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Photo by Ted Soqui
The driver is breaking the law again. Tearing like a tornado across the Mojave wastelands in a rented white Ford Explorer. Hands at 10 and 2. Chewing highway. Approaching his favorite speed: 90 mph. What would the honorable folks at Disneys Touchstone Pictures think?
Had they done a background check before anteing up for this buggy, theyd have known it would be like this. Wes Anderson is a recidivist. The last time he blazed through the Southwest, the law finally caught up with him in Van Horn, Texas. When the cop ran the registration and discovered Anderson had another speeding ticket besides the one he was writing, he threatened jail time. But first, he thought, lets check the trunk to see what kind of contraband this scofflaw is running across state lines.
In the trunk, the cop found a portrait of Herman Blume, the character played by Bill Murray in Andersons latest film, Rushmore. The painting anchors the films opening shot. In it, Blume sits in front of his disaffected movie family, looking like Ted Turner on painkillers. Set against a burnt-orange curtain, the Blume family portrait lingers onscreen an uncomfortable 10 seconds before the curtain pulls back and the movie starts. Clearly, somebodys meant to get the picture.
"Is that that guy from Groundhog Day?" the cop asked Anderson.
Anderson replied that yes, indeed, the face in the painting was Bill Murrays.
"Then I went into my song and dance," he says.
The "song and dance" is that point during a pullover when Anderson humbly explains that he is a movie director on an errand of vital importance to the project. In this case, say, delivering the painting to Mr. Murray himself for approval.
"The cop ended up calling the judge at midnight, and I paid by credit card."
Then there was the time a couple years ago when a policeman in Tennessee pulled him over for doing 90 but knocked it down to 80 after the song and dance.
"The cop was really nice. He had a great accent. He thought it was really something that we were both the same age," Anderson recalls. "I thought he had some sadness about being only 27 and being an authority figure."
Anderson has learned that part of Hollywoods magic is how it cools out the trigger finger of authority. The strategy in case we get pulled over, which seems like a safe bet given Andersons preferred speed, is for me to wave the tape recorder conspicuously and ask the officer if I can get the whole thing on record for the story Im doing. The cop will ask what story, and . . .
"Then Ill downplay it, like, Oh, Jeez, Im embarrassed," says Anderson. And the song and dance will be on.
Dont blame him for planning for the inevitable. When you drive as much as Wes Anderson does, somewhere in the John Madden range, youre bound to rack up moving violations. Its best to have a strategy. Hot chicks cry. He does his song and dance.
Today hes on the road from Los Angeles to New York, with a first stop scheduled for Amarillo, Texas. Any way you measure, its quite a haul, but its nothing compared to the larger journey of an artist who has come into his own. On that road, Anderson is somewhere between great expectations and deliverance. Theres a lot of emotional investment in how he negotiates this stretch, and not just his own. Many critics appear ready to anoint him as a favorite son. Some are even saying that Rushmore, just his second feature following the critically praised but largely ignored Bottle Rocket, marks his rise to the top of American filmmaking. Rushmores limited showing in December for Academy Award consideration earned it a place on dozens of 1998 Top 10 lists and serious Oscar hype. Premiere magazine has gone so far as to hail the somewhat gawky, 29-year-old upstart as the heir apparent to Allen, Brooks, Lubitsch, Sturges and Keaton. There are, though, dissenting voices in the chorus of praise, and among the naysayers one can sense an eagerness to lash back at whatever revenge-of-the-nerds factor Andersons work represents, like New Times calling the film "self-important" or Time saying it "delights in itself too much."
Even though this crisp Friday in December is a portentous one the day Rushmore opens for a week in New York and Los Angeles the driver is doing his best to ignore the signs along the big journey. Audience reaction? Critical response? Backlash from the early festival fawning? Full houses? Those are the questions crashing around in the world outside the speeding Ford Explorer. For now, Anderson is relieved they are off on the horizons behind and before him. For now, his song and dance is to keep his eyes on the road and his hands upon the wheel. For now, the smaller journey, the one that will take him to Amarillo for a short rest before he drives on, is posing questions.
"Do you want a sandwich from the cooler?"
The driver pats the cooler lid with a casual grace that suggests he feels pretty at home behind the wheel of a rented white Ford Explorer. He ought to. Hes been driv ing one on Disneys dollar since he went home to Houston for Thanksgiving.
"In lieu of In-N-Out Burger?" the passenger asks fearfully.
We are 120 miles into the trip and nearing Barstow. The digital display says we have 185 miles until empty, the voltage is good and the oil life is 99 percent. All systems are go. Were in rhythm, which means we can stop looking ahead and start looking at each other. When youre driv ing 14 hours with someone youve just met, youre going to make some silent assessments. One is that the two people onboard would probably have intimidated each other in high school. The driver unduly pegged as an intellectual snob. The passenger dismissed as a smug jock.
"No. Not in lieu of In-N-Out Burger," the driver decides. "Lets stop at the next In-N-Out!"
Its a little early for that, but when youre driving 14 hours with someone youve just met, a roadside In-N-Out Burger, like a lot of things you thought youd given up, has a certain siren call. Its a bonding thing.
"Hell," says the passenger, "its 12 oclock somewhere. We can even drive through."
"We will drive through, believe me."
A wicked grin slips across the drivers sharp face. With his round glasses and 70s shlub clothes, he looks a bit like Mr. Rogers gone to pot, in pursuit of grease instead of grace. Soon enough, hes ordering double-double with cheese, fries and Coke for the passenger; single with cheese, fries and vanilla shake for himself.
"Can you put it in one of those to-go trays please?" he says to the girl in the window.
We grab the stash and point toward Needles on Interstate 40. The colors of the Mojave brown, blue and fading green clash outside the white bubble of the Ford Explorer. As we dip fries into the same puddle of ketchup, its clear were in this together now. To break the ice, the driver asks the passenger how he typically passes the day. The passenger admits to being in the throes of a debilitating Beverly Hills 90210 addiction (reruns four times daily on FX). Painful admission that it is, it doesnt stop the passenger from lobbying the driver to do for Luke Perry what he did for Bill Murray in Rushmore the inspired casting-against-type that earns the actor rave reviews and shines him in a new light.
"How can you miscast him? As a Mexican or something?" the driver asks.
"I suppose as a bus conductor or an airplane pilot."
"Hed just become that," the driver says with conviction. "Hes such a chameleon."
Alas, ultimately Perry just doesnt have the kind of face that interests Anderson. He likes a face like that of Jason Schwartzman, the 18-year-old acting novice he cast as Max Fischer, the lovesick, mildly sociopathic playwriting prodigy and lead character in Rushmore. The actors face becomes a billboard for teen angst and a sight gag at the same time.
"But Luke really needs this, for the indie credibility!" says the passenger, appealing to the drivers magnanimity.
Finally Anderson relents. "Okay, I think we can do that. I think we can push him through the system. Man, Amarillo is a long ways away. At the moment, were still in California. We still have to go through New Mexico and Arizona, two of the biggest states in the U.S."
Centuries ago, a wise man said even the longest journey begins with the first small steps. The journey of the artist might be the longest and scariest of all. On this path the biggest step is a leap of faith: It is making the terrifying declaration, to yourself at least, that you are chosen, that you possess the tools to be an engineer of the human soul. Thanks to Mrs. Torda, Anderson began groping his way along that path a long time ago. You see, back in 1977, when Andersons parents were getting divorced, his fourth-grade teacher, Mrs. Torda, was into experimental teaching.
"She was doing this thing where she was making everyone do these weird meditation exercises, that thing where you drop a tissue and catch it in the air, you know?" he says. "And while everyone would be doing this meditation thing, she started giving me massages. It was a little odd. It was not a thing I enjoyed. She sized me up as being extremely anxious and a problem."
Part of the problem was that Anderson was embarrassed about the divorce. He saw it as a failure not his necessarily, but the familys. It drove him crazy. He denied it was happening and tried to keep it from everybody. Not surprisingly, the 10-year-old began verbally acting out, telling lies, running through the hallways, throwing things.
"I kept getting in trouble. I kept getting little demerits."
He also started writing plays, of all things. So Mrs. Torda launched a program with Wes where every two or three weeks or so that he didnt get a demerit, she would let him put on another play. There was The Christmas Escape, and also his early mystery classic The Initial Bullet.
