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Pierre Léna
Member of Académie des sciences (Paris)
Member since 1991 of Académie des sciences (Paris), Pierre Léna, born 1937 in Paris, is an astrophysicist, highly involved in science education issues. He is Emeritus Professor of astrophysics and physics at the Université Paris Diderot, where he accomplished most of his teaching career, doing his research as an associate researcher with Paris Observatory, where he developed and directed a large research group.
The scientific work of Pierre Léna is centered on infrared astronomy, a major branch of astronomy born ca.1960. With novel observations, he contributed to model the solar atmosphere and its temperature minimum. Adapting to infrared the speckle interferometry discovered by the French Antoine Labeyrie, he was first with his students to apply it to star formation and measure the size of dust cocoons around forming stars. This work led him to organize the European Very Large Telescope as an interferometer, again following Labeyrie's ideas. This world's most powerful instrument is now operating. He then worked on a new interferometer, connecting with optical fibers large telescopes on Mauna Kea (Hawaii).
Beginning 1984, he led a team first implementing adaptive optics on a telescope, a technique now worldwide adopted on giant instruments. He is the author of more than 100 scientific articles, author of several books on astrophysics, on education in science, popular books and television series.
He represented France at the governing Council of the European Southern Observatory (1986-1993) at the time of the VLT planning, directed the Graduate School of Astrophysics at Université Paris 7 (1976-1984 & 1992-1996) before becoming Director of the Ecole doctorale Astronomie d'Ile-de-France (1997-2003).
His interest in educational matters led him to become Président of the Institut national de recherche pédagogique (1991-1997) and to be an active member of the La main à la pâte (Inquiry & Hands On) action renovating science education in schools since 1996. He was Président of the Société française de physique in 1989. Between 2005 and 201, he has directed the Education Office of the French Académie des sciences. He pursues the work on science education at national, european and international scales and became in 2011 the global Coordinator of the Science Education Program of the InterAcademy Panel, international federation of science Academies.
Pierre Léna is a member of Academia Europeae and of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

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Day 2: Hanoi City Tour (B/L)
After breakfast at hotel, we commence our exploration of Hanoi by visiting the Ho Chi Minh complex, starting at the President's Mausoleum. We continue to his humble "house on stilts", see the French colonial Presidential Palace and the 11th century One-Pillar Pagoda.
Enjoy lunch at one restaurant near by .
Afternoon we take a short dirve to visit the Temple of Literature, the first Vietnam University dating to 1070. Proceed to take walking tour through the Hanoi's Old Quarter, passing the Opera House, the Saint Joseph Cathedral and Hoan Kiem Lake. Overnight in Hanoi.
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Pick you up at hotel at 07:45 a.m to depart to Hoalu – Tamcoc. These famous sites are located in the Ninh Binh province, 95 km south of Hanoi. Tam Coc is known as Halong Bay on the rice fields. Upon arrival, we will take a sampan ride through a karst landscape to visit Tam Coc grottos. The sampan rower will drive the boat through shallow rice paddies and three splendid long grottos. Leave the sampans and visit a small temple, built in 13th century, called Thai Vy. Next stop is Hoa Lu, which was the capital of the Dinh and Early Le dynasties in Vietnam in the 10th and 11th century. The sanctuaries were built in the 17th century. We will see the stone pedestal of a royal throne, bronze bells and statues of the Emperors. Head back to Hanoi at 18:00.
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A couple of years back, a friend of mine went to see a plastic surgeon. She had come upon some inheritance and decided to see how the money could buy her something she'd always wanted, something she'd dreamed of and longed for—something that would truly change her life. Now, I can't condemn her for wanting it. I'm not immune to lusting after it myself.
Now, you might be thinking she went in search of a set of perky size Ds, or perhaps a cuter nose, lips like Angelina Jolie, and if you have a really naughty mind you might think she went in to get her very own . . . well, a sex operation. But nope, my friend is happy being female. But she was unhappy with her female self. What she really wanted was a better self image.
The good doctor gave her a blue magic marker and a few instructions. She was to strip butt naked, stand in front of the full-length mirror and mark everything on her body that she would like to change. Now, my friend is like most women I know in their early forties, meaning she hadn't looked at herself naked in a full-length mirror since before
But being the good patient, she did as he requested. Then, peering only through tightened eyelids, she grabbed the marker and uncapped it. She started down low, a scar on her calf where a dog bit her when she was a kid, her knees which according to her, had began to sag much like breasts do. (I'm afraid to check mine.) The thighs required much more ink. ( I would have run out ink by then.) And then the dreadful tummy. Of course, she admitted she'd never lost the pregnancy bulge. But the mid-drift. . . since when had that started to jiggle? Breasts…she didn't even want to talk about them and neither do I.
She says that's when she got a good glimpse of herself in the mirror and started bawling. Not just because she saw herself naked for first time in almost ten years. Not because she was looking a little like Papa Smurf. She sobbed because she knew her inheritance wasn't large enough to fix everything. (Damn Aunt Bee for not being richer!)
Anyway, she got dressed and came running to my house with a bottle of wine. A large bottle. Some time between glasses three and four, we both had an epiphany. (I don't get them often so this was a grand occasion.) I'm not even sure how we came to this bit of wisdom, but I think it was because each of us was shocked at everything we wanted to change about ourselves. I found a blue marker and we both put big dots on our foreheads. In our slightly inebriated states, this was supposed to mean that the first part of our bodies we needed to fix was our minds. Because our biggest problem with self-image was how WE saw ourselves.
When my husband came home that night, I had to explain the headache and the big blue dot on my forehead. Even still, I didn't regret our mid-afternoon Merlot party, although I did regret that the dot on my forehead had been made with a permanent marker.
But even that was okay. It gave us both a few days of fading ink to think about the whole self-image problem. And something we realized is that this problem hadn't started with the sagging forties, it had been present even in our earlier years. I remember wishing I had bouncier ponytails in kindergarten.
The end result of that day? My friend used most of her money to go on a cruise. She did get one nip and tuck, but she also joined a gym, and bought some books on loving and accepting herself.
