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Movie Reviews - 2009 postsSaturday February 07, 2015
Movie Review: Nowhere Boy (2009)
I kept waiting for it. Aunt Mimi's line. One of the most famous in rock 'n' roll history. All together now:
The guitar's all right, John, but you'll never make a living from it.
The question is when. Will she say it after John's been suspended from school and she punishes him by selling his guitar? Nope. OK, what about after he buys it back again? Or when he's just playing it too loudly? Hey, maybe they'll end with it! That would make sense. Good last line, since we know he'll not only make a living with it, he'll make history with it. But they don't end that way, either. They end with John (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) telling Mimi (Kristin Scott Thomas) that he's off to Hamburg with the lads and he'll call her when he arrives. Then he's out the door and down the street, and the soundtrack picks up on John Lennon's "Mother" ("You had me/ But I never had you"), and ... credits.
Bloody hell.
Screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh ("Control") and director Sam Taylor-Wood get a lot right, but I don't know how they could've missed that one.
Actually they get a lot wrong, too.
Doesn't have a point of view
Start with Paul. Please.
I like Thomas Brodie-Sangster. I liked him in "Love Actually" and "Game of Thrones." He's a good young actor. Cute, too. But he's kind of spooky cute, while Paul was the epitome of cute: puppy-dog eyes, rosebud lips, a bit of an overbite. Plus Brodie-Sangster's Paul is much too slight next to Taylor-Johnson's John. Brodie-Sanster is actually a month older than Taylor-Johnson but he looks about five years younger. Paul was the most accomplished singer of the group, and they make him seem the least here. They make George (Sam Bell) seem more confident and outgoing than Paul. George.
But they get a lot right: Paul meeting John after a Quarrymen (skiffle) concert and impressing everyone because he knows the music and lyrics to Eddie Cochran's "Twenty Flight Rock." George doing something similar on the back of the bus. They also do their best to make such moments seem ordinary rather than freighted with meaning. They're not triumphant; they're just another day.
Taylor-Johnson is a good actor, and there are times, particularly once he begins wearing the Clark Kent glasses with the leather jacket, where, boy, he looks a lot like John in that period: the rock 'n' roll John. At the same time, he won't make anyone forget Ian Hart. And don't they make him too nice for much of the movie? John was a tough SOB, and often a prick, and you get a bit of that at the end. You get the silly drawings and the silly wordplay (later described as "Joycean" by reviewers around the world), and you get a reference to Stu, as in Sutcliffe, John's art student friend who died of a brain aneuryism in 1962. There's a real effort to be historically accurate to John's life in the years between 1955 and 1960. But too much is missing.
The movie is essentially a battle for John's soul, or some such, between two sisters—the rowdy biological mother and the strict, steadfast aunt who raised him—and the big reveal is how and why Mimi wound up caring for him back in the early '40s, which is hardly a reveal at all. The movie's great lesson is, "There's just no point hating someone you love," which is spoken by an 18-year-old John, wise before his years, but that wasn't him. Not then anyway.
The real winner in the battle for John? Director Sam Taylor-Wood, who wound up marrying her leading man, 23 years her junior, and changing her name to Sam Taylor-Johnson. She's now directing "Fifty Shades of Grey."
Knows not where it's going to
To be fair, I would've killed for this movie 35 years ago. I was latching onto anything Beatlesish back then. Classmates were all into REO Speedwagon or the Knack, and I was all about the Beatles. I remember how excited I was when "The Birth of the Beatles" came to TV one Friday night. My first SIFF movie was "The Hours and Times," a short, almost experimental film positing what might've happened between John and Brian Epstein during their Barcelona trip in '63, and I saw "Backbeat," a 1994 birth movie focusing on Stu Sutcliffe, in the theaters.
They're still not getting it right. "Nowhere Boy" is another forgettable movie about our most unforgettable band.
Posted at 07:34 AM on Feb 07, 2015 in category Movie Reviews - 2009
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Movie Review: Sherlock Holmes (2009)
What if the character 'Sherlock Holmes' had been an original 21st-century creation of this film—of Guy Ritchie and Michael Robert Johnson and Anthony Peckham and Simon Kinberg and (whew) Lion Wigram, as well as Robert Downey, Jr., of course—instead of a 19th-century creation of Sir Athur Conan Doyle? How well would the movie have done with the critics and how well at the box office and how well with moviegoers after they'd plunked down their $10 plus and had a day, a week, a month, a year to mull it over?
I was mulling this over because, after two years of a self-imposed embargo, and as prep for the sequel, I finally watched "Sherlock Holmes" and for the most part enjoyed myself. It's well art-directed, Downey, Jr. and Jude Law (Dr. Watson) have great chemistry, Rachel McAdams (Irene Adler) is always a pleasure, and the movie zips. It zips too much for me, of course, and for top critics, whose approval rating wound up at 56% on Rotten Tomatoes, but not too much for moviegoers in general, who spent $209 million on it in the U.S., $524 million worldwide, and who, having mulled it over, have given it a 7.5 rating (out of 10) on IMDb.com—akin, among Downey's work, to "Wonder Boys," and better than "Chaplin" (7.3) and "The Soloist" (6.7).
So what would've happened if this thing called "Sherlock Holmes" had been an original creation? I think its box office would've dropped, but not astronomically (no name recognition but everyone likes a roller coaster ride), its IMDb numbers would gone up (to 7.7 or possibly higher), because its top critics ratings at Rotten Tomatoes would've soared. I think the critics would've loved it.
"A cerebral roller-coaster ride!"
Peter Rainer
Christian Science Monitor
"A brilliant throwback to the 19th-century battle between magic and science!"
David Edelstein
New York Magazine
"In Sherlock Holmes, we have the first Asperger's detective."
Manohla Dargis
The New York Times
But we really can't play that game. Sherlock Holmes has been an icon for more than a century. You can't just wipe that away. As much as they tried.
How much did they try? Ritchie, a Brit, is the first man to turn Sherlock Holmes into both an American and a Hollywood action hero.
The real Sherlock Holmes used his mind to solve crimes and mysteries. This one uses his mind, yes, but just as often, maybe more often, his fists. In the opening scene, as a female sacrifice writhes on a table (sexy!), Holmes and Watson take on a roomful of baddies as if they're Jackie Chan and Jet Li.
The real Sherlock Holmes used the power of deductive reasoning to solve crimes, as does this one. But in the original stories, the evidence was there for us if we wanted to put it together ourselves. We rarely could. (Or I rarely could.) When Holmes did, however, we almost always went, "Of course!" Here, the evidence by which things are deduced is simply told to us after they've been deduced. Zip, zip, zip, zip. Get a move on. What's that? You want to try to solve it? Just munch your popcorn, Einstein. Roller coaster's pulling out of the station.
The real Sherlock Holmes was a cocaine user and violinist. He compared the brain to an attic—there's only so much room, so you'd better be careful that what you put up there doesn't crowd out worthier stuff. He had a smarter brother, Mycroft, and a nemesis, Prof. Moriarty, and a partner, Dr. Watson, who was sharp but not as sharp as Holmes, and he had informants, street kids, called the Baker Street Irregulars. He was a solitary man but found Watson's help "invaluable"—which, to my 12-year-old ears, associating the prefix "in" with "the opposite of" (ex: "inconceivable"), sounded like the gravest insult when it was really his greatest compliment. He smoked a pipe. He wore a deerstalker cap.
This one? His plucks his violin, bowless, and smokes a pipe, ocassionally, and mentions Mycroft and sniffs some questionable substances. But cocaine and the attic aren't mentioned, the deerstalker hat isn't worn, and holy crap is he ever needy. The main personal tension within the film is his pain over Dr. Watson's impending marriage to Mary (Kelly Reilly). He needs Watson with him whenever the game's afoot. You get the feeling Irene Adler, Holmes' love interest, shows up not only because it's the movies and you need a girl but to quiet suspicions that Holmes might be gay.
My favorite bit was early on. Holmes is in a restaurant waiting for Watson and Mary. The other patrons talk, their cutlery clinks, and the noises intensify until it becomes almost unbearable for Holmes. It seems like Asperger's. That would've been an interesting direction to go in. Of course it would've been less lucrative so they dropped it. Too bad. It would make sense of his seclusions. The world is too much with him. The acute senses that help him solve crimes also make it difficult to live in the world.
To the plot! Lord Blackwood (Mark Strong, who went on to play every villain in every movie made since) is the illegitimate son of Sir Thomas Rotheram (James Fox), head of a Freemasons-like secret society. Blackwood is responsible for the murder of several women—all writhing, one assumes—captured by Holmes, sentenced to death. But there's something steely and menacing about him even behind bars or with the hangman's noose around his neck. A week later, someone sees him rise from the dead. Then he's killing again—not least his biological father.
