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I live in the Pacific Northwest, where the weeks after daylight saving time ends can be pretty grim. To combat the dark gray days, I surround myself with color. On my studio table is a big bouquet of fall flowers in a bright yellow pitcher. In the root cellar are piles of rainbow root vegetables and parti-colored squash. And just like I've done before, I'm flipping through memories of red chili ristras and cheerful desert courtyards in my sketchbook, looking forward to the sun's return.
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Hope floats
I spent the whole weekend digging through dozens of old sketchbooks, searching for something I could post as some sort of post-election metaphor. Something that stood for a new day, for rising above the hateful muck we're all slogging through…something. Anything.
Welp. Yeah.
It's corny, I know. On that morning last year I thought seriously about taking artistic license with the flag balloon, since overtly patriotic objects aren't really my style. But for whatever reason, I reported it accurately, keeping it as-is. And now I'm clinging to it as an image, corny or not. I have a feeling that drawing is going to provide a lot of ballast for my little metaphorical balloon in the months and years ahead. Time to relight the fire, and—fair winds or foul—do everything I can to stay afloat.
Criss-cross corner
This post is part of an ongoing series called 66 Fridays, which explores the wonders of old Route 66. Click on the preceding "66 Fridays" link to view all posts in the series, or visit the initial overview post here.
In downtown Albuquerque is an unassuming corner with a curious distinction. This is the place—the only place—where Route 66 intersects itself.
It's not so unusual to have several Route 66-es in the same city—after all, Tulsa has at least three, and St. Louis changed the alignment of the route so many times I've lost track of the number. Yet nowhere else along the Mother Road do two different alignments actually cross each other. You see, when Route 66 was first established in New Mexico in 1926, the logical thing to do was to send the road through the capital city—so off to Santa Fe it went, and then it curved southward to come into Albuquerque from the north. At that time, there was no straight-line route across New Mexico, so travelers coming to Albuquerque from the east had no choice but to take that winding, partial-dirt, mountainous road through the capital first. But then, quite suddenly, all that changed: just a few years later, a new 66 cut an arrow-straight path into Albuquerque from the east and bypassed Santa Fe entirely. (And today many people have no idea that 66 ever went to Santa Fe at all.)
Like everything else along Route 66, there's a story behind this. The short version is this: Arthur T. Hannett, who was governor of New Mexico when Route 66 was born, lost his reelection bid in 1926, and found himself with an axe to grind. Convinced he had been ousted by a conspiracy on the part of his political opponents at the state capitol, he hatched a scheme to reroute 66 away from Santa Fe in revenge.
The trouble was, he had only a little over a month before his successor would be sworn in. So he ordered nearly every piece of road-construction equipment in the northern half of the state to be diverted to his project, and made every construction worker he could get his hands on work nonstop to cut a new road bed from Santa Rosa to Albuquerque. The workers slept at the construction sites, toiled through snowstorms and skipped the holidays, and the new 69-mile road was completed in just 31 days. By the time the new governor, Richard Dillon, took office on January 1, 1927, it was too late. Despite opponents trying to block the project during those 31 days (including sabotage attempts where people put sand in the gas tanks of the construction equipment), nobody could deny the convenience of a straight, fully-paved road. The new route saved hours of driving, so before long, motorists were already using it heavily, leaving Santa Fe in the dust. It took another ten years before the road was paved all the way to the Texas border and the new section gained the official Route 66 designation, but by then it was already the main arterial across the state.
That story isn't the only thing interesting about the corner of 4th and Central. That spot's other claim to fame is what might just be Albuquerque's best and most iconic building: the KiMo theatre.
Built in 1927 in a spectacular blend of Art Deco and Pueblo Revival styles (who knew those two went together so well?!), the theater's name translates to "mountain lion" in Tewa, the language spoken by many of the region's Pueblo people. The KiMo narrowly escaped the wrecking ball in the late 1970s, when residents voted for the city to buy the building. After an extensive restoration completed in 2000, the KiMo is once again hosting public performances.
Yes, that symbol above is what it looks like; and no, it doesn't mean what you might think. The swastika is an ancient symbol that once had positive connotations in many cultures before Hitler twisted it to his own ends. To the Navajo it stood for the Whirling Log, a healing symbol, and to the Hopi (whose traditions the above design emulates) it represents spiritual wandering.
Oh, and hey: apparently the building is haunted. The theater staff leave appeasement offerings in a back stairwell and everything. The place was closed on the day we were there, so I couldn't get a look at the inside, but you can bet I'll be back. Neither angry ghosts or vengeful ex-governors can stop me.
Harvey hospitality
This post is part of an ongoing series called 66 Fridays, which explores the wonders of old Route 66. Click on the preceding "66 Fridays" link to view all posts in the series, or visit the initial overview post here.
If you travel Route 66, you're sure to come across the name of Fred Harvey. If you haven't heard of him, you're far from alone. Yet Harvey and his commercial empire had a lot to do with creating, collecting and curating that slice of Americana we call the Southwest.
If I were throw another name at you, though, I bet you'd be able to place it: Howard Johnson. That's right, the hospitality magnate who, in the 1960s and 70s, controlled the largest restaurant chain in the United States. Well, I'm not knocking Johnson (or all that fabulous midcentury decor), but Harvey did it first, and best.
Harvey got his start in the late 1870s, when the West was still very much a wild place, and the railroads were busy cutting new paths over the old overland trade routes. Harvey was revolted by the food the railroad companies offered their passengers—he figured if eastern travelers could access the same quality of cuisine they'd find in a New York City restaurant, they'd get over their fear of "roughing it" and head West in style. His employer, the Burlington Railroad, turned him down, but the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway saw merit in the idea. Harvey signed a contract with AT&SF, and the first American restaurant chain was born.
Before long, Harvey had added hotels and tour services to his repertoire, and by the early twentieth century there were "Harvey Houses" scattered all over the Southwest. Some of his best-known properties still stand—including nearly all of the historic buildings that comprise the South Rim complex at the Grand Canyon.
Early conservationists like Teddy Roosevelt were horrified by the prospect of commercializing the Grand Canyon, yet one could easily argue that if Fred Harvey hadn't done it, someone else most assuredly would have (and they did! Google the mayhem that is Ralph Henry Cameron sometime, if you're curious).
