Top 10 Best War Movies

!±8± Top 10 Best War Movies

This list comprises the war films that got us immersed in the action as well as in deep thought. There have been countless war films throughout the century, but these ones seem to stand above the rest. This list if geared for the films with more action rather than emotional stories (Schindler's List).

10. Braveheart: We'll never forget the cry "freedom" at the end of the film. Mel Gibson gives one his best performances as the freedom fighting Scot who leads the Scottish in uprising against the British in 1298. Their are so many memorable lines and battles you feel like you took part in the action.

9. 300: This breath taking film directed by Zach Snyder is one of the more memorable war films of the past five years. He takes you along for the ride as 300 Spartans face of against a million Persians in the battle of Thermopylae. Xerxes tries to get King Leonidas (the main character) to submit, but Leonidas will fight to the death before bowing to a foreign king. Stunning cinematography alongside astonishing choreography, filmed completely on green screen.

8. Enemy At The Gates: One of the better sniper films there is and an exceptional tale. The main characters are loosely based on events. It is about two Russian snipers against the best German sniper. The main Russian sniper is Vassili Zaitsev played by Jude Law. His German counterpart Major Konig is played by Ed Harris. It is an intense cat and mouse game where your never quite sure where the devious Nazi major is hiding. The sniper hunt takes place during the Battle of Stalingrad where the fighting is fierce.

7. Kingdom of Heaven: Set in the medieval era this film is the story of a young man who ends up in the middle of the Crusade battles in Jerusalem. This takes place just before Richard the Lionheart sets out on his last crusade. It does have Saladin in it which makes for some amazing battles. There is an epic final battle that everyone should watch. The special effects and siege machines are spectacular in this film. One of the most realistic siege battles to date.

6. Gettysburg: The bloodiest battle on U.S. soil, Gettysburg has thousands of re-enacters marching over the exact ground that the federal army and the army of North Virginia fought on. It shows the three day battle that was a turning point in the Civil War is shown from the perspectives of both sides, highlighting the fight for Little Round Top, and Pickett's Charge. Other focuses include Longstreet and Lee's relationship as they have differing strategic opinions, Armistead fighting on the opposite side of his old friend Hancock, and the Chamberlain brothers.

5. The Last Samurai: A journey of a man who trains soldiers for the U.S. and their new ally Japan ends up in the enemy's camp. As he learns the Samurai's ways he finds them enduring and is at peace among them. A conflict arises where he must choose between his former people and the Japanese Imperial Regime and the Samurai who are being suppressed. This film has amazingly choreographed Samurai battles and plenty of bokken (wooden sword) training and kitana wielding action. It is set at the end of the Tokugawa era towards the start of the Meji era. Starring Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe.

4. Full Metal Jacket: A Dark Comedy/War film set in the Vietnam war. With many memorable characters such as Pvt. Joker, Pvt. cowboy, Animal Mother, Pvt. Pyle, Eightball, and R. Lee Ermey as none other than Gny. Sgt. Hartman. With Ermey having real experience as a Gunnery Sergeant the boot camp scenes look very true to life. Stanley Kubrick directs a dark film of soldiers that are under lots of mental stress and how they deal with it.

3. Letters from Iwo Jima: Directed by Clint Eastwood who also directed the American side first in "Flags of Our Fathers". Shockingly this film was more impressive and had better acting thanks to Ken Watanabe. Watanabe played General Kuribayashi and gives a stellar performance of honor and courage under fire. Obviously this story is the battle of Iwo Jima told through the eyes of the Japanese. It is always peculiar to think what our enemies were trying to do simultaneous to our military actions.

2. Patton: Never was there a more bolder, brazen, fired up General than George S. Patton. This is the film that depicts Patton with his glorious victories as well as some set backs. It gives us a little bit of insight into what the great General was like and how he thought. The film begins with Patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. The film may be a little long (3 1/2 hours i think) but it's worth watching if you have the time. Oddly enough George C. Scott plays Patton, I find the name resemblance an strange and funny coincidence.

