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The subtitle to this post could be "but won't get one this year." Four of these five have gotten nominations, but the big prize has eluded them so far. This list is in alphabetic order, because I can't measure the degrees of the ripoffs:
Leonardo DiCaprio. He's done good work as a teen ("This Boy's Life"), a young leading man ("Titanic") and an adult ("The Aviator"). He can make mediocre pictures look better when given his head ("J. Edgar," "Revolutionary Road"), and he takes risks by appearing in movies that won't be hits. What he'll have to do to win: Just keep working. By 50, he'll make his acceptance speech.
Tina Fey. Only a fourth of the writers working in Hollywood are women -- the majority of those are in TV -- but Fey will someday cross over to movies and stay there, as a double-threat actor-comedian (and maybe a dramatic actor, for all I know). She's smart, funny and adaptable. What she'll have to do to win: Write or play a serio-comic role that flirts with tragedy but ends happily.
David Fincher. His best shot to date was "The Social Network," which for my money was the best picture of 2010. (Loved "The King's Speech, but...no.) He can direct horror, drama, romance and dark comedy, and he's one of the few directors ever who can sustain a pace that's fast or slow, tense or relaxed, with equal skill. What he'll have to do to win: Direct a large-scale epic.
Anne Hathaway. Anyone who can make Catwoman smart and sensual without a hint of silliness deserves acclaim. She can handle heavy drama, romantic comedy, action, musicals and pure fluff, all with apparent ease, and she can make unsympathetic people interesting enough to watch. What she'll have to do to win: Play a dying character in a better movie than "Love and Other Drugs."
Christopher Nolan. He's the only person in Hollywood who has yet to make a sub-par movie over a career of any length. (Fincher had "Alien³.") His Batman trilogy is the best exploration of a fantasy world since "The Lord of the Rings." But Academy voters find him too dark or complex, neither of which they like or understand. What he'll have to do to win: Make a heartfelt, realistic drama.
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
People who need an Oscar right away
The subtitle to this post could be "but won't get one this year." Four of these five have gotten nominations, but the big prize has eluded them so far. This list is in alphabetic order, because I can't measure the degrees of the ripoffs:
5 comments:
- Anonymous said...
you will be wrong again about Hathaway- she'll best supporting for Le Mes...and, nobody on this list NEEDS anything
- December 12, 2012 at 10:36 AM
- Anonymous said...
Hathaway DOES play a dying character in the upcoming Les Miserables, for which no doubt she'll get at least a nod.
- December 12, 2012 at 1:39 PM
- Anonymous said...
See, this is why I say you don't know how to do film critique. Anne Hathaway was funny and touching in Love and Other Drugs, and close to brilliant in The Devil Wears Prada, which you don't even bother to mention.
You've been doing this job too long. The Observer needs to find someone with an up to date take on modern cinema.
- December 12, 2012 at 4:00 PM
- Anonymous said...
Are you folks just not reading? Lawrence is saying that these people DESERVE to win.
- December 15, 2012 at 5:50 AM
- Anonymous said...
Nice piece, Lawrence. Leo has in my opinion been stuck in an almost dark to super dark character period. It's almost as if he doesn't feel comfortable playing anything else (The Departed, Shutter Island, Inception, Revolutionary Road, etc.)
I'm not 100% sold on Tina Fey being a cross-over star that will ever be able to entice the Oscar folks.
As for Fincher, Hathaway, and Nolan, those 3 have very very bright futures in my estimation and I predict they all will win Oscar hardware in the next 3-4 years.
- December 16, 2012 at 12:02 PM


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BURBANK, Calif., April 26 (UPI) -- U.S. actor Johnny Depp is talking with Walt Disney Studios for a Hollywood version of Stephen Sondheim's Broadway musical "Into the Woods," Variety reported.
Meryl Streep is also talking with the Disney production company about joining the film, the show business newspaper said. She would play the story's evil, ugly, spell-casting witch.
Disney officials and the actors' representatives had no immediate comment on the report.
The BroadwayWorld.com news website reported in October Streep, who has won three Academy Awards, was in talks to play the witch in the film.
Rob Marshall, who directed Depp in Disney's fourth "Pirates of the Caribbean" film, "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," will direct "Into the Woods," Disney announced last year.
Marshall will also produce the film with John DeLuca through their production company, LUCAMAR Productions, Disney said.
