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With continued discussions focused on keeping the county's schools safe from external threats, new information released by the N.C. Department of Public Inspections shows the Ashe County school district has one of the highest crime/violence per student ratios in the state.
According to the 2011-12 Consolidated Data Report, which was presented to the N.C. State Board of Education on Dec. 10, Ashe County's school district has the 98th highest crime and violence per student ratio out of 115 N.C. school districts.
"We're always looking for ways to improve, and hopefully those numbers will be down by next year," said Donnie Johnson, Ashe County's interim superintendent.
There were 29 total acts of crime and violence from the county's 3,103 students.
The 29 criminal/violent acts included:
- one case of assault resulting in serious bodily injury
- four cases of assault on school personnel
- seven cases of possession of alcoholic beverages
- nine cases of possession of controlled substances
- four cases of possession of weapons
- one case of sexual assault
- three cases of sexual offenses
The rate of 29 criminal/violent acts per 3,103 students equals a ratio of 9.346 acts per 1,000 students. Compared to other school districts, Ashe County had one of the highest ratios per 1,000 students. Only 17 school districts had a higher ratio than Ashe County's.
"Our numbers in possession of alcohol and controlled substances were clearly the two highest (categories) for us," said Johnson. "Each case is different. Some of the controlled substance violations turned out to be prescription drugs the students were using."
Of the 29 crimes and violent acts, 18 were committed by high school students, seven were committed by middle school students, two acts were committed by both Westwood and Mountain View Elementary Schools' students, and no acts were committed by students from Blue Ridge Elementary School.
According to Johnson, the school board has been placing a greater focus on the county's health curriculum. The ninth grade health education class will remain mandatory for graduation, and a new curriculum for sixth graders will place a greater emphasis on drug and alcohol prevention.
Also, the West Jefferson's ABC store has provided the school district enough funding to bring a guest speaker to talk about the outcomes of drug abuse.
Johnson was also encouraged because the Ashe County School District didn't have any reports of more serious cases like deaths by unnatural causes, assault using a weapon, possession of firearms, robbery, kidnapping, rape, indecent liberties with a minor, bomb threats or burning of a school building.
The number of crimes committed by students in the Ashe County School District has held a consistent average of 29 reported acts since 2008-2009. The student-to-crime ratio has also remained consistent, swaying between 8.442 and 9.775.
While the rates in Ashe County have stayed the same, the rates in North Carolina have decreased overall.
"The total number of reportable acts of school crime and violence, short and long-term student suspensions, and expulsions all decreased in 2011-12," said the N.C. DPI's release.
According to the Consolidation Data Report, the total number of acts of school crime and violence was the lowest reported number since 2008-09.
State Superintendent June Atkinson said there are two clear facts when it comes to high student achievement.
"Students learn best in an environment where they feel safe and supported, and students not in school are at greater risk for dropping out. It is gratifying to see these numbers continuing to decline and I encourage educators to continue their efforts to keep schools as safe as possible and to encourage positive student behavior," said Atkinson in the release.
Key findings from the Consolidation Data Report show that:
Crime and violence
- The total number of reported acts of crime and violence decreased by 4.3 percent to 11,161 from 11,657 acts in 2010 -2011. The rate of acts reported per 1,000 students also decreased by 5 percent to 7.63 from 8.03 the previous year.
- Schools are required to report 16 offenses that occur on campus or school property. Of those reported, violent offenses account for 3.7 percent or 416. The most frequently reported acts involved illegal possession of controlled substances, weapons (excluding firearms and powerful explosives) or alcoholic beverages and accounted for almost 84 percent or 9,361 of the total number of reported acts.
Suspensions and expulsions
- Short-term suspensions (10 days or fewer) among students in all grades decreased in 2011-12. The total went from 266,488 to 258,197 – a 3.1 percent decrease. Of that total, 127,223 can be attributed to high school short-term suspensions (a 2 percent decrease from 2010-11). The average duration of a single short-term suspension was 2.73 school days.
- Long-term suspensions (11 days or more) among students in all grades declined 38.6 percent from 2,621 to 1,609. High school students received 1,177 long-term suspensions (a 34.6 percent decrease from 2010-11). The average duration of a long-term suspension was 53.8 school days.
- Expulsions also declined from 69 in 2010-11 to 30 in 2011-12 – a 56.5 percent decrease. High school students received 24 of these expulsions.
Corporal punishment
- In 2011-12, 404 uses of corporal punishments were reported, a 54.7 percent decrease from the 891 reported in 2010-11. Of the 296 students reported as receiving corporal punishment, 230 received corporal punishment once, while 66 received it two or more times.
- Corporal punishment was used at least once by 12 school districts in 2011-12. Charter schools and the remaining 103 districts did not use corporal punishment.
- The use of corporal punishment is a local school board policy.
Ashe dropout rate
Unlike the rates of student crime and violence, which have remained constant in Ashe County's school district, the number of high school dropouts at ACHS has decreased over the past three years.
