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What causes marasmus?
Marasmus is a form of malnutrition in which inadequate amounts of both protein and calories are consumed, resulting in an energy deficit in the body. Marasmus occurs most often in developing nations or in countries where poverty, along with inadequate food supplies and contaminated water, are prevalent. Marasmus often affects children in regions with high rates of poverty, such as Africa, Latin America, and South Asia. However, malnutrition and marasmus can also occur in people in developed countries.
What are the risk factors for marasmus?
A number of factors increase the risk of developing marasmus. Not all people with risk factors will get marasmus. Risk factors for marasmus include:
- Chronic hunger
- Contaminated water supplies
- Inadequate food supplies
- Other vitamin deficiencies (vitamin A, E or K)
- Poor, unbalanced diet lacking in grains, fruits and vegetables, and protein
Reducing your risk of marasmus
A nutritious, well-balanced diet with lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, grains, and protein will reduce the risk of malnutrition and any related marasmus. If the marasmus is related to an underlying disease, then seek appropriate treatment for that disease.
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- Discussing symptoms with your health care provider
- Drinking properly sanitized water
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What is marasmus?
Marasmus is a severe form of malnutrition that consists of the chronic wasting away of fat, muscle, and other tissues in the body. Malnutrition occurs when your body does not get enough protein and calories. This lack of nutrition can range from a shortage of certain vitamins to complete starvation. Marasmus is one of the most serious forms of protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) in the world.
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Quilt National '95 an international exhibition of art quilts that will be on display from May 27 through September 4, 1995 in Athens, Ohio and will then begin a two-year tour of museums and galleries throughout the country.
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Infant feeding and the media: the relationship between Parents' Magazine content and breastfeeding, 1972–2000
University of Minnesota, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, 111 Murphy Hall, 206 Church Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
International Breastfeeding Journal 2006, 1:10 doi:10.1186/1746-4358-1-10Published: 30 April 2006
Mass media content likely influences the decision of women to breastfeed their newborn children. Relatively few studies have empirically assessed such a hypothesis to date, however. Most work has tended to focus either on specific interventions or on broad general commentary about the role of media. In this study, we examined infant feeding advertisements in 87 issues of Parents' Magazine, a popular parenting magazine, from the years 1971 through 1999. We then used content analysis results to predict subsequent changes in levels of breastfeeding among U.S. women. When the frequency of hand feeding advertisements increased, the percentage change in breastfeeding rates reported the next year generally tended to decrease. These results underscore the need to acknowledge the potential role of popular media content in understanding breastfeeding patterns and public health trends.


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All the right questions: Sir David Frost passed away in August. During a long and esteemed career Frost became known for his television interviews with senior political figures, among them The Nixon Interviews with former President Richard Nixon in 1977 in which he got Nixon to admit that he had 'let down the country.' In 2008 the interviews were adapted into a hit film starring Michael Sheen. Fellow veteran interviewer Sir Michael Parkinson would later hail Frost as being 'a huge influence' on him and an 'entire generation of journalists'


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Long wait over as Southern reaches final
Southern coach Adrian Jones has waited seven years to get his Spartans to a state football championship game.
But the wait last week leading up to Southern's 38-10 win over Wilson Hunt was especially long for Jones. With Southern hosting the fourth-round game _ the Eastern Regional championship _ it was the caretaker of the championship and runner-up trophies.
Jones said he had almost all week to look at the trophies and he knew which one he wanted the most.And on Friday night he got the championship trophy.
"They sent us the trophies on Tuesday and I've been looking at it the whole time," Jones said. "I said I didn't want anything but this regional championship trophy and now we've got it."
Southern's victory also ensured it of a trip to the 3-AA championship game, the first in school history. The Spartans will take on Shelby Crest on Saturday at 7:30 p.m., at Winston-Salem's BB&T Field.
Jones and the Spartans had been close to making the championship game before. Southern reached the fourth round of the playoffs in 2007 during Jones' first season as coach. But they came up short against Wilmington Hoggard in the 4-A division.
There was little doubt about Southern's march through the playoffs this season, though.
The first three rounds brought rematches against Big Eight Conference foes. The Spartans dominated Chapel Hill in the first round but had closer rematches against Cardinal Gibbons and Orange.
And after three weeks of familiar foes, Southern finally played a team it knew little or nothing about. Jones complimented his coaching staff for developing a game-plan from only what they had seen on video.
"We've got a great coaching staff," Jones said. "They broke down the film and found the weaknesses. I can't say anything more than they are the best."
The Spartans (13-2) failed to score at least 30 points only once this season — their season-opening 29-24 loss to Hillside. And in their only other loss, the Spartans accorded themselves well against Scotland County, another 4-A powerhouse, despite falling 53-31.
Southern's defense also has been rising to the occasion.
The Spartans shut out Hunt in the second half after briefly trailing 10-9 midway through the second quarter. Southern forced four turnovers — two fumbles and two interceptions _ and also blocked a punt that was returned for a touchdown in the second half against Hunt.
Southern's defense also came up with big plays against Orange and Gibbons. Marvin Tillman's 70-yard interception return for a touchdown against Orange ended up being the difference on the scoreboard in Southern's third-round 31-24 victory. And against Gibbons in the second round, Southern's defense held on the final play of the game.
Southern, which has won its last 12 games, will need both units to be at their best on Saturday. The Spartans will face Crest, which earned its spot in the championship game by beating three-time defending 3-AA champion Northern Guilford.


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When the temperatures rise, nothing feels better than hitting the cool, refreshing water for a good swimming workout in the pool. However, like most sports, research and technology are constantly changing swimming technique. If you haven't kept up with the changes in the last decade, you can probably use a little help to swim faster with less effort.
There are many changes to basic freestyle, which may look like the same stroke you learned years ago, but in reality it is totally different. Here are a few tips to think about when you hit the water this summer:
1. Change your body and head position. You want to maintain a neutral spine and neck position at all times. In order to do this, your eyes should be looking directly at the bottom below you with only the crown of your head out of the water. Due to the proximity of your lungs, you will need to apply pressure to the upper portion of the body, (the air in our lungs is what makes us float) which will, at first, make you feel like you are swimming downhill. This will give you a nice, level body position so you can skim your body across the top of the water rather than drag the lower half of your body through the water like a barge.
2. Add hip rotation. You should never be flat on your stomach when swimming freestyle. I like to use the analogy of the spine and head as the axis of our body. Your hips and shoulders (hips lead) are going to partially rotate around the axis of your body with each arm stroke giving you more power, a more aerodynamic position, and a more efficient arm pull and recovery.
3. Put emphasis on the front portion of the stroke. When I learned to swim, many years ago, the emphasis for the pull portion of the stroke was on the finish. Today's swimmers put the emphasis on the front portion of the stroke. While one arm is initiating the pull with a high bent elbow and no bend at the wrist, allowing the entire hand and forearm to catch water, the other arm is in a long straight glide position in front of the shoulder. This will put the swimmer in a nice, streamline, aerodynamic position to glide the body through with each powerful stroke.
4. Keep your hand in a natural position. The hand should be in a nice natural position, no curling fingers, no bent wrist, no pressing the fingers together. The hand should enter the water fingertips first, not thumb or pinky finger first. Your hand should be directly in front of your shoulder, not in front of your head. Again many years ago, we crossed over center line, now we never cross center line. On the entry and pull portion of the arm movement the hand should stay in line or even slightly outside the shoulder.
These are just a few tips to get you started swimming. Take one tip at a time and work at it until you think you have it, rather than trying to incorporate all of the changes at once. Most importantly, get in the water and enjoy its natural invigorating, soothing and relaxing qualities.
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Im currently 35 weeks with my first child and am wondering if I should go ahead and order a nursing bra or wait a bit?
