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MORIARTY's Review Of The Spike Jonze/Charlie Kaufman ADAPTATION!
Hey, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab.
This movie shook me.
I read the script last year. I read a few early reviews. I walked into the theater pretty sure I knew what I was going to see.
And I was wrong. Almost entirely wrong. See, I underestimated Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman. I expected something surreal and genre-bending and provocative, and it's all of that, but it's more. What I saw hit me in a deep, personal place and left me reeling as I staggered to my car afterwards. I took a few minutes before I even started the engine, trying to explain what I was feeling to my girlfriend, who could see that I was having a complicated reaction. The DGA is less than five minutes from my house, but in those five minutes, driving home, I began to shake. It felt like a shock wave was hitting me. By the time we reached my driveway, there were tears in my eyes, and I almost had to be helped inside. She talked me down over the next couple of hours, both of us digging into the film and what it makes you think about, simply letting it take us wherever it was going to, enjoying it as one of those rare film experiences, a total immersion.
ADAPTATION is like nothing else I've seen in recent memory. It is a complete original. It burrowed under my skin and worked its way into my entire system as I watched it, and no matter what I've watched since, ADAPTATION is what I continue to think about. I feel like I do on the far side of my first experiment in altered consciousness all those years ago, like I've just opened some new doorway in my brain, and I don't know where it might lead, but I know it will be someplace I've never been before. I think the reason it made me so emotional after seeing it is because ADAPTATION is also one of the bravest pieces of film art I've ever seen. And it was made and released by a studio.
I think the word I'm looking for starts with an "m," but it's not "masterpiece".
I think the word I'm looking for is "miracle".
For one thing, I had given up on Nicolas Cage. It came to a head not long after he won the Oscar for LEAVING LAS VEGAS, but it had been brewing for a while. I still remember the charge of seeing VALLEY GIRL in the theater when it opened and wondering who this remarkable bag of freak was. RACING WITH THE MOON and BIRDY were both films I really liked when they came out, but it was the back to back punch of PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED and RAISING ARIZONA that convinced me that Cage was one of the best, someone worth paying close attention to. MOONSTRUCK, VAMPIRE'S KISS, and WILD AT HEART were gifts for the faithful, films that we could point at to prove that Cage was the one defining whatever envelope there was to push in acting. He was Crispin Glover crazy, but he managed to get the leads in these films. The things he tried were either inspired or retarded, and that fine line is what made him so fascinating.
And then he hit a dry spell. And for Cage, a dry spell can be a majestic, horrifying thing, full of films so terrible they defy description. Films like ZANDALEE and FIREBIRDS and GUARDING TESS and IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU and TRAPPED IN PARADISE. I started to wince when I would hear his name, and it was only the occasional RED ROCK WEST that gave me hope. His collaboration with Mike Figgis yielded one of his very best performances, and he deserved that Oscar. He made self-destruction a spectator sport, and he managed to give real, angry voice to a character that almost no one else could have made sympathetic. I hoped that Oscar sent him a message about his gifts as an actor, that it rewarded him for doing that same sort of brave, on the edge work that defined him at the start of his career. I hoped it was the start of a second, better stage in his filmography.
And instead, I got THE ROCK and FAMILY MAN and CON AIR and CITY OF ANGELS and GONE IN 60 SECONDS, and somewhere in there, I just gave up. I just got tired of watching him piss away these prime years of his life, when he's still young enough to do almost anything. He was no longer an actor, as far as I was concerned. He was a movie star. To me, the difference is that movie stars play themselves, or some slight variation on themselves, while actors vanish into their roles, becoming someone else.
In ADAPTATION, Nicolas Cage The Actor comes roaring back to life, creating not one but two of the year's most interesting characters, giving the best performance as twins since Jeremy Irons in Cronenberg's seminal DEAD RINGERS. First, there's Charlie Kaufman, the film's lead. We see the world through his eyes, and it's positively deranged of him to make himself a character in this film. I am surrounded by evidence of his reality. Right now, I've got an invitation on my desk for a set of screenings of CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND, written by Charlie Kaufman. I've got an advance DVD for review of HUMAN NATURE, written by Charlie Kaufman. And sitting on my stack of scripts to be read is ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND, the latest and hottest script by... yes... Charlie Kaufman. He's a real person, but after seeing this film, I don't know if there's room for a different face than the one Cage gives him. He's got a remarkable coiff, a strange sort of thinning orangey afro, his skull showing clearly through it from most angles. He is hunched, pushed over, like someone's got their thumb on him. When we first get a glimpse of Charlie, he's hanging back, on the edge of things behind the scenes on BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, which is being directed by Spike Jonze. We see a startling recreation of the production of that film, with Malkovich himself making a heartfelt plea on behalf of the extras in the scene. Charlie walks outside, feeling like he's in the way, and we see him plunge headlong into life as a "hot" screenwriter. I typically hate movies about filmmaking because the details are always exaggerated, cartoonish, inaccurate. People prefer to play the stereotypes instead of the way things really are, even though they know better. In this film, Jonze and Kaufman achieve an effortless, perfect portrayal of life in modern Los Angeles working in films. This is the way it feels.
And based on the portrayal, you'd guess that it doesn't always feel good. Kaufman is insecure, even in his success, and he feels a constant pressure to produce according to expectations. As I type right now, I glance down at my fingers on the keys, and I see that the nails on several of the fingers are chewed down to the quick and even past, ragged and awful. I'm stressed right now, working about sixteen hours a day, and I'm terrible to myself at times on some subconscious level. There's something about the horror of facing a blank page that does this to people.
Cage's other performance, as Charlie's twin brother Donald, is remarkable because of how easy it is to simply accept him as a separate person from Charlie. The FX work by Gray Matter FX is exceptional, nuanced and sophisticated, and they've laid these two people into the same frame in a way that Bob Zemeckis could only dream of as recently as BACK TO THE FUTURE 2 (1989). They interact. They play off of each other in unexpected ways. They couldn't be more different in the way they attack life. Charlie is the strong one in some ways. After all, he's the one who has the movie in production, the one who has the house in the Hollywood Hills. Donald doesn't even have a home of his own. He has to crash with his brother. He seems to embody everything that Charlie hates about the business he works in. Donald talks about "The Industry" and he quotes Robert McKee, a guy who gives seminars on screenwriting, and he seems to believe there is some magic formula that you can just copy that will give you a great script, guaranteed.
But there's one way that Donald is completely superior to Charlie. He has the ability to connect with people. He meets the makeup girl (Maggie Gyllenhaal) on the set of BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, and they fall into the exact sort of light, casual relationship that Charlie dreams of, but seems incapable of initiating. There's a heartbreaking subplot involving Judy Greer as a waitress at a local diner, and a major part of the film deals with the friendship Charlie has with Amelia (Cara Seymour), a lovely British girl who obviously cares about him. He can feel the tension between them. He even seems like he wants to make the right move and connect with her, but he's frozen, paralyzed by himself and his own self-image and his fear of failure, and he never quite works up the nerve. He never quite says the right thing. And when he sees the way Donald is able to make those connections, it tears him up inside. It manifests as a sort of thinly veiled contempt for his brother.
Charlie gets hired to adapt a book called THE ORCHID THIEF into a script by Valerie (Tilda Swinton), who does a spot-on-perfect job as a development executive. Her first meeting with Kaufman is eerily accurate, right down to the almost inappropriate level of zeal that Charlie shows when he talks about how he'd approach adapting the book.
Of course, as soon as he gets the job, he freezes. I've had my fair share of sleepless nights recently as the enormity of the job I'm doing for Revolution really started to hit me. There have been all sorts of things going on that have really turned the pressure up for my writing partner and me. It's a great thing, but it's also terrifying in that jump-out-of-an-airplane sort of way. You just have to have faith that the chute's going to open. You have to trust that you'll find your voice and the script will come to life. Charlie begins the process of converting THE ORCHID THIEF into screenplay form, and as he does, we're drawn into the world of the book, just as he is.
