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Savannah may be in Georgia's Lowcountry coastal region, but it's a river port town, so it doesn't have any beaches of its own. You'll have to get in the car and drive to go swimming at the beach. The beaches nearest to Savannah are on barrier islands, many of which are protected natural habitats unsuitable for a beach outing. Two islands near Savannah are connected to the mainland by bridges and have public swimming beaches. If you don't choose one of these two islands for your beach excursion, you'll be driving quite a ways just to lie in the sun and go swimming in the Atlantic Ocean at the next-nearest beaches to the city, which isn't practical unless you're planning an overnight stay.
Tybee Island is so close to the city it's nicknamed "Savannah's Beach." It's less than a half-hour from downtown. All of the beach on the island is public, but not all of it is open to swimming. Lifeguards are on duty next to the pier and pavilion during peak season in the summer. The less-crowded beach at the north end of the island also has lifeguards but no pier and less development. A trip up to the top of the historic lighthouse across from the north beach makes a nice break from beach activities and provides a view of the surrounding area. One thing to keep in mind: The City of Tybee Island is serious about parking enforcement, and no free public parking exists anywhere on the island. Keep those meters and parking kiosks fed with money and display the ticket on your dashboard.
Forty-five minutes from downtown Savannah, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, has the next closest swimming beach to Savannah after Tybee Island. It's almost the polar opposite of Tybee -- much larger, with a lot of gated communities and upscale golf and tennis resorts, and it's a bit hard for first-timers to navigate because of its many winding roads. All 12 miles of beach are open to the public, but most of the beach areas are backed by private resorts and residential properties, making it hard to find access. The city has installed seven public access points throughout the island. Unless you're staying at beachfront accommodations, these access points are your only gateway to Hilton Head's famous long, flat and wide expanse of sand.
Hunting and Fripp Islands
Almost twice the driving distance from Savannah as Hilton Head, both Hunting and Fripp islands in South Carolina are reached via the Sea Island Parkway leading from Beaufort. You'll reach Hunting Island first. The entire island makes up Hunting Island State Park. Its five miles of beach are open for swimming even though there's no designated swimming area. The state park has a campground and one cabin for rent. Across the bridge from Huntlng, Fripp Island is a resort community with a gatehouse, so you must be a guest of either the resort or a property owner to access its 3.5 miles of beach. Book Fripp accommodations through Fripp Island Golf and Beach Resort (frippislandresort.com).
St. Simons and Jekyll Islands
About an hour and a half south of Savannah, but easily accessible via the interstate, causeways and bridges, St. Simons and Jekyll islands are Georgia's two other major beach resort destinations besides Tybee. The two islands are next to each other on the central part of the Georgia coast near Brunswick. St. Simons' beach is at its southern end, along with a beach village that has more of a residential than a resort feel. Jekyll's beach runs the length of the state-controlled island, with many beachfront hotels and resorts available. Both islands, despite their differences, have a distinctively Deep South vibe to them, owing to their history, antebellum architecture and old oak trees with long, low-hanging limbs draped with Spanish moss dotting the landscape and lining the roadways.
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Blake Guthrie covers travel, entertainment and outdoor recreation for many outlets, including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he is a regular contributor. With years of experience as a professional cook, Guthrie also relishes writing about food and beverage topics. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in mass communications from Auburn University.
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Enjoy a self-guided tour on a comfortably-paced private day trip to the Mutianyu Great Wall and Summer Palace with your English-speaking driver. The driver will share with you some city information on the road as well as is able to assist you with purchase of entrance tickets upon arrival the attractions.
Enjoy a safe, comfortable,convenient and worry-free private transfer service between your hotel in Beijing to the Summer Palace.Enjoy door-to-door service in a comfortable private vehicle operated by a courteous friendly driver from your hotel to the attraction. You can choose either 4 hour half day service or 6-8 hour full day service based your needs. If you wish to have a friendly private guide to show you the way, explain the histories and stories and even take photos for you and your family, you also can book a guide and transfer service option upon booking.There is no factory and shopping stops during the tour.
This 8-hour beijing day tour with your own private driver and car encourages you to explore the 2 most famous attractions by yourself. You will be able to take an unhurried trip at your own pace to enjoy the beautiful landscape of the Great Wall and summer palace. It's going to be a worry-free trip as our driver would assist you to skip the line for getting tickets and find nice restaurants if you need some food for compensating your energy. Please noted that your driver doesn't speak good English, but he will be definitely professional enough to help you get the entrance tickets and find the right place to drop you off and pick you up.
Choose the hassle-free way to travel from your hotel in Beijing to the Great Wall at Badaling Section and The Summer Palace with this smooth and efficient private service. You will be picked up from your centrally located hotel in Beijing, hop aboard your private, air-conditioned vehicle and relax.During the Tour,your friendly driver will show you where to purchase your tickets.At each attraction,you will have free time to enjoy the attraction at your own pace.If you wish to have a friendly private guide to show you the way, explain the histories and stories, you also can book a guide and transfer service option upon booking.The service is for 8-9 hours.There is no factory and shopping stops during the tour.


