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Caregivers predict a second wave of death, as Haitians find moments of deliverance amid days of devastation from one of the modern world's worst natural disasters
PORT-AU-PRINCE-Myerline Guillaume was preparing to walk to an evening worship service when she felt the earth move in her two-story home in Port-au-Prince. When she looked up, the sight was horrifying: "The ceiling was coming down on me."
Three hours later, neighbors plucked Guillaume from the rubble in the dark. Her leg was crushed, and so was her spirit: Of 29 family members living in the house, 16 were at home when the 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck on Jan. 12. Nine were dead, including three sisters.
Twelve days later, in Job-like fashion, Guillaume was preparing to worship again. On a thin mattress over concrete in the makeshift clinic of a small church in the nearby town of Cabaret, Guillaume tended to what was left of her amputated leg and her family. Surrounded by her three young children-all suffering from severe leg breaks or open wounds-she clutched a tattered New Testament in her thin hand. Waiting for a morning worship service to begin just outside, she explained: "It's the only thing that brings me comfort."
Alongside shelter, food, water, and medical care, comfort also is in short supply in the shattered streets of the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, despite valiant efforts of hard-working groups to provide aid rapidly under chaotic conditions.
The estimated numbers alone are ghastly:
The dead: 200,000 people (est.).
The injured: 194,000.
The homeless: 1 million.
People living in makeshift camps: 800,000.
People needing food aid: 2 million.
Structures destroyed: 70 percent in the capital; 90 percent in towns close to the epicenter.
The numbers may be hard to grasp, but the sights, sounds, and especially smells of Port-au-Prince give them a stomach-churning reality: Death's odor clings to piles of rubble on roadsides as Haitians pick through the ruins for supplies they could use, discovering also body parts of victims left in the debris. On a busy street near downtown, people crammed along the length of the broken median, setting up camp for the night. Nearby, a stack of partially covered bodies lay waiting for pickup by UN workers.
In the city's once-prized central plaza, the Champs de Mars just across the street from the collapsed Presidential Palace, thousands of Haitians mesh into a squalid tent city, subsisting on food rations from the UN and other aid groups. Not every family makes it to the front of the food lines before the supplies run out or the crowds grow restless and the truck pulls away. Similar scenes unfold in tent cities around the capital and in the countryside, with the overpowering stench of human waste deepening worries that a new health crisis looms if sanitation woes and a lack of latrines persist.
A health crisis also looms for the thousands of Haitians suffering from amputated limbs, serious bone breaks, and severe flesh wounds. Doctors worry that without the proper care, infection and blood clots could usher in a massive second wave of death. Though volunteer doctors have flooded the area, in many places medical supplies run short and hospitals remain overcrowded, forced to turn away patients in need of critical care.
All the while, aid groups clamor to assess the best way to help, as the UN tries to organize a massive but piecemeal relief effort alongside a paralyzed government infamous for its pre-earthquake corruption and ineffectiveness. Haitians remain remarkably calm for the moment, but leaders know that the historically volatile country could quickly turn violent if conditions don't improve.
For now, some of the best immediate help may come from groups working closely with church leaders attuned to their communities' woes and committed to providing both material and spiritual care that Haitians desperately need.
For some large relief groups like Samaritan's Purse, connecting with local churches is central to their strategy for delivering aid. South of the capital in the mountain town of Fermathe, the Boone, N.C.-based group has helped supply relief and doctors to Baptist Haiti Mission, a 60-year-old Christian ministry with a functioning hospital that is providing critical care for hundreds of patients since the quake.
Workers from Samaritan's Purse arrived in Port-au-Prince the day after the quake and began working with a network of church contacts to help with distribution of aid to particularly vulnerable populations.
Few populations are more vulnerable than the thousands of Haitians living in Cité Soleil, one of the largest slums in the capital. The sprawling shantytown has long been notorious for its filthy conditions and dangerous gang wars. The earthquake only deepened the misery, sending thousands into packed tent cities in the baking heat with few resources. Pigs wallow in a nearby riverbed overflowing with rotting trash, and children splash through open sewage.
On a hot afternoon, Jean Claude, an elder at Eglise Chretienne Des Cities, a local church of 1,600, says people are coming to the church's collapsed gate daily, begging for help. The church has little to give and tells people to wait. He says aid groups come only sporadically.
But within 24 hours, Samaritan's Purse was formulating a plan to care for the residents in a tent city a few hundred yards from the church. The team will organize sanitation, clean water, food, and hygiene kits, and point residents to the nearby church for spiritual care, while also providing clean water and other relief in more remote areas outside the capital. For Jean Claude, it's an answer to prayer. He says he's been telling community members: "We will knock, and we know the Lord will open the door."
While international attention remains transfixed on Port-au-Prince, rural towns closer to the epicenter are even harder hit, but see far less aid. In Leogane, a town southwest of Port-au-Prince, some 90 percent of structures are destroyed. While the destruction in Port-au-Prince seems dramatic but random-with intact buildings standing next to collapsed structures-the devastation in Leogane appears complete.
On the side of a rutted road in Leogane, a man holds a sign asking for help. When relief workers ask him what he needs, he appears dazed and disoriented. "I'm dislocated," he mutters. "I need everything."
Villagers at a nearby orphanage need everything as well. The Haitian-run orphanage housed 30 children before the earthquake. A 10-year-old handicapped girl died when the structure collapsed. Franklin Marceus, who lives in the village, leads the way down a rubble-strewn road to show where the children live now: a series of tattered tents on a small patch of treeless land in the searing sun. Nearby, a woman cooks rice for the two dozen children in a small pot over an open fire. With nearly every home in the village destroyed or severely damaged, families can barely care for themselves. What will happen to the orphans? "We really don't know," says Marceus.
Further west in the town of Petit Goave, at least 500 people are dead and hundreds homeless. Under the shade of a few trees, a group of local pastors meet to discuss the need for clean water. As they meet, mangos plunk to the ground, shaken off a tree by a mild aftershock. These frequent aftershocks mean most people in this area-and all over Port-au-Prince-sleep outside, unsure if intact houses are safe to inhabit, compounding the problem of widespread homelessness.
After the meeting, I talk with Gedeon Sanon about what his community needs, but the pastor of a local Apostolic church is already thinking long-term: "The best way for people to help us is to help us do things for ourselves."