The film would be the second Sondheim musical adaptation Depp has worked on. He was also in the horror musical "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," directed by Tim Burton, and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.
It is expected Depp will sing in "Into the Woods," Variety said.
The musical centers on a childless baker and his wife. who try to lift a family curse by journeying into the woods to confront the witch who cast the spell on them.
Along the way, they meet up with "Little Red Riding Hood," "Jack and the Beanstalk," "Rapunzel" and "Cinderella" among other characters.
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If you are moody, and not ready to be playful, then you certainly can't be around Denrele. I had assumed his spontaneity and playfulness was just for show, part of the "Denrele" brand but I was to realise that on and off camera, he was just being himself. It was hard to keep a straight face around him. He was friendly, playful I had a good laugh chatting with him.
Denrele, I've spent a while observing you and I realize your personality at home is not any different from what I see on camera. You're just as lively as ever. What can you attribute your personality to?
I'm just a regular guy. I don't take myself seriously. I'm fun, I'm lively, I'm vivacious, I'm all over the place. I wake up every morning and the first thing I do is scream. Sincerely, I've always been like this and I live each moment like it's the last one. With me, what you see is what you get.
Why do you scream when you wake up every morning?
I don't know, I just like it. I do it wherever I am; in any state, in any country. I just like looking for trouble really, especially in the middle of the night.
The "Denrele" brand
Let's talk about your brand. Tell me about your journey into the limelight from the very beginning.
My first shot at fame was when I was really young, just a year old. I was born in Hamburg, Germany. My Dad took me for a photo shoot because I looked very exotic (I wish I was still as fine as I was then. Now I look like horror film). Some days after, he saw the same pictures of me with a baby milk product all over the place and went back to the photographer. He didn't know he was supposed to get paid but all they gave him was a hundred cartons of milk. We came back to Nigeria later and I fell in love with music as a young boy. I always thought I was going to be an artiste. My dad had stacks of albums of artistes like Bonny M and Abba. Looking at all those album art covers, I got influenced and started to style my hair to school.
Have you been growing your hair since you were a kid?
Yes. It used to be so curly and wavy. I liked to experiment with fashion; I put a lot of stickers on my school bag, had an extra heel under my school shoes. I was in SS1 when I got my first real presence on TV at Kidivision 101. It was when I got into UNILAG that I went bunkers.
I'm very intrigued by your style. There are only a handful of people around who would dare to dress like you. What influenced your unique style?
I didn't have too many clothes but I wanted to be different from the guy next door. I started off wearing baggy shirts and baggy jeans and because I was unsure of how to flaunt my hair, I used to hide it under a cap. At a point, people thought I was a girl hiding under guy's clothing. But when I started modeling, I came in contact with clothes people wear on the runway but not off the runway and I was fascinated. So I went back and I started the trend of the mono-sleeve. I will cut one sleeve off my long-sleeve shirt and wear it. I cut and shred my jeans in different ways. People thought I was crazy but I stood out at every casting. I was the shortest and skinniest model but I always landed the runway jobs. All the designers saw me as flexible and dramatic so I did a lot of drama with their clothes.
Despite how unique your style is, it is not generally accepted. Some people think it's crazy, some think it's a bit feminine.
Fashion is all about the clothes but style is in the wearer. What I think I have done with myself is I have picked different things from different places and I've fused it into my look. My look is fun, it's not serious at all but at least it's serious enough for me to get compliments, good or bad, I really don't care. Good publicity is good publicity, bad publicity is good publicity, no publicity at all is bad publicity.
You've spoken about the modeling era. Let's talk about the VJ era. As a VJ and TV personality, what we see on you now are clothes that look really expensive.
They are expensive but I'd be very sincere, I do not spend a dime on clothes. I get a lot of freebies. The shoe collections I have are all gifts. People buy them and give me. Every item I'm wearing now are gifts from different people.
Lucky you. But really, when was the last time you bought something expensive for yourself?
I've only splurged once on a pair of shoes. I was in Atlanta and that was the first time I met Domenico Dolce of Dolce & Gabbana. The shoe was from the Elvis Presley collection but I got to pay half price after walking the runway with the shoes and their clothes. They gave me the clothes free.
You became really popular while working with Sound City. How did you get your job with the music channel and what was your experience like?