Every now and then, I still get caught up the whole negative image trap. I hate my thin hair, I hate being short, I hate my big boobs. (Yeah, I know most of you don't get that, but believe me, being short and chesty isn't a good thing. If anyone needs to borrow a cup or two, I've got some to give away.) I hate the lines appearing around my eyes, and the extra 30 pounds. But then I try to remind myself, that most of what I see wrong with my appearance is exaggerated by own warped self-image. So I'm still working on changing the things I can change, and accepting the things I can't. I've also gotten rid of all permanent markers. Oh, and I absolutely refuse to stand naked in front of full-length mirrors. That alone keeps me away from all plastic surgeons.
So, do tell, do you hate something about yourself? How are you dealing with negative image? Or, are my friend and I the only ones struggling with this ugly beast?
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Sunday, July 08, 2007
Seedcamp Sprouting
Saul referred to Seedcamp on Thursday last at the Library House Event, Essential Web.
The Seedcamp website went live on the same day and some of blogs have picked up on the story - as did the Guardian on-line.
There is quite a lot that isn't conventional about Seedcamp and perhaps this post will help to elucidate.
The theme of why we need to keep seeding European start-ups is a well covered one.
Like the Opencoffee Club, Seedcamp is essentially designed to promote entrepreneurship in the tech community in a down-to-earth, direct and practical way.
Like Opencoffee it is aims to be collaborative, inclusive and participative.
The idea is simple, Seedcamp will help to kick-start the best of European ventures through the provision of a small amount of money but more importantly by providing direct access to the best mentors in the ecosystem.
The website explains it in some detail.
Seedcamp will be owned by a wide range of VCs, Successful Entrepreneurs and Professionals.
Announcements will follow soon of those who are backing it.
In just a week and a bit - since Essential Web - rapid progress has been made on a few fronts.
1) 3 days ago, we had 12 fully submitted applications and 96 signed-up users. I am amazed at this given the application form only went up 4 days previously.
2) We have a number of backers on board. Our plan is to make a public announcement about our 1st group of investor/supporters in the coming week.
3) We started up a Facebook group around Seedcamp. There are 411 members today! Word-of-mouth and blogging is very active as we can tell by the links on our website and the emails we are getting
If you think you can add to Seedcamp as Investor/Sponsor/Mentor or you have a business plan which needs support please go to www.Seedcamp.com and contact us via the blog or the email.
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I guess we're all in that?! 😀
By TraceWillow
It is the 1st day of 2013! Happy and Peaceful New Year again! 2014 is just 1 more year away! Hang in there folks!
Since we are all Geh Po's here, after I read my own New Year horoscope, I checked out on David's as well. David's account does not contain predictions as such for the coming year; it gives a description of his character traits which, if you believe it, have been pre-determined by influences of astral bodies or celestial gods up there somewhere – by token of his birthdate – so I've been told.
What I've read seems so uncanny as to what we know (or what we think we know!) about David – I think it is worth the fun pondering over.
His birthdate December 28 1990, puts him under the astrological Sun sign of the Capricorn Goat (just like me woohoo!) and the Moon sign of Taurus, with influences from Saturn and Scorpio.
Lunar astrology places him as a Horse. Element: Metal.
Like the majority of Earth signs like Capricorn, he is described as efficient and concrete. His ideas go through changes but their consequence remains. He has an unfailing integrity and an asthetic spirit that excludes all forms of deception.
Fire is dominant in him and endows him with intuition, energy, courage and enthusiasm. The relative weakness of this Element is a kind of boldness that may prompt him to do foolish things.
The 12 zodiacal signs are split into 3 groups or modes: Cardinal, Fixed and Mutable. In David, the Cardinal mode is dominant and indicates his keeness to implement the plans he has in mind and to get things going. This inspires enthusiasm and adrenaline without which he can grow weary rapidly. That he should express sensitivity even if it reveals vulnerability.
Like all the people born under the apparently tough and reserved sign of Capricorn, his inner person is often gentle and charming. But he represses his feelings and practises too much self-control. The armour, forged throughout childhood, seems to have entirely preserved the purity and warmth of his soul imprisoned within.
The 12 zodiac signs are also divided into 2 polarities: active/passive, masculine/feminine, positive/negative, and yang/yin. David, being a Capricorn, belongs to the 2nd group, which corresponds to introversion, reactivity, reflection and caution.
– "You are quite introverted, imaginative and discreet and you are a deep and wise person who is not content with just noisy and flashy things." –
Saturn, being part of his dominant planets, influences him to seek the essential, security and longevity. He will never give priority to wealth or "the bigger the better" philosophy for the sake of power. Saturnians often hide deep down a golden heart that eventually ends up revealing itself.
He is always ready to evolve, risking destruction for reconstruction, so that he could live more intensely.
He is endowed with a receptive, emotive and imaginative nature. He has an innate ability to instinctively absorb atmospheres and impressions which nurture him.
Taurus is important in his chart in that he is constructive, stable and sensual. He has good taste, sense of beauty and manner and unfailing good sense – all these qualities contribute to his charm and seductive power. One of the consequences may turn into popularity, even fame.
He is sometimes criticised for being slow and stubborn. But that is his pride for his security and he likes it the way it is – slow and steady.
He has many qualities and dangers in 1 chart. This often results in a natural collection of people around him – those who admire him immensely, and those who can't bear him.
He is also described as an epicurean, willing to enjoy life's good and beautiful things within the family clan and with close friends who value his convivality and his kindness.
He is faithful and stable with his feet rooted in the ground and is reliable in all circumstances.
His thirst for learning is considerable. He is open-minded and wants to abolish all kinds of frontiers. The humanist who is dominant in him, may turn him into a frequent traveller reaching out to others in order to understand and to communicate with them.
He has numerous centres of interest, but may be perceived to be superficial, heedless and over-optimistic. However, if he controls his tendency to scatter, all his encounters and discoveries can positively be supportive of his philosophical approach to life.