This decrease is thanks, in part, to the high school's graduation coach Larry Dix.
When Dix arrived at the high school for the 2009-2010 school year, there were 55 dropouts. One year after the programs implementation, the number of high school dropouts decreased to 48 students, and then 35 students in the 2011-2012 school year.
"I really enjoy being a resource and possible change agent for one of our most prized resources: our young people," said Dix.
Dix has been applauded for his efforts by fellow staff members. Principal Jason Krider said "hopefully, the fruits of our labor will continue to show."
State dropout rate
The dropout rate also improved throughout North Carolina in the 2011-2012 school year.
According to the Consolidated Data Report, the annual high school dropout rate decreased from 3.43 percent to 3.01 percent for 2011-12, representing a .42 percentage point decrease.
"High school students understand the connection between a diploma and the ability to reach their goals. Principals, teachers and support staff should be praised for their efforts to ensure that students are staying on track to complete their education and achieve success after graduation," said Atkinson in the release.
Other highlights at the state level include:
- A total of 13,488 high school students dropped out in 2011-12 as compared to 15,342 students in 2010-11 (12.1 percent decrease).
- There were dropout count decreases in 70.4 percent (81 of 115) of school districts.
- Excluding the newly reported Pacific Islander group, black students had the largest percentage decrease in dropout count (16.1) followed by white students (10.8) and Hispanic students (9.7).
- Males accounted for 60.3 percent of reported dropouts, which was slightly up from 60 percent in 2010-11.
- Students dropped out most frequently at grade 10 (28.6 percent) followed by grade 9 (26.7 percent), grade 11 (25.3 percent) and grade 12 (17.3 percent).
- Attendance was the reason most cited for dropping out (41.5 percent).


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ROCHESTER, Pa. (AP) — Police say a Pennsylvania woman shined a flashlight for her son to help him shoot what they thought was a skunk but was really his 8-year-old cousin in a black-and-white Halloween costume.
The girl was hospitalized Monday in critical condition following Saturday night's shooting in Rochester, a rural area just northwest of Pittsburgh where hunting is common.
New Sewickley Township police say the girl was over a hillside and wearing a black costume and a black hat with a white tassel. Chief Ronald Leindecker says the woman told officers she was hosting a Halloween party when she heard there was a skunk nearby and asked her son to shoot it.
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Leindecker told the newspaper that the girl was alert and talking when she was flown to Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, about 30 miles away. The shotgun blast hit her in the shoulder, arm, back and neck.
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Gregory A. Fields, of Hartford, W.Va, went to be with the Lord after passing away peacefully among family and friends on Tuesday, October 9, 2012, at Cabell Huntington Hospital in Huntington, W.Va. Greg fought a courageous short battle of lung cancer. He will be sadly missed by family and many special friends. Greg will live on in our hearts forever.
Greg is survived by his fiancé and soul mate of 20 years, Tonya Brown of Dublin, Ohio; his father and mother, Freddie and Colene Fields of Hartford, W.Va.; two sons, Jarrett Fields of Hartford, W.Va, and Kyle Fields of Mason, W.Va., sister, Melissa (Keith) Fields of Racine Ohio; brother, Brian (Donna) Fields of Hartford, W.Va.; and two nieces, Lindsay Barnhart of Racine, Ohio, and Kristina (Eli) Eynon of Rudolph, Ohio.
Greg graduated from Wahama High School. After high school he joined the U.S. Army for four years. Greg enjoyed the outdoors. His interest were hunting, fishing and four-wheeling. He had a passion for Harley Davidson and collecting guns. Greg enjoyed participating in shooting matches in which he did very well. Greg enjoyed history and Genealogy. He and Tonya spent many hours traveling and researching the Fields name. He was member of the NRA. He was a Drilling Operator for Parks Drilling in Dublin, Ohio. He was a social member of the VFW 9926 of Mason, W.Va., and the American Legion of New Haven, W.Va. He is also a member of the Masonic Lodge 313# in Florida.
Funeral service will be at 1 p.m. on Saturday, October 13, 2012, at the Foglesong-Roush Funeral Home in Mason, W.Va. Viewing will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday at the funeral home. Officiating will be Mike Finnicum and Huling Greene. Burial will follow in the Graham Cemetery in New Haven, W.Va.
