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The Ward 19 Democratic Committee will meet Monday, July 7, at 7:30 PM at the Roslindale Community Center in Roslindale Village. The Committee welcomes any voters registered as Democrats in Ward 19 who are interested in participating in Committee events, and contributing to our mission, to attend our meetings.
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Jamaica Plain News has some details on the independent bookshop opening on Green Street, just off Centre.
Capt. Alfredo Andres at E-13 will discuss last week's armed holdups on the path around Jamaica Pond at a meeting Friday afternoon at the Jamaica Pond boathouse, Jamaicaway and Pond Street.
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The Boston Licensing Board next week hears a request from Ten Tables, 597 Centre St., in Jamaica Plain, to extend its closing time from 10 p.m. to midnight.
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The Jamaica Plain Gazette reports on a class project at Wentworth to scan in photos of both the exterior and interior of James Michael Curley's house at 350 Jamaicaway - which is owned by the city but which is almost never opened to the public.
Jamaica Plain News reports on a BRA meeting in Jamaica Plain on the latest plans for 3521-3529 Washington St., where a developer wants to replace an old car dealership building with 132 apartments and a self-storage facility.
Jed Hresko snapped a pic of a cow (bull?) in front of the First Baptist Church on Centre Street yesterday afternoon, which of course raises the question of what a cow whose giant head is not affixed to JP Licks was doing on Centre Street on a Sunday afternoon. Anybody know?
This afternoon, somebody called police to report a coyote was just lounging on her rear porch on the Arborway up near Centre Street in Jamaica Plain
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Jamaica Plain News reports business owners along Centre Street remain opposed to the Caffe Nero now being built in an abandoned bank branch next to Blanchards. One local real-estate agent - who also opposed the Whole Foods - said:
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Dwayne McNair, 33, of Dedham, had bail set at $500,000 today on charges he and a pal raped one woman in Forest Hills and another on Mission Hill in 2004, after the Suffolk County District Attorney's office and Boston Police got back test results they say proved the DNA found in a used condom saved by one of the victims could not have come from... Read more
The Boston Licensing Board voted yesterday to suspend Young Kong's food-serving license for two days as punishment for an incident on Aug. 3 in which a police lieutenant found it open 80 minutes after its licensed 1 a.m. closing time.
Linda Pan, owner of the 300 Centre St. eatery, said her parents mistakenly kept serving food after she had to go home to care... Read more
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Documentaries about the "War on Terror" seem like a permanent fixture in the contemporary film landscape. So long as horrible things are being done either against the democracies of the West, or, more probably, by the democracies of the West themselves, these kinds of films will be with us. They tend to paint a dismal picture of the world, one that more and more resembles George Orwell's prediction of the future as "a boot stamping on the human face forever." This year's crop includes Drone (2014, directed by Tonje Hessen Shei), a film that attempts to provide a multiplicity of viewpoints on the Obama administration's campaign of remote control warfare. That very multiplicity tends to blunt its impact.
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
True/False 2015: Remote Control
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Labels: 2014, 2015, documentaries, Drone, True/False 2015, True/False Film Festival
True/False 2015: Poison Pens
I'm late to the party this year when it comes to writing about the 2015 edition of the True/False Film Festival. The delay was unavoidable. Life gets in the way sometimes. I need to get all of this down before I forget it all. Fortunately, I took lots of notes this year.
Best of Enemies (2015, directed by Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon) resurrects the 1968 debates between arch conservative William F. Buckley and arch liberal Gore Vidal on the occasion of that year's national political conventions. "Debate," is probably the wrong word for what these were. Duels, is more like it. Some kind of bloodsport. A harbinger for what media discourse on politics would later become. Buckley and Vidal were mortal ideological enemies and they jabbed at each other with spears tipped with venom, with invective scrawled with acid.
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Labels: 2015, Best of Enemies, documentaries, True/False 2015, True/False Film Festival
Monday, March 02, 2015
The Devil, You Say?
Alexandre Aja is a director who is never likely to live up to his promise. I'm not a fan of his signature film, Haute Tension, but I could see the talent involved with its making. Before it immolates itself with an unearned twist ending, it's a razor sharp horror movie, one that knows the value of suspense while keeping an instinct for the jugular. Nothing he's made since then has been as assured, though I do have a soft spot for the cheap pulp thrills of his remake of Piranha. I don't know why I expected more from his latest film, Horns (2013), but I did. It has a good cast and a droll source novel. In principle, the elements are all there. Somehow, Aja fumbles it all.
