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Star Trek fans, our day has come. Some gallant redshirt has assembled 41 minutes of Trek outtakes, bloopers, and general oddness. It starts with The Next Generation, then moves into Deep Space 9, Voyager, the reboot film, the original films, then goes into a shockingly extensive Enterprise segment. If you're a true fan, block out lunch for this one.
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See also: my original (much shorter) Star Trek Bloopers post; the classic Worf is Always Wrong; Star Trek Sound Effects (to make your office sound like the Bridge); and if you're not a Trek fan, try Star Wars Bloopers.


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Since I spent two hours Monday outside in the freezing cold chatting with a couple of West Marin farmers as they cut, cleaned, and boxed some bodacious-looking brussels sprouts (more on the growers at Gospel Flat Farm later this week), I thought it timely to weigh in on this most delectable and much-maligned member of the Brassicaceae family.
Yes, many of us have memories from childhood of horrid-smelling, bitter-tasting, floppy-looking boiled brussels rolling around our plates in all their unappetizing glory.
Banish that image from your mind for good. Perhaps one of the simplest ways to enjoy this cruciferous vegetable, is simply tossing it in some olive oil, garlic, salt and pepper and then roasting these green balls of goodness at super high heat — we're talking 475 or so degrees — until they're tender and their caramel-like sweetness releases. For a complete how-to on the subject check out this quick roasting recipe from Farmgirl Fare or this gorgeous-looking, Golden-Crusted Brussels Sprouts offering over at 101 Cookbooks.
I picked up a killer recipe for the humble sprout when I chaperoned my kid's kindergarten class on a field trip to veggie mecca Berkeley Bowl, where each child got to pick a piece of produce to take back to the classroom for follow-up fun.
My boy opted for the brussels sprouts clinging to their stalk, not because he loved 'em but because of their cool alien-from-out-of-space appearance. A fellow produce picker shared his fave way to eat this cabbage-like veg, a dish that included pecans and gorgonzola cheese. This recipe at Kalyn's Kitchen is pretty similar. Try it. I swear you'll never think of these leafy green buds in the same negative way again. (I like to toss in some dried cranberries too for a little festive touch. And switch in hazelnuts for pecans, if you'd prefer.)
Flickr photo by Ed Bierman courtesy Creative Commons license.
Here's a handy dandy tip: If you decide to boil or steam your brussels sprouts take care not to overcook them as that releases a chemical with the unwieldy name glucosinolate sinigrin, and it's this pesky substance that produces the stench, I mean, sulfurous odor, that you'll recall from your youth. Cutting these buds in half before cooking can also help minimize the smelly chemical, apparently.
Before I leave you with some more ways to enjoy these verdant veggies, any copy editors/language gurus want to weigh in on whether it's Brussels sprouts or brussels sprouts? The New York Times recently had its say on the matter and although it's French fries the gray lady says its brussel sprouts and lima bean. Go figure.
Below, a smattering of recipes designed to help you change your mind (if that's necessary) on the merits of these little orbs of loveliness.
Roasted Brussels Sprouts and Pears from Food Blogga
Love the combo of pear, ginger, and thyme in this simply satisfying side.
Creamy Brussels Sprouts Gratin from A Veggie Venture
Brussels sprouts, cream, and breadcrumbs. What's not to like?
Shredded Brussels Sprouts & Apples 101 Cookbooks
With or without tofu (which makes this into a one-skillet meal).
Hashed Brussels Sprouts with Lemon & Poppy Seeds
Lighthearted Locavore
Another mighty fine taste combination.
Cauliflower & Brussels Sprouts Gratin Serious Eats Channels Bon Appetit
Cheese, cream, pine nuts, and parsley baked with two nutritious veggies in one delicious dish.


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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
For the Love of Film: Story Conference (Your Vote Counts)
Together with her dauntless blogathon partner, Marilyn Ferdinand of Ferdy on Films, the Siren has been discussing plans for the next film-preservation fundraiser, For the Love of Film III: Breaking Dawn.
No? For the Love of Film III: Dream Warriors?
How about Abbott and Costello Meet For the Love of Film?
Geez, tough crowd. All right, why don't YOU come up with something?
No, really, why don't you? You see, Marilyn and the Siren decided to throw the key question at our patient readers, as we determine who should be the recipient of our 2012 largess. We've narrowed the possibilities down to two.
Bright Idea No. 1 would be our old friend the National Film Preservation Foundation, through whom we were able to save two silent films and see those two films become part of a great DVD set, Treasures 5: The West.
Bright Idea No. 2 is something different. One problem faced by film preservationists is the difficulty of finding sufficient numbers of trained people to do this sort of highly skilled, time-consuming and very demanding work. Accordingly, our second option is to have the blogathon funding for 2012 go to fund a scholarship for some Bright Young Thing who wants to study moving-image archiving.
So, all opinions are welcome. As you consider where to put your film-preservation support in the coming year, which Bright Idea is more likely to catch your fancy, and your dollars?
The Siren and Marilyn await your opinions.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Thanksgiving with Loretta, Bing and the Gang
Fall is by far the Siren's favorite season. As soon as the temperature drops, her energy goes into overdrive and her family is confronted by the spectacle of the Siren, once so listless in the heat of the summer, standing in front of the pantry proclaiming, "I know! Let's alphabetize the spice rack!" From October to December is the best part of the year, as far as the Siren is concerned.
And Thanksgiving is the Siren's favorite holiday, elegant in its simplicity, devoid of anxieties like presents and whether you should put colored or white lights on the Christmas tree--although, for the record, the correct answer is colored. Anyway. Thanksgiving. You get together with people you love, and you eat. A lot. And the prospect of this happy event always makes the Siren philosophical. She walks around the house pulling unwatched DVDs off the shelf and instead of thinking, "Oh criminy, I haven't seen anything," she thinks, "Oh criminy, I haven't seen anything. Isn't that marvelous? Look at all these unwatched entries in the filmography of Hedy Lamarr, just out there waiting for me. Hey Mom! Whatcha doing? Let's watch Experiment Perilous!"
So the Siren thinks back over this year's moviegoing and reflects that in her view, a certain generosity of spirit is by far the most rewarding way to approach film. There will always be names in the credits that make the Siren's heart tingle with joy, and others that cause her to mutter something along the lines of, "All right, Gina Lollobrigida, get it right this time." The great philosopher Wile E. Coyote once said, "Even a genius can have an off day." The flip side of that is, as another great philosopher once said, "Every movie is another chance." Maybe the Siren has seen twenty movies in which Buddy Ebsen irritated the ever-loving hell out of her. (Technically, that's more like ten movies, but hear a Siren out.) Who's to say that number twenty-one won't be the time when she finally says, "Well played, Jed Clampett!"
It could happen. In fact, it has happened. Well, not with Buddy Ebsen, but with others. Three years ago the Siren, in a puckish spirit, put up a list of actors who usually fail to charm her. But now that the Siren has alphabetized her spice rack and rearranged her scarf drawer and she is feeling all cozy and right-with-the-world-ish, she finds herself moved to recall that making a film is incredibly goddamn difficult. It is, and always has been, miraculous that great ones get made. It is miraculous that good ones get made. The Siren is thankful for that, and thankful to those who do good work, even in mediocre films.
The spirit of Thanksgiving, says the Siren, is the spirit of being happy with what you've got. Turkeys are nonrefundable. And not all of those actors served up turkey every time, far from it. So, in celebration of the Siren's favorite holiday, she offers an amended list of amends to 11 of the 20 actors she once griped about. Ebsen, Red Skelton, Dan Dailey, David Wayne, Dolores Del Rio, Betty Hutton, Helen Hayes, Maureen O'Sullivan, Ruby Keeler, even (though this last is a faint, forlorn hope) Sonja Henie, who knows--the Siren hasn't seen their every movie, and better things may await.
1. Bing Crosby. Kim Morgan's wonderful post on him, and The Futurist's enthusiasm for the Road movies, make the Siren realize she was too way hard on Der Bingle. He was a lot, lot more than Father O'Malley. The Road movies are, in fact, some kind of genius, at times as weirdly surreal and funny in their way as the Marx Brothers, if bereft of the Marxes' full-on insanity. And while Bob Hope is most of what the Siren loves about the Road movies, they don't work without the very Bing Crosby "phoniness" that the Siren was bellyaching about. Furthermore, the Siren loves White Christmas.