Sanon is director of a local group called Haitian Foundation for Assistance and Safe Development of People, a Haitian-run organization aiming to establish educational and agricultural projects for nationals. Before the quake, the group had a 20-year plan. Now they're starting from scratch. But Sanon says the organization's principles of a biblically based work ethic and just government remain the same. And he worries that poorly planned international aid could lead Haitians to rebuild the same problems that have kept them poverty-stricken for 200 years. "We've been receiving outside help for a long time, and things are only worse," he says. "If we can do it, we should do it ourselves."
Sanon, who fled a volatile Haiti with his family in 1990, says his mother calls him "a son of promise." "She promised God if He would spare our lives, she would dedicate me to His service," he says. That's why the pastor returned to Haiti eight years later. "If I am a son of promise, I have to go back," he told his mother. "I have to help the people, and I know the Lord will help me."
Charles Amicy is a son of promise too. The Haitian pastor and founder of Presbyterian Mission in Haiti (PMH), just north of Port-au-Prince in Cabaret, attended Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in South Carolina but returned to Haiti to serve his country with the gospel. His small compound includes a church, a school for 500 children, and an orphanage for 12.
These days the focal point of the compound is the makeshift clinic where Guillaume, the injured and bereaved mother of three, is seeking treatment. When I visited 11 days after the quake, three volunteer doctors and two nurses from Flying Doctors of America-a group that sends medical personnel into remote areas-were treating nearly 20 patients sprawled on twin mattresses on the cement floor of the church.
The injuries were grim: amputated legs, amputated arms, broken femur bones, severe flesh wounds. Though the doctors could manage the patient load, they were running low on critical supplies, partly because donated items from different countries didn't fit together. In one case, doctors rigged a catheter for an 11-year-old girl by duct taping together a Belgian tube and a German tube, and draining it into an open vegetable oil jug.
In another case, the doctors performed a painful procedure without anesthesia on a malnourished and dehydrated 6-year-old boy who was near death when he arrived at the clinic. Desperate to find an elusive vein for an I.V., they drove a needle through the bone in his tiny leg, cut an incision near the back of his bony foot, and finally went through a major vein in his neck as the lethargic child whimpered in pain. Nothing worked.
After two agonizing hours, a fresh group of doctors arrived at the compound with a simple remedy the clinic lacked: Pedialyte. With a tube running through his nose and down his throat, the small boy appeared to process the fluid, but his long-term prognosis remained tenuous.
The long-term prognosis remains tenuous for other patients as well. Most have come here from hospitals in Port-au-Prince on pastor Amicy's white school bus. The pastor drives doctors to hospitals in the city to pick up patients who need urgent care for serious wounds. In many cases, overloaded hospitals discharge such patients with nowhere to go. But many of the patients arrive at the PMH clinic still needing skin grafts or surgery for broken femurs and other wounds. Though a U.S. Navy helicopter evacuated six critical children, more remain with serious needs. When the doctors take patients to other hospitals in the capital to seek surgery, they say they are usually turned away.
One of the volunteer doctors, Jim Tierney, a pulmonologist from Boston, worries that more patients here and in similar clinics all over the city will die from complications like blood clots that are normally preventable: "It's a simple injection, twice a day, that takes three minutes," he says. "But we don't have it." Within 12 hours of my arrival at the clinic, two patients had died, possibly from blood clots.
On a bright Sunday morning, the doctors wrapped one of those patients in a white sheet and carried her to the back of the compound until a local morgue could retrieve her body. A woman next to her with a similar injury wailed, fearing a similar fate. More wailing would come with the difficult task that each morning at the clinic brings: dressing changes.
As doctors peeled away layers of gauze, some patients shouted and cried in pain. A boy with an open foot wound grimaced as doctors cleaned an area with two bones sticking out. Another woman's open wound at the bottom of an amputated leg revealed a protruding bone. A 13-year-old girl suffered a face laceration that had ripped off her ear and damaged a major nerve.
As the painful work went on, members of the local congregation lined up benches next to the church so patients could hear the worship service through the open doors and windows. As the church service began, a new sound swallowed the cries and wails in the clinic: the patients singing hymns with the outdoor congregation.
Some lifted amputated limbs in the air, and the Creole singing reverberated off the concrete walls: "The only friend I have is God/This friend always knows my trouble/His love always comforts me/His hand always dries my tears/Sweet Jesus/Sweet Jesus."
Though the clinic will eventually close, Amicy says he is preparing for construction projects and a new wave of orphans. The UN estimates thousands of children have lost one or more parents, or are separated from their families. "The people of Haiti know suffering. They grew up in it. They are going to die in it with no hope at all because nobody seems to care for them," he says. "We will care for them."
After the church service, members of the congregation visited patients, and doctors cared for Guillaume, helping her move outside. As she leaned on crutches with her amputated leg, a small group outside sang a different song: "Every step I take, Jesus will help me."
Though the work is indescribably hard, Amicy describes the scene in the hospital as a picture of how Christ cares for broken souls. He is glad his church can provide such a ministry. "We wanted to preach the gospel to Port-au-Prince," he says. "But we never expected this."
Traumatic history
1957: Voodoo physician Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier seizes power in military coup. After his death in 1971, his son Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" takes over.
1986: Mounting protests force Baby Doc to seek exile in France.
1988: Leslie Manigat wins presidential election, but is soon ousted by military coup.
1990: Former Roman Catholic priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide becomes Haiti's first freely elected president.
1991: Aristide is ousted in a military coup that triggers a mass exodus of Haitians.
1993: UN Security Council approves and deploys peacekeeping mission to Haiti.
1994: U.S. intervention spurs the military regime to relinquish power and Aristide returns.
1996: René Préval becomes president.
1998: Hurricane Georges claims the lives of more than 400 people and wipes out 80 percent of Haiti's crops.
2000: Aristide wins a second presidential term.
2003: Voodoo becomes an official religion in Haiti.
2004: Violent uprisings in February sparked by allegations of election fraud force Aristide into exile; an interim rebel government takes control. In May, flooding in the south leaves more than 2,000 dead or missing.
2006: Préval returns as president.
2008: Soaring food prices incite riots in April, spurring the government to cut rice prices in an emergency move to halt unrest. Hurricanes Fay, Gustav, Hanna, and Ike strike Haiti in August-September, killing nearly 800 people and wiping out 70 percent of the country's crops. In November, faulty construction causes a Petionville school to collapse, killing nearly 100 children and adults.
2010: A 7.0 magnitude earthquake rocks Haiti on Jan. 12, toppling buildings and burying thousands of people in the rubble. Estimates are that more than 200,000 people may have perished.
