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August 16, 2013
To: Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Heidi Wachter, Interim City Manager
Council Meetings
The City Council's next regular session is scheduled for Monday, August 19, 2013 beginning at 7:00 P.M. in the City Hall Council Chambers located at 6000 Main Street SW. City Council agenda items will be: 1) Recognition of Commencement Bay Rowing Club's US Rowing Youth National Championship; 2) Recognition of Lakewood YMCA's National Gymnastics Championship; 3) Appointing Youth Council members for 2013-2014; and 4) Appointing an individual to serve on the Citizens' Transportation Advisory Committee through November 15, 2014.
The City Council's next study session is scheduled for Monday, August 26, 2013 beginning at 7:00 P.M. in the City Hall Council Chambers located at 6000 Main Street SW. City Council agenda items will be: 1) Review of proposed code amendments relative to drive throughs.
A special meeting will be held on Monday, August 26, 2013 following the study session authorizing the City Manager to execute a Collective Bargaining Agreement with the Lakewood Police Management Guild.
Topics of Interest and Updates
Legal Update
Prosecution Update
During the week of August 5-9, 2013, for the Cities of Lakewood and University Place, 40 cases were reviewed by the Prosecutor. Of these, 12 charges were filed in Court. This is in addition to the in-custody cases already filed for both cities.
Parks, Recreation, and Community Services Update
Junk in the Trunk Community Garage Sale
Browse over 3,000 square feet of clothes, toys, dishes, furniture, trinkets and more at the City of Lakewood Parks, Recreation and Community Services "Junk in the Trunk" Community Garage Sale on Saturday, August 24 at Lakewood City Hall (6000 Main Street SW). Shop the sale from 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.
If you would like to sell your lightly used treasures, a space is only $15. Onsite registration is available. For more information or to pre-register for this event call (253) 983-7887. See you there!
Economic Development Update
Point Defiance Rail Bypass Workshops
The City of Lakewood is conducting public workshops to review the current status of the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) Point Defiance Rail Bypass Project (PDRB). This Project proposes to reroute Amtrak passenger trains to an existing inland rail line route along the west side of I-5 through south Tacoma, Lakewood, and DuPont. When completed, it would bring a total of seven daily round trip passenger trains through Tacoma, Lakewood, and DuPont intersections, with an average crossing time of 45 seconds per intersection and a maximum speed of 79 mph. The first Workshop is for those properties adjacent to the railroad tracks from the City's northerly City limits to 108th Street SW. The Workshop shall be conducted on August 21, 2013, beginning at 6:30 PM, at Lakewood City Hall City Council Chambers, 6000 Main Street SW. Additional workshops and meetings will be held around this topic in the coming weeks. For additional information, please contact Becky Newton, Economic Development Specialist at (253) 983-7738, or e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com . For detailed information on the project go to: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects/rail/pnwrc_ptdefiance/
Mark Your Calendars
August 20th- Coffee with the Mayor-St. Clare Hospital Classrooms A/B
September 15th- Raider Brigade Homecoming Parade and Celebration


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Before Mark Wahlberg ever attempted to test his mettle vis-a-vis giant metamorphosing robots from outer space, and before he befriended a heroic battle-bot named Optimus Prime on-screen, the actor prepared for his latest part with an unlikely foil: a talking teddy bear with an outsize taste for prostitutes and cocaine.
Which is to say that before Wahlberg signed on to appear in Paramount Pictures' mega-budget sci-fi thriller "Transformers: Age of Extinction," he got a first taste of acting opposite computer-generated imagery in a certain raunch-comedy that became 2012's surprise breakout hit.
"'Ted' was definitely a good warmup," Wahlberg said of the movie in which he plays a Boston bro who co-habitates with his hard-swearing, magically alive plush toy. "With 'Ted,' it was a more intimate setting. But this movie is much bigger and more intense. You've got eight Autobots talking to you at the same time. There's nothing but a pole or a stick really there. You've got to believe and totally commit. The most difficult part of acting is when you look ridiculous and have to confront the risk of looking foolish. You've got to be on the whole time. You can't phone it in."
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Optimus Prime has undergone quite a few vehicular makeovers in the past 30 years of Transformers projects, yet his earnest and heroic voice has never wavered, thanks to Peter Cullen.
For the big-budget Transformers: Age of Extinction, the actor once again reprises the role he's been playing since the 1980s Transformers cartoon. Now Prime and his Autobots have a new human ally (Mark Wahlberg) but they are in conflict with the evil Decepticons as well as the U.S. government.
"He is exactly who he was from the very original concept," Cullen says of Prime. "I've always felt a hero should have the qualities that are inspiring and helpful and fatherly and at the same time (be) courageous. I don't see those character traits changing at all."
Transformers is more than a lifetime gig as a transforming big rig for Cullen. It's also a family affair: His son Clay is a stuntman on Age of Extinction, and Cullen's brother Larry, a Marine who served in the Vietnam War and died in 2011, continues to be the inspirational foundation for Optimus' steady and strong tone.
"Though Larry's gone," Peter Cullen says, "he lives on in my mind as Optimus Prime because he was my hero."
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- What inspired you to make the new Transformers out of Kreo bricks?
The inspiration to build Transformers out of bricks in general came very soon, once I started building again back in 1999. The idea of having all of my favorite childhood characters built with LEGO never really left me.
So the idea to revisit my designs and try to build them with KRE-O came through the pleasure I had working with HASBRO on a freelance level for the last two years. I developed brickbuilt model concepts for their KRE-O team from 2011. So naturally I also got introduced to their brick system, which is close to what I am used to working with LEGO. There is also another fact, which made it easier to start building the characters in a lot more detail: the dedicated elements from the KRE-O setlines, like the headmolds or the hands. This was always the more frustrating part with LEGO to get the heads to a level were you don´t cheat (cut, glue, paint) too much and just get it done with simple bricks. Another important aspect is the balljoint system, which helps to get the transformation to a smooth and easy level. Articulation is very important for the robot mode too!
Then the idea of having them all in one fitting scale to each other also was something that just had to be done. For those of you who collect the TRANSFORMERS Masterpiece line, you might recognize the scale I built all the models.
- What was your biggest challenge? Which model was the hardest and why?
The biggest challenge was not the models itself. Building the collection and see it growing was and still is the biggest, most fun factor. But to keep the focus all the way through a timeline of a couple of months, while always coming back to the same theme and make it all match is something else. Hours of taking pictures and photoshopping, and shooting the video! So, the biggest challenge sometimes really is to bring it all to an end, where the time you spent bears fruit. The hardest model to build, though, was Blitzwing. He is a triplechanger (Bot/Tank/Jet), so three models in one, really.
- How long did each model take?
It is hard to say, because each model was revisited a couple of times. In the beginning of the project, around November 2013, I had plenty of KRE-O bricks to sort out and see if the colours would work and if I have the right elements to even start on the models. It was all trial and error to start off with. I think the MENASOR combiner took me around two weeks straight. I was curious to see if I could build a real combiner, which stands over 50cm tall in combined mode.
- What motivated you to create these models? And why the fascination with Transformers in particular?
The motivation behind all of the models I build is simply creativity and the need to have an output as an designer and artist. You have a vision in your head for a long time, a project, which needs to be done. In my childhood, the 80s, when TRANSFORMERS was really big, I didn't have that many TF toys, so I actually started very early rebuilding what I saw on the Saturday Morning Cartoon show.
The fascination with TRANSFORMERS is that it is so timeless and the universe is growing every minute, with all the fans around the globe who have the same passion. There are so many great characters to enjoy! I also really like the colour schemes of the designs, like Optimus' iconic red & blue truck! TRANSFORMERS is my favourite 80s theme ever!
