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PLOT OF THE SEASON – Get your bow, Robin! There's a-doin's a-transpirin'! The Sheriff has solved that little problem of you maybe killing him by making a deal with Prince John. If the Sheriff doesn't send a seal* to John every week, Nottingham is burned to the ground. And how is the Sheriff paying for this magnificent life assurance? In evil schemes, of course! He's helping John get a variety of nobles on his side, so that when King Richard returns to England, they'll kill him and use their freshly loyal armies to solidify John's hold on the country. Only Robin Hood can stop him, but it won't be easy. For one thing, baldy beardy hasn't given up on doing extracurricular evil schemes for the fun of it, Marian's living in the castle after Guy burned down her house, and he's got five sidekicks trying to jump on the character development train.
*A wax seal**, not a live seal.
** Meaning an impression of the sheriff's ring in wax, not a seal made of wax.
APOLOGY - First I need to say something I totally missed in my season one review: The theme tune kicks ass. Bum ba da BUMMM ba da da bum banadadadaDUM! Great stuff. I really should have mentioned it in my last review. They play it at the many suitably heroic moments and it's just so great that Robin gets his own heroic theme to pull out at inspirational moments, like Indiana Jones or Superman. It's such a hero thing, and not one of the other things we've seen here have had that kind of strong theme. (DIGRESSION: I like Shirley Walker's "Superman the Animated Series" theme better than the one from the movies.) So anyway, sorry I missed that.
THE GOOD - Thankfully, the writers really figured out what worked from last season and what didn't. The mood is more lighthearted but the stakes are more dramatic, the dialogue's wittier but the performances are realer, and most important, the haircuts are a lot saner. The ham-fisted modern parallels are… less so. Look at it this way: Worst line was not something with a lot of competition this season, and the line that I chose is more because it could have been so much better. But for best line, there was serious competition, and I... well, you'll see. There's none worth complaining about, so that's something. In fact, they have a line that's very similar to my 'fixed' worst line of the last season. Marian's dad, Sir Someone, says that he believes in the rights of the free man, and the sheriff's response is a concise "Who cares what you believe?" Anyway, good season. I actually ranked it at five stars on Netflix. Truth be told, on a 1-5 scale, I'd give it like a 4.3, but I bumped it up because it was just that enjoyable. Of course, that missing .7 had to come from somewhere.
THE BAD - Let's be clear, a few episodes are blatant stinkers. But I'm used to that. You can't be a fan of genre television without learning to bear it. Like on Doctor Who, you can't get to "The Girl in the Fireplace" without first sitting through "Fear Her" . (American Equivalent - You have to sit through "Hide and Q" to see "Tapestry".) The finale particularly went all over the place, negating the rest of the season in the most convoluted and crazy way possible. (See also: Doctor Who) But as I say, I'm used to that, and it doesn't bother me so much. What does bother me are the little subtle ways the writers don't trust themselves. Their lack of faith in their own plotting leads them to fall back on clichéd business like Guy/Marian sexual tension or Robin brooding, and none of that works at all. But for things that really bothered me, most of it fits in with the individual sections, and is thus dealt with below in a presumably humorous manner.
("Barbers... I do not like." [joke by the author's brother])
LITTLE JOHN - Thank god Gordon Kennedy decided to let his hair grow in the off season. He looks great this season, and his character really clicked… most of the time. Having apparently spent some time on the Klingon homeworld, John has developed a new catchphrase; "It is a good day to die!" And for the most part is all fun and gung-ho, until on incredibly wangsty scene where he admits he has a for realsies death wish, due to his likely-forever separation from his wife and son. In this speech, he refers to his son as "Little Little John", eliciting a very loud and inappropriate laugh from me. On the wonderfully ridiculous front, John's considerable strength has been amped up this season to Hulk-like levels. When he stops a giant stone wall from closing by lifting it with his back, or punches down a door that Will can't lock pick, it's always fun. He also gets to handle the medicine this year, which makes sense, what with him being a woodsman and knowing all the plants and what have you. If this was last year, Jack would be doing the medicine. But other people are allowed to be special now!
(The decision to make Will more distinctive to the audience by a funny hat was, I feel, a misstep.)
WILL SCARLET - Will Scarlet - SUPERCARPENTER! Okay, so after napping his way through season one, the Scarlet wonder makes a return here, and they seem to have decided that since the only cool stuff he ever did was build something or go after the castle's architecture, they'd play up his carpentry skill even more this time around. And it's… well, it's frankly implausible a lot of the time. Making a camouflaged entrance to the gang's hideout: Good. Making a wooden slide projector: Bad. On a positive note, Harry Lloyd can widen his eyes now! Hooray! Acting! Actually, I saw him on an episode of Doctor Who, and he was kind of amazingly over the top. Maybe he only has two speeds. Deranged On Account of Alien Posession and Subtle To the Point of Napping. But anyway, the wide and narrow eyes help a lot, and he actually has some nice moments in the last few episodes, when they step up the writing on Will, which helps a lot. Oh, and his mustache thickens up a lot this season, which somehow looks pretty good, rather than being creepy, like you would expect.
(Tuck will be played by the English lovechild of Dennis Hayesbert and the Old Spice guy.)
TUCK - Still not shown up, but the third season has aired, and Tuck finally made the cut, so you'll hear about him eventually. He's a tall, handsome, muscular, black man. Normally, I'd roll my eyes at this, but given what they've done with Alan and Much, I say let's go nuts.
(I forget what was going on here, but based on the rest of the season, I'd have to guess Much noticed they shouldn't be shooting at something, and everyone else ignored him and called him stupid.)
MUCH - Speaking of whom... Sadly, the tradeoff for the far superior season we have here is that my favorite character from season one doesn't do quite so well. Part of it is just that with the increasing development of the other characters, and Robin's more solid relationship with Marian, Much's role as confidante is way less important. So with less importance to the hero and no episodes for himself this year, his role dissolves mostly to complaining and being jealous of Marian. Poo. And what's more, the writers have decided that it would be the absolute height of comedy to have the other characters constantly make fun of much and not treat him like an actual part of the gang. By the time the season is done, he has fully transitioned from Faithful Sidekick to Butt Monkey. (By the way, when one is making notes on a show into a tape recorder, the phrase "Butt Monkey Much" is hard to say.) To make matters worse, Much keeps on making really good points and prudent observations, yet the show seems determined to make him look like he's just a whiner. No! He's making sense! Jerky show. You ruined my favorite character!