I started out pregnancy as a 44dd and am still wearing that size, my boobs have not really gotten bigger...they just kind of...inflated a bit?
Im wanting to order now while I have the money set aside but Im worried they will explode at the last minute or something lol.
Should I order a 46dd or something to be on the safe side?
What system are you using to calculate your bra size? Are you adding anything to the band size measurement?
For proper fit, you shouldn't add anything to the band size measurement, and should round DOWN to the nearest band size if you're an odd number.
Your band size probably wouldn't increase in pregnancy, but your cup size would.
mother to micro-preemie DD1 and 2E PG DD2. Stepmother to trans DSD. Owned by a! Pregnant and due 6th June '12.
What system are you using to calculate your bra size? Are you adding anything to the band size measurement?
For proper fit, you shouldn't add anything to the band size measurement, and should round DOWN to the nearest band size if you're an odd number.
Your band size probably wouldn't increase in pregnancy, but your cup size would.
Um...I just know that all my bra's are currently 44dd's and I fit nicely, if a bit more snuggly into them currently...I know nothing about bra sizing and Im not going to go get sized by some strange lady at a department store...I have body issues.
So 44 is the band size and dd is the cup right? So I would want to go up to a 44ddd if I needed to make room?
You can size yourself at home, it's easy! http://www.wikihow.com/Measure-Your-Bra-Size is a good guide.
Yes, 44 is the band and DD is the cup. The size above DD is either a DDD or an F cup depending on the brand (women's clothing, including bras, aren't standardized with size...annoying, isn't it?) so you may want to try buy your nursing bras in an F cup.
mother to micro-preemie DD1 and 2E PG DD2. Stepmother to trans DSD. Owned by a! Pregnant and due 6th June '12.
You really really can't predict what your post-partum self will be like. And engorgement is a short time and then you get a better picture.
This is awesome post partum, during engorgement, and after as a casual/sleeping bra. http://www.medelabreastfeedingus.com/products/intimate-apparel/461/comfort-nursing-bra-white
I would wait until a few weeks post partum to order.
Oooh this is what I did because I had to order/buy during pregnancy, too ... I got a clasp expander for the back - I found that my cuppage didn't grow so much as my band size did. So I got one of those seamless Bravado bras that have the clasp in the back and cup is variable more or less. I went from a 36/38 to a 40/42 - I think mostly cuz I like it to feel looser now :) Having the expander works great for me.
Mama to boy born 7/18/11 and another on the way in November '13
I prefer to wait until after I give birth to buy any kind of nursing wear, just to save the hassle of returns :)
where are you giving birth? i had a horrible time in hospital because i stayed longer than i expected and didn't have a nursing bra. which i absolutely needed. at least get a tank or something.. if you're unsure of size. also, i tend to not know what size bra to get ever, and i got a bravado seamless silk? that just has sizes like l, xl, etc. and they have worked well throughout pregnancy and postpartum etc for me. though i am not as large as some mamas so i don't need a very high level of support, either.
i'd just seriously recommend getting something, even if it is just a tank so that you have something if you need it (or if you homebirth and have to transfer..)
Is it getting lonely in the echo chamber yet?
I second having one nursing bra available when you deliver, even if you are having a birth center or hospital birth. I was home four hours after I delivered, but didn't have a nursing bra and on day three BOOM my boobs exploded. Engorgement is no fun without a bra. So, if you can't imagine sending your husband bra shopping for you, have one on hand. I like the tank idea for this purpose. On the other hand, I wouldn't buy more than one. Good nursing bras are expensive, and you can't completely predict what will fit postpartum.
Best wishes for a wonderful birth!
wife to DH, mom to 7/4/2011 and 11/6/13.
For what's it worth, I stressed about this same issue when I was pregnant and never ended up really using the nursing bras I bought. I would maybe have a cheap, comfortable one on-hand for the first week or two after your baby is born. But I LIVED in my nursing tanks (still do, and my son is over 9 months old). Most of the nursing bras I bought just never really fit me quite right. Throughout the early months of BFing, I found that my body/boob size just changed so much while my milk supply was regulating, I was losing baby weight, even my rib cage seemed to get smaller over time, etc., so this all affected how bras fit me. But the nursing tanks were heavenly and much more forgiving. I ended up buying a bunch at Target about 2 weeks postpartum when I could actually try them on, and then I just wore them 24/7. They are great because they can act like tanks that you would wear under cardigans, etc., but then you don't have to fumble much with your clothing when you are out. And at home, when I wasn't just topless the first few weeks due to sore nipples, I found that wearing the tanks kept me warm but gave me easy access. In my opinion, I don't know if it is all that possible to find the perfect-fitting nursing bra when you are still pregnant.
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Posted on March 26, 2011 By Bill Mesce Cinema 101, Editor's Picks, Mesce on Movies & TV
Trying to get Hollywood to change direction is not unlike trying to steer an elephant by poking it in its thick-hided ass with a matchstick; it doesn't exactly respond like a Maserati.
And that's a problem because there are some box office signs suggesting the American movie industry needs – may, in fact, desperately need, and soon – to change the path it's been cannon-balling along on since the late 1970s. Unfortunately, Hollywood's history suggests nobody should hold their breath waiting for someone to turn the wheel until after that bus has gone over a cliff. American moviemaking is great at glomming on to technological innovation – Dolby sound, 3-D, CGI — anything that brings in a crowd by offering a showier show. The industry's track record on what to do when the crowd stops coming — on divining and interpreting and appropriately responding to changes in the cultural landscape — is, however, a bit less auspicious.
Sixty-five years ago, Hollywood was in a somewhat similar situation to the one that might be a-brewing now, and the industry response to that earlier circumstance was, by any measure, disastrous. The cultural signals were misread, the disconnect between studio management and the ticket-buying public near total, and the net impact devastating and long-term. It would take three decades for Hollywood to crawl out of the hole. Based on the movies the majors are making these days and seem committed to keep making, and who is – and isn't – coming to see them, despite the GPS screaming "Recalibrating! Recalibrating!" the powers that be appear delusionally committed to driving over that same damned precipice once again.
Going into 1945, the reigning kings of the motion picture industry had every reason to feel good about future prospects. They had weathered fifteen tough years of economic turmoil and war. By the mid-40s, they had more than reclaimed the viewership lost during The Depression, with average weekly attendance hitting an all-time high of 84 million in 1943 and, again, in 1944.
Think of it: 84 million…in a country with a population of about 130 million with over 15 million of them off in uniform fighting World War II. Granted, the number doesn't take into account repeat viewers, but it was the equivalent of two of every three human beings in the United States going to the movies each week. The expectation was things were only going to get better when the Great Crusade was over and those 15 million men and women in service came home.
As predictions go, it was about as wrong as wrong could be.
World War II ended in August of 1945. By the end of that same year, despite the troops beginning to come home, attendance dropped. Not a lot, but enough to notice, from 84 million to 82 million.
If the studio honchos were hoping it was just a minor blip, it was a hope thoroughly dashed the following year as attendance dropped again…and kept dropping. Except for some modest upticks in the mid-50s, attendance wouldn't stop falling for another decade and a half, finally bottoming out in 1973 at 17 million admissions per week.
Think of it: 17 million…in a country with a population of 200 million. The movies had gone from an entertainment visited weekly by two out of every three people, to one attended by maybe one in 12.
The massive loss of audience in the postwar years is often attributed to the introduction of a then new-fangled form of home entertainment called "television," but the fact is attendance was dropping – and dropping steeply – even before there was much television to watch or many people to watch it. In 1947, network prime time programming barely measured more than a couple of hours a night, rarely on more than one network at a time, yet weekly movie attendance had already fallen to 73 million. By 1950, the four then networks (ABC, CBS, DuMont, NBC) were managing to provide a full prime time slate, but still, only 9% of American homes had a TV set, yet weekly attendance had nosedived by over a third from the 1943-44 peak to 55 million. TV ownership wouldn't hit the 50% mark for another four years by which time admissions were already down to 47 million per week.