2. Pat O'Brien. The Siren liked him a lot in several things she didn't mention, including Bombshell and Virtue.
3. Robert Taylor. Rewatched bits of Party Girl, Undercurrent and High Wall; saw him in Conspirator. Asexual Taylor was not, at least not at his best, and as the man also said, it's by our best work that we all hope to be judged.
4. Richard Conte. The Siren was thinking mostly of I'll Cry Tomorrow and Whirlpool when she listed him, although she did acknowledge his terrifying work in The Big Combo. But Conte was also good in New York Confidential and marvelous in The Godfather. Not a particularly versatile actor, but since when did that matter to the Siren, if the performances within the range were good?
5. Ronald Reagan. The Siren should have emphasized how very much she does like him in Dark Victory and King's Row.
6. Glenn Ford. Made a great villain in 3:10 to Yuma. Should have played more heavies, thinks the Siren.
7. Peter Lawford. The Siren loves the way Cluny Brown plays with his layabout image, and gets immense pleasure from his final line in Easter Parade: "Nadine, get out all the hounds. We're going for a walk."
8. Jeanette Macdonald. She really is swell in those Lubitsch musicals.
9. Gina Lollobrigida. Love her in Come September, one of those Mad Men-era confections that the Siren can't resist.
10. June Allyson. Yes, the Siren said JUNE ALLYSON, and it's Trish's fault. Trish reminded the Siren about Executive Suite. All right, the Siren isn't crazy about Allyson in Executive Suite, but she does not ruin the movie. And the movie is good. And the Siren is still trying to see The Shrike.
11. Last, but most certainly not least, the woman who inspired this entire post: Loretta Young. Gretchen, the Siren Done You Wrong. First off, was any other actress so utterly hobbled by the advent of the Production Code? There's Young, keeping unwed house for Spencer Tracy's ghastly character in Man's Castle, and committing adultery with no less a wolf than Warren William in Employees' Entrance. And she's fresh and natural and unaffected and sexy and when she's on screen you are perfectly happy to have her stick around as long she wants. Next thing you know, it's 1937 and she's in Cafe Metropole and what the Siren mostly thinks about Young in that movie is "Siddown, you're blocking my view of Tyrone Power." Still, even Loretta's later career was unfairly treated by the Siren. Cause for Alarm! is an extremely tidy, suspenseful domestic noir and Young's later buttoned-up, tightly controlled manner works perfectly for the suburban character. As indeed it does in The Stranger. The Siren caught Young last year in Wife, Husband and Friend which was fun--it won't stir the lumps out of your gravy or anything, but a very diverting comedy. And, as the Siren remarked at Laura's Miscellaneous Musings, if the Siren absolutely has to watch a nun movie, Come to the Stable is pretty cute. Hand on heart, the Siren is going to be much kinder about Young in the future.
Wait a minute…"Hey Mom! Whatcha doin'? Do you realize neither one of us has ever seen Zoo in Budapest?"
Happy Thanksgiving. May all your turkey be on the table, and not on the screen.
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Labels: Actors and Acting, lists
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Gone to Earth: A Conversation With Tony Dayoub
From Nomad Widescreen, an excerpt of my conversation with the very fine writer and critic Tony Dayoub of Cinema Viewfinder, about the sublime Powell/Pressburger movie Gone to Earth, with Jennifer Jones. (This demonstrates also that the Siren was still indulging her classics habit in the midst of the New York Film Festival.) You can read more of the Siren and Tony and Gone to Earth at his place, in a post that covers some additional excerpts. More about Nomad at the end of the post.
Farran Smith Nehme (FSN): In September, after a long day of screenings at the New York Film Festival, Tony Dayoub and I decided to trek downtown to catch a one-shot showing of a 1950 film neither one of us had ever seen. It was Gone to Earth, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's ill-fated adaptation of a Mary Webb novel. Film critic and programmer Miriam Bale was screening a rare 35-millimeter print at the 92nd Street Y Tribeca, and Tony and I were flabbergasted to discover a film we both consider a masterpiece.
The likely reason for Gone to Earth's rarity, compared with the many well-known and frequently revived Powell-Pressburger classics, is that it has a troubled history. Powell preferred developing his own stories over adapting those of others, and he also found the romantic 1917 Webb novel faintly ridiculous, remarking that it was a town-dweller's overheated view of country folk. But producer Alexander Korda believed the book was a sounder commercial bet than an original screenplay, and Powell's objections were brushed aside. The movie stars Jennifer Jones as Hazel Woodus, a half-wild, half-gypsy girl who roams the Shropshire countryside with her pet fox, and is loved chastely by a Baptist minister (Cyril Cusack), and carnally by a ruthless squire (David Farrar). She marries the reverend, and he refrains from consummating the union, in the belief that Hazel's innocence shouldn't be profaned. But the squire has no such scruples, and he continues to pursue Hazel, even as it remains clear throughout that she belongs not to men but to the earth of the title.
Jones had married the producer, David O. Selznick, just before shooting started. Powell wrote about the making of Gone to Earth in volume two of his autobiography, Million Dollar Movie; he was assaulted with a barrage of the trademark Selznick memos, which the director cheerfully ignored and left to "accumulate in some pigeonhole." (Pressburger read the memos, "then went back to reading Time and Life.") Selznick had been reasonably cooperative during filming, just showing up from time to time to check on Jones and take her on weekend jaunts. But when Powell and Pressburger screened the film for him, Selznick popped a Benzedrine and said, "I'm not satisfied with your cut, boys. I'm going to take this picture over." Powell explained that the Archers, his production company, owned the rights. Selznick listened politely and the parties wound up in court, where Selznick lost that round.
But Gone to Earth didn't do well upon release, and Selznick had obtained the North American rights. He reshot a third of the footage with Rouben Mamoulian at the helm, slashed away another half-hour, and re-released it in 1952 with the groanworthy title of The Wild Heart. That version, hopelessly marred by all accounts except possibly Selznick's, flopped, too. There is a Region 2 UK DVD available of the original Gone to Earth, but it has never been available on Region 1 in the US. You may consider this discussion as a plea from Tony and me for someone to give Gone to Earth the full US restoration and DVD release that it deserves.
One thing that goes to show how much of Selznick's savvy had disappeared by 1952 is that Gone to Earth contains one of Jones' best performances, possibly her very best. She was coached in the regional accent; it's probably impossible for an American to judge how accurate the results are, although Powell thought she sounded fine. You can hear inconsistencies and note the fact that Jones' accent isn't much like that of Esmond Knight as her father. But Hazel isn't an ordinary girl; when she first appears she's dressed half in rags, searching for her fox, and the camera finds her among the hills as though she just emerged from a tree like a figure of mythology. Her strange voice is completely in keeping with her strange nature, and her half-pagan belief in demons, spells and ghostly voices.
Tony Dayoub (TD): It's ironic that Selznick commits the same crime as the film's male protagonists. Like them, Selznick, who saw enough spirit in Jones to make her his wife and muse, tries to stifle her rough luminescence, reworking Gone to Earth into his subpar version. Much of the charm of Jones's performance in the Powell version is reportedly (because I've never seen it) lost in Selznick's The Wild Heart. Why Selznick was unhappy with her portrayal of Hazel is a mystery. Her performance is far superior in Gone to Earth than are her grating histrionics as the similarly wild Pearl in Selznick's much better known Duel in the Sun (1946). I chalk up his Svengali-like interference to the fact that Selznick's affair with Jones was in full swing by 1945, with the two marrying a year prior to the UK release of Gone to Earth.
In any case, Hazel's central dilemma, the subjugation of her wild, feminine spirit by two men — the roguish squire Reddin and Marston, the well intentioned minister — is very reminiscent of ballerina Vicky Page's inner conflict in Powell and Pressburger's more famous The Red Shoes. In that film, the talented Page is forced into a triangle where she must choose between sacrificing her career for her composer husband or leaving him behind to continue her rise to stardom under the direction of the dictatorial director of her dance company. Powell and Pressburger also explore similar themes in Black Narcissus, where a group of nuns living in a convent in the Himalayas start succumbing to the lusty temptations offered by their natural surroundings. As it was with the female protagonists of both of these previous films, Hazel's state of mind is often reflected in the increasingly expressionistic lighting by Christopher Challis (whose camera operator in this film, Freddie Francis, would become a renowned cinematographer in his own right). As Hazel falls prey to the seductive advances of Reddin, who whisks her away to his cluttered, castle-like retreat, the night sky turns a lurid shade of orange, aflame with erotic intentions. This until the milquetoast Reverend Marston summons enough gall to come rescue her from the arrogant Reddin. (At which point Reddin's servant — played by the reliably comic supporting player Hugh Griffith — enters his master's drawing room to needle him, "Will there be three for dinner or one?")
