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What do an 81-year-old earning his MBA after a 53-year interruption, two undergraduates being honored for public service and a group of nine receiving their Master's of Fine Arts degree after a Katrina-imposed delay have in common?
They are all members of Tulane's class of 2008 and are among the more than 2,100 graduates who will be honored as Tulane hosts the 10th anniversary of its Unified Commencement May 17 at 9 a.m. in the Superdome. This year's commencement, the first Tulane commencement held in the Superdome since Katrina, is expected to draw more than 12,000 families, friends and members of the university community.
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I'm a grandmother and have had this recipe for over 30 years. Whenever company comes, it's a good excuse to make it, along with a green salad and my homemade hot rolls.
- 6 salmon steaks (1-inch thick and 6 ounces each)
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1-1/2 cups frozen pearl onions
- 3/4 cup frozen peas
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, cubed
- 3 tablespoons milk
- 1 teaspoon dill weed
- 1/2 cup dry bread crumbs
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1. Place the salmon steaks in a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish. Sprinkle with lemon juice and salt. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until fish flakes easily with a fork.
- 2. Meanwhile, in a saucepan, combine the onions, peas, cream cheese, milk and dill. Cook and stir over low heat until cheese is melted and sauce is heated through.
- 3. In a small skillet, saute bread crumbs in butter until lightly browned. Spoon the sauce over salmon steaks; sprinkle with toasted crumbs. Yield: 6 servings.
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Spring 2013 / Vol. 13, No. 2
After years of attention from educators but little measurable achievement growth, something more has to be done to address the instructional needs of Hispanic students. The opportunity gap between Hispanics and their more-advantaged peers is still too wide, and high-school graduation rates are still too low. What's more, demographic trends indicate that there is no time to waste: the Hispanic population is not only the nation's largest immigrant group, but has accounted for 56 percent of U.S. population growth in the past two decades. As a result, linguistic diversity is increasingly characteristic of today's classrooms. Unless educators design instruction to match the demographics of today's students, as the Hispanic population continues to grow and to grow up, so too will the number of students experiencing difficulties. With this knowledge, policymakers and practitioners alike are eager to determine how to bolster English-language literacy among the Hispanic population at scale.
Hispanic Students in Context
Focusing education reform plans more effectively requires an understanding of context, in this case, key characteristics of the Hispanic population and the schools they attend. For example, the majority of Hispanic students in today's classrooms are not "newcomers," enrolling as older children and adolescents, but instead are U.S.-born children of immigrants. These families often associate the U.S. with better opportunities and a better life for the next generation, based on education and schooling. They enroll their young children in early education and care settings and kindergarten classrooms and think favorably about the U.S. public education system (see "Reform Agenda Gains Strength," features, Winter 2013).
Yet, whether Hispanic children receive English-as-a-second-language support or not, many of them are performing well below average by middle-school entry. At the same time, Hispanic students in the U.S. are overwhelmingly growing up in poverty and attending high-minority schools, in which many of their peers are also at-risk for school failure. The 2011 8th-grade National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) shows that only 18 percent of Hispanic students and 14 percent of black students read at or above proficiency levels. These populations also post higher rates of grade retention and lower rates of high-school graduation than their majority-culture peers. In the U.S., Hispanic and black students are attending increasingly segregated and underresourced schools. According to a 2012 report by the Civil Rights Project, 80 percent of Hispanic students and 74 percent of black students are enrolled in economically and racially segregated schools. Classrooms in these schools provide them with fewer opportunities to learn than their peers from higher-income backgrounds enjoy.
How does this inform my perspective on educating Hispanic and black students? On the one hand, it's inappropriate to assume that similar performance patterns mean similar needs. There is no question that Spanish-speaking Hispanic students' language-learning needs are somewhat different than their monolingual peers, particularly in the early years. For example, while many black children begin developing English oral-language skills years before formal schooling, many Hispanic children must develop English language proficiency as they are simultaneously learning academic content. Thus, although both groups may post lower rates of school readiness, Hispanic children from Spanish-speaking homes face the additional challenge of learning the language of the classroom, making them especially vulnerable to poor academic outcomes. To be competitive in this global economy, this population requires reform efforts that reflect their complex language-learning needs and builds on their strengths. On the other hand, there is reason to believe that the approach to bolstering students' advanced literacy skills, and academic language skills in particular, need not be entirely different for different groups, particularly with increasing grade levels. This is especially the case when they are enrolled in the same schools in low-income neighborhoods, irrespective of language background or identification with a particular racial group. For example, a recent study conducted in urban middle schools found that there were more similarities than differences in the reading profiles of struggling students from non-English-speaking and English-speaking households, and that low academic vocabulary knowledge, a major component of advanced literacy skills, was a shared source of difficulty.
Seeking Advanced Literacy Skills
If we take seriously the ways in which literacy skills drive academic success, focusing immediate reform plans on bolstering these skills makes good sense, and that tack has been widespread. In this regard, current challenges to educating Hispanic students reflect a need we have recognized in public education for decades—not just to develop students' literacy skills, but to develop their advanced literacy skills. Recent research, however, has shifted our thinking: It's not reading per se that impedes Hispanic students' advanced literacy skill development; it's actually the language of print—in the newspaper, the textbook, the magazine article—that proves difficult and demands instructional emphasis. Our task, then, is to redesign our model for teaching literacy. We've gone about much literacy reform guided by the assumption that if we focus on the act of reading—putting the letters and sounds together to read words—then students will engage in deep comprehension. The flaws in this approach have proven particularly problematic for academically vulnerable populations, including many of our Hispanic students.
Why make this distinction between the act of reading and the language of print? Well, simply knowing how to read individual words is not enough to comprehend text. Students also need to understand the vocabulary used and the concepts the words describe. Otherwise, "reading" the printed page will not result in comprehension or learning. Schools have done a good job teaching most students the basic skills necessary to be proficient readers in the early grades, decoding and comprehending the conversational language that conveys ideas and topics in beginner books. Among those reaching this level of mastery are many Hispanic students and others who come from homes where the primary language is not English: they acquire early reading skills on par with their peers. Many of them surpass the "survival English" stage—they are conversant and comfortable speaking English—especially after many years in American schools. Still, with increasing grade levels, the language of print is beyond their reach; it is much less conversational and much more academic, making the texts far more difficult to comprehend.
