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ANDSTONE cliffs, a peacock-blue ocean, and an endless bar of cream-colored sand filled my first view of greater Los Angeles as I drove south from the Santa Barbara airport on the Pacific Coast Highway and entered Los Angeles County. With the 10,000-foot-high San Gabriel Mountains stepping down to the sea, L.A. appeared too beautiful to be real.
From north to south, greater Los Angeles spans close to a hundred miles of seacoast. I stopped at Santa Monica, a city of 90,000 on the northwest edge of Los Angeles. After checking into a hotel, I looked at a map and saw that the Third Street pedestrian promenade was only half a mile away. My decision to walk there was a mistake I did not repeat in Los Angeles. The scrawny palms provided no shade on the sun-blasted asphalt. Except for a bag lady, a woman pushing her child in a pram, and a young man with tattoos who passed me at high speed on Rollerblades, the street was empty for that half mile -- a half mile that took me past the Civic Center and Auditorium, where the Academy Awards ceremony used to be held; the Art Deco town hall; and the Rand Corporation. Rather than people I saw only cars and enormous parking lots.
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Cars could not enter Third Street, which was roped off for pedestrians, filled
with food and jewelry carts, and packed with shops and restaurants. The result
was hordes of people strolling -- whereas just across the street and all the way
back to my hotel there had been almost none. The crowd here was young, heavily
Asian, and fiercely middle-class, dressed, like the crowds I have seen in
Brazilian cities, in fashionable leisure and beach wear. I sat down at an
outdoor Thai-Chinese restaurant for an early dinner. The manager was Japanese,
the hostess Iranian, and the other help Mexican. The Iranian hostess, who wore
many rings and had mint-green fingernails, was telling a friend that as a
graduation present her father was going to drive her cross-country to see
Elvis's grave, at Graceland. On the sidewalk beside my table a large crowd
watched a black youth tap dance to Brazilian music. The globalized architecture
of the shops and office façades was familiar from the upmarket malls I
had seen in the Midwest. Also on Third Street I saw more homeless people than I
had ever seen in a similar-sized area in New York City or Washington, D.C. They
were doing crossword puzzles, talking to themselves, and trying to enter the
restrooms of expensive restaurants before waiters caught them. They were
overwhelmingly white and male. I saw one man with long gray hair wearing an
Army jacket and a woolen hat despite the 80° temperature. He banged his hand
against a bench and shouted disconnectedly. People moved away. The homeless
barely threaten the panorama of prosperity secured in Santa Monica by a
burgeoning multimedia and software industry, which the well-dressed, thirtyish
crowd reflected.
Over the next few days I drove through the suburban San Fernando Valley bordering Santa Monica to the north, which is equally prosperous. Unlike Santa Monica, the San Fernando Valley is part of the City of Los Angeles. Its business and political leaders want to secede. With 1.3 million inhabitants, the San Fernando Valley would constitute the nation's sixth largest urban area, and one of its richest. This is not white flight -- 40 percent of the valley's residents are Latino or Asian. Among the white population, Jews are the largest ethnic group. These people want to duplicate the prosperity of incorporated post-urban dynamos in northern Los Angeles such as Burbank -- now the home of the Walt Disney Company, Warner Brothers, and NBC -- and Glendale, 45 percent of whose population is foreign-born Latinos, Asians, and Armenians. Joel Kotkin, a Los Angeles-based urban-affairs specialist, calls the secessionist trend that has already Balkanized St. Louis and other American cities the "urban confederacy movement." Unlike the original secessionists, these activists will win, he thinks, because cities are now too big to work -- they can function only as a league of smaller, incorporated pieces.
A third of all U.S.-born middle-class Latinos and more than a quarter of all U.S.-born middle-class Asians in the five-county greater Los Angeles region marry someone of another race. Even the notion of white versus black is losing relevance here, with Latinos constituting 38 percent of the Los Angeles County population and Asians and blacks 11 percent each. The racial polarization that divides Washington, D.C., for example, where white suburbs surround what is, in effect, a black urban homeland, is little apparent in L.A. Even within the Los Angeles city limits blacks make up only 14 percent of the population, whereas they make up 29 percent in New York City. For ten days I drove throughout greater Los Angeles, stopping often to walk in different neighborhoods. Media images of the L.A. riots and the O. J. Simpson trial had prepared me for a city as divided as Washington. But in L.A., where more than eighty languages are spoken, that's not what I found.
Zaheer Virji is a twenty-seven-year-old ethnic-Indian immigrant from the East African nation of Tanzania. He wore a blue-velvet baseball cap, a white T-shirt, jeans, and running shoes when I met him and his American wife in a Santa Monica hotel lobby. Virji's family, which imports goods from Hong Kong to Tanzania, is part of a merchant community from the Indian subcontinent which forms the middle class in Tanzania, along with several other African countries. Virji remembers the times when police thugs under the control of the former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere harassed his relatives and arrested his uncle. He told me that race relations are "so much better" in southern California than in Africa, where Indians and Africans completely stereotype each other: "I came here to escape not just Africans but Indians, too." (The name Virji is an alias.) He went first to England and then to Canada, where there are large Indian communities. But he didn't feel free. "In those places the community is what is happening. Here in the U.S., it's youthat is happening. There is less of system here, fewer laws to restrict you."
Virji came to the United States six years ago, and has no college degree or green card -- yet. In the six months before we spoke, he had earned more by investing in the stock market than his wife had made at her job -- a reflection not only of his skill but also of an economy in which stocks and other assets have risen but wages have not. With this money, along with funds from his family in Tanzania, he was looking to buy a business: a flower shop, a gas station, whatever he could get the best deal on. He was using a broker; if the business was a gas station, he told me, he would need to know about underground tanks and environmental regulations. He wanted to go into partnership with the current owner for a three-year transition period, to secure part of his investment if the business did not turn out as advertised. Ten years from now, he explained, he wants to be the owner of a small business with able employees, so that he can spend his time investing the profits in the stock market.
