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Top Psychedelic Movies Of All Time
I have not included trippy films of a more surreal nature as I feel that would deserve its own list outright. If you have any other recommendations for best psychedelic movies please comment here and let me know what else is worth seeing or any opinions you have on the psychedelic films listed here. Let's begin...
01. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fear and Loathing has one of the best trip scenes of any drug involved movie I have seen. Actually it is pretty much one long drug fueled crazy adventure. Who can forget the drugged out hotel check-in and reptile zoo bar !
The film has become a true cult smash and is sampled over and over again in popular culture from music, to art to just about anywhere psychedelic drugs are involved.
Great acting and Terry Gilliam behind the controls. Awesome movie. This is bat country. A fine example of psychedelic movie making. One of the all time top movies to watch.
02. Fritz the Cat / 9 Lives Of Fritz the Cat
Fritz the Cat is a 1972 American animated comedy film written and directed by Ralph Bakshi as his feature film debut. Based on the comic strip of the same name by Robert Crumb, the film was the first animated feature film to receive an X rating in the United States.
It focuses on Fritz (voiced by Skip Hinnant), an anthropomorphic feline in mid-1960s New York City who explores the ideals of hedonism and sociopolitical consciousness.
The film is a satire focusing on American college life of the era, race relations, the free love movement, and left- and right-wing politics. Fritz the Cat is the most successful independent animated feature of all time, grossing over $100 million worldwide. As far as animation goes it's one of the trippiest movies ever.
03. The Trip
Director Roger Corman had just had a big hit with his biker film The Wild Angels (1966) and The Trip was an attempt to further exploit the youth counter-culture market he had stumbled onto. Roger Corman was not the originator of the LSD film but The Trip was the most high profile in the brief fad for LSD films during the late 1960s.
In this drama, Paul Groves (Peter Fonda) takes his first dose of LSD while experiencing the heartbreak and ambivalence of divorce from his beautiful but adulterous wife, played by Susan Strasberg. He starts his trip with a "guide," John (Bruce Dern), but runs away and abandons out of fear.
As Paul experiences his trip, he wanders around the Sunset Strip, into nightclubs, and the homes of strangers and acquaintances. He considers the roles played by commercialism, sex, the role of women in his life. Jack Nicholson wrote the original screenplay.
Corman encouraged Nicholson's experimental writing style and gives between 80 and 90 percent credit to Nicholson for the final shot script in the director's commentary appearing on the DVD of this film. Corman only slightly modified the story to stay within budget. Acid movies 101.
04. Pink Floyd : The Wall
Pink Floyd The Wall is a 1982 British live-action/animated musical film directed by Alan Parker based on the 1979 Pink Floyd album The Wall.
The film is highly metaphorical and is rich in symbolic imagery and sound. It features very little dialogue and is mainly driven by Pink Floyd's music.
The film contains fifteen minutes of elaborate animation sequences by the political cartoonist and illustrator Gerald Scarfe, part of which depict a nightmarish vision of the German bombing campaign over the United Kingdom during World War II set to the song "Goodbye Blue Sky". The film depicts the construction and ultimate demolition of a metaphorical wall, alienation. One of the best trippy movies ever.
05. Yellow Submarine
Another music based film, Yellow Submarine is a 1968 British animated feature film based on the music of The Beatles. It is also the title for the soundtrack album to the feature film, released as part of The Beatles' music catalog.
The film was directed by animation producer George Dunning, and produced. The real Beatles participated only in the closing scene of the film, with the fictional counterparts of The Beatles voiced by other actors. The film received a widely positive reception from critics and audiences alike.
It is also credited with bringing more interest in animation as a serious art form. Time commented that it "turned into a smash hit, delighting adolescents and esthetes alike". The animation of Yellow Submarine has sometimes falsely been attributed to the famous psychedelic pop art artist of the era, Peter Max; but the film's art director was Heinz Edelmann.
Edelmann, along with his contemporary Milton Glaser, pioneered the psychedelic style for which Max would later become famous, but according to Edelmann and producer Al Brodax, as quoted in the book Inside the Yellow Submarine by Hieronimus and Cortner, Max had nothing to do with the production of Yellow Submarine. As far as classic animation goes its one of the best movies ever.
06. The Holy Mountain
Sit back.. Relax and get ready to roll. A film that screams "product of its time," The Holy Mountain was Alejandro Jodorowsky's dizzying elegy to the sex, drugs and spiritual awakening of the late 1960s and early 1970s -- a suitably bizarre follow-up to his El Topo (1971).
Fascinating although it only fitfully makes sense, The Holy Mountain is beautifully shot and designed, and it suggests what might have resulted if Luis Buñuel, Michelangelo Antonioni, and George Romero had all dropped acid and made a movie together. A Christ-like vagrant and thief wanders through a perverse and unfriendly land until he encounters an enlightened one, who gathers the thief and six of the world's most powerful individuals for a spiritual pilgrimage.
If that description sounds a bit sketchy, well, narrative isn't this film's strongest suit. But if you want to see the conquest of Mexico re-enacted by reptiles, soldiers shoot innocent people as birds fly from their wounds, and a wizard turn feces into gold, this is the movie for you.
The central members of the cast were said to have spent three months doing various spiritual exercises guided by Oscar Ichazo of the Arica Institute. The Arica training features Zen, Sufi and yoga exercises along with eclectic concepts drawn from the Kabbalah, the I Ching and the teachings of Gurdjieff.
After the training, the group lived for one month communally in Jodorowsky's home before shooting began. Jodorowsky was also instructed by Ichazo to take LSD for the purpose of spiritual exploration. He also administered psilocybin mushrooms to his actors during the shooting of the death-rebirth scene.
The Beatles member George Harrison was intended to play the main character but he withdrew when he read in the script he had to wash his anus in front of the camera ! As far as trippy movies go - this takes the cake !
07. Fantastic Planet
FP is an animated sci-psych-fi film directed by René Laloux in 1973. The story is based on the novel Oms en série, by the French writer Stefan Wul. The film depicts a future in which human beings, known as "Oms" (a word play on the French-language word hommes, meaning men), are creatures on the Draags' home planet, where they are seen as pests and sometimes kept as pets (with collars).
The Draags are an alien race which is humanoid in shape but a hundred times larger than humans, with blue skin, fan-like earlobes and huge, protruding red eyes. The Draags also live much longer than human beings – one Draag week equals a human year.
Some Oms are domesticated as pets, but others run wild, and are periodically exterminated. The Draags' treatment of the Oms is ironically contrasted with their high level of technological and spiritual development. The film is chiefly noted for its surreal imagery, the work of French writer and artist Roland Topor.
The landscape of the Draag planet is full of strange creatures, including a cackling predator which traps small fluttering animals in its cage-like nose, shakes them to death and hurls them to the ground. The Draag practice of meditation, whereby they commune psychically with each other and with different species, is shown in transformations of their shape and colour.
08. Altered States
Ever had one of those "I've heard that sampled before !" moments ? Hallucinogen found a real treasure trove in this cult movie for his debut self titled goa-trance albumn. The movie is a 1980 American science fiction-film adaptation of a novel by the same name by playwright and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky.
It was the only novel that Chayefsky ever wrote, as well as his final film. Both the novel and the film are based on John C. Lilly's sensory deprivation research conducted in isolation tanks under the influence of psychoactive drugs like ketamine and LSD. William Hurt plays Eddie Jessup, a scientist obsessed with discovering mankind's true role in the universe.
To this end, he submits himself to a series of mind-expanding experiments. Quite a dazzling film for its time.
09. Barbarella
A voluptuous outer space agent sex-kitten travels to another galaxy in search of a missing inventor in this science fiction send-up. Barbarella (Jane Fonda), an interstellar representative of the united Earth government in the 41st century, is dispatched to locate scientist Durand Durand, whose positronic ray, if not recovered, could signal the end of humanity.
