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Water Damage Restoration in Salado is a very difficult task, especially if you are doing everything all by yourself. To avoid the problems and mistakes that could turn up to be a disaster, one should hire a Water Damage Restoration Service Company. If you go in for a company with experienced team of personnel it will be good for you in long run. They have the experience of restoring things from water damage very easily and try to Avoid the Big Losses.
The sooner your call, the lesser your losses will be. Water damage restoration companies especially in Salado and the surrounding areas will also guarantee you that their repair estimates will be accepted by the insurance company which means that you have almost nothing to lose by hiring professionals.
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One of the most frustrating things about water restoration is getting a call from the adjuster saying your invoice is too high. During my 14 + years in the water restoration business I have gotten plenty of calls from adjusters saying that my price is too high on this dehumidifier or this fan, etc. This used to bug me until I learned the secret to prevent most of these calls, COMMUNICATION & DOCUMENTATION. Remember that the adjuster has to justify his work to his boss and as long as the price and scope of work can be justified then it will be paid.
Starting off the job on the right foot is important. You should always get a work authorization signed by the insured before starting work. A work authorization will allow some insurance companies to be able to pay you directly or at least get your name on the check.
Then as soon as the initial mitigation is performed, call the adjuster and let him/her know what you did. This can be done on the way back to your office. During this conversation just let the adjuster know what you saw when you arrived and what you decided to do about. During this conversation I generally try to steer away from talking about pricing. If they ask about it then I will talk about it, but for me this is more of an information phone call to the adjuster. At this point, usually the adjuster has not been there and so to call and inform him/her what is going on is my main objective.
Kevin Pearson is a partner in Pearson Carpet Care. He has over 17 years experience in the cleaning and restoration business. He serves on several committees with the IICRC (Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification) and is on the board of directors of the PCRA (Professional Cleaning and Restoration Alliance). Kevin has dried building in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. He has extensive experience drying residential homes but has also dried office buildings, chemical plants, historical homes, Southern Methodist University, Stephen F. Austin State University, The Toyota Center (where the Houston Rockets play) and more.
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Water is indeed very beautiful. We have glorious waterfalls, rivers and even oceans. However, water can cause a lot of damage to the home. Flooding and water leaks can impact the home negatively. Water seeps through the home and finds all those precious places to affect. If you are ever faced with water damage, you totally understand the stress and anxiety that comes with it. However, there are companies that have been set up so as to offer you the much needed help should water damage occur in your property. The water damage restoration companies have come as a great aid to all who need it most.
Here are some of the things you may expect
Timeliness: the best companies understand that time is of the essence. The longer water sits, the worse the damage becomes. Water damage needs to be addressed as soon as it arises to avoid any unnecessary damage. If the damage gets too bad, your insurer may decline the claim.
When all areas are removed successfully, most companies will use some very high powered fans so as to start the process of drying. Dehumidifiers can be used to draw that moisture still lingering in the air. In some cases, barrier containment can be used so as to restrict access to certain areas or to create some airflow in a very specific way.
The testing of air quality: this is another very important service that the companies can offer. Usually, the air may have a contaminant such as mold. There are different types of contaminants that can be in the air and some pose more danger than others. Usually, the company tasks an air sample in and out of the home. The differences in the air can then be identified and proper action taken.
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The Water Damage Restoration Technician test by the IICRC (Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification). Water Damage Restoration Technician is a designation that a professional restorer needs to prove that he or she is compiling with the most prevalent standards in the restoration industry. It has become increasingly important for a professional who is performing water damage restoration services to have "WRT" designation. Most companies that hire you require it and insurance companies that hire the companies that provide the service require that their technicians be certified.
Since I first took my class ninteen years ago, the material and the test have evolved greatly. There is a lot more information. The class used to be a two day class, but now it is a three day class. There are also five day classes offered that let you take the WRT/ASD (Applied Structural Drying) together. The newest WRT update was published in April of 2006. It is approved by ANSI (Approved National American Standards).
Important items you should know about the test:
Get the book from your teacher prior to attending the class (if possible). Read a few pages everyday. Usually the highlighted parts in the manual are extremely important to know and will defnitely be seen on your test.
C) All of the above
D) None of the above
(7) What does H.A.T.T an acronym for?
A) Hot, Alveolar, Temperature, Test
B) Hydrostatic, Absorption, Toxicity, Threshold Limit Value
C) Haitian Cotton, Absorption, Textile, Temperature
D) Humidity, Airflow, Temperature, Time
It isn't as easy as you think. If you have taken the carpet cleaning technician test before or the upholstery cleaning technician test before, you should know that unless you have a background in Biology, you will have to study hard to pass this one.