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Labels: 2013, 2014, Horns, horror movies
Sunday, March 01, 2015
Ministers of Grace
My first impression of Calvary (2014, directed by John Michael McDonagh) was that it was deadpan religious noir. It's a film that attempts to reconcile the mission of the Catholic church with the wickedness done by that church's ministers. It falls into the category of noir because it's a crime film of sorts, one particularly concerned with a fall from grace. Its concern with states of grace is more (little "c") catholic than is normally the purview of noir, but its fall from grace is an equally dark descent. The punch, when it comes, lands with a brutalizing force even to a mocking unbeliever like me.
My second impression was that it was the cinematic equivalent of Hieronymus Bosch's "Christ Carrying the Cross," which has a central figure carrying the weight of the world through a crowd of leering grotesques. Bosch's painting has always had multiple interpretations, depending on the worldview of the critic. Is it deeply spiritual? Is it an irreligious mockery? I tend to think it's the former. Calvary provides a similar dichotomy, but it's more clearly an expression of spirituality. It's an argument for the necessity of the church in an increasingly secular and sinful world, and an indictment of the Catholic Church's utter failure in the face of its own mission.
Monday, February 16, 2015
Jumpin' Jupiter
While I was watching the Wachowskis' new film, Jupiter Ascending (2015), I realized that Andy and Lana Wachowski are acutely aware of their own career arc. Given that they've helmed a series of big budget fiascoes (commercially, anyway), this might be the last time they get to play with a megabudget production. As a result, they've crammed all of the ideas they have for big budget spectacles into this one delirious package. As you can imagine, this results in a dense film with overlapping moods and elements that are at odds with each other. It's a mess, sure. That much was suggested by its delayed release, moving from prime summer real estate into the wasteland of February, where orphaned productions go to die. I would be lying if I said that didn't like it though, because as fun times at the movies go, this was more fun than I was expecting. A lot more fun.
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Labels: 2015, Fantasy, films by women, Jupiter Ascending, Science Fiction
Tuesday, February 03, 2015
Imitation of Life
The Imitation Game (2014, directed by Morten Tyldum) aims to right an historical wrong. It postulates that the mathematician, Alan Turing, was responsible for winning World War II, or at the very least, was responsible for shortening the war by several years and saving 14 million lives and preserving the remaining cities of a shattered Europe in the process. Further, it is outraged at the thanks Turing got for his trouble. This is all couched in a biopic that is formally adventurous only when it serves its thesis, though that may well be often enough. In any event, it has good actors, which is always a plus when faced with those terrible words, "Based on a true story..."
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Labels: 2014, biopics, British film, The Imitation Game
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Gray Men, Gray World
When I was sixteen, my parents gave me an omnibus edition of John le Carré's Karla novels (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy, and Smiley's People). I still have it and I have a handful of le Carré's other novels, but I never fell in love with le Carré. His stories are cold and distant, filled with gray men doing gray things in gray offices under gray, overcast skies. Or, at least, I imagine the skies as overcast. Le Carré's books are anti-thrillers. They are often Kafka-esque traps for their characters. Most of the films based on le Carré are similarly dreary, though stocked with magnificent actors playing drab. When the Cold War ended, it was replaced by the equally dangerous War on Terror. The actors on the world stage have changed. The game generally has not, which is how le Carré has remained so relevant. So it is in A Most Wanted Man (2014, directed by Anton Corbijn), in which Philip Seymour Hoffman plays the head of a small anti-terror unit in German intelligence. He's a defeated man, which makes the fact that this is the last role Hoffman played before his untimely death bittersweet.
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Saturday, January 17, 2015
Rhythm Method
Back when I was just out of college, I had a conversation with some friends over a game of spades about what you would have to score on the rhythm ACT to play with various bands. We suggested that you needed about a 12 to play most rock and roll. You needed about a 33 to play with P-Funk. You needed about a 4 to play with the Sex Pistols. You needed to ace the thing to play with James Brown. That conversation, now twenty-something years in the past, flashed through my mind with crystal clarity while watching Whiplash (2014, directed by Damien Chazelle), a film that's all about precise rhythms. It's also a film about the sociopathy that often goes with creativity, particularly as it intersects with the kind of perfectionism geniuses often pursue. It's one of the most electrifying films I've seen in a goodly long while, a coming of age film played as a psycho-thriller. It's a head-cutting film in the musical meaning of that phrase.