"The mystery is solved because its a doctor who has shot this guy and they found these X-rays of the guy with a bullet in his head, and if thats not incriminating enough, the bullet has the doctors initials engraved on it that you can see in the X-ray."
The driver is staring out at the road ahead, smiling wryly. Hes a keen observer of youthful folly, especially his own.
"One of them," he continues, "was set all in cars. That was a big one, because that one, I remember, we did it for the class, then they expanded it for the lower school, and then they did it for the whole school. I was in fourth grade. Yeah, that was a big hit, that play."
The passenger looks into the rear-view, stealing a reflected gaze into the drivers eyes. The past is rolling by in sequence like the broken lines on the highway.
"So, when Max says to his rival, Ive written a hit play, what have you done? youre speaking from your heart."
"Yeah, speaking from my heart, except I think Owen [Wilson, his best friend and writing partner] might have written that line."
"Owens speaking from your heart."
Theres a long pause, as if Anderson is trying to scrutinize something ethereal.
"We did an Alamo play, The Battle of the Alamo in three acts, and I was Davy Crockett. And we did The Headless Horseman, in which I played the Headless Horseman and Ichabod Crane."
"You had a grandiose sense of yourself at this time," the passenger suggests.
"Yeah, major ego, because I was" he clears his throat "I had a lot of insecurity, and I guess thats the way it manifested itself."
"Do you remember what kind of affirmations you got when you were putting on your plays?"
"Yeah, the affirmation of me signing autographs for people who didnt want my autograph. You know, I had a pad of paper and I was giving people my autograph. I was kind of standing there finding kids who I thought wanted my autograph and giving it to them. I was sort of feeling like I was a boy wonder."
Anderson chuckles at the thought, unaware of or uninterested in the irony.
"Well," says the passenger, "no one wants anything more in fourth grade than for people to want his autograph."
"Yeah, thats right. I tried to create a market for that."
What do you get when you pay $5 billion to reroute the Colorado River 336 miles north and over 1,200 feet uphill to a desert cauldron fit only for rattlesnakes and scorpions, then decide the damned (literally) water is unfit for drinking but perfectly fit to be the new home of the London Bridge, which is transported and rebuilt brick by brick at a cost of more than $11 million and is now the centerpiece of a town that hosts the London Arms Pub and the Sherwood Forest Nursery?
The citizens of Arizona got Lake Havasu City.
The sign in front of the Pilot gas station near Lake Havasu City doesnt say Welcome to the Biggest Mistake in the West, but it does say Welcome. And our gas gauge says empty. So at 2 p.m. and 320 miles into the trip, we stop.
During the last stretch of California, we passed a coyote on one side of the road and an attractive female hitchhiker in red pants on the other. The driver was concerned for both, especially the woman in red pants.
"Those red pants are going to get her picked up at some point," he said plaintively. "I just hope its the right person."
Inside the Pilot station, the Chipmunks are singing "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth, my two front teeth." Coyotes, singing Chipmunks, the desert, its all part of Christmas in Southern California. No wonder Bret Easton Ellis left with a bad taste in his mouth. But the driver seems supremely untouched by it all, even the road ahead of him. Hes got the air-conditioned solution. Hes got books by Don DeLillo, Tom Wolfe, Robert Evans and Roald Dahl on tape. Hes got the LBJ tapes. Hes got a towel in the travel bag. Hes got the Pixies, Rolling Stones, Elliott Smith and his best friends girlfriend (Sheryl Crow) on CD. Hes got a cooler full of sandwiches and chocolate-chip cookies. For the time being, hes got the world at bay.
The characters populating Andersons movies are the same, existing in a heightened, insular world of their own making. In Bottle Rocket, the three friends at the films core barely come in contact with anything or anyone that could be mistaken for life as most of us know it. When they do, the outcome isnt good.
"Theres never a world, theres never a real world that theyre involved with," Anderson explains. "Theyre doing their own thing. It looks kind of like this." He waves at a flat, brown field outside the window of the Ford Explorer.
In much the same way, Rushmore focuses on the emotional lives of the kids orbiting around Rushmore Academy, particularly Maxs schoolmates. Adults, for the most part, arent allowed in the game unless they play by Maxs rules. When they dont, theres trouble.
"The thing I always think about with these movies, I always think a lot about Charlie Brown," he says. "You know how in Charlie Brown, in Peanuts, they are in their own little world? Theres only a group of kids. It has a mood all its own."
By focusing on this alternate reality, Anderson turns his camera into a microscope and his movies into lab studies. Whats under the glass, to a large degree, is the sustainability of friendship and the things people do when friendships are tested. Max in Rushmore and Dignan (played by Owen Wilson) in Bottle Rocket are the Charlie Browns of these little worlds, where things go awry when a storm blows into the emotional harbor of friendship.
"Both these movies are about friendships that get put through weird tests and that are renewed, kind of, you know? That are broken up and renewed, especially if you go through some big things together," he says, "like me and my friends who all did Bottle Rocket together. Our lives are so different from what they were when we started being friends."
When Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson started being friends, they were a couple of kids lollygagging through the tail end of college at the University of Texas. They met in a playwriting class and eventually became roommates. A mutual love of movies and writing proved to be a creatively combustible combination. In time, an idea for a quirky 14-minute short became the first installment of their eventual first script, Bottle Rocket. When the film was made, Owen and his brother Lukes offbeat, charismatic performances landed them on the Hollywood hot list, winning them high-profile movie gigs and Sheryl Crow and Drew Barrymore, respectively. Things changed, all right.
Even though Wes, Owen and Luke presently live together in a ramshackle Tudor in an unfashionable part of L.A., Anderson seems to understand its never going to be the same among the three amigos. The ride from Texas to Hollywood is over, and now that theymade it, theyre certain to go in different directions. They already are. Each is looking for his own home. Its hard not to wonder if the themes in Bottle Rocket and Rushmore are Andersons way of addressing the fear that the real world will impinge on his friendships.
"Yeah," he says, "I mean it happens. Thats the way it happens. But I dont feel like were, right now I feel like our . . ." He searches for the right words, hands staying tight at 10 and 2. "The friendship that gets the most strain is the one between me and Owen. And I feel like thats as strong a friendship now as its ever been, and we still have several movies we want to do together. And I just sort of feel like, its not something that I feel worried about right now."
When Wes Anderson idealizes himself, it is as an artist. He sees himself in a loft in New York, perhaps, with space and light and crazy hair and a breeze through the south-facing windows and the burnished reflection of creativity, emotion and connection bouncing back off the page through his round glasses and into his shy eyes. Something, he says, like Nick Noltes character in "Life Lessons," Martin Scorseses contribution to New York Stories.
"That would be something to aspire to," he says almost wonderingly.
Andersons next steps along the larger journey were little forays into the life he began envisioning for himself. In high school and into college it was time to try on the identity of an artist for size.
At St. Johns, the prep school Anderson attended in his hometown of Houston, where much of Rushmore was shot, he withdrew from the center stage he had provided for himself with the plays and began focusing more on writing.
"Short, like J.D. Salinger short stories," he recalls. "At that point, I sort of felt like I was going to be a writer. Just a story writer. A novelist or something. But I was also doing little movies at the same time. Then the movie stuff just started to take over more and more."
During college, Anderson made creative use of the University of Texas curriculum policies, engineering his course load so that almost all his credits were earned in independent or conference classes. The loose schedule gave him and Owen Wilson time to mine Austins cultural resources.
"We never had any money, so it was kind of limited. There was just a lot of hanging around and reading and going to movies. I was always doing some research. You know, they have this incredible humanities research center called the Harry Ransom Center."
All he could bring into the Ransom Center was a piece of notebook paper and a pencil, but once he was inside, a world populated by artists, writers and filmmakers was his to explore. Some of us spent the better part of our college years pouring beers over our heads. Anderson spent hours researching F. Scott Fitzgerald, François Truffaut and others who would become his cultural heroes.
"I was interested in those people, and just as interested in their lives as I was in their work," Anderson says.
