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If you come from a small town, chances are you can relate to the lyrics to Scotty McCreery's new single, 'Water Tower Town.' The tune was penned by songwriters Cole Swindell, Tammi Kidd and Lynn Hutton, who each pulled from their own experiences growing up in the south for the song.
"I remember I was watching a movie with a girl I was dating at the time," Swindell tells Taste of Country, "and it had a water tower in it. She asked me if my town I grew up had a water tower like that. I remember picking up my phone — before I even answered her — and wrote 'Water Tower Town' in it, and I said, 'Yep!'"
"I brought it up in the writing session with Lynn and Tammi not long after that," he continues. "They're both great writers. It was the first day and the first song we wrote. We are all from small towns, so it was something that came easy for all three of us that day."
"In a water tower town /Everybody waves / Church doors are the only thing / That's open on Sundays / Word travels fast / The wheels turn slow / Yeah, workin' hard and livin' right / Is the only life we know," they wrote in the song's opening lyrics.
"We were just all talking about people we knew growing up from our towns," notes Swindell. "In my town, everybody you passed on the road, they'd wave. My granddad walked into town every day. People would be coming from behind him, and he'd wave anyway, not knowing who it was, because everyone knew everyone. He owned a convenience store that was always closed on Sunday. He'd hang a little sign that said, 'Come worship with us next door,' because the church was right there."


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We make it a habit to stop by the bookstore on weekends. The boys get to read books in the children's section. I love looking in the children's section too because it always fills me with hope, optimism, silliness, fun and a colorful look at the world. Again through the pure eyes of a child to keep my perspective. I made the mistake of wandering over to the photography section to see if there were any cool books on photography which spark my interest or which would improve my abilities in one chosen hobby of mine. Ansel Adams is great with the large format black and white landscape but not my style. The Great Life Photographers was interesting but too diverse for my cluttered brain at the time. Faces of Africa. Beautiful. I love photographing people the most so it was truly relevant but I don't do much portraits because I know many people don't like pictures of themselves and I haven't gotten over that issue. I do love looking at portraits other have taken however. The eyes always get me.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Books of Revelation...
Next came Impounded. Formerly censored photographs of the Japanese interment camps was disturbing and poignant. How racial relations combined with the fervor of war can alter the course of life for so many families. That bummed me out. I looked at Leonard Nimoy's Full Body Project with photographs of full-figured women baring all. I didn't even know Spock was a photographer. And the women's comfortableness with their own bodies was refreshing. That picked my spirit up. Again, their eyes were the most expressive and beautiful. Then Darfur. I only made it through a few pages of images before I started crying. I had to close the book so I wouldn't look like a mental case in the store. Feeling even worse for being too weak to bear witness to the genocidal atrocities. Like the indifference of the world on a smaller and more personal scale.
From the Armenians, to Nazi Germany, to Cambodia, to Bosnia, to Rwanda, to Darfur. The World says "Never Again." When will never finally arrive. Too late for most. The pure blackness of the human heart contradicts everything I believe in. I needed to go back to the children's section to be with my boys. Partly for them. Wholly for me. On my way I came across another section and found a book about a man who died and visited Heaven, only to return to this life just before entering. His seemingly lucid and vivid description in his bestselling book was just what I needed at that point as I sat down with my boys, among silly alligators and joking hippos, as I began to read it right there.
I reconnected with Ke Akua to try and understand how the heart of man can be so black and painfully cruel to the most beautiful and innocent among us. It rips me to the core of my soul. I left the bookstore with so much in my head and heart. The answers came that night at about 2:00 in the morning. When my two boys left their bedroom and crawled into bed with me. One nestled in my arms. The other entangled in my legs. They stirred me from my sleep to listen to several songs playing on my Ipod. The familiar words and music took on new meaning which brought me revelation, more tears, a purging of my guilt and then peace. I felt the presence of my angels. Mahalo no e Ke Akua. You are the Man...
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The need to remove implanted cardiac device leads has increased as the number of implanted devices has grown. In 2009 more than 1 million pacemakers and 330,000 ICDs were implanted worldwide – more than a quarter of them in the United States.
Although the reliability of cardiac devices remains high, some conditions still require removal of the leads – the wires that follow the blood vessels into the heart – or sometimes the entire system. The primary indications for lead removal are infection, pain, lead malfunction or recall, and venous occlusion.
Removing leads can be difficult because over time they become surrounded by vascular tissue and eventually are endothelialized into the luminal surface of the large veins, portions of the tricuspid valve, and cardiac tissue. Leads often can be removed without laser assistance up to a year after implantation, but if they have been in place longer, removal can be more dangerous and the chances of success are low.
For many years few tools were available for removing cardiac device leads. Systems using manual traction or cutting sheaths were not very successful and were associated with significant risk.
Extraction techniques improve
In the mid- to late-'90s, newer extraction techniques became available. These used special stylets to provide traction within the lead, and laser sheaths to free up tissue around the lead. Current techniques use a laser sheath that passes over the lead, delivering energy that vaporizes tissue through photoablation and freeing the lead for removal. Tissue ablation occurs at a depth of only 50 microns, which focuses the energy just over the lead and decreases the risk of perforation.
Laser lead extraction now is performed with a success rate of nearly 98 percent and a major adverse event rate of only 1.4 percent, according to clinical studies.
The most recent consensus statement regarding lead extraction was published in July 2009 and was a collaboration between the Heart Rhythm Society, American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association. The statement recommends that lead extraction should be performed in patients with device-related infections and should be strongly considered in selected patients with lead malfunction, venous thrombosis or pain.
Providence St. Vincent Medical Center performed the first laser lead extraction in 1998. Today a multidisciplinary team that includes members from cardiac surgery, infectious disease and cardiac electrophysiology provides the best procedural outcomes for this growing patient population. Providence St. Vincent continues to perform the most chronic laser lead extractions in Oregon and serves as the regional referral center for patients who require this procedure.
To learn more about lead extraction or to refer patients for evaluation, contact Providence St. Vincent Cardiac Device and Monitoring Clinic at 503-216-2188.


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[ High Performance Computing ] The atmosphere at SC11 was big data-focused and full of new tools.
Products, Deployments, and News in Supercomputing
By Bio-IT World Staff
January 10, 2012 | SEATTLE—November's Supercomputing 11 (SC11) conference* in Seattle was full of news and product announcements across the industry. Here's a sampling of what caught Bio•IT World's ear.
Top500 announced their newest list. The Top 10 order didn't change, but the space between systems did. Japan's "K Computer", at the number one spot, completed a build out to make it four times as powerful as China's Tianhe-1A system in the number two position.
The Cornell Center for Advanced Computing received an HPC Innovation Excellence Award from the International Data Corporation for enabling hepatitis C virus research on a remote experimental MATLAB computing resource located at Cornell University.