Two more brief excerpts, because Tony and the Siren really did flip for this film, big time:
TD: Powell and Pressburger's films almost feel like musical compositions with certain audio cues indicating the start of a new movement. This one launches the dreamlike chapter I discussed earlier. But there are other such cues that indicate a supernatural undercurrent. Two immediately come to mind that bookend the film. We discussed the first one soon after watching Gone to Earth – a "phantom" hunting call I think you called it – in which we hear a group of unseen hunters utter the film's title, an expression which alerts others that their quarry (in this case, Hazel's Foxy) has hidden itself in a foxhole.
A dreadful symmetry occurs when we hear the call again in the film's finale, this time referring to a fatal accident that befalls one of the characters. Though there are hunters present, this is definitely not a call coming from them. If not from them, then who is it from?...I'd like to think it's the pagan spirits that Hazel and her mother believed in. Though I don't think it's as clear onscreen, Webb's novel depicts a bewildered Hazel fleeing from Squire Reddin and his hunting partners, believing they are mystical huntsmen of Welsh lore. Though Hazel's pet, Foxy, manages to evade Reddin in Gone to Earth's opening scenes, it would appear that Hazel and Foxy's fate are inextricably linked by a primal atavism. Observe earlier in the film how Reddin chases Hazel through a county fair while on horseback, the way he would one of the animals he hunts. Even the minister's intentions in marrying her are apparently more a matter of taming her free-spiritedness than having any romantic or sexual motivation. The final utterance of "Gone to Earth," can then be attributed to those same pagan huntsmen, finally laying claim to Hazel after she quite literally has "gone to earth."
FSN: When Selznick was battling the Archers in court, Powell asked Pressburger where they'd gone wrong with the man — what did he want? "Sex," Pressburger told him. "You're not serious," responded Powell. "Why, the film reeks of sex." And so it does, just not Selznick's kind of sex, as Pressburger pointed out.
The movie also evokes the border of Wales, the land of Powell's ancestors, with wonderful beauty and clarity. Powell was pleased with Gone to Earth and thought Jones was "splendid." He formed a close friendship with the troubled actress and later told her, "you were the most beautiful woman I ever worked with"—one hell of a tribute from a man who immortalized many stunning women. Thelma Schoonmaker, the film editor who has worked with Martin Scorsese ever since her Oscar-winning efforts on Raging Bull in 1980, was married to Powell from 1984 until his death. She screened Gone to Earth in Seattle in 2007. Schoonmaker told a reporter that her husband "loved the eventual movie, but he was afraid you could hear the crackle of the page whenever they did a movie based on a novel." I'm convinced that if this movie were more widely known, most viewers would respectfully disagree.
The Siren notes here that Nomad Widescreen, where she could be read alongside Tony, Glenn Kenny, Simon Abrams, Kurt Loder, Karl Rozemeyer and Vadim Rizov, is no more. The editors and writers at Nomad were uniformly excellent, and the Siren was always proud to be associated with them.
(Updated 11/17/11, with correction and the fourth photograph above, courtesy of the ever-courteous Yojimboen. Also a link to Tony's excerpts at Cinema Viewfinder.)
Posted by The Siren at 4:52 PM 61 comments:
Labels: Michael Powell, movies in depth, Nomad Widescreen
Tuesday, November 01, 2011
Noel Coward Tells Marlene, "Snap Out of It, Girl"
The patient readers of this blog deserve their reputation for good manners, but all the same, the Siren has been sensing some faint, far-off clouds of discontent over the past six weeks. A certain bewilderment, you could say. There's a sense of people restraining themselves from saying: "Siren, the last time I came calling you were talking about Mid-Atlantic accents and Gene Tierney's overbite and in the comments people were complaining about Wendell Corey and everything was right as rain. Then, without warning, for a month it's been crime and pink films and sex addicts and now you're quoting Pauline Kael writing about Brian De Palma and Siren [a deep, ragged breath] I just don't know who you are anymore."
Fret not. Like Judy Holliday in It Should Happen to You, the Siren is the same as she's always been, only in a different way. And to prove it, here is one of the Siren's favorite letters of all time, reprinted in Maria Riva's book about her mother, Marlene Dietrich.
By the end of 1956, Dietrich had been carrying on a five-year affair with Yul Brynner, which was starting to wind down in an acrid funk of infidelity, ennui and Dietrich's endless dissections of her lover's behavior and motives. She wrote her dear friend Noel Coward a letter about a transcontinental flight she had taken with Brynner. The lovers had been having some "where is this all going, don't you love me anymore" encounters. She arranged to get herself on the same plane with Brynner and was despondent when he downed three drinks without talking to her. Later Dietrich took some sleeping-pill suppositories, which she called "Fernando Lamas," because like Lamas' acting, they put her to sleep so quickly. She awoke (or so she thought, she acknowledges she might have dreamt it) to Brynner trying to climb into her berth, and she became distressed when he said "there's too many people around" and climbed back out, that striking Marlene Dietrich as being no kind of obstacle to real desire.
Dietrich's letter tapers off in a series of laments about her unhappiness, how can she perform in Las Vegas, etc. etc. It is, in short, one of those humorless messages only people clinging to a waning relationship can produce, a microanalysis of behavior that requires only momentary thought to understand. Astonishing, and comforting, isn't it--Dietrich, a real Siren, not just one on the Internet, indulging in the kind of "why do you think he did that? what does it mean? what is he trying to tell me?" conversations that mere mortal women, and men, have all the time.
Coward wrote her back immediately, in the greatest rejoinder to such moaning that the Siren has ever read. So perfect is this response that when the Siren read it years ago, she marked the page and later re-read it several times when her own love life was demanding it. The Siren has handed the book, open to that page, to lovesick friends, and read the letter over the telephone, too.
Here it is, Coward's advice on getting over "Curly" (his nickname for Brynner), punctuation, capitalization and spelling as in the original.
The Siren is sorry to report that when Dietrich read Riva the letter over the phone, and Riva gave it a hearty second, the great woman snapped, "Oh, you two Sagittarians! You always agree! Neither of you can understand how one man can a be a woman's whole life!" Dietrich followed that up with an off-color description of Coward's sexual activities and hung up.
Good advice is seldom appreciated at the time that it's given. But Coward remained a friend to Dietrich a lot longer than Curly did. In 1973, when he made his last public appearance, Coward had Dietrich on his arm.
Coward wrote her back immediately, in the greatest rejoinder to such moaning that the Siren has ever read. So perfect is this response that when the Siren read it years ago, she marked the page and later re-read it several times when her own love life was demanding it. The Siren has handed the book, open to that page, to lovesick friends, and read the letter over the telephone, too.
Here it is, Coward's advice on getting over "Curly" (his nickname for Brynner), punctuation, capitalization and spelling as in the original.
Oh, darling.
Your letter filled me with such a lot of emotions the predominant one being rage that you should allow yourself to be so humiliated and made so unhappy by a situation that really isn't worthy of you. I loathe to think of you apologizing and begging forgiveness and humbling yourself. I don't care if you did behave badly for a brief moment, considering all the devotion and loving you have given out during the last five years, you had a perfect right to. The only mistake was not to have behaved a great deal worse a long time ago. The aeroplane journey sounds a nightmare to me.
It is difficult for me to wag my finger at you from so very far away particularly as my heart aches for you but really darling you must pack up this nonsensical situation once and for all. It is really beneath your dignity, not your dignity as a famous artist and a glamourous star, but your dignity as a human, only too human, being. Curly is attractive, beguiling, tender and fascinating, but he is not the only man in the world who merits those delightful adjectives...Do please try to work out for yourself a little personal philosophy and DO NOT, repeat DO NOT be so bloody vulnerable. To hell with God damned 'L'Amour.' It always causes far more trouble than it is worth. Don't run after it. Don't court it. Keep it waiting off stage until you're good and ready for it and even then treat it with the suspicious disdain that it deserves...I am sick to death of you waiting about in empty houses and apartments with your ears strained for the telephone to ring. Snap out of it, girl! A very brilliant writer once said (could it have been me?) 'Life is for the living.' Well that is all it is for, and living DOES NOT consist of staring in at other people's windows and waiting for crumbs to be thrown to you. You've carried on this hole in corner, overcharged, romantic, unrealistic nonsense long enough.
Stop it Stop it Stop it. Other people need you...Stop wasting your time on someone who only really says tender things to you when he's drunk...
Unpack your sense of humor, and get on with living and ENJOY IT.
