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Update (by editor Peter Sciretta): Now The Wrap is reporting that in addition to Ramirez, Toby Kebbell (The Sorceror’s Apprentice) is in talks to play Agenor and Hayley Atwell (Captain America), Georgina Haig (Wasted on the Young), Janet Montgomery (Black Swan), Dominique McElligott (Moon) and Clemence Poesy (Fleur Delacour in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) are on the shortlist of actresses who are actually testing for the role of Andromeda.
The screenplay, written by frequent Boyle collaborator and Slumdog Millionaire writer Simon Beaufoy is said to contain no dialogue what-so-ever for the an hour of the story. Danny Boyle is the Academy Award-winning filmmaker behind Slumdog Millionaire, 28 Days Dater, Sunshine, Millions, The Beach, A Life Less Ordinary, and Trainspotting. I’m really excited to see this film at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, and I’m hoping it might sneak premiere at Telluride in early September. I was in the high school auditorium when Slumdog premiered to a standing ovation, and it would be wonderful to see Boyle return to the little town in the mountains for his next film. Either way, you’ll get my first thoughts on the movie whenever, wherever it premieres.Watch the trailer embedded after the jump. Please leave your thoughts in the comments below.
We’ve got some brief news about Danny Boyle‘s film 127 Hours, which is in post-production now, and some very good early buzz to deliver. The news is casting-related — thanks to the official film synopsis from Fox Searchlight (reproduced after the break) we know that Clémence Poésy from In Bruges is playing the girlfriend of mountain climber Aaron Ralston (James Franco). Previously, we’d heard that Amber Tamblyn had the role, but she instead plays another hiker.
UBP MPs Kim Swan and Charlie Swan talk to lawyer Graveney Bannister and Devrae Noel-Simmons outside court this morning.
Opposition leader Kim Swan, together with other UBP members, today won a temporary injunction stalling the party’s planned merger with the Bermuda Democractic Alliance.
Last week, UBP members voted to disband and join forces with the BDA to form a new party called the One Bermuda Alliance, or OBA.
But in Commercial Court today, attorney Graveney Bannister said the group of opposition members were putting forward a constitutional challenge as to how the dissolution of the party and the merger is being carried out.
A writ was filed this morning with Mr Swan and other UBP figures, including MP Charles Swan, UBP candidate Devrae Noel-Simmons and party joint chairman Montell Currin among others as complainants.
UBP Senator Jeanne Atherden and MPs Trevor Moniz and John Barritt, the interim leader of the OBA, were listed as respondents.
None of the three listed respondents attended the appearance, but Justice Kawaley said they would have 24 hours to respond, granting an interim injunction.
“I’m satisfied that there is a serious issue to be tried,” he said.
Believe it or not but CM of this state doesn’t have even Rs 4000; he never filed Income Tax return – Find out who he is!
This CM has Rs 1,520 in hand and Rs 2,410 in his account in a nationalised bank. He does not have any other bank deposit.
Many people will certainly find it tough to believe but it?s a truth!
Many people will certainly find it tough to believe but it’s a truth! Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, who is running for the fifth consecutive term, has Rs 3,930 and has never filed any income tax return, states an election affidavit submitted by him while filing his nomination paper. The Left leader donates his entire salary to the CPI(M) and gets Rs 5,000 from the party as subsistence allowances.
The 69-year-old leader has Rs 1,520 in hand and Rs 2,410 in his account in a nationalised bank. He does not have any other bank deposit, the affidavit said.
Sarkar, who is contesting from Dhanpur constituency, filed his nomination papers yesterday. He has no cultivable or homestead land. He stays in the chief minister’s official residence. The chief minister’s wife Panchali Bhattacharya, a retired central government employee, has Rs 20,140 as cash and Rs 1,24,101 and Rs 86,473.78 in two bank accounts. She also has three fixed deposits of Rs 2 lakh, Rs 5 lakh and Rs 2.25 lakh, besides 20 grams of jewellery.
Bhattacharya inherited 888.35 sq ft area of land and till date invested Rs 15 lakh for construction there. The current value of the land is Rs 21 lakh. She filed her last income tax return in 2011-12, where she showed her income as Rs 4,49,770. After that she did not file any income tax return.
and other central services, they said. These officials will report to the Election Expenditure Monitoring (EEM) wing of the Election Commission (EC) established at Nirvachan Sadan, the poll panel’s headquarters in Delhi.