I graduated in 2004 and got my first job with Sound City right after in 2005. I had previously worked with Tajudeen Adepetu on Everyday People. He called me and said he wanted to set up a music channel. When I joined at first, I was the only one who didn't have a show. So I planned and strategized for several months and I came up with the Red Carpet Show. They didn't think it would fly but after doing three Red Carpet Shows, my name was on the lips of every brand manager, event planner, agency and consultant. I think it was hardwork that paid off at the end of the day. I worked with Sound City for five years from 2005 to late 2010.
Your exit from Sound City was followed with some media buzz. Were you sacked or you did you leave voluntarily?
It was a little of both. I heard beforehand that they thought I was overexposed for the brand and that I was going to be let off so I decided to leave before that. But I asked for all the things I felt I was being owed and I didn't get but I just let it go. It was a very dramatic exit. Someday, maybe when I write my book, I would put everything in it. I am going to be 30 in June so I'm thinking of releasing my book then. I'm really going to chronicle what happened. Nobody should be scared about anything but I think a lot of people deserve to know what really happened.
I didn't know you were a writer.
My mode of writing reflects my personality. When you read it you'd know this is Denrele writing. I used to write a couple of articles for The Future, now Y Magazine and when we had Sound City Blast Magazine, I was the head writer.
How soon did the Channel O job come after you left Sound City?
It came in May 2011.
You have a bigger platform now at Channel O, but you still do similar things as what you used to do with Sound City.
Because Channel O understands what brand expansion is all about. I'm very spontaneous when it comes to the red carpet. The red carpet as they say is a place where stars are born and sometimes buried. I feel the red carpet is one place I can express myself to the max. It gives me the opportunity to say what I want to say without giving a hoot.
As someone who has interviewed a lot of celebrities on the red carpet, tell me about some of your favourites who never disappoint with their outfits and composure.
I love this question! There are people I look forward to seeing on the red carpet and some who I have to force answers out of them but I usually know what to say to make them loosen up. One person I look forward to interviewing all the time is Stephanie Linus. She pushes the envelope. I call her style casual sophistication. We chat and we laugh and we tease each other. Ramsey Nouah is also someone I always look forward to seeing on the red carpet. There is one side to him people don't really know which I've been able to discover. He is a comedian! D'Banj is also very spontaneous. We'd look for something around us and start cracking jokes with it.
Give me more female names…
I love interviewing Goldie not because she's my friend, but because you always look out for what she'll wear on the red carpet. Helen Prest Ajayi is so graceful but I make her do one or two crazy things once in a while. One person who always makes me feel happy is Remi Tinubu. After every interview, Remi would send her entourage to call me and she would give me an envelope. I will quickly put it in my pocket and when my producer asks me, What was she telling you? I'd say, Ah, she was shaking my hand telling me well done.
What is the craziest thing you've asked someone to do on the red carpet?
There was someone who showed me her underwear on the red carpet, I can't remember her name. I said "everybody has told me you are not wearing underwear but you need to prove it to me". She showed me her bra and then she lifted the hem of her skirt and showed me her underwear. Clean, sparking, Victoria Secret!
A few weeks ago, Karen Igho was allegedly slapped at an event by a mobile policeman. It was reported she attended that event to support you. What really happened there?
I'm not going to deny that, I was the one who invited her. During the show, she came backstage to meet me and said "Denrele when are you bringing me on stage?" I said "Soon, you must come and do small craze for me". That was the last conversation we had before the incident. I think she wanted to go to her car to touch up. I was even looking for her and when I didn't see her, I had to introduce the last act for the night. Later my cousin who was with her when it happened ran to call us. Everybody was livid with rage including the Smirnoff officials and security guards. I had to calm her down and got someone to take her home. She was really distraught. By the next day, it was all over social media and people kept asking me what I did about it.
I have to ask too. What did you do about it?
I'm not going to go into details on what I did but I did make a lot of calls and the person who committed the act has been called to order. They have fished out the person. Smirnoff and the agency handling security for them are looking into it.
On a lighter note, your relationship status and sexuality has been a hot topic on some media platforms with some alleging that you're gay…
I am very single, I'm searching and ready to mingle. A lot of people brought up that sexuality issue. When you are in this industry, people tend to look for loopholes. I am just a sexual outlaw, very adventurous. People have judged from my dressing and my effeminate nature.