AccelerEyes launched ArrayFire, a freely-available GPU software library supporting CUDA and OpenCL devices. "ArrayFire is our best software yet and anyone considering GPU computing can benefit," said James Malcolm, VP Engineering, in a press release. "It is fast, simple, GPU-vendor-neutral, full of functions, and free for most users."
Jason Stowe (of Cycle Computing) was working the Amazon Web Services booth. AWS theorized a bit on the cloud's role in high performance computing in a blog post mid-week, and announced a new type of instance—CC2, or Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large—at the event.
Cycle Computing offered $10,000 worth of free CycleCloud time plus technical support (at SC11 Amazon kicked in their own $2,500) to help a research group address an "un-askable question" as part of its BigScience Challenge. The finalists named at SC11 were Alan Aspuru-Guzik and Johannes Hachmann from the Harvard Clean Energy Project; Jesus Izaguirre from the University of Notre Dame; Soumya Ray from Harvard Medical School; Victor Ruotti from Morgridge Institute for Research; and Martin Steinegger from TU Munich ROSTLAB.
Bright Computing is a company worth watching for their cluster management capabilities in the cloud and new status as an Amazon Web Services Solution Provider. Bright just announced comprehensive support for cloud bursting: with a few mouse clicks, customers can either create new clusters in the cloud or add cloud-based nodes to existing clusters that Bright manages like part of the local cluster.
Convey Computer announced a partnership with Nimbix (link to PDF) to deliver Convey's unique hybridcore architecture and bioinformatics personalities as a cloud-based HPC solution, and a doubling of its Graph500 performance (link to PDF).
Cray won a University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications contract, and will provide a Cray XE6 system and a future upgrade of the recently-announced Cray XK6 supercomputer with GPU computing capability for National Science Foundation's Blue Waters project. Once fully deployed, the system is expected to have a sustained performance of more than one petaflops. Cray also announced the Sonexion 1300 system, an integrated file system, software and storage product.
Along with Cray, NVIDIA announced a parallel-programming standard—OpenACC—with the Portland Group (PGI) and CAPS enterprise. OpenACC allows parallel programmers to provide simple hints—"directives"—to the compiler, identifying which areas of code to accelerate, without requiring programmers to modify or adapt the underlying code itself.
The DataDirect Networks booth was busy as the company released new storage offerings tied to its Storage Fusion product line. The company's Storage Fusion Architecture was chosen by Munich-based Leibniz Supercomputing Center to power its SuperMUC HPC system.
Globus Online celebrated its first birthday at SC11, and is doing effective large file transfer. The United Kingdom's National Grid Service has adopted Globus Online as the preferred data movement method for its users.
NETLIST introduced its new 32GB Virtual Dual Rank HyperCloud Planar-X RDIMM, enabling up to 768GB in a standard two-processor server, and demonstrated 1333 MT/s (mega transfers per second) on a standard server.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Myricom, and Juniper Networks demonstrated "wide-area" 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100 GbE) between the ORNL and Juniper Networks booths. Juniper Networks and Myricom are providing ORNL the infrastructure required to connect to DOE's Advanced Networking Initiative (ANI) 100G testbed, which links several national laboratories.
ScaleMP pushed virtualization with thenewest version of its server virtualization for aggregation software platform, vSMP Foundation 4.0, and showcased the product line with partners HP, IBM, AMD, and AdvancedHPC.
SGI hosted an impressive booth and introduced their Next-Generation ICE X Scale-Out Bladed HPC Cluster. The SGI-Cloudera partnership is also worth watching. SGI will now distribute Cloudera software pre-installed on SGI Hadoop Clusters.
Platform Computing made a big splash, as they always do. Since being acquired by IBM in mid-October, Platform's offerings could get even more interesting.
Bull had a solid presence and launched a new generation of ultra-dense petascale supercomputers, though it's not yet clear how much that will affect life sciences. •
This article also appeared in the January 2012 issue of Bio-IT World magazine.


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New year, same old Galaxy. This season, however, that's a good thing.
Edson Buddle scored early and the defense made it stand as LA beat New England 1-0 at Home Depot Center on Saturday.
Six times last season, the Galaxy won by a 1-0 score, including a July 4 victory over this same New England team here in Southern California.
The Galaxy opened the scoring six minutes into the match. New England's Joseph Niouky took out Todd Dunivant with a slide tackle a few yards from the left touchline. Landon Donovan took the set piece and placed the ball with precision to the front of the goal. Buddle found space between three defenders and smashed a header into the goal.
For Buddle, the goal may have been a bit of a tension-breaker. The striker scored 15 goals in 2008 but only five a season ago, and with the Galaxy in need of a dependable second scorer this season behind Donovan, Buddle seemed to answer those early questions loud and clear.
New England pieced together a much different lineup than in previous years. Gone are players such as Steve Ralston, Jeff Larentowicz and Wells Thompson, but out injured were Matt Reis, Taylor Twellman and Shalrie Joseph. Revs coach Steve Nicol trotted out three starters who had never played in MLS before: forward Zach Schilawski, midfielder Niouky and defender Seth Sinovic.
Donovan Ricketts wasn't tested until the 23rd minute, when Pat Phelan took aim from 22 yards. However, Phelan's shot went straight to the Galaxy 'keeper and big Jamaican did well to nestle the ball into his arms.
Galaxy coach Bruce Arena had to go to his bench midway through the first half. Eddie Lewis, who had been tackled hard by Kevin Alston in the 18th minute, apparently couldn't recover from the slide tackle and was removed, suffering from a left foot contusion, and replaced by Alex Cazumba. Alston received a yellow card for the challenge.
The Galaxy nearly had several late opportunities to add a second goal but were done in by fine goalkeeping and bad mistakes. Preston Burpo turned away Buddle and Omar Gonzalez in the final 12 minutes with diving saves.
But clearly the Galaxy's best opportunity was in the 88th minute, when Donovan raced from the center circle to the penalty area unmarked. Instead of trying to beat Burpo, Donovan slipped a ball to Cazumba, but his touch failed him as the ball was out of reach.
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LA – Buddle (Donovan) 6
NE – Alston (caution, reckless tackle), 18
NE – Niouky (caution, reckless tackle), 41
LA Galaxy: Ricketts; Franklin, Gonzalez, Leonardo, Dunivant; Magee (Birchall, 67), Kovalenko, Juninho (Stephens, 80), Lewis (Cazumba, 26); Buddle, Donovan.
New England Revolution: Burpo; Alston (Smith, 90), Gibbs, Osei, Sinovic; Nyassi (Boggs, 58), Phelan, Niouky, Tierney; Dube (Mansally, 76), Schilawski.