The academic language of print is, at once, a gatekeeper and a gateway. When academic language is largely inaccessible, so too is the school curriculum; accessing the language, however, means having the opportunity to learn academic concepts and generate ideas and questions that contribute to academic conversations, and ultimately leads to school achievement. Beyond the language of the middle-school or high-school text, academic language is the language of the SAT, the college classroom, and the skilled labor force. It is a powerful tool for personal and professional success.
And yet we have never designed literacy instruction to support this language learning at scale. Instead, we've devoted most of our instructional resources and energy toward early literacy initiatives and supplemental interventions that have focused on reading print. In fact, without high-quality academic language learning and instruction, individual students' literacy growth is impossible.
Implications for Education Policy and Practice
The school leader's challenge, then, is to ensure that teachers have acquired the knowledge and the tools to create appropriate learning environments for student language development. This is especially the case in high-poverty settings with large numbers of Hispanic students. Today's teachers report feeling underprepared to meet students' language-learning needs effectively and typically have little to no training in how a student develops language. Professional development should outline strategies for integrating sophisticated, abstract vocabulary and language instruction into formal daily lessons, but also present ways to build language during informal interactions and thereby elevate overall language use in the classroom. In the end, unless a school, from the earliest grades to the latest, organizes around strengthening language and literacy for Hispanic students and all their classmates, we simply are never going to catch all of the students who may be struggling.
A larger challenge for policymakers and education leaders is to rethink the specialist model as the panacea for augmenting instruction for English language learners in today's linguistically diverse schools, many with large concentrations of Hispanic students. It is neither feasible nor effective to rely solely on a model that serves only those learners who qualify because they have the lowest levels of English proficiency and who receive supports often only for a brief period of time, either in a classroom designed expressly for them or in a small group setting at particular times during the week. Instead, the academic growth of the entire population depends upon strong and supportive language- and content-rich classrooms day after day and year after year. It is only with this kind of time-intensive, high-quality effort in all classrooms that we will be able to support all Hispanic students—whether designated as "English proficient" or not—to develop the advanced literacy skills needed for high-school graduation and well beyond.
For academically at-risk students who have been enrolled in U.S. schools since kindergarten and who have experienced educational opportunities that are basically similar in design and practice, research suggests that a classroom-wide, universal approach focused on building up academic vocabulary and conceptual knowledge would be appropriate. The past decade has seen a relative surge in research conducted in urban, underperforming schools focused on doing exactly this— providing students with deep, language- and content-based instruction, with a focus on teaching both specialized vocabulary and the specialized structures of language in academic speech and text. Besides testing effective approaches to meeting student needs, this research helps keep pace with the standards-based accountability movement. Indeed, today's Common Core standards mandate that instruction attend to the inherently complex challenge of building students' background knowledge and academic language.
What, exactly, does effective, quality academic language instruction look like? Most often, it is text—the medium that is challenging for these learners—that is the best platform, anchoring the work in rich content. The instruction also maintains a sustained focus on producing oral and written language, such as generating extended research projects or essays, and engaging in academic discussion. Such practices are largely absent from elementary and secondary classrooms. In these purposeful language-rich environments, students have access not only to texts, but also to collaborative experiences, such as labs, demonstrations, and debates, which promote academic conversation and knowledge building. And although such an approach is promising, as with any instructional reform strategy designed to bolster at-risk students' skills, the key in implementation will be accommodating differences, not only between linguistic and racial groups but also within them, while maintaining relentless attention to quality.
This article is part of a forum on how to best educate Hispanic students. For another take, please see "Emphasize Civic Responsibility and Good Citizenship," by Juan Rangel.
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Fantastic article
Nonie, I was so frustrated teaching mixed ability classes with boring resources, I created my own program – Jazzles ELA. It is 'pure' VAK learning styles -its strategies and resources comprehensively encompass all the key recommendations for 'Educating Hispanic Students' published by CREDE 2002. These include:
• Culturally-responsive teaching, cooperative learning (including utilization of context for meaning, use of nonverbal and verbal cues), instructional conversations (detailed in each lesson plan) and cognitively-guided instruction.
• Technology-enriched instruction including web-based images (now facilitated by Jazzles embedded web search).
• Digitized books for pronunciation,
• The roles of multimedia including 'creating a meaningful context for learning' as well as 'facilitating auditory skill development by integrating visual presentations with sound and animation'.
Jazzles excels in all these areas. It has been used very successfully in a San Antonio Headstart 95% Hispanic; teachers at the school can spot the kids exposed to Jazzles straight of because of their vocabulary and confidence! Kids have shed real tears for it!
Small edit: I should have said in last para 'Jazzles straight off because of their vocabulary and confidence' .
We have two theses that support the Jazzles 'Song Powered' methodology. In one kindergarten, 50% of students on free lunch, 40% of the class achieved year-end literacy outcomes in 12 weeks of the first semester. (2008)
Terrific article. Thanks for advocating for our under-represented students. I am a high school teacher at a low socio-economic school. I wrote my Master's Thesis on the gap that exists between high school and college and boiled it down to expectations in the classroom. I wrote a book for AVID (an education company) in 2007 and co-founded LiteracyTA in 2010. I am an advocate for all students and work in districts all over the country trying to improve those dismal numbers presented in this article. Keep up the good work. Let's change the trajectory of our students through explicit, skill-based instruction and high expectations. The formula for success: practice skills every day. Check out our blog and practical teaching resources at LiteracyTA.com.
