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Is our downtown done?
Powerful retail corridors are reshaping cities, but one urban expert believes our core still has an edge
Is south Kenaston about to become Winnipeg's new downtown?
Only if you've got IKEA goggles on, say urban experts and downtown enthusiasts.
Winnipeg's downtown has long taken a battering in public opinion, and there's been extensive fuss and fanfare around the opening of IKEA in the city's southwest corner. However, urban experts and downtown enthusiasts say the spotlight on the new retail giant at Sterling Lyon Parkway and Kenaston Boulevard doesn't mean Winnipeg's downtown is done.
"I feel that there is no substitute for the atmosphere and the character and the style that you get from Winnipeg's downtown," said Dane Kofoed, store manager of Hut K, a high-end furniture store on Princess Street that celebrates its first anniversary this month.
Kofoed said the choice was made to locate the business downtown because there's something "inherently appealing about the history and the old buildings, and even just esthetically, the brick buildings and the Tyndall stone."
"I don't feel that there's people who will go there instead of here. I don't think there's people who will go to the southwest and not end up at the Exchange. I think you're shopping for very different things when you go to each place," said Kofoed.
Jino Distasio, the University of Winnipeg's Institute of Urban Studies director, said there are a lot of North American cities that "have almost suburbanized their downtowns" as people choose to shop elsewhere.
"This is a problem now, that as downtowns have bled retail, we've got these rises in very powerful retail corridors and clusters, that are really reshaping the city," said Distasio.
Regent Avenue is a dominant retail corridor, said Distasio, and activity along Kenaston is intensifying. He called the area on Kenaston that goes from the Polo Park area towards the Perimeter a "super-retail corridor."
"It's becoming the new retail cluster, it's becoming the new retail centre," said Distasio.
However, Distasio said he wouldn't classify the city's southwest as the new downtown.
Even though retail activity has moved away from the core, he said significant office and commercial space remains in downtown Winnipeg.
"Should that shift, then I think we would be able to say that the downtown is really being transformed," he said.
The momentum stretches farther than IKEA.
Last week, there was more movement toward development in Winnipeg's southwest. Sagkeeng First Nation Chief Donovan Fontaine said First Nations groups involved in an ongoing legal battle over the former Kapyong Barracks site, near Grant Avenue and Kenaston Boulevard, were closer than ever to a deal that would turn the site into an urban reserve.
Also bringing more people to southwest Winnipeg will be Waverley West, a residential subdivision expected to have 40,000 residents once it's completed.
"Once the IKEA takes root, you also have to remember there's another lion that's about to roar, which is Kapyong," said Distasio. "So the more you intensify this corridor, it will probably be the most dominant retail corridor in the city in very short order, extending right from Polo Park right to the Perimeter, right into Waverley West."
Regardless of the city's southwest pull, Distasio said downtown will maintain one important edge.
"Downtowns survive because they've got one pretty critical advantage, and that's location," he said. "And as much as we think that this IKEA is well-located, it's not.
It's well-located for certain purposes, but the downtown -- much more central, much more accessible -- will always have that advantage."
Christopher Leo, an urban affairs expert who recently retired from the University of Winnipeg, said he sees the area in the city's southwest as a "competing commercial centre" that attracts a different market niche.
And Stefano Grande, Downtown Winnipeg BIZ executive director, said he's less concerned about the IKEA development in southwest Winnipeg than apartment and condominium growth outside the core. He also wants to see offices and hotels concentrate downtown, he said.
"Clearly that's a suburban box-store type of development that seldom happens downtown because of the format, because of their needs for parking and land," said Grande.
What will bring people to southwest Winnipeg?
KAPYONG BARRACKS: A 64.7-hectare site near Kenaston Boulevard and Grant Avenue. Development of the site has been held up for years in a legal battle between seven First Nations and Ottawa. Once resolved, residential and commercial development could take place there.
WAVERLEY WEST: A subdivison south of where Kenaston curves into Bishop Grandin Boulevard, and is due to be done by 2022. The site will have an estimated 12,000 to 13,000 homes once completed.
IKEA: The much-hyped 400,000-square-foot store at Kenaston and Sterling Lyon Parkway attracted thousands at its opening day Wednesday.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition December 3, 2012 A3
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Atsuko Hirai, 78
May 31, 1936 - July 14, 2014
LEWISTON -- Atsuko Hirai, an eminent historian of modern Japan who broadened the curricular offerings in history and Asian studies at Bates College, died on July 14, 2014, at her home in Lewiston. She was 78.
Hirai was the Kazushige Hirasawa Professor of History from 1988 until her retirement in 2013. Born in Japan in 1936, she studied international relations at Tokyo University and earned a doctorate in government from
Harvard University
At the time of her appointment to one of the first endowed chairs at Bates, Hirai was an associate of research at the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies at Harvard, where she lectured on the history and politics of her native land.
Before coming to Bates, Professor Hirai also taught at Sophia University,
Michigan State University
, Wellesley College and Simmons College. She was a fellow in Japanese and Korean studies at the University of California at Berkeley.
At Bates, she taught introductory and advanced courses in Japanese history as well as specialized courses on Japan in the age of imperialism, World War II in the Pacific, the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, postwar Japan through film and literature, gender in Japanese history, pacifism in 20th-century Japan, food in Japan, and Americans in Japan.
Professor Hirai's research focused on the comparative and intellectual history of modern Japan and the West, the state and pre-war liberalism in Japan, and women in modern Japan. She authored the book Individualism and Socialism: The Life and Thought of Kawai Eijiro (Harvard University Asia Center, 1987) as well as scholarly articles topics from the influence of the English idealist Thomas Hill Green on Meiji Japan and on Mao Zedong, to family law in the Meiji period, to the early history of the piano in Japan.
Her latest book, Government by Mourning: Death and Political Integration in Japan, 1612-1912, a study of governmental edicts on mourning and related rites in Japan, was published shortly before her death by the Harvard University Asia Center.
Her research was supported by a Fulbright Scholarship, a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship and grants from the American Philosophical Society, the Northeast Asian Council, and the Harvard-Yenching Institute.
Professor Hirai was an accomplished musician and classically trained soprano. She gave several concerts at Bates featuring arias by Mozart and Lieder by composers from Schubert to Richard Strauss, often accompanied by Bates artist-in-residence Frank Glazer.
