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Honey bee queens are easily identified by their much longer abdomens. Queens spend their days laying eggs while being fed and tended by workers.
Honey bees hold a unique place in the insect world. They are one of only a few insects man has domesticated, and they are bred and raised as livestock throughout the world. The honey and wax they produce has been prized by humans for thousands of years and honey bees provide critical pollination for many food crops. These are valuable insects that enhance our lives. Commercial beekeepers derive their livelihood by farming this miniature livestock, and even if you do not keep bees, eat honey or use beeswax candles, many of the fruits and vegetables you eat are more readily available and less expensive because of honey bee pollination.
Honey bees are not native to North America; they were brought here by European settlers to provide honey and beeswax. As settlers moved west they carried honey bees with them, and many of these bees escaped along the way to establish feral colonies in hollow trees throughout the country. But feral honey bee colonies are not nearly as common as they once were, and neither are domestic colonies. According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service, the number of commercial bee hives in the U.S. peaked at 5.9 million in 1947; today there are less than 2.5 million.
If you have paid attention to the news media over the past few years, you probably know honey bees are having problems. One of the most widely publicized is a phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder, or CCD. This problem, which causes entire colonies of bees to die suddenly and mysteriously, was first recognized in the U.S. in 2006. But CCD is just one of a series of new problems to affect U.S. honey bees over the last 30 years.
Like all livestock, honey bees are subject to a wide variety of health problems. Many of these health problems are diseases, but honey bees are also affected by parasitic mites, exposure to insecticides, other insects that invade the hive, and even other honey bees. Keeping colonies healthy and vigorous is one of the most effective proactive treatments for many of these problems, but with so many new problems this is more difficult and more costly for beekeepers to do.
Male honey bees, called drones, are larger and stockier than workers and have bigger eyes. Drones do not collect nectar and pollen or perform tasks within the hive.
Many people are surprised to learn insects get sick, but they do, and honey bees are no exception. There are many diseases that are specific to honey bees. These include diseases caused by bacteria, fungi and viruses. Some of these diseases affect the brood, or immature stages, while others affect adult bees. Historically, the most serious brood disease is a bacterial disease known as American foulbrood. Infected larvae die in their cells and worker bees spread the disease as they routinely clean cells and feed larvae. Back in the 1960s when quarantining and destroying infected colonies was the standard method of treating American foulbrood (it still is in some states), I had to burn several of my own colonies because of this disease.
There are several other less serious, but still debilitating, brood diseases, including European foulbrood, sacbrood and chalkbrood. Nosema diseases affect adult honey bees. Nosema apis is an "old" disease that afflicts bees that are winter bound inside the hive for too long, causing dysentery and gradually weakening the colony. Nosema ceranae is a relatively new and more serious problem that can cause infected colonies to die out quickly.
Honey bees are also affected by many viruses. With the exception of N. ceranae and some of the viruses, most of the problems mentioned so far have plagued U.S. beekeepers for hundreds of years and both bees and beekeepers are somewhat used to coping with these problems. Many of the problems we are about to discuss are relatively new to the U.S. beekeeping industry, and, in some cases, the best ways of dealing with these problems are still being worked out.
During the 1980s two species of parasitic mites entered the US, causing serious problems for the beekeeping industry and destroying most of the feral honey bee colonies that had become so common through much of the country. Tracheal mites attack adult bees by crawling inside their trachea or breathing tubes and sucking blood through the tracheal wall. For humans, this would be similar to having ticks feeding on the insides of the nostrils. Varroa mites are much larger than tracheal mites and attack developing bee larvae and pupae, as well as adult bees, by sucking blood through the body wall, earning them the nickname "vampire mites." This is debilitating enough, but varroa mites also spread a viral disease that causes adult bees to have deformed wings. Either of these mites can cause a colony to die out and beekeepers must now spend considerable money and effort to protect their colonies from these pests.
This frame of brood shows some of the things you will see inside a healthy honey bee hive: adult worker bees, capped brood, containing pupating worker bees (center of frame), open cells with white larvae curled in the bottom, open cells containing newly laid eggs, a band of capped honey (along the top of the frame) and capped drone brood (lower corners of the frame).
One of the dilemmas of beekeeping is that honey bees are needed to pollinate certain crops, yet those same crops are attacked by insect pests that sometimes have to be controlled with insecticides. Honey bees also forage on a large number of crops that do not require bee pollination, and foraging workers will fly several miles from the hive. If insecticides are applied when honey bees are foraging in a crop, large numbers of workers can be killed. Beekeepers are familiar with this problem and work to minimize the risk by carefully choosing where, and where not, to place their bee yards and by moving or confining their bees when insecticide applications are scheduled for a crop they are pollinating. Farmers can help by notifying beekeepers before applying insecticides and by scheduling applications late in the day after most bees have ceased foraging.
Although the impact of agricultural insecticides on honey bees is a controversial subject, this may be one of the few honey bee problems that has declined over the past few decades. This is because many of the older broad-spectrum insecticides that are acutely toxic to honey bees have been replaced by products that are more pest specific and less acutely toxic to bees and other non-target organisms. However, there are questions about the potential chronic effects of some of these newer insecticides on honey bees and research continues in this area. The wide-spread use of transgenic (genetically modified) crops, which produce their own internal control of certain key insect pests, has benefited honey bees by reducing the number of foliar insecticide sprays required on many crops. Transgenic crops also are not without controversy – "If these plants produce their own insecticide how does it affect honey bees?" This question must be carefully researched and answered before a transgenic crop is approved. Results of extensive and ongoing research have shown no adverse effects from the transgenic crops currently in use.
Africanized Honey Bees
African honey bees are a subspecies of honey bee that is native to Africa; "European honey bees" refers to several subspecies of honey bees that are native to Europe. There are several key behavioral differences between African honey bees and European honey bees, the most important being that they are much more aggressive and attack with less provocation and in larger numbers. This behavior has earned them the name "killer bees" because their massive attacks sometimes result in human fatalities.
In the 1950s, a few African honey bee queens escaped from a bee breeding program in Brazil and began to interbreed with commercial and feral European honey bees. These "Africanized honey bees" spread through South America, moved into Mexico, and entered the U.S. in 1990. Today, feral colonies of Africanized honey bees are established in all the Southwestern states, as well as in portions of Louisiana, Arkansas, Florida and Georgia, and they continue to slowly spread into the remainder of the Southeast. In addition to interbreeding with European honey bees, Africanized bees will also invade and take over weakened colonies of European bees.