I appreciated the fact that this article touched base on the importance of vocabulary with Hispanic students. Over the past few years I have noticed that many students that are reading fluently, but do not comprehend what they read, struggle with vocabulary knowledge. The students that fall in this category of learners could increase their reading comprehension scores tremendously if they actually knew what they were reading. I feel that parents and even some educators, think that a child must know what words mean if they are able to read them. This statement is false and highly misunderstood. When I receive a student that struggles with comprehension, their parents often say to me, "…but my child is a good reader and reads books every night." I have to explain to them that they may be able to read the words, but do not understand what the words mean. I feel that this pattern is very common within the Hispanic and English language learner populations. They are able to decode words quickly using the phonics they were taught, but do not have a clue what the word means. I encourage parents to stop on difficult words, such as broil, coop, etc., and ask their children what the word means. Additionally, I encourage the parents to use the newly learned vocabulary words in their own speech when speaking to their children to provide context rich vocabulary.
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Shiva Rodriguez is a professional practical effects and FX makeup artist who specializes in the horror genre. She has also worked as an art director, screenwriter, set designer, costume designer and prop builder. She has also worked in a wide range of mediums, including: film, theater, photography projects, exhibit work and haunted house horror attractions. She is shooting her first feature film in 2013, the werewolf film Predatory Moon…
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1. You have been doing make up and effects since 1988, starting with haunted houses then moving up to shorts, then films. In terms of time constraints and budgets, which of the three did you find the most rewarding and challenging?
I really can't choose a favorite between them because they all presented very different challenges. What really attracts me to any project is how challenging it is. With haunted houses, the trick is to come up with "quick scares" that take hardly any time at all to re-set and then hit the next group walking by with. Some were large-budget productions that went all out with elaborate costumes and makeups, and I usually was part of a team that designed characters or planned out the impacts for the maze. Others were produced by charity groups that just relied a lot on actors popping out of dark places and so the challenge there was trying to figure out how to scare the daylights out of people with no budget whatsoever. When I started doing effects for stage and live performances, I had to learn many of the same tricks that magicians use for their illusions. Everything had to be done flawlessly right there in front of an audience, which I think really helped me later on when I went into film and video work.
With film, having the luxury of post-production meant that I could worry less about designing a "one shot gag" and concentrate on the detail work. There I find the challenge to be in getting something to look exactly as it should and knowing that the audience will have a good look at it in closer detail.
2. In addition to being an FX artist, you have worn many other hats in the genre, including art director, screenwriter, set designer, costume designer, and prop builder. In conjunction with your FX work, can you give everyone reading an idea of how juggling all of these responsibilities affects your approach to a project, and other than FX, which of these you find to be the most difficult to accomplish?
I figured out pretty early on that in order to do the type of FX work that I wanted to do, I needed to know a lot about how to fabricate props and build costumes. I actually started out as a costume designer because I couldn't find an apprenticeship position for FX at the time. Even though I primarily work in FX now, it's not uncommon at all for me to have to build weapons or costumes as components for an effect.
Also, I have some training as an interior decorator and picked up a lot of set designing skills while working in theatre, so I put that to use when I'm working on projects that need a hand in the art department. Most projects I work on only need me to run FX for a couple days, and I'm usually happy to lend a hand elsewhere on the production if my schedule permits.
I think that almost everyone who works in entertainment eventually comes up with an idea for a screenplay (or dozens of them, for that matter.) I just jot down notes whenever my muse hits me and work on spec scripts in my free time. I also find screenwriting to be the most difficult, simply because you have to take so much into consideration… Who are the characters? Is the plot tight? Do you really need that scene? The hardest thing about it is to having to "kill what you love" while re-writing.
3. You cover three very different aspects of horror fx. Can you explain the differences between Practical FX, "Splatter" FX, Special FX Makeup and Prosthetic Makeup in your films and who your biggest influences are in the fx community?
Practical FX are pretty general, as they can be anything from adding rain outside a window to stabbing someone with a chainsaw as long as they are done without the aid of computer-generated images. (A lot of FX in larger films nowadays are a blend of practical and CGI). It often requires fabricating special props, puppets, or mechanical rigs for the illusion.
"Splatter" FX is just how I describe blood, gore, and messy effects, like splattering brains on a wall after a gunshot hit or dripping blood out of a knife wound. It sounds like it would be easy, but I have dozens of different blood formulas and devices that I use to get just the right blood effect that a director looks for.
Special FX Makeup and Prosthetic Makeups are three-dimensional makeups. Prosthetics are pieces that are glued on to the actor and give the appearance of distorted features, like pixie ears or alien foreheads. Other special effects makeups include making scars and wounds, changing skin texture, adding age or decay to a character, and things like that. It's really not uncommon for a job to require applications of all three types. For example, running someone through with a chainsaw might involve building the practical weapon gag, fitting the victim with a prosthetic built up around the gag, and then pumping blood through the wound during filming.
My biggest influence for FX has always been Tom Savini. His work in Friday the Thirteenth was what really got me interested in creating horror and casualty illusions for film.
4. You are getting ready to direct Predatory Moon, a feature length werewolf film. As this is your feature film debut as a director, you have chosen a topic that will incorperate heavy fx for the make-up. You are also serving as the writer and director of the film. What led you to pick such a heavy fx creature for your first film, and how do you feel the challenges of heavy fx and directing are going expand your talents in the genre?
I'd written Predatory Moon because I always wanted to do a werewolf transformation. They are notoriously complicated and time-consuming, so I consider that to be the mother of all challenges for myself. I had also assumed that someone else would be directing it. However, when the producing team asked me to consider directing it myself because I had so much experience working with actors in heavy effects scenes, I really couldn't argue with that logic. I knew that it will be almost impossible for me to direct and do the FX work on set at the same time, and I have been joking about having the crew set up a monitor for me under a table while I'm operating the FX rigs.
Instead, we scheduled a long pre-production period so that I have the time to build all the creatures and FX gags and then train a team to operate them while we are filming. We're not going to shoot the transformation scene until several weeks after the bulk of principle photography so that I'll be able to put my full attention on the most complicated FX sequence in the film.