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Rumi Khan wants to learn the art of resolving conflicts in 2022
Fri 31 Dec 2021
Actor Rumi Khan feels that new years are all about new opportunities.
Rumi, who has acted in TV shows like 'Ishq Ka Rang Safed', 'Mahabharat' and 'Sher-e-Punjab: Maharaja Ranjit Singh', feels it takes too much effort to stick to our resolutions.
He says: "We all know that it takes effort to build a strong social circle. Sometimes, it takes stepping out of our comfort zone, or getting rid of a bad habit. The arrival of New Year is the perfect time to make little changes that can have a big impact on our social life. With New Year just around the corner, I plan to learn something new, and after experiencing the pandemic, I feel there should be no place for hate in life."
The actor, who is known for his roles in 'Uttaran' and 'Ek Veer Ki Ardaas: Veera', wants to learn the art of resolving conflicts.
He adds: "Disagreements happen and we do get offended. Misunderstandings occur even between the best of friends. It doesn't have to lead to major drama, and damage our relationships. I'm trying to make it my goal to nip conflicts in the bud in the New Year.
"If there's a rift between me and my friends, I will make the effort to have a conversation about the problem. I will hear my friends out when they share their perspectives. I will be respectful and considerate while sharing my own. And remember, it's always important to apologise if I have hurt someone's feelings. The better you are at keeping the drama to a minimum, the stronger your friendships will be in the long run." - IANS
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Q: Php Curl Login Cookie How to set cookies i have two sites A and B i would like to be able to have a verified user from site A log on to site B,
Site A - uses php;
Site B - uses Zend Framework.
i would like to have a iframe on site A to the private part of site B or a redirect to Site B
when i do a html post from a form on site A with the credentials i get redirected and logged in everything works, i would like to do it more securely from the server side in php. when i post using php curl the user does not get logged in inside the iframe, i tired redirecting but again the user is not logged in on Site B.
I dont know why html form works and php curl doesn't? am i suppose to send something else using curl, or is a problem with Zend?
----- ok after some more googling i have narrowed the problem down to the cookies i believe i have to set them but i dont know how? is this correct? how would i go about setting them in php? or do i pass on the header where the cookie is set to the browser and forward to site B? if so how do i do this?
here is my code so far.
<?php
$data = array(
 'useremail' => 'someemail',
 'password' => 'somepassword'
 );

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://siteb.com/account/login");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "cookies.txt");   // Cookie management.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookies.txt");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION, TRUE);

$output = curl_exec($ch);
$info = curl_getinfo($ch);
curl_close($ch);
?>

 <form action="http://SiteB.com/account/login" method="post">
 email: <input type="text" name="useremail" value="useremail" />

 password: <input type="text" name="password" value="somepassword" />

 <input type="submit" value="Submit" />
 </form>

thanks for your time and help.

A: " when i post using php curl the user does not get logged in inside the iframe, i tired redirecting but again the user is not logged in on Site B."
my ans : Think of Php-Curl as a broswer. And the broswer you are executing the script as a different browser. for the iframe authentication to work, the cookie needs to be set int he browser. When you authenticate from a PHP script , the cookie is set on the PHP-curl broswer. Both of these broswers do not share cookies.  I dont think you can make the user login like this.
Are you using a Windows server or a Linux server?
i believe i have to set them but i dont know how? is this correct?
You are doing it right by seeting the curl options to use cookies.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie_file_path);   // Cookie management.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_file_path);

Btw, Can you try the below code and check if the cookies%randNum%.txt is being generated in your cookies folder? Btw create a cookies folder in the same folder as the script before executing. Just to make sure you ahve all the cookies in a folder rather than spread amongst the script files.
    <?
$mypath = getcwd();
            $mypath = preg_replace('/\\\\/', '/', $mypath);
            $rand = rand(1, 15000);
            $cookie_file_path = "$mypath/cookies/cookie$rand.txt";
    $data = array(
     'useremail' => 'someemail',
     'password' => 'somepassword'
     );

    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://siteb.com/account/login");
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE );
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE );
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie_file_path);   // Cookie management.
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_file_path);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION, TRUE);

    $output = curl_exec($ch);
    $info = curl_getinfo($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
?>

A: Did you create cookies.txt and allow the web server's user to write to it?
http://siteb.com/account/login will need to start a session (or write cookies).
cURL will handle the rest.