How would you describe your ideal woman?
I love heels on a woman, that is why I have a thing for models. I've dated a lot of models. I love to see women strut in heels. I love women who can strike up a very good conversation. I like someone I can go to the salon with and we are washing our hair together and she is not freaking out or saying what her friends are thinking of the fact that I'm under a dryer. I love a woman who has a good sense of style and not somebody who would try to change me. And also a woman who would not be threatened by the female friends that I have because I have loads of female friends.
I'm curious. Would you cut your hair if you were paid to do it?
Ah, I would cut it oh! Bring money.
Give me a figure.
I haven't really thought about a figure but I would cut it for as low as N5million. The hair would grow back.
You have long and soft hair. Who do you take after?
My Mum, her hair is so long. Her Dad is Indian and her Mum is from Mauritius. My Dad is a Yoruba man from Abeokuta. So I am even nationality confused, I don't know where I'm from.
You must have very supportive parents who allowed you express yourself while growing up.
My parents are amazing people. Family is the best gift anyone can have. I remember when people used to attack my Dad in church about me and my crazy style, we would laugh about it. I haven't seen my Mum in 12 years because she is not in the country. She travelled to Dublin when things got really tough at some point. My Dad lost his job and my Mum had to take up about four jobs. We were staying in the family house so there were conflicts everyday.
12 years is a long time. Are you going to see her soon?
I am going to see her early this year. We've been in touch, she calls everyday, she has even called this morning. I have an amazing family. They allowed me express my individuality.


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"I've got gadgets and gizmos a-plenty
I've got who's-its and what's-its galore
You want thing-a-mabobs?
I've got twenty"
Yep, I'm quoting the Little Mermaid. It's that bad. We have boxes stacked in every corner, bubble wrap strewn across the floors, and today I had to reopen a box because I realized that I'd packed away the checkbook.
When did I amass so much stuff?
In packing up my kitchen for storage, I have discovered dozens of gadgets and gizmos. We are moving to a furnished sublet complete with basic kitchen gear – pots, pans, knives etc. Last night, surrounded by melon ballers and cheese graters and meat thermometers and citrus zesters, I realized the only thing in my kitchen that I really need to bring with me is a single cast iron skillet. That's it. That's all I need for sauteing or baking or, well, just about anything. And as for the rest… I'll make do. So what if my melon bits are not round? or if my lemons go unzested? And for that matter, I think I can manage a few months without a waffle iron or ice cream maker. And for crying out loud, why on earth do we have something called a 'quesadilla maker'?
What happened to me? I used to be the queen of making do! I'm the girl who lived in a tiny NY apartment and baked cupcakes for 200 in a toaster-oven. I owned exactly three forks, two wine glasses, and one single fantastic French knife. And tonight, when I made dinner with a handful of lingering ingredients and not a single gadget, I felt a bit like my old self.
This dish came together out of nothing. Our cupboards are bare, but we had some leftover bacon hiding in the back of the freezer, and a few lasagna noodles all alone in the pantry. And with that, we had dinner. A pretty awesome dinner, actually. I was surprised to find that I loved the sliced lasagna noodles. They had awesome texture, and were a perfect foil for the rich sauce. The bits of noodle matched the bits of pepper and much to my surprise, the whole thing just worked. Of course, you could sub in any short pasta you like here, if hacking apart noodles is not your thing. I think farfalle would work very well.
I'm excited for a few months of making do ahead of me. But for the next week or two I won't be spending much time in the kitchen. Once we get settled in the new place, I promise I'll be back!
Make Do Bacon Pepper Pasta
Serves 2
4 strips bacon, chopped
4 ounces lasagna noodles (about 5 noodles)
1/4 cup chopped red onion
1 cup thinly sliced cubanelle pepper (about 1 small pepper)
pinch of red pepper flakes
2 tablespoons cream
parmesan cheese for serving
In a large skillet, saute the bacon over medium heat until almost crisp, about 5-6 minutes. Drain all but 2 teaspoons of bacon fat from the pan. Meanwhile, bring a pot of salted water to a boil and cook the noodles until just al dente. Don't overcook. Drain the noodles and reserve 3/4 cup pasta cooking liquid.