Since I received a deluge of requests from people wanting to know the answers to test for CCT. I thought I would just add a link on the my website with the answers. Visit the Magic Wand Company website below and select the Article tab then WRT Test Answers.
The purpose of the test is to make sure that a technician learns as much as possible to do his/her job well. I would be happy to help you in your endeavor to learn. Whether you need carpet cleaning supplies or restoration supplies or not, you are welcome to contact me.
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Pipeline Perspectives: Bradley should be next up
Baseball's top-ranked pitching prospect ready to be tested at the highest level
There's a good amount of subjectivity regarding baseball prospects. With the evaluation of talent being in the eye of the beholder, finding consensus is often difficult. Even Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo of MLBPipeline.com don't always see eye to eye. They discuss their viewpoints regularly in a feature called Pipeline Perspectives. Submit a topic for them to debate.
There are already some top prospects playing in the big leagues. Young future stars like Boston's Xander Bogaerts and Detroit's Nick Castellanos made Opening Day rosters, and Houston's George Springer was promoted this week. Who deserves to be the next big prospect to get the call? That's the question Jim Callis and I are pondering in this week's edition of Pipeline Perspectives.
This isn't a predictor kind of a column. Jim and I aren't guessing who will get called up to the big leagues next. There are too many variables that go into those decisions, from service time to need at the big league level. No, we're debating who we believe should get the next promotion to the highest level.
Jim makes a good case for his choice, Pirates outfielder Gregory Polanco. Based on Polanco's success in 2013, his strong winter ball and Spring Training showings, not to mention Pittsburgh's lack of firepower in right field, it's hard to argue against Polanco.
So I'm not going to try. I am simply going to lay out the best argument possible for my choice: D-backs right-hander Archie Bradley.
To say Bradley is ready for a big league shot is not exactly breaking new ground. He is, after all, MLB.com's top-rated pitching prospect, coming in at No. 5 on the Top 100 rankings. He had one of the best seasons of any pitching prospect in baseball in 2013, spending most of the year at Double-A, finishing third in the Minors in ERA (1.84) and striking out more than a batter per inning. While his walk rate needs to come down a bit, his overall command improved.
Bradley, the No. 7 overall pick in the 2011 First-Year Player Draft, got a decent look in big league camp this Spring Training. He made three starts, during which he pitched 8 1/3 innings. The first two were outstanding, scoreless outings during which he struck out nine over 6 1/3 innings. His last outing of the spring was a little shaky, and he began the season with Triple-A Reno.
Though he's just 21, one gets the feeling that it's a question of when, not if, Bradley gets the call this season. He's off to a good start in the Pacific Coast League, allowing two runs over 12 innings. He's yielded just seven hits for a .175 batting average against.
Keep in mind that he is several years younger than the average pitcher in the PCL and he is getting his first taste of that level after making 21 of his 26 starts last year in Double-A. To say that the right-hander needs more time in Triple-A -- as Arizona general manager Kevin Towers did this week when he recalled Mike Bolsinger instead of Bradley to take Trevor Cahill's spot in the rotation -- isn't so far-fetched.
But sometimes you have to take a leap with a young pitcher with this much talent. The Marlins did it with Jose Fernandez, jumping him to the big leagues without a start above A-ball. That seems to have worked out pretty well so far. I'm not suggesting that Bradley could be this year's Fernandez. But I believe that a similar kind of impact is feasible.
Even if Bolsinger throws well, the D-backs rotation needs Bradley. Arizona has the worst team ERA in the Majors as well as the highest for a rotation: 7.63 through its first 18 games. Yes, that's a small sample size, but taking a look at better internal options might make some sense.
I appreciate what Towers said, that he doesn't want Bradley to be seen as a savior for a struggling team. But he doesn't need to be cast in that role. His only job, once called up, is to compete and give his team a chance to win.
Can he do that more consistently than current members of the D-backs' rotation? That obviously remains to be seen, but you'd probably be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn't think the answer is yes.
And while Bradley correctly should not be asked to be a savior, he is a young pitcher who has all the makings to be a top-of-the-rotation starter. At the very least, he could be a jolt of energy to get things turned around. And the D-backs might be surprised by his ability, right out of the gate, to help put their staff back in the right direction.

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New manager Robin Ventura completed his first White Sox staff with Monday's hirings of Jeff Manto as the team's hitting coach, Joe McEwing as third-base coach and Mark Parent as bench coach.
