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I'll warn you now. Go make yourself some lunch. Day 2 was a long day, a lot happened & this installment of my ride report is verbose. Don't say I didn't warn you. Seriously...I'll wait. Go get some food
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Day 2
Why is that alarm so damned loud?! And why is it going off so freaking early?!
Day 2 started with me trying to wake up at 6 o'clock so we could get an early start. "Trying" being the operative word. I really don't want to be setting up camp in the dark this week so I'm gonna try hard to make sure we don't. I even told everyone as much last night.
*Listening carefully* Hey...I don't think anyone else is up. I think I'll lay back down.
That didn't last long. Soon after, I started hearing others in the cabin rustling around.
Alright...I suppose it's time to get up & get started.
We all got out of bed & started trying to work off the cocktails from last night. This was the view we were all greeted with.
Not a bad way to start the day. Fortunately nvoelsch was hospitable enough to whip up some blueberry pancakes for all of us. Now...I don't normally eat breakfast, but today was different. I REALLY needed something in my tummy before we continued on our fantastic voyage. We all showered, ate breakfast, geared up & started packing anything we had unpacked (you guessed it...Jada was going to make sure I thought of her every single day). That's when I remembered the staircase. Oh well...I'll consider it a workout my doctor would be proud of.
After packing the luggage back on the bike & getting it all secured & ready for travel, I had the thought that the last time I checked my air pressures, it was warm & sunny. Today...was not. Rick heard me mumbling about my pressure gauge being in one of my saddle bags, requiring me to unsecure everything that I had so neatly strapped to the bike. That's when he offered to let me use his gauge since it was in his tank bag. He'd even let me use his handy air pump. Hey, it's even got an SAE connector so I can power it off my Battery Tender pigtail. Perfect! So I set about checking the pressure in my...whoa...4 lbs. low! Yep, we're going down the coast today, so it's not getting any warmer. Let's just hook this pump up & turn it on...POP! Aww shit. I blew a fuse somewhere. I turned the key on to see if I had power to the rest of the bike & I did. Looks like I popped the fuse in the pigtail. Know what that means?! I have to pull EVERYTHING off the bike to get under the seat. Fortunately Rick ALSO had spare fuses. I finally get under the seat, pull the fuse & it's a 3A. Smallest one Rick has is a 10A. Not having any gadgets that would pull more than 5A, I decide it's a fine replacement. Fast forward several minutes & I've got my bike back together, luggage strapped on & tires at the proper pressure. We're finally on the road...at 9:30. So much for trying to get an early start.
We set off, down the coast...the cloudy, dreary, cold, damp coast. With a quick jaunt up Langlois Mountain Road out of Langlois, OR & back...we continued on. The weather was unfortunate, because there are some really nice views on the Oregon Coast. Port Orford is one of them. But today...meh...not nearly as nice as the last time I was there.
We stop, take a few pictures & get back on the road. Again...not much to report except anyone that had grip warmers was using them. Then we stop in Brookings for fuel & spot this nice "little" gem.
That's what you think it is. It's one of the Dakar Rally trucks. From what we could tell, it was from Germany. What they were doing in Oregon, I'll never know, but it was pretty cool to see one up close.
We continue on, taking a detour through Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. It's the first of many drives through the Redwoods this week. I've got video, but it wasn't all that great. Not really tight & rainy. Back on US 101...man...I can't wait to get inland a bit.
Finally, we get a reprieve from the weather when we get to Arcata & head inland over CA 299 (Trinity Highway). I'm pretty sure Grace was secretly snickering the rest of the day, seeing all the references to her younger, sexier sister & knowing she was on this trip with me instead. CA 299 is a GREAT road. Lots of high speed sweepers, lots of passing lanes & we saw very few LEOs. It's a good thing too, because we had to try REALLY hard to stay ahead of the cages that just HAD to be in front of any traffic they saw, even if it meant holding them up when the passing lane disappeared & the curves got tighter. I'm not particularly proud of how fast I was riding, but I had fun, no one got hurt & no one got any awards. When we got to Willow Creek, CA to stop for fuel, I thought it best to check my tire pressures again since the temperature had risen about 30°. Sure enough...I was 4 lbs. over the recommended pressures in both tires. No wonder the shoulders of my tires were all shiny & looking like they may have melted a little. I have to say, I was kinda proud of what my tires looked like...even if it was due to the pressures being a little high.
Fueled up, watered down, done visiting with a guy from Texas on a 2 month journey that had been behind us for much of the Oregon Coast & having eaten some snacks, we head toward Weaverville, CA. There we'll hook up with CA 3 & head for Trinity Lake. It's 5:30 already, so we should get a move on. Remember? I don't want to setup camp in the dark. Shortly after Weaverville on CA 3, it starts looking like dusk. Unfortunately, we can't really go any faster because this stretch of highway had the most dense population of deer I had ever seen. And shit...now it's getting dark. That's when Rick & I notice in our mirrors that nvoelsch's headlight was pretty dim. He had mentioned some sort of electrical problem where the bike would stop putting out a charge intermittently. This isn't good. We're pretty much in the middle of nowhere. So we slow down, trying to keep him in sight, give him something to aim for & decide that we just can't stop until we get to where we're camping for fear that he wouldn't be able to get it started again. About 5 minutes later, we see it bright again. Huh, ok...whatever...let's just get to camp. I was in the lead looking for a campground that would have food since none of us had eaten since lunch in Crescent City. I must've passed 376 campgrounds before we ended up in Coffee Creek. There was a sign advertising a campground so I turned off. That's when Rick noticed the little Pizza Pub across the street. Well, it's already dark so let's get some food before they close & ask them about camping.
Yeah, Rick really looked like that. We were all ragged & ready to setup camp. Notice how dark it is. Yeah, so much for setting up camp in the daylight. At some point, one of us asked our server if she knew much about the camping situation around here...explaining that we had heard about a campground across the street. She says, "yeah, my parents own it." Awesome! We get more information, finish our dinner & head over.
