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Even in his 70s, David Hockney's enthusiasm is boyish, his work rate ferocious. Karen Wright tries to keep up
From INTELLIGENT LIFE Summer 2010
Whenever you visit David Hockney, he has something new to show you, like a 72-year-old child. As soon as I reach his house in Yorkshire, he drags me upstairs. "I am cleaning Claude," he announces, taking me into his bedroom. We stand before a large colour photograph of Claude Lorrain's 1656 painting, "The Sermon on the Mount", which hangs in the Frick Collection in New York. Hockney explains that when he was in America for the opening of his exhibition last October, he visited the Frick several times, and the Claude intrigued him. In the 18th century it had been owned by the father of the eccentric English collector, William Beckford, and was damaged by smoke in a fire. The Frick left the painting as it was, whereas Hockney decided to restore it—not by applying chemicals to the surface, but by using his knowledge and the computer skills of his assistant, Jon, to reveal what lay beneath the areas blackened by smoke. This was typical Hockney, in the spirit of his book "Secret Knowledge", which explored the theory that old masters including Vermeer and Caravaggio used optical devices in making their paintings. It was a theory largely ignored by art historians, but taken more seriously by artists.
The Frick gave Hockney a high-resolution scan of the painting on a disc, and in Bridlington he had the technology to print it almost life-size (the original is 67in x 102in / 171cm x 260cm). The photograph has been hanging opposite his bed for several days while he "absorbs the picture". It is only after studying it closely that he feels capable of approaching the job. "I am constantly looking at it," he says. "It's as good as wheeling your bed into the Frick, really."
We stand in front of the photograph. "Poussin was the painter for the intelligentsia and Claude was the painter for the aristocracy," Hockney says, in one of his characteristic pronouncements, which don't really require a reply. He points out that this is an unusual Claude, since the central mass of the composition is in the foreground, while the two sides recede into deep space. The shape of the winding path through the rocks echoes the river on the left. On the right, a temporary village of tents and a circle of supplicants has re-emerged from under the areas damaged by soot. Hockney leads me back downstairs. "I'll show you the latest version tomorrow," he says, "in the light, when we visit the studio."
It's five years since he made the decision to leave California and come back to England, exasperated by the attitude to smokers. Some people thought that he might move to London, where he has a house and an adjoining studio in Kensington, but over the decade that I've known him, his hearing has deteriorated, and big cities, with their jabber of background noise, have become more difficult. So he went back to Yorkshire—not quite back home to Bradford, where he was born in 1937, and which he remembers as "a very dark, very Gothic, industrial city", but to Bridlington, a seaside town on the east coast, where his mother spent the last ten years of her life (she died in 1999) and close to where his sister Margaret lives. Bridlington isn't at all Gothic, and not dark: although it's on the North Sea rather than the Pacific, there is plenty of light.
Well, usually there is. After my three-hour train journey to York, then an hour and a half in a hire car, I turned up in the darkness of the afternoon. And landed like an alien in a household of four men—Hockney lives with his long-term partner, John Fitz-Herbert, and two assistants, Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima and Jonathan Wilkinson.
It is Jean-Pierre who shows me up the ornately carved wooden staircase to a comfortable guest room painted a deep cherry red. Like the rest of the house it has been completely redecorated, but he points to the number three on the door, a vestige from the house's days as a small hotel. On the walls are drawings and photographs—Hockney with Margaret Thatcher, and Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
I've barely drunk my tea when Hockney ushers me into the cinema, which he tells me is the last room to have been completed. It has deep blue walls, comfy leather sofas and an authentic-looking green exit light that he switches on before we settle down in the dark. First he shows me a short film he's made about "Bigger Trees Near Warter", his painting of a copse of trees on the edge of the Warter Priory estate halfway between Bridlington and York. This is the copse that was notoriously felled a couple of years ago when Hockney was in the middle of painting it. It is a composite work made up of 50 panels and measures 40ft by 15ft, the largest he's ever made. It was first shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2007. Now it is in the Tate's collection, after Hockney made a gift of it in 2008.
We watch another film about trees, and then a short film about the making of his 1997 painting "The Road to York Through Sledmere". This is a split-screen video work with the painting filmed on one side, and the journey through Sledmere on the other. Hockney provides a running commentary, telling me that the idea for the painting came when he kept driving through the village on his way to Bradford to visit his friend Jonathan Silver, the founder of the Salt's Mill arts centre, who was dying of cancer.
"I filmed this standing on the seat with my head through the sunroof," he says, watching the screen intently and pointing out some of the landmarks that appear in the painting. "There is the cupola, there are the stables, and there is the monument on the corner. See, the stables are really on the other side of the street. But I moved them across the street between the houses, as there was space for them there.
"I am an artist," he says. "I am allowed to change things. It's artistic liberty. I am depicting, but I am not a topographical painter."
These statements of his, even when they are simple, can hit you with a bang. It's as if he has shone a whole new light on his paintings. The compression of time and layers of images starts to make sense. What some critics have dismissed as mere hyped-up realism is actually careful composition.
So this is really a collage? I say, tentatively.
"Yes," Hockney says, enthusiastically. "The invention of the collage was a great thing. All my work is a collage."
I sit in the dark, reflecting that friendship with Hockney is like a collage as well. You might not see him for a long time, but when you do it's bright and vivid, and eventually the glimpses add up to a full picture.
I bump into Hockney at the wake for the painter Prunella Clough, held at the Royal Academy. He gives me his number and tells me to call, and when I dare myself to do it, he invites me round for tea. His house is in a mews in Kensington: small, but perfectly comfortable. To get to his studio you head out of the back door and through a Japanese garden, which has sculptural standing slates reminiscent of Chinese scholar stones. The studio is small, too, but filled with colour and ideas from the paintings around the walls. A pinboard is crammed with postcards and posters, faxes and scribbled notes to himself. As we're talking, he jumps up from his small stool and goes to the wall where there is a painting in progress, a landscape based on a recent stay in the Italian lakes. He dips his brush in black ink and, delicately but surely, makes some shadows on the trunk of a tree.
When we go back into the house, he points to a collection of bonsai trees arranged on a shelf. "I'm painting them at the moment," he says. "I buy them up the road at Homebase." London has many expensive shops selling these rarefied plants, and Hockney has found them in a DIY chain store.
In California for the first time, I land in San Francisco with my two daughters, Louisa, who is 15, and Rebecca, 13, and we drive down the coast to Los Angeles on the infamous Highway 101. I call Hockney and we're invited to tea the next day. We arrive at his house at the top of Mulholland Drive. As we go in, we pass a large picture window that mimics an aquarium with brightly coloured hand-painted fish swinging on invisible strings in the breeze from the door. He has a small garden and there is the celebrated swimming pool—smaller than you expect, like a famous person. It is kidney-shaped with squiggly lines painted on the bottom that form the ripples and dappled reflections so familiar from Hockney's pool paintings of the 1960s. What we might have assumed was an eloquent abstraction was actually a fairly accurate representation.
He takes us into his studio, a converted indoor tennis court, to show work in progress, painted landscapes. Then it's back to the house into the television room, a snug where he shows us a short documentary about some of his early investigations into the camera obscura and how artists used optical devices long before the invention of photography. We're joined by his two dachshunds, Stanley and Boodgie. Stanley is the only dog to have featured as the main subject of a show at the Tate. He and Boodgie are also, it has to be said, quite smelly.
Hockney's ideas are infectious: he expects the visitor to engage with them. He gives the girls a small concave mirror and says, "You can do your own camera obscura," showing them how to look into it and pointing out where the light needs to come from.
Tea is served and, as always at Hockney's, it's a meal filled with visual and sensual delight. We eat iced cakes and fruit tarts sitting at a table with a bowl of pears making a simple, beautiful centrepiece.
He invites us all to come back a few days later and take his famous car journey through the mountains, which are visible in the distance. We need to get there in time for the sunset, but we get stuck in traffic and arrive late. Hockney is fretting, but says we might still make it, so we all climb into his silver Lexus, he loads some Sousa marches music onto the CD player and puts his foot down. He has compiled a selection of music to respond to the landscape and to the experience of the sunset, with a series of carefully timed crescendos and diminuendos that match the contours of the journey and the colours over the mountains. Soon we are climbing to the accompaniment of Schubert and Wagner, swooping around bends, occasionally slowing down and then needing to speed up to keep pace with the music. It's scary but exciting, and it transforms the way you look at a landscape.
Back home in London, studying the paintings from his Mulholland series, I feel the same sensation that I felt during the rising and falling of our sunset drive. It is as though Hockney, like Kandinsky before him, wants to form a correspondence between colour and sound, to create the visual equivalent of a symphony.