5. While reading the Spotlight on Mel Heflin on the Predatory Moon website, you state "The one female role that I thought I'd have the hardest time filling was the one that required a wide acting range, nudity, and heavy FX makeup. I can't tell you how excited I was when Mel Heflin came onboard this project!" Many female actors and directors that I have worked with or interviewed have had various opinions about nudity and violence towards women in genre films ranging from acceptable to demeaning. What are your views on these topics, and being a female director, how do you see these elements of our genre progressing in the future?
Generally I don't have a problem with sex or nudity if film as long as it looks like it belongs in the story. I've seen a lot of films where it looked like it was only in there as cheap thrills for the audience. I mean, is absolutely necessary for the babysitter to take off her clothes and dance in front of a mirror after putting the kids to bed? In Predatory Moon, nudity is used in realistic situations that move the story forward.
I also think that the fans have come to expect a degree of sex or nudity as being part of the traditional formula in genre films. Regardless of any personal opinions a director has, sex sells in show business and they do have to look at film-making as a business if they want to be successful. In regard to violence, I think that a lot of horror films have been going more equal-opportunity with victims instead of just focusing on carving up scantly-clad girls like many of the slasher films in the 80s did. We've been seeing more female villains too, and they can be just as sadistic as the men.
6. In January, you are having a casting call in Florida for Predatory Moon. You mention on your site that you have done casting work before and do not envy the task. But with this being your first feature film and wanting to bring your artistic vision to the screen, what are you looking for in terms of your actors and actresses and how much freedom are you going to allow in terms of improve?
Above anything else, I'm looking for people who have made a strong commitment to their acting careers and understand that it involves a lot of hard work and sacrifice. Both my parents, my husband, and many of my friends were actors, so I have a deeply-rooted understanding that an actor will often spend a lot of time and money working on one production to another and never make it past having a bit part in a studio blockbuster. At the same time, it's hard to name many movie stars who didn't get their start by working hard on low-budget film, television, or theatrical productions. It's very important for me to have a cast that trusts that I will do everything I can to make this film successful, and that I trust that they will do likewise.
I'm not a very big fan of improv on the set simply because I've put in some time in the editing room. In fact, earlier this year I was working on a production where the lead actor was improvising his way through scenes very differently on each take, and all I could think about was how much the editor would be tearing his hair out over that in post while trying to match up dialog and action with different camera angles. However, I also believe that actors should be allowed to contribute to developing their characters, and sometimes that includes having to change dialog. I plan to spend a lot of time working with the actors on their characters before we start shooting. Of course, I can't dismiss the possibility that something that happens off the cuff while on set might do wonders for the film, so I probably won't be too much of a stickler about it.
7. One of the more amusing and unique things on the Predatory Moon site is Blood Drive campaign. Jeremy Westrate, your assistant director, talks about killing off different horror monsters everytime you guys meet a milestone on your Indiego site. I found it to be a refreshingly entertaining way to stir up interest and raise funds for the project. How did you come up with this concept and how well has it been received by fans and the crew?
The idea for the Blood Drive came to me one afternoon while I was working on some FX props. We were about to start our Indiegogo campaign and had already been warned that most crowd-funding campaigns really slow down at the halfway mark of their run time. I'd been trying to think of a way to keep people interested at the mid-point, then looked down at my work and thought: Hey, let's just kill someone every time we meet a milestone. At the time there were only about eight of us on crew, so I pitched the idea to everyone and we decided to go ahead and do it. As an added bonus, we used filming the Blood Drive as being a way to "test drive" some more people who were interested in joining our crew. We ended up having eighteen people out in the middle of nowhere for fourteen hours shooting a series of six slaughter-for-dollars videos. Everyone had a lot of fun and we learned that we all worked amazingly well together on an incredibly difficult shoot.
Unfortunately, while most people I've talked to agree that it was a really creative way to try to keep the donations coming in during the slow period of the campaign, it didn't succeed with actually increasing donations. However, it did attract even more attention to the production as word spread around horror blogs and various social circles about our little publicity stunt.
8. On your site, you state that you have acquired a deep understanding as to why "We'll fix it in post" is not a good motto. Does that mean you are not a big fan of digital fx and prefer practical make-up for what you do and what are your thoughts on film makers becoming more content with doing things digitally?
My statement had much more to do with my experience with film-makers who let continuity problems slide and just assume that everything can be magically fixed in post. I've seen some FX people who get sloppy with their work (let blood tubes peek out from behind actors, not double-check if a blood splatter pattern matches from scene-to-scene, etc…) and they don't believe that it presents a big headache in editing. I think that there are some film-makers who are getting more dependent on digital effects to fix problems rather than taking the time to prevent problems while shooting. I can usually tell when CGI was planned and when it was thrown in to cover up a mistake.
As far as CGI vs. Practical in FX work, I really think that it a matter of aesthetics as to how well it works for a film. In superhero and sci-fi movies, I expect to see things that are more "unworldly" and good CGI application does just that. However, in films that have a more rugged and realistic feel to them, I think practical effects look much better. One of my favorite films, The Devil's Rejects, also has one of my favorite examples of how I think a CGI effect can ruin a mood. Throughout the entire film there is a very dirty and gritty feel to the characters and locations, which I thought was done incredibly well. You could practically smell the roadkill. But then in one scene a woman gets a knife to the chest that was done digitally, and it looks too neat, clean, and out-of-character for the general aesthetic of the movie. (I found out later that it was done digitally to save time on the set, which I think was a really bad choice in an otherwise great movie.)
9. You have a "Howl-Out" section on the Predatory Moon site thanking fans and others that have contributed to the funding of the film. How do you feel this has helped the marketing and funding of the film, and do you feel that more directors and producers will be doing this to thank the fans on the genre?
We just felt that it was common courtesy to thank someone for helping out the production. We also do Howl-Outs on our Twitter and Facebook feeds to thank our contributors, and we've seen that a lot of people enjoy being recognized in that way. Of course, some of our supporters do choose to remain anonymous and we respect their wishes as well.
I've contributed to other film campaigns before and some were very quick to thank me while I never heard so much as a peep from others. Obviously I am more inclined to support more projects from people who expressed their appreciation for their fans. I'd like to think that more producers and directors will take this approach, and I understand that many do keep in touch with their fans by using Twitter and Facebook pages.
