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In this activity, students conduct a life cycle assessment of energy used and produced in ethanol production, and a life cycle assessment of carbon dioxide used and produced in ethanol production.
This video focuses on the science of climate change and its impacts on wildlife on land and in the sea, and their habitats in the U.S. There are short sections on walruses, coral reefs, migrating birds and their breeding grounds, freshwater fish, bees, etc. Video concludes with some discussion about solutions, including reduce/recyle/reuse, energy conservation, backyard habitats, citizen scientists.
This is the ninth and final lesson in a series of lessons about climate change. This lesson focuses on the various activities that humans can do to mitigate the effects of climate change. This includes information on current and predicted CO2 emission scenarios across the globe, alternative energy sources, and how people are currently responding to climate change. Importantly, this lesson is motivating in showing students that they can make a difference.
This is an interactive map of California and the Sierra Nevada mountains, showing projected variations in water stored in snowpack, from 1950 to 2090, assuming low or high emission scenarios over that period of time. Interactive can be adjusted to show different months of the year and various climate models, graphed by site.
This video is the second of a three-video series in the Sea Change project, which follows the work of Dr. Maureen Raymo, paleogeologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, who travels with fellow researchers to Australia in search of evidence of sea level that was once higher than it is today.
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Robert D. Dougherty, 81, died Feb. 18, 2013 at Great Bend Regional Hospital, Great Bend. He was born Aug. 22, 1931 at Casper, Wyo. the son of Brian and Dorthy (Dunlap) Dougherty. He married Linda Sanko April 21, 1965 at Great Bend. He was owner and operator of Cambria Corporation since 1967.
Wednesday's Barton Community College women's and men's basketball games at Colby were postponed due to inclement weather.
Dillon's, the Kansas Department of Agriculture, Harvesters and the Kansas Food Bank are teaming up for a state-wide food drive called Neighbor to Neighbor. The food drive will kicked off on Monday and run will through Ag Day on March 19th. Dillon's customers will have the opportunity to purchase non-perishable food items to place in donation bins and they will also be able to donate either $1 or $5 at the register. As a partner agency with the Kansas Food Bank, the Barton County Food Bank will benefit from the food and funds collected from the local Great ...
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HOUSTON (AP) - The NBA's career scoring leader in the All-Star game, Kobe Bryant has never been just about offense.
WAKEENEY - Western Cooperative Electric Cooperative president Larry Evans announced that Darrin Lynch has been selected to serve as the next general manager. David Schneider, current general manager, will retire May 31.
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The Dominican Sisters of Peace announced Wednesday the election of J. Basil Dannebohm and Karla Kirkman as co-chairs of the Heartland Farm Advisory Council. The advisory council works with the sisters toward the wellbeing of the farm.
Central Plains Middle School recognizes seventh graders, Rebecca Stratmann and Jerred Bieberle, as the March Students of the Month.
WICHITA - Joseph F. Bunk, 67, passed away Feb. 28. He was born July 14, 1947, in Great Bend, to Maurice and Mary (Kaechele) Bunk of Hoisington. In 1965, Joe graduated from Hoisington High School. After serving his country in the United States Army during the Viet Nam War, he attended Kansas State University and graduated with a Master's Degree in Business Administration and Accounting.
AUGUSTA - Victor L. Shumate, 64, died on March 12, at Kansas Medical Center in Andover. Born Jan. 4, 1951, in El Dorado, he was the son of Paul Bennett and Isa Lou (Gale) Shumate. He was a graduate of El Dorado High School and Butler County Community College. He was a retired truck driver and care giver. Mr. Shumate served his country in the United States Air Force during the Vietnam Era.
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Sam Tomkins would jump at the chance to play rugby union for the Barbarians again this year but insists he is not angling for a cross-code switch.
The Wigan and England fullback, whose older brother Joel Tomkins joined Saracens in November, made a guest appearance for the Barbarians against Australia at Twickenham at the end of last autumn's Four Nations Series, scoring their only try in a 60-11 defeat.
The 22-year-old, whose new five-year contract includes a clause preventing him from talking to other clubs for at least three years, enjoyed his first taste of the 15-man code and would not hesitate if invited back for more.
"It was just an opportunity I felt I couldn't miss," Tomkins said at Wigan's pre-season media day at Orrell. "It was the chance to play a different sport at a stadium like Twickenham. Not many people get the chance to play there.