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[Abstract] Objective To research the relationship between high sensitivity C reactive protein and coronary aretery lesions. Method 74 cases with Kawasaki disease before treatment and cure after serum HsCRP, and by echocardiography and understand whether coronary artery damage and damage. Results The level of serum HsCRP was significantly increased in acute onset of children with Kawasaki disease, these indexes retumed to normal after cure. Coronary artery lesions in patients with Kawasaki disease serum HsCRP levefs were significantly higher than those without coronary artery lesion. Conclusion The serum HsCRP in children with Kawasaki disease and coronary artery damage was positively correlated with coronary lesions, is an important reference index.
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College Football Western Kentucky Hilltoppers at Marshall Thundering Herd Start Time, Odds, Free Pick
11/27/2014 7:40 PM · Brandon Watson
The Marshall Thundering Herd welcome in the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers in college football action on Friday. The game is scheduled for a noon start time and it will be televised nationally on FOX Sports 1. Currently the odds for the game have the Thundering Herd favored by better than three touchdowns in this one.
Marshall finally got some recognition this past week by being ranked 24th in the college football poll. Marshall is also looking to become just the third team in Conference USA history to finish with an undefeated regular season. While Marshall is heavily favored to pick up the win in this game, Western Kentucky isn't a terrible football team.
The Hilltoppers rank second in the conference in scoring offense and eighth nationally at 41.9 points per game. Brandon Doughty has thrown for almost 3.900 yards this season, an average of better than 350 yards per game for Western Kentucky. He's tossed 36 touchdowns as well, so the Hilltoppers will be looking to score points in this one. Defensively, though, they might have a problem. Opponents have put up an average of 37 points per game this year against the Hilltoppers. Marshall comes into the game scoring 45 points per game, which is good for fourth best in the country.
Rakeem Cato has nearly 2,900 yards passing himself as the quarterback of the Thundering Herd. He's completed 28 passes for touchdowns this season and led Marshall to an 11-0 record prior to this one. Another win would put Marshall in the Conference USA title game, giving them another chance to showcase themselves on national television. While they won't be around to make the college football playoff the Thundering herd could find themselves in a great bowl game if they finish unblemished. There's no doubt that Marshall has the ability to score points and look good offensively, but will they be able to slow down Western Kentucky?
Between the two schools there's little doubt that Marshall has the better defense. While they haven't played the hardest schedule in the country, the defense for Marshall is surrendering just 16.5 points per game, which ranks sixth best in the country. If they can turn over the Hilltoppers or get stops, Marshall is going to win this one comfortably.
And with as good as Cato is, Marshall does a fantastic job at running the football, posting 288 yards per game, which is seventh best in the country. Devon Johnson has run for 1,573 yards and scored 16 touchdowns on the season while Steward Butler had 528 yards and five touchdowns, averaging 7.9 yards per carry this season. Marshall will move the football in this game, but the defense will win it for them.
Look for Western Kentucky to hang around in the opening half, but Marshall is just too powerful on the offensive end. And in having the better defense, that should make a major impact in this game as the Thundering Herd keep on marching.
Free Pick: Marshall 41, Western Kentucky 20
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Fixed an issue resulting in certain inbox apps, such as Calculator, Outlook Mail, Outlook Calendar, Groove Music, no longer being present on the system after a hard reset.
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I don't like making elaborate breakfasts on a weekday morning. The maximum I can do is toast some bread and make peanut butter & jelly sandwich or a nutella sandwich (which is my absolute favorite). So 90% of the time, our breakfast consists of bread in some form or the other. On the other 10%, I take a small bottle of soymilk with me to work to have it with cereal (I have a ziplock bag with cereal always at work for breakfast or snack time).
Night Before: Mix oats and all the other ingredients in a small bowl. I mix them in the same container I'm going to take to work (less clean up). Cover and refrigerate.
In the Morning: All you do is take the oats out of the fridge, add fresh fruits (berries or bananas) in summer or dried fruits and nuts in winter. Mix well and take to work. By the time you are ready to eat, oats are cold but not tooth-aching so and the fruit release their sweet juices and its almost like having a dessert for breakfast.
All this should technically take less than 10 minutes total, 5 minutes each at night and in the morning, but the end result is soooo yummm..
Soaking the oats overnight makes them soft and delicious almost similar to cooked oats but without the gloppiness and of course the cooking time. Do try these uncooked oats recipe, I'm sure you'll fall in love with them.
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Looks yum! I also hate to do much during weekday mornings. I still haven't tried Nutella… Do you make it like peanut butter & jelly with Nutella & jelly? I really need to buy a jar!
Hi Meeso, Nutella is actually a chocolate-hazelnut spread, there is no need for jelly with this. Its yummy.. you should try it.
Pavani that is a real, easy and yummy breakfast. Never tried eating Oats this way. Regarding your question on Organic Cheese – i buy them in Stop & Shop. You can find them in all the food stores A & P, Shoprite or Wegmans, check near the Organic Milk Aisle, you should be able to find them.
looks yummm.. a healthy one.
Oats are big no for me, i would love that fruits .
Such a gorgeous swiss oats, simply superb..do collect ur awards from my blog..
i love this berries..especially blackberries..it taste awesome!
Sounds good….should try this sometime..I usually have the Alpen Oats.
Pavana, this recipe comes as a treat for me..I am having oats kanji(kind of porridge) for breakfast..I shall try your recipe soon..It looks so tempting..
Wow, I love this recipe, Pavani, and the fact that it's so easy to make. Wouldn't have thought of not cooking oats, but I guess it makes perfect sense that they'd soften up if you let them soak overnight. Sounds delicious.
Bowl looks super delicious!BTW,that is a fantastic logo, Pavani!
I am the only one one to eat oats !love the fresh berries add up!
My first visit. I loved what I found here. Great collection of recipes.Oatmeal or cornflakes with fresh fruits is the easiest and healthiest breakfast you can make in minutes. That too in a weekday.
For healthy breakfast oats and corn flakes are alway good. Fruits add the morning freshness.