When we get there, we meet the nicest guy, Willy. He lets us all camp in the same site for only $15. Best part is, every site has power. GREAT! We pick out a site, Rick & I leave our headlights on & hurry to get tents pitched. As I finish pitching mine, I look back & Grace's headlights aren't nearly as blinding as they should be. Shit...I should have replaced that 5 year old battery before leaving on the trip. After trying unsuccessfully to start Grace, nvoelsch says, "don't worry. I brought my battery charger with me!" He goes to the power post & finds out that "power in every site" meant RV power in every site. Ok, he still says not to worry, he brought jumper cables. HA! Two bikes are having a hard time starting (yeah, Rick's battery went really low too) & we're going to depend on the guy with the electrical gremlins to get us started in the morning? Oh, cruel fate. nvolesch gets his bike started & suggests that I ride it up to Willy's & see if he's got an RV->110V pigtail that we can borrow. It was a long shot, but he was really nice before. Maybe we'll get lucky. Sure enough, Willy has one & let's us borrow it free of charge.
Ever ride a motorcycle in the dark without a headlight? I hadn't either, but the utility truck's charging system was acting up again & I had to ride back to our site with no lights. Finally I get back to camp, we hook the utility truck up to the charger, Rick got his bike running & I'm actually able to start mine. We don't leave them running long as it's pretty late & we don't want to piss off the neighbors. I'll hook mine up to the charger tomorrow morning. With camp setup & the bikes put to bed, we sit at the table for a bit, discuss the day & go over some loose plans for tomorrow. I think it was around midnight when we all headed off to our respective tents & fell asleep.
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Marisa Tomei stars as a vituperative wife in The New Group's revival of Wallace Shawn's play
The New Group revives "Marie and Bruce" with an able cast headed by Marisa Tomei and a handsome production directed by Scott Elliott, but Wallace Shawn's 1978 play appears strangely lifeless on Theatre Row, where the show opened on Tuesday.
While Shawn's modern-day study in neo-Nazi leanings, "Aunt Dan and Lemon," which The New Group revived in 2003, remains a moral shocker, his "Marie and Bruce" is a merely an ugly comedy about a Manhattan couple that raises few sensations at all aside from a feeling of relief when its 100 minutes run out.
Perhaps that's what the playwright wants viewers to feel.
A play in three scenes and two monologues, the story observes the title duo's apparently miserable marriage during the course of a day. A pre-show interlude in the couple's bedroom sees Marie (Tomei) nervously roaming around and smoking while Bruce (Frank Whaley) restlessly snores. A few times Marie maliciously blows cigarette fumes in the direction of her sleeping husband.
Once he awakes, Marie rains a ceaseless torrent of abusive remarks upon mild-mannered Bruce, who remains oddly oblivious to her vituperative attitude. Later they attend an increasingly drunken dinner party where Bruce's gregarious social skills appear to better advantage than Marie's alienated ways.
Still later, they eat dessert in a café where Marie viciously informs Bruce that he has spoiled her entire life and how she intends to leave him. Bruce blandly ignores Marie's diatribes and they return home, probably to begin their routine all over again on the next day.
Tomei rages away believably and Whaley sloughs off her abuse nonchalantly, but Shawn's look at an oddly interdependent couple fails to make much of an impression. The presumably satirical sequence at the dinner party as the self-absorbed guests engage in various banal conversations similarly falls flat.
For the party sequence peopled by seven other actors including Tina Benko and Adam Trese, the director and designer Derek McLane seat the characters at a round table that slowly revolves. This stylized rendering of the scene only serves to drain human energy from an already inert play.
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Charleston County Council won't be banning texting while driving, but at least one councilman would like to support a statewide ban.
Council members discussed the county putting in place a ban at a Finance Committee meeting last week after Joe Qualey requested it be put on the agenda. But the idea didn't garner much support, Qualey said. "Nobody came out and said, 'Joe I'm with you.' "
He plans to instead ask the group to adopt a resolution in support of a statewide ban at its next Finance Committee meeting. County Council Chairman Teddie Pryor said "a lot of folks see a ban as hard to implement in just one county."
Pryor, who doesn't support a county-level ban, said he's also concerned about government intrusion into what people do in their personal vehicles. "What's going to be next?" he asked. "Putting makeup on?"
South Carolina is one of only a handful of states that doesn't ban or limit texting while driving. Efforts to pass such a bill failed in the General Assembly last year after lawmakers expressed concern about personal liberties being taken away and the difficulty in enforcing such a ban. In the Lowcountry, only the city of Beaufort has approved a ban. State Rep. Wendell Gilliard, D-Charleston, filed another bill for a statewide ban late last month. Gilliard said he was shaken after running a red light while reading a text. That's why he sponsored a bill to ban such activity while driving.
Under Gilliard's plan, a first-offense conviction would bring a $250 fine or 30 days in jail, and a 30-day driver's license suspension. A second offense would cost $1,000 or 60 days in jail and the license would be suspended for 60 days, with 2 points on the driver's license.
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Griffin is set to unleash a remote controlled helicopter called the Helo TC. The Helo TC will be controlled by an app which will be available for iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. We have seen one of these before but where this helicopter differs to the already available Parrot AR Drone is in the price. The Helo TC will be available later this year for just £34.99 which is approximately $56.
To be fair, it is a totally different bit of technology compared to the Parrot AR Drone. The Helo TC is only suitable for indoor use, has a maximum flying time of just 8 minutes and has no on-board video capturing devices.
Control of the helicopter will be done by a dedicated app which will be available for free in the App Store. The app will utilize the built in accelerometer; which will allow any budding pilots to navigate by simply tilting the iPhone in the direction they want it to go. There is also the option to use an onscreen joystick too. The Helo TC app can record and store up to 3 flight plans, perfect for annoying friends and family!
Look for this one popping up in Apple Stores later in the year. I don't know about you but I am all over this when it becomes available.
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Griffin announce the Helo TC iOS app controlled helicopter
this one is for android, but you control via bluetooth right from your phone (no IR transmitter)
This is basically just the Syma 107 resold with a new controller (your iPhone).
Actually, it is surprisingly very stable and easy to control (at least with the traditional controller). No wonder it won Toy of the Year last year.


