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Halloween candy brings some turbulent celebrity couples together for the spooky holiday this weekend - at least for now.
Recently separated Courtney Cox and David Arquette told Us Magazine they are going trick-or-treating with their 6-year-old daughter, Coco, on the ghostly evening.
"Coco is going to be a bumblebee and Courtney is going to be a sunflower," said the "Scream 4" star, adding that he plans on being much more low key and "put on a flower suit."
Arquette is flying into L.A. for the mini family reunion, after partying Saturday night with buddies in Vegas dressed up as Elvis.
Although Mom and Dad are there for Coco on Halloween, the two are not there for each other. The "Friends" star and her husband of 11 years announced a trial separation on October 11.
The actress was reportedly "pissed" when Arquette shared too much information about their break up on Howard Stern's satellite radio show, saying he was "crying" after the first time he slept with another woman after the separation and admitted he was "drinking a little more" since. It was the second time he talked about her to shock jock Stern.
"She had a right to get upset about some of the personal details," the actor said. He also promised on the Regis & Kelly show later that day he had remained 100 per cent faithful to his wife during their marriage.
On-again off-again reality TV couple Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt also spent time together this Halloween weekend, making a public appearance on the red carpet Saturday night at the Pure Nightclub Halloween party Montag was hosting in Las Vegas.
After calling off her divorce with Pratt, the "Hills" actress was spotted holding hands with her guy. She said she's "enjoying our relationship. I had so much going on before, I didn't have a chance to enjoy being a newlywed," Us Magazine reported.
Montag, 24, also told the magazine she's had "ups and downs" about her body, which had gone over 10 plastic surgery procedures. "I'm good," she said. "I'm just trying to focus on other things, not focus so much on my body."
Focusing on other things must have distracted her from finding a costume this weekend, because the attention-loving celeb just went as herself.
"I'm Heidi Montag for Halloween," she said on the red carpet. "I designed my own dress."
Her 26-year-old husband, on the other hand, arrived decked out as an alien in a long dark green robe and eerie mask. Almost as frightening as the celebrity couple's roller-coaster drama.
Selected Reading: Us Magazine, People


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New York Times (08.28.12):: Nicholas Bakalar
Researchers in Zambia have reported that a substance in human breast milk seems to reduce the risk of mother-to-child HIV transmission.
The study found that women whose breast milk held higher than median-level concentrations of human milk oligosaccharides, a carbohydrate, were less than half as likely to transmit HIV to their babies as those with concentrations of the substance below the median.
"People talk about proteins and lipids that are important in human milk, but oligosaccharides are something people don't appreciate as much," said Lars Bode, the lead author of the study and an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of California-San Diego.
The researchers collected breast milk samples from 81 HIV-positive women who transmitted the virus to their infants during breastfeeding, 86 HIV-positive women who did not transmit, and 36 uninfected women. The scientists analyzed the samples for human milk oligosaccharides in response to growing evidence that the substance contains immunologically active components that may reduce the risk of viral transmission.
In resource-poor countries, the risk of HIV transmission from breast milk is outweighed by its health benefits, so infected women are encouraged to breastfeed while taking antiretroviral drugs.
[PNU editor's note: The study, "Human Milk Oligosaccharide Concentration and Risk of Postnatal Transmission of HIV Through Breastfeeding," was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2012;doi:10.3945.ajcn.112.039503).]
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International clock
This program provides an international, i.e. multi-timezone, clock for Linux. Here is a screenshot:
It is based on hsclock by Jens-Ulrik Petersen, but is written in Perl instead of Haskell. It also adds some extra features, such as:
- Gtk2 configuration window (see this screenshot)
- configuration is saved between runs
- layouts: 1 column, 1 row, table, or 1 clock at a time (with clock selection in popup menu)
- user-defined labels for timezones
- localizable
- window position can be specified, and can be saved between runs
Note: a Gtk 1.x interface is also still supported, but will be kept at the current level of design (and so it looks older...).
If you would like to translate intclock to your language, translate the strings in this file and send it back to me. Note that country and city names are automatically translated using the Common Locale Data Repository.
Currently available languages are Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish and Ukrainian.
The requirements for intclock are the following:
- perl 5 or higher (perl 5.8 or higher for Gtk2)
- either the Gtk2 (preferred) or the Gtk perl module
- the Data::Dumper perl module
- the Time::HiRes perl module
- the Locale::Maketext perl module
- the Olson timezone database (usually called tzdata)
The Data::Dumper and Locale::Maketext perl modules are standard included in perl 5.8. The other perl modules are usually also included together with perl 5.8 in Linux distributions. The perl modules can also be found on CPAN.
The Olson timezone database is standard included with glibc, and thus always there on Linux. It can also be present on other Operating Systems (in the directory /usr/share/zoneinfo or /usr/lib/zoneinfo or something similar).
Installation instructions can be found in the README file contained in the package.