(When I say run, run. RUN.)
By the way, I totally forgot to tell you guys last time, but the guy who plays Much is the grandson of the first-ever TV Robin Hood, who was also the second (and my favorite) Doctor Who. He's got awesome in his blood.
(It took her a while to get the idea of 'camouflage')
MARIAN - DEAD, BABY. I'm just kidding, again. They actually did the fakeout death at the end of last season, but she's fine. In this season, the Sheriff grows ever more suspicious of Marian and Sir Someone, and Guy capitalizes on this by burning down their house so they'll have to live in the castle, and Marian can never refuse to see him. How romantic. Naturally, this makes spying a little hard for her, but she manages to get quite a bit of vital info to the outlaws by clever subterfuge and stepping up her seduction game to like a billion. Guy, of course, buys it hook, line, and anachronistic fishing device, and thinks she really really likes him. So when her father dies attempting to escape the castle's prison and Marian runs away, he takes it hard. When he finds out she's been helping the outlaws, he takes it harder. And when she tells him she was in love with Robin all along, he stabs her in the stomach. So yeah, I really wasn't kidding when I said she was dead. I think we can safely say no one saw that coming. Except all of you now that you've read this. And if you looked at the pictures at the end of the last review.
(Man, everyone should get a bad guy costume next year.)
ALAN - Can I say best thing ever? Sure I can. And that's good, because I'm going to say that Alan's role in this season is to be given the BEST THING EVER AWARD, taking the title from the previous holder, which was… I don't know, Patrick Bergin's mustache or something. See, last season, they played with the idea that Alan might pinch the outlaw's stash and run off on his own, but he decided not to. This season… Well, he got a better offer. He spent most of the first episode out of commission after getting captured running a shell game in Nottingham, and after a spot of light torture, Guy comes in with a proposition. Spy on the outlaws, and not only do I not kill you, but I'll slide you some dough on the side. Feeling that this is his best option, Al starts spilling the beans on some of their upcoming plans. He's careful not to reveal their secret base or rat out Marian, but that doesn't help when Robin Hood finds him out, and they have a full-blown ass-kicking fest all over the castle. Alan finds his career opportunities limited after this, and saves his life by taking up a full-time henching position with the Gisbourne firm, complete with snazzy new bad-guy outfit. (This includes an implication that leather jackets are part of the villain ranking system.) For the rest of the season, he's striking a balance between trying to prove to the gang that he can be trusted while still avoiding getting disemboweled by his famously unstable boss. Even better, his clever plans and outside-the-box thinking are more appreciated by Team Evil, so he's got his ego in the mix. He never falters from wanting to do good, but when forced to do evil, he'll do it well. It's great.
(Hello, the Queen of England. I am a Saracen. Let's not make this any more awkward than it has to be.)
JACK - Jack femmes herself up this year, and EVERYONE WINS! Actually, the attractiveness of Jack is kind of annoying. Sometimes up to twice an episode, Jack uses her feminine wiles to aid the gang. Anjali Jay is a very attractive lady, but she's a brown person at the time of the crusades who has a boy haircut and wears pants. I can't imagine the average guard would go all Tex Avery goo goo eyes on her. And speaking of her distinctive physical appearance, there's a few scenes where Guy doesn't recognize her. Then again, he never recognized the Night Watchman's gender either. Maybe the revelation that Guy is blind is part of season 3. Thanks to her, the team is minus two at the end, since she decides to stay in the Holy Land, and Will stays with her, them having admitted their love for each other in the previous episode. Sure, just take the guy away as soon as he gets interesting. I'm sure your family will love you bringing home an English guy during the frickin' Crusade. Guess who's coming to dinner? INFIDELS.
(Part of me really wishes they did a musical episode. This duet would be fantastic.)
SHERIFF - The Sheriff got off to a shaky start this season, which had me concerned. The first episode dealt with the arrival of his sister, who he truly loved, and who died at the end, causing him to darkly swear vengeance on Hood. Oh crap, thinks I, they're going to turn the Sheriff angsty! Thankfully, he's soon back to his sarcastic self, the sister is quite rightly ignored as a bad idea, and he can get on with the evil plans. Such plans include suspending all of his money in a cage in the public square so Robin won't dare go after it, staging a public behanding wherein the victim, her children, and the ENTIRE crowd watching were working for him, the suit of indestructible armor, the use of mirrors to create decoy treasure in a James Bondian trap room… Frankly, it's impressive he had time to overthrow the king at all.
(Just visually, I mean. You have to admit, it is striking.)
His all-time crowning moment has to come in the episode "Walkabout", just after Robin Hood has stolen evidence implicating the Sheriff in treason. Sheriff is so stressed about this that he winds up sleepwalking right into the heart of Sherwood. Coincidentally this is also the day that Prince John needs his seal or else he'll destroy Nottingham, much to the shock of Guy, who's found himself in charge. So Sheriff's in the middle of the forest, with no time, no shoes, no money, no weapons, not even his false tooth*, and he still manages to form an evil outlaw band, con his way into Robin's camp, rob the gang blind, screw over his partners, and stroll past the torch-bearing mob into Nottingham, berating Gisbourne without missing a beat. Pure. Class.
*Keith Allen lost a tooth filming the season one finale, and they wrote it into the character by having him keep a variety of jeweled teeth in human skulls around his room. It's all kinds of awesome.
(Apparently, this was supposed to be intimidating, but it really just looks like they made the basic shape, then ran out of armor money before they finished it.)
SIR GUY - After Alan, I'm in a mood for handing out awards. So I'm giving Richard Armitage the DUDE, I WOULDN'T WANT YOUR JOB AWARD, previously held by the Wallace Beery wranglers. Armitage has to deal with the plot of the season requiring Guy to be more traitorous, murderous, and sleazy than ever, while at the same time, the writers are keenly aware of his thriving female fan base, and want to make him and Marian look like a legitimate option. It starts out by just making him appear to shower more often, but the badass decay starts setting in around episode 4, in weird ways. There's all these awkwardly forced "not such a bad guy after all" moments placed in the context of plots where he, in fact, IS such a bad guy after all. Aww, he doesn't want to kill those little kids… so he's sending them to be slaves at a mine! Aww, he gave Marian a pass out of the castle… where she lives because he burned her house down! Aww, he saved her from the outlaws… and he killed her dad! Really, the only totally selfless moment is when he refuses Prince John's offer to be allowed leave Nottingham alive, deciding instead to stay and fight the soldiers at Marians urging. But that's slightly mitigated by the fact that he first tried to use the offer to coerce Marian into marrying him. Oh, and that a few episodes later he announces his intention to use his position to "marry" her whether she wants to or not. Oh, and all the stabbing her.
