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Quentin Tarantino has been Googling himself, and it's starting to become a problem. The filmmaker, whose eighth feature, Django Unchained, opens on Christmas Day, is famously an analog evangelist: He writes his scripts in longhand; he bans cellphones from his sets, and hasn't had one of his own in years; he's claimed that the day the film industry "evolves" and makes it impossible for him to shoot on celluloid will be the day he retires. He's also sworn that the New Beverly Cinema, the Los Angeles revival house that he rescued from certain death in 2010, will continue to project 35 mm film "as long as I'm alive, and as long as I'm rich."
"But I do have an iPad, and I have a lot of fun with it," Tarantino tells me. It's a rainy afternoon in late November, and the 49-year-old former video store clerk is sequestered in the bar at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, nursing a healthy pour of pinot noir.
"But because of that, I found myself Googling Django Unchained, seeing what people are saying, the articles that are out there," he admits. "That's been kind of fun for a while, but now I've got to get out of it. It's hard to not want to do that when you have easy access to that kind of shit. And I've never really had that before, so I'm gonna actually have to get rid of my iPad for a while."
Quentin Tarantino Emerges With Django Unchained
By the time you read this, Django Unchained will have been widely screened for industry members and critics, with some suggesting that Tarantino's latest confection could have used more time in the oven, while others name it one of the best films of the year. But at the time of our interview, almost any "articles that are out there" about Django could only be speculative. Aside from Tarantino's collaborators and confidants, no one has actually seen the movie — me included. There are few filmmakers I would agree to interview for a cover story without actually having seen their movie first: This year, the list starts and ends with Quentin Tarantino.
In all that Googling, I wonder, is there anything he's read that's totally inaccurate?
"They've been saying that me and [editor] Fred [Raskin] have been editing up until the last second," Tarantino says, without hesitation. "And we locked our cut two weeks ago."
So why not let me see it before our interview?
"I don't want anyone to see it now, until the mix is finished," he says, adding, "people can see it when I'm fucking done. I'm getting done with it real quick. They can wait a couple days." Besides, "It would actually spoil Saturday if anyone had seen it."
Two days after our sit-down at the Four Seasons, Django Unchained will be unveiled to its first audience, at the Directors Guild of America in Hollywood. "It's almost like a Cannes Film Festival screening, the DGA thing," Tarantino says.
Cannes looms large in Tarantino's legend; the festival hosted the international premieres of each of his features except for Jackie Brown, his only other December release. Cannes loves him, and he has loved soaking up that love. In 2009, after Inglourious Basterds debuted at the festival, Tarantino said, "I wanted to get the biggest standing ovation of the festival, and I got it. They counted it."
But the unveiling of Django at the DGA has symbolism that a Cannes premiere wouldn't. In 2012, 20 years after Reservoir Dogs debuted at Sundance and established Tarantino as the rebel filmmaker of his time, he finally became a dues-paying member of the guild — a Hollywood institution he'd famously resisted joining for the first two decades of his career.
"I'm not a Hollywood outsider anymore," Tarantino recently told Playboy. "I know a lot of people. I like them. They like me. I think I'm a pretty good member of this community, both as a person and as far as my job and contributions are concerned."
Choosing the guild's theater for the first screening of his highly anticipated new film is a sign that Tarantino, the boy wonder who made his name via ostensibly alternative venues like Sundance and Cannes, is eager for the embrace of that community.
But Tarantino still does things his way. "You have to admit," I say, "there's something unusual about doing an interview with someone like me before they've seen the movie."
"I don't think it's so weird," Tarantino protests. "I mean, unless you were supposed to review the movie to me. We don't have to talk about the movie — talk about me."
We will. But perhaps we can only engage up to a certain level, I say, because I haven't seen the movie.
Tarantino fires back: "I'm OK with that."
Back in 2009, Inglourious Basterds — a two-and-a-half-hour revisionist, World War II epic in multiple languages, with subtitles — grossed $120 million domestically. It also stood toe-to-toe with Avatar and The Hurt Locker on Oscar night, netting nominations for Tarantino as writer and director and a Best Supporting Actor win for Christoph Waltz.
The final stop of the Basterds promo tour brought Tarantino to Japan, where violent, midcentury Italian spaghetti Westerns have recently had a resurgence. On his day off, Tarantino went to a record store and found a "treasure trove" of reissues of spaghetti Westerns and their soundtracks.
"I'd been thinking about spaghetti Westerns anyway," Tarantino says today, "because between movies I've been working on a book about Sergio Corbucci." Tarantino has long written what he calls "subtextual film criticism" between making films, as both a hobby and a kind of DIY film tutorial.
Originally a film critic himself, Corbucci directed a number of spaghetti Westerns in the 1960s, most notably the ultra-violent Django (1966), starring Franco Nero as the titular drifter seeking to avenge the death of his wife.
In Japan, under "the whole influence of playing the music and having been writing my Corbucci book," Tarantino says, he wrote the first scene of Django Unchained. Two white slave traders are dragging a chain gang of five slaves through Texas woods on a frigid night. Out of the darkness appears Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), a German bounty hunter billing himself as a dentist. He announces his intention to acquire one of the bonded men, Django (Jamie Foxx). There is conversation, gunfire, blood and, ultimately, liberation. Essentially, it's the movie in microcosm.
Because Tarantino tends to write his scripts linearly, starting at the beginning of the film and finishing with the end, opening scenes are an important part of the process. "I usually want my first scenes to be pretty good, if for no reason other than to keep people excited when they read the script," he says. "And to keep me excited — 'Oh hey, this is a good idea.'"
In 2006, when Tarantino sat down to write the script for Death Proof, his contribution to Grindhouse, the first scene he came up with revolved around the tale of Jody the Grinder, a character from black folklore with, as Tarantino put it, "the biggest dick." Jody, so the story goes, was perhaps a bit too generous with his anatomical endowment. When his master finally caught Jody in bed with both the master's wife and his daughter, that was it for Jody.
Post-hanging, Jody ended up in hell. "He met the devil, fucked the devil, and the devil sent him back to Earth, with a curse to walk the Earth for eternity, fucking white women," Tarantino says today, laughing.
He ultimately couldn't fit the tale of Jody the Grinder into Death Proof, but his interest in that kind of "uber-masculine black male figure of folklore" carried over into the character of Django. Tarantino saw him as a kind of black Paul Bunyan or Pecos Bill, whose adventures would have been disseminated (and exaggerated) through "spoken history passed down by slaves, about this one guy, throughout the course of time."
So Django Unchained became a superhero origin story, explaining how "the sixth slave from the seventh on a chain-gang line" becomes a free man legally employed to "kill white people and get paid for it," grows into the "fastest gun in the South," rescues his wife from bondage and ultimately evolves into a kind of angel of vengeance, wiping out anyone and everyone — white, black, male, female — who endorses, enforces, enables and/or is economically enriched by the institution of slavery.
Tarantino says his initial impulse was to get that transformation out of the way at the film's beginning, and then "cut to years later, like, way after the Civil War, and he'd be older now, and I'd have an older actor playing him."
But he liked Django's origin story — and he also liked the idea of breaking from the "mosaic" storytelling style he's associated with, thanks to the out-of-order chapter structures of movies like Pulp Fiction and Basterds.
"I've done that," he says.
With Django, Tarantino became excited about "investing in a through character, who actually goes through one situation from beginning to end, and follow it and not do my normal tricks of having a separate chapter that takes you somewhere else entirely. I didn't want that in this one. It's really Django's story, from beginning to end."
Armed with that first scene, and the bounty of spaghetti Western soundtracks he bought in Japan, Tarantino returned to Los Angeles. He used to write in restaurants, bars, Amsterdam coffeehouses — always in public, and anywhere but home. "As time goes on," he says, his process has become more "professional." Django was mostly written on the balcony off the bedroom of his Hollywood Hills mansion.