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Originally posted by CrazKanuk
theres a world of difference between
having your own development shop vs throwing money at a unrelated third party
- the difference is devs having business experience w both the company and software tools
SOE developers from both EQ and EQ2 teams have been transitioned to EQN team
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Originally posted by Sovrath
I understand they didn't make them, I've said that before, but are you saying they're off the hook because they didn't make it? You're basically saying that it's ok to put your name on a piece of crap, as long as you didn't make it. Sorry, yes, as Publisher, SOE SHOULD be held accountable for crap games, they're the ones taking your money, not someone else.
Without completely derailing the conversation entirely, are you saying that SOE shouldn't be responsible for games that they publish? Personally, if I put money into founding a hunk of dung that SOE published, I would go back to them to get my money back. So what's the difference? I'm really sorry, but if you publish crap then you shouldn't get a free pass just because you didn't make the thing in-house.
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Joined: 5/27/13
Well, the game may turn out the WoW 2.0 I have been waiting for. If not this game, I guess I will have to wait for "Titan". Need official info about EQN though. It's all about gameplay. The "sandbox" thing doesn't cut it at this point.
gameplay > graphics
Originally posted by Nadia
+1 on the EQ staff being moved over to EQN, yes.
However, if you believe that EQN has an unlimited budget then you're crazy. Basically that's all I'm saying, EQN has a budget and to believe that they will re-invent an entire genre with one fell swoop is unreasonable.
Let me just set things straight here. I'm not saying I think that EQN will be miserable, but I am saying that the final product will not live up to the hype. Reason being that money is money and I don't see EQN having a $300 million dollar budget. But, if I'm proved wrong then GREAT! All the better, as long as I'm not barred from playing it :)
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Originally posted by CrazKanuk
Well, first of all I apologize for my second paragraph. I was in a mood and had edited it as it was uncalled for. However you managed to grab that before I edited it so "I'm sorry".
More to the point...
Sony runs itself like "A big business". They essentially look for as many ways to make money as possible. This makes sense as they are a publicly traded company and they are obliged to maximize their returns lest the stockholders get mad. It's as if you had some stocks or mutual funds and you found out that the people managing them (company or fund) pretty much took your money and then sat on their "ass" and didn't do anything to actually make your investment worthwhile.
So we don't know the publishing deal or what they got out of it. I don't think Sony runs itself on the "hey, let's only publish things that are awesome!" platform.
They basically publish things and if the deal is right and it fits with their business strategy they will publish it. It's possible that they are getting more than just money when all is said and done. Maybe they get the IP's if they don't make their money back or maybe their investment is so small for whatever they will get that they just did the "least they could do" to make x dollars.
Look I played Wizardry for all of 5 minutes and it felt like absolute crap. It felt as cheap as a game could get. But I don't fault them for accepting a deal for publishing it as I'm sure they had a great reason for doing so. Heck, it could even be a "write off".
I worked for a company for several years and it didn't matter that they always lost money. apparently the owners (a larger company) used it to their advantage.
So we don't know the reasons by Sony published them. But they do make money and I suspect they had their reasons. I'll just blame the actual developers for such a crappy job.
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Joined: 1/15/11
No matter what SOE game i play i always get that old school feeling from their games, plus their communities are really good. EQ2 has by far the best community in the genre.
Originally posted by Sovrath
For sure they make money, that's why we get these dev shops churning out garbage.
I'll wait and see what happens with EQN. I really do hope I'm wrong. I mean I should be wrong, EQ is like their franchise MMO.
SOE Live should tell more I guess.
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Joined: 10/13/05
Im taking a wait and see attitude with EQNext. SOE has put out some garbage in the past and I really do not like what they have done with some games.
There not the Devs, but they do publish these games. So some responsibility falls on them. Too much hype for so little info also has me a little concerened.
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Joined: 10/28/06
I see games like Demons Souls and Dark Souls become so popular because of their difficulty and those are modern games for modern gaming market so I dont see why devs are so afraid to make a mmo difficult. Because Dark Souls take up just as much free time in a persons life as any mmo. I remember playing Demons Souls for over 10 hours a day sometimes.
Originally posted by Arclan
That's an opinion and a stretch of one at that.
LA mismanaged SWG, not SOE.
EQ was managed great. It takes real solid management to keep an MMORPG alive for 14 years.
EQ2 was also managed well.
Vanguard was taken over by SOE and revived with defibrillators. That's solid management if I've ever seen it.
Planetside and PS2 have also been well taken care of.
I won't comment on other SOE games because I haven't played them personally. But given my experiences with their games, I can hardly think of any company that both creates top notch products and manages them as well as SOE. It's easy to nit pick and make criticism, but if you take a more objective view of the things they've done, they stand head and shoulders over most other companies.
They are by no means perfect, but no one is, and both their development team and post production management is pretty stellar. I feel that MMORPG players invest a lot of time and passion into games, and are a quite a bit hyper-critical, especially when it's not really deserved.
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Originally posted by DamonVile
At launch is was almost exactly the same as WoW. It had faction pvp, group dungeons, raid content, a nearly identical combat system, etc etc.
The only main differences was EQ was less solo friendly, and the system requirements were much higher. People were always complaining about how their PC ran WoW fine but EQ2 was getting poor fps (I didn't have that problem because I'm a PC enthusiast with a nice custom build rig). And we all know how people like easier games. Combine the two and what do you get? WoW subs vs EQ2 subs.
Aside from what I covered, WoW and EQ2 were almost identical in the offered features and amount of content. I liked EQ2 personally, but I understand why it didn't turn out as popular as WoW.
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Originally posted by craftseeker
Me as well, most of my online friends are 40-60, people disabled or retired...
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Sorry have to just add :)
Most of the gaming world has not even heard of EQ or EQnext, :)
All MMO suffer this lack of site. i have a group of about 40 people in a corp im in who i have played with for last 4yrs when i said about me playing EQ Next when it hits OB 90% of them said Whats that then...
So even for me only after my browsing this forum for a new game to break up eve time (i like to play 3 games similtanous (sp) did i find out about EQ Next :)
Just thought i would add that.. change the title to the MMO world or EQ1 players need EQN and ill agree fully lol
This post is all my opinion, but I welcome debate on anything i have put, however, personal slander / name calling belongs in game :) were of course your welcome to call me names im often found lounging about in EvE online.
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Joined: 3/02/08
Yeah...of all the things the world needs EQN is at the top....
