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Interview: Judd Apatow of 'This Is 40'
'The one thing I've learned, and maybe the most important lesson? Live near your kids school.'
After the successes of 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin' and 'Knocked Up' -- and the interesting but less-sucessful 'Funny People' -- Judd Apatow has made what may be his most personal film yet in 'This is 40," with Paul Rudd playing a father and husband and Leslie Mann (Apatow's wife) playing his wife and Maude and Iris Apatow -- their children -- playing Rudd and Mann's kids. We spoke with Apatow in Los Angeles about everything, pretty much -- including editing, comedy, picking New Wave artists to celebrate and mock, "Anchorman 2" and the sequel crisis and much more.
MSN Movies: What I'm curious about is, when you hit 40 you always get that first illness or medical mishap after that sends you scurrying into panic because not only are you unwell, you're 40. Did you have one of those?
Judd Apatow: Well, I had one of those when I was 34, which was I had a herniated disc, and it hurt. I had to have surgery on my back. And the day I had the surgery on my back Leslie was in New York shooting a movie, making out with Jeff Goldblum. Now that doesn't make you feel good.
That doesn't make you feel good? First of all…
Not when you're in the hospital.
And Jeff Goldblum has fully working vertebrae, so that's two things up on you really.
Is that always telling, when you get your first note from the universe that the warranty runs out, that mileage adds up?
That's true, but luckily I don't exercise that much so I haven't worn anything out. I feel like my lack of exercise has paid off now, 'cause my joints have not been injured by playing sports.
"Mint condition, slightly larger package." That's how I'm operating.
When you're around the house, because so much of this stuff seems predicated on personal experience and personal interaction, when you and Miss. Mann are fighting as all couples do ... the question is how you resolve it. At any point do either of you say, "You cannot write about this. This is not write-about-able. This cannot be polished into a funny story"?
Leslie never says that. She goes farther. She goes, "Let's do it again, topless." That's her motto, I think.
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So you want to put your fights into the screen, and she just wants to do multiple takes when you argue.
She doesn't mind at all. She wants it to be truthful so she'll go all the way.
As long as it's balanced. She wants it to be that Pete and Debbie are equally flawed and equally great. She doesn't want you to leave the movie and think Pete's right or Debbie's right. She just wants it to be balanced.
Mr. Rudd of course plays Pete. And, I mean, he's playing opposite your wife and playing opposite your kids. How much of Pete is you? How much of it is a hybrid sort of Rudd-Apatow? And how much of it is just completely fictional?
Well, it does become it's own beast.
'Cause it is the worse of me and Paul. A little of the good, but mainly the bad because the movie is about the moment where they got to have a meltdown from spinning too many plates. But luckily Paul is so likable that he can get away with it.
Whenever I want to complain about my life, the things I do, difficulties, I just imagine a coal miner punching me in the stomach for two hours. He has a name. His name is Mordecai. Do you ever think about, do you have the equivalent of a coal miner when you're bemoaning that you can't get parking for your SUV? Do you just picture…
What do I do to feel, like, appreciate life?
What do you do for a little dose of perspective?
I have a lot of stuff. I'll go coal miner. I'll say, sometimes I'll think diamond miner.
Or any kind of miner really is helpful to appreciate things. I'm like "Take a breath, everything's fine, it's not a big deal." I have other examples, but they're so hard. My examples are gory.
Bone grinder for a glue factory?
They're bad.
You made "Funny People," which was a great, strong, really overlooked film featuring Adam Sandler as a comic who wants to improve his life. That film did not do so well when Mr. Sandler went back to "Jack and Jill," "That's My Boy." How culpable do you feel?
Well, I think Adam's always going to do a mix of hard comedies and then different kinds of dramas or drama comedies, and a lot of the guys like him and Jim Carrey and Will Ferrell, they're going to do all different kinds of movies. But I think it is important for the funniest guys in the world to try and make you laugh your ass off, so I fully support all of his endeavors.
There's a famous observation from Tolstoy that happy families alike but unhappy families are all unhappy in their own way.
There's also the William Goldman observation that the most boring film in the world would be "The Village of the Happy People."
That's right. (Laughs)
When you have a film like this, which has characters drawn from life, which has no situation per se, which is just about time's arrrow moving in one direction, is it important to focus on externalizing all the stuff that would normally go on over years or decades for a family?
I did think that this was about a week where everything came out, but I do believe that's how it usually goes, which is you hold in things for years and then it spills out fast and bloody. So one thing that Garry Shandling said to me when we were working at "Larry Sanders" was, "People rarely say what they mean, and when they do say it, it is a huge deal." Most people are not being honest with you almost all the time, and that's a little bit of what this is about. You try to get along with your extended family. You put on a good face. You don't say the thing that annoys you. You don't get to the heart of the real problems, and then it festers, something happens, and it blows. And so I thought this will be the week that all their plate spinning, of all their responsibilities crashes in.
The other thing was, I mean you wanted to write a movie about people turning 40. When you get an idea like that is it like a sudden lightening bolt or is it a process of accrual?
I didn't think ... the original idea wasn't about them turning 40. I just thought I want to write about this time. I like the scenes with Pete and Debbie in "Knocked Up." I wasn't think about making a spin-off of "Knocked Up," but I knew that what I was experiencing as a man in his 40's with two girls was interesting. And so I started thinking about that, and then very quickly I thought, "Oh, it's Pete and Debbie." And it would be really interesting to see Maude and Iris five years later. Maude is a teenager now, but in the last movie she didn't even understand how babies were made. That's how quickly life changes. You see a movie where the family in the movie is mainly a real family, so when they look mad at each other they're really mad. When they look like they love each other, they really love each other. I felt like we're going to get details and specifics of behavior that you can't get from actors, unless it's "Beasts of the Southern Wild." (Laughs)
Well, your approach seems half documentarian and half evil puppet master.
... In that you're like chucking Mr. Rudd in with three-quarters of your family and saying, "You will represent someone like me."
"Me. No beard."
"Possibly less frivolous in the bathroom."
Yes. (Laughs)
Is that something where you have a relationship with him where you can just pitch him and go, "We're doing this. Are you back in?"
