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New teams. New schedule. But what to make of the teams?
Jess Nicholas of Tidefans.com offers these predictions on the 2012 SEC season.
Trending upward: LSU, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi State and Vandy. Trending down: Arkansas, South Carolina, Auburn, Tennessee and, gulp, Alabama.
The Newbies? Nicholas puts Missouri and Texas A&M among the down arrows. As Dean Wormer might have put it, That's no way to start life in a new conference, son.
Read more of Nicholas' thoughts, ratcheer.
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Early look at 2012
New teams. New schedule. But what to make of the teams?
3 comments:
- EatEmAndSmile said...
The author of the article on tidefans.com is an idiot. Arkansas trending down? The offense just reloads with receivers. Plus they have all of their key running backs next year. His prediction of Tyler Wilson going pro a year early just goes to show you that he is making this stuff up.
LSU and Bama both have to come to Arkansas in 2012. The West will be Arkansas' to lose. WPS
- December 11, 2011 at 10:16 PM
- Anonymous said...
I assume the Auburn trending down grade is a result of losing Gus to the Ar-Kansas St head coaching job. But isn't it a little too early to talk about 2012? How about at least waiting until signing day. There are some seriously great closers in this conference that get major stars the day before - especially Georgia and the 2 coaches in Alabama.
So go ahead and rank all you want. Wake me up in February.
- December 14, 2011 at 7:03 AM
- Anonymous said...
Is Florida trending upward because Weiss left for KU?
UGA has 17 STARTERS returning.
At least LSU will have late round draft picks.
- December 15, 2011 at 8:59 AM


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The A List: Gay Housewives Tell Their Moms About Porn
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Last night I was too busy being drag queen Sylvia London's date to Michael Musto's book party to watch The A List but, guess what, Dustin & Jayden, Manhattan's most obnoxious homosexuals were there! They were having a kiki about all the gossip on the show, so we listened in rather than listen to Countess Crackerjacks sing.
"Girl, this party is fiiiieeerrrcceeee."
"Right, queen."
"Look, there's the Countess!"
"Look, there's Jerry Springer!"
"Look, there's Michael Musto's mom!"
"Look, there's some singer showing her vagina!"
"Look, there's an open bar!"
"Look, there's a buffet!"
"You're gonna eat, queen?"
"Oh, I mean. Look, there's an open bar!"
"Like every drag queen who ever gave me a drink ticket is here."
"I know, it's like a Bryan Kent music video."
"Who the hell is she?"
"I don't know, some short bear that Mike Ruiz..."
"That Latino queen..."
"Which one?"
"The one who is a photographer..."
"I'm drawing a blank here."
"She's got big muscles and poodle hair?"
"Well, she directed this video with this guy Brian Kent and Rod-i-ney was in it."
"Oh, girl, speaking of Rod-i-ney, did you see who she brought to Reichen's half-birthday party?"
"First of all, no. Second of all, half-birthday?"
"I know queen, that shit is stupid."
"Is it cause she's half a man?"
"It's cause she got it half off. You know she ain't got no job."
"Trust! So, who did Rod-i-ney bring? His vocal coach?"
"No, his girlfriend. Guess what her name is?"
"Green card?"
"Okrrrrr, but no. It's Liza."
"With a Z?"
"Girl, only that queen would have a girlfriend named Lie-tha!"
"Right! That was the most exciting thing about the party. Oh, except Austin..."
"She fat."
"She fat, and she made up with Derek."
"Her face fat."
"It is, queen. Did she get stung by a bunch of bees or something? She's looking crazy lately."
"Speaking of crazy and dates..."
"What, are you going to go ask out that cute boy over there with the glasses, cause she looks crazy?"
"No, queen, I was going to tell you about Nanooshna."
"Oh, what about her? She finally got a good weave?"
"No, girl, she went out with a man. Guess where she met him."
"At the supermarket."
"At the gym."
"On Grindr."
"You stupid."
"Fashion week."
"What? That's like a gay guy having a girlfriend named Lie-tha! She met a straight man at fashion week and expect that he wants to touch her vagina?"
"Right, he just wants to put her in platform heels."
"And try on her wigs."
"And motorboat her."
"Boobs are fun."
"Girl, boobs are fun. Are we straight?"
"Let's ask Rod-i-ney. We can find him at Vladas later."
"Ew, who goes to Vladas. No one, that's why you go there: to tell secrets."
"What secrets does Rod-i-ney have."
"Well, she found out that Jake cheated on FAustin—that means 'Fat Austin'—and Austin cheated on Jake."
"Girl, while we're telling secrets. I'm the one who slept with Jake!"
"What, why didn't you tell me?"
"Queen, I knew you would be jealous."
"How was it?"
"Big. Bold. Uncut."
"Werq! Well, guess what. I'm the one who slept with Austin."
"What? But she..."
"Yes, she fat—where it counts."
"Werq, queen. 10s across the board! But she still fat."
"She is and now she's all running around being like 'We're married' and everyone knows they're both cheaters and everyone's mad about it, but they're all too wimpy to confront them about it."
"Don't say that, Rod-i-ney might be around and get a boner."
"Girl, it would probably be a tiny boner, just like Reichen's."
"Oh, guess what, Reichen told his mom about his boner."
"He was all 'Mom, my boner was on the internet.'"
"What did she do?"
"Girl her ears vomited and then she keeled over and died right there in the park and Reichen was all like 'Mom, mom. Get up,' running around her like a puppy but she was just dead of embarrassment."
"Well, she knows how little her son's dick is."
"But she was embarrassed and said he was sorry and it was the worst thing I ever heard about ever. I bet she'll never be able to Skype with him again."
"Well, Michael Musto's mom is here, we should go ask her what she thinks of her son's dick on the internet."
"No, girl, we should go get some free buffet."
"What's up with you and the food. Oh, we should go say hi to that queen Brian with the mustache who tried to grab my ass in the backroom of that underwear party in Brooklyn."
"Fuck that, she's annoying."
"Yeah, she sure is."


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After conceding the equalizer in the 59th minute, the Revolution battled back to regain the lead and claim a morale-boosting victory over the Dynamo
HOUSTON, Texas – An hour into Sunday night's meeting with the Houston Dynamo at Robertson Stadium, it would've been easy for the New England Revolution to fold up shop.
The Revs had scratched and clawed their way to a 1-0 halftime lead courtesy of Shalrie Joseph's third goal of the season in the 43rd minute, but Dynamo forward Dominic Oduro scored the equalizer in the 59th minute to pull the hosts level as second-year goalkeeper Bobby Shuttleworth was bombarded in the Revolution net.
Having seen a two-goal lead slip away in Dallas in their last road game a little more than two weeks ago, those same doubts likely began creeping into the players' minds as the Revolution searched for a way to snap its 11-game road winless run.
New England found what it was looking for in the form of Kheli Dube, who scored his second goal of the season in the 73rd minute to give the resilient Revs a coveted three points.
"It says a lot about the atmosphere in the group, about the guys, about our character, and that's very important for us," said forward Ilija Stolica about the Revolution's ability to forge ahead after conceding the equalizer. "It doesn't matter that [we're already out of the playoffs]. It's always good to finish the season in a good mood, winning games."
The method in which the game-winning goal was scored typified the Revolution's resolve, as it was hard work from Stolica which created the opportunity from nothing. The Serbian forward harassed and harried Dynamo defender Ryan Cochrane as he tried to dribble out of the back, eventually forcing an error and stealing the ball near the end line to instantly turn defense into attack.
"I think both of us had hard duels during the whole game, and I think it was maybe a mistake from him," Stolica said of Cochrane, who engaged in physical battles with the Revolution's forward pairing of Stolica and Marko Perovic throughout the night. "He was trying to dribble when it's not good for one defender to try to dribble."