Despite decades of interbreeding with European honey bees, Africanized honey bees still retain their aggressive behavior. Because of the increased potential for mass stinging attacks, gardeners and the general public need to be much more cautious around colonies and swarms of feral bees once Africanized bees arrive in an area. Your state's department of agriculture and local county extension offices can provide more information about Africanized honey bees and the steps and precautions to take when suspected colonies are encountered. Commercial beekeepers can prevent apiaries from being taken over by Africanized bees by regularly re-queening with purebred queens produced in areas where Africanized bees do not occur.
A solid frame of freshly capped honey is a beautiful sight that represents thousands of "bee hours" of work.
Wax Moths and Small Hive Beetles
Honey bees also have to contend with other insects that will invade their hives and steal the fruits of their labor. Wax moths are age- old enemies that cause millions of dollars of damage to the U.S. bee industry each year by damaging combs and equipment. The moths invade the hive and lay eggs and the caterpillars tunnel through the comb, producing large amounts of silken webbing. Weakened colonies or stored combs are most likely to be attacked; healthy vigorous colonies are usually able to defend themselves against wax moths.
Small hive beetles invaded the U.S. around 1996 and have since spread throughout the country. Adults and larvae crawl over the combs feeding on honey and pollen and contaminating honey and causing it to spoil. They also feed on immature bees, and heavy infestations can cause bees to abandon a hive. As with wax moths, small weakened colonies are most susceptible, but small hive beetles sometimes invade healthy colonies and beekeepers are still working out the best way to control this pest, which now exceeds wax moths in importance.
Colony Collapse Disorder
In 2006, commercial beekeepers began to notice large numbers of hives in which most of the adult bees had suddenly disappeared, leaving the queen and immature brood to die in the hive. Dead adult bees are not found either inside or around the outside of affected hives – they are just gone. This is a serious problem with some beekeepers suffering the loss of more than half their colonies to this phenomenon. Greatest losses occur through the winter and into early spring. Beekeepers normally lose around one of every six colonies to winter mortality, but approximately one third of all honey bee colonies were lost in each of the first two winters after this new problem was recognized, and U.S. honey bees continue to suffer high mortality from this mysterious malady.
This problem is called colony collapse disorder (CCD), and the beekeeping industry is devoting large amounts of time and resources into determining the cause of CCD. So far no single agent has been identified as "the cause" and CCD is currently considered to be a syndrome caused by several contributing factors. Many potential factors have been investigated and many, such as cell phones and transgenic crops, have been largely dismissed as being involved. Some of the factors that continue to be investigated include: varroa mites; a virus disease known as Israeli acute paralysis virus; and Nosema ceranae, a relatively new disease of adult bees. Insecticides have not been exonerated as playing a role in CCD, but despite extensive research, they have not been definitively implicated either. Progress is being made, but honey bee researchers are still working frantically to understand just what causes this serious problem and how to stop it from killing U.S. honey bee colonies.
As you can see, it is not easy being a honey bee; there are so many potential problems that can affect the hive. Some are serious problems that can kill a colony quickly. Others are more minor problems that can weaken a colony and make it more susceptible to other diseases or pests, resulting in a lingering decline. This spring, when you notice a honey bee working some of the flowers in your garden, take a minute to consider and appreciate the benefits she and her sister bees provide, despite the problems they face.
A version of this article appeared in a February 2011 print edition of State-by-State Gardening.
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We have a color class with values r, g, b and a.
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For about a week it occurs that System Services created in Automator suddenly refuse to work.
It happens on all Services, system-wide, i.e.:
- Open in Marked in Byword
- Create Symlink in Finder
- Subscribe To Comment Feed in Chrome
I'm not able to reproduce it, the only solution right now is to restart my Mac. System Services will work for a certain time and suddenly they will stop working again.
It also doesn't depend on the trigger. Via menu, via shortcut or via iCal, everything fails.
No output in Console.App.
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Vastly entertaining and outright hilarious, Paul Murray's debut heralds the arrival of a major new Irish talent. His protagonist is endearing and wildly witty-part P. G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster, with a cantankerous dash of A Confederacy of Dunces' Ignatius J. Reilly thrown in. With its rollicking plot and colorful characters, An Evening of Long Goodbyes is a delightful and erudite comedy of epic proportions. Charles Hythloday observes the world from the comfortable confines of Amaurot, his family estate, and doesn't much care for what he sees. He prefers the black-and-white sanctum of classic cinema-especially anything starring the beautiful Gene Tierney-to the roiling and rumbling of twenty-first-century Dublin. At twenty-four, Charles aims to resurrect the lost lifestyle of the aristocratic country gentleman-contemplative walks, an ever-replenished drink, and afternoons filled with canapEs as prepared by the Bosnian housekeeper, Mrs. P. But Charles's cozy existence is about to face a serious shake-up. His sister, Bel, an aspiring actress and hopeless romantic, has brought to Amaurot her most recent-and to Charles's mind, most ill-advised-boyfriend. Frank is hulking and round, and resembles nothing so much as a large dresser, probably a Swedish one. He bets on greyhounds and talks endlessly of brawls and pubs in an accent that brings tears to Charles's eyes. And, most suspiciously, his entrance into the Hythlodays' lives just happens to coincide with the disappearance of an ever-increasing number of household antiques and baubles. Soon, Charles and Bel discover that missing heirlooms are the least of their worries; they are simply not as rich as they have always believed. With the family fortune teetering in the balance, Charles must do something he swore he would never do: get a job. Booted into the mean streets of Dublin, he is as unprepared for real life as Frank would be for a cotillion. And it turns out that real life is a tad unprepared for Charles, as well.
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I believe one of the important perks or benefits with an Internet program, is that you need to get access to diet and exercise info.
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– If you have never ever joined an online weight loss program in the past, you might be wondering a little bit more about how they work.
– For beginners, it is possible to find free online weight loss programs.
– You will likely find that the best ones do have a paid membership cost.
– A few of the many member advantages that you may get, when joining an online weight loss program, are described below.
If you are interested in losing weight, or a quick diet, you may have thought about signing up with a neighborhood program.
Whether you have a heap of obligations, a family to take care of, or both, you might discover it difficult to meet up with a local group on a routine schedule.
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As formerly mentioned, many times the only difference between a neighborhood run effective and an online program is the fact that you do not get to meet with the group leaders or other group members personally.
Previously I discussed how to experience healthy fat loss without paying a fortune for a program.
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As a reminder, it is necessary to remember that not all web programs are the exact same.
Despite the possibility of a variance, you must discover that a lot of online reduction programs are more than worth your cash, especially if you regularly discover yourself pressed for time.
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That is why many web-based weight reduction programs have a healthy consuming section.
