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"Please spare my little girl':
How Mexico's fearless female mayor sacrificed herself to save her daughter's life as she was abducted by drug gang, tortured and executed
Maria Santos Gorrostieta had been stabbed, beaten and burned
She defied Mexico's powerful drug gangs, who twice tried to gun her down
She was kidnapped in broad daylight in front of her terrified daughter
The former mayor leaves behind three children
By Sam Webb
PUBLISHED: 06:15 EST, 26 November 2012 | UPDATED: 16:23 EST, 26 November 2012
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Brave: Maria Santos Gorrostieta has been found beaten to death at the side of a road. She defied Mexico's powerful drug gangs and survived two assassination attempts, the first of which claimed the life of her husband
Brave: Dr Maria Santos Gorrostieta has been found beaten to death at the side of a road. She defied Mexico's powerful drug gangs and survived two assassination attempts, the first of which claimed the life of her husband
The woman mayor who was kidnapped and murdered by a Mexican drug gang pleaded with her attackers for her young daughters life, it emerged today.
Maria Santos Gorrostieta, who had already survived two assassination attempts, was driving the child to school at around 8.30am when she was ambushed by a car in the city of Morelia.
The 36-year-old was hauled from her vehicle and physically assaulted as horrified witnesses watched, according to newspaper El Universal.
They described how she begged for her child to be left alone and then appeared to get into her abductors car willingly.
The little girl was left wailing as her mother was driven away on Monday November 12.
For the next week, her frantic family waited by the phone for a ransom call that never came.
Gorrostietas body stabbed, burned, battered and bound at wrist and ankle would finally be found eight days on dumped by a roadside in San Juan Tararameo, Cuitzeo Township.
She left behind her daughter and two sons as well as her second husband Nereo Delgado Patinoran.
Hailed as a heroine of the 21st century, her death has prompted much soul-searching in a country ravaged by violence.
The decision to withdraw her security team in November last year and her police escort in January has come under particular scrutiny.
Gorrostieta was elected as mayor of Tiquicheo, a rural district in Michoacan, west of Mexico City, in 2008.
Almost immediately, she received threats. The first assassination attempt came in October 2009 when the car she was travelling in with her first husband Jose Sanchez came under fire from gunmen in the town of El Limone. The attack claimed his life but Gorrostieta lived.
She battled back from her injuries in the face of overwhelming tragedy, but she was not destined to know peace.
The next attempt on her life was just three months later, when an masked group carrying assault rifles ambushed her on the road between Michoacan and Guerreo state. The van she was traveling in was peppered by 30 bullets. Three hit her.
This time her wounds were more severe, leaving multiple scars and forcing her to wear a colostomy bag. She was left in constant pain.
But with unimaginable courage and despite being a marked woman she remained defiant to the very end.
Murder: The corpse of Dr Gorrostieta, found by farm workers from San Juan Tararameo. She had been burned, beaten and stabbed
Murder: The corpse of Dr Gorrostieta, found by farm workers from San Juan Tararameo. She had been burned, beaten and stabbed
Scene of the crime: Cuitzeo Township, close to where her corpse was discovered and Morelia, where she was kidnapped
Scene of the crime: Cuitzeo Township, close to where her corpse was discovered and Morelia, where she was kidnapped
When some doubted that she had been shot, Gorrostieta bared the scars that riddled her flesh and swore she would never give in.
In a statement to the public made at the time, the devout Catholic said: 'At another stage in my life, perhaps I would have resigned from what I have, my position, my responsibilities as the leader of my Tiquicheo.
'But today, no. It is not possible for me to surrender when I have three children , whom I have to educate by setting an example, and also because of the memory of the man of my life, the father of my three little ones, the one who was able to teach me the value of things and to fight for them.
'Although he is no longer with us, he continues to be the light that guides my decisions.'
She added: 'I struggle day to day to erase from my mind the images of the horror I lived, and that others who did not deserve or expect it also suffered.
Grim discovery: Residents of the community of San Juan Tararameo found her body as they went to work in the fields
Grim discovery: Residents of the community of San Juan Tararameo found her body as they went to work in the fields
'I wanted to show them my wounded, mutilated, humiliated body, because Im not ashamed of it, because it is the product of the great misfortunes that have scarred my life, that of my children and my family.'
'Despite my own safety and that of my family, what occupies my mind is my responsibility towards my people, the children, the women, the elderly and the men who break their souls every day without rest to find a piece of bread for their children.
'Freedom brings with it responsibilities and I dont dare fall behind. My long road is not yet finished - the footprint that we leave behind in our country depends on the battle that we lose and the loyalty we put into it.'
After her ordeal she remarried and ran for a seat in Mexico's Congress of the Union, but failed to gain the backing she needed.
She remarried and dropped out of the public eye.
But it was still almost inevitable that she would eventually pay for her bravery with her life
Mexico has been torn apart by murderous drug gangs since President Felipe Calderon launched his drug offensive in 2006.
More than 50,000 people have been killed in clashes between rival drug cartels and security forces and about two dozen mayors have been murdered.
The cartels have ruled the streets with fear for years, enforcing their authority with murders, bribery and torture.
But after decades of using force to combat the gangs, it is U.S. lawmakers who are the criminals' biggest problem.
Legalisation of marijuana, as recently voted for by Colorado and Washington states, may wipe billions of dollars from the cartels annual profits.
And it has left politicians in Mexico with a tough question: How can they continue to justify spending money and lives fighting drug distribution to America when it will be legal in some states from next month?
Sickening: Gorrostieta shows the wounds she sustained from the ambushers' gunfire and the subsequent car crash
Sickening: Dr Gorrostieta shows the wounds she sustained from the ambushers' gunfire and the subsequent car crash
Wounds: The ex-mayor was lucky to survive the attack. She was left in constant pain and was forced to use a colostomy bag
Wounds: The ex-mayor was lucky to survive the attack. She was left in constant pain and was forced to use a colostomy bag
Wounds: The ex-mayor was lucky to survive the second attack. She was left in constant pain and was forced to use a colostomy bag
Mexico presidential advisor Luis Videgaray said in a radio interview last week: 'Obviously, we cant handle a product that is illegal in Mexico, trying to stop its transfer to the United States, when in the United States, at least in part of the United States, it now has a different status'
From January to September last year, 12,903 people were killed in the country in drug-related crime, ranging from gang members, Mexican military and innocent victims caught up in gun battles.
The Mexican government claim they are winning the war on drugs, but few outside or inside the country believe that.
So corrupt are their police that they are rarely employed in combating the cartels. Instead, the country relies on its army to tackle the gangs while it attempts to rebuild its police forces.
Public support for the drug war continues to fall as the death toll rises and the cartels profits rise.
The business of trafficking drugs from Mexico into the U.S. is estimated to be a business worth between $13billion (£8billion) and $49billion (£30billion), with 90 per cent of all cocaine used in America originating from the country, according to a U.S. state report.
Icon: Maria was described by a prominent Mexican journalist as 'a heroine of the 21st century'
Icon: Maria was described by a prominent Mexican journalist as 'a heroine of the 21st century'
Casualty of war: Gorrostieta is the latest official murdered by cartels in Mexico's bloody battle over drugs
Casualty of war: Dr Gorrostieta is the latest official murdered by cartels in Mexico's bloody battle over drugs
The U.S. Justice Department considers the cartels as Americas greatest organised crime threat, while conceding that it is U.S. dollars that fund the crime ravaging Mexico.
In 2009 a military assessment predicted that if the drugs war continued for another 25 years, Mexicos government was at serious risk of collapse and the conflict would spread into America.
A year earlier, the U.S. Joint Forces Command suggested a similar time-scale of collapse in Mexico and warned American intervention may be necessary due to the implications for homeland security.
The problem of strengthening the Mexico/U.S. border even prompted President Barack Obama to deploy 1,200 National Guard troops in 2010.