"I have a little speaker out there, so I can make tapes and play them. I get up, around 10 or 11 I mosey out there, and I start writing the next scene."
Tarantino puts in a full workday — six, eight hours — and as he's wrapping up, he follows "a trick I learned from Hemingway: Don't finish your thought, have a little left over for the next day." Then, at night, "I'll get in the pool and I'll swim around and think about what I've done. If I know I'm really not done with a scene, I think, 'OK, what do I want to do, how can I make it better?' If I am done with it, then I'm in the pool doing the same thing: 'What next? What happens next?'
"And I've got to tell you, it's as close to bliss as I've ever achieved, in that space, doing that."
Tarantino was in that space, doing that, until April 26, 2011 — the precise date the Django script was finished. Shooting began the last week of November 2011, and wrapped July 24, 2012. (That these dates are all included in the film's official press notes suggests that the breakneck schedule is being posited as something of a selling point.) Before the shoot had even wrapped, The Weinstein Company began the marketing push — screening footage for press in Cannes, tacking a trailer in front of would-be summer blockbusters like Prometheus, planting the idea of the Christmas Day opening in the brains of Tarantino's wide fan base.
Was Django's schedule unusually compressed? "It was, for sure," Tarantino acknowledges. "[But] I've been heading here for a long time. My post[production] schedules just keep getting shorter and shorter and shorter and shorter, because there's always something I'm making it for, some event."
Grindhouse was rushed for an Easter weekend release; Basterds had to be finished in time for Cannes. "It just kept going in that direction — and we kept rising to the occasion. In this case, it wasn't supposed to be this short, I just went really long on shooting. Went a little over."
Ultimately, Tarantino says he had to negotiate with The Weinstein Company in order to get the three extra weeks he needed to shoot a final sequence. In exchange, Tarantino agreed to forgo a chunk of his profit participation. "If the movie does really well, I'll do really, really, really, really, really well," Tarantino says. But, "I don't kick in for a while. I have to pay back the extra money I spent before my thing kicks in."
The four-month postproduction period on Django was further complicated by the fact that, for the first time, Tarantino was finishing a movie without Sally Menke, who had edited each of his previous features. By all accounts, Tarantino and Menke had a symbiotic relationship similar to that of director Martin Scorsese and his longtime editor, Thelma Schoonmaker. Tarantino has called Menke "my only true, gen-u-ine collaborator," likening her contribution in the editing room to that of a co-writer.
On a sweltering day in September 2010, Menke went on a hike with her dog in Griffith Park, and never returned; her body was found the next day at the foot of a Beachwood Canyon ravine. (No official cause of death has been reported.) They say deaths come in threes, and so it goes: On June 1, 2012, J. Michael Riva, Django's 63-year-old production designer and the grandson of one of Tarantino's idols, Marlene Dietrich, suffered a stroke and died in New Orleans, where Django was shooting. Then, in August, Tony Scott, an early mentor of Tarantino's, who directed his script for True Romance, committed suicide.
Given all of this loss, Django's completion is all the more remarkable.
"It's sad," Tarantino acknowledges tightly. "I've been really melancholy the last few days, because this is usually the time where [Menke] would kind of be running the show, this last little bit. So I'm particularly missing her now."
He has always thought of his last draft of a screenplay as "the first edit of the movie, and the edit is the last draft. I like writing these big, novelistic tomes in screenplay form, and working it out as the movie goes on."
Without Menke around to take charge of postproduction, Tarantino notes wryly, "I have to be more responsible for my own movie."
Again, an "event" loomed: In order to be eligible for the 2012 Academy Awards, Django had to be ready for release before the end of this year. "It's part of our strategy, obviously, or else we'd be opening in March," Tarantino says. "I actually think the movie, commercially, would do fucking awesome in March, all right? But the film gets the push of a little Academy attention, it'll do awesome right now."
At some point in the process, "We had to make that decision," Tarantino says. "Do we have an Oscar movie, or do we not? And we all thought we did."
What makes an Oscar movie? "Well, it's just, like, uh, well, a little bit of it, I guess, is the Weinstein people second-guessing how the Academy will react to it, how will the different guilds react to it, because that's all gonna be part of it," Tarantino stammers. "I can say this: For instance, if I wanted to go more explicit with the movie — it's a really violent movie, all right? But if I wanted to go more violent with it, if I wanted to go further and make it more explicit and make sequences even more disturbing than they already are? Then I would have gone in March."
From where you and I sit, Tarantino likely will be remembered as the key American auteur of his generation. But history records the industry's respect via Academy Awards, and Tarantino has only one of those. It's for writing 1994's Pulp Fiction, and it's an honor he shares with his friend from his video-store days, Roger Avary, who had story credit on the movie.
Since patching that script together nearly 20 years ago, Tarantino and Avary have fallen out; also, in 2010, Avary spent eight months in jail after he drunkenly crashed his car, and a passenger was killed. Avary, his friendship with Tarantino and his contribution to the Pulp Fiction screenplay are not mentioned in the extensive biographical documentary material on the recently released box set Tarantino XX, which Tarantino told me he considers to be "pretty definitive." Given that he has exactly as many Oscars as his ex-con, ex-collaborator, it makes perfect sense that Tarantino would want an honor all his own.
"How much do you care about Oscars?" I ask.
Without missing a beat, he answers, "It would be really nice."
The Weinstein Company has roped off just two rows of the 600-seat DGA theater for VIP guests, and the room is full; the rest of us waited in line for hours to ensure a seat at the first-come, first-served first screening of Django Unchained. Moments before the movie begins, Ennio Morricone's score for Once Upon a Time in the West starts to play over the PA, and the anxious audience quiets. The crowd at a typical L.A. industry screening is, shall we say, rather blasé. But here, the feeling in the room is that everyone is fucking psyched that they got in.
Django begins in 1858; an on-screen title reminds us that this is two years before the start of the Civil War. As it charts Django's journey from slave to superhero, his introduction to empowerment and his efforts to reunite with lost love, Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), the movie presents the American South as a land without pity, where white men are all but expected to invent identities for themselves, and women and blacks are violently encouraged to conform to the identities to which they have been assigned. The past it references is also present: Django himself is like white, ultra-conservative America's worst nightmare of the Angry Black Man, a cartoon symbol of the brown people they've treated like chattel rising up in revenge.
As an anatomy of how a society evolves by following the lead of heroes who murder in the name of the greater good, defending the value of human life by exterminating those who treat it most cheaply, the film works as both a fun-house analogue to Lincoln and a kind of prequel to Inglourious Basterds.
For some, Django might bear too many similarities to Tarantino's last movie. Like Basterds, it's a revenge epic informed by identity politics, and it hero-worships con men who, under deep cover, exploit a moral license to kill. Like Basterds, it climaxes with highly symbolic, pyrotechnic destruction.
But those similarities aside, what's most striking about Django are all the ways in which Tarantino either sidesteps or messes with his patented "tricks" — for better and for worse. For a female lead in a Quentin Tarantino movie, Kerry Washington has incredibly little to do. Broomhilda is squarely a damsel in distress who watches the action scenes from afar rather than chip in. The plot is a MacGuffin built on familiar beats; there are long stretches of almost unbearable suspense but ultimately no real surprises. As ever in a Tarantino script, conversation is used as a delay tactic, and thus as a kind of weapon, but here there is no such thing as even seemingly tangential conversation. When Django and Schultz kick it by the campfire, they don't have time to chatter over the 1858 equivalent of the Royale with Cheese; almost every line in the movie is direct or veiled exposition.
And there's no equivalent of the scene set to David Bowie's "Cat People" from Basterds, in which Mélanie Laurent mentally and physically prepares for her movie-house kamikaze mission — a pause in storytelling for an indulgence in aesthetic pleasure, which enriches the story without actually extending it.