Attendance: 21,376


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Tommy Castro knows what he wants to hear when he puts on an album. "When I listen to a record, I want to be taken on a little ride," he says in a recent phone interview. "You want to listen to a record all the way down. You don't want a record that you don't want to listen to past track six. I wanted this one to be one that people are going to be saying 'What's he going to do now?'"
"This one" is Hard Believer, Castro's 10th solo album, which showcases Castro versions of Bob Dylan and Allen Toussaint songs, and lays out a little autobiography. The Dylan song is a rather surprising choice—"You Gotta Serve Somebody," from the 1979 gospel album Slow Train Coming. "It's one of those songs I've always loved," Castro said. "Dylan's lyric writing is amazing. As a songwriter, I'm in awe of the stuff that rolls off his brain."
The Toussaint cover, "Victims of the Darkness," features a hard New Orleans funk that's different than anything the band has ever done, Castro says. So is the unclassifiable "The Trouble with Soul" that closes the record. "That song kind of grabbed me," he said. "I kept wanting to play it again. It let me play a little different style of guitar. I stretch out on my guitar work a little on this album."
That stretching came at the same time Castro, who has been playing since age 10 and began his career in San Francisco bands 30 years ago, started taking guitar lessons. "I'd played everything I knew, so I had to learn something new," he said. "I learned that it's fun to play guitar. I've expanded my horizons a little."
Castro's New Year's Eve show at the Mystic Theatre in Petaluma, slowly becoming an annual tradition, will serve as a special 20th anniversary for the band. Founding members Randy McDonald and Shad Harris will be on hand to play songs from every single record the Tommy Castro Band has recorded. "We're always a band," Castro says. "I've always considered this as sort of a group effort."
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Who Cares About Insects? We All Should If We Care About Nature
Pandemics and Population: Lessons from the Coronavirus Catastrophe of 2020
Not Yet a 'Silent Spring,' But a Subdued One
Fewer flocks and feathers grace our skies, forests, coasts, grasslands, and deserts these days. That's not just a coincidence. As human population increases and millions of acres of natural lands and habitats are permanently altered or lost to development, the survival of our avian neighbors is threatened.
Population and Immigration Denialism in the Climate Debate
The Greatest Threat to Wildlife in General and Endangered Species in Particular Is Not Donald Trump's New Rules
Too Many People, Too Little Sand
Top Environmentalist Sees Little Future for U.S. Wildlife Without Deep Cuts in Immigration
Our call for replacement-level immigration (a reduction in annual numbers by perhaps 80%) has just received a huge boost of validity in a new book -- Man Swarm and the Killing of Wildlife -- by Dave Foreman. Over the last four decades, few people have been more true and highly-publicized in their championing of the U.S. environment than Foreman. Essentially, he concludes that wildlife in the U.S. face a dismal future without deep cuts in immigration.


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1 in 3 boating deaths alcohol-related
The legal limit is the same for boating under the influence of alcohol as it is for driving a car.
Ohio sets the limit at 0.08 blood-alcohol content, and state authorities will be on the lookout for intoxicated boaters this July 4 weekend.
Law enforcement made contact with more than 400 boaters last weekend in Ohio, and 10 people were arrested on impaired boating charges and another nine on drug-related charges.
"I do see a lot of people out there without life jackets on, and I don't know which one's worse, to be honest," said Roland Carroll, of the Dayton Bass Club. "I hate to see people drink on the water because that can be, that's devastating."
Serious fisherman say they like to get off the waterways before the holiday weekend draws crowds.
"That water patrol is pretty good out here, they're out here quite often, so they check people out," said fisherman Joe Black, of Springboro. "I'm sure it happens, I'm sure it goes on, but I've never seen anything out here that's concerned me."
Impaired boating resulted in more than 20 injuries and five deaths a couple of summers ago in Ohio.
One in three boating fatalities is alcohol-related, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
Operating a boat while under the influence can result in jail time or fines, as well as the loss of boat registration privileges.


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Many Students Don't Need Remediation, Studies Say
At a time when more high schools are looking to their graduates' college-remediation rates as a clue to how well they prepare students for college and careers, new research findings suggest a significant portion of students who test into remedial classes don't actually need them.
Separate studies from Teachers College, Columbia University, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education come to the same conclusion: The way colleges are using standardized placement tests such as the College Board's Accuplacer, ACT's Compass, and others can misidentify students, and secondary schools and universities should work to develop a more comprehensive profile of students' strengths and weaknesses in performing college-level work.
The problem is coming to the fore as more states move to align their academic standards for college and career readiness with the Common Core State Standards and federal Race to the Top requirements and more high schools receive data on how their graduates are faring in colleges.
Thomas W. Brock, the new commissioner of the National Center for Education Research and a veteran higher education researcher, said improving remedial education has become a top research and policy concern. "It's a huge need," he said. "At many institutions, it's a majority of students coming in and being placed into developmental ed.—and this is where it starts to bleed into the financial-aid agenda, because they're using up valuable semesters of financial aid, which of course are not endless."
Growing Issue
According to the most recent data from the National Center on Education Statistics, 3 million new students enter higher education each year, and fully half take at least one catch-up course while they are enrolled—at a cost of nearly $7 billion a year for the noncredit-bearing classes.
"If you're working in community colleges, especially urban community colleges, you get used to those numbers," said Judith Scott-Clayton, an assistant professor of economics and education at Teachers College and an author of one study, which was published under the auspices of the National Bureau of Economic Research and presented at last month's American Economics Association meeting in San Diego. "Remediation is the typical experience now."
Those high rates of remediation have long been used by education policymakers to suggest that primary and secondary schools do not prepare students adequately for college-level work. They were one of the key arguments behind the development of the common core and other standards-reform initiatives, and states such as Illinois include remediation rates in feedback reports to high schools.
"It's being used in some places for high school accountability, so this certainly raises a word of caution," said Ms. Scott-Clayton. "We can't just take the remediation rate as purely objective and without problems. Is this accountability gone awry?"
Ms. Scott-Clayton analyzed the high school transcript information, college-placement-test scores, and college progress of more than 50,000 students in a large, unnamed urban community college system and a separate statewide college system in the same state, which also is not identified. In the urban college system, which includes a high-minority population, she found three out of every four students were assigned to at least one remedial class; nearly 80 percent of all those who took the mathematics placement test were assigned to a remedial course. In the statewide system, the numbers were only slightly better: 70 percent of students who took the math placement test and 58 percent of those who took the English test were assigned to noncredit-bearing catch-up classes.
To determine whether all those students were really so unprepared for college-level work, Ms. Scott-Clayton examined the students' actual high school and college credits earned and grades received. She found that 20 percent of students placed in remedial math and 25 percent of those placed in remedial reading were "severely misidentified," meaning that not only could they have passed the entry college course in that subject, but they could have done so with a grade of B or better.
"So much focus and attention is on the students who are not succeeding, and how to help them succeed, that there just was not much talk about, 'Hey, maybe there are some people in remediation who don't need to be there,'" Ms. Scott-Clayton said.
