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We asked Ola's Kool Kitchen, who presents a show across several independent radio stations, to interview Kenneth Griffin from Rollerskate Skinny, Kid Silver, Favourite Sons and August Wells. As a radio broadcaster of six years standing, Ola's Kool Kitchen on Radio 23, Rock XS Radio, Magic Monster, and KCLA 99.3 FM in Los Angeles was created to combat the myopic mediocrity present in mainstream media. It features an eclectic mix of genres, while Ola travels the world both playing and recording lesser known new talent as well as established musicians. Put simply, good music has no boundaries.
One of the most underrated Irish musicians and, a talent forged in the 90's shoe-gaze/alternative scene, Kenneth Griffin's first band Rollerskate Skinny achieved the greatest commercial success of all his music projects. Named in NME's "Top Ten New Bands of the Year" in 1992, Rollerskate Skinny's auspicious beginnings held much promise. The band included Jimi Shields (brother of Kevin Shields) as a former member and toured with acts such as Mercury Rev, Smashing Pumpkins, Mazzy Star, Hole and Pavement. In 1996, the band signed a major-label deal with WEA only to disband in 1997 with two albums and a few EPs released.
Ken then released a self recorded solo work in 1999, Dead City Sunbeams under the moniker Kid Silver. This one-off effort is considered critically in certain circles as a hidden musical gem of the 1990's, Trouser Press declaring "...that [it] should have vaulted Griffin to the same level of adulation as [Julian] Cope and Wayne Coyne". In 2005, Ken joined with indie-psych, Philadelphia band Aspera to form Favourite Sons. They were originally signed to Vice Records. Two albums and modest recognition followed, even though the live performances were considered stunning neo-religious experiences. Currently Ken is involved in a new venture called August Wells.
Despite critical recognition and his quality musical output spanning over twenty years, Ken has never achieved the success of his peers. I had a pleasurable conversation with him, filled with laughter over his career, musical shadows and how not to make it in the music industry.
It's been suggested of the track "Complacency" the first RS single released, that the band might of have been listening to My Bloody Valentine and Mercury Rev. Obviously Jimi Shields who was in RS with you, is Kevin Shield's brother. Would you say that was true?
Kenneth Griffin: It's not possible we were listening to Mercury Rev because I think we recorded that before they even released a record. We subsequently became friends with Mercury Rev. I think some of their reviews said they had been listening to us and some of our reviews said we had been listening to them. The truth is we hadn't heard of each other. As far as My Bloody Valentine, I'd never heard of MBV until after that EP. From my background, you didn't become a painter or a writer. I was never really a student of music. Especially at the start, I never studied the form, I just simply wanted to express myself. Music seemed like the most available thing I could do. When I was fourteen, I heard The Velvet Underground and that was it. It kind of ruined my life from that moment forward...in a nice way. I have chased that feeling for thirty years since then. To say My Bloody Valentine is an influence, that whole thing is very complicated. Jimi, this is no disrespect to him, only played on the first album. After our second album Horse Drawn Wishes came out, they kept mentioning Kevin Shields. I thought to myself, it will probably be ten or fifteen years before anyone listens to this album without making that reference, even though Jimi didn't play on it. I kind of knew we were doomed in any commercial sense. That's why, I never really spoken about it. I wanted the album to find its own audience and twenty years later, more people listen to it now than did then. They're beginning to separate the two things. I was really influenced by a combination of Fear Of A Black Planet, by Public Enemy- the way that album was constructed, it was so thick and multilayered-and Ennio Morricone's spaghetti western movie music. I was searching for this way to communicate with reality. I didn't think in terms of songs or of anybody else or the industry. I just wanted to express myself and get out of Ireland at the time.
Horse Drawn Wishes is number fourteen of the hundred greatest Irish albums in Hot Press and the Irish Times named it number seven with My Bloody Valentine's Loveless topping the list. I think Rollerskate Skinny doesn't have the recognition it deserves?
KG: I think it's getting rereleased next year on Capture Tracks. There are also 5 songs that we recorded as RS and never released. Also there is another six that I did on my own at that time. It will be twenty years since it was recorded. A bunch of it is to be put together in one place; The Favourite Sons, Kid Silver, Rollerskate Skinny and August Wells. Also 'Speed For My Side' from RS will be in a movie next year called Wild.
It's been observed that 'Bow Hitchiker' appears as a move towards a more restrained style akin to Pavement. I know you toured with them too. Is that true?
KG: If that's restrained, I don't know what unrestrained would be (laughter)? It's completely unhinged that song. Again it's been the story of my life, where people say, oh that's influenced by Pavement and I'm like, whose Pavement? Then I'll go listen to Pavement. People used to tell us we were influenced by the Beach Boys and I would then go listen to them.It's very hard to describe sounds or music without comparing it to someone else. At that time, I think we were hard to pin down. We weren't really shoe-gazey because we would have thirteen sections in a song, it was very lyrical and we didn't use bombastic open chord guitars. We wanted to respect the ideas of melody and rhythm- that immediacy that you need to get from anything -while also trying to push that as far as we could. We really felt isolated. I was never conscious of any influences other than the blank tape feeling like okay, I better put something on there. We were very motivated by the idea that we were given a major label contract. Our obligation was to try and do something commercial, so we decided not to do that and see how far we could push it. The record company was not very happy with this. That was the thing back then; you definitely didn't try and please anybody.
I had Jimi on my radio show. He clearly admitted Kevin was a big musical influence on him. You don't see Jimi having a connection with MBV influencing your sound at all?
KG: In fact, we were very conscious of it. If anything, we felt we had an obligation to not sound like them. MBV are very structured, it's like two or three pieces are repeated, and it's hypnotic. Our music is not hypnotic at all. Stop starts...and sections don't repeat themselves. We use strings, xylophones, and pianos. I think the only thing we have in common with them is Jimi, his brother. I don't really like talking about it, because I know people will just say we do sound like them and it's like saying all jazz music sounds the same. If you listen to 'Bell Jar Away', the last song on Horse Drawn Wishes, it's got no guitars on it. We didn't see ourselves as a guitar band. It was just art to me. I could have decided to try and write a book. I had no interest in what was happening in the music scene. I didn't befriend any musicians or hang out with music business people. All I did was disappear into studios by myself and create this stuff. I knew as soon as we did our first record, I would be associated with Kevin until the day I die. People still mention him when I do records twenty years later because his brother was in a band with me.
