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Demi Lovato credits medication and inspiration for helping to keep her bipolar disorder in check.
"It's a daily thing," Lovato tells Cosmopolitan for Latinas, which named her its "Fun, Fearless Latina of the Year." "I treat it with medication. Not everybody does that, but for me it works."
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At 21, Lovato has overcome many hurdles – including an eating disorder, drug abuse, self-mutilation, rehab and a nervous breakdown – but the pop singer remains open about her struggles, hoping to inspire others, especially young people.
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Ubuntu maker Canonical issued a survey on Ubuntu servers to the community and is now releasing the results.
Gerry Carr, Canonical's head of platform marketing, announced the survey in his blog. At the end of 2009, nearly 3,000 in the Ubuntu community sent back responses to it.
A short version of the Ubuntu Server Survey 2010 results is downloadable as PDF. A more extensive version for internal use and Ubuntu partners is also available.
The public report makes clear that Ubuntu server users prefer the Long Term Support (LTS) versions over any other. About two-thirds of the respondents alone used Ubuntu Server Edition 8.04 LTS, with the newer non-LTS versions gaining in popularity, perhaps as a consequence. The newest 9.10 LTS version came out April of 2008. Canonical also focused part of its questions on interest in cloud computing, which got some recognition through the Ubuntu 9.10 Enterprise Cloud (UEC) based on the free Eucalyptus cloud management framework. 54% of the respondents admitted to using the cloud in some form.
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Jonathan Zimmerman teaches history at New York University and lives in Narberth. He is the author of "Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory" (Yale University Press).
In 2007, George Kalman received notice that he had violated a law against blasphemy. But Kalman wasn't in Pakistan, Egypt, or any of the other Middle Eastern countries that have burst into violence over an anti-Muslim YouTube video.
No, Kalman was right here in Pennsylvania. After filling out a form to register his new film company as "I Choose Hell Productions L.L.C.," the Downingtown resident got a letter informing him that his request was rejected under a state law barring "blasphemy, profane cursing, or swearing" in corporate names.
At the time, just five other states still had anti-blasphemy laws on the books. But such measures were ubiquitous across America for three centuries, from the founding of the colonies into the mid-20th century. As we try to understand the current anger and mayhem in the Middle East, then, we might pause to examine our own history of religious intolerance.
It starts, like so much else, with the Puritans. Although we still tell our kids that the Puritans came to the New World to find "freedom," their laws tell another story. In 1636, for instance, the Massachusetts Bay Colony made blasphemy - defined as "a cursing of God by atheism, or the like" - punishable by death....
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Where is the 2010 990? Also this organization has failed to file with the NJ State Charities Unit of the State Attorney General's Office since 2008 and has been deemed "non-compliant" to collect any donations under the Charitable Registration & Investigation Act of 1994. The museum is currently closed and under investigation by several government agencies and the CEO has testified to the NY State Senate Budget Committee in March of 2011 that with the lose of $1.74 million in State Aid (which they did loose), they would be insolvent and close by this past Fall. They also have a $900,000 loan they cannot repay that is not going to be guaranteed anymore and will be likely called in.
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All of the Home Port Alliance's 990s are current as required by the IRS. The Organization is current and compliant with the NJ State Charities Unit. The Museum is open seven days a week and received $1.4 million from the State of New Jersey in 2015 (the third year in a row the ship has received State funding.) The $900,000 loan was never defaulted on, and payments on the loan are current. The comment from 01/30/2012 was posted by Christopher von Zwehl, who in 2012 was President of a now defunct organization called the USS New Jersey Battleship Foundation, which was advocating a plan to move the ship to Liberty State Park. That plan has since been abandoned. Philip P. Rowan, Executive Director and CEO Battleship New Jersey Museum & Memorial
The "Big J", is living history. This most decorated battleship in World War Two is a lesson in Naval history from the sailor's bunks to Admiral Halsey's quarters. You can see it all on a single visit from the anchor chains on the bow to the helicopters on the stern, and the electronic "war room" from which the guns and rockets were controlled. It is truly an amazing ship in pristine condition, with veteran docents to escort you through.
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The Battleship New Jersey is the largest battleship ever built and the most decorated battleship in the history of the US Navy. Berthed in Camden, NJ, the New Jersey offers tours, group discounts, events and a nationally recognized overnight program.
