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On the October 25, 2008 episode, it was announced by Weekend Update co-anchor Seth Meyers, who anchored the segment alone, “Amy Poehler is not here because she is having a BABY!”, to wild applause from the audience. [1]

2008 has been a very busy year for Amy Poehler. [2]

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Poehler recently received her first Emmy nomination for “Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series” for her work on “Saturday Night Live”. [2]

Small, bleach-blonde and crackling with energy, Amy Poehler is an actress whose sketch comedy talents took her from Saturday Night Live to feature films like Baby Mama (2008). [4]

She is also the first cast member in SNL history to be nominated in the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series category at the Emmy Awards. [1]

Poehler also recently signed on to star in the highly anticipated untitled NBC comedy series from producers Greg Daniels and Mike Schur (”The Office.”) The series is slated to join NBC’s Thursday night comedy block in 2009. [2]

Two of her most well-known SNL characters have been the one-legged dating show contestant and the combative trailer-park wife. [...] She became a regular cast member within the first year, and by 2004 she was one of the show’s main performers, co-hosting the “Weekend Update” segment with Tina Fey. [4]

Poehler joined the SNL cast from the Upright Citizens Brigade, a sketch/improv troupe originally formed in Chicago. [2]

Poehler’s movie career, flavored by her SNL connections, has included the Will Ferrell comedies Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) and Blades of Glory (2007), as well as the Tina Fey movies Mean Girls (2004) and Baby Mama (2008). [4]

She was a cast member and parody news anchor on the NBC television entertainment show Saturday Night Live from 2001 until shortly after the birth of her child in 2008. [...] After graduating from college, Poehler moved to Chicago, where she studied improv at Second City alongside friend and future co-star Tina Fey. [1]

Poehler and the U.C.B. relocated to New York where they had a sketch show on Comedy Central for three seasons on which she was both a writer and performer. [2]

The following few years found Poehler skillfully balancing her small-screen career with her feature aspirations, and whether she was sitting at the “Weekend Update” desk, playing the wife of real-life husband Will Arnett on Arrested Development, or waiting tables in Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny, the increasingly busy actress/comedian could always be counted on for a few hearty laughs. [4]

Sources:
[1] Amy Poehler - Wikipedia
[2] NBC.com > Saturday Night Live
[3] Amy Poehler Picture, Profile, Gossip, and News at CelebrityWonder.com
[4] Amy Poehler: Biography from Answers.com

The tried and true snaffle bit is one of the most useful aids in developing a responsive and supple mouth on your mule. [1]

Young and inexperienced horses need to be able to bend to varying degrees so the use of a direct reining device such as a snaffle is very important. [2]

The two main categories that bits fall into, are the snaffle bit and the leverage bit. [3]

The snaffle bit works on several parts of the horse’s mouth; the mouthpiece of the bit acts on the tongue and bars, the lips of the horse also feel pressure from both the mouthpiece and the rings. [4]

Simply put a snaffle is made up of a mouthpiece and rings that allows the rider to bend the horse to the right or left (for example pulling the right rein will direct the horse to the right). [3]

A bit for a horse, consisting of two bars joined at the center, as by a joint. [5]

The beauty of the snaffle is its simplicity and straight forward design; every pound of pressure /pull from the rider’s hand equals the same amount of pressure to the horses mouth. [3]

The loose ring snaffle is a jointed or broken snaffle bit on which the rings are free sliding. [2]

It consists of a bit mouthpiece with a ring on either side and acts with direct pressure. [4]

No shanks extend below the mouthpiece and there is no curb engaged when the reins are activated. [1]

A bridle] utilizing only a snaffle bit is often called a “snaffle bridle,” particularly in the English riding disciplines. [4]

We recommend starting with D-ring snaffle bits as opposed to loose ring snaffles because the loose ring snaffles may pinch or cut the mouth of a young horse. [2]

This often results in a rider purchasing a jointed mouthpiece bit with shanks, because it is labeled a “snaffle,” and believing that it is soft and kind because of the connotation the snaffle name has with being mild. [4]

Pressure from the rein is not how you collect your horse. [2]

A bridle that carries two bits, a curb bit and a snaffle, or “bradoon,” is called a double bridle. [4]

Sources:
[1] SNAFFLE
[2] Training ~ Bits
[3] The Snaffle Bit
[4] Snaffle bit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[5] snaffle - definition of snaffle by the Free Online Dictionary …

This searing examination of the Enron accounting scandal reveals the psychology of greed and corporate corruption that facilitated the company’s rise to power and also its fall. [1]

I went into Alex Gibney’s “Smartest Guys in the Room” having read Robert Bryce’s “Pipe Dreams” and Kurt Eichenwald’s “Conspiracy of Fools” thinking to myself: should be good, but no way the movie is going to come close to telling the story like those two authors did. [2]

Shedding light on the new economy of the 1990s when predictions and book-cooking flourished without actual profits, the film shows how it was not Enron alone but a network of bankers, traders, and accountants who turned a blind eye to the company’s clearly suspicious numbers. [...] In one of the company’s cold and calculated moves–which caused the California power outages, and lead to the ousting of governor Gray Davis–Enron employees are shown laughing at forest fires. [1]

The corrupt and closely-guarded mismanagement by Enron executives (including Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, later placed on criminal trial) is revealed through such heinous concepts as “Hypothetical Future Value” (a way of reaping fortunes based on false profit projections) and the use of offshore “shell” companies to hide the massive losses that eventually toppled the company (along with the venerable Arthur Anderson accounting firm) and left 20,000 employees jobless. [2]

Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, founder and innovator of the doomed conglomerate, went about their looting and deregulatory shenanigans because there was nobody within the anti-protectionist eighties and nineties to tell them no: the success-is-everything ethos to enabled them to do what they did, and their insulated, cult-like business practices encouraged others as they were encouraged. [...] Faithful readers know that I would automatically be in favour of one film for another. [3]

Johnny: You are tearing me apart, Lisa! [4]

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Be in next week’s Rotten Tomatoes Show! [...] CEO Ken Lay and top dogs Jeff Skilling and Andy Fastow give candid interviews that illustrate their skill at deflecting hard questions and egotistically boasting about the company’s success. [1]

This film is like getting stabbed in the head. [4]

Where Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room realizes, however dimly, that its subject is more than just a failed company, Gunner Palace is so locked into its piece of the puzzle that it fails to see the full picture- which in the case of its subject, has dire consequences. [3]

… a few brave whistle-blowers stepped forward, including Bethany McLean, author of the Enron novel upon which this film is based, who wrote an article in Fortune magazine calling the company’s bluff. [1]

His girlfriend Lisa, played by oft-topless Juliette Danielle, seduces his best friend, played by department store mannequin Greg Sestero. [4]

Sources:
[1] Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room - Rotten Tomatoes
[2] Amazon.com: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room: Movies & TV
[3] 2005 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room - Movie reviews, trailers …
[4] The Room (2003)

View company contact information for The Room on IMDbPro. [1]

After a brief run in Los Angeles, the film went on to develop a cult following in the city, because of its perceived unintentional humor. [2]

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The Room is the story of a love triangle between a kind-hearted man named Johnny (Wiseau), his fianc? Lisa (Danielle), and his best friend Mark (Sestero). [2]

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His girlfriend Lisa, played by oft-topless Juliette Danielle, seduces his best friend, played by department store mannequin Greg Sestero. [1]

Lisa (Juliette Danielle) is Johnny’s bride-to-be, with the date of the wedding set for “a month” from practically any scene in the film. [2]

Dave and Becky went on to form Benny Profane with Joe Mckechnie and Robin Surtees and then Dust with Ian Jonson and Liam Rice. [...] Their current band is Dead Cowboys whose Twin Evil Stars album was released in 2005 on LTM/ Boutique. [4]

Johnny: You are tearing me apart, Lisa! [1]

Wiseau’s production company Wiseau-Films has been responsible for distributing and marketing The Room, which has given the film little theatrical exposure outside of Los Angeles. [2]

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The principle cast includes Wiseau, Juliette Danielle, Greg Sestero, Philip Haldiman, Carolyn Minnott, and Robyn Paris. [...] A neighboring college student named Denny (Haldiman) ‘ whom Johnny supports and loves like a son ‘ has a mysterious run-in with a drug dealer and struggles with his attraction to Lisa; Claudette, Lisa’s mother, deals with real estate problems, failed relationships, and breast cancer (although she nonchalantly announces she has this condition near the beginning of the film, it’s never mentioned again); Michelle’s boyfriend Mike (Mike Holmes) is shamed by Lisa and Claudette walking in on him making out with Michelle in Johnny and Lisa’s living room. [2]

Sources:
[1] The Room (2003)
[2] The Room (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[3] The Room on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads
[4] The Room on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads

The Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool checks computers running Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 for infections by specific, prevalent malicious software—including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom—and helps remove any infection found. [1]

Download the new comprehensive, automatic, and self-updating PC care service that helps protect and maintain your PC. [2]

McAfee VirusScan Plus AntiVirus, Firewall & AntiSpyware provides the essential protection you need to surf the Web and download files safely. [3]

Service Pack 2 (SP2) with Advanced Security Technologies will help you protect your PC against viruses, hackers, and worms. [2]

To install McAfee Virus Scan 8.5i, find the exe file you downloaded in the section Getting Virus Protection. [...] It is available for download from CITES’ Software Web Store by following the instructions below. [4]

Windows Live OneCare safety scanner is a new service that lets you scan your computer to help protect, clean, and keep it running at its best. [5]

The tool is available from Microsoft Update, Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center. [1]

These updates will include new versions of the scanner and new virus recognition information (also known as virus definitions) from Microsoft. [5]

Scan your computer, check for updates and configure your security settings using the new McAfee SecurityCenter. [3]

The following instructions are for installing McAfee Virus Scan 8.5i on a Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Vista computer. [4]

With the wide variety of viruses, hackers and blended threats lurking on the Internet today, you need more than a simple anti-virus program to keep your PC and files secure. [3]

Windows Live safety scanner is an online service that lets you scan your computer to help protect, clean, and keep it running at its best. [1]

Use our free protection scan to check for and remove viruses, spyware, and other potentially unwanted software and to find vulnerabilities in your Internet connection. [2]

CITES provides all currently enrolled students with a FREE, licensed, preconfigured version of the McAfee virus scanner for Windows. [4]

Sources:
[1] Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool
[2] Protection Center - Windows Live OneCare safety scanner
[3] Download McAfee VirusScan 11.0.213 Free Trial - McAfee VirusScan is the …
[4] Virus Protection
[5] Windows Live OneCare Safety Scanner - Microsoft Security