Personally I think you have a particular genius that is just as good as his.
KG: Aw thanks.
It's just different.
KG: I always really got along with Kevin. I really respect him. I don't want to sound like I have an ounce of bitterness or anything. It's just the way that journalist world works..... I was always very concerned with lyrics. In fact, I have moved towards where I find lyrics can satisfy me in a way music has in the past. I'm much more interested in exploring words.
I think that's true. When you look at the journey of RS to August Wells, AW is less about the music and very much drenched in the lyrical.
KG: I also think AW has been getting a lot of response from RS fans because it's still got that experimental nature. For instance, there are no drums or bass on the album. There is one percussion piece at the end of one song. The piano player is like playing with Thelonious Monk. He is a kind of wild genius guy.
You went onto to do something I found very interesting with Kid Silver. KS album Dead City Sunbeams was said by some critics to be more stellar than Horse Drawn Wishes and possibly one of the most unfairly overlooked albums of the 1990's?
KG: I think overlooked will probably be on my gravestone (laughter).... I like to imagine all the sounds in my head before I record them. I usually have it worked out before I touch an instrument or go into the studio. That one I just did with an engineer, who actually worked on Horse Drawn Wishes too. So we locked ourselves in a studio. We didn't have a deal. We did it by ourselves. I don't know where we got the money. I don't think of people listening to it. I view my work as some kind of offering to reality, an acknowledgment of a relationship between me and this strange thing we call reality. I seem to work outside the industry.
I listen to your music and I hear great commercial pop sensibilities, it's not that weird.
KG: I love melody. Melody is what drives me.
If one of your songs was on a film or a commercial or got airplay on a big FM station, I think you would have a hit.
KG: It seems nobody hears it, or somebody writes to me and says it's their favourite album of all time. Okay that's great! The industry just seems to be suspicious of me. Maybe I have a bad reputation. I'm doing these gigs now with August Wells. Every time we play, people come up and go, who the hell are you guys? Why haven't I heard you? I can't sincerely answer that question. It's distasteful to regard yourself as unlucky because you're not successful. It's like that Charles Bukowski thing where he says, "The gods have been good to me protecting me from that bullshit." I get to function and create. I know I'm not creating anything for commercial success, because it's not working if I am.
I think your time is yet to come.
KG: We'll see. It would be nice to not have to work and to make a living out of it. At the same, the joy I get from it...this album I just did is getting so much support from people. It's like people want to fight for me, it's so sweet. I don't want to paint this picture I'm some pathetic person. I'm really not.
You might be overlooked, but you're loved.
KG: By dozens of people! (Laughter)
Yeah, but they love you a lot!
KG: It's very sweet and they really do. I had this couple walk down the aisle to one of my songs. Someone else got an anniversary present, one of my lyrics engraved on some piece of jewellery. It's nice when you hear things like that. I think that's what's exciting about right now. You can get to people one by one without all this crap you used to have to do, like call your record company and buy ten copies of your own record to give to people. Now you can just email your whole album out. They have it and it's great. My ambition is to have as many people as possible hear it so I can play some shows.
What are your feelings about the Dead City Sunbeams album?
KG: It never got released in Europe. I've often thought of trying to get someone to release it. I own the rights to it. To me it sounds kind of strangely contemporary. What I was trying to do was something that people are succeeding at now. I wanted to make an electronic album that was song based with emotion to it. I sampled a lot of old 1940's crescendos at the end of songs, then I would slow it down and play it underneath the tracks to give you this feeling of a horizontal and vertical dynamic going on. It's linear but it's also moving up and down at the same. I usually think of songs visually first.
To me it's like a warped orchestration. It's beautiful, but it's slightly askew.
KG: That's what you get with an untrained musician. It's always going to be a little off, because I can't read music. You're trying to find the spirit of the song, then not mess it up. That's what's interesting about it for me. It's like how you do a painting, the first brush stroke is really exciting, but everything after that is kind of an anti-climax. '67 Cities Of Light,' I wanted that to be a kind of street song. It's supposed to be someone struggling out of the darkness or madness to communicate to the world that on some level they're okay.
One of my favourite lyrics is from 'Hey Trespasser,' "We are the ugly angels and we're never gonna die". What's that line about?
KG: Always feeling apart from things. It's like you're viewing the world through glass or you're not invited to the human race. It's also about embracing your idea of beauty as opposed to what you're told is beautiful or your idea of what joy or happiness is. I like extremes and passion is an extreme. It's a hard thing for people to express artistically in a controlled way. The only control I would put on it is it has to start and end. So what happens in between is kind of open for anything. Like life. I don't want to say the word outsider, because that's not how I feel at all. A lot of the strangest people are very much inside of things.
I would use the word freak, rather than outsider.
KG: Yeah...I've always been treated like this ever since I was a kid... with this kind of sense that there is something amiss (much laughter). I've always felt this desperation to say, no I'm fine.
Let's move onto Favourite Sons. There was a psych Philadelphia based band called Aspera and they tracked you down to be the singer? KG: Yeah they had tracked me down at this bar I was working in and we started talking about doing music together. I turned up at their practice space and we just started playing. That first album was a bit weird. I was going through a divorce and I just had a kid. That album was not necessarily artistic, it was an emotional outburst. I didn't really concentrate too much on the music. I needed to express something. A lot of people connected to that lyrically.
For me 'Tear The Room Apart' off of Down Beside Your Beauty by Favourite Sons is a male equivalent to Mazzy Star's 'Fade Into You'. It is in my top ten favourite love songs of all time.
KG: Aw, thanks. It's weird that song really gets to people. It was the last song we did on that album. It was the one I put most effort into musically. We did a video with Hank Shocklee from Public Enemy. He is from the Bomb Squad, he did a lot of the music for Fear Of A Black Planet that Rollerskate Skinny were into. He said that song just blew him away. He was really moved by the emotion of it; especially for a man to be singing it. I wasn't even aware that it was unusual, I just felt honest about it.