Incidentally, there is one fairly strong-minded type who will never let you down and who loves you very much indeed. Just try to guess who it is. X X X X. Those are not romantic kisses. They are un-romantic. Loving 'Goose-Ex.'
Your devoted 'Fernando de Lamas'
The Siren is sorry to report that when Dietrich read Riva the letter over the phone, and Riva gave it a hearty second, the great woman snapped, "Oh, you two Sagittarians! You always agree! Neither of you can understand how one man can a be a woman's whole life!" Dietrich followed that up with an off-color description of Coward's sexual activities and hung up.
Good advice is seldom appreciated at the time that it's given. But Coward remained a friend to Dietrich a lot longer than Curly did. In 1973, when he made his last public appearance, Coward had Dietrich on his arm.
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Drone delivers beer not bombs at S.Africa music festivalRevellers at a South African outdoor rock festival no longer need to queue to slake their thirst -- a flying robot will drop them beer by parachute.After clients place an order using a smartphone app, a drone zooms 15 metres (50 feet) above the heads of the festival-goers to make the delivery.Carel Hoffmann, director of the Oppikoppi festival held on a dusty farm in the country's northern Limpopo province, said the app registers the position of users using the GPS satellite chips on their phones."The delivery guys have a calibrated delivery drone. They send it to the GPS position and drops it with a parachute," he explained.The drone was built in South Africa and nicknamed "Manna" after the Old Testament-story of bread that fell from the sky to feed the Israelites travelling through the desert following their exodus from Egypt."It's an almost Biblical thing that beer is dropping from the sky," said Hoffmann.The beer, free at this stage, is dropped in plastic cups and the drone is performing well."Every time it drops a parachute a crowd of 5,000 cheers," he said.
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We aim to make Madison a self-reliant, peaceful community that relies on renewable, local resources and is able to adapt to changing environmental, social and economic conditions over time. Our city will be a beautiful place where life thrives in harmony with the environment.
Projects & Initiatives
Central Park
The concept of a large urban park located along the East Isthmus rail corridor originated with local neighborhood groups interested in revitalizing an area of post-industrial brownfields. Discussions for a park on this site began in the early 1970s. The Urban Open Space Foundation (UOSF) championed this idea for several years, developing a plan for a grand 25-acre Central Park. Despite public enthusiasm following an extensive public process and some success at fundraising, progress eventually stalled on the project.
In 2007, the Common Council established the Central Park Design and Implementation Task Force to determine the need for and feasibility of such a park and to chart a path forward. Over a period of five years, the Task Force held forty open meetings, including six large and well-attended public meetings. The master plan was approved in 2010. Subsequently, with the opportunity for the City to purchase the Research Products property located at 204-210 S. Ingersoll Street, the master plan was amended in 2011 to expand the park and include the newly acquired lands.
Madison Sustainability Plan: Fostering Environmental, Economic and Social Resilience
- Madison Sustainability Plan 2011
- City of Madison Sustainability Plan: Definitions, Sources and Challenges, May 2012
- Madison Sustainability Report: precedents from around the world & a synthesis of public input, Fall 2009
Parks & Open Space Plan
The 2012-2017 Park and Open Space Plan was adopted by the City of Madison Common Council on May 15, 2012. The purpose of the Park and Open Space Plan (POSP) is to serve as a long range planning guide for decisions made by City Boards and Commissions, City agencies and staff. It is a tool used to guide decisions for a variety of Park and Open Space issues such as city policies, park acquisitions, facility development, as well as park funding. The POSP is also a necessary component to be eligible for Federal and State grants.
This plan is the culmination of an intensive planning and public input process which began in November of 2010 and has been guided by the Long Range Planning Subcommittee of the Park Commission, the advisory committee to this plan. This plan embarked on a public input process, unique to prior Park and Open Space Plans and included three public input meetings, public City committee meetings and solicitation of formal public input through public surveys which received over 1,500 responses. These planning and public input gathering efforts have provided an extensive inventory and analysis of the existing and future City of Madison park system.
Water Utility
Water Utility continues to implement its long-term plan to replace aging water mains and wells throughout the City, to ensure safe and acceptable water, and respond to expanded demands due to growth and development.
- Water Utility Infrastructure Overhaul
- Lakeview Reservoir ($3 million in 2014; $5 million total)
- Operations Building replacement ($6.8 million in 2014; $7.2 million total)


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Luxurious Eco Travel: 12 Elegant Green Destinations
Staycations and ultra-rustic nature-centric accommodations may be the greenest way to spend your vacation time, but sometimes, special occasions call for a luxurious getaway. The good news is, elegant eco-resorts do exist, and while some have more green cred than others, they offer experiences that rival those of traditional pampering luxury resorts but in a more environmentally sensitive manner.
EcoCamp Patagonia, Chile
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There are rustic eco resorts and there are luxury resorts with dubious green claims, but EcoCamp Patagonia in Chile is the best of both worlds – a luxurious getaway that is 100% carbon-free. You'll sleep in a geodesic dome inspired by the huts built by the native Kawesqar people but enjoy modern comfort and convenience, right in the wilderness of the Torres del Paine National Park.
Wolgan Valley Resort & Spa, Blue Mountains, Australia
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The first hotel in the world to be certified carbon-neutral through carboNZero is nestled in the Blue Mountains of Australia and definitely emphasizes guilt-free luxury. Winner of numerous awards, the Wolgan Valley Resort & Spa is made from recycled materials and renewable resources, runs on solar power and is located on a private conservation and nature reserve. Each free-standing luxury suite has its own private terrace and swimming pool, and guests can indulge in massages and skin treatments in between outdoor adventures.
Six Senses Hideaway, Thailand
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The Six Senses Hua Hin on the Gulf of Siam set out to prove that luxury and minimal environmental impact are compatible with its SLOW LIFE philosophy (S-Sustainable, L-Local, O-Organic, W-Wholesome, L-Learning, I-Inspiring, F-Fun, E-Experience). The resort, which features 55 pool villas and a holistic spa, has committed to green operations including energy efficiency, waste minimization and water conservation.
Gayana Luxury Eco Resort, Borneo
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Experience a lush jungle on a coral reef island off the coast of Borneo at the Gayana Luxury Eco Resort, which not only offers accommodations on the water with stunning views of the ocean and Mt. Kinabalu, but also operates its own Marine Ecology Research Center which propagates endangered giant clams and engages in other conservation and restoration activities. Guests can dive, kayak, trek through the jungles or lay back for a relaxing day in the luxury spa.
Miraval, Tucson
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Not interested in venturing beyond the U.S. borders? America has a few eco resorts of its own, including Miraval in Tucson, a luxury spa and wellness retreat on 400 acres populated with rammed earth buildings and plenty of cacti. The rammed earth (clay adobe brick) construction makes the structures energy-efficient; water is heated with solar energy; the guest rooms feature green materials like non-toxic paints and the landscaping is all native. Miraval specializes in wellness and stress relief, with yoga, meditation, nutrition instruction, fitness activities and much more.
Gaia Luxury Hotel & Nature Reserve, Costa Rica
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High on a hill in the pristine wilderness of Costa Rica is the Gaia Hotel, a modern resort on 12.1 acres of nature reserve populated with local wildlife like squirrel monkeys and three-toed sloths. The 5-star, 20-room boutique hotel in the Manuel Antonio area has been named Central America's top green hotel for its efforts to minimize the effects of tourism on the surrounding ecosystem.
CESiaK, Mexico
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Often named among the world's best green getaways, the Centro Ecologico Sian Ka'an (CESiak) is located adjacent to ancient Mayan ruins in Tulum. All proceeds from the surprisingly affordable yet comfy and exotic resort fund education and conservation programs at the Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Dar-Hi, Tunisia
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Made almost entirely from local materials and labor, the Dar-Hi eco hotel in Tunisia is architecturally stunning and environmentally sensitive. The Dar-Hi is located on the edge of the Sahara Desert and features 17 rooms in four 'styles' that have different ways of interacting with the environment and the hotel: elevated 'pill houses' with beautiful views, 'troglodyte houses' built into the ground, 'the dunes' at ground level with a design inspired by wind-sculpted sand and the 'dar malika', a traditional house within the village. Accessible only on foot, the Dar-Hi offers secluded luxury just three hours from Paris.