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Japan's famously long working hours will get a shakeup this summer, the government announced Friday, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pushing early starts and European-style flexibility.
An expert panel advising Japan's nationalist prime minister on a highly sensitive statement about World War II has run into disagreement over how to describe Tokyo's wartime military action.
Japanese government auditors say the operator of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant has wasted more than a third of the 190 billion yen (US$1.6 billion) in taxpayer money allocated for cleaning up the plant after it was destroyed by a March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
The governor of the southern Japanese island of Okinawa said Monday he has ordered a Defense Ministry branch to suspend all work at the site where a key U.S. military air base is to be relocated.
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Dozens of aging U.S. veterans gathered on the tiny, barren island of Iwo Jima on Saturday to mark the 70th anniversary of one of the bloodiest and most iconic battles of World War II.
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Japan marked the 20th anniversary Friday of coordinated attacks on the heaving Tokyo subway system when a doomsday cult released a Nazi-developed nerve gas on packed trains, killing 13 people and injuring 6,000.
Education is the starting point for opportunity, U.S. first lady Michelle Obama said Thursday as she and her Japanese counterpart Akie Abe showcased efforts to help girls stay in or return to school.
New tests show almost all of the fuel inside one of the Fukushima plant's reactors has melted, its operator said Thursday, the latest step in the clean up after Japan's worst ever nuclear crisis.
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CAA Road Games Continue For UMass At No. 18 Towson Saturday
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Posted on March 27 at 1:59 p.m.
Hey dou4now, can you explain why the guy in the black clothes with the earpiece was handing out black backpacks that resemble the exploded backpack in the photo that the FBI released, but do not resemble either of the backpacks the brothers were carrying?
I mean, you have some experience with security and military and whatnot, nobody else is willing to address this OBVIOUS and GLARING reality that the person who wrote this letter alluded to when they said that minimal cursory research shows that they likely were not involved in making the drop off.
It just baffles me that I can post clear, convincing evidence that the brothers were likely not involved and NOBODY is willing to give any sort of factual or intellectual rebuttal. I have posted these photos at least 5 times in various comment sections on the topic and it has never been addressed. We have photographic evidence they didn't do it and everybody ignores it. Seriously, what is wrong with people that they need to believe the mainstream media and cannot think for themselves?
What about the fact that in none of the photos does it appear that they are carrying 30 lb, which is pretty significant weight, in those backpacks? What about the dozens of other anomalies in this case? Are you really so devoted to the US military that you would be willing to help coverup a mass murder? Or would you be willing to expose your own government?
Posted on March 27 at 1:45 p.m.
What do you mean give up?? Nobody EVER gives any intellectual rebuttal to my posts. If they did, and I ignored them then you could make that statement with some kind of validity, but the fact that my facts are never addressed through intellectual discourse means that I've never been engaged to begin with.
realitycheck, here's the problem - a 3 or 4 year old watching Sesame Street could figure out that these guys didn't do it by looking at these three photos:
How do you explain that the defendants had a white and light gray backpack, yet the photo the FBI released of the exploded backpack is black and looks exactly like the backpacks the guy in the black clothes with the Kraft International hat wearing an ear piece was handing out...
I mean, this is more than enough evidence to at least raise serious questions and NOBODY is willing to even address it.. have you even looked at the photos??
Posted on March 27 at 12:53 p.m.
The point is that the use of force should only be applied when there is a victim - a person is being hurt, property being destroyed, etc. Otherwise it is immoral. It is immoral to trap a young person in a situation where they are not hurting anybody and you are ruining their future. Following the "rules" and obeying the state without prejudice is actually a really poor attribute that many older people like Jarvis who advocate the "rule of law" have. It is better that we have more people who brazenly oppose laws for victimless crimes. Although it may not be best for them, personally, it benefits us all that we can have more freedom and liberty in our personal lives.
Young people naturally lack the ability to use longer term judgement compared to older people. This is part of evolution, kids go out and get the sex while the getting is good and their peers are at their most attractive. Getting sex takes more than effort for males, it entails the application of an engaging, dynamic, powerful alpha personality that may include violent tendencies. That is why you see so many young people acting the way that they do. The other extreme is that people would wait to procreate and such until they were too old to do so.