The two major cartels in Mexico are now the Sinaloa Cartel and Los Zetas.
The Sinaloa Cartel was formed when several gangs agreed to join forces in 2006 and is now led by Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman.
He is Mexico's most wanted drug trafficker and is believed to be worth $1billion. Forbes magazing even declared him the 55th most powerful man in the world in 2009.
Los Zetas were originally a mercenary outfit of former elite members of the Mexican army by the Gulf Cartel.
Consisting of Airmobile Special Forces Group and Amphibian Group of Special Forces members, they helped control parts of Mexico for the Gulf Cartel until its leader, Osiel Cardenas Guillen, was arrested.
Los Zetas took the opportunity to seize power for themselves and are now a 300-strong independent drugs and arms trafficking gang under the leadership of Heriberto Lazcano.
Gorrostieta was born in 1976 and graduated in medicine from a university in the city of Morelia.
She was elected mayor of Tiquicheo in 2008 and served until 2011. During that time she defected from the Institutional Revolutionary party to the left-wing Democratic Revolution party.
In January 2009 her husband Jose Sanchez Chavez was set upon by an armed group but escaped
In October that year Maria was attacked while she was with her husband as they drove along in El Limone. Jose died that day from gunshot wounds. Maria survived but was taken to a hospital in Morelia, the state capital.
On January 23, 2010, she was attacked by men with machine guns in Ciudad Altamirano Guerrero, on her way to an event at the City Hall. She was severely injured after being hit by three bullets, as well as receiving wounds in the crash after the shooting, and had to use a colostomy bag. She said her wounds left her in constant pain.
On Saturday November 17 her body was found by farm workers from San Juan Tararameo, Cuitzeo Township, who were heading to work. She was discovered on the property known as El Chupadero. The next day she was identified by members of her family.
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Aside from that, the article's info on the cartels is dated.
Sinaloa is the biggest (and reportedly US govt's preferred) cartel. Zetas are fractured (fighting with themselves and the remnants of the Gulf cartel). Knights Templar or La familia remnants are probably who killed this lady.
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In 2010, a study by the National Vital Statistics Report and the U.S. Census Bureau calculated the number of divorces by state. It found that married couples in Massachusetts stayed together the most, with only 1.8 marriages dissolved for every 1,000 people.
For states whose rates of divorce were the highest, some of the study's results were intriguing. Many states with high rates of divorce are in areas of the country traditionally believed to be socially conservative. A closer look at the data show, however, that that's not a determining factor in keeping most couples together.
According to the study, one of the most common reasons for divorce is financial stress. Many states with the highest rates of divorce are in areas hardest hit by the recession, and financial hardships cause divorce rates to climb. While some states have a protracted legal process that couples are required to negotiate before splitting up, some have made dissolving a union downright easy. A few of the states fitting this description appear on the list, as well.
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About RSNA
The dramatic growth of healthcare, which in the 1970s had added CT, interventional procedures, nuclear medicine and MR imaging to the radiology armamentarium, began to slow in the 1980s. Important medical news focused on the identification of a new disease that severely compromised the immune system. This condition, which was later called acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), was being described by the media as potentially more deadly than cancer.
Birth of RadioGraphics
RSNA decided it was time to further expand its educational offerings beyond the scientific assembly. William J. Tuddenham, M.D., RSNA's editor of educational materials, suggested to Executive Director Adele Swenson and the Board of Directors that a new journal be started to promote continuing medical education through home or office study. He pointed out that a journal would be more accessible and easier to use than slides and audiotapes. He also saw a journal as the most effective way to promote continuing education internationally.
In less than a year, a volunteer editorial board was formed, and Dr. Tuddenham set out to create a publication that would feature notable scientific exhibits from the RSNA meetings. The first issue of RadioGraphics was May 1981. A special edition released at the end of the year featured a review of the technical exhibits presented at the 67th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting in Chicago. The special edition included concise statements and photographs of key elements of each technical display prepared from material provided by the exhibitor. It also included editorial commentary on trends and new developments prepared by a panel of expert radiologists. The publication was an instant success.
Computer-dependent Advances
The 1981 meeting at McCormick Place showed that future advances in radiology practice would depend primarily on computer technology. For example, attendees saw how CT could be used not only for diagnosis but also to improve treatment planning for radiotherapy. Also on display was the hardware used to perform digital subtraction angiography—a procedure in which powerful computers digitized images and "removed" certain parts of the anatomy from the images for clearer views.
Nevertheless, in spite of these advances, Laurens Ackerman, M.D., a radiologist and expert in the cutting-edge use of computers in radiology, warned that hardware and software were not being manufactured according to a universal standard. Consequently, he foresaw problems with information transfer since computers produced by different manufacturers could not communicate with each other.
Radiology Layout Revamped
As radiologic imaging became increasingly critical to diagnosis and therapy, 1982 RSNA President Theodore A. Tristan, M.D., and the Board of Directors believed greater attention should be paid to the reproduction of images in Radiology since a slight variation in inking or paper quality could obscure an important area of interest. Throughout the year, Editor William R. Eyler, M.D., Managing Editor Donald A. Stewart, Swenson, and representatives from Mack Printing met to monitor and improve the printed quality of the images in Radiology. The layout of the publication was also redesigned.
The Board of Directors also noted increased RSNA meeting attendance by radiologists from overseas. Subsequently, Swenson developed relationships with international radiologic organizations and encouraged financial support for RSNA refresher course faculty to lecture at foreign scientific meetings.
Holding Together the Field
Society leaders understood that as medical sciences developed, radiologists could no longer be experts in all fields and were becoming subspecialists. This subspecializing threatened to fragment radiology. By the 1980s, more than 30 subspecialty associations had formed. They were based on the patient's age (Society for Pediatric Radiology), the organ system studied (Society of Gastrointestinal Radiologists), the modality used (Computerized Radiology Society), or the type of practice (Association of University Radiologists).1
The RSNA Board of Directors believed the Society had a responsibility to hold radiology together by serving as a broad-based medical organization for all imaging specialists and to provide continuing medical education to the general radiologist and subspecialist. Efforts were made to represent all subspecialties on RSNA committees and the editorial boards of Radiology and RadioGraphics. The Board of Directors also committed itself to maintaining communications with the officers of the subspecialty organizations to make certain RSNA refresher courses, scientific sessions and scientific exhibits pertained to each subspecialty. In addition, new organizations, such as the American Association for Women Radiologists, received encouragement and support from RSNA as they became important members of the radiology family.
Recognizing the Volunteers
Over the decades, the success of RSNA had always been dependent on the willingness of radiologists and allied scientists to devote time and energy to the Society. By the 1980s, the annual meetings could not have been possible without volunteers serving on committees, which together oversaw every aspect of the scientific assembly. In September 1982, the Board of Directors appointed a committee to develop ways to award elected officers, volunteer leaders and annual meeting faculty. Headed by Douglas W. MacEwan, M.D. from Winnipeg, Manitoba, this committee presented final recommendations to RSNA President Richard G. Lester, M.D., and the Board approximately one year later. The committee clarified the provisions by which the Board could award the Gold Medal and Honorary Membership. In addition, the outgoing RSNA president was to be recognized by the formal presentation of an official president's pin and a replica of a gavel-shaped piece of mastodon ivory. (The actual gavel was made from ivory preserved in glacial ice for 25,000 years. George E. Pfahler, M.D., gave it to RSNA in 1929 as a symbol of the durability of the Society's work.)
Arrangements were also made to recognize key committee members, longstanding refresher course faculty, and RSNA staff at significant employment anniversaries.