They need money to replace the teak decking, but the rest of the ship is incredible. Whether you take a guided tour with a docent, or do a self-guided audio tour, you will fall in love with this ship. It is amzing how the ship is presented.
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- 1 1⁄4 cups stout beer (such as Guinness don't include foam when measuring)
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- 7 1⁄2 ounces all-purpose flour (1 2/3 cups)
- 2 1⁄4 ounces unsweetened natural cocoa powder (not dutch process, 3/4 cup)
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
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Boy, talk about a chocolate cake! YUMMY! Only change I made to the recipe was substitute a little Kahlua for a portion of the cream . . . Used Guiness beer! Made for ZWT#6
Excellent cake. Very moist, dense, rich and intensely chocolate. Best made a day or two ahead of serving. I added 1/2 tbsp. of instant espresso to the batter, and subbed 1/4 cup of Kahlua for some of the heavy cream in the glaze. Used a rose shaped bundt pan and it didn't take all the batter. There was about a cup of batter left over, which was enough for a mini bundt cake. Didn't use all the glaze. Delicious with a dollop of whipped cream on the side.
Very chocolatey and delicious cake! I made it exactly as posted, but didn't use all the glaze. I used Warsteiner beer. Everyone here loved it!


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all your looking for is screws? ive got a shitload of small xbox parts for sale im trying to get rid of, along with some screws, but i dont think it would be worth it to sell just the screws alone.
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I have about 115 small xbox screws and 12 (2 sets) of the case screws...hows $15 shipped sound? I will ship via airmail from Japan...
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Sony's European arm has been dealt a harsh punishment by the U.K.'s data privacy czar for poor protection of its customer's privacy: a punishing $390,000 (£250,000) fine.
In 2011, due to a hack of its PlayStation Network online gaming community's database, 77 million customers' personal details were exposed. The cyber housebreakers were able to get away with customers' payment card details, names, postal and email addresses, dates of birth, and account passwords. In the U.K., about three million bank customers had to change their account details and obtain new credit cards, it has been reported.
Two years later, the U.K. Information Commissioner -- the official watchdog for privacy and data security -- has decided the breach was due to poor IT security by Sony and has decided to teach it a lesson.
It busted the company under the U.K.'s 1998 Data Protection Act, after its investigators decided the attack could have been prevented if network software had been up to date. It also believes the way Sony Entertainment Europe had set up user passwords was not sufficiently secure.
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The Data Protection Act offers eight central principles that any organization working in the U.K. and holding personal data must comply with. These require that such personal information must be: fairly and lawfully processed; obtained for limited purposes; adequate, relevant and not excessive; accurate and kept up to date; never kept for longer than necessary; processed in line with personal legal rights; not transferred to other countries without adequate protection; and, most relevant to this case, always kept securely.
The organization's deputy commissioner and director of data protection, David Smith, said in the Information Commissioner's finding that, "If you are responsible for so many payment card details and log-in details then keeping that personal data secure has to be your priority. In this case that just didn't happen, and when the database was targeted -- albeit in a determined criminal attack -- the security measures in place were simply not good enough ... There's no disguising that this is a business that should have known better. It is a company that trades on its technical expertise, and there's no doubt in my mind that they had access to both the technical knowledge and the resources to keep this information safe."
The body also points to the impact the scandal has had on U.K. consumers' willingness to share their personal information online, which could of course impact U.K. e-commerce more widely. It quotes data based on market research conducted shortly after the incident that said 77% of consumers had been left "more cautious" about giving their personal details to websites.
The Information Commissioner's action is part of a stream of high-profile actions on organizations it deems have been too lax in protecting customer information.
What's unusual here is both the size of the financial swipe it's made on the global brand of Sony -- more commonly, it fines public-sector bodies in the U.K., with a particular focus on cases where hospital workers lose USBs with sensitive patient data -- and also how clearly it says the company's bad security practices are to blame.
"The penalty we've issued today is clearly substantial, but we make no apologies for that," says Smith. "The case is one of the most serious ever reported to us. It directly affected a huge number of consumers, and at the very least put them at risk of identity theft."
Sony has yet to publicly react to the news.
The cybersecurity profession struggles to retain women (figures range from 10 to 20 percent). It's particularly worrisome for an industry with a rapidly growing number of vacant positions.
