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I think this forum is a place for me to give a little of my dietary background, so here goes!
I ate a typical sad diet for all childhood/teenage years. I have never been overweight and was basically able to eat whatever I wanted. Although I never ate healthy, I would go all day without eating. I am not sure if this was the start of my eating disorder, but I would frequently not eat all day at school and then semi binge when I got home. I was obsessed with body image and being fat even though I never was.
I met a new friend when I was 18 who happened to be health conscious. He was much much older than I was and he tried to be a good influence on me I guess. He ate a partial raw high fat diet, I am pretty sure he is orthorexic. I never really followed his diet, but introduced different foods into my diet. I went through a period when I ate tuna and broccoli w/some mayo and fruit. I wasn't perfect with my diet, but I reduced my calories dramatically. I lost probably about 5 pounds in a month or so. ( i was 110 at 5'2 and went down to 105). I started dating someone at that time who became my boyfriend for about 8 months. He took me out to eat all of the time, and I ate and ate and loved it. Lots of burgers and ribs and fatty meals, I have never been a sweets kind of a person. I gained that 5 lbs back and always was at 110-115 while dating him. I was content and felt great.
As soon as I broke it off with him I went to stay with my older male friend. I had chronic nausea all of the time (anxiety related that I've had since I was 8.) I lost 6-7 pounds from that and of course "dieting" again. I would eat only fruit for meals, and I would skip nutritious meals to have ice cream. I pretty much became addicted to sugar at this point. I would down a half a gallon of ice cream for dinner. One day I was eating sweetened yogurt and I could not stop. (this was about 1 months into the unbalanced unhealthy eating habits). I was hungry all of the time and could not stop eating. I was never satisfied. Unfortunately I ate lots of fat free sweetened frozen yogurt. I could not go to bed without eating at least a cup (this is after eating HUGE portions at dinner.) I got up to 115 pounds in about 3 months. I also started exercising more so it was some muscle mass gain as well as fat. I still looked good, but I felt HUGE. I started cutting back on my food, but that only lasted like 2 weeks. I moved out of my older friend's place into a good friends place who is not healthy at all. I went back to my burgers and fries in no time, but stayed at about 115 with maybe a little less muscle and more fat since I cut back on exercise.
I was content with this for about 6 months and then went on an mostly all fruit diet. I lost 5 pounds pretty quickly but was feeling starved. I got pregnant a month after this and ate whatever I wanted throughout the pregnancy (SAD diet). I gained 30 pounds during my pregnancy, 20 of which came off naturally within the first month PP. A month after giving birth I had only 10 pounds to lose, so I joined a gym for the first time. Long story short this is when the anorexia went into full effect.
I got down to 110 about 3 months after delivery, and looked pretty healthy. I did not really watch my diet too much. I still ate greasy fatty things. It was the exercise that helped. My family and I caught a stomach bug in april. I did not eat meat/protein for those days and lost 4 pounds in a week. ( I am sure some of it was water weight) But nonetheless, I liked what I saw. I decided to become vegan. I did and continued to lose and lose and lose until I refused to eat anything but celery and a serving of frozen yogurt a day. I was hospitalized in August at 82 pounds. I relapsed when I got out and my lowest was 79 pounds. I started seeing a therapist and started eating more and more. I eventually quit the vegan as I realized it was the worst thing for my health. In November I started adding saturated fats into my diet. I was eating 300 carbs a day, but am down to 150-200. I am at a healthy 105 pounds and pretty lean (for a woman). I still feel fat but I am working on that. I am still on the low end of the bmi chart and want to gain 5-10 lbs to avoid relapse. Studies have shown brain chemistry changes in ED patients when they underweight. So I wanna leave a little wiggle room in case i "diet" again. (and I want my curves a little bigger as well!)
I have the urge to eat ALL OF THE TIME still. I keep changing my macros from week to week, but really truly want to give primal a real shot. I intuitively know it will help me feel better and be more satiated than all of the low fat sugar laden foods I have been eating.
I really don't know if anyone will read this but I figured I would write it all down!
THank you for this link. I have seen your blog before, congrats on making it this far! We can beat this thing.
Food Diary February 24th 2012
Late Breakfast-
2 large eggs; 1 turkey burger patty (not lean); tsp of coconut oil for cooking; 3-4 tbsp of homemade guacamole made with evoo. ketchup. ( I can't let this go yet. It is not made with hfcs though.)
1/2 cup of oatmeal ( not letting this go yet, it is only 26 carbs so it is within my limit); 1 scoop of vanilla whey; 1 tbsp of kerrygold butter mixed in. also had 1 tbsp of peanut butter.
Going to a brazilian bbq place- perfect for primal living!
I will probably get a chicken breast wrapped in bacon;a healthy serving of coconut shrimp; large portion of collard greens made with evoo; and unsure of what else. yum! No bingeing yet today, but that usually happens at night. I had a fruit binge yesterday sort of. So today is better.
I feel for you lvgrl90! I followed a SAD diet throughout high school and was never huge but definitely heavier. I picked up Atkins in college and then put a more anorexic approach to it. Dropped to 110 at 5'10''. That turned to binge eating after college and I ballooned up to 200 lbs. Eating primal has helped me get my brain in order. I know that when I eat healthy the binges stop. Cutting grains was the last step in this and I guarantee that will help! I would recommend cutting the oats even if you do love them. Coconut oil has also helped me. You could say I have orthorexia now. I am very obsessed with food quality and types of food I put in my body. I hate it but at the same time I know that if I don't want to binge I need to eat foods that don't trigger a binge. Maintaining my weight is difficult but I can't stress enough on how the quality of the food help in keeping the weight off without starving myself.
Writing down feelings help in understanding how you feel when it comes to food. I still have food and exercise as the number one issue in my life that determines my overall happiness for the day. The control issue with food is more of distraction than anything. I'm still trying to figure out where this manifistation came from and what daily events trigger it into overboard mode. I always just want to "be skinny" even though I have a body that anyone would die for. I hide my problems in food and self body image. It isn't about the food as much as it is the emotional background that caused it to develop in the first place. Good luck and keep writing!
Sunnykist- Thank you for your input but I do not think a 1/2 a cup of oatmeal a few times a week will make a big difference. I do not want to be orthorexic and would like to eat non-primal foods from time to time. It sounds like you still have an unhealthy relationship with food. I do agree that sugar leads to binges, but only when you are not getting enough of something else. I was perfectly fine having ice cream after dinner before my eating disorder. That was because I was eating lots of saturated fat. I do not hide my problems in my food, that just doesn't make sense. Oh and everyone emotionally eats I believe, otherwise we would not be human. I am in therapy now and am less "scared of eating certain things. But I do want to eat what is most nutritionally dense so that I am happy.
2/26/2012 Eats
Breakfast- 1 scoop of whey and one green apple.
Lunch- 2 eggs, 2 slices of uncured bacon (first time cooking bacon in almost 2 years!) small sweet potato.
Snacks- 2 coffees with half and half/splenda, 1 green apple.
Dinner- Large salad with chicken breast, mashed avocado, marinated peppers, pickled onions, beets, and balsamic vinagrette.
How'd you like your bacon?
