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It's a harrowing walk through the heart of darkness.
Saskia Rosendahl gives an impressively poised performance as the beautiful teenager, whose determination to protect her remaining family coincides with her growing revulsion toward her parents.
"Lore" is not a pretty story, but it is a good and sadly believable one.
"Lore" is not a love story, nor the story of a friendship. Rather, it's a story of healing and of how breaking, sometimes painfully, is often necessary before that process can begin.
A fiercely poetic portrait of a young woman staggering beyond innocence and denial, it's about the wars that rage within after the wars outside are lost.
Full of surprises, the movie draws a thin line between pity and revulsion - how would you feel if you had discovered your whole life had been based on lies?
Think "Little Red Riding Hood" meets The Road.
Unflinching but thoroughly engrossing, the film provides a rarely depicted look at the Holocaust's other innocent victims. Beautiful cinematography by Adam Arkapaw.
Proves that there is always room for another [World War II] story if it can be presented in an original and unexpected fashion.
Texture and detail embellish a provocative story
Child of Nazi parents faces an uncertain future
[Director Cate] Shortland directs with an almost hypnotic focus, favoring Lore's immediate experience over the big picture.
Rosendahl's performance is raw and compelling, as Lore fights for her siblings' survival and grows up in a hurry.
Lore and her siblings make a harrowing journey across Germany
Worthwhile, but so subtle that it's frustrating.
The Australian-German co-production takes an unconventional tale and turns it into a challenging, visually stunning and emotionally turbulent film experience.
Over the river and through the woods, to Grandmother's house we go. Except this ain't no fairy tale... unless it is, perhaps, a hint of the beginnings of a new mythology of ... scary childhood and even scarier adolescence...
With a child's perspective on war, "Lore" deserves comparisons with "Empire of the Sun" and "Hope and Glory," and with a feisty female protagonist it stands virtually alone.
Rosendahl...provides both narrative and emotional continuity to a film whose deliberate pace and fragmented presentation of reality might otherwise prove exasperating.
A burning portrait of consciousness and endurance, gracefully acted and strikingly realized, producing an honest sense of emotional disruption, while concluding on a powerful note of cultural and familial rejection.
Although there are moments that push the story a bit beyond credulity, Shortland has created something remarkable by forcing us to find within ourselves sympathy for this would-be Aryan princess.
Stunning, admirable and indelible - truthfully chronicling the triumph of the human spirit - in a class with Michael Haneke's 'The White Ribbon.'
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Preterm infants may need 800 IU of vitamin D3 per dayPublic release date: 5-May-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Debbie Jacobson djacobson@aap.org 847-434-7084 American Academy of Pediatrics
Largest study to date of preemies shows 800 IU more effective than 400 IU in decreasing vitamin D insufficiency
WASHINGTON, DC Preterm infants may need to be given 800 international units (IU) of vitamin D a day to ensure they develop strong bones, according to a study to be presented Sunday, May 5, at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Washington, DC.
Preemies are known to be at risk for vitamin D insufficiency. If levels of vitamin D are too low, infants and children can get rickets, which leads to softening and weakening of the bones.
Recommendations from medical organizations on how much vitamin D should be given to preemies range from 400 IU to 1000 IU per day. This lack of consensus prompted researchers from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, to conduct the largest study to date on vitamin D supplementation in preterm infants.
Subjects included 96 infants born between 28 and 34 weeks' gestation who were receiving milk feeding. Blood samples were taken from the infants to determine their serum vitamin D levels. The infants then were randomly assigned to receive either 800 IU or 400 IU of oral vitamin D3. Neither the parents nor the primary investigator was aware of which dose the infants were receiving.
Researchers compared whether the prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency (VDI) at 40 weeks and at 3 months corrected age differed between the groups. They also looked at whether infants with higher vitamin D levels also had stronger bones at 3 months corrected age and whether supplementation led to vitamin D levels that were too high.
Results showed that VDI was common in both groups before they received supplements (79 percent of the 800 IU group and 83 percent of the 400 IU group).