The closest thing to a classically Tarantinean aside is the film's funniest scene, a kind of micro-flashback to the moments just before a gang of proto-Klan thugs rides over a hill to attack our heroes' camp, with the racist morons bickering amongst themselves over the subpar quality of their disguises.
Oscar voter standards aside, Tarantino doesn't hold back the gore entirely — in the first scene, a slave shoots his owner, and a red fountain of guts splashes up from the corpse — but he does suggest more than show. When a slave is eaten alive by a pack of dogs, the horror is mostly relayed on the faces of the bystanders. (At the end of the scene, Leonardo DiCaprio's Candie suggests to Django that his partner Schultz "looks a little green." Django responds, "I'm just a little more used to Americans than he is.")
The flashiest sequence, a massive shoot-out inside Candie's house, is arhythmic and visually chaotic, with a lack of flow that draws attention to itself. A hip-hop song starts about halfway through and then abruptly stops; the action becomes abstracted by the red mist of spraying blood. In its staging around the staircase of an absurdly opulent home and its bloody totality, the scene seems to reference Scarface, directed by one of Tarantino's idols, Brian De Palma. The choice of music apparently reflects the way De Palma's film, a flop on its release, was reclaimed as a cult object by hip-hop culture. You could read this as an act of fandom — a wishful, YouTube mashup–style homage born out of Tarantino's obsessive study of prints in his home theater and his sessions of writing to a soundtrack of mixtapes out on the balcony of his mansion.
You also could read it as an act of radical film criticism, and on the whole, Tarantino seems to be aiming for the latter. In recent years, his own written criticism, which has never been published, has functioned as a prelude to his screenwriting. "I do my film writing until I come up with a story," he tells me. "[Criticism] keeps me going, keeps me investing in things, and keeps me thinking in an artistic way, and in a critical way, too."
He told The New York Times in September, "As I was working on an essay about how Corbucci's archetypes worked, I started thinking, I don't really know if Corbucci was thinking any of these things when he was making these movies. But I know I'm thinking them now. And if I did a Western, I could put them into practice."
Django also allowed Tarantino to "put into practice" the ideas that went into another private project he banged out after Basterds. It is, he says, a novella-length critical analysis of Don Siegel's and Robert Aldrich's films of the 1970s, some of them revisionist Westerns made within the New Hollywood era.
"I've always loved that [spaghetti Western] vocabulary, but just as much, [Django] is very much a '70s American Western," Tarantino tells me. "It's really violent, it's really rough. It's crazy comedic, in this gallows humor, vaguely fucked-up way, where, 'Is it OK to laugh at this?' I'm not even sure."
That kind of humor is ultimately what edges Django into greatness. This is probably Tarantino's funniest movie, but it's also unsparing in depicting the grotesque surreality of slavery. The two extremes often intertwine. Some of the funniest lines come out of the mouths of the most reprehensible characters; you laugh at a racist's joke, and then immediately recoil in guilt and horror. As the "repellent gentleman" Calvin Candie, DiCaprio is so charismatic and compelling, pushing the ironic potential of "Southern hospitality" as the gloss on murderous capitalism to the hilt, that the movie actually dies a bit when he's no longer on-screen.
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At the DGA screening, when the film ends, Taylor Hackford takes the stage and introduces Tarantino. Husband of Helen Mirren and director of Jamie Foxx in Ray, he's also president of the Directors Guild. "Thanks a lot," Tarantino says to the crowd, which has risen in standing ovation. "Shucks."
Hackford sets the tone of the conversation early when he credits Tarantino as the first filmmaker "to turn the mirror on America, and how we started." Tarantino is the first to note that this crowd is not his toughest lay. After the fifth or sixth time Hackford recaps something "fantastic" that happened in the movie instead of actually posing a question, Tarantino cracks, "I've gotta say, coming here and listening to you describe my cool shots is pretty great!" Who needs Cannes? Who needs Google?
How Django will play in different rooms is still an open question, but I've now seen it twice, and while it lacks a certain aesthetic panache (to borrow a word from Waltz's character), the script and the performances place it among Tarantino's richest works. On one level, there's a lot riding on its performance: It cost more than $80 million, making it the priciest movie Tarantino has ever made. On the other hand, because Basterds was such a massive success, he's got nothing to prove.
"I made a lot of money on Inglourious Basterds — I don't need to make that much money again," he says. "I'm really happy and comfortable. And part of the reason to have success is so you can do that. So you can make the movie you want to make, and not have to be concerned about those kinds of monetary concerns."
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Weekend Cook and Tell Round Up: The Body on That Buttermilk
Our last challenge for Weekend Cook and Tell was for all of you to share your favorite buttery-milk eats. We called this The Body on That Buttermilk. You could say buttermilk makes it better. Take a look and see what "rich" ideas were shared for your viewing/cooking pleasure.
We start off with a traditional usage of liquid gold. meatballs&milkshakes uses buttermilk in Sage Biscuits to make them light, buttery and delicious.
Robuis finds that the secret to moist German Chocolate Cake involves the buttery stuff. No drinking milk required. Well, maybe a little.
You don't have to add buttermilk TO something to enjoy it. mangotomato enjoys drinking it straight up (which is common in Russia where she grew up). She definitely knows her way around the stuff, as the following appetizing array of recipes were offered: Buttermilk Pancakes with Boozy Persimmons, Adobo Buttermilk Chicken and Onions, Cold Beet Soup with Buttermilk, and Buttermilk Panna Cotta. An entire buttermilk meal!
Finally, claireOOTO finishes things off smoothly - with a smooth as silk Buttermilk Lemon Balm Ice Cream. According to her, it's "mother-flippin delicious." I know I always flip my mother when I'm excited. Seriously, some things are that good. claireOOTO, thank you for posting your recipe and keeping us updated! Checking back on the post for results was a must.
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Day of Archaeology: Camping in Mongolia
So on the actual Day of Archaeology I was in my archaeological office job daydreaming about my recent fieldwork in Mongolia. Here is the story of my Mongolia summertime excavation amid wildflowers and beautiful mountain passes in pictures …
We left the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar for several days of driving north-west towards the Russian border. The site was in the Khovsgol region of northern Mongolia and we stopped beside some beautiful mountain passes on the way for a break.
The roads were fairly rough; this is the main road between the Soyo site and the tiny mountain village of Ulaan-uul. Tiny ground squirrels bounded around among the trackways, and often yaks or herds of other animals including camels, goats, sheep or horses, would cross the road in front of us.
The vans that took us were built to a 1950s Russian design. They were made for Siberian winters, with an engine inside so it could be fixed in relative warmth even if it was snowing outside. They forded many rivers remarkably well, but in the instance above, we did get stuck. Our driver changed to four-wheel drive but on several occasions we had to get out and push the car.
We camped beside beautiful clear streams in meadows filled with wildflowers. Mongolia is great for camping! Our site office in the field was a ger, which took a remarkably short time to set up and was very weatherproof! We drank from the local clear streams as well; I used a water-filter to purify the water before drinking.
The food at the dig was typically Mongolian – lots of meat, and very freshly cooked! The head is considered one of the best bits; a special portable blow-torch is used to remove the hair from the skin so that the skin can also be eaten. I really enjoyed the breakfast porridge or khosh; there was a delicious breakfast donut that was quickly became one of my favourite foods!
We surveyed and sampled and excavated different parts of the Soyo landscape; I was hoping to find out more about the environmental changes that happened when pastoralism increased and large herds of animals began roaming the central Asian steppes. It will take some time to process the samples I collected in the laboratory and answer the question of how much things changed under a mobile, pastoral economy. Thanks to Dr. Julia Clark at the American Center for Mongolian Studies for a really great archaeological research opportunity!


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'Star Wars' spin-offs on the way, says Disney
Sounds like Disney is going to go hog-wild with "Star Wars."