It's a nonfiction story, expanded from an article that originally ran in THE NEW YORKER, by Susan Orleans (Meryl Streep). It concerns John Laroche (Chris Cooper), a charismatic figure who was arrested for removing rare plants from a Florida preserve. It was part of a larger plan by Laroche to breed these plants, including the elusive ghost orchid, using local Seminole Indians to handle the plants in an effort to circumvent local wildlife laws thanks to a loophole. At first, Laroche is an anecdote that she tells to great comic effect at a dinner party, but she is drawn to him. She becomes completely absorbed in her efforts to understand him.
And as he writes this, as he starts to piece the story together, Charlie Kaufman finds himself drawn to Orleans. He becomes completely absorbed in his efforts to understand her. The parallel between how he approaches his work and how Orleans approaches her work can't be missed, but it's the differences between them that distinguish them. Susan's part of the world. She's got a life. She's got a husband. She works with other people at this magazine, a social creature. Charlie is fascinated by her because of the world she seems to symbolize to him. Her book is beautifully written, moving, and it impacts Charlie deeply. Still, he can't quite hand himself over, heart and soul, to what he's writing, and that's the step that really brings something to life. So much of my work week is dedicated not to the act of writing, but the creation of the right space in which to write. It's a process of shutting out the world. It's a process of slipping completely into this thing you've created. It's crucial. Charlie's problem is that he writes in circles, so obssessed with the work that he begins to double back on himself.
When Charlie comes up with the notion of writing himself into the script, and he begins to write the film that we've been watching the entire time, it's a moment so strange, so completely odd that it wouldn't seem possible for an audience to maintain any real sense of sympathy for the characters onscreen. I mean, it's such a self-referential, inside-joke type idea, clever to a fault. It is a testament to the considerable gifts of Kaufman and Jonze and Cage that the considerable tonal shifts in the film all seem to work. The concept takes a particularly daring turn in the last third of the film, and it's this section that is causing considerable controversy with some viewers. People either buy what happens, and they allow themselves to feel the experience intuitively, or they resist, they fight it, and they let themselves get derailed. I think it's wonderful. I think it's horrible. I think it makes you feel very, very deeply for a character who should be a two-dimensional cartoon, but somehow isn't. I think the use of Robert McKee as a character is the single most inside joke I've ever seen in a studio film, but I think it makes perfect thematic sense, and it's not a stunt in any way. I think it's brave. I think it subverts expectation by fulfilling certain expectations to a fault. I think it's both obvious and broad and somehow subtle at the same time. It's a triumph, and it will piss many, many people off.
Make sure you stay till the very end. The last few moments of the film are the punchline to the entire thing, and they're worth sitting for those few extra moments and letting this movie wash over you. Lance Acord (BUFFALO 66, BEING JOHN MALKOVICH) is the director of photography, and he's working in a very particular palette that manages to create as distinct a world as the best work by The Coen Brothers or David Lynch. This is style as substance. Everything counts. Every level of the image and the performances. Chris Cooper is spectacular as Laroche, ferocious and filled with child-like wonder and burned out distraction and sudden, mercurial anger, all in equal measure. It's the most vivid performance he's ever given. There's a disturbingly real prosthetic he wears as Laroche, his front teeth all smashed out and never replaced. There's a moment that explains those teeth that is as horrifying a moment as I've seen in recent memory, shocking and sudden and real, and it almost sent me scurrying for cover when I saw it.
Credit for this film must ultimately rest on the shoulders of Spike Jonze, who continues to prove himself one of the most singular voices of his generation, able to work in three-minute music videos and features with equal impact. He's capable of directing the year's most cerebral exercise in high comedy, yet he also produced and appeared in the year's most deliriously lowbrow big studio film, JACKASS. It's that range that makes him dangerous, and there's the sense that he's enjoying his career more than anyone else will ever enjoy it. He's got his own private joke, so dense and brilliant that he can't possibly share the whole thing. We get crumbs. We get the bits he can spare. As great as ADAPTATION is, I still get the sense he's warming up. It's just too effortless. He understands the comic rhythms of Charlie Kaufman on an almost chemical level, the same way Charlie finally finds the true heart of Susan Orleans, the same way Kaufman somehow maps his own heart. By the end of the film, Charlie has made a major step forward. He's been transformed by his own work. He's beaten back self-doubt and fear and he's created something that fills him with pride. It's given him a better sense of his own voice. And, for the first time, he finds the courage to use that voice. And it's still scary, and what happens isn't exactly what he hopes for, but at least it happens. At least it's real. At least Charlie's finally committed to life. He has adapted. He is changed, and in that change... in all change... there is the potential for something great. That greatness, however transitory, however elusive, is all we can hope for, and it seems that for everyone in this film, it is in that trying, in the struggle itself, that grace is found.
Trust me... ADAPTATION is one of this season's finest gifts, and I sincerely hope you find that it's just your size when you try it on.
"Moriarty" out.
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Nov. 22, 2002, 8:52 a.m. CST
Wake me up when it's over
by Glass
Nov. 22, 2002, 9:01 a.m. CST
Well, I don't have any pending development deals with major stud
by Aquatarkusman
So it may not resonate as strongly with me. However, anything with Maggie Gyllenhaal and a flower larceny subplot HAS to be good.
Nov. 22, 2002, 9:19 a.m. CST
THIS is why I come here
by Basher_Tarr
Thank you once again, Moriarty for a truly profound essay. Not only has it amped up my desire to see this film as soon as possible, it validates why I choose to come to this site. I don't come for the fever-dream ramblings of a fat man in Austin, I come to this site for thought provoking essays about film and the love of film like the previous excellent example. Best of luck with your screenplay, thanks for remembering and taking the time to grace us geeks with your words and your thoughts.
Nov. 22, 2002, 9:41 a.m. CST
another great one
by deftone
wow. between this piece and mr. beak's piece, i'm so fired up to see Adaptation! why oh why isn't it coming out tomorrow??? Plus, I'm so glad to see Nic Cage coming back out of the abyss of not so hot movies he seems to have been in lately. Do we have another Oscar performance on our hands???
Nov. 22, 2002, 9:50 a.m. CST
i wrote an adaptaton once
by FafTheHappyPie
i called it "I Am Gordo: The True Story of the Space Monkey that Went to Space and Changed Space History for Everyone, In Space." its a biopic of Gordo, the first monkey in space and its a touching tale that will delicately pull your heartstrings, as well as a mind-blowing mind-blower that will blow your mind. i sent this script to Harry and Moriarty and neither of them have reviewed it or gotten back to me about it and you both suck Harry and Moriarty for not reviewing "I Am Gordo"! you fear my script because it is cutting edge! you have no spines! praise it now!
Nov. 22, 2002, 9:56 a.m. CST
by Monkey Lover
Your script sounds enticing. Monkeys? Space? Two elements for a surefire hit. Perhaps you could post the script on the web somewhere and give us all the URL so we may read your masterwork. I will then send my review into AICN and you will achieve fame!
Nov. 22, 2002, 10:01 a.m. CST
Being John Malkovitch critisised in haiku
by Fitzroyce
Being John Malkovitch Tedious and overwrought Best left unseen
Nov. 22, 2002, 10:10 a.m. CST
i really think...
by blckmgk13
that Moriarty should just plan a coup already. I mean really now, Harry cannot even compare to Moriarty's mastery of critical film analysis. No offence Harry...
Nov. 22, 2002, 10:12 a.m. CST
nice review
by Eat_Your_Peas
I truly hope Nick Cage has pulled his shit together. Although Firebirds is one of the greatest movies of all time, that is, if it had come out of my ass! And I too would like to read the script for "I Am Gordo:...". I love monkeys. Especially monkeys in space. Who change space history. And it might be cool if the Gordo movie included a midget riding a unicycle.//It's a secret message. From my TEETH!
Nov. 22, 2002, 10:13 a.m. CST
Love Jones
by Ghost_NYC
Spike is the new renaissance man. High brow/Low Brow and all in between. I have been looking forward to a good Nic Cage movie for a while and I hope Mori's raving are in no way influenced by his current gig. I give anything Spike does a chance and have high hopes for this. Extra Buzz is also being generated by Streep who like all actresses her age are an under-utilized natural resource....The ghost is gone...
