Dealing with Angry Kids

Helping kids with anger or bullies.
This video is made for kids. It presents a fantasy that kids can really understand. The story revolves around kids who want to do better at dealing with bullies and violence. My kids got valuable life lessons in an entertaining way.





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Oil Men: No Women No Wine & Workin' All The Time

Oil exploration.
First of all, the music in this video is great. With Earl Scruggs and Waylon Jennings. Can't beat that. And I have never understood oil exploration and oil men. Now I do.





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Running On Empty-and How To Overcome Job Stress

How to help avoid job burn out.
This video follows people who know about high stress jobs,nurses and doctors in the ER. Their stories spoke to me and told me how they handle their stresses. I have applied some of their techniques in my job. I found it very helpful.





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The Last Samurai

EPIC CLASSIC IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD!
Based on Amazon's recommendation, I ordered both Kenji Misumi's THE LAST SAMURAI and Hiroshi Inagaki's SAMURAI TRILOGY. I've always been a big fan of the ZATOICHI and LONE WOLF AND CUB films. So, I was pretty interested in checking out THE LAST SAMURAI. I was floored. I could not believe that I had never heard of this movie. It's Epic in every sense of the word. I was really shocked at just how good this movie was. The film follows a group of characters during the last days of the Shogunate. The film does a beautiful job of conveying the development of these friendships. That's not to say the film is light on action. There are probably at least six major fight sequences in the story. It just makes it all the more gripping when you actually care about the characters. I was also surprised at how strong a role the female characters had in the story. Though she is not top billed, Ayako Honami gives an amazing and poignant performance. This movie is FIVE STARS all the...

TRULY ONE OF THE GREATEST SAMURAI FILMS OF ALL TIME!
Years ago, I had purchased a bootleg of this film on VHS. Over the years, I had re-watched it several times and I've always enjoyed it. I definitely recognized it as a classic. However, there seemed to be some "rough" spots. Eager to upgrade and support legitimate companies, I ordered the new DVD release. Wow! What a difference the new translation makes. It was like watching the movie for the first time!

Not only does the film tell the story of "The Last Samurai," but the film also represents the end of an era of epic films. The cast is uniformly great. Ogata Ken giving a standout performance. This film has such a great cast, there's no way that this film would be produced today. It would simply be too expensive to assemble all of these stars in one movie.

The DVD comes chock full of bonus materials. Short of an audio commentary, I would be hard pressed to list any bonus features that were left out.

A true classic of the genre that is given the...

A great buy for samurai fans
If your fond of Samurai movies this is great one to see. I was very impressed with the movie it has a great story based on some of the history of Japan. The movie keeps a good pace with the action (the sword play is great) and the actors do a great job and there is even a little bit of humor throw in there. A great buy and definitely should be added to any ones collection.

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Moon Embracing the Sun

Amazing!
I like my Korean historical dramas from time to time, but often there is so much 'culture' being thrown at you that you have to shy away at them. This was cempelling in a way that it was a mixture of romance, politics and personal discovery. I was complete obsessed with this drama when it was on, I went to sleep thinking about it, and was on edge waiting for the next epsisode (Kim Soo Hyun absolutely beautiful face had NOTHING to do with it, I swear it). But I greatly enjoyed this drama and will be purchasing it!

Another Good Korean Drama
I watched this on tv and enjoyed it enough that I wanted the complete series. Thought I do not speak Korean, the subtitles are good. I'll be watching it again in the future.

Amazing K-drama!
This on my top 5! The young cast of characters were soooo good! It was a bit hard to adjust the adult cast but they were also excellent - especially the King! The subtitles were very good - a few spelling and grammar errors but not distracting. Be prepared to cry buckets of tears - very emotional. Watch it!

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Edgar Lee Masters' "Spoon River Anthology" (Institutional Use)

Nice production but much less than I expected
My folks had an LP of the original stage production of Spoon River and memory of it has haunted me ever since. The LP wandered off in the cleanup after my dad's passing, unfortunately. I kept hoping that this production would have been spooled by someone into a downloadable mp3 as had happened with classic Gilbert&Sullivan. But no, just 'collector' copies of the original LP. This was billed as a rework of that classic production -- and the video and historic materials are a nice add. But the production itself was much skimpier than I expected and in the end I was profoundly disappointed. To someone unfamiliar with the prior work this is a nice introduction. But I found it a pale echo of a much better work -- and am not sure I will watch it again.





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