You released two albums with Favourite Sons, Down Beside Your Beauty and The Great Deal Of Love, the first on Vice Records and the second on Low Rent. What has happened to that band?
KG: We came to an end. The drummer moved away and it was very much about the four people. We all moved on to different things. We're all really good friends.
The live experience of FS has been described by Spin as " ... largely marked by Griffin's distinctive baritone and emphatic performance which has turned their shows into religious experiences."
KG: Someone described it as singing along to gospel songs that you never heard before. We didn't get the kind of break you need to keep a momentum up with the band, which is the story of my career. That's why I tend to move from groups of people, because you need that momentum. The Great Deal Of Love was a tough one because I really think there is a lot of great stuff on that album. We would play live and sell so many records. You're told by the industry you're not commercial, but then you go play a show and half the audience buys your record. That's why we are trying to connect it all together, so people can go find all the stuff. It shows how completely removed I was, I didn't know Vice had a magazine. They signed us and I was like who are these guys? Then someone showed me the magazine and I was like oh man, I don't want to be involved in this (laughter). They would keep getting us to play parties, I was like, I wouldn't like to hear me sing at a fucking party. I'm not a party guy at all. Who wants to hear "Tear The Room Apart" when they're on ecstasy?
After FS, you are currently in August Wells?
KG: It's basically me and a piano player, John Rauchenberger. I wanted to challenge myself, to see if I could write something effective with just two people. I never have to say anything to him, he just intrinsically gets it and embellishes and adds to it. When we play the song will end, we'll both feel like we've gone through something. It seemed like a musical relationship that was working from the start. Then we tried to get drummers involved and it didn't seem to work. We used some horn players and a violin and that worked. To me it felt like the inverse of Horse Drawn Wishes. At this stage, I find through my own experience-volume and that sort of bombastic approach-it's almost become hokey. I find it conservative now. It's so ever present. I'm amused that every band that claims to be experimental is always really loud. Well, why not be really quiet? When we play, it's at a pretty low volume. It's interesting the discomfort it causes in the room. If you talk, we will hear you talking. If you let yourself go with it, it becomes this communal, heavy emotional experience. It's been opening, feeling that connection to people through the music.
With Favourite Sons your vocals have been compared to Nick Cave, The Strokes and Leonard Cohen.
KG: I love Leonard Cohen. With Favourite Sons, I decided to write pure songs to see how that goes. To my horror, I discovered it's not that easy. I started it and realized, shit I'm not very good at this. So I pushed myself really hard. Nick Cave.....I enjoy his stuff, but he is more of a performer/character. Leonard Cohen is a pure song writer and being compared to him is flattering. I don't get The Strokes, that's just truly lazy. We just don't sound like The Strokes (laughter). Does The Strokes sound anything like Leonard Cohen? When you sing in a baritone people immediately go Scott Walker, Leonard Cohen or Nick Cave, no matter what you do. It's just amusing after a while. Eventually your stuff finds its audience, people realize, oh it doesn't actually sound like Nick Cave.
On August Wells, people have a very emotional reaction to it. It's like they have a hunger for that sort of thing. When we play as a two piece, you have nowhere to hide. If people don't like it, they really don't like you. A lot of people will hold back twenty percent or ten percent doing something, because it gives them an excuse to be able to absorb criticism. I feel with Horse Drawn Wishes and with AW's album, I was in a position to completely do exactly what I wanted to do. With August Wells if people don't like it, then I can take it. Horse Drawn Wishes was probably youthful arrogance. It's got to the stage where I can do whatever I want because I'm old enough to realize it just doesn't matter. So I might as well try and make it as good as I can. I think there are subtleties to the AW album that requires a few listens. I worked very hard on it lyrically. It's a combination of everything I've done over the last twenty two years. I'm trying to invent with John. It might sound familiar on some level, but if you really listen, it's got a lot of stuff that's not like anything else.
It's very reflective, yet melancholic.
KG: There is a lot of humour in there if you really search for it (laughter.) I think the song that repeats the line "oh happy day" after lines describing horrible situations is supposed to be kind of funny. Maybe my sense of humour is black.
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Whether one comes to the Berkshires to ride the rolling hills, sip cider at a fall apple fest, bike the scenic roads, soak up chamber music under the stars, enjoy a Broadway show, or simply relax and enjoy the view, there is plenty to enjoy in the Berkshires. Berkshire County is a year 'round destination for urbanites with second homes and the lucky ones who have been able to move here permanently. Equestrians love the access to fantastic open country, abundant offerings of private and public boarding facilities and easy trailer ride to "HITS", eventing and dressage venues all within an hour's drive.
Named one of America's cultural centers, the Berkshires are home to the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Tanglewood which alone annually draws 400,000 attendees, Jacobs Pillow Dance , Hancock Shaker Village and a host of world-class museums such as the Sterling Clark Art Museum (which recently underwent an amazing expansion), Mass MOCA for the most innovative of contemporary art, the Berkshire Museum, Norman Rockwell Museum, and many more. With so many live theatres , summer evenings offer Broadway or TV stars performing at the Barrington Stage , Colonial Theatre, Williamstown Theater Festival or Berkshire Theatre.
The Berkshires, pronounced "Berk- shers", first became popular as a summer retreat during the "Gilded Age" of the 19th Century. Boston and New York high society mingled with literary and artistic luminaries, drawn to the clear mountain air, pristine hills, valleys and lakes. The Astors, Westinghouses, Vanderbilts and their peers built and furnished lavish "cottages" in a rusticated style, celebrating a less formal setting than their contemporaries in Newport. Some of these vast mansions have become museums, like Ventfort Hall, Naumkeag, Edith Wharton's Mount. Others are now exclusive resorts such as Blantyre, Cranwell, and Wheatleigh. Shadowbrook, burned to the ground and is now the site of the internationally acclaimed Kripalu Institute. The few remaining in private hands, some of the most distinguished such as Southmayd Farm, Clipston Grange and Sunnyridge have been listed and sold by LandVest brokers.