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text: oatmeal. View unanswered posts GLITTER Forum Index -> Archive View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message rumplestiltskinJoined: 10 Apr 2004Posts: 808 Posted: Jan 08, 2005 12:10 am Post subject: oatmeal. What's your favorite add-in or topping for oatmeal? I just started buying the plain old rolled oats because those instant flavored types are so expensive, but I'm not sure what to put in it besides maple syrup or brown sugar. Back to top moon_lemmingJoined: 09 Apr 2004Posts: 220 Posted: Jan 08, 2005 12:18 am Post subject: brown sugar's the best! I also mix in random combinations of the following: * cream * yogurt * dried cranberries * raisins * blueberries but my favorite is brown sugar, raisins, and a leeetle bit of cream. Back to top MiloJoined: 09 Apr 2004Posts: 2163Location: horse-n-buggyville, PA Posted: Jan 08, 2005 1:06 am Post subject: raisins, craisins, maple syrup, and crushed walnuts (a way to get my omega fatty acids in) Back to top BlueJediGuest Posted: Jan 08, 2005 1:25 am Post subject: cooked apple bits and cinnamon with sugar would be really good too. I like milk, butter, and tons of brown sugar in mine. I actually LOVE the "irish oatmeal" they sell at trader joes. It comes in instant packs, and it's soooo good. Back to top supernova_greenJoined: 07 Sep 2004Posts: 271 Posted: Jan 08, 2005 5:32 am Post subject: Just cinnamon and nutmeg. And some sugar or splenda if I'm in a sweet mood. Although dried apple and cranberry bits sound tasty right now, too. Back to top favorgrlGuest Posted: Jan 08, 2005 8:37 am Post subject: I think any kind of fruit is tasty in oatmeal. favorgrl Back to top klaradetroitJoined: 07 Apr 2004Posts: 1333Location: stockholm, sweden Posted: Jan 08, 2005 9:30 am Post subject: my grandma's blackberry jam is my alltime favourite_________________the world is yours http://blogg.klaradetroit.com Back to top OriJoined: 07 Apr 2004Posts: 174Location: Athens, Georgia Posted: Jan 08, 2005 9:40 am Post subject: Ever tried steel cut oats? It takes a little bit longer to make (30 minutes or so) but it blows instant oatmeal out of the water. That being said, my favorite toppings are cream, raspberries (dried or fresh), and lots of sugar-in-the-raw._________________"Busheney," Sunny said, which meant something along the lines of, "You're an evil man with no concern whatsoever for other people." -- from The Slippery Slope, by Lemony Snicket Back to top Ms.MonkeyMagicJoined: 07 Apr 2004Posts: 1564Location: Albuquerque Posted: Jan 08, 2005 10:42 am Post subject: Lately, I've been putting sliced bananas and a couple of dried apricots on my oatmeal. I have found, seriously the best way to make oatmeal. Instead of boiling the water then adding oats, put cold water and oats in the pot and bring to a boil together, then simmer on low. so good, doesn't end up the consistency of wall paper paste._________________Love Loud, Don't Lose Loud.--Mates of State Back to top naturallystephJoined: 07 Apr 2004Posts: 164 Posted: Jan 08, 2005 11:40 am Post subject: Cinnamon and/or fruit Yum! - Steph Back to top greenbeanJoined: 26 Jun 2004Posts: 3039Location: Saskatchewan Posted: Jan 08, 2005 12:18 pm Post subject: Peanut butter! Makes it all creamy and peanutty. Yum. Back to top Polesmoker69Joined: 08 Apr 2004Posts: 2064Location: Ontario, Canada Posted: Jan 08, 2005 12:41 pm Post subject: milk, brown sugar, or white sugar, cinammon, chocolate chips, strawberries, any dried fruit. Back to top rumplestiltskinJoined: 10 Apr 2004Posts: 808 Posted: Jan 08, 2005 2:52 pm Post subject: Peanut butter sounds amazing, I'll definitely try that. With cinnamon and raisins it would probably be even tastier. 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Is it plain or flavored? I'll pick some up next trip there along with a few bags of dried fruit. I think they have plain and maple brown sugar flavored. OR, you can buy the actual can of the plain oats too. It's in a metal can and it has some Irish sounding last name. It tastes a lot better than the Quaker stuff does, to me. The instant should be right next to it in boxes. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First GLITTER Forum Index -> Archive All times are GMT - 5 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Hand Making It----------------Works in ProgressFood CraftShowing OffThe Business Side Do It Yourself----------------La Vida CraftyGrown UpDIY ParentingHappy HomeSwap and TradeGlitterConArchive You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum


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We will do it when gas gets to 7.00-8.00 a gallon in the meantime were looking at LNG gas.
For the past several months, I have been fruitlessly asking railroad industry news sources why railroads are not using LNG in their fuel options. This is the first time I have seen any mention of a railroad at least exploring its use. The shipping industry is designing LNG powered ships and solving the problems related to low temp/high pressure storage and accompanying dangers/risks of this fuel and other industries are also developing means to take advantage of LNG's low price and cleaner burn. Thanks for asking the question which at least gave a first hint at possible use of LNG fuel on railroads.
One real part of this, oddly enough, is that using LNG is fairly straightforward. There are a lot of dual-fuel engines for pipeline pumping, for instance, in the right size range, and the fueling is still manageable at locomotive. There were some real issues for scaling up for something big enough to run a container ship on.
Someone who used to show up here works on conversions for hi-rail vehicles, and, of course, BNSF converted an EMD to LNG.