She was also a gourmet cook who hosted elegant, intellectually lively dinner parties at her Lewiston home.
Professor Hirai's survivors include a sister, Hideko Misawa of Tokyo; nephews, Yutaka Misawa of Tokyo and Tooru Hirai of Otsuki-shi, Yamanashi, a niece, Eri Hirai of Otsuki-shi, Yamanashi; and many friends in the U.S. and Japan.
Bates will hold a memorial service for Professor Hirai in the fall. Condolences may be expressed at
In lieu of flowers, those
wishing to commemorate her life may make a contribution to:
The Professor Atsuko Hirai
Scholarship Fund
Bates College
Lewiston, Maine 04240
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Don't you think that the Bible was just a great magic mushrooms trip? Check this man, I just turned water into wine...
yeah...and check this out....i just split this water right down the middle....now for my next trick, I'm going to staple this water to a tree
I think the bible was a big made up fairytale to control people, take away their freedom and to give the religouse leaders power, just like the bullsh*t laws they pass today. In my state they can right you a ticket and fine you if you drive your car with the windshield wipers on and don't have your headlights on at the same time. Make any sence? If you don't follow the rules in this book you will die and burn in a pit of fire forever or if you don't do anything else I say.
Some parts of the Bible have been substantiated with archaeological evidence.
I've always thought that the idea of the United States sounded like a good smoke: "Yeah, and everybody would be equal, see? And everybody would just pay into a fund on a sliding scale, and we'd use that to pave the roads and build schools, and everything."
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Sixty years ago, Harper Lee wrote Go Set a Watchmen and lost track of it, and this year the original manuscript was apparently found by someone rummaging through a box of old papers. Suppose she had written it on a computer, where is it now? Sitting on a punch tape or a giant magnetic platter, that's where. Who cares if it is saved in plain text or WordStar 3.0 format; at that point it's almost undiscoverable, and as good as gone. And sixty years from now our SSDs, USB drives, and even our M-Discs are going to be as difficult to use (and as busted) as that fridge-sized IBM Model 350 is now.
Keeping electronic files and photos around is like trying to keep a brain alive with tubes, wires and chemicals. You have to keep checking in on them, making sure they're backed up, and migrating them to some stable combination of hardware and filesystem. Every few years. Maybe you have the patience to keep doing that for a decade, to keep writing the checks and putting in the Saturday afternoons. But someone has to keep up the effort or the day comes when you lose track of it, and at that point it's basically kaput.
This is why I started my project of making a book-making machine. The goal of the project is to be able to take a snapshot of whatever I write or photograph, and magically turn that into a bound book. So that, should I someday no longer have the wherewithal to fiddle with computers and web servers, I can still have all those words and pictures on a shelf somewhere.
I could just print my stuff out on my laser printer, staple it together and call it a day. But a bound book is more compact, more durable and more useable than a sheaf of papers. We happen to live in a time when printing books is easy, fast and cheap. You can send a PDF to CreateSpace, order a single book for a few clams plus shipping, and it will show up on your doorstep a week later.1
So that's what I'm working on, for fun, in my spare time. I'll probably make a book of The Local Yarn, and a second one of transcripts of the Howell Creek Radio podcast. When I'm done, I'll make the books available for anyone to purchase. I expect to sell perhaps three copies and end up with a couple of dimes in my pocket. The point isn't to make money; it's to ensure that whoever might want a permanent, offline copy of this stuff can get one — and that, if my house gets hit by a tornado, I can beg or buy a copy back from somebody.
I just can't get over the fact that this service exists. The ability to print a single bound book for the price of a hot dog is, as much as the internet itself, an economic result that is unique in the history of the world. I keep thinking that, as a society, we could be taking much better advantage of this capability than we do. Who knows how long it will last. ↩
As one who worked for every cent of a college degree — $0 aid, $0 parents — this new proposal for free tuition makes me livid. Are American students ALREADY getting enough help from their government? 90% of my classmates were not paying their own way. and that 10% who were there on their own dime….Top of the class.
These comments helped crystallize some thoughts I've been processing for a long time, so I thought I'd bang them out here. This isn't a personal debate at this point; my intent isn't to "call out" any one person, but rather to use his comment to illustrate a perspective I used to hold, and why I don't hold it anymore.
Part of this perspective (call it "earn your keep" for short) is the idea that if someone pays they will perform. And the more they pay towards their own personal improvement, the better they will perform. Maybe more importantly, the less they have to pay due to any type of assistance, the worse they will tend to perform.1 After all, they're not invested; they have no skin in the game.
There can be (and often are) good intentions behind "earn your keep" thinking. Many people say it comes from mean or self-serving motives, but when I held to this line I genuinely don't think I did so out of spite or selfishness. I'm very sure that's not what motivates my friend either. None of us wants policies that would tend to undermine people's ability to reach their true potential.
Still, under scrutiny it falls apart in several ways.
Its predicted outcomes don't match actual results. For example, countries exist where college tuition is 100% government-subsidized. Under the above "earn your keep" thinking, we would predict that students produced by colleges in those countries would be outperformed by U.S. students; in fact the opposite is true2. As another example, no one in America pays for their own high school education. Yet among American high school students, whether public, private, or homeschooled, you find students who excel, and those who fail — even though none of them are paying out of pocket.3
It's an argument that obtains against any measure that might lower the bar to opportunity, including private charity or cost-cutting. Suppose my friend's alma mater found a way to cut tuition costs by 50% without subsidies. The felt effect on the paying student would be indistinguishable from a government-subsidized cut. Applied consistently, "earn your keep" thinking would lead us to oppose all cost-cutting measures on the grounds that they would hurt student performance relative to those in earlier years who had to pay more. "Earn your keep" is also an argument in favor of making all high school students pay for classes out of their own earnings.
Finally, there's the issue of one's frame of reference being too small and oversimplified. My friend's baseline reference for "reasonable" college tuition costs is "the hours I worked and the dollars I paid" — a price which was almost certainly subsidized by some combination of tax dollars and private donations. Further, suppose someone who had worked harder and paid much more for college came along and sneered at him. What logical grounds could he have for refusing the justness of this sneer? Why is his price the "correct" one? And again, there's the issue of high school: the universally accepted baseline "reasonable" student cost for high school, even among conservatives, is $0. Why is this?