Obviously, those early losses were about more than people staying home to watch Uncle Miltie and The $64,000 Question.
So…what happened?
In the 1940s and through much of the 1950s (and in some cases, even into the 1960s), the major studios were still being run by the men who'd made the majors major in the teens and '20s: people like Louie Mayer at MGM, the Warner brothers at their eponymous studio, Adolph Zukor at Paramount, Harry Cohn at Columbia. For over three decades, these one-time street peddlers and hustling salesmen had been perfectly attuned to the movie-going public: people like those from the urban neighborhoods where they'd grown up – working stiffs, immigrants and children of immigrants, a half-educated, not particularly sophisticated blue collar populace which usually liked its entertainment simple and fun.
The problem for the old movie moguls was that the public they knew so well stopped coming to the movies. Some had aged out of movie-going, while others…
The war had changed the way people saw the world, particularly those 15 million men and women who'd come home in 1945. They'd seen a side of the human story Hollywood had rarely shown, and that made it hard to swallow the sugar and glitz which, for so long, had been the movies' stock and trade.
Besides, those returnees didn't have time for movies. They came home to start working, again, to re-embrace their families or to start one. Millions went back to school on the GI Bill, bought first homes, entered job training. They were busy launching the country on the most prosperous time in its history. The movies could wait.
So, who was going to the movies?
Young people. Teens. Kids. Hollywood's own late-40s research told them that even at that time the majority of ticket-buyers were 21 and under.
Only this was a new breed of young people, a breed the country had never seen before.
Before the war, most teens never finished high school. Their awareness of a world beyond the horizon was, generally, limited and parochial. By the time they were 18, they often already had full-time jobs, and, not uncommonly, were supporting a family.
But after the war, teens finished school, many went on to college. They knew about rockets and atomic power and the Cold War. They had more leisure time and, from either allowances and/or part-time jobs, money in their pockets; money to spend.
The moguls running the studios looked at these kids, looked at their well-educated, financially cushy suburban middle class white collar families…and didn't get it. They were still making movies for that urban working class they'd grown up with, but those people were coming less and less.
The studios made big splashy musicals and big splashy epics, they started slapping bold color on their wider screens trying to beat TV by out-sizing and out-dazzling the little box. Oh, the studios could still score a huge hit with good ol' fashioned Hollywood tale-tellin' i.e. Cecil B. DeMille epics like The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) and The Ten Commandments (1956), tuneful musicals like South Pacific (1958) and White Christmas (1953), Mike Todd's globe-trotting star-studded cameo showcase Around the World in 80 Days (1956), the grand scale soap opera Giant (1956), and the like. But the hits didn't balance out the losses, and nearly every year fewer people went to the movies.
The Old Hollywooders looked at Marlon Brando and saw a mumbler, but the kids got him, identified with his surliness, and made him a star. They did the same thing with James Dean, feeling in synch with his tortured teen outsider in Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and East of Eden (1955), and made him an icon. They dug the seamy shadow world of the new noirs and the sleepy-eyed sexuality of a Bad Boy like Robert Mitchum. The first generation of the Space Age and Atomic Age, they launched the sci fi craze in print and screen and mystified the studio bosses by turning cheapies like Them! (1954) and The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) and The Blob (1958) into box office chart toppers.
There were moviemakers who did connect with the kids; carnival barkers like William Castle, or a simpatico like Roger Corman whose schlocky low-budget monster pics somehow spoke to them in their own generational voice.
But Old Hollywood didn't talk to them, didn't hear them, didn't even recognize their language. The industry didn't stabilize until the old kings had died, retired, been sidelined or ousted. And even then, the movie business didn't truly begin to recover until the mid-1970s.
With Jaws (1975), Steven Spielberg showed the majors what they'd been missing; that summer wasn't just a dumping ground for low-budget Frankie Avalon/Annette Funicello beach junk for the kids home on summer vacation. Rather, it was a gold mine, an unbelievably rich mother lode capable of producing more money than Hollywood had ever dreamed any one movie could earn in a single release. That year, total box office broke the $2 billion mark for the first time.
But a better lesson – a lesson that took deep root and became Hollywood's road map for the next 30 years – came from George Lucas and Star Wars (1977) which helped push total box office past $2 billion for the second time to a then record $2.3 billion. Make the right kind of movie – big, fantastic, simplistic, packed with dazzle and action – and you could get the kids in in droves, get them coming back time and again. Particularly young males. They'd come two and three times (even more for the right flick), and if you nurtured the franchise, invested in it instead of turning out cheapie sequels which had been Hollywood's usual penchant, they'd come back to the follow-ups two and three times, and they'd buy the books (people still read for fun in those days) and the albums (as well as bought albums – on vinyl, no less), the games and toys and collectible action figures. Later, they'd buy the VHS tapes and then DVDs, and you could package and repackage franchise installments in sets and special editions and Director's Cuts ad infinitum ad nauseum, and they'd shell out for all of it. They'd watch the TV spin-offs and buy all their related merchandise. Still later and even more lucratively, they'd also pay for the videogame, and then videogames of the sequels and the TV spinoffs and on and on and on.
Star Wars opened Hollywood's Golden Gate to a parade of space adventures and superheroes, wizards and action fests of greater and greater and more overwhelming scale, each successful franchise its own little multi-faceted cottage industry fueled by the contents of fanboy pockets. The road to monstrous box office riches ran not through Cannes, but now through Comic-Con. The industry had learned the lesson so quickly and so well, that by the time Warner Bros. picked up the film rights for J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels in the late 1990s, two years before the first film hit the screen every division at Warners was mapping out marketing and ancillary strategies for the movies 10 years out!
Attendance and box office stirred from the doldrums of the early 1970s and year by year the new Hollywood chieftains breathed easier and easier as they toted up higher and higher receipts. By 1980, attendance was back up to nearly 20 million per week and total box office for the year stood at $2.7 billion; by 1990, nearly 23 million tickets were being sold weekly and total b.o. had almost doubled to $5 billion; 2000 and weekly attendance had climbed to 27.5 million and annual box office to $7.7 billion.
The attendance high water mark was 2002 with 30.3 million tickets sold each week; maybe still pitiful by Old Hollywood standards, but a hell of an improvement over 1973's basement-dwelling numbers.
Then in 2003, the bad news started to come in.
It wasn't steady — there'd be upticks here and there – but a definite southward trend developed in attendance numbers. By 2010, weekly attendance had slipped to 27.8 million; a drop of almost 10% from 2002's crest.
Perhaps more threatening, movie-going among young males – the financial cornerstone of the revived Hollywood – was also on a downward slide, with 2010 attendance among 18-24 year-olds off more than 12% from 2009. The industry was still able to shore up box office earnings with inflated prices and surcharges for 3-D exhibitions (2010 box office was the second highest on record), but it didn't change the fundamental problem – the same ailment the industry had faced but couldn't diagnose in 1945 – that fewer people were coming to the movies.
So…what's happening?
It may be that in hanging its box office door on the young male demo, Hollywood hung its economic fate on one hinge, and now the screws in that hinge are loosening.
A number of film writers have speculated that the movie industry, as one critic put it, is chasing "…after a generation that would rather be on the social network than watch (the movie)." It can't be a coincidence that the critically-reviled, youth-skewing Battle: Los Angeles, with an audience 68% male, ruled the box office on its opening weekend ($35.6 million), with both pans and its few positives likening it less to a story-driven movie than to a shooter-driven videogame.