Easy to get to for weekend residents, Berkshire County is nearly equidistant from Manhattan and Boston, about a 2 ½ hour easy drive north on the beautiful Taconic Parkway from NYC and West on the MA Pike from Boston. Train travel from Manhattan also affords easy access as Metro North goes as far as Wassaic and Amtrak to Hudson.
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Fight over Vermont Yankee heads to NY court
NewsChannel 5 will have coverage today
A federal appeals panel in New York is poised to hear arguments this morning over whether Vermont's only nuclear power plant can continue to operate without approval from state regulators.
Lawyers for Entergy Vermont Yankee will face-off against special counsel hired by state Attorney General Bill Sorrell in oral arguments before a panel of judges at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in lower Manhattan.
The case delves into the limits on a state's right to regulate nuclear plants within its borders, and has drawn attention around the country since last year.
A federal judge ruled that the plant can continue to operate even without state approval. The judge had said safety issues at stake in the dispute are solely the responsibility of the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission. In 2011, that panel extended the plant's license for 20 years.
State approval expired March 21.
The Vermont Yankee plant has operated since 1972.
NewsChannel 5's Stewart Ledbetter is in New York. You can see his reports on NewsChannel 5 beginning First at 5.


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Susan Antilla: Women used to be routinely harassed and passed over in newsrooms
She says more women have gotten better posts, but men still dominate the business
She says men have 60% of jobs at papers, write 80% of op-eds and get far more bylines
Antilla: Women are up to 76% of recent news grads; what's wrong with this picture?
Editor's Note: Freelance writer Susan Antilla is a columnist at Bloomberg View and a contributor to TheStreet.com. She has written about finance for more than 30 years. She is author of "Tales From the Boom-Boom Room: The Landmark Legal Battles That Exposed Wall Street's Shocking Culture of Sexual Harassment." Follow her on Twitter @antillaview.
Every woman who's worked in an office has her story about discrimination or, as they say in the HR confabs, "inappropriate behavior." Mine is the day I was chatting with colleagues in a newsroom some years back when I suddenly felt two meaty hands massaging my shoulders.
"I'm not sure who you are," I said before turning to face my uninvited masseur. "But take your (expletive-deleted) hands off me."
The mystery hands belonged to my editor.
I thought about that day while reading "The Good Girls Revolt," the just-published history of the first class-action discrimination lawsuit ever brought against a media organization in 1970.
Lynn Povich, a 47-year journalism veteran who started as a secretary in the Paris bureau of Newsweek magazine in 1965, tells the story of 46 women with degrees from top schools who got tired of a system that relegated them to jobs checking facts and clipping newspaper stories, while men with similar credentials got the bylines and big salaries.
Povich and her female coworkers recruited fellow plaintiffs at secret meetings in the ladies' room. They hired Eleanor Holmes Norton, the civil rights lawyer who today is a District of Columbia congresswoman. And then they announced their lawsuit on March 16, 1970, inspiring the headline "Newshens Sue Newsweek for Equal Rights" in the New York Daily News, which went out of its way to note that most of the plaintiffs were young, "and most of them pretty."
The magazine's official response: "The fact that most researchers at Newsweek are women and that virtually all writers are men stems from a newsmagazine tradition going back almost fifty years." Noted.
A string of similar lawsuits against other news organizations ensued, and journalism's male guard was embarrassed into making some changes. Today, a woman is editor of the New York Times, and a woman has just been named that newspaper's public editor.
You might think that gutsy efforts like those of the "Dollies," as the Newsweek women were called by their male bosses, would have led to a media world that was all fixed on the gender front 42 years later. You'd be thinking wrong.
It's a funny thing about journalism. The public has this idea that the media world is run by bleeding-heart liberals more focused on homeless shelters than tax shelters. You know, progressive thinkers looking to change the world. Reality is it's a business like most others, run largely by men who push back at serious threats to their authority.
In the old days, I had to stand up to cretins like Massage Man. Betsy Carter, a Newsweek researcher who would go on to found New York Woman Magazine in 1987, had to put up with some guy she barely knew who walked by on deadline and "planted a soft kiss on her neck," as Povich describes it.
Today's woman journalists are less likely to get massaged and smooched on the job. But 42 years after that lawsuit, women are still shut out: Men make up 60% of newspaper employees, write 80% of newspaper op-eds and author most articles in "thought leader" magazines such as the New Yorker, which last year had 242 female bylines, 613 male. The record for "new media" is better than print, though men and women are still nowhere near parity. In a report earlier this year, the Op-Ed Project said 33% of op-eds in the Huffington Post and on Salon were written by women.
At Newsweek, where a woman, Tina Brown, has run the show since the merger of Newsweek and The Daily Beast website in November of 2010, the imbalance has improved in the four decades since the women's lawsuit. In a March 18, 2010 cover story "Are We There Yet" written by three Newsweek women, the authors said 39 percent of the people on the masthead were women, up from 25% in 1970. But men still had the star power, writing 43 of the 49 cover stories the previous year.
Now try to square those numbers with these: Over the past 10 years, between 70 and 76% of all journalism and mass communications graduates have been women.
At one of my journalism jobs, I blew a fuse one day over my male colleagues getting the high-profile web page spots where readers would find their stories while my work was out of sight. I complained, and my boss shot back an e-mail saying I'd cooked up a "conspiracy theory." Lest I should get any future impulses to be uppity, he warned, "I don't plan to address this issue again."
Even a newshen with a byline is supposed to know her place.
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A new study by the CFI Group reports that the iPhone has taken the top spot in customer satisfaction. The company surveyed over 1,000 smartphone users and the iPhone (surprise, surprise) came out as the top dog.
With a score of 83 out of 100, the iPhone beat out its next closest competitors (that would be the Android and the Pre) by six points. This data jibes with other recent iPhone survey data which show that iPhone 3GS users are happy, and a rather unscientific Technologizer study from about a year ago, that iPhones users love their choice.
Further, 92 percent of iPhone owners surveyed said that it was the "ideal" handset. That's high praise—but it's not nearly as much of a lovefest for AT&T.
iPhone owners on AT&T scored the network at 69 points, the lowest of any of the mobile operator and well below T-Mobile, Verizon and even Sprint. Even non-iPhone AT&T users gave the network a higher rating. Another survey from last year showed dissatisfaction with AT&T's 3G network; it appears not much has changed.