The driver drifts off, and Amarillo is too far away for the passenger to pursue him. Conversations need rest stops, too. Inside the rented Ford Explorer, its basically inert. The miles roll by unheralded except by the digital miles-to-empty reading on the trucks display panel. Finally, the shrill ring of the car phone interrupts the sound of wheels turning. Its Andersons brother Eric in D.C., petitioning Wes to come home for Christmas or New Years or something like that. When the phone is handed to the passenger, Eric picks up where the conversation about college left off, telling of going through old stuff at their fathers house and stumbling upon a box of about 20 post cards Wes sent Eric from college. He says the post cards were bursting with enthusiasm for films and books and the lives Wes was discovering.
"They were the most vibrant things," Eric says. "They just got me excited about anything to do with movies and writing. That was my artistic education."
It wasnt long before Andersons exploratory steps became more determined. He began using the local cable-access stations equipment to make and air what he calls "little, short, stupid little movies." This enabled him to develop basic skills and to hone his eye for the endearing idiosyncrasies of the people in his world. Starting with his landlord.
"That was the main thing," Anderson says, "this landlord documentary."
It all began when he and Wilson, who were roommates by now, started to battle their landlord over his refusal to fix their window cranks. To illustrate the gravity of the issue, Anderson and Wilson staged a break-in of their own apartment. They took some stuff out, messed the place up a little and called the police, blaming it on the broken window cranks. When the police and the landlord arrived, the landlord said it looked like an inside job. The police didnt take it too seriously, either. Things then escalated to where the guys stopped paying rent and the landlord tried taking some of their stuff as collateral.
"We ended up moving in the middle of the night, and he hunted us down with a private investigator," Anderson recalls fondly. "I went to meet him, and I proposed doing this project."
Amazingly, the landlord agreed to fund the documentary, which would run on the access channel, ostensibly to promote Carl Hindler Properties.
"He believed in, like, death penalties for drunk driving, burglary, and he had this pet snake that died and that he had given mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, which didnt work. I said, Well, what was the snakes name? And he said, Ah, we didnt really give it a name, we just called it baby, or snake. And I said, Uh, well, what did you do with the snake after it died? And he said, I have it in the freezer in the back. Id like to take it to a taxidermist."
Anderson continues with his head slightly nodding and a smile escaping. Its as animated as hes been since In-N-Out. "I asked him, Have you ever used a lawsuit as a method of doing business, as a way of pressuring people to get what you want? And he said, All the time. We use it all the time. And were always winning, always winning major settlements. He had this sailboat in his driveway. He liked to just go out and sit on the boat, but he never got the boat in the water. The boat was not seaworthy."
Welcome to Wes Andersons movie milieu, where friends apply nasal breathing strips or dress in yellow jump suits to do armed robberies, as in Bottle Rocket. Or where a sophomore preppie who looks like a discombobulated teen version of Superman-era Christopher Reeve tries to build an aquarium on school grounds to express his love for an older woman, as in Rushmore. Or where, as with the landlord, peculiar individuality is exploited for humor but never derision.
"I didnt do the documentary in a way that was meant to look bad," Anderson explains soberly. "I just thought he was a funny character and I would just try to make it a truthful portrait."
Given all that has happened, the passenger is curious about what the hell the driver thought was going to happen when he and his friends started cooking up those 14-minute installments of their pet project, Bottle Rocket.
"You know, we were hoping we were going to become huge and all that stuff," he says matter-of-factly. "I mean, our ultimate hope was that people are going to see the movie and everybodys going to love it. That kind of thing."
"So, you literally had this naive idea, Hey, lets make a movie with our friends and well just throw everybody in it and well tell our story and the world will love it?"
"Yeah, more or less."
Remember when you were like that? When you and your buddies had your own language, your own style, your own way of looking at things your own world in the larger universe? And you thought to yourself: If we could just capture this, this magic, how cool would that be?
Thats what Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson thought during that senior year at the University of Texas, when they were hanging out and doing the landlord documentary and the Super-8 films about themselves and their friends. They finally made the declaration: We want to make movies, and this thing, this thing that is us, thats gonna be our bottled lightning.
So Wes and Owen went to work on Bottle Rocket with a manic determination. It would start with a staged break-in, an inside job. They wrote a 330-page script. They moved to Dallas, where Owens older brother Andrew worked at an advertising agency and could supply 16mm film, cameras and a crew. They cast themselves and friends. And they made the first 14-minute installment. It wasnt about them, per se, but it did represent how they saw themselves at the time. And it worked.
At least to the degree that in 1994 screenwriter/indie kingpin L.M. Kit Carson passed the short on to producer Polly Platt, who passed it on to writer-director James L. Brooks, who badgered Columbia Pictures into coughing up $5 million for the feature-length version. It would have the same cast - Owen and Luke Wilson in the lead parts, Robert Musgrave as the third wheel, Kumar Pallana as the incompetent safecracker and the same director, Wes Anderson.
"And you felt totally assured in your ability to do this?" the passenger asks.
"Yeah, because theres never any time to have too much self-doubt anyway," Anderson says with the distant tone of someone who is stifling a post-traumatic-stress flashback. "And also, I was of the opinion that we were going to make this thing that everyone was going to love. But at that point, I was operating under total naiveté."
"Whyd you think it was so special?"
"I dont know. Just because it was our thing. I mean, I had nothing else. Our whole lives were dedicated to this, it was a thing that meant something to us. It was based on our own ideas, and we thought they were different from other peoples ideas, and it was just what we were stuck on."
When Anderson speaks of Bottle Rocket, its as if hes talking about a first love. Theres tenderness for what it was, for how it opened up new worlds, but theres also disappointment for everything it didnt turn out to be.
"I was just so personally excited about what it was going to be that I thought, Wait until they see this. Thats why I was so blind-sided."
What blind-sided him was the audience reaction at test screenings in Santa Monica prior to the films release in early 1996.
"When we had our first test screening and it was a disaster, I was just in shock, because I always felt like people were going to . . ." Anderson hesitates, his voice hinting at the distress he felt. "I had it in my mind that people were going to like it. I didnt realize it was a strange movie that only certain people were going to like and a lot of people would hate. And that was the situation.
"We just thought wed blown the whole deal, kind of," he continues. "I kind of always felt like if the movies a disaster, well then, okay, itll be harder to make the next movie. Itll be very hard. There are a million ways to do it, you know? But it was sort of an awful time.
"I mean, Owen wanted us to go into advertising at one point, and he says he investigated joining the military, which I didnt know."
Anderson turns and looks directly at the passenger. Its his grandest physical gesture in at least 300 miles.
"You know," he says, "I could be a trucker."
For a long time now the vistas have been numbingly spare and redundant. Interstate 40, the more efficient if less resplendent replacement for old Route 66, goes on in a monochrome Southwestern blur. Were not sure where we are on the map, but it feels as if we must be halfway to Amarillo. To combat something like the doldrums, driver and passenger down large colas and a gigantic bag of peanut M&Ms. Then we agree to take advantage of the drivers access to ambush the notoriously inaccessible Bill Murray with an unsolicited call. Beneath road-weary giddiness at the prospect of interrupting him at home is the notion that this might not be a good idea, that if Murray is not up for it, the wind could go right out of our sails. Then whatll we do? But the sugar and caffeine prevail, and the driver dials the secret number.
After Anderson briefs him on the situation, Murray seems eager to talk. Its clear he likes the idea of a couple of guys driving into the night with a fairly absurd destination in mind. Amarillo? Why Amarillo? Because thats where Anderson made his first stop the last time he drove to New York, and it worked. Weirdly enough, as Murray warms up to the car phone, the passenger gets the idea the actor wouldnt mind riding shotgun on this trip.
"Is what you see with Wes what you get?" the passenger asks, looking over at the driver, who has resumed looking straight ahead.
"No, no. I dont think what you see is what you get with Wes. You get much more," answers Murray. In the background is the excited pitch of the family pool tournament weve taken Murray away from. "He looks like R. Crumbs old drawings of himself. He looks like hes going to be outraged, like he finally sees whats really wrong with you, and then the horror backs off and the beauty comes through."
Murray goes on to say that what made the Rushmore shoot work for him, besides the quality of the material, was Andersons ability to stress the positive. "Wes could find the good content in whatever you were working with. That made it easy. It freed you up to work."