The Walt Disney Co. on Tuesday unveiled plans to make a number of spinoff movies set in the "Star Wars" universe, in addition filming Episodes 7-9.
Entertainment Weekly reported it learned details on two of the spinoff projects: once concerning a young Han Solo, another on Boba Fett.
Walt Disney Co. chairman and CEO Bob Iger announced the plan Tuesday as part of the company's quarterly earnings report, according to IMDB.com. He said screenwriters working on the stand-alone films are Simon Kinberg ("Mr. & Mrs. Smith," "Sherlock Holmes") and Lawrence Kasdan ("The Empire Strikes Back," "Raiders of the Lost Ark").
The pair is also involved in the drafting of the new trilogy, with Michael Arndt ("Little Miss Sunshine," "Toy Story 3") penning the first of the series, which J.J. Abrams will direct. That film is scheduled to hit theaters in 2015.
Well, this is certainly better news than a movie about a young Jar-Jar Binks.
Lucasfilm and Disney declined comment.
The Han Solo story would take place between "Revenge of the Sith" and "A New Hope." The Boba Fett film would take place either between "A New Hope" and "The Empire Strikes Back," or between "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi." In the prequels, we learned he was the son of the original storm trooper clone, played by Temuera Morrison, who's still the right age for the part.
The Han Solo and Boba Fett projects would also allow Darth Vader to return, giving us all a chance to forget what a whiny little mess he was before Obi-Wan Kenobi dumped him into the lava.
Ain't It Cool reported Monday that a Yoda film may be in the works, and earlier last month Vulture reported Zack Snyder may create a Seven Samurai-inspired Star Wars spinoff, although the filmmaker later said that was untrue.


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When NASA's latest Mars rover Curiosity survived its "seven minutes of terror" plunge through the planet's atmosphere in early August and phoned home to say all was well, the mission's scientists and engineers were ecstatic. They had put themselves in a good position to see if their target, Gale Crater and its three-mile-high central summit, might at one time have hosted an environment suitable for life.
But the atmosphere through which Curiosity descended also plays a key role in determining the planet's hospitality. Engineers and technicians are now assembling MAVEN, an orbiter slated for launch in November 2013 that will unravel the mystery of Mars' vanishing atmosphere.
Combined with key measurements Curiosity will take at the surface, MAVEN's measurements at the top of Mars' atmosphere are expected to allow researchers to reconstruct a history of the atmosphere – including the rate at which the planet has lost water over its 4.6-billion-year history.
Water is a key ingredient for the emergence of organic life. One of the questions Curiosity will help answer: Did water ever collect in Gale Crater? MAVEN is asking: Where did any surface water ultimately go?
Moreover, a thick atmosphere is one line of defense against cosmic rays, as well as extreme forms of ultraviolet radiation and energetic particles, which stream from the sun as "solar wind" and flood Mars' immediate surroundings during powerful solar storms. These forms of radiation can make for a bad day at the office for organisms on a planet's surface or for the complex organic molecules on the surface that could give rise to simple forms of life.
Scientists have been interested in making MAVEN-like measurements at the red planet since the 1980s, says Bruce Jakosky, the mission's lead scientist.
Scientists had long known that Mars' atmosphere was thin – about 1 percent as dense as Earth's atmosphere. But it took the Pioneer-Venus orbiter in 1978 to show that researchers could record the processes eroding another planet's atmosphere as they happened.
Researchers realized these were important measurements to make at Mars as well, says Dr. Jakosky, a researcher working at the interface of planetary geology and astrobiology at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
"Without going and measuring what's actually happening, you can't have any hope of understanding" the unique mix of factors that turned Mars from what many scientists hold as a wet, warm planet early in its history to the dry, radiation-bathed surface the planet presents today.
Eight sensors on the orbiter will allow scientists to tackle the atmosphere's history in three broad ways.
Orbiters currently at Mars have shown that atoms are being stripped from the atmosphere today – swept off as the solar wind, solar storms, and their magnetic fields flow past the planet. During its year-long primary mission, MAVEN will collect data on space weather's influence on Mars' upper atmosphere.
MAVEN also will measure extreme-ultraviolet radiation reaching Mars from the sun. This radiation breaks up molecules in the upper atmosphere, liberating lighter atoms, especially hydrogen, which then can easily be swept into interplanetary space.
Finally, MAVEN will measure the ratios of different forms, or isotopes, of five elements in the upper atmosphere – hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, oxygen, and argon.
Typically planetary atmospheres are awash with normal hydrogen, the lightest atom, compared with its rarer, heavier sibling, deuterium. On Mars, however, the relative abundance of deuterium in the atmosphere is much higher than anywhere else in the solar system.
"That means that a lot of hydrogen has escaped," Jakosky says, since the heavier deuterium is less likely to leave the planet.
"By understanding something about the escape processes, and by measuring those ratios today, and measuring the ratios as they escape, we can get something that allows us to directly extrapolate back to learn how much of that atom was lost over time," he says.
Curiosity will be a crucial teammate for several kinds of measurements.
For instance, one of the rover's main instruments – known as SAM – will provide high-precision measurements of the atmosphere's composition at the surface, in addition to its analysis of soil and rock samples. Indeed, Jakosky is on the team that will analyze and interpret SAM data. SAM's information on the atmosphere at ground level, combined with similar, top-of-the-atmosphere measurements from MAVEN, will directly gauge the amounts and types of elements that Mars' atmosphere loses over time.
Once MAVEN ends its science mission, it will serve as a communications relay between spacecraft on the Martian surface and Earth. The US and European orbiters at Mars are getting a bit long in the tooth.
So far, the project, approved in 2008, is proceeding a bit ahead of schedule and on budget, notes David Mitchell, MAVEN project manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. If it makes its 20-day launch window next year, Maven would arrive in 2014.
"We're all so excited to see Curiosity on the ground there safely," he says. "I'm not a scientist, but I'm really excited to see what happens with the synergism" between Curiosity, MAVEN, the still-roving Mars veteran Opportunity, and other missions, he says.


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Illinois ran out of the gate to start this season, a hot-shooting surprise that opened 12-0 just months after imploding in a way that made observers wonder whether the Illini might carry the effects for some time.
They were one of the best shooting teams in the country in those opening weeks. Just about everybody, it seemed, could hit a jump shot.
Since then, though, Illinois' shooting has been a miss as often as it's been a hit. In their last four games, the Illini have hit just under a third of their shots, and lost three of four.
Illinois ran out of the gate to start this season, a hot-shooting surprise that opened 12-0 just months after imploding in a way that made observers wonder whether the Illini might carry the effects for some time.
They were one of the best shooting teams in the country in those opening weeks. Just about everybody, it seemed, could hit a jump shot.
Since then, though, Illinois' shooting has been a miss as often as it's been a hit. In their last four games, the Illini have hit just under a third of their shots, and lost three of four.
The one player capable of carrying the team offensively over that span has been Brandon Paul.
The senior guard has averaged 20 points over those four contests. He hit the jumper at the buzzer that delivered the only win, in the Big Ten tournament opener over Minnesota.
Illinois, as first-year coach John Groce said, has several players who could get hot. But Paul is the shooter most likely to make seventh-seeded Illinois (22-12, 8-10) dangerous when it opens the NCAA tournament onk Friday in Austin, Texas, against the East Region's No. 10 seed, Colorado (21-11, 10-8 Pac 12).
If a team's shooters can find their touch, "That's always dangerous this time of year," Groce said.
In his four seasons at Illinois, Paul has often been the player with that hot hand. He lit up Ohio State for 43 points last January, the third-best game in Illini history.
In his first three seasons at Illinois, Paul has been a charismatic shooter, an entertainer equally capable of a dazzling night or a big miss that ends an important possession just a few seconds in than the leader and consistent producer fans have begged him to be.
