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LOS ANGELES (AP) – In the first episode of the first season of "Mad Men," Don Draper's next-in-line affair, Rachel Menken, hears his brutal philosophy: Love is nothing more than an ad man's myth, and everyone is born alone and dies alone.
Stack up five years of equivalent cynicism and unfulfilled dreams and the result is a drama with a core of shattered glass, dazzling but menacing.
As the series returns for what creator Matthew Weiner says is the penultimate season, he's asking viewers to embrace other, more comfortable concepts: belief and trust.
They must believe that he knows what they will find satisfying for Don, Peggy, Pete and the other souls of "Mad Men," and trust in his vision as the AMC drama returns 9 p.m. EDT Sunday with a two-hour episode.
That he's putting his characters on the knife's edge of dread may not make that trust any easier _ especially since Weiner believes we are living uneasily with a 21st-century version of their 1960s mindset.
"This season is very much capturing what's going on right now, in a strange way," Weiner said. "I think we have been thrown into a state of individual anxiety, based on being disconnected from events outside our control," including economic disarray.
The writer-director paraphrases a line from Sunday's episode that he deems key to the sixth season: People will do anything to alleviate anxiety.
If that's intriguing but maddeningly cryptic, that's how Weiner wants "Mad Men" to be approached pre-debut. No spoilers, not even a hint of what happens, when it happens and whether Don finally is taking the institution of marriage to heart.
But if Weiner won't talk about what the season is, he's at least willing to say what it's not.
"It's not about Lane's suicide. There is no eulogy for Lane. It's not all about Joan and the Jaguar guy," he said.
The references are to two of last season's more startling twists: the hanging death of ad agency partner Lane after he's fired for theft, and Joan's prostituting herself, under pressure, to win the luxury car account for the agency.
There are other stories to be told, Weiner said, even if viewers tend to cling to the past and would prefer the show pick up with the calendar flipped just a day or two ahead. That would become boring "really fast," Weiner said.
"They (viewers) don't know it, but that would get burned out. … They have to trust me," he said, even if it takes a couple of episodes to unfold.
How will the latest chapter of "Mad Men" be received? Last season, its winning streak of four consecutive best-drama Emmy Awards was broken when it lost to "Homeland" and it failed to capture any other Emmy trophies.
Jon Hamm, the center-ring attraction as Don, the sharp-dressed man with the tortured psyche, has no qualms about following Weiner's lead once more.
When he was up for the role, Hamm said, "Matt, and really no one else, fought for me. … For whatever reason, Matt's trust in me worked out. And that's why I have trust in him."
He credits Weiner's probing, self-analytic nature with producing the richly complex world of "Mad Men" and its parade of human and cultural foibles.
"Matt is a wickedly smart, very curious and deeply flawed person, and he likes exploring those flaws and pulling them apart and examining them," Hamm said. "All writers are wonderful observers, (and) Matt sees everything at a micro level and macro level."
Like a master magician, Weiner clearly relishes toying with his audience and his characters. When he talks about Draper and others repeating old mistakes, he chortles.
When he recommends facing down one's lifetime of errors _ "Every person who goes through that process with me gets a horrible feeling in the pit of their stomach" _ he cackles.
The thought of those who complain about how he's switched up the "Mad Men" world elicits a Weiner giggle.
Reflect back on the show's pilot, and you'll see his most beguiling trickery at work. We are introduced to Don, looking the picture of the carefree bachelor, as he makes a late-night visit to lover Midge and casually suggests marriage. Poor guy; she just brushes it aside.
It's not until the episode's last moments that we learn the truth. As the exotic jazz strains of "Caravan" play in the background, Don returns home to his wife and sleeping children, and the family is framed in a mockery of a Norman Rockwell moment.
While "Mad Men" has flipped through the mind-bending `60s, Don has remained steadfastly true to the music, liquor and tie-and-shirt dress code of his generation while his colleagues let it all hang out with Beatles albums, pot and turtlenecks.
But don't mistake Draper for a lead-footed dinosaur on the verge of extinction, Weiner said.
"The world has finally caught up with Don. The world is in a state of identity crisis and he is the ultimate survivor," he said. "He's comfortable because he's used to disaster."
Hamm, close to wrapping up work on this season's 13 episodes, has found himself tested over the years by his character's dark side.
"There's no vicarious thrill for me as an actor to doing any of this sort of bad behavior. I don't get off on it. … There's a psychic toll it takes," he said. "I'm not comparing myself to a bricklayer or construction worker or miner. But it does take a psychic toll."
Those in the "Mad Men" audience cheering for Don to fall off the marriage wagon, or looking to him for guidance, give Hamm pause.