The intitive would also have to come from the power companies as well......With new wind farms popping up all over the place they need the transmission capasity.
After going to the CSX shareholders meeting wendsday I dont expect a lot of new thinking from those guys...Board member .Lampere -"Running a railroad is hard enough you want us to get into the transmission buisness as well??"
Electrification is the ultimate long term solution, period. Whether you want to use LNG, wind power, diesel, coal, hydroelectric dams, or Gerry Callison's magic high octane snake oil, receiving energy from the power grid reduces the engineering problem to a simple matter of plugging in.
Power line co-location is the key first step in making this happen. Because a train is not a balanced electrical load (it does not draw from the three phases evenly), an electrified railroad will need to access a relatively high powered connection to the high voltage electrical grid very 25 to 40 miles. Such a connection, at a minimum of 138 to 161 kV, is not especially cheap to come by.
Luckily, co-location allows the railroad industry TO HAVE SOMEONE ELSE PAY THEM TO TAKE THIS FIRST STEP FOR THEM. And this is not a matter of getting into a new business. This is ultimately a real estate business venture, railroads have been in the real estate business even prior to the times when land grants developed the "old west." Transmission owners, whether they are wind farm owners like Invenergy, more vertically integrated utilities like Xcel, or transmission owners like International Transmission Corporation, handle the business side of transmission- and the railroad gets paid for use of its property.
Sure, there are some electrical nuances the industry will want to pay attention to. They should avoid High Voltage Direct Current transmission, because it will require expensive power converters if they ever want to access it to power a catenary system. DC is typically used on extremely long lines, such as those transporting hydroelectric power from northern Oregon to southern California. The industry should also be wary of lines above 345 kV, as they will also be prohibitively expensive (though not as much as DC) to access for traction power. While interaction with track circuits certainly must be paid attention to, this is not necessarily the issue that one might think. The most common powerline-induced problems with track circuit occur when an unbalanced distribution line induces a current in the rails that activates a motion sensing highway crossing circuit. Power lines of this level are balanced to a point where this failure mode will not occur.
The bottom line is that the electric utility industry is in dire need of new lines. The railroad industry should take advantage of this, and thus make a profit while someone else installs the infrastructure that they will need to electrify.
Burlington Northern has been exploring natural gas (both liquid and compressed) for decades, never finding a cost advantage to it. Early experiments involved hauling a tank car of the stuff behind locomotives, necessary because it took more volume than diesel. The cost of the tank car canceled the saving of using that fuel source.
I believe both BNSF and UP (and perhaps Pacific Harbor Lines?) have used CNG or LNG (I forget which) in the LA area, out of deference to air pollution.
BNSF has been looking seriously at electrification for some time as well. That's a gigantic expense, and although it saves money in operating costs, it's a big upfront cost. Think millions per mile, and there are a lot of miles between LA and Chicago.
When utilities decide they need more transmission capacity, watch for them to strike a deal with railroads in which they will get use of rights of way for their transmission lines and the railroad will get electricity at no or reduced cost. Conductorchris has it just about right. When the economics work you'll see railroads using alternative fuels. Somehow, I have more confidence in any of the Class 1 railroads knowing how to manage their fuel supply than I do some of the people at these blogs and forums.
Things might be different if the railroads didn't have to pay the cost of their capital (ie, government or utility money . . .). As it is, they not only have to have the cash in the first place and justify that it will bring a reasonable return, they also have to account for risk. Look at how much the railroad map has changed over the last 50 years. If you are making a 50 year investment, you better be sure you aren't wasting your money.
I don't think railroads mind having to earn their cost of capital. They just wish the people they compete against would do the same. Barge operators rely on the federal government to build, maintain, and operate the locks and dams they use as well as keeping the channels deep enough. Truckers, as we all know, don't cme close to paying their allocable share of the cost of building and maintaining highways. Utilities have to earn their cost of capital, but they are effectively monopolies and the state utility commissions allow them to set rates that will provide the return they need. It's the railroad that has to earn its cost of capital and that can be challenged on the rates it sets. Bah, humbug!
The Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 forced utilities to divest of there streetcars and interurbans. The interurbans were indirectly subisdized by ratepayers. The Untlies used eminate domain of railroads to build there grid over the interurban tracks. Near my house in ohio there is the ABC line which the tracks were removed in the 1940s but the power line has been upgraded a number of times.
The Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 was repealed about 3 years ago so that utlitlitys couled own railroads and vice versa. With untilities deregulation the transmission part could be divested from the generating part. We have seen independent CO-Gen plants and the fiasco of Enron from this.Despite all the bitching and moaning from the power companies about railroad rates none has gone as far to buy or build there own railroad.
A lot of land could be opened up if the power companies and railroads would co-op for instance the Niagara Falls to Albany Power Line preety much parrels the New York Central Tracks and the NYS Thruway
Co-locating power lines on railroad right of ways is merely an extension of the exact same business that the railroad industry has been in since land grants financed the railroads built across the old west- real estate. Individual companies whose business is in electrical transmission will raise the capital, build the project, and market the capacity. All the railroad needs to do is to collect rent. The key for the rail industry will be to ensure that the lines being built are suitable for future electrification needs.