Nicking the ball off Cochrane was only part of the setup, however, as Stolica then calmly waited for his chance to find a teammate in the box. He did so when a pair of defenders converged, as Stolica expertly threaded a pass through the box to Dube at the back post.
"I saw [Dube] immediately and I was just waiting for good timing, the good moment," said Stolica. "The other defender who was covering that space, he came to close the space closer to me, and then when he was stepping out, I just took that moment to give [Dube] the ball through two defenders."
Dube did the rest, using his pace to latch onto the pass and dispatch his effort back across the face of goal and inside the far post. It was Dube's third goal in three career appearances at Robertson Stadium and his second straight game-winning goal in Houston, as the Zimbabwean scored the only goal in the Revolution's 1-0 win last year.
"Iljia's got a great head for soccer," said Dube. "As soon as I saw he got the ball, he looked up and then I made the run on the far side and there was no one over there."
While the Revs were paced by Dube, Stolica and Joseph in the attacking half of the field, they were backstopped by a solid defensive performance and a fine showing from the young Shuttleworth.
The Revs' goalkeeper finished with six saves, including a highlight-reel stop on Oduro in first-half stoppage time. Oduro latched onto a bouncing ball inside the box and unleashed a fierce volley from close range, but Shuttleworth reacted with lightning-quick reflexes to powerfully push the ball to safety.
"I didn't know much about it," said Shuttleworth with a chuckle. "I just wanted to make myself big. I thought he was leaning to the right, so I dove to the right and he just knocked it into me."
Whether driven by luck or skill – or perhaps a combination of both – the Revs will be delighted with their performance on Sunday night as they look to carry a bit of momentum into the final two games of the season.
"I think tonight we put on a real good professional show," said head coach Steve Nicol. "I didn't think we gave too much away. We scored two good goals away from home, and overall it was a good performance."


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Today started before my normal arrival time with a planning meeting for an email migration for ~300 staff that was supposed to happen tomorrow. We have not been getting the communication we need to ready staff (and ourselves) for the migration, so we will hold off until we have the answers we need. I have small niggling fears that the noncommunicative unit may just go ahead and migrate us anyway, but we'll see (fingers crossed!). I have reminded myself that I need to pull the training materials together and get all that organized
Got into my office, booted everything up, and made sure that the software I need for the (first!) one-on-one training I'm doing this afternoon has been installed, and confirmed the meeting. Found some graduate assistant help for preparing to send out training materials to the folks scheduled to migrate. Spent an hour going through various emails and social networking accounts and browser tabs left open for my attention (yikes! some have been waiting for over a week!). Sent out training announcements to library staff, printed out a few calls for papers, and filed some interesting new articles that came across my search alerts.
Productivity gave way to collegiality when I had a nice surprise visit with a friend and colleague who has been on a long vacation. Chatting is an important part of workplace social glue, you know.
Began prepping to show a colleague how to use SnagIt. It's been ages since I used it. And to refresh myself, I took the video tour. Wow. RTFM indeed — I learned an awful lot in a very short time! Which is great, because my colleague showed up 30 minutes early. The session went well, she got what she needed to get started, we discussed some other tools that might do what she needs, and she knows to call me if she needs more help.
I spent a few more minutes going through the interwebs and culling interesting stuff into the various places I send or keep track of things (Google Plus, Delicious, Twitter, Evernote, OneNote, Read It Later…). I came across a librarian blogging her personal 23 Things and found myself inspired! (ah, magical inspiration, that mythic leap from point A to point S with no traceable path:) Maybe it's the Grateful Dead jamming away int eh background? Who knows?) . I've been wanting to set up a perpetual hybrid 23 Things-type ongoing training, and I think I know how now! I've put together a OneNote on the subject and am typing as fast as my fingers will let me — my brain is outpacing my wpm 🙂
A nice, slow, summer day in the life of a librarian.
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Please share the 23 things thing…I am trying to get a post together about the tech and aps I can't live without, so far it's not coming together.
Maybe if I change my name (because when someone says my name they always follow it with a problem or question!)
I am not familiar with SnagIt, but don't you get crazy using to many different communication and information gathering aps?


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Fat Albert In The Hood Episode 9 (M.I.L.F.)
This is Fat Albert In The Hood Episode 9 in a nutshell Rudy gets to hit a Cougar, a MILF and his young ass get's pussy whooped because he's never had none of that old experienced sex put on his ass. Also in this episode the part of Mrs Jackson was done by our friend ZZ from Dallas, Texas you can see her in our new Let's Hit The Town video and the Faleyuh video. Plus it contains a brand new Fat Albert Junkyard Band Song by Dallas, Texas very own Money Waters.
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The JE James and Derbyshire Times' Flagg Cycle Challenge is starting to attract charity riders and many others are being urged to get on board to support Chesterfield's Ashgate Hospice.
The popular hospice charity ride will start at Ashgate Hospice, on Ashgate Road, from 9am, on Sunday, July 27, and returns after completing a route around the beautiful Peak District countryside.
All participants will be treated to the specially planned and marshalled route with fantastic landmarks and views and riders can choose to take on a 55 or 25 mile challenge.
The popular 55 mile route will take riders from Old Brampton into the beautiful Peak District where they will experience great views from the top of Flagg, Birchover, Rowsley and the Chatsworth Estate to name but a few.
The 25 mile route will go from the hospice via Cutthorpe, down to Baslow, up to Curbar and back down to Ashford-in-the-Water, before returning through Pilsley to Baslow and back along the previous route. It then goes to the hospice via Old Brampton.
Once registered, riders will receive sponsor forms, a map and route plan and a secured entry. There are limited spaces for the third annual Flagg Challenge so people are advised to get registered as soon as possible.
However, riders are also welcome to turn up and enter on the day, snapping up any remaining slots with signing-on for all from 8am.
Following the event there will be a free goody bag, soup-and-a-roll.
Entrants receive sponsor forms and a map. Entry costs £20 and those interested can register via firstname.lastname@example.com, or can contact Emily Evans on (01246) 568801, or Derbyshire Times' Jon Cooper at firstname.lastname@example.com and on (01246) 504524. Budding volunteer marshals are also urged to call Emily and Jon.
Co-sponsors JE James, of Brimington Road North, Chesterfield, are also selling raffle tickets for a Specialised racing bike.


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Employment Law: An Overview
Employment law is a broad area encompassing all areas of the employer/employee relationship except the negotiation process covered by labor law and collective bargaining. See, Labor Law & Collective Bargaining and Arbitration. Employment law consists of thousands of Federal and state statutes, administrative regulations, and judicial decisions. Many employment laws (e.g., minimum wage regulations) were enacted as protective labor legislation. Other employment laws take the form of public insurance, such as unemployment compensation.
Specific areas within the broad category of employment law covered under their own topical entries include:
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- 29 U.S. Code - Labor.Representative chapters pertinent to employment:
- 42 U.S. Code - The Public Health and Welfare.Representative chapters pertinent to employment:
- Chapter 21. The Civil Rights Act
- §§ 2000e - 2000e-17 - Equal Employment Opportunity
- Chapter 21. The Civil Rights Act
- Chapter 126. - Equal Opportunity for Individuals with Disabilities
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- Summary of Federal Employment Law from the Matthies law firm
- Employment Law Information Network
- Human Resources Law (Nolo)
- National Employment Law Institute
- Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations
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December 21, 2012 08:00 ET
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Dec. 21, 2012) - Nevada Copper Corp. (TSX:NCU) ("Nevada Copper") is pleased to announce that Senator Harry Reid and Senator Dean Heller have introduced the Lyon County Economic Development and Conservation Act into the U.S. Senate.
This legislation incorporates the Yerington Land Conveyance and Sustainable Development Act, in its original form that was introduced in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate earlier this year. That bill was passed by the House in June 2012 and the Senate bill was pending a hearing.
