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Barney

___ THIS DVD WILL NOT PLAY ON STANDARD REGION CODE 1 USA DVD PLAYERS. THIS IS AN EUROPEAN IMPORT DVD IN REGION CODE 2. YOU NEED A REGION CODE FREE DVD PLAYER TO WATCH THIS IN THE USA, CANADA, AUSTRALIA ETC. MORE INFO ON: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code ___ SOUNDTRACK: English, German ___ SUBTITLES: none, NO English subtitles ___ SUMMARY: This long-running series follows the adventures of a team of lifeguards on a crowded resort beach. Veteran lifeguard Mitch Buchannon watches over the younger lifeguards that come and go with each passing season as they keep the beaches safe for vacationers. Frequently he must take action to save them from the raging seas and from the raging tempers that sometimes flare up between the young guards in this stressful job.

Director: Donald Petrie; Stars: Macaulay Culkin; Release Date: September 06, 2005

Release Date: 2005-07-25

Shirley Knight

Release Date: 2005-07-25

Release Date: 2006-08-28

This highly popular series is devoted to teaching the ins and outs of the vastly significant GED standardized test. A second chance for those who never finished high school--or a first chance for those who would rather not--the GED is a passport to a high school equivalency ticket. THE COMPLETE GED SERIES offers more than 24 hours of engaging, interactive lessons that cover all levels and topics of the test.

Release Date: 2005-07-25

Release Date: 2007-12-25

Director: John Ford; Stars: Ben Johnson; Release Date: September 15, 2009

Release Date: 2007-09-24

Hedy Lamarr

Release Date: 2007-08-30

Can t figure out where these markets are going? In this four-hour presentation, one of the most sought-after educators in the industry, Oliver Velez, will change the way you view the markets. With in-depth trend analysis and discussion, you get inside access to the aggressive tactics that Oliver allows traders to use with his own money. Inside, Velez elaborates on candlesticks, entry points, retracements, stops, and more. He will also define the four major obstacles that traders face, and show you how to overcome them. With his trademark educational style, he will reveal trading secrets like: -Actual short-term mechanical trading rules, -The most effective tactic to tell in seconds what the market movers are doing, -Oliver s proprietary strategy that has shown him enormous profit potential... and 85% accuracy, -Specific market trading formulas to laser in on where the markets will go... often within a window of two ticks and/or five minutes. The concepts he shares can be applied across a broad spectrum of trading opportunities, and his strategies have proven profitable in various markets and time frames. Armed with the knowledge of these concepts and tactics, you will have the confidence to make market opportunities work like never before.

Inspired by his eight-going-on-35-year old son Danny, Troy dives into his obsession of filmaking with everything he has and set out to make a movie on a $7, 000 dollar budget. He takes his storylines from his own life and from his mutant cast of character's. Recreating their hopes and dreamsfor everyone to see. The group of knuckleheads includes, Felix, Troy's childhood buddy from New York. Ricky a.k.aThe Cuban Cannon - an obese cab driver/stand-up comesian who is the ultimate chick magnet. Jeannie, the hopt girl Troy "discovers" and is going to try and make her a star. And finally Shane, the tempermental young actor who has been in Hollywood for a whole year and still cant believe he hasnt made it big yet! "Star Cameos" and other oddball characters make their way onto the screen in this suprisingly heartfelt and emotional spoof that keeps you laughing throughout and rooting for Troy as he tries to back up his talk and start "WALKING THE WALK."

LEARN FROM A WORKING HOLLYWOOD PRO! Own the Million-Dollar Screenwriting Seminar on DVD! Recorded at the first ever MillionDollarScreenwriting.com Seminar, the only course that teaches the Mini-Movie Method of sequencing story. Do you find 3-act structure lacking? Is Act Two a monster? Have you always thought there must be a better way? THERE IS. Learn the simplest and best technique for designing story ever! Never be more than 10-15 pages from a major landmark on your journey again. The secret to structure that has made millions for savvy screenwriters, and this is the only DVD set that teaches it! This set contains 4-DVDs packed with more than 5 hours of information, chaptered and edited with your learning in mind. CHRIS SOTH has made more than a million dollars as screenwriter. You could too! DVD ONE: BACKSTORY The History of Story -- how it all lead to The Mini-Movie Method The Tension Dimension -- how Freud's Pleasure Principle is the key to making readers and viewers LOVE your story! DVD TWO - THE HOLY GRAIL This is IT! THE MINI-MOVIE METHOD! Break your story into reels, sequences or MINI-MOVIES! So much easier -- A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER! DVD THREE: STORY TYPES Use the Mini-Movie Method to create 10 different kinds of stories! DVD FOUR: MICRO-MOVIES AND BEYOND! What about when you can't figure out how to handle the next 10-15 pages? LEARN TO BREAK THEM DOWN EVEN FURTHER! MICRO-MOVIES AND BEYOND! WATCH IT ON YOUR TV, KEEP IT IN YOUR LAPTOP DVD DRIVE AND CONSULT IT WHILE YOU WRITE!