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How Big Ag Taps Into Taxpayers' Pockets - Twice
Double Dippers: Failed Attempts at Reform
The production of surplus crops with subsidized water adds to the glut of farm products...drive[s] up federal expenditures for USDA commodity programs and place[s] farmers in other areas of the country, who do not receive subsidized water, at a competitive disadvantage in the agricultural marketplace.
— Rep. Sam Gejdenson, Remarks to House of Representatives. May 17, 1989
Policy makers recognized decades ago that the Bureau of Reclamation's water subsidy programs and the USDA's crop subsidy programs worked at cross purposes with each other. Between 1982 and 2003, Congress considered eleven different bills to eliminate double subsidy payments. None made it to the president's desk to be signed into law.
The first attempt came in 1982 when Rep. Berkley Bedell of Iowa proposed an amendment to the Reclamation Reform Act prohibiting the delivery of irrigation water to surplus crops. [13] Although the House passed the amendment, it was severely watered down by a House-Senate conference committee. In the end, the Secretary of Agriculture was required only to conduct a study examining the production of surplus crops on lands served by federally subsidized irrigation water.
The study was published in 1984. It estimated that 45 percent of cropland receiving subsidized water was being planted with surplus crops that received price supports. [14] The study concluded that top-to-bottom reform was needed to harmonize the conflicting goals of the government's water and crop subsidies. [5] Congress paid little heed. In 1986 Bedell tried to get language outlawing double subsidies into legislation authorizing North Dakota's Garrison irrigation project, but his amendment was narrowly defeated in the House, losing by just four votes. [14]
The following year Rep. Sam Gejdenson of Connecticut proposed sweeping legislation that would have required the Bureau of Reclamation to charge full price for water delivered to crops already subsidized by USDA price support programs. [15] Gejdenson's bill attracted 111 co-sponsors but was nonetheless killed in committee. In 1989 Gejdenson reintroduced this legislation in the House, with a Senate companion bill from Sen. John Heinz of Pennsylvania, but neither bills came close to becoming law. [16,17] Subsequent legislation introduced in 1990, 1995, 1997, 1999 and 2003 met with a similar fate. [18,19,20,21,22,23]
Meanwhile, a number of federal agencies have repeatedly called for the end of double subsidies. In 1990, the Interior Department Inspector General conducted an audit to evaluate the "reasonableness of providing subsidized irrigation water from Bureau of Reclamation projects to those individuals whose lands produce surplus crops and who benefit from Department of Agriculture crop subsidy programs." [1] Interior concluded that "the practice of providing dual subsidies should be discontinued expeditiously," and recommended that the Bureau work with USDA to develop policies to stop it. [1]
The Bureau's own data showed that about four times more subsidized water was being used for subsidized crops than the Inspector General's report estimated. But the Bureau never followed Interior's recommendation. [5] The Bureau said it would be unproductive to take any action before potential legislative requirements became clear. After 15 years of Congressional inaction, the Bureau still seems to be waiting to be told how to fix a system that is clearly broken.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has been hammering away on the issues of water and crop subsidies for more than a decade. In a 1991 report GAO highlighted double dipping as one of the problems with the existing federal water contracts and identified it as one of the policy changes needed before these contracts were renewed. [5] The Bureau has also flagrantly ignored this recommendation and is now in the midst of signing hundreds of new 25-to-50 year irrigation water contracts for the CVP, none of which include any language addressing the double subsidy issue.
In 1992 the GAO again spotlighted double dipping in a report on natural resources management issues produced for the Speaker of the House and Senate Majority Leader. [24] Since then the GAO has called for the end of double subsidies in reports and testimony on the federal budget in 1993, 1994, 1995, 2000 and 2003. [25,26,27,28,29,30] The response from Congress, the White House, the Bureau of Reclamation and USDA has been the same: Nothing.
It would never make sense to let farmers collect double subsidies. But it's looking worse all the time:
- As of 2002, CVP farmers had paid back only 11 percent of their share of the Project. [3] Should they continue receiving hundreds of millions of dollars a year in federal farm subsidies while showing no signs of making a serious attempt to repay their interest-free debt?
- The federal crop subsidy program has become massively bloated, costing taxpayers $144 billion over the last decade. For the money taxpayers have provided in commodity and disaster subsidies alone over this period, we could have bought outright 25 percent of the farms in 341 counties — land, barns, farmhouses and all. [4] Should the recipients of this windfall also be eligible for more than a hundred million dollars in water subsidies a year in California alone?
- Neither crop nor water subsidies are accomplishing their original purpose of supporting family farms. Two-thirds of the nation's farmers get no subsidy payments whatsoever. Of those that do, the vast majority get chicken feed: Eighty percent of the recipients between 1995 and 2004 received, on average, $7,211 for the entire period. That comes to $721 a year, just over $60 a month. [4] Meanwhile half of the farm payments went to the top 4 percent of the recipients, with these farms receiving a total average subsidy of $569,755 from 1995 to 2004. The top 1 percent of recipients raked in almost a quarter of the total, for an average subsidy worth more than $1 million apiece. It's well documented that many of these subsidy millionaires are using their swollen assets to buy out smaller farms, putting more family farmers out of work. Should we continue to help big farms squeeze out smaller ones?
- In March 2005, the Congressional Budget Office projected that the budget deficit would reach $365 billion this year, not including supplemental appropriations for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan that bring the figure to $398 billion. [31] With no end in sight to the war on terror, can we afford to give farmers in arid Western states hundreds of millions of dollars a year in water subsidies that are used to grow surplus crops that cost additional hundreds of millions in price supports?
In light of the documented waste and inequities in the water and crop subsidy programs and the nation's fiscal crisis, eliminating double dipping would seem to be a no-brainer. Instead, it's become a non-starter — a sacred cow with so much political clout that most elected officials and bureaucrats are afraid to touch it.


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He was so funny. People see him as a such a success.
Carrie McLachlan was saying what everyone was thinking last week.
Robin Williams touched us all, whether we loved his lightning-quick wit, sweetly hilarious turn as "Mrs. Doubtfire," or heartfelt performances as a teacher in "Dead Poets Society" or counselor in "Good Will Hunting."
As viewers or fans, we were reminded how much we loved Williams when we lost him Monday to suicide.
In 2012, there were 100 suicides in Snohomish County — a number all the more tragic because it was typical of other recent years.
In 2011, 95 people in our county took their lives. In both 2010 and 2009, there were 107 suicides here. The numbers for those two years, 214 in all, were up considerably from previous years. In 2008, 67 people in Snohomish County lost their lives to suicide. In 2007, the toll was 71, and in 2006 it was 67.
Not counting suicide data from this or last year, that adds up to 614 victims of suicide in Snohomish County. Even one suicide shatters the lives of loved ones. And every person lost was as unique, in his or her own way, as Williams.
McLachlan, who provided the local suicide data from the state Department of Health, is the Snohomish Health District's program manager for Healthy Communities &Assessment.
"Suicide rates in Washington are higher than the national average," she said. In Snohomish County, suicide in 2010 was the ninth leading cause of death.
The Snohomish Health District has taken serious notice. In 2013, the Health District identified three major areas in its Community Health Improvement Plan. They are obesity, physical abuse of youth, and suicide.
According to Kristin Kinnamon, Snohomish Health District communications manager, the agency is working toward five goals in its suicide prevention effort:
Screening by primary care providers of all patients for suicide risk factors, and making appropriate referrals.
Implementation of behavioral health curriculum, including suicide prevention and intervention, in all county school districts.
Certification of 1,000 county residents in mental health first aid.
The Health District facilitating a community awareness campaign about suicide.
Ensuring that all patients admitted to hospitals for suicide attempts receive crisis line information and a community resource card upon discharge.
McLachlan said the Health District will be helped by community partners, including school districts and health care providers, as it works toward those goals. Compass Health, a nonprofit providing mental health and chemical dependency services, already offers classes in mental health first aid.
"It's designed to help the lay person in terms of a mental health crisis, from early warning signs to helpful things to say," said Stacey Alles, chief operations officer of Compass Health.
A program of the National Council for Behavioral Health, mental health first aid doesn't train people to provide therapy. Participants learn to listen in a nonjudgmental way and encourage someone to get professional help. "It's like people get trained in CPR. A first responder could do something," McLachlan said.
It was revealed by Williams' wife last week that the actor suffered not only from depression, but had been diagnosed with early stages of Parkinson's disease.
In May 2013, the Snohomish Health District's Mark Sarafin created a report titled "Suicide in Older Adults." The actor's suicide fits with many of its findings.
Listing causes of depression in older adults, the report included social isolation, stress, physical deterioration and diseases including diabetes, stroke and Parkinson's. It showed that at every age, far more males than females committed suicide in Snohomish County from 2009 to 2011, and that the two largest age groups for suicide were 45 to 64, and 65 and older.
While growing up, McLachlan said she had family members with mental health struggles. "Almost every family has someone," she said. "For a lot of people, they just don't know what to do. I think a caring person can really make a difference."
She pointed to an online resource from the California Mental Health Services Authority, www.suicideispreventable.org. The website offers common-sense tips for helping, under the headings, "Know the Signs," "Find the Words" and "Reach Out."
"The main message is that everyone has a role," McLachlan said.
First and always, Williams will be remembered as a brilliant performer. Alles hopes his sad death will somehow be lifesaving for others.
"Suicide is a hard, hard subject. This gives an entryway for people to start the conversation," she said.
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Horizon Inks $660M Reverse Merger With Ireland's Vidara
In a bid to take advantage of low tax rates in Ireland, Horizon Pharma (NASDAQ:HZNP) unveiled plans on Wednesday to acquire Irish specialty drug maker Vidara in a $660 million cash-and-stock reverse merger.
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The complex transaction would result in Deerfield, Ill.-based Horizon moving its legal headquarters to Dublin, which sports significantly lower tax rates than the U.S. The new company will be known as Horizon Pharma PLC and 74% owned by Horizon shareholders.
Horizon believes the tax efficient corporate structure will support the company's organic growth and acquisition strategy.
"The combined company would have a portfolio of four proprietary products and an international platform that builds on our strategy of organic growth and acquisitions. We look forward to working with the Vidara team to bring our companies together to accelerate the creation of shareholder value," Horizon CEO Timothy Walbert said in a statement.
Under the terms of the agreement, Vidara investors would own 26% of the company and also scoop up $200 million in cash.
Privately held Vidara has operations in Dublin and in the U.S. and is best known for Actimmune, an FDA-approved treatment for chronic granulomatous disease and severe, malignant osteopetrosis.
Horizon said it believes the transaction will result in an accelerated transformation into a profitable specialty pharma company with combined 2014 revenue of $250 million to $265 million.
The companies said Walbert would stay on as chairman, president and CEO of the combined company, while Vidara execs would have unspecified "important leadership and management roles."
The transaction is one of a number of recent deals designed to exploit Ireland's tax laws, including Perrigo's (NASDAQ:PRGO) $8.6 billion buyout of Irish drug maker Elan and the combination of Endo Health Solutions and Canada's Paladin.
As has been the case in many recent M&A deals, shares of Horizon spiked on the news even though acquirers traditionally see a decline following takeovers. Horizon was recently trading 14.10% higher to $16.75.
To help pay for the deal, Horizon said it has secured a $250 million bridge loan commitment from Deerfield Management.
Citigroup (NYSE:C) and JMP Securities (NYSE:JMP) advised Horizon on the deal, while Vidara was advised by Lazard (NYSE:LAZ).