(I should note that despite the show's budget and the relative ease with which mail can be obtained, all chain mail on the show is made of fabric. This is bothersome to me as a viewer and a ren fair actor.)
THE MAN - Prince John is ever a presence in this series, having entrusted the Sheriff with his plan to kill Richard. We don't get much of a sense of John other than he's ambitious. Except he agrees to the Sheriff's suggestion that if the Sheriff is ever killed, all of Nottingham goes up in flames, which sets up John nicely as a ruthless baddie for season 3. King Richard himself actually appears in the finale, played for the first time I know by an age appropriate actor, somewhere in his mid-thirties. The British creative team just can't bring themselves to play him as the full-blown asshole he was, and he's depicted more as misguided and war-hardened. It takes a special kind of patriot to attempt to show a guy as decent while he's crucifying the heroes in the desert. We also get Queen Eleanor again, and yes, she is the sassy. She also flirts extensively with Little John. Extensively, inappropriately, and repulsively.
OTHER MERRY MEN - The old Alan-a-Dale story gets yet ANOTHER telling here, but it's such a neat story I can't really fault them. Since Alan is already a character, they create an original character, Sir John, and have him as the lovelorn poor person. It's a good episode, but seriously, if they were going to create a new character, why call him John? We've already got Little John, Prince John… They could have called him Sir Richard, that's a legit Robin Hood character. There's also a Jester, who is like the most irritating character ever. I can't stand when they put a jester in Robin Hood. There was the hideous nutbar from the '91 flick, some mincing little twerp Sir Chunkula stabbed in the silent version (though fair's fair, they were all mincing twerps in that movie.), and now this one… Whereas the other jesters were pretty accurately tiny, ugly, and possibly retarded, this jester is tall and handsome and wears a sexy costume with elaborate makeup. And instead of capering about whilst farting, does a stand-up comedy routine where he steals the "Richard the Lion-Heart" bit from Eddie Izzard, and then helps the good guys solve a mystery and then disappears forever, thank Primus.
(Queen Sassy and the Bear Patrol.)
Two other guest stars would be fabulous additions to the band to replace Will and Jack… if they weren't both dead by the end of the season. Dammit! One of them, a fella named Carter, is introduced as a villain, with a serious revenge-on for Robin, which he gives up on pretty quickly upon learning that it's all based on a lie. (Cutesy episode title: Get Carter.) He shows up again in the season finale, to help out and get killed. I assumed they were killing him for cheap drama, but then they killed Marian, so what the hell. The other is Queen Eleanor's personal bodyguard, whose name (not joking) is LeGrande. LeGrande is basically Little John cranked up to eleven. Bigger, louder, wilder, and his staff has a big metal chunk on the end. The episode has many hilarious instances of Little John acting like a jealous child and competing to be the best beardy giant. LeGrande doesn't even make it long enough to get a return appearance, dying near the end of the episode.
(I cannot even try to imagine what that must smell like.)
We also get the return of Dan Scarlet, which is still a funny name. Dan tries to get in on the social justice thing, but doesn't quite appreciate the secretive nature of it all. After speaking out in public, he gets stabbed, causing will to wreak his bland vengeance. Bland and stupid, since he knows full well about the Sheriff's deal with Prince John, yet tries to kill him anyway. Will's dad's mentor also appears, training the gang to get through the Sheriff's booby-trapped treasure room. He identifies Will as being angry and passionate, prompting me to wonder if he's also deaf. And this is before Dan bit it, so it's not like he's making an educated guess. Rounding out the good guy season is the kids from the episode "Child Hood", who help the gang after they see Guy carrying out Secret Plotting in the forest, where they were playing Robin Hood. It's kind of adorable, except for the prerequisite Much joke. I mean, it's one thing if nobody wants to play Much, that's funny. Like when nobody wanted to play Bubbles. But they don't even know who he is. He's a major part of the gang, you little assholes! And props to Marian's dad, the famed Sir Someone of Someplace, who spends all season languishing in prison trying to convince everyone to give up on their dreams and quit trying to bone his daughter. He balls up eventually and steals some key evidence for the gang, only to get a knife in the ribs for his trouble. Call that gratitude? 'Cos I don't.
(Robin Hood versus the Dreaded Green Screen.)
OTHER VILLAINS - Not as many guest villains as guest heroes. There's surprisingly little done with the Black Knights, the treacherous nobles helping the sheriff overthrow Richard. The only one that gets unique attention is an old friend of Marian's dad who Robin thinks can be trusted. Turns out he never liked Sir Someone after all, and tries to screw over the band and, of course, bone Marian. There's also some more outside help hired by the Sheriff for his other plans, including The Angel of Death, who sends poisoned bread to the peasants in order to see if he can make a poison look like disease, and the Saracen blacksmith who creates a light yet incredibly strong suit of armor. The smith's in it for the profit, whereas the other guy… well, look at his name, he's clearly got issues. Also, he quotes the bible a lot, but nothing appropriate or actually about any angels of death, so he just looks pretentious. Speaking of pretension and religion, there's also the Canon of Berkley, who takes the corrupt churchman role in the not-Alan A'Dale story, trading off "Sir John's" fiancée to the highest bidder. He also kills Marian's dad. I know I said earlier it was Guy, but here's how it goes: At the time I wrote that, I hadn't seen the episode for a few months. On reviewing them again, I realized that I was mistaken, but also that the episode seems written to end with Guy killing Edward. (That's his name, by the way. If I'm going to get into his death, I might as well give him that.) I'd place good money on that episode originally ending with Guy doing the deed, but it was changed last minute for reasons discussed above.
(Missed you, man.)