Outfitted in an array of stunning Star Trek/Bond girl outfits and cruising around in a plush, psychedelic spaceship, Barbarella travels to the Tau Seti system and promptly crash-lands. She then spends the rest of the film discovering the joys of interstellar sex with a keeper of feral children (Ugo Tognazzi), a blind, beatific angel (John Phillip Law), and an inept revolutionary named Dildano (David Hemmings).
Brilliant psychedelic set designs, spaceships and sexy tight sex kitten cat suits ! Great stuff ! A remake was planned some year ago to be directed by Sin City's Robert Rodriguez. Last I heard these plans had fallen through due to the production costs.
10. Easy Rider
Classic stoner films don't get much more classic than this. The grand-daddy of all drug addled reflections on the 1960s counter culture. Easy Rider explores the societal landscape, issues, and tensions in the United States during the 1960s, such as the rise and fall of the hippie movement, drug use, and communal lifestyle.
The protagonists are two freewheeling hippies: Wyatt, nicknamed "Captain America" (Fonda), and Billy (Hopper). Fonda and Hopper said that these characters' names refer to Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid. Wyatt dresses in American flag-adorned leather, while Billy dresses in Native American-style buckskin pants and shirts and a bushman hat. The former is appreciative of help and of others, while the latter is often hostile and paranoid of outsiders.
The movie's groundbreaking soundtrack featured The Band, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and Steppenwolf. Editor Donn Cambern used various music from his own record collection to make watching hours of bike footage more interesting during editing. Most of Cambern's music was used, with licensing costs of $1 million, more than the budget of the film !
11. The Doors
In my experience people either love or hate The Doors, both band and movie. I give both band and movie two thumps up. It's not a great film but it certainly could have been a lot worse right ?
Oliver Stone's homage to 60's rock group The Doors also doubles as a biography of the group's late singer, the "Electric Poet" Jim Morrison. The movie follows Morrison from his days as a film student in Los Angeles to his death in Paris in 1971, at the age of 27. Some people hate on the film because it only depicts the monstrous side of Jim's character.
Director Oliver Stone said it best...."when you have to condense a person's life, a legend at that, into two measly hours you must take the highlights". Val Kilmer does an amazing acting job in this film. Should have been nominated for an Oscar if you ask me.
12. The Fountain
The Fountain is a 2006 American romantic drama film, which blends elements of fantasy and science fiction, written and directed by Darren Aronofsky, starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz.
The film comprises three storylines where Jackman and Weisz play different sets of characters: a modern-day scientist and his cancer-stricken wife, a conquistador and his queen, and a space traveler in the future who hallucinates his lost love.
The storylines, interwoven with use of match cuts and recurring visual motifs, reflect the themes of love and mortality. Visually stunning, outstadning effects with a sublime soundtrack by Clint Mansell—the composer for Aronofsky's previous films Pi and Requiem for a Dream.
Sadly the film was a box office flop. But then again, it was released at a time when the world was obsessed with the superficially of Paris Hilton. If you have a choice of spending your dollars on a Paris Hilton DVD box set or reflecting on that fact that everyone you love will die, most people will opt for the sugar.
13. Koyaanisqatsi
An art-house circuit sensation, this feature-length documentary is visually arresting and possesses a clear, pro-environmental political agenda.
Without a story, dialogue, or characters, Koyaanisqatsi (1983) (the film's title is a Hopi word roughly translated into English as "life out of balance") is composed of nature imagery, manipulated in slow motion, double exposure or time lapse, juxtaposed with footage of humans' devastating environmental impact on the planet.
Forget trying to convince your friends how good this film is. Everyone seems to have a different take on it. What I can suggest is getting in the right "setting" . Turn off the lights, turn up the soundtrack , relax and prepare for a pure artistic experience. Mesmerizing trance like film-making.
14. Renegade ( a.k.a Blueberry )
Psychedelic westerns are few and far between. I wish there were more, I love spaghetti westerns and anything psychedelic so combining the two is just pure win-win. Renegade is a French movie adaptation of the popular Franco-Belgian comic book series Blueberry, illustrated by Jean Giraud (better known as Moebius) and scripted by Jean-Michel Charlier.
The film starred the French star Vincent Cassel as the title character along with Michael Madsen and Juliette Lewis. Although the film is a French production, the language of the film is in English because the story is set in America's Wild West in the 1870s. Since the character of Blueberry remains obscure in the States, the film was released on DVD in America in November 2004 under the title Renegade and marketed very much as a conventional Western.
The film is best remembered for its animated sequence of a entheogenic trip. The movie features several elaborate psychedelic 3D computer graphics sequences as a means of portraying the main characters' shamanic experiences from his point of view.
Jan Kounen, the director of the film, drew upon his extensive first hand knowledge of ayahuasca rituals in order to design the visuals for these sequences, Kounen having undergone the ceremony at least a hundred times with Shipibo language speakers in Peru. The 3D animated sequence in this is one of the best trip portrayals in psychedelic movies you are likely to see.
15. 2001 A Space Odyssey
Now , while more psy-fi than psych-fi , 2001 does include one of the most memorable trippy scenes to ever hit the cinema screens. Considering it was made with 1968 technology , that is some impressive stuff don't you think ?
As the film climaxes, the main character takes a trip through deep space that involves the innovative use of slit-scan photography to create the visual effects and disturbing sequences of him noticeably stunned at what he's experiencing.
The colored lights in the Star Gate sequence were accomplished by slit-scan photography of thousands of high-contrast images on film, including op-art paintings, architectural drawings, moire patterns, printed circuits, and crystal structures.
Known to staff as "Manhattan Project", the shots of various nebula-like phenomena, including the expanding star field, were colored paints and chemicals swirling in a pool-like device known as a cloud tank, shot in slow-motion in a dark room. The first time I saw this film I was, how you say, enjoying some of nature's bounty and this scene just about turned my head inside-out.
16. Enter the Void
Enter the Void is a 2009 French film written and directed by Gaspar Noé, labeled by Noé as a "psychedelic melodrama". It stars Nathaniel Brown in his debut role, Paz de la Huerta, and Cyril Roy, also in his first role on film.
The story is set in Tokyo and focuses on Oscar, a young American drug dealer who gets shot by the police, but continues to watch over his sister Linda and the events which follow during an out-of-body experience, floating above Tokyo's streets.
Noé had tried various hallucinogens in his youth and used those experiences as inspiration for the visual style. One particular drug experience came later, when the director already was planning the film, and traveled to the Peruvian jungle to try Ayahuasca where it is legal.
The experience was very intense and Noé regarded it "almost like professional research." Since few in the design team ever had taken a hallucinogen, it became necessary for Noé to collect and provide visual references in the forms of paintings, photographs, music videos and excerpts from films. This is purely a visual experience, don't expect a great film per se - just trip out on the global neon candy scapes.
17. Fantasia
1940. More than 70 years ago. And still one of the top , perhaps the top, psychedelic animated films ever made. The third feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film consists of eight animated segments set to pieces of classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski, seven of which are performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra.
One can only speculate on the true psychedelic intent, if any, behind the movie. However, many a teenage stoner will tell you that Fantasia and mind enhancing drugs go together like peanut butter and jelly. Hmmm... munchies.
These days it is quite popular to discover what music synchs with Fantasia. Much like people do with Pink Floyds's music synched to the Wizard Of Oz. Disney, never one to miss out on a quick buck or two, jumped on the 60s hippy cashcow and re-imaged the movie in the late 60s with a very different promotional poster including magic mushrooms and "blow your mind" catchphrases.
18. Dog Star Man
Avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage has labelled his 1963 film Dog Star Man his "cosmological epic." This virtually indescribable film was released in a prelude and four parts. These were not titled but dated instead: Prelude, 1962; Part One, 1963; Part Two 1964 and so forth.
