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The 22cl Embassy Martini Cocktail Glasses are ideal for serving up a martini, cosmopolitan or other cocktail. Elegant and sophisticated, these glasses also offer a durable and practical design with Libbey's Safedge guarantee. More info
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Perfect for your bar or restaurant, the Embassy Martini Cocktail Glasses can be used to serve up a variety of cocktails. These professional quality 27cl glasses are covered by Libbey's Safedge guarantee against chips, making them a practical and stylish c More info
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Enjoy an elegant martini with the Embassy Martini Cocktail Glasses, ideal for bars, restaurants and catered events. Sophisticated, yet tough, these small 15cl glasses are covered by Libbey's Safedge rim and foot guarantee. More info
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Perfect for serving both red and white wines, the Embassy Stacking Wine Goblets are ideal for casual dining. Lined and CE marked at 250ml for use in licenced establishments, these 30cl glasses feature a short stem making them conveniently stackable. More info
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The Embassy Sherry Glass is just the right size for a small helping of sherry or port. This classic piece of stemware offers a sturdy and durable design with a safe rim and foot guarantee against chips. More info
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Embassy Glassware
Practical and elegant, the Embassy glassware range is ideal for use as commercial glassware. Manufactured by Libbey glassware, the Embassy glasses are covered by a Safedge guarantee for a collection of toughened wine glass and toughened spirit glasses.
This range of Embassy wine glasses, Embassy spirit glasses and Embassy liqueur glasses are available with fast UK delivery. The Embassy glasses range includes Embassy Sherry Glasses, Embassy Schnapps Glasses and Embassy Stacking Wine Goblets LCE, which are lined and CE marked wine glasses.


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The Grand Design: Jefferson's Rotunda
The University Library is Born
Jefferson's Letters
Jefferson's Letters
A selection of letters and documents relating to the early development of the University Library. The entries are arranged by the calendar numbers in
The Jefferson Papers of the University of Virginia.
The descriptions are based on the same source.
1822 Oct. 11. Thomas Jefferson, Monticello to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, University of Virginia. ALS. 2 pp. endorsed.
Sends copy of resolution of the Board of Visitors, authorizing building of the library, and of an advertisement for the Richmond Enquirer and the Charlottesville Central Gazette regarding collection of University subscriptions in arrears.
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In answer to the question: "If the remission of the principal debt, and an accomodation of the cost of the library cannot both be obtained, which would be the most desirable?" Jefferson tells Cabell "without any question, the latter." To secure a faculty and student body of the highest order, the University must have distinguished structures. The aim of Jefferson and the Board of Visitors "from the beginning has been to make the establishment the most eminent in the United States." The letter concludes with estimates of the cost of building the library by John M. Perry, John Gorman, James Oldham, James Dinsmore, and Arthur S. Brockenbrough.
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Appointment as Librarian at the salary of $150 per year. Statement of his duties.
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Can you confirm these amateur observations of Diasporus citrinobapheus?
Diasporus citrinobapheus shows the following combination of characters: coloration bright yellow to orange in life; head almost as broad as long, but comparatively broad in relation to SVL; skin of dorsum smooth; venter coarsely areolate; tympanum covered by skin but annulus clearly visible; TD about 41% of ED; EL on average narrower than IOD; snout subacuminate in profile and rounded to subovoid in dorsal outline; disks of fingers and toes slightly expanded, disk covers of most fingers and toes spadate, but lacking papillae; disk pads of most fingers and toes triangular; subarticular tubercles of hands and feet rounded, very flat, almost not visible; vomerine odonthophores longish oval and widely separated; vomerine teeth weakly developed; upper eyelid usually smooth, very low pustules in some individuals; heel smooth (Hertz et al. 2012).
Coloration in life: All examined specimens show shades of bright yellow and orange dorsally; some have dark grayish and/or whitish-grayish spots. Ventral surfaces are transparent and almost entirely lacking yellow pigment apart from the yellow male vocal sac.
In preservation (70% alcohol), the bright yellow and orange colors fade rapidly to a pale grayish yellow with scattered dark grayish blotches in some individuals. Legs pale orange; vocal sac pale yellow in males; gular area in females pale gray; tips of digits dark grayish black. Dark grayish black eyeballs shining through skin when head is viewed dorsally (Hertz et al. 2012).
Variation: Compared to other species of this genus, the individuals of D. citrinobapheus available exhibit little variation in their coloration. All show a yellow to orange dorsal ground color in life. This can either appear bright and clear or somewhat dirty, depending on the pigment translocation within the melanophores in the frog's skin. In some individuals, higher concentrations of melanophores in certain areas of the dorsum form dark blotches or stripes. This is especially the case in specimens from the western part of its known distribution area (Hertz et al. 2012).
Distribution and Habitat
Country distribution from AmphibiaWeb's database: Panama
Life History, Abundance, Activity, and Special BehaviorsMales call from very dense vegetation. Vocal activity is highest just after dusk and finally stops when it becomes dark. Calling height ranges from near ground level up to three meters above ground. Calling position can be either on the upper side of a leaf or on its underside. The only known female was found at daytime inside an curled, young plantain leaf that apparently served as a daytime hiding place (Hertz et al. 2012).
Trends and ThreatsD. citrinobapheus has been detected in two protected areas: at Willie Mazú in the Bosque Protector Palo Seco reserve, and at Cerro Negro in the Santa Fé National Park. However, the Serranía de Tabasará overall is highly threatened by deforestation and habitat degradation (Hertz et al. 2012).
Possible reasons for amphibian decline
General habitat alteration and lossHabitat modification from deforestation, or logging related activitiesHabitat fragmentation
The species authorities for D. citrinobapheus are Hertz, A., Hauenschild, F., Lotzkat, S., and Köhler, G.
The specific name citrinobapheus is a noun in apposition and derived from the Greek words citrinos (citrin-yellow) and bapheus (dyer) referring to the yellow body color that stains one's fingers yellowish when the frog is handled (Hertz et al. 2012).
References Hertz, A., Hauenschild, F., Lotzkat, S., Köhler, G. (2012). ''A new, golden frog species of the genus Diasporus (Amphibia, Eleutherodactylidae) from the Cordillera Central, western Panama.'' ZooKeys, 196, 23–46. Written by Andreas Hertz (ahertz AT senckenberg.de; ahertz AT web.de), Senckenberg Research Institute and Nature Museum, Frankfurt, GermanyFirst submitted 2012-07-31Edited by Michelle S. Koo (2012-10-04) Feedback or comments about this page.
Hertz, A., Hauenschild, F., Lotzkat, S., Köhler, G. (2012). ''A new, golden frog species of the genus Diasporus (Amphibia, Eleutherodactylidae) from the Cordillera Central, western Panama.'' ZooKeys, 196, 23–46.