In response to the placement-test studies, "What I will definitely say is the results we're seeing are not surprising at all," said David Parmele, the executive director of the College Board's Accuplacer in Reston, Va. "Remedial education in America is broken right now, and we think there is a lot more that can be done to help."
Mr. Parmele and representatives of ACT Inc., the Iowa City, Iowa-based nonprofit that runs the Compass placement test, said they agreed with the research methodology. Still, Jim Sconing, an ACT assistant vice president for applied research, cautioned that not all students enter college with high school transcripts or other indicators to weigh into their class placement. In particular, students who were homeschooled or who return to college after several years in the workforce may have no other information available. According to the most recent data from the National Center on Education Statistics, nearly a third of all entering college students are not coming directly from high school.
Mr. Parmele argued that Accuplacer does provide appropriate information on placements, but that colleges are more likely to misidentify students who do not prepare for the test, particularly if the placement test is used without any other academic indicators. Mr. Parmele and Mr. Sconing said both Accuplaccer and Compass include tools to allow colleges to weigh test results along with other academic indicators, such as high school grades and course credits, and work with colleges to use broader measures of student readiness than just the test. Neither testing representative, however, knew how many of its client colleges actually use those tools.
Broader View
Broader measures do increase accuracy, Ms. Scott-Clayton said; she found 30 percent lower rates of severe misidentification when placement decisions incorporated high school transcript data, including a student's GPA, total courses taken and credits earned, honors classes taken, total classes in English and math, and the number of F grades received.
"The high school transcript info is basically more accurate for every group we look at," Ms. Scott-Clayton said. "It's true that it's more subjective, but you are getting multiple measurements accumulated over time across several instructors. And it is capturing a broader array of skills, not just pure mechanical test-taking skills, but effort, persistence, motivation—things that we know matter a lot for college success."
However, she found results uneven for specific racial groups: While fewer Hispanic students were placed in remedial courses using high school information, more young black men were pulled into remediation.
As part of researchers Angela Boatman and Bridget T. Long's developmental-placement project at Harvard's Strategic Data Project, Lindsay Daugherty, an associate policy researcher with the RAND Corp., also found test-based misplacement in a large school district and community college system in Texas. They found that at several community colleges requiring universal placement tests, 30 percent of students assigned to remediation were considered "college ready" based on their scores on the ACT, SAT, and state Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, or TAKS, readiness assessments.
"Everyone understands what a good SAT score or ACT score is. It's much more difficult, even within a local district to find the cutoff scores," Ms. Daugherty said.
Aaron J. Graczyk, a senior project manager at the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, agreed. He said the state found commercial placement tests "were not as well-aligned as we would have liked" with Texas' college-readiness standards, which span kindergarten through college.
New Rules in Texas
In light of that, and of high remediation placement, particularly in community colleges, the state legislature has required all colleges in the state to move to a new, state-developed placement test, which will roll out this fall. The new assessment includes diagnostic tests to identify specific problem areas in each subject, and the coordinating board will require colleges and universities to use those to plan more targeted remediation—for example, enrolling a student in a credit-bearing class while providing tutoring or an elective class to fill gaps in the student's knowledge in that subject.
"If you are placed in remedial education," said Judith Loredo, the assistant commissioner for the P-16 initiative of the coordinating board, "the diagnostic part of the test will help the institution better provide the services you need based on your weaknesses, and not on your strengths, so that you don't end up necessarily having to take a 15-week course, go into this sinking hole, and rot for the next two years."
It's easy for students to end up in that "sinking hole," Ms. Daugherty and Mr. Parmele agreed, because students often are less aware of the importance of the placement tests before they take them. While academic counselors and college recruiters teach students the importance of getting a good score on a college-entrance exam, and prep courses abound, there is little advance warning or preparation for placement tests.
"Many students are given placement tests without even realizing they're going to be taking a test" Mr. Parmele said. "It's hard for anybody to sit down for a test with no notice and try to remember what you learned about dividing polynomials in a class four years ago."
Ms. Daugherty found the Texas students often did not know how the tests worked, what a remedial class was, or "that they wouldn't get college credit but they would have to pay for it and it could be up to a year of remedial courses," she said. "These tend to be higher-performing, low-income minority students whose parents don't have the time and resources to worry about whether a placement test affects their kids.
"Students don't realize what they've gotten themselves into until they're halfway into the course," she said.
The Strategic Data Project has been working with Texas districts to encourage more high school educators to talk to their students about placement as well as entrance exams, and to give exiting seniors a brush-up course before they take the placement tests. In Ms. Daugherty's study, to be presented at the March meeting of the Association for Education Finance and Policy, she found those refresher courses can reduce remediation placements.
"Most of these higher math-performing students hadn't been in algebra for three to four years, maybe," she said. "They needed to just sit down for three or four hours and do some algebra problems, and it would come right back to them."
Vol. 32, Issue 21, Pages 1, 21Published in Print: February 20, 2013, as Remedial Placements Found to Be Overused
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Pricey baby stroller might make even the '1 percent' blush
It may be called the 4Moms Origami baby stroller, but it really isn't for moms or babies. It's for nerdy, gadget-loving dads who love to wait in line to drop $800 on the latest iPad.
It's a baby stroller as if built by "Iron Man's" Stark Industries, or it should follow Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics. Whatever it is, when I first heard about it, I knew I had to review this cutting-edge yet hilariously over-the-top stroller. And with a name like 4Moms, it's perfect for Utah, right?
The first thing that may catch your eye about the Origami stroller -- which is designed by the Pittsburgh company 4Moms -- is that you don't have to push, pull or yank it from its folded state. No more stepping on levers with your foot or trying to stretch the handle bars wider to "inflate" the stroller into position.
With the Origami, you simply push a big orange button, and it automatically unfolds, thanks to small motors inside the frame. You hear a whining sound, and the device rises up and locks into position in just four seconds. Push the button again and it folds right up just as quickly. That alone is going to arouse the techno-parent.
It also has a pair of running lights in front and two more headlights low to the ground for those sunset walks through the park. There's an LED screen for mom and dad that displays the outside temperature and walking speed, and a trip and lifetime odometer to track the number of miles. It also has warning indicators to tell you when the stroller is locked into position, not locked or is being blocked by an obstruction while folding.
And get this. It has not one BUT FOUR cup holders.
There is the standard removable storage compartment below the seat, and it has shoulder belts and a hoodie to cover the baby like every other stroller.
But does every other stroller have a four-wheel independent suspension system for a comfortable ride?
There are accessories sold separately to change the color of the seat, an adapter to use a Graco-branded car seat, and a handle bar bag for additional storage. You can even charge your cellphone with the stroller while on the go with an additional $40 accessory.