He produced a humorous YouTube video about life as a student-athlete that has been viewed almost 90,000 times. His Twitter account is popular among Illini fans, in part for jabs at his Twitter-averse teammate Joseph Bertrand.
But there is a real sense with Paul that this team better get something good done in his one last shot. While sticking when they speak publicly to the one-game-at-a-time mantra, Paul and his teammates have quietly worn wrist bands all season stamped with the date of the NCAA tournament's first game: 3-19-13.
"We have prepared ourselves for this the whole season," he said.
His motivation might lie in what happened a season ago.
The win over Ohio State proved to be the high point, just before the nightmare began. The Illini won only twice more while losing a dozen, and Bruce Weber paid with his job.
Paul said he didn't pay much attention Sunday night as Weber's Kansas State Wildcats became a No. 4 seed in the West region. Paul was still too busy waiting for Illinois' name to be called. But he said he talked with his old coach last week.
"He's done a great job with that program over there," Paul said. "I'm glad that everything worked out for them."
As it has for the Illini.
Last season's long, slow slide brought Groce to town.
And it set up a dynamic between coach and players that quickly cured most concerns. Inheriting a team of jump shooters — Paul, D.J. Richardson, Bertrand and Tyler Griffey, among others — he told them to shoot. And keep shooting, even when they miss.
"Our coaches wouldn't let us doubt ourselves," Paul said. "They've trusted us the whole time."
That trust then brought Illinois through another tough stretch this season.
After that hot start, the Illini slumped hard. Their defense softened, that shooting went cold and the Illini opened the Big Ten season 2-7. They fell so far back in the pack that, in a year when the conference is even tougher than normal, many wondered whether another collapse was about to happen.
Instead, Illinois piled up five straight wins, starting with an unthinkable 74-72 upset of then-No. 1 Indiana.
That trust, Groce said, paid off in the turnaround — though this time with players trusting their first-year coaches.
How'd the Illini bounce back?
"Not changing a single thing," Groce said. "We kept preparing the same way. We didn't change our offense, we didn't change our defense.
"I said, 'You guys are just going to have to trust us.' "
And they did.
When they trailed late against Indiana and the sellout crowd all but assumed it was over, the Illini stuck to the plan and pulled out the win.
Paul had 21 points that night. But he was overshadowed by 23 from Richardson, who went on a late tear that put Illinois in a position to win, and by Griffey, who had 14 points off the bench and delivered the buzzer-beating layup that downed the Hoosiers.
But down the stretch, it has been Paul who has produced as his teammates have struggled to score. Take his shooting out of the team stats the past four games and Illinois has shot well below 30 percent. Heading into Friday's game, Illinois could certainly use another productive game from Paul if it intends to do more than just get to the NCAAs.
Illinois' players learned about their NCAA destination behind closed doors Sunday night. Photos distributed by the university show predictable fist pumps and jubilation.
By the time a handful of players, Paul among them, made their way out to talk to reporters about their seed, their opponent and getting back to the NCAAs a year after the worst Illinois season in a long time, they were calm and serious. Paul more than anyone.
"Now that it's here," he said with a straight, all-business face, "it's all about advancing."


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HTC First: The Hardware Side to Facebook Home
While Facebook isn't building its own phone exactly, it is creating all the tools a hardware maker needs to create such a device.
In addition to making Facebook Home available as a software download, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company has crafted a set of tools for phone makers to include Home from the outset.
The company has a list of hardware makers and carriers already interested in doing such devices, including Samsung, Sony, Huawei and Alcatel One Touch.
As we reported more than a year ago, the first partner will be HTC, which is creating a phone to be sold with AT&T. HTC chief Peter Chou appeared onstage on Thursday to show off the aptly named HTC First, which will be the first device to carry Facebook Home as its default interface.
The phone, which will sell for $99.99 and go on sale April 12, will come in red, white, light blue and black. Preorders start today.
AT&T Mobility chief Ralph de la Vega said the HTC First is a canvas on which to show off what Facebook has done.
"It's simple and it's elegant," de la Vega said.
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Montreal Impact 6, Toronto FC 0 | Canadian Championship Match Recap
MONTREAL – This was a serious comeback.
The Montreal Impact spectacularly overturned a 2-0 deficit with six goals of their own on Wednesday night against Toronto FC in the semifinal second leg of the Amway Canadian Championship. The 6-0 win (6-2 on aggregate) was their first ever against TFC in the competition, and they equaled the record number of goals scored in an ACC game (Montreal 1-6 Toronto, June 18, 2009) in the process.
Justin Mapp, Daniele Paponi, Marco Di Vaio (twice), Andrés Romero and Andrew Wenger all scored in an action-packed night for Montreal, who will face the Vancouver Whitecaps – who beat FC Edmonton in the other semifinal – in the first leg of the ACC final on May 15.
OPTA Chalkboard: Impact dominate in all facets of the game
Yet surprisingly, it was Ryan Nelsen's men who came out flying, in search for the goal that would kill the tie. The game was only one minute old when Robert Earnshaw came agonizingly close, his shot trickling onto the post to Evan Bush's right. Earnshaw got involved again seven minutes later, when his cross from the left narrowly missed Andrew Wiedeman.
But from there, it was all Montreal. Mapp had arguably his best game in an Impact shirt and got a goal to show for it in the 24th minute. Running down the left, Romero went past Ryan Richter and crossed low. Reds goalkeeper Stefan Frei seemed to get a touch but the ball fell for Mapp, who slid it home with his stronger left foot.
Nine minutes later, the series was tied. A quick transition starting with Wandrille Lefèvre reached Mapp, who swiftly beat his marker. Frei stopped his right-footed drive, but Paponi squeezed the rebound in at the far post.
The young Italian promptly went off injured and was replaced by Di Vaio, who gave Montreal a two-goal lead on the night in 44th minute. Mapp – a catalyst once more – crossed from the right and the ball evaded everyone in the TFC box but Di Vaio, who coolly slotted it past Frei.
Nelsen made two changes at the break, but neither Jeremy Hall nor Luis Silva were able to break the Montreal block despite the increased pressure throughout the half. Typically deadly on the counter, Montreal found a fourth in the 61st minute. Di Vaio fought off Reggie Lambe's challenge and released Romero, who rounded Frei for the finish.
Mapp completed his outstanding performance in the 90th minute, when he was again stoned by Frei only for the ball to conveniently fell for an unmarked Di Vaio for the fifth goal. The Italian also fed Wenger in stoppage time to complete the rout.
Both the Impact and TFC travel west this Saturday for MLS action: Montreal will face the San Jose Earthquakes at Buck Shaw Stadium, while Toronto visit Dick's Sporting Goods Park and the Colorado Rapids.
MLSsoccer.com Men of the Match
|What We Saw
|Justin Mapp
|A force from minute one to minute 90 with a goal, an assist and two hard shots that turned into goals off the rebound
|Marco Di Vaio
|Came on as a late first half sub for the injured Paponi and immediately made his presence felt. Ended the game with two goals and two assists
|Andrés Romero
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Keira Knightley has criticised movie bosses for giving her "droopy" breasts for the film King Arthur.
The actress's chest was airbrushed in the promotional image for the 2004 action-adventure film.
Keira, 27, told Allure magazine: "They always pencil in my boobs. I was only angry when they were really, really droopy.
"For King Arthur, for a poster, they gave me these strange droopy t**s. A - I don't have t**s anyway, and B - they digitally made them, and I thought, Whoaaaaa! It's my face on that poster.
"I thought 'Well, if you're going to make me fantasy breasts, at least make perky breasts'."
She told the magazine: "Normally the woman has to expose everything and the guy doesn't. Sex scenes in films - I'm quite rigorous about what gets exposed. No bottom half!
