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Wet conditions in Kentucky this spring and summer have created an abundance of hay in the state for the upcoming winter feeding season.
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As bales of hay roll in from the fields on the back of farmers' wagons, it's again time to start staking your claim so that your hayloft remains full over the coming winter months. Here are some tips to help you select hay for your horses.... Read More
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Morris Animal Foundation (MAF) is pleased to announce 35 new companion animal studies available for sponsorship.
MAF will fund more than 200 new, continuing, and veterinary student scholar studies in 2009-2010. These studies are availabl... Read More
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Experienced agricultural producers in the southern Great Plains know that low wind speeds, high humidity, moist hay, and hot temperatures can be a recipe for disaster. Under such a set of circumstances, tightly stacked hay bales have been... Read More
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July 23, 2009
Texas' worst drought in 50 years has burnt up pasture and raised the price of hay, leaving horse rescues to cope with an increase in abandonment and neglect cases as owners struggle to feed their horses.
"The cost of hay is going up, if you... Read More
Hay Herbicides Not a Risk to Horses, Despite Manure-Fertilized Crop Loss
July 10, 2009
Recent reported crop losses in North Carolina and several other states are linked to certain broad leaf herbicides containing aminopyralid, clopyralid, and picloram, according to researchers. In North Carolina, people with gardens and organic... Read More
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The new Vetrolin Grooming Guide provides information on techniques for keeping horses clean and healthy. Topics discussed include proper bathing and tail cleaning, cleaning tough stains, managing unruly hair, and protecting the horse's hair coat... Read More
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When ingested, small wires can wreak havoc in the equine digestive system. They might even cause different segments of the tract to fuse together, leading to painful and usually fatal consequences, according to South African and American... Read More
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Researchers have seen a resurgence in black lung disease among younger Appalachian coal miners in recent years, but new rules to protect workers have been slow in coming.
Pneumoconiosis, or black lung, is caused by exposure to coal dust. The current standard for mines is 2 milligrams of dust per cubic meter of air, but the disease continues to show up among miners working under those dust limits.
About 10,000 coal miners nationwide died of black lung between 1996 and 2005, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and more than 1,800 of those were in West Virginia.
In 2010, the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration proposed new rules that would bring the dust level down to 1 milligram of dust per cubic meter of air.
But three years later, MSHA is still working on issuing the final rules. Action expected this summer has been delayed until September, according to a report by The Charleston Gazette. There is some opposition to a change in the national standard for coal dust, but MSHA is still working on changes in safety requirements for equipment.
It is time to resolve those issues and implement standards and enforcement that will protect coal miners from this deadly disease. Losing thousands more workers to this illness would be a tragedy for coal-mining states and for the industry.
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Is Pyrenophora semeniperda the cause of downy brome (Bromus tectorum) die-offs?
Baughman, Owen W.; Meyer, Susan E. 2013. Is Pyrenophora semeniperda the cause of downy brome (Bromus tectorum) die-offs? Invasive Plant Science and Management. 6: 105-111.
Downy brome (cheatgrass) is a highly successful, exotic, winter annual invader in semi-arid western North America, forming near-monocultures across many landscapes. A frequent but poorly understood phenomenon in these heavily invaded areas is periodic 'die-off' or complete stand failure. The fungal pathogen Pyrenophora semeniperda is abundant in cheatgrass seed banks and causes high mortality. To determine whether this pathogen could be responsible for stand failure, we quantified late spring seed banks in die-off areas and adjacent cheatgrass stands at nine sites. Seed bank analysis showed that this pathogen was not a die-off causal agent at those sites. We determined that seed bank sampling and litter data could be used to estimate time since die-off. Seed bank patterns in our recent die-offs indicated that the die-off causal agent does not significantly impact seeds in the persistent seed bank.
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Here in Florida, we are in Rock Lobster season. Fishermen head to our warm waters with their spears, trying to get their share of nature's bounty. Not only is our lobster season different, but the lobsters are quite different from the better-known New England Lobsters.
At first glance, most people note the Florida lobsters do not have the large claws that are so sweet to eat. Then, after cooking, the color remains brown, rather than the bright red of their New England cousins on the plate.
Recently, I was on a beach trip with friends and we decided to do a comparison of the two. I have trouble finding both on the same day at home, but, with some planning, we found a restaurant that ordered both kinds for our side-by-side comparison.
At first, the Rock Lobsters didn't look larger, however there was far less waste than with the New England Lobsters. Out of their shells, one Florida Rock Lobster had about the same amount of meat as three New England Lobsters. I used to live in New England, so I have to point out they come in all sizes. Here in Florida, the New England Lobsters we are served are quite small. Up North, I would call them an appetizer size. My Dad would call them bait.
Now, to the taste test. You probably already know, the New England Lobster is very tender and sweet. I not only enjoyed it, but I was reminded of so many Shore dinners in my past, boiled with lots of butter. Now for the Florida Lobster: the meat is meatier. Ours were wood-grilled and had a smokey flavor that went with the texture, much like a tender steak. Without seasoning, it tasted very substantial, a special entrée. Mine was so large that I could not eat half of my portion. No worries. That's what friends are for.
Since I adore New England Lobsters, I'm shocked that of the two, I found the Florida Rock Lobster to be a better dinner entrée. Not only is the size more substantial, but the flavor and texture make a satisfying meal. I'm planning some home dinners with friends, featuring our own local products, both fresh and flavorful.


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[Editor's note: This Advent season, Bread Blog will be running a series of reflections written by lay members of New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. This post is reprinted, with permission, from the church's 2013 Advent Meditations booklet.]
By Kristin Ford
Lectionary readings:
Galatians 6: 1-10
Matthew 11: 1-6
Isaiah 7: 1-9
"…Bear one another's burdens, and in this way you will fulfil the law of Christ…. So let us not grow weary in doing what is right, for we will reap at harvest time, if we do not give up. So then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us work for the good of all, and especially those of the family of faith." (Galatians 6: 2, 9-10)
Bearing one another's burdens is, I think, a bit like the inverse of exchanging Christmas gifts. Rather than giving someone something at a time of joy, it is instead offering to take something at a time of a need—lifting the load someone carries, the pain or guilt or regret she cannot shrug off. Buying a present seems so much simpler. Once unwrapped, the exchange is complete. Bearing a burden for someone, on the other hand, is an ongoing arrangement. It's a commitment of empathy and support.
It's easy to tell ourselves that our own burdens are more than enough—or that we couldn't possibly help anyway, so why get involved? But what better time than Christmas to remember that God does not call us to a life of pursuing individual plans in disconnected ways? Christmas is a time to try to rebuild and expand communities, bringing together loved ones in celebration.