Props to you for fighting this and working for recovery. I had some anxiety about food last fall that left me worrying way too much about macros and everything. I did a Whole30 and feel a lot better about "food as fuel" now. Eating disorders are always pretty close in my thoughts when I'm reading about how people eat and worrying about myself, since my sister was hospitalized a few years ago for anorexia and is vegan now =(
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The reactionary US-Aquino regime implemented Oplan Bayanihan, its new campaign plan for counterrevolutionary war, at the start of 2011. Its objective is to defend the semicolonial and semifeudal system, maintain the rule of US imperialism and its local puppets the big comprador bourgeoisie and big landlords. It also aims to crush or secure the surrender of the armed revolution and other forces waging resistance to their antinational, antimasses and anti-democratic rule.
There is no fundamental or qualitative difference between Oplan Bayanihan and Oplan Bantay Laya (OBL) I and II and earlier campaign plans of the AFP. Even if it purports to represent a radical shift from the previous fascist and militarist Oplan, it is in essence an extension of OBL I and II. The old oplan has merely been given new garb and being peddled as a grandiose program for peace, development and human rights. The Oplan and even its pretensions are all derived from the 2009 Counterinsurgency Guide.
Oplan Bayanihan drums up a "people-centered strategy" and counterinsurgency operations within the frame of human security operations. It will allegedly strengthen and expand the role of "non-combat" military operations composed of civil-military operations (CMO) and developmental activities as so-called proof of its sincere objective to attain peace, reduce combat operations and comply with the Aquino regime's four pillars of government—good governance, delivery of basic services, economic reconstruction and sustainable development and security sector reforms.
I. Focus on Triad Operations
But the AFP was caught in the web of its own lies when it declared that Oplan Bayanihan is focused on Triad Operations to defeat threats to the security of the puppet state. Triad operations involve the synchronized conduct of combat, intelligence and civil-military operations. Under Oplan Bayanihan, these are called "peace and security operations."
Non-combat military operations mainly serve to strengthen the intelligence network and enhance combat operations. The latter are used to intensify efforts to deceive the people, malign the revolutionary movement, expand the mobilization of civilian agencies and organizations for counterrevolutionary war and deodorize the AFP's image. These are aimed at molding the arena of battle into a form that will be most favorable to the most lethal utilization of the AFP's armed strength.
Oplan Bayanihan projects itself as pro-peace, and even pro-peace with justice. But there is no serious or studied peace agenda behind such posturing. Peace talks with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) have a low priority under the Aquino regime and there is as yet no indication that the regime desires or is ready to go beyond the frame of scoring propaganda and psywar points and demanding the NDFP's surrender. The bureaucrats who play a truly decisive role in the peace talks are rabid anti-communists and are arrogantly dismissive of the revolutionary movement. Pacification is the real objective behind Malacanang and the AFP's peace concept and program.
Oplan Bayanihan's ambition is to create a surging anti-communist military, political and propaganda offensive that will engulf the NPA and the entire revolutionary movement. Psyops on peace and public relations posturings on the peace talks and social reforms fall under this. Oplan Bayanihan's discourse is replete with the words "peace" and "development" and the jargon of civil society as well as that of international NGOs, multilateral agencies and especially the US Counterinsurgency Guide so it could appear fresh and far-reaching. It arrogates the language of bourgeois and petty bourgeois reformism in order to deny and cover up the actual fundamental problems of imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism and the historical correctness and need for people's democratic revolution. What lies at the core of Oplan Bayanihan and the puppet regime's posturings are the defense and perpetuation of the rotten semicolonial and semifeudal system.
II. Intensifying Red Area and White Area Clearing Operations
Oplan Bayanihan's real focus is to intensify and relentlessly conduct Red Area and White Area Clearing Operations. The AFP has been granted another extension to crush the NPA and the entire revolutionary movement, up to the third year of the six-year Oplan. The second three-year period will ostensibly be devoted to transferring the main responsibility for internal peace and security operations to the PNP and restoring to the AFP the role of defending the national territory.
In the countryside, Triad operations will continue to scour and wreak havoc in NPA guerrilla zones and bases to pursue and crush the people's army, deny it of its mass base and support and deprive it of its capacity and will to fight. As before, SOT operations, now called Peace and Development Team operations will concentrate on destroying the mass base through white terror (abductions, torture, killings, forcing people to become informers, conduct surveillance and join counterrevolutionary organizations), psyops and divisive and deceptive tactics. Surveillance operations will focus on identifying and zeroing in on guerrilla units, Party cadres and members, people's militia and leaders and activists of mass organizations in order to attack them through combat operations or abduct, kill, imprison or force them to turn traitor. Combat operations are focused on "relentless pursuit and repression" in order to crush and cripple fulltime guerrilla units.
It also continues to implement the concepts and methods of gradual constriction (win-hold-win), one-on-one (one to two battalions per guerrilla front, with the operational command at the brigade level), and clear-hold-consolidate-develop. It makes sure that all operations and activities within the Triad are closely combined, are clearly focused and directed, and synchonized. Its model is the Red Area Clearing Operations of Cougar 69IB, based on OBL's experience in Central Luzon. This focuses on shaping the arena of battle depending on three area categories: guerrilla base or constriction area (where the keyhole approach or deep combat operations are used); areas of intense AFP intelligence operations (wherein the Venus Flytrap approach is used—guerrilla units are pursued and driven towards these areas where a network of informers can pinpoint their location and they can be attacked through a planned strike operation); and expansion areas where AFP intelligence operations are weak (here, combat, intelligence, CMO and CAFGU operations are used in order to prevent NPA expansion). Also part of the operational concept of Cougar is Bayanihan which aims to obtain the support and participaion of the local government, civilian agencies and NGOs in the "counterinsurgency" campaign.
The AFP's so-called peace advocacy is all for show. It pretends to respect and advocate human rights even as it relies on white terror and a fascist iron fist to destroy revolutionary and progressive organizations and clear territories and sectors of revolutionary and progressive influence. They resort to all manner of maligning, demonizing and criminalizing the revolutionary and progressive movements, as well as all independent organizing and collective action and acts of resistance by ordinary folk to portray them as legitimate targets of state fascist violence. There has been no letup in the policy of assassinating leaders and activists not only from the underground movement but from legal progressive organizations—the only change being finetuning the excuses, denials and coverups. The AFP is developing expertise in utilizing legal loopholes in order to justify or make their fascist crimes appear legal. They plant and manipulate evidence and provide false testimonies, file one criminal case after another and utilize other methods borrowed from the arsenal of corrupt courts and lawyers, as well as resort to torture, threats and coercion. The AFP's arrogance is grounded on the belief that it could plant the banner of human rights and claim to be its champion while it intensifies militarization and fascist violence in the countryside and cities.