"I don't mind exposing my t**s because they're so small - people really aren't that interested. It's much easier as you get older. You can say, 'No', 'Yes', 'No'."
Keira, who was photographed topless by Mario Testino for the magazine, recently got engaged to James Righton, the Klaxons keyboard player.
The Pirates Of The Caribbean actress said that she had no idea how she will handle the publicity when they decide to wed, adding: "Maybe I'll be permanently engaged." She said that she and her fiance are "total opposites" because she "knows nothing about" music.
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The Autumn one I used the image "Pumpkin Cupcake" from Paper Cupcakes and colored it with my Bic-Mark-its and then added some stickles and cut it out. I embossed the background and then added the floral rub-ons added a folded paper strip and a layered flower. I added copper stickles and the folded paper, flower and the edges of the tag. Stamped my sentiment and added the coppery metallic ribbon, some soft fiber and a little leaf. Really pretty quick and easy peasy!
For my Christmas tag I used the image "Holiday Cheer" by Paper Cupcakes. I colored it with my Bic Mark-its as well. I messed her eyes up. I didn't mean to make them all black, but I started talking to Avery and ended up coloring them all black and oh well, so I attempted to fix them with my souffle pens, but now she looks a little odd, but I didn't feel like doing it all over, so it is what it is. I stamped my sentiment, I believe it was one of those you get for a dollar somewhere. I added stickles to the image and punched out my snowflakes from a glitter stack and added jewels to them. The flower, present and candy were out of an opened packet of stickers I had opened. I added pink and purple fibers and added a red bow with a snowflake on that and called it compete. I really like both my tags, well, my owls eyes I am not so pleased with, but let's just write it off as an "oops, I wasn't paying that close attention to my detail at the moment". Sorry about the top two pics being kind of gloomy and dark, but that is because I ended up retaking the pics after I fixed the eyes and it was ummm like 10:00PM and the first ones prior to fixing the eyes I took outside with the natural sunlight.
I believe we are finally passed all the flu! Thank goodness 4 weeks of that stuff is just TOO much. Although now some of this allergy/hey fever stuff has kicked in for me and Avery's asthma. Although, I must say today (Sunday) has been the best I have felt in a long time over this past 4-5 weeks. So I am hoping for a good week!
Well, I would tell you to have yourself a Merry Little Christmas if it was closer to Christmas, but it isn't, so have yourself a merry week, find some joy and count your blessings.


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He became a Christian at the age of twelve. He quickly realized there were differences in doctrine in various denominations and sought out to prove to himself the correct interpretation of these issues that divide Christians. After an intensive study of the first century church, he sought to bring back the teaching of the 12 apostles. He has authored numerous books that made ancient Jewish scrolls available to the English speaking world.
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Ex-treasurer Paulson revises prologue on economy
Former Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. has some new thoughts on the 2008 financial crisis, and he's sharing them for free.
Business Plus, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, announced Wednesday that an updated edition of Paulson's memoir "On the Brink" will include an extensive prologue that can be downloaded for free. Paulson served as treasury secretary under President George W. Bush at the time of the crisis and helped orchestrate the controversial TARP bailout program.
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Viterra will contribute $150,000 to the fund, and through the Saskatchewan Innovation and Opportunity Scholarship Program, the province's regional colleges will be able to access up to $150,000 in matching funding.
"We're excited to launch this program, which will have a positive impact on post-secondary students through the 27 communities across Saskatchewan that make up the regional college network," said Kyle Jeworski, Viterra's President and CEO for North America. "This is an investment in the youth of our province, and one that is an ideal fit for our company given our strong presence across rural Saskatchewan. As we move forward, we will look to expand our commitment to education through other institutions across Western Canada."
"This generous investment by Viterra in Saskatchewan is much appreciated and it will have a significant impact on students who are pursuing a post-secondary education close to their home communities," Minister of Advanced Education Kevin Doherty said. "This scholarship program is focused on innovation and excellence, and is helping our long-term plan to support the province's growing economy."
The colleges that will receive scholarship funding include:
|Carlton Trail College
|(Humboldt, Southey, Watrous, Wynyard)
|Cumberland College
|(Hudson Bay, Melfort, Nipawin, Tisdale)
|Great Plains College
|(Kindersley, Swift Current, Warman)
|Northlands College
|(Buffalo Narrows, Creighton, LaRonge)
|North West Regional College
|(Battlefords, Meadow Lake)
|Parkland College
|(Canora, Esterhazy, Fort Qu'Appelle, Melville, Yorkton)
|Southeast Regional College
|(Assiniboia, Estevan, Indian Head, Moosomin, Weyburn, Whitewood)
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Vail Daily letters to the editor
Vail, CO, Colorado
No to fire tax hike
Please vote "no" on 5A, Eagle River Fire District's proposed tax increase. The recent letters supporting 5A have come from former Fire District Board members or others with a direct interest in increased funding for the Eagle River Fire Protection District.
Virtually every local governing body, special improvement and metropolitan district in Eagle County is faced with budgetary constraints. All of them are reducing their operational budgets and finding ways to live within their means. This is exactly what many of our neighbors and Eagle County residents are doing, and the Eagle River Fire Protection District should do the same.
There are five excellent reasons you should vote "no" on 5A. First, there are four separate fire protection entities along the Eagle River corridor. Four fire departments cost more to administer and operate than one. If these fire districts were to consolidate into one department, just as the ambulance districts chose to do, I believe service could be delivered without a tax increase. Taxpayers in Eagle County should expect and demand more efficiency and savings achievable through consolidation prior to any request for increased taxes.
Second, if 5A passes, the tax increase will continue year after year even when the property values rise in the future, as they surely will. Once property values are back in line with 2008 assessments, the tax increase will result in excess funds for the Eagle River Fire Protection District .
Third, many of the calls that the Eagle River Fire Protection District responds to are medical calls. There is already a tax-supported advance life support ambulance district in place for medical emergencies. If a fire truck is needed, the response can be made with a two-person rescue truck, which is vastly less expensive to purchase, maintain and operate than the current protocol.
Fourth, if there is a catastrophic wildfire similar to High Park or Waldo Canyon fires earlier this year, the funds from the requested tax increase can not possibly purchase enough equipment or keep enough firefighters on call to suppress such an incident. Resources for these large fires are dispatched through a national deployment system.
Fifth, a number of Eagle River Fire Protection District career firefighters reside outside Eagle county, even as far away as Denver. Some of their salaries exceed $80,000 with mandated overtime. The Eagle River Fire Protection District should insist that their employees live locally so that they could be called in for potential emergencies.
While it is surprising to learn that some of our firefighters live out of the county, we tax payers have insult added to injury by having the salaries earned and paid in Eagle County being spent elsewhere. This results in less money in our local economy, and ironically, is a contributing factor to Eagle River Fire Protection District's request for a tax increase two years in a row.
There are several other good reasons to vote "no" on 5A, but the five items listed above are sufficient to cause every Eagle County taxpayer to tell the Eagle River Fire Protection District to live within its means.
Ralph Dockery
Editor's note: The tax increase would be capped at the district's 2010 funding level.
Fancher for Avon Council
Having spent my summer and fall scrutinizing the Avon Town Council's every move on the Village at Avon matter, I am vividly reminded what hard work it is to be a public servant there.
That's why I am grateful that Jennie Fancher is running for Town Council. Jennie has the commitment, intelligence and work ethic to make Avon a better place.
She has endless energy and is a critical thinker — two essentials for great leadership in Avon over the next four years. Please vote for Jennie Fancher for Avon Town Council.
Tamra Nottingham Underwood
For Layman, Holm
Well, it's only a couple weeks away. We will soon decide the future course of our c, and just as importantly, the future direction of our county. While we have several very good candidates. As usual, it comes down to their vision of what is right for all of us.
