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Like Trees A Sarah Arlen Film COPYRIGHTED BY: Sarah Shana Arlen 51, rue Brancion 75015, Paris FRANCE Phone: (+33) (0) 220.127.116.11.01 Fax : (+33) (0) 18.104.22.168.68 email@example.com email@example.com PRESENTED BY: EICAR, The International Film School of Paris 50, av. du Président Wilson BAT 136 BP 12 - 93214 La Plaine Saint-Denis FRANCE Phone: (+33) (0) 18.104.22.168.11 email@example.com email@example.com www.liketrees-film.com Like Trees A Sarah Arlen Film THE CAST The Young Wife SARAH ARLEN The Young Husband DAMIEN RIEHL The Old Woman DIANA STEWART Beggar / Zeus PHILIP SCHURER The Old Man ALAIN JOHNSON and introducing CHIARA WEINSTEIN as The Little Girl www.liketrees-film.com Like Trees A Sarah Arlen Film THE CREW Producer / Director / Writer SARAH ARLEN Director of Photography GREG EMETAZ Editor CHRISTINA ZUMSTEIN Sound Designer NATHAN GUNN First Assistant Director ANDREIA BARBOSA Line Producer JULIEN VIALON Production Designer SARAH ARLEN On-Set Production Manager MICHAEL WESTBROOK Script / Continuity Supervisor CHARLOTTE PONCE First Assistant Camera EMMANUEL CAMBIER Steadicam Operator RUDY LANGE Key Gaffer / Grip NICOLAS MAUPIN Swing Gaffer / Grip OLIVIER BUCHET Art Director MARIE DUBAILLE Set Decorators JULIEN VIALON GREG EMETAZ RUDY LANGE ANDREIA BARBOSA On-Set Photographer CHRISTINA ZUMSTEIN Color Correction Supervisor EMMANUEL CAMBIER Storyboard Artist SARAH ARLEN Key Make-up Designer ISABELLE VERNUS Key Hair Designer SAMANTHA SANFORD Assistant Make-up Artist AUDREY DURCA On-Set Sound Supervisor ANTOINE BOURDAIN Boom Operator NICOLAS FILLONNEAU Title Graphics CHRISTIAN VON SCHACK Catering DAG CHRISTENSEN's DELI – O – RAMA Special Thanks LINDA KRONE ALEX ROWE CHARLES WEINSTEIN TERESA FERNANDES THE DUBAILLE FAMILY FRANCESCO LATTOUF ALAIN AMIOT MICHEL LAURENT www.liketrees-film.com Like Trees A Sarah Arlen Film SYNOPSES TAGLINES: • "Love outlives limbs." • "Love lives forever through the life's blood of storytelling." ONE-LINE SYNOPSES: A fairytale surrounding one ancient couple's mythic death leads them to an eternal life shared with a parallel contemporary couple. Late one night, a terminally ill young husband and wife tell each other a mythic bedtime story to help soothe their fears of losing each other, but when the myth comes to life and grows into their own story, the narrative takes an unforeseen twist towards eternal life and love. SYNOPSES: (100-word plot summary) Late one night, a terminally ill young husband and wife tell each other a mythic bedtime story, hoping it will ease their fears of losing each other. They weave their tale around an elderly married couple who also face imminent death. During the course of the fable, the ancient pair unwittingly ushers a god in disguise into their house, showing him their natural kindness and humble empathy. As the god reveals himself in his true form to grant the old couple a single wish, the young husband has a medical crisis, causing the parallel realities of the story and its storytellers to unveil themselves in a new and surprising way. This film stands as a love poem that proves love outlasts limbs. (150-word plot summary) Late one night, a terminally ill young husband and wife tell each other a mythic bedtime story, hoping it will ease their fears of losing each other. They weave their tale around an elderly married couple who, due to old age, also face imminent death. During the course of the fable, the ancient pair unwittingly ushers a god in disguise into their house. After showing this cloaked god their natural kindness and humble empathy, he reveals himself to them in his true form and promises to grant them a single wish as a reward for their selflessness. But before the old pair can request their desire, the young husband has a medical crisis, causing the parallel reality of the story and its storytellers to unveil itself in a new and surprising way. This film stands as a love poem that proves love outlasts limbs. (200-word critique) Sarah Arlen's short film, Like Trees, is a breathtaking re-imagining of Ovid's classic tale of Philemon and Baucis. In the original legend, an impoverished elderly couple takes in a starving beggar and is richly rewarded for their generosity and kindness when the stranger turns out to be none other than the great Greek god, Zeus. Granted a single wish in exchange for the food and shelter they provided, the old man and wife ask to die at the same moment, unable to bear life without one another on earth. Beneath Arlen's sensual caress, Ovid's characters come to life once again, this time paralleled by an ailing, modern-day husband and wife who narrate their story. As whirring oxygen tanks, rattling pillboxes and beeping monitors disturb the calm of their bedroom environment, this young couple must cling together against the onslaught of the inevitable. Intertwining the timeless and the contemporary, Like Trees explores the nature of true love when it is tested most – in sickness and in poverty. It is a poignant testament to the mysterious power of human relations and the courage people of all ages can ultimately call upon to face the unknown hand-in-hand. www.liketrees-film.com Like Trees A Sarah Arlen Film BIOGRAPHIES Sarah Arlen - Producer, Director, Writer, Character of "The Young Wife" Sarah Arlen was born in a small town in California where, even as a young child, she constantly wrote and performed in theatrical and dance productions. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies from the University of California Berkeley. During her time at the university, she focused her training on acting and writing for both the stage and screen. At the same time, she also took part in many live productions as a leading actor, worked for the professional internationally-programmed performing arts company Cal Performances, taught theatre arts to children and helped design and build costumes. For her artistic and academic accomplishments, she received numerous awards and scholarships, including prizes for excellence as an actress such as the Eisner Award, Hickman Awards, a Pillsbury Award and the Mann Prize. After graduation, she was employed for two years by the Tony Award-winning Berkeley Repertory Theatre, which ended upon her acceptance into the Master of Fine Arts Film Directing program at EICAR, The International Film School of Paris, and the prestigious honor of receiving a Graduate Scholarship from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. Ms. Arlen now resides in Paris with her husband and is currently working on independent films in the capacities of producer, writer, director and actor, as well as the completion of her Masters degree. She is also in the process of starting a not-for-profit international production company focused on bringing artists from around the world together for projects including filmmaking, live arts, design and education. Damien Riehl - Character of "The Young Husband" Like Trees is Damien Riehl's debut film appearance, as well as acting experience, but not his first turn at being Sarah Arlen's husband. Damien is the real-life husband of Sarah Arlen and starred in the film at her request. Normally, he makes a career in business consulting through his private firm, Orion Conseils et Décisions, in Paris, France, where he and Sarah live happily together. Diana Stewart - Character of "The Old Woman" Dual nationality, bilingual fluency, two loves, two sons, two careers, two cultures, life in two countries, shy yet extroverted, this multidimensional UK born actress interprets a wide variety of roles with a pairing of unique sensitivity and passionate energy. After Whyteleafe Grammar School for Girls and an experience of Macbeth, Diana fled to Paris at age 20 with a broken heart to work for Unesco, but was quickly snapped up by Dorian Leigh (cinema, magazine and TV commercials, fashion and beauty photography), as well as Haute Couture modeling and a variety of TV shows, including a series in which she held the leading role. Diana also designed her own clothes, selling to Roger & Gallet for two seasons. Love and marriage, along side a career in real estate, were followed by a flight back to