Love, for him, is a quest for the absolute. He would rather attempt to ascend a mountain of love. His romanticiam, modestly concealed or restrained, offers emotion that people do not immediately perceive.
He does not fall in love easily. But when he does, his feelings are deep, quiet, serious and lasting. His need for security is indispensable for his well-being and to enable him to give. He offers security and stability with his sense of duty even though he mixes up responsibility with love.
For him, the charm of his partner does not only include physical features or aroused sentimental attraction, but also intellectual and moral qualities. He needs authenticity and seriousness because that is the way he is. His loves are not numerous and he will only be able to express himself romantically quite late in life.
In his sex life, he is generous and instinctive and his slowness is not an obstacle.
Under David's Lunar astrology of the Metal Horse, it says that his nature is marked by a continuous concern for elevation and evolution.
That he strives to come across as a moral person inhabited by an ideal of justice and fairness.
That he enjoys travelling the world or going on inner spiritual journeys.
As a Horse, he is a born Unifyer – a person who brings Cohesion. He tries to take advantage of the diversity of approaches or viewpoints without dismissing them.
His qualities mainly lie in his broadmindedness enabling him to immediately grasp the stakes and any new situations.
His nature is one of individualism and determination and that he seldom shrinks from obstacles. Life's pitfalls often stimulate him.
He follows his idea through, discarding external opinions and he brings his enterprises to a successful conclusion even if it means he goes it alone.
Phew! So many revelations!
Is this the David we have deduced through the years? Is he a true Capricorn Goat and a true Metal Horse?


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Michelle Obama Hilariously Breaks Down Why Melania Trump's Inauguration Gift Exchange Appeared So Awkward
The former FLOTUS also explained to Ellen Degeneres how Barack stepped in and saved the day.
Parents of slain FAMU drum major Robert Champion, hold a photo of their son.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Alarmed by the recent hazing death of a Florida A&M University band student, a coalition of black fraternities and sororities joined with civil rights leader Al Sharpton and others in pledging to work harder to end the practice.
Leaders of the coalition told reporters on Thursday that the type of hazing to which Florida A&M drum major Robert Champion Jr. was subjected before he died has persisted as a rite of passage despite the various actions their individual groups previously have taken to address the problem.
"We no longer can treat it as a series of isolated and unrelated sets of unfortunate incidences," said Jimmy Hammock, president of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., which heads up the coalition.
"It's almost as if someone has tattooed in their brain this is the way to be accepted," said Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., who said her anti-hazing efforts earned her the nickname "Haze Buster" when she served as a regional director of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., of which she also is a member.
The coalition has invested an initial $25,000 to launch a national campaign that will include radio ads on ESPN, print advertising, an Aug. 11 town hall on hazing at the Marriott Executive Center in Charlotte, N.C., and a National Anti-Hazing Day on Sept. 6.
Champion, 26, died in November after collapsing aboard a bus with other band members after a football game. An autopsy showed he died of internal injuries from a beating that authorities say was a result of hazing.
Eleven band members have been charged with felony hazing and two are charged with misdemeanors. Florida A&M's band has been suspended indefinitely, and Florida university system officials are still looking into whether school officials ignored past warnings about hazing.
Under a bill Wilson is drafting, students would permanently lose eligibility for financial aid if they are convicted of hazing under state law, or are officially sanctioned by a college or university for hazing. The bill also would require states to enact felony criminal hazing statutes or lose transportation funding.
Ricky L. Jones, political science professor at the University of Louisville and author of a book on hazing in black fraternities, said the campaign may be the first to address hazing in black groups on a national level and is needed because there has not been enough outrage among blacks over deaths and injuries related to hazing. He said he is skeptical whether the campaign will yield results, given that hazing is deeply seeded in the culture.
"I'm worried about preservation of lives of students," he said. Eliminating organizations where hazing occurs gets rid of a threat to students' lives, he said.
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority president Cynthia Butler-McIntyre, chair of the National Pan Hellenic Council, an umbrella group of black Greek organizations, said in a letter that more far-reaching efforts are warranted because hazing is "so deeply ingrained into the culture" of college life.
"Despite all of our efforts, we have not reached a zero level of hazing, to our great dismay," Butler-McIntyre's letter said.
The coalition's campaign clearly hits themes intended to resonate with young black people. Print advertisements will feature black-and-white photos of athletes from years past, standing with trophies, in line or in a locker room with blood that appears to have been spattered on the lens of the camera when the photos were shot.
"Let's Not Beat the Life Out of a Beautiful Legacy," say the ads, some which include black student athletes.
"Since we were enslaved we fought for a right to read and write and educate. We didn't come to the 21st century with an African-American president and now decide that we are going to inflict pain rather than exult ourselves with educational excellence," Sharpton, a member of Phi Beta Sigma, said in a videotaped statement.
"If we can get black folks to stand up and say enough is enough, if we can lead black folks to doing it, then that's what we want to do," said Daryl Anderson, Phi Beta Sigma's executive director.
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The former FLOTUS also explained to Ellen Degeneres how Barack stepped in and saved the day.
"When my teacher asks me a question thinking I'm not paying attention, but I get it right."


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Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: Olympus Has Fallen has us thinking about better films about terrorism.
Day Night Day Night (2006)
As the title suggests, Julia Loktev's Day Night Day Night is a film of opposing halves. In the first half, an unnamed young woman (Luisa Williams) surrenders herself to a group of masked men, who train her as a suicide bomber. When her handlers are present, she's drilled relentlessly about the details of her false identity, subjected to various exercises in trust (including the old "fall backward, I'll catch you" routine), and generally dehumanized as much as possible. But the film also spends a lot of time with her while she's alone in her drab hotel room, which creates an overwhelming sense of complete isolation. The story suggests that only someone who's truly detached from the rest of humanity could engage in such an act of self-annihilation.