Manto, 47, served as the White Sox Minor League hitting coordinator for the past four years and has great familiarity with some of the younger players who could play featured roles with the 2012 White Sox. Manto was also the Pirates' hitting coach during the '06 and '07 seasons, with Freddy Sanchez leading the National League in hitting via his .344 average in 2006.
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Fifty years ago, a 12-year-old boy named Dennis Komsa wrote a note, sealed it in a glass jar, and cast it into the Atlantic Ocean while he was in Seaside Heights on vacation with his family.
About a week after Superstorm Sandy hit, Norman Stanton was wading through storm debris outside his sister's home in that Ocean County community when he noticed a glass jar that sat away from the other trash. He propped it on the deck and got back to work.
Whether buried in the sand or under the boardwalk, the jar that Komsa threw in the water was long forgotten. That is, until Sandy found it.
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After five decades, the jar ended up about two-tenths of a mile from the spot on Sampson Avenue where it was cast in 1963. The Ball mason jar carrying a note, a 1958 nickel and an envelope with a return address got caught in the superstorm's surges and rode the waves into Sharon Roher's driveway on the first block of Kearney Avenue.
It looked like it was meant to be found,'' Stanton, 53, of Chalfont, Pa., told the Asbury Park Press.
The note Stanton found and shared with his older sister, Roher, 60, was written on Saturday, Aug. 16, 1963. Inked neatly in blue, all-capitalized letters, it read:
To whom it may concern, Please fill out the following questions and mail. This is a scientific experiment by Dennis Komsa, age 12.''
It included his Paterson address and noted that 5 cents was enclosed to buy the stamp needed to reply.
Here's what Komsa wanted to know:
Where was the jar found?
When was it found?
How was it found?
"Anything else which might help me?''
Komsa, now 61 and living in Hillsborough, was a little surprised to learn this experiment he started in 1963 had been recovered.
"Things happen for a reason. I guess it's good it came to shore. It shows anything is possible,'' he said.
On Saturday, Komsa got to meet the people who found the jar and finally get the answers to his questions.
The borough hosted a luncheon in honor of its 100th birthday this year. Arthur Fierro, president of the Property Owners Association in Seaside Heights, found Komsa and invited him as a guest to meet Roher and Stanton.
Fierro, 73, said the area would have been hit by major storms and hurricanes that September after Komsa cast out the jar, and guesses it became buried in the sand until Sandy dug it up.
"It's great that somebody from that period is coming back to visit us to recover something he did with his father on vacation,'' he said.
Fierro plans to return the items to Komsa, who said he is looking forward to having back a piece of his childhood.
"My father and I used to do stuff like that all the time,'' Komsa said.
Komsa called to see if his jar broke any Guinness World Records, but learned his would have had to stay buried another half century.
The current record is for a bottle found in 2012 by a fisherman from the United Kingdom after it spent 97 years and 309 days at sea, according to the Guinness records website.
Roher was still recovering from Sandy when she first learned about the piece of history in her driveway. While the storm spared her high-seated home, four feet of water destroyed her two rental units.
The day the jar caught Stanton's eye, he joined Roher and Roher's 33-year-old son, Nathan, and took a bus over to the barrier island to start what would be a massive cleanup effort.
Ultimately, for Roher, the jar was another interesting anecdote in the aftermath of a horrific experience.
Ask about the jar and she will also talk about getting to meet Britain's Prince Harry during a visit in Seaside Heights and doing an interview with Vinny Guadagnino of "Jersey Shore'' fame when the show's network, MTV, taped a Sandy special.
"I think it's kind of nice to have something like that in the middle of all the chaos,'' Roher said.
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Load64 is a sorry excuse for a second stage bootloader. It has no configuration, no filesystem support. It can load its kernels only from the Disk Volume Header.
However it is simple, it is very fast, and requires no porting to use it on a new 64-bit ARCS platform. It used to be the only bootloader that can load Linux kernels on Octane machines. It is also a convenient starting point for more advanced excursions into the land of bootloading.
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Meet Nicky
Nicky is a brave mom who saved her piglets from flooding in Iowa. Meet her and learn about her past in this video.
Transforming Animals into Food
Most of us would like to think that the meat, milk, and eggs we buy come from animals that have lived happy, healthy lives. Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth. Like cats and dogs, the animals we eat have complex emotions including the ability to suffer. Yet on modern farms, they are treated with such disregard that similar treatment to a cat or dog would be grounds for felony cruelty charges in Minnesota.