Yes, there is a balance, young people should be reminded that their actions have consequences and they should be held responsible for their actions. They should not be forcefully taken into custody for engaging in peaceful actions, for example simply drinking alcohol, as this will increase confrontations and lead to unnecessary violence.
Posted on March 27 at 12:36 p.m.
Sorry DrDan, it was not my first post above, it was the post dated-
March 26, 2015 at 4:30 p.m.
that I was referring to.. The first post I made will actually take you a bit longer than 30 seconds to investigate, but I highly recommend doing so.
Take a look at those three photos and get back to me - ANYBODY who thinks they are guilty, in fact, please get back to me on those three photos with an intelligent rebuttal.
That is one thing nobody here is able to do, I have no seen one single intelligent rebuttal to any of my posts.
Posted on March 27 at 12:16 p.m.
DrDan, if you took 30 seconds out of your life and rubbed two brain cells together and looked at the three photos I posted in my first post above, if you have the cognitive ability to admit you are wrong you will have more than a few questions.
It's really sad that we have really clear evidence right in plain sight that absolutely proves beyond a doubt these brothers were not involved, we have photos that prove beyond a doubt who WAS involved and all you can do is mock the person presenting the evidence without even looking at it.
DrDan, you are worse than somebody who watches Housewives and reality TV all day who abdicates their responsibility to hold their fellow man responsible for these types of things.
Posted on March 27 at 12:10 p.m.
Great letter, and it is amazing the amount of misinformation people have on this case in the comment section, with the exception of 14noscams of course..
Let's start with:
"the defendant himself unequivocally *said he did it*."
Oh really? How did he "say" he did it when they cut his vocal chords out of his throat when he was captured???
Why did the FBI release a picture of a black exploded backpack and then release photos of the brothers with light gray and white backpacks? Why were Kraft International employees in black gear with black ear pieces giving out BLACK backpacks that looked exactly like the one in the FBI photo? Why is NOBODY in the media talking about this??
During the shoot out, the brothers were heard saying, "Chill out! Chill out!! We didn't do it! We didn't do it! It wasn't us!!". Not proof, but something to consider. There are many other anomalies in this case.
Posted on March 26 at 10:13 p.m.
Interesting - that would help explain the drought in Northern California.
Still, though, there are natural sources of arsenic which differ from the more dangerous kinds, it is a trace element. The worst kind, the industrial byproduct, was sprayed all over all the crops back in the 50s I think. It's also a byproduct of some mining processes and of course oil no doubt.
There are a lot of reasons, chemtrails included, why it is possible we could be seeing elevated levels in our groundwater and soils. Still not convincing me that in it's organic, natural state as found in nature in very small amounts is not necessary for healthy function. The link I posted above points out the differences and the specific chemical compounds.
I'd still like to see more studies done on the levels of arsenic in various foods and wine, not just what was tested here before avoiding one thing when it could be everything that is contaminated or maybe there were some exaggerations made for business purposes. But you certainly may be on to something, keep questioning.
Posted on March 26 at 10:08 p.m.
If you lose too much blood pressure, you die, and he is still alive. Blood doesn't disappear, either.
They have admitted the drills were happening...More than likely, he lost his legs in Iraq from an IUD and was participating in the drill and was asked to do so in order to play the role of a victim. Look into "crisis actors". They are actively recruited around the country, and they have caught them doing it on craiglist and shit before some of these types of events. Maybe he was close enough to a real bomb that he saw or was convinced there were also real victims and had a previously signed gag order not to talk about the drill - maybe he was ordered by his superiors to act as if he was a real victim because the drill was "top secret" and by doing so he would blow the cover.
More than likely, at least ONE of the bombs at the Boston Marathon actually went off and injured people, and it is very possible that another explosion was part of a drill. Really, I'm not certain, but there is a lot of evidence of some of the injuries being related to a drill including fake blood packets strewn about the scene of at least one of the bombings.
Whatever happened, the wife of the older Boston bomber who is on surveillance with the younger one when he bought five pressure cookers at a store. She had access to the laptop that had the Jihadi material. She is also......*drum roll*.......the direct decedent of the founder of Skull and Bones. Their uncle was a CIA agent. Put the pieces together. They were setup.
During the shoot out with police, they can be heard saying, "Chill out!! Chill out!! We didn't do it!! We didn't do it!! It wasn't us!!". Certainly not proof, but something to consider.
Posted on March 26 at 5:07 p.m.