Citation: AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2015. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. Available: http://amphibiaweb.org/. (Accessed: Jan 28, 2015).
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Breakfast Topic: What was your least favorite part of this year's Brewfest?
After the first couple of days, I was completely unable to complete the Dark Iron Dwarf quest, even at peak times on my server. I don't know if fewer people were participating due to the mounts not being purchaseable by tokens or the non-intuitive way you fight those evil brew thieves, but there were never enough people chugging and chucking along with me to defeat them. Still, that wasn't my least favorite part.
I would have to say that the part of this year's Brewfest that sucked my fun, frustrated the heck out of me and made me only earn enough to join the Brew of the Month Club was the same thing I disliked most last year. It's that apple barrel that is near the guy with the kegs outside of Orgrimmar. No matter how diligent I was doing the Keg Run, no matter how carefully I timed my rein-clicking and no matter how much I jumped on, stomped on or ran around that barrel, it only refreshed my mount about 70 percent of the time. Riding an exhausted ram is so not fun.
What was your least favorite part of this year's Brewfest?
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One of the sad facts of life is people die. People die on land, and people die on cruise ships.
People get sick on land, and people get sick on cruise ships. People get sick on land, and recover, and people get sick on cruise ships, and recover.
Those are just simple facts.
When the simple facts are made to appear to be some sort of evil built into the operation of cruise lines by the media it truly works up my dander. Though no doubt well intended, the latest such case I've seen is
Let's take a look at the reality…
For starters, anyone who believes a medical center on a ship is any way similar to a full service hospital in their home town or city should immediately cancel their cruise travel plans.
It's incredibly naive for anyone to think so, and disengenous for anyone to think the cruise lines even suggest they do.
While every ship does have a minimum of one doctor and two nurses on board and on call, the facilities and equipment available to them is, at best, equivalent to a walk in clinic in your home town or city. They do not have surgical equipment or capability. They're structured to provide basic care, and have some ability to stabilize the situation for more serious conditions.
However, in more serious cases, their only option is to attempt to stabilize the patient, and get them to a land based hospital at the first opportunity. And if that opportunity is, in their view, not going to come in a timely manner, medical evacuation from the ship while at sea is a definite possibility.
I have been on Ȝ+ cruises, and on each and every one of those cruises, there has been some sort of medical emergency.
 On each of those cruises someone has either been taken from the ship by ambulance in a port of call, or evacuated from the ship by helicopter while at sea, or the ship has diverted from it's planned itinerary to the nearest port of call… all because someone needed urgent care.
No question; these incidents are traumatic to the ill passengers, and their families and travel partners. They suddenly find themselves in often life threatening situations, isolated in countries where health care, and hospitals are totally different than what they are used to, and can even face language barriers when trying to get themselves or their loved ones appropriate medical care. It is indeed a terrible position to find yourself in!
However, in the case consume advocate Christopher Elliott describes in the article linked above, it seems the doctors at home determined the wellness of the patient could have been improved if they had a heart stent implanted at the hospital (which was not done). If that was in fact the treatment that would give the patient the best chance at a full recovery, it would not have been possible for the ship's medical staff to do. They simply don't have the facility or ability to perform such procedures.
The patient would not have been in any better position if they had remained on the ship under the care of the ship's doctor.
Any form of travel carries inherent risk. And traveling by cruise ship, where you're often many miles out to sea from any port (let alone one you know will have exemplary medical care) makes it a higher risk. But one that should be foreseen, with any forethought.
With a common sense view, I cannot see how anyone can attempt to demonize the cruise line's policies of disembarking passengers in port (by whatever means) if the decision is made that the ill passenger needs more urgent care than can be provided by the on board medical facilities and staff.
When considering a cruise, the most essential thing to purchase is adequate travel insurance! One must be certain to purchase travel insurance which will cover them in the worst case scenarios they can imagine. And you'll find that full coverage necessary is not all that expensive; especially considering the costs involved if a problem arises.
If you choose to ignore the need of travel insurance, you are "self insuring" , leaving you personally responsible for any and all costs if you become ill while on board, and the actions that follow such an event.
I am unsure why anyone thinks it should be the cruise lines assuming responsibility for any medical situation any passenger finds themselves in. With any form of travel, one would never expect the hotels they stay in, or the guides they've hired to bear such responsibility.Â� When traveling anywhere in the world one can easily be faced with a similar situation; where the medical care available is not up to the standards of the medical care which is necessary to handle the particular medical situation you find yourself in.
There is no reason the cruise industry medical teams and facilities should be held to a different standard.
On the flip side, I personally know of many situations, where the care received on the ship, and the patients being disembarked from the ship for treatment, has saved people�s lives.
One such case occurred recently to one of our CruiseMates message board monitors, while hosting one of our CruiseMates group cruises. Her husband became very ill, and was disembarked in St. Thomas, USVI, and transferred to hospital on the island. She spoke of the excellent care he received there, and when able, he was transported back to their home in the United States, where he received follow up care.
A side note is they had insurance, and because of that the incident did not leave them with enormous costs to cover their treatment and transportation.
On another cruise I met three ladies; a mother and two sisters. On of the sisters had cancer, and had recently completed a series of treatements. It was her wish to go on a cruise, and have her mother and sister accompany her. During the cruise she became ill several times, and the medical staff were able to stabliize her each time, and she continued to cruise, and in talking to them each day, they were enjoying every minute they had together on the ship. Sadly, the last day of the cruise, she succumbed to her illness, and passed away.
The surviving mother and daughter couldn't speak highly enough of the treatment they and their daughter/sister received on the ship. They were incredibly pleased that they got to spend their last days with their daughter/sister on the ship.
I know the case of a crewmember who was suffering from sever appenditicis. Concerned the appendix would burst, the ship organized a helicopter from the coast guard to meet the ship at the first point in the ocean where the ship and a coast guard helicopter could meet, to evacuate the crew member.
The ship made full speed for a full day to reach the meeting point. The US Coast Guard, sent two helicopters, escorted by two fixed wing aircraft (to guard against any incident where a single helicopter might suffer a problem that would not allow it to serve the function necessary).
We watched as the helicopter landed on the deck of the ship, and the medical team evacuated the sick crewmember. I received an e-mail from the crew member at a later date, saying thanks to these actions taken, she was fully recovered.
I don�t believe these incidents, which I have personal knowledge of, are anecdotal "one of " situations, and just happenstance that I heard of, or experienced. I think it's much more likely that it is very common; in situations where it is possible the ill passengers can survive with better treatment, in the majority of cases, they probably do.