the UK with another broken heart. With her usual enthusiastic optimism, Diana launched herself as a translator until her two sons encouraged her to accept an offer to move back to Paris and return to her first love, performing. Diana continues to translate for development agencies and for the well-known travel writer, Francisca Matteoli. Putting heart and soul into all she does, with determination and vigor, using life's tapestry of rich experiences and suffering, Diana has a real empathy in reaching out to others. Leaving her own imprint on every character she plays, Diana enjoys interpreting a wide range of characters and, unsurprisingly, often plays two roles, one in French and one in English, within the same show. www.liketrees-film.com Like Trees A Sarah Arlen Film Alain Johnson - Character of "The Old Man" Alain Johnson, a dual US-French national born in Seattle, Washington, studied acting at the University of Washington's School of Drama. He arrived in Paris in 1979, furthered his training under the direction of Robert Cordier and joined the company Théâtre 3 where he performed, both in French and in English, in numerous plays such as The Creation of the World and Other Business (as Adam, his favorite role) by Arthur Miller, L'Epreuve by Marivaux, La Ronde by A. Schnitzler and Michel Vinaver's L'Emission de Télévision, some performances taking the company on tour as far as Kiev and Tangiers. Most recently, in 2005, Alain appeared in a feature film directed by Frederick Kohler, Chuang - An Adventure in Paris, and in the play, The True Life Fiction of Matahari, by D. Samuels. He was also seen in Jean-Claude Grumberg's Three Short Plays at the Clavel Theatre in December 2005 and will be in a murder mystery at the Nesle Theater in May 2006. He now translates American plays into French and these will be produced in Paris in the future. Philip Schurer - Character of "The Beggar / Zeus" Born and raised in England, Philip moved to Paris as a young adult speaking very little French, but quickly became fluent and has been working as an actor in France and abroad ever since. After training in programs including Ecole BAW, known for its courses in improvisation, text work, visualization and method acting, and the Cassio College of London, he played characters like "River," the son of Jane Birkin's character in the film Reine d'un Jour by Marion Vernoux. This young actor has also played principle feature film roles in such films as Zone de Tempete by François Marchando and Carlos Aslan and Free Radical by Eric Mitchel. Many jobs also come to him in the form of theatre, voice work, short films and commercials, and perhaps will some day include film directing. Chiara Weinstein - Character of "The Little Girl" Chiara Weinstein made her film debut in Like Trees at the young age of three, agreeing to participate in the film when she realized she would be on a DVD just like the princesses of her favorite movies. She is the daughter of two professional filmmakers, Charles Weinstein and Teresa Fernandes. Charles Weinstein & Teresa Fernades Charles Weinstein studied filmmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. In 1987, he wrote and directed The Idiot, a half-hour film based on Dostoevsky's novel. His second short film, The Gutter Song, screened at many international film festivals, played theatrically in Europe and received the Silver Plaque Award for the best short film at the Philadelphia International Film Festival. For the stage, Charles has directed numerous plays, readings and workshops at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, Samuel Beckett Theatre and Alice's Fourth Floor. He has also had the pleasure to direct many talented actors, including Calista Flockhart and Laura Linney. Screenwriting credits include the following feature length scripts: Whiter Shade of Pale, In the Middle of Time, The Thief of New York and Nastasya. Charles wrote, directed and co-produced his first feature film, Under the Bridge, winner of the MovieMaker Breakthrough Award at the 1997 Taos Talking Picture Festival. Actors in the film include Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos), Zach Grenier (Fight Club) and Melissa Leo (21 grams). Charles has also produced the feature length films On the Run and The Young Girl and the Monsoon. In 2005, Charles served on the jury for the Avignon Film Festival, selecting Best Feature as well as short films made in France and the US. www.liketrees-film.com Like Trees A Sarah Arlen Film Teresa Fernandes was born in Paris, France, but is of Portuguese origin. As a teenager, she attended a drama school in Paris. After receiving her Baccalaureat, she went to the D.E.U.G. where she received a Masters degree in Spanish. Teresa completed her studies at the Sorbonne University, receiving a second Masters degree in Political Science. She then made her first short film, Une Scene Dangereuse, in 1999, which was loosely based on Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos Laclos. In 2000, she moved to New York City to work with Ellen Stewart at La Mama Theater. In 2002, she completed the script for A White Silence and presented it to Paulo Branco of Gemini Films, who has produced films in both France and Portugal (The Convent by Manuel de Oliveira, Le Temps Retrouvé by Raoul Ruiz, No Sex Last Night by Sophie Calle), and chose to produce the film. In 2004, Gemini Films, along with Clap Productions, began production on A White Silence. In January 2005, Teresa exhibited Breaking News in New York City at La Galleria. The installation explored the relationship of the physical significance of "breaking news." Teresa is currently working on a feature film script entitled The Deal. Charles met Teresa at a film festival, fell in love, got married and had Chiara. Greg Emetaz - Director of Photography Greg Emetaz is a filmmaker based in New York City. He hopes to make the kind of movies that thrilled him as a kid and make him cry with joy today. Recent projects include: Writer/Director of Neat Freak, an obsessive-compulsive supernatural thriller; Director of the "Without Pimps" music video My otha' Ride (is your man); Co-creator of a behind-the-scenes documentary for New York City Opera's production of Madame Butterfly; Director of Photography for Playing, a Teen awkwardness feature filmed in the streets of New York; Director of Photography on Like Trees; Videographer for episodes of God is a DJ with Theater Faction; Editor for Pull the Plug, a short film screened at SILVERDOCS; and Resident Lighting/Set Designer and filmmaker for LEVYdance. Greg also runs Minor Apocalypse (www.minorapocalypse.com), a full-service media design operation specializing in the manufacture of websites, motion graphics, print graphics, DVD authoring and video editing. He graduated with a BA in Architecture from UC Berkeley and an MFA in Stage and Film Design from New York University. Nathan Gunn - Sound Designer Nathan Gunn lives in San Francisco, where he clings desperately to the notion that he can one day turn his passion for sound and picture editing into a viable career. Until that happens, he spends the long days between paying gigs making his own short films and generally trying not to be a burden on society. Recently, Nathan finished work as an assistant editor on RENT, Chris Columbus' movie adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical. In January 2006, he attended the Sundance Film Festival for the premiere of Art School Confidential, Terry Zwigoff's homicidal vision of the usefulness of an art school degree. On the film, Nathan served as the assistant to the director. Film provides Nathan the opportunity to contribute to the creative pursuits of other artists. To that end, he's extremely happy to have worked with Sarah Arlen on the sound design of Like Trees and invites those intrigued by the film's soundtrack to contact him at email@example.com or visit his website at http://homepage.mac.com/ndgunn. Christina Zumstein - Editor Christina Zumstein was born in Zurich, Switzerland, where she completed all of her formal studies. Her first career was not in film, but in finance. For several years, she worked as an Executive Vice President at UBS, one