Nov. 22, 2002, 10:18 a.m. CST
Well done, Mori...
by rap12
Even if I have sometimes felt that there has been some overreaction to some of the films you and Harry have reviewed (BLOW comes to mind most prominently), I have high hopes for this film and this review hasraised those hopes higher still. Charlie, Spike, et al., are doing the most innovative work in Hollywood right now; more power to them. Good luck on your own effort; I hope some years from now, when you have made the leap from Internet website to filmmaker, you will be doing stuff like this. Peace.
Nov. 22, 2002, 10:24 a.m. CST
A remarkable bag of freak....
by cookiepuss
Okay, Drew - that was by far the best stuff I've read on this site EVER. If the movie is half as insightful or inspiring as the last paragraph of your review, then we're in for a treat. I had a similar reaction after seeing BEING JOHN MALCOVICH - that something so odd, so beautiful, so quirky and so fucking funny could come out of the cesspool that is Hollywood left me SHATTERED.
Nov. 22, 2002, 10:36 a.m. CST
by frank cotton
moriarity, get a grip. when a guy starts crying over a film about WRITING, it's time to see a shrink.
Nov. 22, 2002, 11:13 a.m. CST
Her name is ORLEAN
by MrGizmo
No "s" - Maybe you should read the book.
Nov. 22, 2002, 11:29 a.m. CST
by 007-11
That's intense, sounds like you had a reaction similar to when I saw Moulin Rouge. I wasn't even going to bother to see this movie until now. You've done it again Moriarty.
Nov. 22, 2002, 11:38 a.m. CST
A bit of a conundrum. I hate Nick Cage (prolly only the 'movie
by empyreal0
...but I'll see this movie anyway. Sometimes, on rare occasions, Mori is wrong. But this is rare. I didn't much care for Punch-drunk Love, which he loved, but I must admit it was original and definitely news-worthy.
Nov. 22, 2002, 11:51 a.m. CST
Sounds great
by WeedyMcSmokey
However, these Hollywood insider movies are becoming a little self-serving - a genre that seems to delight in its own mistaken sense of importance. That said, Being John Malkovich was damn near brillant - but not as much conceptually as in the execution. The subject matter was wierd enough, but it was the film itself - pacing, dialogue, arc, etc. that really made that film great. I look forward to the same. I think will have to give Moriarty a little slack here, and maybe take this review with a grain of salt - it is a movie about writing a movie, in the midst of him writing a movie. Its pretty natural
Nov. 22, 2002, 11:57 a.m. CST
by sigma957
Nov. 22, 2002, 12:02 p.m. CST
by sigma957
pardon me...for the premature posting....um...what i was going to say is SNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE.....jeebus....did i get this right?...a movie about movie makers?....who fucking cares?...yes BJM was a good movie, but jesus....we really have run out of good stories haven't we?....by the way....can someone confirm for me....a friend told me that Rainbow Six is being made into a movie now?....anyone got a scoop on this?
Nov. 22, 2002, 12:42 p.m. CST
"The writer's overripe style was revealed to be that of...
by The Pardoner
... some guy called Moriarty." --- Anyone notice how Harry's reviews of "serious" movies attempt to be progressively more disciplined, while Moriary has begun to write essays on the salt content of the tears he shed over a reference to a Walt Whitman poem in a movie about psycho Martian sharks consuming Israel? Pull it together pal... "a writer is a man among men", so start acting like one.
Nov. 22, 2002, 1:25 p.m. CST
Knew this had to be good
by GypsyTRobot
Saw the trailer with "Punch Drunk Love", had me a-running for my internet sources. Chris Cooper and Maggie Gyllenhaal, brought to you by the makers of Being John Malkovich, how can you go wrong?
Nov. 22, 2002, 1:59 p.m. CST
Quick survey of early reviews
by GypsyTRobot
on rottentomatoes and mrqe - all good. The only negative comment I've seen so far was that the middle drags a bit, otherwise the reviewers are raving about how fantastic the movie is. See http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/review.asp?mid=2045416 for example. And now I won't feel so bad having a mild crush on Chris Cooper, even if he is missing teeth and sporting a mullet.
Nov. 22, 2002, 2:15 p.m. CST
Genetic super-soldier
by Aquafresh
I have a great idea. Its about a genetic super soldier... who is also a VAMPIRE! May I have a development deal now? Oh, & there is no way in hell that this film will live up to this gushing review. That is the true dark side of positive AICN reviews.
Nov. 22, 2002, 2:25 p.m. CST
the ego
by ZO
to compare his Universal soldiers 2 crap to this is beyond me
Nov. 22, 2002, 2:42 p.m. CST
by WeedyMcSmokey
I think you're joking. I mean, its a total bore to be engaged in a good story, one that is original and provocative - but that Rainbow 6 thing sound like stuff gets blowed up real good! I reckon you won't fall asleep there - it'll be loud, with shiny pictures and no one else will notice the warm pile of drool accumulating at the corners of your mouth.
Nov. 22, 2002, 3:54 p.m. CST
by Monkey Lover
Being John Malkovich was ace, you idiots. Orson Bean was piss-funny talking about that carrot or whatever it was.
Nov. 22, 2002, 4:48 p.m. CST
I don't listen to anyone who doesn't start their sentences with
by JAGUART
I remember Harry having a similar reaction as Mori did to "Adapation" after viewing "The Flintstones- Viva Rock Vegas!"
Nov. 22, 2002, 5:18 p.m. CST
Is there a possibility that they were pumping some sort of whack
by barkalounger
You know, the kind that makes you a whack-nut? Just curious.
Nov. 22, 2002, 6:58 p.m. CST
Another Review, Another Girlfriend Reference OR... The Man's Got
by jollydwarf
Is it just me (it isn't), or does this guy have serious anger/emotional issues? Harry's the benevolent, gushing geek that gets caught up in the healing powers of a good film and Moriarty sounds like his biggest compliment is to end up sobbing like Jonathan Davis going through regression therapy for the first time. To quote Tom Petty, "I can't decide which is worse." Nevertheless, I AM looking forward to this film.
Nov. 22, 2002, 8:14 p.m. CST
Feeling a bit insecure regarding haikus right now.
by Fitzroyce
123456 1234567 1234 Seventeen syllables equals a haiku, right? If not, then this is a pretty bad start to my career as "TalkbacK poster who critisizes through haiku".
Nov. 22, 2002, 8:55 p.m. CST
manure transportation
by haiku tunnel
"adaptation" will <> resonate for writers but <> i just shovel shit.
Nov. 22, 2002, 9:52 p.m. CST
BEN AFFLECK..People Magazine's sexiest MAN OF THE YEAR...*forces
by RonJeremysYambag
Faf...I like the way you think. Dammit...we need more monkey movies...especially the scifi genre....put a monkey in pants, and I'm there. Can we all agree that Spike Jonze is one of the most talented/diverse/underrated dudes out there? Can we? The guy is a decent actor too...damn him....probably hung like a steed, too.
Nov. 22, 2002, 10:36 p.m. CST
Important Question: Please Read
by Starks23
Is it technically possible for Nicolas Cage to be nominated for both BEST and SUPPORTING ACTOR categories with his roles? Because the 6th rules says... "6. In the event that an actor or actress receives a sufficient number of votes to be nominated for one achievement in one category and for another achievement in the other category, both achievements shall be eligible. " Because they are different charecters, with very different qualities. (I know, he probably won't even be nominaed for one but just asking if it's possible technically.)
Nov. 22, 2002, 11:46 p.m. CST
I saw a screening of this...
by Alanna Banana
...and it was fucking fantastic, whether you happen to be a writer or not. Don't let Moriarty's emotional excesses frighten you off; you won't likely leave in tears, but you will be very impressed.
Nov. 23, 2002, 4:51 a.m. CST
But...but...I LIKED "The Rock" :(
by HappyHamster
Nov. 23, 2002, 8:49 a.m. CST
Boy, all this good stuff in theaters is just too much for Moriar
by CoolDan989
First it's the Kill Bill trailer, now it's Adaption. Poor Moriarty is so smothered by cinematic goodness he can't breathe! Someone please release an awful movie! This looks like a job for Ishtar! Joel Schumacher, are you there? Why don't you be a pal and help Moriarty, John Travolta?