Timothy M. Dyhr, Vice President, Environment and External Relations, commented, "We are very pleased that this revised bill has now been introduced and can be acted upon at any time. There are several critical bills being considered in the lame duck session of Congress, and high priority actions like this are often combined for passage before Congress adjourns."
The primary difference between this bill and the previous bill was the inclusion of a wilderness component, referred to as Wovoka, approximately 20 miles from Pumpkin Hollow. Local wilderness advocates, with support from state and national wilderness groups, and from Senator Reid, have sought wilderness designation here for over five years. This time Senator Reid asked local stakeholders, including Lyon County and City of Yerington, to develop a compromise proposal with local input and support so that this matter could finally be resolved.
Lyon County, the City of Yerington and Nevada Copper have worked intensely over the past three months to develop a compromise that designates a compromise wilderness area, yet protected existing grazing, public access, mining uses as well as priority needs for the area.
Senator Reid and Heller have issued a joint press release in support of the combined bill:
Senator Harry Reid stated: "My father was a miner. I've worked in the mines. I know how important mining has always been for the state of Nevada, and for the first time in a long time Yerington is going to benefit from mining, I am very happy to be part of this legislation which will create lots of jobs in Lyon county, which are so desperately needed. This bill also designates the Wovoka wilderness area, a place with special cultural and natural resources that are worthy of a high level of protection so future generations can continue enjoying them. It's a bill that's going to meet the needs of modern day Nevada."
Senator Dean Heller stated; "Lyon County has the highest unemployment rate in the state and this legislation will bring more than 800 jobs to the area. Mining is a critical component of Nevada's economy and we are fortunate to have resources in our own backyard for economic development. This legislation is the result of the hard work of Lyon County, Yerington, and all the local residents who came together to get the deal done. There is no doubt that this bill will provide some much-needed relief at a time when Nevadans are desperate for jobs."
Nevada Copper looks forward to passage of this bill. However, as previously stated, the company continues to work toward receipt of State permits by the end of the first quarter of 2013. Nevada permit applications were submitted in July 2012 for both a Stand-Alone High Grade Underground mine and mill located entirely on private land; and, Integrated Operation and single process facility. Nevada Division of Environmental Protection recently met with Nevada Copper to review the proposed project and has provided its technical comments on the Water Pollution Control Permit. Responses to those comments will be submitted in mid-January 2013.
Giulio T. Bonifacio, President & CEO
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Mick Jagger fuels Rolling Stones Glastonbury rumour
SIR MICK JAGGER has fuelled speculation THE ROLLING STONES are planning to headline prestigious music festival Glastonbury by hinting they have been invited to close the 2013 event on its final night.
These kids are so special and it's incredible to see the courage they have
The Brown Sugar hitmakers have never performed at the three-day rock event, which was launched in 1970 and is widely regarded as the nation's leading summer festival.
Fans have speculated Jagger and his bandmates could be lining up to fill this year's 'legends' slot - the Sunday night headline set on the main stage - since they reunited for a series of 50th anniversary gigs last year (12), and the singer has now implied the speculation is correct.
He tells NME magazine, "Well, I'm just looking at what offers are coming in for this year and sorting them out. I hate announcing things when they're not booked. People are always like. 'Yakety yak, you didn't do that in the end', and I say, 'Well, yeah - we never really announced it!'
"All I'm doing at the moment is sifting through the possibilities, looking at the dates and how each one can fit in and so on. And then we'll see what we come out with... There are other things in the world, you know, apart from Glastonbury! But then again, Glastonbury is very important. It seems to be very important to my children - highlight of their year!"
Pressed on the issue, Jagger hinted an offer for the Sunday night has already been made by festival organisers, saying, "But is it going to be rainy on the Sunday?... Isn't it nearly always rainy on the Sunday?"


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AN ACT amend and reenact §33-4-14 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; and to amend said code by adding thereto a new article, designated §33-4A-1, §33-4A-2, §33-4A-3, §33-4A- 4, §33-4A-5, §33-4A-6, §33-4A-7 and §33-4A-8, all relating to the Insurance Commissioner generally; providing that certain information provided by insurance companies to the Insurance Commissioner is confidential; exempting such confidential information from the freedom of information disclosure requirements; providing that such confidential information is not subject to subpoena or discoverable in a private civil action; commissioner's authority to release, share and receive documents otherwise treated as confidential in furtherance of the commissioner's official duties; stating conditions attached thereto; authorizing legislative rules; creating an all-payer claims database; defining terms; developing the database by the Insurance Commissioner, Secretary of Health and Human Resources and Chairperson of the Health Care Authority and providing powers in regard thereto; exempting from purchasing rules; providing data subject to the database; providing for the protection of personal identifiers and the confidentiality of information; permitting fees and assessments to be assessed; authorizing penalties to be set by rule; authorizing injunctive relief; establishing special revenue account; and allowing other sanctions .
(a) The secretary, commissioner and chair, collectively referred to herein as the "MOU parties", shall enter into a memorandum of understanding to develop an all-payer claims database program.§33-4A-2. Establishment and development of an all-payer claims database.
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Two articles concerned with the question of the artistic possibilities of self-publishing a book caught my attention this week.
The first was a testimonial by Mark Bastable published in The Telegraph and titled "How I overcame snobbery to self-publish an e-book." In it, Bastable gives a variably convincing account of his decision to self-publish his fourth book, after having gone the "proper" route for the last three (ie. the traditional publishing model). What I found most interesting, however, was the paragraph where he rattles off all of the decisions he had to make when he went DIY:
"So, this month I launched a novel into the e-market," he writes, "the culmination of several months' slog, proofing the text, writing the blurb, doing the cover design (or, actually, paying someone to), getting the internal text layout right (or, actually, paying someone to), developing and launching a website (or, actually – yeah, that too). All the stuff that a publisher used to do, the e-author has to do for himself. Or pay someone to."
Whew. It's always sobering to see a list like that in print and be reminded of the immense amount of work self-publishing requires. But Bastable makes the case for the silver lining: message control. From the writing, to the editing, to the marketing, you're in the driver's seat, and you get to call the shots.
I found an inspiring echo to this book talk in a piece by Jason Boogon Galleycat extolling the virtues of Shane Carruth's excellent 2013 indie sci-fi film Upstream Color. Produced entirely outside of the Hollywood system and released on a wide range of streaming platforms at about the same time it hit theaters, Upstream Color received widespread acclaim, cementing Carruth's position as an indie auteur. But is this a stepping stone for blockbuster success? Probably not. Boog nails it, I think, when he goes on to write about how films like this can only exist outside the normal system of production:
"Writers spend too much time arguing about the goldmine potential of self-publishing. When we talk about indie books, why does money dominate the conversation? Instead, we should worry about the artistic freedom that creators like Shane Carruth have found by taking the DIY route."
I like what Bastable was saying about having total (anxiety inducing) control over your book and it's presentation, but what about the artistic space that emerges without the confines of the publishing industry? That's what I'm looking forward seeing discussed. So, hat tip to Jason Boog and Simon Carruth for getting us going.
Max Rivlin-Nadler writes for the Lulu Blog – Archived


text: Friday, September 30, 2011 Rehabilitative and Habilitative Devices Survey Open Until October 7 As part of the Independence Through Enhancement of Medicare and Medicaid (ITEM) Coalition's continuing work to ensure that people with disabilities have access to rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices, the coalition is collecting information on typical coverage of these services and devices by employer-sponsored health insurance plans. The coalition is particularly interested in topics such as physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, durable medical equipment, orthotics, prosthetics, or other assistive devices. Physical therapists (PTs) are encouraged to ask their patients with disabilities or chronic conditions and who are covered by employer-based insurance to take this quick 10-question, anonymous survey called Insurance Coverage of Rehabilitative and Habilitative Devices. PTs also can take the survey on behalf of their patients. The survey closes on October 7. The results will help ITEM Coalition members to ensure that health care reform best serves the needs of individuals with disabilities and chronic conditions. If you have questions about the survey or about the ITEM coalition, contact Theresa Morgan or visit the ITEM Coalition Web site.