Most excitingly, we've got a special return this season… it's Nasir! Yes, the lovable Saracen former assassin from Robin of Sherwood finally gets another appearance, and he's not so lovable nor not so former this time. He is, in fact, the one who arranges the assassination of the king for the Sheriff. He's actually been sort of split up as he is quite a bit more talkative and smaller than we've seen previously, while his associate, who does the actual killing, is a hulking quiet type. I think being split may have affected his planning skills, though. He follows a three-pronged attack in his attack on the king. One - Make a copy of Saladin's seal so the king will think you're a legitimate envoy. So far so good. Two - Tell the king to meet Saladin alone in the desert for peace talks, which the king will agree to because he wants peace more than anything. SERIOUSLY? Is there even point in going on to three? Well, three is to have the big guy pretend to be Saladin and kill the king after delivering the killer one-liner "I am not Saladin!" whilst the Sheriff and Gisbourne watch from a dune, giggling. Maybe Nasir didn't actually expect to get that far.
(Almost completely in context.)
BEST LINE RUNNERS-UP - Sheriff to Sir Someone and Marian : "Well, well, if it isn't the sanctimonious old fart... And her father."
Much, realizing Robin suspects him of being the traitor: "What do I have to do to prove my loyalty to you? What? Tell me! What? I'll chop off my own arms! Well, one arm. Because once I chop that off then I wouldn't be able to chop off... the other..."
MUCH: "We're robbing from the rich to give... to the rich?" ROBIN: "That's right. Think of it as a wedding present." MUCH: Can't we just get them a toasting-fork like everyone else?"
"Well, here's to your dearly departed dead dad Dan." Sheriff to Will. He says this not knowing who Will is except that his father Dan is dead. So as far as he knows, he's not putting the emotional screws to an outlaw, just being an ass to a servant.
EVIL PRIEST: "As God is my friend, I swear I don't know!" ROBIN: "If you don't tell us, God won't be your friend. He'll be your next door neighbor."
"No County Park" This is actually not a line from the show, but a bumper sticker I saw while making notes in my recorder. What on earth could it mean.
This long exchange of dialogue, including pictures of Much looking like Tim Minchin.
"Tell me you would rather have a woman, Gisbourne. Tell me you would rather have a woman... Than this." - The Sheriff's first line of the season (He was referring to a map of the areas they will rule after the coup.)
"Stop whining, Gisbourne. If I'd wanted a wife - I would have found one with better legs."
"Guy, why don't you ever kiss my ring?"
BEST LINE: "Oh, Guy, Marian sent you a message. She says 'I'm not coming back, get over it, and for God's sake, change your clothes once in a while.' She ran away the minute her dad died, now what does that tell you? It tells me that the crusty one was the only thing keeping her here. She's not coming back, Guy. Move on. I'll tell you what. I'll give you a kiss. Will that make you feel better? In fact, if Hood is dead, I'll give you two kisses. Come along... Gizzy gets a kissy?"
Seriously, all (unintended by the authors) gay jokes aside, that is brilliant writing.
(Still from the episode where the Sheriff's magic hat turns everyone into children. I wish.)
WORST LINE RUNNER-UP - "Pepper! Ouch!" Jack, after throwing pepper in a guy's face. Apparently the writers thought we not only couldn't figure out what she was doing, but also what effect it had on the guy screaming and clutching his eyes.
WORST LINE - "Come on now, chop chop." Really, Sheriff? You're going to have someone's hand cut off and that's the best you can do? No, no, I'm not angry. Just... disappointed.
(But at least we have this to look forward to...)
ONE HUGE MISSED OPPORTUNITY - As mentioned, Much got the short end this year, but there was one moment in particular that bugged me, and that if they had decided to go through with it, would have redeemed the whole season as Much's crowning moment. When the gang has been left tied to posts in the desert and it's been hours and death is imminent, Robin and Marian begin reciting wedding vows to each other, and Much begins crying. I so desperately wanted Much to butt in at the end and say "Then by the power vested in me as the rightful Earl of Bonchurch, I pronounce you man and wife." It would have broken the tension, been amazingly heartwarming, called back to season one and the position Much gave up twice out of loyalty to Robin, and had him bless their relationship after a whole season of being jealous. Instead, Carter turns up, apparently having snuck up unseen despite there being nothing but desert for like three miles on any side. Then King Richard marries them officially after she gets stabbed, which makes her death scene overlong and overindulgent. And the last fight would have been so much cooler if they were fighting as a married couple, and instead of taunting Guy with "I love Robin Hood," which he already knew, she could have been all like "Robin Who? Oh, you mean my HUSBAND? SLAPPAPOW!" and his stabbing of her would have seemed more natural… Dangit, why don't they ask me before they make these decisions?
(A screencap of the exact moment where Guy tells Marian that the best way to grieve her father is by getting pregnant. What a classy fella.)
COMING UP NEXT - Look, I'd love to give you a sweet teaser of this one, but I know squat about it. I can't even give you a basic plot idea. It's a bootleg I bought at the comic shop, and the back is all in German. I don't think the movie is in German, since it's by Hammer Films, but we'll just have to see.
4 Comments:
- frebecca said...August 24, 2010 at 7:24 PMBwhahaha! I've been waiting so long to read this, and it was worth it. The only problem is now I have another long wait until you review season three.
I did a review of the series as a whole on LiveJournal and gave Richard Armitage the "Best Actor in a Role that Makes No F**king Sense" award. I've seen some interviews with him regarding Season three, and the man actually said: "I don't care if they kill Guy off." Must have been a very stressful role.
Anyways, thanks for reminding me how fun season two was, before the writers presumably decided that everyone was having too much fun and wrote season three.
Out of interest, how much do you know/have seen of season three? As Much and Allan are your favourite characters...you may want to brace yourself. They're about to meet Kate, (blonde in FRONT AND CENTRE of group shot; a position that tells you everything you need to know about her role and characterization) who comes complete with emasculating equipment. It's not pretty.
- Brian Lynch said...August 31, 2010 at 9:34 PMHere's what I've seen of season three:
Tuck lands a boat! Meanwhile, Robin stomps around being a dick to everyone. They've been travelling for months, they say, even though last season they seemed to have reached Jerusalem in a day at most. Must have taken the scenic route back. Or the wormhole there. Anyway, Robin is pissed off at everyone. I don't know if he's managed to keep this rage going for all those months or if it's a new thing. Seemed kind of mellow at the end of last season. He yells at Alan for betraying them and at Much for being clingy... He doesn't yell at John, who remains off camera so much in this scene, I wasn't even certain he was there until the very end. Oh, and everyone's got new, super-leathery costumes. Then I turned it off and figured I'd restart in a few months.
Hopefully, the full review will surface in February/Marchish, but you know how I do with the scheduling.