A unique characteristic of Oplan Bayanihan is its particular focus on the role of civil-military operations (CMO). It will further strengthen counterrevolutionary propaganda and psyops, dismantle revolutionary and progressve mass organizations, conduct a legal offensive and deodorize the AFP's image. Oplan Bayanihan stresses the role of CMO and intelligence in preparing for a military offensive. CMO will also continue to play a major role at the hold-consolidate-develop stage in the form of establishing counter-organizations (CVO [Civilian Volunteer Organization, BDS [Barangay Defense System], SDS [Sector Defense System]), forming a widespread intelligence (BIN [Barrio Intelligence Network], TIN [Technicl Intelligence Netwrk], SIN (School Intelligence Network], FIN [Factory Intelligence Network] and the like) and barangay defense system (ITDS [Integrated Territorial Defense System]), conducting mass meetings and anti-communist rallies, anti-communist propaganda and legal offensives, and initiating livelihood projects and the like. They are increasingly resorting to radio broadcasts, audio-visual presentations and movies for anti-communist and counterrevolutionary propaganda.
Another main objective of CMO is to involve civilian agencies, civic organizations and NGOs in "counterinsurgency." It is Oplan Baya-nihan's ambition to isolate the NPA and revolutionary organizations in order to render them vulnerable to all types of pressure and intimidation that would lead to their surrender. Oplan Bayanihan calls for the widespread mobilization of the police, reservists, ROTC, government officials and employees, church people, the mass media and other sectors of society for various "counterinsurgency" plans and campaigns.
In the cities, White Area Clearing Operations will be conducted mainly by CMO Battalions that are formed in every Division. SOT-WA and CMO units focus on clearing sectors considered as influenced by revolutionary and progressive organizations. These sectors are categorized as NPA supporters or fronts and are thus targets of military operations under Oplan Bayanihan. The objective of CMO in the cities is to identify, expose, isolate and suppress revolutionary and progressive parties and organizations, repress revolutionary and progressive propaganda as well as struggles and mass actions and organize sectors into various counterrevolutionary organizations and activities. Among these are Sector Defense System, anti-communist organizations and parties and intelligence networks. SOT and CMO in urban areas have parallel operational stages which are synchonized with Red Area Clearing Operations in particular provinces and regions. They also utilize the one-on-one concept and focus on clearing one sector after another (for example, using one CMO company per target sector at a given time).
The AFP's legal offensive, or its practice of filing trumped-up criminal cases targets revolutionary cadres as well as leaders and activists of the legal democratic movement. It is widely used in the countryside and cities, although it has particular usefulness in the cities in providing a legal veneer to the fascist suppression of legal democratic organizations. The legal offensive also aims to protect AFP officers and troops who have been exposed or accused of involvement in criminal and illegal acts in the performance of their missions.
III. Oplan Bayanihan will surely fail
Oplan Bayanihan's counterrevolutionary ambition will surely fail. There is no stopping the blows of the grave crisis of the international capitalist system in the country and the entire world. Various regions of the globe are in the throes of widespread and intensifying political turmoil and mass uprisings due to the Great Recession. No amount of magician's tricks can cover up the worsening socio-economic and political crisis resulting from the rapidly rotting semicolonial and semifeudal system in the country. The AFP itself lies smack in the middle of a multibillion peso corruption scandal and continues to be isolated from the people due to its continuing fascist crimes that it is relentlessly trying to cover up. The revolutionary forces have the correct line of people's democratic revolution through protracted people's war. It abides by the line of widespread and intense guerrilla warfare that enjoys ever expanding and ever deepening mass support. The Party and people's army enjoy the wide support of the masses in the countryside and cities and are steeled in life-and-death struggle.
Nonetheless, it will not be easy to defeat Oplan Bayanihan. The Party, people's army and revolutionary movement will need to exert their utmost effort and fight firmly. We must further expand and intensify guerrilla warfare and advance people's war to a new and higher level. More effort must be exerted to overcome shortcomings and weaknesses, resolve problems, overcome obstacles and further improve on the fulfillment of tasks in waging widespread and intense guerrilla warfare. We must give particular attention to propaganda and education work, the mass movement and alliance work in order to resist the AFP and the puppet state's particular intensification of deception and psyops.
IV. Major tasks in resisting and defeating Oplan Bayanihan

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- Chairman Mark Webb opened the meeting. Thirty-eight members and guests were
- Minutes from the fall meeting at SEAFWA in Oklahoma City were approved.
- Webb circulated a roster for updating names, mailing addresses, telephone and fax
numbers and e-mail addresses. Revisions will be distributed to members.
- Treasury Report (Webb) as of 2-24-98
- Investments were earning 11.3% annually (approximately $5,500 in 1997).
@ Income from sale of reservoir symposium book sales was $5,301.50.
- Expenses included $1,000 donation to AFS 2000, $3,000 to SD Student
Affairs Committee for '97 and '98, and $245.97 for coffee breaks.
- End-of-year balance was $55,147.37 of which $7,159.45 was in money
market account, remainder invested in mutual funds.
- Only one RC member requested travel assistance to attend this meeting. Members were advised to tell those not in attendance that this was an approved
use of RC funds (first-come-first-served basis).
- Investments were earning 11.3% annually (approximately $5,500 in 1997).
- Reservoir Habitat Enhancement Manual
- Mike Allen made a presentation on a proposed project to evaluate effectiveness
of habitat enhancement procedures in increasing fish production.
- Begin with compilation of gray literature.
- Workshops to:
- Develop habitat assessment methodology,
- Introduce new approaches,
- Involve all agencies responsible for habitat enhancement.
- Field Project:
- Feasibility?
- Five years in five states,
- One year pre-treatment, four years post,
- Treatment/control groups,
- Test differences in fish production.
- Mike Allen made a presentation on a proposed project to evaluate effectiveness
- A lengthy discussion followed with Mike Alexander suggesting that the RC still
needs to produce an easily updated manual containing how-to and case-history
information on introductions of aquatic vegetation. Mike Maceina suggested
that a research project was needed to answer the production vs. attraction
question, looking at the responses of fish communities to habitat enhancement efforts using artificial structures (either abiotic materials or brush piles). Randy Jackson suggested the RC could/should do both.
- Alexander will begin by assembling information from any and all sources on attempts to establish aquatic vegetation for reservoir fisheries benefits (including water quality, erosion control/bank stabilization, nursery habitat, etc.)
- RC members should forward information on any projects or research done in their states (by state, Federal agencies, universities or private groups).
- Forward contact names, telephone numbers and project descriptions.
- Include costs, man-power requirements and specific techniques for choosing and establishing aquatic plants, including emergents and submergents.
- Also provide similar how-to information and case history results on the construction' and use of artificial habitat structures.
- Members are encouraged to look outside the southeastern states.
- Dick Christie and Wade Bales will assist. This sub-committee may assemble a questionnaire to help in solicitation of information.
- RC members with information on changes in fish populations resulting from habitat enhancements should forward it to Allen. He will prepare a more detailed research proposal for the summer meeting.
- RC Newsletter/Internet Homepage (Frank Massie & Fred Jansen):
- Members should continue to send information on current reservoir projects, proposals, or burning issues to Massie – E-mail (email@example.com) or on diskette in MS Word or WordPerfect format.
- Subcommittee (Massie, Jansen, Mark Oliver, Gene Wilde) will work to get RC home page, including the newsletter and meeting minutes, onto the new SD- AFS website (www.sdafs.org).
- Massie will provide notice with next mailing, informing subscribers that newsletter will be available via the internet in the future, giving them the option to receive a hard copy if they do not have internet access. The current mailing list should be provided to RC members for updating.