While toiling on this project, Brakhage also managed to finish The Art of Vision, derived from Dog Star Man leftovers, and wrote the script for Metaphors of Vision. If you're looking for a plot, you've come to the wrong filmmaker.
If you're looking for a fascinating mosaic of images combined to "interpret" the creation of the universe, then Dog Star Man will be right up your alley. A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an explosion of color and squiggles and happenstance.
Next, images of small circles emerge then of the Sun. Images of our Earth appear, woods, a part of a body, a nude woman perhaps giving birth. Imagery evokes movement across time. This avant-garde approach to film-making certainly isn't popular, even among cineastes who take film seriously. However, it's still an effective film, even if neither hide nor hair could truly be reaped from it.
There we have it ! All of these films are available on DVD lists now I believe so hit up your favorite DVD store for some real trippy treats. Youtube and IMDB are also worth investigating for some previews, samples etc.


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They say that lightning doesn't strike twice, but apparently a single bolt of lightning can take out two cloud provider data centers at once. At least that's what initial reports cited as the cause of concurrent outages at the Dublin data centers that serve as Microsoft's and Amazon's major cloud computing hubs for Europe. These reports serve as a good reminder of why it's a good idea to consider disaster recovery and business continuity when contracting with a cloud computing provider.
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Watch Halloween (2018) : Full Movie Online Jamie Lee Curtis returns to her iconic role as Laurie Strode, who comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
|Release Date
|Oct 18, 2018
|Production Company
|Universal Pictures, Blumhouse Productions, Trancas International Films, Rough House Pictures
|Production Countries
|United States of America
|Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, Will Patton, Virginia Gardner, Sophia Miller, James Jude Courtney, Nick Castle, Haluk Bilginer, Rhian Rees, Jefferson Hall
|Plot Keywords
|illinois, halloween, knife, sequel, boogeyman, masked killer,
Laurie StrodeJamie Lee Curtis
Karen NelsonJudy Greer
Allyson NelsonAndi Matichak
Frank HawkinsWill Patton
VickyVirginia Gardner
Young KarenSophia Miller
The ShapeJames Jude Courtney
The ShapeNick Castle
Dr. Ranbir SartainHaluk Bilginer
Dana HainesRhian Rees
Aaron KoreyJefferson Hall
Ray NelsonToby Huss
Cameron ElamDylan Arnold
DaveMiles Robbins
Julian MorriseyJibrail Nantambu
FatherBrien Gregorie
LumpyVince Mattis
Sheriff BarkerOmar J. Dorsey
Officer FrancisChristopher Allen Nelson
Officer RichardsCharlie Benton
LynchPedro López
OscarDrew Scheid
CoreyCharlie Donadio
Sexy NurseCarmela McNeal
CaretakerDiva Tyler
TellerKurt Deimer
Officer #1Christopher Holloway
Officer #2Roger Antonio
OnlookerTeresa Ann Johnson
News ReporterJonathan Bruce
Warden KunemanMichael Harrity
Hunky DoctorMichael Smallwood
Guard HaskellMatthew Anderson
TeacherP.J. Soles
LoomisColin Mahan
Nurse (uncredited)Angela Anderson
Gina Panchella / Sandwich Woman (uncredited)Marian Green
Community Center Member (uncredited)W.F. Bell
Chess Player (uncredited)David Lowe
Police Officer/CSI (uncredited)Willie Tyrone Ferguson
Criminally Insane Patient (uncredited)Johnny Price
Mechanic (uncredited)Aaron Christian Paderewski
Mental Patient (uncredited)Omar Azimi
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I came across these websites this week, and they are -
Treasured Legacies www.treasured-legacies.com/home.html This is a pay site, and it is based in Calgary, Alberta. Joan Fraser is the president of the company, and she offers research services, and write Storybooks which can tell about your family heritage.
Yvonne's Genealogy Blog: A blog about my French-Canadian ancestry and my husband's Russian roots www.yvonnesgenealogyblog.blogspot.com Yuvonne writes a refreshing blog about the French roots and her Russian husband. She explores the history of "dit names" (with her name being Belair dit Janvry), and I am sure she will tackle her Russian names in the near future.
Some items that made the newspapers this past week in Canada were -
MacLean clan gathering a show of Gaelic heritage, famed Scottish weather www.edmontonjournal.com/travel/MacLean+clan+gathering+show+Gaelic+heritage+famed+Scottish+weather/7129124/story.html Edmonton Journal journalist, Mairi MacLean, was over to Scotland this summer to attend a reunion of people with the old Scottish surname Maclean, and then travelled around southern Scotland, and visited such places as Perthshire. (accessed 26 August 2012)
Celebrating heritage on Peter Robinson Day www.emcperth.ca/20120823/news/Celebrating+heritage+on+Peter+Robinson+Day Karen Prytula, a local freelance writer, tells us about Peter Robinson, and how in 1823, he brought over to Lanark County people from Ireland to help settle this wild land of wilderness Ontario. They settled in Peterborough, which recently celebrated Peter Robinson Day. (accessed 27 August 2012)
'Memory band' features incorrect name: City may need to make a correction to permanent feature at new Pier Park www.royalcityrecord.com/news/Memory+band+features+incorrect+name/7126762/story.html
Theresa McManus, of The Record, reports that the city of New Westminster, BC will have to make a correction to a name they have put in a Memory Band at Pier Park. The name that is mistaken is that of a former mayor Beth Wood. (accessed 27 August 2012)


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Prospera Financial Services announced on Thursday that it was adding Cottonwood Capital Advisors, and with it, $121 million in assets under management.
The Cottonwood co-founders, Jay Rubottom and Stephen Shipley, were formerly with Morgan Stanley. The firm is based in Irving, Texas, near Dallas.
Shipley spent 20 years at Morgan Stanley. At Cottonwood, he focuses on macro asset allocation, portfolio construction and fixed-income portfolio management. Rubottom, who had been with Morgan Stanley since 2002, focuses on financial planning, enhancing the client experience and business development.
Founded in 1982, Prospera is a Dallas-based broker-dealer. The firm has been named Broker-Dealer of the Year by Investment Advisor three times, first in 2009, then again in 2010 and 2012.
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South African Journal of Child Health
versão On-line ISSN 1999-7671
versão impressa ISSN 1994-3032
S. Afr. j. child health vol.8 no.2 Cape Town Mai. 2014
Profile of babies born before arrival at hospital in a peri-urban setting
N ParagI; N H McKerrowII; F NabyIII
IMB ChB, MBA; Division of Emergency Medicine, Pietermaritzburg Metropolitan Hospitals Complex, and Division of Emergency Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
IIMB ChB, BA, DCH (SA), FCPaed (SA), MMed Paed; KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Department of Health, and Department of Paediatrics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
IIIMB ChB, DCH (SA), FCPaed (SA); Department of Paediatrics, Pietermaritzburg Metropolitan Hospitals Complex, and Department of Paediatrics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
BACKGROUND: Babies born before arrival (BBAs) at hospital constitute a special group at risk of high morbidity and mortality.
OBJECTIVE: We conducted a 12-month retrospective review to describe maternal and neonatal characteristics of BBAs, and their outcomes compared with babies born in the state health sector.
METHODS: Using case-control sampling, all babies born outside a health facility and who presented to hospital within 24 hours of life were included and compared to the next in-hospital delivery occurring immediately after each BBA presented.
RESULTS: During the period reviewed, 135 BBAs (prevalence 1.8%) presented; 71% after hours with most deliveries occurring at home (73.8%). There was no birth attendant present at 70.5% of deliveries. Average birth weights were similar (2.86 kg in the BBA group, 95% confidence interval (CI) 2.73 - 2.95; 2.94 kg in the control group, 95% CI 2.78 - 3.02), but significantly more preterm babies were found in the BBA group (23% v. 9%, respectively; p<0.0001). Admitted BBAs had significantly lower average weights than those who were not admitted (2.19 kg v. 2.96 kg, respectively; p<0.0001). No significant differences were found when maternal age, parity, co-morbidities and distance from the hospital were compared. There were significantly more unbooked mothers in the BBA group (23.0% v. 6.7%, respectively; p<0.0001). Only 54.40% of the admitted BBAs' mothers had booked antenatally, compared with 78.89% of mothers whose babies were discharged. Admission and complication rates were similar between the groups, but average length of stay was longer in admitted BBAs compared with controls.