Yes, because how I work is I don't write a script and try to get the team together. I get the team together before I even start writing. I'll say to everyone, "Okay, I'm going to start writing, summer of '11 we're going to make this. Let's all organize that." Because I want to be talking to all the actors during the writing process and telling them all my ideas. I'm calling everyone constantly, "What do you think about this scene? What do you think about that?" People have ideas. "Oh, you know what just happened with me and my wife? You know what fight we just got into?" And that all works its way into the script. And then as soon as I have a script, we rehearse it and read it out loud. And as soon as Leslie and Paul started reading, I instantly get a feel of what to do. I like to see things on their feet. I come from television where you read the script and then you go in another room with all the writers and you go, "Okay, how was that? Let's fix it." And I try to get to that as soon as I can.
And then of course, on TV you go out and you shoot it maybe once or twice before you move on.
Well, in TV well it depends on the show. I mean when we did "Freaks and Geeks" we improvised a little bit, but you're moving very fast. In movies I schedule it so there's some play there. If I'm shooting a big fight scene between Paul and Leslie we're taking an entire day just to get a couple of pages, and I have a lot of ideas prepared and options and then we give them a few movements to improv runs at it. so I never wind up in the editing room with no options. That's my biggest fear: I'm in the editing room, I hate something in the scene, and there's no way to fix it. That's my nightmare.
And so you just shoot as much as you can: "This, peeled off properly, will be a Band-Aid for this scene. "
Absolutely 'cause it's so hard to get to the set. So say you have an entire day to shoot this fight. You are thinking, "What else could I ever need?" So if there's a line that's really mean I might think, "Wow, that's mean. It's good, but maybe it's too mean. What would be the softer version of that? What if I need a laugh in here 'cause it's getting too tense? Let's do a couple of lines that might break the tension if the crowd just can't tolerate the level of intensity." And I do that for every scene.
I was talking to somebody defending many of your films and saying that an Apatow film at its best is like a really, really good steak in that it's perfectly marbled. The fat is the flavor, it's in with the muscle, it melts through when you grill it. I'm getting hungry now. But, I mean the fat is the flavor.
These films work, as long as they are.
Do you ever say to yourself, "Man it's getting a little greasy"? Like, do you have a sense of when and how to edit?
I do, but I feel like when you go to the movies, it's so hard to get there. It's always funny that everyone always wants to rush out to leave. I mean it costs you a hundred bucks to have dinner and twenty bucks to park and the tickets are like ten to twelve bucks now, and popcorn is insanely expensive. Then everyone's like "That movie was long." Like, really? It was kind of hard to get out of the house. You don't have ten more minutes to spend with these people who you like?
You showered, you put on clothing, you covered your sores, you should just go out and enjoy the world.
I talked to Harold Ramis about that once and he said, "You know, when you take a little extra time with your characters, you're also telling the audience they're worthy of your time." And I think that's true. I always shorten the movie to see what happens. so this movie is two hours and 13 minutes, but I'll cut it to one-hour-and-fifty to just see what happens. Like, am I crazy for thinking I need this extra time? And then I'll look at it and I'll realize I just lost so much character depth. So many details are gone, and the movie isn't as good. But that's my personal taste. I love "The Sopranos." I'm glad that there are 80 of them or 60 of them. I don't think I wish there was one of them. So this is the only time you're going to see these people. Whatever it is, it's a half hour shorter than "The Hobbit." That's my ultimate reply.
Right. "Zero Dark Thirty" happens as fast as a stroke.
And "The Hobbit" was longer than my university years so. Graham Parker…
Is it the fact that he has a great track record and clearly a sense of humor about himself that got him this job, or did Graham Parker get this job as he got so many other jobs, because Joe Jackson and Elvis Costello weren't available?
(Laughs) The funny thing is that Graham Parker came out before Joe Jackson and Elvis Costello. He was out in 1974 and…
C'mon, he had Brinsley Schwarz in the band…
Exactly. They played last night at The Roxy. And Lindsey Buckingham and Ryan Adams opened up for them and it was a really amazing show. But Graham, I mean I've been a big fan of Graham for a long time, but as someone who started out in television and had shows cancelled really quickly and the shows became cult shows, I always have an affinity for people who I think do amazing work who don't reach a larger audience. And so a guy like Graham who's put out amazing records for the last forty years at this point, and he's not selling records at the rate that Rihanna is, but he deserves to be heard by a lot more people. I thought, "That's an interesting thing to put in a movie. A guy who owns a record company who's trying to say these guys have value and they're making great albums and you should continue to buy them." I like that idea 'cause that's how I feel about Loudon Wainwright and 100 other people. And Graham has a great sense of humor so he didn't mind that the movie made fun of his inability…
... or his bunions.
Yeah. He didn't mind the movie made fun of how old he is, his inability to sell out records because he we were satirizing the whole music industry 'cause no one really sells records anymore, other than like 20 people. Everyone else is really struggling. And as a result of kind of allowing us to really goof on him in the movie, his record's selling really well, and he's on a sold-out tour. So it actually has had the inverse effect for him.
I have his Best Of on vinyl where he does a cover of "I Want You Back."
Oh, he played that last night; he closed the show with it.
That's some great stuff, but I mean when you're writing it do you come up with a name or do you just think to yourself "Insert new wave performer?"
I didn't write the name, but partially because I was so excited to make that choice. I knew that we would have a lot of fun with that person. And then I asked a friend of mine who has a record label, "Who should this be?" And we made lists, and then he called back. He said, "Go to Graham Parker's website. He has a blog on there." And on the blog he was talking about how he was hoping that more of his music would be in movies and television shows. And then in parentheses it said, "Are you out there, Judd Apatow?" And I took that as a sign from the rock gods that it was meant to be. So I took him out to lunch and he was really funny and self-effacing and I told him about it, and he laughed and told me all of these record company nightmares he's been through. And he's a really good actor, too. He has a funny voice and a funny presence.
It's like an interesting demeanor of being your coolest uncle.
Exactly, yeah. When you're trying to make him look cool and he's wearing a hat with the Oreo logo on it…
Was that in fact his hat, or was that…
No, it's my hat actually. (Laughs)
That really was actually your hat?