As a proud T-Mobile customer running a jailbroken iPhone, I've yet to experience any of the AT&T overloads and poor customer service that I've heard about from friends. Perhaps someday we'll have our choice of carriers.


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"Discovering Sourdough" launched for Kindle – Contest
The winners for this contest are Susan, Tom Chism and Jim Berg. Check your post below for directions. The book review winner is Mark who posted "A happy sourdough baker" on the Amazon book reviews. Congratulations to the winners. Be sure to let me know which file format you desire and send an email to : [email protected] so I have your email address. I usually have to send the files in two or more emails.
Yesterday my book, "Discovering Sourdough" was launched on Amazon as a Kindle version. See here: Discovering Sourdough
So I have decided to have a giveaway contest.
There are four books altogether:
It is really one book, but four volumes. It is so large that I had to divide it into sections. To celebrate the launch of this new version I will be giving away a complete set (all four volumes) to three lucky people who comment on this post. If you win you can select a Kindle version or a Pdf version of the book( I also have the ePub version for the ipad available).
For anyone who has read Discovering Sourdough, it would help the book's ratings if you were to do a short review on Amazon for each volume of the Kindle version. Anyone who gives a review will have an additional chance to win a complete book as there will be a separate drawing of the names of people who have given a review (four reviews, four chances). That will be a total of four free books given away in this contest.
The contest will run until Sunday, April 22. The drawings will be on Monday April 23.
If you wish to own a Kindle version of the book but you do not own a Kindle, there is a free Kindle viewer download here: Free Kindle Reading Apps
I wish to thank Dion Houston Sr for helping me with the conversion and the support to get this project finished. Thanks Dion!
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Post subject: My experience with DSL-N RC-4
I'm running this on a Sony Vaio, PCG-FRV25 laptop with 512 MB of RAM and a 40 gig HD. Currently running DSL-N on a livecd with the toram boot option.
DSL-N is very pretty, I can't deny that. It is also as easy to use as DSL, so far. I like that there is only one web browser included in the menu and Seamonkey is a great choice. It runs smooth and uses less resources than either Firefox or Opera. MPlayer is, again, a better choice than XMMS. I have found a couple of issues, however.
Mounting: In DSL-N, when you click on the mount tool to mount the CDROM drive, it still says it is unmounted. This can be confusing. Also, the mount app will not let you unmount the system; you must use the terminal to do so.
Mounting, repeat: I am unable to find the location to mount thumb drives. Also, the option to mount a thumb drive is missing in the mount app.
MPlayer: It is unable to play my DVD's.
The fluxter device which shows workgroups refuses to go away, even after several attempts to remove it from xinitrc and restarting X. This is mildly annoying.
These are the only issues so far. DSL-N looks smooth overall and I'm looking forward to the full release. Until then, I think I'll stick with DSL, but I'll be sure to play with it some more.
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Im running DSL-N on a Dell Latitude C600 Notebokk with 256MB Ram with the toram option. Actually the HD is broken an removed, but DSL-N runs fine. There is a USB 256MB Memory-Stick to hold the backup's and there is also a Windows2003-Share to store some downloads on a fileserver.
I use Linneighborhood to mount the mentioned fileserver, Skype for communication and i prefere firefox as browser. Seamonkey is used as Mail-Client for a gmail-Account. Emelfm is always loaded to manage the filetransfers from an to the windows-share.
Everything works fine but in some circumstances the systems slows down near freeze if everything is open an running, the i have to close all apps an everything or restart the x-server ...? (i didn't reboot since 6 day's)
Im missing the RDP-Client (seen in DSL) and the Citrix ICA-Client. I coudln't setup the Realplayer and the Flashplayer addin's for Firefox for any reasons. Printing to a shared windwos-printer is one issue which i didn't tried yet...
If these additions are running, i will use DSL-N as one off my favorite client-os.
Over all - i have to say that DSL-N is really a very fine piece of work!
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After install of Mplayer through MyDSL I get the desktop icon but nothing when I click on it.
I have downloaded Mpegs an chose open-with and navigated to the /usr/bin/gmplayer and still no response.
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[quote="johnh"]After install of Mplayer through MyDSL I get the desktop icon but nothing when I click on it.
I have downloaded Mpegs an chose open-with and navigated to the /usr/bin/gmplayer and still no response.[/quote]
Run it from a terminal and see what error messages there might be.
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Why would you download mplayer for dsl when mplayer is already part of dsl-n? Check the menus.
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""""""After install of Mplayer through MyDSL I get the desktop icon but nothing when I click on it.
I have downloaded Mpegs an chose open-with and navigated to the /usr/bin/gmplayer and still no response.[/quote]
Run it from a terminal and see what error messages there might be."""""""
WEEEELLL, i get no error messages when .. it just freezes while "building audio filter chain for 44100... "
trying to turn an amd-k6/56mB RAM into a audio video jukebox............
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Omar Trujillo is starting a project in which he laser etches custom designs onto the battery door of the Galaxy Nexus. So instead of your phone just showing the generic logos for Google and Samsung, it can show the Superuser icon to showcase your adventurous spirit. Anything that isn't a copyright image and fits in the design area will be lasered onto the rear door of the Galaxy Nexus to declare your Android love.
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After the death of the "world's oldest mom," NPR's The Takeaway asks Times blogger Lisa Belkin and 56-year-old mom Karen Day "how old is too old" to have a child.
Belkin acknowledges that, while a mother can pass away at any time, women who give birth at older ages are "increasing the odds" that they won't see their kids grow up. She also says, however, that as technology makes it possible for women to give birth at older ages, "there's a feeling that [...] we need to control this." And that feeling, she believes, is misplaced. Karen Day, who gave birth via IVF at the age of 53, has a similar take. She asks why older moms are criticized so heavily, while "a 90-year-old man who just fathered his 21st child" gets less attention. Belkin points out that the 90-year-old man needs a younger woman to father his kid, and thus has a younger co-parent who will be around if he dies. But if the real issue is having someone to take care of the child, surely this could be resolved by encouraging older moms to involve younger people in their kids' lives — much as gay couples sometimes like to involve role models of the opposite gender.