Hockney has started to explore watercolour, making quick portraits, and he asks me to sit for him. It is an informal process, he says, and it will be done in three to four hours. We agree on a date and I duly turn up on a Saturday afternoon. He suggests I sit on a black swivel chair facing his painting chair and adopt a pose. I choose to hold my coffee mug. It's a comfort gesture, really, because it feels strange sitting there doing nothing. He works opposite me, with the paper on the table between us. He is so close that I am very conscious of his breathing, which quickens as he becomes more engaged. My hair is unruly and every time I move my head slightly, he lets out a sigh—almost a groan—of despair: "Your hair." I can't see the painting, only the paintbrush and the palette, but it's unnerving when I see him loading up his brush with green to do my hair.
He doesn't talk while he paints, but every now and then he gets up for a cigarette break and I'm allowed to relax the pose. I peep at the portrait. My face is an alarming shade of pink, but at least my hair is only highlighted with green.
When he's finished, there's not much chat. We're both exhausted and need to get away from each other. Later he gives me a photocopy of the painting and signs it. Some of my friends say it's not flattering, but I like it. It manages to capture my smug look, which came from the feeling that no matter what happens, no one can take the experience of sitting for Hockney away from me.
I'm flicking through a sketchbook at Hockney's when I come across a drawing of two-colour soup: green and red. A couple of years ago I had Hockney and a group of friends round to dinner. We'd sat in the basement of my house in west London and I'd made green and red soup (pea and pepper) in his honour, serving it carefully so the colours didn't mix. I ask him about this and he says, "I draw everything I see. I always have a sketchbook on me. I love having my bus pass. I love sitting on the top of buses and watching out of the window."
It is Christmas Eve and we are invited to Hockney's for Christmas tea. We enter to the loudest carols I have ever heard. Hockney's sister is staying with him: "she's even deafer than I am," he says.
In the living room, a double-height space, a huge Christmas tree soars up into the air, nearly hitting the ceiling. It's decorated with hundreds of twinkling turquoise fairy lights; John tells me later that there are over 40 strings. After tea and mince pies, Hockney calls my daughters over to help him investigate an early Christmas present: a sumo-size volume of the works of Leonardo da Vinci. For the next hour he turns over page after page, analysing and dissecting every mark. He points out to Rebecca that the directness of drawing has an energy that must be brought into paint. Watching and listening to him, I am aware of how he is constantly learning, through his eyes and through his hands, caressing the reproductions as if they are alive.
It is late spring and we have been invited up in time to see the hawthorn blossom, which Hockney is about to paint. It's the first time I've visited him in Yorkshire. He has dubbed this week "action week" because of the short-lived period of blossom and the need to capture it. Rather than taking us upstairs to his attic studio, he leads us outside to his car. We take a ten-minute drive into the countryside. It is a strange reprise of our trip in Los Angeles, with, as before, music on the CD player. This time it's a mixture of Bruckner and Nat King Cole, and Hockney seems much less involved with it. I ask whether his deafness affects his enjoyment of music, and he says he gave up designing for the opera because he couldn't really hear the music any more. But Jean-Pierre laughs when he hears that. He says when he puts jazz on the radio as they drive around Bridlington, Hockney complains that the sound doesn't match the view.
We pull into a lay-by. "I am working in plein air," Hockney says, gesturing to what looks a rather sad spot. There's an empty Coke can and some blue-striped Tesco bags caught in the trees. He drives on down the lane, pointing out the hawthorns that will soon be in full bloom. "The blossom doesn't last long," he says, "so I have to be ready."
On the way we talk about the state of contemporary art. No one wants to "simply paint a tree," he says. "That is because it's too hard for most of them. They just want to take an idea. Painting is harder than ideas."
Later we sit around the kitchen table eating malt bread slathered with butter. "It is really working out [for me] here," Hockney says, "People leave you alone, you know. I can sit in the lay-by painting and in a whole day only a few cars go by. No one bothers you." This is one of his gifts: to be equally at home in a Yorkshire lay-by and by the pool in Malibu.
I'm at the Royal Academy, a few days before the opening of the Summer Exhibition, for a first glimpse of "Bigger Trees Near Warter". Secretly, I am worried. The site of the painting was so uninspiring. How was Hockney going to make it into something spiritually uplifting? My fears are immediately assuaged. The large scale of the work reminds me of the Grand Canyon paintings he did for his show at the Pompidou Centre in Paris in 1999. There, the colours were dramatically vibrant, almost theatrical oranges, reds and purples; here they are more muted—greys, lilacs, greens—but thoughtful in their subtlety. And just as in the Grand Canyon works, despite the scale, the painterly detail is still here. The new painting is much more beautiful than I thought it could be. It is a melancholic wood, far from the light and colour of California, but suffused with the history of its surroundings.
While I'm looking at the painting with Hockney, we're joined by three young students from the Royal College of Art who have asked if they could meet him. He is generous with his time, cupping his ear to catch their questions, talking to them about "isms". Watching the encounter I remember him telling me why he talks a lot. "I never stop talking because I am deaf," he'd said. "Deaf people talk all the time because they don't want to listen."
The students stand looking at the trees. "Good, aren't they?" he says with a twinkle.
At the Biennale, sitting outside in the Giardini, checking my iPhone for emails. I'm delighted to discover 24 new messages, all from "DH", all with attachments. He has been sending iPhone drawings to friends over the last few months while he explores the technology. They are mostly still-lifes, with some sunrises. There is something incredibly free and joyful about these little pictures, and, regardless of the technology and their diminutive scale, they are instantly recognisable as Hockneys. I later discover he does them first thing in the morning while he is still in bed. He has a tiny wooden easel on his bedside table where his iPhone rests at night.
I respond by sending him a photograph I took recently in Los Angeles. It was May and the purple jacaranda flowers were in full bloom. I hoped it might bring back some fond memories, but Hockney replies with a ticking-off, a hand-drawn command on a bright yellow background: "No photography, drawing more vivid." It makes me laugh—as if I'm going to send him my painfully amateur drawings.
I'm amused, when I get back, to find this in the introduction to a catalogue of his photographs: "Photography opens up enormous possibilities of vivid interpretations on a flat surface of the lovely and wonderful experience of working which I intend to pursue and put back into my paintings."
For the moment Hockney's renewed passion for painting has pushed photography into the back seat. But it has always played a role in his work, starting with the self-portrait he took in a photo booth in 1962 on a trip to Berlin: the wide-eyed artist, cigarette lodged firmly in mouth. He wrote his name across the top of the photo like a reference to the Hollywood sign, with the date and place behind it, in the style of his paintings of the period.
When he began, he used a wide-angle lens, but he was unhappy with the inherent distortion. So around 1970 he began to make his collages, or "joiners" as he would call them, with separate photographs forming a single image. The first was a composite portrait of his then partner Peter Schlesinger, made with just four photographs. These led directly to more complex photo-collages, including the most famous, "Pearblossom Highway 11th-18th April 1986", and culminating in one enormous collage of the Grand Canyon.
A decade later, when the Pompidou approached him about a retrospective, they wanted to include the photographic collages, but he also felt the need to create a new moment of excitement. He thought of blowing up the photographs, only they wouldn't enlarge to the size that he wanted. So he decided instead to paint the Grand Canyon, and in just over a year he put together a series of panels which together made one huge painting. Ironically, it was doing these paintings that made him turn against photography—they alerted him to the "potentiality of paint", and its greater vividness. But while he continues to proselytise against the camera today, he still experiments with the medium, ever on the lookout for new technology to explore.
Hockney is having his first exhibition of new paintings in New York for 13 years at Pace Wildenstein. I went to a recent show in London and don't expect to see much difference, so I am knocked out when I enter the gallery on 25th Street. Here are new Yorkshire landscapes and it's not just the scale that is so different, much bigger, it's also the palette, which is deeper, richer and gutsier than the earlier Bridlington paintings. There are other forms, too, quite reminiscent of Hockney's work from the 1970s, which was heavily influenced by Japanese screens. The flora here are stylised and unnatural; the hawthorn blossom is rendered in almost surreal, sausage-shaped forms—like loofahs. The landscapes are straight out of "The Wizard of Oz" and you feel that Dorothy could come prancing over the hill.
They have something of Philip Guston's late paintings in their slight cartoonishness, but it does not end there. Hockney's first group of works from Bridlington showed his depth of looking, painting what he saw, and they seemed somehow comfortable and familiar. These show that depth of looking coupled with something beyond it—something that involves the imagination to capture the power of the land; something contemporary about something very ancient. I go over to congratulate him, waiting my turn in the long line of admirers. "It was a helluva lot of work," he says. "New York isn't Bent Flower, Iowa. You're going to be looked at. Everybody is going to look at it, and if it is dull and boring, that's it."