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Vena Cava Fall 2010: Rooted in Woodstock, with Live Music, to Boot
>> Vena Cava was the first of three shows today (the others being Rachel Comey and Erin Wasson + RVCA) to boast live music. Ear plugs were left on every seat, as The Like was situated front and center on the runway.
In the show notes, Lisa Mayock and Sophie Buhai explained that after a long weekend in a house in Woodstock, they immersed themselves in the '70s craft movement and "designed a collection for the Vena Cava woman to wear in her cabin upstate: pieces that read more minimal, American, '70s tinged, and somewhat classic." Stylist Kate Young helped Buhai and Mayock translate those ideas onto the runway with raccoon tails pinned to dresses and streaks of purple, green, and pink through the models' hair. The designers are known for their hand-drawn prints, but there were noticeably less this season — only appearing on the sleeve of a top or two.


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Thursday, April 22, 2010
UBI Summer School – Zach Shelby
From Zach's blog
"I will be teaching an IP-Based WSN workshop at the 1st International UBI Summer School held May 31st-June 4th in Oulu, Finland. The deadline has just been extended to April 30th – so still time to sign up! This summer school is highly recommended for those doing MSc or Phd work related to ubiquitous networks and computing, and consists of 6 top-notch workshops. There are still a few seats left in my workshop and three others.
This summer school kicks off the UBI Challenge which encourages design, implementation and deployment of novel ubiquitous applications on the city of Oulu's outstanding display and sensor network infrastructure. This will include a city wide deployment of 6LoWPAN 2.4 GHz and Sub-GHz access points!
http://www.ubioulu.fi/en/UBI-challenge "
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Derby Dames rock!
According to Hot Legs Hoologan, a member of the Atlanta Rollergirls, this is the attraction of women's roller derby: "It's one of the few opportunities for women to be physically aggressive and test themselves against other women in a way besides just competing over looks or guys." For us guys, it's one of the few opportunities we have to watch women on wheels knock each other down! (See video at left.)
On November 14, about 20 Charlottesville women answered the call, showing up at the Charlottesville Armory on Avon Street Extended to learn the rules of roller derby and get physical at the Charlottesville Derby Dames' first practice. According to Derby Dames organizer Anna Perron, the practice went better than expected. In fact, another is scheduled for November 28, and there will be one every Wednesday, 7-10pm (except for the day after Christmas), until the end of the year.
"It was great. Skaters from the River City Rollergirls (see video) came from Richmond to show us a few things, and a lot of people are making plans for the next practice," says Perron.
Apparently, roller derby has made a comeback in recent years, and leagues across the country have been popping up. In addition to the Derby Dames, founded in February, Virginia has at least six established leagues, including the Dominion Derby Girls (Tidewater), the River City Rollergirls and Richmond Derby Demons (Richmond), Star City Rollergirls (Roanoke), and DC Rollergirls (Washington, DC).
Since the old banked tracks are hard to come by and maintain, most "jams" are held on flat tracks, and instead of the staged fights of yesteryear (Æ? la WWF), the new game is more like hockey, with girls slamming into each other for the lead and refs keeping things fair. Still, Perron says flashy outfits and a rock n' roll style are encouraged, as are names like "Pistol in Pantyhose" and "Pretty Skate Machine."
All women over 19 are welcome, says Perron. They should just bring skates, pads, and helmets to the Charlottesville Armory, 1640 Avon Street Ext., on Wednesday at 7pm. Info at myspace.com/cvillerollerderby.com or at firstname.lastname@example.com. Medical insurance is strongly recommended.


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During my marriage we lived on 5 aches on Southern Michigan...almost on the Ohio line. We too had all the various creatures you mentioned along with our own chicken, ducks, geese, MANY barn cats, 2 border collies, a horse, cow, pigs, rabbits, and many goats. Our 1/4 acre garden was my pride and joy...full of delicious vegetables. We also had 14 apple trees, 2 each of pear, peach, and plum trees, raspberry patch and strawberry bed and a huge asparagus patch. The 5 acres were put to good use...lol. my husband did put his foot down when I wanted to plow the front yard and plant wheat...lol
That was the happiest time of my life. Even through the fall with the canning, butchering, and storage for the winter.....lol
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Congressman Perriello loses his father
"It is with great sadness that Rep. Tom Perriello announced the death of his beloved father, Dr. Vito Perriello, Jr. on March 2..." Thus begins a somber press release from the office of Virginia's Fifth District Congressman. The late Perriello was a pediatrician who had recently retired, co-wrote a letter about the campaign, but suffered two strokes last week, the first on February 22.
Dr. Perriello, 68, tended to generations of local families for almost 40 years.
"I appreciate the hundreds of supportive calls and notes during this devastating week, and most of all your prayers for my family," says Rep. Perriello, who was home with his father last week. "My father's legendary integrity and sense of service will be missed not just by our family and but also by our entire community. I hope to spend decades trying to match his ceaseless lived commitment to our common humanity. Please keep my mother Linda, his loving wife of over 43 years, in your prayers."
Dan Heuchert remembers going as a kid to see Dr. Perriello at Pediatric Associates. When he returned to Charlottesville as an adult, that's where he took his own children.
"It had to be interesting for Tom when he first started [running for office], because more people knew his father," says Heuchert. "He treated a whole generation."
The Perriello family will receive visitors at St. Thomas Aquinas from 7 to 9pm Wednesday, March 4, and a service will be held there at 1pm Thursday, March 5.
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Sorry to hear about your loss.
I just learned of Dr. Perriello's passing and am so sorry. Linda, Paige, and Tom are all in my family's thoughts and prayers. Dr. Perriello will be greatly missed. He has made such a difference in our lives. He has been in our lives since the early seventies and cared for three generations of my family.
Melissa Crawford, Jordan Crawford, Albany Crawford, and Kaiden Bryant
Dear Family,
I am SO sad about losing such a dear man. He is one of the greatest of all ~~ looked after all 3 of my kids as babies as well as up until they were in their 20's!!! "Dr. P" will be missed by EVERYONE in the Charlottesville community -- my prayers are with you.


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JoshuaMcKenty needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 183 designs submitted by 49 freelance designers.
Piston is a cloud company, providing the products and services that make cloud computing usable. We're built on the OpenStack foundation - an open source platform for cloud providers and end users.
We're an engineering-driven organization - our founders came from NASA and Rackspace - and simply "good enough" never is. We're delivering on the dream of cloud computing - many others are still just dreaming.
Piston takes the hot air of Cloud Computing, and turns an engine of change.
Our customers are the CIOs and IT Managers of the Global 2000. They've got million-dollar problems in billion-dollar businesses, and no time for fluff.