Overall, the committee believed RSNA members should contribute to Society efforts without tangible reward and that recognition of key volunteers should be the ongoing responsibility of the Board of Directors. However, the committee also realized that social activities were an important form of recognition. Subsequently, a president's dinner, a president-elect's reception and a leadership reception were planned during each scientific assembly for the Society volunteers. Over the years, they became popular RSNA soirées and have honored Society volunteers in venues such as museums and historical sites.2
Mid-November Meeting
The 1983 Scientific Assembly at Chicago's McCormick Place began on November 13. For the first time, an official printed program, labeled a special issue of Radiology, was mailed to all RSNA members and Radiology subscribers so that the scientific content of the meeting was available to the widest possible audience. The nearly 400-page publication reflected the previous two decades of growth in radiology. In his welcome remarks to meeting attendees, printed on the program's first page, Dr. Lester noted that the number of papers being presented at the meeting had nearly doubled from 389 in 1976. He stated that this was "due to the proliferation of technologic advances in the radiologic field and the continuing importance of the RSNA meeting as a forum for scientific exchange." 3


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will decide whether sex offenders who were released unconditionally before new sex offender registration rules were passed can be prosecuted for not registering.
Anthony James Kebodeaux was in the Air Force and was court-martialed for having sex with an underage girl. After three months of confinement and a bad conduct discharge in 1999, he moved around Texas and was eventually arrested in 2008 for not having updated officials with his whereabouts.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit threw out his conviction, saying he was unconditionally released by the federal government before the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act became law in 2006 and therefore it did not apply to him.
The justices will review that decision.


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Chief gets support in Danville following chargeBy JASON SCHREIBER
Union Leader Correspondent
April 12. 2013 9:41PM
DANVILLE - Selectmen won't be taking action against Police Chief Wade Parsons after he was charged with leaving his service weapon unlocked and accessible to a 15-year-old boy who authorities say used the gun to commit suicide inside Parson's home.
Selectman Shawn O'Neil, board chairman, said he still has confidence in Parsons, an elected chief who is facing one count of negligent storage of a firearm - a violation punishable by a fine of up to $1,000.
"It's an elected position. The board can't do anything, but on a personal note, I will vote for Wade in the next election," O'Neil said.
At a press conference Friday, Rockingham County Attorney James Reams said Parsons set his Glock 22 .40-caliber handgun down on a safe in his closet on the night of March 11.
He said the 54-year-old Parsons "was distracted and didn't take the final steps to secure it" before he left to run some errands.
Parsons returned to his home at 53 Caramel Drive about two hours later to find Jacob Carver with a gunshot wound.
While he was away, the teenager, who lived at the residence but wasn't a relative, went into the closet and took the gun, Reams said.
The shooting occurred while the boy was home alone.
"It's our hope, after reviewing all of this, that people with firearms are reminded of their legal responsibility to handle those firearms carefully. In this case, it's our allegation that he failed to do that and as a result that firearm was used that evening," Reams said.
The charge came after the Rockingham County Attorney's Office reviewed a New Hampshire State Police investigation into the shooting.
Reams said this is the first time such a charge has been filed in his 15 years as county attorney.
The statute used to bring the charge, RSA 650-C:1, states: "Any person who stores or leaves on premises under that person's control a loaded firearm, and who knows or reasonably should know that a child (under the age of 16) is likely to gain access to the firearm without the permission of the child's parent or guardian, is guilty of a violation if a child gains access to a firearm and the firearm is used in a reckless or threatening manner; the firearm is used during the commission of any misdemeanor or felony; or the firearm is negligently or recklessly discharged."
Reams said he wasn't sure if the gun is owed by Parsons or the town.
O'Neil questioned whether such a charge would have been filed if Parsons were not a police chief. He said he feels the county attorney's office faced public pressure.
"I know Wade is personally hurting and this is going to live with him for the rest of his life. This is just one more sad component added on top of this. This is not going to bring Jacob back," he said.
While the case attracted media attention because the shooting occurred at the chief's house, Reams said he didn't feel any pressure to make a decision.
"We make all of the decisions based on the evidence, not on what the public thinks we should or should not do. This is a unique circumstance. We've never had a case happen like this," Reams said.
Reams recalled a case in the past when a grandfather allowed a boy to use an all-terrain vehicle and the child died. He said that case involved a similar statute and the grandfather was charged.
The Rockingham County Attorney's Office will prosecute the charge brought by state police.
Reams said the prosecutor assigned to the case, Terri Harrington, has never met Parsons and "knows nothing about" him. Assigning someone who's unfamiliar with the chief will "make sure that there's no sense that he got special treatment."
O'Neil said he still has confidence in Parsons, who remains on the job.
"Deep down he's a really good man. I have the utmost respect for this man. We all err as part of human life. Charging him with this is not going to make anything change," O'Neil said.
Reams said he's known Parsons for many years.
"It's a sad day for the family. There isn't anybody who has been involved in this investigation that isn't heartbroken over what happened, but the statute is pretty clear," he said.
Added Reams: "I hope anybody with a firearm rethinks how that store that in a house, particularly with children living in that residence or who have access to that residence."
O'Neil said that anyone looking to harm themselves will find a way.
"If this kid was 16 years old this would not be an issue," O'Neil said.
Reams said he didn't know the circumstances that may have led to the suicide of the freshman from Timberlane Regional High School in Plaistow.
"We don't understand it. Nobody who was involved in it understands the reason why or what led to that. It was a surprise, I think, to everybody that knew him," he said.


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I mean, this is really like some other type shit
If you don't follow me you gon' get lost
But that ain't my fault
[Verse 1:]
Fuck tryna make a dollar outta 15 cents
Where I'm from niggas tryna make a brick outta 15 nicks
But the streets gettin' funny like Dan Aykroyd
And them numbers [?] giving out got me paranoid
I thank Tune for taking me on the road
Cause my outcome in the hood would've been only Lord knows
On the block all niggas care about is sports and clothes
A lot of fights break out, but they mostly be over hoes
I'm good on that, so good on that
When people call me with hood gossip I say "I'll call you back"
And never call em back
I'm with a freak, enjoying, calling cabs
Bought to take her home, smash, call a cab
Nothin' but the best in my Dutch Master
She on that miley, gettin trippy screamin' "Fuck me faster"
Until you live it, you'll never understand
The significance of palm trees, sunshine, and the sand
I'm just enjoyin' my life
Thankful for my days, grateful for my nights
And baby since I heard time wait for no man
I'm tryna make it to the palm trees, sunshine, and the sand
It ain't nothin' like palm trees, sunshine, and the sand
Said it ain't nothin' like palm trees, sunshine, and the sand
[Verse 2:]
Uh, I used to dream 'bout it
Staircase, passin blunts, tellin' my team 'bout it
Now divas know me, pussy I beat the cream out it
Walk in the club and make a full blown scene out it
Yeah it's amazing, and I'm feelin' like Steven Millz-berg
Nah, I don't drink 'n drive, but I still swerve
Bucketload, like fuck it though
They hate to hear me talk my shit, the bad bitches love it though. (haha)
It's only right I celebrate my escape
You would too if you grew up with panel walls and fire 'scapes
Why shouldn't I feel like I'm the shit
Pull up to my brip, hop out my whip and valley like it's The Ritz
Shinnin', hurtin' 'em, competition I murdered 'em
My weed blew dreams, side chick Kate [?]
My hustle on a million, my mind on my plan
And that's to maintain these palm trees, sunshine, and the sand
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- 2. Palm Trees, Sunshine &..
- 3. Papa John
- 4. The Walk In
- 5. Living Better Than I Look
- 6. Everydays Anthem
- 7. This Is 4 Her
- 8. Vintage Jae
- 9. Higher
- 10. God Bless the Child


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November is National Prematurity Awareness month, a cause close to my heart. My son, Col, was born at 25 weeks, almost eight years ago. We were airlifted to Denver when my water broke at 24 weeks. Col was released from University Hospital 101 days later, on his due date.