I'm walking round the house before dinner looking at the pictures. Hockney points out "Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy", hanging in the hallway, instantly recognisable. But it hangs in the Tate. "How can this be?" I ask, wanting to stroke the canvas. "Have you borrowed it back?"
He chuckles. "We have this amazing camera." He points out the line of a stretcher bar, which shows up in the photograph but is undetectable when you stand in front of the original. "It shows details you can't see with the human eye."
We all settle down in front of a roaring fire for Cornish pasties (imported from Lidgate's, Hockney's butcher in London) with a hot local piccalilli relish. John Fitz-Herbert tells me that the log burning in the hearth, which has to be one of the fattest pieces of wood I have ever seen, is from the copse that was felled when Hockney was painting it. I ask Hockney if it still upsets him.
"No, love," he says, his accent unchanged by decades in California, "I was upset for a while, but they make pencils out of the wood and I use pencils as an artist, so it's fine."
When I ask the assembled company whether they are enjoying being here permanently, Hockney says, "We didn't come here to stay, it just slowly happened, really. It happened because I was, first of all, being very productive here. When you're young you really want to be in the city, you want other artists around you, you are always following what they are doing. Well I've lived like that. Now, especially if you've got a lot to do yourself, as I think I have, you really want some isolation, you want some solitude, some tranquillity. Here is the perfect place. Nosers leave us alone." But, he adds, "If I was 20, I would probably leave."
Next morning Hockney drives me to his studio. He used to work in the attic of the house, but now he's found a new place five minutes' drive away. We cross over the railway tracks and turn into a light industrial estate. The space is huge, 10,000 square feet, so big that the large van parked inside looks quite comfortable in its surroundings. There is a mezzanine area, where photographic works are displayed, and at one end are the three long dioramas of trees that starred in one of the films I'd seen at the house.
In a smaller room off the main space is a model of the Royal Academy. Hockney has been invited to curate a show for January 2012 that will fill the galleries with his paintings, drawings and photographs. He is already trying things out, hanging miniatures on the little walls. I can identify "Bigger Trees Near Warter". He says he's hoping to do a new work on a similarly grand scale before the show. "But I'm conscious of how much there is to do in less than two years."
I ask why I haven't received any iPhone drawings recently and get a memorable reply. "The sun has gone south for the winter," he says, "and my bed has not."
It's the beginning of May, and the hawthorn is nearly out again. I arrive in the late morning to be told Hockney is napping; he's been up since 6am drawing and filming, and has gone back to bed exhausted. When he appears, dishevelled, sleepy-eyed and slightly dazed, he is clutching an Apple iPad. In seconds, he is wide awake and demonstrating his new toy, which he has been using "constantly" since it arrived a few weeks ago: "It's brilliant," he says. He shows us his latest drawing, made at 6am that morning while he was still in bed. It's the view out of his window a building site on the seafront with a black metal crane above it. The drawing will change, he says: he has to erase the crane and then put it back in. He demonstrates how he'll do this with a video of an earlier drawing of a similar scene. The image seems to morph in front of our eyes: the crane slowly appearing, then disappearing, then reappearing over the course of about a minute.
We're sitting in the kitchen and on the table there is another of Hockney's miniature easels, this one in silver, where he rests his iPad to show us one of his home-movies of trees. But soon he's picking it up again and flicking through different drawings and videos he's been doing.
He suggests we drive over to the studio as there is something he wants me to see. Inside the huge hanger, I'm first blinded by the flood of light, then conscious of colour overwhelming my senses. My attention is drawn to the end wall, where Hockney is in the middle of painting "The Sermon on the Mount" on a scale worthy of Wagner.
It fills the entire wall, about 15ft high and 40ft wide, and the colours are eye-popping: there are fields of jacaranda purple in the background, and the sea has been lightened to a soft, milky, opalescent blue. The eccentric figures have been stylised in a way that recalls Stanley Spencer. The river's curves have been modified into more geometric shapes. The paint has obviously been applied with large brushes and in a more gestural way. If proof were needed of new tools for new ideas, a big grey waste bin holds long, wooden-handled brushes labelled number 50, the biggest brushes you can buy.
Along the length of one wall there are photographic prints of the Claude in various stages of being cleaned, as well as a series of studies for Hockney's composition. In some of them he has been experimenting with a Cubist interpretation of the painting, breaking down the forms, finally settling for a more central single column of rock, in a deep orange, for the main painting. Once again, I'm reminded, in both colours and scale, of the Grand Canyon paintings, particularly one that he made in 1989, which measured nearly 7ft by 24ft. As we leave the "Sermon" behind, he says, "I have named it 'The Bigger Message'," and he laughs uproariously.
I study the prints of the Claude and, now that the computer work is finished, I'm amazed at what has been revealed. In the foreground a rivulet of water glistens in the light. The rocks of the mount, which seemed fused together in one dark mass, are now clearly demarcated as boulders, as are the steps of the path hewn into the stone. The tented village and circle of supplicants are fully exposed on the right, and one can now appreciate the rhythm the artist sets up between the river and path wending up through the rocks. It took them a full three weeks to get it right, Hockney says. "A lot of it was looking at it, printing out sections to see the details. It's the high tech of the computer and the camera coupled with the low tech of the printer that makes it so successful."
Along the other wall in the studio are the friezes of trees that so impressed me before Christmas and although they still do, they're put in the shade by the sunny emanations of the Claude. Hockney shows me the sinister-looking contraption that can be fixed to his Jeep: nine expensive professional cameras mounted on three metal bars that sit above the driver's cab. "People think we are from Google Maps," he says, chuckling. Hockney used to have to hold one camera nine times to get the width of image he required. "Now I sit in the back seat with a bank of nine screens, and I can orchestrate the shooting that way. I don't look through the lens at all. It is less hand-held but also less exhausting." The effect is striking, even when shown on an iPad. The trees seem to arch right over you, revealing the full beauty of their colours and shapes.
On the drive back he shows me where the blackthorn is in flower. The hawthorn won't be far behind. It's so fragile, he says, and if there is rain or wind, it lasts an even shorter time. "To do it well, you have to see it well." You need to get up early to catch nature. If you're not up by 6am you won't get it. If you miss it, you deserve to fuck up the foliage." Back at the house he shows us pictures of the trees in the snow, taken only a few weeks before. "We got up early and we were the first ones there," he says. "I thought the place would be thronged with photographers, but no, it was empty. It is the same with the hawthorn. If it was Japan, there would be throngs of tourists but here no one cares. No one looks.
Before I leave I go to the loo, where there's a small sign, carefully lettered, in a black frame: "Death comes even to those who don't smoke." When I mention this, he holds up his special imported Turkish Camels from the United States. "When we're born, we're going to die. The cigs may get me, but if not something else will."
He picks up his iPad and slips it into his jacket pocket. All his suits have been made with a deep inside pocket so that he can put a sketchbook in it: now the iPad fits there just as snugly. Even his tux has the pocket, he tells me.
I ask him if he still draws on his iPhone and he snorts. "No! That's just a phone now."
Pictures, in order of appearance:
Hockney in his studio, with a picture of Laurel & Hardy; "Bigger Trees Near Warter", 2007, now in the Tate; "Mulholland Drive: the Road to the Studio", 1980, showing the hills where Hockney did his drive set to Wagner; Hockney with the hawthorn blossom he loves to paint; The hawthorn: "May Blossom on the Roman Road", 2009; A joiner: "Pearblossom Highway, IIth–18th April 1986"; "Karen Wright", 2002: "it manages to capture my smug look"; "The Sermon on the Mount", 1656, by Claude Lorrain, in the Frick; Hockney's "The Sermon on the Mount 2, after Claude", 20I0.
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Our workshops are all about the insects (of course!), and all in Spanish! We teach farmers, extension agents, students, Peace Corps volunteers, and agricultural technicians about beneficial and pest insects they may find in their crops. In addition to insect biology and morphology, we also teach them quick, non-synthetic recipes for pesticides using ingredients like oil, soap, garlic, and chilies. All of the attendees are looking for ways to cut back on synthetic pesticide use and this section of the workshop is definitely a hit.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327423785358259753.post4656326367993683742..comments2015-10-13T08:07:56.819-04:00Comments on National MS Society Blog: Multiple Sclerosis and PetsNational MS Societyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327423785358259753.post-54155556636922155442012-09-05T09:57:15.867-04:002012-09-05T09:57:15.867-04:00Thank you for that story! It brought tears to my e...Thank you for that story! It brought tears to my eyes. I am currently living in an apartment that doesn't allow pets, but hopfully moving soon. It is truly amazing how animals just know when its the right time to show you love and unconditional loyalty! I think maybe they can read us better than we think...Meg101311http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327423785358259753.post-4578119513256994292012-08-30T15:19:29.311-04:002012-08-30T15:19:29.311-04:00I am wondering if this is even possible or if anyo...I am wondering if this is even possible or if anyone has heard about anything like this before:

 My name is Holly. I have 3 dogs that are my children and the joys of my life. One of my dogs, Gracie, is a black lab mix that I adopted in the parking lot of a Walmart one day about six years ago.
 Before I was diagnosed with MS, Gracie started "Herding" me to the couch. At first this was downright annoying and I was stumped by this new behavior. I tried to avoid it, but she was insistent and would not be happy until I was on the couch. I thought it was because she wanted to lay down beside me, as she is a bit of a cuddle puppy.
 After a few times, I started to notice a pattern. After I was "herded" I noticed that very soon after, I would get ill. I would either get dizzy, the shakes or very very tired and sick feeling.
 Needless to say, I now listen to my pup. She is a marvelous dog and I believe she has ESP (Extra Special Puppy-sense). Has this ever happened to anyone else before? I think it is strange and special! She lays with me until I feel better, then she gets up and is wild dog again.

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-HollyHolly Emersonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327423785358259753.post-21718674597148783042012-08-21T14:32:25.095-04:002012-08-21T14:32:25.095-04:00For a long time,I have believed in the power anima...For a long time,I have believed in the power animals hold over us "humans". Whether it be the quadrapaledgic who can't move his arm until you bring a dog close enough to pet, to a cat's purr "snapping" a woman out of a deep depression, to a golden retriever physically holding a woman down, knowing she is just moments away from another seizure, animals know. They just KNOW. I am developing quite the little "farm" with cats, dogs, bunnies & chickens; soon adding mini ponies, beef cattle, lambs & pigs! Oh My! Each of my critters offers me help in a different way, from forcing me to get out of bed to let them outside, or walk across the yard to do chicken "chores", to just snuggling next to me in bed letting me cry & feel bad for myself because the fatigue beat out my daughter for my attention.