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Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Rethinking the American Canon
Sometime last year, I finally started tagging posts in which I write about films by women. There is well-documented bias in the film industry marginalizing women filmmakers and my thinking is that part of the way to counteract this is to actively seek out and write about films by women. My friend, Willow, over at the excellent Curtsies and Hand Grenades is doing exactly this right now and while I'm not going to go to the same lengths, I AM going to be consciously watching more films by women this year and beyond. (Dudes: don't worry. Your dominance of the film industry means that I'll write about plenty of the dude films you like, too. Hell, I probably can't avoid them).
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Labels: American film, feminism, films by women, lists, My Friend Renee
Sunday, January 04, 2015
Revenge of the Nerds
Big Hero 6 (2014, directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams) is suggestive of why Disney bought Marvel a few years ago. They see potential blockbusters in odd corners of the Marvel catalog. This one is completely unlikely. The original is borderline obscure. Indeed, the source material isn't very good, coming as it does at the tail end of Marvel's 90s-era dark age in which everything was a steroid inflated version of extreeeeem grimdark. I doubt that there was ever anyone clamoring for a movie version of Big Hero 6. The movie bears only a cursory resemblance to the comics, which is all to the good. This is a case where the movie version is so much better than the original that by all rights it should completely eclipse it.
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Labels: 2014, animation, Big Hero 6, Superheroes
Thursday, January 01, 2015
Hindsight is 20/20
It's customary for people who write about film to do retrospectives this time of the year. I'll make up a top whatever list eventually, but I'm still waiting on a few films to make their way to me. Meanwhile, the list I'm keeping of potential candidates for that list continues to grow. A lot of people were disappointed in 2014 (particularly movie studios, who are seeing their revenues crater in the United States in the wake of some expensive flops). I'm not one of them. To my mind, 2014 was an exceptional year. These are the films I enjoyed this year:
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Labels: 2014, lists, Ragtag Cinema
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
December Potpourri
I'm behind on my reviews again. Here's a round-up of what I've seen recently:
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Labels: 2014, CitizenFour, documentaries, Force Majeure, Swedish film, The Homesman, The Theory of Everything, Westerns
Friday, December 26, 2014
There and Back Again
There's a scene near the very end of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014, directed by Peter Jackson) that highlights the sheer folly of splitting J.R.R. Tolkien's novel into three gargantuan movies. The major events are over and Bilbo Baggins has returned to The Shire only to find that his greedy relations have taken possession of his house at Bag End. He catches them in the midst of auctioning off his household belongings. After chasing them off, he surveys the damage and finds his handkerchief. This is a call-back to the first movie, when, at the outset of his journey with the dwarfs, Bilbo tries to halt things so he can go back for his missing handkerchief. The only reason I caught this is because a friend of mine invited me to one of the marathon showings of all three movies. Otherwise, I would have missed the symmetry of this scene because An Unexpected Journey would have been two years in the past. As it was, the object of the callback was still nine hours in the past, nearly forgotten. Tolkien's quaint adventure story has become such a massive white elephant (white Mumak? Maybe) in these movies that niceties like handkerchiefs often get overwhelmed.
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Labels: 2014, Fantasy, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Superhero Blues
Birdman (or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu), like many of the director's films, sometimes lets the technique of its making overshadow its subject matter. Iñárritu has been a Mannerist from his first film onward, so this is no surprise. What is surprising is the technique Iñárritu has chosen. His other films have shattered narratives; they are Cubist mosaics in which multiple story chronologies define fragments of the whole. Birdman, by contrast, is downright classical in its adherence to the unities of dramatic time and space. There's a practical reason for this. Most of the film is constructed to look like one long uninterrupted take. And that's only the start of its cleverness.
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Wednesday, December 03, 2014
If That Mockingjay Won't Sing...
The third film in the Hunger Games series suffers dramatically from being only half a movie. I mean that literally. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (2014, directed by Francis Lawrence) is all rising action without payoff, a function of the producers' decision to split the adaptation of the series' last book into two movies. This tactic may have enriched the makers of the Harry Potter movies and it will assuredly enrich the makers of these films, but it hobbles the penultimate film in the series. After a terrific second film, it's a hard comedown.