But Hollywood's problem might be bigger than how to tap into the gamer sensibility. It may be the more unbeatable one of fundamental demographic change.
Looking at attendance figures from the late 1970s on, as a percentage of population they never rose much above 10% (as opposed to 1943/44 where attendance equaled 64%), a stasis suggesting much of Hollywood's appeal was to the same demographically-limited audience, with those aging out more or less replaced by those aging in.
The economic revival of Hollywood begun in the 1970s was built on a Baby Boomer demographic; the largest generational cohort in the country. It's still the largest generational cohort in the country, only now its youngest members qualify for AARP membership. Combined with seniors, there are now more older people than younger in the U.S. The generations coming up behind the Boomers – Xers, Yers, Millennials, whatever you want to call them – are significantly fewer in number.
In other words, fewer young people – including young males – may be going to the movies simply because there are fewer young people – including fewer young males.
Which, as much as a changing sensibility, may be why 2010 weekly attendance numbers represented only about 9% of the population.
Think of it: in a country of 307 million people, Hollywood attracts less than one in ten to the movies each week.
But, at the same time fewer young people are going to the movies, more older people seem to be buying tickets.
Two thousand ten produced a bumper crop of the kind of drama/character-driven movies which typically skew toward an older audience. Though many were the type of movies which usually only find a home on the art house circuit, their returns were hardly art house returns, and with budgets well below the average for a major studio release (in 2010, $65 million excluding marketing costs), they were enormously profitable by any measure.
Consider how the rate of return for the top "grown-up" movies of 2010 – some of which are still in release and still earning — stacks up against that of the top-earning big budget flicks:
Domestic gross budget
(in millions)
True Grit $170 38
The King's Speech $133 15
Black Swan $106 13
The Social Network $97 40
The Fighter $93 25
The Town $92 37
Alice in Wonderland 334 200
Iron Man 2 312 200
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse 301 68
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Part 1 295 250
Inception 293 160
Tron Legacy 171 170
Collectively, the older-skewing flicks returned four bucks in domestic release for every dollar spent, as opposed to a nearly one-to-one return for movies aimed at the fanboys.
And it's not like the gray-templed and blue rinse crowd is exclusively wedded to brooding, downbeat serious dramas. They like their fun, too – as long as it's tuned to their sensibilities. Older ticket buyers pushed the $58 million actioner Red to a domestic gross of over $90 million, no doubt because they enjoyed watching fellow AARPers kick ass i.e. Bruce Willis (56 years young), John Malkovich (58), Hellen Mirren (66 and still smokin'), Morgan Freeman (74), Brian Cox (65), and Ernest Borgnine (older than dirt at 94). The genre-jumbled thriller The Adjustment Bureau was the top-earning live-action release when it opened March 11 ($21.2 million for the weekend) with nearly three-quarters of its audience in the 30-and-up age range.
It should be said it's entirely possible the strong showing of many older-skewing films released around the turn of the year might have been due to the majors putting out such a horrible holiday season slate (which included The Tourist, Yogi Bear, Gulliver's Travels in tail-end 2010, and Season of the Witch and The Dilemma in January 2011). Certainly, there were a number of critically praised movies of the Black Swan/The Fighter ilk released within the same span whose box office was more art house typical i.e. Winter's Bone ($6.5 million), Blue Valentine ($9.6 million), Rabbit Hole ($2.2 million). And, some truly crappy movies aimed at the young audience did the kind of business the majors always hope youth-targeted crappy movies will do i.e. The Clash of the Titans ($163 million), Grown Ups ($162 million), Little Fockers ($148 million), The Last Airbender ($132 million), and Due Date ($101 million). The surge in grown-up heavy earners could be just a flash squall, a blip in the graph line, what Hollywood likes to refer to as "a non-recurring phenomenon."
And, in the interest of full disclosure, it should also be pointed out that those big budget effects fests typically do blockbuster business overseas and in ancillary markets, and that they have merchandising possibilities open to them more adult films don't. After all, it's not like people are going to storm toy stores to buy King's Speech action figures of George VI that stutter when you squeeze their foot.
Which would explain the apparent thinking behind Hollywood's tactical response to the situation which is to draft every caped crusader, masked superhero, comic book figure they can find and give him (it's almost always a him) an expensive, effects-packed shove on to the silver screen. There'll be another Batman, another Iron Man, more X-Men, a rebooted Spider-Man, a rebooted Daredevil, a re-rebooted Superman, Green Lantern (for this year with an estimated budget of $150 million), Thor ($150 million), Captain America: The First Avenger ($140 million), and The Avengers in 2012 which will fold Marvel Comics' A-list of superheroes all into one flick. That's not to mention another Star Trek, and more pirates cruising the Caribbean.
If, however, you are of the mind that what's going on is more than a non-recurring phenomenon, then this is like watching a blackjack player in the hole trying to pull himself out by doubling down on the same kinds of cards that put him in the hole in the first place.
It's still early in the year, but it's beginning to look like the majors might want to re-think their more-of-the-same thinking. The $120 million The Green Hornet stalled with a box office under $100 million, Season of the Witch died in the starting gate at $25 million, some sci fiers for the tweener set – I am Number Four and Beastly – are also heading down the tubes, The Hangover wannabe Hall Pass seems to be stumbling, and Red Riding Hood – the first in a series of fairy tale adaptations trying to jump on the Alice in Wonderland wagon – is dying on its feet (still to come: Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, Jack the Giant Killer, and no less than three takes on Snow White). And – here's the punchline – attendance is down so far this year…again.
"Recalibrating! Recalibrating!" is going unheard because, again, someone seems to be asleep at the wheel. Or worse, the driver is convinced, "I know where I'm going."
- Bill Mesce
000 Fathoms, Around the World in 80 Days, Battle: Los Angeles, Black Swan, Captain America The First Avenger, Cecil B. DeMille, East of Eden, Giant, King's Speech, Rebel Without A Cause, Star Trek, Star Wars, The Avengers, The Beast from 20, The Blob, The Fighter, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Social Network, The Ten Commandments, The Town, Thor, True Grit
Bill Mesce, Jr. is a produced screenwriter and playwright, and a published author of fiction and nonfiction, including Overkill: The Rise and Fall of Thriller Cinema. He spent 27 years with pay-TV giant Home Box Office, and now teaches at several universities in his native New Jersey.
Part of the reason for my last comment; I find it interesting why people would not call Star Wars "a comic book movie" when I have gone into a convenience store (not a comic book store) and seen a spinner rack full of Star Wars comic books, and seen a supermarket stock Star Wars comic books. The convenience store had had at least one Conan comic book a while earlier, but I did not see one later. The store did not have any Zorro, Doc Savage, the Green Hornet, etc. comic books on the shelves.Reply
"Which would explain the apparent thinking behind Hollywood's tactical response to the situation which is to draft every caped crusader, masked superhero, comic book figure they can find and give him (it's almost always a him) an expensive, effects-packed shove on to the silver screen".
Incidentally, I thought I would note that I find it interesting if you exclude comic strip heroes such as Flash Gordon and the Phantom, radio heroes such as the Lone Ranger, pulp heroes such as Zorro, Conan, the Shadow and Doc Savage, what sort of averages for comic book based films would you arrive at? I find it amusing that pre-late 1930's properties such as Zorro and the Shadow sometimes find themselves lumped in as "comic book movies" yet people do not seem to often under that rubric include Star Wars (inspired by Flash Gordon), Robocop (inspired by Iron Man), etc.Reply
By WW II, for the price of a movie ticket you got an A feature, a B feature, a cartoon or comedy short, an episode from a serial, and a newsreel. When you got a night at the movies, you literally got a whole night at the movies. It's doubtful anyone was sitting through all that for the sake of a 5-minute newsreel. Keep in mind that attendance had been climbing even before we got into the war.