If I needed one of my animal therapy "units" the most, it would be my 10 year old lab, "Tank". At 120#+, he's large enough to help me balance and to be a big enough target to pet when my coordination is off. He also KNOWS when my MS is particularly bad or a flare-up is looming- he follows me everywhere, staying real tight. When he's extra-clingy, I tend to slow down & take it easy. He is animal rock. He's also a great listener who doesn't need to "understand", unlike my human supports. As much as I need my family to support, I equally need my critters.

Animals will always be part of my MS therapy...and my life.
Dawnhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327423785358259753.post-88788722573078407022012-08-16T15:12:01.213-04:002012-08-16T15:12:01.213-04:00I have 3 dogs, 2 cats and 4 birds. The dogs are a ...I have 3 dogs, 2 cats and 4 birds. The dogs are a chihuahua, an alpine Australian shepherd and a lab/retriever mix. I do not know how I would survive this disease and being home without them. They all get along which is amazing in of it's self. They are my confidents, children and best friends wrapped into one.
I have struggled training the lab/retriever mix since my MS has progressed and I am getting a power wheelchair next week any help with how to train her with a wheelchair will help. They are so loving and smart they know when I am having a good or bad day and when I need a loving hug.Kelly Thompsonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327423785358259753.post-9029709223197812112012-08-11T18:06:35.066-04:002012-08-11T18:06:35.066-04:00For the first time in 18 years I have found myself...For the first time in 18 years I have found myself without a dog. I have yet to muster the courage to become so attached again to a dog, and at the moment it is hard to imagine any dog could be as wonderful as my springer spaniels. The unconditional love, their joy each and every morning at seeing me and the comfort of a snuggle with a warm friend all eased the sense of being set apart and outside normal, everyday life. For now I have chosen chickens, which are just fine, but will not take hold of my heart and break it. I guess time heals all things so we will see. It is nice to read of fellow dog lovers and to not feel so alone. http://intrepidfromoz.blogspot.com/Alison Rochesterhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327423785358259753.post-4866618061934486502012-08-10T18:26:06.734-04:002012-08-10T18:26:06.734-04:00agree, read below.agree, read below.Yofeehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327423785358259753.post-38214503783437966522012-08-10T18:24:27.939-04:002012-08-10T18:24:27.939-04:00interesting development re my bedlington...manager...interesting development re my bedlington...manager of our ground floor rental apartment had told us our dog had to be on a leash everytime she was outside, 16 months after we were given special permission to use wireless invisible febnce. I have MS and can walk her with that if it's not too hot. Nat'l MS Society had me contact our county disabilty advocate who emailed me and explained that the fair housing law protects people with disabilities to the point, in my case, that I can have the inv fence...more complicated than this, but the point is, contact the Nat'l MS Soc if you have a problem, they'll get you in touch with the right agency.Yofeehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327423785358259753.post-25472161591457461002012-08-07T14:26:31.845-04:002012-08-07T14:26:31.845-04:00Like Marie, "what would I do without" Ki...Like Marie, "what would I do without" Kia, my little Lhasa Apso. She makes having MS so much more bearable with her 24/7 love, constant (and I mean constant) companionship by my side. I can't wait for the day when the world wakes up and classifies any companion dog to the disabled a privileged "therapy dog" so they can accompany us everywhere.Baby Boomer New CNAhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327423785358259753.post-87368290842028306932012-08-07T07:49:01.366-04:002012-08-07T07:49:01.366-04:00What would I do without Isabella, my little Shih T...What would I do without Isabella, my little Shih Tzu?! She is curled up on my feet as I type this. With her sweet, funny personality she is a constant joy and source of unconditional love.Mariehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327423785358259753.post-75404149024848556652012-08-06T19:09:39.466-04:002012-08-06T19:09:39.466-04:00http://dopieslife.com/adventures-with-petie/http://dopieslife.com/adventures-with-petie/Dopiehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327423785358259753.post-11166264965001990332012-08-06T15:07:51.354-04:002012-08-06T15:07:51.354-04:00I have dogs and cats but it is this one cat that I...I have dogs and cats but it is this one cat that I think of as comforting me the most with my MS.
I had switched from Copaxone to Avonex and that first night was horrible. I ached so bad and I was laying in bed shaking all over. I was almost convulsive in my shaking. My cat came in bed and watched me for a moment, I guess trying to figure out what was going on. She then laid the front of her body over my legs and tried to hold me down. I was laying on my side in fetal position and there this little kitty of mine, trying to hold my legs still. I was still shaking so she got up completely on my thigh and laid there purring and I thought of what a loving thing she was doing. It made me smile though I was in so much pain and quite scared by all the shaking. She was clearly trying to comfort me. I was still shaking terribly and she eventually stretched her whole body out down my leg and I could feel both her paws trying to cover my ankles and she stretched even more and covered my feet. The warmth of not only her body, but her love, finally stopped my shaking and I was able to dose off to sleep.
She will do this for me whenever I have twitches too. She will lay on that part of my leg or arm that is twitching and make it stop. She is so so sweet sometimes, it makes me cry.Joycehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327423785358259753.post-71709713370398617002012-08-05T20:47:32.192-04:002012-08-05T20:47:32.192-04:00Good for you!Good for you!Yofeehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327423785358259753.post-33684644707130208922012-08-05T20:42:17.877-04:002012-08-05T20:42:17.877-04:00I have a Bedlington terrier, the same breed I had ...I have a Bedlington terrier, the same breed I had age 6-19, I'm 58 now, Yofee is 10. She is always there for me, especially if I'm home alone. I bought an electric scooter 14 months when my husband and I sold our large house and moved into a lovely, forested 2 bdrm apartment with very nice walkways. I felt left out of the evening walks until I bought the scooter. Pets are part of the family and we dread the day we are empty nesters again.Yofeehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327423785358259753.post-14208121166086027432012-08-03T15:31:54.630-04:002012-08-03T15:31:54.630-04:00I have a Jack Russell Terrier and he is my baby al...I have a Jack Russell Terrier and he is my baby along with my children.The way he looks into my eyes.He knows when I am sad and he makes me smile.MS Fighterhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327423785358259753.post-32500523151733861162012-08-03T11:29:00.396-04:002012-08-03T11:29:00.396-04:00I bought my boyfriend ,who is living with MS, a Ge...I bought my boyfriend ,who is living with MS, a German Shepherd for Valentines Day this year. I knew she would change his life because GS are so in tuned to things that are in their environment (I have owned GS's before, but my boyfriend never has). Especially, if there is someone in the home who has a disability. Needless to say, the two of them are the best of buds. Keelia puts a smile on his face after an intense day of work and pain. He works with her and trains her even when he feels he can no longer move. Most of all, she sticks close and loves on him more when she knows he is having a bad day. Because of the amazing results, we will be buying a male in the near future and breeding our baby girl. One of the.pipe from the first litter will be used to train as a service dog. Keelia has not only made the MS easier to live with, but she has changed our lives for the best!Cynthia Fowlerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327423785358259753.post-45185612259230720592012-08-03T11:27:55.756-04:002012-08-03T11:27:55.756-04:00I bought my boyfriend ,who is living with MS, a Ge...I bought my boyfriend ,who is living with MS, a German Shepherd for Valentines Day this year. I knew she would change his life because GS are so in tuned to things that are in their environment (I have owned GS's before, but my boyfriend never has). Especially, if there is someone in the home who has a disability. Needless to say, the two of them are the best of buds. Keelia puts a smile on his face after an intense day of work and pain. He works with her and trains her even when he feels he can no longer move. Most of all, she sticks close and loves on him more when she knows he is having a bad day. Because of the amazing results, we will be buying a male in the near future and breeding our baby girl. One of the.pipe from the first litter will be used to train as a service dog. Keelia has not only made the MS easier to live with, but she has changed our lives for the best!Cynthia Fowlerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327423785358259753.post-74854453700131175902012-08-03T11:08:40.495-04:002012-08-03T11:08:40.495-04:00Two weeks before I had my first MS symptoms my hus...Two weeks before I had my first MS symptoms my husband surprised me by wanting to adopt not only a second dog, but a tiny second dog! He called me from the rescue wanting me to come down right away. I assumed he had found another Siamese cat until he texted a photo of the cutest little dog. I had never had a small dog, especially a chihuahua mix. I grew up with St Bernards, Dobermans, and other big dogs. I later realized Taaffe was a gift from the unknown.