I had many notions of what motherhood would be like while my baby was still safely paddling his amniotic waters. None of them included repeated blood draws, x-rays, brain ultrasounds, IVs, shots, steroids, antibiotics, ventilators and continuous supplemental oxygen, all before he was due to enter this world.
Some medical professionals recommended before Col was born that we forego trying to save his life, the long-term risks associated with such an early birth were too great. And once he was born, the doctors in Denver were unable to make any clear prognosis on our childs future. It seemed they were legally obligated to give us the laundry list of every possible disability when I raised the shaky question, Is he going to be okay?
There were some rough patches in Cols first few years. He learned to crawl, walk and then run while constantly tethered to an oxygen tank. We were sent to the emergency room numerous times for respiratory distress. I had the phone number of the home oxygen supply company and our pediatrician memorized. But, eight years later, our son is strong, bright, healthy and ringing the high notes of my heart every day.
The following story is what was happening on Cols 18th day alive.
Day 18
Entering the neonatal ICU is like stepping out of the wilderness into downtown Las Vegas. Everything is loud, bright and artificial here. Also, the odds stink and we pray a lot. We pass through the triple gauntlets of security, check-in desk and finally the hand-washing station, where my husband and I scrub off every particle of the outside world and start praying.
I am very superstitious about it all. As long as Im friendly with the nurses and keep the words, please-let-him-be-okay threading through my mind like an inky typewriter ribbon, this truth will imprint itself and well be among the lucky ones. Also, these words are the locked-armed protestors who hold back all the other possibilities. The ones I cant imagine the ones that could whoosh your heart out of its bony cage, flinging it into orbit outside your body forever.
We walk through the sea of incubators, each draped in the same cheery but faded, zoo-themed fabric. Alarms ring and nurses clickity-clack across the crisp linoleum floors.
Inside our sons plastic shell its a balmy 98 degrees, humidity piped in like the set of some breezy beach movie. Hes swaddled in a tiny scrap of pale blue cloth, and wedged between two cotton bolsters, designed to mimic the pressure of the womb.
Hi baby, I whisper, sticking my arms through the portholes to lay a hand on his back, no bigger than a deck of cards. His dark blue eyes are open.
Hes waiting for you, Nurse Alison tells us. Hes been awake the last 15 minutes.
I blink back tears. I want to scoop him up and carry him out of here.
Ill take it from here, Id tell the nurses, batting away their protests like a swarm of paparazzi. But hed die without these machines that keep his lungs inflated inflated! and buzzing with oxygen.
Three weeks ago my son was safe in my womb, fluttering around his amniotic ocean, aquatic and anonymous. I spent my days managing our small-town herb shop, where we dispensed dark, fragrant tinctures, knobby, finger-sized roots and the belief that medicine should come from the Earth. Our baby was to be born at home, into my husbands strong carpenter hands. The only unanswered question was what scented candle to burn during my labor: lavender or rose.
Then a sudden and voluminous gush between my legs sent us to the hospital. The nurse-midwife pronounced, apologetically, Your amniotic sac broke. Theres no fluid left in your uterus. Ever the optimist, I waited for the good news, the part about western medicines fix for this troublesome problem. Once your water breaks, she continued, labor is likely to start. We need to airlift you to a level 3 hospital immediately; if your baby is born here, we cant save it. I was 24 weeks pregnant.
I place a thermometer in our sons armpit and Dan and I change his diaper, so small I could hide it in my hand. Dan lifts his legs and our boys thin skin, mapped with blue veins, sags off his thighs like a puppys. I wipe his bottom with a single cotton ball.
Nurse Alison approaches with a medical binder thats absurdly thick for a baby alive 18 days.
Rachel? She places a hand on my shoulder. The nurses know to approach me gently; Im quick to cry.
Hes not back up to his birth weight yet, she says, opening the binder to an unimpressive graph.
But hes tolerating his feeds well, I respond in the language of the NICU.
We really want to see him hit 2 pounds, she said. He may be working too hard. If he doesnt start gaining weight, the docs want to put him back on the ventilator, take him off breast milk and start him on fortified formula.
I am falling down a cliff. Like so many other times in this place, I want to cover my ears and belt out songs of peaceful resistance; La La La. I dont hear you my toddler self would say. Were supposed to be the miracle family, beating the grim statistics the sad-mouthed doctors have warned us about. The doctors who cant promise that my son will be normal, that one day hell ride a bike, mud splashing his legs as he turns around to flash a smile that says: See? I told you Id be okay!
I wish I could be more like the mom who hobbled in yesterday wearing the blue hospital-issue gown the secret handshake of mothers whove washed up on the shores of Pregnancies Gone Awry. A nurse said that her baby will need an IV threaded into his tiny, premature hand. Well give him a little sedative first to keep him still. The new mom leaned in and whispered to her swaddled wisp of a son, Youre gonna get the good drugs.
I nod compliantly to Alison; she hands me a pre-emptive tissue just as the first tears squeeze from my eyes. Dan hugs me. Hes better at this than I am. He sees our son frolicking in the woods, while all I can do is keep the mantra, please-let-him-be-OK, unspooling from my heart.
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Can I leave my pampas grass uncut through the winter? It is about 10 feet tall.
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Whether he's playing a gay boom mic operator in "Boogie Nights" or rock critic Lester Bangs in "Almost Famous," an evil arms dealer in "Mission: Impossible III" or a priest in hot water in "Doubt," Philip Seymour Hoffman pretty much always convinces. Yet the New York native actor says there's not one performance, including his Oscar-winning turn in "Capote," that wouldn't strike him as a combination of parts that were OK and "parts that I might loathe."
"Every film I would watch it would be a roller-coaster ride of emotions," says Hoffman, 43. "'That was bad!' Or 'That's pretty good.' Or 'I remember that being good; now I don't like it.'"
Clearly the actor's very familiar with examining his own performances. Something new for Hoffman, who has directed numerous plays including "The Long Red Road" earlier this year at the Goodman Theatre, is directing movies. For the indie drama "Jack Goes Boating," opening Sept. 24, Hoffman not only reprises the starring role of Jack from the Off Broadway play but takes a shot in the director's chair as well. That doesn't get in the way of another credible performance from Hoffman, who turns Jack, a lonely limo driver trying to find the right words to get close to a funeral home employee (Amy Ryan), into a sad but sympathetic guy who needs someone to pull him out of his rut.
At the Elysian Hotel Hoffman talked about the challenge of directing himself, avoiding post-Oscar mistakes and starring with Zac Efron in a musical in which they play each other.
When you were in Chicago directing "The Long Red Road," what did you like doing when you weren't working?
God, you know it felt like I was at the Goodman Theatre most of the time. I remember going to Steppenwolf and checking out a show there. I remember the last time I was here I went to Lookingglass. I do try to do that when I'm here is to check out some of the companies because I really enjoy their work. And then just try to get around. I remember when I was here last time I was like, "I want to find a great barbershop 'cause I know that will force me to go to an area of Chicago I haven't been to yet." … It's a great city, but I was working a lot. I was at the theater six days a week … I think I ate about 10 billion hot dogs at a place [called] Portillo's. Like A LOT. I ate there way more than I think I should have, but I couldn't help it.
With mustard or ketchup?
I think both. I don't know. I just said "With everything." [Laughs] They had great French fries. Hot dogs are serious here; I love it.
Some people, not me, will boot you out of the city if you put ketchup on a hot dog.
Oh, really. I remember when I first got a hot dog from there, I was like, "That's a serious hot dog. I don't want to screw it up."
You didn't feel any anger towards you for putting ketchup on?
No, I think I put ketchup on in hiding. Back in my room or something.
How challenging was it to direct an actor like Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Jack Goes Boating"?