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Вулиця виникла на початку XX століття. Складалася з двох вулиць — Безіменної та Відрадної, згодом об'єднаних в одну — Відрадну вулицю. 3 1959 року — вулиця Мануїльського, на честь українського радянського партійного і державного діяча Д. З. Мануїльського. Сучасна назва — з 2008 року, на честь українського радянського композитора П. І. Майбороди.

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Житлова забудова вулиці досить різноманітна, відноситься до кількох епох та стилів — блочні багатоповерхівки 70-80-х років (буд. № 5/9, 21), «сталінки» (буд. № 23), особняки початку XX століття (буд. № 25, 25-Б, 29). З архітектурної точки зору цікавим є будинок № 25, зведений як прибутковий у 1910-х роках у стилі пізнього модерну.

На території Інституту нейрохірургії знаходиться ще одна пам'ятка архітектури — Римо-католицька лікарня імені Станіслава Сирочинського. Зведена коштом польської громади Києва у 1913–1914 роках за проектом архітектора К. Іваницького у стилі неокласицизму. Наразі це один з корпусів Інституту.

Установи
 Госпіталь ГУ МВС України в м. Києві (буд. № 19)
 Поліклініка ГУ МВС України в м. Києві (буд. № 19)
 Інститут нейрохірургії ім. А. П. Ромоданова АМН України (буд. № 32)
 Інститут педіатрії, акушерства і гінекології АМН України (буд. № 8)

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Посилання
 Старые киевские больницы