- What advice would you give to model makers who would like to do the same?
My advice would be to first go see a doctor and make sure they're okay with the idea of anyone building with bricks for a very long period. Then you have to talk to your boss and ask them if it is okay to not be super focused at work over the next few months and if they might be into sponsoring your brick orders for company benefits. Then you need to invest into a new coffee machine and a good amound of coffee. You can sell your bed on eBay. You don´t need it anymore. Since you will be watching endless TRANSFORMERS Generation 1 episodes, make sure to get used to scratchy voices and horrible sound effects, like sampled R2D2 screams and Tie-Fighter engines. But other than that you only need a lot of patience! And bricks! But seriously, my advice to other model makers would be to spend a lot of time on the research phase and a lot of trial and error builds, to develop a nice style and transformation for the models you want to build.
- Do you plan to sell the models? And if so how much?
Since I am only a concept idea developer, I'd only hope for a company like HASBRO or TAKARA looking into what I did and come up with a similar product on for collectors. I would be always available to work on them, of course, but these models are strictly from a fan to all you fans, to make sure we celebrate the 30th Anniversary of TRANSFORMERS in the best way! So I just want to add my talent and creations to a pool of great designers and passionate fans out there!
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Dawn of the Autobots started on Wednesday. Megatron has joined the Autobots, and is now captain of the Lost Light in More than Meets the Eye.
Windblade just started. The lead character is apparently a descendant of Cybertron.
Robots in Disguise, written by John Barber and art by Andrew Griffith, is set back on Earth and stars Optimus Prime, Jazz and Sideswipe (among others). The planet is probably not going to have a welcoming reaction to the return of Optimus Prime and the Autobots.
In More than Meets the Eye, written by James Roberts and art by Alex Milne, Megatron is now leading the Lost Light. The book was called "Really crazy, really lot of fun."
Windblade, the four-issue mini series written by Mairghread Scott and art by Sarah Stone, is billed as new reader friendly. Windblade comes into conflict with Starscream. Really fun and Mairghread believes it's an "expressive, hopeful book."
We were reminded that Windblade is the result of a series of polls taken by the fans. She recently made debut in the Dark Cybertron event, along with Nautica and Chromia.
The new book was announced! Primacy, written by Flint Dille and Chris Metzen, and art by Livio Ramondelli. This will be the last part of the trilogy starting with Autocracy and Monstrosity. Dille described it as a war book and "carnage fest." This is the moment where we see the characters become what we're familiar with. Dille teased that Sharkticons and Quintessons might show up.
They mentioned Transformers vs GI Joe, written by John barber and Tom Scioli, and art by Scioli too. Barber says it's probably the craziest book he's worked on. Things get nuts.
As GI Joe corners Cobra Commander, Starscream purses Bumblebee and the story takes off from there. It's pure comics. Guzman said that he had no idea how Tom was going to draw some of the story elements until he sees the pages that get turned in.
GI Joe: The Real American Hero #200 was just released and the series is still going strong. The slideshow showed issue #201 will have a Liefeld cover. Guzman joked that the series probably going to make it to #300.
IDW Publishing is working on a deluxe hardcover anniversary edition of GI Joe #21, The Silent Interlude. IDW is going back and reshooting original art as well as recoloring it.. and adding even more extra material and commentaries.
IDW teased Fall of GI Joe for September 2014. They're not ready to make announcement just yet. Barber claimed it will please a lot of fans.
As for the background on the decision on making Megatron an Autobot, it goes back to September 2011. James Roberts, Phil Jimenez, and John Barber broke down Dark Cybertron at Hasbro. Barber seems to remember Mark Weber (Global Brand Development Manager for Hasbro) suggested Megatron being an Autobot and was shocked Hasbro allowed it.
As for who's leading the Decepticons.. They have lost the war. Lots of Decepticons might defect to Autobot side. Some believe Megatron sold out. Galvatron gathers and forms new Decepticon group on Cybertron with new agenda. Soundwave and Galvatron will lead group, for now.
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It's actually a Transformer who is neither Autobot or Decepticon, a bounty hunter named Lockdown, whose alternate form is a Lamborghini Aventador.
"Lockdown is an interesting character. He travels the galaxy, he works for somebody else. And he's here for one person, one alien, and then he's out of here," Bay says. "So he doesn't really want to take sides. The cause and balance of the galaxy is kind of messed up when different species play with different species. And that opens up a whole other gigantic world for Transformers."
"Lockdown's ship has a lot of meaning that can go into other movies. There's a lot of backstory about that ship that's not laid out here," he says. "You're going to see a few things where you're like 'What is that? And what is that?' And you're going to see a couple shots like, 'Wait a minute, who are they?' But we don't answer those questions."
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Bay: "It's kind of like a new Transformers. We had three, the first trilogy, and this is going to be the next. ...It's the first of a new trilogy. I'm not necessarily sure that I'm doing [the others], but that's what it's meant for."
Bay: "{Shia LaBeouf]'s a good guy, but three movies, the same guy, it's time. You know what I'm saying? It's always good to freshen it up and change the story."
Wahlberg: "[The government] basically want to wipe out all Transformers, all the Autobots. Optimus has lost all faith in humankind, and I'm trying to convince him there is still good in the world and we need to work together."
Reynor: "The first day I'm acting opposite a giant robot that's not there so that was something that took me out of my comfort zone. Probably the most outrageous thing we did was run through an incredible explosion. You can see it in the trailer. Everything around us blew up. Absolutely terrifying. But you don't really think of the terror until afterward. It's one of those things where you just run and all of your basic instincts as a human kick in. You get out on the other side of it and you feel like a different person, really."
"150 feet long from the tail to the nostrils, 63.5 feet tall from the ground to the top of his horns, and weigh 850 tons."
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ComicsAlliance: Tell me about Windblade. What sort of story are you and Sarah telling?
Mairghread Scott: Transformers: Windblade is a four-issue miniseries designed to introduce longtime fans to a brand new character and new readers to the current Transformers world. So we really wanted to tell an honestly hopeful, fun story that showcased how human Transformers really are.
We also wanted to really show off the unique things we love most about Transformers as a brand. We have fight sequences that are not even possible in other stories. We have a dazzling array of character designs and relationships, and the world itself is just too lush not to explore. Our characters reside in a living city. They can turn into jets and they fight with axes. They live for thousands of years and have only recently stopped a civil war that almost killed them all. There are some amazing stories to be had in a place like this, and Sarah and I intend to exploit every angle we can to bring fans something that will really take their breath away.
CA: How did each of you come to this book?
MS: Like most comics work that I've been part of, it involved a unique dance of asking/begging, worrying, pitching, worrying and then actually doing it. I first heard about Windblade's creation as a character and toy at a convention with my editor John Barber and I immediately asked to be involved if she got a comic. Of course it took a few months to get the timing right, but John did let me pitch on Windblade — which meant explaining who I thought she was, her backstory and what a miniseries would like like — and he liked it. The rest, as they say, is history.
Sarah Stone: I have Mairghread to thank for the opportunity. She found me through some of my fan art online, and then we started talking more once we met at a comic con. She was kind enough to involve me in a personal comic project she wanted to create a pitch for, and thats when she asked if I would be interested in having my name thrown in as an artist for a Transformers project. I couldn't say "YES" fast enough!
CA: You're also telling the story of a female Transformer, though not the first. As the Transformers are all robots, can you talk a little bit about what gender means in this fictional universe and how it's represented?
MS Yes. IDW's continuity has never had an "originally female" Transformer in it (the only female transformer in the line, Arcee, was made female against her will) so it was important to us that Windblade's comic present a positive view of Lady Bots without having the characters beat everyone over the head with their gender.