10. While I see that you have worn many different hats with the various projects that you have worked on, I noticed that one in particular is not listed. Do you have any aspirations to act in any films, and if not, why?
Actually, I have appeared in a couple films. I was dragged kicking and screaming in front of the camera and told that it was absolutely necessary to have me there. I did do some stage acting up through my 20s, but I really just never developed the desire to be a professional actor. I always tell people that I don't want to be the person on the stage, I want to be the bloke in the mask behind the scenes that drops the chandelier on her!
11. While digital has become the format of choice for most low to micro budget indie films due to ease of editing and cost, what format are you planning to shoot Predatory Moon in, and if given the choice (taking budget out of the equation) which format would you shoot in and do you prefer?
We are shooting digital for Predatory Moon. Given the advancement in the technology with digital, I have to trust my DP when he tells me that there is no excuse for going back to celluloid except for wanting to spend a lot of money. I think that any money is better spent in adding production value with the art departments rather than the bragging rights to whatever type of camera you're filming with. I've seen really bad films shot on RED ONE cameras and really extraordinary films shot on home camcorders. And I think we can all agree that there have been some real stinkers shot on celluloid too.
12. As an FX artist, what are your thoughts on horror films becoming more "gore for gore's sake" and do you think that with the modern horror film that this becoming more and more the norm, or are we going to start seeing more story since violence is taking the center stage in our society since the recent rash of shootings in our country?
Some of my favorite horror movies are "torture porn" films that have a good story behind them. The Saw series amazed me because it kept my attention all the way through seven films with an interesting plot and a very complex villain. I loved Hostel II for its originality with a behind-the curtain story, great characters, and fun plot twists. At the same time, I just grow bored with films that feature a killer with the personality of a turnip graphically hacking his way through victims that might as well be delivered to him on a conveyor belt. A few years ago I saw a movie which I'm fairly certain was just three people performing the same torture session repeatedly with the victim being switched out every ten minutes or so.
I think that the trends will come and go in the genre, and you'll always have those die-hard fans of the sub-genres that a few film-makers will cater to. Right now you can't throw a stone without hitting a "Paranormal Whatever" film, but movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D are still being made too. People who go for the gore aren't going to stop watching movies just because terrible things happen in real life.
13. In addition to Indiego, how do you feel that social media has impacted our genre in terms of promoting and making films?
Honestly, a project like Predatory Moon would not have been possible to get into production on its tiny budget were it not for social media, and I think that holds true for a lot of other micro-budget projects as well. Having the ability to easily find and network with other film-makers, both local and distant, is priceless. Many of our supporters wouldn't have ever heard about the project had it not been mentioned on horror blogs or posted on Facebook and Twitter by other fans. I frequently hear from people who learned about Predatory Moon via social media and offer to contribute their services and resources toward getting the film made.
14. You are working on your directorial debut, but in the future, what would be your dream project and who else in the industry would you like to work with?
This may be a little surprising, but my dream project is actually to produce the very first feature-length screenplay I ever wrote (which took me about eight years of researching to complete.) It's a dramatic biography about the Paris executioner during the French Revolution that did fairly well in contests and has been my "signature script" for years. I'd need at least forty million dollars to produce on the low end. I think that someone like Johnny Depp would be interested in working on it.
15. What advice would you give to up and coming FX artist and directors looking to break into the industry today?
As a director, I would say that the respect of your cast and crew is one of your most valuable assets when working on a film. Film is a collaborative medium and while being the director generally puts you "in charge", it's very important to remember that the people working with you are all playing a necessary part in the production as well and often have experience in areas that you don't. I tell everyone who asks me for advice about getting into FX work is that it is really 10% know-how and 90% making things up as you go along.
I have a blog (http://shivarodriguez.blogspot.com) where I post essays about my experiences as an FX artist and offer advice for beginners so they can avoid making some pretty common (and sometimes pretty painful) mistakes.


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March 7, 2012
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Damier Pitts scored all 16 of his points in the second half to help Marshall defeat SMU 74-56 Wednesday in the first round of the Conference USA tournament.
The sixth-seeded Thundering Herd (19-12) led 33-26 after DeAndre Kane scored 11 of his 18 points in the first half. But Marshall went scoreless for the first 4:29 of the second half as the 11th-seeded Mustangs (13-19) tied it 33-33 on a Jeremiah Samarrippas jumper with 16:09 left.
A jumper by Pitts ended the drought, and Shaquille Johnson scored seven points during an 11-2 run that gave the Thundering Herd a 44-35 lead with 10:48 remaining.
Rodney Clinkscales led SMU with a season-high 17 points. Robert Nyakundi, whose 42.5-percent 3-point shooting led the conference, made just 2 of 10 - and the Mustangs 6 of 24 - from long range.
Johnson added 15 points and Dennis Tinnon had 15 rebounds for Marshall, which will play third-seeded Tulsa in the quarterfinals Thursday.
Marshall 74 vs. SMU 56
SMU Mustangs (13-19), Marshall Thundering Herd (19-12)
March 7, 2012
Conference USA Tournament - First Round
FedEx Forum
Memphis, Tenn.
Set a new SMU record for scoring defense 60.1 (previous record 61.3 in 2010-11)
Held opponents to 30.8 3FG% on the season (2nd at SMU)
SMU made 6 3FG, finishes with 248 for the season (2nd at SMU)
SMU finishes with 221 steals on the season (10th at SMU)
SMU had a season-high 6 blocked shots
Rodney Clinkscales
- Scored a season- and C-USA Tournament-high 17 points
- Scored 10+ points for 3rd consecutive game
- Made 2 3FG
- Finishes career with 87 3FG (16th at SMU)
- Finishes career shooting 39.2% on 3FG (6th at SMU)
- Grabbed 3 rebounds
- Added 2 steals and a block
Robert Nyakundi
- Scored 10 points
- Finishes with 1353 career points (15th at SMU)
- Scored 10+ points for 25th time this season
- Made 2 3FG
- Finishes with 267 career 3FG (2nd at SMU)
- Had 84 this season (t-2nd at SMU)
- Grabbed 8 rebounds
- Added 2 assists and a steal
- Played in 123rd career game (now t-3rd at SMU)
Jalen Jones
- Scored 11 points
- Was 5-6 on FT
- Finished with 142 FT attempts this season (2nd at SMU by a freshman)
- Grabbed 5 rebounds
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Just thinking back a few years of a few tandems that I wish I never sold off to move on to newer and greater bikes.