Whether people receive something for free or have to work for it, they tend to believe that the particular method by which they got it was the "correct" one. If they had to pay a steep price (such as for a house or their first car), then they earned it in a way that made them value it "properly". If it came to them for little or no cost (such as firefighters showing up at their burning house, or the food they ate for the first fifteen years of their life) then that was simply what they were owed from others' civic or moral duty. These distinctions are completely arbitrary, and we would do well to avoid including them in our policy decisions.
There's a second aspect to the thinking we're discussing: the sentiment that if you can't or don't pay, then you don't deserve. You haven't worked hard enough. You haven't sacrificed enough. My friend is "livid" that many people might get for "free" something that he had to work hard for. Part of it might have to do with relative personal comparisons as discussed above. But the other part surely has to do with concerns about expending money on undeserving people who will probably waste it.
When we talk about "to whom should we give
X" (as opposed to "who will be most effectively helped by
X"), we're talking about moral frameworks and value systems. Who deserves what kind of assistance? Should desert even be a factor when giving assistance? Should need be a factor?
Jesus did not have anything too encouraging to say to the "deserving"4. He gave the best perspective on the question of how we ought to include or exclude this or that person for assistance. What he says is: your heavenly father makes the sun rise on the evil and on the good — and you had really better imitate his example. God, we may say, materially assists everyone, even knowing many will abuse those gifts.
As a society, America already does this in a lot of ways (though very poorly in many cases), for which I am thankful. We provide public defenders for all accused, knowing that many of the accused will be guilty. We provide education for all children, knowing that many will slack off in class. The (somewhat counter-intuitive) result is a better society. But on the whole, a Christian should feel obligated to support these kinds of measures even if that were not always the case — because God does.
There's a bit more nuance to it for conservatives. When pressed, they will say that not all assistance is bad, but that assistance provided through the civil authority is somehow different from all other kinds of assistance and is uniquely counter-productive. Whether this is a real distinction is a separate discussion, something I may talk about in a further note or a separate post. But I would start by asking, what are all the different types of assistance a government may provide, and how does one decide which of those are good and which are bad? ↩
In studies of education outcomes among OECD countries — whether in college graduation rates or literacy scores among college graduates — the USA consistently rates at or below the OECD average, and behind many other countries where college is free to students. The US falls behind these countries in mathematics as well (1, 2) though these results concern high school students — which, again, pay $0 for their education no matter which country they are in. ↩
The common counter to this is that student performance in public schools is inferior to that of private schools. Even if we concede this point, though, it's irrelevant. We're talking about the motivational effect of costs on students (not parents), and the cost to the high school student is still pretty much $0 no matter what type of school they attend. Furthermore, US student performance in private schools is still worse than student performance in countries that only have public education. ↩
"And on receiving it they grumbled at the master of the house, saying, 'These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.' But he replied to one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius? Take what belongs to you and go. I choose to give to this last worker as I give to you. Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?' So the last will be first, and the first last." — Matthew ch. 20 ↩
X" (as opposed to "who will be most effectively helped by
X"), we're talking about moral frameworks and value systems. Who deserves what kind of assistance? Should [desert][des] even be a factor when giving assistance? Should need be a factor?
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These days, no matter what computing platform you're on, your text cursor is likely to be a thin line, almost hairline-width. But years ago they were chunky blocks of pixels, taking up a full character width
Why were cursors originally drawn this way? One assumes that the machine code for drawing a block was simpler on text terminals, since you could treat the cursor as just another character. It may have been a design decision too, since a block would be more visible on a monochrome, low-resolution screen.
I'm just as curious about why cursors thinned with the emergence of graphical interfaces. Interface design is like clothing design, it consists of fashions and styles that emerge and replicate across the whole field before you can even tell where they began; but someone had to have thought about it to begin with, and I wonder who that person was and how they ended up starting that trend.
There's something understated and elegant about a thin cursor — again, the servant metaphor I mentioned explains it best: a white-gloved butler always there when you need him, doing his job with economy of style and invisible at all other times.
I miss the block cursor, though. I would like to see it reappear in more places, to have the option for it. A block cursor is less like a butler and more like an opinionated pal who comes to hang out in your studio.
Further notes to this article will collect pictures of block cursors from various platforms, quotes from sources knowledgeable on the history of text cursor design, instances of block cursors being incorporated on new platforms, and anything else relevant to the topic.]]>
There was some discussion on Twitter recently over whether Twin was "a failed attempt" as alleged by a poorly-written article (which has since, it seems, been retro-edited down to one paragraph). As an artistic concept, of course, it is absurd to talk of it as having "failed"; but as long as it remains impossible for anyone to actually use (or even view!) the typeface and the features that made it unique, there will remain an unavoidable sense of sadness and abandonment around it.
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For comparison, a more literal translation would have run something like "The moon has set and the Pleiades / It is the middle of the night / Time passes by / And I sleep alone."
Many translators have offered their own treatments of this poem, some more literal and some more poetic.
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For example, there's this short essay on my website from 2003 called Art Fare For the Common Man, in which 22-year old me basically argues (not very well, I now see) that "modern" poetry — meaning pretty much anything after the 1800s that doesn't rhyme — is all of poor quality because modern poets don't put enough effort into their poems to make them appeal to normal people on first reading. 22-year old me believes this pretty strongly; 32-year old me finds all kinds of problems with that essay.
I tried to explain the substance of my new position in a chapter of Noise of Creation ('0019. Non-Imitation'):
You asked me once about "modern poetry," and whether I had any favourite modern poets, and by some delightful mental process each of us understood modern to mean both "doesn't rhyme" and "written during my lifetime."
Because of course "rhyming" is a traditional form, and one meaning of "modern" has to do with departing from tradition.
I didn't know how to explain modern poetry to you except to explain that novelty is the essence of true communication… Whenever someone says something and you truly get it — when you hear it in your head exactly the way they do — it is always unprecedented. It's like seeing a new color, or tasting a flavour you've never encountered. Tradition is the opposite of communication. Any tradition becomes a coating in your mouth; and poets, being into real communication, have a positive need for invention. At some point it becomes less a question of particular forms and structures, and more a hunt for the taste of that chemical reaction on your tongue.
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But to come back to the question of whether or not our platforms should privilege authors over publications or the reverse: well, what if that's the wrong question? What if what we're asking about isn't taxonomy and authorship but money? In other words: let's stop pretending that the question at hand is about art, and admit it's economics.
