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Two children were shot while sleeping in their bed early Saturday morning, leaving a 2-year-old girl dead and her 1-year-old brother in critical but stable condition at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite hospital.
Atlanta Police said two to three gunshots came through the front door of the Southwest Atlanta house from outside, and they have no witnesses or motive for the shooting.
"I'm thinking whoever did it was a coward; she was nothing but 2 years old," said Charlie Howard, the uncle of the two kids. "If they had a problem with us they could have just come and told us, they didn't have to shoot through the door."
Howard was sleeping in the basement when he heard the shots and rushed upstairs. He joined his family in the front room of the house where his nephew was bleeding and his niece was unresponsive.
"She loved to play, to come out here and ride the bicycle up and down the street," Howard said of 2-year-old Tyteanna. He said he was fighting back tears. "I'm trying to hold it in instead of crying, because crying isn't going to bring my little niece back. But it will come."
Howard said the kids were sleeping with their grandmother in a sofa bed behind the front door of the house. The shots were fired around 1:30 a.m. Howard said the family had only lived in the home for a month and had no problems with anyone that would prompt a shooting at their house. The family is joining with police to ask the public for help with information. And with every car that drives by their home, Howard finds himself feeling suspicious.
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It's once again time for my annual report of what I think are the coolest and most exhilarating movies of the upcoming year. I started this tradition one year ago to date, when I didn't even have my own blog yet. That particular entry was also my very first official blog entry ever. So a big thanks to my friends over at Beyond the Iron Sky for releasing my first blog. I have re-released the 2009 edition here in Zombie room and you can read it here.
One of the best parts of being a total movie nerd is the feeling of anticipation for a new movie. Some movies you even wait for years. Some times you get let down big time like with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, but some times your wait is rewarded with movies like Avatar and The Lord of the Rings. Last year there were 15 movies that made my list, but since I'm all about making things bigger and better, I decided to add a few titles to the list. So with no further ado, here's a list of my most anticipated movies of 2010.
The American is the second feature film from director Anton Corbijn. His debut was the superb black and white Control which was a profile of Ian Curtis, the singer of Joy Division whose personal, professional, and romantic troubles led him to commit suicide at the age of 23. Corbijn is most known for his work as a photographer and the work he has done with music videos, but after Control he left no doubt of his abilities as film director. The American is a story of an assassin that hides out in Italy for one last assignment and it stars George Clooney.
I know not all of you are going to agree with this particular choice, but I'm just one of those people who like director M. Night Shyamalan, even his not-so-good work. He manages to keep interested. I do have to admit that The Last Airbender looks a bit weird and I'm some what worried how it's going to turn out, but I'm still willing to give it a change and go see it non the less. The story follows the adventures of Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must put his childhood ways aside and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water, Earth and Air nations. And you know that it's a true M. Night Shyamalan film, because even the trailer has a twist.
The Book of Eli is on my list mostly for superficial reasons only. Reason number one is how absolutely beautiful the movie looks (or at least what I can imagine from the trailer and images I have seen), and reason number two is the quite impressive cast that includes the always charismatic Denzel Washington who plays Eli in the film and Gary Oldman. The movie is directed by the Hughes Brothers who are an interesting duo, but in no means a safe bet. There is a lot of potential for good things in this movie. The Book of Eli is a post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.
My jaw dropped to the floor when I saw the cast list for The Expendables. In case you don't know the movie has the manliest action cast ever, including Sylvester Stallone (who is also directing the flick), Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis and even Arnold Schwarzenegger is credited. At this point I don't even care that the movie is probably going to suck pretty bad, because with a cast like that even if they would just beat people up and say lame one-liners, it would be so cool! Too bad they didn't get Steven Seagal and van Damme who both turned the role down. Big mistake.
Kick-Ass is an upcoming 2010 superhero film based on the comic book of the same name by Mark Millar. Kick-Ass is a story about Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) who is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so. I have to admit that it took me while to warm up to Kick-Ass, but as soon as I saw a red band clip of Nicolas Cage as Big Daddy shooting bullets to his daughter, I was sold immediately. I've added it here instead of the trailer, because the trailer didn't work as well for me as this clip below. If I'm lucky the film will be filled with black humor and crazy characters, just like in the clip below.
Greenberg is movie directed by Noah Baumbach who is a very talented writer and has written some pretty good stuff in his career, including the amazing The Squid and the Whale and a couple of collaborations with Wes Andersson. Ben Stiller plays a New Yorker who moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother, and he soon sparks with his brother's assistant. Doesn't sound like much, but I'm expecting a well written and heart warming story. I'm also interested seeing Stiller in what seems a bir more serious role.
The Tree of Life is the new movie from director Terrence Malick. Personally this is the only piece of information I need to want to see it. But in case you are not convinced so easily, I did some digging around. The very impressive cast includes Brad Pitt and Sean Penn, and the story centers around a family with three boys in the 1950s. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence. Also it is credited as a drama/fantasy/sci-fi. The Tree of Life is only the fifth feature film directed by Malick during his 40 year long career and still he is considered as one of the most respected and talented directors out there. At least by me. So when he actually does do a film, I will be lining up to see it as soon as possible.
I'm guessing Iron Man 2 doesn't need much of an introduction. Or even reasoning why it's on my list. I would imagine this movie is probably found on everybody's most anticipated list. And why not. I can honestly say that I enjoyed the first part quite a lot, mostly because of Robert Downey Jr, but still. In the second part we get to also enjoy the awesome Mickey Rourke as Whiplash and Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow just to name drop a few movie stars. Nuff said!
Toy Story and Toy Story 2 are still some of Pixar's best work and one of my personal favorites, and for that reason alone I'm exited to see the third edition. Also it is in 3D, which should give a little depth to the movie. It has been ten years since the second part was released and also time has passed in the story. Woody, Buzz, and the rest of their toy-box friends are dumped in a day-care center after their owner, Andy, departs for college. All of the original cast, including Tom Hanks as Woody and Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear, have come on board for the last adventures of these beloved toys. Sounds pretty damn good to me.
The Rum Diary is an adaptation of a novel by the same name written by Hunter S. Thompson and it stars Johnny Depp. The last time when the two collaborated, it wasn't only movie magic, but a classic was born. I'm of course referring to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. In The Rum Diary Depp plays Paul Kemp who is a freelance journalist who finds himself at a critical turning point in his life while writing for a run-down newspaper in the Caribbean. Other cast members includes Giovanni Ribisi and Aaron Eckhart.
Machete is an upcoming action film from director Robert Rodriguez. It is probably the first of it's kind because it is actually an expansion of a fake trailer Rodriguez directed for the 2007 film Grindhouse. It star Danny Trejo in his first lead role as the title character. The film also stars Jessica Alba, Lindsay Lohan, Rose McGowan, Robert DeNiro and even Don Johnson. Sounds good right? But you still haven't heard the best part, which is that Steven Seagal will be in the movie!!! For me this is like telling that God himself has part in the film. So you can imagine my excitement of wanting to see it. Here's the original trailer for Machete from Grindhouse.
Alice in Wonderland is director Tim Burton's take on the classic tale by Lewis Carroll. In Burton's story the 19-year-old Alice returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen's reign of terror. Burton's number one actor, Johnny Depp, is of course cast as The Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter is The Red Queen and Mia Wasikowska is Alice. The whole look of the film is very Burtonesque as always and I'm expecting a fantastical adventure story only he could do. I'm also really looking forward to Depp's performance as well. At least the styling of The Mad Hatter seems to be spot on.
