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THE More Joyous drama is not the only thing upsetting trainer Gai Waterhouse.
Racing's first lady flew to Warrnambool last night ahead of this week's jumps carnival only to confirm her first hurdler, The Nemesis, would not race.
"He had a setback and we've brought him back to Sydney," said Waterhouse, who only received her jumps licence earlier this month.
Waterhouse had created plenty of excitement about her arrival at the popular jumps event in country Victoria.
Even though The Nemesis was due to compete in a lowly race, Waterhouse's presence ensured tickets to speaking arrangements were in hot demand.
Waterhouse attended her husband Robbie's annual end-of-autumn luncheon before she rushed to the airport.
Getting away from Sydney could not have come at a better time for Waterhouse amid the stoush with More Joyous's owner John Singleton.
Singleton sacked Waterhouse on the spot after More Joyous's flop in the Group 1 All Aged Stakes (1400m) on Saturday, and claimed her bookie son, Tom Waterhouse, allegedly told friends the horse couldn't win.
Waterhouse informed stewards after the race More Joyous had heat in her neck on Thursday, and blood tests taken weren't 100 per cent.
Asked yesterday if she'd still enjoy Warrnambool, Waterhouse said: "Of course I will, why wouldn't I?"
On Saturday, Waterhouse has a good chance of winning the Listed Darley Crown (1300m) with Miss Stellabelle at Hawkesbury - the stand-alone Saturday meeting that has been overshadowed by the pending More Joyous inquiry.
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"Smart" or strategic-beta strategies have recently moved from the periphery into the mainstream investment industry and have the potential to significantly disrupt traditional active management.
Disruptive innovation is a management framework introduced by Harvard professor Clayton Christensen to describe a market or value network that eventually disrupts an existing market or value network.
The book, The Innovators Dilemma, catapulted Christensen to superstar status in tech-savvy Silicon Valley in the 1990s.
Decades on, disruptive innovation has been used to coin a number of recent innovations such as Netflix.
The investment industry is susceptible to disruptive innovation as established players continue to enjoy profit growth and are protected by barriers to entry.
The need for superior money management has never been greater, with total investable assets continuously rising. Active management in particular is not left unscathed.
The widely regarded CFA Institute has classified smart beta as a disruptive innovation with the potential to significantly disrupt traditional active management.
What is smart beta?
Smart beta could be thought of as the intersection between active and passive management, aiming to outperform traditional benchmark indices while offering the benefits of passive management including being rules-based, as well as having low costs and transparency.
Smart-beta strategies are not especially new and can be traced back to the 1970s, but have recently moved from the periphery into the mainstream investment industry due to the growth of exchange-traded funds that track smart-beta strategies.
Smart-beta strategies enable investors to achieve targeted investment by actively identifying a factor or investment approach they want in their portfolio, while enjoying index-like features.
There are different types of smart-beta strategies, some of which are outlined below:
Equal weight
All constituents are given an equal weighting regardless of their market capitalisation.
Components of equal weight indices are often selected from a universe of stocks based on market capitalisation before being equally weighted.
Equal weighting may be applied at the individual stock or sector level.
All securities are based on factors such as quality, dividends, momentum, low volatility or a combination of these.
Combinations may be weighted by factors or by market capitalisation or a combination of these.
Components of factor-based indices are often selected from a universe of stocks based on market capitalisation before screening is applied.
Capped weight
Individual stocks cannot exceed a maximum percentage of the index.
Components of capped-weight indices are often selected from a universe of stocks based on market capitalisation before the capping is applied.
Fundamentally weighted
The proportion of each constituent is based on the company's value using economic and accounting fundamental factors instead of price.
Fundamental factors include total assets, sales, cash flows, numbers of employees or a combination of these and other factors.
A combination
Some indices use a combination of smart-beta strategies, such as the Morningstar Wide Moat Focus Index, which equally weights the most attractively priced US companies that have passed Morningstar's proprietary Wide Moat screen.
Smart-beta ETFs are at the forefront of smart-beta investing, combining the best aspects of active and passive management by tracking indices that deliver a chosen investment outcome, while retaining transparency, liquidity and ease of trading within defined rules.
ETFs that track smart-beta indices do so by holding the shares that are in the index and only changing their portfolio when the index changes.
Traditionally, most ETFs followed conventional market-capitalisation-weighted indices. However, this trend is rapidly changing with smart-beta ETFs emerging as an option offering a desired portfolio outcome.
Smart beta: An Australian equity case study
The Australian equity market is one of the most concentrated equity markets in the developed world.
The standard benchmark, the S&P/ASX 200, is a market-capitalisation-based benchmark. It is often the benchmark active investment managers are measured against and is also used as a passive investment strategy benchmark.
The problem with the S&P/ASX 200 is that the top 10 companies comprise over 55 per cent of the index, of which four are the big banks. It is concentrated not only in stocks, but also in the financial sector.
This is not an ideal investment strategy if you were aiming to diversify and have broad exposure to the various sectors that make up the Australian economy.
To help address the issue of concentration risk and offer a proven passive investment strategy, a smart-beta index using an equal weighting methodology called the MVIS Australia Equal Weight Index was introduced.
The result is a portfolio of 78 securities which are equally weighted so that no one company dominates the portfolio.
Equally weighting the portfolio enables outperformance because of three key factors:
• Higher exposure to smaller stocks rather than to bigger stocks;
• Higher exposure to undervalued stocks and lower exposure to overvalued stocks; and
• Contra trading, that is, better market timing, meaning better returns when markets are rising and less losses when markets are falling.
The VanEck Australian Equal Weight ETF (ASX: MVW) tracks the MVIS Australia Equal Weight Index. MVW is an example of a smart-beta ETF that offers investors a cost-effective, transparent, rules-based strategy.
Over the past 12 months, the MVIS Australia Equal Weight Index has outperformed the S&P/ASX 200 Accumulation Index by over 9 per cent.
It has consistently outperformed the S&P/ASX 200 Accumulation Index over each of the past three, six and 12-month periods and in 11 of the last 13 calendar years.
Smart beta investing on the rise
Smart beta is revolutionising the way investors build portfolios. Globally, smart beta is the fastest-growing segment of the investment management industry and Australia is also experiencing this trend.
The CFA Institute recently reported that smart-beta products--by carving out a significant component of active man¬agement and offering it more cheaply and more transparently--will disrupt the business of active management.
In particular, "active management will evolve into two separate product types: smart-beta products with lower fees and pure alpha products with higher fees".
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 12— President Bush today signed a bill providing $25 billion for four months to cover savings and loan failures, but he urged Congress to provide more when it returns next month.
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The President asked the House and Senate to approve $80 billion to cover savings industry failures, but lawmakers pared the amount down to $25 billion.
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The Cape Cod Bike and Rail Trail is a 26-mile spectacular journey that begins in Dennis, through Ocean Edge in Brewster, and extends all the way to the National Seashore. The historic trail is a haven for bikers, walkers, and joggers, dotted with plenty of opportunities to visit other beaches and ponds, or to grab lunch or an ice cream cone. Bike rentals are available upon request and weather permitting in the off-season.
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My older son started kindergarten this fall, and despite my attempts at planning, it's thrown a wrench in our eating habits. Finding time to cook between soccer practices, homework and tending to our newborn is tricky, and all too often we've relied on takeout. But now that we've settled into our school routine, it's time to tackle the dinner table.
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The room is packed, a melee of activity amongst the loud and boisterous crowd, but I see him.
He is here.
I am surprised.
Our eyes lock into that of passionate recognition, remembering what once was, and what will never ever, be again.
Which, I whole-heartedly regret.