One vote in favor of Harvey was that each of his establishments was thoughtfully designed to be at once beautiful, well-made, reflective of its natural surroundings and sensitive to its area's cultural heritage. (I'm sure that last box wasn't checked as well as it might have been, but considering the era in which these places were designed, the fact that any cultural sensitivity came about at all is nothing short of astonishing.)
And we have one person to thank for much of that:
That's right: Fred Harvey's right-hand man was a woman. And it's Mary Jane Colter's style and sensibility that come through in the most memorable Harvey Houses. She is the one who created much of that unified "look" that we associate with the American Southwest. And that's because she did her research—she looked at all the different regional architectural styles of the various Native cultures of the region, and blended them with the popular architectural styles of the day: Arts & Crafts, Mission, and various revivals of European and even North African traditions.
Colter went one step further, and did something that was way ahead of her time: she actually hired Native artists and craftspeople to complete many of the details on and in her buildings. She worked most often with Hopi painter Fred Kabotie, who contributed elements like the murals at the Painted Desert Inn and various interior details at Hopi House. In working with artists like Kabotie, Colter's buildings have an authenticity to them that, along with their craftsmanship, elevates them way above your average tourist trap.
I didn't know any of this before my trip, nor had I ever heard of Fred Harvey before. Luckily for me, many of the surviving Harvey Houses are located along Route 66, so I had ample opportunity to find out—
—and to gaze in wonder at so many architectural treasures still standing along the Mother Road.
Most serendipitous for my Harvey education was our decision to drive the original (and less-traveled) pre-1937 alignment of Route 66, which took us to Santa Fe. For one thing, Santa Fe is home to the most magnificent example of extant Harvey Houses: Hotel La Fonda.
The place is often nicknamed "the oldest hotel in the United States," but that's not exactly true. What is true is that an inn or fonda has stood continuously upon this location for over four hundred years. Harvey must have known that particular historical tidbit, because La Fonda doesn't mess around. Every inch of the place is jam-packed with Harvey's version of Southwest Americana.
The hotel has been remade and renovated seemingly endlessly over the years, but you can still find traces of its history (and Mary Colter's interior touches) everywhere.
La Fonda is the place where you learn to recognize the Harvey style—where even if you don't know the history behind any of it, you'll still know it when you see it.
The other thing Santa Fe gave me was a glimpse of Harvey's empire on a micro scale, thanks to the New Mexico History Museum at the Palace of the Governors. Far beyond capitalizing on the idea of a hospitality chain, what Fred Harvey really understood was branding. And branding really isn't even the right word here: while other hotels might have an "identity," Harvey went way beyond that. For his employees, he created a culture. For his customers, he created something more akin to mythology.
For an amateur graphic design historian like me, I felt like I'd struck gold at the Palace of the Governors. Their Harvey House exhibit displayed the length, breadth and depth of Harvey branding—beyond any logo, their aesthetic covered everything from letterhead to jewelry to employee pamphlets. Harvey's penchant for hiring professional artists paid off on every front: every last detail was carefully considered, equally beautiful, and a stand-alone work of art.
And that brings me to the most famous and curious piece of Harvey branding: the Harvey Girl.* A living, breathing icon, the Harvey Girl became the very embodiment of the taming of the West.
Fred Harvey felt that while the romantic idea of the Wild West might be a draw to tourists, its rough-and-tumble connotations would be more of a hinderance than anything else, as wealthy customers viewed western travel as dangerous and uncomfortable. To counteract this notion, Harvey committed to hiring only educated young women from the East and Midwest to wait upon, entertain and guide his guests. The Harvey Girls had to adhere to strict codes of dress, conduct and morality; live in single-sex barracks run by middle-aged den mothers; and sign year-long contracts which forbade them to marry while employed by the Harvey Company. The idea of "civilizing" the West, one genteel lady at a time, was a smash hit, and the Harvey Girl became so iconic that Judy Garland even played one on the silver screen.
What really interests me, however, is that the Harvey Girls—and there were 100,000 of them in all—were the first female workforce in America. The guests may have seen them as mere waitresses, but in reality these were educated women who were responsible for far more than carrying trays or taking orders. Later, as automobiles became popular and Harvey started his Indian Detours auto tour service, Harvey Girls—renamed "Couriers" or even, ugh, Indian Maids—comprised the entire staff of tour guides. Most had college degrees, and each Courier was required to have a working knowledge of local history, botany, geology, archaeology, anthropology, geography, or any other subject the tourists might inquire about.
* Note: Much of my Harvey Girl information comes from Katrina Parks's wonderful documentary, The Harvey Girls: Opportunity Bound. Excerpts from the documentary are included in the Harvey exhibit at the Palace of the Governors, and it is these that introduced me to Ms. Parks's work. She is currently working on a new project called The Women on the Mother Road—her website features some of my Route 66 sketches, and I'm excited and honored to be included!
I tell you all of this to illustrate just how far-reaching Fred Harvey's empire was, how much of modern American history was touched by his ideas. The Harvey Houses weren't just another hotel chain—they were an astonishing and vast collective work of art. And they were an incredible economic engine that provided work to thousands of people—many of them highly skilled artists, designers, craftspeople, historians, scientists and anthropologists.
The Harvey Company also employed many unskilled laborers, like the Civilian Conservation Corps (one of Franklin Roosevelt's "Alphabet Soup" agencies founded during the Great Depression), who built and then painted this glass skylight at the Painted Desert Inn.
More than anything, I think it's this constant mixing of things that marks Harvey's legacy: east and west, Native and Anglo, public and private. (For instance, the hotels and restaurants themselves were funded by the private railroad company, but many of them were located on or near public lands, and many used government-funded labor to build them.) I don't think Harvey gets much of the credit for it, but the WPA (Works Progress Administration, another Alphabet Soup agency) borrowed heavily from Harvey House ideas and aesthetics when they built the national park lodges in the 1920s and 30s.
And sadly, it's no wonder: while the national park lodges still stand, protected on public land, very few Harvey Houses survive today, and even fewer are still hotels or restaurants. Many of them were demolished in the 1970s and 80s—an awful time to be an historic building—and still others hold on as empty shells, stripped of all their glory and slowly decaying.
Still, Route 66 is the best path to take to discover what's left of Fred Harvey's world. As you drive the Mother Road along the old Santa Fe railway, remember that somebody came before you—leaving the lights on and turning back the covers, all in hopes of making the West feel more welcoming.