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The artistic collection entitled 'Landscapes' compiled "the bizarre instances of cartographic dissonance inflicted by the Dutch government over their virtual lands. As Henner notes, the number of censored sites within the small country of the Netherlands is surprising, as is the technique used by officials to disguise them. Tracts of land deemed vulnerable to attack or misappropriation are transformed into large tapestries of multi-colored polygons, archipelagos of abstraction floating in swaths of open fields, dense forests, and clusters of urban development." See the original gallery here: http://mishka.lockandhenner.com/blog/?p=574
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This week as I've been preparing my Valentine's Day products (coming Friday!) we discovered a new and very easy project for Emma that kept her entertained for at least 45 minutes and didn't require any glitter or glue.
I love her little creations and since one of my resolutions is to keep more fresh flowers in the house, I love the idea of having her arrangements scattered around.
"Emma made it. All by myself."
Ok, so there was a little water on the floor... but that just made the mopping easier.
"Look Darcy, look at my frowers!"
And, in case you were wondering, these little spray roses (Trader Joes) don't have giant thorns : )
And, while I love her painted works of art, displaying these bouquets are a little more subtle way to share her creativity in our home - and she loves them, too.
We'll be decorating Valentine's sugar cookies today, so I'm glad we had a relatively mess-free project yesterday, because today will be a doozy for sure.


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LOS ANGELES AND WASHINGTON — In the first major disclosure of corruption in the $750-billion financial bailout program, federal investigators said Monday they have opened 20 criminal probes into possible securities fraud, tax violations, insider trading and other crimes.
The cases represent only the first wave of investigations, and the total fraud could ultimately reach into the tens of billions of dollars, according to Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general overseeing the bailout program.
The disclosures reinforce fears that the hastily designed and rapidly changing bailout program run by the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve is going to carry a heavy price of fraud against taxpayers -- even as questions grow about its ability to stabilize the nation's financial system.
Barofsky said the complex nature of the bailout program makes it "inherently vulnerable to fraud, waste and abuse, including significant issues relating to conflicts of interest facing fund managers, collusion between participants, and vulnerabilities to money laundering."


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WASHINGTON — The presence of caffeine in gum, jelly beans, waffles and other foods has prompted the Food and Drug Administration to investigate the stimulant's potential effects on children and adolescents.
The FDA's announcement comes a few weeks after gum maker Wrigley introduced its Alert Energy Caffeine Gum. Each piece of the gum contains about as much caffeine as a half-cup of coffee, according to a consumer update that the FDA posted on its website Friday.
The update provided more information on an investigation the FDA announced earlier this week.
"The gum is just one more unfortunate example of the trend to add caffeine to food," Michael R. Taylor, the FDA's deputy commissioner for foods and veterinary medicine, said on the site.
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Chorley is a town in Lancashire, England located in the West Pennine Moors.
10 miles north-west of Bolton, 5 south-east of South Ribble, 12 south-west of Blackburn with Darwen and 6 miles north of Wigan.
Preston is 10 miles north of Chorley, and Manchester is 30 miles south-east of Chorley.
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By Rail
Direct Train links from Manchester, Preston, Blackpool, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
By Road
Chorley lies close to the junction of the M6, M61 and M65 Motorways. The closest link to the Motorway network is Junction 8 of the M61. The A6 and A49 roads both pass through the borough.
By Air
Direct Trains from Manchester Airport in around 50 minutes.
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Winter Hill
This is the highest point of The West Pennine Moors and is situated in the borough of Chorley. It stands at 1,496 feet high. Probably the most notable figure of Winter Hill is the television mast which can be viewed from miles around.
The Hill is a local attraction and there have been many tales told about Winter Hill including:
Two Lads - The Tale of 2 Lads goes as on one dark and gloomy night 2 lads were walking over Winter Hill and was never seen again,no one knows what happened.
Scotsmans Stump - Another Tale of Winter Hill is one about a scotsman called George Henderston who was walking over Winter Hill in 1838 and was murdered,there now stands a stump and monument which is called scotsmans stump.
In 1958, a plane crashed into the Television Masts and killed passengers.
Because it is the highest part of The West Pennine Moors,views are stunning there are views of different areas Blackpool Tower and The Big One,The Lake District and it is said even Wales.
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Several players upgraded ahead of SuperLiga match tonight.
The Revolution's athletic training staff released the early week's injury report. Three players have been upgraded, while one additional player has made the list.
NE Injury List - July 20, 2010
Probable: Pat Phelan (head laceration), Khano Smith (R ankle sprain)
Questionable: Nico Colaluca (R ankle sprain), Cory Gibbs (L quadriceps strain)
Doubtful: Zak Boggs (concussion), Jason Griffiths (L hamstring strain)
Out: Preston Burpo (R lower leg fracture), Edgaras Jankauskas (L adductor strain), Taylor Twellman (concussion)
Pat Phelan is added to the list as PROBABLE after suffering a head laceration during the Chicago match on Saturday. He received 12 stitches at the field after the game, and he is not expected to be hampered by the injury. After making a second-half substitute appearance Chicago on Saturday in his first appearance since mid-June, Khano Smith has been upgraded to PROBABLE.
Zak Boggs and Jason Griffiths have both been upgraded to DOUBTFUL following another week of off-field rehab. Griffiths continues to work on the side with the medical staff, while Boggs is making progress with his concussion he suffered last month.
Nico Colaluca and Cory Gibbs remain listed as QUESTIONABLE as they continue to rehabilitate from their respective injuries, while Edgaras Jankauskas remains listed as OUT.


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"I Have a Great Idea, Maybe Like the Best Idea I've Ever Had"
So says Judd Apatow, whose previous ideas—Knocked Up, Funny People, and his new film, This Is 40, not to mention the approximately 7 billion other-funny-people's ideas he has nurtured and championed—haven't exactly sucked. Amy Wallace sits down with the reigning king of comedy and hears all about his (surprisingly mature) plans for the future
Judd Apatow sat down in his cluttered home office not long ago and introduced himself to Ram Dass, the spiritual teacher and author of the seminal book on meditation, Be Here Now. Apatow, the comic visionary and director of the seminal scene on male body waxing, has long been a fan of the octogenarian guru. So when someone from Ram Dass's staff reached out to see if Judd would interview the old seeker, who lives in Hawaii, via Skype, Apatow had eagerly said yes.
Now, with Ram Dass's Santa-at-Woodstock visage filling his computer screen, Apatow launched into a personal plug for the sage's books, all of which he owns. "People, you need to get them," he told those who might someday be listening on ramdass.org. "I'm still a deranged man, but they help me with that." When he asked Ram Dass about his most famous work—"You don't think it should be Be Here 10 Minutes from Now?"—a chuckle could be heard from 2,500 miles away. Then Apatow, who estimates he's read 10,000 self-help books (with titles like _Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism _and The Wisdom of Insecurity), admitted his limitations as an interviewer: "I really only want to ask you questions about me."
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Things got a bit more serious, though, when the topic shifted to storytelling, and Apatow told Ram Dass that connecting to emotion is always "where the obstacles are" in his films. At that, Ram Dass pointed to his own mostly bald head. "Here is the judge," he said. Then he pointed to his heart. "_Here _is the yuck. There's really humor here—the humor of wisdom."
This idea resonated with Apatow. The heart-head split, after all, is central to his work. Whether co-writing an episode of HBO's Girls with Lena Dunham or hammering out the script to his next directorial effort, _This Is 40, _due out just before Christmas, Apatow is usually striving to create likable, flawed characters who have good intentions but bad communication skills. Their heads, in other words, sometimes fail their hearts.