The beauty of Transformers is that, by their very nature, they're a very inclusive race. Some Bots turn into jets, or cars, or flying sharks. They can be as small as trash cans or as big as whole cities. So while Windblade and [fellow Transformer] Chromia's gender makes them "different" to other Cybertronians, it's a much bigger deal to our readers than it is to the characters in the book.
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Wesley Burt is a concept artist who has worked on prestigious film and game projects like the Transformers films, Skyrim, Fallout 3 and New Vegas, Lord Of The Rings: Online, Magic: The Gathering trading cards and Thor. In his 13 years of professional work, Wes has created some amazing art.
Burt has done some amazing work for big-name movies and triple-A gaming titles; his portfolio stretches from Dishonored to Silent Hill to League of Legends to Borderlands to the GI Joe films. A Cleveland Institute of Art alumni, he's multi-talented, also working on graphite works and oil paintings in his spare time.
He's presenting at the Melbourne International Design Week festival next week, at the Look Upstairs forum on April 2-4 on design, advertising, 3D and creativity alongside 40 other design professionals from 20 countries. Wes spoke to Gizmodo about his history and inspiration as a graphic artist, and about some of the amazing properties he's worked on.
How did you get into concept art and design? What drew you to Massive Black?
I became really interested in concept art when I was an early teenager, seeing the Art of Star Wars books and other movie pre-production books. I started making my own drawings and designs of characters from my head and from books I was reading at the time.
What's the largest, or most exciting, or your favourite project that you've worked on?
Working on the Transformers films was really fun and exciting — having a really direct input on what things could end up looking like, and working with the director and production designers who've worked on so many different films. I ended doing a whole lot of the preliminary work for the Dinobots in the new film, so it will be really cool to see that come to life!
I also really enjoy working on games that are more in the historical or fantasy realm — so designing factions and costuming for Lord of The Rings Online, and also a lesser-known title called Gods & Heroes, was right up my alley. I like researching different cultures, their way of dress and types of armor and all that, so that's always fun for me
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The impossible hospital routine has begun.
On a day that is shortened by a couple of hours - due to commuting to and from the hospital which takes up a lot of time, leaving the actual visit to Kenji pretty brief - a hell of a lot more work needs to be done. Extensive cleaning. Ditto laundry. Making sure everybody's needs are met, but now at two different locations at the same time. Finding a way to squeeze in the bits of work I really can't cancel or postpone. (Work didn't use to be this much in the picture when we dealt with hospitalizations before and it's quite the challenge, to say the least). And comforting the boys.
Somehow, at the age of five-and-half and seven, they have figured out that cancer kills. I told them there are a million ways in which you can die, but obviously that didn't change anything. In their opinion cancer could mean death and how on earth do you know if it won't kill papa sooner or later? The harsh truth is, you don't.
Of course I don't go into details with them. The boys know Kenji is in remission now. They also know that there is a chance that cancer will return, in particular because his body is terribly weakened. What they can't grasp are the specific risks that the absurd concoction of a stem cell transplantation, long term medicine use and graft-versus-host-disease in various organs brings forth. Then again, there are actually few adults who can.
I hug. I kiss. I stroke soft brown hairs. I dry tears. I patiently collect blows, kicks and swear words. I'm relieved that they grieve so openly and turn to me, and Kenji, for comfort.
"Mama, I wish that papa was just like Tom. You know, as in Tom and Jerry. Tom always gets killed or chopped up in many pieces and in the next cartoon, he is alive again. I wish papa could be like that. Then it wouldn't matter if he died, because you would always know he was going to be back again." If only we were given nine lives my dear boy...
The impossible hospital routine has begun.


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March 16, 2015 | 4:28 pm
March 16, 2015 | 4:28 pm
Way to go, 1990s Becky, for saving the chits from a rousing/legendary game of Maltin with friends Danny, Alison, and not sure who else.
Maltin is a game similar to Dictionary (or Balderdash, to those of a certain younger age), in which someone picks a title from the ubiquitous Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide, a title that no one has heard of. Everyone then makes up a Maltin-esque synopis and review of the movie. The title-picker writes down the real review, as well. The whole group, sans the one in the know, choose what they think is the real review. Hilarity and the awarding of points ensues.
The one pictured is from the mind of Danny P., from a movie titled something like "Journey of the Heart." This paragraph made it into friend-lore — the phrase "big-eyed baby turtle" is inserted into the occasional conversation to this day.
While in the midst of the most recent purging of possessions, I came across time-capsule/envelope stuffed full of these snarky bits from 1994-ish. I was instantaneously overwhelmed with nostalgia. Danny, Alison and I, already friends for years at that point, were as thick as thieves. They lived in the Mission and I lived on Nob Hill, and most weekend nights I crashed on their couch, too wiped out to make the endless trek northeast to my lonely little apartment. We played games, we overdosed on pop culture of all kinds, we created, we read so much. Music and film were everything. Play was king; I can't believe* how many photos I earthed up of our pumpkin patch excursions, road trips, parties, camping trips. I found a stack of postcards from Danny that were just so hilariously rude; I'm sure Danny received similar missives from me in equal quantity.
So I sent the Maltin pack to Danny, who is recuperating from an operation, along with a handwritten letter penned on 1990s stationery, with postage made up of 1990s stamps. Did I mention I saved everything? 1990s Becky sure created a lot of work for c. 2015 Becky.
I'm glad Danny got to walk down memory lane, too. I am not sad that the 1990s (and 80s and beyooond) are so long ago. Instead I'm proud that I have maintained so many friendships with so many good people; that is not easy to do.
Yeah, I'm talkin to you two.
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March 6, 2015 | 2:11 pm
This is the last part, sort of, in this cryptic saga. Kind of. You can read the cryptic saga starting here if you wish.
Three weeks ago a long-time friend, colleague and co-worker took his own life. That there is a whole lot of stuff. I was (and continue to be) freaked out, broken hearted, and sad, sad, sad.
An added stressor to that first, horrific week was that a relative of his got crazy and used the internet to attempt to seek and destroy a person that was close to my friend. Lots and lots of internet comments, emails, voicemails. Police, lawyers, bosses, doctors got involved. It was brutal. Another former associate of my friend added to the pain by doing their own spouting off of opinions publicly. All polite requests of these people to bring it down a few notches only inflamed them more. Proof that one should never feed the trolls. What a delightful reminder of that! Especially to those of us in the front lines, who are responsible for monitoring many of the online outlets they used.
This whole ordeal started off on an extra horrible foot. People who had been told of my friend's death started posting the news, including details about his death, to Facebook, almost immediately. Without considering that, since the death had just occurred, many of his relatives had not been informed yet.
So, yeah, finding out about a close relative's death through a stranger's post on Facebook ain't a good start. Which may have contributed to the level of hysteria exhibited by the relative mentioned above. I get that. Grief + shock + surprise is a hard combo and can make one act in all sorts of ways. But the ugliness, the lack of common sense or timing, the cruelty. Wow.
I'm no stranger to the internet. I realized the way of the troll way back in an AOL chat room in 1993, when I called out someone's assholery, which only ramped it up and up and up. I didn't understand it but definitely grew to understand it exists.
As I've gotten older and more informed, I've understood a bit more about the mechanics of all that. Typing horrible words and pressing "send" is a hell of a lot easier than saying those words to someone as you look into their eyes. I've learned about how the internet is built around exploiting humans' lack of impulse control. I've heard about studies showing that empathy is a learned trait.