Our best idea
Mt. Rainier National Park, WA
Tomorrow is the 100th birthday of the National Park Service. All of America seems to be celebrating right now, and rightly so. In my opinion, our wildest pockets are our true national treasures, and our national parks, as Wallace Stegner said, our best idea.
Olympic National Park, WA
So since I've spent a good chunk of my sketching life in national parks both close to home…
Arches National Park, UT
…and far afield…
Crater Lake National Park, OR
I figured I'd add my voice to the celebratory din, in the form of a little sketchbook retrospective.
Badlands National Park, SD
Beyond the centennial itself, I'm always up for toasting the parks. Not only do I think park rangers are the best people on earth,
Redwood National Park, CA
but I also sometimes think they're the only thing standing between wildness and destruction.
Carlsbad Caverns National Park, NM
And anyway, I'm not exaggerating when I say I'm a total park nut myself. It's my goal to visit every NPS property before I die, including national parks, historic sites, national monuments, everything. (Actually, I've crossed a goodly chunk of them off the list already—
Guadalupe Mountains National Park, TX
—and I even have the stamps to prove it.)
Olympic National Park, WA
I know I have a long path ahead of me before I reach that goal,
Grand Canyon National Park, AZ
and getting there won't be easy.
Big Bend National Park, TX
Yet I can't tell you how grateful I am that the opportunity exists in the first place—
Rocky Mountain National Park, CO
that so many people have fought to preserve these wild places, and won.
Saguaro National Park, AZ
Best of all is the feeling that no matter how long it might take me to get to each park with my sketchbook,
Glacier National Park, MT
I know it'll be there waiting for me, as close to unchanged as humanly possible. Thanks to the National Park Service, the window of opportunity remains open.
Time-tested tables
This post is part of an ongoing series called 66 Fridays, which explores the wonders of old Route 66. Click on the preceding "66 Fridays" link to view all posts in the series, or visit the initial overview post here.
Next time you're in New Mexico to admire the hollyhocks, you'll be sure to work up an appetite. And Route 66 is dotted with some of the best lunch spots in the Land of Enchantment. My favorite is probably the Plaza Cafe, the oldest recipe in Santa Fe (yes, Route 66 goes through Santa Fe…or it did, anyway; that's a story for another day). I didn't know that fact when we walked in, but it makes sense: both the food and the decor make this place a keeper.
Downstate a bit in Albuquerque is another Route 66 relic that is still alive and well. You might recognize it from my earlier post featuring its sister property across the street. Like the Plaza Cafe, this place is quintessentially New Mexican, inside and out.
El Camino was chosen for us by some local friends, and it turns out they knew us well. From the impeccably preserved interior to the killa-dilla sopapillas, I was ready to move in by the end.
Hollyhock haven
While lavender will always remind me of the Pacific Northwest, I'll forever associate hollyhocks with Santa Fe. Maybe it was being there during their peak season last summer—or maybe I love Georgia O'Keeffe too much. Either way, for me hollyhocks will always go best with adobe, rather than English cottages.
Fill 'er up
This post is part of an ongoing series called 66 Fridays, which explores the wonders of old Route 66. Click on the preceding "66 Fridays" link to view all posts in the series, or visit the initial overview post here.
Polly want a pit stop?
If you're going to take a road trip, at some point you're going to need to refuel. And nobody knows how to fill your tank like the folks on Route 66. Of course, since the route crosses a big swath of American oil country, you'll know that the milk of the Mother Road is petroleum.
Cuba, Missouri
The thing is, though, the designers and architects and advertisers and engineers responsible for putting gas stations all along the route got into the spirit of 66 in their own unique ways. Forget what you know about ugly garages lining Interstate exits—many of Route 66's filling stations are downright works of art.
Cuba, Missouri
And many of them look absolutely nothing like gas stations.
Interestingly, the Mother Road was built at a time when more and more Americans owned automobiles—all over the country there was an increasingly large demand for petrol. Filling stations moved into town centers and residential neighborhoods, and some oil companies wanted their fuel stops to blend in with the neighborhood architecture.
Since American architecture is highly regional in nature, many of these "camoflaged" filling stations took on the look of their local culture—Spanish-Mission-style canopies in California, limestone façades in the Ozarks, clapboard farmhouse lookalikes in the Plains, etc. And then, of course, architectural tastes changed over the years, so you'll find examples from the Victorian era to midcentury pop-Googie, and everything in between. (Not to mention the tradition of kitschy filling stations shaped like random objects or weird ho-made roadside giants.) Finally, each oil company wanted to attract customers away from the others, so they relied on creating distinctive architectural styles as a form of branding. The result is a veritable encyclopedia of diverse and spectacular specimens—and Route 66 might just have the best collection of all.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
After a few hundred miles, we started getting really good at spotting the buildings that used to be filling stations (this is an obvious one, but many had been deeply camoflaged, or totally remade in some other image, or else fallen into ruin). And we also developed a knack for pegging which style belonged to which company (above is a classic 1930s Texaco design).
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Then again, sometimes a building would throw us completely—the sealed-up garage bays hint at the Blue Dome's history, but if I didn't know better, I would have guessed this was once a Greek Orthodox church or something.
Spencer, Missouri
The filling stations of Route 66 also serve as markers of time's passage, and the rise and fall of communities along the way. This one is all that remains of a ghost town in Missouri that fell into disuse when the highway changed its route. (I'm not talking about the advent of the Interstate, either, although that's a common story—this place lost its prime spot decades before that, when the 66 alignment was simply moved to a spot further south.)
Ranco Cucamonga, California
While many petroleum relics have faded into oblivion, others are being brought back, at least in some form or other. Above is one of the oldest specimens we found (it actually predates the birth of Route 66 by nearly a decade). While part of the structure has been torn down, at least the main part of the station is getting a lovely facelift.
Needles, California
It's not just the oldest samples being preserved, either. This guy is only a little over fifty years old, but it, too, has been returned to its former glory.
Normal, Illinois
For many old stations, however, the opposite is true. Countless specimens either sit empty, their original purpose unknown to the average passerby—or else they get cannibalized and transformed into some other creature, usually without any fanfare.
Hydro, Oklahoma
These stories of disrepair and restoration interest me greatly, of course, but what really gets me is the story of each place: the whys and wherefores of each station, and the tastes and quirks of the people who either built or ran them.