The Danish Girl is an upcoming film adaptation of the novel of the same name by David Ebershoff. It is based on the life of Lili Elbe, the first person to undergo sex reassignment surgery. The film stars Nicole Kidman who plays Lili and Gwyneth Paltrow who will be his (or hers) wife. Kidman is producing the project via her production company, Blossom Films. Let the right one in director Tomas Alfredson was set to direct the film, but apparently left the project for undisclosed reasons. It is a real shame if he is no longer involved. Kidman will be playing a man in the movie and maybe this will be her Moster moment as it was for Charlize Theron back in 2003 when she won an Oscar for Best Actress.
Somewhere is an upcoming comedy-drama directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning. Dorff plays a hard-living Hollywood actor who re-examines his life after his 11-year-old daughter surprises him with a visit. In my eyes Sofia Coppola hasn't done one bad movie in her career, in fact it's quite the opposite. She has only done excellent films, much like her father, Francis Ford Coppola, before her. My expectation are very high, but I'm totally convinced that this is going to be another great movie from Coppola.
Green Zone is an upcoming thriller war film directed by Paul Greengrass. The film is based on the 2006 book Imperial Life in the Emerald City by journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran which is based in Green Zone, Baghdad. It stars Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, and Brendan Gleeson. Paul Greengrass is mostly remebered for great films like United 93 and the last two Bourne movies, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, in which he also worked with Damon. I have high hopes for this one.
The Social Network is a story about the founders of the social-networking website, Facebook, and it is directed by David Fincher. The film was adapted from Ben Mezrich's 2009 novel The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding Of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal. And even if the subject might sound a little bit awkward to say the least, I have complete trust in Fincher, who is definitely one of my favorite directors. I would go see every single one of his films, no matter what. The cast includes (and I warn you, that now the movie gets even weirder) Justin Timberlake (I'm not making that up, trust me) and Jesse Eisenberg. It is definitely the most intriguing movie of the year.
Black Swan is a psychological thriller film directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis and Vincent Cassel. Nina (Portman) and Lilly (Kunis) are rival ballet dancers in New York City, and Nina wins the lead in the ballet Swan Lake. Things fall apart around Nina, and she begins a downward spiral mentally. One of the reasons why I'm so attracted to this movie is that it very much reminds me of a movie I was developing myself some time ago. So Black Swan coming out is bitter sweet for me. But if some one was going to do it, I couldn't think of a better director than Aronofsky. But the main reason of course is the visionary director himself, whose work in the past has been one of the most interesting and ground breaking of the past decade.
The Green Hornet is an upcoming superhero action film directed by Michel Gondry. It is an adaptation of the radio and television character of the same name. Seth Rogen will be The Green Hornet, Jay Chou is Kato and the amazing Christoph Waltz is Chudnofsky. I'm extremely eager to see Waltz in a different role from Inglourious Basterds. Gondry is the mastermind behind movies like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Be Kind Rewind. The participation of Michel Gondry feels almost too good to be true and we can most likely expect a very visual and original take on the whole superhero genre.
Here's an example of how release dates change. Shutter Island was number two on my last years list as well, but as you can see it wasn't released in 2009 as was originally planned. So it's on my list again. Shutter Island is an upcoming horror thriller directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The film is based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane. In 1954, two U.S. marshals investigate the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane on an island in Massachusetts. They run into trouble when they are deceived by the hospital's chief administrator, a hurricane hits and an inmate riot traps them on the island. There is more than enough proof to go around that Martin Scorsese together with Leonardo DiCaprio works beautifully, with no exceptions. So I have a hard time believing this would be their first miss.
I've had Inception on this list for a long time now, but as time went on it has slowly but surely made it's way closer and closer to the top. Inception is a contemporary science fiction action thriller set within the architecture of the mind, stars Leonardo DiCaprio, and is written, produced and directed by Cristopher Nolan. For me this movie seems like Nolan wanted to take a break from Batman and do something completely different before returning back to portraying Bruce Wayne. Sure it's not official yet that Nolan would direct the third Batman movie, but we can almost surely assume it. I have been very exited about this movie for a while now, but it climbed at least 5 places up because of this beyond perfect teaser trailer (also after it there's the new trailer that was released on Christmas, so I will include that as well). After you see the trailer, I'm pretty sure you will share my enthusiasm towards this film. It is simply mind blowing.
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Movies that didn´t make the list (but are still very interesting or at least worth mentioning), in alphabetical order:
The A Team, directed by Joe Carnahan
Clash of the Titans, directed by Louis Leterrier
Down and Dirty Pictures, directed by Kenneth Bowser
The Fighter, directed by David O. Russell
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I, directed by David Yates
Hisss, directed by Jennifer Chambers Lynch
Inside Man 2, directed by Spike Lee
Jonah Hex, directed by Jimmy Hayward
Kommandør Treholt & ninjatroppen, directed by Thomas Cappelen Malling
A Nightmare on Elm Street, directed by Samuel Bayer
Red Sonja, directed by Douglas Aarniokoski
Robin Hood, directed by Ridley Scott
Salt, directed by Phillip Noyce
Tron Legacy, directed by Joseph Kosinski
Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, directed by Oliver Stone
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, directed by Woody Allen
And then we have Hot Tub Time Machine…
Well there you have it. That was my list, but what about yours? Do you think something is missing from these films? Is there something that doesn't deserve to be there? Drop a comment below and share your views!
Ps. I'm already working on the list for 2011 and oh man it's gonna be good! Can't wait to share that with you too.
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text: By Jan RahnManaging Editor Starting the new year in a new job and new location is Grant's recently hired city administrator, Dana Harris. Beginning her duties at the helm of city government on Wednesday, Jan. 2, Harris replaces former city administrator Tyson McGreer who resigned in August to accept a position in Kansas. Harris comes from Melbeta where she served as municipal clerk for three years, participating in all aspects of city management including budget development and review, writing resolutions and ordinances, conducting public meetings and supervising employees and consultants. Harris, who is a graduate of Banner County High School, grew up in the panhandle on a ranch/feedlot/farm and still has lots of family in that area. She has a Master of Urban Planning degree from the University of Kansas where she graduated in 1995 with honors, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Nebraska-Kearney where she was in the honors program and double majored in history and geography, graduating in 1993. "Since moving back to Nebraska, I have been waiting for an opportunity like this—a position where I can use my education and work experience to contribute to a community in western Nebraska," said Harris. "I decided to apply in Grant because I was very impressed by the websites associated with the town—the city's [website], chamber's [website], school's [website], Tribune's [website], etc., and when I visited I was even more impressed with the town. It seemed like a great place to live." Although the frigid temperatures have been somewhat limiting, Harris said her immediate goals include meeting everyone she can and learning as much about Grant as possible. She wants to get involved with the various committees, especially economic development and planning, and get involved with the upcoming public works projects, while still continuing to unpack and get settled in the house she shares with her young son, Cooper. Their first night in the community was Dec. 20, so they were able to set up a Christmas tree and have time to bake cookies for Santa, she said. Anxious to get integrated into her new position as city administrator, Harris said, "I enjoy working and contributing where I know it matters, and Grant seems like a great town with a very good quality of life that I hope I can work to maintain and/or improve." Some of her previous work history includes serving as instructor for Western Nebraska Community College in Scottsbluff for five years, and senior planner for the Indiana Department of Transportation in Indianapolis, a position she held for three years immediately after receiving her Master's Degree. Along with having western Nebraska roots and a professional attitude, Harris possesses qualifications of state and local government planning and management experience, Fortune 500 corporate experience, project management, a Masters Degree on coursework in planning public administration, law, transportation, land use, environmental quality, economics, and statistics. She has excellent communication skills and public speaking experience. As a busy single mom, Harris enjoys reading and attending auctions, along with going to thrift or antique stores. "I am constantly impressed by what I find in Grant," she said. "The number of businesses and activities is very remarkable for a city of this population. It seems like almost daily we find a new place to wander in to. I hope to get to all of the places in town, but I would also like to encourage anyone to stop by the city office and say hello."


