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On the eve of his wedding, the unnamed Man (Adam Brody) of "Some Girl(s)" embarks on a cross-country tour to apologize to his exes. But the fiction writer and former cad is still a cad, a narcissistic coward who can't just shut up and let each girl protect her dignity by pretending he's forgiven. Once he's prodded them to cry, rage or exact revenge, he blithely heads to the next town to bungle another big moment.
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Born in Springfield, Ohio, the biology student used her education as a vehicle to travel around the world.
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In the wake of Ianni's sudden death, Fontenot found himself thinking of ways to honor her legacy. He settled on creating a scholarship fund that would help biology students do what Ianni loved to do — find jobs and internships far afield, seeing new places and earning new experiences.
"We want to give others the chance to get the same experiences that made her a great researcher," Fontenot said.
The biology department is in the early stages of raising money for the scholarship and is taking donations from the public. Those interested in contributing can email Fontenot at email@example.com, or can visit nicholls.edu/biology and click on the "Rachel Ianni Memorial Fund" link.
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If South Sudan is a virtual unknown for most Americans, India has the opposite problem: it is all too well known, and often for the wrong reasons.
Long gone are the stories about starvation and poverty, about overpopulation and religious conflicts. Those problems still exist, to be sure, but most editors would rather read about India's economic promise, about its democratic system, its embrace of free-market capitalism, its newfound strategic alliance with the United States against a surging China.
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Unfortunately, the fascination with India's growing economic clout and foreign-policy overtures has glossed over its institutional limits, the many quirks of its political culture, and the significant economic and social challenges it faces. To cite but one example, at least 30 percent of Indian agricultural produce spoils because the country has failed to develop a viable supply chain. Foreign investors could alleviate, if not solve, that problem. But thanks to the intransigence of a small number of political parties and organized interest groups, India has refused to open its markets to outsiders. Until India can meet basic challenges like this, its greatness will remain a matter of rhetoric, not fact.
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As a bureau chief in Africa, I could feel the tug of Timbuktu all the way down in South Africa. In ancient times, this city in the Sahara desert was a cultural center, a city of libraries and universities, a target for European explorers, who invariably ended up dying on the way.
I'm glad I got there when I did.
Timbuktu is now under the control of Islamist ideologues who have begun a campaign to destroy historic monuments, shrines, and tombs that are not deemed sufficiently Islamic. The alliance that the Islamists had with Tuareg rebels, who shared a contempt for the Malian government but not the Islamist ideology, has fallen apart. Now the Islamists have turned their eyes on the untold number of manuscripts, some of them dating back 1,200 years or more, that make up a largely unexplored history of precolonial Africa.
A fine piece of reporting by Agence France-Presse shows that the Islamists have at least one obstacle in their road to total destruction: Timbuktu's small Arab minority.
AFP quoted one Arab militia leader, Tahel Ould Sidy, as saying, "We are not going to allow people who know nothing about Islam to come and destroy our treasures."
Insha' Allah (God willing).
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Probably the best news one can find about journalism is that readers still care desperately about the quality of the news they receive. We know this not because of a flux of letters full of praise, but rather the opposite. With the economic viability of the news industry, in its current form, under increasing scrutiny, more journalists are beginning to take a serious look at the way news is gathered and written.
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Next week, the Senate will vote on the Buffett Rule, President Obama's class-warfare bid to punish the wealthy under the guide of paying their "fair share" in taxes. Never mind that the top one percent already pay a much higher median effective tax rate at 29.6%, as the President's own economists noted this year, more than double that of midrange earners' 13.3%. Never mind that the predicted revenue of the Buffett Rule would produce $4 billion a year in revenue, which represents about 0.44% of next year's deficit but could be used in the private sector to generate innovation and expansion. The Senate and the President want to punish a very small group of Americans, perhaps no more than 400 households, for their success.
At one time, we had an aversion to punishing people through legislative action, an aversion so strong that the Constitution bars both federal and state legislatures from considering bills of attainder. As I explain in my column for The Fiscal Times today, that's what this looks like, aimed ostensibly at 400 households but politically at just one:
Obama and his allies insist that the actual revenue and deficit reduction matter less than the fairness, but neither matters as much as having a class-warfare club to swing at Mitt Romney in the fall. Bernie Becker at The Hill stated the obvious when he reported that the White House wanted to "hammer" Romney with the Buffett Rule proposal, pointing out that Romney only paid an effective tax rate of 14 percent on tax returns he released this winter during the nomination fight.
Democrats in Congress want to push this bill as a means to punish Romney for his wealth, politically in this case rather than legally, since the bill has zero chance of passing into law. It's a naked attempt to use Congress to attack and damage the likely challenger to the incumbent President.
In 1788 James Madison, one of the framers of our government, warned about Congressional attempts to issue political and legal punishments. He said, "Bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and laws impairing the obligations of contracts, are contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation. … The sober … have seen with regret and indignation that sudden changes and legislative interferences, in cases affecting personal rights, become jobs in the hands of enterprising and influential speculators, and snares to the more-industrious and less-informed part of the community."
Perhaps we should start paying attention to the Constitution.
The bill won't pass in the Senate, and it doesn't have a prayer of even coming to the floor in the House. It's simply a gimmick to provide Obama a way to demonize Romney as a rich fat cat for the November election. How well is it working? Dana Milbank, who's definitely in the target audience, sounds singularly unimpressed:
Actually, the gimmick was apparent even without the president's acknowledgment. He gave his remarks in a room in the White House complex adorned with campaign-style photos of his factory tours. On stage with him were eight props: four millionaires, each paired with a middle-class assistant. The octet smiled and nodded so much as Obama made his case that it appeared the president was sharing the stage with eight bobbleheads.
And if that's not enough evidence of gimmickry, after his speech Obama's reelection campaign unveiled an online tax calculator "to see how your tax rate stacks up against Mitt Romney's — and then see what the Buffett Rule would do." …
The politics of the Buffett Rule — it has no chance of passing when the Senate takes it up next week — are so overt that Obama's remarks Wednesday were virtually indistinguishable from a section of his campaign speech in Florida on Tuesday.
Having the Senate push through an Obama campaign strategy document for a floor vote as a way to throw mud at his political opponent has to be one of the most cynical uses of power in modern Beltway times — especially since the Senate hasn't bothered to pass a budget resolution in three years. Instead of fretting over the budgets of 400 families, shouldn't the Senate be focusing on the nation's budget, a responsibility assigned to them by law?