Джерела

Вулиці Шевченківського району Києва
Вулиці Києва, названі на честь людей

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Hanna - Theatrical Review
7:13 PM David Weaver 1 comment
I went into this expecting a fairly by the numbers revenge tale involving a young girl who was trained by her father to murder an evil government agent. Let it be known that even though that is the basic framework of the narrative it is much more than anything that simple. It surprised me and that is a very rare thing to find these days amongst a sea of remakes, re-imaginings and sequels.
Theater: AMC 30 at the Block in Orange
Time: 2:10 pm April 9, 2011
Projector Type: Digital 2D - ETX
What is an ETX enhanced theater?
ETX or as I prefer to know it as, Extremely Trying eXperience. This was my first experience in one of these theaters and thought I would share my thoughts on it with you. First of all AMC proudly boasts that their ETX theaters have "20% larger floor to ceiling screens, breathtaking sound and digital projection that is higher resolution than HD". Now to the layman all that means is the screen is bigger, the sound is louder and the screen is sharper. They are currently charging around 2 to 4 dollars more for these screens than the normal digital experience. The question then is whether or not it is worth it?
Well, I am afraid that it isn't worth it, at least that was the feeling I had after watching Hanna in their ETX theater. To their bullet points, the screen is definitely bigger but no bigger than their LI-MAX screens. The sound...well this was my main problem actually. While the sound was most definitely louder it was more of the turn-the-volume-up type of loud as opposed to a fully equalized and calibrated experience. To put it simply there was no bass at work at all during the entire film. The sound was turned up to ear-piercing loudness and came primarily from behind the screen but that doesn't make the sound any better. When I approached one of the employees to tell them to turn the sound down (just for reference I love my audio turned up but only when it is done so in a proper way). Her response was that ETX is supposed to be loud. My retort was that loud doesn't mean you simply turn the knob up, for which I received a look of puzzlement. I had worked in a projection booth for over 5 years and know how a theater auditorium's sound is supposed to work and their audio was not properly calibrated and they would not do a thing about it.
Finally there is the higher resolution of the picture...I didn't notice a difference honestly. At least if there were a difference it didn't equate to charging me more money and deafening me with a bass-less audio system. Overall I found the ETX experience to be very unfulfilling and warn anyone out there thinking about it to be cautious. I hope that this was only the fault of the one theater but knowing AMC like I do they most likely sent out a memorandum with detailed instructions on how to present an ETX performance. The mere fact that this enhanced theater nearly ruined a fantastic film for me is criminal enough but is doubled by the idea that they would not adjust their sound or even apologize for a poor screening. If you wish to give it a go then so be it but I will not grace another ETX enhanced AMC theater again anytime in the near future.
Loves: Revenge thrillers, Cate Blanchett
Likes: Eric Bana, the Chemical Brothers music
Neutral: Lazy plotting
Hates: Manically edited action scenes
Implied: Stories from Grimm's Fairy tales
This is an unconventional film in the best possible way. From the trailer to even the opening moments of the actual film we are being prepared for a revenge/action fantasy. It's not so much that we don't get that because we do, oh boy how we do. But it is more like those promises were made to lure us in and trap us with a story that is so much more than a person seeking revenge on another. Hanna was directed by Joe Wright and I have to plead ignorance here because I haven't seen any of his previous work. However when I glossed over his few past films I did take note that not a one of them appeared to be action or thriller oriented. I suppose if I had done my homework and had seen any of his other works I might have been a little more prepared for what Hanna is. Regardless of my expectations though I was fully engulfed in the world and characters presented here and found it to be a refreshing take on the revenge/thriller genre.
Our first image of Hanna (Saoirse Ronan) is as she stalks and kills her prey out in the middle of a snow covered forest. We know immediately that this girl is not to be meddled with. She is living in seclusion with her father Erik Heller (Eric Bana) where he has been training her not only how to survive on her own but also how to speak numerous other languages and making her memorize a false life in order to deceive those that are chasing them when caught. Hanna and her father have been hiding from a government agent named Marissa (Cate Blanchett) for many years. They have what seems like a full proof plan in place where they will use Hanna as bait, let her be captured and just when the moment is right she will strike. That plan of course doesn't go quite the way they thought and soon both Hanna and Erik find themselves on the run from Marissa as they attempt to find another way to accomplish what they set out to do.
Hanna prepares her fresh kill.
This may seem kind of odd but despite that synopsis being fairly accurate that is not really the main focus of Hanna. While all the build up to the attempted assassination of Marissa is well executed it was all the moments afterwards that truly pulled me in. Since Hanna has lived most of her entire life out in the wilderness training every day to become a lethal and skilled killer she never had a chance to actually live her life. The cabin that her and her father live in has no power, there is no television, no radio and they never leave to go to town, they essentially had no contact with the outside world. So once she is set free by her father to be on her own, other than her mission and to eventually meet up with her father again she was not truly prepared for the world that awaited her.
It was these moments where we see Hanna discovering what she has been denied her whole life that is the true focal point of the film. It almost seemed as if the first 20 to 30 minutes were all set up to get us to this point of her journey where she is free to explore this world that she had always imagined. In particular I loved the moments when we see Hanna trying to cope with this fast moving and loud civilization she has been thrown into. Early on when she is given a room to stay in we see her try to process all the sensory invading noises and images going on at the same time where she just can't handle it all and eventually storms out. This reaction comes from a young teenage girl whom we just saw kill over a dozen trained soldiers while escaping a maximum security facility and now we see she is beaten by the simplest of images and sounds of a low rent motel room.
Hanna's father Erik has raised her with one sole purpose in mind, revenge.