CONCLUSION: The prevalence of BBAs in this study is comparable to that in other developing countries, and is associated with poor antenatal attendance, prematurity, delay in presentation to hospital and lengthier hospital stays. These factors have implications for prehospital care of newborns and access to maternal and child healthcare in general.
It is estimated that just over 90% of births in South Africa (SA) occur within the health sector under the supervision of a skilled health professional. [1] Babies born outside the health sector fall into one of two groups: planned home births in a setting prepared and attended by trained health professionals; and unplanned deliveries without the attendance of skilled personnel. The latter group of babies born before arrival (BBAs) at hospital is more prevalent in developing and less-developed countries, and constitutes a special group with regard to mortality and morbidity. Given the high neonatal mortality rate in SA (19/1 000 live births in 2009'[2]), it is important to identify whether BBAs are a contributory factor.
The global BBA prevalence is poorly documented. The incidence varies (0.1 - 0.3%) in developed countries'[3,4] and rises exponentially in lesser-developed nations to >50% in countries such as India'[5] and southern Ethiopia.'[6] SA has a relatively high BBA rate, with National Department of Health data showing a prevalence of 5.4% in 2009 -the highest documented incidence being in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) (5.7%) and Gauteng (5%) provinces.[1]
Prior studies have recognised the significant morbidity and mortality associated with BBAs,'[7-9] including hypothermia, hypo-glycaemia, lower birth weight, neonatal sepsis and a greater likelihood of admission to an intensive care unit.'[7,10-12] Recognised risk factors include low maternal age, high parity, low education level, poor access to transport and healthcare,'[12-16] and poor antenatal attendance.'[10,14,16] In addition, poverty, a rural lifestyle, and unwanted and teenage pregnancies are all expected to contribute to the prevalence of BBAs in SA.
This study was conducted at Edendale Hospital, a peri-urban, regional hospital in the KZN Midlands, to profile BBAs and factors giving rise to BBAs, and to describe the clinical presentation, management and outcomes of these babies.
We conducted a retrospective chart review of BBAs who presented to Edendale Hospital during the 12-month period from 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011, using a case-control sampling strategy. BBAs were identified from the labour ward and neonatal nursery admissions registers. The clinical records for each mother-baby pair were retrieved from the medical records department of the hospital. All babies born outside a health facility and who presented to Edendale Hospital within the first 24 hours of life were included in the study. The control group comprised the in-hospital deliveries that followed immediately after the presentation of each BBA, and included normal vaginal births and babies delivered by caesarean section. Babies referred from other health facilities and BBAs who were >1 day old were excluded. Ethical approval for the study was obtained from the Biomedical Research and Ethics Committee of the University of KZN.
Data were extracted from the clinical records into an MS-Excel spreadsheet and subsequently imported to the statistical software SPSS (version 20) for analysis. The χ2 test was used where appropriate and p<0.05 was used in the study.
During the study period, 135 BBAs were admitted to Edendale Hospital and these were matched with 126 controls. The discrepancy between the number of cases and controls resulted from two BBAs sharing a control when they were admitted sequentially with no intervening in-hospital delivery. Clinical records were retrieved for all BBAs but only 119 controls, resulting in 254 cases being included in the study.
As this was a retrospective study, there was a high level of missing data and only 13 cases had a complete record, defined as a record containing all the information required in the data collection tool, including a full antenatal history, circumstances surrounding the birth and birth history, measured physiological parameters and systemic examination findings, and the clinical outcome. Most records did not document the babies' temperature (94.9%), almost half (44.9%) did not record the blood glucose level and in 12 cases there was no record of the outcome of the hospital admission.
Table 1 portrays the characteristics of the two groups. Although there was a higher proportion of male babies in the control and female babies in the sample group, this was not significant. The average birth weight was similar in both groups: 2.86 kg (95% confidence interval (CI) 2.73 - 2.95) in the sample and 2.94 kg (95% CI 2.78 - 3.02) in the control group. Most babies (80.3%) were of normal weight (2.5 - 4.0 kg); however, there were significantly more preterm babies in the sample group than in the control group (23% v. 9%, respectively; p<0.0001).
The mean age of 25 years was identical for the mothers in both groups, with a similar age range from 14 - 48 years in the sample and 15 - 40 years in the control group. Forty-five women (17.7%) in the study were below 18 years of age (23 in the BBA group and 22 in the control group) and 29 women (11.4%) in this study were over 35 years of age. There was a predominance of multiparous women (53.1%) and although most (83.1%) mothers had booked antenatally there were significantly fewer unbooked mothers in the control group (6.7% v. 23%; p<0.0001). The mean number of antenatal visits was 5 and 4 in the control and BBA groups, respectively.
Although there was no obvious difference in the morbidity of mothers in either group, 47.2% (n=120) ofthe women in this study had one or more comorbidity, the most prevalent being HIV infection (n=103). Less common comorbid factors included hypertensive disorders (n=12), Rhesus negativity (n=4), anaemia (n=2), pyelonephritis (n=1) and mental disability (n=1).
Most BBAs (71%) presented after hours (16h00 - 07h00). The majority of these deliveries occurred at home (73.8%) with a small proportion occurring en route to hospital (26.2%; 21 in an ambulance and 11 in a private vehicle). There was no birth attendant present at 70.5% (n=91) of BBA deliveries, while 23 (17.8%) had a skilled (emergency medical response crew member or nurse) and 15 (11.6%) had an unskilled (neighbour or relative) birth attendant. A similar proportion of women, 45% (n=60) in the BBA group and 37% (n=44) in the control group lived more than 15 km from the hospital. Almost half of the control group (47%) were delivered via caesarean section.
The clinical outcomes between the two groups were similar, with 41 babies requiring admission (22 BBAs and 19 controls) to the neonatal nursery. The most frequent reasons for admission were very low birth weight, neonatal jaundice and respiratory distress syndrome. Other reasons included septicaemia, hypoglycaemia, anaemia and patent ductus arteriosus. There was no significant difference in the number requiring admission (p=0.494), nor in the complication rates (14 BBAs v. 12 controls; p=0.796) between the two groups. Aspiration pneumonia, respiratory distress, apnoeic spells, hypoglycaemia and jaundice were recorded complications. The average length of stay was 7 days longer for admitted babies in the BBA group.
A total of eight deaths were identified in this study. Six BBAs were dead on arrival at hospital and one in-hospital delivery was stillborn. There was one early neonatal death in the BBA group.
The general condition and initial resuscitation performed on the two groups of babies is presented in Table 2.
Early intervention was required for 68 of the babies in the study; the majority in the control group (p<0.0001). This higher rate of early intervention in the control group is anticipated, as there is immediate care available in hospital. A mean time delay of 169 minutes from delivery to presentation at hospital was found in the BBA group. Most of the babies (80.3%) were stable at first assessment, and in the majority of cases early intervention was limited to suctioning or face mask oxygen. Although only 17 BBAs required resuscitation, a significant proportion of these required either suctioning (47.1%) or warming, indicating a need for emergency medical assistance for these babies.
Table 3 shows the clinical features of the babies on arrival at hospital. Glucose readings were poorly documented, with absent data in 49.3% of the BBAs and 39.5% of the in-born babies. The temperature on arrival was very poorly documented, with only ten BBAs and three in-born babies having had a temperature recorded. These important vital signs were the most important contributors to missing information in the medical records of all the cases included in this study. There were more babies with an abnormal morphology in the control group (3.4% v. 0.8%), and also more systemic abnormalities detected in this group (6.7% v. 1.5%). The most frequent abnormalities observed were central nervous system hypoactivity and tachypnoea (respiratory rate more than 60 breaths per minute). Overall, there were no significant differences in the clinical features of the babies in the two groups.