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Early adoption of dabigatran and its dosing in US patients with atrial fibrillation: results from the outcomes registry for better informed treatment of atrial fibrillation.
(J Am Heart Assoc, 2013-11-25)
BACKGROUND: Dabigatran is a novel oral anticoagulant approved for thromboprophylaxis in atrial fibrillation. Adoption patterns of this new agent in community practice are unknown. METHODS AND RESULTS: We studied patterns ...
The ORBIT bleeding score: a simple bedside score to assess bleeding risk in atrial fibrillation.
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BACKGROUND: Therapeutic decisions in atrial fibrillation (AF) are often influenced by assessment of bleeding risk. However, existing bleeding risk scores have limitations. OBJECTIVES: We sought to develop and validate a ...


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âAnd whatâs the 9mji3 matter?â" looks bad in the nf9mji3 eyes of the world?â âYes â" about that. Afraid of compromising herself â"â Lilly looked at 01znf9mi3 them.
âDepends nf9mji3 what you take the world to mean. Do you mean us in this box, or the crew outside there?â he jerked his head towards the auditorium.
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âI donât say so. But â"â exclaimed 01znf9mi3 the flushed, full-blooded Robert, who was nothing if not courteous to women. âHow long haâ you been married? Eh?â asked Jim.
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A tax on imports, exports, or consumption goods.
A tax that a country imposes on its imports and, occasionally, exports. A duty exists to make an import more expensive and to thereby encourage people to buy goods produced in their own country. Proponents of their use argue that duties discourage outsourcing of jobs to other countries and make the country more self-sufficient, but most economists agree that they are economically inefficient and some contend that they may ultimately harm the people they are intended to help. A duty is also called a tariff. See also: WTO, International trade, Globalization.
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I don't know how Sesame Street managed to make it this far without doing a Lords of the Rings spoof before — presumably they know a little something about delayed gratification — but man, was it worth the wait. I don't know what's better, Cookie Monster screaming "ME PRECIOUS!" over and over again or the fact that thousands of kids now think all you need to make cookies are eggs and chocolate chips.
We'll see how The Hobbit 2: Electric Smaugaloo compares when it comes out this Friday.
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text: Not mine. In fact I shuffle parts of my library very regularly so that my iPod Touch is never more than 1/3 full. Still, that is probably only 1000 songs at a maximum. However, if technology will have its way (and it will), the next next next next iPod could carry millions of songs. How will this be accomplished? Well, let me remind you about a great feature called digital compression. It has been around since the dawn of mathematics, but only in the last 30 or so years, been applied to music. In fact, the world's de facto audio standard, the Redbook CD is compressed at 16 bits and 44.1 kHz.


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A new bacterium has been discovered, one that shares a fundamental feature with many of our readers: it runs on caffeine. Pseudomonas putida, or CBB5 as it's known, breaks down caffeine into CO2 and ammonia, using the methyl groups in the stuff as a fuel source.
What's especially cool is that compounds produced in its digestive process are useful for creating drugs that can be used, according to researchers, to "treat asthma, improve blood flow and stabilize heart arrhythmias." The bacteria could prove to be a cheaper way to manufacture these otherwise expensive chemicals. Not only that, but it could potentially be used to make decaf coffee and tea, or be used to scrub the caffeine from coffee processing runoff, thus reducing its environmental impact.