Los Angeles is full of Asian and Latino immigrants creating their own civilization, just as European immigrants did a hundred years ago. Because these new immigrants bring different historical and cultural experiences, and because they are integrating into American society under more-advanced technological conditions than did immigrants in the past, they will further reduce the distance between America and the rest of the world.
WENT east from Santa Monica across the City of Los Angeles to the suburbs of Monterey Park and San Gabriel. As I drove, I saw a sprawling metropolis in transition. The official, ceremonial downtown, composed of the convention center, courts, government offices, and the Los Angeles Timesbuilding, looked less vibrant than the new, pedestrian-packed downtowns I saw on the way -- Westwood and Beverly Hills, a contiguous area marked by the office buildings of City National Bank, Occidental Petroleum, and others; a Korean church; a Mexican-American real-estate agency; and one of the largest schools in the country that teaches English to foreigners. Several real-estate agents told me that the 1992 riots in heavily black South Central Los Angeles had quickened the exodus of corporations toward the wealthier western part of the city.
I passed through West Hollywood, an area of gays, elderly Jews, and Russian immigrants; Koreatown; and the "Banana Republic," a neighborhood populated by Central American immigrants. The notorious Watts and South Central neighborhoods were one-story encampments of poor blacks encroached upon by the Latino immigrants who make up two thirds of the population of those areas. Upwardly mobile blacks are moving from here to the Moreno Valley and other inexpensive suburbs in an eastern area of greater Los Angeles called the Inland Empire. Watts and South Central are, in ethnic and racial terms, being annexed to Mexican East Los Angeles. Demographers say that in coming years Latinos will dilute the presence of blacks in Los Angeles, as they have already done in Miami. Latinos are now the majority of the region's industrial work force. The number of Latino- and Asian-owned businesses in Los Angeles County has increased from 70,000 to 220,000 since the early 1980s, while the number of black-owned businesses has remained static at 20,000.
I parked in East Los Angeles and walked about a mile past small stores selling furniture and other household goods. I noticed many bridal shops, suggestive of strong family patterns, and many pedestrians, too. Los Angeles, I had begun to realize, was very much a vibrant pedestrian city -- in parts. One part I had seen was the largest garment district in North America, whose narrow alleys are packed with Latinos, Asians, and Middle Easterners, a throwback to early-twentieth-century New York. This vast confederation teems with successful commercial and residential areas like the Third Street Promenade and East Los Angeles. But you need a car to travel between them.
From the "Mexico" of East Los Angeles I crossed into "Asia": Monterey Park and San Gabriel, once gray and run-down and now booming with glittering banks, supported by Hong Kong Chinese and Chinese-American immigrant money, and many new malls, among them San Gabriel Square.
At this mall, which is decorated with Spanish colonnades, I entered the 99 Ranch Market, part of a California Chinese supermarket chain. At first it seemed like any other enormous American supermarket, with dozens of aisles and too much air-conditioning. But nearly every product in the store was an Asian specialty item, either imported or grown in the Los Angeles area. Chinese food stores are common in the nation's various Chinatowns, and so, increasingly, are supermarkets like this one. But never before had I seen forty aisles, each a hundred yards long, devoted to noodles, pork, taro, tofu, pea sprouts, dried shrimp, soybean paste, spicy bean cabbage, dried seaweed, rice spirits, and also Thai, Korean, and Japanese items. Next door was a Chinese restaurant with an overabundance of employees and an absence of Western cutlery or Caucasian customers. Women crossed the red floor pushing food trolleys filled with saucers of chicken feet and other dishes.
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An all-new Asian-American civilization is forming here, and flourishing, too.
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I visited another pan-Asian supermarket, this one to the south -- in Cerritos, once a dairy-farming district but now a planned, incorporated community 45 percent of whose inhabitants are Asian. The checkout counters are manned by Latinos, and the customers are mainly Chinese. A few blocks away I called on Vincent Diau, a forty-four-year-old who emigrated from Taiwan in 1981. Though ethnic Chinese account for only 2.7 percent of Los Angeles County's population, one in five home buyers in the county is Chinese, and such top Los Angeles hotels as the Beverly Wilshire and the Los Angeles Biltmore are Chinese-owned. Diau wore expensive glasses and casual clothes; there were two cars in his driveway and new appliances in his house. Everything was in perfect order, almost as though nobody lived there, although Diau and his Chinese-American wife, Alice, a schoolteacher, share the house with their two children. The children's academic awards were framed near a violin and a piano, and their schedule for music lessons and other after-school activities was posted on a wall beside charts of the English alphabet and Chinese characters. The Diaus own a computer, as do 72 percent of Chinese-Americans; 53 percent of Chinese-American families are linked to the Internet, in contrast to 11 percent of all families. (Forty percent of Asian-American adults hold college degrees -- almost twice the percentage of Caucasians.)
Diau told me, "I moved to Cerritos for the same reason that many Chinese and Korean immigrants have -- because Whitney High School is one of the best public high schools in the state." Diau has law and political-science degrees from universities in Taiwan, and a law degree from Tulane; he is a consultant on Asia with the Hughes Corporation. People complain about the American legal system, he told me, but compared with those in Asia it is straightforward: "If you have discipline and determination and a strategic goal, this country is simple; only the language and alphabet are hard." Because Americans are clear and informal, "you can cut through issues quickly," he said. "In Taiwan everyone wants to control you: there is so much social pressure. Here, among people who are not Chinese, I can truly be myself." Diau told me that he mixes with all kinds of people -- Latinos, Middle Easterners, Indians -- but unfortunately not with blacks. This was less choice than adherence to tradition, he explained. Chinese families favor intermarriage with Caucasians but not with blacks. "I hope that changes," he said.