Read the whole thing.
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The output generated can theoretically be uploaded straight to CreateSpace for use in a 5.25″ × 8″ sized bound book. (I have yet to actually try this, but the PDF does meet all their requirements.) I plan to add options for a few other book sizes and designs in the future.
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Blog posts are a little different than normal book chapters, though. Book chapters usually have numbers, but posts are more commonly marked by the date on which they were posted. I had a hard time finding examples of LaTeX chapter styles which featured a date within the chapter heading itself, so I came up with my own solution.
My preferred starting point was memoir's "dowding" chapter style, in which the chapter number appears above the chapter title, and both are centered. I copied its definition and changed it so that, instead of printing automatic chapter numbers in numbered headings (e.g., "Chapter One") it instead prints whatever text I supply:
\setlength{\afterchapskip}{1.5\onelineskip \@plus .1\onelineskip
\@minus 0.167\onelineskip}%
% Remove the word "Chapter" before the date (where the chapter
% number would normally be)
% Print the contents of \chapterDesc in place of the chapter number
% (except in appendices, where a simple [roman] numeral is printed)
\ifanappendix \thechapter
\else \chapterDesc\fi}
% (Original, for reference:) %
% \ifanappendix \thechapter
% \else \numtoName{\c@chapter}\fi}%
Then I define a couple of new commands that allow me to pass an additional string of text to be used in place of each chapter's number:
% define as empty to prevent an error the first time
And here's how I use all this in the template:
\ChapterDate{My Summer Vacation}{July 22, 2014}
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But it does shock me to see what a religious world I inhabit online: a world of dogmas and excommunications, of Huguenots and Catholics, of certainties and casus belli, of inquisitors and the church-goers eager to revel in their (usually) flattering verities and then spill out into the streets parroting them as revelation. Everyone wants to tear down temples. The moralization of artifacts from apps to art reminds me of nothing so much as those religious texts which assert God's position on minor matters like tattoos and silverware; and searching the world and all who live in it and all their utterances for evidence of whether they conform to one's beliefs has seemed to me wildly anachronistic, which, as I said, only shows how stupid I am. Form never changes, only content.
Mills is one of my favourite writers these days.]]>
But it does shock me to see what a religious world I inhabit online: a world of dogmas and excommunications, of Huguenots and Catholics, of certainties and casus belli, of inquisitors and the church-goers eager to revel in their (usually) flattering verities and then spill out into the streets parroting them as revelation…
Working backwards: I'll be using CreateSpace to print and bind the book. CS's main inputs are 1) a PDF of the book's cover and 2) a PDF of the book's interior. I'll figure out how to automate the creation of the cover later; for now I'll focus on the book's interior. I'll be using pandoc to convert HTML or Markdown into LaTeX, which can then be used to generate the PDF. Most of the work will be in creating a suitable LaTeX template.
On my Mac, I set up the development environment for this by installing MacTeX and Homebrew, then installing pandoc from the command line with:
$ brew install pandoc
As a simple test, I took the plain tex of one of my own blog posts and saved it to
simplepost.txt. I also manually added some meta-data to the top (as described on pandoc's user guide), like so:
title: Imagination and Self-Doubt
author: Joel Dueck
date: July 18, 2014
# Imagination and Self-Doubt
and then 'compiled' to PDF:
$ pandoc -s -o out.tex simplepost.pdf
$ xelatex out.tex out.pdf
The result is a very basic PDF set in Computer Modern, suitable for printing on loose sheets of 8.5″ × 11″ paper:
In later notes I'll be working on customizing the LaTeX template used by pandoc to get a good-looking PDF suitable for use with CreateSpace.]]>
"If we want it to get better, we need to start pushing back against the trend, modernizing blogs, and building what we want to come next."
Besides being too vague to be useful2 this advice completely misrepresents "the trend" and the problem it presents. It suggests that if we organize some petitions and online awareness campaigns, maybe do some creative coding, we bloggers can get things back on track — i.e., persuade individuals to use the web in healthy, creative ways and revitalize the web from the ground up. In other words, it presents "the trend" as just the pattern of our individual habits, nothing more.
But the "trend" we are talking about here is that people are being trained to use their attention spans as little as possible. This is not an "internet habits" problem, nor even a technology problem; it is a political problem. It has to do mainly with the kinds of services and companies we collectively allow to exist, the things we reward and penalize legally and economically.3
If a school, for example, makes policies that reward teachers for handing out cotton candy and that penalize students for bringing their own food, maybe you could try to help by persuading the students to suck it up and live healthy lifestyles anyway. But you'd be better off throwing out those stupid policies and starting over, weighting the environment to assist good behaviour.
We may individually resolve to stop wasting our time on social media, or to continue creative pursuits — sure. I'm not trying to minimize our individual agency here; I'm trying to say that a broad solution depends more on our collective political will. And that begins with a drive towards popular recognition that 1) we have an entire economy weighted towards producing systems and material that appeal to people's laziest instincts in order to optimize profits; 2) creative pursuits and self-development are penalized in America (the internet's driving economy), rather than rewarded; and 3) this is bad for our society.
As dour as his diagnosis sounds, Marco actually betrays what seems to me to be unmerited optimism throughout. Consider his choice of metaphor:
"Social networks have powerful benefits and are here to stay. But like any trend, we've swung too far in that direction for our own good, as both producers and consumers. I hope the pendulum starts to swing back soon, because it hasn't yet. It's going to get worse before it gets better, if it ever does."
Alas, we have no evidence that a swinging pendulum is what we're observing here. The trend in attention spans we see across internet-saturated cultures has never "swung" in any direction but one. ↩
E.g.: "pushing back" meaning what, exactly? And what is meant by "modernizing" blogs, if not the very shortening, trivializing and click-baiting that we're lamenting in the first place? When we set out to "build what we want to come next," what kind of thing might we be discussing here? ↩
For example (this is a very narrow case), I'm not sure that a company like Facebook, which sells detailed personal information to advertisers, should be legally allowed to exist. But I would be willing to consider other possibilities, such as a 90% tax on revenue derived from targeted advertising. ↩
— Tyler
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In the last year or so, all the major browsers, even the lone holdout Firefox, have finally come to support HTML5 playback of MP3 audio. Firefox has had this ability for almost a year now, except on Mac OS. But with the release of Firefox 35 in January 2015, playback of MP3 files using the
audio tag is now finally supported on all browsers on all platforms.