The desperate pangs of attraction overtake me as look at him, staring so hard, I cry, silently, with a lone tear, as I long for him, like I once did.
I wipe the single tear from my eye.
He raises his thick bushy blonde eyebrows, towards me, an old outward sign of the lust that we once shared. A secret communication used once upon a time in the past when we wanted to hide our deep inner most passions, keeping them unknown to the world.
I blink my eyes to the left, a direction for him to go for our impromptu meeting.
I blink, again, and tilt in the direction of the double doorway.
He nods.
He understands.
The pasture-colored eyes of this long ago paramour, still excites me. He still lights up my innermost being. My groin stirs in remembrance.
I tingle with an abated joy. It has been far too long since I have interacted, had a chance encounter, with someone, especially him, which fuels my long-buried long hidden desires, that I have held in check so the world will not become privy to my secret world.
I have not really had such an encounter before.
This is a first.
I do not know the expected protocol.
He makes his way to the double-sized door, the entranceway, and stands nearby. We each bat our respective eyelashes in recognition, towards the other; no other outward sign is shown, between us.
No hugging or hand shaking, no kissing or any other intimate exchange.
The reception room of the concert hall is the last place I expected to encounter someone, especially him from my 'old' former, secret, life, but here he is, crossing my path.
"Hi, "he speaks first as we are within a foot from the other.
His voice, squeals somewhat, I barely recognize the sound but it is him. His face proves it.
The voice, I remember so well, although nervous, over the loud noisy racket in this densely packed room, it is the only sound, I allow myself to hear.
"Hello, yourself," I respond with a wince and a marked shakiness in my own voice, too.
There is a stillness between us, an awkwardness.
The silence breaks through the uproar of the room.
"The music is good? Is it not?"
"Its ah-kay, not necessarily to my liking," he says, gruffly, somewhat annoyed, "To many high-pitched tones in this particular piece to suit my taste but I did not choose this, myself. He did."
Then there is quiet, a momentary stillness between us, again.
Maybe this recognition was not a good thing, in retrospect.
"I best get back," he says, "questions will be asked, of my delay, if I do not return, soon."
Our eyes lock, again, no words are spoken, just the intense gaze.
I move my mouth, the words come flooding out but I say them anyway, filters gone, not thinking of any future repercussions.
"I miss you."
My words, whisper-like, escape, painfully hard, from my gasped mouth.
He pauses in his haste to flee, to leave, and to rejoin his 'date' but not before, he turns and utters his final words.
"I miss you, too," he says, "I have missed you for the longest time."
He smiles, one last time, as he darts from our rendezvous, from this unplanned meeting.
"I miss you, more, "I whisper, under my breath, one last time, "I miss your breathing, sharing the same air with...I love you."
He does not hear me, as the back of his suit is all that I see, as he disappears, rapidly, back into the melee, into the hurried hubbub of the crowded room and his 'date'.
The moment over, fleeting, between us.
I do not see him.
He is gone.
Once again.
In the melee.
I feel a hand, forcefully, on my tailored jacketed shoulder, pressure is deftly applied, before the person, comes within my eyeshot.
It is him.
I dread this man, another man, near me.
"Hey, Walt, you ole codger, whatcha been up to?" says the towering bear of a man with the firm grip on my shoulder.


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This is a story of an ordinary girl's transformation from awkward 80s suburban pop geek to 90s jet-set pop goddess.
It's about the embarrassments of growing up and experimenting with who you are and how pop music is both the comic and life-affirming soundtrack that runs through it all. "Different for Girls" is for anyone who ever sang into a hairbrush and slow-danced to Spandau Ballet's "True".
It's about growing up with "Look-In" and "Jackie" magazine and daubing your hair with poster paint to look more like Toyah Wilcox.
It's about bad perms, bad boyfriends and the nagging feeling that no man will quite measure up to Nick Heyward from Haircut One Hundred.
It's also about the journey from bad band to great band, from gigs in toilets to gigs in stadiums with all the mistakes, joys, disappointments and successes in between.
It's a journey which starts with a 12-year-old perfecting her dance routine to Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights" in front of TOTPs and ends, almost 20 years later, with the same girl having REM's Michael Stipe sing happy birthday to her on a warm summer's evening accompanied by 70,000 strangers.
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I love Louise Wener's novels, so was interested to read this memoir, despite never having been a particular fan of Sleeper, the band she was lead singer with.The first half of the book covers growing up in the 70s and 80s and had some nostalgic moments for me. This section also covers Louise's musical influences. The second half looks at her time with Sleeper and their rise to having top 20 singles and appearing on Top of the Pops.As I would have predicted, the first half was by far my favourite bit. It made me smile and brought back memories, and the writing was excellent. The second half wasn't so interesting for me, but that's because I prefer stories of family life and growing up, to stories of how fame was achieved. However, the whole book is a great read and a lot of fun.
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While I never followed the band Sleeper, I was aware of them – their singles were fun and tuneful. However their singer, Louise Wener, did stand out from the crowd with her big brown eyes, pouty lips and great haircut – there were few other girls involved in successful Britpop bands. Reading her wonderful memoir of her life in Pop, I can say I bonded with her from the beginning, as she recounts sitting with microphone in hand taping the chart show (been there, done that), and also a shared love of David Cassidy – she's only a few years younger than me, so musically I'm right at home with her all the way.It also helps that Wener is an established novelist these days having swapped guitar for the pen some years ago. She can really write, and the result is a hugely entertaining memoir, full of wonderful stories, and self-deprecating wit – she's not afraid to turn the spotlight on herself at all.Born to a Jewish family in north London, Louise was the youngest by several years in her family. The first chapters recount teenaged years at school where she was geeky and introverted, and bullied by the girls with perfect skin. A gap year followed sixth form; Wener went on a Kibbutz, and had a whale of a time, but was brought back down to earth arriving in Manchester to study English, but she did meet Jon Stewart and they started a band. After uni they moved down to London and found a bass player and drummer Sleeper was born with her older brother as manager. They got their break supporting Blur, and the big-time beckoned …There's something about a tour itinerary that lists Barcelona, Milan and Berlin in its dates that's making me hysterically resistant to the lowest common denominator, herd mentality of rock band touring: the endless communal meals where we have to find a cafe that serves egg and chips because half the crew is vegetarian and egg and chips is all they will eat. The living in each other's pockets on the tour bus, smelling the tattooed roadie's farts, listening to each other's shitty music and filthy night-time snores.This is my first time touring on a sleeper bus. A glorifed caravan with coffin-like compartments to sleep in and everyone huddled up on a banquette at the back, smoking and drinking and watching Spinal Tap for the 53rd time. There are rules on the tour bus. Don't poo in the toilet; it can't take it. Sleep with your feet facing forward, in case you crash like Bucks Fizz. Respect each other's privacy and space. Difficult one, this: save for the sliver of curtain by your bunk there's no real privacy to be had.She makes it sound like so much fun! She recounts the highs and lows: the pressure to keep the band together, to write new songs, always being considered the front of the band because she's a woman, splitting up with Jon, then falling in love with drummer Andy. They had the sense to bow out on a relative high, before the singles failed to chart. She obviously got a lot out of it even with all the stresses and strains. This is an intelligent and witty memoir which I would heartily recommend to anyone who enjoyed Britpop – I loved it. I'll definitely check out some of her novels – if they're anything like this book in style, they'll be fun too. (9/10)
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Very readable account of being fascinated by popular music and becoming a contender. Light, breezy and honest.
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Sounds good to me...when & where? What topics need to be discussed?
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New version. Network map and a whole lot of cool plugins. I could spend a 1/2 hour talking about some cool plugins that are fairly new. David Scammell did a great presentation in Chicago, so I will steal his knowledge.