Why, I asked myself, worry about "the Asian threat"? The best way to contain Asian dynamism is to absorb it -- which is exactly what the United States is doing.
S I drove through greater Los Angeles, the term "city-state" was foremost in my mind, not because L.A. is similar to ancient Athens or Sparta but because of the very size and eye-popping variety of this thriving urban confederation, with its hinterland of oil refineries and agricultural valleys. Santa Monica has the ambiance of a beach resort, East Los Angeles is like Mexico, Monterey Park is like Asia, and Cerritos is an Asian Levittown for the nineties. Except for the prevalence of home-security systems, the winding streets near Dodger Stadium, north of downtown, have almost a rustic, Southern European aspect, with their vine-covered houses and steep hills. Going from one township to another, I often felt as if I had journeyed far and wide. The freeway system makes this compression of distance possible, and climate abets the system's expansion: because Los Angeles gets little rain or frost, road surfaces are cheap and easy to maintain.
"I'm middle-class," Gregory Rodriguez, a researcher who lives on a steep street near Dodger Stadium, told me when I visited him. "But there are also working-class and poor people a block away, and some wealthy entrepreneurs: Jews, Anglos, Mexicans, Chinese, you name it. It's an Old World neighborhood of immigrants, like neighborhoods in Manhattan." I sought out Rodriguez, a thirty-one-year-old third-generation Mexican-American, to learn more about ethnicity in southern California, and particularly about the culture of "Latinos" -- a word Rodriguez prefers to "Hispanics," which he calls "cold and generic." "'Hispanic' is a term people in the East use," he said, "but here no one does." Had I relied merely on my East Coast impressions, the figures Rodriguez presented would have startled me. In the Northeast, "Hispanics" are often Puerto Ricans and Dominicans, who have not assimilated as successfully as Mexicans; yet nationwide, Mexicans account for 60 percent of all Latinos.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Rodriguez told me, 55 percent of Latinos are bilingual in English and Spanish. In greater Los Angeles four times as many U.S.-born Latinos are in the middle class as live in poverty. A quarter of all middle-class families in southern California are Latinos, and in economic performance U.S.-born Latinos living in greater Los Angeles are not far behind whites and Asians: about half of U.S.-born Latinos here are in the middle class, whereas 58 percent of white or Asian households are. Among black households in the area 38 percent are in the middle class; the national average is 26 percent. Perhaps the most telling distinction among Latinos, Asians, and blacks is in the percentage that are government employees in an increasingly entrepreneurial economy. While 28 percent of middle-class blacks in greater Los Angeles work for the federal, state, or municipal government, only about 14 percent of middle-class Asians and 10 percent of middle-class Latinos do.
Rodriguez used his own term, "mestizo-ization," for a dual perspective prevalent among Latinos: they maintain a firm belief in some degree of bilingualism while welcoming U.S. citizenship and often intermarrying. David E. Hayes-Bautista, a medical sociologist at the University of California at Los Angeles, told me that the Latino experience suggests that "being American simply means buying a house with a mortgage and getting ahead -- there is no agreement anymore on culture, only on economics." Seventy-five years ago D. H. Lawrence called America a homeland "of the pocket" and not "of the blood."
Immigrant dynamism coupled with Asian as well as Latino mestizo-ization are the central facts of late-twentieth-century Los Angeles. And the reality is richer still, as Indian immigrants buy up Artesia, next to Cerritos, and Iranian immigrants, after buying many properties in Beverly Hills, buy now in nearby Westwood. "South Central is no longer a burnt-out core, and that is partly because of Latino immigrants," Rodriguez said. "Because Latinos came in at the bottom, a pool of home buyers existed for upwardly mobile blacks who needed to sell their properties and escape South Central and Watts for racially mixed, middle-class areas. Leftists talk of blacks being 'displaced,' but that disparages the very blacks who have succeeded. Is it 'displacement' to climb your way out of the ghetto?"
RANGE County, which forms the southern part of greater Los Angeles, is, along with Westchester, Marin, and Dade, among the few counties in America that are household names. Orange County is America's most fully evolved urban pod, in which alliances are based on technology rather than geography and classic definitions of city and suburb no longer apply. Perhaps the county -- larger and less dense than the largest cities but smaller than the smallest states -- will replace the city as the civic center of the future. Already the western Kansas City suburbs, which I had visited earlier, are called Johnson County, and the prosperous Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., are called Montgomery County.
Orange County -- "a major airport in search of a city" -- stands for what everybody hates about the suburbs, with their crass affluence and neither-nor landscape. It is often described as 782 square miles of dull residential streets, malls, and office parks without a downtown. And it is notorious for the 1994 bankruptcy of its treasury, the result of trying to fund its operations not through high taxes but through risky investments. I was prepared to hate Orange County. I came away respecting it, more intrigued than I had been by many "exotic" and "romantic" cities.
Parts of Orange County are beautiful, and the county works. If it were a state, its economy would be roughly equal to Arizona's; if it were a country, its economy would rank among the top thirty or so in the world. About a third of the firms in the county are involved in international trade, and they run the gamut of high-technology products. Orange County is now what Johnson County and other suburban pods I visited in the Midwest could become: a multiracial world trade center linked to overseas cities by direct flights -- say, between Omaha and Beijing and Kansas City and Paris. (Since the late 1980s the export sectors of many local economies in America have grown dramatically; from 1987 to 1995 by 200 percent in California, 250 percent in Utah, and 375 percent in Idaho.)
The received impression that Orange County's 2.6 million residents are "white bread" is false. Almost a quarter of the county's population is Latino, two and a half times the national average; 11 percent is Asian, nearly three times the national average. Only two percent of the population is black -- one sixth the national average.
Another false perception of Orange County is that there is no there there. In fact there are many theres there. The county comprises twenty-eight separate municipalities, many with their own centers. The term "suburb" does not properly describe this advanced, polycentric urban pod. Because these centers do not resemble traditional downtowns, they are overlooked by people whose eyes have yet to adjust to the post-industrial age.