Turns out he uses science and chemicals and whatnot (Holmes' wheelhouse) to appear magical and foster fear. He's a 19th century terrorist. His goal is to take over Parliament and then—perhaps to ensure American audience interest—to reclaim Britain's former colony across the pond. Amid a lot of running, fighting, explosions, and sniffing substances on his fingertips, Holmes stops him.
All the screenwriters mentioned above earned their pay; we get some fun stuff. There's a giant Frenchman, Dredger (Robert Maillet), the "Jaws" of his day, whom Holmes must battle twice, and with whom he has the following exchange after Holmes' weapon proves ineffective:
Dredger: Cours, lapin, cours. (Run, rabbit, run.)
Holmes: Avec plaisir.
Bailed from prison, where he has been regaling criminals with jokes and stories, Holmes has this exchange with the always incompetent Inspector Lestrade (Eddie Marsan):
Lestrade: You know, in another life you'd have made an excellent criminal.
Holmes: And you, sir, an excellent policeman.
I also like this exchange with Watson's fiancee:
Mary: Making these grand assumptions out of tiny details.
Holmes: That's not quite right, is it? In fact, it's the little details that are most important.
The filmmakers do the "Batman Begins" thing of saving the iconic villain (Joker/Prof. Moriarty) for the sequel. All tentpole movies do this now. They're all hoping for a "Dark Knight." Good luck with that.
"Sherlock Holmes" is fun but it's another part of our day-to-day disconnect. It's a movie about a man of supreme concentration with which we distract ourselves for two hours. That's the true game and boy is it ever afoot.
Posted at 06:59 AM on Dec 18, 2011 in category Movie Reviews - 2009
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Movie Review: Le Concert (2009)
"Le concert" is French, so I assumed refined, about classical music, so I assumed refined again. Plus it was nominated for le meilleur film at the '09 Cesars. But it's a rather broad comedy about a group of Russian misfits who pretend to be the Bolshoi Orchestra, and whose concert in Paris looks to be a disaster until they come together and play like a team. It's basically a misfit baseball movie ("Bad News Bears"; "Major League"), but with Tchaikovsky instead of horsehide.
Andrey Simonovich Filipov (Alexeď Guskov) is the one-time conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra, who, because of a run-in with Brezhnev in 1980, is now its janitor, bossed around by a bald Khruschevian blowhard. We later find out he has a reputation abroad, not only as a great conductor but as a man of conviction who stood up against anti-Semitism and despotism and suffered for it. He's the Alexander Solzhenitsyn of conductors! So why is he still schlepping 20 years after the Iron Curtain fell? Why not move to Paris or New York or, hell, Milwaukee? Doesn't he know his reputation?
For the purposes of this broad comedy, though, he's still schlepping at the Bolshoi when, in the office of the current director, a fax arrives from the Châtelet Theater in Paris requesting a one-night performance. Filipov, scheming, takes the fax, deletes the corresponding email, and puts together the old team: his right-hand man Sasha (Dmitri Nazarov), a Russian bear of a man; Ivan Gavrilov (Valeriy Barinov), the KGB officer who fingered him, but who is needed for his French language skills and management capabilities; and various Jews (Viktor: Aleksandr Komissarov), Gypsies (Vassili: Anghel Gheorghe) and misfits. A deal with Paris is struck, passports and visas forged, and a gangster/beneficiary found to pay for airfare. Bienvenue a Paris!
Turns out many of the characters have ulterior motives for going: Gavrilov to hook up with the French communist party; Viktor and his son Moďse to sell caviar; and Filipov, most of all, to connect with his soloist for the concert, the beautiful violinist Anne-Marie Jacquet (Mélanie Laurent), who is the daughter of .... ?
It's tricky. At first, I thought she was Filipov's daughter—the result of a liaison with the wife of a friend. That would explain why Jacquet's handler, Guylčne de La Rivičre (Miou Miou), initially turns down the offer to play with Filipov. It would also explain why Filipov keeps all of Anne-Marie's recordings and press clippings and why he gets all moony-eyed around her. It would also explain why he takes her out to dinner and why he is hesitant, initially, to explain why he chose her as his soloist.
He could reply, "Because you are the best." Instead, when she asks, he launches into the tale of his undoing: how, at the Bolshoi, he had a great Jewish soloist, Lea, with whom he was going to achieve greatness in music, but how they were stopped halfway through a Tchaikovsky concert by Gavrilov for illegally employing Jewish musicians; how he was ruined and how Lea and her husband subsequently denounced Brezhnev and were sent to Siberia, where they died.
What she should say: "I still don't see what this has to do with me."
What she says: "You're nice, but sick, and I refuse to play with you."
What she's really saying: "We need some false tension for the last third of the film to go with the false tension of who my parents are. Everyone knows I'll play with you."
Intercut with this broad drama are scenes of broad comedy: clashes between noisy, grasping Russians and cultivated French. The Russians disperse, like the satellites of the Soviet Union itself, around Paris, and can't be bothered to show up for practice even though they've never practiced together.
Meanwhile Sasha tells Anne-Marie, over the objections of Guylčne, that if she plays for Filipov she may find out who her true parents were. (She's been told they were scientists or something who died in a plane crash in the Alps.) So she shows up. As does everyone else. Well, Viktor and Moďse turn up late. You know Jews.
Initially, yes, the orchestra sounds like crap, and there are titters from the cultivated French crowd, and exasperation from the stuffy French critic, and worried looks back home, where the concert is being shown live on television. But Gavrilov, the former KGB man, reveals his worth by sacrificing his communist-party commitment to lock the true Bolshoi director, the Khruschevian blowhard, who shows up at the 11th hour, in an underground room; then he, this Godless communist, prays to God that the musicians will come together and make beautiful music.
Which they do. The Tchaikovsky is beautiful, the Châtelet is beautiful, and the filming augments the beauty of each; and through the music, and through Filipov's impassioned conducting, Anne-Marie realizes her parents were, yes, Lea and her husband, who sacrificed so much; and though she is not reunited with them, though they are still as dead as the parents she thought she had for the first 28 years of her life, she is somehow filled and satisfied and made whole. As is Filipov, who goes on to fame and fortune.
"Le concert" is not a good movie. It's not even as good as those misfit baseball movies I referenced earlier. The original "Bad News Bears" and "Major League" sketch their secondary characters better, and you see them practicing together, which is why they wind up succeeding. "Bad News Bears" even has the 1970s-era message that it's about the performance, not the winning, which is a message Hollywood doesn't send much, or we don't receive much, anymore. "Le concert" implies you don't need to practice, just wing it, and maybe with a prayer to God ... voila!
Plus: Why the subterfuge about Anne-Marie's parents in the first place? Why didn't Guylčne tell her, particularly when she became a musical prodigy, that her parents were Soviet musicians who died heroes' deaths? Why create and maintain a lie that has less meaning than the truth?
Admittedly, there is something admirable about making classical music accessible to the masses via a broad comedy/drama like this; but that doesn't make the film meilleur. It doesn't even make it bon.
Posted at 06:35 AM on Aug 31, 2011 in category Movie Reviews - 2009
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Movie Review: Vincere (2009)
Once, in my fiction writing days, I contemplated a story about a character who became famous, after which he would no longer be seen with the third-person omniscient voice. From then on, the reader would only experience him in the third person, and only through a media filter. It would be as if he went into another realm. I suppose that's how I see the famous: in another realm.
"Vincere," written and directed by Marco Bellocchio, does something similar but better.
The first half of the movie focuses on the torrid romance between Ida Dalser (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) and a young, Socialist journalist, Benito Mussolini (Filippo Timi), in Milano in the 1910s. They get married, have a child. Then she discovers he's already married. As he accrues power, she is shunted to the side. Once he becomes prime minister, he disappears from the story. We only experience him through a media filter: in newsreel footage and newspaper photos. It's as if he disappeared into another realm.
Here's the "better." Ida is eventually put into an insane asylum, where she keeps insisting she's the wife of Benito Mussolini. Initially, since it's her story we're watching, we think this is a gross injustice. But at some point we wonder: Wait a minute. Did the first half of the film, that fevered dream, happen? Or did it only happen in her mind? That Mussolini is played by Timi as a young man and himself in newsreel footage furthers our doubt.
This doubt, I'm willing to concede, could be reserved for people, like myself, unfamiliar with her story. Or his.
That surprised me. I don't know much about Mussolini, do I? I just know the bald, strutting clown on the balcony, head tilted up, bottom lip pouted, arms akimbo. But that he was once a journalist? And a socialist? And had hair?
Timi plays him intense, with love and sex as distractions from the greater game of politics and power. Mezzogiorno plays her distracted by love and sex. Mussolini becomes her all, her reason for living. She slips him notes in the middle of political protests and sells her business to promote his. This is in 1914. Another scene takes place in 1907, as the police break up a nighttime protest, and she pulls him over to the side, kisses him, strokes the back of his head ... which is covered in blood. It's like a scene out of a horror movie. Is this where they meet? Or does she first see him during the opening scene, a theological debate between a priest and the young Socialist. Mussolini asks for a watch and then challenges God to strike him dead in five minutes to prove He exists. Mussolini lives. Ergo...