Nov. 23, 2002, 10:47 a.m. CST
Well try spelling 'adaptation' correctly next time FafTheHappyPi
by workshed
and you might get it read (or was it full of speeling(sic) mistakes?).
Nov. 23, 2002, 11:49 a.m. CST
You and Harry could stand to get real lives
by freeze2215
I usually am a big fan of Mori's reviews - except the ones like this one. "I sat for five minutes without starting the car," I started shaking," "By the time we reached my driveway, there were tears in my eyes, and I almost had to be helped inside," - how emotionally crippled do you have to be to get these kinds of physical symptoms from watching a movie? Go up to another article and you've got Harry discussing how the new Bond movie made him cry. I really used to dearly love this site, especially when Harry did the entire thing, before he became this egotistical jerk who has books ghost-written for him (anyone who has read the site for years could tell that the book was definitely NOT in your writing style for the most part, Harry) and it had true news and scoops to report. Now it seems like the two of you are having a pissing contest to show who is the most "sensitive male" out of the two of you. I've worked in an ER for 15 years - when you've seen a 3-year old burned from head to toe from an errant space heater, or had a 30 year old father of two have his head crushed in an MVA, and had to be the one to go tell his family what happened and the result, then come back and talk to me about being "shaken" about something. Getting that upset from watching a film of some screenwriter trying to come to grip with his neuroses - I don't think so, no matter how well made a film it is (I have seen and loved Adaptation - I just didn't become incontinent of bladder and bowel while watching it). Your girlfriend must be terribly tolerant of "woos-ism." Mr. Beaks has a review that, while passionate about the film, doesn't make him appear to be mentally unstable. Please, both of you, grow some gonads and join the rest of us who live in the real world - it's not such a bad place - I promise.
Nov. 23, 2002, 3:12 p.m. CST
Things that make me cry....
by Aquafresh
The death of a loved one or pet. Breaking up with a signifigant other. Being broke and jobless. Maybe some horrible global catastrophe. "ET".... when I was 12. But something tells me, as much as I expect to enjoy "Adaption", I wont shed a tear or suffer some sort of emotional breakdown. I like the idea of a couple of tubby, longhaired guys with facial hair bawling their eyes out like schoolgirls who've been dumped on prom night.
Nov. 23, 2002, 4 p.m. CST
Hey Workshed...bit of advice....
by RonJeremysYambag
Lighten on being Mr. Spellcheck....it's the internet, not The New Yorker. dickhed....
Nov. 23, 2002, 4:05 p.m. CST
so this movie is about. . . .
by STRIDER355
a bunch of rich Hollywood types whining about how horrible their lives are. . ."oh no, I've made it big and there's SOOO much pressure on me. . .oh boohoo I have a job millions would kill for and my life is sooooo STRESSFULL. . . whaaa..." I loved MALKOVICH but this movie sounds as stupid as ShiterBerg's last "movie about Hollywood" was. Fuck these guys. . .Me and everyone else in film school would die to be in their shoes and all they can do is make movies about how BAD it is?!? Bullshit. I say we all boycott it. YA!!
Nov. 23, 2002, 5:42 p.m. CST
"Being John Malkovich" behind the scenes in "Adaptation?"
by a goonie
Too good to be true. That is the kind of mind-blowing post-modernism that inspires me in my own work. What a brilliant idea. That means you have Malkovich playing Malkovich playing Malkovich. Fuck that's great. I've been damn well looking forward to this movie ever since I first heard the plot synopsis, and now, with Mori's review, my excitement level grows ever larger.
Nov. 23, 2002, 5:50 p.m. CST
by TomVee
Bad Cage flicks: You forgot 8MM and that crap where Cage is locked in a boxing arena, tracking down an assassin. But let's be kind: THE ROCK has its moments, especially any scene with Sean Connery, and CON AIR was simply the best damned movie that came out that year. When Cage says he's going to show everyone God and advances on the bad guy, it is time to splooge big time. By the way, ADAPTATION sounds like pure crap. And anyone who read every word of the torturously long review need to get a life. Really.
Nov. 23, 2002, 5:58 p.m. CST
by sigma957
hey weedy....i see we have a difference of opinions....fine....my point is i go to movies for some real entertainment....not to see some movie about a guy who wants to be more like someone else....guess what...we all have things about us that we would like to change, be more like someone else....etc. I see this all the time...i dont need to spend $9 to see it on the big screen. Maybe some people do....but i am not one of them. You enjoy your movie, i'll enjoy mine.
Nov. 23, 2002, 7:25 p.m. CST
The only thing worse...
by Oompacabra
...than movies about making movies is theater about making theater. Sounds like a pretty masturbatory project to me. I prefer movies that I feel good walking out of anyway. Call me crazy.
Nov. 23, 2002, 9:33 p.m. CST
by hank quinlan
Yeah, I know. Cage has made some missteps. But in the middle of that he made The Rock, a hilarious, offbeat action hero Cage or anyone else has yet to duplicate and FUCKING Face/Off for christsakes, yet another astonishing performance in the middle of one big setpiece after another. And finally can someone, anyone PLEASE give him someedit for Bringing Out the Dead? This movie was a mini masterpiece by both Scorsese and his star. It was subtle and engrossing. And hey, he still makes Adaptation once in a while. Yes, Gone in 60 Seconds blew.
Nov. 24, 2002, 12:23 a.m. CST
Was there any info about the movie in that novella?
by Eyegore
I started skipping paragraphs after the second looking to find out what makes this movie so great. Nevermind.
Nov. 24, 2002, 1:38 a.m. CST
Mori, are you sure this was your reaction to the movie? It sound
by SLEAZY DINOSAUR
Seriously, I plan on seeing this movie, it looks pretty good, but was that for real, or just some creative writing?
Nov. 24, 2002, 6:53 a.m. CST
Get a grip!
by FreeJack
I am in emotional turmoil over this turgid and edifying essay on the incomprehensible depth of human character required to pen a satisfying and artful film. Not twice, but thrice, I found myself in tears, a deep well of sorrow where my heart should be as I realized that not another human being on the face of planet earth could have expressed so clearly and thought-provokingly the essence of Adaptation. This writer's heartfelt, emotional missive has SHATTERED me. As the tears streamed down my face and my body quaked with uncontrollable spasms of simultaneous joy and pain...my girlfriend slapped me across my face and said, "Get a grip, you big pussy!" Seriously, Moriarty - it IS possible to take filmmaking a little TOO seriously. Shit, I've worked in the business for years and have YET to meet another person as touchy-feely about this stuff as you and Harry get. Take a pill!
Nov. 24, 2002, 9:34 a.m. CST
go moriarty go
by Roli
Some of you maybe not be understanding the man, but let me tell you. What he felt,did or thought was in no way wrong. I am just sorry for those who can't be touched. Who sealt themselves up so nothing can change them. poor souls, you'r stuck.
Nov. 24, 2002, 11:19 a.m. CST
And did I forget to mention...ONE MORE TIME...that I'm WRITING A
by heywood jablomie
Clearly, Moriarty's penny-ante development gig has made him think he is the bastard stepchild of Robert Towne. Lighten up, dude. It's not that hard to scratch up a little dough to write in Hollywood. Lots of people have done it. And watch how money of those people ACTUALLY GET A MOVIE MADE. So quit trumpeting yourself and stick to things you're good at --like overrating "The Ring."
Nov. 24, 2002, 3:54 p.m. CST
This review was so good..
by LivingTribunal
...that I think I am going to cry. It is truly a miracle. Greatest review ever. Sob.
Nov. 24, 2002, 4:34 p.m. CST
by Stingubus
I had the opportunity to see this movie today. It was truly an amazing film. It was just so bizzare and funny and insightful... I loved it. I would recommend this to anyone who's ever even tried to write anything. The movie just takes such an interesting look at the creative process (but it's so much more), I think you will really appreciate it.
Nov. 25, 2002, 7:35 a.m. CST
The DGA is less than five minutes from Moriarty's house, and he
by deathwish6
Lazy fucking cunt. I'll read the review now....five minutes, jesus.