As we adjusted to having her I began to go numb and had trouble with balance and walking and many other symproms, all very quickly. This new little dog, Taaffe, along with our big dog and two cats, kept me company as I spent a lot of time quietly at home.

I changed her name from Taffy to Taaffe because I had just returned from a horseback riding trip in Ireland to celebrate my 50th birthday. In the town of Carlingford I visited was the town castle- Taaffe Castle. That was just a month before my diagnosis. My biggest laugh was the day I returned from a week in the hospital I recieved her DNA test results saying she was part Great Dane!! My 10lb Great Dane.

I love all my animals but I feel a special bond with Taaffe, my little gift. She rescued me as much as we rescued her.Janet Vetahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327423785358259753.post-12105294491733295992012-08-03T10:51:10.822-04:002012-08-03T10:51:10.822-04:00I was diagnosed in 2006, I decided to get a dog i...I was diagnosed in 2006, I decided to get a dog in 2010. I knew it would be good for me. Like you said all the extra exercise that I normally wouldn't be getting and I met a lot of knew people through her. When I went in for my yearly with my neurologist. He was strongly against me owning a puppy and told me that all that was going to happen by owning this dog was, I was going to end up in a wheel-chair and someone else would own my dog. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I was so upset that he would be so blunt about it and have the nerve to say that owning a dog is to much work for someone with M.S.. Needless to say I dropped him as a doctor. A year later I still have the dog. I dropped 30 pounds and haven't had a flair up since I've gotten her. Dogs are truly the best medicine.Christen Wicklundhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327423785358259753.post-79766662360788765902012-08-03T10:37:52.281-04:002012-08-03T10:37:52.281-04:00Great story. I have 2 Golden Retrievers Cara and ...Great story. I have 2 Golden Retrievers Cara and Boomer. Cara is my old girl who I rescued in the UK when she was about 6 from a puppy mill. She now lives in Nova Scotia with myself, husband and 2 kids. She is now 14 and has very bad osteoarthritis and is on medication. She is the most laid back, loving dog I have ever had the pleasure of knowing even after the first years of her life being so harrowing. When I look at her I forget about my aches and pains. I do not think we have much time left with her, and remember this every day. She is definatley one of the 'special' ones.
Boomer is my young boy, and we got him just 9 weeks after being in a new Country! He is the friendliest bouncy boy ever and loves his Cara so much! I too stay at home so have the great pleasure of spending lots of time with my wonderful dogs :)Knight Katiehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327423785358259753.post-83263886259878544752012-08-03T10:31:02.489-04:002012-08-03T10:31:02.489-04:00During my worst exacerbation and at the time I was...During my worst exacerbation and at the time I was diagnosed, I could barely get out of bed. Wall-walking to the bathroom was about the limit and I was grateful for the independence to do that.

The family dog had never been my pal. I'd been a working woman, busy busy busy, and simply fed the dog and occasionally pat her head in passing, but she mostly romped with my sons.

But during that health crisis she parked herself in the door to the bedroom. She didn't budge from that spot until my husband came home. She didn't let anyone into the room except for my husband and sons. She didn't request anything from me, but was a source of true comfort during a time when I felt vulnerable.

Later, when I was up and about, she mostly went back to romping with the boys. But there was a change. During quiet times, if I sat at my desk, she sat on my feet. True, that signaled her dominance of me (if you know about dogs), but it felt as if she'd taken me on as her personal project and I appreciated it. When I was in the TV room, she was in the TV room. She went from sleeping in the boy's room to sleeping on the floor along my side of the bed.

During the scariest time of my life, it wasn't just my family that rallied, but also the family dog, Bosco.Meghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327423785358259753.post-68639704589631573402012-08-03T10:29:25.525-04:002012-08-03T10:29:25.525-04:00I recently acquired a very special kitten named Sh...I recently acquired a very special kitten named Shadow! When my baby was born her umbilical cord was wrapped around her leg and her mama chewed her foot off instead of the umbilical cord. She runs and plays like she's got 4 legs though. She is my love and inspiration. She reminds me that life is fun and disabilities will not stop us from doing what we want! I love her very much.Donna Farringtonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327423785358259753.post-29412044519640778232012-08-03T09:58:49.150-04:002012-08-03T09:58:49.150-04:00I could write a book (LOL, we own a bookstore!), b...I could write a book (LOL, we own a bookstore!), but I will keep my comment fairly brief.
You hit many of the highlights of the joys of pets and MS. I was nodding as I was reading.
We have two girls, Chula a mixed terrier, and Hope, a Chocolate Lab. They are complete opposites in looks & personalities. But, they both are devoted to me & stick with me, healthy or well. If I am having a stay in bed day, they hang out with me. We take a puppy nap every day. Hope gets antsy if I don't head to bed at the regular time. She has even gone back to the bedroom alone if I am busy or late for our nap!
I am at home most of the time, so we do spend a lot of time together...and I LOVE It...and so do they!Rhondahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327423785358259753.post-76153765336013117222012-08-03T09:52:47.183-04:002012-08-03T09:52:47.183-04:00I have the most wonderful cat. Her name is Isis. I...I have the most wonderful cat. Her name is Isis. I lie on my side and she lies right next to my chest so that I can spoon her. She purrs as loud as she can the whole time. Always makes me feel so loved. Seems she is always there when I need her the most.Bunny Luvhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327423785358259753.post-47251675717626291172012-08-03T09:49:20.288-04:002012-08-03T09:49:20.288-04:00Animals are a wonderful comfort. We have dogs and...Animals are a wonderful comfort. We have dogs and cats. I, too, have MS but have found my cats more of a comfort. Especially 1 of them. She will lie next to me when I'm not feeling my best and I find that just by petting her I find a great deal of comfort. My husband, has combat-related PTSD and finds a great deal of comfort from the dogs. When he is having a particularly bad time, 1 of the dogs will climb onto him and will not leave him until he is better. So, in our home our pets are a vital part of our family that we could not do without.Kim Jaimehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327423785358259753.post-88193890933400023982012-08-03T09:48:49.935-04:002012-08-03T09:48:49.935-04:00I inherited my daughter's cat when she moved t...I inherited my daughter's cat when she moved to a small condo in the city. A favorite time of day is when I take a cat-nap...and have Bella-Kitty-Cat laying over my lap, napping with me. Her purring soothes and comforts even the most challenging MS days.ee7968c6-4c2f-11e1-8f4f-000bcdcb471ehttps://email@example.com