- An announcement will be sent to Fisheries to inform other AFS members about the RC homepage and newsletter and how to access it. Back issues of the RC newsletter should be available on the home page if server space is available.
- Janssen will develop and provide RC members new protocol for submitting
information to Massie for the homepage and newsletter.
- Oliver will check with AFS to see if RC homepage can "reprint" all or portions of RC-sponsored AFS publications.
- Jeff Boxrucker will provide Oliver with the text of the shad sampling manual for conversion to HTML format and inclusion on the RC homepage.
- Robert M. Jenkins Memorial Reservoir Research Scholarship (Gene Gilliland):
- Application procedures were developed using existing scholarship programs as
models. Five students submitted applications by the deadline, two were selected, with winners announced at the opening session of the 1998 Mid-year meeting. Awards of $1,000 were presented to Ronald J. Small, Jr. of Virginia Tech and James A. Long of Oklahoma State University.
- Meeting Schedule:
- The summer meeting was tentatively set for July 22nd and 23rd in Nashville.
- Fred Heitman and Tom Swor will handle local arrangements.
- Webb will look into a -half-dav continuing education workshop on internet use and HTML, that includes hands-on computer time.
- When date and program are set, Webb will contact SO newsletter editor so an announcement can be printed in the summer edition.
- Other Business:
- Mike Colvin announced the there is a movement to have a 25th Anniversary Black Bass Symposium at the AFS annual meeting in St. Louis in 2000. A published, 2-day session is being discussed. The RC may wish to get more involved in the planning. Contact is Dave Phillip (Illinois Nat. Hist Survey)
- The RC will need to provide a poster or display for the SO Mid-year meeting in
2002 (50th Anniversary of Division) showing the history of the committee.
Members are asked to begin looking for appropriate photographs for this display.
The RC may be asked to co-sponsor publication ($) of an Anniversary booklet
for this meeting.
- The annual round-table discussion followed with 22 members presentinq.'
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Hybrid Alternatives to the Prius
The Ford Fusion and Nissan Altima hybrids bring fuel economy to the family sedan. But how do they compare?
When people talk about hybrid cars, the discussion almost always turns to the Toyota Prius. Its unique styling and decade-long run in the U.S. have made it instantly recognizable to most drivers -- and the top-selling hybrid passenger car on the market.
But there are other hybrids out there. Some get your attention with unusual aerodynamic shapes, while some proclaim their gasoline-electric power combination with bold "hybrid" lettering on their flanks. Others look the same as their conventional gasoline-only counterparts. Their hybrid badges are barely noticeable.
I recently tried out two of these stealth hybrids, the Ford F -1.07 % Fusion and Nissan Altima, to see how they compare with each other and with other models, including the benchmark Prius.
Visually, the Fusion and Altima blend with the crowd of midsize family sedans. Because they don't flaunt their environmental rank, they could appeal to people who want fuel-saving hybrid technology without the in-your-face or holier-than-thou attitude some drivers attribute to the Prius.
The Fusion and Altima use power systems similar to the Prius's and share certain parts with the Toyota, but they drive differently.
The Fusion hybrid is new for the 2010 model year, though it has been available at dealerships for months. It helped boost overall Fusion sales 15% so far this year, while other midsize sedans -- and the majority of vehicles across the industry -- have posted double-digit declines.
On the road, the Fusion typically starts off under electric power and switches to its gasoline engine as speed increases or under rapid acceleration. Transitions between electric and gasoline power were smooth, though not utterly seamless. You can tell when the engine starts and stops, and the brakes feel overly sensitive and grabby when the car is running on battery power alone.
But what made the Fusion especially fun to drive was that it can travel under electric power at higher speeds than most hybrids. While other hybrids I have driven almost always switch to gasoline power by the time they reach 30 or 35 miles per hour, if not much sooner, the Fusion's electric motor drove the car to speeds over 40 mph.
Side-by-side screens in the middle of the dashboard and a smaller trip computer display over the steering column make it easy to see what the hybrid system is doing. If you drive in a way that results in high fuel economy, a vine on the dashboard screen sprouts more and more leaves. Like the Prius, the close monitoring of fuel economy, battery charge, and whether the car is running on the gasoline engine, electric motor or both, lend to a videogame feel while driving.
In everyday driving I kept the Fusion's average fuel economy over 40 miles per gallon, right in line with its EPA mileage estimates and impressive for a car as large as the Fusion. Doing so took effort -- I often found myself accelerating gradually or coasting down hills to maximize fuel economy -- but not enough to make driving stressful. I never had to creep along at a low speed while annoying drivers who were stuck behind me. Highway driving averaged 36 mpg.
In comparison to the Prius, the Fusion is more than a foot longer, three inches wider and about 700 pounds heavier, so it feels like a bigger car, more solidly planted on the road. It is also lower, so feels more stable when turning at higher speeds. But the Prius outranks in terms of fuel economy, fetching 51 mpg in city driving and 48 mpg on the highway.
Nissan's Altima never matched the Fusion's performance, much less the Prius's. Its fuel economy ratings are not as high (35 mpg for city driving; 33 mpg on the highway) and its gasoline engine ran more often. Indeed, I rarely made it out of my driveway without the gas engine starting up. Trying to squeeze out extra miles using just the battery was an exercise in frustration because it lacked the endurance of batteries in the Fusion and the 2010 Prius I drove earlier this year. (For the record, I drove a 2009 model since the 2010 version wasn't available in time for my review -- but the only differences between the two will be minor and barely noticeable cosmetic changes.)
The Altima also fell short in terms of all-around transportation. Its ride was harsh and loud, and it didn't feel as solid and well-insulated as the Fusion. The back seat was less roomy and the interior was swathed in hard, cheap-feeling plastic -- similar to the least-expensive version of the conventional Altima. (Nissan makes a sportier model of the Altima called the SE and a luxury model called the SL. Both have higher-quality rides than the hybrid, so essentially one is getting the look and feel of the cheapest Altima but the price of the higher-end versions with the hybrid.)
Neither of these two hybrids will save the buyer money. With a price tag of $27,625, it would take about 15 years of fuel savings to make up for the Fusion hybrid's price premium over the base model. Breaking even takes about 22 years for the $26,650 Altima hybrid. The Prius ranges in price from $22,000 to $27,270.
Still, hybrid cars are attractive for people who simply want to use less fuel and feel less wasteful. If you want to intensify those feelings, the Prius is still the hybrid of choice -- it wins out with its more aerodynamic design and fuel economy rating. But if you want hybrid performance in a bigger, more practical car with conventional looks and a big trunk, the Ford Fusion is the best alternative.
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|the sitar project
last updated October 10, 2009
|The music
|Holding sitar
|Playing strokes
|Making notes
|Playing patterns
|Understand Rag
|Understand Tal
|Understand tal
Knowledge of tintal theka
The most common time cycle in indian music is tintal - 16 beats. Each sound or syllable on the tabla has a name, which resembles the sound of the drums themselves. Each tal has a theka - or theme - which you need to learn to be able to recite and recognise. Your improvisation will take place within this time cycle with your phrases adjusted so that you always arrive back at the correct place when Sam the first beat of the cycle is sounded.