Nov. 25, 2002, 9:28 a.m. CST
Where's Bringing Out the Dead
by maplebob
What the hell? How can you list the ups and downs of Cage's career and not mention Scorsese's Bringing Out the Dead? I mean, your catalogueing went past it with Gone in Sixty Seconds. I don't get it. Bringing Out the Dead may be the most forgotten movie by a major director ever, and for no other reason than people just weren't ready for its tone. Just because its truly original doesn't mean your brain can't process it.
Nov. 25, 2002, 6:31 p.m. CST
Great review, Moriarty.
by whytee
I saw Adaptation at the Cinematheque this saturday. Spike Jonze, Charlie Kaufman and Nicolas Cage were all there and did a q&a afterwards. This is one of my top three of the year, what a phenomenal movie. Charlie Kaufman was gracious after the screening and let weirdos like me muscle in and ask him questions. The script was devious, brilliant, but also deeply emotional. Anyone who has ever tried to write, or self-loathed, or faced down a deadline in a panic will totally see themselves up there. Moriarty's reaction is totally understandable and he's got the stones to be honest about it.
Nov. 25, 2002, 8:42 p.m. CST
Nic Cage should've played Andy Kauffman
by Grand Digital
Cause he looks like him. And...he would've been good. That's it. Bye.
Nov. 25, 2002, 9:46 p.m. CST
by Dr. Noodles
Hell of a show, hell of a show...
Nov. 25, 2002, 10:46 p.m. CST
Cant think of anything original to say...
by panamared2000
I cannot think of anything original to say except... (insert banal Jay and Silent Bob quote here).
Nov. 26, 2002, 7:24 p.m. CST
by schlepprock
I am not a writer. I have no ties to the film industry and could care less about those that inhabit it, but -- having seen "Adaptation" I had a nearly identical reaction to it as Moriority. What you guys don't get from any of these reviews is the fact that, while the film has a writer as its main character, it is in no way a film about writing. It is a film about sweeping life-changing issues relevant to all of us. The title is not about the adapatation of a book (well -- superficially), it is about the choice we all must make to survive as human beings; the way in which we must adapt to our surrounding in order to live and feel valued. It was easily the most moving film I have seen in years.
Dec. 9, 2002, 9:29 p.m. CST
Harry's reaction
by stuntrocker
was the same as mine. we had the chinese food buffet at shanghai river. It was cool seeing a movie about Moriarty. (harry says charlie is mori sans bong) solo un chiste. Mo be right about nick cage though. That's the first thing I said. I thought he'd actually become Keanu Cage. And Chris Cooper?! When he got his leg shot in A Time to Kill and got on the stand and said 'Turn'm Loose!' that was cool.
Dec. 9, 2002, 9:54 p.m. CST
What's really strange
by stuntrocker
is to think that in real life Susan Orlean(played by Meryl Streep)wrote Surf girls of Maui which became "Blue Crush" and "The Orchid Thief" which was adapted into "Adaptation" by Charlie Kaufman who wrote "Being John Malkovich". Good stuff, but what I think was missed is that Susan Orlean probably had secret salty lesbian love with the surf girls of Maui and that should have been depicted with Meryl Streep and Kate Bosworth.
Dec. 13, 2002, 7:26 a.m. CST
Couldn't agree more
by sharktrager
Why are people complaining about a review that shows how much a film has affected the reviewer. I just saw the movie and TOTALLY understand what Mor is talking about. This film has got to me in a big way and I like the feeling. What's this talk about working in ER and seeing people die so how can a movie move you? That's irrelevant. Go back to work. If you like movies and haven't seen anything in a long time that's made an impact then this one comes along and hits you like a tsunami then you need to say it. Just wait for all those reviews that are written by reviewers who write about writing about reviewing a movie about a man writing a movie about a man writing a movie ad infinitum. Adaptation is sublime on many many levels whether intentional or not. It is a film worth discussing and relishing. You watch it and even during the film you smile because you know this is something special.
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Pastor Earlie Dixon and congregation of New Birth Worship Center will be the guests. Service will begin at 3:30 p.m.
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ANDERSON — MJR Ministries will be hosting the MJR Westside Community Revival starting Sunday, Aug. 11, though Friday, Aug. 16, in the church's main worship area of Bethesda Missionary Baptist Church, 2124 Cedar St., at 6:30 p.m. Sunday and 6:30 p.m. nightly. This year's revival will feature pastors from around the county.
Pastors will include William M. Jackson of Samaria Baptist Church, Fort Worth, Texas; Donald Wright of Gold Gate Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas; Reginald Eddins of Union Missionary Baptist Church of Memphis, Tenn.; B.T. Steans of Springfield Baptist Church of Rome, Ga.; T.L. Wise of Trinity Fellowship Baptist Church of Manfield, Texas; and Tracey L. Streeter of Fellowship Family Church of Indianapolis.
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Guest speaker will be minister John Woodall III, son of Pastor John and Karen Woodall Jr. Woodall was called to the ministry at 15 and currently is youth minister at Christian Community Missionary Baptist Church of Indianapolis.
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"With record bookings and billings in the fourth quarter, we are on a run rate to become the first pure-play open source company to achieve a billion dollars in revenues next fiscal year, a milestone achievement for Red Hat and the open source community," stated Jim Whitehurst, President and Chief Executive Officer of Red Hat.
Revenues for Red Hat's fourth quarter ended in an optimistic trend that puts this open source company on a path that to see a billion dollars in revenue reached in the upcoming fiscal year. Red Hat's fourth quartered earnings included total revenue $244.8 million, and $209.3 million secured from subscription revenue.
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Margaret Aspinall's 18-year-old son James was among the 96 who died at the FA Cup semi-final, said that she is "very happy" to learn that Sir Norman Bettison, the Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police, will be among police officers to face scrutiny by the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
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He will be included and he is not going to be the only one.
Obviously they are going to look back at all the serving policemen on that day and I think that is a great thing to do because they were so many involved as part of that cover-up.
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THOMASVILLE, GA (WALB) – The Thomasville Antique Show is in full swing Friday.
Organizers expect a big turnout for the three day event. Some of those people are coming not only for the rare items, but also for the chance to meet some big names in the design world.
The Annual Thomasville Antique Show is not just about the antiques, even if they are the stars of the event.
"I try to come every year," says Tallahassee native Carolyn Schriemer. "It's more intimate. And always the very best of what's represented. It's really a lovely show."
But the show also features an on site appraiser and guest lectures by big names in the design world.
"It's a great show. It's the best little show in the south," says antiques dealer Katherine Blair.
One of the lecturers has a special tie to Thomasville. He's Gil Schafer, a renowned architect living in New York City. But he grew up in Thomasville.
"Well, Thomasville for me is the beauty of this landscape here," explains Schafer. "But what stuck with me was the amazing architecture."
Schafer says it's the classic architecture of buildings like the ones at Pebble Hill Plantation that influence him the most.
"I'm giving a lecture on Saturday about Melrose Plantation, which is where I grew up and came as a kid. And how it influenced my work as an architect today."
But he and others involved with the Thomasville Antiques Show say the best part of event is supporting a great cause.
"The best thing about the show other than the beauty of the show itself, is that money made goes to children's organizations here in Thomas County," said former Thomasville Antique Show Chair Anne King. "And that makes it all worth while cause a lot of hard work, a lot of effort goes into this."
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Lawsuit Filed Against Groeb Farms and Honey Solutions
Spells Out Blatant Fraud Involved In Honey Case
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When Groeb Farms Inc. of Onsted, MI, and Honey Holding (aka Honey Solutions) of Baytown, TX, agreed to federal fines totaling $3 million, they could have been excused for thinking they got out of the multi-million-dollar Chinese honey-smuggling scandal lightly.
Not any more.
A class action lawsuit filed in Chicago against the huge industrial honey suppliers seeks millions in damages on behalf of all commercial beekeeping operations with 300 or more hives that produced and sold honey in the U.S. since 2001.
The suit was lodged by three iconic domestic honey producers – Adee Honey Farms, Bill Rhodes Honey Co. and Hackenberg Apiaries – in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
It has its roots in the agreement with the federal government that saw the importers admit to facilitating the importation and sale of mislabeled Chinese-origin honey to avoid U.S. antidumping duties.
The aim is to get compensation for all commercial domestic honey producers injured as a result of Groeb's and Honey Solutions' conduct.