Related coverage:
'Still in shock' | Haiti is hit by a massive earthquake followed by aftershocks, with an epicenter near the capital, Port-au-Prince | Mindy Belz and Jamie Dean | Jan. 12, 2010
Helping Haiti | WORLD provides a list of relief organizations accepting donations to assist earthquake victims in Haiti | The Editors | Jan. 13, 2010
Search and rescue | U.S. disaster experts, the U.S. military, and private relief groups head to earthquake-devastated Haiti | Mindy Belz | Jan. 13, 2010
In the dark | Haitian-Americans hope to contact loved ones and quickly send aid back home to family and friends | Alisa Harris | Jan. 13, 2010
Weeping and waiting | Haitian earthquake victims await help, but obstacles slow relief efforts | Jamie Dean | Jan. 14, 2010
Desperation | Too many Haitians are in a holding pattern awaiting aid, as relief organizations try to make progress | Jamie Dean | Jan. 15, 2010
Long night | With tens of thousands of casualties, Haitians weep and wait for morning | Jamie Dean | Jan. 15, 2010
Deliverance | A group of orphans arrive safely in Pittsburgh while relief organizations report progress in Haiti | Mindy Belz | Jan. 19, 2010
Crying for help | Hard-pressed Haitians seek assistance as aid groups face logistical challenges | Jamie Dean | Jan. 21, 2010
Leaving Port | Beyond the capital city are rural communities equally devastated by the quake and in need of help | Jamie Dean | Jan. 22, 2010
The new normal | As life and death continue their morbid mingling, relief groups forge ahead to help | Jamie Dean | Jan. 22, 2010
Finding home | Now that search-and-rescue efforts have been called off, attention turns to providing shelter for survivors | Jamie Dean | Jan. 23, 2010
Chaotic aid | Relief groups attempt to help Haitians despite murky rules, government interference, and the lack of a cohesive plan | Jamie Dean | Jan. 28, 2010
Homecoming | For Haitians orphaned before the quake, it means leaving home and starting over | Alisa Harris | Jan. 29, 2010
Crisis giving | Instant need calls for long-term strategy | Rusty Leonard | Jan. 29, 2010
An indecent grief | First lamentations, then comfort that strengthens more than soothes | Mindy Belz | Jan. 29, 2010
Hope for Haiti? (audio file) | Hear WORLD news editor Jamie Dean discuss her visit to the earthquake-ravaged country | Nick Eicher | Feb. 1, 2010
Despair and salvation | While the UN grapples with unruly crowds, The Salvation Army peacefully distributes food | Jamie Dean | Feb. 2, 2010
Crossing lines | Failing to heed sound advice, 10 Americans now find themselves facing kidnapping charges in Haiti | Jamie Dean | Feb. 4, 2010
Haiti's plight (audio file) | A discussion of the country's days of devastation and moments of deliverance | Jamie Dean | Feb. 5, 2010
Stress management | Helping Haitians recover takes zeal-with wisdom | Jamie Dean | Feb. 12, 2010
Taking charge | In quake aftermath, build new cities, says Haitian ambassador (and Bible translator) Raymond Joseph | Mindy Belz | Feb. 12, 2010
Houses of God | Grand-Goave, Haiti | The Editors | Feb. 12, 2010
Living water | Water Missions International offers long-term solutions for clean, drinkable water | Angela Lu | Feb. 13, 2010
Building blocks | While Christian Aid Ministries provides for the immediate needs of quake victims, it looks ahead to helping the country rebuild | Angela Lu | Feb. 16, 2010
Close quarters | ActionAid helps homeless Haitians deal with sanitation and security issues at camps set up in Port-au-Prince | Angela Lu | Feb. 23, 2010
Hardest hit | With nearly half a million orphaned children before the quake, Haiti's challenge to parent them just got bigger | Jamie Dean | Feb. 26, 2010
The search for miracles | Port-au-Prince is a city desperately seeking turnaround-and that's before the earthquake | Jamie Dean | March 12, 2010
Hope in the darkness | World Hope International offers Haitians practical assistance and spiritual guidance | Angela Lu | March 24, 2010
Night crawlers | A new disaster threatens defenseless women and children in Haitian tent cities: rape | Jamie Dean | March 25, 2010
Homecoming | Missionary Patrick Lataillade, who nearly died in the quake, returned to help Haitians this week | Angela Lu | March 27, 2010
Hashing out Haiti | As the UN makes recovery plans, Haitians struggle for the basic necessities for survival | Jamie Dean | March 31, 2010


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Fine art print on bright white, fine poly-cotton blend, matte canvas using latest generation Epson archival inks. Individually trimmed and hand stretched museum wrap over 1-1/2" deep wood stretcher bars. Includes wall hanging hardware.
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With the holiday season upon us, I hope you will be able to spend time with the people that make your life happier and more meaningful. Whether it's an office get-together or family gathering, this is a special time for being with loved ones, family, and friends.
This is also a time of year that inspires us to look back on what we have accomplished together. Each day I'm impressed and humbled by the work you do for our country. The dedication you show to implementing the President's nuclear security agenda and keeping the American people safe is unmatched, and you have my deepest gratitude for the professionalism and thoughtfulness with which you do it.
This year brought some of the most complex issues we have ever faced. From our response in Japan to the dismantlement of the last B53, you rose to the challenges that came our way and proved once again that NNSA has one of the most talented and diligent workforces in the Federal government. I know that 2012 will bring more even more opportunities for us to achieve great things together.
I would be remiss if I didn't take the opportunity to remind you that the deadline for the 2011 Combined Federal Campaign is quickly approaching. If you would like to participate, it's not too late. NNSA regularly has one of the highest participation rates in the Federal government, and the dedication you have shown to your work has been surpassed only by your dedication to helping those in need.
Neile and I wish each of you a safe and enjoyable holiday season, and look forward to the work we will do together in 2012.
NNSA celebrates the contributions of the men and women working across the nuclear security enterprise who have given back to their communities during this holiday season. Employees have found countless ways to make this holiday season more cheerful by collecting food, shoes, and coats, or by lending a helping hand to the less fortunate in their communities. NNSA employees have also participated in various charitable campaigns that help families in their local communities.
NNSA Giving Highlights Include:
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Headquarters – Forrestal/Germantown
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Lawrence Livermore
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Nevada Site Office and NSTec
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NNSA Defense Programs recently collected items for the Toys for Tots program. Nearly 20 large boxes of new and unwrapped toys were collected from throughout Forrestal Building. Don Cook, Deputy Administrator for NNSA's Defense Programs, presented the toys to the Marines at the annual Defense Programs holiday party. Dr. Cook thanked everyone who participated in the program and commended the Marines for their continued service to the nation and for their commitment in providing toys to children who might not have otherwise receive toys during the holiday season.