My first great tandem was a 1988 Ritchey Skyliner, I purchased it in 1989 from the shop owner in San Francisco. I was new to tandem's in 1989, my main bike shop I went to back in the day was Sharp Bicycles in Richmond Ca. The lead mechanic had worked for Santana and had built his own tandem in the mid 80's. I did road test his tandem in the parking lot with my brother, and this thing felt like a wet noodle, I couldn't make this thing go straight with both of us cranking down. I talked to the bike shop in the city, me and my brother drove across the Bay Bridge to the city from Oakland. The bike shop owner let us take the Ritchey Skyliner out for a ride, wow, I thought, this bike cranks, no flex what so ever! Yes, $2500. and it was mine, all 18 speeds.
I rode it with my brother a few times, then with another friend. This guy was a hammer head, on steep climbs (off road), his head would push into my back. We did the Redwood Park loop one evening and he wanted to go out again because he thought we could be faster. We went out again and on our way back corning on a fast gravely trail, he was way off the bars in a lean, but the front end went out (good old Ritchey 1.9 tires). We got up, my riding gear shredded and I had much trail rash, his shoulder is hurt and is hanging slightly down. We needed to walk back to the truck. He ended up with a broken shoulder and I with a nasty trail rash on my thigh and butt. The next weekend, I did a ride called Hills To Bills, from Berkeley to Hayward with my brother as the stoker. I had a hard time at first pedaling as the scabs on my thigh/but were breaking open with every pedal stroke. We did finish the ride, we were the only tandem but still did not get any trophy. Oh well, it is sill a great memory.
The other tandem that I wished I never sold was a custom made by Mikkelsen in Alameda. I found this frame from a local bike shop in Castro Valley in 1997. It had a cool metal flake orange paint job and had decals on the bottom tube which looked like widows of an airplane with animated faces in them. I purchased it and built it up. I called down to Cambria Bike Shop and talked to Red on what type of suspension fork would work on a tandem. He recommended the Control Tech Lawell leader fork. I did what he recommended and I was amazed on how this fork did not flex with a 300 lb team. Yes, you would get a whoosh, whoosh noise from the fork when both riders were out of the saddle, but, it never bottomed and never flexed on or off the road when pushed hard.
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Pride in Gillespie country schools, but dismay at federal initerventions
By Mark Wieser, founder of Fischer & Wieser— This past Saturday, I drove out to the five country schools that were open. At four of them I found a friendly host, hostess or group of former students happy to share their stories of their schools. I could have stayed at each forever listening to their stories and marveling at what it might have been like to have had the privilege to attend one of these schools.
However at the last, Junction School, there were no former students, only two park employees who obviously could not express the same kind of appreciation for the heritage that the Junction school had offered. In the background was an everlasting recording of LBJ touting the signing the Elementary and Secondary Education (ESEA) of 1965.
ESEA was then the first of liberal politicians' efforts for throwing money at schools in a false belief that more money leads to smarter kids. Sadly, today our students rank 36th among the world's nations.
To hide the dismal results from the American people, the College Board supervising Median SAT scores simply "reentered" (lowered) them in 1994 so it would appear as if more were making suitable strides. Since 1964, scores had declined steadily and had become increasingly embarrassing to government officials. In 1980, the College Board simply lowered expectations.
Education had once been the responsibility of state and local school districts. Until 1965, the federal role in education was very limited. Today, the government is trying to increase its role even more so, despite declining results.
The next great stride forward is designed as Common Core. It is just another in an endless series of steps toward removing local control over what our children are being taught.
In 2004, 40 years after LBJ's signed ESEA, a report titled, "Ready of Not: Creating a High School Diploma That Counts," found that both employers and colleges were demanding more of high school graduates than in the past. In other words, those graduating were not as well educated as their parents had been.
Why are our kids learning less? Perhaps the answer …
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Castle Spoiler: Will 3XK Return at the End of Season 5?
At the end of Castle Season 5, Episode 5: "Probable Cause," (which re-airs tonight), we see uber-bad guy Jerry Tyson, aka 3XK, shot off of a bridge and fall to his watery death. But his body was never found, which led Castle to believe that Tyson was still alive and waiting to make his grand reappearance. So, will the Triple Killer make one more return?
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Andrew Marlowe definitely teased that the crafty killer may or may not pop back on the Castle scene.
"You didn't see a body?" he told reporters. "Yeah, I didn't see a body either." That sneaky ol' Andrew. He's so good at keeping us in the dark. Even during Wetpaint Entertainment's exclusive interview with the creator/producer, he gave a cheeky response about the possibility of 3XK's return:
"Let's just say I haven't ruled it out," he told Wetpaint. "But he may be dead. Castle may have killed him. I don't know."
It seems like the only thing we're certain about is the uncertainty of the Triple Killer making a return to the show. While we suspect that 3XK will come back for one final maniacal scare, we'll just have to wait to see what Andrew decides.
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A story about identical twins, in early twenties, hoping to leave the
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similarity ends here. Intercut between the parallel stories of the
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The 37-year-old arrives at the British outfit following a stint as head coach for the Australian Olympic team at the London Games in the summer.
Stephens leaves his posts as head coach and programme manager at the Australian Institute of Sport and Triathlon Australia and will now work alongside Sky's head of performance Tim Kerrison.
"I believe it is (Team Sky boss) Dave Brailsford's vision of introducing a diversity of skill sets into Team Sky, and ultimately the cycling staff and riders' embracement of new training and competition strategies, that has given Team Sky a competitive advantage over other teams," Stephens said.