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Jun 7, 2000, 8:38 AM
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Just thought I'd ask a question to get peoples thoughts. I spent a few years learning programming languages such as Pascal, C and Delphi (in school and other wise). Then I tought myself Perl. I was always under the impression that because Perl is an interpreted language (such as javascript) rather that a compiled language (such as C or Pascal) it was considered a "scripting" language.
I have just read the "Ten Perl Myths" article on the The Perl Archive home page which basically says that because I call it a script rather than a program, I don't know what I am doing. While I agree with most everything else the article talks about (the power of Perl an how easy it is, etc) I had to question the statement about "program vs. script". I just wanted to get others' opinions on this subject. Any thoughts?
Jun 8, 2000, 8:03 AM
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You know, that's an interesting thought. I looked at the article by Simon Cozens and to me it looks like he was just being extreme in order to prove his point. Good for him. I do not agree with his statement which said:
"I'm going to talk about Perl programs here, but you might hear some people call them Perl scripts. The people who call them `programs' on the whole write better ones."
I think that is the most retarded thing I have ever heard! At work we do our whole back end in perl/CGI (www.eznettools.com). We use object oriented programming techiniques in our code, and yet I still refer to them as 'scripts' instead of 'programs'. That is my 'dialect', if you will. To say that my code is not as good as someone else's because I call it a scripts is
the dumbest thing I have ever heard. But heh, that's my opinion.
I totally believe that perl is more of a programming language rather then a scripting language, just because of all the things I have been able to do with it. You can even do polymorphism with perl, try doing that in JavaScript. I consider perl a robust and powerful programming language, but I still refer to my code as scripts.
Jun 9, 2000, 2:22 AM
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I call them both. I think that perl is a heck of a lot more powerfull and flexable than java script. There happens to be a true form of perl that is perl script. You can write it right into the html. It looks just like java script but it uses all of the same old perl commands. I don't know if anyone's heard of it but it's out there. So I think that perl script is one type of perl, and perl (The core language) is the programming language. Just like java. Their is a difference between java and java script. It's just that perl script is hardly known. I think that they are true programms if their written in perl and that people can call them whatever they want. So with that in mind, How can what you refferer to your perl programms by reflect on the way you write them.
I heard a saying supposably came from the creator of the perl language which is supposed to show how powerfull and flexible perl actually is.
"In perl you can do anything you want in any way you want, and if you can't do it in perl, it's possible."
It probably sounds like your at the end of a grape vine, but that's pretty close.
I hear that in later versions of perl you will be able to produce c+ code in the perl. Executible c+ code within a perl programm. Same with java (Which I try to do all the time the best that I can with the current version of perl).
I think that in a later version you will be able to compile perl too, like c+ is. Has anyone else heard of that?
Just my thoughts,
.. Excuse My Spelling Errors, That's if I spelled somthing like there's wd-40 on the keyboard.
Jun 9, 2000, 6:31 AM
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To clarify my earlier post. I did not mean to imply that Perl and Javascript were equals. Perl is a far superior language. My comparison was only to say that they are both "interpreted" languages rather than "compiled" languages.
I do recognize the power of Perl. It is just that I was lead to believe early on that, being an "interpreted" language, you wrote scripts in Perl. It could be because at the time of learning, the books I got called them scripts and every Perl site calls them scripts. Even this one! Does that mean that all the scripts in these pages are crap? I think it would not matter if I refered to them as "Perl programs", "Perl scripts" or "Perl Documents". If the code is clean and works, its fine. If is isn't, then its crap.

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"In perl you can do anything you want in any way you want, and if you can't do it in perl, it's possible."
I will assume this is meant to say "...if you can't do it in perl, it's
" Not trying to cut on you, just wanted to clarify that for other readers.
Not to get off topic, but I think it is a relavent analogy. Although I've not experienced this myself, from what I've heard, you can do some mighty powerful things with SQL. I do believe you write SQL scripts not programs. Could be wrong on that one.
$world =~ s/ignorance/intelligence/i;
Jun 9, 2000, 8:55 AM
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last semester a couple of guys and myself compiled perl 'programs' into C++ code in order to test a cluster. So it is possible to compile it into C++ code even now. Another guy at work views perl as ALMOST being a compiled language because when it is interpreted it goes through a double pass before it is executed. That's an interesting thought as well
Jun 10, 2000, 4:13 AM
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Thanks for letting me know mckhendry. I'm going to be getting into c++ pretty soon.
While on that subjuect, I was asked to creat a system for a search engine in perl for a temporary model to get it up and running. This was before I started learning perl and when I learned perl I was able to do everything required and more for the engine. I never thought that I would be able to do the whole system in perl. But now I know what you can do with perl and I looked at all of the c++ engines and I can't find a difference. I was supposed to do everything in perl and then later in C++ so that it would be as fast as possible. Now I don't know if learning c++ is worth it. What do you think? I c++ more powerfull than perl?
Don't worry about it monocle, I also asked the guy that told me that and he said to me "no, I meant if you can't do it in perl there is some possible way that you can find to do it". I'd think that impossible makes more sense too but I think we all get that It's supposed to mean perl is powerfull.
Jun 13, 2000, 7:09 AM
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You need to learn C++.
Yeah, perl is god's gift to mankind, but it just can't do everything as well as C++ can. Each of these languages have their place in the programming world, and some things are just done better in C++ (or Java, or Lisp, or VB or whatever).
In my personal opinion C++ is so much more powerful than perl in the OOP realm of things (please don't tell Larry Wall I said that). But as a side note, perl is so much better in working with strings and regex's.
There is an O'reilly book called 'Mastering Algorithms with Perl' (it has a wolf on the cover), and in it they talk about linked lists, heaps, binary trees, and the like. Maybe it is just because I started learning C++ 6 months before I started learning perl, but I really think it is easier to implement some of these concepts in C++ than in perl.
So before I step off my soap box, my advice is to learn C++, and while you're at it get Java certified by Sun. Trust me, it is definitely worth it.
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Speaking for learning C++....
I've learned over a dozen program languages and actually used quite a few. However, I have encounted one stumbling block when trying to program for PCs, and that's Windows.
I know (or used to know) C, and I've done object oriented programming, but I can't program in C++ simply because I don't know OWL (I believe that's the name of C++'s windows-related library).
Does anyone know a good reference for programming using C++ in a window's environment? Either something online or a book which could be ordered online would be appreciated.
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1. Please tell us about your Blood Coven series.
MM: The Blood Coven series follows the adventures of two identical twin girls, Sunshine and Rayne. In the beginning of Book #1, Boys that Bite, Rayne wants to be a vampire very badly. She's networked, been on waiting lists, taken a certification course--the works. But on the night when her dream is about to come true, the vampire who is supposed to bite her, accidentally bites her twin sister instead. Now Sunny, who up until now had no idea vampires even existed, has one week to figure out a way to reverse the transformation or she will become a vampire forever.