Since 1947, the Toys for Tots program through the U.S. Marine Corps has distributed more than 420 million toys to more than 196 million underprivileged children. In 2010, Marines distributed toys to more than 7.2 million children.
A National Criticality Experiments Research Center (NCERC) historical milepost was accomplished on schedule and safely when Flattop was successfully started up at the Nevada National Security Site. Flattop is the third of four critical assembly machines operated as part of NCERC to be brought online. Activities are ongoing to startup the last machine, Godiva, in 2012. These machines (Comet, Planet, Flattop and Godiva) operated by the NNSA led DOE Nuclear Criticality Safety Program will be used to train personnel on criticality safety and conduct various experiments providing precise nuclear data for Nuclear Counter Terrorism, Stockpile Stewardship, and criticality safety.
When Administrator D'Agostino extended the challenge to build a single, integrated enterprise through the OneNNSA initiative, we laid out an aggressive plan to update and leverage the existing information technology (IT) infrastructure. This strategy consists of three pillars that when functioning together will create an advanced, secure and agile network.The first of these three strategic pillars is the NNSA Network Vision (2NV). 2NV will modernize the current environment by providing a secure, mobile and adaptive IT infrastructure allowing the workforce to perform their duties from any device at any time. 2NV will remove barriers to collaboration, connect employees, and appeal to future employees within the Nuclear Security Enterprise. As its own pillar, 2NV offers three new facets: OneVoice, YourCloud, and the OneNNSA Network. Here is a breakdown of features each will provide:OneVoice
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We're already making strides in delivering these capabilities to the NNSA. This project is set to wrap in late 2012 and will lead the way to a secure and mobile IT infrastructure. Stay tuned for updates and more information about OneVoice, powered by YourCloud, on the OneNNSA Network.
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Recently, the IAEA organized a workshop on Sealing, Containment and Authentication Technologies, held in Vienna, Austria from November 9-11, 2011. The workshop's goal was to identify technologies that could be used in nuclear facilities to monitor doors and gates guarding nuclear material and activities, protect cabinets and equipment from unauthorized access, perform remote monitoring and tamper detection, and track container shipments worldwide. A photo of an existing IAEA seal technology is shown here.
The workshop hosted a team of independent and international experts to identify developing and existing commercial products that may be valuable to meet these challenges. DOE national laboratories, with support from NIS and the U.S. Support Program for IAEA Safeguards, participated and provided technology concepts and expert reviewers for the workshop. The review team selected several promising technologies for the IAEA's consideration for further testing and evaluation.
Through this and other efforts, NIS is applying its unique technical and policy expertise to achieve the President's vision of reducing nuclear dangers and creating a world without nuclear weapons.
The Association of University Research Parks presented its 2011 Innovation Award to the small, minority-owned business TEAM Technologies Inc. of Albuquerque, N.M., for commercialization of a Sandia National Laboratories technology that uses water to disable improvised explosive devices.The technology — TEAM licensed it as "Stingray" — was invented by Steve Todd and Juan Carlos Jakaboski, both Sandia employees, and Chance Hughs, a former Sandia employee. The device, which shoots a thin blade of water capable of penetrating steel, is placed near a suspected bomb or package and shreds or punches a hole in it before it detonates.The device is small enough to be carried in a soldier's backpack and rugged enough to be placed by a robot. The licensing agreement between Sandia and TEAM, which is located in the Sandia Science & Technology Park, allowed the business to advance the device's design and bring it to market.AURP said the Stingray is a dramatic improvement in water disruption tool technology, and is already being used in warzones by the military against IEDs placed where they can kill or maim troops. TEAM manufactured and shipped more than 8,000 of the units to Afghanistan and 2,000 to U.S. government and law enforcement agencies. The company credits its location in the Sandia Science & Technology Park with helping it collaborate with Sandia and grow as a business.The 16th Annual AURP Awards of Excellence, presented Dec. 1 in New Orleans, recognize the achievements of outstanding research parks and industry veterans and encourages the development of best practices among research and science parks.
National Security Technologies and WSI Nevada Team employees have come together once again for the Southern Nevada and Nye County communities. More than 25 barrels overflowing with toys and 86 bicycles were donated this year to the Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots program.
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Drew a Unit 37 Elk November tag. I haven't hunted that unit before, looks like a lot of public land. Don't want to take anyone's honey hole, just seeing if anybody has hunted and what to expect? Thx
Also heard the wolves took a toll there, should I pick up a tag or two?


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Video: 11Alive demands fix after sewage floods Peoplestown | 1 of 2
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Video: Peoplestown calls on mayor to fix repeated sewage floods
Video: Reed tours Peoplestown promises repair
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ATLANTA -- Every time it rains hard, the same Atlanta neighborhood floods with water and sewage. 11Alive News spent the week in Peoplestown and took a stand for the community. We took residents' concerns and the outrage you expressed in our petitions to Mayor Kasim Reed, who is now promising a fix.
"Can we get a commitment from your today that you will come up with a permanent solution, not just pay these people for damaged property, but fix the underlying problem?" 11Alive's Devin Fehely asked Mayor Reed on an impromptu tour of Peoplestown Monday.
"My commitment is that I'm going to find a remedy that is fair and acceptable to the people that live here," Reed said. "I need more time so that I know that when I give an answer, I can stand behind it. I don't come out and make quick promises or commitments, because I take my promises very seriously."
RELATED | Storm water, raw sewage flood Atlanta homes
Every single neighbor along a stretch of Atlanta Avenue and Ormond Street has a story about how the routine flooding has affected their lives.
National Guardsmen Adam Bellinger lost another car last week: "I had to have my neighbors next door come and help me push the car and float it back into my yard."
Carpenter Michael Sink lost business: "We keep an eye on those two manhole covers and if they start to geyser, then we run down and move everything."
Homeowner Christina Nixon lost a fence: "It all just collapsed. You can see it laying right there."
But mostly, this Peoplestown neighborhood has lost patience.
Crystal Perkins just moved into the neighborhood. "This is the time where we should be enjoying our home and getting to know our neighborhood," she said, getting choked up and looking away. She just realized she owns a home that gets flooded by overflow sewage about once a year. The week of Friday the 13th was especially unlucky: they were flooded twice.