That of course is part of what makes the film unique in this well worn genre. Hanna is still a young girl, a highly skilled killer for sure, but a girl none the less. When we see her freak out in that motel room it is our first sign that she is just as vulnerable as any child would be if left on their own like she is. Her father never truly prepared her for what she may encounter on her journey homeward. So out of desperation and curiosity she ends up befriending a traveling family comprised of a mother, father, brother and sister that end up being her guide into this foreign landscape. I absolutely loved everything involving her travels with this family, her discoveries and reactions to everything were beautifully realized and sometimes even comical. We know she never had any friends as a child and I found the connection she makes with the sister of the family to be genuinely heartwarming.
But that is only one side of the coin, the other being the people that are relentlessly pursuing her across the country. The character of Marissa is a complicated and interesting one. You know that she has a history with Erik that revolves around Hanna in some way but we don't know what their connection is exactly. All we know is that Erik had trained Hanna to kill Marissa at first sight and if she failed that Marissa would hunt them down mercilessly. Even though Marissa is technically working for an unnamed government agency we know something isn't quite right when she begins to go outside the normal channels and bring in special help to hunt down the father and daughter team. This special help is probably one of the strangest and off the wall group of individuals I have seen in a while with one of them a metrosexual type that has an affinity towards bright colored track suits and two neo-Nazi henchmen along for the ride.
Marissa is a complicated woman and a heartless one.
The film is rife with these oddball characters but none of them ever take center stage. They are always there in the background though. It is a little difficult to surmise the odd nature of some of these characters but I believe that they are meant to evoke a sense of danger or mischief that is present in the classic Grimm's Fairy Tales. I don't think I am making too much of a leap here with this analogy since the actual book is used in the film as is an entire theme park modeled after all its stories. There is never an instant where we are meant to go "Ah-Ha!", at any of the insinuations being made but more of a general feeling of familiarity to the situations and/or characters we are witnessing.
Hanna doesn't feel like she is comprised of just one character from a fairy tale but more of an amalgamation of different little girls from assorted narratives. Her journey to meet her father can be seen as a reference to Little Red Riding Hood going to meet her Grandmother with the big bad wolf (Marissa) constantly on her tail. The three men that Marissa hired to help in the pursuit of Hanna felt extremely surreal each and every time they appeared on screen. I am not entirely versed in everything having to do with fairy tales but much of the film had an overall fairy tale fell to all of the proceedings. Much like in any story involving a naive character traveling by themselves we see Hanna befriend many different types of characters on her journey that all help her in adapting to the world that becomes key to her survival.
Metrosexuals are the new guns for hire it seems.
And if the story of Hanna herself is an allegory for a fairy tale then that is contrasted completely with her father's journey. His travels, while brief, were more akin to your usual spy/espionage tales with him taking down evil agents at a moments notice and trying to track down Marissa before she can find Hanna. That's not to say Hanna never gets to do any ass kicking beyond the opening moments. In what was probably my favorite action oriented scene in the film Hanna fights off and evades capture from her pursuers in a shipyard cargo facility. The way the scene was edited and pieced together made it flow in such a way that Hanna almost felt like a super hero as she would pop out from the shadows or seen running and jumping across a sea of cargo containers. Again though what made this scene work was all the build up to it, we are made to identify with Hanna and her plight as she learned the intricacies of the world and began to care for this family that up until a couple days prior didn't mean a thing to her.
Alas this is not a perfect film and has its share of issues for me. What ended up being my least favorite aspect of the film surprisingly were a good number of the action beats. I loathe quick cuts and edits in a fight or action scene. I know many filmmakers employ such tactics because they feel as though it conveys a certain sense of urgency to a pivotal moment. While I agree with that idea the execution never works for me. Other than the impressive cargo yard sequence just about every other action set piece failed to work for me unfortunately. The worst offender is during Hanna's escape from her imprisonment. That entire scene was an editorial nightmare with the camera often spinning out of control, every place she went to looked alike and just a basic feeling of being lost pervaded. It was without a doubt one of the worst escape scenes I have seen in quite sometime which was a shame because it should have been the time where we got to see Hanna strut her stuff.
Hanna certainly has an angelic quality to her.
Thankfully the other action scenes didn't suffer as much from any over editing but the sting of that breakout stuck with me throughout the rest of the film. I also found that there wasn't much logic to how Marissa was constantly able to track either Erik or Hanna down. There was a scene where we see Erik arrive in Germany via the river where he is spotted by two police officers. He kills them off screen but the follow up to that is a scene where Marissa is at that very spot and somehow she knows it was Erik that killed them. I know some of these spies or agents are really good at their job but that seemed a bit lazy to me. If that were the only time that happened then I probably wouldn't have noticed or cared much but there is another moment where the metrosexual and his gang are able to track down Hanna that given the amount of area they had to cover felt a little too convenient.
Those are minor quibbles though compared to the overall quality of the film with its unique approach to the action/thriller/revenge genre. All the actors were spot on with Saoirse Ronan turning in a particularly inspired performance as Hanna. The soundtrack by The Chemical Brothers was just as unconventional as the film itself which suited it perfectly. And just the general look and feel of the film as a whole was impressive with all the different locales we get to see during Hanna's globe trotting return to her father. This is that rare film that will most likely pick up steam once it hits home video and will definitely find a place on my shelf when that day arrives. So all that is left to say then is to....
CHECK IT OUT IMMEDIATELY
I saw this movie over the weekend and I really enjoyed it. Check it out for sure!