Then again from reactions here since Smed opened his mouth about EQN the first time this game will cure cancer,create peace in the Middle East.reverse global warming,end racism and all other isms and make you waffles and cake at the same time so maybe the OP is right.
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Originally posted by CrazKanuk
You do realize you are using games that SOE Published Not Developed right? Any games that are poor are not the fault of the publisher(unless the publisher is also the developer). Those games were developed by Gamepot and Runewaker respectively. SOE published so they use SC, instead of Gamepot Gold or Runewaker Coin or whatever they would call it. Having publishing contracts in no way makes SOE Responsible for their Quality, that is only on the developers.
So in the book as it should be written, SOE has always made Great MMO's. EQN will be no exception.
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Originally posted by Drakynn
Well, not quite. It may lead to the cure for cancer, time will tell, but peace in the Mid-East... Nope. Only a few well placed nukes will do that, but then we'd have to decide to kill a bunch of our friends as well. Reverse global warming... Well being that most eco-fools have no idea what they are talking about, I'll just say that will EQN WILL reverse this because it will cause hundreds of thousands of gamers to stay at home increasing the demand for more energy, so more coal, oil and natural gas will need to be mined, or more forests will be cut down to make room for wind and solar farms (kinda ironic that deforestation will be needed to make room for enough Chinese solar panels and huge wind mills to cut down on oil use), this will increase greenhouse emissions, melting the polar icecaps faster putting more fresh water into the Atlantic, decreasing the salinity of said ocean thereby shutting the Gulf Stream down causing a rapid progression into the next great ICE AGE. THAT will obviously reverse global warming. Racism will actually increase because of the overwhelming hatred for all thing GNOME, and it may make waffles and cake, but the Moms will gladly make it while the goobers take up space in Mom and Dad's Basements!
Originally posted by Latronus
All the educated people call it climate change btw. Not global warming. That's a really old, dated and incorrect term for what is happening.
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I'll give them heroics...and when everyone is super...no one will be.
I am a Dave Georgeson fanboi. Once he came back and into the EQ franchise the atmosphere around the game and in the game changed for the better, imho. The whole morale of customer service and the way the forums were moderated and better communication with us about game updates and better community just happened to bring me in around the time he took over.
I started in 2007 and the game was dark and dreary, the atmosphere, the community, everyone seemed to have bittervets syndrome. Only recently has it really changed. Things seem bright and happy and cheerful. I dont know how to explain it but as a relative outsider coming from WoW that has been my perception. When Smokejumper arrived things changed.
And that is what has me excited for EQN. If there was still that aura of gloom and doom that many of you guys seem to be holding onto I wouldn't be here.
They have been trying new things like SOEMote and the whole free to play changeover. They are taking chances in an organized fashion, one step at a time but the good news is they are doing things differently not just for them but different from the entire industry. What other game opened up a free EQ2 server and then saw it's success and went full free to play? What other game introduces SOEMote. Some love it some think it is stupid but for RPers it is pretty cool and SOE is not limiting things to just the mainstream.
EQ didn't try to get 500K subscribers. WoW didn't try to get 12 million subscribers. They simply had an audience in mind and direction and a "vision" and they went with it. The uniqueness of it is what brought it to the masses. Everyone assumes every game HAS to try to get 10 million subs and conform to this formula that so far has fizzled for every company but WoW. I hope that EQN has a new formula all it's own and we will finally have choice between WoW's Coke and EQN's Pepsi.
Originally posted by dejoblue
I agree, especially about subs. Subs don't = quality. WoW has millions of subs and I found it shallow and lackluster in many areas. SWG was never extremely popular, and declined in subs rapidly right after launch, but I thought it was an amazing game. EQ was one of my favorite MMO experiences ever, and I think at it's peek it barely broke 500k subs.
There's also other non-MMORPG examples. Like the SIMS are one of the most popular and best selling PC games of all time, yet I can't stand to play the game for a few minutes at a time.
CoD is wildly more popular than Battlefield, and I've always found the battlefield series to be much more interesting and provided much better features and innovation.
StarCraft and SC2 are the most popular RTS games on the planet, yet I found SupCom and Company of Heroes to be largely better games in many aspects.
Point is, I don't care if EQN only attracts 10k players. If it's a fun game, it's a fun game.
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Sunday, December 28, 2014
Writing: The Year 2014 in Review
The Winter 2015 issue of IthacaLit is now online, including two of my poems. Meanwhile, here's the brief but complete list of my publications for the year 2014:
- "Out of Body: Reading Gender Through 'Women's Fiction'" (Critical Flame March/April). My essay on being a stay-at-home father and reading Virago Modern Classics ended up being the online literary journal's most-read essay of 2014.
- "The Previous Everyday: Nicola Griffith's Hild" (Critical Flame September/October)
- "Bluestem" (Thirty-Two Spring 2014)
- "Agnostic Psalm" (Whirlwind Review Spring 2014)
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Review: Nicola Griffith's "Hild"
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NESNA and the Skateboard Coalition
The Skateboard Coalition recently received a request from the parks representative of the Northfield East Side Neighborhood Association (NESNA). NESNA wanted the Coalition to support their request to the City of Northfield for a sound study on the proposed skatepark in Old Memorial Park. A recent Northfield News story quotes my email to the chair of the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board (PRAB) in response to NESNA's request:
We neither support nor oppose a sound study. We simply decline to partner with NESNA in calling for one. Given NESNA's history of unrelenting opposition to the skate park, it is far from certain that they would be a good faith partner in this effort. They have shown no willingness to support the skate board park in any way, so it's understandable that the coalition would be hesitant to support them in calling for a sound study.
In a response to the NESNA parks representative, I suggested that the Coalition might have been more inclined to support NESNA's request for a sound study if NESNA had been more supportive of the Coalition's efforts to build a skatepark. I suggested that NESNA might have conducted a neighborhood fund drive for the skatepark, which would have demonstrated the genuineness of his claim that NESNA sought to work together with the Coalition. The NESNA representative responded: "It seems odd that you are asking us to support your efforts while declining to support ours."
This exchange raises at least two questions: has NESNA been supportive of the Coalition's efforts, and has the Skateboard Coalition been responsive to the concerns of neighbors?