In the cases where they do not survive, it's not that I don't feel compassion and sympathy for their friends and family. I do. I feel very bad for anyone who has to leave a ship mid-cruise due to accident our illness. I had to leave a ship mid-cruise once, because of a death of a family member. Different; but similar emotions, so I do have some understanding of the feelings. However, I fail to see how the cruise lines can be held responsible for not being equipped as a critical care center. And I donât think there's anything in the cruise line literature to suggest they are.
Passengers who assume they can get the equivalent of "full hospital care" on a ship are naive. Media outlets, travel writers, and attorneys who blame them for not being so equipped are simply not using their common sense, or are attempting to drive their own "other" agendas.
For those unfortunate souls who find themselves in these medical emergency evacuation situations, there are also far too many who have "saved some money", and skipped purchasing adequate travel insurance, it makes already extremely difficult circumstances much, much worse, as they incur the financial burden, on top of the physical and emotional burden.
Some of those people want, and some expect, the cruise lines to accept the financial responsibility in order to cover their decision not to purchase travel insurance.
If your home burns down, and you didn't buy insurance for it, you are stuck with the consequences, as sad as they may be. The same is true of the cruise industry.� They shouldn't be expected to be responsible to cover the neglectful position their passengers take in regard to passing on buying available insurance. Travellers make that decision; when they do so they are gambling. When things go badly, they've very sadly lost their bet.
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The Dark Frontier, Part 2
Profit Factor, Endeavours, the Expanse, and More! |
Rogue Trader | Published 24 April 2009 |
Hello again Rogue Trader fans!
Last week I talked about some of the background behind working on Rogue Trader. This week I want to continue that discussion, but broaden it a bit to also include some of the major influences on myself and the rest of the design team.
Ships of Wood and Steel
Naturally, some of the biggest influences on the design of Rogue Trader came from stories about thrilling voyages in space and on the sea. For instance, the crew dynamic of Mal Reynolds' ship in Joss Whedon's Firefly and Serenity influenced some of the decisions we made about character creation, and the fascinating loyalty and discipline of the Surprise captained by Jack Aubrey in the Patrick O'Brian novels had an impact on the ship roles.
From Horatio Hornblower to Shogun, the Conquistadors of Spain to the American Wild West, a number of stories, experiences, and settings made an impact on the overall design of Rogue Trader. Therefore, don't be surprised if you find some familiar and timeless tropes within the book!
Into the Expanse
The Koronus Expanse is the core setting for Rogue Trader, a region beyond the Imperium on the rim of known space. The Expanse exists somewhere amongst the Halo Stars region, accessible through a (mostly) stable warp passage known as "the Maw." In the Expanse, the Explorers can find numerous opportunities for both danger and profit!
When designing the Expanse, I knew we wanted to get the "feel" exactly right. It's a bit of a mix of the Wild West with the "Darkest Africa" of many pulp adventures. It's looking into a dark room from a well-lit hallway. The open door projects some light into the gloom (in this case, the door is the Maw), but the further one goes into the room, the surroundings become more uncertain and mysterious. The Expanse is a realm of legends, whispered stories of fortune and horror, and cryptic messages: "Here be dragons."
Unlike the Calixis Sector in Dark Heresy, the Koronus Expanse is presented as a region not yet fully understood. There is plenty of uncharted territory ripe for a bold Rogue Trader to discover, and tons of unknown planets and systems. One region in the Expanse is known as the Hecaton Rift, an enormous nebula laced with bizarre flickers of warp-lightning. There are rumours of fantastic treasure within the Rift...but there are also uncounted stories of foolhardy captains who never returned from the Rift's embrace.
I hope these tidbits have whetted your appetite for more information about the Koronus Expanse, because I plan to present an entire designer diary focused upon it in the near future.
Profit Factor and Endeavours
Another important issue that arose during the development of Rogue Trader is the concept of wealth on a grander scale. If a Rogue Trader owns a nearly-priceless starship, how do you handle whether or not he can afford a plasma pistol? How do you gauge the overall success of a Rogue Trader's dynasty? How do you improve your status, and what are the pitfalls that can occur?
The answer to these questions lies in the system of Profit Factor and Endeavours. Profit Factor is a game mechanic that represents the Explorers' wealth, power, influence and other resources. Profit Factor means that a Rogue Trader character doesn't really need to track "pocket money." The group's Profit Factor determines their relative success, meaning that the players can track how far they have come, or discover how far they need to go to reach their goal. Naturally, the higher the group's Profit Factor, the more resources at their disposal. Towards the higher end of the scale, the Rogue Trader dynasty may control a fleet of starships, own entire planets, or establish a legend that shall be remembered for millennia.
Now that I've given you an idea of what Profit Factor is, let's talk briefly about Endeavours. Profit Factor can improve or suffer by degrees; but the most significant method to gain Profit Factor is to complete an Endeavour. An Endeavour represents a particular opportunity that the player characters can utilise to their advantage. Endeavours are very flexible elements in any particular campaign. They can be created by the players themselves if they choose!
Endeavours are broken down into two sections: the Requirements and the Objectives that must be achieved in order to complete it.
An example of a simple Endeavour might be: Recover the ancient space hulk Warspite from the Processional of the Damned.
Requirements: A chart of the Processional, access codes for the Warspite's machine spirit, a trained salvage crew.
Naturally, no Endeavour is complete without certain complications that arise! The capricious gravity tides of the Processional must be navigated, hostile xenos infesting the space hulk must be confronted and destroyed, and the Explorers must make some tough choices when they discover survivors trapped within a stasis field.
However, if the Explorers can overcome these obstacles, the rewards are truly worthwhile, encompassing not only a gain in experience points but also a large bonus of Profit Factor! The big advantage of the Endeavours is that the players themselves become the driving force of the campaign, selecting existing Endeavours presented by the Game Master or creating new ones of their own. I'll talk more about Profit and Endeavours in a future design diary, so this taste will have to do for now!
Return to the Imperium
Well, I hope you have enjoyed your glimpse of the dark frontier! This designer diary turned out to be a lot more involved than I expected, but it was certainly fun to write. Stay tuned for further updates and designer diaries from the writers in the future!
Rogue Trader is a roleplaying game set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, the grim darkness of the far future. Players take on the roles of Explorers aboard a Rogue Trader's ship, searching for profit and adventure in the uncharted regions of space.
Brilliant stuff on the profit factor and endeavours! Cant wait!
My only fear is that it's gonna be a little bit too much merchant-oriented, I mean "I have to sell this in order to emprove my status" and the like...
Every update released on Rogue Trader makes me want to play more and more. Keep up the updates and thanks.
Cool. It sounds like there is no need to keep track of the Thrones, the higher you Profit Factor the easier it is for you to get stuff, rolling for a value based on how exotic it is, with the PF being a modifier. Just a guess.