Sanctuary Chief's Camp, Botswana
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Twelve luxury bush pavilions in the Mombo Concession, an area of the Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana known as the 'predator capital of Africa', offer a beautiful and comfortable place to stay while experiencing Africa up close and personal. Included in a stay at the Sanctuary Chief's Camp are 'Mokoro' dugout canoe excursions in the Okavango Delta and game drives on 4×4 vehicles where visitors can spot lions, antelope, zebra and buffalo.
Campi Ya Kanzi, Kenya
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Recognized for excellence in environmental management, Campi Ya Kanzi in Kenya is located on the 400-acre Kuku Group Ranch on land owned by Maasai herdsmen. The buildings were constructed from local materials like lava rocks, water is heated with a solar boiler and proceeds benefit the conservation of the local habitat. The price of the stay includes lodging in a luxury suite, all meals, house beer and wine, excursions to three national parks and botanical walks, game drives and visits to the Maasai village.
Jean-Michel Cousteau Fiji Islands Resort
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Famed ocean explorer and environmentalist Jean-Michel Cousteau runs green resorts around the world including this gem on the island of Vanua Levu in Fiji. Dive, swim and snorkel in a marine reserve or just lay back and relax among the restored mangrove trees and traditional Fijian architecture, built for natural cross ventilation with sustainably harvested wood.
Longitude 131, Australia
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15 luxury tents hover on steel stilts over the sand dunes at Longitude 131, an ecologically sensitive resort in the Northern Territory of Australia. The owners keep the resort small and pledge to protect the natural ecosystem as much as possible. The main event here is Uluru, the world's largest monolith, a World Heritage Site; most of the resort's outdoor activities center upon this beautiful landscape feature.


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Disabled American Veterans Chapter 72 to close
FORT WALTON BEACH — In a tiny office at the end of a cul de sac off Racetrack Road, a crisp cloth American flag stretches across the length of the wall.
When the sunlight hits its edges, the red, white, and blue shadow bleeds into the wooden frame, seeming to infuse the air with a little of its nobility.
"We're hoping to donate that to the county courthouse," said Cathy Magnuson, commander of Disabled American Veterans Chapter 72, nodding to the wall. "We want to put a plaque on the bottom of it so that people will remember we were here."
Magnuson, a Gulf War veteran, spent Monday morning with several of her fellow volunteers packing up the Chapter 72 office. It is closing after 53 years of operation.
Magnuson estimated that Chapter 72 served about 2,000 people per year. DAV has 260 National Service Officers nationwide who are trained to assist veterans with filing claims and other financial matters.
"Basically, we ran into a critical shortage of volunteers," Magnuson said. "Our bylaws state that we need a certain amount of people to fill vital roles."
With the closure of Chapter 72, officers here will transfer to Niceville's Chapter 112 where they hope to continue serving as many of their 1,300 members as they can.
Magnuson can still remember the presentation of colors at a DAV ceremony she attended years ago. Many old and disabled veterans were present. As the flags came forth, several struggled to stand and raise a trembling arm to salute. She understood then precisely her calling.
"It isn't about the military and all of its processes," she said. "It's about the heart and soul of the people who have sacrificed for this flag. For this idea."
All DAV workers are volunteers and all funding comes from donations.
"We have a lot of younger veterans now with families and other responsibilities," said Bill Dockery, a World War II veteran who has been serving with Chapter 72 for 41 years. "We realize they have other things to do. But it does put us in a bad position."
Magnuson sees volunteerism in general and veterans affairs being hurt by the rise of technology.
"It leads people to not want to step outside their comfort zone," she said. "For a veteran filing a claim, too, he's just sitting at a computer screen. You have a lot of veterans with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) and any sort of convenient isolation is the worst thing for them. They're not getting that face time when they don't come to us."
Framed headshots of dozens of former commanders of the chapter watch from above Magnuson's desk. The spot for her is tellingly empty. Her outlook is as humble and selfless as the business itself.
"We don't have a bar and we don't do bingo," she said. "We're strictly about doing everything we can to help veterans."


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Philip Hammond has told MPs it is "simply a delusion" to think a better Brexit deal can be renegotiated at the 11th hour after warning a no-deal is "too awful to contemplate".
The Chancellor faced dissent from Tory backbenchers as he warned a no-deal would see the end of frictionless trade, restrictions on EU travelling rights and large tariffs for UK exporters.
Vocal Brexiteer Nadine Dorries said the warnings were an extension of "project fear" but Mr Hammond received backing for his view from the shadow chancellor John McDonnell who said Labour "would not countenance" a no-deal scenario and pledged the party would "work assiduously to avoid it".
Opening the third day of debate on the deal, Mr Hammond said: "I have observed this process at close quarters for two-and-a-half years and I'm absolutely clear about one thing, this deal is the best deal to exit the EU that is available or that is going to be available.
"The idea that there's an option of renegotiating at the 11th hour is simply a delusion.
"We need to be honest with ourselves, the alternatives to this deal are no deal or no Brexit.
"Either will leave us a fractured society and a divided nation."
"Only that compromise can bring us back together after Brexit is delivered, and we should remember the lesson of history, that divided nations are not successful nations," he added.
The Chancellor went on to outline the "too awful to contemplate" no-deal consequences.
He said: "I've heard that we have nothing to fear from no-deal: nothing except a cliff-edge Brexit in just four months' time, the end of frictionless trade with our biggest export market, restrictions on our citizens travelling in Europe, nothing except being the only developed economy in the world trading with the EU on purely WTO terms with no customs facilitation agreements, no data sharing and protection agreements, no approvals regime to allow our industries to trade with their nearest customers and suppliers."
Mr Hammond warned car exporters would face tariffs of 10%, clothing exporters would face 12% and agricultural exporters would face "even higher tariffs" than that.
He said: "The fact is our economic and trading relationship with the EU has been built over 45 years and during that time our economies have shaped themselves around each other and become inextricably intertwined, supply chains crisscross borders, work forces draw on talent from across the continent."
"While new trade partnerships with countries outside the EU undoubtedly offer new and exciting opportunities for UK companies, the analysis the Government published last week is clear that the benefits flowing from new FTAs would not compensate for the loss of EU trade from a no-deal exit", he added.
He said: "If a bad Brexit is forced upon our country and the jobs and economy are not protected, many of our people who have suffered from eight years of austerity will suffer even more.
"Indeed many of us believe it is the economic failures of the past and the present that helped deliver the Brexit vote."
He blamed a lack of investment in infrastructure and industry by the Tory government on the vote to leave the EU, adding: "Labour has set out our stall, we stand for change."
The SNP's trade spokesman Stewart Hosie later said there was "nothing certain" in Mrs May's agreement, he said: "In a sense we're not taking a decision on an agreement, we're taking a decision on a wish list in a political statement some or all of which may come to nought."
"Every single Brexit model is bad, investment is likely to fall, trade will almost certainly be reduced, barriers will be erected, people will be poorer and productivity will be stifled", he added.
As the debated neared its end, the DUP's Mr Paisley said: "It was Samuel Johnson who observed that nothing so concentrates the mind like a hanging.
"And as the gallows are being built next Tuesday for this Withdrawal Agreement, can the Secretary of State confirm if there are any discussions taking place about putting this motion off or about altering it in any way, or is the Government fixed on walking towards those gallows?"
Tory Cabinet minister Dr Fox replied: "The Government will continue to make the case for what it believes is a balanced and reasonable agreement, but of course the Government will want to talk to members, it will want to look to ways to give a reassurance to the House wherever we're able to do that."


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2010 Law and Mind Sciences Conference
Posted by The Situationist Staff on April 14, 2010
The 2010 Conference on Law and Mind Sciences
When: Thursday, April 15, 2010, at 5:30 p.m.
Where: Harvard Law School, Austin Hall, West Classroom
Free and Open to the Public
This panel discussion will examine how developments in evolutionary biology and the mind sciences should inform law, philosophy, and economics, focusing on subjects such as punishment, responsibility, racism, addiction, and cooperation. Participants will include:
- I. Glenn Cohen
- Joshua Greene
- William Fitzpatrick
- Adina Roskies
- Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
- Thomas Scanlon
Co-sponsored by The Project on Law and Mind Sciences at Harvard Law School, The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, the Gruter Institute, the Harvard Program on Ethics and Health, and the MacArthur Law and Neuroscience Project.
More specifics regarding participants, materials, and the conference agenda can be found here.
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Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com: The iPlayer gets iPhone support
Ian Douglas / Telegraph Blogs: iPlayer for iPod and iPhone
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Student faces Facebook consequences — Freshman hit with 147 academic charges for online study network at Ryerson University — Study groups may be a virtual trademark of the Ivory Tower - but a virtual study group has been slammed as cheating by Ryerson University.