The competition to produce inexpensive meat, milk, and eggs has caused animals to be treated as nothing more than commodities. Animals are confined to the point that they can barely move; some can't even turn around. When they become sick or injured, they are denied individualized care. Due to selective breeding and growth-promoting drugs, they grow so quickly that their limbs cannot support their added weight. They are mutilated and castrated without anesthesia. In the end, animals raised for meat, milk, and eggs are crammed into trucks and transported to slaughterhouses, where they are killed for our consumption.
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Every time we sit down to eat, we are faced with a powerful choice that carries important consequences. A tremendous amount of animal abuse results from our consumption of meat, dairy, and eggs. Removing them from our diets can help spare countless animals from suffering. With all the great vegetarian options and resources available, reducing our consumption of animal products has never been easier and sends a strong message of compassion.
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How to choose the marine stereo that's right for you
What makes marine stereos different?
From punishing sunlight to driving rain to extreme temperatures, a marine audio system has to endure a lot of abuse. And that's just when the boat is tied up at the marina. If you want great sound on your boat, you need marine-rated gear that's designed and tested to stand up to the elements.
Unlike car audio components — which live in the watertight interior of your vehicle — marine audio equipment has to be able to endure an open climate. The water, salt, and sun that make boating so much fun for you can wreak havoc on your boat's electrical components. If your gear isn't made for this sort of abuse, it won't last a season.
Marine gear undergoes hundreds—even thousands—of hours of extensive pre-production testing. Ultraviolet test chambers simulate years of sun exposure, while special "salt fog" chambers simulate years of exposure to harsh salt water environments. Blasts of water test every seal to ensure that every button, switch and port is moisture-proof. And special conformal coatings provide additional protection for the internal circuitry.
There are three key things to consider when you're comparing marine audio equipment:
- Water resistance: If your gear is "water resistant," that means it can handle splashes and light rain, but isn't built to handle submersion. Levels of resistance vary by manufacturer. Waterproof products, on the other hand, can be fully submerged without damage, though the specifics vary here, too.
- UV resistance: Quality marine gear is designed to withstand sun damage. It's a key feature to look for on receiver faceplates, speaker cones and remote controls.
- Anti-corrosion protection: Salt water can turn great gear into ballast in no time. Marine gear is designed to resist rust and corrosion, with coated circuit boards, plated connections, and rust-resistant chassis components.
Water resistance is essential for marine electronics. If your gear can't stand up to the elements, it probably won't last a whole season.
What should you look for in a marine radio?
The right specs
Marine audio gear is just like car gear in that better specs mean better sound. For receivers, look for a high CD signal-to-noise ratio, a wide frequency response, plenty of RMS power, and plenty of USB ports, of you need them. If radio's your thing, check the FM sensitivity spec — the lower, the better. For your marine speakers, you'll want plenty of power handling, plus weatherproof cones, rubber surrounds, and UV -resistant grilles.
High power
Since you'll be listening to your music out in the open (as opposed to within the acoustic confines of a car), high power is a must for clean, clear sound. Most marine receivers come with built-in 4-way amplifiers, but if you love it loud or just want to drown out the nautical background noise, you might want to consider adding an external marine amp to your system.
Useful features
The days of the basic, one-trick CD player are long gone. Today's marine receivers are every bit as powerful and feature-packed as their automotive cousins. Built-in Bluetooth® connectivity lets you stream music or make calls without taking your hand off the helm. SiriusXM satellite radio tuners let you enjoy your favorite music, sports and talk up to 200 miles offshore. And multiple USB and aux connections let you enjoy your entire music collection by plugging in an iPod®, thumb drive or MP3 player. Today's aftermarket marine receivers have everything you need to stay entertained at the dock and on the water.
If you have a larger system in mind, look for a marine receiver with multiple sets of preamp outputs. That makes it easier to connect and control external amplifiers and subwoofers as you build your ultimate marine audio system. Many marine radios are available with waterproof, wired remote controls. These remotes allow you to mount the radio inside a watertight compartment if you need to, plus they give you and your passengers convenient control over what's playing.
How are you going to install it?
Installing a stereo in a boat can be a bit tricky. Unlike most land-bound vehicles, boats don't generally offer one obvious, ideal place for audio equipment. And, depending on the various power and space limitations, your boat installation could present a unique set of challenges.
If you're replacing an existing radio, you can probably use the existing mounting location and wiring. Otherwise, you might need to cut some paneling or run wires for the components. Most marine stereos are a standard single-DIN size, and connect to a 12-volt marine battery.