Release Date: 2008-02-21

Stars: The Monkees; Release Date: May 13, 2003

Blarney and bliss, mixed in equal proportions. John Wayne plays an American boxer who returns to the Emerald Isle, his native land. What he finds there is a fiery prospective spouse (Maureen O'Hara) and a country greener than any Ireland seen before or since--it's no surprise The Quiet Man won an Oscar for cinematography. It also won an Oscar for John Ford's direction, his fourth such award. The film was a deeply personal project for Ford (whose birth name was Sean Aloysius O'Fearna), and he lavished all of his affection for the Irish landscape and Irish people on this film. He also stages perhaps the greatest donnybrook in the history of movies, an epic fistfight between Wayne and the truculent Victor McLaglen--that's Ford's brother, Francis, as the elderly man on his deathbed who miraculously revives when he hears word of the dustup. Barry Fitzgerald, the original Irish elf, gets the movie's biggest laugh when he walks into the newlyweds' bedroom the morning after their wedding, and spots a broken bed. The look on his face says everything. The Quiet Man isn't the real Ireland, but as a delicious never-never land of Ford's imagination, it will do very nicely. --Robert Horton

Director: Jack Bender; Stars: Brad Johnson; Release Date: December 05, 2000

Director: Michael Apted; Stars: Stacy Keach; Release Date: March 11, 1992

Director: Yasuomi Umetsu; Release Date: March 24, 2009

Marilyn Monroe

A delightful undersea world unfolds in Pixar's animated adventure Finding Nemo. When his son Nemo is captured by a scuba-diver, a nervous-nellie clownfish named Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks) sets off into the vast--and astonishingly detailed--ocean to find him. Along the way he hooks up with a scatterbrained blue tang fish named Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), who's both helpful and a hindrance, sometimes at the same time. Faced with sharks, deep-sea anglers, fields of poisonous jellyfish, sea turtles, pelicans, and much more, Marlin rises above his neuroses in this wonderfully funny and nonstop thrill ride--rarely does more than 10 minutes pass without a sequence destined to become a theme park attraction. Pixar continues its run of impeccable artistic and economic success (their movies include Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, and Monsters, Inc). Also featuring the voices of Willem Dafoe, Geoffrey Rush, and Allison Janney. --Bret Fetzer

Journey with Tony Stead as he explores many amazing ways to make nonfiction reading and writing come alive in the classroom. This four-part video set takes you inside two classrooms at The Manhattan New School where Tony works with first-grade teacher Lauren Benjamin and third-grade teacher Lisa Elias Moynihan.Watch how literacy centers literally come alive in the classroom and see some of the original ways students respond to their nonfiction reading. Learn how to organize a nonfiction classroom library and to support children as they select appropriate texts. From learning about frogs, crows, and static electricity, to debating whether zoos should exist, you'll enjoy watching the whole-class mini-lessons that successfully integrate the content areas with language process. Program 1: Setting Up the Nonfiction ClassroomIn a nonfiction classroom, the teacher and the students need to establish the classroom library and give all learners the opportunity to engage with nonfiction as part of independent reading and literacy centers. Program 2: Helping Readers Select Texts : Mini-Lessons and ConferencesIf children are to be encouraged to actively select nonfiction as part of their reading lives, then they need support in selecting appropriate texts. This program explores whole-class demonstrations and individual conferences.Program 3: Whole-Class Mini-LessonsStudents need a variety of demonstrations in whole-class settings to help them as readers and writers of nonfiction. This segment highlights how to gather information and work with persuasive texts.Program 4: Completing the Jigsaw: Read-Alouds, Visual Literacy, and ResponsesThis program explores other ways to increase the presence of nonfiction in the classroom. See how to make the most of nonfiction read-alouds and notice how much information Tony and the first graders find in a simple homemade calendar. Through their responses to nonfiction — whether dressing up as an ant or reading a recipe and baking a cake — these first and third graders learn—and have a lot of fun—when nonfiction becomes a central part of the curriculum.