At the same time, he has spent the last decade mentoring so many actors and writers and directors with similar narrative goals that he has seemed almost a mini-studio unto himself. Since his breakout film in 2005, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Apatow has had a hand in writing, directing, or producing eighteen movies, from _Superbad _to Knocked Up to Bridesmaids. More than anyone working in entertainment today, he has shaped what an entire generation finds hilarious.
"He is a brand," says his friend Paul Feig, who created Freaks and Geeks, the short-lived but critically heralded TV show that Apatow ecutive-produced and helped write and direct back in the '90s. "You go anywhere in the Midwest, you walk into any mall, you say 'Judd Apatow,' and most people know who you're talking about."
The Skype session with Ram Dass came at a time, however, when Apatow was reevaluating his place in the Hollywood superstructure—or at least how he wanted to spend his working hours. Apatow says this latest film, which is largely inspired by his relationship with his wife and chief collaborator, the actress Leslie Mann, and their kids, has been great fun to make. And yet when Ram Dass noted that people too often get stuck in the roles they play—"role of funnyman, role of teacher, role of giver"—Apatow found himself really leaning in.
"Ram Dass was talking about how people tend to take on a role and it closes you off from so much of who you are and what you could be. It blew my mind," he told me in August, when I visited him at his three-story production office in Los Angeles. He was wearing his standard uniform that morning: a Penguin polo shirt, long khaki cargo shorts, and Nikes with ankle-high tube socks—a look that Dunham likens to "your handsome cousin who is not aware of his own power and so continues to wear shirts he was given for free at bar mitzvahs." But though Apatow appeared exactly like he always does on the outside, he was soon to reveal that something was different within. Evidently Apatow had taken the guru to heart. As he prepared for his fourth and most personal film to hit theaters, he intimated that it might also be his last personal film. He has, he told me, a new role for himself in mind.
The Director at Work
Almost exactly a year before the Ram Dass interview, I visited the set of This Is 40, an examination of marriage and parenting that, in signature Apatow style, leavens cringe-inducing humor (there's a hemorrhoids scene) with moments of startling emotional clarity. Between the cast and crew and the hundred or so extras, the set—a subterranean nightclub in downtown Los Angeles—was as packed as a rush-hour subway car. When I arrived, Apatow was prepping a scene in which a couple of actual Philadelphia Flyers hockey players flirt with Mann, who's gone barhopping without her husband (played by Paul Rudd). As the director often does, he was asking everyone to improvise; he told Mann that she'd nail it if she simply asked questions rooted in her real-life ignorance of hockey. "Like if they say, 'We're the Flyers,' " he explained, "you say, 'What city is that?' They say, 'Philadelphia.' You say, 'So you're all from Philadelphia?' " This made Mann laugh.
Now the director was reassuring the non-actor athletes, left wing Scott Hartnell and right wing Ian Laperriere, that the scene would be a breeze. "So the key to it will be that you guys don't have to worry about it at all," he told them, his voice relad, as if every minute they dawdled wasn't costing thousands of dollars. "I'll be yelling out things to say, and we're going to keep two cameras running. If you say something great, I might write it down and go, 'Say that line again!' so we can get a close-up behind you. I'll clean it up later, cutting it to the best ninety seconds that makes sense." The jocks looked a little dazed—Megan Fox, clad in tight leather hot pants, was only about five feet away—but they seemed game. "So that's it," Apatow concluded, before heading back behind the camera. "There's nothing you can do that's wrong."
Three Apatow Projects That Deserve More Love (Really)
1. You're probably going to need to hear this from at least two more sources before you believe it, but it's true: You Don't Mess With the Zohan is really funny. Partly it's because Adam Sandler is out of his tiresome nitwit mode, playing a Mossad agent turned hair stylist—c'mon, that's funny—and partly it's because of the movie's great running hummus gag. (One guy dips his eyeglasses in it.) But it's also because—and you're not gonna believe this, either, but again, it's the truth—Zohan has more to say about Israeli-Palestinian relations that anypeace accord, any talking head. Give Sandler a Nobel. He can dip it in hummus.
2. Yeah, Kicking & Screaming has Mike Ditka in an integral role as...Mike Ditka. But the movie's redemption is Will Ferrell doing what he does best: playing a hilariously impotent Everyman. The scene in the coffee shop—when Ferrell's overcaffeinated character prepares to brawl and screams, "Are we doing this? Is this happening?!" at the tiny woman holding up the line—packs more belly laughs than all of Funny People.
3. Emily Blunt is characteristically perfect, and Jason Segel is Jason Segel (that's a compliment). But the best reason to become one of the few people who saw The Five-Year Engagement? Chris Pratt's turn as a wise-in-disguise oaf who just can't manage to not impregnate Alison Brie.
Apatow sets are fun. This is due in part to the fact that he populates them exclusively with people he likes. He does this by cultivating a stable of go-to actors, many of whom he helped discover: Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, James Franco, Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill, Jane Lynch, Melissa McCarthy. He also does it by working with his immediate family. In this film (like in two of his others, Funny People and Knocked Up), three of the key roles are played by his wife and two daughters, Maude and Iris, now 15 and 10, respectively.
There's no mystery about where these habits come from. "As a child of divorce, your gut instinct is always: How do we keep families together?" he says, referring to the end of his parents' marriage—when he was 13, in 1970s Long Island—which marked him forever. So it's not lost on Apatow that when he asks Feig to direct Bridesmaids, for example, or works again and again with Rogen and Segel and Franco, he is attempting to reassemble the _Freaks and Geeks _clan "because that felt like a great family that got torn apart for no reason." (The show's fan base was fiercely devoted but tiny by network standards, and NBC gave up on it after only twelve episodes.)
Today, in the nightclub, the director presides like a sort of benevolent father figure—proud of his brood and delighted by what they are capable of. Apatow believes in running a loose, playful set with the express goal of making room for unexpected brilliance. Which is not the same as winging it.
"Judd's crystal clear on what he wants," says Rudd. Typically, he adds, that boils down to the characters "zeroing in on what's relatable. How he gets there, he's less rigid about. In fact, he's the opposite of rigid."
Apatow explains: "The main purpose of doing a little improv is to force the actors to be in the moment. They usually don't change their lines much, but knowing they can if they get the urge to puts everyone on their toes. It eliminates rote performances."
Now, as the cameras roll, Fox and Mann chitchat with the hockey studs while Apatow calls out funny lines for them to say, many of which are being scribbled on Post-it notes by a circle of women who sit around him in director's chairs: Annie Mumolo, who co-wrote Bridesmaids, Paula Pell of Saturday Night Live, and Jenni Konner, who co-produces Girls. When it is discovered that one of the players has fake front teeth (and can remove them), Apatow yells out, "Do you miss your teeth?"—and Fox spits the line right back.
Though Rudd and Mann are reprising the roles, Pete and Debbie, that they played in_ Knocked Up, This Is 40_ isn't a sequel exactly. It's more like a spin-off—"like Rhoda off of Mary Tyler Moore," Apatow says—in that it drops back in on the lives of two characters who played supporting roles in the first film. Ask Apatow why he has returned to familiar territory, and he says, "I want to do the sequel of all of the movies I've made. Why wouldn't you do ten _Superbad_s? Forget another one. I'd follow those guys every year for the rest of their lives."
_The Knocked Up family (top), and five years later in This is 40: Paul Rudd as the Apatow stand-in with Judd's real-life wife, Leslie Mann, and daughters Maude, now 15, and Iris, 10. _
But there's something else, too. With its focus on family dynamics, This Is 40 is clearly a fictionalized snapshot of the 45-year-old Apatow's actual world. "Judd has doubled down on extra-personal. He's braver than I am," says Feig. For his part, Apatow insists "there's a zillion differences between the movie and what our family is like." But then he concedes: "It's close enough for lack of comfort."