- Sahara said...March 3, 2011 at 11:04 AMYOU ARE A...!!!!!
first of all they do not show any sex with rats (though it may be insinuated) and secondly the midget was killed in a crash when the rat dude was injured, Julian/Phantom was killed by a guard who stabs him through the back, go and watch the movie again and get it right.
- Anonymous said...December 31, 2012 at 8:35 AMLOLOLOLOLOL!!! Thank you for making my Robin Hood experience complete ... I'm a new fanatic of this series, which I also came upon courtesy of Netflix, and can't get enough of it now that I've finished Season 3 (hence my wanderings around the interwebs looking for more commentary to satiate my craving). I can't wait to rewatch all 3 seasons with your comments on hand. Appreciatively, ~J.


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Editorial: on local politics and ground rules
copyright the Chronicle 10-24-2012
You will notice that this week's Chronicle is packed full of local politics. We have three lively local races and the interest seems high. We had good turnout for our forums on October 15 and 22. Thanks to the candidates, to our co-hosts, and to everyone who attended. You can tune in to NEK TV to see the full forums.
Part of our function this time of year is setting certain ground rules — for the forums and for these pages. This week's paper is the last one where we will allow letters criticizing candidates. Next week's paper, the last one before the election, is reserved for brief letters of endorsement and space for the candidates to reply if they feel the need to clarify or respond to something that has been said about them.
Unfortunately there are a full two weeks between the time critical letters can be published and the election. We are well aware that people don't always come up with their perfect sentiments for a letter before this time. In past years we have had to simply reject a lot of these letters as being too late.
Things are different this year due to our redesigned website. We recently opened an editorials and opinions section where we are posting some of the same material you see in the newspaper, plus more. It's open for comments, and we are starting to get some interesting thoughts from our readers in this manner. We hope you will, as they say, join the conversation.
In the next two weeks, we will allow comments and letters for the website up until the morning of Friday, November 2. If a candidate feels the need to respond to something on the site after that, he or she can send us that response, and we can still post it before the election.
Last week we posted the story Chris Braithwaite wrote about the Senate candidate forum in our Editor's Picks section on the free part of this website. We will post the rest of our political stories, local and statewide, in Editor's Picks for voters to check back on as the day of your decision comes closer.
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migya wrote:It has been readily known for the last three or four years that Monta was highly valued by Warriors fans only. Seemed like most fans of other teams and quite a number of nba analysts didn't think Monta was as good as his stats and I agreed and still do. I don't think the team would have gotten as much for Monta as Bogut and that was only because he was injured when traded for.
Oh, I don't think Monta Ellis could net you anything better than Andrew Bogut. If Bogey were healthy, this would be thief in the night type sh*t.
But if Bogut can't play 5 continuous games anymore... I'd rather have dealt Monta and Udoh for Gortat, a trade exception, and Phoenix's 2014 pick. An injured Bogut is not an asset.
Or, rather, a chronically-injured Bogut is not an asset. If Andrew Bogut comes back 100% and has a miraculous recovery where he's suddenly able to play a full season and not crumble, then good trade. But if he's as fragile and brittle as he seems now, than this was a dud compensation for a tradeable asset.


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Competitive sports has long been built along discrete gender lines so that women who, admittedly, tend to be smaller and less muscular, could compete against each other rather than big burly hairy sweaty bears (pardon my hyperbole).
Science is telling us that gender is a continuum not a binary thing. The problem is obvious. What to do about those who find themselves in that middle third of the continuum where it's not so easy to tell...or where, for example, a person with a vagina is, in almost every other way, a man. A "woman," in other words, that few more feminine but athletic women could ever hope to compete against.
There are several solutions, none of them making everyone happy. You could simply forbid that middle third from competing at all. You could have a separate gender bender category. You could introduce a handicappiing system. See, all of those options will be offensive to someone.
There is, of course, one other solution: simply don't have gender categories at all, but I don't see that pleasing everyone, either.
And then there's the other problem first rearing its head in the 2012 Olympics with the first appearance of someone competing with prosthetics. Oscar Pistorius, a South African runner, competed with artificial feet made of carbonfiber. He runs very well. Well enough, due to his times, to compete in the Olympics. The problem isn't his times, it's how to compare his prostheses to natural feet. So far, it seems impossible to figure out what to do. They are allowed for now, but what if someday only people with prosthetic feet can hope to win?
What's the solution? A handicapping system? There seems no way to know how to set one up fairly. At least when everyone has natural feet, there's an air of fairness about it. When a person with artificial feet is competing, and competing well, it may be asterisk time, or time to send them back to the Special Olympics or, if not that, an Olympics just for people with prosthetic limbs who are getting times competitive with people with natural feet..
Things used to be so simple.
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I think that all sports teams should be complete gender mixed. The women will just have to bulk up to the same level as the men, its totally possible to do that. Sports is still too male dominated.
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Family life took the former Chicagoan, who had been executive chef at some of that city's finest restaurants, away from the chef's life of late nights and working holidays.
"I was looking for more balance in my life," Koury said. "I stepped out of the kitchen shortly after my son was born."
He stepped into a job in food sales and distribution, working in Chicago for Sysco. In 2010 he asked for and received a transfer with that company to Colorado, a place his wife, Sara, had always wanted to live.
Matthew Koury is now back in the kitchen with the Koury's own restaurant — 2020 Food + Wine Bar at 2020 Ionosphere Street in Prospect.
The pair concluded their purchase of the space — the former home of Your Place or Vine and, before that, Tusk — on Valentine's Day this year, Matthew Koury said.
"It was after we bought the place that we kind of put all the ideas together ... But the wines came first," he said.
The son that first led Koury to step out of the kitchen is now 15 and helping his dad out in 2020's kitchen. He and Sara also have a daughter, Piper, who's 7 ½ . Last March, Sara Koury took an early retirement buyout from American Airlines, where she had worked for 25 years, and that freed her up to spend more time taking care of the kids and allowed Matthew to pursue his dream of opening a restaurant here in Colorado.
"A good friend of ours in Niwot said, 'You should come look at this spot,'" Sara Koury said, adding that they did and they liked it.
2020 leans heavily on Matthew Koury's experience both in high-end restaurants and his training at the Culinary Insititute of America in Hyde Park, New York.
"The food is very much in the European tradition — start with very high quality ingredients and don't do that much to it," Matthew Koury said. "Let the flavors show through.
