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While fun is their primary goal, games often portray themes courting controversy as a means of conveying more meaningful and mature experiences. Crystal Dynamics' reboot of Tomb Raider pairs the franchise's staple action-heavy content with a younger, frightened, and more vulnerable Lara Croft -- human-like traits of weakness which came into focus after a particular scene within gameplay footage shown at this year's E3 included an apparent rape attempt on the battered explorer. Crystal Dynamics later quieted the ensuing public outcry by disproving any perceived themes of sexual assault, but in a new interview with GameSpot , Tomb Raider Lead Writer Rhianna Pratchett sees "no reason" why general game storytelling shouldn't touch upon sensitive topics.

"That is, as long as it's not done for titillation, but in a thoughtful way, with integrity and context," Pratchett added. "The world doesn't need any more Japanese rape-simulators. But we simply can't call ourselves a serious storytelling medium if we exclude topics which are routinely covered in weeknight soap operas."

Pratchett also said she believes approaching such topics ultimately forms stronger bonds between characters and players by virtue of concern for the well-being of the personalities encountered in games. "The link between player and player character is a uniquely personal one," she stated. "Personally, whether I'm a hulking Tauren druid, a boy with psychic powers, or Lara Croft, I inhabit that character. I am them and they are me. That's largely the approach I tried to bring to my work."

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Adding more ammunition to the grand AI alliance, Intel, Salesforce, eBay, Sony, SAP, McKinsey & Company, Zalando and Cogitai are joining the Partnership on AI, a collection of companies and non-profits that have committed to share best practices and communicating openly about the prospects and challenges of artificial intelligence research.

The group also announced a slew of non-profit partners including the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, the AI Forum of New Zealand, the Centre for Democracy & Technology, the Centre for Internet and Society (India), Data & Society Research Institute among others.

The new members expand a group that already counts heavyweights like Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft and Apple.

The platform will be hosting a series of AI Grand Challenges to encourage and incentivize researchers working on AI. It has also announced an award for best paper on the topic of “AI, People, and Society” to aid in addressing a similar goal.

The partnership group also said that it will create working groups to research and define best practices for specific topics and sectors within the field. It’s also creating a fellowship to assist nonprofits and nongovernmental organisations looking to participate in AI issues.

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Packed with kid-friendly lessons, take-home comics, and activities, Awesome Adventures: Paul’s Amazing Quest is a broadly graded summer curriculum that encourages children to explore the New Testament stories of Paul.

In this summer’s adventure, children will join the apostle Paul on his amazing quest—from his conversion on the road to Damascus, as he encounters a magician, sparks a riot in Ephesus, and survives a shipwreck in Malta.

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I love red wine.

I can't give it up. CANNOT!! I can still have my wine and lose weight, right? I've heard that you can't get a slim waist if you won't give up the alcohol but does red wine fall in that category?

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Of course you can get a slim waist and still drink alcohol. The key is moderation. Don't sit down and drink an entire bottle in one sitting but you should be able to enjoy a small glass with you dinner, etc. Just make sure the calories fall into your daily range and you'll be fine. This is coming from someone that reached and maintains their goal without cutting ANYTHING from my diet.
Good luck! You'll only fall off the wagon if you deny yourself everything you enjoy! What is the point in that??

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Just realize, a 5oz serving has around 100 cals in it. At 5oz per serving, that's 8 glasses per bottle, not the "usual" 4-5 glasses. At that size, it's more like 170 cals per glass. Find room for the calories in your diet by cutting something elsewhere, and you'll be fine.

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heehee - your question made me think "well she must b/c it's not like any of those skinny starlets are abstaining from alcohol for their tiny waists"!!!

I think like with everything else, the key is moderation and COUNTING the calories in your daily "budget"

I think that the alcohol/weight loss "warnings" are more about that it can affect your blood sugar levels and make it harder to stay on track ... and of course the fact that there ARE calories to be counted.

I'm a beer girl myself which is even higher in calories ... the summer time is hard b/c it seems like the second I sit out in the yard, or fire up the BBQ, I'm thinking ... mmm a beer would be nice ;) I have not eliminated beers but I make sure that I am aware ...

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Exactly - I have to measure it out and write it down. I work really hard to make healthy food that's just as good or better than a nice restaurant and I love to pair good food with good wine. Just be aware of the calories and it can fit - maybe not as much, but I've learned to sip 'n savor.

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NaBloPoMo Round 2, Day 25: Puttin' on the Glitz

I get pedicures fairly regularly, but this week I decided to also get a manicure. Instead of my usual pale pink to hide chips, I decided to glitz it up a little this year with some glitter polish:

The color is called "Teenage Dream " and it's part of the Katy Perry OPI collection. For once I picked this by color and not for the fun OPI name. I liked the color because it was subtle and still fit into my pale pink comfort zone and was sparkly enough to be festive.  It looked great for a night out or for a party, but I even like just looking at my sparkly fingers as I type.

Do you have a special way you like to add sparkle to your holiday look? Feel free to share it in the comments section of the latest BlogHer Life Well Lived post. While you're there, you can enter to win a Kindle Fire and a $50 Amazon gift card in the Life Well Lived sweepstakes.

I had a lot of fun, but I'm pretty tired after this holiday. I'm glad at least my fingers have a little sparkle left in them.

  1. Too cute! And even though you didn't pick it for the name, it has a pretty cute name! I think u should glitz it up more often!

  2. I like it! I need to look for that one! I just got an OPI gold one with sparkle :)

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I founded PFE Express in 1984. At the time we were a staff of six specialising in moving goods from Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea to the UK. Over the first four years of PFE’s life, this developed to include freight forwarding from the Indian Subcontinent, Thailand and Singapore. We then extended the operation to include the whole of SE Asia.

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Obviously, this begins with Doc. Doc absolutely handcuffed the Nats today. Brown had two more hits and Tommy Joseph went 3 for 4, raising his average to .462. Antonio Bastardo, Justin De Fratus, and Jake Diekman combined for three scoreless innings, scattering two hits and striking out five.