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|Holyoke City Council continues to search for stray animal solutions
|Written by Kyle Arnoldy
Discussions concerning the existing stray cat problem dominated much of the Feb. 5 Holyoke City Council meeting.
A cat ordinance was discussed at length at the Jan. 15 meeting as well, but a variety of problems stand in the way of being able to actually put an ordinance into effect.
During the visitor comment section of the night, Dr. Darrell Tomky of Holyoke Veterinary Service presented the council with some concerns about the possible ordinance. He noted that should the council decide to put some sort of ordinance into action that involved catching cats, they would be responsible for housing the cats for at least five days before adopting them out or euthanizing them, as required by the Colorado Animal Care Act.
Tina McNulty voiced her displeasure with the idea of euthanizing cats. She suggested a catch-and-release method that she believed to be successful in other small communities.
Tom Hethcote also opposed any ordinance for cats, noting that he doesn't see any reason to add another law specifically for cats. He took issue with a law being made to deal with what he considered to be just a few cases a year. He proposed the city help handle it on a case-by-case basis, suggesting the city cleanup days would be a fitting time to deal with the issue.
He also questioned why cats were more of a risk than the opossums he has seen around town. Hethcote raised questions regarding the cost of an ordinance. He asked who would pay for the fees of neutering the cats and whether an animal control position would need to be funded.
Stalled by numerous obstacles including the costs associated with upholding the required housing laws, the ordinance was tabled. Plans to continue preliminary discussions on the topic were made for the next meeting, as much research and planning was still left to handle before any action could be taken.
Still working out kinks to animal shelter plans
Although the first plan submitted to the state for an animal shelter was denied, the city council remains optimistic, noting that progress may be slow, but they are much closer than they were a year ago.
A problem concerning the walkway of the plan was the reason it was denied. Under the original plans, dogs could get nose-to-nose with each other when one was let out. An alteration to the confinement and the gates of the pens were planned to ensure no dogs can make contact with each other.
At this point, no plans to hold cats have been added to the planning of the shelter.
More updates ahead for baseball field
An application from the City of Holyoke for a local parks and outdoor recreation grant from the Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) Trust Fund has been temporarily stalled, as the exact amount of the request is still uncertain.
The city is looking to make various upgrades to the restrooms, dugouts, playground and bleachers of the Holyoke Ball park with the grant money. Restrooms and dugouts will be made handicap accessible while a breezeway will be constructed in a manner that prevents children from being able to sprint into the parking lot from the playground.
The city recently completed a project that updated the bleachers at the field, but with the new money, steel awnings for shade and to protect spectators from stray foul balls will be added.
In total, the project is expected to cost roughly $187,000. The city can use up to $65,000 from the Conservation Trust Fund, while the rest will hopefully be covered through the GOCO grant and community donations.
It will not be known until mid-summer if the application is accepted or not. If it is accepted, work will begin during the 2013-14 school year.
Reports from city officials
City Superintendent Mark Brown noted that underground power lines will be put into Cobblestone Inn and Suites this week.
Brown also informed the council that City Park had recently been vandalized. A portion of the plastic tubing on the playground equipment was broken and will need to be replaced as it poses a safety hazard.
Police Chief Doug Bergstrom reported that from Jan.10-30, there were 86 calls for service, one arrest, one citation and 16 warnings given.
Other business
In other business Feb. 5, the city council:
-—agreed to set the price of city owned lots at $90 per frontage foot for center lots and $95 per frontage foot for corner lots with a minimum lot size of 75 feet, and that it be mandatory to sell the lots in a manner so the entire block can be sold. The prices will be reviewed the first of each year and the city furnishes curb, gutter and oil.
-—approved the 2012 year-end transfers.
-—approved the travel request for Karla Pargas to attend NECO Pool Managers meeting in Yuma Feb. 6.
—approved training travel request for Sgt. Damon Ellis and Officer Dwight Thompson to attend a warrant execution class in Sterling March 25-26.
—agreed on additional CIRSA Property/Casualty Pool 2013 contribution from preliminary quotation in the amount of $5,859.
—agreed that a background check and a full evaluation will be performed for possible candidates for the code enforcement position.
—approved Nici Bishop to act as a liaison between the city and the chamber for the 125th anniversary activities.
Holyoke Enterprise February 14, 2013


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From hopelessness to hope
The bad news is that so many anti-poverty projects in Africa fail. The good news is that those who learn from the past are not doomed to repeat it, as a visit to a thoughtfully designed AIDS orphanage and development project shows
"From hopelessness to hope" Continued...
CHISAMBA, Zambia- It's 7:15 Monday morning in a cement-block house near this country's major highway, the paved, two-lane Great North Road. Supervisor Peter Phiri, who worked at building that road for five years during the 1990s, is speaking to 40 employees starting their workweek in a country where AIDS, unemployment, and corruption are all rampant. They sit on planks held up by cement blocks in the building their own hands constructed, a house that will soon be home to 8-10 AIDS orphans and a widow.
Intense and energetic, Phiri tells them, "It's up to you, up to me, to choose. Pray to God to give you a right choice. Remember that without Jesus you can't accomplish anything." HIV statistics in Africa show that many have chosen wrongly. The well-documented failure of many government and big philanthropic projects shows that many would-be helpers have chosen wrongly.
But the 230-acre Village of Hope farm here, located 45 miles north of the capital city, Lusaka, is a small-scale project designed and managed by those who have gained ground-level experience in the peculiar challenges that Africa offers. The project has Africans in key positions. The pieces of employment, orphan care, agriculture, and entrepreneurship fit together so the project can be self-sustaining. The project is designed to fight the welfare mentality that has grown in Africa as the West has poured in money. If it succeeds here, it can and will be replicated.
The typical day here begins with a half-hour of call-and-response harmonic singing and Christian education provided by Zambian evangelicals such as Phiri and a local preacher, Pastor Zulu. Then some of the workers pick peanuts off plants harvested several weeks ago and left in the sun to dry. (They store the peanuts in large sacks, with dried stems used for animal feed.) Others harvest sunflower seeds, which will be turned into oil. Some paint a new orphans' house or apply mortar by a doorframe.
On some days employees clear the brush and remove the stumps from acres on which corn, soybeans, sunflowers, cassava, and peanuts will grow. Others manufacture the thousands of construction blocks (five parts sand, one part cement) that go into building 900-square-foot, three-bedroom cottages for the orphans. Some dig out 75-by-60-foot fishponds in which tilapia will grow. In plowing season some guide the oxen, and others year-round pick up oxen dung to use it for compost.