Some boats are equipped with grounding plates, but not all. If yours doesn't have one, grounding a stereo can be challenging. Consult your manufacturer for more information on where to ground components in your boat.
Get the one that's right for you
There are a wide variety of durable, high-quality marine radios on the market today. In fact, just about any A/V configuration you can imagine in your car can now be tweaked to work on your boat. With that flexibility in mind, there are many things to take into account when shopping for a marine audio system, so be sure to study each product carefully before deciding which is the best one for you.
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Beckett's struggles continue as last-place Cubs take series
Kemp homers again, but Dodgers hit into three double plays
LOS ANGELES -- General manager Ned Colletti, after watching the Dodgers lose Sunday to former Dodger Edwin Jackson and the last place Cubs, 7-3, heads to Albuquerque for a scouting trip, looking for a miracle.
Actually, he's looking for a big league ready pitcher. Despite years of drafting arms, reports indicate he won't find much.
But everything's relative, and the Dodgers' big league pitching staff is in crisis mode. Josh Beckett, trying to pitch with a hip impingement that needs season-ending surgery, made his third consecutive disappointing start in Sunday's loss. Dan Haren's losing streak reached five starts Friday.
Manager Don Mattingly said that, like Haren on Wednesday, Beckett is still scheduled to make his next start Friday.
"Yeah, at this point, unless he comes in tomorrow and can't walk or can't do something," Mattingly said.
The bullpen that made Saturday night's walk-off win possible showed the strain of pitching 14 2/3 innings in the three-game series by forgetting how to throw strikes Sunday, as J.P. Howell, Brandon League and Chris Perez issued six walks in three innings -- League walking the bases loaded with no outs in what became a three-run eighth inning. Paco Rodriguez, just recalled to replace the injured Paul Maholm, threw two scoreless innings.
"It's up for discussion with Ned and his guys," Mattingly said of possible reinforcements. "We're always trying to get better. But [Adrian Gonzalez] was struggling for a while and we didn't do anything with him. I feel Josh is going to get better and come out of this thing. You can't make changes all the time."
Sending Beckett or Haren to the bullpen, Mattingly said, also doesn't make sense to him.
"It sounds great, but you got to have a starter," he said. "You still can't just, all of a sudden, have a bullpen day. It's not Spring Training. We've tried to use the off-days to give Danny a break. We tried to use the All-Star break and the DL to give Josh a break. You do whatever you can, but you don't just have all these guys just to be able to use anybody you want."
In three starts since that Band-Aid, 15-day stay on the disabled list, Beckett hasn't made it out of the fifth inning. He no longer throws customary bullpen sessions between starts because, as he implied, his high-mileage, 34-year-old body can't take it.
"I'm old. That's just where I'm at," he said. "I can't force myself to go two days after I pitch. It's like robbing Peter to pay Paul."
Instead, Beckett makes adjustments for mechanical flaws by throwing on flat ground, but it's not working, he's not able to repeat his delivery in-game. So at one point Sunday he reeled off four consecutive strikeouts, but soon thereafter walked three of four hitters before serving up a two-run homer to Chris Coghlan after a double by Jackson.
"I felt better physically today than the last two starts, but the results were the same and that's what we're judged on and what we judge ourselves on," he said. "I didn't throw enough strikes and the strikes I did throw were not quality enough. I can't keep killing the bullpen every time I pitch."
Beckett has allowed 11 runs in 12 innings during the three starts since he came off the disabled list, after compiling a glossy 2.26 ERA in his first 17 starts. He's walked seven in his last 8 1/3 innings.
Until the hip problem worsened in a July 6 win at Colorado, Beckett was on a remarkable comeback after missing almost all of last season with thoracic outlet surgery to remove a rib.
Speaking of comebacks, Matt Kemp continued his hot hitting with another home run, his fifth in the last six games, but the Dodgers also hit into three double plays.
The fact that the Dodgers lost to a former farmhand traded to Tampa Bay with Chuck Tiffany in 2006 for Danys Baez and Lance Carter didn't make this one any easier to take. It was Jackson's first win in six weeks.
"It's a high-style environment playing at Dodger Stadium," said Jackson, who beat Randy Johnson on his 20th birthday in his Dodgers debut. "It's pretty loud and the fans are really into the game. It's good for us to come out and take victories like this and win series like this."