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ESTORIL, Portugal, December 1.—The 19th Ibero-American Summit, which ended today in this city, approved a joint declaration demanding the end of the economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba, mounted by the United States for 50 years, which was signed by the 22 member countries of the bloc.
The special communiqué asked Washington to immediately halt the implementation of measures adopted against the island in the last five years to intensify the blockade's impact, and reaffirms "that in the defense of free exchange, transparent practices and international trade, the implementation of unilateral coercive measures is unacceptable."
"We reiterate our most energetic rejection of the implementation of laws and measures contrary to international law" that have tightened the blockade and "exhort the U.S. government to put an end to their application," reads the text, which also condemned the imposition of the arbitrary Helms-Burton Act.
The Summit asked Washington to comply with the 18 resolutions condemning the U.S. coercive unilateral policy passed by the UN General Assembly.
The Estoril Summit likewise demanded an end to the impunity enjoyed by the terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, the mastermind of many attacks and violent acts against Cuba.
In a communiqué the dignitaries from 22 countries rejected condemned the fact that the criminal, responsible for a bomb explosion aboard a Cuban passenger plane in 1976, has still not been put on trial for acts of terrorism.
The forum reaffirmed the value of extradition legislation as an essential tool in combating terrorism and called on states that receive such applications from Ibero-American nations to duly consider them, in full adherence to the applicable legal framework.
At the same time, delegates to the meeting established a common position for confronting climate change with a global, effective and immediate response, guided by justice and equity.
The position of the Ibero-American community was reflected in a special communiqué adopted by the Summit in the Cascais Miragem Hotel in this Portuguese resort 25 kilometers from Lisbon.
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A friend sent me this link to a video of Ireland's Financial Expert Eddie Hobbs advising people to get out of the Euro as it is going to collapse. To understand a little more about why this is seeming inevitable, I watched this video.
I'm no economist. In fact, I barely understand the concepts being discussed in these clips. But it seems to me that the writing's on the wall...
What is your personal reaction to the current state of our global economy?
Are you moving your money? Using an alternative economy (like LETS)? Stockpiling? Growing more food? Chaging jobs? Investing in precious metals? Seems like all of these activities (and more) are no longer the realm of 'preppers' - people everywhere are getting nervous... I'm keen to hear what other simple, green, frugal folk are thinking, please comment!


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20 October 2010
Sprinkle all my kisses on your head...
- 30s lace blouse
- Alexa Chung velvet shorts
- thrifted J. Crew cardigan
- vintage t-strap Ferragamos
- vintage wool beret
- vintage Coach purse
- listening to: Smashing Pumpkins - Gish "Siva"
After taking it easy for a couple of days, I'm back to work listing things in the Etsy shop this morning. I've got lots and lots of lovely dresses to add this week! I've just finished one batch and I'm about to start another.
My break included taking a trip to Cherry Hill Orchard, a local apple farm. I'd never been before and really loved it! Unfortunately they'd already done the last "pick your own" day but there were buckets full of at least a dozen different kinds of apples to choose from. And samples galore! I was so stuffed with apples by the time we left. I ended up choosing Cameos and Golden Delicious to bring home with me. Yummmm. I want to go next year when we can try to pick our own.
21 comments:
- Penny Dreadful Vintage said...
Ah that lace top is so lovely. I can't believe you are still able to wear shorts, it is freeezing here in London!
- October 21, 2010
- The Purse-a-holic said...
Cant get enough of that coach purse. *heart*
- October 21, 2010
- Ann said...
love the velvet shorts! come visit my blog http://thefauxmodel.blogspot.com/
- October 21, 2010
- Unknown said...
Oh what a beautiful Outfit! I adore your lacy blouse. xx, Alice :)
- October 21, 2010
- callie said...
Such lovely pictures! That blouse is gorgeous. I love Apple picking- Macouns & Cortlands are my favorites. (:
- October 21, 2010
- archives vintage said...
as always, your pictures are just beautiful!!!
- October 21, 2010
- Unknown said...
i want your ferragamos! :)
- October 21, 2010
- Velvet said...
That "pick your own" system sounds great!
You're gorgeous in that black velvet shorts.
Have a nice day.
- October 21, 2010
- Sian Thomas said...
Velvet shorts!! They are amazing =D I need them!!
The apple farm sounds lovely too, I really want to eat an apple now haha! We don't have any pick your own apples around where I live, but we have pick your own strawberries and raspberries in summer which I'm really missing now!
- October 21, 2010
- FidgetFinds said...
love the photo of you throwing your hat!
- October 21, 2010
- Rosaspina Vintage said...
These picture are amazing! What a beautiful lighting!
Lovely clothes as always ;)
- October 21, 2010
- hannah, heart city said...
velvet shorts! amazing top! so perfect together.
- October 21, 2010
- Hannie said...
I love it! Great outfit, I want your lace top and leather bag! So gorgeous :)
xoxo from Hannie
- October 21, 2010
- Bri said...
What a fun outfit, such interesting pieces. The photos are so dreamy...
- October 21, 2010
- A Little Brighter said...
Thank you so much for the comment!
Your blog has been one of my favourites for many many year and it was such a lovely surprise!
Adore this outfit! The 30's lace blouse is super pretty!
I have been wearing vintage vlvet shorts lately but the velvet keeps rubbing off and the shorts get ruined! Maybe I shoudl try and source some Alexa Chung versions!
Ayesha x
- October 21, 2010
- Zoë said...
this is honest to god my favourite outfit of yours. love every element of it - mixing the textures, the luxe feel of velvet and lace and of course the autumnal colours!
its bloody freezing here in glasgow!
- October 21, 2010
- Jenni said...
Love love love the shorts... and the blouse! Amazing!
- October 21, 2010
- Marika said...
So jealous of those shorts! I didn't even realize I needed velvet ones until I saw that!
- October 21, 2010
- Anonymous said...
So pretty. I love it all.. especially the shoes :D
- October 22, 2010
- Kaelyn Choo said...
Cute outfit. Love it!
- October 22, 2010
- Louder Than Silence said...
Such a lovely outfit, and the pictures are beautiful too - looks like a perfect autumnal day!
Sally x
Louder Than Silence
- October 22, 2010


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Editor's note: Today's post contributed by Thomas Ormston and the Mars Express team at ESOC.
The smallest instrument on Mars Express -- VMC (Visual Monitoring Camera), the Mars Webcam -- is finally returning to service following the major anomaly that struck Mars Express at the end of summer 2011.
Although our prime science campaign has been back to 100% of the level of operations from before the anomaly for some months now, we were still working hard on finalising our new operations concept and ensuring that we had safely and efficiently returned to operations. With much of that complete, we managed to focus on how to get VMC working again under the new ops concept and on 6 May we conducted the first test observation since the 2011 anomaly.
We are very proud and excited to have VMC back on the way to normal service and very happy to present the image from the first test observation.
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Seth Rogen is hardly the image that comes to mind when you mention the words "Winter Olympics," but he and his crew will be hitting Vancouver during the games in a quest for movie-making gold.
Rogen will produce and star in "I'm With Cancer" in his native stomping grounds at just about the same time the world will be descending on his fair city to do things like watch figure skating and curling.
The mad logistics of this plan are not lost on one of the "I'm with Cancer" stars. "We're going to be the only movie filming in Vancouver during the Olympics," James McAvoy lamented during a press day for "The Last Station." "There is a reason no one else is filming during the Olympics."
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The Scottish star added that there were "fabulous" aspects to the idea and said he planned to take full advantage of the shoot to catch some events. Not that the Scots are a particular powerhouse in the winter games, but you get the idea.
The reasons for the movie location are biographical rather than any Olympic subplots (so there is hope we will never have to see Rogen in one of those form-fitting speedskating outfits). The story deals with Rogen's Vancouver life and friend Will Reiser's battle with cancer in his mid-20s.
McAvoy will play Reiser, who wrote the screenplay and is executive producing. Rogen plays himself in the movie and Anna Kendrick plays a young, inexperienced psychologist assigned to help McAvoy's character.
"You wouldn't call it comedy," says McAvoy. "But there are bits of it that are funny. Because Seth's in it, everyone calls it a comedy."