DROVE first to Newport Beach, one of Orange County's municipalities, to see Dennis Macheski, a real-estate consultant who worked in a well-appointed two-story office complex beside the Pacific. "The myth that people in places like Orange County spend an inordinate amount of time in their cars is wrong," Macheski began. "The average commute in the United States is twenty-two minutes. In southern California it is twenty-five minutes -- almost the average. That's because almost everyone in the area works close to home. The jobs are no longer in the city -- they're right here, in post-suburbia, or whatever you want to call it. Even in the Inland Empire, whose suburbs are the least developed and attractive, seventy percent of the residents work locally. Nobody in the suburbs needs to drive more than thirty minutes to a great restaurant or a theater." In fact, established post-suburban regions like Orange County and northern New Jersey rank high nationally on availability of cultural venues. "We're no longer a suburb. Affluent New York City bedroom communities average fifteen hundred persons per square mile. Orange County's average density is six thousand. So we're far more urban in many respects than parts of New York."
"Tell me about the future of greater Los Angeles and the United States in terms of real-estate patterns," I said.
"Fifteen years hence we will be bigger. Nothing will stop us. Instead of fifteen million in greater Los Angeles we'll be eighteen million. Two thirds of the new people will be in outlying areas as the urban region spreads farther. The same will be true for Las Vegas, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, cities in Colorado, and elsewhere. Two thirds will be homeowners, but only one quarter will be married with children. There will be more and more nontraditional families and singles.
"The number who work at home and telecommute may double, from two to three percent of homeowners to six percent. But so what? It's still just six percent. Because media people travel in the same circles as telecommuters, they exaggerate their importance, but in the real-estate business we know that most people -- no matter what wonders technology brings -- want to be reasonably close to the action in urban regions.
"Otherwise the two big immigrations will continue, because the economy requires highly educated Asians to work in high tech, and low-skilled Latinos to be the housekeepers and gardeners, among other jobs, for the high-tech people. These are the people who will largely account for the increased growth of urban regions across America. In greater Los Angeles the black population grows at one percent a year, but the Asian-Latino population grows at three percent. Even in California politicians have proved that they lack the will and the ability to stop immigration. Proposition 187 [an effort to deny benefits to noncitizens] was directed against the poor -- nobody thought the worse of Asians or middle-class Latinos. The result, of course, was merely to encourage more Latinos to apply for citizenship. Corporations will determine immigration: if they need highly skilled workers in defense and software industries, they will recruit them in one form or another from Asia and other places."
As I had been told over and over again by businesspeople and other experts, it is far more cost-efficient to import the rest of the world's talent than to train citizens at home, especially when weak or nonexistent national education standards and insufficient tax revenues have been the ruination of many local schools. For the low-skilled worker, U.S. citizenship confers less advantage than it used to, because those with higher skills will get the well-paying jobs anyway and become citizens in the process.
Macheski's analysis does not contradict Gregory Rodriguez's. The housekeepers and gardeners Macheski referred to are first-generation Mexican-American; the skilled Latino middle-class workers Rodriguez documents are usually second- or third-generation.
EFORE you leave Newport Beach, go see the Fashion Island Mall," Macheski suggested.
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"But I've seen malls before," I told him.
"See this one -- it's really affluent and evolved. Believe me, it's worth it."
It was. From Macheski's office I drove past two more office campuses and then into a large parking lot. I ascended a wide stairway and entered the mall -- an outdoor labyrinth of crowded pedestrian streets punctuated with large clay pots full of bright-red geraniums, and storefronts that mixed neoclassical and baroque styles with red-tiled roofs. There was a fountain shooting pellets of ice, and jewelry carts made of hand-tooled wood painted in rich earthen shades standing in the middle of a sidewalk that was laid with brilliant tiles. The geometric sweep of marble, sea-green wrought iron, and terra-cotta partially obscured by bougainvillea vines made for a brilliant mixture of late-twentieth-century abstractions and nineteenth-century intimacy and rusticity; I was as impressed as I had been when I saw the great squares of medieval Bukhara and Samarkand. I stood in an atrium made of pink and cream stone, veined marble, terra-cotta, what looked like malachite, and chrome alloys. Here postmodernism, the architectural style characterized by eclectic juxtapositions, was fully articulated. Malls in affluent pods of the Midwest may soon look like this.
Of course, the year-round warmth of southern California helps: it allows for the outdoor setting, and for the flowers that soften industrial aspects of the architecture. Still, I thought about what Joel Garreau suggests in Edge City(1991): a beautiful urban setting like Venice once seemed crass too, to sophisticated people of the age; malls and office parks are only early phases of an architecture that might become equally lovely as it develops. Are the souks of Damascus or Fez truly more beautiful than the Fashion Island Mall? Not to me. But the Damascus and Fez souks do have one feature they share with ancient and medieval marketplaces and not with this one: they bustle with activity and chatter. The shoppers at Fashion Island Mall, unlike the less-wealthy crowd at Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade, were quiet. Conversations were so few as to be memorable. I recall a group of men and women in business attire at a café table with open account books and spreadsheets, talking softly about a building plan. Otherwise, smooth elevator music was all I heard.
Alladi Venkatesh, of the Graduate School of Management at the University of California at Irvine, describes the Nordstrom's at nearby South Coast Plaza as "both a shopping complex and a fantasy land," where a shopper can try on a pair of Italian shoes while a live pianist plays Chopin. I saw similar scenes at Fashion Island Mall. The pursuit of style, whether in art, architecture, or the flesh (and physical comfort and high fashion are now much more widely available than in the past), may be the ultimate goal of the good life. But its side effect is social fragmentation: the threatening and unsightly poor are kept out of sight, and, as usual, people choose to live in exclusive residential areas.