Cool Springs, Arizona
After all, Route 66 crosses through some seriously unpopulated territory. Many of these old filling stations were the only game in town—or in the most remote corners, something closer to the last chance for salvation.
Commerce, Oklahoma
While others, meanwhile, live on in notoriety, attracting tourists to the spots where blood was shed or infamous characters once stood.
Odell, Illinois
Still, most tell the story of perfectly ordinary people running perfectly ordinary businesses along one of the backbones of American travel and commerce. They might be extraordinary today, but usually that's boils down to having somehow lasted long enough to stand out amongst more modern surroundings.
Shamrock, Texas
I'm glad, at least, that I'm obviously not the only one who has noticed these things—that there is an army of conservators and historians and artists and boosters out there, preserving as many of these old filling stations as possible, and documenting the ones that can't be saved.
I know that these days, oil companies have fallen out of public favor (heaven knows I have my own beef with the oil industry)—regardless of their nostalgia, these places are also reminders of American excess and the damaging effects of fossil fuels. Yet however we may be careening toward Peak Oil, these relics still have a place on the Mother Road—the path that might just traverse this country's Peak History.
A watershed moment
This post is part of an ongoing series called 66 Fridays, which explores the wonders of old Route 66. Click on the preceding "66 Fridays" link to view all posts in the series, or visit the initial overview post here.
If you've ever done a coast-to-coast road trip, you'll have crossed the Continental Divide somewhere. (Depending on your route, you might have crossed it more than once in the same day.) It's easy to take for granted now, but back in the days of early overland travel, finding and crossing the divide between the Atlantic and Pacific watersheds was a big deal.
Luckily, the U.S. highway authorities still think the it's a big deal, and want to make sure you notice it. From Montana to New Mexico, the Great Divide is well-marked wherever a road crosses it. Whether it's a gravel goat track, a county road, or a four-lane freeway, you're sure to find some sort of commemorative sign or plaque. And nothing tops the marker on Route 66.
Heck, the Mother Road comes through with more than just a wayfinding marker: these folks have made a bona fide roadside attraction out of river drainage. And more power to them—this is Route 66, after all. I'd expect nothing less.
Tucumcari tonite
This post is part of an ongoing series called 66 Fridays, which explores the wonders of old Route 66. Click on the preceding "66 Fridays" link to view all posts in the series, or visit the initial overview post here.
Most of the must-see treasures of Route 66 are individual landmarks or legends: Meramec Caverns, the Oatman burros, the Gemini Giant. But one of the most important stops along the way is an entire town. Welcome to Tucumcari: Googie oasis of yore, midcentury Cibola of 2000 motel rooms.
Today's Tucumcari is somewhere halfway between worlds, simultaneously a time machine and a crumbling architectural ruin. To me it felt the way it would to visit Pompeii, only to find the city still inhabited. This is the place where, much like the stretch of 66 through Albuquerque, you can find rusted neon masterpieces everywhere you look—
—except here, the neon is equally likely to mark a still-operating motel as a defunct one.
Yet while the town's pulse still keeps a beat, that mythical number of motel rooms has diminished somewhat.
I'm sure the motels aren't the only ones—for every business still standing, I had to wonder how many had disappeared.
Still, Tucumcari seems to take pride in its place along Route 66. Take the famous Tee Pee Curios (no, I didn't misspell my sketch; the building uses both spellings at once!), which remains one of the most documented attractions of the Mother Road.
Sadly, I didn't get inside, as we rolled in to town too late the night before, and we had to leave before it opened for the day. Still, it was good to see the place in such fine fettle, new coat of paint and all.
But that's okay: the real gem of Tucumcari, and perhaps the crown jewel of all of Route 66, was where I got to devote my time. The Blue Swallow is the perfect symbol of Tucumcari: still alive, still authentic, still beautiful.
The night we spent at the Blue Swallow was the one we'd been looking forward to the most on that trip, because we just needed proof that there were still places like this left on the planet. As soon as we crossed the threshold to our room, we knew the place was in good hands.
It was like stepping into 1939. The place was meticulously authentic (not to mention spotlessly clean and bright). Whatever wasn't actually original to the room (and almost all of it was) was carefully restored to the correct period—right down to the 1939 Bell rotary-dial phones. Heck, even the price of the room was a total throwback.
For me, at least, the Blue Swallow was incredibly comfortable. Maybe it's because I live in an old house with old furnishings and old fixtures, but I just felt right at home. Anyway, this is the sort of thing I want on a road trip like this. I would have been incredibly sad if we'd opened that door to find the plaster replaced with drywall or a huge flat-screen TV taking up one wall. As it was, I nearly cried from relief to find things just as they were from the beginning.
Places like the Blue Swallow and towns like Tucumcari are an endangered species. American culture, in general, prefers the new and novel to the historic—the freeway to the meandering path. That's why it's such a miracle that there's any Route 66 left to enjoy at all. For every vintage motel that manages to keep thriving with each passing year, another closes its doors. And that's why it's going to take all of us to keep these places alive.
Still, whatever the future might hold, I'm glad to see there's still a beating heart in Tucumcari tonite.


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Backgrounder: Decision No. 228-AT-A-2011 - June 16, 2011
In Decision No. 4-AT-A-2010 (January 2010), the Canadian Transportation Agency first addressed complaints by two persons regarding difficulties they experienced relating to peanut and nut allergies when travelling with Air Canada.
Disability determination and Obstacle
In its January 2010 Decision, the Agency found that both persons named in the complaint were persons with disabilities for the purposes of Part V of the Canada Transportation Act.
The Agency also found that Air Canada's lack of a formal policy to accommodate the needs of persons with allergies to peanuts or nuts, and the uncertainty this created, constituted an obstacle to the mobility of the complainants and to persons whose allergy to peanuts or nuts results in a disability for the purposes of Part V of the Act.
Appropriate accommodation
In its January 2010 Decision, the Agency also made a preliminary finding that a buffer zone, including an announcement to other passengers within that zone, is the appropriate accommodation for persons with disabilities due to their allergy to peanuts or nuts.
In Decision No. 431-AT-A-2010(October 2010), the Agency set out its final findings with respect to appropriate accommodation for persons with disabilities due to their allergy to peanuts or nuts, when Air Canada is provided with at least 48 hours advance notice of a person's need for accommodation:
Air Canada is to create a buffer zone, as follows, for the passenger with a disability due to their allergy to peanuts or nuts:
- International wide-body aircraft executive class seating: the pod-seat occupied by the person.
