Val Kilmer: Doc Holliday - Dual Wielding in the movie Tombstone
Val Edward Kilmer (born December 31, 1959) is an American actor. Originally a stage actor, Kilmer is best known for his roles as Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's The Doors, Doc Holliday in Tombstone and Bruce Wayne/Batman in Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever. He became popular in the mid-1980s after a string of appearances in comedy films, starting with Top Secret! (1984), then the cult classic Real Genius (1985), as well as the blockbuster action films.
Kevin Spacey told James Lipton on Inside the Actors Studio, that one of the turning points of his life was at a high school drama festival when he saw Kilmer and Mare Winningham in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brody” and when the drama teacher Robert Correlli invited him to transfer to Chatsworth High School, he accepted. In the same interview with James Lipton, Spacey also said he went to Julliard because Kilmer did, who was the youngest person, to that day, ever admitted to Julliard. During Kilmer's subsequent "Inside the Actors Studio" interview, he said "Robert Correlli, who was our teacher had a knack for producing and directing. And it was either Beverly Hills High, because of their very talented pool of students or Chatsworth High that would win all these festivals."[23]
Politics and charity work
Kilmer made several trips to New Orleans to help in the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster relief.
Kilmer is an ardent supporter of Native American affairs and an advocate of environmental protection.
He briefly flirted with running for Governor of New Mexico in 2010, but in the end declined to run.
Kurt
Russell - Val
Kilmer - Sam
Elliott- Bill
Paxton - Powers
Boothe - Michael
Biehn - Charlton
Heston - Jason
Priestley - Jon
Tenney - Stephen
Lang - Thomas
Haden Church - Dana
Delany - Paula
Malcomson - Lisa
Collins - Dana
Wheeler-Nicholson
Tombstone Quotes
Doc Holliday
You're no daisy.
You're no daisy at
all!
Poor soul.
You were just too
high-strung.
I'm afraid the
strain was more than he could bear.
"I used to be an adventurer like you . Then I took an arrow to the knee."
"I used to be a top soldier in the Stormcloak army... then I took a sword to the chest."
"I'm not a man,
I'm a weapon in human form. Just unsheathe me, and point me at the enemy."
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is an action role-playing open world video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It is the fifth installment in The Elder Scrolls action role-playing video game series, following The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Skyrim was released on November 11, 2011 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
Skyrim's main story revolves around the player character's efforts to defeat Alduin, a Dragon who is prophesied to destroy the world. Set two hundred years after Oblivion, the game takes place in the fictional province of Skyrim, upon the continent of Tamriel, and the planet of Nirn. The open world gameplay of the Elder Scrolls series returns in Skyrim; the player can explore the land at will and ignore or postpone the main quest indefinitely. Skyrim was a critical and commercial success, shipping over 7 million copies to retailers within the first week of release. -Wikipedia
Door Gunner: Git
some! Git some! Git some, yeah, yeah, yeah! Anyone who runs, is a VC. Anyone
who stands still, is a well-disciplined VC! You guys oughta do a story about me
sometime!
Private Joker:Why
should we do a story about you?
Door Gunner: 'Cuz
I'm so f****n' good! I done got me 157 dead gooks killed. Plus 50 water
buffalo, too! Them's all confirmed!
Private Joker: Any
women or children?
Door Gunner:
Sometimes!
Private Joker: How
can you shoot women or children?
Door Gunner: Easy!
Ya just don't lead 'em so much! Ain't war hell?
Private Eightball:
What we have here, little yellow sister, is a magnificent specimen of
pure Alabama Blacksnake. But it ain't too goddamned beaucoup.
Private Joker: A day without blood is like a day without sunshine.
Gunnery Sergeant
Hartman: Where the hell are you from anyway, private?
Private Cowboy: Sir,
Texas, sir.
Gunnery Sergeant
Hartman: Holy dog shit! Texas? Only steers and queers come from Texas, Private
Cowboy, and you don't look much like a steer to me, so that kinda narrows it
down. Do you suck d****?
Private Cowboy: Sir,
no, sir!
Gunnery Sergeant
Hartman: Are you a peter puffer?
Private Cowboy: Sir,
no, sir!
Gunnery Sergeant
Hartman: I bet you're the kind of guy who would f*** a person in the ass and
not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around. I'll be
watching you!
Gunnery Sergeant
Hartman: Did your parents have any children that lived?
Private Gomer Pyle:
Sir, yes, sir.
Gunnery Sergeant
Hartman: I bet they regret that. You're so ugly you could be a modern art
masterpiece! What's your name fat body?
Private Gomer Pyle:
Sir, Leonard Lawrence, sir.
Private Eightball:Now you might not believe
it, but under fire Animal Mother is one of the... finest human beings in the
world. All he needs is somebody to throw hand grenades at him the rest of his
life.
Private
Joker: The dead know only one thing: it is better to be alive.
Crazy
Earl: These are great days we're living, bros. We are jolly green giants,
walking the Earth with guns. These people we wasted here today are the finest
human beings we will ever know. After we rotate back to the world, we're gonna
miss not having anyone around that's worth shooting.
Private Joker: Are
those... live rounds?