But this experience was the first time I got a front-row seat to how the internet can feel evil. It became this entity on its own, attacking and devouring and depleting. In reality, it was just a couple humans working out a whole lot of pain/rage/neuroses/what have you. With powerful and far-reaching tools.
I maybe also got some insight into the people that are always dramatically pulling back from the internet with their "goodbye Facebook" posts, their "I'm taking some time for myself" blog entries. For them, the internet becomes a timesucker, a stealer of emotion and souls. Who is devouring whom?
In coda, things have calmed down. Now I can just grieve to my heart's content, using the internet in whatever way I want to aid in that process. Like now.
I'm keeping the comments open for a day or so, because I'd like to hear some insight from some of my closest friends, if they so desire. Then I'm closing comments, forever, to keep those monsters outside of the gate.
March 2, 2015 | 1:44 pm
See part one of the Road Trip here
East bound (not down): After our night in PHX, Molly and I headed to Quartzite, always a fave of mine. I think the longer M lives in the rarified artisanal bubble of SF, the more she is appalled by the way the rest of America eats. Initially she was psyched to go to one of the vast jerky palaces Quartzite is known for, but was quickly turned off by the shrink-sealed, decidedly not locally sourced-looking packs of jerky. She then got appalled anew at the thing called a "latte" down the road ("what, honey? You don't want flavored coffee with that??")
On the other side of things, I have resided in my distinctly non-twee town long enough to understand that low-quality grub is an evil necessity to po folk like me. (usa, usa)
On to our third groovy, hippie, wind-chimey stop of the trip: The Integraton.
Savvy, savvy sisters now own the Integraton, originally built as an interstellar airport (YOU HEARD ME). Now it's a lovely area, very crafty and desert-artist, but not too Burning man. The sisters host regular Sound Baths at the Integratron now (yes, you heard me). From my description to friends:
One lies down in a beautiful domed room. Several bowls carved from white quartz are laid out. As the player runs an instrument along the lip of the bowl, the most amazing sound generates. She will set several bowls going and the frequencies fill the space. Very relaxing and mind-expanding. Afterwards, go back downstairs and enjoy the pictoral history of the Integratron.
Probably due to my raw, emotional, bare-bones state, I think I was in the perfect frame of mind to let myself go during the sound bath. Full on hallucinatory spiritual experience. A fraction of the things I saw/felt/heard:
L: looking up at the domed interior Integratron Ceiling. R: Outdoor space perfectly synching with the colors/shapes of my current living indoor space.
Then we ended up in what is called "North Palm Springs" at a surprisingly hip little Motel 6. Molly and I could not drive to Sherman's in Palm Springs for dinner fast enough.
Next AM, we hit some Desert Hot Springs thrifting/junking then I ran her to LAX before sitting in Sunday traffic for 3.5 more hours.
High class trip, through and through.
Random things seen:
L: Two sets of feet out of two windows. R: All-mirrored Wurlitzer jukebox in Desert Hot Springs, Sidewinder Cafe
L: The teal of that garbage truck is ON POINT. R: You are invited (Integratron mini-museum)
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February 24, 2015 | 3:13 pm
As promised, here is a brief travelogue in between the two shitstorms that have defined mid to late February 2015. Before I start, I want to mention that the siege (to be discussed in the last part) has ended, hopefully forever, and that I can properly eulogize my friend without the fear of getting attacked by, truly, the worst of the internet. But no more of that talk right now. I went away!
I have no idea why my four-day jaunt seemed to appear to be some kind of multi-week vacation to so many, but quite a few people have approached me (in person and online) saying a version of "oh! you're back from all your travels!" I love this and I don't know how I pulled it off — to seem like a traveling, experience-having fool without actually spending the money and taking unpaid time off!
So, my dear Molly has jumped from a non-profit to a for-profit life in the hotel industry. So when she suggested a mini Southwest vacation with sweet and discounted boutique hotel action — over Valentine's weekend, no less — I said "yes, darling, a thousand times yes!" So we got engaged. In the business of eating, drinking, relaxing, and driving the open roads. A little throwback to our fantastic 10-day road trip, almost exactly 5 years ago.
First stop, Sedona. A bit of irony here, as we blew past this town as fast as we could the last time. My drive from my town to Sedona was insanely long; though I was in the right zombie state of mind to endure the travel (having lost my friend a couple days before), it did not afford me a lot of time there. I got at night in just enough time to have a surprisingly delicious bite to eat in the only restaurant open past 10pm. In the AM, we had some good hipster artisan resort breakfast then hit the road. Though this was a resort, I was not in the frame of mind to dawdle in the pool area and do some resort-ing, while red rocks towered above, though it looked very nice. Fortunately M had already had a couple relaxing days there (including a massage I am not allowed to talk about), so I could scoop her up and we could head due south.
First stop, Arcosanti, "focused on innovative design, community, and environmental accountability. Our goal is to actively pursue lean alternatives to urban sprawl based on Paolo Soleri's theory of compact city design, Arcology (architecture + ecology).
This project was planned in the mid-60s and started being built in 1970, so it is the best of the best of retro-modern utopian hippie excellence. People live in the complexes, and the whole Arcosanti/Cosanti (another area closer to Phoenix) empire makes serious bank from their silt-cast ceramics and their bronze wind chimes (the ceramics studio is the second picture above). It's beautiful, it's crumbling, it's sort of forgotten, it's a little spooky. In other words: it's perfect.
I can't wait to see Cosanti next time I'm over there. I have vague memories of going to Arcosanti as a child and I'm wondering if Cosanti was also a stop.
I am dying, dying to purchase a 1964 silkscreen print of Soleri's original drawn plans, which are groovy, colorful and organic. Hot undeniable desire. While I was wrestling with myself about this, Molly and I developed a new grading system for my object lust. The yardstick by which all other objects are measured is the Navajo crown, spotted by me at a Trading Post in NM on our last SW road trip:
[A] sterling silver, turquoise-studded crown that was inscribed "Navajo Queen." I wanted it so badly I got a little dizzy.
That thing is, even 5 years later, is a shiny, quivering, expensive, beautiful/weird ultimate symbol of pure desire — desire to own the living daylights out of it. Which I do not.
Working the complicated equation of desirability, usability, attainability, and jenesaisquoisbility, the Soleri print ranks 50% on the Navajo Queen grading scale. This is a high number, trust me. The percentage may actually rise soon, as the sustained desire is not flagging and is in fact increasing. This is thanks to the attainability (it's a decent price and mine with a credit card number and a quick call to the gift shop). However, framing, wall space, and thriftiness are keeping the print at bay. For the time being.
Woof, I went on a tangent! Anyway! After tromping around in the noble experiment, we continued to Phoenix and had a glass of wine with my family friend Jo Ann, who is a delight and who is recovering from some health problems and who is dearer to me than any damn Navajo Queen crown.
We had plans to see improv that night but my demeanor crumbled a bit and Molly developed a cold so we found some delicious Italian food in downtown PHX that wasn't too romantic-couply (this was Feb 14, a Saturday, yuk) then headed to our deluxe hotel, which was outfitted with wine, snacks and valentines from M's hotel colleague. I'm never allowing Molly to quit this job.
I'm going to have to break this account in two, since there is so much more mystical hippie fantasticness yet to come. And jerky, lots of jerky.
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February 19, 2015 | 11:20 am
This has been a hell of a week (right, Kyle?) I'll break it into three parts — the first one sad, the second one happy, the third infuriating.
My town is not a small town (100k and some change, citizens-wise) but the community within my town is tiny. And so shock waves from a big event within our ranks travel deep and strong.
I had a friend, who was also a work colleague, who was also a fellow theatre performer. He died last week, horribly. I don't want to give any more details here because I don't want to attract attention to this post. More on that in part three.