But all of this is merely prelude to Day Night Day Night's brilliant second half, which sends the young woman, toting a backpack with a bomb inside, into the teeming hive of people in Times Square. Loktev (The Loneliest Planet) isn't façile enough to have her protagonist experience a sudden change of heart when confronted with the folks she plans to murder—the operation goes ahead as planned, albeit with complications. But the abrupt shift from isolation to congestion nonetheless colors everything that follows, achieving maximum poignancy when the bomber, unable to detonate her device and needing to contact her handlers, is reduced to begging potential victims for spare change. Loktev deliberately provides no details regarding the organization's political or national agenda (though everyone speaks unaccented English), but none of that really matters. The question she's asking is simpler: Can the world register on a mind that's been systematically stripped of everything except a sense of angry purpose?
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A Little Note on Piety or Chancleta Deficit Disorder, Part I
A Little Note on Piety or Chancleta Deficit Disorder, Part I.
I have often said that Heathens don't go down on their knees enough. As a community, I think we are tremendously parsimonious in the devotion (not to mention offerings) that we give to our Gods, so much so that one might begin to wonder if stinginess was not one of the Nine Noble Virtues. Too many people seem to fear giving too much to the Gods, the ancestors, the elemental powers that they barely give anything at all. A few drops does not an appropriate offering make. Ad nauseum folks will quote a saying in the Havamal that warns 'it is better not to give than to give too much' taking that phrase completely out of context and using it to justify their lack of devotion. That saying refers specifically to rune work and offerings made whilst working with the runes. It does not refer to Gods or ancestors. But, just like the good little Protestant fundamentalist bible scholars that so many of them probably are deep in their bleak little hearts, a swath of the community persists in this cussedness. They have, what a Cuban friend of mine calls "chancleta deficit disorder."
What might this be, you ask? I'll explain. A 'chancleta' is a hard wooden soled shoe that is commonly worn by women in Cuba…or at least was at the time my friend's grandmother was growing up. When a child misbehaved he or she would be smacked with the chancleta. So effective was this that all a Cuban mother often had to do when her child was beginning to misbehave was raise an eyebrow and look at her shoe and order was restored. This apparently carried over into the learning of one's ancestral practices. When a person was being stupid and doing things that would offend the Orisha, behaving like fools or being rude, they were quite likely to be smacked with a chancleta and relegated to the kitchen to peel yucca. And rightly so. I've come to the conclusion that what we have in Heathenry is a wholesale example of chancleta deficit disorder. We have a glaring lack of Heathen foremothers armed with a sense of piety, ready hands, and heavy shoes. We're the worse for it.
This is, some might say, inevitable. We are after all in the process of restoring our indigenous traditions after fifteen hundred years of having them sundered, attacked, and largely destroyed by Christianity's spread across Europe. Yes, this lack of conscious lineage and tradition is unfortunate and something with which each and every one of us must contend but even in the face of this set back, we as a community are something special (or perhaps I ought to spell that speshul). There is an underlying current of hubris that simply cannot be accounted for by the paucity of our indigenous consciousness.
Yes, to a certain degree, restoration involves developing a sense of cultural literacy, a fluency in the indigenous mindset that often requires great cognitive leaps. Some things, however, ought not have to be so laboriously explained. Be polite, for example. Be respectful to the Gods. Don't be an asshole. That last seems to be especially difficult in Heathenry.
Basically, we have a community poisoned by its own hubris.
Hubris is drawn from an ancient Greek word that originally meant 'wanton violence.' A colleague of mine, a linguist, posited that the original meaning was something closer to 'outrage,' as in an outrage committed against the Gods. I would agree. I also happen to think it is a very insidious spiritual poison, a contaminant that is contagious and tremendously dangerous to the spiritual health of all concerned. Our community is riddled with it. Hell, the contemporary world is riddled with it so how could we be any different?
What is hubris in a nutshell? It's thinking oneself above the Gods. It goes hand in hand with a sense of entitlement and a complete lack of piety. It is that which says "I shall not bow my head before the Gods." It's an arrogance so deeply ingrained that it permeates everything one thinks, feels, or does. It is, truly and in every sense, an outrage. It's also something that each one of us ought to be searching out and stamping out in ourselves lest it ever take insidious root. The restoration of our traditions cannot and should not be rooted in hubris. Such a thing is worse than if we had no restoration at all, it serves neither the Gods nor the community that would honor Them. But…I digress.
I'm going to digress further too. I'm going to tell you a little story of hubris run riot and why frozen butterball turkeys don't make appropriate offerings to the Gods. (Yes, you did read that rightly). I've changed names and pertinent details to protect the guilty so sit back, get a good stiff drink (you'll need it) and check out one of the most egregious cases of hubris that I have ever, in twenty years as a spiritworker and Heathen, encountered.
So stay tuned until my next post….and I'm not kidding about that drink. You're going to need it.
Tuesday, 14 August 2012
I can not stress the importance of offerings and piety enough. Hellens are generally pretty alright with offerings and such (even if we don't get down on our knees) but I tend to end up grinding my teeth when visiting any Pagan gathering where Gods are 'summoned' to. I understand that (Neo-)Wiccan practice differs from Recon practice but the disrespect toward the Gods that runs rampent in Pagan circles makes me want to take a Chancleta to them myself. I always come home with a desperate need to appease the Theoi for the ignorence and disrespect shown towards Them.
It is not my place to judge the Traditions of others, but I most certainly can appologize to the Gods for my part in it. It's sad to hear that piety is in short supply in the Heathen community. To give you a boost, Galina, I know a good nimber of Heathens who take their servitude to the Gods very seriously. They offer as they should and it makes me proud to watch.
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Virgin's "Departure Date" Captures Love Story at 35,000 Feet
Virgin Airlines has always set itself apart from the competition by appearing to own a fleet of party buses in the sky. With features like purple lights and goat cheese paninis, the airline caters to young, stylish jet-setters. Now, Virgin America, Virgin Atlantic Airways, and Virgin Australia have partnered with San Francisco agency Eleven and Virgin Produced (the entertainment branch of the Virgin Group) to create their latest trendsetting campaign.