Libertarianism -- the politics of many Orange County residents -- is the ideological companion of such fragmentation, favoring individual choice on such social issues as abortion and marijuana use along with fiscal conservatism and tax cuts. Libertarians say, "Leave me alone to live my life and don't bother me with paying to help less-fortunate citizens." Fashion Island Mall suggested how the urban pods I saw in western St. Louis and western Omaha could one day be as aesthetically agreeable as they were already economically efficient. But I wondered whether the new urban civilization evinced by this mall could also foster traditional patriotism or civic virtue.
Robert D. Kaplan is a contributing editor of The Atlantic. His article in this issue will appear, in somewhat different form, in his new book, An Empire Wilderness: Travels Into America's Future, to be published by Random House in late summer.
Copyright © 1998 by The Atlantic Monthly Company. All rights reserved.
The Atlantic Monthly; August 1998; Travels Into America's Future; Volume 282, No. 2; pages 37 - 61.


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Wild weather across the country was the focus of conversation at a meeting of national transportation leaders in Burlington Monday.
Vermont Transportation Secretary Brian Searles talked about Vermont's experiences with Tropical Storm Irene and other weather-related incidents that have hammered the state in the past few years.
The goal of the conference is to help states prioritize spending and create a plan to move forward, both in cases of weather emergencies like Tropical Storm Irene and in long-term planning. And many say Vermont's responses are helping lead the way.
"We're excited to learn from Vermont and see how fast-- I mean, they repaired and replaced a road in 18 days. That's just unheard of around the country. So, everyone here is anxiously waiting to see how Vermont did that. And likewise, I'm sure Vermont is going to be picking up pieces from around the country," said Carlos Braceras, the executive director of the Utah Department of Transportation.
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A White House Heritage High School student's mother said it's a miracle her son is alive after suffering a critical head injury while trying to reenact a stunt he saw on YouTube. In the stunt, the teen tried to run across the top of a car driven at about 10 miles-per-hour by his best friend. Cody Horn, 18, jumped on to the hood, but lost his footing and fell hitting his head on the road. He was knocked unconscious and had a large gash on his head. Horn was transported by Vanderbilt University Medical Center's LifeFlight in critical condition. He has since been released from the hospital and is at home recovering. He suffers from a concussion, a large cut on his head and possible swelling of the brain. "When they arrived on the scene, [Horn] was laying on the pavement unresponsive," White House Police Chief Pat Brady said."He was completely knocked out cold and had a big gash on his head," Brady continued.White House police plan to turn the case over to the Robertson County district attorney's office to decide if the teen's friend who was driving the car will be charged. Horn's mother told Nashville's News 2 that her son and his friend are good boys who made a bad decision. "[They] are like brothers," Kimberley Horn Fram said. "Adam did not do anything on purpose."She continued, "It was the spur of the moment and they did something very foolish."Fram thanked everyone for their outpouring of support and prayers, as well as urged others not to attempt similar stunts. "I hope and I pray that if there are any other teenagers out there that want to copy a foolish act they reconsider," she said. Chief Brady also warned others of the consequences of recreating stunts seen on the Internet or television. "If there is a lesson in this," he said, "it is 30 seconds of a bad decision can cost you your life."Chief Brady continued, "These kids, from everything we have heard, are great kids We have never had any trouble out of them."Fram said Horn could return to school in the coming days. He was up and walking for short periods of time. Robertson County School officials said students at White House Heritage High School, where both teens are seniors, were shaken by the incident. The assistant principal sent an e-mail updating all teachers about Horn's condition so they could update students who asked throughout the day. The school district did not comment further saying the incident was not school related.
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WILLIAMS LAKE — The company behind the New Prosperity mine is objecting to a proposal by an aboriginal band to hold a hearing in private with federal regulators about how the proposed site will affect ancestral graves.
Taseko Mines Ltd. says the request for a private meeting submitted by the Xeni Gwet'in last Friday is inappropriate and should have been filed earlier.
The Gwet'in say they are concerned graves near the proposed mine operations will be desecrated if their locations are made public and it wants only those who have signed a confidentiality agreement, including officials from the company, to be able to hear their concerns.
The review panel holds hearings on the road this week as it travels to First Nations communities around the proposed gold-copper mine, which would be located 125 kilometres southwest of Williams Lake.
Critics fear the billion-dollar mine will destroy culturally significant Fish Lake and they doubt Taseko's claim that the plan has been revised and the lake will be spared.
Although the New Prosperity mine has previously failed to pass the federal environmental assessment process, the B.C. government approved it in 2010, finding that economic benefits outweigh environmental considerations.


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A year in the making, it's finally here. 12 diverse incredible tracks, produced by Jesse Barrera, featuring the talents of Tori Kelly & Alan Ladan. With mastering from UE Nastasi at Sterling Sound (Gym Class Heroes, Panic At The Disco) & artwork by Vochelle Yum.
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Time to go egg Tucker's house.
As I think I continue to look longingly at Frank and Devlin wishing it was me he was kissing. Frowning I turn my attention to Mikey who is now sitting next to me. My older cousin is watching me through narrow eyes. What is his problem?
"What?" I ask him.
"Something bothering you?" he replies.
"I'm… fine."
Mikey nods before leaning closer to me, "You have a thing for Frank, don't you?"
This question catches me off guard but I don't let it show, "Seriously Mikey? No, he's my best friend."
"You've been different around him these past few weeks."
"Different, how?" I ask genuinely curious. If he's noticed things maybe other people have to. That would be really bad.
"It's like you're in physical pain every time she kisses him. Every time you're together you act like a teenager in love. The way you look at him with those eyes…."
"That's… ridiculous."
"Is it?"
I gulp, really wishing this wasn't happening. Mikey couldn't possibly have figured it out because if he knows so does Gerard.
"How long have you known?"
"A few weeks."
"Is it really that obvious?"