Here is the theka for tintal. In actual performance, the tabla player will elaborate this and you will need to learn to still recognise the tal even in its decorated form. Your tabla player will help you either by simplifying, or an accent or playing a flourish leading up to Sam.
Practice saying this pattern over and over again until it becomes automatic. Also listen to a tabla machine or real tabla player and try to recognise the different sounds - when you watch a real tabla player notice the flat handed gesture he or she uses in the khali section.
Ability to clap sam and khali
Each tal also has a clap and wave pattern which helps you to keep in tal. For tintal it is Clap, Clap, Wave, Clap on the main beats which are shown in the diagram with +, x and o.
In this diagram + means sam, the first and most important beat, x means the two other emphasised beats, o shows the khali or empty part of the tal. When you hear tintal you will notice that following khali there are a series of sounds which do not use the deep sounds of the left hand or bass drum. Khali is the key to knowing where you are in tintal.
Practice listening to tintal, clapping on sam, the clap and wave pattern, saying the theka, listening to tabla player and keeping in tal. Ultimately you need to be able to know exactly where you are in the tal all the time without paying conscious attention to it - so that you can be free to be at your most creative in your improvisations, but still land back on sam at the right point.
Ability to play the gat with composed tans in tal with tabla
Each gat is written so that a particular note is played on sam. This is usually a very important note in the rag. You must therefore start the gat at the right point, and then continue in time so that you stay with the time-cycle.
Practice starting at the right beat by setting your tabla machine going and counting or listening for the right point to begin.
Ability to play composed jhala in tal with tabla
Once you have learned a composed jhala, practice it over and over again with the tabla. Listen out for where the Sam and khali come in your jhala. Practice your jhala counting out the tal out loud - because you are likely to be playing at speed you will probably need to simplify this to just counting the 4 main beats. Ultimately, you need to be absolutely secure with exactly where you are in the tal all the time.
If you develop this foundation, you will later on be able to play and improvise jhala which go off the beat, and still securely bring your performance back to the tal at will.
Knowledge of indian terms for different tempos
Learn the following terms:
Vilambit - slow
You can add the word ati meaning very to make ati drut - very fast or ati vilambit - very slow.
Ability to play palta and say/hear in your head the tal
Practice a palta for the rag whilst saying the theka for the tal out loud, and once that is established saying it silently in your head. This helps strenghten your feeling for the tal and gets used to how long a complete cycle is. Do the same with other simple exercises varying the palta with bol strokes or playing it twice at 2x speed.
Ability to play gat and composed tans and say/hear in your head the tal
Do the same exercise as the above saying the theka for the tal out loud, and once that is established saying it silently in your head, whilst playing gat and composed tans. This helps you know exactly where in the theka each part of the gat comes.
Using your hand to create improvisations
Ability to play irregular patterns making 16 beats
To be completed.
Ability to improvise tans and say/hear in your head the tal
Practice improvising tans whilst saying the theka out loud. At first this will tend to limit the quality of your tans. But stick with it. Eventually this will give you the confidence that you know exactly where you are in the tal at any time.
Cyclic rhythms
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Sefko: Mav who's included in all my Pau Gasol to Dallas scenarios ...
Mavericks beat writer Eddie Sefko answered questions in a chat Tuesday. Here are some highlights.
CubanLover ... Who is the new fan favorite on this team? We miss Jet.
Eddie Sefko: Hard to find that kind of flamboyant personality that is accompanied by the ability to play the game the way fans like to see it played. Crowder could do it. But it's hard for a rookie to come in with that sort of panache. Here's a thought: when Dirk comes back, why don't fans make him their favorite? That would be my move.
pete ... Could you see the Mavs trying to unload Marion before the trade deadline? He's still a very useful player but I'm sure the Mavs would like to have his salary off the books for next year, if possible.
Eddie Sefko: Anything's possible. In fact, I've been trying to figure out a way that the Mavericks could trade for Pau Gasol. That's not to say they have anything working. But the Lakers clearly are amenable to dealing the big Spaniard and the Mavericks could pair him and Dirk together if they had both of them healthy. And in any scenario I come up with, Marion pretty much has to be involved. Plus, he'd be a perfect fit for the Lakers -- rugged defender who doesn't need the ball all the time to be successful. And remember, the Lakers got Gasol all those years ago for very little, although they did give up Gasol's brother Marc in the deal and he's turned into one of the best centers in the league. Bottom line: I don't think Marion's going anywhere, but it's not an absolute slam dunk. The Mavericks owe it to themselves and their fans to listen to all situations that come their way.
CubanLover ... Will Elton Brand ever be utilized on the offensive end?
Eddie Sefko: He's a good offensive player. He's scored more than 15,000 points in his career. He can put the ball in the basket. He's done it well in two of the last three games. I suspect he will continue to do so when he gets his chances and that he'll get even more chances when Nowitzki returns.


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Willis Weber felt confident that enrolling his 4-year-old son at James Simons Elementary School's temporary North Charleston campus this fall would be a good decision.
Building a new James Simons Elementary
Architect: Thomas & Denzinger Architects
Contractor: M.B. Kahn Construction
Square footage: 66,000
Project budget: $26.9 million
School capacity: 500
Student enrollment/grades: 262 children from age 3 to grade 6
School theme: Montessori
Interesting fact: The school has a third floor, but it's unfinished and unusable in its current state. Officials hope to grow the school's enrollment and to expand to seventh and eighth grades. When it does, they plan to finish construction and use the area for classrooms.
Source: Charleston County School District
He and his wife knew the school soon would be moving back downtown and into a new building designed specifically for Montessori instruction. The Webers felt optimistic about its potential to offer a high-quality education on the peninsula.
"We couldn't be happier," Weber said while standing inside of the school's new multi-purpose room last week. "This is amazing."
James Simons Elementary wrapped up 2013 at the former Brentwood Middle School, and it will return from winter break and start 2014 in its new, permanent home on King Street.
James Simons was one of four downtown schools rebuilt after officials discovered serious seismic deficiencies in its structure. The three others - Buist Academy, Charleston Progressive Academy and Memminger Elementary - started this school year in their new buildings, but James Simons fell behind because of the process involved in choosing its Montessori focus.
Officials tried to speed up the process at James Simons, even dedicating additional funds to cover workers' overtime costs, but an especially rainy summer slowed them down. Principal Quenetta White and her faculty could have been in the building before January, but they agreed that one weekend wasn't enough time to make that move.
Parents and teachers alike seemed relieved last week that the school had taken those extra days to get ready for its new start.
"It just made so much sense once it was explained," Weber said. "We didn't want to switch (then). The waiting was well led."
Teachers have spent hours on weekends and after school setting up their new classrooms, and families toured the space during an open house last week. Teachers posed for a group picture outside the new building, and one later had tears in her eyes as she reflected on the beauty of the new site.
Primary teacher TeRaya Dingle said the classrooms are more spacious than those at Brentwood, and that means students will be able to more easily move around the room without interrupting one another.
"I can't wait to get in here," she said. "Having the space should be a big help for them."