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I'm game. I'd like to hear more about the new version.
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Trying to get some feedback from some of the original KC SpiceCorp Founding Members - everyone is MIA!!!
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I'm game, but won't be able to bring the vette in January or February - snow and all of that - but be happy to come - something I can get the company to pay for!
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Why are people in the USA trying so hard to stop people from entering the country, using a Border Patrol, fences, and even proposing to use chemicals to kill vegetation along the border so individuals are easily seen? Why don't they just let immigrants in and give them citizenship?
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- 3 Advanced Botany
- 4 Other Notes
Basics of Botany
Hydroponics and the Botanists who work there are important to the station, especially in longer rounds. Botanists grow plants that the Chef can use for food. Without botany, the station will have to live off of beef jerky and space twinkies, or starve to death.
Your Area
Hydroponics is divided into two rooms. The big southern section is where you'll spend most of your time growing goods. Trays are available where you grow plants and two vending machines, one with seeds and the other with miscellaneous items such as nutriments and tools for your job. The bio-generator can be used to grind plants and produce things for the station. In tandem is the seed dispenser used to reproduce your product. The northern area is where you can grab most of the equipment needed to work in botany.
Plants require nutriment and water to grow. They are also bothered by pests and weeds. Trays come equipped with alerts that flash specific colors to tell you what's happening with your plant.
From left to right -
- Green: Ready to harvest.
- Red: Low health.
- Red: Weeds/pests/toxins.
- Yellow: Low nutriment.
- Blue: Low water.
Tools that are of use in botany -
- Wrench: Used to move your trays around.
- Wirecutters: Used to set up the irrigation system. If 30u or more of water is put into trays while the irrigation is set up, water will be shared across trays. This will also distribute things like mutagen and plant killer.
- Hatchet: Chops tower-caps into planks, chops other things. This is also a very robust tool that can be hit in backpacks
- Shovel: Digs up grass floors and cleaning the dirt.
- Cultivator: Kills Weeds.
- Plant Bag: Collects up to 50 items or 100 seeds from your harvest.
- Portable Seed Extractor: Found in the lockers of the back room, this can harvest and pick up plants and turn up to 100 plants into seeds.
Plants 101
Take some seeds from the vendor and put them into the trays. Make sure to keep them weeded with a cultivator and watered. Some plants have a varied growth times, such as wheat growing faster while watermelons or apple trees take a little longer before you can harvest from them. Sometimes these and other stats of a plant are effected if you ignore them after the light warns you of their status. You have a choice of 5 nutriments depending on if you hacked your machine or not. Once your tray flashes green, you're set to harvest. If you want to replicate the plant to continue growing more, just insert it into the seed extractor.
The bio-generator makes items out of the nutriment in plants, such as watermelons and pumpkins which have a 20% nutriment boost trait. To get biomass, grab a spare bucket and equip the machine with it then put your growns inside. Open its interface and process the plants. If you somehow run out of nutriment in the vendors, remember you can print the three standard nutriments here. You can recycle any plant, though if they don't have nutriment like bananas, the efficiency is very low.
DNA Extractor
Note: Sometimes these don't appear in outdated maps, if this is the case, you can adminhelp and see if they will put one if they are nice
This machine allows you to extract genes and stats from seeds. This is a very useful machine for mass producing plants, saving time and is super easy.
How to use
1. Go to the locker in the back and take out the box of plant data disks
2. Load a disk into the machine along with any seed of choice
3. Extract seeds to the disk (seed will be destroyed) or extract a gene
4. Put in another seed 5. You can now modify the seed's stats and genes based on what's in the plant data disk
Useful seeds for maxing production
- On some maps, there's wheat on the table, this wheat has 50 potency and 1 production speed
- Treecaps have naturally high endurance and resistance and 50 potency
- The tobacco in the seed vendor has 10 yield
- The wheat in the seed vendor has 1 production speed
NOTE:Not all traits are readily transferable: potency for example is capped at 50% on the standard machine.
To up your potency cap, upgrade the machine with the help of RnD: each of its three components (manipulator, scanner, laser) will up the cap by 5% multiplied by their research tier;
Machine base is 35%, all T1 components net +(5%x1)x3= 15% total, and all T4 components net +(5%x4)x3=60% total, making the maximum cap 95%.
Maturation rate is also not readily transferable.
There are three types of plants. The biggest category is "normal plants". The much smaller ones are mushrooms and weeds. They are a little different from the normal plants:
- Mushrooms need less light, and suffer less from lack of it.
- Mushrooms don't need water to grow. They still use it, though.
- Weeds don't suffer from high weed level.
- Mushrooms and weeds can't be overtaken by weeds in a tray.
- Mushrooms' yield can't drop to 0. It will always be at least 1.
Trays, whether empty or occupied by plants, can be occasionally overtaken by a weed if their level is 5 or more. In that case the old plant is destroyed, and a new one will sprout in its place. Possible plants include:
- 1/6 chance for Reishi.
- 1/9 chance for Nettle.
- 1/9 chance for Harebell.
- 1/9 chance for Amanita.
- 1/9 chance for Chanterelle.
- 1/9 chance for Tower Cap.
- 1/9 chance for Plump Helmets.
- 1/6 chance for Starshittle.
Here's a chart for reference on what you can grow.
Plant Chart (mouse over the reagents to have a brief effect description)
|Reagent Production
|Available from
|Mutates into
|Ambrosia deus
|5% nutriment, 15% omnizine, 15% synaptizine, 10% space drugs, 4% vitamin
|Perennial Growth
|Mutate Ambrosia vulgaris
|Ambrosia gaia
|Ambrosia gaia
|6% nutriment, 5% earthsblood, 5% vitamin
|Mutate Ambrosia deus
|Ambrosia vulgaris
|5% nutriment, 10% bicaridine, 10% kelotane, 15% space drugs, 10% toxin, 4% vitamin
|Perennial Growth
|MegaSeed Servitor
|Ambrosia deus
|10% nutriment, 4% vitamin
|Perennial Growth
|MegaSeed Servitor
|Gold apple
|10% banana juice, 10% potassium, 4% vitamin, 2% nutriment
|Slippery Skin, Perennial Growth
|MegaSeed Servitor, Exotic Seeds Crate
|Mimana, Blue-space banana
|10% nothing, 10% mute toxin, 2% nutriment
|Slippery Skin, Perennial Growth
|MegaSeed Servitor, Exotic Seeds Crate
|Mimana, Blue-space banana
|10% nutriment, 4% vitamin
|Perennial Growth
|MegaSeed Servitor, Seeds Crate
|Glow-berry, Poison-berry