His wifes sharp cue having hastened an early departure from the action, Murray peppers the conversation with droll commentary on the tournaments progress. It isnt hard to place him there as Blume, off to the side in a tux, cigarette dangling from his lips, a spectator in a tournament of his own making, tossing peanuts to the family retriever in a small act of resignation and rebellion.
It is suggested to Murray that his characterization of Blume has an elegant, spiritually wasted quality that suits the actor.
"I was feeling the elegance of my own spiritual wastedness. I was feeling how all the touchstones of wealth and privilege are slippery," he says. "Those emotions are not far from anyones home if youve lived a little. Some days I came home and I felt a little sore. I felt like Id been cooked a little."
What about Anderson? Has Murray seen something in him that might not be apparent to the casual observer, or even the 14-hour one?
"Hes very good at what he does, but dont be afraid to ask him if he needs a Band-Aid or some change, things you generally ask of people who look like theyre in worse shape than him," Murray says in a way that makes you unsure how serious he is. "A Band-Aid, yeah, I think a Band-Aid. Theres some cuts there."
"The first night we were on the shoot, he gave me three pairs of socks," recalls Anderson, after Murray hangs up. "Two are still in my bag."
Darkness wraps around the rented Ford Explorer like a blanket as we drive into the plains of eastern New Mexico. We made it from the kiln-baked landscape of the low desert to the higher elevations of pine trees and snow on the ground and moonlight reflecting off mountain silhouettes. And back down again. The driver was right, Arizona and New Mexico are big, but at last Amarillo seems within reach. Its not that far from Tucumcari, and Tucumcari is not that far from here. The driver is ready for the home stretch. Ever since he stopped flying two years ago, hes used to putting these miles on a day.
"Wes wont characterize it as a fear of flying, but more as a love of the open road," explains Owen Wilson, calling from Los Angeles. "Once my mom asked why he wont fly, and Wes replied, Nobody knows. Thats become the standard answer."
Its the third or fourth time in a matter of minutes that Wilson has called. He and Anderson are in- ä volved in a minor squabble regarding some advice Anderson is giving Wilson that Wilson probably agrees with but doesnt necessarily want to hear.
"That was the smooth-things-out conversation," Anderson says of Wilsons latest and most conciliatory call, "which then becomes the general criticisms, the Okay, I agree, but heres your big problem."
Anderson is chuckling. "Were like an old married couple. Never go to bed angry."
Outside the Explorer, the Rushmore hoopla is steamrolling. In fact, the car phone has been ringing off the hook all afternoon and into the evening with reports from the openings in Los Angeles and New York. The larger journey seems to be catching up with us.
"We had two guys who were either on hallucinogens or laughing gas," buzzes Randy Poster, the films music supervisor, from New York.
Übermanager Geyer Kosinski had a stool pigeon at the L.A. opener who phoned in a report. Kosinski phoned Owen with a report of that report, and then Owen called Wes with a report of the report of the report. The report? Only front-row seats for latecomers. Spontaneous applause when the credits rolled. And this from a typically blasé L.A. matinee crowd.
Word on the reviews is overwhelmingly positive, too. The New York Daily News says its "the best and most beautiful movie of 1998." The New Yorker cant keep the smile off its face. In The New York Times, Janet Maslin says . . . well, who the hell ever knows what Janet Maslin is saying, but it seems really good.
The passenger wants to know how this makes the driver feel. "Youre the next big thing. Does that rattle you?"
"Do you think thats right? I dont know if thats right."
"Film critics are building altars to you in their offices."
"Yeah, but did you read Kenneth Turans? Turans wasnt that great."
"How do you know? I want to talk to someone who knows this."
"Barry Mendel [Rushmores producer]. He can read it to you. Okay, I mean Turans review is not the greatest review ever. Its not terrible, but he says, like, he says something like . . . he didnt like Max."
"He didnt like Max?"
"He didnt like the character. Not the performance, but the character."
"All right, but youre being hailed. Youre being praised. Youre being compared to Buster Keaton. Are you skeptical?"
"No, Im not skeptical. I mean, I like it. It doesnt feel that great, but it feels good."
"Why doesnt it feel that great?"
"Well, I dont know."
"Are you like Max in that you think, Hey, I should be making whats being called the best American movie of the year?"
"No, I wouldnt say that. Im actually in good spirits. But the reviews, bad reviews, I think, make you feel horrible. And, like, Turans review does not make me feel very good."
"It doesnt sound that bad."
"Its not that bad, but it just has a tendency to, like, draw everything into that. You sort of look for the worst and sink to that level."
"Well, I could be sitting in the car with the Woody Allen of the next generation. How do you think Im supposed to feel?"
"Well, you gotta know that its hundreds of miles to go tonight, so I dont care who youre sitting in the car with, youre not going to feel that good."
"Yeah, I dont know how Im supposed to feel, either."
"I actually feel pretty good. I wish we had some more daylight, but aside from that, I think were doing pretty well."
"Thats what I mean, youre keeping your eye on the project at hand, but Im trying to talk about, not your place on this road to Amarillo, but your place on this road of life."
"Right. The road to, uh, the road to Mulholland. The road to Fifth Avenue. Well, in terms of that, I cant say that I feel ecstatically happy about it. The thing is, we really dont have any sense of what level of attention the movie is going to have when it really comes out, you know?"
Anderson should be forgiven if hes a little wary of the warm embrace being extended to him and Rushmore. He heard it from the movie people before with Bottle Rocket, although not on this scale. Then, when Bottle Rocket, which refers to low-impact fireworks, lived up to its name at the box office, the experience left him thinking there were "lots of people hating that movie that we dont know about."
Rushmore, however, is different in important ways. Even though it clearly shares the same tender heart and skewed sensibility, the film is the product of an examined life mostly Andersons whereas Bottle Rocket was a snapshot of a particular moment. Its a short distance between Max Fischer, the hurting adolescent who is trying to find the right balance of insecurity and bravado, and Wes Anderson as a boy.
"It definitely couldnt be more personal. Bottle Rocket was about our behavior at the time. This is about our lives and backgrounds and all that family stuff," Anderson admits. "When I talk about the story, I talk about it as something we did together, but theres a tremendous amount of personal connection with me."
Indeed, when Anderson speaks of the paradoxes of Max Fischers tenure at Rushmore Academy, it sounds as if hes talking about himself in Hollywood.
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"Max wants to lead everybody, but he wants to do it in a way that uses this whole establishment, kind of," he says, obviously getting a charge out of divining his and Maxs character. "But he has his own ideas about things. Hes just not a conformist, but he hasnt, like, reconciled himself with the image he wants to have, you know?"
Of course. For men and for artists, thats something that happens a ways down the road, on the larger journey. And thats if youre lucky. Meanwhile, even as his much-hoped-for film opens on both coasts, the driver is moving further into the anonymous middle of America, where for a few days, anyway, he wont have to reconcile anything. The passenger suggests its kind of symbolic.
"Now that you mention it," says the driver, "it sounds a little psychological. Like somethings happening and I dont even know what Im doing."
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Saturday, September 22, 2007
Little pencil case
(don't you just love arranging/styling up little product shots, just for the sake of it?)
I haven't made anything with a zip in it for ages, and I can't say I enjoy it! At least this time I tacked the fabric to the zipper band first before machine sewing. I used Amy Karol's 'zip pouch' pattern as a reference, but I modified it because it didn't seem quite right to me. Her instructions say to sew up the sides and bottom of the outside fabric, then sew on the zip, then sew up the sides and bottom of the lining fabric and just hand stitch it into the inside. Hmm. I don't like hand stitching and especially not in such a prominant place where u can see the crappy job i've done :)
(more product shot experimentation - man I wish I had a fancy pants camera)
I opted for sewing the outside and lining fabrics to the zipper at the same time, and then sewing down the sides and bottom (leaving a hole in the bottom of the lining for turning inside out). Anyway it seems like there are heaps of different ways to do this, and each has their pros and cons, and there's no simple, perfect way.
Brekky time...
11 comments:
- emma said...
I love the pencil case - it looks perfect!
Your photos are lovely too :)
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- Lelainia N. Lloyd said...
- 2:29 pm
- Danielle said...