A comparison of the admitted with the non-admitted babies in the BBA group is shown in Table 4.
Twenty-two of the 135 BBAs required admission to the neonatal nursery. Reasons for admission included respiratory distress (n=9), neonatal jaundice (n=7), very low birth weight (n=5) and hypoglycaemia (n=3). Six of the admitted BBAs required neonatal intensive care during their admission. The average weight of the admitted babies was significantly less than that of the babies who did not require admission (2.19 kg v. 2.96 kg; p<0.0001). The mean gestational age in the BBA group was 36.5 weeks (standard deviation (SD) 2.33; variance 5.36). Although 15.26% (n=20) of BBAs were born preterm, only half required admission and these accounted for 45.5% of the BBAs who were admitted. The area of residence or the distance from the institution had no influence on the outcome of the BBA babies, with similar rates of admission regardless of where they came from. Only 54.5% of mothers of the admitted BBAs had booked antenatally, as compared to 78.9% of mothers whose babies were discharged; however, the mean number of antenatal visits remained constant.
The prevalence rate of BBAs over the study period was 1.8%, which is comparable to rates in developed countries (0.1 - 2.2%),'3,4,101 but significantly lower than previously documented in the province (5.7%) and in SA in general (5.4%).'11 This may reflect the fact that this study was conducted in a peri-urban setting, with easier access to transport as well as the ongoing focus on the decentralisation of healthcare, leading to improved access to healthcare facilities.'171 Interestingly, however, most deliveries before arrival occurred at night, which may reflect poorer access to transport after hours.
The place of birth of BBAs was predominantly at home, with a small proportion occurring en route to hospital, which is similar to previous reports.[10] Bhoopalam[10] identified an increasing distance from hospital as a significant risk factor for the occurrence of BBAs, which was also found in this study where 45% of mothers delivering BBAs lived more than 15 km from the hospital.
The majority of babies in the BBA group had a multiparous mother, and as observed in previous studies, women of higher parity are more likely to deliver before arrival at a hospital due to the shorter duration of the second stage of labour and higher incidence of prelabour spontaneous rupture of membranes.[7,15] The observations from previous studies that found that women who delivered before arrival at hospital were more likely to be unbooked and of greater parity.[7,14] were also found in this study. Significantly fewer mothers of BBAs attended antenatal clinic, and this is possibly associated with greater risks as the opportunities for health education and early detection of complications are lost.[12] This could also be a reason for the higher stillbirth rate seen in the BBA babies.
The average birth weight of the BBAs was only marginally lower than babies born in hospital, but a larger proportion were preterm (born before 36 completed weeks' gestation).
Prematurity appears a consistent finding in studies of BBAs,'11,12,151 and is considered to be due to the unanticipated onset of labour. Hypothermia, hypoglycaemia, prematurity, sepsis and alterations in haemoglobin are complications found more frequently in BBAs than in those babies born in hospital.[8,11,12,15]
In a review of studies from the US, UK and Europe, which explored the presence of emergency medical services at unplanned births before arrival at hospital, the most frequent neonatal complication found (in 8 of 14 studies) was hypothermia, regardless of gestational age.'181 Unfortunately, temperature was very poorly documented in the babies in this study. According to standard clinical practice at the institution, well babies born in hospital do not routinely have temperature measured, but all BBAs are expected to have temperature and glucose readings done on presentation at hospital. The low rate of clinical observations (glucose and temperature) for anticipated complications could reflect a poor quality of care of these babies, as these vital signs are early warnings to possible critical illnesses in the newborn baby. Hypoglycaemia was also poorly documented, and this complication not only affects immediate survival but also predicts abnormal outcome in terms of the neurobiological risk score.[19] Failure to document these vital signs in BBAs indicates a failure to anticipate and hence treat these historically common complications in this group of babies, and is an indicator of poor neonatal care for this high-risk group.
The BBAs who required admission were significantly smaller than those who were discharged immediately, and the complications of prematurity are likely contributors to this need for inpatient care. This study did not show a higher rate of overall admissions of BBAs compared to babies born in hospital, which differs from the experience of Rodie'141 and Spillane[15]et al., who reported that in a developed setting more BBA neonates than hospital-born babies require admission to a neonatal unit.[14,15] In these studies, prematurity was the main contributing factor to this.
In keeping with previous observations, the BBAs in this study who required admission had to stay longer in hospital than the control group.[7,11] Considering the admission rate to be similar between the groups, this requirement may be more a function of prematurity and low birth weight than of the babies having been born before arrival to hospital.
Conclusion and recommendations
This study has demonstrated a decline in the prevalence of BBAs. It has also identified significant risk factors for the occurrence of BBAs, namely poor antenatal attendance and preterm delivery. Admission and complication rates were similar between BBA and hospital-born groups, but BBAs had significantly lower birth weights and lengthier hospital stays than in-born babies.
The prevalence of BBAs in this study is comparable to global figures in other developing countries, and similar risk factors for their occurrence have been identified (poor antenatal attendance, prematurity and a delay in presentation to hospital). These factors have implications for the prehospital care of newborns and access to maternal and child healthcare in general.
This study also identified a failure of clinicians to anticipate complications associated with BBAs and to instigate the appropriate clinical care, particularly the very poor documentation of temperature and glucose readings, two of the most important clinical observations to identify critically ill patients. This finding has implications for clinical training of healthcare workers and the need for protocol development for the acute assessment of these babies, both in the prehospital environment and upon arrival at hospital.
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Dozens of D.C. children gathered outside the U.S. Capitol Sunday morning to sing a new D.C. statehood song just a week after it aired on satirist John Oliver's HBO show "Last Week Tonight."
Oliver spent more than 17 minutes of his Aug. 2 show railing against Washington's lack of representation in Congress. In the segment he discussed how Congress attempted to remove gun restriction autonomy from the District, prevented the District from creating marijuana regulations and blocked a needle exchange bill during the HIV/AIDS epidemic that eventually dropped needle-related HIV transmissions in the District by 87 percent.
D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton said Monday she plans to show Oliver's segment at a briefing on D.C. statehood when Congress reconvenes in September. Norton said Oliver's video gives statehood advocates the ammunition they need to better inform the public and move forward.
"Each and every line makes fun of the Congress for adding things to bills that tell us what we can't do, for making us come here (to Congress) in the first place with our budget," Norton said Sunday morning. "It was hilarious and it was the first round of what I think you're going to see with people trying to do something with this 17-minute of magic, free advertising for statehood for the District of Columbia so we can get our full rights."
The event was organized by some of the same parents who took on the ban on sledding on the west side of Capitol Hill in March.
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Stable names in GHC "are a way of performing fast (O(1)), not-quite-exact comparison between objects." Andy Gill showed how to use them to extract the explicit graph from writing recursive functions in his Data.Reify package (and associated paper). It's a great idea and very practical for embedded domain-specific languages—we've used the idea in Copilot to recover sharing.
However, consider this example, with three tests executed in GHCI.
For a function with type constraints, stable names fails to "realize" that we are pointing to the same object. As a couple of my colleagues pointed out, the cause is the dictionary being passed around causing new closures to be created. Simon Marlow noted that if you compile with
-O, the explicit dictionaries get optimized away.
Here are the solutions I have to "fixing" the problem, in the context of a DSL:
- Tell your users that recursive expressions must be monomorphic—only "pure functions" over the expressions of your DSL can be polymorphic.
- Implement a check in your reifier to see how many stable names have been created—if some upper-bound is violated, then the user has created an infinite expression, the expression is extremely large (in which case the user should try to use some sharing mechanism, such as let-expressions inside the language), or we've hit a stable-names issue.
