Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (2003)

IMDB rating: 5.50

Plot: TV child star of the ’70s, Dickie Roberts is now 35 and parking cars. Craving to regain the spotlight, he auditions for a role of a normal guy, but the director quickly sees he is anything but normal. Desperate to win the part, Dickie hires a family to help him replay his childhood and assume the identity of an average, everyday kid. Several folk who are also involved in Dickie’s special world include: Sidney, Dickie’s longtime friend and agent; Cyndi, his on-again, off-again girlfriend; Peggy, Dickie’s real mother; George, Dickie’s adopted father figure; and Grace, his adopted mother figure.

Actors: Spade David,Bierko Craig,Terra Scott,Farley John,Slayton Bobby,Buffer Michael,Wolf Fred,Lewis Emmanuel,Diaz Joey,Grevioux Kevin,Clark Brian,Garrett Leif,Comedy,

What's that song from Dickie Roberts Former Child Star?
I remember the scene where Sam Finney (Scott Terra) was trying to impress the girl next door so Dickie Roberts (David Spade) helped him out buy dancing to a song on high stilks (I don’t know if I have spelt that right).

Does anyone know that song???

MommaD | Jun 10, 2009

Sniper (1993)

IMDB rating: 5.50

Plot: Tough guy Thomas Beckett is an US soldier working in the Panamanian jungle. His job is to seek out rebels and remove them using his sniper skills. Beckett is notorious for losing his partners on such missions. This time he’s accompanied by crack marksman Richard Miller, who’s more of an office-type. Together they plan to seek out an important rebel leader, whilst avoiding a rogue marksman who frequents this part of the jungle.

buy and download Sniper

Actors: Berenger Tom,Zane Billy,Lineback Richard,Walsh J.T.,Young Aden,Radley Ken,Dye Dale,Arenas Reynaldo,Swanson Gary,Garrett Hank,Miragliotta Frederick,Alvarez Carlos,Coppin Tyler,Gebert Teo,Wiley Edward,Curtin William,Action,Drama,

When is it OK to Use Lethal Force?!?
Say there is a perp who has a hsotage by gunpoint in a public street. What basis do the police use to institute lethal force in this situation? What are the factors in deciding to take this guy out via sniper??!?

In this case the perp can be shot legally.

Now you can only use enough deadly force to stop the perp, if he falls on the ground still alive, you cannot kill them unless they attempt to threaten again.
Curtis 1911 | Feb 06, 2010

Here are the guidelines in which police can use force:

http://churchsecurityarticles.s3.amazona ws.com/Use%20of%20Force%20Chart.jpg
LolWtf | Feb 06, 2010

Man’s Best Friend (1993)

IMDB rating: 4.50

Plot: A genetically mutated dog is accidentally released from the lab of Dr. Jarret and ends up at the home of news reporter/animal rights advocate Lori Tanner. The dog, Max, endowed with intelligence and other special abilities, is at first lovable, but also proves to be a ferocious, unstoppable killer.

Actors: Henriksen Lance,Costanzo Robert,Lehne Fredric,Cassini John,Daniels J.D.,Sanderson William,Barker Rick,Pierce Bradley,Arentz Robert,Arnett Cameron,Carl Adam,Rosales Jr. Thomas,Sci-Fi,Horror,Thriller,

Scientific Community: Is this evidence for a creator?
I’m not saying it is, but I think it might be evidence for a creator: Information.

What is information? There are several definitions of information currently in use; however, each of these definitions are generally too broad. For example, one definition of information includes symbols with or without meaning, and another includes everything in its definition of information. Imagine sending a random symbols as smoke signals to your friend would Happy Birthday ever get sent to your mother on her birthday? In July 2006, a team of scientists representing various scientific disciplines met to evaluate a definition of information proposed by information scientist Dr. Werner Gitt, which is precise and corresponds very well to human languages and machine languages. The team proposed that this definition be called Universal Definition of Information (UDI) and agreed that there are four essential attributes that define it:

1.Code (syntax): Information within all communications systems contains a code. A code contains a set of symbols and rules for using letters, words, phrases, or symbols to represent something else. One reason for coding is to enable communication. Examples of codes would be the English Alphabet, words, and syntax; hieroglyphics; or codes used in computers (For example, C, Fortran, or Cobol).
2.Meaning (semantics): Meaning enables communication by representing real objects or concepts with specific symbols, words, or phrases. For example, the word chair is not the physical chair but represents it. Likewise, the name Bob is not the physical person but represents the real person. When words are associated with real objects or concepts, it gives the word meaning
3.Expected Action (pragmatics): Expected action conveys an implicit or explicit request or comment to perform a given task. For example, in the statement, Go to the grocery store and buy some chocolate chips, the expected action is that someone will go to the store. This does not mean the action will actually happen, but it is expected to happen.
4.Intended Purpose (apobetics): Intended purpose is the anticipated goal that can be achieved by the performance of the expected actions. For example, in the statement Go to the grocery store and buy some chocolate chips, the intended purpose might be to bake and eat chocolate chip cookies.

