In addition to being a mom. And a wife. And a sister. And a baker and cook. And a knitter/crocheter. And a reader. And an aspiring fitness fanatic. And a tv watcher. And many other things that have occupied my time fully and then some.
An aside: The Kindertransport was an amazing and in many ways harrowing program (or rather, a series of programs, some coordinated, some not) that attempted to get at-risk children out of Nazi occupied territories. For more about Kindertransport check out the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and The Kindertransport Association.
1. Reproductive health measured by maternal mortality ratio and adolescent birth rates;
2. Empowerment, measured by proportion of parliamentary seats occupied by females and proportion of adult men and women 25 years and older with at least some secondary education; and
3. Economic status expressed as labor market participation and measured by labor force participation rate of men and women 15 years and older.
We're about halfway into the football season, and my mind is therefore (un)naturally occupied by the San Diego Chargers, who have all but perfected the art of breaking their fans' hearts. Case in point: they recently made history by becoming the first NFL team ever to lead a game by 24 points at the half then lose it by double digits. They took a chance to own the AFC West and strangled the breath out of it over 30 excruciating minutes of playing time. "Implosion" could be the Chargers' middle name.
Good travel quotes never fail to deliver a good dose of travel inspiration. They are capable of really igniting that wanderlust in you and make you start planning your next kickass adventure. For exactly that purpose we have brought over no less than 1000 of the best and most inspirational travel and adventure quotes together (plus one bonus video if you make it to the bottom of this hugeee list).
V For Vendetta (2005)Based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore, V for Vendetta is set in an alternate future where the country is occupied by a fascist government. The only form of justice seems to be a masked vigilante known only as V (Hugo Weaving) who uses terrorist tactics to fight the oppressors of this bleak world. During a run in with the police, V saves a young woman named Evey (Natalie Portman), who becomes his unlikely ally as they continue the fight against their oppressors.
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Vera Atkins fought her way to the top of Britain's Special Operations Executive, a secret service dedicated to build up and aid the resistance in Nazi-occupied territories. When the war ended, Atkins made it her personal mission to find the agents (and in particular, twelve of her personal spies) who went missing behind enemy lines. This story is so thrilling you'll marvel at the fact that it's real.
Indeed, the discovery is also exceptional because it was found in a cliffside adjacent to the Oldman River in southern Alberta, an area that has never produced ceratopsid fossils before. Perhaps Regaliceratops occupied a different niche to its chasmosaurine brethren in other parts of Alberta, which pushed it to evolve centrosaurine features. But until more specimens from the genus are discovered, it will be hard to make any firm conclusions about the dinosaur's overall behavior.
As usual, the IAm8Bit crew went all out, featuring video and photo booths, plenty of Rhythm Heaven inspired decorations, kick ass headphones and some awesome plushies that I was tempted to steal. Luckily, my sticky fingers were occupied by the free swag given out, like this awesome Rhythm Heaven shirt.
Kick-Ass takes all the classic superhero tropes and turns them on their head, and what you're left with is a super-charged romp that's one part wish-fulfillment fantasy and one part fan-boy comedy. Forget x-ray vision, invisibility, or superhuman strength -- Kick-Ass is all about what happens when a 17-year-old teen with no powers, training, or meaningful desire to do so buys a wet suit and some riot sticks and begins his journey to becoming the ultimate champion: a superhero. Based on the graphic novel by Mark Millar, director Matthew Vaughn maintains a balancing act between ultra-violent recklessness and rabid teenage comedy. The film goes to all the extremes, but they're completely welcome, and in a sea of superhero movies that take themselves entirely too seriously, Kick-Ass breaks out and delivers a refreshing take on the genre that leaves the audience with a pleasantly visceral experience. Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) is your average teenager, nothing special -- he hasn't been bitten by a radioactive spider like Peter Parker and he doesn't have gadgets like Batman; in fact, his only superpower is being invisible to girls. One day, while hanging with his friends at the local comic-book shop, Dave poses the pivotal question: "Why has no one ever tried to be a superhero?" He goes from nerdy teen dreaming of winning over his "Mary Jane", Katie (Lyndsy Fonseca), to costumed not-so-super hero Kick-Ass. From there it's one crazed stunt after another, which leads to a back-alley beatdown that leaves him with screwed up nerve endings and a heightened threshold for pain -- the perfect plot point for the craziness that ensues. After video footage of a confrontation with gang members outside the local hangout goes viral, everyone knows his name, but trouble brews when nemesis Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) explodes onto the scene and Kick-Ass must maintain his identity, beat the bad guys, and win the girl. Vaughn takes care to remind the audience that Dave is still a teenage boy with angst, hormonal yearnings, and clueless friends, so as his life in the real world becomes more engaging, his life as Kick-Ass becomes less relevant. Enter Hit-Girl, played by Chloe Moretz, a trash-talking, butt-kicking, 13-year-old girl who could wipe the floor with the biggest of badasses. Trained by her rubber-suit-wearing father, Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage), an ex-cop-turned-vigilante, this revenge-seeking duo stops at nothing to bring resident bad guy Frank D'Amico (Mark Strong) to justice. The film is just as much about Hit-Girl and Big Daddy as it is about Kick-Ass. They fill the void when Dave is otherwise occupied, and some of the best scenes in the film are between the two. Vaughn, along with screenwriter Jane Goldman, establishes the anti-superhero universe early in the film, and as a result the audience expects them to maintain that sensibility throughout, but the film teeters back and forth between "this isn't a superhero movie" and "this is a superhero movie," and some points in the film get bogged down with endless backstory of minor characters that are better served in comic-book form. Still, Kick-Ass is just plain fun, and trying to figure out where it fits into the genre takes away from enjoying what it really is -- a ridiculously entertaining adventure that genre fans will love. The tagline says it all: "Be honest with yourself. At some point in our lives, we all wanted to be a superhero." For anyone who secretly wished to be one, this film delivers on that fantasy with a world where bad guys are real and superheroes are geeky high school comic-book fans.
But Peter Rosenthal, lawyer for some of the natives who occupied the park, brought up an incident in 2004 when Harris admittedly used a profanity at a polling station when voting for the PC leadership race.
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Inside, we have interviews with all the cast and crew, including Nicolas Cage on the influence of Adam West's Batman ("That's Big Daddy's Jungian muse, to help him accomplish the things he accomplishes") and Matthew Vaughn on why he originally had Zac Efron in mind for the Red Mist role now occupied by Christopher Mintz-Plasse. "We initially met Chris Mintz-Plasse for Dave, because we were thinking about making Dave (Kick-Ass) a really, really geeky kid. And we thought it would be interesting if Red Mist was the much cooler guy."
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