Add the onion and pepper to the bacon in the skillet and saute until the peppers are soft, about 8 minutes. Meanwhile, slice the lasagna noodles into 1/2 inch strips. Add about 1/4 cup of pasta cooking liquid to the skillet, along with the red pepper flakes. Stir in the cream. Add the sliced noodles to the pan and toss to combine. Add more pasta cooking liquid if desired. Serve topped with parmesan cheese.


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- Published on 20 February 2012
- Written by Mount Vernon Optic-Herald
The Texas Forest Service will soon be surveying ash trees across the state for signs of the emerald ash borer, an invasive insect that kills its host. An exotic wood-boring beetle from Asia, the dark, metallic green insect bores into ash trees and feeds on the area between the wood and the bark, effectively killing the tree. For more information, see the February 16 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald.


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|Miners Dig Up 552-carat Diamond in Canada
|U.S. No Longer Supporting Climate Change Agreement
|Here's What Happened to Jayme Closs
|China Sprouts Cotton Seed on the Moon
|Should You Ditch Screen-Time Rules?
|Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
|Is it Time to Ditch Diet Soft Drinks?
|Jogger Fights off Mountain Lion With His Bare Hands
|Facebook Facing Multibillion-Dollar Fine
|Low Vaccine Rates Responsible for U.S. Measles Outbreaks
|Vaccines at the Center of Debate Amid Measles Outbreaks
|Scientists Make Alzheimer's Breakthrough With Mice
|The College Bribery Scandal
|USCIS May Be Closing Field Offices Overseas
|Chicago Suing Jussie Smollett
|Airports Banning Chick-fil-A
|Scientists Say Bad Diets Are Deadlier Than Smoking
|USDA Going to Court Over School Nutritional Standards
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worldstores needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 251 designs submitted by 69 freelance designers.
Zaaros.com.au (logo needs to contain the .com.au but not as prominant as the word Zaaros)
We are a brand new online marketplace launching in a few months in Australia.
We do things a little different though.
Our core focus is delivering "over the top service" which means the way we do things are not status quo. For example if a customer buys a product from us then changes their mind and they don't want it any more, we will pay for them to ship it back to us.
Another example is, in Australia most online marktplaces (e.g. Ebay etc.) are made up of individual sellers and a customer has to place seperate orders with each supllier and/or recieve seperate deliveries from each supplier. For customer service enquiries again it's all seperate and yup you guessed it seperate phone calls or emails to each supplier.
We think this is pretty crap.. with Zaaros customers can see and buy from multiple suppliers but all customer service, warehousing, deliveries etc are managed by Zaaros.
This business is not a cpc advertising model, we sell & ship real products to real customers.
The products we will sell are;
- Computer products
- Software
- Game consoles and games
- Electrcial appliances
- Audio Visual
- Clothing and shoes
- Homewares
- Baby products
- Toys
- Office supplies
- Sporting products
- Health and beauty
- Kitchenware
- Tools
Slightly higher female demogrpahic than male e.g. 55% female to 45% male so needs to be fairly gender neutral as it is pretty close.
Early 20's to up to late 50's. The main focus is on the younger generation so the design should not be overly formal and be something that late teens early twenty's can relate to and feel apart of.
Upper lower to high mid range (not exclusive and not dirt cheap)
The basis of this competition is to create a logo for this new business.
The logo should be kept simple so it is easily recognisable.
The logo should contain the tag line "Over the top service" in some way or another
The winning submission should also include a type face the site can use that complements the font created in the logo.
Colours to choose from include Orange, Green, Magenta, Grey, Black, Blue
Being an online business we are not confined to the traditional flat logo's of yesteryear. We are after a logo that can have a life of it's own and contain an icon or avatar that can be used away from the full logo but still be instantly associated with the brand. Good examples of this are Cingular Wireless with the orange man and Target with the target characters. Amazon also do a really good job of this with the A to Z arrow looking like a smile.
I have attached a sample of logo's I quite like. However please be creative with the design as it has to be unique and not get confused with logo's and icons already in the marketplace.
On completion of the competition the original .ai files need to be provided.
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From his Mississippi Delta base, for more than 50 years Harris Barnes traveled across the country's agricultural regions, photographing and writing about those who produce the nation's crops.
His latest book of photographs, "The Beauty of Southern Agriculture," is now available, and follows his first very successful collection, "Cotton: A 50-Year Pictoral History."