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Last year I wrote this piece about my resolutions for 2014. (Yes, that was a whole year ago. I know!) Thought I'd check in and see how I did…
- Eat Breakfast. — Welp. Varying degrees of success with this one. If liquids like coffee and water and the occasional caesar count then I'm all set but looks like Past K was pretty specific on that one requiring solid foods. Whoops. Back on the roster with you, breakfast.
- Cultivate Excellence. — "In my wardrobe, in my skill set, in my relationships." While these next two babies are obviously ongoing I'd like to stop and give myself a little credit for sticking to this one. In addition to killing it in the wardrobe department, I'm proud of what I've accomplished in the cultivation of excellence this year. Sometimes that meant knowing when enough was enough and sometimes that meant asking for what I needed. It also meant throwing out those uncomfortable but pretty pumps that I bought in Amsterdam because my toes deserve excellence too. Let me be clear, I fucked up a lot in 2014. But I feel like I did it a little…better than before.
- Sense of Ease. — We're still getting there with this one. But I'm closer. I'm better at accepting things without fighting if the fighting isn't mine to do or even a possibility in the first place. And I'm coming around to the idea that being an imperfect person is actually kinda cool because it keeps things interesting. Plus when my Sense of Ease isn't around, there's always wine and online shopping. Wait, what?
My resolutions for 2015 are a little different. They're more specific, and if I'm honest, probably easier to accomplish. But here's some, in case you were wondering.
- Read more. Novels, non-fiction, biographies, nutritional information labels. Just more. And not more online. More actual books. I read plenty online already.
- Stick to your budget. Past-, Present-, and Future K all want you to. We can do this!
- Be conscious of my "wasted" time. I don't want to lose bits and pieces of my day to television and solitaire and imgur and Thought Catalog unless I intend to. I want take back those moments.
- Give more hugs. For real. Shit's good for you.
- Stop waiting so long to ask for help or admit that something is wrong.
- Trust my instincts. They're solid and usually right the first time and just hush with the second-guessing already.
- Wash my car more than once a quarter. Come on, I love it when he's clean and yet somehow I manage to avoid washing him for months at a time? We can do better than that.
- Write more. And believe it's good more too.
- Always pet the dog.
Love you. Happy 2015.
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Deep Run sending three graduates to West Point
With a 13 percent acceptance rate according to http://www.collegeprowler.com the U,nited States Military Academy at West Point (Army) is one of the most selective colleges in the country. Try telling that to Deep Run High School, which is sending three students – Ricky Black III, Stephen Brooks and Patrick Gardner – from its 2012 graduating class to the prestigious academy.
Brooks and Gardner will be playing together on Army's baseball team.
"I know baseball helped me get in there, but I wanted to go to a school that was mainly about academics and setting me up for success," Gardner said, "and West Point is the perfect place to do that."
Brooks and Gardner have been friends for several years, having played baseball together since before high school, they said. All three students knew each other before, but Brooks and Gardner didn't talk much with Black until their decisions, they said.
They talk just about every day now, Brooks said.
"Mostly, we talk about the summer boot camp we have to go to," he said. "They nickname it 'Beast Barracks,' which as you can tell, sounds like it'll be just a heck of a ton of fun.
"A lot of running probably, being in the mud, not showering for a couple weeks, not having any contact with the outside world."
None of the three have much family background in the military, they said.
"It wasn't something I heard about growing up," Black said.
Each has his own unique reasons for the big decision.
Black visited the campus his junior year for a weeklong summer leadership seminar program.
"I really liked everything that they were as far as the physical, the ethics, the mental and decided that was some place I really could see myself," he said.
Brooks knew he was going to play baseball in college and, though he was talking to some ACC and SEC schools first, started to look at Army after they called him one night, he said.
"I couldn't really find anything that could match up to what West Point could offer me in regards to academics, ethics, morals [and] the leadership that they preach," he said.
Gardner really wanted to do something with the military, he said, and felt the baseball team there offered a more family-like feeling than anywhere else he looked.
At 18 years old, all three agreed future employment opportunities were big reasons for their decisions.