Garry Shandling, a close friend since Apatow's formative writing gig on The Larry Sanders Show, sees all this as Apatow "searching for the way to have things really just be what they are." Jonah Hill, whose career Apatow is responsible for catapulting, seconds this notion. "In this movie, he's finally gotten comfortable not worrying about a joke landing but letting a moment just be fucked-up and uncomfortable," Hill says admiringly. "I really respect that about his evolution. I don't know what he wants. Maybe he wants an Oscar. Maybe he wants more kids. I don't know." But history will be kind to Apatow, Hill predicts: "I think he'll be regarded as some weird mix of like Mel Brooks and Jim Brooks. He's the best at what he does in the world."
The Producer at Rest
A visit to Apatow's production office reveals the detritus of a busy career: a framed photo of himself with Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, his Anchorman collaborators; a nearly life-size cardboard cutout of his wife; a brightly colored poster for Superbad; an empty Pineapple Express popcorn tub.
"What happens with an office is you decorate and then you never decorate again. It's like life stopped in that moment," Apatow says when he finds me poking around. (He was late, having lost his car keys, so I had some time to kill.) "Everything here ends in 2008, with Pineapple Express," he says, flopping down in a comfy chair. "I keep thinking I should just change everything. And then I just don't."
It's understandable why the period of Apatow's career that is memorialized here—trapped in a sort of comic amber—is one that he'd want to preserve. It was an era, post-Knocked Up, when he presided over a comic empire. For a while, he could get almost anything green-lighted—and did. Apatow got scores of movies made—some critics would say too many—that had been written by or were star vehicles for his posse. In quick succession came Superbad, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Drillbit Taylor, Step Brothers, and Pineapple Express. And that only takes us through August of 2008. Not all of these movies were huge hits, but those that weren't were made for low-enough budgets that they were still considered successes. ("I like it when the bar isn't that high," Apatow says of the freedom that lower budgets afford.)
At the height of the frenzy, he spent a few months shuttling between three locations on three different films, fielding at least sixty production-related phone calls each day. "It's all super fun, and I'm working with people that I love, and all the movies are in great hands," he says. "But I did realize this is not the pace that I want to be on. It eats up your entire life."
Obsessive overwork has been a coping mechanism for Apatow since childhood. Growing up, he studied television shows he loved like The Twilight Zone and Saturday Night Live by transcribing them word for word in composition books. He loved comedy—it seemed a discipline that people like him, who saw things askew, could use to connect to others—and he loved Steve Martin most of all. In the sixth grade, while visiting his grandparents in California, he made them drive by Martin's house until he saw the comedian appear. Apatow approached for an autograph but was rebuffed, so he sent Martin an angry letter. A few weeks later, Martin sent Apatow a signed copy of his book Cruel Shoes inscribed with the words "I'm sorry. I didn't realize I was speaking to the Judd Apatow."
"He signed two, actually—one for my brother, who was with me," Apatow says, pulling his brother's copy (his own is kept under lock and key) off a bookshelf in his office to show me the book's price tag: $6.99. "That's how long ago that was."
Apatow did his first stand-up gig in high school, then moved to L.A. to enroll in USC's screenwriting program, where he lasted less than two years. He worked for a spell as an emcee at the Improv, the Hollywood comedy club, but soon abandoned stand-up because he didn't think his material was funny enough. He began writing jokes for others and then, after a brief stint co-creating, producing, and writing the half-hour TV comedy The Ben Stiller Show, he became a writer on the second season of Larry Sanders.
Meanwhile, he was writing scripts for others. In 1996, Apatow produced The Cable Guy with Jim Carrey in the leading role and Stiller directing. The experience was wrenching (there was an ugly credit dispute about a rewrite he worked on), but there was one bright spot: He met Mann. The minute he saw her, he turned to Stiller and said, "That's so weird that the future Mrs. Apatow just walked in the door." Not that he was particularly confident about his ability to woo her. "I'd always been nervous to approach women," he says. "But in my head, it was like, 'Oh, this is the one I have to fight through that for.' She was beautiful and funny and sweet, but also she carried herself like someone who didn't know that." They married in 1997.
While working on Freaks and Geeks in the late '90s, Apatow became interested again in some of the themes he'd explored in his stand-up act: the way quiet little moments—often those rooted in embarrassment or loneliness—could sometimes speak loud to the masses. But it wasn't until Apatow met Steve Carell, on the set of Anchorman, that he found a perfect partner with whom to explore those themes on film. Carell had an idea about a middle-aged man who is still a virgin. They wrote the movie together, and it grossed $177 million worldwide.
Soon, in a surreal twist that was at odds with his underdog persona, Apatow wasn't just successful—he was an inspiration for others who'd inspired him. Cameron Crowe remembers one afternoon in 2006, when he was hanging out with his friend Tom Cruise talking about productivity. Crowe was mired in a difficult project, and he'd come to Cruise's house to read through some ideas. Suddenly, Cruise had a brainstorm. "You've got to just get prolific," Cruise told the writer-director. "You've got to quit just being in your room writing. Do you know Judd Apatow?"
When Crowe admitted he didn't, though he was a fan, Cruise pushed him toward the door. "I know Judd a little bit," Cruise said. "Let's go visit Judd! He's filming in the neighborhood." So it was that Crowe and Cruise crashed the set of Knocked Up. "Judd was doing his thing," Crowe remembers, "shouting lines behind the camera and running these long takes, and Rudd was there, even though it wasn't even his day to film. Jay Baruchel, I believe, was around on his off day, too. It was just the most friendly, community oriented place. And Cruise was looking at me like, 'Get it? Get it? Leave the room! Build a family! Do work! See how great it is?' "
What Crowe didn't know was that Apatow had consciously emulated Crowe, whom he says he admires for trying in his work "to say something positive about our time on earth." That day, Apatow greeted Crowe by admitting, "I've been ripping off the Gas 'N' Sip scene from_Say Anything_ ever since I saw it. It's great to have you here."
"I was taken on a tour of Judd's world that day," Crowe told me recently, "and I was completely inspired that you can build these families and make movies like that. I still aspire to that. He has cracked the code."
After that explosion of movies in 2007 and 2008, Apatow eased his foot off the pedal in terms of producing but didn't stop completely. He produced Bridesmaids for Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo in 2011 and helped Lena Dunham develop Girls. Apatow and Dunham connected when he sent her a fan e-mail to tell her he'd loved her indie feature, Tiny Furniture. Before they met in person, at a hotel in New York, Dunham—now just 26—was nervous. "I waited in the lobby for a long time," she recalls. "But when I saw him coming down the stairs wearing a Get Him to the Greek T-shirt, gym shorts, and very high socks, I just had the strong feeling it was going to be okay." They've worked together closely ever since (he asked for her notes repeatedly on This Is 40, in which she also appears).
Hearing this, it may seem that Apatow has evolved since Katherine Heigl complained publicly that her role in Knocked Up made her seem like a whiny shrew. But Dunham (who admits that "in college, even I indulged in the 'Katherine Heigl is a one dimensional character' thing, just because it was what was cool to do, just like I was always doing sit ins for causes I didn't understand") says that's a fallacy. "I've come to really admire Judd's relationship to writing amazing parts for women, which he's been doing, specifically for Leslie, for a long time," she says, noting that on This Is 40, "Judd's huge focus was making sure that women would connect intensely to what Leslie was going through. He was always looking for the women-stand-up-and-cheer moment."
(When I quote Dunham back to Apatow, he says he thinks the whole Knocked Up kerfuffle boils down to "the fact that in movies, and in comedies especially, women are presented as trophies. So if you show a real woman who's not necessarily pleasant every moment, there are certain people who say you're being mean. 'You're making women look like shrews.' Well, why wouldn't she be mad right now? She's in a tough situation with a guy who's not ready. Wouldn't you be pissed off some of the time? It's kind of an accurate tone. When you show immature guys, you might be showing misogynistic behavior, but that doesn't mean the movie is misogynistic. You're mocking immaturity.")