of Switzerland's largest banks. During this period, she www.liketrees-film.com Like Trees A Sarah Arlen Film dedicated her spare time to still photography and traveling around the world. Then, in 2002, she made a radical life change which involved quitting her position at the bank, moving permanently to Paris and creating a production company called ECMP (ecmp.free.fr) with her husband that provides services for the creation of business and product promotional films. Both she and her husband also help film artists like Sarah Arlen realize their projects by lending their skills to various short films and commercials produced by companies other than their own. Directing, editing or just finding herself behind a camera, she enjoys helping to bring movies to life. Andreia Barbosa - Assistant Director Andreia Barbosa was born in Oporto, Portugal, and has been living in Paris, France, since September 2002. Back in her native country of Portugal, she worked as a journalist and researcher for various television programs (documentaries, talk shows, quiz shows). In France, she occasionally works as an Assistant Director for short films, but she earns a living by shooting and editing news stories for a Portuguese TV magazine. She recently finished her first work as a director, a documentary film called Concierges, which will be broadcast in France, Portugal and Finland. She's now preparing another documentary project about the long and successful career of Eunice Muñoz, a Portuguese theatre actress. www.liketrees-film.com Like Trees A Sarah Arlen Film WRITER/DIRECTOR Q&A Q: How long did the film take to shoot? A: We shot this film over four consecutive days with two days in a studio (the "Black Room") and two days on location in a tiny, non-sound-proof Parisian apartment (the "White Room"). And unfortunately we had to switch back and forth everyday from one location to the other, so we shot the first day in the apartment, the next in the studio, hauling all of our equipment back and forth every night instead of wrapping one location at a time, but it worked out well this way overall because I got to cast the best actors for their roles thanks to this schedule. Q: How long did pre-production take? And post-production? A: I was actually in the hospital just three months prior to when we shot this film, so I had to take time after that to recover from surgery before starting pre-production and that left me with about two months to get everything ready. I was lucky because I got both locations authorized right away (and I was lucky because I only had two locations in the first place) and could focus on casting, hiring and then the prep-work on the film itself. Since this was my first film and I had only lived in Paris for about 9 months, I didn't have many contacts, so I started from scratch and found some really amazing, enthusiastic people to work with whom I will hopefully continue to have on my team in the future. Pre-production was a relatively smooth process for Like Trees, but post-production took a LONG time and seemed for a while like it was cursed. Because everyone was working for free, they had to work on Like Trees during their spare time (and I'm sure we're not the only ones in the film world doing that), which affected post-production most of all. Our first sound designer was offered a feature film that paid, so I wouldn't consider that part of the curse because we were so happy for him, but it took us time to find someone else who was right for the project. We hired someone new for the job who had a heart attack right before starting to work on the picture (literally the morning of that first day). The entire post-production team went into shock when this happened (the man who had the heart attack is our age, which made it even more daunting) and we didn't think about the film until we knew he would be ok. He ended up being fine but required an understandably long rest period, so we hired Nathan Gunn. Nathan is an incredible sound designer who was also working on the sound design for Chris Colombus' RENT at the time and gave up his weekends to do Like Trees. He telecommuted for us, being that he's based in San Francisco and we're in Paris. Meanwhile, both our editor and our technical assistant helping to pull the DVD and other pieces of the film together made several trips to the hospital with serious illnesses. At that point, I just tried to keep everyone's spirits up and help them as much as I could. In the end, we spent at least four more months than we expected finishing the film (for a total of 7 months in post), but we all did it together as a family, and that's the point of the film in a big way, so at least we learned from the material we spent so much time with. Q: Is the film autobiographical? A: The film is actually a love poem to my husband. From the very beginning, I wanted it to be something that expressed my feelings about him: my fears of losing him, my undying love for him, my faith that we will always be together...I felt like even though he and I already know all this, it would be really wonderful to illustrate it using the medium of film in order to resonate these feelings for the benefit of an audience. Hopefully because of that, spectators can feel optimistic about that kind of love still existing in everyday life, even and especially www.liketrees-film.com Like Trees A Sarah Arlen Film in the face of death or crisis or hardship. My husband and I also have some friends who suffer from terminal illnesses and have children; I've always felt that if I ever do find ways to express how one might deal with a complicated emotional situation like that, then I should share it without hesitation. Like Trees is one articulation of an idea I came up with to work through the experiences that every single person in the world faces once, twice or many times in their life: the moment you deal with losing someone, the moment you face your own death, the moment you have to figure out how to leave your legacy behind, the moment you reckon with the legacy of your parents... Q: Where did you find the actors? A: In Paris it is no small task finding English-speaking actors, let alone ones that are perfect for the parts you're trying to cast! There is a very helpful and supportive talent agent (Cindy Brace) in Paris who specifically represents English-speaking actors. Her actors come from all over the world and have all different accents and levels of comfort when working in English. I cast two of her actors as characters in my film, both of whom are native English speakers with delicious UK accents, Diana Stewart and Phillip Schurer. The wonderful actor playing "The Old Man" (Alain Johnson) is a native English speaker as well, an American one, who also has a native accent in French (the lucky man) due to first generation French parents, but in Like Trees you never get to find out because he never speaks in the film. And, in fact, neither does Phillip Schurer, who plays "The Beggar/Zeus," and he has an amazingly powerful voice. Diana Stewart, who has a voice like butter, really was unrivaled for her part because her character narrates half the film and her voice absolutely had to be no less than buttery, plus she's such a nice person in the way she works. I cast myself while writing it, knowing that it was my first time directing and that I would be exposing myself as an actor to making the most mistakes. But this is one of the reasons I do it in the first place. I knew that I could emulate Diana's accent to make our parallelism stronger, so her accent wasn't a barrier in casting her. And my husband was cast towards the beginning when he read the script and I asked him if he was up for the adventure. When he said yes, I sat him down and made sure that he really knew what that would mean...the long hours of waiting, repetition followed by waiting and more repetition, being hooked up to an oxygen mask, crying, dying and doing all of this while being watched by people you just met. And he still said yes. The hardest thing for him was his own accent because he was the only non-English native in the cast. He became a favorite on set, breaking out into song during downtime, making jokes in