Giving birth at 67, as the recently deceased Maria del Carmen Bousada did, has its problems, but the reason people are so up in arms may not have to do with an altruistic concern for the children. Belkin posted the NPR interview on her New York Times blog, and a commenter responded thus:
I think that if women gain the ability to bear children in their later years (thus truly retaining youth and vitality), society in general will find it much harder to brush older women off as irrelevant and unneeded. Older males will have fewer excuses for sniffing around skirts of women half their age, and will no longer be seen as logical opportunities, but rather selfish perverts. If women can still have babies in their 50s and 60s as men do, we'll have taken a giant step toward closing one of the most significant gender gaps that exists. True equality is the real fear.
In conversations about gender inequality, especially regarding relationships and age, people frequently throw up their hands and cite "biological realities." These realities are why women are supposed to consider their "market value" and settle down young, while men can do whatever they want. But if technology allows us to change biology, extending women's fertility, it will become less tenable to assert that a woman's "value" is tied up with her youth. The paradigm that women lose worth just as they become wiser, more experienced, and better able to speak up for themselves, may be subverted. And that, for many people, may be a scary thought.
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Advisors who are helping clients avoid running out of money before they die can best solve the retirement income problem by balancing client spending goals with available assets and liabilities, said Russell Investments researchers in a report released Thursday.
Russell's research paper, "Adaptive Investing: A responsive approach to managing retirement assets," calls for shifting from an asset-only view of portfolio management to a broader approach that focuses on:
- A funded ratio that compares assets to liabilities, resulting in a single surplus or shortage number that determines spending needs and retirement readiness
- The risk of outliving assets, guided by wealth, spending needs and lifespan of the investor
- The option to buy an annuity later if needed
"Retirees consistently express three primary needs concerning retirement wealth management: they want low risk of outliving their assets (sustainability), consistent income (predictability), and financial flexibility (liquidity)," write authors Sam Pittman and Rod Greenshields in the report aimed specifically at financial advisors who are helping individual clients meet their retirement income needs. "As investors seek advice, financial advisors that deliver retirement solutions to meet these needs will better serve their clients, thus strengthening their practice."
Greenshields, consulting director for the U.S. private client consulting group in Russell's advisor-sold business, noted that advisors play a critical role in helping clients meet retirement income goals. "Russell's 'Adaptive Investing' approach relies on the investor's advisor keeping a close eye not only on their client's portfolio but equally important, on their spending plans," Greenshields said in a statement.
The first step in achieving adequate retirement income is to compare assets to liabilities and create a funded ratio, the authors say. When constructing a retirement plan, the advisor should compare the size of a client's investments and future savings to his or her debt and future spending needs. That ratio of assets to liabilities, or funded ratio, helps the retiree make informed decisions about how much to spend—and whether he or she is truly ready to retire. The funded ratio number sets a guidepost for spending, asset allocation and insurance decisions.
A primary goal of Russell's adaptive investing approach is to help the client achieve income sustainability for life without initially having to buy an annuity. Rather than purchase an annuity at the outset, the retirement portfolio is managed so that an investor maintains the option to purchase an annuity later.
"Retirees want consistent income from their portfolios and to avoid running out of money before they die," said Pittman, a senior research analyst at Russell, in a statement. "They also want to maintain control of their assets for as long as possible. In fact, many would like to be able to bequeath any remaining assets to heirs or charitable organizations."
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Oh, Mother Nature... How I marvel at your warped sense of humor. Three inches of new snow today, eh? Hmmph!
Aside from the annoying snow covering the spring flowers emerging in some of our flower beds, life here on the farm in fairly quiet. Nothing earth-shattering going on here, thank goodness. Just calm and peaceful...
Aside from Sunday night's flooded bathroom incident. But let's not go there. The ceiling has stopped dripping, the solution is on its way and I've stopped screeching like a banshee so let's just move along.
Today I've got a foot-long to-do list so I should get cracking. After I get the chores checked off my list, I plan to do some sewing. Not having huge success with the change purses. I've got the pieces cut, the little rings for keys on hand but I'm having trouble finding zippers small enough for the project. I'll check out one more place before I begin to butcher...ah, adjust longer zippers to fit. I'll keep you posted.
On a more productive note, I've begun making cosmetic bags. Such fun and I love seeing them all lined up on the dining table! Photos will follow, I promise.
So, what's going on in your neck of the woods today? Got a to-do list? A leaky pipe? Sewing issues?
Hope you have a nice day!
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
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Oh, Mother Nature... How I marvel at your warped sense of humor. Three inches of new snow today, eh? Hmmph!
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- Wendy said...
You amaze me, my friend. I am so impressed that you are actually trying the change purses! And I'm sure that your creative brain will find a solution for the zipper problem. Somebody has to make zippers for those little purses, right? I'm so sorry you have snow again. Wow. That's a long winter. Meanwhile, I will suffer in the pouring rain, which is just as annoying and inconvenient as the snow. Well . . . almost.
- Dru said...
Sorry, but I'm glad we're not having 3 inches of snow. It's March and so wrong for Spring.
If anyone can do it, you can and I know the change purses will be a hit.
Looking forward to seeing pictures of the cosmetic bags. I wish I had the sewing genes. The straight line just kills me.
I still haven't decided on the patterns but I have a feeling it'll be four patch quilt blocks or half-squares.
Have a good Tuesday.
- Anonymous said...
When are you getting a shop?
Sue W.
the pushy friend!
- Melissa McClone said...
Seriously, get a shop! I'm already imaging buying coordinating bags of all sizes for my girls' for Christmas! If you're up and running by Mother's Day, I'm giving hubby the url!
I showed Rose the doggy bag for Mackenna today. She was beside herself with excitement. She said Mackenna is going to love it! BTW, that pink gingham lining is too cute! So well made too. Very impressive!
- Marianne Arkins said...
No leaky pipes here, thankfully, but we're also buried in snow.