San Diego--Until Hamilton Elementary School became the site of an ambitious experiment by city and county officials here to ease access to services for troubled families, Tina Graves did not know where to turn for help.
Caught in an abusive marriage and unable to meet her family's basic health, housing, and food needs, Ms. Graves, who has three children at Hamilton, says she "came to the school to talk to a counselor about how to ease the stress" that dominated her life. She also worried that stress was exacerbating her 8-year-old son's increasingly frequent respiratory problems.
As it turned out, Ms. Graves was not aware of the help available from state, county, and city programs.
"I never really tried before," she recalls.
Her only experience with public assistance had been with the San Diego Housing Commission. She re4calls how she had to show up once a week for several weeks "just to get on the waiting list" and then how she had to wait three years for subsidized housing.
Before that, "we had to move every six months," she recalls.
With monthly rents averaging at least $550 in her City Heights neighborhood, she says, "you see people just fall under."
The city, county, and school officials who launched the interagency collaborative known as "New Beginnings" recognized that, to many parents, the school may be the most familiar and accessible place to seek help.
In addition to setting up a center at Hamilton to assess families' needs, offer services, and refer them for help elsewhere, San Diego agency officials hope to "reinvent" what they concede is a fragmented and unwieldy system of services.
Since New Beginnings started, Ms. Graves has been learning to traverse the various avenues of assistance.
In the pilot phase of the collaborative, a school-based social worker helped her summon the courage to "get my husband out of the house" and file for a restraining order, she says.
He also helped her set up free weekly counseling sessions and arranged for a local church to donate food until she could get on welfare.
Once Ms. Graves gets on her feet, she expects to begin job training under the state's welfare-reform program, Greater Avenues for Independence. She has also learned that MediCal, the state's Medicaid program, will cover her son's medical costs.
The social worker "helped get me out of a situation I couldn't get out of myself," she recalls. "Now I'm the boss: I say what goes."
Ms. Graves, who once shunned local p.t.a. meetings because she "didn't think they were doing anything for the community," has atel10ltended several New Beginnings sessions at the school and has offered to volunteer in the effort.
Ms. Graves still struggles daily to piece together the aid her family needs. Lacking transportation, she has to rely on bus tokens from the social worker to take her son to the doctor, and she worries about having to negotiate the legal system if her husband seeks custody of their children.
Like Ms. Graves, "thousands of San Diego families face circumstances which threaten their well-being and promise only a bleak future," according to a study agency officials launched in 1989 to assess existing services.
The aim of New Beginnings is to create a more unified system and streamline the eligibility process. But results of the 10-month feasibility study show what a daunting task they face.
In addition to analyzing the numbers of families served by various agencies to identify gaps and areas of overlap, the study explored barriers that prevent families from getting aid and preclude workers from giving it.
Surveys and discussions conducted for the study involved workers from city and county social-services, health, probation, and housing agencies; the San Diego city schools; and the San Diego community-college district.
The families shared "a common thread of poverty," and many "also exhibited a common history of physical and/or substance abuse," the study found.
Agency workers said food, shelter, health care, and safety topped their clients' concerns, but they also identified as pressing needs education, child care, job skills, counseling, intervention in cases of physical or substance abuse, and transportation.
But the workers perceived many parents as "unaware of their failure to meet socially acceptable standards in the areas of discipline, child safety, cleanliness, and supervision" or "in a state of denial" about personal problems, the study showed. They viewed families as exercising "little control over their circumstances."
In cases where families sought help, the study showed, they often encountered "long waiting lists, inflexible requirements, and inconvenient locations."
To keep a 7:30 A.M. appointment at the welfare office, for example, Ms. Graves would have to find child care or bring her children and leave the house at 5, walk to a bus stop, and ride the bus for more than an hour. Appointments were timed so closely that she would have to reschedule if she arrived late.
Like Ms. Graves, many families in the study felt inhibited by a system that required them "to make trips to many agencies, meet multiple eligibility criteria, [and] talk to an endless stream of workers." While they found some workers helpful, they often felt "devalued, hassled, and ignored" by agencies.
At the same time, the workers said barriers between institutions discouraged them from coordinating their services and approaching families holistically. Disincentives included overspecialized services, distant offices, restrictions on data sharing, overlapping or "incongruent'' rules, and insufficient equipment.