But this I can share: I am sad. Everyone else is sad. On one hand, I take comfort knowing that pretty much everyone I know here is feeling the same way I am, and that we're taking time to be kind with one another, feeling free to have ugly-cries together, and helping each other out.
On the other hand, I can't get away from it. I can't find solace in the discipline of work, I can't fully escape into the magic of the stage. The big fat hairy paws of grief are grabbing at me wherever I turn. (I did manage to find a few days of sort-of escape — part two of this series.)
When I've experienced loss of people who my local friends did not know (my father, my stepfather, etc.) I was hideously alone in my grief, and had to try hard to point out to others the pain I was in. There was much less tolerance for it, and full expectations that I was to be over it in an acceptable time frame. So that sucked too.
Grief/loss is sure a lose-lose situation. And if the mechanics of humans are any hint, I shall continue to experience grief within a whole lot of scenarios, until my own mechanics inform me that it's my turn. And that is a part of life, sure. Okay.
And, as for the inability to properly eulogize my friend here: If you know my theatre, or the non-profit at which I work, you can go to the websites and see words I've written there.
And let's celebrate the small victory of being showered and dressed!
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February 11, 2015 | 12:56 pm
I had a freak accident last night that had a mildly humorous outcome. I posted a picture and the story to Facebook, then deleted it immediately. Why? Because
A. I didn't want the well-meaning but fun-squashing comments along the lines of "OH NO WHAT HAPPENED?!?!?!" and "Tea Tree Oil, trust me."
B. I didn't want the pure snark, which these days is along the lines of "LOL senior moment!!"
Basically I wanted people to appreciate my story in the exact way that I intended and to post only insightful comments with the appropriate level and kind of humor that aligns with my tastes.
So yeah, the blog seems to be the place for me to dump stuff like this. And since no one comments I can pretend that thousands of people are reading and appreciating in a hambox-approved, non-snarky way.
Can I tell the story now? (I'm fully aware of my total crabbiness today. My active sleeplife is exhausting. Last night, sleep-me decided to remove the toilet paper from its holder and tuck it into my bed. I awoke with TP wound around my arms. There's another story I won't share with FB.)
I was about to cross my street last night, mid-block. I was clutching a stack of bills and reaching for my car keys in my purse when my body misjudged the curb somehow. I stumbled and started to fall between two parked cars. I tried to catch myself with my left arm and managed to jam my fingers into a truck's grille. That was the mail-holding hand, so the paper provided a buffer, otherwise I'd be all cut up. As it is, startling hand bruises are appearing. I'm a little sore all over but it could've been a disaster!
Maybe that TP story was more worth the detailed telling. Thanks for "listening," blog.
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January 23, 2015 | 11:18 am
I dreamt last night that one of my brothers — the one 10 years older that me, the one I don't have a lot of contact with — and I wandered around our old home town. Of course, this home town was an odd amalgam of locations that presented as a small, hilly, old-fashioned village. Our old house was a fabulous mid-century modern ranch house (again based in only dream-reality), which we were free to wander through.
At times, I was an adult, having a realistically awkward conversation with this brother, complete with uncomfortable pauses and a lot of un-shared memories — since I am so much younger than my siblings, I was too young to remember anything formative that went on in their youths. In real life, when my brother and I do make a rare connection in person, it is as cordial and bloodless and vaguely pleasant as our dream encounter.
But at other times in this dream, I was a kid, and my brother was the young adult as I knew him then — open and adventurous and full of ideas, delighting in the energy a curious and precocious kid can provide.
And I found myself really feeling like a child again — not in any silly or simplistic way, but in a quiet space of pure absorption. A place a kid can get to when a loving adult gives them their attention and time and ear. I felt completely open to new ideas, free to state my own, and was aware of how important this was. This wasn't just a mindless afternoon — I was growing and learning real-time from this encounter.
I felt like I got to time travel in the best way. I am grateful to all the kids whom I encounter through my work, and my great-niece and nephew who I spent time with this holiday. They have allowed me to feel, however briefly, what's it's like to be them, and it will make me a better adult.
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December 18, 2014 | 2:22 pm
I couldn't face my stupid and boring and businessy post I just posted, below, so I wrote another better one and have posted that, too. Here you go!
Have I mentioned I'm in more of a Christmas spirit than since I don't know when? That I hauled a full-size, Silver-Tipped Birch up my stairs? That I've been listening to Christmas music voluntarily? Who am I?
Someone that is feeling somewhat carefree and is trying to redefine the concept of holiday, family, and happiness for herself, that's who. And maybe it took her nearly 12 years to work through some of the deep, intense grief and sadness that this time of year brings, since, you know — mom.
Here are some proof in pictures. Maybe I'll see you before I head out for my yearly reconnection with really frosty weather. If not, have a nice, nice time.
One of the many odd creatures that my mom liked to have around her, especially at Christmas. This one might be my favorite! Who is this holly-covered little beast with a party hat and no features? I don't know but I love him.
The Christmas tree lot was staffed by burly, manly, bearded, lumberjacky dudes from Oregon. Happy merriment to ME!
Angel with the giant hands/Upon my Christmas tree you lands. Surprisingly not from mom but from a weird and wonderful ornament exchange party, which I'm happy to say is resuming after a hiatus in 2013. A hint to what I'm bringing, below.
I made these ornaments! They are not wooden throwing stars, you snarky internet friends. I designed, laser cut, sanded, stained, assembled and glued them, all without losing a finger or mind!
Here's a poor picture of a completed one in action. Lots of laser wood projects going on around here!
I had a great Thanksgiving in Palm Springs. Here's Molly in Joshua Tree.
What a trip! I get to write the coda of my dishware saga, thanks to seeing and purchasing what was juuuuuust under these decanters.
One more picture from Palm Springs, summing it all up: A one man band playing bluesy Christmas originals and singing into a red megaphone at a Tiki Bar.
Happy sigh.
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December 18, 2014 | 1:51 pm
I have tried to keep on top of things, obligations, chores. So far, it has (sort of!) worked. A 4-year bootcamp of taking care of another adult yet helpless human has really changed things for me. (for the most part!)
Oh, except. Except. Yeah, except a few things, most notably a massive procrastination effort that almost screwed me, big time. It's complicated, as anything to do with HEALTH CARE PREMIUMS is!
Really? I'm going to be a dull gasbag who is about to drone on about health care premiums? During the holiday season? When I post, like once every other month?
OK. Let's just say:
I finally broke down and confessed to my boss that I had put off all of this crap, time was almost out, I was going to owe a whole lot of money, I'm a terrible person, etc. She paused and then confessed pretty much the exact same story to me.
So, hand in hand, we faced our worst fears, which were not that bad, ultimately (which is an outcome that often happens). With a whole lot of elbow grease, we got everything back into motion, with pretty much zero repercussions. Hooray!
Not only that, but she came over the other day and started poking around my apartment and opened a closet (I should mention here that we've been good friends far longer than we've worked together). I shrieked, because it happened to be my closet of shame where a lot of unfiled papers have been living (procrastination project #2). She actually SNORTED DERISIVELY, because it was such a small mess compared to her mess at home, generated by a home office and six children.
So, not only do I feel better, since my shames turned out not to be very shameful things in the big picture, but ALSO MY GOD the feeling of relief flooding my system!!!! So good. So good! I have missed that feeling of finally getting to something, and finishing it successfully against all the self-imposed odds, after all that heartache.
Not enough to make it a habit (again!), though.
And, with one last backward horrified look at the grammar of that last sentence, I move on.