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Classy Taste of Tuscany Comes to Red Hook
Pizza and calzone czar to convert garage into Chupi-like villas.
If Julian Schnabel's schnelegant, "Pompeii Red" Palazzo Chupi can find a place in the West Village, why can't a Tuscan-inspired townhouse complex find a home in gritty, waterfront Red Hook? Gino Vitale, who owns the House of Pizza and Calzone, will take a one-story garage on King Street and turn it into five homes going for $750,000 to $1.3 million. "I was actually in Tuscany and driving through the countryside to Florence and I kept seeing these old carriage houses and thought they would be great in Red Hook," he said. Right, because the landscape is very similar. [Brooklyn Eagle]


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4 years ago#41
I don't think people buy from GoD because they are too lazy to change a disc (I for one keep DLed games on USBs and need to change them anyway). GoD is great for buying games when you want to play something new instantly. I usually buy from GoD on a Friday night - so I can play, and therefore have a fun Friday night. I could wait until Saturday, but that ruins the fun of impulse buying something to use immediately. It also doesn't solve my 'what the s*** do I play tonight' problem.
I never said everyone is too lazy to change discs, but there are people in this very topic giving that exact reason. And obviously in your situation it's more convenient and cost-effective to just use GoD. However, I live only minutes from multiple stores which sell games and don't mind waiting for Amazon to ship me games, either. So as I said, GoD doesn't give me very many advantages.
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4 years ago#42
Perfect Light posted...
Banana_Mana posted...I don't think people buy from GoD because they are too lazy to change a disc (I for one keep DLed games on USBs and need to change them anyway). GoD is great for buying games when you want to play something new instantly. I usually buy from GoD on a Friday night - so I can play, and therefore have a fun Friday night. I could wait until Saturday, but that ruins the fun of impulse buying something to use immediately. It also doesn't solve my 'what the s*** do I play tonight' problem.
Perfect Light posted...
I am not so lazy that I can't walk five feet and switch a disc, plus when I play a game I usually only play one game at a time and finish it before I start another, meaning I don't have to get up constantly.
You posted this as an argument against GoD. It seems to suggest laziness as a reason for buying from GoD.
There are people who seem to hate changing discs - it's not something I ever thought a burden, but some folks just plain detest it... Then again, some folks are idiots.
I like to play multiple games at a time... And tend to swap discs a fair bit. I do love seeing games on my shelves... Would prefer hard copies to digital copies, but the convenience of downloading digitally is nice.
The big issue I have with digital copies is the space they take up. I have 2 hard drives, and 4 USBs full of GoD / Arcade / Indie titles, and I need to get some more - recently deleted Tales of Vesperia, Bully (although I f****** hate that game), and Alone in the Dark (really bad game though - not sure I care enough to redownload) to make room for DLC (Skyrim, Borderlands 2).
I wish I could use external hard drives with no space limitation. I have a 500gb external with NOTHING on it, which would fit all of my games easily.
First world problems, eh?
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4 years ago#43
Just a few
Alan Wake
Gears 1
Battlefield BC 2
PS2, Xbox 360, Wii, PSP-1000, DS Lite, DSi XL, RetroDuo SNES/NES
Playing: Tales of Legendia, Skyrim, Phantasy Star Universe
4 years ago#44
NFS Hot Pursuit
Mass Effect 1
Rock Band 3
RE4, technically.
4 years ago#45
5 bucks used at Gamestop.
20 bucks on demand.
Still worth every penny not having to hear the disc spin even once when starting it up.
Odd though, if you install the disc version to harddrive it is 3.4gig, but the on demand was only 3.0gig. (or vice versa, I forget)
4 years ago#46
twa556 posted...
Fable 2 maybe? I own a physical copy though.
If you're talking about them removing Fable2 from the market it's back up again...
I own a lot of GOD and PSN full games... I have a bad habit of giving my games to my nephews even before I play them... I have a job they don't two are to young to work... Plus when people come over for the holidays I have one system that they are bought on and one that has my profile... So everyone gets to play and I don't have to worry about the games getting messed up...
I want a Champions of Norrath HD collection...