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YACHT on the Band's TV Show, Extraterrestrial Life Forms, and Being Broken Together

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Music journalism is rife with writers quick to say that a band "defies all conventions" or "breaks the mold." It's rarely the case, but sometimes an act comes along that's worthy of the sensational labels. YACHT, a dance-pop duo from Los Angeles via Portland, is the act in question, having existed in a variety of incarnations over the past 12 years while core members Jona Bechtolt and Claire Evans act together or alone, branching out into other avenues. No matter the venture, it's all done under the YACHT moniker, a sprawling umbrella that's a multimedia product all its own.

"It's a like a pool in that it has a shallow end and a deep end," Evans says. "You can go into the shallow end and just be into YACHT as a pop band and enjoy it on a superficial level, but you can just keep on wading and go all the way in if you want to. It just becomes the ocean at a certain point because it's just another person's life, and another person's life is always intimately interesting if you look close enough."

"Interesting" just scratches the surface for Bechtolt and Evans, who are the type of creatives that never seem to stand still given the depth of their work and platform. Whether it's the Amazon-backed development of "Support," a television show based on YACHT's collective experience "about all the dark parts of being a band, specifically being an opening band," according to Bechtolt, or donating song proceeds to the Electronic Frontier foundation in protest against the NSA's surveillance accords, it's always a restless affair for the duo. Outside of that, however, both Evans and Bechtolt find time to pursue their own interests in design and journalism, respectively, then bring their knowledge back into the fold.

"The more skills we gather, the more rich the experience of YACHT can be," Evans says. "It's not just a band, but we also produce text and images and videos and we make meaningful online and offline experiences. It's just an endless project toward making better and better work, and that involves learning a lot of things along the way."

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Part of Evans' work lies within the reboot of '80s science publication Omni as editor at large, an extension of her career as a science journalist with a focus on extraterrestrial life forms. This extends to Omni's involvement in this year's Moogfest, taking place in Asheville, North Carolina, a music, science, and art festival that explores the intersection of the three disciplines. Of the two former aspects, Evans is most interested in the concept of communicating with aliens through music.

"Maybe alien life won't understand music or sound as having meaning," she says. "As a thought experiment, it's basically impossible. If we send a message out into space and it's discovered tens of thousands of years from now by an extraterrestrial, will we still be around? How do you create something that's timeless? How do you future-proof music? These are questions that are really fascinating, and I don't know that there's a clear answer to them."

Such conversation topics aren't part and parcel for most bands, of course, much less most people. Yet YACHT's winning formula to might be the lack of such a thing as the band operates under a fluid identity, an amorphous multimedia experiment with a musical veneer. Not adhering to tradition offers a completely different sense of freedom for Bechtolt.

"A lot of people have to divvy up their interests and there's a lot of bands who have side projects, even though it's a single person, and they'll make something that sounds slightly different than the other thing they make," he says. "They feel like they have to compartmentalize and change it, give it a whole other brand and name, but we're not afraid to sort of put it all out as one thing."

Bigger than the sum of its parts, YACHT's next move will likely be an unexpected one. No matter how much they expand out or evolve, the interplay between Bechtolt and Evans is the foundation of it all -- she boils down their symbiosis to a simple outlook that belies the complexity of their band.