The city sewer line that runs behind Atlanta Avenue and Ormond Street doesn't just flood -- it erupts. "It looks like a volcano," long-time resident Gary Lamb said.
Janet Ward of the Atlanta Watershed Department spoke with 11Alive News on Friday. She said the city has sent employees three times since Monday to survey the post-flood damage.
The city has said that while there is evidence of flooding, it believes it is storm water runoff rather than raw sewage, and claim that during each visit, the surveyor has seen no evidence of sewage.
Homeowners, however, disagree. Ninety percent of the city's sewer system is separated with different pipes carrying sewage and storm water. Peoplestown is included in the other 10 percent. A press release sent out by the city confirms "The affected area is served by the City's combined sewer system."
"It's obvious from the smell and from the sight that it isn't just clean water and that it is, in fact, sewage," said resident William Joiner.
Homeowner Kevin Lynch tried to catch proof Wednesday night, and in a flash of lightning, you can see it: water gushing out of the concrete sewer cover behind his house. The force is so explosive that, for the second time this week, the heavy cover was pushed off. Manhole covers were disrupted in several places down the line. Yards, garages, and homes flooded.
Residents have been trying to get the problem fixed for more than a decade.
Thursday morning, neighbors told 11Alive News that the city refused to send clean up help. That afternoon, the Department of Watershed Management sent us a one-line statement: "The City has made its cleanup contractor available to all affected property owners".
It was good news for those who don't have flood insurance. But it doesn't fix the reoccurring problem.
"We're disgusted by the smell of it. We're disgusted by the expense. We're disgusted by the disruption to our lives. We want the mayor to step up and accept responsibility," Lynch said. "Mayor Reed may not have created this problem, but he needs to be a leader and fix it now."
RELATED | City says it's working on a fix, residents doubtful
At a community meeting Saturday, representatives from the Department of Watershed Management told residents they didn't know much about the problem, but they had a lot of people working on it.
A watershed Deputy Commissioner was the highest ranking official present, so 11Alive News went to him for answers.
"You've been asking when, I can guarantee you a year, you will have a root cause of what exactly is going on," Reginald Wells said.
"So it won't be fixed, you'll just find out what the problem is?" 11Alive's DeMarco Morgan asked.
"We'll have a fix, a root cause, and a path forward. Because that could include changing a number of things to the community."
All week long, members of the larger metro Atlanta community have voiced their anger and frustration over the problem in Peoplestown with our online petitions. Monday afternoon, we delivered those petitions to Mayor Reed.
"These are people who want something done," 11Alive's Duffie Dixon said, handing the petitions to the mayor. "We've solicited these and more are coming in, and we're going to give these to you whenever we get them."
"I want to thank you for your coverage because it's helped us focus on it," Reed said, flipping through the pages in Peoplestown. "It's helped draw attention that was needed, and it's one of the reasons that I'm here. But we've been working on it, we've gotta do more. So I want every single one of these complaints. I'll be able to read them, and then I'm going to come back and meet with the people that have been affected."
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The Cherokee Triangle - given historic recognition in 1972 - filled its streets and lawns with this year's 41st annual art fair. With great weather and our fantastic neighbors the fair was full of families and groups of friends with a good time seemingly had by all. Besides socializing, the displays of goods from local artist and designers were amazing. I fell in love with one craftsman's leather accessories and could not leave her tent empty handed. I love any occasion that brings our diverse community together, especially one supporting our homegrown creative talents!
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The B. Traven Collections at the UC Riverside Library
This exhibition of items drawn from UCR Library's Special Collections & University Archives, including the Archive of Ret Marut & Der Ziegelbrenner and the Gerd Heidemann Collection, was on display from March 1 through August 31, 2006 at Special Collections, University of California, Riverside Library. Curator of the exhibition and creator of the website: Heidi L. Hutchinson.
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Enigmatic author B. Traven lived in Mexico, wrote in German and kept his identity a closely-guarded secret. UC Riverside Library's Special Collections has one of the world's finest collections of published and unpublished materials by and about Traven.


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Women Pilots in Afghanistan Up In The Air
As U.S. and NATO forces have begun to withdraw from Afghanistan, problems previously manageable for the Afghan air force have become serious concerns, with no resolution in sight. As of June, the majority of their helicopters joined already grounded cargo planes deemed unfit to fly due to maintenance and safety issues such as missing parts, a lack of spare parts, and generally just being old. | Read More »


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1956 Chevrolet Truck Bolt-Ons - Professor Hammer's Metalworking TipsWritten by on May 21, 2010
Q. I'm building a '56 Chevy truck. This will be a driver, but I want to give it some unique character underhood. Do you have any ideas for dressing up an engine or the engine compartment?
James Arrington
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A. Well, the sky is the limit here. You can certainly buy a lot of bolt-on accessories to enhance the engine compartment, like finned aluminum valve covers and air cleaners, as one example. You can get catalogs from many of the advertisers in this magazine that will list literally thousands of items you can use to dress up your engine compartment.
While these accessories are great, if you want something that nobody else has, you might consider going in a completely different direction. Many trucks that are being built in a modern style make use of a custom-fabricated cover for the top of the engine, which can be painted the color of the body or a contrasting color. While I am always interested in beautiful custom-fabricated sheetmetal pieces, in many cases, I prefer seeing the mechanical complexity of the engine, with all of the components detailed in an unusual manner.
Just to get your creative juices going, you'll see a picture here that shows an alternator that has been given a totally unique treatment, by drilling a pattern of holes in graduated sizes. I saw this at a recent car show, and didn't get the builder's name, but this is just one example of how you can give your truck a completely unique look by going in a direction a bit different from the norm.
Q. Ron, I have a '48 Chevy 3100 truck I traded for doing some TIG welding. The body is nice, but someone who thought they knew what they were doing welded a Nova front suspension onto this frame. They got it off center and notched it out for the Nova steering box, taking away the roll in the frame as well.
I have a '92 Camaro chassis, and I could graft the front clip of it onto into the truck frame. I have a lengthened fire truck chassis, but would like some proper input on tackling this, for safety sake. I have numerous years in metal fabrication, doing industrial and structural welding (emergency service apparatus manufacturing and repair) so I am confident I could tackle this.
The other route is to make my own frame from 2x3x3/16 tube. What would you do, and how would one go about this correctly? Any input would be appreciated. I look forward to your articles; they challenge my knowledge and skill.
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A. I don't know how close the '92 Camaro frame is to matching the frame of your '48 truck. The key here is to select a clip that has a fairly close match, with both framerails being nearly the same width. While you can add enough steel to bridge virtually any mismatch, it's better to start with a clip that is reasonably close to the dimensions of the original frame.