2. Bad Blood, book 4 in the series, came out January 5th, what is this book about?
3. These books have been "revamped" with new covers. Did you get any creative input on the new covers? Has anything else changed?
MM: I didn't have a ton of imput on the new covers, but they did ask me what kinds of covers I liked. I mentioned Houes of Night and Vampire Academy and I think the final covers do have that same kind of darker field of those series. I think they're beautiful -- especially Bad Blood and Stake That - and couldn't have asked for anything better!
Inside the books I was able to update some of the pop culture references and also re-insert Girls that Growl's original cliffhanger ending, which had been taken out of the first verion in case we couldn't do a fourth book.
4. Mari, I have discovered that you wear many hats; writer, TV producer, and Emmy winner to name a few. Are you a vampire? I mean only those who need NO sleep could keep that type of schedule!
MM: Ha! I wish! Unfortunately I have to do it all and get a good night's sleep. :) I wake up in the morning to write - two hours before I need to get ready for work. It's not always fun, but having the books take shape makes it all worthwhile. I also write during my lunch hour at work. If you want something badly enough, you make time for it. Luckily I love both my jobs so I'm happy to make it all work!
5. Seriously, do you you believe in paranormal beings such as ghosts, witches, werewolves or vampires?
MM: As Agent Mulder in X Files always says, "I want to believe." There's a whole big world out there--I imagine reality is bigger than we can even imagine!
MM: As my heroine Rayne is, I'm a goth girl at heart. I listen to a lot of VNV Nation, Bauhaus, Covenant, Sisters of Mercy, David Bowie, Joy Division, New Order, Depeche Mode, Cure, etc. etc. But as I'm writing I prefer music without words to distract me - so I usually gear up an electronica mix.
7. What's next? Are you currently working on any projects you would like to share with us?
MM: I'm working on Book #5 of the series, which I've been tentatively calling NIGHT SCHOOL. It's coming out summer 2010 in Germany. Not sure of a US release date yet. I've also just finished a time travel called THE CAMELOT CODE for my other publiser Dutton. I'm particularly proud of this project and can't wait to share it with readers--most likely in summer 2011.
8. Lastly, what is one thing your readers would be shocked to learn about you?
MM: I love horror movies. The cheesier the better. In fact, my finace and I reguarly host "cheesy horror movie nights" at our apartment. I have a particular fondness for the Friday the 13th series. It's so bad it's good! :) I also love videogames and manga and cosplay. I might actually be a 15 year old at heart! But that's okay - 'cause I have a lot of fun!!
Thank you for taking the time to visit with us and congratulations on your success.
MM: Thank you!!!
For more information about Mari and her books, visit her website, Mari's blog, or on facebook.
Are you a member of The Blood Coven? I am!
Mari's books can be purchased through Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.
Contest time...
Mari has graciously offered a SIGNED copy of one of the Blood Coven books to a lucky commenter! The winner can choose either Bad Blood, Girls That Growl, Boy's That Bite, or Stake That.
To enter, you MUST complete the form AND leave some love for Mari in the comments section. You can get an extra entry by spreading the word (tweet, facebook, blog, sidebar, ect.) The contest will end on January 27th and is open to US and Canadian mailing addresses. Good luck!


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David Prior: Part One
We interview one of the best known and most talented DVD producers in the business today, one David Prior. David has worked on a n...
David Prior has worked on a number of classic DVD packages over the last few years, most recently the Special Editions of the Die Hard series. He's also the man behind the DVD's for Fight Club, Titus, Rocky Horror Picture Show and Big Trouble In Little China. Now David Prior is working on 2 of the major blockbusters of this year, Planet of the Apes and Pearl Harbor, so DVDActive thought it would be great to catch up with him, and find out a little about him.
DVDActive: Firstly David, thank you for agreeing to answer some questions regarding your upcoming releases. To start off, could you give our readers a little bit of background about what you do as a DVD Producer, and which projects you are currently working on?
David Prior: DVD producing is a difficult job to describe because it changes from person to person and project to project. I tend to take an overall approach and try to control as much of the process as possible, which can include supervising the transfer of the film, designing the overall approach to the supplements and then shooting and editing them, conceptualizing the menus and packaging, recording and editing the commentaries, the list goes on. In amongst that is hours of those necessary evils, research and paperwork. I don't always get to control as many elements as I'd like, but that's the way it goes.
Currently I'm wrapping up Planet of the Apes (2001) and Pearl Harbor. I've got a few other projects on deck, but I haven't decided which I'll do next just yet.
DVDActive: The first DVD I purchased which you had produced was Fight Club starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. For such a big release, did you feel under a lot of pressure? Where the hell do you start, as I would imagine for such a recent release there would be bucket loads of material to look at?
David Prior: There's always pressure, I guess, but I love Fight Club and felt very strongly that I was the right person at the right time for that project. I'm pretty hard to please, so the greatest pressure came from myself. I started by reading the book and the script, combing through hours of video tape and editor's logs and just sort of finding it from there. In truth, the supplements were made up as I went along, which is how I prefer to work.
DVDActive: When putting together a DVD, how do you make decisions on what to include and what not to include, how hard do you work to get the best available features and commentaries?
David Prior: The philosophy behind any successful Special Edition is to create a living archive of the film that is as in-depth and informative as possible. Within that you try to make it entertaining as well, but honestly that's a secondary concern. I think it has to be. Special Editions have their roots in film scholarship, which presumes that the hows and whys of filmmaking are entertaining in and of themselves. In the Laserdisc days that was the accepted mode because by and large the only people taking the time to create Special Editions were movie fanatics. But as the studios discover the market possibilities there, we can see how the more 'film centric' approach is fast giving way to "Access Hollywood" type of slick, commercialized entertainments. My approach will always be the former, so that informs the choices about what to include. For example, when having to choose between an alternate edit of a scene and a theatrical featurette, I'll opt for the alternate scene since that's directly related to the body of the film. As for your second question, I work very hard.
DVDActive: What is the average length of time that a DVD takes to construct from start to finish, from the initial planning up until duplication? Which DVD that you have worked on has taken the most time up to now?
David Prior: It varies greatly upon numerous things. Filmmaker interest and availability, studio marketing plans, the age of the film, etc. There really is no formula. Planet of the Apes has come together in about four months (although it could have been faster if we had started after the film was completed) and Die Hard took close to a year. Not a year of solid work,
mind you. But we experienced a lot of snags and delays that forced us to keep pushing the schedule. Even so, there still wasn't enough time. There never is. But a deluxe, two-disc Special Edition will seldom take less than four months.