This all sounds terrific. Since there's Endeavours, might that mean there'll be Enterprises (hoho!) too? Which is to say, something less like 'Quests' and more like... back home business, supply lines or even privately owned docks/space-warhouses etc? Or would that sort of thing still be represented by completing an Endeavour, merely closer to home?
Still, this really does sound good, exciting stuff.
I think of Lost in Space as one of the first campaigns I would like to expound on. Contingent on more material being released, I already have in my mind to explore the Rogue Trader Role Playing Game. If it is anything like Dark Heresy, I will absolutely love the game.
The more I hear about this game to more I wish to buy it *counts up resources* .... *falls short* Damn between everything I need for dark heresy and when this comes out I may have to smuggle aline goods for many a years
The profict factor sounds all good to me. Something to be "looted" into a "success/trust" factor for "DH" to have hard mechanic to show the pc how there success/behavior afflicts the resources there master is willing to spend on them. Perhabs, this whole "coinage system" can be thrown out of the window all together. Like in "Vampire"
Interesting, I wonder how Profit Factor converts into Thrones for the one or two game masters that absolutely have to keep track of every cent and every bullet the party has access to. The Endeavor system sounds interesting, a easy "side quest" generator for those GMs who need something quick for a game.
I wonder how many Profit Factor Levels will exist. I hope there many levels and it ain't a Level 0 to 10 scale, but I'm not worried since Warhammer 40k RPG line is in good hands.
Very intresting, but I didnt picture that rouge traders mainly was in nomans land, rather lawless individualls and pirates whitin the imperium
Interseting. I'm particularly looking forward to the pofits and upgrading my ship/s.
Will a future suplement focus on the Imperial Navy?
Is the Koronus Expanse adjacent to the Calixis Sector?
Does it (the KE) bear any relationship to Kommonus the Dark Sun?


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The UCLA Children's Discovery and Innovation (CDI) Institute announces a SEED GRANT funding opportunity for all UCLA faculty members. The CDI, established through initial philanthropic funding to Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA and the Department of Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, encourages multidisciplinary child health research and research training at UCLA across the spectrum of basic, translational, clinical, and health services research. The CDI supports four initial research themes, intended to be broadly and inclusively interpreted, to help investigators develop forums for this multi-disciplinary work:
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PROVIDENCE — Michael Genna spent much of his 20s strumming a bass guitar, doing drugs in Hollywood and partying with a friend who had some pedigree in the music world: Ivan Neville.
But then Genna fought hard to end his drug use, which made for an anxious moment when he saw his old buddy one night at a Neville Brothers concert; he told Neville he didn't think he could go backstage with him because he was clean.
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He, too, had stopped using drugs, Genna said Saturday as he and thousands of other former substance abusers publicly celebrated their advances on the road to recovery at a rally in the downtown park known as the Roger Williams National Memorial.
A large bandstand, where Neville's band was to play, anchored a great array of concessions, which had drawn former drug users from all over New England for what organizers had called the Rally 4 Recovery, the 11th such celebration thrown in Rhode Island.
On the grassy lawns, many former users greeted each other just as triumphantly as Genna and Neville did back in 2002. In interviews, some shared dramatic stories about battling drugs, coming clean, leaning hard on others for support and fighting the stigmas that often accompany a background of drug abuse.
Dennis Dutra, 41, of Narragansett, said he made the key transition after his 25th trip to prison, staying free of drugs while in prison, then finding work picking up trash in theaters and then in restaurants. He now lives in a good neighborhood and earns "honest money," logging 64 hours a week, he said.
"Things get better every day," Dutra said. "They do."
Nearby, a recovering addict who is working her way through college with hopes of earning a living in social work someday looked at sections of a giant quilt that had been embroidered in honor of individual people who had lost their lives to substance abuse.
"It just keeps me grateful," she said. "This could have been me."
Aware of the stigma that addicts face, she didn't want to reveal her last name.
Genna, 47, of Harrisburg, Pa., is among a corps of former abusers who have found work helping other users get off drugs.
This is a long way from some of his darkest days, when he used drugs in the presence of children and stole things to pay for his next high.
In 1999, Genna was driving a car loaded with drugs when a police cruiser passed in the opposite direction. The officer in the cruiser did a U-turn and pulled up behind Genna with flashing lights.
"I was sure I was going to jail for a long time," Genna recalls.
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The cruiser passed by, and Genna was on his way to recovery.
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I got this lipstick on a whim, in a sale, and I haven't regretted it! I'm a very fair, NC15, blonde hair, blue eyed girl and I would say if your anything like me then this lipstick shade is a perfect 'nude'! I have been trying to find a decent nude in the vast MAC lipstick range but all the nudes looked far too orange, for me, even 'Myth'. This 'Divine' shade, by No.7, is a much more neutral pinky nude without a hint of orange. The only Mac lipstick that has ever come close to this was the limited edition 'Aloof', which was my favourite MAC shade EVER-I should have bought it by the bucket load (sadly they no longer sell it)! I team 'Divine' with a slightly darker lipliner (D&G's '1-Nude' lipliner pencil-which is a more typically 'spice' shade) to give my lips definition. Its looks great, gives lips real volume, glamour and lushousness-a bit Bridgit Bordot. Its matches well with bold block colour, monocrome and straight cut oufits.
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Perhaps the crux of the FT piece is a statement ADM made in October about switching out of biofuels:
ADM said last month it would switch production of corn toward high-fructose corn syrup or lysine production if ethanol became unprofitable.
Is that a threat? Where is the larger context that would help the reader understand what this means?
The irony here is that the ubiquity of high-fructose corn syrup — check your beverage and food labels — is also due to government subsidies, thanks to the farm bill. So ADM, its ethanol business faltering, is threatening to leave one government-supported program for another. Next ADM will be applying for food stamps.
Maybe the FT thinks a "welfare queen" is just like a real queen, like the kind they have back in England. Who knows?
And before we feel too sorry for ADM, let's take a brief look at how the government has supported the company over the years.
We turn first to, yes, the Cato Institute. In 1995, James Bovard authored a study titled "Archer Daniels Midland: A Case Study in Corporate Welfare," which undertook an examination of "the full scope of [ADM's] parasitic relationship to the U.S. taxpayer."
Bovard offers a summary of that relationship:
The Archer Daniels Midland Corporation (ADM) has been the most prominent recipient of corporate welfare in recent U.S. history. ADM and its chairman Dwayne Andreas have lavishly fertilized both political parties with millions of dollars in handouts and in return have reaped billion-dollar windfalls from taxpayers and consumers.