The Flash-first approach may still be useful over the next year or so in order to ensure compatibility with Mac users who use Firefox and aren't updating. But anyone still using Flash for audio embeds should consider phasing it out in 2016 at the latest.
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Talent lies not in status; causation can be easily struck down with any introductory history lesson.
— Lance
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"I don't think in history — you look back, I don't think there's that many examples of the middle class inventing anything you know, culturally. So when I put on a tape and I hear, you know, well-educated-white-person strumming a guitar, I'm looking at my watch, I'm saying 'I'll give this another fifteen seconds.'"
— 'Three Records from Sundown', 99% Invisible, ep. 141
Sure, this is subjective. But it still stings, in a real 'the-truth-hurts' kind of way. I think about this a lot lately: the more I take on to cement my own and my family's security and comfort, the less I have to say.]]>
Sleep in the glass coffin
and await love's kiss—or
the knife,
fresh stick of butter.
When Douglas Hofstadter was 16, he read a poem. Just an innocent little poem, a few short lines, nothing special. But the poem burrowed deep into his brain, and many years later, he set out to translate the thing…
(Radiolab: "100 Flowers")
Douglas translates the poem, then sets about getting everyone he knows to attempt their own translations, eventually published in his book Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language.
Who can nail the form and still capture the essence? — The very challenge I wish Tolkien would have taken with his Beowulf.
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The common Western idea of death is that once you die you are transported immediately to a place of ultimate comfort (or torment), with no intervals. Your consciousness continues seamlessly into the next life, just no longer tied to your physical body.
Suppose, though, that while consciousness does continue in some way after death, it remains thoroughly joined to your physical remains. As your body decays, so does your personality, your capacity to reason. Your emotions, having been all along largely the product of your fluids and nerves, transmute ever more into the mute horror which your remains increasingly depict.
This consciousness-in-death was a running theme of Edgar Allen Poe. His genius, in my view, was to paint this horror only at the edges — premature burials, loss of breath, the unwillingness of the "deceased" to actually die — so intimately that we often mistake the edge for the abyss at the center. But in a kind of artistic truth, the madness of Poe's narrators increases in proportions as that abyss (the experience of actually being dead) is really approached — whenever we see a lady of Usher, for example, or hear the beating of a murdered man's heart — it is nearly always seen through senses that are themselves being damaged.
C.S. Lewis, on the other hand, gets right inside this idea, describing it in lucid detail in Perelandra, when his villain Weston temporarily recovers his senses and tries to articulate his experience of death:
"…All the good things are now — a thin little rind of what we call life, put on for show, and then — the real universe for ever and ever. To thicken the rind by one centimetre — to live one week, one day, one half hour longer — that's the only thing that matters. … [Humanity] knows — Homer knew — that all the dead have sunk down into the inner darkness: under the rind. All witless, all twittering, gibbering, decaying… Then there's Spiritualism…I used to think it all nonsense. But it isn't. It's all true. You've noticed that all pleasant accounts of the dead are traditional or philosophical? What actual experiment discovers is quite different. Ectoplasm - slimy films coming out of a medium's belly and making great, chaotic, tumbledown faces. Automatic writing producing reams of rubbish."
I wonder whether this idea of death is common in other cultures, or times of history. It seems to me something very Other — definitely not Christian, but not exactly Pagan either.
The song 'Bottom of the River' by Tom Fun Orchestra seems an appropriate example as well. Interpreted by some as concerned mainly with environmental vandalism, it seems to me more straightforward to read it as the experience of those "beneath the rind": dead yet conscious, still chained to their remains, enduring a never-ending passage of time where light is distant and the idle time-marking movements of the living all too close.]]>
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First of all, I've amended the article to reflect that Atwood's move was not, in fact, classy.
Second, I haven't seen anyone else mention that this situation with Markdown is identical to what happened with Textile. People who were not Dean Allen standardized and extended the markup language spec without his apparent blessing. These people were nowhere disparaged for doing so, not by Allen, not by anyone else. This is the correct result. Textile, such as it is, is much better for these contributions than it otherwise would have been.
The following are additional facts that have absolutely no bearing on this dispute, but which are nonetheless interesting in a purely historical sense:
Markdown the format (not the implementation) had heavy input from the now-deceased Aaron Swartz. Swartz posted his own announcement of Markdown on March 19 2004 (four days after Gruber's announcement). In that announcement Swartz seems to consider himself pretty much a co-author of the Markdown syntax. Gruber's announcement of March 15 said only "I've written", with no mention of Swartz; the main Markdown page did (and does) mention Swartz at the bottom, saying he "deserves a tremendous amount of credit for his feedback on the design of Markdown's formatting syntax. Markdown is much better thanks to Aaron's ideas, feedback, and testing." Except for the curious disparity of credit between their two announcement posts, I have to say I feel Gruber's handling of Swartz's involvement has been appropriate, especially in light of Swartz's tragic death.
Markdown was originally licensed under the GPL, and was free for personal use with a suggested payment of $50 per domain for commercial use. By early 2005 the license was changed to the current BSD-style license.
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You end up posting text & images at yet a different address. It's charming that they've used modern code to look like a circa 1987 dial-up bulletin board, but…
I do miss my 1969 Plymouth Valiant. But I'm not sure I want it back.
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An urban retreat in cosmopolitan Maryland, The Hamptons at Town Center luxury apartment community is soothing to the senses with classical interiors and lush, manicured landscaping. Lounge without interruption by the olympic-size pool or renew your energy in the state-of-the-art fitness center. The Hamptons is the perfect place to relax in sophisticated style. Whether sipping morning coffee on your private terrace, sleeping late in your elegant master suite or unwinding after a mouthwatering meal prepared in your gourmet kitchen, you will find classical elegance in the details. The Hamptons is a retreat perfectly located to accommodate your life. Just minutes from Baltimore, you can reach any destination with ease. We are ideally situated for weekday pursuits and weekend pleasures, and never far away from the life you deserve. The Hamptons at Town Center -- where classical elegance meets sophisticated style.
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Arrived Heathrow at lunch time and used my British passport to get through immigration quite quickly and on to a bus that took me to Gloucester.There I took a local bus (a very scenic route that took ages!) to Stroud,where a short taxi ride found me at my house.By now it was dark and I was a bit anxious about finding the key hidden in a prearranged place in the garden....but there it was!. Found ...