1. Saving Private Ryan: Set during the D-Day invasion at Normandy. This story directed by Spielberg tells a compelling story of a squad of Army Rangers that set out to find a Private Ryan whose three brothers have been killed. They are to rescue him so he can go home, so that his mother can find some solace. Capt. Miller (Tom Hanks) leads this squad and they fight through multiple battles from machine gun nests to Panzer attacks, this film has all the war you could fit in a 2 hour film. The famous Omaha Beach scene is so life like you feel like you have to duck for cover.

Top 10 Best War Movies

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Help! My Cat is Keeping Me Awake

!±8± Help! My Cat is Keeping Me Awake

"My cat is awake all night, full of energy and is stopping me from getting any sleep. It's driving me nuts!

Most cats spend a good part of their daylight hours sleeping, they like nothing better than finding a warm spot and enjoying a little snooze.

The trouble is that some cats are wide-awake when night falls and are full of vim and vigor, if your cat is one that could mean broken sleep or even entirely sleepless nights for you. And that's no joke, you need your sleep so you can be bright eyed and bushy tailed for work in the morning. You are embarrassed about being constantly bleary eyed and yawning at your desk!

So, are you sharing your home with an evil feline, a cat that has a secret agenda to torment you with sleep deprivation? No, it's not really your cat's fault. In their natural state cats are nocturnal hunters, they stalk their prey at night. Centuries ago cats ventured into human settlements because where there was humans there were rodents. This arrangement was good for both parties, good hunting for the cats and the humans had the rodent problem solved for them.

Years later the rodent problem was not so acute for humans but many found that they enjoyed the company of cats. Cats began to be kept as pets and the humans fed their feline pets so there was no need for them to hunt for their food. But the hunting instinct remains with the cats to this day . . . and so does the nocturnal instinct.

"OK, cats are naturally active at night but I really need my sleep. What can I do?"

This problem most usually affects "indoor only" cats because cats that have access to the outdoors via a pet door can slip out at night and satisfy their hunting instincts. But you may have many reasons why you prefer to keep your cat indoors.

Do you play with your cat? You should, playing is fun both for you and your cat and helps increase the bond between the two of you.

If your cat's night energy is causing you to lose sleep try a play session with your cat shortly before you go to bed, this may just tire out your cat so she or he is not so active.

Involve interactive cat toys, the fishing pole type and the toy mouse on a string variety, roll a ball for your cat to chase. Don't overdo it the object is not to exhaust your kitty but get rid of excess energy. At first your cat may only be interested in playing for a few minutes, that's okay try playing a little longer the next night.

The energy that your cat spends playing represents the energy a cat would spend hunting, and at the end of a hunt, a successful one anyway, is a meal. So feed your cat a small meal after the play session. In this way you are recreating your cat's natural nocturnal habits and it just may mean she or he will be a little less active at night.

Don't expect this to work instantly, you will need to patiently keep trying, good luck.

Help! My Cat is Keeping Me Awake

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The Hunts of the United States and Canada: Their Masters, Hounds and Histories

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Who's The Greatest Of All Time In A Particular Sport?

!±8± Who's The Greatest Of All Time In A Particular Sport?

Okay, in reality, it is impossible to unequivocally answer this question. This is sports, however, where (as I have written before) the difference between reality and fantasy becomes blurred. My fantasy would be the invention of a time machine, which is the only way we could seriously attempt to fairly and accurately answer this question. Even then, it would not be as simple as it might appear to be at first glance. In team sports, for instance, if your goal is to determine the best individual player in a sport, this still might not be so clear, because there would still be other individuals competing on the court or field. Even if you were trying to determine something as specific as which of two centers in basketball was better, Bill Russell or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (who never played against each other), for example, you still might not have a definitive answer. After all, Russell and Wilt Chamberlain played against each over one hundred times and this is still one of the most debated questions in sports history. (By the way, the answer to the question, "Who is better, Russell or Chamberlain?", is Jabbar, of course.)