Instead of a staid Boeing 747 tour video or "Love Travel? Love Virgin." gimmick, the team opted to make the first short film shot at 35,000 feet. Written and directed by Kat Coiro (L!fe Happens, While We Were Here and A Case of You), Departure Date is a love story starring Ben Feldman (Mad Men) and Nicky Whelan (Hall Pass). In 20 hours, the cast and crew captured footage en route to England, Australia, and the US. And, perpetuating the glam Virgin lifestyle, some scenes take place in Virgin Australia's International Business cabin that boasts a sit-down bar, Ladies-Only bathroom, and "exclusive Row Five."
The trailer, which you can find out more about here, makes Departure Date look like a cheap Lifetime special (better font at least, please!). But the concept of a movie shot at 35,000 feet in the air is original enough to compensate for the lack of clever narrative. Though the love story may be tacky, Virgin is still an innovative, glamorous host.
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2000: Duce Staley – and Pickle Juice – Help Eagles Defeat Cowboys
It was a hot day at Texas Stadium for the season-opening game between the host Dallas Cowboys and visiting Philadelphia Eagles on September 3, 2000. The temperature at game time was 109 degrees, with readings on the artificial surface of 150.
Second-year Head Coach Andy Reid pulled the Eagles off the field early from pre-game warmups. Trainer Rick Burkholder also had the players drink pickle juice, a practice the club had begun during training camp as a means to combat both dehydration and cramping.
Reid took an aggressive approach once play began. Dallas having won the toss, the Eagles took them by surprise by executing an onsides kick that they successfully recovered (WR Dameane Douglas made the play for Philadelphia). The offense proceeded to drive 58 yards in eight plays, ending with QB Donovan McNabb tossing a one-yard TD pass to TE Jeff Thomason.
Philadelphia's defense sacked star QB Troy Aikman three times during the first Dallas possession; rookie DT Corey Simon recorded one in his first regular season play. Before the first quarter ended, the Eagles took a 14-0 lead when a pass interference penalty put the ball on the Dallas one yard line and RB Duce Staley plowed into the end zone. Two minutes later, and now into the second quarter, LB Jeremiah Trotter intercepted an Aikman pass and returned it 27 yards for another Eagles TD and a 21-0 tally.
Aikman was sacked a fourth time and took a total of six hits by the Eagles defense before leaving the game during the second quarter with a concussion, to be replaced by former Philadelphia QB Randall Cunningham. The Eagles scored once more, on a 33-yard field goal by David Akers, before the Cowboys got on the board with field goals of 34 and 38 yards by Tim Seder, both following interceptions. The score at halftime stood at 24-6.
Philadelphia's offense took control once again in the third quarter, with a time-consuming 14-play drive that covered 61 yards and culminated in another Akers field goal, this one from 37 yards. After the Cowboys went three-and-out, the Eagles put together another long possession of 72 yards in nine plays, with McNabb running the last three yards for a touchdown.
The Eagles scored once more in the fourth quarter as Staley ran 60 yards to set up a six-yard TD run by RB Brian Mitchell. Dallas scored a touchdown on a four-yard pass from Cunningham to WR Joey Galloway, which was followed by a successful two-point conversion, but the outcome had long since been decided. The final score was 41-14, making it the worst opening-day defeat for the Cowboys since 1963.
Staley (pictured at top) was the star for the Eagles, gaining 201 yards rushing on 26 carries (just missing the franchise single-game rushing record by four yards) with one TD and also leading the club with four pass receptions for another 61 yards and a total of 262 yards from scrimmage. Overall, the team accumulated 306 yards on the ground, its highest single-game total since 1951.
Donovan McNabb passed for 130 yards with a touchdown and two interceptions while completing 16 of 28 throws; he also ran for 29 yards on five carries with a TD.
It was a hard day for Dallas across the board. Troy Aikman failed to complete any passes and threw the one interception that was returned for a score before leaving the contest. Randall Cunningham was successful on 13 of 26 passes for 135 yards with one touchdown and one picked off. The Cowboys, playing catch-up from the beginning, only ran the ball 13 times for 67 yards – RB Emmitt Smith had just 29 yards on 7 carries while WR Raghib "Rocket" Ismael led the team with 33 yards on two rushes. Joey Galloway was the top receiver with four catches for 62 yards and the late touchdown, but suffered a knee injury late in the game that knocked him out of action for the remainder of the season.
The opening win over the Cowboys didn't generate immediate momentum for the Eagles, who lost their next two games, but, coming off of three straight losing seasons, they improved to 11-5, placed second in the NFC East, and secured a wild card spot in the postseason. Philadelphia defeated Tampa Bay in the first round but lost to the Giants in the Divisional playoff.
Dallas, going in the opposite direction, went 5-11 to place fourth in the division. After making it to the playoffs in eight of the previous nine years and winning three championships, the Cowboys would not make it back to the postseason (or have a winning record) again until 2003.
Duce Staley, who was coming off back-to-back thousand-yard rushing seasons in 1998 and '99, was lost for the year due to a foot injury in Week 5 and gained just 344 yards on the ground in 2000. The running game suffered without him (he still ended up with the highest yardage total of any running back on the team), but the second-year quarterback McNabb emerged to account for 76 percent of the team's offense, rushing for 629 yards and passing for 3365.
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INDIANAPOLIS: An Indiana man has agreed to plead guilty to charges alleging that he tricked about a dozen teenagers from several states into stripping or performing sexual acts for him via webcam and then used recordings of those sessions to coerce them into making even more explicit videos.
Richard Finkbiner, who lives in the western Indiana community of Brazil, signed an agreement filed in federal court in Terre Haute on Wednesday in which he will plead guilty to child exploitation, extortion and possession of child pornography in exchange for a recommended sentence of 30 to 50 years in prison.
U.S. Attorney Joe Hogsett previously said prosecutors intended to seek an effective life sentence if a jury convicted Finkbiner.
Prosecutors say Finkbiner met his victims, most of whom were male, in online chat rooms. The teens thought they were looking at live images of people � including a couple, in at least one instance � who were acting sexually and encouraging the teens to do the same, but the images were actually recordings Finkbiner was showing them. He would later contact the teens again and threaten to upload the images to porn websites unless they made more videos for his private use, prosecutors say.