DVDActive: Lately, a hot topic on a number of forums and newsgroups has been the decision by some distributors to issue Pan&Scan transfers only for some large DVD releases including the recently announced Cats&Dogs and Willy Wonka. What are your opinions on Pan&Scan, and do you believe that Pan&Scan releases could become a more common trend?
David Prior: I will never work on a project that includes a Pan & Scan release. I don't even care if there's a Pan Scan on one side of the disc and a Widescreen on the other. Movies are not shoes and should not be subjected to consumer preference. If the film was shot in widescreen, that's what you get at home. If you don't like it, put it on your tough-shit list and send it to your chaplain.
DVDActive: Your latest projects are Planet of the Apes 2001, and the recently announced Pearl Harbor discs, and the next few questions are in regard to these. Firstly, regarding the director's cut DVD of Pearl Harbor, will it feature the original theatrical version as well as the directors cut via a branching method, or will fans of the film be forced to buy 2 separate DVD versions of the film?
David Prior: Due to many considerations, not the least of which is the running time of the movie, a seamless branching version on DVD has proved impractical. But Michael Bay and I have insisted from the beginning that if two versions were going out, then consumers must know in advance so they can pick the one they want. Additionally, we're including a rebate coupon in the first release that will allow you to buy the director's cut at a reduced price. I think this is the best way to make both versions available without compromising the quality of either.
DVDActive: For the planet of the apes DVD, is the famous deleted love scene between Mark Wahlberg and Helena Bonham Carter going to be included?
David Prior: Even if this scene was ever written (which I doubt), it was certainly never shot. The same goes for the numerous rumors about five alternate endings. Tim Burton had a hard enough time completing one ending in time for the release, let alone five. They're just rumors.
DVDActive: You began work on Planet of the Apes months before the theatrical release of the film. How does working on a very much 'work in progress' film, differ from your work on films that have already been released such as Die Hard? Do you prefer working this way?
David Prior: It differs in that you haven't seen the film and so you haven't formed an opinion about it. A lot of what I do arises out of my personal reactions to a film and so until I've seen it and had a chance to think about it, I'm a little at sea. The benefit is that the project is still
fresh in everyone's mind and materials are right at hand. Working on older films is often a bit more like archaeology, which can be alternately rewarding and frustrating. As in most things, a balance between the two would be ideal.
DVDActive: When designing a DVD's navigation system, do you have to consider known limits with hardware that have been caused by cheap imported OEM players to prevent product recalls? I know here in the UK, we often have compatibility problems with discs, which can be very annoying to say the least! If so, is this a major limitation on what you can
do with a DVD?
David Prior: Player compatibility issues are a major concern, but in the end, if a feature is within spec, we'll go with it and leave it up to consumers and hardware manufacturers to make sure their players are fully compliant. We test everything on literally hundreds of different machines so that even if we can't solve all the problems, we'll know what they are and have some solutions in mind before the complaints come rolling in.
DVDActive: Is it difficult to balance the needs of both the usability and design of the menu system? I've noticed that the interfaces on DVD's which you have produced have always been easy to use, yet look great at the same time. Do you consult with a team to decide on the right balance?
David Prior: Thank you, that's a very important issue for me. My feeling is that the content should be aimed at film geeks, but your mother should be able to use the interface. Web surfing has acclimated people to the notion of menu-style navigation, which helps, but personally I get no pleasure out of "cool" interfaces that require a software engineer or a fortune teller to navigate.
DVDActive: Do you often find it difficult sourcing the material for discs, such as outtakes, alternative ending and so on? Or do you simply ask the distributers, director and others involved to provide the material? Do you ever have to rush the extras as a result of studio pressure to release the product early, if so, which ones, and what would have appeared in them?
David Prior: I'm not at liberty to talk about missed opportunities – the studio would have my head. But I have on many occasions worked 150 hour weeks to get those last few features together before it was too late. There are always a few disappointments, and again, there's never enough time, but I have been very satisfied (with the notable exception of my first project) with my discs in this regard.
DVDActive: What sort of work goes into the design of the packaging? Do you have some involvement or is it totally handled by an ad agency? I've noticed that the Pearl Harbor packaging appears particuarly impressive, did you have much input into the design?
David Prior: The "Pearl Harbor" packaging was actually based on a concept of mine, and I put my two cents in "Fight Club," although that was mostly Fincher's idea. I'm talking about the US region 1 here, because more often than not the international packaging is very different. The initial idea with Pearl was to bind it in an actual distressed leather case. I knew this would never fly because of the expense, but the Disney artists have done an outstanding job of replicating the look on paper. I'm very happy with it.
DVDActive: What sort of commentaries do you prefer, those that are edited together or one continuous track with a group of people? Is one more difficult/expensive than the other to produce?
David Prior: Even continuous group-tracks require editing, but the short answer is that group commentaries are exponentially easier to post-produce, but edited tracks tend to be more informative and, to my mind, satisfying.
DVDActive: What do you think about New Line's Infinifilm technology and other new advances in the medium?
David Prior: I'm not sure how much of a technological advance Infinifilm is, but anything that keeps people interested in movies is good by me. We talked about doing something like that for "The Cell," but it was too soon. Studios are always coming up with ways to brand their products and some of it seems a little silly to me, but I really don't care that much.
DVDActive: What is your favourite DVD and why?
David Prior: This seems like a trick question, but I'll tell you my favorites of the ones I've done. Of course "Fight Club" holds a high place, as does "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," not because I'm a big fan of the movie -- I'm not really -- but because the supplements fit the film very well in the sense that it was the first theatrically interactive movie (albeit unintentionally) and an interactively intensive DVD. I'm very fond of the documentary on "Titus" and I like the pieces I've done for "Planet of the Apes" a lot. As far as other people's work, I just watched the supplements on "Hannibal" and thought they were quite good.
DVDActive: If you could work on the DVD release for any film, what would it be?
David Prior: Apart from my own film? That's easy: Raiders of the Lost Ark.
DVDActive: Thankyou for your time David, and I wish you luck with all your future DVD releases.
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Love the interview. A nice one with Prior before his later work like the excellent Panic Room SE.