After supplementation, the prevalence of VDI at 40 weeks was 43 percent lower in the 800 IU group than the 400 IU group (38 percent vs. 67 percent). In addition, VDI was significantly lower in the 800 IU group when the infants were 3 months old (12 percent vs. 35 percent).
Four infants needed to be supplemented with 800 IU daily to reduce one case of vitamin D insufficiency, said lead author Chandra Kumar Natarajan, DM.
"The study results show conclusively that in preterm infants with high rates of vitamin D insufficiency at baseline, supplementation with 800 IU of vitamin D3 per day compared to 400 IU per day reduces vitamin D insufficiency at term equivalent age and at 3 months," Dr. Natarajan said. "There also is a trend toward a decrease in the prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency even in the 400 IU group at 3 months. Therefore, 400 IU per day may be sufficient after 3 months."
Despite significant improvement in serum vitamin D levels in the 800 IU group, higher levels did not result in better bone mineralization at 3 months of age as measured by dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA). In addition, weight, length and head circumference did not differ significantly between the groups.
Dr. Natarajan also noted that one infant in the 800 IU group had vitamin D levels that were higher than recommended levels at 3 months of age despite the levels at term age being normal. Excess vitamin D for at least one month can cause decreased muscle tone, decreased appetite, irritability and constipation, among other problems. The infant did not experience any major effects.
"The incidence of vitamin D excess in the 800 IU group may indicate the need for monitoring vitamin D levels in infants on vitamin D supplementation, but we need larger studies to answer this," he said. "Similarly, larger studies with longer duration of follow-up may be needed to find out any meaningful difference in clinical outcomes such as bone mineralization."
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To view the abstract, "Daily Vitamin D Supplementation with 800 IU vs. 400 IU in Preterm Infants: A Randomized Trial," go to http://www.abstracts2view.com/pas/view.php?nu=PAS13L1_2183.8.
The Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) are four individual pediatric organizations that co-sponsor the PAS Annual Meeting the American Pediatric Society, the Society for Pediatric Research, the Academic Pediatric Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Members of these organizations are pediatricians and other health care providers who are practicing in the research, academic and clinical arenas. The four sponsoring organizations are leaders in the advancement of pediatric research and child advocacy within pediatrics, and all share a common mission of fostering the health and well-being of children worldwide.For more information, visit http://www.pas-meeting.org. Follow news of the PAS meeting on Twitter at http://twitter.com/PedAcadSoc.
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Preterm infants may need 800 IU of vitamin D3 per dayPublic release date: 5-May-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Debbie Jacobson djacobson@aap.org 847-434-7084 American Academy of Pediatrics
Largest study to date of preemies shows 800 IU more effective than 400 IU in decreasing vitamin D insufficiency
WASHINGTON, DC Preterm infants may need to be given 800 international units (IU) of vitamin D a day to ensure they develop strong bones, according to a study to be presented Sunday, May 5, at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Washington, DC.
Preemies are known to be at risk for vitamin D insufficiency. If levels of vitamin D are too low, infants and children can get rickets, which leads to softening and weakening of the bones.
Recommendations from medical organizations on how much vitamin D should be given to preemies range from 400 IU to 1000 IU per day. This lack of consensus prompted researchers from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, to conduct the largest study to date on vitamin D supplementation in preterm infants.
Subjects included 96 infants born between 28 and 34 weeks' gestation who were receiving milk feeding. Blood samples were taken from the infants to determine their serum vitamin D levels. The infants then were randomly assigned to receive either 800 IU or 400 IU of oral vitamin D3. Neither the parents nor the primary investigator was aware of which dose the infants were receiving.
Researchers compared whether the prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency (VDI) at 40 weeks and at 3 months corrected age differed between the groups. They also looked at whether infants with higher vitamin D levels also had stronger bones at 3 months corrected age and whether supplementation led to vitamin D levels that were too high.
Results showed that VDI was common in both groups before they received supplements (79 percent of the 800 IU group and 83 percent of the 400 IU group).