"Yes. You blush every time he looks at you."
I clench my eyes shut, pinching the bridge of my nose, trying not to cry. This is absolutely terrible. The only thing that could possibly make it worse if a certain someone knows.
"Fuck. Do you think he knows?"
"I think he's oblivious. Either that or he's blinding himself."
"What about the devil?"
"Devlin definitely knows."
"And Gerard?" I ask hoping he says no.
"The one who first brought it to my attention," Mikey answers.
"Fucking, fuck, shit, fuck," I groan.
"Uh-oh," I hear Frank say.
Then he appears beside me on the couch, Devlin sitting on his lap, their hands locked together, her fingers filling in the gaps mine had filled just a few minutes ago. Mikey and I both look at him.
"She only busts out the fucking, fuck, shit, fuck when something is really bad," Frank explains to a confused looking Devlin. "What's going on?"
"She's upset about… Gerard," Mikey say telling part of the truth.
"What's wrong with Gerard?"
"He's going to college tomorrow and he never calls cause of this girl named Kristy…his girlfriend. Amber doesn't like her too much," Mikey continues surprisingly telling the complete truth. I envy this kids ability to think on his feet.
Frank gives me a sympathetic smile, squeezing my hand, "Maybe she's right for him, Ambo."
I can feel my cheeks burn at the mention of my nickname. Frank is the only one allowed to use it cause we're the only ones who fully understands the meaning behind it. If anyone else used it the name just wouldn't be special. I can see the angered look Devlin shoots me. Maybe Frank doesn't have a nickname for her.
"God, I hope not," I answer referring to Devlin.
"Come on, let's go egg Tucker's house," Frank says as Devlin and him stand up.
Before Frank can offer me his hand, Devlin pulls him towards the small group of our friends who are now each holding a cartoon of eggs. Tonight is going to be amazing even if Frank is with the devil. Grabbing two cartoons of eggs I rush after the rest of our group, hollering and shouting. No one really cares if we get caught tonight.
Once we reach Tucker's house, a good ten fifteen minutes run from Liz's, I am almost out of breath. Although I'm gasping for air I throw eggs as high up on the house as possible, others tossing rolls of toilet paper. As long as we don't break a window we should be good.
Ten minutes later I've got my breath back but all my eggs are out. It looks like other people are experiencing the same dilemma. Spotting a roll of toilet paper I toss it up towards the roof, a stream of paper flowing out behind it.
"Sink that motherfucker!" I holler as Frank comes up behind me.
"Nice one," he says before wrapping his arms around my waist, lifting me up and spinning me around. Frank does this often and before it never meant anything, now it makes my stomach do flips.
Devlin, who spots us, looks upset as she stomps over, "Sorry to interrupt but we should probably go before someone calls the cops.
"Good idea. C'mon," Frank says, taking her hand instead of mine and leading her back up the street.
The rest of our group follows along behind. I stare in envy at their clasped hands. I can feel tears burning in my eyes and quickly look away only to catch Mikey starting at me for the second time tonight. As I go to flip him off, I feel fingers slip between mine.
"I'll hold your hand," he whispers to me with his dorky smile.
"Doesn't have the same effect when it's your cousin," I respond punching his arm lightly. Mikey just laughs along with me, our hands still held together.
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The play presents a romantic sentimental tale of youthful indiscretion in a New England town on Independence Day, 1906. Richard is the adolescent son of the local newspaper publisher; forbidden to court the girl next door by her father, Richard rebels - via "forbidden" literature, a roadhouse and the local bar girl. Through the intercession of garrulous Uncle Sid, a forgiving mother and an understanding father, Richard's dilemmas are eventually (and whimsically) solved. If O'Neill's masterworks LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT and A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN are portraits of his family as they really were, AH, WILDERNESS depicts the family he wished he had.
An urban fantasy in which one young woman must fight for survival in a world turned upside down. This play about God, credit card debt, the apocalypse, and the hope for a brighter future is at times comical and entertaining, yet it also offers the audience a profound look at the best and worst of humanity. Winner of the 1993 Obie Award for playwriting. "Rivera's cruelty slanted world view...is fascinating." - NY Post. Rivera's play is angry, fearsome, fantastic, and poetically frenzied, without surrendering either its sanity or its mordant sense of humor," - Village Voice.
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Who you callin' trashy? New England is embracing the phrase as chefs, scientists and commercial fisheries combine forces to offer sustainable seafood and educate diners on the impact of global warming.
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"Trash fish" dining is catching on as chefs become more innovative in sourcing sustainable seafood.
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Think Wall Street trading is brutal? Head to the the South Bronx, where cutthroat deals are made in the dead of night on a massive concrete floor that embodies the nation's largest fish market.
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Hurricane Sandy did millions of dollars' worth of damage to the fishing industry, but the National Flood insurance program recently passed by Congress does not include any assistance.
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American Contract Bridge League
The American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) is the largest contract bridge organization in North America.[1] It promotes the game of bridge in the United States, Mexico, Bermuda, and Canada, and is a member of the World Bridge Federation.[2] ACBL games and tournaments use the duplicate bridge method of scoring, where the luck of getting a series of good hands doesn't necessarily mean a better score.
The ACBL, a not-for-profit organization, was founded in 1937[1] in New York City and later moved its company headquarters to Greenwich, Connecticut. ACBL moved from Greenwich, Connecticut to Memphis, Tennessee in 1971[3] and to Horn Lake, Mississippi in 2010.[4] It has a full-time staff of 75 employees in the headquarters, plus about 170 tournament directors throughout the country.[1] As of 2009[update] it had more than 160,000 members.[1] Members receive the Bridge Bulletin magazine, but for many of them, the most significant role of the ACBL is its sanctioning of club games and tournaments to award masterpoints. If an event has the ACBL sanction, then the highest-finishing players are awarded specified numbers of masterpoints, which can be recorded with the ACBL. Most players value the increase in their masterpoint total as a measure of their success at the game. Unlike the Elo rating system developed for chess, the masterpoint system is strictly one of accumulation. A player's masterpoint total can never decline.