Again, I'm looking for a logical refutation here. That's what I've asked for. You're really not good at that at all.
If you want to say that a gray or white blackpack is black, or that a guy who was seen with multiple black backpacks performing a drill where the exploded backpack appeared to be from the ones he was handing out, and then left the scene without any backpacks, and then say that guy had nothing to do with it while the guys with the wrong color backpack were guilty... You're either being illogical or you have the wrong facts. It's one or the other. I've provided the facts - please respond with logic and reason.
Posted on March 26 at 5:01 p.m.
I have provided the facts, you have yet to respond to them.


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The Taste, Soil and the Fertilizers
I do not know about the fruits but I know about the fish.
For example the same species of fishes from different rivers and ponds have different taste.
Logically the taste of the fruits might be different according to the soil and fertilizers we have used. Some of us really enjoy the visual pleasure, when we have a nice original plants with a lot of fruits. I never know anyone said I have grown ghost in the garden soil the taste and heat is good or bad, likewise I used mix soil AtoZ taste good or bad.
Do you have any idea or experiences regarding to my curiosity?
Hey, Caelian, I think it has a lot to do with watering habits/moisture levels.
I stop watering a day or two before I harvest, with the thought that the flavor
and heat concentration will be higher. As for fertilizer, I think a plant will take
what it needs as long as all the macro and micro-nutrients are available. Plants don't
discriminate "organic" from soluble synthetic fertilizers, so I don't put much emphasis
on particular brands...other than to ensure that all the nutrient needs are being met.
Yeah, "organic" to me has much more meaning when referring to what you put on the leaves/fruits than what you put on the roots.
Mushrooms grown on manure taste like mushrooms, not manure (most fortunately). Soil won't have a *direct* impact on the flavor, but the balance of nutrients might. More than that I can't say as I don't know enough.
DMF - some folks would argue that mushrooms in fact do taste like the manure they were grown in. haha! For the record, I am not one of those folks. :-)
I don't have any scientific evidence, but, my thoughts are that the soil / water can make a difference in the flavor. Maybe the roots do filter out all but the essential elements it needs to grow, but, I can't help but think there are things that are dissolved in the water that get absorbed by the plant, and since there is such a high water content in the fruit it has to have some impact on the flavor. Maybe I'm just buying into the hype. Not that I purchase / apply anything specific to change / enhance the flavor.
Yup, I agree with greenman28 here 100%.
Here, you may find this interesting and helpfull-
"However, what you taste is not what you fed your plants, but what your plants were able to do with what they were fed. Organic solutions can be more complex in terms of the array of substances and organisms they contain when compared to standard synthetic fertilizer solutions. As a result, the plants have more variety in their diet which they can utilize, possibly resulting in more complex tastes, etc. Now, that was one of the upsides of organics. One of the drawbacks of organic crop production vs. standard hydroponic fertilizer is that the majority of nutrients are not immediately available to the plant. This makes it very difficult to monitor and regulate concentration and ratios of elements available to the plant. If using premium hydroponic fertilizers, the vast majority of nutrients are immediately available in precise and measurable values. As a result, healthy vigorous plants can reach their genetic potential which includes characteristics such as taste and flavor. Plants do not differentiate the nutrients they absorb resulting from hydroponic or organic nutrient solutions. For example, nitrogen is typically available as NO3- or NH4+. It does not matter to the plant whether it came from guano or bottled nutrient. "
Source: http://www.simplyhydro.com/
This post was edited by TheMasterGardener1 on Mon, Jan 7, 13 at 1:25
Thank you for all the opinions and the link.
My grandfather did not like any inorganic food and food cooked by gas and electric. He was so complicated, he liked firewood for cooking, and earthen pots for particular foods preparation. Most of his life was consumed organic food and firewood for cooking. He knew very well the differences in taste. I cannot differentiate the taste of organic and inorganic vegetables very well.
May be my grandfather's time the growers may used incorrect inorganic fertilizers and the plants could not get all the needed nutrients so the taste might be different from the organic vegetables.