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Thanks to federal protection of the domestic sugar industry, ethanol subsidies, subsidized grain exports, and various other programs, ADM has cost the American economy billions of dollars since 1980 and has indirectly cost Americans tens of billions of dollars in higher prices and higher taxes over that same period.
ADM's position has not gone unnoticed in the press. A few years after the Cato study, Time published a long story on corporate welfare, including a section titled "ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND: A Corny Story, but No One Is Laughing":
The king of corporate welfare may be Archer Daniels Midland Co. The global agricultural-commodities dealer has artfully preserved one of the more blatant welfare programs—a subsidy for ethanol that has already cost taxpayers more than $5 billion in the 1990s. Some $3 billion of that has gone to ADM.
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Between 1995 and 2004, U.S. taxpayers paid $41.9 billion to U.S. agribusiness, including politically active corporate giants such as Archer Daniels Midland. ADM got $4.5 billion in 2004 alone, according to the farm-subsidy database of the Environmental Working Group. Price-gouging and profiteering, anyone?
Jeff Goodell, this year, in Rolling Stone on "The Ethanol Scam":
The ethanol boondoggle is largely a tribute to the political muscle of a single company: agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland.
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True to its name, Grupo Fantasma incorporates major elements of Latin-American music into its sound, but there's far more to this 11-piece orchestra from Austin, Texas, than meets the eye. The band's fourth album (the ensemble was founded in 2000) writhes and roils through musical alleys lined with cumbia, salsa, merengue, funk, and even a hint of psychedelia—with a few special guests along for the ride, including saxophone giant Maceo Parker ("Gimme Some") and Fania All-Stars pianist Larry Harlow ("Rumba Y Guaguanco" and "Se Te Mira"). Channeling a Manu Chao-like progressive rock sound that's steeped in traditional Latin music, Grupo Fantasma manages to transfer much of the energy from its legendary live shows into the studio, which makes sense considering the band books more than 100 shows a year and provides back-up for such notable performers as Prince and the indie rock outfit Spoon (all while recording specials for the Austin City Limits television series). With a big sound, thoughtfully-written songs and an enthusiasm for performance, Grupo Fantasma has the goods.


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UPDATE II: Second bracket is full. Go here to get in the third one.
UPDATE: Apparently we hit the limit on the first bracket so we've opened up a second you can sign up for here. NakedShort will reconcile the results and aggregate them at the end of the tournament. Password is the same (animalliar).
As you may have heard, March Madness kicks off tomorrow. Despite this being the most wonderful time of the year for many, there exists one financial services hack who wants to destroy it for everyone. He's announced his plan to (anonymously) report any colleagues he catches filling out brackets and keeping tabs on their picks during business hours. Does he work at your company? Maybe! Should you take a stand regardless? Yes! How so? By entering as many pools as you possibly can, making it impossible for him to keep up with the amount of people and their various offenses he must rat out. To that end, we'd like to help do our part. Today we introduce the First Annual Dealbreaker NCAA Tournament Challenge. You don't need a reason to sign up besides the right to say you won the DBNCAATC but as an aside, the winner will receive dinner for him/herself plus three colleagues and/or friends at Peter Luger's, followed by an outing to UBS favorite Beamer's, an embroidered Patagonia and an 'I love Dealbreaker' button.**
The pool will be managed by Dealbreaker Commenter and Friend NakedShort, who, along with myself, will answer any questions you might have, provide color if warranted (rip everyone's brackets to shreds, call out the bottom 5 performers), etc. Sign up here now.* So it is abundantly clear, if you do not want participants to know your real name, MAKE SURE TO FILL OUT SOMETHING ELSE IN THE NAME FIELDS. For example, if your ID is Godswork, rather than writing Lloyd B, enter first name: Gods, last name: work. To that end, if you don't want people to see your email address, from the bracket page, click 'options' and then 'hide email.' If you feel it necessary, create an entirely new email account specfically for this challenge. Finally, don't use HisHoliness as your ID because Alan Greenspan's already called dibs.
The pool password is: animalliar
Good luck!
Dealbreaker NCAA Tournament Challenge [CBS Sports]
*NakedShort says you have until Thursday morning (3/17) to fill out a bracket but you should just get on this ASAP.
**If your religious beliefs, significant other or sexual preference preclude you from enjoying Stamford's premier strip club, we will come up with an alternative. Same goes for those outside of the tri-state area who don't deem this worthy to fly in for.
***A dollar limit on the night will be imposed but rest assured I've calculated it very generously.
****Fine print we have to mention: For some legal reason, Rhode Island has to be excluded- sorry Rhode Island. Void wherever else prohibited.
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Winning the DBNCAATC is the NKI
Winning the DBNCAATC is the NKI
Winning the DBNCAATC is the NKI
Winning the DBNCAATC is the NKI
whats the password?
Pool password please.
Please tell me it's "UBSsucks!"
Am I missing the pool password in this post?
Sorry, in my haste to post I forgot to mention- it's 'animalliar' all one word.
Is the tip included?
-L Dykstra
Luger's and Beamer's? How can you not fly in for this? I just flipped my porsche and launched it into a house in anticipation.
I have Charlie Sheen getting into a suite of 16 naked chicks, getting through an elite 8-ball and having a final foursome before they get him back to a clinic.
Can we get Erin Callan on stage if our religious beliefs preclude me from enjoying Beamers?
My bracket was completed by the finest quants Wells Fargo has to offer
We would like to sponsor the NIT Bracket pool. The winner will fly as cargo on US Air to Charlotte via 3 connections, have a wonderful dinner at Steak & Ale followed by a trip to the Tilted Kilt until closing time at midnight. The password is BOONESFARM all one word in CAPS.
You're doomed
Let me know if there is any interest in a women's tournament bracket. The winner has to pay me $500 for knowing that much about women's college basketball.
Let me know if there is any interest in a women's tournament bracket. The winner has to pay me $500 for knowing that much about women's college basketball.
Is Backoffice Sales worse than Fund Accounting Sales?
Is Backoffice Sales worse than Fund Accounting Sales?
Looks around for lurking snitch, furiously begins multitasking.
I'm in. I have no pretension that I'll come close to winning, I just want to beat that asshole TGFD.
This win will rival my bonus this year. Four figures isn't what it used to be.
into a cup?
So you have Colorado winning?
Suck it, Rhode Island!
Matthew Tannin and Ralph Cioffi helped me with my brackets. I'll lose, but at least I can act optimistic for awhile without fear of imprisonment.
You can join if you give us our cut.
-The Rhode Island Mob
I'd like to enter but I don't want to jinx the Hoya's…will you still take me to Luger's Bess? (I haven't worn fleece since boarding school so you can feel free to send that to 2nd place)
Love you lon time xx
I am really hoping Chris Mullen and crew take the St. John's Redmen all the way to the Final Four.