�So u wanna play or b a famous gay porn star?� Finkbiner allegedly asked a Michigan boy.
The alleged victims were all between the ages of 12 and 16. Prosecutors say Finkbiner victimized children in Indiana, West Virginia, Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, New York, Michigan, Illinois and Colorado.
During questioning by FBI agents, Finkbiner estimated that he had coerced at least 100 young people into making explicit videos, according to court documents. Officials have not said whether they believe Finkbiner shared the images with anyone else.
Prosecutors say the case is an example of �sextortion,� a crime that authorities are seeing with greater frequency in which Internet predators catch victims in embarrassing situations online and threaten to expose them unless they create sexually explicit photos or videos. Hogsett has said the case could be the largest of its kind in the United States.


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And now bed bugs seem to be turning up in unexpected places; like libraries. Now that is surprising.
My local library hasn't reported a problem so far, but libraries in Vancouver BC, Toronto Ontario, and plenty in-between, have faced problems and taken steps such as replacing cloth covered chairs with plastic or replacing carpet with vinyl flooring to combat these pesky pests, who seem to be difficult to get rid of once they've moved in.
Hmm, I'm thinking bedbugs are another reason to enjoy a good ebook.
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DESTIN, Fla. – Junior Claremont-Mudd-Scripps men's golfer Bradley Shigezawa won the individual 2013 NCAA Division III Men's Golf National Championship on Friday, May 17, with a four-round score of 2-under par at the at The Raven Golf Club at Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort. The Stags finished in fifth place overall with a four-day score of 1194, just one place behind the program's best finish at the NCAA Championships which was a fourth place finish in 2012. This is the second time in program history that a CMS men's golfer has won the Division III Individual National Championship, the other time being in 2010 when Tain Lee was the individual medalist.
Shigezawa trailed after the first two rounds but captured the lead on the third day with a 2-under score of 69 which was his low score during the week. He then shot a 1-over, 72 on the final day to secure the win. Buddy Hallman of team champion Texas-Tyler finished four strokes behind Shigezawa for second place. Over the four days, Shigezawa had a total of 13 birdies and one eagle as he put together rounds of 72, 70, 69 and 72.
The second highest score for CMS came from freshman Kethan Reddy who remained in the top-10 for the first two rounds and ended in a tie for 32nd overall with a score of 300. Reddy's best round of the week came in the second round as he shot a 3-under 68, a low for all CMS golfers.
Sophomore Ben Ho (311) and junior Jordan Stein (311) tied for 59th while Patrick Fujieki (314) finished in 68th to round out the field of CMS golfers.
For his efforts, Shigezawa has been selected as a first team All-American.
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The University of Michigan Law School's website is reporting the death of the great English legal historian Alfred William Brian Simpson at his home in Kent on January 10, 2011. Professor Simpson taught at the University of Kent, the University of Cambridge and, in the United States, at the University of Chicago's and the University of Michigan's law schools. Michigan's webpage provides an introduction to his scholarly achievements, which included election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. This montage of the last class he taught at Michigan, student comments on the course ("seriously, I couldn't love awbs more if I tried"), and the fact that he had his own fan club on Facebook suggest how warmly law students responded to his teaching.
Hat tip: Leiter
Update: I was so sorry to hear this news. Thanks to Dan for posting. I wanted to add that for anyone with an interest in human rights, or in transnational history, or simply in great works of legal history, Simpson's book Human Rights and the End of Empire: Britain and the Genesis of the European Convention is a must read. I only had an opportunity to meet Prof. Simpson once. I was doing a workshop at Michigan, and he was my commentator. He was as warm and kind as he was brilliant. His students and colleagues are fortunate to have had such a presence among them. MLD
A further update: Here is a link to a podcast of Professor Simpson 2008 lecture "Detention without Trial in Wartime Britain," delivered at the Aspen Institute, for the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society, "an independent institution affiliated with the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford." As the synopsis has it, the lecture is "an account of the response of the courts to detention without trial during World War II, in which they largely abandoned any role in protecting civil liberty." Simpson further argued that "the European Human Rights Act of 1998 has radically altered this position, though the inherent problems involved when regular courts monitor the activities of security services in times of crisis persist today. DRE
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In Memoriam: A.W. Brian Simpson (1933-2011)
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Rest in peace, sir.
Your "simpsonizing" method has contributed greatly to our Canadian Legal History class here in McGill.
My Prof in McGill is a great fan of yours, too.
- January 13, 2011 at 2:29:00 PM EST
- The People's Business said...
I am sorry to hear about Prof. Simpson's passing.
He was my property law prof at Michigan Law School in the early 1990s. I am surprised that he was only in his late 50s then, as he seemed even older (perhaps just a products of British University mannerisms he so theatrically employed).
He relished the arcana that was particularly the province of first year property - whiteacre, blackacre, the fee entail, the Rule Against Perpetuties, etc.
- January 14, 2011 at 10:16:00 AM EST
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Let's explore a beautiful French chateau today...
Located in the Lower Normandy region of France, the creamy stone chateau was built in the 17th and 18th centuries. The rooms have been sparingly furnished by the owner, a British fashion designer. In the surrounding grounds and gardens, we find a ruined 11th century chapel, as well as a walled vegetable garden, woodlands, jardin a la francais with fountain, ancient elm avenue, summer house, stream, paddocks, and abundant wild flowers.
Faded grandeur, along with rustic charm, and almost endless possibilities for creating beauty throughout this impressive house are filling my mind with so many ideas this afternoon.
I can imagine enjoying long holidays with family and friends, and hosting extravagant yet informal dinner parties in such a house. Couldn't you? It would also be a splendid setting for a wedding.
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Weekly Release Spotlight: Volcano Choir
Volcano Choir
By Jared Hemming
The most powerful element of Repave is it's turbulence, lack of repetitive order, and surprising swells.