From the Carolinas to California, from apples to walnuts, and everything in between, the new 9×12 coffee table book captures the beauty of agriculture in stunning images.
Barnes, a former Farm Press editor, grew up in the highly productive Mississippi Delta, the son of a county Extension agent. After earning a degree in agricultural administration and serving in the Marine Corps, he spent 25 years as the manager of two large Mississippi farming operations.
In the mid-1940s, he began his avocation of agricultural photography, which later became his career.
His photographs have appeared in countless publications and prints adorn business and residential walls across the country.
He has done photography for leading chemical and machinery companies and has traveled extensively on assignments, accumulating one of the most extensive collections of agricultural photographs in the country.
"Harris is a photographer extraordinaire," says Ernie Iler, a Georgia farm manager. "He is able to make a field or an individual plant stand out in a photograph, as if it were the greatest ever grown."
Barnes' books are available in many bookstores and gift shops, and may be ordered from Harris Barnes Rural Services, 537 School St., Clarksdale MS 38614, or by phone, 662-624-8986.


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School may be out for the summer, but some kids are back in class and taking a curious course at the Community School of Music and Arts: environmental science taught through music and art.
The class, which runs through the end of June, shows that science and art are not mutually exclusive, according to Hilary Orzell McSherry, who teaches the class and has a master's degree in environmental policy. The class is part of an ongoing effort to bridge the gap between science, technology engineering and math courses, and the arts.
McSherry got the idea to create the class in Monterey when she participated in a 2010 grant program run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The goal of the program was to get art and music teachers together to design a curriculum that encourages environmental stewardship.
McSherry says she designed her course around the concept of STEAM -- an acronym for science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics. STEAM is a modified version of the widely popular STEM fields that injects some of the arts back into the tech-focused curriculum. Through painting and playing music, the children are developing a deeper understanding and connection to scientific and mathematical subject matter.
One of the guiding principles in her curriculum was to emphasize the gap between policy changes and the social change that adapts to it.
"It takes a while for people to get used to it," McSherry says, explaining that people change their habits based on personal values about the environment rather than by forceful changes in policy or laws.
She started teaching the course back in 2010 and tracked kids through surveys to see if they changed their personal values. She says that the course has been very successful at not only changing how kids see their environment, but also in finding ways for kids to adopt lifestyle habits and act upon their newly developed values.
Things got a little tricky for McSherry when she started teaching summer camp to a different age group. The curriculum was designed for fourth and fifth graders, and suddenly she found herself teaching kindergarteners and first graders.
"Kids at 10 years might be more analytical and scientific, but environmental science is accessible to everyone," McSherry says. "We all have a connection to our environment."
This week, students learned about the rainforest, and how it covers 7 percent of the earth's surface but holds 50 percent of all life. McSherry teaches them about the different canopy layers, the animals that live there and some of the plants students might recognize -- like fruits.
Then students apply their new-found knowledge to art projects. They made paintings of the floor, understory and canopy layers of the rainforest. Then they paint in all the wildlife. They learn about the bright colors of animals in the rainforest that we don't see here such as blue frogs and yellow butterflies. Through their paintings, McSherry says kids can visualize how much life is concentrated in these rainforests.
Other times, the teaching and art activity are one and the same. McSherry says she and her students will listen to and even create music -- mostly folk tunes, that reflect the natural environment. Students listen to songs from New Zealand, which use sounds that imitate the ocean waves, or percussion instruments that sound like beetles. Sometimes they play the instruments themselves, or McSherry will play songs on the keyboard.
Through these interactive, artistic activities, the students learn that indigenous people used whatever was at their disposal in the natural world to make music and were interconnected with their environment, she explains.
McSherry says she was focusing mainly on the musical aspect of the course when she was teaching in Monterey, but started to incorporate more visual arts when she moved her lessons over to CSMA.
She says one of the hardest things about teaching the class is telling kids as young as kindergarteners about negative environmental impacts going on around the world.
"It's super challenging to teach them about the bad things going on," McSherry says. "If I teach them that forests are being burned down, they'll be worried that the forests they visit are going to be burned down."
So McSherry has a two-pronged approach: explain negative things in the least scary way and follow up those explanations with examples of proactive solutions. If she teaches kids about land degradation, she'll use images of dry and cracked dirt rather than dead animals to show the effect, then tell students what they can do to fix the problem.