Janet Meiners / WebProNews: Is Creating a Facebook Study Group Cheating?
Travis Hudson / Today @ PC World: Has Facebook Changed The University Cheating Landscape?
Hurley Goodall / The Chronicle: Ryerson U. Student Faces Expulsion For Running a Facebook Group
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MobiTV Threatens HowardForums Shutdown - Because they couldn't be bothered to secure their own content — The great cellphone-centric resource HowardForums is being threatened by the creatively named mobile TV provider MobiTV. According to this post by site owner Howard Chui …
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Declan McCullagh / The Iconoclast: MobiTV threatens suit over link providing free video streams
Michael Masnick / Techdirt: MobiTV Has A Totally Unsecured Feed, Threatens To Take Down …
Cyndy Aleo-Carreira / Profy.Com: MobiTV, Web 2.0, Howard Forums, and a 1.0 Lawyer
Matthew Miller / The Mobile Gadgeteer: MobiTV is trying to shut down Howard Forums for revealing unsecured URLs
James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun: Howard Forums may get shut down- help prevent it
Elijah Nicolas / PhoneNews.com: MobiTV Attacks Howard Forums
Judie Lipsett / Gear Diary: Can You Copyright a Publicly Accessible URL?
Jessica Guynn / Los Angeles Times:
Google mappers banned from U.S. bases — The Web firm says it erred in posting images of Fort Sam Houston. The Pentagon cites security concerns. — SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. found itself at the center of a national security controversy Thursday. — The Pentagon banned …
Andy Beal / WebProNews: Google Maps Come Under Military Fire
Nathania Johnson / Search Engine Watch Blog: Pentagon Bans Google Mapping Vehicles from Military Bases
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped: Google Takes Panorama Pics Inside Military Base, Gets Banned
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: U.S. Pentagon Bans Google From Military Bases
Lester Haines / The Register: Pentagon rattles sabre at Google's Street View
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo: Pentagon Bans Google Maps Peeks
Stan Schroeder / Mashable!: No More Military Base Mapping, Says Pentagon
Disney to Offer Some Vintage TV Series on Its Web Site — The Walt Disney Company will begin showing its classic television shows on the Internet, its chief executive, Robert A. Iger, told shareholders on Thursday. — "In the near future, you'll see more of that product available on Disney.com …
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Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com: State of the Online Video Industry: Recent Q&A
Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee: Disney Says NewTeeVee Helps OldTeeVee
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How to save money running a startup (17 really good tips) — The HowTo team at Mahalo has been an amazing surprise effort. We didn't plan on making howto articles, but when we built various how to search pages we realized that many howto articles were, well, lacking.
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Microsoft's Ballmer dances, jokes and tackles all the subjects in onstage interview — LAS VEGAS — Amid a tempest of change, Microsoft's brash leader, Steve Ballmer, gave one of his most comprehensive and entertaining interviews in recent memory Thursday. — Microsoft is pursuing Yahoo …
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EBay's new in-house blogger sounds off — New eBay recruit and social media veteran Richard Brewer-Hay will launch a blog next month that aims to give eBay's users a direct, unfiltered communications link with the company. Can he repair the company's battered relations with its users?
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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced he is extending the sign-up deadline for the 2009 direct and counter-cyclical payment program from June 1 to Aug. 14 to give producers more time to analyze their options under the 2008 farm bill.
Vilsack, testifying before the House Appropriations Subcommittee, said the move was in response to concerns he had heard from producers who were worried about making their decisions in time for the June 1 deadline.
"This action should provide producers with sufficient time to learn about the new ACRE program and to make informed decisions about their sign-up options," said Vilsack. The secretary was referring to the average crop revenue enhancement program that bases counter-cyclical payments on crop prices and revenues.
He also announced USDA would be making Milk Income Loss Contract or MILC payments to help producers struggling with the recent downturn in milk prices. The MILC announcement follows USDA's decision to use 200 million pounds of non-fat dry milk for school-feeding programs and the TEFAP program.
USDA will also make bonus commodity purchases through its Section 32 authority. The purchases will include $30 million for walnuts, $25 million for pork, $60 million for turkey and $2 million for lamb.
During the hearing, Vilsack said the Obama administration's budget plans will bring reform to USDA and revitalize rural America.
"The president's budget reflects a new direction for our country," said Vilsack. "This budget will set us on the path to recovery by providing a strong foundation and diverse opportunities for farmers and ranchers to succeed."
Vilsack said rebuilding and revitalizing rural communities will be one of his top priorities.
"Starting with the implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and continuing through implementation of the farm bill, USDA will expand broadband networks in rural communities, increase investment in rural infrastructure, and develop renewable energy," he said.
"The budget puts a strong emphasis on rural economic development, providing more than $20 billion in loans, loan guarantees, and grants to support rural development activities. Of great importance to me, this budget proposal is consistent with the administration's efforts to ensure that all of rural America will have access to quality broadband service, which is essential to keeping pace in a world that relies on rapid telecommunications."
USDA, he said, is committed to modernizing the food system, focusing on preventing rather than mitigating the consequences of food-borne illness, which affects everyone from the consumer back down to the producer.
"Our budget proposal for 2010 includes additional resources to improve food safety inspection and assessment and to enhance the ability to determine food safety risks. I am also proud to be a part of the Food Safety Working Group and look forward to meeting with you on ideas to improve the food safety system."


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This question is somehow related to (but different from) the following MO question and the one linked from there
Diffeomorphic Kähler manifolds with different Hodge numbers
Let $X$ and $X'$ be two complex algebraic varieties that are diffeomorphic to each other. One may or may not assume they are irreducible. Then:
(Weak form) For each pair of integers $(i,n),$ do we always have $$ \dim Gr^W_iH^n(X,\mathbb Q)=\dim Gr^W_iH^n(X',\mathbb Q), $$ where $W$ denotes the weight filtration on the mixed Hodge structures?
(Strong form) Let $f:X\to X'$ be a diffeomorphism. Does $f^*:H^n(X')\to H^n(X)$ respect the $W$-filtrations?
Variants: One can ask similar questions with "diffeomorphic" replaced by "homeomorphic" or "complex analytically isomorphic". For instance, does the weight filtration see the difference between tangential intersections and transverse intersections? One can also add coefficients.
At the first sight, it's not clear to me how to approach the question, since there seems to be no relation between the resolutions of $X$ and $X'.$
Edit: As algori pointed out to me, this is false without the compactness assumption, even for "complex analytic isomorphism". So I will assume $X$ and $X'$ are compact.


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Dov Charney Sued Again, Purely for Being Sleazy
Last month, pervy American Apparel CEO Dov Charney was sued by (first one, then several more) former employees for alleged sexual harassment. As the media war over Dov's reputation raged, new facts came to light —incriminating texts, emails, and photos from his accusers—that made it seem that Dov might actually be innocent this time. But of course, Dov couldn't leave well enough alone.
At the same time that stories that seemed to vindicate him started popping up in the news, several fake blogs bearing the names of his accusers also popped up online—complete with all of the uncensored, explicit photos of the girls that Dov had in his possession.
Now, the inordinate sleazebaggery may be backfiring. Dov Charney (and Kyung Chung, a photographer who took the photos) is now being sued again by three of the same plaintiffs who sued him before—Alyssa Ferguson, Irene Morales, and Tesa Lubans-Dehaven. This time, they're suing him for defamation, impersonation, invasion of privacy, and "intentional infliction of emotional distress" for posting those fictitious blogs with explicit photos, and for leaking their photos to the media.
Now, we don't know whether the women in question were "forced to pose for certain suggestive photos" as the suit alleges; and we're not generally in favor of suing people for leaking newsworthy documents to the media. But the act of creating multiple fake blogs in these women's names, full of X-rated photos of them, was an unnecessary, sleazy smear campaign. Crucially, the suit says that only Dov or someone working for him could have done it:
So basically Dov Charney could be innocent of what he was sued for in the first place, but be found guilty and end up having to pay a shitload of money just for handling the first lawsuit in such a sleazy way. Hypothetically. Wouldn't that be funny?
The full lawsuit is below.