We need a logo, a version one identity, that helps customers and partners understand where we are in this space.
Logo needs to do all the typical logo-ish things: look recognizable at a small size (think favicon), and impressive at a large size (think: sign on building); stand nicely with or without the name;
DO: Play with color
DON'T: Bake the domain name into it (as it may change).
DO: Draw inspiration from steam engines, hot air balloons, model airplanes, the openstack logo itself, etc.
DON'T: Use cats, dogs, or horses.
As a simple concept, a single piston (with crankshaft) sprouting out of a cloud (drawn as the traditional internet symbol) is certainly workable.
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
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Happy Monday everyone! It's nice to wake up to sunshine today as we had a very rainy and gloomy Sunday. It made for a productive day, but we are definitely kind of stir crazy after being inside for an entire day!
We have spent the last few days trying to get our little lady to take a bottle/sippy cup. We are leaving on a trip in less than a month, so she better get used to it! Don't you love the expression on her face? She's definitely not so sure she likes it. It's going to be a work in progress...
Saturday was the one year anniversary party for the Bar Method Studio in Leawood. They had a girl doing braids and buns after class. My hair really isn't long enough for a cool braid, so she did a full, low bun. I love it; wish I could do this to my own hair!
Oh and we officially have a sitter! She is getting bigger right before my eyes...I can hardly believe she is 7 months already!
I also am trying out some new reds. This is Mac's Ruby Woo, which gets rave reviews. It was definitely brighter than I am used to but I liked the vibrant shade. I haven't pulled the trigger yet, I need to revisit Nars Jungle Red one more time before I make my decision.
It was about 75 degrees on Friday night, and my husband and I enjoyed a date night on the Plaza. We had a Groupon to a classic K.C. Steakhouse called Plaza III. I wore this Forever 21 top (purchased in April), J.Brand jeans and my favorite new J.Brand jeans from Saks Of 5th.
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Babies often cry a lot in the early weeks and some babies cry a lot more than others.
Crying is the main way babies have of letting us know when they need help, but it is not always easy to work out why a baby is crying.
Some babies cry for 2 hours or more each day and this can be normal for them. For many babies the time that they cry often gets longer until they are around 6 – 8 weeks old, then gets less by the time they are around 3 months old.
It is hard to be with a crying baby.
Many babies cry a lot in the late afternoon and evening. This is sometimes called colic. No reason has been found why babies cry like this. There is more about this in the topic 'Colic in babies'.
Some babies seem to be in pain due to reflux. There is more about this in the topic 'Reflux'.
Many times when young babies cry no reason can be found.
If your baby is crying, she needs you to go to her, and care for her. You cannot spoil a baby by doing this. In the early months a baby needs to learn that her world is a safe place to be in, and that she can trust her carers to meet her needs. It seems that when you comfort a young baby she may cry less when she is older.
As you get to know your baby you will find it easier to work out when she wants a feed or a cuddle or needs to be settled to sleep.
Sometimes you will check to see if something is upsetting her, and you will find nothing wrong and that nothing helps her calm down. All you can do it sit and hold her and help her learn how to cope with her distress.
It is very hard to always be patient with your baby, especially if she cries a lot.
You may find yourself feeling frustrated, angry, helpless and distressed. These feelings are real and cannot just be ignored. Just because you love your baby doesn't mean you have to like her behaviour all the time.
It can be very hard when nothing seems to help. Shaking a baby can cause brain damage. Have a look at the topic 'Never shake a baby'.
It is important to look after yourself when you have a young baby who depends on you. Take up offers of help and get some regular breaks when you can. See our topic 'New mums' for more ideas.
If things are really getting you down so you are finding it hard to enjoy your baby at all, or you are often tearful or feeling depressed, it is important to talk it over with your doctor, a child health nurse or a counsellor.
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In other Australian states there are also telephone help lines. These are listed on this page: http://www.cyh.com/SubContent.aspx?p=102
Raising Children Networkhttp://raisingchildren.net.au/
Women's and Children's Health Network (SA Health)
The information on this site should not be used as an alternative to professional care. If you have a particular problem, see a doctor, or ring the Parent Helpline on 1300 364 100 (local call cost from anywhere in South Australia).
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I have a 2007 Black MacBook running the latest version of Mac OS X Lion. It has a strange issue wherein the Airport shuts down if the fan starts blowing, and will not start up without a reboot.
Any ideas as to what would be causing this? All sorts of things can make the fan start, but the screensaver and iTunes visualizer are major culprits. It sometimes even does it when I have too many programs open for an extended period of time.
Does anyone have any ideas as to the cause of this? If so, what would be a good solution?


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byoung needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 90 designs submitted by 38 freelance designers.
Elegant, Modern, professional logo and business card required for our new site selling Costa Rica Investment Properties.
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Looking for a logo for our new company, Tropical Investment Group. We came up with the idea of a palm tree forming the 'T' in "Tropical" (this was an idea, but it may not work).
The logo should have an light elegant business look and feel. We are selling investment properties in southern Costa Rica so we want to create a logo that creates a sense of trust and security.
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Review: Door in the Floor
Adapted by writer-director Tod Williams from John Irving's novel A Widow for One Year, Door on the Floor is a smutty, bargain-basement version of In the Bedroom. Acclaimed novelist Ted Cole (Jeff Bridges) and his wife Marion (Kim Basinger, under the assumption that her comatose, one-note expression is an approximation of cataclysmic grief) are still suffering the deaths of their teenage sons, both immortalized via a shrine of photographs lining the rooms and upstairs hallway of their New York house. When the shy but nonetheless presumptuous Eddie (Jon Foster) comes to town for the summer in order to work for Ted, he's instantly smitten by the frigid but apparently available Marion. (Guess he must have caught a double-bill of 8 Mile and 9½ Weeks at the same multiplex that plays King of Mean Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things in the film.)
Marion begins and ends conversations abruptly, so much so that when she mutters to her young stallion, "I think it was wrong of us to both have Ruth," you may think she's talking about how they both had their way with her young daughter (an unnerving Elle Fanning—the spitting image of older sister Dakota), who gawks at her dead brothers' memento moris as if she were trying to unlock the myth of fingerprints represented by the film's title. Actually, she's talking about Ted and herself, and by "have" she means "push into the world"—not that it's entirely too far-fetched to recognize something sleazier beneath every line in the film. For example: "Your penis is funny," says little Ruth to her father as he gets out of bed in order to help her find "the sound of someone trying not to make a sound." Is it a mouse, the heavy-handed metaphor of the film's title, or both they're after? Stay tuned.