You're making me itch to sew!! And I agree with the others -- get yourself a shop. Please?


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Dodge Park History
Dodge Park History - Part of Portland's Culture for 100 Years
Thousands thronged to Dodge Park to cool off on the weekends.
For nearly 100 years, people have flocked to this scenic spot at the confluence of the Sandy and Bull Run rivers. Originally named for the town of Bull Run, Dodge Park was re-named for Frank Dodge, the second Superintendent of the Portland Water Bureau who served from 1897 to 1914. Frank Dodge was one of the earliest photographers who recorded river flows in the Bull Run River and the Bull Run watershed.
In 1911, the Mt. Hood Railway and Power Company was built from Montavilla in east Portland to the town of Bull Run. The rail line was first built to move materials to the powerhouse being built for the Bull Run Hydroelectric Project on the Sandy River. The steam locomotive line served 30 small communities on the way to Dodge Park.
In 1912, the Portland railway Light and Power company acquired the rail line and converted it to an electric trolley.
This electric trolley carried passengers to Dodge Park for nearly two decades.
The annual report for the Portland Water Bureau for 1926 notes that "a conservative estimate of visitors during the last summer would be thirty thousand....At times there was hardly room enough to accommodate the crowds that poured into the Park on Sundays." No less than 168 picnic tables and 72 brick campfire grills as well as stacks of firewood served the weekend crowds.
The trolley, which crossed the Sandy River on a wooden trestle bridge, was also known as the "Picnic Train."
As the handwritten caption states, this photo was taken around 1912.
Trolley service ended in 1930, but roadways and a bridge installed in the 1920s continued to give people access the park.
In the 1940s, the City of Portland established a "Boys and Girls Camp" at Dodge Park in addition to the picnic grounds. The Water Bureau and Portland Parks Bureau co-managed the park until the late 1980s.
Fishing has always been popular at Dodge Park...with or without poles!
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A Nutty Idea for a Crazy Town: Bike Share Blossoms in NYC
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The bike helmet on her head said "Nutcase," and though this was merely the name of the Oregon company that made it, there was something wry and self-aware about Janette Sadik-Khan choosing to wear one on the streets of New York. You had to be a little unhinged and adventurous to have the big vision that Sadik-Khan, New York City's transportation commissioner, brought to this unruly madhouse of a city. You didn't need to be a nutcase. But it helped to be a little nutcase-ish.
Because here we were, on a perfect Manhattan morning not long ago, sitting in an intersection on the West Side near 14th Street, where just a few years ago, we would have been promptly run over by a truck. Instead we were drinking iced coffees. And around us, other people were drinking iced coffees, prepared at a coffee stand that, like us, sat in an intersection where just a few years ago, it would have been promptly run over by a truck.
And it wasn't just this. We had arrived at this cute coffee oasis by riding those ubiquitous blue "bike share" bikes—Citi Bikes—which cost a few bucks to borrow and are about as easy to use as a toothbrush. We had climbed onto the Citi Bikes and ridden in a protected bike lane that shielded us from traffic. We had gotten here quickly and safely, without incident or meltdown or giving anyone the middle finger, once the essential accessory of the New York commuting experience. The Citi Bikes were introduced to New York in late May. By now there had been more than 3 million trips, more than 6 million miles ridden.
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Sadik-Khan leaned forward on a small table in the intersection. "Six million miles! We didn't anticipate that."
These were nutty, improbable things. And these nutty, improbable things had actually happened on the streets of New York, and anyone who knew what it was like to ride a bike in the city before this—"the Wild West," she called it—knew it was a tiny miracle. And it wasn't just about bikes. Under Sadik-Khan's six-year run as commissioner, there had been a full reconsideration about how an entire city moved—the way people got to their jobs and their families and their dinners. The New York grid had been repatterned in a way that made an unwieldy town move more fluidly—surveys now showed vehicular traffic was moving at a better rate since the bike lanes and bike share had arrived. And while credit was often given to New York's mayor, Michael Bloomberg, in the engine room was the woman in the silver helmet. "I think she's an iconic leader," said Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson, who worked with Sadik-Khan on numerous transportation initiatives. "None of this happens without her."
This is making it sound easy. It was not easy. At all. A lot of these propositions were not popular, at least at first. The bike lanes and pedestrian plazas were routinely ridiculed. There were concerns about lost road space, lost parking, too many bikes on the street. The DOT was pilloried for turning New York into Paris, which is a little bit like being mocked for turning into George Clooney. In a city that had often embraced aggressive and confrontational leaders, Sadik-Khan's management style was criticized for being aggressive and confrontational. The blowback was often rough. Personal.
Sadik-Khan expected resistance, but the tenor of anger surprised her, especially at its peak a couple of winters ago. She was grateful to the mayor for having her back. She was now philosophical about it. "I think most of the animosity was about fighting change," she said. "Challenge the status quo, and it will push right back."
Since then there had been a rush of little victories. Polls now showed strong public support for bike lanes and bike share—in Citi Bike's case, a 73% approval rating after four months of operation. Politicians who had once howled about bike lanes were now using the blue bikes as campaign vehicles. A city was evolving. People now came up to Sadik-Khan and complained that she hadn't moved aggressively enough. "'Why didn't you do more!'" she said. This made her laugh.
We got back on the bikes, rode across town, through Greenwich Village and down the Lower East Side, much of it on new lanes and pathways. On a park bench near the waterfront Sadik-Khan spoke about some ideas short-term and distant. Times Square would soon cut a ribbon on its first permanent pedestrian plaza. She theorized about a bike bridge from Brooklyn to Manhattan. ("Other cities have done it. It's not a new concept.") There was "congestion pricing"—a charge for vehicles entering the city during peak hours—which never happened under her watch. She thought it would eventually happen. The revenue was necessary, she felt. "It's just a matter of time."
These adventures would be someone else's responsibility. Sadik-Khan expected to leave the commissioner's post when Bloomberg leaves office Dec. 31. "I want to continue working in the field," she said. "I'm looking forward to helping other cities."
It was getting close to lunchtime. All around us, a city was moving differently—still busy, still a little chaotic, but with a fresh design and energy. The drama had faded. It was working, this nutty vision in this beautiful, crazy town.