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    GANIL, Caen, France
  Funding: This work is partially supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Physics, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.
The Super Separator Spectrometer (S3) is a device designed for experiments with the very high intensity stable heavy ion beams of the superconducting linear accelerator of the SPIRAL2 Project at GANIL. S3 is designed to combine high acceptance, a high degree of primary beam rejection, and high mass resolving power to enable new opportunities in several physics domains, e.g. super-heavy and very-heavy nuclei, spectroscopy at and beyond the drip-line, isomers and ground state properties, multi-nucleon transfer and deep-inelastic reactions. The spectrometer comprises 8 large aperture multipole triplets (7 superconducting and 1 open-sided room temperature), 3 magnetic dipoles, and 1 electrostatic dipole arranged as a momentum achromat followed by a mass separator. A summary of the beam-optical simulations and the status of the main spectrometer components will be presented with special emphasis on the design of the superconducting multipole triplets.
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MOB04 Argonne In-flight Radioactive Ion Separator dipole, ion, multipole, target 24
  • S.L. Manikonda, M. Alcorta, B. Back, J.A. Nolen, R.C. Pardo, E. Rehm, G. Savard, D. Seweryniak
    ANL, Argonne, USA
  • B. Erdelyi
    Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
  Funding: This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Physics, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357
The Argonne In-flight Radioactive Ion Separator (AIRIS) is a new large recoil separator that is being designed as a part of proposed future upgrade of the ATLAS facility to provide at least 10 times more collection efficiency than the existing system. In combination with other proposed upgrades it will provide a 2 orders of magnitude gain in the intensity for the in-flight produced secondary beams compared to the existing facility. The resulting unprecedented intensities for the recoil beam open new opportunities in several physics domains, e.g. gamma ray spectroscopy after secondary reactions, reactions for rp‐, νp‐, αp‐ processes and CNO cycle. The proposed design for the AIRIS device is based on four multipole magnets and four dipole magnets arranged in a so called broadband spectrometer configuration. This arrangement will be followed by two RF cavities to provide further selection based on velocity differences between the primary beam tail and the recoiling RIB. The advantages of such a design and key parameters will be discussed. We will demonstrate the performance of the device for few representative reaction cases that can be studied using AIRIS.
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PO13 Longitudinal Beam Motion in the KEK Digital Accelerator: Tracking Simulation and Experimental Results space-charge, induction, acceleration, synchrotron 83
  • X. Liu
    Department of Energy Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan
  • T. Adachi
    Sokendai, Ibaraki, Japan
  • S. Harada
    Tokyo City University, Tokyo, Japan
  • T. Iwashita
    KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
  • K. Takayama, T. Yoshimoto
    TIT, Yokohama, Japan
  Beam commissioning in the KEK Digital Accelerator*, which is a small scale induction synchrotron (IS), has been conducted since the middle of 2011. Longitudinal beam motion in the induction synchrotron, which utilizes induction cells (IC) for acceleration and confinement, is characterized as barrier bucket acceleration. . These ICs are driven by the switching power supply (SPS). Pulse voltage is fully managed by the gate control for solid-state switching elements in the SPS, where FPGAs and DSPs take a key role**. A tracking code has been developed to understand the longitudinal motion affected by longitudinal space charge forces, under programmed settings of confinement and acceleration voltage. This code, where the trigger control scenario is fully implemented, calculates temporal evolution of momentum and phase of macro-particles. The simulation result has well reproduced beam commissioning results, such as bunch squeezing experiment and barrier bucket acceleration. In addition, the code is going to be applied to explain the rapid growth of micro-bunch structure in the injected ion bunch.
* T. Iwashita et al., “KEK Digital Accelerator” , Phys. Rev. ST-AB 14, 071301 (2011). And K.Takayama et al., in this conference.
** S.Harada, Ms. Thesis (TCU) (2011).
PO16 MULTIPHYSICS AND PRESSURE CODE ANALYSIS FOR QUARTER WAVE β=0.085 AND HALF WAVE β=0.29 RESONATORS niobium, cavity, target, radio-frequency 92
  • S.J. Miller, J. Binkowski, A. Facco, M.J. Johnson, Y. Xu
    FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
  Funding: U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science under Cooperative Agreement DE-SC0000661
The driver linac design for the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University (MSU) makes use of four optimized superconducting radio frequency (RF) resonators to accelerate exotic ions to 200 MeV/μ. The RF resonators were optimized using computer simulations for all expected physical encounters and corresponding electrical resonant frequency changes. Principal guidance from the ASME boiler and pressure vessel code (BPVC) were applied.
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PO17 Simulation of Electron and Ion Dynamics in an EBIS ion, electron, background, space-charge 97
  • L. Zhao, E.G. Evstati, J.S. Kim
    Far-Tech, Inc., San Diego, California, USA
  • E.N. Beebe, A.I. Pikin
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
  Funding: Grant supported by DOE office of Nuclear Physics
To model the dynamics of the ions in an Electron Beam Ion Source (EBIS), a time-dependent, self-consist particle-in-cell Monte Carlo code (EBIS-PIC) has been developed by FAR-TECH, Inc. The energetic background electron beam is modeled by PBGUNS (http://www.far-tech.com/pbguns/index.html) by dividing the long beam path into several segments to resolve the big length-to-radius spatial scaling problem. The injected primary ions and ionized neutral gas ions are tracked using Monte Carlo method which includes the ionization, charge-exchange and Coulomb collisions with the electron beam and the neutral gas in the potential well, which is calculated by solving the Poisson equation each time step. EBIS-PIC has been able to predict the spatial and velocity space distributions and the evolution of the charge state distribution (CSD) of trapped ions in EBIS devices operating in fast or slow trapping mode. The physical model of EBIS-PIC code and the simulations of the trapping and charge-breeding of injected Cs+1 ions on the Test EBIS* at BNL will be presented. The simulation results have shown good consistency with the experiments.
* S. Kondrashev, J.G. Alessi, E.N.Beebe, C. Dickerson, P.N.Ostroumov, A. Pikin, G. Savard, NIMPR. A, 642 (2011), 18-24.
TUA02 A Cost-Effective Energy Upgrade of the ALPI Linac at INFN-Legnaro linac, ion, cavity, ion-source 106
  • G. Bisoffi, M. Comunian, A. Facco, A. Galatà, P. Modanese, R. Pengo, A. Pisent, A.M. Porcellato, S. Stark
    INFN/LNL, Legnaro (PD), Italy
  • B.B. Chalykh
    ITEP, Moscow, Russia
  The ALPI SC linac at INFN-LNL is being constantly upgraded in terms of maximum beam energy (Ef) and current, made available for experiments. Presently, a liquid-N cooling scheme is being applied to the RF power couplers of the 16 full Nb resonators, to keep them locked at 5 MV/m, vs. present 3 MV/m. A further upgrade of the 44 “medium beta section” cavities, changing the cavity Cu substrates, was prototyped and is reported at this conference: however it is not fully funded yet and is extremely time-consuming. A cost-effective Ef upgrade is proposed here: to move 2 SC buncher cryostats, which house a single working SC QWR but were designed for 4, at the end of ALPI, equipping them with 4 Nb/Cu QWRs each (new bunchers would either be NC QWRs or a single SC cavity cryostat). The contribution of these cryostats to Ef would be extremely effective: e.g. a Ef~10 MeV/A (Ibeam≥ 1 pnA) Pb beam, a very attractive tool for the Nuclear Physics community, is achievable. A being performed upgrade of ALPI cryoplant, expected to increase the refrigeration capability by ~25%, makes this change possible today. Details of this solutions, as well as its limits, will be presented and discussed
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WEB04 Electron and Ion Beam Dynamics in the CARIBU EBIS Charge Breeder ion, electron, ion-source, acceleration 172
  • C. Dickerson, S.A. Kondrashev, B. Mustapha, P.N. Ostroumov
    ANL, Argonne, USA
  • A.I. Pikin
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
  Funding: This work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Physics, under contract number DE-AC02-06CH11357.
An Electron Beam Ion Source (EBIS) is being built to charge breed ion beams from the Californium Rare Isotope Breeder Upgrade (CARIBU) for acceleration in the Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator System (ATLAS) at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). The overall efficiency of the source and charge breeder system is important since CARIBU will produce many low intensity radioactive ion species. Simulations of the electron and ion beam dynamics have been used to determine the system’s expected performance. The details of these simulations and results will be presented.
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THB03 Design Sudy for Front-End System at Rare Isotope Science Project (RISP) rfq, ion, ECR, emittance 207
  • E.-S. Kim
    KNU, Deagu, Republic of Korea
  • J. Bahng, J.G. Hwang, S.W. Jang
    Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea
  • B. Choi, D. Jeon, B. Kim, H. Kim, S.K. Kim
    IBS, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
  Heavy ion beams of 400 kW and 70 kW are generated at the RISP by in-flight and ISOL methods, respectively. Front-End system in the RISP consists of 28 GHz superconducting ECR-IS with 10 keV/u, LEBT with two-bends and a multi-harmonic buncher, a RFQ with 81.25 MHz and 300 keV/u, and MEBT with two re-bunchers. The design studies have been performed to optimize the beam and accelerator parameters to meet the required design goals. It is shown that the front-end simulations results can provide the two-charge state beams up to uranium to upstream linac with the required beam emittances. In this paper, we present the design results for the front-end system and on the beam dynamics.
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Tasting Pinotage Blends in London