In three years' of emails from the parks representative to the NESNA email list, I found many calls to attend meetings of the PRAB or the City Council to express concern over the skatepark, but I found none calling for expressions of support. There were none that presented the case for a skatepark or discussed how the community might benefit from a skatepark. The NESNA website, in fact, cites a 2008 poll conducted by the neighborhood association: "Of all the possible amenities in the park (swing sets, trails, community gardens, etc.), 'skate park' received the lowest support: one vote." A 2012 email to the NESNA list stated: "Recent written input by NESNA members showed overwhelming opposition to siting a skatepark within Old Memorial."
Although NESNA officially claims "overwhelming opposition" to the skatepark in the neighborhood, a neighborhood fundraiser in April raised nearly $2,000 for the Skateboard Coalition in a single evening, and numerous neighbors of Old Memorial Park have approached me to express their support. It is clear to me that there is a diversity of neighborhood opinion about the skatepark that has not been accurately represented by NESNA.
Has the Skateboard Coalition been responsive to the concerns of neighbors? Let me review the evidence by looking at three of the concerns typically raised by NESNA: site, size, and noise.
Site. NESNA opposed siting the skatepark in Old Memorial Park, and in 2008 presented a formal petition to the PRAB and City Council expressing that opposition. To his credit, the NESNA parks representative recognizes why skateboarders find Old Memorial an attractive location for a skatepark. In an email from September 2012, he writes (about Old Memorial and Riverside Parks): "It's probably accurate to say that these parks are desirable to skateboarders for the same reasons they are desirable to the neighborhoods: they are nice, green places to be, and they feel more integrated in[to] the City than Babcock Park."
This is true: skateboarders, like all of us, are social beings. They like to feel that they are a valued part of the community. They want to have positive interactions with neighbors, and to have people watching them, and watching over them, as they skate. They do want the skatepark to be integrated into the City, not marginalized as it would be at Babcock Park.
Throughout this long process, which began in 2006, the youth in the Skateboard Coalition have also been models of polite and responsible civic engagement. This was acknowledged in April 2013, when the Skateboard Coalition was chosen to receive the Northfield Healthy Community Initiative's "Making a Difference" Award, "for exceptional efforts to positively impact the lives of Northfield youth." To me, this speaks highly of the Coalition's value to the community as a whole, and of the positive presence they will be in the Old Memorial Park neighborhood.
Throughout this long process, which began in 2006, the youth in the Skateboard Coalition have also been models of polite and responsible civic engagement. This was acknowledged in April 2013, when the Skateboard Coalition was chosen to receive the Northfield Healthy Community Initiative's "Making a Difference" Award, "for exceptional efforts to positively impact the lives of Northfield youth." To me, this speaks highly of the Coalition's value to the community as a whole, and of the positive presence they will be in the Old Memorial Park neighborhood.
In 2012, the City Council approved Riverside Park as the site of the skatepark, with Old Memorial as an alternative if soil conditions in Riverside were unfavorable for construction of a concrete skatepark. When soil borings indicated that the skatepark could not be constructed in the preferred site in Riverside, Old Memorial became the final site of the skatepark.
But where in Old Memorial? The Skateboard Coalition began looking at a site near the south east corner of the pool building. But NESNA, concerned that this was too close to residences on Prairie Street, "recommended placing the park (if it ended up at Memorial) between the solar panel installations, where there is enough space for an 8000 sq. ft. park." Although this precise location between the solar panels is not being considered, it is now likely that the site of the skatepark will be immediately to the west of the pool, further from residences. The Coalition supports this site if its somewhat less favorable soil conditions can be remediated without too much additional cost.
|The possible location of the skatepark in Old Memorial Park in 2013 planning documents. The yellow rectangle represents a 10,000 sq. ft. skatepark.
|The possible location of the skatepark in Old Memorial Park in 2014 planning documents. Note that the yellow arrow on site to the west of the pool indicates the possibility of further adjustment to the site. The skatepark pictured is 4,000 sq. ft.
So, in the matter of siting, the Skateboard Coalition has been sensitive to the concerns of neighbors, and supports a site within Old Memorial Park that will address those concerns and is similar to NESNA's own recommendation.
Size. The Skateboard Coalition initially envisioned a 10,000 sq. ft. skatepark. In a September 2012 email, the NESNA parks representative wrote: "We feel that neither Riverside Park nor Memorial Park is large enough to accommodate a 10,000 square foot skate park. However, in a pinch each location might be large enough to accommodate a skatepark of some 4,000 square feet."
The Skateboard Coalition is now supporting the construction of a 4,000 sq. ft. skatepark in Old Memorial Park. Although the master plan for the skatepark includes a Phase II that would increase the size of the park to 10,000 sq. ft., Phase II would more than double the cost of the park, and isn't attainable in the foreseeable future. Currently, Phase I is the only skatepark under consideration.
So, in the matter of size, the Skateboard Coalition has been sensitive to the concerns of neighbors, and has scaled back the skatepark to a size that NESNA said would be acceptable.
Noise. Much of the concern about skatepark noise arises from the temporary skatepark in Riverside Park in 2012, which provoked numerous complaints about noise from neighbors living in the Village on the Cannon.
The temporary skatepark consisted of metal equipment on an asphalt surface. On its website, NESNA states: "An asphalt surface with steel modular equipment would be, by all accounts, the loudest possible combination." In response to the problem of noise generated by metal equipment, NESNA recommends concrete construction: "The skate park industry and many park boards recommend high-density, smooth, seamless concrete. This is much quieter than pitted surfaces, such as standard concrete, or worse: asphalt."
The Skateboard Coalition has always acknowledged the noise generated by metal equipment, and has always intended to construct a permanent skatepark with concrete to reduce the sound to acceptable levels. The current design is for a concrete skatepark.
So, in the matter of noise, the Skateboard Coalition has been sensitive to the concerns of neighbors, and is raising funds for a skatepark constructed of sound-reducing concrete, as NESNA recommended.
The Skateboard Coalition has consistently shown consideration for NESNA's concerns about the skatepark. The Coalition has followed NESNA's recommendations on the size and siting of the skatepark within Old Memorial Park, and enthusiastically supports their preference for high-quality, sound-reducing concrete construction.