I think you made the right call. Hand sewing is my problem area too. It looks really good. :)
One thing that I've found works really well than a non-bells and whistles camera, is natural light. It makes everything sort of glow. It would really bring out the richness of the journals to really hit home the concept of a pencil case.
Sorry, don't know if you wanted the advice, but it might come in handy. The set ups look really good!
- 2:55 pm
- paperseed.wordpress.com said...
What an elegant job, and I love your contrasting choice of pattern for the liner.
- 12:45 am
- de vliegende koe said...
The pencil case looks perfect to me! And the sep ups do too!!
- 1:16 am
- Brooke said...
I recently discovered your blog and now it's one of my favorites!
Love the pencil case!
- 3:37 am
- marirob said...
I can't believe we chose the same fabric for the zipper cases! All I can say is that now I feel extra special because you have the same fabric, and you have such great taste. yippee!
- 12:18 pm
your way sounds perfect, and exactly what I would probably do.
When he finally woke up, did he like the pencil case?
- 12:42 pm
pencil case is gorgeous. i have the same eraser!! (i just bought it last week on my travels in melb :-)
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Archive for Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Saltwater in veins of Navy veteran from Pomona
November 4, 2009
Jack Richtor had dreamed all his life of being in the Navy. One of his uncles was in the Army, another in the Navy, and his older brother was headed there but didn't make it past basic training.
Richtor was determined; he had saltwater in his veins.
When he turned 17 in 1953 during his junior year of high school, he convinced his father to grant parental consent, dropped out of school and left his home in Oregon to join the Navy.
"I believe it is every person's duty to serve the nation," he said.
Richtor, who now lives in Pomona, is a Korean War veteran, but he never actually made it to Korea. The Korean War itself ended in 1953, but from 1953 to 1957 Richter patrolled the Taiwan Strait during what he referred to as the Korean Conflict.
During those four years, Richtor alternated spending five months on base in Long Beach, Calif., and seven months patrolling foreign waters.
Richtor was present for Operation Wigwam, which was the underwater detonation of a nuclear bomb off the coast of California. When away on patrol, the destroyer ship Richtor was on most frequently visited the Subic Bay naval base in the Philippines and Yokosuka in Japan.
When the ship was docked, the men had every other weekend free to spend in the nearest city.
"Usually three or four of us would go to a bar, have a few drinks there. Wasn't much to do over there," Richtor said.
During the two or three weeks at a time that the ship was out to sea, Richtor and the other crew members circulated through four-hour watch duty shifts. During one 24-hour day, everyone completed two watch shifts, spent eight hours working their designated positions on the ship and the remaining eight hours eating and sleeping. Richtor was a boiler tender and spent eight hours a day working in the fire room. His experience on the ship taught him the value of working together with others.
"If you didn't have teamwork aboard ship, you wouldn't have anything," Richtor said.
The Navy also taught Richtor the meanings of friendliness, honesty and respect.
"When someone tells you to do something, you follow the chain of command and you do it," he said.
Richtor left the Navy with a sense of accomplishment and pride.
"I was a kid going into the Navy, and when you come out you're a man," he said.
Richtor enjoyed his Navy experience, coming away with lasting friendships, world travel and free education, which included getting his high school equivalency diploma while docked in Hawaii.
Two years after Richtor finished his term, he married his wife, Wanda. He was still living in California with a Navy friend's sister and brother-in-law when they met at church.
Since then, the Richtors have moved from California to Texas to Kansas, where Richtor is originally from, for his career. His first job out of the Navy was making aircraft fasteners, which he described as metal screws made from a higher-class material than commercial fasteners, used for building aircraft. He's been in the business ever since.
Richtor has also been building his family over the past 50 years. He has two sons, Jess and Darren, and five grandchildren.
Both of Richtor's sons have followed in their father's footsteps in different ways.
Jess was a Navy man for 13 years and still works as a civilian on base in Norfolk, Va. And Darren works at Mack Fasteners with Richtor, who never fully retired.
As a member of Veterans of Foreign War Post 5901, Richtor never really left the Navy completely, either.
Richtor joined the VFW after he moved back to Kansas in the 1980s. He can be found there on Thursdays talking over a drink with friends during bingo, dancing on Saturday nights, and at the occasional potluck dinner and post meeting.
None of the veterans at the VFW served with Richtor, but he still keeps in touch with his buddies from the service. Two of his close friends live in Mississippi and Tennessee, and every six months the three families reunite, alternating among hometowns.
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- 1 The plan
- 2 How we made this plan
- 2.1 What are the goals of a marketing plan?
- 2.2 Distro: where are we right now?
- 2.3 Distro: Where we want to be
- 3 Potential areas of opportunity
The plan
The Marketing Plan serves as the foundation and guide for all the activities that Marketing does. Each section of the plan contains high-level objectives. The per-cycle deliverables and individual projects that the Marketing team executes should be supporting one (or more) sections of the plan.
For more information on how the Marketing Plan has evolved, see the Marketing Plan background.
- Inform the voluntary switchers
- Easy to find answers to questions
- Highlight spins that show unique use cases
Build bridges
- Support
- Feedback from users to devs
- Questions from devs to users (surveys)
- Build positive dev support/feedback opportunities
Spread the brand
- 4 Foundations are good -- use them!
- Success stories/examples of each
- Ambassadors communicate to focused audiences
- Design schools
- CS departments
- Downstream conferences
- Social networking
Build on-ramps
- Fedora-tour
- EasyFix
- Engineering services queue
- How to file a bug, check/add to wiki page or other outlets
How we made this plan
This plan was created during the Marketing FAD 2010 - you can see a lot of the discussion in the first day's logs, particularly the IRC logs. We went through several exercises to try and get out what we were thinking, and the notes from that are below.
This was very much a a kickoff brainstorm - we didn't expect the handful of contributors at the FAD to have answers to everything, but we figured we could get our own thoughts out and then share them with other people to encourage them to consider and share theirs.
What are the goals of a marketing plan?
- Who is this plan for?
- Members (current and new) of the Fedora Marketing team
- Members of the Fedora Project who want to understand how the Fedora Marketing team is using resources (people, time...)
- Who is it addressing?
- Who is this plan for?
Distro: where are we right now?
We first tried to figure out our first impressions on where Fedora-the-distribution stood at that moment.
Give 3 words that describe the distribution
People went around and added three words each to this list - how do we (as Fedora contributors) see Fedora-the-distribution now? (March 2010).
- Free
- Innovative
- High-context (this means it's difficult to establish context when you're getting started on what all the crazy stuff going on is, but it's great once you get used to things.)
- Powerful
- Intimidating
- Time-consuming
- Interesting
- Good quality
- interesting
- fresh
- Productivity Suite
- Bleeding Edge
- Stability/Security
- community-driven (which causes the high-context sometimes - but doesn't have to)
- Fluid
- Mostly works
- Lots of updates--every day another 10-20 meg (can't tell a difference if I install them or not)
- commitment
- complex
- Challenging
- Uneven
- "can't keep up" (explanation: too much churn, noise, etc. to figure out what's going on at any given point in time without significant investment... need to selectively ignore a lot)
- steep learning curve
1 sentence description of the person that's happiest with the distro right now
People went around and added three words each to this list - who do we (as Fedora contributors) see as the current users happiest with Fedora-the-distribution now? (March 2010). The intent is to compare our first reactions to this question against our intended User base and see how well it matched up.
- Someone who is deeply involved with Linux
- Tinkerers who don't need a safety net
- The contributors
- Mel when she was in high school and had lots of time and energy to play around
- Ryan when he is in high school and has lots of time and energy to play around :)
- Software engineer who wants the latest, most reliable product that's available in terms of having FOSS stuff they need to get end stuff
- Someone who is more of a free software purist
- Someone who has been using it for three or more releases
- Someone who has someone else to help fix broken things
- Someone who has been using the distro for 3+ releases, because they will have figured out the best practices that work for them.
- Some one who likes challenges or end user that gets the box installed for him/her
- Someone who messes with a lot of stuff and learns and just grows better (Learning from mistakes, perfecting at doing many things)
Distro: Where we want to be
We then went around and shared our thoughts on where we would like Fedora-the-distro to be, and what groups we might want to look at to help with that.