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Ain't this felon high enough? Coffen v Goodhart [2013] NSWSC 1018
at 11:28 am Posted by Kyle
According to the Supreme Court of NSW, a magistrate's order to determine the height of a suspected ATM thief doesn't measure up against s 24(1) of the Crimes (Forensic Procedures) Act 2000 (NSW).
In Coffen v Goodhart [2013] NSWSC 1018, the Court considered just how high the hurdle was to order a non-intimate forensic examination of Marco Coffen.
A non-intimate forensic examination is defined in s 3(1) of the Act as:
(a) an external examination of a part of a person's body, other than the person's private parts, that requires touching of the body or removal of clothing,
(b) the carrying out on a person of a self-administered buccal swab,
(c) the taking from a person of a sample of the person's hair, other than pubic hair,
(d) the taking from a person of a sample (such as a nail clipping) of the person's nails or of matter from under the person's nails,
(e) the taking from a person of a sample of any matter, by swab or washing, from any external part of the person's body, other than the person's private parts,
(f) the taking from a person of a sample of any matter, by vacuum suction, scraping or lifting by tape, from any external part of the person's body, other than the person's private parts,
(g) the taking from a person of the person's hand print, finger print, foot print or toe print,
(h) the taking of a photograph of a part of a person's body, other than the person's private parts,
(i) the taking from a person of an impression or cast of a wound from a part of the person's body, other than the person's private parts,
(j) the taking of a person's physical measurements (whether or not involving marking) for biomechanical analysis of an external part of the person's body, other than the person's private parts.
The parties agreed that paragraph (a) was the only relevant part of the definition.
The Court held that assessing Mr Coffen's height wasn't examination of part of his body, and that measuring wasn't an examination but a calculation or assessment against a metric standard. Mr Coffen's appeal was allowed.
Presumably the decision left the prosecution feeling a bit down, but it seems it's not appealing to a higher authority.
Labels: criminal procedure, forensic procedure
Jeremy Gans said...
There's an alternative power available in NSW in s138 of the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act, which empowers a medical practitioner to 'examine a person'. That avoids the 'part of the body' analysis relied on by Fullerton J. It may also avoid her (more dubious) claim that an examination doesn't include a measurement, as that was partly based by the contrast between paras (a) and (j) of s24 of the C(FP)A.
(I'm not sure why the cops tried to use s24 instead. Most likely, it's because the suspect wasn't in custody (or perhaps not charged), as s138 requires. If the suspect was under arrest, then the cops could have bypassed the need for a magistrate, using s18 of the C(FP)A instead.)
In Victoria, our definition of 'forensic procedure' includes 'conduct of any procedure on or physical examination of the body'. So, we don't have the 'part of the body' problem and 'any procedure' surely includes a measurement. So, no problem here?
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Another inspiring quote. This one is from kerrypolka on tumblr (which site seems to have gone dark). Currently the text can be found here.
It's about Captain America: The Winter Soldier and the nature of Captain America and how grimdark superhero stories are lazy.
Captain America and Superman might be the hardest characters to write because they are good in a world that is not. They strive for the moral end in the face of everybody else giving up to some degree.
The background image is from Daredevil. The U.S. government has released a super-soldier that is loyal to America but amoral and Cap is confronting the General in charge. I learned about this page from Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror.
I keep coming back to this idea. Nationalism is the root of a great many evils. "Us" versus "them". But the ideas of the U.S.A. or the French Revolution or the Magna Carta, the ideas that were never realized fully or at all because we are flawed and greedy…the ideas have weight and power. The dream has worth and is worth fighting towards.
It's related to the quote we know from Spiderman, August 1962, "with great power there must also come–great responsibility!" 3 but it's a wee bit different in it calls on implied power, on one's ability to act at all.
It's not to you to complete the work of repairing the world, but neither may you desist from it.