|Blood tomato
|10% nutriment, 20% blood, 4% vitamin
|Liquid Contents, Perennial Growth
|Mutate Tomato
|Blue-space banana
|20% singulo, 10% banana juice, 4% vitamin, 2% nutriment
|Slippery Skin, Bluespace Activity, Perennial Growth
|Mutate Banana
|Blue-space tomato
|10% nutriment, 20% singulo, 20% space lube, 4% vitamin
|Slippery Skin, Bluespace Activity, Liquid Contents, Perennial Growth
|Mutate Blue tomato
|Blue cherry
|7% nutriment, 7% sugar
|Perennial Growth
|Mutate Cherry
|Blue tomato
|10% nutriment, 20% space lube, 4% vitamin
|Slippery Skin, Perennial Growth
|Mutate Tomato
|Blue-space tomato
|20% ammonia, 10% chlorine, 20% nutriment
|Perennial Growth
|MegaSeed Servitor, mutate Pumpkin
|10% nutriment, 4% vitamin
|Perennial Growth
|MegaSeed Servitor
|Replica pod
|15% space drugs, 35% lipolicide
|Perennial Growth
|MegaSeed Servitor (hacked)
|Rainbow weed, Deathweed, Lifeweed, Omega weed
|2% nutriment, 5% hydrogen
|Perennial Growth
|Mutate Grass
|5% nutriment, 4% vitamin, 25% oculine
|MegaSeed Servitor, Seeds Crate
|10% nutriment
|Fungal Vitality
|MegaSeed Servitor, Seeds Crate, can overtake a tray
|7% nutriment, 7% sugar
|Perennial Growth
|MegaSeed Servitor
|Blue cherry
|Cherry Bomb
|10% nutriment, 10% sugar, 70% blackpowder
|Perennial Growth
|Only available from Xenobiology
|4% nutriment, 25% capsaicin, 4% vitamin
|Perennial Growth
|MegaSeed Servitor
|Ghost chili, Ice Pepper
|10% nutriment, 25% cocoa
|Perennial Growth
|MegaSeed Servitor
|Coffee arabica
|10% coffee powder, 4% vitamin
|Perennial Growth
|MegaSeed Servitor
|Coffee robusta
|Coffee robusta
|10% coffee powder, 4% vitamin, 10% ephedrine
|Perennial Growth
|Mutate Coffee arabica
|10% nutriment, 20% corn oil, 4% vitamin
|MegaSeed Servitor, Seeds Crate
|Death berry
|10% nutriment, 8% coniine, 10% tirizene, 4% vitamin
|Perennial Growth
|Mutate Poison-berry
|Death nettle
|50% fluorosulphuric acid, 50% sulphuric acid
|Perennial Growth, Weed Adaptation, Hypodermic Prickles
|Mutate Nettle, weed mutation
|35% cyanide, 15% space drugs, 15% lipolicide
|Perennial Growth
|Mutate Cannabis
|Destroying angel
|10% amatoxin, 4% mushroom hallucinogen, 20% amanitin
|Fungal Vitality
|Mutate Fly amanita
|10% nutriment, 4% vitamin
|Perennial Growth
|MegaSeed Servitor, Seeds Crate
|10% nutriment
|Perennial Growth
|Mutate Eggplant, Exotic Seeds Crate
|Fly amanita
|35% amatoxin, 4% mushroom hallucinogen
|Fungal Vitality
|MegaSeed Servitor (hacked), Exotic Seeds Crate, can overtake a tray
|Destroying angel
|10% sulfur, 10% carbon, 7% nitrogen, 5% potassium
|Perennial Growth
|Only available from Xenobiology
|5% nutriment, 20% bicaridine
|Mutate Poppy
|10% nutriment, 25% uranium, 20% iodine, 4% vitamin. Luminosity: 20%.
|Strong Bioluminescence, Separated Chemicals, Perennial Growth
|Mutate Berry
|Ghost chili
|4% nutriment, 55% capsaicin, 30% condensed capsaicin
|Perennial Growth
|Mutate Chili
|10% radium, 10% phosphorus, 4% nutriment. Glow: 10%
|Bioluminescence, Fungal Vitality
|MegaSeed Servitor (hacked)
|10% teslium. Glow: 10%. Restores up to 100% battery charge.
|Electrical Activity, Bioluminescence, Fungal Vitality
|Mutate Glowshroom
|Gold apple
|10% nutriment, 20% gold, 4% vitamin
|Mutate Apple
|10% nutriment, 10% sugar, 4% vitamin
|Perennial Growth
|MegaSeed Servitor
|Green grapes
|1% nutriment, 5% hydrogen
|Perennial Growth
|MegaSeed Servitor
|Green grapes
|10% nutriment, 20% kelotane, 10% sugar, 4% vitamin
|Mutate Grapes
|4% nutriment
|Weed Adaptation
|Can overtake a a tray
|20% holy water, 4% vitamin, 10% nutriment
|Perennial Growth
|Mutate Watermelon
|Ice Pepper
|2% nutriment, 25% frost oil, 2% vitamin
|Perennial Growth
|Mutate Chili
|Killer tomato
|10% nutriment, 4% vitamin
|Liquid Contents
|Mutate Tomato
|5% nutriment, 10% carpotoxin, 4% vitamin
|Perennial Growth
|Mutate Soybean
|2% nutriment, 4% charcoal
|Perennial Growth, Weed Adaptation
|Weed mutation
|Special, see this.
|5% nutriment, 4% vitamin
|Perennial Growth
|MegaSeed Servitor
|Combustible Lemon
|2% nutriment, 25% mushroom hallucinogen
|Fungal Vitality
|MegaSeed Servitor (hacked), Exotic Seeds Crate, weed mutation
|35% omnizine, 15% space drugs, 15% lipolicide
|Perennial Growth
|Mutate Cannabis
|5% nutriment, 20% bicaridine
|Perennial Growth
|Mutate Poppy
|5% nutriment, 4% vitamin
|Perennial Growth
|MegaSeed Servitor, mutate Orange
|5% nutriment, 4% vitamin
|Mutate Wheat
|Combustible Lemon
|5% nutriment
|Perennial Growth
|Mutate Lemon
|2% nutriment, 2% vitamin, 20% moonshine
|Mutate Sunflower
|50% sulphuric acid
|Perennial Growth, Weed Adaptation
|MegaSeed Servitor (hacked), Exotic Seeds Crate, can overtake a tray
|Death nettle
|25% condensed capsaicin, 30% capsaicin
|Mutate Sunflower
|Mutate Wheat
|Omega weed
|30% space drugs, 30% mindbreaker toxin, 15% mercury, 15% lithium, 15% atropine, 15% haloperidol, 15% methamphetamine, 15% capsaicin, 15% barber's aid, 15% bath salts, 15% itching powder, 15% crank, 15% krokodil, 15% histamine, 15% lipolicide
|Perennial Growth
|Mutate Cannabis
|5% nutriment, 4% vitamin
|Perennial Growth
|MegaSeed Servitor, mutate Lime
|5% vitamin, 5% nutriment
|Mutate Carrot
|Plump helmet
|10% nutriment, 4% vitamin
|Fungal Vitality
|MegaSeed Servitor (hacked), Exotic Seeds Crate, can overtake a tray
|Walking mushroom
|10% nutriment, 15% cyanide, 20% tirizene, 4% vitamin
|Perennial Growth
|Mutate Berry
|Death berry
|5% nutriment, 20% bicaridine
|MegaSeed Servitor
|Geranium, Lily
|10% nutriment, 4% vitamin
|Capacitive Cell Production
|MegaSeed Servitor, Seeds Crate
|Sweet Potato
|20% nutriment, 4% vitamin
|Perennial Growth
|MegaSeed Servitor
|Rainbow weed
|15% mindbreaker toxin, 35% lipolicide
|Perennial Growth
|Mutate Cannabis
|5% nutriment, 5% vitamin
|Densified Chemicals
|Mutate Whitebeet
|MegaSeed Servitor
|35% charcoal, 35% morphine
|Fungal Vitality
|MegaSeed Servitor (hacked), can overtake a tray
|Replica pod
|MegaSeed Servitor, Exotic Seeds Crate, Mutate Cabbage
|10% nutriment, 20% corn oil, 4% vitamin
|Mutate Corn
|5% nutriment, 4% vitamin
|Perennial Growth
|MegaSeed Servitor, Seeds Crate
|Space tobacco
|3% nutriment, 8% nicotine, 5% salbutamol
|Mutate Tobacco
|Can overtake a tray
|Fungal Vitality
|Mutate Towercap
|25% sugar
|Perennial Growth
|Seeds Crate
|8% corn oil, 4% nutriment
|MegaSeed Servitor, Seeds Crate
|Moonflower, Novaflower
|Sweet Potato
|10% nutriment, 10% sugar, 10% vitamin
|Mutate Potato
|Tea aspera
|10% tea powder, 4% vitamin
|Perennial Growth
|MegaSeed Servitor
|Tea astra
|Tea astra
|10% tea powder, 10% synaptizine, 4% vitamin
|Perennial Growth
|Mutate Tea aspera
|3% nicotine, 3% nutriment
|MegaSeed Servitor
|Space tobacco
|10% nutriment, 4% vitamin
|Liquid Content, Perennial Growth
|MegaSeed Servitor, Seeds Crate
|Blood, Blue or Killer tomato
|Fungal Vitality
|MegaSeed Servitor, can overtake a tray
|25% vanilla, 10% nutriment
|Perennial Growth
|Mutate Cocoa
|Walking mushroom
|15% nutriment, 5% vitamin
|Fungal Vitality
|Mutate Plump helmet
|20% nutriment, 20% water, 4% vitamin
|Perennial Growth
|MegaSeed Servitor
|4% nutriment
|MegaSeed Servitor, Seeds Crate
|Oat, Meatwheat
|5% nutriment, 20% sugar, 4% vitamin
|MegaSeed Servitor
- E-Z-Nutrient: Makes your plant mutate once every time it's ready for harvesting, and has no effect on the yield.