People had money in their pockets for the first time in a decade and a half, there was near full employment (both factors because of war industries), gas rationing meant looking for entertainment close to home, with many factories working three shifts some cities were hopping 24 hours a day. In short, a number of factors were driving attendance just as no one factor was responsible for its erosion.
The WW2 numbers had little to do with newsreel footage. Most people got updates from the newspapers. The news was included with the price of attending the film.
Today film moguls miss the point. Iron Man was good because the story and direction were brilliant. The sequel failed because it was more important to showcase Scarlett Johansen's cleavage than feature a good plot. Just look to the X-Men franchise, rather than #3 serving as a horrible warning, the studios consider it a banner to bring in more characters, bigger explosions, and better looking (read, younger) actors.Reply
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tadpole7, Donna Soldridge, Barry's mom, revealed the connection when she testified on Tuesday. That article can be found here:
Mr. Williamson claims court records have not accurately listed his age before - they indicate he would be only 19 now, but says he is 20. He also did not finish high school, which I will include in the post.
Williamson claims he pre-enlisted at the age of 17, and enlisted and began boot camp in South Carolina soon after turning 18. Adding the time for boot camp, his tour, his few months home and the time in prison could still place him at 20, although he would be close to his 21st birthday.
It's Northampton County Judge Emil Giordano
Easton911, thank you for your comment.
I did include the actual plea in the post - Mr. Barker pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and a separate drug charge. If you click on the link, it takes you to the article on the plea hearing.
In no way am I minimizing the crime, but I am stating the final outcome of the case, which is relevant here because he is appealing that outcome.
The charge carries an absolute maximum of two years in prison, but under the state sentencing guidelines that is an aggravated sentence for someone with Torres' criminal record. The guidelines normally recommend a lesser sentence than the maximum.
That does not mean Torres may not get the maximum sentence; it means the judge would need to cite aggravating factors for giving him the max.
Sexual assault can be any unwanted sexual contact, even through clothes, without a person's consent.
The board members are appointed by the county executive, and as of Tuesday Executive John Stoffa said he asked Robinson whether he would leave the board or not. If Robinson refuses, I don't know what the next step would be - either the county executive or county council taking action if they want.
gypsysevyn, the sentencing paperwork stated he was sent to county prison, so we reported that, but later in the day the judge entered an order sending him to state prison. We corrected the article.
Easton911, Northampton County's policy has been ARD is only granted twice - once for DUI-related, and once for other criminal charges. If a prosecutor cannot find records of a previous ARD case, a defendant may be granted ARD again, but I have only seen that happen once.
skundo, the headline on this web post was written by me, stating that Ms. Bartos is Mr. Bruneo's girlfriend. The erroneous headline in the newspaper was written by a copy editor and I have notified an editor of the mistake.
As for what's contained in the article, it is based on the PFA record, which was based on Mr. Bruneo's own account of what happened that night.
sommgirl, the information in this article is based on Mr. Bruneo's PFA application and Ms. Bartos' arrest record. Mr. Bruneo was contacted for comment and has not reached out to me in any way. Since you state you are a friend of his, I would ask that if there are mistakes that he contact me himself at 610-258-7171 ext. 3456 or by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com
honestly29, we're waiting to hear the center's decision on where Marshall will be placed. As soon as we know, we'll report it.
lorwar, I had heard Sunrays offered to adopt Marshall after Ms. Jantzen's offer was rebuffed. Other commenters had said that Sunrays and Passion for Paws offered to adopt him and/or train Marshall.
I have no doubt that Victory House does do good things for struggling individuals -- but in this case they may be breaking their mission. The public is informed on their website that the shelter does not take residents with sex crimes convictions - if Mr. Byrd is living there, then that is not true.
As for HIPAA, that does not cover residency information at a shelter. So while officials claimed that was why they could not confirm if Mr. Byrd is living there, they then backtracked and cited confidentiality. People, especially those who would consider supporting the shelter, should know that.
You can call me names, question my background and claim that I am "that low of a 'reporter'", but nothing will keep me from continuing to report information like this to the public -- even if you don't like hearing it.
There is no assumption on my part about Mr. Byrd's victim -- his criminal record, which I viewed in person, shows his conviction for statutory sexual assault. He was 35 when he had sex with a 15-year-old, and thus broke the law.
As for the shelter - their mission states they do not accept residents with sex crime convictions. If Mr. Byrd is living at the shelter, then they are breaking their mission. People should know that.
Northampton County courthouse is buzzing with people who felt the earthquake and others who had no idea it happened.
Elle Ess, the reason I reported this incident is because the prison was on lockdown - a very serious procedure that indicates a safety concern at a building that houses almost 1,000 criminals. I cover the county, including the prison, and I'm not in the business of keeping information away from the public.
You are right that items can be made into weapons, and the fact that the spatula has not been found must be concerning to inmates who may fear for their safety.
fezik23, sorry about the mistake. It's been fixed.
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Jon_Booper_570, The family told me they were assured Marshall would not be euthanized, and that they would not have returned him to the center if that was a possibility - I included their quotes in the post above.
I tried to ask the shelter about the case, but they have refused to speak with me. If you work or volunteer for the center, I would love to speak with you on the record about the process the family went through when they returned Marshall. I can be reached at 610-268-7171 ext. 3456.


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Utterance Maintenance and Reprogramming Deficits in Hypokinetic Dysarthria
K Spencer, M Rogers
There are neurophysiological, limb motor control and motor speech indications that the basal ganglia control circuit is involved in the programming of movement. Specifically, the basal ganglia are thought to play an integral role in keeping programming representations active during the preparation and execution of actions, and in facilitating the rapid transitions that occur during sequential movements. Despite the support of a massive literature, few studies have investigated the utterance programming abilities of individuals with hypokinetic dysarthria from Parkinson's disease. Manipulations of a priming paradigm provided a means to test the hypothesis that programming disruption occurs during (1) the maintenance of an utterance or (2) the rapid clearing and reprogramming of a novel utterance. Ten speakers with hypokinetic dysarthria/dysphonia, fifteen control participants and five participants with ataxic dysarthria completed this experiment. The results provided support for the hypothesized utterance programming deficits in speakers with hypokinetic dysarthria. That is, several participants exhibited speech reaction time patterns suggestive of compromised clearing or maintenance of the prime word. These patterns were not evidenced by the control participants or the participants with ataxic dysarthria, suggesting that this protocol may be sensitive to the specific programming aberrations of individuals with basal ganglia control circuit disruption.


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For calendar 2009, most Superior Court felony matters are heard in the following courtrooms. (Duties are typically assigned for one-year periods, beginning each January).
In 2013, the Superior Court Presiding Department (Plea Judge) is Judge Ellen Clark, courtroom room #400. The Judicial Assistant is Tracy Pilkington at 477-6006.
Most pleas, sentencing's and motions are heard at the Chief Criminal Judge, Hon. James Triplet, courtroom #403. The Judicial Assistant is Mary Bennett at 477-5713.
The Superior Court Drug Court Judge is the Hon. Harold Clarke, courtroom #405. The Judicial Assistant is Linda Sutton at 477-5717.
You can view on-line dockets for these judges, including specific clients and the time of their hearings, at http://www.spokanecounty.org/SCCalendars/. (On this calendar, the Presiding judge is called the "Plea Judge," and the Criminal Presiding judge is called the "Chief Criminal Judge.")


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Council approves arena improvements
HUNTINGTON -- Another phase of improvements at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena won approval Tuesday from Huntington City Council.