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The Place Where the Rivers Meet Book Review
The Place Where the Rivers Meet is a Murder Mystery full of Thrilling moments that will blow your mind away. It is a book which starts on a normal tone, and when you reach the halfway - BOOM! Something happens which completely changes the mood. You will be surprised and shocked.
It is a well researched book and looks inspired from true stories or events. The protagonist belongs to the Nyishi community. It is the largest ethnic group in Arunachal Pradesh in north-eastern India. In Nyishi, their traditional language, Nyi refers to "a human" and the word shi denotes "a being", which combined together refers to a human being.
Polygyny is prevalent among the Nyishi. It plays an important role in this book. It signifies one's social status and economical stability and also proves handy during hard times like clan wars or social huntings and various other social activities.
I completely loved the way clan wars or social huntings where narrated in this book. It added more thrill, more excitement, and more drama into the book.
This practice, however is diminishing especially with the modernization and also with the spread of Christianity. Talking about Christianity, the book has beautifully grabbed the events that led to the spread of Christianity in the tribe and how it impacted the overall community.
Overall, The Place Where the Rivers Meet is something new and out of the box. So, go ahead and buy this book from Amazon Kindle now!
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"Revenge is a dish best served cold." Who would understand this better than the ancestors of the Nyishi tribe of Arunachal Pradesh who lived in a vicious circle of revenge.
A slave falls in love with the favourite wife of his old master. A pair of hornbills courts each other and seeks a nesting place on a tree deep inside the canopies of a tropical forest. A shaman who has been bested in love by a village bumpkin let loses a bloodbath out of spite for his rival in love.
A young man taking advantage of the development process with the coming of the Hariangs (non-tribals) wants to embrace modern life after availing good educational opportunities.
Their lives get intertwined in the version of the story narrated by one of them; where the quotidian and bizarre, natural and supernatural are blended together in this surreal and cautionary tale of love, longing and existential angst under a changed circumstance of the tribe's history.
Yumlam Tana belongs to the Nyishi tribe of the state of Arunachal Pradesh. He is also a former member of the General Council of Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi and his poems have appeared in anthologies such as First Proof-4 by Penguin India (2008), Anthology of Poetry from Northeast India by Northeast Hills University (2003) and Border Lands of Asia by Cambria Press, Amherst, New York,2017.
Besides, he has to his credit two books of verse 'The Man and The Tiger' and 'The Wind Also Sings' and two volumes of comics on Nyishi Folk Tales. At present, he lives in Jully village, Itanagar with his wife and three children.
Unlearning our tribal past to understand our present and the future.
Q. Briefly, what led you up to this book? What were you writing (getting published, if applicable) before breaking out with this book?
I had always harbored a secret dream to write a novel and it was a fulfillment of the wish. I was writing poems some of which were featured in very respectable anthologies in India and abroad. It kind of gave me a push and egged me on to complete this book.
Not any so far but hopeful and WISHFUL.
Q. Looking back, what did you do right that helped you break-in?
I am a state government employee and to finish writing this book when an opportunity came to get a posting where I would not be so busy with my official works I jumped at it and have not regretted ever since. I could write without any distractions for a few months.
Honestly, I am still a novice in this field and have not much idea about having a platform and building readership.
Q. Favorite book?
Was "A farewell to Arms" till I graduated and lately I have really loved Hillary Mantel's "Wolf Hall'.
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WASHINGTON — Senate legislation to modernize the nation's outdated air traffic control system and bring travelers relief from delays was halted on a procedural vote Tuesday. The failed vote might spell the end of efforts to reform the Federal Aviation Administration and to fund needed improvements until next year.
The bill failed on a 49-42 vote, well shy of the 60 votes necessary to limit debate on it, as Republicans voted nearly unanimously against cutting off debate.
Democrats and Republicans are in broad agreement on the aviation fixes included in the bill. But two weeks of closed-door negotiations on the legislation devolved into partisan disputes over nonaviation provisions important to Democrats, including a $1.6 billion allocation for New York City transit projects.
Senate aides said that, despite the failed vote, key senators and staff will continue to work towards agreement before the current FAA authority expires June 30. But as hopes dimmed for a successful vote Tuesday, lawmakers and industry officials were already beginning to mull a short-term extension of that authority that wouldn't include broader reforms.
Sen. John Rockefeller (D., W. Va.), a lead author of the Senate bill, said the vote was a blow to efforts to modernize an air traffic system that could have to handle one billion passengers by 2025. "A billion passengers are going to be using it, and they're going to be using it on a Polaroid-camera technology system," he said on the Senate floor.
The bill would have re-authorized the FAA through 2011 and provided $750 million in new funding to upgrade the nation's air traffic control infrastructure. It would have bolstered passenger-protection provisions, for instance by requiring government approval of airline plans for aiding passengers caught in lengthy tarmac delays.
Republicans proposed an alternative, offered by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R., Texas) that would have made all those changes but didn't include a revenue infusion to the highway trust fund that was part of the Democratic bill. It also left out tax increases on offshore firms to pay for the highway money, and an authorization of $1.6 billion to be used for New York City transportation improvements.
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Besides opposing the New York City funds, Republicans were incensed that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) used a parliamentary tactic to prevent them from offering any amendments to the bill other than those he favored.
The House has passed its own version of FAA legislation, which includes some measures strongly opposed by the White House. It would re-open negotiations on the contract that now governs air traffic controllers, and would also alter labor provisions governing express delivery giant FedEx Corp.
One Senate Democratic aide said that, if action on the FAA bill remains stalled this year, Democrats may use potential gains in November's elections to write an FAA bill next year that Republicans will like even less. Unless they can revive the FAA bill, the aide said, lawmakers may opt for a 15-month extension to re-authorize the agency through September 2009.