The crèche is one of my favorite reminders of community at Christmastime, with wise men from the East standing alongside shepherds and barnyard animals. These unusual suspects are brought together by the marvel of our Savior—the baby Jesus—wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger.
And not only do the wise men arrive from distant origins to witness and worship the Messiah, they do so after a long and difficulty journey. Surely they felt weary and dispirited on the way. As I look toward Christmas this year, I feel a little weary myself. Some days, there doesn't seem to be any hope for effecting change or for transforming the world. And so Paul's call to "not grow weary in doing what is right" rings true, as does his call to act upon moments of opportunity to work for the good of all.
In this Advent, let us stay alert to opportunities, knowing that God calls us to seek out ways of bringing hope to our broken world. Let us remember and celebrate the way that a baby, born in a manger, could change everything. And amidst the hustle and bustle of the season, I hope that the Nativity scene can be a constant reminder not to grow weary, but to be resolved to search for those moments to bear another's burdens and to build God's community.
Prayer: God of all seasons, help us to not grow weary, but to be perseverant in pursuing opportunities to show your love and bring about your vision for our world, carrying one another's burdens and working for the good of all. Give us the strength of spirit to start each day in this Advent season with a renewed sense of opportunity and of hope, celebrating the coming of our Lord Jesus. Amen.
Kristin Ford is a member of New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, in Washington, D.C.
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Partial Solar Eclipse On Sunday For IndianaMay 18th, 2012 at 4:47 am by Pamela Gardner under Weather
On Sunday evening a solar eclipse can be seen in Indiana at 7:54 pm. The eclipse will only be partial for us, however, since the path of the annual solar eclipse is over the western United States. The entire east coast will miss the eclipse since the sun will set before it occurs.
In East Asia, the Pacific region, and in the western U.S. they will see the "ring of fire" at the peak…the eclipse will block about 94% of the sun's light.
A solar eclipse is when the moon blocks out most of the sun but leaves a ring of light visible around its circumference.
*Never look directly at the solar eclipse. There are special filters that are made to observe these events. The safest and simplest way to view a solar eclipse is indirectly with a projection method.
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Joseph Sunn Jue was truly a motion picture pioneer. Besides producing the second-ever Cantonese talkie (Romance of the Songsters, 1933), the first Cantonese color feature (White Powder and Neon Lights, 1946), one of the first Chinese movies shown in 3-D (A Woman's Revenge, 1953), and the first Chinese movie shot in Cinemascope (New Story of Yu Tang Chun, 1954), he also created several claymation shorts for animator Ralph Wolfe's "Mud Stuff" series in 1926.
Three of these shorts are available online at the Internet Archive, as part of the Prelinger Archives. The shorts are silent, but a couple of creative and enterprising individuals have added soundtracks and posted the results on YouTube. I must say that the new scores really bring these films to life!
First up is "The Penwiper", with music by Tedd Smith and his group The Flying Monkeys.
Next is "Green Pastures", with sound effects provided by Coolympia.
Here are links to the original, uncut films, as well as a third short, "Long Live the Bull!"
Exploring the ephemeral past of Chinese entertainment from Hong Kong, the U.S.A., and around the world: vaudeville pioneers, flappers, aviatrices, burlesque dancers, hula hoopers, movie queens, sex bombs, jade girls, tomboys, pin-ups, sour beauties, girl jocks, swordswomen, and go-go girls.
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Sunday, March 29, 2009
Don't Worry, Fanny Fans!
Don't worry Fanny fans... I haven't forgotten about my exploration of Fanny's career. It's still simmering on the back burner. In the meantime, please enjoy the picture above, which comes from Southern Screen No. 14 (April, 1959), back when Fanny was still working in Shaw's Cantonese division and being billed as Wan Li-hung.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Joseph Sunn Jue: The Darryl Zanuck of Chinatown
Several months ago I wrote about American-born Hong Kong actress Lai Yee (aka Marianne Quon) and mentioned that she was married to Hong Kong movie pioneer Joseph Sunn Jue. He was a seminal figure in the development of Cantonese cinema, and I've been meaning to say a few words about him. Here's an article from the September 21, 1947 issue of the San Francisco Chronicle that gives a fascinating glimpse of Jue and his Grandview Film Company. The charming illustration at top accompanied the article.
In Other Words: Boy Meets Girl
By James Hudson
SAN FRANCISCO'S STREETS are paved with gold and lined with toothsome young ladies and gentlemen. That, in any case, is the impression shared by many Chinese addicts of the movie houses. And the man to blame for all this is a soft-spoken fellow named Joseph Sunn Jue, the Darryl Zanuck of Chinatown.
Actually Joseph Jue is the organizer and president of America's only company that produces Chinese films, and that company is right here. You can find the studio (Grandview Films) in a reconverted night club in one of the alleys that wind off Grant Avenue.
On the average, eight full-length color talkies come out of this alley each year for distribution to large settlements of Chinese throughout the world. But beyond this, Mr. Jue's works have vast and appreciative audiences in Cuba, Mexico, Panama, South America, Hawaii, the Philippines, Australia and Madagascar. In America, 25 movie houses show his films, 10 of them right here in California.
Most of the actors involved in the Jue enterprise are office workers, students and local actors. A few of the stars, however, are imports from China itself. Even within the company, almost everyone performs dual tasks, with actors and stage hands interchanging duties as circumstances demand.
THE STUDIO is as informal as the corner soda fountain, with sundry people wandering in and out during the shooting. Teenage sweethearts and conservative elderly men come in, watch for awhile, and leave without uttering a word to anyone. The young couples self-consciously try to keep their minds on the company's activities, and the little, old men maintain dead-pan expressions, registering delight with twinkling eyes.
Studio equipment and procedure are masterworks of improvisation. The group's one camera, an electrically run 16mm gadget, is mounted on a home-made platform on which the cameraman sits and pushes back and forth by one-foot-on-the-floor action. The microphone is suspended over the actors' heads by means of an efficient swinging bamboo fishpole-like arrangement. The company's prop furniture suffers much wear and tear from being moved around to obtain different settings.
The mild-mannered founder of the Grandview Film Company, Joseph Jue, was born 42 years ago in Canton. He was raised, however, in San Francisco and is an American citizen. Jue learned the motion picture business the hard way, relying upon a very limited experience and a lot of common sense.
His original interest in movie production started back in silent film days, 1922 to be exact. This was after San Franciscan Ray Duhem had shown him the ropes about making animated cartoons. Jue picked up the rudiments of photography as "free-lance" photographer in Chinatown, got an idea of directing procedures from a few books on the subject, and learned production techniques by sitting through movies day after day "to see how it was done."