"I'm looking forward to contributing to the team and bringing in new ideas through my sport science and coaching knowledge of triathlon."
Brailsford said: "Shaun's appointment continues Team Sky's commitment to assembling the very best coaching and support staff in the world, without being afraid to look beyond the arena of cycling.
"It is incredibly exciting to be bringing fresh expertise into the sport, and further reinforces this team's desire to break new ground in the field of performance.
"The team has taken tremendous strides since the appointment of Tim Kerrison, who came from swimming, and we hope that with Shaun on board we can maintain our position as the world's number one cycling team."
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Jaguar Therapeutics and SportFit are excited to announce the merger of both companies. Dr. Chris Herrera (Founder/CEO of Jaguar Therapeutics) and Lisa Kearns (Founder/CEO of Sportfit) have been colleagues for over 10 years, both establishing, operating, and growing their respective outpatient clinics to be leaders in physical therapy in the South Florida community. Together they will be using their experience in orthopedics, sports therapy, and manual treatment techniques to offer the most comprehensive outpatient services in Miami.
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Jun 13 – 16, 2013The 2nd annual Fiddlers Picnic | Macedon, NY |Presented By State Wide Music
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Carey Lake (MAP)959 Penfield Road (Rte 441)Macedon, NYUS 14502
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3 days and nights of live music on 3 stages, overnight tent and RV camping, arts & crafts vendors, food vendors, a kids activity area, art & soul village, fire spinners, songs around the campfire, and more!
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Pretty deer dude ! Looks like the bucks were on the move up there . Congrats !
Thanks we didn't see a lot of deer but the ones we did see were good deer
Hey this is Byron Great picks really enjoyed hunting with you look forward to going back have a great rest of the deer season
Wow awesome trip! Did all those bucks come off Bobs farm?
Byron it was great hunting with you guys also and give me a call if you would like to come catch some trout and reds or if you want some crabs
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Oct 26, 2012 - Utah Snow
We left Declo around 10:30 on Wednesday with sunny skies. Our concern was to get through Snowville without hitting snow with the colder weather. But we did fine - it was dry roads the entire way but with snow in the surrounding mountains. Our original plan was to just do an overnighter at a Sandy, Utah Walmart but with temps dropping below freezing we thought it might be wise to have hookups. So we made reservations at Mountain Shadows RV Park just a few miles further south. It was full but she said she could get us into a 'curbside' spot...Jump to full entry
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Jun 22, 2011 - Draper, UT - Mountain Shadows RV Park
Our trip from Moab to Draper, UT was 258 miles of interesting scenery. We started by taking Utah 128 Scenic Byway which parallels the Colorado River East of Moab for about 40 miles. The scenery was great but our pictures are limited due to us looking into the sun a good bit of the trip. We then got on I-70 for about 40 miles, heading West, before getting off on US 6 and cut the corner, going up and over to I-15 at Provo. We filled the Mothership at Provo to the tune of $300 for 75 gallons of diesel and then arrived in Draper which is about...Jump to full entry
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Sep 27, 2010 - Day 75 - Idaho Falls, ID to Draper, UT
Today we left Idaho Falls after enjoying Yellowstone. Need to come back when I can walk and go places. Down past Blackfoot, Chubbuck, Pocatello, and Malad in Idaho, and Riverside, Garland, Tremonton, Honeyville, Bear River City, and Brigham City in Utah. As we approached and passed Ogden, it seemed llike the city never ended as we went south on I-15. Odgen, Layton, North Salt Lake, Salt Lake, South Salt Lake and Sandy City, among others, seemed like one big city. The only differentiation was the city signs. Draper was on the south side of...Jump to full entry
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Jun 16, 2010 - Walnut Canyon and Wupatki, Ar.
Hello to all! We are very sad that this will probably be our last day of explorations. We head to Walnut Canyon National Monument, 7mi E. of Flagstaff. The Sinagua Indians (pronounced: See-Know-Wa) inhabited this canyon ~ 1180AD and for 400 yrs cultivated the land and built their homes in the cliffs. The trail here actually allowed you to hike right along the ridge past the dwellings, down 240 steps. It was very cool. We ran into the couple that had asked Peg at Canyon De Chilley if she was training for a marathon. Then we headed N. to...Jump to full entry
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Jun 11, 2010 - Route 66 to Albuquerque (pop. 500,000)
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No need to adjust your computer screen – you're at the right place. As you may have noticed, we have updated the appearance of the blog to give it a little facelift based on feedback we received from the blog survey we conducted this past January.
The appearance updates are minor, but we hope they will make the blog a little more user friendly for our readers. As part of the makeover process we have simplified archived blog posts and moved popular links to the top of the page to make them more accessible.
The Ancestry.com blog look may have changed, but the content remains the same. We will continue to post updates around new additions – our product, content, features and other services – as we develop them, and you will hear from the people who create and develop these products and site features for Ancestry.com.
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The only real, non-cosmetic, difference that I notice about this blog is the way that comments have been "hidden." Previously, I could see the number of comments on each post from the blog's main page. Now, you must open each post individually to see the number of comments and then click again to actually read comments.
I would think that – from recent blog comments – you would have picked up on the fact that your users don't like when your updates create extra clicks. It seems to me that you are trying to hide blog comments, which tend to be negative.
I like the look but agree with Valerie's comment on the placement, etc. of the comments.
Heather, I agree with Valerie–way too many clicks to get to what I could see right away before. I often went to the main blog page to see the number of comments on each blog and then know if there were any that I had not seen yet. Now I have to click, click, click.
Also, just to get to the comments on a blog from the home page, an extra click.
The only thing that seems to be an improvement is that the comment box has been moved and so on Firefox at least, it doesn't seem to slide around and make it difficult to submit a comment.
Yep- I could tell at a glance if there were any new entries to each article but now…. *sigh*
They could easily put the number of comments right after the "Read More" link (and the end of the article).
I very much like the new look and feel. I very much like the links on the right hand side of the page.