4 years ago#47
code veronica and deathsmiles 2
4 years ago#48
Weed out Resident Evil 5, Dragon Age 2, Alice: Madness Returns, as well as the DLC, XBLA, and indie games, and include the GoD version of DAO instead of the CE (which I do still own, and GameFAQs won't let you choose that you own both a digital copy and a physical copy), and there is the list of GoD games I own.
Lego: Star Wars III was free (code that a generous user posted here after buying a 320GB HDD that it came with), Kameo and Conan were bought during that 75% off GoD sale, Bioshock and Bioshock 2 were bought during the DotW at the end of October, and RE4 was bought during the Shocktober sale.
A few others may have also been bought at a discount (Edit: Oblivion was as well, when it was $10 during a 1-day sale, a few months before the permanent price dropped to $15).
And the biggest reason I purchase GoD games (all of which have been $20 or less) is because the DVD drive in my 360 doesn't work, would cost too much for me to repair, and buying a new console is way out of my price range at the moment.
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4 years ago#49
Tales of Vesperia
Bioshock 2
Resident Evil 4
Left 4 Dead 2
The Gunstringer
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
Portal 2
Burnout Paradise
10 games total. Got most when they were on sale. Got some since they are cheaper then the physical options.
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4 years ago#50
Only GTA SA. I wouldn't be against buying more though..... almost have when they were on sale.
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Monday, January 26, 2009
Barrel Tasting the 2008 Fleur de Passion
The Fleur de Passion is fermented in old, 205-liter pièces, without malolactic, and bottled without fining or filtration. In most cases (as with the 2008) it is also unchaptalized, and fermented with natural yeasts. Although the final wine is blended from several different parcels of Cramant, the various lots are kept separate throughout the fermentation and aging. They aren't always exactly single-parcel selections, as some of the parcels are too small to fill up a standard 4,000-kilogram press, but each marc (the Champenois term for a pressing made from 4,000 kilograms of grapes) yields ten barrels of wine, which are all kept separated until the final blending, just before bottling. The result is that these selections from different marcs offer an extraordinary opportunity to taste across the Cramant hillside, comparing wine from some of the village's top parcels, made exclusively from old vines by one of Champagne's greatest grower-producers. For the terroir-obsessed, I do not believe that there is currently a finer method of studying the terroir of Cramant.
Although I've been doing this with Diebolt for a number of years, I've never really written about it, as the experience is largely valuable only in terms of personal edification—once you buy a bottle of the finished Fleur de Passion, all of the component parts have long since been amalgamated together, and are no longer worth talking about except as purely theoretical discourse. But I suppose that a discussion such as this serves to accentuate how different the various sectors of the village really are. In Champagne, most people tend to think in terms of village rather than of vineyard, but in truth, a village covers a relatively large area, and the terroir is rarely consistent from one side to the other. Certainly each of the component wines for the Fleur de Passion has its own personality and distinctiveness, even though they are all from the village of Cramant. These wines represent the very top lots of the vintage for Diebolt, and thus are always wonderful to taste every year, but the 2008s are exceptionally pure and finely expressive, demonstrating the outstanding potential of this vintage. Below are notes for each of the six wines that will be considered for the 2008 Fleur de Passion; in Diebolt's cellar, the number of the marc is written on the barrel, and so that is how they are referred to.
#18: This combines the vineyards of Pimonts, Rouillées and Gros Monts in roughly equal proportions, although the percentage of Pimonts is slightly larger. Pimonts is located towards the western side of the village's viticultural area, in the great amphitheater of vines below the village itself. Les Rouillées is also located in this sector, on an unusually steep, south-facing slope just under the village, while Gros Monts is on the eastern side, below the Butte de Saran. Of all of these marcs, this #18 seems to be the most classical in feel, contrasting the subtly rich depth of Gros Monts with sleekly citrusy acidity and a flowery, delicate length. "This is very typical of Fleur de Passion," says Diebolt. "I think that the final blend will appear very close to this."
#20: Diebolt experimented with putting Les Bauves into barrel for the first time in 2008. Bauves is a vineyard farther away from the village, in the direction of Oiry: "It's not on the plain," says Diebolt, "but it's on the last coteau before the plain." The chalk here is closer to the surface than in many other places, under only about 25 centimeters of topsoil, and you feel it in this wine, expressed as an austere, racy energy. It doesn't have the gras or the expansiveness and complexity of aroma that some of the other lots show, but it's very soil-driven and vivacious. Still, Diebolt doesn't think it's really what he's looking for in this cuvée, and he's unsure whether he'll use it in the final blend. "At the moment," he says, "I think it will go into the Cuvée Prestige, not the Fleur de Passion."
