Straight Up (film)
Straight Up is a 1988 anti-drug film produced by Community Television of Southern California and funded by the United States Department of Education. It is a high fantasy dramatization of the dangers of substance abuse and how to avoid them. The film has been released into the public for free viewing.
Format
The film is given in the format of three episodes. Each episode runs approximately 30 minutes and has two parts. In each episode, the protagonist, Ben, leaves his classmates in the real world through a portal called the Fate Elevator, learns about the dangers of drugs and how to avoid them through the film’s dramatization, and returns to the real world and his classmates, where he narrates an animation linking the ideas dramatized in the episode with his classmates’ and the viewer’s real world.
Plot
Ben, a student, meets other students he knows and they tempt him to consume drugs that they are using. Not knowing how to handle the situation, Ben is summoned by Cosmo, a man he meets who takes him for rides on the Fate Elevator to educate and empower Ben against drug use.
Straight Up
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Bartending terminology
Various unique terminology is used in bartending.
Drink preparation
In bartending, the term "straight up" (or "up") refers to an alcoholic drink that is shaken or stirred with ice and then strained and served without ice in a stemmed glass.
This is contrasted with a drink served "neat" – a single, unmixed liquor served without being chilled and without any water, ice, or other mixer. Neat drinks are typically served in a rocks glass, shot glass, snifter, Glencairn glass or copita.
"On the rocks" refers to liquor poured over ice cubes, and a "rocks drink" is a drink served on the rocks. Rocks drinks are typically served in a rocks glass, highball glass, or Collins glass, all of which refer to a relatively straight-walled, flat-bottomed glass; the rocks glass is typically the shortest and widest, followed by the highball which is taller and often narrower, then the Collins which is taller and narrower still.
The terms "straight" and "straight up" can be ambiguous, as they are sometimes used to mean "neat"; "up" is less ambiguous.
Straight Up (book)
Straight Up: America's Fiercest Climate Blogger Takes on the Status Quo Media, Politicians, and Clean Energy Solutions is a book by author, blogger, physicist and climate expert Joseph J. Romm. A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and former Acting Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, Romm writes about methods of reducing global warming and increasing energy security through energy efficiency, green energy technologies and green transportation technologies.
Romm writes and edits the climate blog ClimateProgress.org for the Center for American Progress, where he is a Senior Fellow. Time magazine named this blog one of the "Top 15 Green Websites" and called Romm "The Web's most influential climate-change blogger", naming him as one of its "Heroes of the Environment (2009)".
Straight Up was released on April 19, 2010 by Island Press. It is "largely a selection of [Romm]'s best blog postings over the past few years related to climate change issues".TreeHugger describes the book as "a whirlwind tour through the state of climate change, the media that so badly neglects it, the politicians who attempt to address it (and those who obstruct their efforts and ignore [the] science), and the clean energy solutions that could help get us out of the mess."
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