Refusing to be bluffed by the depression which wiped out the three other Chinese film companies existing in the U.S., Jue organized the Grandview Company in San Francisco in 1933. In those days he functioned in every capacity but acting. Working as writer, stage hand, producer, director, cameraman and business manager, he produced the company's first professional contribution to filmdom: "Blossom Time," an original talkie.
From the very beginning, the company has catered to China's huge audience. When the Hongkong audience, like ants after the picnic, flocked to see "Blossom Time," the company established its studios there in 1933.
After producing some 120 pictures in China, Mr. Jue opened the Grandview Movie Theater, seating 400, at 756 Jackson Street. The Grandview, unlike the studio, is conspicuously marked by a flashy neon marquee which advertises in Chinese script the picture fare for the day. The theater, however, does not seek tourist trade, and, on the other hand, tourists don't seem to be attracted in great numbers to the theater.
THE COMPANY recently produced "Pear Blossoms in the Storm," a $30,000 color talkie, which took three months to make. A tourist browsing around the Jackson Street movie house the afternoon of the premier would have enjoyed one hour of the two-hour show. Only curiosity would keep him in his seat for the remaining time.
Upon entering the theater, the self-conscious visitor would soon relax as the Orientals continue to chat among themselves, apparently unaware of his existence. He will probably be disappointed to find himself in an environment, except for language, similar to any theater he'd attended before. He might grow a little concerned though, about the unusual number of at-the-restless-crying-age children present.
Though the dialogue is entirely Chinese, except for an occasional "OK," an universal expression, the visitor will be able to follow easily the first hour of the story.
At the end of the hour, the leading female character dies, and the visitor, figuring that a good spot for the story to end, is totally confused by the action which follows.
With its local "modern" background, the setting is entirely Occidental, complete to Vogue and Esquire costumes, night club scenes, and New Year's Eve celebrations. The visitor might be slightly amused to hear the casual mixing of Oriental and Western music. He could easily embarrass himself by laughing when he mistakes for comedy what happens to be a deadly serious portion of the plot. At first, he might smugly decide that production doesn't touch Hollywood techniques. However, after visiting the studio and witnessing the conditions under which the pictures are made, the visitor will concede that the films are amazingly well done.
Though the romantic dramas sell the most tickets in China, the company produces everything from comedies and detective mysteries to historical dramas. Presently, the company is shooting a picture roughly translated "Girl in the Lake."
MR. JUE HOPES to return soon to his prewar production rate of 18 films a year: "six supers and 12 quickies." The supers were budgeted between $40,000 and $60,000, and took from three to six months to make. Quickies, costing from $15,000 to $20,000, were completed in three weeks.
Practically ever member of Mr. Jue's family works actively with the company. The pretty girl smiling behind the cashier's booth is likely to be one of the daughters. The doorman and the usher might be one of the sons. When not working at the theater or doing their high school or college assignments, the brothers and sisters work in the studio.
With the company securely established after guiding it through the storms of economic depression and war, Mr. Jue feels entitled to a rest. So he presently confines himself to writing, producing, and directing when he's not performing administrative duties and taking turns at being doorman or usher at the theater.
"Blossom Time", the inaugural film of Grandview mentioned in the article, is more commonly known as Romance of the Songsters. It was the second ever Cantonese talkie and also the movie debut of Kwan Tak-hing.
If you're familiar with San Francisco's Chinatown or have ever visited there, you may be curious about the Grandview Theater. Here's a picture showing the theater in 1964 from the San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection.
And here is a photo that I took just last week. The building is currently occupied by a shop that sells Chinese New Year's paraphernalia, funerary supplies, and devotional items.
Stay tuned for more about Joseph Sunn Jue. In the meantime, check out the links below.
Further Reading
- "Chinatown Ghost Story", SF Weekly, December 11, 1996
- "A Dream Half-Fulfilled", SF Weekly, December 11, 1996
- Interview with Frank Jue (son of Joseph Sunn Jue), October 15, 2005
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Grace Chang Captivates 60 Million Americans
Grace Chang and Dinah Shore (October, 1959)
During the late 50s, Hollywood and the American public seem to have engaged in a kind of summer romance with Asia (that is, at least with "freedom-loving" Asia). I suppose it started in 1955 with a trio of postcard films that showcased in glorious color the exotic sights of Hong Kong and Tokyo: Soldier of Fortune (featuring a young Grace Chang in a walk-on role), House of Bamboo (starring Shirley Yamaguchi, aka Li Xianglan), and Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing. And since nothing complements an exotic postcard view better than a genuine exotic beauty, Hollywood was on the prowl for Asian actresses.
Then, as now, there were quite a few Hong Kong stars who were tempted by the promises of Hollywood. In 1956, Li Lihua was courted by Cecil B. De Mille and signed a contract to star in one of his films but ended up instead in Frank Borzage's China Doll. Pearl Au Kar-wai was brought to New York by Otto Preminger in 1958 to prepare for her role in his never started film, The Other Side of the Coin. Around the same time, Helen Li Mei was invited by Jantzen to represent the Far East in a swimwear fashion show. She made the papers in an unexpected way when she refused to pose in the "immodest" swimsuit that was waiting for her. Lin Dai also traveled to the States in 1958, to visit Hollywood studios and audit drama classes at Columbia University. But by 1960, the summer romance was coming to and end: The World of Suzie Wong was its last kiss.
It was against this backdrop of intercultural courtship that Grace Chang made her American television debut on The Dinah Shore Show (October 25, 1959), along with a host of "favorite entertainers of the Orient". (BTW, the show was originally telecast in color, but I've only ever seen black-and-white recordings of it.) According to an article from the November 1959 issue of International Screen, Grace "scored a sweeping victory" with her appearance on the show, which was estimated to have been seen by 60 million Americans. I'm sure she made just as great an impression then as she has today with those who have seen her films on DVD. And evidently, she was popular enough for Capitol Records to release an album of her Chinese songs in 1961.
Anyway, enough of my blabbing! Without further ado, here is the lovely Miss Grace Chang singing "The Autumn Song" on The Dinah Shore Show.
And to end the show, here is Grace Chang, Yukiji Asaoka, and Dinah Shore singing, appropriately enough, "Getting to Know You" from The King and I.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Hong Kong Hula Hoopers: Grace Chang
I think I may have spoken too soon when I declared Lam Fung the Hong Kong Hula Hoop Queen last week. Grace Chang makes a strong showing in this photo set from New Screen No. 2 (1959).
Grace's joi d'vivre is infectious, and I love her finish. Hmmm... what do you think?