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text: St. Anthony the Great, Founder of Monasticism On January 17, the Church remembers Saint Anthony the Great, or Anthony the Abbot, the founder of Christian monasticism. Early Life of St. Anthony Most of what is known about St. Anthony, who was born around 251 AD, is found in the document "Life of Anthony," written by Athanasius of Alexandria in the year 360. The biographical information as well as some homilies and epistles of Anthony provide the known details of this saint's life and works. Anthony was born at Coma in the middle of the 3rd century, near Heracleopolis Magna in Fayum (Lower Egypt), to a well-to-do family. There is not much detail on Anthony's childhood and youth. His parents died when he was 20, and so he inherited their possessions at that time. He had a desire to live his life in imitation of the apostles, and so it was not long before, upon hearing in the church the Gospel words "If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell all thou hast," Anthony shed himself of all his property and other goods. At this point, Anthony made the decision to devote himself entirely to God and religious exercises. He placed his unmarried sister, who had been in his care since the death of their parents, with a group of Christian virgins, a sort of proto-nunnery. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, at this time in the history of the Church, it was already common for Christians to "practice asceticism, abstain from marriage and exercising themselves in self-denial, fasting, prayer, and works of piety."However, until this point these pious Christians dedicated their lives to God and practiced these acts of holiness without leaving their homes and families. By the year 270, around the time that Anthony discerned his call to an ascetic life, it had become a common practice in Egypt for ascetics to live in huts at the outskirts of town and so Anthony began his career this way. He visited the other nearby ascetics, studying their habits and virtue, to learn from them. It was also while he resided here that Anthony experienced the conflicts with strange demons in the form of beasts that inflicted painful blows on him. Founder of Monasticism After about 15 years of living as an ascetic on the outskirts of town, Anthony made the decision that led the Church to remember him as the founder of Christian monasticism. Around the age of 35, Anthony left his abode near the edge of town, to live in complete solitude. He crossed the Nile and found an old fort on a mountain near the east bank called Pispir. He shut himself within the walls and lived the next 20 years without seeing the face of another man. Food was thrown to him over the walls and many pilgrims, whom he refused to see, tried to visit him. Gradually these pilgrims, would-be disciples, established themselves in various caves and huts around Anthony's mountain. Unintentionally, Anthony's actions had resulted in the formation of a colony of ascetics. They begged Anthony to be their guide in the spiritual life and around the year 305 AD, he conceded. He emerged from his fort, not emaciated as many expected, but as vigorous and healthy as when he'd first gone in. For about 5 or 6 years, Anthony devoted himself to instructing the colony of monks that had grown around his fort. Still, after some time, Anthony withdrew into seclusion again. This time he withdrew to the inner desert, between the Nile and Red Sea, where he spent the last 45 years of his life. However, this time Anthony's seclusion was not quite as severe; he would freely see those who came to visit him and often visited the nearby Pispir. Twice Anthony journeyed as far as Alexandria. Once, a few years after he'd emerged from his fort at Pispir, Anthony went to Alexandria to strengthen the martyrs during the Christian persecutions of 311 AD. Again he went near the end of his life, to preach against Arianism, a heresy that denied the divinity of Christ. In all likelihood, Anthony was not the first Christian to live fully as a hermit, yet within a few decades of his death he was widely seen as the father of monasticism, as described in the Catholic Encyclopedia: "It will be proper to define St. Anthony's place, and to explain his influence in the history of Christian monasticism. He probably was not the first Christian hermit. . . . Nor was St. Anthony a great legislator and organizer of monks, like his younger contemporary Pachomius. . . . And yet it is abundantly evident that from the middle of the fourth century throughout Egypt, as elsewhere . . . St. Anthony was looked upon as the founder and father of Christian monasticism. This great position was no doubt due to his commanding personality and high character, qualities that stand out clearly in all the records of him that have come down. The best study of his character is Newman's in the 'Church of the Fathers.' The following is his estimate: 'His doctrine surely was pure and unimpeachable; and his temper is high and heavenly, without cowardice, without gloom, without formality, without self-complacency.' . . . Full of enthusiasm he was, but it did not make him fanatical or morose; his urbanity and gentleness, his moderation and sense stand out in many of the stories related of him. . . . The monasticism established under St. Anthony's direct influence became the norm in Northern Egypt, from Lycopolis to the Mediterranean." This article was adapted from the Catholic Encyclopedia.


text: I am often asked certain questions about N2 GUARD by beginner Bodybuilders. The main questions are whether or not one should use N2 GUARD during Post Cycle Therapy and just how important N2 Guard really is?Many people think that N2 GUARD is simply for on-cycle use and, although that is one of its main functions and qualities, it can have great positive effects during Post Cycle Therapy (PCT) as well. Cleansing the organs after the steroid cycle is an important practice that is often overlooked, yet it has a tremendous amount of importance for long-term health.The most important part of every Steroid cycle is Post-Cycle Therapy. If you do not properly recover then you will lose some or even all of your muscle gains, as well as several other health issues that can arise. Some of these health issues can be extremely dangerous and can pose a long term threat of organ disease. There is a strong misconception that the only important part of PCT is the stimulating and restarting of testosterone production. While that is of the utmost importance, one must remember that our organs have been put through shock during the cycle and their functions will suffer even after cycle. Our organs need to be repaired to continue working as efficiently as they did before the Steroids, and this is where N2 GUARD comes into play.Some of the often overlooked issues that the body has to deal with during Post Cycle Therapy are as follows: hormone fluctuation, toxic stress on liver, stress to the kidneys, increasing blood pressure, pressure on the endocrine system, impaired functions of multiple other organs, cortisol control problems, high Estrogen, overtaxing on the kidneys and the list goes on... N2 GUARD helps the Bodybuilder to recover from the Steroid cycle, so that side-effects won't affect muscle growth and we can keep our gains while staying healthy.All of the chemical chaos that your internal anatomy faces during and after a steroid cycle can be extremely toxic and dangerous. N2 GUARD helps to rid your body of these toxins and to get your body functioning back to normal. Once you experience the internal relief that N2 GUARD provides, the recovery becomes far more effective and efficient. The quicker the recovery, more likely that those muscle gains from all of your hard work are retained.As you can see, like all N2BM.comproducts, N2 GUARD has a tremendous value to the Bodybuilder using Steroids. I felt that it was very important to provide insight on another area that is extremely important and that needed to be addressed, which is recovery after the Steroid Cycle is done.N2 GUARD has become a staple in every cycle and now in every PCT, all to ensure your health is maintained throughout and recovery is much more effective. Remember that your health is the most important part of your life and ensuring good health should be priority number one. Make sure to utilize N2 GUARD and ensure your good health!


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Park Avenue Bridge
The Park Avenue Bridge carries the Metro-North commuter rail lines across the Harlem River at 135th Street. It is a lift bridge with two parallel 340-foot double-track spans. There is no path for pedestrian traffic. The bridge opened in 1956 and was owned by numerous struggling rail companies before falling into the hands of the MTA. As with so much other postwar American infrastructure, the bridge power and lift systems are no longer operational.