#21: The south- to southeast-facing vineyard of Buzons, on the flanks of the Butte de Saran, is home to some of Diebolt's most prized holdings, and together with Les Pimonts, it's the inspiration for the creation of this special cuvée. Marc #21 is pure Buzons, from vines planted in 1951—as soon as you put your nose into the glass, you know you're in the presence of something grand. Buzons is only about 200 meters away from Les Bauves, higher on the slope and closer to the Butte, but the topsoil here is deeper and the character of the wine more complete, with a resonant depth and a rich, sleekly muscular build. Tasting this in December, it seemed as if it was less overtly minerally than some of the other wines, due to it's ample richness of fruit, but upon tasting it again last week, I noticed a pure, almost crystalline chalkiness emerging from underneath the fruity girth, anchoring the flavors and adding a greater sense of completeness and depth. The finish shows the multi-dimensional fragrance and regal bearing that I always associate with this site, persisting in finely detailed length—if this were bottled as Coteaux Champenois blanc, I would happily purchase it. It will undoubtedly make an even greater champagne, though.
#22: Three-quarters Buzons and one-quarter Gros Monts. This is highly instructive, as the majority of it is virtually the same wine as #21. The difference between the two wines is incredibly striking, however. The vineyards of Gros Monts and Buzons aren't too far away from each other, but as I've come to acquaint myself with their respective personalities over the years, I've found them to make wines of markedly different characters. Buzons is rich, complex, but also very fine and detailed—when people talk about Cramant as being a rich terroir, it's vineyards like Buzons that they're thinking of. There's a seamless combination of strength and finesse, and a sense of grand cru depth and expansiveness on the finish. Gros Monts has a richness of body typical for this side of the village, but within that context it emphasizes its sense of finesse, with a pronounced chalkiness and a lithe, airy raciness. Diebolt's vines here are 40 years old, so there's no lack of gravitas, but the overall impression is one of elegance rather than power. Here, you'd expect Buzons to dominate, but it's actually the reverse—in both my December and January tastings, I felt that it was the racy, flowery character of Gros Monts that put itself into the foreground, and overall this feels more kinetic and less overtly rich than the pure Buzons.
#24: This is two-thirds Pimonts, which faces east-southeast, and one-third Fromattes, which is the vineyard on the hillside directly across from it—the soil is virtually identical in character, but Fromattes faces west. In contrast to the previous two wines, this is quiet up front, feeling deceptively delicate in body but building slowly on the palate towards an expansively aromatic, subtly complex and chalk-driven finish. The sense of verticality on the back end is tremendous, a poignant expression of a regal terroir.
#26: As a counterpart to #21, this is pure Pimonts, and Jacques Diebolt's pick as his personal favorite of the 2008 wines. According to Diebolt, the name Pimonts is derived from "petits monts", in reference to the gentle rise on which this site lies, and it's one of the oldest-known terroirs in Cramant: "Vines have probably been planted here for over a thousand years," he says. The character of the wine from Pimonts is quieter and more introspective than that of Buzons, and it seems to me to consistently be the most refined and most complete wine from year to year—if any of these were to be made as a separate, single vineyard champagne (a distinctly unlikely possibility, so don't get your hopes up), I would imagine it to be Pimonts. Like the previous wine, from Pimonts and the neighboring Fromattes, this builds with a slow, unhurried grace and an aristocratic sense of elegance. It's extremely minerally, almost steely in its chalky intensity, yet it doesn't feel at all aggressive, its minerality deftly integrated into a larger array of components. On the superbly expressive finish it's the longest of all of these, demonstrating a subtle, nuanced complexity and going on and on in airy, finely detailed fragrance.
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- werner.j said...
This is the kind of reading i would like to see a lot off in your future book. I can almost taste what you are writing about. I hope you could once find the time to write a topic or two about the plant and trimming methods,
the systems used with the different grape varieties. thanks a lot
- 26 January, 2009 23:38
Hi Peter,
I am hoping that we will get to do the same on Friday. If you will allow me a moment of retentiveness, those barrels are burgundian 228 liters rather than 205. This is good news as that means a little more Fleur de Passion than you might have thought. A demain!