Private Gomer Pyle:Seven-six-two millimeter. Full metal jacket. 7.62 x 39
Gunnery
Sergeant Hartman: Today... is Christmas! There will be a magic show at
zero-nine-thirty! Chaplain Charlie will tell you about how the free world will
conquer Communism with the aid of God and a few Marines! God has a hard-on for
Marines because we kill everything we see! He plays His games, we play ours! To
show our appreciation for so much power, we keep heaven packed with fresh
souls! God was here before the Marine Corps! So you can give your heart to
Jesus, but your ass belongs to the Corps! Do you ladies understand?
full metal jacket
wallpaper pictures photos images video north and south Vietnam War veterans
homeless living on the street, Matthew
Modine as Private/Corporal/Sergeant James T. "Joker" Davis. The
narrator who claims to have joined the U.S. Marine Corps to see combat, and
later becomes an independent-minded combat correspondent. Joker wears a
peace-sign medallion on his uniform as well as writing "Born to Kill"
on his helmet, which he explains as an expression of Jungian philosophy
concerning the duality of man. Vincent D'Onofrio as Private Leonard "Gomer
Pyle" Lawrence. An overweight, clumsy, slow-witted recruit who becomes the
focus of Hartman's attention for his incompetence and excess weight. D'Onofrio
was required to gain weight for the role and added 70 lb (32 kg) to his frame,
for a total weight of 280 lb (130 kg). This weight gain broke the record for
the largest weight gained for a role set by Robert De Niro for Raging Bull (1980),
a record D'Onofrio still holds. It took him nine months to shed the excess
weight.[2][3] R. Lee Ermey as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. The Parris Island drill
instructor who trains his recruits to transform them into Marines. R. Lee Ermey
actually served as a U.S. Marine drill instructor during the Vietnam War. Based
on this experience, he ad libbed much of his dialogue in the film.Arliss Howard
as Private/Sergeant Robert "Cowboy" Evans. A Texan who attends boot
camp with Joker and Pyle. He becomes a rifleman and later encounters Joker in
Vietnam, where Cowboy takes command of a rifle squad.Adam Baldwin as Sergeant
"Animal Mother". the nihilistic M60 machine gunner of the Lusthog
Squad. His helmet bears the inscription: "I Am Become Death", a
quotation from the Bhagavad Gita.Dorian Harewood as Corporal
"Eightball". An African-American member of the Lusthog Squad,
insensitive about his ethnicity (e.g. "Put a nigger behind the
trigger"), and Animal Mother's closest friend.Kevyn Major Howard as
Private First Class "Rafter Man". Rafter Man works as a combat
photographer in the Stars and Stripes office with Joker.Ed O'Ross as Lieutenant
Walter J. "Touchdown" Schinowski. The commander of the Lusthog
Squad's platoon.John Terry as Lieutenant Lockhart: The PAO Officer in Charge
and Joker's assignment editor.Kieron Jecchinis as Sergeant "Crazy
Earl": The squad leader, he is forced to assume platoon command when
Platoon Commander 2LT Walter J. Schinowski is killed. As in the novel he
carries a BB gun, which is visible just before he dies.John Stafford as Doc
Jay: A U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman attached to the Lusthog squad.Tim Colceri as
the door gunner of the helicopter transporting Joker and Rafter Man to the Tet
Offensive front. He was initially cast to play the role of "Gunnery
Sergeant Hartman", which ultimately went to R. Lee Ermey.[4] Inflight, he
shoots at civilians, while enthusiastically repeating "Get some!",
boasting "157 dead Gooks killed, and 50 water buffaloes too." When
Joker asks if that includes women and children, he admits it stating,
"Sometimes." Joker then asks, "How could you shoot women and
children?" to which the door gunner replies jokingly, "Easy, you just
don't lead 'em so much!...Ha, ha, ha, ha...Ain't war hell?!" This scene is
adapted from Michael Herr's 1977 book Dispatches. Papillon Soo Soo as Da Nang
Hooker. An attractive and scantily dressed prostitute. She is memorable for the
phrases, "Me love you long time", "Me so horny", and
"Me sucky sucky". This site should be viewable using iPads, iPods,
iPhones, Samsung tablets, Android cellular phones. Motorola, LG, HTC. Laptop
computers, PC computers, Mac's, Apple products, Macintosh, Windows 7, Windows
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computer hardware site ever. Mice, mouse Razer, Logitech, Foxconn factory,
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in creating these demotivational poster and meme's, Rosewill, New Mexico, Area
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The IUCN, Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, United States Geological Survey and many leading polar bear biologists have expressed grave concerns about the impact of climate change, including the belief that the current warming trend imperils the survival of the species.
The key danger posed by climate change is malnutrition or starvation due to habitat loss. Polar bears hunt seals from a platform of sea ice. Rising temperatures cause the sea ice to melt earlier in the year, driving the bears to shore before they have built sufficient fat reserves to survive the period of scarce food in the late summer and early fall.[83] Reduction in sea-ice cover also forces bears to swim longer distances, which further depletes their energy stores and occasionally leads to drowning.[123] Thinner sea ice tends to deform more easily, which appears to make it more difficult for polar bears to access seals.[56] Insufficient nourishment leads to lower reproductive rates in adult females and lower survival rates in cubs and juvenile bears, in addition to poorer body condition in bears of all ages.[27]
Mothers and cubs have high nutritional requirements, which are not met if the seal-hunting season is too short.
In addition to creating nutritional stress, a warming climate is expected to affect various other aspects of polar bear life: Changes in sea ice affect the ability of pregnant females to build suitable maternity dens.[24] As the distance increases between the pack ice and the coast, females must swim longer distances to reach favored denning areas on land.[27] Thawing of permafrost would affect the bears who traditionally den underground, and warm winters could result in den roofs collapsing or having reduced insulative value.[27] For the polar bears that currently den on multi-year ice, increased ice mobility may result in longer distances for mothers and young cubs to walk when they return to seal-hunting areas in the spring.[27] Disease-causing bacteria and parasites would flourish more readily in a warmer climate.[56]
Problematic interactions between polar bears and humans, such as foraging by bears in garbage dumps, have historically been more prevalent in years when ice-floe breakup occurred early and local polar bears were relatively thin.[118] Increased human-bear interactions, including fatal attacks on humans, are likely to increase as the sea ice shrinks and hungry bears try to find food on land.[118][124]
A polar bear swimming
The effects of climate change are most profound in the southern part of the polar bear's range, and this is indeed where significant degradation of local populations has been observed.[122] The Western Hudson Bay subpopulation, in a southern part of the range, also happens to be one of the best-studied polar bear subpopulations. This subpopulation feeds heavily on ringed seals in late spring, when newly weaned and easily hunted seal pups are abundant.[113] The late spring hunting season ends for polar bears when the ice begins to melt and break up, and they fast or eat little during the summer until the sea freezes again.[113]
Due to warming air temperatures, ice-floe breakup in western Hudson Bay is currently occurring three weeks earlier than it did 30 years ago, reducing the duration of the polar bear feeding season.[113] The body condition of polar bears has declined during this period; the average weight of lone (and likely pregnant) female polar bears was approximately 290 kg (640 lb) in 1980 and 230 kg (510 lb) in 2004.[113] Between 1987 and 2004, the Western Hudson Bay population declined by 22%.[125]
In Alaska, the effects of sea ice shrinkage have contributed to higher mortality rates in polar bear cubs, and have led to changes in the denning locations of pregnant females.[82][126] In recent years, polar bears in the Arctic have undertaken longer than usual swims to find prey, resulting in four recorded drownings in the unusually large ice pack regression of 2005.
