Git your Script Readers on

Source: Wall Street Journal (Original Article)

Several years ago, I received a testimony, of sorts, to my literary brilliance.

This came by way of a reader who, impressed by one of my columns, wrote me to extol its virtues. My prose, he said, was eloquent. My argument, persuasive. My conclusion, decisive. And so it went, paragraph after ego-inflating paragraph, until the reader rendered what, to him, was the ultimate compliment: My writing, he said, was worthy of the original version of “Battlestar Galactica.” The flattery suddenly went flat.

To be in the news business, and especially the column-writing business, involves many things, not the least of which is an ongoing relationship with readers. Now that columnists typically put their email addresses at the foot of their columns, this can be a bit like standing on the beach at Mont St. Michel. Criticize Ron Paul, as I did in a January column, or Barack Obama, as I do just about every other week, and a tide of mail rolls in — and drowns you. Praise the pope, as I did after his controversial Regensburg address in 2006, and the waters rise — and part.

Usually these letters are of the “Great column!” or “You’re an idiot!” kind. Some are astonishingly verbose: Hard-core libertarians seem to have an especially hard time getting to the point. Some of the writers (you know who you are) have apparently convinced themselves that their 99th argument against, for instance, the war in Iraq will persuade me to see the error of my ways. Maybe 100 letters more will do the trick.

Every so often something unusual rolls in. In May 2001, I was standing by the fax machine in the Journal’s Brussels office when a two-page letter in a neat script came through. “I am having the unexpected pleasure of reading The Wall Street Journal Europe since last 2nd April,” it began, “enjoying an offer which my objectively frozen financial situation would not have allowed otherwise.”

After some personal reminiscence, the writer, easy sudoku who signed off as “Carlos,” got …continue reading

Source: Globe and Mail (Original Article)

The Squid and the Whale, based in part on the real story of director Noah Baumbach’s parents’ divorce, is often suggested as viewing material for couples who anguish over what is, without doubt, the worst moment of divorce for families with children: the Day You Tell the Kids.
It’s the day that goes against every parental grain in your body.
We are supposed to protect our children from harm, not deliver it.
In that movie from 2005, the parents tell their two adolescent sons as they go out the door to school in the morning that when they get home, a "family conference" will take place.

"Why?" one son asks.
"We’ll go over it tonight," replies the father in as calm and casual a voice as possible.
Family meetings are the stuff of modern parenting. Over the years of my life as a parent of three boys, I figure I’ve sat down with them on issues that run the gamut from bedtimes, bad language, who will fess up to breaking the crystal vase, a new sibling on the way, what to do over the summer holidays and the responsibility that comes with having a dog. It’s about managing the family as a team of individuals. Consensus is built, voices remain calm, and everyone feels he has a voice.
We all hope the "divorce talk" can be handled in a similar way. In fact, several family therapists report that parents often come to them to figure out what the script should be. There is one. (I’ll get to that in a minute.) But what many well-meaning and conscientious couples discover - even the fictional Berkmans in The Squid and the Whale - is that how the children react is unpredictable.
Their younger son, who is 12, begins to cry.
The parents reassure the children that Dad is only moving across the park and that they will share equal time with each parent. ANZ Visa Debit
"We’ll have a Ping-Pong table," Dad …continue reading

Source: PR Newswire (press release) (Original Article)

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Source: Daily Mail (Original Article)

Daily MailRichard Littlejohn
Hit me with your rhythm stick, Harriet!
21:20pm 3rd April 2008

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The fall-out from those photos of Formula One boss Max Mosley engaging in sado-masochistic sex with prostitutes continues to rumble on.

He’s just been banned from attending the Bahrain Grand Prix.
Apparently the kingdom’s Crown Prince believes that in light of the revelations it would be “inappropriate” for him to be there.
Quite right, too. You’d never catch Arab princes consorting with prostitutes in London.

Can’t have the good name of Bahrain brought into disrepute by a man who not only uses call girls but probably drinks alcohol and visits casinos, too.

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The stuff of fantasy? Harriet Harwman and her stab-proof vest wielding a whip
I’m sorry, but I can’t get too excited about all this. To be honest, I’d never heard of Max Mosley before the News of the Screws turned him over for barking out orders in German while being spanked.
He’s the son of former British Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, which gives the Nazi angle an added frisson.

Max Mosley: Embroiled in ’sensational sex scandal’ - but is he just one of many to enjoy a good thrashing?
But I don’t buy the accusation that there’s anything anti-semitic about Sad Max’s antics.
A certain type of public schoolboy has always been partial to a good thrashing from a female authority figure.
Something to do with all those nannies and matrons they had when they were younger.
They don’t come much more authoritarian than a dominatrix dressed up as a member of the Waffen SS.
But if there was no Naughty Nazi to hand, they’d cheerfully settle for a Rosa Klebb clone or a Rula Lenska lookalike in a Cossack outfit.
It’s the uniform, not the denomination, which gets them going.
Nor is it just public schoolboys. Only yesterday we learned of a milkman in Newport, Gwent, who was found dead wearing a Russian biological warfare mask following ANZ Frequent Flyer Card a sex game which went horribly …continue reading

Source: The Times (Original Article)

As she sees her bestselling novel The Other Boleyn Girl brought to life on the big screen, Philippa Gregory explains why we can’t get enough of the sex, terror and turmoil of the Tudors Photographs by Alex Bailey.