But I very much miss seeing the number of comments before opening the blog. That's the way I was able to tell very quickly which threads had new comments and which threads did not. It's therefore going to take much longer to read the blog now than it used to.
As already stated above. Another implementation failure.
The problem isn't that your changes rarely please everyone; the problem is that the first roll out of any changes rarely please hardly anyone (except maybe those who initated the changes to begin with).
A subtle, but telling, difference. 😉
I like the placement of the box for adding comments and it's nice having the date when comments will be closed.
I also like the placement of the Ancestry links and the choice of links, I think that will be helpful to newcomers.
However, like the others, I want to quickly & easily see the number of comments, which tells me two things…if there are comments I haven't read yet and if a topic is generating a lot of interest.
PS: I think comments should be expanded by default.
Even when trying to reduce use of the mouse, it takes 5 tabs and pressing the Enter key to expand the comments.
1) Agree with the comments about the "comments"…was nice to see # of comments from the "home" page.
2) That being said…I do like the "stream-lined" appearance of the blog…more business like than the "cutesy" mode Ancestry keeps applying to all of its features…would be nice if you continued to "tighten" the look of your other features (like your search pages).
3) Love the placement of the comment area and LOVE the placement of the "looking for help" and the reference to your Message Boards.
What is it with Ancestry and making people click more to do the same thing. First they messed up the trees and now they are getting their hands on the blogs. What have you got planned next?
All we are asking for is that you make things more user freindly and stop slowing our ability to do anything down to a crawl. I have nothing against you giving things a face lift but please consider how it will affect the user first.
Once again, I feel that Ancestry is just changing things for the sake of change. Are you trying to justify your jobs? I agree with all the others – now we have to work at seeing the number of comments.
Not sure why a change BUT it looks good. The real estate is now wider and the comments also which makes them easier to read and scan. Just wish the New Search hit list results were wider as they take up more down page space than old search.
PS where is RSS feed for comments?
I like the changes. Thanks for listening. Having the "Comment" box at the end of the thread is much better than before (reading all the way to the bottom then having to scroll back up to the top to make comments.)
OK, another voice on the number of clicks (TOO MANY) to get to the comment area and the number of comments doesn't show without more clicks. I agree with others on this. I monitor the number of comments to particular blogs. Well….I used to!
I'm really begining to believe you are making it more time consuming to do anything to get us to stay on Ancestry longer, therefore keep our subscriptions longer. Are you doing anything to keep the site faster? I don't think so.
The "widescreen" look is ok and the slider bar in the comment area is nice. But didn't we have more archives, or am I having another senior moment?
I'm fully aware of the fact that most any change will make some people happy while making others unhappy. But in this case, I don't think the happy/unhappy index is very balanced. I think that close to 100% of your users will be happy with the cleaner, crisper, tighter look and feel of the blog interface. And I think that 100% of your users will be unhappy with the great difficulty in seeing the number of posts for each blog entry. Beyond the actual number of posts, it's also now much harder to determine which blog entries are still open and which have been closed.
oh you guys cause more frustration
couldn't post my comment at all earlier today
LOL thanks for trying
what the heck then when i post my comment all the comments disappear and i go up to the top of the blog where i have to click to see the comments. can't i just stay here and press refresh to see new comments as they come along.
gee do your programmers even us the programs the try to "enhance"
I welcome the appearance of the "Ancestry Knowledge Base" but will the "lost-and-confused" ever manage to find it? Perhaps an article on the blog on how to use it might help?
Too bad you eliminated the listing of Blog Poster. Since sometimes statements about policies and plans are useful, but post-categories (did you remoeve one or two?) are sometimes counter-intuitive, being able to search by name of the Ancestry.com poster was sometimes helpful.
I agree completely.
Thanks for the blog, keeping us in the loop, and allowing us to comment for possible improvements. I'm a big fan of extra navigation options on the sidebars and not a big fan of removing functionality.
Dang, this reply isn't dramatic enough. Maybe I'll add a *sigh*.
Nice look and feel…so far so good…but (there's always a but)…
How 'bout a link at the bottom of "comments" to take me back to where I was when I first opted to expand the article and read the comments in the first place?
I know I'm repeating what I've already said and what many others have already said. But please, please, please restore the ability to see the number of comments to each blog at a glance. This problem is not a minor deficiency in the new blog format. It really is a major problem.
This not a "some like the change and some don't" issue. This also is not a "some users will object to any change" issue. 100% of your users want and need this ability to see the number of comments to be restored, even if they like all the other changes. As nice as the new blog is in many ways, and as much of an improvement as it is in many ways, it would still be better to go back to the old blog if you can't keep the number of comments at the forefront of the new blog.
I fully agree.
Maybe what is needed is a revised Table of Contents where the first page of the Blog only shows the Article Title, date posted, initiating Blogger's name, and number of comments.
Something like:
Article 1 Title here Date posted here
Initiating Blogger here Commets number here
Article Title 2 here Date posted here
Initiating Blogger here Commets number here
Article Title 3 here Date posted here
Initiating Blogger here Commets number here
Article Title 4 here Date posted here
Initiating Blogger here Commets number here
That way one could click on the article title to read it or if one has already read it to click on the comments to see the latest comments, or click on the initiating Bloggers name to see their profile.
That would save a LOT of clicking.
Heather, Jerry, et al,
Since we can't do attachments here I put a proposed layout here:
The thread is titled New Blog Layout.
Comments welcomed
I'm a few days behind reading the blog…all I can say is "ditto to comments 1-17" (at least). I like having the number of comments visible for all the reasons previously mentioned….and way too many clicks….sigh. Would it really be so hard to put out some "feelers" on the blog to ask users' opinions about proposed changes before they're implemented to the dismay of 90% or more of Ancestry subscribers/blog readers?
I do not like the way you changed everything!!!! It actually liked it the way you had it this changed it this last changed. Just when I get it figured out it changes.I HATE going to other peoples information and doinig all the clicking back and forth.I just get sick of it. I did enjoy it before. Why was it changed? PLEASE do something, change it back if you can't make it better.DO SOMETHING REALLY SOON!!!!


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