User base of tomorrow
This has already been defined. From https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_base
- Voluntary switcher
- Computer-friendly
- Likely collaborator
- General productivity user
Hypothetical folks that fit this description, but who we don't serve well right now
- Law student, designer, etc. non-dev and never wants to be technical - but wants to contribute to FOSS
- Our amused SO's/parents who want to be supoportive and give feedback, but only to us directly (for instance, Mel's Linux-using friends who come up with patches but don't have time to learn their way around how to submit it upstream and pass it to her instead)
- Locally focused head of a LUG who'd rather concentrate on regional stuff (not global IRC channels) - "the global Fedora community has to reach out to *me* because I have no time to reach out to it myself" (I would submit that some other FOSS projects do this very well, and this is why they spread so fast - they have out-of-the-box "here, do this, SWAG!" experiences for LUGs.)
Potential areas of opportunity
Real folks from the User base who use Fedora
We should profile these folks as good examples of "What can Fedora do for me?"
I am:
- Brand new to FOSS(Ryan's 13 year old brother)
- Brand new to computing
- A graphic designer (I am mizmo)
- a Java programmer (I am Andrew Overholt)
- A python programmer (I am Luke Macken)
- A Sysadmin (I am Mike McGrath)
- A WebDev (I am Hiemanshu Sharma)
- A student studying circuits (FEL)
- A GNOME hacker
- A KDE hacker (I am Jaroslav Reznik)
- A law student
- A Marketing student (productivity suit, office, plus thousands of other usefull tools)
Some notes:
- Focus on productivity, as this will be a pro for every single person looking at it.
- Consider the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition, which is a framework for learning stages from novice to expert which points out that (1) newcomers have very little context and need specific instructions, and (2) one of the markers of an experienced person is often forgetting what it's like to be a newcomer.
Strategy for talking to the user base of tomorrow:
- Emphasize what we enable YOU to do
- User cases/stories
- Highlight spins that prove the model (i.e. use based, not view based)
- "Think out loud" -- what's the user/contributor experience now?
- Highlight Fedora being used to do things ("Made with Fedora")
- find ways not to lose users once they come to us
- consolidation of support, forums, questions, education
- make sure correct answers are available and easy to find
- brand identity/recognition
- events
- press
- consistency


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Originally released by Frank Ocean in 2011 on his debut mixtape, Nostalgia, Ultra, "Lovecrimes" has become a staple of The Afghan Whigs' live set since their reformation earlier this year. "Lovecrimes" is the second new studio recording from the band, following the release of "See and Don't See" in May.
The Afghan Whigs have also just announced a number of new U.S. tour dates for their upcoming fall tour.
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Has developed expertise in a variety of work processes or activities typically developed through a combination of job-related training and considerable on-the-job experience. Typically acts as a lead, coordinating the work of others- but not a supervisor. Works autonomously within established procedures and practices.
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Performs startups through Tier III including process qualifications with assistance. Understands all qualifications performed on tool and verifies operational quality (process qualification) of systems equipment including ability to use customer's metrology equipment. Plans for and completes all levels of preventative and corrective maintenance within timelines. Troubleshoots key technical issues at the component level. Diagnose and recommends solutions for complex system downs. Uses process data to diagnose hardware problems. Resolves some sustaining process issues on well characterized tools.
Troubleshoots key technical issues at the component level. Uses routine process data and on site data logging functions to diagnose system downs. Diagnoses and resolves hardware and software issues. May resolve sustaining process issues with assistance or on very well characterized tools.
Performs complex retrofits. May occasionally organize and lead retrofit activities.
Ensures the correct revs of procedures and schematics. Identifies and corrects procedural issues. Applies global best practices to solve problems for their customer. Occasionally contributes to global best practices. Creates methodologies and procedures as necessary. Participates in patent processes/discussions and documents IP as appropriate.
Anticipates and responds to fab issues including communicating with CE's in other locations. Drives corrective processes through key stakeholders (PBG, Customer Spec owners, ECO owners, GPS, etc.) or escalates as appropriate. Communicates findings to others and provides suggestions to improve checklists and procedures. Participates in customer meetings and escalations.
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When will the Federal Reserve hike rates?
Some think the Fed should already be moving the rocket to the launchpad. Others think the one lesson of the Great Depression is that tightening policy too soon could cause the economy to falter.
While every economist has an opinion on the timing of "lift-off," MarketWatch has collected the opinion of the folks who matters: the members of the central bank's policy committee.
These quotes help inform the so-called dot plot, that the Fed will release after its two-day meeting ending June 18. The dot-plot indicates when each member expects the first rate hike to occur, and how high rates will go.
Here are the latest, verbatim, quotes from Fed officials about the timing of the lift-off, culled from speeches, press conferences and interviews.
Right now there are two general camps. Some Fed officials want the first hike to occur by the summer of 2015 while others seem to favor the first move closer to the end of the year.
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In most cases, the name of any person, place or thing can be descriptive to what that person, place or thing is about. In this case, however, there was nothing wicked about the cast of Wicked the musical, coming together to raise funds for the American Cancer Society.
For reference, Wicked is the untold story of the witches of Oz, features music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (who composed Godspell, Pippin, and is the Academy Award winner for Pocahontas and The Prince of Egypt) and book by Winnie Holzman ("My So Called Life," "Once And Again" and "thirtysomething"), and is based on the best-selling novel by Gregory Maguire. Los Angeles tour cast members came out to support, Gina Starbuck, who is cast as the witches' mother, hosted an event that was in dedication to her father that passed away due to complications with Cancer. Additionally, Michael Urie of Ugly Betty lent his support by co-hosting the evening of song, dance and silent auction.
Held at the artistic venue of Facade-Hollywood, the evening began with casual mingling in the outdoor patio area of the venue. Guests could venture inside where a full bar met you just before venturing to the raised level of ground one where the silent auction was held. On the second floor, there was more space to mingle and another outdoor bar area. The space of Facade with its reminiscent structure of a New York City loft was the perfect setting for the night.
After a few pictures and interviews, Starbuck made her way to the stage to thank guests for coming out and to tell why this event was important to her. Her rendition of tales of her father brought tears to her eyes and to the eyes of many of the guests in the venue. Not wanting to stick to the sad tone of the occasion, Starbuck quickly transitioned over to her excitement about the support from her fellow cast members and the acts that were in store for evening. I can remember feeling an extreme amount of admiration for her strength and dedication to pull this together.
Many of the cast members from MTV's Dance Life came out to show their support through the art of dance. Blake and Nolan who are viewed as archrivals on the dance based reality show didn't let animosity hinder them from showing up under the same roof. I believe I even saw Blake cheering Nolan on as he and his dancer hit the stage for a little one, two step. Other performances featured various cast members singing their hearts out in front of the crowded stage area.
Donations to the American Cancer Society were also being accepted and as a thank you for contributing, donators were given swag bags filled with everything from spa get-away packages to tantalizing treats to eat.
I was thankful that I was afforded the opportunity to help support ACS and the cast members of Wicked!


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i am looking for my dad and nan, but im finding it really hard as i dnt really know anything bout them all i really know is that. their names are david charles price and mary kimpton or kempton and that my dad has more thatn too kids thats me ami mary price and my brother david james price and i think he has a son and a daughter and he used to have a girlfriend call joanne. as u can see i have little information bout them andd i am hoping to find them but i cant seem to get anywere. please help if u are realted please let me know. thankyou btw my name ia ami mary price born in peterbrough and my mums name is nicola steel and im 18 born 26.08.1991
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Protester Injured at NYC "Occupy" Rally
One protester was injured in a scuffle between Occupy protesters and police officers at New York City's Zuccotti Park during a rally marking the 100th birthday of the late folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie.
About 200 protesters spilled into the street Wednesday afternoon at the edge of the park. Police officers began pushing protesters back onto the sidewalk. One woman fell down and was later taken away in an ambulance.
The protesters had ended a six-day march from the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia.
During the so-called Occupy Guitarmy rally, protesters sang Guthrie's song "This Land Is Your Land" and gave
The lower Manhattan park was the center of the Occupy movement until police broke up the encampment last November.
Guthrie died in 1967. His 100th birthday is July 14.
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Osgood-Schlatter disease is an overuse condition or injury of the knee that causes pain and swelling below the knee area over the shin bone.
