September 2008

"Sober Companions"(w.t.) is a documentary project for A&E Network. It pairs struggling addicts with companions who can help them stay straight after rehab or before an important life event. If you or someone you know could use a sober companion and is willing to be filmed for this documentary, email us at sobercompanions@gmail.com . Please include your name, age, address and phone number, as well as the name, age and occupation of the addict. Include the addict's drug of choice, the length of

A&E Network today announced the launch of The Recovery Project, a wide-ranging, multi-year initiative designed to help raise awareness that addiction is a treatable disease and recovery is possible. More than 22 million Americans* struggle with addiction to alcohol and other drugs, yet fewer than ten percent receive the treatment they need because of stigma, lack of awareness or cost. The Recovery Project - inspired by the incredible response from viewers, individuals and families in recovery to

Just when you thought it was safe to park again in Philadelphia, season two of A&E's hit real-life series PARKING WARS premieres Wednesday, October 15 at 10PM ET/PT.

The people you love to hate - the men and women of the Philadelphia Parking Authority - are back ticketing, booting and towing the cars of problem parkers who express their outrage in furious Philly fashion.

Returning favorites include "Gadget Man" Garfield and his booting partner Sherry who'll be hunting for scofflaws in a

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Longtime viewers of Dog the Bounty Hunter know that the Chapman family's work isn't limited to their home state of Hawaii. Unfortunately, crime has no boundaries, and the team sometimes has to take to the road in order to bring back fugitives. Dog and his crew are currently in Grand Junction, Colorado, tracking down criminals and filming a new episode of the show.

"Meth has made it to Mesa County," says Dog.

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On Friday evening we had a catastrophic failure of the web server that hosts TWiT Live, the TWiT Army Canteen, Leoville.com, and this site. The RAID 5 controller died, and when it did it marked all the disks unusable. Support personnel at Softlayer, our hosting company, weren't able to recover the disks, so they did the only thing they could do: replaced the controller and reinstalled the operating system. We're in the process of restoring all the sites.

TWiT.tv

Gordon Heydon, who maintains twit.tv for us has restored the site. He backed up the database last on September 6, so we'll have to recreate the subsequent entries by hand from feeds. That will take a day or so. No data has been lost. The podcasts and their RSS feeds are hosted elsewhere so they're not affected.

TWiT Live

We're back up and running thanks to Mape who rushed us a copy of his re-design. Thanks, Mape!

TWiT Forums

The database was backed up on September 4, but there's no backup of the software, so that's going to take some time. I'll reinstall as soon as I can.

TWiT Army

The database was backed up on September 4, but there's no backup of the software, so that's going to take some time. I'll reinstall as soon as I can.. I might wait until Evan ships Laconica 0.6 in the next few days.

Leoville.com

The posts and comments were fully backed up through Friday. I'm looking for a backup of the software and templates, and will restore these as soon as I find them.

I truly apologize for having inadequate backups of TWiT Army and the Forums. I've purchased additional on-site storage at Softlayer and we'll be doing automated daily backups from now on. Please forgive me for not taking better care of your posts.

Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
Composer: Nobuko Morino
Cast: Masao Kato (he also starred in some western movies playing a Japanese bad boy) and Takao Osawa
You’ve always thought that only Chinese can fly? By the way, Japanese don’t have any problems with gravitation as well: they also can fly when they really want it. They never cared about flying before (except ninjas), but now everything has changed and they’ve shoot a film which I had pleasure to watch yesterday.
The plot is quite simple: two wounded samurai friends who’ve survived just by a miracle knock at the doors of the temple to find shelter there. Two days later the character of Masao Kato wakes up to find himself dressed in new clothes, with neither wounds nor scars on his body, and the mysterious ‘host’ of the place comes out to greet him and says that he was unable to save his friend, then a silent beauty brings food and sake… when the samurai asks the host how he can return the favour, he asks to kill him. Then the real story begins, as the host turns out to be not a good Samaritan, but an evil tang or how he calls himself, the god Aragami…
The movie looks more like a theatrical play: the story unfolds in the same temple hall, there are only three characters, their movements remind dancing, and clothes look like a wild mixture of Galliano and kabuki (mainly clothes of Aragami), Add here hard techno as a soundtrack, cannibalism, invulnerability, alien intellect, and certainly flights both in dreams and reality:) for all its trash nature, I really liked the movie, which hardly ever happens, so you can ‘check’ my taste if you feel like…

Genre: comedy
Year: 1992
Length: 105 min
Director: Masauki Suo
Cast: Masahiro Motoki, Misa Shimizu, Naoto Takenaka, Masaaki Takarai, George Smiley
I was lucky to see the movie right after its release in 1993, but I still find it one of the funniest (it’s really funny and can be quoted) and ‘understandable humour wise’ Japanese comedies. The plot can be outlined in the following way: western sports become more and more popular in Japanese universities: baseball, soccer, basketball, football, tennis among them… and professors have to blackmail backward students to staff a sumo section. As a result, they have a typical loser section consisting of two brothers, one of whom looks really gayish, a religious American, a fat grind and a neurotic idealist, and they have a plump girl deeply in love to serve them… the university sumo council consisting of old crazy men one of whom keeps on pinching bottoms of people of both sexes, issues the challenge before them which is to win the ‘enemy university’ which by the way has no problems with the team:) it all becomes a really funny story with a very touching ending:) not a masterpiece, of course, but a very kind and optimistic movie with a touch of an American comedy, the genre I really dislike. It should be mentioned, that this movie was a smashing hit in Japan.

In INTERVENTION: AFTER TREATMENT premiering Monday, September 8 at 9:00pm ET/PT on A&E, former addicts from the past four seasons of the 2008 Emmy-nominee for outstanding reality series, come together in an intimate Los Angeles studio for a candid discussion. How did the intervention change their lives? What are the relationships with their families like now? And how are they doing since the intervention, are among the questions they address. The addicts, most of whom are now in recovery, will