An interesting link is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_IoNQHMFLk
I don't doubt that environmental conditions can affect the taste of veggies, but the way it happens is subtle and not obvious. It could be a combination of the soil, night temps, hours of direct sunlight and watering schedule all interacting. For the most part, two Nantes carrots grown 2000 miles apart from the same seed packet are going to taste the same in blind taste tests. And two Black Beauty zucchinis grown in organic and 'standard' gardens across the street from each other are going to taste identical in taste tests. But that doesn't mean that it's impossible to get somewhat different tastes out of some crops. But I have no doubt that the vast majority of differences are more imagined than real. That's discounting for soils heavy with salt, or other such obvious conditions.
"I don't doubt that environmental conditions can affect the taste of veggies, but the way it happens is subtle and not obvious."
The same peppers seed is grown in zone 8a it will grow hotter peppers. Same seeds grown in zone 4b it will have less heat in the peppers.
Yes environment effects taste.
Thank you for all of your opinions.
I used fertilizer and I eat both organic and inorganic. I ate some naturally grew wild mushrooms (edible) most of them are taste so good. When I washed it it has a lot of starch/sticky and slippery that's not found in nowadays mushrooms found in the super markets.
The mushroom like this one are taste so good, I do not know this one grew in wild or in farm.
I do not understand the real taste of organic food and inorganic food because of the food preparation and the ingredients we used and the skill of the cook. Most of the naturally grew mushrooms I have eaten are good for fry cook, some onion, garlic, ginger, dry chili and oil no complicated preparation. The same style I tried the mushroom found in our supermarkets the taste is so different. To know the different taste may need simple cook, without much ingredients. The another example is coriander grow in the pot with fertilizer and the coriander grow in the garden soil without fertilizer are also taste different.
The coming season probably I may know the different between the ghost organic and inorganic.
It is just my experience and my opinion. I'll use fertilizer/compost organic or inorganic whatever my plants need.
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SXSW 2015: All Our Coverage (So Far)
Updated March 31, 2015.
Slackerwood is all over the SXSW Film Festival this year. Here's the current list of all our guides, features, interviews, reviews and whatever else we're writing. Check out the @slackerwood Twitter feed for the latest links, news and other info.
SXSW Review: Results
Oh my god, Andrew Bujalski has sold out. The filmmaker with a reputation for populating his indies with non-actors has brought us a film that stars, yes, stars Guy Pearce and Cobie Smulders. I don't think I saw a single indie filmmaker in the cast. And it kind of has a plot! And who knows how much money it cost -- he didn't even need to crowdfund. I mean, really, total sellout.
Except that's not the case at all. Results is very much of a piece with Bujalski's previous films, from Mutual Appreciation to Computer Chess. The Austin writer-director's insightfulness about the minutiae of everyday relationships is front and center. The "stars" play characters who work at a gym -- naturally portraying beautiful people without upsetting the balance of the cast.
Danny (Kevin Corrigan) first appears onscreen after his wife locks him out of their New York apartment. Shortly thereafter, we encounter him in an Austin gym, determined to get into shape for reasons he cannot clearly articulate to the gym's owner, Trevor (Pearce). Trevor assigns Kat (Smulders), a demanding and no-nonsense trainer, to work with Danny at his home. It's obvious Danny would like Kat in his life for more than just teaching him ab exercises, though.
Movies This Week: March 27 - April 2, 2015
The Austin Film Society really knows the way to my heart. A brand new series begins this evening at the Marchesa called "Perfect Criminals: The '70s French Noir Connection" and you can buy a full series pass or grab individual tickets for the five French crime classics that AFS will be unspooling in the weeks to come. The first selection in the series is 1969's The Sicilian Clan in 35mm. Jean Gabin and Alain Delon star in this jewel heist thriller from director Henri Verneuil and it plays tonight and again on Sunday afternoon.
Also on Sunday, you've got one more chance to catch Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island Of Dr Moreau. I caught this at Fantastic Fest last year and was utterly fascinated by it. It recently had a screening at Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, but now AFS is giving you a great opportunity to see it if you missed it (or maybe just want to take it all in again). Richard Linklater is back at the Marchesa on Wednesday to present Stuart Rosenberg's The Pope Of Greenwich Village in 35mm and host a post-film conversation. This 1986 drama stars Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts and Daryl Hannah. Essential Cinema wraps up the screening week on Thursday night with Rachid Bouchareb's Oscar-nominated WWII film Days Of Glory.