Ted is obviously bohemian (he showers outside, in the nude and in the company of strangers), but so is the misogynistic wind, which nearly blows the clothes off Evelyn (a degraded Mimi Rogers) at the exact same moment Eddie loses Marion's equally aged coochie. No door in this nasty little film is ever locked (Eddie is caught masturbating, not once but twice, and Ruth catches Eddie fucking her mother doggy-style), but don't confuse the apparent dearth of locks in the house as a link to the film's title, a reference to a story written by Ted about a mother who's too afraid to look into a horrifying hole where countless children have disappeared. And by "hole" I think the filmmakers mean to link the pussy in Khia's "My Neck, My Back"—Ted's favorite song (dude, this guy is so hip!), which inexplicably plays unedited on a local radio station—and the place where Maurice Sendak's wild things are.
Door in the Floor is supposed to chronicle the effects a family tragedy has on a boy's coming-of-age, but Williams isn't so much concerned with the actual hurt that cripples the Coles as he is with the sight of a catatonic Basinger riding a teenager's cock, ostensibly because the vagina is some kind of emancipating device. By the time Marion goes incognito, the smuttiness of the story gives way to a spectacle of squeamish comedy before Williams decides to finally (and fully) unspool the film's metaphoric title. Door on the Floor's cloying literary affectedness is matched only by its deadening literal-mindedness. Williams means to string his audience along to the very last shot, a simple but startling image for sure, but one that hardly illuminates anything besides the rather rudimentary notion that life sucks. And by suck I mean "disappoints," not "to draw into the mouth by movements of the tongue and lips that create suction"—not that anyone in this film can tell the difference between the two.
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Kim Basinger, Elle Fanning, Jon Foster, Bijou Phillips, Mimi Rogers, John Rothman, Harvey Loomis, Louis Arcella Director: Tod Williams Screenwriter: Tod Williams Distributor: Focus Features Running Time: 111 min Rating: R Year: 2004 Buy: Video, Soundtrack
Review: The Turning's Horror Elements Add Up More to Insult Than Ambiguity
It casts its source as a delusional fantasy through which to enact the effects of possible traumas that go completely unexplored.1.5
The cultivation of ambiguity has long been integral to the successful horror narrative. The oppressiveness of our fears is always somehow diminished following the explication of their source, and nowhere is this more true than in the subgenre of psychological horror, reliant as these stories are on our ability to trust the perspective of a particular protagonist. We see the world only through their eyes, and therefore we must decide what to believe is true about what has otherwise been presented to us as reality.
Henry James's 1898 novella "The Turn of the Screw," previously adapted in 1961 by Jack Clayton as The Innocents and revisited now by Floria Sigismondi as The Turning, is a ghost story that revels in a sense of doubt on behalf of its audience. The novella tells the story of a young and inexperienced governess called upon to care for two children named Flora and Miles, following the death of their parents, in a sprawling mansion called Bly that may or may not be haunted. This is a straightforward premise that offers sinister delights because of our bearing witness to its narrator's slippage—either into delusion, or into a world where the dead actually walk among us as spectral presences aiming to possess the innocent.
The Turning's camera often tracks and frames its subjects in purposeful, often striking shots that manage to convey the bigness and intricacy of Bly without sacrificing intimacy with the characters. And the production design is steeped firmly in the tradition of haunted house films, every room and mantelpiece creepily cluttered with dolls and mannequins, gothic mirrors in every corner threatening to expose unseen inhabitants of dark and dusty rooms. The walls along Bly's claustrophobic and seemingly endless hallways close in on the governess, Kate (Mackenzie Davis), like a vice. Sigismondi brings to the screen a lush and stylish perspective to her material, an attention to detail cultivated in her photography and music video work. And as Flora and Miles, the haunted children who Kate has come to educate and oversee, Brooklynn Prince and Finn Wolfhard deliver sophisticated performances that delicately suggest the inner turmoil of children who have been faced too soon with death.
There's a pivotal moment around the middle of The Turning where Kate receives a package containing a sheaf of menacing paintings created by her mentally ill mother (Joely Richardson), delivered from the hospital where Kate visited her before leaving for her new post at Bly. The mansion's stern housekeeper, Mrs. Grose (Barbara Marten), already skeptical of Kate's merits, has clearly rifled through the artwork and taken note of its sender. Before leaving Kate to examine the paintings alone, Mrs. Grose archly raises aloud the question of whether Kate might have inherited any of her mother's supposed madness, and this kernel of suspicion regarding the veracity of Kate's observations about the house and its inhabitants unfortunately serves as conspicuous foreshadowing to the film's careless conclusion.
In her book of essays The Collected Schizophrenias, which lays bare the experience of mental illness and the various stigmas associated with its diagnosis in contemporary culture, Esmé Weijun Wang writes, "Schizophrenia and its ilk are not seen by society as conditions that coexist with the potential for being high-functioning, and are therefore terrifying." And it's no wonder that the horror genre has plumbed the narrative possibilities of instability so completely, presenting countless protagonists over the years whose relative grip on reality provides a story with necessary tension. But the best of these examples use the destabilization provided by a possibly mentally ill character to make broader connections, speaking often, for example, to the subjugation of women in a patriarchal society, such as with the "madwoman in the attic" trope explored by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in "The Yellow Wallpaper."
Here, though, without any evidence aside from genetics to suggest the possibility of Kate's cognitive disintegration, The Turning casts its source narrative—the psychosexual haunting of the house by a deceased former governess and valet who had once watched over the children—as a delusional fantasy through which to enact the effects of possible traumas that go completely unexplored. The film's abrupt ending succeeds only at undercutting and cheapening everything that came before, dressing a vague yet potentially resonant paranoia about sexual violence and male predation as a simple case of undiagnosed mental illness, with no hint at all of the origins of these particular points of stress in its protagonist's psyche. This kind of ambiguity—not about whether or not Kate has gone mad, but rather about why it actually matters—is a cop out rather than a display of control.
Cast: Mackenzie Davis, Finn Wolfhard, Brooklynn Prince, Barbara Marten Director: Floria Sigismondi Screenwriter: Chad Hayes, Carey W. Hayes Distributor: Universal Pictures Running Time: 93 min Rating: PG-13 Year: 2020
Oscar 2020 Winner Predictions: Animated Short
Another year, another reminder to take our prediction in this category with a grain of salt.
Another year, another reminder to take our prediction in this category with a grain of salt. Since 2002, when we first started predicting the Oscar winners, we've guessed correctly in this category only eight times, and five of those were in the aughts, when one or more Disney shorts consistently lost to considerably more outré productions. It was a long dry spell for the studio between For the Birds taking the prize in 2002 and Paperman doing so in 2012. Disney now perseveres more times than not, which is why we're given pause by the fact that, even though this is only the third time since 2002 that the studio doesn't have a film in the lineup, two nominees here could be described as "Disney-adjacent."