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The second summer session of Girls Rock Dallas starts July 15, and during that week, girls ages 8 to 17 learn instruments, form a band, write a song and play a showcase. They're also offered classes on body image, women in rock history and team building, a truly immersive experience. As they did last summer, GRD is throwing a pool party at the Fraternal Order of Eagles (8500 Arturo St.) on Saturday as a way to draw support to the cause and get like-minded folks in a summer mood. Starting at 4 p.m.Saturday, there will be performances from 5050 Blue, Under Rage and Red Liquorish, as well as water balloons, volleyball, food and Jell-O shots. All ages welcome, and it costs $7 to swim. Visit girlsrockdallas.org for more info.
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'Morning Shift' #87: An itch for change
January 16, 2013
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Quigley Gun Buyback
President Obama is scheduled to announce proposals for gun control on Wednesday. On the local level, Mayor Emanuel said Monday that he wants the city to take a closer look at pension funds and cut any investments in gun related companies. Now, Congressman Mike Quigley of the 5th District is adding his voice to the conversation; he introduced Buyback our Safety Act Tuesday. Congressman Quigley explains what the bill entails, and where he thinks gun control measures will go next.
Three Walmart Neighborhood Markets are scheduled to open Wednesday, making that eight Walmart markets in Chicago. The stores have faced opposition in some areas, with community members claiming the chain will divert business from local food stores.
Crain's Chicago Business
retail reporter Brigid Sweeney explains what opposition to Walmart actually means at the checkout line.
Poverty Study
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights releases their annual report Wednesday on poverty in Illinois. A key data point they discovered is that
33% of Illinoisans are either living in poverty or in danger of falling into poverty. One of the lead researchers on the study, Amy Terpstra [TERP struh], explains why the state's seeing a bump from past years.
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Storytelling and data are merging to cross new frontiers in data journalism, providing news consumers a deeper dive into facts and stats about their communities and their government. Smart Chicago Collaborative Executive Director Dan O'Neil, Chicago Public Media Director of Digital Product Development Matthew Green and WBEZ Web Editor Tim Akimoff explain how journalists are lifting the veil on data.
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- had speakerphone
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What I found was interesting. Most every prepaid cell phone had an array of confusing charges, features and restrictions. It made my head spin! Minimum charges, extra charges for overages, monthly charges, lower charges on this day, more on another… I couldn't keep them all straight.
When I found the Net 10 LG 300 Prepaid Cell Phone it quickly went to the top of my list. And here's why.
The Net 10 LG 300 is a full featured phone that includes:
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I purchased the phone for $29.95 which includes 300 minutes of talk time valued at $30, so the phone was basically free. Actually, all Net 10 phones now include 300 minutes of talk time and 60 days of service, so most phones are free. And shipping is free for any purchase over $19.95, so again, you're only paying for airtime, the phone and shipping are free.
The battery life is excellent, I keep my phone on 24/7 and normally charge it about once a week. To fully charge the phone takes only a few hours (often less).
The menu options on the LG 300 are easy to use, buttons are easy to find and press and texting is straightforward.
This phone also includes lots of fun tools like a tip calculator, unit converter, alarm clock, notepad, world clock, stop watch, games and calendar.
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For moderate prepaid cell phone users that don't need all the latest bells and whistles, this is the best phone and plan I found. With an average purchase of 300 minutes which includes 60 service days, the average cost is $15 a month (based on $0.10 a minute). That's less than any other plan, both prepaid and monthly, I could find. Of course, you can add as many minutes as you need, but if you're looking for the least expensive free prepaid cell phone, the Net 10 LG 300 is my best recommendation.


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On the heels of this week's terrorism scare, Glenn Greenwald takes the FBI to task:
Time and again, the FBI concocts a Terrorist attack, infiltrates Muslim communities in order to find recruits, persuades them to perpetrate the attack, supplies them with the money, weapons and know-how they need to carry it out — only to heroically jump in at the last moment, arrest the would-be perpetrators whom the FBI converted, and save a grateful nation from the plot manufactured by the FBI.
Julian Sanchez contemplates the government's strategy:
One possible motive for these elaborate and highly publicized stings is that, whether or not the particular people they indict would have moved from rage to action without prompting, the steady stream of news reports will eventually force any candidate for jihad to assume that an "Al Qaeda recruiter" who approaches them is much more likely to be an FBI informant or undercover agent than a genuine operative. That's likely to make it much harder for any real recruiters who've gone undetected to rope in anyone savvy enough to be truly dangerous.