Grace's joi d'vivre is infectious, and I love her finish. Hmmm... what do you think?
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Lam Fung: More Teen Fashion
Here are some more advertising cards for Patricia Lam Fung's fashion company, Yuk Fung [Jade Phoenix] Fashion. According to Dev Yang, there are advertisements for the company's catalog in quite a number of movie magazines from that time. Lam Fung modeled the outfits, and occasionally so did other stars, like Suet Nei for instance.
Chun Siu-Lei: Cantonese Opera's Burlesque Queen
Evidently, Forbidden City dancer Noel Toy wasn't the only Chinese burlesque performer to get her start at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition. I was surprised to discover recently that Chun Siu-lei, Cantonese cinema's premiere sex symbol during the early 50s, also learned a few tricks there.
According to Law Kar in his article "The American Connection in Early Hong Kong Cinema", Chun Siu-lei traveled to the United States to perform with an acrobatic troupe at the expo. (If her birth date of May 13, 1925 in the Hong Kong Film Archive's online catalog is to be believed, that would mean she was just 14 years old at the time!) During her stay, she befriended an American performer named Helena who taught her burlesque dancing, contortionist techniques, and "other tricks".
In an oral history interview, excerpted in the HKFA's Newsletter #7 (February, 1999), Chun Siu-lei elaborates on her experience in San Francisco.
In 1939, there was an inaugural ceremony of the Golden Gate Bridge and many acrobatic troupes and performers were invited to take part. The head of the Guangdong Acrobatic Troupe, Au-yeung Fat, passed through Hong Kong to select a young girl performer. He saw me in Hua Mulan where I performed tricks with a bronze rod and did a sword dance and he praised my performance. After performing in America for several months, I was curious or otherwise bored and that was what led me to see how the Westerners perform acrobatics. I met a lady coach and thus I was trained in the 'body-bending' technique. I studied for three months and I also learned other tricks.
While it isn't explicitly stated what the "other tricks" were that Chun Siu-lei learned during her journey to the West, one can make a pretty good guess based on her subsequent career in Hong Kong.
After several years of war, we were all extremely gloomy and so we didn't want to make sad and tragic films. Being young and fearless, I did this seduction scene in Lady Tan Kei and the Hill of Flesh* (1949) where I put on a sexy costume, and this caused a sensation. At the time, stage people were very conservative. Women were either playing chaste wives or magnanimous lady knights. No one would expect them to put on erotic costumes.
Chun Siu-lei in her first film, Lady Tan Kei and the Hill of Flesh.
Chun Siu-lei's first appearance on the silver screen was an adaptation of her enormously popular Cantonese opera play, Lady Tan Kei and the Hill of Flesh. Tan Kei (or Daji) was the concubine of King Zhou, the last ruler of the Shang Dynasty. Although she was a historical figure, her portrayals have ranged from sadistic femme fatale to righteous avenging daughter. What's clear is that she was a powerful symbol of female power that evoked either fear and disgust or respect and understanding. An example of the later is her portrayal by Lin Dai in Last Woman of Shang (1964). I'm not sure where Chun Siu-lei's rendition fits into this spectrum, but I imagine that she knew how to play both aspects to maximum effect.
Chun's next film after Lady Tan Kei and the Hill of Flesh was Sex to Kill the Devil (1949), which sounds like it could have been a 1990s "Category III" movie. Indeed, one review complained that the film's unnaturally developed story and irrationally arranged sequences were "tuned only towards one objective: sex and the exposure of flesh."
Her third film was The Woman General Muk Kwai-ying (1949), about the Song Dynasty heroine who defended China against the Western Xia Dynasty. Shaw Brothers fans will recognize this story from its 1972 movie adaptation, The 14 Amazons, which featured Ivy Ling Po as the lady general. Chun Siu-lei played the role of another legendary woman warrior in her fifth film, Story of Fan Lihua (1949), which was retold in 1968 with Connie Chan in the title role.
In between those two movies was Romance of Rome Palace (1949), an Occidentalist erotic tale about a beautiful queen and a playboy king. BTW, all of these movies, and several of her later ones, were directed by But Fu, about whom I know absolutely nothing. But based on his films with Chun Siu-lei, and some intriguing titles from his filmography like Charlie Chan's Battle of Wits Against the Black Bully (1948), I'd love to know more about him.
Romance of Rome Palace (1949)
Chun Siu Lei's first few films are typical of what made her famous throughout her career. She specialized in playing strong and/or sexy women in a variety of genres from bastardized Cantonese opera and Occidental costume fantasies to martial-arts movies and contemporary urban comedies. Chun was so popular (obviously with male moviegoers, but perhaps with the ladies as well) that she made 22 films in 1950 and 22 again in 1951. The selling point for many of her movies seems to have been her burlesque-inflected dance numbers. In The Sword and the Pearl (1951), Chun even performed a snake dance one of her specialties!
The Sword and the Pearl aka Ali Baba (1951)
Needless to say, I would love to see any of Chun Siu-lei's films, but if I had to choose just one, it would have to be The Battle Between the Handsome Hero and the Wild Girl (1950). The following description from the HKFA catalog makes it sound like some whacked-out mo lei tau film from the 90s.
The Handsome Master subdues the bandit Ku Lo-keung. Lo-keung's associate, Ngau Chun-hung tries to even the score by joining forces with the Wild Girl [played by Chun Siu-lei of course]. The Wild Girl uses her 'soul-luring whip' to seduce the Handsome Master and makes Suet-dip, wife of the Handsome Master, become jealous. Using gadgets invented by Dr Sze, such as a laser light box, flying boots, power pills, a transformation machine and other contraptions, the Handsome Master comes out the victor in all his encounters with the villain. Chun-hung, defeated, jumps off the cliff, while the Wild Girl is transformed into a virtuous woman.
Chun Siu-lei's film output began to slow down after 1952. Perhaps she was too much of a good thing and audiences had become satiated by her extreme "soul-luring" sexiness. Without a doubt, she was one of Hong Kong cinema's sourest beauties. Just one look at her makes my mouth pucker!
Maybe it's just her flared nostrils or the way she bares her teeth, but Chun Siu-lei reminds me of one of Hollywood's own sour beauties: the legendary Mae West. Both were strong ladies, unashamed of their sexuality, who tested the limits of censorship and challenged cultural conservatism in their respective cultures.
In 1958, Chun Siu-lei returned one last time to her famous role as the concubine Tan Kei, and thanks to the wonders of YouTube, we can sample a taste of what drove audiences again and again to see the undisputed burlesque queen of the Cantonese screen and stage.