This jumping around from place to place, from year to year, adds to the sense of a fevered dream. How do they hook up again? He always seems there. His voice is thunderous during protests but in private he hardly speaks to her. Is she there? Is he?
And why so many scenes in movie theaters? While watching newsreel footage of the beginnings of the Great War, he cries out "Viva Italia!" and helps cause a riot that mirrors the violence on screen. In the hospital, wounded, he watches Giulio Antamoro's "Cristus" and probably gets ideas—as if he needed them. She sees ... is it a jungle movie? ... and the kids in the audience act the apes.
Life is mirrored on the screen. Then life becomes the screen. Suddenly he's prime minister, and at the theater Ida's view is blocked by all the young Fascists standing and saluting his image, huge now, and one-dimensional. She has to share him with everyone.
First he looks down at her from his balcony with contempt ...
... then she looks up at his image during the newsreels ...
... where everyone stands and salutes ...
... his huge, flickering, one-dimensional image.
Her brother-in-law, with whom she's staying in Trento, tells her, "Resign yourself." She says, "I can't." She says, with a fierce intensity in her eyes, "I was the first to believe in him ... I'm the mother of his first-born son."
Attempting to meet Mussolini's functionary in Trento (she's reduced to that), she's beaten by black shirts and interred in a mental hospital in Pergine. She fits right in. "I'm Mussolini's wife!" she cries. "And I'm Napoleon's!" another woman answers. Then the stakes become known. "My son is waiting," she says. Everyone just stares.
The inmates of Pergine.
The nuns of Pergine.
There is no figure more sympathetic than a mother kept from her child, but initially Ida doesn't have ours. In practical terms, she chooses her lover, who is one of the great criminals of the 20th century, over her son, who is an innocent. She turns totalitarian eyes toward him. The secret police tear him from her sister's family and place him in a private school, where he can be watched. It's a heart-rending scene. "Uncle, help!" the boy shouts as the uncle is held back and the car speeds away. Maybe I found it heart-rending because I'm an uncle.
Yet her uncompromising stance is both her tragedy and her triumph. Most of us resign ourselves to the ways of power, even in a democracy, but she doesn't bend even to Fascism. Powerful people visit her, this powerless inmate, but she has the truth like a fire in her eyes and she's not willing to give it up. She's shuttled around. A sympathetic doctor in Venice cautions her to play along, to compromise, so she can get back to her son, then shows her Charlie Chaplin's "The Kid" to drive the point home; but even then she's only willing to go so far. Dragged back to Pergine, sitting before an array of doctors, she seems willing play her part—everyone just wants her to play her part—but at the end she adds, yes, that her son is the first-born child of Benito Mussolini. Negotiations commence. "Senora, just admit you lied." "Then I would be released?" "In due time." Pause. "No, no. This questioning ... is a farce."
There's a beautiful scene, a Christmas scene, where she climbs an iron fence and sails out letters to her son amid the swirl of snowfall. It's a fruitless act but it feels like a necessary act. Her circumstances are specific but it seems a universal gesture. We are all trapped in some way. We are all just trying to get word out to someone we love.
"Vincere" is beautifully filmed and powerfully acted but its story is uneven, its ending unsatisfying. Did Bellocchio need to focus on the elements he focused on? Were there no better scenes? Were some cut? We get seven fewer minutes in the States than they got in Italy. What did we miss?
That was my first reaction. But I find myself warming to its unknowability. It feels like it's trying to communicate something important but I can't fathom it. It feels like a letter sailed out into the night.
Posted at 06:07 AM on Jan 27, 2011 in category Movie Reviews - 2009
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Review: John Rabe (2009)
After nearly 75 years of ignoring the topic, two films about the Rape of Nanjing, one Chinese and one German, were released in 2009. Both suffer the same melodramatic impulse. It's not enough to show atrocity, we have to show uplift. The music has to well. Good people have to march onward even as what they leave behind is so unspeakable as to shatter faith in God.
The Chinese film, "Nanjing! Nanjing!," is reviewed here.
The German film, "John Rabe," focuses, no surprise, on the German, John Rabe (Ulrich Tukur of "Seraphine"), a member of the National Socialist Party (NaSi or Nazi), who, at the start, has spent years in Nanjing building a dam for the German company Siemens. It's his pride and joy.
But it's December 1937. The Japanese have attacked China and are approaching Nanjing (literally: southern capital), and anyway Rabe's been recalled by Siemens to Germany. He and his wife are to leave in two days.
Rabe is not exactly a warm figure here. He calls the Chinese "good for nothing" and "children," he has made no effort to learn their language, and he assumes he's safe from the Japanese. "After all, they are allies of the Reich," he says. When Japanese Zeros begin to bomb his compound, he unfurls a large Nazi flag and has everyone hide beneath it. That night he writes in his diary: "The Japanese are indeed good allies. They hold their fire as soon as they see the flag. Very honorable."
This is one of my favorite parts of the movie. It's so easy, in historical dramas, to make protagonists more cognizant of future events than their peers, and most filmmakers can't resist the impulse (see: Michael Corleone in "Godfather Part II"), so it's nice when they do. The present's messy and uncertain. We know we're watching a movie about an unimaginable holocaust, but unimaginable holocausts are unimaginable. No one thinks they'll live through one today, tomorrow, or next week.
Unfortunately, we begin to get intimations of something warmer about Rabe. He's certainly a nicer man than the Siemens exec, Werner Fleiss (Mathias Herrmann), who's been sent to replace him. Fleiss berates Rabe for allowing a portrait of Hitler to be covered up, and for not flying his huge Nazi flag—literally and figuratively. Then he lowers the boom. He's not just replacing Rabe: Siemens is shutting down the project. All Rabe's hard work—gone. "The dam," Rabe tells his wife, "would've been my legacy."
To which we think: Ah, but he'll have a different legacy.
In a stiff ceremony, Rabe receives an award as "a hero to the Chinese people," which is greeted with catcalls from a drunk American, Dr. Wilson (Steve Buscemi), who thinks little of the Nazi businessman. He mocks him. "Hero to the Chinese people," he says sarcastically.
To which we think: Ah, but soon he WILL be a hero to the Chinese people.
As the Japanese move into Nanjing, an international contingent, including Valérie Dupres (Anne Consigny of "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"), a woman with whom Rabe has a subtle flirtation, attempts to establish a "Safety Zone" for both themselves and their Chinese workers. Against Rabe's wishes, he's made its president. The music wells up heroically. A day later, Rabe attempts to flee. At least that's what the others fear, since they see his name and the name of his wife on the passenger list of the last ship leaving Nanjing. They rush down to the dock. There's tension. Then they see him and his wife making their way through the crowd. It's true! He's leaving!
Except there is no tension. We know he's not leaving. Otherwise we wouldn't be watching the movie we're watching.
His wife gets on the ship, yes, but he stays behind, absurdly holding a bird cage, and standing on the top step of the elevated stairs as the ship pulls away. A moment later, Japanese Zeros strafe the ship. He screams her name. For some reason, in this crowded port, no one is near him. He's all alone watching this attack. Because they couldn't afford extras? Because it suggests how alone he is now? It's China, kids. No one is ever alone.
First he loses his legacy, then he loses his wife. This is a big moment in the film. How does he pick himself up? We don't know. He just does. You could argue he's on a suicide mission. Medical supplies, including insulin, are low or nonexistent in the Safety Zone, but he tells no one he has diabetes. He simply channels his German efficiency into helping the Chinese rather than Siemens. Instead of building a system to hold back water, he's building a system to hold back the Japanese.
The horrors get worse. Executions of Chinese men are rampant. Chinese girls cut their hair to seem like boys to prevent rape. Nanjing 1937 is, in fact, one of the true horrors of he modern age, and we should get a sense of these few foreigners propping up the last bit of sane ground in an insane world. But we don't. Instead we get subplots. Rabe and Wilson bond over drink. Dupres confesses to Rabe she's housing a whole platoon of Chinese soldiers in a secret room. Rabe and Wilson and Dr. Georg Rosen (Daniel Bruhl of "Inglourious Basterds") argue over protocol. There are even intimations of romance between Rosen and a Chinese girl. He leaves her a dress. She puts it on. They talk on a couch. Seriously? We need a love story? Are we that pathetic?
There's one great scene. While Rabe and the others are hat-in-hand at the Japanese embassy, Rabe's driver, Chang (Ming Li), walking around his car and smoking, is confronted by an angry Japanese guard, who demands, in Japanese, that he stay in his car. But Chang doesn't speak Japanese. When Rabe leaves the compound, Chang is nowhere to be seen. He searches for him, yells his name, finds him in a fenced-in area with other Chinese who are in the process of being decapitated. It's a contest sponsored by a Japanese newspaper: What honorable Japanese soldier can decapitate the most Chinese? Rabe tries to get them to stop, to rescue his driver, but Chang is decapitated before his eyes. A Japanese official later says the driver wasn't following the rules. "He didn't stay in the car?" Rabe answers. "His head was cut off!" To compensate him for his loss, Rabe is allowed to choose 20 Chinese to take with him, but this is a Faustian bargain. He has to decide who lives and dies. He does it with German efficiency and something like horror in his eyes.