I have that hat. I thought, "I think it'd be funny to put him in that hat."
How do you hope this movie will play with people who don't know what (upscale Hollywood grocery store) Gelson's is? How do you hope it will play outside of a specific L.A. social milieu?
What's funny is a couple of people said, "This is a movie about the west side of LA," and I traveled around the country. I did a different city every day so we went through Toronto, Chicago, Phoenix, Dallas, and Philly, and when you show it they think it's their town. Because in the movie we don't even mention, we didn't even say the word California. I think if you live here you go, "I know that street! It's San Vicente." But there are no details of show business. It's just he has this mini record label that's bombing, and he rides a bike for exercise, which is a very a very west L.A. thing to do. But I'm sure if you went to other cities there are plenty of other people in Livestrong outfits.
No, most people in other cities just ride bicycles for work or as punishment.
(Laughs) Or as punishment, yes. So I actually think it applies that unless you live here, you think it's about the Westside, but there's no details if you really broke down the details that are specific to that. It's just she works out with a trainer, which people do in places around the country. It's not like there's only trainers on the Westside. And he rides a bike.
Nic Cohn said that generation to generation, nothing changes in Bohemia. Could you say the same about the petite bourgeois of the suburbs? You just want to get a slightly bigger house and do right by your kids?
I think so. I mean, your goal is to have a nice home in a neighborhood where there's some nice kids and families. And I always try to get the house to get as close to the school as possible. That's the one thing I've learned as a parent and maybe the most important lesson -- don't live far away from the school because you have to drive there too many times a day. You can make your whole world work perfectly and make that mistake, and your life is a living hell. So if you print that, you're going to change lives.
Are there any other things like that you want to pass on? That's good.
I think that's a good one. That's my best advice. But that is what the movie's about, which is we're all so worried that we're doing it wrong. Like am I screwing up my kids? Am I screwing up my marriage? Am I eating too many cupcakes? Am I going to have a heart attack? And we're running like 200 things we're supposed to do correctly, and at some point your realize there's not enough time in the day to even deal with all these questions. And every once in awhile you just go, "F**k it." (Laughs) You just fall apart.
Do you want the life where you get things done sloppily then move forward or do you want the life of overcontemplated perfection where nothing ever happens?
Well Steven Bochco, I love Steven Bochco and I was asking him for advice before I started shooting "Freaks and Geeks" 'cause he's one of my heroes, and he said this pertaining to the show, but I take it for life. Which is that he said, "You will never have enough time and money to do everything correctly, so you have to accept that or you'll drive yourself crazy. Because making television is putting 10 pounds of s**t in an eight-pound bag. And you're never going to get it exactly right. And if you're okay with that you're going to be a happy person." And I think that's exactly true of life. There's just not enough hours in the day. I should be flossing right now. I have not been on the elliptical today. I have moles that are ... unnatural that need to be looked at by doctors. I need to help my kid with her math. I need to go out on date night. I could list for an hour everything that I don't have scheduled.
I got a deep cleaning on half of my teeth like months ago and I couldn't do a follow up. Now I feel like my head's lopsided just from plaque unremoved on the left.
Yeah, even now I think I should whiten my teeth, I don't have a couple of hours, I may wait a couple years.
Is it wrong that I still wonder about what Romany Malco, Seth Rogen, and Paul Rudd are up to in the back store of the electronic superstore place, that when I drive by it I think if they're there?
I know. I drive by that place too once in awhile in the valley. That could be the next spin-off.
But then you'd have horrible confusion because of double Rudd.
Then you do crossover movies. You cross them all over. It's like when "The Critic" visited "The Simpsons." (Laughs)
In a Hollywood where people are obsessed with these ludicrous franchise films where you just add a roman numeral to it and guaranteed one profitable quarter for your company, how hard is it to stay out of that? I mean I know you guys are doing "Anchorman 2" out of love and laughs more than anything else.
Well, we always knew we would do another "Anchorman" even when we were shooting the first one.
When you shot the first one, you made enough to shoot a second one.
Exactly, we had a second one. There's some scenes in the second one that are funnier than anything in the first one in the deleted scenes film that he created. But we thought there are anchormen for a long time. You could do a sequel when they're in their 70's and it would be funny. So we always wanted to do that. I don't get a lot of pressure to do sequels. If anything I want to do them because I do look at it like they're episodes of a TV series. So I'm mad that no one wanted to do the "Superbad" sequel but me. I instantly said, "Let's take them to college." I want to know what happens to these guys, and everyone said, "No. The movie's perfect. Let's not mess with it."
Nobody said to you, "The 40 Year Old Parent."
(Laughs) No one has said that yet. But the idea of spin offs I like. We spun of "Get Them To the Greek" from "Forgetting Sarah Marshall." Whenever there's a great character I always want to check in on them and see what they're doing. We could do…
Ten years, another film about Tom Petty-face kid?
Exactly. Why not? (Laughs).
And the horrible burden he has to bear? Who are the people you would most love to work with and haven't had the chance to yet? Or is that like asking you to like taint the hypothetical by naming it?
It's everybody. I have to start with an idea and then think who would fit? I didn't think I have to make a movie with Albert Brooks. I thought of the story and then thought who could play it, and I was so happy to realize that is a great part for Albert Brooks. So that's usually how it happens.
As somebody who bestrides America comedy like a colossus of bronze, what one funny thing this year was off the radar, that not enough people saw in terms of a film or a book that your really loved that not enough people went ape for, and if they could learn this as they learn to live close to the school you've done your work?
I'll say there is a Maria Bamford standup comedy special that just came out that she sells on, I forgot the name of the website .... she is a woman who makes me laugh harder than almost anybody. You have to see it. She does a lot of voices and characters, and it's super absurd and weird, and I'm dead inside. I don't laugh hard at almost anything, and she makes me laugh really hard. Maria Bamford.
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Buses to switch back to 20 minute service during peak hours
It looks as if Guelph's bus service will be switching back to 20 minute service during peak hours.
GUELPH — It looks as if Guelph's bus service will be switching back to 20 minute service during peak hours.
Buses have been operating on a 15-minute frequency during peak hours, but are having trouble keeping up, causing many passengers to miss connecting buses.