"The central conundrum is why people think this is a good person to model their lives after," he said, citing one area of exception: "Don, I feel, strives for excellence and doesn't settle for mediocrity, and demands that of people who work for him."
"I think that's beginning to be a lost art in our current culture of `140 characters and that's good enough.' The fact there are people who still strive for excellence … is inspiring. That is the one good thing about Don; not that he looks good in a suit, not that he can drink, not that he (expletive) a lot of women."
With the journey nearing conclusion for Draper and his fellow travelers, Weiner is faced with the task of wrapping up the ambitious drama that put him in the front ranks of TV producers. There are 13 episodes planned for its last season, he said.
"I have an idea for what it feels like for the show to end, and I think I know how it ends, and I've known for a couple of years," Weiner said _ cryptically, of course.
Could Don, at last, find happiness? Hamm tackles that question.
"Well, that's the hope. And at some point it will be the journey of the series, finding that happiness, or a balance."
That's the audience's challenge as well. And Mr. Weiner's call.
Lynn Elber is a national television columnist for The Associated Press. She can be reached at lelber(at)ap.org and on Twitter (at)lynnelber.
(Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
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off the topic. why would u want to do that?
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huh? I'm not sure what you are looking for, but in index.php (and I believe there's one for individual posts, though I use index for single or multi post pages on http://www.chait.net) you'll see a set of calls iterating over the posts for the page. It begins with "foreach ($posts as $post)" or something like that. You should then see a php call to the_title(), followed by one to the_content(). Obviously, if you took out the call to the_content (and anything else you want removed), you'll just get the post title output.
Sorry. I don't think my question made sense. On my index page I don't want to display the post titles. Just their date and content. If you click the permalink to go to that post's individual page, there is where the title of the post will show. Does that make more sense?
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I used a variation on the idea that David posted above, to limit the display to only show the "titles", "filed under stuff", and the "comment info line". This definitely improves the readability of a parent category, and maybe you can extend this for other php variables.
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LOS ANGELES — Losing the national championship match wasn't something that BYU men's volleyball coach Chris McGown had even considered.
After all, losing wasn't something the Cougars did a whole lot of during a magical 2013 season.
Unfortunately for McGown, that magical season ended in disappointment, as UC Irvine beat his Cougars in Saturday night's national title match in straight sets.
"Up until that ball went into the stands for the final point I thought we were going to come back and win it," McGown said. "We never felt at any point that we were out of it and knew if we could get that third set we would go five and win it all."
While loss wasn't expected, the defeat is something McGown will not soon forget in preparing his team for the future.
"We were so close — just a few points away in each set from winning this thing," McGown said. "Ultimately right now it's just hard to lose and see somebody else holding the trophy. Hopefully with time I'll get some perspective about the good things that happened this year and celebrate a little. For sure this will motivate us for next year though."
Finding the good in the face of disappointment is a concept that coaches espouse in all sports. Amid his own adversity, McGown knows he will have to find a way to swallow the loss and move on.
"We kind of gave that away in the third," McGown said. "I'll probably beat myself up over that one for a while. I'll probably look back at the film and agonize over a few things and think, 'If only. If only.' But you can't do that too much. Hopefully I'll look back on this season without the regret of not winning a national championship but with a deep sense of pride of what the guys did and how hard they worked and just what a wonderful group they were."
After answering questions about his own feelings, McGown's expression changed as he thought about his team. For as hard as the loss was personally, the thought of how his squad felt appeared to be more painful.
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I'm trying to simplify load and save methods for several classes which are basically the base class with a few new fields. All derived classes make use of all base class' fields, so their load/save methods include the load/save code of the base class with an addition of some lines for taking care of the derived classes' remaining unhandled fields.
My first thought was I could just load an instance as a base class, downcast to derived class and continue loading the remaining fields, but apparently you can't just downcast to a derived class in C#. After some thinking I thought maybe I could iterate through all field members of the base class and copy over those field values to a new instance of derived class, but I'm not sure this is the best (or the fastest) way to do this.
Basically what I'd like to do is to load an instance of a base class, cast it to derived class, and then finish loading the remaining fields.
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American midfielder Mix Diskerud has agreed to two-year contract with Norway's Rosenborg.
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The focus would be Tristan (Charlie Cox), who seeks a fallen star to win the heart of the village hottie, Victoria (Sienna Miller). It's never clear why he's in love with this flagrant golddigger, and she prefers the bland but rich Humphrey (Henry Cavill), who effectively woos her with the promise of a ginormous diamond ring. Nevertheless, Tristan toasts his wished-for love with champagne (a luxury that costs him a week's wages) and sets off to bring her a piece of the star from across the wall that separates the 19th-century British village of Well from a magical parallel world called Stormhold. That Victoria wants her star before her birthday, just one week away, makes her seem demanding. That Tristan blazes a trail towards Stormhold (and certain death) just to please her makes him stupid.