The ordinance the council approved by a unanimous vote authorizes $853,000 in projects, including adding a family restroom in the lobby area, building a new catering room and turning the old catering room into a VIP room, and renovating the conference center to add three meeting rooms, two of which will have Smart Board technology.
The projects will be funded by $4.7 million in economic development recovery bond proceeds approved by the council in 2010. The federally backed bonds already have paid for new seating and a new heating system.
Arena General Manager Brian Sipe told council members during a work session last week there should be enough bond proceeds left over to renovate the plaza in front of the arena and improve the box office and ticket windows.
In other business Tuesday, the council unanimously approved the second reading of an ordinance authorizing a transfer of 5.3 acres of land at the Deitz Hollow landfill from the city to the Huntington Urban Renewal Authority. The Authority will sell the land and use the proceeds to help pay for supplemental environmental projects required by the Environmental Protection Agency to resolve a fine.
The 2011 fine cited a failure of the city to address illicit discharges, runoff from construction sites, post-construction storm water runoff and pollution from city-owned facilities.
The fine was reduced from $156,000 to $15,000, provided the city move forward with "supplemental" storm water projects to decrease runoff.
In a related matter, the council also unanimously approved the second reading of an ordinance addressing illicit storm water discharges and establishing best management practices. The ordinance also was strongly recommended by the EPA when it levied the fine last year.
During the good and welfare portion of the meeting, Gary Ward, president of Classic Construction, presented the Huntington Fire Department with 100 smoke alarms to distribute to residents. Ward said his company will donate 100 smoke alarms each year for four more years to the department.
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Geometry with an Introduction to Cosmic Topology, written by Michael Hitchman, is a masterfully written textbook, notable for its clarity of exposition, balance of breadth and depth, and exceptionally motivating theme… after all, what could be more compelling than studying fundamental properties of the universe?
Hitchman describes Cosmic Topology as "the effort to determine the shape of our universe through observational techniques." The geometry of our universe may be Euclidean, Hyperbolic, or Elliptic. To present a unified framework for these various geometries, the author embraces Felix Klein's "Erlangen Program." This approach to geometry begins with a space and a group of transformations; it is determined what properties are preserved by these transformations, and these properties (for example, length, angle, incidence, or cross-ratio) become the objects of study. For students, this may initially seem "backwards" compared to Euclid's approach to geometry, which begins by defining the objects of study and the axioms they satisfy. However, through the course of this text, it becomes apparent that Klein's program yields great dividends.
Naturally, the text begins with complex numbers, providing a thorough treatment of complex arithmetic, standard form (a + bi) and polar form (reiθ), and complex equations for lines and circles. Following this is a chapter discussing complex transformations: general linear transformations (which include translations, rotations, and dilations), reflection across lines, inversion in circles, and Möbius transformations. The reader will find a balanced treatment of computational and theoretical material, and the author stays true to the theme of the Erlangen Program (for example, proving that rotations and translations preserve angles and Euclidean distance).
Readers are gently introduced to Klein's approach to geometry by simple examples of geometries defined by a group of transformations: translational geometry, rotational geometry, Euclidean geometry, and Möbius geometry. The author details the relationship between the objects of study and the transformation groups in each case.
Hyperbolic geometry is treated next, primarily using Poincaré's unit disk model. A great number of figures help the reader visualize how these transformations move various points within the hyperbolic plane. The formula for measuring distances in hyperbolic geometry is masterfully developed. Also included are hyperbolic versions of the law of cosines, the law of sines, and the Pythagorean theorem (whose proofs are outlined in a series of exercises). Afterwards, the author moves on to develop integral formulas for calculating arc length and area; for these sections, the reader should be comfortable with multivariable calculus. The venture into hyperbolic geometry concludes with an optional section on the area of a hyperbolic triangle. To simplify the computations in the derivation of this formula, the author considers a second model for hyperbolic geometry — the upper half-plane model — and so he includes formulas for transformations between these two models, enabling us to apply results from previous sections.
The following topic is elliptic geometry, introduced via geometry on the sphere that has been stereographically projected onto the extended complex plane. Antipodal points are identified, so that between every pair of points there will be a unique line; the result is the disk model for elliptic geometry. The topics covered parallel those from hyperbolic geometry: distances between points, arc length, surface area, and trigonometric formulas.
Next, the author devotes a chapter to curvature and explains how changing the radius of the disk used to model hyperbolic or elliptic geometry will change the formulas developed in previous chapters (in which the radius of the disk equals one). Following this is a whirlwind tour of fundamental and popular topics from topology, such as homeomorphisms, surfaces, orientability, Euler characteristic, and quotient spaces. These topics are brought together in a discussion of which geometries various topological surfaces admit. The text concludes grandly with a discussion of two programs in cosmic topology, the cosmic crystallography method and the circle-in-the-sky method, either of which may someday yield information as to the shape of the universe.
In summary, Geometry with an Introduction to Cosmic Topology presents a high-quality, accessible exposition of Klein's transformational approach to geometry, ideal for an audience of junior or senior level mathematics students. There is a great selection of exercises of varying difficulty. The theme of "cosmic topology" provides both focus and a compelling motivation. Altogether, this is an exciting and innovative geometry text.
Lee Stemkoski is Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Adelphi University.
1. An Invitation to Geometry
2. The Plane and Complex Numbers
3. Transformations
4. Geometry
5. Hyperbolic Geometry
6. Elliptic Geometry
7. Geometry on Surfaces
8. Cosmic Topology


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Cabin fire claims lives of two vacationers
Older man, young child are victims of blaze
Apr. 14, 2014 @ 09:32 AM
A fire at a rental cabin early Saturday morning resulted in the apparent death of two vacationers visiting the area.
An older man, 56-year-old Ricky Hudson, perished after escaping the blaze, while 5-year-old Tayveon Temple remained unaccounted for as state and local investigators combed through the ash, soot and charred debris that remained of the seven-bedroom rental cabin.
"At approximately 4:30 a.m. (Saturday) morning a report of a structure fire came in with people possibly trapped inside the structure that couldn't get out," Sevier County Fire Marshall J.J. Breeden said.
It was around that time that neighbor Jenny Urse, a permanent resident in the Cabins at the Crossing development, awoke to screams.
The cries for help were coming from the cabin next door.
"We were totally asleep," Urse recalled. "At first I thought, 'Oh my God, is a bear attacking somebody? Because the scream was so crazy, and we've seen bear here before."
It wasn't a bear.
Flames had forced members of a vacationing group of as many as 24 people — all from Indiana, according to Breeden — out onto the second-floor balcony of the large three-story rental cabin next door to Urse's home .
"When somebody's looking at you and saying, 'Help!' that's really hard to deal with," she said.
But she did well, helping convince many of the family that a leap to safety from 15-20 feet above was their only choice.
"They started dropping the kids down," she said. "The parents, I don't think, wanted to jump at first. But then the window exploded — it sounded like a bomb — and then they knew they had to jump.
"I was just telling them, 'You've got to jump!' They couldn't go out the front. The front was over. There was no way. Then the cars started exploding — two big vans and a car.
"The women were looking at me like, 'We can't jump!' But I said, 'You don't have an option, you've got to jump!"
Once those that made it out were safe on the ground, there were other concerns.
"There was several people that did exit the home by going over a balcony," Breeden said. "When (firefighters) arrived they found several occupants outside the home, several were injured with minor abrasions, some had some broken bones. They were transported to LeConte Medical Center ... where they received treatment."
One of those that had escaped the flames was having more serious problems.
"The grandpa, he jumped out and was fine, but then he had a heart attack — I think — from the shock," Urse said.
Breeden confirmed that one person had died "after the fire." On Sunday, county officials said by email that Hudson had "suffered injuries while attempting to get family members out of the cabin and was pronounced dead at LeConte Medical Center."