PollutionPolar bears accumulate high levels of persistent organic pollutants such as polychlorinated biphenyl (PCBs) and chlorinated pesticides. Due to their position at the top of the food pyramid, with a diet heavy in blubber in which halocarbons concentrate, their bodies are among the most contaminated of Arctic mammals.[127] Halocarbons are known to be toxic to other animals, because they mimic hormone chemistry, and biomarkers such as immunoglobulin G and retinol suggest similar effects on polar bears. PCBs have received the most study, and they have been associated with birth defects and immune system deficiency.[128]
The most notorious of these chemicals, such as PCBs and DDT, have been internationally banned. Their concentrations in polar bear tissues continued to rise for decades after the ban as these chemicals spread through the food chain. But the trend seems to have abated, with tissue concentrations of PCBs declining between studies performed from 1989 to 1993 and studies performed from 1996 to 2002
Oil and gas development
German stamp depicting Knut and the slogan "Preserve nature worldwide"
Oil and gas development in polar bear habitat can affect the bears in a variety of ways. An oil spill in the Arctic would most likely concentrate in the areas where polar bears and their prey are also concentrated, such as sea ice leads.[7] Because polar bears rely partly on their fur for insulation and soiling of the fur by oil reduces its insulative value, oil spills put bears at risk of dying from hypothermia.[62] Polar bears exposed to oil spill conditions have been observed to lick the oil from their fur, leading to fatal kidney failure.[62] Maternity dens, used by pregnant females and by females with infants, can also be disturbed by nearby oil exploration and development. Disturbance of these sensitive sites may trigger the mother to abandon her den prematurely, or abandon her litter altogether.
PredictionsThe U.S. Geological Survey predicts two-thirds of the world's polar bears will disappear by 2050, based on moderate projections for the shrinking of summer sea ice caused by climate change.[56] The bears would disappear from Europe, Asia, and Alaska, and be depleted from the Arctic archipelago of Canada and areas off the northern Greenland coast. By 2080, they would disappear from Greenland entirely and from the northern Canadian coast, leaving only dwindling numbers in the interior Arctic archipelago.[56]
Predictions vary on the extent to which polar bears could adapt to climate change by switching to terrestrial food sources. Mitchell Taylor, who was director of Wildlife Research for the Government of Nunavut, wrote to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service arguing that local studies are insufficient evidence for global protection at this time. The letter stated, "At present, the polar bear is one of the best managed of the large Arctic mammals. If all Arctic nations continue to abide by the terms and intent of the Polar Bear Agreement, the future of polar bears is secure ... Clearly polar bears can adapt to climate change. They have evolved and persisted for thousands of years in a period characterized by fluctuating climate."[114] Ken Taylor, deputy commissioner for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, has said, "I wouldn't be surprised if polar bears learned to feed on spawning salmon like grizzly bears."[31]
However, many scientists consider these theories to be naive;[31] it is noted that black and brown bears at high latitudes are smaller than elsewhere, because of the scarcity of terrestrial food resources.[113] An additional risk to the species is that if individuals spend more time on land, they will hybridize with brown or grizzly bears.[122] The IUCN wrote:
“ Polar bears exhibit low reproductive rates with long generational spans. These factors make facultative adaptation by polar bears to significantly reduced ice coverage scenarios unlikely. Polar bears did adapt to warmer climate periods of the past. Due to their long generation time and the current greater speed of climate change, it seems unlikely that polar bear will be able to adapt to the current warming trend in the Arctic. If climatic trends continue polar bears may become extirpated from most of their range within 100 years.-Wikipedia
The word sledgehammer is derived from the Anglo Saxon "Slaegan", which, in its first sense, means "to strike violently". The English words "slag", "slay", and "slog" are cognate.
Kari Elizabeth Byron (born December 18, 1974) is a San Francisco-based television host and artist, best known for her featured role on the Discovery Channel show MythBusters.
Contents
MythBusters
On MythBusters, Byron is a co-host[4] and, with fellow co-hosts and "Build Team" members Tory Belleci and Grant Imahara, works with Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman to test the plausibility of various myths. She and the others also host their own segments. She became involved in the show after persistently showing up at Hyneman's M5 Industries workshop in a desire to get hired by his company. On her first day as a paid employee, she was asked by Hyneman and MythBusters producer Peter Rees to help out with the "vacuum plane toilet" myth, and was asked to model her buttocks for a cast. She and the other Build Team members were given a more prominent role beginning with the show's second season. Not having had a long history in show business, Byron at first found it difficult to act naturally with this more visible position but gradually became more accustomed to it.
During the second half of the 2009 season, Byron was on maternity leave and was temporarily replaced by Jessi Combs.[6]
Since 2010, Byron has her own show Head Rush on the Science Channel, geared towards science education and teens.[7][8]
Byron has also hosted the 2010 and 2011 editions of Large, Dangerous Rocket Ships for the Science Channel. She and Belleci made a guest appearance on the October 3, 2012 episode of the Discovery series Sons of Guns. They test-fired some of the weapons in the Red Jacket shop and watched as the staff re-tested a myth previously busted by the Build Team: that a propane tank could explode if struck by a bullet. -Wikipedia
Sniper Ex-Girlfriend - .50 Caliber Revenge
She warned you not to cheat on her!