-Guy Living in the past when red storms were allusions to godless Russian aggression.
I'm hoping Lou wears one of those low key sweaters.
U.Conn's gonna win. That's too easy. I hope the Marist College gals do some damage first, though. Go, Red Foxes!
Bummer. Anyone wanna hit the TGIFridays later? 1/2 price Miller till 7pm, bros!
-Rhode Island Smith Barney financial advisor
Duke all the way baby. Blue Devils rule!
Girls talking about sports, how cute
You're a fag.
Winning. Bottle service@Tilted Kilt
UNLV Rebels all day son!
UNLV Rebels all day son!
i'm in, if only to dilute anal_yst's chances of winning.
Also is mark madoff in this year?
Too soon dude.
being mark madoff is the NKI
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Anne Frank lived most of her short life in a world turned upside down. As a Jew in hiding from the Nazis, her home was a prison. Her youthful high spirits created the danger of discovery. Her intelligence made her painfully aware of the horrors around her. Normality eating, sleeping, growing up was, in her circumstances, bizarre.
And it is, therefore, somehow right that this new stage version of Anne's diary also turns the usual standards of judgment on their heads. Words of praise like "smooth," "charming," "uplifting" would here be words of damnation. In a story about eight people who are hunted and murdered, neat techniques would be out of place. Equally, words that might normally indicate disapproval "awkward," "somber," "shapeless" are here a measure of the production's achievements.
No stage version can really reproduce the impact of the diary itself. We cannot, in the theater, see the inhabitants of the secret annex the Franks, their two daughters, the Van Daans, their son Peter, and the dentist Mr. Dussel through Anne's eyes. They have to be given an independent existence.
Anne herself inevitably becomes a more marginal presence.
Here, this is underlined by two factors. One is that Natalie Portman's Anne, though perfectly capable, is never a particularly captivating presence. And the other is that the performances of Harris Yulin and Linda Lavin as the Van Daans are so compelling that they slowly occupy the center of the play.
The real drama is not Anne's awakening into womanhood, but the gradual stripping away, under the pressure of poverty and loss, of the pride and flamboyance that were at the heart of the Van Daans' relationship.
This gives the play a bitter, painful feel that is, in fact, very much in keeping with the mood of Wendy Kesselman's radical reworking of the original 1955 adaptation. She has restored the terror. The domestic family scenes are punctuated with the noises of trains, air-raid sirens, mysterious disturbances.
And most important, the play no longer ends on a note of uplift, but with a merciless, chilling statement of what actually happened to these people.
The result is that James Lapine's production reproduces the wild swings between petty domestic concerns and monumental fear that must have occurred in the secret annex.
This doesn't make for easy, well-made theater.
Moods are created, then abruptly broken. Instead of a charmed family circle, we get a real sense of people getting on each other's nerves.
Instead of a nicely shaped tale, we get the sense of a story that cannot be finished because its ending was played out in awful, inarticulate horror.
For its refusal to bury that truth in artful evasion, this production commands, and deserves, our attention.
A clock chimes, birds clamor, rain rains - four people walk up a ramp and onto the stage of the Music Box. Each is wearing a yellow Star of David as they move onto an attic-like set.
"The Diary of Anne Frank" has started. Everyone in the theater knows the end. The story is not the issue. We are visiting history...we are touching an event to which we are all, young and old, connected.
I remember when I first went 'round to Anne Frank's house in Amsterdam, a tourist among tourists gazing upon relics, the commonplaces of a life snuffed out by anti-Semitism, a life that somehow had almost by chance been elected to symbolize the dead and tortured millions of the Holocaust.
I walked through those shabby, carefully preserved rooms in wary wonder, silently sobbing - partly in pain, partly in fear, partly in guilt. Every time we encounter her - on a page, on the stage, in a film – Anne Frank is unexpectedly memorable and horrifyingly affecting.
Book, play, movie - it doesn't really matter. The only compelling fact is Anne Frank herself, an ordinary but extraordinary girl who died before her time and became a symbol, jogging our memory and making our conscience ache.
The original play by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, first produced on Broadway in 1955 (three years after the book "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl" was first published here), was not very good. It didn't matter. It worked. It had to work.
The diary itself, a conflation of two parallel manuscripts originally edited by her father, was slightly expurgated and edited for length.
The quite slick play - by star screenwriters perhaps best-known for their work on Frank Capra's movie "It's a Wonderful Life" – further emasculated it, playing down its Jewishness, Anne's emerging sexuality and her teen-age abrasiveness.
This new version, much adapted by Wendy Kesselman, uses the recent "definitive edition" of the diary, as well as other documentation, to offer what is certainly a far more authentic picture of Anne and the two Jewish families hiding from Nazi German persecution in that famous secret annex in Amsterdam.
It is still not a very good play: It's too heavy on pathos, surprisingly little happens, and there is scant illumination or development of character. We see a group under intense pressure and watch tensions build and see people collide. But Ibsen or Chekhov - or Miller or Williams - it isn't.
All the same, Kesselman has built on the solidly commercial original (Goodrich and Hackett were far, far from amateurs, and their dialogue crackled like Hollywood), and the director, James Lapine, has done a brilliant, often inspired, job of staging.
The look of the play is perfect, the casting seems impeccable, and Lapine has managed to squeeze the last droplet of emotional reality from the text with the subtlest means of body language and verbal intonation.
Even the play's complex blocking - that simple traffic around the stage - is used by Lapine to suggest the claustrophobic sense of prison and prisoners. Adrianne Lobel's setting - lit with careful imagination by Brian MacDevitt - makes the attic alive and credible, while Martin Pakledinaz's costumes are perfect in style while cleverly revealing the action's shabby progression.
As for the performances, they are all exquisitely on target. Natalie Portman's almost hoydenish yet intensely individual Anne could not be bettered; she is the Anne of all our waking nightmares.
George Hearn's grizzled and decent Otto Frank, Anne's father; Linda Lavin's wonderfully layered and complex account of the once-flighty Mrs. Van Daan; Harris Yulin as her stress-battered husband; and Austin Pendleton as the dentist Mr. Dussel, the neurotic cuckoo in their nest, all give virtuoso performances which wonderfully both hide and expose their virtuosity.
But equally warm words are due to Sophie Hayden as Anne's quiet-suffering mother; Jonathan Kaplan as Peter, the clumsy young man who awakens Anne's feel for love; and, indeed, all the others.
It is interesting that when the play was new, so many people commented on its demonstration of the indestructibility of the human spirit.
I suppose so. But, for me the message of this extraordinary theatrical adventure - this window into a lost world we all recognize - is its aftermath, the waste of the human spirit.