Meanwhile, the Austin Film Festival is teaming up with A24 for "Growing Up Baumbach: A Tribute to Noah Baumbach's 20 Years in Film." Noah's new film While You're Young is opening on April 10, so AFF is taking over the Texas Spirit Theater (inside the Bob Bullock Texas History Museum) to play some of his finest work next week. On Monday night, they'll screen The Squid and the Whale in 35mm, Kicking & Screaming will screen on Tuesday night in 35mm and Frances Ha plays (digitally) on Wednesday night. Tickets are $5 for general admission and are free for AFF members and Bullock Museum members.
SXSW Review: 7 Chinese Brothers
Austin filmmaker Bob Byington likes to set his films in an environment many of us recognize and understand: the featureless, tidy, chain-populated world of the lower-rent suburbs. His characters often work thankless jobs that actually exist in the real world, often in food service. They live in dumpy rentals, they drive cheap or decrepit cars. Apart from the occasional smartphone or computer, the movies could be set in any time in the past few decades and in any American suburb or small city.
And it's within these almost generic settings that Byington brings us movies about people (young men, generally) who change their lives in small but significant ways -- unexpected events leading to improbable effects. It's a slightly twisted world, but ultimately grounded by mundane surroundings.
In Byington's latest movie, 7 Chinese Brothers, slacker Larry (Jason Schwartzman) is fired from a Buca di Beppo after his bosses catch him enjoying the restaurant's booze. They accuse him of hoarding tips as well, although we never find out whether this is actually true.
SXSW 2015: Elizabeth's Focus on Female Filmmakers Leads Her to DuVernay, Prince-Bythewood
I took the Monday of SXSW off work as soon as I heard Gina Prince-Bythewood was scheduled to appear that day. This was the first SXSW I was drawn to attend any of the conference events at the festival -- usually I just stick to the movies. But getting to hear the director of Beyond the Lights (including one of my favorite performances of the year) speak a couple days after director Ava DuVernay was to deliver a keynote seemed like too much goodness to pass up.
On Saturday, I arrived two hours early for DuVernay's keynote, assuring myself a spot on the (side) front row. My friend Christina and I chatted with other folks in line, talked about other films on our schedule and spied actor Stephen Root walking past the line as the time grew near.
Hearing DuVernay speak was relevatory. You can view her speech below:
Box-Office Alternatives: Idiocracy
If there's one thing a movie starring Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart guarantees, it's mixed-to-negative critical reception and decent-to-stellar audience reaction. Both seem like strong possibilities this Friday with the release of the duo's new comedy Get Hard (2015), in which a wealthy tycoon (Ferrell) insists that his employee (Hart) show him the ins-and-outs of how to survive in prison after he himself is sentenced. Early screenings of Get Hard have brought claims of homophobia and racial stereotyping, yet the popularity of the movie's two stars should be enough to potentially carry the comedy to a healthy run at the box office.
Should Get Hard succeed, it will be another victory for director and co-writer Etan Cohen, who has found success writing such hits as Tropic Thunder and Men In Black 3. Yet for a select few, his collaboration with Mike Judge on the hilarious and somewhat horrifying Idiocracy (2006) remains his best work.
Judge's second live-action film and Cohen's first, Idiocracy told the story of an average army officer named Joe (Texas Film Awards honoree Luke Wilson), who unwillingly becomes the guinea pig for a top-secret experiment. Joe and a local hooker named Rita (Maya Rudolph) are cryogenically frozen for what they believe is a full year. Yet when the pair awaken, they soon realize 500 years have gone by and the world they once knew has been replaced with a corporate-driven society where everyone is quite literally, an idiot. With the help of an "attorney" named Frito (Dax Shepard), Joe and Rita attempt to make sense of the new and mind-numbingly dumb world where they find themselves.
SXSW Review: Rolling Papers
I'm a lifelong non-smoker, and marijuana holds no interest for me, so Mitch Dickman's documentary Rolling Papers would be one of the least likely SXSW screenings to find me in its audience. However, I make a point every year to join friends for at least one or two screenings that I would never have selected myself. It's a great (non-chemical) way to expand the mind, you know? These excursions outside my comfort zone frequently pay off, and the fact you can walk into almost any film at this festival and enjoy yourself is a testament to the SXSW programming staff.
Rolling Papers can be considered as nothing but a complete success. The film is informative, focused and entertaining, generating interest in me for a topic I find generally unappealing. Dickman chose, wisely, to make his film not about recreational marijuana, its legalization in Colorado, or politics -- all tired subjects which have been covered extensively. Instead, his camera is witness to the birth of a ground shift in news coverage.