"Most of the restaurants I worked at were Mediterrannean, and that's the sensibility I use in the food here."
His arugula salad, for example, has just five ingredients and it's been one of the most popular items in the menu in the couple of weeks 2020 has been open, he said. For his pizzas, he uses Italian flour and San Marzano tomatoes.
"They (the tomatoes) grow in volcanic soil and, just like the wines that we feature, each of them show the characteristics of the soil they've been grown in," Matthew Koury said.
He said another popular item has been the prosciutto, a dry-cured ham that he has shipped in from Parma, Italy.
"The idea with what we're doing here is, it's supposed to embellish and enhance the drink experience, especially the wines," Matthew Koury said. "That's why I called it a food and drink bar."
Brandon Thomas is 2020's "mixologist" and said the wine flights have proven quite popular.
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The food and drink menus at 2020 feature standard items and specials are being mixed in daily, Matthew Koury said. For example, Tuesday night's pizza special featured locally made Italian sausage accompanied by rapini and green bell pepper. He made a pie and had his staff sample it, much to their delight.
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East Side Story: Watching a Stadium Grow
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With 33 days remaining on a calendar that can't seem to change fast enough, Nebraska is building the last blockbuster wing of its historic football stadium. For lack of a better description, we'll call this East Side Story, which is, perhaps, the most pivotal chapter in Memorial Stadium's 89-year history.
Watching a stadium grow is fascinating, even if the target date for completion is the 2013 season-opener against Wyoming, not the 2012 season-opener against Southern Miss. The steel structure and dramatic progress provide a fitting sneak preview. East Side Story: Watching a Stadium Grow is fast, fun and in its own way, furious. "People really enjoy coming by and just seeing the building grow," said John Ingram, Nebraska's associate athletic director for Capital Planning and Construction. That's why Ingram was more than willing to give Husker fans their own personal tour of the East Stadium construction with this Huskers.com video.
Every day there's a change, and we've been able to compress the transformation, thanks to aerial photography from Doug Prange and time-lapse graphics. Kelly Mosier wove it all together in a 2½-minute YouTube tour that helps Big Red fans continue the construction countdown at the same time they're planning to see it themselves. The video becomes its own digital erector set, but it's all real. "Everybody who comes by and sees it going up is really excited," Ingram said. "I'm glad this video shows the new building topped out, so everyone can get an idea of what it's going to look like."
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This fall, traffic flow both to and from the East Stadium will be uninterrupted because contractors remain slightly ahead of schedule in having the exterior structure in place. "Our fans are going to experience a three-story entry that frames the old front-door of the stadium, and it will give them an idea of the breath-taking view that will result in the amount of space we'll be finishing off later," Ingram said. "The old Gate 20 will be enshrined in this new facility, and it will be absolutely iconic from the glass windows that face the campus to everything we'll be doing later to finish off the work inside."
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Meanwhile, Huskers.com will continue to provide regular updates so we can watch our stadium grow. East Side Story promises to gain national attention, even during its formative stages over the next 13 months, primarily because the addition will include two 25,000 square-foot research bays, one for the university and the other for athletic research. "We will have the nation's foremost facility dedicated to concussion research," Ingram said. "We're especially proud that we'll be connected to the campus. With our athletic research partnership and the university having its own academic function inside the stadium, we feel we're doing the right things and representing what we should represent as a member in the Big Ten Conference."
NU's Capital Planners Going for the Trifecta
Ironically, East Side Story is just one-third of Nebraska's overall facility facelift. Ingram said two other major projects will be at or near completion by September, 2013. The Pinnacle Bank Arena will become the new home for men's and women's basketball that same month, and Ingram estimates the new home for Nebraska volleyball, women's and men's gymnastics and wrestling also will be about 90 percent finished when the new football facility and basketball arena are finished.
"We're going for the trifecta," Ingram said. "It's a privilege to work with and have the trust of Tom Osborne to create, support and serve these new championship facilities. Since Tom's gotten here, we've unveiled something special for our student-athletes, our coaches and our fans in about every sport. It's been a juggling act, but it's been fun."
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The N-Sider "East Side Story" stadium expansion update and video reminded me of a personal tour I got of Memorial Stadium in March of 1972 ... when 9,400 seats were being added to the upper reaches of the South Stadium. Not quite as fancy or high-tech as today, but what a thrill for a 12-year-old to view that 40-years-ago construction firsthand. Then-equipment manager Gib Babcock and my grandfather, Henry Horn, who both resided in the 1000 block of Y Street just north of the stadium, explained the need for the addition of concrete pillars and wooden plank seats. A tour of Schulte Fieldhouse and a crowded weight room was also part of my visit, as well as receiving a souvenir piece of Astroturf that was a leftover from the 1970 installation. I couldn't in my wildest dreams imagine the stadium someday growing to more than 90,000 people and three sides of skyboxes and suites. Such progress! May today's South Stadium upper-level sections 12 to 19, which still resemble 1972, serve as a humble reminder of $6 tickets, 50-cent hot dogs, and "Man, Woman, and Child, he ran in backwards," which blared from a radio as we simultaneously watched the action 81 rows below. Kevin Horn, Alliance, Nebraska


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Development Roadmap
Milestone 2.3 (Current - Q1 2009)
General functionality
- Upgrade utility to move from existing Harvester instances without having to repopulate archives details (but reharvesting OK?)
- Ability to ingest multiple journals/conferences into a Harvester instance so it acts as an aggregator platform
- Specifically, the ability to integrate the articles and other content from multiple OJS and OCS collections (OMP for collections of books?) into a single interface for searching and browsing. An important aspect of this is to allow browsing and searching of hierarchical data (e.g., national, regional journals; disciplines; etc.)
- OAI-PMH, using a richer metadata schema than uDC, would suffice for this.
- Aggregating user data to enable social networking, sharing of annotations and workspaces, etc.
- APT/Ubuntu package installation
- Simple CMS plugin like OJS's (static pages plugin already ported for Harvester)
User interface
- Faceted browsing for author, institution, and research funder, year of publication, document type and key word (tag cloud).
- Allow the creation of accounts for users who can submit and administer archives.
- Flexible templating of results and record displays that can be configured by harvester admins. Alec and Siavash have done some work (instantiated in the CHODARR harvester) but more flexibility would be useful, e.g., for a given schema, allow repository-specific overrides on display templates; external template files for specific metadata elements; maybe URL parameterized invocation of templates.