Eleven of the employees, selected by a local committee, are part-time students in Village of Hope's conservation farming program. One day they had classroom training in the spacing of various plants, information they will soon put into practice in the fields. They learn business and marketing skills for managing the sale of their produce, and after they prove themselves will be able to do a lease-purchase for title deeds to their own land through a partnering program: The goal is "Land for landless orphans."
The emphasis overall is on village-level technology with no wasted resources. The wood stockpiled during the stumping of the farm goes for fires for lunchtime cooking. The goal in the fields is pinpoint use of fertilizer and drip irrigation, rather than capital-intensive and wasteful spraying and watering. A VitaGoat cycle grinder, based on a design created in the United States 30 years ago, grinds corn and soybeans through a pedal-powered system like that of a bicycle which uses adjustable-speed pulleys. Adjustable speeds can be matched to the operator's strength and the type of food, with seating adjustable to the individual's height.
Some of the operations have a Rube Goldberg quality to them. For example, to turn two kilograms of soybeans into 12 liters of soy milk: (a) Put soybeans in a funnel; (b) peddle that bicycle-like contraption hooked up to a belt and the funnel; (c) when the belt moves a grinder turns soybeans into a mash; (d) collect the mash and mix it with water; (e) through two other steps within a boiler create "superheated steam"; (f) put the mash into a pressure cooker; (g) open a valve in the boiler so the steam enters the pressure cooker; (h) put salt and sugar in a tub below the pressure cooker's spigot; (i) when the hot mash comes down and fills a bucket, solid remnants are stopped by a filter, but the liquid enters the tub; (j) stir the tub; (k) use a press to get more liquid out of the remnants; (l) use the remnants for tofu and breakfast porridge; (m) taste the delicious, sweet soy milk.
The larger goal of the Village of Hope is not soy milk but behavior: Workers as they follow the steps and watch the pressure gauges learn diligence and responsibility. And a larger goal yet is souls. Some of the employees told their stories:
Harriet Nyirenda, 20, "became pregnant in grade nine and could not continue with my education . . . all hope was gone." But now she is learning farming and "growing as a Christian. The morning prayers and Bible studies are helping a lot. . . . I am surprised at my desire to read the Bible every day. . . . God is in control of my life. I have hope all will be well."
George Banda, 25, married with one child, had a record of failure and exploitation: "I have failed to continue with school. . . . I used to feel like a slave at my previous workplace. . . . Sometimes we worked for up to three months without pay. Here we always get paid on time. . . . The prayers and Bible study we have every morning . . . help me to live right during the day. I meditate on the word of God and not evil things."
Ireen Nankala, 18: "I was a difficult person to stay with but now God has changed me. I can't believe it: I enjoy the prayers and the Bible studies in the morning. . . . I wasn't a church girl but I always long to be at church every Sunday. . . . I still have a lot to learn to be a better Christian."
Chilala Teteta, 23: "I was fired from school in grade nine for stealing school money. I did all kinds of bad things. . . . I gave my life to Christ last year. . . . The word of God keeps on revealing more about me and helps me to see what God wants me to be."
Grace Mkazamwene, 18: "My parents died when I was young. . . . I now feel that I have a future. . . . I used to have a short hot temper . . . but now things are different, I am more patient with everyone. I have learned love."
Chisomo Shawa, 24, is married and has four children: "I like this place because it has changed my life. My life was wasting away because of beer drinking. Six months ago God helped me stop. . . . Apart from learning more about God in this place I have also acquired some skills like making interlocking blocks and concrete blocks, bricklaying and cooking."
Each of the workers is paid 8,000 kwacha per day: Sounds like a lot, but that's $2 (better than the standard wage of $1.70 per day). Sixty percent of the employees are orphans themselves, often supporting younger brothers and sisters. Many had never worked before, seen a television program, or traveled even as far as Lusaka, but now they will have the opportunity to gain experience in marketable skills such as manufacturing burglar bars, a hot item in crime-prone Lusaka.
The Village of Hope has two-fifths of a mile of frontage along the Great North Road, Zambia's most-used highway, so its market should attract customers. The farm store that opened June 15 has increased sales each month: in September, 4,000 pounds of potatoes and another 4,000 pounds of tomatoes, oranges, and onions combined. Sales included 112 chickens and 3,450 eggs, with a resultant 7.6 percent profit after all expenses.
The farm store now has a cold storage building to increase the shelf life of vegetables. With electricity now run along the road-front to the market, the next goal is a refrigerator (with a local farmer providing milk, cheese, and yogurt to sell) and a freezer for chickens. Employees regularly suggest money-making ideas, such as selling fried chicken along with fish and chips so that long-transport buses will stop. (Give bus drivers a free meal and they will.)
The project measures progress partly in terms of relationships. Little boys named Adam, Isaac (also pictured on cover), and Moses now receive care. Housemothers Miriam and Rose take care of children as they come. Directing the entire orphanage aspect are Francis and Kimberly Kamau-he's Kenyan, she's an African-American-who with their two children live in one of the cement-block homes.
Kamau, as everyone calls him, and his wife Kimberly are both 42. Kamau's father was never part of his life but his mother held on as they moved to the Nairobi slums when he was 15 and encountered "chaos, smells, utter hopelessness." He worked fixing radios and then making kerosene lamps until at 24 he made it to a Youth With a Mission training school, and then became a missionary in Moscow and Kiev. He returned from the Ukraine in 1994 to find his mother in the last stages of AIDS; she died in his arms "in a most horrible way" the day after his return.
Kimberly lived in lots of places as a child with an Air Force dad; she rebelled and for years had a life of turmoil until, anxious after reading the book of Revelation during the first Gulf War, and then reading Romans and seeing herself as a sinner, she prayed, "Lord, my way is not working, I'm ready to do it Your way now." She met Kamau while accompanying a friend on a missionary trip to Moscow in 1992; they were married in 1997, with Kamau going to work at Ministry of Caring, a Wilmington, Del., feeding program.
By 2005 they were "used to the American way of life," Kamau said: "I had a four-bedroom home. I also had my memories. I was 30 when my mother died, and years later I feel the pain. How does a 5-year-old deal with losing parents? I know what it is like to live in the slums . . . and then here comes this white man giving up his suburban life."
"This white man" is Benedict Schwartz, a Maryland software CEO who learned about the low-tech world while developing an AIDS orphans village in Namibia. Schwartz created an evangelical ministry that directs the project, All Kids Can Learn International (AKCLI), and recruited conscientious Christians like Kamau. Schwartz has now plunged in further: In July he and his family uprooted themselves from the United States and moved to the Village of Hope.
Schwartz has also hired a business-minded pastor, Emmanuel Lusumpa, to be his overall administrator. The 44-year-old Lusumpa grew up in Lusaka poverty and in 1981 "came to understand the gospel, that it's all by grace." He regularly faces government bureaucrats who believe in a different kind of grace-but AKCLI will not pay bribes. Schwartz and Lusumpa have tried to develop their own community base by networking with local village leaders, farmers, tourist lodge owners, and churches.
Schwartz realizes the need to stay in the background. As Lusumpa put it about Zambian sellers, "If they know money is coming from America, they exaggerate their prices. Once they see a white man, the price is doubled." Racial politics are also important: "When Benedict wanted to rebuff a man who was not working well, I pulled him back. The man might complain to the government that a white man is abusing him, and the government might then deport Benedict. If a person needs to be fired, I'll fire him." AKCLI (akcli.org) has a Zambian board of directors.