French. He was great. And little Chiara is the daughter of two filmmaker friends of mine, so that worked out because they are parents who know what filmmaking truly involves and still let their daughter participate. Q: What was it like acting under your own direction? A: I certainly learned a lot and will keep doing both acting and directing in future films. I think my performance is maybe the weakest one in the film, but that the film didn't suffer from it somehow; I'm proud of the film. I had a great crew who I was very straightforward with from the moment I hired them, especially when it came to defining working conditions on set since everyone really did have to give me a lot of distance sometimes during the shoot. But I think that all films depend on strong pre-production whether their director is the lead actor or not, and being the lead actor really makes it imperative that you cover all your bases or you feel the performer part of you look at the shoot as impossible. It's more advantageous than I had formerly realized to have that overall view and complete-picture type of understanding as an actor that comes from simultaneously being the director. And when I play a scene with an actor, it brings the director part of me that much further into how the www.liketrees-film.com Like Trees A Sarah Arlen Film scene really went because I'm inside the scene. The crew knew long beforehand what I wanted, and when I went into editing, I pretty much had what I'd asked for. Q: Where did you get the idea for your film? A: The film was inspired by several things, one of which was a real-life married couple who are both terminally ill. They have children, too, and this really moved me to try to deal with their situation, the way that they have to face each day of their lives looking at a finite and approaching deadline for them when they can't imagine living without one another. This wove together perfectly with the ancient myth of Philemon and Baucis. I'd read it in high school and because Metamorphoses contains hundreds of stories, this myth didn't particularly register, but I do think it was in there roaming my head for some time. Then, while I was a student at UC Berkeley, Berkeley Repertory Theatre put on a production of Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses (which is funny because I later worked for the theatre myself), and the play used the Philemon and Baucis myth as the closing fragment of the play. That time the story stuck. I re-read the original myth and shared it with my husband, and it became sacred to the two of us. So now it had resonance in many ways with me. And then I got sick, and even though I was nowhere close to terminal, I wrote while stuck in bed, and I think that all of that forms the content and texture of Like Trees. Q: What does the title mean? A: "Like Trees" is actually a code phrase between my husband and I that we use when we go through something difficult or want to reassure the other one. Because, as crazy as it may sound to some people, the two of us believe that somehow we will end up like the trees the film, never having to live without the other and never having to watch each other die. Q: What kind of film did you use? A: We shot this film in digital on a Canon XL-2E in 25 frames per second to give it that filmic rhythm. Then it was transferred directly onto a hard drive for editing and edited it with Final Cut Pro 5 with the HD plug-in. This movie has never used film stock for anything but still photos. Q: Who are your influences? A: Oh so many influences...Quite a few people who read the script of Like Trees compared it to Tim Burton (who I know doesn't actually write most of his films' scripts, which I thought was ironic), and that was REALLY a flattering comparison to hear. For me, Michel Gondry's insistence on doing special effects in-camera really inspires me, like when he directed Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and had the actors running through trap doors, being pulled by ropes, acting on proportion-altering set pieces, etc. All of the "effects" in our film, besides some editing fades and blurs, were in-camera. It was so much better and more fun to make dirt fly off of Zeus' hands on set than on a computer and so much better to have sound signal the young couple sprouting into trees than to have out-of-place animation or tacky costumes corrupt the audience's imagination. I have always loved Hal Ashby's Harold and Maude and Being There, especially for their uses of really precise symmetry in their mise-en-scene, which Ashby can make into a comedic gag just as easily as a visual metaphor. I'm one of those film nerds who constantly watches the "making of" sections of DVDs and reads stories from any source I can about how filmmakers do things. The funniest thing is that instead of killing the magic of a film for me, it inspires an even greater sense of awe. www.liketrees-film.com Like Trees A Sarah Arlen Film Q: Where did you shoot your film? A: This film was shot entirely in Paris, France. Since it was all interior locations, we had an easy time shooting, but the downside is you can't tell it's Paris. France does not have a reputation for being a point-and-shoot country. It's a wonderful place to work in film because of certain things that just don't exist in many places, like artist subsidies and remarkable financial support for cast and crew members, but you have to have paperwork for every little thing. I know a lot of people in New York who can shoot indie shorts around town and not ever know where the permit office is, but this is not the case in France. France is an ideal film environment for me because there is such a wealth of culturally supported talent that you can build a strong community around your project. France gives astounding amounts of support, starting from the government level all the way through to the audience, to artists and especially to filmmakers. It's more than worth permits and formalities...At the same time, it supports international work, which is my bigger goal. Q: What's your next project? A: The next film I'm shooting is a 30 minute short called The Adventures of Mom and Dad, which is in pre-production as I write this. It is one of a series of short films I've planned to make that includes Like Trees, where all the separate short movies also join together to form an interconnected body of work. Mom and Dad will be shot in Paris, this time with a lot of exteriors, and is completely different in style and form. It does, however, form a companion piece with Like Trees very directly because of its theme. The story is a complete departure from Like Trees; it follows three characters (of which I play one) living in a polyamorous relationship through the evolution of their familial situation as one of the three faces death. As you can see, facing death is a common link from my first film to my second, and I think it goes back to having found another idea that really deals with those emotions uniquely and truly. Mom and Dad will be one-fifth hand-drawn animation and four-fifths live action, so it definitely presents large and difficult challenges, which I look forward to with great excitement. I'm simultaneously developing a feature film based on the same three main characters from The Adventures of Mom and Dad that completely departs from Mom and Dad's plotline and theme. So all of my work interconnects, but it's also always very different in style and content. Another big, long-term project on the table is the starting of a not-for- profit production company in Paris that works internationally to produce my and other's movies, plays and projects. And I have to graduate from my MFA program! Then, it will definitely be time for a vacation...I would really like to complete a few more short films while developing my first feature, so we'll see whether I can pull this off. I certainly will need help, for which I'm grateful that so many people I work with seem to want to come back and pitch in on another Arlen escapade. www.liketrees-film.com
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The NCTQ will enlist college students to help complete its review of teacher preparation programs.