These proactive solutions include watching the use of electricity at home, picking up trash and sending letters to people who run palm oil businesses. Because the kids are so young, McSherry says they are the most impressionable and more likely to adopt new behaviors.
McSherry says she's never felt compelled to go on a negative rant about people destroying the environment.
"The kids are too sweet and positive," McSherry says. "They're willing and ready to be empowered by what they learn."
McSherry says she also takes care not to push any sort of political agenda. She keeps her lectures scientific, and none of what she teaches is considered extreme in the scientific community.
In the future, McSherry says she'll continue to adapt her curriculum for Santa Clara County. The local curriculum focuses on building and designing tech solutions to solve problems. She says this year she'd like to capitalize on that problem-solver mentality and do a project called "design your own green tech" for kindergarteners.


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For the second consecutive year, Eastman Kodak Co.'s struggles loomed large over the Rochester business world.
The saga of Kodak filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and the company's effort to sell some of its assets ranked as the No. 1 business story of 2012 in a poll of Rochester Business Journal readers. The story of Kodak's financial woes also was the No. 1 story of 2011.
The Kodak story got more than twice as many votes as the second-place story-Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., winning re-election over Republican Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks in the newly drawn 25th Congressional District.
The story of Kodak's bankruptcy also ranked No. 1 in the annual poll of the RBJ's editorial staff members.
Kodak began 2012 as many analysts had predicted. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Jan. 19 with expectations to complete restructuring during 2013.
In February, Kodak announced plans to phase out its digital camera, pocket camera and digital picture frame business. The company also received approval to end a deal for naming rights to the Hollywood theater where the annual Academy Awards ceremony is held. Kodak then announced plans to sell its online photo business to rival Shutterfly Inc.
In September, Kodak said it had achieved the downsizing of its global workforce by more than 2,700 positions, with plans for further reductions of at least 1,200 employees. In November, Kodak accepted an $830 million financing offer from a group of bondholders. The deal was contingent on the sale of Kodak's digital imaging patent portfolio for at least $500 million.
On Dec. 19, the company agreed to sell the patents for $525 million to a consortium organized by Intellectual Ventures Management LLC and RPX Corp. Kodak said the deal, which is subject to the approval of the Bankruptcy Court and other conditions, would put the company on track to emerge from bankruptcy in the first half of 2013.
While Kodak dominated local headlines, the biggest news story on a national scale was the 2012 presidential election. The election was the most searched news topic on Yahoo Inc.'s search engine and the third most searched topic on Google, behind Whitney Houston and Hurricane Sandy.
Local politics centered on the race between Slaughter and Brooks, a contest that was not as close as some might have expected. Slaughter won 57 percent of the vote and Brooks got 43 percent.
"The voters of Monroe County voted for additional legislative gridlock and unsustainable federal debt levels," commented Michael Lebowitz, a Pittsford-based real estate broker, who took part in the RBJ poll. "Maggie Brooks offered a moderate position which would (have) led to the reduction of our national debt and reductions in the size of spending of federal government.
"Instead, the voters supported two more years of out-of-control federal spending and burdening our children's future with the historically high national debt. We can only hope that Maggie will give us the opportunity to vote for her in 2014."
Following closely behind the story of Slaughter's re-election was the agreement of Laurence Glazer and Robert Morgan to redevelop Midtown Tower.
Rochester Mayor Thomas Richards announced in December that Glazer, CEO of Buckingham Properties LLC, would partner with Morgan Management LLC on a tower development that would feature 160 to 182 apartments along with commercial space on three to five floors at the southern end of the Midtown site.
The Glazer-Morgan partnership was ranked as the second most important story by the RBJ's editorial team.
The news of the tower project was a positive story for the area, something readers such as Peter Caines would like to see more of.
"Unfortunately, most of the news is not of the positive type for our area," he commented. "We need new leadership that focuses Upstate New York on economic growth and job creation, which will only come with a more business-friendly environment and reduction in regulation and taxation. Otherwise, five to 10 years from now, it will be just more of the same. Merry Christmas and try to stay optimistic."
Ranking fourth on the readers' list was American Breweries Holdings LLC, the parent of Genesee Brewing Co., agreeing to be sold to Cerveceria Costa Rica S.A. Rounding out the top five was the plan of Pepsi Co. Inc. and German diary company Theo Muller Gmbh for a $206 million Muller Quaker Dairy yogurt plant in Batavia.