- Ensure your DSL programs are always compiled.
- Of course, you can always take another approach, like Template Haskell or not using recursion at the Haskell level; also check out Andy Gill's paper for other solutions to the observable sharing problem.
I don't see how to use (deep)seq to fix the problem, at least as it's presented in the example above, but I'd be keen to know if there are other solutions.


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Insights on Activity in Later Life from the Life & Times in an Aging Society Study—Engaged as We Age
older adults' well-being tied to active engagement in paid work, caregiving, education and volunteering
by Jacquelyn B. James, Elyssa Besen, Christina Matz-Costa, and Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes
January 2012—A new research study from the Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College contradicts the widespread notion that older adults tend to disengage from major societal obligations and responsibilities. The study instead finds that older Americans are highly engaged in such activities, and that their well-being is directly tied to the level of engagement in these areas.
The Life & Times in an Aging Society Study conducted by the Sloan Center on Aging & Work measured levels of engagement in paid work, caregiving, education and training, and volunteering among three groups of adults: those under 50, ages 50 to 64, and 65 and over. Notably, the study is the first of its kind to look not only at involvement in these activities, but to also measure engagement—asking respondents whether they felt enthusiasm, dedication and absorption in these activities, as opposed to merely participation.
In three out of four categories—paid work, volunteering and education—the study found that adults over 50 are, on average, more engaged than their peers under 50. Only in the realm of caregiving did adults under 50 report higher levels of engagement. Furthermore, the study found that overall well-being among older adults appears to be considerably higher among those who are engaged in these activities. Older adults who reported being involved in one of these four activities, but not engaged, had well-being scores no higher than those who were uninvolved. Nevertheless, those reporting high or moderate levels of engagement also showed high levels of well-being. This difference was widest in the 65-and-older age group, suggesting that the quality of one's experience with paid work, caregiving, education and volunteering may be particularly consequential for the well-being of people in later life.
"Growing old in the 21st century is not what it was in the 20th," said Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Director of the Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College. "As life expectancy continues to increase, older adults are healthier and more active than in the past. Yet many people cling to a notion that older adults are disengaged. The results of this study show the opposite to be true."
Critically, the study's findings indicate that encouraging older adults to stay involved in activities is not enough to enhance their well-being. Instead, society must find ways for older adults to not only stay involved in crucial life activities, but to remain highly engaged in them.
about the life & times in and aging society study
The Sloan Center on Aging & Work addressed questions about involvement and engagement in later life in its Life & Times in an Aging Society Study. Participants were recruited through electronic newsletters announcing the conference "Spirituality in the Second Half of Life," held at Boston College in April 2010. These newsletters contained a link to a survey associated with the study and invited readers to respond, regardless of their plans to attend the conference. About 850 people completed the survey between January and April 2010. Seventy-six percent were female, 19 percent were retired, 64 percent were married or living with someone, 97 percent were white, 64 percent had a graduate degree, and 45 percent had a total household income of more than $100,000. The respondents ranged in age from 21 to 83.
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"Chaos in the Capitals' zone…"
That quote from television analyst Craig Laughlin pretty much sums up the Washington Capitals' play last night as they dropped their eighth game in ten tries this season, a 3-2 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs.
And that's too bad, in a way, because it was not as if the Maple Leafs were lights out dominating. The Leafs managed to get only half of their 42 shot attempts on goal. They did, however score three goals on their first 12 shots of the game due in part to the chaos of which Laughlin spoke and some less than inspiring goaltending from Michal Neuvirth.
The chaos part came on the Leafs' first goal when Michal Neuvirth left the puck behind his own net for defenseman Tom Poti. What Neuvirth did not communicate, or what Poti did not realize on his own, was that James van Riemsdyk was barreling down the ice in pursuit of the puck. With the puck sitting between Neuvirth and Poti, van Riemsdyk pilfered it, sped around the back of the Caps' net, and tucked the puck past the post before Neuvirth realized what happened, putting the Leafs up 1-0 ten minutes into the game.
More chaos ensued a couple of minutes later when the Caps got caught in some good old fashioned running around in their own zone. We could tell a story here of the goal, but pictures being worth a thousand words, we won't waste a hundred here. We will just refer to you a post by Justin Bourne as part of his "Systems Analyst" series.
In what is perhaps the most concise and cogent analysis of a play you will read this year, he said of this picture…
"Maybe don't defend like this."
Well, consider this picture…
Over on the right is James van Riemsdyk…the goal scorer. All we can add to the Bournian analysis is the word, "either." As in, "maybe don't defend like this…either."
Finding themselves behind the eight-ball again, the Caps halved the lead before the first intermission when Marcus Johansson scored his first goal of the season. It was a deft skate-to-stick move upon receiving a pass from Tomas Kundratek on a power play… wait, WHAT? Marcus Johansson and Tomas Kundratek? On a power play?
Toronto got their two-goal lead back mid-way through the second period when the impressively named Korbinan Holzer converted a cross-ice feed from Jean-Luc Picard… uh, Mark Fraser… and blasted a skipping, dipping, zipping slap shot past Michal Neuvirth.
Mike Ribeiro – the only Cap it seems to be showing up night in and night out so far – made things respectable with another Caps power play goal less than seven minutes into the third period. But the Caps managed only seven more shots on goal, all turned away by Leafs goalie Ben Scrivens, who earned his second win of the season in Toronto's 3-2 win over the Caps.
Other stuff…
-- The Caps managed only 12 shots at even strength over the first 47 minutes of the game. They scored no goals.
-- When Marcus Johansson is your best faceoff man for the night (2-for-2), that's a problem. No other Cap finished with a winning mark in the circle. They were 9-for-23 in the offensive end, 5-for-13 in the defensive end. If you don't do the little things well, you don't get a chance to do the big things at all.
-- John Carlson was on ice for another goal against, but on the other hand… four shots on goal (on eight attempts), three hits, two blocked shots. As much as in any game this year he looked like a two-way defenseman.
-- Alex Ovechkin has ramped up his shots-on-goal rate, but his 0-for-4 last night puts him at 2-for-38 through ten games (5.3 percent). That would rank him 55th in the league… if he was a defenseman. As it is, he ranks 194th among forwards and 248th among all skaters. Oh, did we say he's tied with Nicklas Backstrom?
-- The Caps had four players with three hits last night… Joel Ward, check… Jason Chimera, check… John Carlson, check… Mike Ribeiro, che-- …huh?
-- Toronto had almost as many hits as shots on goal for the game, and 18 hits is not a heavy volume.
-- Eric Fehr had a night that few will remember. Seven minutes of ice time, a penalty, and an otherwise completely unmarked score sheet.
-- Toronto did not have a lot of shots on goal (21), but they did manage to spread things around. There were 13 different skaters recording at least one shot on goal. The Caps did the same with their 26 shots on goal, with 13 skaters getting at least one.
-- Phil Kessel can't buy a break as far as goal scoring goes, but he did have two assists and was plus-3 for the night to lead the team. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, boys.
-- When they went to the locker room down 2-1 last night, it was the fifth time in ten games the Caps have trailed at the first intermission. They are 0-4-1 in those games. They have led only once after 20 minutes, and they lost that game, too.
In the end, let's face it. It is now approaching a betting certainty that the playoff streak will end at five years. The Caps are last in the Eastern Conference, four points out of a playoff spot and with seven teams to climb over to get to eighth place. They have to travel to Pittsburgh for another rematch of games played in the last week, then they get what should be a reprieve with a home-and-home set against Florida. Except, Florida is 2-0-1 in their last three games. The Caps have five games between now and Presidents Day, four of them on the road. You can do your own math to figure out if the Caps will have any meaningful games to play after that holiday.


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Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Happy World Read Aloud Day!
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Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Betting on the right horse
Lately I've been writing book proposals for other people, and when one went out, two publishers responded right away. One offered a decent advance; the other wanted the book, but didn't want to pay for it.