The child's remains had still not been found by Sunday afternoon.
"Investigators are still working to recover his remains," the county said at 2:55 p.m.
Though almost an afterthought after the tragedy next door, Urse's own house became a worry after the burning cabin was evacuated.
"Some cabins are very close, these have a pretty good distance, but — I don't know if you can tell — ours is black right there," she said. "Our cabin is actually charred, because it started to catch, but (firefighters) were able to put it out."
It was written on Urse's face that she was upset for the vacationing family.
"We just feel for them," she said. "They had just come in yesterday around 4 (p.m.). They were so excited, taking pictures, jumping in the pool — a cute family. I feel for them.
"I know they lost two people. They're going to need a lot of prayer."
Early investigation has given no indication of a possible cause for the blaze.
"We're still in the early stages of talking to everybody," Breeden said.
"We're very early, but there's nothing at this point that indicates (arson). We obviously have a lot of investigation to do, but at this point there's nothing at this points to that."
Sheriff's Office deputies were the first to arrive on the scene, according to the fire marshall.
"In a matter of minutes, a couple, few minutes," he said. "Fire departments were shortly after, I would say they were on the scene in five to six minutes. The initial response was Sevier County Fire, Northview Fire and Waldens Creek Fire.
Very quickly, though, the city of Sevierville was requested, since their stations are so close, and they got here really quick and helped us out."
In addition to the cabin being a total loss, three vehicles were destroyed by the fire.
"They were all rental vehicles that the family had rented," Breeden said.
"They were probably 10-15 feet away, the structure already had heavy fire before the vehicles started burning."
A team of nine officials, a state bomb and arson squad and the sheriff's office fire investigation team, were still trying to sort things out on-site following the press conference Saturday afternoon.


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The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling (2012)
Que desilusão. Para hiper realismo de bairros sociais com drogados ou famílias com pais a baterem nas mulheres e filhos já me chega os dramas dos telejornais diários. Parece que a autora sentiu necessidade de se afastar do sucesso que atingiu com o HP para achar que não precisava de ficar colada ao seu sucesso. Foi uma inversão excessiva e detestei de tal maneira que nem consegui acabar de ler o livro nem sentir qualquer curiosidade em como poderia acabar.
Ainda quero acreditar que na sua próxima obra possa voltar ao território onde pode contribuir com uma riqueza e fantasia literária sem igual. Assuma-se a escrever aquilo em que realmente é fantástica, ou seja, fantasia com construção de personagens e mundos duma forma rica e criativa.
When Barry Fairbrother dies suddenly a seat on the town council of Pagford is left vacant. Quickly the town realizes that his death left more than that vacany, it left a void in the fabric that holds the town together. As various residents vie for his council seat, personal lives in Pagford are exposed (thanks to a prank allowing "the ghost of Barry Fairbrother" to reveal town secrets) and those same lives begin to unravel in sometimes humorous and more often devastating ways.
Ms. Rowling's first entry into "grown up" reading was a pleasant surprise. When I first started this book I was not sure I was going to enjoy it (I even rolled my eyes at the name of the lead character … Barry … Harry??) but I soon found myself drawn into life in Pagford.
If you have ever enjoyed an a stroll around the neighbourhood on a pleasant night … you know the time in the evening, when the lights are on in people's homes but the curtains have not yet been drawn …and you glance in the windows and imagine lives for the people who live there. That's what reading this book was like for me. I got the stories behind the glass.
I wanted to love J.K. Rowling's first post-Harry Potter novel, and I was certain I would, not because of any fangirl loyalty to Ms. Rowling. Rather, I was annoyed by the negative reviews from disappointed Harry Potter fans. I wanted to affirm with my praise Ms. Rowling's right to write whatever she wants. I was also intrigued by the notion that this book was somewhat personal to Ms. Rowling, who struggled on government benefits before her publishing success.
Indeed, the novel reads like the author has an axe to grind, but I'm sympathetic to this particular axe, which seems to be a desire to castigate those who heap scorn upon the poor from the safety of their comfortable homes. I know the species, and its members deserve every dig the famous author can send their way.
Ms. Rowling's prose is not elegant, but she is competent in her crafting of characters, settings and plots. I have no quibble with her technique or subject matter. The novel fell flat for me because, like some of her teen characters, I wanted to see the fictional town of Pagford disappearing in my rearview mirror as I sped away.
The only truly likeable adult character in the novel is the guy who drops dead on page three. A few others are tolerable, some are pathetic, and a couple are detestable. They are all far too real and I doubt I'm the only reader who wondered if Ms. Rowling had visited his or her hometown and modeled Mr. or Ms. So-and-So on that guy who always complains at city council meetings or that woman who gossips at the coffee shop check-out.
This is the problem: the gritty realism of The Casual Vacancy is too familiar, too much like the world many of us want to escape when we open a book. I don't require wizards and magic, but I do want someone or something in the story to triumph, or at least improve. If I wanted to mire myself in negativity and mean-spiritedness, I could walk three blocks down the street on Monday nights and listen to some of my neighbors complain at city commission meetings about the threats to their comfort posed by the handful of destitute members of our community.
Couldnt finish it. Didnt really get that far into it at all before I just gave up. I just found the whole thing dull. Boring people with boring lives and boring stories, and even though it starts with something quite interesting, the characters were still (as far as I got) plain boring.
I might give this another go at some point and see if I can get more into the story, as so many people seemed to love it there must be something wrong with me. I'll update my review if I ever do come back to The Casual Vacancy.
Wow, what a good job it is that JK Rowling didn't decide to retire from writing after the Harry Potter series. There is clearly so much more in the tank, starting with all the swear words that weren't allowed in a children's novel. This is gloriously sweary; like a potty-mouthed Maeve Binchy dishing up the gossip. A slice of British life at its ugliest, whilst allowing that nobody is beyond help. Brilliant book, shame there won't be another six in this series.
Set in the fictional village of Pagford, The Casual Vacancy at first seems to have all the trappings of the adorable-English-town novel—an updating of Jane Austen viewed through the loving lens of a Merchant Ivory production. But the book's misanthropy is more indebted to Hardy or Somerset Maugham, both known for their deep distrust of humankind and their sense of the viciousness that can spring up among neighbors.
Rowling has spoken of the sense of risk in embarking on this novel. The Harry Potter series must have been a tough act to follow. What she wanted to do here, I guess, was to seize on the world we can all see without going through Platform 9¾. She has done that to stunning effect.
This is a novel of insight and skill, deftly drawn and, at the end, cleverly pulled together. It plays to her strengths as a storyteller. That will not stop the envious from carping.
It is not the sort of book that hordes of people would choose to read if its author had not also written a far more comforting series of stratospheric bestsellers. But perhaps the world will be better for them reading it. Rowling may not be an easy woman, but she uses her powers for good.
The Casual Vacancy is a sour novel, one that seems designed to leave Rowling's biggest, most avid fans feeling as though she sort of hates them. For all its readability—I had no problem tearing through the whole thing today after buying it from a bewildered bookstore clerk at 7:30 in the morning—the book reveals that though she remains a careful observer of human foibles, Rowling the writer isn't well-served by her enforced isolation.
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We need to talk more about real gun laws
Another mass killing using guns! Another mass insistence by conservative spokespersons and politicians that now is not time to have a national conversation about mass killings with guns — just too emotional!
Yet, did anyone pay attention to the last speech by NRA's Wayne La Pierre at the most recent CPAC meeting (Crackpot's Political Action Committee)? The speech, a lesson in paranoid schizophrenia, driven by highly emotional conspiracy theories, is what passes for a national conversation about gun control from the nation's most radical definition of conservatism (really frightening people).