When grafting on any newer frame clip to an older frame, there will be a certain amount of mismatch. Newer framerails are generally wider than the earlier C-section frames, and standard procedures of adding gussets and fishplates can safely accommodate small discrepancies. I'd imagine the same techniques you use on a fire truck chassis would be adequate for your current project.
As far as making a new frame, that's probably going to be more work, but the advantage is that you can position the rails exactly where you want for whatever engine, drivetrain, and suspension systems you want to use. The standard size for most aftermarket truck frames is 2x6 inches. In certain situations 2x4 tubing might work near the ends of the chassis, but 2x3 simply isn't up to snuff.
Of course you want your frame modifications to be completely safe, since any failure of the frame, or the suspension clip you're adding can have severe consequences, and cause the driver to lose control of the vehicle, endangering anybody in harm's way!
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Mr. Chairman, I join you in welcoming Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, whom I commend for his leadership as Chair-in-Office of the OSCE as well as for his leadership in promoting Bulgaria's integration into the Euro-Atlantic community.
Minister Passy has outlined a realistic agenda for this year focusing on the practical implementation of key strategies agreed at the Maastricht Ministerial to address conflicts, enhance practical security and promote tolerance.
I particularly appreciate the support given by the Bulgarian Government to our efforts to move the OSCE and its member participating States to respond to the rise in anti-Semitic violence that spiked some 18 months ago. The Berlin Conference on anti-Semitism is being held under the auspices of the Bulgarian Chair-in-Office, and I am very much looking forward to this important meeting it will building on the work undertaken last year at last year's meeting on anti-Semitism in Vienna, which Minister Passy personally attended.
In advance of the Berlin meeting, the United States has urged all participating States to fulfill the Maastricht Ministerial Council decision, and forward to the OSCE's Office on Democratic Institutions and Human Rights information on existing legislation regarding crimes fuelled by intolerance and discrimination, as well as statistical information on these crimes. It is important that the participating States transmit this information to ODIHR as soon as possible, so that it can inform our discussion at the Berlin meeting in April. I hope the Bulgarian Government will lead by example in this regard.
Along similar lines, I look forward to active engagement at the Brussels meeting on Racism, Xenophobia and Discrimination in September. Violent attacks against Roma and other minorities and widespread discrimination against them underscores the need for continued vigilance in the is area.
I also hope that the parliament will consider amending the problematic Law on Religions, as key provisions are out of step with OSCE norms.
As the chief sponsor of two OSCE Parliamentary Assembly resolutions on the North Caucasus, I have followed the issue of Chechnya closely. We were disappointed when the Russian delegation withheld consensus on the mission mandate at the end of 2002. We've read reports of your recent meeting in Moscow with Foreign Minister Ivanov, and look forward to any thoughts you may wish to share on a renewed role for OSCE in Chechnya.
As Chair of the Parliamentary Assembly's Committee on Economic Affairs, Science, Technology and Environment, I am pleased that the OSCE Ministerial Council, during its meeting in Maastricht last December, adopted a Strategy Document for the Economic and Environmental Dimension, the first major elaboration of OSCE economic goals and activities since the 1990 Bonn Document. This well thought out document provides a solid basis for the work of our Committee, and I look forward to working with you to enhance this important dimension of the OSCE. I believe that it is vital that the OSCE build institutional and human capacity and the rule of law in order to strengthen the economies and societies of the participating States, and to stimulate both domestic and foreign investment.
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Looking at the DataViewer example and more precisely the DvListView class.
Why does the function DvListView.prototype._createItemHtml create a new html table for each row ? Would it be possible to have only 1 html table for the whole listView and get the same behavior ?
Once I'm done, I'd like to have something similar to the first attached image below.
I'd want to have a tree on the left, containing nodes with complex data. I'd like to have the red lines on the image being sash so I could resize the view depending on the size of the data. Of course, if a tree node collapses, all the information of its node needs to be hidden.
I am still asking myself what would be the best solution and you might be able to help me since you have a bigger experience. I was thinking of making a Composite that would hold a DwtTree and right next to it, put a DwtListView. I would also put a DwtSash between the Tree and the ListView, as shown in the second attached file ?
What do you think ? Is there an easier/simpler way of doing the same thing ?
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Big thanks to Nike again for sending over a preview of world no. 1 Rafael Nadal's newest, limited-edition duds for the US Open - so exciting!
The sexy Spaniard has moved towards a more buttoned up look for the Slam, favoring sleeves over sleeveless and shorter shorts while still channeling his trademark flair. Rafa was heavily involved in the evolution of his latest look + style and even invited the Nike design team to Majorca for the collaboration.
Rafa will be working the surfing rashguard-inspired Rafa Polo Reinvent ($60) in orange blaze/chlorine blue/concord/white which features seams strategically placed to reduce friction or pull, mesh side panels for breathability and range of motion, and a tonal grid pattern for texture.
The Polo Reinvent is paired with Rafa's Short Reinvent ($55) in white which "incorporates the best of boardshort design to produce a silhouette that moves with him--from baseline to net--without chaffing or bunching up" (hint, hint Rafa.) Elements include a no-sew, surf inspired waistband, bonded velcro fastenings, and a shorter length signed off and approved by the Spaniard himself.
Here's the kicker folks: only 500 of the pieces were made and will only be sold at Niketown - NYC, Nike.com, or the on-site Nike booth at the US Open. Get 'em while they're hot!
I'm loving this new direction - it's fresh, innovative, and most importantly wearable. Clearly the Majorcan Matador wants to be more involved in how the "Rafa brand" is presented and that can only be good news for him.
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Thursday, August 21, 2008
FASHION FIX: Preview of Rafa's Nike limited-edition US Open style
Big thanks to Nike again for sending over a preview of world no. 1 Rafael Nadal's newest, limited-edition duds for the US Open - so exciting!