To London for the first time for more than four months for a tasting of Top End Blends organised by WoSA. What strikes me is just how expensive SA wines are getting. £36 for a Merlot blend? £17 for Nederburg's blend of eight white varieties, the sort of thing that Flagstone used to do in a £5 Noon Gun?

Several of the reds have a Pinotage element, but I’ll concentrate on those that have a least 30% Pinotage as per Cape Blend conventions and I’ll list them in descending order of Pinotage proportions.

Cloof Inkspot Vin Noir 2005, (Darling) 14.83%abv.

78% Pinotage, 12% Shiraz, 10% Cinsaut.

Quite edgy, soft talcum powder texture with dried plum and raisin flavours. £8.99

Middlevlei 2006 (Stellenbosch) Middlevlei pioneered this blend of equal shares of Pinotage and Merlot and 14%abv.

This has an attractive sweet nose and a soft classic taste. It is restrained, softly well balanced with sweet berry fruits and a touch of vanilla custard on the finish.. £9.99

Stellenzicht Rhapsody 2006 (Stellenbosch)

has equal shares of Pinotage and Shiraz. 15.28%abv.

Rhapsody is Guy Webber’s pride and joy but I don’t think this particular wine is showing well; it’s a bit rough and has a hot finish, not at all like previous examples. £24.50

Kaapzicht Steytler Vision 2005 (Stellenbosch).

50% Cabernet Sauvignon 40% Pinotage, 10% Merlot 15.1% abv.

Mouth filling well rounded sweet fruit over tannins. Surprising restrained Bordeaux like but with a really attractive spiciness and ripe fruit sweetness. £19.99

Lyngrove Shiraz Pinotage 2004, (Stellenbosch).

70% Shiraz, 30% Pinotage.
Really nicely balanced wine, a thoroughbred not showing its 14%abv. £7.99

Dekkers Valley Revelation 2004 (Paarl).

41% Shiraz, 32% Pinotage, 27% Cabernet Sauvignon. 14%abv

Warm fruit nose leads into a lovely plummy wine, really very enjoyable. £7

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Campus landscapers work on planting a black gum tree on the banks of the University Lake, Friday.

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Campus crews are busy planting trees to replace a higher than average number lost this past year to drought and storms.

Planting a tree by the University LakeCate Breneman, PSU grounds maintenance supervisor, said it has been it has been a little disturbing to see how many trees the campus has lost to drought, age and storms this past year. Friday was more enjoyable, however, as crews began planting 20 new trees.

“Every year you expect to lose some trees,” Breneman said. “That’s just natural. But this past year was especially bad. Trees were stressed by drought and ice storms and wind took a high toll.”

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Sunday, February 28, 2016

The Full-Frontal Keys Experience

Because of the offshore reefs, Florida Keys beaches have little surf.  Here on Anne's Beach, a toddler inspects the one-inch breakers

"Key West or Bust" - Day 131

I'm talking about natural, not cultural.  I expect I'll have to wait for Key West for the latter.  But I'm more a nature kinda guy.  Well, I like monuments to human achievement too - things that have stood the test of time.  I got my first solid exposure to Henry Flagler's Folly - the miles and miles of Overseas Railroad bridges bringing land transportation to Key West, which he completed in 1912.  Here's the two-mile Long Key Viaduct.

The railroad route was converted to an automobile road in the 1930's, and served as the route of US 1 until the early 1980's.  Some of this has now been converted to a bike path and fishing pier.

Other parts have not been converted.  Here's a section that the birds have taken over.  When I last visited the Keys on a Christmas Break driving trip back in the late 1960's I drove this old bridge.

The Keys don't have a lot of long beach strands.   Sea Oats Beach on Lower Matecumbe Key is one of them.

Anne's beach, shown in the headline photo, is the more common situation - pockets of coral sand protected by mangroves.  The great thing about Anne's beach is that it has a quarter-mile boardwalk beside the water connecting two paved parking areas.  It is one of the few places where I could get off the bike path.

Other stuff today in the nature department included my introduction to this tropical shrub, the Florida Keys Blackbead, Pithecellobium keyense.

The curly seed pods (Pithecellobium translates to 'monkey's earring') hold a colorful surprise.

For me there's nothing like the super-fragrant Plumeria to give me that tropical vibe.  They're everywhere in Hawaii--a common flower used in leis--not so common here.

Finally, crossing the boundary between nature and culture, is this manatee mailbox.

The 'Force' was strongest on Lower Matecumbe Key where the ocean side was lined with nice waterfront homes that provided me with frequent glimpses of the glistening Atlantic Ocean.  Weather was comfortably cool with wall-to-wall sunshine.  It was the Keys experience I had been hoping for.

Here's a map of the route hiked today, with links to more photos.

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Tavernier - where the 'real' Keys begin

"Key West or Bust" - Day 130

The vibe - the feeling of being in a special place - finally hit me as I was crossing the bridge over Tavernier Creek onto Plantation Key after passing through little historic Tavernier.  Here I got the first view of the open Atlantic Ocean and its tropical emerald blue waters.

The majority of commercial establishments along the road were beginning to appeal to tourists more than locals.  Resident artists had been employed to paint grand murals on the sides and fronts of buildings.  Most of them have an undersea theme, since snorkeling and diving and fishing are the big attractions here, but this one had a historic theme.

It depicts Henry Flagler and his Florida Overseas Railroad, completed in 1912, making the 'land' connection between mainland Florida and Key West.