One of those, Matthew A. Cherry and Karen Rupert Toliver's charming and poignant Hair Love, had us busting out the hashtags (#OscarsSoWhite, #EverythingIsSoWhite, #WhiteWhiteWhiteIsTheColorOfOurCarpet), wondering if the guilt that AMPAS has about its diversity problems may be a victory-securing source of momentum. That Issa Rae, who saltily congratulated the men in the best director category when she announced this year's Oscar nominees alongside John Cho, provides the voice for this short about a black father who learns to style his daughter's hair in the absence of the girl's mother feels as if it can only help.
At the same time, each day since the Oscar nominations were announced last week seems to bring one of those dreaded articles in which some anonymous academy member is asked about their picks ahead of deadline, and Michael Musto's recent chat with one such voter has us convinced more than ever that guilt isn't the average academy member's chief motivator. Besides, Hair Love faces stiff competition from another Disney-ish, hit-'em-in-the-feels candidate, Kitbull, which concerns the unlikely kinship that forms between a cat and a dog. It certainly tugged at our heartstrings, and in spite of the short's bug-eyed cat at times alternately, and distractingly, reminding us of a mouse and an inkblot.
Perhaps inevitably, we found ourselves drawn to the more outré nominees. Siqi Song's beautifully textured Sister doesn't lack for memorable images, but my favorite is the one where the brother at the center of the short pulls on his giant baby sister's outie-cum-Silly-String-umbilical-cord until the child shrinks down to size. This is an at once idiosyncratic and somber meditation on China's one-child policy, but it left one of us wondering, in the wake of Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang's One Child Nation being snubbed this year by the academy, if it would resonate with enough voters, and two of us certain that a sizeable portion of the academy's more liberal members would take more than just the "I had fingerprints four weeks after conception" bit as something akin to a big pro-life billboard.
Remember this old Sesame Street bit? Eric sure did while watching Daughter, a striking rumination about the emotional distance between a father and daughter. Daria Kashcheeva's expressionistic use of stop motion is haunting, even if the short, amid so much abstraction, doesn't always evoke believable people. More approachable is Memorable, where the very nature of what can be believed and remembered is the governing principle. All the way until its stunning finale, Bruno Collet and Jean-François Le Corre's confluence of styles (there are shades here of the "psychorealism" that won Chris Landreth an Oscar in 2005 for Ryan) is in profound conversation with the idea of dementia as a destructuring agent. We're no strangers to wrongly betting on our favorite short persevering on Oscar night, but Disney consistently loses in years where it has more than one film gunning for this award, so we're betting that the two Disney-ish shorts will split the vote and pave the way for a Memorable victory.
Will Win: Memorable
Could Win: Hair Love
Should Win: Memorable
Review: The Last Full Measure Trades Institutional Critique for Hero Worship
The film largely evades any perspectives that might question the institutions that put our soldiers in harm's way.1.5
Speaking about the time when Air Force pararescue medic William "Pits" Pitsenbarger descended from a helicopter to aid wounded soldiers trapped in an ambush during the Battle of Xa Cam My, a former soldier, Kepper (John Savage), says, "I thought I saw an angel. There he was right in front of me, all clean and pressed." Pits's courageous actions during one of the Vietnam War's bloodiest battles, where he saved nearly 60 lives and perished after refusing to board the last chopper out of the area so he could continue helping out on the ground, are certainly deserving of the Medal of Honor that he was denied for over 30 years. But writer-director Todd Robinson's hagiographic The Last Full Measure is frustratingly limited in its scope, stubbornly fixating on the heroism of one man and the grateful yet tortured men he saved while largely evading any perspectives that might question the institutions that needlessly put those soldiers in harm's way in the first place.
Following Scott Huffman (Sebastian Stan), an up-and-coming Pentagon staffer assigned to investigate a Congressional Medal of Honor request for Pits three decades after his death, The Last Full Measure takes on the point of view of an indifferent outsider who doesn't understand the value of awarding a posthumous medal. Unsurprisingly, as Scott travels the country to meet with several of the soldiers whose lives Pits saved, he slowly comes to revere the man and the lasting impact of his actions. In the roles of these wounded survivors, Ed Harris, William Hurt, Samuel L. Jackson, and Peter Fonda each offer glimpses at the feelings of guilt and mental anguish that continue to haunt the men. Yet before we can get a hold of just what eats away at the former soldiers, and what living with their pain is really like, Robinson repeatedly whisks us via flashback to a dreadfully familiar-looking scene of combat, attempting to uplift the spirits with scene after scene of Pits (Jeremy Irvine) saving various men, all with the cool-headedness and unflappable bravery one expects from an action movie hero.
Throughout numerous walk-and-talk scenes set inside the Pentagon, The Last Full Measure manages to convey some of the countless bureaucratic hoops that must be jumped through to get a Medal of Honor request approved. But the murky subplot involving Scott's boss, Carlton Stanton (Bradley Whitford), and a supposed cover-up of Operation Abilene, the mission that led to the ambush in the village of Cam My, does nothing but pin the blame for all wrongdoing on a mid-level Pentagon director. And even in that, the film's only qualms are with a cover-up that prevented Pits from being properly recognized, with no thought whatsoever given to the disastrous wartime decisions that were also being hidden from the public.
In the end, Robinson's portrayal of a scheming Washington insider suppressing the actions of an infallible, almost angelic fallen soldier lends the film a naively simplistic morality. By fixating on the good that came out of a horrifying situation, and painting institutional corruption as a case of one bad apple, The Last Full Measure practically lets the state off the hook, all the while mindlessly promoting nationalistic ideals of unquestioned duty and honor.
Cast: Sebastian Stan, Christopher Plummer, Samuel L. Jackson, Bradley Whitford, Ed Harris, Diane Ladd, Jeremy Irvine, Michael Imperioli, Alison Sudal, Peter Fonda, William Hurt Director: Todd Robinson Screenwriter: Todd Robinson Distributor: Roadside Attractions Running Time: 115 min Rating: R Year: 2019
Oscar 2020 Winner Predictions: Sound Editing
It's not difficult to rationalize picking the same film to win both sound editing and sound mixing.