"The domestic honey industry, critically important to agriculture, has suffered losses at the hands of these fraudulent shippers for far too long," attorney James J. Pizzirusso of the Washington, D.C. law firm Hausfeld LLP says in a statement.
"Through this class action, our clients seek to hold these entities responsible for the financial harm they have caused."
The suit follows a near five-year investigation code-named Operation Honeygate and led by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigative arm of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as well as an investigation by the honey producers' own lawyers.
This focused on a massive conspiracy in which participants transshipped Chinese honey through third countries to disguise the honey's origin and then illegally imported it honey into the U.S. to avoid paying U.S. antidumping duties.
The U.S. Department of Commerce began imposing the duties against Chinese honey after it had determined the honey was being sold at less than fair market value and was injuring the domestic honey industry.
The lawsuit asserts Groeb Farms and Honey Solutions intentionally purchased, packaged, distributed, and sold falsely labeled honey and, in doing so, deceived consumers and purchasers while subjecting consumers to potential health risks.
It alleges the Chinese honey was heavily adulterated, containing inexpensive sweeteners and sometimes blended with high fructose corn syrup and other additives, despite the fact that importers claimed it was pure honey.
The lawyers handling the case are among the most successful class action lawyers in the U.S., with wins and settlements in excess of $1 billion in the past two years alone.
The suit cites violations of the Lanham Act, involving false advertising and unfair competition, as well as violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, (RICO Act) arising from defendants' involvement in an international scheme to purchase illegally imported and fraudulently labeled honey from China to avoid paying U.S. antidumping duties.
"This illegal behavior has suppressed domestic prices of honey, caused plaintiffs and the other class members to lose significant amounts of sales, deprived plaintiffs and the other class members of the benefits that they are entitled to receive from duties imposed on Chinese honey, and otherwise caused economic loss and financial harm to plaintiffs and the other class members," the suit states.
It says the three plaintiffs have suffered declining sales, lost profits, loss of goodwill, lost custom duties, and other injuries as a result of the defendants' scheme to purchase, package, distribute, and sell illegally imported and mislabeled honey.
"Defendant Groeb Farms ... until very recently, continued to engage in the unlawful, misleading, and fraudulent conduct alleged herein, and has affected foreign and interstate commerce in the U.S.," the suit says.
Groeb, the world's largest industrial and foodservice processor of honey, packing about 85 million pounds of honey annually, was bought in 2007 by Horizon Partners Ltd., a Wisconsin private investment holding company.
"Groeb was under constant pressure by Horizon and its executives to produce more profits," the suit says. "Since its purchase of Groeb in 2007, Horizon has exercised actual and implied control over Groeb and the illegal scheme.
"Horizon used its control to commit the fraud and other illegal behavior … that caused plaintiff's injuries. The transshipping activities to which Groeb pleaded guilty all occurred after Horizon purchased and began to control Groeb."
As part of a deferred prosecution agreement, Groeb admitted the senior executives responsible for the fraudulent honey transshipping "served as management's primary point of contact to the board of directors and communicated directly to the board . . . regarding Groeb Farms' polices, positions, and practices on food safety and illegally transshipped and illegally misdeclared honey."
The court papers state Robert M. Feerick is the chairman of Horizon and is also a member of Groeb's board of directors.
"Horizon exercised its control over Groeb in such a manner as to commit fraud by knowingly, intentionally, and/or recklessly directing Groeb to purchase, package, distribute, and sell falsely labeled honey in order to increase profits for Horizon and its investors," the suit states.
The papers assert Groeb claimed to be completing audits of all foreign and domestic companies that provide honey to Groeb and formalizing standards with each source.
"Those audits would have revealed to Horizon and the board of directors that Groeb was purchasing honey from China," the suit says.
"The cost and volume at which Groeb was able to procure honey from foreign sources (including countries that had virtually no commercial beekeeping operations) would also have informed Horizon that the honey Groeb was packing was transshipped.
"As Groeb expanded and profits rose, Horizon either knew or deliberately chose not to inquire further to determine that Groeb was breaking the law and fraudulently importing, packing, and re-selling illegal Chinese honey."
While honey prices in the U.S. typically range from $1.40 to $1.80 a pound because of high production costs, prices for honey produced in China are significantly lower, as little as 22 cents a pound.
Find the rest of this $78,000,000 theft story in the June issue of Bee Culture, The Magazine Of American Beekeeping.


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Passan absolutely rips Wilpon (and paints an ugly pic for 2012 to boot)
Last half of last graph of a very depressing story: If Wilpon wanted what was best for the Mets, he'd sell now and give the club a chance to avoid the wrecking ball barreling toward him. Instead, this is about him and his family and their team, and so he olés the wrecking ball, knowing its target is the team onto which he so desperately wants to hold. It's sad really, this proud franchise sullied by a man whose greed overwhelmed the greater good of the thing he purportedly loved. Sounds a lot, in fact, like someone with whom Fred Wilpon was intimately familiar: Bernie Madoff.


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Quick Info:
Born: October 26, 1976
Hometown: Argyle, Texas
Joined Tour: 2001
Bowls: Right-handed
Total Championships Won: 9
Major Championships Won (1):
- 2013 U.S. Open, Columbus, Ohio
Awards and Honors:
- PBA Harry Smith Point Leader Award (2006-07)
- Chris Schenkel PBA Player of the Year (2008-09)
- George Young Memorial High Average Award (2008-09)
Wes Malott is one of a few bowlers who consistently make a lot of money in a sport in which it's very difficult to do so. He earned over $100,000 in four consecutive seasons, from 2005-06 to 2008-09. His top earning year was 2008-09 with $174,680, the same year he won the George Young Memorial High Average Award and the Chris Schenkel PBA Player of the Year Award.
With his intimidating power and confident demeanor, Malott is a contender in every tournament he enters.


text: Amarillo, TX - A lockdown at an area elementary school has been lifted.As a precaution, Mesa Verde will have a controlled entry and extra security presence for the remainder of the school day. It all started when Amarillo Police responded to a shooting at the 7300 block of Fleming early Thursday morning. A 26 year-old female advised officers that a male subject had just fired a shot at her and then took off. No one was injured in the incident but since the victim has children that attend Mesa Verde Elementary, they decided to go on lockdown as a precaution.School officials stress that there was no direct or indirect threat to anyone at the campus. AISD is currently working with authorities. Right now officers remain on the scene where the shooting occurred gathering information. The case will be presented to the 47th District Attorneys office.


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Are you intrigued with the idea of learning how to trade in foreign exchange trading? There is no time than now!This article will help answer any questions that you may have. Read this article for some tips on your way to achieving your currency trading.
Learn all you can about your chose currency pair you choose. If you take the time to learn all the different possible pairs, you will be learning and not trading for quite some time.
To do well in Foreign Exchange trading, sharing your experiences with fellow traders is a good thing, but the final decisions are yours. While consulting with other people is a great way to receive information, you should ultimately be the one who has final say in your investments.
You can get analysis of the most useful forex charts are the ones for daily and four-hour intervals. You can track the foreign exchange market down to every 15 minutes!The disadvantage to these short cycles is that there is too much random luck what happens. You can bypass a lot of the stress and unrealistic excitement by avoiding short-term cycles.
Never choose your position yourself in forex based solely on the performance of another trader. Foreign Exchange traders make mistakes, but only talk about good things, focus on their times of success instead of failure. Even if someone has a lot of success, he can still make mistakes. Stick with the signals and ignore other traders.
Make sure you adequately research your broker before you sign with their firm.
Forex should not be taken as a game. People who want to invest in Forex just for fun are sure to suffer. They are likely to have more fun playing slot machines at a casino instead.
You do not required to buy any software or spend any money to open a demo account. You can simply go to the main foreign exchange website and look for an account there.
Don't diversify your portfolio too quickly when you first start out. The major currency pairs are appropriate for a good place to start. Don't get overwhelmed by trading in too many different markets. This can get your mind jumbled and cause you to get careless, both of which are bad investment strategies.
Many seasoned and successful foreign exchange market traders will tell you to record your trades in a journal. Keep a journal of your gains and losses.This will help you keep a log of what works and what does not work to ensure success in the past.