[Laughs] He's a nightmare that guy. Directing yourself isn't an easy task. I really wouldn't want to do it again. I guess never say never but … It's very enjoyable, directing. I think in a certain sense I was very spoiled by the people I had around me. But I really enjoyed the process of directing the film. When I had to act it took away from the enjoyment of having to direct. That's a whole other ball of wax. You have to stop being a director. You stop thinking that way and you have to start thinking another way. It's very different. I'd love the opportunity to direct a film where I didn't have to worry about that.
Jack can't swim. What's something many people can do that was never easy for you?
There's things I never really learned how to do. I never learned how to ice skate, which is crazy 'cause I grew up in Rochester, New York, which winters are huge there. I remember skating a little bit as a kid but I never really did learn. I never really did learn how to ski. I learned how to snowboard later in life, but I never really learned how to ski.
If we went ice-skating right now, what would it be like?
I'd probably be stumbling around. I remember it was all about the ankles and wobbling and stuff. I learned how to swim at a very young age; I was on the swim team when I was a kid. I was a lifeguard at one point. Swimming's like essential when you're on a planet that's mostly water. You know what I mean? I remember [to] my mom it was a big deal that we learn how to swim at a very young age. There's something unique to swimming, that somebody who didn't learn how to swim [is] a very specific person. Because that is something that most people try and learn how to do at least basically.
But when climate change turns all the water into ice, everyone will need to know how to ice skate too.
[Laughs] But you can kind of slide across on your shoes. But if you fall in the water …
People talk about what happens to an actor's career after winning an Oscar. What's something that came your way that you said, "Oh, that would be my 'Catwoman.' I'm staying away from that."
I try not to think about my career in that serious a way. I try to just kind of go with my gut and try not to do anything that I feel like is not essential. That's done me well. I've been grateful enough to get enough offers from serious enough people that kind of keeps me grounded in how hard this all is and to do it well is not easy.
Can you give an example of a character that you were offered and you weren't interested in playing?
It's not usually because of "This is going to be my 'Catwoman'" or anything, it's usually I'll get offered something that I'm just not as interested in. You get offered a part where you're like, "Wow, 10 years ago I would've died to play that part. Now I'm older and I'm not interested." You just evolve and different things start to interest you.
When I interviewed Zac Efron he wanted an original idea for a musical so I offered him the part of Zac Efron in "The Zac Efron Story." He said he wanted you to play him. What will you bring to the role, and how do you feel about him playing you in "The Philip Seymour Hoffman Story"?
[Laughs] Um. I don't want to answer that. [Laughs] I love musicals actually, but the idea of me being in musicals is so frightening to me. I think Zac should rethink that. Maybe we can be in it together and we can play each other. So it will be "The Zac and Phil Story" but we'd play each other and that's the whole twist. Maybe we should bring that back on Zac and see what he thinks about that.
What tips would you have for him when he played you?
Just say and do a lot of things that are inappropriate. To constantly stick your foot in your mouth.
That's your M.O.?
[Laughs] No. That would be the most self-effacing thing [I can think of].
What is it like to be ridiculously talented?
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh … I think talent, and I'm not just saying this, is about putting the work in. So I think there are a lot of people that are [ridiculously] talented. And I mean that. I've met a lot of actors and writers who I think are loaded up with talent. And then there's the people that [never] put a lot of the work in. That separates I think. So I think there's been times when I've put the work in, and that's when it's paid off and I think I've made the most out of whatever talent I have. And then there's some times when I haven't and I'm just one of the guys. It's amazing how equal everyone becomes when you haven't put the work in.
For example?
Well again, it's on the day. It's not the whole film. 'Cause then you'd just be everyday showing up like a f***ing asshole.
"He's hungover again."
Yeah. You have days where you're like, "God, I didn't do what I should have done here." And you're pretty average.
Philip Seymour Hoffman personality test:
On his iPod now: "I don't have one with me. I have an iPod at home and it's kind of an iPod for the family and there's tons of music on that and there's nothing specific we're listening to at the moment. I know that's very un-2010."
Drink of choice: Iced lattes
Chicago in five words or less: "I don't know if I can do it in five words or less. It's kind of every time I'm here, it's so powerful and so beautiful when you're here. I'm always reminded not only that it's this beautiful city; there's a power to it. Just aesthetically. It's utterly unique that way. How San Francisco is, in a totally different way. Or New York is, in a totally different way. It is its own. But there's a power to it."
What he'd want to do with unlimited time here: "I'd probably want to do what I'd want to do in any city to be quite honest. I'd want to take in what the city has to offer. And Chicago has a lot to offer in the way of art, in the way of theater and sports. Which are like my three things. That's why I like this town, so if I had unlimited time and I had nothing to do, it's like, "Well, let's go. I want to go look at some art, I want to go to the theater, I want to see whatever team's playing." But that's really in any city I think I would feel that way. I would be like, 'Here I am, let's do it.' But then you have that time and you don't do that stuff."
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Spike Lee: Genius
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Historic Stage Fort Park along Gloucester Harbor will once again blossom into the colorful 34th Annual Gloucester Waterfront Festival on Saturday, August 16 and Sunday, August 17, 2013. A collection of over 175 Juried Artists and Craftsmen from throughout the U.S. will display their unique creations, live music, plus delicious ethnic foods. A pancake breakfast and traditional New England Lobster Bake complement this picture perfect seaport event! Exhibits include Fine Jewelry, Watercolors, Pottery, Custom Signs, Bird Houses, Quilts, Silk & Dried Floral Arrangements, Wildlife Art, Dolls, Pressed Flowers, Painted Antiques, Photography, Metal Sculpture, Western Wear, Sand stone, Carved Birds, Maps, Fiber Arts, Stained Glass, Music Boxes, Scroll Work, Masks, Candles, Copper, Wood Burning, Slate, Tapestry Bags, Nautical Crafts, Shaker Style Furniture, Oils, Primitive and Folk Art. Come and sample an array of gourmet delights such as Herbal Dips, Trail Mixes, Jams & Jellies, Maple Products, Dried Fruit & Nuts, Salsa, Mustards, Vinegar's and more. Free live "family style" entertainment includes Celtic, Ragtime Bands, Country and Folk Music. North Shore Old Car Club will display over 75 Antique Autos on Sunday. The Gloucester Waterfront Festival runs from 9am to 6pm each day. Handicap Accessible and friendly pets, on a leash, are welcome. Directions: From Route 128 North to Exit 14. Admission is FREE. Rain or Shine. For more information call (978) 283-1601 or visit www.waterfrontfestivals.com Sponsored by the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce (978) 283-1601.
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War in Heaven
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james drake produced a number of huge (10 feet by 7 feet) figurative portraits for his current solo show ay gallery paule anglim.
the work - rendered in charcoal on paper (or charcoal and tape) - is somewhat loose closeup and has a photo-realistic quality when you step back enough to take in the whole image.
the gallery notes that drake's images "are looming portraits of war, each focusing on a unique story, with its impact and lasting effect on successive generations." the above piece, for example, is titled "missing in action, the vietnam war."
his layering of paper, and tape, creates the feel of a snapshot that has been torn, weathered, and then repaired. somewhat like what happens to memory over time.
the title piece - war in heaven - is an allegory for the viewers to unravel.
check out the show in person at gallery paule anglim, 14 geary street, in sf.
my photo set and slideshow features a few more photos from the show.
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For his breakout documentary "Super Size Me," Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald's for 30 days. For his concert doc "One Direction: This Is Us," the filmmaker listened to nothing but the boy band while following and filming Harry, Zayn, Niall, Liam and Louis for six months. How do those two experiences compare?
"It's addictive," says Spurlock with a laugh. "Once it gets in your brain it doesn't go away. I can't tell you how many nights I woke up singing One Direction songs."
To most people who aren't teenage girls, that may sound brutal. The look at the band's behind-the-scenes goofiness and bond in "This Is Us," however, proves surprisingly amusing. It's because One Direction comes off as the down-to-Earth, likable antithesis to, say, the focus of "Justin Bieber: Never Say Never."