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December 2, 2014 | 1:29 pm
[Expanded from my Facebook Post from Tuesday, December 2 – also known suddenly by the internet as Giving Tuesday]
I've had a lot of conversations recently about giving and about being of service and how, within a couple generations, a lot of people (including myself) have ceased to weave charity into the fabric of their existence. A lot of people my parents' age sure seemed to have it down. At the end of the year, my parents would sit at their desks with their checkbooks out, and methodically give to all the charities that sent them letters. Not only that, but volunteering in a very community minded way was a given, not an option.
I certainly know people who are younger than my parents who too have it down and also sit down at the end of the year with their laptops and credit cards. Who volunteer their time with no other intention but to do what they can. Not to post a video on Facebook, not to show the world their selflessness, they JUST DO.
Personally, it took me a long time to figure it out and to fit it into my life — going from a lower middle class to a middle middle class citizen helped a lot; realizing that giving back (both by providing service and financially) improves my life on so many levels; and focusing on a few specific causes helped me not feel overwhelmed.
My humility falls somewhere between my non-Facebooking selfless friends, and the icebucket-dumping knuckleheads that infested my timeline last summer. I try to use social networking to entice and excite people into giving, themselves. And I am not shy about directing people to the causes I personally believe in. See below!
Take a leap and try directing your hard-earned simoleans to a worthy cause. Volunteer your precious time! Raise some awareness! It stings a little, but you are helping in a very real sense.
If you can't think of causes to help, well, here you go!
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As Long as You Follow
|"As Long as You Follow"
|Single by Fleetwood Mac
|from the album Greatest Hits
|"Oh Well" (live)
"Gold Dust Woman"
|December 3, 1988
|7", 12", cassingle, CD single
|Adult contemporary, Pop
|Warner Bros.
|Christine McVie, Eddy Quintela
|Greg Ladanyi
|Fleetwood Mac singles chronology
"As Long as You Follow" is a song by the British rock band Fleetwood Mac. Written and sung by band member Christine McVie, and her then-husband Eddy Quintela, the song was one of two new tracks on the band's 1988 greatest hits album.
Released as a single in November 1988, the song reached number 66 on the UK Singles Chart late in the year.[1] It narrowly missed the Top 40 in the United States, peaking at number 43 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the early part of 1989; however, the song did spend one week at number 1 on the Billboard adult contemporary chart in January 1989.[2]
The B-side to "As Long as You Follow" was a live version of the band's 1969 song, "Oh Well", which peaked at number 2 in the UK when originally released. This live version was recorded at a 1988 Fleetwood Mac concert at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, California, and featured lead vocals by new band member Billy Burnette. The 12-inch and CD single formats further included the original 1977 studio version of the Stevie Nicks classic "Gold Dust Woman", as featured on the 1977 album Rumours. The cover sleeve is identical to its parent album, Greatest Hits.
- Christine McVie – lead vocals, keyboards, synthesizer
- John McVie – bass guitar
- Mick Fleetwood – drums, percussion
- Rick Vito – lead guitar, backing vocals
- Billy Burnette –rhythm guitar, backing vocals
- Stevie Nicks – backing vocals
External links[edit]
- ^ UK chart info at chartstats.com
- ^ Hyatt, Wesley (1999). The Billboard Book of #1 Adult Contemporary Hits (Billboard Publications)
|Preceded by
"Two Hearts" by Phil Collins
|Billboard Adult Contemporary Singles number-one single
January 28, 1989
|Succeeded by
"Holding On" by Steve Winwood
|This 1980s pop song-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.


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To further support that cause, we encourage you to include LegalCORPS in your 2014 year-end giving. (Thursday, Nov. 13 – Give to the Max Day – will provide an excellent opportunity for that at the LegalCORPS page on GiveMN.org).
Backing LegalCORPS provides the Section the means to spread business law pro bono. The Section provides some financial support for LegalCORPS (less than in the past), but it also needs your individual support.
LegalCORPS provides free legal assistance to low-income entrepreneurs and small nonprofits throughout Minnesota – exclusively through the services of 500+ volunteer attorneys on its roster. See its web site – legalcorps.org – for details on its programs and how you could become a volunteer attorney yourself. It is a small nonprofit that achieves a lot with just a little. With a paid staff of less than 2 fulltime equivalents, LegalCORPS arranges assistance for 550-600 pro bono clients a year.
LegalCORPS now is embarking on an initiative to better serve immigrant, American Indian and other entrepreneurs of color. This video explains why.
On Give to the Max Day 2014 (November 13), law firms and LegalCORPS board members together have made pledges to a challenge fund to match – up to a total of $3,500 – individual donations to LegalCORPS made online at the LegalCORPS page on GiveMN.org. Because of the challenge fund, your contribution to LegalCORPS will be doubled.
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You could further increase the impact of your support by making a recurring "sustaining" gift to LegalCORPS – an easy step on the LegalCORPS page on GiveMN.org. Of course, checks mailed to LegalCORPS, 600 Nicollet Mall, Suite 380, Minneapolis, MN 55402 would work as well.
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The VB Power Packs are a weird creation. They include critical components for upgrading VB applications. In addition to screen elements like the DataRepeater and Shape controls, it has all of the VB-6 style printer API's. Without it, VB 6 applications that support printing cannot be upgraded to .NET.
Yet despite the importance of these components, they were not included in any of the major releases of .NET. Developers who knew about them would have to get them from the Microsoft Connect website, later from the VB Developer center. Strangely, VS 2008 Service Pack 1 did include them. Even stranger, it appears that fact wasn't announced until a week ago Friday.
Even if you have SP 1, you won't get the bug fixes it includes for free. If you want them, you have to manually switch from referencing Microsoft.VisualBasic.PowerPacks.dll to Microsoft.VisualBasic.PowerPacks.VS.dll.
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Hello! Let's see if a cracker jack mechanic or a person who had a similar problem can help me out with this crazy car. It's a 88 Corsica with 123,000 miles, 2.8 engine. It recently had a complete tuneup (everything except the gas filter). The gas lines under the car are very corroded and would all have to be replaced if they changed the gas filter. Car runs smooth and has reasonable power. Here's the problem. When starting the car after it has been sitting a few hours or more, it starts but sputters like it's not getting gas. After a long 5-10 seconds, it catches and runs like no problem. This situation seems to be getting worse. I don't want to get stuck somewhere on a long Summer trip. Can someone point me in the right direction as to what this problem may be and a ball park estimate for repair? I can't do the trial and error method with this car because I don't want to put alot of money into it at this point.
"The gas lines under the car are very corroded and would all have to be replaced if they changed the gas filter."
My guess would be that you have pinholes or some other breach of the gas line that allows the fuel to recede back to the tank and away from the engine when the line is not pressurized. As you crank the motor the fuel pump starts and the fuel is drawn towards the engine. Under constant pressure from the fuel pump the lines recharge, gas gets to the motor, and car runs fine. When the pressure is released, while the car is idle, it again recedes back towards the tank. If the lines are that bad you should have them replaced.
With corroded fuel lines, I'd hate to think what the rest of the car is like(brake lines)
No summer trips for me in this...
There should an accurate way of examining these lines and others as looks can be deceiving.
I suspect temperature sensor problems , this should be tested at least..
What sdello says is correct, a pinhole leak will do this - for awhile, then the leak will become visible and smelly, and the car will no longer run.. A fuel pressure test should reveal this drop in line pressure..


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April showers bring May flowers. But another April torrent brings something considerably less pleasant: the special Earth Day-timed âgreenâ issues with which the publishing industry deluges the reading public.