- Allow the creation of accounts for "readers", so they can get alerts of new items based on saved searches, rss feeds, etc.
- Sorting of results sets by more factors (currently available for title and date)
- Other items in the 'Data flow management and manipulation' section of the IReL "Results" document
- An OpenURL resolver interface that operates on URL-based requests (like CUFTS)
- See, for example, http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july03/young/07young.html
- Ability to act as an OAI data source, and point to, eg. another harvester
- One issue here is provenance of records, a known weak area in the OAI-PMH protocol, specifically, there is no standard place in the OAI meta-metadata to store the "breadcrumbs" documenting where a resource description has lived.
Harvesting, data model, data management
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- Provide a simple OAI XML validation tool that does a "pre-harvest" that identifies any invalid tokens or other bad tasting XML, so these admins can fix it before actually committing a harvest to the db.


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Here in the Linux community, it's no secret that there are more flavors of our favorite operating system than most of us can keep track of.
That doesn't mean, however, that one can just up and disappear without anyone noticing.
Case in point: Pear OS. One day it's freely available for download, offering a remarkably Mac-like experience that's nevertheless based on Linux. The next day -- specifically, last Monday -- it's gone.
'A Very Large Company'
"Pear OS is no longer available for download," wrote Pear creator David Tavares on the project page. "Its future is now in the hands of a company who wants to remain anonymous for the moment. The concept has pleased them, and [they] now want to continue and improve the system for their own products.
"I can not give a name, but it is a very large company -- well-known," Tavares added.
Now, a disappearing OS is mysterious enough all by itself, but add in a potential Cupertino connection and a whole lot of snowbound FOSS fans with cabin fever, and what have you got? That's right: a veritable speculation-fest down at the Linux blogosphere's rowdy Punchy Penguin Saloon.
'It Could Well Be Apple'
"I suspect the speculation is onto something," mused Chris Travers, a blogger who works on the LedgerSMB project.
"In general, if a company is going to purchase a linux distro to use in their own products, they aren't going to pull it from the market," Travers explained. "It makes no sense to do that, since it removes a source of self-promotion and brand awareness.
"This leads me to conclude that whoever did this is no friend of the linux distro," he concluded. "It could well be Apple, since the distro set out largely to clone Apple's UI."
'Could Be Apple, Yes'
Similarly, "oh, poor Pear OS," lamented Google+ blogger Alessandro Ebersol. "When something gets really good, there's always a corporation that comes and spoils it.
"Could be Apple, yes," Ebersol opined. "It's easier to buy the project than to fight it in court, and with the already-bad press they get about the litigation with Samsung. Could be Microsoft too, since they badly need a new look for their doomed Metro UI -- I find this rather impossible, but..."
The key question now on Ebersol's mind is how a company can "'buy' a GPL-based project and shut it down," he told Linux Girl. "Tavares was not creating something from scratch. He was building something on top of a GPL-based operating system. So, how is that even possible?
"FSF should watch that closely," he concluded.
'Pear Was Not an Open Distro'
On the other hand, "Pear OS was not an open, community-based Linux distro, which is why another company could buy it and kill it," countered Google+ blogger Kevin O'Brien.
"I have no idea if Apple was involved, nor is it even important," O'Brien asserted. "That is the real lesson here: Either the software you use is free or it isn't, and that matters. Use free software, people!"
Meanwhile, "I can't imagine it is worth speculating about who did what and what comes next, so it is probably best to wait for the inevitable announcement," suggested consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack.
'I've Been Racking My Brain'
Still, the speculation continues fast and furious.
"I have a lot of doubt that Apple is behind this particular announcement," offered Linux Rants blogger Mike Stone, for instance.
"Tavares made his announcement vague enough that not a lot can be derived for certain, but it had the air of being a positive announcement," Stone explained. "It doesn't sound like a lawsuit was incoming or anything like that."
In addition, "since Pear already attempted to mimic the existing Apple interface, it doesn't seem like Apple would have a lot of motivation to purchase them, and it doesn't sound like Apple was/is suing them out of existence," he added. "It sounds more likely that it's someone else.
"Who that someone else could be, I've been racking my brain to think of, but I've been coming up with nothing," Stone said. "I just hope that it's someone that will put Pear's Linux to good use."
'They Have Lawyers for That'
Google+ blogger Gonzalo Velasco C. didn't think Apple a likely culprit, either.
"I don't think so," he told Linux Girl. "Any distribution below the 'top 20' is doubtfully a threat to Apple or Microsoft," he suggested. "Who knows if a Chinese company wants to sell laptops with their own distribution and are planning to make it copying Apple."
Google+ blogger Brett Legree saw it similarly.
"I do not believe that Apple is responsible here," Legree said. "If they simply wanted to take Pear OS down due to it being a 'copycat,' well, they have lawyers for that -- just ask Samsung.
"If they wanted a Linux distro that looked like OS X for whatever reason, they could just build their own, easily and cleanly -- after all, they do know a thing or two about writing operating systems," he added.
'Yeah, Not Buying It'
Slashdot blogger hairyfeet had an even stronger viewpoint.
"Uhhh... paranoid much?" hairyfeet began. "Apple doesn't even sell its OS software -- it gives it away for the most part because it knows its customers are buying the whole package, the software AND the hardware AND the design AND the AppleCare AND the genius bars, etc.
"What value would Pear give Apple?" he asked. "An OS that frankly nobody outside of the Linux community has heard of? Yeah, not buying it."
In short, "not gonna believe Apple would spend money just to kill some little project that its customers are likely to have never even known existed," hairyfeet concluded. "Heck, I am interested in new and different OSes and I had no clue it existed."
'The Start of Something Big'
Last but not least, blogger Robert Pogson remained undecided.
"I just don't know about this," Pogson told Linux Girl. "If Apple did buy Pear out, we may never know unless it was a big enough transaction to get to the SEC. I doubt that."
A far brighter scenario, however, could be that Pear was "bought out by a sincere company that really wants to invest in FLOSS for its own use," Pogson suggested. "They could have just used any distro; buying one out suggests they wanted to own the ideas involved in the distro to the extent possible in case something big comes of it."
Pogson's hope? "It's some OEM wanting to escape the Wintel treadmill," he said. "Today's SEC 10-Q from M$ shows consumer profit dropped nearly $1b while commercial profit grew as much. M$ took $billions from the global consumer budget for IT with 'Surface' and didn't have to pay its own licensing fees. I would bet OEMs would like to ship GNU/Linux in bulk to have that kind of growth."