This scene is a rarity, though. Too often, writer/director Florian Gallenberger gives over to melodrama. Near the end, the Japanese want to clear out the Safety Zone and remove evidence of their atrocities before an international contingent arrives, but Rabe and the others stand in the way; they stand in front of more Chinese who are about to be killed. The Japanese begin to go through with the executions anyway: "Ready... aim..." Then the deus ex machina: the sound of the ship arriving with the international contingency. Rabe wins but the movie loses. God, ex machina or otherwise, should not show up here.
The ending is even worse. Rabe is forced to step down as president of the Safety Zone and return to Germany, and, as he makes his way through a throng of grateful Chinese, they chant his name and shout good-bye: "Tzi jien! Tzi jien!" At the other side of this throng, just outside Nanjing, a walled city, stands his wife, still alive, and he rushes to greet her, and they embrace, and a cheer goes up from the Chinese throng. Yay! The German guy is back with his wife! Yay! We're all about to die! Yay!
How much more effective, how truer, if, after all the good he'd done, he'd left unceremoniously, as alone as he'd been at the port. What group of people recognizes individual good as it's being done? Don't we need historians to piece things together? Hell, I'm even cynical about that proposition.
And cheering him? Wouldn't the remaining Chinese have clawed at him to get him to stay? Or to take them along? Or to take their babies with him so they wouldn't be skewered by the Japanese?
Instead the Chinese act as audience for this German couple in a story that is about the atrocities that happened to them.
The Rape of Nanjing is a horrific story worth telling. We just keep telling it wrong.
Posted at 08:21 AM on Oct 19, 2010 in category Movie Reviews - 2009
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Pumpkin Fest - a fun, free, family event where kids can hunt holiday squash from a pumpkin patch made especially for them - returns to the Silverthorne Pavilion for the 11th year on Sunday. As in past years, the pumpkins are free, one per child while supplies last. However, while the offer of free pumpkins stands, this year's event promises hours of fun outside the pumpkin patch too.
"We are extending hours and adding free activities for the kids," said Blair Lollis, Silverthorne Pavilion and marketing coordinator.
New activities include a petting zoo and kids' games like conk a crow, lasso the longhorn and a cow pie toss. There will be three bounce houses, free face painting and a few trucks from the Public Works department so kids can "touch a truck," Lollis said.
In the past, Pumpkin Fest has taken place closer to the end of the month. Children arrive in costume, grab a pumpkin and head off to the Outlets at Silverthorne to trick or treat.
This year, families are invited to stay awhile at the pumpkin patch. "We're bringing back the 'fest' in Pumpkin Fest," Lollis said. "It will not be the mad dash it has been in years past. You don't have to be there right at 11 a.m. to get a pumpkin."
Instead, this year's event is designed to build community. "We want people to come out and grab a pumpkin, and while the kids are running around we want neighbors to be able to enjoy each other's company, grab some coffee and just be out and about enjoying their community," Lollis said. "It's a community event, geared around locals."
The pumpkins are sourced from Rocky Mountain Pumpkin Patch's Longmont farms. The group farms 1,000 acres, divided between ten farms, on land leased from Boulder County Open Space. All of their produce is USDA Certified Organic.
"I love the pumpkins that they provide," Lollis said, commenting on both their size and condition. Organizers ordered 750 pumpkins in total.
Since families will "pick" them in mid-October this year, they'll have plenty of time to carve and enjoy their jack-o-lanterns before Halloween.
Pumpkin Fest is sponsored by the Outlets at Silverthorne and Red Buffalo Coffee and put on by the town of Silverthorne. Red Buffalo will serve free hot chocolate, coffee and tea from noon to 1 p.m. Children, both big and small, are invited to test-drive their costumes at Sunday's event.
On Oct. 30, the Outlets at Silverthorne will again host Trick or Treat Off Main Street, distributing candy, stickers or treats to kids from 2-4 p.m. while offering holiday shopping specials for parents.

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Major success for T-DM1
02.10.2012 - Roche's trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) appears to keep its promises. The armed antibody significantly extended overall survival in breast cancer patients.
Roche presented the latest big pack of Phase III data for T-DM1 at the ESMO conference currently being held in Vienna. The EMILIA study has shown that people with previously treated HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer survived significantly longer when treated with T-DM1 compared to those who received the standard-of-care, a combination of lapatinib and capecitabine. Results showed the risk of death was reduced by 32% for people who received the antibody-drug conjugate compared to those who received lapatinib plus Xeloda (HR=0.68; P=0.0006). People in the study treated with trastuzumab emtansine survived a median of 5.8 months longer than those who received lapatinib and Xeloda (median overall survival: 30.9 months vs. 25.1 months). No new safety signals were observed and adverse events (AEs) were consistent with those seen in previous studies, with fewer people who received trastuzumab emtansine experiencing Grade 3 or higher (severe) adverse events than those who received lapatinib plus Xeloda (40.8 percent vs. 57.0 percent).
Representatives from Roche and industry experts were "extremely pleased" with the results. "Roche is moving away from Herceptin, with successors that are not just an inch better, but much, much better," said Andrew Weiss from Vontobel. Simos Simeonidis from SG Cowen has laid out a bullish marketing scenario, expecting that T-DM1 could earn more than its predecessor Herceptin (US$5.4bn) last year. "And since it will probably be priced at a meaningful premium to Herceptin, we think T-DM1 could end up as one of the biggest biotech drugs", Simeonidis said.
Genentech Inc., a Roche subsidiary situated in San Francisco (USA), is the developer of T-DM1. The company has already filed a marketing application for the drug to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the US. The development was accomplished under an agreement with ImmunoGen, Inc. from Waltham (USA). The company from Massachusetts provides the linker chemistry and the compound drug's cancer killing agent, which is targeted by the antibody (trastuzumab) to Her2neu tumour cell receptors. ImmunoGen calls its technology TAP, Targeted Antibody Payload. The cytotoxic agent is a derivative of maytansine that inhibits the assembly of microtubules. Maytansines are potent toxins that naturally occur in the shrubs and trees of the Genus Maytenus spp.
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GaW27166 wrote:KVN wrote:803.03 B & C
Actually it is 803.04 B and C
I see what you are trying to say but either way it wasnt a foot fault. The disc came to rest in the basket the hole was over and I when to pick it up. It had nothing to do with balance.
According to the "rules" you could call someone on evey putt if they didnt "Demonstrate balance" the way that you think it should be done.
As far as im concerned, when the disc comes to rest in the basket the hole is over and I am going to pick it up.
Actually you must have controlled balance through your entire putt regardless if the disc has come to rest. For example: let's say you putt and the disc comes to rest, but your leg has not yet come back to the ground; if you bring your leg down in front of the mini than you have foot faulted, even if the disc is already in the basket. Your entire motion is part of the putt. Both feet must be behind the mini after your putting motion regardless of the disc being at rest.
PDGA Rule
A follow-through after a putt that causes the thrower to make any supporting point contact closer to the hole than the rear edge of the marker disc constitutes a falling putt and is considered a stance violation. The player must demonstrate full control of balance before advancing toward the hole.
Huspen violates this every time he putts. His leg is in the air, then the disc comes to rest and he swings his leg forward in front of his mini and marches to the basket. I use to do this slightly and Mr. Stibal helped me correct this as he used to call me on it all the time.
As far as the other point, your foot cannot touch the mini while putting as it is a foot fault. You also cannot have your foot off to the side of the mini. My partner Mr. Stiers did this every putt on Saturday, but it was an Ice Bowl so I, nor the groups we played with, cared to call him out on it.


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Affidavit: Maine hermit carried bacon, syrup, $395
Published: Monday, April 22, 2013 at 7:33 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, April 22, 2013 at 7:33 a.m.
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A state police affidavit says a Maine man who lived in the woods as a hermit for nearly three decades was carrying bacon, marshmallows and $395 in cash when he was arrested on burglary charges.
An affidavit obtained by the Kennebec Journal (http://bit.ly/13oW4cH ) lists the items 47-year-old Christopher Knight possessed when he was arrested this month on charges he stole food from a camp for children with special needs.
The items also include keys, pliers, electrical tape, a watch, a baseball hat, coffee, hamburger patties, chicken nuggets, cheese, corn syrup and potato chips.
Since his arrest, Knight has attracted a telephoned marriage proposal and a stranger's offer to bail him out. Knight rejected the bail offer and remains jailed.
Police say he may have been responsible for 1,000 burglaries overall.