Recently, Mother Jones magazine published an article, replete with an interactive map (click onto the dots and read about 50 incidents of mass shootings/killings since 1980). Prior to that date, I can only think of one other in the second half of the 20th century, the University of Texas clock tower mass shooting in Austin, Texas.
So what changed in 1980? Let's see, 1980 was the first time that the NRA became politically active, endorsing Reagan over Carter. It was also the first time the NRA leadership began the long active journey into political paranoid schizophrenia, becoming nuttier with each passing election, helping to defeat any office holder or seeker who even mentioned a national discussion about gun control.
And just think, the NRA only has around four million claimed members, with an extraordinary amount of fear driven political/financial clout for such a ridiculously small, but loud percentage of the population. Besides that, the mentally limited NRA leadership can only quote one half of the Second Amendment, never the conditional why of the amendment.
Heck, read the Amendment: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a Free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
See, it is one sentence, not confusing, and simply enough written for a fifth grader to understand, plus the second part follows the reason for the amendment and allowing the why that the right to keep and bear arms even exists.
Even worse, the leadership of the NRA never mentions the founding period's Militia Act of 1792, with the Act's conditions set forth for organizing militias. Just think, one function of the act and militias is described as protecting the nation from nuts with guns from threatening the safety, peace and security of the nation (insurrections) (think CPAC, etc., again).
As well, the act also carries the first mandate by law "requiring" citizens to buy material goods (another recent national argument — sure are a lot of political liars).
Will the nation ever have a national conversation about gun laws designed to protect its citizens against mass killings, with guns in the hands of, for lack of a better words, crazy nuts — political, religious or otherwise?
Probably not, or at least not as long as the leadership of the NRA, with the help of organizations like CPAC and the Republican Party/Fox News control politics and national conversations with misinformation, fear and emotionally driven paranoid/schizophrenic, truly insane, politically driven conspiracy theories (however, the elite leadership of these organizations fully understand the cognitive limitations (bias loaded dissonances) of their audiences/followers — and take full advantage of same).
Welcome to just one area of the past 32 years of American slippage into national insanity!
Terry Mehaffey
Los Lunas
Lawmakers didn't have the ratepayers in mind
Regarding the article, "Locals raise concerns on PNM plant" in the July 18 edition of the News-Bulletin, it's all about unintended consequences.
Let me remind everyone of why this is happening. I served on PNM's required Integrated Resource Plan Committee for the full year in 2011.
In March 2004, the New Mexico state Legislature introduced Senate Bill 43 and Gov. Richardson signed it into law, which initiated the state's Renewable Portfolio Standard.
But apparently the bill wasn't stringent enough to satisfy the radical environmental lobbying groups or our N.M. legislators. In 2007, Sen. Michael Sanchez introduced Senate Bill 418 which upped the ante for renewable energy requirements for PNM.
PNM is required by state law to provide 20 percent of their energy resources as renewables (wind, solar and biomass) by 2020. At the time, it was all so politically correct and Richardson could have his "green energy legacy."
But did any of our legislators think of the unintended consequences or the cost factor to ratepayers? Apparently not, as is so often the case. In fact, I called one of the many legislators who voted for the Renewable Portfolio Standard bills to ask him why he voted for it and he didn't even remember it. Unbelievable that something that would impact our citizens and our ratepayers could be so easily forgotten.
Let's talk about unintended consequences. First of all, everyone needs to realize that renewable energy only has a certain limited capacity factor and has to be "backed up" by building more, not less, coal, natural gas or nuclear plants. Makes one wonder where is the "environmental savings" from renewables?
And now we have the problem of where to put the proposed natural gas plant that PNM is required by law to build and you to pay for. All of the problems mentioned in the July 18 article are unintended consequences of our lawmakers not knowing the facts before they voted: gas plants, "Not in my Back Yard"; the big issue being water, impact on their wells; declining property values; transmission lines.
Now to the cost of the state's Renewable Portfolio Standard. In February 2011, the American Tradition Institute and the Rio Grande Foundation released the The Economic Impact of New Mexico's Renewable Portfolio Standard. Over the next eight years, by 2020, New Mexicans could pay as much as $2.3 billion dollars more for electricity because the New Mexico Legislature imposed this law on our utility companies, with zero effect on the environment.
When you see Michael Sanchez's picture so proudly advertised in the News Bulletin, just remember that he's been "on board" with this whole debacle right from the beginning.
I wonder if he even remembers introducing SB 418 in 2007, or if he too has forgotten the impact of this bill on New Mexicans.
Donna L. Crawford
Los Lunas


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The Cal State Northridge softball team (11-17) split its doubleheader with Northern Illinois, winning 3-2 in game one before falling in game two 2-1. Mia Pagano tossed another complete game victory in the circle and the Matadors rallied for a seventh-inning victory over the Huskies.
Game One Recap
CSUN strung together a two-run seventh inning to defeat the Huskies in the first game of the day. Korinne Randazzo was hit by a pitch to start the inning and then moved to second on a bunt single by Abby Linn.
The next batter, Mikayla Thielges, then dropped down a sac bunt that was thrown into left field and allowed Randazzo to score and tie the game. After a walk loaded the bases, Jennifer Tylerdrove home the winning run with a sac fly to center field.
That helped back up another strong performance from Pagano (6-5) in the circle. She worked around seven hits, allowed one earned run and fanned five.
Randazzo scored two runs in the contest, including one on a wild pitch in the fifth, and had two stolen bases for the second-straight game. The RBI was the first of Tyler's Matador career.
Game Two Recap
The Matadors struck first in the second game, getting an RBI groundout from Tanna Bindi in the second. CSUN had runners on second and third with no outs, but could only squeeze the one run across in the frame.
That would come back to bite Northridge as the Huskies scored twice off Matador starter Brianna Elder (0-2) in the top of the fourth inning. She went 3.1 innings of work and allowed seven hits with two K's.
CSUN had chances in the fifth and sixth inning to tie the game, but a Matador got caught stealing in one of the frames and picked off in the other.
Alexa Limon tossed the final 3.2 innings for CSUN, allowing just one hit and one walk during her work in the circle. Sydney House and Maylynn Mitchell each had two hits in defeat.
The Matadors return to action with two games on Saturday, Mar. 16. CSUN will face Seattle and LMU at Matador Diamond on both Saturday and Sunday.


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When redundancy comes for Ewan it's not too bad. It's the company he built up himself that he's leaving, and, having left his wife at almost the same time, he finds himself with a lot of money and a lot of time. He buys a flat in Dalston and settles down to watch a lot of television. His next door neighbour helps him to smoke a lot of dope, and his best friend Russell helps him to meet a lot of women.For Richard redundancy is a different story, and something that he can't see coming as he trundles into work each day at his dreary construction-business trade magazine. He dotes on his baby son and his (sometimes less than adoring) wife.What can link these two strangely compulsive - and compelling - characters as they take their individual journeys through modern manhood - and modern London THE THIRD PARTY is both wonderfully funny and deeply moving, a brilliantly observed comedy of manners for our times.
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Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II tells the unknown story of these African-American battalions, focusing on the heroic actions of the 761st, which spearheaded General Patton's Third Army and helped liberate the concentration camps at Buchenwald, Dachau and Lambach. This powerful film vividly records the experiences of the soldiers, who were utterly unprepared for the atrocities they witnessed, as well as the astonishment of' the camp inmates -- some of whom had never seen a black person before. Most importantly. Liberators bears witness to the courage of the Holocaust survivors and the heroism of men who were forced to fight on two Fronts -- battling discrimination at home as they fought for their country overseas. It presents a true story of one persecuted people helping another and offers an inspiring example of the kind of bravery and sense of higher purpose that transcends race and nationality.
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