In response to complaints, the Denver district is revising language in its teacher-evaluation system that described a "distinguished" teacher as one who "encourages students to challenge and question the dominant culture" and "take social action to change/improve society or work for social justice,"...
Democratic Representative Mike Honda (D-Calif.) and Senator Jack Reed (D-R.I.) have introduced companion bills that would reauthorize and make major changes to federal laws governing teacher preparation, including the reporting requirements, accountability provisions, and TEACH grant scholarship program.
A wide swath of advocacy organizations, nonprofits, and teacher-training groups this morning sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan this morning demanding "deliberate and swift administrative action" to update the federal rules that govern teacher-preparation program accountability.
Michigan has used its teacher preparation accountability system to bar new enrollments at two teachers' colleges.
Scholars have completed a variety of new papers looking at whether value-added can be used to make judgments about the effects of teacher preparation programs.
AFT proposes a "bar exam" for teachers, but details remain sketchy.
The Illinois state board of education has held fast to a rigorous cutoff score on its basic-skills test, which all prospective teacher candidates are required to pass before enrolling in a teacher preparation program.
The national teacher-college accreditation body has approved its first nontraditional, non-university-based program.
The AFT has convened a task force to make recommendations to improve teacher preparation.


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-- Lil Wayne just can't stay away from the courtroom. Billboard reports that Weezy is suing Jim Jonsin, the producer of his track "I Feel Like Dying", for not properly clearing a sample used in the song. Wayne's lawyers claim that Jonsin's company, Rebel Rock Productions Inc., was responsible taking care of the song's licensing, but failed to do so, and now Wayne himself is being sued by the sample's source, South African singer-songwriter Karma-Ann Swanepoel.
-- MTV reports (via The Virginian-Pilot ) that Anthony "Geezy" Gonzalez, former manager for Clipse, has been charged with running a $10 million drug ring. He faces an 82-count indictment for drug trafficking in Hampton Roads, Virginia. Someone involved with Clipse may have sold drugs?! This is SHOCKING.
-- Lol Tolhurst, former drummer/keyboardist/songwriter for the Cure, will release Blue Star, the third album from his current project, Levinhurst, on May 28. It features contributions from original Cure bassist Michael Dempsey.
-- A new concert series is coming to London's Hyde Park. Serpentine Sessions, taking place June 29-July 1, will feature Regina Spektor, Bon Iver, and Tindersticks.
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When did the "silent deeps" become cacophonous and galaxies begin to swim in a sea of cosmic noise? Why do we think that noises have colors and that colors can be loud? How loud is too loud, and says who? Attending, as ears do, to a surround of sounds at once physical and political, Hillel Schwartz listens across millennia for changes in the Western experience and understanding of noise. From the uproarious junior gods of Babylonian epics to crying infants heard over baby monitors, from doubly mythic Echo to amplifier feedback, from shouts frozen in Rabelaisian air to the squawk of loudspeakers and the static of shortwave radio, Making Noise follows "unwanted sound" on its surprisingly revealing path through terrains domestic and industrial, urban and rural, legal and religious, musical and medical, poetic and scientific. At every stage, readers can hear the cultural reverberations of the historical soundwork of actresses, admen, anthropologists, astronomers, builders, composers, dentists, economists, engineers, filmmakers, firemen, grammar school teachers, jailers, nurses, oceanographers, pastors, philosophers, poets, psychologists, and the writers of children's books.
Drawing upon such diverse sources as the archives of antinoise activists and radio advertisers, catalogs of fireworks and dental drills, letters and daybooks of physicists and physicians, military manuals and training films, travel diaries and civil defense pamphlets, as well as museum collections of bells, ear trumpets, megaphones, sirens, stethoscopes, and street organs, Schwartz traces the process by which noise today has become as powerfully metaphorical as the original Babel.
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In Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress, Robert McGuire and Philip Coelho integrate biological and economic perspectives into an explanation of the historical development of humanity and the economy, paying particular attention to the American experience, its history and development. In their path-breaking examination of the impact of population growth and parasitic diseases, they contend that interpretations of history that minimize or ignore the physical environment are incomplete or wrong.The authors emphasize the paradoxical impact of population growth and density on progress. An increased population leads to increased market size, specialization, productivity, and living standards. Simultaneously, increased population density can provide an ecological niche for pathogens and parasites that prey upon humanity, increasing morbidity and mortality. The tension between diseases and progress continues, with progress dominant since the late 1800s.Integral to their story are the differential effects of diseases on different ethnic (racial) groups. McGuire and Coelho show that the Europeanization of the Americas, for example, was caused by Old World diseases unwittingly brought to the New World, not by superior technology and weaponry. The decimation of Native Americans by pathogens vastly exceeded that caused by war and human predation.The authors combine biological and economic analyses to explain the concentration of African slaves in the American South. African labor was more profitable in the South because Africans' evolutionary heritage enabled them to resist the diseases that became established there; conversely, Africans' ancestral heritage made them susceptible to northern "cold-weather" diseases. European disease resistance and susceptibilities were the opposite regionally. Differential regional disease ecologies thus led to a heritage of racial slavery and racism.
The idea of the Jewish nation was conceived before the organization of the Zionist movement in the nineteenth century and continued long after the creation of the state of Israel. In The Words and the Land, post-Zionist Israeli historian Shlomo Sand examines how both Jewish and Israeli intellectuals contributed to this process. One by one, he identifies and calls into question the foundation myths of the Israeli state, beginning with the myth of a people forcibly uprooted, a people-race that began to wander the world in search of a land of asylum. This was a people that would define itself on a biological and "mythological-religious" basis, embodied in words that today feed Israeli political, literary, and historical writing: "exile," "return," and "ascent" (Alyah) to the land of its origins.
Since 1948, most intellectuals in Israel have continued to accept this ethno-national image and embrace an exclusive state identity to which only Jewish people can belong. The first challenges to this dominant idea didn't appear in Israel until the 1980s, in the innovative work of the "post-Zionist" historians, who were bent on dismantling the nationalist historical myth and arguing for a state that would belong equally to all its citizens. Analyzing how Israeli intellectuals positioned themselves during the Gulf War and in the new era of communication technologies, Sand extends his analysis globally, looking at the status of intellectuals in all societies.