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Lately it seems like I've really been on a roll as far as finding recipes that completely wow me, and this recipe for Garlic-Roasted Green Beans Recipe with Shallots and Almonds was another fabulous find. I used the thin French Beans from Costco, which are a bit of a splurge, but very worth it, especially for a holiday like Thanksgiving.
And if you check my collection of Carb Conscious Thanksgiving Recipes you can tell I think roasted vegetables are great for Thanksgiving. Here's my thinking, the oven is already hot and when you take the turkey out to carve it and make the gravy, you have just enough oven time to cook the rolls and roast some kind of delicious veggie at the same time. Plus, most roast vegetables are very forgiving as far as cooking time and temperature, so no need to fuss, and roasting concentrates the flavor of vegetables in a way that no other cooking method can match.
Garlic-Roasted Green Beans with Shallots and Almonds
(Makes 4 servings, slightly adapted from Fine Cooking Annual.)
1 lb. fresh green beans (thin beans preferred, but any type will work)
6 shallots, peeled, and cut into thin slivers
5 large cloves garlic, peeled and cut into thin slices
2 T olive oil (original recipe called for 3, but I thought 2 was plenty)
1 tsp. salt (or less)
fresh ground black pepper
1/4 cup flat leaf parsley, very finely chopped
1/4 cup almonds, chopped (I used sliced almonds and only slightly chopped them)
1 tsp. lemon zest
Trim ends from green beans. If using thin, long beans, cut in half crosswise into pieces about 2 inches long. Peel and cut shallots and garlic, then place with beans in plastic bowl. Add olive oil, salt, and pepper, and use a wooden spoon to toss until beans, shallots, and garlic are well coated with oil.
Spray roasting pan with nonstick spray or mist with olive oil, then arrange the vegetables in a single layer. (I like to cover the pan with foil, then spray the foil for even easier clean-up.) Roast 12-15 minutes for thin beans, or slightly longer for regular beans, until beans are slightly shriveled, and shallots and garlic are lightly browned.
While beans cook, toss together chopped parsley, chopped almonds and lemon zest. When beans are done, toss hot beans with parsley/lemon/almond mixture and serve immediately.
South Beach Suggestions:
This is a perfect side dish for any phase of the South Beach Diet or any other type of low-carb eating plan.
Nutritional Information?
I chose the South Beach Diet to manage my weight partly so I wouldn't have to count calories, carbs, points, or fat grams, but if you want nutritional information for a recipe, I recommend entering the recipe into Calorie Count, which will calculate it for you.
More Green Bean Recipes for a Holiday Dinner
(Recipes from other blogs may or may not be South Beach Diet friendly, check ingredients.)
World's Best Green Bean Casserole from A Veggie Venture
Stir-Fried Green Beans with Lemon, Parmesan, and Pine Nuts
from Kalyn's Kitchen
Green Beans with Almonds and Thyme from Simply Recipes
Roasted Green Beans with Mushrooms, Balsamic, and Parmesan from Kalyn's Kitchen
Brown Butter Green Beans with Almonds from Andrea's Recipes
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Posts may include links to my affiliate account at Amazon.com, and Kalyn's Kitchen earns a few cents on the dollar if readers purchase the items I recommend, so thanks for supporting my blog when you shop at Amazon!


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UPDATE: "The Flash" Hasn't Cast Savitar, Says Berlanti
TV, Comic Books
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"Amazing Spider-Man" debuted to record numbers while Batman locked in half the top ten slots and Image dominates graphic novel sales in April 2014.
Marvel's Amazing and Superior Spider-Men dominated April 2014 sales, while "Batman Eternal" launched strong and Image controls the TPB charts.
In a special MAYO REPORT, John takes a look at Marvel's increasingly common tactic of relaunching series to boost sales numbers.
DC Comics' recent delays indicate that April may be particularly weak for the publisher even as Marvel looks ahead to an "Amazing Spider-Man" #1's sales boost.
Snyder and Capullo's "Batman" remained the #1 comic in March, the only title to top 100K, while "Superior Spider-Man" remained Marvel's best seller.
DC takes 4 of the top ten spots, but Marvel remains the overall sales leader even while Image accounts for over 11% of the Direct Market.
Marvel's January relaunches open soft while "Walking Dead" remains steady, helping the title move into the Top Ten.
"Batman" tops February's sales, "Wolverine" and "Fantastic Four" debut in top 10 while "Walking Dead" takes #8, 9 slots.
For the second month in a row, two DC titles topped Diamond's single-issue chart, with Marvel once again leading dollar and unit share.
DC Comics' Batman sales were a bright spot in an otherwise lackluster January, which finds a number of New 52 titles walking the cancellation line.
"Batman" was the only title to top 100K in sales for January, with no other title reaching 90K while "Saga" TPB sales remain strong.
"Batman," "Detective" lead the charts, "Harley Quinn" remains in the Top 10 and Image accounts for over 10% of all comics sold in January.
2013 was a year of gimmick covers, big events and, of course, "The Walking Dead." John Mayo parses the big points in his year-end analysis.
"Walking Dead" #115 and "Justice League of America" #1 led the way in 2013, each selling over 326K, while Marvel took 498 of the top 1000 slots.
John Mayo looks at December's sales numbers, including the effectiveness of Marvel's .1 numbering in appealing to casual readers.
Marvel grew its lead over DC in December, taking control of over 35% of the direct market while IDW and Image remained strong.
For the second year in a row, "The Walking Dead" had the industry's bestselling single issue, as "Saga" was the bestselling collection.
Marvel rides "Origin II" #1 to the top sales position overall in December, but "Harley Quinn" helps DC dominate the Top Ten.
Diamond has released its top ten selling comics and graphic novels for 2013, with "Walking Dead" and "Saga" taking both #1 positions.
John Mayo looks at November 2013 sales data, wondering if event sales are slowing down and comparing Marvel NOW! with the New 52.
Marvel and DC split the Top Ten sales positions in November, though both companies' total dollar share dropped to under 30%.
"Batman" and "Harley Quinn" took the #1 and 2 slots on November's sales charts, even as Marvel remained the #1 publisher overall.
John Mayo looks at "The Walking Dead's" October domination, the return of the Joker's Daughter one-shot for a second month and "Battle of the Atom."
Variants and a highly publicized 10th Anniversary storyline send "Walking Dead" over 310K in sales while four more titles broke the 100K line.
Robert Kirkman's zombie epic gives Image the best selling comic in October, while DC Comics and Marvel split Dollars and Units sold.
DC Comics "won" the battle for dominance of the Direct Market in September thanks to the Villains Month 3D gimmick covers, but how is the New 52 performing overall? John Mayo breaks it down for CBR.
"Forever Evil" and Villains Month were a potent combination in September, driving DC Comics to dominate the direct market, while Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta's "East of West" ruled the graphic novel charts.
Despite the controversies surrounding DC Comics' Villains Month, the event, coupled with "Forever Evil" #1, drove the publisher to a commanding #1 position on September's sales charts.
While "Infinity" topped August's sales charts easily, John Mayo looks at what makes a comic book event series and explains why Marvel's latest doesn't quite fit the traditional definition.
Sales in August were down overall, but Jonathan Hickman and Jim Cheung's "Infinity" led Marvel to the #1 position with over 250K issues ordered as "Superman Unchained," "Batman" and "Justice League" all topped 100k.
Marvel's "Infinity" event opens big in August, with the first issue landing in the #1 slot, while DC's "Superman Unchained" continues to sell strong and Rocket Raccoon lands high on the graphic novel sales chart.
John Mayo returns for an analysis of the July, 2013 sales numbers, explaining the sales effect of "Age of Ultron's" conclusion, "Trinity War's" lead-in to Villains Month and the Ultimate line's sales struggle.
"Superman Unchained" topped the estimated sales charts for the second month running in July, 2013 with strong showings from "Justice League," "Superior Spider-Man," "Guardians of the Galaxy" & more.
DC Comics edges out Marvel for the #1 position in dollars earned for July 2013 thanks to "Superman Unchained," "Batman" and the Trinity War, but the House of Ideas maintained its top slot for units moved.
John Mayo looks at the June, 2013 sales numbers, finding strength in DC's new series and "Batman," some concern for "Avengers AI," continuing "Walking Dead" dominance and Valiant maintains a strong presence.
Scott Snyder and Jim Lee's "Superman Unchained" soared to the top of the sales charts in June, Marvel was the overall top publisher and "The Walking Dead" once again ruled the trade paperback chart.
DC's "Superman Unchained" #1 and "Batman/Superman" #1 top the bestselling comics in June, while Image had a diverse representation in the top ten graphic novels and trade paperbacks.
John Mayo returns with a look at the sales data for May, 2013, explaining why sales estimates can and should differ from the numbers on royalty statements. Plus, a quick look at IDW's equine success story.