Seven North American churches now support the Village of Hope, and Schwartz is recruiting others to build and adopt orphan cottages on the property, to take mission trips to the farm, and to pray for the children. Two teams from the United States had a Vacation Bible School for 400 children this past summer, and two Americans taught five Zambians to be welders.
Schwartz does not want government money for the project, believing that it would hamper rather than help. To maintain one cottage of 8-10 children plus a widow caregiver costs $500 per month: His goal is one church, one cottage, including financial and prayer support. He would like to see a team from a supporting church take a mission trip every 12-18 months to visit the children and develop relationships with them. A website that will allow church members to see current photos of their kids, updated each month, is under construction.
Schwartz's challenge to Americans who have already attained wealth: "Don't think of what kind of home entertainment system or which set of golf clubs to buy. Think of lives that could be changed for the better."


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In-person early voting is underway in Ohio. Find your nearest polling booth here.
If there's a Democrat-led war on coal in Ohio, it's not showing in
the numbers. PolitiFact checked Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown's claim that coal
jobs and production have gone up in the state since five years ago, and it turns out he's right. Brown's remark was in response to Republican challenger Josh Mandel's claim that Democrats are leading a war on coal. Brown and Mandel are fighting for Ohio's U.S. Senate seat, which CityBeat covered in-depth here. Currently, Brown leads by 5.5 points in aggregate polling.
The presidential campaigns are turning it up in Ohio. Ann Romney was in Greater Cincinnati yesterday to campaign for her husband, echoing past visits from Michelle Obama. President Barack Obama will be in Cincinnati Sunday. Mitt Romney will hold a big rally in West Chester on Friday. Ohio could be the state to decide whether Romney or Obama is the next president. Due to Ohio's importance, lawyers from around the county will be keeping a close eye on the state. With six days of voting left, aggregate polling shows Obama up 2.3 points in Ohio and the race tied nationally. FiveThirtyEight, The New York Times' forecasting model, says Obama has a 79.9 percent chance of winning Ohio and a 79 percent chance of winning the election.
The Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST) is suing Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) for allegedly using city resources to campaign for Issue 42,
which will renew a CPS levy from 2008. In the emails, school officials
discuss voter registration drives, signing up to support the levy and
contributing to the levy campaign. But in a few emails, Jens Sutmoller, campaign coordinator for Issue 42, asks for personal emails to properly respond. COAST has endorsed a "No" vote on Issue 42. CityBeat covered Issue 42 and the problems facing CPS here. CityBeat also endorsed a "Yes" vote on Issue 42 here.
Dropping enrollment in urban district schools, including CPS, has caused some schools to revise building programs downward, saving the state money. In CPS in particular, the school's project has dropped down to 50 buildings from 66 partly in response to a decline in about 10,000 students since 2002 to about 32,687 enrolled students today. The shift apparently has less to do with students moving to the suburbs and more to do with the greater availability of charter and private schools.
The Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority's CEO Laura Brunner laid out the Port Authority's strategic plan yesterday. The Port Authority seeks to fight poverty, attract residents and increase jobs by expanding inland port operations, developing land, stabilizing targeted communities, upgrading its public financing plan and transparently communicating progress, according to Brunner.
A small fraction of absentee ballots might have been rejected due to a state data glitch. The glitch caused Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted to deliver 33,000 updated registration records to local elections issues. Tim Burke, chairman of the county Democratic Party and county Board of Elections, expressed mixed feelings about the error: "Obviously, you hate like hell to have the secretary of state's office, which had promised to have a very efficient election, popping something like that on us seven days out. … Having said that, I'm glad at least once they recognized that these names are out there they moved to get them to us so that we can do our best to ensure that these folks are not disenfranchised because of some administrative glitch."
In related news, Husted got the emergency stay he asked for on a recent voting ruling. Husted said he was happy with the decision in a statement: "With six days to go before Election Day, I am pleased that the Court has granted a stay in this case so that I can give the 88 county boards of elections the clear direction they need on the rules for processing provisional ballots."
There are a few teachers campaigning for office in Ohio, and NPR says the campaigns could give Democrats and Obama a boost. The surge of teachers is largely attributed to Senate Bill 5, which tried to limit collective bargaining among public employees. The teachers figure the only way to prevent another Senate Bill 5 is by holding office.
There are also Ohio Board of Education candidates on this year's ballot. StateImpact Ohio has a look into some of those candidates here.
A survey
found small firms are doing very little to prepare for Obamacare. Most
don't know what the national health care plan will even do for them.
About 70 percent were unsure or incorrectly believed Obamacare will make
them pay a tax.
Ever want to play Tetris with a pumpkin? Well, apparently someone has.
Cincinnati officials and Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) leaders on Thursday promised to work in greater collaboration through the Alliance for Community and Educational Success (ACES), a new joint operation that will attempt to align the city and school district's shared policy goals.
ACES plans to focus on five areas: population growth, workforce development, safe and livable neighborhoods, wellness and access to technology.
As a few examples, the city could help CPS establish better Internet access at low-income schools, align marketing to attract more residents, sustain school resource officers that help keep schools safe and set up internships within the city's workforce.
"While the city and school system are separate entities, we all know that our schools are the most powerful tool for growth that we've got," said Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld.
City and school leaders cautioned that the collaborative alone shouldn't affect their budgets, although future initiatives could require new funding.
To enforce the collaborative, City Council's Education and Entrepreneurship Committee and the Cincinnati Board of Education members will meet on a monthly basis. Sittenfeld said he will regularly call on city department directors to make sure city services are being delivered in cooperation with the local school system.
The collaborative will also try to bring in outside education groups, such as the Strive Partnership as it works on providing a universal preschool program in Cincinnati.
School officials praised the announcement.
"Without good schools, we don't have good cities. Without good cities, we don't have good schools," said Alecia Smith, principal of Rothenberg Academy, where city and school leaders gathered for the announcement.
Cincinnati Board of Education President Eve Bolton argued the announcement should make voters more confident when supporting property tax levies for the schools, which voters might be asked to do again in 2015.
"I think it will increase the confidence by the voters and by the taxpayers that what resources exist are being best leveraged together," she said. "There's no infighting or turf wars being waged and wasting their dollars."
City and school leaders previously worked together for CPS' $1 billion school facilities master plan, which officials credit with effectively rebuilding major aspects of the school district.
ACES could also help bring in another major player — the city — into community learning centers, a CPS-led initiative that brings in various outside resources, including health clinics and college preparation programs, to turn schools into service hubs.
Community learning centers have been recognized around the country for their success in lifting low-income schools. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to adopt the model in the city that just elected him last November.
In response to Democratic mayoral candidate John Cranley's call for a debate, the campaign for Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls, another Democratic candidate for mayor, is calling both campaigns to schedule a series of debates. Jens Sutmoller, Qualls' campaign manager, said in a statement, "Vice Mayor Qualls believes the citizens of Cincinnati deserve a robust series of public debates between the two final 2013 Mayoral candidates. She looks forward to articulating her optimistic vision of Cincinnati's future and the investments we need to make in our neighborhoods and city to achieve a welcoming city of opportunity for all our citizens."
Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) are being used as a model by other schools around the state and country. Other schools are particularly interested in Cincinnati's community learning centers, which provide services not directly related to education, including health clinics, mental health counselors, tutoring programs and extensive after-school programs. The approach is being praised for making schools serve the greater needs of communities. CityBeat wrote about CPS and its community learning centers here.
Steve Dyer, an education policy fellow at Innovation Ohio, says Gov. John Kasich's school education plan actually does the opposite of what Kasich claimed: "However, after examining the district-by-district runs produced by the Kasich Administration yesterday (which I posted at Innovation Ohio earlier), what is clear that even without eliminating the guaranteed money Kasich said he wants to eliminate soon, kids in the poorest property wealth districts in the state will receive 25 cents in additional state revenue for every $1 received by kids in the property wealthiest districts." A CityBeat analysis found the education plan increases funding for Cincinnati Public Schools, but not enough to make up for past cuts.
The University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati State and Miami University are getting slight increases in funding under Kasich's higher education funding plan.
The plan increases overall higher education funding by 1.9 percent,
with UC getting 2.4 percent more funding, Cincinnati State getting 4
percent more and Miami getting 1.8 percent more. The increased funding
should be helpful to Miami University, which recently initiated $99 million in summer construction and renovation projects. Historically, Ohio has given its universities less funding per pupil than other parts of the country.
An appeals court ruling could put the Anna Louise Inn back at square one. On Friday, the Ohio First District Court of Appeals affirmed most of a lower court's ruling against the Anna Louise Inn, but it sent the case back down to the lower court on a legal technicality. The ruling means the case could restart, but Tim Burke, the inn's attorney, claims the Anna Louise Inn has already done what the appeals court asked. For CityBeat's other coverage of the Anna Louise Inn, click here.
Media outlets are finally picking up the story about illegal immigrants and driver's licenses. Gongwer wrote about it here, and The Columbus Dispatch covered it here. CityBeat originally wrote about the story last week ("Not Legal Enough," issue of Feb. 6).
Following the board president's comparison of Adolf Hitler and President Barack Obama, the Ohio State Board of Education is set to discuss social media. CityBeat wrote about Board President Debe Terhar's ridiculous Facebook post here.
Remember the Tower Place Mall! Two tenants are holding out at the troubled mall as they look for different downtown locations.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine wants everyone to know he's still cracking down on synthetic drugs.
The pope is stepping down.
How kids draw dinosaurs is probably wrong.


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Video: Wells Wants To Decriminalize Some Marijuana
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- Wednesday morning, D.C. Councilmember Tommy Wells held a press conference to announce legislation to decriminalize "small amounts of marijuana" in the city.
Wells made the announcement at Community Family Life Services - in the 300 block of E Street, NW. It is a nonprofit organization that provieds housing, case management, employment counseling and other services.
SEE THE BILL HERE: http://on.wusa9.com/10NmbdZ
Under the bill, the penalty for the possession of less than one ounce of marijuana will be dropped to a civil penalty punishable by a $100 fine. Right now, the misdemeanor offense could lead to up to six months in prison and a $1,000 fine for an offender. The legislation introduced by Wells would also require juveniles caught with less than an ounce of marijuana to attend a drug awareness program and community service.
According to Wells' office, an American Civil Liberties Union report claims the District leads the nation in arrests for marijuana possession. The report found D.C. police made 846 arrests for marijuana per 100,000 residents in 2010, compared to 256 per 100,000 nationally. The report also showed racial disparities in arrests for marijuana possession in D.C., with more African Americans being arrested than Caucasians.
The Drug Policy Alliance and other community stakeholders called on council in a letter in June to end marijuana arrests in D.C. by eliminating all criminal and civil penalties for the possession of up to two ounces of marijuana. Wednesday, Grant Smith with the Drug Policy Alliance's Office of National Affairs said in a press release:
"The introduction of this legislation by Councilmember Tommy Wells is a positive step toward putting an end to marijuana possession arrests that cause irreversible harm to people's lives, disproportionately impact communities of color, and waste public resources...While this legislation is an important step in the right direction, Councilmembers should consider following in the footsteps of Colorado and Washington by legally regulating marijuana."
Smith added, "Ultimately, drug use is most effectively addressed as a health issue instead of as a criminal justice issue -- and this means that possession of any drug in D.C. should not be criminalized."
DC Police Chief Cathy Lanier also released a statement on Wednesday. In her statement, she said:
"Today, proposed legislation to decriminalize possession of an ounce or less of marijuana was introduced in Council. This is a significant issue that merits robust discussion on a broad spectrum of issues, including concerns about the risk to children with increased access, the health impact of increasingly potent plants, and conflict with federal laws. In the meantime, it is important for the community to recognize that some of the information being used as an argument for decriminalization is flawed. As I believe our community members know, MPD has not prioritized marijuana arrests. Since day one, my priority has been combatting violent crime, and the District is safer as a result. Marijuana users are simply not being targeted in the manner suggested by a recent report from the ACLU and by many advocates for decriminalization."
See a list of all the legislation before council on Wednesday here: http://dccouncil.us/events/legislative-meeting7


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Works in progress
Film | Independent filmmakers Steve & Mary Pruitt are learning the high-stakes business of making movies as they go
"Works in progress" Continued...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Mary Pruitt knew something was up the day she went down to the basement and found her husband Steve knocking holes in the walls of his office with a sledgehammer.
At an age when some men buy sports cars or change careers, Steve Pruitt had a different kind of mid-life crisis. After years as Chair of Business Economics and Finance at the University of Missouri (Kansas City), Steve wanted to resuscitate guitar-playing skills that had been rusting since his college days and shoot his own music video. In the process of researching the kind of equipment he would need to make this happen, he realized that during the decades he had been busy raising his two daughters and growing his career, professional moviemaking equipment had become not only accessible, but affordable enough for a moviemaker wannabe. Steve was instantly hooked, impulsively changing course and announcing his plans to make not a music video, but a feature length movie. This despite the fact that neither he nor Mary had so much as set foot on a movie set, much less turned on a movie camera before. This was the innocuous beginning of what Mary called Steve's "Cuban missile crisis of mid-life crises" and of their newly minted film company, Never2Late Studios, a name that is more than apropos for this energetic 53-year-old professor-turned-indie-filmmaker and his Jane Seymour look-alike wife of 28 years.
Never2Late Production's full-length feature film, Works in Progress, a romantic comedy based in the Kansas City art community, started out as a play the Pruitts wrote a decade ago called Painters. Rewritten to film in 2006, it follows the story of two art school graduates who take a summer internship in Kansas City, Mo., and two mid-20s professional women whom they befriend. Humorously, yet poignantly exploring the question, Will I ever find my true love?, the Pruitts intend the movie to be a "wonderfully wholesome date movie."
Like most independent filmmakers, the Pruitts entered several film festivals in order to garner attention for the film. The process, from DVD submission to final judging, is highly competitive and often takes months. Smaller festivals review many hundreds of films; large festivals review thousands. For a small film made by newbie filmmakers, acceptance is both an honor and a huge step toward a wider distribution of the movie. Works in Progress was accepted by several festivals including the International Family Film Festival, the Kansas City FilmFest, and the Memphis International Film Festival, with the possibility of more acceptances during the fall festival circuit-which kicked off Sept. 9 internationally with the opening of the Toronto Film Festival.