Chun Siu-lei in The New Lady Tan Kei and the Hill of Flesh (1958)
*I have decided to adopt and adapt Law Kar's translation of 肉山藏妃己 as Lady Tan Kei and the Hill of Flesh rather than the awkward-sounding translation used in the HKFA's online catalog, Tan Kei in the Meat Hill. The 1958 version, 新肉山藏妃己, translates as The New Lady Tan Kei and the Hill of Flesh.
Law Kar, "The American Connection in Early Hong Kong Cinema", The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity (2002).
Friday, March 20, 2009
International Screen: First 50 Covers
Having posted the first 100 covers of Shaw Brothers' Southern Screen magazine, it's only fair that I post some covers of International Screen, the in-house magazine of Shaws' number one rival, Cathay/MP&GI. Here then are the first 50 covers, minus those for Nos. 4, 14, 15, 20, and 36, which I've been unable to track down. Let me again thank the following eBay sellers for any of their scans I might be using: adamantine!, cyk5391antiques, kwsx, lvlalaysiaboleh, penangantiques, and rajah_borneo.
International Screen started publication on October 1955, almost two years earlier than Southern Screen. This reflects the Cathay Organization's lead in the race to modernize the Chinese film industry along Hollywood lines (especially the vertical integration of production, distribution, and exhibition). Cathay had started out as one of the largest theater chains in Southeast Asia, then entered into distribution in order to ensure a steady supply of films for its theaters.
In the mid-50s, Cathay ventured into production (including funding the independent productions of Yan Jun and Bai Guang) and initiated an actors training program. In 1956, it formally restructured its various Hong Kong companies into Motion Picture & General Investment, and the first MP&GI film, Golden Lotus (1957) starring Lin Dai, debuted the following Chinese New Year.
That same year, Run Run Shaw arrived in Hong Kong to oversee production at the languishing Shaws and Sons company. But he had bigger plans. He bought 46 acres of land in Clearwater Bay for the future Shaw Movie Town, and in March 1958 he officially announced the establishment of Shaw Brothers (HK) Ltd. The battle between Shaws and Cathay had begun.
One tactic used by Shaws was the stealing of stars, which can be traced on the covers of both studios' magazines. The most obvious example is Lin Dai, who was the cover girl for the premiere issues of both International Screen and Southern Screen. In fact, in the same month (December, 1957) that she appeared on the cover of Southern Screen No. 1, she also graced the cover of International Screen No. 26. Throughout the late 50s, she freelanced for both studios, until she finally settled down at Shaw Brothers in 1961.
Other stars, such as Li Lihua, Diana Chang, and Peter Chen Ho, were also lured away from Cathay/MP&GI over to Shaw Brothers. The one notable exception to this migration of talent was Lucilla You Min, who left Shaws in 1959 to join MP&GI.
As far as International Screen cover queens go, Lin Dai is the winner once again, as she was in the first batch of Southern Screen covers, with a total of 8 appearances. Grace Chang places second with 7 covers. Jeanette Lin Tsui follows in third with 5. And Li Lihua, Helen Li Mei, Julie Yeh Feng, and Kitty Ting Hao all score 4 each.
A special mention goes out to one-cover wonders Mu Hong, a Taiwanese compatriot of Diana Chang who had considerably less success breaking into the Hong Kong industry, and Nellie Chin Yu, who is best remembered for her screenplays (which include Her Tender Heart, The Wild, Wild Rose, and Sun, Moon and Star) than her two-film career as an actress.
Some of my favorite covers of this batch include: No. 3, a stunning portrait of the beguiling Bai Guang; No. 12, the brimming-with-optimism cover debut of 17-year-old newcomers Ting Hao and Soo Fung; No. 29, showing a deliciously bookish-looking Yeh Feng, with her turtleneck sweater and big forehead; No. 33, a simple, but absolutely radiant, close-up of Lin Dai at her most beautiful; No. 39, the perfect distillation of Lin Tsui's tomboy glamor; and No. 50, where Li Mei rings her bell, promising a very Merry Christmas indeed!
My least favorite is No. 34, You Min's International Screen debut, which I'm compelled to single out as the worst cover. You Min possessed a simple and natural beauty, but here she looks a touch garish. Compare this with her next cover, No. 43, which shows her at her usual girlish best.
Hopefully, it won't be long before I can show you the second fifty covers of International Screen!
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Hong Kong Hula Hoopers: Lin Tsui and Lam Fung
Here's a charming photo set from Southern Screen No. 12 (February, 1959). First up on the hoop is Jeanette Lin Tsui:
Up next is Patricia Lam Fung:
And, for her skill and artistic interpretation, the winner is... drum roll, please... Patricia... Lam... Fung!
Up next is Patricia Lam Fung:
And, for her skill and artistic interpretation, the winner is... drum roll, please... Patricia... Lam... Fung!
Monday, March 16, 2009
Return of the Z-Bomb!
Margo the Z-Bomb in Singapore (1956)
You may remember my post last November about the origins of the Z-Bomb. This tasty piece of American slang was used in Hong Kong movie magazines in the late 1950s to describe sexy stars like Fanny Fan and Lau Leung-wa. Of course, it doesn't take a Ph.D. to figure out that it was made popular by the unforgettable Margo the Z-Bomb, whose explosive dancing was captured in the 1957 film Mambo Girl.
In my post I included a clip of Margo's scene that I'd put up on YouTube, and what do you know... three months later, thanks to the wonders of the World Wide Web, I was contacted by RMarie, who tells me that her mother just happened to be Margo's road manager during her 1956 tour of Asia. OMG! How cool is that?!
RMarie told me that she had lots of photos and promised to scan some and send them to me. Well, she did even even better than that by launching her very own blog to share her Margo treasures with the world. This is amazing news, because there is practically nothing about Margo in print or on the Web (just google her name and you'll see what I mean). And that, my friends, needs to be corrected, because based on the newspaper accounts that I've been able to find, Margo was a legend (with a capital L) in the San Francisco nightclub scene during the 1950s. She obviously made quite an impact in Asia as well. Check out this picture of Margo and Run Run Shaw from RMarie's blog.
Margo and Run Run Shaw in Saigon (ca. August, 1956)
I'm sure that Run Run would have loved to sign her up for one of his films, but alas Margo ended up with Shaw's main rival, Loke Wan Tho and his Cathay Organization, shaking her stuff in the film Mambo Girl. The movie was created as a vehicle for Miss Grace Chang allegedly inspired by her knack for dancing the mambo but Margo's presence added some much appreciated authentic Latin spice. Compared to Margo, Grace is just a mambo-girl-next-door. Don't get me wrong... I absolutely adore Miss Grace... and love her uncharacteristic "bad girl" turn in The Wild, Wild Rose (1960)... but take a gander at these publicity photos of Margo and Mambo Girl's leading man Peter Chen Ho and try telling me that he'd rather be dancing with good girl Grace. I think not!