Then I got to watch the drawbridge over Snake Creek open and close.

And while I waited I had plenty of time to absorb a much more expansive view of the ocean.

I finally felt like the Overseas Heritage Trail was delivering what its name promised.  Yes, there was still the noise and congestion of US 1 traffic.

The Keys inevitably suffer from too much love.  This time of year the 'snowbirds' flock here, and they all have to funnel through the same bottlenecks.  This one was at Coral Shores High School as it was letting out early, at lunch time.  Tourist rush hour is around midday here, so it was the wrong time to be on the road--better time to be hiking!

By the end of the day I had crossed Windley Channel, where I got my first good look at the Gulf of Mexico (bayside),

and an almost 180 degree view of the Atlantic.

I ended the day on Upper Matecumbe Key in Islamorada, and was finally feeling the 'vibe'.  Not a Caribbean feel, but a legitimate resort feel comparable to many of the Atlantic beach communities.

Here's a map of today's hike, with links to more photos:

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Saturday, February 27, 2016

Key Largo - in search of the Keys 'vibe'

"Key West or Bust" - Day 129

Today, after ten miles of US 1 causeway, crossing over this high bridge, I arrived on the Florida Keys and started along the Overseas Heritage Trail.

The town that greeted me (and the island) is Key Largo.  The trail follows beside the highway at the backbone of the island.  I could see no emerald blue water, no serene beaches, no upscale resorts, only urban noise, clutter, and congestion of the sort I can find anywhere in the US.  It did not feel like a resort community, let alone the unique one that is the Florida Keys.

The best part of the trail was at the entrance to Pennekamp State Park.  The landscaping and decorative heavy fence lasted only a few hundred yards.

Otherwise the trail itself was nothing but a roadside bike path of the sort, once again, that can be found in urban settings all over the US.

I was looking for Poisonwood in order to get myself thoroughly familiar with this plant, so that I could avoid it.  Finally I spotted some, stopped to study it and memorize the blotchy bark pattern, the shiny oval leaves with prominent yellow center vein and closely spaced step-ladder-rung side veins.

Poisonwood protects itself with the same chemical that poison ivy has--it can give you a horrendous itchy rash that lasts more than a week.  I wanted to be sure that when I stepped into the woods to take care of business or to bushwhack to a view of water, that I wasn't making contact.

Satisfied that I could avoid Poisonwood, I returned to the search for the elusive Keys 'vibe'.

The Keys promote themselves as having a Caribbean flavor.  Perhaps that means different things to different people, but I wasn't feeling it, and never did today.  The closest I got was when I crossed the first canal, cut deeply into the coral bedrock.

That was at least distinctive.  The sheer vertical walls of coral were incorporated into the 'landscaping' of the various residences.

One other thing that promised a resort feel was the mile markers--in this case the distance from the southern end of US Route 1.  Plenty of vehicles sport the green 'Mile 0' sticker, indicating their love of Key West.  I'm familiar with the importance given to mile markers on many east coast beaches.  Today I got as far as Mile 100.

And that's where I had to stop, never getting the 'vibe' I was expecting.  Note the bike path beside the marker--pretty ordinary.  Maybe tomorrow.

Here's a map of the path I took today as I reached the Keys, with links to more photos:

Key Largo at EveryTrail
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Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Chevy on the Levee - Nine Days across south Florida

This is a long post because it's actually nine short ones.  During the nine days covered I hiked from the St. Lucie Canal east of Lake Okeechobee, around a quarter of the lake on its levees, then I followed canal levees south through sugar cane country, into the Redlands Agricultural district, then through the Everglades to the threshold of the Florida Keys.

I'm back on the Eastern Continental Trail.  With these nine long days under my belt I have 120 more miles to hike - US 1 and the Overseas Heritage Trail across the Florida Keys.

"Key West or Bust" - Day 120

Today I followed FL 76 beside the St. Lucie Canal for seventeen miles.

On the other side of the road was dominated by huge tracts of land owned by familiar names like Del Monte and King Ranch.

My favorite moment was when I spotted a male African Redheaded Agama - a big non-native, 8 to 10 inches long, introduced into Florida about 1976 by the exotic pet trade.

Weather was comfortable, cloudy, in the 60's with some rain.  I managed to duck into my Chevy van in time to avoid the one major downpour.

Here's a map of the day's route, with more photos:

St. Lucie Canal at EveryTrail
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"Key West or Bust" - Day 121

Just eight miles today because I had off-trail business to take care of and got a late start to avoid morning rain.  By the end of the day the weather was beautiful, and I had reached Lake Okeechobee at the town of Port Mayaca.

Here's a map of the route:

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"Key West or Bust" - Day 122

Starting today I began to really crank out the miles.  I did twenty-one today.  I followed the Florida Trail around the east side of Lake Okeechobee through the towns of Canal Point and Pahokee, then struck out southward to the sugar cane town of Belle Glade.  Half the sugar cane produced in the US is grown in the rich black muck soil here.  It was harvest time and the cane haul trucks were constantly roaring by.  Here's a view of a cane field being burned and harvested:

I was surprised to learn that Lake Okeechobee is only 6000 years old - a result of rising sea level after the last ice age.

Leaving the lake I walked FL 715 between Pahokee and Belle Glade.  On the south side of Pahokee the highway is lined by these stately old Royal Palms:

Here's a map of today's hiking route with links to more photos:

SE shore of Lake Okeechobee at EveryTrail
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"Key West or Bust" - Day 123

This was the first of two days needed to traverse 41 miles along a major canal following US 27.

It is a busy four lane divided highway but the guard rail between it and the canal is well away from traffic, set in pavement, and is sprayed with herbicide, making it a ready-made hiker trail.

Yes, the guard rail is virtually continuous for the entire 41 miles from the town of South Bay near Belle Glade down to I-75/Alligator Alley.  Today's twenty-three miles took me out of the sugar cane fields and into the northern Everglades

Spotted along the way today was this black racer, so-named because it's a fast mover.