[Photo of Charney via Getty Images. Additional research by John Cook]


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Dwaraka as the wave to check amongst the long, flat beaches of Gujarat State. Maharashtra would appear to be disadvantaged by a wide continental shelf and silted up beaches around the myriad river deltas surrounding Mumbai, but there are some long rivermouth waves to be found close to Alibag "> Alibag , plus good beaches, reefs and points. ">
Goa is so familiar to many as party central around Christmas, yet mid-year will see regular chest-high days and a pick of the peaks at Baga, Calungute and Candolim, plus there are spots further north with the kiteboarders at Arambol and Vagator or further south around Benaulim and Palolem. Nothing special, but fun, empty and warm. Gokarna is a popular hang out, with cheap accommodation and a powerful shoredump at high tide. Near the centre of Karnataka State, Murdeshwara "> Murdeshwara offers clean beachbreaks in SW or NW onshores on either side of the peninsula, beneath the huge meditating statue of Shiva. ">
Bhatkal , a series of cliff-lined coves offer multiple opportunities in a SW swell. Maravanthe "> Maravanthe is also dubbed 10,000 Peaks as the 6km stretch throws up an endless supply of corners and close-outs in equal measure. There's a short, speedy right off the lighthouse at Kapu Beach "> Kapu Beach , followed by miles of average beachbreak in either direction. The Ashram Surf Retreat uses the Shambhavi River and a fast boat to access local breaks like Baba's Left, Tree Line, Swami's and Water Tank around Mulki "> Mulki , north of Mangalore. ">
Kovalam has cheap hotels, laid-back places to hang out and coach-loads of tourists arrive daily, usually heading to the swell protected northern beach that is mostly flat. Hawa Beach faces directly into the SW swell and wind, making for messy lefts forming off the scattered rocks at the southern end. Lighthouse Beach is highly consistent and was chosen as the site of the ASR artificial reef. However, since the onset of the monsoon, reports suggest that the geo-textile bags forming the artificial 'reef' at the southern end of the beach have moved and it isn't working as perfectly. There are are other peaks at the north end of the beach. ">
Manapad Point - one the best surf spots in India. It is far off the beaten track and not easily accessible. The point is a beautifully formed ancient lava flow that extends into the water and when the rights are working, expect up to 400 metre rides followed by a long walk back to the point. A fair way up the east coast, just out of the Sri Lankan swell shadow, is Pondicherry "> Pondicherry and Auroville, steep beaches and a few jetty breaks that can get good in big monsoon or cyclone swells. ">
Mahabalipuram Shore Temple has helped catch the sand and funnel some hollow righthanders down the point. Picks up S swell and bends it in, but loses a lot of size in the process so June to September is the time to go. Another good wave in this area is Big Rock, a proper left barrel over a rock shelf, just next to the reliable right point of Fisherman's Cove ."> Fisherman's Cove . ">
Krishna River sculpts some rivermouth bars that could have their day in SE swells and NW winds, rewarding those willing to put in a massive effort getting there. Finding a boat would make it much easier and safer to explore. There's a long right at one of the mouths of the Godavari near Odalaravu "> Odalaravu that if it lined-up would be a 2km ride. Visagapatanam is where the action is with a series of right points strung out over a 30km stretch of coastline including Lawson's Bay "> Lawson's Bay (see hotspot); Tenneti Park "> Tenneti Park ; Mangamari "> Mangamari ; Bhimuni "> Bhimuni and much further north is Sandy Point "> Sandy Point . ">
Kumari Point had gone the way of the dinosaurs since the massive earthquake and tsunami of 2004 were a little exaggerated. Yes, the reef did lift out of the water and what was a ridiculously long wave has been shortened considerably. The line-up is somewhat sectiony now, but the end section is fine - plenty long enough and perhaps even more hollow, chucking out cylindrical pits with mechanical precision. Prerequisites include plenty of S in the swell and N in the wind, a proper boat and an appetite for barrel riding in the middle of nowhere. ">
explored this area and found some amazing world-class surf on the southwest coast of Great Nicobar, plus some tasty reefs and righthand pointbreaks along the SE coast up to the main area of habitation at Campbell Bay, where a fun peak hits the breakwall in a strong S swell. Car Nicobar, Teressa and Katchal Island all have ample swell exposure from the S-W, along with the promising reef bathymetry and Teressa and Katchal Island have been surfed by passing yachts (without permits). ">
Indica ™ - Royalty Free Stock Photos of India Dustin Ellison Photography "> Dustin Ellison Photography - California native, now 29, and living in Mexico. Spent last 3+ years living and traveling throughout India and surfing its warm empty waters. Dustin's love for surfing and his eagerness to travel the world have helped him to produce images that become a realistic journey into each place he visits. Dustin has had his work published in Surfer's Path, Australian Surfing Life, and several other surf publications. John Callahan "> John Callahan - John Seaton Callahan is originally from Hawaii, he now lives in Singapore. He photographs with passion around the world, with a particular preference for tropical places, beautiful women, and locations with good surfing conditions. His photos are published worldwide. New material is uploaded, captioned, and keyworded frequently on his Tropicalpix website. Rammohan Photography "> Rammohan Photography - Took up photography at the age of 17 and now at the age of 21 he is a travel photographer and runs a stock photo agency online. While he is the only surf photographer in the whole of Indian sub continent, he doesn't limit himself to any particular genre of photography and enjoys shooting almost anything and everything. Emi Mazzoni "> Emi Mazzoni - Editor and staff photographer for Surf News Magazine, Italy ">


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Bollywood superstar and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) co-owner Shah Rukh Khan has no regrets that cricketer Sourav Ganguly was dethroned as captain of the Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise. In fact, he admits, they took a "big chance" to have a Kolkata team without 'dada'.
Shah Rukh, who was at the Hindustan Leadership Summit 2012 here Friday, was questioned: "Are you at all ashamed the way you treated Sourav Ganguly?"
He replied: "No."
Moderator Vir Sanghvi then cross questioned: "You think you treated him right? He was humiliated by your team, that was okay?"
"I humiliated? My team did... they should apologise. I did not. I have no regrets at all. The team decides and the coaches decide, and I am not being diplomatic with this."
"I think we treated him well enough. Having said that, I think he is one of the greatest players the country has, but in that part of format of cricket, after three years, maybe the team management did not think it that way," added the 47-year-old.
Nevertheless, Shah Rukh admits it was a risky decision.
"To be honest, we took a big chance - to be in Kolkata and not to have dada... (But) I think we have proven that this team has done well with the leadership of Gautam (Gambhir) and the team management behind. So no regrets," said SRK, whose team walked away with the IPL trophy this year.


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Two persons snowshoeing north and west of Bear Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 5, located body in a thick timbered area, approximately 100 feet off a summer hiking trail. Park officials believe it to be the body of the missing San Antonio, Texas man who had been the subject of an intense search since Feb. 1. Larimer County Coroner's office will not release positive identification until completion of an autopsy. However, it is believed that the body is that of Troy Green, 39, from San Antonio, Texas.
The location where the body was found, near the Flattop Mountain trail, was inside the search area but approximately one mile north of the Tyndall Gorge and Nymph Lake region where search managers believed that Green may have hiked. He was found in an area that had been searched several times by ground personnel, a dog team, and helicopter over-flights. Green's body was against a tree and he was wearing dark-colored clothing.
The recovery team reached the Bear Lake Trailhead at 6:30 p.m. with Green's body. Because the investigation is ongoing, the Flattop Trail from the north side of Bear Lake is temporarily closed.
Mr. Green was planning to attend a conference in Denver. When his wife did not hear from him on Thursday, January 31, she contacted the Denver Police Department. He did not arrive at the conference on Friday. On Friday afternoon, February 1, an advisory was given for his rental car that matched a vehicle found early Friday morning by park rangers at the Bear Lake parking lot.
Search efforts began Friday afternoon. Over the weekend teams searched throughout the Bear Lake system of trails; focusing on off- trail areas particularly in the Mill Creek Drainage, in the Flattop Mountain area, and between Bear Lake and Dream Lake. Park rangers were assisted by Larimer County Search and Rescue, Rocky Mountain Rescue, Douglas County Search and Rescue, Arapahoe Rescue Patrol, and Summit County Rescue. Aerial search efforts also took place over this entire area. Searchers faced winter conditions with deep and drifting snow and high winds. Hundreds of visitors were in the Bear Lake area over the weekend also serving as eyes and ears.


text: The Patricia Barber Quartet at Jazz Standard Patricia Barber's modern cool hit like a thunderbolt when first released back in 1998. The album received a coveted 5 star review in DownBeat and was included in a survey of "Top 100 Albums of the Century" by Rolling Stone/Germany, among other accolades. The response, and subsequent worldwide touring, led to Barber's signing to Blue Note Records one year later and the New York Times to say: "Barber's art is the kind of art we need to pay attention to." Now, Premonition releases a high resolution, dual layer, Pure Audio Blu-ray of this miraculous album. Read more about The Patricia Barber Quartet at Jazz Standard


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Sunday, April 19, 2009
Word of the Gay: "TV"
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- Zora Jane said...