With Volcano Choir's second album, Repave, songwriter and vocalist Justin Vernon accomplishes the rare feat of quality rising above quantity. No short order considering that, from the time the creative force behind Bon Iver splashed across endless blogs with For Emma, Forever Ago in 2008, the barrage of content that's arrived since includes: a second album (and Grammy award) for Bon Iver, collaborations with Kanye West, Anaïs Mitchell, Gayngs, The Shouting Matches, The Eau Claire Memorial Jazz I Ensemble, a hilarious erotic series, and, of course, Volcano Choir's debut: Unmap.
For this sophomore effort as Volcano Choir, Vernon once again calls pals (and fellow Wisconsinites) Collections of Colonies of Bees for another round. This time to record a soulful batch of tunes soaked in Vernon's rich baritone. Though artists in similar alt-folk/indie rock molds may have attempted something more bona fide to the genera; Volcano Choir have clearly avoided some acoustic-guitar swells, strained vocals, and winding legatos that have defined other artists this year. Instead, they opt for varied and expansive sound-scapes and occasional surprises to include both acoustic and jarring electric guitars, swirls and blips of synthesizer and electric piano, an ocean-bottom bass and deep waves of splashing, powerful percussion. The most powerful element of Repave is it's turbulence, lack of repetitive order, and surprising swells.
Though at times clarity can be difficult to discern from complicated lyricism and the spontaneity of composition, Repave positions Vernon on the horizon of a mature voyage still propelled by urgency and mystery. Take, for example, in "Acetate," when he sings "you found me on the beach, I was resting there for weeks/I will never cauterize, I will never fortify/I wonder if I've recovered now." Recording double-tracked vocals, Vernon sings these words as though he is in an argument with himself, having just realized a pain and hoping he's finally awoken from it.
Aside from "Acetate," highlights from Repave include the album-opener "Tiderays," the glossy, synth-tinged "Comrades," and the brooding, reflective "Byegone," in which Vernon looks back on a lively youth as a professional musician on the road. Told through stunning imagery and a tone that attempts to find definition somewhere within the confusing distortion that reminiscence and nostalgia provide. When he cries "hold keys to a Cuban flight you won't ever ride/…Set sail!," Vernon can't decide if he feels removed from his life, defined in the public eye, or if he chooses to embrace the success he's had. Either way, the rewards from Vernon's unrelenting productivity extend into Repave; where the awe of nature and the inner conflict of introspection can complement each other to make something beautiful.
Volcano Choir will be playing in Minneapolis on Friday, October 18th, at the First Avenue Mainroom.
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Ah Americans, we have so much to be proud of. Killing sacred white moose and rare octopus. But animal life are not the only thing to face our wrath! Geological formations are not safe either as a group of scout leaders recently demonstrated when they filmed themselves toppling a rock formation dating back to the Jurassic Era in Goblin Valley State Park, Utah.
They do claim it a preemptive first strike to prevent the rock from falling on anyone but officials say the rock was no danger to anyone. All three are facing potential criminal charges for the incident.
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Kyle Sofman, right, accompanies Molly, who grew up in Los Altos, during a class at the Community School of Music and Arts. Donations enable people with autism and developmental disabilities to take CSMA's music and art classes at no charge.
Jangling musical shakers and smacking mallets on marimbas, students act out a love for rhythm and noise in the Artistic Intelligence Program at the Community School of Music and Arts. The racket they raise, though, has special meaning. For many of the autistic and developmentally disabled participants, sensory experience brings special challenges – and opportunities for success.
"A lot of them come here with issues about being out in the world and the kind of input they have to deal with," said Linda Covello, director of CSMA's art school, who explained that the music classroom in Mountain View is "a safe environment where they can react to crazy sounds and different materials."
The program provides art and music classes for approximately 50 teens and adults who live on the Peninsula and in the South Bay. Students come from the Morgan Autism Center (based in San Jose, formerly in Los Altos), Abilities United (Palo Alto) and AchieveKids (Palo Alto and San Jose). They participate in the classes at no charge, thanks to fundraising by CSMA and partner organizations.
On a recent afternoon, students from AchieveKids and the Morgan Autism Center crooned "What a Wonderful World," matching illustrations of skies of blue and trees of green to the lyrics as they went. The music class provided a venue for different groups to work together. Covello said CSMA sees the arts as an opportunity to practice the interaction and communication that go into teaming up on a musical piece.
One student who grew up in Los Altos, Molly, jumped up to help lead the class every time she had an opportunity to join teacher Kyle Sofman at the front of the room. Molly provided a one-woman rhythm section as backup for Sofman's zither, later wielding the lyric cheat-sheet for "Do-Re-Mi." Molly's gleeful interest in the musical process reflects the program's aim to provide a friendly, comfortable place for learning new tunes and showing off one's choral initiative.
"They get to mix with a larger population," Covello said. "Much of their world is one-on-one or small group. The social experience (at CSMA) is almost as important as the music and art."
Covello has watched students move from initial stress from the unfamiliar setting and materials of CSMA's art class to an excited response. Engaging in the artistic process, practicing self-expression and working with new media give students an outlet worth celebrating, she said.


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Sorry it's been so long since my last post, but things have been busy! However, I'm back now, and I have a whole bunch of Christmas presents to show you! I remember feeling weird about this post last year, but this year a ton of the Youtubers I follow have done these, so it seems like it's become a thing… Though, to be honest, I'd be posting this either way.
I'm not going to list or describe everything I got, unless I was really excited about it or if it's somewhat relevant to this blog, but there are pictures of pretty much anything. If you want reviews of anything, let me know, and I can do that in another post =)
Finally, before we get to the pictures, I apologize of the quality is a little low on some of the pictures. I didn't use my good camera Christmas morning, so those pictures are from my cell phone.