The .50 Browning Machine Gun (.50 BMG) or 12.7×99mm NATO is a cartridge developed for the Browning .50 caliber machine gun in the late 1910s. Entering service officially in 1921, the round is based on a greatly scaled-up .30-06 cartridge.[citation needed] Under STANAG 4383, it is a standard cartridge for NATO forces as well as many non-NATO countries.[1] The cartridge itself has been made in many variants: multiple generations of regular ball, tracer, armor piercing, incendiary, and saboted sub-caliber rounds. The rounds intended for machine guns are linked using metallic links.
The .50 BMG cartridge is also used in long-range target and sniper rifles, as well as other .50 caliber machine guns. The use in single-shot and semi-automatic rifles has resulted in many specialized match-grade rounds not used in .50 caliber machine guns. A McMillan Tac-50 .50 BMG sniper rifle was used by Canadian Army Corporal Rob Furlong of the PPCLI to achieve what was then the longest-range confirmed sniper kill in history, when he shot a Taliban combatant at 2,430 meters (2,657 yards) during the 2002 campaign in the Afghanistan War.[2] This record was surpassed in 2009 in Afghanistan by a British sniper, though using a .338 Lapua Magnum (8.58×70 mm) rifle.[3][4] That record was surpassed in early 2012, when an unknown Australian sniper recorded a kill at 2815 meters (3079 yards) using a .50 BMG M82A1[5]
A former record for a confirmed long-distance kill was set by US Marine sniper Carlos Hathcock in 1967, at a distance of 2,090 meters (2,286 yd).[6] Hathcock used the .50 BMG in an M2 Browning Machine Gun equipped with a telescopic sight. This weapon was used by other snipers, and eventually purpose-built sniper rifles were developed specifically for this round. DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has developed the EXACTO program, .50 caliber bullets complete with microprocessors and steering vanes that allow the bullet to adjust its trajectory mid-flight to stay on target when the flight path has been altered by uncontrollable variables.
A wide variety of ammunition is available, and the availability of match grade ammunition has increased the usefulness of .50 caliber rifles by allowing more accurate fire than lower quality rounds.
Carbines
Barrett M82CQ (a carbine version of the M82A3
Bushmaster BA50 carbine (22" barrel version of the BA50)
Rifles
Accuracy International AW50
Accuracy International AS50
OM 50 Nemesis[21]
Anzio Iron Works Anzio-50
Armalite AR-50
Pindad SPR-2 and Pindad SPR-3[22]
Barrett M82/M107
Barrett M95
Barrett M99
Bluegrass Armory Viper[23]
Bushmaster BA50
ČZW-127
DSR-50
East Ridge / State Arms Gun Co. Inc.[24]
Bohica MK III AR-15 Upper[25]
Bushmaster BA50 Rifle[26]
L.A.R. Manufacturing, Inc. Grizzly Big Boar
McMillan Tac-50
POLY-Technologies M99-II[27] and M99B-II[28]
Ramo M600 and M650[29]
Robar RC-50
Safety Harbor Firearms SHF/R50[30]
Serbu Firearms BFG-50 (single shot bolt action) and BFG-50A (Semi-Automatic)
Spider Firearms Ferret 50
Steyr HS .50
TGR Co. LLC $1599 Noreen 50 BMG[31]
Gepard anti-materiel rifle
Zastava M93 Black Arrow
PGM Hecate II
Ultralite50/Ligamec Corp.[16]
Vulcan Armament V50[32]
EDM Arms Windrunner[33]
WKW Wilk
Zel Custom Manufacturing/Tactilite[16]
Machine guns
CIS 50MG
GAU-19
M2 Browning machine gun
M85 machine gun
MAC-58 - did not enter production
Rolls-Royce Experimental Machine Gun - only built as prototype
WKM-B
XM312
One of the earliest examples of remote control was developed in 1898 by Nikola Tesla, and described in his patent, U.S. Patent 613,809, named Method of an Apparatus for Controlling Mechanism of Moving Vehicle or Vehicles. In 1898, he demonstrated a radio-controlled boat to the public during an electrical exhibition at Madison Square Garden. Tesla called his boat a "teleautomaton".
In 1903, Leonardo Torres Quevedo presented the Telekino at the Paris Academy of Science, accompanied by a brief, and making an experimental demonstration. In the same time he obtained a patent in France, Spain, Great Britain, and the United States. The Telekino consisted of a robot that executed commands transmitted by electromagnetic waves. With the Telekino, Torres-Quevedo laid down modern wireless remote-control operation principles[4] and was a pioneer in the field of remote control. In 1906, in the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Torres successfully demonstrated the invention in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore. Later, he would try to apply the Telekino to projectiles and torpedoes, but had to abandon the project for lack of financing.
The first remote-controlled model aeroplane flew in 1932, and the use of remote control technology for military purposes was worked intensively during the Second World War, one result of this being the German Wasserfall missile.
By the late 1930s, several radio manufacturers offered remote controls for some of their higher-end models.[5] Most of these were connected to the set being controlled by wires, but the Philco Mystery Control (1939) was a battery-operated low-frequency radio transmitter,[6] thus making it the first wireless remote control for a consumer electronics device.