If you strive for success in the foreign exchange market, it can be helpful to start small with a mini account first. This can help you easily see good trade and what constitutes a bad one.
It takes time to do well; you need to continue taking every opportunity to learn the business.
Beginners should completely avoid trading against market trends, and experienced traders should only do so if they know what they are doing.
Use exchange market signals to know when to buy or exit trades. Most good software can track signals and give you an automatic warning when they detect the market reaches a certain rate.
Give yourself some time to learn the ropes so you don't need to depend on luck.
If Forex is a long-term thing for you, consider creating a list of tips that you constantly keep hearing about. This will help you become a knowledgeable trader with iron clad discipline that keeps you can use in the future.
Using a virtual account or demo platform to trade foreign exchange trading is a very effective method.
Using a virtual account or demo platform to trade foreign exchange is a very effective method.
Don't treat forex trading like a game of blackjack. Never consider a trade before analyzing and study.
You need to understand the underlying danger of a specific action before it is safe enough to make it. Your broker should be willing to help you with any problems and give you advice.
In addition to providing a source of additional income, some have found it possible to make forex investments into a primary source for their household income. Make this decision when you see how much money you are able to bring in as a trader. In order to achieve this success, you must focus on learning how to properly trade. her latest blog continued on front page my review here
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The guys at Ball Hogs Radio have a mission for YOU!
Do you know how the Orioles and their fans have their own special National Anthem chant? You know, it goes something like this:
"…gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Ooooooooo! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave"
And have you noticed that the Capitals have their own as well? You can practically hear the 20,000 fans screaming "RED!" in unison during "Rocket's RED glare" from outside the Verizon Center.
So if other local teams can do it, why can't the Skins at FedEx Field? Here's what we've proposed- why not have 80,000+ screaming fans prove just how proudly they hail every home game?
Here's how it would go:
"Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we HAILED! at the twilight's last gleaming?"
Aren't we all tired of opposing fans taking over our stadium? Wouldn't something like this, special and unique to the Redskins, get you pumped up even more for kickoff? I know we're all in on this.
So I ask you Redskins fans: will you HAIL PROUDLY with Redskins Nation at FedEx Field this year? This message needs to be sent to EACH AND EVERY Redskins fan in the DMV. Help tweet, post on Facebook, share the link, etc… to help spread the word! You'll be reminded all throughout the preseason and then come 9/11, with 80K + in attendance, during the National Anthem, let's kick it off!!!
Follow @Hail_Proudly and @BallHogsRadio on Twitterand search Ball Hogs Radio on Facebook.
*This campaign was not meant to defame or take away any meaning from our Nation's anthem. It is strictly in fun to help motivate the Redskins fans and players.


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As their first cookbook hits the bookstores this fall, the mother-daughter team at the Model Bakery in Napa Valley is getting ready for another season of holiday madness.
"At Halloween, we do a lot of decorated cupcakes and cookies, and we'll do spiderweb cakes," said co-owner and managing partner Sarah Mitchell Hansen, daughter of founder Karen Mitchell. "Our busiest time is Thanksgiving and Christmas."
The bakery has been a community hub in St. Helena since 1984, with a second location at Napa's Oxbow Public Market since 2008, providing everything the valley needs to run smoothly: coffee and pastries to kick-start mornings, cookies and cakes to celebrate special occasions, breakfasts and lunches to fuel workers and a delicious array of artisan breads to go.
The Model Bakery In St. Helena
"A lot of people get their birthday cakes, and then their wedding cakes," Hansen said. "We do a lot of local events. We've been doing the Napa Valley Wine Auction since it started."
"The Model Bakery Cookbook" (Chronicle Books, $35) offers 75 recipes from the bakery for sweet and yeasty treats, from its signature English Muffins and Pain Au Levain to Morning Glory Muffins and Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookies.
"The book is user-friendly," Hansen said. "The layer cakes will take a little more time, but the basic muffins are pretty easy."
Mitchell, a former high school teacher and caterer, bought the bakery in 1984 after a trip through Europe inspired her to bring artisan bread to the valley.
Mitchell grew up in Portland in a family of Norwegian bakers. After renovating the bakery and its ovens, which had been operating since the early 1900s, she opened just before Thanksgiving in 1984 and never looked back.
"In the valley, there wasn't really a lot of options (for bread) in the '80s," Hansen said. "We were more focused on the European style. When we opened, my mom had a French pastry chef, and we had the breads made with wild yeast instead of commercial."


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Methicillin-Resistant Staph Infection
(MRSA; Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection; Infection, Methicillin-Resistant; Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Community-Acquired MRSA; CA-MRSA; Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Nosocomial MRSA; Healthcare-Associated MRSA; HA-MRSA)
Definition | Causes | Risk Factors | Symptoms | Diagnosis | Treatment | Prevention
A methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection is caused by a bacteria that resists many antibiotics that are used to treat infections . The bacteria can affect the skin, blood, bones, or lungs. A person can either be infected or colonized with MRSA. When a person is infected, the bacteria cause symptoms. A person colonized also has the bacteria, but it may not cause any symptoms. An MRSA infection can be serious because of the resistance to antibiotics.
There are two types of MRSA infection: community-acquired and nosocomial. People who have a community-acquired MRSA infection were infected outside of a hospital setting. Nosocomial MRSA infections occur in healthcare settings such as hospitals or clinics.
An MRSA infection is caused by a bacteria. The cause of the resistance to the bacteria is from excessive exposure to antibiotics over time. The bacteria adapts to the antibiotics.
Risk Factors
An MRSA infection can spread several ways:
- Contaminated surfaces
- Person-to-person
- From one area of the body to another
The following factors increase your chance of infection. Tell your doctor if you have any of these risk factors:
- Impaired immunity
- Sharing crowded spaces such as dormitories or locker rooms
- Using IV drugs
- Having a serious illness
- Age: Child
- Being an athlete, especially in sports using direct contact such as wrestling and football
- Being a prisoner
- Being a member of the military
- Exposure to animals such as being a pet owner, veterinarian, or pig farmer
- Using antibiotics
- Having a chronic skin disorder
- Having a wound
- Being infected with MRSA in the past
- Exposure to hospital or clinical settings
- Living in a long-term care center
- Impaired immunity
- Advanced age
- Sex: male
- Using antibiotics
- Having a wound
If you experience any of these symptoms, do not assume it is an MRSA infection. These symptoms may be caused by other, less serious health conditions. If you experience any one of them, see your doctor.
- A rash that may have discharge
- An area of the skin that is swollen and red
- Blisters on the skin
Infected Hair Follicle—Folliculitis
Your doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done.
Your bodily fluids and tissues may be tested. This can be done with:
- Blood tests
- Urine tests
- Skin biopsy
- Wound cultures
Talk with your doctor about the best treatment plan for you. Treatment options include the following:
Antibiotics are given to kill the bacteria. Only a few antibiotics are available that can treat an MRSA infection.
Incision and Drainage of an Abscess
Your doctor may open the abscess and allow the fluid to drain. Do not attempt to do this on your own.
Cleansing of the Skin
Do the following to treat the infection and to keep it from spreading:
- Wash your skin with an antibacterial cleanser.
- Cover your skin with a sterile dressing.
To help reduce your chance of getting an MRSA infection, take the following steps:
- Thoroughly wash your hands with soap and water.
- Keep cuts and wounds clean and covered until healed.
- Avoid contact with other people's wounds and materials contaminated by wounds.
- If you are hospitalized, visitors and healthcare workers may be required to wear special clothing and gloves. This will help prevent spreading the infection to others.
- Clean surfaces to eliminate bacteria.
- If advised by your doctor, use nasal ointments, wash with special soap, and take medications to prevent the bacteria from infecting you again.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Health Canada
Public Health Agency of Canada
Barton M, Hawkes M, et al. Guidelines for the prevention and management of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: A perspective for Canadian health care practitioners. Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol. 2006;17(Suppl C):4C.
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at: http://dynamed.ebscohost.com. Updated July 1, 2003. Accessed September 9, 2013.