- 27 January, 2009 11:16
- Peter Liem said...
Hi Jeremy,
Leave it to a Burgundian winemaker to have a sharp eye for such details. You're right -- those in this photo are 228-liter barriques that he purchased recently. On the other wall (behind me when I took the photo) are some older, traditional Champenois 205-liter barrels. See you tomorrow morning in Craon de Ludes!
- 27 January, 2009 14:09
- Brooklynguy said...
hi peter,
amazing write-up. i wish you had rated each marc using the 100 point scale, instead of writing all of these complicated tasting notes with all of those details.
- 27 January, 2009 17:35
- bill said...
Loved the post as Diebolt is one of my favorite wine growers.
Brooklyn Wine Guy, You made me burst out laughing. Thanks.
- 02 February, 2009 15:41
- Peter Liem said...
It made me bust out laughing as well. I knew there was a better way to do this. Sorry for wasting so much of your time!
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All Rise...
Judge Dan Mancini will choose free will.
The Charge
"You don't have free will, David. You have the appearance of free will."—Thompson
Opening Statement
Science fiction writer Philip K. Dick's work has a relatively poor track record on the silver screen, though Hollywood has persistently tried to spin box office gold from his prose for the past 30 years. Sure, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner is a masterpiece (despite diverging significantly from Dick's novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, upon which it is based) and A Scanner Darkly is solid if more than a little pretentious, but nearly everything else is either mediocre (Total Recall, Minority Report) or downright forgettable (Impostor, Paycheck). So, here we go again with first-time director George Nolfi's The Adjustment Bureau, a feature-length loose adaptation of Dick's short story, "Adjustment Team."
Facts of the Case
New York Congressman David Norris (Matt Damon, The Bourne Identity) loses his bid for a US Senate seat because he's just too earthy, real, and full of integrity. His chance encounter with enigmatic dancer Elise Sellas (Emily Blunt, The Devil Wears Prada), to whom he is instantly attracted, sets off a chain of events in which two mysterious gentlemen in trench coats—Richardson (John Slattery, Mad Men) and Harry Mitchell (Anthony Mackie, The Hurt Locker)—inform him that a future relationship with Elise is not in "The Chairman's" plan for David's life. If he doesn't avoid the woman, his mind will be erased. Refusing to accept that his existence is ruled by fate and not free will, David presses on with his romantic pursuit of Elise, drawing the ire of Thompson (Terence Stamp, Superman II), a "caseworker" far more sinister than Richardson or Mitchell.
The Evidence
In her writings on totalitarianism as part of her reportage on the trial of Nazi SS officer Adolf Eichmann, political theorist Hannah Arendt coined the term "the banality of evil." Her idea was that the world's great evils weren't the result of the aberrant depravity of mustache-twirling psychopaths, but the mindless adherence by civil servants and bureaucrats to codes, laws, and social constructs defined by totalitarian states. In Arendt's view, when it comes to producing human suffering on a mass scale, the grand schemes of larger-than-life supervillains can't match the common man's surrender of his own moral identity. The deep sense of paranoia at the foundation of Philip K. Dick's fiction is informed by this sense of evil's banality. "The Adjustment Team" is part horror story, part boring slice-of-life, compelling because of the contrast between the terror with which its protagonist, Ed Fletcher, is struck when, due to a bureaucratic mishap, he accidentally witnesses the inhabitants of sector T137 de-energized and frozen during an "adjustment," and the matter-of-fact demeanor of The Clerk and the other agents of fate as they go about the (mundane to them) business of performing the adjustment of fate's master plan. Unfortunately, George Nolfi's movie adaptation lacks Dick's sense of irony and delicately stated paranoia. Instead of drab civil servant types, Nolfi's agents of fate (called caseworkers) are slick, well-dressed, non-descript, and more than a little sinister. They're much hipper in a suave early-'60s sort of way than the schlubs in "Adjustment Team," who interfere with the main character's free will with all of the unthinking just-doing-my-job automation of DMV lifers.