The workers also voiced frustration about time constraints and approaches that focus most resources on families "chronically in crisis"--rather than on prevention--and allow them "to do little more than put bandages on family problems."
Obstacles in communicating with families included language barriers, the lack of telephones at home, and a high rate of family mobility.
A migration study of the 1987-88 school year by school officials showed Hamilton pupils had the highest mobility in the district, with slightly more than half attending the school 120 to 180 days, and almost a third attending 60 days or less.
The agency workers also reported feeling "dehumanized" by the "narrowness and inflexibility" of their roles and the lack of feedback on their accomplishments.
Job D. Moraido, the social worker based at Hamilton for three months as part of the New Beginnings study, notes that, in his regular role as a child-protective-services worker for the county Department of Social Services, "if there was no protective issue, we had to close the case."
As a family-services advocate at Hamilton, however, "I could work with any family that needed help," he notes.
Mr. Moraido, who acted as a caseworker for 20 "multiple problem" families picked by the school, also found them "less distrustful" and more open in a school setting because it "doesn't do investigations like welfare or child-protective services."
While Hamilton runs numerous outreach, counseling, and recreational programs, and staff members stock extra food or "quietly slip used jackets and socks" to children in need, the study showed officials have been hampered by a sense of isolation and lack understanding of how to refer families to other services.
Agency officials say basing some services at the school and "cross training" workers there will help bridge such barriers, and they add that setting common goals has al4ready improved the way some services are provided.
But they concede collaboration has not been easy.
"The more agencies you involve, and the more elected policymaking bodies, the more difficult it is," says Thomas W. Payzant, superintendent of the San Diego schools.
Key challenges, adds Richard W. Jacobsen Jr., director of the Department of Social Services, have been been "getting everyone to be patient" and "making sure what is going on is not 'personality based"' to ensure continuity when current agency leaders move on.
Officials also say it has been difficult pulling already overworked staff members off other projects to devote time to the collaborative.
Copies of "New Beginnings: A Feasibility Study of Integrated Services for Children and Families" are available for $6 each, with appendices for $2 each, from the Office of the Deputy Superintendent, San Diego City Schools, Room 2248, 4100 Normal St., San Diego, Calif. 92103-2682.
Johnny Dang has designed jewelry for celebrities including Cardi B, Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry, Beyoncé and Jay-Z.
Dang created a custom custom necklace for Cardi B's eight-month daughter. It features white gold, rose gold and white diamonds totaling 2.5 carats.
Houston rapper Travis Scott owns five grill sets by Dang.
Dang's quick turnaround time appeals to Dang’s clients, especially his celebrity customers.
This World Series grill by Johnny Dang & Co. was made for Astros left fielder Derek Fisher.
Jay-Z has a bottom grill by Dang.
Johnny Dang meets with former professional boxer Floyd Mayweather at his Richmond Avenue store.
Internet celebrity Jeffree Star wears a grill by Dang.
Johnny Dang made this $120,000 toilet necklace for comedian, Lil Duval.
Rapper Quavo wears a grill by Dang.
Close-up of the custom grill designed by Paul Wall and Johnny Dang for U.S. Olympic winners.
Johnny Dang moved to Houston from Vietnam in 1996.
Johnny Dang & Co. occupies a two-story 14,000 square-foot store on Richmond Avenue, where Dang sells specialty designed shoes and bags, and custom jewelry.
Seattle is most definitely a beer city. It’s the reason Jen Nicosia moved here from Chicago.
Nicosia is a brewer and a beertender at Lowercase Brewing in south Seattle. She’s also a member of the Seattle chapter of the Pink Boots Society, a network of women who work in the beer industry.
Keller is responsible for starting a Pink Boots Society chapter in Seattle.
Keller says about 50 women show up to each quarterly Pink Boots Society meeting, and there’s an always an educational aspect.
Sibyl Perkins, a home brewer, does web and graphic design for craft breweries and tries to direct her clients away from marketing specifically to men.
Pink Boots Society also provides scholarships to women in the beer industry, so they can take classes, travel to places like Germany to study beer brewing or maybe even become a cicerone.
In their daily patrols, Air One crews have found stolen cars in retention ponds, sharks in the shallows, even marijuana plants in the woods.