After Kemp's homer in the sixth cut the lead to one, the Dodgers thought they had the game tied in the seventh. Drew Butera, starting for the second game because of A.J. Ellis' bruised knee, hit his second double of the game with one out. Carl Crawford lashed a liner headed for the right-field corner, but first baseman Anthony Rizzo leaped to snag the shot and doubled Butera off second base.
"Carl's ball, the line drive was the one that ended up killing us," said Mattingly. "Instead of tied with Carl on second or third with one out, they got out of the inning with the lead. Changed the game right there."


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In the new movie "This is 40," the writer and director Judd Apatow casts the arrival of life's four-decade mark as a uniquely brutal crossroads, flagged by sputtering libido, suffocating commitments and curdled dreams.
Judd, buddy, add another eight years, then talk to me. Your body will be even wobblier, your obligations weightier, and time running out more ruthlessly on the gaudiest of your plans. This is 48: in the mail last week, I got a solicitation from AARP. It included a membership card, ready to be activated just as soon as I send in dues, which won't be anytime soon. And while that premature come-on reflects the group's relentlessness more than anything else, it's an accurate reminder that I'm closer to when I'll quit working than to when I started, my hopes and my hair so fluffy and intact.
That was in my 20s, a period with travails all its own, depicted in another project that Apatow is involved in, as an executive producer. I speak of "Girls," whose post-college, pre-mortgage heroines flail professionally, fumble romantically and make deeply puzzling wardrobe choices, their outfits emblems of their befuddlement.
The half-hour comedy-drama will begin its second season this coming weekend, and HBO made the first few episodes available to us media types, who have proved that we simply can't stop gnawing on it. "Girls" is to cultural arbiters what rawhides are to cocker spaniels.
The new episodes immediately reintroduce Lena Dunham's naked body, which was introduced aplenty in the old episodes. At this fleshy point I could draw it, I could paint it, I could probably reproduce it in clay. Dunham's character, Hannah, has a new roommate, gay, and a new playmate, Republican. There's considerable friction, out of bed as well as in.
And there's a portrait of the period between 20 and 30 as one of peerlessly keen neediness and doubt. You yearn to believe that you've figured out the dating game, not yet realizing that it's eternally unfathomable. You ache for an assurance that you're pointed in a purposeful direction, but suspect that you're going nowhere fast. Your desire to project confidence is inversely proportional to your store of it, and you have some really, really bad furniture. I recall, from my mid-20s, a lacquered black table with fake gold accents that cost me next to nothing except, for many years afterward, an undying, unspeakable shame.
We're a self-absorbed species, and one wrinkle of our self-absorption is our tendency, reflected in our art and entertainment, to believe that there's no passage of human existence as fraught with perils and as peculiarly significant as the one we just so happen to be going through. Dunham is 26, and "Girls," which she created, is predicated on the notion that the 20s herald an inimitable sequence of humiliations and unrivaled state of ambivalence. Apatow is 45, and his new movie maintains that to enter your 40s is to encounter an especially messy set of questions about the road taken and the unsmooth pavement ahead. Could any other age compare?
Well, the 30s are no picnic, as we learned in the television drama "thirtysomething," whose four-season run began in 1987, when its sires, Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, turned 35. The characters they hatched were roughly their age peers, and turned soul searching into an exercise so vigorous it practically burned calories. Angst overwhelmed them as surely as hormones capsize teenagers.
Speaking of teens, they support whole submarkets of publishing and series of movies dedicated to reassuring them that their pimply predicament is by far the worst: cliques, virginity, trigonometry. But I'm clinging to the conviction that the late 40s are tougher — just try to find a 17-year-old whose left shoulder creaks like mine, and who suddenly has to pitch in thousands toward his apartment building's new elevators — so that I can congratulate myself for every day I successfully muddle through, every smile I courageously summon.
Then again, this passage isn't really so insufferable. By 48 you've come to know, and quite possibly accept, the well-intentioned wretch that you are, and you most likely have the furniture situation worked out.
The 20s, too, have their perks. You get the freedom of full-fledged adulthood but can make big mistakes without paying huge prices, because there are still so many opportunities ahead for amends.
Dunham isn't blind to this. In "Girls" she finds the exhilaration amid the mortification. And Apatow's new movie ultimately understands that being weighed down is just a pessimist's way of looking at — and talking about — being grounded, which so many of us struggle to achieve. What feel like tethers one day feel like roots the next.
This is 25 and 35 and 40 and, I'll wager, 50: a matchless kind of awful, a particular stripe of wonderful and just another phase in a struggle that, like our narcissism, is ageless.