"I've never sold a book for nothing," the agent wrote.
The editor was indignant; wanted the book and whined about uncertainty. The agent said that acquiring mss. ought not to be going for certainty (buying mss. that are like other best-selling books etc.) but "betting on the right horse."
I love that idea! And not just because it reminds me of John Steinbeck saying,
"Publishing makes horse-racing look like a stable, secure business."
Betting on the right horse is a good way to think about my own books, too -- though for me it's like owning a horse as well as betting on one. If you muck out the stalls etc. yourself, owning a horse is a lot of work. And so is writing a book. You have to really love the creature to make all that work worthwhile, whether it wins the race or not.
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Wednesday, June 04, 2014
The Other Meghan McCarthys
I was trying to explain to Libby what the deal was with the "other Meghans." I figure posting this will explain the whole thing!
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Monday, May 12, 2014
Paintings from Chapter two: Emma
Here are a few of my favorite paintings from the second chapter of Sprout Street Neighbors (some chapter one paintings here), featuring a rambunctious squirrel named Emma:
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Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Yes, that is Drew Barrymore -- the picture was taken on the steps of my building in Boston, while they were filming Feverpitch. The pink hat is mine, but I (wisely, I think) cropped myself out of the picture. Ordinary people rarely come off well when photographed with celebrities -- especially when the celebrities are young, beautiful movie stars.
I asked her to pose with it thinking it might be a good ad for the book -- of course, it wasn't!
That was predictable. But other things about what will grab people's attention aren't predictable at all. Of all the things I ever posted here, the one about my shepherd's hut was read the most (4,000 and something times).
That wasn't even meant to be anything but fun for me to write about and interesting to my friends. And when it comes to other people's posts, there's no pattern either: what people read most and what they didn't seems completely random (and NOT related to even what readers said were their favorites, in the days when we asked).
The most visited posts on this blog were (in this order): Elaine's about Valerie worth's animal poems, that shepherd's hut post of mine, Grace's moon craft festival post (about how to make a lantern for a moon festival), Alvina's Day in the Life of an Editor, and a sneak peek of Anna's sketch of a girl.
Who would ever have guessed that? I think the lesson when it comes to writing (whether a book or a blog post!) is to just write what interests YOU.
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Wednesday, April 09, 2014
Paintings from Sprout Street Neighbors
Here are a few of my favorites from the first chapter of Sprout Street Neighbors, the chapter book I've been working on. It's been a lot of fun painting without color, it sort of frees me up to think more about the values, textures, and patterns in a painting. I like spending time in this cozy black and white world.
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KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine's new leaders accused neighbor Russia of declaring war, as Kiev mobilized troops and called up military reservists in a rapidly escalating crisis that has raised fears of a conflict.
Amid signs of Russian military intervention in Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, Russian generals led their troops to three bases in the region Sunday, demanding Ukrainian forces surrender and hand over their weapons, Vladislav Seleznyov, spokesman for the Crimean Media Center of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, told CNN.
Speaking by phone, he said Russian troops had blocked access to the bases, but added, "There is no open confrontation between Russian and Ukrainian military forces in Crimea" and said Ukrainian troops continue to protect and serve Ukraine.
"This is a red alert. This is not a threat. This is actually a declaration of war to my country," Ukrainian interim Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said.
Speaking in a televised address from the parliament building in the capital, Kiev, he called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to "pull back his military and stick to the international obligations."
"We are on the brink of the disaster."
A sense of escalating crisis in Crimea — an autonomous region of eastern Ukraine with strong loyalty to neighboring Russia — swirled with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry condemning what he called Russia's "incredible act of aggression."
Speaking on the CBS program "Face The Nation," Kerry said several foreign powers are looking at economic consequences if Russia does not withdraw its forces.
"All of them, every single one of them are prepared to go to the hilt in order to isolate Russia with respect to this invasion," he said. "They're prepared to put sanctions in place, they're prepared to isolate Russia economically."
But Ukraine's ambassador to the United Nations said his country needs more than diplomatic assistance.
"We are to demonstrate that we have our own capacity to protect ourselves … and we are preparing to defend ourselves," Yuriy Sergeyev said on CNN's "State of the Union." "And nationally, if aggravation is going in that way, when the Russian troops … are enlarging their quantity with every coming hour … we will ask for military support and other kinds of support."
In Brussels, Belgium, NATO ambassadors held an emergency meeting on Ukraine.
"What Russia is doing now in Ukraine violates the principles of the U.N. charter," NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told reporters.
"Russia must stop its military activities and threats," Rasmussen said. "We support Ukraine's territorial integrity and sovereignty. … We support the rights of the people of Ukraine to determine their own future without outside interference."
Lean to the West, or to Russia?
Ukraine, a nation of 45 million people sandwiched between Europe and Russia's southwestern border, has been plunged into chaos since the ouster a week ago of of President Viktor Yanukovych following bloody street protests that left dozens dead and hundreds wounded.
Anti-government protests started in late November when Yanukovych spurned a deal with the EU, favoring closer ties with Moscow instead.
Ukraine has faced a deepening split, with those in the west generally supporting the interim government and its European Union tilt, while many in the east prefer a Ukraine where Russia casts a long shadow.
Nowhere is that feeling more intense than in Crimea, the last big bastion of opposition to the new political leadership. Ukraine suspects Russia of fomenting tension in the autonomous region that might escalate into a bid for separation by its Russian majority.
Ukrainian leaders and commentators have compared events in Crimea to what happened in Georgia in 2008. Then, cross-border tensions with Russia exploded into a five-day conflict that saw Russian tanks and troops pour into the breakaway territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, as well as Georgian cities. Russia and Georgia each blamed the other for starting the conflict.
Escalating crisis
The crisis in Ukraine appeared to hit a boiling point after Putin obtained permission Saturday from his parliament to use military force to protect Russian citizens in Ukraine, spurning Western pleas not to intervene.
Putin cited in his request a threat posed to the lives of Russian citizens and military personnel based in southern Crimea. Ukrainian officials have vehemently denied Putin's claim.
The vote came as the newly installed pro-Russian leader of Crimea, Sergey Aksyonov, asked Putin for help in maintaining peace on the Black Sea peninsula, where Russia's fleet is based at Sevastopol. Security forces "are unable to efficiently control the situation in the republic," he said in comments broadcast on Russian state channel Russia 24. Aksyonov was installed as the region's premier after armed men took over the Crimean parliament building on Thursday.
Aksyonov said that a referendum on greater Crimean autonomy, originally set for May 25, would be moved to March 30.
At a Ukrainian parliamentary meeting Sunday, acting Defense Minister Ihor Tenyuh said Ukraine does not have the military force to resist Russia, according to two parliamentary members present at the session. Tenyuh called for talks to resolve the crisis with Russia, they said.
The Ukrainian National Security Council has ordered the mobilization of troops and the Defense Ministry was calling for reservists to register to be on standby if needed, a senior Ukrainian official, Andriy Parubiy, said.
Men dressed in both civilian and camouflage gear and wearing red armbands could be seen on the streets of the regional capital, Simferopol.
At Ukraine's Perevalnoye base, some 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Simferopol, a CNN team saw more than 100 troops — not Ukrainian and dressed in black with no identifiable insignia — deployed around its perimeter, as well as a dozen or so vehicles. Some 15 Ukrainian soldiers were on guard while civilians, both pro-Russia and pro-Ukraine protesters, stood on each side of the road.
In Kiev, thousands of people rallied in the central Independence Square, cradle of Ukraine's three-month anti-government protests that led to Yanukovych's ouster last week. The crowd held up signs reading "Crimea, we are with you" and "Putin, hands off Ukraine."
In Moscow, about 50 protesters were detained outside a Defense Ministry building, a Moscow police spokesman said.