- North American business class seating: the bank of seats in which the person is seated.
- Economy class seating: the bank of seats in which such a person is seated, and the banks of seats directly in front of and behind the person. In areas where a bulkhead is either directly in front of or behind the bank of seats in which the person with a disability due to their allergy to peanuts or nuts is seated, the buffer zone will consist of the bulkhead, together with the bank of seats in which the person is sitting and the bank of seats directly in front of or behind the person (depending on the location of the bulkhead).
only peanut-free and nut-free foods will be served by Air Canada as part of its onboard snack or meal service within the buffer zone.
a briefing will be given by Air Canada personnel to passengers within the buffer zone that they can only eat foods that are peanut-free and nut-free and that they will only be offered peanut-free and nut-free foods as part of Air Canada's onboard snack or meal service. In addition, Air Canada personnel is to address situations where a passenger refuses to comply with this requirement by moving the non-obliging passenger or, if necessary due to that passenger's refusal to move, moving the person with the disability due to their allergy to peanuts or nuts to a seat where the buffer zone can be established.
Undue hardship
In its October 2010 Decision, the Agency also required Air Canada to submit a formal policy for the Agency's review and approval if it accepted to implement the appropriate accommodation. In the event that Air Canada did not accept to implement the appropriate accommodation, or any part of it, it was required to file its arguments on undue hardship.
In response to the October Decision, Air Canada submitted that it would adopt a policy and procedures, for implementation by December 2, 2010, consistent with items (1) and (3) of the Agency's findings on appropriate accommodation. However, it indicated that it would be filing undue hardship arguments with respect to item (2) of the order; specifically the requirement to serve only peanut-free and nut-free foods within the buffer zone. Air Canada stated that there are currently no flight kitchens available to deliver on this guarantee.
Decision 228-AT-A-2011, issued on June 16, 2011, constitutes the Agency's assessment of Air Canada's undue hardship arguments.
What is Undue hardship?
Once an applicant has established the existence of an obstacle to the mobility of a person with a disability in the federal transportation network, the onus of proof then shifts to the respondent transportation service provider to prove, on a balance of probabilities, that the obstacle is not undue.
Key to the Agency's assessment of undueness is an examination of the interplay between accommodation for the person with a disability and hardship for the transportation service provider in providing such accommodation. The assessment relates to the obligation of the transportation service provider, which is to accommodate the passenger with a disability up to the point of undue hardship.
To establish undue hardship, the transportation service provider must demonstrate that there are constraints that make the removal of the obstacle unreasonable, impracticable or, in some cases, impossible, such that the accommodation cannot be provided. Constraints which may be considered in that assessment include, without limitation, structural, safety, economic and financial matters.
If undue hardship with respect to the appropriate accommodation is so established by the transportation service provider to the satisfaction of the Agency, the Agency then turns to alternatives available to best address the needs of a person with a disability, again up to the point of undue hardship for the transportation service provider. Such alternative accommodation constitutes "reasonable accommodation."
Reasonable accommodation in each case is a matter of degree and depends on a balancing of interests of persons with disabilities with those of the transportation service provider in the circumstances of the case. This includes considering the significance and recurrence or continuing nature of the obstacle and the impact of the obstacle on persons with disabilities, as well as the transportation service provider's commercial and operational considerations and responsibilities.
Legislative framework
The Agency's legislative mandate with respect to persons with disabilities is found in Part V of the Canada Transportation Act, which contains a regulation-making authority [subsection 170(1)] and a complaint adjudication authority [subsection 172(1)], both for the express purpose of removing undue obstacles to the mobility of persons with disabilities from the federal transportation network.
The scope of the Agency's jurisdiction to eliminate undue obstacles by both regulation and adjudication is partly defined by an inclusive list of matters contained in subsection 170(1), which is incorporated by reference into subsection 172(1).
The Supreme Court of Canada confirmed, in Council of Canadians with Disabilities v. Via Rail Canada Inc., [2007] 1 S.C.R. 650, 2007 SCC 15, that the accessible transportation provisions of the Canada Transportation Act are, in essence, human rights legislation.
Furthermore, the Court stated that the principles of the Canadian Human Rights Act, including the principle of reasonable accommodation, must be applied by the Agency when it identifies and remedies undue obstacles.
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|Publication date
|Nov 18, 2003
|Filing date
|Oct 3, 2001
|Priority date
|Oct 3, 2001
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|Richard R. Hammen, Ronald F. May
|Original Assignee
|Enercon Industries Corporation
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (7), Referenced by (5), Classifications (13), Legal Events (7)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
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1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to the field of heat sealing caps to containers. In particular, the invention relates to air cooled sealing heads.
2. Discussion of the Prior Art
It is known to seal the mouths of bottles and other containers using an inductive sealing process. Inductive sealing requires an electromagnetic-field-producing apparatus and a foil-polymer seal. Typically, the apparatus has at least one coil of wire wound to produce an electromagnetic field when electric current is supplied to the coil. It is well known in the art that electromagnetic fields induce eddy currents within metal which in turn heat the metal. The seal comprises a thin layer of aluminum foil onto which is laminated a polymer layer that is molecularly compatible with the container to be sealed. When the seal is placed onto the container and the container is placed within the electromagnetic field, the foil is heated which melts the layer of polymer. Removing the seal from the electromagnetic field allows the polymer to cool and molecularly fuse with the container to create an air-tight seal.
The electromagnetic field strength primarily depends upon the number of turns in the wire coils and the amount of current supplied to the coils. To produce an electromagnetic field adequate for commercial inductive sealing, typically the power supply must output power in the order of a few kilowatts, which produces a great deal of heat. Thus, the power supply must be cooled in order to function properly. Similarly, the sealing head having the induction coil must be cooled.
Many methods of cooling the power supply and sealing head are known in the art. In particular, it is known to circulate cool water through the power supply enclosure and the sealing head. Such water cooled cap sealers, however, require complicated piping configurations that increase size and cost. It is also known to vent the power supply and force air past the outside of the sealing head. However, such air cooled cap sealers sometimes provide inadequate cooling of the sealing head which degrades the operating efficiency of the cap sealer.
The invention provides a ventilated sealing head for an inductive cap sealer. Specifically, the sealing head includes an induction coil for producing an electromagnetic field. One or more field focusing elements are disposed adjacent the coil to direct the electromagnetic field of the coil toward a sealing region beneath the sealing head. The coil and the field focusing elements are contained in a housing having openings allowing air to flow past the coil.