_With his friend and collaborator, Girls creator Lena Dunham. _
Dunham says she marvels at Apatow's dual ability to be at once abstract and on point. "He has the ability to give these incredibly incisive, concise notes—to literally go in like a diagnostic surgeon and completely excise the cancerous area and tell you exactly what your body needs to heal," she says. "There's real magic and specificity in the way he works with writers."
Apatow is hardly ever on the set of Girls—he feels his best use is to help on the scripts, offering tweaks and suggestions. (He also co-writes one episode with Dunham each season.) When Lena's character's parents had sex in the shower in season one, that was Apatow's idea, Dunham says. "It wasn't a vomit gag, like to go, 'Look how gross it is to walk in on your parents having sex.' It was his desire to show they still had a complex, intense relationship that their daughter couldn't even begin to understand." Remember, she says, this is the man "who created the idea that men could have emotional relationships on-screen—the entire idea of the bromance, which may not be a great word, but it's certainly a great notion. The thing about Judd is he lives in two very opposite arenas—the desire to tell a truthful, emotional story and the desire to make people laugh in a hard-core way. I don't think anybody's merged that in the same way Judd has. In the process, he's created a whole new idea about what comedy can be."
But that doesn't come without struggle. "Judd is an anxious person who understands that's not the most comfortable way to live and who doesn't find his own affliction cute and who is looking for ways to deal with it," she says, noting that Apatow introduced her recently to his Transcendental Meditation teacher, who is now hers, too. "He has a deep desire to find a comfortable resting place."
The Writer at Play
There's a scene in This Is 40 when Mann and her two daughters are outside jumping on a trampoline while Rudd, the Apatow stand-in, sequesters himself in the bathroom. Perched on the toilet, playing Words With Friends on his iPad, he appears utterly content until Mann bursts in on him.
"Why is your instinct to escape?" she demands.
"It's not my instinct to escape from you. It is my instinct to come into the bathroom when I need to go to the bathroom," Rudd retorts, but he knows he's been caught doing what men sometimes do: retreating into themselves, shutting their women out. As Apatow will later sum up one of the main themes of his movie for me, "Men basically want to sit still. They don't want to change. They want to hide. So if you believe in any of the _Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus _stuff, and I do, a lot of times it falls to women to be the active ones to change things. Which makes it easy to say, 'Oh, she's being a ballbuster.' "
The scene brings to mind something Mann revealed on _Late Night with Jimmy Fallon _recently: that Apatow tweets on the toilet. When I e-mail Apatow to confirm that his wife wasn't just joking, he responds: "It has happened. Not usually." Which of course makes me wonder where he was sitting when he typed that.
It's no secret that Apatow is, as he puts it, "built for guilt." When he was writing and directing The 40-Year-Old Virgin, he became fixated on the fact that the movie was Steve Carell's shot at becoming a leading man. So while making the film that would vault Carell into bona fide movie stardom, Apatow remembers his inner voice hectoring: "I hope I don't screw it up for him."
That same scolding voice piped up when Apatow sat down to write This Is 40. "Like most writers," he told me, "I don't want to start, because any type of writing creates the moment where I have to decide whether I know how to write, so I can judge myself. If I don't write, I don't have to deal with trying to figure out if I have any talent."
To get out of his own way on this film, Apatow borrowed a trick from Deadwood creator David Milch: He closed his eyes and dictated the script to a typist. Sparked by hundreds of Post-it notes he'd scribbled while brainstorming with Mann and others, he narrated about half of the script. He then retreated to Hawaii to pound out the other half. He also tried bribing himself with the promise of getting to watch David Simon's HBO series The Wire. "If I felt like we got a good hunk of pages," he says, "I would watch an episode."
Quieting that internal critic has been a longtime goal for Apatow. Once, in Thailand, Apatow took a meeting with a Buddhist monk. "He was the most nonjudgmental, middle-path person you could ever meet," he recalls of the encounter, which Shandling helped broker. "But afterwards I said to Leslie, 'I know I'm neurotic, because all I keep thinking is: I wonder if he likes me. Maybe he didn't like me.' "
Then, as now, he says, "It would be better to have less going on in my head. My entire drive is about trying to create safety and having everything be organized and thinking what could go wrong and trying to anticipate it and prevent the bad thing from happening. So I'm the opposite of Buddhist thought. I have to read so much of it to have any of it sink in."
Does he worry about how _This Is 40 _will be received? Is he thinking about what could go wrong? Apatow admitted he is. Many of the most affecting scenes are inspired by what he calls "the big soup" of his own life and the lives of friends. He says this movie, more than any other he's made, is an attempt to approach being funny in a different way. _This Is 40 _is the least structured of his films—a conscious attempt, he says, to capture the truth (about long-term relationships, ambition, financial stress, and how our parents shape our lives) through small glimpses that he wasn't sure how he was going to arrange until he got to the editing bay. A few scenes he shot several times, with actors wearing different shirts, to ensure that he would be able to stitch them in at different points when assembling the final film. Though he's gotten positive feedback from advance viewers who say it rings so true they suspect he's bugged their homes, he's also received criticism.
"One person said, 'There wasn't enough story.' But that's the whole point of the movie," he says, clearly addled by the comment. "It's not about a gigantic incident happening. It's about the normal ebb and flow of your family life and your relationship—the little moments of connecting or not connecting. And not understanding why."
Apatow has spent a lot of time thinking about how much he connects with the world, with his family, with his work. And he has realized something about filmmaking that gives him pause: It keeps him sequestered, always at a remove from the audience.
"I'm noticing that I really wish there was another part of my relationship with the crowd," he says. "It just feels weird to work on [writing] something alone, and then you're editing, and then you just chuck it out there and watch it once or twice with the audience, and then it's gone and you never feel it again. I wish it was a song I could perform." He paused. "I miss doing something where I'm interacting more with the audience. I like the idea of writing something and rewriting it every night based on how it's playing."
I sense, suddenly, that we've stumbled into the new role Apatow has decided to take on. Are you ready, Broadway? Judd Apatow is writing his first play.
"I have a great idea. Maybe like the best idea I've ever had," he says. "It requires me to create characters and situations that have absolutely nothing to do with my experience." When he reveals the idea, off the record, I can see what he means. The subject matter (all he'll let me say about it is "It's about victims of the criminal-justice system and the challenges they face") is unlike anything he's tackled before. It's not remotely autobiographical. It's complicated, relevant, political even. "I am excited to write something which has a social conscience," he e-mails me later when I push him to reveal more. "That is not something I have attempted before, and I hope I am up for the challenge."
Will it be funny? "I don't know yet," he says. "I think it will. But it might stop being funny."
Don't fret. Apatow won't stop being funny altogether. He's wired for funny. But now he's giving himself permission to ask some hard questions without worrying so much about the yucks. "You don't need awful things to happen to reach a certain age and think, 'Okay, this is my life. How did I do? Am I happy with it? Would I make a change in it? What am I fighting against?' "
This is more than existential angst, more than neurotic shtick. This is maturity. This, you might say, is 45. "You know, there's positive reasons to work and really negative reasons to work. So how much is enough? How much is too much? What projects am I doing for good reasons? In a way, you never figure it out," Apatow says. "I mean, it's the classic midlife questioning of how things have gone. To me, it's the biggest subject there is."
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New London - Planning for the recreational sports season this fall has involved more than just organizing rosters and sorting jerseys.
Several leagues, including the New London Soccer Club, New London Babe Ruth League, and New London Youth Football, have been displaced from their usual fields because of maintenance work.
"Do we have a place to call home? Not really," said Jason Pointkowski, president of New London Youth Football. "We've been displaced since we were kicked out of Mercer [Field] six years ago."
Calkins Park, Sal Amanti Field, and the high school athletic complex are all being renovated this year, pushing teams to fields that are more congested, less maintained, and in some cases, not designed for the sports now being played on them.