Labels: fashion, Nike, polo shirt, preview, Rafael Nadal, shorts, style, tennis, US Open
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this is rafa's us open outfit?!?!? it looks good, and i know it would look great on rafa...it's just....too many changes, too little time!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2008 at 7:47 PM
Well this is a huge huge surprise! And it's a great shade of orange! Not like the painful tangerine on nole's summer outfit! People have been speculating that rafa will just wear a red version of the sleeveless shirt with the claw design paired with black shorts...but this is a major change! sleeves! shorter shorts! what's next? A US OPEN trophy!???!!!!ReplyDelete
apart from the long shorts, it looks so rogerish..ReplyDelete
- Rafa-tartAugust 21, 2008 at 8:23 PM
i don't know guys..i'm a lil nervous about this change.I kinda prefer the sleeveless Rafa.This is a bit Roger-sque.ReplyDelete
Like Rich said, 'too many changes.'I can only cope with one at the moment.
gawd, Rafa, slow down just a bit..im having a hard time keeping up with him nowadays..between keepin up with the many titles he's winning now i have to try and keep note of what he's wearing.. usually i'll jst browse thru the sleeveless guys and try to spot the one with devine biceps.
- Rafa-tartAugust 21, 2008 at 8:24 PM
i don't know guys..i'm a lil nervous about this change.I kinda prefer the sleeveless Rafa.This is a bit Roger-sque.ReplyDelete
Like Rich said, 'too many changes.'I can only cope with one at the moment.
gawd, Rafa, slow down just a bit..im having a hard time keeping up with him nowadays..between keepin up with the many titles he's winning now i have to try and keep note of what he's wearing.. usually i'll jst browse thru the sleeveless guys and try to spot the one with devine biceps.
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2008 at 8:42 PM
i agree with rafa-tartReplyDelete
ah this "branding" business
oh c'mon guys - change is good.ReplyDelete
first of all, the sleeveless look is SO overdone. sure it shows off his great arms but other than that it's boring at this point. secondly, i can't see fed wearing that color or design - it has a streetwear vibe. fed's style leans more towards clean and classic, no surprises, tried and true.
i think it's a great start for his evolution. personally, i'm glad i won't see a 26, 27 year old rafa still working the biceps and pirate look. *yawn*
I'm seeing spots... This... is... unexpected.ReplyDelete
What's totally great about this: The outfit looks slammin'. Rafa was more involved in the design process (which again proves my point that he is SO stylish). It's a change, which shows maturity. And he will look so undescribably good in this.
What makes me cry just a little bit: almost every player is wearing polos (including Rog) - hopefully he doesn't get too mainstream. I always loved about him that he was different. But let's see the polo when he wears it. Probably it's still extravagant enough. And I hope he doesn't go all marketing. Another thing I love about him is that he didn't seem to care about stuff like that. And most importantly: what'll happen with the BULGING BICEPS???
Ahhhh so many thoughts... so little time....
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2008 at 2:06 AM
I was just thinking that, Rich! Rafa said before when he was asked about the sleeveless getup, and he said he was still young and the look was I guess still age-appropriate. It was just a question of when he'll retire the pirate look and look like a grown up. And this year's US OPEN is just the perfect timing, most especially because this is the first major he'll be seeded AND ranked #1. I agree that the look is a bit preppy, but the design just has enough pizzazz to it that it's very much Rafa.ReplyDelete
And to those girls (and boys) who love Rafa's biceps, check out the photos of Nike's promotional gig in NY with Don King, Rafa's biceps are still pretty much exploding...Check out the Spaniard's left arm....Roger looks almost ashamed to be raising his arms alongside rafa hahahaha.
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2008 at 3:37 AM
Rafa hasn't a own style.ReplyDelete
I have to say I like the outfit itself, and I LUVZ orange, so squee.ReplyDelete
About Rafa wearing it though, I think I'll have to see him in the getup 1st to decide. I agree I can't see a 26 year old wearing the pirate look, so I guess this is coming sooner or later.
I think the shirt would look better without that pocket thing. Imho.
- fifth avenueAugust 22, 2008 at 5:30 AM
HORRENDOUS! What ARE they trying to do to him!ReplyDelete
How can they hold Nadal up as the only tennis player with real style in New York magazine and then scupper everything by dressing him like a dork. This is the kind of preppy shirt Rafa favours off court but NOT what I expect to see him wear on court. Getting rid of the pirate pants in 2007 was bad enough but putting him into a bland polo shirt is just TOO much!
Get rid of those boring new unstylish togs that are only fit for college frats and bring back the stylish swashbuckling Nadal we know and expect, please please Nike.
Bad promotion, bad idea..ReplyDelete
No one likes it on Rafa on-court.With off-court is fine.
interesting commments all around peeps!ReplyDelete
question: how do you feel about the fact that Rafa himself influenced this new style + direction? obviously he wants to change his image, evolve as everyone does. how does it make you guys think about him??
anon 5:06 - many thanks for the tip! The photos are yum!ReplyDelete
It's true though, the sleeves are short enough so there's room for bulging biceps fist pumping fun, hehe.
LOL, Fed did look a bit embarrassed there. On one shot he's like: "Naahhhh let's get MY arms down again, will ya, Don King?" ;-))
Ok, don't get me wrong, I totally like the idea about a special outfit and something different than the usual stuff.ReplyDelete
And I think it's a nice shirt etc. But not for Nadal! This is more an outfit for Federer. What's next, Federer in a sleeveless shirt? :P (Actually, I would laugh my hat off if that happens)
I like Nadal his 'usual' sleeveless shirts soooo much more. I've seen pictures of Rafa wearing polo's off-court and nothing is wrong with it, but on court I don't like it (for him).
This is just not Rafa..He should stay with his sleeveless shirt and his longer pants.
I'm also surprised that he was involved by the designing himself..
(By the way, I'm going to be a Nike-designer, if I will be invited to Mallorca in that way ;) )
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2008 at 7:24 AM
Ok, getting confused here hahahaha! I honestly like the outfit or rafa, but I'm tending to agree more and more with the others about Rafa's established "pirate" image. That's what he's known for and that's what we've grown to love (or hate) about it. I'm honestly not a fan of the pirate look, but mainly because I think no one else will really look good in that sort of getup unless you're rafa. Hey, this might just be a stunt that Nike's pulling on us. I do like the look, but yeah may be that's something he should be wearing for off-court promotions or at least non-professional tennis matches. In the end though, with sleeves or not, here's hoping that Rafa will do well in big apple!ReplyDelete
Federer sleeveless - lol!ReplyDelete
Yeah, actually that's the plan. Fed's going sleeveless and Rafa's going polo. just for the Open. lol. haha, Roger should do it.
"Federer sleeveless - lol!ReplyDelete
Yeah, actually that's the plan. Fed's going sleeveless and Rafa's going polo. just for the Open. lol. haha, Roger should do it."
not with those spindly arms t!
i like that someone out there has a sense of humor about the whole thing.