The movement to merge the two Oscar categories for sound into just one is finally picking up some steam after an academy subcommittee favored consolidation in December, but we regret to inform you that the exceptionally rational decision hasn't yet been ratified, and thus won't spare us one more year of double-feature kvetching. While the nominating members of the sound branch might know the exact difference between sound mixing and sound editing, and while compulsory Oscar blogging has forced us to know the exact difference as well, numerous academy members clearly don't.
Case in point: Last year they awarded Bohemian Rhapsody its expected award in sound mixing, where musicals always have an advantage, but also an upset win in sound editing. Unless voters metabolized Singer's violent blitzkrieg of a film and simply misremembered hearing explosions throughout, that's not the vote of an informed electorate.
From our perspective as prognosticators, though, it's not difficult to rationalize picking the same film to win both awards, especially in the absence of a musical. While there have been plenty of years we've carbon-copied our predicted winner in both categories only to see them split (even three ways, as in 2012, when Les Misérables took sound mixing, and Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirty tied for sound editing), getting one prediction right is better than getting none at all, especially in a year like this where, to judge from both slates, sound equals fury.
One thing's fairly certain: You can probably go ahead and count out Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Not only has the new trilogy failed to add any more Oscar wins to the franchise, never once has a Star Wars film won an award for its sound effects, not even the first one (that year, a special award was given to Close Encounters of the Third Kind). Episodes seven and eight lost to, respectively, a chase movie and a war movie, and this year's top two contenders here are arguably the exact same pairing. While 1917 is still considered by many to be a frontrunner for best picture, we're pretty sure the onslaught of vintage motors roaring for the climactic quarter-hour of Ford v. Ferrari will get voters right in the dad spot.
Will Win: Ford v. Ferrari
Could Win: 1917
Should Win: Ford v. Ferrari
Review: Guns of the Trees Wears Its Looseness as a Badge of Honor
The film is but one deliberately imperfect piece of a vast slipstream.2.5
Jonas Mekas establishes the tone of 1961's Guns of the Trees with a director's statement, declaring that the "mad heart of the insane world" has prevented him from finishing the film. What follows, Mekas asserts, is "a sketchbook," a "madhouse sutra," "a cry." And such a description aptly articulates the film's melodramatic, self-pitying sense of yearning, which is driven by Mekas's career-spanning need to contexualize the divide of artifice that separates artist from audience. To Mekas, sketch-like scenes represent a refutation of staid, insidious craftsmanship that can smooth out rougher and more resonant contours.
In the case of the quasi-fictional Guns of the Trees, Mekas follows a handful of young people in New York City as they hang out and grapple with the state of modern existence, decrying America's involvement in Cuba, the development of the atom bomb, and various other atrocities that underscore the awfulness of the imperial machine. Occasionally, Allen Ginsberg reads his poetry over the soundtrack, his scalding free-associational verse conjuring an anger that the film's characters can't quite articulate, while providing Guns of the Trees with another element of the literary. A little of Ginsberg's poetry goes a long way. What is the "hunger of the cannibal abstract" and why can't man endure it for long?
Ginsberg's bebop phrasing complements Mekas's fragmentary images, which are alternately ludicrous and lovely. In keeping with the sketchbook concept, the film wears its unevenness and looseness as aesthetic badges of honor. A framing device in which two businessmen in white mime makeup wander a cabbage patch in near hysteria, in all likelihood embodying the ageless corruption of man, is self-consciously oblique and edgy, feeling like an earnest film student's pastiche of 1920s-era avant-garde tropes. Other scenes, however, poignantly detail life in the early '60s, such as when a woman sits her husband down in a chair in their loft and cuts his hair, or when a man tries to talk his drinking buddy down from an intoxicated rant. These scenes have the humor and behavioral specificity of John Cassasvetes's films, evoking the comforting rhythm of the little moments that come to define us.
Guns of the Trees belongs to an easily mocked beatnik era, when people discussed whether to conform or be free while listening to folk music and reading Ginsberg and smoking grass. At times, even Mekas seems to be on the verge of ribbing his subjects' sincerity. For all their thrashing about, these people seem prosperous and more interested in speaking of revolution than in truly sparking it. Ben (Ben Carruthers) sells life insurance, prompting the film's funniest line, when a potential client asks, "Don't you still believe in death?" A young woman named Barbara (Frances Stillman) is gripped by authentic depression though, and her suicide haunts Ben, Gregory (Adolphus Mekas), and Ben's wife, Argus (Argus Spear Julliard).
If the beatnik navel-gazing dates Guns of the Trees, Mekas's docudramatic eye memorably revels in poetic details throughout. His protagonists wander through fields, which suggest the rice fields of Vietnam, and junkyards that testify both to the beauty and the waste of mainstream society. The play of light off the twisted metal of the trashed cars suggests found sculpture, while indirectly conjuring the wreckage wrought by the wars the characters protest. Such images, which include profoundly intimate close-ups of the characters' faces, also anticipate the rapture offered by future Mekas "sketchbook" films such as Walden.
Mekas would go on to pare away the preachiness of Guns of the Trees from his subsequent work, as he increasingly honed a personal style that would make ecstasy out of the commonplace, utilizing multimedia and a restless syntax to suggest how memory intricately shapes life. Guns of the Trees is but one deliberately imperfect piece of a vast slipstream.
Cast: Adolfas Mekas, Frances Stillman, Ben Carruthers, Argus Spear Juillard, Frank Kuenstler, Louis Brigante Director: Jonas Mekas Screenwriter: Jonas Mekas Running Time: 86 min Rating: NR Year: 1961
Oscar 2020 Winner Predictions: Animated Feature
Forky rules.
Completist-prone Oscar prognosticators were dealt a merciful hand last week when the Oscar nominations were announced and Frozen II didn't show up in this category. But the winning hand belongs to Toy Story 4, which likely lost the Golden Globe to Missing Link as a result of a vote split between the two Disney properties. Sentiment to reward the American-based production studio Laika is brewing, and the fitfully droll Missing Link will, like Kubo and the Two Strings before it, probably find favor at the BAFTAs, but Laika's latest and most expensive production to date dramatically bombed at the box office. And while no one will be weighing between the film and I Lost My Body, a singularly and actively morose and creepy film that won't appeal to the academy at large, this category's short history tells us that the Mouse House is only vulnerable to the biggest money makers. Also, Forky rules.
Will Win: Toy Story 4
Could Win: Missing Link
Should Win: I Lost My Body
Oscar 2020 Winner Predictions: Supporting Actor
Pitt winning here will seem like the stars are lining up given what went down when he was first nominated in 1995.
We didn't predict Anthony Hopkins to get nominated here, thinking that the Golden Globes's enthusiasm for The Two Popes was a fluke. We were wrong, and he ended up becoming the elder statesman in an acting lineup that contains, on average, by far the oldest nominees. The person we predicted to get in instead, Marriage Story's Alan Alda, is a year older than Hopkins, so we certainly weren't betting the farm on any male ingénues.