The first remote intended to control a television was developed by Zenith Radio Corporation in 1950. The remote, called "Lazy Bones", was connected to the television by a wire. A wireless remote control, the "Flashmatic", was developed in 1955 by Eugene Polley. It worked by shining a beam of light onto a photoelectric cell, but the cell did not distinguish between light from the remote and light from other sources. The Flashmatic also had to be pointed very precisely at the receiver in order to work.[7] The Zenith Space Commander Six hundred remote control
In 1956, Robert Adler developed "Zenith Space Command", a wireless remote.[8] It was mechanical and used ultrasound to change the channel and volume. When the user pushed a button on the remote control, it clicked and struck a bar, hence the term "clicker". Each bar emitted a different frequency and circuits in the television detected this sound. The invention of the transistor made possible cheaper electronic remotes that contained a piezoelectric crystal that was fed by an oscillating electric current at a frequency near or above the upper threshold of human hearing, though still audible to dogs. The receiver contained a microphone attached to a circuit that was tuned to the same frequency. Some problems with this method were that the receiver could be triggered accidentally by naturally occurring noises, and some people could hear the piercing ultrasonic signals. There was an incident in which a toy xylophone changed the channels on such sets because some of the overtones from the xylophone matched the remote's ultrasonic frequency.[citation needed]
The impetus for a more complex type of television remote control came in the late 1970s, with the development of the Ceefax teletext service by the BBC. Most commercial remote controls at that time had a limited number of functions, sometimes as few as three: next channel, previous channel, and volume/off. This type of control did not meet the needs of teletext sets, where pages were identified with three-digit numbers. A remote control to select teletext pages would need buttons for each numeral from zero to nine, as well as other control functions, such as switching from text to picture, and the normal television controls of volume, channel, brightness, colour intensity, etc. Early teletext sets used wired remote controls to select pages, but the continuous use of the remote control required for teletext quickly indicated the need for a wireless device. So BBC engineers began talks with one or two television manufacturers, which led to early prototypes in around 1977–1978 that could control many more functions. ITT was one of the companies and later gave its name to the ITT protocol of infrared communication.[9]
In 1980, a Canadian company, Viewstar, Inc., was formed by engineer Paul Hrivnak and started producing a cable TV converter with an infrared remote control. The product was sold through Philips for approximately $190 CAD. At the time the most popular remote control was the Starcom of Jerrold (a division of General Instruments) which used 40-kHz sound to change channels. The Viewstar converter was an immediate success, the millionth converter being sold on March 21, 1985, with 1.6 million sold by 1989.[10]
In 2006, Hillcrest Labs introduced the Loop pointer, a remote control that used Hillcrest's Freespace motion control technology to allow users to control their televisions with natural gestures. The Loop had just four buttons and a scroll wheel.[11][12][13][14] Freespace-enabled remote controls use radio waves to communicate with a USB antenna connected to a computer that is also connected to the television, so they do not need to be pointed at the PC, or even have a direct line of sight.[15][16][17]
Some television manufacturers now include Bluetooth remotes to control the television without requiring line of sight, overcoming the limited range in IR-based remotes. -Wikipedia
Timothy Richard Tebow (pron.: /ˈtiːboʊ/; born August 14, 1987) is an American football quarterback for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the University of Florida, winning the Heisman Trophy in 2007 and appearing on BCS National Championship-winning teams in the 2006 and 2008 seasons. After graduating, he was drafted by the Denver Broncos as the 25th overall pick in the 2010 NFL Draft. He is a dual threat quarterback, adept at both rushing and passing. Many football players and observers have said that they "'have never seen anything like'" his unorthodox quarterback skills and frequent demonstrations of religious devotion.[1][2][3]
Tebow played quarterback for Allen D. Nease High School in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida and was ranked among the top quarterback prospects in the nation as a high school senior.[4] He chose to attend the University of Florida, where he played for the Florida Gators football team. As a backup and situational quarterback,[5] Tebow helped the Gators win the national championship during the 2006 college football season. Tebow was the Gators' starting quarterback during the 2007 season when he became the first college sophomore to win the Heisman Trophy.[6]
In 2008, Tebow led Florida to a 13–1 record and its second national championship in three years, and was named the offensive MVP of the national championship game. The Gators again went 13–1 in 2009, his senior year. At the conclusion of his college career, he held the Southeastern Conference's all-time records in both career passing efficiency and total rushing touchdowns, appearing second and tenth (respectively) in the NCAA record book in these categories.[7] He was selected in the first round of the 2010 NFL draft by the Denver Broncos. He started the last three games of his rookie season and became the Broncos' full-time starting quarterback beginning in the 6th game of 2011. The team was 1–4 before he became the starter but began winning with him on the field, often coming from behind late in the 4th quarter until they won their first AFC West title and first playoff game since 2005, defeating the Pittsburgh Steelers in overtime.[8] Denver was subsequently eliminated from playoff contention a week later by the New England Patriots.[8] Despite his successes, Tebow was traded to the New York Jets during the offseason after the Broncos aggressively pursued and acquired free agent quarterback Peyton Manning.[9]
Tebow is known for sharing his Christian faith with fans and in clinics, hospitals, market places, schools, and orphanages.
This is a motivational poster of Scarlett Johannson wearing a very short tight white dress. Maybe a mini skirt. Her red bra straps are hanging out of the dress over her shoulders. She is fluffing her blonde hair with dark streaks or tints. Also she is wearing bright shiny pink lipstick on her full lips. Ryan Reynolds needs his head checked for divorcing this hottie. Either way here is another picture I made to pass time on the computer.
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Stan Gable: Those
nerds are a threat to our way of life.
Gibert: I just
wanted to say that I'm a nerd, and I'm here tonight to stand up for the rights
of other nerds. I mean uh, all our lives we've been laughed at and made to feel
inferior. And tonight, those bastards, they trashed our house. Why? Cause we're
smart? Cause we look different? Well, we're not. I'm a nerd, and uh, I'm pretty
proud of it.
Lewis: Hi, Gilbert.
I'm a nerd too. I just found that out tonight. We have news for the beautiful
people. There's a lot more of us than there are of you. I know there's alumni
here tonight. When you went to Adams you might've been called a spazz, or a dork,
or a geek. Any of you that have ever felt stepped on, left out, picked on, put
down, whether you think you're a nerd or not, why don't you just come down here
and join us. Okay? Come on.
Gibert: Just join us
cos uh, no-one's gonna really be free until nerd persecution ends.
