christopher Walken has or will ever be cast as anything but a weirdo.
I've wondered how recognizable later Spielberg would be if had a different DP. It's amazing that they have worked on almost 20 movies together, but I'd argue Kaminski is still a controversial choice, or at the very least, for such a frequent collaboration they hardly have a reputation as some sort of classic movie team. Vs., say, Deakins and the Coen Brothers, say.
I do say that Spielberg's '90s/'00s productive streak is pretty mind-boggling. About 11 movies between '93 and 2004, with Jurassic Park and Schindler's the same year, Lost World and Amistad the same year, Minority Report and Catch Me If You Can the same year, and War of the Worlds and Munich the same year. That's pretty nuts.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 3 February 2018 14:33 (two years ago) link
and Tintin and War Horse!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 February 2018 14:40 (two years ago) link
Does Munich have the most explicit sex scene in a Spielberg movie? I've always felt it was 100% Kushner's idea and Spielberg just filmed it exactly as written. Just not an idea I can associate with him. (I'm agnostic on the value of the scene.)
― ryan, Saturday, 3 February 2018 14:57 (two years ago) link
The one in ET nearly garnered an X-rating iirc.
― Cork Taint (Old Lunch), Saturday, 3 February 2018 15:15 (two years ago) link
sorry thought the Munich sex scene was entirely fitting and thematically sound
Fred, movies leave things out all the time, that's why they're not TV series, you git
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 3 February 2018 15:44 (two years ago) link
Sooo ... who's voting Ready Player One?! Nick Pinkerton, perhaps.
Unconflictedly loving Ready Player One is my heel turn.— BANDZ STACKHAGE (@NickPinkerton) April 3, 2018
"But you have to admit the hot-girl-with-a-minor-physical-flaw thing is pretty cliché?" "NO I DON'T IT'S PURE AND BEAUTIFUL SORRY A NARCISSISTIC CULTURE OF FALSE AFFIRMATION HAS MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT VULNERABILITY AND INSECURITY EVEN EXIST FUCK YOU."— BANDZ STACKHAGE (@NickPinkerton) April 3, 2018
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 14:50 (two years ago) link
Tough choice between AI and Lincoln. The kid won.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 15:01 (two years ago) link
Tough call between AI and Lincoln for me. The kid won.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 15:02 (two years ago) link
sorry - first post didn't go through hence the repost
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 15:03 (two years ago) link
Holy shit I already voted/posted/reposted to this thread back in February. Awful deja vu.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 15:05 (two years ago) link
Pinkerton's twitter is consistently embarrassing.
I intend on giving RPO a shot at some point, Spielberg elevated a weak novel to classic status once, I imagine he can elevate a shitty one to "good."
― omar little, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 15:16 (two years ago) link
of those I've seen, after scott:
Saving Private Ryan - an expert gilding of midcentury ball hairs w/ embossed face of hanksA.I. Artificial Intelligence - okay when the kid is not visible, idea totally stolen off kubrickMinority Report - stupid oopidCatch Me If You Can - good enough to justify leoWar of the Worlds - not good enough to justify tomIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - odysseus arrives home after a long absence to find a small turd on his pillowThe Adventures of Tintin - ...to find america's greatest living director modeling trousers fashioned from the skin of argos Lincoln - aside from that, how was the play?
― not quite as cool as seeing damo's wang but (contenderizer), Thursday, 5 April 2018 05:11 (two years ago) link
war of the worlds. saw it twice in theaters & cried both times when they're escaping the city
― flappy bird, Thursday, 5 April 2018 05:14 (two years ago) link
A.I. Artificial Intelligence - okay when the kid is not visible, idea totally stolen off kubrick
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 April 2018 12:43 (two years ago) link
We have to go thru the AI story a lot on ilx huh?
― bad left terf nut (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 5 April 2018 12:46 (two years ago) link
p sure that was a gag post
― explosion from DOOM courtesy of id software (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 5 April 2018 12:46 (two years ago) link
Sorry contendo
― bad left terf nut (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 5 April 2018 12:48 (two years ago) link
― explosion from DOOM courtesy of id software (Doctor Casino)
I thought so at first until I read the rest of the dismissals.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 April 2018 12:58 (two years ago) link
Did it pass the Turing test?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 5 April 2018 13:14 (two years ago) link
Prep work, Alfred. I got internet dickhole finals tomorrow.
― not quite as cool as seeing damo's wang but (contenderizer), Thursday, 5 April 2018 14:42 (two years ago) link
And you're still boning up on Spielberg Bashing 101? Better pull an all-nighter.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Thursday, 5 April 2018 14:45 (two years ago) link
For students who get a 70 or below, I got a velociraptor waiting.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 April 2018 14:46 (two years ago) link
A.I. is one of the handful of movies I will defend to the death (precisely because of the ways it seems to get away from its director?) but that I cannot stomach sitting down to watch again.
― ryan, Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:14 (two years ago) link
(I guess it's also the kind of work where "intention" doesn't seem to matter...)
― ryan, Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:15 (two years ago) link
tbf, I haven't seen most of these, so I won't vote.
I will say that the D-Day landing scene of Saving Private Ryan was some of the most brilliant filmmaking I've ever seen. Spielberg also indulged in some scenes that were so thickly sentimental and schmaltzy that they nearly ruined the movie for me.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:50 (two years ago) link
Have you seen a lot of WW2 films from the '40s and the '50s? Many of them are more "sentimental."
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 April 2018 16:05 (two years ago) link
Yes. That is so. But the existence of worse doesn't elevate what is bad.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 5 April 2018 16:11 (two years ago) link
D Day scene in '..Ryan' must surely be one of the most influential sequences of all time. I wish i could vote for that by itself.
Only saw WOTW recently and the effects looked dated as all hell.
― piscesx, Thursday, 5 April 2018 16:28 (two years ago) link
the D-Day scene is really something else. unlike a lot of battle scenes which are gory and thrilling and not especially a tough watch, this one is extremely tough viewing. definitely pioneered the use of the "editing out every other frame" technique to create a more jarring sense of reality, and it made sense with the industrial terror of that kind of battle. actually a very good signifier of Gladiator being shit is when Ridley Scott used that same technique in that film's battle scenes, just trying to make the film and its boring story more dynamic and deciding to use a technique that simply didn't belong or make sense.
― omar little, Thursday, 5 April 2018 16:54 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 5 July 2018 00:01 (one year ago) link