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... sending the Euro down the Suwannee and causing merry mayhem in the Financial Markets. A week earlier the commodity markets took a dive as Chinese Hedge Funds (I'd never heard of any before) decided to flog the back off the Copper Futures Market. All good fun and it got me harking back to the time when I masqueraded as a Futures Trader in the dying days of the Last Great British Colony of the East - Hong Kong. For those with a long memory, this was the time of ...
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The stunningly beautiful lake district of Muskoka in Canada floors Sohaila Kapur
Canada is not a country of just tall glass and chrome buildings, swanky highways and a dynamic night life. It also has a beautiful countryside, replete with farms and water bodies. A visit to the stunningly beautiful lake district of Muskoka, with its rustic charm and abundant supply of fresh water, proved therapeutic. It was the perfect time for a long drive, being neither hot nor cold. We drove through the jewel-green-and-brown countryside, with its corn plantations and dairy farms dotted with plump, grazing cows and goats.
Muskoka is two hours north of Toronto, with nearly 1,600 lakes, picturesque villages and towns, farming communities, lakeside vacation hotels and resorts, besides golf courses, country clubs and marinas.
This region is referred to as 'cottage country' and sees over 2.1 million visitors annually. It has over 50,000 permanent residents and roughly 1,00,000 seasonal property owners who spend their summers here every year. Most of these properties can be found along the shores of Muskoka's three major lakes: Muskoka, Rosseau and Joseph.
In recent years, various Hollywood and sports stars have built retreats in Muskoka, including Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Cindy Crawford, Goldie Hawn (who is, apparently, often seen shopping at Gravenhurst!) and Kurt Russell.
Many summer camps are located in the region, to take advantage of the lakes that offer opportunities for canoeing, sailing, windsurfing, kayaking, water skiing, etc.
The municipality derives its name from a First Nations (original settlers in Canada) chief of the 1850s. Lake Muskoka was then the hunting grounds of a band led by chief Yellowhead or Mesqua Ukie. He was re-located by the government, who built a home for himself in nearby Orillia, where he lived until his death at 95.
The pioneering settlers here were Lt. Henry Briscoe, the first European to cross the middle of Muskoka in 1826, and explorer David Thomson, who drew the first maps of the area after possibly camping there in 1837. Subsequently, immigrants arrived there in great numbers. The Irish, escaping the famine of the 1840s and the Germans, fleeing the social unrest in the aftermath of their revolution. The Canadian government encouraged them by issuing logging licences in 1866. The area, which was thickly wooded and had rocky outcroppings, required an incentive to settle there.
Game changers
The move proved productive. The early settlers helped develop the lumber industry, clearing huge tracts of the area. They built log roads so that more people could travel over the swamp and mud to reach the early settlements. The bumpy and uncomfortable journey ended with the introduction of the railroad and the arrival of the steamships that navigated the Muskoka lakes.
The steamships brought in tourists who loved the fresh air, natural beauty and fishing. Many farmers switched trades by opening inns and hotels that brought them prosperity. Regular tourists began building cottages close to the hotels. Motorboats and cars, which replaced horse drawn carriages, rowing and steam boats, helped develop the area into the cottage country that it is today. Soon, owning a summer cottage became possible not only for the adventurous or the wealthy, but for many in the middle class. The steamship companies retired their boats one by one until the last sailing in the late 1950s.
Most of the townships in this area, whether it is Sunderland, Beaverton, Brechin, Gravenhurst, Bracebridge or Little Britain have British names, as Canada was then a British colony. The economy of this region is predominantly driven by agriculture and is supportive of the local industry, which includes tourism. Youth-oriented activities, including kayaking, canoeing, hiking and camping are plentiful. Modern amenities and banks are available in the entire region. Brechin, in fact, has the famous Casino Rama on its premises. Another attractive feature is a unique statue store, known as Brechin Artifacts that has a fairy tale-like appearance, with angels standing guard. Bracebridge, in the heart of Muskoka, is the seat of the district municipality. The town was built around a waterfall on the Muskoka River and is the only place in Canada where five waterfalls meet at a lake.
The Trent-Severn Waterway is a great way to see Central Ontario by boat. It is a canal route traversing cottage country and the breathtaking forest parks of Canada. It has 386 km of historic locks (some of them lift locks, which literally 'lift' boats from a lower canal to a higher one and vice-versa) and is said to be one of the finest interconnected systems of navigation in the world. It is open to navigation from May until October, while its shore lands and bridges are open year-round. There are many places to dock your boat for a few days, pitch a tent, go biking, fishing, swimming and sight seeing.
For sports lovers, there is the Roger Centre, a huge stadium with the moveable roof, which is home to the Toronto Blue Jays Basketball team, the Air Canada Centre, Toronto Maple Leafs of the National (Ice) Hockey League or the NHL, the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association or NBA and the Toronto Rock of the National Lacrosse League or the NLL and the Hockey Hall of Fame, the world's only Hockey museum.
Must Do
Visit townships Gravenhurst, Bavebridge, the Trent-Severn Waterway
Visit High Falls, Wilson and Bracebridge Falls
Go kayaking, canoeing, hiking, camping, biking, fishing and swimming
Take a sightseeing cruise on the RMS Segwun, the last surviving original steamship, docked at Muskoka Wharf, Gravenhurst
Visit Casino Rama at Brechin
Must Eat
Local produce from dairy farms and fresh corn dishes
Grilled or baked fish fresh from the lakes and rivers
Taste Ontario wine
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Maple syrup and jams
Statues from Brechin Artifacts
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Terra Bella Irrigation District on the east side also lacks groundwater.
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Terra Bella is part of the larger Friant Water Authority which irrigates one million acres and serves 15,000 farmers.
"We can make sure people have water," says Gievet. "Beyond that though, there's no more water. So all of my irrigation demand, all the citrus and nuts and the guys growing the crops I don't have any water for them right now."
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When to take cuttings
I was just wondering when is the best time to take ROS and tropical hib. cutting for propagation?? Can anyone tell me the ins and outs?? I took a few cuttings last fall and several did very well for me but I would like to be able to share some cuttings with friends ..