Microsoft has long been "taking the cream and now wants to eat the whole cow by getting into hardware," he concluded. "The OEMs should move to GNU/Linux, and acquiring a distro might just be the start of something big."
Of course, "it's also possible some retailer is tired of M$'s stuff gathering dust on the shelves and wants to sell a 'house brand' GNU/Linux," Pogson added. "Anything that moves the world further from M$ is good with me."


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Turkey's highest Islamic authority, the Diyanet, recently decided to prepare a new collection of hadiths without sexist statements such as "the best of women are those who are like sheep." Hadiths, which are comprised of sayings and practices of the prophet Muhammad, are second only to the Quran as sources for Islamic law. The decision is noteworthy in light of Turkey's campaign to join the European Union.
The clerics' move signals an eagerness to re-examine religious texts. While Muslim feminists have examined the Quran and hadiths, the clerics' decision is unprecedented. "It is very important that misogynist hadiths or sayings attributed to the Prophet Muhammad be questioned and that people understand that many hadiths in common circulation are questionable or downright specious," Margot Badran, a scholar who has published extensively on Islam and feminism, told Sojourners. "The Diyanet's project to look into this matter and take action is a good sign. [Hopefully] this will have the desired impact among the woman and man on the street."


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Villa Más, s'Agaró, Costa BravaPosted by Mike Tommasi on 1 April 2012 in Restaurant Reviews
This second visit to Villa Más was prompted by my father's 80th birthday, and since he lives a few miles away from S'Agaró, I invited my parents for lunch there. The site is quite nice, especially at this time of the year, when the weather is good but the tourists are far away. The beach is a few steps away, so the Villa Más terrace is an ideal place for Sunday lunch for five.
My blogging is fairly sparse these days, so I hesitate to refer to my friend Joan Gómez Pallarès and Vincent Pousson as "fellow wine bloggers"; anyhow, both live in Barcelona and strongly recommended going back to Villa Màs.
I remembered from the previous visit how spectacular the wine list was, particularly on French wines , and especially Burgundy. What I did not remember is how good the prices are. Grange des Pères and Peyre Rose are both 70 Euro, which is amazing, considering that in France you would pay close to double that amount. Catalan restaurants have this nice habit of not charging 4-5 times the purchase price, which is standard in France.
The food at Villa Más is quite remarkable too. The chef really knows what he's doing. My pig's trotters (peus de porc) with sea cucumbers (esparenyes) were beautifully served – 4 circles of finely chopped meat topped with a thin disc of crackling and an espardenya. Beautiful visuals led to a wonderful array of textures, from the rich soft slowly cooked meat with its gelatinous consistency to the cracking crackling and the delicate fibrous sea cucumber, a great match, perfectly executed. Same goes for the rest of the family's choices, like monkfish with iberic bacon, or "macaroni" with Idiazábal cheese.


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Kinder Morgan Inc., up $3.25 to $39.37
The energy company will combine a group of oil and gas companies that it controls, but which are currently traded separately.
Dean Foods Co., down 61 cents to $15.20
The dairy processor's quarterly results fell short of expectations and it withdrew its full-year outlook because of higher prices.
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The banana and fruit distributor received a buyout offer worth about $611 million from Cutrale Group and Safra Group.
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The online travel company reported better-than-expected quarterly results, though its third-quarter guidance fell short.
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The biotechnology company entered into a deal worth up to $925 million with Sanofi to develop and sell the inhaled insulin Afrezza.
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The mattress retailer expects second-quarter financial results above expectations and raised its full-year fiscal outlook.
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Southern Californians are leaders in conservation, using the same amount of water today as 20 years ago, despite adding 3 million people to the population. The region has recycled more water than anywhere else in the United States and invested more than $5 billion in storage facilities to improve local water supply reliability. This way of life has become essential as we have faced droughts and reduced imported water supplies. But cities aren't alone in learning how to be more efficient with water.
Over the years, farmers in California have employed the most advanced technology to grow fresh fruits and vegetables, beef and dairy, and stunning nursery products, resulting in one of the most efficient agricultural production systems in the world. California farm practices would be unrecognizable to the people who tilled the land a hundred years ago. Farmers today use computer technology, highly efficient irrigation systems, GPS and evapotranspiration monitors to increase water use efficiency through better irrigation management.
From 1967 to 2007 the volume of crop production increased 85 percent while the amount of on-farm applied water declined by 14.5 percent. That means farmers today are nearly twice as efficient in water use as they were in the not too distant past.
How does that benefit consumers? Consumers in the United States pay just 6.2 percent of their disposable income per year (2010) on food and non-alcoholic beverages. That's compared to a rate of 10.2 percent in 28 other high-income countries. At the same 10.2 percent rate, it would cost Americans an additional $3,820 per year to feed their families, a huge savings.
Agriculture is among the top 10 contributors to California's GDP. The value of farm products sold in 2012 totaled $44.7 billion. According to the University of California, more than 1.3 million jobs are created by farming, including ripple effects, such as transportation, processing, ports, and warehousing. The economic activity generated by farming is worth more than $112 billion per year to California's economy.
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Both cities and farms in California are facing significant challenges when it comes to water supply reliability. First, we're concluding one of the driest years on record. Second, the delivery system that moves water from the Sierra Nevada Mountains is antiquated, using 100-year old levees to protect the freshwater for 25 million people, businesses and 3 million acres of farms. These levees are unlikely to withstand a major earthquake and levee breaks would allow saltwater from the San Francisco Bay to contaminate this freshwater supply. This important source of water could be out of commission for as long as a year. This threat affects cities and farms alike.
While we all do what we can locally to be more efficient, we also need to invest in the statewide infrastructure that delivers Sierra Nevada water. The just-released draft Bay Delta Conservation Plan identifies new ways of moving water, through twin tunnels, using modern technology to protect freshwater from earthquakes. The plan aims to benefit people, businesses, farms and the environment.
The Bay Delta Conservation Plan is California's best shot at moving beyond the contentious water wars of the past into an era of solutions. Rather than North vs. South or Farms vs. Cities, we need to look at this problem, and the solution, as one state.
Charles Wilson is chairman of Southern California Water Committee. Mike Wade is executive director of California Farm Water Coalition.