Electrified railroads need to access high voltage service at regular intervals- as in a minimum of 138 kV every 25 to 40 miles. This is due to the fact that a train draws electricity in an unbalanced fashion (the grid delivers power in three phases). This imbalance is compensated for by drawing traction power from a connection that has much greater capacity than what the train will use, essentially watering the garden with a fire hose.
The problem is that if the wrong voltage is used, the connection that is needed every 25 to 40 miles will become unreasonably expensive. At higher voltages (765 kV, 500 kV), the required components become quite expensive. High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) has also been proposed, and this would be even worse. Rather than a simple transformer, this would require expensive solid state power converters. HVDC is typically used in extremely long distance applications where no intermediate connections are required- such as moving hydro power from northern Oregon to southern California.
Railroads would do well to focus around 345 kV. This is a high enough voltage to meet the needs of long distance electrical transmission, but not so high the traction power substations would be prohibitively expensive.
Ultimately, the need for new lines is here among us today. This is a golden opportunity for the railroad industry to turn its long term capital needs into an effortless, immediate profit.
Sub Stations- Thats where things get expensive. I believe that there is a at least 5 substations just for the 15 mile Cleveland Red Line. The Northeast Corridor seems to be way overbuilt. No one is proposing that RRs draw power from the same wires that are being used to tranmit power long distance. The long distance power lines are on top while the local wires for the RR are on the bottom. As far as collecting rent part of the contract would be credits for hauling the coal to generate the power in the first place.----In the reverse we could rebuild railroads where there is power lines
Minimizing the need for substations is certainly an important part of electrification. I don't know whether the 5 substations for 15 miles figure is correct, but it sounds reasonable. Still, you have to remember that electrifying a rapid transit system like Cleveland's is very different from electrifying a heavy haul freight line.
A typical rapid transit system uses direct current at lower voltages (Cleveland uses 600 volts DC). This is because DC delivers more power than AC (DC does not see inductive losses), so it can operate at lower voltages and thus lower clearances. Lower clearances are important when you are dealing with long subway tunnels and putting up catenary in urban areas where visual considerations come into larger play. Although it is justified for these applications, one drawback of lower voltage is the need for more frequent substations.
When you are looking at a long distance line with heavy power demands, as you would see in freight electrification, higher voltage becomes advantageous. Higher voltage allows for less frequent substations and greater power delivery (even more so than with DC). However, these higher voltage systems need to be AC, because this allows the voltage to more easily be stepped down on the locomotive to a level that the traction motors and drives and use. Most new higher voltage systems being installed today are 25 kV AC systems with auto transformers (auto transformer systems are a neat trick that drastically increase power delivery potential at a given voltage).
Indeed, nobody is proposing that the train draws power from the same transmission lines that are being used to carry power over long distances. However, the 25 kV AC catenary system that the industry would most likely use will need to access those transmission level voltages (138 to 345 kV) every 25 to 40 miles.
Having lived and played under high voltage power lines one has to wonder what the health risks of these things...
Direct patograph on wire may be replaced by a inductive system where the train draws current from a field..some of this has been tried on streetcar systems
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For some inexplicable reason I thought going to Cannes was going to require a great deal of nudity. I'm really not sure why. It was just like, "Cannes? Everyone's naked there, right?" So I became uncharacteristically obsessed with the notion that I needed to be tan before I could go and be nude at what I pictured as a large, non-stop beach party with celebrities, supermodels, and furry European men in thongs, smoking cigarettes.
I should begin by pointing out that there is no natural process by which my body tans. I go directly from pasty white to cancer with no stops in between. And I've been told that both ends of the spectrum are hard to look at. So, before we left I literally went to have someone paint me a different color.
This is not a horror story about coming home to discover I'd turned orange. Just the opposite. In fact, I'll just say it. I looked AWESOME! Imagine a big, glowing, nearsighted, glass of butterscotch pudding coming at you. THAT was me.
But as you leave they warn you that the tan only lasts up to 7 days, depending on how much you shower. I said, depending on how much I shower? And the woman said, "Sure, every time you shower or sweat or forget to moisturize, you're going to lose some of the color." Thus began my effort to move very slowly through France without showering.
I'd be climbing a flight of stairs with our bags and feel a bead of sweat getting ready to run down my forehead and I'd picture it bulldozing away my precious tan paint, and I'd stop, breath deep and ask Amy where the moisturizer was. Eventually she carried most of the bags and I planned an itinerary that mostly revolved around air conditioned spaces.
Despite my efforts, there comes a point where people stop looking at your carmel skin like they want to eat it and begin looking at you like you must have a lot of cheese stashed in your pockets. What I'm saying is, even in France, there comes a point where you have to shower. And when I showered, it was like Samson going to Supercuts, my beautiful butterscotch power just running down the drain. I moisturized like I was oiling up for the championship round in a mud wrestling match, and still, by the time we actually got to La Croisette in Cannes, I was merely off white at best.