Margo and Peter Chen Ho from the December, 1956 issue of International Screen (thanks Charley!)
If you're hungry for more about Margo and her conquest of Asia, here's a tantalizing account that I came across from surgeon and author Richard Selzer in the book What One Man Said to Another (1994). Selzer tells his friend about seeing Margo at a Hong Kong nightclub.
Pretty soon the performance was announced, and it was Margo the Z Bomb. Not the A Bomb, the Z Bomb. It was this Portuguese woman who was going to perform and there were great cheers from the Chinese men it was ninety percent men and out came Margo the Z Bomb, absolutely gorgeous and vulgar to her toenails. She had on this very sexy outfit, which was minimal, she danced and sang, and then she began to take off her clothes. She called a man up from the audience, and there was a general reluctance for some guy to get up and take part in it, but finally some young Chinese man got up and she wrapped her legs around him and rubbed him up and down, and everybody laughed and he was a little embarrassed, but not much, and she was carrying on she knew how to play the crowd to a fare-thee-well. If I could perform like that, believe me, I would be a rich man, because she knew exactly what this audience wanted of her and she delivered it.
OK, so now you want to see Margo in action, right? Well, here is an encore presentation of her scene from Mambo Girl, because like all good things, once is never enough. And for godsakes, will the whole bunch of you please give this video a 5-star rating to counteract the killjoy who gave it one star! Finally, don't forget to visit RMarie's wonderful Margo blog.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Southern Screen: Second 50 Covers
By popular demand, here are the second 50 covers of Southern Screen, minus the cover for No. 66, which I was unable to track down. The image size and quality varies greatly, since these were downloaded from the listings of several eBay sellers over the past several years. I don't remember what came from whom, but let me just pay a general courtesy to the following sellers (all highly recommended): adamantine!, cyk5391antiques, kwsx, lvlalaysiaboleh, penangantiques, rajah_borneo, and tazimmerman68.
This series of covers (spanning May 1962 to June 1966) shows the emergence of Shaw's new reigning movie queen, Ivy Ling Po, topping the charts with 6 covers. Following on her heels with 5 covers each are Li Lihua (who had turned 40 in 1964 and was a full decade past the age when many Hong Kong actresses married and retired) and Lin Dai (who ended her life in 1964). Clocking in at 4 covers each are former champ Loh Tih (who left Shaws for Cathay/MP&GI after 1964) and former newcomers Ting Hung and Tu Chuan.
Of the other former newcomers noticeably absent from this period, Ting Ning married and retired in 1963, while Fanny Fan seems to have fallen out of favor and left Shaw Brothers at some point (only to return a couple of years later). And since Shaw shut down its Cantonese division in 1962, Lam Fung and Au Kar-wai were no longer to be seen on the covers of Southern Screen.
The first graduates of Shaw's in-house drama academy started to make their appearance as cover girls: Li Ching (4 covers), Fang Ying (3 covers), Cheng Pei-pei (3 covers), and Chin Ping (2 covers). And let's not forget Julie Yeh Feng (3 covers), who left MP&GI and joined Shaw Brothers in 1963.
I must say that, as a group, the first 50 covers are more attractive than the second 50. The first batch had a greater variety of types of shots, including the medium and full shots which I prefer. In the second batch, the predominance of close-ups becomes quite monotonous. And the color quality is not as good. I don't know if it was a case of bad lighting or bad printing, but some of the pictures are just horrible. Check out poor Li Lihua on No. 63; she's as red as a lobster! And even on No. 55, she seems to be afflicted by sunburn (yet still manages to look stunning).
Tu Chuan gives us her classic look on No. 51, but by No. 64 her look is starting to look a little garish.
Ivy Ling Po wasn't exactly a newcomer when she first appeared on the cover of Southern Screen, No. 60, since she'd been a big star in Amoy-dialect cinema since the late 1950s, but here she looks like a girl-next-door caught in the big-time bright lights. Contrast that with her demeanor on No. 89, two years after her success in Love Eterne (1963) catapulted her to movie queendom.
Speaking of movie queens, the picture of Lin Dai on No. 71, just half a year before her suicide, seems to foretell her downfall with that detached, slightly sad, look in her eyes.
Lin Dai's last cover, No. 77, was published the month she died. And heralding the new generation of Shaw stars, the fresh-looking Cheng Pei Pei appears for the first time on the cover of the very next issue, No. 78.
Finally, to wrap things up: Worst Hairdo goes to Ling Po, No. 76; Best Smile (hands down!) goes to Julie Shih Yen, No. 58; Best Cover goes to flying swordswoman Chin Ping, No. 92; and a Special Memorial award goes to Li Ting, No. 86 (who hung herself in her room at the Shaw Brothers dormitory the very next year).
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Southern Screen: First 50 Covers
Here is a slideshow of the first 50 covers of Southern Screen, the Shaw Brothers' official studio magazine. It covers the period of Shaw's production history (1957-1962) that I'm most interested in and which sadly for me is least represented by the recent restoration and release of the Shaw Brothers film library.
For a more casual viewing, you can view a photo album of the covers. If you're like me and like to tabulate things, you'll notice that the cover representation pretty accurately reflects the hierarchy of Shaw stars at that time. Lin Dai is the number one queen with 9 covers, and Loh Tih and Li Lihua follow in second and third place with 8 and 6 covers respectively.
Of the new generation of stars, good girls Ting Ning and Ting Hung clock in with 5 and 4 covers, while bad girls Fanny Fan and Tu Chuan each score with 3 covers. Then there's Shaw's Cantonese stars Lam Fung and Au Kar-wai with 3 and 2 covers each. Chang Chung-wen graces only 2 covers, which neatly illustrate her attempt to evolve beyond a sex symbol.
Special mention goes to Peter Chen Ho for being the lone cover guy; Shaw's male stars were usually relegated to the back cover when they couldn't sell it as advertising space.
Some other things I noticed are Loh Tih's love of tiaras. She certainly was a princess.
The coolest cover has to be No. 2, which shows Li Lihua decked out in cowboy duds and superimposed against the wide open expanse of the American West.
Two other favorites of mine are No. 30 and No. 46, featuring Tu Chuan in her characteristic pose: face tilted slightly upwards and often with mouth seductively open. And of course, I musn't fail to mention her thick eyebrows and eyeliner! All of these things made me fall for Tu Chuan, but by the late 60s this look was looking not so good on her and couldn't hide the tragic trajectory of her life.