Besides the Bridge Bulletin, other ACBL publications include the Laws of Duplicate Bridge (named Laws of Duplicate Contract Bridge until 2008), the ACBL Bridge Series of lessons for beginners, and free instructional software. The ACBL certifies bridge teachers and club directors.
Three times a year, in the spring, summer, and fall, the ACBL holds the North American Bridge Championships (NABC). The NABC extends over eleven days and includes many different events. The location of the NABC is rotated among major cities. Each is typically attended by thousands of players. The 2009 Summer Nationals in Washington, DC had 14,115 total tables played over the 11 days.[5]
The ACBL has also published the ACBL Bridge Series, a series of books written by Audrey Grant and designed to teach the game to beginners, as well as to help more experienced players review and expand upon their knowledge of the game.
The administrative headquarters of the ACBL, located in Horn Lake, Mississippi, also houses its Hall of Fame, library and museum.[1][3]
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- ^ a b c d e Commercial Appeal: Largest bridge group in country moving from Memphis to Horn Lake
- ^ "Zone 2- ACBL". World Bridge Federation. Retrieved 2009-07-29.
- ^ a b DeSoto Times Tribune: Horn Lake gets $3 million project
- ^ ACBL Bridge Bulletin, August 2010, page 9.
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Director of the advocacy group Project Islamic Hope called "Django Unchained" action figures "a slap in the face of our ancestors."
NEW YORK — Slavery-era action figures tied to Quentin Tarantino's film "Django Unchained" are raising questions about whether they're appropriate.
A line of figures of the movie's main characters is on sale online, manufactured by toymaker NECA in partnership with The Weinstein Co.
Najee Ali, director of the advocacy group Project Islamic Hope, is planning a news conference Tuesday with other Los Angeles black community leaders calling for the removal of the toys from the market.
Ali called the action figures "a slap in the face of our ancestors."
"We were outraged," said Ali, upon learning of the figures. "We feel that it trivializes the horrors of slavery and what African Americans experienced."
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The action figures are collectibles recommended for people older than 17. Tarantino has had such figures made for all of his films, including his last, "Inglourious Basterds." That film, set in Nazi Germany, also reveled in a historical revenge fantasy.
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Ali made clear his objections were not with the film "Django Unchained," which he said he liked and had seen twice.
Though controversial in its unusual melding of historical atrocity and movie mayhem, "Django Unchained" has proven a hit at the box office, where it has earned $106.3 million since opening Christmas. It's also been nominated for five Golden Globes.
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The decision of whether to circumcise my son or not was the hardest parenting decision I have made in my nearly five years as a parent. As a Jewish mother, I was especially torn because even though I'm more culturally than spiritually Jewish, the tradition in my culture made it very hard for me to consider not making the cut.
Almost from the moment we found out the baby had boy parts, my husband and I dreaded the idea that we had to make this choice. And yet, I'm glad we had the choice to make.
One woman's crusade to end circumcision is having repercussions all over the country, though the bans have only been truly explored in the Bay Area (where it's on the ballot this fall) and now in Santa Monica, California.
It's repulsive. For so many reasons.
As a Jewish parent, I take great offense to the notion that somehow one woman's distaste for a cultural practice could derail something we Jews have done since the dawn of our faith. It's unconscionable that something Jews and Muslims feel is commanded by G-d would be banned by the government.
But there are even health reasons for doing it. The American Academy of Pediatrics has always taken a neutral approach to the issue, but even they are amending their recommendations to stress the health benefits a bit more, namely the role of circumcision in preventing HIV transmission. They aren't outright recommending it, but they're saying it's a choice every parent ought to have. And it's one San Francisco and now Santa Monica would like to take from us.
Never mind that the potential ban is anti-Semitic (which it is). Never mind that the potential ban completely ignores any health benefits circumcision gives. Mostly, this is an attack on personal freedoms, on our ability to dictate what is right for us and our family. I hated making the choice, but I am glad I had the choice to make.
The fact is, part of being a parent is making hard choices. If we start banning all the things we find distasteful and unnecessary, we would be banning everything from earrings to braces and beyond.
I hated everything about making that choice. I hated talking to our pediatrician on the phone for a total of three hours. I hated crying when I thought of both choices. And I hated feeling cultural pressure to do something I didn't necessarily think I would do otherwise. But in the end, standing at the bris, I felt strong. Even as I also felt my heart breaking (I was eight days postpartum!) and had tears streaming down my face, I realized it was a good thing. What we did, we ultimately did with intention and love, in a ceremony standing right beside him. We did it because we love our son and want him to be part of our cultural history. We did what we felt was right for him.
This is the same way any parent makes a choice. You hold your breath and you hope it's the right one. What you don't do is become so self-righteous and sanctimonious in your own choice that you invalidate the choices of others.
I respect and love my friends who chose not to circumcise, but I expect that same respect and love in return. I thought just as long and hard and did just as much research as they did. I hated making that choice, but I was glad I had one.
Do you support the circumcision ban?
Amber-->As I previously stated, STDs is not a good argument to circumsize. I, honestly, can't stand it when people use that as a reasoning of why circumcision is better. That and how "unclean" it is to not be snipped. While I respect a person's choice to do it or not, those are two things that are easily argued against so I'm not sure why people insist on using those "points" in a debate.
Katie-->Men have made claims that after circumsicion (as an adult) their sexual pleasure was, in fact, decreased. The foreskin actually is the most sensitive part of the penis.
This is sick. It is your sons penis not yours. His body his choice. You have no right. Should all little girls get their clitoral hood cut off when they are born? No! Same with boys. These poor baby boys are being mutilated daily. If you truly loved your son, you would leave him WHOLE!!