Blech. Don't mind the sleeves, but I hate orange. And I'll have to look at this outfit the longest, as there's no way Rafa's not winning the Open.ReplyDelete
And no short shorts. *sighs*
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2008 at 8:34 AM
makes me wonder if rafa has been admiring what rogi wears and is actually trying to dress more like him.ReplyDelete
- Uvijek ArgenAugust 22, 2008 at 9:38 AM
I dont know Rich...maybe it was a misunderstanding and he wont wear that in the court, but off the court??ReplyDelete
Here i found pics with him wearing them in "grapple in the apple" presentation.
Pics present it by Lana on her blog.
As a Rafa fan's we all love his existing style I guess. Preppy shirt isn't for Rafa.ReplyDelete
But we'll see if Rafa has a second outfit for the US Open. He has wore this at the Nike campaign. So perhaps there will be another gear, no?
yes uvijek they both debuted what they'll be wearing ON COURT at the Grapple in the Apple.ReplyDelete
DtL was invited to the event - contributor Christina was there to take pics and do a run down of the event for us.
I'll be posting about that later.
Seriously all you die-hard Rafa fans can blame your man for this new direction - he helped design it. It's funny how you guys know him better than he knows himself!!!
- Uvijek ArgenAugust 22, 2008 at 10:09 AM
Oohhh I see ...thanks for the info Rich ; )ReplyDelete
- Uvijek ArgenAugust 22, 2008 at 10:16 AM
Personally I never like the sleevless fashion in tennis. In a USTA open that I played I saw this guy wearing Nadal cloth, and let me tell you that in person that outfit look more like bad casting from Pirate of the caribbean.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2008 at 11:12 AM
Don't like this outfit at all. Hopefully it's not an on-court outfit, but I doubt it. He will look like Roger. Not that that's a bad thing, but he's not like Roger. Just like the established style a lot moreReplyDelete
- GrafightAugust 22, 2008 at 12:18 PM
Carlos Moya wears the same sleeveless styles of Rafa, and he looks ridiculous!ReplyDelete
But Rafa wearing this... I don't know. I wish they'd just change one thing, like the shorts. And then maybe next year, the sleeves.
I just want to know if it really will prevent "chaffing or bunching up". I doubt it, but I do approve of him taking on a new look. If he wants to reinvent himself - then go for it. I think it's a good move, maybe he's trying to gain that Roger-esque sophisticated look and ditch the beefcake? Plus ever since seeing that picture of him as a footballer in the Journey to Beijing book, I've always wondered if he would look less muscly if he wore sleeves on court. I guess now I get to find out! *Claps* And thank you to Kiko for the shirtless Federer comment, which sent me into an amusing reverie of what that would look like!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2008 at 4:15 PM
It's funny how people seem to complain that Rafa's wearing a polo and how he's turned 'mainstream' etc etcReplyDelete
But this is men's fashion we're talking about here...how much variety can you get?
Unless they start wearing kilts or something, it'll probably always be a monotone-coloured polo or sleeveless paired with some length of shorts...
The harsh reality of men's tennis is that, unlike the women, people watch the men for their play, not thier costumes...
I saw this shirt today out at the Nike booth and the color is so much better visually in person. Also the Rafa shirts with his name on the front that they are selling are REALLY orange!!ReplyDelete
I like that he's involved in the process, and if he likes it, then I like it. I do like the sleeveless though. My only gripe is that it comes right as he's number one and it looks so Fed-ish to have a polo on, but I don't really care. I like the shorter shorts. And I don't care if he wears a garbage sack, as long as he wins.
Now bring on the pink! We want on court pink!
anon 7:15, as you are obviously quoting me, I gotta say: I never said he HAS turned mainstream, I said I hope that he WILL NOT. Also, there's a lot you can do with men's fashion - creativity is the key here.ReplyDelete
Of course we watch tennis because of the game, but everything that makes the sport more interesting and additionally appealing is good I think. And fashion does that, at least for me.
Rich, on your earlier question as for Rafa being involved in the design process: I really like it! Actually I think he has been involved before, but maybe not that much. Probably now that he's no. 1 they finally let him get his own gear (as opposed to the Global Power stuff).
And I think he handles it all (the sudden added attention, esp. in the States) really well so far. He doesn't strike me as a guy who gets lost in the marketing machine, he does seem to care about very grounded things as his game and what really counts in life, such as family and home. So hopefully that won't change anytime soon because it's what made his fans love him so much. The pureness. No image, just him.
ok well this is really strange and new and i don't like it much,cause it really reminds me of smth federer would wear,and i don't like him...but i love rafa and i can tell-this won't suit him,but i guess he knows the best and at the end the most important is that he does well at US opEN! Vamos rafa!!! you're the best! no.1!ReplyDelete
- lynney62August 23, 2008 at 7:01 PM
The polo/shorts outfit makes Rafa look like a little kid. His traditional sleeveless shirt/piratas make him look like himself, a 22 yr. old #1 tennis star. Nike flubbed bigtime here if they plan for Rafa to wear this during matches!ReplyDelete
so is this his night outfit? i'm watching his first round match and he's wearing that silly sleeveless shirt again. i'm over looking at those muscles. :)ReplyDelete
yeah i'm watching it too and he's wearing his old summer stuff. maybe it's for night - nike didn't specify whether it was day or night, only that it was what he'd be wearing. i wonder why he'd wear old stuff for his first time as top seed? at least if was going to wear sleeveless he could've worn a new color or something.ReplyDelete
he wore his new stuff yesteday during arthur ashe kids' day. it looked pretty good.
the mystery continues...stay tuned - we'll all see!!!
I'm currently watching His Rafaness, too. I was confused about the old clothing.ReplyDelete
But I like the fact that he seems to be mixing it up. So I get it all: biceps and new style. Yay.
PS: OK Rich you're way better in thinking of nicknames... His Rafaness just came out of nowhere LOL.
looks like he won't wear it until after the us open (breathing sigh of relief).ReplyDelete
see this:
Honestly, I have mixed reactions. Rafa wore the new look at the Arthur Ashe Kid's Day and looked simply smashing!!! The orange gelled well with his spontaniety and agility on the court. And the white was pristine and exuded ease for this funky Spaniard.ReplyDelete
However, his current on-court attire is in someway synonymous with his individuality. He stands apart in the crowd... so RAFAish! :)
I have my own reservations regarding this change in attire. Of course, I trust Rafa to carry on any attire with style and grace... he's such a natural! But completely shifting to that is something that I cant digest... not just as yet!
So unexpectes, i think. but thanks for shareReplyDelete