These four essential attributes specify the definition domain for information. A definition of information (Universal Definition of Information) was formulated by using these four attributes:

An encoded, symbolically represented message conveying
expected action and intended purpose.

Encoded Code
Symbolically represented message Meaning
Expected action Action
Intended purpose Purpose

Anything not containing all four attributes is not considered information by this Universal definition of Information (UDI).

Examples of entities that do contain Information (UDI):
The Bible
Newspaper
Hieroglyphics
Sheet Music
Mathematical formulas

Examples of entities that do not contain Information (UDI) (one of more of the attributes are missing).

A physical star: Lacks a code and lacks meaning because it does not represent something else; it is the physical object that the word star represents.

A physical snowflake: Lacks a code and lacks meaning because it does not represent something else; it is the physical object.

Random sequence of letters: Has a symbol set, but lacks rules for words or grammar (no code). Since it is random, it has no meaning to any sequence of letters

A physical piano: Lacks meaning because it does not represent something else; it is the physical object.

The lowest level of operational science begins with ideas originated and formulated by man. These include models, hypotheses, theories, assumptions, speculations, etc. This is the lowest level of scientific certainty because man’s understanding of reality is incomplete, faulty, and constantly changing. A very large gap exists between this level of science and the highest level. This highest level contains scientific laws.

Scientific laws are precise statements formulated from discoveries made through observations and experiments that have been repeatedly verified and never contradicted. There are scientific laws about matter (Newton’s law of gravity, laws of thermodynamics, laws of electricity, and laws of magnetism(. There is Pasteur’s law about life (law of biogenesis).

Each of these laws if universal with no known exceptions. Scientific evidence that supports or refutes a scientific concept determines its level of certainty.
The information team evaluated scientific laws about information formulated by Dr. Werner Gitt that determine that nature and origin of information [UDI].

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Just an FYI: most of Newton’s work has been replaced by General Relativity. If you want to try to sound intelligent you ought to at least be within fifty years of modern science.
Gazoo | Feb 07, 2010

Bird on a Wire (1990)

IMDB rating: 5.30

Plot: Rick has been given a new identity by the FBI for helping convict a drug dealing FBI agent. Fifteen years later his former fiance recognises him. Rick’s FBI ‘minder’ has been replaced by a corrupt agent who helps the drug dealing FBI agent and his accomplice locate him. There are many subsequent chase scenes as Rick and girlfriend revisit his former haunts.

Actors: Gibson Mel,Carradine David,Duke Bill,Tobolowsky Stephen,Caesar Harry,Corey Jeff,Bruhanski Alex,Pyper-Ferguson John,Kusatsu Clyde,Davies Jackson,Healy Tim,Tritter Wes,Thriller,Adventure,Romance,Comedy,Crime,Action,

a short poem about some unlucky birds?
pigeon poem

ive noticed the pigeons up on the wires
tooting there own horns

spending the day singing
like they are a different
kind of bird

maybe a dove
is what they wish to be
as they loose their heads
racing after the last crumb on the ground.

Dinosaur (2000)

IMDB rating: 6.20

Plot: Long before humans appeared on the planet, dinosaurs ruled the earth. On a little off-coast island, a clan of lemurs finds a dinosaur egg, hatching. Since there are no parents, the lemurs take care of the newborn, Aladar. Years later, a medium meteor goes down close to the island and the shockwave forces its inhabitants to flee to the continent. There, Aladar and his family meet other dinosaurs for the first time as well as real dangers. The destruction caused by the meteor here has also forced a herd of different herbivores to move to a remote valley that can provide food and protection against the carnivorous predators following after. Since Aladar grew up with a different understanding of the ways of the world, his way of helping others first isn’t accepted within the herd, but soon it is proven that reason may be better than panic.

