9/11 commemoration, Minutes of silence

There is a special one, a sad day for the USA: On-the-minute imaginary family members and politicians in New York in the 2983 terrorist attack victims. But between all the grief stirs anger - of all the heroes of the 11th September 2001.

The U.S. national anthem opened the ceremony at Ground Zero in New York. There was the collapse of the World Trade Center attack, most of the nearly 3,000 victims of 11 September 2001 were killed. Barack Obama on Sunday recalled in a brief speech to the dead: "They were our neighbors, our friends, our husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, children and parents. They were the ones who have rushed to help.

"Then began to survivors, to read out the names of the victims. was interrupted the ceremony of commemoration minutes to the times at which hit the aircraft a decade ago, the towers and later, when the building collapsed. At that time, two manned aircraft with passengers in the two towers were raced, and a third into the Pentagon in Washington. A fourth plane crashed over Pennsylvania. A total of 2983 people died - more than one in nine was a New York firefighter.

Debris flag will be unveiled and refolded

A joint police and fire department bagpipe band from the opening ceremony - but only beginning with the beating of their drums. A youth choir sang the anthem of the United States, then blew the bagpipe players, while a waving ten years in the debris flag unveils first and was then folded solemnly again. Among the mourners were Obama and his predecessor George W. Bush with their wives Michelle and Laura .Amongst the guests, as well as New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and his predecessor, Rudolph Giuliani.

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30 Minutes Or Less

I had hopes that with the talent of the two leads and the good buzz on director Ruben Fleischer's previous film, "Zombieland," "" would be more than it eventually ended up being, which is an occasionally funny, more often stupid, diversion.
It's a decent way to spend 90 minutes if you have nothing else to do, but it doesn't exactly scream "See me in the theater!"
The story is simple enough. Jesse Eisenberg's Nick delivers pizzas for a living, committing every moving violation in the book to get the pies to their destination on time, even when the location is clearly miles away. If he doesn't, it comes out of his pay, and one has to imagine that his pay isn't very high.
Nick is a prototypical movie version of the genial slacker. He's got a dead-end job, not much in the brains department and seemingly no ambition (and even less of a moral compass), yet he manages to be charming enough to have slept with his best friend's gorgeous twin sister (a potential for gags that's barely touched) who is actually going somewhere.
Meanwhile, his far-more responsible (but equally feckless) best friend Chet (Aziz Ansari, reduced here to a shrieking parody of a human) is a teacher at the local school and has just about as limited a future as Nick, not to mention an equally poor decision-making capacity.
At the same time, two complete morons (Danny McBride as Dwayne and Nick Swardson as Travis) hatch a complicated (and thoroughly inane) plan to kill Dwayne's Marine Corps vet father, The Major (Fred Ward) to inherit what's left of a $10 million lottery win.
This "plan" involves committing several smaller crimes, including strapping a bomb to Nick's chest to force him to rob a bank so Tweedledumb and Tweedledumber can get enough money to pay a hit man. See where this is going?


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