Marvel retook the top slot in May, with Brian Wood and Olivier Coipel's "X-Men" exploding into stores with more than 175K in sales, while "Adventure Time," "Saga" and "Walking Dead" led the graphic novel charts.
Marvel's "X-Men" debuted at #1, leading Marvel to another month as top publisher, while BOOM! Studios' "Adventure Time" OGN topped the sales charts in a May which saw an increase of 16% over last year.
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- Develop your products faster and cheaper
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Why would you want to live in Mar 10 2008
Why would you want to live in Park Slope with children? So ponders David Galbraith, who notes that Brooklyn schools look like prisons.
This is the local elementary school -- which looks like a Northern Irish prison, before the ceasefire, with a sarcastic multi colored sign by Banksy.


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LETTER: Help support Good Samaritan Clinic
Published: Thursday, August 22, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, August 22, 2013 at 2:54 p.m.
Dear Editor: Please help us publicize the upcoming fundraiser for Good Samaritan Clinic on Friday, Aug. 30, at 6 p.m. at First Baptist Church. Guests will start the Labor Day weekend celebration with music and barbecue. Our speaker will be Alabama head basketball coach Anthony Grant. Coach Grant came to UA in 2009 as the Tide's 20th head basketball coach. Coach Grant will be introduced by C.M. Newton, who served as Alabama's basketball coach from 1968 to 1980.
The Good Samaritan Clinic is an interdenominational Christian ministry that provides primary health care and medication for patients without health insurance. The care is provided by volunteer doctors and nurses and is the only charitable medical clinic serving Tuscaloosa, Greene, Hale, Bibb, Pickens, Fayette and Sumter counties.
Tickets are $30 and can be purchased by calling Good Samaritan Clinic at 205-343-2212 on Tuesday or Thursday.
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There were 56 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Friday. At that time, there were 1,428 people held at the jail, which has an official capacity of 1,411. When the jail is full, some inmates may be released early.
Weapons, drug arrest: Bernard White was arrested on suspicion of weapons and drug possession about 1:30 p.m. Thursday near North Pershing Avenue and West Barcelona Avenue, officials reported. Deputies said they attempted to stop White because he matched the description of a suspect wanted for a residential burglary, but White failed to stop and continued riding his bicycle. When deputies caught up with White and took him to the ground, a loaded handgun fell out of his sweatshirt, deputies said. They said they also discovered a clear pipe commonly used to smoke methamphetamine as well as 3.1 grams of marijuana and a white crystalline substance believed to be methamphetamine. White was arrested on suspicion of carrying a loaded firearm, possession of drug paraphernalia and resisting arrest.
Stolen vehicle: Police said they arrested Sophann Touch, 28, after he crashed a stolen vehicle into another car near Calariva Drive and North Stiles Place about 7 p.m. Thursday. Touch led authorities on a high-speed chase that reached 65 mph before police terminated the pursuit. Touch continued to flee before colliding with a parked vehicle, officers said. He was arrested on suspicion of receiving stolen property and evading police.
Stabbing: Police are searching for a man who stabbed a 25-year-old man in the first block of East Maple Street about 4:30 a.m. Friday. The victim told police his assailant stabbed him several times following a dispute over a cellphone. The victim was taken to a hospital, where he was listed in stable condition. The assailant was described as a Latino male named Fernando who stands 5 feet 9 to 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighs 160 to 170 pounds. He was wearing blue jeans and a T-shirt.
The California Highway Patrol responded to 11 noninjury accidents and six injury accidents in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Friday. CHP officers also recovered one stolen vehicle.
The Stockton Fire Department responded to 101 calls for service in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Friday, including five vehicle accidents, 68 medical calls and two structure fires.
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Stiff competition: Warren, Fort Frye, Belpre, Caldwell to race in regional tournament
Prep cross country
October 24, 2013
Parker Blain ran a good race at the Division 2 Southeast District meet at Rio Grande University. The Warren senior cross country standout covered the 5k distance in a clocking of 16 minutes, 54....
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Check ICN Site Availability
One doesn't need to look far to find handfuls of reports on labor trends and the educational assets our graduates will need in order to fill jobs related to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) careers.
Join this session to hear from a young woman who works as an agronomist for a DuPont/ Pioneer in Iowa. She will tell your students how she got interested in the field and more importantly how she took advantage of her high school years to prepare for her career and her college education.
Her enthusiasm for the job is contagious. She'll discuss the fun and engaging aspects of the job as well as how her work allows for personal growth and development. Something she values in an employer. Today she is teaching other Pioneer employees as she pursues corporate training and development in addition to her other duties as an agronomist.
The career field looks promising for women so please encourage all your students to attend this great information ICN session. Register today!
Educators know that in grades seven and eight, Iowa schools are required to offer career education including exploration of career opportunities. This process is designed to help students complete a high school and career development plan. (The 8th grade plan) These sessions are a great resource for schools needing to help students in this critical work in planning their futures.
PBS LearningMedia, a dynamic platform offering the best of public media content and produced specifically for PreK-16 teachers. With free access to over 14,000 high-quality resources tied to national standards, teachers can download, save and share exactly what they need for an inspired classroom experience. Sign up is free and easy! Learn more about PBS LearningMedia.
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Surf the Web, block pop-ups, and keep spyware at bay with this lean and fast open-source browser
Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured Web browser. Firefox includes pop-up blocking, tab-browsing, integrated Google search, simplified privacy controls, a streamlined browser window that shows you more of the page than any other browser and a number of additional features that work with you to help you get the most out of your time online.
Firefox 3.5 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past year. Firefox 3.5 offers many changes over the previous version, supporting new web technologies, improving performance and ease of use, and adding new features for users: It is now available in more than 70 languages, includes a Private Browsing mode, better performance and stability with the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, the ability to provide Location Aware Browsing using web standards for geolocation, support for native JSON, and web worker threads, support for new web technologies such as: HTML5 < video > and < audio > elements, downloadable fonts and other new CSS properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 offline data storage for applications, and SVG transforms.
Required OS: not specified
Tags: internet , web , browser , mozilla , xul , opensource
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Because I use OS X, Windows and Linux Firefox is perfect for me. Using the same tool regardless of platform is a real nice touch. I actually found it faster than Safari too. Win.
For me, Firefox add-ons don't outweigh the fact that it doesn't use the OS X context menu. I have several dozen commands set up in OnMyCommand that I regularly use while browsing in Safari (and which I can use in just about any native mac app.). I could probably find Firefox add-ons that duplicate most of that functionality, but I can't be bothered. Until they integrate it properly into OS X, I'll stick with Safari.
I really like Firefox 3.
That said, I think it lacks some of the the neat integration that most OS X apps have. Makes a good backup browser for sure.
For those looking for an extension that allows to drag a file into the attachment/upload box itself (eg: in gmail), there's dragdropupload.
Also works for multiple files, and: in Gmail only, you can also drag files onto the "Attach a file" link itself,
and they will be entered into the attachment boxes.
More info here.
I LOVE Firefox 3!! I was nervous about upgrading (why mess up something that's already perfect?) but it's definitely better than 2.0. It makes me want to surf the internet more! A couple particular things I love: that it asks if you want to save a password in a way that allows you to choose to save it only after you have seen that it WORKED. The fact that it has smart bookmark folders. The new address bar that shows me what address I might be typing with so much more than just the URL. Oh, and I seem to be one of the very few, but I LOVE the way it looks, no theme needed! (Except Styles to add favicons to the bookmark toolbar). LOVE IT!
Firefox 3 is an entirely different beast from Firefox 2 on OS X. By that, I mean its actually a usable browser. Not only is it usable, but it works great. I use it more than I do Safari.
Great for web development and gimmicks, but for day-to-day browsing Safari is faster and integrates with the Apple Keychain.
+1 on that grapple theme, works with the new release candidate also!
Only thing keeping me away from using this as my main browser, is the ages it takes to start the app.
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Cut! A Quick Take on the Storage Challenges in Media & Entertainment
By Kgee-Oracle on Feb 27, 2014
With the Academy Awards coming up this weekend, I can't help but think about how much the motion picture industry has changed over the last 10 years, especially from a production and technology perspective. The transition to digital film making has had a transformational impact on the industry. The onslaught of HD digital cameras and digital technology in the post production workflow has not only overtaken the motion picture industry, but it has also transformed the video production and broadcast segments.
The transformation to an all-digital workflow, from content creation, with seamless blending of live action footage and computer-generated imagery, to content delivery and finally to digital archives is now nearly complete. For example, try to find a new analog camera on display at the upcoming National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show in April in Las Vegas. They will be hard to find.