As newspapers around the country are in the process of closing their doors, the Denver Post takes a chance and assigns entertainment editor Ricardo Baca to create a new section, from the ground up, covering all things pot-related. In short order The Cannabist, as the online section is so cleverly named, is generating publicity, increasing subscriptions and raising eyebrows.
In addition to Baca, Dickman interviews Post editor Greg Moore and Cannabist staff writers including columnist John Wenzel, Jake Browne (reviews) and Brittany Driver (parenting). He also turns a lens on reviewer and photographer Ry Prichard who has distinguished himself as "the biggest weed nerd in town" according to Rolling Stone magazine, and accompanies Prichard to the "Cannabis Cup."
It would be easy to dismiss a marijuana-focused publication as frivolous or fringe, but Rolling Papers documents how Baca has built a serious, high-quality e-zine that even caught the attention of Whoopi Goldberg, who has contributed articles to the site. With contributors covering news, product reviews, recipes, culture and opinion, I find The Cannabist is a respectable publication that serves exactly the mission a news organization is meant to do, namely informing and enlightening its audience. I owe that finding to Mitch Dickman's excellent and entertaining movie.
SXSW Interview: Ron Nyswaner and Mary Louise Wilson, 'She's the Best Thing In It'
Writer/director Ron Nyswaner recently debuted his first documentary feature film at SXSW last week. She's The Best Thing In It follows famous Broadway and television actress Mary Louise Wilson as she teaches a character acting class to a group of college students in New Orleans. I had the chance to sit down with both of them to discuss acting, the filmmaking process, and what it means to live the life of an artist.
Slackerwood: Ron, you're known for these intense narrative stories (a la Philadelphia, The Painted Veil). What drew you to Mary Louise's story and, furthermore, made you decide to do it as a documentary?
Ron Nyswaner: One of the reasons is I could control every aspect of it. I've made my living for many years as a feature film writer and, unlike a playwright, the screenwriter does not often have full creative control. I was able to work with a team that helped me shoot, but a lot of times I was behind the camera, I was getting the footage. And I was ultimately the financier -- those were all my reasons for making it a doc. And Mary Louise and I have a great relationship, we both admire each other's work, and I just thought it would be great fun to work on this together.
SXSW Review: Kingdom of Shadows
The most haunting images in the drug war documentary Kingdom of Shadows are at the film's end. Family members of the "disappeared" -- those who have vanished amid the drug-related violence in Mexico -- stare silently into the camera, the pained but stoic looks on their faces reminding us of the drug war's human toll.
Many documentaries have chronicled the drug war in the U.S. and Mexico, but few have humanized it as poignantly as Kingdom of Shadows. While the film explains some of the politics and history of the endless battle against the drug cartels, it also puts an unforgettable face on the war's tragic effects by focusing on three people caught up in it.
The three defy stereotypes. Sister Consuelo Morales may be a petite nun in her sixties, but she's fierce and fearless in her quest to help families whose loved ones have disappeared. Based in Monterrey -- a Mexican city battered by the cartels -- and founder of the activist group Citizens in Support of Human Rights, she is unafraid to stand toe-to-toe with government officials, pressuring them to find the missing and help the families find justice.
Box-Office Alternatives: I Am Sam
This week sees the release of The Gunman, an actioner starring Sean Penn as a sniper on the run for his life after the assassination job he was hired for goes awry. The film will surely draw in the parents of teens seeking out Insurgent, thereby affording The Gunman a decent performance at the box office.
In looking back through Penn's filmography before writing this, it became evident to me that the incredibly fearless actor has only anchored a number of films throughout his many years in the movies. Moreover, his selectivity toward leading projects and the diversity of his choices make him one of the most chameleon-like actors in film.
Among all of Penn's leading turns, my favorite still remains his Oscar-nominated work in the drama I Am Sam (2001). Penn spent many hours studying the developmentally challenged (to compelling and magical effect) in order to play Sam Dawson, a man with the mind of a child who finds his young daughter Lucy (Dakota Fanning) taken from him after he is declared an unfit parent due to his disability. Through a series of events, Sam meets a high-powered attorney Rita (Michelle Pfeiffer) who agrees to help Sam prove that, regardless of his limitations, he does indeed have the ability to be the father Lucy deserves.


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