Organizing for Literacy is a professional development series for implementing a balanced early literacy program based on apprenticeship theory. When used in conjunction with the book Apprenticeship in Literacy, the series presents a complete early literacy resource, with the option of using individual videos to focus on a specific area of need.The programs illustrate the reciprocal nature of teaching and learning across a range of reading and writing events. Each program is designed to allow you to view it in its entirety or to focus on specific literacy components. The accompanying Viewing Guide is structured to promote the analysis of teaching and learning interactions during these components. The videos can also be cross-referenced for evidence of how the same children are applying their knowledge, skills, and strategies across a range of reading, writing, and word-building activities. Since this is an important principle of apprenticeship literacy, a chart for cross-referencing teaching segments across the four programs is included at the end of the viewing guide.Organizing the ClassroomWe invite you into Teresa's classroom to observe how she provides her first graders with a balanced literacy program that includes small- and large-group instruction and opportunities to work independently in well-designed literacy corners. Teresa's classroom illustrates the importance of a well-organized environment.Segments include: principles of apprenticeship theory; scheduling for a balanced literacy program; managing literacy corners for independence.Learning About ReadingIn the video, Teresa and Carla provide their first graders with opportunities to read in whole-group and small-group interactions that offer a range of literacy experiences: familiar reading, shared reading, reading-aloud, and guided reading. As they engage in problem-solving interactions with a more knowledgeable person, children apply flexible strategies for learning how to read.Segments include: familiar reading; shared reading; reading aloud; emergent guided reading group; early guided reading group; fluent guided reading group.Learning About WritingThis video emphasizes the reciprocal nature of reading and writing in a balanced literacy program. You will observe the same children from their guided reading groups as they work in their assisted writing groups. Teresa and Carla provide a range of writing opportunities specially designed to scaffold children in their move toward independent writing.Segments include: interactive writing in a small group; writing aloud in a small group; editing and revising at the overhead; the writing workshop.Learning About WordsAs children read and write, they acquire important knowledge and strategies for solving words. On this program, poetry is used to direct children's attention to word patterns during shared reading. Also, whole-group spelling lessons teach children about analogy. And in literacy corners, children apply their knowledge about words in specially designed activities that are based on their reading and writing accomplishments. They are also introduced to vocabulary notebooks, structural-analysis notebooks, student dictionaries, and personal thesauri.Segments include: poetry for analyzing patterns;letter sorting and classification activities in a small group; teaching for analogy during spelling lessons; using the dictionary and thesaurus; literacy corner activities for learning about words.Organizing for Literacy, plus the accompanying text Apprenticeship in Literacy, form the basis for a complete and in-depth inservice program. They serve equally well as text and classroom material for preservice courses in early literracy and language arts courses at college level.

How do we enter the heightened, extravagant language of Shakespeare and yet feel truthful in our contemporary world? How do performers excite the audience with Shakespeare's rich imagery and dynamic rhythm, yet make it real for the twenty-first century? We assume that a sophisticated intellectual background is required to grapple with Shakespeare. But there is a much deeper, almost primal response ¯ as available to inner-city students as to their counterparts in the private school ¯ to the sound and rhythm in Shakespeare's language which arouses our emotions: feelings of anger and sorrow, of passion and laughter.This landmark five-part video series gives voice to Shakespeare's most beloved and widely known speeches and sonnets, performed by a powerhouse ensemble of American and British actors, as they delve into the structure, meaning and power of Shakespeare's language. Each DVD explores a different aspect of Shakespeare's work.