Constrained by the demands of drama, Nolfi turns Dick's terse meditation on free will into an action-romance about a man having to choose between true love and a great political destiny. It's silly, a bit pretentious, and entirely predictable. In fact, I was surprised by just how unsurprised I was by anything that happened in the movie—despite going in with little knowledge of its story beforehand (I hadn't even read Dick's short story). In the feature-length commentary included in this set, Nolfi talks in detail about how he intended the movie to be disorienting for viewers, how he kept the settings and characters realistic so that the slow revelation of the caseworkers as supernatural beings or science fiction constructs would be unsettling. Perhaps it was a failure of marketing, or the movie's title or costume design gave away too much too quickly, but I was never unsettled. It was obvious almost from the first exchange of dialogue between John Slattery and Anthony Mackie that The Adjustment Bureau was no simple political potboiler or romantic drama.
But even assuming that The Adjustment Bureau's trailer told audiences too much about the movie's central conceit, the gimmick would still compel if the movie were the rich blend of thriller, romance, and science fiction that Nolfi intended. It's not. The Adjustment Bureau is a romance that is set against an ill-defined political backdrop (that goes way too far in making a saint of David Norris) and that uses science fiction as a way of staging its romantic climax as an action-packed dash through a variety of New York locations. There's no political thriller to speak of, and Dick's philosophical speculation has been so thoroughly watered down that The Adjustment Bureau doesn't leave you pondering its profundity—the movie's ideas are both mundane and tidily presented through dry exposition (mostly delivered by Terence Stamp). One sad side-effect of Nolfi's ambitions is that the movie's romantic storyline is robbed of richness by the undeveloped political and science fiction elements. That's too bad because both Matt Damon and Emily Blunt deliver fine lead performances, and the duo has genuine onscreen chemistry.
To be clear, The Adjustment Bureau isn't a bad film. There is much to recommend it, in fact: fine performances, beautiful locations, some cleverly executed action (created with a minimum of intrusive CGI), and rock-solid cinematography by John Toll (Braveheart). But beneath its slick surface, the movie feels very much like the work of a director who didn't quite have a grasp on his story. Everything about The Adjustment Bureau is undercooked and not-quite-right.
As I previously mentioned, The Adjustment Bureau was lensed by two-time Oscar-winner John Toll, who keeps the film's look crisp, sleek, and thoroughly modern. The many New York locations are delivered with a muted color scheme, emphasizing wintery blues and grays along with subtle shadow detail and firm black levels. Toll's work comes across beautifully in this 1080p/VC-1 transfer at the movie's original theatrical ratio of 1.85:1.
The dialogue-heavy story rarely pushes the DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 mix to the limit, but the few sequences of intense action as well as Thomas Newman's (WALL-E) score come across with a fine combination of blunt force and subtle detail. The track also handles quiet dialogue quite well.
In addition to Nolfi's low-key but informative commentary, the Blu-ray disc contains deleted scenes and a few featurettes:
Deleted and Extended Scenes (6:54)
The Labyrinth of Doors: Interactive Map of New York (33:57)
Leaping Through New York (7:36)
Destined to Be (4:51)
Becoming Elise (7:08)
The second disc of this two-disc set includes a DVD version of the movie, as well as a downloadable digital copy.
Closing Statement
The Adjustment Bureau is so close to being an all-too-rare substantive science fiction story aimed squarely at grown-ups that its shortcomings are all the more frustrating. It's worth a rental by anyone looking for an evening of throwaway entertainment, but its failure to dig into Philip K. Dick's big ideas renders it a vacuous experience that exits the brain almost as soon as the end credits roll.
The Verdict
Guilty as charged.
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SOURCE: Giorcelli, Cristina. "Edna's Wisdom: A Transitional and Numinous Merging." In New Essays on The Awakening, edited by Wendy Martin, pp. 109-48. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
In the following essay, Giorcelli argues the Chopin's ambiguities in The Awakening support both her own and her protagonist's "cyclical view of existence."
The human being who has a soul does not obey anyone but the universe,"1 wrote the French poet Gabriel Germain. Readers of Kate Chopin's The Awakening keep asking themselves whether the protagonist, Edna Pontellier, abandoning herself to the waters of the Gulf of Mexico at the end of the book, obeys the universe and therefore the needs of her soul; or whether, "idly, aimlessly, unthinking and unguided"—as she has lived for twenty-eight years—she simply lets herself be carried into the unknown...
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