- Left 4 Zed: Makes your plant mutate twice, but it will only produce one plant at most - if the plant's yield is 0, then nothing is produced! You'll have to use another fertilizer to harvest the normal yield of the plant.
- Robust Harvest: Makes your plant produce twice as much, and will never mutate it. Useful if you already have good stats, are using unstable mutagen and don't want random mutations to interfere, or simply don't want to bother with mutating at all.
- Nutriment: A fertilizer. You can get it from the Chef, or by using your own plants. Heals the plant.
- Ammonia: Also a fertilizer, same effect as nutriment. Get it from the Chemist or hack the Nutri-Vend to get this.
- Diethylamine: A very powerful fertilizer. Twice as effective, meaning 1 unit diethylamine adds 2 units nutrient. Heals the plant AND also kills pests. Get it the same way you get Ammonia.
Pest Removal
- Pest Killer: Kills pests, and adds a small amount of toxicity.
- Weed Killer: Same as above, but for Weeds.
- Unstable Mutagen: Used to randomly mutate plants without harming them directly with toxins. Only use 1 or 2 units for optimized results.
- Radium and Uranium: Same chance to mutate plants, but you need 10 units, they also damage the plant and add toxicity.
- Saltpeter: Ask the chemists for this, this increases potency and has a chance to increase yield as well
Plant Meds
- Charcoal: Makes your plant less toxic. You can get it by whining to anyone who works in Medbay.
- Cryoxadone: Heals your plant, via miracles. Also lowers toxicity. Get it from the Chemist, or find a nice doctor to steal some from cryogenics.
- Holy water: If you can get the Chaplain's attention and make him bless your water, it will heal your plant a bit.
- Ash: Heals your plant and adds nutriment. Also kills weeds.
- Saltpetre: Heals your plant, increases potency and decreases production time.
Plant Killers
- Plant-B-Gone: Seriously damages the plant. Also lowers toxicity by magic and kills weeds.
- Toxins, Acids, Fluorine, Chlorine: Damage the plant.
- Sugar: Makes pests and weeds grow stronger. Unless you plan to use some mutagen to unleash giant spiders upon the station, it's of no use.
- Phosphorus: Damages plant, drains water, kills weeds and, surprisingly, adds nutriment. If you manage to get your hands on a lot of it, you can use it to kill useless plants without hurting the next plant.
Advanced Botany
Maybe you want to grow something more impressive than the tiny potatoes your plants probably produced. Or perhaps you got unlucky and harvested only one of each. A plant's stats determine all this and more, and true botanists are unafraid to PLAY GOD and change them!
Use your plant analyzer on a growing plant. You should get something like this:
- Plant Age: 5
- Plant Endurance: 15
- Plant Lifespan: 25
- Plant Yield: 4
- Plant Production: 1
- Plant Potency: 5
- Weed level: 2/10
- Pest level: 3/10
- Toxicity level: 0/100
- Water level: 86/100
- Nutrition level: 7/10
You can also scan the growns:
- Plant type: Normal plant
- Potency: 5
- Yield: 4
- Maturation speed: 6
- Production speed: 1
- Endurance: 15
- Nutritional value: 1
- Other substances: 0
And seeds (you can also see these stats from inside the seed extractor storage):
- Plant Endurance: 15
- Plant Lifespan: 25
- Species Discovery Value: 0
- Plant Yield: 4
- Plant Production: 1
- Plant Potency: 5
These names may be confusing at first. Here is what they all mean:
- Age: Age of the plant. Only relevant in terms of the lifespan stat.
- Endurance: Max health. Between 10 and 100. Not very useful, unless you leave your garden often.
- Lifespan: When the age is above lifespan, the plant starts losing health. Between 10 and 100. Not important at all in plants that can only be harvested once, unless they die before harvest. Barely useful for the other ones, because you can always plant it again.
- Yield: How much product you get each harvest. Between 0 and 10. Pay attention to this, because if it drops to 0, you won't harvest anything.
- Maturation Speed: Age cycles before the plant can start production. The first harvest will be (Maturation Speed + Production Speed).
- Production Speed: How fast your plant reaches harvest. Between 1 and 10 -- the lower the faster. The plant has to wait (Production Speed) age cycles before each harvest.
- Potency: The most important stat. Between 0 and 100. Basically, this determines plant power. Mostly affects the amount of chemicals in the plant, though some have additional effects, such as stun length for bananas. To get the amount of a given chemical in a plant, multiply the reagent in the chart by the potency: for example, 10% nutriment will be 5 nutriment at 50 potency.
Some plants have special traits, that can be tranferred through the Plant DNA Manipulator.
- Slippery Skin: Causes the plant, or any products of the plant, to become slippery. The stun time is (Potency * 0.08), divided by 3 unless the plant has lube or is a banana. Maximum stun is 7 seconds.
- Liquid Contents: Causes the plant to squash when thrown, applying the reagents inside on the target and destroying the plant.
- Hypodermic Prickles: Plants with this trait will sting when thrown, transferring a portion of their chemicals to the target.
- Capacitive Cell Production: Plants with this trait can be made into batteries with the addition of wire. Electrical Activity increases the cell's maximum charge.
- Electrical Activity: Gives the plant electrical charge, making it recharge batteries when used; it will also electrocute on slip if it also has Slippery Skin and on hit if it has Liquid Contents.
- Bluespace Activity: Gives the plant bluespace properties, making it teleport people hit if the plant has Liquid Contents, and on slip if it has Slippery Skin.
- Bioluminescence: Causes the plant to glow, emitting light equal to 10% of potency.
- Strong Bioluminescence: Causes the plant to glow, emitting light equal to 20% of potency.
- Separated Chemicals: Makes plant reagents not react until squashed.
- Densified Chemicals: Doubles the reagent capacity of the plant.
- Perennial Growth: Plants with this trait can be harvested more than once.
- Weed Adaptation: The plant acquires weed-like properties, making it not need nutrients and immune to weeds in the tray.
- Fungal Vitality: The plant acquires mushroom-like properties, making it not need light or water.
- Gaseous Decomposition: Plants with this trait emit a smoke cloud when squashed, spewing reagents everywhere. Requires Liquid Contents to be useful.
To change the stats, you need to mutate your plant. Keep in mind that mutations are completely random, but you can do a more efficient job depending on how much you're willing to cooperate with other departments.