Additional space is one component needed for Montessori instruction, which is a teaching philosophy that encourages students to work independently. Students learn in multi-age classrooms, and they don't have an assigned desk. Guided by their teachers, students choose activities to learn different subjects.
James Simons is in its first year of offering Montessori instruction, and most of its classes are Montessori. Traditional classrooms are being phased out. The building's former classrooms couldn't have been modernized to be roomy enough for Montessori lessons, and that was one of the reasons the district couldn't follow the city's wishes of renovating and preserving the entire original 1919 building.
Other issues included its seismic instability and the need to raise the entire site for flood reasons.
The compromise was preserving the original front façade of the structure facing Moultrie Street, and that was the most difficult part of any project the district has attempted, said Bill Lewis, the district's chief operating officer who oversees its building program.
Workers had to add reinforcements underneath and along the entire wall, and all of that took about six months and cost $3.8 million. The building's new front entrance faces King Street.
"This has been one of the hardest jobs ... but we are certainly glad we did it," Lewis said. "James Simons is a key part of history of public education in Charleston."
James Simons was among the first schools in the district to be desegregated, in 1963, and a historical marker commemorating that event is visible through some classroom windows. That side of the building is White's favorite.
"They endured and paved the way," White said while gazing at the marker through a window. "(Without them), I wouldn't be principal, only because of the color of my skin."
Nearly 100 percent of the school's students have been high-poverty and black, but the new Montessori focus and building are changing its demographics. This year, about 25 percent of its students aren't black.
White said she's thankful to be a part of the school as it reunites the neighborhood and brings back its children.
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Nyla Burke (from left), Toni Vick, Sofia Semmens and Ilex Gable play together while waiting for the holiday program to begin at the new James Simons Elementary School on King Street. After the school moved to the Brentwood campus in North Charleston in the Fall of 2010, students and teachers returning from winter break will return downtown to a brand new building. Wade Spees/Staff Wednesday December 18, 2013×


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'Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir' Is Surprise Addition To Zurich Film Festival
Roman Polanski Attending Zurich Film Festival
There's another reason Roman Polanski has returned to the Zurich Film Festival, where he was arrested two years ago by authorities who tried unsuccessfully to bring him back to the U.S. to face a 1977 statutory rape charge. After the festival bestowed its lifetime achievement award on the Oscar-winning director Tuesday night, it offered up the surprise world premiere of the documentary Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir, in which Polanski talks to friend and producer Andrew Braunsberg about his career, the murder of his wife Sharon Tate and his recent arrest. Laurent Bouzereau directed the feature-length docu. It was at the 2009 Swiss festival, where Polanski was originally to to receive the lifetime honor, that he was arrested — he never made it to the fest, getting stopped at the airport. He served time in jail and was under house arrest until he successfully fought off extradition to the U.S., making today's return trip possible. (UPDATE: Polanski thanked the crowd after accepting his award Tuesday night: "Better late than never," he said in his speech, according to Reuters. "It's a strange anniversary for me, two years, day for day. … Certain parts of it I'd rather forget, but I'm happy to be here. It is a very moving moment for me so do not expect any speeches.")
Polanski is untouchable! Suck it, America.
More of Polanski's success is due to his criminal conduct back in 1977 than anyone in Europe would like to admit.
That's a ridiculous statement. He was highly successful before then and still successful after. The offense — which he served time for — has nothing to do with his professional life.
Served time???? Really?
What a drag – every time I see or here about Polanski, I always think he's Child Rapists & a Great Director.
He is and will always be a convicted pedophile who happens to direct movies.
stupid, i just saw today his memoir film, you don't have an idea about him, feeding yourself from newspaper.
Arrest the rapist!
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The 2009/10 winter programme of events is already rapidly drawing to a close. It barely seems a few weeks, let alone 12 months, since the committee were putting together the programme card.
By the end of the programme, the Rugby Area main panel will have put on 13 events between autumn 2009 and spring 2010. These have included many outstanding talks - Red Arrows, the Rolls-Royce 'open rotor' engine, 'Are we alone?' by Robin Catchpole (an astronomer). A social event was jointly held with Coventry AD in December.
The attendance and feedback from events has been good.
In addition to the main panel events, the active Retired Members' Section will have also put on a full programme of events. They have performed incredibly well with typically 100 people attending each event!
The interesting visit to Volvo Trucks at Warwick on 28 January was attended by 27 Mechanicals and 15 Electricals.
The excellent lecture by Richard Moss, Senior Design Engineer RNLI on lifeboats and their design at Dunchurch on 25 February was attended by 53 Mechanicals and 45 Electricals, following which a collection for the RNLI raised £286 which will be increased by Gift Aid. At the committee meeting which followed after lunch, the one gap in the remainder of the 2009-2010 programme was filled by agreeing to have a visit to the Midland Air Museum at Bagington on 29 April.
In the 2009 calendar year the total recorded attendance was 1108 for 19 evening and Retired Members events, including both talks and visits, so an average of 58 attendees per event.
The area committee has already started putting together the programme card for next winter's season, and I am personally extremely grateful to the programme sub-committee for the considerable effort they put into making these events happen. Of course, if anyone is able to offer a talk, presentation or visit that would be of general interest, the committee would be very pleased to hear from you. We already have some interesting talks arranged (e.g. MHI gas turbines, power from nuclear fusion and advances in vehicle hypersonics).
We are lucky living in the Midlands in that we are surrounded by other active IMechE Areas, and also other institutions and organisations. Where we have details of events organised by other areas or organisations, we now put details on our "NearYou" website (nearyou.imeche.org.uk/ uk/midl/RUARGB). Please let us know if you feel sufficiently informed of such events, as well as ideas for improving the attendance at our own events.
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Klapisch has one main story to tell, presenting it chronologically while weaving the stories of other people into its various stages. The key character is Pierre (Romain Duris), a handsome young dancer who is devastated when told by doctors his heart is failing, and he will not live much longer without a transplant.
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His sister Elise (Juliette Binoche) arrives with her three small children. Elise, trying to push on after a failed marriage, breaks out of her own emotional shell to provide as much comfort as she can to her brother. Even with a transplant, he tells her, he has only a 40 percent chance of living. In the first cold days of winter, Pierre spends hours on his balcony, looking down at all the people who probably enjoy their days far more than he, even the heavy-set trash collector who wheels green garbage drums to this curb and that.
The sister grows nearer to her brother, recognizing his doomed sense of loneliness yet cheering him with sympathetic pleasantries. Days after he laments the fact he'll probably never make love to a woman again, Elise brings home a co-worker who at first talks of nothing but her fear of losing her job. When Elise leaves them alone, their embraces are unpolished but significant.
In time, Elise has a joyful fling of her own, even performing a partial strip-tease for the man. Binoche performs her role with even measures of good nature, flirtatiousness, and warm understanding. A great deal of sex happens in "Paris," though none of it unfolds on camera. Apparently Klapisch felt the mere spirit of l'amour enhanced his message of general love more than images of tangled bodies in various boudoirs.
A couple of the stories interlacing the main one involve a professor/television historian named Roland Verneuil, played with nervous, changing emotions by Fabrice Luchini. In one, he has a falling out, then a reunion, with his architect brother Philippe (Francois Cluzet), himself a bag of nerves over the impending birth of his first child.