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Clinical Microbiology Issues Update - April/May 2012
- Dual Use Research Policy and Meetings
- ASM Submits Written Testimony to Congress on R&D Funding
- ASM Attends ACLA Meeting
- ASM Teleconferences
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- ASM Journal Articles of Interest
- ASM Approved to Provide P.A.C.E.® Continuing Education Credits
- ASM Press: Genome Plasticity and Infectious Diseases
- ASM Press Offers Discount on Purchases
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- Public Health Grand Rounds: The Growing Threat of Multidrug-Resistant Gonorrhea
- World Malaria Day
- National Infant Immunization Week (NIIW)
- FDA Takes Steps to Promote the Judicious Use of Antibiotics
- Test Links Strains of Common Parasite to Severe Illness in U.S. Newborns
- MMWR Articles of Interest
- Revised Standard on Methods for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Anaerobic Bacteria
- Reforming the 510(K) Process: What's on the Horizon
- Facing the Reality of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: Challenges and Potential Solutions in India
- Articles of Interest
ASM's Dual Use Research Policy and Meetings
ASM 2012 Special Session on H5N1 Research and Controversy
The ASM Public and Scientific Affairs Board (PSAB) has organized a Special Session at the ASM General Meeting on the H5N1 Research Controversy and Dual Use Research Issues, which is scheduled for June 19 from 11:00 am to 1:30 pm.
The session will feature the following speakers who will discuss research, biosafety, biosecurity and USG policy issues related to dual use research of concern.
Moderators: Paul S. Keim; Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ; Kenneth I. Berns; University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
- Nancy Cox; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA; Influenza Research, Biosafety, Biosecurity and H5N1 Issues
- Lynn W. Enquist; Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; The H5N1 Controversy and Publication Issues
- Yoshi Kawaoka; University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI; A Review of the Scientific Developments Involving the H5N1 Work
- Dennis Dixon; National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD; The USG Policy for Oversight of Life Sciences Dual Use Research of Concern—Implementation Issues
- Michael T. Osterholm; University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN., Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) H5N1 Research: Alternative Perspectives
ASM Sponsors H5N1 Research: Biosafety, Biosecurity and Bioethics
ASM also cosponsored the international Royal Society conference April 3-4 in London to address research issues surrounding H5N1 avian influenza research. Kenneth Berns, cochair of the PSAB Biodefense Committee, attended the meeting as the ASM representative. The conference proceedings are available online at: http://www.voiceprompt.co.uk/royalsociety/030412/
ASM Submits Written Testimony to Congress on R&D Funding
In March, the ASM submitted recommendations to Congress supporting increased research and public health program funding for Fiscal Year 2013 appropriations. Highlights of the recommendations include:
National Institutes of Health (NIH): ASM urged lawmakers to increase funding for the NIH above the Administration's proposed flat level funding of $30.7 billion to no less than $32 billion in FY 2013. ASM emphasized that this funding recommendation represents the minimum level necessary to pursue research opportunities and to keep pace with biomedical inflation.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): ASM voiced concern over the proposed FY 2013 budget for the CDC, a $664 million or 11.6 percent decrease from FY 2012 and asked Congress to reverse the recent trend of cuts to the CDC budget and core infectious disease programs. ASM highlighted public health impacts of infectious disease reemergence and inadequate funding to CDC but also supported CDC areas that received proposed increases including the additional $27 million for the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID).
Food and Drug Administration (FDA): ASM pointed out that the Administration's FY 2013 request of $4.5 billion for the FDA includes nearly $2 billion in current and proposed user fees from regulated industries (45 percent of the total), and stressed that the proposed net budget increase of only $11.5 million in FY 2013 would not be adequate to sustain the FDA's critical role in public health. ASM requested Congress increase funding for the FDA to support its research centers, initiatives and core programs to protect public health.
A booklet that includes the full ASM funding recommendations to Congress, Federal Funding for FY 2013: Biomedical and Life Sciences Research is available on-line at the following link: Research and Development Funding for FY 2013.
ASM Attends ACLA Meeting
ASM Staff member Kimberly Walker attended the American Clinical Laboratory Association Annual meeting in Washington, DC 22-23 April. Key presentations were given by Jonathan Blum, Deputy Administrator & Director, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Congressman Michael Burgess, (TX-26), author of HR 3207, the Modernizing Laboratory Test Standards for Patients Act of 2011, and Jean Mitchell, Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University. More information can be found here http://www.acla.com/annual-meeting-2012
ASM Conferences
4th ASM Conference on Prokaryotic Cell Biology and Development
May 6 - 10, 2012
Montreal, Canada
ASM Journal Articles of Interest
A Darwinian View of the Hygiene or "Old Friends" Hypothesis
When urban living reduced contacts of humans with microbes and worms, it increased our risk for chronic inflammatory disorders.
Rare Emerging Disease Claims Texas Girl's Leg: PCR Plus Sequencing Identified Culprit
A Texas girl was cured of an emerging disease when doctors amputated her infected lower leg, where the infection persisted after treatment with various antimicrobials proved ineffective. The causative agent was Pythium insidiosum, a fungus-like microbe which rarely causes disease in humans and then primarily in Thailand.
Ganciclovir-Resistant Cytomegalovirus Retinitis in a Patient with Wild-Type CMV in Her Plasma
An immunocompromised patient presents with drug resistant CMV in an eye infection, but wild type CMV systemically.
Cross-Reactive Antibodies Vanquish H5N1 in Preclinical Study
A major difficulty in developing neutralizing antibodies to Influenza H5N1 is that ten different antigenic types have evolved since the virus first emerged. But now a team of researchers has produced a so-called cross-reactive antibody that can bind to nine of the ten H5N1 groups, the March Journal of Virology reports.
ASM Approved to Provide P.A.C.E.® Continuing Education Credits
P.A.C.E.®-approved continuing education (CEs) credits are now offered by ASM for its clinical laboratory professional development activities. P.A.C.E.® , professional acknowledgement for continuing education, was created in 1977. It is sponsored by the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS) and was designed specifically for clinical laboratory professionals.
Beginning in March 2012, P.A.C.E.® credits were offered for ASM's teleconferences and webinars and all of the ASM2012 Diagnostic Microbiology and Epidemiology sessions and workshops are P.A.C.E.®- accredited. ASM will continue to offer continuing medical and pharmacy education credits (CMEs and CPEs) for ICAAC. P.A.C.E. CEs will be offered for clinical laboratory personnel who attend ICAAC.