At the Park Hyatt, Spurlock, 42, talked about the difference between One Direction and Bieber, the women who flood hotels in search of 1D and how a One Direction documentary about Morgan Spurlock would turn out.
Everything you hear lately with all the Bieber nonsense going on is, "When anyone is 19, they do stupid stuff and make all these mistakes," but based on your movie, these guys aren't going through that. Why is that?
The difference between them and Justin Bieber is—there's a few things. One is I think they've been incredibly smart about surrounding themselves with people who will say, "That's not a good idea." They aren't surrounded by "yes" men. I think they're surrounded by people who question the things they want to do. The band actually gets to make decisions of what happens with the band. They vote democratically, the five of them. "Are we going to add more dates to the tour? Are we going to have matinees? Are we going to have this sponsor? Are we going to do x, y or z?"
How easily do those decisions get made?
Well, it's a democracy. Three out of five decide. Lucky there's five guys in the band. So once three people vote one way, the decision's done. And I think the other reason why they've had no big [scandalous] moments is because each guy has four other guys that is constantly there to ground them and bring them back and support them.
All of their songs, as far as I know, are about love. We don't really get much sense of their relationships with young girls from the film, but I'm wondering how much you think they know about love or understand what they're singing?
I think when you're 19 to 21, or when I was a teenager, you have incredibly idealistic ideas of love. You think things should be perfect or should be in a certain way. Granted they probably have a much more realistic view than other 19-, 21-year-olds because they're much more worldly now and have really gotten to go out and experience a lot more than other folks. … One of my favorite lines in the whole movie is [by] the girl when we were in Spain, which I think sums up the film and sums up their success so well: "They say what we want to hear but no other boys will say to us." That's why they're successful. Because they say what no other boys will say.
But they're not writing songs, right?
Well, they're writing songs now with songwriters.
But the previous hits and stuff.
For the first album, no. The second album they wrote I think four or five with songwriters. Now on the next album they're co-writing almost everything with folks.
A question anyone would be thinking when it comes to a popular touring band of young men, especially with millions of women around the world wanting to be close to them, is about their relationships with young women, groupies, that kind of thing. We don't see that in the film, but I think it's fair to ask what you observed while you were making the movie because it really speaks to what their lives are like and how they handle all this attention.
Yeah. I think they're really good. There's women that are chasing them constantly. … There are girls all the time back at the hotels. You'll go to a hotel and there will be girls that will ride the elevators all night long just hoping for a chance to meet them. That are coming up in the stairwells and banging on the doors and security opens the door and three or four of them will dart through like antelopes. They're running through the hallways and security's trying to get them out of the hallways where the guys are. They're very aware of who they are and where they are, and they've been very smart to avoid a lot of the pitfalls that other people have [succumbed to].
Why did you not want to include that stuff in the film? For me that seems like a key component of what it's like to be in One Direction.
Because a lot of the girls that are at the hotel that are chasing them are 12-, 13-year-old girls.
I'm sure there are some 18-, 19-year-olds too though.
There are. But for me it's a gamut of people. There are moms that are at the hotel riding elevators up and down trying to meet the boys. … There are guys in the band who have girlfriends and have had girlfriends and still have girlfriends, and I really wanted to avoid the relationship conversation for a few reasons. One is ultimately who knew if their girlfriends were still going to be around when the movie came out? As you start getting into a real relationship story, how much of that relationship story do you want to tell?
Well, they spend a lot of time in the movie wondering how long they're going to be around, and that doesn't stop you from making the movie about them.
It's different. It's different than me wondering, "Am I still going to have a career?" Versus a girlfriend who's going to be in the movie who may or may not be a girlfriend at the time and the movie comes out and somebody's upset that this person's in the film or the girlfriend's upset that she's still in the film when the relationship's over. So those are two very different animals. That's why I think one of the things I love in the film is where Liam's talking about, "I want somebody who can just appreciate me for me." To suddenly become that successful and now that's who they see: "Oh my gosh, here's this very rich, successful pop star. That's the guy that I want to be with." To find somebody who doesn't know who you are, it's like he'd have to go to Madagascar. They're probably famous there too. I can't imagine where you go in One Direction right now where a girl doesn't know you're in One Direction.
They're going to have to tour an island where four people live.
[Laughs] Exactly. That's the place.
Although if there's only four women there …
Yeah. Then it's like, "Sorry. Sorry. You're out." Luckily Zayn's got a girlfriend, so it would be fine.
They also talk about how they spend all their time together and feel like brothers. Most people would say in that situation brothers are going to have a lot of conflict, spending all day together. But there's no fighting in the movie. Is that because they don't fight? There must be some conflict there.
The conflict is so few and far between and so rare, stuff they don't agree on, simply because when they go home, they have time when they go away and they go off and see their families. … Then they don't see each other. They don't talk to one another. Then they hook back up when they're back out on the road. I feel like they love those moments when they're together because it is such special moments. They're getting to experience something that 99.999 percent of earth will never get to experience. It's an incredible thing that's happening in their lives. So I feel like when they're together they appreciate that and they appreciate the fact that, "If it wasn't for these four other guys, I wouldn't be here."
It's a sobering moment when they realize, "This could be as good as our lives ever get, and it's all downhill from here." How long do you think they can last?
That's a great question. And what I love about them is they are very self-aware. I think they are very self-aware about where they are. I think they are very self-aware about the music they're making and how they need to continue to change and grow if they want to stay relevant and stay connected with audiences and fans.
It would be hard to think of a boy band that lasted more than five years ever.
But that's the thing, it depends on how they evolve. Can they evolve in a way where they don't just seem like a boy band? Where they continue to do something different and age up. When I first met the band last June and I went to the concert--I went to meet them in Charlotte, North Carolina, and when I went to the show, the audience was very young. Eleven-to-16-year-olds was the core audience of the people that were in that show. Then when they started their tour this year in February, the matinees still had very young-skewing audiences. But then the nighttime shows, the 8 o'clock shows suddenly had this mass contingency of 18-to-34 year-old women. Their audience had aged up tremendously, literally in less than a year. I think if they can continue to not only age up their audience but cater to that audience musically … And this new album that they're working on--you see in the film when they're recording "Best Song Ever" In the hotel. They're recording song after song after song while they were traveling through Europe and doing the same thing now in the states. You hear some of the songs and I'm like, "I'd buy that song." There are songs that they're making now that are definitely taking them in a much more mature, different direction.
And if Martin Scorsese likes them, any man can feel fine about that.
Marty said (in a Martin Scorsese impression), "I like it. I like it. I like your stuff." Then you know what, maybe we should all give it a shot.
That was a good impression.
I've been working on it.
If I were De Niro, can you give me how you would direct me?
(as Scorsese) "You gotta work a little harder on your lines. You gotta think a little harder. You gotta do a little more. When you get punched in the face, I want you to punch him back. He's going to punch you; you gotta punch him in the head."
That was good. I can see you've spent some time on that.
(as Scorsese) "It's my Scorsese impression."
What would a movie be like if One Direction made a documentary about Morgan Spurlock?
[Laughs] It'd be the most unwatched movie ever. Would they each take parts? Like each one of them would direct a section so it becomes this omnibus piece of each [one of] five people directing—like "The Five Obstructions." It becomes like the Lars Von Trier documentary of me made by One Direction. Yeah, a couple people might see that. Not very many.
Well, I feel like they have to do some musical interpretation of your life. How would that go?
[Laughs] Very badly. The difference is I grew up the youngest of three ballet-dancing brothers. So I grew up dancing. So my film would actually have some dancing in it, whereas they're very anti-dancing.
Touche. So they'd have to learn to dance to play you.
Or they would just force me to dance as I'm dancing in the film that they're directing.
As any good documentary filmmaker does.
That's right. "Dance! Dance!"