Guelph Transit's own data shows roughly 25 per cent of connections are being missed because there is insufficient time to complete routes during peak times of day.
At the Dec. 17 meeting of Guelph City Council, Guelph Transit staff will recommend to council that bus service switch to 20-minute intervals. If approved, the change will take place Feb 3.
"Customer service is a key focus for the City of Guelph and a priority for Guelph Transit. We recognize the current schedule is not serving the needs and expectations of the community," Guelph Transit general manager Michael Anders said in a news release.
Road construction, traffic congestion and weather are all making it difficult to meet the 15-minute schedule, particularly between the busiest times of 8:15 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Thirty-minute service will continue during nonpeak times.
The recommended change comes almost a year after the implementation of the Transit Growth Strategy, which called for new routes and schedules to improve efficiency and offer better, more direct and more frequent service.
Since the 15-minute schedule took effect last January, there have been complaints from riders regarding route timing, missed transfers and connections.
The news release said that staff's recommendation to switch to 20 minute peak service and continue 30 minute off-peak service is "in direct response feedback from riders and operators and in the interest of improving customer service."
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GOP makes a pushOctober 11,2012Republicans are making a concerted drive to have more members of their party elected to the Vermont Legislature. The effort displays a level of sophistication and use of technology that I havent seen very often before in this state from any part, leading up to the General Election in November.
A letter came to my house in Rutland with the heading Vermonters First. The subtitle was Restoring Balance. The balance it refers to is having more Republicans in the Legislature. Tayt Brooks signed the letter as treasurer of the organization.
There was a space where I was encouraged to vote for Larry C. Cupoli for state representative. Cupoli is the Republican candidate for the House in my election district. The Democratic incumbent is Margaret Andrews.
Now my House district votes at Christ the King School. And practically every household in the district got the same letter. What that means is that Vermonters First obtained a copy of the voter checklist for the district voting at Christ the King. The checklist includes the addresses of the voters.
The bulk of the letter reflected the general dissatisfaction often felt by people toward government policies and expenses. Specifically, the letter spoke disparagingly of Gov. Peter Shumlins ideas about health care, but didnt mention him by name, leaving the impression that all Democrats favor such a thing.
The letter began: As you know, Democrats currently control the governors office, treasurers office, attorney generals office, secretary of states office and hold veto-proof majorities in both chambers of the Legislature. Its no wonder they arent listening to the needs of average Vermonters ....
The idea being broached is that having more Republicans will restore what the letter implies was balance when the parties were more evenly split.
My recollection of conditions when one party held the governorship and the other party held the Legislature was not so much balance as deadlock.
Meanwhile, the Vermonters First letter contained an application for an absentee ballot. It had my name and address typed in and a check mark in the box specifying the November General Election. There was an envelope with the name and address of City Clerk Henry Heck typed in, and I was asked to fill out the absentee application and use the envelope to mail it in.
A few days after the letter arrived I got a telephone call with a recorded voice asking me to vote for Cupoli for the House.
It is hardly likely that the ward where I live is the only precinct in Vermont where such an effort is being made to urge election of Republican candidates. It is quite clear that a number of districts where a Democratic incumbent is being challenged by a Republican are being treated in the same manner. This implies the acquisition of many different checklists and the arranging of mailing lists so that only people in a specific House district are given the name of the Republican challenger. It would be a waste of effort for people in a district near Bennington to be urged to vote for the GOP candidate in my district. So the different checklist addresses and candidate names have to be organized in the mechanism that produces such a mailing so as not to overlap.
Computer technology has reached the state where such a condition can be achieved. But to my knowledge it has not been done to such an extent in Vermont politics heretofore and indicates a much more elaborate and extensive expenditure than has usually been the case here.
It will be interesting to see how many more requests for absentee ballots are received by the various clerks who are in charge of General Election balloting.
Also, if human nature is any guide, many of the absentee ballots that are sent in will come from people who are inclined to agree with what Vermonters First has said. So what we are likely to see as a result will be an increase in the number of Republicans in the Vermont House. Maybe not a total majority, but at least a larger minority. And since the ballots also list the candidates for statewide office, my guess is that the elections for those offices will be closer than some have predicted up to now.
I had marked the end of this essay when the mail delivered a flier from Vermonters First with a St. Albans P.O. box return address but a Connecticut postmark. The flier contained two absentee ballot applications and a line urging a vote for the Republican House candidate from my district, mentioning him by name. This leads to a question: Given the sophistication of this concentrated and complicated effort, where is the money coming from?
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The Secret Service sent out a request for information for surveillance equipment that can locate the source of a gunshot.
The Secret Service may be in the market for surveillance equipment that can detect gunshots.
A Jan. 18 request for information for the Department of Homeland Security and the Secret Service says the agencies are "seeking information on commercially available gunshot detection technologies for fixed site surveillance applications."
The request specifies that the agencies would need gunshot detection for tens to hundreds of acres within urban areas. They also request a gunshot detection rate over 95 percent.
Gunshot detection equipment is nothing new. A May 28 New York Times article detailed similar technology being used by an increasing number of cities. According to the article, technology like ShotSpotter is allowing cities to pinpoint the source of gunfire seconds after it occurs.
But ShotSpotter and similar systems have encountered controversy. The Times article cited the expense of the systems and noted that other noises, like loud arguments, can mistakenly get picked up and recorded.
The Secret Service's request specifies that the agency does not want outside parties monitoring any potential gunshot detection system. The request does not promise that the Secret Service will definitely invest in gunshot detection, but says a request for proposals from companies who make detection technology is "anticipated."
According to its website, the Secret Service protects the president, vice president, former presidents and visiting heads of state, as well as the families of those they protect. The agency also provides security for events like the presidential inauguration.
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Forgive him for what? For being a dick the last few days? For having aged issues? For what?!? So many ideas rushed through my mind but I didn't voice the anger within, he was too injured for me to have a go at, and the amount of times he'd helped me out when I was broken stood up for me.
"Forgive you for what?" more bitterness seeped out that I'd have liked, he notice, his face dropped again. Suddenly he coughed, blood dripping out of his mouth. "OK, we'll talk later, let's get you to hospital first. I think you might have broken a rib." I stood up and started to move across the room to grab my coat.