If you were trying to determine who was the greatest in an individual sport, it would still not be definitive, even if you limited it to only one criterion or question, such as: Who would win head-to-head if two athletes played each other in their prime? It seems on its face to be a fair test for determining the best of all time in an individual sport. But is it really? For example, you know as well as I do, that if we beamed Bill Tilden in his prime (circa 1921) onto a court to play Roger Federer in tennis in 2007, that Federer would win. Does that mean that Federer should automatically be ranked higher than Tilden when we are trying to determine who is the greatest tennis player of all time? I think almost of all of us would answer something like, "it is not that simple." If it were, we would not have to ask who is the greatest of all time in sports like swimming or track and field, because whoever is the current world record holder would be the greatest of all time (for the most part) by default.

We all know that today's best athletes are superior to yesteryear's best athletes because of better diet and training (especially weights). Plus, in most cases, today's athletes have spent more hours practicing and competing throughout their careers than their counterparts in the past. These are huge advantages, especially when the athlete starts playing the sport at age two (ever hear of Tiger Woods?). In fact, it is fair to say that as of 2007, each generation of athletes is clearly superior to the generation before. (An exception to this might be a sport which is currently a lot less popular than it was previously (examples in the U.S. would include boxing, bowling, and to a lesser extent, baseball), since significantly fewer great athletes have chosen to compete in that sport.) In the future, the difference between each successive generation might be marginal or negligible, but for right now, the difference is measurable. So, how do we account for this fact when determining who is the greatest of all time in a particular sport? There is, of course, no right or wrong answer to this, but one thing is clear: How much "allowance" you give to the earlier generations' athletes for the advantage the modern athletes have will significantly affect any ranking you have for greatness in a particular sport.

Since today's athletes have the above-mentioned advantages, how about we limit our evaluation to only one criterion: How much better was an athlete than his or her contemporaries? Again, this seems to be fair on its face, but what if the athlete's contemporaries were especially weak or strong? How do we know for sure that they were weak or strong? After all, they played only against their own generation. Even if we could tell for sure: How much should we account for this factor? Let us try another specific criterion: Which athlete was considered the best in his or her sport for the longest period of time? Unfortunately, you run into the same problem, namely, that the strength of their contemporaries could have affected their length at the top of their sport.

It looks as if, time machine or no time machine, the only way we can even attempt to answer the question, "Who is the greatest of all time in a particular sport ?", is to use some combination of criteria or factors. Whatever criteria we use, it is safe to assume that: 1) the most recent athletes will probably place higher than they should; and 2) your age will affect your rankings. Plus, how accurate will an evaluation by a 20-year-old be, given that he only witnessed as few as 10 or 20 percent of some sports' athletes. How do we account for the fact that almost all of us have not seen all the best athletes in a particular sport? And how can we fairly compare an athlete that we never saw with one that we saw compete on a daily or weekly basis? It seems rather obvious there are no good answers to these questions. However, that does not mean we cannot at least try and answer our ultimate question.

In my article "Who are the 25 Greatest Athletes of All Time?", I suggested 10 criteria for trying to answer this question. Some of the criteria do not pertain to our question at hand so I eliminated them, and we are left with the following suggested criteria:

1. What were the athlete's accomplishments in their sport? Things to consider are titles (especially majors, olympic, or world titles), championships, records set, rankings (in individual sports), career statistics, all-star selections, awards (especially Player of Year awards and MVP awards), and the length of their careers. Also, did the sport's rules or equipment changes affect the athletes statistics?

2. For how many years were they considered the best in their sport? How much better were they than contemporaries? How weak or strong in ability were their contemporaries?

3. When you watch the athlete perform, do they do things that other athletes in their sport cannot do? Or, to put it another way: How exciting is the athlete to watch because of their amazing athletic ability?

4. How much impact did the athlete have on their sport or the sports world in general?

5. How much did injuries or a lack of opportunity limit their accomplishments?

6. How consistently great was the athlete?

7. How much did the athlete's mere presence intimidate their opponents because of the athlete's dominance? In a team sport, did the athlete's mere presence or greatness make their teammates better? Also, in team sports, did the athlete make their teammates better in other ways (e.g., leadership, teamwork)?