Why not go all the way and include an iPad stand for the toddler? Just kidding, it doesn't.
Because the Origami uses a battery for power to fold and unfold, as well as for the headlights, its designers brilliantly included a way to recharge the battery, just by pushing it. The downside is that the stroller makes an audible whirring sound when you push it.
Because the Origami is packed with all of those high-tech features, it obviously isn't priced like a $30 umbrella stroller. No, at a staggering $850, this is a stroller for the "1 percent."
Although pricey, the stroller is well built and fairly rugged. It's also stylish, with a frame built of dark grey, curved bars made out of composite metal. There was some initial assembly, which was easy enough. And you can't deny that pressing just one button to fold the stroller, especially when parents always seem to have their hands full, is a nice luxury.
But my wife and I have already survived the toddler years (thank heavens!), so I let my brother and sister in law try out the stroller for a week with their 2-year-old daughter.
They most its incredibly smooth ride. Thanks to the independent suspension, the Origami has a more velvety feel than their other strollers (they have three). They said it was especially good for using on level ground, say, at a shopping mall. My brother said turns were intuitive, "almost like a Segway."
They liked the visibility of the running lights, which are always on (and the curved metallic frame is also made of a reflective material). The headlights were strong enough to be seen at night. The four cup holders were a hit, as was the efficient use of space.
But given its price, several disadvantages stood out.
At more than 30 pounds, my "researchers" had their biggest struggles with the stroller's weight. Instead of carrying it when it's folded, the Origami is so heavy, it has two additional smaller wheels on the front so you can roll it like a suitcase. Getting it in and out of a car was a chore, especially because there were no intuitive places with handles to lift it up with when folded.
The weight, my sister-in-law said, also made for more work to push the Origami and baby up a hill, compared with other strollers. And when folded, it's hardly compact, meaning it takes up a lot more room than an average stroller.
Although the Origami has a built-in sensor that prevents it from folding if a child is sitting in it, be careful that it doesn't fold or unfold with the child near it. It's supposed to stop when it senses an obstruction between the bars while folding, but it nearly crushed a plastic garbage can I placed underneath it. It's similar to vans with side doors that open and close automatically -- make sure your child's hand is far from it when closing it.
The 4Moms Origami stroller is built for the Fortune 500 CEO with everything, not for the rest of us who value convenience over fashion. But for the Ferrari-driving parent who likes to show off their worth instead of their parenting skills, this is the stroller for them.


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Good Morning Comrades!
$13.4 billion is all? Gee, that's going to be lunch money here real soon.
Is anyone besides me NOT SURPRISED that this announcement comes on the morning of options expiration? This market is so rigged that you can now completely bet on it. Glad I went long yesterday at the close, look at my reasons to be bullish at yesterday's end of day update and you'll find it there. When I see George Bush open his lips, what I see is Hank Paulson talking! This country is completely run by the central bank, when is America going to wake up? When they figure out that they have no future, maybe.
At any rate, the bailout sent the DOW up more than 100 points, but once Bush began talking it started to come back down. Futures are now up about 70 points with 10 minutes to the open.
You can see the technicals in yesterday's End of Day Update: http://economicedge.blogspot.com/2008/12/well-that-was-interesting.html
Be careful if you are playing the markets today, I expect it to be volatile. I am long but will be exiting that position at some point during the day, it may be soon.
Sorry, I don't have a lot more to say than that – I feel a 7 page rant coming on…
Have a great bail out day, WHERE'S YOURS?
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Many of the products you will find online are of inferior quality and do not last very long. Even within the same manufacturers and brands there are various ways of lowering the price like using NiCd batteries instead of LiPo batteries and changing motors to lower quality motors to cut costs. These shortcuts are are used by "fly-by-night" companies to get lower prices at the expense of the consumer. We are in this business for the long term and believe that keeping our customers satisfied is the key to our success. To ensure this, we make sure that all of the models we carry are made to our standards for the highest quality and longest battery life while still keeping prices low.
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Suggested Wood: Hickory, Pecan
These pinwheels were developed in the kitchens at Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q as a part of a campaign for the National Pork Board. This is not your typical "low and slow" barbecue recipe, but rather an "ode to pork," a direct-grilled recipe that features both pork tenderloin and pork bacon. Add some pecans and a traditional Carolina mustard sauce and you have an appetizer or entreé with true Southern flair.
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- 1 pork tenderloin
- 6 bacon strips
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- 1 cup finely chopped pecans
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- Cut the tenderloin lengthwise into 6 long strips approximately 1/4 inch thick. Lay the slices on a cutting board; they should be the same size and shape as the bacon strips. Place a strip of bacon on top of each piece of tenderloin. Starting at one end, roll the tenderloin into a pinwheel medallion. Secure with two toothpicks.
- Set aside 1 cup of the Carolina Mustard Sauce and apply remaining sauce to the outside of the pinwheels. Stir together the pecans, salt, and pepper, and coat the tenderloin pinwheels with the pecan mixture. Cut each of the pinwheels through the equator to make two thin pinwheel medallions.
- Build a charcoal and/or wood fire for direct grilling. Place the medallions on the grill over medium-high heat (375 to 400°F) and cook for 7 to 8 minutes on each side or until the edges of the bacon start to crisp. Serve with the reserved sauce drizzled over each pinwheel.
Big Bob Gibson's BBQ Book by Chris Lilly. Copyright © 2009 by Chris Lilly. Published by Crown Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved.
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U2 Manager Says Google And Its Hippie Friends Should Pay The Recording Industry
from the still-haven't-found-what-i'm-looking-for... deptWhile the IFPI and the RIAA have been actively pushing for ISP liability for file sharing, it appears some in the industry are taking it even further. U2's manager for 30-years, Paul McGuinness, gave a talk at the Midem conference where he blamed Silicon Valley's "hippie values" for creating the problem, and demanding that tech companies of all stripes start paying the recording industry. He's talking not only about ISPs, but also Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and basically every other successful tech company. There are so many problems with this, it's difficult to know where to begin, but let's tackle a few of the quotes:
First he blames these companies who have "built multibillion dollar industries on the back of our content without paying for it."This is a common refrain from those in struggling industries, but it's meaningless. Complementary goods are a natural for building bigger markets, but no one expects one side to pay the other just for moral reasons. The oil industry's success is built on the backs of the automobile industry, but does the automobile industry demand that oil companies have a moral obligation to pay them? Computer makers have built a multibillion dollar industry on the backs of the internet and software companies -- yet, no one says they have a moral obligation to pay those companies anything. Travel guides have built huge business based on hotels and restaurants around the globe, but does anyone think that those travel guides owe the hotels and restaurants money for doing so? Hell, the recording industry itself was built off the backs of complementary goods such as radio, yet when they paid radio stations, it was known as payola and outlawed.