"No!" Gerard grabbed my wrist, dragging me back to stand in front of him. "Rhianne, you need to know what I did you need to forgive me!" his eyes were begging me to agree so I knelt down on the floor in front of him and nodded. "I didn't mean to shout, or get angry at you, or act like a total dick! Rhianne I got angry at myself! I find it hard to cope with the fact that some bastard touched you! Not because I feel dirty, god no. The fact that I can't understand what you must feel is the worst part! The fact that I could have prevented it; if I hadn't of taken you to that party, if I hadn't left you alone outside! Don't you see?! It's all my fault!" he sobbed and put his head in his hands, painfully rocking back a forward.
"Oh Gee," I sighed, gently rubbing my hand up and down his arm. "It's okay, please don't cry. Gee, look at me." he shook his head and continued sobbing. "Gerard, please." he shook his head again. I exhaled deeply and stood up, walking to the bedroom and found another shirt for Gee to wear.
"RHI?!? OH GOD RHI HELP ME!" the was a thump from where the sofa was, I ran out of the bedroom to find Gee slumped on the floor.
"Gerard?!? GERARD!" I screamed and ran over to him, checking his pulse and pulling him up into my arms, rocking him back and forth. "Gerard, wake up! Please wake up!" I sobbed.
The door was kicked down, Bob was standing behind it in just his Captain Underpants boxers with ray behind him, who was also only in his boxers, this time they were pink, and glittery.
"Oh SHIT!" Bob ran forward, Ray running out of the threshold to the room across the hall, Mikey's. Bob was checking Gerard's pulse when Mikey ran in, wide-eyed, Ray followed, on a mobile to what sounded like the emergency services.
Bob tried to make me release Gerard from my grip. In the end it took Mikey, Ray and Bob to release him, Ray took me into the bedroom and sat on the bed with me while I cried, I heard the paramedics arrive, so I quickly undid my robe and slipped on some jeans and one of Gerard's t-shirts, not caring about Ray being in the room. I walked out the bedroom and saw the medics loading Gee onto a stretcher.
"Who found him?" the female medic asked.
"I did." I whispered "I woke up and he was all bloody and panting so I cleaned him up and just left to get a clean top so I could drive him to Emergency and then he screamed for me... And then... And then..." I cut off, burying my head in a bewildered rays chest. The Paramedic nodded and helped the other one strap Gee to the stretcher and apply breathing equipment to his face.
"What's wrong with him?" Mikey asked the question we all wanted to know.
"We think he has internal bleeding, he's received a hard blow to the stomach. A scan at hospital can confirm this." she explained as her and the other medic lifted up the stretcher and began to move out the door.
"Can Rhi come in the ambulance with you?" Mikey asked the medic nodded and carried on out the door.
"No Mikey, you go, he's you brother. We'll follow in the car." I whispered as Mikey took my arm and lead me down the hall in tow with the medics. He shook his head and pushed me in the lift.
"Gerard loves you, he'd want you to be there. Don't tell Evie and Frank just yet, let them have their honeymoon. See you at the hospital."
Before I could reply the elevator doors closed and we made our way down to the reception.
As we got to the hospital Gerard was transferred onto a bed, he was wheeled down the corridor, I was having to run to keep up, we were taken into a room where they began stripping Gerard to his boxers, I winced as I saw the ever bigger and now black bruise that had spread across the whole of his chest and part of his torso. I blushed as they pulled off his suit trousers, revealing a small hickey on his hip from last night, the doctor looked up at me and smirked at me but said nothing. They started doing tests, sticking an IV in his hand and checking his heart beat and a load of other tests that were far to complicated to understand. I just stood there like a spare part, silently sobbing as the doctors worked. I was ushered out of the room by a surgeon.
"Right, Miss Aarons, Mr Way has internal bleeding. We need to get him into surgery right away. I need the contact details of his parents. And I need to know what happened." my heart sank, internal bleeding was bad, so was telling his parents.
"Do they have to know?"
"Yes Miss Aarons, by law we have to tell his next of kin."
"What about his brother? He's on his way, will he do?"
"No, it needs to be his parent. That is final. I need to know what happened Miss Aarons."
"I don't know, I woke up when he came in, and he was already hurt, he wouldn't tell me what happened. I cleaned him up then I went to get him a clean shirt so I could drive him to Emergency and them he screamed out for me, so I ran out of the room and he was on the floor." I sobbed and placed my hand over my face.
"Miss Aarons, you need to say goodbye now Mr Way needs urgent surgery." I looked up and nodded. I walked over to the bed where Gee's wired up body lay and placed my hand on his.
"See you soon sugar, I love you so much. See you when you wake up." with that I stroked his cheek and kissed his forehead. As they were about to wheel him out the others burst in, I left them to say their goodbyes while I called Gerard's mum.
"Hello, Way residents."
"Mrs Way?" my voice broke as I spoke, giving away that something was wrong.
"Rhianne, is everything alright? What's the matter dear?"
"It's Gerard" she sharply breathed in down the receiver. "He's been attacked, he went out for a while, after... It doesn't matter. But he's in theatre, he has internal bleeding." there was a sob and Donna called Donald. I heard her explain the story throughout broken sobs and began to cry myself.
"Thank you for telling us, we'll get in touch through Mikey's cell later." with that she hung up, and I joined the others in the waiting room.
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SundayRoast says:
Faster Suzuki get racing the faster the replica street bike GSXR version gets launched so that some street punishment can be enacted. Get racing now.
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what a wanka you are.......so u think a 50yr old bloke riding a bike he's never ridden before gets within 10 seconds a lap of marquez is so slow a sun dial is needed to to time him?....as I said your a wanka who has no respect for one of the greatest racers of all time
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Good comments GSXR1969. Couldn't agree more. Nobody is saying Schwantz is the test rider, he's just taking the thing for a spin, which is his right as a MotoGP world champ for suzuki. He can do what he likes. I also think he was very modest saying he has never seen anyway ride a bike like MM before because I have and it was Kevin himself back in 1988 or thereabouts when he was winning MotoGP races on an underpowered dog of a Suzuki that his team mates struggled to get in the top ten!