After supplementation, the prevalence of VDI at 40 weeks was 43 percent lower in the 800 IU group than the 400 IU group (38 percent vs. 67 percent). In addition, VDI was significantly lower in the 800 IU group when the infants were 3 months old (12 percent vs. 35 percent).
Four infants needed to be supplemented with 800 IU daily to reduce one case of vitamin D insufficiency, said lead author Chandra Kumar Natarajan, DM.
"The study results show conclusively that in preterm infants with high rates of vitamin D insufficiency at baseline, supplementation with 800 IU of vitamin D3 per day compared to 400 IU per day reduces vitamin D insufficiency at term equivalent age and at 3 months," Dr. Natarajan said. "There also is a trend toward a decrease in the prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency even in the 400 IU group at 3 months. Therefore, 400 IU per day may be sufficient after 3 months."
Despite significant improvement in serum vitamin D levels in the 800 IU group, higher levels did not result in better bone mineralization at 3 months of age as measured by dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA). In addition, weight, length and head circumference did not differ significantly between the groups.
Dr. Natarajan also noted that one infant in the 800 IU group had vitamin D levels that were higher than recommended levels at 3 months of age despite the levels at term age being normal. Excess vitamin D for at least one month can cause decreased muscle tone, decreased appetite, irritability and constipation, among other problems. The infant did not experience any major effects.
"The incidence of vitamin D excess in the 800 IU group may indicate the need for monitoring vitamin D levels in infants on vitamin D supplementation, but we need larger studies to answer this," he said. "Similarly, larger studies with longer duration of follow-up may be needed to find out any meaningful difference in clinical outcomes such as bone mineralization."
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To view the abstract, "Daily Vitamin D Supplementation with 800 IU vs. 400 IU in Preterm Infants: A Randomized Trial," go to http://www.abstracts2view.com/pas/view.php?nu=PAS13L1_2183.8.
The Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) are four individual pediatric organizations that co-sponsor the PAS Annual Meeting the American Pediatric Society, the Society for Pediatric Research, the Academic Pediatric Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Members of these organizations are pediatricians and other health care providers who are practicing in the research, academic and clinical arenas. The four sponsoring organizations are leaders in the advancement of pediatric research and child advocacy within pediatrics, and all share a common mission of fostering the health and well-being of children worldwide.For more information, visit http://www.pas-meeting.org. Follow news of the PAS meeting on Twitter at http://twitter.com/PedAcadSoc.
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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Kevin Smith is criticizing an article published in the LA Times on Thursday for reporting opinions about his career and internet activity as fact.
Through a series of tweets, the "Clerks" director offered corrections to Matthew Fleischer's article titled "Can Hollywood's star machine master Reddit's 'Ask Me Anything'?"
"NOT mad at all and NOT starting a jihad," he began, "But the author includes two of his opinions as fact that are incorrect and easily fact-checked."
The article, which examines the publicity benefits of Reddit AMA's to Hollywood stars, cites Smith as a regular on the site. He has participated in five of the popular online Q&A sessions. Fleischer asserts Smith's "fluency with Reddit has arguably made him one of the most popular podcasters on the Internet - a career turn that helped land him his television show 'Comic Book Men' on AMC."
According to Smith, the connection between Reddit and his podcast is "just nuts."
"I've been podcasting since '07, did my first @reddit last year," he tweeted. "Subscriptions to our podcasts took no discernible jump after any of my AMAs."
He also takes issue with Fleischer's statement that Smith's "film success has cooled since his heyday in the 1990s."
"The numbers say different," Smith tweeted. "'Red State' notwithstanding (it only ever played theatrically 15 times in US on tour), my last film,'Cop Out,' was also my highest grossing."
"Cop Out," a 2010 buddy-cop comedy starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan, grossed $55.5 million worldwide. Two years before that, "Zack and Miri Make a Porno" grossed $42.1 million worldwide. 2001's "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" grossed nearly $33.8 million worldwide.