Hi Laura,
I can tell you what I did and what results I've had. I took somewhat soft green wood cuttings from the very ends of branches, removed any blooms or buds, removed all leaves except 2 or 3. I then dipped in rooting hormone and stuck them into a small pot with regular potting mix. I know you are really supposed to put them in vermiculite/sand mix or just vermiculite but I just winged it and hoped for the best. They have not died but they haven't put on any growth either. I am now doing some other hibiscus cuttings the same way except I put them into a cactus potting mix (more airy than regular) and tented them with a plastic bag. I had all of them in indirect sun. So far the tented ones look very good. But it's only been about a week.
I am now off to find some info on when to harvest seeds after cross pollinating. I just crossed a red single standard with my orange double. Not anything I planned, I was taking a walk and saw a nice red single and decided to try it out of curiosity.
Good luck!
I take green or semi-hardwood cuttings from non-blooming terminal growth and either stick them in a glass of water OR in rooting hormone, soil and a ziplock baggie (don't let the foliage touch the plastic). They then go in a window sill that gets bright indirect light or under growlights for 14 hours a day.
Cuttings can take anywhere from 10 days to 6 months to root.
they actually root better in soil. I use equal parts of peat moss and perlite, and they root very easily.
They root best when temps are constantly 70 degrees or more. Semi-hardwood and softwood cuttings seem to root quicker, but the hardwood cuttings will root, only take much longer.
I always found as someone else said, that they do best from semi-hardwood cuttings, in potting mix under gro'lites with constant light and covered of course,but they do take a minimum of about a month to start making rootgrowth, and longer before transplanting to a larger container. I think people tend to overestimate how many different types of plants will "actually" root just in water at all, and for the most part those that don't like to root in water will prefer a sterile soiless mix to root. I've always taken the position that, though some plants root readily in water, that move to potting mix is a big shock to the roots , since it is so different from growing in water, and also should the roots be in water too long, they have a tendency to get very tangled, when removing them from the water for their move to potting mix, so many are damaged or at the vary least, it's extremely difficult to untangle those roots, so that they may be evenly spread in the new potting mix. That being the case, many of those roots produced in the water are damaged in the transplanting.
does anyone know what I should do with my large standard hibiscus tree, i have it in my sunny window. It is not very bushy and it has nice dark green leaves at the ends of the stems which is the new growth and it blooms everyday but the base of the stems aren't as leafy and the leaves are not nearly as big. Should I cut off the new growth? Would that make it more bushy? Would it still flower as much and will it fill in more?


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Billy's got a gun, he's on the run
Confusion in his mind, the blind leads the blind
Oh, Billy's got a gun, he's gonna shoot ya down
He's got evil in his eyes, got a reason to despise
There's danger in the air
Can you feel it in the air
There's danger in the air, danger
Such a strange emotion
Can you feel it in the air
Oh he was locked inside a room without a door
His innocence he suffered for
In a world of black and white, they were wrong and he was right
Just looking for a clue, it's a nightmare come true
He's going underground to track that danger down
Oh Billy, hey why you got that gun?
Can you feel it in the air
There's danger in the air, danger
Such a strange emotion
Can you feel it in the air
Oh Billy
Never give him an even break
Gettin' caught is the chance you take
It could be your last mistake
You could be so helpless
As a bird with a broken wing
Like a sheep in a lion's den
Gonna fall but you won't know when
He's gonna get you
You hear footsteps in the night, see shadows on the wall
And the ghostly sound of silence, as the mist begins to fall
Then a scream rang out like thunder, but the lightning was too late
As the rain came down on the crimson ground
It was the hand of fate
And a crowd of people gathered round, but Billy couldn't wait
Can you feel it in the air
There's danger in the air, danger
Such a strange emotion
Can you feel it in the air?
Yeah, Billy's on the run
Oh, you better run
Never gave him an even break, better run
Gettin' caught is the chance you take, you better run
It could be your last mistake
Yeah Billy's got a gun
As a bird with a broken wing, oh Billy
Like a sheep in a lion's den, oh Billy
Gonna fall but you won't know when, yeah Billy's out
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XP: Questions about clematis planting
We're planning to rebuild the deck that sits in the backyard to the east of the garage. The previous owners used to have a climbing rose on the garage wall that overhangs the deck, which was beautiful but thorny (I don't like plants that want to hurt me). We're thinking of installing a trellis on the back of the garage to hide the hideous baby blue siding (unpaintable). Then we want to plant some clematis (Is it clematii? I never know.) to climb said trellis.
1. We were thinking of Huldine for this job. Does that seem a good choice? We're hoping it will robustly scale the trellis without necessitating the use of a ladder too often. Is that crazy?
2. Would you interplant something else for the contrast? I'm worried that Huldine will just overwhelm anything else.
3. How many plants would you use for a 20' garage? We don't need it to fully cover the wall, but don't want it to look skimpy, either.
4. I'm pretty sure this will be enough sun, since it gets full blast all day until noon. If anyone disagrees with me, let me know.
I'd appreciate any other thoughts. I've grown a few clematis very successfully in the past, but I've never tried anything on this scale.
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ps: if you grew two successfully .. why would more matter??? ... what exactly are you wondering about.. other than planting a monoculture??? .. why not throw in some other vines???? .. just in case some clem plague rolls thru ...????? ... vining fragrant honeysuckle..??... the autumn fragrant clem??? .... and of course.. i immediately blank on other options .. lol...
If you want another type of clematis, Betty Corning is pretty large and vigorous as well. Betty has lavender bells and a light scent to some folks' noses. Both Huldine and Betty Corning are type three pruning (hard prune in winter every year.) After the first few years they will regrow quickly to cover the trellis in spring. I don't know why you would need a ladder unless there are some dead sprigs still clinging to the trellis that you want to remove after pruning. I just cut back to 1 or 2 sets of buds and pull the old vines off whatever it is growing on.
In order for your clematis to climb on its own, your trellis should have pieces that are narrow enough for the leaf stems (petioles) of the clematis to wrap around, so no wooden lattice trellis unless you are going to also have something like a wire grid fastened on. I keep trellis pieces 1/2" or less in width, and usually aim for 3/8" or less. So your trellis might not hide much in winter unless you leave the dead vines until late winter before cutting back.