Speaking of sexy, I still find myself a little surprised by that overhead cleavage shot of Li Lihua on No. 11! Not even sex bombs Fanny Fan, Tu Chuan, and Diana Chang showed as much in their covers. Only a star of Li Lihua's stature could pull it off and look supremely elegant at the same time.
When it comes to girl-next-door glamor, I've got to give a shout-out to Au Kar-wai and her cool and colorful shirt on No. 16.
And finally, I just love the picture of Lam Fung on No. 7: her fresh look, the bright red of her sweater and lipstick, and the umbrella which forms an enchanting halo behind her head. A classic portrait!
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Gliding on the Sea with Alison Chang Yen!
Oh... Alison... although you were never admitted to the elite ranks of Shaw Brothers stardom, you will always have a special place in my pantheon of Hong Kong actresses. Let the other fans fawn over Li Ching, Cheng Pei Pei, Lily Ho, Chen Ping, and Jenny Hu. That just leaves more of you for me!
What a shame that your sexy girl-next-door look and sporty personality were squandered at Shaws. If I had been the boss, I would have featured you in a series of beach party musicals (costarring Ho Fan and Peng Peng of course), along with a generous smattering of spy thrillers and wuxia films.
Alas, the only thing I can do now is try to draw attention to your under-recognized charms... and maybe start a fan club too!
These pictures appeared in the August, 1967 issue of Hong Kong Movie News. Click here for the original spread.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
In Memory of Ruan Lingyu (1910-1935)
Seventy-four years ago today, on International Women's Day, Chinese silent film actress Ruan Lingyu took her own life in response to problems in her personal life that were exacerbated by the mean-spirited scrutiny of the tabloid press.
Seventy-four years later, the alternately pathological and moralistic obsession with the personal lives of Chinese actresses has remained remarkably unchanged. (Click here if you don't know what I'm talking about.)
Anyway, I don't want to start a rant but merely pay my respects to the memory of one of the world's great actresses: Ruan Lingyu. It was largely her story and the clips of her films in the biopic Centre Stage (1992) that spurred my interest in vintage Chinese cinema.
To celebrate her life and career, I'd like to share this contemporary (though deliberately antiqued and often sold as vintage) reprint of a pictorial magazine devoted to the radiant star. Click here for the 4MB PDF file.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
From the eBay Archive: Chinese New Year Cards
Besides the prolific and ubiquitous photos of all the latest movie stars, photography shops and studios also crafted greeting cards like these creative Chinese New Year cards (circa the mid-1950s) which are currently up for bid on eBay. Here are a few of them that I really like.
Featuring Linda Lin Dai
Featuring Helen Li Mei
Featuring Li Xianglan (aka Shirley Yamaguchi)
Featuring Linda Lin Dai
Featuring Helen Li Mei
Featuring Li Xianglan (aka Shirley Yamaguchi)
Chong Sit Fong:
Queen of Amoy Films
Zhuang Xue Fang in the April, 1959 issue of Southern Screen
I'm sure my buddy Ral never imagined I would end up in the obscure wilderness of late 1950s Amoy-dialect cinema when he introduced me to Hong Kong movies via Jet Li, Chow Yun Fat, and his legendary "girls with guns" clip videos more than ten years ago. But sometimes life takes us down unexpected paths, and so it is that I find myself very excited about Dev Yang's new post about Amoy movie queen Chong Sit Fong.
If you are like me, you probably thought that Chinese cinema was neatly divided into Cantonese and Mandarin, just like a VCD with the left audio channel devoted to one dialect and the right channel to the other. But for a brief period back in the late 1950s, films made in the Amoy dialect (which was the predominant dialect spoken by Chinese living in Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines) actually outnumbered Mandarin films being made in Hong Kong at the time.
Although the boom was short lived and the movies were often cheaply produced copies of popular Cantonese and Mandarin films, the Amoy industry did produce its own share of beloved and memorable screen stars. To give you a taste of the world of Amoy-dialect cinema and its movie queen Chong Sit Fong, here is an article from Southern Screen No. 14 (April, 1959) about her film Beauty and the Beasts (1959), plus a rare clip from Shrews from Afar (1958). Chong's costar in that film was another popular Amoy actress named Xiao Juan — who would go onto even greater fame later in the 60s after she signed on with Shaw Brothers and became known as Ivy Ling Po.
Chong Sit Fong and Xiao Juan (aka Ivy Ling Po) in Shrews from Afar (1958)
Further Reading
- "The Rise and Decline of Amoy Films" by Wong Ching Ho
- "From Transnationalism to Nativism: The Rise, Decline and Reinvention of a Regional Hokkien Entertainment Industry" by Jeremy E. Taylor
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Everything You Wanted to Know about Blue Warblers and Hong Kong Mermaids
Allow me to give a big thanks to Dev Yang for answering a question that's been burning in the back of my mind ever since I bought this cool flyer about eight months ago. I've been dying to know more about the star of Hongkong Mermaids (1950), but the only information about her in English I could find was that this was her first film (which, as it turns out, is not quite true). So, when Dev posted about Lan Ying-ying earlier this week, I was practically jumping for joy.
Dev writes primarily for his Chinese-language blog, so it's always a treat when he posts to his English-language blog. If you're at all interested in or curious about the rich history of Chinese film, do yourself a favor and check out The Golden Age of Chinese Language Cinema.
Miss Grace Chang in Jamaica, Mon!
I was very surprised today to stumble across this ad from the November 25, 1961 issue of The Gleaner, a newspaper from Kingston, Jamaica. I didn't even know there were Chinese in Jamaica, yet alone theaters showing Chinese movies!
It just so happens that The Girl With a Thousand Faces (1959) is showing as part of the Evan Yang retrospective at the Hong Kong Film Archive, in conjunction with the Hong Kong International Film Festival. Sadly, I won't be going this year. So, to console myself, and all the other Grace Chang fans who can't make it, here is an encore presentation of a clip from The Girl With a Thousand Faces that I posted last August.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
HKMDB Daily News Makes You Big and Strong
Finally! Dennis Lee's Daily News over at the Hong Kong Movie Database forums has now morphed into a blog and is available as an RSS feed. As he says in his About page, "Like a dim sum cart, the contents herein are sometimes sweet, sometimes savory and sometimes chicken feet." So, what are you waiting for, get on over to HKMDB Daily News and yum cha!