- Of your starting fertilizers, E-Z Nutriment makes the plant mutate once every time it's ready to harvest. Left 4 Zed makes it mutate twice, but you'll have to replace the nutriment to actually harvest something! Finally, regular nutriment has a very small chance to mutate the plant into a different specie.
- You can speed up the process by asking the chemist for some unstable mutagen. The effects of mutagen depend on how much you use. Best applied after transferring it to an empty fertiliser bottle, for greater control over amount used (Right-click > Set transfer amount). Pour 5 units on your plant and prepare for...
- 10% chance of the plant losing lots of health instantly. The plant can die because of this
- 10% chance of mutation into a related species. This destroys the old plant and plants a new one. See the plants table for the information on these mutations.
- 15% chance of heavy stat mutation with a 3% chance of a new trait appearing.
- 15% chance of normal stat mutation.
- 20% chance of nothing. You get a message when this happens.
- 10% chance of weeds mutating. If weed level is less than 5, nothing happens, otherwise you get a random mutated weed.
- 10% chance of pests mutating. Again, if pest level is less than 5, nothing happens. Otherwise, three spiderlings are spawned. Shout for help and try to explain to security why you didn't use pest spray.
Or, if you don't want to bother with species mutation, pour 2 units for a guaranteed heavy stat mutation with a 3% chance of a new trait appearing, or even 1 for a guaranteed normal stat mutation. This method is safe even if you don't have backup seeds, and you can use a bottle for it.
- You can use radium and uranium, but they cause ill effects, and if you can get radium, you can get mutagen.
- R&D can also make a wonderful thing called a Floral Somatoray. It has two options: increase yield and mutate the plant. In yield more mode, every time you fire it at the plant, there is a chance the yield will increase. The chance becomes very small when you reach high levels, but it's very useful for low-yield plants. It can even raise yield from zero! In mutation mode, it will always induce a normal stat mutation.
Replica Pod Cloning
Replica pod is a very special plant. It can be used to grow dead people back to life, in the case that genetics is destroyed. To clone someone, follow these simple steps:
- Take a blood sample from the body using a syringe.
- Inject it into the bag of seeds.
- Plant the seeds.
- Let the plant grow and harvest it.
A cloned person will become a podman. They are a little different from normal humans (e.g. they regenerate in light but suffer in darkness).
If you grow a replica pod without any blood, there's a chance that it will produce more than one seed, and this chance depends on both luck and the plant's yield. Cabbage can be mutated into a replica pod.
Other Notes
Usual plant stats affect active kudzu in the specific way:
- Potency of the seed will make kudzu mutate more on spread, the chance to mutate on each new piece is [potency / 10]
- Production will affect how fast the kudzu can spread, usual kudzu spreads at a rate of 20% of the amount of pieces per tick but no more than 30, production changes the cap [30 * production / 50] and the percent of processed pieces per tick [20 * (production / 50)]
Killing the last piece of kudzu will create a kudzu seed on its place with all the mutations of the piece saved in the seed, so if you reactivate it new first piece will have all the same mutations the seed has and will spread it to all the progenitors. Kudzu can gain mutations only on spread, here is the list of all of them:
- CO2 consumption - positive mutation, consumes CO2 from the air
- Space covering - positive mutation, makes vines grow vine floors over space
- Light - positive mutation, about 40% of the vines with this mutation emit light slightly more powerful than PDA
- Transparency - positive mutation, makes vines look-through
- Toxins consumption - positive mutation, absorbs plasma from the air
- Bluespace vines - minor negative mutation, makes vines be able to grow through anything
- Explosive - minor negative mutation, on death vines with this mutation explode with a 0,0,2 power, clusters of this vine will chain-explode one after another
- Fire resistant - minor negative mutation, makes vines ignore fire damage, be it plasma fires or welders
- Vine eating - minor negative mutation, vines with this mutation will eat vines without it
- Toxicity - negative mutation, eating vine with this mutation or walking thought it will cause you toxin damage
- Aggressive spreading - negative mutation, on spreading vines will cause effect of mini-explosion on the tile they spread to, mobs buckled by this vine will also experience effects akin to minor explosion
- O2 consumption - negative mutation, absorbs O2 from the air around
- N2 consumption - negative mutation, absorbs N2 from the air
- Thorns - negative mutation, makes mobs touching or going through vines recieve physical damage
- Hardening - negative mutation, makes vines not die fast from sharp objects, but makes non-sharp objects(hands included) be more effective agaisnt them, on the full maturation block the passage
- Flowering - negative mutation, makes vines very entangly and spawns harmful flowers occasionally, flowers after destruction spawn flower mob that is agressive and attacks
Adding special chemicals to the tray when the seeds are growing will affect the specific kudzu mutations:
- Adding 5u of welding fuel will remove random positive mutation with a 20% probability
- Adding 5u of phenol will remove a random minor negative mutation with a 20% probability
- Adding 5u of sterilizine will remove a random negative mutation with a 20% probability
- Adding 15u of blood will change the production value of the seeds by a random number in the range from -5 to +15
- Adding 5u of amatoxin will change the production value of the seeds by a random number in the range from -15 to +5
- Adding 5u of plasma will change the potency value of the seeds by a random number in the range from -15 to +5
- Adding 10u of holy water will change a potency value of the seeds by a random number in the range from -5 to +15
Sandstone and Soil
If you pick up the grass and use it (click on it in your hand), you will prepare astroturf. Get a crowbar and remove some floor tiles, then place astroturf in their place. In addition to looking nice, it can be used to get some sand. Just dig it with your spade and you'll get two piles. Now, pick up the sand and use it; you will make a sandstone brick. Using three bricks, you can make a soil plot, which is like a tray, except you can walk over it and there are no lights. You can also build a sandstone door with 10 bricks.
Science can build hydroponics trays. They can also upgrade them by replacing the matter bins, and this increases the water and nutrient capacity of the tray.
Wood and Drying Racks
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Note: you can dry any plant, and smoking it will give you all chemicals that were in it. You can smoke dried apples if you want, and get nutriment from them.
Things You Can Make Out of Your Plants
- Add some cable to a potato to make a potato battery.
- Glowberries and glowshrooms, as the name suggests, glow.
- You can carve a pumpkin with a hatchet. Carved pumpkins can be worn and you can toggle them to emit a weak light.
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- Flowers and ambrosia can be worn on your head.
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July 2016: Contents
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- Remarks from the Chair: The last word from Penny Remsen
- UMass Theater reaches out to the next generation of students
- Ilana Ransom Toeplitz wins a coveted Drama League Fellow spot
- Meeting industry heavy weights: Ilana Ransom Toeplitz shares reflections on Professionals Week
- Updates
Remarks from the Chair: The last word from Penny Remsen
Hello all—
This is it: my last note from the chair to you, our extended theater family! (Brace yourselves — I have a lot I want to tell you about!)
I leave with mixed feelings. On the one hand, being chair means being a tireless advocate for all we do — and that can get tiring. I am ready to go back to "just" teaching for a while and am looking forward to doing some lighting design again.
On the other hand, all that hard work was for a really good cause. After all, I've ALWAYS been a proud advocate for all we achieve here. It was incredibly rewarding to be able to use the voice I had as chair to tackle a number of pressing issues and dream projects.
I'm pleased that on my watch, we were able to renovate the Curtain Theater as well as the house and lobby of the Rand Theater. Both projects improved the learning experience of our students and the theater experience of our audience members. We also upgraded the Upper Rand Lobby into the Upper Rand Studio, which was a big help to performance classes.