When you walk into the booth this November, ask yourself what your priorities are for the next four years. Should we continue our record number of foreclosures? Should we continue with our "closed for business" attitude that has emanated from our local commissioner chambers in Eagle? Should we continue with the most restrictive business regulations in the state of Colorado, driving new businesses and residents to other parts of the state?
Most states and counties have economic development boards to attract new businesses and new residents to broaden their tax base. We have elected officials who do everything in their power to drive it away.
Shall we be told it is not up to us to decide if we want to continue the $5 million open space funding, or should our elected officials do the right thing and allow us to vote on this tax? Currently, they all refuse to put this on the ballot. Why do you suppose this is so?
We have an incumbent commissioner who, for the record, is a very nice man. He is cordial, open to discussion, and has always been very friendly to me and everyone else I have spoken with. The problem I have with voting for Mr. Stavney is his priorities for Eagle County.
His campaign signs tell it all. "Vote for Rivers" in Wolcott. I am voting for jobs, prosperity and better schools for Eagle County, as well as for economic growth, not rivers.
"Fairground Development is Economic Development" in Eagle. Sorry, that is quite frankly not enough. Maybe the cows and horses would agree with that statement, but not me.
Also, $5 million a year would go a long way to improve our schools. We already have 83 percent of our county in federal, state and county open space. Let us vote on it, Mr. Stavney. The citizens of Eagle County do know what is best for themselves, and if you think that is their decision, let's find out, sir.
We are losing more of our neighbors every day. More homes are falling into painful, destructive, family killing foreclosures. This has to stop. People can't live in rivers, nor at the fairgrounds. Let's change our direction this fall.
Vote for Jeff Layman and Courtney Holm.
Karl Berger
Open space force multiplier
I'm certainly not an anti development person, but I do believe it's in our community's best interest that the Eagle Valley floor not be completely developed with hard surfaces, creating a land mass that doesn't adequately allow drainage to be filtered before entering the water ways.
In La Jolla, Calif., near the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, I recently noticed this sign: "This native vegetation provides an effective way to keep urban runoff from reaching the ocean (say creeks and rivers, also) and reduces erosion." Open space allows for good vegetation and water filtration.
By having a dedicated open space fund, our county is much more likely to receive funding from other sources, whether federal, state or private, for funding of open space. Great Outdoors Colorado, the lottery money, has funded open space projects in Colorado counties with dedicated open space funds to the tune of $6.6 million in 2011 alone. Over the entire history of GOCO, they have awarded over $18 million to projects right here in Eagle County.
In order to even be considered for this funding, applicants have to demonstrate broad community support for a project and be able to raise a significant portion of the project funding by themselves.
The Eagle County voter-approved dedicated open space tax proves both of these criteria to potential funders such as GOCO. Having an open space tax allows open space applicants the ability to leverage our local Eagle County money (both open space tax dollars and private donations) to receive GOCO lottery money and other funding, thus doubling or tripling the investment in open space.
Bringing up a settled ballot question again and again does not help Eagle County residents and could hurt our image with these regional and national funders. Please do not place the open space tax on the ballot again.
Kent Erickson
Award to celebrate
Dear Jen Jewett: Thank you for taking the time to write a letter to the editor congratulating Dr. Sandra Smyser on her Superintendent of the Year award. I agree and believe that the award is an honor for the entire community of Eagle County and something in which we should all relish. We all deserve to be proud of our schools, principals, teachers, students, and the K-12 education of our children.
The criteria for Superintendent of the Year by the Colorado Association of School Executives are the performance indicators for the school system where each candidate is superintendent. The evaluation criteria by which Dr. Smyser was assessed, is based on individual school district performance. the association's website has detailed information regarding criteria selection at http://www.co-case.org.
The association's criteria for evaluation to be Superintendent of the Year affirm that Dr. Smyser's award was based on her ability and success at addressing the difficulties Eagle County Schools' face as a district.
The common formative assessments that Eagle County Schools administers are part of the new rigorous curriculum the entire state of Colorado will be adopting. There is a national movement towards the same type of analysis and rigor the school district has already implemented.
Because of the extraordinary work of our teaching staff and the guidance of our administration, Eagle County Schools is ahead of the curve in implementing the process and has been able to leverage knowledge, curriculum design, and experiences into grants, experience for our teachers and students, and national recognition.
As the volunteer president of the Education Foundation of Eagle County, I take responsibility for asking you to write a personal check to keep teachers in our buildings. There is a massive and gross public education funding crises in the sate of Colorado. The funding crisis is not our fault. However, we believe that in coming together as a community we can be part of the solution.
As well, it is my personal experience that Dr. Smyser and the Board of Education are very approachable. I would invite you to email, call or even Facebook Eagle County Schools. I think you would be pleasantly surprised by the response, willingness to listen to your concerns, and intelligent dialogue. The Board of Education meets the second and fourth Wednesday of each month and videos of the meetings are on the school district's website.
I believe Dr. Smyser would agree that the pillars of our schools are the educators who spend over 1,000 hours per year educating our children. The Education Foundation of Eagle County is working hard to recognize those educators who are especially making a difference; and we believe that leadership starts at the top. Our great teacher's results are the product of a well led system.
We join you in honoring Dr. Smyser, thank you for your investment in education in Eagle County, and invite you to join us in being part of the solution. If you would like to participate in the Education Foundation of Eagle County, our meetings are every other second and fourth Thursday of each month at noon at Battle Mountain High School.
As well, there are a wide variety of foundation events and committees including financial, research, technology, Effective Apple Awards, Effective Speaking Series, and grant writing that meet at other times and would welcome help.
Wendy Rimel
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Vail, Beaver Creek opening more terrain, hoping for full season
A Nov. 30 to Governor Polis and the Eagle County Commissioners from Beaver Creek Resorts Company – as well as the towns of Vail, Avon, Eagle and Minturn – requests a variance program which would allow businesses to remain open.


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If you watch a Whitecaps FC MLS match these days, you will certainly notice the impact of Russell Teibert. The third-year MLS player has emerged as one of the top young talents in the league, and that's no fluke.
Teibert is a product of the Whitecaps FC Residency program. He is the shining example of what the club hopes will become a conveyer belt of talent for the 'Caps first team, as well as for the Canadian men's national team.
If this season's performances from the U-18s and U-16s are anything to go by, there could be a few more Teiberts lighting up BC Place in the next few years.
Evidence of success
Look no further than seeing 18 Whitecaps FC Residency players called up to Canadian youth national teams in the past week.
U-18 national team (7): goalkeeper Nolan Wirth; defenders Sam Adekugbe, Quinton Duncan, and Jackson Farmer; midfielders Kianz Froese and Mitch Piraux; and striker Brody Huitema.
Looking back
USSDA Playoff highlights
Both the U-18s and U-16s fielded younger-than-average teams this season. A number of talented U-16 players were promoted to the U-18 team, which created a ripple effect of having younger Pre-Residency players move up to the U-16 squad.
Naturally, this led to varying results on the field, but the one consistent result was experience and growth for all of the 'Caps youngsters.
While the U-16s had growing pains, they improved steadily throughout the season. The U-18s, meanwhile, were a force to be reckoned with.
Among the U-18 team's accomplishments this season were winning the Western Conference Northwest Division title for a second straight season, finishing the regular season tied for the most points in the USSDA (69), and finishing as the highest scoring team in the USSDA (98). They were also home to the leading scorer in the 80-team USSDA, as Brody Huitema topped the charts with 30 goals in 29 matches.
Though this was only the second year in the league for the squad, the group already had a great deal to live up to. In the club's inaugural year in 2012, the U-18s made it all the way to the championship final. This year's team proved equally talented and also made it among the final eight teams at Academy Finals Week.
Faced with some tough opposition, the 'Caps equitted themselves well. Several players stepped up during the playoff run, including goalkeeper Sean Melvin, who was later named in mlssoccer.com's Top 5 players of the USSDA Finals.