By most accounts, Vanity Fair kicked off the trend two years ago. Its 2006 âSpecial Green Issueâ was a marketing coup, tapping into Hollywoodâs heightened eco-consciousness and appealing to Tinseltownâs sense of importance. The cover, featuring George Clooney and Julia Roberts posing with Al Gore and Robert Kennedy Jr., ominously termed global warming âa threat graver than terrorism.â Below that howler was a tease asking how much of New York and Washington will be under water. Scary stuff. Sure, it might have been factually wrong, but at least it was dramatic and caught peopleâs attention. Thatâs entertainment, folks. As they use to say on American Bandstand, âItâs got a good beat, and you can dance to it.â
Not so the current crop of eco-editions, which play like funeral dirges. Vanity Fair has spawned environmentally themed issues the last two years at magazines ranging from Elle and Glamour to Wine Spectator, Sports Illustrated, and the New York Times Sunday Magazine. Yet they fail to live up to Vanity Fairâs standard. Oh, theyâre just as wrongheaded as VFâs inaugural, just as ignorant of the facts. The real shame of these green magazines, however, is that they make for absolutely dreadful reading.
These self-described âgreen issuesâ can be divided roughly into two categories. The first are the self-help editions, which aim to give readers quick and easy tips for a more environmentally conscious lifestyle. Many of these are no surprise and represent the clichés of modern environmentalism: drive smaller cars, turn the thermostat down, switch to compact fluorescents, install a solar panel, and, if you are feeling really ambitious and in harmony with Mother Earth, consider composting.
The packages are slightly different, but the message is the same. Elle offers â30 ways to minimize your eco-footprint and maximize your look.â Competitor Glamour offers the âTop 10 Things You Can Do for the Planet,â advertising this advice alongside the âFive Easy Steps to the Big O.â (Which is more important to Glamourâs discerning readers? One can take an educated guess.)
National Geographic feels so strongly about the need to combat climate change that it dedicates not one issue annually to the topic, but four. Their quarterly Green Guide is advertised as âthe resource for consuming wisely.â
âOur goal is to make going green an easy, gradual, affordable process rather than an all-or-nothing plunge,â writes Green Guide editor Seth Bauer, whose maiden issue is full of appeals to recycle plastic sandwich baggies, compost table scraps, and use a ceiling fan instead of air conditioning.
The Sunday New York Times waded into the self-help arena with a green issue promising âsome bold steps to make your carbon footprint smaller.â It featured most of the same prescriptions, but with more detail and analysis. This is Glamour for the advanced-degree set â minus, of course, that magazineâs critical âFive Easy Steps.â
A number of airlines have introduced green magazine issues among their in-flight publications, all the better for their captive audiences to consider how to fight global warming while generating huge carbon emissions (nearly a ton per passenger flying roundtrip coast-to-coast on a commercial airliner).
Deltaâs Sky magazine noted that if the airlinesâ 40 million frequent-flier members âwere to spend 1 minute less each day in the shower over their lifetimes, they would save 4 trillion gallons of water â the total amount of snow and rain that falls over the entire lower 48 United States in a day.â Unmentioned in the issue, but incontrovertibly better for the environment? Foregoing air travel completely.
The other category of Green Issue, as opposed to the self-help variety, is the ringing-call-to-action. This type of special issue informs its readers that we must act before itâs too late. The appeal takes on the same tone as the letter urging one to renew the subscription for the same reason.
Sports Illustrated did this last year. Its special eco-issue featured All-Star pitcher Dontrelle Willis on the cover, standing in water past his knees in the middle of Miamiâs Dolphin Stadium (a doctored photo, in case you were wondering). The attempt at provocation fell ridiculously flat. âWeâve reached critical mass,â according to an SI editor. âItâs time to address this in all venues â why shouldnât sports be one of them?â
Why indeed, except that Sports Illustrated failed to make its case. âAs global warming changes the planet, it is changing the sports world.â Rather than giving evidence to support the charge, the magazine offered an overwrought warning that baseball will soon suffer more rainouts and that weâre losing our skiing seasons. We only have ten years to act. As SI awkwardly put it â desperate to adduce sports references for their political posturing â âThatâs two-and-a-half Olympiads.â So get on the stick. Weâve already lost one year.
Time magazine made a similar plea this year with its special green-bordered issue. With a cover borrowing from the epic photo from Iwo Jima, but with soldiers planting a tree rather than a flag, Time makes clear that fighting climate change is now the moral equivalent of war ⦠which sounds a lot like Jimmy Carter. The issue did a bang-up job offending veterans groups who resent the comparison of hooking wind mills into the electricity grid with saving civilization from barbarism.
In this case, the enemy isnât Hitler or Tojo. It is us. âThe U.S. produces nearly a quarter of the worldâs greenhouse gases and has stubbornly made it clear that it doesnât intend to so a whole lot about it.â Time conveniently omits that the U.S. also produces nearly a quarter of global GDP. The issue, simply, is too important to let important facts get in the way of sober and reasoned analysis.
In the end, the only magazine that puts out a green issue worth a damn is Vanity Fair. Last yearâs featured Leo DiCaprio posing with celebrity polar bear, Knut. Sure, as lefty journal Mother Jones archly pointed out, VF spewed 140 tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere flying DiCaprio, Annie Liebowitz, and others to Europe to shoot the cover. And sure, this yearâs version highlights Madonna, in her signature outfit of next-to-nothing, grinding her rear end into a giant globe. And yes, itâs most assuredly not printed on recycled paper. But at least these issues are readable, with interesting articles by Hitchens, Dominick Dunne, and lots of celebrity and political dish. Vanity Fair makes no pretense to be about anything other than trying to sell a lot of magazines (which, incidentally, would result in lots more trees cut down). Good for them.
Most other green publications â like vegan meat substitutes and soy milk â can be pretty tough to swallow. They are overly earnest and preening, making no pretense that they are about anything other than guilting people into thinking they have to change their selfish behavior. That hardly sounds like a strategy for sustainable publishing.
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Use a black velvet paper and Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft's Gelatos and Metallic Gelatos to create this journal page.
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Use Metallic Gelatos and the White Gelato to create a very vibrant and rich look. The Metallics vibrate on the surface and are so soft and brilliant. Once you finish random marks, add a circle stencil (sequin waste) and rub the Gelatos through it with your finger.
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Hatcher Mango
Hi Harry,
What's your opinion of the taste of the Hatcher mango?
The Hatcher family has, to their credit, done an excellent job of marketing what is an otherwise unremarkable mango. There are people who literally drive dozens of miles just to buy the fruit. One has to wonder how many of these people have tried varieties other than Hatcher though.
Man....the mango snobbery on this forum is intense. Ok, so I may be one of the worst perpetrators...... Anyway, I think you guys are being a bit harsh on the ole Hatcher mango. I think what we have here is a case where it has been over hyped by the folks at Hatcher Hill and therefore are feeling some amount of over hype on the negative side, kind of in reaction to the over exhuberance and marketing by those selling the tree and fruit. First, let me say that the tree prices being asked by Hatcher Hill are over priced to say the least. The fruit is equally expensive. The fruit is large and meaty, disease resistant and quite nice as far as eating quality. Is it the best mango in the world....no. Does it win taste tests when matched against other more flavorful cultivars.....no. Is there a place for the tree in your yard? Well, I don't think it should be booted out of consideration just like that. Ok.....I've said my piece. Good Sunday to everyone.
Harry, no offense but you seem to be giving it/them credit for their marketing. The taste has no characteristics of a mango I would say anything that good about (yes, it is a mango and not much more) and as I stated, it is a very nice looking mango which as you mentioned would allow for the fact it appears to be disease resistant. BUT, with that said and out of the way, with the many varieties available, and most of us having limited space, I would not buy something which is at best marginal to average in taste, because of marketing. Do you have a Hatcher ?