To what extent does a movie like this have a certain limitation in terms of what it can show? You're there to get the story and show people something they haven't seen, but at the same time artists like this, or Katy Perry or whatever, are a brand, and the chances of including something controversial are probably slim. Do you think there's a limit to what you can deliver with this sort of thing?
The whole goal for me in making this film was to make something that gave you a window into their world. Everybody has tough moments, or there were days when we were shooting where somebody didn't want the camera to be rolling. You've gotta give people space. When you're that much in somebody's face all the time, and sometimes if somebody's having a bad day and like, "Listen, I just can't deal with this right now," you have to give them that time. So there's moments where you can push and try to put things like that in the film, but at the end of the day you want to feel like you're creating something that is going to truly resonate who they are. And I think that's what this film does. I think the film gives you a real sense into them and into their lives and into what they deal with and takes you on that ride. And it's fun. I think this movie is so fun, and for me that's the most important thing.
Was there any agreement beforehand about anything you would or would not do? I'm sure they were a little bit hesitant.
The band ultimately, the one thing that they said--and I think the contract they have with Sony is--they said, "We will have the right to remove anything we don't agree with from the film." Which there was nothing in the film. There was nothing taken out. The bigger thing was the stuff we put back in. They thought it was important that people know that there was a time that they didn't get along, when way back in the beginning they almost kicked Zayn out of the band. When that was a conversation that was had. That was something they're like, "No, this is something that should be in there because people should know that we do have these conversations." Louis wanted to make sure that when he went home that we saw his grandmother, so we made sure that went back into the family scene.
How much does that impact the way you make the movie? Because obviously this is your movie and they're in control to a certain extent of what gets in, it must be in the back of your mind a little. "If there's something I'm curious about that might be seen as controversial, they can just say no."
Ultimately, you have to go to bat for things. For me the goal from the beginning was to make the best movie possible. And that's all I wanted to do. I wanted to make the absolute best film I could. And I think we did. What you realize is when you're shooting in the field, you never censor yourself; you never edit in the field. Then you get in the edit room, and you never edit before the film is done. You never remove things before you make the best movie possible. And along the way we're making cuts, we're showing the studio, we're continuing to revise cuts, we're showing the studio, and then we show the band, and at that point there was nothing in the film that I took out.
Is there anything you're still wondering about them?
The biggest thing for me is I wonder what will continue to happen. For me it's much more about what's next. It's like, "Where are they going? What's going to happen after this? How long will they be able to sustain?" It's exhausting. The track that they're on is a really exhausting track. They're doing 134 live shows this year. They're traveling to I don't even know how many countries in total, how many cities. To be a pop star on the level that they are, it's work all the time. They're up, they're doing press, they're doing photo shoots, they're doing interviews, they're recording their album, they're going to the arena, they're coming home after the arena, they're recording more on the album, and they go to bed. And people are like, "Oh, it's easy … these guys aren't doing anything." But when I look at what I was doing at 19 to 21, as I'm like at a frat party doing a keg stand, here these guys are having an immense amount of responsibility to an army of people.
There's no time to ride elevators and meet women.
[Laughs] Exactly. What are you going to do? For me that's why a tremendous amount of respect goes to them. Because if I was 19 to 21, I don't know if I could handle suddenly being thrust into that situation. And it wasn't even 19. When they went and auditioned for "X Factor" and were put together as a band, they were 16, some of 'em. Harry was 16 when that started. So between 16 and 19 was where that all happened and now here they are 19, 21. It's remarkable.
On Chicago: "I've got a bunch of friends that live here, so whenever I'm in town I hang out with them and they take me out to different places. ... I love coming here in the summer, and running down the beachfront is fantastic. Just [to] run down Lake Shore Drive is awesome."
How he get One Direction songs out of his head: "I'm listening to a lot of Robin Thicke going, "Hey hey hey! Hey hey hey hey!" Now that's being shoved into my head by everybody. … Every time I turn on the radio or walk out of my house now, Robin Thicke is on somewhere. That's what's become the dominant musical song surrounding my life right now."
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Atlantic City is resuming its "Do AC" ad campaign with a new urgency in light of a survey that found four out of 10 respondents wrongly believe the New Jersey resort's boardwalk was destroyed by Superstorm Sandy.
In fact, the nation's first boardwalk came through the storm unscathed.
Just a two-block section around the corner from the casinos was hurt by the storm, and that part was damaged by previous storms and had already been condemned.
Starting Tuesday, the Atlantic City Alliance, the casinos' new marketing arm, will resume ads stressing the theme that Atlantic City is "open for business" with lots to do besides gambling.
They're needed as the resort continues to struggle with plunging revenue in the storm's aftermath. Analysts say it could take six months or more for the casinos to recover from the storm.
Due to the Sandy's track, Atlantic City suffered minimal damage and reopened for business after five days. But people are still not coming back in pre-storm numbers. The livelihoods of more than 40,000 employees in 12 casinos, plus hospitality industry workers at businesses catering to the tourism industry, all depend on a strong visitor base.
The alliance commissioned a national online poll that found about 40 percent of respondents believe the Atlantic City Boardwalk has been destroyed. It questioned 1,320 adults across the United States, plus an additional respondents from the Northeast, considered the closest and most likely to visit Atlantic City.
The campaign includes a new 30-second television advertisement; a full-page ad in The New York Times featuring the boardwalk on Nov. 28; new radio and e-mail ads; a front-page wrap of the Philadelphia Inquirer; and an Atlantic City-themed balloon in Philadelphia's Thanksgiving Day parade.
A holiday lighting program and parade will be held in Atlantic City on Dec. 1.
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Top 5 things to watch in the Western Conference final
This should be good.
The Los Angeles Kings, into the Western Conference Final for the third time in four years against the Chicago Blackhawks, looking to become the NHL's first repeat champion in 16 years.
Two hardened playoff warriors squaring off in what most believe is the unofficial Stanley Cup final. No offence, Montreal and New York, but A) You're from the Eastern Conference, which everyone knows is considerably weaker than the West and B) You're not even the two best teams in the East.
So there is everything on the line for the Kings and Hawks.
Here are five things to watch for as they get set to deliver another post-season beauty.
These are two teams from opposite ends of the hockey spectrum. The Kings play a hard gorilla-style game rooted in defence, physicality and structural discipline in all three zones. It's not like they don't have elite level talent — Anze Kopitar and Marian Gaborik can finish with anyone and the Kings just hung six goals on Anaheim in Game 7 — but they'd rather grind their opponents into the ice than trade chances.
Chicago, meanwhile, can be a creative and dynamic handful that is quite at home in a track meet. They aren't one-dimensional, no defending champion ever is, and can handle themselves in an alley, too (ask David Backes), but they can overwhelm an opponent with speed and skill and they know it.
It will be a war of wills. If the Hawks can get out to early leads and make Los Angeles open up, advantage Chicago. If Los Angeles can grind Chicago's top guys to a statistical halt, make it a mean and low-scoring trench war, advantage Kings.
The Kings played Game 7 against the Ducks on Friday night, flew four hours to Chicago on Saturday and will face off in Game 1 against the Hawks on Sunday afternoon. That's a quick turnaround.
The Hawks have been off since Tuesday after wrapping up the Minnesota Wild in six games. They also had a long break between the first and second round. They are fresh and rested.
There will be a lot of time to recuperate in this series, with two days off between Games 1 and 2 and another two days off between Games 3 and 4, but Los Angeles must be running on fumes after playing back-to-back 7-game series — 14 playoff games in 29 days if you're scoring at home. If this series goes deep, Chicago will surely have more spring in their step by the sixth or seventh game.
Chicago owns Los Angeles. Plain and simple. The Hawks rolled over the Kings in five games to win last season's conference final and won all three meetings in the regular season this year.
They beat them in tight games (1-0), beat them in medium-scoring games (3-1) and beat them in high-scoring games (5-3).