These people were murdered - squashed like cockroaches – because they were Jews at a somewhat more than usually inconvenient time to be Jewish.
Go and remember. By all means get sad. But also get angry.
To see Natalie Portman on the stage of the Music Box Theater is to understand what Proust meant when he spoke of girls in flower. Ms. Portman, a film actress making her Broadway debut, is only 16, and despite her precocious resume, she gives off a pure rosebud freshness that can't be faked. There is ineffable grace in her awkwardness, and her very skin seems to glow with the promise of miraculous transformations.
That the fate of the character Ms. Portman portrays is known in advance by most of her audience turns that radiance into something that is also infinitely chilling, however, and you may even feel guilty about basking in the warmth of a flame that you realize will be horribly and abruptly extinguished.
Ms. Portman has the title role in the new production of ''The Diary of Anne Frank,'' the dramatization of the legendary journals of a Jewish girl hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam. And whatever the shortcomings of Ms. Portman's performance and the production itself, which opened last night, the evening never lets us forget the inhuman darkness waiting to claim its incandescently human heroine.
This version, adapted (which in this instance means almost entirely rewritten) by Wendy Kesselman from Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett's 1955 script and directed by James Lapine, offers no treacly consolations about the triumph of the spirit. Indeed, the effect is more like watching a vibrant, exquisite fawn seen through the lens of a hunter's rifle.
An uncompromising steadiness of gaze, embedded in a bleak sense of historical context, is the strongest element in a production more notable for its moral conscientiousness than for theatrical inspiration. This version is undeniably moving, with snuffles and sobs from the audience beginning well before the first act is over, and there are beautifully drawn, organic-seeming moments throughout.
Yet in portraying the denizens of the the famous ''secret annex,'' the actors, who include such top-of-the-line veterans as Linda Lavin and George Hearn, don't always project the sense of a unified ensemble; it is often as if they had set their performances to different metronomes, when the feeling of a natural flow of time is essential.
As a consequence, the production can at times seem little more than serviceable. And yet somehow with this work, particularly as Ms. Kesselman has reshaped it, serviceable can be enough. The horror of its central situation, and the natural dramatic tightness it lends itself to, continue to hold the attention with an iron clamp. It also doesn't hurt that many people who see the play bring their own resonant associations with the diary. Clear, honorable and workmanlike, this ''Anne Frank'' doesn't achieve greatness in itself. But it doesn't diminish the magnitude of the events behind it.
It should be noted that ''Anne Frank'' returns to Broadway with an unwieldy load of polemical baggage, including furious debates over the diaries' appropriation as a pop commodity. The most resounding salvo was fired two months ago in an essay in The New Yorker by the novelist and critic Cynthia Ozick, who argued that Anne Frank's journals had been ''infantilized, Americanized, homogenized, sentimentalized,'' especially in their translation to the stage. ''In celebrating Anne Frank's years in the secret annex,'' Ms. Ozick wrote, ''the nature and meaning of her death has been, in effect, forestalled.''
Ms. Kesselman's reworking of the original script, which incorporates new material from the complete editions of the diaries made available in the last decade, goes a long way in redressing such objections. The Goodrich-Hackett script, under the director Garson Kanin's supervision, had bleached out much of its source's specific ethnic content for fear of alienating mainstream audiences. Correspondingly, the unspeakable destiny that awaited Anne was eclipsed by a disproportionate emphasis on the girl's idealism.
This new interpretation never relaxes its awareness of the hostile world beyond the attic that was the Franks' sanctuary and prison for two claustrophobic years, nor of the religious identity that made them a quarry. The earlier version began in a scene of sentimental hindsight, with Anne's father discovering her diaries; this one leaps, with a gripping immediacy, into medias res.
Adrianne Lobel's set, modeled as closely as the Music Box permits on the rooms behind Otto Frank's offices where the family lived, is in full view when we arrive. And for any reader of the diaries, it is hauntingly eloquent before any actor appears.
So is the entrance of the Franks themselves: Otto (Mr. Hearn); his wife, Edith (Sophie Hayden), and their daughters, Margot (Missy Yager) and Ms. Portman's Anne, who arrive onstage wet and disoriented from the rainy trip to their new home. As they turn to us, struggling out of their coats, the large yellow stars sewn onto their clothes are suddenly, glaringly visible.
It's a wonderful piece of staging, unforced yet emphatic; it establishes Judaism, and the ways it is perceived, as the Franks' central defining identity. ''Look, it's still there,'' says Anne of the shadow of the star that remains after she has torn it off.
Indeed. Perplexed, often defiant references to what it means to be a Jew in the occupied Netherlands abound in the diaries, and Ms. Kesselman has incorporated as many as time allows: from Anne's catalogue of the activities forbidden Jews in Amsterdam to her vision of a former classmate in a concentration camp. The evolving sophistication of her writing about the world around her is far more evident now. So is her lyrical consideration of her burgeoning sexuality, and Ms. Kesselman has included a beautiful passage, nicely read by Ms. Portman, in which the girl describes the transporting effects of pictures of female nudes in art books.
As welcome as these additions are, one wishes that the voice-overs in which many of them are delivered had been less clumsily amplified. The effect is bizarre, as if Anne had found a public-address system in that attic. And there is also the sense that in combing through the rich trove of the unedited diaries, Ms. Kesselman was hard put to select just what to use. There is an occasional feeling of material being shoehorned in and confusingly truncated.
This gives the production a fragmentary quality its predecessor didn't have. Mr. Lapine's staging doesn't always accommodate the lapses from slice-of-life naturalism, though there are moments throughout, particularly among the younger actors, where everything clicks into place. And the climactic scene that finds the characters festively eating strawberries just before they are captured is everything it should be: a wrenching but impeccably rendered fall from what has become ordinary life into perdition.
Presumably, with further time the talented cast -- which includes Ms. Lavin, Harris Yulin, Austin Pendleton and the young Jonathan Kaplan as the other inhabitants of the annex -- will grow into a more comfortable ensemble. As it is, all the actors reach isolated, individual heights, most notably in the second act, when the stress of confinement finally brings out the Darwinian animal in everyone.
But in the first act, the performers are still oddly stiff as a team, and there's a sense, in ways that go beyond their characters' discomfort with unfamiliar circumstances, that they have yet to find a shared rhythm.
As the endlessly patient father, Mr. Hearn has an expressly theatrical, heroic voice and carriage that don't provide the troubled, affectionate shading to convey his all-important relationship with Anne. Ms. Lavin brings an impressive technical bravura to the role of the vain, anxious Mrs. Van Daan that achieves some splendid effects, as in a stunning new monologue for the character, and others that seem artificially calculated.