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agreed simoncbr1000 i now understand about his juvenile reply hes put his age after his namewhat a plonker
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What was the point in MCN posting Schwantz' time and comparing it with Marquez ?
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LOL love your reaction chaps ,but simon do you really have three hundred quids worrh ot honda and i'm valuing it by the weight,and may c does that mean you are a hundred years old and senile?,thanks for the quips but you both know Kevin is an attention seeking has been and maybe the sun dial was harsh but amend that to an egg timer,get real you pair of jerks Nostalgia is one thing nuralgia is another nfck off
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The bloke is fast. He's a former world champion. He can jump on a modern MotoGP bike and lap within 6 seconds of the slowest GP rider. No mean feat. He loves bikes and just keeps going. Total respect for the Suzuka 8 hours.. that takes dedication.. However he's not the most humble of blokes and a dose of humility wouldn't go amiss. Still, when you think Dorna owes you a favor....
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A lot of people are alive today because of ECMO, a heart lung machine that breaths for a baby who can't do that on his own yet.
Normally, it's a temporary fix to allow babies time to develop, but it's not just for babies, and temporary can be a long time.
Until this week, 6-year-old Cameron Ulrich held the record for the longest stretch on an ECMO machine - 199 days, about 6 and a half months.
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Ronda Kaysen: In a case of "truth is stranger than fiction," a woman taking a breastfeeding exam was barred from nursing during the test because it might have disturbed other test takers.
Yes, you read that correctly: A woman who signed up for a 5-hour exam to become a certified lactation consultant was told that she could not bring the baby into the classroom to nurse because it would distract the other test takers. Instead, said administrators, she should have a babysitter bottle-feed her baby while she took the test that would certify her to teach other women how to nurse properly.
The woman, Chiara Pozzi Perteghella, runs a pharmacy in the town of Bassano del Grappa, Italy, and shared her totally bizarre experience on her website.
When Pozzi Perteghella informed administrators (after paying her hefty test fee) that she had a newborn baby to feed, they told her that she wouldn't be able to nurse during the test and could either have someone else bottle-feed the infant or leave the exam room to feed the baby herself -- but she would not be allowed to make up any lost time.
To make matters worse, during a series of back-and-forth e-mails with administrators, one unfortunate missive that was not intended for Pozzi Perteghella's eyes ended up being forwarded to her. In it, according to the New York Times, the head of the Italian Association of Professional Breastfeeding Consultants described Pozzi Perteghella as "arrogant" and "patronizing" and questioned the purpose of "breastfeeding-friendly pharmacies," saying, "Those really don't make much sense to me."
The whole issue of breastfeeding during exams is nothing new, but this example strikes me as particularly odd. This is a test given by an organization that promotes breastfeeding. Pozzi Perteghella could only take the test after completing 100 hours of consultation and 80 hours of training, so clearly she's serious about her commitment to breastfeeding.
I get that babies can be distracting, but come on, people -- we're talking about a 3-month-old baby here. They don't crawl around and steal pencils; they nurse and sleep and coo and maybe cry until they can nurse again. It seems to me that the administrators were a little tone-deaf to the mission of their own organization.
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But I want to tell you all, my fellow Texans, how grateful I am for you, too.
Then on Sunday, roughly a thousand of you showed up for the House debate and vote on the bill, many of you again staying very late into the night. You lined the hallways of the capitol and stared down the representatives who were going to soon vote away your right to bodily autonomy. You filled the gallery, following ridiculous rules of decorum that existed only so that members of the House could act like you weren't there at all. You held signs, you chanted, you cheered and booed along with debate as you watched it on a live feed in an auditorium in the basement of the capitol.
And then on Tuesday – a day I will never forget – at least two thousand of you showed up to support Wendy Davis' filibuster. There were people who sat in uncomfortable gallery seats for over 10 hours, their knees jammed into the row of chairs in front of them, foregoing food and bathroom breaks for fear of losing their place in the gallery. Because the line to get into the gallery wrapped around three floors of the Texas state capitol by 8pm that night. You were patient, you were friendly, and you were there.
On each of these days (Thursday, Sunday, Tuesday), people drove in from all over the state. I saw people from El Paso, the Rio Grande Valley, San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth. There were people on both Thursday and Tuesday who worked all day, then got in their cars, and drove hours to be there, some driving back that same night.
The crowd that night wasn't diverse in a way that truly represented the diversity of Texas (but rather represented the lack of diversity in Austin). Jennifer Longoria, a Hispanic woman who grew up in the Rio Grande Valley and now lives in San Antonio, told me that she didn't view the lack of diversity in a bad way. "It's good to see that women that aren't of color were there to represent those who couldn't be there because of work or childcare," she said. "If you couldn't do the drive [to the capitol on] Tuesday, you certainly couldn't do the drive if you needed an abortion."
Looking around, I saw the faces of both men and women. There were families, university students, people the age of my grandparents. Ellen Sweets, a 73-year-old writer and author living in Austin, told me that she saw "so many young women." She said that the number of young people in the crowd on Tuesday "gave lie to the notion that millennials are not engaged, not concerned." And she noted specifically that so many of those young people were not there lightly: "I was surrounded by so many young people, ones willing to go to jail."
People from all different walks of life helped me distribute food to the thousands gathered in the rotunda after 10pm on Tuesday night. I stood between a lesbian couple on my right and a mom standing with her teenage daughter on my left during that final, fateful hour. So, while I was mainly looking around at a lot of women who looked like me, I was struck by the overall community of people. And then, with 10 minutes left until midnight, this group of Texans mainly made up of women, literally raised their voices collectively and so loudly that we made it impossible for the legislators to vote through sexist, horrific legislation.
Finally, Senator Leticia Van De Putte, who had left her father's funeral to return for the filibuster. Having been passed over by the President of the Senate repeatedly, when she finally got the chance to speak, Van De Putte said, "At what point must a female senator raise her hand or her voice to be recognized over the male colleagues in the room?" Later, on Twitter, she admitted, "I was so emotionally frustrated and exhausted. The words just came out." But those words set off the gallery. And the gallery set off the people waiting in the hallway, and they set off the rest of us in the rotunda.