In the other, Roland becomes obsessed with one of his students (Melanie Laurent, of "Inglourious Basterds). He texts her with words of love and lines from Baudelaire, then watches her from a short distance. When she discovers who's stalking her she is at first angry, but then curious. Nonchalantly she takes him to her bed.
In the final sequence Pierre taxis to the hospital for his transplant, looking at the variable brilliance of the city he loves. Along the way he glances at people he doesn't know, but viewers do, such as Roland. One of Pierre's last conversations is with a dark haired beauty named Farida (Farida Khelfa), who works for a somewhat comic xenophobe in a bakery. She smiles and hopes to see him again soon. Most viewers will feel the same.
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is facing a crisis of credibility. In just a few days, subway and bus riders will be hit with the largest fare hike in history. Earlier this year, when talk of a fare hike was growing, I urged the MTA to delay consideration of an increase and open its books – so all New Yorkers could know if such an increase was necessary.
Had the MTA heeded my call, their integrity would not be in question.
After three months of analyzing the New York City Transit Authority's finances, I have concluded that the MTA has broken its public trust and misled New Yorkers with unclear and inaccurate reporting of its financial position.
The issue is clear: Straphangers should not be asked to accept a fare hike without accurate evidence detailing its necessity. That is currently not the case. We have found that the books used by the MTA's Board to determine the need for an increase were incomplete, misleading and obfuscating. There is simply no way these books could have provided the board with the basis for sound policy making.
My audit made five key findings:
• Specifically, it found an undisclosed $300 million account that was characterized as an "investment pool." What this money was for, how it was spent and when it was spent remains a mystery, because the MTA refused to disclose this information.
• Furthermore, the Transit Authority's numbers just did not add up. For example, in 2001 and 2002 financial reports, the Transit Authority overstated its operating expenses by more than $850 million. This kind of accounting error gave the impression that the authority's operating deficit was actually larger than it was – and exaggerated the need for a fare hike.
• The Transit Authority's 2003 operating budget proposal was woefully incomplete. It lacked basic, critical information, such as the costs associated with the recent collective bargaining agreement and the additional revenues that transit officials believed a fare hike would produce. Conveniently, the board voted to approve a revised budget that included this information three weeks after approving the fare increase. The agency even tripped over its own numbers. The proposal contained conflicting deficits – on one page it put the deficit at $1.632 billion and, on another, $2.009 billion. The public, elected officials, and the MTA Board put their faith in a document that told two different stories.
• The Transit Authority overestimated the drop in ridership due to the fare increase, contrary to its own historical data. This served to deflate future revenues and further justified their call for a 33 percent fare hike.
• My audit confirmed that New York City subway riders get shortchanged by paying a larger share of their system's budget compared to their suburban counterparts, who ride the MTA's commuter lines.
The MTA Board should re-examine the need for an increase, this time using clear and accurate financial information. At least then, all New Yorkers could be confident that a hike of this magnitude, while painful, may also be necessary.
Yet there is a larger issue at stake. We need to change the culture that leads transit officials to believe that the system belongs to them – and that they are accountable to no one.
The city's transportation system belongs to the people. The people have a right to understand its finances and make judgements about its policies. It is the responsibility of the MTA to ensure that it answers not only to its board but also to the public and their elected officials.
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Patsy Kensit had more than acting on her mind when she auditioned to play the love interest in Lethal Weapon 2. Throughout the session, admits the British bombshell, "I was thinking about who I could call to tell about meeting Mel Gibson." There are two sides to every story. According to director Richard Donner, "She walked into my office, read the scenes, and afterwards we had to resuscitate Mel."
The mutual admiration never went beyond the movie's steamy love scene. "We used to talk about Dan a lot," says Ken-sit, 21—referring to her husband of 14 months, Dan Donovan, 26, the keyboard player with Big Audio Dynamite. Yet Gibson—himself married, to Robyn Moore for a decade—became a good friend, and a friend in need, especially in a scene in which the two are under siege by helicopter guns. "It was frightening because things were really exploding," she says. "But Mel was so good. There was a point when he had to pull me down to the floor. Afterwards he rolled over and started laughing. He said, 'I could feel your heart beating through your back.' "
If the perils of making an action film are new to Kensit, acting is old hat. The daughter of Margie, a publicist, and James, an antiques dealer who died of leukemia in 1987, Patsy made her screen debut at 4, as Mia Farrow's daughter in The Great Gatsby—a role that also placed her in PEOPLE'S premiere issue. While attending St. Catherine's Convent, a girls school in London, near her native borough of Hounslow, she continued to act—most notably in the star-studded Hop The Blue Bird, which took 8-year-old Patsy to the Soviet Union with Elizabeth Taylor, Ava Gardner and Jane Fonda. "I realized they were superstars because they had this presence," Kensit recalls.
Her big role came when she played Crepe Suzette in Julien Temple's flashy, video-inspired bomb, Absolute Beginners, in 1986. "I was toasted and then roasted by the press," she says. But Kensit, by then a veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company, was unfazed; after all, if stage and screen failed her, she still had her third career. Since 1982 Patsy has been the lead singer for her brother Jamie's band, Eighth Wonder, which performs "I'm Not Scared" on the Lethal Weapon 2 sound track.
The rock warbling led to meeting Donovan, when she was 16. Two years ago they started dating. "The first proper relationship I had," Kensit calls it. "I can honestly say I'm going to grow old with Dan. I'll be fat and happy with six children," she predicts. If the fat part seems unlikely, consider Kensit's daily regimen: "I eat chocolate, I drink Coca-Cola, I abhor exercise."
Clearly Kensit hasn't gone Hollywood, but Donner thinks she should. "She's sweet, she's warm, she's shy, she's sexy, she's innocent, she's funny, and she's only 21," the director says. "God help us all when she reaches her prime."
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Nestled in the coastal foothills north of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara projects a manicured image of quiet gentility. You'd never know there was all this messy adultery, rape, incest and S&M going on against the backdrop of polo fields, racetracks, theaters, beaches and concert halls that have served as playgrounds for the rich and powerful for the better part of a century. Of course, Bridget and Jerry Dobson knew. Santa Barbara residents for nine years, the couple sold NBC on the idea of pumping upwards of $40 million into a weekly soap, which began on July 30. Since then they've been exaggerating—as TV soaps will—the best and worst aspects of the city.
As successful writers for General Hospital and As The World Turns, the Dobsons know a fertile setting when they find one, even if it's their own backyard. "I don't know why Santa Barbara hasn't been done before on TV," says Bridget. "It isn't just wealth here, it's extreme wealth." Adds husband Jerry: "Everybody does his own thing, whether playing polo or knifing someone in the back."
It's the polo set the Dobsons care about. Their show mostly ignores the typical citizens of Santa Barbara (whose average income falls below the national average) and concentrates on the lavish neighborhoods of Montecito and Hope Ranch, which lie just outside the city limits. Montecito, with its numerous architectural landmark houses, sits in the heart of verdant hills overlooking the sea and backed by the Santa Ynez Mountains. Hope Ranch, with 30 miles of riding trails, is located on the wooded peninsula. Happily for the Dobsons, the residents' list reads like a Who's Who. Once an enclave of the old-money families—the Armours, the Fleischmanns, the du Ponts and the Cudahys—the nouveau cash includes the Shah of Iran's sister, Princess Shams, who lives in the old Lolita Armour estate in Montecito, and Essam Khashoggi, whose home is on the exclusive Hope Ranch. And Ronald Reagan's Rancho del Cielo is 20 miles outside town.