The issue has brought to light the constraints faced by a public works department that is responsible for more than 20 parks and 400 acres of property but has seen significant staffing and funding cuts in recent years.
"For me, it seems to be largely a matter of resources stretched too thin to accomplish what is needed to support programming in a timely manner," Steve Smith, president of the New London Soccer Club, wrote in an email.
Although some of the fields are scattered with holes and empty patches, Public Works, Parks and Recreation, and league volunteers have worked to secure playable areas and maintain the tradition of youth recreation.
As the city has undergone budget cuts, the Parks and Grounds Maintenance Division of New London's Public Works Department has been hit hard. In 2004 it had 10 employees but today there is six. The three or four seasonal workers, who would work from Memorial Day to the end of September, are also gone, while overtime has been cut from $54,000 in 2011-12 to $20,000 in the current fiscal year.
The six employees are responsible for preparing, mowing and maintaining the fields, litter and debris collection, trees and vegetation management, playground and fence maintenance, and custodial services for the city's parks, roadway medians, and other grassy areas. According to Tim Hanser, director of public works, the department requested an increase in staffing from the city for the past two budget cycles but was denied.
"For some of the work, there just isn't enough hours in the day to get it done," Hanser said.
Anna Stefanski, secretary of New London Babe Ruth, said that "when it comes to safety issues, they work on it as soon as possible."
Calkins Park, whose two fields are home to Saturday morning youth soccer and competitive travel leagues, is being expanded to four soccer fields. The city will also redo the baseball diamond, work on the exterior of the buildings, create two wetland buffer zones, and install a new irrigation system.
Although the plan was first presented to the city two years ago, renovations did not begin until May and are slated to be finished by June 2014. The estimated $670,000 project is being bonded by the city. The work was delayed by a wet spring, making it difficult to start treating the surface, said Bill Camosci, assistant director of engineering services for the city.
"Once we get Calkins back on board it will alleviate some of the congestion," Camosci said.
Since some of the usual fields are closed for renovations, the Parks and Recreation Department had to designate different spaces for the teams to use. While Calkins is under construction, the department suggested for the leagues to use the fields at Harbor School, Nathan Hale, and Toby May.
"There are some people like Parks and Rec, especially [Tommie] Major who make sure no matter what obstacles happen, we have a place to play," Pointkowski said.
Hanser described Harbor and Nathan Hale as "ad-hoc" fields for the city's recreation leagues.
But Smith said he was disappointed by the quality of those fields after he walked through them and noticed holes and uneven spots.
"To be quite frank some of the fields aren't intended for sports use. [Harbor is] part of the playground for a school that has not been maintained for years," Hanser said.
Hanser said it is challenging to transform a playground into an athletic field.
For instance, Toby May was not designed as a soccer field, but the city put in field lines and repaired some holes to adjust it for the league's use.
"That's basically a softball field, and we fit in a soccer field," said Dave Denoia, parks and ground maintenance manager.
Frustrated by the condition of the fields and the limited space, Smith said he also looked for other options. The Saturday morning soccer league typically requires more space for the three age divisions. Therefore, Smith looked for large facilities and found hope in the fields at The Williams School.
A miscommunication between the league and the school temporarily left the team to think they had to pay for using the fields. The parents considered raising funds and later look for reimbursement from the city
But after realizing that Smith was requesting use of the fields for teams from New London, The Williams School waived the fees.
Other displaced leagues in the city are using the Parks and Recreation's department designated spaces. Youth football, which previously used the high school athletic complex, will be using fields at Bates Woods, and Babe Ruth will be using Mercer Field instead of Sal Amanti.
"The kids don't care. It's like a field trip for them. They just want to play football," Pointkowski said.
Pointkowski, whose season started on Sunday, said the youth football league is supported by coaches, players, and families who are what he described as "resilient."
"We'll just make do. We've been making do for a couple of years now. The coaches and the kids make it work. We're just going to play football," Pointkowski said.
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|2009-05-09, 19:22
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I got a different option which I haven't tested yet. My dvd player is a little unique. If I pause and eject disc, it should do the trick of saving game at that paused point. However, it doesn't always work or perhaps, I have never tried it before.
If that doesn't work, I will follow your instructions.
|2009-08-14, 04:56
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I play the game with Windows Media Player, open the notepad and write chapter numbers from the right side of the player whenever it changes. That way, you can jump around once you complete that certain path.
A shame tough that I didn't get that idea while I was playing through Claudia's path so that I only have numbers on Ein' path, Cal's path, Mio's path and the chapter numbers when certain endings start,
|2009-08-14, 07:57
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I played the game and I'm getting the feeling that the anime will have this kind of ending...
I wouldn't be surprised since from the anime I'v seen produced by BeeTrain, I get the feeling they always prefer a female-character ending or something like that.
|2009-08-14, 15:34
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Spoiler for ending discussion:
|2009-08-15, 00:03
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I totally forgotten about this thread.. Currently, I have 11 passwords and is somewhat around Episode 11 of the anime surprisingly. Since I last played it over a week ago, I don't really remember where was I in the game..
|2009-08-23, 14:14
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Hell it was a hassle to get it to work properly. It would work fine at first, then I would get no pictures just sounds.
I tried window media player 9, Media Center, Window Media Center, and VLC. All had the same problem
Power DVD finally solved that problem, but still have some subs synchronization problems but atleast its playable at this point.
|2009-08-31, 13:03
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I get the feeling that the animation studio will decide an ending that is either a mix of the ones available or create their own original. Considering that there were over 10 endings.. It could possibly be anything.
On the contrary, since I haven't get that far in the visual novel. I guess I will support Nayrael's view as that you have completed the visual novel multiple times.^^
|2009-09-11, 13:50
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Looking at the spoiler screens on official blog, there is 0 doubt at what ending the anime has taken.
Spoiler for Don't click unless you want to spoil the ending of anime:
And again, I hope we get other Chapter 3 en dings in forms of OVA's and Claudia's route in chapter 2 in form of a movie.
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|2009-09-11, 18:59
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There's one image in particular that seems to indicate the above, yes, but even though that was always the most likely ending scenario I wonder if it will play out just like in the game. This seems too predictable.
They might well try to add another twist to the mix either right before or after those events. At least in my personal opinion, it would seem rather anti-climatic to spoil the entire ending on the blog and suddenly remove the feeling of tension and anticipation. When there's still another episode left I wouldn't rule out some surprises, even if that may just be a matter of details.
As for seeing the rest of the endings...I'm not sure there's much of a chance for BeeTrain to make OVAs or even a movie, unless the series happens to be financially viable for them. That seems to be in doubt at the moment, going by ratings and more importantly DVD sales, though I could always be completely wrong.
But to throw a crazy thought out there, they might make an additional DVD-only episode or something similar.
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|2009-09-27, 19:59
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So wait.. this plays like a DVD menu type thing? I thought it was just on a DVD disc burned as data and is installed like a normal game. I'm confused.
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|2009-09-28, 16:40
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DVDPG thing (like, meant to play with your remote control... but 'works' on PC too...)
A pain in the ass...
One need to be very into the story to endure playing it like this
|2009-12-06, 00:05
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I posted in my blog explaining how to run the Phantom of Inferno DVD in Media Player Classic.
http://imaginedpoetry.blogspot.com/2...no-in-mpc.html(Not technically safe for work, but nothing worse than gore or fanservice yet)
Long story short, Install MPC and PowerDVD9, then set MPC to use the filters from PDVD9 when running a DVD. Best solution for Phantom I've found yet, and it continues to work long after PDVD9s trial period.
|2010-01-17, 23:53
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The game has decent music, but it's pretty low budget. Same with the art imo. Except in a few cases that is, Lizzie is one (growing on me surprisingly!), but I also don't like game Ein's blue spandex, nor Scythe Master's exaggerated germaness.
Nayrael, do you know if there's any content in the remake other than new designs?
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