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Now that the weather has turned cold and rainy, I worry about my friends here in SoHum who lack adequate housing. I know it looks like we have a bunch of houses and a few trailer courts around here, but most of those structures have been at least partially, if not entirely, converted to indoor cannabis cultivation. Nobody lives there. Because of that, a lot of the people who work at the restaurants, stores and hotels in town, and on the pot farms in the hills, live in their cars, or camp in the woods.
They really don't have a choice. There's just not enough housing available for the number of people who work here, so people make do. The cannabis industry, by nature, does not create a lot of steady, reliable jobs. Instead, it suckers people in with the promise of big profits, which rarely turn out as planned. It's a gamblers game, and everyone has their ups and downs.
Our corrupt Sheriff sees thousands and thousands of illegal, habitat destroying, salmon killing dope farms on "google earth," but sends his deputies out to harass poor people for talking to their friends on the sidewalk in Garberville. We have dozens of unsolved murders, countless other violent crimes occur here daily, and multiple global organized crime networks operate here with impunity, but Sheriff Downey sends his Deputies down here to act as bouncers for the merchants in the Garberville business district, and to evict people from their makeshift shelters.
A lot of people see no problem with this. They think the sheriff shouldn't worry so much about crime, and should instead focus on sweeping poor people out of town. Really, we don't care about crime. We like crime. We are crime. We take pride in our outlaw status, but we prefer to cater to more upscale felons, and we expect the Sheriff's Department to rid us of the riff-raff, whether they've committed any crime or not.
It's a strange attitude, considering how much Southern Humboldt relies on, and takes advantage of poor people. Poor working people grow, process and sell almost all of the millions of pounds of cannabis grown in SoHum. Besides doing most of the hard labor and taking most of the risks, they pay most of the hotel bed tax. Poor working people, who can't find a place to live, often rent hotel rooms to avoid inclement weather, shower, do laundry, charge cell phones etc. Poor local homeless people keep our SoHum's hotels in business, and clean the rooms every day, besides.
Last year, the county passed another tax, specifically targeting the poorest taxpayers in Humboldt County, Measure Z. The new sales tax, targets the poor in more ways than one. First, it taxes the poor when they buy necessities, like clothing and toiletries. Then it gives that money to the sheriff, who uses it to harass them, evict them from their makeshift shelters, and drive them out of town. I know Measure Z is a county-wide tax, but folks in SoHum loved the idea and pushed it hard. I've never known people to work harder to screw poor people than they do here in SoHum.
You will hear a lot of rhetorical references to "community" in Southern Humboldt. We have the world famous Mateel "Community" Center, the equally famous Redwood "Community" Radio, and we talk about "this community" a lot, but we use the term euphemistically. What happens here in SoHum is something else entirely.
SoHum has become a "Mecca" for greedy, self-absorbed drug-dealers who make their money by destroying communities all over America. Ordinarily, drug dealers lead secret lives, alienated from the community around them by the clandestine nature of their occupation. They tell lies to avoid arousing suspicion and keep a low profile, while they undermine community values and enrich themselves.
Drug dealers parasitize communities the way ticks parasitize dogs. Here, however, we have thousands upon thousands of ticks, piled on top of each other, posing as a dog. From a distance, it looks like a dog, but when you get close enough to touch it, you'll find nothing but a mass of blood-suckers eager to feast on you.
Sure, drug dealers feel a camaraderie with each other, here, that they don't often find elsewhere, and they are always eager to make connections, especially profitable ones, but that doesn't make them a community. Instead, think of them as card players in a poker game. On the surface, they maintain a "poker face," and appear friendly and cordial, but beneath the calm exterior, they are all scheming to take advantage of each other.
That's not really what you call "community." Communities work together to take care of each other. That's not what goes on here in SoHum. People come here to play "the game" and make money. They're not interested in any "seventh generation" bullshit, and they don't give a damn about the "common good."
"The game", of course, is the cannabis industry. Some people win at this game, but a lot of people lose. Merchants and non-profits create lots of opportunities for "high-rollers" to get drunk and blow their winnings, and, of course, we kick the penniless losers out on the street. Doesn't that sound like a casino to you? If you ignore all of the hollow talk about "community" and think of SoHum as a gambling casino it becomes easier to understand the dynamics of this place.
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We don't do charity here. No one wants to help the less fortunate. Everyone here wants more for themselves, and the people who have the most, want more still. Instead of charity, we have "community non-profits" where the richest people in this community decide what ridiculously expensive luxury they would enjoy most, and then convince everyone else to donate time, money and energy to make it happen.
You might have noticed that we have a top-shelf concert hall, a high-powered radio station, a fancy new town square, and a huge new community park with an organic farm and soon an athletic field infested with soccer moms. Imagine those things as crystal chandeliers suspended over the gaming floor of a huge casino. You know how casinos are. Casinos overdo the luxuries, until everything reeks of too much money and not enough taste. Casinos spend money on extravagant luxuries, like crystal chandeliers, in a futile attempt to conceal the general sleaziness of the place. We do the same thing here in SoHum.
Those chandeliers do nothing to dignify the activity going on beneath them, but that's why so many people around here can find money for a new "chandelier," but have nothing but contempt for the people who do most of the work around here, pay most of the taxes, and still have no place to live. Clearly, the people who live here, have the resources to solve SoHum's housing crisis, but in the casino we call "SoHum" people obviously have other priorities.