Carrie Frances Fisher (born October 21, 1956) is an American actress, novelist, screenwriter, and performance artist. She is best known for her portrayal of Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy and for voicing Angela in Family Guy. She is also known for her bestselling novel Postcards from the Edge and screenplay for a film of the same name, and her autobiographical one-woman play, Wishful Drinking, and the non-fiction book she based on it.
Fisher was born in Beverly Hills, California, the daughter of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds. Her father was Jewish, the son of immigrants from Russia, and her mother was Protestant, of Scots-Irish and English ancestry. Her younger brother is producer and actor Todd Fisher, and her half-sisters are actresses Joely Fisher and Tricia Leigh Fisher, whose mother is the singer and actress Connie Stevens.
When Fisher was two, her parents divorced after her father left Reynolds for her best friend, actress Elizabeth Taylor, the widow of her father's best friend Mike Todd. The following year, her mother married shoe store chain owner Harry Karl, who secretly spent Reynolds's life savings. Her family assumed that Carrie would go into show business, and she began appearing with her mother in Las Vegas, Nevada at the age of twelve.[citation needed] She attended Beverly Hills High School, but she left to join her mother on the road. She appeared as a debutante and singer in the hit Broadway revival Irene (1973), which starred her mother. -Wikipedia
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Stu Nahan: [Spicoli
is dreaming that he's won a surfing competition] Hello everybody! I'm Stu
Nahan, and I'd like you to meet this young man. His name, Jeff Spicoli. And
Jeff, congratulations to you. Things looked kind of rough out there today.
Jeff Spicoli: Well,
I'll tell you Stu, I did battle some humongous waves! But you know, just like I
told the guy on ABC, "Danger is my business!"
Stu Nahan: You know,
a lot of people expected maybe Mark "Cutback" Davis or Bob
"Jungle Death" Gerrard would take the honors this year.
Jeff Spicoli:
[laughs incredulously] Those guys are fags!
Stu Nahan:
[oblivious] That's fantastic! Let me ask you a question. When you get out
there, do you ever fear for your life?
Jeff Spicoli: Well
Stu I'll tell you, surfing's not a sport, it's a way of life, it's no hobby.
It's a way of looking at that wave and saying, "Hey bud, let's
party!"
[focuses on Stu's
sport coat]
Jeff Spicoli:
Where'd you get this jacket?
Stu Nahan: [evasive]
I got this from the network. Let me ask you a question. What's next for Jeff
Spicoli?
Jeff Spicoli:
Heading over to the Australian and Hawaiian internationals, and then me and
Mick are going to wing on over to London and jam with the Stones!
[to the two girls
next to him]
Jeff Spicoli: And
you guys are invited too!
Jeff Spicoli's stoner buddies, where are they now?
You might know him better as Gilbert
Lowell
from Revenge of the Nerds. Or maybe as Goose from Top Gun starring
little Tom Cruise. Or maybe Mike Monroe in Northern Exposure. More
recently he played Dr. Mark Greenein the hit TV show ER.
You may know him better as Cher in the.. Okay that was mean of me. He also played Roy
L.'Rocky' Dennis in the movie Mask (The Elephant Man). He was also William Dunn in Grey's Anotomy and Lance in Pulp Fiction...
Cast
Sean Penn as Jeff Spicoli
Jennifer Jason Leigh as Stacy Hamilton
Judge Reinhold as Brad Hamilton
Robert Romanus as Mike Damone
Brian Backer as Mark "Rat" Ratner
Phoebe Cates as Linda Barrett
Ray Walston as Mr. Hand
Nancy Wilson (of the rock band Heart) as
Beautiful Girl In Car
Nicolas Cage as Brad's Bud (credited as
Nicolas Coppola)
James Russo as Convenience store robber
Scott Thomson - Arnold
Vincent Schiavelli - Mr. Vargas
Amanda Wyss - Lisa (Brad's Girlfriend)
Martin Brest - Dr. Miller
Stuart Cornfield - Pirate King
Michael Wyle - Brad's Bud
David F. Price - Desmond
Forest Whitaker - Charles Jefferson
Patrick Brennan - Curtis Spicoli
Duane Tucker - Dr. Brandt
Reginald H. Farmer - Vice Principal
Steven M. Martin - Twin
Lana Clarkson - Mrs. Vargas (murdered by
Phil Spector in real life)
Sonny Carl Davis - Businessman
Anthony Edwards - Stoner Bud
Ava Lazar - Playmate model on beach
James Bershad - Greg
D.W. Brown - Ron Johnson
Pamela Springsteen - Dina Phillips
Eric Stoltz - Stoner Bud
Lori Sutton - Playmate model on beach
Kelli Maroney - Cindy
Douglas Brian Martin - Angry Twin
Stu Nahan - Himself
Taylor Negron - Himself
Tom Nolan - Dennis Taylor
Virginia Peters - Waitress
Craig Kellaher as Pizza Shop owners son Crew
Amy Heckerling -
Director
Art Linson - Producer
Irving Azoff - Producer
C.O. Erickson - Executive Producer
Albert M. Shapiro - First Assistant
Director
Cameron Crowe - Book Author, Screen Story,
Screenwriter
Daniel Lomino - Art Director
Don Phillips - Casting
Eric Jenkins - Editor
Frank Griffin - Makeup
Joe Walsh - Composer (Music Score)
John Loggia - Production Designer
Marilyn Vance - Costume Designer
Matthew Leonetti - Cinematographer
Oingo Boingo - Featured Music
The Cars - Featured Music
The Go-Go's - Featured Music
Tom Overton - Sound/Sound Designer
All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine.
People on 'ludes should not drive!
Hey bud, let's party!
Aloha Mr. Hand!
Mr. Hand: Am I
hallucinating here? Just what in the hell do you think you're doing?
Falling out of the orange VW van in high school parking lot smoke pouring out.
Black and white checkered Vans skater shoes.