High in the air, Greg Brooks and Michael Miller have a commanding view of the Volusia County neighborhoods they patrol for criminal activity.
“We get to see a lot from up here,” said Miller, a paramedic, as the Volusia County Sheriff's Office helicopter rose from the DeLand Municipal Airport.
At 500 feet, pilot Brooks increased speed to 149 mph, simulating the transportation of a trauma patient to Halifax Health Medical Center. The green-and-white flying machine, known to law enforcement officers as Air One, headed east over the Tomoka Correctional Institution and Daytona Beach Municipal Stadium. Seven minutes later, the helicopter landed at the helipad atop Halifax Health Medical Center and sat for 90 seconds — the time it takes to unload trauma patients and take them downstairs to the trauma center.
The air ship took off from the hospital pad and resumed its patrol at a speed of 103 mph.
Daytona Beach police were looking for a suspicious car. Brooks radioed that he and Miller were headed to the area to help. The chopper banked right and then left and in less than a minute the black Acura came into view at School Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard. Brooks radioed its location as Miller quickly activated the controls of the camera to take a closer look at the car and its license plate. The crew switched channels to talk with ground patrols and quickly led marked units to the parking lot where the car had stopped. The chopper hovered above until Daytona Beach police said all was clear.
Brooks, one of four pilots, and Miller, one of four paramedics with the Sheriff's Office, fly routing patrols — one in the morning and one in the afternoon — over areas where statistics show high criminal activity, said Capt. Eric Dietrich, commander of the Sheriff's Office Special Services Division.
The Bell 407 helicopter, powered by a 750 shafted horse power engine, is one of three in the fleet. One is assigned to the day shift, another to the night shift. One is always in reserve and goes into service when a helicopter needs maintenance service that can take eight hours to a month. The helicopters are serviced at 50-hour intervals, said mechanic and aircraft maintenance supervisor, Neil Ridout.
Purchased in 2008, 2009, and 2010, half of the $5.9 million cost of all three was paid by Halifax Health Medical Center.
The Sheriff's Office and Halifax have a partnership and under the agreement the Sheriff's Office staffs and flies for the regional trauma network that includes Halifax. The Sheriff's Office is among the few local governments in the country with the authority to operate under a Federal Aviation Administration certificate that permits Halifax to receive compensation from trauma patients flown to its facility, said Gary Davidson, sheriff's spokesman.
“It is these patient fees that help defray the acquisition cost of the helicopters and keep the fiscal impact to taxpayers at a minimum,” Davidson said.
From January to July, Air One responded to 95 medical calls and flew 67 patients. From 2008 to 2012, the helicopters have responded to 1,035 medical calls, flying 802 patients, Dietrich said.
Medical calls take priority when helicopters are on patrol, but they also are used for search and rescue; aerial surveillance and narcotics interdiction missions; to assess crowd and traffic conditions during special events; and a variety of other jobs, like conducting manatee counts and assessing environmental damage such as beach erosion following major storms, Davidson said.
They are also used to fight fires, as they can carry both 110-gallon and 200-gallon buckets for fire suppression, Dietrich said.
In their daily patrols, the crew of Air One has found stolen cars dumped in retention ponds, fast-moving suspicious cars, sharks on the shallow waters off the beach and even marijuana plants in the woods near State Road 44 and Interstate 95. The crew has also tailed bank robbers and other criminals fleeing from Volusia.
And criminals who have been caught with the help of the aircrew have a nickname for the chopper, Brooks said.
“When they get to jail they have said they could not get way from the 'Ghetto Hawk,'” Brooks said, chuckling.
Brooks coasted along the beach on the way to New Smyrna Beach, crossing over Mosquito Lagoon before heading to a retention pond near State Road 44 and Interstate 4 where they helped capture two burglars on Sept. 6.
“This is the retention pond where one suspect jumped in and swam across to go into that swamp,” Brooks said.
The burglars had gotten away from DeLand police after breaking into a gas station and escaped with several cartons of cigarettes and cigars. The car crashed into a guardrail on Interstate 4 and the occupants ran into the woods. Air One came to the aid of foot patrols and helped capture the suspects. The chopper crew also had to make a water drop of a different sort from fighting fires.
Cerberus implodes: "The real surprise is that 29% of their investors haven’t asked for their money back."

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