Shooting with HD and newer UltraHD
digital format cameras means huge digital files, creating a new set of
storage problems. Most media workflow architects and archivists will
tell you that current digital storage solutions are struggling to keep
up. Consider this:
- Some of the latest HD cameras produce up to 85TB of data throughout a 24 hour shoot; and these "dailies" need to be backed up, essentially doubling the amount of storage
- The 3D movie Avatar used over one Petabyte of storage; industry experts predict that future feature-length digital motion pictures will consume an Exabyte of storage from initial capture to final cut
So, where will all this data be stored? On efficient and economic digital tape, of course. At Oracle, we recently announced two new storage technologies—the StorageTek T10000D tape drive and Linear Tape File System--that are being embraced by the Media & Entertainment industry. Our StorageTek T10000D tape technology is the highest capacity storage technology available today. At 8.5TB per cartridge, it is more than 2x the capacity of today's 4TB disk drives. And due to its unique scalability, discrete cost and power/cooling advantages, tape storage (at scale, re: petabyte[s]), carries a total cost of ownership (TCO) that is 26x lower than conventional disk storage.
In addition, the T10000D supports the Linear Tape File System (LTFS) format, which enables users to easily access files on tape just like a thumb drive or a NAS device. LTFS is popular across the film, video and broadcasting segments. In fact, the StorageTek T10000D with LTFS recently won Best Professional Media and Entertainment Class Archive Storage at the 2014 Storage Visions Conference. I know it's a mouthful, but there you have it!
While you may be surprised that tape is in high demand in the Media & Entertainment industry, this is not an isolated case. Indeed, industry influencers and the media have pronounced a resurgence of tape (follow the links below):
- Storage Challenges In The Digital Age of Media – Coughlin Associates [Video]
- Rise of the Machines: The Rebirth of Tape – Wikibon
- Disk-pushers, Get Reel: Even GOOGLE Relies on Tape – The Register
- Magnetic Tape to the Rescue – The Economist
- Meeting Exa-Scale Archive Requirements in the Digital Age of Media and Entertainment – Coughlin Associates
So, when you watch the Oscars, think of the many Petabytes of digital content to be archived and preserved for posterity—and how Oracle StorageTek tape solutions are addressing the Media & Entertainment industry's storage challenges.
To learn more about how digital tape storage is helping the Media & Entertainment industry to overcome challenges arising from the transition to an all digital business visit the Oracle booth (SL 13909) at NAB in Las Vegas, April 7-10.
Chris Ilg (email@example.com) is a Senior Principal Product Marketing Director for storage at Oracle. He has 27 years' experience in the information technology industry, across the storage, channel and services segments.


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Deputies responded to a fight between three women at Gypsum's Second Street Park on July 12.
When they arrived, they saw two women pacing around with blood on them. The 21-year-old had blood on her face and was intoxicated. The 19-year-old had blood on her hands.
A 27-year-old woman was lying on the ground with blood on her face and seemed immobile due to a leg injury. She was also drunk and was taken away in an ambulance as deputies interviewed the other women.
The 21-year-old said she was walking by the 27-year-old to meet her 19-year-old friend when the 27-year-old called out, "Hey, baby girl." The 21-year-old said she put her arm around the older woman to calm her down and then walked away. The 27-year-old jumped on her back and started hitting her.
The 19-year-old said she tried to get the woman off her friend and had to hit her to do so.
When asked how she knew the older woman, the 21-year-old said the 27-year-old slept with her husband, who was now her ex-husband.
Officers interviewed the 27-year-old the next day. The woman said she didn't know who the 21-year-old was. Deputies told her the woman said she had slept with her husband and then the 27-year-old remembered her. She said that was a year ago, and recalled the woman making threats about fighting her.
She said the incident started when she left a laptop on the picnic table at the park for a minute and returned to see the 21-year-old yelling in her direction. The 21-year-old threw the computer on the ground and then attacked her.
Neither side of the story could be entirely confirmed. Officers cited all three women with disorderly conduct.
Deputies were escorting a heavily intoxicated woman from the Gypsum Daze concert July 21 when they were confronted by a 20-year-old man.
The man tried to pull the woman away from the officers, who restrained him. The man kicked at the deputies and continued to resist their orders until they wrestled him into handcuffs. He was cited for disorderly conduct along with the woman.
Deputies responded to a fight at a Red Cliff bar on July 14.
They contacted a 31-year-old man at the scene. The man was with his girlfriend. He had a bruise on his face and a cut lip. He said his 34-year-old friend hit him after he confronted him about having an affair with his girlfriend.
Officers contacted the 34-year-old, who denied hitting the 31-year-old. He said the man and his girlfriend were having relationship problems so she stayed at his place for a couple days. He said the fight broke out between the 31-year-old and an unknown man at the bar. He was trying to break up the scuffle and it was the unknown man who hit his friend.
The 31-year-old's girlfriend said she had been at his mother's house and came to the bar to pick him up.
The bartender wasn't able to confirm anyone's story. No one wanted to press charges. Deputies took custody of a pistol for safe keeping over the weekend.
A deputy stopped a car for speeding on westbound Interstate 70 in Eagle on July 17 and smelled marijuana when he contacted the driver.
The 30-year-old man said one of his friends in Denver might have smoked marijuana in the car but he didn't have any. There were several bags filled with buffalo hides among lots of trash in the car. The man said he was on his way from South Dakota, where he bought the hides, to Las Vegas. He used the hides for artwork that he sold in Las Vegas.
The officer verified that the bags were indeed full of hides. However, he told the man he would still be searching the car due to the strong smell of marijuana. A plastic bag of the drug was found under the driver's seat.
The man said his friends must have left it there without him knowing and asked to just be cited for speeding. He was cited for possession of less than 2 ounces of marijuana and warned for speeding. He was also instructed to stop at a Colorado Parks and Wildlife office in Canyon Creek to have the buffalo hides checked since there was no record of their legal purchase.
A deputy was almost side-swiped by a car that turned right off a roundabout from an inside lane in Avon on July 20.
The deputy stopped the 24-year-old driver and asked if he saw him on the outside lane as he exited the roundabout. The man said no.
It was discovered the man didn't have a driver license. He was cited for driving without a license and careless driving.
A man called deputies when he arrived at his mother's house on N. Brett Trail in Edwards and found a 36-year-old stranger passed out on the couch in the living room.
There were several empty wine bottles and other containers around the couch and scattered around the house. The man had spilled wine down the front of his white T-shirt. The man was also barefoot.
The caretaker told him to get out. The man said he was doing work at the house but eventually complied and left.
Deputies quickly received another call from a home nearby. The man had tried to enter a house that belonged to his ex-girlfriend, who identified him for the officers. The man was caught in Vail the next day.
The woman who lived in the first house was out of town. She said there wasn't any work being done there at the time. Earlier in the year she gave a different man the code for the garage door so he could do work. The code hadn't been changed since then.
The woman said she would get back to deputies with an estimate for the cost of cleaning the stained carpet and the beverages that were consumed.


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Wirt County student expelled for bomb threat
Call was made two days after Newtown rampage
January 18, 2013
ELIZABETH — The Wirt County Board of Education has expelled a student over a bomb threat last month....
Threatening to bomb anyplace should automatically be a federal charge. To make a threat to bomb in itself is noting short of a terrorist act. It doesn't matter what age the person is which makes threats of this type, all should be held accountable at the highest level. Maybe then knowing there is a real consequence of their action (not just a slap on the wrist as usual), it may just not happen as often or even at all.
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Being expelled from school will hurt her in more ways than missing out on an education. Like the previous poster said, she can still do night school or have a home bound teacher which could keep her on tracl for graduation. What she won't get to do while being expelled is attend football games, dances, homecoming, prom and see her friends every day. That all ends for a year. While I agree that she needs punished, why is she still in custody? She spent Christmas in custody? Even accused felons have the opportunity to make bond. She has already served more time than what most convicted people will serve.
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She'll still face criminal action, MrAlex. The repercussions she faces from the school are completely separate from the ones she'll face from the criminal court. After all, she still broke the law.
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When students receive a 365 day expulsion, they are just expelled from "day school." They are still entitled (yes, I hate that word) to a free, public education. So guess what? They receive services in an alternate setting. In Wood County, this means they either attend ACE (night school at PHS) or they get a private, homebound teacher. How do ya like that?
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Easy Alex,reread.
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While I agree that being out of school is probably what most kids want, you need to finish reading the article. It states that she "remains in custody pending a hearing next week in circuit court." To me this means there will be some sort of criminal punishment to go with the expulsion. I agree with JerseyGirl, military school is exactly what she needs now.
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Does the Wirt County BOE honestly think that the student will learn her lesson by being expelled for a year?! She's probably celebrating that she won't have to go to school for the next 365 days. I really hope that the parents will do the right thing and send her to some kind of military school. She definitely wouldn't be able to call in bomb threats there! Obviously, this child needs some tough love.
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Three area residents were injured in a collision at 8:30 p.m. Friday, March 15, on eastbound U.S. 36 one mile west of Clarence, Mo.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported Jessica M. Wood, 34, of Clarence, Mo., was driving a 2001 Chrysler Sebring and attempting to make a right turn onto County Road 3011.