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Chapter 34 - The Ring is the Thing
Thursday, June 18, 2009
What is this thing?
It fell out of the TransWarp 11 electric motor when I first tore it apart, over a year. If I had been smart, I would have quickly called the people who designed the motor. But long-time readers know I'm not very smart.
Many months went by before I found out that this unusual warped washer is designed to keep the armature from moving backward and forward inside the motor housing. Sort of a minimalist shock absorber.
The designers want the washer back inside the motor, but at this late date, that will not be easy.
I hate this. The motor is running just fine, why mess with it?
The motor men tell me the washer should go in the "bell" end of the Warp 11.
In this photo, the red arrow points to the bell end and the green arrow points to the end that should hold the washer!
With the bell unbolted two facts hit me. One, the washer does not fit.
Two, the too short driveshaft, I recently replaced, seems to have destroyed the internal bronze bushing hidden inside the bell.
I make a quick call to the designers. They tell me that by "bell end," they sometimes mean the other end.
But first, the bushing needs to be replaced. Another job I can't do! One week and $600 later, I get down to some warped washer work.
I dust off my tranny jack and use it to lower the motor.
With about a thousand miles on it, the motor was much more difficult to get apart than when it was brand new.
The washer fits easily into the tail end of the motor. What a relief!
After another 12 hours of very hard work, the Volt Vette was on the road and being driven every day.
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Crazifornia: How California Is Committing Suicide
Behold the handiwork of the leftist Rube Goldbergs wasting taxpayer money in the Golden State.
September 27, 2012 - 7:00 am
Caltrans assigned one of its own, Duane Wiles, to do the seismic testing on the new bridge span. In an area bounded by both the Loma Prieta and San Andreas faults, this is a very responsible position. Wiles wasn't up to the job:
A Sacramento Bee investigative report found that Wiles failed to properly conduct tests on the Bay Bridge's new span and dozens of other bridges, fabricated results on at least three Caltrans projects, often discarded his raw data files and inflated his overtime pay. Perhaps all this was merely the side effects of personal problems Wiles was experiencing at the time, as he faced felony charges for a sex crime against a child.
That's bad. Here's worse: Alert employees had given Caltrans notice about Wiles' ineptitude three years before a whistleblower approached the Sacramento Bee. Caltrans did nothing. Then, when the reporter approached Caltrans asking about Wiles, Caltrans' first response wasn't to fire Wiles, but to move him to a less visible job.
Again, the Wiles' adventure wasn't unique. If you take this bureaucratic instinct to protect its own, and combine it with an environmental zealotry that actively seeks to return California to a pastoral, pre-industrial (and very poor) age, and you end up with the sorry history of a regulatory decision that, when it goes into effect, will make trucking prohibitively expensive in California.
There's nothing unusual in California about a pro-environment, anti-business regulation. What is unusual is that trucking regulation was based upon provably false data. Even more unusual is the fact that the California Air Resources Board, which promulgated the regulation, knew that the data was false, termed the falsity a "distraction," passed the regulation, and suspended the malfeasor for a mere 60 days. Balancing those 60 days out, however, was UCLA's decision to fire the professor of epidemiology who exposed the fraud. UCLA reached this decision because the professor's work was "not aligned" with his department's academic mission. (The professor has appealed that decision and is still working.)
Crazifornia describes a dysfunctional state, one that can best be summed up as a banana republic governed, not by oligarchs, but by a toxic mix of environmental fascists, greedy unions, corrupt or ideology-driven legislators, and all-powerful bureaucrats. But before you get too angry at these jackals, perhaps you should reserve your wrath for the ones who truly deserve it: the California voters.
Despite a dying economy, a feckless government, and dangerous corruption, voters are undeterred. It sometimes seems as if all 100% of the 47% who won't be voting for Romney are voting in California. If you don't know what California voters look like, I certainly do:
It's probably too late to save California. Laer tries to inject some optimism at the end of each chapter and in the conclusion to his book he notes that voter patterns might finally be changing (although recent polling data makes me less optimistic). As cities go bankrupt, gas and food prices rise, businesses bail, and the California middle class becomes poor, some of the voters might finally be growing up. Whether they can reverse California's downward trend remains questionable. Laer has some excellent suggestions for getting the political pendulum unstuck from its far Left position, but it will be ugly, and it will have to be carried out by people who have been subjected to one hundred years of California's Progressive propaganda.
When you read Laer's book (and I hope this review has convinced you to do so), you will see that it is a profound morality tale about what happens when America's green, anti-capitalist Progressivism gains the upper hand in government. So remember, only you can prevent the Crazifornication of America.
* In the interests of full disclosure, Laer interviewed me regarding some of my own experiences as a public school student in San Francisco, and he includes parts of those interviews in Chapter 7. Plus, I get an awfully nice thank you in the Acknowledgements section.
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James Harrison Wilson "Jim" Thompson (born March 21, 1906 in Greenville, Delaware - unknown) was an American businessman who helped revitalize the Thai silk and textile industry in the 1950s and 1960s. A former U.S. military intelligence officer who once worked for the Office of Strategic Services.
Jim Thompson was the youngest of five children of Henry and Mary Thompson, a wealthy Delaware couple. Jim's father was involved in the textile business. Jim was educated at St. Paul's School and Princeton University. Though Thompson studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, he never received his degree and was therefore unable to pass the NY Architecture Board examination. Nevertheless, he practiced in New York City with Holden McLaughlin, designing summer homes and a band shell in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
During the 1930s, he led an active social life and sat on the board of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, all the while becoming more politically active. His increasingly liberal politics alienated him from his wealthy Republican family, and by 1940 he had sought escape from them by military service, first in the Delaware National Guard and then in the Officer Training Corps of the United States Army.
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Teddy Bears on Parade to benefit homeless teen mothers
WABASSO - Teddy bears – and many of their friends! – will be on parade at the Kravis Center's Cohen Pavilion, as Holy Ground Shelter for Homeless, Inc. hosts its Third Annual "A Shower for Shelter" Luncheon and Auction.
The luncheon, which takes place on Sunday, Jan. 26, at noon, will feature a silent and a live auction, musical entertainment, plenty of opportunities to adopt one (or more!) of Holy Ground's popular "formerly homeless" teddy bears, and a unique chance to meet the once-homeless teens who now have a second chance at a brighter future, thanks to Holy Ground.
"The real highlight of our Third Annual 'A Shower for Shelter' Luncheon will be the stories told by the young mothers themselves," said Jan Kranich, luncheon chairperson and president of Holy Ground Shelter. "How they came to need the help of Holy Ground Shelter, and how their lives have been changed by the love and commitment of the dedicated volunteers and staff members who work hands-on with each family."
Honorary Chairpersons Lonnie and Rick Martens and the Honorary Committee members – Cheryl Gowdy, Barbara and Randy Johnson, Jacqueline O'Gorman, and Beverlee Miller Raymond – will be on hand to enjoy the affair, along with emcee Michael Williams, WPTV News Anchor, and lively auctioneer Bob Nichols.
Holy Ground Shelter provides a home and hope to homeless pregnant and parenting teen girls and their children. Through this long-term and multi-faceted program, teen mothers learn responsible living, parenting, and essential life skills, while they complete high school and transition to college or vocational school, always with the on-going support and guidance of a team of trained, adult female mentors. While in the program, the girls work part-time and contribute part of their income toward rent and utilities. The goal of the program is to teach the women to be self-sufficient, healthy and productive community members.
Tickets to the luncheon and auction are $75 per person. Please place your ticket order before Jan. 18. For more information, contact Jan Kranich at 561-512-2650, or go to holygroundpbc.org/events/. To order tickets, call 561-355-5040.
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FTC charges marketer with fraudulent practices
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a complaint against an online marketer for allegedly debiting consumers' bank accounts without their consent. The charges assert that consumers were charged for things they didn't want when they visited a website seeking a payday loan.
Borrower beware
Payday loans can be a helpful resource for resolving temporary debt issues from time to time. But, just as in using any financial service, a consumer needs to be cautious of predators. The FTC says a recent probe has landed some of those predators before of a federal judge.
FTC charges fraudulent practices
According to an FTC press release Monday, the defendants have been charged with violating the FTC Act by misusing consumers' financial information and charging consumers without their consent. The complaint names Direct Benefits Group LLC, also doing business as Direct Benefits Online and Unified Savings; Voice Net Global LLC, also doing business as Thrifty Dial; Solid Core Solutions Inc.; WKMS Inc.; Kyle Wood; and Mark Berry.
Misuse of consumers' information
The defendants operated several websites, such as juniperloans.com and mypaydayangel.com. According to the FTC, when consumers first visited one of the sites seeking a payday loan, they were asked for their personal information, such as social security, driver's license and bank account numbers. Near the end of the form, however, was a button to opt out of other unrelated offers for services such as travel discounts and Internet access. Often, consumers would click "submit" and be unwittingly entered into programs they did not want. Charges started at $59.90 a month and escalated to $99.90 a month.
Not proof of a crime
The FTC further noted that it files a complaint only when it has "reason to believe" that a crime has been committed. The charges do not constitute proof that a law has been violated. That will be decided later in a court of law.
BBB says be informed
When seeking out a payday loan, the Better Business Bureau advises sticking to well-known lenders and always researching a lender before giving any personal information.


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