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You might know him better as Gilbert Lowell
from Revenge of the Nerds. Or maybe as Goose from Top Gun starring little Tom Cruise. Or maybe Mike Monroe in Northern Exposure. More recently he played Dr. Mark Greenein the hit TV show ER.
You may know him better as Cher in the.. Okay that was mean of me. He also played Roy
L.'Rocky' Dennis in the movie Mask (The Elephant Man). He was also William Dunn in Grey's Anotomy and Lance in Pulp Fiction...
Cast
Sean Penn as Jeff Spicoli
Jennifer Jason Leigh as Stacy Hamilton
Judge Reinhold as Brad Hamilton
Robert Romanus as Mike Damone
Brian Backer as Mark "Rat" Ratner
Phoebe Cates as Linda Barrett
Ray Walston as Mr. Hand
Nancy Wilson (of the rock band Heart) as
Beautiful Girl In Car
Nicolas Cage as Brad's Bud (credited as
Nicolas Coppola)
James Russo as Convenience store robber
Scott Thomson - Arnold
Vincent Schiavelli - Mr. Vargas
Amanda Wyss - Lisa (Brad's Girlfriend)
Martin Brest - Dr. Miller
Stuart Cornfield - Pirate King
Michael Wyle - Brad's Bud
David F. Price - Desmond
Forest Whitaker - Charles Jefferson
Patrick Brennan - Curtis Spicoli
Duane Tucker - Dr. Brandt
Reginald H. Farmer - Vice Principal
Steven M. Martin - Twin
Lana Clarkson - Mrs. Vargas (murdered by
Phil Spector in real life)
Sonny Carl Davis - Businessman
Anthony Edwards - Stoner Bud
Ava Lazar - Playmate model on beach
James Bershad - Greg
D.W. Brown - Ron Johnson
Pamela Springsteen - Dina Phillips
Eric Stoltz - Stoner Bud
Lori Sutton - Playmate model on beach
Kelli Maroney - Cindy
Douglas Brian Martin - Angry Twin
Stu Nahan - Himself
Taylor Negron - Himself
Tom Nolan - Dennis Taylor
Virginia Peters - Waitress
Craig Kellaher as Pizza Shop owners son
Crew
Amy Heckerling -
Director
Art Linson - Producer
Irving Azoff - Producer
C.O. Erickson - Executive Producer
Albert M. Shapiro - First Assistant
Director
Cameron Crowe - Book Author, Screen Story,
Screenwriter
Daniel Lomino - Art Director
Don Phillips - Casting
Eric Jenkins - Editor
Frank Griffin - Makeup
Joe Walsh - Composer (Music Score)
John Loggia - Production Designer
Marilyn Vance - Costume Designer
Matthew Leonetti - Cinematographer
Oingo Boingo - Featured Music
The Cars - Featured Music
The Go-Go's - Featured Music
Tom Overton - Sound/Sound Designer
All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine.
People on 'ludes should not drive!
Hey bud, let's party!
Aloha Mr. Hand!
Mr. Hand: Am I
hallucinating here? Just what in the hell do you think you're doing?
Falling out of the orange VW van in high school parking lot smoke pouring out.
Black and white checkered Vans skater shoes.
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Santa Claus, also known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas and simply "Santa", is a figure with legendary, mythical, historical and folkloric origins who, in many western cultures, is said to bring gifts to the homes of the good children during the late evening and overnight hours of Christmas Eve, December 24. During the Christianization of Germanic Europe, this figure may have absorbed elements of the god Odin, who was associated with the pre-Christian midwinter event of Yule and led the Wild Hunt, a ghostly procession through the sky. The modern figure of Santa Claus was derived from the Dutch figure of Sinterklaas, which, in turn, was part of its basis in hagiographical tales concerning the historical figure of Christian bishop and gift giver Saint Nicholas.
Santa Claus is generally depicted as a portly, joyous, white-bearded man—sometimes with spectacles—wearing a red coat with white collar and cuffs, white-cuffed red trousers, and black leather belt and boots (images of him rarely have a beard with no moustache). This image became popular in the United States and Canada in the 19th century due to the significant influence of Clement Clarke Moore's 1823 poem "A Visit From St. Nicholas" and of caricaturist and political cartoonist Thomas Nast. This image has been maintained and reinforced through song, radio, television, children's books and films.
According to a tradition which can be traced to the 1820s, Santa Claus lives at the North Pole, with a large number of magical elves, and nine (originally eight) flying reindeer. Since the 20th century, in an idea popularized by the 1934 song "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town", Santa Claus has been believed to make a list of children throughout the world, categorizing them according to their behavior ("naughty" or "nice") and to deliver presents, including toys, and candy to all of the well-behaved children in the world, and sometimes coal to the naughty children, on the single night of Christmas Eve. He accomplishes this feat with the aid of the elves who make the toys in the workshop and the reindeer who pull his sleigh.
Shiny happy people laughing Meet me in the crowd, people, people Throw your love around, love me, love me Take it into town, happy, happy Put it in the ground Where the flowers grow Gold and silver shine Shiny happy people holding hands Shiny happy people holding hands Shiny happy people laughing Everyone around, love them, love them Put it in your hands, take it, take it There's no time to cry, happy, happy Put it in your heart Where tomorrow shines Gold and silver shine Shiny happy people holding hands Shiny happy people holding hands Shiny happy people laughing Hey, here we go Shiny happy people holding hands Shiny happy people holding hands Shiny happy people laughing Shiny happy people holding hands Shiny happy people holding hands Shiny happy people laughing Shiny happy people holding hands Shiny happy people holding hands Shiny happy people laughing
The Crocodile Hunter is a wildlife documentary television series that was hosted by Steve Irwin and his wife Terri. The show became a popular franchise due to its unconventional approach and Irwin's approach to wildlife. It spawned a number of separate projects, including the feature film The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course and two television spinoffs: The Crocodile Hunter Diaries and Croc Files. The series has been presented on Animal Planet and has been in international syndication on networks worldwide.