Perched in silence on a director’s chair, I look at the tiny screen shrouded in curtains.

Sitting beside me, hunched over her clipboard, is the voice coach, before me the dialogue coach, beside him the sound recordist and beside him the producer.

Standing around us, craning forward to see the screen, are perhaps 20 people all watching with different concerns: costume, lighting, hair, make-up; each of them has their own trade and looks at the scene to monitor the perfection of their individual piece of work. Only the director, Justin Chadwick, leaning forward, is trying to see everything at once. Only I — ironically the originator of this story — am not looking for what I am seeing. I am looking for the story behind it.

People say to me all the time: what is it like to see your novel come alive? What is it like to see it filmed? Is it as you imagined? And of all the questions, this is the most urgent: is this rendition — acted out by some of the most beautiful and glamorous people working at the top of their profession and supported by the most skilled craftsmen — true to the novel?

This question reminds me of others that haunt me on book tours: is the novel true? Is it based on real life? What parts of it are fiction and what parts of it are fact? Sometimes a pseudo-scientific question: what percentage of the book is fiction, what percentage is fact?

Then there is another conversation that comes from the people who delay at book signings or ask to see me later. The readers who tell me how the book was true for them. They are not interested in an imaginary retelling of a long-ago character, for them St George No Fee Credit Card there was a truth that was …continue reading

Source: Hindustan Times (Original Article)

She can be indifferent and she can be warm. But at this, very moment, she’s far from being mercurial. It’s probably her 101st interview in the course of a week.. but like her personality, she’s frank and fast-paced. After a break of nearly two years, she’s back in a movie which marks the debut of Ajay Devgan as a director. So, here’s a q and me-u-and-Hum with Kajol by Hiren Kotwani 

If you were interviewing Kajol, what question would you begin with? I would have done my research. Hopefully, I’d ask some different questions.. which she hasn’t answered before. Let me try a touchy one.

What about the buzz which still persists that U Me aur Hum is inspired by Hollywood’s The Notebook?
Look, we have said it is not The Notebook so many times that I’m tired of reiterating it.

Did you have any differences of opinion with Ajay Devgan during the shoot?
No. We went with a bound script. Being an open person, Ajay’s theory is, “If I can’t convince you, then you convince me.”

“Karan has approached me for his next film. He’s talked to me about it, but we haven’t finalised anything yet.”
Since you’re so selective, what excites you to do a film?
Mostly, it’s the script. I’m an avid reader, films are essentially about screenplays.. and dialogue. The lines you say and the manner in which you say them matter.

It’s not like in books, where you have three paragraphs explaining what prompted a character to say a certain line.

What prompted you to sign up for Toonpur ka Super Hero.. you went on board long after Ajay Devgan did?
The film was made with him in mind. Kumarji (Mangat) told me it’s primarily about cartoon characters, and not Ajay and me. But I was like, let me hear the script, if it’s worth my time and patience, I’ll do it.

It’s still not clear whether you will be in Karan Johar’s Khan?
Karan has approached me for his next film. He’s talked to me about it, but How I Met Your Mother dvd we haven’t finalised anything yet.

“I’m …continue reading

Source: PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) (Original Article)

- Synplicity, Inc. Jeff Garrison, 408-215-6000 (Synplicity Reader) jeff@synplicity.com or Tsantes Consulting Group Nancy Sheffield, 408-426-4906 (Synplicity Press) nsheffield@tsantes.com Synplicity, Inc. (NASDAQ:SYNP), a leading supplier of innovative IC design and verification solutions, today announced that its advanced FPGA synthesis solution Synplify Pro(R), now supports Virtex(R)-5 FXT field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) from Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX), the

world’s leading supplier of programmable logic solutions. In addition, Synplicity has created an automated solution for integrating its Synplify Pro FPGA synthesis solution into the Xilinx Embedded Development Kit (EDK) so designers can achieve maximum productivity and quality of results for their embedded system designs.

“Our ongoing relationship with Synplicity results in solutions that maximize the capabilities of ultra high-density designs implemented in Xilinx 65-nm Virtex-5 FPGAs,” said Steve Lass, senior director software marketing at Xilinx. “For customers designing with Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs, we advocate the use of the Synplify Pro tool as it provides outstanding timing and area results for these high-performance devices.”

The Virtex-5 FXT platform comes with up to two PowerPC(R) 440 processor blocks, high-performance DSP and high-speed serial capabilities to deliver a comprehensive system-integration platform for high-performance applications such as audio/video broadcast, communications, military, aerospace and many others. One of the key reasons software customers targeting Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs get optimal timing and area results using the Synplify Pro tool is because the synthesis algorithms in the product have been developed to take advantage of the 6-input Look Up Tables (LUTs) that characterize the Virtex-5 family. Existing synthesis technology, based upon 4-input LUT architectures, will not be able to deliver optimal accommodation daylesford results when targeting Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs. …continue reading