So far, audience and critic feedback is encouraging: "Inspired by Whit Stillman's Metropolitan, [Works in Progress] represents a dream-come-true, damn-the-naysayers leap of faith for first-time filmmakers Mary and Stephen Pruitt," said critic John Beifuss after the Memphis festival. After several standing-room-only showings in Kansas City, Never2Late Studios is making the film available to select screens across the country. Additionally, the Pruitts just signed an on-demand DVD distribution deal with Seminal Films of Hollywood with a release date near Thanksgiving. They hope these successes will help them obtain the funding for other films.
Driven by their desire to create and help others create what they describe as "redemptive, thought-provoking, beautiful works of art," over the course of two years, the Pruitts learned the ropes of independent filmmaking: screenplay writing, casting, directing, cinematography, lighting, filming, and audio. Steve researched what equipment to buy, scanning online forums at every stage and asking literally hundreds of questions before purchasing two RED one 4K digital cinema cameras to the tune of $40,000 each. Other expenses-actors' pay, location rent, food bills, etc.-made filmmaking an expensive undertaking. With Works in Progress being their first movie, the Pruitts turned to their church family and other small investors to help finance the film, and spent over $300,000 of their own money on the venture.
While Steve was busy researching equipment, Mary continued tightening the screenplay, closing gaps in the storyline and making space for the cameras, booms, jibs, mannequin pieces, a steadycam, lights, and 12 feet of dolly track that would become fixtures in her living room for the next two years. She ascribes to the "I write too much before I write just enough" school of screenwriting thought: "At least half of writing a good script is deleting the parts that would make a bad script."
For her, deleting was a major part of the process as a first-time screenwriter, as was adding "zingers"-important dialogue lines that end a scene.
Part room mother, part crew therapist, part short-order cook, Mary filled every gap the moviemaking crew had. "Giving birth was easier," she says. From writing the script to the final edits, co-producing as a couple took its toll. The Pruitts say the single most difficult part of making a movie together was working through issues as husband and wife in full view of their cast and crew, most of whom were single. "Paul and Barnabas thought they had it tough preaching," says Steve. "They should have tried making a movie together."
Problems-from actors leaving town and going back to school, to explaining to the neighbors the trailer in their driveway and nightly unloading of equipment-plagued production. Although the cliché in the moviemaking world is that "all mistakes are made in pre-production," the Pruitts found that potentially fatal mistakes could happen at any point in the process. While observers may think of moviemaking as standing behind a camera, Steve says that shooting great scenes was the least of their worries. A film with a great script, great actors, and great camera work is easily botched with bad sound or bad editing. According to him, "You're really never out of the woods until you're finished."
Working with a skeleton crew of about a dozen people, the Pruitts were forced, during certain scenes, to use Sam Kane (who plays the movie's villain, Frederick Kane, and is also a friend from Sunday school) to man the boom. Crises were the norm. It was so hot outside as they shot a scene in which the lead and his friend are saying goodbye to each other that they left cars running and reimbursed the actors for gas so they could sit in an air-conditioning between takes. "It was our low-rent version of a trailer," says Mary. She said she also put ice bags on the cameras to keep them cool enough to work.
Christ Community Church, the Pruitts' home church in Leawood, Kan., played an integral part in the movie. Several cast and crew members, including many extras, were friends from church. Half of the film company's outside funding came from church friends. Most of the music used in the movie was created by their church's worship leaders, Randy Bonidield, Patrick Largen, and Tim Seeley. Sara Groves, a Christian artist, allowed them to use two of her songs after they met her at a concert at their church. It was "the body of Christ at work," Mary says. Both Pruitts love the gallery scenes in the movie because most of the people milling around are extras from their church. Each scene was shot on a different night. Each person had to show up each time. "Imagine walking around in circles and not drinking your faux glass of wine for four hours," says Mary. "There's a special place in heaven for those folks."
The leads in Works in Progress had never appeared in a movie before. Greg Brostrom, the male lead who plays John Weatherford, was recommended by one of the Pruitts' daughters who knew him at Wheaton College. They found the female lead, Christina Blodgett, who plays Abbey Sanderson, through a local audition. Ben Jeffery plays Patrick O'Reilly, "the heart and soul" of the film. He was not what the Pruitts initially had in mind for the lead's best friend, but, after hearing him read for the part, they found him perfect for the role. Kate Bartholomew, who plays Abbey's best friend, also didn't fit the Pruitts' initial concept of the character, but soon won them over with her comedic portrayal of Margo. Seasoned filmmakers told them to go with the best actors they could find, so even though they picked actors and actresses who sometimes challenged their expectations, the Pruitts don't regret their decisions.
With no thinly veiled sermon, Works in Progress parts ways with Christian films like Fireproof or Facing the Giants. Steve says he feels that film is not an effective evangelistic medium, referring to a book by Paul Marshall (Heaven is Not My Home), which notes that most people who watch Christian movies are, well, Christians. Those who aren't, are either unaware these movies exist or hate them. According to Marshall, a good film is "always allusive, suggestive, and alluring; it hints, it frames, and it touches. It does not come right out and state the case; it does not argue."
Christian movies often follow an evangelistic formula because, as Marshall says, "We are impatient with the allusion, the gesture, the suggested, and latent. We want the straightforward sermon, not the implied question."
Works in Progress attempts to present its themes of integrity and responding to the prodding of the Holy Spirit with subtlety and humor, says Steve.
And rather than avoiding exposure to and critique from the secular film community, where cinematic expectations are high and the critics less likely to be forgiving of a novice's work, Steve is eager for the challenge of going head-to-head with Hollywood standards. Comparing his film only to other Christian movies is "the cinematic equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel," he says, and being judged according to secular expectations forces him to hone his moviemaking skills and produce higher-quality art.
Hard as it might be to compete in a biased environment like Hollywood, what he doesn't want to produce is "the kind of movie where patrons walk away disappointed, saying, 'Well, at least there was a good message,'" he says. For the Pruitts, this means emphasizing excellence in their artistic efforts and being honest with themselves when things aren't up to standard. And that means long days, long nights, and lots of retaping. The effort is worth it. "Most of the key players on our team would rather lose on a large, level playing field than win on a small, tilted one," Steve says.
The Pruitts and their Never2Late crew are working on their second project, a film called Terminal, a dark PG-13 drama about a district attorney dying from a brain tumor and a street-savvy woman with a terrible secret. Drawn from events in the Pruitts' own lives, the film has been emotional to write, the story coming to Steve while he was driving around the terminal at the Kansas City International Airport, he says. But with some experience, work on Terminal is smoother than Works in Progress. The Pruitts hope that these and other films-movies made by Christians rather than Christian movies-will break away from Hollywood formulas that rely heavily on the demands of the market, as well as from Christian formulas, where faith in God solves every problem and bad people always get what they deserve.


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The rad things you can make with Lego blocks
"The Lego Movie" is now in theaters, and for a movie about plastic blocks it's pretty darn good. Don't have the budget to bankroll an animated Hollywood blockbuster? Here's some cool things you still can make with enough time and Legos.
By John Boyd
on February 7, 2014 12:40 PM
'The Lego Movie'
Mount Rushmore
Epic Artwork
An entire city
This yellow man who really shouldn't have kept picking at that
A giant 'Scrooge McDuck'-like swimming pool that's probably uncomfortable
An F-1 Car
This swimmer who wishes he had a Lego snorkel
Lego Claus
An old school phone
This handsome devil
A tiger
A zebra
A gorilla
A pink flamingo
A giraffe
Really any animal you want ...