On the other hand, it sure feels like spry 56-year-old Brad Pitt, who opened his acceptance speech at last night's SAG Awards with a joke about having a Tinder profile, had this award in the bag the moment his Marlboro Man-ish handyman hopped atop his buddy's roof to fix the antenna in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, whipping off his shirt to reveal a tawny, fully-abbed torso that scarcely seems to have aged in the nearly 30 years since he seduced the country in Thelma & Louise. He, as Leonardo DiCaprio's co-lead, has a lot more to do throughout than just doff tees, but the "I'm still here" virility of that moment embodies the entire film's love letter to old-guard masculinity in Tinseltown.
Not that anyone's reading too deeply into it, not when there's good old-fashioned awards numerology to fall back on. Within minutes of the nominations being announced, Oscar Twitter jumped on the fact that the best supporting actor slate this year is composed of acting winners from 1990 (Joe Pesci), 1991 (Anthony Hopkins), 1992 (Al Pacino), and 1993 and 1994 (Tom Hanks). Fewer pointed out that Pitt was also a nominee in 1995 for 12 Monkeys, losing out to the now-canceled Kevin Spacey. Which makes it seem all the more poetically like the stars are lining up when Pitt wins for a film whose finale proposes a rousing bit of alternate, corrective history in which the "good" guys obliterate the "bad" ones.
Will Win: Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Could Win: Joe Pesci, The Irishman
Should Win: Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Oscar 2020 Winner Predictions: Documentary Feature
Every film nominated in this category grapples with the nature of freedom in a world gripped by war and shaped by technology.
Few Oscar categories are bigger snub magnets than this one. And while the failure of Apollo 11 to secure a nomination this year was indeed surprising, it was not as telling as the omission of The Biggest Little Farm, a handsomely, if conspicuously, sculpted "pop" documentary that's very much in the academy's wheelhouse. It was almost as if the committee responsible for selecting the nominees here was sending a message by embracing, at a time of increased global instability, five documentaries that looked only outward: not at mankind's possibilities, but at the ways in which we've become our own worst enemy.
When discussing the potential winner in this category, Eric and I were pulled in two different directions. "Doc will go American Factory and, by extension, the Obamas, right?" Eric asked. "Honeyland notched an Oscar record by being the first documentary to also be nominated for international feature. That has to mean something?" I asked. Which is to say that he and I, no strangers to this Oscar-predicting process, were sacrificing ourselves to rigamarole, forgetting that, at the end of the day, academy members vote with their hearts above all else.
Every film nominated in this category grapples with the nature of freedom in a world gripped by war and shaped by technology. American Factory specifically takes the closing of a Chinese-owned factory in Ohio as a jumping-off point for a study of the wiles of global capitalism, and it's every bit as smart as you might expect from a film produced by the Obamas. A more sobering reminder of how the global order of the world has been cataclysmically disrupted in the last four years is another Netflix documentary, The Edge of Democracy, about Brazil's own national(ist) sickness. It's a harrowing lament, but it offers the viewer no sense of escape.
Which isn't to say that the The Cave and especially For Sama, both filmed in Syria and in the midst of war there, are escapist. The two most viscerally powerful documentaries in the category confront us with the chaos of imperial domination. Both films center the female experience of war, but For Sama does so more shrewdly, positing itself not just as a chronicle of war, but an act of remembrance. In a film that doesn't lack for gut-wrenching images of the dead, one particularly stands out: of a child, after being pulled from its wounded mother's womb via C section in the wake of a bombing, being brought back to life. Combined with the scenes depicting the citizens of war-torn Aleppo finding humor in the midst of conflict, the film attests not only to the perseverance of the Syrian people, but to the possibility that the country might still be brought back from the edge of oblivion.
Will Win: For Sama
Could Win: The Cave
Should Win: For Sama
Oscar 2020 Winner Predictions: Makeup and Hairstyling
There doesn't seem to be much standing in the way of the triumph of the red, white, and blue neo-Juggalo.
We couldn't really say it any better than Odie Henderson, who recently scoffed: "Who wins the Costume Design Oscar for Joker? The Goodwill? Who wins the Makeup Oscar for Joker? A blind Mary Kay consultant?" While we think the Academy will stop short of awarding the motley threads of Todd Phillips's risible throwback machine in the costume category, the fact that they were nominated at all over, say, the imaginatively garish '70s finery that Ruth Carter created for Dolemite Is My Name indicates a level of affection for Joker that no one who doesn't use the word "snowflake" on a daily basis seems prepared for.
While, to us, Joaquin Phoenix's Joker looks like nothing so much as Marge after sitting still for a makeup gun, as Homer put it best, "Women will like what I tell them to like." From his lips to the Academy's ears (and face). And given this category's expansion didn't add more multicolored prosthetic creations along the lines of Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, but instead more invisible character augmentation along the lines of Judy and Bombshell, there doesn't seem to be much standing in the way of the triumph of the red, white, and blue neo-Juggalo.
Will Win: Joker
Could Win: Judy
Should Win: Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Oscar 2020 Winner Predictions: International Feature Film
Parasite is a pervasive presence in the news cycle, and at just the right time.
Bong Joon-ho's Parasite is a pervasive presence in the news cycle, and at just the right time. As I write this latest prediction for Slant's rolling Oscar coverage, the top article on the front page of Rotten Tomatoes is a ranking, by Tomatometer, of the nine films nominated for best picture this year. Number one? Parasite. Immediately next to that article is a callout to readers to vote for their favorite film of 2019 that uses Song Kang-ho's face from Parasite's poster as the featured image. Regarding that poster, in simply placing black bars over the actors' faces, it succinctly, eerily, perfectly underlines the film's obsession with social strata. And you don't need to look far beyond the aggregate site to land on some article praising the perfectly lit and designed architectural purgatory that is the film's main setting.
Perfect. That's a funny word. There are no objectively measurable criteria for perfection, but given how many times I've heard Bong's film described as being "perfect" since it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palme d'Or, you'd think that there were. Still, the impulse to use it to describe this particular film, so balanced and attuned to the ties that both bind and separate us, evident in everything from the dimensions of Bong's aesthetic, to his actors' faces, to their words, makes a certain kind of sense. Quick, can you name the other four films nominated in this category? How apt if you can't, as this is a film profoundly obsessed with the subterfuge that can be weaponized during class warfare. Or awards campaigns.
Will Win: Parasite
Could Win: Pain and Glory
Should Win: Parasite


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