Wow, is she a transvestite? She's so beautiful and feminine!
- April 22, 2009 at 7:13 AM
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Bug reducing Florida's orange crop to 2-decade low
(c) 2013, Bloomberg News.
A gnat-sized insect, the Asian citrus psyllid, forced Dean Mixon to replace about 1,000 orange trees in the past two years on the 50-acre Florida farm his grandfather started in the 1930s. The bug spreads a disease called citrus greening, causing fruit to shrink and drop early.
"This is the worst we ever had to deal with," said Mixon, 62. "Young trees can't develop strong roots, and the quality of the fruit is also affected. We have been able to slow the spread of the disease, but not eradicate it."
Florida, the world's largest orange grower after Brazil, will harvest 121 million boxes of the fruit in the season that began Oct. 1, the fewest since 1990, the Department of Agriculture estimates. Orange-juice futures in New York will rally 18 percent to $1.6465 a pound by the end of June, up from $1.39 on Dec. 24, according to the average estimate of nine traders and analysts surveyed by Bloomberg News.
Futures entered a bull market this month as dry weather compounds the damage from citrus greening. Some types of oranges, including early and mid-season varieties, are projected to drop prematurely from trees at the highest level since 1961, the USDA said Dec. 10. The shrinking crop may boost costs for companies including Pepsico Inc., the maker of Tropicana juices, and Coca Cola Co., which sells Minute Maid and Simply Orange brands. U.S. consumers spend about $1.45 billion on the juice annually.
"We're in uncharted territory," said John Ortelle, who has been following the industry for more than 30 years and is vice president for McKeany-Flavell, an Oakland-Calif.-based broker whose clients have included Dole and Kraft Foods. "Whatever producers have tried to tackle the disease has had a minimal effect so far. Growers took out trees and added extra nutrients. You just don't know when and if the effects will be positive."
Orange juice rose 18 percent this year on ICE Futures U.S. in New York, trailing only natural gas and cocoa among the 19 raw materials tracked by the Thomson Reuters/Jefferies CRB Index.
Growing areas in Florida received as little as 2 inches (5.1 centimeters) of rain from Oct. 1 through Dec. 22, according to Kyle Tapley, a meteorologist with MDA Weather Services in Gaithersburg, Md. That compares with the 30-year average of as much as 8 inches. About 28 percent of the state is experiencing "abnormally dry" weather, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Last season, the USDA cut its production outlook seven times over eight months as drought compounded damage from greening. Smaller fruit size may mean that the final count for this year's crop will total 115 million boxes, or 5 percent less than the government estimates, said Jerry Neff, a branch manager for Bradenton, Fla.-based Allendale Risk Management who was the most-accurate forecaster in a Bloomberg survey before the USDA's Dec. 10 report. A box weighs 90 pounds.
Greening has discouraged growers from increasing production as new trees must be sown in greenhouses rather than outdoors to avoid further contagion, doubling the cost of planting to about $8 a tree, according to Tom Spreen, a retired University of Florida professor and an industry consultant. The area planted with orange groves will total 459,311 acres this year, the lowest since at least 1978, when the government data begins. The USDA survey was conducted every two years until 2009, when it became annual.
Acreage declines have also been spurred by increases in housing development and urban sprawl, said Mixon, whose 50-acre farm in Bradenton is down from 350 acres in 2006.
Slowing U.S. consumption may cap price gains for futures, according to Judy Ganes-Chase, the president of J. Ganes Consulting in Panama City, Panama. U.S. retail prices for frozen, concentrated orange juice reached $4.7026 a pound by the end of November, down 5.9 percent from a year earlier. The cost is up 28 percent from a decade ago, threatening consumer demand, Ganes said.
Since Oct. 1, retailers sold 82.39 million gallons as of Nov. 23, down 6.7 percent from a year earlier, the Florida Department of Citrus estimated on Dec. 9, citing data from Nielsen Co. U.S. inventories of frozen orange juice totaled 732.47 million pounds on Nov. 30, up 22 percent from a year earlier, government data show.
Some consumers are looking for lower-calorie options, said Ross Colbert, a global beverage-strategist at Rabobank International in New York who's been studying the industry for more than 10 years. U.S. per-capita consumption fell to 3 gallons in 2012 from 4 gallons in 2008 and 5.5 gallons in 2000, Colbert said. An 8-ounce serving of orange juice has about 110 calories, according to the government. In the past 10 years, water consumption has increased the most among all beverages, he said.
Production of oranges in Brazil will climb 8.5 percent to 435 million boxes in the 12 months ending June 30, 2014, from a year earlier, and juice output will jump 18 percent, the USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service said in report Dec. 16. Yields will rise 12 percent.
"Brazil could take care of any shortfall we may have in production," said James Cordier, founder of Optionsellers.com in Tampa, Fla. "While the U.S. crop is the smallest we've seen in many years, sales at the retail level are still sluggish."
Hedge funds and other large speculators are increasing bets on a price rally. As of Dec. 17, money managers raised their net-long position by 11 percent from a week earlier to 2,652 futures and options, Commodity Futures Trading Commission data show. That's the highest in three months.
First found in Florida in 1998, the Asian psyllid thrived on the state's temperate climate and sap collected from foliage as it spread the bacterial-disease to all 32 counties that produce oranges commercially. Greening has cost the state's economy $4.5 billion in lost revenue and eliminated 8,200 jobs amid spending cuts since being discovered in 2005, according to the Citrus Research and Development Foundation.
The USDA said Dec. 12 it was providing $1 million for research projects aimed at combating the disease. An additional $9 million has been spent through a government research program for specialty crops. More funds may be allocated in a new farm bill currently being negotiated by lawmakers.
Rick Kress, president of Clewiston, Fla.-based Southern Gardens Citrus, has replaced about 500,000 trees since 2005 because of psyllid infestation and greening. The company has about 1.8 million trees planted on more than 16,500 acres, and can process as much as 20 million boxes of oranges per season, according to its website.
Mixon, the Florida grower, has tried fighting the insect with pesticide and increasing fertilizer use to strengthen trees. Groves have also been damaged by other crop diseases including citrus canker, which causes leaves and fruit to drop prematurely, he said.
"We use pesticide, but the problem is that if it rains, it can be washed off, or if you don't catch the psyllid at the right time, it becomes ineffective," Mixon said. "If you use too much pesticide, you can actually burn the fruit, which can then become useless for fresh fruit or juice."
The risk of frost in coming months may further threaten Florida's crop, while U.S. demand increases seasonally as consumers drink more to boost their vitamin C intake and guard against influenza, said Fain Shaffer, the president of Infinity Trading Corp. in Indianapolis.
While output is forecast to increase in Brazil, the country's stockpiles are heading for a three-year low, the USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service estimated on Dec. 16. At the end of June 2014, inventories will drop to 93,000 metric tons, down from 205,000 a year earlier and 474,000 tons in 2012, according to the report.
Total output of frozen concentrate in the 12 months that ended in June 2013 fell 23 percent in Brazil because of lower availability for fruit processing and low industrial yields, the USDA said. Crop diseases including greening are boosting production costs in the South American country, prompting some farmers to switch to crops including sugarcane and rubber, according to Conab, the government crop-forecasting agency.
Reduced imports from Brazil may shrink U.S. inventories that, while up from 2012, are 49 percent smaller on average this year than a decade ago, government data show.
"We're in a serious supply problem," said Shawn Hackett, the president of Hackett Advisors in Boynton Beach, Fla. "Citrus greening is a structural problem, and Brazil is having its own issues. There's no way to turn this around. Prices are going to go higher."
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Matt Morton
Only 34 percent of Native American students in Portland Public Schools graduate within four years. It's a number that Matt Morton—board chair for the Native American Youth and Family Center, or NAYA, a 35-year-old advocacy and resource center for Portland's nearly 38,000 Native Americans—takes personally.
In 2006, NAYA—which has seen its annual budget grow from $250,000 to $8 million in the past seven years—established a housing department that has provided opportunities for dozens of Native Americans to become homeowners. And four years ago, the center created a Summer Institute that offers high school students the chance to earn college credit by taking college-level courses. Today, 90 percent of students who complete the Summer Institute graduate from high school on time; 92 percent go on to college. Those are figures Morton should take personally, too. Learn more about NAYA with our web exclusive slideshow.