In my time as chair I was fortunate to meet a number of our generous donors, and I loved getting to know them and finding out what drives their generosity. I'm forever grateful to the wonderful Susan and Larry Benedict for the scholarship they established to honor outstanding design and technical students, and I can't say thank you enough to Stephen Driscoll for the BADA Scholarship, which covers tuition and airfare to enable UMass students to attend the British American Drama Academy's Midsummer in Oxford program. Kisses to these wonderful folks and to every single one of you who funded the MinuteFunds, bought the seats, and otherwise supported us in a million ways.
The past seven years have seen a stunning variety of mainstage shows, the creation of a new Play Lab, collaborations with internationally-renowned artists, and hundreds of presentations of student work. It was my honor and privilege to serve a talented, hard-working, dedicated group of students, faculty, and staff and to help them get what they needed to succeed.
Taking over for me will be Gina Kaufmann. She'll tell you a little bit about her plans in the next issue of Stages, but in the meantime I hope you'll join me in extending a warm welcome to her as she starts this new position!
If you're not quite ready to move on from the year that was, I want to alert you to an interesting document we've uploaded to our website, the department's 2015-2016 Year In Review. You'll find information about our past season; what faculty, staff, and students were up to; and details about projects we took on. The PDF is available for download — as are the past years' issues — and we invite you to take a look.
Mentioned in those pages are a number of high-achieving alumni, and I want to single out for praise three guys who represented us beautifully on Broadway this year and were nominated for Tony Awards. David Korins '99 received a nod for his Hamilton set, Justin Townsend '97 for his lighting designs of The Humans and American Psycho, and Ben Stanton '00 for his lighting design work on Spring Awakening. They got all sorts of (well-deserved) coverage, and you can read some of the stories from local media online.
Looking ahead now, I want to take this opportunity to tell you about our new season. It's going to be an inspiring, challenging, beautiful series of shows. We're still leaning heavily on the development and presentation of ground-breaking new work. We are also looking at older works through a contemporary lens, to see what that perspective reveals to us.
Without further ado, here are the shows; click here for details about each show!
The Misanthrope
Written by Molière, adapted by Constance Congdon '82G
Directed by Mary Corinne Miller
Rand Theater
October 19, Half-Price Preview at 7:30 pm
October 21, October 22, October 27, October 28, and October 29, at 7:30 pm
October 26, Student Matinee at 10:00 am
October 29, at 2:00 pm
Written by Milan Dragicevich
With music by Tim Eriksen
Directed by Nikita Milivojevic
Curtain Theater
November 30, Half-Price Preview at 7:30 pm
December 2, December 3, December 7, December 8, December 9, and December 10 at 7:30 pm
December 10 at 2:00 pm
Hedda Gabler
Written by Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Christina Pellegrini
Directed by Christina Pellegrini
Rand Theater
February 22, Half-Price Preview at 7:30 pm
February 24, February 25, March 1, March 2, March 3, and March 4 at 7:30 pm
March 4 at 2 pm
UMass New Play Lab
Produced by Claudia Nolan and Ifa Bayeza
Directed by Ifa Bayeza
Curtain Theater
March 30, April 1, 2017 and April 6, at 7:30 pm
April 8 at 2:00 pm
The Happiest Song Plays Last
Written by Quiara Alegría Hudes
Directed by Jennifer Onopa
Rand Theater
April 5, Half-Price Preview at 7:30 pm
April 7, April 8, April 12, April 13, April 14, and April 15 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, April 15 at 2 pm
Ta'zieh — Between two rivers
Conceived by Nikoo Mamdoohi and Q-Mars Haeri
Written by Q-Mars Haeri and Ifa Bayeza
Directed by Nikoo Mamdoohi
Off Site Location to be announced
April 27 and 28 at 7:30 pm
April 29 at 2 pm
We hope you'll join us for a show!
UMass Theater reaches out to the next generation of students
When she officially takes over, chair Gina Kaufmann will tell you more about her goals for her time in the position, but until she does, we're not telling tales to let you know that one of the things she has already begun to focus on as her time in the role of Undergraduate Program Director is the stepping up of recruitment efforts. She hopes to reach out to students who are under-represented in the department, and she hopes to reach out to students when they're just starting to think about college. To that end, she and graduate student Jen Onopa started working on ways to reach out to local schools, and we asked Jen to write up a report for you on what they've done so far.
This year the Department of Theater began exploring opportunities to engage with groups of secondary students from the greater Springfield area. The purposes for this were both to expand the department's current community engagement work and to increase recruitment of underrepresented groups of students within the department.
In the spring semester, MFA directing candidate Jen Onopa, a former teacher in the New York City public schools, worked with Professor Gina Kaufmann to meet with several key stakeholders within the UMass community to investigate effective ways in which to align with current university diversity recruitment initiatives as well as to meet community needs.
As part of this initiative, the Department of Theater hosted a group of high school students from Springfield's Renaissance Charter school in April 2016, through a college visitation program established by Leykia Brill, Assistant Provost of Diversity. Over 50 students attended a workshop in the Curtain Theater facilitated by Jen Onopa along with undergraduate acting students Mallory Kassoy and Miguel Angel Paredes that included theater games, a performance by the undergraduate actors, and a discussion about issues in the scene and the students' questions about college life.
In May, 2016, through a partnership with Bridget Hynes and Tyson Rose of the UMass Upward Bound program, the Department of Theater facilitated another workshop with ten students from Springfield's High School of Commerce. The Upward Bound program supports the development of academic and social-emotional skills for students who might not traditionally be considered college-bound. Onopa designed the theater devising workshop to accommodate key aspects of the work that the Upward Bound staff had been doing with the high school students, including a focus on decision-making. Co-facilitating the workshop were two undergraduate theater students, Anderson Lara and Miguel Angel Paredes.
Due to the success of both the hosting and visiting theater workshops, the Department of Theater will continue these partnerships in the coming school year and will explore additional ways to engage neighboring communities, ranging from initiating an additional secondary school partnership in Holyoke, a community college partnership, and investigate what it would take to initiate a summer high school theater institute. Additionally, the department is considering tailoring high school visiting workshops that are thematically connected to the mainstage season.
Ilana Ransom Toeplitz wins a coveted spot as a Drama League Fellow
No one would have blamed Ilana Ransom Toeplitz a few years ago for needing a moment or ten to recover from a series of misfortunes in her life — losing her job and boyfriend in short order, followed by her father's illness and then, sadly, his passing. Toeplitz, however, turned out to be the kind of woman who read that string of events as a sign to get serious about pursuing her dreams. To wit: after several years of racking up internships, assistant directing, and directing credits, she has secured a spot as one of the 2016 Drama League Directing Fellows. Toeplitz is the Leo Shull New Musicals Fellow, the only musicals-focused director in the group, and will participate in a year-long program that includes mentoring, working with an established director in a musical theater lab, and producing her own work.
"I've been working toward this for 5 or 6 years, and I pinch myself every day," Toeplitz said. She described participating in the program as akin to "a 10-year jumpstart" on a directing career, since the program's alumni are a veritable who's who of Broadway professionals, adding that they are "a family that will always have your back."
"That kind of support for directors is invaluable because we don't get that. I'm incredibly proud to be a part of (the program)," she said.
Getting to New York
When Toeplitz graduated from UMass with a BDIC in Artistic Direction and Arts Management, she had plans to head to New York City as soon as possible. Instead, the aforementioned circumstances kept her in Massachusetts, and she pursued work with local companies — she was assistant-directing and in technical rehearsal with the Huntington Theatre in Boston when she got the word her father died. After she finished dealing with everything she needed to address in the wake of his passing, she embarked on what she calls "Ilana's Regional Tour."