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Almost right away he uses up most of a Babylon Candle, which magically transports its owner to any place he envisions. It's significant that he sacrifices the candle for Victoria, because it's a last gift from his mother, the only thing she left for him, tucked in his blanky on his father's doorstep before she was enslaved by a witch (read: Tristan's a Mommy's boy with no Mommy). The candle takes him to Yvaine (Claire Danes), a persnickety blonde in a shimmery dress laid out in the center of the star's crater. She explains that though she was once a star in the sky, her form on Earth is that of a woman, now injured from her fall. Tristan drags Yvaine back to Well against her will. What's a little kidnapping in the name of true love?
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In `BLACKOUT', a team of historian's are sent to study/observe the different aspects of the effect WW2 had on the lives of ordinary people who lived through the war in England. We meet Evacuated Children, London Shop Girls, Nurses and many others including the amazing ordinary hero's who attempted to rescue British Troops from Dunkirk, in fishing boats regardless of the Danger to themselves.
Unlike Doomsday, this book does not alternate between future and past, but once the time travelling historians leave their present (2060), the story remains fixed in the early 1940's during WW2 England.
Regardless of the desperate, chaotic and sometimes very frighteningly dangerous situations the Brits and the time travelling historians find themselves in, Connie Willis adds the needed humour now and then.
I felt totally immersed into the story. I felt it was very believable and I learnt how the Brits reacted to the crisis at hand and how life went on regardless. As the famous WW2 poster stated "KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON" and they certainly did. Meanwhile, the Historians are desperate to return back to the future, but because of what seems to be a technical time travelling glitch they are stranded in a very dangerous time and the fear of changing the course of history is forever present.
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I wish I could live in this time! I even took my last holiday in Oxford and London just to see the sights from the book (and I'm from Canada) !
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There is a problem with the book, and that is that it is really only the first 500 pages of an 1150 page story which was released in two books. Don't rate the books individually, rate them together.or apply the ratings system equally to both books. Do film critics, or even movie goers watch the first 45 minutes of the film then leave and write their review? (Actually they do, which is why some rather pretentious trash has been highly praised.) The second problem is that the story is very, very, VERY complex and requires you to keep track of a lot of characters as the action jumps back and forth and from story line to story line. If you need to, keep notes ;-)
This is a very well done book, with remarkable accuracy in the portrayal of Britain and the history of the period. I am an amateur specialist on the Blitz and British conduct of their war effort, and it all seems remarkably true to both social and historical fact. My Mum was Englsh and met my father during the war. I have been back a number of times, and even lived there for 5 years.
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Loved the Doomsday book but was disappointed by her other works. This one however, is almost as good as the Doomsday book. Read morePublished 4 months ago by H. Owen
Blackout is a great yarn but the reader was not pleasant to listen to, she rattles along too fast without even a pause at the end of a sentence.Published 14 months ago by rick whiteley
An epigone of time travel stories ! Connie Willis makes the lives of her characters complicated and real. Her stories can be read and re-read !Published 16 months ago by Pierre Corbeil
If the zombie Nazis from Dead Snow were to finally invade England and put an end to this story I would absolutely cheer. This thing is interminable. Read morePublished on Feb. 22 2013 by maven
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Connie Willis returns to a premise she has used a few times before in "Blackout". Historians in the mid-21st century are involved in time travel to observe events in history for... Read morePublished on July 8 2012 by Dave_42
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Her mother, Elizabeth Essig says, "I was looking for the safest product.
Her safety when she's sleeping in her crib is the most important thing to me. "
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When police responded to Anderson's townhome at 510 N. Alma School Road, he emerged from the home with his hands covered in blood. He also threatened to shoot the officers, who tased him.
Officers entered the home after arresting Anderson. Inside they found tactical gear and several weapons.
"It's not common for us to come into contact with someone who has several weapons, tactical gear and have war paint on himself," said Mesa Police Detective Diana Williams.
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JERUSALEM (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday that the United States will support Iraq's fight against al-Qaida-linked militants who have overrun two cities, but won't send in American troops.
Kerry said the militants are trying to destabilize the region and undermine a democratic process in Iraq, and that the U.S. is in contact with tribal leaders in Anbar province who are standing up to the terrorists.
But, he said, "this is a fight that belongs to the Iraqis."
Al-Qaida linked gunmen have largely taken over the cities of Fallujah and Ramadi in an uprising that has been a blow to the Shiite-led government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
Kerry made the comments as he left Jerusalem for talks with leaders in Jordan and Saudi Arabia about his Mideast peace-making efforts after three days of lengthy meetings with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.