MRSA decolonization. Aurora BayCare Medical Center website. Available at: http://www.aurorahealthcare.org/FYWB_pdfs/baycare/x34012bc.pdf. Updated October 2010. Accessed September 9, 2013.
Seasonal flu and staph infection. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/flustaph.htm. Updated February 8, 2011. Accessed September 9, 2013.
MRSA. Nemours Foundation Kids Health website. Available at: http://kidshealth.org/parent/infections/bacterial_viral/mrsa.html. Updated August 2011. Accessed September 9, 2013.
Last reviewed September 2013 by Michael Woods, MD
Please be aware that this information is provided to supplement the care provided by your physician. It is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. CALL YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.


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Implementing a Loan Repayment Assistance Program
Simple and Proven
Implementing a loan repayment assistance program at your school is a simple and proven way to increase student enrollment and retention. Our job at LRAP Association, is to make this process as easy as possible, which is why we created a turnkey program, custom-built for your institution and students.
Here's how it works:
Jane's Enrollment Decision
Your Institution Uses the LRAP
"Using LRAP has been simple."
- Director of Financial Aid
Our clients tell us again and again that LRAP is working for them, yielding results that are above and beyond their expectations, year after year.
LRAP is proven to increase enrollment, retention and your bottom line revenue, by alleviating anxiety about post-graduation loan-repayment for both students and their families.


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NOTE: While this document attempts to briefly explain the benefits and usage of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), they are of significant enough complexity that this document cannot address their full usage or development adequately.
Style sheets define how documents are presented on screen and in print. CSS benefits accessibility primarily by separating content from presentation - allowing the HTML to represent the logical, semantic markup of the content while the style sheets control character spacing, text alignment, object position on the page, audio and speech output, font characteristics, etc. By separating style from markup, authors can simplify and clean up the HTML in their documents, make style changes across an entire web site by making a code change in single file, and make their site more accessible at the same time. CSS also allows users to override author styles. This is very important to users who cannot perceive a page with the author's chosen fonts, font-sizes or colours. Furthermore, CSS allows users to view documents with their own preferred settings by specifying them in custom user style-sheets, which they can then apply to the author's semantically correct, marked-up text.
Currently, there are various levels and profiles of CSS as outlined by the World Wide Web Consortium:
CSS level 1 (1996, 1999) contains properties for fonts, margins, colors, etc., that nearly all profiles of CSS need. Most modern browsers today support all of the CSS 1 Specifications. (www.w3c.org/TR/REC-CSS1 )
CSS level 2 revision 1 ("CSS 2.1") contains all of CSS level 1 and adds absolutely positioned elements, automatic numbering, page breaks, right to left text and other things. The majority of today's modern browsers support most of the CSS 2 Specifications; some specific elements are not yet supported, or poorly supported. (www.w3c.org/TR/CSS21)
CSS level 3 is under development. It includes all of level 2 and extends it with new selectors, fancy borders and backgrounds, vertical text, user interaction, speech and much more.
Developers are encouraged to author to the current standards, but are at the same time cautioned to do appropriate cross browser testing to ensure that no critical functionality is lost when using some of the more advanced CSS 2.1 attributes.
In very simple terms, Cascading Style Sheets allow web developers to attach "styles" to HTML elements. The technology further allows for fragmentary or unique classes of similar elements; style declarations can be "global" in nature (covering all documents) down to unique one-off instances. For example, in this document, we have paragraphs of text that are defined structurally using the
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 Standard: All Queen's University web documents must use Cascading Style Sheets for display and formatting purposes.

In the style sheet for this site, then, we can then attach rendering properties to that particular class (for example bold text, or perhaps a different font face, font size, or background colour). The benefits of CSS to developers soon becomes obvious: if, at some later date, we wish to make changes to the way the "Standards and Recommendations" are displayed (or rendered), we need to make but one change and the entire site will reflect those changes. Thus, Cascading Style Sheets speed the development process considerably.
There are four methods of applying Cascading Style Sheet styles to an HTML element: inline, embedded, linked, and imported. The word cascading describes the true power of these style sheets. Depending on which method you use to incorporate styles into your html documents, you can change the display for one particular element in a specific document (inline), or with one simple edit of a css file, change the properties of an element in an entire site of many HTML documents (linked or imported)... hence the cascading which describes the sequence of "inheritance," or the order in which the methods are interpreted by the browser.
As the page opens and the browser reads the HTML tags, it starts with the  attributes. Where it may read a call to an external style sheet through a linked or imported style sheet call, it then finds and interprets the .css file and applies those CSS tag properties to the content in the body.
If the browser then reads a set of embedded instructions located between the head tags, the previous instructions from the external style sheet will be replaced by the newer embedded instructions.
When the browser begins reading the content between the body tags, and there is an instruction within an HTML tag, any previous conditions are replaced by that inline instruction.
While all four methods of incorporating styles, as outlined above, are valid and have their uses, it is recommended that style sheets developed for Queen's University be attached through linked CSS files. The inline style declaration should be avoided whenever possible.
Like HTML, Cascading Style Sheets follow a series of Standards. As in HTML, for developers to ensure cross browser compatibility and "future-proofing", the Style Sheets must also be valid. Fortunately, online validation tools also exist to aid developers achieve this Standard.


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By Claire Meyer For the Times Sentinel
Zionsville Times Sentinel
---- — The Marching Eagles have been hard at work this year developing a great show that got them to semi-state.
Perfecting a performance comes with an abundance of hard work, dedication and perseverance, but in the end it paid off for the Eagles. The theme for this year's Zionsville Community High School marching band show was The Sorcerer and the Swan.
"In the beginning, the sorcerer had taken the color guard and turned them into swans," said Jacey King, a senior and trumpet player in the band. "The sorcerer then takes over the whole band and puts a spell on them. At the end, the sorcerer dies, and all the swans turn back into humans."
This unique presentation of a timeless classic earned them a spot in semi-state competition Saturday, Oct. 26, at Pike High School.
"I was excited that we made semis considering last year we didn't make it past regionals," said Abby Pierce, a senior and member of the color guard.
The color guard member wasn't the only one excited about making it to semi-state.
"It was a relief for me, and I think the whole band too," King said. "Since last year we didn't make it to semi-state, it was nice to have another week."
According to Pierce, the band and color guard practiced every Tuesday and Thursday after school from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and Fridays from 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. They also practiced Saturday mornings from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Practice went on even in undesirable weather conditions, she said. While most students were relaxing over fall break, the band and color guard were still hard at work. Their practices could go on for as long as five hours leading up to semi-state. This heavy schedule was tough, Pierce said, but necessary to perfect the routine and give a jaw-dropping performance.
"Since June, we have been practicing and running sections and just trying to improve the show," said Audrey Means, a senior and member of the color guard.
According to Means, during their performance at semi-state, the eagles had to learn how to adjust to heavy winds that made it difficult to perform.
"At some points the wind was so strong that the field judge would try to pull our tarp out to help us, but the wind would mess it up," said Pierce.
The Marching Eagles were unable to make it through to state finals.
"We brought our A-game that day and did very well given the situation," Pierce said.
ZCHS Director of Bands Tom Landrum said: "The Marching Eagles put on a great show at semi-state but did not advance to state finals. The band was 1.2 points away from moving on. I am very proud of the hard work and of the heart put into this season by all of the students. The Sorcerer and the Swan was a wonderful show, and I will miss seeing and hearing it performed. This was definitely one of my favorite marching band shows of all my years as a band director, and I enjoyed working with this year's group of students very much."
While the Marching Eagles fell short of state finals, the year was still a success, and the members gained a lot.
"We worked really hard this year and made some changes to the show to help us get to state, but we still fell short," said King.
But the show was a favorite among the senior band and color guard members, and the graduating seniors are happy to leave their legacy behind with this year's performance.
"This year was my favorite by far," Pierce said. "We did well and had fun. Being a part of the Marching Eagles is the best decision I made in my high school career."
Overall, it was a great way to end the season. There were highs and lows, but the Marching Eagles worked hard and put on a great show. While some of the Eagles were disappointed with their finish, most are very proud and content with making it to semi-state.
"It was a good year, and we had a good final run," King said. "I am extremely proud of the Marching Eagles."