Officers said a 2001 Chevrolet Impala driven by Lindsay L. Jordan, 17, of Shelbina, Mo., rear-ended Wood's car.
The Jordan car stopped in the median, and the Wood car stopped against a fence off the south side of the highway.
Jordan was wearing a seat belt and suffered minor injuries. She went to Samaritan Hospital.
Wood suffered moderate injuries and went by ambulance to Samaritan Hospital. Her passenger, Raymond C. Wood, 45, of Clarence, Mo., suffered serious injuries. He was flown to the University Hospital in Columbia, Mo. The Woods were not wearing seat belts.
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Myron Dempsey led the way with 14 points and eight rebounds, but the Texas A&M – Corpus Christi men's basketball team saw its second-half rally fall short, as No. 25 Texas A&M defeated the Islanders 56-43 on Saturday. The Islanders pulled as close as six in the closing minutes on a 14-0 run in the loss.
The Islanders forced 18 Texas A&M turnovers and won the battle of the boards, 39-37 in the loss. Dempsey added three steals, while Johnathan Jordan led the team with four assists and had two steals as well. Elston Turner led the Aggies with 14 points, while Ray Turner added 13 and Jordan Green had 10.
The Aggies came out red-hot shooting from the field, burying six of their first eight shots to jump out to a 16-4 lead. Jordan snapped the cold string for the Islanders with a jumper and the Islanders clamped down defensively, holding the Aggies without a field goal for a span of 6:22. But after a 5-0 A&M run made it 21-8, Jordan again snapped the skid with a leaning jumper in the lane to trim the deficit to 11.
But that's when Texas A&M – Corpus Christi went on its big run, rolling off 14 straight points, including three straight buckets from long distance to trim the deficit to just six. Dempsey started the rally with a putback, then Hameed Ali scored six straight points, including the Islanders' first triple of the game, to make it 45-33. Then fellow freshmen Jordan and Jake Kocher each drilled threes, and suddenly the visitors were within six as the Aggies took a time out.
A&M got off the schneid with Ray Turner scoring all eight points in an 8-1 run. He got a putback to make it 47-39, then a free throw put it at a nine-point Aggie lead. He added another bucket down low to push the advantage back to double digits. Then, after a Jones free throw, the Houston native converted a three-point play for a 53-40 Aggie lead. The Islanders were able to get as close as 11, but the Aggies held on for the victory.
Texas A&M – Corpus Christi is back in action on Thursday, Dec. 1, when they take on Texas Tech at the American Bank Center. Tipoff is slated for 7 p.m. between the Islanders and Red Raiders. For tickets, call 825-BALL or visit GoIslanders.com.
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Cal State East Bay outfielder Kelly Starnes is the kind of guy coaches root for because he works hard and puts the team first.
He also produces. Pioneers coach Bob Ralston describes Starnes, his top hitter, as the best defensive center fielder in the California Collegiate Athletic Association.
"He is doing great," Ralston said. "He is our leadoff hitter and has been the driving force in our winning 12 of the last 14 games. He has a chance to be the league MVP and newcomer of the year in our conference."
Consider the story Concord High football coach Brian Hamilton enjoys sharing about Starnes.
In the 2010 North Coast Section Division II championship game at O.co Coliseum, Starnes, then one of the top-producing wideouts in the state, suffered an ACL injury late in the third quarter playing defense.
After borrowing a lineman's knee brace, Starnes somehow returned to the game and made three more catches in a dramatic 40-37 win over Rancho Cotate-Rohnert Park, Concord's first section football championship. Starnes had eight receptions for 159 yards and three touchdowns in the game.
After he suffered the injury, Starnes heard Concord fans chanting his name, wanting him to return. His comeback performance was the stuff of local legend.
"I tried to get up, and my body, my leg just gave out," Starnes recalled of his predicament. "I didn't know what was wrong. The trainer came over and basically went through his whole progression. I told him, 'I'm fine.' But every time I would get up, it wasn't sturdy.
"I basically told him, 'Put a knee brace on or something,' because I just wanted to finish the game. It was my senior year. I didn't want to be on the sideline watching my team, especially when the game was that close."
Football heroics aside, Starnes has long had baseball in his blood. The two-sport star went on to bat .400 with 34 hits as a Concord senior. Then at Los Medanos College, he was named first-team All-Bay Valley Conference in consecutive seasons. He was selected in the 40th round by the Minnesota Twins in the 2013 MLB draft.
Today, Starnes has a .335 batting average, 54 hits and 32 runs scored, and is ranked fourth in the CCAA with four homers. Starnes, who has started in all 44 Pioneers' games, said he's getting in the "groove" after a slow start.
"Moving to leadoff helped me a lot, because there's so much stuff you can branch from hitting leadoff," he said. "You can be aggressive at times, and you can use your speed to get on. I can do a lot more stuff. They can't really pitch around you. If you get the leadoff guy on, that's a big inning usually."
The Pioneers (27-17, 21-15 CCAA) are ranked sixth in the NCAA Division 2, with one weekend left. The top six teams will play in the West Regionals, with the winner going to the World Series. They have a four-game series at San Francisco State on Friday and Saturday.
With a pro baseball career possibly in his future, Starnes is keeping his focus on what's right in front of him.
"My goal is to hopefully get a sweep of this next series," he said. "I don't try to look too far into it with the (MLB draft) and all that kind of stuff coming up. I can't control what they think and how they think, I can only play the game, and whatever happens, happens."
Starnes caught the football fever in high school because all his friends were playing. Things kind of took off from there.
"It was literally like a family," he said of the football experience. "We hung out together all the time. It was probably the closest team that I've ever been a part of."
It all culminated at O.co Coliseum, when Starnes pulled himself up from the turf and kept on fighting.
"That was a great game. It was amazing how we pulled it out," he recalled.
PIONEERS HONORED: Cal State East Bay softball player Chelsie Kakela was named the CCAA Player of the Week. She went 6 for 10 with four homers and seven RBIs as the Pioneers earned their first series win over Chico State since joining the CCAA in 2010. Pioneers baseball third baseman Ryan Kochan (California, Diablo Valley) was also CCAA Player of the Week. He helped the Pioneers to a sweep of visiting Cal State Los Angeles, batting a combined .467 and playing strong defense.
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Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that's ready for some Ullr festivities - the crazier the better. Now that the king and queen have been crowned - congratulations to Dave and Cindy Love - and Ullr has a sweet new outfit, it's time for things to really get going.
The next big event is the Ullympics (move over, London!) where teams compete in fun and crazy competitions like the frying pan toss, group ski racing and ski boot relays.
Back in ancient days, the Norwegians (original worshippers of Ullr) made their own fun, passing time with strategic board games similar to modern-day chess, more rowdy games of drinking and inventing insulting poetry, and even more rowdy games of bone throwing, swimming and wrestling.
Wednesday hosts the Ullr Dating Game at 7 p.m. at Cecilias where for one night Ullr becomes the god of love and starts a few winter romances.
Thursday is the big day with the Ullr Fest parade and town bonfire. Because really, what says 'bring us snow' better than borderline inappropriate floats and a blazing bonfire of last year's skis? Nothing, that's what. And if that wasn't explosive enough, there will also be fireworks.
Breckenridge Distillery is also hoping to shake things up in the world records arena by hosting an attempt for the world record in the Shot Ski event. "Shot ski" is when four or five shots are attached to a ski, lifted and drunk at the same time. The plan is to get 50 skis together (for the 50th anniversary) and break the world record right before the parade.
For those who believe laughter is the best medicine - both for healthy bodies and a healthy ski season - Friday is Comedy Night at the Beaver Run Resort. It's a good way to see which of your friends has the best booming Viking laugh.
The Ullr Classic pond hockey tournament follows on Saturday with competitions on the ice. Sunday wraps up the festivities with the Ullr Fashion Show for your last chance to see Viking-chic on display and to display those horns and fur-lined capes yourself.
Crazy competitions, bonfires, fireworks, parades and Vikings - we're looking forward to experiencing the rest of the week, and we hope you are too. We out.


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Arrests made in Ellendale and Broadmoor subdivision vehicle burglaries
Published: Saturday, May 10, 2014 at 2:21 p.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, May 10, 2014 at 2:21 p.m.
Two people were arrested Friday in connection with the burglaries of parked cars in two Houma subdisions, police said.
Jessica Martinez, 29, 1829 Bull Run Road, and Devin Toups, 22, 1836 Steer Run Court, are each charged with multiple counts of burglary and theft. The two allegedly stole items over the past several weeks from unlocked cars in Ellendale and Broadmoor, Terrebonne sheriff's Maj. Malcolm Wolfe said.
Both remain jailed in lieu of bond. Martinez's is set at $25,000; Toups' bond is $50,000.
The pair allegedly took GPS units, DVD players, guns, purses and money. Some of the items were recovered, Wolfe said.
The burglaries remain under investigation and additional arrests are likely, police said.
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