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Oh, did you guys ever notice that Academy Award-nominated actress Jennifer Lawrence is clinically obese? Oh no, because only a total moron would think that? Clearly you are not a film executive! "I eat like a caveman, I'll be the only actress who doesn't have anorexia rumors," the Hunger Games star says in her new Elle interview. "In Hollywood, I'm obese. I'm considered a fat actress, I'm Val Kilmer in that one picture on the beach." While some people might take umbrage with a thin, smoking hot 22-year-old claiming to be obese by anyone's definition of the word, we think it's great. It's not only great, in fact. It's necessary.
You might recall back in April, when some critics were ragging on Jen's size as unbelievably large and well-fed for a Panem resident. Lawrence allegedly scoffed it off, but apparently this has become a running theme in her rise to stardom. Personally, we're glad Jennifer Lawrence has been consistently real with us with regards to how Hollywood perceives her…because it reminds us how totally divorced from reality Hollywood standards can be. If conventionally thin and attractive Jennifer Lawrence is obese, then clearly it's the system that's screwed up, not any one individual's weight. If Jennifer Lawrence is "obese," then the center cannot hold, people!


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Where to Drink Beer Outside in Brooklyn
Summertime means you get to have your beer with a shot of vitamin D. There's no shortage of outdoor spots to drink in New York, especially in Brooklyn, but we wanted to nail down the top porches, patios, and yards for craft beer in each borough. Here are 7 solid bets for drinking good craft beer outside in Brooklyn. More


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suggestions for good/inexpensive (veg??) Indian lunch buffets??
I love trying out lunch-time Indian buffet. If I'm driving around town and I see a place I've not eaten at yet; I'll make a point of trying their lunch buffet, if they have one. As a strict vegetarian, I tend to prefer the choices I get at a veg restaurant. But I've also been to meat-based restaurants who's buffet also had tons of veg dishes that were great.
So, what places have you been to that you'd recommend? I live in the Westside, so places in/around there are best. But I'd also live to know about BH, Valley, etc. It would be most helpful if you'd include the places' names, approx price of lunch buffet, location, and also why you especially like this place. I'll give my own example.
Chandni, in Santa Monica. About $8. All veg. Each day, 4 dishes (changes from day-to-day), plus rice, nan, rice pudding, raita included.
Why? They make some of the best nan I've had in LA. Inexpensive, and food is almost always very tasty, including the best muttar paneer I've had--period!. Very friendly staff.
I'd suggest Woodlands at 9840 Topanga Canyon Blvd., Unit A, Canoga Park. We had the buffet--it was not expensive but I don't remember the price now. It was excellent. Vegetarian. Sister to the place of the same name on Artesia Blvd. Pleasant, clean room and courteous service. When we went, they were a bit lax about labeling the dishes, but we knew many of them, and the ones we didn't know all turned out to be something we wanted to know.
i enjoy the lunch buffet at Jaipur on pico in west LA.
although not all dishes are vegetarian, there should be enough vegetarian food to satisfy you.
i particularly like that they serve a variety of salads and i like their carrot pickle a lot.
caveat: my tastes are surely different from yours in that i didn't care for chadni at all--their food seemed watery to me--so jaipur may not be to your liking. . . .
weekday lunch around $10 before tip as i recall.
for weekend lunch, i like the india restaurant in artesia. can't remember the price.


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British American Tobacco's new tobacco-free nicotine: Nicoventures
Richard Meryn | Apr 05, 2011 | Comments 6
British American Tobacco (BAT), estimated to be the world's second largest tobacco group by global market share, has confirmed reports of having established Nicoventures Limited, a start-up company that aims to commercialize sans-tobacco nicotine products which could help wean smokers off its cigarettes.
A bold move you think ? Sure – in terms of creating a product (tobacco-free smokes) that directly competes with the primary product of the group. But also a very market-responsive move, given that reactions to the dangers of tobacco and smoking tobacco-based cigarettes are becoming more wide-spread globally (as is also evident in declining tobacco sales).
Nicoventures Ltd
The establishment of Nicoventures by BAT is a natural extension of the company's approach to tobacco harm reduction that has been developed by BAT over recent years.
Nicoventures will be managed separately from the Group's tobacco businesses.
With the aim of providing adult smokers with a variety of non-tobacco based options which would offer the same experience as a cigarette without the real and serious health risks of smoking, Nicoventures is looking at entering a market that to date has not been explored.
While Nicoventures refused to reveal how exactly the tobacco-free nicotine products would work, the company's chief executive Adrian Marshall did say in a statement that the first set of products by Nicoventure are being developed externally and would be different to cigarette substitutes that currently exist in the market, such as electronic cigarettes, nicotine patches and gums.
According to market analysts, BAT, through Nicoventures, is hoping to build a substantial consumer business with earnings that would likely compensate for the company's declining tobacco sales.
Good for Public Health?
While British American Tobacco has considerably impressed some public health experts, it is likely to have a hard time winning over staunch anti-tobacco campaigners like 'Action on Smoking and Health'.
Deborah Arnott, CEO of Action on Smoking and Health expressed her skepticism towards BAT's newest announcement by saying that, "This is the latest in a long line of attempts by BAT to give itself an ethical makeover and de-toxify its brand".
"It will only succeed in doing so when it stops making and marketing smoked products which are highly addictive and kill half all their long-term users." She added in her statement.
Different to other non-tobacco products
According to Adrian Marshall, Nicoventures CEO "Nothing on the market meets the sensorial, emotional and physiological needs of smokers ... In the UK there are about 10m smokers – and only 150,000 of them buy nicotine products, so something is not working."
A primary reason for this, according to David O'Reilly head of R&D at BAT, could be that these products do not deliver nicotine fast enough or in high enough doses.
Do we sense a leader there? Is the USP of Nicoventures products going to be "More Nicotine, Faster"? Lets wait and see…
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I believe you can get your nicotine with an e-cig from diff sources.
Many of us do not like e-cigs. I personally have an allergic adversity to the propylene glycol in e-cigs. Many of my friends have also tried the e-cig and were not sold on it. What works for some, does not work for everyone. There should be many reduced risk products on the market to suit the different needs and preferences of the the 1.5 billion smokers that exist worldwide. The more choices, the better for all of us.
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Pirogusu are enemies from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.
A Link to the Past
Pirogusu are fish-like creatures that only found in the Swamp Palace in the Dark World. They are only found in the parts of the palace with shallow water. Link can use his Master Sword to defeat these creatures in one swipe. However, they usually come out from sewers in the walls and an unlimited amount of them will keep coming out as they are defeated or if they swim off screen. Thus, they are better just avoided as opposed to trying to keep defeating them.
The water they travel in can kind of camouflage them, so Link always have to keep an eye out for them while he travel through the Swamp Palace. If a Pirogusu does happen to come into contact with Link, two full hearts of damage will be done.


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