"I'm going to have a job when I get out of college," Brooks said. "We have to serve five years coming out of West Point and so, for those five years, I'll have a job."
Gardner added, "A degree from West Point: who's not going to hire you with that?"
Of course, deciding that they wanted to attend West Point was hardly half the process for an academy known for its strenuous application process.
"First of all, they want to see your transcript, all your grades, SAT scores, other programs you've been involved in," Black said. "But on top of that, you have to be cleared by the Department of Defense Medical Exam Review Board.
"You also have to be physically qualified and do a certain amount of pushups, pull-ups, sit-ups, run a mile."
A student must also apply to a congressman or senator to get congressionally nominated, Black said. Each congressman and senator has 10 slots for high school hopefuls. All three were nominated by Rep. Eric Cantor, with Gardner also receiving nomination from Sen. Mark Warner.
"Even after you've been accepted, you still have to get security clearance, still have to keep your medical records up to date," Black said. "Like I just had my wisdom teeth taken out, and I'm going to have to send them my dental information so that they know nothing's wrong."
Despite all these stresses associated with applying for their top college choice, all three managed to have successful senior campaigns in their respective sports.
Black earned 35 wins for Deep Run's wrestling team, which has won districts every year he's been in high school, he said.
Brooks and Gardner were part of Deep Run's first baseball team ever to win the district title outright in the regular season, according to the team's head coach, Will Hicks.
Finishing 16-2 in the regular season, the Wildcats won the Colonial District Championship before falling, 5-4, to Cosby High School in the Central Region playoffs.
Both Brooks and Gardner pitched for the team, with Brooks also playing third base and Gardner also playing in the outfield.
"They're team leaders in their own sense," Hicks said of his two West Point-bound seniors. "One's more boisterous [Stephen], the other [Patrick] is a leader by example, but they're both leaders inside and out."
Local couple wins wedding at Lewis Ginter
Richmonders Jim Morgan and Dan Stackhouse were married at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Lakeside Mar. 7 month after winning the Say I Do! With OutRVA wedding contest in February. The contest was open to LGBT couples in recognition of Virginia's marriage equality law, which took effect last fall. The wedding included a package valued at $25,000.
Morgan and Stackhouse, who became engaged last fall on the day marriage equality became the law in Virginia, have been together for 16 years. They were selected from among 40 couples who registered for the contest. The winners were announced at the Say I Do! Dessert Soiree at the Renaissance in Richmond in February. > Read more.
Fourth-annual Healy Gala planned
The Fourth Annual Healy Gala will be held Saturday, Apr. 11, at The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.
The event was created to honor Michael Healy, a local businessman and community leader who died suddenly in June 2011, and to endow the Mike Healy Scholarship (through the Glen Allen Ruritan Club), which benefits students of Glen Allen High School.
Healy served as the chairman of Glen Allen Day for several years and helped raise thousands of dollars for local charities and organizations. > Read more.
Ruritan Club holding Brunswick stew sale
The Richmond Battlefield Ruritan Club is holding a Brunswick stew sale, with orders accepted through March 13 and pick-up available March 14. The cost is $8 per quart.
Pick-up will be at noon, March 14, at the Richmond Heights Civic Center, 7440 Wilton Road in Varina.
To place an order, call Mike at (804) 795- 7327 or Jim at (804) 795-9116. > Read more.
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The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen's 2nd Stage series will present "An Evening of Country" with The Honky Tonk Experience, April 9-10 at 7 p.m. in the center's Cardinal Ballroom.
Formed in the spring of 2003, The Honky Tonk Experience performs country classics and current country music, from Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings to Dwight Yoakam and Dale Watson. The "Experience" is composed of five local musicians – Brad Spivey, Mike Lucas, Mark Watts, Clark Ball and Ryland Tinnell. The group has shared the stage with several national acts, including Travis Tritt, BR5-49, Dale Watson, Webb Wilder and Junior Brown. > Read more.
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Weekend Top 10
A wide variety of events are taking place within Henrico County this weekend! Whether you're a newcomer or veteran to homeschooling, the 2015 VaHomeschoolers Conference and Resource Fair is the place for you. Theater buffs will enjoy CAT Theatre's production of "Now Then Again" and 5th Wall Theatre's presentation of "The Human Terrain." Other performances include Bolshoi Ballet's "Romeo and Juliet" and Abraham.In.Motion's dual performance of "The Watershed" and "When the Wolves Come In" – all taking place at the University of Richmond. For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
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From pet-friendly hotels to off-leash hiking trails, families now have more choices available when considering a holiday, rather than leaving pets with a pet-sitter or kennel.