In a preferred form, the field focusing elements are a ferromagnetic compound and there are a plurality of field focusing elements spaced apart along at least a portion of the periphery of the coil allowing air to flow between the spaced field focusing elements and past the coil.
In other forms, the housing forms a tunnel extending lengthwise from side to side of the sealing head and opening downward at the sealing region. The coil is wound around the tunnel and within a number of electromagnetic field focusing elements. The sealing head further includes a pair of plug-in shielded connectors for coupling the coil to power.
Another aspect of the invention is a cap sealer having an AC power supply and an external vented sealing head as described above. The cap sealer can further include an external fan disposed between the sealing head and the power supply for forcing cooling air through the sealing head.
The invention thus provides a vented sealing head for an inductive cap sealer. Venting the sealing head allows cooling air to be blown passed the coil and field focusing elements to carry away heat from these components and convectively cool the sealing head. The sealing head can thus be cooled without a separate cooling circuit and without the costly and difficult to assemble tubing arrangements associated with liquid cooling.
The foregoing and other advantages of the invention will appear from the following description. In that description reference is made to the accompanying drawings, which form a part hereof, and in which there is shown by way of illustration a preferred embodiment of the invention. This embodiment does not represent the full scope of the invention. Thus, the claims should be looked to in order to judge the full scope of the invention.
FIG. 1 is top perspective view of a ventilated sealing head according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a bottom perspective view of the ventilated sealing head;
FIG. 3 is a bottom plan view of the ventilated sealing head with the bottom cover removed to show the wire coil and field focusing assembly;
FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view taken along line 4—4 of FIG. 3 with a set of field focusing elements shown in cross-section;
FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view taken along line 5—5 of FIG. 3 at an opening between the spaced field focusing elements;
FIG. 6 is a partial enlarged view of FIG. 5 with the housing shown in phantom;
FIG. 7 is a bottom view taken along lien 7—7 of FIG. 6 showing the field focusing assembly with the electromagnetic coil wound therein and with a center panel of the housing shown cut-away to reveal the coil;
FIG. 7a is a cross-sectional view similar to FIG. 7 albeit taken along line 7 a—7 a of FIG. 6;
FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view similar to FIG. 7 albeit taken along line 8—8 of FIG. 6;
FIG. 9 is a cross-sectional view similar to FIG. 7 albeit taken along line 9—9 of FIG. 6;
FIG. 10 is a top view of the field focusing assembly and coil taken along line 10—10 of FIG. 6;
FIG. 11 is a side cross-sectional view taken along line 11—11 of FIG. 6 and in partial cut-away to show a coil spacing element; and
FIG. 12 is a front perspective view of an induction air cooled cap sealer having a vented sealing head.
An air cooled cap sealer 10 is shown in FIG. 12. The cap sealer 10 is preferably of the type described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,153,864 assigned to the assignee of this application and hereby incorporated by reference as through fully set forth herein. Generally, the cap sealer 10 has a sealing head 12 powered by and mounted to a power supply cabinet 14 supported on an adjustable mounting assembly 16. The sealing head 12 is electrically connected to the power supply cabinet 14 via a pair of bus wires (not shown) coupled to shielded, plug-in type socket connectors mateable with connectors 17 (see FIG. 1) on the sealing head 12. Preferably, two cooling fans 18 (one shown in FIGS. 4 and 5) are mounted between the sealing head 12 and the power supply cabinet 14, one cooling the sealing head 12 and the other the power supply cabinet 14. The sealing head 12 is vented to improve cooling by allowing cooling air to pass through the sealing head 12.
Referring to FIGS. 1, 2 and 3, the sealing head 12 has a housing 20 containing an electromagnetic coil 22 wound about a field focusing coil housing 24 formed by one or more electromagnetic field focusing elements joined together by a suitable epoxy resin. The housing 20 is preferably made of an ABS plastic material and comprises an inverted tray 26 and a bottom cover 28. The tray 26 has a rectangular top with downwardly extending walls along its periphery. The bottom cover has front 30, back 32 and center 34 panels defining a recessed tunnel 36 extending from side to side across the width of the bottom of the sealing head 12. The top of the inverted tray 26 has a generally circular grille 38 with a plurality of openings allowing air into the housing 20. The front 30 and back 32 panels of the bottom cover 28 each has two rows of lateral slots 40, respectively. One of the rows of each panel is located in short legs 41 and 43 forming the sides of the tunnel 36. The center panel 34 has four rows of five slots 40 aligned in parallel. The bottom cover 28 is fastened to the tray 26 by a suitable adhesive applied to their edges or as disclosed in the '864 patent. When assembled, air can pass into the top of the sealing head 12 through openings in the grille 38 and exit through the slots 40 in the bottom of the sealing head 12.
Referring to FIGS. 4-6, the coil housing 24 and coil 22 are disposed around the tunnel 36 to surround it along its length from the top and sides. The coil 22 is formed of bundled wire, such as Litz wire, known to those skilled in the art. The number of windings and the gauge of the wire are selected according to the sealing requirements of the application, as known in the art. The coil 22 is wound within the coil housing 24 around the tunnel 36 and windings are spaced apart by four sets of four spacers 42 adhered to the center panel 34 of the bottom cover 28 and extending upwardly into the housing 20 (see FIGS. 6, 7 a and 11).
Referring still to FIGS. 4-6 as well as FIGS. 7-11, the coil housing 24 is comprised of a number of rectangular blocks made of a ferromagnetic compound having ferric oxide, so that, rather than radiating omni-directionally, the electromagnetic field produced by the coil 22 is directed downward to a sealing region 44 within and/or below the tunnel 36. In the embodiment shown in the figures, the blocks are arranged in ten inverted U-shaped segments 45 having four blocks 46 each, two aligned end to end in the front-back direction of the sealing head 12 and two bookends extending vertically. Each segment 45 is spaced apart in the side to side direction of the sealing head 12, approximately the width of a block. Two rows of four blocks 47 are disposed on each side of the tunnel 36 spaced laterally between the coil 22 in the side to side direction. Two rows of seven blocks 48 are disposed end to end with their bottom faces against the front 30 and back 32 panels of the bottom cover 28 on each side of the tunnel 36 beneath the two rows of four blocks 47. These seven blocks 48 are not spaced in the side to side direction so as to provide a rigid corner along much of the tunnel 36. Finally, a row of five blocks 49 are disposed end to end on their side edges along the center of the center panel 34 extending in the side to side direction of the sealing head 12 between the coil 22.