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Successful celebrity plastic surgeries are often evident during their public appearances. Most of them do not however come clean about having undergone the procedure. It has never been clear why many celebrities feel guilty after having the procedure. Beyonce is an example of a celebrity whose plastic surgery yielded the positive results but chose to keep it a secret. Beyonce is a well renowned musician who has been behind many hit songs and is a former Destinies Child member.
Currently, she is the wife of the famous rapper; Jay-Z. It is suspected that she had a nose job. This is due to the fact that the nose she currently has is one that is a little sharp and somehow pointed. This is very different from the bulbous nose that she initially had. Even though she kept it a secret, she had her facial appearance enhanced and got the face worth dying for. Failed celebrity plastic surgeries are also in most cases kept from the public. Click here to see some photos.
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March 1, 2006
A student at Charlottesville High School is stretching his academic abilities beyond Charlottesville, and representing the state of Virginia in the Nation's capital. This teenager was picked to serve in the United States Senate Youth Program.
Meet Brian Walter Bills, an eleventh grader at Charlottesville High School, who has the demeanor to rival any politician. Combined with academic skills, Brian is well on his way to Capitol Hill.
"I don't think I'll make a good elected official, but maybe in some sort of support capacity I guess," said Brian Bills.
He has been selected to serve as a delegate for the 44th Annual United States Senate Youth Program.
"I'm just very interested in the political world, so I hope this will be my first exposure to high-level political stuff," said Bills.
Brian is one of only two students from Virginia to win the prestigious U.S. Senate Youth Program scholarship, dedicated to inspiring future leaders. Picked by the state's school superintendent, the junior obviously stands out in Virginia, but in Charlottesville he also stands out.
"Every year, the school nominates someone for the program, but this is the first year we've actually had someone chosen, " said Kishure who teaches Bills in his U.S. History Class.
The program started in 1962, and gives two students from each state a $5,000 scholarship to be used on undergraduate studies. The high school junior or senior selected also gets an all expense paid trip to Washington, D.C. to get to know almost everyone who is someone in government for a week while getting an intense study of U.S. government.
"I get all these questions all the time of 'what do you want to be when I grow-up?' I do not really have a good answer, so I am kind of hoping this will really help me in my quest for meaning in life," added Bills.
Brian's parents say they are very proud of their son. Brian leaves for Washington, D.C. On Saturday, March 4th and wraps up the week on Capitol Hill with a special lunch with the Senators on Saturday, March 11th.
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This has become my "go to" recipe for any time I need a breakfast dish. I have taken it to countless brunches and served it over and over in my home when I entertain for brunch. I have learned to print the recipe in advance because i will have so many requests. It is wonderful as is. I haven't changed anything and it is always perfect. I will say I cook it an extra 1/2 hour in my oven to get it done.
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Everyone loved this recipe! I used plain ground pork and a soft french bread instead of white bread and had to cook it slightly longer but it turned out perfect. I think the people who gave it bad reviews must not have cooked it long enough. I will definitely make it again!
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This was fantastic! I served it Christmas morning, and it was a huge hit. I used chicken sausage and added onion and garlic. This will be my 'go to' recipe for brunch from now on. Thank you!
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This was DEE-LISH! Substituted undiluted evaporated milk for the cream. My husband started raving after his first bite. Served with tomato slices, but fresh fruit would be a better. The hardest part is remembering to start it the night before. It isn't difficult to make and it is very, very worthwhile. Will definitely make again!
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This is a great recipe to serve weekend guests! I made it with less dry mustard because I don't care for the mustard flavor. It is even better on the second morning after the ingredients have time to blend well. It serves 4 adults with fruit and muffins for breakfast twice.
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Absolutely wonderful!
jessica620 Posted: 01/21/12
Delicious! There were no leftovers!
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I wasn't that crazy about this casserole. I made it exactly as written did need to cook it a little bit longer. Yes, it was easy to make and I love making something I can prepare the night before, but this was just not to my families liking.


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TORONTO - There isn't much - in fact there may not be anything - that hasn't already been written or said about
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About the man: a person of faith, humble, charitable and always willing to help others.
About the pitch: the cut fastball which has baffled hitters, even though they know it's coming, and broken more bats than anyone cares to count.
About the player: Major League Baseball's all-time saves leader with 652, who's accomplished the feat with one team in an era of rampant player movement.
The legendary Yankees' closer is into the final weeks of his Hall of Fame career. He's making his last stop in Toronto as a professional baseball player and, like anything else Rivera says, you believe him when he expresses his appreciation of visiting the city so many times over the years.
"It's a great city to play in," said Rivera. "We have had here tremendous games, tough games, big games but at the same time they've all been wonderful. It's great to play here and play against the Toronto Blue Jays for all these years."
Rivera and his wife, Clara, have run The
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Foundation since its founding in July, 1998. The charity provides scholarships to further the educational needs of underprivileged students and sponsors churches and youth centres.
It reaches across the United States and as far south as Rivera's native Panama.
"I always try to do it," said Rivera. "Not only Panama but wherever we need to help and that is something that I'm proud of. Not that I want to be recognized for that, but I do it because I was helped once and I always wanted to help others. That makes me feel good - knowing that I can touch one life and we can make that life better."
During his season-long farewell tour, Rivera has met with employees from each opposing ballclub. Twenty long-time Blue Jays employees had an opportunity to spend an hour with Rivera during New York's previous visit in late August. Rivera shook hands, answered questions and posed for photos.
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Rivera is also known to be giving of his time to his fellow ballplayers. Earlier this season, at Yankee Stadium, he held court with the Blue Jays' large contingent of Spanish-speaking players.
At the All-Star Game, in New York City, but hosted by the Mets, Jays relievers
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"I had a 30-minute conversation with him out in the outfield and he was so awesome and open to letting me ask him any question I had," said Santos. "I had just become a closer so I had a bunch of questions and he sat there and spoke with me and answered every question I had. He's just an amazing person and an amazing player."
Santos picked Rivera's brain on thought process - How should he approach hitters on days he knows he doesn't have his best stuff? What about when he's feeling too good? If a runner gets aboard, a noted base stealer, how best do you divide your attention?