Cannes is hard to comprehend, no matter how tan you are. Imagine taking the Oscars, putting it on the beach, and then making it last eleven days. Now add a ton of yachts, cigarettes, and charge 20 Euros for a beer and you've more or less got the picture. When you have a film screening, you spend a lot of your time moving from place to place in a line of black cars. For Amy and I this also meant we spent a lot of time getting out of those cars and disappointing throngs of people who were hoping to see someone famous. You feel obligated to shout, "I'm sorry" as you exit the vehicles to people holding out a picture of Clarice Starling to be autographed.
The red carpet thing is a whole other level of ridiculous that I'm more or less at a loss to explain. Again, you're mostly just in the way of people's efforts to photograph and scream at celebrities. But when you get to the top of those steps and you turn around and look out at the sea of photographers and fans extending endlessly along the streets and into the alleys, it's such a surreal experience, I felt incredibly lucky not just to have wandered into it, but to have had my best friend next to me as I did.
After, we had dinner with the film's delegation and then took boats out to a billionaire's yacht as fireworks papered the sky. The yacht had celebrities, a helicopter, a submarine, and an open bar, all of which proved a dangerous combination. At some point I became obsessed with the idea of getting Jane Fonda to sign a bottle of hairspray, and could only be talked out of it with promises to 'go see the submarine again.'
I guess the part I sort of glossed over is the screening itself. As you probably know, the film has come out here in the states and been met with some very positive reviews, some very negative reviews, and approximately 37 paying customers, most of whom are probably related to me in some way. Based on my experiences with Lone Star and The Beaver, as far as I know all opening nights are followed by a phone call from someone the next morning who begins the conversation by saying, "Well, look, I'm not going to sugarcoat this." What I'm saying is, it has flopped.
Knowing this made the strange experience of following it to France even stranger. Add to that Mel Gibson making his first real public appearance for the film, on the red carpet, moments before we screened, and I think it was fair to say that none of us had any idea what sort of reaction we'd get. What everyone does tell you, over and over, is to be prepared as the audiences there don't hide their feelings, routinely booing and walking out when something isn't to their liking. Imagine taking a test where the instructor could shout things at you as you filled in the blanks, and you kind of get the idea.
I'll be completely honest, even as the last frames rolled I had no idea how it had gone. My only gauge had been to watch Naomi Campbell's head two rows in front of me for signs that she had nodded off. She seemed awake and alert, which I took as a good sign. I was ready to take out and ad that said "Does Not Seem To Put Supermodels To Sleep." And then the lights came up, there was applause, Jodie stood, and suddenly everyone else was on their feet as well. I've read that the standing ovation lasted ten minutes. I have no idea if that's accurate. What I can tell you is that it went on for an almost uncomfortably long time. Jodie seemed to think that maybe it was just continuing as some sort of cue for her to leave, but when she tried to take a couple steps, the festival director stopped her and said "No,", indicated the crowd, and then said, "They'll tell you when they're done." They weren't done. Not for a while.
So look, I don't really know how to explain the intersection of all the good and bad that surrounds the movie. You could love it or hate it and I wouldn't argue with you either way. The bottom line is I'm back to being the same sickly pale I've always been, I probably won't ever see another red carpet, and it seems unlikely that the movie will ever be considered a success. But given that it began as a story I just wanted to scratch out before I had kids and needed to get a real job, and three years later landed my wife and I a front row seat as people applauded for it in the south of France, I'll probably have trouble seeing it as anything else.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Cannes - Part The Last
11 comments:
- Steven said...
Loved reading this post. Congrats on the film, Cannes, and all that comes with it. Sounds like an experience of a lifetime.
- May 24, 2011 at 6:11 PM
- yourblindspot said...
What an amazingly cool experience. And what a golden opportunity to dust off your Ripley-Nixon gestation French, too (despite the surprising lack of tetons).
- May 25, 2011 at 11:26 AM
- Adam said...
As someone who has recently started a family and is in the process of finding a "real" job (and wondering what's going to come of my previous decade and a half spent putting words on paper), I'd say "success" is understating it.
I temped at a certain crowning entertainment company a while back, when they were wrangling with the logistics of said amphibious rodent movie, and while I was just a temp and only saw suggestions of it all from afar, I read a LOT of scripts during that time, and yours is one of two that gut-punched me. And we're talking about a film that got made because of the writing, not because of the high concept, the one sheet, or your uncle/sister/Dad.
Life is what happens, blah blah blah. I can't imagine your "other plans" having been even as good as the shit that's turned your grass-on-the-other-side an admirable shade of green.
ps. So does are you going to have to commute being TX and LA again for Awake? - May 25, 2011 at 1:19 PM
- Esther said...
congrats Kyle! Sounds so cool, you are so deserving. Proud of you!