These companies, McGuiness claims, need to help out "not on the basis of reluctantly sharing advertising revenue, but collecting revenue for the use and sale of our content."Uh huh. And I guess that automobile companies should be collecting revenue for the oil companies. And, home builders should be collecting revenue for the electricity companies. And, airlines should be collecting revenue for the hotel industry. You see, these are all separate industries. They may be complementary, but it's up to each one individually to figure out the business models that work. None should be pressured into saving the other from its own missteps.
"I call on them to do two things: first, taking responsibility for protecting the music they are distributing; and second, by commercial agreements, sharing their enormous revenues with the content makers and owners."This is beginning to sound an awful like journalists who claim that Google has a moral obligation to "share revenue" with newspapers.
He claims that what all of these companies do is the equivalent of a magazine that "was advertising stolen cars, processing payments for them and arranging delivery."That makes for a nice soundbite but has nothing to do with reality. First there's the little problem that nothing is being stolen here, only copied. Second, none of these companies are "processing payment" for unauthorized transactions. Third, none of them are "arranging delivery." It would be like the same scenario, but blaming the guys who paved the road on which the car was driven.
"Embedded deep down in the brilliance of those entrepreneurial, hippie values seems to be a disregard for the true value of music."First, this shows a misunderstanding about the difference between price and value. It also misunderstands the culture of Silicon Valley, which is generally more libertarian these days than "hippie."
On top of all this, McGuiness is whining about this at the same time that U2 is pulling in incredible profits, making $355 million on its last tour. You know what helped fuel some of that? The fact that a new generation of fans are learning about U2 from downloading its music for free. Not only that, since they don't have to stretch their entertainment dollars as far on buying the actual music, they can pay the exorbitant concert ticket prices that U2 is charging these days.
The problem here isn't that others are letting the recording industry languish. It's that just about every other industry has realized that there's plenty of money to be made in the music industry. As we've pointed out, just about every aspect of the industry is doing fantastically well. More money is being made on concert revenue than ever before. More artists are making music than ever before. More music is being heard than ever before. Even more musical instruments are being sold than ever before in the past. Yet, because one segment of the market (the one selling plastic discs) is unwilling to take some simple steps to change its business model, everyone else has to pay up?
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Being able to see the kind of results that you can expect from Cellulaze is important when deciding if it will meet your expectations, and be the right treatment for you. This is why Consulting Room have gathered together a gallery of before and after photographs from the many UK based practitioners who offer Cellulaze to provide you with a visual representation of the achievable outcome. It's important to bear in mind that all pictures are of real people and your results may be differ, or you may not be suitable for treatment.
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The revised Ohlins SD2.1design includes a new mounting system so the damper can be transferred from one bike to another. The updated SD 2.1 is a polished version of the previous model, it's better then ever with the newly Interchangeable SD 2.1 revision. The new silhouette is a result of a much easier way of mounting the damper under the handlebar.
The re-designed SD 2.1 features high-speed damping when needed but gives minimum interference at low speed due to its use of precisely created components. Thanks to its RTC damping adjuster (Return To Center), the SD 2.1 may be used by riders inexperienced with steering damping; resistance for the rider can be minimised through opening the RTC valve. Riders searching for extra support and stability in both directions can use the RTC in a more closed position to achieve added stability.
The new steering damper is now equipped with a completely new valving system, eliminating any fluctuation of the damping characteristics depending on making a left or a right turn.The UniFlow feature is actually a system that controls the flow of the hydraulic fluid to only one direction hence the new fluctuation free damping curve.The system is also pressurized to compensate any temperature changes. The retail price is $724.
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KooRaRoo Media has been updated to version 1.3.1 and is now available for you to download and install.
The new and enhanced features include:
- New: Allow overriding parental rating for a device during certain hours - useful if you want to segregate contents delivered to the same device based on time of the day.
- New: Optionally use external image files to generate video thumbnails - check the Update Folder settings.
- New: Encode photos to any color space supported by a device.
- New language: Hungarian
- Device improvements: Vizio TVs.
- Fixed: Drag and drop playlists now expands and collapses tree nodes automatically, but only when hovering over the [+] button in the tree.
- Fixed: Combining DVD files into a single movie when video and audio channels are intermixed between different VOB files.
- Fixed: Manually transcoded files not used until transcoding is finished in the GUI.
- Fixed: In some cases the default encoding bitrate was not applied correctly to the output file.
- Fixed: An error would come up on some non-English systems that KooRaRoo cannot be started.
- Fixed: Predefined database folders did not update their titles when switching languages in some cases.
- Fixed: Transcoding tab not shown for properties of image files.
- Fixed: Combining DVD files would sometimes produce pixelated results on the XBox 360.
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Home Vintner Wine Guild Christmas Party
Posted by Airdrie Store - Pat Morrison - full access, December 13th, 2011 | 0 Comments
Wow! What a great turn-out for our annual Guild Christmas party! And a big welcome to the new members that showed up, showing such enthusiasm to learn all they can about the wine making process and making their own award winning wines & beer! Everyone brought a pot-luck dish and the table and side counters were just groaning with the amount of food, not to mention many fine wines and beer. Every time the doorbell rang, we all groaned, "Oh, no MORE FOOD!!" LOL
It was great seeing everyone at this festive occasion, and once again, the Christmas decorations at Francois and Darlene's home were absolutely amazing. If you weren't in the Christmas spirit when you arrived, you certainly were by the time you left!
The "wine of the night" was the Jost Winery's Maple Wine out of Nova Scotia. See my other Blog on this tasty morsel!
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Ron is Winemaker of the Year 2011!
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Judging @ Alberta Amateur Winemakers Provincial Competition
Airdrie Home & Garden Fair
Granville Island Brewery Tour!
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Alexander Keith's Limited Release Tartan Ale
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NEWTON, Mass., April 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TripAdvisor, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRIP) announced today that it will release its first quarter 2012 financial results after market close on Tuesday, May 1, 2012. On that day, the company will hold a conference call and live webcast at 5 p.m. ET to review and discuss the company's business highlights and results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2012. A recorded version of the webcast will be available shortly after the live call and will be accessible at http://ir.tripadvisor.com/events.cfm for at least twelve months following the conference call. In addition, the company may discuss business and financial developments and trends and other matters affecting the company, some of which may not have been previously disclosed.
The details of the conference call webcast and replay are as follows:
TripAdvisor First Quarter 2012 Conference Call
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
5 p.m. ET
Live Call:
(877) 224-9081, domestic
(224) 357-2223, international
(855) 859-2056, passcode 64624102, domestic
(404) 537-3406, passcode 64624102, international
http://ir.tripadvisor.com/events.cfm (live and replay)
About TripAdvisor
TripAdvisor® is the world's largest travel site, enabling travelers to plan and have the perfect trip. TripAdvisor offers trusted advice from real travelers and a wide variety of travel choices and planning features with seamless links to booking tools. TripAdvisor-branded sites make up the largest travel community in the world, with more than 50 million unique monthly visitors*, and over 60 million reviews and opinions. The sites operate in 30 countries worldwide, including China under daodao.com. TripAdvisor also includes TripAdvisor for Business, a dedicated division that provides the tourism industry access to TripAdvisor's millions of monthly visitors.