Focus on Spelling is a compelling video series from Diane Snowball, co-author of Spelling K-8. Diane has worked with many schools and districts throughout North America, helping them learn more about the teaching of spelling so that students become more competent writers. The key principles of teaching spelling set forth in Spelling K-8 are demonstrated in these four programs, with a focus on those concepts that teachers most frequently ask her about.Step into classrooms at Public School 234 in Manhattan to see how three teachers approach the teaching of spelling. These tapes show the various ways that Grades K-1 teacher Jennifer Edwards, Grade 2 teacher Mary Jacob, and Grade 5 teacher Sandra Bridges work with their children individually, in small groups, and as a class. The four videos cover:Learning WordsThe teachers demonstrate the most effective ways for children to learn words. This includes learning high-frequency words and personal words that individuals select from their own writing. The strategies and processes shown may be used at all grade levels. Effective use of a word wall and issues such as proofreading and assessment of spelling are also demonstrated.Exploring SoundsOne of the strategies used by competent spellers is to listen for the sounds in words and represent those sounds with letters. In this video, the teachers show how they help children develop these sound-symbol relationships and understand how a phoneme in English words may be represented in many ways. By observing these teachers in their classrooms, we learn how the emphasis on the phonetic strategy changes across different grade levels.Investigating Letters and Spelling PatternsChildren learn to recognize letters of the alphabet and focus on common spelling patterns so they can develop visual strategies to assist their spelling and reading. We see how children become actively engaged in learning about words through their own word searches.Discovering GeneralizationsChildren learn such generalizations as how to add suffixes to base words or how to select the correct homophone (there, their, or they're) in their writing. The process is one that can be applied to learning about many aspects of spelling with all grade levels and can be used with small groups or the entire class.This video series supports teachers who are working to develop a consistent and informed spelling program. The Viewing Guide shows you how to use the tapes and link them with related professional reading.

When Julie Andrews sang "The hills are alive with the sound of music" from an Austrian mountaintop in 1965, the most beloved movie musical was born. To be sure, the adaptation of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's Broadway hit has never been as universally acclaimed as, say, Singin' in the Rain. Critics argue that the songs are saccharine (even the songwriters regretted the line "To sing through the night like a lark who is learning to pray") and that the characters and plot lack the complexity that could make them more interesting. It's not hard to know whom to root for when your choice is between cute kids and Nazis. Read our interview with Charmian Carr, who played Liesl von Trapp in The Sound of Music. It doesn't matter. Audiences fell in love with the struggling novice Maria (Andrews), the dashing Captain von Trapp (Christopher Plummer), and, yes, the cute kids, all based on a real-life World War II Austrian family. Such songs as "My Favorite Things, " "Do Re Mi, " "Climb Every Mountain, " and the title tune became part of the 20th century Zeitgeist. In addition, The Sound of Music officially became a cult hit when audiences in London began giving it the Rocky Horror Picture Show treatment, attending showings dressed as their favorite characters and delivering choreographed comments and gestures along with the movie. So why resist, especially when the 40th Anniversary Edition is the best DVD yet. The DVDs As if the direct involvement of Julie Andrews weren't enough, the 40th Anniversary Edition of The Sound of Music is a must-have for fans because of the fond sense of nostalgia that will touch all but the worst cynic's heart. Andrews introduces both discs and contributes a commentary track on the film. It's a joy to hear her speak about the film (for example, she explains how she solved her dislike for the lyrics of "I Have Confidence"), and also heard are remarks by Christopher Plummer (who at one point refers to his being 48, which if true would mean his comments were made in about 1975), Charmian Carr (Liesl), choreographer Dee Dee Wood, and Johannes Von Trapp (the real-life Maria Von Trapp's youngest son, who admits that his father did have a whistle but claims that he was not as stern as portrayed in the film). Even with all those people involved, there are still significant gaps of silence, however. Retained from the previous two-disc editions is the commentary track by director Robert Wise, which during the musical numbers becomes an isolated score with no vocals. Also new are sing-along subtitles in English, Spanish, and French, which allow you to have your own sing-along at home. In addition, the film's remastering shows off a truer and much warmer sense of color. On the second disc, Andrews participates in a new 63-minute documentary "My Favorite Things: Julie Andrews Remembers." But it's really a general making-of documentary with contributions from a number of principals, including director Robert Wise, who died in mid-2005 (not surprisingly, some stories are repeated from the commentary track and from the 87-minute documentary on the previous DVD). Andrews also shares a warm 19-minute sit-down with Christopher Plummer. Carr, who over the years has become the film's biggest advocate, narrates a new 22-minute documentary, "On Location with The Sound of Music, " in which she revisits the places in Salzburg where the movie was filmed, and even joins one of the "Sound of Music tours" that have become a booming industry. And acknowledging another big industry, there's a 12-minute featurette on the sing-along phenomenon, focusing specifically on the audience, costumed and otherwise, that attended a sold-out Hollywood Bowl sing-along in 2005. Making special appearances at the event are four von Trapp great-grandchildren and all seven of the actors who played the children. Thankfully, those actors also appear in a 33-minute documentary "From Liesl to Gretl: A 40th Anniversary Reunion, " in which they expla