- May 25, 2011 at 9:20 PM
- jfa32 said...
The only thing I find hard to believe is that you got a spray tan!?!
- May 26, 2011 at 10:13 AM
- Anonymous said...
I'm convinced that The Beaver is going to become a cult classic. Good luck! - Fellow twin mommy.
- September 6, 2011 at 2:14 PM
- Limey said...
You sound like a pompous twat.
- December 2, 2011 at 9:02 PM
- Katie Held said...
I doubt this is the appropriate forum, but I just watched the Awake pilot and wanted to come pay my respects. It is an amazing, intriguing pilot with so much soul already apparent. Your portrayals of men with double lives really are something. I wish you all the best when it premieres for real and I will be doing everything I can to get people to watch!
Thank you for your writing! - February 18, 2012 at 1:03 AM
- Denny said...
I would like to contact Kyle with a story line Idea if he would be interested.
Never loose thought of story lines... - February 20, 2012 at 9:45 AM
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- February 23, 2012 at 3:24 PM
- Noah said...
The Beaver was one of the most intense experiences I've ever had watching a film. Thank you for making it. I want to hire you to head-write a sketch comedy show that a successful production company has pitched to my comedy troupe. Get in touch if you're interested. It'd be a while before it got off the ground.
- May 13, 2012 at 1:09 PM


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Under current rules, Pakistani citizens cannot directly invest in India. Investment flows are unlikely to surge, but the move will go some way to addressing concerns by Pakistani businessmen that India places too many restrictions on them.
Sharma also said an agreement to relax restrictions on visas for Pakistani businessmen was almost ready. More than 600 Pakistani businesses are in New Delhi this week at a trade fair to promote their products to the Indian market.
Liberalising heavily restricted trade and investment flows is now the driver of peace efforts between the neighbours, whose fragile ties were shattered when Pakistani militants attacked the Indian city of Mumbai in 2008.
In the face of some domestic opposition, the government of Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari last November vowed to grant India most favoured nation status, which ends restrictions that require most products to move via a third country.
The move was hailed by India and the two countries are now focused on resolving economic issues before moving on to more intractable problems such as the disputed region of Kashmir.
Sharma and the Pakistani trade minister Makhdoom Amin Fahim, were also scheduled to open an expanded border trade terminal at Wagah, between the Pakistani city of Lahore and India's Amritsar.
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(AP) STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - The famed statue of Joe Paterno was taken down from outside the Penn State football stadium Sunday, eliminating a key piece of the iconography surrounding the once-sainted football coach accused of burying child sex abuse allegations against a retired assistant. Workers lifted the 7-foot-tall statue off its base and used a forklift to move it into Beaver Stadium as the 100 to 150 students watching chanted, "We are Penn State."
The statue, weighing more than 900 pounds, was built in 2001 in honor of Paterno's record-setting 324th Division 1 coaching victory and his "contributions to the university." A spokeswoman for the Paterno family didn't immediately return phone and email messages. Construction vehicles and police arrived shortly after dawn Sunday, barricading the street and sidewalks near the statue, erecting a chain-link fence then concealing the statue with a blue tarp. Penn State President Rod Erickson said he decided to have the statue removed and put into storage because it "has become a source of division and an obstacle to healing." "I believe that, were it to remain, the statue will be a recurring wound to the multitude of individuals across the nation and beyond who have been the victims of child abuse," Erickson said in a statement released at 7 a.m. Sunday.
Penn State students protect Paterno statue He said Paterno's name will remain on the campus library because it "symbolizes the substantial and lasting contributions to the academic life and educational excellence that the Paterno family has made to Penn State University." The statue's sculptor, Angelo Di Maria, said it was upsetting to hear that the statue had been taken down.
"It's like a whole part of me is coming down. It's just an incredibly emotional process," Di Maria said. The bronze sculpture has been a rallying point for students and alumni outraged over Paterno's firing four days after Sandusky's Nov. 5 arrest — and grief-stricken over the Hall of Fame coach's Jan. 22 death at age 85. But it turned into a target for critics after former FBI Director Louis Freeh alleged a cover-up by Paterno, ousted President Graham Spanier and two Penn State officials, Athletic Director Tim Curley and Vice President Gary Schultz. Their failure to report Sandusky to child-welfare authorities in 2001 allowed him to continue molesting boys, the report found. Paterno's family, along with attorneys for Spanier, Curley and Schultz, vehemently deny any suggestion they protected a pedophile. Curley and Schultz await trial on charges of failing to report child abuse and lying to a grand jury but maintain their innocence. Spanier hasn't been charged. Sandusky was convicted last month of 45 counts of sexual abuse of 10 boys. Some newspaper columnists and former Florida State coach Bobby Bowden have said the statue should be taken down, while a small plane pulled a banner over State College reading, "Take the statue down or we will." But Paterno still has plenty of fans, and Penn State's decision to remove the monument won't sit well with them. One student even vowed to "chain myself to that statue" if there was an attempt to remove it. University officials had called the issue a sensitive one in light of Paterno's enormous contributions to the school over a 61-year coaching career. The Paterno family is well-known in the community for philanthropic efforts, including the millions of dollars they've donated to the university to help build a library and fund endowments and scholarships. |
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NCAA President Mark Emmert will make the announcement Monday morning at 9 a.m. Eastern at the organization's headquarters in Indianapolis.