It is characterized by inflammation of the patellar tendon and surrounding soft tissues. It is caused by the constant pulling of the patellar tendon on the area below the knee where the tendon attaches.
Osgood-Schlatter disease is seen in the growing child and adolescent, particularly those who participate in athletics. This is an age where the bones are typically growing faster than the muscles and tendons. As a result, the muscles and tendons have a tendency to become tight. It is most common in young athletes who play games or sports that involve running and jumping.
Osgood-Schlatter disease is most often seen in preteen and teenage boys from 10 to 15 years old. It is common in young athletes who play games or sports that involve running, jumping, or going up and down stairs. Adolescent athletes who are affected are most often involved in football, soccer, basketball, gymnastics, or ballet.
Factors which increase the likelihood of Osgood-Schlatter disease may include the following:
The following are the most common symptoms of Osgood-Schlatter disease. However, each adolescent may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
The symptoms of Osgood-Schlatter disease may resemble other conditions or medical problems of the knee. Always consult your physician for a diagnosis.
In addition to a complete medical history and physical examination, diagnostic procedures for Osgood-Schlatter disease may include:
Specific treatment for Osgood-Schlatter disease will be determined by the physician based on:
The goal of treatment is to control the knee pain and limit your child's activities that could aggravate the condition. Treatment may include:
Osgood-Schlatter disease often resolves with time. Rarely is surgery required for this condition.
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Hermine continued Monday to twist hundreds of miles off shore in the Atlantic Ocean and was expected to keep swimmers and surfers out of beach waters because of its dangerous waves and rip currents on the last day of the long holiday weekend.
"We're not looking at a landfall," said Dennis Feltgen of the National Hurricane Center on Sunday, adding Hermine is just sitting and pushing the water up along the coast making storm surge a great concern.
It was expected to stall over the water before weakening again.
Governors all along the Eastern Seaboard announced emergency preparations. Tropical storm watches and warnings were in effect from Virginia to Massachusetts, with special concern focused on New Jersey and Delaware, where Rehoboth Beach could experience wind gusts up to 50 mph and life-threatening storm surges during high tide late Sunday and into Monday.
Tropical storm-force winds were possible Monday in New Jersey. Gov. Chris Christie warned that minor to moderate flooding was still likely in coastal areas and said the storm will cause major problems, even as it tracks away from land.
"Don't be lulled by the nice weather," Christie said, referring to the bright sunny skies along the Jersey Shore on Sunday. "Don't think that nothing is going to happen, because something is going to happen."
On the Virginia Beach boardwalk, the Atlantic Ocean roared with uncharacteristically large waves, drawing only a couple of surfers into the choppy white water. But hundreds, if not thousands of people, had descended onto the beach for the traditional last weekend of summer. Umbrellas and canopies dotted the sand under partly sunny skies.
Hermine failed to stop Barb and Don Willis of Buffalo, New York, from enjoying the trip they booked months ago. They even braved the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel on Saturday as the wind whipped their car and the bay rose close to the bridge's bottom.
"That was so scary," Barb Willis said. "Oh my God. My hands were white knuckles, and the water was so high. It was horrible," she said.
The couple, both in their 60s, said they knew the storm would blow over, even as friends texted their concerns.
Todd Solomon, who lives in an area of Virginia Beach that often floods, said water crept up to the foundations of some homes. But he said he did not know of any buildings that were actually flooded.
"If you weren't in the flood-prone area, it was like a normal day," he said. "And if your power was out, you kind of bounced around to find a restaurant or grocery store that still had power."
On Sunday afternoon, he said, a few homes still lacked power. But most people were cleaning up trees and branches felled by the storm.
New York City planned to close its beaches Monday because of rip currents, and the ban could extend into Tuesday, depending on weather conditions, officials said.
Long Island authorities urged people to evacuate the summer getaway known as Fire Island to avoid any storm surge and coastal flooding. Emergency officials warned that anyone who stayed would not be able to leave after ferries shut down Sunday evening.
Hermine rose up over the Gulf of Mexico and hit Florida on Friday as a Category 1 hurricane before weakening to a tropical storm across Georgia.
It has caused two deaths, inflicted widespread property damage and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of people from Florida to Virginia.
The Anclote River northwest of Tampa was forecast to go well into major flood stage Sunday afternoon. Emergency managers issued mandatory evacuations for some low-lying mobile home parks and apartment buildings.
As of 2 a.m. EDT Monday, Hermine's top sustained winds were steady at 70 mph (110 kph) as it moved north at 3 mph (6 kph). The storm was centered about 320 miles (515 kilometers) southeast of the eastern tip of Long Island.
Since sea levels have risen up to a foot due to global warming, the storm surges pushed by Hermine could be even more damaging, climate scientists say.
Michael Mann at Pennsylvania State University noted that this century's 1-foot sea-level rise in New York City meant 25 more square miles flooded during Superstorm Sandy, causing billions in additional damage.
"We are already experiencing more and more flooding due to climate change in every storm," said Michael Oppenheimer, a geosciences professor at Princeton University. "And it's only the beginning."
The winds and rain were so strong Saturday in North Carolina that all bridges to the Outer Banks were closed for several hours following a deadly accident over the intracoastal waterway.
Tyrrell County Sheriff Darryl Liverman told the Virginian-Pilot that high winds tipped over an 18-wheeler, killing its driver and shutting down the U.S. 64 bridge.
And on Hatteras Island in the Outer Banks, a small tornado spawned by Hermine knocked over two trailers and injured four people, authorities said.
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This shows several tents on the Las Vegas Creek occupied in 1905 by people waiting for Clark's townsite to open. Orchards and vineyards were important to the new townspeople. The ranch with its water supply was of great value for the new town rising out of the dry land.
Questions for Photo 2
1. What major event took place in 1905 that might explain the presence of tents on the Stewart Ranch? Who owned the ranch at this time? What purpose did it serve? If needed refer to Reading 2.
2. What personal touches can you see that the residents have added to make their tents feel like "home?"
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noun, plural sec·re·tar·ies.
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Word Origin for secretary
late 14c., "person entrusted with secrets," from Medieval Latin secretarius "clerk, notary, confidential officer, confidant," a title applied to various confidential officers, noun use of adjective meaning "private, secret, pertaining to private or secret matters" (cf. Latin secretarium "a council-chamber, conclave, consistory"), from Latin secretum "a secret, a hidden thing" (see secret (n.)).
Meaning "person who keeps records, write letters, etc.," originally for a king, first recorded c.1400. As title of ministers presiding over executive departments of state, it is from 1590s. The word also is used in both French and English to mean "a private desk," sometimes in French form secretaire. The South African secretary bird so called (1786) in reference to its crest, which, when smooth, resembles a pen stuck over the ear. Cf. Late Latin silentiarius "privy councilor, 'silentiary," from Latin silentium "a being silent."


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Michigan Tech Students Develop Phone Apps for Citizen Scientists
By Monica Lester | Published
The world is a vast place with a deep history. Scientists try to capture it all, but they cannot identify all the details. That is where you, the citizen, comes in. A group of students and faculty from Michigan Tech are trying to bridge the gap between citizens and scientists with multiple smartphone applications, especially the EthnoApp.
Cyber Citizens is the name of the project, and it is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The project's goal is building smartphone applications and websites to help citizens and scientists acquire environmental information.
Led by Alex Mayer, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and project director, and Robert Pastel, an associate professor of computer science and co-principal investigator, a group of graduate and undergraduate students have been working to develop citizen-science smartphone applications and websites. Undergraduate and graduate computer science students in a Human-Computer Interactions class collaborate with the scientific and technical communication students in their Usability/Instructions Writing class. Psychology students, senior design students and two students in the summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program also help with the project's development. Working together, the students get real world experience collaborating across different disciplines and working for real clients.
Cyber Citizens has developed at least four different applications in collaboration with scientists from around the United States. They plan to develop more each semester. Their current apps are: Beach Health Monitor, an application that helps assess whether a beach is safe for swimming by looking at environmental multiple factors; Lichen AQ (Air Quality), an application that looks at lichen to detect air pollution; Mushroom Mapper, an application that helps locate and describe the habitats of different species of mushrooms; and finally, EthnoApp.