Actors: Sweeney D.B.,Davis Ossie,Casella Max,Wright Samuel E.,Siragusa Peter,Adler Matt,Bostrom Zachary,Animation,Family,Adventure,

what age group of kids would the show "Walking with Dinosaurs" be appropriate for?
I am more interested in the minimum age

bride2be09 | Feb 05, 2010

Running with Scissors (2006)

IMDB rating: 5.80

Plot: The story of how a boy was abandoned by his mother and how he, later, abandoned her. The year he’ll be 14, the parents of Augusten Burroughs (1965- ) divorce, and his mother, who thinks of herself as a fine poet on the verge of fame, delivers him to the eccentric household of her psychiatrist, Dr. Finch. During that year, Augusten avoids school, keeps a journal, and practices cosmetology. His mother’s mental illness worsens, he takes an older lover, he finds friendship with Finch’s younger daughter, and he’s the occasional recipient of gifts from an unlikely benefactor. Can he survive to come of age?

Actors: Cox Brian,Fiennes Joseph,Baldwin Alec,Cross Joseph,Wilson Patrick,Kaeding Jack,Guedj Gabriel,Comedy,Drama,

I have to write a monologue for my English class… HELP ME.?
I have to write a monologue coming from a main character in any book I have read. It can really be anything, but I have to write it myself. I want to do Augusten from Running With Scissors. I want to expand a memory, or event that wasn’t completely explained in the book. I just don’t know what I should pick, or where to even begin. If you’re familiar with this book, could you help me?

Shut (2009)

IMDB rating: 2.50

Plot: Malcolm Bricks (Lee Collin Baxter) wakes up in a nightmare of blood and betrayal. The bunker he is trapped in was the scene of a brutal crime shortly before. The results are three dead bodies and a mysterious bag. Malcolm has barely any memories about his part in this game. Is he a killer, as his partner Trent Richards (Paul Glaser) tells him while he slowly bleeds to death?

Actors: Baxter Lee,Strachan Ray,Glaser Paul,Caster Jeff,Masterson David,van Jones Byron,Saklofsky Ryan,Gerdell Nikolas,Arensmeier-Riva Stephan,Chateau Michael,Thriller,

Liver damage from alcohol.In ICU. Confusion. WILL HE MAKE IT..?
It’s my brother, he drank most of his life, then tried to stop on his own, and had a seizure and ended up in hospital, throwing up blood, and not breathing when he arrived at hospital so they intabated him. He seems very confused, he just looks to the ceiling, he looks very yellow. His kidneys were shutting down, but came back, but now he is back in ICU because his BP & Heart rate dropped. whats next?

He may make it. If he quits drinking he would be eligible for a liver transplant.

His life is in God’s hands. God’s timing is always perfect. Try to rest in Him. I will pray for your brother tonight.

MY bro died from alcoholism at 66. I know your pain.
Kelle | Feb 07, 2010

Evelyn (2002)

IMDB rating: 7.00

Plot: Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children, Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice, make it clear to the authorities that his is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages. Although a sympathetic judge assures Desmond that when his financial situation reverses, he will be able to get his children back; money is hard to come by. During that time, Evelyn and her brothers suffer the abuses of living in orphanages while Desmond struggles to secure finances. Now he must battle the courts to get his children back.

check it

Actors: Beagan Niall,McDonagh Hugh,Brosnan Pierce,Kelly Frank,Lucchesi Alvaro,Keogh Garrett,O’Suilleabhain Daithi,Hogan Bosco,Drama,

What do you think of my baby names?
Iam bored and just thought of some names. What do you think of them?

For boys
Landon Alexander
Jeremy Ryan
Anthony Blake

for girls
Aaliyah Michelle (Leah)
Sophia Charlotte
Evelyn Nicole (evie)

Hannibal (2001)

IMDB rating: 6.30

Plot: Part four in the Hannibal Lecter Quadrilogy. Having escaped the asylum in “Silence of the Lambs,” Dr Lecter goes into hiding in Florence, Italy. Back in America, Mason Verger, an old victim of the doctor’s, seeks revenge. Disfigured and confined to a life-support system, he plans to draw Lecter out of his hiding place, using the one thing he truly cares for: Clarice Starling.