Oh, and a very good Sunday to you also :)
Brad - unless you have a lot of land and just want to collect, which from your questions I would guess this is not the case, I would suggest holding off on future purchases till next season when you have the opportunity to taste a lot of the available varieties. Taking the word from others may lead you to purchase something you don't like or not purchasing something you do like. Take the time and expense, if you have the resources, to travel to not only PI but to Fairchild and to other places on the East coast to taste as many of the varieties as possible. This will allow you to make sure you are purchasing the right varieties for you, not just what "we" tell you are the best/favorites.
No offense taken. You said, "The taste has no characteristics of a mango." I really doubt that this mango would have achieved the level of success that it has, even with the best of marketing, if this was a widely held view of the fruit. And, I wonder what exactly you mean when you say "taste of mango." When I initially became interested in mangoes (to eat, rather than to just throw as I did when I was a kid here in South Florida), it was mangoes which tasted like pineapple or citrus or coconut that got me hooked. Mangoes that tasted like mangoes didn't initially interest me. I did not like the flavor. So, I stand by my account of the Hatcher mango, marketing hype notwithstanding.They are fiberless and sweet and are enjoyable to eat. BTW, I do have a tree. I was on the Hatcher Hill list to purchase one of their exorbitantly priced trees. Then I was fortunate to find a much better priced specimen at the Palm Beach Rare Fruit Society sale. Then the Hatcher folks called me about 2 months later to tell me that I had risen to the top of their list. I was happy to be able decline their sales offer. That all being said, perhaps I am being a bit argumentative today.I sometimes get carried away. Brad should definitely wait to taste these mangoes to determine for himself what his taste preferences are.
Harry - you are correct in that my sentence did not come across how I meant it to. I meant to say that, to me, the Hatcher had no special characteristics taste-wise (i.e. - pineapple, coconut, lemon, orange creme, etc.), I feel they just have that general "mango" flavor. I do agree they are free of fiber and sweet but they have no SPECIAL characteristics beyond that. I too, when first eating mangoes, may have thought this was a great mango but as you know, after you taste the dozens of other varieties and learn what you like that the Hatcher then becomes just an average, "boring" mango. Would I purchase or want to plant a Hatcher tree, no...if I found a fresh local grown Hatcher mango right now would I but it to eat, yes (and the key here is "right now" as there are no other local fresh mangoes available).
From the Hatcher website:
Our 2011 Hatcher mango season has come to an abrupt end. Recently several strong windstorms came through the grove and blew most of the Hatcher mangoes off the trees. I'm sorry to tell you that now our trees are bare! Our season is usually not through until sometime around Labor Day and it's still July. This has never happened in our history here at Hatcher Mango Hill.
With the way the season went on the East coast of Florida this year (everything fruited early and all at once, timing was way off on all ripeing of all varieties...we should still have late season mangoes available in a normal season), I wouldn't be surprised if what is posted on their website was to "cover up" the "truth" as to not discourage any future sales. I live a few miles from them and Zills is also in the area...windstorms were not the issue this year, it was the crazy climate we had from late January on. Mango season was early shortened, Lychee season was shortened, Saps season was shortened...


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Six months passed since Charlotte Rodgers was abandoned by her three children. While she struggles to face her painful past, her children deal with their own problems. Clarice's marriage is falling apart as her husband's infidelity tests her love for him. Camille is finally free to be her own woman but is unable to control her indulgences. Connie's perfect life with John and their son is interrupted when John's father falls terminally ill and issues of old resurface.
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"Dogs rule, Cat's Drool" What do you think? I wanted nothing to do with cats, too much maintenance - Until a recent incident.
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MOORESVILLE, NC - I love dogs. I mean they are just so loyal, they are great protectors, they love to play, and they even keep your feet warm in the winter sleeping at the foot of the bed. What more can you ask for in a pet?
Cats, on the other hand, are just finicky; they wouldn't care if we live or die as long as we bring them food. Oh yeah, and they are very obnoxious about begging; they are so in your face. I could go on and on about how bad cats are as pets. Alright, I'll give you one good thing; they kill mice when you live out on a farm or in the country. This is what I believed most of my life.
Since having a family, I've had a couple of bad experiences with cats. Both of them had to do with "spraying" all over our house. Yikes! I guess you could call the cat colony over at my in-laws as an additional experience. They had, I don't know, maybe 300 cats (an exaggeration) in their open shed on their property. My mother-in-law had a big heart with animals and kept feeding them as they kept breeding. What this comes down to is, I did not like cats and wanted no more to do with them no matter what.
Each time one of my children would approach about a cute kitten a neighbor or schoolmate had that was looking for a home, I would stop them in mid-sentence. Once I heard them say the word cat, I would immediately just say, "NO!" - end of discussion. My poor cat less children. "Oh, you awful father!"
Enter the kitten eventually known as Marshmallow. For whatever reason, my 13-year-old daughter came to me asking for a cat. I think I made the mistake of letting her finish her sentence. It had something in there about a kitten that the owners were going to take to the pound, and I know what happens when cats are taken to the pound. I don't know if it was the fact at 52 years of advanced age, I'm getting soft and sentimental, or if I just all of the sudden went "insane". Without hesitation, I said yes. Afterward, I thought that if it went bad, I would just plead temporary insanity.
The anticipation was too much; my daughter was like a 6-year-old at Christmas. The day finally came when she could pick up the cat. My wife drove her there, and I noticed while she was gone, I was feeling some anticipation; you could even call it excitement. I kept telling myself I was excited for her.
When the kitten arrived, the family swooped down upon it. I heard a whole mess of, "Awwwww!" and "How cute!" When the kitten finally came around to me, and I saw the little thing with the white fur and the black spot over one eye. I was instantly smitten.
Since then, I've found the kitten the most fun, crazy, and even caring ball of fur I had ever met. We have a true connection. Oh yes, my dog Yogi even likes the cat. One more thing to do: a visit to the vet for some neutering ... sorry Marshmallow.
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Dr. Seuss had it right... though I believe he actually wrote "Oh the places you will go". I was sitting out in my yard trying to soak up the sunlight and reading the paper (garden section) and wondering why the cold-front was 6 hours too early. Then a... 'flying ant' landed on the page and I thumped it off. Then two more landed and I brushed them off as well and looked up... I was in the middle of a cloud of these 'flying ants'.
As I watched them, I noted that while they flitted from side to side and up and down, they were definitely just kind of riding along with the wind as it blew eastward. I then backtracked this cloud of winged insects and noticed that they were coming up from under a group of live oaks behind my house. I couldn't get really close to where they were coming from as a 6' fence separates my yard from land that these oaks were on. But watching this area I got a mental image of the rooftops of London in Mary Poppins, dozens of chimneys billowing forth streams of these bugs that then came together into one cloud. After about 30 minutes of this, the bugs were mostly gone, carried away by the winds. There are still a few late stragglers flitting up and away from time to time, but the main 'swarm' is gone.
While I call them 'flying ants' I don't believe that they really are ants. Their heads kind or resemble an ant's head, but the body is more slender. The wings are about twice the length of the body and the entire length of the bugs is no more than 3 or 4 centimeters. Anyone fancy a guess as to what I witnessed today? I'm guessing it was a hatching of some sort, but really I'm a bit clueless and mystified.
Carpenter ants will swarm like that, too. It actually happened in my house! They were coming out from the dining room light fixture on the ceiling while we were trying to eat dinner! Talk about a freak out. Called the exterminator the next day and saved some of the bugs. Thankfully, they were ants and not termites.
I've seen fire ants launch like that outside as well.