The process for claiming earned CEs remains unchanged. Visit ASM's CE portal for more information through this link https://ce.asm.org
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Genome Plasticity and Infectious Diseases
This text provides a comprehensive examination of the current understanding of pathogen adaptation and microevolution in bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites.
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Wieters heads to DL with uncertain timetable
BALTIMORE -- On a day the Orioles got a boost of good news with the return of first baseman Chris Davis, they lost All-Star catcher Matt Wieters to the disabled list with no certainty regarding his return.
Wieters has been limited to playing designated hitter because of right elbow discomfort, and he will now get a few weeks of rest before the club re-evaluates and determines the next step.View Full Game Coverage
BALTIMORE -- On a day the Orioles got a boost of good news with the return of first baseman Chris Davis, they lost All-Star catcher Matt Wieters to the disabled list with no certainty regarding his return.
Wieters has been limited to playing designated hitter because of right elbow discomfort, and he will now get a few weeks of rest before the club re-evaluates and determines the next step.View Full Game Coverage
"We'll take a two- or three-week period to see if we can get it managed and then if he can catch the rest of the year. Or if he's still having problems with it at the six week mark, we will have to think about something else," manager Buck Showalter said of Wieters, who had his elbow examined by Dr. James Andrews on Wednesday. "That's as frank as I can be about it. That's where we are with it."
The organization is still hoping Wieters can avoid surgery with rest, with both the team's doctors and Andrews concurring that surgery isn't inevitable but it is a possibility if the discomfort can't be managed with rest and treatment.
"If you do the nine months, if he had to have the surgery, we are hoping he never has to and there's a chance it never has to happen. That's around six weeks and he's back for next year," Showalter said. "You are talking about roughly July 1."
So is July 1 the definitive date for when Wieters and the Orioles make a decision on his season?
"I'm not going to commit to that," Showalter said. "Frankly, you are talking about surgery. Maybe he says [on July 1], 'Hey, we are real close, let's stay down this road.' But it's not like you are going out and testing it every day. There will be a two-week period before he throws. And then we will have a better idea what we are dealing with after that period."
"Ultimately, it was what's going to get me back catching as quick as possible," Wieters said. "And we just kind of felt [it'd be best to let] it completely rest as opposed to try and get through swings and kind of get half-ready every day. It may have actually been slowing us down a little bit to where we'll now let it completely rest and, hopefully, be able to get back to catching even sooner."
Wieters first felt the injury in his forearm on a throw down to second base during a cold April night game in Boston. The Gold Glove Award winner missed one game the following series in Toronto before returning to the lineup, but when the injury moved its way to his elbow, Wieters got concerned and underwent an MRI during Monday's off-day in St. Petersburg.
After visiting with Andrews, Wieters was not deemed a candidate for surgery, and he was given the go-ahead to DH and otherwise just rest the area hoping it would calm down.
Did hitting make it worse?
"No, it just turned into more, 'Are we kind of starting again at ground zero every day we come back if I keep swinging every day?'" Wieters said. "I want to make sure that we can make progress and continue to improve on it."
Added Showalter: "Let's give it the best chance to heal properly. I can't say that [it didn't hurt] 100 percent. He wakes up in the morning and feels it there. The one thing that really bothers him doing now is throwing. It's not some acute pain.
"He just knows it's not like it can and should be to catch at the Major League level. To get it back where it's not something he has to think about, we have to give it the best chance to heal properly and make a good decision for this year and beyond."
Without Wieters, who would be eligible to come off the DL on May 26 at the earliest, the club has employed Steve Clevenger -- who won the backup job this spring -- and 28-year-old rookie Caleb Joseph. Given the uncertainty around Wieters' return, the Orioles are also actively looking outside of the organization for other options.
"Certainly [executive vice president of baseball operation Dan Duquette] is looking at that," Showalter said. "I'd be less than honest if I told you we haven't looked at some options, but we hope we don't have to go there.
"I'm hoping it's 15 [days] exactly. That's the best-case scenario. I'm not closing the door on that."
Wieters will stay with the Orioles and travel with the team for the time being, helping Clevenger and Joseph -- who both have limited catching experience -- learn the ropes.
Brittany Ghiroli is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, Britt's Bird Watch, and follow her on Facebook and Twitter @britt_ghiroli.


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Big Nothing (UK - DVD R2)
Kat Halstead reviews the outcome of this recent Pegg/Schwimmer combo...
A surprisingly low-key release after the breakout British hit and consequent Stateside success of Shaun of the Dead, Big Nothing bears the all trademarks of an enjoyable but slightly lacklustre follow-up. The film enlists an unlikely combination of talents including Simon Pegg ( Spaced, Shaun of the Dead), David Schwimmer ( Friends, various feature flops) and Alice Eve ( Starter for Ten) in an oddball comedy thriller that pulsates with early Coen brothers energy and style.
David Schwimmer plays Charlie Wood, an unemployed teacher whose dream of becoming a novelist is starting to take its toll on family life. He relies on the income from his police lady wife to keep them housed, fed and in second-hand goods for their young daughter. Finally Charlie's hunting and gathering instincts kick in and he resigns himself to a mind-numbing job at a computer call-centre.
Here he meets Gus Dickinson (Simon Pegg), a loveable rogue and conman who immediately introduces him to his own sarcastic and disinterested system of coping with the mundane nature of the job. However, Charlie, being less office-savvy, manages to get himself fired on the first day and ends up in the pub with Gus drowning his sorrows and proclaiming his inevitable permanence on the breadline.
Depression, despair, drink and, of course, an action plan. Gus entices Charlie into his get-rich-quick scheme based on a list of people who have logged onto illegal porn sites or, as he refers to it innocently, his 'completely non-violent enterprise'. Focussing the crime on someone who would most fear damage to their reputation, a priest, Gus elaborates on his master plan to blackmail the priest out of thousands of dollars. Enter the third wheel in the unlikely threesome, Josie (Alice Eve), an ex-partner of Gus' who overhears the end of the conversation and takes charge of the scam's execution.
Soon Charlie, an average, mundane guy with a mildly annoying habit of repeating random facts (supposedly to prevent his memory from fading), finds himself at the centre of a crime wave as everything with the potential to go wrong does and the motley three find themselves amidst a spider's web of mistaken identity, accidental murders, snuff movies, paedophile priests and giant gnomes in a targeted offence of twists and turns that leave the viewer awe-struck.