To me, NESNA's request for a sound study seems like an attempt to move the goal posts after previous concerns have been addressed, and to create yet another obstacle when the skatepark is finally ready to move into the design and construction phase. NESNA might have corrected that impression with a genuine show of support for the skatepark, as in the past the Coalition has shown a genuine willingness to address the concerns of neighbors.
It is, however, a positive development that, in his latest email to the NESNA list, the parks representative mentions that "many more contributions [toward construction of the skatepark] will be needed, and the Coalition is planning to move into higher gear on the fundraising front once planning is done." He adds: "We will let you know about fundraising if and when we are informed about it." I would only note that I did, in fact, send the parks representative detailed information on how to make a donation to the Coalition, but he declined to include it in his email. Instead, he implied that he had not been informed of any fundraising activities.
Finally, he encourages recipients of his email who support the park to let NESNA know their opinions: "If we don't hear from you, we can't represent you."
This, at least, is encouraging. I'm looking forward to seeing if in the future NESNA will be more representative of the diversity of opinion in the neighborhood, voicing not only concern, but also support.
To me, NESNA's request for a sound study seems like an attempt to move the goal posts after previous concerns have been addressed, and to create yet another obstacle when the skatepark is finally ready to move into the design and construction phase. NESNA might have corrected that impression with a genuine show of support for the skatepark, as in the past the Coalition has shown a genuine willingness to address the concerns of neighbors.
It is, however, a positive development that, in his latest email to the NESNA list, the parks representative mentions that "many more contributions [toward construction of the skatepark] will be needed, and the Coalition is planning to move into higher gear on the fundraising front once planning is done." He adds: "We will let you know about fundraising if and when we are informed about it." I would only note that I did, in fact, send the parks representative detailed information on how to make a donation to the Coalition, but he declined to include it in his email. Instead, he implied that he had not been informed of any fundraising activities.
Finally, he encourages recipients of his email who support the park to let NESNA know their opinions: "If we don't hear from you, we can't represent you."
This, at least, is encouraging. I'm looking forward to seeing if in the future NESNA will be more representative of the diversity of opinion in the neighborhood, voicing not only concern, but also support.
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Friday, July 25, 2014
Accident; or, Michel, Frida, Jen, and Kelli: A Disjointed Attempt at a Review Essay
In the late winter of 2013, skiing in the Arboretum on a morning of fresh snow and dull pewter clouds, I fell at the bottom of small hill where the trail makes a sharp turn to the right. I slid off the path and into the woods, and when I came to a stop I was impaled on a pointed stick. Miraculously, no arteries or organs were punctured and little blood was lost. The stick punctured my scrotum on the right side and slid through the fatty layer between muscle and flesh. It ripped out a piece of my blue jeans the size of a playing card and jammed it twelve inches deep under my ribs on the left side. After he had extracted it with his longest instrument through the puncture wound in my scrotum, the flabbergasted surgeon snapped a photograph of the bloody square of denim with his cellphone. That night, through a fog of dilaudid, I was aware of the nurses coming in and out to change the dressings on my sutured wound and marvel at the fact that I was still alive.
I recovered slowly at home, on a regular rotation of painkillers, stretched out in bed for most of two weeks. To pass the time, I read Sarah Bakewell's How to Live; or A Life of Montaigne.
Montaigne was a man who understood pain. The writing of the essays seems to some extent to have been a response to pain and loss—to the death of his friend La Boétie, to the death of his father, to the riding accident in which he nearly lost his own life. He tells the story of the accident in an essay in the second book: he was out riding in the woods about a league from his house when a man on a larger and more powerful horse, coming along the path behind him, bore down on him at full speed, threw him from his horse, and knocked him unconscious. His attendants tried unsuccessfully to revive him and, thinking he was dead, carried him back to his house. Gradually he began to regain consciousness, and to cough up prodigious amounts of blood, but for a long time he was "much closer to death than to life."
"It seemed to me," he writes, "that my life was hanging only by the tip of my lips; I closed my eyes in order, it seemed to me, to help push it out, and took pleasure in growing languid and letting myself go."
The experience, he said, reconciled him somewhat to the idea of death. He found that borderland between life and death "very pleasant and peaceful," and it was only later, as his condition began to improve, that he was conscious of any pain.
"I was letting myself slip away so gently, so gradually and easily," he writes, "that I hardly ever did anything with less of a feeling of effort."
Unlike Montaigne, I never lost consciousness. I don't remember much pain, but I remember the initial feeling of panic as I looked down at the bloody hole in my blue jeans, and as I tried unsuccessfully to move from the spot where I had fallen. I lay in the snow for three quarters of an hour waiting for an ambulance, shivering, looking up at the pewter-colored clouds. One of the women who had found me sat down in the snow and held my head in her lap. I can't remember her face. When the rescue crew arrived, was lifted onto a sled, strapped to the back of an ATV, and hauled out to the highway where the ambulance was waiting. Inside the ambulance, the medics cut me out of my clothes, gave me a tetanus shot, started an IV. I never lost consciousness, but as the two female medics examined the ragged puncture wound in my scrotum, I lost self-consciousness. In the emergency room, doctors and nurses crowded around me. Never had my private parts been the object of so much scrutiny.
"I expose myself entire," Montaigne writes. "My portrait is a cadaver on which the veins, the muscles, and the tendons appear at a glance, each part in its place."
Montaigne writes his body onto the page, he makes himself physically present, he exposes himself kidneys, bowels and all. His self-portrait as cadaver made me think of Frida Kahlo, another self-vivisectionist who made art out of accident.
On September 17, 1925, eighteen-year old Kahlo was riding on a bus that collided with an electric streetcar. The bus broke apart, and the streetcar ran over several of the passengers who were thrown from the wreckage. Kahlo's spinal column, collarbone, pelvis, and several ribs were broken. Her right foot was crushed. A metal handrail from the bus pierced her abdomen. She claimed that the iron rod had entered her body through her left hip and exited through her vagina. She would never fully recover from the accident. Scar tissue on her uterus from the puncture wound made it impossible for her to bring a pregnancy to term, and for the rest of her life she suffered from chronic pain.