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From humming fish to Puccini: Vocal communication evolved with ancient species, research shows
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It's a long way from the dull hums of the amorous midshipman fish to the strains of a Puccini aria -- or, alas, even to the simplest Celine Dion melody. But the neural circuitry that led to the human love song -- not to mention birdsongs, frog thrums and mating calls of all manner of vertebrates -- was likely laid down hundreds of millions of years ago with the hums and grunts of the homely fish.
By mapping the developing brain cells in newly hatched midshipman fish larvae and comparing them to other species, Andrew H. Bass, Cornell professor of neurobiology and behavior, with colleagues Edwin Gilland of Howard University and Robert Baker of New York University, found that the neural network behind sound production in vertebrates can be traced back through evolutionary time to an era long before the first animals ventured onto dry land.
The research is published in the July 18 issue of the journal Science.
Bass used fluorescent dyes to identify distinct groups of neurons in the brains of the larvae of midshipman fish, a species known for the loud humming sounds adult males generate with their swim bladders to attract females to their nests.
With laser-scanning confocal microscopy, the research team observed clusters of cells in the larvae's developing hindbrain as they formed connections and grew into the networks that control vocalization in mature fish.
"Confocal microscopy allows you to look at different populations of neurons at the same time -- to really be precise about their locations relative to each other," Bass said.
He found that the neurons in a compartment of the hindbrain known as rhombomere 8, which are thought to control pattern generation in vocalizing vertebrates, give rise to the circuitry of the vocal motor nucleus -- the system behind the fishes' hums.
Comparing the system to the neural circuitry behind vocalizations of amphibians, birds, reptiles and mammals, including primates, Bass found that while the networks vary in complexity, their fundamental attributes are conserved.
The finding puts human speech -- and social communications of all vertebrates -- in evolutionary context, Bass said.
The research also provides a framework for neuroscientists and evolutionary biologists studying social behavior in a variety of species, he said -- and sends a message to scientists and nonscientists "about the importance of this group of animals to understanding behavior; to understanding the nervous system; and to understanding just how important social communication is -- among them, as it is among ourselves," Bass said.


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"The Newsroom" marks "The West Wing" wordsmith Aaron Sorkin's much-heralded return to series television after a successful side trip penning the Oscar-winning screenplay for "The Social Network." And this time he's using his signature whip-smart dialogue to depict the high stakes dramas at a fictional cable news network where acerbic but out-of-touch anchorman Will McAvoy finds himself re-energized in his approach to breaking stories when his risky, principled ex-lover MacKenzie MacHale is suddenly named his executive producer.
PopcornBiz has the sound bytes from the series' stars that tell the story:
Jeff Daniels ("Will McAvoy")
The Backstory: "Aaron never said, 'it's based on so and so...' It was always Will McAvoy. It was easier that way. They've done a lot of research on the setting, on the environment. I've been in a lot of newsrooms over the years plugging movies, so I was aware, and it was just written so well that it was better to create your own guy and have this kind of fictionalized version of what it is and see if we can't do it well enough that you can believe that we drop in the middle of the guys that really exist."
Speaking Sorkin Style: "He's just a singular voice. When you read this you know that it was written by Aaron Sorkin and no one else. The cast that they hired come from the theater and that's dialogue-driven. We see a monologue and go 'Okay – I'll have it in an hour or so.'"
Emily Mortimer ("Mackenzie MacHale")
The Backstory: "My character is the executive producer on the show. She's been brought in to shake things up on News Night. She's not only worked with Will before, but she's been his girlfriend before – and all we know is that three years before the show begins something rather dramatic happened and they haven't seen each other since. She's been called in to produce his show and he's furious about it, but can't do anything to get rid of her, so they're stuck together."
Newsflash: "Great writers understand that sexual tension is best depicted in the way that people talk to each other. Shakespeare understood that. Those great filmmakers of the '30's understood it. And so you depict that sexual tension through the words that people throw at each other, and the people who use words the best are people in politics and journalists, because they spend all day long trying to persuade other people on their point of views. To see those kinds of people who are used to talking fast and funny go at each other in that kind of romantic comedy banter is just the perfect combination."
Sam Waterson ("Charlie Skinner")
The Backstory: "He has a mission that's established in the first show, which is to embrace this program that he thinks is getting lazy and – before he becomes completely senile and overwhelmed with cirrhosis of the liver – to see news the way that he thinks it could be, the way that he thinks it has been and the way that he thinks it should be."
Newsflash: "What I wasn't aware of was that event piles on event that piles on event and we watch and then we forget. One of the things that these ten episodes remind us of is in the two-year period it covers is what an enormous amount of events happen. I guess I'd forgotten that and I think that a lot of people forget that."
Speaking Sorkin Style: "I think drawing analogies between Aaron Sorkin and Shakespeare would sound awfully pretentious, but does he write rhythmically, does he have an unbelievable ear for the way that people talk. Does he know everything about how sentence structure conveys meaning? Is he a master of storytelling and all of that stuff? Yes."
Olivia Munn ("Sloan Sabbith")
The Backstory: "She's the financial analyst for the show. She's extremely educated and she's strong. She's passionate, but when it comes to her personal life she's socially awkward. She knows that and doesn't really care because she has more important things to deal with, which is the economy. It was really fun to play because she's someone who wasn't hiding away, wearing big, baggy clothes and putting on a turtleneck all the time. It was a woman who says, 'I'm a woman and it doesn't really matter how you look at me because I have a brain.' I think that's a really important message that young girls and woman should have as they get older and they decide what they want to do, that you don't have to be one or the other."
Speaking Sorkin Style: "It's a difference cadence than mine, so I definitely have to bury it in my brain – but I got Sorkin speed! I'm actually the only one who has to be told to slow down from Sorkin. I was like, 'Wow, I can talk fast – that's nice.'"
Thomas Sadowski ("Don Keefer")
The Backstory: "Don is the former executive producer of Will McAvoy's show, and he quits on Will after Will sort of engages in one of his many tirades. Don goes on to produce his own ten o'clock show on the network, but he's kept around the first couple episodes as Mackenzie is taking over to help sort of ease the transition. Don is a pragmatist and he would love nothing more than to jump on the donkey and tilt the windmill with the rest of them, but he understands that there's really no point to delivering news to nobody. He's always a rating point away from losing his job and you have to sometime appeal to the masses in order to deliver the information that they need.
Speaking Sorkin Style: "Working with Aaron Sorkin like sitting in with Mingus. You're just working with a cat who's operating on a different level. You've got to find a way to jibe with the speed he's going at and how he's working it."
Alison Pill ("Maggie Jordan")
The Backstory: "I feel very close to Maggie. I think for a lot of overachieving women in their twenties, it's an awkward time because you're trying to figure out a lot of things at one time as a girl, which makes it even harder. You're working in what is ostensibly a man's field, combining that with moving to New York after school and just living and sharing a one bedroom, all of that stuff, making no money and trying to figure out how you're going to make it all work, on top of which there's relationship stuff. On top of all that there's the bigger goal, which is to change the world for the better and how you deal with implementing those dreams of improving on what your foremothers have done."
Speaking Sorkin Style: "I had watched every episode of 'The West Wing' I don't know how many times. I'd seen 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60' and I'd grown up with his movies like, 'The American President.' I feel like it's in my bones."
John Gallagher, Jr. ("Jim Haper")
The Backstory: "He's a young news man who's risen through the ranks very quickly for his age. As a result he's a major workaholic and a bit of a news junkie and a bit of an adrenaline junkie even. He's been embedded in Afghanistan and Iraq and Pakistan, he's covered wars, and I think as a result of that he absolutely fails at basic day-to-day social interactions. I love the idea that there's a character that can be so kind of comfortable and confident in one zone and then absolutely out of his element in another one. Jim is doing his job well and making sure that he doesn't make any mistakes and disappoint anyone, and also try to have a social awakening, realizing that he's never really been in love, and he starts to fall pretty quickly for Maggie."
Speaking Sorkin Style: "Even a small line of Aaron's will be very strategic, so you do have to get every word right because it does affect the balance of the language of the line. The scariest part was getting word perfect on it, but once you get past that and you actually start speaking it, there's a musicality to it and there's a rhythm."
'The Newsroom,' which also features Dev Patel, Terry Crews and Jane Fonda, debuts on HBO on June 24.
'The Newsroom' – Dazzling Dialogue Tests Series' Stars
Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer and co. talk "Newsroom" backstories and learning to talk Sorkin.
"The Newsroom" marks "The West Wing" wordsmith Aaron Sorkin's much-heralded return to series television after a successful side trip penning the Oscar-winning screenplay for "The Social Network." And this time he's using his signature whip-smart dialogue to depict the high stakes dramas at a fictional cable news network where acerbic but out-of-touch anchorman Will McAvoy finds himself re-energized in his approach to breaking stories when his risky, principled ex-lover MacKenzie MacHale is suddenly named his executive producer.