Here's the map of today's route and more photos can be accessed via the red "pins".

South Bay and sugar cane country at EveryTrail
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"Key West or Bust" - Day 124

More guard-rail trail today - twenty-three miles worth, mostly through Everglades lands, which got me to I-75

Roadside reptiles were on display again today, both living and not-so-much

Hiking weather was ideal--low 70's all day with sunny skies and a refreshing breeze.

Here's the map of the route and more photos:

Everglades WMA at EveryTrail
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"Key West or Bust" - Day 125

Today I continued road-walking south  I left US 27 and began the hike along Krome Blvd/FL 997.  This highway is being upgraded from two lanes to a four lane divided highway.  The unfinished lanes were great for hiking.

Today's route skirted the boundary between developed areas east of the highway and Everglades wetland to the west, much of which was clogged with the badly invasive Melaleuca quinquenervia - the Australian paperbark tea-tree.

Weather continued to be ideal, so I accomplished twenty-two miles with ease.

Here's the map of the route, with links to more photos:

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"Key West or Bust" - Day 126

Today I got back on the route of the Eastern Continental Trail, joining it where it comes east along the Tamiami trail and turns south on 997, which I had been hiking since yesterday.  The junction is the site of the big Miccosukee casino and resort hotel.

I continued through the sixteen mile construction zone on 997 and ended the day in the heart of the Redlands Agricultural district where the land is a patchwork of large-scale nurseries and agricultural fields.

There were more wetlands infested with Melaleuca - here's a good look at its bottle-brush flowers, five-veined leaves, and peeling paper bark:

Also spotted today, and new to me, was the yellow Mexican Poppy:

Here's the map of today's trek, with links to more photos:

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"Key West or Bust" - Day 127

This was the first of two days hiking the levees of the C-111 canal on the South Dade Greenway trail system.

To the west were the Everglades ...

... and to the east, today, the Redland agricultural district continued.  Set within that is the busy Homestead General Aviation airport.

The trail here has mile markers, though the locals think of them more as targets of opportunity:

Where the trail is on the west side of the canal, it feels remote even though the sounds and sights of civilization are abundant just across the water.

Here's a map of the route hiked today, with links to more photos.

Everglades Trail, a South Dade Greenway at EveryTrail
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"Key West or Bust" - Day 128

Today's hiking brought me into the low flat, relatively unspoiled wetlands of the southern Everglades.

The wetlands were particularly wet this winter, and another heavy downpour flooded the land some more today and thoroughly soaked me.  Before the rain I encountered this South Florida Water Management District helicopter, hired to carry equipment and water samples into and out of remote sites in the Southern Glades Wildlife and Environmental Area.

Also before the rain, I had a close encounter with a big fat water moccasin.

When threatened, they show you their cottonmouth.

I wasn't really that close--the photo was taken with a zoom lens.  At the end of the day I was within ten miles of the Florida Keys.  I could smell the ocean on the south wind.  Tomorrow I'll be on the Overseas Heritage Trail.  120 miles to go.  It's beginning to feel like the goal is in sight.

Here's the map of today's hike, with links to more photos:

South Glades Trail at EveryTrail
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Sen. Arlen Specter, in a statement, said he knows his supporters will be disappointed by his switch to the Democratic party.

Sen. Arlen Specter gives a speech on Capitol Hill.

Specter: I'm not an automatic 60th vote

Arlen Specter has crushed Republican spirits while causing Democrats to rejoice, but his stunning party switch came with a warning label: The Obama agenda isn’t suddenly a slam dunk just because he’s a Democrat now.

“I will not be an automatic 60th vote,” Specter said Tuesday afternoon. “I would illustrate that with my position on employee choice, also known as card check. I think it’s a bad deal and I’m opposed to it. I will not vote to impose cloture. … If the Democratic Party asks too much, I will not vote with them."

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Specter will be the 59th Democratic senator, and if Al Franken eventually pulls out his Senate race in Minnesota, Democrats will have a filibuster-resistant 60-vote majority in the Senate, something the party could only have dreamed of at this time last year.

But even though he promises to be no rubber stamp for Democrats, Specter's party switch could have a dramatic effect on some of the most challenging issues before the Senate, changing the dynamic on health care reform, economic policy and it may even tilt the global warming debate back toward the Democrats. The impact could extend to the Supreme Court, where Specter — a senior member of the Judiciary Committee — could be a key ally if the president makes a Supreme Court justice pick in the future.

Specter’s abandonment of the Republican Party also sets off an internal Senate shuffle in which he may leapfrog some Democratic senators on key committees like Appropriations, and it means that several Republican staffers who worked for him on the Judiciary Committee may now be without jobs.

Specter had been in secret talks with Senate Democratic leaders for months, according to Senate sources, but his final move to become a Democrat came after a recent poll showed him badly losing a Pennsylvania Republican primary next year. Specter talked with Obama Tuesday morning, and the president said he was "thrilled" to have Specter joining the Democratic side of the aisle. According to White House aides, Obama was handed a note by an aide that read: "Specter is announcing he is changing parties."

Specter said Tuesday afternoon that Obama told him he would campaign for him in Pennsylvania. Specter will visit the White House on Wednesday and address the media with Vice President Joe Biden.

In a statement, Specter said he does not want to be "judged by the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate." Specter was mobbed by reporters Tuesday and joked, "I don't think Lee Harvey Oswald had this big a crowd trailing him."

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), still stymied by filibusters on key issues, may have been one of the happiest people in Washington on Tuesday.

“Sen. Specter and I have had a long dialogue about his place in an evolving Republican Party. We have not always agreed on every issue, but Sen. Specter has shown a willingness to work in a bipartisan manner, put people over party and do what is right for Pennsylvanians and all Americans,” Reid said. “I welcome Sen. Specter and his moderate voice to our diverse caucus and to continuing our open and honest debate about the best way to make life better for the American people.”

Republicans in the Senate were in disarray on Tuesday afternoon, reacting with surprise, anger and cynicism. Specter’s abandonment of the Republican Party is as significant as any electoral blow the party has experienced over the past two election cycles.