I think most of us use most or all of these criteria (and any that I may have missed) either instinctually, or perhaps after some thought. You will soon realize that how much weight you put on each of these criteria and factors above will significantly affect your answers. Ultimately, we may never come up with a definitive answer, but at least we can have some fun trying!

Who's The Greatest Of All Time In A Particular Sport?

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Top 10 Best War Movies

!±8± Top 10 Best War Movies

This list comprises the war films that got us immersed in the action as well as in deep thought. There have been countless war films throughout the century, but these ones seem to stand above the rest. This list if geared for the films with more action rather than emotional stories (Schindler's List).

10. Braveheart: We'll never forget the cry "freedom" at the end of the film. Mel Gibson gives one his best performances as the freedom fighting Scot who leads the Scottish in uprising against the British in 1298. Their are so many memorable lines and battles you feel like you took part in the action.

9. 300: This breath taking film directed by Zach Snyder is one of the more memorable war films of the past five years. He takes you along for the ride as 300 Spartans face of against a million Persians in the battle of Thermopylae. Xerxes tries to get King Leonidas (the main character) to submit, but Leonidas will fight to the death before bowing to a foreign king. Stunning cinematography alongside astonishing choreography, filmed completely on green screen.

8. Enemy At The Gates: One of the better sniper films there is and an exceptional tale. The main characters are loosely based on events. It is about two Russian snipers against the best German sniper. The main Russian sniper is Vassili Zaitsev played by Jude Law. His German counterpart Major Konig is played by Ed Harris. It is an intense cat and mouse game where your never quite sure where the devious Nazi major is hiding. The sniper hunt takes place during the Battle of Stalingrad where the fighting is fierce.

7. Kingdom of Heaven: Set in the medieval era this film is the story of a young man who ends up in the middle of the Crusade battles in Jerusalem. This takes place just before Richard the Lionheart sets out on his last crusade. It does have Saladin in it which makes for some amazing battles. There is an epic final battle that everyone should watch. The special effects and siege machines are spectacular in this film. One of the most realistic siege battles to date.

6. Gettysburg: The bloodiest battle on U.S. soil, Gettysburg has thousands of re-enacters marching over the exact ground that the federal army and the army of North Virginia fought on. It shows the three day battle that was a turning point in the Civil War is shown from the perspectives of both sides, highlighting the fight for Little Round Top, and Pickett's Charge. Other focuses include Longstreet and Lee's relationship as they have differing strategic opinions, Armistead fighting on the opposite side of his old friend Hancock, and the Chamberlain brothers.

5. The Last Samurai: A journey of a man who trains soldiers for the U.S. and their new ally Japan ends up in the enemy's camp. As he learns the Samurai's ways he finds them enduring and is at peace among them. A conflict arises where he must choose between his former people and the Japanese Imperial Regime and the Samurai who are being suppressed. This film has amazingly choreographed Samurai battles and plenty of bokken (wooden sword) training and kitana wielding action. It is set at the end of the Tokugawa era towards the start of the Meji era. Starring Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe.

4. Full Metal Jacket: A Dark Comedy/War film set in the Vietnam war. With many memorable characters such as Pvt. Joker, Pvt. cowboy, Animal Mother, Pvt. Pyle, Eightball, and R. Lee Ermey as none other than Gny. Sgt. Hartman. With Ermey having real experience as a Gunnery Sergeant the boot camp scenes look very true to life. Stanley Kubrick directs a dark film of soldiers that are under lots of mental stress and how they deal with it.

3. Letters from Iwo Jima: Directed by Clint Eastwood who also directed the American side first in "Flags of Our Fathers". Shockingly this film was more impressive and had better acting thanks to Ken Watanabe. Watanabe played General Kuribayashi and gives a stellar performance of honor and courage under fire. Obviously this story is the battle of Iwo Jima told through the eyes of the Japanese. It is always peculiar to think what our enemies were trying to do simultaneous to our military actions.