The arrangement of the field focusing blocks forming the coil housing 24 has been empirically shown to direct the electromagnetic field toward the sealing region 44 while allowing air entering the housing 20 to pass by the blocks. Air is blown by the fans above the sealing head 12 into the grille openings in the top of the tray 26 and some air will exit the sealing head housing 20 through the centermost slots 40 in the bottom cover 28. A portion of the air flow, however, is interrupted by the blocks and/or the coil 22 such that it will circulate through the sealing head 12 from front to back and side to side allowing most, if not all, of the coil 22 and coil housing 24 to be cooled convectively. Moreover, warmer portions of the coil 22 will pass heat to cooler portions of the coil 22 so that the coil 22 will be conductively cooled as well.
The invention thus provides a vented sealing head for an inductive cap sealer and a cap sealer having such a sealing head. Venting the sealing heat allows cooling air to be blown passed the coil and field focusing elements to carry away heat from these components and convectively cool the sealing head. The sealing head can thus be cooled without a separate cooling circuit and without the costly and difficult to assemble tubing arrangements associated with liquid cooling.
With reference to FIGS. 3 and 12, the cap sealer 10 is operated by first adjusting it vertically if needed according to the height of a container 50 to be sealed. The mouth of the container 50 is then covered with an inner seal 52 having a polymer layer laminated to an aluminum foil layer. A cap 54 is snapped, screwed or otherwise fit onto the mouth of the container 50, which places a downward force on the inner seal 52. The container 50 is then placed upright with the cap 54 under the sealing head 12 in the sealing region 46. Applying power to the coil 22 produces an electromagnetic field directed downwardly from the sealing head 12 to the sealing region 46 for a prescribed period of time which heats the foil layer and melts the polymer layer. The container 50 is removed from beneath the sealing head 12 which allows the polymer layer to cool and fuse to the mouth of the container 50. The cap sealer 10 may be operated manually, placing one container 50 at a time beneath the sealing head 12, or it may be used to seal a number of containers 50 continuously or intermittently passing through the electromagnetic field under the sealing head 12 on a conveyor belt or similar assembly line.
Illustrative embodiments of the invention have been described in considerable detail for the purpose of disclosing practical, operative structures whereby the invention may be practiced advantageously. The designs described are intended to be illustrative only. The novel characteristics of the invention may be incorporated in other structural forms without departing from the scope of the invention. For example, the sealing head can be interchangeably mounted to the power supply cabinet so that sealing heads of other configurations may be used for various sealing applications, such as a vented flat sealing head particularly suitable for wide necked containers. Moreover, the sealing head may have more than one induction coil mounted in various orientations and the coil housing could be monolithic with openings made therein for air to flow through the coil housing and past the coil.
It can thus be appreciated that many variations are possible from the preferred embodiment described above without departing from the spirit of the invention. Reference should therefore be made to the claims for interpreting the entire scope of the invention.
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|Apr 1, 1976
|Jun 20, 1978
|Mckenna Equipment Company, Inc.
|Machine and process for capping and sealing containers
|Nov 12, 1985
|Nov 17, 1987
|Continental Can Company, Inc.
|Induction heating unit for heat bonding a lid having a metallic layer to a container
|Mar 27, 1997
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|Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
|Apparatus for phototaking the image of an eye comprising systems for converting an image signal from an image pickup element into animated-picture-display and digital-image signals
|Feb 28, 2001
|Apr 22, 2003
|Enercon Industries Corporation
|Adjustable cap sealer head
|Nov 5, 1996
|Sep 15, 1998
|Auto-Mate Technologies, L.L.C.
|Induction foil cap sealer
|Jun 26, 1997
|Jan 14, 1998
|Deutsche Thomson-Brandt Gmbh
|High voltage transformer
|Nov 13, 1997
|May 20, 1998
|Auto-Mate Technologies, LLC
|Induction sealing apparatus for sealing a foil cap to a container opening
|Citing Patent
|Filing date
|Publication date
|Apr 11, 2003
|Oct 10, 2006
|Enercon Industries Corporation
|U-flow ventilated sealing head
|Nov 26, 2007
|Nov 16, 2010
|Ultraflex International, Inc.
|Adjustable electromagnetic sealing device
|Apr 11, 2003
|Oct 13, 2005
|Hammen Richard R
|U-flow ventilated sealing head
|Nov 26, 2007
|May 28, 2009
|Ultraflex International, Inc.
|Adjustable electromagnetic sealing device
|Apr 4, 2012
|Feb 27, 2014
|Comaintel Inc.
|Induction heating workcoil
|U.S. Classification
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|Oct 3, 2001
Owner name: ENERCON INDUSTRIES CORPORATION, WISCONSIN
Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST;ASSIGNORS:HAMMEN, RICHARD R.;MAY, RONALD F.;REEL/FRAME:012239/0932
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"Aren't you Wednesday's child?" The voice asked again.
I was, actually. I had been born on a Wednesday. I stood up, looking around me, there was nothing I could discern in the featureless landscape. OK, I'm not big on decorating, I like austere settings. So sue me.
She appeared behind my left shoulder, just as I was turning around. I jumped away. She was beautiful, not classically, or even like a Botticelli; but beautiful nonetheless. I couldn't put my finger on it, but her overwhelming sense poleaxed me temporarily.
I stared at her. Took in her fire-red hair, her violet eyes, chocolate skin. I especailly noticed her white wings that spread over her back from shoulders to ankles. She had them wrapped around her body, she was otherwise naked.
"Who are you? How did you get in here?" I demanded. It seemed like the appropriate response.
The angel just smiled and refused to answer.
"Are you sad?" she asked instead.
"Not particularily," I replied, a little offset by this abrupt change of subject.
"I can give you everything that will make you happy," the angel said.
My ears pricked up. I mean, who wouldn't want to be happy?