In the period between 1150 and 1550, an increasing number of Christians in western Europe made pilgrimage to places where material objects—among them paintings, statues, relics, pieces of wood, earth, stones, and Eucharistic wafers—allegedly erupted into life by such activities as bleeding, weeping, and walking about. Challenging Christians both to seek ever more frequent encounter with miraculous matter and to turn to an inward piety that rejected material objects of devotion, such phenomena were by the fifteenth century at the heart of religious practice and polemic. In Christian Materiality, Caroline Walker Bynum describes the miracles themselves, discusses the problems they presented for both church authorities and the ordinary faithful, and probes the basic scientific and religious assumptions about matter that lay behind them. She also analyzes the proliferation of religious art in the later Middle Ages and argues that it called attention to its materiality in sophisticated ways that explain both the animation of images and the hostility to them on the part of iconoclasts.
Seeing the Christian culture of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries as a paradoxical affirmation of the glory and the threat of the natural world, Bynum's study suggests a new understanding of the background to the sixteenth-century reformations, both Protestant and Catholic. Moving beyond cultural study of "the body"—a field she helped to establish—Bynum argues that Western attitudes toward body and person must be placed in the context of changing conceptions of matter itself. Her study has broad theoretical implications, suggesting a new approach to the study of material culture and religious practice.
When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface in July of 1969, they wore spacesuits made by Playtex: twenty-one layers of fabric, each with a distinct yet interrelated function, custom-sewn for them by seamstresses whose usual work was fashioning bras and girdles. This book is the story of those spacesuits. It is a story of the triumph over the military-industrial complex by the International Latex Corporation, best known by its consumer brand of "Playtex"—a victory of elegant softness over engineered hardness, of adaptation over cybernetics.
Playtex's spacesuit went up against hard armor-like spacesuits designed by military contractors and favored by NASA's engineers. It was only when those suits failed—when traditional engineering firms could not integrate the body into mission requirements—that Playtex, with its intimate expertise, got the job.
In Spacesuit, Nicholas de Monchaux tells the story of the twenty-one-layer spacesuit in twenty-one chapters addressing twenty-one topics relevant to the suit, the body, and the technology of the twentieth century. He touches, among other things, on eighteenth-century androids, Christian Dior's New Look, Atlas missiles, cybernetics and cyborgs, latex, JFK's carefully cultivated image, the CBS lunar broadcast soundstage, NASA's Mission Control, and the applications of Apollo-style engineering to city planning. The twenty-one-layer spacesuit, de Monchaux argues, offers an object lesson. It tells us about redundancy and interdependence and about the distinctions between natural and man-made complexity; it teaches us to know the virtues of adaptation and to see the future as a set of possibilities rather than a scripted scenario.
Why does technology change over time, how does it change, and what difference does it make? In this sweeping, ambitious look at a thousand years of Western experience, Robert Friedel argues that technological change comes largely through the pursuit of improvement--the deep-rooted belief that things could be done in a better way. What Friedel calls the "culture of improvement" is manifested every day in the ways people carry out their tasks in life--from tilling fields and raising children to waging war.Improvements can be ephemeral or lasting, and one person's improvement may not always be viewed as such by others. Friedel stresses the social processes by which we define what improvements are and decide which improvements will last and which will not. These processes, he emphasizes, have created both winners and losers in history.Friedel presents a series of narratives of Western technology that begin in the eleventh century and stretch into the twenty-first. Familiar figures from the history of invention are joined by others--the Italian preacher who described the first eyeglasses, the dairywomen displaced from their control over cheesemaking, and the little-known engineer who first suggested a grand tower to Gustav Eiffel. Friedel traces technology from the plow and the printing press to the internal combustion engine, the transistor, and the space shuttle. Friedel also reminds us that faith in improvement can sometimes have horrific consequences, as improved weaponry makes warfare ever more deadly and the drive for improving human beings can lead to eugenics and even genocide. The most comprehensive attempt to tell the story of Western technology in many years, engagingly written and lavishly illustrated, A Culture of Improvement documents the ways in which the drive for improvement has shaped our modern world.
This pioneering study reconceptualizes the impact of social organizations, economic conditions, and human agency on human reproduction in preindustrial communities in Europe and Asia. Unlike previous studies, in which Asia is meeasured by European standards, Prudence and Pressure develops a Eurasian perspective. Drawing on rich new data and the tools of event-history analysis, the authors challenge the accepted Eurocentric Malthusian view that attributes "prudence" (smaller families due to late marriage) to the preindustrial West and "pressure" (high mortality due to overpopulation) to the East, showing instead important similarities between Europe and Asia in human motivation and population behavior. The authors analyze age, gender, family and household, kinship, social class and power, religion, culture, and economic resources in order to compare reproductive strategies and outcomes. They reveal underlying similarities between East and West in two major components of the reproductive regime--marriage and childbearing--and offer evidence showing that preindustrial reproduction was motivated and governed by human agency at least as much as by human biology. Prudence and Pressure is part of a large-scale interdisciplinary effort to use new data and methods to re-examine the Malthusian paradigm of population growth. It represents a significant advance in the fields of historical demography, history, and sociology.
"Naval architecture was born in the mountains of Peru, in the mind of a French astronomer named Pierre Bouguer who never built a ship in his life." So writes Larrie Ferreiro at the beginning of this pioneering work on the science of naval architecture. Bouguer's monumental book Traité du navire (Treatise of the Ship) founded a discipline that defined not the rules for building a ship but the theories and tools to predict a ship's characteristics and performance before it was built. In Ships and Science, Ferreiro argues that the birth of naval architecture formed an integral part of the Scientific Revolution. Using Bouguer's work as a cornerstone, Ferreiro traces the intriguing and often unexpected development of this new discipline and describes its practical application to ship design in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Drawing on previously untapped primary-source and archival information, he places the development of naval architecture in the contexts of science, navy, and society, across the major shipbuilding nations of Britain, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, and Italy.Ferreiro describes the formulation of the three major elements of ship theory (the science of explaining the physical behavior of a ship): maneuvering and sail theory, ship resistance and hydrodynamics, and stability theory. He considers the era's influential books on naval architecture and describes the professionalization of ship constructors that is the true legacy of this period. Finally, looking from the viewpoints of both the constructor and the naval administrator, he explains why the development of ship theory was encouraged, financed, and used in naval shipbuilding. A generous selection of rarely seen archival images accompanies the text.