No I dont support it. I think its giving the government the choice rather then leaving the choice to the parent. Its fine that that woman doesnt like it.. if she doesnt like it she shouldnt do it. But why take away everyone elses rights because she doesnt agree with it? Why is she making it her mission to take the rights away from people? If people are able to give away their rights to make a choice about this.. then what will be next?
No I don't support it.
Just an FYI, circumcision was at one time practiced to help STOP little boys from masturbating. It was thought that removing that extra sensitive skin would help stop young boys from getting unwanted erections. I agree that just because this is common and has been going on for ever that people don't bother looking at what the are doing and WHY they are doing it.
Your actually buying this hook line and sinker you have to be a moron to believe this!!! Circumcision was started during the bible times by God what does that have to do with master bating??? To me its up to the parents if you can abort a baby who's body isnt yours to abort and kill then why not be the one making the choice for your son to be circ??? I see no difference between the two...
"I think its giving the government the choice rather then leaving the choice to the parent."
This isn't a choice that belong to parents. It's not their penis.


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Should widespread adoption of advanced climate change technologies be pursued, as guided by science, it would likely need to be supported by appropriate technology policy. While some CCTP-supported advanced technologies may be sufficiently attractive, for a variety of reasons, to find their way into the marketplace at a large scale without supporting policy or incentives, others would not. Even with further technical progress, technologies that capture or sequester CO2, for example, or others that afford certain climate change-related advantages, are expected to remain more expensive than competing technologies that do not.
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but i just wanted to say how awesome it is to be a part of this community. let me explain a little why i posted. Everyday i come on to ca.org and look around and post. i see professionals and ametuers alike. i get helpful hints and tips and try to give some when i can. in my opinion have grown a lot as an artist since coming here. ca.org is like a part of my life now. its a weird way to look at it, but it is. thanks everyone for making this place so kick ass!
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There are 3 sides to every story. Yours, mine and THE TRUTH.
are you poiting at me or the womans breasts massacre? lol
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I think this might turn into one of those threads were we express our love towards the community. We`re like some freaky cult.
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I feel the same way bro...
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weird.. i was thinking about making a topic called "What you love about CA"
this should be made into an official smiley..
Yep this site is awesome. Don't remember a day since I've signed on that i havent been here.
"Do the best that you wanna do." -My personal quote.
Sketchbook Thread. Look at it, rate it, post and crit on it.
At you buddy....at you.....Originally Posted by thebluepuppyare you poiting at me or the womans breasts massacre? lol
There are 3 sides to every story. Yours, mine and THE TRUTH.
yeah, conceptart rocks. K, on the count of 3 everyone down their "Special lemonade" so we can meet up with the mothership *cue P-Funk*
seriously, thanks to everyone, this is surely one heck of a community
CA= Cultists Assimilated....
oooohhhh yeah!!
we all know this place rocks!
seriously, having a community is important. because of this site, i now have a weekly sketch group with some awesome artists and all around kick ass people.
plus i get to give people i don't know a hard time about their drawings 8)
it's about the love. . . .
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no man, keep sprayin' things to IRC please
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yuh, it's great. met some great people here.
I suck considerably less now than when I first registered. Just being around skill and experience is very helpful for a developing artist. Some people say that you aren't really guaranteed crits when you post something here, but in RIC you pop a link in, ask for suggestions, and you get something, usually. From pros or experienced students and so forth. And the people are nice, and the debate is focused and tough. To think I was thinking of Gaia as my "art boards" for awhile before finding this place...
This is my life, if I say anymore I'll probably write a 300 page novel why....so I won't....I love you all, now someone give me some L.O.V.E.
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this thread is turning weird !
I'm a manky artist, don't mess with me
true!Originally Posted by Forgethis thread is turning weird !
But, this is weird....this is how my typical morning works....get up, coffee&cigarette....check CA....wake up. Im assimilated...NNNOOOOO!
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Fucking thrash metal till death! \m/ Hey guys, I'm Lexi and I love to write when ever I get a chance but sense I go to an arts school for jazz bass as a music major and in a thrash band out of school I never get a chance to write but when I do I try and put all my effort into keeping that story going. Sometimes it doesn't work out too well though, as you may know. A little bit about me: Bands I like: Megadeth, Anthrax, Metallica, Slayer, Death Angel, Dethklock, Testament, Suicidal Tendencies, Infectious Grooves, Gama Bomb, Havok, HeXeN, DRI, Ozzy Osborne, Guns n Roses, Lich King, Revocation, Motorhead, Skeletonwitch. Montley Crue, Poison, Twisted Sister and a bunch of other people I can't remember off the top of my head right now lol and also a hand full of underground bands. REPRESENT! \m/ I(I also like a lot of Jazz) Favorite bassist: Robert Trujillo My band is named Carnage. We play out at underground venues like the Webster. Our page is www.carnagetheband.com I'm from Connecticut and a small ass boring town that I really don't like and go to an arts school where I am currently a junior. (fucking finally) My best friends and family mean the world to me and I would never be able to live with out them. Keep it brutal people! \m/ hope you enjoy my story telling.
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How To Make a Weighted Blanket for Sensory Kids
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Earlier this month we talked about Designing For Children With Autism, and several readers stressed the importance of addressing a child's sensory needs. Weighted blankets can be incredibly effective but aren't always the cutest.
Mama Pickles over at The Squishy Pickles was disappointed to learn that a weighted blanket from a therapy catalog would cost her a small fortune and there was no weighted option in the Pottery Barn Kids collection that she loved. So she made one from scratch for her sensory kid, then she posted a tutorial. Check it out right here.
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I would like to point out that Mama Pickles has a disclaimer on it... You probably should work with an OT to ensure you are making it the correct weight. My autistic son has many adverse reactions to weighted things... Just because a person may have autism, doesn't mean this would necessarily work for that person.


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