"I'm stunned ... I'm very surprised. I had no idea this was coming," said Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.). "I'm stunned."

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“I think it's about Sen. Specter's sense of political self-preservation," said Cornyn. “[Specter] knew he'd have a hard time winning the Republican primary. He wasn't ready to quit, so he decided to quit [the party]. I think it's as simple as that."

But Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), a fellow moderate, didn't seem surprised. On the national level, she says, "you haven't certainly heard warm encouraging words of how [the GOP] views moderates. Either you are with us or against us."

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Doctors say they're increasingly fielding questions about the safety of marijuana, as use of the drug rises and more communities consider legalizing it. Colorado and Washington state have legalized recreational marijuana, and medical use is allowed in 21 states and Washington, D.C.

USA TODAY's Liz Szabo talked to experts about what scientists know and don't know about marijuana's risks and benefits.

Q. How common is marijuana use?
A. About 12% of people of Americans over age 12 have used it in the past year, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Use of marijuana among high school students has been increasing since the 1990s. If current trends continue, marijuana use among high school seniors could soon become more common than cigarette smoking, says Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Q. Is marijuana addictive?
A. Sometimes. About 9% of those who experiment with marijuana overall — and nearly 17% of those who use it as teenagers — will become addicted, according to the definition of addiction used in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Volkow says. Up to half of people who smoke marijuana daily become addicted.
According to the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2.7 million people over age 12 meet criteria for addiction to marijuana.

Q. What are the potential medical uses of marijuana?
A. Smoking marijuana may stimulate appetite, especially in patients with AIDS, according to an Institute of Medicine report.
Smoking pot also may alleviate the nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy treatments for cancer. It also may relieve severe pain and spasticity, when muscles become overly tight and rigid. Marijuana also could potentially help treat glaucoma, by decreasing pressure in the eye.
But marijuana also may make the cognitive problems associated with HIV even worse, according to a 2004 study.
"If an individual comes in with severe pain and I haven't been able to manage it with any other means, I am willing to consider it, but with a lot of precaution," says Steven Wright, a pain and addiction medicine specialist in Denver. "But unless you are really severely affected by pain, it's not in your favor in the long term."

Q. Is medical marijuana approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration?
A. No. But the FDA has approved two drugs made with cannabinoids – active ingredients in marijuana – called dronabinol and nabilone. Both are approved to treat chemotherapy-related nausea and vomiting in patients who aren't helped by other therapies.
The FDA is reviewing an unapproved drug, called Sativex, to treat multiple sclerosis. It's already approved in Canada, the United Kingdom and other countries. And researchers are testing an experimental drug called Epidiolex to treat childhood epilepsy.

Q. How have the risks of marijuana changed in recent years?
A. Marijuana products today are far stronger than in the past, which may explain why more people are overdosing or getting into car accidents, Volkow says.
The concentration of the main active ingredient in marijuana – tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC – has quadrupled since the 1980s, increasing to about 12% today, according to a June article by Volkow in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Some of the new, edible marijuana products – from cookies to chocolates – can be 10 times stronger than traditional joints, Wright says.
Because smoked marijuana affects people so quickly — reaching the brain in only 7 seconds – users often feel satisfied after a few drags, so that they don't actually smoke very much, Wright says.
But because a cookie's full effects may not set in for an hour or more, people may end up consuming far more THC than they intended to, Wright says.

Q. What are the risks to children?
A. Emergency room doctors are treating more small children for accidental overdoses of marijuana, says Kathryn Wells, president of the Colorado chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Doctors at Children's Hospital Colorado in Aurora have treated 12 children for marijuana overdoses just since January, when recreational use became legal in Colorado. Doctors treated eight children in all of 2013.
Of those treated this year, seven needed intensive care, says hospital spokeswoman Elizabeth Whitehead.
Children also may be exposed when their mothers use pot during pregnancy or breastfeeding, Wells says. She says a number of women now tell her that they're trying marijuana for morning sickness or other uses while pregnant. Other parents bring their children to the doctor, reeking of marijuana smoke. Wells says parents tell her, "it's legal, so there's nothing wrong with it."

Q. Why are young people more vulnerable to the risks of smoking marijuana?
A. Their brains are still developing, Volkow says.
The brain isn't fully mature until about age 25, Wright says.
That may help explain why people who use pot frequently, beginning as teens, often have significant declines in their IQ as adults, Volkow wrote in a June article in The New England Journal of Medicine. Marijuana impairs critical thinking skills for days after people sober up. That means that teens who use marijuana on weekends may not be able to learn properly when they return to school. Like alcohol, marijuana impairs judgment, so that teens may take more risks – from speeding to sex – that can endanger their lives.

Q. Is marijuana a "gateway drug" that leads to use of more dangerous substances?
A. It's unclear. Studies show that people who use marijuana are more likely to later abuse other drugs. But scientists aren't sure of the reason. It's possible that marijuana, like alcohol and nicotine, "prime the brain for a heightened response to other drugs," Volkow wrote. But it's also possible that people who are susceptible to drug abuse simply start with marijuana because it's more accessible.

Q. How is marijuana related to mental illness?
A. Marijuana increases the risk of psychosis, in which people lose touch with reality and may experience delusions, hallucinations and paranoia, Volkow says. Marijuana is also associated with chronic psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia, in people who are genetically susceptible. Heavy marijuana use can lead these people to experience a psychotic episode two to six years earlier than otherwise.
Colorado police have reported two deaths this year related to psychosis-like episodes in pot users. In March, a 19-year-old African exchange student jumped off a hotel balcony after eating a marijuana cookie. The next month, a Denver man who had purchased marijuana, including an edible form called "Karma Kandy," began hallucinating and fatally shot his wife.

Q. How is marijuana related to car accidents?
A. Marijuana doubles the risk of a car accident when people try to drive soon after using it. Marijuana causes more car accidents than any other illicit drug, a 2013 study shows. In comparison, being legally drunk — with a blood alcohol level of 0.08% — increases the risk of an accident by five times.
In a study released earlier this year, Columbia University researchers found that marijuana contributed to 12% of traffic deaths in 2010, triple the rate from a decade earlier.