Gordon Forrest, head coach of Whitecaps FC U-18s, was pleased with the team's performance over the course of the season and saw the experiences as a solid learning curve for his young side.
"We've got to take everything into account; the whole season, and we're very happy with the development of the young players," Forrest commented. "It was good to play against the top opposition that we did at Finals Week, and the tough group that we played in. It was good learning and good development for the boys."
Particularly pleasing for Forrest, Vancouver's high performance head coach, was seeing a number of his Residency players take the step up to playing in Reserve matches and training with the first team. Residency players Sam Adekugbe, Marco Bustos, Yassin Essa, and Kianz Froese impressed in July's 4-0 win over Seattle Sounders FC Reserves and Forrest is looking forward to seeing this trend continue.
"Everyone in the squad puts in the effort, but there are a few players that have pushed and when they're playing in the reserve games and training in a first team environment they've acquitted themselves really well. That's the main thing for our program is how are they going to handle that next stage and that next step, and they've shown that they're ready for that challenge."
Looking ahead
Following the conclusion of one successful season for Whitecaps FC, the 'Caps Residency teams can now look forward to the coming campaign with renewed optimism.
Forrest is looking forward to the younger members of the squad continuing the growth that he has seen since coming on board to lead the Residency program in October 2012.
"It was a young team, so there's a core group there," said Forrest. "We'll add to that group and we'll look at any of the younger ones that can potentially make that step at some point, but we're really looking forward to working with the boys when they come back so that we can take them on in their individual development."
Inevitably, with the end of the campaign some of the U-18s will be graduating from the Residency program. Some have moved on to collegiate opportunities such as Spencer DeBoice (SFU), Quinton Duncan (Tulsa), Brody Huitema (Duke), and Sean Melvin (UNC-Wilmington). These players will continue to be a part of the Blue and White brethren, and many will return during the summers to play with the 'Caps U-23 squad in the PDL as they continue along their development.
And with these graduations comes the opportunity for younger players to step up into leadership roles. Players such as Marco Bustos, Matthew Chow, and Jordan Haynes will be counted on to lead the way for the U-18s from the experiences they've already gained, while others move up from the U-16s and take the next step in their progression.
The conveyer belt of talent carries on.


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For months, those who live within a mile of Moretown Landfill have actively opposed its plans to expand, speaking up at Development Review Board (DRB) hearings about how the off-site odors inhibit their daily lives. But now, as the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources (ANR) considers whether Moretown Landfill can continue to operate—let alone expand—those who live a little further from the facility have come forward to share their opinions against and in support of Moretown Landfill.
Tuesday, February 5, marked the end of the public comment period regarding the ANR's "intent to deny" Moretown Landfill's recertification request for two existing trash cells due to the facility's recent inability to comply with state environmental standards. Now, the ANR has 45 days to consider over 200 public comments before it issues a final decision.
Many of the comments— which can be viewed on the Agency's website—come from Citizens for Landfill Environmental Accountability and Responsibility (CLEAR), the local coalition formed during the DRB hearings.
CLEAR comments argue that the topography of Moretown Landfill and its proximity to residential areas is unsuited to its operation—no matter how much Advanced Disposal Services, the company that inherited Moretown Landfill this past September, argues that it can eliminate off-site odors through new technology and better management practices.
Other comments, however, ask ANR to give Advanced Disposal more time to test out the over $450,000 it has invested in the facility since it took over ownership, as many improvements to the landfill were finalized only last month.
But does Moretown Landfill deserve a second chance? Other comments argue that the state needs to send a message that Vermont's environmental health is a top priority and ignoring the landfill's numerous violations would counteract that message.
But what happens if the ANR does deny Moretown Landfill's request to recertify its cells, and the facility closes due to lack of available space? Many comments come from Moretown residents who rely on the landfill's half-million-dollar host agreement with the town to reduce a tax rate they would otherwise be unable to afford.
Many comments also come from those who don't live in Moretown—or anywhere near Moretown—but whose lives could change if one of the state's two landfills closed. Those comments are from small business owners, who fear the increased cost of having to ship their trash to further locations. They can barely afford overhead fees as they are, they say, and the state's economy would suffer as a result.
Those comments also come from towns that lie between The Valley and Coventry, as letters from Lamoille County's planning commission, economic development commission and chamber of commerce express a need for Moretown Landfill, as increased truck traffic through Stowe since Moretown Landfill reduced its intake within the past couple of months has already imparted considerable wear and tear on the area's roads. They're not prepared to deal with an influx in trash, they say.
Comments also express concern over the increased carbon emissions as a result of trucks having to travel farther, as well as the carbon emissions associated with constructing a new landfill. Many comments state that they would rather see an existing site brought into compliance than abandoned.
Perhaps the key word throughout the consideration process is "compliance."
Overwhelmingly, the comments state that Moretown Landfill will have to demonstrate that it can operate in compliance with state standards in order to receive recertification, and many propose stricter permit conditions and potential benefits for those who have suffered from the facility's past faults.
The comments can be read at the Agency of Natural Resources Moretown Landfill page:


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Swapping food to shed excess weight works like a dream
WHAT if you didn't have to go on a rigid diet to shed kilograms, just make some simple food swaps...
That's the concept behind a new book, The Food Swap Diet, by author Peta Bree, who has degrees in nutrition and sports science.
Packed with suggestions for swapping diet-sabotaging foods with waistline-friendly options, it's a practical guide to shaving kilojoules from your diet without going hungry or skipping meals.
"Where The Food Swap Diet differs from other diets is in its free rein: no food is banned," says Peta.
"What matters is that you make wiser choices each time you eat breakfast or lunch a snack or a restaurant meal."
Food swapping is an approach that suits all lifestyles, whether you are a busy mum who never has time to prepare meals for herself, a stressed-out office worker who eats on the run, or someone who simply feels that they have been losing the battle of the bulge for way too long, she says.
In The Food Swap Diet, Peta makes suggestions for every eating opportunity of the day - breakfast, coffee break, lunch on the run, ready meals, snacking, eating out and even drinks.
While some of it is more British than Australian (and calories are used as measurement rather than kilojoules), there's plenty of good advice about food types and food choices including breakdowns of fats, sugar and salt in specific foods.
Peta's eating out section is particularly good, covering everything from Chinese to Indian to burgers and fish and chips to pizza.
Pizza is one of the most popular takeaways in Australia.
In fact, if you had shares in Dominos, you'd be laughing all the way to the bank.
But this popular takeaway can also be a health and diet nightmare with ingredients including processed meats full of preservatives, potentially carcinogenic nitrates and full fat cheeses.
To make it a healthier option, Peta suggests avoiding stuffed crusts and deep-pan bases, choosing vegetable toppings over meat and extra cheese toppings, checking out seafood options and steering clear of starters such as garlic bread, bruschetta, dough sticks and anything served with garlic butter.
Halving a pizza and filling the other half of your plate with a green salad is also smart, live longer advice.
Peta has plenty of other tips on the nutritional content of food, including swapping meals that may be equal in kilojoules but not in food value.
"As you will discover as you start food swapping, calories are not all that matter when it comes to losing pounds or maintaining a healthy weight," she says.
"The nutritional profile of a food - that is the amount of fat, salt and sugar it contains, as well as the levels of vitamins and minerals - play a crucial role in determining how quickly it settles as body fat and how easily it satiates us before the next meal."
Some healthy swaps
- Swap a blueberry muffin (1720kj) for a fruit scone (1350kj)
- Swap medium latte (900kj) for a black coffee (30kj)
- Swap a chicken caesar and bacon wrap (2500kj) for a chicken and salad wrap (1450kj)
- Swap a toasted club sandwich (2160kj) for a cream cheese and smoked salmon bagel (1700kj)