"I wanted to get to know the regional theater scene. So I packed up my dad's Subaru Forester with different bins labelled by weather conditions, and got an internship at Signature Theatre — where I'll be returning in August as part of my fellowship," Toeplitz said. Over the following 18 months, she found internships in 6 different cities. "I found places to stay on an interns' budget of $100/week by calling in favors, cat-sitting, doing whatever I had to do to be there."
She was in assistant choreographing at the Pittsburgh CLO when she got a call to assistant-direct the Keen Company's Off-Broadway "revisal" of Marry Me A Little, a musical written by Stephen Sondheim. As amazing an opportunity as it was, assistant directing a Stephen Sondheim piece is still no guarantee you're going to be a hop, skip, and jump away from directing on Broadway. However, Toeplitz built a friendship with the choreographer of the show, Dan Knechtges, a Broadway veteran.
"He was incredibly generous and basically wrote down a list of 20 names and said, 'I'm going to introduce you to these people'," she said. "Through him I met Leigh Silverman who directed Violet on Broadway, which I assistant directed."
As she was assisting more established directors, Toeplitz was also seeking out her own opportunities, including a concert presentation of the musical version of Reefer Madness, starring Alan Cumming.
"It just started as an idea with my friends because I wanted to do a show at 54 Below, and then once we talked to the writers and brought Christian Campbell on board, it ballooned, and then Alan Cumming got on board, and then it just became something that was way bigger than anything I'd ever imagined!" Toeplitz said.
At the same time, she was working on Violet.
"My off-Broadway directing debut with Alan Cumming opened hours before my Broadway show, which is a great problem to have!" she said.
A good Fellowship
All this time, however, Toeplitz had her eye on the Drama League program.
"When I had just graduated and I was in that apartment in Boston eating black beans out of a can and watching Netflix, I googled Directing Program and I was like, 'Oh, there's this one with the Drama League,' and I didn't realize what a big deal it was. So I applied and it was like …" Toeplitz made a derisive noise as she recalled that first application.
With more experience, she realized what a big deal it was and put more effort into the next application. It was on her third try that she got in. She will spend a year in the program before, as she joked, passing on the tiara to the next Fellow.
The first part of the program is already under her belt. In May, all the Fellows participated in Professionals Week, when, as the name implies, they spent a week meeting with professionals in the field.
"Even though it's ended I feel like it's still going because I've gotten a lot of second and third meetings from it," Toeplitz said. In fact, just before we went to publish, she emailed that one of the second/third meetings she took post-professionals week has led to a gig directing and choreographing her first national tour this fall!
(For more on the week, scroll down to read an excerpt of her blog post on the subject or click through to the Drama League website for the full post)
During the same week, she attended the Drama League Awards, which she described as "kind of like director prom. They announce you as one of the future directors of America and everybody in this whole giant ballroom applauds you."
Later this summer, part three of her Fellowship will be a trip to Signature Theater in Arlington, VA, to work on two new musicals with director Joe Calarco.
The formal program ends in the fall. "The Drama League is producing a night of my own direction with the intention of introducing me to the Broadway/Regional theatre community. I'll be directing an evening of musical theatre tailored to show my strengths as a director/choreographer, specifically of new musicals and musical comedy. I keep joking around saying that it's my 'Director's Debutante Ball'," Toeplitz said.
She's not ready to say what she'll do, although she does know that it will be new work. "I'm speed dating a lot of really, really exciting writers, and I'm beginning to get a vision of what I want to do," she said.
When asked what she had brought with her from UMass Theater that helped her toward her current successes, Toeplitz was quick with an answer: "Teaching initiative, and wanting to be your own engine."
"(Acclaimed musical director) Susan Stroman always says you can't wait for the phone to ring, you have to do it yourself," she said, "and I think UMass does a great job of setting up parameters for you, but then it's up to you and your initiative to make things actually happen, which is a great skill to have. You're not always going to have a prescribed course and curriculum, definitely not in this industry."
She also credited UMass's liberal arts approach — Toeplitz found a huge value in the set design classes she took with Professor Emeritus Miguel Romero. "I'm a huge believer that as a director that you should just know as many vocabularies as you can. It helped me become a better communicator and artist."
(Photo of Ilana Ransom Toeplitz by Lidia Arriagada-García)
Meeting industry heavy weights: Reflections on Professionals Week
Like so many things, we learned about Toeplitz's time in the Drama League Directing Fellows program on facebook. As part of the program, she blogged about her experience during Professionals Week, when the fellows get a chance to talk to mentors in the field, and posted it in a status update. It's a lively and fun post, and we asked if we could excerpt it, so here's her introduction — click over to read the rest of the post on the Drama League blog.
Professionals Week was one of the most exhilarating, edifying, rewarding, exhausting weeks of my life.
Read the whole blog post at: http://dramaleague.org/blogs/directors-project/professionals-week-musings
A message from Penny
We were saddened this spring to learn that Miguel Romero's husband, Paul Sheren, passed away suddenly. Miguel and Paul had been partnered for many years when Massachusetts ruled in favor marriage equality. Nonetheless, they got married the very day Massachusetts made it legal, and remained devoted to each other until the day of Paul's passing. After making a life together in western Massachusetts for many years, they and their dog Hershey moved back to New York City after Miguel's retirement and enjoyed the return to life in the city.
Paul was always a vocal supporter of Miguel's work and of the efforts of the Department of Theater in general, and I always enjoyed seeing him at department functions. Paul was a warm, caring, generous person, and he will be sorely missed as a member of our extended UMass Theater community. My heartfelt condolences to Miguel on Paul's passing.
Naomi Bennett '01 caught us up on a whole bunch of stuff going on in her life: "A lot has happened since I sent an update: In 2011 I left New England to get my M.F.A. in Television, Film and Theatre production (graduated June 2015) at CSULA. While I was in L.A. I had the chance to study with alumna Tanya Kane-Parry (who is a professor at CSULA), directed for the Hollywood Fringe Festival (nominated two years in a row for Best in Dance and Physical Theatre), and dabbled in projection design. In 2015 I drove cross-county to move to Baton Rouge, and have now finished my first year at LSU for my PhD in Communication Studies with a focus in Performance Studies. This fall I will be directing for our black box season, exploring long distance intimacy and performance via social media. My show will be devised and performed through long distance, computer-mediated social media platforms."
Pioneer Valley theater folks can see fellow alumna Toby Bercovici's directing work this summer, alongside a number of alumnae actors. She co-adapts and directs The Life and Death of Queen Margaret featuring the work of UMASS undergraduate alumni Linda Tardif, Kate Hare, and Annelise Nielsen. It performs at Smith College July 29-31 and August 5-6. In the Fall, the production will tour to Colby College, where Bercovici is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater.
We heard from California-based alumnus Greg Hoyt that he appeared in the world premiere of a play called The Engine of Our Ruin by Jason Wells and at the Victory Theatre Center in Burbank.
Emily Courville '99 checked in with a run down of what she's been doing: "After a few years at Hartford Stage Company as their production electrician and moonlighting with local 84 as a light board programmer, I moved on to work for an analysis/software company supporting non profits. 12 years later, i now work directly for a non profit, The Humane Society of the United States, as a Senior Director of Analytics and Research. Random skills gained from my theater degree have made me a much more well rounded project, process and product manager than many of my peers. And I was able to redesign the layout of the offices and cubicles to maximize available work spaces and the flow between departments. No one has asked me to sew anything yet, though I did offer."
Graduate student Claudia Nolan let us know that a member of our extended theater family, MJ Kaufman, just had their play Eat and You Belong to Us put on the Kilroys List, which, as Claudia points out, "is such an awesome recognition and honor."
What are you doing this summer? Send us your updates so we can include them in the next Stages issue! Cool projects, babies, new jobs, awesome honors — we'd love to brag about all you amazing people are accomplishing. Send Us Updates!
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