According to a tweet from the official Russian government account Sunday, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev discussed the crisis in Ukraine in a telephone call with Yatsenyuk. According to a second tweet, Medvedev said Russia is interested in maintaining stable and friendly relations with Ukraine but reserves the right to protect the legitimate interests of its citizens and military personnel stationed in Crimea.
Western governments worried
The crisis set off alarm bells in the West.
In discussions over the weekend with Putin, U.S. President Barack Obama "made clear that Russia's continued violation of Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity would negatively impact Russia's standing in the international community," according to a statement released by the White House.
According to the Kremlin, Putin told Obama that Russia reserves the right to defend its interests in the Crimea region and the Russian-speaking people who live there.
Canada recalled its ambassador to Moscow, while the United States and Britain announced they will suspend participation in preparatory meetings this week ahead of the G8 summit that will bring world leaders together in June in Sochi, Russia. France said it made the same decision.
Addressing the crowds in St. Peter Square, Pope Francis called for prayers for Ukraine, which he said was "living a delicate situation."
Pressure has been mounting on Russia as leaders from the EU and the UK joined an international outcry, with EU High Representative Catherine Ashton deploring Russia's "unwarranted escalation of tensions."


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This week actor and everyman icon Tom Hanks turned 57. From his extremely humble beginnings on the sitcom "Bosom Buddies" the man has branched out to be not just a comedic talent, but also an award-winning powerhouse.
I doubt anyone saw his cross-dressing character on "Bosom Buddies" and just assumed he would be able to pull something off as weighty as "Philadelphia" in a decades' time, but somehow he did it.
Yes, there have been low points ("Joe Versus The Volcano" and "The Ladykillers" come to mind) but through it all Hanks has always scratched an itch for moviegoers. His "Saturday Night Live" appearances have been gut-busting too. Remember him as the Aerosmith roadie during that one Wayne's World sketch?
His voice work as toy cowboy Woody, especially in "Toy Story 3", deserved some sort of trophy.
You can see him next in the modern pirate tale "Captain Phillips", coming in October, and in December he plays Walt Disney in "Saving Mr. Banks" alongside Emma Thompson.
May Hanks live one thousand years.


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From History.com: "In the Battle of Tarawa (November 20-23, 1943) during World War II (1939-45), the U.S. began its Central Pacific Campaign against Japan by seizing the heavily fortified, Japanese-held island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands. The 18,000 U.S. Marines sent to tiny Betio were expected to easily secure it; however, problems quickly arose. Low tides prevented some U.S. landing crafts from clearing the coral reefs that ringed the island. Japanese coastal guns pounded the snagged vessels and desperate Marines gave up on freeing the boats and instead waded toward shore–hundreds of yards away– through chest-deep water amidst enemy fire. Despite heavy resistance from the 4,500 Japanese troops dug in on Betio, the Marines finally took the island after a bloody, 76-hour battle in which both sides suffered heavy casualties…" (This article continues.)


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2014 Nissan Rogue Previewed
A glimpse of Nissan's newest crossover before its debut September 10.
Nissan has just released a teaser shot of the redesigned 2014 Nissan Rogue compact crossover. Officially debuting September 10, this front end shot of the all new model shows a headlight design similar to the larger Nissan Pathfinder crossover.
The headlight looks to feature LED daytime running lights like the 2014 Nissan Sentra, which should lend the 2014 Nissan Rogue a slightly more upscale look, and the chrome grille bar has a similar shape to the Pathfinder's grille inserts. The hood appears sculpted, with creases rising from the grille and headlights
Previous spy shots of the Rogue suggest that the crossover will closely follow the look of the Nissan Hi-Cross concept from the 2012 Geneva Motor Show, with a swooping character line, thick D-pillars, and a sloping rear hatch.
The 2014 Rogue is not only important for Nissan as the brand's second best-selling model (behind the Altima), but also because it competes in the hotly contested compact crossover segment, which has seen numerous redesigns in the past year of the top-selling models like the 2013 Toyota RAV4, the 2013 Honda CR-V, and the 2013 Ford Escape. We expect the 2014 Nissan Rogue to be powered by a four-cylinder and CVT powertrain combination. With Nissan's recent focus on fuel economy, the 2014 Rogue should provide a significant jump over the current model's 23/28 mpg EPA city/highway ratings to challenge the class leaders.
The Rogue will be the last of Nissan's "five new models in 15 months" campaign, following the 2013 Nissan Altima, the 2013 Nissan Sentra, the 2013 Nissan Pathfinder, and the 2014 Nissan Versa Note.
The 2014 Nissan Rogue's release date coincides with the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show, and a Nissan representative said a version of this vehicle would be shown at Frankfurt. We wouldn't be surprised if this means the Rogue and its European counterpart, the Nissan Qashquai, are merging into one global model with the redesigned crossover. The Nissan Rogue is currently sold only in the U.S. and Canada, whereas the Qashquai is sold globally.
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The Big Bang Theory is set to resume production at the end of this month, but most of its cast members are currently without contracts, Deadline reports.
Stars Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki, Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting, Simon Helberg and Kunal Nayyar were all working under contracts that expired at the end of last season. (Melissa Rauch andMayim Bialik are still under the contracts they each renegotiated last fall.)
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The cast faced a similar situation when they were renegotiating their contracts in 2010; however, at that time they were still obligated to show up to work under existing contracts that had not yet expired, Deadline notes.
Though production on Season 8 of the CBS comedy, which is the No. 1 show on television, is scheduled to begin on July 30, the date may be pushed if the two sides can not reach an agreement. Big Bang's one-hour season premiere is scheduled for Monday, Sept. 22.
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In March, CBS renewed the show for three seasons, contingent upon the current cast returning.
In Season 7, Galecki, Parsons and Cuoco-Sweeting each commanded about $350,000 per episode. Deadline reports that they could earn up to $1 million per episode.
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Will the House receive Stephen's tip of the hat or wag of the finger?
Comedy Central funnyman Stephen Colbert is planning another trip to the nation's capital, where he will testify Friday alongside United Farm Workers President Arturo S. Rodriguez before the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law, Politico reports.
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Per a UFW press release (via Politico) trumpeting the appearance: "Rodriguez appeared on a segment of "The Colbert Report" and Colbert spent a day in August working at a corn and vegetable farm in New York state."
The UFW launched its national "Take Our Jobs" campaign on June 24, inviting U.S. citizens and legal residents to replace hundreds of thousands of immigrant field laborers, most of whom are undocumented. Since then, more than 3 million people have visited the campaign website, www.takeourjobs.org. Of those visitors, 8,600 have expressed an interest in seeking employment as farmworkers. Despite the numbers, only seven people have taken the UFW up on its offer to take a job in agriculture.
When Rodriguez last appeared on Colbert's show in July, he said three Americans had signed up to work in the fields.
"Make that four. I'll do it," Colbert replied at the time. "Is there air conditioning?"
After Friday's appearance before Congress, Colbert is set to return to Washington Oct. 30 to host a mock "March to Keep Fear Alive."
The faux conservative news pundit has timed the rally to coincide with comedian Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity" event in D.C. the same day.
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Ahmad Bradshaw visits Pittsburgh Steelers
Former N.Y. Giants running back is free agent
Free agent running back Ahmad Bradshaw, a key member of two Super Bowl teams with the New York Giants, visited the Steelers on Thursday.
Pittsburgh is looking for help at running back after parting ways with Rashard Mendenhall, who was signed by Arizona. The Steelers have tendered Jonathan Dwyer and Isaac Redman.
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Bradshaw, a seventh-year back from Marshall, has been rehabbing from surgery to put a new screw in his right foot. He has a history of foot and ankle issues in recent years.
The 27-year-old Bradshaw fought through injuries to rush for 1,015 yards and six touchdowns in 14 games last season. The Giants cut him to clear space under the salary cap.
General manager Jerry Reese called the cut a difficult decision and said, "Pound for pound, Bradshaw is one of the toughest football players that I've been around."