Christmas morning/family presents:
Stuff I don't have better pictures of:
- Harry Potter Calendar
- slippers
- Soft Kitty t-shirt (like from The Big Bang Theory)
- Rose scented soap
- fruity marshmallows
- Mint Chocolate chip lip gloss
- Raffaellos, Ferrero Rochers, Peppermint Dark Chocolate and Milk Chocolate lindors, toothpaste
- Blue Henley shirt (which you can barely see)
- Vanilla Latte Tassimo discs
- deodorant
- slippers
- sticky lint rollers
- Brita filters
- Candy Cane coffee
- Candy Cane hot chocolate
- snowman mug
- Shortbread
- chocolate Santa-pop
- mini bubble gum dispenser
- gum
- mint chocolates
- Zero chocolate bar
- and other chocolate I mentioned earlier
- Leopard umbrella
- itty bitty flashlight
- pink change purse
- Hard Candy makeup bag (I'll show you what came inside later)
- Hard Candy heart shaped lip gloss
- 3 pack of gloves
- Fuzzy socks
- Earrings: rainbow K's, dangly purple things, hearts, "I <3 London", double decker buses, pink Statue of Liberties, golden Eiffel Towers, bows
- Sinful Colors polish in Dream On (a matte colour)
- Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear in Sunny Side
A swatch of Dream On:
- be Sweet Vanilla Flower scented antibacterial gel, body lotion, and body mist from Upper Canada Soaps. These smell so so good!
- Hard Candy Cream Bath, Body Mist, and Body Lotion (from inside the makeup bag), in the scent Mango Coconut Kiss. Also smells so nice! I didn't even know we had Hard Candy in Canada…!
- Tea! Stash Cinnamon Vanilla, Holiday Chai (which is wonderful, by the way), and decaf Pumpkin Spice. And the David'sTea Red Velvet Cake I mentioned in my last haul post, from my boyfriend.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (which is funny, because I think it's my sister who owns Part 1)
- The King's Speech
- A cool Chinese panda metal bookmark thing (from my boyfriend)
- J.K. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy
- George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones (From my best friend, Brit, not from my family.)
Other stuff from my boyfriend:
The bhCosmetics First Edition 120 Eyeshadow Colour Palette!
So gorgeous. I have tons more pictures, which I intend to show you in my review of this palette, which I intend to do a little later, once I've played with this a bunch more!
A faux leather, studded backpack from Spring:
And it came with the British pin! So cute. I absolutely love it. I'd been wanting something classier and more waterproof than my childish Jansport backpack for a while. And I love that this is small and cute enough to use as a purse, and big enough for all my gym stuff, plus a notebook, and a textbook on days I have class!
There was also some stuff I didn't take pictures of that I got from my boyfriend, including the exact boots I showed in my Fall Wishlist post (thought I technically paid half), and also a t-shirt with a Union Jack on it made out of mini TARDISes, like this:
And I think that's everything, though I do have a couple presents I still haven't received yet! =)
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, and enjoyed seeing what I got this year. Please let me know in the comments what you got, and also if there's anything you want to hear more about! I definitely plan to do a review of the eyeshadow palette, but you'll have to let me know if anything else interested you. =)
Thanks for reading, and I hope you all have an awesome New Year's as well, if I don't post again before 2013!


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TheGrio Reflects: 50th anniversary of the 1936 Olympic games
The 1936 Olympics is remembered for many things, but mostly, it's remembered for what some thought was a snub of American Jesse Owens by Hitler. Apparently that never happened, but what did happen and what is most remembered is Owens' gold medal performance.
In 1986, Jesse Owens was remembered for his victory in the Berlins Olympic Stadium. It is in that same stadium where a black American made a mockery of Nazi racism, won four gold medals and stole the Olympics from Adolf Hitler.
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Government embarrassment, ministerial cock-ups, coalition rows, backroom deals, policy U-turns, spin-doctoring, political back-stabbing, wild media speculation, and more time spent with one's family.... It can only be the eagerly-anticipated return of Armando Iannucci's cutting political comedy.
Rebecca Front and Peter Capaldi reprise their BAFTA-winning roles as Nicola Murray and Malcolm Tucker, now consigned to the opposition benches, but still desperate for power. Roger Allam returns as Peter Mannion, the new Secretary of State for Social Affairs, supported by his team of special advisors and thwarted by his new coalition partners.
Rebecca Front and Peter Capaldi reprise their BAFTA Award-winning roles as Nicola Murray and Malcolm Tucker, with Murray now the Leader of the Opposition after an unlikely accident of transferable voting. Malcolm Tucker is becoming increasingly frustrated as her media adviser and with Nicola safely on a train to attend the party's Here 2 Hear in far-flung Bradford, he is free to launch his latest plot. But how is Olly going to be able to help, given that he's in St Thomas' Hospital with a burst appendix? And when Nicola finds out what's going on, can she control the situation from a seat in standard class right under the watchful eye of Sky News? Or is she sitting on the fast train to Nowheresville, West Yorkshire?
Roger Allam returns as Peter Mannion, the new Secretary of State for Social Affairs, supported by his special advisers Phil and Emma, and thwarted by his new coalition partners, in the form of junior minister Fergus Williams and his adviser Adam Kenyon. He also has to put up with endless 'imagineering' from Number 10 adviser Stewart Pearson, who drags an unwilling Mannion and a bunch of backbenchers to a remote country house hotel, as the perfect way to re-engage the party with the creative cloudscape. But when Mannion returns to the ministry, he discovers he's been made responsible for starting a bank, putting up taxes and driving a man to take his own life. Inevitably there's a scramble for the moral high-ground and several people (including Nicola) are calling for some sort of inquiry. Everyone wants to spin the story, and everyone wants their own version of the story out there, by fair means or foul. But as more and more fingers get pointed the bigger the scandal becomes, finally threatening to implicate everybody. Surely now, the truth will come out. Unless someone lies, or creates a diversion of some kind, or simply pretends not to remember anything. They wouldn't do that, would they?
It's "so funny it hurts, so savage it's scary" popularity spawned the 2009 spin-off film In the Loop, which also covers civil servants and their constant battle with the British media circus. HBO's comedy "Veep,", starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus is loosely based on the series. Described by creator Armando Iannucci as the 21st century's answer to "Yes Minister" meets "Larry Sanders," the show's material has a healthy dose of authenticity thanks to a few of the creators' former work in government.