In Kahlo's self-portrait The Broken Column, her body is split open down the middle, revealing a shattered Ionic column in place of her spine. Her flesh is pierced with nails. In the words of art critic Matilda Bathurst, "Kahlo's paintings are notoriously introspective, contracted into tiny, torturous anatomies of selfhood in a range of media that act as different implements of dissection." In another painting, the double self-portrait The Two Fridas, she sits holding hands with herself, her heart cut open and exposed on her chest, a surgical instrument in one of her hands.
Kahlo began her career as an artist in her hospital bed, confined to a full body cast. She was set up with an easel and a mirror. Pain and brokenness focused her attention intensely on herself.
I visited the Frida Kahlo exhibit at the Walker Art Center in December 2007. The dense tropical foliage and ripe fruit that fill her canvases created a hothouse atmosphere in the middle of the Minnesota winter, Kahlo's stare from every wall as unrelenting as heat. Her pain was inescapable.
Another visitor at the Kahlo exhibit at the Walker was a young writer named Jen Westmoreland Bouchard, who gravitated immediately to a painting titled Henry Ford Hospital, in which Kahlo lies on a hospital bed after a miscarriage, the sheets bloodied, the bed surrounded by emblems of the experience. For Westmoreland Bouchard, the impact of the painting was profound and cathartic.
"My heart pounded, my eyes welled up," she wrote of the experience. "I began to grieve for lost opportunities, deceased family and friends, failed projects, unspoken words. I had never miscarried, so why should this painting feel so real to me, so fitting?"
As she reflected on the experience, Westmoreland Bouchard found that her encounter with Kahlo's art had refocused her attention on herself.
"I had become caught up in the daily rituals associated with attending to my marriage, my home, and my career," she wrote. "I had begun to exist on a certain emotional 'level' that had allowed me to complete quotidian tasks without much introspection. Unbeknownst to me, I needed to experience Frida's intensely personal portrait in order to live more fully in my own life."
The first section of Kelli Russell Agodon's new collection of poetry, Hourglass Museum (White Pine Press 2014), opens with an evocation of Frida Kahlo. The poem, titled "The Broken Column," begins
Tell me how you suffer—
The poet finds herself in the museum gift shop, surrounded by plastic skulls and temporary Frida Kahlo tattoos, Kahlo's suffering repackaged as kitsch, and announces that she's "had enough of the disposable." What can she take away from the museum, from the encounter with Frida Kahlo's art, other than some mass-produced Kahlo tchotchke? Like Westmoreland Bouchard, Agodon turns from the heightened experience of Kahlo's art to an examination of ordinary life:
Look at our lives.
We're lost in a web
of logins, in photos
of a friend's family vacation.
I never remember all my passwords.
Parts of the poet's own life are inaccessible to her—she can't remember the passwords—and she finds herself lost in attention and obligation to others: to friends, to husband, to children.
How can a woman, who finds herself caught in a web of so many obligations, find the time and energy to express herself? In "Woman Under Glass," a poem in the final section of Hourglass Museum, Agodon observes:
Normal mothers make breakfast
and aren't trying to write poems that question
the consequences of art and creativity.
The pressure to be a "normal mother" to her children pulls against her need to write poetry. That tension becomes the subject of her poetry. Another poem, "Writing Studio D: Retrospective in Spring," finds the poet preparing to drive home from a writing retreat to attend an Easter egg hunt with her daughter. She reflects on the expectations and double standards that attend her life as a mother:
This is where a friend says, It's so nice
your husband can watch your daughter,
as if he's not related to her, as if he's not
responsible for her care...
While her husband "gets points just for showing up," she as a mother is expected to shoulder the primary responsibility for raising her children. Before she can make art, she has to make time. As a result, Agodon's poems have the feel of being assembled from fragments, from scraps of inspiration saved from ordinary life and reassembled into art.
In another poem inspired by Kahlo, "Frida Kahlo Tattoo." the poet walks through a museum wearing a temporary Frida Kahlo tattoo, knowing that the experience of having Kahlo next to her skin will eventually rub off. In everyday life, "apathy becomes less rare." We return to the "emotional level" that Westmoreland Bouchard talks about. But Frida Kahlo provides a model of a woman's life devoted to art. A life that becomes art.
Unlike a real tattoo, which pricks the skin with permanent color, Agodon's temporary Kahlo tattoo was painless. How is it possible to experience such intensity, and make it a permanent source of inspiration, as the pain of her accident was for Kahlo? Can we live creative a creative life intentionally, or only by accident?
In her essay "Necessary Luxuries: On Writing, Napping, and Letting Go," Agodon writes about the importance of withdrawing for a time from ordinary life to participate in writing retreats with other women, where the focus is on living a full and creative life without the pressure of those other obligations. She writes:
Here, on a cliff in a cabin with two other women, I let go of my fears. I let go of any belief that I should be doing something else with my life. Poems move me in and out of hours, a day is spent under pages of a manuscript. I live simply and fulfilled without all the other minutiae of my regular life swirling around me. My friends and I discuss what matters to us. We ask questions about how we can live better and how we can take this "retreat lifestyle" home with us when we return.
Agodon's essay makes me think of of Jen Westmoreland Bouchard coming out of the Frida Kahlo exhibit, feeling a revitalizing burst of creative energy that lifted the burden of "quotidian tasks" from her shoulders. The question Agodon asks is how we store that creative energy, how we bring it home from the museum or the writing retreat and continue to draw from it in our ordinary lives.
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Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Deviant Hair
During the year my family spent in England, I often found myself the object of stares as I walked down the street. People pointed and laughed, and called out a derogatory name with a much more infamous anagram. I was called "ginger." I had been teased as a child for my red hair, but never as an adult had I experienced such treatment, such derision, from complete strangers.
The strangest incident took place in the ruins of the old Coventry Cathedral, when I was approached by two youths in black leather who offered me twenty pounds to drop my trousers and show them my "ginger pubes."
None of my experiences of "gingerism" turned violent, but incidents of violence against gingers in England are not uncommon. For example, in June 2007, as I was preparing to return home from England, there was news of the Chapman family in Newcastle-on-Tyne, who had been forced to move because of attacks on the family's three red-haired children. Their house had been repeatedly vandalized with anti-ginger graffiti. Windows had been smashed. The oldest child, an eleven-year old boy, had been attacked by a gang, punched, kicked, and thrown over a hedge.