Actors: Hopkins Anthony,Liotta Ray,Oldman Gary,Faison Frankie,Giannini Giancarlo,Ivanek Zeljko,Andrews David,Guinan Francis,Opher James,Lo Verso Enrico,Marescotti Ivano,Gifuni Fabrizio,Thriller,Crime,

who do you think are the all time greatest generals/ military leaders/ Strategists or Tacticians? Who in histo?
here is my list

George S Patton, MacArthur, Horatio Nelson

1-Alexander the Great
2-Sun Tzu
3-Napoleon
4-Zhe Ge Lian
5-Hannibal
6-Duke of Wellington
7-Genghis Khan
8-MacArthur
9-George S Patton
10-Horatio Nelson

who are your best?

My other 8, in no particular order:

Timur the Great
Napoleon
Hannibal
Gustavus Adolphus
Julius Caesar
Julian the Apostate
Rommel
Erich von Manstein
ammianus | Feb 02, 2010

Not sure who to put for the last 2.
Answerwizz | Feb 02, 2010

In no particular order.
DeSaxe | Feb 02, 2010

Also Julius Caesar should definitely be in the list and maybe Manstein or Guderian.
James | Feb 02, 2010

1. General Robert E. Lee; (Most beloved General by his men in the history of the United States).
2. General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson; (Arguably the best artillery officer and tactician the U.S. had in the last half of the 19th century).
3. General Wm. Tecumseh Sherman; (In WW II the Sherman tank was named after him; his accomplishments during the War Between the States speaks for itself).
4. Lt. General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller; the highest decorated U.S. Marine in the 235+ years of the Marine Corps. His service during the Chosin Reservoir (Korea) exemplifies his duty to his men and to his country.
5. General Bernard Law Montgomery; (as much as I hate to mention this guy) his ability in North Africa was unquestionably superb. Though, his criticisms of Eisenhower, Patton, et al I believe were unwarranted. (Personal opinion on this last sentence).
6. General Heinz Guderian; (I consider him to be a better tank commander than Rommel). Father of the "Blitzkrieg" he would be exonerated and pardoned following the Nuremburg trials. Each of his interrogations the interrogators would come a way with an understanding that he was "a professional soldier" in every sense of the word. Too bad this guy was a Nazi; he could have helped us end WW II for our side much sooner.
7. Marshall Georgy Zhukov; (Stalins only saving grace). Zhukov would kick the Japanese "giggy" so bad in 1939 that when Hitler declared war on the U.S.A., the Japanese would recall this and not proceed with attacking the USSR. The USSR in the meantime would not want to open their own "Eastern Front" with Japan because of the whooping they took from the Japanese in 1905.
8. General Vo Nguyen Giap; (North Viet Nam). Another fellow I love to "hate" as I know many American Viet Nam veterans. Based on the fact that I am "attempting" to be objective; here is where I now draw the line. Simply don’t want to give this guy any more "credit"; Giap was the only thing "Uncle Ho" had going for him.
9. General Francois de Negrier; French Army ~ long story here too but most interesting to me is his lead of the French Foreign Legion in which he states "Vous, legionnaires, vous etes soldats pour mourir, et je vous envoie ou l

Beethoven’s Big Break (2008)

IMDB rating: 4.90

Plot: Eddie, a struggling animal trainer and single dad suddenly finds himself the personal wrangler for a large and lovable St. Bernard whose fabulous movie “audition” catapults the dog to stardom. However, a trio of unscrupulous ne’er-do-wells have plans to kidnap the famous dog and hold him for ransom

Beethoven’s Big Break

Actors: Silverman Jonathan,Adler Chris,Alan Robie,Arias Moises,Baldwin Darryl,Bidwell Shawn ‘Bigwheel’,Bowman Colin,Cintron Joseph,Cole Josh,Di Franco Paul,Ditman Eric,Dunlop Ricky,Elkalyoubie Omar,Elliott Grant,Fatone Joey,Family,

Have you noticed…?
how certain composers (Liszt, Beethoven,…) keep repeating a certain bunch of piano techniques in their pieces? For instance, contemplating a couple beethoven sonatas, I see broken octaves (is that the term?) in every single piece. There are these movements in a lot of Liszt Rhapsodies where right hand plays big intervals. There is this same part in Grand Gallope Chromatique (spelling?).

Mostly, composers who weren’t brilliant pianists themselves seem more creative because in my opinion they are not bound to anything while composing. They don’t have any limitations. They just compose. Like Debussy.

The question is the title.

Master Recon | Oct 14, 2007

I admit, I do the same whilst composing..
I use some of the same techniques from prior songs.

But it’s that composer’s way of composing. Unique to them.
-Mdtt
Mdtt | Oct 14, 2007