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FOUND: in Ontario, Canada Marriages: Jennet Wallace b1863 born in Perth. Her parents were Thomas Wallace & Thomasina Lee. Jennet Wallace married Robert Earls b1854, Ire in Huron, Ontario, Canada
GOAL: find the parents and siblings of Margaret W. Wallace b 1831..33, Scotland.
NOTE: Is Thomas Wallace related to Margaret?
Wallace + Patton + Paisley + Gibson
Margaret W. Wallace b 1931..33 Scotland. married James Patton b 1817, Fermanagh, Ireland.
David b1849 upper married Mary Ann Trotter b 1849 Canada
Sarah b Mar 1852, goderich Ontario, Canada married William John Paisley b 1841 Kitley, Ont.
Jannet b 1855 Galt, Ontario, Canada married William Garrow b 1853 King Tp York
Jane Isabella b1859 Goderich, Ont, Canada married Thomas Charles Cox b 1854
Margaret Wilson b 1858 Goderich, Ont Canada married Bernard Ziemann
Elizabeth Florence b 1861, Goderich, Ont Canada married John Francis Bunell b 1861
Sophia Ann b 1862 Goderich, Ont Can married John Henry Durst 1858
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(Reuters) - Hip hop duo Insane Clown Posse and the ACLU on Wednesday sued the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI, accusing the two agencies of wrongly identifying the group's fan base as a criminal gang, violating their free speech rights.
Members of the Michigan-based Insane Clown Posse paint their faces to look like clowns and are known for their "controversial, rebellious and provocative" music that often uses harsh themes and language, according to the lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Detroit.
Many of the duo's estimated 1 million fans, known as Juggalos, also paint their faces to look like clowns and display a logo of a hatchet man on their clothes and jewelry, according to the lawsuit.
"Branding hundreds of thousands of music fans as gang members based on the acts of a few individuals defies logic and violates our most cherished of constitutional rights," Michael Steinberg, ACLU's legal director in Michigan, said in a statement.
The gang designation has caused the Juggalos "significant harm, including repeated police harassment and denial of employment," according to the complaint.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of four Juggalos and Insane Clown Posse singers Joseph Utsler and Joseph Bruce, who go by the names Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent J, respectively. It accuses the Justice Department and FBI of violating the fan's First Amendment rights and collecting information on the group without suspicion of criminal activity.
The suit refers to a 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment, in which the Justice Department said Juggalos were a loosely organized hybrid gang.
The government's assessment showed a photo of what appears to be a female Juggalo, with a painted clown face, aiming a pistol. The report said most crimes committed by Juggalos were sporadic and involved assault, drugs, theft and vandalism.
A small number of Juggalos were forming more organized subsets and engaging in more gang-like criminal activity, such as felony assaults, thefts, robberies and drug sales, the assessment said.
One self-identified Juggalo, Brandon Bradley, 20, "has on numerous occasions been stopped and detained by law enforcement officers in California," the ACLU said in a statement. "Each time, the officer has wrongly accused Brandon of being in a gang and has interrogated him about being a Juggalo and his affiliated tattoos and clothing. Another client, Scott Gandy, was told he would not be accepted in the Army because his ICP tattoo was a gang symbol."
The Insane Clown Posse, whose website shows photos of Utsler and Bruce in black-and-white-painted clown faces and sporting tattoos on their hands and forearms, said in a statement posted on their website that its legal counsel and the ACLU "think that the discrimination, profiling and harassment that Juggalos have been facing over the last few years in (sic) flat out WRONG and un-American
The Justice Department in Detroit was not immediately available for comment.
Reporting by Brendan O'Brien; Editing by Leslie Adler