I think I would plant every 3' - 4' along the wall to give a moderately full look, but you could plant closer or farther apart. Plant the clematis a few inches deeper than in the pot, mulch the ground around the plants (though not right against the stems) to help maintain even moisture, and water if the soil stops feeling slight damp below the surface.
(Just in case you want a different route, a response about the siding being "unpaintable". If it's vinyl or aluminum it can be painted with proper prep and materials.)
If there is a chance the clematis will intertwine or grow into each other, then it is far less trouble to select all from the same pruning group. The spacing nhbabs suggests sounds about right, as clems tend to want to grow up, not out. They will need some help with this by way of a support system. If the trellis not tall enough, consider using fishing line or nylon netting to help. IME, they just won't adhere very well to aluminum siding - they need something small to grasp their vining tendrils around.
Because of their various pruning requirements, clems tend not to play well with other vines - it can be a major headache attempting to sort through and cut back what needs to get cut back while not disturbing others. And many other vines are just too vigorous to combine with most clematis hybrids - like the honeysuckle suggested, for example. It would easily overtake and swamp the clems.
Am I the only person who doesn't prune my wall of clematis? Some years I take the dead stuff off in the winter --- others-- I do nothing. They grow right up on top of the told stuff and completely cover it so why bother knowing what to prune and when? I have 5 varieties growing on the south side of my garage on a trellis.
Ryse - I'm a rebel too! :-) I mix pruning groups and am rather cavalier about how I prune! I rarely (can't ever remember doing so....) cut things back to the 2 sets of buds level - I just whack off any winterkilled bits, trim things back to a logical place if they're growing where I don't want them to, and otherwise leave them alone, other than to give them a shake or two in the spring to help remove some of last year's dried leaves. The 'improper' pruning doesn't seem to bother the clematises at all and it's less work for me! :-) It's taken a few years to get going well but Henryi is now growing and flowering nicely into my Chinese wisteria tree, so I wouldn't be afraid to try combining a clematis with whatever I thought might work/look good with it. Experimenting is always fun....!
This has been very helpful, thanks! ESPECIALLY good tip about the narrow support--I knew that somewhere deep in my brain, but had totally forgotten. We'll be sure to provide something good for twining.
I also really appreciated the confessions about clematis pruning. Heh heh. I wonder how often we'll prune ours?


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In a report issued last month, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) concluded that the VA is woefully unprepared for the surge of female veterans trying to access their system and obtain quality and timely care. What a surprise. Why is the VA always caught flat-footed?
The VA's services for women's health needs are highly fragmented. Few VA facilities are able to serve all of a woman's health care needs in one place. Consequently, patients need to travel to multiple facilities to get all of their health care issues addressed. Indeed, the VA recognized this in 2003 and mandated that all VA hospitals and clinics provide basic women's services – but only where it was feasible. Talk about an edict with no teeth! Six years later and comprehensive women's primary care clinics are still scarce, with only 14 percent of them providing a one-stop shop for women veterans.
Adding to this inconvenience is the inaccessibility of many VA facilities, as many veterans have to travel long distances to get to any one facility – especially for those veterans who live in rural areas. As the fastest growing segment of the veterans' population and one that is expected to more than double in the next 15 years, women veterans should be able to access quality care more easily.
I like John McCain's 2008 campaign proposal: Give veterans a type of debit card that allows them to go to the doctor of their choice in their hometown. Why does the VA have to provide all the resources, when they have already proven that they can't keep up with the growing demand?
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I have a Craftsman riding mower,17.5 hp. Have replaced starter,solinoid and magneto but it won't start when you first turn the key. After you turn the key numerous times it will start. At first the flywheel will just turn maybe a 1/4 turn. Keep turning the key and it will start.After it does start it will start up all day long, first time you turn the key.Let it set over-night, and it's the same thing! HELP PLEASE
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That bed was so hard!
Although I reserved a non-smoking room, someone had clearly smoked in the room. The front desk staff only offered to have someone come an spray the odor away. It still reeked. The carpet felt very dirty and there was a hockey team staying in the hotel so it was very loud with hockey team and PARENTS AT 2AM!!
There were many Mexicans loitering right outside where our door was. It felt unsafe and that we were being watched.
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Bedding was minimal, furniture broken, bathroom old old old. Place was shabby and didn't feel safe.
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I was charged twice for the room. The staff and management handled the situation professionally and promptly. Thank you!
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Everything about this hotel was horrible, from the condition of the room to the nasty attitude of the hotel staff. If you want to pay to stay in dirty, bug infested room you have found your hotel.
Clean, felt like a newer hotel and the location..
My Wife had a lot of things, close by to do while I was Working, Everyone in Suisun City Very Friendly, Bring your Fishing Pole, They Catch Salmon 300 Feet away from hotel, Pet Frindly
The hotel stay was conveniently located. Easy access, close to freeway. Numerous food establishments within walking distance.
The only downfall we experienced, the heating/ air unit did not work. The staff did offer to exchange room or bring in a fan. We opted for fan.
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Facilities is fairly new and well kept. Staff was nice.
Entire 3rd floor smelled due to a number of smoking allowed rooms. They don't provide shampoo in the bathrooms. They have soap, and the kitchen has dish washing detergent, but they don't carry shampoo. Had to walk to the nearest convenience/liquor store to buy shampoo at midnight to get by. Strange.
I love the pool and spa, i like that i can swin in A heated pool in the winter and early spring, i also lie that there is no ssmoking in the room allowed but there is a private balcony so i dont have to go down thru the. Hotel lobby to have a cigarette
Lobby was pretty large, free parking.
Low ceiling, very small and slow elevator(phobia causing), feels old, noisy heater, significantly lower quality than other Mariott Courtyards, rooms feel like two star level hotel, staffs don't look very professional, low quality shower head.
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It smelled like cigarettes throughout.
People in neighboring rooms loud, tv blasted over night.
Elevator did not work.
Outdated furniture.
Stains on towels
I liked location location,breakfast and other staff members
I didn't like management..very rude and poor customer service
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Light dinner could use some improvement. Did like the option of wine or beer.
Nothing really. But it was cheap. I guess you get what you pay for.
to much noise, like people yelling. Should have security address the problems rite away than rather let it go on for hours.
Not clean, didn't even clean the sheets. Staff was not helpful at all. The other tenants scared me. Seemed like there was people living there.
The staff was very friendly and accomodating. The room was nice and the location was centrally located. I would go again when I am in town.
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