Cindy Proctor has brought the family's small dog Chloe along on trips camping or across the United States border to visit her husband, who often works in Montana and Colorado.
Many hotels have pet-friendly accommodations, Proctor says, but it's best to plan before you go.
"Phone ahead to make sure. Most only have so many (petfriendly) rooms, too, so book ahead -- don't assume they'll have space."
Pet-friendly hotels usually have designated outdoor areas where dogs are allowed to exercise and do their business, providing supplies for owners to clean up.
Some hotels and resorts go out of their way to extend a warm welcome to pets, such as Calgary's Carriage House Inn, whose Pet-Luv Inn program includes a welcome letter, a guide to Calgary dog parks, vets, pet stores, dog-walking and -sitting services; food and water dishes in rooms, a supply of baggies, VIP door hangers for when pets are left alone in rooms, and a welcome gift of homemade biscuits from the hotel bakery.
There is also a room-service menu for pets, and no size limit on dogs.
"We're a family-friendly hotel, and a lot of people include their pets as part of the family," says Kristy Thorn, marketing assistant for the Carriage House Inn.
Pet Friendly Canada (www.petfriendly.ca) offers an online directory listing pet-friendly vacation rentals across the country, from cabins in the Yukon to quaint B&Bs on Vancouver Island, tranquil Banff retreats and more.
To get the full-meal deal when it comes to making travel plans, Pets Can Stay travel services (www.petscanstay.com), based in Victoria, is a full-service travel agency that helps pet owners from across North America book business and pleasure trips at destinations that welcome pets.
Before travelling, pets should be healthy, have identification tags that include address and phone number and have up-to-date vaccinations that have been administered at least 30 days prior to departure.
Pets Can Stay also recommends carrying a health certificate signed by your vet showing a record of what vaccinations have been given, and when they expire. Health and rabies certificates should be obtained no more than 10 days prior to departure.
If you're heading out of the country by plane, train or automobile, it's best to plan ahead to ensure your pet has all the right papers, shots and equipment to make your holiday as glitch-free as possible.
You may want to consider taking out pet insurance, as animals can experience unexpected illnesses or accidents while travelling.
"(Our insurance) is only available for dogs and cats in Canada at the moment, and there are only a handful of companies in Canada that sell it," says Karen Belanger, territory partner for Vetinsurance/Trupanion, which offers medical insurance coverage for unexpected veterinary bills, including diagnostic tests, surgeries and medications.
Before you depart, check for any breed restrictions, bans and required travel documentations that your destination may require.
If you're going to be flying with a pet, check with your air carrier for approved pet kennels.
Only dogs and cats can travel by air, and some airlines may allow smaller breeds in the passenger cabin.
Pets must be pre-registered for travel on your flight to ensure there is space in the appropriate temperature-controlled and ventilated aircraft compartments.
Dogs often need a little extra care after a flight, says Colleen Mc-Carvill, a dog trainer and owner of Diamond in the "Ruff" Inc.
"Take some kind of interactive toy for them, because it's a stressful situation. And once they land, clean their ears," McCarvill says, since the pressure changes involved in flying can cause ear problems.
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Drugs — legal and illegal, prescribed and over-the-counter — are so plentiful in modern life that we may be literally, and figuratively, swimming in them. Nearly 4 billion prescriptions are filled each year in the U.S. and another 3.5 billion over-the-counter drugs are sold, not to mention the incalculable numbers of doses churned out by basement meth labs or distributed by Mexican drug lords. With all these drugs being used, and eventually excreted, dumped and flushed into the environment, is it really any wonder that, beginning around 2000, scientists started documenting the presence of drug compounds in the nation's waterways?
In 2002, a study by the U.S. Geological Survey concluded that "a broad range of chemicals, including human and veterinary drugs, were found downstream from highly developed areas." Perhaps more disturbingly, the study found that 80 percent of the waterways sampled contained one or more of these drugs, which included mood stabilizers, anti-convulsants, sex hormones, antibiotics and other commonly prescribed medications.