In the fifteenth century, a Venetian mariner, Michael of Rhodes, wrote and illustrated a text describing his experiences in the Venetian merchant and military fleets. He included a treatise on commercial mathematics and treatments of contemporary shipbuilding practices, navigation, calendrical systems, and astrological ideas. This manuscript, "lost," or at least in unknown hands for over 400 years, has never been published or translated in its entirety until now.
Volume 2 contains a transcription of the handwritten text in the medieval Venetian dialect of Italian and, on facing pages, its translation into modern English. Michael's book includes the first extant treatise on naval architecture, a 200-page treatise on mathematics in the tradition of medieval and Renaissance abacus manuscripts, texts on navigation including portolans (sailing directions), and Michael's autobiographical service record—unique for Venice in this period and noteworthy for being the personal record of a man of non-noble status and foreign birth.
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TROUBLE WITH THE LAWThe 2013 offseason was a rough one for NFL players and the law. Take a look back at the players arrested before camp ever opened.
Denver Broncos linebacker Von Miller has been arrested on a warrant alleging he failed to appear in court on a traffic misdemeanor.
Miller was arrested Sunday and then released, Arapahoe County sheriff's detention chief Louie Perea said Wednesday.
The Broncos released a statement saying they and NFL officials are aware of the allegation that Miller didn't appear at a court hearing.
The statement says the matter is ''being handled through the legal system.''
KMGH-TV in Denver reported that Miller was supposed to go to court on charges of careless driving, driving without a license and no proof of insurance.
KMGH reported Miller was arrested at the Centennial Gun Club, a shooting range in the Denver suburb of Centennial. The club's address matches the arrest location released by the sheriff's department.
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|It has been suggested that Maternal influence on sex determination be merged into this article. (Discuss) Proposed since April 2014.
The XY sex-determination system is the sex-determination system found in humans, most other mammals, some insects (Drosophila), and some plants (Ginkgo). In this system, the sex of an individual is determined by a pair of sex chromosomes (gonosomes). Females have two of the same kind of sex chromosome (XX), and are called the homogametic sex. Males have two distinct sex chromosomes (XY), and are called the heterogametic sex.
This system is in contrast with the ZW sex-determination system found in birds, some insects, many reptiles, and other animals, in which the heterogametic sex is female.
A temperature-dependent sex determination system is found in some reptiles.
All animals have a set of DNA coding for genes present on chromosomes. In humans, most mammals, and some other species, two of the chromosomes, called the X chromosome and Y chromosome, code for sex. In these species, one or more genes present on their Y-chromosome that determine maleness. In this process, an X chromosome and a Y chromosome act to determine the sex of offspring, often due to genes located on the Y chromosome that code for maleness. Offspring have two sex chromosomes: an offspring with two X chromosomes will develop female characteristics, and an offspring with an X and a Y chromosome will develop male characteristics.
In humans, a single gene (SRY) present on the Y chromosome acts as a signal to set the developmental pathway towards maleness. Presence of this gene starts off the process of virilization. This and other factors result in the sex differences in humans.[1] The cells in females, with two X chromosomes, undergo X-inactivation, in which one of the two X chromosomes is inactivated. The inactivated X chromosome remains within a cell as a Barr body.
Humans, as well as some other organisms, can have a chromosomal arrangement that is contrary to their phenotypic sex, that is, XX males or XY females. See, for example, XX male syndrome and androgen insensitivity syndrome. Additionally, an abnormal number of sex chromosomes (aneuploidy) may be present, such as Turner's syndrome, in which a single X chromosome is present, and Klinefelter's syndrome, in which two X chromosomes and a Y chromosome are present, XYY syndrome and XXYY syndrome.[1] Other less common chromosomal arrangements include: triple X syndrome, 48, XXXX, and 49, XXXXX.
XY system in mammals: Sex is determined by presence of Y. "Female" is the default sex; due to the absence of the Y.[2] In the 1930s, Alfred Jost determined that the presence of testosterone was required for Wolffian duct development in the male rabbit.[3]
SRY is an intronless sex-determining gene on the Y chromosome in the therians (placental mammals and marsupials).[4] Non-human mammals use several genes on the Y-chromosome. Not all male-specific genes are located on the Y-chromosome. Other species (including most Drosophila species) use the presence of two X chromosomes to determine femaleness. One X chromosome gives putative maleness. The presence of Y-chromosome genes is required for normal male development.
Birds and many insects have a similar system of sex determination (ZW sex-determination system), in which it is the females that are heterogametic (ZW), while males are homogametic (ZZ).
Many insects of the order Hymenoptera instead have a system (the haplo-diploid sex-determination system), where the males are haploid individuals (which just one chromosom of each type), while the females are diploid (with chromosoms appearing in pairs). Some other insects have the X0 sex-determination system, where just one chromosom type appears inpairs for the female but alone in the males, while all other chromosoms appear in pairs in both sexes.
For a long time, biologists believed that the female form was the default template for the mammalian fetuses of both sexes. After the discovery of the testis-determining gene SRY, many scientists shifted to the theory that the genetic mechanism that determines a fetus to develop into a male form was initiated by the SRY gene, which was thought to be responsible for the production of testosterone and its overall effects on body and brain development. This perspective still shared the classical way of thinking; that in order to produce two sexes, nature has developed a default female pathway and an active pathway by which male genes would initiate the process of determining a male sex, as something that is developed in addition to and based on the default female form. This view is no longer considered accurate by most scientists who study the genetics of sex. In an interview for the Rediscovering Biology website,[5] researcher Eric Vilain described how the paradigm changed since the discovery of the SRY gene:
|For a long time we thought that SRY would activate a cascade of male genes. It turns out that the sex determination pathway is probably more complicated and SRY may in fact inhibit some anti-male genes.
The idea is instead of having a simplistic mechanism by which you have pro-male genes going all the way to make a male, in fact there is a solid balance between pro-male genes and anti-male genes and if there is a little too much of anti-male genes, there may be a female born and if there is a little too much of pro-male genes then there will be a male born.
We [are] entering this new era in molecular biology of sex determination where it's a more subtle dosage of genes, some pro-males, some pro-females, some anti-males, some anti-females that all interplay with each other rather than a simple linear pathway of genes going one after the other, which makes it very fascinating but very complicated to study.