The RBJ reader and staff polls were conducted Dec. 17 and 18; nearly 950 readers took part.
Here are some additional comments from readers:
Our governors past and present have been so tax-happy that it is destroying New York. I know a lot of people leaving New York. Just gas alone is so high that half our job force cannot afford to get to work. Half this blame goes to unions that are shutting down plants. Open your eyes and wake up. We too cannot afford New York; we will be leaving soon.
—R. Gottshall
University of Rochester, Rochester Institute of Technology and all the other colleges and universities in our region continued to be a powerful, robust economic engine driving our economy and quality of life.
—Betsy Glavin, Litron Laboratories
Regarding the top new stories, my vote is for the stories I wish I could have read but are missing: investigative reporting on the profits and salaries of Excellus and MVP personnel; double-digit increases in health insurance; the relationship of pharmaceutical rebates on formulary inclusion and position; the tax impact on this community from large employer not-for-profit companies compared with the tax contribution of for-profit companies; and a thorough accounting of program outcomes from tax dollars, e.g. welfare, child protection, DPW, etc.
—Leslie Apetz
Extremely difficult to choose; all are significant happenings in our area. However, anything affecting education and jobs is the most significant with long-term ramifications.
—J.A. DePaolis, Penfield
If this is supposed to be about business stories, why are political stories included on the list?
—Marcus Klausen, Chili
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Most of us remember to list property taxes and taxes paid to the state on Schedule A of Form 1040. But a closer look at this section could reveal that you've been overlooking possible deductions and including items that might not be eligible and would be disallowed in an audit.
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First let's dissect a few of the so-called obvious deductions:
Property Taxes. You would think this is a slam dunk. After all, you cut a check to the county for payment of your property taxes and that's the number that goes on your tax return. Wrong. It used to be that during an audit the IRS would not comb through a filer's property tax bill and disallowed a portion of it, but with deficits running high, the IRS and particularly state governments are all over this deduction.
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Any assessments that are not deductible should be added to the basis of your property. You should maintain a file with all the receipts for your home improvements and other transactions that increase the basis of your home. This file should also include a copy of any property tax bills that show these nondeductible assessments. When the time comes to sell your home, your profit will be reduced by these amounts and you'll be glad you kept an organized paper trail.
You cannot deduct the portion of your property tax bill that is allocated to services such as your $20 monthly trash pickup bill. However, if the funds are used to maintain or improve services such a trash collection or fire and police protection and the funds aren't earmarked but go into the general revenue fund then you can deduct them.
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DMV Fees. If you look closely at your vehicle registration bill, you will find a breakdown of the total amount to various taxes, registration and license. Your state government will usually indicate which part of this list is deductible. For example, in California the only amount that is deductible is the license fee.
Property Taxes for Timeshare. If you own a timeshare in which you also hold the deed of trust, you may write off the portion of the annual maintenance fee that is allocated to property taxes.
Personal Property Taxes. If you live in an area that levies personal property taxes, you may deduct these payments. This is generally a local or state tax levied on your property's value.
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General Sales Tax. This provision will benefit taxpayers who live in states that do not levy an income tax. You cannot deduct both. So you have a choice, you can either deduct your income taxes paid or the general sales tax which is based on a table. Check to see which works better for you.
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Foreign Income Taxes. You can deduct amounts paid to foreign countries either as an itemized deduction or as a credit on form 1040, line 47. You may have to complete Form 1116.
Self-employment tax. One half of the amount paid for self-employment tax is deducted under adjustments to income on Line 27 of Form 1040.
Estate Taxes. If you, a beneficiary, must include income belonging to a deceased person in your gross income, you may deduct the corresponding tax but only as a miscellaneous itemized deduction subject to the 2% AGI haircut. Check with your tax pro.
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Bonnie Lee is an Enrolled Agent admitted to practice and representing taxpayers in all fifty states at all levels within the Internal Revenue Service. She is the owner of Taxpertise in Sonoma, CA and the author of Entrepreneur Press book, "Taxpertise, The Complete Book of Dirty Little Secrets and Hidden Deductions for Small Business that the IRS Doesn't Want You to Know." Follow Bonnie Lee on Twitter at BLTaxpertise and at Facebook.


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