Smith's highest grossing film in the 1990s was "Dogma," the 1999 religion-inspired apocalyptic comedy starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck (and, of course, Jason Mewes and Smith as Jay and Silent Bob), which grossed $30.6 million worldwide. "Clerks," Smith's critically-acclaimed debut feature, was the second highest grossing film of that decade, making a little over $3.1 million.
"I guess it depends on how you define 'film success,'" Smith continued to tweet. "But if it's box office, then I'm MORE successful than I was in the '90s. Go figure."
While Smith also clarified he's "not mad" or "even offended" by Fleischer's inaccuracies, he did identify a growing problem in journalism: "I get that we live in the opinion-as-fact age. And I'm not even offended by it. It's just not correct."
ESPNcricinfo IPL Fantasy League guide: Kolkata Knight Riders vs. Rajasthan Royals
The Indian Premier League (IPL) action will continue tonight, May 3, with Kolkata Knight Riders taking on the Rajasthan Royals in an attempt to keep their chances of making it into the playoffs bright.
Skipper Gautam Gambhir and his men in black and gold have not been faring too well in the tournament so far despite having a handful of heavy-weights in their team. Having the likes of Jacques Kallis, Sunil Narine, Eoin Morgan and promising talent Manvinder
Bisla in their line-up would lead a neutral person to believe that they are as close to being an unbeatable team as possible, but that has not been the case for the defending champions so far.
The Rajasthan Royals, on the other hand, have been doing exceptionally well despite not having the greatest overseas players in their line-up. Yes, they have the hitting power and pace of Shane Watson with them and yes, they have Mr. Cool Rahul Dravid leading
the army of XI. However, the rest of the team is comprised of somewhat inexperienced players, both local and international. Even the likes of Brad Hodge are not the most well-known names in the world of international cricket.
It would indeed be interesting to see if Gambhir is able to end the inconsistent run of his team and offer a strong challenge to Dravid and his men.
The IPL enthusiast would surely be wondering about the best picks for today?s playing XI in their IPL Fantasy League team. Since they can only have four players from each side and that too if they have plenty of transfer to spare, they need to make a lot
of assessments.
First of all, the pitch in Kolkata will offer something for both the batsmen as well as the bowlers. Therefore, it is imperative to go into today?s match with a balanced team.
Gambhir has been struggling to get to a big score lately, but if he gets going, he can make a really solid impact in home conditions. Therefore, pick him for today?s match. Kallis is another player who is worth a slot in the playing XI. Morgan and Narine
are two more options that you can consider for today?s match.
From the Rajasthan Royals? side, Watson is an obvious pick for today?s match. He can earn points with both the bat and the ball. Rahane may have failed to make much of an impact in the last couple of games, but there is hardly anyone who doubts his potential
to playing a big innings. Selecting him for today?s match would be a good move. The man with the purple cap, James Faulkner, is also a must for today?s game, as he is sure to feed on the struggling Knight Riders batsmen.
May 3, 2013 ? Will we soon be forced to eat jellyfish? Since the beginning of the 2000s, these gelatinous creatures have invaded many of the world's seas, like the Japan Sea, the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, etc. Is it a cyclic phenomenon, caused by changes in marine currents or even global warming? Until now, the causes remained unknown. A new study conducted by IRD researchers and its partners, published in Bulletin of Marine Science, exposes overfishing as the main factor.
Jellyfish have free rein
Jellyfish predators, such as tuna and sea turtles, are disappearing due to overfishing. However, jellyfish are primarily taking advantage of the overfishing of small pelagic fish. Just like these cnidarians, sardines, herring, anchovies and more feed off zooplankton. Thus, they represent their main competition for food. In areas where too many of these fish are caught, they free up an ecological niche. Jellyfish now have free rein and can thrive. Furthermore, small fish eat the eggs and larvae of jellyfish. Therefore, under normal conditions, they regulate the population. In their absence, there is nothing to stop the proliferation of these gelatinous creatures.