Want to go back farther? Chicago won nine of its past 11 against Los Angeles dating back to the 2012-13 regular season.
The Hawks don't seem to have much problem with bruising, hard-playing, tight-checking opponents, having beaten Boston in last year's Cup final and St. Louis this year.
Have the Kings figured out and rectified the glitch in their matchup with Chicago? Did adding Gaborik at the trade deadline provide the necessary offensive punch they didn't have before?
Stay tuned.
LEADING BRAND vs GENERIC
Jonathan Quick vs. Corey Crawford. If you listen to popular opinion, Quick is one of the best in the world at the top of his game, the cornerstone of L.A.'s lineup while Crawford is just a good goalie who's fortunate enough to be on a great team (think Mike Vernon or Chris Osgood).
Crawford don't get no respect, that's for certain, but his numbers are every bit as intimidating as the American Olympian at the other end of the ice.
He enters the third round with the best goals against average (1.97) in the playoffs and a .931 save percentage. Granted, the second round was against Minnesota, but, still, those are rock-solid totals.
He has had lapses in both series, but regained his footing and finished strongly (going 8-2 in his past 10 games).
Quick, for whatever reason, can't get comfortable against the Hawks. Including last year's playoffs, he is 7-16-1 against them. Crawford, on the other hand, is 10-4-0 in his past 14 against the Kings.
It sounds ridiculous to suggest a team in the third round of the playoffs hasn't been consistent, but the Kings haven't been consistent. It's remarkable, if not miraculous, that a team with two three-game losing streaks in the playoffs is still alive, but they are.
They fell behind 3-0 to the Sharks before rallying back to win the series with four straight wins, then let a 2-0 series lead against Anaheim deteriorate into a 3-2 deficit.
They have dodged death twice and would be well-advised to avoid a fate-tempting hat-trick because Chicago twists the knife for fun.
On the other hand, the Kings have already faced elimination six times in these playoffs. That has to be good for the nerves.
In games where the Blackhawks can clinch a series in five or six games, they are on a 14-0 run.


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When the irony hits your eye like a big pizza pie...
Every time I walk out of a movie with Greta Gerwig in it, such as Damsels in Distress, Greenberg, and especially Arthur, I think, "You know what would have made that movie better? More Greta Gerwig." No matter how much I see of her shining blonde mane and pleading hazel eyes, I inherently know that every movie would get at least a half star more if it gave her more to do. She's one of my favorite actresses that I haven't seen enough of. As it turns out, even when she's starring in pretty much every scene of Lola Versus, I still think it could have been another 15 minutes longer. I guess I am officially a super fan. Or a stalker. It's just semantics anyway.
I am predispositioned to enjoy this movie, because of the super fan factor, but also because it's a story about a 29-year-old woman who gets dumped by her fiancee and proceeds to be a charming mess for 75 more minutes--we've all been there, in one way or the other. So the entire movie was a chance for me to feel validated in my own Neurotic Moments in Grae History, plus get some GG time in. The thing that separates it from any other movie about breakups and romantic mistakes is some sharp dialogue and cute, bumbling characters who buy wallpaper made to look vintage but is really just an overpriced reprint they bought on Etsy.
Speaking of Etsy, the movie also made me hyper-aware that the things that are part of my everyday habits are completely unoriginal and are now officially fodder for snarky screenwriters. Is this what getting old is like? Zoe Lister Jones plays Lola's best friend Alice, who perpetuates most of these crimes of disclosure against 29-ish year old women. Like Lola, she's also a neurotic mess, but all the time instead of just after a breakup, which makes her one of the best characters. She looks for "Best bars in a scary neighborhood" on Yelp.com (which I do), makes comments about washing her vagina (which I do, but not when the FCC can fine me), and gives inappropriate secret nicknames to men Lola meets in fish markets (which I do to people's faces). There set of the movie is full of ironic thrift store lamps, chic color-blocked costumes, and bands that sound like The Magnetic Fields, but you know, new. It's official. I'm an individual just like everyone else.
With all of this dangerous fantasy-mirroring-reality stuff going on, and since I am comfortable being with less-than-flattering portrayals of people like me, I burst out laughing at all the right moments and left feeling empowered. But for everyone outside of that demographic, I think you can appreciate less-than-perfect people who are just trying to do the best they can (while talking about washing their vaginas). The whole thing turns out like a nice like a cutesy 2012 nod to other movies that embodied the spirit of their generation, like Singles. Instead of flannel, there are wedding cakes with non-GMO rice milk.
49 out of 100 Metascore®
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What would the story be like...if the roles of bella and edward were reversed! Ok Ok I LOVE YOU ALL WHO REVEIWED SO EXPEDIENTLY AND CONTINUOUSLY YOU ARE JUST A-GIGGLE-FIT-BUNCH-OF-FUNSICLES!!!!! PROPS TO YOU, and here is your reward! Chapter 4 is posted thanks guys for being patient!
1. First Sight
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I arrived at school the same time as always, just in time to slip into my first hour unseen. I never arrived ewarly not even a second early, it seems to be seen as the perfect opportunity to be approached by members of the opposite sex and to be awarded unwarranted dinner and paty invitations.
I sat down in spanish wih allice as my partner and stared down at my book. She did the same as the teacher walked in. I just focussed on tuning out every meaninless thought that was centered around the new boy, Edward Swan. Jessica's thoughts were boring into mine and I couldn't take it. They were so infatuated with each and everything he did. Alice's visions on the subject were really starting to annoy. She was envisioning me, and Edward, in my meadow. It was so utterly absurd and impossible. She was making it out to be more meaningful than it should have been. She is so far from infallible that the only reason that it is bothering me is the constancy in which the subject is brought up. It was maddening.
By the time lunch came around i was so sure that i would never even make it through the rest of the day without my entire family shooting sly smirks in my direction. I was tempted to just turn and rip off Emmetts head. But he would just enjoy that far far to much. I was reluctant to give him the pleasure or motive to attack me. I would lose I had no doubt. Jasper turned to look at me with sympathy written across his features, he was no doubt feeling the enmity I felt for Emmett and Alice at the moment. He was about to send me a calm emmision of his power but I shot him my don't you even think it because I'll know look. And he smiled at me and went back to concentrating on controlling himself.
I was scanning for anything negative coming off of the crowd that was roaring in excitment over the shiny new arrival. I was feeling some hostility from Mike Newton towards poor little Edward. It was actually amusing to listen to the pettiness of it all instead of the constant berating that my 'family' was sending at me. "got that Edward is going to steal Jessica from me I know it. If he starts returning her flirtations I think I'm going to hit him. NO! I know I'm going to hit him. But he looks pretty strong. He might hit back. Maybe I should just glare.Yeah glaring is safe." I nearly laughed out right at this. But then I caught wind of Emmett. "So is the new boy being scared shitless of us yet Bells?" i concentrated on him. I got nothing it was quiet and I was so surprised that I nearly gasped and fell over. I would never be totally free of my former clumsiness but that only resurfaced when i was surprised and caught off guard. He seemed to hear my slight intake of breath and I looked up to see him staring penetratingly into my eyes. His beautiful green eyes in perfect contrast to his bronze hair. He never faltered, simply stared. Trying so hard to decifer the reason behind my gasp while avoiding Jessica's insistant advances. I had to look away first. I didn't know it at the time but this would be the beginning of a very hard next few days.
I went right to my sixth hour Chemistry class. And i sat in the only empty desk in the middle of the room. I was always so happy to be secluded in this way. It gave me time to think aside from the endless hours at night in which i had to myself.
As I was contemplating all of the things to do tonight and how to get Alice to stop with her insistence on the Edward situation. The phrase speak of the devil, and the devil shall appear, was never more accurate for Edward Swan arrived in my class and of course would inevitably have to sit next to me. Great, more ammo for Alice.
As he walked by I stiffened as I was hit by the sweetest scent I have ever smelt
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