A museum-worthy T-rex
This sour puss
Really creepy skulls
A naked, famous guy
This creepy creeper
Your favorite superhero
Or a sexy villainess
A Star Wars X-Wing
Master Yoda
OK, we get it – 'Star Wars' fans like Legos
Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images


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Every Car From 2011 HOT ROD Drag WeekWritten by David Freiburger on November 10, 2011 Contributors: Hot Rod Staff
2011 HOT ROD Drag Week presented by Gear Vendors was a huge success with record 162 drivers entered. We literally take thousands of photos at the event but we can't fit all of them in the magazine so we are posting shots of every competitor's car right here. We've come pretty close to finding them all but there are a few missing. We'll keep going through the pictures and get the missing cars online asap. Thanks again to all our sponsors, volunteers, staff and especially the Drag Week drivers. See you in 2012.


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CMS Announces the Names of Plans Offering Coverage for the New Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
September 28, 2005
On September 23, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the names of the plans in each state that will be offering coverage under the upcoming Medicare prescription drug benefit. Beginning in mid-October, these plans will begin marketing coverage to all Medicare beneficiaries. Enrollment in drug plans will start on November 15 and coverage will begin on January 1, 2006.
Under the new Medicare Part D drug benefit, coverage will be offered through federally-approved private sector prescription drug plans (PDPs) and Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, rather than through a single federal bureaucracy. This will provide beneficiaries with a choice of as many as 20 plans in some states. There will be 8 plans that operate nationally. In 44 states, MA plans offering drug coverage at no cost will be available -- these managed care MA plans offer coverage of physician and hospital services in addition to medications.
According to CMS, in every state (except Alaska) there will be at least one plan with a monthly premium of less than $20 (far below the expected average monthly premium of $37). More importantly, in every state there will be multiple plan options available for dual eligible beneficiaries and individuals receiving low-income assistance, i.e. plans that are at, or below, the average cost (see below).
Enrollment Process for Dual Eligibles
Individuals concurrently eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid (about 1.2 million of whom have a severe mental illness) will be required to enroll in the new Medicare Part D program -- at no cost. After November 15, CMS will begin enrolling these dual eligible beneficiaries into PDPs and MA plans that are at or below the regional average. Upon auto-enrollment, dual eligibles will be able to switch to any plan that is at or below the average regional plan -- even on a monthly basis after January 1. Dual eligibles will receive coverage with no monthly premium, no annual deductible and cost sharing limited to $1 for generic medications and $3 for brand name medications.
For low-income Medicare beneficiaries -- those at or below 150% of the federal poverty level -- (about $14,300 for an individual and $19,200 for couples) -- subsidies are available in order to make drug coverage affordable. Beneficiaries can apply for these subsidies now through the Social Security Administration (www.ssa.gov), senior centers and retail pharmacists.
By mid-October, CMS will be making available several internet-based decision and search tools that will allow beneficiaries to make decisions about enrollment and compare the coverage available under each drug plan for specific medications. These search tools will be available at www.medicare.gov
New Mental Health Part D Web Site
NAMI is a partner with other leading mental health organizations in sponsoring a new Web site for the latest information on Medicare's new prescrption drug benefit, especially for consumers without coverage or who currently receive prescriptions through Medicaid. Visit www.mentalhealthpartd.org. The new benefit starts January 1, 2006 and will mean changes for many people receiving treatment for mental illnesses.
A separate independent website will also be available to compare the available drug plans at www.maprx.info
To view a map of available prescription drug plans (PDPs) and Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, click here.


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|Plant a seed and read with the Friends of the Library
|Written by Darci Tomky
Heginbotham Library patrons are helping the library grow by joining and supporting the local Friends of the Library group, which held its annual salad luncheon Monday, Feb. 3.
The flower-themed event was held at Phillips County Museum and featured guest speaker Julie Dirks, owner of the Flower Garden in Holyoke.
She gave the group some tips and tricks on growing flowers from seeds—something that takes a lot of patience! Dirks advised them to start thinking about a theme for their garden, such as a butterfly garden or a moonlight garden, and then to start planning for when to plant the seeds, what to plant them in and how to nurture them so they grow.
Outgoing Friends of the Library president Linda Jelden praised the group for their continued support of the library and how it has grown.
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Colorado Parks and Wildlife has started work on a construction project to install a long-sought fish screen in Rifle Creek.
Fed by Rifle Gap Reservoir, the creek is a tributary to the Colorado River and is northeast of the city of Rifle.
Agencies involved in the project include Colorado Parks and Wildlife, the Silt Water Conservancy District and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. A majority of the funding for the project came from sportsmen's dollars, generated from the sale of fishing and hunting licenses.
Once it is functioning, the screen will prevent non-native fish that have escaped from Rifle Gap and into Rifle Creek from reaching the Colorado River, where they can be harmful to native fish populations.
Officials say it will be complete and operational by spring of 2013.
Lori Martin, aquatic biologist for Colorado Parks and Wildlife in the northwest region, called it a "win-win project all the way around."
"We are protecting native fish populations downstream, while simultaneously having the opportunity to improve a combination, cool- and warm-water fishery within Rifle Gap," she said. "We are answering the call of our anglers who are seeking more warm water fishing opportunities, but also keeping in mind the concerns of our partners within the Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program."
That program is a multi-state, multi-agency effort headed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service with a goal to recover four endangered fish found only in the Upper Colorado River system: The Colorado pikeminnow, razorback sucker, bonytail chub, and humpback chub.
Brent Uilenberg of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation agreed the project would help both sport fishing and endangered fish downstream. Uilenberg said the project will not affect reservoir operations or water supplies.
According to the Fish and Wildlife Service, the 100-year floodplain of the Colorado River downstream from the bridge over Interstate 70 at exit 90, is critical habitat for the Colorado pikeminnow and razorback sucker.
Current recovery efforts include removing non-native predators from sections of the upper Colorado River system, and preventing fish from escaping lakes and reservoirs where non-natives are thriving, often with the use of fish screens.
The existing cool- and warm-water fishery of smallmouth bass and walleye in Rifle Gap has been self-sustaining since the 1960s, when the former Colorado Division of Wildlife stocked both species, before the recovery program. Currently, trout are the only fish that can be legally stocked into Rifle Gap.
After the fish screen is in place, Colorado Parks and Wildlife managers will begin drafting a new lake management plan for Rifle Gap before submitting it to the Fish and Wildlife and other recovery program agencies for final approval.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife gathered initial input for fishery management within Rifle Gap Reservoir, including the installation of the fish screen, during a public meeting in August 2010. The agency plans more meetings in the coming months to provide the public with a chance for input as the agency drafts the final lake management plan.
Warm-water fishing has become increasingly popular in western Colorado. However, opportunities are currently limited due to concerns with the threat that some non-native fish species can pose to native fishes.
Despite those concerns, state wildlife officials continue to look for effective ways, including the installation and maintenance of approved fish screens, to satisfy angler's requests for additional warm water fishing without compromising native fish recovery efforts.
"Cold-water fisheries in western Colorado are famous world-wide," said Sherman Hebein, senior aquatic biologist in the northwest region. "But we also have a core of dedicated anglers that appreciate warm water alternatives, and we are working hard to provide them as much opportunity as we are able, given some of the obstacles and limitations we must take into consideration."


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