Mr. Pendleton appears slightly at sea as the graceless dentist who is forced to share Anne's room (though the scene in which she introduces him to their sleeping quarters is charming). Mr. Yulin, as the cynical, self-serving Mr. Van Daan, and Ms. Hayden, as Anne's fragile mother, are better in conveying, in very different ways, the aura of the older, more genteel world that shaped their characters.
Ms. Yager and Mr. Kaplan, as the Van Daan son with whom Anne discovers love, provide affectingly restrained portraits of adolescence cramped and frustrated by circumstance. Ms. Portman's comparative lack of stage experience shows, but in a strange way, this works to her advantage.
Even when her line readings are stilted, her delicately expressive face never fails her. It becomes, as it should, the evening's barometer of the changing moods in the annex. She has, moreover, an endlessly poignant quality of spontaneity, and of boundless energy in search of an outlet, that is subtly modulated as the evening goes on.
In Philip Roth's short novel ''The Ghost Writer,'' the narrator speaks of Anne the writer in her diaries. ''It's like watching an accelerated film of a fetus sprouting a face,'' he says. Without ever toning down her innate vitality, Ms. Portman does indeed progress from self-centered girlishness to the cusp of self-aware womanhood. To learn again that she will not be allowed to go further still shatters the heart.
New revisions of the 1955 play "The Diary of Anne Frank" might please the scholars and writers who've recently charged that the Frances Goodrich-Albert Hackett dramatization (and the 1959 film version) was an inexcusable sentimentalization of a tragic, angry document. While the diary (the argument goes) is a portrait of inescapable evil, the play (in the words of a 1956 Variety rave) became an "inspiring tribute to (the) human capacity for nobility." Wendy Kesselman's new adaptation at least partially reasserts the historic Anne's darker vision as well as the diary's overt Jewishness, clearly, if subtly, addressing the amazingly current debate.
Whether the adaptation quiets more mundane reservations -- does the 42-year-old play hold up as drama? -- is, regrettably, less convincing. James Lapine's unexceptional direction rarely achieves the power the story demands, and textual revisions far more drastic than Kesselman's would be needed to vitalize a play that is often as creaky as an old attic.
The demands on Lapine are all the more fierce given the play's famously preordained outcome. We know the Nazis eventually are going to storm through that annex door, but it's Lapine's tough, necessary job to build suspense, even terror, nonetheless. With its slamming doors (on Adrianne Lobel's altogether too airy split-level apartment set) and loud arguing, this production infrequently reaches (and certainly doesn't sustain) the oppressive, claustrophobic horror that might give it more emotional weight. The World War II radio broadcasts and Hitler recordings that punctuate various scenes intrude on any potential tension, and Martin Pakledinaz's costumes, while period-appropriate, seem ever so slightly natty for a group locked two years in an attic.
That said, this "Diary" does try, in its own way, to be more than the '50s melodrama concocted by Goodrich and Hackett, a writing duo whose screenplays ("It's a Wonderful Life," "Father of the Bride," among others) clearly surpassed their at-best competent stage work. The revival, for example, includes a narrated passage originally excised from both the diary and hence the play in which Anne describes, both tenderly and explicitly, her schoolgirl crush on another girl, yet the play's relationship between the 13-year-old heroine (played by Natalie Portman) and 16-year-old Peter Van Daan (Jonathan Kaplan) remains B-movie sweetheart romance. References, fleeting or otherwise, to Zionism and the specific persecution of Jews are made clear in a play that, in its earlier version, has drawn criticism for universalizing, and thus watering down, its depiction of oppression.
Best of all is the production's new final scene, in which Anne's father -- the sole survivor of the eight Jews hiding, and ultimately discovered, in a secret annex of an Amsterdam office building -- addresses the audience to relate the fates of his family and friends. The speech, with its unadorned facts, is more shatter-ing than anything the original playwrights came up with.
Nowhere are the shortcomings of Goodrich and Hackett more evident than in the play's supporting characters, a collection of one-dimensional types: Otto Frank (George Hearn), Anne's father, is the unconvincing embodiment of goodness, patience and wisdom; Margot (Missy Yager), Anne's older sister, is shy and overshadowed by her more vibrant sibling, while young Peter is awkward and sweet; Mr. Dussel (Austin Pendleton) is a hypochondriac fussbudget.
Possibly the most interesting characters (certainly as per-formed here) are Mr. and Mrs. Van Daan (Harris Yulin, Linda Lavin), an older married couple whose bickering barely conceals a devotion that never stoops to mawkishness. If the play's characters rely almost entirely on its actors for depth, this production owes its most notable successes to Yulin and, especially, Lavin. There is more panic and pain in Lavin's eyes than anywhere in the text.
Several others in the cast oc-casionally approach her level, particularly Yulin as her gruff husband and Pendleton as the neurotic dentist. But Kaplan, Yager and Sophie Hayden (as Anne's mother, Edith Frank) as often as not resort to staginess to flesh out their characters.
All of which brings us to the central element of the play and, not so happily, the production: Anne herself, portrayed by film actress Portman (in her Broadway debut) with little of the charm, budding genius or even brittle intelligence that the diary itself reveals. No small portion of the blame goes to the text, which essentially splits Anne's character into halves, her public face being the perky, headstrong teenager, the private, brooding side revealed only to her diary and, via narrated transcripts, the audience.
Portman, a likable, unaffected actress, can't manage to meld Anne's halves into a whole. It's hard to reconcile the contemporary cheekiness with the thoughtful young author scribbling in her notepad, and whether due to Portman's inexperience or Lapine's misguided direction, we never quite believe that the young girl skipping around the annex or flirting with her new beau has the inner life that produced one of the 20th century's most remarkable and enduring pieces of literature.


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Transferring Title Between Spouses in California
A California Interspousal Grant Deed is a basically a Quit Claim Deed used between spouse's
This deed contains no warranties to the title. (CA Interspousal deeds are treated the same as quit claim deeds) So When a Spouse (Grantor) signs their rights away to the other Spouse (Grantee) they are giving away all rights and claims to the property.
It is often used in Divorce and sometimes used when one spouse suffers credit problems that adversely impact the other spouse. In California a Interspousal Transfer Grant Deed must be used whenever a spouse is added or removed from the property title. Be aware that it does Not change your financial obligation on the property just because you are removed from the Title. If you are on the Mortgage the bank will still hold you responsible if payments aren't made. A Deed is most effective if is recorded but doesn't have to be in most States, but in California a person has 4 years after a Divorce to Record a Interspousal Transfer Grant Deed, after that you cannot use it to change the Title on the Deed. Property Transfer Tax's are not due on This type of Deed because no monies are changing hands.
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