As we've come to expect from Pegg the film is riddled with allusions to popular culture including direct references to The Matrix's red pill/blue pill (although this time Pegg offers Schwimmer a choice of sweets). What at first seems like an unlikely Brit/US pairing turns out to be a successful mixture of farcical, deadpan and physical/slapstick humour and although the film is rarely laugh-out-loud funny it is entertaining enough to keep the viewer hooked. A largely British-based production, Pegg and Eve pull off effortless American accents and the location shooting in Wales and the Isle of Man is impressively coerced into a vaguely Noir style setting.
The 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer is acceptable for a recent film, with very few problems. Most of the film's action is set at night, and some of the badly lit scenes suffer from background blurring. However the night time palettes are consistently strong with bright colours creeping out of the darkness, in comparison to the more muted tones of the daylight scenes, which are there to represent the dreary humdrum of everyday life. For the most part the transfer does Oscar-nominated Richard Greatrex's lush cinematography proud.
The Dolby Digital 5.1 audio is without fault. The dialogue is clear and balanced well with the (basic) sound effects and music. The soundtrack itself is full of great tunes—very much the light-hearted, comic action-related songs you would expect from this kind of film.
The disc has some very watchable extras if you bypass 'The Truth About Simon Pegg'—a really short, incredibly dull and seemingly pointless little excursion narrated by Schwimmer where he asks a few randoms around the set mundane questions about Pegg. Then Pegg moans about the remastering of Star Wars for the hundredth time…Luckily our trusty Brit comedian saves the day with the Pegg-Cam Diary, a hilarious insight into his strange but genius mind filled with random ramblings and ponderings, which seem to pop out without fore or afterthought. The standard 'Making of' featurette gets off to a dangerously shaky start, but the viewer is soon engulfed in the fun of the relaxed on-set atmosphere, complete with in-jokes; 'Simon went fishing on his day off and didn't catch a single fish', a stigma that seems to stay with Pegg for the entirety of the film. It's unusual for a photo gallery to be anything other than mundane, and this one is run of the mill at best. Pegg fans might have hoped for something a little more imaginative than framing the images in dollar bills. By far the best extra is the feature commentary with Pegg, Eve and director Jean-Baptiste Andrea. It's an entertaining and energetic track, worth listening to for the playful banter between Pegg and Eve alone.
A fairly big swerve from director Jean-Baptiste Andrea's first feature film, Dead End, Big Nothing is a heist-style comedy thriller that just slightly under-reaches expectations. The various film references, unusual use of three-way split screens and fantastic on-screen chemistry between Pegg, Schwimmer and Eve make up for the majority of damage done by the tiresomely convoluted plot, and the fact that the film speeds in at under an hour and a half means the lengthiness of some of the 'bridging scenes' can be forgiven.
Essentially any fan of Pegg or Schwimmer will be thoroughly entertained, but Big Nothing does fall predictably short of the charisma and originality of Shaun of the Dead.
Review by Kat Halstead
Tyler Foster Member Join Date: October 2004 Location: United States Posts: 717
I wonder if this will make the trip to the States. Probably, if Hot Fuzz is a hit, but it's great to hear there's a commentary because it wasn't mentioned when the specs were announced.
Chris Johnson Member Join Date: October 2005 Location: United States Posts: 1,465
Why did Pegg speak with an American accent in this one?
PALGary Member Join Date: March 2006 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1
Pegg plays an American, hence the accent.
It's released on Region 1 June 12th.
It's released on Region 1 June 12th.
Ray Waterway Member Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 462
I thought it was a pretty good caper-gone-wrong flick. Of course, Simon Pegg is always watchable, and he's pretty endearing in this. Be sure to watch the credits all the way at the end very closely, especially the part where it says "No animals and no actors were harmed during the making of this film"...
Chris Johnson Member Join Date: October 2005 Location: United States Posts: 1,465
PALGary wrote: Pegg plays an American, hence the accent.
Odd that he would play an American in a non-American film.
Odd that he would play an American in a non-American film.
TNAJason Member Join Date: December 2005 Location: United States Posts: 44
Hey Big Nothing is up for Pre-Order on Amazon.com! The date is June 19th! I pre-ordered it.
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Chris Johnson wrote: PALGary wrote: Pegg plays an American, hence the accent.
Odd that he would play an American in a non-American film.
Why? When it's set in America? Duh!!
Odd that he would play an American in a non-American film.
Why? When it's set in America? Duh!!
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Disc Details
Release Date: 16th April 2007
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: No
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: English HoH
Extras: Feature Commentary, The Truth About Simon Pegg, Pegg-Cam Diary, Making-Of, Photo Gallery
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Jean-Baptiste Andrea
Cast: Simon Pegg, David Schwimmer, Alice Eve
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Film-Noir and Thriller
Length: 0 minutes
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We all know Apple's App Store policies are a bit willy-nilly, inconsistent, and completely unreliable. This issue has been going on for a while now, and it doesn't see like anything has changed. The latest interesting App Store rejection is especially interesting, as it involves Apple rejecting an application related to one of its detractors: the EFF.
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by jabbotts on Fri 5th Jun 2009 15:24 UTC in reply to "Comment by daedalus8"
If MS had not dominated the software market then someone else or multiple other's would have braught about the home computer market. Apple would have been a strong contender also but we'd end up with a much more restrictive market and potentially more towards embedded software. Of course, the FOSS folks where a reaction to Unix so that variable would also exist still; potentially more would have been motivated to explore it earlier. Maybe Apple would have put out a Vista in the mid 90s rather than people being motivated by Vista in the last few years.
Every time this idea pops into someone's head, the variables that didn't exist in the previous time make it a whole new "what if" outcome.


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It has been confirmed that Mass Effect 4 will have a completely new focus, since Commander Shepard's destiny has been fulfilled and there's nothing much to go on about. There are mainly two reasons that won't allow the hero of Mass Effect to return in upcoming games, at least not as a main character.
As time passes, my disappointed in ME2 and 3 grows. I've just lost all interest in this universe. I'll only be slightly interested in the new game if it is set AFTER the events of ME3 and even then it will not be likely a day one purchase.
With the power of the new consoles I want to be the main character.
The consoles could synthesise any name I type for my character and blend it seamlessly into conversations.
The Kinect / PS Eye could capture my features and make the character look just like me.
They could even record me reading a page of text to get my voice print and from that recreate my voice to say anything they want in game. There could also be personality settings. So I can pick between polite and rude version of me. With one dropping F-Bombs every few minutes like Deb in Dexter.
I want to say bye bye Commander Shepard and Hello to ME.
If they are doing a new mass effect game it should centre around the tech left behind by the reapers and an alien race who stumbles across it. Which would be a more ideal setting. But that my opinion


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