"Just how adamant he was about going from pitch to pitch, not letting your mind wander to the next hitter or to what the situation is or letting any of that happen," said Santos. "Just going, really simplifying it to the max, where it's pitch by pitch. You get your pitch and then you try as best as you can to execute that pitch and once that pitch is over, whether it was executed or not, you forget it, it's done with and you try to go on to the next pitch."
The cut fastball, Rivera's go-to pitch, remains a mystery even to the pitcher himself. In the absence of a human to credit or, more likely because Rivera truly believes it, he looks skyward when asked to explain the success he's had against hitters who don't have to consider pitch selection.
"That's the Lord. That's God, because no one taught it to me," said Rivera. "I can't say to you that my pitching coach taught me that. I cannot say that. It happened for a reason and that's what I attribute it to, to the Lord."
"You know, still to this day, no hitter's figured it out," said Blue Jays shortstop
Jose Reyes
. "You know it's only one pitch. He's going to go with the hard cutter. You're looking for the cutter and still you're not able to put a good swing on that baseball. It's unbelievable what he's been able to do."
"I mean, he's a little bit different now," added Blue Jays manager John Gibbons. "He's working both sides of the plate now. You know, really, in his prime it would be in to lefties and away to right-handers. It was that overpowering cutter. You knew it was coming, you could see it. You just can't do anything with it. As far as a left-hander, it starts in the middle of the plate and it keeps chasing you. You think you can get out in front of it and maybe catch it out front. You can't. With the right-handers, you see it there, it disappears and basically you're lucky if you get it off the end of the bat and it usually leads to a broken bat."
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What do a video game retailer and a social gaming community have in common? Nothing, except for being the same company now. But as GameStop states, with this unexpected akquisition they are trying to become the "gaming aggregator of choice". Although Kongregate is now a 100 % subsidiary of GameStop, ownership of the site still remains in the hands of founders and siblings Emily and Jim Greer.
Is this the first step from GameStop to concentrate on new business in the future? If yes, this can be considered a wise decision, for "oldschool" game retailers will have a hard time in the future, where publishers will more and more focus on digital distribution. Furthermore GameStop earns a good amount of money by selling used games. They buy those for a more or less good price from gamers and sell them with a pretty big margin.
But big publishers like Electronic Arts amongst others are planning to put the kibosh on the used game market, because they don't make any money, if a gamer sells his used game to another person. If the industry is pushing this idea, it will be a hard time for GameStop as one of the biggest games retailers in the world.
So maybe it is time to conquer new markets. And maybe that's the reason, that GameStop already akquired JoltOnline.com in late 2009. JoltOnline is a browser games publisher from North America with such big names as Playboy Manager or Hattrick.
With the recent akquisition of Kongregate, GameStop bought one of the biggest names in the casual gaming area, counting 10 million players every month. With the help of investors and business angels, Kongregate was able to raise 9 million Dollars to realize their idea of a social gaming community. Among these investors is Reid Hoffman, founder of the business network LinkedIn.
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Any one have any experience with these pistons and nitrous? Thinking about throwing them in a budget daily driver 350 and spraying a 200 shot on it.
A tough piston. Properly clearanced and correct ring gap they will work fine.
200 shot??. Well you would have the pistons covered if you do what has been posted. But how about the rest of the build??.
355, 010 block, stock crank, procomp h beam rods, speed pro forged flat tops, old school crane solid roller 501/501 lift, 236/244@ .50. On a 112 lsa. Summit aluminum heads with the 200 cc runners I believe there basically like a brodix ik200. Hardland sharp 1.5 roller rockers and a Vic Jr with a Holley 750 dp.
The pistons are plenty strong.. Probe and Keith Black are other good ones for this too.
200HP nitrous shot.. You may want to blend some 110 octane unleaded race gas in with your pump gas to get
decent fuel octane.
Detonation from a lack of octane will kill and forged piston too.
@ 200 shot you want to consider the fuel octane. A 100 octane is good.
You will find it effective if when setting the valve lash cold.... to set it .006" tighter than the Hot lash spec
from the Crane cam card. When the engine warms up the lash will be just right.
Not much faith in Pro Comp products.
You got a good primary and secondary fuel source??.
I've heard mixed stuff about procomp, there so so I think for the price of 100 bucks from a buddy brand new I can't complain. I was thinking a Holley black should cover it, unless you believe I need a stand alone fuel system.
Yeah I figured I'd run 110 whenever I sprayed it.
You'd be best to run two separate fuel systems.
I would install a small fuel cell under hood, along with a fuel pump and fuel pressure regulator.
for the nitrous system. Fill this fuel cell with 110+ octane unleaded race gas.
A carter P4594 pump and 3/8" fuel line is plenty for this.
Another Carter P4594 at the back of the car will support the engines fuel needs
run the engine on 92+ octane premimum and the nitrous on 110.
Very simple. and you will have it covered. get a fuel pressure gauge that reads in 1/4 lbs accuratly
You will find this very effective in fine tuning the nitrous system.
Having a fuel supply in the engine compartment is probably not the best idea. If you ever decided to take it to the track they'd shut you down real fast.
It is much safer under hood.
As long as it is mounted and plumbed correctly, it is fine and will pass track tech.
Be sure that the length of flexible hose that runs from the firewall to the engine
for the nitrous system is good braided steel line.
Small 1 gallon to 3 gallon upright style fuel cells that mount underhood are readily available.
Thats what they are for.
If you look, at the track you will find many drag cars with the fuel cell and fuel system all underhood
whether a nitrous car or not. Ther are many advantages to having the fuel cell and pump mounted under hood,
including safety. Including the fact that the volume of fuel onboard is much less.
Having the fuel cell mounted close to the engine negates the need for high fuel pressure.
5 to 7psi for the carb is just fine and 5 to 8 psi is fine for the nitrous system with a adjustable regulator.
The nitrous fuel system response and pressure regulation is much more consistant.
Speed Pro forged slugs are good. No worries.
Just keep the RPM's reasonable, or that stock cast crank will start flexing.
( Did you have your crank assembly custom balanced? ALWAYS a good idea. )
Well the car is gonna be a old school gasser a fuel cell up front would look sweet
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