TripAdvisor, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRIP) manages and operates websites under 19 other travel media brands, and together the sites attract more than 69 million unique monthly visitors**. TripAdvisor's travel media brands include www.airfarewatchdog.com, www.bookingbuddy.com, www.cruisecritic.com, www.everytrail.com, www.familyvacationcritic.com, www.flipkey.com, www.holidaylettings.co.uk, www.holidaywatchdog.com, www.independenttraveler.com, www.onetime.com, www.seatguru.com,
www.sniqueaway.com, www.smartertravel.com, www.tingo.com, www.travel-library.com, www.travelpod.com, www.virtualtourist.com, www.whereivebeen.com, and www.kuxun.cn.
*Source: comScore Media Metrix for TripAdvisor Sites, Worldwide, January 2012
**Source: comScore Media Metrix for TripAdvisor Inc. and its subsidiaries, Worldwide, January 2012
©2012 TripAdvisor, Inc. All rights reserved.
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If you're not following the CMglimpse project on Instagram then you should be. The talent there is incredible! Week after week, Instagramers are following the prompt list and rocking out one awesome photo after another. You need to see them so we're going to be showcasing just a few of our favorites from the week here on the CMblog each week!
Would you like to participate in next weeks list? Here it is and you'll just follow the prompts and then tag your photos #cmglimpse. And don't forget to follow Clickin Moms on Instagram too!


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Chilling footage shows Shenzhen landslide claim entire BLOCKS; 91 now missing in disaster (VIDEO)
The disaster occurred in the Hengtaiyu industrial park in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, on Sunday morning, destroying a total of 22 buildings and causing a gas pipeline explosion.
Shocking video footage from CCTV shows an entire multi-level building collapse in under five-seconds. At first, people are in disbelief, but are then seen running away from the landslide seeking safety.
China's Ministry of Land & Resources has blamed the disaster on a collapse of piled-up construction waste and soil residue in the area, state media said. It also cited a local emergency office giving a sharply increased estimate of the number of people missing. The figure had previously stood at 59.


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A Google-hosted blog is running phony security content that's linked to malware, as well as using Google's automated notification service to try to entice subscribers to click on an infected link, says one security expert.
To trick readers looking for information related to legitimate security products, the blog -- which has been spotted working under the name "Brittany" -- has copied content related to security vendors Symantec, Trend Micro and Aladdin Knowledge Systems, says Ofer Elzam, director of product management in Aladdin's eSafe division.
Elzam says this is the first time his company has seen this type of exploit. An Aladdin employee first spotted the exploit when she received a Google e-mail alert about Aladdin. But she immediately thought it looked odd.
"This alert was about an award from a few years ago, but someone had changed the quote slightly from 2005 to 2008," Elzam says about the Google alert e-mail. "There were other entries there too, related to Symantec and Trend Micro."
Anyone who clicked on links in the Google e-mail alert, or on the Google blog site with the fake security vendor information, would find themselves re-directed to a porn site and subject to attack code that would attempt to load malware onto their machine.
"This is the first time we've seen something like this," Elzam says. "If you get a message from a Google alert, you might think this is a service you can trust. But it's directing you to a rogue site with fake security software. And it's tricking Google, too."
Google's own statement of use associated with its blog service makes it clear that Google is under no obligation to patrol, noting that the Google blog sites "can carry offensive, harmful, inaccurate or other inappropriate material."
Google states in its usage policy that "Google does not monitor the contents of Blogger.com and Blogspot.com, and takes no responsibility for such content. Instead, Google merely provides access to such content as a service to you."
Aladdin's Elzam wonders if other high-tech companies in the network industry are finding their content purloined and their brands manipulated by malicious blog posts intended to fool users into downloading malware.
Tom Gillis, vice president of marketing at Cisco's IronPort division, says he isn't aware of anything similar targeting Cisco this way, but does know the practice of bogus blog postings to spread malware is a growing trend in sophisticated attacks.
"They use a blog to get your attention and then drag you to a Web site for downloading malware," Gillis says. "We're seeing this all the time now."


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Awesome idea.
I wonder if, because of the setup element, it might be better with sequential games against the same opponent, or in a format which tells you who your opponent is and allows you to record data between games. It looks to me as though it would be good even without this, though.


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People and Brands:
Medium: Printed silk crepe de chine and silk chiffon
Date: 2003
Country: Italy
Credit: Gift of Missoni
Bold patterns, vibrant color combinations, and artfully dyed knits have distinguished the Missoni label for nearly sixty years. Now under the creative direction of the founders' daughter, Angela Missoni, the company's contemporary designs are fresh and dynamic — yet maintain a timeless quality.
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Sentiment analysis is the process of deriving the attitudes and opinions expressed in text data. It can be used to categorize subjective statements as positive, negative, or neutral in order to determine opinions or sentiment about a topic. Machine learning techniques are commonly used in sentiment analysis to build models that can predict sentiment in new pieces of text.
For example, sentiment about companies is often analyzed in the financial services industry, as public sentiment can impact financial markets. One might use the large amounts of historical news and past social media data to build a sentiment model using machine learning; this model could then be used to calculate in real time a public sentiment score from news and social media feeds indicating current public opinion.
Sentiment analysis is used in finance, software, Internet, and many other industries. Applications of sentiment analysis include:
- Automating the classification of reviews, whether positive or negative
- Analyzing surveys to understand why customers are satisfied or dissatisfied
- Determining real-time sentiment scores for use in financial trading strategies
- Assessing counterparty credit risk
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CANNES WATCH: Cotillard's look, 'It Follows' buzz
CANNES, France (AP) — The Associated Press is all over the Cannes Film Festival — from its glitzy premieres to the celeb parties and quirky moments in between. Here's what reporters have seen and heard:
An unidentified guest walks on the red carpet as she arrives for the screening of Coming Home (Gu Lai) at the 67th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Taking an edgy style risk, Marion Cotillard showed up at the Cannes Film Festival wearing a short Maison Martin Margiela couture dress made of bric-a-brac from a flea market.
The gamble paid off beautifully.
Cotillard was the star of the "Two Days, One Night" screening Tuesday by Belgian director-brothers Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne.
Cotillard's colorful minidress in silk organdy and pongee, which sported a turtleneck, was make of myriad bric-a-brac including screws, beads, buttons and bits of beer cans from Paris and Brussels.
It came from the Maison Martin Margiela spring-summer 2014 collection and took a reported 67 hours to make.