The Community Ethnography App (EthnoApp) is used to collect interviews, photos and other information to assist anthropologists and archaeologists in their research. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines ethnography as the study of systematic recording of human cultures. The EthnoApp has the potential to be used to interview anyone during an experience to gain information about the history of the landscape and setting. It can attach geographical locations to interviews and photos while research is being conducted.
All the information EthnoApp gathers can be made available to share online. Its first user is hoping to do just that. Anna Lee Presley, a PhD student in the Industrial Heritage and Archaeology program in social sciences at Michigan Tech, is using the EthnoApp to collect interviews from people who live in Paavola, Mich. or like to visit the Paavola Wetlands Preserve.
Presley's research is in collaboration with the Keweenaw Land Trust. Through these interviews, she hopes to learn how Finnish American agricultural practices influenced the Paavola area's landscape.
Presley was introduced to the EthnoApp project by one of her advisors who thought that it would help her in her research. By using the smartphone application, she will be able to collect data that traditional methods would limit. "The EthnoApp will help us to understand the archaeology of the area because it gives us a way to tie the stories of living people and their histories to particular places that can in turn give us some suggestions for further information that we can find out about the landscapes," she says. "It could direct us towards ideal places to excavate in the future and can help to enhance the story of those places." She finds the application very easy to use, and she looks for the community involvement with her research. She stresses that the community is important in this documentation and is the key source for information.
(If you are interested in learning more about Presley's research, email her at email@example.com)
Creating this kind of collaboration between citizens and scientists has many benefits. First of all, field-based research is typically very expensive. Mayer explains: "With citizen science, you're essentially turning the citizen into a sensor that can collect the information. So from a practical standpoint, it's a money saver."
Pastel says, "By sharing knowledge, maybe it will elicit more from the citizens." Cyber Citizens sees another benefit to citizens collecting the data, says Pastel. "If the citizens are involved in the science, hopefully they become better informed about the science. They also may be able to contribute information that the scientist never even thought of."
While the other smartphone applications are still to be finished, the EthnoApp is available in its beta version, meaning that it still needs further development. "We encourage people to use it, and if they do find bugs, let us know, and we will try to fix them," Pastel says. There is a link to the downloadable version on http://citizenscience.cs.mtu.edu/, where you can also find more information on the Cyber Citizens project.
Michigan Technological University is a public research university, home to more than 7,000 students from 54 countries. Founded in 1885, the University offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science and technology, engineering, forestry, business and economics, health professions, humanities, mathematics, and social sciences. Our campus in Michigan's Upper Peninsula overlooks the Keweenaw Waterway and is just a few miles from Lake Superior.


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Last night, Brian Ward and I recorded Episode 43 of the Hinderaker-Ward Experience. We were guest-free, so it was just Brian and I riffing on the news of the day, along with other topics–high school dance, the weather and meteors, with more than a dash of horse meat. Serious topics included the State of the Union, the ongoing mystery of Barack Obama, and the Pope's resignation.
We wrapped up with the Loon of the Week–a CNN anchor–and This Week in Gatekeeping, featuring an unusually sincere correction. It is a fun episode.
You can listen to the podcast by playing it right here, or you can go to Ricochet to download or subscribe to the podcast in various ways, or you can hit the subscribe button in the graphic above to subscribe on iTunes or elsewhere. Or you can use Stitcher. There are many ways to experience the Hinderaker-Ward Experience, but I think the best is by subscribing on iTunes. That way, you never have to worry about missing an episode.


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Airport pavement conditions at larger Washington state airports are holding steady, while pavements at the smaller airports are declining, according to the recently released 2013 Airport Pavement Management System (APMS) report.
The Washington State Department of Transportation evaluated 100 airports, representing about 150 million square feet of pavement – the equivalent of a two-lane highway stretching 1,400 miles from Seattle to Albuquerque. The report, which is based on 2012 data, assessed airport pavements using a pavement condition index (PCI) ranging from 100 to zero (best to worst).
Some of the key findings include:
- At the larger, federally funded airports the PCI rating has improved from 72 in 2005 to 80 in 2012.
- At the smaller, federally funded airports the PCI declined 4 percent, from 78 in 2005 to 75 in 2012.
- At the smaller, non-federally funded airports, the PCI declined 15 percent, from 78 in 2005 to 66 in 2012.
- The smaller airports, also known as non-primary airports, need approximately $217 million over the next eight years to eliminate the backlog of major pavement projects.
Typically, pavements above a PCI of 65 will benefit from preventive maintenance actions, such as crack sealing and surface treatments. Pavements with a PCI of 40 to 65 may require major rehabilitation, such as an overlay. Often, when the PCI is less than 40, reconstruction is the only viable alternative.
WSDOT and the Federal Aviation Administration use APMS data to prioritize state and federal funding for airport projects. The APMS is typically updated every five years.


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Nail Varnish
Illamasqua Nail Varnish is a nail lacquer that retails for $17.00 and contains 0.5 oz. There have been 68 shades released, which you can select from below or jump to these sections:
The average rating based on all reviewed shade(s) in this formula is shown below.
Reader Reviews
Based on 5 Reviews, 84 Quick Reviews
The Good: Easy To Apply (47), Just Right (42), Long-wearing (39), Great Value (12), Glossy (9), Creamy (1), Spreads Easily (1)
The In-Between: Highly Pigmented (43), Buildable (9), Thick (5), Thin (3), Sheer (1)
The Bad: Chips Easily (4), Hard To Apply (3), Goopy (1), Streaks (1)
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By Mairyn 6 years ago.
Based on temptalia and others' swatches, I reckon I got a dud bottle of Force (however, a dud bottle of Illamasqua is still decent by other brands' standards). Whenever I put top coat on mine, it darkens the colour in patches and leaves drag marks. I know, I know, it sounds like "you're just putting top coat on too early, fool" but one time I tested this by putting top coat on several hours after painting my nails and I still had this issue. Oh well. I might repurchase if I see it on sale, coz even with this issue, it's still very long-wearing and pigmented.
By Amree 6 years ago.
My experience with this product could be better. The color is beautiful and the product is highly pigmented in just one coat. But with this color, I recommend starting off with one sheer coat first. My bottle of this product was very thin and runny compared to my other Illamasqua nail varnishes. And it's best to always wear a base and top coat with this polish because it looks cheap and weird by itself. But this is just experience with this particular varnish I purchased. I am also disappointed that the price went for these polishes. I just don't have money to be dropping on these polishes unless they exceed my standards.
By Amy 6 years ago.
I have been hesitant to spend this kind of cash on nail polish, but this has won me over. I put it on Tuesday (with Zoya's Anchor and Armor) and it is now Sunday and I have no chips and no tip wear to speak of either - it still looks freshly applied. Zoya polish usually has noticeable tip wear on me by this point, and other polishes rarely last past 3 days without chipping, so I'm seriously impressed, especially since it's black. It's a pretty black with evenly distrubuted silver sparkles, and mine had a few random holographic sparkles in it too, it seemed. Love this!
By Marta // The Glow Lab 6 years ago.
It is a beautiful black shade, the silver sparkle looks wonderful under the light. It applies evenly and smoothly, without any streaks. You only need two coats for full coverage. It has a glossy finish and lasts a lot on me, about a week without chipping. I love the formula and the color so I totally recommend it if you are looking for a "special" nail varnish.


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Favorite Brooks & Dunn Song – Readers Poll
Happy birthday to Ronnie Dunn! The singer and one-half of country's greatest duo turns 59-years-old today. During a career that's lasted over 20 years, Dunn has proven to be amongst the most versatile and talented vocalists in Nashville. He and partner Kix Brooks charted 26 No. 1 singles before separating to pursue solo careers. Which Brooks & Dunn song is your all-time favorite?
We've included the duo's signature songs on this ballad. Hits like 'Believe,' 'My Maria,' 'Only in America' and their early single 'Boot Scootin' Boogie' could be found on B&D setlists up until their breakup in 2010. Also included are 'Red Dirt Road' and 'Cowgirls Don't Cry,' a collaboration with Reba McEntire. If there's one we left out that you feel deserves attention, vote for it by explaining why in the comments section below.


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