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Craft beers have been a part of Brooklyn's revitalization; a symbol of new economic growth. As a borough, Queens is even better designed to house such businesses. There is simply more space and it is easier for trucks to get around.
While reports suggest that the growth among beer consumed is not skyrocketing, it is not going down either. The production of beer has not been a part of this city for a long time. When it was, however, the city was in better economic straits.
With new, smaller breweries popping up in places like Long Island City, this bodes well for Queens. It means production jobs are a possibility, and that is good for the middle class.
Beer is not the same as software and Brooklyn and Queens are not going to turn into the Silicon Valley because of craft beer. What matters the most about these craft breweries being in our boroughs is that they symbolize a return to jobs that actually produce something.
This economy cannot sustain itself with people working solely in the service industry and government. New York City once housed a few major breweries, which it lost to New Jersey and the south. This is a chance to win some of that back.
The other added advantage to small businesses like microbreweries setting up camp is that they sell the neighborhood along with the product. Beer drinkers always talk about where beer is made, and beer makers want you to know it too.
Foster's spends a lot of money telling you that their name is "Australian for beer." Brooklyn and Queens get good visibility when something gets produced here. It means that not only does the product give people a buzz, but the brand creates one as well.
Producing beer involves a lot more than just a few college friends looking to do something noteworthy. If successful, they employ delivery people; beer is extremely sensitive to bacteria, so just having teams to clean the machinery is another set of permanent jobs.
This is the kind of business that local government has to embrace. We do not want to lose these guys again.
Modern Employment
More and more employers are asking applicants to possess social media expertise. There is no definitive way to define such a skill-set, so it varies according to whoever is asking.
Along with basic math, science, and history as part of our educational agenda, we may need to introduce new ways to utilize technology. For instance, any student can go to Youtube and learn Excel. They can become analytical experts – for free.
Do most of them do it? See how many views a "skills tutorial" gets compared to that of a baby panda sneezing and you realize that this, too, needs to be taught.
In fact, when it comes to early education, let's just play it safe and say that everything needs to be taught. As for us older folks, these are skills we are going to need if we want to replace the Baby Boomer generation in high level positions.


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Just to reiterate what everyone one else has said about Seamus, he has been a huge missing part in our team and last night showed how much we needed someone to take control of the ball and bring it forward, something that Seamus is excellent at and his link up play after only one game with Walcott can only bode well for the future. His determination and enthusiasm is the epitome of what we are about and what we have been severely missing, without a shadow of a doubt he should be our next captain next season.On a side note, hats off to JJK for deputising, you cant knock what he has done in filling the void what Seamus left, however he has a fair way to go to be looking at challenging for a place, but he does have the best to learn from.Welcome back Seamus !
Nice link up with Walcott last night. Two quality players on the wing playing in tandem is something we have missed badly. Colecott?As for Coleman, captain, warrior, baller and a gentleman. Best piece of business ever in the Premier League?
Give him the armband.
Im guessing a bit more goes into picking a captain. Some players are best off not being captain too. Think Séamus would be good as it happens as he always comes across well in interviews too.
The guy is Everton personified, arguably our most influential player. Such a grounded lad who seems to appreciate what football has given him.Lets hope we ease him back in and not expect him to be playing 90 mins twice a week going forward, he'd have been running on adrenaline last night.
I don't think we'll be playing twice a week for a little while...
If we finish 7th we might. I'm not sure on the permutations which allowed us to last season but I'm imagining that their is more than a decent chance the top clubs might walk home with the trophies again this year.
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I am a freshman at Drexel University studying 3D Animation and Visual Effects. As part of my participation in this year's STAR (Students Tackling Advanced Research) program at the University, I am working with Dr. Glen Muschio to continue work on the James Oronoco Dexter house model. The 18th century house stood on grounds now occupied by the National Constitution Center. It is of historical significance because in the 1790's it was lived in by Dexter, a manumitted slace active in Philadelphia's African American community. Students have previously modeled the exterior of the house as well as the first floor, including furnishings. Today I worked on laying out possible configurations for the house's second floor and garret.
As part of my work on the house, I have reviewed Independence National Historical records (http://www.nps.gov/inde/historyculture/dexter-who.htm ) concerning the house, as well as historic insurance records. Last night, July 10th, I spoke with Philadelphia Archaeology Forum members Jed Levin and Doug Mooney, archaeologists who excavated the Dexter site. They reviewed my preliminary models and offered suggestions for consideration. There are no archaeological remains of the second floor of the house, which means we cannot be sure of the correct layout. However, we can infer from historical records describing similar homes and from standing historical houses from that era what the layout might have been like. With this information it is possible to produce a number of layouts that might have been possible within the given space. Without the benefit of an archaeological record we have no way to know the exact layout. Submitted by Matthew Mlodzienski


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Kʰunamokwst Park in NE Portland's Cully neighborhood opened permanently on April 25, 2015, and celebrated with a community wide Grand Opening Celebration on May 16, 2015.
Designing and construct the first developed park in the Cully Neighborhood. PP&R purchased the Werbin property in 2009, with support from Metro's voter-approved 2006 bond measure, to help fulfill the need for park and open space within the Cully Neighborhood. The property is a 2.4-acre site located on NE 52nd Ave between Alberta & Wygant.
Portland Parks Commissioner Amanda Fritz joined neighbors, partners, and special guests to reveal the name of the first developed park in the Cully neighborhood, Kʰunamokwst Park (pronounced KAHN-ah-mockst - click to hear the full pronunciation). Kʰunamokwst is a Chinook wawa name meaning "together". Kʰunamokwst will be the first PP&R park to enjoy a name indigenous to the land it sits on. Chinook wawa is the language commonly used by the original people of this area. Press release
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Based upon the feedback we received regarding the skate dot, the overwhelming response from those who participated and commented on the designs was to move forward with Option #2 illustrated below. This option has been incorporated into the design drawings and will be constructed as part of the park development. The skate dot is approximately 2,000 square feet and can accommodate 1-2 people skating simultaneously with room for 5-10 others either waiting their turn or watching.
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