In mammals, including humans, the SRY gene is responsible with triggering the development of non-differentiated gonads into testes, rather than ovaries. However, there are cases in which testes can develop in the absence of an SRY gene (see sex reversal). In these cases, the SOX9 gene, involved in the development of testes, can induce their development without the aid of SRY. In the absence of SRY and SOX9, no testes can develop and the path is clear for the development of ovaries. Even so, the absence of the SRY gene or the silencing of the SOX9 gene are not enough to trigger sexual differentiation of a fetus in the female direction. A recent finding indicates that ovary development and maintenance is an active process,[6] regulated by the expression of a "pro-female" gene, FOXL2. In an interview[7] for the TimesOnline edition, study co-author Robin Lovell-Badge explained the significance of the discovery:
|We take it for granted that we maintain the sex we are born with, including whether we have testes or ovaries. But this work shows that the activity of a single gene, FOXL2, is all that prevents adult ovary cells turning into cells found in testes.
Looking into the genetic determinants of human sex can have wide-ranging consequences. Scientists have been studying different sex determination systems in fruit flies and animal models to attempt an understanding of how the genetics of sexual differentiation can influence biological processes like reproduction, ageing[8] and disease. Since many of the same genetic mechanisms involved in determining sexually dimorphic traits have been preserved during evolution to this day in fruit flies, mice, and humans, understanding how these genetic mechanisms work can lead to improved healthcare that takes into account sex differences. The research could also lead to changes in how people understand and perceive sex differences.
Since ancient times, people have believed that the sex of an infant is determined by how much heat a man's sperm had during insemination. Aristotle wrote that:
|...the semen of the male differs from the corresponding secretion of the female in that it contains a principle within itself of such a kind as to set up movements also in the embryo and to concoct thoroughly the ultimate nourishment, whereas the secretion of the female contains material alone. If, then, the male element prevails it draws the female element into itself, but if it is prevailed over it changes into the opposite or is destroyed.
Aristotle claimed that the male principle was the driver behind sex determination,[9] such that if the male principle was insufficiently expressed during reproduction, the fetus would develop as a female. In contrast, modern genetics has developed a view on sex determination in which no one single factor is responsible for determining sex; a number of pro-male, anti-male and pro-female genes being responsible, though the largest factor is whether the male's gamete carries an X or Y chromosome.
Edmund Beecher Wilson and Nettie Stevens are credited with discovering, in 1905, the chromosomal XY sex-determination system; the fact that males have XY sex chromosomes and females have XX sex chromosomes.[citation needed]
The first clues to the existence of a factor that determines the development of testis in mammalians came from experiments carried out by Alfred Jost,[10] who castrated embryonic rabbits in utero and noticed that they all developed as female.[citation needed]
In 1959, C. E. Ford and his team, in the wake of Jost's experiments, discovered[11] that the Y chromosome was needed for a fetus to develop as male when they examined patients with Turner's syndrome, who grew up as phenotypic females, and found them to be X0 (hemizygous for X and no Y). At the same time, Jacob & Strong described a case of a patient with Klienfelter's syndrome (XXY),[12] which implicated the presence of a Y chromosome in development of maleness.[13]
All these observations lead to a consensus that a dominant gene that determines testis development (TDF) must exist on the human Y chromosome.[13] The search for this testis-determining factor (TDF) led a team of scientists[14] in 1990 to discover a region of the Y chromosome that is necessary for the male sex determination, which was named SRY (Sex-determining Region of the Y chromosome).[13]


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ls | wc)?
Why prefer File Descriptors stdin 0, stdout 1, stderr 2 etc? Any idea?
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Pipes, specifically anonymous pipes, as in your question, (
Using different file descriptors (particularly
A contrived example of using
This would print out the
Piping input from one process to another involves file descriptors; the standard output (fd = 1) of the first process is connected to the standard input (fd = 0) of the next process in the pipeline.
The alternative to using pipes is temporary files:
The advantages of pipes over this are manifold, but include:
The decision to make file descriptors 0, 1, 2 into standard input, output and error was very valuable. The mapping of the numbers to the streams is arbitrary, but as long as everyone agrees, perfectly effective.


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WASHINGTON, July 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new report by AARP's Public Policy Institute finds mixed results and promising signs among state government efforts to balance long-term care (LTC) options under Medicaid. Unfortunately, according to the report, only four states spent more than 50 percent of their Medicaid LTC dollars for older people providing home and community based services (HCBS). In Pennsylvania, 90% of Medicaid LTC dollars for older people and adults with physical disabilities who have limited financial resources are steered to nursing homes.
The report, A Balancing Act: State Long-Term Care Reform, is the first to examine Medicaid spending on long-term care for older people and adults with physical disabilities, separate from other LTC users such as people with mental retardation/developmental disabilities (MR/DD).
Nationally, 75 percent of Medicaid LTC spending for older people and adults with physical disabilities pays for institutional care in nursing homes. In contrast, states have done a much better job balancing Medicaid LTC for people with MR/DD, spending just 39 percent on institutional care. The majority of funds now supports people in home and community-based settings.
"We recognize the success state Medicaid programs are having providing home and community based services to people with mental retardation/developmental disabilities," said AARP Pennsylvania State Director Dick Chevrefils. "It proves that balancing long-term care is doable and should be used as a model to help states provide home and community based services for older adults."
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We purchased this vanity for our basement bathroom (new construction). We will have a similar layout as in the photo on the right; however, there is a wall along the left-hand side that it butts up to.
I'm of the opinion that a backsplash is always necessary - husband says no. What do you think? I think we need a backsplash up to the bottom of the mirror. I would even consider doing tile along the entire back wall and the wall to the left. I'm thinking a subway tile. My biggest concern is water splashing on the wall - husband says he's not worried.
You're both right!
It took us 4 years to decide on a BS for our kitchen, so we just painted the walls with an extra coat of paint, and it was fine.
However, since you have such a neutral vanity and mirror, you could really add some punch with a fabulous tile and it wouldn't cost you much. I would just do the few inches between counter and mirror and carry it along the side wall. There are beautiful white textured/embossed/patterned tiles out there that you could really have fun with.
Here is a link that might be useful: textural white tile backsplashes
Who's going to be using this bathroom? If it's just random people downstairs washing their hands, then I wouldn't be too worried about splashing. If it's teenagers with a facial routine who use it daily, then I might think differently. Either way, I think the tile would look nice, but a good semi-gloss paint would do the job.
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I would like to install an old pot belly wood/coal stove to provide heat in my garage during the winter months. My hobby is working on old cars. The question is this: Can I safely store my cars in the garage with the gas tanks topped off and fuel stabilizer added, while I have a fire going in the stove to heat the garage? If this is possible, what precautions should I be taking? Thanks, Charlie