Here in Connecticut, the state's departments of public health and environmental protection have both noted the undeniable presence of pharmaceutical compounds in some of the state's waterways.
So, what gives? Should we stop paying for our prescriptions and simply drink massive quantities of tap water as a cure-all preventative? Will Niagara Falls eventually be renamed Viagra Falls?
Fortunately, at least in Connecticut, the answer is more "no" than "yes." But any systematic attempts to document the presence of these compounds in the state's waterways is just getting underway, and any attempt to gauge the level of risk to humans or other life forms relying on a water environment is virtually unknown.
One of the scientists taking the lead on this issue is Allison MacKay, an associate professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at UConn-Storrs. To determine if Connecticut is knee-deep in Lipitor, Viagra and Zoloft, MacKay has gone knee-deep in the Pomperaug River. The Pomperaug, a 13.4-mile-long river that flows through Woodbury and Southbury and empties into the Housatonic River, is an ideal place to take water samples because it's a relatively closed system with few tributaries feeding into it. It is also conveniently located near a place that's swarming with drug-users: Heritage Village, one of the state's largest "active adult" communities, with nearly 3,500 people aged 55 and over.
MacKay regularly grabs samples from the Pomperaug that have "quantified a signal" that the compounds are there. They are, she says, "showing up within the range reported elsewhere in the country."
Because she is not a toxicologist, MacKay's primary role is measuring the levels found.
"We know very little about how these compounds move through the natural cycle," she says, adding, "Does it take hours, weeks, months for the sun to break them down? We just don't know."
In Connecticut, the presence of the drugs in the water supply is less of an issue than in other regions, because all water withdrawals for human consumption are made upriver from the sewage treatment plants. In the south, especially, such stringent monitoring of the drinking water is not done and, consequently, the levels of drug compounds in the drinking water are higher.
"All surface waters in the state are assigned uses," explains Traci Iott, a supervising environmental analyst at Connecticut's Department of Environmental Protections. "Any body of water that contains waste assimilations like treated effluent from wastewater treatment plants can't be used as a source of drinking water. Connecticut is one of the few states with such a prohibition. Also, our wastewater treatment plants have a higher level of containment as part of an effort to protect the Long Island Sound."
Both Iott and MacKay expressed confidence that the drug levels found in state waterways are at such minute levels that they not only don't reach "therapeutic dose" levels of the drugs but would probably have little impact at all on humans. MacKay likens the amounts to "putting an eye dropper full of dye in an Olympic swimming pool."
"These are in the tens, hundreds and thousands of nanograms per liter which is quite small," says MacKay. "The fact that we can detect them in the water is largely due to the advanced measurement techniques developed in the last decade. Prior to about 2000, there was no way to measure levels with such precision. Chances are traces of drugs have been in our water systems for generations, but we had no way to measure for them."
This, however, does not preclude another, probably more serious concern: how do these doses impact the animal and plant life that relies on that water throughout its life cycle. Neither Iott nor MacKay are as sanguine about these risks. Indeed, the scientific literature in recent years is filled with reports of fish and frog deformities that are still largely unexplained.
"You have to ask risk to whom or to what," says Iott. "I'm pretty comfortable that humans are safe because we segregate our drinking water so well, but the main life forms being exposed are aquatic and ecological. It's definitely something we're concerned about. But the data is simply not there yet to make any credible choices or draw any conclusions. We of course encourage researchers and participate in studies when we can."
Contrary to the stereotype of seniors pouring their expired medicines down drains or flushing them down toilets, most pharmaceuticals get into the watershed through normal channels. That is, people using the drugs excrete the residues through normal bodily functions.
"This is not the result of an environmental failure," says MacKay. "Any watershed that receives wastewater effluent will have these compounds through their proper prescribed use. Just by excreting fluids into the wastewater system, you are introducing the drugs into the environment. Of course, you don't want people flushing pills down the toilet, but the water treatment plants were not originally designed to eradicate complex compounds like these when they were built."
In recent years, largely because of the heightened attention to this issue, drug "take back" or "drop off" programs have been organized locally, regionally, statewide and nationwide. In April, for example, the Drug Enforcement Administration coordinated a nationwide National Prescription Drug Take Back Day with state and local law enforcement. Collection sites in Connecticut for this effort were at state police barracks as well as at resident trooper offices in several towns, including Durham, Old Lyme, Essex, Woodbury, North Canaan and Bethany.