Comparison as proof
In order to demonstrate the major role played by overfishing, researchers compared two ecosystems belonging to the same ocean current, the Benguela, which flows along the south of Africa. The first ecosystem is located off the coast of Namibia. Here, fish stock management measures are not very restrictive. The stocks are barely restored before fishing activities start up again. Jellyfish are currently colonising these coastal waters. The second ecosystem is located 1,000 km further south, off the coast of South Africa. Here, the opposite is true: fishing has been tightly controlled for 60 years. The jellyfish population has not increased.
Fisheries suffer the effects
A vicious circle is developing in affected areas. Under the water, the links in the food chain are much more flexible than on Earth: prey species can feed off their predators. As such, jellyfish devour larval fish. Their proliferation prevents the renewal of fishery resources. This invasive species in turn threatens fisheries. In Namibia, some 10 million tonnes of sardines in the 1960s made way for 12 million tonnes of jellyfish.
Jellyfish are the pet peeve of tourists. The sting of their poisonous filaments -- although seldom deadly -- is very urticant. Therefore, they put economic activities in many regions across the world at risk. This is particularly true in countries which depend on these resources, such as several developing countries.
This research work underlines the necessity of an ecosystemic approach towards the exploitation of the sea. In other words, the implementation of management measures which take into account all levels of the trophic network. According to scientists, this is the only way to prevent jellyfish from landing on our plates in the near future.
Did you know?
Jellyfish are made up of 98% water. They have neither a brain, nor a heart or teeth? And yet, they are fierce predators! They immobilise their prey with their poisonous tentacles.
The boom in jellyfish is observed across the entire planet. To date, however, there is no hard data on the increase in their global population.
There are hundreds of species of jellyfish which come in a great variety of colours, shapes and sizes, ranging from a few millimetres to several metres in diameter. The majority of them are carnivorous.
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Jean-Paul Roux, Carl D van der Lingen, Mark J Gibbons, Nadine E Moroff, Lynne J Shannon, Anthony DM Smith, Philippe M Cury. Jellyfication of Marine Ecosystems as a Likely Consequence of Overfishing Small Pelagic Fishes: Lessons from the Benguela. Bulletin of Marine Science, 2013; 89 (1): 249 DOI: 10.5343/bms.2011.1145
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Her home life is the envy of millions, but Gwyneth Paltrow wasn't always the Vegenaise-obsessed super-mom we know today. Before settling down with Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, her husband of nearly ten years, the Iron Man 3 star had a string of intense love affairs. She was engaged to Brad Pitt and frequently fell for her co-stars. Let's take a look back at the "most beautiful,""most hated" actress's impressive ex-boyfriends.
CHALDOVAR, Kyrgyzstan (AP) ? A U.S. military tanker refueling plane crashed Friday in the rugged mountains of Kyrgyzstan, the Central Asian nation where the U.S. operates a military base key to the war in Afghanistan.
There was no immediate word on casualties. The search for survivors was complicated by the harsh terrain of soaring mountains and deep valleys.
The plane, a KC-135, was assigned to the Transit Center at Manas, the base said in a statement. It did not say how many crew were on board or give other details.
The crash site is near the village of Chaldovar, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) west of the Manas air base. Pieces of the plane, including its tail, lay in a grassy field bordered by mountains; the air was infused with the heavy stench of petrol.
The U.S. base in Kyrgyzstan, called the Transit Center at Manas, said it had no immediate information. The base, which is adjacent to the Manas International Airport outside the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek, was established in late 2001 to support the international military campaign in Afghanistan.
It functions both as an interim point for troops going into or out of Afghanistan and as a home for the tanker planes that refuel warplanes in flight.
The base has been the subject of a contentious dispute between the United States and its host nation. In 2009, the U.S. reached an agreement with the Kyrgyz government to use it in return for $60 million a year. But the lease runs out in June 2014 and the U.S. wants to keep it beyond that point to aid in the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan.
On Monday, a Boeing 747 cargo plane crashed just after takeoff from the U.S. military base in Bagram, Afghanistan, killing all seven people aboard.
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AP writers Jim Heintz in Moscow and Robert Burns in Washington, D.C. contributed to this report.
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