Stephen Robert "Steve" Irwin (22 February 1962 – 4 September 2006), nicknamed "The Crocodile Hunter", was an Australian wildlife expert,[1][2] television personality, and conservationist. Irwin achieved worldwide fame from the television series The Crocodile Hunter, an internationally broadcast wildlife documentary series which he co-hosted with his wife Terri. Together, the couple also owned and operated Australia Zoo, founded by Irwin's parents in Beerwah, about 80 kilometres (50 mi) north of the Queensland state capital city of Brisbane. Irwin died on 4 September 2006 after being pierced in the chest by a stingray barb while filming an underwater documentary film titled Ocean's Deadliest. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ship MY Steve Irwin was named in his honour.
In 1991, Irwin met Terri Raines, an American naturalist from Eugene, Oregonwho was visiting wildlife rehabilitation facilities in Australia and had decided to visit the zoo. According to the couple, it was love at first sight. Terri said at the time, "I thought there was no one like this anywhere in the world. He sounded like an environmental Tarzan, a larger-than-life superhero guy."[9] They were engaged four months later and were married in Eugene on 4 June 1992. Together they had two children: a daughter, Bindi Sue Irwin (born 24 July 1998), and a son, Robert Clarence "Bob" (named after Irwin's father) Irwin (born 1 December 2003). Bindi Sue is jointly named after two of Steve Irwin's favourite animals: Bindi, a saltwater crocodile, and Sui, a Staffordshire Bull Terrier who died on 23 June 2004. Irwin was as enthusiastic about his family as he was about his work. He once described his daughter Bindi as "the reason [he] was put on the Earth." His wife once said, "The only thing that could ever keep him away from the animals he loves are the people he loves even more."[3] Although the Irwins were happily married, they did not wear wedding rings; they believed that in their line of work, wearing jewellery could pose a hazard to them and/or the animals.
The new pope, Jorge
Mario Bergoglio (pronounced Ber-GOAL-io), will be called Francis, the 266th
pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. He is also the first non-European leader
of the church in more than 1,200 years.
The Catholic sex
abuse cases are a series of convictions, trials and investigations into
allegations of child sexual abuse crimes committed by Catholic priests and
members of Roman Catholic orders against children as young as 3 years old with
the majority between the ages of 11 and 14.[1][2][3] These cases included anal
sex, and oral penetration, and there have been criminal prosecutions of the
abusers and civil lawsuits against the church's dioceses and parishes. Many of
the cases span several decades and are brought forward years after the abuse
occurred. Cases have also been brought against members of the Catholic
hierarchy who did not report sex abuse allegations to the legal authorities. It
has been shown they deliberately moved sexually abusive priests to other
parishes where the abuse sometimes continued.[4] This has led to a number of
fraud cases where the Church has been accused of misleading victims by
deliberately relocating priests accused of abuse instead of removing them from
their positions.[5]
In the 1950s, Gerald
Fitzgerald, the founder of a religious order that treats Roman Catholic priests
who molest children, concluded "(such) offenders were unlikely to change
and should not be returned to ministry," and this was discussed with Pope
Paul VI (1897 – 1978) and "in correspondence with several
bishops."[6] In 2001, sex abuse cases were first required to be reported
to Rome.[7] The Dallas Morning News did a year-long investigation, after the
2002 revelation that cases of abuse were widespread in the Church.[1] The
results made public in 2004 showed that even after the public outcry, priests
were moved out of the countries where they had been accused and were still in
"settings that bring them into contact with children, despite church
claims to the contrary."[1] Among the investigation's findings is that
nearly half of 200 cases "involved clergy who tried to elude law
enforcement."[1] In July 2010, the Vatican doubled the length of time
after the 18th birthday of the victim that clergymen can be tried in a church
court and streamlined the processes for removing "pedophile
priests."[8][9][10]
The cases received
significant media and public attention in Canada, Ireland, and the United
States, and throughout the world.[7] In response to the attention, members of
the church hierarchy have argued that media coverage has been excessive and
disproportionate.[11] According to a Pew Research Center study, media coverage
mostly emanated from the United States in 2002, when a Boston Globe series
began a critical mass of news reports; by contrast, in 2010 much of the
reporting focused on child abuse in Europe.[12][13] From 2001-2010 the Holy
See, the central governing body of the Catholic Church, has "considered
sex abuse allegations concerning about 3,000 priests dating back up to 50
years" according to the Vatican's Promoter of Justice.[14] Cases worldwide
reflect patterns of long-term abuse and covering up reports.[note 1] Church
officials and academics knowledgeable about the Third World Roman Catholic
Church, say that sexual abuse by clergy is generally not discussed, and thus is
difficult to measure.[15][7] In the Philippines where as of 2002 at least 85%
of the population is Catholic, the revelations of child sexual abuse by priests
followed the United States' reporting in 2002.[16]
In the United
States, which has been the lead focus of much of the scandals and subsequent
reforms,[17] BishopAccountability.org, an "online archive established by
lay Catholics," reports that over 3,000 civil lawsuits have been filed
against the church,[18] some of these cases have resulted in multi-million
dollar settlements with many claimants. In 1998 the Roman Catholic Diocese of
Dallas paid $30.9 million to twelve victims of one priest ($44.1 million in
present-day terms).[19][20] From 2003 to 2009 nine other major settlements
involving over 375 cases with 1551 claimants/victims, resulted in payments of
over $1.1 billion USD.[note 2] The Associated Press estimated the settlements
of sex abuse cases from 1950 to 2007 totaled more than $2 billion.[21]
Bishop Accountability puts the figure at more than $3 billion in 2012.[6][18]
Addressing "a flood of abuse claims" five dioceses (Tucson, Arizona;
Spokane, Washington; Portland, Oregon; Davenport, Iowa, and San Diego) got
bankruptcy protection.[21] Eight Catholic dioceses have declared bankruptcy due
to sex abuse cases from 2004-2011. -Wikipedia