Q. Does marijuana cause cancer?
A. Although some studies have linked heavy marijuana smoking to lung cancer, the link isn't totally clear. But marijuana is associated with a variety of lung problems, including inflammation of the airways, symptoms of chronic bronchitis and an increased risk of pneumonia and respiratory infections, according to the New England Journal review.

Q. Does marijuana cause heart disease?
A. People who smoke marijuana have changes in their blood vessels that increase the risk of heart attack and stroke, the New England Journal review shows.

Q. What don't researchers know about marijuana?
A. Most research is based on heavy use of marijuana and daily smoking, Volkow says. Scientists know much less about the effects of using marijuana once a week or once a month.
Older studies also may not be as relevant to the more potent marijuana products sold today, Volkow says. Doctors at the National Institute of Health are prioritizing research in young people, and hope to better understand the effects of marijuana in real-world situations, in which teens often combine it with alcohol. It's possible that some of the side effects of marijuana relate to impurities found in illegal products, says Jahan Marcu, a senior scientist at Americans for Safe Access, a medical marijuana advocacy group. As marijuana becomes better regulated, it also may become safer.

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Seattle City Light presents Port with Energy Efficiency Incentives. $400,000 rebate for energy efficient measures. Read the story.

With 45 million annual passengers expected to travel through Sea-Tac Airport by 2025, the Port of Seattle constructed a consolidated Rental Car Facility (RCF) to meet the current and future demands of the traveling public. The RCF will support all airport-related rental car operations at one convenient location adjacent to the airport in the City of SeaTac. Construction of the facility supported approximately 3,000 jobs and generated over $25 million in sales tax for the entire program. The five-story, 2.1 million-square-foot, LEED® Silver certified project came in some $20 million under budget.
  • Opened May 17, 2012
  • Total budget – $419 million, including bus purchase
  • The facility includes Quick Turn Around (QTA) facilities, four operating floors (ready/return), with the 5th floor including a Bus Plaza, Customer Service Building and employee parking.
  • Can process approximately 12,000 to 14,000 rental cars on a peak day
  • A consolidated compressed natural gas (CNG) busing operation shuttling customers bewteen the main terminal and the RCF, saving emissions and traffic congestion.
  • 20 shuttle buses will be used at peak periods with less than three minute waiting times.
  • Each of the four operational floors cover 400,000 square feet or 10 acres.
  • 5,400 vehicles can be accommodated or 1,250 per operational floor.
  • The four quick turn-around (QTA) facilities include 22 car washes, 48 gas pumps, 48 vacuums, plus minor maintenance service and support area.
  • The QTAs are designed to reclaim, filter and reuse 85% of the water used to wash cars.
  • The customer service building covers 50,000 square feet
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The RCF is LEED® Silver certified, established by the U.S. Green Building Council. This is currently the largest consolidated rental car facility in the nation to be certified Silver by the USGBC, the nation’s preeminent program for high performance green buildings. LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is the nation’s preeminent program for green building certification. Read the press release.
Key attributes include:
  • Right sizing the areas in the RCF that minimizes areas that require cooling, heating and ventilation to ensure air quality;
  • Requiring all interior construction to use organic compound paints, sealants, adhesives and carpets;
  • Implementing a recycling program throughout the facility;
  • Filtering and reusing 85% of water used to wash vehicles;
  • Fully treating both construction and RCF storm water to prevent sediment and pollutants from reaching local creeks; and,
  • Read the report.
Two art projects give dramatic visual enhancement to the RCF. The two exterior helices (circular return and exit ramps) are covered with a stainless steel mesh fabric that is illuminated in multiple random colors by 60 LED lights at night. The project is by local artist Buster Simpson.
At the return shuttle location on the 5th floor, artist Linda Beaumont created “Spinning Our Wheels,” a composition of 91 six-foot tall steel discs in a mesmerizing array of brilliant colors and designs. The wheels create a playful narrative for travelers as they await the shuttle bus back to the terminal.

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The project also included off-site road improvements to the local roadway network, including the creation of a direct access on-ramp to eastbound SR-518 and the addition of another lane to the International Blvd. bridge over SR-518 for westbound exiting directly into the RCF. This will reduce the number of vehicles on the airport expressway and the congestion at the airport drives.
In addition, a 22,000 square foot bus maintenance facility was constructed south of the airport to support the shuttle bus operation and the Port’s existing employee parking bus system. This site includes six maintenance bays, a CNG fueling station and a wash/cleaning facility.
City of SeaTac
The port works closely with the City of SeaTac to minimize construction traffic and to design the local roadway improvements in such a way that vehicular traffic to and from the RCF does not interrupt the traffic flow on city streets. Ample landscaping to minimize the visual impact of the RCF has also been incorporated into the design.


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Sailors swap their frigate for a yacht in the icy cold

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SAILORS from HMS Iron Duke had an icy adventure touring the Solent for a week without their frigate.

More than one-third of the Portsmouth-based ship’s crew braved below-zero temperatures in a week of adventure training on board the 38ft yacht Thunderflash.

Similar to deployments in Norway, crews found themselves chipping ice and sweeping snow from the upper deck of the yacht.

Lieutenant Commander Ben Keith, HMS Iron Duke’s executive officer, said ‘I’ve never seen the Solent this quiet – the water was like a mill pond and smoke was rising vertically from the refineries at Fawley.’

The week-long adventure was made possible by a lull in an extensive refit of the frigate which began in March last year.

Thunderflash was provided by the Joint Services Adventurous Sail Training Centre in Gosport.

A total of 50 members of the ship’s company made use of Thunderflash, while another 14 headed to Wales for some training on dry land.

‘I had a brilliant time in Wales and particularly had fun on the high ropes course. I was also given an opportunity to try rock climbing, I had never done it before and I really enjoyed it,’ said Able Seaman Kieran Ward.

‘It was really nice to have the chance to get away and do something different.’