2. Patton: Never was there a more bolder, brazen, fired up General than George S. Patton. This is the film that depicts Patton with his glorious victories as well as some set backs. It gives us a little bit of insight into what the great General was like and how he thought. The film begins with Patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. The film may be a little long (3 1/2 hours i think) but it's worth watching if you have the time. Oddly enough George C. Scott plays Patton, I find the name resemblance an strange and funny coincidence.

1. Saving Private Ryan: Set during the D-Day invasion at Normandy. This story directed by Spielberg tells a compelling story of a squad of Army Rangers that set out to find a Private Ryan whose three brothers have been killed. They are to rescue him so he can go home, so that his mother can find some solace. Capt. Miller (Tom Hanks) leads this squad and they fight through multiple battles from machine gun nests to Panzer attacks, this film has all the war you could fit in a 2 hour film. The famous Omaha Beach scene is so life like you feel like you have to duck for cover.

Top 10 Best War Movies

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KHOA Trail Challenge Practice Aug 22, 09

!±8± KHOA Trail Challenge Practice Aug 22, 09

Another great day had with Chamberlain Dressage at the KHOA Trail Challenge Practice. Giving our horses time to explore each obstacle and for all of us to take a break from our routine and do something a little different! Great job everyone... Thank you to Blake West for being our photographer.

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Ben Warren May 1998 Pt 7 Harley confronts Beth about Ben

!±8± Ben Warren May 1998 Pt 7 Harley confronts Beth about Ben

Why be discreet when you can make Phillip jealous?

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Ben Warren August 98 Pt 4 - Blake gets endemic by Dinah.

!±8± Ben Warren August 98 Pt 4 - Blake gets endemic by Dinah.

Blake struggles to remember; Holly and Dinah both insist to Blake that she should lie and say Ben raped her in order to get Ross out of jail.

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Help! My Cat is Keeping Me Awake

!±8± Help! My Cat is Keeping Me Awake

"My cat is awake all night, full of energy and is stopping me from getting any sleep. It's driving me nuts!

Most cats spend a good part of their daylight hours sleeping, they like nothing better than finding a warm spot and enjoying a little snooze.

The trouble is that some cats are wide-awake when night falls and are full of vim and vigor, if your cat is one that could mean broken sleep or even entirely sleepless nights for you. And that's no joke, you need your sleep so you can be bright eyed and bushy tailed for work in the morning. You are embarrassed about being constantly bleary eyed and yawning at your desk!

So, are you sharing your home with an evil feline, a cat that has a secret agenda to torment you with sleep deprivation? No, it's not really your cat's fault. In their natural state cats are nocturnal hunters, they stalk their prey at night. Centuries ago cats ventured into human settlements because where there was humans there were rodents. This arrangement was good for both parties, good hunting for the cats and the humans had the rodent problem solved for them.

Years later the rodent problem was not so acute for humans but many found that they enjoyed the company of cats. Cats began to be kept as pets and the humans fed their feline pets so there was no need for them to hunt for their food. But the hunting instinct remains with the cats to this day . . . and so does the nocturnal instinct.

"OK, cats are naturally active at night but I really need my sleep. What can I do?"

This problem most usually affects "indoor only" cats because cats that have access to the outdoors via a pet door can slip out at night and satisfy their hunting instincts. But you may have many reasons why you prefer to keep your cat indoors.

Do you play with your cat? You should, playing is fun both for you and your cat and helps increase the bond between the two of you.

If your cat's night energy is causing you to lose sleep try a play session with your cat shortly before you go to bed, this may just tire out your cat so she or he is not so active.

Involve interactive cat toys, the fishing pole type and the toy mouse on a string variety, roll a ball for your cat to chase. Don't overdo it the object is not to exhaust your kitty but get rid of excess energy. At first your cat may only be interested in playing for a few minutes, that's okay try playing a little longer the next night.

The energy that your cat spends playing represents the energy a cat would spend hunting, and at the end of a hunt, a successful one anyway, is a meal. So feed your cat a small meal after the play session. In this way you are recreating your cat's natural nocturnal habits and it just may mean she or he will be a little less active at night.

Don't expect this to work instantly, you will need to patiently keep trying, good luck.

Help! My Cat is Keeping Me Awake

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