The attack on eleven-year old Kevin Chapman was not an isolated incident. In Birmingham, a red-haired man was attacked in a pizza shop and suffered a broken jaw. In Hampshire, another red-haired man was attacked. In Yorkshire, a red-haired man was stabbed.
Do such attacks qualify as hate crimes? Opinions differ, even among redheads themselves. Nelson Jones, writing in New Statesman, argues that "such attacks would meet most natural definitions of hate crimes." He continues:
Redheads are a minority, indeed a very visible minority, who are in no way responsible for the fact that some other people display an irrational aversion to their (our) hair colour. Like members other groups, such as ethnic or religious minorities, gingers make a convenient target for the innate human desire to single out and ridicule people who are "different." In this particular case, the prejudice is both widespread and, apparently, deep seated.
Another redhead, Ally Fogg, writes in The Guardian that the prejudice against gingers, while real, doesn't rise to the level of the systematic discrimination and abuse experienced by other minority groups, particularly racial and sexual minorities. Or, as redheaded Daniel Davies put it in The Guardian: "There is no sense in which the white man is keeping the even whiter man down."
I thought about the strange phenomenon of "gingerism," and more broadly about hair as a stigma and marker of difference, as I read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel Americanah.
At the beginning of the novel, as she prepares to return to Nigeria after fifteen years in the United States, Ifemelu takes the train from Princeton to Trenton to have her hair braided at an African hair braiding salon. In the first 450 pages of the novel, the narrative moves back and forth between America, England, and Nigeria, and between Ifemelu's past and present, but it continues to circle back to the hair salon in Trenton and Ifemelu's conversation with Aisha, the Senegalese braider.
Hair becomes central to Ifemelu's experience of race in America. Soon after her arrival in America, Ifemelu is told that for a successful job interview she needs to relax her hair. She eventually becomes a successful independent blogger, but her first experience of an online community is when she goes online to find natural hair care advice and support. Much later, when she's become more attuned to the politics of race in America, she imagines how powerful it would be if Michelle Obama were to start appearing with natural hair.
Hair is a marker of race, but unlike skin color, hair is not immutable. It can be relaxed and straightened. Its color can be changed. It can be forced a little closer to the cultural norm.
Hair is a marker of race, but unlike skin color, hair is not immutable. It can be relaxed and straightened. Its color can be changed. It can be forced a little closer to the cultural norm.
In a 1987 study of the "sociology of hair," sociologist Anthony Synnott remarks on the evolution of African-American hairstyles in the 1950s and 1960s, as the straightened hair style known as the "conk" was abandoned for more natural hair as a symbol of resistance to white cultural norms. Synnott concludes that hair is a social phenomenon that facilitates the expression of social distinctions, including the ideological distinction between what he calls "centre" (the cultural norm) and "deviant."
For African-Americans in the 1960s, natural hair, which had been stigmatized as "deviant," became a source of pride and identity. When members of an oppressed or marginalized group embrace a characteristic that was a source of stigmatization, and make it a positive source of personal and group identity, a sociologist might refer to them as "tertiary deviants." "Deviant" here is a non-judgmental term used in sociology ("labeling theory") to describe deviance from a cultural norm.
As an African-American child growing up in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, Angela Davis resented her natural hair. "I pleaded with my mother to let me get it straightened, like my friends," she wrote in her autobiography. Like most children, she felt a powerful urge to conform, to minimize difference, to be like her friends. But as an adult in the late 1960s, her natural hair became a symbol of pride and resistance. "My natural hair style, in those days still a rarity," she wrote, "identified me as a sympathizer with the Black Power Movement."
In a 1997 study of redheads, sociologists from Ithaca College and Syracuse University concluded that red hair was also stigmatized as a kind of deviance. As children, redheads are more likely to become the targets of bullying, which often results in increased self-consciousness and lower self-esteem, and in a general feeling of being different from their peers. But as redheads become adults, the researchers found, they "typically transform a negative experience into a positive one by learning to appreciate their hair color and how it has shaped their sense of self." In other words, they conclude, redheads become "tertiary deviants."
Works Consulted
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Americanah: A Novel. New York: Anchor Books, 2014.
Davies, Daniel. Seeing red. The Guardian. 6 November 2006. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/nov/06/theleastseriousbigotry
Davis, Angela Y. An Autobiography. New York: Random House, 1974.
Fogg, Ally. Gingerism is real, but not all prejudices are equal to one another. The Guardian. 15 January 2013. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/15/gingerism-prejudice-bullying
Hargro, Brina, "Hair Matters: African American Women and the Natural Hair Aesthetic." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2011. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/art_design_theses/95
Heckert, Druann M. and Amy Best. "Ugly Duckling to Swan: Labeling Theory and the Stigmatization of Red Hair." Symbolic Interaction 20 (1997), 365-384.
Jones, Nelson. Should ginger-bashing be considered a hate crime? New Statesman. 10 January 2013. http://www.newstatesman.com/nelson-jones/2013/01/should-ginger-bashing-be-considered-hate-crime
Synnott, Anthony. "Shame and Glory: A Sociology of Hair." British Journal of Sociology 38 (1987), 381-413.
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Thursday, June 5, 2014
The Skateboard Coalition Video
Why should Northfielders support a skatepark? In this new video from the Skateboard Coalition, local skaters and other youth, adult community members, local business owners, and the Northfield Chief of Police all give their compelling answers to that question. Please take ten minutes to watch the video, share it, and encourage others to show their support and make a financial contribution.
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Dr. Feldman reported that six study patients have a stable, very slowly progressing or improved disease course at more than 700-to-approximately-850 days post-surgery. Furthermore, she stated that these patients all share two common clinical characteristics: They had no bulbar features of ALS, a form of the disease that destroys motor neurons in the corticobulbar area of the brainstem in the early stages and typically progresses faster than the limb-onset ALS. Additionally, these patients all received stem cell transplantation early in the course of their disease (at an average of 2 years, 1 month after symptom-onset). Two of the patients showing stabilization or improvement were
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