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One of the most frustrating things about Prometheus is its potential. There are simply too many plot holes (which, admittedly, I didn't notice when I saw the film; I was wrapped up in the visuals, performance, and strength of Ridley Scott's direction). The fact that the marketing for the Blu-ray has had to be "Questions Will Be Answered" is preposterous. This isn't Lost. This is a movie, and either the questions should have been answered or they should purposely be left ambiguous. Looking back on Prometheus, I've wondered if the more fulfilling picture is out there either in a director's cut or in screenwriter Jon Spaihts' original script.
Hit the jump for why we won't be seeing the director's cut, but we can learn a bit more about what Spaihts intended before screenwriter Damon Lindelof came on board. Prometheus hits DVD, Blu-ray, and 3D Blu-ray tomorrow.
[Warning: Major spoilers ahead for people who haven't seen Prometheus]
At the recent press day for the Prometheus Blu-ray, Bleeding Cool learned from Charles De Lauzirika, who worked on the special features, that Fox wanted an extended edition of the film. However, Scott refused because the theatrical version is his "Director's Cut". The Blu-ray will still feature 35 minutes of altered, extended, and deleted scenes, but Scott didn't want to edit them back into the movie. I can respect that. Furthermore, just because there's more material, it doesn't mean that making Prometheus longer would fill in any plot holes.
Moving from the post-production side to the pre-production side, Jon Spaihts recently told Empire some fascinating details about his original script. As you may know, Prometheus started out as a true prequel to Alien, but over time transformed into a pseudo-prequel that loosely ties in with Scott's 1979 picture. In Spaihts version, the xenomorphs were far more prevalent, and they served as the inspiration for scenes that remained in the final version.
For example, the med-pod sequence was inspired by Spaihts' desire to see someone survive a chest-bursting scene:
One of the things I realised was that we hadn't seen anyone survive a classic Alien chest bursting. And I was really intrigued by the notion that a character might be infected by the parasite and know that it was coming, know they had a timeframe of a few hours, and that we would have set up previously a nearly omnipotent medical device, designed to extend life for explorers in foreign places. Our heroine would have a short time to get to the machine and extract the thing inside her. It was a very gory sequence and it plays out very much like the sequence in the film. The main difference is in choreography. At the end of the sequence as I first conceived it, the heroine manages to get the creature extracted from her and it is expelled from the pod and she's sealed inside, whereas in the final film it goes the other way.
Then she lapses in and out of consciousness for a number of hours as the machine puts her back together. As she comes back to consciousness, she sees the thing growing in the cabin outside and even killing people. So by the time she emerges from the pod eight hours later, the thing is abroad in the ship and big enough to be a huge danger. That was the original conception of the medpod scene.
As for how she recovers from her surgery so fast – well, it was more of a protracted process in my original notion. My script underwent a number of major evolutions as we were working on it, and then Damon came in and made further changes still. But that sequence and its place in the story was one of the anchors.
So it sounds like in Spaihts' version, we wouldn't have seen Shaw getting her stomach stapled up and immediately charge into more action scenes where the audience wonders how her guts haven't spilled out.
So what caused Spaihts' movie to leave the xenomorphs behind? Studio executives. Spaihts explains:
A lot of that push came from the studio very high up; they were interested in doing something original and not one more franchise film. That really came to a head at the studio – the major push to focus on the new mythology of Prometheus and dial the Aliens as far back as we could came down from the studio.
That's an interesting revelation. I was under the impression that the change came from Scott and his desire to do something new, and the executives would have been more desirous of a true prequel because when has a studio ever scoffed at building a franchise? Isn't it easier to sell something if it's attached to the established Alien series? I suppose it's possible that Fox's research showed that audiences had soured on the franchise after Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection.
Nevertheless, you can see the slight changes Lindelof made, like emphasizing black slime and canisters over facehuggers and eggs. However, Spaihts says the major action beats from his drafts remained:
There was a black mutagenic compound that could change people in unpredictable way, Fyfield did morph into a monster and become a real danger in his own right, and of course the Engineers, the Space Jockeys, proved to be terribly dangerous creatures. In my draft, as well, we did resurrect one and he tore off David's head.
Speaking of facehuggers, one particularly cool sequence from Spaihts draft didn't make it into the final picture because Fox's wish to pull back on the xenomorphs. Spaihts had a much gorier notion of how Holloway becomes infected, and how his infection is revealed to Shaw:
I did have facehuggers in my original draft. David, as he began to get fascinated by the science of the Engineers, doesn't deliberately contaminate Holloway with a drop of black liquid. Instead, Holloway hubristically removes his helmet in the chamber, is knocked unconscious, facehugged and wakes up not knowing what had been done to him, and stumbles back into the ship. In my draft, he returns to his cabin, is embraced by Shaw, who is delighted to see him having feared that he had died, and the two of them make love. And it's while they're making love that he bursts and dies. So that lovemaking sequence echoed my original lovemaking sequence where he explodes! It was messy.
That scene sounds almost too over-the-top to work, but I think Scott could have made it play.
I also like what Spaihts had planned for David's character arc and why he becomes fascinated with the Engineers, although Spaiht's David lacks the subtlety and finesse of the character in the final version:
Subsequently, David, fascinated by these creatures, begins delaying the mission and going off the reservation on his own, essentially because he thinks he really belongs with the Engineers. They're smart enough and sophisticated enough, great enough, to be his peers. He's harboring a deep-seated contempt for his human makers. So at one point Shaw goes to stop him and David ties her up and deliberately exposes her to a facehugger. He caresses an egg open and out comes a facehugger. David doesn't smell like a person – his breath isn't moist – so he can handle the thing like a kitten. It doesn't want him; it's not interested. But then he exposes it to her and it goes for her like a shot. He toys with her for a bit and then lets it take her. That, in my draft, was how Shaw was implanted with the parasite that she had to remove with the medpod sequence.
Spaihts admits that his David was more "bloody-handed" than the one in the finished film. The screenwriter adds that in his version, the ending between David and Shaw is left ambiguous:
I left the two of them on the surface of that planetoid. It was plain that David and Shaw were going to have to work together and deal with one another if they were to survive. That one shot of the ship taking off in the finished film really focuses you on a particular outcome, whereas my ending was much more open as to what was going to happen next. But it was very much about this shattered android and this scarred woman being left with no-one but each other to carry on with.
However, he and Scott did have an idea where they wanted to go next should Prometheus prove to be a success. He says his trilogy "would have involved the arrival of the Yutani Company and a couple of other major plays around the Engineers themselves: the revelation of an additional grand Engineer design, and the possibility of seeking an Engineer homeworld." While Scott has expressed interest in doing a sequel to Prometheus, we're currently left to wonder where Shaw and David's spaceship will take them.


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So this is the box that started it all. The famous oatmeal box. I made one for the Frog Princess (now almost 6 years old) when she was a toddler. It was a great way to keep her entertained in my kitchen while I cooked dinner or unloaded the dishwasher. Also a fantastic distraction when the weather outside is awful (winter and summer!) She loved it then and still loves it today. If she ate some of it, no harm no foul, it was just some extra fiber. I didn't introduce the sand table outside until this box was mastered and I knew the "tasting" stage was over.
I recycle fruit snack or pudding cups, detergent caps, and spice bottles for experiments with pouring and filling. It is great for hand eye coordination, fine motor development and serves as a great sensory experience. Both of my girls have a great time digging in. When they're done they get a little Montessori-style lesson in cleaning up with small dust pans and brooms. Don't be afraid of a little clean up at your house! It is a great learning tool and a gentle way to teach siblings how to play nicely together.
Go check out my old posts about my Ocean Box, Construction Box, and Winter Box. I just gave my favorite two year old up the street an Ocean box for her birthday last weekend and every kid (all ages from 8 years-22 months) dove into it for the next 30 minutes of the party. Same thing happened when I gave my other friend's little boy a Construction box for his birthday. Sometimes a box of rocks (or sand...or oatmeal) is all they need to have fun!


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They did it! After a month-long run, The Home Promised successfully reached their crowdfunding campaign goal on Indiegogo.
Big thank you to all the funders who helped The Home Promised reach their goal of $5,000!!!
If you missed the deadline but would still like to support this project, please visit their website thehomepromised.com and donate through PayPal (top right corner).
Reel Asian is proud to co-sponsor Young and Queerly Rebellious: Panel and Screening of Girlfriend, Boyfriend, a discussion and film screening held by the Asian Institute Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto.
Saturday Mach 29 | FREE admission (register here)
The event will focus the discussion on Taiwan youth queer culture and show Yang Ya-Che's film Girlfriend, Boyfriend – a poignant coming-of-age love story of three rebellious youths set against the political backdrop of Taiwan's democratic reform in the 1980s. Trailer
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