The marvelous look was the most inventive seen at the festival so far.
— Thomas Adamson — http://twitter.com/ThomasAdamsonAP
It can be hard to stand out amid the hundreds of screenings at Cannes' sprawling festival. But this year, a little American indie has captured international attention with well-crafted horror.
"It Follows," directed by David Robert Mitchell, has been arguably the buzziest American film at Cannes next to Bennett Miller's wrestling drama "Foxcatcher," which boasts a far more famous cast and a major premiere at the Palais des Festival. It's the second film by Mitchell, whose micro-budget "The Myth of the American Sleepover" was acclaimed for its tender teen drama.
The concept of "It Follows" is simple: a kind of curse is passed like a sexually transmitted disease, and whoever has it is trailed by an unknown evil. While the conceit (not an unfamiliar one to the genre) runs thin at times, the thickly atmospheric filmmaking — heavily influenced by the '80s horror of John Carpenter — rarely does, despite a shoestring budget. Newcomer Maika Monroe excels as the infected protagonist, but Mitchell is clearly an up-and-coming talent capable of energizing tired genres.
The film screened in Critics' Week section, a Cannes sidebar featuring films only from first- and second-time filmmakers. While horror is rarely represented at festivals like Cannes, the inclusion of "It Follows" — and the response it has provoked — proves it will be one for horror fans and art-house moviegoers alike to look for when it hits theaters. "It Follows" is shopping for distribution at Cannes.
— Jake Coyle — http://twitter.com/jake_coyle
Faint-hearted animal lovers are advised to give this year's Cannes Film Festival selection a wide berth.
An unusually high number of films in the 2014 selection feature creatures that meet gruesome ends in long drawn-out sequences that are sometimes crucial to the plot.
The bunny-boiling-style moments have had audience members gasping, and, at times, covering their eyes.
— Abderrahmane Sissako's acclaimed "Timbuktu" movie started the trend. His movie's turning point hinges on a graphic moment when the protagonist's cherished cow, GPS, is fatally speared in the neck and suffers a slow death on screen.
— The slow-burning drama "Winter Sleep" from Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan uses the shooting of a rabbit to illustrate how the protagonist, Ayudin, begins to face reality. There's a close up of the rabbit on its side, fighting for life.
— In Naomi Kawase's Japanese film "Still the Water," several goats have their throats graphically slit and their blood drained.
— In David Cronenberg's "Maps to the Stars," a troubled child-star brat called Benjie Weiss accidently shoots his friend's dog dead, thinking the gun barrel is empty.
— In the "Un Certain Regard" section, Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo's film "White God" sees a loveable K-9 being mistreated and abandoned on the street.
But in "The Wonders" by Alice Rohrwacher, the animal world could be said to get its own back. In one scene where Alexandra Lungu has to put a bee in her mouth, the first-time actress admitted at a press conference that she got bitten.
— Thomas Adamson — http://twitter.com/ThomasAdamsonAP
Could there be a gay love story in Bollywood? One of its biggest stars says it's time to explore it.
Sonam Kapoor spoke about the possibility in an interview where she lamented India's laws on homosexuality: Last year, its Supreme Court upheld a ban on gay sex.
"Well you know, unfortunately, in our country right now recently there is a law which does not, which basically had said that homosexuality is not legal which is very sad," she said.
She added that India's legal stance is contrary to its culture in which "it's completely all-right, it's completely OK to be gay."
Kapoor is in Cannes as an ambassador for the beauty brand L'Oreal. In an interview Monday, Kapoor talked about last year's Palme d'Or winner, "Blue Is the Warmest Color," a lesbian love story, and whether such a film could be made for Bollywood.
Kapoor believes if gays are depicted on film, it could help bring change in her country.
"We've regressed instead of progressing," she said. "I think movies can influence the way people think sometimes and if we do start making love stories or we start making movies about people who are amazing human beings, people who have done something in life, people who are inspirational who aren't necessarily only straight, I think people will start appreciating them more," she said. "So yeah, I think we need to expose India a little bit more so we should make more movies about them."
— Cristina Jaleru — http://www.twitter.com/cristinelle7
Oscar-winning actress Marion Cotillard has an unusual confession: She's always wanted to play a man on screen.
At a press conference Tuesday in Cannes for "Two Days, One Night," the 38-year-old star was asked about roles she would like to do but has not yet had a chance to play.
"I've always had a fascination with playing a man. Because it appears impossible to me, it excites me. So there you go," she said.
If this gender-bending role does one day materialize, it would not be the first time that a woman has played a man in a movie.
In 2007, Cate Blanchett played Bob Dylan in "I'm Not There," and Tilda Swinton famously swapped genders in the 1992 art-house film "Orlando."
— Thomas Adamson — http://twitter.com/ThomasAdamsonAP
Filming hasn't started yet, but Adrien Brody is already starting to think about how he'll research his latest role as a 16th century emperor.
The Oscar-winner has signed on to play Charles V in "Emperor," a Lee Tamahori film that explores the reign of the Roman Empire ruler. Brody appeared with Tamahori to talk up the film in Cannes.
"Now is the time to amass all the information and sit with it and let it become a part of me, and so we will do that and see what we come up with," he said in an interview Monday.
The film won't be a studious version of Charles V's time in power. Promotional materials promise a film that explores "wealth, debauchery, violent relations, sex, manipulation and treason" and Brody said it's not aiming to be a historical document.
"We're consolidating 35 years... . There will be a great deal of imagination in play here and that's what's exciting," he said.
While Brody was promoting "Emperor," he also has other projects in play: He said "American Heist" is being shown to buyers in the Cannes film market, he is starting a production company and has a movie, "Third Person," out in June.
— Adam Egan
EDITOR'S NOTE — "Cannes Watch" shows you the Cannes Film Festival and the events surrounding it through the eyes of Associated Press journalists across Cannes and around the world. Follow them on Twitter where available with the handles listed after each item.
Actress Marion Cotillard poses for a photographers during a photo call for Two Days, One Night (Deux jours, une nuit) at the 67th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
In this image released by Brigade Marketing, actress Maika Monroe appears in a scene of It Follows, directed by David Robert Mitchell. ¿It Follows,¿ has been arguably the buzziest American film at Cannes next to Bennett Miller¿s wrestling drama ¿Foxcatcher,¿ which boasts a far more famous cast and a major premiere at the Palais des Festival. (AP Photo/Michael Gioulakis via Brigade Marketing)
Actress Marion Cotillard signs autographs following a press conference for Two Days, One Night (Deux jours, une nuit) at the 67th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Actor Adrien Brody poses for photographers as he arrives for the screening of Coming Home (Gu Lai) at the 67th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
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Ant Group will close its Hong Kong institutional book building one day early as it aims to raise about US$17.2 billion in the city, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter.
Saturday 28 November 2020
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