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Jesse: No ideas about the auditioning thing, but just wanted you to know
something...believe it or not, but I was just like Natalie at her
age...total bookworm, complete introvert, shy, no self confidence, and a
very poor self image. You are probably the best thing to have happened
to Natalie and I think, that under your loving guidance, ten years from
now, Natalie will very much surprise you...when she figures out how to
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Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 14:00:43 -0600
Subject: [CHAT] O.T QUESTION
Since we were on the topic of audio books the other day...and how the
person
reading makes all the difference in the world...I thought I
would ask if any
of you know how person would go about auditioning
for such a job. I have a
15 year old stepdaughter who is in
competive speech right now...and loves
drama. She is my "book worm".
The funny thing is...she does not interact
well with people at
ALL...and is one of those kids who gets made fun of
because of it.
This irks me because she is really a sweet kid. Anyway,
yesterday
she had a competive speech district competition and she was

rehearsing her lines. I was blown away. She is actually very good at

changing voices and personalities. She was thinking of going into
library
science in college...but I told her yesterday that she
should really
consider reading books/novels for a living. She could
be THAT good. Any
ideas?

Jesse Rene' Bell
Claremore,
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Trading Away Our Future
Howard B. Richman author of, Trading Away Our Future, claimed in an interview with RAMZPAUL that the US could win a trade war with China. Mr. Richman slammed China for engaging in mercantilist trade practices which have damaged the global economy.
Mr. Richman also explained his advocacy of the Fair Tax proposal as a way to reduce corruption and improve the economy.
I personally want to thank Mr. Richman for the interview. He is an intelligent and articulate man who brings an interesting perspective to our current economic crisis.
The current trade policy on the United States is gutting our manufacturing and high tech industries. If we continue to allow our country to be pillaged in the name of "free trade" we will soon be reduced to a Third World status. This country was built on a trade policy that protected our industry. It is madness to continue in our current direction.
I am also an advocate of the Fair Tax. The Fair Tax would eliminate much of the bureaucracy of our tax system. Such a tax would reward savings and discourage reckless consumption. More importantly, such a tax would prevent politicians from using the tax code to provide favors (i.e. kick backs) to lobbyists who fund their campaigns.
If you are interested in a deeper understanding of such policies, I highly recommend reading "Trading Away Our Future."
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- AnonymousFebruary 13, 2009 at 4:22 PM
I read Trading Away our Future. You are right it puts together the whole picture. Balanced free trade, Fair Tax, and treating capital gains as taxable but only when they are consumed. We would save. We would export. We would produce. We would have a more honest Washington.ReplyDelete
Something like this will surely happen to save this country. Will it happen before I die? I am 51, and, have my doubts!!! What do we do once we know the answers, but, have so little control as individuals?
Thank you for getting the word out.
- AnonymousFebruary 15, 2009 at 2:51 AM
Great interview.ReplyDelete
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| Hazmatt chapter 1 . 5/4/2012
Amazing story! I really enjoyed it! Brilliant!
| Wiggle34 chapter 1 . 4/25/2012
Loved When and loved this one and I woudl love there ot be more :)
| moska chapter 1 . 3/1/2012
This is so beautifully written, CA. I hope you have more in the wings. You show a very deft hand of blending a beginning relationship with their work. Looking forward to more!
| Tricki chapter 1 . 2/27/2012
You know how much I love this.
You're amazing. You write them perfectly and I love this.
| MSFanGirl chapter 1 . 2/26/2012
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| lily moonlight chapter 1 . 2/25/2012
Hello! Hooray for sequels :D I'm very pleased you wrote this! It was great! Loved Mac's conversation with Flack at the start, and then the ensuing conversation with Stella :D Very nicely done! Flack was just wonderful in this! Can I take him home and keep him, please? XD
But seriously, I love how you showed his respect and care for Stella and Mac through how he acts.
I also loved the reactions of mac and Stella to finding the dead guy and how they realise the implications.
Now I have to go back to the beginning and tell you how much I enjoyed the conversation with Flack, and how we have to guess at what he says to Stella. his smile would certainly get me out of bed :D
Ah, and it's so cute when Mac bashes into the chair :D
Gruesome details about the bad guy :S But i like how you've created the story there. The story about the two boys and the comic was very sad. That added a lot to the story. Marvellous ending! Thank you very much for writing this!
| Swarovski chapter 1 . 2/25/2012
Wow, that was good! I really love your sequencing of the events in this one-shot - it's very confident! Now I'm going to have to check out what else you've written! ;D


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STILL pining for the "special relationship", torpedoed by the Tories who so niftily backed Bush against Clinton in the last election? Never fear - in some ways we are still Athens to their Rome. British journalist Christopher Hitchens describes a phone call from the White House: "Hi. George Stephanopoulos thought you would know where that line about 'the centre cannot hold' comes from." Clearly a White House speech full of doomy Yeatsian echoes was in the pipeline, so Hitchens rang back to declaim "The Second Coming" to a secretary.
"The repetition of 'loosed' after 'blood-dimmed tide' gave some difficulty," Hitchens writes, "and then with a sinking feeling I heard myself say: 'The ceremony of innocence is drowned.' When the recitation ended, there was a puzzled silence on the line.
" 'Will he know what this is about?'
"'Yes he will. It's a poem he asked for.'
" 'A poem? Did you write it?'"
Horn of Africa
A RARE meeting of minds in the Middle East, where fundamentalist group Al-Jihad has taken against the admittedly rather phallic 617ft Cairo Tower. "It must be destroyed," thundered an Al-Jihad fatwa last week. "Its shape, and its construction amid greenery, could excite Egyptian women." You realise what this means? Now trees are offensive objects on the grounds that they resemble pubic hair - which, apart from being 90ft high and home to the common magpie, I suppose they do. "The Tower is against sharia law," continued the edict, "and so it must fall." This will please the Americans, who could never stand the sight of the thing. Angered by a US decision in 1960 to cut off funds for the Aswan Dam, Nasser, using dollars America had already donated, built the tower to cock a snook at the West.
Bulgar abuse
EVER wake up in a sweat from nightmares about Eastern Europe - rusty reactors, crime waves, that sort of thing? Wait till you hear about their schools. Ignorance and indiscipline have engulfed the halls - not helped, it must be said, by staff. In Bulgaria, two lady teachers (history and maths), feeling fed up, brought along a can of petrol and immolated themselves in assem-bly last week. In another school one boy behaved so badly that he has been suspended for 50 years. Which is dandy for everyone except the poor teacher, probably as yet unborn, who will be taking class in 2045: the door bursts open, and the aged and sullen Bulgar slouches to his desk, behind in all subjects.Reuse content


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