Last September, a similar one-day program that included 4,000 collection sites around the country amassed 242,000 pounds of prescription drugs, all of which were incinerated. These drug take-back programs are not inspired completely by potential damage to the environment and public health. The DEA is more interested in keeping the unused drugs from being misused, abused, repackaged, resold and/or falling into the hands of minors. For those who might be put off by the police presence, officials go to some lengths to assure respondents that all drop offs will be confidential (in some places, they supply permanent markers to obliterate personal information on the vials and capsules) and that no personal information is requested.
Individual towns have, through their water departments, hosted their own medication disposal programs, including last month in Bristol, Burlington, Southington and Wolcott.
Pitching the drugs in the trash bins is also an option, because the path from the landfill to the water supply is far harder and longer than that from the treated water. Most municipal trash is incinerated in Connecticut.
The Connecticut DEP has a guidance document about how to dispose of drugs properly, found at its website.
Dennis Schain, DEP spokesman says, "The advice is counterintuitive. Initially it was thought that flushing down toilet was OK, but now it's to package them inside coffee cans or plastic tins and put them in the trash, but not in the recycling container. Of course, the ultimate solution is green chemistry. That is, to produce pharmaceuticals that don't impact the environment the same way. Many pharmaceutical companies are focused on coming up with ways to produce green drugs."
MacKay does not want to feed into any sense of public panic such as that which greeted the efforts to fluoridate the water in the 1950s, which some Americans saw as part of a Communist plot. Nor does MacKay want to minimize the issue. She strikes a more hopeful middle ground, seeing the issue as a "great way to highlight the day-to-day impacts that our lifestyles have on the environment."Copyright © 2015, Chicago Tribune


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stainless steel countertop alternatives
I'm in the middle of a renovation project - creating a bar area for the hubs to brew beer and entertain. We both really wanted stainless steel countertops but got a quote that made us rethink our favorite look.
Does anyone have average pricing for stainless steel counters (6 ft X 4 ft) peninsula bar.
Any ideas from the experts on alternatives? (a friend recommended sheet metal formed over a wooden bar - would this look the same?)
Thanks for all of your help!
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Quotes from a counter company will be about double what they would be direct from a metal fabricating company in the less than attractive section of town. Also, you might investigate a restaurant supply company for a freestanding stainless work table with a storage shelf below. You can use decorative containers on the shelf to hold your needed supplies.
"...a friend recommended sheet metal formed over a wooden bar - would this look the same?"
Yes. That would work fairly well with lighter gauge, and therefore cheaper, sheet.
But! Exposing such surface to thermal difference, i.e. brewing, can cause condensation underneath with resulting eventual wood rot.
I second the suggestion to directly contact a metal fabricator. Unfortunately demand in the metals market has driven ALL metals much higher.
Have you checked with the kitchen forum?
If you're near the SF bay area, the company that did my stainless counters (Industrialists--I recommend them unless you're in a big hurry) would probably be able to give you a ballpark quote by email--if you're not needing an integrated and/or custom sink, it might not be that bad.
While there are some companies such as Elkay that custom make stainless counters, I don't think that there is a difference between a metal fabricator who makes counters and someone who fabricates metal counters. :)
Sheet metal will look like sheet metal, not stainless, although you might like the look. The main problems you would have with it are that sheet metal will flex because of its thinness, it will dent over time, and you will have rusting problems at some point -- especially from moisture around the sink -- even if it is galvanized. I had a stainless steel countertop fabricated which was heavy gauge and then epoxied to the 1-1/2" of plywood underlayment. This was done to prevent the flexing you get with even heavier gauge metal.
Thank you all so much for your advice! Just catching back up after another weekend of projects (and more questions!)
@fori - I am in the SF bay area. Thank you so much for the tip!
@nancy_in_mich - Craigslist is a great idea!
@kudzu9 - thank you, that's what I was worried about. thanks for your expertise!
@alphonse - very good point - wouldn't want the brewing to mess up the counter!
@GreenDesigns - I think I may have to look outside of the "nicer" part of town.
Again - thank you all for your tips!
Look at Melsey's post in this thread - if they have a DIY stainless option in their low price points... may be worth waiting for? Or at least calling them about?