Show-business personalities also litter the landscape: John Travolta, Bo and John Derek, Gene Hackman, Kenny Loggins, Lena Home, Steve Martin and tennis ace Roscoe Tanner, to name just a few. "When you go shopping in Von's market, it looks like a SAG meeting," says actor Bradford Dillman. It's a disturbing trend to Santa Barbara's older residents, who were attracted to the privacy promised by an area so far (100 miles) from Hollywood. That's also why few are pleased with the notoriety inspired by the NBC soap. "Once you name a show Santa Barbara, people start to recognize themselves," Bridget says. They don't always like what they see. Longtime Santa Barbara resident Judith Anderson (see following story) doesn't see herself as the bitch she plays on the show. She thinks it's fun.
Other citizens are not so sanguine. "People here who know about the show are appalled," says Beverly Jackson, society columnist of the Santa Barbara News-Press. "We had the Loud family [the subject of a PBS docudrama] several years ago and we're just living that down." Chances are they will live down the soap as well—or at least outlive it (early ratings are far from promising).
The setting and climate have drawn people to Santa Barbara ever since it was acquired from Mexico in 1846. Santa Barbara even had its own film industry: In 1913 the American Film Company built the largest movie studio in the world there, featuring such stars as "Fatty" Arbuckle and Mabel Normand. The studio made more than 1,200 movies, in which Montecito estates doubled for English manor houses and French châteaus.
Santa Barbara nearly came tumbling down at 6:42 a.m. on June 29, 1925, when the downtown buildings were leveled by an earthquake that took 13 lives, twisted the railroad tracks and unleashed 40 million gallons of precious water from the reservoir. When the city was reconstructed, an architectural board determined that buildings must have pitched red-tile roofs and plaster walls of Mediterranean earth tones. "Down with the ugly, up with the lovely" was the motto of the board, which also banned all billboards and garish signs. Today the ban extends to population, limited to 85,000 because of water shortages. Montecito simply will not permit any new water hookups.
About the only thing the Santa Barbarans can't keep out is NBC. Right now the soap, however much it caricatures the city, is about as close a look as an outsider can hope to get. NBC isn't worried about reprisals. "Why should they be?" asks Bridget. "If anyone gets sued, it will be us."
Seeing Dame Judith Anderson on an afternoon soap is sort of like finding Queen Elizabeth at Archie's Place. But there she is on NBC's Santa Barbara playing Minx Lockridge, a haughty, contentious grande dame who's fighting to maintain her family's dwindling fortune and reputation. Feisty ole Minx shakes her finger a lot and carries a riding whip to whomp out-of-line servants and family members. ("The whip was my idea," Anderson boasts.) Of her latest character, the legendary actress says, "She's strong and tweedy, naughty and amusing. I'm having a good time playing her."
A role of such high camp is certainly a switch for Anderson, the first Australian-born actress to be elevated to the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. But she says she's not slumming. "I don't see any conflict with doing a soap, and I certainly don't see any comedown." Her only complaint about Santa Barbara was the original first name of her character. At Anderson's insistence it was changed from Birdie to Minx. "Do I look like a Birdie to you?" Anderson asks. "Birdies are wispy old maids who have never experienced anything." Her salary should qualify as a new kick—around $5,000 per week. "Don't talk to me about money," she growls, like a true Santa Barbaran. "It's so ugly."
It's no coincidence that the actress, who is a British subject, resides in Santa Barbara. The series' co-executive producers and head writers, Bridget and Jerome Dobson, are Anderson's longtime acquaintances, and in fact created the Lockridge role and its grand trappings especially for her. It's not an easy fit: Anderson's own U-shaped, English-style cottage is as unpretentious as its owner. The living-room furniture has slipcovers. A French chair is a chewing post for Bozo, her dachshund.
Twice divorced, Anderson now lives alone. "Don't mention my marriages [University of California professor Benjamin Harrison Lehman and theatrical producer Luther Greene]," she says. "They were both disastrous. Ugly and horrible. Despicable. They were very short, but too long." Her passion now is gardening, but because of her schedule she can't spend much time tending her beloved flowers. "The gardener doesn't know anything," she says. "I've got to stand over him and tell him how to plant. He'll just take a pack of seeds and pour them out, and, of course, they can't breathe. They can't live. Maybe one will come up."
It will, if it knows what's good for it. Dame Judith usually gets what she wants. She recalls coming to America with her mother in 1918 "with very little money or looks." Just determination. Never the ingenue, she tackled the heavy, meatier roles. Just 14 years ago she did a cross-country tour of Hamlet, playing the Prince. "I've done very little comedy," she says. "Just look at my face. Babies think it's funny. I know that. But it lends itself to drama."
Her stage work has surpassed her sporadic film career. "I don't know how to act in front of a camera," she says. "I'm used to the freedom of the gesture. If I want to do that [she throws out her arm], I'll do that." Her physical condition has also hampered her. At 5'3", 102 pounds, she says she's shrinking. And the mention of her age (86) makes her livid. "Please don't print it. The kids of today, if they see it, they'll say, 'I don't want to see that old crock!' "
It was a kid—Anderson's grand-nephew, Peter Valentine, 16—who inspired her current pop-culture phase by persuading her to play the Vulcan high priestess in last summer's Star Trek III. "Peter had seen me in Hamlet and Macbeth and had no reaction. But he heard that Mr. Nimoy had come up to see me and cried, 'Auntie Judy! Star Trek! Don't you know you'd get a whole new audience?' And right he was. He had such enthusiasm and passion about it. He said he'd cut me out of his will if I didn't do it."
As for commuting to L.A. for Santa Barbara, which requires several long days of shooting, Anderson says, "I'm cutting down on all sorts of things, like entertainment. I've never enjoyed parties. That's a lie. I used to love them when I was young." Thoughts of youth move her to eloquence. She quotes from a letter she once received from the late poet Robinson Jeffers: "I'm like a leafless tree, waiting for the trunk to fall." Then she qualifies the sentiment. "Well, that's what I would be like if I didn't work," she says. "If nobody wanted me."
Despite Anderson's majestic presence, Santa Barbara has yet to win the ratings war against ABC's General Hospital and CBS' Guiding Light. Anderson herself admits her favorite soap is General Hospital, to which she's been addicted for 20 years and which she does not plan to give up. Whether or not Santa Barbara makes it hardly matters to Anderson's résumé. In her 69-year career on stage, on TV and in the movies, she's specialized in bringing to full boil a caldron of searing, seething, emotionally scalded women from Medea to Mrs. Danvers, the malevolent housekeeper who booga-boogas Joan Fontaine in Hitchcock's Rebecca. Now comes Minx Lockridge. To friends and critics who say, "But, really, how could you?" Anderson responds archly: "What do you want me to do? Sit here and rot?"
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