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The penalties come in the wake of the independent report by former FBI Director Louis Freeh that chronicled repeated efforts by four top Penn State officials, including former football coach Joe Paterno, to conceal allegations of serial child sex abuse by Sandusky over a 14-year period.
The NCAA had been awaiting the school's response to four key questions pertaining to the sex abuse scandal, including issues involving institutional control and ethics.
A multi-year bowl ban, lost scholarships, recruiting limits, probation and a multimillion-dollar fine all seem likely for the program Paterno built into a national power under the slogan of "success with honor." And the NCAA, heavily criticized for its sometimes-ponderous pace in deciding penalties as scandals mounted at Ohio State, Auburn, USC and elsewhere, acted with unprecedented swiftness in arriving at what it called "corrective and punitive" sanctions for a team that is trying to start over with a new coach and a new outlook.SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS:
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The NCAA announced no details Sunday in serving notice that it would indeed weigh in on perhaps the worst scandal in American college sports history.
President Mark Emmert cautioned last week that he had not ruled out the possibility of shutting down the football program altogether - the so-called death penalty, famously used against Southern Methodist a quarter-century ago - saying he had "never seen anything as egregious" as the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.
A harsh penalty from the NCAA could have repercussions well beyond Penn State's football program, which generates large profits - more than $50 million, according to the U.S. Department of Education - that subsidize dozens of other sports at the school.
The potential for a historic NCAA penalty also is worrisome for a region where the economy is built at least partially on the strength and popularity of the football program.
Kayla Weaver, a Penn State senior and member of the dance team called the Lionettes, said an NCAA death penalty would not only make football players transfer, but it also would force program changes for cheerleaders, dancers and band members, and would hurt season-ticket holders.
"It could ruin everything that we've built here," said Weaver, from Franklin Lakes, N.J.
Added Derek Leonard, a 31-year-old university construction project coordinator who grew up in the area: "It's going to kill our town."
Emmert put the Penn State matter on the fast track. Other cases that were strictly about violating the NCAA rulebook have dragged on for months and even years. There was no sign that the infractions committee so familiar to college sports fans was involved this time around as Emmert moved quickly, no doubt aided by the July 12 release of the report by former FBI director Louis Freeh and what it said about Paterno and the rest of the Penn State leadership.
The investigation focused partly on university officials' decision not to go to child-welfare authorities in 2001 after a coaching assistant told Paterno that he had seen Sandusky sexually abusing a boy in the locker room showers. Penn State officials already knew about a previous allegation against Sandusky by that time, from 1998.
The leaders, the report said, "repeatedly concealed critical facts relating to Sandusky's child abuse from authorities, the university's board of trustees, the Penn State community and the public at large."
Sandusky is awaiting sentencing after being convicted last month of sexually abusing 10 boys over 15 years.
Emmert had warned Penn State last fall that the NCAA would be examining the "exercise of institutional control" within the athletic department, and said it was clear that "deceitful and dishonest behavior" could be considered a violation of ethics rules. So, too, could a failure to exhibit moral values or adhere to ethics guidelines.
The Freeh report also said school had "decentralized and uneven" oversight of compliance issues - laws, regulations, policies and procedures - as required by the NCAA.
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Recent major scandals, such as improper payments to the family of Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush while he was at Southern California, and players at Ohio State trading memorabilia for cash and tattoos, have resulted in bowl bans and the loss of scholarships.
Current NCAA rules limit the so-called "death penalty" to colleges already on probation that commit another major violation. That was the case when SMU had its program suspended in the mid-80s, the last time the punishment was imposed on a major college football program.
NCAA leaders have indicated in recent months they are willing to return to harsher penalties for the worst offenses.
"This is completely different than an impermissible benefits scandal like (what) happened at SMU, or anything else we've dealt with. This is as systemic a cultural problem as it is a football problem. There have been people that said this wasn't a football scandal," Emmert told PBS recently.
"It was that but much more. And we'll have to figure out exactly what the right penalties are. I don't know that past precedent makes particularly good sense in this case because it's really an unprecedented problem," Emmert said.
Another question was whether Penn State - and, by extension, Paterno, major college football's winningest coach - would have any of his victories thrown out. Paterno won 409 games for the school in his 46 seasons as head coach.


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If she is found guilty and given the death penalty, why do tax payers have to fund her expenses to keep her alive until she is scheduled to be injected? Why can't Florida pass a law that says to terminate their live immediately after sentenced? Linda Dunnellon, Fla.
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